■ FORMER TOWNSMIH,
ILIUM, non.
PASSES II TACOMA
Win. Merrill Abbott, aged 37, a
resident of Seward and Anchorage
for 15 years, died at Tacoma, Wn„
Sunday morning at 6 o’clock, ac
cording to advices received locally.
Cancer of the stomach was the
cause.
Leaving Seward early last Nov
ember on account of the death of
a younger brother, who passed
away cn an operating table, during
an appendicitis operation, Mr. Ab
bott, who long had been in ill
health, underwent medico treat
ment and seve:„. uyciauuiis, the
last of which was at Portland, Ore.,
where five surgeons pronounced
his case incurable. He then re
turned to the home of his wife’s
parents at Tacoma to await the in
evitable. Saturday night at 10
o'clock Mr. Abbott passed into what
was destined to be his last sleep,
death claiming him the following
morning.
Highly respected by all who knew
him, Mr. Abbott’s first Alaskan po
sition was with the Alaska Railroad
at Anchorage where he served as a
cashier; later he became a purser
an one of 1jhe railroad’s river
steamers in the Interior. From
there he acted in the capacity as
agent at Holy Cross and then to
this city where he held the position
as cashier for many years and un
til he and his family left for the
States.
Active in civic and lodge organi
^. zations, Mr. Abbott was First-Vice
Commander of Seward Post No. 5,
American Legion, serving, during
the World War, in the medical
« corps. A member of Anchorage
Lodge B. P. O. E., he was likewise
treasurer of the Seward Bill’s Club.
B. P. O. E-, and treasurer of the
Seward School Board, all of which
positions he served faithfully and
efficiently.
Born in Oregon, Mr. Abbott
leaves to mourn his passing his
widow, Sophie, son Richard, three
years old; his parents, a, brother
and two sisters, besides a host of
friends in the Northland. These,
in an expression of sympathy to
> the family and in respect to the
former townsman, have made tele
graphic arrangements for beauti
ful floral wreaths for the funeral.
CARNERA WINNER
ST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 6, —
Primo Camera wrestled and rough
ed his way to a decision over Art
Laksy. There were no knockdowns.
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TENNIS PLAYERS GATHER
ORANGE, N. J., Sept., 6, —Front
, ranking players of the country have
gathered here for the annual East
West matches to be played on the
grass courts of the Orange Lawn
Tennis Club Wednesday and on
Thursday.
• CONCRETE LET GO
LAS VEGAS, Sept. 6, —The newly
Poured concrete in three of the big
. diversion tunnels of the Boulder
Dam project.on the Colorado riv
er were seriously damaged by an
unexpected flood which swept down
the stream.
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SWIMMER WON 87,500
TORONTO, Ontario, Sept. 6, —
, George Elagden, of Memphis, Tenn.,
won the 'world’s 15-mile swimming
marathon crown and $7,500 by de
feating a field of entrants number
ing 190 from all parts ofthe world.
His time was seven hours, 19 min
utes and 15 seconds, beating the
‘•previous record by 24 minutes.
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COMPLETES REPORT
* PEIPING, China, Sept. 6, —Work
ing throughout the night, the Lea
gue of Nations commission com
pleted its report on the Japanese
military adventure in Manchuria
and disbanded to present its find
V ings at Geneva. The Earl of Lyt
ton, chairman of the commission,
refused to discuss the contents of
%the report.
WALKER WILL RUN
LARCHMOND, N. Y., Sept., 6—
A. C. Blumenthal, former Mayor
James J. Walker’s host for the week
end, said that Walker will issue a
statement tomorrow. Blumenthal
expressed the opinion Walker will
run for reelection in November.
COTTON UNO WHEAT
STOCKS HOLD GAINS ON
NEW VOHK MARKET
NEW YORK, Sept. 6, —U. S. Steel
led the market into further new
high ground for a advance. Rail
shares continued {to be carried
up on the same movement, but lost
part of early gains, after which it
quieted down.
Utilities were bid up late in the
day and industrials broke through
the previous resistance level. Cot
ton, at one time, was up $2 a bale
and has held most of the gain.
Wheat closed at one to l%c a
; bushel higher.
U. S. Governments firmed up af
ter an early period of irregularity,
' while the foreign list was quiet and
j steady with German shares show
I ing further improvement. The Lon
don market closed generally high
er while the Paris Bourse closed
strong. Sales on the New York ex
change totalled 3,500.000 shares.
WICHITA, Kas., Sept. 6, —Col.
