davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Seward daily gateway., 1933-04-19
FORMER SCION 0F
 SOCIETY ACCUSED 0F
 ALL CRIMES CALENDAR
LOS ANGELES, April 19,-Accus-

LOS ANGELES, April 19,-AccuS- ed of grand theft, forgery and being a fugitive from justice, Dan ridge H. Bibb, member of a once prominent San Francisco family, was in jail here following his Se- cret arrest in Tucson, Ariz.
 Bibb was apprehended on com plaint of J. w. Hopkins. jeweler, that Bibb had rendered him g. worthless check on an Alaskan bank in payment for S5,8C0 dia- mond ring.
 Search of Bibb's person revealed $63 ,O00 worth of bonds and certlfl- cates, all said to have been stolen in a New York robbery 18 months ago.
 Bibb claimed he won the securl- ties in gambling game. but re- fused to say where. He added he believed the Alaskan check was good. The accused man had pur- chased a ticket for Mexico City when placed under arrest.
Seward daily gateway., 1933-04-19
TWO AMENDMENTS ID DOLLAR INITIATION
 WITHDRAWN SENATE
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 19,-

WASHINGTON, D. C., April 19,- The Senate currency inflatlon bloc abruptly retreated and with drew two amendments to the farm bill designed to cheapen the dollar.
 Their action came as surprise after the vigorous battle they had waged in the Senate Monday when they mustered B votes in favor of the 16 to one coinage of silver, and were defeated by 10 votes.
 Reports have circulated that President Roosevelt was preparing to offer his own bill for expansion of the currency. The White House said these reports were premature and the President merely is study ing the situation.
 Senators ByrneS and Thomas, members of the imitation forces, were summoned to the White House to discuss the silver question. An nouncement of the invitation was made after withdrawal of Thomas reduction of gold content of the dollar, or coinage of $100,O00, ,OOO worth of silver, left the city. Dem ocratic Leader Robinson. in behalf of Long, withdrew the amendment.
Seward daily gateway., 1933-04-19
REP. ]. $. HOFFMAN
 CHARGES 0HL.S0N
 HOUSE MEMORIAL.
RAILROAD MANAGER REFUSED TO FIX PRICE WILLING PAY
 FOR CROSS TIES

JUNEAU, April 19,-The House under suspension of rules, today passed a memorial introduced by Rep. J. s. Holman of Seward and was later wired to Washington to Secretary Ickes, of the Department of Interior, charging that Col. Otto F. Ohlson, general manager of the Alaska Railroad, refused to fix a price he was willing to pay for native hemlock ties and declined to acknowledge telegrams on that subject sent by Gov. Geo. A. Parks
 Failure to name price is alleg- ed to have destroyed the credit of 100 men engaged in tie-making on the railroad. Secretary Ickes was requested to instruct Colonel Ohl- son to fix a maximum price for native ties
Seward daily gateway., 1933-04-19
BUSINESS MEN 0F
 FOUR ALASKA T0WNS
 F0RsEE BETTER TRADE

SEATTLE, April 19,-J. J. Con- nors of Juneau, Territorial Demo cratic National committeeman, re- turning from Washington, said said President Roosevelt's new deal includes more than a sympathetic attitude toward AlaSka'S develop ment with the resulting gain to the entire North Pacific coast.
 MT. ConnorS will be AlaSka'S next collector of Customs
 He said that with lower com modity prices, gold has a greater buying value; Alaska prospectors who have been inactive for years, are planning intensive prospecting campaigns.
 we also expect better business conditions generally will create higher values for fish, furs and other Alaskan commodities. BuSl- nessmen Of Juneau, Fairbanks, Valdez and Nome forsee better trade conditions and are expecting to share equally in the Nationwide Democratic administrations new deal
 "He said he made recommenda- tion for Alaska districts and ex- peced that the President would announce the following nomina- tions of William Holzheimer for District Attorney and William T. Mahoney for Marshal in the Nome district. o D. Cochran, Judge; Hugh O'Neil, attorney; Thomas Gaffney, marshal.
 For Valdez, Harry Morton, Judge; William Whittlesey, district attorney; c. J. Todd, marshal. For Fair nks, J. Harry Pratt for judge; Ralph Rivers, district attor- ney and Joseph Mcdonald, mar Shal.
Seward daily gateway., 1933-04-19
FASHIONABLE EASTER PARADE ON FIFTH
 AVENUE NEW YORK

