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SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY’ SEPTEMBER 28,1927
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WETS ID DBYS LINE
UP FORIMUL FIGHT'
SESSION CONGRESS
PROPONENTS OF ADDITIONAL
DRY LEGISLATION STRONG
BOTH CHAMBERS
WASHINGTON, Sept. 28. <£>)—'The
■wets and drys are lining up for Ve
sumption of their annual warfare in
Congress. Neither side has made any
material progress in the way legisla
tion at the last session but the drys
are hopeful of getting through some
administration proposals in the old
Goff bill for tightening up the Vol
stead act.
Conceding the drys have the pre
ponderance of votes in both Chambers
the wets say there is no parliamentary
method by which they can delay the
decision as the first session will con
tinue five or six, months and probably
until just before the Republican con
vention next June. However, propon
ents of additional dry legislation in
cline to the view now that with a
Presidents! campaign in the offing
party leaders will not look with any
great favor in enactment of more
stringent provisions to a law which
the wets charge is impossible to en
force. *
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 28. (JP)—Blood
tests to determine the paternity of the
child which she says will be born in
a month, will be made in connection
writh the suit for $1,000,000, filed by
Juanita Montanya, film actress against
Wallace Beery, film comedian, accord
ing to the attorney for the actress.
Miss Montanya says that Berry at
tacked her while she was a guest in i
the home of the actor and his wife,
eight months ago.
CHARGES DISMISSED
LOS ANGELES, Sept^ 28. (£>)—Miss
Jaunita Montaya, dancer and film ac- j
tress, who made charge of attacks j
against Wallace Beery, yesterday re- j
fused to answer questions regarding !
the charges, asked by the District At- 1
torney. As a result no charges will be :
made aganist the comedian.
DODGE GETS CHILDREN
LEI1S SDON FOR U. S.j
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HONOLULU, Sept. 28. (JP)—Horace
E. Dodge, millionare boat builder, ac- ;
companied by his two children, will
soon sail for the United States. The i
former wife of the Dodge heir agreed
to relinquish the children without j
further court action. She was recently ;
married to Lieutenant Manning of the j
U. S. Army. IWWfM)
WIFE, EDITOR KILLED
CHICAGO, Sept. 28. (#>)—Mrs. W.
Manning was instantly killed and her
husband, the editor of the Chicago
Evening American, was fatally. injur
ed when, their automobile was struck
by a train.
GERMAN AVIATOR IS IT
BAGDAD. ENGINE TROUBLE
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LONDODN, Sept. 28. (/P)—Lieuten
ant Koennecke has arrived at Bagdad,
according to a report here, and will
take-off tomorrow in continuance of
his round-the-warld flight. His plane
was forced down by engine trouble in
: the neighborhood of Moslemyte, north
of Aleppo, and after repairs had been
made he reached Babdad.
JOHN FORD DIES
SUDDENLY OF HEART
ATTACK AT FORDSDN
BROTHER TO AUTOMOBILE KING
WAS PROMINENT CITIZEN OF
SUBERB
DETROIT, Sept. 28. (£>)—John Ford,
age 62, a brother of Henry Ford, died
suddenly from heart disease at Ford
son suburb last night. Ford was a
real estate dealer, president of 'the
Fordson city council and a member
of the Michigan State Fair Board and
was enroute home from a council
meeting when he was -stricken. - Be- j
sides liis two brothers Henry and
William he is survived by a widow and ;
three children
SATISFACTORY NOTE
LONDON, Sept. 28. (#>)—'The Bri- j
tish foreign office has received from ,
Paris an explanation of the French i
relations with Moscow which is satis- I
factory from an English point of view, j
it is announced.
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IS LITTLE
HUSBAND AND WIFE FOUND DEAD
IN CAR; CHILDREN DEAD IN
BEDS
ELLENSBURG, Sept. 28. (JP)—A
quadruple slaying, with a possible sui
cide pact angle, stirred the little min
ing town of Roslyn. William Gorman,
age 50, a coal miner for 20 years, shot
his wife and two children, Irene, age
13, and Billy age 11, then drowned the
family dog in a washtub, then poison
ed himself. The tragedy was discov
ered when a letter containing $500 for
funeral expenses and revealing the
slaying plans, were received by Dan j
McKean, engineer of the mine. The ;
coroner and sheriff investigated and
found Gorman’s and his wife’s bodies
in their car in their garage and the
children in bed. The wife’s wrists
had been slashed to make death dou- j
ble certain. No motive for the slay
ing has yet been found but a letter
hinted the crime had been; planned by
both Gorman and his wife.
