Gas Boat Tom & A1 Adrift
^ With Eleven Men Aboard
The fishing schooner Tom and Al, I
Capt. Brown, one of the finest of Sew- j
ard’s fishing fleet, which left Seward
about three weeks ago for the hali
but banks, is adrift on the bleak wat
ers of the North. Pacific, with eleven
of her crew of 15 aboard. The ves- j
sel has been adrift since Friday morn
ing, but so fierce have been the gales
and so heavy the seas that four men
sent out to Seward for help only
reached here last night. The four
men who arrive on Pete Sather’s boat
from Nuka island, after three days of
fighting mountainous seas, are Fred
Olson, Fred Noren and John Peter
son, the name of the fourth man be
ing unknown.
They reported that when off Pye is
i»*vi Friday morning, the engine timer
broke, and the men rowed in a dory I
to Sather’s ranch, who took them in i
his gasboat anti started for town to
secure aid. The survivors believe the
boat has drifted to sea, or piled up
on the reefs in that section, as a stiff
off-shore wind has been blowing for
the past six days. The wind was so
strong that the tops of the waves were
blown into spindrift, making it impos
sible to see any distance over the
water. Messages sent to Seldovia and
Kodiak have brought no information
of the boat, and if it is not found to
day an effort will be made to have a
cutter dispatched to search for it, as
eleven men are aboard.
Owing to the heavy weahter and the
freezing seas, no search has been
made as yet by the local fleet.
Practically the only cutter north of
Juneati now is the Mojave, at present
in the vicinity of Nome .where it was
called to render surgical aid to Mayor
Maynard, who was reported danger
ously ill. This leaves the coast abso
lutely unprotected at a time when aid
is most needed. The matter will again
be taken up with naval officers and an
effort made to have a cutter stationed
here thru the halibut fishing season.
BRANDEGEE A SUICIDE;
LEAVES NOTE WARNING
FRIENDS OF DANGER
WASHINGTON, D. C.. Oct. 15.—
. That Senator Frank B. Brandegee
committed suicide in his bathroom
yesterday, is shown by a note left
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 oY 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 $1200 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
'll 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 Ilraudegee was a recognized
leader in Connecticut politics, and
had served in the House and Senate
for the past 22 years. He was a
j strong admirer of President Coolidge,
and was to have taken the stump
in Connecticut for the Republican
party.
HALF A MILLION DOLLAR
SEIZURE OF BOOZE IS
MADE AT SAN FRANCISCO
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 13—
Half a million dollars worth of
booze was captured yesterday by
the coast gu-ard cutter Shawnee,
off the Farallone i (lands, which
towed the British steamer Quad
ra into port at midnight. The
seizure was one of the largest yet
made and the vessel was one of
the mother ships which left Van
couver twenty days ago loaded
with 22,000 cases of champagne
and Scotch whiskey.
ANATOLE FRANCE, FRENCH
AUTHOR AND PUBLICIST
PASSES AWAY AT TOURS
; TOURS, Oct. 13.—Anatole France,
j one of the greatest French modem
authors died here today following a
long illness.
Jacques Anatole Thibault France
I was born in Paris, April 16, 1844. He
I was an officer of the Legion of Honor
at the time of his death and a member
i of the French academy. He was the
! author of many books and papers.
—
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
j chamber of commerce. Taxation, the
; tariff and immigration will be discus
sed at that time.
Secretary State Hughes
Narrowly Escapes Being
Killed By Falling Bar
! INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Oct. 14.—Au
iron bar, falling from the sixth floor
of the new Columbia building narrow
ly missed Secretary of State Hughes
just as he finished the ceremony of
laying the cornerstone of the struc
ture here this afternoon. The bar
had been left by a workman and was
'blown off by the wind.
—
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.
BARTLEY H. HOWARD
Candidate on the Republican Ticket for
TERRITORIAL SENATOR
Capable, Conscientious and
a thorough Alaskan
He Solicits Your Vote
November 4th.
