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New Britain herald., 1928-05-01

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 Mr. Herbert g. Holland. Derby. savs-"We have taken ice from y1ur company since coming to Derby both at home and at the fartor-. and for i've years have found the quality Of Ice sa'''- factory end service each moin- ing like 'Clock-work.'
 William F. McEernev, Mgr, Mnfri. X Co. Ansona. says "Thi. Is to express our appre- ciatign of inc em"ien' manner In which your Mir. West has taken care of our cooling sys- tenn"
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New Britain herald., 1928-05-01

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New Britain herald., 1928-05-01

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New Britain herald., 1928-05-01

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New Britain herald., 1928-05-01

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New Britain herald., 1928-05-01

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New Britain herald., 1928-05-01

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New Britain herald., 1928-05-01

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The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-09-17
FARMERS ARE NO W PUzzL.INC
 POLITICIANS P
Smith Has Cities and Hoov- CT Strongest with Women
 Farmers Cause Worry
By RON PRICE

SPRINGFIELD, H., Sept. IT, The ultimate choice of the farm CTS as between Herbert Hoover and Gov. Alfred E. Smith regains a highly speculative element in the whole range of Midwestern Presidential politics. Other fac tors weigh heavily, but unlike the farmer vote they are more or less fixed quantities. IL is conceded, for instance. that Gov. Smith will run strong in the cities and that Mir Hoover will run well among the women and that there will be certain switches on prohibition and re- ligious issues and for other stated reasons.
 When they talk privately about these matters the politians of both parties are pretty much in agreement. It is when they talk of the farmers that the Repub- lican and Democratic forecasts come most violently into conflict, and 1t is about the farmers about whose intentions both parties are now seeking all the information procurable.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-09-17
GOV. SMITH DEE
 FOR WEST; WILL' FARMERS
Democracy's M Messa ge to Heart of Nation Will Be
 Delivered at Omaha

GOV. SMITHS SPECIAL TRAIf ENROUTE TO OMAHA. Sept. F. Carrying Demoeracy's message to the farm belt and the best wish es of hundreds of citizens of AL bany who gave him a noisy fare- well, Gov Alfred L. Smith is head ed for the heart of the Nation to open his speaking lcampaign for the Presidency at Omaha tomor- row night.
 At Omaha, Gov Smith will make his first formal campaign address since he was notified in Albany of his nomination for the Presi- dency. Gov. Smiths theme at Omaha will be agriculture.
 Gov Smith will deliver five other speeches on the present tour -at Oklahoma City. Denver, Hel- ena. St, Paul and Milwaukee. The subjects for those speeches have not been announced.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-09-17

BERLIN, Sept 17.-German pub lie opinion has been profoundly moved by a living plea for the out lawry of war consisting of 150 war victims who assembled in the Prussian state council hall.
 A youth blinded and with both hands amputated aroused general compassion among the representa- tives of l9 nations affiliated with the International Society of War Victims. All members of this organization have experienced per- manent disability as result of war.
 Of 5,671.000 war wounded. it was stated, less than half, or 2,650,- 479, were in receipt of relief. Only few countries, speakerc said. had made adequate provision for them. In Austria, Czechoslovakia and in
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-09-17

mediately because of the attitude beginning to assert their rights. When approached by officials who suggested a reduction of rates on wives, they invariably came ont with this unanswerable objection: What We go for cheaper than our mothers!" and there was an immediate end to the matter.
 In general, young men favor the proposed change. They find the present inflated prices quite out of keeping with the cost of other saleable articles, and point out that if their fathers do not sup ply portion of the purchase price it takes them approximately seven years of hard labor to earn the number of animals 'recaircd to buy a wife.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-09-17
Death and Destruction from Last Week s Hur-
 ricane Reported
COUNTRY PEOPLE ARE
 BLOCKING INTO CITIES
Property Damage Is Esti- mated at One Hundred
 Million Dollars

SAN JUAN, Porto Rico. Sept. 17.-The death list is reaching 1000 and property damage of $100.000,0 is the conservative estimate as partial restoration of communications permitted some check of Thursdays tropical hur- ricane which spread death and estruction throughout the islands with 2,O0O,000 population.
 Famine
 The spectre of famine staiked through Porto Rico today. At least 100000 persons are hungry.
 Disease also threatened the people.
 One million persons are be- lieved to be homeless.
 A declaration of martial law. requisitioning and. rationing of food and drafting of all able bodied men are being urged upon the Government by prominent and leading citizens.
 I nt 4NdtiOiAdl budiu ndo Dttn ordered to protect property from looters.
 Efforts are being made to stop profiteering.
 Seven towns report hundreads dead. It will be at least a week before accurate reports can be re- ceived
 No continental Americans are reported killed or injured.
 Most of the food crops have been destroyed
 Half of the homes, even those of matched, have been destroyed or damaged beyond repairs.
 Country people are coming into the towns by thousands begging for food
 Hard pressed merchants gave them as much as they were able.
 One man with a bag of rice. bag of beans and side of pork. was literally mobbed by 25O homeless hungry people at Nag uabo Playa.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-09-17
NEW TRAIL IN
 MURDER CASE
 IS TAKEN UP
Search for Body of James Bassett Switches from
 Seattle to Tacoma

