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HOOVER’S BOON FOR PRESIDENT
TO BE ON THE WANE
AND HARDING GAINING
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 16 (by Associ
ated Press).—Senator Gronna of
North Dakota gave formal notice in
the senate on Saturday last that if
tiie Republican party nominated Her
bert Hoover for the presidency he
would vote for the Democratic candi
date, “provided he shares my views.”
He declared -that “he could not see
how Barnes could give proper atten
tion to the interests of the producer
manage the presidential campaign of
and consumer and at the same time
one of his distinguished associates,
the greatest internationalist in the
United States—Hoover.”
Senator Sherman of Illinois said
Hoover was having difficulty in de
termining what party to ally himself
with.
Senator Gronna replied that the
blue book cassified him as a “liberal.”
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NEW YORK, Feb. 16 (t>y Associated
Press').—Herbert Hoover's sense of
humor has been revealed in a letter
which he wrote to Cashier Hodgeson
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cla^mate.
Hoover pleaded guilty to the charge
that he had pursued his engineering
profession abroad. In reply to the
charge that he was a British citizen
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or had applied for British citizenship,
he replied:
“No. Many generations of Quaker
ancestors would rise in their graves
.at such a discovery. The British re
fused to allow me to enter England
during the war without a passport.”
He said he was flattered by the false
reports* that he had made ten million
dollars before he was 30 years of age.
The reports said that he had heavy
investments in Great Britain.
Believes in Hoover’s Sincerity
SEATTLE, Feb. 16 (by Associated
Press).—A special to the Times from
its Washington correspondent says
that the Hoover and Wood booms are
waning and that Lowden and Harding
are coming to the front.
The wane of the Hoover boom ap
parently is because of Mr. Hoover’s
showing little interest in it, Hoover
is interested in everything but politick,
and apparently was sincere when he
saidphe was not a candidate.
The boom of General Wood has been
badly Waiiaged, says the correspon
dent. It is beieved, he says, that no
candidate will go to Chicago with the
nomination assured.
Some think that Vice President
Marshall would like to head the Dem
ocratic ticket.
AERIAL DERBY
TO ALASKA IS
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NEW YORK, Feb. 16 (by Associated
Press).—The Aero Club of America an
nounced Saturday that the Aero Club
of the Northwest of Seattle had asked
^ofdpial sanction fpr an aerial derby
tram Seattle to Juneau, Alaska, and
sjgturn, to be conducted under its
^nspices, and the permission had been
granted.
The race will start on May 22, and
prizes totaling $35,000 will be offered.
The route will be by way of Skag
way, Sitka, Petersburg, Wrangell and
Ketchikan, and will be for seaplanes,
as the route will be over the water.
•The purpose of the race is to estab
lish the practicability of an aerial
mail route and to encourage commer
cial aerial navigation.
EXCITEMENTIT
SEWARD OVER
LEASING ACT
SEWARD, Feb. .16 (Special to the
Daily Times)?—This city is becoming
the center of the oil excitement, and
a mecca for oil land locators. Thirty
five men arrived here from Anchor
age last night on a special train to
catch the steamship Watson for Ko
diak. There They will charter gas
boats to go to Cold Bay and also Illi
amna.
yLocal people are skirmishing around
the country from Seward to and in
cluding the Kenai Lake watershed,
planning to make locations as soon
as President Wilson signs the leasing
bill.
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FIVE ARE DEAD
FROM DISASTER
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SEATTLE, Feb, 16 (by Associated
Press).—Mace Santmyer, a machinist,
and George Bunnell, storekeeper, were
killed, and three others were probably
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fatally injured and three others seri-j
ously hurt, by an explosion at the
power station of the Pacific Traction, I
Light and Power Company in this city
on Saturday last.
One woman was hurt by a fire auto
mobile which was answering the call
to the scene of the explosion.
P. S. Jacobs, a carpenter, died yes
terday as the result of burns received
at the explosion on Saturday. This
makes the number of dead resulting
from the disaster five.
HUGHlLUCE
IS MENTIONED
FOR CABINET
-WASHINGTON, Feb. 16 (by Associ
ated Press).—Hugh Wallace,, the
American ambassador to France, and
a resident of Tacoma, Wash., is among
those prominently mentioned as a suc
cessor to Secretary of State Robert
Lansing.
