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VOLUME XVI. NUMBER 99. SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 1931. PRICE TEN CENTS
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JACKSON. Ky., May 6, (#)—
A posse of deputies and citizens
searched the hills south for the
persons who fired at a passing
automobile last night killing Tes
sie Patton, 18, a coed at Lee’s
Junior College.
George Daniel, the driver of
the car, and Thomas Meadows,
another occupant of the car,
said a group of men stepped into
the road and fired four or five
shots, one of the bullets striking
the girl in the head. She died in
the hospital.
Bloodhounds have been brought
to the scene to assist in the wide
search.
Bryan Burcham was arrested
near the scene but the sheriff
does not believe he fired the shot
but knows who did.
RENEWED STRENGTH
mil STREET MKT
NEW YORK, May 6, (/P) — Re- j
newed strength appeared in the'
market though trading was ex
tremely dull. Decline of selling
pressure resulted in gains by
many leading shares. Pivotals
were most buoyant such sterling
issues as United States Steel, j
American Can and Consolidated
Gas gaining on average of one. <
Bear pressure continued on cop-'
pears which pulled Anaconda and
Kennecott down moderately. Aub
urn enjoyed another sharp run
up.
BALTIMORE, May 6, (JP)—'This
city returned its municipal af
fairs to the hands of Democrats
at yesterday’s election.
Howard Jackson May and his
ticket—17 out of a possible 18—
were reelected by the largest maj
orities ever given municipal can
didates.
Republican William A1 b echt
and his crew were snowed under.
RGGES5I0N TO THRONE
OF EMO OBSERVED
WINDSOR, England, May 6, (/P)
—Ringing bells in the Royal chap
el reminded the people today of
the 21st accession of George 5th
to the throne of England.
The King, recuperating from a
recent bronchitis attack, passed
the day within the castle, with
the Queen.
Gun salutes were fired through
out the Empire.
HALIBUT FARES
PRINCE RUPERT, B. C., May
6, {&)—Sixty-nine thousand, five
hundred pounds of American hal
ibut sold for 8 and 15c; Canadian
6 to 13c.
VETERAN PILOT DEAD
SEATTLE, May 6, (j*P)—Captain
John Bolling, 69, last of the old
time North Pacific pilots, died af
ter a long illness. He commanded
vessels in the Alaska trade in
cluding the Roanoke on the
Nome route.
fitheb nun set
FIRE TO BEDS OF
WIFE M CHILDREN
GREELEY, Colo., May 5. (JP)—
James Foster, 48, a salesman, is
said by police to have poured
kerosene on the beds of his wife
and three children and set them
afire.
Darline, 19 months old, is dead;
Mrs. Foster, 40; Gerald, 3, are dy
ing; Mildred, 12, will probably
recover.
Foster was arrested on the high
way three hours after. He de
nied setting the fire.
ICE REMOVER FOR
MBEI SUCCESS
AKRON, Ohio., May 5. (/P)—Ice
removing equipment recently in
stalled on a speed plane here
worked perfectly in its first test
over Municipal Airport.
Pilot Charles Meyers picked up
the ice while flying above low
hanging clouds.
The ice removing apparatus con
sists of pouches of specially treat
ed rubber fabric fitted over the
leading wings of airplane wings.
When the ice forms on them they
may be inflated by a pump.
MURDERED SWEETIE
FLINT, Mich., May 5. (/P)—Helen
Joy Morgan, 27 years old, a former
Chicagoan, and heiress to the
$500,000 estate of her mother, Mrs.
Carrie Morgan, was held on a
charge of murdering her sweet
heart, Leslie Casteel, whose bullet
riddled body was found near a
cemetery after an outing with her.
NARCOTICS SEIZED
NEW YORK, May 5. (£>)—Five
million dollars worth of narcotics
packed in reinforced cra^s and
labeled woolens were seized on
the North River pier after being
unloaded from a Hamburg-Amer
ican liner.
DISARMAMENT EXPERT
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 5. (A>)
—Hugh S. Gibson, American am
bassador to Belgium and America’s
principal diplomatic expert of dis
armament, will return to the
United States this month to con
fer with officials here on the
disarmament question.
HALTED A DAY
NEMURO, May 6, (JP)—Yosh
ihara, the Japanese aviator who
is enroute to Alaska and Califor
nia from Japan, postponed his
takeoff from here for Tokotan Is
land on account of bad weather.
He expected to resume the flight
tomorrow. The next stop will be
Muroton Bay, of the Simusir
Island-Kurile Group.
SEWARD RESIDENT
HIES ACTION AGAINST
STEAMSHIP COMPANY
SEATTLE, May 6, (>P)— Emilie
Weybrecht of Seward filed a dam
age action yesterday in the Sup
erior court for $22,500 for injur
ies sustained when the SS Aleu
tian sank in Uyak Bay.
The defendants, the Alaska
Steamship Company and Capt. J.
G. Nord, master of the vessel,
are accused of negligence in or
dering the vessel off its course,
and said injuries were received
when she fell and slid 45 feet to
starboard, from the portside, and
striking railings of iron posts in
attempting to reach the lifeboats.
COAST
San Francisco 6, Hollywood 5.
Portland 2, Seattle 0.
AMERICAN
Chicago 7, Detroit 3
New York 18, Washington 8
Gehrig got his fourth homer.
Cleveland 11, St. Louis 6
Phillies 4, Bostpn 1
Earnshaw fanned 10 men.
NATIONAL
New York 8, Brooklyn 0
Fitzsimmons allowed three hits,
winning his fourth straight.
Phillies 4, Boston 5.
Arlett, Phillies recruit from the
coast, hit his fourth homer.
Chicago 8, Cincinnati 4.
| There were no other games.
