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VOLUME 20. NUMBER 29
SEWARD,
ALASKA, TUESDAY, JUNE 2, 1925
PRICE TEN CENTS.
THOS. R MARSHALL DIES SUDDENLY
IN HIS ROOMS IN HOTEL WHERE HE
HAS BEEN AILING THE PAST WEEK
• * Sickness Brought on by Fatigue of Traveling and Speak
ing During Recent Tour—Was Sittting Up in Bed
Reading Bible When Death Came
WAS FORMER VICE PRESIDENT UNDER WILSON
Came Into National Prominence When He Became Gov
ernor of Hoosier State—Was Admitted to the Bar
At the Age of Twenty-One.
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 2.—(/P)—Thomas R.
Marshall, war-time vice-president died at the New Wil
lard hotel yesterday, where he became ill about a week
ago. A severe cold and heart trouble, after complete ex
haustion brought on by traveling and lecturing.
Death at the time was not expected, ,said his physi
4 cians, as he had shown considerable improvement and ex
pected to return to his home in Indianapolis, Ind., this
week. Burial arrangements are to be completed at Mar
ion, Indiana where his father, mother and sister's child
are interred.
Marshall was sitting up in bed reading the Bible when
the end came. Through his entire life he turned to this
book for consolation and guidance, and often studied its
passages in his office after the adjournment of the Sen
ate chamber, when he had a few minutes' leisure as vice
president.
A private nurse was the only one at his bedside when
4 the end came. His wife was in an adjoining room. He
suddenly slumped upon the pillows and expired with a
word, apparently without pain.
Declined to Run for President.
CHARLOTTE, N. C., June 2 {/?)—
The Observer today printed a letter
Thomas R. Marshall wrote a year ago
last March, replying to an editorial
suggesting that the Democratic fac
tions united on him for the presidency.
Marshall wrote: “I am not a candi
date nor have I ever been. I belong
to that school which believes the
presidency too exalted an office to be
put up through the primary for sale
to the biggest money bag. Mine eyes
have lived to see the time when, in
stead of people hiring their servants,
the servants are trying to hire the
people. What a man buys he owns,
and will use for himself. I am quite
content and happy in the faith that
good citizens are as necessary as offi
cials.”
Coming from Virginia stock but
a Hoosier by birth, Thomas Riley
Marshall, while a successful lawyer,
never courted national prominence
until it was thrust upon him in 1908
by his nomination as governor of In
diana and again later when he was
selected as President Wilson’s run
ning mate in 1912 and 1916.
Mr. Marshall was born in North
Manchester, Wabash county, Indiana
March 14, 1854, the only son of Dr.
Daniel M. and Martha A. Patterson
Marshall. He attended the public
schools and his mother had dreams
of him becoming a famous preacher
but the trial of a circuit rider in
those days did not appeal to him and
after being graduated from Wabash
college at Crawfordsville, Indiana, up
on his twenty-first birthday. The story
of his life from then on until he wras
elected governor of Indiana, wThich op
ened the way for him to become a
national figure, is a plain narrative,
, his entire time being devoted to the
practice or law.
Shortly after taking up law, Mr.
Marshall was nominated for prosecut
ing attorney in a Republican strong
hold but defeated. His next political
venture did not come until early in
-rf08 when friends suggested he be
come a candidate for Congress from
SUPREME COURT
DECISIONS MADE
IN MANY CASES
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 2 (ff)—
The Supreme Court today rendered
decisions in a number of important
cases. It ruled that the United States
cannot collect inheritance taxes on
gross estates partly situated outside
of the state’s confines; declared the
Oregon compulsory school law in
valid; upheld the trade association
method of cooperation in great indus
tries, holding neither the cement
Manufacturers Protective Association
nor the Maple Floor Manufacturers
Association violated the anti-trust
laws, and pronounced the stocks of
the General Motors Company Dela
ware Corporation subject to a Federal
income/ tax.
the Twelfth Indiana district. He de
clined however, explaining he was
afraid he might be elected. When it
was suggested that he seek the Dem
ocratic gubernatorial nomination in
Indiana, Mr. Marshall replied that
while his one ambition was to become
governor of his home state, he would
do nothing to attain the nomination
although his friends could do what
they pleased. When the state conven
tion was held, in Indianapolis later,
he was selected as a compromise can
didate between the forces of Thomas
Taggart, former United States Sena
tor, and the anti-Taggart forces, and
won in the bitter 1908 campaign in
which he carried the state by 10,000
while President Taft carried it by 15,
000.
