SEWARD,
ALASKA
“CENTER of
EVERYTHING”
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OLUME XIV. NUMBER 142.
SEWARD, ALASKA. WEDNESDAY, (TCT. 16, 1929
PRICE TEN CENTS
M)TED WOMAN WILL BE GUEST
PRESIDENT OF HOOVER
OCTOBER 29
NEW YORK, Oct., 16. (/P)—As
sisted by Ambassador Dawes, Ma
dame Curie, co-discoverer of ra
dium, landed from the S. S. He
de France and were met by
Owen D. Young.
This is Madame Curie’s second
visit to America; she will attend
the dinner celebration of the 15th
anniversary of Thomas A. Edi
son's invention of the incandes
cent light, at Detroit October 21.
Her courageous spirit made her
voyage to the United States pos
sible for she is no longer young
but enfeebled by anaemia brot
on by the constant handling of
radium. Physicians did not want
her to attempt the trip, so great
was concern felt as to her health.
The Captain said special wireless
reports were recieved and he was
ready to change the vessel’s course
should the seas present too rough
a voyage.
Madame Curie will be the guest
of President and Mrs. Hoover on
October 29 and 30. She has re
ceived a check for $50,000 which
was raised in this country for
the purchase of a gram of ra
dium which she will present to
an institute in Warsaw. Poland,
her native city.
CLAIMS AUTO DEALER TOOK
HIS WIFE TO FLORIDA
LOVE NEST
NEW YORK. Oct.. 15, CP>—Love
that was stolen in a Park Avenue
pent house should cost $250,000, ac
cording to Lieut. Lyle Searles of the
Canadian Air Force.
Searles filed suit for that amount
against George Ludlum. wealthy
automobile dealer, charging him
with alienation of affections of his
wife Mrs. Florence Searles. He al
leges Ludlum won Mrs. Searles by
lavishing upon her, costly gifts and
money and providing a sumptious
home.
The flier’s suit says Ludlum har
bored Mrs. Searles “in opposition to
my utmost peaceful efforts to ob
tain my wife.” He claims Ludlum
took Mrs. Searles to Florida and
lived with her in a hotel and later
moved to a Park Avenue apartment
in New York City.
GUEST OF FORD
DETROIT, Oct., 15, (/P)—Presi
dent Hoover will be the guest of
Henry Ford when he visits Detroit
late this month it was anounced.
BILL SIDE-TRACKED
WASHINGTON. Oct., 16, (IP)—
The senate side-tracked, tem
porarily, the tariff bill to consid
er the agriculture committee’s re
port recommending confirmation
of eight members to the federal
farm board.
ALAMEDA ENROITTE
SEATTLE, Oct., 16, (/P)—'The S.
S. Alameda, which went ashore
in Wrangell Narrows during a
dense fog, was found to be un
damaged and proceeded to Ju
neau and other Alaska ports.
TARIFF BILL WILL
FAIL TO REACH
HOUSE MEMBERS
SPECIAL SESSION NEARING
END: BAGS ARE BEING
PACKED
WASHINGTON, Oct., 16, ,7P)—
Many house members, who wait
ed patiently for the senate to
enact the tariff bill, have dis
paired of its reaching them be
fore the close of the special ses
ion of congress and are packing
their bags for a trip home prior
to the regular session.
Meanwhile, the house is to meet
without transacting any business
every three days until November
^1 when it is expected to reach
a decision on the course to be
pursued before the December ses
sion if the senate has not ap
proved the bill by that time.
House and senate conferees
have not had sufficient time to
compose their differences.
nf.ui iim
GNME IS DISCOVERED
: WASHINGTON, Oct.. 15, (/Pj—A
new variety of racketeering in Chi
cago was disclosed by Prohibition
Commissioner James Doran. The
racket h° said, is this. Agents of
‘the racketeers visit the railroad
! yards, carefully check up ship
ments of grapejuice and grape prc
| ducts, obtaining the names of con
signees, representing themselves as
I prohibition agents and intimidate
‘the prospective purchasers who
|then refuse to accept the goods,
fearing trouble.
i The goods are then left on the
hands of the railway companies
land consequently are sold in turn
; below their actual cost, to the rep
resentatives of the racketeers.
A FLYING MISSIONARY
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OAKLAND, —Photo shows Bro.
George J. Feltes, S. J., who has his
first step in his plan which will
lead him to snow-bound Alaska as
the first “flying missionary” to
preach in the land of the Eskimo.
He has received official notifica
tion he had successfully completed
the written examination and has
had his performance of dives and
swoops passed on by the depart
ment of commerce air craft in
spector. He plans to equip his
plane with pontoons and skiies as
well as wheels so that he may land
on either ice, water or snow. He is
at present a member otj the teach
ing staff of St. Ignatius College,
San Francisco.
SLEW HUSBAND
WITH AXE: 110
YEARS OF ABUSE
COUPLE HAD BEEN MARRIED
49 YEARS; STRUCK HJM
TWICE WITH AXE
SUMMIT, N. J. Oct.. 16. (/Pi—
Mrs. Laura Titus, white haired
and wrinkled by 70-years of life,
killed her 73-year old husband
with an axe.
