The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 16, 1929, Page 1

«THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE OL. XXXIV., NO. 5179. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 1929. ATTO PLANE STARTS | Taunted By “Neighborly” Gossip ON REFUELING TEST FLIGHT, Leaves Spokane for South and East and Return Without Landing ! SPOKANE ,Wash.,, Aug. 16.—N. B. Mamer and Art Walker hoppr?d,‘ off at 5:58 o'clock yesterday after-| noon, Pacific Coast time, heading the plane “Sun God” westward on the Spokane-San Francisco-New York-Spokane endurance flight. The plane will refuel in the air| in an attempt to determine the| 4 feasibility to refuel commereial| planes in flights and eliminate de- | § lay costs. If the plane completes the trip| successfully, the fliers may attempt to break the endurance record ar-‘ ter the return to Spokane. OFF FROM SAN FRANCISCO SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Aug. 16. —The endurance plane “Sun God” made a double refuelling contact! and hurried eastward in an effort to fly across the continent and back without landingy ® The plane flew frori Spokane to San Francisco in nine hours but hovered in a fog waiting for the re- fueling supply ship. It took aloft! £180 gallons of gasoline in two Floads and left for Cheyenne, the! pext refueling point. ¥ Mamer and Walker reported =il ell except for & little motor trouble Jast night which was ironed out. B g — GRAF ZEPPELIN CROSSES URALS; WEATHER 600D Giant Air Ship Passes from| Europe and Enters Asia for Toyko BERLIN, Aug. 16.—A dispatch WILL ARBITRATE Innocent Wife Commits Suicide COTTON STRIKE, Left, Mevrouw Heerma Holland, who shot her: the novel, “Beautiful Mia,” acco Pps. wife of Through the little village of Em- men, Holland, not long ago ran an awful whisper. In bigger, more sophisticated towns it might not have amounted to more than bac porch gossip. But Emmen is co: servative, proud of its strait-laced morzality and pious tranquility. The whisper sounded like a shout stolid Dutch burghers and wives. Little quaint dren were sent groups gathered in the erlors of Emmen. The chil- off to bed whiie older folk discussed the scandal that had expleded in the quiet town—discussed it in shocked tones while eagerly -eawse -of i all- ;a .navel ecalled Beautiful Mia's Home,” by the outspoken young Amsterdam writer, Henk Heiling. “Peautiful Mi the story, was a vicar’s wife in a little Dutch vil- iage. Emmen’s vicar, Jacob Heer- man, had a pretty wife, too. Here, however, the similarity ended for ust as did her counterpaft Right, group of Emmenites busily knitting and scussing the novel that disrupted the local vicar's to their | © gathered round the! vicar ot Emmen, of “Beautiful M rding to local gos- hedl The old w domestic bliss, and in the center is shown the cover book that started all the trouble when the townsfolk thought they saw a resemblance between the wife in the novel and their cwn vicar's wife. ia's Home,” the ENGLISH MILLS ] Society Divorce - Half Million Workers Will | Returns to Mills ; Next Monday | MANCHESTER, England, Aug ‘lG.—*Hxllf a million workers will re- turn to their tasks next Monday and 11,500 cotton mills will then start turning after a stoppage of three | !night resulted in an agreement to ‘submit to arbitration the employ- ers démand for an ali around re duction of 128 per cent in wage ges will prevail during the discussio; Premier Ramsay MacDonald was mainly responsible for the action : taken, ending the walk-out. e e L CONFESSES T0 SLAYING GIRL | book Mia, bored with the monotony actually entertained a young engi- ge, allows her- neer in their home some time be-. tuated with a|fore and this fact drove the vicar |of life in the villay seif to become inf: oung engineer, who is in the town 1 business There follows a love affair, glowingly and | deseribed by the author. | engineer-gallant leaves is in despair. 