MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXVII. NUMBER 217.
SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1931.
PRICE TEN CENTS
. UNCOVERED WITH Hi
OF BOJESJN TRUNKS
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 20. (/P)—The
arrest of Mrs. Winnie Ruth Judd,
27 years of age, and the wife of
Dr. W. C. Judd,was ordered by the
police as an aftermath to the find
ing late yesterday of the bodies of
two women crammed in trunks at
the Southern Pacific Railroad sta
v lion.
Mrs. Judd’s brother, B. J. McKin
nelly, senior student at the local
university, has been arrested as
a material witness after he ad
mitted going to the station for his
sister to get the trunks.
Dr. Judd upon being ques
tioned about the bodies, one of
which was dismembered, tentative
ly identified them as Mrs. Agnes
* Leroi, an X-ray technician at the
Phoenix Ariz.. clinic, and the other
that of Hedverg Samuelson, a
roommate. The latter at one time
taught in the Juneau schools and
then went to Phoenix for her
health.
Mrs. Judd and her brother fled
from the depot when the baggage
agent began questioning about the
blood which was seeping from one
of the trunks. The agent obtained
the license number of the car
whereby the arrest of McKinnelly
followed. Mrs. Judd is reported to
^have boarded a train for Phoenix.
Police believed that the wife was
jealous of her husband s friendship
with the two girls.
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POLITICAL IIHSI EXISTS
DEMO AND C. 0. P. RANKS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 20. (IP)
._New stirrings of political unrest,
agitating Republican and Demo
cratic precincts alike, are challeng
ing the early bids of President
Hoover and Governor Roosevelt of
New York, for the leadership of
their respective parties in 1932.
Nearly all of the practical poli
ticians still think Hoover will be
renominated and is as likely as not
1-0 have Roosevelt as his Democratic
Y opponent. But it is now recognised
that neither will escape organized
opposition of a strength still to be
determined.
Former President Coolidge’s re
nunciation has not stilled the anti
Hoover Republicans.
. Seattle IfTslaI be
DROUGHT BACK IN PLANE;
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 20. </P)— Se- j
attle police officials were still de- j
iayed here awaiting additional ex-!
tradition papers in order to take j
Everett Frank Lindsay, Seattle wife !
slayer, from California to the State j
^ of Washington and Seattle.
When the officials secure the ad- ;
ditional papers they will take Lind- ,
say back in an airplane.
TARIFF BOOMS SMUGGLING
CANBERRA, Get., 19, (A5)—Rais
ing an Australian tariff wall has
% increased smuggling, with silks
and fabrics displacing narcotics as
the most profitable commodities
> for illicit importation.
STRIBLING WINS BY K. O.
WICHITA, Kan5., Oct. 20. (/P)—
W. L. V'Yoi^ng” Stribling, in his
first fight since he lost to Max
' Schmeling, of Germany, knocked
out Salvatore Ruggirello, New York
heavyweight, in the second round
of a 10-round boxing event. Strib
ling weighed in at 18412 and Rug
girello at 199.
PWCllTS NATIONAL
TRIBUTE PAID TO [BISON
WEST ORANGE, N. J., Oct. 20.
(JP)—The body of Thomas A. Edi
son lay in state while thousands of
great and unknown paid homage to
the famous inventor. The body
rested in the Edison library-labora
tory.
The inventor will be buried at
West Orange tomorrow but the
final arrangement has not yet been
announced. It is thought that Rev.
Arthur Brown, pastor of the Meth
odist-Episcopal church, will offi
ciate.
President Herbert Hoover is still
undecided as to whether he will at
tend the funeral. The public de
mand for a national tribute to Edi
son swept the country.
In New Jersey all the electric
lights of the state are to be extin
guished at 7 p. m., tomorrow for
one minute us a reminder of what
it would be like without Edison's
incandescent bulb.
TO USE UK CURRIERS
FOR EXPRESS STEAMERS
BOSTON, Oct. 20. (/P)—The Bos
ton Transcript says papers have
been drawn and will be filed at
the State House next week for the
incorporation of a company to ac
quire the Navy’s two great air
plane carriers for use as express
steamers between this port and
Europe.
