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HAUPTMANN SAID HE HAS NOTHING TO FEAR
400 Inhabitants Rescued From Storm Stricken Town
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HAUPTMANN VOICED
SATISFACTION WITH
IMPRESSION ON JURY
(By The Associated Press)
FLEMINGTON, Jan. 26—Hauptmann fortified his de
fense while the prosecution rolled up new ammunition for
another savage attack on his denial that he kidnapped and
killed the Lindbergh baby.
The court recesses today until Monday. The defendant
studied his stoic trading records to account for his affluence
after the ransom money had been paid. His lawyers went
to inspect his Bronx home, as the State attorney studied the
weak points in his defense.
“He’s vulnerable; very vulnerable,” said States Attor
ney Wilentz, who hammered at HauptrhannMuring the de
fendant’s first half hour of crcGS examination. “Wait until
we get really started,” Wilentz said,
Hauptmann was almost contemptuous in his remarks
about Wilentz^ He said.
It seems fnat the Attorney General is trying to get me
excited. All I can say is he will have to try a lot harder;
I am on to that because I have been told how prosecution
lawyers act. It just won’t work; It’s no use. I am not
trying to hide anything^ I have nothing to hide.”
Although he appeared shaken when he left the stand
Hauptmann voiced satisfaction with the impression he had
made with the jury. “I feel that they do not bear me any
ill-will,” he said.
The State will try to show Monday, that he financed
stock market manipulations from the ransom money.
Admiral Coontz
Retired Chief Of
Na Is Dead
(By The Associated.. Press)
BREMERTON, Jan. 26 —Admiral
Coontz, aged seventy, retired form
er Commander of the U. S. Fleet,
died here at 3:10 a.m. this morning,
after suffering from a series of heart
attacks.
A BAD ACCIDENT
Minister: “I’m sorry to hear your
husband had a bad accident, Mrs.
Snape.”
Mrs. Snape: “Yes, sir, he’s very
bad, poor man He was workin’ on
the railway line t’other day, an’ a
engine come along an’ run clean
over his poor leg; an’ now he’ll be
laid up, a-bed for weeks. It’s what
I believe the doctor calls locomotive
attacks you.”
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Murray Requests
Local Fishermen
Be Allowed Fish
(By The Associated Press)
JUNEAU, Jan. 26 — Contending
that more than a thousand perman
ent residents would be thrown out
of a livelihood if the salmon regula
tions for the closed season in Bris
tol Bay were carried out, Represent
ative Murray introduced a House
memorial asking that Secretary Ro
per reconsider. The memorial ask
ed that the residents, for at least a
year, be allowed to fish
The Senate yesterday approved
the Campbell resolution asking that
California drop the bars against rein
deer meat.
Representative Walker introduced
a resolution in the House asking for
the abolition of herring reduction
plants.
Both sessions were brief yester
day. The committee of both houses
are to meet at 11 am. today to con
sider recent appointments by Gov.
ernor Troy to the Territorial board
af education and to the Alaska Col
lege
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One Of Soviet’s
Powerful Leaders
Passed On Today
(By The Associated Press)
MOSCOW, Jan. 26—Valerian Kui
bescheff, Vice President of the Cour
cil of People’s Commissars, and £
member of the all powerful Politi
cal Bureau of the Communist Party
died this morning. Death was du(
to arteriosclerosis
The communist leader rankec
with Joseph Stalin as one of th<
nine most powerful men in the So
viet Union. He had suffered fron
heart trouble for some time pasl
The All-Union Congress of the So
viets, which was scheduled to opei
tonight, has been postponed.
"High Glee” Won
Race Against Two
Top Notchers
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(By The Associated Press)
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 26 — The
highly publicized Mate and Twenty
Grand, had to take second and third
places, as the youhtful “High Glee”
won today in the Bay Cities Handi
cap, which is regarded as the pre
liminary for the one hundred thou
: sand dollar handicap to be run Feb
Cuary 23rd ft
The winner stepped seven fur
1 longs in the fast time of one min
ute, twenty-two and two-fifths sec
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33 FROZEN BODIES I
ARE RECOVERED
FROM SHIP WRECK
(By The Associated Press)
NEW YORK, Jan. 26—A check-up today revealed that
'forty-six persons lost their lives when the liner Mohawk
I was rammed and sunk yesterday.
Federal inspectors todcjy opened an investigation into
the Mohawk disaster, in which forty-six are dead, and thir
ty-four are known to have perished and have been identified,
with twelve still missing. One hundred and seventeen of
the Mohawk’s passengers and crew were rescued.
Fifteen passengers and thirty-one members of the c?rew
were either drowned or w^re frozen to death in the frigid
waters. Thirty-three frozen bodies were recovered early
today by the coast guard and brought here. Captain J. E.
