VOLUME XIX. NUMBER 179.
PRICE TEX CENTS
SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JULY 31, 1924
CUTTER ALGONQUIN
TO AID MACLAREN
WHEN ARRIVES ATTU
NOW DOING MEDICAL AND DEN
TAL SURGERY AMONG THE
NATIVES TO WESTWARD
ST. PAUL, July-31—The Cutter Al
gonquin, having given medical and
dental attention to 85 Aleuts at Na
zan harbor, Atka island, is proceeding
to Kisak Island between Atka and At
tu, where aid will be given to any per
sons in need.
The schedule calls for the arrival
* this coming Saturday of the Algon
quin at Attu Island, where assistance
will be given MacLaren, the British
globe flyer, if he arrives during the
Algonquin’s stay there.
BROTHER M’ADOO WILL
SUPPORT LAFOLLETTE
CHICAGO, July 31—Malcolm K, a
brother of McAdoo, in a letter re
ceived by prominent democrats here,
has bolted the Democratic ticket and
will support Lafollette.
FIRST WITNESS FOR
DEFENSE CALLED IN
CHICAGO MURDER CASE
CHICAGO, July 31—The state has
closed its case and the first witness
has been called for' the defense this
morning, in the trial of Loeb and Leo
pold.
Knocked Off Train by
I. W. W., Dies as Result
SEATTLE, July 31—Knocked off
a Northern Pacific train by an I. W.
W. because he did not belong to the
organization and refused to join, Mike
Robinson died today, from injuries
received under the wheels of the
train.
Federal authorities are now search
ing for the man answering the de
scription given by Robinson.
MARSHAL AND PROHIBITION
OFFICER SHOT FROM AMBUSH
WILMINGTON, North Carolina,
July 31—Sam Lilly, Deputy U. S.
Marshal and Leon George, city prohi
bition officer, were shot to death last
night from ambush.
Officer is Murdered by
Pair He Befriended
ASHVILLE, N. C., uly 31—Major
Samuel H. McLeary, missing army of
ficer, was killed by Mortimer King,
living near Canton, and a companion
whose identity is still unrevealed by
the authorities, on the aftemoo% of
uly 2, says a sworn confession made
at Canton today by King. A search
is being conducted for the body of the
major which is said to be hidden in
the brush about ten miles from Cher
aw, S. C.
The motive of killing, according to
King’s confession, was robbery. After
the major had taken King and his
companion into his car and offered to
give them a lift, they compelled him
to stop at the point of a pistol., forc
, ing him to get out of the car, and
there they murdered him and hid his
body by the rpadside.
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American Flyers Arrive
At Kirkwall Safely
LONDON, July 31—The American
aviators arrived at Kirkwall at four
o’clock yesterday afternoon.
FOUR KILLED IN AIRPLANE
ACCIDENTS IN BRITISH INDIA
SAMLA, British India, July 31—
Four were killed in a succession of
crashes of their airplanes during
bombing operations against Wazira
tribesmen on the Northwestern fron
tier of India.
ALASKAN MINER DISAPPEARS
IN SEATTLE; SEARCH IS ON
SEATTLE July 31—The police have
been searching for the past week for
Charles Emke, who disappeared a
fortnight ago, after boasting in drink
^ ing places that he had recently struck
a rich prospect in Alaska.
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GUNSIGHT LAKE, GLACIER NATIONAL PARK
GERMANY EAGERLY
AWAITS COMING OF
SECRETARY HUGHES
BELIEVE ENTRANCE OF HIGH
HIGH OFFICIAL WILL IN
CREASE FRIENDLINESS
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BERLIN, July 31—The forth-com
ing visit of Secretary of State Hughes
into Germany, is awaited with great
intefest for it is the first time since
the World War, that a high American
official has stepped on German soil,
and, although his coming is wholly
private in character, it will mark ano
ther step in the direction of increas
ed friendly relations between the two
countries.
Hughes is scheduled to arrive Sun
day in Beilin, when he will be met by
leading members of the ruling body
and a big dinner tendered him.
