VOLUME 20. NUMBER 263
MEMBER ASSOCIATED rKESS.
SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1925
PRICE TEN CENTS
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SEARCH BEING
PROMISED TO SHIP CAR LIQUOR
FROM BRITISH COLUMBIA,
BUT HIJACKED CARGO
SEATTLE, Sept. 25 (^—Prohibi
tion Administrator Lyle is searching
for a Seattle man who fleeced four
prominent business men out of ?10,000
put up to finance the smuggling of a
freight car of liquor from British Col
ombia. The authorities seized the car
here two weeks ago.
It is said that the man obtained
$2,000 from each businessman and
went to Canada where he succeeded
in getting 27G sacks of liquor which
lie concealed in a freight car billed
as shingles. When the car arrived
at Granite Falls, 50 miles north of
here, the man unloaded all but six
sacks and sent the car on to Seattle.
It is presumed that he intended to
tell his four associates that the car
was hi-jacked while standing here.
The authorities found the six sacks
in a large space between the shin
gles, where the hi-jacked cargo had
been.
4 fat People Are Born;
Medicine Is the
Bunk
DES MOINES. Ia„ Sept. 25 (JP)~
Drugs and medicines cannot make a
fat person thin and they cannot lose
weight by taking preparations.
This statement was made by Dryl
man Hobbly, of the Bureau of Chem
ists to the delegates attending the
Americai Pharmaceutical Association.
“Fat people are born and not made.
' Sensible eating is the only thing that
will keep the figuure perfect, which
must be taken with a certain amount
of exercise. Persons are born with
fat producing glands, and others are
born lean and no amount of feeding
will make them fat,” said Hobbly. He
declared that fat producing medicine
manufacturers had fleeced the people
out of millions of dollars in the last
year.
“The fat man who cuts his diet to
a point "where he becomes thin must
^always keep it there," he added.
FA1UJREENGINES
ON SHENANDOAH
AIDED IN WRECK
LAKEHURST, N. J., Sept. 25 —Fail
ure of one or two of the dirigible
< Shenandoah’s engines had a part in
the destruction of the airship, which
wras unable to resist being drawn into
the vortex of the storm, Colonel Hall,
an army observes, who was a passen
ger on the vessel, testified before the
court of inquiry.
MONUMENT TO THE
LATE BUSONI UNVEILED
W BERLIN, Sept. 25. (JP)—A sepul
chral monument for the late Ferruc
cio Busoni w’as unveiled at the ceme
tery of Schoeneberg recently. The
impressive ceremony was conducted
under the auspices of the Academy
of Fine Arts and many admirers of
the great musician attended.
CONNELLS VILLE, Pa., Sept. 25.
(/P)—James Beatty of Dickerson Run,
near here, claims to have the cham
pion snake-hunting cat of this sec
tion. Three times within the past
several weeks the cat has brought
to the house live snakes, which wrere
killed by members of the family.
UjPhe first was of the common garden
variety, while the other two were
black snakes.
I
STEEL MAGNATE WILLING
TO TAKE MINERS’ RISKS
SEATTLE, Sept. 25. (IP)— Nathan
Eckstein, a Seattle business leader,
iold a story when the National For
eign Trade Council met here to il
lustrate the character of James A.
Farrell, president of the council. Mr.
Ferrill, who was a laborer in steel
mills at New Haven and then at
Pittsburgh, is president of the United
States Steel Corporation.
Visiting a *coal mine on a tour of
his company’s properties, Farrell was
told at one shaft, ran the tale, that
he must not go inside because gas j
conditions were bad.
“Are there men working in ihe
mine?” he asked.
Answered affirmatively, Mr. Far
rell remarked:
“If it's safe enough for the men, j
it's safe enough for me.”
Soon orders were received for im- j
provements, Mr. Farrell having made j
a thorough inspection and gone on
his way.
STINNES BRANCH BEING
ESTABLISHED PARAGUAY
ASUNCION, Paraguay, Sept. 25.
(/P)—The Hugo Stinnes Company of
Germany has established a branch
house in Paraguay. Business con
ditions thruout the country are re
ported to be improving rapidly.
Official estimates place the cotton
crop at more than 6000 tons this
year.
MITCHELL ON WAY
TO WASHINGTON
ST. LOUIS, Sept. 25. (£>)—Jaunty,
debonair, Mitchell left for Washing
ton with eight hundred pounds of doc
umentary evidence to present to the
air inquiry hoard.
“Do you dread your appearance be
fore the committee,” was asked of him
as he was leaving.
“Piffle,” Mitchell said.
FILM COMEDY KINGS TRY
FOR LAUGH EVERY 20 FEET
HOLLYWOOD, Cal., Sept. 25. (#»)
1—The average twTo-reel comedy con
I tains 75 laughs and the picture that
audiences will talk about afterwards
has a mirth provoking incident at
approximately every 20 feet of film,
Del Lord, director, declared recent
ly after a check of comedies at sev
eral theaters.