'he novel is brought to a grim modern manner for the outside The villagers knew, of cour: |that no hint of scandal had ever does and finally tumbled against the ears of the vicar and his wife. by the prairie fire of talk in town, brought suit against the au- tion at law. to demand vindi d; Heiling wi ‘The action fail realistically | cleared of the charges against him Then the 'and “Beautiful Mia's Home” was town—and characterized as a book about any |Duteh town, with entirely fictitior | characters. blood vicar. Heermans could not erase the su: { picion that had touched their home. { touched the viear's wife. They knew | At last both realized that they that she was a _guiet-voiced, per-|could no longer be happy together. fectly conténied young womair who | Divorce followed—and still the cruk certainly had given every evidence whisper was not dead in the town. of being in love with her husband.|The break in the vicar's family &b- | came scared. But the gossip rolled up as gossip | parently did nothing but mcreasc" |its virulence. | One afternoon, without warnin Then Mynheer Heerman, roused she took a revolver from her bu- the/reau drawer and pressed it to her | temple... . . \ Man Tells Duluth Police He Killed Minneapolis Girl While Drunk DULUTH, Minn,, Aug. 16. — H. {Olson, aged 29, Duluth dock work- er, confessed here to the slaying of Dorothy Aune, in Minneapol {last Tuesday. Chief of Defectives IR. E. Donaldson expressed doubt as us n by the suicide of Mia. | But a wedge had been entered . o 2. | concern the man’s story. Just another gloomy novel in the ! into the happiness of the fesh-and- [concerning 8 swary Despite the clear na- world—but a bombshell for Emmen. | ture of the testimony in court, the Olson told the police he was drunk last Tuesday. He wandered to a vacant lot and went to sleep. When he awoke he saw the Aune girl go by. “I did npt kmow what I was doing. I do not think I did any- {thing to her but when she began |screaming I killed her. I then be- I found some gun- nysacks, wrapped her in tall grass. /T do not remember anything I 2, | did,” said Olson. Olson was arrested by the police when he attempted to commit sui- cide, saying he hoped to escape | the wheels of Manchester’s § MRS. HUBERT DUGGAN hat appeared to be merely a doanestic row between the Hu- bert Duggans, of London, is &cveloping into the year’s most startling scandal in the British peerage. Hubert Duggan is the son of the present March- joness Curzon, the former Grace Elvina Hinds, by her first husband, Alfred Duggan. ‘In addition to inheriting mil- Involves Peerage The divorce suit of the Hu- bert Duggans, | in London, threatened to involve two high ranking members of the British Peer- age. The hus- band, heir Curzon mil- lions, will ac- cuse his former best friend when ¢ ase comes up. BB 53 RNEY CENERAL IS INDICTED STATE OFFICIAL FACES CHARGES OF CORRUPTION Mississippi House of Rep- resentatives Sponsor for Latest Action |CASE TO BE HEARD BY STATE SENATE Eleven Oth;rbzounts to Be Considered by Lower House After Recess JACKSON, Miss., Aug. 16. —Rush Knox, Attorney Gen- {eral of the State of Mis- sissippi, is under indictment | by the House of Representa- I tiv | State Senate on an impeach- 5 for trial before the ment charge of fraudulently collecting $1,610 commission in an insurance case. This couut is the first und- er the general heading of high erimes, misdemeanors, corruption and malfesance in offfce alleged by the House Investigating Committee. The House Investigating Committee voted last night en 11 other counts to be acted on when the State Legisla- ture reconvenes after the week-end recess. T0 HANG FOR COASTGUARDS A. H. Alderman Prepared to Die Tomorrow on ¥ i KILLING TWO from Moscow said the Graf Zeppe- | lin has crossed the Ural Mountains) from Europe to Asia, passing over | the town of Nadehdinky, about 350 miles east from Perm under favor-| able weather conditions. PARIS SHE lions from the Alfred Duggan estate as well as millions from the Curzon estate. Their wed- ding was one of the sensations of London society one year|o Rl ¢ Real life and fiction had met at| had'a strange and tragic crossroads. punishment. He tied rocks around his neck, waded out into the water to his chin trying to drown him- self. thor of “Beautiful Mia's Home. was true that the Heerman's anyone who knew the vicar of Emmen and his wife. For in the Gallows, Florida Fort FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Aug. 16.