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VOLUME XVI. NUMBER 207. SEWARD, ALASKA,MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1931. PRICE TEN CENTS
Ff.MIL! QUARREL IS
TERMINATED; FATHER
PISTOLS FAMILY, SELF
SEATTLE, Sept. 7. (/P)—1Term
inating a family quarrel of two
weeks duration, George Goodrich,
an unemployed truck driver, shot
and killed his wife, wounded two
daughters, Florence Mae, 16, and
Edna Louise, 13, then fatally shot:
himself yesterday.
The girls are expected to re- i
cover. The quarrel was over j
whether the girls should continue
Their high school studies.
Neighbors said he shot his wife ,
in the side then entered the girls’
bedroom, firing twice. Mrs. Good
rich fled to the yard where he
fatally wounded her then return
ed to the house and suicided; he
died in the hospital where the
girls were cared for.
Dtlll ULtH ANU
HORSESHOE PITCHING
FEATURE AT FAIR
SACRAMENTO, Cal., Sept. 5.
—There will be near beer and horse
shoe pitching at the state fair this
Tear if Governor Rolph has any
thing to do with it.
Complaints were made to the
Governor that the sale of near beer
is prohibited on the fair grounds
because orange juice vendors ob
ject to the competition.
The Governor laughed and told
A. B. Miller, president of the state
:air boards to find out why orange
juice and lemonade had a monoply.
As for “barnyard golf”, those who
want to pitch horseshoes certainly :
may do so. the Governor said, and
suggested that he might go out to
the fair and play a few games of
horsehoes himself.
FIGHT PISTOL DUEL
MEXICO CITY. Sept 7. (/P)—;
Two Mexican senoritas, rivals for ,
The hand of Serge Silva Serego,
fought a duel on the outskirts of
Mexico City shortly before dawn.
Police found Sofia Mendoza with
r bullet through her lung and
Marie de Los Angeles standing j
nearby with a smoking pistol in |
her hand. The two women fought j
without seconds.
A passer-by saw them step back
to back and pace off the distance
before firing.
WORK FOR 100,000
WASHINGTON, D. C. Sept. 7.
,/P)—President Hoover expects the
half billion dollar Federal build
ing program will provide employ
ment for 100,000 men directly and
indirectly by January 1.
UNDER OBSERVATION
NEW YORK, Sept. 7. (A1)—James
J. “Gentleman Jim” Corbett, 64,
who became world heavyweight
champion 39 years ago today by
defeating the doughty John L.
Sullivan, was in a hospital for
observation. His present illness,
not yet diagnosed, has affected
his digestion.
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RICH PEOPLE MUST PAY
COTTONWOOD, Idaho, Sept. 7
OP)—Senator Borah declared in an
address that the rich of the coun
try must feed the unemployed
during the coming winter. He
warned “if they do not voluntar
ily, they nevertheless will do it
as there is plenty of money and
those who have it must feed the
hungry and clothe the naked/'
CHICAGO, Sept. 7. (/P)—Franck
Ouimet won the National Ama
teur Championship, six and five;
he got the jump on the former
University of Washington star
Westland, and piled up a lead of
four holes on the first seven
greens.
Ouimet was seriously threaten
ed only once thereafter; this on
the incoming nine during the first
round where Ouimet’s lead wa*
cut to two up.
By winning the thirteenth, bott
'shots eratic in a high wind, Oui
met thereafter finished five
straight holes in par to the end on
the 31st green.
SCHOOL OPENING DELAYED
NEW YORK, Sept. 7. (JP)—The
fall opening of the city’s public
school system, involving 1,150,000
children, was delayed because of
an outbreak of infantile paralysis,
Health Commissioner Wynne and
Doctor Ryan, of the Board of Ed
ucation. announced.
jEiTlraiis
BRING PIIE Wit
SEATTLE, Sept. 7. </P>—Brothers
George J. Feltes and Martial La
peyre and Father Thomas McKey,
Jesuit missionaries enroute to the
Catholic mission at Holy Cross,
sailed Saturday on the SS Alaska
with a plane to serve Alaska.
