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VOLUME 19, NUMBER 242
SEWARD, A! ASKA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1924.
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DIRIGIBLE ZR-3 NOSES
ONTO UNITED STATES
SOIL AT EARLY HOUR
BOSTON, Oct. 15.—Flying low over
the city the huge German-built Zep
pelin, purchased by the United States
government from Germany, arrived
here this morning en route from Ber
lin from where it sailed Sunday
morning. The hum of its engines
were heard over Providence, K. I.,
and an hour later the huge machine
^ settled down to its mooring mast at
Bangley Field at 9:00 o’clock, hav
ing completed the trip without acci
dent of an> kind.
Dr. Eckener, who is Gremany’s rep
resentative in turning the airship
over to the United States, reports a
fine passage with the exception of
a few hours delay caused by heavy
winds off the Azores. The big ship
behaved beautifully, and the machin
ery functioned perfectly. Capt. Steele,
Lieut. Com. Kelein, and Major Frank
Kenedy, United States naval otti
cers who made the passage on the
ship stated that it exceeded their
expeettaions, and would be a wel
come addition to the navy’s flying
fleet.
“\Ve are ready to continue our
flight to the North pole,” said Capt.
Steele up his arrival at Lakehurst.
“There is no question but that we
could have circumnavigated the world
without stopping, had we so desired.”
The ZR-3 will be accepted by the
United States some time this week
and will probably be renamed, as
was the Shenandoah. It has been
suggested that the new ship be nam
ed the “Warren G. Harding.”
Establishes World Record
LAKEHURST N J., Oct. 15.- The
Zeppelin ZR o came to rest lightiy at
Lakehurst E'eM at 9:55 a. m. today
after she ha-1 passed over B ) f.cr
Providence, Newport, and New io.k
City early this morning.
She completed her journey from
Friedrichshavtn, Germany, a trip ol
5,000 miles in 81 hours, 25 minutes
Dr. Hugo Eckener, commander of the
airship and president of the Zeppelir
Company jubilantly declared: “Gentle
men, a new world record for 5,Q0(
miles of continuous flight has beer
established.”
COOLIDGE SPEAKS AT
UNVEILING OF STATUE
TO FRANCIS ASBURV
WASHINGTON, I). 0., Oc\. 15.
Reliance upon religion, rather tliar
the law for reform was empj.-isizc-r
today by President Cooiidge, spoilt
ing at the unveiling here of tilt
statue to Francis Asbury, pioneei
bishop of the Methodist Episcopal
church in America.
“We cannot depend upon govern
ment,” the President declared, “to dt
work of religion. An act of congress
may indicate that a reform is being
or has been accomplished, but it does
4 not itself bring about reform in gov
ernment of the country, and nevei
gets ahead of religion of the coun
try.”
AMERICAN COUPLES
SCURRY TO LONDON
FOR NUPTIAL KNOT
LONDON, Oct. 15.—London has
“arrived” as a mecca for Americar
marriages.
If According to figures from Londor
registry offices more than 2,000 cou
pies from the United States wert
married here during the last thret
months.
Many of the licenses were issuer
from the offices of the Archbishop o
Canterbury, several of them being o
the special variety permitting tin
ceremony to be performed at othei
than the prescribed locality and time
These licenses are issued on payment
of 25 pounds.
The favorite churches are St
George’s, where President Roosevelt
was married in 1886, and St. Mar
garet's, a small chapel adjoining tin
Westminster Abbey.
SWEDISH GOVERNMENT
HANDS IN RESIGNATION
LONDON, Oct. 15.—Exchange tele
graphic dispatches from Copenhagen
says that the Swedish government
has resigned. Premier Ernest Tryg
ger also tendered his resignation.
Join the Chamber of commerce
WHEAT TAKEN FROM
EGYPTIAN TOMB GROWS;
IS BIG CROP PRODUCER
TACOMA, Oct. 15.—F. S. Johnston,
a farmer in the Big Bottom country,
near Norton, Wash., has just harvest
i ed a bumper crop of wheat that he
claims came from seed taken from an
Egyptian tomb. Mr. Johnston says he
1 got the seed four years ago and this
year had enough to plant fifteen or
twenty acres. He has just finished
1 harvesting the crop which netted 729
J bushels for an average of 48.6 bush
! els to the acre. The grain is white
i and very hard, the straw’ short and
the heads prolific. Mr. Johnson says it
! is one of the best varieties of spring
! wheat he has ever grown.
