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VOLUME 20. NUMBER 171
SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, JULY 13, 1925
PRICE TEN CENTS
2 ENGINEERS DIE
WHEN SHORT IS
FOUND IN LINE
SEATTLE, July 13 (£>)— Nels Nel
son and Oswald Dewalt. electrical en
gineers, died today at the Snoqualmie
Falls hospital, 25 miles east of here,
from burns received in a short cir
cuit in the power plant of the Sno
qualmie Falls Lumber Company yes
ter. Three others are in a critical
condition and unable to give an ac
count of the accident.
The five men entered the power
plant to confer on electrical changes
and suddenly the power went off all
over the plant. Employes investigat
ing found the men in a basement, so
badly burned as to be scarcely recog
nizable. One of the men rushed out
and dived into the mill pond to ease
the pain caused by the burns.
FRENCH BUDGET
CAUSES STORM
PARIS, July 13 (/P)—The French
Budget for 1925 was voted today after
a stormy all night session in the
Chamber of Deputies. Prime Minister
Caillaux remained in the chamber un
til the end, speaking before each
House each time the bill came up.
The budget estimated receipts at
33,150,000 francs, with expenditures
of 33,137,000.000.
President Warns China
To Live Up To Pledges
SWAMPSCOTT, Mass.. July 13 (/p)—
Insistence that China live up to its
"Territorial obligations to protect the
jives of foreigners, was announced as
the keystone policy of the American
government today. Secretary Kellogg
outlined the attitude of the adminis
tration after a week-end conference
rvith Coolidge, insisted there must be
"a scrupulous observance of the obli
gations of China entered into at the
Washington conference.”
CUTTER PATROL
DOCTORS NATIVES
* WASHINGTON, D. C., July 13 (£>)—
Commander Van Boskerck, of Dutch
Harbor, commanding the Bering Sea
patrol has been ordered to take all
possible measures to cope with the
epidemic at Bristol Bay. He replied
the Algonquin had already gone there;
and the Unalga was leaving Kodiak
lor the infected district. The Haida
will also be used in suppressing the
disease which is pronounced like in
lluenza, but more difficult to handle
from a medical standpoint.
Chinese Assure Foreigners
They Will Be Protected
CANTON, China, July 13 (Jp)—A
wireless from ChanSha, Hunan prov
ince, says that Chinese authorities
have renewed assurances of protect
lion for foreigners.
Wm. Butler, special agent for the
Alaska Railroad, departed this morn
ing for his Anchorage headquarters.
The picked team of Anchorage base
ball players will arrive in Seward
The latter part of the week, en route
to Cordova where a series of games
Is to be played. It is hoped a game
, will be played with the local team,
Sunday, prior to their departure for
* the Copper Gateway town.
Russians Furnish Munitions
To Cantonese Insurgents
CANTON, China, July 13 (/P)—A
correspondent of the Japanese semi
official news agency says it has been
reliably reported that a Russian ves
sel bearing 1,500,000 rounds of ammu
nition sailed from Vladivostok for
Canton. Steps will be taken to inter
cept the vessel and seize her cargo.
LADD & TILTON
BANK PORTLAND
HAS BEEN SOLD
• PORTLAND, Ore., July 13 (JP)—
The Ladd & Tilton bank of Portland
the oldest financial institution on the
Pacific Northwest and the second
oldest on the coast, with assets ag
gregating $25,927,000 has been sold to
the United States National Bank of
Portland, the transfer to take place
immediately. As a result of the deal
the United States National is the
largest bank north of San Francisco
and west of Minneapolis, with com
bined deposits of $59,000,000.
DePaolo Wins 250-Mile
Race At Washington, D. C
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 13 (£>)—
Peter DePaolo won the 250-mile auto
mobile race here after a recheck, with
Jack McDonough, a protege of Tommy
Milton’s a half length behind.
Great Britain Will Not
Aid French or Spanish
LONDON, July 13 (/P)—Foreign
Secretary Chamberlain announced in
the House of Commons that Britain
does not intend to send troops to Tan
gier, Morocco, to aid the French and
Spanish.
Nome Woman Visiting
In Vancouver, B. C.
SEATTLE, July 13 Mrs. Rob
ert D. Adams, of San Francisco, for
merly of Venezuela and Nome, is vis
iting here en route to Vancouver for
a short stay.
MACMILLAN SAILS
FROM LABRADOR
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 13 (/P)—
The National Geographic Society re
ceived a radio from Donald MacMil
lan Saturday announcing that the ex
pedition had left Labrador at 2:30 that
day for Greenland. The message
said the vessel had encountered unu
sually heavy ice floes on the voyage.
