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VOLUME XVI. NUMBER 123. SEWARD, ALASKA,
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 1931. PRICE TEN CENTS
SCOTLAND YARD
SCOUR ENGLAND
MURDERER TWO
BODIES OF MOTHER AND
DAUGHTER FOUND
BURIED
BELVIDERE, KENT, England
June 3. (/P)—'The bodies of Mrs
Chas. Frederick Lewis and daugh
ter Frieda, were found buried be
neath fresh concrete in a fisT
pond in back of their home.
Scotland Yard’s keenest detect
ives are scouring England for 2
dO-year-old school master, husbanc
of the slain woman.
The girl was adopted by th<
Lewis’ after her parents wem
lown on the Lusitania. The miss
ing man was prominent in civi<
affairs of County Kent where h<
vas assistant director of educa
ion and choir masted. Their pe
.tog was buried beside Mrs. Lewi
md Frieda.
A mysterious letter was receivec
raying: “They have been burie<
vith all the reverence in a prett:
spot with flowers over them,
shall soon join them.”
Mrs. Lewis was 50 and th<
daughter. 20.
JUNEAU. June 3. -Pi-On ;
oneral trip which will take hin
ar north of Kotzebue Sound. Gov
mor Parks left today for tin
Vest ward.
He will spend a few days eacl
Anchorage. Fairbanks am
Nome.
The one main object of his Norm
isit is to organize the Alaska Rein
;eer Council and get ready to ad
minister that industry. The gov
•rnor plans the greater part o
us Interior trip by plane.
NEW YORK. June 3. (/?)—Fou
.dr-passenger and express line
nave been merged into the larges
air transport group in the worl<
n point of mileage flown.
They are National Air Trans
port. New York to Chicago am
Chicago to Dallas, Texas; Boein:
Air Transport, Chicago to Sai
Francisco; Pacific Air Transport
Seattle to San Diego. California
Varney Air Lines, Salt Lake Cit,
o Seattle and Pacific Northwest
WOMEN-HATERS ORGANIZE
HANKOW. China, June 2. (&)
A “no wife” s o c i e t-y has beei
:ormed here with a Chinese char
■ered accountant named Fan a
,ts leading spirit. In a circula
:o henpecked husbands, Fan, wh
.ecently figured in the local di
vorce court, declares that moder]
women are “like serpents am
.ions.” Bachelorhood is the ke;
<o happiness, he says.
\M lira SEX
! APPEAL, sirs BEBNiHl
LONDON, June 2. (JP)—The speech
j of George Bernard Shaw, in which
I he said that Joan of Arc “lacked
•sex appeal,” drew a sharp reply
ifrom Rev. Francis Woodlock.
j Shaw’s assertion was made in
{a radio broadcast. He said that
'men followed the Maid of Orleans
iblindly because she lacked the
, I “well known Hollywood sex ap
peal.”
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ONE HEAT VICTIM
NEW YORK, June 3. (/P)— Befon
| the rain broke a three-days’ hea‘
wave, one death was blamed on it
LESS TRAIN DEATHS
j NEW YORK, June 3. (/P)—Ther<
were 1,015 less human lives los
j and 27,565 less personal injurie:
11 in train accidents last year thai
jin 1929.
1 recognition urged
J j WASHINGTON. D. C., June 3
[ (/P)_Recognition of Soviet Russi;
was urged by Senator William A
?, Borah, chairman of the Senati
foreign relations committee, in ;
radio interview over the Columbia
broadcasting system.
WILL WED COUNT
INDIANAPOLIS, June 2, (&)
(Engagement was announced o
iMiss Edith Fairbanks, grand
daughter of the former Vic<
President of the'' United States
to Count Ruggero. Viscounte d<
1 Modrone of Milan, Italy.
ATTEMPT TO EXTORT S40.000
TOPEKA. Kas., June 2. </P>
i Three men were arrested cnargei
1 with trying to extort $0,000 fron
Walter Chrysler, auto magnate
3 through threats to expose an al
- leged relationship between one o
- , them and Mr. Chrysler’s father.