The acquisition, the Transcript
says, will be contingent upon ap
proval of President Hoover and the
Navy Department. The carriers are
the Saratoga and the Lexington.
25 SOLDIERS KILLED
MEXICO CITY, Oct. 20. —
Twenty-five Federal soldiers were
killed or wounded near Ixhuatlan,!
State of Vera Cruz, in an engage
ment with an unidentified rebel,
band. A dispatch to Excelsior said
the rebels were advancing on the
town of Chincontepec at last re
ports and all available Federal
troops have gone in pursuit.
ESCAPE INQUIRY
CAPE HENRY, Va., Oct., 19, </P) j
—Rear Admiral Newton A. Me-!
of his adopted children, escaped j
Cully, U- S. N., Retired, and five I
without injury when their house- j
boat was rammed and sunk in!
Chesapeak Bay shortly after mid- j
night by the Norwegian freight j
steamer Verona. They were res-,
cued by members of the steamer’s!
crew.
CRIMINALS ESCAPE
RENO, Nev., Oct. 20. (/P)—Four
desperate criminals slugged their
jailer at the Washoe county pail
at Reno and escaped and were be
lieved to be in hiding in northern
California. All four were Federal
prisoners held for the United States
court in the Reno jail.
COKlIITf in. If
FEDERAL 110. STRESSED
ilp jobless, mm
FORT MONROE, Va., Oct , 20,
(/P)—President Hoover asked the
Nation to contribute to the local
funds raised to aid the unemploy
ed, urging that every American
adopt the policy of becoming his
brother's keeper.
Landing at Yorktown he broad
cast his doctrine to the commun
ity rather than federal aid for the
jobless. From the same quarter
the commander of this aged fort
ress announced that the President
had opened a national drive in
which the relief committee will
aid the families of local unem
ployed.
No governmental action, no
economic doctrine, no economic
plan, no proposal made, can re
place that God imposed responsi
bility of individual man and wo
man to their neighbors.
OBJECTIONS TO 1EHICIN
PARTICIPATION RECALLED
TOKYO, Oct., 20, (/P)—Tokyo
has informed Washington that it
has withdrawn Kits objection to
American participation in the
League of Nations discussions of
the Manchurian controversy.
Meanwhile confusion reigned in
the ranks of the League Council,
who are pondering the conse
quences of further steps and ac
tions as to the general outcome
of the controversy.
BROADER STATESMANSHIP
ABOARD ILLE DE FRANCE,
Oct., 20, (/P)—Premier Pierre Laval
said that France has a keen desire
to reach an^agrement with Amer
ica on substantial armament re
ductions- Premier said that it was
his belief that the world needs
“broader statesmanship”.
CHICAGO TEACHERS
FACE MINT HARDSHIPS
- BECAUSE OF NO FUNDS
CrflCAGO, Oct. 20. (/P)—Chicago’s
13,000 teachers are now trying to
bring an apathetic city to either
bring about relief or close schools
on November 1. The city’s debt
to teachers and civil service workers
is steadily mounting and no money
to pay them off is in sight and wont’
be available for some time. The sit
uation has become such that many
teachers are in want. Without
money they have been unable to
buy food and fuel and their credit
extension has been extended to the
limit.
One teacher, because of hunger,
fainted in her classroom before her
pupils.
The teachers have stated that
they do not like to resort to strik
ing unless it becomes absolutely
necessary as the schoolroom will
be the only place where many of
Chicago’s children will secure any
warmth during the winter months.
MINE EXECUTIVE DIES
VANCOUVER, B. C„ Oct. 20. (/P)—
Hector MacDonald. 57 years of age,
and one of the ablest of mining
executives, who for 12 years has
been superintendent of the Premier
Gold Mine at Premier, died. He re
tired six weeks ago from mining
activities because of failing health.
FINAL TEST FLIGHT IS
COMPLETED BY AKR01
AKRON, O., Oct., 20, (/P)—The
Navy airship Akron concluded its
last trial flight before final accep
tance by the Government. The
airship docked here after a cruise
of 48 hours and 18 minutes.
Rear Admiral G. C. Day, chief
of the Navy Board of Inspection,
regarded the flight just concluded
as highly successful and just a
repetition of the success of eight
previous flights.
