He ard Bale
S Eltewa
VOLUME XIX.
NUMBER 116
SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY. MAY 15, ,1924.
PRICE, TEN CENTS
C0OL1DGE VETOES
SOLDIER BONUS BILL
WOULD BE AN UNDUE STRAIN
ON THE TREASURY
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 15—
Coolidge vetoed the Soldier Bonus bill
today on the ground that the bill if
passed, would be an undue strain on
the United States treasury.
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 15—
Coolidge will veto the soldier bonus
and he is today preparing a message
which he will send to the house in
■'P explanation of such action on his part.
BILLY SUNDAY SAYS
HE WILL PULL THRU
CHICAGO, May 15—“The Lord and
I have been partners thirty-six years.
I’ll make the grade all right,” declar
ed Billy Sunday enroute to Rochester
to be treated for an" infected kidney.
FIREMEN TRAPPED
IN BURNING BUILDING
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LOWELL, Mass., May 15—Fire to
day swept throuhg two buildings and
threatened a congested district in the
heart of the city. Five firemen were ,
trapped in the Associate building asj
as wall collapsed.
Ihe five floor Associate building!
was totally destroyed ,the adjoining,
Mongcau building was in flames, the
Academy of Music, Lowell’s oldest j
theatre, was burned and the Knights’
of Columbus building was threatened.
The loss at this hour was in excess of i
$400,000.
Shortly after three o’clock a mili-!
tar y call was sent out summoning all
local militia units to aid in lighting j
the flames.
It was stated that at least two fire- !
men and possibly three were killed in!
the collapse of the wall. The men were ;
on a ladder leaning against the wall
and they were seen to fall into the
fire.
Famed Indian Hunter
Bnried Like Father
GRAND JUNCTION, Ohio, Mav 15
—Joe Jim, Ute Indian hunter, has at
last srone to the happy hunting ground
in a casket of skins tanned by his
own hands.
He was buried at Palisade, near:
here.
The old Indian was buried in the i
case of skins, patterned after the In
-» han casket, in accordance with his
dying request.
Joe Jim spent his entire life in
Eastern Utah and Western Colorado. !
He has seen the advance of eiviliza-!
tion from the time the Indian lived
off herds of deer and antelope, to the
time of great highways, lailroads and
airplanes.
Fr. Hotovitsky Goes to
4 States on Cannery Ship
BELLINGHAM, May 15—Bringing
among her passengers Father Hoto
vitsky, Greek Catholic priest at Bel
kofsky, the Pacific American Fisher
ies vessel Redwood, arrived at the
company’s piers at 9 a. m. today, after
a smart passage home. Father Hoto
vitsky is one of Alaska’s interesting
characters. He has lived there many
years and has traveled over an im
mense area. His jurisdiction extends
from Squaw Harbor to the Aleutian
Islands and over a wide area of main
land. Belkofsky is about twenty miles
south of Kink Cove, where the P. A.
F. has a cannery.
MAGNUS JOHNSON ASKS
IF MEAT PACKERS GAVE
CASH TO REPUBLICANS
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WASHINGTON, D. C., May 15—
A resolution colling upon Chairman
Adams of the republican committee to
state whether meat packers contribut
ed to the republican campaign funds
in 1920 or since was introduced today
by Senator Johnson, farmer-labor, of
Minnesota.
Senator Johnson charged the de
partment of agriculture with failure
to enforce the packers’ act, specify
ing that Secretary Wallace took no
action on the Armour-Morris consoli
dation “until the merger was consum
mated.” He said he would call up his
resolution tomorrow.
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
HEADS SMITH BOOSTERS
NEW YORK, May 15—Franklin D.
Roosevelt, former assistant secretary
of the navy, was today chosen chair
man of a state committee which will
promote the candidacy of Gov. Alfred
E. Smith for the democratic presi
dential nomination.
TANKS NEAR TAFT
GO UP IN FLAMES
FIVE HUNDRED MEN THROWING
UP DIKES
TAFT, May 15—Five hundred men
are feverishly throwing up diks to
prevent the spread of oil from four
flaming General Petroleum tanks near
here to the city of Taft and the les
| ser communities of Ford City, and Co
| co. The fire began yesterday.
The residents of Ford City, north- of
here close to the fire and thirty feet
lower in elevation, are apprehensive
that the flaming oil may boil over the
last two dikes and engulf the com
munity. The blaing fluid has already
leaped one of the three dikes and
the crisis of the fight is expected
when either of tanks 3 or 4 boils
over.
