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VOLUME XIX. NUMBER 99.
SEWARD’ ALASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL 25,1924
PRICE, TEN CENTS
FRANCE ENTERS RACE
FOR AIR SUPREMACY:
PARIS, Apr. 25.—France today en
tered the race tor the long distance
Might supremacy, when a military
airplane took off today secretly head
ed for Japan. The flyers hope to
establish a record lor sustained dis
tance flights, the first jump to be to
Constantinople, a distance of 1950
kilometers.
TWO NEGRO MURDERERS
DIE IN ELECTRICAL CHAIR
HUNTSVILLE, April 25—Ernest1
Lawson and Blaine Dyer, negroes, j
were electrocuted at the state peniten
tiary here shortly after midnight.
Lawson was convicted for slaying
“John R .Cain, a nightwatchman, and j
Dyer for killing J. C. Gibson, a police- j
man, in a drug store hold-up in Dallas
last year.
. PIPERS COVERING
INVESTIGATION ARE
STOLEN FROM SAFE
WASHINGTON, Apr. 25.—The dis- |
covery was made today by the com
mittee investigating the affairs II. |
M. Daugherty, that vital papers and j
records in possession of the former j
attorney general have been stolen or
taken front the committee's sate by
some person unknown.
huifiiMSiE
ON UTAH Ml
SALT LAKE, Apr 25—Four or five
persons are missing and are believed
to be dead in a snow slide in a can- j
yon south of Salt Lake city early to-.
day, according to reports received in
this city. Fifty persons are said to
have been cauhgt in the slide but all
but four or five were rescued.
The mishap occurred at Bridal \ eil,
and a bridge across the Provo river
was wrecked. A portion of the Den
ver and Rio Grande railroad tracks are
said to have been covered.
CHICAGO, April 25—Dr. Max Tho- j
rex, operating today on William Bar- j
tell, professional “swallower,” remov
ed 275 objects ranging from pins to
bolts from Bartell’s stomach. The col-:
lection included a dime and a beer
check. Bartell did not suffer loss of ap
petite nor any indigestion until a nail;
penetrated the wall of his stomach, J
causing paronitis. Dr. Thorek said the
patient is resting nicely.
RAILROAD CLEANS UP
BEACH OF YEAR’S DEBRIS
A crew of men with a crane and a
flat car have been at work the past
few days cleaning up the waterfront
of its usual debris and now the beach
in front of town looks spic and span,
and ready for tourists.
REMEMBER SEWARD BEAUTIFUL
Seward citizens should not forget
the campaign by the Woman’s hub to
beautify Seward. As soon as the
snow gels off the ground sufficiently
to start work, plans will ;>? an
nount* d
The May Queen voting contest is
creating much interest. Several votes
for the different contestants have al
ready been cast. The proceeds of the
voting contest will go toward furnish
ing the new home for the Legion as
well as helping to pay for the dele
gates’ expenses to Sitka this April.
TRAINS ARRIVES TONIGHT
^ The mixed extra with passengers
and freight will arrive late tonight.
On Sunday the mixed extra will leave
Seward at one p. m. instead of nine
a. m. Everybody asked to carry
plenty of lunch. The regular train
H will leave at six a, m. Monday.
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ONE DEAD IN PISTOL DUEL
IN DARK IN VIRGINIA CITY
NORFOLK, April 25—M. M. Her
rick, formerly an engineer in the em
ploy of the Virginian railway, is dead
and a telegraph operator named White
is under arrest as a result of a gun j 1
battle in the dark before dawn today j
at the White Thorne station on the
Virginian railway, forty miles from
Roanoke.
CONGRESS MAY ADJOURN
UTTER PiT OF JUNE
WASHINGTON, Apr. 25.—Senators j
Lodge and Gillette, and Representa- j
lives Longworth and Madden inlorm-1
ed President Coolidge today that Con-1
stress might possibly adjourn in June, j
ALLAHABAD, India, Apr. 25.—Sev
enteen thousand persons died of the
plague in the last fortnight, an epi
demic raging in Punjab, according to
statistics made public today .