FRANK WALSH NAMED
BY LAFOLLETTE BE
PROGRESSIVE COUNSEL
ST. LOUIS, Mo., Oct. 15.—Charging
| that he possessed evidence of new’
land startling character regarding a
slush fund being collected by the Re
publican National committee for use
in doubtful sate, Senator LaFollette
announced today that he had appoint
ed Frank P. Walsh, of Kansas City,
as counsel for the Progressives in
the hearings before the Borah Con
gressional committee investigating
campaign expenses. The committee
will open its inquiries in Chicago on
Friday.
BORAH WILL SUCCEED
BRANDEGEE ON THE
JUDICIARY COMMITTEE
WASHINGTON, U. C., Oct. 15.—
Senator Borah will fall heir to the
chairmanship of the senate judiciary
committee, as a result of the death
of Frank Brandegee.
CANNED GOODS EXPORTS
SHOW LARGE INCREASE
WASHINGTON, D. C. Oct. 15.—
! An increase of 27 per cent in the ex
portation of canned foods for the first
eight months of the current year over
the corresponding period a year ago
was reported by the department of
commerce. The figures were said to
indicate not only a full recovery from
the 1923 slump in exports, but a con
i siderable increase over the 1922 total
of 545,000,000 pounds.
Canned fruits exported during
July and August showed an increase
of nearly 100 per cent over those
months last year, while exports in
' dried and evaporated fruit for the
! first eight months of 1924 show an
I increase of 177 per cent.
PROSECUTION DISMISSES
CASE OF ROSENBLUTH
TACOMA, Wn„ Oct. 15.—As a re
sult of the acquittal of Pothier on
the charge of murder the charges held
against Capt. Robert Rosenbluth in
connection with the death of Major
Alexander Cronkhite were dismissed
this afternoon on motion of the pros
ecution.
The Ladies' First Aid Cla&s will
meet in Miss Fuller’s apartment in
the Arcade building, Friday at 2 p. m.
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COFVHlCHT^KEV#XONE^VICW CO.,.NEWJfORK
&
BASCOM SLEMP, A GOLF
ENTHUSIAST
Bascom Slemp, secretary to Presi
dent Coolidge, indulging in a round of
golf at the Woodstock, Vt. links.
NEW PRESIDENT OF THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS
New portrait of M. Motta, recently elected President of the League of
Nations, presiding over the sessions in Geneva this month.
SEATTLE POLICEMAN
MAY BE REINSTATED
FOR THE SUM OF $500
—
SEATTLE, Oct. 15.—Testifying last!
night before the civil service com- i
mission, John F. Mafeuski, a deposed
city detective seeking reinstatement,;
told the commission that he had heen j
approached by Mark Flemming. a
window trimmer, who represented
himself as a go-between for one of
the comissioners, and who told him
that his reinstatement in the city
police department could be arranged
for $500.
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TONG WAR ON COAST NOT
PLANNED, SAYS CHINESE
VICTORIA, B. C., Oct. 14.—Out
j break of a big tong war among the
l populations of the Chinatown of Vic
i toria, Vancouver and other places in
the west, in connection with the kill
ing Wednesday night of David Lew,!;
one of the wealthy mystery men of
the Chinese communities on the coast,
were denied here today by leading Chi
I nese.
Lew was shot down and killed short
ly after eight o’clock Wednesday night
as he was descending the stairs of the
Peking Chop Suey House, Vancouver.
The murderer approached him from
behind just as he reached the street
and fired four shots in his back. One
of the bullets penetrated his heart.
Early reports from the mainland
Chinese centers were taken to indicate
that this assassination was the fratra
cidal struggle going to the extremes
of death, between the Chinese groups
on this coast.
Walter Lee, leading Chinese editor
in Canada ,and an authority on Chi
nese tongs and activities, made it
quite clear that from the Chinese view
point it is not probable that any more
killings will follow and that at any
rate there is no cause to fear any j
general uprising of the tongs against
one another and an orgy of gunplay j
as reported eaily today.
Today everything was normal in
Chinatown, except that there was an
unusual amount of jabbering going on
in the alleys leading of Cormorant St.
BOND FAKIRS JAILED
NEW YORK, Oct. 15.—Two men
were placed under arrest today in con
nection with the circulation of several
hundred dollars worth of bonds of the
Steel and Tube company of America.
One of the prisoners was alleged to
have confessed.
Those under arrest are Frank A.