—Amer Horace Alderman, rum | | GAN PARIS SHELTERS AGED HUBERT DUG % | runner, is prepared for his private | f Duggan’s accusations | 7 — - ainst his wife in which he The Graf is in touch with the Moscow radio station receiving weather reports. ! Perm is 700 miles east of Mos- cow. The Ural mountains were crossed by a gradual slope in the divide, and was hardly noticed, only poles alongside the railroad tracks telling | the travelers they were pasing from | Europe to Asia. The first stop of the Graf on the world flight is Tokyo. Men Soon to Wear Paper Suits, Says r Industrial Expert| CHCAGO, Aug. 16. — The moot | question of how mere man can ob- tain some sort of equality with the’ opposite sex in the matter of sum- | mer attire, a question that hasj brought forth advocates of every- thing from pajamas to barrels, has| another answer. It comes from| Waldemar Kaemfert, Director of, the Rosenwald Industrial Museum.; Man's enslavement to fashion, says Mr. Kaempfert, will be broken by paper suits costing about $2 apiece and thrown away hneri about two weeks’ wear. “The fibers,” Mr. Kaempfert says, “will be made of paper and will be spun like cotton or wool, then woven into attractive patterns. A man will step into a clothes shop, where an expert tailor will in a few minutes drape strips of paper about | his form and then fasten them| with fish glue. “Such a suit—unlike a paper tis-: tue towel—will be unaffected by| rain and hold its shape for at least two weeks.” - e, — Escaping Gas Causes ] " Explosion; 16 Injured; NEW CASTLE-ON-TYNE, Eng- land, Aug. 16.—An explosion sound- | ing like the bursting of shell caused | extensive damage in the business section today. Sixteen persons several seriously. The explosion was apparently due to escaping gas blowing out the front of the Post Office building. Windows were shattered in the Post Office building, Town Hall and all. nearby shops. were injured, WOMAY TOR OTCZATS! RUSNEE) 1 CAPITAL CITY By T. T. TOPPING (A. P. Staff Writer) PARIS, Aug. 16.—Paris, eventual haven of political refugees fleeing from the turmoil of revolutions {that failed, has become the home of Catherine Brechko-Brechkovskia. | She is the “grandmother of the Russian Revolution,” meaning that | revolution* which overthrew Nicho- las II and established the ill-fated Kerensky regime in the land of the czars. Besides being an uncompromis- ing foe of czarism, she is equally opposed to bolshevis She is cer- tain that the present Union of Soviet Social Republics will fall, and that within a few years. Fully one-third of her 86 years have heen passed as a prisoner. Under the Czar she served 14 years at hard labor, followed by 13 more of mere exile in Siberia. She had 12 years of hiding in old Russia, six years of exisfence under Czarist police supervision, during which she managed to sandwich in two trips, to the United States. The “Babouchka,” as she is fond- ly called by Russians of her politi- cal faith, is sanguine that the Bol- shevik regime will collapse within a few years and that she, despite her years, will live to see it. She hopes to make a solemn re-en-| trance into the old Russian capital when that city shall have lost its sobriquet of Leningrad, and agam‘j become Petrograd. “The grandmother of the revolu- tion” ‘has already enjoyed one tri- umphant return of that sort. That was in 1917 and it lasted eight months. But when the Bolshe- viks entered, the “Babouchka” wenf, out. Living in a peaceful “pension” in the fashionable Passy quarter, the old lady, dressed in black, except for a white shawl about her shoul- ders, enjoys talking about her trips to the United States. “I went to America for the first time in 1904, she said. “I had just completed a 14-year sentence at hard labor in Siberia and I re- ceived a very cordial welcome in the United States.” Asked if, coming after Siberia, lany country would not have been | heaven, she said: “Yes, but the Americans were | really very nice to me. Effectively the Americans are real democrats but I found that they were badly informed about Russian affairs.” In the same breath “Babouchka” said that she was introduced into | American political circles by Emma | Goldman, but evidently without any intention of establishing a co-re- | lation between that and America’s LIQUOR RING Eight Men Arrested i Washington, D. C., and Four Others Sought men have been arrested others are, sought following ignorance of things Russian. She feels that she owes gratitude to America because was owing to the pressure of pub lic opinion from the United Stats that I was halted on the road to my third exile in Siberia and re- leased at Irkutsk in 1915." That the Soviet jail is the most abominable thing on earth and that Danie might have picked up there many features for his In ferno, is her firm conviction. ! “The Bolsheviks have transform- | 'ed an earthly paradise into a gi- antic cemetery, the granary of the| |world into a country of famine.