SEWARD,
“CENTER of
EVERYTHING”
Seward
COAST TERMINAL OF THE
ALASKA RAILROAD
I- -- ___
Gateway
DAILY AND WEEKLY
TERMINAL FOR THREE OCEAN
GOING STEAMSHIP LINES
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 221.
SEWARD, ALASKA. SATURDAY, SEPT. 21, 1929
PRICE TEN CENTS
KIDNAPPED BY MEN. THROWN
IN AUTO, DUMPED ON OUT
SKIRTS. NOW IN JAIL
NEW YORK. Sept., 21. (/P>_Mil
ton Alter, 18, brokers’ messenger,
who disappeared today with $512,
000 worth of securieies while en
route from the bank to his offices,
returned later with the story of
having been kidnapped and robbed
of the securities by two men.
He was sent by the A. V. Hiscoe
Co to the Guaranty Trust Co.,
with a $400,000 check to pay an in
debtedness and in return receive
the securities which were posted as
collateral for the loan.
Officials said he had been in
structed to wait for a clerk to es
cort him but the boy misunderstood
and told the police he had started
back to his offices a “Block from
the bank when he was seized by
two men and thrown into a waiting
auto, driven away and dumped out
then called the offices and was
on the outskirts of Brooklyn. Then
he called the offices and was pick
ed up by detectives”, he said.
The police said they found dis
crepancies in his story during a
grilling and locked him up.
II, S, OFFIGER IS
WASHINGTON, Sept.. 21. (/Pi
Lieutenant James M. Gillespie. U. S.
army aviator instructor, has been
elected to the Order of Military
Merit by the Cuban government.
The decoration was announced
by Jose T. Baron, charge d’affaires
o: the Cuban embassy. Lieut Gil
lespie has been withdrawn from
Cuba after a long period instruct
ing Cuban army aviators.
WASHINGTON, Sept., 20, (/Pi—
The first attempt to counterfeit the
new small sized currency has ended :
in failure, it was stated by the
Chief of the Secret Service, W. H.
Moran.
Advices have been received by the j
Secret Service that several counter
feits had been placed in circulation
in a small town in Iowa, but were |
quickly detected. One man was re
ported under arrest on chaiges of
counterfeiting.
BUCHAREST, Sept.. 2C, /P) Gr.
Junian, minister of justice has
drawn up a bill on marriage and
divorce which will, for _ the first
t.me in this country, give legal
standing to betrothal vows.
II the man breaks off an engage
rrent, without giving sufficient
r ason, he will make himself liable
damages to cither the girl or her
family. Under certain circumstanc
es, all presents must be returned.
MESSENGER CONFESSES
! IS TOOL Of OTHERS
NEW YORK, Sept., 21. (/P)_
Milton Alter, 18-year old messen
ger boy. confessed to the police
that he had been the tool of
others in the theft yesterday of
$512,000 in negotiable securities
from his employers R. V. His- j
j come Company, brokers.
ELM YEAR OLD
GIRL FOUND DEAD
WITH THROAT CUT
ADOPTED A YEAR AGO FROM
ORPHAN HOME; LAST SEEN
ALONG RAILROAD TRACK
KING HILL. Idaho. Sept., 21,!
UP)—The body of 11-year-old Marie
West, with her throat cut and
showing signs of having been at
tacked, was found on the edge of 1
Snake river near here 26 hours
after she left home to come here to -
school. I
The body was found sunk in two j
feet of water and weighted down
by stones. The child’s legs were
bound by wire. Besides the cut
throat the girl’s face was bruised.
The girl was adopted a year ago |
from the Boise Orphan Home by j
Mrs. H. B. Miesenzahl and was last
seen following her usual course
along the railroad track.
BARBER .ADMITTED
SOUTHAMPTON. Sept., 20, (/P)
—Because he pleaded his case so
effectively Louis Arico, barber,
who sailed for England at the
behest of William Kenny, wealthy
patron, was admitted to Great
Britain without a passport, un
til next Tuesday.
I
EDISON WINNER IS EAGER TO TRY LUCK AT COLLEGE
vvncn Wilbur Huston won the national cornet sponsored by Thomas a. reason ne ac
quired a scholarship to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which he is eager to at
tend this xah. vViibur is shown with Mr. Edison and in portrait. His father and mother are
on the right.
I
ACQUITTAL AFTER FOURTH AP -
PEARANCE IN COURT SINCE
BANK ROBBERY
NEW BRAUNFELS. Tex., Sept.. !
21, (TP)—A jury, which for nearly 48
hours sought to determine the guilt
or innocence of Mrs. Rebecca j
Bradley Rogers, tried for bank rob
bery, was discharged after a failure
to agree. The district attorney in
dicated he did not intend to at
tempt another prosecution. The
jury stood nine to three for ac
quital.
