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COVERNMENT Will REGULATE ALCOHM.
WOMAN DOCTOR
KILLS SON’S WIFE
M'SBAND GRILLED BY POLICE
CHICAGO, Nov. 24, (AP) —
After hours of questioning, Earle
Wynekoop, twenty-four, husband
of the slain Rheta Wynekoop, an
nounced that "'he might sign an
iron-clad confession,” according to
the police. Pol ce captain Thomas
Duffy said “ He might sign an
iron-clad confession to protect one
whom I suspect is his mother.”
His mother Dr. Alice Lindsay
Wynekoop was also subject to
questioning throughout the night.
Aiter the mother was taken to an
other station'for rest, Katie made
the statement. He appeared wild'
eyed and showed the effects of
the strain. He failed to recog
nize his brother, who hailed him.
Two girl friends of Earle’s, a blond
and a brunnette, were questioned.
Later the police said Earle had
confessed. He is to face his mo
ther now.
SHOOT CORPSE TO
SAVE REPUTATION
CHICAGO. Nov. 24. (AI*l -The
confession of Dr. Lindsay Wyne- |
koop that she fired a bullet info
the heart of her daughter-in-law?)
Rheta, While the girl was uncon- j
scions from chloroform, was ami- j
ounced by Captain John Siege. ,
The sixty-two year old physician |
confessed she administered chloro- |
form to her son's twenty-three I
year old wife, in an examination ;
of her for pelvic pain, in the sur
gical office in the basement df her
office and home here. She said
the girl ceased respiration and. j
She then fired the bullet, fear j
stricken that her reputation as a |
dotetor would be involved, and at- )
tempted to make death appear the •
result of robbery. ,
SOURDOUGH.. STATIONERY FOR j
SALK AT THE NUGGET OFFICF
SEVENTY-ONE MEN
CONVICTED CONSPIRACY
PHILADBL.PHIA, N’ov." 25, (AP)
- Seventy-one men were convicted
Friday on conspiracy charges in
what the judge and the prosecut
or described as the moat elaborate
criminal trial in the history of fed
eral courts. The men were sent
enced and appealed, which serves
to stay the sentence until the
higher court acts.
The men were convicted of part
icipating in a “protection organi
zation” which dominated the liquor
traffic in near by Delaware coun.j
!' y. State senator John J. Mc
Clure, the alleged leader, receiv
ed the highest sentence of eight- ;
een months and a ten thousand
dollar tine. The government!
'charges that the ring took money j
to protect liquor and vice activ
ties, raiding those refusing to !
pay.
SOURDOUGH.. STATIONERY FOR '
SADE AT THE NUGGET OFFICE, i
WOMAN CONVICTED OF
CATTLE RUSTLING
DURANGO. Colo., Nov. 25, (AP)
—Mrs. Greene Newton, the first
women tried in this country for
c4t£te rustling, was Convicted Fri
day as the climax to a court room
dTama brought about by her re
moval from the court room cham
ber, after a blistering attack on
E. Ellison Hatfield, deputy district
attorney, whom she called a lying
skunk, a dirty crook and a bum.
The woman was returned to Jail
until such time a * she could test
ify in a “ladylike manner." After
conviction, the attorneys applied
for a new trial.
Mrs. Newton is alleged by the
authorities to hare been the lead
er of a cattle rustling gang oper
ating in Colorado and New Mex
ico In recent’ months.
CHARGE JAPS WITH
FINANCING DISTURBANCES
SHANGHAI. Nov. 2J, (AP) —
Chinese newspapers charged that
Japanese money was aiding the
;■ newly declared anti-government
movement in Fukien porvince.
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STOCKS CLOSE STEADY J
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NEW YORK. Nov. 24, (AP) — !
Utilities lead in stocks with a
quiet upward push as the currency
stabilization war continued on
many, fronts. The uptnrn in lead
ing foreign exchanges. Gains were
ahaded by late pro&t taking. The
close was steady to firm. The
sales were over a million.
SMITH AGAINST
CURRENCY EXPERIMENTATION |
NEW YORK. Nov. 24, (AP) —
At Smith made public an editorial
in the coming issue of the New
Outlook in which he declares him
self emphatically against the cut
rent administration policies on
“currency experimentation.”
TRAIT*ED IN FOREST FIRE
IX>S ANGELES, Nov. 23, (AP)
-—One hundred and seventy county
welfare workers were trapped for
some time by raging brush and
forest fires in the foothills noWh
west of here, before they reached
safety.
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WILL REGULATE
ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES
WASHINGTON. Nov. 24, (AP)
— The government plans a tight
regulation of the alcoholic bever
age industry through three codes
which will be promulgated by Dec
ember fifth. They will provide a
Federal Alcoholic Control Admin
istration to supervise domestic dis
tilleries and brewers, and a joint
control of liquor importers by the
treasury and agricultural depart
ments.
CAXZOXNERRI KNOCKS OCT
KU> CTKH-OLATE
NEW YORK. Nov. 25. (AP) —
Tony Canzonerr'. former light
weight champion, Friday night,
koeked out Kid Chocolate, t lie
claimant of the feather weight
t'tle. in the second round of a
ten round bout. A right dropped
Chocolate forward ofl his face.
This was the first knockout in the
Cuban's career. He never had a
chance to rise. He weighed in at
one hundred and thirty-one and
Canzonerri at one hundred and
thirty-three.
KAIIJM»AI> STRIKE AVKRTKf)
_a_
HOUSTON, Nov. 35, (AP) —Tlie
threat of a general strike ill the
Southern Pacific lines in Texas and
Louisiana at noon today, ended
Friday afternoon when Roosevelt
appointed a board of three to in
vestigate the controversy between
the company and its employees.