NEW YORK, April 19,-Various shaped hats, many of which defied description, rode on thousands of heads up and down Fifth Avenue last Sunday in New York's annual Easter parade
 The eccentricity of Springtime headgear seemed to dominate the situation as the heads who live Tn palatial homes marched with, and exchanged stares with ladies who live in hall bedrooms.
 The tendency seems to be to wear the hat in a forward position, yet, at the same time leaving much of the hair showing.
 Other general impressions gath cred by a casual wanderer on Fifth Avenue, are, that about three fourths of all costumes are blue, that puffed shoulders are due to sweep the nation, and that there is a tendency to wear coats re- Sembling dresses.
Seward daily gateway., 1933-04-19
RETURN 0F NORMAL
 TIMES |S NOT FAR
 AWAY, SAYS SCKWAB

NEW YORK, April 19,-Charles M. Schwab, chairman of the Board of the Bethlehem Steel Corpora tion, told the Pennsylvania Society at it's annual luncheon that he looked flor the return of normal times not too far away.
 SchWab, in his annual address, as president of the society, said he was eager to second the state ment made by Myron c. Taylor, chairman of the United States Steel Corporation, who predicted an upturn.
 We have reached the bottom of the worst depression we have ever experienced in this country, he said. We have builded a firm CT foundation for recovery. Some times I think we have gone thru this time without knowing just what it was. But we will now have time of great happiness.
Seward daily gateway., 1933-04-19
LIVES 0F AMERICAN SCHOOL CHILDREN IN
 CHINA .ENDANGERED

PEIPING China April 19 The lives of 200 American high school pupils and teachers were endan- gered Tuesday when Japanese bombing planes bombed TungchoW, just outside of Peiping.
 Bombs landed near the board ing school, reports to the author ities declared. Pupils are sent to the TungchoW boarding school from all over China by American parents stationed in the Orient for preparatory training for col leges in the United States.
 No casualties were reported Nevertheless the bombing aroused foreigners to a new pitch of in dignation as the Japanese advance moved scuthward below the Great Wall.
 United States Minister Nelson Johnson said he was considering further protective measures in event the air raids continued.
Seward daily gateway., 1933-04-19
WRECKACE AKRON FOUND 7 MILES
 SOUTH IF CAPE:
NO BODIES RECOVERED YET; GRAPHING IRONS FROM
 TUG LOCATE DIRIGIBLE

WASHINGTON, D. C., April 19,- Bits of wreckage of the dirigible Akron which crlashed on April 4, were found off the Jersey coast Tuesday.
 Naval officers were preparing to end two-weekS search for the dirigible when Captain Leary, com manding the searching craft, sent message saying: Believe Akron found"
 Sixty-seven of the airshlp's crew have not been accounted for. Captain Leary asked for a light house tender to bring a buoy to mark the spot where the Wreckage of the dirigible is believed to lie. approximately 27 miles south of Barnegate Light.
Seward daily gateway., 1933-04-19
DEMO CH|EFTk|Ns
 ABANDON ATTEMPT

WASHINGTON, D. C., April 19,- A rampant bloc forced House Democratic chieftains to abandon their bold attempt to amend the Chambers rules to give virtually absolute power to the leadership.
 The decision was announced by Majority Leader Byrns, who said the proposed changes in the rules "would d not be pressed at the pres ent time." He described the action as a sort of stragetic move made in the interests of complete party harmony.
Seward daily gateway., 1933-04-19
VIRTUAL D|CTAT0R|AL POWERS GIVEN UNDER
 PERKINS LABOR BILL
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 19,-

