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VOLUME XXI, NUMBER 245.
SEWARD ALASKA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1926.
PRICE TEN CENTS
I
, RECALL PROMOTERS
SI BY HARTLEY
BE AFTER SPECIAL
PRIVILEGES, STATE
JOHN P. HARTMAN, SEATTLE
4 LAWYER, ELECTED CHAIRMAN
ANTI-RECALL COMMITTEE
GROVER C. WINN, SECRETARY
Recall Interests Seek to Prevent
Enactment Certain Legilation Pro
gram, Asserts Governor
SEATTLE, Oct. 26. (£>)—Governor
Hartley was the principal speaker at
a meeting yesterday at which the
county chairman of the anti-recall
committee was appointed. Two hund
red supporters planned the circulation
of 2,500 petitions of which each holds
20 names. • The gathering elected
John P. Hartman, Seattle lawyer as
chairman and Grover C. Winn, Seattle
financier as secretary. They have es
tablished offices here. It was an in
4fc > vitational meeting and Democrats and
t Republicans attended. Hartley said
the recall move “is founded on selfish
ness and greed” and will “prove a
great detriment to the state. It’s real
promoters are those interests which
have been denied special prijileges
and the purpose back of it is to pre
vent enactment of certain legislation
and adoption of an administrative pro
gram which will stop slipshod, reck
less and extravagant expenditure of
state funds and thwart policies which
I compel the certain interests to bear
a just proportion of the tax burden.”
PASSENGERS, CREW
OF AIR LINER ARE
RESCUED FROAA SEA
s. O. S. SIGNALS RESPONDED TO
BY MANY VESSELS WHO
RUSH TO SCENE
FOLKSTONE, England, Oct. 26. (JP)
—Ten passengers and the crew of an
air liner en route from Croyden to
Paris were rescued today when the
plane landed in distress in the sea, off
this place responding to S. O. S. sig
nals from the plane which had de
veloped engine trouble. Many boats,
including the American steamer Re
public, rushed to the rescue. A
Folkstone trawler was the first to ar
rive at the scene and took aboard
the passengers and the two members
of the crew.
M. L. Rosewater, dredgemaster for
the Fairbanks Exploration Co., left
for the Outside on the S« S. Yukon.
Mrs. Paul Beran of Anchorage is
visiting with friends having arrived
* on Saturday. Mrs. Beran is a guest
at the Sexton hotel.
E. D. Stewart, head of the Alaska
Bureau of Mines department, Geolo
gical Survey, returned Saturday ffom
a brief trip of inspection through this
A dstrict and continued on South to his
Juneau office on the S. S. Yukon.
CRUSHING DEFEAT HANDED
BOULDER DIM PROBLEM
SACRAMENTO, Oct. 26. (/P)—A
crushing defeat of the Governor Rich
ardson dam program was administer
ed yesterday by special session of
state legislature. It was done in three
hours time, a record in the senate.
Only' three members stood with the
governor. Thirty eight voted against
him. The assembly vote was 68 to 8
against the governor.
BERMUDA HURRICANE
TAKES TOLL OF 100
NUMBER BOATS SI
BRITISH ADMIRALTY ESTIMATE
80 LOST FROM NAVAL
SLOOP VALERIAN
I LONDON, Oct. 25. (/P)—The Admir
alty estimated SO are dead from the
l
I naval sloop Valerian which sunk near
; Bermuda during the hurricane.
! HAMILTON, Bermuda, Oct. 26. (£>)
|—A hundred lives were lost in the
hurricane Friday off the Bermuda
coast. The British cruiser Capetown
saved 19 men including the captain
when the S. S. Valerian turned turtle
and sank. The schooner Luciline res
cued 11 members of the crew and a
third officer. The British freighter
Eastway also foundered.
BEAVER THE VOGUE
LONDON. (/P)-Several smart young
men about town are trying to revive
the fashion of wearing a beard, and
“Imperial,” a little tuft of hair under
the lower lip. They have been par
ading Bon street recently so adorned.