Coco, a Southern Pacific railway
camp close to the tanks, is believed
to be in danger if the river of burn
ing oil gets beyond control.
The city of Taft is about a quarter
of a mile from the fire.
FIVE MEET DEATH
IN GAS EXPLOSION
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KANSAS CITY, May 15—Five
persons were killed and several injur
ed by a gasoline explosion at the
plant of the Interstate Refineries
here shortly before noon today. The
burnii g gasoline spread to storage
tanks and an hour later the fire was
not umh r control.
Three bodies have been recovered
from ihe f're, including those of Nor
man Smith, plant super.atendent; Jack
Hendeison and C. W. Hudson, work
men.
Workers said they saw the bodies
of two other men in the fire, but were
unable to reach them.
The men killed or injured were em
ployed in the still house when the
cxplosii n cecu:1 e l.
Ralph R. I.anglev, president of the i
company, said the first explosion came
when a still tgnk filled with oil blew
out.
Three other stills filled with oil
ready for refining, blew up after the
first blast.
Believes Shenandoah
Can Make Polar Flight
SEATTLE, May 15—“1 believe the
Shenandoah can make the North Pole
flight and also expect to see England
with the R-34 attempt (to plant the
British flag at the top of the world
ahead of us,” Bartlett said in address
this afternoon in San Francisco.
SIGNS TO FIGHT HARRY WILLS
.KEYSTONE VIEW CO., NEW YORK
Bartlej7 Madden, well-known Irish
man, and spunky heavyweight fighter,
who is to fight Harry Wills, negro
heavyweight champion claimant at
Queensboro Stadium. The “Black
Panther” has no set-up in Bartley who
has been called the gamest heavy ever
seen. He will give Harry plenty of
fight.
NEW PRESIDENT D ..A. R.
COPYRIGHT KEYSTONE VIEW CO.. NEW YORK
Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook, new president cf the Daughters of the Arr
er-ican Jtev< lution, v llh her personal pages at the Thirty third Annual Con
gress at Washington. Miss Marion Crimes (left) . r/1 Mis-; F;gema Lejeun
(right;, daughter of Major General J. A. Lejeun, U .S. M. C.
Former Czarist Army
Officer Sentenced Death
KHARKOV, May 15—Capt. Stezen
ko, a former officer in the czarist army
has been sentenced to death on soviet
charges of responsibility for the death
of 5,000 workmen and communist
while acting as head of the secret po
lice of the Wrangel and Denikine ar
mies.
According to the court Capt. Stezen
ko confessed to ordering the execu
tion of 700 communists. Pleading for
clemency, the prisoner Said he was
reared in an atmosphere inimical to
the revolutionary cause and that his
actions were due to a misconception of
bolsheviki aims.
REARED A NEGRESS,
FINDS SHE’S WHITE
DENVER. May 15.—After living
with foster negro parents since she
was an infant and believing she her
self was a negress, a 14-year old Den
ver girl today is the ward of the Ju
venile court, following revelations that
the child is of white birth.
The girl, whose name is withheld,
made her home with an old negro
couple—Mr. and Mrs. George Redd, of
this city—whom she knew as father
and mother.
Following a hearing in Juvenile
Court Judge Lindsey ordered the girl
sent to a State institution, where she
can become associated with white peo
ple, with a view of living with mem
bers of her own race for the remain
der of her life.
The hearing in the juvenile court
iailed to disclose who her actual pax
ents were.
The death recently of Mrs. Redd
brought about the change of circum
stances in the girl’s life. On her death
bed Mrs. Redd revealetl to the girl
and other friends the mystery of how
she came to live with the negro couple
and Mrs. Redd requested that the
child be placed with white people.
According to the testimony, the old
woman’s deathbed story revealed how
a white man left the child, then two
weeks old, with Mr. and Mrs. Redd,
who then lived in Crawford, Neb.
It was announced that Juvenile
Court officials will make every effort
to find the real parents of the girl,
failing which they will have her plac
ed in the home of white people, after
a brief stay at the institution, to
which she has been sent.
RIGHT OF PARDON DENIED
COOLIDGE IN CIVIL CASE
CHICAGO, May 15—The right of
the President of the United States to
pardon in a civil contempt -as
denied today in an opinion signed by
Federal Judges George A. Carpente ■
and James A. Wilkerson. in the Phil
lip Grossman case which was consid
ered before the Daugherty Investiga
tion committee.