COAST NIGHT GAMES
Las Angeles 4, Missions 3
Oakland 4, Sacramento 3; the
game went 12 innings.
amm foono with
BULLET II SIS BRAIN
| CHICAGO. May G, (£>)— The
body of Fred Butke, 38, auditor of
Kane County, sought on the
charge of embezzling $64,000 of
the county’s funds, was found in
a hotel with a bullet in his head.
He apparantly committed sui
cide Monday night. The widow
lived within a $3,500 salary.
GRUBSTAKE NEGESSMT
TO POOSPECT FOR SOLD
Spring is at hand and prospect
ors are rushing to the hills, says
the Denver Mining Record. Even
tenderfeet, who can secure a grub
stake, are in the van with the gold
fields of the West as their goal.
Placer diggings were never more
popular than they are today and
many unemployed men are at work
on the bars of western streams pan
ning and sluicing out the yellow
flakes and nuggets.
The gold shortage and the neces
sity of producing great amounts of
the metal has had world wide pub
licity. The demand for gold is so
great that some expect the price to
reach $30 per ounce. Some coun
tries are already paying a bonus
for new gold production.
THREE KILLED BY TRAIN
ATCHISON, 111., May 5. (JP)—A
rural school teacher and two of
her pupils, caught on a high
trestle as they returned from pick*
ing wild flowers, were killed by a
train. Another child was pro
bably fatally injured.
LITRE GIRL TESTIFIES.
I SET ORE”
MOTHER. SISTERS DEM)
GREELEY, Colo., May 5. (/P)—
Mrs. Myrtle Foster and two of
her three daughters, Darline and
Geraldine, lost their lives when
their home burned.
The surviving child, Mildred,
! charged her father with starting
| the fire. Mrs. Foster and Gerald
jine died in the hospital.
Mildred said: “Daddy did it;
he woke me up when he threw
gasoline in my face. Then he
went out to the kitchen and I saw
him throw a match, setting every
thing afire. I ran through it and
to a neighbor’s home and called
for help. Daddy was still there
when I ran out.”
. , /
BOISE, Ida., May 5. (/P)—Mrs.
I Lyda Southard, serving 10 years
I to life term for poisoning her
; fourth husband, Edward Meyer,
i 10 years ago, escaped from the
| State penitentiary last night by
: means of a rope.
The rope was found hanging
ovr the wall housing women pris
oners’ cells and apparently was
| given outside aid. Three other
women remained in the ward.
WAITED LONG ENUF
NEW YORK. May 5. (JP)—The
I Federal government after waiting
nine years for Peggy Hopkns Joyce
to claim jewelry and clothing
seized May 12, 1922, when the act
ress failed to declare it upon her
return from Europe, moved to
confiscate the property and collect
taxes and penalties amounting, all
told, to $51,000.
SHORTER WORK-DAY
CHICAGO, May 5. (JP)—The first
step toward a six-day week and
five-hour day for musicians in
the United States was taken with
the signing of a two-year contract
assuring musicians of the short
working day in six broadcasting
studios in the city.
ADVANCE AGENT
JUNEAU, May 6, (A1)—Yoshihara
will reach Juneau May 21 on his
Pacific flight from Japan, Retsu
Kiyosawa, advance agent repre
senting the newspaper Hochi
Shimbun said as he left for Sew
ard to arrange for gasoline and
other supplies.
GOES TO ANCHORAGE
H. N. Evans, prominent West
ward business man who has been
a visitor in the city for the last
two weeks, goes to Anchorage on
Saturday for a few days. Mr. Evans
was formerly engaged in busi
ness in the Inlet city for many
years. +
HUMAN NTE RIS
MOTHER BRIGHT IDEA
FOR NEXT SESSION
!
| WASHINGTON, May 6, (#)—
’Legislation to limit campaign ex
penditures and to establish an
agency to help enforce the law,
Ls advocated by Chairman Nye,
of the Senate campaign funds
committee who took a favorable
view to proposals advanced two
days ago at the hearings of the
! committee.
i The hearings were held to seek
(means toward reforming congress
ional elections. It is said he will
introduce legislation to carry out
(the committee's recommendations
(at the next session of Congress.
| He favors the proposal to res
trict expenditures on the vote
basis, three or four cents for each
vote cast in the congressional dis
trict preceeding election.
‘PICKER-JACK’ NEWMAN
OVER "LIST TRAIL”
SEATTLE, May 6, (/P)—John
“Packer-Jack” Newman, 72, one
of the famous packers of Alas
kan trails during the gold rush
days and who had lived here for
the past 20 years, died after an
operation.
He presented Skagway with a
bronze bust of Millie Walsh, flap
jack queen, and placed a bronze
memorial in Dead Horse Gulch
in memory of the horses and
mules killed while packing over
the trails.
CAPETOWN, South Africa, May
5. (JP) — Lieutenant Commander
Glen Kidston, noted British flier,
was reported killed in an airplane
crash in a storm near Vanreenan,
Natal.
T. A. Gladstone, a passenger,
also was killed, according to word
from the railway storekeeper at
Vanreenan. It is said Kidston
was a wealthy sportsman and held
several of Europe’s plane speed
records.
PERMANENT COURT
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 5. (/P)
—Chief Justice Charles Evans
Hughes in a dinner address before
the Society of International Law
[declared the best hope of the
[world today so far as development
of international law is concerned
lays in the establishment of a per
manent court of international jus
tice.
SEATTLE HALIBUT PRICE
I SEATTLE, May 6, (JP)—Three
[vessels with 8,500 mdium, 8,500
; pounds of small halibut, were
paid 9 to 13c per pound.
ROSENBLOOM WON
PORTLAND, Ore., May 6, </P)—
Maxie Rosenbloom, world’s light
weight champion, punched a de
cision over Leo Lomski of Aber
deen in 10 rounds.