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Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1931-11-19

WANTED-W Woman to assist with gen.
eral housework, day or half day, 8
or 4 times week. Write News
Record. Do not phone. 5tf
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1931-11-19
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS ON
PAGE TWO.

l. Civil war, Spanish American
War.
2. Alexander the Great
8. fernando Cortez
4. Napoleon.
s. Sitting Bull.
8. War of 1912.
z. Nicholas II.
8. New Orleans.
9. Pancho villa. ~
10. Answers will differ. Yours may
be as good as any.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1931-11-19
WANTED

WANTED-A good milk COW. Call
Red 1852. 52tfc
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FOR sALE-Young fat turkeys, soc
live, 35c dressed. Geese Csc live
VT. H. P. Babcock, Red 1873. &c
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She Knew That Boy.
In church, at the front, her
brother, aged eight, is being christen-
ed.
Little Girl thoarsely)-"Behind his
ears, too, Reverend smythe!"
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1931-11-19

WANTED Work of any kind by day
or month by young man. Phone
Red 844. Sop
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FOR sALE-FoREsT WOOD. ALSO
trucking wanted. Phone RED 1893.
43tfc
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WANTED to trade Crosley all electric
cabinet radio for pullets. Red It's.
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FOR SALE-FIRST CLASS FOREST
and mill wood. See us about
quantity prices England and
Petersen stf
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ORDERS are now being booked for
baby chicks for 1881. All breeders
100 percent blood tested. vashon
Island Coop Hatchery, vashon,
Wash, Phone Black 7Sl. 52tf
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FOR sALE-Cow and calf and two
year old heifer. Black ISL. 52tf
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GENERAL TRUCKING. ALL KINDS
Of heavy hauling and moving. M. r.
Dunsford. Phone Red 1888. 12-1-tf
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FOR sALE-Large grade Guernsey,
very rich milk. Wallacker, Cove. SIC
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GEORGE WALLS IS BUYING PouL-
try for A. G. Frye. He will give the
highest market price. Phone Black
1893 22tto
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1931-11-19

FOR sALE-Forty five Rhode Island
Red pullets 6 months DID, will sell
OF trade for white leghorns, also fat
pork, Will sell all or portion. Call
Black rs, 5-6p
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1931-11-19

be as good as any.
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TRACTOR WORK BY DAY OR CON-
tract. Louis Deppman. Black 734.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-02-17
SHOW AT COLISEUM

Under Montana Skies" will be the feature shown at the Coliseum theatre tonight.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-02-17

SYNOPSIS: Whose murder CHS hand sent a stone image fatally crashing on Annabelle Qucrdling in her Dutch gar den? Was it the writer of the dtath threats the spinster had received? Jim mie Haswell, when Evelyn Blake, Miss Qucrdling's niece, consulted pre- vioue,y, is aiding the police in Che case. Suspects include the chauffeur who has been given crders to leave, and Joe AL len, dis arged gardener. Evo!yn's sister, Marjorie, tells how she found her aunt dead a few minutes after she and fricrd, Dr. NethertOn, had con- veigod with her in the garden. Evelyn and Lionel Duckworth, her lover, say they were in the music room singing when Mar jorie reported the tragedy. Maj CT Gresham in the garden aft CT the tragedy, does not eatis- fy the superintendent regard ing his actions during the quarter hour preceding it.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-02-17
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ladies room. T left the coffee anc went out"
 Singing, weren't they?" Shs nodded and Jimmie continued. Did you go to the garden?"
 NO, sir, not at first. The doc tor came. He went out with Miss Marjorie"
 And you followed, or"Lnoting her hesitancy-"did you listen to the singing? MT. Duckworth sings Iwell, doesn't he?"
 She looked little confused. "Yes sir. He sings beautiful. I did listen for few minutes"
 What was he singing?"
 T don't know. It's that song where he and the girl ride across Ithe desert. You can hear the horse galloping"
 q know" laughed Jimmie. "A song called To the Desert What did you do then?"
 Janet said that she had gone out to tell Ted Green, the chauffeur about the song, but that he was not at the garage.
 All right" said Jimmie serious fly. The first time you went to the garage Ted wasn't there. So you went back to the house. What was the song this timer"
 Janet went rather red "They were doing the same one over again"
 Then you went back to the gar- age and found Ted. Is that right?'
 She said that it was and that she had not asked him where he had been when she first called. After lingering a few minutes she explained that she had gone back to the house.
 What was the song this time?"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-02-17

