Telegraphic News of Week
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' POINT OF FLIT
TO POLE
WASHINGTON, May 7— Seattle
■will be the starting point of the flight
to be staged by the Bureau of Aearo
nautics of the Navy across the North
Pole and will also be the starting
point for the flight around the world
to be staged by the Marines.
Chief of the Navy Bureau of Aero
• nautics Moffet said today he would
leave for Seattle early in June to com
plete the arrangements lc# the navy’s
-polar flight. He said h<j would erect
a mooring mast at Sand Point early
thit summer to accommodate the ZB
3 which will take to tim air August 1.
She will proceed from Lakehurst to
Chicago and thence ’o Point Farrow
ano across the polar wastes.
This vessel has a cruising radius of
4500 miles. Lieut. Colonel Thomas C.
Turner, in charge oi aeronautics lor
the Marine Corps, is making arrange
ments to begin a flight around the
world beginning at Sand Point, thence
to Dutch Harbor and across the Pa
cific.
TO MEET JIM FOURTH
CHICAGO, May 7.—Articles were
signed today for a meet between Jack
*I>empsey and Tom Gibbons for the
heavyweight championship on July 4.
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BLANTON IS INDICTED
FORT WORTH, Texas, May 7.—The
county grand jury today indicted Con
gressman Lindsay Blanton, democrat,
of the Seventeenth district, in connec
tion with newspaper articles wherein
.he is alleged to have charged ex-Con
gressman Callaway_ with urging his
friends to refrain from buying Liberty
Bonds and from saving food during
* the war. He was also charged with
« having sought to obstruct the dratt.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 7.—F. S.
-Samuels, assistant to the president of
the Oceanic Steamship Company left
for Washington today to endeavor to
obtain an extension of the Govern
ment mail subsidy and will propose
that if the government will guaran
tee a sufficient amount bis company
will build two liners with a speed of
US knots.
ADMIRAL WATSON SAILS
SEWARD, May 10.—The steamship
Admiral Watson sailed at 10 o’clock
this morning with 120 passengers in
cluding Seward as follows: Wm. Far
rell, Mrs. M. C. Burns, S. D. Finley,
rN. Stare, Howard H. Bugge, P. J. Dav
is, Arthur O’Neill and wife, Harold
and Dan O’Neill, S. Harp and wife
Master O’Neill, 31 steerage.
EIRLY ORGANIZATION OF
SEATTLE, May 11.—The early or
. ganization of an all-Alaska Chambei
of Commerce is seen by Charles D
Garfield, head of the Alaska depart
"ment of the Seattle Chamber of C-om
merce, who is back from a six weeks
trip to Alaska.
WASHINGTON, May 11.—A frauc
order designed to curtail the or
stock promotion activities of Dr. Cooi
of North Pole fame was issued by th<
postoffice department at Washingtor
* today.
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HIH CAPTURF
PEKING, May 7—One foreigner
was killed and 150 passengers were
carried off when bandits held up the
Shanghai-Peking express train on the
Tientsin-Puyow railway near the
Shanghai border.
j Miss Lucy Aldrich of New York, a
daughter of the late Senator of Rhode
[ Island and a sister-in-law of John
I Rockefeller, Jr., was among the pas
sengers. Her fate is unknown.
Bandits Being Pursued
WASHINGTON, May 7.—A small
military force is pursuing the Chinese
bandits who kidnaped several Ameri
cans and other foreigners from a train
yesterday, according to a message re
ceived by the State department today
from United States Minister Schurman
at Peking, who said that 28 out of 300
passengers were held as hostages by
the bandits.
Relations Near Breaking Point
| WASHINGTON, May 7.—Diplomatic
relations between the United States
and China have been brought to a
breaking point as a result of the cap
1 ture of American citizens on the Shan
tung border. The State department
is making no effort to conceal the
tenseness of the situation.
! Should Miss Aldrich be killed or
done bodily harm by the bandits, it is
expected that a force of marines will
be landed to pursue the bandits.