WOMAN ENDS LIFE
FOLLOWING DEATH
OF HER HUSBAND
BEND, Ore., July 31—Mrs. Helen
Johnston Jones, 33, shot herself thru
the heart in the bathroom of her
home here early today after she had
I received the news of the death of her
; husband, George Jcnes, paymaster of
I the Brooks-Scanlon mill of Bend, the
j coroner reported. She died instant -
Ily'
Jones died early today as the result
of injuries he received when the car
in which he was riding was crowded
off a sharp grade by a passing auto
! mobile
| Mrs. Jones, according to her friends
| has neither eaten nor slept since her
husband was injured,
l Preparations are being ftiade for a
i double funeral.
NEW HEAD FOR MOOSE
NEW YORK, July 31—Willard A
! Markle, of Rochester, New York, was
elected Supreme Dictator of the Loyal
Order of Moose.
WINS BRITISH OPEN TITLE
Walter Hagen, who for the second;
time in ihree years, has won the Brit-j
ish Open Golf Championship.
ANACORTES MAN USES
CONCRETE POLICEMAN
FOR TARGET PRACTICE
ANACORTES July 31-^James Hav
ery was arrested yesterday morn on
charges of drunkenness and discharg
ing fire arms in the city. He was in
dulging in target practice at Sixth
and Commercial Streets at eight in
the morning, a concrete policeman be
ing the mark of%his bullets ,it is al
leged.
OLYMPIA THIEF IS
ROUTED BY GUARD
OF GOVT. PAPERS
WINDOW BROKEN BY CULPRIT
BEFORE HE IS CHASED
AWAY
OLY'MPIA, July 31—Probably for
the purpose of gaining access to the
vault in which the three initiative pe
titions and applications for signature
withdrawals, now in care of Charles
A. Foster, superintendent of elections,
are stored, an unknown person crash
ed in a window in the office leading
to the vault , but was frightened away
by the special night watchman on du
ty in <he office.
Since the first initiative petition
was filed on July 2, Foster has had
a nightwatchman on duty in his of
fice to guard the vault. These precau
tions were taken because of the con
troversy aroused by some of the ini
tiative measures, officials state.
POLICE SEEK DAMAGES
FROM FAMOUS ACTRESS
AS THE RESULT OF BATTLE
CHICAGO, uly 31—Six suits, each
i asking $10,000 from Rosetta Duncan,
! musical comedy star, and her brother,
I Harold, were file*! yesterday by Ed
I ward J. Carmody, town attorney for
Circero, a suburb in behalf of Chief
of Police Theodore Szoboza and three
policemen.
The action is the outgrowth of the
altercation between the Duncans and
the Circero police*^ July 4.
PREACHER WITH $5 BILL
REFUSES TO GIVE IT UP
EVERETT July 31—An armed ban
dit who held up Rev. Charles H. Bur
dick, pastor of the First Congregation
church near Rockefeller and Everett,
shortly after midnight was foiled by
his intended victim’s coolness and the
approach of other pedestrians.
As the preacher had only a five dol
lar bill in his pockets, he refused to
give it to the bandit Jelling him there
were some people coming along the
walk and that he had better move on.
The bandit put his gun back in his
pocket and moved.
ORDERS ISSUED TO STOP
RECRUITING FOR ARMY
WASHINGTON D. C., July 31—The
United States Army is now at the
full'authorized strength of 118,000 and
orders have been issued by the War
Department to stop recruiting indefi
nitely.
DAVIS RETURNS TO N. Y. TODAY
ISLEBORO, Maine, July 31—Davis
left the summer home of Charles D.
Gibson, where he has been visiting,
for his home in New York, today
FORMER WIFE KANSAS
CITY BANKER NEAR
DEATH FROM GAS
FOUND IN GAS FILLED ROOM
AUTHORITIES BELIEVE SHE
WAS VICTIM MURDERERS
DENVER, July 31—Mrs. Gertrude
Louise Ramsey Cooper, former wife
of Joseph H. Cooper, well-known Kan
sas City banker and a sister of Mar
ion Davies, noted film actress, was
found at the point of death in a gas
filled room.