ANOTHER EARTHQUAKE SHOCK
* SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 25. (£>)—A
slight earthquake was felt throughout
the Bay region.
\
MR. TUiEY'S CROWN
BOSTON STRONG LAD IS FIRST
CHALLENGER TO BE PLACED
ON OFFICIAL LIST
NEW YORK, Oct. 26. (£*)—Jack
Sharkey, another Boston strong boy,
who defeated Harry Wills placed
himself on record with the New York
State athletic commission as a chal
lenger of Tunney, heavyweight box
ing champion. The commission re
ceived the challenge as information
and placed it on file where it receives
consideration. If the challengers are
in order, Sharkey is the first to file
formal challenge with the commis
sion. Wills was suspended by the
commission for thirty days for foul
ing Sharkey.
HAVE SPLENDID MEETING
The Eastern Star held a very in
teresting meeting last night follow
ed by a delightful social session.
Mrs. Wayne Blue carried off high
honors in the various question con
tests. The elaborate banquet was an
enjoyable surprise and greatly appre
ciated.
CEMETERIES DISRUPT
BODIES WHEN QUAKE
ROCKS LENINAKAN
FOUR HUNDRED NOW SAID BEEN
KILLED IN ARMENIA; 100 CRITI
CALLY INJURED AND 100,000
RENDERED HOMELESS
GARDEN OF EDEN DESTROYED
Shock Tears Open Gigantic Fissures
on Alagoz Karakala Mountain,
Famed in Biblical Lore
LENINAKEN, Armenia, Oct. 26. (&)
—More than 400 were killed, 100 cri
tically injured and 100.000 rendered
homeless in the three-day series of
earthquakes which destroyed most of
Leninakan and 12 towns nearby.
Cemeteries disrupted bodies which
were scattered everywhere, gas mains
and electric wires broken and telegra
phic communication destroyed. The.
quake devasted 100 miles of Lenina
kan lake with a vast sepulchre of
ashes. One shock tore open giant fis
sures on the great volcanic mountain
Alagoz Karakala, famed in Biblical
lore for giving shelter to Lot and
three friends. Like the shelltorn city
at Etchmedzian, at the foot of Mount
Ararat, peasants ran to the lower
slopes of the mountain which wrere
guarded as a sacred symbol of Heaven
and prayed for divine deliverance.
The Valley of Arazes, the traditional
Garden of Eden, was swept clean of
houses, trees and cattle.
FORMER SENATOR OF
ILLINOIS MURDERS
FAMILY; KILLS SELF
GOES INSANE BROODING OVER
FINANCIAL LOSSES AND ILL
HEALTH
MARION, III., Oct. 26. (£>)—'W. 0.
Potter, 56, former state senator and
also a United States district attorney,
during a fit of insanity Saturday night
killed his wife, two daughters and two
granddaughters one of them a three
weeks old baby, then drowned himself
in a cistern to the rear of the home.
He crushed the skulls of his victims
with an iron furnace shaker. Potter
had been brooding over financial loss
es, ill health and loss of position as
United States attorney.
PATRICK MOTT IS
ARRESTED IT CANTON
RELATIVES GIVE RIM UP
CANTON, Ohio, Oct. 26. (^—Pat
rick McDermott, key man in the Mel
lett murder case, was arrested at Nan
ty-Glo, Pennsylvania upon informa
tion relatives provided in the desire
that he return to Canton and clear
the name of McDermott. He hid for
three months in Cleveland but rela
tives took him to mountains at Nanty
glo a week ago.
Don’t miss the show tonight.
BERLIN, Oct. 26. (Jp)—Mrs. Jimmie
Walker, wife of Mayor Walker of
New York, who has been sojourning
| in Europe, praised President Von
Hindenburg for simple genial manner
in which he greeted her when she was
presented to him. She said unlike
President Coolidge, Hindenburg kis
sed her hand, a thing she greatly ap
! proved of.
