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VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 142.
SEWARD, ALASKA. . FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1929.
PRICE TEN CENTS
% AUTOMOBILE GUARDS NOT
ING TRUCK FOLLOWED
COLLIDE, OPEN FIRE
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TOLEDO, Nov.. 8, (TP)—Ralph
Zahnle, 33, a deputy marshal of
Toledo, died from bullet wounds
recieved when he was fired upon !
by a gang of rum runners.
Zahnle and another deputy
marshal, E. H. Genzler, were
trailing a truck into Toledo
which they suspected of being
loaded with liquor. The truck
was apparantly guarded by men
following in automobiles. The
guards, seeing they were follow
ed, suddenly turned their mach
ine and blocked the road, the
officers car colliding.
Immediately, four men in the
car began shooting at the of
ficers who did not have a chance
to fire their guns. I
Ganzler escaped uninjured.
HOUSE WILL NEVER AGREE TO
WHOLESALE CHANGES
DECLARES REED
WASHINGTON, Nov., 7, (JP)—
A coalition of democrats and
western republicans succeeded
by a vote of 48 to 30 in the sen
ate to reduce the rate on pig
iron from $1 \2xk to 75c a ton.
The vote was a test of strength
and was declared by Reed of
Pennsylvania to show the futil
ity of attempting further argu
ments on industrial tariff in
creases and declared the bill was
dead as the House would never
agree to the wholesale changes \
being wrought by the coalition.
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PARIS, Nov., 7, (£>)—Edouard
Daladier, leader of the Radical So
cialist, finally admitted his defeat
in an attempt to form a French
Cabinet and President Domorgue
has asked Senator Clement to
form the Cabinet.
Senator Clementel, president of
the senate finance committee, as
cepted the task and has fair pros
pects of succeeding.
Aristide Briand has agreed to
support him and to accept the for
eign ministry. Central parties are
expected to agree to Clementel as
their leader and the Radical Social
ists, after they have failed to form
a government. They have little to
do, but accept.
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REASON FOR UPROAR
LOS ANGELES, Nov., 8, (/P)—
rhelma Long, alias Mrs. Thelma
Holland, 22-year-old expectant
mother, whose arrest and prosecu
tion on liquor charges caused an
uproar, here won probation for
three years, after first being sen
tenced to a penitentiary term.
HISTORIC RED SQUARE IS
TRANSFORMED INTO BIG
THEATRICAL STAGE
MOSCOW, Nov, 7, (iP)—Com
munist Russia observed in tradi
tional revolutionary fashion the
12th anniversary of the 1917 up
heaval which ushered Bolshe
vism into the world and destroy
ed the ancient Russian govern
ment.
The government gave bread
and meat at cost price to every
member of the population hold
ing bread cards.
With the aid of millions of
yards of red bunting and huge
flaming placards symbolic of
the times, and hundreds of wood
en floats, numerous speakers
were heard in the stands on
which portraits of Lenin, Marx,
Stalin and others, were hung.
The historic Red square was
transformed into a mighty thea
trical stage for the passing of
a 12 mile-long military and civil
ian parade.
LOST NO TIME
LONDON, Nov, 7. (/P)—Prime
Minister Ramsay MacDonald lost
no time in getting back to work on
his arrival from his American peace
mission.
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GENERAL DISARMAMENT MUST
INCLUDE LAND, AIR, AS
WELL AS SEA
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PARIS, Nov., 8, (/P)—'The min
! isterial declaration of the new
i Tardiey government was pre
sented to the French parlia
ment.
It outlines their policy for
peace and cocliation abroad
and prosperity and security at
home.. The new government as
sured the chamber of deputies
that it will enter the London i
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naval conference in the friend
liest spirit having ever in mind
the attitude of its predecessors
that general disarmament must
include land and air as well as
the sea.
JUDGE IS FREED CF
! MURDER Cl,SEE
! WEATHORFORD, Nov. §. (JP)—
Judge R. H. Hamilton is a free
I man again the jury having de
cided he acted in self-defense
when his son-in-law Tom Wal
ton, Jr., bridegroom in a secret
marriage, was shot and killed
in Hamilton’s Amarillo law of
; fice last May. The jury, after
| listening for seven days to the
testimony, and the argument
lasting for eight hours, required
only one hour and 4S minutes
to bring in their verdict which
: came at the third poll.