' APPROVES PRINICPLE
TOKYO, June 3. (JP)—Railroat
workers staged a protesting dem
onstration outside the railwa;
ministry shortly after the an
1 nouncement that the cabinet ha<
) approved in principle and witl
few modifications, the salary cu
program which will affect man;
r | government employees.
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tj A DIFFERENT TUNE
1: WASHINGTON, D. C., June 2
(/P)—Modification of the Eighteentl
j | amendment is inevitable within s
y few years unless the America]
’.people pull themselves out of th
I depths of the moral depressioi
.’ through which the nation is pass
’ ing, Dr. Clarence True Wilson, o
'Ithe Methodist board of temper
"lance, prohibition and public mor
als, predicted.
ALFONSO CHARGED
l
MADRID, June 3. (/P)—Charge
s against King Alfonso XIII of Span
r and several former monarchis
3 leaders accusing them of crimina
. responsibility for the execution
i of Captains Garcia, Fernandez an<
i Ferman Galan, following last De
y cember’s Jaca revolution were file<
before the supreme court here.
HUGE THEORY
DEFICIT BE MET
LONG TERM ISSUE
REDEEMABLE AFTER JUNE 15,
1946; WILL BE ISSUED IN
VARIED AMOUNTS
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 3.
(;p,_The huge deficit of the Unit
ed States treasury will be met with
a $800,000,000 long term bond is
sue which will be offered for sale
June 15, Securities maturing in
1949 will bear three and one
eighth per cent interest but will
j be redeemable at option of the
| government on and after June 15,
' 11946.
The issue will not cover all the
deficit which has passed $1,000,
,! 000,000. Authorization of another
‘ i smaller i&sue generally is expected.
'; Bonds will be exempt from all
|1 taxes, federal, local or state except
ithe estate and inheritance taxes
iand surtaxes.
They will be issued in denomina
tions ranging from $50 to $50,000
‘ ■ in both bearer and registered
forms.
: KING OF SIAM WILL
CRUISE ABOUT BRITISH
COLUMBIA WATERS
VANCOUVER, B. C., June 3. </P)
’ —A yacht cruise by King Prajad
kipok of Siam with his royal
party is being planned for British
Columbia waters in September it
was revealed by W. J. M. Alatson
Armstrong, Consul General for
j Siam in Canada.
1 The royal party will return from
Eastern United States where the
King recently underwent an eye
f operation by train and across
Canada.
Four or six will be guests; W. E.
Boeing, Seattle airplane manufac
turer, will be on the yacht Ta
i conite.
‘ | The royal party will sail for the
f | Orient September 12.
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THREATS ESTABLISH
SEPARATE GDVERNMENT
—
SHANGHAI, June 2. (£>)—Indica
x i tions that the south China insur
l! rectionists were determined to car
1 ry out threats of establishing an
a independent government at Can
[ ton in opposition to the Nanking
| government, appeared more def
f I inite.
.! Greater activity was observed
- among the rebelling group than
! at any time since the split in
! April.
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SEEKS ‘GREATER PARIS’
s
i PARIS, June 2. (A5)—Creation of
t a “greater” Paris, after the exam
1 pie of New York, London and Ber
s lin, with a probable population of
i 5,500,000, is being sought in some
. French circles as an “urgent ne
j cessity” in view of present popula
tion trends.
RED DEMONSTRATE,
C11IILMNS IRE INJURED
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, June 2.
(/P)—Sixty-three alleged commun
ists were in jail and a dozen juv
eniles were held in the detention
home, while 12 policemen and
many civilians were injured, as a
result of a communist demonstra
tion.
The demonstration followed po
lice to prevent the celebration of
“youth day” in a local park.
PROFIT INCREASES
NEW YORK, June 3. (A5)—The
annual report of the Fox Film
Company showed a net profit of
$10,251,827 in 1930 compared with
$9,469,051 in 1929.
NOVA SCOTIA JUDGE DIES
ROYAL, Nova Scotia, June 2,
(£>)—Robert Edward Harris, for
13 years Chief Justice of Nova
Scotia, passed away here.