1 Jimmie put in.
 He was still singing, but" The girl looked doubtful, It was about Roses in September"
 T know 1t. What happened then?"
 They started another song and stopped suddenly. Miss Marjorie had come. She said something about Aunt Annabelle and an ac- eident. So I went and told Hetty. Then We heard all about it."
 Ted, the chauffeur, she said, had received notice from Miss Querdling because he and Janet planned to marry.
 "You-n either of you ever thought of punishing her for what she had done?"
 No, sir. She was Miss Quer- ding" The tone implied re- spect. She withdrew when the superintendent indicated he had no more questions to ask
 Before going out to the garage to see the chauffeur, they questioned the housemaid, Hetty Smith. She had attended to the bedrooms and had spent the rest of the evening reading in the kitchen. She hao heard the singing, but had seen nc one.
 Ted Green, a big, dark fellow said that on the evening before hs had been busy overhauling the car Richmond asked if he had beer working all evening, and upon his repeating that he had. aroused his ire by saying, Think again. say you were not"
 That's a lie" shouted Green No one came until I was wanted to fetch the doctor" When Rich. mond insisted that some one hac come for him and he had been ab. sent, he corrected himself. T wa! here every minute except when
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-02-17
STUDENT OPERETTl TO BE GIVEN SATURDAY

February 21 has definitely been decided upon for the date of the high school operetta, "Windmills of Holland"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-02-17
BATTLING FOR ANOTHER TERM
 AS CITY. CHIEF
Big Bill'' Thompson Gives Answer to His Foes
 in Chicago
Continued rom Page One)

They advanced Thompsons in- terests among yachting companions of the young man, enlisted young business men, and in 1915 sent him into the Republican mayoral pri- mary. A bitter but victorious cam paign followed against Robert M Sweitzer, Democrat.
 Seated by almost 150,000 majority young Thompson quickly settled a streetcar strike by dominating a conference between the factions. When the "Eastland' rolled over in the Chicago river, drowning SIP, Thompson sped to the city from a speaking tour and organized relief.
 Big Bill" opposed the draft when war came, and withheld an invita- tion to Marshal Joffre when he brought a French mission to the United States. Thompson claimed that was the Councils prercgative
 He clashed with Gov. Frank O. Lowden over a pacifist meeting in Chicago, refusing to halt it. Low den sent troops.
 Opposition piled up against him for the 1919 election but he won, heavy pluralities in the negro and west side wards providing the mar gin. Freedom for Ireland" was his battle cry. Then Thompson re- tired in 1923, castigating his "ene- mics the trust press"
 Two rats in trap" designated as Fred Lundin and Dr. John Dill Robertson, former allies, were Thompson's stage property for the 1927 primary.
 And in the election he shouted for America First" and declared he wanted to keep the King of England's shoot out of Chicago schools"
 Backed Senator Lewis
 In 1880 he forsook Mrs. Ruth Hanna Mccormick, Republican Senatorial candidate, and aided James Hamilton Lewis, successful Democratic anti-prohibition candi- date
 In this winters campaign for the Mayoral primary he has displayed a halter to create audience interest and a donkey, as a campaign zoo." The halter, he said, was what his opponents, Lyle and Albert, wore, Lyle's reins running to one newspaper and Alberts to another
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-02-17
ALASKA CABLE RECOMMENDED
 FOR DISPOSAL
Sale to Private Communi- cation Enterprise
 Is Advocated