Zach Miller, of the famous 101
i ranch in Oklahoma, is ready to
I sell out to Alphonse Capone, the
j jail-residing gang leader, but the
United States government won’t
let him talk business with Capone.
‘•Why, I conferred with 11 of Ca
I pone’s henchmen in Chicago a few
days ago and they looked no more
like crooks than the average busi
| ness man,” he told reporters. “But
the government won’t let me see
| Capone, himself, and talk over in
person.”
SCHOONER FORI
BRAGG TOTAL LOSE
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 6, —
Pounded by waves near the en
trance to Coos Bay, the wooden
steam schooner Fort Bragg of San
Francisco was declared by shipping
men to be a total wreck.
The ship struck a submerged
reef near the entrance to the bay
after her lookout had become con
fused in the fog and mistook the
north jetty for the south jetty.
Two passengers, including the
captain’s wife and 21 members of
the crew were removed from the
vessel by the Coast Guard.
NATIONAL GOLF CHAMP
ST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 6, —Olin
Dutra, of Santa Monica, Calif., cap
tured the National professional
golf championship by defeating
Frank Walsh in a final 18 hole
game.
JURY STILL OUT
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 6, —The
juiv of seven men and five women
trying Frank J. Egan, former pub
lic prosecutor, and Albert Tinnin
his ex-convict friend, for the mur
der of an aged woman, was still
out Sunday, unable to reach a ver
dict after a day and one-half of
deliberation.
100 SLAIN
MUKDEN, Sept. 6, —More than
100 Chinese rebels were slain in an
airplane attack by Japanese forc
es at Sakumen, northwest of Muk
den.
CONTRACT BRIDGE
LONG BEACH, N. J., Sept. 6, —
| David Brunstine of New York had
i the lead yesterday in the National
masters individual contract bridge
championship tournament being
played at the Deal Club Elbero.
HUSBAND OF JEAN
| HARLOW SENT BULLET
THROUGH HIS BRAIN
HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 6,—Paul
Bern, one of the screen’s leading
production experts and husband of
Jean Harlow, sent a fatal bullet
crashing thru his brain after pen
ciling a mysterious note to his
platinum blonde bride of two
months.
The 42-year-old producer ended
his life standing unclothed in front
of a mirror in their luxurious new!
home while Miss Harlow, all una
ware of the tragedy, was working
on a sound stage at her studio.
The note, found near the body,
read, “Dearest dear, unfortunately
this is the only way to make good
the frightful wrong I have done
you and wipe out my abject hum
iliation. You understand last night
was only a comedy”.
WILL PROBABLY GLEAN
OWN DOORMAT FIRST
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept., 6, —
Elimination of slum areas in the
nation’s great cities will be urged
by many social and industrial
groups when the reconstruction
finance corporation program of
self-liquidating projects comes up
for definite action by the govern
ment office, it was learned.
The Department of Commerce
has made surveys of the co-called
“blight areas’’ and is assembling
information on the most serious
phases of the problem as they af
I feet morals, health and economics.
PROSPECTORS ARRIVE
VIA TRE AIR FROM
MIDDLETON ISLAND
Through fog, rain, thunder and;
hail, Pilot Robert C. Reeves, and j
two passengers, flew to Seward |
Monday from that far out-post ini
the Gulf of Alaska, Middleton Is
land, in the Valdez Eaglerock plane
of Owen Meals. Passengers were
Lee E. Albin, of Valdez, and Joe
McNiel, well known 98-er of Nome
who now makes his home in Valdez.
The party spent 48 hours on
Middleton Island panning the
gravels for gold and return with
what appears to be excellent sam
ples. These will be sent to the Al
aska College for assay after which
the men will decide their future
course of activity.
It has long been known that the
beaches of Middleton Island con
tained grains of the yellow metal
but it has never been determined as
to possible quantity or if placer
mining would be profitable. In
any case the three have staked
claims and will fly back to Valdez
today, weather permitting, there to
await the assay report.
Pilot Reeves, a visitor in Seward
last June, is a veteran aviator and
has flown in just about every coun
try in the Western hemisphere. He
is now based at Valdez.
DROWNS IN STREET
DALLAS, Tex., Sept., 6,—Heavy
rains in this section claimed the
first victim when Mrs. J. R. Chris
ian, 27, stepped from a stranded
automobile in a flooded street and
was drowned. The woman’s eight
year-old daughter Frances and a
companion, W. J. Smith, were
rescued. Flood warnings have been
issued in the Trinity River bottoms
following heavy rains in the hills.
