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VOLUME XXVII. NUMBER 221.
SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1931.
PRICE TEN CENTS
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NEW YORK, Oct. 24, (£»)—
*‘Whoopee’ cruisers of British liners 1
from American ports, one of which
furnished the background for a
.Story of a barroom fight, have'
prompted a group of old sea-faring ,
men to demand an investigation by j
the Treasury Department.
Their charge that the ships are j
violating the coast wise laws and
prohibition laws was turned over to
the customs bureau at Washington
j-esterday as the Newr York Sun de
scribed a fight between detectives
and gamblers on the last cruise of
the White Star liner Majestic
which docked here last night after
a 100 mile 24 hour cruise from New
York to nowhere and back with
476 pasesngers.
lli PRICE TRENDS
NEW YORK, Oct.,* 24, (/Pj—The
Stock Market seemed more willing
to advance than to decline yester
day but trading was in slim vol
ume and price trends narrow and
undecisive.
Confidence was expressed by
executives attending the semi
annual meeting of The American
Iron & Steel Institute and the
mild and cheerful tenor of the
Weekly Mercantile Reviews, tend
ed to brighten market sentiment.
The market put it’s best foot
foreward at the start but soon
encountered difficult going- Early
gains of one to two points were
largely lost by mid-day. A slow
advance set in during the after
noon and advances were regained.
Shares showing advances of one
io more than two points, included
American Tel.; American Can;
American Smelting; W. S. Steel;
Sears Roebuck; New York Cen
tral; Chesapeake & Ohio and
Union Pacific
LERGUE OF NATIONS TOLD
JIN WON’T WITHDRAW
GENEVA, Oct., 24, (/P)—'The
■League of Nation’s labors to re
establish peace in Manchuria,
were blocked again last night
when the Japanese representatives
acting on fresh instructions from
Tokyo, reiterated, at a public ses
sion of the League Council, his
Government’s refusal to with
draw it’s troops by November 16.
Kenkichi Coshizawa, the Jap
anese spokesman, voiced this re
fusal after Dr. Alfred Sze of
China, had accepted, with reser
vation, the Council’s plan for
peace, including the time limit on
evacuation.
ENGLAND DISPLAY PRODUCTS
LONDON, Oct. 24. (A5)—A float
ing showroom for British products
in the form of an ocean liner named
the British Exhibitor is expected
to start from London about No
vember 1 on a tour of South Amer
ican ports.
LINDYS HOME
| NEWARK, N. J., Oct. 24, (/P)—
1 Colonel and Mrs. Charles A. Lind
i bergh retimed home fom the Oient,
landing here at 9:24 Friday night
after a day’s flight from Rock
springs, Wyoming, broken by sev
eral intermediate stops. They
went directly to the Morrow home
i Lindy appeared tired.
i CAPONE 115 TO BE
SENTENCED TODAY
CHICAGO, Oct. 24, (/P)—A1 Ca
pone went to court again yesterday
listened grumly while his attorneys
gave reasons why they believed his
income tax convictions should be |
set aside and was ordered by Fed- |
1 eral Judge Wilkerson to come back
! Saturday. “I will dispose of this i
lease at 10 a. m. Saturday,” the
i court said.
That was taken to indicate he i
1 would sentence Capone immediately
if the defense motion for an arrest
in judgement presented Friday were
i denied.
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SENTENCE; GETS mans
I CHICAGO, Oct., 24, (A5)—“Scar -
| face” A1 Capone, public enemy No.
1, was sentenced 11 years for in
come tax evasion, in a federal
court here. He was also fined
$50,000 and ordered to pay the
j cost of prosecution
i Judge Wilkerson ruled that Ca
! pone might be given credit on his
| six-month’s contempt of court
sentence passed last February
which is now under appeal, when
he served that amount of time at
j the Leavenworth penitentiary.
SAID MADE MISTAKE
PHOENIX, Ariz., Oct-, 24, (A3)—
Deputy County Attorney Rodgers
I branded Mrs. Ruth Winnie Judd’s
story as inconceivable and charg
ed that she had made a great er
ror. Rodgers said “witnesses testi
! fied that Mrs. Judd carried her
right hand bandaged last Satur
day and Sunday after the slaying
i and the v/ound on her left hand
! had been self-inflicted as a means
of building up a defense.”
| OBERGURGL, Austria, Oct. 24.
