MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXVIII. NUMBER 509.
SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1932.
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HOLLYWOOD. Sept., 7, — J e a n
Harlow, vivacious siren of the
screen, but a grief-stricken widow
in real life, was s u m m oned for
police questioning Tuesday in a
last attempt to solve the baffling
suicide of her picture executive
husband, Paul Bern.
Prevented from interrogating the
platinum blonde actress because of
her emotional collapse after Bern's
death in their “honeymoon house",
authorities subpoenaed Miss Har
low to tell her story at an inquest
Thursday.
Enigmatic phrases “the frightful
wrong I have done you", “last
night was only a comedy", written
by Bern just before he shot himself
to death, were mysteries Miss Har
low was counted upon to clear. Ser
vants. friends, casual witnesses,
“big names” of the screen colony
and even Bern’s personal diary
were involved in the investigation
But- last night they still sought the
answer to the big question. “Why
did Paul Bern kill himself?".
The mainspring of the inquiry,!
however, was provided Coroner;
Frank Nance and Detective Inspec- :
tor David Davidson in the fact that j
more than two hours elapsed be
tween the discovery of Bern’s body
and the summoning of police. “A 1
logical explanation of the delay, as
well as reported differences in the
statements of various principals,'
will be expected", officials said.
Detectives met their first rebuff
when they asked for an interview j
with Miss Harlow at the Beverly
Hills home of her mother, Mrs.
Marino Bello. A nurse curtly turn
ed them away with the statement
that Miss Harlow was ill and “see
ing nobody on orders of her doc
tor”.
Bern’s attorney said there was
no will left so it is believed that
half of the estate will go to the j
widow and the other half to a
brother Henry, who is enroute to
Hollywood from Newark. Bern was
insured for $75,000.
When quizzed by authorities the
actress sobbed, “I do not know any;
reason why he did it. I don’t know,
I don't know.” Friends of the fam
ily say the quizzing did not do her
any good except to make her con
dition serious.
RIO DE JANEIRO, Sept., 7,—The
Brazilian Government’s air and
land forces battered Sao Paula
State rebel positions with tons of,
explosives and prepared for what
may be a final dirve against the
insurgent forces.
An official communique said six
loyalist bombing planes totally de
stroyed the Itaipus fortress at the
entrance to the Port of Santos
which has been held by the Paulis
tas.
Federal artillery also concluded;
48 hours of almost continuous bom- !
bardment of rebel positions at;
strategical points w here troops;
have faced each other in sporadic
fighting for more than two months.
Gen. Montiro led 15,000 loyalists
into position for a great drive on
tire Paulistas from half a dozen
different points.
WEEK-END ROBBER
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 7, —Jack
Rudolph Allen, arrested while at
tempting to rob an apartment;
house, confessed to the police that j
he had another job underway af- j
ter he had robbed the one on which
he was caught. Upon investigation'
it was found he told the truth; a'
kit of burglars tools was found]
cached near another apartment.
TAXES TOO HIGH
PARIS, Sept. 7, —Something will
have to be done at once about the I
increased tax rate or the gamblers']
of France will be compelled to goj
to work. They claim they are unable i
to make a living.
five million damage
BROWNSVILLE, Tex., Sept,, 7,— i
The surging yellow torrent of the 1
Rio Grande overflowed in places
four miles wide on Tuesday and j
citizens in this area are evacuating. J
It is estimated $5,000,000 damage!
was done.
NOTED AUTHOR DIES
LONDON, Sept., 7, —Sir Gilbert1
Parker, celebrated British novelist,'
died Tuesday at the age of 69.
UEIESTS EXPECT BIG
THUDE WITH mUSM
More than a million dollars
worth of business will be done this
year with Alaska fur shippers and
merchants by the West Coast Fur
Sales, Inc., and the West Coast
Grocery Company of Tacoma, ac
cording to figures released by the
Alaska committee of the Tacoma
Chamber of Commerce. C. C. Gar
land, chairman of this special
committee of the Tacoma chamber,
just recently completed a trip to
Alaska and was a brief visitor in
Seward. His purpose was to make
contacts here in the North and to
note how the Tacoma Chamber can
be of assistance to the Territory.
The West Coast Fur Sales has
been a dominant factor in the de
velopment of Alaska business for
nearly 40 years and each year has
seen a widening of its resources
to reach every part of the Terri
tory. Fur sales are held at the Ta
coma hotel monthly attracting
from 25 to 50 buyers from impor
tant fur centers on this continent
and Europe. As Alaska furs are
practically the entire stock shown
about all the money taken in is
sent back to the North.
Through the long leadership of
the West Coast Fur Sales, Inc., Ta
coma has become one of the most
important fur centers in the U. S.
and has become the center of Alas
ka fur trading.
