Heulen-d Daily Gatemsty
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS.
VOLUME XXI, NUMBER 22. Y fa
SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 1926.
PRICE TEN CENTS
OLMSTED TRIAL
HALTED TODAY
BY FED. JUDGE
GOVERNMENT CANNOT READ ANY
THING FROM RECORDS OB
TAINED BY TAPPING LINE
SEATTLE, Jan. 28. Judge Net
erer halted the Olmsted trial today
and ruled the government could not
read from the records, evidence ob
tained by tapping wires. He said:
“Whitney may refresh his recollec
tion by looking up the date and time
of conversations but he cannot look
up subject matter.” On a motion the
government adjourned three-quarters
of an hour early; • .
Whitney testified the first call he
heard over the tapped wire was by a
woman who said her radio “was com
ing in fine.” Another conversation
described Ed Pielow, former sergeant
of police calling “Can you put a big
sheet of paper around the two cases.”
Thompson, Olmsted’s alleged dis- j
patcher said, “there is no paper big
enough.” Pielow: “Can you stop de
livery?”
Thompson^ “No. The load just
left.”
Pielow: “I will try and cut him
off.”
CAPT. CASTEL OF
NOME ON WAY TO
POINT BARROW
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NOME, Jan. 2S. (/P)—Captain Anout j
Castel, who left here January 17th, by
dogteam enroute to Point Barrow to
meet the Wilkins expedition, is mak-;
ing slow progress. The trails are
very bad, and he was forced to hire
another dog team at Chinik. Lieut, j
Byrd wired orders for fur clothing to
be sent from Nome to Point Barrow.
Byrd will accompany Wilkins.
TEN DOLLAR TAX ON TOURIST
ATHENS, Jan. 28. (£>)—A tax of ten
dollars will be levied on all foreigners
visiting Greece. The tax will, how
ever, provide them with permanent
free tickets for visiting historic spots.
NEGOTIATIONS UNDER WAY
FOR DEMPSEY BOUT IN N. J.!
NEW YORK, Jan. 28. (^—Negotia
tions are nearly completed for the j
heavyweight championship match be
tween Jack Dempsey and Gene Tun
ney at Boyles Thirty Acres, Jersey
City, arena controlled by Tex Ricard.
SENATE APPROVES
ADHERENCE TO
WORLD COURT
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 28. (£>)
—The Senate approved American ad
herence to the World Court by a vote
of 76 to 17; fourteen votes moer than
the necessary two-thirds vote.
The ratification was supported by
forty republicans, thirty-six democrats
while fourteen republicans, two dem-.
ocrats, one farmer labor vote opposed
it.
PREMIER MUSSOLINI NOW
BEING OPENLY DEFIED
LONDON, Jan. 28. (JP)—The Geneva
correspondent of the Daily Express,
reports that Premier Mussolini is be
ing openly defied by the Italian Cham
ber of Commerce in Zurich, Taguno
and Geneva. They refused to receive
Commander Ferrati sent by Mussolini
with Royal Decree ordering disolution.
ROSS WILL BE ELCTROCUTED
OSSINING, Jan. 28. (^—Ambrose
Ross, convicted of murder and twice
saved from the electric chair, is as
sured of six more weeks of life, thru
a new reprieve announced after a long
conference last night.
VOLSTEAD LAW IS FAILURE
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 28. (/P)—
The complete failure of the Volstead
Act as a temperance measure was ad
mitted today by a joint Legislative
Committee representing four national
organizations with a voting power of
six million.
BELGIAN GENERALS ON STRIKE
PARIS, Jan. 28. (JP)—Twelve of
the most important generals in the
Belgian army have gone on strike in
protest against the government’s plan
to reduce the militia, according to dis
patches reaching here.
SCHOONER IS PIRATE VESSEL
STETEN, Germany, Jan. 28. (/P)—
A Finnish skipper arriving here tells
of a Swedish schooner, which was be
lieved sunk, which is now operating
as a pirate vessel on the Baltic.
MARTIN DURKIN
HAS RECORD AS
POLICE BAR MOTION PICTURES
OF CRIMINAL AND BRIDE
AT CHICAGO
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 28. (^—De
partment of Justice agents tonight
bared the fact that Martin Durkin,
confessed slayer and the nation’s
most desperate two-gun man, won en
try into the homes of the Hollywood
elite. He was known as Forest Low
ery.
Police in Chicago barred motion pic
tures showing th.e arrival of the ban
dit and bride, from St. Louis where
the arch-bandit was arrested. Crowds
in the theatres were applauding Dur
kin and booing the police.
HOTEL FIRE CLAIMS MANY
ALLENTOWN, Pa., Jan. 28. (^P)—
Nine are dead, fifteen missing, and
fourteen injured, three of whom may
die, the result of a fire which swept
Lafayette hotel here this morning.
Only two of the dead have been iden
tified.
