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VOLUME XX. NUMBER 141 - / c/ 7y SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 1925.
PRICE TEN CENTS.
LYNCH ALLOWS
READING LOVE
LETTER IN COURT
LETTER IN DEFENDANT’S HAND
WRITING ADMITS INSOLVEN
CY OF SHEPHERD
CHICAGO. June 16. (JP)— Judge
Lynch today overruled the motion of
Shepherd to delete the testimony giv
en by Estelle Gehling yesterday and
he letter Sherherd wrote her, in which
he called her his “Sunshine Girl,” and
admitted insolvency. In the letter
he stated his intention of closing his
office with the words, “close my office
;iere and drift away from it all.”
The court held the letter pertinent
because of the admission of bank
ruptcy in the defendant’s own hand
writing, only a month before the death
■>f McClintock, but barred portions of
the identified epistle as a “love let
ter."
State Witness Not Positive
CHICAGO, June 16. (£>)—Doctor
Amanto Ronzetti. upon whom the
state depended to identify Shepherd,
as having displayed interest to use
typhoid germs, just before the death of
McClintock, gazed from the stand to
day as the defendant was paraded be
fore him, giving side, front and rear
views, and admitted that the 225
pound, iron-gray-haired, and pale fif
ty-year-old prisoner didn’t look like
the 150-pound dark young man who1
went to his ship with him. He admit- j
ted also that he had discussed chang- {
ing front in the trial for five hundred j
dollars.
Cousins Will Split
CHICAGO. June 16. (£>)—Isabelle j
Pope, after a severe cross-examination
admitted she had made a fifty-fifty
agreement with the Iowa cousins of
McClintock to share his estate with
them if the will, which is in favor of
Shepherd, is broken. She said the
agreement provided for one hundred
thousand dollars to go to Mrs. Shep
herd.
SEVENTEENDEAD
IN WRECK ON THE
LACKAWANARY.
4
LIGHTENING DISPLACES RAIL
SEVEN CARS OUT 01" TEN
PILE UP IN HEAP
HACKETTSTOWN, June 16. (TP)—
Seventeen were killed on a Lackawa
na train called the “Emigrant Special”
carrying one hundred and eighty-five
passengers who were to sail today
$ from Hoboken on their way to Europe
wrecked while the passengers were
asleep. Doctors said at least twelve
of those injured will die. The en
gineer and fireman were killed dur
ing the wreck.
During a severe storm, lightening
had displaced a rail, and landslides
and floodwaters had covered and un
dermined the track. Seven of the
ten cars left the track. The first
coach was hurled half way over the
capsized locomotive, so great was the
speed at which the train was travel
ing. During the confusion men and
women fought madly to escape from
the overturned coaches. The locomo
tive exploded and filled the air with
steam, enabling the passengers to see
V' only a few feet ahead of them.
- List of Dead Grows
HACKETTSTOWN. June 16. (/p)—
The latest reports received from
the wreck give the number of dead
at 29 and sixty-nine hurt. The wreck
occurred at Rockport, New Jersey.
The Greek alphabet was evolved
about 800 B. C.
LANDES, GEOLOGIST, IS
ON WAY TO MATANUSKA
K. K. Landes, government geologist
arrived in Seward Sunday from the
States, departing Sunday morning for
Anchorage. Mr. Landes was with the
j Ur. S. R. Capps party last season, but
this year is heading a field party liim
; self. He will make a study, this
year, of the country south of the Mat
anuska river, from King river west.
AGEDCORDOVAN
LEAVES OVER 12
HUNDRED IN CASH
MONEY HIDDEN IN SECRET COM
PARTMENT IN WALL OF
HIS CABIN
CORDOVA. June 16. (JP)—"Go to
my cabin; pull a nail out behind the
living room table,” was the deathbed
request of Carl J. Carrson, 63 year old
sourdough ship’s carpenter who died
here yesterday.
