The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 9, 1935, Page 3

THE DATLY ALASKA EMPIRE, nrr LADDIE KYLE VISITS HERE; REAL PURPOSE | |Novelist and Artist Getting| Material for Her New Book Miss Laddie Kyle, novelist and artist, has established residence and opened a studio at the Gastineau | Hotel for the summer. Miss Kyle | | recently completed the manuscript| |and illustrations of “The Gibber- Girl,” a novel, which will be pub-| {lished in the near future, and she| is now at work on ‘mateial for a | non-fiction book dealing with the | early Russian occupation of .Alaska |and the habits and customs of| native Indians. 1 ‘ Miss Kyle gained attention in 1926 ]‘ui:.}, Favorile 1 | | f by an almost successful attempt at | Fairbanks to stow away in the | plane flown over the North Pole by Sir Hubert Wilkins and the late Carl Ben Eielson. After hav- !ing traveled thousands of miles in 11926 for ‘the express purpoSe of being the first woman to visit the North Pole, Miss Kyle, who was then as she exprésse it “just a kid,” was discovered hidden be- neath sleeping bags and other| equipment in the baggage compart- ment shertly before the Wilkins See yourselves as the Camera saw you! MIDNIGHT PREVIEW Unfinished Symphony o 'lh Keélly, center, wife ‘Snatch Racket’ Puts Crime’ Spotlight * On Women in Role of Kidnaper’ of George achine Gun” Kelly puayed her role of 1 s Wife “Kidnaper's wile’ plane took off on its historic flight| te Spitzbergen by way of the North | Pole. | As Movie Extra After two years — 1927-28—spent in Fairbanks, Miss Kyle went to California where she worked as a movie extra for a short time and| then went East for training at the| Chicago Art Institute. Shortly after entering the institute, Miss Kyle won a three-year scholarship. Fol- lowing the completion of a gen- |eral art course, she became an in- BORN, P Ass AWAY structor of art and music employed by the City of Louisville, Ky., where Twin daughters of Mr. and Mrs. she remained for the last two Eske Eskesen died at St. Ann's Hos- ;years, She hopes to form a Sat- pital this miorning, one at 5 and jurday Sketching Club in Juneau the other at\6 o'clock. The twin |this summer. babies were born at the Eskesen Miss Kyle expects to spend next residence at 2 o'clock and were tak- |winter at Fairbanks and other en immediately to the hospital. Mrs. | points in the Interior, and she will Bskesen, formerly Viola Riendeau,|visit the Aleutian Islands before i§ reported to be in mo ‘danger and ]compleung the manuscript for her resting well. next book. ; The remains of the twin babies| Colorful Writer are at the C. W. Carter Mortuary.| Miss Kyle has with her a letter 2 from Sir Hubert Wilkins, dated September 13, 1932, in which he states in part: “I have known Lad- or LOVER DEVINE TWIN DAUGHTERS SPEED UP YOUR GROWTH IN THE GARDEN Wil}l correspondent for the .press. In s - .ly"qev on"hgr descriptiye. writing s colorful, ~sincefe and “pleasing. Her skill with her pen, brush and color in wrt and design is, I think, too well and drew thereby a life sentence in the penitentiary. Still playing their parts, with the end of the dramas due soon in Federal court trials, are Margaret Waley, left, charged with participation in the Weyerhaecuser case for which her husband is serving 45 years, and Frances Robinson, right, charged in connection with kidnaping of Mrs. Berry V. Stoll, for which Thomas H. Robinson, Jr., still is sought. By JACK STINNETT (Associated Press Staff Writer) kidnapers as a bad lot. Her “‘;EOB ELLIS MAKING torney in Salt Lake City, where | The “snatch racket” has brought a new actress into the drama play- ed constantly in and about the underworld. She is cast in the role |of “kidnaper’s wife.” Margaret Thulin