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VOLUME XV. NUMBER 156.
SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 9, 1930.
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MAJ. GENERAL NEVILLE
A broad streak of humaneness
beneath the sternness of his mili
tary manner endeared Major G a- i
eral Wendall Cushing Neville, ''f
the Marine Corps, who died cs
terday, to his associates and the
men under him. When ill, h» re
ceived a huge “fan mail .
One writer, whc served und r him
in Cuba, recalled an incident when
General Neville sternly reprimand
ed men in the ranks for attempt
ing to shake sand fleas from their
legs, as they were drawn up in
dress parade. Then one came to
rest on Neville's nose. He was heroic
about it for a short time, but fin
ally vigorously knocked it off.
The story of how a doughbo> cut
the sleeves out of Neville’s dress
overcoat is told as an instance of
his regard for the private soldier.
Everett C- Parry was the one who
wielded the knife. In 1918, while
drivng a mule team during the St.
Mihiel advance, Parry saw a big,
areen overcoat, heavy with gold in
signia. hanging over a wall. Think
ing it belonged to a German officei,
he severed the sleeves to carry away
as souvenirs. It was General
Neville's coat. He lectured Parry,
Hut did not punish him.
Five vears later, learning that
Parry was ill in a government hos
oital. General Neville slashed the
Shining insignia off the sleeves of
his coat and sent it to the sick
-oldier
CARDINAL VANNUTELLI
After his ordination in 1360. Car
dinal Vannutelli. who passed away
today, spent nearly 20 years in the
service of the church in Brussels
and Holland. He was elevated to
* archbishop in 1880 and then dele
gated to Constantinople as papal
envoy. His next mission was as in
ternuncio at Brazil. Later he was
named nuncio at Lisbon and was at
that post when created a cardinal
at the consistory in December, 1889.
He returned to Rome in June 1890,
when he received the red hat and
took his place in the Sacred Col
lege'.
With his diplomatic training and
wide knowledge of life and condi
* tions in foreign countries, Cardinal
Vannutelli added to his equipment
as the ideal Vatican representative
an imposing figure and gracious
bearing. He was six feet five inches
tall. He represented the Holy
Father at the coronation of Alex
ander 111 of Russia and was the
pontifical delegate to the Eucharis
tic Congresses held at Tournay,
Metz, London, Cologne and Mon
4 treal from 1906 to 1910, respectively.
When the cardinal went to Lon
don to preside at the sessions of the
Congress n 1908 he was the first
papal legate sent to the British
capital since the days of the Re
formation.
After the Montreal Congress in
1910, Cardinal Vannutelli visited
the United States and made a tour
i of some of the larger cities. He at
tended the exercises in connection
with the consecration of St.
Patrick’s Cathedral,' New York,
during which he delivered an ad
dress.
Cardinal Vannutelli was promi
nently mentioned as a candidate
for the papal throne at the con
claves which elected Popes Pius X,
Benedict XV. and Pius XI.
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If the statesmen would stop wor
*' rying so much about the next war
it might be less likely to happen.
Rumors of presidential appoint
ments should be accepted with re
cPH-e until confirmed by the Sen
* ate
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LL SEVERN. BAYS
PRINCIPAL DIPLOMATIC REPRE
SENTATIVE VATICAN; AT
TENDED CEREMONIES
ROME, July 9. (/P>—Cardinal Vin
cent Vannutelli. 93, dean of the
Sacred College, died after several
days illness.
| Vincent Cardinal Vannutelli was
one of the greatest figures of the
Sacred College in the years before
his advancing age compelled him
to curb his activities. For many
years he was the principal diplo
matic representative of the Vatican
and because of his pecular fitness
for the role is said to have attended
as representative of the Pope more
important and royal and imperial
ceremonies than any other member
of the Sacred College.
His services to the church began
with his ordination to the priest
hood in 1860. For more than half
a century thereafter Cardinal Van
'nutelli’s missions took him to many
countries. He became dean of the
Sacred College in 1921 upon the
death of James Cardinal Gibbons
of Baltimore.
The venerable cardinal, ever an
apostle of peace and good-will, is
said to have been responsible for
the inauguration -of n^tatiuhs
looking toward a settlement of the
age-old Roman question during the
early years of the regime of Prem
ier Mussolini.
In 1924. for the first time since
the Pope was stripped of his tem
poral power in Rome, the head of
the Italian government had a pri
vate talk with the dean of the
Sacred College, Cardinal Vannutelli.
