s Hewstrd Bäily GUIPUMY
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS.
VOLUME XX.
NUMBER 246.
SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14,1925.
PRICE TEN CENTS
EXPRESSMAN
RILLS GIRL AND
TARES POISON
YAKIMA, Sept. 14. (£>)—John Har
per, an expressman of this city, killed
himself with poison and a pistol early
today, after he had killed his step
daughter, Myrtle Boles, with a rifle.
The bullet was fired through a win
dow in the girl’s home, at her as she
was sitting talking to a friend.
Harper’s body was found under a
Vlruit tree on the outskirts of ^ akima.
The shooting followed a domestic
quarrel in which Harper had display
ed hatred toward Myrtle, 18-year-old
school girl. Harper had beaten her
several times and had threatened to
kill the family, At the time of the
shooting Harper had been living away
from home.
Mose Lamoreaux. who was sitting in
the parlor with Myrtle and her mo
ther. was injured by the shot.
THREE TONGMEN ARRESTED
NEW YORK, Sept. 14. (£>)—Three
high officials of the On Leong tong,
were arrested and charged with act
ing in concert w'ith the slayers of two
members of the Hip Sing tong, who
were killed last week.
STRIKERS TO ARBITRATE
PARIS, Sept. 14. (JP)—The French
government has invited bankers and
the striking bank employes to submit
their differences so as to make them
the subject of arbitration.
MISSOURI VERY DRY
JEFFERSON, Mo., Sept. 14. (/P)—
Missouri is experiencing the worst
drought since 1913. All crops are
badly damaged, according to official
reports.
Dr. and Mrs. C. A. Pollard
of Anchorage, Visitors
En Route to the Westward
Dr. C. A. Pollard, one of the best
known dentists in the Territory, with
offices at Anchorage, accompanied by
Mrs. Pollard and baby boy, arrived
in Seward yesterday. They plan go
ing Westward on either the steam
er Starr or the Admiral Watson,
Mrs. Pollard and son stopping off
at Kodiak on a brief visit, Dr. Pol
lard continuing on to Seldovia where
he is interested in a thriving fox
ranch. Mrs. Pollard will return to
Seward en route home, but the doc
tor will undoubtedly catch one of
the gasboats, plying on Cook Inlet
for Anchorage. While in Seward
they are guests at the Van Gil
1 der. %
I, , _^__
TURKS MAY ADOPT SURNAMES
LONDON, Sept. 14. (/P)—’The Turk
ish department of education has order
ed all Turks to adopt surnames. Free
selection is to be allowed except when
the name is that of a historic foreign-^
<er.
V BIG FIRE RAGING IN TAMPA
TAMPA, Sept. 14. (JP)—Fire break
ing out along the ship terminals of the
Tampa Shipbuilding and Engineering
Company at nine o’clock Saturday nite
was still raging two hours later after
damage estimated at five hundred
thousand dollars had been done.
*
Antonio Lusparri, a Genoa broker,
killed his wife and dived off the dock
to escape pursuers. He never came
up.
Jumping from his falling airplane,
Donald Drew was buried to the neck
in mud at Croydon, Eng.
Mrs. Catherine Palmer of Bath, did
her own washing on her 100th birth
day.
PRISONER SWALLOWS
PIECES OF TABLEWARE
HILLSBORO, Oregon, Sept. 14. (IP)
—A table knife, four teaspoons, two
teaspoon bowl handles and two pieces
of wire four inches long, were found
in the stomach of L. L. Gray, a county
prisoner, who had been sentenced to
six months imprisonment on May 13th
for impersonating an officer. Soon
after his arrest he complained he had
swallowed wrishbones.
PN-9 NO. 1 AT PEARL HARBOR
HONOLULU, Sept. 14. (£>)—The air
craft tender Pelican arrived at Pearl
Harbor today, towing the PN 9 No. 1.
