SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1929.
VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 27.
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CHICAGO BADLANDS NESTLED
SAFELY FOR YEARS IN SUB
URB OF CITY
CHICAGO, Feb., 1, (/P)—Chicago's
triple entente has swum* its clean
up ax into a 10-vear reign of law
lessness bv invading that bloody
spot on the city’s criminal map,
suburban Chicago Heights.
Sixty-two slayings, 30 in the last
three years, lie back of the first
swath cut bv a new alliance of Fed
eral, county and city police A den
of gambling and liquor syndicates,
called the principal source of Chi
cago’s liquor supply, has written
most ol the suberb's criminal his
tory.
The foreign quarter of the com
munity of 25.000 has echoed to bul
lets of gang warfare since bootleg
ging hijackers made Chicago
leigtit- a rondeivous for metropol
itan trade For years the suberb’s
badlands nestled safe from moles
ration by Chicago police. Pros
futions were few. Politico-criminal
dlianee police said, provided a
haven of protection for liquor traf
fic bosses.
Rival gangs competed for liquor
business. Gigantic syndicates gv.
with incewaiit feeds. Chiev’
Height' became khov i as the sore
•n in Chicago badlands offer
j "Sba ’hco A!” C’spone vacated !v;
VCicero headquarters, which had be
come all too popular for unv elcoi ?
visitors.
Every year has heard guns of
slayers. When an official “got in
the wav” shotguns disposed of him.
Eeroj Gilbert, chief of police in
South Chicago Heights, wouldn’t
•ake hush money from gang lead
ers; they pumped load into bis
tody. Death threats continually
menaced mutineer s.
Federal oificials decided to lit.
Chicago Heights from its awful
oog of crime. John A. Swanson,
State’s attorney-elect, pledged to
clean up metropolitan Chicago,
irged a united attack on the sub
urb. When 150 raiders, includin'
100 Chicago police deputized as
federal officers, swooped down on
the vice-ridden community, it was
■ailed the largest raid in Illinois
history.
Police said they uncovered a liq
uor ling that netted hunderds of
thousands of dollars. Twenty-five
men, believed to be leaders in the
liquor racketfi were arrested. In
the home of Oliver J. Ellis 423 slot
machines were found. Hundreds
more were smashed in the raids in
Lto more than a score of homes. El
ijS told police he had split his pro
fits with two Chicago politicians,
among others.
Government squads patrolled
Chicago Heights as evidence was
hustled to a Cook county grand
jury. Letters found in the raid led
police to believe a black hand so
ciety, operating in many cities, had
directed the suburb’s illicit busi
ness.
Police said the raid sounded the
knell of Chicago Height’s decade of
disorders.
"The day is past when criminals
can commit a crime in Chicago and
flee to a suburb for refuge”, said
If John Stege, deputy commissioner
of police.
BUY ARIZONA MINES
KINGMAN Ariz., Feb., 1, .(£>)—J.
W. Mullin and associates have re
• cently taken over the Sickles Silver
mines located in the Wallapai
mountains.
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HERE’S NEW KIND OF TRAFFIC TOWER
Traffic signal tower at Orlando, Fla., where the in
stallation of amplifiers made possible the distribution of
musical programs and civic announcements throughout
the business distinct. The apparatus is also used to in
crease the voice range of officers controlling traffic.
PRESIDENT-ELECT HAVING A
SPLENDID VACATION IN
GULF WATERS
LONG KEY, Fla., Feb.. 1, (#>)—
President-elect Herbert Hoover yes
terday realized a long ciferisned
ambition to catch a sail fish.
After a 25-minute battle he land
ed a game specimen weighing 45
pounds ancl about six feet long.
The catch was made in the Gulf
Stream. He later returned to
shallow water where he caught a
number of tuna, amberjack, tiger
fish and other species of the finny
tribe.
OKANOGAN, Wash., Feb., 1, (P)
—Henry Peterson, 66, a rancher
and bank director who went to
the Yukon in 1894 staking a claim
on Eldorado Creek, died here yes
terday. He returned to Seattle af
ter staking and was one of the
first to spread the news which
started the Klondike gold rush.
ROPE FOB MO MILES
TO GALLON IN MOTOR
STATE COLLEGE, N. M., Jan, 31,
(P)—A new motor buiJt at the New
Mexico Agricultural & Mechanical
College is expected by its inventor
to make a gallon of gasoline carry'
a small automobile 100 miles.
Tom Tune, owner of a garage at
Mesilla Park, N. M., is the inventor.
He designed an engine which he
hopes will utilize all the explosive
power in fuel.
Air-cooled, the motor is of two
cycle construction, with crankshaft
rod and pistons and spark explo
sion.
NEW “MASTER FARMERS”
NEW ORLEANS, Feb., 1, (Pi
Eight Louisiana farmers have been
awarded ‘Master Farmer ’ medals
fro their outstanding accomplisn
rnents in agriculture. They aie
among the most recent of approxi
mately 350 farmers in the United
States to be thus honored.