SEATTLE, Sept. 17-Search for the body of James Bassett, mis- sing Bremerton visitor, today turned from the wooded tract and deserted house in Snohomish coun : ty to Taeoma's industrial district.
 Tacoma police reported that D. D. Mayer, suspected murderer, had occupied a shack on the Tacoma tide flats less than a fortnight ago. The Tacoma police said Mayer and his feminine companion visited the house on September in a blue toned roadster from which Bassett is believed was murdered three days earlier.
 Mayer and his alleged mother, Mrs. Mary Smith, are still held in Oakland Bassett's automobile and watch were found in posses sion of Mayer in the southern city.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-09-17
Pickford Birthplace
 Will Soon Be Razed

TORONTO, Sept. 17-Mary Pick lords admirers must visit Toronto before January 1 if they want to see the plain little old-fashioned house in which the universal sweetheart" was born.
 Hundreds of tourists visit the birth place of the Hollywood fay- orite every day, and it ranks with the Parliament Buildings and To- ronto University among the sights which lecturers point out to par ties exploring Toronto.
 The tiny red brick house in which the Smith family lived when Mary was born is a simple two- story building tucked into a row of similar residences on University Avenue, all of which are to make way for the new General Hospital.
 Mary's former home and most of the adjoining buildings have all ready been deserted and stand neglected, awaiting wreckers.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-09-17
HOOVER TAKES
 FIGHT TOENEMY . COUNTRY TODAY
Republican Candidate h. vades Debatable New Jer-
 sey, Campaign Issues

WASHINGTON, Sept. 17.-Her- pert Hoover will take his cam paign into the East today. As Gov. Smith makes his first visit to the West, MT. Hoover goes to Newark to deliver the first Of three addresses he will make on the ground where it is admitted he has a fight on his hands. He will speak tonight at Newark and plans to make other speeches in New York and Boston.
 MT. Hoover's New York speech will be delivered October F and that at Boston will be on date yet to be determined.
 A half dozen cities in New Jer- sey will be visited by MT. Hoover before he returns to Washington.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-09-17
MANNED VICTIMS ASK
 FOR END OF ILL VAR

Bulgaria especially their conditions are said to be appalling.
 Frenchmen and Germans joined hands in solemn promise to com bat the war spirit, which was, they said, once again being fostered by military cliques in many lands.
 Chancellor Hermann Mueller re- ceiyed the delegates and assured them of his continued efforts to promote reconciliation and peace among the nations.
 An anti-war exhibition was open ed at the same time in the Karl Liebkenecht House. where the ho-- TOTS of war were pictorially dis played. One poster described how artificial silk could in very short time, be converted into deadly explosiTe.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-09-17
SUDAN GIRLS OBJECT
 TOCHEAP MATRIMONY

MALAKAL, Anglo Egyptian Su- dan, Sept. Because all efforts on the part of the government to lower the price of wives have failed, the current quotation on Shilluk maidens will remain at 15 cows.
 This price is not absolute, how ever, since occasionally Sudanese girls bring as many as 40 to 60 cows into their fathers exchequer. A few hundred miles to the south in the vicinity Of Lake Albert. young men may purchase wives at the rate of only five cows, or three cows and 20 goats
 Government officials were anxi- GUS to introduce the Lake Albert ,ltes here. but failure resulted in- of the s.,illuk girls. who are now
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-09-17
Ruth Elder Claims
 She Fed Spouse in
 Their 'SLean" Days

LOS ANGELES, Sept 17.-The Examiner says in a copyrighted ! story that reports of the filing of a divorce suit against -suth Elder, aviatrix and film actress. resulted in her disclosure of the back stage" story of the days preceding the ill-fated ocean flight of the plane, American Girl.
 And upon domestic tragedy and her husband Lyle Womack. she blamed the failure of the plane to reach France The craft landed in midocean where she and her pi- lot were rescued by ship. Wo- mack is reported to have filed suit for divorce in Balboa, Panama Canal Zone, charging cruelty.
 During three days of the most perfect flying weather ever known over the Atlantic" Miss Elder told an interviewer last night, my husband was haunting me and by threats prevented me and George Haldeman, my pilot, from starting on the trip. We tried every way to avoid him and take off but he always managed to pop up at the wrong moment That is why we made so many false starts. If we had managed to get away dur ing these three days 1 know we would have landed ih France"
 Although she said she was hurt and astonished" at Womack's k1.<... rl.-..-.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-09-17
u. s. INSPECTION .0F AIR SERVICE. BE MADE ALASKA
Airpla nes Be Inspected, Examination Extend
 ed, Parks Advised