200 LIQUOR LAW VIOLATORS
SENTENCED IN TWO DAYS
ATIANTA, Ga., April 25—Eleven
more convicted at a special term of
the U. S. District court at Sav
annah called to dispose of a larger
number of prohibition cases in which
pleas had been entered, arrived at the
federal penitentiary here today to be
gin serving prison terms.
Judge William H. Barrett imposed
sentences on nearly 200 persons charg
ed with liquor law violations during
the two-day term of court. The heav
iest penalty was drawn by Richard A.
Bailey, who pleaded guilty to thirteen
indictments charging conspiracy to
violate the national prohibition law.
Several of the defendants had re
ceived partial fines and jail sentences
at a previous term of court last Nov
ember.
HAVANA, April 25—George Law
rence, fight promoter is going back to
the United States.
“When the fighter you are supposed
to promote puts on five bouts in as
many weeks and you don’t get a
chance to promote any of them, what’s
the use of sticking around?” Lawrence
asked tonight. Then he announced that
next week he would return to New
York and start promoting for some
body else than Battling Siki.
The “restaurant bout” here last nite !
in which Siki got knocked out with a
sugar bowl in the hands of a brawny
stevedore, coming after four other
fights which were not serious enough
for the police to interfere, was the;
“last straw”, Lawrence said. Siki is
carrying around seven stitches in his
scalp from his affair with the steve
dore.
PATRICIA Ml LEADING
FOR “QUEEN OF THE MAT";
Todays returns show Miss Patsy
Ray in the lead as Queen of the May,
with many other contestants entered.
Those receiving votes and their stand
ings are as follows:
Patricia Ray 44, Cecil Leslie 23,
Thelma Tallasen 10, Joseph Badger 4,
Marie Eide 4, Carrie Eamon4, Thelma
Ellsworth 3, Beatrice Baughman 2,
Clara Perry 2, Miss Waugh 2, Myrtle
Tallasen 3, Virginia Hawkins 1, Melba
Johnsrud 1, Elsie Leslie 1, Roberta Me
Intosh 1, Edith McIntosh 1, Alice Mur
phy 1, Marjorie Neville 1, Miss Ras
mussen 1.
The polling places are The Northern
The Club, Alaska Shop, Seward Drug,
Banbury and Ogle, Sylvia’s, Van Gil
der Hotel, Ellsworths.
BRITIAN RECOGNIZES GREECE -
ATHENS, Apr. 25— England has
recognized the government of the new
[Ireek republic.
IS SOON AFTER
EATING PLANT ROOT
:lay county farmer believ
ed TO HAVE BEEN KILLED
BY EATING BUCKEYE
PIGGOTT, April 25—Albert Weller,
iged 29 farmer, who lived northwest
)f Pollard, this county, died Wednes
day of convulsions as the result of
sating the root of a plant that he be
ieved to be spikenard .
Weller was plowing, and just be
fore leaving for dinner he found the
plant and dug up some of the root,
sating it. After reaching his home he
suddenly became ill, went into convul- j
sions, and before the doctor could get
to his side, died. The plant root which
is believed to have caused his death is
that of buckeye.
Weller is survived by his wife.
PROTEST AGAINST USE DOGS
TO DRAW CARTS AND WAGONS
BERLIN, April 25—Protest meet
ings against the custom of using dogs
to haul carts and wagons have been
held here and in other towns where
there are organizations for preventing
cruelty to animals.
BELOT Mi HELD FOR j
SLUM OF DEPUTY!