PROHIBITION. CRUISER
BILLS, ARE FOREMOST
| WASHINGTON, Feb., 1, —
Prohibition and the cruiser bills
are the two subjects in the fore
r •■'linrl ivi nono
House voted to send the proposal:'
j for the $24,000,000 prohibition funcl
increase to the conference com
mittee for consideration while the
Senate continued to talk on the
j.warship construction program.
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CASH
MONTREAL, Can., Feb., 1, (/Pi—
The Hudson Bay Mining and
Smelting Company, Ltd., incorpor
; ated in Canada on December 17
: last, in a balance sheet of its sub
sidiary, the Flin Flon Mines, Ltd.,
| as of January 1, shows total as
| sets of $27,500,000. consisting of
I 10,000.000 prouert'1': appraised
las at least of that value, and $17,
! 500,000 cash. The liabilities consist
I entirely of $27,500,000 authorized
I and subscribed to be issued 2,500,
> 000 shares of no par value.
ST. LOUIS, Feb., 1, (^—Leon
ard Yeager, 31, and Thomas
Lowry, 23, convicted of murder,
were hanged simultaneously. Yea
ger was hung for the slaying of
a bystander in a holdup and Low
ry for the killing of a motorcycle
officer. Both went to the gallows
calmly.
MOANING, WOMAN GOES GAL
LOWS, PROTESTING HER
INNOCENCE
FRANKLIN, Louisiana, Feb., 1,
(JP)—Mrs. Ada Bonner Lebouef and
Dr. Thomas Dreher were hanged
in the Parish jail for participa
tion in the murder of her hus
band.
The woman went moaning to
the gallows accompanied by Father
Rosseau. Her last prayer was pre
ceded and followed by expressions
of her fears and exclamation that
the rope was too tight.
She cried out: "Oh mother! Oh
God! Iisn’t this a terrible thing.”
But Dr. Dreher shooks hands
with the sheriff and walked strong
ly up the 10 winding stairs and as
he reached the fatal trap he said:
"Poor Ada; she has gone. Then,
looking at Meigs Frost, a news
paper man, he said: “'Frost, you
know we didn’t do it.”
As the rope was being adjusted
he said: "Oh God, have mercy on
my soul. Just dont let me choke
to death.”
He died instantly. Both died
forgiving all but protesting their
innocence to the last.
T’r "S COM3-BACK
T. ~~jQ. . 1. oP.i—George
•Jen 1 of t. ’ "wi-dcct” pitchers
: i c. ibivh.y. has been restored to
rood «race. and win ry a come
back 'oi li Casey Str ngel’s Toledo
VTuahens this spring.
DETROIT’S MONEY MARKET
OLDEST DISTRICT
Detroit’s financial district—Griswold street looking
| south from Lafayette boulevard.
CAUSE OF CRASH UNKNOWN;
OCCURRED AT A SHARP
CURVE
HENDERSON, Ky„ Feb., 1, (Ar
rive members of two train crews
and an employe of the American
Railway Express were killed eight
miles from here yesterday when
a passenger train, on the Louis
ville Henderson St, Louis railroad,
crashed head on into a freight.
The men were buried in the
wreckage. Doctors and an ambu
lance were rushed to the scene.
No passengers were reported in
jured but the conductor on the
passenger train was taken to the
'.uopiuu in a serious condition.
The cause of the crash is un
known: it occurred on a sharp
curve.
The dead are W. B. Bush, engin
eer on the passenger train; Clyde
Hall, fireman; J. A. Bell, baggage
man; John Harder, engineer on
the freight; Hewitt Maysey, fire
man; and Milton Buckley, a brake
man. All were of Louiseville.
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FICIENT FUEL TOTi NON
STOl* FLIGHT
NEW YORK, Feb., 1, (/P;—-Col.
Chas. A. Lindbergh hopped ofE for
Florida from where he will fly on
Monday to open the new air mail
route to the Panama Canal Zone.
Colonel Lindbergh did not an
nouee his exact destination but it
’s assumed bis objective is Miami
from where the start of the Pan
American mail flight is to be
made.
His Falcon biplane carried suffi
: cient fuel to enable him to make
a non *stop flight to Miami if he
chose. He took off alone.
STATE DOUBTS WOMAN
CAN BE ACE OE ?88
1 AUGUSTA, Me., Jan., 31, (fP)—No.
Methuselah or woman Methuselah
need aoply for driver’s license in
Maine A woman’s application, with
I the year of birth set forth as 1700.
I was received this winter. Employ
jecs gasped, and concluded the age
must have been exaggerated. They
I nqun-ed by mail and the reply re
;veaied that the date was 1900.
WHAT’S IN A NAME
THOMASTON, Me., Feb., 1, CP)—
Most of the handle for brooms
made in the Maine State prison
-•room shop come from the towns
of Liberty and Freedom.
F.LFOTRIFY OLD RAILROAD
SWANSEA Eng., Feb., 1, CP)—
The Mumbles Railway Line in
Wales, England’s oldest continu
ously operated railway, which
claims to be the oldest in the world,
has been electrified Authorized
by Act of Parliament June 29, 1804,
the road first was used chiefly for
transportation of minerals.