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Imperial Valley press., 1931-01-31
Southland Heat
Ended By Rains

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 81. WH-
Breaking a five-day heat wave
which had sent the thermometers
here as high as IS degrees, light
rains fell over Southern California
early today. ranging from .18 inches
at San Diego to Ill inches at Pas
adena.
Los Angeles received q precipita-
Imperial Valley press., 1931-01-31
Seek Bandit Who
Abused Woman

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 81. W.H-
A bandit who forced his attentions
on Mrs. Maurice Scare, 26-year-old
mother, at the point of gun for
two hours last night and escaped
after binding and gagging her in
a folding bed, was sought by police
today.
The woman was found trussed
between the mattress and metal
of a revolving folding bed by heI
husband, w. K. Scare when he re-
turned from work.
Mrs. Scare was revived at thu
Georgia street hospital and tole
police a masked man had entered
the house and embraced her at thu
point of a gun. He later assaulted
her, she told officers. Scare founC
the house ransacked.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-01-31

ton of .33 inches, which brought
the seasons total to $40 inches
against an average of 7.8l inches.
The highest temperature recorded
during the past "a hours was IS.
with q minimum of Sc degrees at
8 a. m. today.
Showers were predicted for to-
night and tomorrow.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-01-31
BERG WINS AGAIN

NEW YORK, Jan. 81. W.P)-Jack
kid Berg of White Chapel, Eng
land. defeated Herman Perlick OF
Kalamazoo, Mich, in a l0-round
bout here last night. 1t was their
third meeting and each OF the
bouts was won by Berg and all on
decisions.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-01-31

Fresno County tested 1866 dairy
cows in December, with an average
butterfat production Of 24.7 pounds
Der cow
Imperial Valley press., 1931-01-31

Valley Shipments Yesterday s
perishable shipments from the val
ley included 205 carloads of lettuce
IL cars of carrots, three of grape
fruit and one each of green's and
broccoli. according to B. A. Harri-
gan, agricultural commissioner.
Edwin Stewart-dry cleaning and
pressing. We call for and deliver.
Quality, service, dependability. Casa
Rey Hotel. Telephone 1l6. 2t6
Palm Tree Burns--A blazing
palm tree in an alley at Sixth and
Park streets was extinguished by
the fire department last night at
$3.50 o o'clock. Cause of the fire is
undetermined and no damage to
surrounding buildings resulted.
Baby Rice-Buttered or sweeten-
ed pop corn. always fresh. 5. 10
and 25c box. Next to Stage Depot
2tf
Pleads Not Guilty-E. S. Nelson
entered a plea of not guilty to a
charge of disturbing the peace when
arraigned in Judge I. Mayfield IS
court this morning. His trial was
set for February 2.
Held To Answer-T.. B. Terry.
charged with escape from an off,
Ger. was held to answer to the su-
perior court on $1,000 bond after a
preliminary hearing before Judge
I. Mayfield yesterday afternoon.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-01-31

Alturas, Modoc county, has COM
pleted a model grammar school
building at a cost of SIS, 900.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-01-31

Arraigned On Check Charge-E
r. Walton, charged with issuing
check on insufficient funds, was ar
raigned before Judge I. Mayfield
this morning, and February 5 set
- the date Of the preliminary hear
Imperial Valley press., 1931-01-31
Chambers Pledge
Aid To Dairymen

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Eucalyptus wood, $500 per u
cord: 5000 per cord. Ed Royce.
Phone 123. 9-m,w,sat
Seward daily gateway., 1931-12-18
CHRISTMAS PROGRAM

The Christmas program by the Sunday School will be given next Wedneshday, 7:30 p. III. A won derful Christmas Eve at home will feature this program. Beautiful lighting effects, recitations and stories. Everybody is invited to at tend,
Seward daily gateway., 1931-12-18
MISSING LINK" AND QUARTZ CREEK ROADS
 ONLY ! N|CE DREAM