The plane is powered with a
Diesel engine. They are headed
for Seward and will go to An
chorage by train and fly from
there to Holy Cross.
PROHIBITION DEBATE
TOUR Pin COAST
RENO, NeT'., Sept. 7. (fP)—Mayor
E. Roberts, who before his elec
t:on, said he favored placing a
J^rrel of wdiiskey on every street
c~rnc r, is to participate in a
series of debates on prohibition
with W. D. Upshaw, dry Demo
cratic Congressman from Georgia.
Roberts is a Republican. The
first debate will take place in
Reno on September 23. Then will
follow appearances at San Fran
cisco and Los Angeles and pos
sibly other western cities.
FIND OLD PENNY
ROCKY HILLS, Conn., Sept. 7.
(/P)—Discovery of an early Amer
ican penny, dated 1838, in a tav
ern being dismantled, precipitated
a treasure hunt. Albert Morgan,
ornithologist, discovered the coin
and believed it was part of a
cache lost when the taver was
constructed in 1780.
1
VALPRAISO, Sept. 7. (/P)—Five
'destroyers were bombed into sub
: mission by the Chilean air forces
; yesterday and steamed to port at
I dawn where they were formally
j surrendered to the government by
ithe rebel crews which took them
last week.
| They will be overhauled and
put into service for an attack on
the heavier units of the fleet j
; which has not surrendered.
The battleship Latorre and cruis- \
! er Ohiggins are still holding out j
i but the general belief is they will i
submit before the day is over.
r Yesterday’s engagement was
I brief; the destroyer Flotilla sur
! rendering after a 20-minute bom- ;
| bardment from the air when ma- :
j chine guns opened up from planes j
! and men aboard the surface ves
sels began leaping into the watef. j
! The submarine squadron gave *
i in quickly. None of the fleet re- j
turned fire. Admiral Abel Campos, ■
i commanding officer of the fleet,
j was released by the rebels and
'came ashore. Other high officers
; will assist in the direction of op- i
| erations against the Ohiggins
and Latorre.
ELEVEN KILLED *1
PLANE; FELL ON CROWD
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LONDON, Sept. 7, (/P)—A dis
patch from Rome said 11 persons'
were killed when a military air
plane got out of control and crash
’ ed into a crowd of spectators during
aerial maneuvers.
It is stated in the special dis
patch from Rome that the careen
ing machine narrowly missed the
reviewing stand where King Victor
Emmanuel and Italian government
| officers were sitting.
RECIPROCITY ADDS TO
COST OF JUNEAU COAL
When “Reciprocity with Can
ada” was put forward by the Ad
ministration of President William
Howard Taft, it was designed to
lower costs on commerce between
the United States and its great
northern neighbor. In these days
of the Hawley-Smoot Tariff and
Canada’s new nationalism under
Premier Bennett’s Conservative
! regime, it has taken on a differ
ent garb.
| This was concretely illustrated
[in Juneau recently, says the Em
pire. The latest Canadian tariff
J schedules slapped a 25 per cent
! duty on American coals. The
United States puts reciprocity into
operation—by putting the same
j duty on Canadian coals coming
into the United States. And this
sum is passed along to the con
sumer.
“Our margin of profit on the
Canadian coals we carry is too
small for us to absorb the duty.
All we can do is to add it onto
the retail price,” said G. H. Walm
sley, Juneau agent of the Pacific
Coast Coal Company.
RIVER FATALITIES INCREASE
LOUISVILLE, Ky., Sept. 7. (/P)—
A river fatality rate nearly four
times as high proportionately as
that due to automobile traffic has
caused part of the county police
squad to abandon motorcycles for
motorboats. Constant patrol of
the Ohio River is maintained.
CONFESSED MURDERER
OF COHDE LENDS
OFFICERS TO GRAVE
COUPEVILLE, Wash., Sept. 7.