RECEIPTS FOR WORLD
SERIES OVER MILLION
MAKING NEW RECORD
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 13.—
A new record for world receipts for
the seven games was established, be
ing 11,093,404, which exceeded last
year’s receipts by $38,389. An atten-1
dance of 2S3.695 was short by 17,-j
735 of the attendance last year, at1
the series played between the Giants i
and the Yanks. The Senators, twen- j
i ty-six players in all, will divide
$148,991.63 and the Giants will divide ,
between the same number of players, i
$93,327.75. The Giants batted 261 and j
fielded 980. The Senators batted 246
and fielded 964. Terry of the Giants
was the leading hitter with an aver
age of 429 for the five games he
j played; Judge batted 385. For the
! seven games, Goslin batted three
home runs, which tied Ruth’s record
! for last year, and was the leading
! slugger for the Senators, and reached
i a total of twenty-one bases on elev
en hits. Harris was second.
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Oct. 11 —
President Coolidge returning to the
j White House issued a statement say
ling, “I don’t recollect a more excit
I ing series than that one just fin
ished here. That the championship
was won in the twelfth inning shows
howT evenly the teams were matched.
I have only the heartiest praise to
bestow on the individual players of
both teams, and naturally, living In
Washington, I am pleased to see
Johnson finish the game and make a
hit in the last inning which helped to
win the pennant. Everyone was
pleased to see him come back and
close the last game. The three con
tests I witnessed maintained a high
degree of skill and every evidence of
high class sportsmanship brings to
every observer a finer example of the
true sport.”
—
1 WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 13.—
'Atorney General Stone declared if
Ban Johnson has evidence of viola
tions of federal laws in connection
with the recent alleged baseball
bribery charges, he should present it
I to the authorities, and not intimate
matter of such force to newspapers.
PRESIDENT URGES
LOYALTY TO VETS
—
I WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 13.—
I President Coolidge in a letter to Frank
i J. Irwin, National Commander of the
| American Legion, urges a liberal pub
lic response to the disabled veterans’
I appeal in their annual for-get-me-not
observance to be held November 8th.
DAVIS DOESN’T BELIEVE
IN GETTING PERSONAL
BUFFALO, Oct. 13.—John W. Da
vis, in addressing a political meet
ing said if the campaign takes the
form of comparisons of personalities,
it shall not be my choosing and I
shall not permit myself to attack the
'personal and private character of
iany of the candidates.
i INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 13.—John W.
! Davis, democratic nominee for the
; presidency today stated that four more
| years of Republican misgovernment
'would prepare the way fora revoluti&n
in America.
GHANDI FASTING!
LONDON, Oct. 13.—Dispatches
from Calcutta state that Ghandi is
very weah following a 21-day fast,
as penance for Hindu Moslem riot
ing.
LIEUT. MARTIN DEAD
NEWPORT NEWS, Oct. 13.—Lieut.
Bruce Martin died today as a result
of an explosion on Langley Field
when a bomb carried by an Army
blim.p prematurely exploded.
ELECTION WILL BE BITTER
LONDON, Oct. 13.—According to
! press comments from politicians the
coming political campaign in England
will be one of the bitterest ever held.
APPLE CROP SHORT
SPOKANE, Oct. 13.—Estimates of
j the 1924 apple crop for Washington
| show that it is only 49 per cent of
normal.
SEATTLE POLICEMAN
MAY BE REINSTATED
FOR THE SUM OF $500
SEATTLE, Oct. 15.—Testifying last
night before the civil service com
mission, John F. Mafeuski, a deposed
city detective seeking reinstatement,
told the commission that he had been
approached by Mark Flemming, a
window trimmer, who represented
himself as a go-between for one of
the comlssioners, and who told him
that his reinstatement in the city
police department could be arranged
for $500.