NEW YORK, May 15—James Foley
was last night elected successor to
Murphy as Tammany leader.
JAPAN SEEKS NEW
TREATY WITH FRANCE
TOKIO, May 15—Viscount Ishii,
I Japanese ambassador to Paris, has ap
proached the French government with
a proposal to negotiate a new treaty
| of commerce and navigation. The As
i sociated Press learned today from an
! authentic source. This treaty would
| supercede that of 1D12 which was ab
rogated after the war when France
! renounced ail commercial treaties.
In this connection it was categori
cally staled by the foreign office that
■ a political understanding is not
j contemplated by either Japan or the
French government, and no conversa
tions to that end have been undertak
en either in Tokio or Paris.
LONE BANDIT GETS
LITTLE CASH, KOLD-UP
SEATTLE, May 15.—A masked
bandits held up Raleigh W. Howard
here early today, forced Howard to
help gain entrance to the home of R.
G. Foote, a friend, by calling his
own name to Foote’s housekeper, who
was alone, and when the woman
opened the door, forced Howard to
tie her up. Foote returned home
while the robber was ransacking the
house. The bandit fired two shots i
at him and escaped in a small auto- j
mobile. The only loot he obtained
was $13 from Howard.
EVIDENCE ON WORLD
COURT LS ASSEMBLED
WASHINGTON. D. C , May 15.
A hearing to assemble evidence on the
proposal for American participation
in the world court, was begun today
b ya sub-committee of the Senate fo
eign '<*•*.' I r- '■••mmiltee, with advo
cates of the plan here from all parts
of the c -untiy to paes nt their argu
ments.
Chairman Pepper of the sub-com
mittee, which will hear both propon
ents Mid opponents of the proposal,
announced that he hoped to complete
the puo’ic sessions within ten da.v. or
t\»a, weeks. The proponents, represent
ing religious, commercial, industrial
professional and womens’ organiza
tions, who have united forces for pre
sentation of arguments, were i dotted
r,he opening sessions.
K.IJL * OftMER BARRAC KS,
COUNTY GALWAY, RAIDED
1 1 FAST, May 15—The Killormer
barracks at Ballinasloe, County Gal
way, v.eie attacked and wrecked after
a preliminary fusilade early today. All
record books and the guard’s bicycles
and clothing were removed but the oc
cupants of the barracks were not mo
les! o) .
RH SEATTLE, May 15—Mayor
Brown will be a member of the Cham
ber of Commerce excursion to Alaska
on the twenty-fifth and upon his re
turn on June 2, will leave at once for
the Democratic National Convention.
WIFE BEATER TO BEAT
ROCKS FOR A CHANGE
KANSAS CITY, May 15—Myron C. |
McCormick was brought into the court
of Justice A. J. Fonda, ar Indepen
dence, and adm itted he l«a' up his j
wife.
“Wll, I’m going to let you beat ;
rocks for 365 days,” Justice said.
STRANGLER LEWIS IN
ROW IN CHICAGO
WRESTLE AT CHICAGO ENDS UP
WITH ATTACK BY CROWD
CHICAGO, May 15—Police last nite
protected Ed Strangler Lewis, World
leavyweight wrestling champion, with
several thousand spectators enraged
at Referee Charls Levine’s decision
over Mike Romano, champion of Italy,
showered the champion and referee
with pop bottles and attempted to
rush into the ring.
Lewis' won the first fall in 41;20
with a toe lock and Romano took the
second with twenty successive head
locks. Lavine awarded the deciding
fall to Lewis in 8:10 on a double wrist
lock. Romano had not been pinned to
the mat and Romano’s manager claim
ed his protege won and started a
fight with tlie referee.
MONTANA OFFICER
SLAIN BY DRUNKARD
SPOKANE, May 15—Fred Bockman
city marshal at Liberty, Mont., was
shot and killed by a transient whom
he was attempting to arrest after the
latter had shot at Warren Hill. Hill
called the marshal and when the of
ficer ordered the transient to throw
up his hands, he shot Bockman thru
the head.
Several bottles of liquor were dis
covered after his arrest on the person
of the slayer, who was declared to
have been intoxicated.
