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VOLUME XXIX. NUMBER 87.
SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 1933.
PRICE TEN CENTS
CRAZED ATTACK
AGAINST 1TB
OY RUTH JUDD
‘BLONDE TIGRESS* BROKEN AND
HYSTERICAL AS DAY OF
DOOM NEARS
STATE PRISON, Florence. Ariz.,
April 14, —Broken and hysterical
from months of frantic efforts to
save herself from the gallows, Win
nie Ruth Judd, condemned mur
deress, loosened a crazed attack
against her mother on the eve of j
a hearing to determine her sanity. |
Shouting imprecations, the;
“Blonde Tigress.” scheduled to be ;
hanged April 21. berated her par
ent as she sought to sooth her and
persuade her not to commit sui
cide. Matrons and guards had to
be called to assist Mrs. H. J. Me
Kinnell to ward off the furies of
her hysterical daughter. She rant
ed against her brother. Burton, for
his efforts to aid her.
A jury of 12 ranchers, miners:
and storekeepers will be selected!
to determine the sanity of Mrs- j
Judd, in the one remaining avenue'
of escape open to her. Warden A. j
G. Walker, doubting she is men-;
tally normal, requested the hearing j
last Tuesday.
In the meantime preparations;
for the hanging next Friday is go
ing ahead. A rope is being made.
ILL NIGHT PSIin
IF. Mill KILLED
OROVILLE, Calif., April 14, —
Guns roared again today on Bid
well Bar, historic scene of the
early California gold days, and a
modern “depression miner,’’ pan
ning the old workings for a few
cenis, fell with a rifle bullet thru
his head.
The dead man was Charles
York, 40, who came into the moun
tains from Sebastopol.
The slaying followed an all-mte,
liquor party in York’s cabin, ac -
cording to the Sheriff s report.
Three men were jailed
investigation. They attended the
party, it was said, but have re
fused to discuss the shooting.
THREE FIRES RRGED
IR SM FRANCISCO
SAN FRANCISCO, April 14, —
Fire raged over the new Third
Street bridge, a block from the
Southern Pacific depot at Third
and Townsend Streets, threaten
ing destruction of the span, sur
rounding structures and a ship.
Two alarms were turned m as
two more fires, one here and the
other in Oakland, injured a fire
man and nearly claimed the lives
of a mother and child, who were
saved by neighbors. _
UST LEGAL GLOUD
GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE
REMOVED 61 COURT
SAN FRANCISCO. April 13,—The
last legal cloud over the Golden
Gate Bridge was removed by a de
cision of the State Supreme Court
which upheld the legality of the
rate of interest on its bonds.
At the same time, necessity of
building models of towers to test
wind stress and vertical ana rate
al loads on the Golden Gate Bndg
was pointed out to span directors
by three consulting engmeeisDi.
O. H. Ammann and Leon S-JM^a
eff of New York, and Prof. Charles
Derleth, Jr., of the University of
California. . ■
The models would cost SiAbuu,
a sum far less than was SPent f>n
similar test for the Hudson River
bridge, the engineers reported.
SENTENCED
LOS ANGELES, April 14,—Luella
Pearl Hammer, convicted kidnap
per of Mrs. Mary Skeele, b5 faced
a^prison sentence of from 10 years
to life. She was pronounced sane
bv a jury in superior court.
EH Van Dorn, asserted sweet
heart of Mias Hammer, Pleaded
guilty to kidnapping Mrs. Skeele
Ind demanding $10,000 ramsom,
and was sentenced to from 10 years
to life in Folsom prison._
INDICTED
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 14,—
Gaston B. Means, former Depart
ment of Justice agent, and Norman
T. Whittaker, known as “The Fox”, I
were indicted by the District of
Columbia Grand Jury.
The charge was conspiracy to
defraud Mrs. Evelyn Walsh Mc
Lean, wife of the former publisher :
of the Washington Post, of $35,000 j
in an asserted hoax search for:
the Lindbergh baby.
IM BONFIRES OF
FORBIDDEN BOOKS 10
GERMANY TO BLSZE
i
BERLIN, April 14, —Great bon-'
fires will be burning on the camp-!
us of German universities in a;
few days, when the latest Nazi de-1
cree goes into effect. The Hitler j
regime is continuing its nation
alistic crusade, has ordered that
all books which deal with non
German subjects or espouse non
German causes, must be burned.
