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VOLUME XXVII. NUMBER 200.
SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1931.
PRICE TEN CENTS
GRAFT INVESTIGATORS
TELLSTORT OF MURDER
NEW YORK, Sept. 28. (/P) — A
story of murder, gambling and
racketeering, behind the thick doors
of Tammany Hall, was told before
the Seabury graft investigation
committee by two police officers
who often raided but seldom got
anywhere by their efforts.
Two professional gamblers were
killed by L. Fazzis within the H. C.
Ferry Democratic Club in January,
1926. For four years since, this
was known to the district attorney
but no action was taken, supposedly
to hide gambling and the fact that
murder took place within the club.
Police also told how two .oldup
men lost $14,000, the proceeds of a
payroll robbery, in a dice game in
Sheriff Thomas Farley’s political
club and linked the name of Aider
man Peter McGuinness with the
club where dice games were played
■**- and bets taken on horses.
Witnesses before the committee
were Captain L. J. Valentine and
Detective John O’Neill.
CIVIL WAR RAGES IN
RANKS OF CAPONE CING
CHICAGO, Sept. 28. (/P) — The
Daily News said that two shootings
• involving Capone men and Capone
territory in the last few days, Indi
cated that civil war was raging in
the ranks of A1 Capone’s hench
men, largely because the depression
has hit gangland.
The News said it had been in
formed that the man Sam Hunt
and James “Red” Forsythe were
after when they staged their shoot
ing party near the Art Institute
Monday, was Dick Arnold, also a
Capone gangster, but a member of
a rival faction.
CHIP OLDTIME FIDDLER
PASSES AWAY IN MAINE
LEWISTON, Sept. 28. (JP)—Alan
son “Mellie” Dunham, 78 years of
age, Maine’s oldtime fiddler cham
pion, who achieved national prom
inence when he was invited to play
for Henry Ford at Detroit, died in
a hospital here after he failed to
rally from an operation.
Dunham, who had been a farmer
and a snowshoe maker, as well as
a fiddler, claimed he invented the
diamond weave, so ideally employed
in the manufacture of snowshoes.
Dunham made the snowshoes car
ried by Perry on his dash to the
^ North Pole.
ANOTHER ATTEMPT
NEW YORK, Sept., 29, <^)—
Treating their adventure lightly,
W. Rody, C. Johanssen and F- C.
Viega, crew of the trans-Atlantic
plane which was forced down at
sea, arrived here on board the SS
Stavanger fjord and told the story
of six days adrift on the open sea.
“It was a rough crossing”, Rody
declared and then said all three
would make the attempt again
next spring.
EVANS DUE 1 A M.
The SS Admiral Evans, of the
Pacific Steamship Co., is due in
V Seward at 1 a. m., according to
latest report from the local office.
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FLIERS RETURN TO FAIRBANKS
FAIRBANKS, Sept. 29. (/P)—Don
Moyle and Cecil Allen hopped off
Monday for Tacoma. They expect
ed to stop at Whitehorse. Later
they returned within five and one
half hours after their take-off, ar
riving here at 5 p. m., Pacific
Standard Time. They said they
were “unable to get through the
weather.”
CHINESE GET ITEM
TO BUILD 01 AWT
TO BORDER OF KOREA
PIEPING, Sept., 29, (/P)—The
statement that the Japanese have
withdrawn their troops from
Manchuria was challenged by
leaders of the Chinese Govern
ment.
It is said that a ruling was
merely made for their withdrawal
from Manchuria and that the
Japanese soldiers are still sta
tioned in the Government build
ings and posts in^ Mukden.
It is understood that the Chin
ese have secured material for the
construction of a railway to Ko
rea.
A mob, estimated at 20,000 stu
dents, paraded here in an anti
Japanese demonstration but did
no property damage- Japan has
sent five warships here to pro
tect the Japanese legation of this
city.
ORDINANCE 8E WEAPON
AGAINST GANGSTERS
LOS ANGELES,* Sept., 29, <7P)—
I The new proposed law which
' would compel all new arrivals
! here who have ev^er been convict
| ed of any crime to register with
| Los Angdles authorities within
148 hours after their arrival, is to
| be given a public hearing by the
! Board of Supervisors.
