► VOLUME XIX NUMBER 129
SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MAY 31, 1924
PRICE, TEN CENTS
Youthful Members
Wealthy Families
Prove Murderers
CHICAGO, May 31.—Nathan
E. Leopold, jr., and Richard Loeb.
youthful members of Chicago’s
most wealthy families, both post
graduates of the University of
Chicago, who were arrested Satur
day night by city detectives, con
fessed today that they had kid
naped and murdered 14-year-old
Robert Franks, a son of Jacob
Franks, retired millionaire pawn
broker and manufacturer.
Young Loeb is the son of Ar
thur H. Loeb, the millionaire vice
president of Sears, Roebuck and
Company; while Leopold's father
is a very wealthy box manufact
urer.
The young murderers said they
planned the kidnapping in detail
last November, both through a
spirit of adventure and because
they wante dthe $10,000 ransom
demanded.
History of the Crime
The body of Robert Franks was
found under a culvert last week, bru
tally hacked and disfigured, after bis
parents bad received letters demand
ing $10,000 ransom. Owing to the
circumstances surrounding the disap
pearance of the lad, while walking
home from a ball game, officials be
lieved the murder had been com
mitted by a pervert^ and a proles
sor in the college attended by the
lad was arrested for the crime.
Later clues led to the arrest of
young Leopold and Loeb, who con
fessed they had committed the bru
tal deed.
Public sentiment against the mur
derers is running high and they are
4 rongly guarded.
Attempt Capture
Bergdoll Made By
Agents Government
WASHINGTON, May 31.—The at
tempt to capture Grover Cleveland
Bergdoll. the draft dodger, at Eber
bach, Germany in 1921, was made by
agents of the American government,
Secretary Weeks revealed tonight.
The German government accused
the American government at the
time of violating her neutrality, but
the United States vigorously denied
the charge, accusing the American
Legion of being behind the plot.
French Peasants Will
Stand Behind Premier
PARIS, May 31—The agricultural
bloc will swing Premier Poincare into
p<vver again, it is asserted by the gov
ernment campaign managers.
•France has 4,500,000 land owners
mostly peasants, among whom are
about one third of the natio/il elec
torate. The farming interests, com
bined with the commercial and indus
trial forces, are relied upon by the
premier to supply him with an ade
quate majority.
The farmers have been making more
money in the last two years than ever
be«)re and it is difficult to find in the
rural districts any peasant or proprie
tor who is not in favor of keeping
M. Poincare in power.
Associated Crew
on If ay to Kanatak
Mr. and Mrs. Jones and ten men,
connected with the Associated Oil
Company, drilling at Kanatak, left
Beattie yesterday for Seward, where
they will take the steamer Starr for
Kanatak.
The Associated is resuming opera
tions at Kanatak on a large scale,
bringing in new machinery and am
ple supplies.
The company is down about 1500
feet.
BIG DEVIL. FISH IS
TAKEN FROM TRAPS
ANACORTES, May 31—With tenta
cles fourteen feet long and a body 18
inches across, a hooked beak and eyes
as big and wide as a cow’s a devil fish
was hooked on Cypress reef by fisher
men yesterday and hauled into the
botit, where it had to be shot before
the tentacles would release tackle they
had seized. The fish was dispatched to
Seattle this morning, where it is said
to find a ready sale to Chinese.
WIFE OF FAMOUS “COMMONER”
Mrs. William Jennings Bryan, inva
I lid wife of the former U. S. Secretary
| of State and prohibition enthusiast.
American Federation
Warns Trade Unions
Against Third Party
WASHINGTON, May 31.—The
American Federation o! Labor warn
ed all trade unions to have noth
ing to do with the St. Paul third
party convention which Gompers de
clares is directed front Moscow.
The St. Paul convention will en
dorse La Follett for the presidency.
Memoral Day in
Seward Celebrated
Memorial Day in Seward was fit
tingly celebrated yesterday in Seward.
All stores and places of business clos
ed at noon and the day was duly ob
served.
Beginning at 9:30 in the morning a
stream of cars carried workers to the
Cemetery. A large number of citizens
joined with the members of the Sew
ard Post of ihe American Legion in
the work of clearing and beautifying
the cemetery. Before noon practically
all the brush, stumps and logs were
removed and a fine road was graveled
from the highway to the center of the
cemetery. At 12 o’clock the workers
gathered in the glade and were served
a splendid lunch arranged by the Am
erican Legion Auxiliary.