CURTAIL PRODUCTION
LOS ANGELES, Nov, 8, (/P)—A. j
Broomfield, president of the Barns
dall Oil Co, announced a voluntary j
curtailment of his company’s oil
production in the Elwood field near
Santa Barbara, amounting to 9,000
barrels daily. The present produc- j
tion is 34,000 barels a day.
Lion cornu
BY GOIEM
15 APPROVED
PEOPLE OF ONTARIO SIGNIFY
AT POLLS METHOD OF
HANDLING DRINKS
TORONTO, Nov, 8, (/P)—After
three years of government control
and sale of liquor, the people of On
tario signified their approval of
this method of handling liquor by
returning to power the Conserva
tive Government by Premier G.
Howard Ferguson.
The latest reports show the Con
servatives have secured 82 of the
111 legislative seats contested, whi’e
19 remain doubtful. The standing s
of other parties was: Liberals 7;
Progressives 1; Liberal-Progressives
1; Independent Conservatives 1.
J. G. Retibridge, leader of the
Progressive party wa0 defeated in
the Middle-central west where Dr..
L. W. Preie was conceded the elc
tion with a majority of 39.
BUSINESS GOOD
WASHINGTON, Nov, 7, (/P)—
Treasury officials expect there will
be a large Christmas trade, despite
the recent reaction in the New
York stock market. It was pointed
out that business generally is un
usually good and has not been af
fected by the market break.
DYNASTY OF MRS. POTTER
PALMER ONCE
AGAIN MAY RULE MIDWEST SOCIETY
Midwest society is wondering warmer Miss Bertha Palmer (right;
may revive the regime established in the ’80?s by her grandmother, Mrs.
Potter Palmer (upper left). The old mansion at the lower left is where M
rs. Potter ruled.
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FOB W.«. BILLIES
DOUBT TESTIMONY
HAS BEEN UNDER CONSIDER
ATION FOR SEVERAL
MONTHS
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov., 8, (/P)—
A petition from Warren K. Bil
lings asking permission to ap
peal to Governor Young for a
pardon, is on file in the state
supreme court.
Billings was convicted of par
ticipation in the Prep u edness
Day bombing in 1916 alon*? with
Thomas J- Mooney.
The petition was filet con
formity with the state li w which
provides that a person twice
convicted of a felony must obtain
permission of the supreme court
before they may seek executive
clemency. With the petition were
letters offered by Duncan Math
eson, former captain of detec
tives; District Attorney Matthew
A. Brady and three jurors.
Billings and Brady’s letters
contended there had not been
sufficient evidence to convict
him. The letters from the three
jurors asserted they based their
verdict on the testimony of Es
telle Smith and John MacDonald
and that the ynow "doubt the
veracity of that testimony.”
Mooney’s petition for a pardon
has been under consideration by
Governor Young for several
months.
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WEIGHTS, MEASURES INVES
TIGATION IS PROPOSED IN
SENATE RESOLUTION
WASHINGTON, Nov., 7, (^—In
vestigation by the secretary of com
merce to determine the advantages
or disadvantages of a metric sys
tem of weights and measures for
general use in the United States is
proposed in a resolution by Repre
sentative Britten of Illinois.
In his resolution he cited that
the legislatures of California, Illi
nois, Tennessee, North Dakota, and
Utah have asked congress to enact
legislation providing for the adop
tion of the metric system.
Another Britten resolution would
authorize the department of com
merce to establish a commodity
quantity units for general use in
merchandizing after 1935. The
units proposed would standardize
the yard to the meter, the quart to
the liter and the pound to 500
grams, decimally divided.
ACCUSED OF SPECULATING
WASHINGTON, Nov., 7, (/P)—De
fending President Hoover and Sec
retary Mellon against charges-that
their optimistic statements helped
bring about the stock market col
lapse, Senator Robinson, republi
can, accused John Raskob, demo
cratic national committeeman ol
speculating in the market.