There will be no Missing Lir.1" or Quartz Creek rods built next year, according to a letter re- ceived in the last mail by the Seward Chamber of Commerce from M. D. Williams, district engineer of the Bureau of Public Roads. The matter has been discussed with Mir. Flory, regional forester, and that is the decision. Incident ally, MT. Flory is expected to pay Seward a visit early next month, the letter said.
 Get this: "The relation of the Quartz Creek road to the lower Kenai Peninsula country, to the Moose Pass and to the railroad, as we'll as to the town of Seward, is keenly appreciated by this office as evidenced by our past activities in the line of surveys and investi- gations.'
 To which the Gateway, for one, answers "Baloney!"
 MT. Williams writes that Mir Flory will be glad to discuss the matter fully" with you upon his arrival.
 And that's another good line,
 In the meantime, down in Jun eau, they are considering building paved highways.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-12-18
NO GAME SANCTUARY

Owing to lack of petitions from residents along the proposed game sanctuary Seward-Kenai Lake Highway-the Alaska Game Com mission informs the Seward Cham Der of Commerce the matter has been tabled.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-12-18

Try our Seattre Ice Cream Fresh on every boat at SYLVIA'S
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-05-04

Old papers for sale at The Empire.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-05-04

ing their hands across the Atlantic. This time they are led by Lady Cynthia Mosley, grandchild of Levi Leither, whose mother married Lord Curbon. Both her parents are dead and Lady Cynthia is intensely interested in Socialism. Her hus- band, because of his wealth and aristocrtic affiliations, is called the Silver Spoon Socialist" This titled couple is very much concerned with England's labor troubles. Lady Cynthia had little interest in the first battle the English heirs fought with Joseph Letter She had re- nounced her title when her hus- band renounced his. She had vis- tied America, but summed high society for the Ford plant and the stockyards of Chicago. Evi- dently Cynthia's socialistic pro- clivities do not prevent her from decided interest in the American fortune to which she is one of the heirs.
 Back to Chicago
 It is far cry from the aris- tOcracy of Britain back to the days
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-05-04
LETS GO NATIVE. TONIGHT.
 AT C C0LIS EU M
Not Damaged" Starring Lois Moran, Will Be
 Feature Tomorrow

Let's Go Native" starring Jack Oakie and Jeanette Macdonald. will be presented for the last times tonight at the Coliseum theatre. It is a frisky, frivolous farce with music
 Jack Oakie is 'hard-berled' taxi-driver from the Bronnix who just can't keep his metrical jug gernaut from pumping into the front parlors of the Police Head quarters. His passenger is William Austin. He and Oakie decide that the cab smash makes it necessary for them both to leave town.
 This they do, boarding a ship for South America on which are James Hall, young society man; his sweetheart. Jeanette MacDon- aid; Kay Francis, a voltage vampire, and David Newell, a handsome ships officer who would very much like to win the favor of Jeanette.
 Stranded on Island
 Of course the ship encounters a storm and they are all stranded on 8 tropical island, and to be sure they find that the head man there is Skeets Gallagher who in- forms them the island is teeming with poll" bearing "ersters" and spouting with "erl" With him on the island is bevy of sun-tanned grass -skirted maidens, who speak English with, as you would expect, Brooklyn accent.
 And so it goes, one thing brings on another Halls grandfather ar- rives with rescue ship. Jeanette sells him the island and five min utes after they steam away from it's shores, it sinks under the ocean! Uproar of Fun Now that's the plot, but it doesn't begin to picture the comedy up- roar that Oakie, Miss Macdonald and their gifted pals provide. There are five songs in Let's Go Native" the work of George Marion, Jr, co-author of the show and Richard A. Whiting. Tomorrow night, the featured at- traction at the Coliseum will be Not Damaged" starring Lois Mor- an.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-05-04

when Levi Letter stared his career in dry goods house in Chicago. He started in 1865, when Chicago was just a stopover town for those on the way to the Pacific Coast and he grew with the city. He joined with Marshall Field in buy ing the controlling interest in Pot ter Palmer's dry goods business and by 1881 had cleaned up enough to retire from the commercial field.
 Mary Letter, the oldest daugh- ter, met and married Lord Curzon in 1895.
 When Mary's father died, it was discovered that he had charged against each of his children what ever sum they had received from him during his lifetime. So the $l,700,000 trust fund he had eS- tablished for Mary and her chil- dren was marked off her fourth part of the estate And so Lady Curzon and her Lord, then retiring Viceroy of India, had to borrow money and take humber lodgings
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-05-04
ONE OF MOST WEALTHY MEN
 IN J. g., DIES
George F. Baker, Dean of American Bankers, Pass
 .es Away Suddenly