Assistant Secretary of State Polk
is also mentioned. I
SEATTLE, Feb. '16 (by Associated
Press).—Governor Bamberger of
Utah is here to attend the wedding
of his son, Julian, to Marguerite Haslo
of Seattle tonight.
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RANSOM WANTED FOR
LOS ANGELES MAN
HELD BY MEXICANS
WASHINGTON, Feb. 16 (by Asso
dated Press).—Mexican bandits have
captured Wilson W^elsh Adams of Los
Angeles, in Seacatecas state, and want
50,000 pesos for his ransom.
UNIVERSITY DEFEATS
AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE
IN BASKETBALL GAME
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COltV ALLIS, Ore., Feb. 16 (by As-*
sociated Press).—In a basketball
game here on Saturday last between
the Oregon Agricultural College and
the University of Oregon, the latter
| wqbJ|f a score of 37 to 21.
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PntSIDENT STAMPS AS UNTRUE
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WASHINGTON, Peb. 16 (by Associ
ated Press).—The senate on Saturday
last adopted a resolution asking the
President what agreement had been
made with the British government re
garding the disposition of the former
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German ships offered for sale by th§
United States Shipping Board,
Senator Brandagee said he under
stood the President had made such
an agreement.
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President to Make ^Emphatic Denial
At the White House today it was
said that President Wilson would in
form the senate most emphatically
that there was no basis for the Report
of a secret agreement between the
United States Shipping Board and;
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British interests for the sale of the
thirty former German liners allocated
to the United States by the peace con
ference. f *
The President’s denial will be in
answer to the resolution adopted by
the senate Saturday, asking for in
formation regarding the report.
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Despiti protests* the United States
Shipping Board today received bids
for tfr#*fcirty German liners offered
is&. The District of Columbia
court has taken under advisement the
application for an injunction to stop
the sale of the ships filed by William
R. Hearst. The bidding today was
spirited.
RAILROAD BROTHERHOOD STRIKE
DETROIT, Mich., Feb. 16 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The strike of the
Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way
and Shop Employes has been indefi
nitely postponed by order of Presi
dent Barker of the Union, in accord
ance with the request of' President
Wilson.
Action will be delayed until after
the general conference of'the railway
committeemen on February 23.
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Labor and the Cost of 'Living
WASHINGTON, Feb. 16 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Railroad labor will
take the initiative in formulating a
definite program as a basis on which
to continue the campaign against the
high cost of living.
The general feeling in railroad labor
circles is expressed in this question
asked by a union official: “Are we
as Americans to admit that we can
not control the profiteer?”
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ASK HOLLAND
TO TRANSPORT
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THE HAGUE, Feb. 16 (by Associ
ated Press).—A new allied note asks
Holland to intern the former German
kaiser, and suggests that he be sent
to one of the Dutch islands or to the
West Indies.
It is understood that Holland has of
fered to intern the kaiser at Doom,
where he is now living. Holland would
guard him and establish a strict cen
sorship over communication with him.
WOMAN BANDIT PULLS ’
LITTLE HOLD UP STUNT
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FRESNO, Cal., Feb. 16 (by Associ
ated Press).—A lone woman bandit,
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with a small revolver, held up the
Santa Fe station at Visalia on Satur
day night and made her escape with
thirty dollars.
SHIP CAUGHT
IN ICE, OTHERS
IN DISTRESS
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BOSTON, Feb. 16 (by Associated
Press).—The United States Shipping
Board steamship Orion has been
caught in the ice of the coast of Nova
Scotia and is calling for help.
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Two Vessels in Distress
BEAUFORT, N. C., Feb. 16 (by As
sociated Press).---The coast guard cut
ter Itasca is reported one hundred
miles out, towing a disabled steam
ship, whose name is not given.
An unidentified schooner is report
ed sinking thirty miles southwest of
Cape Lookout lightship.
Adrift in Gale
BOSTON, Feb. 16 (by Associated
Press).—The United States Shipping
Board steamship Redmond is disabled
and adrift in a heavy gale a thousand
miles east of New York. The Ship
ping Board steamship Elmport is going
to her assistance.