LABOR DAY TOLL
NEW YORK, Sept., 6—One per
son was frozen to death, another
succumbed to heat and nearly 200
died in sundry ways as Labor Day j
took its usual heavy death toll. Au- |
tomobile accidents on crowded j
highways accounted for most of
the deaths. Drownings ran a clase
second.
PLOT FOILED
VIENNA, Sept. 6, —A plot to as
sassinate former King Alphonso of
Spain was reported uncovered in
Budapest. Messages received here
say police discovered the plot and
arrested a Spaniard, Antonio Ben
ni, on charges of being implicated
but further details were not di
vulged.
RIO GRANDE FLOOD
LEAVES DEATH AND
LAREDO, Tex., Sept. 6, —The
great flood on the Rio Grande
rolled on towards the Gulf of Mex
ico leaving in its wake a trail of
death and devastation, the extent
of which was only partially known.
Precautions are being taken to
minimize further loss of life at
every point; four men, who plung
ed into the surging flood when the
two spans of a railway bridge were
carried away on the international
border, were rescued after 16 hours
drifting, near Neuvos, but 15 or
more persons who were on the rail
way bridge are still unaccounted
for.
The property damage is estimat
ed at $1,000,000.
THREE MAJOR SPEECHES
BE GIVEN, ROOSEVELT
HYDE PARK, N. Y., Sept. 6, —
Three major speeches will be made
by Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt
on his swing around the West
starting September 12 which will
I carry him into the great farming
j areas of the Middle West, Pacific
! Coast States and Southwest.
i
He will make 20 stops. After the
| Western trip the Democratic nomi
I nee for president will rest a week
; and then tour Ea4tei:n border
| states in a whirl-wind 10-day cam
paign, switching to New England
j for the windup of the drive.
ECONOMIC CONFEOENGE
ACCOMPLISHED NOTHING
NEW YORK, Sept., 6, —President
Hoover’s economic conference, in
the opinion of Howard Scott, direc
tor of an economic engineering
survey at Columbia University, has
accomplished exactly nothing.
The six-point program, he point
ed out, calling for a reduced work
ing week, merely shifts the burden
on the backs of wage earners by re
ducing their purchasing power.
DISTINGUISHED FIGURES
MEXICO CITY, Sept. 6, —Pres
ident Rodriguez announced a new
cabinet which includes a group of
the most distinguished figures in
national political affairs.
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MUTINY AT SEA
ROTTERDAM, Holland, Sept. 6, —
Twenty marines are rushing to the
aid of the Holland-American liner
Rotterdam, the captain of which
radioed for military aid to deal
with what he said is a mutiny of
the crew. The marines left Holland
in a pilot steamer and will meet
the liner near Westhinder Light.
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UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept., 6,—
A Federal unemployment insur
ance bill is being prepared by the
American Federation of Labor for
introduction at the next session of
Congress in December, Frank Mor
rison, secretary of the Federation,
announced, in the course of a Lab
or Day address.
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PROTEST AND RESIST
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept., 6, —
President William Greein, of the
American Federation of Labor,
called on all workers to “protest
and resist” reported plans of em
ployers to make last minute wage
cuts before business improves. !
ALEUTIAN ENROUTE
TO PORT OF SEWARD
SEATTLE, Sept., 6, —The SS. Al
eutian, of the A. S- S. Co., sailed
from Seattle Saturday for Alaska
with the following Seward passen
gers on board:
Mrs. C. Clark, Mrs. T. T. Devane,
Allen V. Kelly, Dr. F. Krebs, Dr.
Chas. Moore, D. B. Clarke, Mr. and
Mrs. R. R. Roson, P. O. Neal, Carl
I. Carlson, Gyda Eide, Mr. and Mrs.
Rudolph Krueger, Hemut Krueger,
J. W. Blase, F- D. McCullough, H.
C. McCullough, Jas. N. Peyton, A.
German, Mary Barrich, Bro. G. J.
Feltes, Margaret Totham, R. Ger
man, W. McPherson and W. Weis.
GENERAL RODRIGUEZ
PRESIDENT MEXICO
MEXICO CITY, Sept. 6, —General
Albardo L. Rodriguez, a powerful
military figure for many years, was
elected and inaugurated President
of Mexico shortly after Congress
had accepted the resignation of
Ortis Rubio on account of his
health.
A joint session of Congress elect
ed General Rodriguez and a com
mission was dispatched to bring
him to the chamber for his induc
tion into office.
Between his resignation and in
stallation of his successor, the re
tiring president left for the United
States to spend a few months at a
health resort.
CLEVELAND, Sept. 6, — Mrs.