During four years as governor, his
administration was characterized es
pecially by the enactment of legisla
tion looking to the moral and physical
welfare of the state’s unfortunates
One policy inaugurated by him was
that of never allowing a child to be
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TUNNEY AND GIBBONS FIGHT
BEGINS AT 6:00 FRIDAY NIGHT
NEW YORK, June 2 (IP)—The Tun
ney-Gibbons fight will begin about 6
o’clock Pacific coast time Friday.
TRIS SPEAKER LEADS BATTING
AVERAGE FOR 1924 SEASON
CHICAGO, June 1 (IP)—Traveling
at a pace which nine years ago made
him champion of the American Lea
gue, Tris Speaker led the league in
batting when the averages including
Wednesday’s game had been figured.
He had 405, Ty Cobb 395, tying him
with the youthful Earl Combs, who
led the pack a week ago, for second
place.
PRES. COOLIDGE WILL USE
SPECIAL CAR ON TRIP
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 2 (JP)—
Stressing the safety operative facili
ties of the railroads induced President
Coolidge to use a special car to St.
Paul for the Norse-American Centen
nial speaking next Monday.
CHINESE RIOTERS
CAUSE TROUBLE
FOR AMERICANS
SHANGHAI, China, June 2 (£>)—
Chinese student rioters today fired
from the house tops in three direc
tions on the streets, on a unit of an
American volunteer corps, wounding
Thomas G. Martin in back and killing
the horse on which Martin was rid
ing. The Americans and other for
eign units returned the fire with car
bines, rifles, pistols and Lewis ma
chine guns, which were quickly erect
ed in the streets and fired toward the
buildings from which the students
shot Martin who was a corporal in
the volunteer corps.
SHANGHAI, June 2 (£>)— Four Chi
nese students were killed in a renewal
of the mill strike demonstrations.
Three Russian agitators were arre.st
ed by the police who said that Bolshe
vist propaganda created the disturb
ance.
SHANGHAI, June 2 (TP).—A mob of
two thousand students and workmen
formerly employed in a Japanese cot
ton mills which closed owing to labor
disorders, yesterday attacked a Japa
nese constable throwing him into a
nearby creek. Climbing out he killed
one of his assailants wounding an
other.
Martin Citizen of Seattle.
SEATTLE, June 2 (fi>)—Thomas G.
Martin graduated from the North Pa
cific Dental College at Portland, in
1915, and began the practice of den
tistry here the next year. He served
in the Dental Corps of the Thirty
first Infantry, Ninety-first division, in
France, and at Camp Lewis briefly
after the war. He resumed his prac
tice here in 1919, and went to Shang
hai the same year. He lived much
in Victoria, B. C., but is an American
citizen, 35 years old, with a wife and
small daughter, w'ho are with him in
Shanghai.
LAND WITHDRAWN
BY SEC. INTERIOR
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 2 (#>)—
By executive order which the Secre
tary of Agriculture approved,200,000
acres were added to the Chugach Na
tional Forest and 675,000 acres of land
were withdrawn, being declared more
valuable for agriculture than for tim
ber lands. Thig land will be thrown
open for homestead, war veterans
preferred.
LOUIS F. HART IS
ARRESTED FOR
ALLEGED GRAFT
OLYMPIA, Wn., June 1 (#>)—A war
rant for the arrest of former governor
Loiiis F. Hart was issued this morn
ing on information filed by James
Selden, prosecutor of Pierce county,
accusing Hart of “violating his offcial
duty in unlawfully and feloniously di
rectly asking Guy Kully and Forbes
Haskell to pay him certain monies
from the assets of the Scandinavian
American bank of Tacoma.”
Witnesses indorsing the informa
tion include Claude Hay, John Duke,
and J. C. Minsh, former supervisors
of banking, H. C. Johnson, present
supervisor of banking, John Dunbar,
attorney general.
Selden said the problem now con
fronting him was to draw the infor
mation which would stick in court.
“It is a simple matter to charge Mr.
Hart with a misdemeanor, but the
charge proper is felony.”
The trial will be held tl\is month
if Hart is willing, otherwise it will
be continued until September.
Former Governor Hart surrendered
this afternoon to tlje sheriff of Thurs
ton county and filed a surety bond
for $3,000 for his appearance.
Many Attorney Volunteer Services.