This includes all the writings of
Karl Marx, all books dealing with'
Communisim, all books written by:
Jews, including Emil Ludwig, and
the author of “All Quiet On the
Western Front,” and all Socialis
tic works. All Nazi citizens have
promised to purge their private
libraries of books included in the!
long list, and to urge their friends,
to do likewise.
RANSOM
PEIPING, April 14, —The Unit-;
ed States legation was informed
that Chinese mercenaries were
holding Dr. Niels Nielsen, Amer
ican medical missionary, south of,
Mukden, Manchuria, for about
$100,000 ransom.
The legation made representa
tions to the Japanese authorities <
here and to the United States
consul in Mukden to effect nego
tiations for Nielsen’s release.
I
OLYMPIA, Wn., April 14,—Con
tracts for the construction of a
$300,000 brewery at Tumwater,;
near here, was awarded to the Gay
Engineering Corporation, officials
of the Olympia Brewing Co., an
nounced. . •
The work will be rushed night
and day so as to have the plant
from the famous brew will be on
the market 90 days after opera- j
operating wihtin 100 days. Product
tions start.
DEAL IS OFF
LONDON, April 14,—The Anglo
Russian trade agreement, which
expires shortly, will not be con
tinued, President of the Board of
Trade informed a questioner in the
House of Commons.
Foreign Secretary Sir John Si
mon denied that any employes of
i the Metropolitan Vickers Co., ever
j were employed by the British Sec
ret Service, or were ever offered
any reward fo information obtain
ed in Soviet Russia.
TITLE AT STAKE
NEW YORK. April 14, —The
i State Boxing Cmmission approved
June 29 as the date for Jack Shar
key to make his first defense of
the world heavyweight champion
ship against Primo Camera, Ital
ian giant, at Madison Square Gar
den. They are scheduled for 15
! rounds, Ithe same distance over
j which Sharkey defeated Camera
j in their first meeting last sum
mer.
BRITISH ALE ARRIVES
; NEW YORK CITY, April 14,—
1 The liner Majestic brought a con
signment of 120 cases of light ale,
the first British beer to be import
ed since 3.2 per .cent brew was
legalized. The shipment Was held
by customs authorities' pending
analysis to determine if the beer
was of legal alcoholic content.
• VAMPERISH KISS v
NEW ORLEANS, April 14, —
Seventy-year old Mrs. Amelia
Graham believes a kiss is worth
$8,000. A damage suit for this
amount was filed by the woman in
civil court against Elmer H. Pres
cott who, she alleges, kissed her
lips in a “horrible vamperish man
ner” when she went to his under
taking establishment to sell him
some mats. _
SECRET SERVICE OF
TAIN CHARGES
SPYING IN RUSSIA
MOSCOW, USSR., April 14, —
The British secret service was ac-|
cused of carrying on extensive'
spying activities in Soviet Russia
through a high official of the
British Metropolitan Vickers Elec-'
triciil Company.
The allegations were in a sign-1
ed confession by Wm. H. Tnorn-,
ton, one of the six Metropolitan-!
Vickers employees on trial, charged
with sabotage
It was read by Ludwig C. A. K.i
Martens, associate judge, who was
once deported from the United j
States. Mr. Thornton adinitted j
he wrote the confession, and then
promptly insisted it was not true
WINNIE RUTH JUDO
PHOENIX, Ariz., April 14, —Dr.1
George W. Stephens, formerly sup- j
erintendent of the Arizona State;
Hospital here, said, in a n'ews-j
paper interview, that if he is call
ed to testify in the sanity hearing j
of 'Wmnie Ruth Judd, which opens,
today in Florence, he will testify.
she is “incurably insane.” I
“I haye convinced myself that,
this woman is incurably insane,’
though in such types there may,
be occasional remarks and rem-,
iniscences during which they may.
be rational,” Dr. Stephens said, i
“I made a diagonis of dementia
praecox when I went to the wit-;
ness stand as the first alienist at (
Mrs Judd’s trial for murder, Dr.;
Stephens said. “That diagnosis I
still stands and there has been no j
improvement in her mental con-,
dition during the past 12 months, j
ACCEPT CHAIR
PARIS, April 14, —Prof. Albert
Cinstein was reported to have ac-j
:epted the chair of mathematical
jhysics in the College de France,
>arjS
The newspaper Petit Parisen
laid the acceptance would not pre-1
rant Einstein from joining tne
Jniversity of Madrid also.