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------1 0 ' LE1TER Te1INe ONE THE J NANCY LETTER anL1rE FkEN1o RECIPES FROM cooR

CHICAGO, Ill.-A second gener- ation of English aristocrats have sent their lawyers into this coun- try to carry on the international family quarrel over the administra- ton of the $30,0O0,OO0 estate of Levi 2. Letter, Chicago merchant prince.
 Five years ago the English heirs lost out. Lady Marguerite Hyde, Countess of Suffolk and Berks, led the court battle against her broth CT, Joseph Leither, who is one of the trustees of the estate.
 She was backed up by her three sons and the children of her dead sister, Lady Curzon. The third sis ter, Nancy Lathrop Carver Camp bell, however, sided with her broth CT.
 It was a long and bitter court battle. Lady Marguerite accused her brother of mismanaging the estate. She-or her lawyers point ed out that he displayed poor judgment when he tried to corner the wheat market and lost $T,O0O,- 900.
 Ambitious Marriage
 On the other hand Joseph's law yers told how the brother had ob- jected to his sisters ambitious mar riages to European titled men. In order to keep up the prestige which his sisters had attained in their social triumphs. Joseph was forced to keep his nose to the grindstone He claimed that his titled relatives were very dissatisfied with the pro- fits derived from the estate. Jos eph told story, one which you could imagine motion picture built around, a story of his efforts to increase the estate. A year after the death of Letter, ST., there was an explosion in the coal mines which killed 5l persons. Only the unusual efforts of Joseph Letter saved the estate from disaster.
 He was underground in the mine for 48 hours at a time,' said the lawyer, land by his own ef- forts and at the risk of his owr life, saved the shaft"
 Costly Trial
 This long and costly trial was concluded in 1927 when the court decided in favor of Joseph Letter The court pointed out that since Joseph's father had known of hi. sons speculative turn of mind, ane this knowledge had not prevented him from becoming a trustee, Lady Marguerite had to be content witt the decision.
 But now the English heirs to the American fortune are again reach
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-05-04
CAPITOL BILLS
 MAD W0RL D" TUESDAY NIGHT
Hook, Line and Sinker ; Will Be Shown Last.
 Times Tonight

With Hook, Line and Sinker'' showing for the last times tonight at the Capitol theatre, This Mad World'' will be the attraction to- morrow night at the popular play house.
 Metro-Gcldwyn-Mayer's all-salk- ing production, This Mad World, features Basil Rothbone and Kay Johnson. It is adapted by Clara Beranger from Francois de Curels play 'Terre Inhumaine"
 Phase of World War
 The picture deals with a phase of the World War rather than with actual military operations, the drama being based on an emotional crisis brought about as the result of a meeting between a French spy and the wife of a German gen. eral who is billeted in the home of the spy's mother on German occu- pied territory.
 Five in Cast
 The cast consists of only five persons and the time element of the play, limits the action to the hours between four o'clock one aft ernoon and 10 o'clock of the fol- lowing morning.
 The players are Kay Johnson Basil Rathbone, Louise Dresser Veda Buckland and Louis Nath- eaux.
 William de Mile directed
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-05-04

Old papers at the Empire office
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-05-04
PUPILS TO SHOW SPECIMENS OF
 SCHOOL WORK
Students Display and Par
 ent-Teacher Meeting Tomorrow Night