WASHINGTON, D. O., Feb. IT, The sale of the Alaska cable tc a private communication enterprise has been recommended to Presi- dent Hoover by the Depart ment Commission studying elim- ination of duplication of communi- cation systems of the Govern ment.
 Recommendations con t emplate closing of twelve radio stations belonging to both the Army and Navy. Nn
 The commission said if the rec ommendation is adopted it would save millions of dollars annually.
 Col. Frank Griffin, in charge of the Alaska Cable in Seattle, said steps have already been taken to eliminate duplication and further said the Army has taken over com- munications at Sitka and the Navy station there has been closed. The Army is completing a station at Kodiak where the Navy station will be closed.
 Whether private companies have attempted to purchase the Alaska Cable is not verified.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-02-17

as a gentleman should Then. last night, I started to walk over, al- though I was uncertain what to say to her. I suppose I walked slowly for that reason. It was deyllish difficult"
 Then" said Superintendent Richmond, that is the reason you waited on the lawn and did not go straight to the Dutch garden?"
 Tt is. Now, poor soul, she is dead.a His voice dropped If I was reluctant to tell you, even in con- fidence, you will appreciate my reason"
 Richmond again asked the major if he had seen anyone in the gar den. A negative answer made the question more specific.
 Did you, for instance, see a woman passing near the house, l mean. before Marjorie passed?"
 NO, l saw nobody"
 The major glared in the old manner as he left the room.
 Richmond grinned. Fancy his proposing to Miss Querdling' Hs told Constable Roscoe to summon the chauffeur. If anyone here did it, he seems the most likely" ht explained, but at Jimmie's sugges. ton he decided to question tn; maid, Janet.
 Pretty Janet Raynes, made ner. vous by the circumstances, wa! put in a defensive attitude by tht superintendent's severity. She hae been Miss Querdling's parlormait for eighteen months and had gons but of the house for only a shor time on the night before, but hat not gone near the Dutch garden
 She said that on the night befort there had been only one caller, MT Duckworth, and that Miss Marjori' had told her to take some coffee to him and her sister in the youni
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-02-17
Chapter ' SHATTERED ROMANCE

This is insolent," fumed the major as Richmond indicated that his evasion was unsatisfactory
 Suddenly the major stopped short and glared through his monocle. Then he started abruptly
 Very well, I'll tell you. Miss Querdling had been a friend of mine for years and twice 8 week I called on her. Last Tuesday l asked her to marry me-
 His glare at Jimmie brought only an encouraging nod.
 "She declined I took her refusal
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-02-17

went to the cottage to get a ham, mer Ben had borrowed"
 So you admit you were not there all the time What threatening language did you use to Miss Querdling?" Richmond asked.
 T didn't threaten. I only said If she wanted to prevent folk mar rying, she was a meddlesome old fool" Richmond pressed him closely, but there were no more contradictions. He said that in going for the doctor he followed the footpath just inside the links. He hesitated momentarily as Jim mic asked whether he had seen anyone.
 No, but there was a car off the path just inside the links"
 Another carl" exclaimed Rich mond. Whose could it have been?" Copyright, 1880, J. B. Lippincott
 Company
 Tomcrrow's chapter reveals
 Notherton's reluctance to tell all
 he knows.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-02-17

Tomcrrow's chapter reveals Notherton's reluctance to tell all he knows.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-02-17
DOUGLAS NEVIS :
STUDENTS VISIT COURT

Miss Macdonald and Mrs. Eng strom yesterday took two classes to visit the Federal Court and jail in Juneau. Although the students did not hear complete case, they nevertheless learned something of court procedure.
 In the evening the Basketball girls, subs and coach were guests Of Felix Gray at the Capitol the ater
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-02-17
WRANGELL RESIDENT IS
 SENT TO MORNINGSIDE

Thomas Arnold, Wrangell, was yesterday adjudged insane by a jury in the United States Com missioner's Court and committed to Morningside Sanitariurn. He will be taken south on the steam CT Northwestern by Deputy United States Marshal c. V. Brown.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-02-17
MOTHER OF SEC. .
 D0AKS IS DEAD

BRISTOL. Virginia, Feb. IT, Mrs Elizabeth Doak, aged 86 years, mother of Secretary of Labor Will liam N. Doak, died here last night as the result of pneumonia.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-02-17
RECovERs FROM ILLNESS

Mrs. Rose Davis, who has been i'll since Friday, resumed her teach ing in the government school this morning. During her illness, Mrs. Davis was under the care of Mrs R. R. Brown at the latter's home.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-04-22
EXPANSION SHOWN
BY CHAIN STORES