OLYMPIA, June 2 (/P)—Vance Cle
land, who has been handling the pre
liminaries for Hart in the Scandina
vian American bribery case, announc
ed that Maurice Langhorne, of Taco
ma would defend Hart. Cleland said,
“Politics has gone by the board in
this affair, of the four attorneys who
have offered their services two being
democrats and two republicans.”
Langhorne has long been identified
with the democratic party and was a
delegate to the last Democratic Na
tional convention.
BODY MURDERER
TAKEN WRANGELL
WRANGELL, June 2 (JP)—United
States Deputy Marshal H. D. Camp
bell and special deputy Earl West ar
rived here Sunday night with the
body of Adolph Fait, whom they left
here Thursday to arrest.
Fait shot John Dahlstrom five times
at Little Port Walter, then fled to
the woods. Later he barricaded him
self in a gasoline boat and shot him
self through the head rather than
surrender.
SCHOONER RUBY
SAILS FOR ARCTIC
SEATTLE, Wn„ June 2 (/P)—The
schooner Ruby sailed Saturday, bound
for 14 towns and villages from Bethel
to Cape Shismaref. The Ruby car
ried materials for the construction of
buildings for the fox farm of the
Arctic Alaska Fur Corporation, of
Northampton, Mass., at Shismaref,
where the corporation under the man
agement of George Goshaw will es
tablish a trading post. The material
for the fur farm, which was purchas
ed in Seattle, at a cost of $25,000.
H. FOSTER BAIN
RESIGNS POSITION
WASHINGTON, D. C.. June 2 (#>)—
H. Foster Bain resigned as director
of the Bureau of Mines, his resigna
tion becoming effective July 1. He
will become chief secretary of the
American Institute of Mining and
Metallurgical Engineers.
AMUNDSEN STILL
EXCITES INTEREST
OF THE WORLD
NEW YORK, June 2 (TP>—The sug
gestion of George S. Maynard, mayor
of Nome, that the coast guard cutter
Bear hunt the missing Arctic explo
rer Amundsen, is possibly feasible,
Rear Admiral Bullard, the coast guard
commandant said, but a thorough in
vestigation of conditions will be made
before the expedition starts.
Trying to Catch Signals
MOSCOW, June 2 (TP)—Vigilant op
erators in icebound Russian radio sta
tions are trying to catch a signal from
Amundsen. The officials of the sys
tem believe the possibility of Russian
ships traversing the area in which
Amundsen may be found is remote,
as he is unlikely to come to the Rus
sian islands or the mainland.
LOS ANGELES, June 2 (TP)—Years
of close association with Amundsen
and close association with his work
prompted Haakon Hammer to the be
lipf that the expedition is marooned
in the Arctic or has landed in Alaska
It is time for a relief expedition to
start in search of the explorer, he
said.
OSLO, Norway, June 2 (TP)—Nor
way has, decided to send the Ingertre,
a 4700 ton ship w'ith a wireless, and
carrying two planes, to hunt Amund
sen. The Ingertre expects to reach
Norden, near here today, and start
for Spitzbergen Friday.
WATSON ON STAND
NANAIMO BANK
ROBBERY CASE
NANAIMO. B. C., June 2 (/P)—Ross
Watson took the stand today in the
trial for his participation in the
$42,000 bank robbery here in Decem
ber. He' told the jury he was born
in Washington state and spent most
his life there. He said he lost his
job on the Seattle city police force
as a detective because he was accus
ed of participating in the Bon Marche
holdup.
Watson testified he went to Bel
lingham from Seattle, December 9,
with a man named Nelson for an au
'tomobile load of liquor. He used Nel
son’s room after Nelson returned to
Seattle, and went to Gooseberry
Point near Bellingham and obtained
a load of liquor, arriving in Seattle
December 11.
The witness identified a receipt for
$50 paid on a car by him December
11.
PETE DE PAOLA
WINS 500 MILE
AUTO CONTEST
INDIANAPOLIS. Ind., June 2 —
Peter de Paola, a nephew of Ralph
de Palma, who was also in the race,
won the 500-mile automobile contest
on the Speedway here Saturday in
four hours, 56 minutes, 39.47 seconds,
an average of 101.13 miles per hour.
Bennett Hill was second, and PhiL
Shafer third in the hair raising fin
ish was witnessed by 145,000 specta
tors. Hill relayed Dave Lewis, one of
the principal contenders over half the
race.
The winner took $37,800.
Earl Cooper, one of the favorites,
hit a retaining wall and broke a stew
ing knuckle and left the race, after
keeping among the leaders until the
310. He was not hurt. This left 17
in the race.