AUTO BRAKE GIVES
WAY DU HILLSIDE;
PASSENGER KILLED
CAR PLUNGES 150 FEET DOWN
EMBANKMENT; WOMAN
CHAUFFEUR
SAN DIEGO, Oct.. 26. (JP)—A des
perate but futile attempt to save the
life of her passenger, Quinn T. More
land, resulted in the death of Miss
Irene Philbrook yesterday afternoon
when her automobile plunged 150 feet
into a canyon near Torrence and Well
born streets. Miss Philbrook was in
stantly killed while Moreland, a crip
ple was so badly injured that he died
several hours later.
Miss Philbrook who was about 35
i years of age, was a chauffeur com
! panion and reader. Yesterday she
was engaged by Moreland, an elderly
man to drive him to the house of a
friend on Torrence street. She park
ed the car at the curb at a point
where the pavement is quite steep
and got out to see if the friends were
jat home, according to witnesses. The
brakes of the car failed to hold and
the woman could not prevent its
plunging over the embankment.
RAILROAD REFUSAL AND ATT!
TUDE OF WOMEN ARE
BLAMED
NEW YORK, Oct. 26. (£>)—Failure
of California women to signify inten
tion of attending a reception in honoi
of women of all the states in the
union, and the refusal of two rail
roads to move Queen Marie’s private
train for a nominal charge were giver
today as reasons for California being
stricken from the list of states to be
honored by a visit of the royal trav
eler. The reasons were given by a
member of the queen’s suite on provi
sion that the source of information
be withheld.
M. L. Summers, dredge construction
engineer for the Fairbanks Expplora
tion company, was a Southbound pas
senger Sunday on the S. S. Yukon.
Axel Amdahy, employed with the
innoko Dredge Co., during the past
season, was among the local passen
gers for Seattle on the Yukon.
The halibut vessels Amoney, Sun
set and Mary G II were|| tied up at the
Seward dock this morning.
OPPOSE STANFIELD
M'NARY AND KING TO INVESTI
GATE OREGON SENATE
CAMPAIGN
KANSAS CITY, Oct. 26. (^—Sena
tor Reed telegraphed McNary to in
vestigate the Oregon state campaign
when the inquiry in Seattle has been
completed. George Putnam, publisher
of the Salem Capital Journal, request
ed and telegraphed “we have it on
good authority that Franklin K. Grif
fith of the Portland Electric company
paid the Oregonian $35,000 for the op
position of Robert Stanfield of which
$25,000 was sent from headquarters in
Philadelphia.”
PROVIDE MONEY AND SQUEAL
PARIS, Oct. 26. (JP)—The men who
organized the “French Porkery Limit
l ed” have been haled into court. In
vestors in the concern allege that
| they have been swindled. The share
holders assert in their complaint that
they received nothing for the money
j they invested in pigs, not even a
i squeal, and they now are providing
this also.
GEIPEL ELECTED CHANCELLOR
VIENNA, Oct. 26. (/?)—I. Seipel was
yesterday elected chancellor by the
Austrian parliament. •
THEY WILL AVOID
PLANS TO REMAIN SINGLE AS
LONG AS IN THE FIGHTING
GAME f'
NEW YORK, Oct. 26. (JP)—Gene
Tunney expects to avoid matrimony
until after he is through with the
ring. “There is absolutely nothing to
it,’ he said, when told of rumors that
he was engaged. “I am not even keep
ing company with any girl. I am go
ing to stay single as long as I am in
the boxing gamer then if some woman
’ comes along and looks kindly on me
! I may marry. At present I would not
look on any girl and really do not
know who would have me.’ *
What was thought were the last
tourists of the season were number
ed among the passengers on the S. S.
Yukon. They were Mr. and Mrs. G.
D. Keyser, round-trippers on the ves
sel.
H. N. Peterson, assistant traffic
manager, Alaska Steamship company,
accompanied by Mrs. Peterson, were
round-trippers on the Yukon and
while in Seward visited with local
friends.
H. W. McLaughlin, local member of
the cable office for a number of years
and one of the oldest operators in
service in Alaska, departs for Seat
tle on Saturday, it is reported.