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COAST TERMINAL OF THE
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DAILY AND WEEKLY
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VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 148.
SEWARD, ALASKA. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1929.
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PRICE TEN CENTS
i PISTOL TIGHT
SPOKANE MU
TRAILED YOUTHS WHO HAD
PURCHASED GUN TO
ROOM IN HOTEL
SPOKANE, Nov., 15, <7P)—Detec
tive Roy Fordyce, 54, was killed
in a three-cornered pistol fight
between two officers and a man
they had questioned.
Detectives Fordyce and George
Bradley saw Ralph Larsen, 22,
and Charles Dow, 20, purchase
a pistol at a pawnshop and fol
lowed them to their hotel room
to ask what the motive was for
its purchase. Satisfied over the
questioning the detectives were
about to leave wh^n Bradley
said Larsen pulled another gun
and started shooting.
The detectives replied with
their guns. In the patrol wagon
police said Larsen said “I don’t
know why I did it. I didn’t want
to be caught with a gun and
sent away.”
Larsen is charged with mur
^ der; he had his left arm broken
in the exchange of bullets. Dow
is charged with being an ac
cessory although the police say
he did not shoot. Bradley beat
Larsen unconscious with a gun
after Fordyce fell.
LARGE AMOUNT STOLEN AND
MAN AND WOMAN FELL
ED BY GUN BUTTS
BUFFALO. Nov., 15, (/P)—A re
ward of $35,000 if taken alive
and $70,000 if taken dead, has
been offered for the seven men
who, armed and masked, raided
the suburban home of John L.
Carson, Jr., during a pre-nuptial
party in honor of a prominent
young couple.
Linning the 18 guests and a
half dozen servants against a
wall the robbers stripped them
of jewelry valued by the guests
at about $400,000; they also ob
tained a small amount of cash
and furs from the upper floor.
Eleanor Cameron, of Waco,
Texas, whose fiance is Courtland
Van Cliff, was the guest of honor.
She was one of the gathering
who lost jewels of high value.
The guests at first thought
it was a prank when the bandits
burst in but realized the ser
iousness of it when a man and
woman were felled by blows and
lists and by revolver butts.
“TAKEN FOR A RIDE”
NEW YORK, Nov., 15, (JP)—
Apparantly “Taken for a ride”
by his own kind, Monte Schubert,
40, a racketeer with a long police
record, was found slumped in
side a closed car under the ele
vated subway structure. Most of
the left side of his face had been
shot away.
RGCKWODD, UPPOINIED
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| MINNEAPOLIS, Nov., 15, (IP)—
The resignation of Joseph Chap
man as receiver of the Foshay Co.,
was announced and the appoint
ment of formeer Judge J. C. Rock
wood to succeed him.
Chapman retains the post as re
ceiver of the Foshay Building Corp.
land Public Utilities Consolidated
Corp., and another Foshay enter
prise. He said he quit in justice to
ihte creditors of all three compan
ies after finding conflict of enter
ests probably might develop.
PILGRIMS SOCIETY
DON HONORING
OFFICIAL
IN
U.
LON
S.
NEW YORK, Nov.. 15, (IP)—
Former Secretary of State and
before that Ambassador to the
Court of St. James, Frank Kel
logg, and Mrs. Kellogg, sailed on
j the S. S. Aquitania t oattend a
dinner to be given in his honor
by the Pilgrim Society of London,
| on November 27.
‘‘Sixty-three countries have
: signed or adhered to the treaty,”
he said, of the peace pact, bear
ing his name, and ”59 ratified
the plan; three more are on the
verge of doing so,” he added.
The Kelloggs will remain in
England for about 10 days
;PIMS FACES
AlIHEfi SUIT
CHARGIIU9SLAIUDER
SAID PANTAGES MADE STATE
MENT AT TIME OF ARREST
IN PRESENCE OTHERS
LOS ANGELES, Nov., 15, (/P)—
Alexander Pantages has been sued
for $500,000 damages by Nicholas
.Duneav, Russian playwright, and
| principal in Pantage’s recent trial,
j Duneav charged slander, alleging
'Pantages accused him of “Having
(conspired with Miss Pringle and
others to blackmail me”.
Pantages was convicted of crimi
nal attacking the girl. Duneav said
Pantagees made statements at the
time of his arrest in August; also
in the presence of other people.
LAST FLIGHT OF YEAR
FRIEDERSCH ..AFEN, Germany,
Nov., 15, (/P)—The dirigible Graf j
Zeppelin went aloft on its last
flight of 1929 in which she made
history by flying around the
world; 46 persons were aboard I
and the flight lasted four hours, j
Insurance on the big airship ex
pired today. j
PRETTY III
EXTORTED E SUM
FROM FIBER
DENIES PATERNITY OF CHILD:
ADMITS PAYING WOMAN
FOR SIX YEARS
NEW YORK, Nov., 15, (YP)—
Accused by police with having
extorted more than $170,000 from
Nathan L. Amster, prominent
financier, an attractive brunette,
34 years of age, who charges
that Amster is the father of her
six-year old boy, is being held
under $5,000 bail pending a hear
ing tomorrow.
Olga N. Edwards, a former res
ident of Seattle, was arrested
after Amster’s secretary, through
arrangements with the police,
paid her $500 in marked bills.
Amster, who is 60 years old, a
married man with two sons, de
nied paternity of the child but
admitted having paid the woman
huge sums over a period of six
years.