MASSIVE CEREMONIES
IN PROGRESS DURING
SEATTLE-ALASKA FAIR
SEATTLE, Oct. 13.—Commemora
tive of the Fifty-seventh Anniversary
of the purchase of Alaska, the second
Annual Alaska Fair opened today
under the auspices of the Young
Men’s Business Club. Fruits and
flowers, vegetables and grain, with
some of them growing inside the
Arctic circle are the headliners in
a cast for the big show. Besides the
products of the farms and gardens,
fair exhibits include a wonderful col
lection of precious metals and miner
als that make Alaska a veritable
treasure house; a large and varied
fisheries exhibition, and will mention
a big assemblage of Alaska curious
and manufactured products.
The exposition is being held in the
White-Henry Building and special
programs of entertainment will be
put on every day. Noons and every
evening, during the fair, it will be
featured by talks on Alaska, its past,
present and future, by Alaskans.
Exercises at Seward Monument in
Volunteer Park where the Governor
iwill be orator of the day.
SHENANDOAH REACHES
CALIFORNIA SUNDAY
SAN DIEGO. Oct. 13.—The (lirigi
;ble Shenandoah, flying from Lake
|hurst, N. J., to Seattle, arrived here
iat 11 o’clock last night. The huge
airship made a mile a minute during
the last 100 miles of her fight.
SAN DIEGO, Oct. 13.—The dirigible
Shenandoah will be refueled and pro
visioned Monday and is scheduled to
sail tomorrow for Camp Lewis. Lieut.
Commander Lansdowne, captain of
the ship, said that it would sail over
Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland
and Seattle in its flight north.
He stated that the cruise of the
| ship from the Atlantic coast was one
of the most severe tests to which it
could be placed, and that the flight of
the ZR-3 across the Atlantic would be
! easy compared to the flight of the
: Shenandoah across the Rocky moun
tains.
SAN DIEGO, Oct. 14.—The sailing
of the Shenandoah for northern cities
has beer* postponed until tomorrow.
CAMP LEWIS MURDER
CASE COMES TO END
i TACOMA Oct. 13.—Roland H.' Poth
! ier, accused of the murder of Major
A. F. Kronkhite at Camp Lewis, Oct.
25, 1918, was acquitted today by a
j jury. The case had attracted na
S tion-wide notoriety as the parents of
' Kronkhite had insisted that he was
murdered instead of being killed acci
1 dentally, during target [practice, as
was claimed by the authorities.
Pothier had been aecused of confes
j sing the murder to secret service op
eratives, but on the trial repudiated
: his confession.
It was charged that Capt. Robert
Rosenthal had instigated Pothier to
: shoot Kronkhite, but the charges were
not substantiated at the trial. The
i indictment was dismissed today.
RADIO CONFERENCE
SHOWS DEVELOPMENT
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct 13.—
Out of the tangle of technical and ad
ministrative detail of the National
Radio conference now being whipped
into concrete form by federal experts
today, has come the ground work of
unhampered development of this util
ity that the public may reap the bene
fit of scientific progress for next year.
This was the judgment of government
officials including Secretary Hoover,
government officials, scientists and
newspaper publishers.
CHE KIANG FORCES
SURRENDER TODAY
SHANGHAI, Oct. 13.—The Che Ki
ar.g forces defending Shanghai against
the attacks of the invading Kiang Su
armies surrendered today and an ar
mistice was signed between the oppos
ing forces. Every unit of the foreign
defense forces in £ 1 anghai including
the marir.es ’.at:’cd :'iom the Ur ted
States warships in harbor, is mob
ilizing along the boundaries of tin for
eign settlcme* t to repel any effo"; of
the Kiang Su forces to enter it.
. GAS BOAT LIBELED
The gas boat Pacific was seized by
the Fisheries bureau wardens in
southeastern Alaska last week, the
crew of five being taken to Ketchikan
and placed under $100 bond. The
vessel and a 170 fathom seine with
which the men were fishing in a
creek tributary to Walker Cove, are
in the hands of the marshal and will
be sold.