Searchers spent three hours exam
ining every nail head in the cabin,
finally tapping a hollow place in the
table leg, locating a secret compart
ment containing over twelve hundred
dollars mostly in twenty dollar bills. ;
SNIPERS IN CHINA
SHOOT M’KENZIE
BRITISH SUBJECT
DRAUGHTSMAN AT MUNICIPAL.
LIGHT COMPANY SLAIN WHEN
OUT RIDING IN CAR
SHANGHAI, June 16. (/P>—William
W. MacKenzie, draughtsman at the
municipal light department, whom
snipers shot and killed last night, and
Miss Mary Duncan, his companion,
were British subjects.
Miss Duncan, who seized the wheel i
and steered the automobile into the
settlement after MacKenzie fell dead
over the wheel, had never driven a
car before. The machine stopped
when it plunged into a ditch.
AMERICAN FLAG WINS
ON BELMONT COURSE
BELMONT RACE TRACK. June 16.
(/P)—American Flag, son of “Man O’
War,” carrying the colors of Glenn
Riddle Farm won the 67th Belmont
Stakes. The race was worth S3S,
000 and a S500 cup was given to the
victor. It was an easy victory for
American Flag, who galloped the mile
and three furlongs in 2.16 4-5. This
tied the time set by “Grey Leg” in
1921. Arthur Johnson was up on
American Flag. “Grey Legs” fin
ished six lengths behind American
Flag with “Swope” coming in third.
STRAUSS OBJECTS TO FIXED PAY ;
BERLIN, June 16.—(jP)—Richard
Strauss has decided to boycott the
German Theatrical Association. He
has refused Max von Schillings’ in
vitation to conduct a number of per
formances at the Berlin State Opera
with the explanation that he does not
consider it conformable with his
professional standing to submit to a
conventional fine imposed by the
Theatrical Association in the nature
of fixing the maximum remuntera
tion for an artists of his position.
REPUBLICANS EXPECTED TO
NOMINATE M’CRAN TODAY
TRENTON, N. J., June 16. (jT>)—
1 Republicans are expected to nominate
Thomas F. McCran for Governor in
today’s primaries. He is supported
by the regular organization and will
poll a large scattered vote. Arthur
Whitney is expected to run second,
and Cornelius Doremus third. Harry
Moore is unopposed for the democrat
ic nomination.
INVESTIGATOR
TELLS OF DEATH
DENTIST’S WIFE
FILLED WIFE WITH LIQUOR UN
TIL CONFUSED, THEN HAD
HER WRITE POST CARD
8 LOS ANGELES, June 16. 8
8 (/P)—Charles Riemer. investi- 8
8 gator for the district attorney’s 8
8 office, yesterday told the coro- 8
8 ner’s jury the circumstances 8
8 leading to the death of Mrs. T. 8
8 W. Young, whose body was dis- 8
8 covered at Beverly Glenn. 8
8 According to Riemer Doctor 8
8 Thomas W. Young, dentist, fre- 8
8 quently quarreled with his wife 8
8 Grace, whose first husband Pat- 8
8 rick Gorman, called her Olive 8
8 King, and whose body was re- 8
8 moved Saturday from beneath 8
8 a mass* of concrete in a cistern 8
8 at Young’s cottage at Beverly 8
8 Glenn. 8
8 Mrs. Young disappeared on 8
8 February 21, when Young drove 8
8 her from a road house to his of- 8
8 fice, and there, according to 8
8 the special investigator, Young 8
8 plied her with liquor until she 8
8 was confused. At this point 8
8 Young induced her to write a 8
8 letter addressed to him, which 8
8 he had a friend mail to him 8
8 from the east, as au indication 8
8 that she was alive after Febru- 8
8 ary 21. He had her sign sev- 8