JAPANESE HOLD
MONSTER PARADE
TOKIO. May 15—Under the watch
ful eye cf three thousand police re
serves and with other officers placed
at strategic points throughout the. city
,more than ten thousand workers par
aded -inging through Tokio at noon
yesterday in one of the most pictures
que and orderly demonstrations ever
wi;; ■ ted here.
Pol it. •_ walked at the head, sides and
rear c! the procession.
The demonstration opened in the
morning with an open ai*’ mass meet
ing which was attended by about 15.
000 i iduding many women. A i\ solu
tion condemning American immigra
tion legislation was referred to a com
mittee.
One speaker was arrested: when he
,at empted to discuss the allege 1 slay
ing of workers and radicals by police
during excitement folowing the earth
quake disaster. By way of precaution
police at daybreak had arrested 10 rad
leal leaders and enjoined known anar
chists to remain at home the clay long.
FROM MESSENGER BOY TO
PRESIDENT
P*
KEYSTONE View CO.: NEW VOUKj
Patrick E. Crowley, recently elected
president of the New York Central
Railroad by unanimous vote of the di
rectors. He has been an active rail
road man for 46 years, starting as mes
senger boy in a telegraph office of the
railroad station at Cattaraugus, N. Y.,
near where he was born on a farm .
MAJOR MARTIN WILL
JOIN COMRADES
AT BROUGH, ENGLAND
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 15—
New plans just made pubic by the
war department, contemplate Major
Martin, whose plane was wrecked in
Alaska, rejoining the around the world
fiyers at Brough, England, to which
point his new airplane, replacing the
lost Seattle, has been ordered shipped,
from Langley Field, Virginia, via New
York.
ALASKA WEST VALDEZ
The Alaska passed Valdez at noon
today ,and will arrive in Seward at
ten o’clock tomorrow night, making
several stops between here and Val
dez at the different canneries.
SENATOR WHEELER
CLEARED OF CHARGES
WASHINGTON, D. C„ May 15—
The Senate Committee which has been
investigating the indictment against
Wheeler, absolved the Senator of all
charges made against him.
ONE MINER ESCAPES
IN MINE CAVE-IN
SEATTLE, May 15—Diggers who
have been working since Monday night
came early today upon the body of
D. C. \\ ise, one of the three men
trapped by a fall of earth in a mine
of tiie Pacific Coast Coal company at
Black Diamond, near here. The other
two men found yesterday, Robert Dou
cette, dead, and Stanley Cooney, alive.
Seward Real Estate
Co. Sells Property
Mr. and Mrs. R. J. McKanna have
purchased a fine little home on Second
Avenue, yesterday
This property was formerly owned
by P. M. Ogle. The deal was put thru
by the new real estate firm.
Another transaction which was put
thru by the Seward Real Estate Com
pany yesterday, was the sale of Lot
16, in Block 9, and improvements to
Harry S. Kawbe, popular owner of
the Seward Steam Laundry. The
property formerly belonged to P. H.
Peterson, and is located on Fifth
avenue, bet wen Washington and Ad
ams streets.
Man Jailed for Smuggling
Woman into Country
SEATTLE. May 15—NapoFon Ru
dolph Skiuja, charged with smuggling
and alien woman over the Canadian
line, was brought to the King County
jail Saturday from Bellingham by Dep.
United States Marshal Joseph Kinzek.
Napoleon, according to Inmmigra
tion Inspectors, brought Ursula Ban
doniate into this country without in
spection by immigration authorities.
The woman was sent back to Canada
and Skiuja is held for the grand jury'
on $500 bonds.
DETACHMENT OF RURAL
GUARD MAKE TROUBLE
HAVANA, May 15—Disaffection
long smouldering in Santa Clara
province came to a- head today when
a detachment of the rural guard re
volted and fled from their post near
Santa Clara.
Dispatches published by Heraldo de
Cuba said the men marched out shout
ing “Di wn with Zayas, down with re
election!”
It was reported that leaders of the
Veteran’s and Patriot’s association
in Havana were being arrested.
MAS 1 ERPIECES PRESENTED
TO PRESIDENT COOLIDGE
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 15
Two of the masterpieces of Julius Bez
eredy, Hungarian sculptor, were pre
sented to President Coolidge today by
the Hungarian-American society, and
other Americanized Hungarians, as an
expression of their kindly feelings to
ward the United States.
The two pieces, one a reproduction
of the Statute of Washington, which
stands in Budapest, and the other a
statute of Louis Kossuth, Hungarian
leader, will be placed permanently in
the White House.