FRANCE WOULD TALK DEBT
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 28. (£>)—
France has indicated that she is now
ready for a new debt parley with the
United States, according to a message
comeyea to Treasurer Mellon.
LUTHER BURBANK
ADMITS IS INFIDEL
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 28. (JP)—By
his own admission Luther Burbank,
famous horticulturist of Santa Rosa,
California, is an infidel in the true
sense of the word, the San Francisco
Bulletin said in a copyrighted story by
him.
The Bulletin quotes Mr. Burbank as
saying he does not believe in personal
resurrection and that science dis
proves popular theories of reincarna
tion and life after death.
SMALLPOX IN LOS ANGELES
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 28. (JP)—An
outbreak of smallpox in Los Angeles
is causing some little worry to the
health authorities according to Doc
i or Parrish, city health officer.
NEW YORK, Jan. 28. (JP)—'The cold
wave abated in New York yesterday,
.he wave swept to the New England
states after the mercury rise here and
Boston and other cities are experienc
ing sudden temperature drops.
COG MUSHERS WILL
BREAK TRAIL FOR
SNOW TRACTORS
MERLE LAVOY, ADVENTURER IS
WILLING TO ASSIST WITH
TWENTY MALAMUTES
ANCHORAGE, Jan. 28. (£>)— Nenana
reports Merle LaVoy, adventurer and
Fox Film representative, will accom
pany the Wilkins expedition, and will
supply the party with twenty mala
mutes to assist if necessary.
Many dog mushers are preparing to
precede the party to Tanana and pos
sibly to Betties to break trail.
DAWSON MAN KILLED AS
LEAVES CABIN FOR SNOW
DAWSON, Jan. 28. (£>)—John Smith
was killed when he left his barricaded
cabin to get a bucket of snow. His
body will .be brought back to Dawson.
VISCOUNT KATO, PREMIER
DIES OF INFLUENZA
TOKYO, Jan. 28. Viscount T.
Kato, Premier, died of influenza today.
R. Wakatsuku, Minister of Home Af
fairs, is acting in his stead.
COURT IN HALF MOURNING
.LiUiNuuiN, jan. ^s. (tr)— ine couri
has changed from full mounring to
half-mourning for Queen Alexander.
This permits the Royal family to is
sue from their semi-retirement and
resume public functions.
BRUCE NOW LIEUT. GOVERNOR
OTTAWA, Jan. 28. (£>)—Robt. Ran
dolph Bruce of Invermore, B. C., has
been appointed Lieutenant Governor
of British Columbia in succession to
Walter C. Nichol. The new governor
who is overseas at present, will be
sworn in on his return to Canada.
BEN EILESONTO
FLY AIRPLANE
ACROSS ARCTIC
DETROIT, Jan. 2S. (JP)—It was an
nounced here that Carl B. Eileson,
nicknamed “Ben,” will fly the plane
carrying Wilkins over the Arctic. The
other plane will remain at Point Bar
row.
COUNCIL VOTES SELF OUT
SYDNEY, N. S. W., Jan. 28. (^»)—
.me uuu&ucu spectacle ul a legislative •
council voting itself out of existence
was witnessed today when the Legis
lative Council of New South Wales
passed its first reading of a bill pro
viding for its abolition.
COAL SHORTAGE NEW YORK
NEW YORK Jan. 28. (Jpf—New York
city’s coal shortage situation has now
reached a serious stage. The Bell
vue Hospital housing over thirteen
thousand patients has been unable to
get coal and is now heatless.
EMIL ST. GODDARD
WINS SECOND LAP
THE PAS RACES
THE PAS, Jan. 28. (JP)—Emil St.
Goddard, young French-Canadian dog
musher and winner of the dog races at
Quebec and The Pas last year, yester- i
day won the second lap of a hundred
and twenty mile race, covering the 32
miles on the Saskatchewan river in
three hours and fifteen minutes. Earl ]
Brydges of La Pas was three minutes <
behind Goddard, with Ross Moxley in <
third place.
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RICH MERCURY ORES
REPORTED DISCOVERED
CRIPPLE CREEK, Jan. 27. (#>)—
Mercury ores running $720 to the ton
have been discovered in the Cripple
Creek mining district. The ores ran
approximately 30 per cent pure quick
silver, officials of the Dante mine, at
which place the strike was made, de
clare.
VANCOUVER RESIDENTS
DONATE FOR ART GALLERY
VANCOUVER, Jan. 2-7. (/?)—Eleven
citizens have agree to donate $100,000
for the purchase of pictures and sta
tuary for the proposed art gallery in
the civic center. H. A. Stone heads
the list with a pledge of $50,000. The ,
cost of the proposed building is $200,
000.
DAMASCUS MAY BE
BOMBARDED AGAIN
DAMASCUS, Jan. 27. —Consuls yes
terday notified the Nationals of their
respective countries that the French
might bombard certain quarters of the
city as they did before in suppressing
an uprising.