Madrid reports of two days ago
vere to the effect he had accepted,
i position there.
SEE1
ALEPPO, Syria, April 14,—Miss
Jean Batton, British woman flyer,
attempting a new woman’s record
flight from London to Australia,
is flying toward Bagdad, the third
leg of her journey,
Capt. Robbiano, of the Italian
army, attempting the same flight,
has not been reported since he
took off from here for Jask, Persia.
Capt. William N. Lancaster, seek
ing to break the record for a flight
from London to Cape Town, took
off from Oran, Algeria, on the sec
ond leg of his journey.
SPIES CAPTURED
SANTIAGO, Chile, April 14,—Let
ters of credit for $2,000, allegedly
indorsed by high Soviet
ment officials, and bomb manu
facturing machinery were discov
ered in the baggage of two Com
munists arrested by sccret^e™e
agents on their arrival at the Cen
tral Railroad Station. The two pen
carried two pistols.
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SPEND SIX DAYS
PARIS. April 14,—Former Prem
>r Herriot will spend six days in
re United States during his mg
Lon to Washington, hesaud after
Dmpleting final plans for his voy
exp He clans to reach New York
.pr'il 23, going direct to Wa^hmg
m for conference with Plles^den
•oosevelt and Secretary., Q.f State
iXand “il for home am April
MAYOR of CmeAGO
CHICAGO, April ^.--EdwardJ
felly was elected to be_^or".
'air Mavor of Chicago- He was
lected by a City Gounpil.vote of
6 to 0 to take the place of the
ite Anton Cermak, who died a
aonth ago at Miami, Fla., oi a
ullet wound inflicted by a .man
ho fired upon the then President
llect Roosevelt.
TORE ROOF OFF
PETERSBURG, Alaska, April 14 j
—A 65-mile an hour wind hit Pet- i
ersburg Thursday morning caus-]
ing $1,000 damage to the Arctic
hotel, tearing the roofing off and
the heavy rain drenched rooms
causing tenants to vacate. A tern-!
porary roof is being installed.
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NEXT WEEK
CANNES, France, April 14,—
Former Mayor James J. Walker j
and Betty Compton, actress, will
be marrigd during Easter week, it
was announced.
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SUBS ARRIVE
BUENOS AIRES. April 14,—Ar
gentina’s three new submarines1
arrived here, completing a 5.000
mile non-stop voyage fro mltaly
where they were constructed.
SINKING FUND
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay. April
14,—The government is preparing
to deposit $1,500,000 in New Yorkj
before the end of the month for
service on the six percent external
sinking fund gold loan of 1930. due
in 1964, it was learned.
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FIRST TIME SINCE 1870
VATICAN CITY, April 14, —The
Pope carried the Blessed Sacament
from its tabernacle in the Sistine
chapel to the Pauline chapel for
the first time since 1870. There it;
will be exposed throughout to
day, Good Friday.
SEARCH COUNTRY
MUKDEN, Manchuria, April 14,
—Japanese and Manchukuo sold-;
iers searched the wild country near;
Hsinguy for bandits who have kid- j
napped Dr. Delnilser, American
missionary. The bandits sent Mrs.;
Delnilser a note demanding $500,-j
000 ransom.
CONTEST TERMS
HOLLYWOOD, April 14,—King
Vidor, motion picture director, is
expected to contest the terms of
the divorce decree granted his
wife- Eleanor Broadman, screen
actress. Miss Broadman was
awarded $500 per month for
support of her children
the
COSTLY SHOES
CHICAGO, April 14, —A $6.50
pair of shoes he bought for his
wife two years ago has cost him
I $2,000. George Jaffte protested in
! court that “because she didn t like
them, ran me out of the house and
I’ve had to pay that much since j
I then on a court support order.”