The sustained laugh is the kind for
J which comedy directors strive. This
1 laugh begins early in the picture. It
starts with a low chuckle and swrells
to a roar of laughter.
A situation that seldom fails to
elicit a burst of merriment is when
the comedian thinks he is safe after
being pursued by the villian only to
[ find that he isn’t, Lord said.
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FOOTPRINTS OF PREHISTORIC
MONSTER EMBEDDED IN COAL
- SALT LAKE CITY, Sept. 25. (.£>)—
Large pieces of coal in which are
embedded the footprints of a pre-his
toric animal believed ta be a tyran
nosaurus, the fiercest of the carniv
orous dinosaurs which roamed the
earth millions of years ago, have
been found in the Panther coal
mine in Carbon County, Utah. The
find was made several thousands feet
underground.
French Offer to Settle and
Satisfactory to the U. S.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 25 (#»).
The proposal of the debt funding offi
cers of the French commission, formu
lated by Caillaux and presented to the
American commission yesterday is un
derstood to be unsatisfactory to the
American commission.
BOMB EXPLODED
ITALIAN DISTRICT
IN LOS ANGELES
OCCUPANTS OF BUILDINGS WERE
KNOCKED OFF FEET—RUMOR
SEVERAL KILLED
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 25 (TP)—A
mysterious explosion last night knock
ed the occupants of nearby houses off
their feet and broke windows and
light globes for blocks around, and
demolished a two story residence and
store building in the Italian district.
Early reports that several were
killed have been unconfirmed up to
nine o’clock. The police declare it to
have been a dynamiting job by Black
Handers.
BULGARIAN EMIGRANTS DUPED
SOFIA, Bulgaria, Sept. 25. (TP)— i
A number of arrests were made re
cently in which the persons were
charged with issuing fraudulent cer
tificates of immigration for Bulgari
ans ot enter the United States.
The Bulgarian emigrants, number
ing -12, were stranded in Bremen
where they were cared for by the
Bulgarian Legation in Berlin. The
legation has sent a request to Sofia
for 600,000 leva for the care of the
victims.
SPOKANE, Wash., Sept. 25. (TP)—
Dogs, whose deeds and loyalty have
been immortalized in song and story,
have been given a salient tribute in
the establishment of a dog cemetery
in a shady nook near here. It is
said to be the second in the United
States.
A score of former pets of residents
already have been placed in graves
in fenced plots with markers. Tlie^re
is provision for many others.
VANDERBILT WILL
LEFT FIVE MILLION
PROVIDENCE, R. I., Sept. 25 (TP)—
The will of Reginald Vanderbilt, who
died three weeks ago, was probated
yesterday. It left $5,000,000 to two
children and gave the residue of his
estate of more than $7,000,000 to his*
widow.
BREWERS WORK
FOR PERMISSION
MAKE 2.75 BEER
WILL OPEN AN HONORABLE AND
LEGAL FIGHT FOR MANU
FACTURE BEVERAGE
NEW YORK, Sept. 25 (J-P)—The Uni
ted States Brewers’ Association today
elected Colonel Jacob Ruppert presi
dent of the Association, succeeding
Christian Fiegenspan of Newark. Mr.
Ruppert is president of the New York
Yankees baseball team.
It was announced that the associa
tion would inaugurate “an open and
honorable fight to legalize the manu
facture of 2.75 per cent beer.” They
have invited the civic bodies concern
ed in promoting temperance to join in
the mopement in legalizing the sale of
non-intoxicating malt beverages.
Mr. Fiegenspan resigned because he
objected to overtures by the Associa
tion members with the Anti-Saloon
League looking to a compromise on
modification of the Volstead Act.
NOTICE TO BALL PLAYERS
All persons interested in basketball
are requested to meet at the high
school building, Harriman bank, next
Tuesday night at 8 o’clock for the pur
pose of forming teams for the winter.
SWEDEN ANTICIPATES TO
EXTEND HER AIR LINES
■VIALROE, Sweden, Sept. 25. (/P)
—A daily aerial passenger service
has been established between Mal
moe and Copenhagen, Berlin, Am
sterdam, Paris and London.
ROCKNE LAUDS HUDDLE
SYSTEM IN HIS LECTURE
TO OREGON AGGIE MEN
CORVALLIS, Ore., Sept. 25. (/P)— j
The huddle system in football is !
much quicker than the old-fashioned
call system if used rightly by a fast j
team, Knute Roekne, head football j
coach of _ Notre Dame University, j
told a class learning .the fundamen-,
Tals and theory of football at Oregon
Agriculture College here recently.
“There is no chance to mix sig
nals, or for the opposing team to
catch them in the huddle system,”
he said. Notre Dame uses the hud
dle system.
MIFF WOULD
CONFER WITH
DESPERADO
EVERETT, Wn„ Sept. 25 (IP)—Sher
iff McCulloch, of Snohomish county,
proposed lo Charles Kilbourn, father
of Alvah, one of the escaped despera
does from the Seattle jail, to make a
visit to Alvah unarmed, “to talk
tilings over as a sporting proposition.”
