Hemmd Dule Gntemst
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS.
VOLUME XX, NUMBER 267.
SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1925.
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PRICE TEN CENTS
Bodies of Two Submarine Victims Brought
To Surface This Morning—Bulkheads .. j
Badly Bent But Still Holding is Report
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ABOARD U. S. S. CAMDEN, Off Block Island, Sept. 29. —The
Bugler blew taps as the bodies of Engineman Johr> L. Gibson, of Port
land, Oregon, and Second Seaman William C. Teschemacher, of Ban
gor, Pennsylvania, victims of the submarine disaster, were lifted over
the side of the Camden, flight ship. The rescue fleet is working to
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recover the other thirty-two bodies. Gibson was the first rescued,
then Teschemacher, who had a twin brother among the missing. The
k \ bodies recovered by the divers, were in good condition, attributed to
the lack of air and intense cold at the depth of 128 feet.
Believe Some Men Alive
NEW LONDON, Conn, Sept. 29. —
Workers, attempting to raise the sub
marine believe that some of the men
are still alive, a diver saying he heard
tapping on the bulkhead of the sub
marine. It is expected that twenty
» four hours will tell the tale as to the
fate of the entrapped sailors.
Stormy Weather Enterferes
NEW LONDON, Sept. 29. (£>)—'The
submarine base was informed late yes
terday that operation toward raising
the S-51 were suspended on account
tbi stormy weather. Two crane ves
are returning to port.
Bulkhead Badly Bent
NEWPORT, Sept. 29. (£>)— A radio
message from the wreck said divers
found one of the interior bulkheads
bent but still holding.
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WHITELAW GETS
DECISION ON OLD
SEALING CASES
? Awarded $77,710 for Seizure of Seal
ing Vessel and Skins in 1891—Gov
ernment Had No Right to Confis
cate Furs Outside of the Three
Mile Limit.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 29. (IP)—
Iu the first of a series of cases in
which the federal government allow
ed itself to be sued for the aggregate
Jim of more than a million dollars for
damages for the seizure in 1891 of
sealing vessels in the Bering sea, the
federal court awarded $77,710 to Cap
tain T. H. P. Whitelaw of San Fran
cisco.
The award represents the value of
seals Whitelaw’s ship Laninina might
have taken in 1891 and 1892 if the ship
had not been seized and condemned
by the federal governmnt at Sitka.
Condemnation of the vessel was re
versed in 1S96 by the District Court
of San Francisco, holding the United
States had no jurisdiction outside the
three-mile limit in the Bering Sea.
Congressional action made possible
the suits of which the Whitelaw case
was first.
FIVE REPORTED
- DROWNED AT
OCEAN FALLS
VANCOUVER, B. C., Sept. 29. (#>)—
Five persons, residents of Ocean Falls
three hundred miles north of here,
are reported to have drowned Sunday
- at Link Lake. The victims are:
MRS. M’KELLAR.
MISS JANE M’KELLAR.
CHARLES M’KELLAR.
ANDREW CLARK.
DAVID JOHNSTON.
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Mrs. Ed. Holbrook of Fairbanks,
who left Seward today for the Out
side, will be joined later by her hus
band who is remaining in Fairbanks
a few weeks longer. i
CAILLAUX STAND
PAT ON 1ST DEBT
PAYMENT OFFER
Cables from France Compel Minister
to Reverse Himself and Go Slow
With Concessions to America—His
Government Indignant over Terms.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 29. (£>)
—France will not submit a new offer
at today’s session with the American
Debt Finding Mission.
This news was announced by the
spokesman for M. Caillaux and the
French Delegation, and has caused a
sensatfon, as Caillaux himself had
stated that he was revising his first
offer in order to make it more nearly
meet the views of Secretary Mellon
and the American Government.
Caillaux’s sudden change of policy
resulted from alarming cables receiv
ed from his home government telling
him of the wave of indignation sweep
ing over France since the publication
of the “severe” demands of the Am
erican government.
Premier Painleve and Briand are un
derstood to have cautioned Caillaux to
go slow in committing the French gov
ernment to terms which the French
Parliament may reject, hence Caillaux,
instead of raising the ante will repeat
his original offer at Monday’s session
and answer criticisms of any clause.
He will contend that France sould
not be compelled at the beginning to
pay more than $25,000,000 annually
and that the highest peak should not
exceed $90,000,000, while America in
sists that France pay almost $150,000,
000.
MILLIONAIRE
DEAD BY ROPE
SANTA BARBARA, Sept. 29. (IP)—
The coroner’s jury yesterday decided
Orrin S. Neal, millionaire of Montcito
died Sunday trying to hang himself
in his garage.