L. G. HANKS ARRESTED WITHIN
THREE MILES OF FIGHT
NOCOGODOCHES, Texas, April 25
—L. G. Hanks, 28, of Belot, Houston
county, \?as arrested early today by j
Deputy Sheriffs of Angelina county
and brought here to await action of
the grand jury in connection with the
killing of Deputy Sheriff John Martin
and Bud Dixon, negro, 26, and wound
ing of Sheriff T. G. Vaught, last even
ing. District Judge Ginn called the
grand jury to sit immediately to con
duct the investigation. Hanks was ar
rested about three miles from the
scene of the shooting.
The fight was staged nine miles to
the south of here between officers and
a number of obotleggers it is said. The
white man sought is alleged to have j
fired at the officers from an automo
bile he was driving. One negro was
arrested and nine gallons of liquor
seized.
BOAT STRIKES BERG
MO COES TO BOTTOM
Petersburg Report
The gasboat Eunis, owned by Paul
Keegle of Ketchikan, was sunk Friday.
While traveling in the evening the
boat hit a submerged iceberg which
stove in the bow, Paul Keegle and as
sistant immediately starting for land
at full speed. The Eurus sank a little
way from Reed Island. Mr. Keegle
had a radio outfit on board and was
selling radio outfits to the fox farm
ers. The gasboat Ester, brought Paul
keegle to Petersburg, where he will
purchase material and try to salvage
the Eurus.
CANOE PASS AND SEA
FOOD CANNERYS UNITE
The Shepard Point Packing Com
pany recently incorporated at eSattle
with a capitalization of $150,000 is a
consolidation of the Canoe Pass Pack
ing Company and the Alaska Sea Food
company, Milton Henderson of Poi-t
land, Ore., head of the former concern
is president, with J. B. Reagh, of the
Alaska Sea Food company is vice
president.
The Unakwik Packing Company has
been incorporated with a capital of fif
ty thousand dollars by E. B. Hanley,
Joe E. Most and Wm. R. Gilbert of the
Copper Rievr Packing Company. The
new corporation will place the King
Salmon cannery, purchased last fall,
in first class condition, to be operated
during the pink run of salmon the
coming season.
The Carlisle Packing Company has
chartered the steamer Cadaretta, of
the Nelson Steamship Company, for
four months during the salmon season.
She is due in Seattle to outfit for the
lompany’s Bristol Bay cannery.
Ray Lewis has rented the Peterson
residence on Third Avenue.
SA'/S KILLING WAS
IN SELF DEFENSE
HOT SPRINGS COLLECTOR SEEKS
TO JUSTIFY THE SHOOTING
OF BOY
HOT SPRINGS, April 25—Henry
Williamson, well-known local collector,
testifying in his behalf of a charge
af second degree homicide, this after
noon, said that when he shot Clarence
Caldwell, who had been paying atten
tion to one of his daughters he believ
ed Caldwell intended to kill him.
His daughter had been missing from
home for three days previous to the
shooting which took place December
28, and Williamson said he believed
Caldwell had killed the gild and in
tended to take the life of the witness, i
The state rested its case today, and |
the defense is expected to conclude to
morrow.
ITALY’S KING VISITS SCENE
OF LANDSLIDE DISASTER
AALFI, Italy, April 25—King Vic
tor Emanuel arrived here early today j
from Naples and immediately embark
ed on a fishing smack to visit the!
scenes of desolation along the coast
caused by the recent land slides.
RECLfllWlMS
ARE QUITE HEAVY
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 25— j
A comprehensive overhauling of the
government’s reclamation projects in
volving the charging of a total loss;
$27,391,146, of approximate expen
ditures of $150,000,000 which have
been invested in irrigation projects
and like enterprises ,and providing for
measures for relief of thousands of
farmers and the protection of purther
federal expenditures on irrigation of
the arid and waste lands of the west,
was urged in a report submitted yes
terday to Secretary of the Interior
Work. The report represents the re
sults of six month’s labor and study
on the part of a special advisory re
clamation commission, which has been
appointed by the secretary.