School children can do things worth while. Tomorrow night, the young folks will exhibit specimens of scholastic work, and the display large in quantity and varied in quality, is sure to surprise and in- terest all older persons that take advantage of the opportunity to see it.
 The exhibition will be in the Gymnasium of the grade school and will open at T o'clock. The articles will be from both grade and high schools and will be rep resentative of work in the language and commercial courses and in the home economic and manual train- ::lg departments.
 Nature of Exhibits
 Language and commercial ex- hibits will consist of exemplary papers turned in by pupils. Home economic displays will consist oi sewing work, which will include wearing apparel, and quite likely oi some cooking
 The manual training articles will be comprised of samples of me chanical drawing, various articles of furniture and of miniature boats A Style Show" at which there will be dresses made by grade ant high school pupils, and modelled by attractive girls, will be staged to- morrow evening at the Parent Teacher meeting in the Grads School Auditorium. This show will be one of the leading number: of an unusually interesting pro- gram that has been arranged fol the Parent Teacher meeting.
 Can Attend Both
 The Parent Teacher meeting, oi the top floor of the Grade School will not begin until an hour after the opening of the pupils exhibi. tion on the ground floor of tht same building.
 Persons can view the pupils exhi- bition and then go to the Parent Teacher meeting or they can gt to the Parent Teacher meeting ane then view the pupils exhibition, fol it will be kept open for some time after adjournment of the Parent Teacher meeting, as well as before and during it.
 "Teachers and pupils have takel great pains in arranging for tn' pupils exhibition said R. s. Ray en, Superintendent of Schools. "Th' display will contain articles of di versified kinds and of exceptiona merit. It is sure to offer some thing of unusual interest to every body. The public is cordially in vited. Teachers and pupils will b highly complimented and feel sin cerely grateful if there is a larg' attendance"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-05-04
TWO MEALS DAY BEST
 FOR STOMACH TROUBLE


 Skip one meal and drink water instead. Wash out stomach and bowels each morning by drinking water with spoonful of simple gly- cerin, buckthorn bark, saline com pound (called Adlerika,.
 Adlerika brings out poisons you never thought were in your sys- tenn. If you are nervous, can't sleep. full of gas, it will surprise you. Adlerika contains no harmful drugs. Get it-today: by tomorrow you feel the wonderful effect of this Ger man doctors remedy. Butler -Mauro Drug O.. in Douglas by Guys Drug Store. -adv.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-05-04

was increased first to $300,000 and then to $500,0OO. He became President of the First National Bank in 1877 and from that time it has always been known as "Bak- CTS bank"
 Immense Dividend
 Bakers bank" was the first American bank to electrify the country by declaring a $1O,00O, ,000 dividend and to increase it's capital beyond that of any other bank at that time.
 From that time on Mir Baker became prominent figure and the First National Bank a powerful factor in American financial af- fairs. The late J. Pierpont Nor gan began to seek his counsel and James J. Hill called upon him to aid in the expansion of the Great Northern and the Northern Pacific Railroads.
 MT. Baker began his railroad op- erations in 1882, acquiring, with 1 group, the Richmond and Danville Railroad, which ultimately went in as a basis of the Southern Railway Later he made connections with the Central Railroad of New Jer- sey and the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western.
 Director of 43 Banks i At the height of his career MT. Baker held directorates in 43 banks and other corporations including The American Telephone and Tele- graph Company, of which he was said to be the largest individual stockholder; the United States Steel Corporation, the Pullman company and numerous railroads. It was said that he held the record of at tending more directors meetings than any other financier, in New York. He became chairman of the New York Clearing House in 1900. Signal Honor
 i t "A olSlldl 1lOkIOA Wdo Pdlu tO 4sAA Baker on July 25, 1923. on which day he completed 60 years of ac- tive business life in New York's financial center. The flags of the New York Clearing House Associa- tion and of all the banks in the fi- nancial district were flown in his honor. He had a record extending beyond his 84th birthday of seldom having missed a business day at his office when he was in the city He never seriously relaxed from work and showed little interest in amusements until he took up golf at the age of 70. However, he found time to take an active part in the affairs of many charitable and philanthropic institutions and to those he was a liberal contrib tutor.
 | Makes Large Gifts
 | MT. Bakers largest single gift made in 1924, was $5,OO0,000 to the Harvard Graduate School of Busi- ness Administration. He assumed the entire endowment of this pro- ject when an appeal was made to him to assist in the campaign to raise funds, saying he was not ir- terested in being one of a party tc do this thing, but if permitted he would do 1t all himself In May 1922, he gave $1 100000 in Victory Bonds to the Metropolitan Mu- scum of Art, the only condition imposed being that the principal was to be held intact and the inter est used for the museum. A week later he gave $50O,000 in Victory
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-05-04