IOWA SURGEON COMPLETES
BOOK ABOUT EVOLUTION
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa, July 13
(£>)—Dr. George N. Hall of this city
has just completed a book on the
Tennessee evolution ca'Be. He left for
Dayton Saturday to attend the trial
of John T. Scopes. Dr. Hall, a re
tired evangelist, said he would offer
his services to William Jennings Bry
an. Dr. Hall’s book is a defense of
the Bible from alleged attacks by evo
lutionists.
GOVERNMENT OVERTHROWN
NEW YORK, July 13 (#>)—'The gov
ernment of Ecuador has been over
thrown, the authorities imprisoned
and a military regime set up with
General Francisco Gomez de Latorre
at its head.
RIOTERS EXPE
JAPANESE FROM
TOLEDO, OREGON
TOLEDO. Oregon, July 13 (/P)— Five
men were arrested here yesterday on
charges of participating in a care riot,
following the expulsion of approxi
mately 35 Japanese, working at the
Pacific Spruce Corporation’s mill.
About 200 participated in the riot.
The crowd took up a collection and
bought tickets for the Japanese to
Corvallis. Upon arriving at Corvallis
the Japanese took train for Portland,
where complaint was made to their
consul. The district attorney of Tole
do declares that the leaders of the riot
will be prosecuted to the fullest ex
tent.
AUTO OVERTURN S
THREE KILLED
SEATTLE, July 13 (/P)—Mrs. W. J.
Griggs, and children, Winnifred, aged
3, and Virginia. IS months old, were
instantly killed yesterday when their
automobile overturned near Seattle.
Griggs and wife, and Gladys Erickson,
aged 14. who accompanied the family
on what was to have been a camping
trip, were slightly injured. The ma
chine skidded on the pavement when
Griggs attempted to turn a corner at
high speed.
COWBOY ACTOR-HUMORIST
ASKED RUN FOR GOVERNOR
OKLAHOMA CITY, July 13 (/P)—
It is reported a movement is on foot
to entice Will Rogers, cowboy actor
and humorist, from Broadway and
make him a candidate for governor of
Oklahoma, was reported today from
Bartlesville, where it is said definite
plans to name Rogers for the nomina
tion is being formed.
POISON FOUND IN SUGAR
BOWLS IN STANFORD U
STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Palo
Alto, Cal., July 13 (/P)—Authorities
have announced that a quantity of
quick-acting poison in powdered form
was found last night in the sugar
bowls in the dining room of the uni
versity campus. The discovery was
made just as the janitors, twenty in
number, were about to eat. No theory
has yet been advanced as to the mo
tive or the perpetrators of the at
tempted wholesale poisoning scheme.
APPEALS FILED IN CASE
OF CONVICTED GRAFTERS
CHICAGO, July 13 (£>)—Appeals in
behalf of Charles R. Forbes, former
director of the Veterans’ Bureau, and
J. W. Thompson, wealthy St. Louis
contractor convicted last February of
conspiracy to defraud the government
through hospital contracts were filed
today in the United States circuit
court of appeals.
PLAGUE IN RUSSIA.
MOSCOW, July 13 (iP)—Forty-three
deaths from the bubonic plague have
been reported in southeast Russia
since the outbreak of the epidemic
last month. Eighteen communities in
the upper and lower Volga regions
have been affected.
Bowdoin Forced to Turn
Back To Labrador Port
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 13 (£>)—
The Bowdoin, one of MacMillan’s Arc
tic expedition ships, was compelled to
turn back to Hopedale, Labrador to
have repairs made to its propeller.
President of Lumber Co.
Drowned In Mill Flume
—
VANCOUVER. B. C., July 13 (#>)—
While fighting forest fires near Cum
berland on Vancouver Island. Harry
Conrad, president of the Cumberland
Lumber Company and head of the
great war veterans association, fell
into the mill flume and was drowned.
His body was recovered.
COURTSREVOKK
DOHENY LEASES
NAVAL RESERVE
LOS ANGELES, July 13 (^P)—Judge i
McCormack signed the final decree1
revoking the leases in the Elk Hils j
Naval oil reserves held by Edward
Doheny and associates; ordered the
Pan-American Company to pay the
government $358,000 net, after ac
counting for the damages and dues
from both sides, and laid the court i
costs estimated at $500,000 on Do
| heny.
olden Takes Apwam Cuo
From Arnold Jones
EAST PROVIDENCE, R. I., July |
13 (/P)—Tilden gained permanent pos
session of the Agawam Cup, defeat-!
ing Arnold Jones of Providence 6-2
6-3, and 6-4 in the finals in the Rhode
Island lawn tennis championship.