Miller, Montclair, N. J., an official of
the Lebon Ray corporation, and Ed
ward Feist, of Atlantic Highlands, N.
J. Assistant District Attorney Gibbs
said that Miller, whose company was
alleged to have caused the circulation
of the spurious bonds, has made a
partial confesion.
’.*oin tj.e Chamber of Commerce.
MRS. NELLIE T. ROSS
RECEIVES NOMINATION
WYOMING DEMOCRATS
CHEYENNE, \Yyo., Oct. 15.—Mrs
Nellie Taylor Ross, widow of the late
Governor W. B. Ross, of Wyoming,
was nominated by acclamation this
afternoon in the Democratic State
cca.ention as -a candidate for govern-!
or on the Democratic ticket, after the
the name of Patrick O'Connor of
Casper, had been withdrawn. Earlier
in the day the Republican State con-:
vention nominated Eugene J. Sulli- {
van of Basin.
FRENCHMEN WILL
RECOGNIZE SOVIET
PARIS, Oct. 15.—The French gov
ernent on Friday will formally recog
nize the Soviet republic of Russia,
according to information obtained in
official circles this morning.
RUM SHIP SOUGHT; BELIEVED j
ABLE CLEAR UP MYSTERY
VANCOUVER, B. C., Oct. 15.—
Provincial police and private detec
tives are scouring' the waters of the
straits of Juan de Fuca and the Gulf
of Georgia for the American gas boat
Comet, which is reported to have
sold a cargo of four hundred cases of
liquor to W. J. Gillis and his son Wil
liam of the Beryl G. before that boat
was “hijacked.”
According to the police, the Comet
is an American vessel with headquar
ters in Seattle, but has been chartered
by two Canadian rum runners who are
now in San Francisco with a boat out
side that port loaded with liquor, i
The Comet went out to this boat when
it left Vancouver and loaded up a
cargo taking a position off Flattery i
or in its shelter.
American and Canadian boats have
been going out to the Comet and tak
ing their cargoes off the ship return- !
ing. to Seattle in the case of the Am-j
erican boats or to the gulf islands for j
transfer in the case of the Canadian i
boats. As the straits are rough wat- .
ers only large boats make the trip to
the Comet from .Seattle, but smaller j
boats are used to the gulf islands |
where the transfer is made from the
Canadian boats.
According to the police Gillis took
his cargo from the Comet about Sept
ember 13. He then spent some time
repairing his engine before leaving
the Comet for his rendezvous at
Smuggler’s Cove on Discovery Island.
The next that was known of the
Beryl G. was when the lighthouse
keeper of Stuart Island picked up the
boat drifting without any sign of life
aboard. The deck was blood stained
and the bullet holes were in evidence
in the house and on deck. The an
chor was broken off its chain and po
lice fear that it might have been used
to anchor the bodies of the two men
after they were thrown overboard.
Aliens who claimed
EXEMPTION FROM WAR
MAY BECOME CITIZENS
WASHINGTON, Oct. 15.—Persons
who claimed exemption from the war
time draft on the ground that they j
were aliens, did not incapacitate them
selves for citizenship, Federal Judge
F. A. Griger said in a decision here
Friday. In his decision Judge Geiger
said that the question asked by the
draft boards as to whether an alien
claimed exemption because he was an
alien was meaningless. An alien was
not accepted for military service even
if he had refused to claim exemption
and a non-alien would still have been
liab’e for service even if he claimed
exemption.
DAVIS PROMISES GREAT
THINGS IN CASE HE IS
ELECTED AS PRESDENT
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SPRINGFIELD, III., Oct. 15.—John
iV. Davis, democratic candidate for
die presidency, told his hearers in
i speech last night -that he would
lemand his repudiation by his party
ind his recall within two years after
le assumes the presidency, provided
le is elected, if by that time ne has
ao driven privilege and corruption
Tom the Nation’s capital. He stat
?d that during the last administra
don special privilege had dominated
he halls of congress, and that the
average man had no chance to se
cure public utilities without the con
sent of certain senators and congress
men.
NEW-BORN GAS WELL
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING;
IS MASS OF FLAMES
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo., Oct. 15.
—A mammoth gas well, which came
into being on Saturday at Cisco,
Utah, was struck by lightning during
a recent electrical storm and is in
a mass of flames today. Its daily
capacity was estimated at ninety
million barrels.
