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• VOLUME 20. NUMBER 9
SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1925
PRICE TEN CENTS
K. M. LANDIS GIVES
REASONS FIRING
O’CONNELL
CHICAGO, Jan. 10—Kennesaw M.
Landis, baseball commissioner, today
gave out the stenographic copy of his
examination of Cozy Dolan, Jimmy
O’Connell, George Kelly, Ross Young
and Frank Frisch, all of whom he de
clares were afflicted with failing
memory when examined, no evidence
^ being found against anyone save
O’Connell. Dolan persistently denied
I any recollection of suggesting to
O’Connell that he offer $500 to Heinie
Sands of the Philadelphias, to not
play too hard against the Giants, to
which O’Connell had previously con
fessed. Landis said he told O’Connell
that his confession was sufficient to
"bust” him for life in baseball, and
Dolan’s attitude wras the reason he
was ousted.
Sands substantiated O’Connell’s $500
offer. On receipt of the offer Sands
(asked the advice of Horace Ford, the
Philadelphia infielder, who said: "Use
your own judgment.” Sands hesitated
until late that night when he aroused
^ Manager Fletcher of the Philadelphia
team, from his bed and laid the facts
5 before.
Landis said there was no other
thing for him to do in view of the facts
but retire O’Connell and Dolan from
league baseball.
HUNDREDS FROZEN
BY COLD WAVE
IN CAUCASUS
TIFLIS, Caucasia, Russia, Jan. 10.—
One hundred persons were frozen to
death and thouands of cattle destroy
ed by one of the coldest waves expe
rienced in the Caucasus in a century.
♦ Shepards and farmers were found
dead with their stock and farm ani
mals. Antelopes and wild boars left
their shelters in the mountains on ac
count of cold and hunger and died by
the thousands in the plain and val
leys.
The winter has been one of the most
severe in the annals of history.
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
GETS BETTER WEATHER
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 10.—The
freezing temperature which has
gripped Southern California for the
past week harassing fruit and vege
table growers and bringing some
damage to their orchards and tracts,
has given wray to more agreeable
weather.
Efforts to make an accurate esti
mate of the damage to citrus crops
during the cold snap will be made
tody at a meeting of fruit growers
with the county horticultural com
mission.
Dana C. King, orange sales man
ager of the Fruit Growers’ exchange,
r declared that the damage to the cit
rus crops was greater than at first
thought, although figures could
not be obtained until after a survey
of the orchards.
■ , HARRY GREB BESTS
BOB SAGE
DETROIT, Jan. 10.—Harry Greb,
middleweight champion of the world,
outpointed Bob Sage, in a ten round
bout here last night.
HOTEL MAN QUITS
A Lockie MacKinnon has announced
that he will give up his lease on the
Zynda hotel at Juneau, February 1,
'} when the owner, S. Zynda, will take
fr charge of it. Mr. MacKinnon has
not yet decided on what he will do
after giving up the hotel of which he
has been in charge for the past sev
en years.
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BONE SAILS TODAY
ON ALAMEDA
SEATTLE, Jan. 10.—Governor Scott
C. Bone sailed tor his home in Juneau
today on the steamship Alameda. He
is returning from a two months trip
to Washington, New York and other
eastern cities. Gov. Bone last night
on Alaska’s needs through the Post
Intelligencer radio station, KJR.
AMERICAN MARINE
BE DEVELOPED
HIGHER PITCH
WASHINGTON, Jan. 10— Recom
mendation for the development of the
American merchant marine were made
by a special committee to the Presi
dent. The committee asked the com
plete separation of the Shipping Board
and emergency fleet corporation.
The President has taken the matter
under advisement.
MERCHANT’S BANK
CHELAN CLOSED
OLYMPIA, Jan. 10.—Following the
defalcation of $45,000 by C. B. Van
Slyke, cashier, the consequent closing
of the Miners and Merchants Bank
of Chelan was announced today by
the State banking department.
ALASKANS WILL BE
ADMITTED AT CHEMAWA
Under the provisions of the federal
appropriation bill now before the sen
ate Alaska Indian pupils will be ad
mitted to the Chemawa Indian school
in Oregon only upon certificates is
sued by the Interior department. This
was the information received at Sa
lem, Oregon, by Harwood Hall, su
perintendent of the ChemawTa insti
tution.
The bill contains an appropriation
for the erection of three Indian
schools in Alaska, but pending the
completion of these structures stu
dents from this country must seek
an education in the United States.
COURT OUSTS KLAN
FROM KANSAS
TOPEKA, Kansas, Jan. 10.—Ending
a controversy of two years, the su
preme court sustained the State’s
case ousting the Ku Klux Klan from
Kansas. *
FOOTBALL HIGH TYPE OF
SPORT, CRITIC DECLARES
NEW YORK, Jan. 10.—Football to
day contains practically every ele
ment necessary to the highest type
of sport, in the opinion of E. K. Hall
of New York chairman of the Amer
ican Intercollegiate football rules com
mittee, expressed in his annual report
to the National Intercollegiate asso
ciation.