Lightning Stars Many
Forest Fires In Idaho
PRIEST RIVER, Idaho. July 13 (Jp).
Lightning yesterday started 55 forest
fires in this vicinity, and killed Paul
Blickensdorfer, a lookout at South
Baldv ranger station. The youth was
a student of the University of Idaho,
the son of a prominent Cincinnati
physician. One hundred and fifty men
! are fighting fires.
Floyd R. Harrison
Director War Finance
SWAMPSCOTT, Mass., July 13
Floyd R. Harrison was today appoint
ed director of the War Finance Cor
poration. succeeding Frank W. Mon
dell. resigned.
EVOLUTION TRIAL
IS RESUMED IN
DAYTON COURTS
DAYTON, Tenn., July 13 (£>)—'The
nationally famous evolution trial war
resumed today after arguments by
both counsels. The court overruled
the motion to quash the indictments.
The defense cited fourteen reasons
for quashing, largely alleging uncon
stitutionality of the law against evo
lution and errors in the indictment.
The attorneys for the defense re
ferred lengthily to sections in the con
stitution respecting religious free
dom.
Trouble Over Trial Starts Quickly.
DAYTON, Tenn., July 13 (/P)—Rev.
Howard Gale Byrd withdrew yester
day from the pastorage of the Metho
dist Episcopal church of this city,
when a large part of his congrega
tion vehemently protested against Rev.
Charles Francis Potter, a modernist
minister from New York City, taking
the pulpit. Rev. Byrd called off three
regular Sunday preaching services an
nounced, “I have quit; I have not re
signed! I have quit!”
Scientists on Way to Trial.
DAYTON. Tenn.. July 13 (/P)—The
defense announced today that twelve
prominent scientists and educators of
the country were expected to arrive
here today as witnesses, including
Shailor Matthews, dean of the Divinity
School, University of Chicago.
N. V. BROKERS
ARE SENTENCED
NEW YORK, July 13 (/P)—George
W. Field and George W. Morse, ex
heads of two brokerage firms which
failed for $3,200,000 in 1922, were sen
tenced by the Federal court today
serve a year and a day each in At
lanta prison. Both men pleaded
guilty to bucketing orders for custo
mers.
Wife of U. S. Ambassador
Hurt In Auto Accident
PARIS, July 13 (&)—Mrs. Hugh
C. Wallace, wife of the former am
bassador, was seriously bruised and
cut in the face and head when the
Uruguayan minister’s car hit hers.
DAYTON, TENN., ON MAP LONG BEFORE
JOHN T. SCOPES CASE, CITIZENS INSIST
DAYTON, Tenn., July 13. _
While the trial of John T. Scopes,
charged with violating the Tennes
see law prohibiting the teaching of
evolution in the public schools, has
lttracifcd attention co this city from
all parts of the country, its citizens
insist that it was permanently plac
ed on the map long befoio ou its
>wn iccount. The trial scheduled to
b.*gin Friday is expei-*1 r„ bring
to the city a large t-tmbs.* of visit
ors vh(. never ha.-* been hers be
fore some, perhaps who never have
heard cf the place.
Citizens of Dayton take pride in
the city’s claim to be the largest
strawberry shipping center in the
world, and they are optimistic that
within a few years it will rival Fort
Valley, Ga., as a peach center.
The county seat of Rhea county,
Dayton is the center of a rich agri
cultural country, its strawberry ship
ments this season amounted to 500
cars, which local men say, is far be
low the shipments of previous years.
Because the surrounding hills form
excellent shields for orchards, farm
ers have been turning their atten
tion to peach producing in recent
years, and this season approximately
900,000 trees will bear fruit for the
first time.
In addition to its riches of the
peach orchards and strawberry patch
es, Rhea county has considerable
wealth underground. Only a few o‘
the world’s known minerals are miss
ing when a census is taken of the
territory within 50 miles of Dayton.
At present mining operations are
dull, but there are plenty of miners
in Rhea county and there is a move
ment afoot for a revival of mining
on a large scale.
Dayton is governed by a commis
sion of three members. It has some
paved streets and sidewalks and has
under consideration a plan which,
city officials predict, will result
within 18 months in the improve
ment of every street and sidewalk
within the city limits.
If evolution theories and argu
ments pall on th§ yisitors, the city
officials point out that nature has
provided on a wide range for their
entertainment and sight-seeing, the
scale running from the mountains of
Walden’s range of the Cumberlands
to the valleys of the Tennessee and
Hiwassee Rivers.