Waley, “giggly” |19-year-old wife of Harmon Metz | Waley, confessed Weyerhaeuser kid- naper, will go on trial today for her alleged participation in the nation’s latest sensational “snatch.” Trial is set October 17 for Fran- ces Althauser Robinson, indicted with her fugtive hushand, the “lone wolf” Thomas H. Robinson, Jr., in connection with the kidnaping and ransom of Mrs. Berry V. Stoll, fl.nulsv)llc. Ky. | | Kelly’s Wife Cunning | | Behind prison bars is Kathryn | Thorne Kelly, i gangster's underworld rise of her husband, George “Machine |Gun” Kelly, convicted in the Charles F. Urschel kidnaping | Federal agents find nothing sur- | prising in the fact that kidnaping, to the sudden she was arrested, described her as \ “LONG FLIGHT TODAY “'just a girl.” ~ — There itle resemblance there| ““Pilot Bob Elis, with flight me- to the brazen, sharp-tongued Kath- | ¢hanic Paul Brewer, arrived in Ju- o I |very worthy of attention.” Fertlllzers 1 Miss Kyle, who was awakened Proportionately, has dragged more by ‘the barking of Patsy Ann, Ju- Wives into the crime circle recently neau’s Oificial Greter, beneath her than other major offenses. The vic- cabin porthole upon her arrival tim must be tended and fed and } MORCROP ryn Kelly who showered alternate- ly invectives and smiles on her cap- tors. She took her life sentence unmoved Her mother, a few weeks earlier, accepted the same sentence with the same unfathomable expression. Kathryn kept Kelly company on |that mad race from justice in the | weeks that preceded their capture. Afterwards, she described it as “not so bad.” Nor do any of these resemble the tall, slender brunette Frances Rob- {inson. She lived quietly with her parents and her four-year-old son |in Nashville. When her father died | three months ago, she moved with die Kyle since 1926, having met her | MOll except perhaps for her quick,|her mother and son to a modest | in Alaska where she was engaged |f{lerce cunning. In the opinion ofiitie country home as artist and, at times, as special Federal agents, it contributed much Before that October day when she was jerked into the limelight iby her arrest, she had lived ob- scurely. Her husband, who had been a patient in two State hos- pitals for the insane, was at home infrequently. She has insisted she participated in Mrs. Stoll's release and in the delivery of the ransom only through persuasion by Mrs. Stoll’s. family. |aboard the Yukon July 2, is very glad to be in' Alaska again. “I could hardly wait to e back,” Miss 'Kyle said. 'DUTCH BONE MEAL RAW, BONE MEAL and TANKAGE | SHIRLEY TEMPLE AT i CAPITOL, LAST TIME Shirley Temple isn't enthusiastic |about high places and there are plenty of them in “Bright Eyes,” . which will be shown at the Capitol | Theatre for the 1last time tonight. |Her new picture lafgely concerns airports, airplanes and pilots. However, she has &n unalterable faith in James Dunn, who has the | principal male role in the picture, |and with him at her side she soon overcame her dislike of high alti- tudes ‘during the making of “Bright Eyes.” 'fFine for Slow Growing Lawns @ The THOM AS Hardware Co. PO IV 6 LT TO SEWARD Mrs. 8. M,.Grflgfh_whqse husban; fs owner of the elettfic Tight an power comrpany in Seward, and her son, J. F. Graff, are bound for that A | "Carpenters..l'.oea watched, a “household duty” in the | male kidnapers’ minds, the Federal agents say. The women, too, they {point out, are considered good {“blinds.” They're Not Alike The' wives dragged into the light by agents of justice seeking to un- ravel kidnapings follow no set pat- tern. | Margaret Waley, plump member |of a family of 14 children, married |at 18 her ex-convict husband and for a year strung along with him jon a trail of poverty and living-on- relief