It is planned to rush the ordin
ance thru so that Los Angeles
will have a new weapon to cope
with the afeserted invasion of
| eastern gangsters into California
I and Los Angeles.
HTTENIPTED SUICIDE BUT
IS II POOR MARKSMAN
| CHICAGO. Sept., 29, (/P)—A
man who cannot shoot himself
in three attempts with his own;
revolver is a poor marksman. At
least that is what one Chicago!
court holds.
John Burr, a jilted lover, got
into a taxicab and soon after
wards, fired three shots. They j
all missed his head but tore thru [
the top of the cab
The taxi driver had him arrest- *
ed,'but the court dismissed Burr, j
saying that any man who could;
not shoot himself at that range, j
was harmless.
ANOTHER FOREIGN VISITOR j
WASHINGTON, Sept., 29, (TP)—;
Another important foreign visitor
will take a trip to Washington
soon, lit was announced when
; Chanceller Heinrich Bruening, of
j Germany, announced that he
| would visit the United States at
1 the same time that Premier Laval
[of France does.
LOS ANGELES POLICE
BRUTALITY LIST GROWS;
THREE NEW VICTIMS
LOS ANGELES, Sept., 29, (JF)—
The long *list of Los Angeles citi
zens who have suffered brutality
at the hands of the local police
is still growing.
Monday, three more names of
persons who are alleged to have
suffered mistreatment at the
hands of the police were added to
the list. The list now numbers
15 and they will all testify at an
investigation now under way.
One of the victims was Elmer
Nelson, who said that the officers
entered his residence and ripped
off his clothes from his back. The
officer came to arrest him on the
complaint of some neighbors who
said that he was quarreling with
his wife. Nelson says that his
wife was not at home at the time
in question
J. B. Scott, another victim, said
that he was waiting on a street
corner in order to keep an ap
pointment, when an officer order
ed him to “move on'*- When he
tried to explain to the officer, he
was knocked down and mistreat
ed.
Walter E. Nilson, a prominent !
Los Angeles business man, was a1
witness to an automobile acci
dent and he testifies that he was
thrown in jail and kept there for
seven hours on no charge whatso
ever.
QUESTION OF OPENING
PITCHERS! f STEM
NEW YORK, Sept., 29, (7P)—
Baseball fans await with palpitat- i
ing hearts the news as to who i
will pitch for Connie Macks’ Ath
letics and also who will be on the
mounds for Gabby Street’s Cardi- i
nals when the two teams clash?
However, it is said, that the |
baseball fans of the country will!
not be given the privilege of
learning who will take the pitch
ers box until the two teams face
each other. Neither manager has
made any announcement as to
who he will pin his faith on in
the opening game.
So the person who will fill the
pitcher’s box is still a mystery.
CENE TUHNEYSirSHE
WHITT REENTER RING
STANFORD, Conn., Sept., 29,
(JP)—“I am not going to return to
the ring,” says Gene Tunney,
former heavyweight champion of
the world, who retired when he
was still a title-holder.
He said that the recent news
story about his decision to reenter
the ring came out when he was
in Maine and that he did not get
to see a newspaper until four
days later. The word that he was
to fight Max Schmelng is not
true, he says, as he has retired
for good and is not going to re
enter.
AKRON, O., Sept., 29, (£>)—'The
Navy’s new giant dirigible, the
Akron, spent all day Monday on
one of its first test flights.
ANOTHER WAGE CUT
WASHINGTON, Sept., 29, (JP)—
The Aluminum Co., announced a
wage cut of 10 percent- This is
in keeping with other large in-1
dustries who have slashed wages.
Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, j
who is a large stockholder in the |
company, refused to make any
comment.
STORY OF MURDED AND
PIRATICAL ABDUCTION
NEW YORK, Sept. 28. (/P)—Mrs.
Lillian Collings retold on the wit
ness stand before the eyes of a
scandal-hungry throng, the stofy
of the murder of her husband by
“pirates’' on his cabin cruiser Pen
guin in Long Island Sound.
Before she had finished and in
the cross-examinaftion, Mrs. Col- j
lings collapsed. Her nerves hadj
been affected and she appeared
weary. She will resume when her
physicians say her condition per
mits.