JAPANESE STAMPS WORTH
MORE SINCE EARTHQUAKE
TOKIO, April 25—The great earth
quake of last September has set stamp
collectors seeking certain specimens of
postage stamps which were choice
even before issued. The stamps were
prepared to commemorate the wedding
of the Prince Regent and Priness Na
gako Kuni.
When the quake and fire visited To
kio September 1, nearly all the issue
then held by the postal authorities in
Tokio were destroyed. By accident a
few stamps were saved. These had
been allotted for sale in the Caroline
and Marshall Islands in the equatorial
Pacific, held by Japan under mandate
and had been shipped to the islands
just before the quake, so that they
might be placed on sale the date of the
wedding.
The disaster caused a postponement
of the wedding and the stamps were
ordered returned to Tokio. When the
nuptials finally were celebrated Janu
ary 26, the few remaining stamps
were issued in denominations of 1 1-2,
3, 8, and 20 yen. Philatelists all over
the world are trying to secure them
for their collections.
STlDlirK!
The U. S. destroyer Corry which
was in port Wednesday, took on 1650
barrels of fuel oil.
The Orient, a halibut boat was in
port Wednesday, and took on 1300 gal
lons of oil.
The Panama, Gladstone and Gray
ling, a Ketchikan boat, took on 2000,
1000 and 750 gallons respectively.
W. E. Moultray, general manager,
will arrive on Saturdays boat from the
states.
TAMMANY LEADER DEAD
NEW YORK, Apr. 25.—Charles F.
Murphy, leader of the Tammany
forces, died here today.
Dr. O. A. Braafladt, who is in Ne
nana, is expected to arrive in Seward
on the next train.
A freight is due to arrive from the
north tonight.
GAMBLING TO BE PROHIBITED [
IN MEXICAN BORDER TOWN !
—
MEXICALI, Lower California, Apr.
25—All forms of gambling will be pro-:
hiibted after May 1, in Mexicali, Tia ;
Juana and other Mexican towns near!
the California border ,it was announc-'
ed here by Gov. Abelardo Rodriguez ;
of the Northern district of Lower Cal-1
ifoinia.
CHLORINE CAS USED
IN FIGHTING EPIDEMIC
WASHINGTON, Apr. 25.—Chlorine
gas will be used to fight the epi
demic oi' foot and mouth disease in
California, the government announced I
today.
1CLAR1 FORGING
H RAPIDLY;
TOTALS 4900 MILES
—
KARACHI, British India, Apr. 25.— '
Major Stuart MacLaren and two com
panions covered 700 miles in the last
non-stop yesterday, totaling 4900
iniles, ending the first section of the
llight.
LEGION POST SUSPENDED
FOR ANTI-BONUS SENTIMENT
SAN FRANCISCO .April 25—Pro
test against the post’s suspension was
forwarded today by telegram to Nat
ional Commander John R. Quinn, of
the American Legion, by Daylight post
No. 299 of the American Legion here.
The post was suspended ten days ago,
following publicity given to anti-bon
us resolutions sponsored by it.
Reviewing events leading to the
suspension order, which was declared
‘“an ‘un-American act” the telegram
declared that the effect of the order
was to give the impression that mem
bership in the American Legion is con
ditional upon holding a view in favor
of granting a cash bonus to able-bod
ied ex-service men.”
JOHN 11 WILL BE
SEATTLE, Apr. 25.—John Nash, of
Seward, who remaining foot was am
putated at the Columbus sanitarium
is doing fine and will be able to be
out in three weeks.
CIGARETTE SMOKING HELD
NO GROUND FOR DIVORCE
UTICA, N. Y., April 25—Cigarette
smoking women today is neither a
badge of disgrace nor a ground for di
vorce, according to Supreme Court
Justice Ernest I. Edgcomb.