| !They are bound to succumb,” she | concluded. —————— New Company Is Formed ; Merger Is Effected | Alaska Airways much | round-up by the Police and Dry the day” was raised. | “it| Agents of what is said to be thel Then the South’ Australian Gov-| |largest liquor ring every upcrabcdécrnmcm Railways began to import | in the Capital City. All men are charged with cor ct. Six of those arrested surrender upon learning that warrants we issued. Herber Glassman, owner of went A Car Service,” and of {w large garage: ing allowed his garages to be used as depots for liquor. . BAD LUCK HAUNTS JAIL AFTER CURSE CHESTER, I, Aug. 17— Five years ago a gyr crone muttered a maled WASHINGTON, Aug. 16.—Eight and four spiracy to violate the Prohibition Act, charged with hav- |Australia has been lost. tion against the sherifi force at the county jail here. The officers grinned, but whether the curse had any- thing to do with it the rec- ord since then is strange and black. Sheriff J. W. Heine in prison; Deputy Sheriff Wal- ter Mann was slain; Sheriff L. Roy Edmiston died of appendicitis; Deputy Sher- iff J. C. Knott was danger- ously hurt by two jail-break ing prisoners, and Mrs. M. H. Palmer, wife of the pres- ent sheriff, died after an - operation. | NEW YORK, Aug. 16.—The Avia- | tion Corporation announces th | formation of the Alaska Airways, | Incorporated, as holding corpora- | ition to promote commercial flying o lin Alaska and acquisition by the|, new concern of two Alaska Air g | Transport Companies, Graham B.| g | Grosvenor, President, said. le “ Carl Ben Eielson, polar flier, has| o ibeen appointed Executive Vice- o President and General Manager of | ¢ |the holding corporation. A tele- ¢ |gram from Eielson, now at Fair- e | banks, advised that he had com-, e pleted negotiations whereby the e | ownership of the Wein-Alaska Air-|e ways, Inc, and the Herbert Rode-|e ;baugh Airplane Company, passes to; e imeAlaskaAh‘wnys.Im:. “o-otoolooconc Australia’s Coal Trade Is At Standstill SYDNEY, Australia, Aug. 16— Carrying coals to Newcastle is a phrase that has become literally| {realized in Australia. n, Australia has abundant coal sup- plies, but for months the industry has been at a standstill because of the high cost of production.| The owners sought, by protracted| negotiations and conferences, to in-| | | | | | | | ‘wagc cut, but the cry “not a pen- ainy off the pay, not a minute on! |fucl from Great Britain rather| n- | than pay the high prices for Au Itralian coal, Next the |closed the mines, months now orders for thousands | re |of tons have been going to Eng- !land and New Zealand. a| The trade in /0! ports that once took supplies from ! | | —— e COMMANDER ADDISON * RANK IN U. S. C. G ‘ Commander Edward E. Addison, lof the U. 8. C. G. Unalga, and Mrs. Addison took passage for the |South on the Princess Charlotte lon their way to San Francisco where Commander Addison will ap- pear before an ecxamining board| iror promotion to Captain in the l!J. 8. Coast Guard. | As the steamer pulled out, flags | signalling, “Wishing you a pleasant !voyage,” were hoisted on the Un-| |alga and a farewell salute of three blasts were blown, which were an-| !swered by the Prin ! {The U. 8. 8. Gannet also gave a, farewell salute which was answered by the Charlotte as it was in mid- channel. Commander and Mrs. f Addison | \the first week | Virginia Addisen will remain in Ju- t |neau until ker parents return. During the absence of Command- N. S. Hlugen, / | @4 arisen. the startling nature duce the miners to consent to a Commander owners' conjectured he is planning another and for some|Arctic cxpedition. South American | scientists. | the |“I am {book is published, the truth about [ the c TO RECEIVE HIGHER |v x e he will attempt a third flight to ' |the “studied new young enoug Charlotte. | Dolly of the stage expect to return to Juneau about Cap, on the Cap d'Antibes. 