Mussolini was on a visit to the
province of Casentino and stopped
at Malsoleo. where there is a mon
astery. Cardinal Vannutelli was a
guest there and Mussolini went to
pay homage to him. Afterwards
the two had a prjvate talk of more
than half an hour. Although the
subject of their conversation was
not made public, it was the general
belief that the discussion included
possible efforts to settle the historic
controversy.
Cardinal Vannutelli was bom
December 5, 1836, at Genazzano,
in the diocese of Palestrina, of a
noble family that had been con
spicuous in that diocese. His broth
er Searfino Vannutelli, also was a
cardinal and dean of the Sacred
College at the time of his death in
December 1915. The grandfather
of the two cardinals was Count
Vannutelli, who was grandmaster
of the household of Napoleon’s sis
ter, Princess Pauline Borghese, and
afterward to her mother, Letitia
Bonaparte.
HOURTHOUGHT
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BERLIN, July 9. (/Pi—Two
Americans. Ruth Novthruo, 25. of
Philadelphia, and Dr. John Burk
holder, of Mount Pleasant Pa.,
are believed to have drowned
with three other passengers on
a capsizing Grman flying boat
I which made a forced landing off
the coast of Denmark in a rough
sea.
The pilot, mechanic and one
passenger were rescued by the
Danish ship Maja.
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COMPELS MIL FLIERS 1
DAKAR, Senegal, July 9, (/P)—
Jean Mermoz, on the first west
to east trans-Atlantic airmail
flight between South America and
Afrca, was forced down on the
sea when well over half-way
across.
He and his two companions
were rescued and the 600 pounds
of airmail taken aboard the Natal
Brazil.
An oil leak freed the fliers down.
One of the boats patrolling the
route, in case of an emergency,
met the plane.
MOTOR CONSUMED
EXCESSIVE MOUNT OF
OIL: FLIGHT IS IFF
JACKSONVILLE BEACH, Fla.,
July 8. (/P)—Excessve oil consump
tion forced George Hudleman and
Stewart Chadwick to land their air
plane after being aloft 15 hours in
an effort to establish a new world’s
record for non-fuel and endurance.
Haldeman said the motor burned
40 out of 70 gallons of oil in 15
hours; he said another attempt to
break the 67 hours and 15 minutes
record will be made soon.
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YESTERDAY’S GAMES
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Detroit 2; Chicago 3. Wolley made
his 12th homer which provided the
winning run for his 12th victory
this season.
Philadelphia 4-4; New York 0-9.
The Yanks broke their losing streak
of seven games.
St. Louis 6; Cleveland 12.
Washington 6; Boston 5. The
Senators won their ninth straight
game. Manushs homer his seventh
one on won game. Todt and Webb
both homered.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Boston 4; Brooklyn 1. Fredericks
homered; the only Brooklyn score.
New York 1; Philadelphia 8. Col
lins hurled a shut-out ball until the
ninth then eased up* for one run.
Pittsburgh 10; St. Louis 5. Rhems
made two wild pitches in the fourth
which charged him a defeat.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Missions 3; Oakland 8.
Portland 6; San Francisco 12.
Seattle 6; Los Angeles 0.
Sacramento 5; Hollywood 1.
PHONE VATICAN CITY
NEW YORK, July 8, (/P)—Vatican
City will be linked with the United
States by telephone when the trans
Atlantic service of the American
Telephone & Telegraph Co., is ex
tended to the little state ruled by
the Pope.
SAN FRANCISCO. July 9. UP>—
While gasoline prices ranged from
eight to 14 cents per gallon on
the Pacific Coast, rumors indicat
ed that the present nrice slashing
he tit wi’l finish and possiblv ex
terminate the weaker companies
Tacoma autolsts are buying
qas for eight cents. Los Angeles
10c. Seattle 11c; at other points
th - ccrica 13 slightlv higher.
LNDBERGH JUNIOR
NEW YORK, July 9, {&)—At j
the Morrow home at Englewood,!
New Jersey, the statement was j
given out that Colonel and Mrs. !
Chas. A. Lindbergh named their
son, bofn June 22, Charles Augus
tus Lindbergh, Jr.
FAIRBANKS. July 10, (£>)—'The j
tourist airplane service in Me
Kinley National Park opened late
Monday by a plane carrying Gov.
George A. Parks and other Terri
itory officials; the plane was pil
oted by Joe Crosson and traveled
! for more than 10 hours.
I The flight was described as the
I most attractive ever made. The
' plane passed over Mount Eileson
i and Muldrove Glacier, the north
| east ridge of Munt McKinley,
then back to the Savage River
camp.
