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VOLUME XVI. NUMBER 37. SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1931.
PRICE TEN CENTS
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
TO
SEWS NEW DRESS
SHRUGS SHOULDERS WHEN
PARDON BOARD REFUSED
COMMUTE SENTENCE
NEWCASTLE, Pa., Feb., 20, </P)
Mrs. Irene Schroeder, 22, is appar
etly more concerned about a new
black silk dress which she will
wear to the electric chair than in
her death.
Relatives appealed to Governor
Pinchot to commute the sentence
to lire imprisonment. She is to die
Monday with W. Glenn Dague for
the murder of State Policeman
Brady Paul, when he attempted to
question them regarding holdups.
Mrs. Schroeder . only shrugged
her shoulders when told that the
pardon board had refused to re
commend commutation of the
death sentence and continued to
work on the dress.
WHOLESALE MURDER
PLOT OVER COUNTRY
BEING MATED
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb., 20. (JP)~
A country-wide investigation of a
wholesale murder plot was started
by the San Metro sheriff’s office
when a second attempt, within a
veek. to slay Louis Figone, ranch
owner and 14 employees, by poison
gas, wTas uncovered
Figone who was badly poisoned,
was under a doctor’s care but was
slightly recovered.
A week ago Figone and his
ranch hands were slightly poison
d by strychnine, administered to
them in soup. All detected the
bitter taste of the poison and re
fused to eat the soup, an action
which saved their lives.
ENGAGED TO WED
NEW YORK, Feb., 20, (/P)—
Miss Eleanor Hoyt, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Richard Farnsworth
Hoyt, and A. Felix DuPont, Jr.,
son of the manufacturer, both
fliers, are engaged to wed.
SNOW HELPS WORKLESS
NEW YORK, Feb., 20, (JP)~.
3now, followed by drizzling rains, i
brought work and water to New j
York, both of which were needed. ]
It wasn’t a heavy snow which j
fell, but between 15,000 and 20,000 j
unemployed found work removing!
it from the streets.
42 HOURS FLYING
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, Feb. '
20, (/P) — Lieut. F. Loomis, Jr.,
Marine Corps and Mrs. Loomis
arrived here in their own plane
after a flight from San Diego.
They started January 15th and
the trip took 42 hours flying
time, with several intermediary
stops. Mrs. Loomis, who was
taught to fly by her husband,
handled the controls over half
of the distance.
39 GUARD CAMPS
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20. </P) —
The War Department announced
a million dollar construction pro
gram to provide 39 national guard
camps in 34 states. Funds for this
| work are provided in the recently
passed first deficiency appropria
tion bill.
FRISCO HI IIS
QUOTA AED GAUSS DRIVE
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb., 20, (/Pi
Subscriptions to the Red Cross
campaign for the relief of East
ern, drought sufferers reached
$72,000 over the w.eek-end. the
, committee announced.
! Members of the committee ex
| pressed the belief that with the
increasing subscriptioris to this
city’s quota of $160,000 the goal
will be attained this week.
They asserted that the quota
was reasonable and should be sub
scribed quickly.
CAR STRUCK BY TRAIN
INDIO, Calif., Feb., 20, VP)-Mi.
and Mrs. Homer Smith and Mrs.
J. W. Walker, mother of Mrs.
Smith, were killed when their car
was struck by a freight train at a
crossing near Heber, Calif.
EXCELLENT RECORD
TOPEKA, Kansas, Feb., 20, UP)
—Santa Fe railroad lines com
pleted their 85th day without
fatal injury to an employ on duty.
Lsiatha Henry Hale, safety su
perintendent of the system an
nounced here.
RATIONS OF GROG
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb.. 20. </Pi
Sailors on French and Italian
vessels may receive their rations
of grog required by their shipping
laws while in American ports, the
Treasury Department has ruled.
Orders to this effect were re
ceived at the Custom House from ■
Washington.