In the afternoon a large number of
autos arrived loaded to capacity with
those who were unable to come dur
ing the morning. At ‘2:30 a short but
impressive ceremony was held in honor
of the dead, following the form of
the American Legion Ceremony. Three
recitations were rendered, “The Blue
and the Gray,” by Patricia Ray; “Dot
tie’s Thought,” by Lolita Moultray,
and “Unknown,’ by Howard Sefero
vich. Music for the occasion was fur
nished by Mrs. R. V. B. Dunlap at the
organ.
The work done at the cemetery the
last two years has greatly improved
the appearance of the place showing
what can be accomplished wTith a lit
tle community effort. The generous
manner in which the auto owners plac
ed their cars at the disposal of the
Legion Committee for transporting the
crowd to and from the cemetery made
the day a complete success.
Steamship Starr
Arrives in Port
The steamship Starr arrived in port
yesterday afternoon, completing hei
first trip to Bristol Bay for the 1924
season. Passengers on the Starr ar
riving in port were L. D. Henderson,
from Bristol Bay; Mr. McIntosh, the
sheepman from Unalaska, Miss Pris
cilla Robinson, teacher of the San
nak school, and others.
Mrs. Alyce Anderson, teacher of
the Naknek school, returned as far
as Seldovia on the Starr.
Seattle-Ketchikan
Cable in Operation
SEATTLE, May 31.—The Seattle
Ketchikan unit of the new Alaska ca
ble is ,in regular operation. The first
message was sent over the line at
3:30 yesterday afternoon.
Lester D. Henderson
Returns from Trip
to Bristol Bay Ports
Commissioner of Education Lester
D. Henderson, returned on the Starr
yesterday from a trip of inspection to
the westward. This is the first time
that Mr. Henderson has been west of
Kodiak and h eexprcssed himself as
very agreeably surprised with the
schools he visited. He reports an
approximate enrollment, not includ
ing the Cook Inlet schools, of which
there are four, totaling 500 pupils.
The largest school is at Unalaska
and has one hundred pupils and four
teachers. This is a new district for
the Territory, the school having been
taken over from the Bureau of Educa
tion for this year. Territorial schools
are located at Kodiak, Afognak, Wood
Island, Uzinkie, Chignik, Sanak, Sand
Point, Unga, Unalaska Naknek, Nush
agak and Dillingham. There are a
number of Bureau of Education
schools also.
At Unga a new school building is
being erected and will be completed
this summer in time for school to
'■onvene in September. An appropri
ttion of $2500 was allowed but proved
insufficient and residents of the town
are donating labor and the balance of
the money needed. The school will
cost about $3500 when completed. The
building will have two rooms down
stairs for school purposes and living
quarters for the teachers upstairs.
At Unalaska improvements to the
amount of $1000 are being made on
the school building. Two rooms are
being enlarged and repaired.
The arrangements for the Third
Annual Alaska Teachers Institute to
be held at Ketchikan the week of
August 25, are not yet completed. A
number of instructors of national im
portance will preside over the gather
ing. One hundred teachers attendee
the institute last year and Mr. Hen
j derson is looking for a larger at
tendance this summer. Nome was the
only incorporated town not represent
ed. The reason for holding the in
stitute at Ketchikan is that so many
of the teachers spend their summers
in the States and can stop there with
little or no expense to themselves or
the Territory.
Mr. Henderson will leave on the
steamship Northwestern for his head
quarters at Juneau.
Row in Commission
Brings Resignations
WASHINGTON, D .C., May 31—
A new controversy in the tariff commis
sion, growing out of failure to proceed
with investigations dealing with im
ports of sugar, vegetables, oil, fir,
spruce, cedar and western hemlock,
has brought indications that President
Coolidge may be asked to intervene
and some talk, also of resignations be
fore the summer vacation adjourn
ment.
Letters prostesting delay in the var
| ious injuiries recently have accentu
ated the members differences and some
of them are described as fearing dis
turbances to business unless action is
hastened on the appeals for rate
changes.
Proctor and Wife
In from St. Paul Isl,
A. H. Proctor and wife arrived in
Seward yesterday on the steamship
Starr. Mr. Proctor for the past 20
years has been in charge of pelagic
operations on St. Paul and St. George
islands in the Pribylofs but has re
signed his position and is returning
to the States to live.
Coast Guard Haida
en Route to Seward
The coast guard cutter liaila, with
Lieut. Clayton Bissell aboard is en
route to Seward from the westward.
The Haida is engaged in picking up
supplies not used by flyers and mak
ing calls at all points from which
rescue parties were dispatched to en
gage in a search for Major Martin.
Lieut. Bissell is personally thanking
all those persons engaged in the
search for the lost aviator.
A searching party has been dis
patched from Port Moller to bring
in Major Martin’s plane, the Seattle,
and if found in a condition that will
allow salvage, packers will be sent in
to bring the plane to Balboa Bay,
where it will be loaded aboard the
Haida for transport to the States.