Sen. Brandegee Found Dead
in Room; Probably Suicide
ZR-3 ON WAY TO
AMERICA WITH CREW
AND 4 PASSENGERS
FRJEDRICMHA7EN, Oct. 12—Dr.
Hugh Eckener, Zeppelin director in
charge of the ZR->, r° • nvli'jf weathei
reports, indicating the North Atlantic
v. as Clearing announced that the start
of the flight would he made Sunday.
“The weather man promises cool
weather,” said Dr. Eckener, before the
sti.it of the flight, “urn' we think we j
hav« the hoodoo beate;’ at last. If all
ties well we will b3 in New York on
W^.’rooay.”
The airship will cross the occupied
region of Belgium ,Holland, the Eng-,
lish channel, Land’s End, England, and
thence across the sea shaping a route
according to weather reports received.;
FREDERICHSHAVEN, Germany,
Oct. 13.—The huge German built diri
gible ZR-3, constructed for America,
was yesterday hauled from its hangar
and at the first flush of dawn in the
eastern sky, lifted its huge bulk grace
fully into the morning air, and headed
westward on its non-stop flight across
the Atlantic, arriving in the United
States Tuesday or Wednesday.
The only passengers carried by the
dirigible with the exception of its
crew, are Capt. George W. Steele, Lt.
Commander J. H. Kelein, and Major
Frank Kennedy, American naval men
who accepted the ship for the United
States.
At an early hour this morning the
airship was well out over the Atlantic,
having covered 1000 miles of her long
journey from Germany to Lakehurst,
New Jersey. At noon today the
Azores were reached, a wireless mes
sage being sent down by the captain
of the ship that the machinery was
functioning perfectly and that the big
aircraft was handling perfectly .
Passing out over the Bay of Biscay
last night ,the officers and crew sent
their last off-shore message to their
families and friends in Germany. Dr.
' Eckener reported favorable wind and
I auspicious weather generally.
A few hours before the start for
America, police arrested a Westphal
ian student armed with a carbine who
had entered the hangar to kill Dr. K.
E. Eckener, a director of the Zeppe
lin works and pilot of the airship, as
a protest against its sale to the Amer
j ican navy.
Storm Reported
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 13.—
| A moderate storm in mid-Atlantic
; was reported in the path of the ZR-3
| by naval ships on observation duty in
1 connection with the trans-Atlantic
! flight. The latest report was relayed
I by the Cruiser Milwaukee.
Making Good Time
HORTA, Azores, Monday, Oct. 13.
—The dirigible ZR-3 passed Fayal at
two-thirty this afternoon, on her way
to the United States. She was making
good speed.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 14.—
The huge dirigible ZR-3 was reported
at 1 o’clock this afternoon as making
25 miles per hour against a strong
southwest gale. The airship is prac
tically hove to, with but three engines
running to hold her against the gale.
The airship is steering a direct
; course from the Azores to its hangar
at Lakehurst, N. J., the navy depart
ment was informed today by a mes
sage received from Captain Steele, on
hoard the airship. The message which
was relayed by the cruiser Detroit to
the Boston Navy yard, said that the
air cruiser, after passing the Azores
was running with only three engines
to save fuel, and at that time was
making a speed of 48 knots an hour;
but was forced to reduce speed when
encountering southwest gales.
TRDL OF FORBES
IS STARTED TODAY
BALTIMORE, Md., Oct. 14.—Chas.
.Forbes, former director of the veter
ans’ bureau, under indictment here
on charges on conspiring to defraud
the government began this afternoon
before Federal Judge Hopper. Forbes
was dismissed from the head of
the veterans’ bureau some time ago,
and through his attorneys had his
case continued from time to time.
BORAH WILL SUCCEED
BRANDEGEE ON THE
JUDICIARY COMMITTEE
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Oct. 15.— .
