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SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1924.
PRICE TEN CENTS
SUE MINI STUB
NOW UNDER PROBE
By SEiTE COH.
FRANK A. VANDERLIP CALLED
BEFORE COMMITTEE TO TELL
WHAT HE KNOW*
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Million Dollar Slush Fund Sent to the
Capital by Oil Interests to In
fluence Officials.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14—As a re
sult of his Ossining, New Yoi'k, speech
in which he intimated that the sale by
President Harding of the Marion Star
for one million dollars, when the paper
0 was not worth half that sum, should
be investigated as to the source of the
money paid, Frank A. Vanderlip, pro
moter and publicist, has been subpoe
naed to appear before the Senate in
vestigating committee.
It is also reported that the commit
tee has information that a million dol
lar slush fund was sent to the Nation
al capital by the Sinclair oil interests
for the purpose of influencing persons
high in the nation’s councils .
Mr. Vanderlip’s charges have caused
a sensation among friends and adher
ents of the former President, who de
< dare the sale of the Star was a bona
fide one, and that the paper was worth
all that was received for it.
Vanderlip Charges Fraud
In his speech at Ossining. N, Y., in
the course of an arraignment of pub
lic officials, Frank A. Vanderlip last
night said: "A certain newspaper was
sold for $550,000 when it was well
knon to every one that it as not worth
half that sum. Two young men of no
financial standing purchased it. Every
body in Washington, including news- 1
paper correspondents, knows this, but
f- no or.e wants to look under the edge
of a shroud to expose corruption.
Where did the money come from to
buy this paper, and where did the
money received for it go? The last
administration stands unchallenged hi
rottenness and graft.”
CLEVELAND, O., Feb. 14—Louis
H. Brush, who with Roy R. Moore,
nurchased the Marion Star from the
late President Harding replying to the
insinuation made by Frank Vanderlip,:
t in his Ossining speech, said the pur
chase price of the Marion Star was
but $370,000, and that the contract
wit hHarding was signed two days be
fore he left Washington on his trip
to Alaska. A payment of $50,000 in
cash was made. Of the purchase price
or $370,000, Harding was to receive
$203,000. The President was to re
cehe $163,000 in cash, including the
$50 000 turned over to him when the
pap»r was taken over, and was to re
* t<Jn prtfeireu stock in the newly or
ganized Harding Publishing company,
amounting to $100,000. The sale was
a bona fide one in every w’ay, and was
made on account of the late presi
dents ill health.
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IS H1ECESSH
HIVE VALIDITY OF
OIL LEASES TESTED
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14—Assistant
Secretary of the Interior Finney, was
quoted today as saying that Albert
Fall considered it unnecessary to have
Attorney General Dauhgerty pass on
the validity of the oil leases before
any were made, taking the responsibil
ity of turning the lands over to the
companies, without testing the legal
ity of the plan. This was the testimony
today before the Senate committee by
Oscar Suti'o, counsel for the Standard
v Oil Company of California.
Sutro said that when the question
of the leases came up his company re
quested an opinion by the Attorney
General as to their rights in the case
and that Fall replied that the leases
were discretionary with himself, and
that Dougherty had nothing to do in
the matter.
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KirtTONI VIKW CO.. NIW YORK
EMPRESS OF J APAN VIEWS REMAINS OF DEV TAT ED CITY
SOUGHT BOUT IN SAN FRANCIS
CO WITHOUT SUCCESS—TO
TACKLE ANY MAN
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 14—Per
haps in Germany, where there are wo
men pugilists, Senorita Carmen Lucia
de la Rosa may find a match, but
probably in this country though she
appeared recently ip this city, present
ed credentials to show she was a regu
lar fighter in Mexico, and told promot
HrS thal iliofnnrl A-f o MiJf.iLU
opponent, she was perfectly willing to
tackle a man of her own weight.
Senorita Carmen said she also was
a promoter and staged the recent Sam
Langford-Kid Savage fight in Mexico
City.
The fair boxer is 21 years old, she
\ve:ghs 147 and stands 5 feet seven
inches. Her nose lias been brushed a
dc lo one side; otherwise she shows no
•narks of her profession.
* I'm considered pretty speedy in the
ring,” she said.
But local promoters could give her
no encouragement, inasmuch as wo
men are not even admitted as specta
tors a l San Francisco bouts.
ADM. WATSON SAILS
SEWARD, WAY PORTS
SEATTLE, Feb. 14.—The steamship
Admiral Watson of the Pacific Steam
ship company sailed north this morn
ing for Seward with the following pas
sengers:
For Seward.—S. K. Sharpless, Mrs.
Bolton, Frank L. Freidle. Seventy-one
passengers comprise her list sailing
from Seattle.
ATHLETES SUSPENDED
SEATTLE, Feb. 14—Three Queen
Anne high school basketball players
were today indefinitely suspended, fol
1 owing an investigation by the school
and city authorities of alleged drink
ing by the boys in a locker room at
Garfield high school, preceding the
basketball game last Friday.