WASHINGTON, April %. U.R)-
The rapid growth Of the chain store
in the United States is shown in
a commerce department survey dis
closing that approximately 80 per
cent of the nations retail business
falls to this development of the
modern mass production and mass
selling era.
The independent store, which still
in many places maintains the con-
facts of the once familiar general
store that occupied at one time a
place in social life of Americas
towns, continues to get the larger
share of the business, or 81 per cent,
A very close division Of the ter
ritory in which each flourishes best
is known in the survey, which
covered 485 of the 983 cities of TO-
900 population and over. The in
dependent stores do the most busi-
ness in the smaller cities, with the
chain store doing the largest busi-
ness in the big cities. A general
theory was deduced that the larger
city, the larger the proportion OF
business that falls to the chain
store.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-04-22
DRUG ADDICTS
INVADE HOME OF
HEALTH OFFICER

PASADENA, April %. U.P)-
Three bandits early today impri-
soned DR.. Jay Dunshee, city health
officer, and three members of his
family in their own living room
while they ransacked the home and
then. before departing. locked the
quartet in a clothes closet, according
to police.
The four, DR.. Dunshee, his wife,
Eral, son, Wade, age 20, and an
aunt. Mrs. Bird Ellis, were playing
pinochle when the bandits rang the
door bell shortly after midnight.
DR.. Dunshee opened the door to
them and the bandits at the point
of a gun forced the health officer
into the living room, where he and
the others were kept under guard
by one bandit while the other two
searched the home for narcotics.
The bandits took a match, four
gallons of alcohol and an automatic
pistol but overlooked the narcotics
they were searching for, DR.. Dun
shee stated. The drugs were in a
medicine cabinet in his bedroom.
DR.. Dunshee said the intruders
looked like drug addicts and that
one of them said they were looking
for narcotics
After the trio departed, DR.. Dun
shee broke down the closet door and
went to nearby friends to telephone
police, their own telephone wires
having been cut.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-04-22
LONDON GIVES
WARM GREETING
TO FORMER KING

LONDON, April %. U.H--Alfonso
De Bourbon. exiled monarch OF
Spain, took his place today as one
of the most popular visitors to Lon
don in recent years.
Arriving from Paris few hours
after the British government had
announced recognition of the Span
ish republic, the former kings
business visit began with a roar
of welcome at Victoria station and
developed into something like an
American Fourth of July celebra-
ton that continued until late at
night.
The usually staid old capital ad-
mitted today that it had never TAX
en- Alfonso to its heart in such n
manner in the past, when he was
a ruling monarch. His last visit
to London, only few weeks ago.
was unostentatious, although the
former king has always been pop
ular here in social and sporting
circles.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-04-22
FAMOUS WOMAN
AVIATOR FIN f. D
FOR DRUNKENNESS

WINDSOR, Ont, April %. U.P)-
Lady Mary Heath, famous British
aviator, failed to appear in magis-
trate's court here today to face trial
on a charge of drunkenness and
her bail was declared forfeited.
Booked as Mary Heath, she spent
six hours in Jail before she was re-
leased on bail Of $3.50 When she
failed to appear, Magistrate d. M.
Brodie took brief testimony.
"She was in very drunken con-
dition," Constable Alfred Carter,
who with another constable made
the arrest, testified.
That concluded the testimony and
the fine and costs were entered
against her.
Reginald G.. Williams, New York,
her secretary, who was with her, was
arrested, too, but subsequently was
released without charges being
filed.
At her hotel room Lady Heath
was informed of the forfeiture of
her bond.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-04-22
Death Claims
Wealthy Cat

SAN GABRIEL, Cal, April
%. U.H Mitzi, 18-year-old
Persian cat, who was the reci-
pient of a $4,000 legacy from
her mistress, the late DIR.
Maude F. Cain, today was bur-
led under a plum tree in the
garden of the only home she
had known during her life.
Mitzi lived only six months
after her mistress, heart dis
ease causing her death. A GER
tificate of death was filed to-
day, clearing the way for legal
moves which will transfer the
$4,000 inheritance to Miss O.
telia Kuschke, lifelong COM
panion of DIR. Cain, who also
received the balance of the es-
tate, estimated at nearly $780,
900.
The $4,000 left Mitzi had
been placed in trust to provide
a home and care for the cat
until her death. The will was
approved in probate court after
a long legal skirmish.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-04-22
CHECK up ON
| CEESMAN MADE
| BY AUTHORITIES
Evidence Indicates Youth
Slain At Brawley Never
Worked In Jacumba.