Airplanes operating in Alaska will be inspected and pilots oper- ating planes will be examined in the near future, by an Inspector of the U. & Department of Com. merce, according to word received by Gov. George A. Parks from W. P. McCracken, Jr., Assistant Sec retary of Commerce for Aeronau- tics. The Inspector will visit Alaska in about two months, it was said.
 While aircraft and pilots in the Territory are subject to depart mental regulations, for several years there has been no machin- cry here to give air companies q chance to comply with them. There have been no facilities for inspection of planes, and it has been necessary for pilots to go to the States for examinations for licensing.
 Subject of Protest
 
 Several months ago. the Board of Territroial Road Commission CTS, of which Gov. Parks is Chair man and the Alaska Road Com mission took up the matter with the Department of Commerce and asked that some provision be made for local inspection and examina- ton. The Governor also made like recommendation in his annual report to the Secretary of Inter- for.
 In response, Assistant Secretary MacCracken advised Gov. Parks that the Inspector, while in the Territory, would endeayor to set up the necessary machinery for the enforcement of regulations To- cally.
 Sees Benefit Here
 That air transportation will play an important role in Alaskan de- velopment is the belief of MT. MacCracken. Aircraft will un- questionably prove an important factor in those sections of the world where existing transporta- tion methods meet with consider able difficulties, and the Depart ment is extremely anxious to as- sist the Territory in every pos sib1e way in developing it's air transportation he wrote Gov. Parks. He said, also, that it was interested in learning of the pro- gress of commercial aviation in Alaska and gratified "at the splen- did cooperation and assistance which the Board of Road Commis- sioners is extending to it's de- velopment"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-09-17
WITNESS HELD, FARM CRIMES
 IN CALIFORNIA
Fifth Murder Is Revealed by Northcott New
 Search for Graves

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 17.-Cy- rus George Northcott is held as a witness in the killing of four boys on his Riverside farm. He told the officers his son and grandson admitted to him they committed the murders.
 The detectives and score of workmen continue to dig on var ious parts of the farm for the bodies of the four Southern Cali fornia boys who were held cap- tives and then slain as claimed by a boy, employed on the farm, in his story told to the authori- ties.
 More Sensations
 Talking like streak and pill ing up sensation on sensation, Northcott added another murder to the four which his son Gordon Northcott is already accused of having been involved and he di- rected the officers in a new search for that grave and also on his Riverside farm for graves of suspected victims.
 To File Information
 The authorities said murder charges will be filed against Cor don Northcott and his mother Mrs. Louise Northcott.
 The fifth staying, according to the father. was in a miners cabin on the desert several miles from the murder farm and in it. young Northcott is said to have been aided by miner.
 The father said his son and the miner were living in the cabin. When the miners partner arrived and argued over the pro fifits. the partner was killed by the other two.
 The son is painted by tho father as an "ape man" ovel whom only the indulgent mother had any control.
 Officers digging on the farm yesterday uncovered half a dozen bones still linked by human flesf and a toenail believed from the foot of a 10-year-old boy.
 Mrs. Northcott and her son art believed to be in canada,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-09-17
FLORIDA AREA IS SWEPT BY
 TERRIFIC GALE
Hurricane Strik s E a t Florida Coast-Large
 District Isolated

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Sept. IT. After leaving trail of de- struction in the West Indies, the hurricane hit the east Florida coost between Jupiter and Fort Lauderdale.
 Communications were broken yesterday afternoon by the 1O0- mile-an-hour wind.
 This afternoon, a radio message piced up by Clifford Grange, an amateur, said an undetermined number of persons are injured and great property damage has been done at West Palm Beach and Palm Betch by the hurri- cane.
 There is no known lost of life but many homes are wrecked.
 Buildings left standing intact are filled with refugees.
 The message wass igned by D.. H. Conkling. This is the name of the publisher of the West Palm Beach Post The message also said hospital has been de- stroyed.
 Miami is isolated from wire communications north of West Palm Beach.
 Lack cf 4mlnuEic4t. .sar oAtc.+s- ed to Melbourne, more than 100 miles, while conditions south are unknown owing to wire failure
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-09-17
GOES
 DOWN, STORM
Soviet of the North Is Wrecked d-Crew Ap-
 parently Not Hurt