Million Dollars Ransom
PEKING, May 7—A million dollars
ransom is demanded by Chinese ban
dits for the sale return ol the foreign
ers, including many Americans, who
were captured Sunday after their
train was wrecked in the wilds near
Lin Cheng. The demand for the ran
som, was brought in from the ban
dits by an aged Chinese.
Women Been Released
LONDON, May 7.—All women in
cluding Miss Aldrich, a sister to Mrs.
Rockefeller, Jr., captured by the Chi_
nese bandits, have been released, say
Central News dispatches from Shang
hai.
Two Americans Shot By Bandits
PEKING, May 7.—Two Americans
and one Englishman were reported
shot when government troops attack
ed the bandits. The latter had made
a human barricade of the prisoners,
placing the foreigners in front of
them, and defending themselves with
return rifle fire in response to an at
tack by soldiers.
America and Britain Aroused
PEKING, May 7.—America and Bri
j tain tonight intervened in behalf of
American and British citizens kid
naped by Chinese bandits Sunday.
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DEMPSEY GETS $300,000
CHICAGO, May 7.—Jack Dempsey
will get 1300,000 for risking his title
against Tom Gibbons at Shelby, Mon
tana on July 4, according to a report
' here.
DIRIGIBLE WILL FLY
OVER NORTH POLE
ST. LOUIS, May 11—Prediction that
Dirigible ZR-1, being assembled by
the navy, would eventually fly over
the north and south poles was made
here today by Rear Admiral Moffet,
chief of the bureau of aeronautics, U.
S. navy.
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SEATTLE, May 11.—‘‘All one re
quires to be able to navigate the wa
ters of the inside passage to Alaska is
horse sense,” are the words of Stew
art Edward White, author, who is pre
paring to depart in a few days in his
50-foot gas launch, Dawn, to spend
four months in Southeastern Alaska
gathering fiction material.
AGED MINISTER DROWNS
SEATTLE, May 11— Qaeien Wood,
71, a retired minister, was drowned
today when he fell from a Smith Cove
pier.
LOS
LOS ANGELES, May 7.—On a se
cluded cliff in Elysian Park, Joseph
Becker, a real estate salesman from
Salt Lake, shot and killed Miss Jane
B. Kelso, because she broke her en
gagement to marry him.
He telephoned the police for an am
bulance later helping place her body
in the vehicle.
LAKE GEBHART WILL BE
I TO! LOSS SAY
SHIPPING MEN
SEATTLE, May 10.—Twenty-nine of
the crew of the Alaska Steamship
Company’s new freighter, Lake Geb
hart, which piled up on Umitall Reef
in a fog yesterday morning, have been
taken off the vessel while three re
main. Shipping men who ahve view
ed the wreck state thait the vessel
will be a total loss.
The Lake Gebhart was purchased
the latter part of April from the Ship
ping Board to replace the freighter
Valdez, which was sold to Great Lakes
steamship men. The Gebhart was on
her way from San Francisco to take
up her southwestern Alaska run when
she struck the reef.
DESTROYERS RUSHED
FROM SHANGHAI TO
PURSUE BANDITS
WASHINGTON, May 11.—Several
i American destroyers have been rush
ed from Shanghai and Kobe to Tsing
tao, one of the principal points of the
Shantung pprovince. However, the
United States does not contemplate
armed action in China while Ameri.
cans in the hands of the Chinese ban.
dits are still held captives.
ESSEN, May 11.—Sabotage gangs
dynamited an importan railway bridge
i here as an answer to the verdict of
i the French court martial at Dussel
dorf, when Albert Schlogetter was
sentenced to death with six others.
The bridge was on the main line
between Waltrop and Lunen and the
burgomasters of these two towns
have been arrested.
DELEGATE SUIKH
WILLMAKETRIP
IB FIR WEST
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Dan A. Sutherland, delegate to Con- j
;ress from Alaska, arrived on the ^
steamship Victoria last evening, and
ifter a brief visit here with friends, j
left on this morning’s train for An
chorage, returning to Seward on Wed- ^
aesday’s train. Mr. Sutherland will ^
make the round trip to the westward
an the steamship Starr, to visit the ^
numerous camps on the peninsula, and ,
see the fisheries reserves at first hand.