SOVIET GOVT. AND
CHINA QUARREL
OVER RAILROAD
SOVIET SENDS THREE-DAY ULTI
MATUM DEMANDING IVAN
OFF BE RELEASED
MOSCOW, Jan. 28. (/P)—An increas
ingly menacing situation along the
Chinese Eastern Railroad where threat
of war between the Soviet and Chi
nese had its origin yesterday, was re
ported in dispatches today.
The Soviet government sent China
a three-day ultimatum demanding the
release of Ivanoff, Russian manager of
the China Eastern Railroad. Fail
ure to comply with the demand will!
result in the Soviet using their own
efforts, it was stated.
Meanwhile a great battle between
the armies of Feng and Chang is in
the air.
MAURICE LEEHEY
ASKS CLUB TO
ASSIST MINERS
TRIBUTE PAID TO COLONEL MIL
LARD BY MEMBERS OF MIN
ING CLUB
SEATTLE, Jan. 28. (IP)—Maurice D.
Leehey, president of the Seattle Min
ing Club, at a meeting yesterday urg
ed Seattle businessmen to assist the
prospector and mine locator to ob
tain capital for mining and develop
ment.
Leehey said Alaska and the country
between the Rocky Mountains and the
coast, produced more than half of the
West’s annual, metaV output, except
iron. He said this is one-half of the
nation’s yearly production.
Regarding his frequent statement
that the big mining companies develop
mines as they require them, Leehey
said: “This is an error. Mines like
farms are not found but made. Pros
pectors and farmers cannot be hired
to make them.”
W. J. Elmendorf, vice-president of
die organization declared mining com
panies on the Pacific coast and in Al
iska last year distributed thirty-one
million dollars in dividends, of which
forty per cent came out of Alaska.
Colonel B. F. Millard, pioneer Alas
ca miner who died in Seattle yester
lay was paid silent homage by the
dub, the entire assembly standing in
silence for a minute.
COL. MILLARD,
PIONEER NORTH,
DEAD AT SEATTLE
SPENT MANY YEARS IN PRINCE
WILLIAM SOUND DISTRICT
IN MINING GAME
SEATTLE, Jan. 28. (JP)—Colonel B.
F. Millard, 76 years of age and Pio
neer Alaska mining man, having been
engaged in the country since 1898, died
at his Seattle home last night.
Mr. Millard came to Alaska at the
height of the gold rush, developing the
Cliff and Granite mines in the Prince
Wllam Sound dstrct. He was the
first Senator from* the Valdez district
elected to the Territorial Legislature,
where he served two terms.
Colonel Milliard was born at Bara
boo, Wisconsin.
GANNA WALSKA IN PARIS
PARIS, Jan. 28. (/P)—Ganna Walska,
clad in a gray fur coat with a mink
toque and with her famous pearls
glistening on throat and emeralds on
fingers and wrists, arrived here on a
French steamer yesterday, and was
met on the dock by her singing teach
er. She declined to discuss the rea
son her husband, Harold F. MaeCor
mick left the boat at New York sud
denly alter planning to make the trip
with her.
FISH WHICH
GIVES ELECTRIC
SHOCK CAUGHT
SEATTLE, Jan. 27. (ff)—At the an
nual meeting of the Pacific Fisheries
Society yesterday an electric torpedo,
a fish which gives an electric shock,
after being caught,-was exhibited. The
fish, which is flat, with an ugly snout,
was caught 200 miles off the Washing
ton coast. The fisherman claimed the
torpedo knocked him over with a
shock an hour after being caught.
WARRANTS BE WITHDRAWN
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 28. (/P)—
Chief of Police Harper of Burlingame,
announced today that warrants will be
withdrawn against other persons con
nected in the case of Harry Court,
who surrendered and confessed to run
ning down and killing a Burlingame
boy during a drunken spree.
DAUGHERTY IN COURT
NEW YORK, Jan. 28. (/P)—Cited in
uj tuuii iui ucuause ue it?*
fused to answer certain grand jury
questions, Harry M. Daugherty, Attor
ney General of the United States un
der President Harding, recanted and
escaped a possible jail term. Mi;.
Dougherty was subponaed in the fed
eral investigation of the American
Metals Company case, but declared,
“I will not answer certain questions
on the grounds it might tend to incrim
inate me later.”
ROOSEVELT TAKES
OFF CREW OF ILL
FATED STEAMER
NEW YORK, Jan. 28. (Jp)—'The S. S.
President Roosevelt rescued the entire
crew of the Antinoe, twelve being tak
en off yesterday and the remaining
thirteen at midnight.
DAUGHTER OF ARMY OFFICER
DIES IN MANILA LAST NITE
MANILA, Jan. 28. (/P)—Miss Alice
Robinson, daughter of an army officer
here, and neice of John Van A. Mac
Murray, Minister to China, was burn
ed to death here last evening.