Wood is still among those missing. The body of his second
officer Malcolm Rigoulet was found in the sea.
Prominent among the dead passengers are Mr. and Mrs.
Julian Peabody of Westbury, N. Y., Prof. H. F. Cleland of
Williams and Marys College. Peabody’s wife was a mem
ber of the polo-playing Hitchcock family.
The sunken steamer is six miles southeast of Seagirt
Light, and is described to be a menace to navigation. Lights
and bell buoys have been placed over the spot, which is also
marked by two of the Mohawk lifeboats, their lines appar
ently entangled in the rigging of the liner.
RARE FOSSIL
IS FOUND IN
S. DAKOTA
(By The Associated Press)
WHITEWOOD, S. D., Dec. 29 —
South Dakota’s fossil-rich moun
tains, the Black Hills, have yielded
a new and notable prize, a well-pre
served fossil skeleton of a plesiosaur
or seafaring dinosaur The find was
made by two geologists of White
wood, South Dakota, C. C. Haas and
his son Arthur J. Haas
The skeleton was embedded in a
stratum of Cretaceous age—perhaps:
fifty million years old—in which the!
remains of this group of giant rep
tiles had never before been discov
ered It has been identified as the
saurian species known to scientists
as Trinacomerum bentonianum. The
discoverers were told by Curator S.
C. Simms of the Field Museum, Chic
ago, that “only five or six plesiosaur
skeletons of any genius are on exhib
ition in any museum in America, and
none of this genius, nor any from|
this formation
Federated Church
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Norman McCay, Pastor
11 a.m. Sunday School.
7:40 p.m. Church worship. Ser
mon theme: “Christianity’s Three
Great Words’’
A most cordial invitation.
TONS OF MUD AND
TORRENTS WATER
DEVASTATE LAND
— (By The Associated Press)
UNDATED, Jan. 26—While warmer weather and rains
were prevalent on the West coast, floods continued in the
south with eighteen thousand already homeless.
A new winter invasion is threatened in the mid-west
where temperatures are lower again today. Two hundred
are dead due to the past storm.
A wavering line of fleeing refugees stretched across
British Columbia as swollen streams poured muddy waters
on fertile lowlands, on both sides of the Fra$er Rivfer.
Community halls have been turned into shelters for
families who snatched a few belongings and fled from the
floods and slides which occurred all day yesterday and last [
night. Farmers in some sections of British Columbia start
ed killing livestock, as they are without feed and the people
are without meat.
UNDATED, Jam 26—Tons of mud and torrents of water
roaring down Sumas Mountains continued to devastate the
land.
At Kilgard, B. C., police sought to determine the fate
of several families living on the side of a caving mountain.
Four hundred inhabitants were rescued from Kilgard after
the four-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Gee, was
swept out of her father’s arms and carried away, in the
first series of slides.
Refugees are being sheltered at Abbotsford. There is
no sign of relief from the rains as seen last night.
Fifteen-year-old Bruce Wakefield was buried alive
when a slide crushed down a barn in which he was milking.
At Abbotsford the snow is almost gone.
In the Spokane section: streams in southwestern Wash
ington are subsiding and railroads are again on schedule.
Wire communication has been opened to Vancouver, B. C.
The Bellingham situation is improved but the water mains
have broken and the water supply, is contaminated. The
Olympic Peninsula which has been hard hit during the past
several days is improved. Fifty mailies are marooned in
Clallam County._
Removed From
Relief Rolls
Kills Three
(By The Associated Press)
CHICAGO, Jan. 26 — Maddened
because he was removed from the
relief rolls, R. W. Arden, aged twen
ty-five, who has a crippled mother,
Mrs. Ruth Arden, aged about fifty,
shot and killed Miss Alice Erwin,
aged twenty-two, a relief worker,
who called at their home ~
He then proceeded to relief head
quarters, after killing his mother,
where he wounded three others in
a wild shooting melee, before he
turned the gun on himself, snuffing
out his own life.
Miss Caroline Wallace, Superin
tendent of the agency is probably
fatally wounded. Two others suff
ered only slight wounds. Later —
Miss Wallace died this afternoon.
TAR BRINGS
DEATH TO
5 SQUIRRELS
(By The Associated Press)
WOODSTOCK, Ont., Jan—Their
tails stuck together with tar, five
squirrels came ;Jto:; an untimely end
at Woodstock, Ontario, recently.
The squirrels made their home in
the chimney of a residence and in
some manner got tangled up in
fresh tar used to waterproof the
eaves of the house. Their efforts to
free themselves attracted the atten
tion of a number of persons. When
the ball of squirrels and tar fell to
the ground two of the animals were
already dead. So badly entangled
was the mass that all efforts to sep
arate them proved futile and it be
came necessary to kill the rest of
the animals.
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