The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 21, 1930, Page 1

HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. XXXV., NO. 5339. P WOMAN OF KLONDIKE GOLD RUSH IS STEAMER AGROUND IN WE JAPANESE BOAT IS ASHORE ON ALASKA COAST Koshun Maru Is Reported Aground Near Scotch | Cap Light, Unimak | SHIP LEAKING FROM | TWO HOLES, FOREPEAK. Only Details Are Sent Out by Operator 200 Miles from Scene SEATTLE, Feb. 21—The ground- | ing of the anese steamship Ko- shun Maru r Scoteh Cap Li[zh?“ Tnimak Pass, Alaska, was reported | to the United States Cable Office! last night by the Signal Corps op-| erator at Squaw Harbor, about 200 miles from the wreck scene i The m . gave no details ex-! cept that the ship was leaking in two holds in the forepeak. i Officials of the line repc steamship was ordinarily operated in the Japanese coa: se trade and declared they are surprised the| ship was in Alaskan waters. ) The vessel was built in 1927 and | is of 4,270 gross tons. e ACTRESS SHOT AND KILLED IN LAAPARTMENT | tranged Husband Finds’: Wife with Musician | —Both Shot Dead | T | ted the i ° . ° . ° o ° ° ° ° ° LOS ANGEL cal., Feb. 21.—| : ingell, aged 36/ an and Sigurd D.| eby, musician, were shot | and killed in a down town apart- ment house by Augutus Gingell,| Glendale merchant, estranged hus- | band Gingell walked from the apart- ment house and surrendered to a r Hoffman, empioyee of place of business, said gell had been brooding over | domestic troubles for several | Yesterday Gingell learned | t his wife had rented an apart- ment and today he entered the: apartment by using a pass key. He| fired five shots, killing Mrs. Gin- gell and Torneby instantly. 1 Gingell will ‘be charged with the; double slaying. Gingell said "his wife left him beeause he had been drinking. The couple was married in Port-| land, Oregon, in 1919. | He shot the couple down without a word. - NAVY BOATS SOLD DIVORCE GRANT Assoclated Press Photo An Interlocutory decree of divorce was granted to the former Princess Xenla of Russia from William B. Leeds, son of ths late “tin plate king,” at Huntington, Long lsland. Sum Given Hospital For C Cancer Serum Treatment Research LOS ANGELES, Cal, Feb. 21. — The White Memorial Hospital officials, announce acceptance from W. H. Kel- logg, millionaire cereal man- ufacturer, of a “sufficient sum of money” to carry on here furthor experiments in connection with the Doctors Cotfey and Humbert cancer rum treztment, under the the W. K. Kellog roundation for Cameer it search of Southern - Cali- fornia. The amount of the sum is not divulged and is to be limited to a scientific re- e search in connection with e serum treatment. soceecececsscse HERRING PACK NEAR SELDOVIA. S MINUS ONE %Only Six Barrels Packed to| Date — Indian Chil- | dren in Soup Line | G, | | SEWARD, Alas ing to the complete failure of the herring pack in the Seldovia dis- trict, reliable information received here is that 22 Indian children are | being fed at Seldovia in a soup| line instituted by the Seldovia Dcp-J‘ uty U. S. Marshal. | It is reported here that to date| only six barrels of herring have| been packed in the Cook Inlet| district. By this time in previous| years, thousands of barrels have) been packed. | e ! POLICEMAN CONVICTED | LOS ANGELES, Feb. 21.—M. B.| ED PRINCESS XENIA “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1930, CAPT.SWENSON | BIVES PRAISE TO RUSSIANS {Greatest of Aid Rendered in Search for Eielson, Borland'’s Bodies 'RUSSIAN CAPTAIN | PRAISES ALASKANS Says Crosso—n and Gillam Deserve Much Credit— Party Enroute South FAIREANKS, fAlacka, Feb. 218 Landing here just as dusk was sete tling last night, Capt. Olaf Swen- son, his daughter Miss Marjon Swenson and Capt. Milovzorav, completed the last leg of their air trip from the Nanuk and boarded a tr this morning for Seward, bound for Seattle. The flight from Nome was made in a new Fairchild plane piloted’by Frank Dorbandt, in the face of ad- { verse winds. | Miss Marion Swenson welcomed the Pullman chair in the railroad car after her long exile aboard the Nanuk LINDY AND e Leads in Admiration of Leeds, Tin-Plate Heixt ] Praise Rus:lans Capt. Swenson, speaking for the party, unstintingly praised the Rus- sians for their work in connectlon ! with the recovery of the bodies of | Col. Carl Ben Eielson and Earl| Borland from the wreck of the| Eielson pleme. He particularly mentionéd the flight of Comman- | der Slipenov, whom he said had| fulfilled to the letter the order of | the Soviet Government to thor- oughly aid in