that led from the State of | Washington 'to New Jersey and back again. That she enjoyed her hour of af- jfluence there seems little doubt. She threw bills about from the $200,000 ransom with an abandon that inevitably led to her arrest. |Cheap trinkets and dresses caught her eye — she bought them. She tipped a clerk $5; she gave a friend $5 for a graduation gift and then added other presents. When she was arrested, she said she had received the money in port from Seattle on the Alaska. change at another store, denounced TION! 1 No: 1 SPECIAL MEETING TUESDAY NIGHT AT 8 O'CLOCK - IMPORTANT! All members urgéntly requestéd to atténd. Delays in the trial have not been of her doing, her attorney says, ading, “She wants to try. it and be cleared and get it over with.” — e SENTENCE SUSPENDED R. Beebe and Albert Hanson fishermen, pleaded guilty to fishing July "4 in restricted area on the Taku river, and were given a three months suspended sentence each in | U. S. Commissioner’s court late yes- * terday. | o S NTERS HOSPITAL Miss Bernice Lovejoy entered the hospital last -might. for surgical |B€du on the PAA scheduled flight ! 8 the Lock: kan carly morning. LAt 9 oclock pilot Ellis took off with F. M. McPherson and T. C. Brady for Wrangell where they will Board a Stikine River boat; R. A. Welsh, Jr., of the Icy Straits Sal- on Cannery, for Ketchikan, and ifmportant papers to be delivered to the Yukon southward bound, at Retchikan, At Tyee the plane will pick up ©, Prahl enroute to Pe- tershur, K g et escesscesssse s . AT THE HOTELS . S 0 0 0 000 00 0 e o0 Gast Mr. and Mrs. Roy J. McMath diineau; H. S. Story; Hans Flog; §s. C. H. Nelson, Petersburg; G. O. MoDonald, Petersburg; W. C. Ar- nold, Ketchikan; A. E. Steere, Bfooklyn, N. Y.; Ed Christensen and wife, Wrangell; P. H .Adams, Se- aftle; M. W. Odom, Juneau; H. J Paine, Seattle; E. A. ‘Meyring and wife, Seattle. eau = Zynda Mrs. W. J. Sisson, Petersburg; W. A, Trout, Los Angeles; A. C. Mc- Bain, Los Angeles; F. J. Grunigen, Los Angeles; Ed Callaghan, Seattle. Alaskan Carl Venstad, Petersburg; H. E. Katzman, Petersburg; H. Grimstad, Hump Island; Luigi Christe, Ket- chikan, e COOPER OFF ON TRIP James C. Cooper, certified public accountant, who has made his head- quarters in Juneau for the past vear, left on the Alaska for Anchor- age, Fairbanks and Nome on: a business trip. He expects to return treatment. to Juneau sometime in November. American threak of FHouiiiiuzs “4 o legation Refusal of the Chinese National government at Nanking to agree to new demands of Japanese brought on a concentration of Jap- anese troops in the north China sector where an open break of hos- tilities is feared imminent. General Chiang Kai-Shek, Chinese war lord, is a central figure in the situation which may result in Emperor N »d Vega from Ketchi- | i Sino- Japanese_ --%UESDAY, JULY 9, 1935. SEINERS MUST 'LEAVE AT ONCE, FISHING BANKS Indications;\vfrvr Warning, Are that About 300 Will Soon Depart SEATTLE, July 9. — Nearly a month later than usual, a fleet of about three hundred purse seiners will leave Puget Sound ports for the {salmon banks within the next two or three days through having reach- ed price agreements with canners. | The prices agreed upon ¢ e: | Sockdyes, '60-oents; cohoes, 20 cent: | pinks, 1@ centS;. springs, 14 pounds | |or over, 75 cents to $1; 7 to 14 | pounds, 20 cents, under 7 pounds, 10 cents: The seiners left for the banks last summer about the middle of June. CANNERS’ WARNING | ANACORTES, July 9.