This is the fourth court appear
ance of Mrs. Rogers since she held
up the Buda Texas Bank in Decem
ber 1926. When she heard the ver- :
diet she said nothing.
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NATIONAL LEAGUE
Pittsburgh 10: Boston 3.
Brooklyn at St. Louis postponed
on account of rain. These were all
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?ames scheduled.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Cleveland 4; Boston 2.
St. Louis 1; Washington 0.
Detroit 1; Philadelphia 2.
Chicago at New York postponed '
3n account of weather.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Sacramento 4-3; Portland 10-4.
Hollywood 6-7; Los Angeles 4-15.
Missions 3; San Francisco 2.
Oakland 5; Seattle 2.
PREDICTS FUTURE SPEED
PARIS. Sept., 20, (TP)—Louis
Bleriot, veteran French airman,
predicted a speed of 750 miles
an hour will be attained by the
airplane in another 10 years.
S, S, ALAMEDA ON WAV
NOflTH: SMALL LIST
SEATTLE, Sept., 21, (^_The
S. S Atameda, of the Alaska
Steamship company, sailed from
here this morning at 9 o'clock
with 63 reservations, 22 for the
Port of Seward, as follows:
Mr. and Mrs. E .Murphy, Mrs.
H. W. Tehune, Mr. and Mrs. J. A.
Donald, Mrs. K. Stiles, J. Arrivee,
Edith Hansen, Mr. and Mrs. C. L.
Plumb and two sons; Tom Con
nolly, Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Hollis
and child, Mrs. A. S. Steward,
M. C. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. R.
Pridby, J. Hepfereger, A. F. Hol
loway, and six steerage.
ARRIVES HI!
CUT DOWS TIE
REACHED HAVANA YESTERDAY j
HAS COVERED 1,030 MILES
THUS FAR
PORT AU PRINCE. Haiti, Sept.,
21, (/P>—Colonel Lindbergh, flying ;
to South America, landed at Port1
au Prince, the Haiti capitol, this;
morning after a flight from San1
tiago. Cuba.
The Colonel covered 270 miles:
in two hours and 34 minutes!
cutting 26 minutes from the j
time expected it would take. He
will leave later for Santo Domin- i
go.
Thus far the Colonel has cov-!
ered 1.030 miles of the 7,000 mile
our. He reached Havana, Cam
aguey and Santiago yesterday
from Miami, Florida.
SOVIET PUNE AT '
ATI HAD STORMY
AVIATORS WILL HOP NEXT TO
DUTCH HARBOR THENCE
TO SEWARD
MOSCOW, Sept., 21, (/P)—The
Russian plane “Land of Soviet”
is reported by the Soviet News
Agency to have landed at Attu.
The plane left Petropavlovsk
Thursday night and covered 750
miles to Attu via Bering Sea at
a speed of 112 miles per hour.
A violent storm raged over the
the route. The next stop will be
Dutch Harbor.
As the aviators plunged thru
thick banks of rain, snow and
fog, the natives at Attu fled
when they first sighted the plane,
later they returned when the
plane landed and upon being re
assured the fliers were not hos
tile, welcomed the airmen heart
ily and placed their slender re
sources at their aid.
After resting a day or so and
priming the machine for the re
mainder jjf the flight, the plane
will proceed.
WORLD POWERS MM
SEEK LOWER BARRIERS
GENEVA, Sept., 20. (/Pi—World
.powers as wrell as members of the
League of Nations, are to confer
on the possibility of lowering of
tariff barriers before the econom
ic committee of the league.
They expect to demand of
the world court that there be no
increase of protective tariffs
above the present levels for a
period of at least two years.
WASHINGTON, Sept., 20, (JP)~A
recommendation that freight rates
on whiskey, in cases or barrels,
shipped for medical purposes from
Louisville, Ky„ to Los Angeles and
San Francisco, Calif., be found by
the Interstate Commerce Commis
sion not unreasonable, is made by
Examiner G. O. Bashman in a pro
posed report made public in No.
21714, American Medicinal Spirits
Co., et al. v. Atchison, Topeka &
Sante Fe Railway et al. The report
recommends that the complaint be
dismissed.
REA DESERTS FRENCH
PORT. MEDITERRANEAN
AGDE, France, Sept., 21, UP)—
Suddenly, without previous warn
ing, the level of the Mediterranean
tell here.
In the harbor, in front of the city
lall, the water dropped to such an
extent that vessels which were
noored in a fair depth of water
vent aground. Large sandbanks
save appeared between the end of
he pier and the lighthouse.
Th phenomena are supposed to
3e due to some minor subterranean
ipheaval.