AGED SEATTLE WOMAN DEAD
SEATTLE, Sept. 14. (£>)—Mrs. Ag
ness Cardinal, sixty-one, and a eSattle
resident for forty-nine years, died yes
terday. She came to the tSates from
Scotland fifty two years ago, her hus
band dying thirty years ago at Nome
| during the gold rush.
mitchelloF
UNSOUND MIND
SAYS MOFFETT
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 14. (£>)
—Rear Admiral Moffett, chief of the
Bureau of Aeronautics, after quoting
the charges made by Mitchell, declared
“The most charitable way to regard
these charges is that their author is
of unsound mind, suffering from de
lusions.”
Referring to the contention of Mit
chell that Lieutenant Person and Cap
tain Skell, killed in the air races at
Dayton last October, met their death
because the planes w'ere dilapidated,
Moffett said it was the duty of the
“high ranking army aviator, wrho was
present, to prevent the use of planes
if they wrere unfit. If this was not
done the responsibility lies wTith this
man, and he cannot evade it by trying
to shift the responsibility to the sys
tem.”
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 14. (JP)
—Moffett said today, “The time of our
national bereavement, when the heart
of the entire nation was heavy with
grief over the loss of the Shenandoah
members, when hope for rescue of the
crew of the PN 9 was nearly gone,
was seized by proponents of the sep
arate air forces as a fitting time for
the advancement of their claims by
an attack upon the agencies of the
government, charged with the devel
opment of aviation.
False charges branded loyal ser
vants of the people with a stigma that
denial can hardly efface. Revolution
ary methods of communists were in
voked to overcome opposition of loyal
men, who sought to thwart the am
bitions of unscrupulous selfseekers.”
MOTORCYCLE
POLICEMAN HURT
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 14. (JP)—An
automobile swerving from the heavy
traffic line here, scraped the Dawes
car and then ran down and injured
a Dawes motorcycle police escort. Mrs.
Dawes jumped from the car and took
the policeman’s head in her lap, di
recting first aid work.
HOPE ABANDONED FOR
MISSING FRENCH AIRMEN
PARIS, Sept. 14. (JP)—Hope has
been abandoned for the French airmen
who were lost at sea Sunday, in hy
droplane competitions.
NYACK, N. Y., Sept. 14. (JP)—'Two
Catholic nuns, clad in the garments
of their order, today leaped into the
Hudson river and rescued two of
three drowning little girls.
WORLD SERIES
WILL OPEN ON
OCT. SEVENTH
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 14. (#>)—
Judge Landis, at a conference of the
major league penant contenders Sat
urday, decided the world series will |
open October seventh in Washington.
Saturday’s Game
NATIONAL LEAGUE—
St. Louis 4. Pittsburg 0.
Cincinnati 5, Chicago 2.
New York 1, Brooklyn 3.
Boston 2, Phila. 4.
AMERICAN LEAGUE—
Detroit 1, 3, Cleveland 4, 2.
Washington 12, Boston 3.
Philadelphia 2, 10, New York 7, 6.
Chicago 4, 2, St. Louis 10, 6.
COAST LEAGUE—
Seattle 4, San Francisco 2.
Vernon 7, Salt Lake 6.
Oakland 13, Sacramento 10.
Portland 13, Los Angeles 5.
Sunday’s Game
COAST LEAGUE—
Seattle 5-0, San Francisco 7-6.
Vernon 9-3, Salt Lake 2-4.
Oakland 1-0, Sacramento 4-2.
J Portland 3-7, Los Angeles 8-2.
[■AMERICAN LEAGUE—
i New York 1, Boston 2.
j Chicago 4, St. Louis 3.
Washington 6, Philadelphia 6. played
eleven innings, called account dark.
Detroit 6, Cleveland 6.
NATIONAL LEAGUE—
Chicago 2, Cincinnati 5.
St. Louis 8, 6, Pittsburg 4, 2.
Brooklyn 10-3, Philadelphia 1-7.