WASHINGTON, D. C., April 19,- woman Secretary of Labor, Frances Perkins, would be given virtual dictatorial powers over production, wages and hours of work in the nations industry and natural resources, under a bill she has framed for consideration today by the House labor commit tee.
 Representing as it does Presi- dent Roosevelt's ideas, it constl- tutes an unprecedented social and economic venture that surprised ardent advocates of the new deal as it's provisions became known.
 Miss Perkins is given power to control production as Secretary o1 Labor and there is no limit to her authority other than the orders must be in public welfare; the means is left to her.
Seward daily gateway., 1933-04-19
GOLD PURCHASE

LONDON, April 19,-The largest single days purchase of gold, to- taling 100000 pounds sterling, in bar gold, since the suspension of the gold standard, was made by the Bank of England.
 The operation was understood to be designed to check the rise of the pound by the purchase of gold standard currencies. such as; the dollar and franc. and the impend- ing repurchaSe of gold.
Seward daily gateway., 1933-04-19
SUDDEN PLUNGE OF AMERICAN DOLLAR
 LATEST MkNEUvER

LONDON, April 19, A sudden plunge of the American dollar on British and European exchanges was suspected by trained econo-- mic observers as being the latest maneuvers in the protracted dip lomatic and financial duel between the United States and Great Brit ain.
 The duel is based on three fac tors it was emphasized, namely, war debts. gold standard and world trade.
 The dollar closed at 3.47 1-2 to the pound sterling after opening at 3.44 1-2; in Paris it closed at 25.25 after opening at 2528 francs to the dollar.
Seward daily gateway., 1933-04-19
ATTORNEY AT JUDD
 TRIAL GOT EXCITED

FLORENCE, Ariz., April 19,- Winnie Ruth Judd's sanity hear ing recessed yesterday in all up- roar, after County Attorney Will c. Truman had announced ii, open court that Mrs. Judd's counsel had requested a lookup order for the jury.
 E. w. Mcfarland of Mrs. Judas counsel leaped to his feet. That is the most gross error ever saw committed in court of law." he declared.
 Tt is an error," Judge Green said, but it is done now. He ln- structed the jury to disregard the matter.
Seward daily gateway., 1933-04-19
EMBARGO 0N RUSSIAN
 GOODS BY ENGLAND

LONDON, April 19,-Great Brit ain will place an embargo on Rus sian goods today in official retalia- tion for the prison sentences or dered yesterday for William Henry Thornton and William Lionel Mac Donald, found guilty of espoinage, bribing and sabotage by Soviet court.
 The embargo will be issued by proclamation at an extraordinary meeting of the Privy Council, hur- riedly summoned to meet at Wind sor Castle this morning, where the sanction of King George to the en- bargO will be given.
Seward daily gateway., 1933-04-19
MAIN BODY

Grappllng irons from the tug Sagamore encountered 'an object large enough to be the main body of the sunken dirigible Akron" the tug Captain reported. A mes sage from the tug to the USS Port land, which is the flagship of the searching fleet now in Atlantic waters, reported that while drag ging the floor of the ocean oil Barnegate Light it encountered the supposed Wreckage.
 Even before dusk they had ample evidence to back up their belief; pieces of fabric, a mass of wire, a long section of duralumin, and most of the control car.
Seward daily gateway., 1933-04-19
COMPUTED

SPRINGFIELD, H., April 19,- Coy. Henry Horner commuted to life imprisonment the death sen tence of Russell McWilliamS, boy slayer, who was to have been cleo trocuted at Joliet shortly after midnight Thursday.
 It was the third time young Nc Williams who shot and killed Will jam s. Sayles, motorman, in g. streetcar holdup in Rockford, when the slayer was 16, had been saved from death.
Seward daily gateway., 1933-04-19
TROY TAKES OATH

