MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 129. SEWARD, ALASKA. TUESDAY, JUNE 4, 1929.
PRICE TEN CENTS
KILLING CHILD
RESIDENTS AROUSED AT BRU
TALITY OF CRIME ; MAN
CLOSELY GUARDED
UKIAH, Calif. June 5. (£>)—Tom
Lehew, woodchopper, confessed he
attacked and strangled to death
six-year old Teresa Johnson near
Mendocino City on May 23.
The confession followed four
days of grilling; ‘I just went ‘hay
wire’ because there must be some
thing wrong with my mind” Le
hew said.
After his arrest Lehew offered
three alibis, the first in which
he said he had been cutting brush
at the time of the attack; then
he said he was lost in the woods,
and finally declared he had been
home asleep.
Lehew lived near the girl's home
and watched her going and com
ing from school. On the day of
the crime he saw her coming
home.with another girl and when
her companion left he followed
the Johnson girl and attacked
and strangled her, and left the
body.
He then returned to his wood
cutting- The accused man was
placed in jail under guard to pre
vent possible violence from the
residents who are aroused at the
brutality of the crime. The sher
iff said a murder charge will be
filed.
STANLEY BALDWIN
REINS AS PRIME
MISTER ENGLAND
RAMSEY MacDONALD SENT FOR
BY SICK KING TO FORM A
NEW CABINET
LONDON, June 4, <7P)—Stanley
Baldwin resigned as Prime Minis
ter of the British government
handing the resignation to the
King, who is ill. The ruler im
mediately sent for Ramsey Mac
Donald, labor leader, to ask him
to form a new cabinet.
MacDonald will visit Windsor -
Castle tomorrow The events which
presage the change of govern
ment is in accordance with Thurs
day’s elections when labor sup
planted the Baldwin conserva
tives as it was numerically the
strongest party in the House of
Commons.
His political resignation ended
five years of conservative rule
which started when Baldwin was
called to take the reins after the
laborite defeat. Then it was Mc
Donald who resigned and Baldwin
who formed the new cabinet. Like
the former labor cabinet the future
government depends largely on
what the liberals will do when they
are holding the balance power.
A HE-MAN
SELMA, Ala., June 4, (/P)—South
ern railroad engineers are mourn
ing a veteran, Pierson G. Hooks,
whose last run was a race with
death. Stricken on the route from
Rrimingham to Selma, he stayed
at the throttle till his train reached
slumped in his cab. He died at the
the journey’s end safely and then
hospital of paralysis.
WAREHOUSE BURNS
SPOKANE, June 4. (/PiFire of
an undetermined origin destroyed
the four-story warehouse of the
Zellerbach Paper company, caus
ing a loss of $200,000.
PINE EIOUTE
SEATTLE AFTER
FLIGHT. CUd
IS FIRST PLANE TO MAKE HOP
ACROSS GULF OF ALASKA
FROM THE NORTH
KETCHIKAN, June 4, (/P»—The
Gorst amphibian plane Alaska ar
rived last night at 11 o’clock and
was scheduled to take-off at 4
o’clock this morning for Seattle.
The plane was the first to make a
flight across the Gulf of Alaska
from the north.
It has aboard two passengers, H.
Seidenberg of Anchorage and Chas.
M. Daniels, big game hunter from
New York. Stops will be made at
Juneau and Yakatat and two stops
will be made enroute to Seattle for
fuel.
Daniels came from Ken a l penin
sula where he bagged vo brown
bears and two black bear, and saw
57 bears during the hum
IS IN PUfiTl
j SAN FRANCISCO, Jui •. V)—A
man who died in povertv l ist fall
in the Laguna Honda home here,
was worth nearly $1,000 0 >0 it was
revealed when his will w is filed in
court. The money is in a trust
fund in New York and 1 s bn n tied
up by litigation the last several
years.
He was Clarence Hubert Living
ston, 80. one-time a prominent club
man, and theatrical man of San
Francisco. His other mean became
exhausted six years ago nd una
ble to realize on the trust l and, he
entered the relief home.
SINCLAIR MUST
SERVE 1 LONGER
TEIM IN PRISON
f;
ASSISTANT MUST SERVE FOUR
MONTHS AND BURNS HEAD
FINED $1,000
WASHINGTON, June 4, The
Supreme court upheld the lower
court in sentencing Harry F. Sin
clair to serve six months in the Dis
trict of Columbia jail on charges
growing out of jury shadowing
which caused the Falls-Sinclare
conspiracy mis-trial.
Sinclair is now serving a three
months jail sentence for contempt
of the senate. The oilman will be
allowed five days a month off each
sentence for good behavior which
would reduce the nine months com
bined sentences to seven and one
half months.
Sinclair is now working in the
district jail pharmacy and refused
to discuss today’s decision. Henry
Mason Day, assistant to Sinclair,
who employed Burns detectives to
shadow jurors, must serve four
months.
W. Sherman Burns, in active
charge of the detective agency at
!the time of the trial, must pay a
jfine of $1,000; William J. Burns is
'exempt from the 15 day sentence
by the court on the grounds evi
dence failed to show the former
head of the Burns Detectve Agency
;was in any way responsible for the
ijury shadowing.