The flight carried the “lighter
than air” craft thru the middle
west and as far north as Milwau
kee and south to St. Louis.
LOUGHRAN GETS DECISION
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 20. UP)—
Tommy Loughran, heavyweight,
jabbed his way to a 10-round deci
sion over Johnny Risko, the Cleve
land rubber man, in the main go
of a boxing card here. Risko out
weighed Loughran 13 and a half
pounds and weighed in at 198xfe.
JUDGE INSTRUCTS JURY
IN TIL OF (L CHI
CHICAGO, Oct., 20. (/P)—When
Capone’s income tax case went to
the jury, Federal Judge James H
Wilkerson took an hour and 10
minutes to instruct the jury.
He said it was not necessary for
the government to prove the ex
act amount of income charged in
the indictment, but that if the
jurors believed the evidence prov
ed he had a gross income large
enough so that under the law he
washable to file a return'and pay
a tax and that he evaded such
tax, they should find him guilty.
COPPER MEETING
NEW YORK, Oct. 20. (/P)—Efforts
to resuscitate the ailing world in
the copper industry will be made
at an international conference in
New York this week with leaders
of Canada, United States and im
portant European corporations at
tending.
MAKES NO DENIAL
SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. 20, </P)—
Jack Dempsey doesn’t deny his en
gagement to Miss Leona Vincent of
this city.
BIG MERCHANT VESSEL
NEW YORK, Oct. 20. (/P)—“Man
hatten” will be the name given to
the new $9,515,000 Shipping Board
liner which is to be launched here, i
The Manhatten is the largest mer
chant vessel to have been built in i
the United States.
CHARITY GAME
WASHINGTON, Oct. 19. (A5) — |
The War Department officially j
announced an Army-Navy football |
game will be played this year in
New York, December 10. The
game will be played for the bene
fit of unemployed.
JAF OFFICIALS WANTED
EXPRESS INDIGNATION
BY VIOLENT ACTIONS
TOKYO, Oct. 20. (£>)_The Reuters
correspondent here reported that
Japanese officers have been de
tained on suspicion of planning to
resort to violent actions for the
purpose of expressing their indig
nation at the present situation in
Manchuria.
The Japanese war office, while
admitting the arrest the report
says, issued a catagorical denial
that there was a plot to form a dic
tatorship or spring a coui ;tat
on the country.
Japan was standing pat on the
Manchurian question and a gov
ernment spokesman said the island
empire had no intention, for the
time being, of splitting the pot by
restoring the occupied territory as
China demands. Japan is perfectly
willing to play a long drawn out
game.
Government circles said the
League of Nations has been in too
great a hurry and inclined to rush
the pace possibly to force Japan’s
hand despite further consideration
of the questions or tne legaeity Ci
the League Council’s decision.
Diplomatically, Tokyo takes the
stand that the League, from its in
ternational viewpoint, has taken a
too serious attitude regarding the
danger of war in Manchuria.
JAPAN WILL BLAML THE
WORLD IF WAR RESULTS
TOKYO, Otc , 20, (JP)—The Jap
anese Foreign Office declared that
Japan and China left to them
selves would settle their difficul
ties peaceably, intimating that if
war developed from the Manchu
rian situation that the interfer
ence of the rest of the world
could be blamed.
Officialdom sought a formula
for the future, pointing out that
the army’s freedom of Cabinet
control and its uncompromising
stand against outside interference,
would place the government in a
perplexing position, should the
League order Japanese troops to
leave Manchuria.
GREAT SMOKIES 'PARADISE'
FOR NATION'S SCIENTISTS
BRYSON CITY, Oct. 19. (/P)—Sci
entists of the nation are finding
their “happy hunting ground” in
the Great Smoky mountains, soon
to become a national park.
The Great Smokies constitute
one of the best laboratories for sci
entific research in the nation be
cause of their primitive nature,
scientists say. Establishment of
the national park gives assurance
of the preservation of this condi
tion.
More than 300 small mammals
were collected this year by a group
of Chicago scientists who have
visited the area regularly since
1927. In all 18 species and sub
species were collected.