WIDOW OF CENTRAUA VICTIM
TAKES WITNESS STAND IN TRIAL:
OF “WOBBLIES” FOR MURDER
MONTESANO, Wash., Feb. 16 (by
Associated Press).—At the trial of
the alleged I. W. W. members for the
Centralia Armistice day murders on
Saturday last, Mrs. Warren Grimm,
widow of one of the victims of the
shooting, testified briefly. She iden
tified the vest which Grimm wore on
the fatal day and which was punc
tured by a bullet.
She said she left her baby with a
sister-in-law to watch her husband
march past in the parade. She did
not know of the sl^ooting until she was
called to the hospital where her hus
band lay dying. She was not cross
examined.
John Earl Watt, a veteran of the
war, testified that he was shot twice,
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but did not know the direction from
which the bullets came.
H. F. Gardener, a former “wobbly,”
testified today that he was in tha
“wobbly” hall shortly before the
shooting. Elmer Smith, one of the
defendants, he said, asked Britt
another defendant, just before the
raid, if he was ready for a raid. He
replied that he was “always ready for
a raid,” said the witness.
The state produced a witness who
declared that there was much shoot
ing from Seminary hill, back of Cen
tralia, into the line of marching sol
diers.. One of the witnesses, W. H.
Cooley, said he heard many shots
from the hill and saw three men with
guns running from the hill after the
shooting.
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EXCELSIOR, Mo., Feb. 16 (by As
sociated Press).—The Republican dis
trict committee of the Third Missouri
congressional district concedes the
election of Captain J. L. Milligan,
Democrat, and an advocate of the
League of Nations, over John Frost,
Republican, who opposed the league.
The election was held to choose a suc
cessor to Congressman Alexander, re
cently appointed secretary of com
merce to succeed William C. Red
field.
YOUNG M’VEAGH
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MT.MONADNOCK
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DUBLIN, N. H„ Feb. 16 (by. Associ
ated Press).—Charles McVeagh, Jr., a
graduate student at Princeton, whose
father is counsel for the United States
Steel Corporation, has been found
dead of exposure on Mount Monad
nock. With Charles Reynders, a Har
vard senior, he had attempted a snow
shoe trip to the summit of the moun
tain. They were lightly dressed and
were overtaken by a blizzard.
QUESTION OF
HUME IS NOT
YET SETTLED
PARIS, Feb. 16 (by Associated
Press).—The American ambassador,
Hugh Wallace, has delivered to the
foreign office a memorandum of
President Wilson, saying that he does
not approve of Premier Lloyd
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George’s proposed settlement of the
Adriatic question.
Italian circles are greatly disturbed
over the incident, as it had been hoped
that the proposed compromise wmild
settle the Adriatic question.
THREE FILINGS
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JUNEAU, Feb. 16 (Special to the
Daily Times). Captain John Finnegan
of Seward, formerly in charge of the
selective draft administration for the
territorial government, has filed his
announcement of candidacy for the
Republican nomination for attorney
general of Alaska at the coming pri
maries.
Captain Finnegan is the second Re- .
publican to file for this office, John
Rustgard having fifiled earlier in the
‘month.
More Seward Men File for Office
SEWARD, Feb. 16 (Special to the
Daily Times).—John Noon, member of
the lower house in the last territorial
legislature, today filed with the deputy
clerk of the court his declaration of
candidacy for the nomination for ter
ritorial senator on the Democratic
ticket.
E. E. Chamberlain, present mayor of
Seward, also filed his declaration of
candidacy today for the territorial sen
ate on the Republican ticket.
FISH QUOTATIONS
SEATTLE, Feb. 16.—Prices for fish
at noon today were as follows: Hali
but, 15^c; pickled fish remain same
as on December 22, and same prices
will apply until about July 1.
MANY RADICALS
ARE ARRESTED
IN NEW JERSEY
PATERSON, N. J„ Feb. 16 (by As
sociated Press).—Twenty-nine radi
cals, said by secret service agents to
be members of the notorious Lera
Nouva group, the most dangerous ter
rorists in America, were captured bv
one hundred picked agents *in a dra
matic raid on “red” headquarters here
Saturday night,
Every anarchist captured was
armed.
The men will be taken to Ellis island
to await deportation proceedings.