The victim, James Titus, mar
ried her 49 years ago. She con
fessed to the police that she slew
her husband because she no lon
ger could endure his abuses.
He drank heavily, she said, and
was intoxicated on the morning
; when she struck him twice with
the axe. She then called to neigh
i bors who notified the police.
THE WORLD S LARGEST DIRIGIBLE
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HOVvDEN, Eng., —Tail view of the monster British airship, the
I R—103, nearing completion in its shed at Howden, Yorks, England.
! It haa a capacity of 5,000,000 cubic feet, a lifting power of 63 tons
] and will be driven by engines totaling 4,000 horse power.
ALAMEDA REFLOATED
WRANGELL, Oct., 16, (/P)—The
S. S. Alarneda, of the A. 3. S- Co.,
was floated yesterday at 8 o’clock
and proceeded to Petersburg
where the damage can be ascer
tained.
CONTRADICTED PRINGLE GIRL
STORY AND SUPPORTED
PANTAGES
LOS ANGELES, Oct-, 16, (/Pi
Garland Biffle, defense witness
in the Pantages trial, was ar
rested for perjury as he left the
witness stand where he had been
for more than one hour under
direct and cross examination
when Prosecutor Fitts sent the
order outside for his arrest.
Fitts said Biffle will be taken
before the grand jury for indict
ment as soon as possible but de
clined to divulge the basis of his
perjury charge saying the accu
sation spoke for itself.
Biffle gave testimony contra
dicting that of the Pringle girl
and supporting Pantages claims
that he was the victim of a
“frameup” by the girl and mother.
The arrested man is a former
lawyer, but now a law book sales
man. He testified that he was in
the building on the day of the
alleged attack and overheard
a conversation Miss Pringle as
sertedly held with Nicholas Dun
eav, whom Biffle said, he saw ac
company the girl towards the
scene of the alleged attack and
said the Pringle girl said “If he
doesn’t place my act he will al
ways be sorry.’’
FREED Fill ROCKS
SEATTLE, Oct., 16, (/P>—The
combined efforts of a fleet of
tugs and the tide released the
S. S. Empress of Canada from
the rocks, outside of Victoria
Harbor, and the vessel proceed
ed to Esquinalt where she will
be dry-docked.
Several hundred feet of her
hull was damaged.
AGREEMENT REACHED
ELECTION DIRECTORS
BADEN BADEN, Germany, Oct.,
16, (/P)—A tentative agreement was
reached on rules which will govern
the selection of a board of directors
of the Bank of International Set
tlements.
The plan as outlined in the
Young plan will be followed except
that American directors of the b.ink
will be selected by central banks of
foreign powers instead of by the
Federal Reserve Bank of the U. S.
MURDERS NEGRO
CHICAGO, Oct., 16, (/P)—A paral
lel to the famous Becker trial in j
New York, looms in Chicago where j
a police lieutenant, four policemen !
and four gangsters were indicted '
for the murd°r of a negro ward
politician. I
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FIVE HOURS AFTER COUPLE
ENTERED INN ROOM,
MURDER OCCURRED
WALLINGRORD, Conn., Oct.,
16, (TP)—Police are convinced that
Mrs. Ann Bryan Ayers, 41, ad
vertising expert who earned $100,
000 anually, was shot to death by
William Gaylord, a bookkeeper,
who then' killed himself.
Their bodies were found in a
room at an Inn. Mrs. Ayers was
the divorced wife of Ernest Ayers,
former Amherst professor, and
the mother of three children.
The bodies, with bullet wounds
in their temples, were found by
Robert Hyatt, manager of the Inn,
who broke down the door of their
room after repeated effo ' to
get an answer but failed.
The tragedy climaxed an in
fatuation which had its inception
last summer which brought a
proposal of marriage from Gay
lord who planned to divorce his
wife
Letters from Gaylord to Mrs.
Ayers were found in the room
and these indicated that she had
refused to marry him. The couple
went to the room yesterday and
the murder and suicide occurred
about five hours later.
HEARST PAPERS
KING OF LOBBYISTS IS LOOKED
UPON AS KEY MAN IN HIGH
COMMAND ACTIVITIES
WASHINGTON. Oct., 15, (TP)—
How the lobby strategy behind the
pending farm tariff bill was largely
worked out by 100 big industrialists
and libbiests at meeting in New
York last December was revealed
for the first time by the Hearst
newspapers.
Sponsoring the meeting was the
American Tariff League, foremost
of the Washington lobbying organi
zations, which embraces in its
membership, several hundred of the
outstanding industrial leaders of
the east.
Senator Caraway, democrat of
Arkansas, chairman of the lobby
investigation committee, announc
ed that the senate probers will first
direct their activities to the Ameri
can Tariff League’s routine. High
in the league is John R. Grundy,
political manipulator and present
king of the captial lobbyists. He is
looked upon as the key man in high
command which runs the league’s
activities.
“GRIEVOUS SIN OF THOUGHT”
LONDON, Oct., 16, (JP)—Confess
ing to ‘-grievous sin of thought”,
regarding his relations with young
women, Rev. Farrar, 64-year-old,
rector at Rock, Worchestershire,
has written a letter resigning his
“living” and pleads with his con
gregation not to let his action
alienate them from God.