Bonds to the Society of the New York Hospital, which with $250,- 900 given in 1912, was used for the establishment of the George F, Baker endowment fund. On June 21, 1922, he contributed $250,00O to the endowment of the American Museum of Natural History.
 Sums to Colleges
 Other large gifts included $2,000,- 900 to the American Red Cross in 1917 and 1918; $1 1,850,0O0 to Cornell University; $700,oO0 to Colum m b a University for the purchase of a tract of land for an athletic field, known as Baker Field, and $1000O0 to Dartmouth College, to establish an endowment in memory of his uncle, Fisher Arnes Baker, grad uate of the class in 1859.
 It is said that the American for tunes which exceeded that of MT. Baker were those of John D. Rock efeller and Henry Ford.
 Born in New York
 George F. Baker was born March 27, 1840, at Troy, N. Y, the son of George E. and Florence Tucker Baker. When he was eight years old his family moved to Brooklyn his father engaging in the shoe business in New York. Later the family moved to Williamsburg, where the son went to school. He finished his education. at Seward University, a boarding school at Florida, N. Y.
 Upon finishing his schooling, MT. Baker returned to Albany. His father had been elected to the State Legislature and, after serv- ing as private secretary to Will liam H. Seward at Washington, went back to Albany to fill sim liar position to Gov. Myron B. Clark. The son first went to work in grocery store, then in the small bank and in 1859 was ap- pointed clerk in the state banking department.
 SculIing Champion
 As a young man MT. Baker took an interest in aquatic sports and won the sculling championship of the Upper Hudson.
 In 1861, just as the. Civil War was commencing, Mir Baker, who two years before had been in a railway accident and suffered ser ious injuries, became secretary at first, then assistant military sec- retary to Gov. Edward B. Morgan of New York. After six months, however, he returned to the bank ing department, of which he be- came known as the best informed clerk.
 While still young man MT. Bak- CT married Miss Florence Tucker Baker, who died several years ago. One son, George F. Baker, Jr., was born of the marriage. He had five grandchildren, two granddaughters and three grandsons, children of George F. Baker, Jr.
 In addition to membership in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. the Musical Arts Society and the Ma tional Academy of Design, MT. Bak- CT belonged to many clubs. He had town house in New York City and country estates at Tuxedo Park and Long Island.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-05-04
,on their return to India.

upon their return to India.
 Another heir to the Letter mill lions is Nancy Leither, daughter of Joseph Leither. It is too early yet to ask if little Nancy will marry an English aristocrat as did her three aunts.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-05-04
LegaI Luninaries Prepare for Battle

Fpbt for Control Millions Reopened Second Generation English Determined to Wre Administration ot Huge Fortune From American Branch of Family. Lady
 Cynthia Mosey Titled Socialist Latest Claimant
The Washington times., 1931-04-29
Times Check ShOIUs
Traffic LdU Ignored
On Downtown Corner

With automobile accidents on
the increase and injuries to both
motorists and pedestrians mount
ing constantly, The Washington
Times yesterday started a survey
to learn how many motorists are
lax in observation of traffic regu-
lations..
At the intersection of Thir.
teenth Street. New York Avenue
and H Street. a check of those
violating the regulation govern
ing traffic lights by starting be-
fore the green signal was flashed
was made.
Between $3.50 and 4 p. M, 80
drivers had their vehicles out in
the intersection or across the
pedestrian walk before the proper
signal appeared. Only one a.
minute could be recorded, be.
cause of the need for watching
signal lights, the position of the
machine and ascertaining the
tag numbers. Many more violated
the regulation, but there was not
time to jot them down.
ViOlatOrS Listed
The license numbers of the
machines noted violating the
The Washington times., 1931-04-29
BEHEADS
CAPT|VES
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steamship Amapala, said that the
heads of decapitated prisoners
had been hoisted on poles in sew
eral instances during the recent
bandit uprising.
Wireless reports from Blue
fields, Nicaragua, today said the
coastal towns of both Nicaragua
and Honduras have been cleared
Of insurgents, who are now con-
centrating in mountain retreats
awaiting shipments of arms and
ammunition.
TGGUCIGALPA, Honduras,
April 20 QN.S0.-Honduran
rebels, under General Ferrera.
drew their federal purSuers fur
ther into the interior today, con-
tinuing their slow retreat from
the San Pedro Sula region.
Military observers believed in
surrectionist forces were heading
for the Quimistan velley, where
they may attempt to give battle
to the government troops.
Near Confradia the rebels
crossed the Chameleon River, aft
erward destroying all craft likely
to serve their pursuers. There
was no encounter.
Minor engagements occurred at
Atlantid, and Olanchito, where
the rebels suffered defeat.