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VOLUME XVI. NUMBER 97. SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, MAY 4, 1931.
PRICE TEN CENTS
THIRD MYTERY KILLIIIS
OF MfOMEN OHS
HEM) SIN DIEGO
SAN DIEGO. May 4. (&)—With
11 deep stab wounds in the left
side of her body, Miss Hazel Brad
shaw, 22, was found this morning
by two boys on the grounds of the
Boy Scout headquarters in Balboa
Park.
It is believed the girl was
stabbed about 9:42 Saturday night
as her wrist watch stopped at
that time; she had put up a ter
rific battle with her slayer.
This is the third death mystery
here within two weeks; the other
victims were also women.
Police said they did not believe
there is any connection between
these murders. No motive is im
mediately apparent for Miss Brad
shaw’s killing.
CAPT. A. ANDERSON DIES
DUTCH HARBOR, May 4. </P)—
Capt. Amon Anderson, command
ing officer of the U. S. Bureau of
Fisheries boat Penguin, died sud
denly Sunday at Unalaska from a
heart attack. He was about 60.
There are no known survivors;
Captain Anderson commanded the
Eider before the Penguin.
JAPANESE mil
EiOIITE TO ALASKA
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TOKYO, May 4. W—Seiji Yosh- j
ihara took off at 10:10 a. m. to
day, 1 p. m., Sunday Eastern
Standard Time, on the first leg
of a flight to San Francisco via
Alaska.
Word reaching Seattle said the |
SS Yokusai Maru unloaded gaso- ;
line and other supplies at Dutch i
Harbor Sunday and a number of!
news writers also landed at Dutch j
Harbor from the ship.
IN OMINOUS CULM
LISBON, May 4, (IP)—President
Carmona and his cabinet sat in
the Third regiment barracks pro
tected by barbed wire and ma
chine guns while a revolution
threatened at home.
Portuguese forces at Madeira
sent word that the rebel junta at
Funchal had surrendered; two
were killed and 20 wounded yes
terday before order was restored.
The city is under an ominous
calm.
NO INCREASE IN WAGES
WASHINGTON, D. C.t May 4.
UP)—The government will refuse
to grant further increases to em
ployes during the coming year,
thus effecting a saving of several
million dollars, it was announced.
All department heads indicated
that proposed wage increases will
be cancelled.
BALLPLAYER BREAKS ARM
PITTSBURGH, May 4. (/P)—
Mickey Heath, recruit first-base
man from Hollywood, broke his
right arm reaching for a bad
throw in the game between Pitts
burgh and Cincinnati. Heath
plays with the Reds.
| WAGE CUT PROTEST
NEW YORK, May 4. </P)—Office
workers routed a group of union
agitators, who attempted to stage
a wage cut protest demonstration
in front of the J. P. Morgan &
Company in Wall Street. The
speaker’s platform was overturned
and rally leaders chased down the
street.
NEW CRISIS NON
BECAUSE PRINCE WILL
not sign piposils
LONDON, May 4. (JP)—A new
crisis was precipitated in the tri
party navy parleys when word
came from Paris that France
would not accept Great Britain’s
proposals for smoothing out dif
ficulties which have brought ne
gotiations to a deadlock stage.
Count Rene Massigli, head of
the French delegation to the con
ference, immediately left here for
his capital while unofficial word
was that he had no immediate in
tention of returning.
Negotiations, it was said, could
not be expected to be resumed
until after meeting of foreign min
isters of the three nations at
Geneva during the League of Na
tions council about the middle of
May. •*.,
If Foreign Minister Briand is
elected president it is believed her
that chances of saving the pro
posed draft agreement will be
considerably changed.
MURID WOMAN
TOON ONE OH TOO
MM WITH FRIEND
CHICAGO, May 4. (/P)—Defeat
ed in his efforts to win Mrs.
Kathryn Garrison away from her
husband, J. H. Hartung of Brook
lyn murdered her by tricking her
into drinking poison cocktail, then
ended his own life with a similar
potion.