8 eral blank pieces of paper to 8
8 use in obtaining one hundred 8
8 thousand dollars worth" of Lib- 8
8 ertv bonds. After this he pock- 8
8 eted a quantity of lethal gas. 8
8 a cone tube for administering 8
8 it, cotton wadding, and then left 8
8 the office with her. where she 8
8 fell asleep in his car. 8
8 As Young drove to Glen cot- 8
8 tage, he placed the rubber tube 8
8 in her mouth, adjusted the 8
8 cone, poured in the lethal fluid 8
8 and stopped her nostrils with 8
8 cotton. Upon his arrival at 8
8 the .cottage he trundled the 8
8 body to the cistern in a wheel- 8
8 barrow. $♦
8 Young Patrick Gorman, the 8
8 dead woman's son. who, un- 8
8 knowingly helped cover the 8
8 body with cement, yesterday 8
8 destroyed the will he made on 8
8 June 9th, bequeathing a million 8
8 dollars to Young. 8
88 8 8888888888888
WATSON SAILS
NORTH TODAY
ON WAY SEWARD
LEAVES SEATTLE AT TEN THIS
MORNING WITH ONE HUN
DRED SIXTEEN ABOARD
SEATTLE, June 16. The Ad
miral Watson sailed at ten this morn
ing on her way for Seward and west
ward points with one hundred and six
teen passengers aboard, the following
for Seward:
Alice Germain, J. L. Drumheller, E.
C. Stump, Mrs. R. K. Greenwood, Miss
M. Hallstrom, Mrs. Alice Baldwin, L.
Stevens, Mrs. W. Y. Garvin, Miss Julia
Phillips, Mrs. N. C. Westralin, Miss
Joyce Wanderer, Mrs. H. B. Condit,
Charles Hansen, Charles Rockefeller,
and one steerage.
YALE WINS POLO MATCH
RYE, N. Y., June 16. (#)—'Yale con
quered over Pennsylvania, Military
College Cadets in the opening game of
Intercollegiate polo championship by
a score of 16 to 5. Army was victor
ious over the Virginia Military Insti
tute by a score of 19 to 0.
Potash has been found in Texas.
GUGGENHEIM GIVES HUGE
SUM TO SCHOOL IN N. Y.
NEW YORK, June 16. (^—Chan
cellor Brown announced today that
Daniel Guggenheim gave the New
York University five hundred thous
and dollars for the establishment of
a school of aeronautics, providing ex
tensive laboratories and an initial
staff of four experts.
INCOME RETURNS
FOR YEAR ARE
GIVEN IN REPORT
FIVE BILLION DOLLARS MORE IN
1925 THAN IN YEARS BEFORE
—ALASKA RETURNS GIVEN
WASHINGTON, D. C.. June 1G. (/P)
—The taxable personal income for
America for the year amounted to
$26,336,337,843.00, which is five billion
more than paid into Hie treasury in
1923.
Washington and Alaska together
filed 136,057 returns and paid in S4,
3S2.752.
i
FORMER CONSUL
JENKINS CAUSES
MUCH ILL FEELING
HOISTS AMERICAN FLAG OVER
ALL HIS RANCH PROPERTIES •
IN PUEBLA STATE
MEXICO CITY. June 16. (JP)—Des
patches from Puebla today said W.
Jenkins, former American consular
agent there, whose kidnapping by
Mexican bandits in 1919 created ser
ious international disagreements, has
hoisted the American flag over all of
his ranch properties in Puebla state,
creating ill feeling among the Mexi
cans. who consider the action a taunt.
CLAIMS PRESENT MANAGEMENT
ANTI SALOON LEAGUE IS AID
TO WETS—DEFEATED TEDDY
NEW YORK, June 16. (JP)—William
H. Anderson, former superintendent
of the anti-saloon league, charges in
a pamphlet that the present manage
ment of the league is aiding the wets
and that it caused the defeat of Ted
dy Roosevelt. Jr., in the recent gub
ernatoriald election and also that it
| is wrecking the organization.