A large increase in volume of
furs has been noted iri the last 9
mcmths, which is attributed by
the Alaska committee of the Taco
ma Chamber of Commerce as being
due to the fine relations between
West Coast Fur Sales and their
customers in the North.
Charles H. Hyde has been pres
ident of the West Coast Fur Sales,
Inc., since its inception. Likewise
he is president of the West Coast
Grocery Company and this tie-up
between the two institutions has
been of real value to shippers and
merchants. Robert H. Hyde, his son,
who has been actively identified
with the fur end of the business, is
vice president. Both have visited
Alaska many times and have many
warm friends in the Territory.
Hundreds of Alaskans ■who come
on their visits Outside call at the
West Coast Fur Sales and make it
their headquarters while in the;
States. They always are welcome,!
Charles H. Hyde said, and every
convenience is offered to make!
their stay pleasant. Likewise they j
are assisted in their business con
nections to utilize their time to
best advantage.
“The Tacoma Chamber of Com
merce feels that the West Coast
Fur Sales, Inc., has made valuable
contacts in Alaska,” said Dr. H. J.
Whitacre, president of the Taco
ma Chamber of Commerce. “Many
millions of dollars have been sent
to the North by this concern and
naturally its relationships are val
uable. There is no concern on the
Pacific Coast that is more highly
regarded than the West Coast Fur
Sales because of its constantly
growing business and the fact that'
it has dealt for more than a third!
cf a century in Alaska
“Many buyers have been attend
ing these auctions for years and
find just what they want in fine
furs that are displayed there.
“The Tacoma Chamber of Com-!
merce is anxious to assist Alaska i
in every way possible and will wel-;
come inquiry from the North to be j
of assistance in anything to help ;
the Territory. Many of our mem
bers visit the North every year and
a large number of former Alaskans
live in Tacoma and still have bus
iness and financial interests there.”
RENO. Nevada, Sept. 7, —Like
the faded romances of which he
croons, the marriage of Rudy Val
lee, romantic tenor of the radio,
and Fay Webb, his petite dancer
wife, is definitely at an end.
The love that quickly developed
into a spot-light wedding while
Rudy was crooning into a micro
phone is over, Miss Webb indicated
when she arrived here today.
She was met at the train by Hy
man Bushel, New York, Vallee’s
attorney and by newspaper re
porters. Stockingless, wearing a
striking green ensemble, she step
ped from the train. “Is there any
possibility of a reconciliation?” she
was asked. “Absolutely not”, she
said. She tcssed her head. “If
there is, I know nothing about it.”
—“Bl T NOT FOR ME”
CHICAGO, Sept., ,—“Rudy Vallee
will make a grand husband for
someone else”. That was the way
Fay Webb Vallee summed up her
estimate of her famous crooner
husband as she paused in Chicago
on her way to Reno. “He’s wonder
ful”, she admitted, but explained,
“We just could not get along. In
our 15 months of married life we
simply didn’t agree on many things
and our temperments clashed.”
NO FUNNY STUFF BE
PERMITTED PARADE DAYS
PORTLAND, Ore., Sept., 7,—'There
will be no feather pillows ripped
open and emptied from hotel win
dows above American Legion Con
vention parades here and there
won’t be any bags of water dropped
from windows upon the heads of
spectators either.
At least that is the optimistic
promise of the executive commit
tee; feather pillows will be remov
ed from hotel rooms on parade days
and hotel paper laundry bags cut
so they won’t hold water.
WHAT IF IT RAINS?
BERLIN, Sept 7, —Men’s suit’s
are on sale here at S3, including
two pairs of pants and a vest.
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WILL OPPOSE WALKER
NEW YORK, Sept. 7, —Samuel
Seabury will oppose former Mayor
Jimmy Walker of New York in the
special November election, accord
ing to persistent rumors.
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KILLED BY NEGRO
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 7, —C. L.j
Armstrcng, while resisting a negro
robber, was shot, dying shortly af
ter. The negro was seen by pedes
trians but made his escape.
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CRUSHED TO DEATH
SPOKANE, Wash., Sept. 7, _
Laurence Jacobsen, five years of
age, was crushed to death under:
the wheels of a heavy sprinkling'
wagon on which he attempted to;
“hook” a ride.
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HOLDING BACK REPORT
SEATTLE, Sept., 7, —The King1
County grand jury will not present I
its report to the judge before the
primary election, it is said, because j
of the'possible effect it may have
on the election.
* * * *
OLD WEST LIVES AGAIN
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 7, —Seven
ty thousand people t%rilled as the
early days of the We t are being
relieved here at the stupendous ro
deo now underway. Cowboys and
cowgirls, Indians an:l Mexicans
as well as replicas of other frontier
life have taken possession of the
area recently vacated by the Olym
pic Games.