Authorities investigating the case
say she was a victim of attempted
murder.
SENNETT SAYS HE
WILL NOT DISCHARGE
MABEL NORMAND
LOS ANGELES, July 31—Mack
Sennett, film comedy producer, today
returned from a fishing trip in Santa
Barbara channel and promptly brand
ed as a carnard a report of a few
days ago that he had cut Mabel Nor
mand from his payroll owing to re
cent publicity which had come her way
with the Greer-Dines shooting case.
Sennett said as long as the public
continues to demand Miss Normand
his company will continue to employ
her services.
DAVIS WILL URGE SMITH TO
RUN FOR GOV. NEW YORK
LAS BROMAINE, July 30—When
Davis returns to New York tomorrow
he will again urge Governor Smith to
try again for the New York governor
ship nominee, and said that he feels
that with Smith on the ticket in Nov
ember, strength will be given to the
Democratic party in the Empire state.
MAN HELD FOR STEALING
HIS NEIGHBOR’S CAR
ANACORTES, July 31—Herman
Horsey is in jail here charged with the
theft of a new sedan from L. C. Wil
liams, a near neighbor. It is charg
ed that Horsey took the car to Seattle
and sold it. He was arrested in Se
attle yesterday and returned here for
trial.
BOY AUTO RACES WILL
WED STAR SHIRLEY MASON
LOS ANGELES, July 31—Harlan
Fengler, 24-year-old “boy wonder” of
the automobile racing game, plans to
enter into the bonds of matrimony.
The young lady in the case is no other
than Shirley Mason, noted film star.
Miss Mason said the marriage would
take place in about a year.
LODGE RECOVERING FROM
SEVERE ILLNESS; ABLE EAT
CAMBRIDGE, July 31—Lodge -has
sufficiently recovered from his oper
ation to eat a hearty breakfast and
smoke a black cigar.
MAY PLACE BEAR IN MUSEUM
SEATTLE,.. July 31—The Seattle
Chamber of Commerce is taking up
with the government the proposition
to make the Cutter Bear a unit of the
museum of Alaska exhibits.
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LEWIS COUNTY MAN
RETURNING TO FACE
OLD MURDER CHARGE
TACOMA, July 31—Dave Steele,;
for twenty years a reputabTe citizen of
Washington today is in charge of dep
uty sheriff to answer the charge of
a murder alleged to have been com-\i
mitted twenty years- ago. It is said
that a drunken man walked along the
West Virginia side of the fork of the
Big Sandy river, was shooting into the
old Steele home on the Kentucky side
and that Dave Steele shot across the
river and killed him.
Steele was recognized here six
weeks ago by a deputy sheriff from
Pike county ,Kentucky, here'to return
with another prisoner charged with
murder, and his arrest and extradition
followed.
CHIEF AIR SERVICE
SAYS SEATTLE WILL
BE END OF FLIGHT
SEATTLE, July 31—In a long-dis
tance telephone conversation with of
ficers of the war department in Wash
ington from Seattle today, representa
tive Miller was informed definitely
that Patrick, chief of the army air
service, had issued final orders that
the army world flyers would end their
flight at Seattle, where it began.
Federal Troops Chasing
Rebels Into Interior
BUENOS AIRES, July 31—While
the remnant of the military forces
which revolted at Sao Paulo July 5th
are being pursued today into the In
terior of Brazil by Federal troops,
Governor Dacamposone once more in
stalled his state capital here and is
| taking account of the damage it suf
| fered from the three weeks of bom
bardment and pillage.
Mother Is Operator
Who Takes Story
Of Own Boy’s Death
DES MOINES, July 31—Mrs. E.
Maloney, a telegraph operator, walk
ed into a newspaper office here last
night as a commercial telegraph wire
sounder clicked off repeatedly “DS”—
the newspaper office call.
The regular operator was not about
so Mrs. Maloney answered the call.