On the whole, Mr. Hall says, the
results from changes made in the
rules of 1924 have been gratifying,
but the committee undoubtedly will
consider returning to the point of
kickoff to the 40-yard line to elim
inate the large number of touch
backs which occured during the
past season and at the same time
returning to the game one of its
most thrilling plays, the run back
of kickoff.
EARL GILMAN MARRIED
Earl L. Gilman, radio operator on
the steamship Yukon, was married re
cently in Seattle, and is now with
the customs service.
Mrs. Jay Davidson, of New Orleans,
owns the first “greenback” $1 note is
sued. It Is dated August 1, 1862.
SON OF GOV DAVIS
ACCUSED BRIBERY
PARDON CASE
KANSAS CITY, Mo., Jan. 10.—The
last issue of the Kansas City Journal
charges that Richard G. Davis, a son
of the governor of Kansas, accepted
$1250 for delivering a pardon to Fred
W. Pollman, a former bank president,
convicted of forgery and serving a
term in the state penitentiary. The
money is alleged to have been paid
in a room in a Topeka hotel.
The story said: “Young Davis, who
is 28 years of age, accepted a thou
sand from Pollman, while two Journal
reporters, a shorthand reporter, and
several witnesses listened in adjoin
ing rooms through a telephonic device
hidden behind a curtain in Pollman’s
room.”
Continuing the story said that Dav
is left the hotel and returned with
the pardon, following which he ac
cepted $250 more.' When the Journal
people confronted him he returned the
$250, went out of the hotel, and came
back and returned the $1,000.
Governor Davis said: “Somehow
they inveigled my son into accepting
the money, but when he realized why
they had given it he returned it. At
the same time he delivered the par
don which I had already decided to
grant.”
The governor completes his term
next Monday. He pronounced the epi
sode a frameup by his political ene
mies.
CANADIAN LIQUOR STORES
UNDER NEW REGULATIONS
REGINA, Sask., Jan. 8.—Ten gal
lons of beer or wine or two gallons
of any other liquor Is the maximum
quantity which government stores
may sell any person at one time, un
der the terms of a bill which has
been approved by the legislature, act
ing as committee of the whole. The
buyer of the maximum amount of
liquor will forfeit his eligibility for
further purchase for fourteen days.
Two gallons of beer, one gallon of
wine and one quart of any other
liquor are the new quantities which
may be purchased by one person in
a day. Originally the daily quanti
ties were four gallons of beer, two
gallons of wine and one quart of
any other liquor.
TWO ATTORNEYS IN
WASH. DISBARRED
OLYMPIA, Wn., Jan. 10.—The Su
preme court set a record of 38 deci
sions so far this week, including the
disbarment of Attorney Comins of Se
attle and the suspension for five years
of Attorney Bolin of Toppenish.
WRECKED BOAT FOUND;
TWO MEN M!SSH*G
The fishing boat of John Erickson
of Cordova was recently found by
Ted Hoke on the outsde beach near
Boswell Bay, where it had apparent
ly Mown ashore sometime ago. It
is fa.red that Erickson and another
n-.an may have b m drowned.
A ehort time before Thanksgiving
Erickson and John Pena left for the
Cpr(i River fla.s in the boat, in
t°t • to do .j s}-: trapping I'urln*
•*i* extreme v\o t;:;« l.»v in
boi l is bell? of* l~<K the boat was
wi coked. No defit,4'*! is known
except that the wreck of the boat
was found many miles from where
the men are suposed to have beou.
The Marshal’s office is investigat
ing the case, but nothing definite has
been learned. Erickson has a brother
living at Cordova.
WARREN NOMINATED
A flash received as we are going
to press states that Charles B. Warren
has been nominated for attorney gen
eral, his nomination going to the Sen
ate late today.
WOMAN BE NAMED
ASST. ATTORNEY
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 10.—The
news that President Coolidge was
about to appoint Mrs. Mabel Walker
Willebrandt, assistant attorney in gen
eral charge of prohibition enforce
ment, to the Federal bench in North
ern California, sent Senator Samuel
Shortridge dashing to the White
House to protest. The California del
egation is badly split over the ap
pointment.
CREWS AT LOWEST
EBB EFFICIENCY
SAYSFURUSETH
WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.—The effi
ciency of crews manning American
vessels is at the lowest ebb in history,
Andrew Furuseth, President of the
International Seamen's Union, told the
House Committee today, which is in
vestigating the Shipping Board. He
charged that sailors ship on American
vessels solely for an opportunity to
smugglei in aliens, narcotics and other
contraband articles.