JUNEAU, April 19,-B efore a packed gallery in the House, John Troy became Governor of Alaska The oath of office was administer ed by Senator DeVane. Former Gov. Geo. A. Parks, was the first to congratulate Governor Troy and wishing him success. A general reception for the new Governor followed after which Governor Troy was taken to the executive offices to begin his duties.
Seward daily gateway., 1933-04-19
RUTH JUDD GRANTED
 4 SECOND RETRIEVE

PHOENIX, Ariz., April 19,--Win- nie Ruth Judd, condemned to hang Friday for the muroer of Agnes Ann Leroi, a fellow nurse, today was granted a weeks re- prieve by the Arizona Board of PardonS and Paroles.
 This was the second reprieve granted her. She originally was scheduled to hang on April II. but the Board postponed the execution until April 21 because the 14th was Good Friday.
Seward daily gateway., 1933-04-19
MARCH EXPORTS F0R
 1888 EXCEED 1s32

If the value of the shipments of ssmerchandise and gold and silver from Alaska can be considered a Megister for the Territory's buSi- business is beginning to look According to the report of Col ,ector of Customs J. c. Mcbride, March 1883, exports for the month
 -1onnted to $836, ,264, and exceed
 ch exports for 1882 by $l14,8l5;;
 id. valued at $379.492, and
 M ad salmon worth $224,424,
 the list of Alaska exports TOT
Seward daily gateway., 1933-04-19
OPERATION GIRLS EYE
 ORDERED BY COURT

BROOKLYN, April 19,-An eye operation to save the life of two- year old Helen Vasco, was ordered by the Appllate Division of the Supreme Court, upholding a decis- ion of Judge George w. Smyth of the Children's court in Westches- ter County.
 The parents of Helen had oppos- ed the operation to remove a tumor that threatened to injure the brain, declaring they would rather "God take her" than permit her to live with only one eye.
Seward daily gateway., 1933-04-19
WILL RECOMMEND
 CURRENCY EXPANSION

WASHINGTON, D. C., April 19,- President Roosevelt has assured in flationists in Congress he soon will recommend a method of controlled currency expansion.
 The White House declared the President was considering the ln- flation question, but had not yet agreed on a definite plan.
 Speaker Rainey today said, "We are going to have some form ot imitation. The President is study ing it. What form it will take don't know"
Seward daily gateway., 1933-04-19
MOTHER TESTIFIES

FLORENCE, Ariz., April 19,-An insanity taint was revealed by the aged mother of Winne Ruth Judd, who went on record at her daugh- ter,s sanity hearing as the basis for expert testimony that the slay- CT is deranged mentally.
 Doctor Harry Pinkert, alienist, declared her behavior aided him in being convinced of the con- deuned woman'S insanity.
Seward daily gateway., 1933-04-19
FOUR KILLED CRASH

VAI.MEYER IT., April 19,-Four persons were killed when an air plane crashed in a wheat field five miles south of here and burst into flames. Occupants of the plane were burned beyond recognition, William Schaefer, farmer, said the pilot apparently attempted to make forced landing because of engine trouble.
Seward daily gateway., 1933-04-19
A MERE JAUNT

HONOLULU, April 19,-T l. ir y Naval seaplanes were to soar from Pearl Harbor, near iere, at dawn today for a nonstop flight to Fri gate Shoals, a tiny United States possession 800 miles westward. Surface craft departed previously to form protective links along the course, as part of prepara tions against mishap.
Seward daily gateway., 1933-04-19
GUARDED

PHILADELPHIA, Aprl 19,-A po- lice guard was thrown around Nit ten Hall at Temple University where Frances Perkins, secretary of labor, was speaking before club women. The action was taken af- ter letters threatening violence to Miss Perkins had been turned over to Assistant Superintendent of Po- lice Joseph Lestrange.
Seward daily gateway., 1933-04-19
FOR POOR RELIEF