DILL RESOLUTION
COLUMBIAN TREATY
ADOPTED SENATE
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.—The Dill
resolution, calling on Secretary of
State Hughes for information as to
the $25,000,000 paid Columbia for the
Panama Canal zone, and the course
of American diplomacy with reference
to oil ventures in Mesopotamia, Czec
hoslovakia and Mexico, was adopted
today by the Senate.
The money was paid ovei to Col
umbia upon recomnenda tlon of Hard
ings’ cabinet.
THE HOUSE REPORTS ON
LEASED MINERAL LANDS
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.—The House
committee on Indian Affairs, today de
dined to make a favorable report on
a bill relating to government mineral
lands which Former Secretary Fall
eased for mineral purposes.
EXCAVATION WORK STOPS
ON TOMB OF KING TUT
LUXOR, Egypt, Feb. 14.—Howard
Carter today said that he had stopped
excavation work and closed King Tu
tankhamen’s tomb owing to a refusal
of the Egyptian government to permit
the wives of excavators to visit the
tomb.
SEATTLE HARDWARE HEAD
DIES IN SANTA BARBARA
SEATTLE, Wn„ Feb. 14.—C. A
r>i„ ..v., r... .i j_* ur it«r ocamc iidl'll
ware company, died today at his home
in Santa Barbara, Calif.
14! DIVORCES
RHODE ISLAND’S DIVORCE MILL
BREAKS A RECORD
Almost Any Reason Will Do—Divorce
Seekers Need Not go to Court
For Separation
PROVIDENCE, Feb. 14—A record
of 143 divorces in four days is made
by Rhode Island’s divorce mill, estab
lishing that little state as a divorce
seekers’ paradise. It is the Reno of
the East. Minta Durfree, wife of ‘•Fat
ty” Arbuckle, got a divorce there re
cently. So did Mrs. Lowell Sherman,
wife of another screen actor.
In the first four days of the court
at Providence, 161 petitions for di
vorce were heard, 143 immediately
granted and 18 held up for later de
cision. Among those held up was the
case of Nina Wilcox Putnam, noted
author, whose petition for divorce
from Robert J. Sanderson, was first
granted and then vacated, when charg
es were made she hadn’t lived in the
state the required two years.
The spotlight of publicity thrown on
this case, has revealed the evils of
easy divorce in Rhode Island. In that
state there are many grounds of di
vorce. About all that is required for
starting an action is residence in the
state for two years. The petitioner
may swear to his or her charges in
the private office of a master in chanc
ery, and obtain a divorce decree with
out going near the court that grants
it .
Lawyers make big money in getting
these easy divorces and a Divorce
Ring is suspected. A uniform divorce
law throughout the counti-y, such as is
now’ before Congress, would remedy
such evils.
BEANS PROVE DEADLY
ALBANY, Ore., Feb. 14.—The thir
teenth death caused from eating can
ned beans occurred here last night.
Tuesday a two-year-old boy died from
botulinum poisoning, caused by borne
canned beans. The health depart
ment is investigating, fearing further
deaths.
MAJOR GOTWALS LAUDS TRANS
PORTATION FACILITIES
* TO ALASKA
WASHINGTON, Feb .13—Improv
ed transportation facilities, both pa. -
seuger and freight, just inaugurated
between the United Spates and Alaska,
marks a new era in the commercial
prosperity of tne territory, according
to Major J. C. Gotwals, chief engineer
of the Alaska railroad, who arrived
in Washington recently on oti’iciai bus
iness. Major Gotwals called upon the
,'Wvpta.ry of the Interior, and in a
tilflcGnitlu icguHA tj vvnuHtuiii’ ill .1.1'
uska said :
Regular week’y passenger and
freight traffic bet- oe,: Seattle and
Seward has been maintained d wing
the .past winter. I reviojsly, boats at
von day interval; were the rule thru
the winter season.
"Another development for the bene
Ct ol Alaska, is the purchase of the
magnificent steam.-hip Colon, by the
" ka Steams.lip Ck apany, wi.ich
v‘ ii be placed in th- Alaska seivice
under the name ,f the steamship Yu
k »n. This new ship is a inxurieu, p:.a
.-.engsr liner with'excellent :.* eommo
dations for 300 firstclass passengers
as well as 3,000 tons of freight.
“Last year the steamship company
purchased the steamship Alaska, an
other de lux vessel, and these two
steamships will give the traveling
public to Alaska a service equal to the
Atlantic-European lines.”
LONG DRY SPELL IN CAL.
ENDS WITH A DOWNPOUR
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SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 14.—The
storm which yesterday broke one of
the greatest droughts in the history
of the state of California is only a
torerunner of the downpour to come
according to Forecaster Wilson.
Showers will continue for several
days, he believes.
Reports from inland points indicate
the rain arrived just in time to save
great quantities of crops and has sav
ed cattlemen, whose herds were un
able to obtain the proper feed, from a
threatening situation.
Along the coast storm warnings
were displayed. At Point Reyes the
wind is said to have attained a ve
locity of forty miles an hour.
CONGRESS ASKED
TO INVESTIGATE
SALE OF LAIS
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.—Secretar
ies Work and Wallace have asked
Congress to investigate the acquisi
tion of three million acres of lands in
Idaho, Montana and Washington by
the Northern Pacific railway. The pe
tition asked that the railway be pre
vented from acquiring any more land
until the inquiry is completed.