(JP)—The aluminum gondola of
stratesphere fame, left here by Pro
fessor Auguste Piccard after his
sensational flight, has proved a
great attraction to tourists.
I
HKISfllllL
DICTATOR OF GERMANY
I BERLIN, Oct. 24. (JP)—Germany
reverted to a virtual dictatorship
under Chancellor Heinrich Bruen
ing when the Reichstag, after giv
ing the Chancellor a vote of confi
dence, voted to adjourn until Feb
ruary 23.
Adolph Hitler’s National Social
1 ists and Alfred Hugenberg’s Na
tionalists arose and walked out of
the chamber following the confi
dence vote, announcing they had
no more interest in what the Reich
stag might do even with the sup
port of the Communists.
The parties were able to muster
only 270 votes against the Chan
cellor; the vote in favor of the con
fidence motion was 295.
I
Radio listeners of Seward will not
be troubled after December 1st with
I interference from the local Signal
Corps radio station, was the an
; nouncement made last night at the
| meeting of the the Seward Radio
idub held in the office of the Alaska
! Steamship Company.
On that date, according to state
ments made by various members
of the club, the operations of the
station will be so reduced and ar
ranged that interference with local
l radio reception will be entirely
! eliminated during the greater por
j tion of the evening and greatly re
* duced at other parts of the day.
| The matter of purchasing an in-1
I strument to locate interference;
sources throughout the town was
again considered by the club. Ser
geant G. E. Nicolai, of the Signal
; Corp.1, who was -in Seward last
.night on his way south after in
j ;4tal(ing high power short wave
| transmitters at Anchorage, was pre- j
I sent at the meeing and stated that \
the Signal Corps has an inter-1
ference detector machine which is]
now somewhere in southeastern •
Alaska, and he suggested that upon ]
proper application this instrument
might be obtained for use in Sew
ard. The secreatary of the club
was thereupon instructed to make
such applications to Colonel Olm
stead, the head of the Signal Corps.
Pending the arrival of this in
terference detector, it was decided
that the club would at once make
a determined effort to eliminate
some of the known sources of inter
ference in the business section of
the town. This matter is in the
hands of members of the executive
committee, including J. H. Flick
enger, Leon Urbach, J. S. Hofman,
;H. S. Balderston, L. J. Chilberg, R. A.
! Hall and Elwyn Swetmann. It is
planned that a small portable re
ceiver will be used, with which it
will be possible to demonstrate con
clusively to the owner of any elec
trical machine causing interference
that such machine actually does
interfere with radio reception.
The hope was expressed that this
committee would receive active co
operation in its efforts to provide
better radio reception for the people
of Seward.
Attention was called to the fact
that a number of new radio sets
recently been installed in
Seward, and members of the were
requested to explain to the owners
of these new sets the objects of the
Radio Club and urge them to join
the same. It was stated that mem
bership dues are $1.00, and that any
one of the membership committee,
consisting of P. C. McMullen, Leon
Urbach and J. B. Stanton, will re
ceive dues and enroll new members.
AVERAGE 70 YEARS
NEW YORK, Oct. 23. (A5)—Life
span of the average man in the
United States will be 70 years with
in the next 25 years, Doctor Charles
Mayo, head of Mayo Clinic at Ro
chester, Minn., and one of Amer
ica’s foremost medical authorities,
told at the convention of the Amer
ican College of Surgeons.
WELTERWEIGHT CHAMP
BOSTON, Oct. 24, (£>)—Lou
Brouillard captured the welter
weight championship here Friday
night by winning a 15-round de
cision over Young Jack Thompson.
TOWED INTO FRISCO
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct-, 24, (ff)—j
Water-logged and listing heavily, j
the steamer Wilmington was tow
ed toward San Francisco Friday
night. Her officers and crew of
21 in all, were transferred early!
Thursday morning to the Admiral!
Sebree which is towing her.
TWO CONVICTS ESCAPE AS
FOUR MAKE LIBERTY DASH
TRENTON, N. J., Oct, 24, (A3)—,
Shotting a guard and a policeman
four convicts fled from the New j
Jersey State prison yesterday in a.
spectacular getaway which brought
death to two of them and the |
policeman.
The convicts were doing con- i
struction work outside the prison'
walls when they shot the guard
and leaped into two automobiles.
Later one of the convicts was shot
in a cornfield and the other corral
ed in a nearby town. The other
two escaped and are at liberty.
They were reported as heading for
New York.
