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VOLUME XV. NUMBER 11.
SEWARD, ALASKA. WEDNESDAY, Jan, 15, 1930.
»R[C : TEN CENTS
TWO ROBBERS
DETECT! KILLED
CBO HOLDUP
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THIRD BANDIT ROUTED WITH
TEAR BOMBS, THEN
SURRENDERED
CHICAGO, Jan., 15, (A5)—Two
robbers and a detective were
silled as robbers, rushing away
from an apartment they had
just held up, ran into a police
squad responding to a burglar
alarm.
The third robber, who barri
caded himself in the aparrtment
hose hallway, was routed out
by tear bombs and captured.
The bandits, entering the first
floor apartment of Harry Such
erman, set off the burglar alarm
in the adjoining apartment of
Sucherman’s brother, Joseph,
who called the police.
Two robbers were at work on
a wall safe in the flat after lin
ing up Sucherman’s family at
the point of pistols, when the
police squad roared up in front
of the building.
With their escape cut off from
the front the robbers ran to a
rear window where they saw De
tective Jerry Murphy. One of
them fired three shots and Murr
phy dropped fatally wounded.
In attempting to get out the
front door they were met by a
blazing fire from police guns
which htey returnred. Lieut. Ed
ward Conroy was wounded in the
shoulder. The robbers retreated
finder firing from both sides for
many minutes.
Tear bombs were tossed into
the hallway to route the gun
men. Sergeant O'Malley, heading
a second police squad, was sent
>o the scene and climbed up the
building entering the apartment
thru a window and found one
robber dead and another dying;
•he third surrendered.
no worn a ;
Fill 1CTKSS WHS
GOIECTEO. DEATH
IN STATEMENT KEYES CONTRA- j
DICTS STORIES OF SEVERAL
PERSONS
LOS ANGELES, Jan., 15, </P)— Noj
woman whatever, film actress or;
otherwise, had any share in the;
murder of William Desmond Taylor.!
This conclusion, based on person- j
al investigations made at the time ;
of the murder and later, is un
changed b ythe assertion of Otto;
Hefner in San Francisco. This is
the unqualified statement of the ;
consolidated press association here
by Asa Keyes, former district at- i
torney of Los Angeles who for over j
a period of years conducted investi- j
gations into the mysterious murder
of the film director.
In making this statement Keyes
contradicted the stories told by
Hemner, ex-convict, and by his own
admission, a former member of I
a narcotic ring in southern Califor- j
nia and by “Heavy” Peavey, Tay- ;
ior’s negro butler.
DEATH TOLL MOUNTS
SEATTLE, Jan., 15, (/T)—-With
the death of Clyde Tucker, 22,
deaths reached four as the re-;
suit of “Bud” Jensen’s automo- j
bile crashing into a bobsled Sun- 1
day night. Jensen is waiting in |
jail pending the coroner’s inquest j
today.
BILL WOULD
HEARINGS ON ISSUE WILL BE
ARRANGED SOON AS
POSSIBLE
WASHINGTON, Jan., 15, (&)—
The first concrete move to car
ry out the recommendations of
Hoover and his dry law enforce
ment commission for realign- j
ment of the prohibition forces, I
came with the introduction by j
Chairman Williamson, of the1
house expenditures committee, of,
the administration bill to pro-1
vide transfer of the dry unit
from the treasury department to |
the department of justice.
He said hearings will be ar
ranged soon on the measure with
tne view of reporting out on the
bill. The granting of permits by
the administration, under the in
ternal revenue law, would remain
with the treasury.
Fill! IS RESCUED
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan., 15, (JP)
Trapped for over a week by a fierce
blizzard in the high Sierra moun
tains, Jack Nightengale, his wife
and their seven-year-old son, were
found safe in a Pacific Gas & Elec
tria Co., cabin 25 miles from Sonera,
by a party of rescuers.
The trio had been found and
brought to the cabin by employes
of the company who had made
their way thru the snow-filled
Niagara canyon on snowshoes. The
party was found 25 miles from the
nearest point of civilization.
F I®
HERB 1PR0P8IETRI
SB INTERESTS
CHARGES AGAINST CHIEF EX
ECUTIVE DISMISSED; NO ....
CENSURE, CRITICISM
WASHINGTON, Jan., 15, UP)—
President Hoover was absolved
by the Senate lobby committee1
of any impropriety in connect
ion with the negotiations with j
American and Cuban sugar inter- j
ests charged against the Chiefj
Executive.
The testimony before that
group reporting to the senate
committee asserted that a “re
prehensible” effort was made to
stir up Latin-America antago
nism against the United States
by those opposing the increased
tariff on sugar.