Delegate Sutherland stated that if ^
no other good is accomplished by the i
agitation against the recent presiden- (
Lial order creating fish reserves, it
would awaken the people of Alaska to
the organized steal being perpetrated
by the big packers under the name of
conservation.
Mr. Sutherland is firm in his beliei
that the President will visit Alaska '
this summer and that much good will
come from his visit. He also states '
that Seward has some good things in
store for her, which will be told of
upon his return from the westward.
CONVICTED SABOTAGE
GERMAN LEADER
WILL BE SHOT
PARIS, May 10.—Herr Schlogetter
was convicted of sabotage by a French
court martial sitting at Dusseldorf to
day and sentenced to death, accord
ing to a Havas dispatch from Dussel
dorf.
Schlogetter was charged with hav
ing been the leader of a band of Na
tionalists who committed acts of sa
botage against the railway bridges in
the Ruhr district.
SEATTLE, May 11.—The freighter
Lake Gebhart which went ashore on
the Umatilla reef has broken in two
and is a total loss, according to word
received this morning by the Alaska
Steamship Company. Her cargo was
also lost.
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TO HAVE CAPTIVES FREED
TIENTSIN, May 8.—A relief train
arrived here today with a party of for.
?igners who escaped when the Shang
bai-Peking express train was held up
by bandts at Lini Shing, Sunday.
In the party were Mrs. Robert A1
len and Mrs. Pinger. The women
stated that their husbands, who ar
majors in the American army, ant
Pinger’s eldest son, were kidnaped
About 115 persons were taken from
the train, most of them in night attire
and without baggage. They were
forced to walk barefoot on br^'
Slass in the vicinity of the train, and
were hustled by their brutal guards
over the rough country, as the bandits
fled in fear of pursuit.
Miss Aldrich Released
SHANGHAI, May 8.—Miss Aldrich,
a sister-in-law to John Rockefeller,
Jr., was found fifteen miles from the
scene of the hold-up, where she had
dropped from exhaustion and had been
abandoned by the bandit horde. Her
bare feet were cut and bruised and
she was suffering from exposure as a
result of the enforced night march in
an ill-clad condition.
Miss Aldrich was found by an
American engineer of the Asia Devel
opment company, and sent to Tsin.
anfu for treatment.
May Take Over Government
WASHINGTON, May 8.—A confer
ence of diplomats is now taking place
in Peking, at which are represented
the United States, Britain, France
and Japan. This conference will de
termine if the Chinese government
shall be (taken over and ruled by an
international commission, until a sta
ble government is formed. The Uni
ted States is represented by Ambas
sador Jacob Gould Schurman.
Governor Must Pay Ransoms
PEKING, May 8.—The Chinese gov
ernment has ordered the governor of
Shantung to accede to the demands o!
the bandits and obtain the immediate
release of all foreigners kidnaped in
Sunday’s raid. The governor is order
ed to pay the ransom, if necessary.
WASHINGTON, May 11.—The Chi
nese government has promised Ameri
can Minister Schulman that it will
consider a general policy of extermi.
nation of all bandits in China as soon
as the present situation growing out o;
the capture of American and foreign
citizens by brigands in Shantung has
been adjusted.
Asks Troops Be Taken Away
TIENTSIN, May 11.—“For God's
sake take away the troops or they
threaten to kill us all,” was a message
received today from J. B. Powell, an
American newspaper man captured
with other foreigners in the camp of
the Shantung bandits.
Ultimatum Sent to China
PEKING, May 8.—The Foreign Re
lations commission has sent an ulti
matum to the Chinese government,
saying, "Free all foreigners immedi
ately and alive. We do not care what
methods you use but free them.”
American Troops Be Used
WASHINGTON, May 8.—About 20,
000 American soldiers now in the
Philippines and 3,000 British at Hong
Kong are immediately available for
an international bandit hunt in China
should concerted action be recom
mended by the conference of diplo
mats now in progress in Peking.
Victims Not Identified.
SHANGHAI, May 8.—It has been
impossible to identify the American
shot by the Suchow train bandits, ad
vices state. This man lost his life on
Monday following the holdup, during
one of the skirmishes between the
brigands and pursuing troops.