ST. PAUL, April 19,-The Senate passed the bill authorizing $1,5OO,- GOO poor relief for the next two years and sent it to the House. This is the measure the Governor referred to when he threatened to declare martial law and confis- cate wealth unless the needy was provided for.
Seward daily gateway., 1933-04-19
VIOLENCE MINE AREA

ST. CLAIRSVILLE,O O., April 19,- A house was bombed. two miners were beaten and three others were arrested as violence broke out in the Eastern Ohio mine area. Deputy sheriffs and National guard observers patrolled the town.
Seward daily gateway., 1933-04-19
BASEBALL

National League New York 3, Phillies 2. Chicago 3, Pittsburgh l. All other games rained out.
 American League New York 2, Philadelphia l, Boston 6, Washington 4. Chicago 12, Detroit o. St. Louis 1, Cleveland 0.
 Pacific Coast League Hollywood 3, Portland 4. Missions 16, Seattle 2. Sacramento IT, Los Angeles ' Oakland 9, San Francisco 5.
Seward daily gateway., 1933-04-19
FEAR, NOT INSANITY

FLORENCE, Ariz., April 19,-Af- ter observing Ruth Judd for four days at the sanity hearing, Doctor Paul Bowers, phsySciatist, declar- ed he will testify she is sane. He said she is suffering from state of great fear and is thoroughly frightened.
Seward daily gateway., 1933-04-19
MAY CEASE OPERATIONS

BELL1NGHAM, Wn., 'AprlI 19,- The fish tax bill, now before the Alaska Territorial Senate, Is a blow to the salmon industry. Archie Shiels, president of the American Pacific Fisheries said, and packers will be forced to cease operations in Alaska if the measure becomes a law, he said.
Seward daily gateway., 1933-04-19
INTERRUPTS SEARCH

COLON BECKER, Algeria, April 19,-A violent sand storm over the Sahara Desert interrupted search for Captain William H. Lancaster, British flyer. Captain Lancaster has been missing six days on a projected flight from London to Cape Town.
Seward daily gateway., 1933-04-19
BEST IN WORLD

WASHINGTON, D. C., April 19,- Commander Ralph D. Weyerbacher Navy Department airship expert, testified before a Naval court of inquiry that the dirigible Akron was better built and constructed of finer materials than any simi- lar airship in the world.
Seward daily gateway., 1933-04-19
LIFE SENTENCE

SEATTLE, April 19,-Marcelino Julian, Filipino. who on Thanks giving Day killed six, was sentenc- ed to life. Motion for a new trial was denied.
Seward daily gateway., 1933-04-19
PRINCE PASSES

PARIS, April 19,-Prince Zachar- iah Mdvani, former Aide de Camp to the Car and father of Prince Serge Mdvani. died at a clinic of uremia and heart disease. He was 65.
Seward daily gateway., 1933-04-19
RUSSIANS SENTENCED

A. w. Gregory construction en- gineer who played only a small part in the trial, was acquitted and released. Ten of the II Rus sians on trial on similar charges were sentenced to prison on vary ing sentences from one and a half years to TO-
 Ivan Zivert was acquitted and released. The woman defendant, Anna KutuZova, was sentenced to one and one-half years. There are no death penalties.
 Analysing activities of the Brit ons, the verdict declared that Thornton was the chief organizer and inspiration for the espionage and other crimes. It was declared that Monkhouse was aware of Thornton's activities and that he participated in the bribery but had not actually participated in the sabotage crimes. =. -- -.-.
 Reading of the verdict ended at 1.20 a. m. and the convicted Brit ons and Russians were hurried of to Liubianka prison in motor cars. The three men expelled will not be permitted to return to Russia for five years. They were ordered to leave Russia within three days.
Seward daily gateway., 1933-04-19
BRITISH SUBJECTS
 FOUND GUILTY BY
 SOVIET TRIBUNAL
SENSATIONAL INTERNATIONAL TRIAL ENDED; PRISONERS
 HURRIED AWAY COURT