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UNION GENERAL DIES
j ORMOND BEACH, Fla.. Apiil 14,;
’_General Adlerbert Ames, the last j
j surviving Union Army general in
I the Civil War, died at his winter
i home here Thursday. General
! Ames was a crony of John D. Rock
efeller; neighbors said he appear
ed in good health until Thursday.
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DISCHARGED
! BERLIN, April 14,—Fifteen pro
cessors have been discharged from
colleges here and in three other
German cities. It is understood
, that a questionnaire will be sub
I mitted soon to all professors in a
movement to reorganize all high
| er educational institutions in ac
i cordance with aFscist principles.
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GOLD STOCK INCREASE
NEW YORK CITY, April 14,—The
country’s gold stocks increased by
i $18,700,000 as result of a decline
! of that amount in the stock of gold
i held here under earmark for for
) eign accounts. Neither imports
! nor exports were recorded Thurs
day. During the week ended April
12, gold stocks rose $8,397,000. Im
ports here totaled $133,000.
RIGID CONTROL
SPRINGFIELD, 111., April 14,—To
bring more rigid control of profes
sional boxers and wrestlers, a bill
was introduced in the House of
Representatives limiting competi
tors to one bout a week. The pur
pose of the bill is to halt nightly
stands by wrestling and boxing
caavans.
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WARM WELCOME
ROME, Apfril 14, —After a warm
welcome from Premier Mussolini,
77 young cadets from the Cali
fornia naval * training: school for
officers of the United States mer
chant, marine left Italy in their
i training ship, California State, to
I continue their cruise before re
I turning home.
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ij THE CALL OF SPRING
;J KANSAS CITY, Mo., April 14,
! The first complaints of the year
i against nude boy bathers wer<
1 made to police here when the
1 mercury soared to 84 degrees
’ Three small boys were the offend
ers.
! ACCUSED
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 14,—
1 The United States, it was learned
j authoritatively, has consented to
I the arrest by Haitian authoities
of David P. Johnsorr, U. S. Collect
or of Customs at Port Au Prince.
According to advices reaching
here, Mr. Johnson is accused of
having collaborated with importers
in defrauding the Haitian govern
ment of customs receipts.
HOMES GET BIG
IT
i
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 14,— j
Small home owners will get a big
boost from President Roosevelt, if
Congress will enact legislation
proposed by the Chief Executive,
in a message to Congress. The
President’s program includes the
formation of a Home Loan Corp
oration, for which bonds will be
issued.
Funds from the Treasury and
from sale of the Home Loan Corp
oration bonds will be used to take
up the present mortgage in place
of the old one. Fifteen years are j
allowed for payment of the new i
mortgage, at five per cent interest.
The terms of this proposal, the
President said, are such as to
make the burden on the Treasury
as light as possible and still ach
ieve the ends sought. The relief to
home owners, he said, was the
next necessary step in economic
recovery.
NEW ENGLAND HIS
SURPRISE BLIZZARD
BOSTON, April 14,—New snow
fall records were established in
many New England points, a sur
prise blizzard leaving falls of be
tween five and 25 inches, disrupted
communication and isolated small
communities.
Boston was relatively lightly hit,
but the five inches which did fall
hampered transportation and forc
ed postponement of the opening
of the new Major League Baseball
season. The heaviest snowfall re
ported w^s 25 inches at Plymouth,
N. H.
LODK H
1E» LONS OU
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 14,—
Senator Huey Long blamed politi
cal enemies for a petition submit
ted to Vice-President Garner ask
ing that Long be unseated.
The petition, which cited “alleg
ed reasons” why Long should be
ousted, was signed by John Parker
and 23 other Louisiana citizens.
Among other charges, the peti
tion accused Long of creating
“conditions in the State that have
made elections a farce”. It was
referred to the Senate election
committee.
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NOTHING TO SAY j
SAN FRANCISCO, April 14,—Yo.
suka Matsuoka, Japan’s chief dele-:
gate to the League of Nations,;
sailed for home Thursday after,
an American tour. He refrained;
from giving his Nation's version of.
; the Manchurian incident. He made,
i no comment on American-Japan-.
; ese relations before sailing.
baseball trades
i LOS ANGELES, April 14, —'The
Angels traded Ed Baecht, light- ;
handed pitcher, to the Minneapo
lis club of the American associa-j
tion for catcher Hughie McMullen.