The father denied knowing Alvah’s
hiding place. Posses are still looking
in the brush around Everett for the
four prisoners.
JAPANESE WOMEN WANT
RIGHT TO PRACTICE LAW
TOKIO, Sept. 25. (/P)—Japanese
women would be allowed to practice
law in the courts of the empire if a
measure sponsored by the Woman
Suffrage Party receives the approval
of the next Diet session. Discussing
the proposed bill, which would put
women barristers on the same plane
as the male members of the bar, one
of the leaders of theWoman Suffrage
Party said:
“Women have proved to be good
doctors and they are certainly better
fitted to deal with crimes and home
problems than men because they un
derstand them better. The argument
that women are too sentimental is
ridiculous.”
AIRPORT ON THAMES
IS PROPOSED PLAN
LONDON, Sept. 25. (IP)—A new de
veldpment in air service between the
continent nad London is being plan
ned for the near future. Experiments
are being carried out with a view
to the establishment of an airport
on the river Thames at Hammer
smith, just below Putney, where
French amphibian planes will alight
and set down passengers on a spec
ially constructed landing stage. The
authorities stipulate that such land
ings shall occur before nine o’clock
in the morning so that dislocation of
river traffic may be avoided.
DENTISTS SEEK RECOGNITION
VIENNA, Sept. 25. (IP)—The recent
International Congress of Dentists
adopted a resolution asking authori
ties for official recognition of the
professional designation of “dent
ist.” The resolution also urged all
countries to give international legal
recognition ot dentists, so that a
dentist .of one country would have
full legal rights to practice in any
other country.
Other provisions sought legal regu
lation of dental courses of training
governmental guaranteed diplomas
and the extension of sick benefit
insurance to dentists
ORGANIZATION TO
FIGHT CAPITAL
BEING PROMOTED
AMERICAN FUND FOR PUBLIC
SERVICE INCREASED TO
OVER A MILLION
NEW YORK, Sept. 25 (/P)—A radi
cal organization assisted from a fund
created by Charles Garland, of North
Carver, Mass.,' to “fight capitalism.”
The organization despite its tight on
capital, made more ihan $1,000,000 on
Wall Street, in the last two years, In
creasing, the American fund for pub
lic service from $800,000 to $1,500,000.
■Morris Ernest, counsel for the foun
dation declared that $500,OuO was giv
en to the radical organizations. “Some
of our securities rose 2000 per cent,”
he said. “Some of our stock was in
he First National Bank, which in
creased a thousand dollars a share,
and which shows that radicals can
handle money on a large scale.”
Dr. Norman Thomas, Socialist can
didate for mayor, described the organ
ization’s success in making money a
great joke, adding, “but the joke is
on us. The joke is also on George F.
Baker, chairman of the board of direc
tors of the First National Bank. Just
think of Baker, one of the richest
men in the country, making money for
the radical movement.”
Dr. Scott Nearing, president of the
foundation, which is incorporated in
Delaware, has radical papers in Chica
go, Minneapolis, Seattle, Oklahoma,
and New York subsidized for the or
ganization. He announced the pur
chase of a broadcasting radio station
“because the radio press disseminated
one-sided opinions.”
FREIGHT ON LOGS
BEEN ADJUSTED
SEATTLE, Sept. 25 (JP)—After more
! than three years’ controversy, both in
j the courts and before the Department
of Public Works, the log freight rate
case is approaching a settlement
agreeable to shippers and carriers.
This was announced by J. L. Bridge,
chairman of the Conference Commit
tee of Associated Log Shippers, fol
j lowing a meeting with representatives
I o-f the railroads.
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JAPANESE ISLAND OVERRUN
WITH DESTRUCTIVE BEAR
TOKYO, Sept. 25. (/P)—It is reported
from Nemuuro, Hokkaido, that bears
are increasihg so rapidly in Yetorop,
the largest island in the Kurile group
that the inhabitants are seriously con
sidering appealing to the Japanese gov
ernment for aid. It is variously esti
mated that there are now between
8,000 and 10.000 bears on the island.
Hundreds of horses and cattle are
killed and eaten by the bears yearly, it
is said, and unless something is done
to exterminate the bruins it is feared
stock-farming on the island will have
to be discontinued. A bounty of 15
yen is at present given for each bear
killed.
BASEBALL <
National
Cincinnati 3, Brooklyn 2, 11 innings.
Pittsburgh 0, New York 4.
American
New York 6, Chicago 5, 10 innings.
Boston 5, Detroit 0.
Philadelphia 4, St. Louis 6.
Washington 4, Cleveland 3, 10 in
nings. Washington 10, Cleveland 2.
Coast
Salt Lake 9, San Francisco 10.
Vernon 3, Portland 12.
Oakland 5, Seattle 4,
Sacramento 5, Los Angeles 8.