That Jack Eugene Geesman, 18,
killed last Saturday night in a gun
battle on F. D. "Blackie" Bells
ranch, was one of the hijackers
who raided the establishment was
made more probable today when it
was found that Geesman had never
been given job on a Jacumba
horse ranch, as he told his grand
father, B. T. Kinds, in letter sew
eral days before he was shot to
death.
Undersheriff Rodney Clarke, di-
recting the investigation into the
hijacking raid and shooting fray,
received word Monday that Gees
man had written his grandfather
asking to have his clothes sent to
Jacumba, and saying that he had
been given a job on horse ranch
near there.
After check on all ranches near
Jacumba it was found that Gees
man had not been seen in that vi
cinity, and that he had not been
given a job on any ranch. The
clothes which he asked relatives to
send him were found in the post
office.
Another angle OF the searching
investigation into the shooting and
death of Geesman was the calling
of witnesses before the county grand
jury today. Bert Lemons, under
taker, A. r. Underwood, coroner,
Blackie Bell, on whose ranch the
shooting took place. and the score
Of men who were playing poker at
Bells place when the raid occurred,
were called to testify. Rodney
Clarke, undersheriff, who has been
in charge of the investigation, and
D. H. Wolford. deputy district at
torney vino has also aided in in
terviewing of witnesses, also ap-
peared before the grand jury.
What action will be taken by the
grand jury is not known. Wolford
with all the facts disclosed by a
four-day investigation in hand, was
thought to be conducting the grand
jury hearing. Wolford has been
working on the case since Sunday
morning. Absence of Tom Sharp,
special investigator for the district
attorney, is felt keenly in this in
stance, said Wolford today. In this
Continued on page g
Imperial Valley press., 1931-04-22
CONVICTED ACTOR
MUST SERVE TIME

LOS ANGELES, April %. U.P)-
Convicted on two counts of first
degree burglary, Robert r. Foster,
20, movie actor, today was granted
three years probation with pro-
baton with a provision that he
serve 18 months in the county
road camp.
Foster, who was convicted of
burglarizing two apartments. was
sentenced by Superior Judge B.
Rey Schauer to serve two terms of
from seven years to life in San
Quentin penitentiary. The sent
ence was suspended, however, with
the condition that Foster make
good on probation.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-04-22
COAST REGION
IS SWEPT BY
HEAVY WINDS

SAN FRANCISCO, April %. W.P)
Sweeping out of the northeast at
dawn, windstorm that reached
gale proportions in parts Of Califor-
mia, Oregon and Washington raked
interiors of the three states today,
with little assurance that it would
diminish before tomorrow.
Computations at the government
weather bureau here disclosed that
in the Columbia river gorge and in
parts of the Siskiyou and Cascade
mountains the wind was reaching
an estimated velocity of 60 to rs
miles an hour.
Though communication lines we're
down, hampering Tie clearance of
detailed reports, it was feared that
a gale of such proportions would
cause injury in the regions where 1t
hit hardest and would undoubtedly
cause some property damage.
In addition to the high wind, the
government readings showed, hu-
midity was higher through the af-
fected regions than in the last five
years, the two circumstances COM
bining to create grave fire risk.
The wind originated in north
northeast Washington, it was esti-
mated, and picked up velocity as it
swept down the center of the state,
acquiring almost hurricane momen-
tum as it travelled down the mar
row Columbia Gorge.
With the same speed, the gale
whistled down the narrow canyons
of the Siskiyous and Cascades, ac-
cording to estimates made with the
passage of the storm across the Or
egon- California line.
Its intensity should abate before
it reaches the Sacramento Valley,
it was estimated, though the upper
valley will see a cessation of the
hot spell of the last two days. So
spent will the storms velocity be by
the time 1t reaches the central Sac
ramento Valley, it was expected,
that the lower valley and San Joa-
quin Delta will receive only a negli-
gible blow.
At no point in its course, it was
thought. did the gale approach
nearer than SO miles to the coast.
The California and Oregon coasts
were swept by offshore winds.