Senator Borah will fall heir to the
chairmanship of the senate judiciary
committee, as a result of the death j
of Frank Brandegee. i
WASHINGTON, B. C., CcL 14.—
Senator Frank Bos worth Brandegee,
of Connecticut, long a leader in nat
ional politics and a Republican of in
ternational prominence, was found
dead today in the bathroom of his
home here by W. D. Lundy, his pri
vate secretary .
Police who were called, said that
Lundy told them that the gas jet in
the room with a hose attached and in
the hands of the Senator, was turned
on when he entered the room and dis
covered the body.
Frank Bosworth Brandegee. was
born in New London, Conn., July 8,
1864; graduated from Yale in 1885;
admitted to the bar in 1888; elected a
representative to the general assem
bly in 1888; a delegate to the Repub
lican national conventions of 1888, of
1802, 1000, and 1904; speaker of the
Connecticut House of Representatives
in 1899; elected a Representative to
the second session of Fifty-seventh
Congress in 1902; reelected to Fffty
eighth and Fifty-ninth Congresses;
elected United States Senator May 9,
' 1905, January 20, 1909, November •'1,
1914, and reelected November 2, 1920.
HLs tenn of service ended March 3,
I 1027.
DAVIS MAKES BID FOR
ORGANIZED LABOR VOTE
LAFAYETTE, Ind., Oct. 14.—
Pledging himself anew to a govern
ment of common honesty, common
courage and common justice, John
W. Davis made a bid here this after
noon for the support of organized la
bor when he addressed one of the
largest audiences.
GRLENCASTLE, led., Lev. 14.—
“The indictment of Sen-ifo.- Wheeler
-for complicity in the oil scandals was
as blarl: and dastardly a ctime as
ci.ind h-.'-o been committed by any
man,” John W. Davis said la.-: night
in a speech before a large audience,
adding that the Coolidge attack on La
Follette was simply a smoke screen
| designed to divert attention from the
! real issues of the campaign.
ENDICOTT RANGE HAS
GREAT DEPOSITS COAL
SEATTLE, Oct. 14.—“The foothills
and great valley just north of the En
dicott range on the Arctic slope of
! Alaska contain some of the greatest
| coal deposits on the continent,” said
Dr. Philip S. Smith, geologist, tell
ing of the discoveries his survey party
had made in Alaska the past summer.
He added: “This is further proof
that Alaska in the past ages had a
tropica] if not a sub-tropical climate
i and that the vegetation was suitable
! for forming huge coal deposits.”
LA FOLLETTE TALKS TO
AUDIENCE OF FARMERS
KANSAS CITY, Mo., Oct. 14.—Sen
ator La Follette this afternoon made
his first formal address to a farmer
audience, laying down the specific
program promised by the Progressive
party for American agriculture, by
the creation of a Federal marketing
corporation. LaFollette urged as an
immediate step the restoration of ag
riculture “to its place as a business
which can earn a reasonable profit.”
ENDURING CHRISTIAN ’%
PEACE FOR EUROPE
LOUISVILLE, Ky., Oct. 14.—“An
enduring Christian peace for all Eur
ope,” is the way Charles G. Dawes, in
an address here, characterized the rep
arations plan which bears his name.
“National demagogues and obstruc
tionists which preconceived ideas have
blocked the peace of Europe,’ ’the can
didate said.
COOLIDGE SPEAKS AT !
UNVEILING OF STATUE 1
TO FRANCIS ASBURY
WASHINGTON, D. 0., Oc\ 15.. _
Reliance upon religion, rather than
the law for refor was emp isizc-rt
today by President Cooiidge, speak
ing at the unveiling here of the
statue to Francis Asbury, pioi.eer
bishop of the Methodist Eniscopal
church in America.
“We cannot depend upon g em
inent,” the President declared, “to do
work of religion. An act of congress
may indicate that a reform is being,
or has been accomplished, but it does
not itself bring about reform in gov
ernment of the country, and never
?ets ahead of religion of the coun
try.”