Joseph Rothan, a doctor, who was
killed, was shot down at the scene of
the hold-up.
Brigands Retreating.
TIENTSIN, May 8.—Advices receiv
ed here s*ate that the brigands are
retreating before the government
troops, carrying their captives with
them. Several skirmish have taken
place between the combatants. The
government has ordered all pursuit
to cease until the ransoms are paid
fearing the brigands will kill their
captives if hard pressed.
Miss Aldrich’s Condition Serious
SHANGHAI, May 8.—The condition
of Miss Aldrich, a sister-in-law of
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., who was tour
ing China with friends at the time of
her capture, is reported to be serious.
The woman was compelled to walk
15 miles barefooted and clad only in
a nightgown, and the exposure and
fright has caused a nervous collapse
which may result seriously.
Six Foreigners Released
TIEN TSIN, May 8.—Six foreigners
released by the bandits arrived here
tonight.
China Held Responsible.
WASHINGTON, May 11.—Minister
Schurman has warned the Chinese au
thorities that the death of a foreigner
among the prisoners of the Shantung
bandits will mean that China will face
international complications, the State
department announced today.
Ultimatum Delivered
PEKING, May 11.—The diplomatic
Corps delivered an ultimatum to China
today demanding the government ob
tain release of all foreign prisoners
held by bandits in the Sean Tung hills
by midnight tonight.
TIEN TISIN, China, May 10.—Miss
Lucy Aldrich, a sister-in-law to John
Rockefeller, jr., who was captured by
the Suchow bandits, carried into the
hills and later released, arrived here
tonight on a late train from Thinan
Fu en route to Peking. She was ac
companied by Miss Schoenberg.
In describing her experiences as a
captive of the brigands, Miss Aldrich
said she was separated from the other
foreign prisoners and led off into the
hills with a band of Chinese captives.
One of (them, she said, was unable to
keep up with the remainder and he
was shot by the brigands and his body
left beside a trail.
On reaching the robber stronghold
Miss Aldrich said she saw some of
the other foreign prisoners a moment ,
across the valley. At nightfall she
was taken to a village where she was .
kindly treated by Chinese women. The '
next morning some Chinese escorted !
her to the railway thence to Thina .
Fu. She said she did not know if her j
escort was a bandit or not, but he
wore a soldier coat. Miss Aldrich said
she was treated with great considera
tion by her captors and did not know ^
why she had been released.
She stated that the stories she was
in danger of death from exposure and
hunger was exaggerated, as beyond
sore feet from being compelled to .
travel across the country barefoot, ^
she was none the worse for her expe- ]
riences. i
C. L. Mason, confidential clerk for
the headquarters office, returned to i
Anchorage this morning following a 1
visit (to Seward. ]
LALSANNE, May 11.—M. Vorosgv,
head of the Russian Soviet delegation
it the Lausanne peace conference was
assassinated last night, being shot
several times and killed outright. M.
Aherns, head of the Soviet press bu
reau in Lausanne, and M. Didwilkow
ski, another Russian were dangerously
wounded.
Vorosky and his party were dining
at the Hotel Cecil when the assassin
stepped up behind them and emptied
his revolver into the crowd. Maurice
Conrad, a former soldier in the Rus
sian army, admitted the deed when
arrested.
Russian Government Protests.
BERLIN, May 11.—Russian repre
sentatives at the Lausanne conference
aave handed the Swiss government a
iote formally accusing Switzerland of
’ailing to take precautions to protect
;he lives of Vorowsky, Ahrens and
Dibrocovsky, after being satisfied that
in attack on the Soviet delegates was
ilanned. The note says the Allies
yill be held morally responsible for
h edeaths of Vorowsky and wounding
)f others by a former officer of the
tzar’s army last night.
In a plea before the examining mag*
strate today Conrad charged the
3olshevik with torturing his aged pa
rents and his two sons who died in
lussia during the revolution.
Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Craig of Anchor
ige, who came to Seward to extend
arewells to Col. P. Mears left this
norning for home.