TEMPERATURE ON MARS
LOW, SCIENTISTS THINK
WASHINGTON, Oct. 15.—Indica
tions are that the temperature of
Mars is low and its atmosphere rare,
according to scientists. Measurements
would indicate that the temperature
of the tropical regions of Mars at 12
m. noon is about 10 degi’ees above the
frcizing point and that the mean tem
perature over the south polar cap is
about 95 degrees below zero. The max
imum of heat comes at noon and not
in the afternoon as on the earth.
CABLE CONNECTED
UP WITH CORDOVA
The new cable was connected up
with Cordova this morning and mes
sages may now be sent over the line
radio since early last spring. This
which has been cut off from commu
nication with other towns, except by
radio since early last spring.
JOCKEY FOR FAMOUS FRENCH
HORSE, EPINARD
Everett Haynes, jockey for the own
er of the French racing champion re
cently defeated in the Lexington der
by by Sarazan. Haynes is an Ameri
can, and formerly lived in Jamaica,
Long Island.
BRANDEGEE A SUICIDE;
LEAVES NOTE WARNING
FRIENDS OF DANGER
WASHINGTON, D. €., Oct. 15 —
That Senator F"ank 13. Brandegee
committed suicide in his bathroom
yesterday, is shown by a note lert
in his bedroom below, to his chauf
feur, telling him where his body
would be found. Brandegee was a
bachelor and lived alone in several
rooms. No motive can be ascribed
for his suicide, as he was of a jovial
disposition, and apparently in per
fect health. The coroner’s jury re
turned a verdict of suicide after hold
ing an inquest on the body.
Penciled in a shaking hand on
stationary bearing the senate’s mark,
the last message of the dead leader
said:
“Dear George: I left $120'n for you
and $100 for Emma and Rufus. I
am up in the bathroom on the top
floor near 17th street—the top floor
above the one where I sleep. If you
or Lundy come up there beware of
gas. Goodbye.” The note was sign
ed “Frank W. Brandegee.”
The writing indicated that the
writer was under serious nervous ten
sion and the authorities will investi
gate, believing that the Senator may
have fallen into the hands of black
mailers, and took his own life rather
than accede to their demands. It
is known that he spent Sunday with
some friends in the city, who state
that apparently he was suffering
from insomnia, as he was heard pac
ing his bedroom floor shortly after
retiring at their home.
Frank Brandegee was a recognized
leader in Connecticut politics, and
had served in the House and Senate
for the past 22 years. He was a
strong admirer of President Coolidge,
and was to have taken the stump
in Connecticut for the Republican
party.
COOLIDGE WILL MAKE
CONCLUDING SPEECH
IN CITY WASHINGTON
WASHINGTON. D. C„ Oct. 15 —
The White House indicated today
that President Coolidge would make
his best and concluding speech in
this city October 24, before the east
ern members of the United States
chamber of commerce. Taxation, the
tariff and immigration will be discus
sed at that time.
DOOMED SAILORS SEND , ,
AFLOAT LACONIC WORD
OF ILL-FATED VESSEL
NAGASAKI, Japan, Oct. 15.—A
grim message of farewell from Nip
pon Yusen Kaisha freighter Matsuya
ma Maru, which foundered and went,
down with 57 aboard the night of
July 11 about 150 miles southwest of
Nagasaki, has been picked up off
Kyushu. A lifebelt, almost the only
trace of the ill fated vessel picked
up by searching ships was found,
bearing the words, “The Matsuyama
Maru has gone to her death.”
There was only one survivor of
the Matsuyama Maru, a stoker nam
ed Fukuoka, who was picked up off
a raft after eight days with no food
and little water.
$200,000000 LOAN IS
TAKEN UP IN TWELVE
MINUTES BY BANKERS
, NEW YORK, Oct. 15.—Subscrip
tions for the United States $110,000,
000 share of the two hundred million
dollar loan to Germany was exceeded
by five hundred million, according to
official announcement, within twelve
minutes after the books were opened
for subscriptions.
TAX PROPERTY SOLD
City Clerk Wm. Whittlesey is sell
ing off the delinquent tax property
recently advertised in the Gateway, a
number of Seward business men tak
fcig over a large block on chances for
speculation.
WORLD FLYERS HOP
OFF FOR SAN DIEGO
SEATTLE, Oct. 15.—Lieuts’ Smith,
Nelson and Wade wo;’d flyers who re
turned to Seattle last night from
Washington will btp off tomorrow
in the world planes for San D.ego.