Under the law, the President's
action makes it impossible for
the men to break w't.h the road
until the board has time to ob
tain the facts and the President
has time to recommend a basis of’
Settlement.
GAINES DEFENSE
MOTION DENIED
SPOKANK, Nov. 24. <AP) The
defense motiou for a directed ver
dict of acquittal of Mrs. Gaines was
denied by the court.
FATHER AND SON HANGED
EDMONTON. Nov. 24. (AP)—
Kenneth and William McLean,
father and son. were hanged here
today for the ipurder of Walter
Par lie. a Manville fanner.
PASSENGER PLANE ('HASHES
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WKimON. III., Nov. 24. (API
—Mis* Hazel Goodman, steward
ess, of Kansas City, R. W. Good
all, pjlot, and Boyd Grover, Co
pilot, both of Chicago, were killed
in an eight- passenger air liner,
bound for Kansas City, when the
plane crashed in a pasture near
here. They were the only occu
pants.
FIFTEEN MILLION
MYHTfcRIOUSLY DISAPPEAR
WASHINGTON, Nov. 24, (API
—Fox told the Senate investigat
ors that fifteen million .dollars
mysteriously disappeared from the
Fox Theatres Corporation treas
slnce he sold the control, and
there had never been any effort
made to find out where it went.
An electrically operated bever
age mixer has been invented that
fits the top of a serv ng pitcher.
WOMAN FLIES -
TO GREET DEATH
, JACKSONVILLE, Fla.. Nov. 22,
(AP)—The restless waters of the
’Atlantic apparenHy formed the
grave of Mrs. Louise Turck Stan
ton, who borrowed a plane and
flew seaward to meet death when
ever the craft’s fuel ran out. She
was thirty years old and a Junior
Leaguer, and recently lost her
husiband in an auto accident.
Notes left asked that it not be
be called suicide, “for I particular I
!y dislike the word.” She explain
ed that she just wauted to go out
into space and find out what it’s
all about. “If there isn’t any
thing. it’s O. K.’’ '
Two hours after se flew east
ward. with gasol'ne to last four
hours, the a'ir port authorities
found the notes1 and began a search
She , begged t tjem not to undertake
this dangerous proceeding, for “it
wouldn’t do any good.”
LITVINOFF SAYS
WAR IMMINENT
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| NEW YORK, Nov. 25. (AP)?
j Maxim Ivitvinoff. Soviet Com missar
jof Foreign Affairs, said tonight
[that in the progrt-ss of bis own
country, he saw a ray of light
against a gloomy hack-ground.. He
said tha preparation for new
iwifl's in Europe is in full swing
and carried on openly.
A goodwill banquet whs tender
ed him by the Amex*ican and Russ
ian Chamber Qf commerce. “Not
only has the race .for armaments
been renewed and intensified, but
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(what may he far more serious in
! certain cases, open propaganda of
the militarist ideas is being carried
on the growing generations who
have been traned to the idea of the
glorificat on of wars.” Among the
j nations, this is a, gloomy back
ground. He said, however, that
the Soviet has been developing in
dustr ally and agriculturally, re
maining steadfastly true to the
principles of peace proclaimed in
the days of the October revolution
i sixteen years ago.
DORMANT CASK ON TRIAL j
SEATTLE. Nov. (At1) Th • j
1 bel action against the Dorbant j
plane began here today■•on-charges
that he entered the United State* j
illegally. The plane failed To not-!
ify the customs officials, or land |
on the* regular field. .Mrs. John j
Wiley, a witness, said he landed
on Charles Island, where she and
husband were vacationing, on July
27th. with Lyman Deataenofr. Both j
spent "the night there. - Dorbant I
asked for protection against pose- j
ible attack, during the remainder ,
of the easp. He was given a body1
guard. One ot h's attorneys is ill
in California. !
DORBANT CASK <X>NTINUK1)
. HKATTLK, Nov, 35, (AP)—Tim
case of the government against
Frank Dorbant, seeking to confis
cate his plane on the ground of
illegal entry Into the United States
was continued until Wednesday by
Judge K. K. Cushman. .George
Olson, Dorbant’* attorney, accused
the government of prosecuting
Dorbant, who is now in California.
.. Olson also launched a bitter at*
tack on customs agent A. 8. Ather
ton, who gathered much evidence
in connection with the case. .
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MILLION DOLLAR
ATTORNEY FEE
WASHINGTON, Nov. 23, (AP)
— The Senate stock inveatigators
unearthed evidence to the effect
that a million dollars was paid
to Samuel I’niernieyer and a half
a million to Charles Evans Hugh
es for legal services in the fight
by Fox to save (he theatre prop
erties. i Tlte fees were paid by tho
Generiill Theatres' Equ pment, Inc.
under tin agreement with Fot
when 1 he holding company bought
control of his> theatres for fiifteea
million dollars.
RELIEF PLANS TAKE SHARE
WASHINGTON. Nov. 211. (AP)
-Plans for feeding and clothing
approximately a million families
v/ho are expected to remain on the
relief rolls this winter, are said by
the relief officials to be rapidly
taking final form, with the Federal
Surplus Relief Corporation busy
buying supplies for distribution.
LEAVES ESTATE TO MOTHER
NEW YORK. Nov. 26. (AP) —
The entire estate of Texas Ouinan
night club hostess, who died in
Vancouver on November fifth, wan
left to her mother. Bessie Ouinan,
of New York. The will was filed
Friday. The value of the estate
will not be determined for sev
eral days.
FOR HALE
Tlie Capo Nome Road House.
Sealed bide containing terms of
payment received up to and in
eluding December 20, 1088. Anj
or all offers may be rejected.
Norman MoCay, Agent
P. O. Box 4fKJ
** Nome, Alaska
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