CARDINAL DIES
QUEBEC, June 2, (^—Canada’s
only Cardinal, Ramon Mariere
M. Roulieau, is dead. He was ap
pointed Cardinal in 1928; his age
was 53.
WATSON SAILS NORTH
| SEATTLE, June 3. (A5)—The SS
| Watson sailed at 10 a. m. and
! carried 48 passengers, five for
j Seward as follows: M. Jas. Hosey,
Frank Alvarez, Angel Fernandez,
Fred Bravender and A. R. Martin.
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BY ROYAL FAVOR
LONDON, June 3. (/P)—King
George looked with favor, on the
65th anniversary of his birth, on
the annual list of birthday honors
| creating among other distinctions
four Baronecies, 25 Knighthoods
and two Privy Councilorships.
WILL TAKE CHANCE
RENO, Nev., June 2. (^—Cali
fornia Max Baer, 216 pounds of
! heavyweight fighting machinery,
! arrived in Reno five weeks in ad
vance of his fight here the Fourth
I of July, with Paulino Uzcudun, the
: Basque woodchopper.
“FER GOODNESS SAKE!”
| LONDON, June 3. (£»)—A pro
posal that the church itself should
.‘instruct bride and bridegroom in
! the facts of marriage before the
t marriage ceremony takes place,
, greeted members attending th
i Diocesan Synod at Portsmouth.
^ Canon T. Y. Pym of Bristol made
(the suggestion.
RAILROADER DIES
I
j NEW YORK, June 3. (£>)—Loren
i F. Vosburg, vice president in
! charge o£ traffic of the New York
; Central Railroad, died suddenly
j at his Mount Vernon home. Death
; was due to hardening of arteries,
i He was 63.
“RED HOUSECLEANING”
MOSCOW, June 2. (JF)—Despite
the loss of more than 100,000 mem
! bers during the annual ‘‘Red
housecleaning” of active members
of the Communist party, all of
whose ancestral lines are pure
protelarian, number 2,040,658.
CLOSET SHOTGUN
YEARS AGO VOWED PUT TO
END DEPREDATIONS
OF VISITORS
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BOYLESTOWN, Pa., June 2. (JP)
—The death of Dr. Raley Husted
Bell, apparently a victim of his
own burglar trap, is under invest
tigation.
The body of the alienist, nat
uralist and author was found in
his Sycamore Lodge summer home
with a gunshot wound in the
chest. A shotgun set on the closet
floor and wired to door apparently
had discharged, killing him in
stantly.
On Friday the.body was discov
ered by the caretaker.
Years ago Dr. Bell vowed he
would put an end to the practice
of motorists who pulled up flowers
and shrubs and stretched barbed
wires across lanes and rigged up
traps and fixed shotguns about
the house and buildings that
would be discharged if an intruder
attempted an entrance.
"THUS" 8*
AND GIRLS ORDERED
TO LEAVE FRANCE
HAVRE, France, June 2. (£>)—
; “Texas” Guinan will not only have
to leave France tomorrow but will
have to pay her own fare home.
The French lines director said
sh will be deported on the liner
1 Paris as her visa stipulated she
and her girls were not coming to
| France to work.
She was confronted with a
j shower of marriage proposals, one
: of them from Harry Aslett of Lon
j don, who offered to marry her so
jshe could enter and later obtain
j a divorce.
PUNE SERVICE WILL
LOWER TIME INTERM
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SEATTLE, June 3. </P)—A six
place plane will start operating
between Chitina and Fairbanks the
middle of this month. This serv
ice is expected to reduce the time
from Seattle to Fairbanks and
other Interior points two and one
half days.
The p 1 a ne was inspected at
Boeing Field Tuesday and will be
shipped Saturday to the Gillam
Air Service at Cordova for oper
tion.
TURKS TAKE ELDERLY BRIDES
ISTANBUL, Turkey, June 2. (&)—
Older women of Turkey are making
up for the dilatoriness of young
Turkey in the matter of marriage.
Records for 1929, just published,
show that 16 women of 70 years
or more were married that year.
Twelve octogenarian women be
came brides of men ranging in age
from 30 to 65.