! McMullen, a local player who had
not joined the Minneapolis club
because of contract difficulties,
joining the Angels. He caught for
the Oaks two years ago.
HOMESICK FOR PEN
AUSTIN, Tex., April 13,—Home
sickness weighed hgavily on Paul
Smithers, paroled from the Texas
Penitentiary. He left a not for
his father saying he had ’done
something”, and had to go back.
, Walking into * police headquarters,
j he was charged with robbery in a
$1.95 filling station holdup. ,
REPLACE O’MALLEY
WASHINGTON, April 13,—Presi
dent Roosevelt nominated James
Corley, mayor of Boston, to be
Ambassador to Poland, and Frank
! Bell, Senator Dill’s secretary, to be
1 Commissioner of Fisheries replac
ing Henry O’Malley._
GREEN INTRODUCES BILL
INCREASING TAX NET
INCOMES MINES
JUNEAU, April 14—T axation
again occupied the center of the
stage in the Legislature today
when Green of H.vder introduced
a bill to establish a rate from dou
ble to almost three times as high
as those existing since 1327 raising
from one to two percent the rate
on net incomes from mines; $10,
000 to S5C0,000 to $1,000,000 and
from one and three-quarters to
five percent over $1,000,000.
The House Ways and Means
committee today, without a dis
Isenting vote, recommended the
passage of Hofman’s bill imposing
a graduate scale of taxation on
fish takes which would increase
taxes on traps taking “pinks” and
other cheaper grades 500 percent
and using the 1931 figures as a
basis, and on “red” traps, even
more. Passage in the House seems
certain. Canneries are apparently
indifferent to the measure as none
were represented at the committee
hearings.
The House passed the Taylor bill
requiring public utilities compan
ies to pay tax and percent interest
on deposit moneys; the Green free
silver resolution and Lingo’s mem
orial urging continuation of the
International Highway Commis
sion and immediate launching of
that project, and the Ways and
Means committee bill limiting to'
$150 expenditure for search for
any lost person, unless a greater
sum is authorized previously by
the Governor.
The Senate passed the Shattuck
bill defining legal statutes of il
legitimate children and Bragaw’s
bill providing $5,000 subsidy for
the Anchorage Radio Station and
two memorials, one of which urg
es the extension of homestead
land laws to fox islands in Alaska.
SPRINGFIELD, Mo., April 14,—
Charges of conduct unbecoming a
minister were filed in the Ozark
Presbytery of the Presbyterian
Church against the Rev, Sharon
Inman, missing pastor of Cave
Spring Church in rural Greene
County.
He was escorted by his wife and
11-year-old son to a point near
here and started west with the
20-year-old girl he chose in pref
I erence to his wife and two child
! reft. Rev. Inman’s trial before the
Presbytery was set here for April
I 25.
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NICE NEW POST
NEW YORK, April 14,—Edward
P. Mulrooney resigned as Police
Commissioner to accept the chair
manship of the newly created
State Beer Control Board. He will
receive $12,000 in his new post, and
will head a board of five members.
No decision has been made on
Mulrooney’s successor.
AND NEW COSE IS
PLANNED BT HITLER
I BERLIN. April 13", —Chancellor
' Hitler’s regime has turned its at
j tention to whipping higher edu
! cation in Germany into line.
Resignations of present heads of
: universities are inevitable under
administrative changes being inau
gurated. A new Prussian students’
code, being made public today,
abolishes parliamentarism and
substitutes Nazi leadership.
The Nazi pinciple of making ap
pointments from above replaces
popular selection of student lead
ers. The code will serve as a nat
ional model. It is based on racial
principles and will discriminate
against Jews and embrace Aust
rian students in an all-German
program.
SUSPENDED
CHICAGO, Apil 14, —The State
Athletic Commission decided un
animously to suspend wrestling in
Illinois.
The commission’s decision fol
lowed a wrestling match here last
week between Joe Savoldi of Three
• Oaks, Michigan, and Jim Londos,
Greek, in which Savoldi was
awarded a decision over the claim
ant of the world’s title.
-DRAMATIC CONTEST APRIL 17 AND 18