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BASEBALL SCORES
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AMERICAN LEAGUE
Philadelphia, 4; New York, 7.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
St. Louis, 4; Cincinnati, 1;
Pittsburgh, 2; Chicago, 1.
New York, 6; Philadelphia, 2.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Portland, 2; Missions, 4.
San Francisco, nothing; Oakland, 1.
Los Angeles, 5; Sacramento, 16
GETS SIC TRUST FUND
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 28. (£>)—
Helen Baines, 16-year-old bridev was
legally separated from her husband
of 19 here yesterday, when the judge,
on request of the girl’s mother, grant
ed an annulment. The bridegroom’s
father gave his former daughter-in
law a trust fund of $125,000. She will
get the principal when she becomes 21.
WOULD SHIES WILL
PROBABLY OPEN ON
OCTOBER 1; SUITED
COMMISSIONER LANDIS CALLS
FOR CONFERENCE WITH
CLUBS
CHICAGO, Sept. 28. (JP)—K. Landis,
baseball commissioner, sent word to
the New York Yankees, American
league pennant winners, that the four
leading contenders in the national
league, to meet with him on Friday
morning, when he will set a date for
the opening of the world series. The
national league teams who are invited
to the conference were the Pirates,
Giants, Cardinals and the Cubs.
Commissioner Landis indicated that
the series would probably open Tues
day, October 1.
THE MIGHTY BABE
NEW YORK, Sept. 28. (>P)—“Babe”
Ruth hit another homer, number 57, off
the Athletics in the sixth inning with
two men out and the bases loaded.
Geierig hit his 46 in the fourth. Ruth
is only two behind his world’s record.
Would This Work ?"
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IF ive Got to KEEP MY
COW ,OUT OF PASTURE ILL
TRY USING- A SMALLER.
MILK PAIL WHEN I MILK.
THERES MORE WAYS OF
KILLING- A CAT THAN
STRANGLING it to death
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SEARCH FOR REIR
TOBACCO MILLIONS
ENDS IN ST. LOUIS
REYNOLDS FOUND IN CAFE DIN
ING WITH PRETTY WOMAN;
WAS VACATIONING
ST. Louis, Sept. 28. (£>)—Search
for Richard Reynolds, heir to the Rey
nold's tobacco millions, ended here
last night in a restaurant when pri
vate detectives found Reynolds dining
with a pretty woman companion who
later vanished. Reynolds said he was
on a vacation after attending the
DempseyTunney fight and had been
living under an assumed name to pre
vent being bothered.
SEATTLE WflTERFROWT
OPTIONS ARE TAKEN
BETHLEHEM STEEL
IN CONNECTION WITH NEGOTIA
TIONS FOR TERMINAL ON
I COAST
SEATTLE, Sept. 28. (£>)—Options
on Seattle waterfront property valued
at several millions have been taken by
the Bethlehem Steel Corporation in
connection w'ith negotiations for a
site for a terminal at this port, was
announced Saturday afternoon by
Joseph T. Tynan, vice-president and
Pacific coast manager of the corpora
tion One of the sites is adjacent to
the American Can Dock, the other is
not far from the Commercial Boiler
Works.
ABANDONS LONE DEFENSE
PLEADS GUILTY, CHARGE
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 28. (£>)— Sud
denly abandoning a defense built up
through years of scheming, Manly
Board, vice president of the Invader
Oil Co., and C. Zimmerman, effecien
cy expert, pleaded guilty to Federal
charges of participation in a $20,000,
000 conspiracy to use the mails to de
fraud.
ENGLISH FREIGHTER III
DISTRESS, CALIFORNIA
„SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 28. (£>)—'The
English freighter Circinus, with crew
of 40 men, ran aground on the coast of
Lower California yesterday. It was
during a heavy fog. Answering cadis
for help five vfessels are rushing to
her aid. The SOS gave no details.
UTE STATE OFFICIALS
RENO, Sept. 28. (JP)—Former State
officials Ed Mally and George Cole,
were sentenced to serve from five to
15 years in the State penintentiary by
Judge George A. Ballard, in the Orms
by county court. They were convict
ed last week of misappropriating
$516,322 form the State Treasury.