The double tragedy took place in
the presence of the woman’s hus
band, Ralph Garrison of Kalama
zoo, Mich.
Garrison testfied at the cor
oner’s inquest that his rival had
taunted him bitterly as he lay
dying. Garrison said his wife
had agreed to return home but
consented to have “one last drink”
with her salesman suitor. It was
this drink that ended her life.
TALLEST SKYSCRAPER
READY FOR BUSINESS
NEW YORK, May 4. (/P)_The
world’s tallest skyscraper, the Em
pire State Building, towering 102
stories above Fifth Avenue, with
another two stories underground,
was opened with fittng ceremono
ies.
Pres. Hoover pressed the key
illuminating the lobby as a start
er for the program which wound
up with a luncheon presided over
by former Gov. A1 Smith, head
of the corporation which built the
structure, and attended by Gov
ernor Roosevelt.
CONTINUES SHAKEUF
CHICAGO, May 4. (/P)—Eleven
police captains and 20 lieutenants
were transferred by Acting Police
Commissioner John Alcock in the
big shakeup of the Chicago police
department.
DUKE RESUMES ARMY LIFE
LONDON, May 4. 5/P)—'The Duke
of Gloucester, third son of King
George, resumed active army life
by taking up his appointment as
staff captain, joining fellow offi
cers at Tidswort.
FORD BUYS STATELY HOUSE
CHELMSFORD ESSEX, England,
May 4. (JP)—Henry Ford has pur
chased the Boreham House, Stately
80th century mansion near here.
It was understood he will use it
as a home part of the time.
ALASKA’S DISCOYERER
COPENHAGEN, May 4, (/P>—
A Danish committee including
Crown Prince Frederick, has been
formed to arrange for a memor
ial to the Danish Arctic explorer
Vitus Bering, discoverer of Alas
ka, on the 250th day of his birth.
AVfcRS HOOVER REELECTED
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 4,
(JP)—Senator Moses of New Hamp
shire, chairman of the Republi-1
can Senatorial Committee, after!
a visit to the White House, de-1
dared that President Hoover will
be renominated and reelected.
1800 COMMUNISTS EXECUTED i
SHANGHAI, May 4, (/P)-A total!
of 1800 Communists, captured in
a battle in Hupe Province, have
been executed as a menace to!
the government, the Nationalist j
government officially announced, j
NEARLY A BILLION
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 4.
(JP)—The task of paying war vet
terans’ bonuses authorized by the
last Congress is virtually com
pleted, the Veterans Bureau an
nounced. A total of $971,000,000
has already been paid.
HOOVER JR. VISITS PARENTS
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 4.
Herbert Hoover, Jr., son of the
President, arrived for a week’s visit
with his parents at the White
House from Asheville, N. C., where
he was recuperating from incipient
tuberculosis.
TO RID BEER RACKET GANGS
CATSKILL, N. Y., May 4. (/P)—
Federal prohibition authorities
joined hands with the State At
torney General’s department state
troopers to rid Catskill summer
playgrounds of beer racket gangs.
EMPPEROR HAS BIRTHDAY
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 4.
Secretary of State Stimson broad
cast a greeting to Emperor Hiro
hito of Japan on the celebration
of the ruler’s 30th birthday anni
versary.
MUST UNDERGO OPERATION
BALTIMORE, May 4. (/P)_Dr.
William H. Wilmer, head of the
Wilmer Eye Institute, told King
Prajadhipok of Siam than an op
eration is imperative if he is to
save the sight of his left eye. It
was to be treated here that the
King came to Amerca.
SHE WANTS PLENTY
HOLLYWOOD, May 4. (ZP)—Helen
Wills Moody wants $155,000 to turn
professional and make moving
pictures, it was revealed byr offi
cials of a studio who approved
it here.
FRIGE TO PROPOSE
NEW CREDIT SYSTEM
15 HID TO INDUSTRY
PARIS, May 4. (/P)—France will
submit a memorandum to all
European governments probably
next week, proposing a new Eu
ropean credit system to aid agri
culture and industry.