The incoming local list of pas
sengers on the SS Yukon, in
port today from the sohth, in- j
eluded the following: i
From Juneau—Mrs. Price, Mrs. I
F. Olson, Hugh Ferry, Mrs. E. M.
Smith, Miss S. Lundie.
From Latouche—Mrs. E. C. Al
len, Mrs. C. Overby.
From Cordova—Dt Thos. G.
Sutherland and Mrs. Sutherland,
Mrs. G. E. Poore.
From Valdez—D. M. Thomas.
From Seattle—Mr. and Mrs. M.
C. Caughrean, Mrs. B. Brown,
J. J. Chisholm, W. Fairfield, Mr.
and Mrs. W. C. Grandjean, Bart
ley Howard, Mr. and Mrs. E. R.
Hudson, Herbert C. Hudson, Miss
Fore nee L. Kolb, Anton Lindstrom, j
C. A. Livingston, Chas. A. Math- j
eson. Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Me
Veigh, Fred C. Miller, Mr. and j
Mrs. Ralph R. Mitchell, Hilmar j
Oison, L. V. Ray, C. E. Robinson, j
Mrs. A. Stern, John T. Sweedees, j
Mr. and Mrs. Tom Winn.
SENATE READY TO
RUSH VETS BILL
TO THE PRESIDENT
HOOVER CAN KILL BILL AFTER
SATURDAY; 10 DAYS BE
FORE ADJOURNMENT
WASHINGTON, Feb., 19, (/?)—
By an overwhelming majority
the Senate Ls ready to rush the
Veterans loan bill to the Presi
dent.
Administration supporters are
still in doubt from the powerful
coalition supporting the measure
but Republican leaders predicted
a presidential veto.
One change is contemplated in
the Senate for the bill which was
passed by the House, a reduction
of interest from 412 to four
per cent. Proponents are even
unwilling to risk that unless as
surance is received from House
leaders that it will be accepted
without sending to conference
Saturday, the 10 day period be
fore adjournment during which
the President could kill by re
fusing to sign before Congress
ends its work March 4.
The administration route is the
most inclusive since Hoover took
office. Longworth a n d Senate
leader Watson join the bill sup
porters.
QUAKE FELT LAST NITE
At 11:20 last night, a slight
earthquake was felt throughout
the city. It was at first thought
it might have been a blast from
the breakwater quarry, but not
so. Another said probably some
golfer on the midget course had
made a hole in one and the re
sultant shout of ecstasy started
the earth movement.
LESLIES ORCHESTRA
The ticket selling committee
for the big dance tomorrow nite.
report the sale Ls progressing
better than had been anticipated,
which is welcomed news to those
who are nursing along the treas
ury of the Seward Athletic Club,
sponsors of the dance. Leslies’
orchestra has been engaged for
the evening insuring a perfect
musical evening.
J. J. Chisholm, Anchorage bro
ker who has been in the States
for some weeks past, returned on
the SS Yukon.
Dr. Sutherland of Cordova en
tered the Seward General Hos
pital today for an appendicitis
operation.
Tonight’s basketball game be
tween the Cedar and City squads
will start at 7 o’clock. Peer Gynt
will referee.
SHAKEDOWN CRUISE
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb., 20, (/P)
After her shakedown cruise at
sea, the new Coast Guard cut
ter Shoshone will be stationed in
the San Francisco district as the
flagship of the coast guard fleet,
it was learned here.
JAPANESE RIGHTS BILL
TOKIO, Feb., 20, (/P) -Women had
their inning in the Japanese Diet
here. The occasion was the initial
appearance of the government’s
women’s civil rights bill, which
practically grants equal rights with
men in the administration of vil
lages, towns and cities to 15,000,
000 female subjects.
IMMORAL TONE OF
PRESS IS REPROACHED
VATICAN CITY. Feb.. 20, (>PJ—
Pope Pius reproached the Italian
government for failure to main
tain the atmosphere of Rome as
that of a religious center as re
quired under the first article of
the Lateran Treaty. He voiced his
complaint in his annual address to
Roman priests assembled for gui
dance in their Lenten sermons.