Neal, who had been in poor health,
mounted a ladder, tied a rope around
his neck, and jumped off. The rope
did not discolor his neck or strangle
him.
Shenandoah Survivor
Testified Lansdowne
Stayed with His Ship
LAKEHURST, Sept. 29. (IP)— Lt.
Com. Zachary Lansdowne and the of
ficers and men with him in the con
trol car wrent to their death attempt
ing to keep control of the great air
ship Shenandoah, the Naval Court
of Inquiry was told yesterday by
Col. C. G. Shill, an '"official observer
for the Army Air Service, who is a
survivor of the disaster.
The Cutter Haida arrived in port
this afternoon with the Children for
the Jesse Lee Home, brought here
rom Unalaska.
MISS VANDERBILT
TO BE BRIDE OF
AUSTRIAN NOBLE
Daughter of Mrs. Cornelius Vander
bilt Will Wed Austrian Prince-i-Has
Turned Down at Least Half Dozen
Other European Titles—Third Sis
ter to Wed European.
LONDON, Sept. 29. (/P)—Miss Grace
Vanderbilt is to marry Prince Diet
riclistein, of Austria, according to a
telegram received today.
It is understood that she has turned
down at ieast a half dozen other titles
to accept the Austrian, and it is re
ported that at one time she was to
have wed Prince George, the youngest
son of the King and Queen of England.
She is the daughter of Mrs. Cornel
ius Vanderbilt, of New York, and will
be the third of the Vanderbilt sisters
to have European husbands.
FORD PLANES HOP
OFF ON TOUR OF
MIDDLE WEST
DETROIT, Sept. 29. (/P)—'The Ford
Airport has inaugurated their com
mercial plane tour of 1900 miles thru
the middle west.
Sixteen planes entered the air on a
signal from Edsel Ford, their first stop
being Fort Wayne, Ind., then Chica
go, Omaha. Kansas City, St. Louis and
Cleveland, from there returning to
their starting point, next Saturday.
The planes will average eighty miles
an hour.
Suitor Burns Woman
In Red-Hot Furnace
NEW YORK, Sept. 29. (/P)—New
York’s most sordid epic of the East
Side tenements is disclosed when
George Symick, a watchman m a
lumber plant described in detail how
he murdered Sophie Poleski, the 28
year-old wife of his friend by burn
ing her alive in the furnace of the
plant, after the charred body was
taken from the fire by the police.
Mrs. Poleski had beaten her hus
band into unconsciousness while he
slept, so that she might keep her
tryst with Symick.
She met him at the plant and brot
wine. After a few sips, he began
brooding over the fact that the wo
man had extracted from him the sav
ings with which he had planned to
bring his family from Poland; he
brooded likewise over her attentions
to her husband. So he hit her over
the head with a bottle and cast her
body into the furnace, which he had
freshly stoked for the murder. In
the meantime cries emanating from
the boiler room attracted the police.
SON OLE HANSON
CRITICAL CONDN.
SEATTLE, Sept. 29. (JP)—A Post-In
teligencer dispatch from Los Angeles
said Theodore Hanson, seventeen year
ol^d son of Ole Hanson, is in a critical
condition as the result of a fight be
tween himself and another youth at
a beach cabin in Santa Monica can
yon. Hanson has been missing for
two days, and until he regained con
sciousness in a hospital, it was not
known where he was. Frank Browne,
19, is charged with the assault.
Miss Lillian Smith of Fairbanks,
was among the recent arrivals in
Seward who departed today for Seat
tle.
SIX ARMY PILOTS FAVOR
INDEPENDENT AIR CORPS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 29. (JP)
—Six army pilots, each in command of
important activities in the air service,
are lined up solidly in favor of an in
dependent air corps for the army, de
claring it to be the best means for
promoting air defense. The men are
testifying before the Coolidge board
of investigation.
BANK ROBBERS
CAPTURED BY
SEATTLE POLICE
Two of Gang Were Prisoners Who Es
caped from l^ng County Jail Sep
tember fifteenth—Get five Thousand
Dollars.
SEATTLE, Sept. 29. (JP)—Three men
who held up the Queen City bank here
today and obtained five thousand dol
lars, were captured after a brisk brush
with the men. Two were identified
as T. H. Johnson and James Burns,
who escaped with four others from the
King County jail September fifteenth.
The other man was unidentified.