Mae Hazlip became the speed
queen of the world at the National
air races by shattering the wom
en’s land plane record with an av
erage speed of 255.513 miles per
hour.
Her margin was 44.887 miles an
hour beyond the former mark of
210.636 miles per hour which was
set on April 17, 1931, by Miss Ruth
Nichols Rye, New York society av
iatrix.
PROTEST INCREASE
iii mm rites
SHANGHAI, Sept. 6, —The Amer
ican Chamber of Commerce in
Shanghai sent letters to the cable
and telegraph companies protest
ing a possible increase in telegraph
rates.
The application for an increase
in rates is expected to be consider
ed in Madrid on September 10, at
the meeting of the International
Telegraph Union.
DOOLITTLE WON CLASSIC
CLEVELAND, Sept. 6, —Captain
James H. Doolittle raced his red
and white monoplane to victory
over eight of the world’s fastest
racing planes, at an average speed
of 262.686 miles an hour in the 100
mile free-for-all airplane speed
classic of the National air races. 1
NAMED TO HIGH POST
MEXICO CITY, Sept. 6, —Don
Manuel C. Tellez, former ambassa
dor to Washington and Minister
of Interior, was named Minister of
Foreign Affairs in the Mexican cab
inet by the new president, General
Abelardo Rodriguez. Former pres
ident Emilio Portes Gil was named
Attorney General.
TWO OFFICERS KILLED
LEBANNON, Tenn., Sept. 6, _
Bullets from a cabin in which five
negroes were barricaded, killed two
officers and wounded another, as
they sought to arrest a negro youth
for fighting with a white boy.
Reinforcements were summoned
from Lebannon and routed the ne
groes from the shack with tear-gas
bombs, and arrested them. Two
| were women.
GANG LOOTS SAFETY
DEPOSIT BOXES OF
HUNDREDS THOUSANDS
CHICAGO, Sept. 6, —Loot, esti
mated at from $100,000 to $2,000
C00 was taken by a gang of robbers
from the safety deposit vaults of
Koch & Co., on South Halsted
street, but until the operation of
a time clock this morning, no def
inite check will be obtainable.
A gang of at least eight men held
10 persons, including two children,
in the building for 14 hours and
from a second floor apartment
burned their way into the vault.
They then smashed the deposit
boxes and took their pick of the
contents and fled.
LATER—Modern appliances fail
ed to safeguard the life-savings of
350 depositors and they stormed
the office in a vain attemp t to
check their losses.
The distraut citizens could not
tell how much of their small for
tunes had been stolen. Vault of
ficials estimate the loss at $100,000,
while police said it would possibly
be between $250,000 and $2,000,000.
Depositors only knew that their
hoarded savings had vanished and
because there was no insurance,
they would have to stand the loss.
“You must be patient,” shouted
Frank Koch, the owner, “tomorrow
we will check up.”
SPEED BOAT DACE
CLEVELAND, Harmsworth course,
Sept., 6—The jinx rode again with
Kay Don’s “Miss England” and
eliminated him from the second
and final heat of the Harmsworth
trophy motorboat race after a
thrilling start against Gar Wood,
trophy defender.
Developing mechanical difficul
ties almost as he crossed the start
ing line a little less than a second
ahead of Wood’s “Miss America X,”
Don made a heroic effort to keep
his craft in the race. Steadily los
ing power, however, he came to a
complete stop about a mile from
the end of the second seven-mile
lap of the course.
Wood, meanwhile, loafed along
the course averaging only 69.034
miles an hour to win the heat and
retain the noted British interna
tional trophy for at least another
year.
BROWNSVILLE, Tex., Sept., 6,—
The flooded Rio Grande river mov
ed slowly down the streams of the
lower valley submerging thousands
of acres of land and floating away
hundreds of Mexican abode homes.
The flood was said to be the
worst on the U. S.-Mexican border
since 1865. Families moved hurrid
ly to places of safety as the turbu
lent waters overflowed banks, pour
ed to the valleys and swept away
bridges, roadways and levee sys
tems.
Upstream the river had taken at
least seven levees at Larido and in
undated whole blocks in the Mexi
can town from Villa cun ato Nuevo
Larido. Damage may exceed $5,
000,000.
FLORIDA HURRICANE
MIAMI, Fla., Sept., 6,—Exception
al precautions against the ap
proach of a tropical storm of an
ticipated hurricane intensity, were
being taken along the southern
coast of Florida and sweeping in
from the Bahamas. Increasing
winds, heavy rains and a falling
barometer was the signal for resi
dents in the Golf area to board up
windows and doors and shipping
has sought the protection of the
harbor.