the search for the'f bodies and do everything possible | to help. Lindy and Hawley Bowlus, glider Anne Looks On oA Praises Alaskans Capt. Milovzorov gave pralse for| every assistance in time of need| to Alaskan Pilots Joe Crosson and| Harold Gillam. He said the two fliers faced almost an impossible| task when they landed at the Na- nuk. With less than four hours of murky daylight and no sun they searched the barren country that defied human eye. The first day the sun peeped forth, they caught| the glisten of the Eielson wrecked plane and wings. i Had Pneumonia | Capt. Milovzorov was stricken with pneumonia two months ago, it was learned here. About three months ago his ship was locked by the closing ice in the Arctic ocean Planes took off several memb of a Russian sclentific expedition aboard his ship then, but he was, forced to remain behind, until tax- en from the Nanuk to Nome with Swenson and his daughter, by| Capt. Pat Reid. He is going to| Mrs. Gharles Lindbergh, the for- Seattle. | mer Anne Morrow, looks on while —————— her famous husband spends his time experimenting with gliders at a e e o v o e 0 0 0 o o o ¢ Caifornia mountain camp. . TODAY'S STOCK L . QUOTATIONS o """""""AimeeWearing Rodeheaver Gem; Olive Hamilton (above), demure, dark-haired beauty, leads in ad- miration of William R. Leeds, tin- late heir, just divorced by the Princess Xenia of Russia. Leeds, however, denied he would marry i Miss Hamilton.. NEW YORK, Feb. 21—Alaska| ANNE AR ,. The rest hour at the Lindbergh glider camp in the Tehachapl mountains of southern California. Lindy, seated on the camp wagon steps (center) and Anne, | fire to Mexican ballads, sung by Mrs. Antoinette Burns | jects at Ketchikan and Wrangell, | PRICE TEI(CENTS MEMBER OF ASSOCIAT ED PRESS HANGED]TODAY T ALASKA ARIZONA STATE HANGS MOTHER OF 2 CHILDREN Mrs. Eva Dugan Dies on | Gallows at State | PrisonEarly Today ‘GOES TO SCAFFOLD | WITH CALM STRIDE Dies with Smile Upon Her Face—Telegram Re- veals Yukon Life | | i | th 1 FLORENCE, Arizona, Feb. 21.— |The name of Eva Dugan, mother |of two children, is written on the pages of Arizona history, as the Ifirst of her sex to be legally ex- ecuted in the name of the sov- |ereign State. | The fifty - two - year-old house- keper was convicted of slaying in {1927 A. J. Mathis, her employer, on his ranch near Tucson. Shortly before dawn today, Mrs. Dugan calmly walked up 13 steps leading to the gallows. | She smiled as she stood on the in camp chair at extreme right, listen over the camp- :t;:p :l:‘cu: x\’\ood w:‘l';‘:dlm of Pasadena, shown at extreme left. Inset shows | . .. - htently engaged In splicing a cable, |unshaken in her resolve to “show the world I can take my medi- = jcine.” iously made by Congress. The pro-| The woman went to her death gram to be financed by the appro- without making a statoment. priation to become available after! A telegram delivered to her death June 30, next, h3s not been ap»‘cell revealed a hither' nkngw proved by the fDenartimentie ’As chanptey. of her early e, o ihe Congress has not yet acted on. the messagé was signed “Ads # siap- measure car ng that appropria- ple, Seattle,” and read: tion, no action is expected on it! “I sympathize with you b until the bill becomes law. [the greatest admiration for your * EXTENSION T0 builder and world record holder, GLACIER SPUR fra i | Mrs. Dugan read the message, |then turning to the prison attend- Secretm’y H\'de Appl‘OVCS |ants, said: P ) | “Ada is an old friend of mine rogram to Improvc FALLS Tu Hls in the Yukon days. Probably you 3 o : |didn’t know it, but I was one of SPUI k)ry]:ndenh:l” I |those who followed the gold rush | into the Yukon.” Reconstruction of Glacier High- | DEATH LUNDUN way from near the John B. Mar-' ’ NOT LOCATED, SEATTLE sha!l ranch to Mendenhall Glacier SE. ATTLE, Feb. 21.-~The name of “Ada Hostapple,” the name given by the woman who sent a telegram ‘Lu Mrs. Eva Dugan, at Florence, | Arizona, is not found in the Seattle |directory. Probably the name is one she was formerly known by S AR in the early Ki . LONDON, Feb. 21. — His mind e SAHIy Tlnline. e harried by thoughts of Pharoah's; = £ curse end the recent death of his Britten Gives Advice son, 78-year-old Lord Westbury to-| o . |day fel or thvew himseit to nis 0 U.S. Delegation Now at London Conference death from a bedroom window 0"1 the seventh floor of St. James| Court | WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.