(JP)—A. I. Stratton, confessed mur
derer of William Frawley, retired
Army sergeant, led officers through
rain to the body of his former
comrade in arms, half hidden by
boards and grass in the lonely
refuse dump, near Penn Cove, a
mile west of here, sobbing hys
terically.
Stratton, who said he killed
Frawley 10 days ago when he be
came angy when Frawley broke
a promise to take Stratton’s sweet
heart auto riding, collapsed and
fell when they neared the grave.
Deputies and Coast Guard men
dragged him along but he finally
fainted and had to be revived.
214 MURDERS IN JULY
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 7.
opt—Reports to the Department
of Justice showed that during July
there were 214 murders committed
in 112 cities. They included the
most important metropolitan cen
ters with the exception of New
York.
NEW YORK, Sept. 7. (>P)—Pro
test was forwarded to the State
Department against the action of
the liner Santa Inez and searched
the Customs Service who boarded
the personal effects of passengers
at Savannah, Ga.
The liner stopped at Savannah
on its way to New York and pas
sengers had not made declara
tions. Customs men found three
small bottles of liquor.
GRAF BACK HOME
FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Sept. 7.
(/P)—The Graf Zeppelin landed at
3:45 p. m.
MAY BE AN OFFICER
LONDON, Sept. 7. (JF)—'The Brit
ish navy has created a new rank,
and it’s probably a record for cau
tion: “Probationary Acting Sub
Lieutenant, Royal Navy Reserve.”
DECLINE REQUESTS FOR RIDE
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 7.
(IP)—The Navy Department an
nounced all requests for a ride
in the new dirigible Akron and
applications from localities that
would like to be included on the
itinerary of her trial flight, will
have to be declined.
With a season’s cut of approxi
mately half a million feet of lum
ber completed, the Independent
Lumber Company mill of Fair
banks was shut down recently,
says the News-Miner.
■OIOS MILLIONS
DOLLARS FOR RELIEF
TRIS COMING WINTER
| WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 7.
|(^P)—Labor Day finds the nation
mobilizing the greatest relief
funds in its history to prevent un
employment and distress this com
ing winter.
States, counties and cities thru
out the country are organizing re
lief committees and are prepar
ing to raise millions of dollars
through taxation and voluntary
contributions.
Scattered reports are that local
plans indicate relief funds will
mount into the hundreds of mil
J lions of dollars. New York and
| California are leading the way
i among the States, and San Fran
! cisco, New York, Detroit, Seattle
| and Salt Lake City among the
• municipalities.
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INNOCENT MAN; WILL
WE I TO 14 TENS
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OAKLAND, Sept. 7. (JP) — An
Or.i'l^.nd under-cover agent who
| framed a man on a bootlegging
charge was sentenced to from one
to 14 years in San Quentin for per
; jury.
On the heels of his sentencing,
; District Attorney Earl Warren, of
I Alameda county issued a warning to
] all other under-cover men and stool
1 pigeons operating in the East Bay
that his office will not tolerate such
tactics in their efforts to secure
the arrest and conviction of per
j'sons charged with violating the
prohibition laws.
MIHN MONEY LOOKS
I
CANBERRA, Sept. 4. </P>—1There
is a growing feeling in influen
tial circles that Australia should
seek loans from the United
States instead of remaining un
der the financial domination of
British interests.
Newspapers display reports that
there is ample money in Amer
ica for sound investment.
Representatives of American in
terests resident here see in the
suggestion a possibility of stimulat
ing trade with the United States.
CHAPLIN LOOPS-THE-LOOP
BIARRITZ, France, Sept. 7. (JP)
—Charlie Chaplin and Henri Co
chet looped-the-loop in an air
plane, in which they were the
guests of the pilot, Michael de
Troyat, noted French aviator.
MYSTERY SOLVED
The mystery surrounding the
disappearance from Fairbanks of
Victor A. Crison, who dropped
from view after writing letters
July 30 in which he announced
his intention to end his life, was
solved recently, when his body
was discovered in the brush a
short distance out of the town of
Fairbanks. He had apparently
killed himself by poisoning, ac
I cording to the Fairbanks News
Miner.