* * * *
Councilman P. C. McMullen, who
has been ill for a few days, is up.
and around again, feeling much j
improved.
THOUSANDS GO TO WORK
NEW YORK, Sept., 7,—The re
opening of thousands of factories!
and mills in the last two weeks j
throughout the country has given
employment to at least a million
persons, it is estimated. Many firms
on Tuesday, gave out large nation
al advertising accounts to agencies
and added thousands of salesmen
to their staffs for the first time in
two years. Economists hold that in!
two weeks, when wages are collect- j
ed and put into the channels of!
mart, a decided improvement will
be noted.
THE STOCK MARKET
NEW YORK. Sept., 7—Stocks |
closed lower after a heavy profit!
taking. Wheat and cotton relin- i
quished gains when speculators:
cashed in on paper profits.
EERLIN, Sept., 7,—One hundred
thousand sausages and 30,000 bot
tles of beer were, eaten by Steel
Helmet members during their gi
ganitia demonstration hjere when
they massed on a local airplane
field. The total cost of the dem
onstration for restoration of the
monarchy wTas estimated at from
$300,000 to $600,000; 3,000,000 peo
ple participated, the greatest gath
ering assembled since the days of
the World War.
A revival of the war spirit has
stirred all Germany; the demon- j
strators demanded permission to
increase armaments or that other
nations reduce armament to Ger
many’s status.
Meanwhile, the political battle
between Chancellor von Papen and
the Nazis, continues unabated.
V/hen the Reichtag meets again is
undetermined.
TENNIS CHIP COT
LONG WAITED REVENGE:
FOREST HILLS, N. Y-, Sept., 7,—!
Just as he had vowed he would,
George Lott Jr., had his revenge
Tuesday on Frankie Parkeer, the
16-year-old Milwaukee phenomenon
who has been beating him all over
the South, Midwest, and Canada
the last several months.
Luring Frankie out on the center;
of the court at the West Side Ten- i
Club with 6,000 fans and a dozen I
linemen eyeing (every move, the!
Davis cup veteran mowed down his
youthful tormentor by scores of
6-4, 6-1, 4-6 and 6-2 in the third j
round of the National tennis chain- !
pionship.
ANOTHER MILS STRIKE
MEMPHIS, Tenn., Sept., 7,—Six!
hundred Shelby County dairy men j
who supply the milk needs of 300,-1
000 persons in and around Mem
phis, threatened to strike in pro
test against a price war that has
forced milk down to nine cents per
quart.
REPAYING A DEBT
OLD ORCHARD, Maine, Sept. 7,!
—Gene Tunn<?y, former heavy- j
weight champion of the world, is I
beginning his campaigning for
Gov. F. D. Roosevelt next week.
He does not intend to enter poli
tices personally, he said, but is tak
ing this means of paying a debt of
gratitude for a favor granted him
two years ago. He did not say what
the favor was.
FOUR FARMERS HURT
Sioux CITY, Iowa, Sept. 7, —
The farmers strike gained momen
tum when four picketers were in
jured. A truck driver, running farm
produce into the city, refused to
halt and deliberately ran down the
four. The picketers are using stones
and wood as weapons to compell |
all cars to halt.
The MS. Discoverer, Captain j
Heinie Berger, departed Tuesday j
afternoon on the return voyage to,
Cook Inlet ports and Anchorage. 1
BASEBALL RESULTS
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AMERICAN LEAGUE
Cleveland 4-6, St. Louis 3-0.
j These were the only games play
j ed in the American League.
■ There were no games in the Na
j ticnal League.
PACIFIC COAST
! San Francisco 3, Seattle 2; 11 in
j nings
i No other games were played on
| the coast.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept., 7 —
Frank J. Egan, famed San Fran- !
cisco defender of the poor and Al- ;
bert Tinnin, an exccnvict, were
convicted of the first degree mur- ,
der of Mrs. Jessie Scott Hughes.'
The jury recommended life im
prisonment for both.
Mrs. Hughes, a gentle, white
haired widow of 67, had been Egan’s ;
life long friend and benefactress.
She was glowingly proud of his rise
from police patrolman to national
repute as a defense lawyer. Lov
ingly, she called him ‘‘my son”.
The verdict pinned on the attor
ney the responsibility for a heart
less murder that apparently had
not even anger as a motive. The
jury believed the story of Verne
Doran, admittedly one of the kill
ers. His was the story of a mon
strous plot, conceived in the shrewd
brain of the man who had* defend
ed 50,000 criminal cases. It was a
tale of murder in a modern man
ner, the victim struck unconscious
while her hands were held in false
friendship, crushed to death be
neath an automobile and thrown
in a gutter to simulate a hit and
run accident.
Nowhere in the story was there
a trace of pity for the elderly frail
woman the jury found was the j
victim of a man who could sway!
juries to tears, but who knew no!
mercy or friendship in ordering j
the killing of a widow for financial,
gain.
