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' CLAIMS FOR LIFE OF
MRS. JUDO; MURDERS
PHOENIX, Ariz., Oct., 31, (/P)—
Two claims for the life of Mrs.
Winnie Ruth Judd, confessed slay
er of Miss Samuelson and Mrs.
Leroi, will be made by Arizona in
connection with the death of each
of her friends.
The prosecution, headed by At
torney Lloyd Andrews, revealed
after the return here of Mrs.
Judd fom Los Angeles, that she
is to be tried on two separate
charges for the murders with the
death penalty being demanded by
the State for each charge.
Andrews said that Mrs. Judd
Y was not aware of the possibility
that she faced two charges which
•was practically denied her when
she was placed in the cell.
She is in a cell occupied by a
negress, who is charged with the
slaying of a white man and an
other negres^ in a knife affray,
and a white woman who is lodged
in jail on a check charge.
LIST SURVIVING GENERAL
* OF CIVIL WAR CELEBRATES
SGTH BIRTH ANNIVERSARY
TEWKSBURY, Mass., Oct. 31. (JP)
—Phantom troops marched in re- ,
view as Adelbert Amos, last sur
viving general of the Civil war, ob
served his 96th birthday.
He is the oldest living West Point
►- graduate and recalled his daysI
there with General Robert E. Lee j
as his teacher. His first battle was j
at Bull Run where he was injured 1
in the thigh by a bullet and dur-!
iing which time he was awarded the
Congressional Medal of Honor.
He was Governor of Mississippi j
during reconstruction days and was j
at one time a Representative to
the House. He later was sent to
the Senate with Colfax Cameron.j
Later he became a brigadier gen- j
^ eral in the Spanish-American war. I
mmm station asks
LIKE FOR TELEVISION
. IOWA CITY, Oct. 31. (A5) — The
only university-owned television
broadcasting station in the United
States is the distinction WSUI •
hopes to attain soon.
The station, operated by the
University of Iowa, has filed peti
tion for a permit from the Federal
Radio Commission.
University electrical experts and j
their student assistants have been!
experimenting with television here!
'or many months, and recently con
noted a television demonstration
the State fair.
ELEPHANT TO BE SOLD j
;ALEM; Ore., Oct., 31, (A>)—
• fate of the elephant which
■s left on the hands of local
y authorities, when its former j
-ner could not meet payments !
his hay debt, is to be deter- j
ned today. The elephant, who i
*ts a ton of hay a day, is to be i
sold on auction to the highest v
bidder. i
STIMSON ADDS VOICE
WASHINGTON, Oct., 31, (/P)—
| Secretary of State Stimson yester
| clay added his voice to President
j Hoover in denouncing William
| Howard Gardiner, president of
the United States Navy League for
accusing President Hoover of
“abysmal ignorance” and that he
j was making an effort to starve
; out the navy
■EMM
IN BITTER CHI
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 31. (/P)
—The next move in the bitter con
troversey between President Hoo
ver and, the Navy League is up to
the League. Hoover is ready to
name a jury to decide whether he
has shown “abysmal ignorance of
Naval matters as charged by the
Navy League or whether William
Gardiner is guilty of uttering the
issue of falsehoods,” as charged by
the White House.
President Hoover is waiting to ob
tain a list of members of the Navy
League before selecting a jury.
LOSING STRENGTH
PARIS, Oct., 30, (/P)—Raymond
Poincare, the man who saved
France in 1926, is gradually losing
strength, it was announced today
when he resigned as president of
the Paris Bar Association because
of ill health.
FIE MOVIES PROVIDED
FOR POOR IN OKLAHOMA
PONCA CITY, Okla., Oct, 31 (TP)
—Four years ago Lew Wentz, Ponca
City multi-millionaire, stood on the I
curb near a moving picture theatre
and watched a poorly dressed man
enter with his large family.
“It cost him $1.45,” Wentz said.
“He probably received little more ;
than that for a day’s work. Then I i
thought of how many more families ,
were paying more than they could j
afford for a picture show.”
A few days later the oil man ar
ranged to rent Ponca City’s largest i
auditorium Wednesday and Friday
nights, and for four years rich and
poor alike have been admitted free
to picture shows twice weekly.
KILLED BY LION
SEATTLE, Oct., 31, (TP)—H. H
Heron, Seattle capitalist, was kill
ed in South Africa by a lion, is
the report reaching his relatives
and business associates here.