The Pontiff cited specifically the
immoral tone of the press, the of
fensive character of the movies
and the profanation of Sunday.
BOSTON TEA PARTY
PARIS, Feb., 20, GP)—A num
ber of prominent French women
are preparing to stage a Boston
tea party, it is learned. Despair
ing of ever persuading the senate
to give them the “frankish” they
have decided to unfurl a banner
with the design “No taxation
without representation.’'
NARCOTICS BURNED
SHANGHAI, Feb.. 20, (VP)--More
than a ton of narcotics goes up in
smoke each month in this city but
it is not the smoke of the opium
dens. Rather narcotics are burned
by Shanhai customs authorities
following seizure of illegal ship
ments. Despite the huge amount
of narcotics seized and burned,
that which is destroyed is a very
small part of the amount that ac
tually finds its way into the city.
SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 20. (/P)—
Immigration inspectors who met
the Panama mail liner from Col
umbia to prevent the landing of
Austin F. Marti, former secretary
of Aulfustino Sandino, Nicaraguan
revolutionary leader, found that
they had nothing to do.
Marti had left the steamer at
Honduras and officials there had
let him stay after he had been
voyaging around South America
and Central America for 23,000
miles.
GANDHI IN ACCIDENT
ALLAHABAD, India, Feb., 20, </P)
—Mahatma Gandhi, leader of In
dia’s Nationalist millions, nar
rowly escaped serious injury' in
traveling from Lucknow to Alla
habad with the body of bandit
Motilal Nehru, which was being
brot here for cremation. Mah
atma Gandhi, Mrs. Nehru and
others were in the car which ran
into a ditch and turned turtle.
EVEN THO WOMAN
IS DEAD VET 1ST
IF ACTRESS IS PROVED A MUR
DERESS HEIRS WILL
NOT RECEIVE REQUESTS
SANTA ANA, Cal., Feb., 19, (£>)
| Though she suicided 10 months
, ago her action failed to save Adele
1 Ritchie, musical comedy star, from ’
a trial for the murder of Doris
Palmer.
The trial will determine the de
| gree of her guilt and is in progress
I here, the same as if Miss Ritchie
i
was in court.
i Upon the verdict of murder or
manslaughter hangs the contest
! for $1,500 between the heirs of the
two women.
Miss Ritchie killed herself short
ly after she killel Mrs. Palmer last
April after the friendship was
broken when they became rivals
in community theatre work.
The attorneys for Mrs. Palmer’s
heirs are prosecuting the case
under the California law and if
the actress is proved a murderess,
her heirs will not be entitled to re
ceive bequests to the actress from
Mrs, Palmer’s will.
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MADRID, Feb., 19, (/P)— Admir
al Juan Bautista Sznar, oldest
ranking officer in the Spanish
navy and generally regarded as
! a neutral, politically, formed a
1 new monarchist cabinet after
Jose Sanchez Guerra and Mci
quiades Alvarez, both constitu
j tionalists, had failed.
| It is believed that the tense
j atmosphere of the past week
! since the fall of the Berenguer
! cabinet has been relieved and
| danger of a revolution averted.
The new cabinet will be com
! posed entirely of monarchists.
APPOINTED HEAD
PARIS, Feb., 20, (/P)—Marshal
| Petain, defender of Verdun dur
! ing the World War, was appointed
head of the aerial defense; of all
French territory. The vetern ask
ed be relieved as Vice-President
of the Superior War Council and
inspector general of armies so
that he might have more time for
the new assignment.
PROFIT TAKING,
NEW YORK, Feb., 20, (/P)-Stocks
advanced and declined rapidly but
were more active when the market
was in the reverse direction at the
close. The sieepy response by a
majority of the leaders to the
proddings of bull operators, plain
ly gave notice of a large amount
of profit taking and short selling
was going on under cover of tin
rally- The buying urge was not
strong enough to overcome such
selling.
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