SYDNEY, N. S. W., July 9, 1/Pj—
Departure of 150 men to certain
districts to search for gold marked
inauguration of the governments
scheme to promote gold prospecting
among the unemployed prospector.
The government supplied camp
ing outfits and tools and appointed
five geological surveyors to visit the
zones in wihch the men will be
working and give technical advice.
The men will get free railroad
transportation and an allowance of
20 schillings < about $5> weekly.
!B0H IMS HELD
SUILTl OF III!
SPRINGFIELD, July 9, UP)—
John Lewis, international presi
dent of the United Mine Workers
of America and other Union offi
cials, are held guilty in violation
of an injunction issued by the
Sangamon County Circuit Court,
to restrain them from interfering
in the activities of *the Illinois
mine workers, in the opinion of
Master of Chancery, Frank Trut
ter.
RENO, July 9, (/P)—Eugenia
Bankhead Hoyt Butt, daughter of
Congressman W. B. Bankhead of
Alabama, whose latest marriage to
Wilfred Lawson Butt was annulled,
will become the bride of Howard
Lee, aviator and officer of the
Southern Air Transport of Dallas.
SMIL BILLS me
SALT LAKE CITY, July 9, (/Pi
Following similar movements in
other mining districts, Tihtic banks
have banned circulation of one and
two-dollar bills with the idea of
promoting the use of silver coin.
It is planned to exchange all
small currency for silver as fast as
it comes into the community. Other
institutions in the district also are
active in attempts to aid the de
pressed silver marke.
The above plan has been in vogue
by the two Park City banks for
years past
CORPS, IS CALLED
WORLD WAR BROUGHT HIM HIS
GREATEST GLORY; LED MA
RINES THRU BATTLE
WASHINGTON, July 9, <£>)—Maj.
Gen. Neville, Marine Corps Com
mander, died here yesterday. He
had been ill for some time.
An indomitable will, a sense of
humor and conspicuous courage
were joined with personal magne
tism to make Major General Wen
dell Cushing Neville a soldier of
heroic mold.
Pride of the “Leathernecks”, the
former commandant of the U. S.
Marine Corps followed the flag
over six continents and many is
lands to win nearly two score valor
decorations. “For distinguished
conduct” at Vera Cruz in 1914 he
was awarded the Congressional
Medal of Honor, the first of a num
ber of war medals to be won by
him.
It was the World War, however,
that brought him his greatest
glory. As a colonel he led the fifth
regiment of marines thru the fierce
fighting in the Verdun sector and
in the battle of Belleau Wood. Pro
moted to be a brigadier general, he
next commanded the fourth bri
gade at Soissons. Marabaehe sector,
St. Mihiel, Champagne, and the
Meuse-Argonne. After the armis
tice, he marched the fourth brigade
into Germany during the occupa
tion. His outstanding bravery and
gallantry in action brought decora
tions enough to cover even his am
ple chest, as well as the new nick
name of “Follow-Me-Neville.”
Returning to the United States
with his brigade, he led it in the big
parades in New York City and
Washington.
General Neville was born at
Portsmouth, Va., May 12, 1870. the
son of Willis H. and Mary Elizabeth
Cushing Neville. After being grad
uated from Galt’s Academy in Nor
folk. he entered the U. S. Naval
Academy from which he was grad
uated in 1892. and joined the Ma
rine Corps as second lieutenant- He
soon became a first lieutenant and
was breveted a captain August 10,
1898, for “conspicuous conduct” in
the battle of Guantanamo Bay,
Cuba.
| A veteran of the Chinese Boxer
War in 1900 whch carried him to
Peiping, he later saw service in the
Philippine campaign and com
manded the marines at the taking
of Havana in 1906. At Vera Cruz
in 1914, a year later “Buck” Neville,
as the then colonel was called, was
in the thick of the Haitian cam
paign which was followed by acti
vity in the occupation of the Do
minican Republic.
Prior to his appointment as com
mandant of the Marine Corps on
February 7, 1929, he served several
years as assistant to the command
ant at Washington. He was pro
moted to the grade of a major gen
eral in 1923 shortly after he had
been detailed for duty as “com
manding the department of the
Pacific”. Later he was assigned to
duty as commanding general of the
marine barracks at Quantico, Va
i General Neville married Frances
Adelphia Howell of Washington in
1898. They had one daughter,
Frances Howell, now Mrs- J. P. W.
Vest.
COLORADO PRODUCTION
The mines of Colorado have pro
duced gold, silver, copper, lead and
zinc valued at $1,600,000,000.