—Cannery | operators announced that the purse seiners must start by Wednesday night or the companies will not open canning plants. Eighty percent | of the boat owners on Puget Sound voted to accept eapnerymen’s min- imum prices—50 cents for sockeyes |and 10 cents for pinks. Some boat owners have signed crews but it has not been determined whether fishermen's union as a whole will approve of the minimum price scale FUNERAL SERVICE FOR BOBBIE SAVOVICH WILL| BE HELD WEDNESDAY Funeral services for Bobbie Marko Savovich, who drowned in Gold Creek late Sunday afternoon will be held at.the Greek Russian Or- |thodox Church at 1 p.m., tomor- row, July 10. Rev. A. P. Kashevaroff will of- ficate and the pall bearers will be | A. Miller, J. Nickinovich, B. Capce- vich and R. Paul. Interment will be in the Serbian Plot at Ever- |green Cemeter: The boy was playing with com- panions at Evergreen Bowl last Sunday afternoon and later was |missed. The son of Assistant Po-| lice Chief William Markle saw the| body go under the Gold Creek bridge and immediately notified his father. The Fire Department was called to make a search, Later the | badly rocked-bruised body of the little boy was found floating in‘ the Channel by Ike and Junior |Cropley and Doug Morrison were out in a cance. They took the body aboard their craft and| rowed it ashore wheré the fire| boys attempted resusciation un-| suc fully. The body was then taken to the C. W. Carter Mor-| tuary. T ool BUILDING TRAILS The Patco, Sheldon Simmons, | pilot, took a crew of men and sup- plies to Lake Hasselborg for the Forest Service yesterday and an- other this afternoon, With Al Til- son in charge, the Forest Service is doing trail "'work and building | shelter cabins in the Hasselborg | vicinity. i, < ROOSEVELT ABOARD dore Roosevelt, is a passenger on| the Alaska from Seattle for Seward. | Fellow passengers report that \hei keeps to himself and gives no ink- ling as to whether the purpose of the trip is business. or pleasute. 1 Qi Pu Yi of Manchoukuo, former boy emperor of China, being placed who | A. Robsevelt, 'a nephew. of Theo- | f§ Here It Comes JUNEAU! Chilling—Slashing Thrill Drama of Paris A Warner Bros. Thrill Hit with MARY ASTOR RICARDO CORTEZ DUDLEY DIGGES ROBERT BARRAT All these Warner Rros. stars—yet we defy you to say which one plays tne title role until the final ‘reel! MARY ASTOR—RICARDO CORTEZ DUDLEY DIGGES—ROBERT BARRAT IRVING PICHEL—HOBART CAVANAUGH ADDED: Good Badminton—Radio Announcer's Review—News STARTS TONIGHT ROBBER GANG PLOT IN COLISEUM BILL “I Am a Thief,” with Mary Afih’)l“ and Ricardo Cortez heading an all-star cast, opens at the Coliseum Theatre tonight. The picture, based on a story| by Ralph Block and Doris Malloy, recounts the adventure of rival gangs of jewel robbers who battle | with each other and with the| French Surete for possession of the famous Kareninas diamonds. The cast includes Dudley Digges, Robert Barat, Irving Pichel, Hobart Cavanaugh, Ferd Gotlschalk and Florence Fair. - KELLER VISITS HE VEATHER 1S RIGHT AGAIN! E W. K. Keller, former schocl sup- erintendent at Juneau and now stationed at Anchorage, s a pas- nger to the Westward on the Al- acka, returning home after a trip outgide. Others from Anchorage are Mrs, L. Fleckenstein and Mrs, War- ren Cuddy. f ALL WOOL! $3.00 NEW TRUNKS $2 Latest Styles H.S. GRAVES “The Clothing Man’ i Turn to page Four UPTOWN Because you have de- manded it wé are hold- ing this remarkable picture over for one more day. POSITIVELY THE LAST TIMES TONIGHT ARLES DICKENS’ Inunortal Classic “Greflt Expectations” .. from the vivid pages of a great book to throbbing life on the screen! Truly the Movie Treat of the Season! Storm area at the head of a provisional government established by the Jap-' anese in north China. Considerab) quarters at Tientsin. where the American embassy is located. % The le apprehension is felt in legation DON'T- MISS IT! Japanese objective is beiieved to be extension of their_domination.