—Chair- The body crashed through the man Britten, of the House Naval glass of the veranda ceiling, 100 Affairs Commitee, contends that i g feet below, knocked over a woman|the American representatives to the zee;m(;;l(‘élal:gv:e::ll?%‘;sewxz:nxflz‘;)Bnd she was 5o badly cut by the London Naval Conference should 16 foat to take Abgtar dhs tmmc'glafis ~and affected by the shock|accept the advice of their technical Whith has been Bedv for severalf”“t it .was necessary to take her advisers “against agreeing to build years and SSZEROMIGE: SRRRAT A to a hospital. ilor American use the type of cruis- trestle bridge 0 s baillb through | .L‘n'd \)'Vrzslhury was dead when he ers the British want us to build.” the gap Wheks! fke Biciine comew“l“ picked \}xp. | America needs, Chairman Brit- nto the Dower BEGAR Rad! the voad | vYAn inquest ten said, large cruisers with an ex- bullt to 8% mutomiebile parkin while of tensive cruising radius. If the Lon- ® turned. |don Confernce fails, as Britten place on the glacier sand flat, The - Cepartnent haG AT AT 4000 fur} Lord Westbury had worried for|believes it will, he said it will be minus to the sand- flat just be- low the cler will be made this P8 ’ year, it was announcea by m. 1| ouicide — Pharoah’s Mereitt, Acting District Forester, S United States I"orest Service Thl';f Curse Is Cause project included in a progvam just approved by Secretary Arthur M. Hyde, Secretary of Agriculture.! The total progrom involves the sum of $246,000 and includes pro- Inquest Returns Verdict of emergency lotments. and location survey al- To Build Trestle The present spur leading from | the Auk Lake Loop road to Nug- verdict of unsound mind, suicide, was re- months Sheffield, negro police officer at-'" WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.—Sale of [tached to the vice squad, ‘”“"ifllrs. W'illcbr(mdl Juneau mine stock is quoted v.oda)’\ No Engagement at 7%, Alleghany Corporation 31'%,! ‘ over the strange circum- this work. stances of the death of his son, the “third one to fizzle because of British obsti:evncy.” American Ice 36%, Anaconda Cop- LOS ANGELES, Feb. 21.—Persis- obsolete cruisers and one navy was announced by the navy today. The seven net the government si tug department vessels will $286,707.20. | was convicted by a s@perior courti jury on two counts of bribery. Evi- | dence was that Sheffield made a practice of collecting protection money from bootleggers. i BRITISH START DRIVE | TO ATTRACT TOURISTS LONDON, Feb. 21. — American; tourists may help solve Britain's unemployment dilemma if a world- wide publicity campaign now being organized brings anticipatel rc-i sults, The Travel Association of Great | Britain and Ireland, preaching the| doctrine that tourist gold is as; good as orders for machinery or textiles, is launching a campaign| with the cooperation of business|ypon the tourist as a stranger Senate has confirmed the nomina-| |whose travel-whims concern no onc concerns and representatives of the British and dominion governments. At home the association will con- centrate on agitation for good ho- tel accommodations for the visitors when they get here; abroad its ac-| tivities will include: Poster displays in foreign lands. Photographic enlargements with {events for 1930. | the legend “Visit Britain” in the| language of the country. | Issue of a complete calendar of in exhibitions. | of overseas agents. | film publicity. 1 | Participation Appointment Wireless and One reason France and other countries have been getting so mucl of the tourist gold that might havi come to England, officlals say, is that too many Englishmen look but himself. As a matter of fact he is a na-, tional asset, a paying guest and a potential buyer of British goods and therefore a factor in the cre ation of more jobs for British work- men, those behind the present movement contend. per 72, Bethlehem Steel 100, Cen<'ccnt rumors that Aimee Semple |tral Alloys 32%, General Motors McPherson is wearing a diamond 424, Gold Dust 42, Granby Copper engagement ring given by Homer Mining 55%, Grigsby Grunow 16'2,|Rodeheaver, soloist for Billy Sun- Kennecott Copper 56, Nationallday the Evangelist, and that she Acme 247%, Radio 45%, Standardlis busy preparing a trousseau, were In Brands 25%, Standard Ol of Cali- characterized today as “absurd” by charge of Enforcement of Prohibi- fornia 58%, U. S. Steel 183, Inter-|Mrs. McPherson and her daughter tion, entered a guilty plea in the ,,4iona) Harvester 91%. |Roberta Semple. Police Court this morning to the | Rodeheaver - was reported charge of speeding and was fined 5 in New York with Billy Sunday $10. She was arrested last Friday Dad Steals Mre, MiRtistaon sdmitted by a policeman who said she was Glll. Son ‘u‘:cr, that Rodeheaver gave ! \Spanks Him Is Fined $10 For Speeding WASHINGTON, Feb. 21. — Mrs. Mable Walker Willebrandt, former Assistant Attorney General in be driving her automobile at a speed |diamond ring which she wore on of 28 miles an hour. Eher left hand. A | CHICAGO, Feb. 21.