Essentially her story of the mur
der, insane violence and abduc
tion which she claims took place
on board the Penguin, did not vary
from previous versions. For the j
first time, however, the young wi- |
dow admitted she had never seen j
the gun which her husband kept
on the Penguin.
As she retold the story of her
husband’s death she claimed she
did all she could to save him when
the pirates threw him overboard.
She knew his hands were tied, Mrs.
Collings said, but was not aware
the murderers had bound his feet.
Aside from these facts, her story
did not vary. She denied her hus
band had been a bootlegger or
otherwise engaged in illicit busi
ness and claimed their married life
had always been a happy one.
DEMPSEY HARDENING
MUSCLES IN MINE
LAS VEGAS, Nev., Sept-, 29, (/P)
—Jack Dempsey, who is seeking a
come-back to regain the heavy-|
weight championship of the world
crown, has begun work in a mine
to put himself into a strong phy
sical condition.
He will work for 30 days in the I
mine and then will continue his'
barn-storming fight schedule.
BEAT TENNIS CHAMPS
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 29. (/P)—
Ellsworth Vines and Keith Gledhill
defeated the National Doubles
champions, Wilmer Allison and
John Van Ryan, to win the Pacific
Southwest Doubles title. Scores were
6-4, 4-6 and 7-5.
FRANCE AND GERMANY
TRY Stmt GRUDGES
BERLIN, Sept., 29, (JP)—A great
er friendliness between France
and Germany is predicted as a
result of the Franco-German con
ference now in progress. Premier
Laval and Foreign Minister
Briand, of France, Monday, spent
the afternoon with General von
Hindenburg, of Germany.
It is said that France and Ger
many are now attempting to set
tle ancient grudges by peace
pacts
DENVER POLICE BAFFLED
BOMB TERRORIZATION:
CKO GENERAL PANIC
DENVER, Sept., 29, (^—Police
are baffled by the bombing ter
rorization of last night which
aused the destroying of one
house, the shaking of a theatre,
church and school, and causing a
general panic in the northern
section of Delnver.
In the two suburbs where the
bombing occurred, thousands of
persons stayed in the streets un
til daylight as they were afraid to
return to their homes.
Six explosions are reported,
with three doing no damage. Po
lice ascribed the first to small
bays, but this theory was aban
doned when a terrific blast rock
ed the Holy Family Church.
Fifty members of a school club
meeting, dashed out of the school
house, terrified by a blast which
occurred in the building The
blast also caused the stopping of
a motion picture machine across
the street and hundreds of
theatre patrons rushed out fchu
exits. One woman told police that
she saw a “stout man” leave a car
and walk up the alley behind the
school house and a few minutes
he came running out again. This
was just a few seconds befoie ‘.'re
explosion.
Another blast wrecked and set
fire to a house owned by Custer
Rand. Rand could not be found
in his house in the Barnum su •
burb, where two other explosions
occurred earlier in the evening
and soon after the church bomb
ing which rocked the neighbor
ood for a few blocks distant.
TO DISCUSS POSTPONEMENT
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 28. (/Pi
Word reaching here from some
European countries suggested that
the Olympic games, scheduled to
be held here in 1932, should be post
poned on account of the world
wide depression. Although no of
ficial action has been taken as yet
it was understood that a confer
ence may be called to discuss the
postponement of the coming games.
HUMUS TO HIVE FULL
STRENGTH OPENING GAME
ST. LOUIS, Sept., 29, (^—Ex
cept for pitcher Haines, who will
probably see no action because of
an arm injury, Manager Street
expects th$ Cardinals to have
their full strength out for the
World Series.
He said he believes that Pepper
Martin, center fielder, and Sparky
Adams, third baseman, are ready
for action in the first game. Mar
tin had a wrenched left knee and
Adams a sprained ankle. Paul
Derringer, giant right-hander, is
favored to start in the pitcher’s
box against the Athletics in the
opening game.
AFTER THIRD CHAMPIONSHIP
PHILADELPHIA, Sept., 29, (/Pi
Determined to set a new record
by winning their third consecu
tive baseball championship, the
Philadelphia Athletics entrain to
night for St- Louis for the first
game Thursday.