Li! II1UES IE
FIRST DAY CONFERENCE
WASHINGTON, Oct., 24, (JP)—
President Herbert Hoover and
Premier Pierre Laval of France
I conferred yesterday on the world’s
I ecomomic situation. The meeting
| was attended by Secretary of
! State Stimson and Under-Secre
! tary Mills, of the Treasury.
Laval had an interpreter with
! him as Laval speaks very little
j English and President Hoover is
! not proud of his French,
j The two leaders of their re
| spective nations are discussing
j only such policy as the two Gov
i ernments can readily perform to
| expediate the world’s economic
recovery. Happily, there are no
j controversies to be settled as none
| exist.
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MEXICO’S ‘IRON MAN’
MEXICO CITY, Oct. 24. (Ap
pending formation of a new gov
ernment, General Plutarco Calies,
known as the “Iron Man,” ran Mex
ico virtually single-handed recent
ly. All other members of the Cab
linet of President Ortez Rugio
j stepped out when Calies was called
i in as Minister of War.
IJUHY FIS TO REACH
F 05 HI If DECISION
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MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 24, (/P> —
After days had been taken in ar
gumentation in the case Govern
ment vs. W. B. Foshay and Associ
ates, officers of the public utilities
corporaion which went ii\to the
hands of the receivers some months
ago, the jury was unable to agree
on a decision and was discharged
yesterday.
The Government contended that
values were rapidly increased in or
der to overcome the steadily in
creasing deficit and if the defen
dants had fixed the values, which
they knew to be proper, no one
would have been induced to invest
their money in the stocks.
W. B. Foshay and six associates
are to be retried on mail fraud
charges on January 11.
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mf BECK OF HER
HUSBAND'S APPEAL
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 24, {&)—Mrs.
Winnie Ruth Judd, 26 years of age,
who has been sought for five days
in connection with the Phoenix
trunk murders of Hedvid Samuelson
Mrs.Juddtold,the|Hmrheap ETAOI
surrendered to officers at 3 o’clock
Friday night.
A telephone call from the missing
woman was received at the attor
ney’s office and resulted in a hasty
departure of the formqr. Judge
Louis P. Russell and the husband
W. C. Judd met her outside the
city limits. There Mrs. Judd made
her first appearance from hiding.
Mrs. Judd feared that lockjaw
would develop from the bullet
wound in her hand and this caus
d her to surrender. She was hid
ing in a vacant house in Los An
geles when she answered the ap
peal made by her husband that
she surrendered
She arranged to come to an
undertaker’s establishment and
‘was taken from there to a lobby
i of a downtown theatre where she
was met by her two attorneys and
!her husband. The group, includ
ling Mrs. Judd, then left again for
the undertakers.
The. police were apparently
keeping a close watch on the at
torneys and arrived a few min
utes later and arrested her. A
short scuffle resulted between the
officers and the husband and at
torneys before they could serve
| the warrant.
Mrs. Judd was arrested by Los
Angeles police officers while map
ing out plans for a defense with
> attorneys.
When found Mrs. Judd was found
to have a badly injured hand and
was almost in a hysterical condi
tion and entirely exhausted.
According to the meagre story
which Mrs. Judd told, she said the
killings came about when she went
! to the apartment of Miss Samuel
son and Mrs. Leroi to remonstrate
; Miss Samuelson for some of the
j nasty things that she is alleged to
i have said about Mrs. Leroi. It was
j then that Miss Samuelson brought
| a gun out and shot Mrs. Judd thru
ithe hand. In a struggle between
j the two women the gun dropped
Jon the floor and Mrs. Judd secured
it and shot Mrs- Samuelson. Then
iMrs. Leroi, in her terror, took
! an ironing board and was about to
i hit Mrs. Judd over the head with
| it. Mrs. Judd then shot her
> Mrs. Judd packed the bodies
j into the trunks in an attempt to
i dispose of them and had taken
jtihem as far as Los Angeles before
| the gruesome, and tragic murder
j was found out.
! When Mrs. Judd faced news
J photographers to secure a news
I phqto, she threw her coat over
^her head.
j Mrs. Judd’s hand was badly swol
len and gangrene had commenced
ito set in as a result of the bullet
| wound not being properly cared
j for. The hand was dressed and
Mrs. Judd placed in a hospital to
hasten her recovery.
Both attorneys insisted that
she had a defense which is well
recognized by law when she said
that she had gone to “remon
strate Samuelson for some nasty
things she said about Mrs. Leroi1»