ATTENDING CONVENTION
LOS ANGELES, Sept., 7,—Floyd j
Gibbons, war correspondent, left j
this city for Portland to attend the
American Legion Convention.
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BURNED TO DEATH
WORCESTER, Mass., Sept. 7, _j
Se >ren thousand spectators gasped
in horror when E. Tracer, auto ra
cer, crashed into four other cars
and his auto burst into flames,;
burning him alive.
* * * *.
FALSE VOTING
SEATTLE, Sept., 7, —Private de
tectives have disclosed evidence
that thousands of votes were cast
illegally, following the investigation
which was begun 10 days ago.
* * * *
MAHOGONY BARS
NEW YORK, Sept., 7,—The SS.
Rose arrived in port from Africa
and included in its cargo were 900
mahogony logs. When asked what
they were for the skipper replied,1
“For speakeasy bars.”
SECRET NEGOTIATIONS
BERLIN, Sept., 7,—Secret nego-;
tiations are reported to have beeni
undertaken in an effort to cancel!
8,000,000 marks of foreign loans. I
inanciers are dickering with British i
and American banks.
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THROWN INTO JAIL
PARIS, Sept., 7, —The French
party of industrialists which re
cently completed a visit to Soviet!
Russia was thrown into a turmoil
Tuesday when, in crossing the Pol
ish border, tw’o members were tak
en into custody. No reason for the
arrest was given.
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IMPORTANT ARREST
JOHNSTOWN, Pa., Sept., 7—
Sheriff Ira McCloskey, of Clearfield,
Pa., announced an “important ar
rest has been made in the Lind
bergh kidnapping case”.
■TUI BDEIR
MISTED IS “B1«S"
ID IMS BUT
CHICAGO, Sept., 7,—Frank J.
Parker, millionaire Montreal brew
er, was arrested on suspicion of
being connected with Sunday’s
amazing safe deposit vault robbery.
Police said they captured Parker
because they believed him the only
suspect intelligent enough and
wealthy enough to engineer such
an undertaking.
“I am no bank robber”, snorted
Parker. “I’m worth about $10,000,
000 and I have enough money with
out stealing more.”
Parker, who served four years in
jail before he became rich, once was
a Capone man. Police said he
originated the system of bringing
bonded liquor fro:n Canada by air
plane. He now owns three large
brew'eries in Montreal, according
to the police, and much real estate,
including illicit breweries in Illi
nois.
Four other men, whose identity
still is held secret, also were arrest
ed. The 300 robbery victims filed
10 at a time into the Koch & Co.,
vaults, viewed the hole the robbers
cut from above, and attempted to
check up their losses. The robbers
took between $100,000 and $250,000
apparently but a definite figure
was unavailable because many of
the box owners could not avoid in
come tax action if they told how
much money they really hoarded.
Ml COLLEGE
OPENS SEPTEMBER 8:
BEGINNING I1TH YEAR
All is being made ready on the
campus of the Farthest North col
lege for the influx of students ex
pected when registration opens
September 9. This will inaugurate
the eleventh year in the history of
the Alaska College.
Regular four year curricula are
offered in Agriculture, Arts and
Letters, Civil Engineering, General
Science, Education, Home Econo
mics, Geology and Mining, Metul
This work is handled by a carefully
lurgy and Mining Engineering,
selected faculty of 21 men and wo
men. Modern equipment and lab
oratory facilities are available and
the standard of wf>rk is so high that
students will find credits earned
here are accepted by the best uni
versities and colleges in the States.
PLUNGED OVER CLIFF
LOS ANGELES. Sept. 7, —Paul
Cotter was seriously injured when
his auto plunged over a road and
down a 200 foot cliff. Two com
panions, Edward Morse and Court
ney Morong. jumped to safety be
fore the auto went over.
EQUAL ARMAMENT
BERLIN, Sept. 7, —Germany will
refuse to participate in any fur
ther deliberations of the disarma
ment conferences until the question
of military equality with other
powers is settled, it was disclos
ed officially when the government
published its memorandum to
France demanding the right to an
equal armament.
BATTLE FOREST FIRES
PLACERVILLE, Calif., Sept., 7,—
Forestry wardens arrested a man
Tuesday charging him with setting
fire to an area in the El Dorado for
est which is^under control but not
subdued. Two other forest fires are
raging in the district and 200 men
are employed in battling the blazes.
AGREE ON RATE
WASHINGTON, Sept., 7,—Fifteen
Shipping lines operating between
the Atlantic and Pacific ports, via
the Panama Canal, have agreed on
a scale of rates and a further cx
tention of present regulations call
ing for uniform rates and enforce
ment of trade practices.
Only 92 shopping days before
Christmas.