11 September. Miss |y ago. Although Mayfair had “}nown that marital d diculties NOBILE MAY BE | PLANNING NEW ARCTIC FLIGHT of Ill-Fated, Ttalian Expedition Is Now in Berlin I sen. Umberto | and it is Yesterday G with Berlin and left for Nobile conferred | aeronautical —experts Gotha to talk with Nobile er of convinced declined to discuss his last venture. that when Gen. dis | my | testrophe will become rapid- nown,” he said. Replying to questions whether Arctic, Gen. Nobile replied am 44 years old and I have aeronautics 16 years I have constructed 14 dirigibles and years have tried to find for Ttaly. I am . still hr ,,- fou land or | |Rosika Dolly Is Reported Secking Divorce in Paris NICE, France, 16.—Roskia reported Aug. was today to have started divorce pro- ceedings against Davis. “somewhere in her husband, France,” Mortimer She is staying at the Hotel Du She efused to make any statement as o the report. She married Davis |about a year and a half ago. Mr. and Mrs. Davis were re- wer Addisor the cutter Unalga will ported at odds over a divorce last be under the command of Lieut.' November after having previously !denied they would seek one, ag: ) will name a man once his best friend was a revelation, Threc Wrangell Range Peaks Show Signs of Activity CORDOVA, Alaska, Aug. 16.—Arrivals from the in- terior report three mountain peaks in the Wrangell Range showing signs of volcanic ac- tivity. = The display of Mt. Wrangell is said to be spec- tacular but the eruption is not expected to be serious. MURDERS WIFE, KILLS HIMSELF CHICAGO, Ill, Aug. 16.—Clarence Flener, estranged from and abdomen, then stabbed him- self. Mrs. Flener was found under the running board of her husbane auto in a ditch on the road west of Chicago. Fle s body was found later in ds nearby. Flener had kidnapped their threc year old daughter Dorothy last Monday. Flener then offered to take his wife to the child, living with a woman friend. The tragedy w his wife| | Flora, slashed her in the throat| hanging tomorrow for the slaylns' of two United States Coast Guards= men. Only the necessary execution loi‘icials will be present, despite Alderman’s entreaties to have some friends. i ‘The gallows have been especially crected within the confines of Gov= {ernment property, shielded from view on all sides. Alderman was convicted of slay- ing Sydney Sanderlin and Victor |Lamby, on the high seas in Aug- {u;t, 1927. The killings occurred | after he had been overtaken bring- {ing in a boatload of liquor from the Bahama Islands. Alderman recently made an appeal to Presi= dent Hoover to save. him on the plea that he had experienced re- ligion. ~ Investigation Being Made Into Death of Woman, Starvation B ALHAMBRA, Cal, Aug. 16—An inquest into death by starvation of Mrs. Helen Konarski, aged 28 years, whose body was found in her home, is now underway. The Police said the woman has been a virtual pris- oner for the past four months of her husband, Sigmund Konarski, shell shocked war veteran. ) Konarski, not believing his wife. was dead, said he had fed her for two months on barley water be cause she suffered from asthma. Millions See Trophies ; Showered on Lindbergh | ST. LOUIS, Aug. 16—The daily | | | i took place enroute. When found, Mrs. Flener was barely able to whisper :“My hus- band stabbed me,"” before she died. GER MG S ) MEXICAN PROMOTER HITS COMMISSIONER MEXICO CITY, Aug. 16.—The national boxing commission has !handed down a ruling stipulating that the members of the commis- sion are not to be called upon to exercise the manly art themselves, and has suspended Frederico Gao- na, a promoter who is alleged to have attacked one of the commis- sioners. The commission did not explain whether he was knocked out. stream of visitors through the Lind= |bergh room in Jefferson memo here continues undiminished. # | More than 3,000,000 persons have | |seen the collection of trophies WM' | were showered on the aviator. ( The most popular bauble is |diamond tie-pin, exquisitely {from a large stone to represent |air-plane. The donor is not inor is its value. Second in popularity are the passes showered upon the flier (railroads, theatre magnates, cl |and 1ifetime passes to all m | league baseball games. The visitors’ book shows from every corner of the worl from Centerville, Ia., to Sk and Moscow, i N & n