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* VOLUME XX. NUMBER 147.
SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, JUNE 22, 1925.
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DOCTOR TUNNEY ON
STAND SATURDAY
IN SHEPHERD CASE
CHICAGO, June 22. (tf*)—William
Scott Stewart, chief counsel for Shep
herd, obtained an afternoon session to
prevent the jury spending Sunday
with nothing to obliterate from their
minds the answers of Dr. Frederick
0. Tonney, to Crowe, during a fierce
moss examination.
Tonney, head of the Chicago Health
Department laboratory, had testified
Faiman could not have gotten the
germs there and that the germs would
nave perished before Shepherd could
have used them on McClintock.
Crowe made Tonney admit there
was nothing but the rule against it,
to prevent the giving of the germs to
Faiman, and that one man of his de
partment who had attended Faiman’s
school in that department, had propa
gated one set of germs for thirty or
so years, and could have continued
ioing so thirty years more.
VETERAN EDITOR
FOUND DEAD AT
KELSO, SATURDAY
KELSO, June 22. (/P)—Thomas
Dover, fifty-six, editor of the Cowlitz
Valley News, a weekly and who was
an adherent of A. Ruric Todd, in a
municipal controversy in which Toud
was recalled from office of Mayor, wras
found dead in the street, with powder
marks on his face and collar, where
the bullet ranged downward. A forty
five calibre pistoy nearby was found
by the police and an inquiry has been
started as to its ownership. The edi
tor’s family said Dover had made bit
ter enemies by articles appearing in
his paper.
DAWS PLAN SUCCESSFUL
BERLIN, June 19.—(JP)—'The
Dawes plan has realized its two es
sential objects, Seymour Parker Gil
bert, agent general for reparations
payments, announced after the first
) eight months of the operation of
the plan. Salient points include the
fact that German budget for 1924
1925 shows a safe balance and that
Germany has succeeded in provid
ing and maintaining a stable cur
rency. Its too early to draw con
clusions regarding the ultimate ef
fect, Gilbert said, but its early oper
ation has fulfilled all expectations.
JOS. R. LEE OF
HOMER IS DEAD
Jos. R. Lee, died at the Anchor
age hospital two days ago, accord
ing to Seward arrivals Saturday eve
ning. Mr. Lee was very well known
in Seward, having visited this city
a number of times since his entry
into the fox-raising business near
Homer. It is stated the old pio
neer will be buried in the Anchor
age cemetery.
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GIRL GUILTY OF MURDER
NEW YORK, June 19.—(JP)—'The
youngest girl ever tried for homi
cide in New York was found guilty
today when the jury brought in a
verdict of manslaughter in the first
deree against seventeen year old
Dorothy Perkins. The case was de
scribed by her counsel as a product
of tenement daughters wTho are most
ly drunkards, born to live and die
in misery. She was accused of shoot
ing her sweetheart, Thomas Tem
pleton.
THREE HUNDRED AFFLICTED
WITH LEAD POISONING AT
BIG DU PONT FACTORY
NEW YORK, June 22. (Jp)— A Times
article said an investigation conduct
ed by a correspondent, showed three
hundred were afflicted with lead poi
soning during the last eighteen months
with eight dead from delirium tetra
ehtyl, at the lead plant of E. I. Du
Pont de Nemours company at Deep
water, N. J.
DEBTCOMMISSION
FROM FRANCE IS
COMING TO US
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 22. (#)
—France is getting ready to negotiate
the funding of its war debt to Ameri
ca. It was declared from authorita
tive sources that Paris expects tc
send a commission to Washington this
fall to open discussions.
Like information was received from
Czechoslovakia which is about to take
a step to clear her debt problem.
As a result of the official announce
rnent that Italy will begin her deb1
funding negotiations in a few days
and that Belgium will send a commis
siou to America in July, administra
tion officials indicated optimism ovei
the result of conversations announced
by Washington some months ago.
PASTOR EUSTAGE HAYDEN
PREACHES FUNERAL SERMON
OVER BODY LAFOLLETTE
MADISON, June 22. (/Pi— Doctor A1
bert Eustace Haydon. professor in the
University of Chicago, and pastor oi
the Unitarian church of Madison, said
the sermon at the funeral of Lafollette
was “that of an embattled prophet ol
new democrarcy. His was the voice
of humanism in politics; he was con
fronted with the tragedies of soulless
civilization. Lafollette dedicated him
self to the principal that the govern
ment is the guarded servant of the life
of all the people.”
COOLIDGEAIDS
DRY OFFICIALS
IN NEW DRIVE
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 22. (/p;
—The government plans to make mort
effective prohibition enforcement
which includes new attacks on boot
leggers in the larger cities and a re
organization of the prohibition unit.