Dazzy Vance pitched the first no-hit
game in his major league career yes
terday against the Phillies beating
them ten to’one.
I
Team Standings
COAST LEAGUE—
Team Won
'San Francisco . 108
Salt Lake _ 99
Seattle . 90
Los Angeles _ 87
Portland _ 78
Oakland _ 74
Vernon _ 67
Sacramento _ 59
NATIONAL LEAGUE—
Pittsburg ____ 84
New York . 78
Cincinnati _ 74
Brooklyn _ 66
St. Louis _ 67
Boston _ 64
Chicago _ 62
Philadelphia _ 49
AMERICAN LEAGUE—
Washington _ 87
Philadelphia _ 79
St. Louis . 73
Detroit __ 70
Chicago _'.. 71
Cleveland _ 65
New York _ 58
Boston _ 40
Lost
57
6S
74
78
87
93
98
107
Pet.
655
593
549
527
473
443
406
355
54
60
64
69
73
77
79
78
609
565
536
489
479
454
440
431
48
55
63
64
66
73
78
96
645
590
537
522
518
471
426
294
RIFFS RUSHING TROOPS
FEZ, Morocco, Sept. 14. (JP)—French
military circles say that the Riffians
are rushing reinforcements to their
lines and the tribesmen are still very
active.
TAKES FIREMEN AND POLICE
TO SUBDUE PET MONKEY
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 14# (£>)—It
took a company of firemen and sever
al deputy sheriffs to suubdue an un
identified monkey which threw pop
bottles and vegetables as missels. It
is believed that the monkey had es
caped from one of the Hollywood ac
tor colonies.
BANDITS ROB MAIL WAGON
WINONA, Sept. 14. (JP)—Five ban
dits held up a mail wagon and after
slugging the messenger, escaped with
four bags of registered mail.
TWO SHOT IN ATTACK
ON HOME OF NEGRO
DETROIT, Sept. 14. (JP)— One man
was killed and one shot seriously
when a negro family moved into a sec
tion previously inhabited only by
white persons. The men shot were
standing in a mob which had gathered
in front of the negro’s house.
EXPECT ARREST MURDERER
VINTON, Iowa, Sept. 14. (^—Offi
cials of Benton County expect to ar
rest within the next twelve hours, a
person whom they are almost certain
shot and killed Mrs. Myrtle Cook, the
county president of the W. C. T. U.
TILDEN BEATS FRENCHMAN
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 14. (JP)—W.
Tilden has defeated Jean Borotra, of
France in the most spectacular match
of history, after two hours of play in
which Tilden was forced to the limit,
even discarding his shoes. This vic
tory gives the United States the lead
in the Davis Cup matches of one game
to nothing.
WILBUR WILL
INVESTIGATE
LOSS AIRSHIP
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 14. (JP)
—Wilbur has appointed a navy court
of inquiry in the Shenandoah disaster,
consisting of seven officers, including
Admiral Hilary Jones, chief of the
general board, as president; Captain
Paul Foley, director of the experiment
al laboratory, Bellevue, D. C. The
judge advocate of the war department
has made| plans for Mitchell to testify
before the board.
Rodgers Prefers Sea uDty
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 14. (Jp)
!—Rodgers has advised Wilbur that he '
prefers sea airplane duty, to becoming
assistant chief of aeronautics.
SAN ANTONIO, Sept. 14. (/P)—Mit
chejl saicT*today in regard to a China
flight, “Why wouldn’t it be a good idea
to fly planes overland from New York,
to Peking, stopping once at Nome for
fuel, then continuing to the Asiatic
continent, with a total elapsed time
from New York of from sixty to ninety
hours.
“Think how much a service of this
kind would save a commercial bank,
and benefit business and civilization.
Under this service, diphtheria serum
which took weeks to be rushed to
Nome, could be sent from New York in
a few hours.”