—An old-| fashioned son of twenty-one, Albert Aflin|ty of Souls Fiemerman, was shocked to discov-| o B ud er that his father had borrowed | Pines on Fisticuffs CHICAGO, Feb. 21.—An affinity his girl and his car and gone ou:‘ for the evening. To make matters | worse, the father, Dayid Fiemer-|of souls, delicately attuned, is not man, had neglected his restaurant. proof against three months of daily So Albert pursued in another car, beating, Mrs. Maude Saxon ac- tion of Hugh M. Tate, of Knoxville, overtook 'his father and the girl, knowledged in divorce proceedings Tennessee, to be a member of the Miss Sheron Daniels, and soundly ,before Judge Joseph Sabath. Interstate Commerce Commission spanked the wayward parent. | Mrs. Baxon who is 48, seeks a di- succeeding Richard Taylor of Ala-| The spanking attracted so much [vorce from Harry Owen Saxon, 65, bama, |attention that police arrested all| writer of sex books and I PSS SV Y |three and took them to the sta- |When they were married, last No fewer than 26429 inspections tion. There Albert lectured the|Mrs. Saxon said, she wa by Government officials were made elder Fiemerman about his goings- |their affinity. - She left in Italian factories last year. on. October, Senate Confirms Tate Nomination Following Sharp Two Day Debate WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.—After a sharp debate lasting two days, the* Construction of the road to the s v Richard Bethell, aged 4 ” flat, including the bridge site in| 7 %4 t:gc}mweag;m‘éaxg: . AR |was secretary the gap, Wil Histle Belsile by the investigations of Egypt re- | whose Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Com- aaled treas Dany Whish GkAs the Thod - hs vealed treasures of the ancients. right-of-way was made avallable (e op @ e oaenr,® ote say- by it without charge to the Go\u‘:i:'m,. oi ,}::;yh:::::& S g ernment. | R Rebuild Ketchikan Road | The program allots $139,000 for partial reconstruction, widening and resurfacing a portion of the Ket- chikan - Ward's Cove section of Tongass Highway. Four milps of | this section will be widened to 18, fect, dangerous curves will be elim- | inated by re-location, and a crush-| e Because of his brilliant work in rural schools, W. P. Keith, Super- intendent of Schools in Jefferson County, Ark., was awarded a life | membership in the Parent-Teacher | Association. DROP IN SPANISH PESETA KILLS ALL SMUGGLING PROFIT the beach gravel surface now used.! SAINT-JEAN-PIED-DE-PORT, | the return trip with a load of An extension of the Wrangell- France, Feb. 20—Smuggling, once |Spanish brandy pay any better. Schumaker Bay road to the site @ great and flourishing industry on‘ Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port was one of the proposed Indian Industrial the Franco-Spanish border, hasrof the most frequented headquar- Training School, costing $60,000 become a mere game for diletan- | ters of smugglers. In their opus was also approved by Secretary tes. Hard-boiled smugglers have |lent days they supported an ex= Hyde. This will be slightly more found that it no longer pays and |tensive cabaret and casino, and the than two miles long. It will be have gone into more remunerative |night life was, on a small scale, 12 feet wide and gravel surfaced. forms of crime. | like that of Paris or Madrid. Today The sum of $10,000 was approved |the casino has closed its doors and for emergency roadwork as the Old time smugglers blame the |tourists, rather than smugglers, now occasion might arise anywhere in fluctuation of Spanish exchange haunt the crumbling cabaret. the district. For location surveys for the decline in their profession:| In the old days, thousands of = on routes for future construction, There is no profit, they say in buy- “cnme passed up the valley of the $7,000 was allowed. |ing cattle on the French side, driv- |Nive into Spain each year. Spanish Funds Available Now {ing them through the narrow | wool, brandy and kindred commod- Funds for this work are available mountain passes ahd selling them |ities entered France. Today the from out of appropriations prev- on the Spanish market. Nor does customs men find little to do.