[Rockefeller Gives
Million to France
to Repair Damages
PARIS, May 31.—John D. Rocke
feller^ jr., will place at the disposal
of the Franco-American committee
one million dollars to be used to re
construct the roof of the Rheims
cathedral, destroyed by the Germans,
and to restore and beautify the foun
tains in the gardens at Versailles and
J and Fontainbleaux.
I
Proposals for
U. S. Entrance
to World Court
WASHINGTON, May 31.—Proposals
for American adherance to the world
court contingent upon its disassocia
tion from the League of Nations,
were spurned by President Coolidge
in his Memorial Day address at the
Arlington cemetery as unworthy of
the American people and traditions.
“If we are to recehe anything we
must surrender something,” said the
President, speaking of the World
court and the question of American
membership in it. “We may as well
face the question candidly, and if we
are willing to assume those new du
ties in exchange fr the benefits which
would accrue to us. Let us look at
the matter in that light.”
Japanese Protest
Handed to Hughes
WASHINGTON, May 31.—Ambassa
dor Hanihara delivered today to Sec
retary Hughes the protest made by
the Japanese government against the
exclusion provisions of the new im
migration act.
WASHINGTON. May 31—The Japa
nese protest against the new immi
gration law reached the Japanese em
bassy heie today. Because of its
great length some time will be re
quired to decode it before it is hand
ed to the State Department.
Italians May Recall
Ambassador Caetini
ROME, May 31.—The recall of Am
bassador Caetani, of Italy, from the
United States because of the passage
of the new immigration law, is under
consideration today. Italy is greatly
incensed over the terms of the act.
Klan Terrorized
State of Texas
WASHINGTON, May 31—How the
Ku Ivlux Klan put whole Texas com
munities under a spy system that in
tercepted telephone and telegraph mes
sages, how that system operated from
day to day and night to night and how
immense Klan parades were held in
“order to make negroes more amen
able at voting time,” was revealed by
former district Judge Erwin Clark of
Waco, Tex., yesterday to the Senate
committee of privileges and elections
which has before it the Mayfield con
tested election case.
Mr. Clark was once a member of
the klan in Texas and once thought
the organization “essential to the wel
fare of the country.’
Espionage and torture were not con
fined to negroes. “No color line was
drawn there,” was the way Mr. Clark
put it.
Meetings for the purpose of tarring
and feathering or branding culprits
were called “parties’ ’as “the tar and
feather party,” or “the branding par
ty.” One of the sternest forms of pun
ishment for recalcitrant members was
“banishment’ which meant that the re
bellious or the disloyal klansman was
“nonexistant so far as other members
of the klan were concerned.
He said klansmen had bragged to
him of parties they had “pulled off” in
Houston. And yet he said, “the mem
bership comprised some of the best
men and women in the country.
ONE DOLLAR A YEAR MEN
DROPPED FROM RECORDS
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 31
Several widely known men were off
department of justice rolls as $1 a
year secret service men when Attor
ney General Stone took office last
month, but the last of them has been
separated from the service.
MAY BE U. S. ADVISER DURING
LOAN NEGOTIATIONS
KtYSTONE_vlEW.CO. NEW YORK
Dwight W. Morrow, of the firm of J.
P. Morgan & Co., international bank
ers, who has been unofficially desig
nated by financial experts as the man
J. P. Morgan would suggest as finan
cial American adviser to Germany in
the reparations negotiations. During
these negotiations, which will get the
Dawes plan under way, a German loan
has been floated in the United States
which will go to stabalize the mark.
Linotype Operators
Post-Intelligencer
Go Out on Strike
SEATTLE, May 31.—The Post In
telligencer linotype operators and
printers went out on a strike tonight
the management having refused to
sign the new scale which calls foi
ls.50 for day work and $9.25 for
night work with a seven hour day.
The Post-Intelligencer came out as
usual this morning the product of
non-union printers.
Joe Boyer Winner
Indianapolis Races
INDIANAPOLIS, May 31.—Joe Boy
er, driving as relief piloted L. L.
Crum’s eight cylinder speedster to
victory in the twelfth annual 500 mile
auto handicap at the Indianapolis j
motor speedway.
Corum, an Indianapolis man, sur- j
rendered his car to Boyer after he
had driven 272 miles.
Earl Cooper was second, Jimmie
Murphy was third.
Time: five hours, five minutes.
Gaston B. Means Is
On Witness Stand
WASHINGTON, May 31.—Gaston B.
Means told the Senate committee to
day that he received from Jess W.