Anchorage Young Man To
Re-Enter U. of W.; Mother
Sister, Brother, Seattle
, —
Maurice J. Anderson, stalwart son
of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Anderson of
Anchorage, arrived in town Satur
day on his way to Seattle where
he will embark upon his second
year at the University of Washing
ton. He has been spending the past
three months working in his father’s
office.
“No more boiled beef for me,”
young Anderson exclaimed yester
day. “Last season us students got
fed up on boiled beef but now that
Mother will remain in Seattle over
the winter, it certainly will be a
treat to get home-cooking.”
Mrs. Anderson, daughter and son,
Vincent, passed thru Seward some
weeks ago en route to Rochester,
where Vincent was to have an oper-j
ation performed to his Injured hip.
The operation was successful, Mau
rice said, and now they have all re
turned to Seattle and have taken up
a residence. Vincent, however, will
have to wear a cast on his hip and
limb though, for the next six months.
SPECIAL BOARD
TO INVESTIGATE
U. S. AIR POWER
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 14. (/p)
—President Coolidge appointed a spec
ial board of nine men to inquire into
the adequacy of American air power,
to meet Thursday, organize and then
proceed immediately with the study,
with a view to submitting their report
in November.
The decision to name the board was
reached after Coolidge had received a
joint letter from Davis and Wilbur,
suggesting a study be made of the
best means of developing and applying
aircraft for national defense, and a
supplement study made by the war
and navy departments.
The letter made no reference to the
Shenandoah disaster or to Mitchell’s
statements. The President address
ed letters to each of the men, say
ing their effort would “result in the
bringing out of the good qualities of
the air service, and would suggest
what action should be taken for the
improvement of it.”
The only Pacific C^ast man named
was William F. Durand, of Los An
geles. *
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 14. —Mit
chell, in a statement made to the As
sociated Press today, said the appoint
ment of the aircraft inquiry board was
a momentous step toward solving the
problems of the air service; that a
survey of that study would be a pains
taking affair.
Mitchell also declared he hoped to
be called to testify at Coolidge’s air
craft board inquiry.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 14. (JP)
—Coolidge’s investigating board mem
bers include Major General James C.
Harbord, retired, New' York; Rear
Admiral Frank F. Fletcher, retired,
Washington; Dwight W. Morrow, of
Englewood, New' Jersey; How'ard E.
Coffin. Detroit; Senator Bingham, Con
necticut; Representative Vinson, Geo.
democrat of the House naval commit
tee; Chairman Parker, House Com
merce Committee, and Judge Arthur
C. Denison of Grand Rapids, Michigan.
DIFICULTIES ARISE OVER
WEDDING OF ROYALTY
ROME, Sept. 14. (JP)—Difficulties
have arisen over the wedding Septem
ber 23rd, of Princess Mafalda, to Phil
ip of Hesse, the parents of the bride
groom to be, insisting on a Protestant
ceremony as well as a Catholic one.
COWBOY IS EARL
SHERIDAN, Wyo., Sept. 14. (/P)—
Oliver Henry Wallop, a cowboy, has
been notified of the death of his elder
brother, the Earl of Portsmouth, mak
ing him the heir to the title.
KEARNS TO SUE DEMPSEY
NEW YORK, Sept. 14. (£>)— Jack
Kearns promises a lawsuit if Jack
Dempsey makes good his intentions
of making a tour of Middle-West cit
ies. Kearns said that Dempsey had
signed a contract to box either Wills
or Gene Tunney in 1926.
J. P. Morgan, salesman for the Lib
by & McNeil company, who arrived
in Seward yesterday from Anchor
age, claims no affiliation with the
famous “J. P.” of New York, it is
reported.
Eearly risers in Seward, among
I whom were a number of visitors em
I barking on the train for the lute
[ rior, had the rare privilege of wit
nessing one of the most perfect and
gorgeous colored rainbows permit
ted anyone to view in an entire life
time. The rainbow was a solid mass
of vivid colors, draped over Mt.
Marathon.