FRENCHMEN WIN MATCH
PARIS. June 16. (/P)—Winning three
matches to Italy’s none, eliminating
the latter In the second round of the
European Zone Davis Cup matches,
Rene Lacoste and Jacques Brugnon
defeated Baron De Morpurgo and C.
Columbo.
Joe Imlach Says,
Coining To Seward
Fourth with “200”
Prior to the departure Sunday of
W. J. Imlach, cannery operator of
this district, for Port Chatham, Mr.
Hannon, city clerk and secretary of
the chamber of commerce, was asked
if the 200 of his crew could be ac
commodated on the Fourth of July,
provided he brought them over. Mr.
Imlach was informed they would be
taken care of, so in all probability
they will come. Mr. Imlach staled
his plants always have closed down
on Sundays and he is much enthused
over the prospect of having the op
portunity to give Ills many employes
an enjoyable time in Seward.
CONGRESSMAN INDICTED
PIKEVILLE, Ky., June 16. (£>)—
Congressman John W. Langley, re
publican, was indicted on the charge
of drunkenness.
MMILLAN PLANES
! MAY NOT SEARCH
FOR AMUNDSEN
WILBUR STATES WOULD BE UT.
TER FOLLY TO START ON
TRIP WITHOUT DATA
WASHINGTON, D. C.. June 1G. <7P)
—Any effort of naval planes of the
McMillan expedition to search for
Amundsen, may be made only by an
order of the navy department, after
they reach Etah. Greenland, Secre
tary Wilbur stated today, in lauding
the planes and personnel of the Me
Millan expedition.
Secretary Wilbur asserted the navy
is under an agreement to make the
prime object of their journey, the ex
ploration of the unknown region be
tween Alaska and the North Pole. The
Secretary said they intended to do
whatever was reasonable in the search
for Amundsen, that and “nothing
more.” No plans of the Amundsen
expedition have been communicated
with the war department, Wilbur said
and he regards it as utter folly to tin
dertake a search without data.
Expedition be Transferred
ADVENT BAY. June 16. (TP)—The
Amundsen rescue expedition will be
transferred to the Heimdall, a 640 ton
boat of the Norwegian fisheries ser
vice, which commander Hagerup, who
has been commanding the Farm, wilt
command. The Farm goes on her an
nual scientific expedition under pro
fessor Adolf Hoel. The Heimdall is
coming from Finmarken. northern.
Norway.
WALTER JOHNSON IS
MOST VALUABLE PLAYER
WASHINGTON. D. C., June 16. (TP)
—From the hand of President Cool
idge. Walter Johnson, veteran pitcher
received an embossed diploma last
Thursday, proclaiming him the most
valuable player of any club in the
American League last summer.
HALF BILLION :
TAX CUT NOW
SEEMS ASSURED
; LEADERS IN BOTH HOUSES NOW
READY FOR ACTION—PRO
GRAM ECONOMY
WASHINGTON, D. C.. June 16. </P)
—The halt' billion tax cut now seems
assured. Leaders of both parties are
ready for action in December and tax
reductions of not less than four hun
dred million dollars and perhaps as
much as a half-billion dollars will be
provided for at the next congress. Re
cent expressions by republican and
democratic leaders in Congress make
this practically certain.
A program of sweeping economy
will go with the tax reductions. The
forthcoming budget unquestionably
will be cut to the bone, as Senator
Underwood, addressing the Alabama
Tax Club, declared himself in favor
of tax laws along the lines of the 1916
tax law, when the highest surtax rate
was thirteen per cent.
Senator Underwood’s remark has
caused a stir among the democrats as
his proposals go deeper than those of
other leaders. Other democrats are
expected to give up their objections
to tax reductions.
DETROIT POLICEMAN KILLED
DETROIT, June 16. (/P)—A police
man was killed in a running battle
with four bandits who stole $25,000
from the Central Savings Bank. Three
of the bandits were caught and the
money recovered.
One horsepower' Is equal to 746
watts.