Smith in 1922, certain documents pur
porting to show that Secretary Mel
lon agreed to issue a batch of whisky
withdrawal permits in return for a
sum of money which was to go to
ward payment of the defict in the
Republican National committee treas
ury.
SEC. WILBUR SAYS THERE
IS STILL HOPE FOR NAVY
NEW YORK, May 29—The navy de
partment has “something else to do”
than to deny “irresponsible” state
ments of individuals to the effect that
“our fleet has deteriorated beyond all
possible comparison with any other
fleet,” Secretary of the Navy Curtis
D. Wilbur, told members and guests of
the National Security league last night
at the organization’s ninth annual
banquet at the Hotel Astor.
Trans-Atlantic mail service in less
than two days flying time was being
sought by the department in its exper
iments with rigid airships, Secretary
Wilbur said .
NOTICE TO LIGHT PATRONS
The power will be off Sunday from
9:00 a. m. to 3:00 p. m.
WATER SHUT OFF TONIGHT
Water will be shut off tonight at
11:30 o’clock on the mains on Fourth
and Fifth streets, including the Ho
tel Van Gilder, Bank of Seward and
Harriman Bank buildings.
Captain Johansen
Confirms Story of
Wrecked Aviators
Captain O. A. Johansen, master of
the steamer Starr, arriving in Sew
ard yesterday afternoon, one of the
most prominent and best known nav
igators on the westward run, stated
that the mirage which is alleged to
have caused the destruction of Major
Martin’s plane is not an unusual oc
currence in the district over which
the plane was traveling.
“Persons not familiar with the
westerly side of the Aleutian penin
sula/’ said Capt. Johansen, “do not
know that it is mostly low, rolling1
hills. A steamer approaching from
the Bering Sea side can see the
mountains long before picking up
the low-lying hills. If snow is blow
ing over the tops of these hills the
illusion of breaking surf is perfect.
Major Martin ascended at Chignik in
a heavy storm, and after circling to
get his bearings probably picked up
the Chignik lakes and took the low
hills along the peninsula for surf
breaking on the beach, follwing this
until colliding with the mountains.
The altitude he was flying was com
paratively low, which may account
for his mechanic’s and his own mir
aculous escape, his plane being on an
even keel when striking.”
Capt. Johansen stated the first trip
into Bristol Bay was uneventful, won
derful weather being enjoyed thru
out the trip. Bering Sea was as
smooth as a mill pond and without
a breath of wind. The Starr was for
tunate in meeting with no ice, and
the mail was landed at Nushagak
without trouble, the ice not yet going
out of the river. The Starr dropped
in to Nushagak on the flood tide, un
loading mail and going out on the
ebb. The ice was expected to break
in the river that afternoon or the
next day.
The winter in the Bristol Bay sec
tion was very mild altlio a late spring
was experienced. Two of the can
nery fleet had arrived at Nushagak
and four at Naknek. At Naknek the
new Libby, McNeil and Libby steam
er, Otsego had already arrived, with
S25 passengers outside of the crew.
The Otsego is in command of Capt.
Frederick Nelsen former comman
der of the Libby Maine, and is the
former German raider Eital Freder
ich, which was interned at Newport
News after famous raids on Allied
shipping.
Capt. Johansen states that the
members of the Seward Chamber of
Commerce making the trip to Bristol
Bay on the July trip can be assured
of a fine time and an enthusiastic re
ception.
Missionaries Taken
By Chinese Bandits
PEKING, May 31.—Chinese bandits
captured Rex Ray, a missionary of
the Southern Baptist convention with
headquarters at Richmond, Va., and
Dr. H. G. Miller, a Christian Alliance
missionary of New York, while they
were heading a rescue party to the
relief of the American Christian Al
liance mission at Kewilin.
England Intervenes
LONDON, May 31—The British gov
ernment has instructed the minister
at Peking to make the strongest pos
sible representations to the Chinese
government in order to effect the re
lease of four missionaries, two of
them Englishmen, captured by Chi
nese pirates near Cheu Ping.
Standard Oil Co.
Breaks Drill Stem
Hjalmar Evans, the well known
merchant of Kanatak who arrived in
Seward yesterday on the steamship
Starr, states that the Standard Oil
Company drilling at Kanatak is tied
up with a broken drill stem, but that
everything looks good at the Oil City.
Mr. Evans is very enthusiastic over
the prospects for a good summer in
the oil camp.
Key Pittman Bill
Passed by Senate
WASHINGTON, May 31.—The Sen
ate passed the Pittman bill directing
the Treasury Department to purchase
fourteen and a half million ounces of
silver at a dollar an ounce.
.»om ti e Chamber of Commerce.