The larger part of the crews on
American ships today, Furuseth de
clared, w'ere Americanized foreigners.
SIX POWERS AGREE
WAR DAMAGE
PARIS, Jan. 10.—Lord Churchill,
of the British exchequer, announced
today that on British and American
war damage claims tlie delegates of
six powers, including the United
States were in complete accord. He
said that the United States had agreed
to wait two years until the Belgian
reparations were paid.
PREMATURE BLAST
KILLS LOGGER
LONGVIEW, Wn., Jan. 10.—James
C. Johnson is dying and George M.
England was perhaps blinded for life
while blasting stumps in logging roads
near here yesterday.
TWO EMPLOYES OF CORDOVA
FIRM EMBARK IN BUSINESS
The Davis-Phillips Co. is the name
of a new firm that today embarked
in business in Cordova.. They have
taken over the grocery departmenl
of Finkelstein & Sapiro and will con
tinue to conduct it at the same ole
stand. Finkelstein & Sapiro, pioneei
merchants of Alaska, and who have
conducted a general mercantile bus
mess at Cordova since the inceptior
of the town, are closing out all oi
their lines and in the course of i
few months expect to quit the ter
ritory, locating in a Pacific coas
city. Their successors in the grocery
line are two energetic and capabk
young men who have been associated
with them. For the past eight years
Mr. Davis has been the bookkeepei
and Mr. Phillips with the grocery de
partment for over four years. Th<
new firm has a legion of friends am
receive their share of the public pa
tionage.
OLMSTEAD WOULD BLOCK
PLAN TO INVESTIGATE
COAST RUM CONSPIRAC>
SEATTE, Jan. 10.—Roy Olmstead
former Seattle police lieutenant, todaj
asked for an injunction barring {
federal grand jury scheduled to mee
January 12 from considering evidenc*
of the existence of a coast-wise li
quor conspiracy.
The application was based on th<
giound that raids on Olmstead’)
home and his attorney’s office wtr<
illegal.
GRAND DRAGON OF
COLORADO IS IN
TOILS OF LAW
DENVER, Jan. 9.—Dr. John Galen
Licke, grand dragon of the Colorado
Klan, was arrested here today on a
complaint sworn out by Keith Boehm,
a nineteen-year-old high school stu
dent who alleged that Licke removed
him forcibly from his home, took him
to Licke’s office and there compelled
him to wed Miss May Nash, whom
Licke asserted was about to become
a mother.
GRAIN EXPORTS FROM
UNITED STATES FALL
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 10.—
Grain exports from the United States
last week were 2,357,000 bushels us
compared with 5,283,000 the previous
week. Commerce department fig
ures today gave the following com
parison between exports las- week
and those of the previous week:
Wheat 1,814,000 bushels against
3,999,000.
Barley 292,000 against 617,000.
Corn 145,000 against 105,000.
Oats 52,000 against 190,000.
Rye 54,000 against 372,000.
Canadian grain shipped from
United States ports last week
amounted to 2,092,000 bushels
against 2,363,000 the previous wreek,
while shipments of wheat flour last
week amounted to 494,000 barrels
against 249,000 the pervious week.
SIX MEN MAROONED
WHEN LOG BARGE
GOES ADRIFT
VANCOUVER, B. C., Jan. 10.—Six
men >who jvere aboard the iog barge,
Sangamon, when it broke* »?:>se from
the tug, Massett, Thursday, in Hecate
Strait, are marooned on Barron island
awaiting the arrival of the steamer
Marmion to take them off and carry
them to Prince Rupert.
The lighthouse tender Newington
hunting the Sangamon after the Mas
sfett went into Prince Rupert with
disabled pumps, found the barge
blown onto Barron island.
CHAS. B WARREN
SUCCEED STONE
WASHINGTON, Jan, 10— Indica
tions are that President Coolidge will
appoint Charles B. Warren, of Bav
City, Michigan, former ambassador to
Mexico and a lawyer of great ability
to succeed Harlan F. Stone as attor
1 ney general.
Charles Beecher Warren was born
| in Bay City, Michigan, in 1870. He
was associated with Don M. Dickin
’ son in the firm of Dickinson & War
en, in Detroit, until 1900, after which
' he Became a member of the law firm
of Sham, Warren, Cady & Oakes, un
! til March, 1915. He was associate
counsel for the United States before
’ the Joint High Commission to deter*
mine the Bering Sea claims; counsel
for the U. S. in the North Atlantic
Coast Fisheries Arbitration with Great
' Britain before The Hague tribunal;
delegate to the republican convention
in 1908, and has held many high posi
tions of trust.
REALTORS AGREE
LOWER RENTS
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5 WASHINGTON, Jan. 10—Facing a
. government regulation of rentals, re
altors and bankers today notified the
► President they would compel those
t engaging in improper real estate tran
s sactions to “change their minds and
attitudes.”