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VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 141.
SEWARD, ALASKA. THURSDAY, NOV. 7, 1929.
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STRANGE, SAYS FITTS, THEY
HAD SUCH A SUDDEN
CHANGE OF HEART
LOS ANGELES. Nov, 7, (JP)—
Fear of radio utterances against
them by Rev. R. P. Shuler, in
fluenced the voting and con
viction of Alexander Pantages
on the statutatory charge brought
against him by Eunice Pringle.
Three women jurors have filed
affidavits with District Attor
ney Fitts. The theater man’s plea
ior a new trail will be heard in
the superior court Saturday.
The jurors, whose statements
are included among the seven
affidavits, are Mrs. Christina D.
Ulrich, Mrs. William Ingles, Mrs.
Lotta C. Steiner, swore that they
were influenced also, by the
switching of the early votes for
acquital, by the inclusion of the
words “With clemency” in the
4, verdict, being under the im
pression such direction would
make it mandatory for Judge
Fricke to pronounce a light sen
tence.
Affidavits were also filed by
Garland Biffle and wife both of
whom testified for Pantages.
Attorneys Joseph Ford and W.
I. Gilbert, defense counsel, said
Shuler’s addresses affected the
trial; Biffles said his arrest on
perjury charges unnerved him
and he was unable to give fur
ther straight-forward testimony.
“It seems rather strange to
me,” Fitts said, “that since the
verdict was returned the jurors
had this sudden change of heart.”
NEXT STEP WILL BE EXCHANGE
OF AMBASSADORS; TO
FOLLOW QUICKLY
LONDON, Nov., 7, (/P)—The
House of Commons, late Tuesday,
voted 324 to 199 for resumption
of diplomatic relations with So
viet Russia.
The vote paves the way for
restoration of diplomatic ties
severed in 1927 during the Pre
miership of Stanley Baldwin, the
conservative.
The break followed a raid on
the London headquarters of the
Arcos Ldt., an Anglo-Russian
organization. It was alleged es
pionage and propaganda had
been carried out under the guise
of the trade organization.
The next step toward resump
tion of relations is the exchange
of ambassadors which is ex
pected to follow quickly.
BEGIN AIR PROGRAMS
NEW YORK, Nov., 7, (/P)—Ger
many is to begin transmitting Ex
perimental Radio programs to
America at once, preliminary to the
proposed interchange of Air Enter
tainment with that country and
the United States.
FLY AWAY WITH PLANE
RALEIGH, N. C., Nov., 7, (/P)—
Two men held up a night watch
man and a deputy sheriff at th<
Raleigh Airport, removed the air
plane “City of Savannah” of th(
Eastern Air Express, and flew il
laway.
EElUffl
I CHD HILLSIDE
SIX PEHSOPJS DEAD
TWO INJURED; PRINCE AMONG
SURVIVORS; WAS SECOND
PILOT
] MARDEN PARK, Surrey, Eng.
i Nov., 6, (JP)—Six persons were
| killed and two injured in the
crash of a big German airliner
bound for Berlin from Croydon.
Three of those killed were
passengers and three members of
the crew. One of the survivors
was Prince Schaumberglippe, sec
! ond cousin cf the former reigning
prince of one of the oldest Ger
man royal houses.
He was acting as second pilot
and is expected to recover. The
crash was followed by the mach
jine bursting into flames believed
I to have been caused by the pilots
| flying into a hillside during a fog.
SEVERE FIGHTING
TOKIO, Nov., 7, (JP)—A telegram
jfrom Harbin, Manchuria says:
“There has been severe fighting be
tween China and Soviet Russian
troops at FuchinhTen and the
Chinese have retired 60 miles in
the direction of Hauchuan.”
MENTIS IMPORTANCE TO
5-POWER CONFAB
LONDON, Nov., 6, f/P)—Premier
MacDonald in making the eagerly
| awaited statement to the House !
of Commons upon his recent !
trip to the United States in j
part expressed thanks to Presi- I
dent Hoover, the Cabinet, the Sen
ate and the house of representa
tives for the welcome they gave
him.