!? BASEBALL f
1 **
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Cincinnati 12, Boston 3
St. Louis 9, Brooklyn 8
Pittsburgh 14, Philadelphia 2
New York 8, Chicago 1
AMERICAN LEAGUE
St- Louis 6, Wshington 4
New York 1, Chicago 0
Philadelphia 3, Detroit 2
PARKS GOES SOUTH
SEATTLE June 4, </P)—Gov.
Parks left for San Francisco
in a monoplane piloted by Dick
Gleason; he expects to reach San
will stop at Potland and Montauge
California enroute to San Fran
cisco.
SOVIET GOVERNMENT WILL
SPEND HUNDREDS OF MIL
LIONS IN AMERICA
NEW YORK, June 4, (^—Rus
sian Soviet has entered into con
tracts aggregating millions of dol
lars with American firms for man
ufactured materials and technical
assistance, especially for American
engineering consultation for por
posed Soviet projects.
! The contract with the Ford Co.,
'calls for $30,000,000 worth of cars,
trucks, parts and construction of a
huge auto plant in Russia.
Other projects on the Soviet pro
gram include construction of a
?arge hydroelectric plant in Ukraine
at a cost of $100,000,000; numerous
! fertilizer plants, irrigation systems,
steel mills and industrial improve
ments of all kinds.
i
SCIENTIST WILL
SCI STUBIf NORTH
SEATTLE, June 4. (JP)—Dr. Geo.
j Haley, professar and biologist of
:St Ignatius university, San Fran
! cisco, will go North on June 5, on
the S. S. Victoria from here to
make further scientific investiga
tions of the seals and birds in
the Pribilof Islands for the United
States Bureau of Fisheries- Dr.
j Haley visited the Pribilofs last
year on a scientific expedition.
LOU PENETRATES THE RUTHIAN FIRMANENT
MHft/i
r •
Bn be Ruth may be just another star in the Yankee constellation
J - before that Sky-rocketing comet Lou Gehrig reaches its zenith.
MESSAGE URGES
AMERICANS GIVE
VOLSTEAD CHANCE
PROHIBITION MOST SERIOUS
EVIL CONFRONTING THE
UNITED STATES
NEW YOFK, June 3, (£>)—A mes
sage to the American people urging
that “Prohibition be given an hon
est trial” And bearing the signa
tures of Henry Ford, Thomas Edi
son, Captain Robert Dollar, J. C.
Penney and 20 other men in busi
ness, was published here.
Thee message quoted the law ob
servance plea in President Hoover's
inaugural address when he invited
Americans of “Whatever previous
; opinions and social practices, par
ticularly those in business and pro
fessional life, to join with us in fol
lowing the President. Let us unite
and give the 18th amendment an
nonest chance for complete en
forcement.”
A letter expressing disapproval of
|the recently organized voluntary
| committee of lawyers opposed to
the amendment and the answer by
Joseph Choate, junior member of
the lawyers board, was published in
which Marshall Stimson, Los Ange
les attorney, asked the committee
to refrain using the word lawyers to
avoid bringing the legal profession
mto further disrespect.
THE SIGNERS *
Stimson asked whether the com
mittee members are retained by
|forcer seeking, a law repeal. Choate
replied “An honest belief is the sole
mainspring of the movement we
believe prohibition the most serious
’remediable evil from which tiie
country now suffers.”
Signers were R. Burnside, lum
berman of Portland, Ore.; Colonel
Patrick Callahan, varnish manu
facturer of Louisville, Ky.; Freder
ick Chase, metal, Waterbury, Conn.:
W. H. Crosby, metals, Buffalo, N.
Y.: Fulton Cutting, financier of
New York; Robert Dollar, steam
ship owner, San Francisco; Thomas
Edison inventor, Orange, N. J.
Henry Ford, automobiles, Detroit:
Alfred Fuller, brushes. Hartford,
Conn.; A. A. Hyde, drugs, Witchita,
Kas.; James Harvie. sugar, New
York; Clarence Kelsey, banker.
New York; R. A. Long, lumber,
Kansas City; George Milton, pub
lisher, New York; James Post,
sugar, New York; Fred Ramsay,
metals, Cleveland, O.
Winslow Russell, insurance, Hart
ford, Conn.; Dr. William Schief
felin, drugs, New York; Alfred
Sloan, automobiles, New York! Am
brose Sfasey, machine and tools,
Cleveland, O.; A. A. Welch, insur
ance, Hartford, Coni}.; Charles
Cook, typewriters, Hartford, Conn.;
j. C. Fenney, merchant, New York;
George Plimpton, publisher, New
York.
SlTEflH PEE
THREW UP PINNACLE
WRECKED Mil
-
SEATTLE, June 4, (/P)—A sub
marine earthquake that caused an
upheaval of the floor in Uyak
Bay is blamed for the wreck of the
S. S. Aleutian. Captain Nord and
other officers testified at the in
cestigation by the United States
Steamboat Inspectors and the test
imony showed that the Aleutian
strock a rock where the charts
showed a depth of 168 to 294 feet.
The rock was unknown to navi
gators. The quake is thot to have
thrown up the unknown pinnacle.