The project will also embrace
a plan for customs relief designed
to meet the so-called “menace”
of the Austro German customs
union.
The author of the project is
Foreign Minister Aristide Briand
and admirers of the diplomat hail
it as a “masterpiece” of his long
diplomatic career.
Under provisions of the plan,
credit would be extended not to
states subscribing to the agree
ment but to industrial and agri
cultural groups and to the var
ious chambers of commerce.
After different governments have
had the opportunity to study it,
Briand plans to submit his project'
to European committees at Geneva
in May; meanwhile the French
cabinet, which some days ago ap
proved the rough outline of the
measure, has the text under con
sideration.
SERIOUS OBSTACLE
TO FOREIGN TRADE
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., May 4.
(/P)—The United States Chamber
of Commerce heard the assertion
that politics in some Latin-Amer
ican Republics constitutes a ser
ious obstacle to foreign trade re
covery.
Robert H. Patchin, vice-presi
dent of W. R. Grace & Company
of New York, added to that as
sertion the statement that the
great purchasing capacity of the
United States, due to high wages
and high standard of living, would
powerfully contribute to world
business revival, repeating the
economic history of recovery from
past depressions.
hid ill nr
n DEFEAT HELENE
SAN FRANCISCO, May 4, (/P)—
Eleanor Garatii, who held most
| of the world’s swimming records
at the time of the last Olympiad,
is planning a comeback.
Eleanor, or Mrs. Laurence E.
Saville, admitted that she was
seriously thinking of returning to
the pool for practice and tryouts
on the American swimming team.
She would like to try for some
of the records set by Helene Mad*
Ison.
ALASKA, WASHINGTON
PIONEER, J HENSON,
' DIES PONT ANGELES
PORT ANGELES, May 4. (IP)—
John Henson, 83, a pioneer of
Washington and Alaska, died of
pneumonia after a 10-days illness.
He came here in 1889 and went
to Alaska in 1891 and was the
first city clerk, police judge and
U. S. Commissioner at Douglas,
Alaska. At various times he came
back home here, the last time 10
years ago.
He is survived by a widow, two
sons, Fred, assistant cashier of
the Washington State Bank here,
and John, city editor of the Port
: Angeles News, and one daughter,
j Mrs. R. H. Ernst, instructor of dra
j matic art at the University of
| Oregon.
HALIBUT FARES
SEATTLE, May 4, (IP)—Halibut
| from two vessels amounting to
115,000 sold for six and 10c.
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FUST LEG PACIFIC
FLIGHT COMPLETED
NUMASAKI, Japan, May 4. (^P)
I —The first leg of a projected
trans-Pacific flight was completed
by Yoshihara when he landed here
at 3:25 p. m. after a 368 mile hop
from Tokyo.
Thomas Nash, American, who is
making a non-stop flight to Am
erica, said it will be almost a mir
i acle if Yoshihara succeeded but
! wished the Japanese good luck.
The Japanese aviator replied in
i kind extending his best wishes,
adding he feared Nash would never
succeed. ... . _
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 4.
' (#*)—Progressive Republican leaders
let it be known they will back a
third candidate for the speaker
ship of the House next December
regardless of who is put forward
by regulars of their party and of
the Democratic wing.
Republican Leader Tilson and
Chairman Snell of the rules com
mittee are leading contenders for
the vote of Republican regulars,
while Representative John Gamer
of Texas is the Democratic choice.
LOOKING FOR ARMISTICE
LISBON, Portpgal, May 4. OP)—
The expeditionary force which
the government sent to Madeira
to put down the revolution is with
holding its threatened offensive,
while negotiations looking to an
armistice are proceeding, it was
announced.
BANKRUPTCY FILED
CHICAGO, May 4. OP)—Involun
tary petition in bankruptcy was
filed in Federal district court
against Wlbur Glenn *Voliwa, over
seer of Zion City, in behalf of
six residents of his religious colony
who presented claims aggregating
$4,000.