The message she. received was a
news story from McGregor, Iowa, say
ing that James Maloney, 12 years old,
had drowned in the Mississippi river
there. He was her She fainted.
Hospital physicians said her con
dition was serious.
DIRECT MONTHLY SERVICE
TO JAPAN INAUGURATED
LOS ANGELES, July Si—Estab
lishment of direct monthly service to
Japan from Los Angeles via Hono
lulu on the Toyo Kisen Kaisha, Jap
anese steamship line, was announc
ed here today, by James Steele, rep
resentative of the company from San
Francisco .
The Korea Maru, scheduled to inau
gurate the service left Tuesday- On
the eastbound voyage the vessels will
stop at San Francisco.
LEADER IN G. O- P. CAMPAIGN
Miss Betsy J. Edwards of Indiana,
who is in charge of the women’s divis
ion of the Coolidge campaign .
FORES! FIRES IN THE
WEST NOW UNDER
CONTROL OF RANGERS
RAIN CHECKS FIRES IN NORTH
WEST—CALIFORNIA, ORE
CION AND IDAHO SAFE
SAN FRANCISCO, July 31—Forest
fires in the Pacific coast states are
less menacing that for many years,
due to the rain which has been fall
ing for the past week, and a modera
tion of winds in California. Towns in
Washington, which had been in dan
ger from the flames, are reported to
be no longer threatened.
Ope big fire is still burning in the
Pine Creek district of Idaho, but it
is in inaccessable and uninhabited ter
ritory. It is a heavily timbered section
however. A number of smaller fires
are still burning in that section but
are causing no alarm.
In California the situation is declar
ed to be the best since the fires start
ed . Six big fires are still burning,
but all are said to be under control.
With summer far advanced and the
rainy season due in a few weeks in
Washington, rangers feel certain that
the first of September will see the
culmination of the fires.
FARMER FATALLY
INJURED AND HIS
CROPS ARE BURNED
HORSES RUN AWAY WHEN HE
CRAWLS UNDER COMBINE
TO PUT OUT FIRE
WALLA WALLA, July 31—Jump
ing down from the driver’s seat of his
combine here today to put out a small
blaze which had started directly un
derneath, Louis Kennedy, prominent
Walla Walla valley framer was fat
ally injured when tire team of twen
ty-f<ur horses became frighfened at
the blaze and ran away, dragging the
heavy machine aver his body. He died
two hours later of a broken back.
The crew sprang to his assistance,
and owing to this delay, the flame.!
soon spread so rapidly that they were
soon beyond control and raged their
way through three farms, destroying
over two hundred ao’es of standing
grain, with an estim ;ted yield of thir
ty bushels per aci’e.
PERSIAN PROTEST
DELIVERED TODAY
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 81—
Kornfeldt ,the American minister to
Persia, is expected to deliver the com
munication from the Washington gov
ernment advising with reference to
the concern of this nation as to the
safety of its citizens abroad, today,
according to announcement by the
State department.
| FIRPO AND WILLS INSURED
FOR FIFTY THOUSAND
AGAINST ANY SICKNESS
NEW YORK, July 31—Tex Rick
ard has announced that Wills and Fir
po have been insured for $50,000 each
with Boyd’s against sickness and in
jury incurred while in training or af
terwards.
Oldtime Seattleite Dead
Cast 1st Vote for Lincoln
SEATTLE, July 31—Former Coun
ty auditor Lyman Wood, eighty-five
years of age and well-known Seattle
pioneed who cast his first vote for
Lincoln, died here yesterday.
Funeral services will be held over
his remains Sunday.
FORMER SCHOOL TEACHER
IS BURNED TO DEATH
SEATTLE, July 31—Mrs. Leona
Nasher, 28, and a former Olympic
school teacher, was burned to death
this morning by a gasoline explosion
which destroyed their West Seattle
home. J. K. Nasher, her husband
and a street railway man, left the
house ten minutes before the explo
sion.
FOOD SALE
Saturday, August second, at ten a.
m. in the building next to McMullen’s
1 under the auspices of the Ladies’ Aid.