MOSCOW, April 19, Five Brit 1sh subjects were convicted of sabotage, espionage and bribery by a Soviet revolutionary tribunal; two were given mild sentences and three were ordered expelled from the country. A sixth was ac- quilted
 The maximum penalty for con- viction on the charges was death before firing squad.
 William Thornton, second in charge of the Metropolitan Wick CTS electric company operations in the Soviet Union, was sentenced to three years Imprisonment. William Mcdonald, technical expert, was given two years in prison; Allan Monkhouse, chief of the organiza- tion in Russia, John Cushny and Charles NordWall, engineers, were ordered deported from the country.
Evening star., 1933-10-13
WINKLER BODYGUARD
ASKS TO STAY IN JAIL
Lieutenant to Late Slain Gangster
Refuses Freedom, Being Afraid
of Life.

By the Associated Press
CHICAGO, october 13.-The late
Gus Winklers bodyguard has been Oh
fered freedom, but he preferred to stay
in jail.
Chief Of Detectives william Schoe,,
maker ordered the release Of DAVID
Goldblatt, reputed pay-of man for the
slain crime boss, but he pleaded TO re-
main in cell.
He was arrested for questioning after
the Staying of Winkler. which authorl-
ties connected with both the suicide OF
Edgar Lebensberger last week and the
s25O,O0O mail robbery here last Decem-
ber. Police said Goldblatt gave them
little information of value in their in
vestigation OF the deaths and robbery.
Federal officials have predicted other
Sayings will follow. as the underworld
seeks to insure silence of those sus-
pected of completely in the robbery.
Federal officials sought seven addi-
tional men in connection with the mail
robbery. The authorities continued
their search for safe deposit boxes kept
by Winkler.
Before Winkler's silver and bronze
casket left for the mortuary for burial
rites in st. Louis, long line of curious
filed past it, including Margaret Mary
Collins, dubbed the kiss of death" girl
because six of her suitors died as Wink
Ter did-at the hands Of gangsters.
Evening star., 1933-10-13
U. S. ECONOMY MOVES
WATCHED IN BRITAIN
Conversion of Liberty Loan and
Working of N. R. A. Codes
Create Interest.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, October 13-The keen in
tereSt with which the British financial
and political world has been following
economic developments in the United
States was evidenced again today in
the attention newspapers gave to the
American Liberty Loan conversion plan
(The United States Treasury issued
a call Wednesday for the redemption
of $1,000, 900 600 of the outstanding S.
268OO0,OO0 Fourth Liberty Loan AZ per
cent bonds.)
Other phases of the situation across
the Atlantic, such as the working of
the National Recovery Administration
codes and efforts to harmonize labor
disputes, continued to attract public at
tention, but there was a peculiar in
terest today in the conversion plan.
There is a flip to British pride in
the situation because Britons feel their
country, by the showing in her recent
war loan conversion operation how
such a gigantic schetme could be car
ried out, has inspired the United States
to its present move in that direction.
Evening star., 1933-10-13

The kind Of slippers make friends with and become
attached that joy slip the evenings Leather
soss and rubber heels Black brown blue and wne
Tm MEMS STORE, FLOOR.
Evening star., 1933-10-13
SEVEN ARE ARRESTED.
Counterfeiting Charged. Part of Bank
Loot Recovered.

LOS ANGELES, october 13 R).-
Federal officers and City detectives an
nounced last night. seven men have been
taken into custody in a countertelting
Investigation and that approximately
$4,000 taken from a Lincoln, kans.,
bank in a robbery a year ago hao peen
found in apartments occupied by the
suspects.
Authorities had sought to trace the
source of a flood of counterfeit S5 blils
and the disposal of stolen securietes.. =,
The ment were held in the city jail
on charges of conspiracy to counterfeit
and possession of stolen property.
Officers said approximately $1,000 IN
connterfeit bank notes and more than
S25 900 in negotiable securities had been
recovered. No resistance was made by
the men, they said. The counterfeiting
activities centered principally IN this
area.