While no official statement was is
sued it is understood Mr. Coolidge ap
proved of the battle which has prac
tically eliminated rum row and urgec
General Andrews to carry on enforce
ment both at sea and ashore, until th<
nation is completely dry.
ROBINSON APPROVED LEASES
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 20 (JP)
Rear Admiral J. K. Robinson, whi
was twice denied promotion becausi
as chief of the navy engineering hi
approved the oil leases of Sinclai
and Doheny has applied for early re
tirement.
SCREEN ACTORS MARRY
LOUISVILLE, June 2. (/P)—'Williar
Russell and Helen Ferguson, screei
actors, were married yesterday.
VIBRATOR ELECTROCUTES
MISS LORENA MORRISOI
LOUISVILLE, June 22. (#>)— An ele<
trie vibrator which she was using t
massage her neck, electrocuted Mis
Lorena Morrison, of this city.
MEDFORD, Ore., June 22. (£>)
Following a temperature of one hui
dred and three, a thunder storm wit
heavy rains, brought releif.
TO CLAIM POLAR
REGIONS FOR THE
STATE OF MAINE
SOUTHPORT, June 22, (/P)—Gover
nor Brewster authorized MacMillan,
who sailed for the Arctic Saturday,
to “claim the territory discovered in
the polar regions, for the States of
Maine.” The flag of the State will
be planted in the territory which may
exist in the great space north of the
North American continent. It will
then remain for the federal govern
ment to decide whether they will, or
will not protect our rights.”
CREW DESERT FRENCH LINER
HAVRE, June 22. (#*)—T he French
liner LaSavoie, which is due to leave
for New York, tonight, will be pre
vented from sailing by the desertion
of about two hundred of her crew. A
composite crew sent aboard later also
deserted. The row is over the jail
ing of the secretary of the sailors’ un
ion.
YAKIMA HEAT RECORDS BROKEN
YAKIMA, June 22. (/P)—June heat
records wrere broken here yesterday
when the temperature rose to 102.
FEDERAL OFFICERS
SHOT IN BATTLE
IN HILLS
HUNTINGTON, West. Va., June 22.
(/p)—Parties of federal state officers
approaching a still from both sides,
mistook each other for moonshiners
and started a hand to hand engage
ment, with many shots fired. Federal
Prohibition Agent Porter w^as killed,
State Officer Workman was shot two
| times and is in a serious condition and
| Chief State Officer Ball, who was bad
1 Iv wounded during the fighting, died
ja fewr hours later.
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MACMILLAN PARTY HEADS
INTO UNKNOWN SEAS
WISCASSET, June 22 (£>)—'The
! exploration vessels Bowdoin and
l' Peary headed toward the Arctic Sat
| urday carrying MacMilland and his
party in quest of an unknown conti
i nent.
SEATTLE MISS IS
KILLED WHEN
CAR WRECKED
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SEATTLE, June 22. (IP)—Miss Sarah
Levy was killed when an automobile,
driven by her mother, plunged thru
the guard rail into a slough near here,
last night.
The Sapahs family was slightly in
jured and Miss Selma Blackman of
Granite Falls, lost her life last night
when! the machine in which they were
riding ploughed down a fifty foot
bank near Cedro Wooley. Two boy
companions were also bruised.
Glen Day was drowned and Warren
Heath killed, when the truck they
were driving, hit a touring car on a
bridge. The truck shunted through
the rail into ten feet of water, near
Stanwood. The five occupants of the
touring car w'ere unhurt.
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Several Dead in Canada
VANCOUVER, B. C.,.June 22. (ff)—
Thomas Middleton died here last eve
ning from injuries received when ar
interurban ran over him, severing
both legs. Saturday William Berne
aged seven was killed when his by
cycle collided with an auto truck.
Robert Lovatt was drowned todaj
at English Bay.
WOULD EXEMPT MARRIED
PEOPLE WHO MAKE LESS
THAN FIVE THOUSAND
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 22. (Jp)
—A reduction of income taxes and a
limit of the treasury surplus permit
has been advocated by Senator Har
ris of Georgia, who issued a statement
declaring married people, whose in
come does not exceed five thousand,
should be exempt.
VICTORIA LEAVES
NOMESATURDAY
ON WAY SOUTH
NOME, June 22. (;P)—The steamer
Victoria departed at noon Saturday
for the States with forty passengers
and a refrigerator loaded to capacity
with eleven hundred carcasses of rein
deer for outside markets.
One case of diphtheria has been re
ported on the sandspit, showing a de
cided improvement in the situation.
A native child is the patient.
PAROLED CONVICT SUICIDES
LONGVIEW, June 22. (/P)—J. C.
Dilley, paroled convict from Montana
is dead here, and Mrs. William Pease,
wife of a local contractor, is in a ser
ious condition, following a stabbing
affair, and successful suicide.