TOE STORK MARKET
SEATTLE, Oct. 31. (^—Yester
day’s quotations on the stock mar
ket:
Alaska Juneau .14
American Can .81 %
Borden .45%
Canada Dry .18%
Gleneral Motors .25%
International Nickle Can. 9
International Tel. & Tel.16%
Sennecott Copper ..13%
Radio .13%
Reynolds Tobacco (b) .38%
Richfield Oil.No Sale
Standard Oil of Calif.33 %
Standard Oil of N. J.33%
Standard Oil of N. Y..14% ,
Jnion Oil of Calif.15% :
J. S. Steel .66% j
Cities Service . 7% .
Durant Motors. 1 ,
IE
of design io bow
FOB in limn
? MOSCOW, Oct., 31, (/P)—Sharp
est attention is being focused on
I events in Manchuria by the
Kremlin which is actuated by
economic as well as political con
f siderations.
Not only does that territory
command a strategic portion of
Russia’s vast frontiers in a mili
1 tary sense, but the Soviet tJnion
' j has a definite commercial interest
' I in Manchuria thru its joint own
} j ership with China of the Chinese
4 i Eastern Railway.
^ j This line, long a bone of con
, I tention between the two countries,
. could, in the view of observers
, here conceivably form ■ the snear
j head of further complications if
Janan extended its sphere of ac
. tivitv into northern Manchuria.
r ‘ The road tans the rich sova
ih#>c»d count.rv there and forms the
i outlet to Russia’s Pacific
nort. Vladivostok.
In the official Soviet view, set
forth in the government orean
Tzvest-ia, railroads constitute the J
| paramount point in what Moscow |
j regards as designs of Japanese |
I “imperialists” on Manchuria.
Japan, Moscow charges, long j
| has been protesting aaainst inde-1
i pendent Chinese railway con- j
j struction designed to compete j
with the Japanese controlled j
South Manchurian Railway. Now,!
it is accused here of trying to ob
j tain the right of constructing a j
number of new lines in Manchu
ria under its own control.
One of the proposed Japanese
1 projects, according to Izvestia, is
construction of a new line run- j
ning parallel with the Chinese ‘
i Eastern and having an outlet in
northern Korean ports
| “Such a line”, Izvestia adds, j
j “would not only have economic
| but great military importance.”
I No secret is made here that the
I government regards the Japanese
| action in Manchuria as a threat
| to international amity. It is rep
jresented as feeling that Japan’s
! move was made not without the
knowledge of “other imperialistic
countries”.
The press here has been sharp
ly critical of the attitude of the j
League of Nations and of the 1
Washington declaration that no |
basis has been found for inter- j
preting the Japanese action as a i
violation of the Kellogg pact.
Denial has been made that -he
Japanese move, said officially to
have been imspired by. Chins?
•'".forts to seize the South Manchu
rian Railway, is in any way an
alogous to the conflict between
China and Russia two years ago
over the Chinese Eastern Railway.
At that time China seized the
line, charging that Soviet employ
es carried on communistic propa
ganda. An open diplomatic break
followed—a breach which has not
yet been healed—and there was
border skirmishing.
1
SOUNDING OUT CREDITORS ]
BERLIN, Oct. 31. 0T*)—Reports
published in the German press (
state that Russia is unable to meet
her commercial commitments and
is sounding out her creditors in an 1
attempt to obtain extension of 3
drafts.
ACCIDENTLY SHOT
j ELLENSBURG, Wn, Oct., 31,
i (TP)—Phil H. Adams, former State
I legislator, was accidently shot by
| his own gun near his ranch here
yesterday. Adams was attempt
ing to bring his shotgun out of
the car when the trigger caught
[ in the brake and discharged it.
'The shot passed thru Adams’ body
and killed him.
0EITHS III INTERSECTION!)
HfiLF OF CHILDREN'S TOTSL
CHICAGO, Oct. 31. (TP)—’Virtually
50 per cent of all auto accidents
involving children under 15 years
of age occurred at places other
than intersections in 1930.
This is one of a number of statis
tic facts reported by the Chicago
Motor Club.
Its survey found 13 x/z per cent
of auto acidents to children oc
curred between five and six in the
evening; 11 per cent between three
and four o’clock, and more than 10
per cent between four and five.
Nearly one-fifth of the accidents
occurred on Saturdays.