They listed total expenditures
of those for and against such an
increase at more than $400,00,
divided about evenly.
With reference to the testimony
that Hoover sought to bring
about an agreement among the
sugar interests on a sliding scale
this is already in a pending tar
iff bill.
The committee im
prcprietrv nor anything open to
censure or criticism.”
STRAIN 81 SHAKING
HANDS THOUSAND.
WASHINGTON, Jan., 15, UP)—
The strain of shaking hands with
1500 persons while suffering from a
cold so affected Mrs. Herbert Hoo
ver that Dr. Joel Boone, White
House physician barred the first
lady from the judiciary reception.
Her participation in the tradi
tional White House reception to
the public was declared to have de
layed Mrs. Hoover’s recovery from
the cold from which she has been
suffering for two weeks. Mrs. Hoo
ver remained in her suite during
the reception.
SINGING TOWER
ARKANSAS, Jan., 15, (/P)—The j
body of Edward J. Bok, editor, j
builder and philanthropist, who j
who died here from a heart attack
at the age of 67, will rest in the
beautiful singing; tower which .he
built and which is held as one of
the three distinctly American works
of architecture.
CELOCKED BOUT
RELEASED BY USE
SPECIAL CUP®!
ACTION CHEMICAL SPLINTER-!
ED ICE WITH A THUN
DEROUS NOISE
QUEBEC,Jan., x5, (/P)—Science
is credited with another victory
over nature after a chemical
compound liberated a steamship!
from an icelocked drydock in
three minutes.
Dr. Howard Barnes, of McGill I
University, using a high pres- i
sure pump hose, sprayed the i
thick ice about the Champlain |
drydock, at Lauzon, where the!
Italian freighter Concordia was j
frozen in and14 facing the pros-j
pect of being held,a prisoner un- ,
til the breakup, and under the
action of the chemical the ice
was splintered with a thunder
ous roar and the ship floated
| free.
The ice was broken into such
! small particles that even small i
I boats navigated about the dock j
! and its approaches.
SEATTLE, Jan., 15. (IP)—Three
of Alaska’s prominent citizens
are here, Governorr, Parks who
■ spent Christmas at his former
home in Denver, Colonel Otto F.
Ohlson, general manager of the
Alaska Railroad, and Donald Mac- ,
Donald, locating engineer of the
Alaska Road Commission and the
; man who conceived the Inter
j national highway.
They all leave today for Alaska.
FLU ANNOUNCEMENT STIRS DEBATE
ON DISEASE KNOWN TO ANTIQUITY
Dr. Isidore Falk of Chicago, who
causing influenza, is shown at the r
pictured at the left.
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CITIZENS IN TERRITORY ARE
WILLING TO PAY HIGH
TRAVELING CHARGE
WASHINGTON, Jan., 14, (/P)—
The passenger airplane service
in Alaska is developing more
rapidly than anywhere else in
the United States, W. Irving Glov
er, second assistant postmaster
general testified before the house
appropriations subcommittee on
the postoffice and treasury sup
ply bill.
“In some places in Alaska there
are no means of getting into
sections of the country for three
or four months excepting by
plane which can takeoff and
get there in a short time, as
against six weeks or more by
dog teams,” he explained.
The cost of passenger service
is very much higher than in the
United States because the peo
ple of Alaska are willing to pay
for it in order to get to their des
tination.
He said the rapidly developing
passenger service made it pos
sible for the government to have
airmail carried in Alaska for
between 50c and 75c per pound
: as compared to the maximum
\ of $3:00 per pound on some lines
I in the United States.
lUNII WOULD BOND
TIN: BUILD STIR
WASHINGTON, Jan., 15, (/P)—
1 Bonds to the value of $50,000
for a sewer system and retaining
j wall along the Cordova water -
| front would be authorized under
| a bill introduced by the Alaska
' delegate.
! The measure provides that the
! bond issue be submitted to the
voters at a special election be
fore the construction or improve
ments starts.
NEW PLANE
LOS ANGELES, Jan., 15, m~
After a second test flight, during
which he put his new low-winged
monoplane thru its paces, Colonel
j Charles Lindbergh was thoroughly
|acquainted with his recently pur
I chased ship.
Col. Lindbergh went aloft accom
panied by his wife who also han
dled the controls on one of the aer
ial jaunts.
KIDNAP SIX GUESTS
FOOCHOW, Jan., 15, (/P)—Yang
Shu Chang of the Chinese navy,
and five members of the provincial
government, were kidnapped at an
official dinner by a gang of bandits.
The bandits entered the dining
room and held up the guests with
revolvers, Yang was seized and
bound. He is believed to be still in
Foochow and the other five have
been taken up the Minkiong to the
bandit stronghold.