GENERAL STRIKE IN HONGKONG
HONGKONG, June 22. (/P)—Sunday
was the scene of a general strike with
weapons being used on Chinene agi
tators of the anti-foreign campaign.
The strike spread to~ the street rail
way conductors and motormen, who
refused to take cars out of the round
house. Servants of foreigners have
walked out. Boy scouts are mobo
lizing. taking the places of strikers
who left the hospitals.
RECOMMEND WORD
OBEY BE STRIKEN
FROM SERVICE
NEW YORK. June 22. (/P)—Recom
mendations that the word “obey” and
the promise of the bridegroom to “en
dow the bride with all his worldly
goods,” be stricken from the marriage
service, together with the optional
adoption by the clergy of a shortened
and more modern form of the Ten
Commandments, was urged in the 4th
report of the joint commission of the
prayer book of the Episcopal church.
The report, which will be submitted at
the 48th triennal convention of the
Church at New Orleans on October 3,
to 23, recommends the elimination
from the common Prayer Book the in
struction paragraph withholding from
the unbaptized, excommunicated and
the suicides, the right of burial ser
vice. The proposed changes were
approved by the 1922 convention at
Portland, but the church law's require
the ammendments to the prayer book
be ratified at the two successive con
ventions.
SINCLAIR’S PROPERTY
INCREASING IN VALUE
NEW YORK, June 20. (^P)—As a
result of Sinclair’s victory in the court
at Cheyenne, yesterday, the market
value of his outstanding securities al
ready have increased thirteen million
dollars. Edw'ard Doheny also is sub
stantially wealthier on paper, despite
previous decisions against his com
panies.
YALE VARSITY DEFEATS HARV
NEW LONDON, June 20. —Yale’s
varsity crewr defeated Harvard on £
four mile course on the Thames river
by an length and a half. This is the
fifth successive triumph.
FOREIGNERS AT
CANTON UNDER
STRONG GUARD
CANTON, June 22. (/P)—Shameen,
the artificial island on which the for
eign settlement have gathered, is vir
tually under a state of seige; two gun
boats. one British and one French,
holding commanding positions over
the creek separating Shameen from
the city proper. All approaches to
the island have been fortified with
heaped sandbags and quiekfiring guns.
Foreigners Leaving Canton
NEW YORK, June 22. (TP)—Foreign
ers are reported streaming from Can
ton, which threatens to become a new
danger spot in the Chinese anti-fore
ign movement.
Steamers for Hong Kong and Ma
cao, are crowded with missionaires
and some business men with their
families.
The exodus is coincident with the
beginning of the general strike in the
Shameen foreign quarter of Canton,
where all native servants and clerks
have quit their jobs. Their action
has been reported approved by the
Canton government.
LEGION DELEGATES
GO TO FAIRBANKS
The delegates to the American Le
gion convention at Fairbanks, who
arrived in Seward Friday on the
S.S. Alaska, departed for the In
terior Sunday. They will be joined
at Anchorage by Mr. and Mrs. Old
fln, who will attend the convention
as delegates from Anchorage. Ow
ing to the inability of A. E. Rucker
attorney, to leave the city at this
time, on account of the present light
case now up in court, no delegate
from Seward will attend the Fair
banks convention. Mr. Rucker had
been chosen as delegate by the Sew
ard post. The delegates from the
South were Bud Anderson, from
Cordova; Filer Hansen of Sitka,
Oscar Shineman, Sitka: Miss Dusey
of Juneau. \
STEWART EDWARD WHITE
MAULED BY ANGRY LEOPARD
NAIROBI, British East Africa. June
20 (^P)—Nasty gashes, which Stewart
Edward White received in an encoUn
ter with a wounded leopard, while
hunting big game in the Tanganyika
region ar,e healing rapidly. It is re
ported that White will continue with
the expedition. A gun bearer and
White had pursued the leopard, which
White wounded, and the leopard turn
ing on the hunters badly mauled the
gun bearer, and| a boy who had follow
ed the latter with a spare gun, and
who fired his rifle to distract the at
tention of the leopard. White dashed
in firing on the animal, and the leop
ard sprang on him. White unsheated
his hunting knife and killed the
infuriated animal but not before he
was badly gashed.
SENATORLADD
OF N. DAKOTA
PASSES AWAY
BALTIMORE. June 22. (jP)—Senator
Edwin Fremont Ladd, of North Dako
ta, died in a hospital here today. He
retained consciousness until almost
the end, recognizing his wife who ar
rived an hour before his death and
; his son Milton and daughter Virginia,
who were also at his bedside.
A complication of kidney troubles
i caused his death. Ladd was a na
tive of Maine.