In an opinion given in the action of
Ligi Volpe, of Rome, to obtain a di
vorce from Letizia Volpe, whom he
found in a hotel room in Rome smok
ing a fag.” Justice Edgcomb said:
“While the Court will not put its
stamp of approval upon the custom,
which is quite prevalent of late, of
women smoking cigarettes, it is com
mon knowledge that it is not consider
ed either a badge of disgrace or an im
proper thing to do by women of cul
ture and refinement. Neither is cigar
ette smoking a ground for divorce.”
CONGRESS LIBRARY BOOKS
DAMAGED BY STORM
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 25
Congressmen and senators with a pre
deliction for musty and yellow old
tomes will find 8,000 of them in the
Library of Congress, for which no one
connected with that institution is
thanking the weather man.
Water dripping through the roof of
the library after the Capital’s last rain
and slush storm so damaged some of
the rare and ,in some instances, near
ly priceless volumes, that many of
them have been stained from cover to
cover. Great secrecy was maintained
in an effort to keep the news out of
the papers, but it was finally brought
to the attention of David Lynn, archi
tect of the Capitol buildings. It was
said that the incident was the first of
its kind in the twenty-seven years of
the library’s existence.
The Redondo leaves tomorrow even
ing for westward points.
AMERICA! MiHUS
SAN SALVADOR, Apr. 25— Several
American marines have been killed
in Honduras, according to advices re
ceived here.
No Word Received Washington
WASHINGTON, Apr. 25.—Advices
to the State and Navy departments,
contain no word of casualties among
American naval forces at Tegucigalpa
the capital of Honduras.
KLAN HEADQUARTERS AT
PEORIA TWICE FIRED OX
PEORIA, 111., April 25—Several
shots were fired into Ku Klux Rian
headquarters here last night from a
speeding automobile containing five or
six men. No one was hit. Another at
tack had been made an hour earlier.
Several hundred Klansmen were sum
moned to guard their headquarters,
while police instituted a search for the
mysterious automobile.
BELGRADE, Apr. 25—Jugo Slavia
has notified France that she will co
operate with Rumania in case of war
between Rumania and Russia ovvr
the seizure by Rumania of the prov
ince of Besarabia.
SEA'ITLE, April 25—Lieutenant H.
B. Wyatt, who arrived here two
months ago to start preliminary work
on the proposed flight of the dirigible
Shenandoah from Alaska to the North
Pole left here yesterday for San Diego
where he will spend some time. His
departure is taken to mean the final
abandonment of the project for this
year at least.
NEW YORK, Apr. 25.—Chairman
Hull of the Democratic National
Committee today gave a thousand
dollars for an option on Madison
Square Garden for the period of the
Democratic convention. Tex Rickard,
manager of tee Garden, gave the com
mittee a price of $100,000 for use of
the place.
CAPTAIN KLINGENBERG
FURS ARE SOLD
SEATTLE, Apr 25—No finer bunch
of fox furs ever reached Seattle than
those brought to this city by Captain
C. Klingenberg, who came outside this
winter via Fairbanks from far-off Vic
toria Land, on the shores of the Arc
tic ocean in Canadian territory. It was
also the biggest bunch of fox furs
ever brought to the city by an indivd
ual fur trader. There were over three
thousand fine pelts, chiefly of white
fox .There were also some fine blue
fox pelts .
Attorney A. E. Rucker will deliver
an address at the schools this after
noon on “Forestry and Fire Protec
tion.” Mr. Rucker is authority on this
work having taken a special course
in forestry at the University of Cali
fornia, and his talk will be of great
interest to the scholars.
Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Hannon enter
tained at cards last night in honor of
Dr. J .H. Romig. Those present were
Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Blue, Mr. and
Mrs. Chas. Hinde, Mr. and Mrs. W. E.
Root, Mr. and Mrs. Leon Urbach, Mrs.
Alvah Eames and Dr. J .H. Romig.
Two boats left for Nuka Bay this
morning with supplies for the Alaska
Hills Mines Company. Messrs, An
drews, Lindquist and associates ltft
for the property.