LOSE EXPORT MARKET
CHICAGO, Oct. 31. (/P)—American
farmers are due to lose their share
of export wheat market to Soviet
Russia, Congressman Henry Rainey
of Illinois declared at a luncheon of
the Illinois Manufacturers Cost
Association.
iDieUS FIIIS TALLEST
TREES, SITS PHYSICIST |
I
* -—■*'
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 31. (JP)1
—This tall tree stalk has caused at j
least one expert to do a bit of re- j
| searching.
Harry D. Tiemann, a physicist of
Uncle Sam’s forest products labora
I tory, says that the record height
| for trees appears to be held by the I
1 Douglas fir and not the redwood as
is commonly believed.
A felled fir tree back in 1900 i
| measured 380 feet by the steel tape i
route. Another in British Columbia I
was reported to have been 417 feet |
high. The tallest known redwood,
Tiemann says, is still standing and j
is believed to reach between 359:
and 368 feet.
NEAR FIST FIGHT
SHANGHAI, Oct., 31, (JP)-A
meeting here of Chin.se and Jap
anese delegates, who were seeking
a means of solving the warlike
* situation between the two coun
tries, nearly ended in a fist fight.!
One of the Chinese delegates'
couid not control his temper and:
nearly caused the fight. The Jap
anese delegation immediately:
withdrew. China apologized to
Japan for the events.
PAY DEBTS
CHICAGO, Oct., 31, (JP)—School;
teachers and civil service workers M
thronged Chicago grocery stores >t ■
yesterday as they prepared to pay];
their long overdue accounts. The |
general consensus of answers to;
the questions, “What are you go
ing to do with your check?” was
“I’m going to pay part of my -
debts”. i
A Halloween dance will be given .
tonight in the I. O. O. F. hall. <
Music will be furnished by the |
Jolly Three Dance Orchestra. ]
ICAEDIT SGilTIOIIS HE
| BEEI IMHO, HAD
; SWING Of CONEIOENGE
WASHINGTON, Oct., 31, (£>)—
i The sharp upward swing of public
, confidence which has already led
cessation of money hoarding
1 and has put an end to small bank
failures, is seen by President Hoo
ver almost two years after the
deflation of the stock market be
gan in 1929.
Hoover cited it as a “very great
change" for better credit condi
ions with its practical effect evi
i °nced by the recovery of wheat
' md cotton prices. “Evidence over
last week indicates that not only
has money hoarding ceased but
actually' $24,000,000 of hoarded
money has been returned to the
banks and small bank failures
have almost ceased.
“Foreign exchanges have been *
returned to a hasis on which it is
•io longer advantageous to ship
gold abroad. The practical effect
f this discovery is showing in the
price of wheat by 10 cents, cotton
by $15 to $20 a bale", the Presi
dent said.
MAUfflTf ATTACKS
ANO ALMOST KILLS
BABY BOY AT RUBY
Only the prompt arrival on the
scene of his father, saved from
death recently the four-year-old
son of Albert Verhonik, Ruby
freighter, and Mrs. Verhonik, re
ports the Fairbanks News-Miner.
The boy was set upon and severe
ly bitten by a malamute which al
most surely would have killed him
had not Mr. Verhonik rushed to
his son’s rescue.
Mrs. Verhonik had left him play
ing with the Growden boy when she
sighted a plane heading for the
landing field, three miles from the
town. She took the car and started
for the field. Mr. Verhonik, coming
in from Long Creek, had also seen
the plane and both arrived at the
field at the same time.
When they arrived home the boys
were not in sight. The door to the
dog barn was open. Soon the Grow
den lad came running out and ex
citedly called that a dog was at
tacking the Verhonik boy. Mr. Ver
honik rushed into the barn to find
a chained malamute had dragged
the boy toward its pen and was vic
iously chewing him about the head.
Mr. Verhonik beat the dog off
and Ricking his son up hastened to
their home. “Doc” Frost, first aid
man, was summoned and he had to
;ake a number of stitches. The boy’s
face was bitten in innumerable
places and his neck was clawed and
bitten. Only by a miracle, it seem
ed, had the dog missed striking his
iugular vein. Had Mr. Verhonik ar
rived a minute later the boy would
lave been killed, it is believed.
HIGH TREASON CHARGES
MADRID, Spain, Oct. 31. P)—
rhe Responsibilities Committee of
;he National Assembly voted to
iring charges of ~ h i g h treason
igainst former King Alfonso on ac
:ount of aid he is alleged to have
jiven General P. Riveria in making
limself dictator of Spain.