He was shown the best kind of
friendship, he said, and by the
candor with which they exchang
| ed views and the straight for- !
wardness with which they rais- '
ed and discussed questions of i
delicacy. He said both Hoover
j and he recognized the agreement j
they are seeking is one not mere
ly between themselves but one
which will have to be set into a
wider agreement.
Final settlement depended on
the five-power conference.
NEW YORK GIN TRAIL
NEW YORK, Nov., 7, (/P)—In the
I collapse of the bull market, there
were many casualties among prom
inent and influential bootleggers,,
frantic selling of stocks in a grab
for money to protect margins and
altogether an unparrelled liquida
tion of liquids. The New York gin
trail is strewn with non-refillable
pocketbooks.
TERRIFIC EXPLOSION
LONDON, Nov., 7, (JP)—Nine per
sons were killed when a terrific ex
plosion occured aboard the Spanish
steamer “Kontzesi” as it was leav
ing the Port of Balboa, according
to a Central News Dispatch receiv
ed from Madrid. The .steamer was
bound fSr Santander.
ONE OF THE MOST SERIOUS
EVER TO HAVE OCCURR
ED IN AMERICAS
GUATEMALO CITY, Nov., 7,
OP)—The death toll from the
eruption of the volcano Santa
Maria is officially estimated at
more than 400. This places the
eruption, which began last Sat
urday and was continuing today,
as one of the most serious vol
canic disasters in the Americas.
The casualties have not ap
proached those in the eruption
of Mount Pelee, in the Martini
que, in 1902 when 30.000 were
estimated as having perished, but
greatly exceed any in recent
years.
Numerous relief expeditions
have been sent to the stricken
area.
STRONGER POSITION
WASHINGTON, Nov., 6, (/P)—Ag
riculture is in a stronger position
than it was a year ago, the depart
ment of agriculture announced.
THE THREE SONS OF KING ALE XANDEIi AND
QUEEN MARIE OF JUG O SLAVIA
-, — truest and crown prince; Tomis
iav, tim second son* arid Andrja, born last summer. The royal sandpile is
a favoiite with l ete and Tom who are no different from other boys the
world over.
MUST BEGIN WITH
! BIG FELLOWS, SAYS
SEN, BfiBOKIT
LOT OF “WHOOEE” TOLD TO
SENATE AS IF THEY DID
NOT KNOW
WASHINGTON, Nov., 6, (/P)—
' The story of the “Wall Street
booze party and dinner” in Wash
! ington was told to an expectant
and closely attentive senate by
Senator Brookhart who said he
; sat between Otto Kahn and E. E.
I Loomis, of the Morgan Company.
After throwing the invitation
i to dinner from Walter J. Fahy,
: Wall Street broker, into a waste
; paper basket, Brookhart said he
! was urged to go to the dinner
| by Senator Moses.
In the reception room Brook
| hart said there was a rack and
| when one lifted the curtain there
was revealed a row of silver hip
flasks.
| He said Senator Gooding, him
i self, didn’t take the flasks but
; “The other boys can say for them
selves whether they helped them
selves.’’
The Senator chose for his text
'“You must begin with the big fel
lows” on law enforcement. He
congratulated President Hoover,
Vice President Curtis and Sir
Esme Howard on their personal
attitude toward law enforcement.
NEGOTIATED WITH ALLIES
TERMS UNDER WHICH
ARMISTICE SIGNED
CONSTANCE, Germany, Nov.,
7, {JP)—Prince Maximilian von Ba
den, last Imperial Chancellor,
died at the age of 62.
He had been ailing the past
year from arterial trouble and
about three weeks ago had a fall
indoors which broke two ribs.
He was called Chancellor until
October 5, 1918 when he nego
tiated with President Wilson and
Allied leaders the terms under
which the Armistice was signed.
It was he who announced to
the German people the abdica
tion of the Kaiser.
BUT VERT MUCH WISER
NEW YORK, Nov., 7, (A3)—Thous
ands of women and other specula
tors returned to their bridge tables
poorer but wiser in the ways of
Wall Street. Attracted by the pro
fits to be made during the past
year, women of all classes have
been in the market.
The slump, which began and
continued in the record-breaking
crash gave the majority of them
their first baptism of fire and
wiped many of them out.