Join the Chamber of Commerce.
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8. OF E.REBUKED
OK GB1D JURY
JJ7IBS1S
FINAL REPORT CHARGES NEG
LECT OF NATIVES IN THE
FOURTH DIVISION
REFERS TO BOXER’S CRUISE
Says Bureau Education Takes Pleas
ure Outing While Interiorites
Dig LTp Coin for Aid
In its final report to Judge Cecil
Clegg, the federal grand jury at Fair
banks declares that destitution among
the Indians of the Fourth division has
become an acute problem and rebukes
the federal bureau of education for
its alleged neglect of the natives of
the interior section.
The report says that the fourth div
ision is not getting its share of the bu
reau funds allotted to Alaska and de
clares, further: “While the bureau of j
education is fitting out a vessel, such
as the Boxer, for a cruise along the
coast giving instructions in navigation
and mechanical arts and as a pleasure
excursion, here in the interior private
citizens have to go down in their pock
ets and subscribe for food, medicine
and clothing for sick and starving na
tives.”
The grand jury recommended that
the bureau’s office for the administra- |
tion vf Alaskan affairs concerning na- ;
tives be removed from Seattle to Al
aska. In this connection Dr. J. J. Tig
ert, federal director of education sev
eral months ago ordered W. T. Lopp,
chief of the Alaska division of the bu
reau to transfer his office from Seattle
to Anchorage but Mr. Lopp has so far
failed to open his offices here. Howev
er Mr. Lopp arrived from Juneau on
a recent boat and will soon establish
offices.
MATANUSKA SOIL MOST
FERTILE IN THE WORLD
The Kansas man who stuck his
cane in the ground and returned sev
eral months later to find it tasseled
out with two fully developed ears,
one of corn and the other filled with
nuts, has been made a back number
by a Matanuska rancher, who stuck
a cane with a nickle tip on it into the
ground and found a half dozen alarm
clocks on the stalk. Had he planted
a stick of maple he might have rais-j
ed a hardwood floor with a house
around it. Alaska is only coining in- j
to its own and the fertility of its soil
has never been fully demonstrated.
ASKS WHY COOLIDGE
IS DEFENDING DENBY
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.—Senator
Robinson, of Arkansas, democrat, in
a Senate speech today, asked Cool
idge to explain his defense of Secre
tary D«nby to the country at large.
CHARGES MADE AGAINST DEMO
CRATIC CANDIDATE MAY
CAUSE WITHDRAWAL
Campaign Managers of the Different
Stales Yv lit Meet in Chicago on
February 22.
CHICAGO, Feb. 14—David I. Rock
well, general director of William G.
McAdoo’s campaign for the presiden
cy announced tonight that a National
Conference of Democrats anti friends
of McAdoo would be held here Febru
ary 22, to decide whether he would
continue with his presidential cam
paign in view of the recent scandals
arising over the naval oil ieases, in
which it has been shown that McAdoo
was counsel for the Doheny interests.
RIVETER WHO SMASHED
RECORD CRITICALLY ILL
BELFAST, Feb. 14.—John Moir, a
shipyard riveter, who some months a
go by a wonderful feat ot endurance
broke the world's riveting record, lies
as helpless as a child in a hospiial in
this city from over-exertion.
In an effort to save his life two
fellow workers have given their blood
which surgeons transfused into Moir,
but he still lies critically i.
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MISTER RICKARD NOT
TO FIGURE ON MATCH
BUENOS AIRES, Feb. 14.—Luis
Firpo announced tonight that he had
sent a cable message to Tex Rickard
the New York promoter, rejecting his
proposition of $200,Out) for a match
with Harry Wills, as he has a better
proposition on hand. Furthermore, he
advised Mr. Rickard not to count on
him for a match at Madison Square
Garden during the summer season.
TVrO MEN DROWNED
PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 14—Two
men were lose and a third rescued,
when a boat belonging to the steamer
Elkridge was upset in the Pacific oc
ean while the men were engaged in
repairing the towline which the Elk
ridge was using in towing the Norwe
gian steamer Balto into port. This
advice as received here today by wire
less from the steamer Balto, which re
ported slow progress was being made
toard port.
BRITISH CRUISER WILL COME TO
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ALASKAN PORTS ESTABLISH
LANDING POSTS
VICTORIA, B. C., Feb. 14.—In prep
aration for the round-the-world flight
by British aviators, the Canadian pa
trol ship Theipval will soon establish
depots for fliers aong aong the Pa
cific Coast of Canada and across the
Pacific on the Aeautian isands. It
was announced that the Thiepval will
immediately prepare for the voyage,
going from here to Alaska and thence
across to Japan.
DENUNCIATION OF REED
CAUSES DEEP SENSATION
COLUMBIA, S. C., Feb. 14.—The de
nunciation of Senator James A. Reed
and the recall of the invitation to ad
dress the South Carolina legislature,
has caused a profound sensation
among democrats here. Reed was de
nounced as a traitor to his country
during the war and It was declared he
should have been forced to face a fir
ing squad.