NINE MEN OVERCOME ON NEW
YORK; SEVEN PROBABLY
WILL RECOVER
NORFOLK, Va., Nov., 15. (/P)—
Gas fumes, apparantly spontan
eously generated from paint in
an enclosed compartment on
the battleship New York, caused
nine men to be overcome and
two died.
The two men who lost their
lives were Lieut. R.H.Hollenbeck,
who had gone into the compart
ment known as the “blister” to
inspect it, and Boatswain’s mate
Thomas George Weber, who at
men fell about 40 feet suffering
from injuries until death.
Seven enlisted men were also
overcome in an attempt to res
cue the two and not until pure
; air was forced into the compart
ment through a hose was ac
tual rescue effected.
At the hospital it was said
I the seven would probably recov
er. The New York, which is the
flagship of Rear Admiral H. H.
Christie, was undergoing mod
erizing which included construct
ion of “blisters” of a sort, and
dobble hull construction as pro
tection against submarines.
BILL WOULD PROVIDE
WASHINGTON, Nov., 15, (/P)—A
bill to provide housing of dangerous j
insane citizens of Alaska at St.
Elizazeth’s hospital, a government'
institution at Washington, D. C.,
was introduced by Albert Johnson, i
republican representative from
Washington. The expense of trans
portating the patients would be;
borne by the government if the bill
is approved.
OFFICIALS Ull
INVESTIGATION CASE:
TBI MW STORIES
ST. CLAIRSVILLE, O., Nov., 15,
(/P)—Belmont county officials said
they had abandoned the investi
gation of the Tom Mooney case be
cause of the alleged conflicting
storiees told by Mrs. Dora Monroe,
who last week made an affidavit
placing the blame of the San Fran
cisco Preparedness Day parade
bombing on her brother, Lewis
Smith, who died seven years ago in
Cleveland.
THOUSANDS OF
CHINESE SOLDIERS
DEI won
FORTY THOUSAND R E B E LS
20,000 NATIONALISTS RE
PORTED KILLED
SHANGHAI, Nov., 15, (/P)—
The battle of Tengfeng, between
Nationalist government troops
and the rebellious Peoples army,
has begun and fighting of the
most severe kind is under way.
The dispatches, said to have
been recieved from the Honan
province, and Kakow messages,
said many thousands have been
killed and wounded.
The Nationalist wounded, with
a large number of the People’s
soldiers as prisoners, have arriv
ed here from the front. Dispatches
said the rebels lost 40,000, killed;
and the Nationalists, 20,000 dur
ing the past week’s fighting.
DEATH OF FRIEND
CONNECTED IRON LATCH ON
GATE WITH TROLLEY
JUST FOR FUN
COSHOCTON, Ohio, Nov., 15,
(/P)—Police said A. A. Harris, 27,
had confessed that he and Felix
Marlatt, 31, miners, are respon
sible for the electrocution of
Charles Newell, 27, at the War
wick mines last Sunday night.
The police said that Harris ad
mitted he and Marlatt had wired
the gate leading to the mine
property “Just to have some
fun,” with members of the New
ell family.
The gate was charged by con
necting the iron latch with a
trolley wire. Newell was killed
when he touched the live wire.
The miners are being held on
murder charges.
FISHERMEN WARNED
JUNEAU—Nov., 15, (/P)—Warn
ing deep-sea fishermen of the
serious penalties to be inflicted
if they are found operating after
November 15, Commander E. S.
Addison left on the cutter Unal
ga for the halibut banks.
SLASH
IN TAX INCOMES
IS IN PROSPECT
SIMPLE WAGE EARNER AND
MAMMOTH CONCERNS
WILL PARTICIPATE
WASHINGTON, Nov., 14, (/P)—
j A material slash in government
| instutions and a tax reduction
is definitely in prospect and a
general cut of one per cent
from the normal rate taxation
applicable to incomes to the
present calendar year, will be ef
fective all along the line.
This includes mammoth corp
j orations to the simple wage earn
er whose earnings just exceed
his personal exemption. As plann
; ed by the Treasury Department
| a detailed program has been
! drawn up and, after a careful
j examination of the many factors r
which control government ex
! penditures and revenues, and
I with the approval of President
I Hoover, it will be recommended
to Congress for immediate action
when that body meets next month
! in regular session.
All this was revealed by Secre
| tary Mellon in a statement is
i sued after a series cf conferences
! with ranking lieutenants of the
• department, and Hoover
SECOND TRIP AFTER FUR AND
PASSENGERS ON NANUK
TOMORROW
I
NEW YORK, Nov., 15, (/P)—
i Three messages received from
I Nome from Col. Ben Eielson by
the Aviation Corporation, parent
organizatoin of the aeronautic
group of which Eielson is the
Alaska representative
The first said he had returned
today from the ice-bound trad
ing schooner Nanuk, at Cape
North, after fur and six pas
sengers, for the Swenson Fur Co.
of New York, Five more trips
are to be made and that he was
leaving tomorrow on his second
trip.
The second message said he
had brought the first of the ice
bound voyagers and part of the
vessel’s million dollar cargo of
furs, to Nome.
The third telegram said ba*d
weather necessitated postpone
ment of the second flight.
Fur company officials said
they have been informed rescue
is reasonably certain and that
Pollister and his daughter in
tend to remain on the Nanuk
until the last of the fur has been
brought ashore.
SCOUT IS IMPROVING
JUNEAU, Nov., 15, (JP)—Fred
Baker, Boy Scout executive of
Seattle, who has been here for
10 days in the interests of Boy
Scout activities, was operated on
for appendicitis. His condition is
favorable.