MOSCOW, Sept. 17.-Six men of the Russian plane Soviet of the North" missing since August p on flight from Vladivostok to Leningrad, have resumed their journey by steamer to Stavropol.
 The airplane was wrecked during a storm near Kolyuchin Bay, Sl- beria.
 The crew, apparently not hurt, walked for more than POO miles over the bleak, frozen plains to the icebound coast where the steamer took them aboard.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-09-17
VIRGIN ISLAND STRUCK;
 5000 REPORTED HOMELESS

ST. CROX, Virgin Islands. Sept. 17.-Six persons are known to have been killed in hurricane which struck here last Thursday leaving 5000 homeless and 100 injured.
 The chief commercial centers of Christiansten and Fredericksted were damaged. Many villages have been razed and several large estates wiped out. Sugar factories have been damaged and sugar crops destroyed.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-09-17
American Mining
 Engineer Released
 On Ransom Payment

LOS ANGELES, Cal, Sept. IT.. A telegram received by Mrs. D. J. Bumsted, wife of the Los Angeles mining engineer who has been held captive by Mexican bandits demanding 20.000 pesos, told of his release and start on his return journey. The release was secured by payment of the ransom.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-09-17
J. J. MEHERIN ON QUEEN

J. J. Meherein, well known merchandise broke pass C d through Juneau on the Queen on his way to Sitka after spending several weeks in the States. He will return to Juneau on the Queen next Thursday night or early Friday morning.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-09-17
Seattle AUidtor
 Is Missing; Was On World Flight

SOUTHAMPTON, Eng, Sept 17.-English authori- ties expressed anxiety today concerning George Storch, Seattle aviator, who has not been reported to the local airdrome since he hopped off Saturday on 27,000 mile flight around the world. He planned to halt at Paris.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-09-17
40 PERSONS BURIED

TAMPA, Fla, Septv IT. = A wireless dispatch, unconfirmed, from Boyton, south of here, said 40 persons were buried in school building which collapsed during the storm and which they had all taken refuge.
 A wireless dispatch from Deer vile states that several negroes are dead in that locality.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-09-17
koZoFF ARRESTED CHARGED
 WITH POSSESSING LIQUOR

Mike Kozoff was arrested yes terday on a charge of possession of intoxicating liquor. Four and one-half pints of moonshihe liquor are said to have been found on his possession He was released today on bond. and no time has been set this afternoon for hear ing of the case.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-09-17
LUMBER MAN HERE

A. c. Van Wrinkle, foreman for the Sawyer Reynolds Lumber Company arrived in Juneau aboard the steamer Queen.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-09-17
JOHN RUSTGARD RETURNS

John Rustgard, Attorney Gen. eral for Alaska, returned on the steamer Queen from short trip to Ketchikan.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-09-17
FIFTY INJURED

TAMPA, Fla, Sept. IT. - A wireless dispatch from West Palm Beach said two persons are known to have been killed and 30 in jured ass the result of a storm that hit and isolated that vii cinity.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-09-17
EXHIBITS FROM SITKA,
 CRAIG AND JUNEAU ONLY

The only schools represented in the large, attractive school ex- hibit at the Southeastern Alaska Fair were the Juneau Public School, the Juneau High School, the Parochial School, of Juneau; the Bureau of Education School at Sitka, the Craig school, the Native School at Juneau and one exhibit from the Sitka Public School.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-09-17

William McAllister, who Is with the Union Oil Company, left on the Queen for Sitka.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-09-17

J. H. GiIpatrick, we'll known citizen of Sitka, left Juneau for his home cn the Queen.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-09-17

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Evening star., 1928-12-21
Mrs. Willebrandt
Visits Her Home
Near Los Angeles
Disclaims Significance of
Trip and Denies Resig-
nation Report.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, December 21.-Here
for her first Christmas visit with her
parents in eight years, Mrs. Mabel Wal
ker Willebrandt Assistant United States
Attorney General in charge of prohibi-
ton, declared there was no official sig
niflcance attached to her visit.
She will spend the holidays with her
parents. Mr. and Mrs. D. w. Walker,
residents of Temple City. suburb, and
will return to Washington in January.
Mrs. Willebrandt'S unannounced ar
rival yesterday gave rise to reports that
she would aid Federal prohibition agents
in drying up the city over the Christmas
season. She denied any intention of
this. although she said she probably
would hold some conferences with Fed
eral Prohibition Administrator Maj.
Frank McReynolds and United States
District Attorney Samuel McNabb.
This is the first time in eight years, "
Mrs. Willebrandt said, that I've been
able to be at home for Christmas. There
is no official significance attached to
the trip. I plan to return to Washing
ton during the early part OF January"
Questioned concerning a report that
she had offered her resignation in order
to open private law Offices here and in
Washington. she declared the reports
we're positively unauthorized" =" She
added: Il cannot imagine where such
reports originate"