Policeman Rush Effects Capture
SEATTLE, Sept. 29. (^—Police
man O. Rush followed the robbers as
the left the bank, seizing a passing au
tomobile and following them twenty
five blocks. The trio jumped from
their automobile when it collided with
a truck where Rush engaged in a pis
tol duel with Johnson. Fifty po
licemen rushed to the block and sur
rounded it while Rush brought the fu
gitives to bay.
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LAFOLLETTE IS
AGAINST POLICY
OF COOLIDGE
MILWAUKEE, Sept. 29. (/P)—Today
voting for Lafollette’s successor, with
Lafollette, Jr., republican, Edward F.
Bithman, independent, William George
Bruce, democrat, and John Work and
George Bauman, socialist candidates,
Lafollette announced himself, endors
ing the platform of the Lafollette
Wheeler party. He attacked the ad
ministration of Coolidge and put the
issue as a contest between “the man
backing Coolidge or one who wishes
to further the principals of Lafollette,
Sr.”
Bithman endorsed Coolidge, empha
sizing his economy program. He is
being backed by anti-Lafollette repub
licans.
BRITISH-TURK WAR
LOOMS IN OFFING
LONDON, Sept. 29. (£>)—Semi-of
ficial Turkish statements, surpassing
in audacity anything emanating from
Turkey since the Iraq dispute revives
the fears that a clash is imminent
between the British and the Turks.
The Turk statement says that a
ne.w mentality reigns in Turkey and
that no understanding is possible
with their opponents, unless the old
methods of dealing are abandoned.
BRONX HOUSEWIVES ARE
REDUCING PRICE OF EGGS
NEW YORK, Sept. 29. —The Bronx
housewives are launching a city-wide
movement to boycott eggs.
DR. H. WILSON RELEASED
/ BY CHINESE BANDITS
LONDON, Sept. 29. (£>)—Doctor H.
Howard, of the Rockefeller Institute
at Peking, who was captured by ban
dits last July, has been released.
MITCHELL BEFORE
AIR BOARD: GIVES
HIS TESTIMONY
Board Declines to Swear Him In But
Will Give Full Credence to Testi
mony Given—Foulois Tells of His
Earlier Experiences Trying to De
velop Aviation.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 29. (£>)
—Mitchell resumed his onslaught be
fore the air board today and began
his testimony to the click of cameras
of the various news services, gathered
to broadcast it before the public.
When Mitchell asked to be sworn
the board declined, assuring him that
his testimony would be given full cred
ence. Mitchell spread a large map
of the world before him, also volum
inous documentary exhibits, and offer
ed to read nine papers, all instructive
except one, which he said was destruc
tive. He said he would not read this
letter if the board objected.
Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin Foul
ois, commandant of Mitchell field, said
in his testimony before Mitchell gave
his evidence, that he blamed the Army
General Staff of the Wary department
for handicaps placed on the Army Air
Service.
Foulois was the first man to fly an
airplane for the army in 1908. In his
testimony he further stated he was
“allowed only one hundred and fifty
dollars in 1910 to keep one plane go
ing, making it necessary to spend $300
out of his own pocket.”
“I begged, borrowed and stole ma
terial from the quartermaster corps,”
said Foulois, “to keep the plane in
condition.”
“When military aviation began to
develop difficulty was experienced in
getting officers. It was very hard to
convince anyone in the war depart
ment or in civil life, that this was a
serious matter.”
Slow Obtaining Funds
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 29. (/P)
—Major Walter G. Kilner, executive
officer of the air service testified be
fore Coolidge’s board as to the difficul
ties confronting the service, not of
personalities, but of organization.
He said, “The slowness of action on
aircraft matters and the apparent
lack of comprehension, was the chief
cause of dissatisfaction. As an ex
ample it required a year and six days
to obtain funds for the flight around
the world.”
Senator Bingham asked, “Have ypu
any constructive suggestions?”
Kilner answered, “Yes.- Turn the
air service over to fliers.”
When asked if he knew of any dis
satisfaction among air officers, Kilner
answered “Yes.”
E. 0. BIRGFIELD
PROHIBITION
AGT. ALASKA
SEATTLE, Sept. 29. (TP)—'The pro
hibition administrator has recommend
ed Edward O. Birgfield for deputy ad
ministrator in charge of Alaska.
Birgfield is coming from the East
where he has been working in differ
ent places under1 prohibition head
quarters.
He was a civil engineer in mining
formerly, and has worked in Washing
ton, Oregon, and spent many years in
Alaska. Birgfield is pronounced as fa
miliar with all parts of the territory.
Arthur Means, who is stationed at Ju
neau in charge of prohibition in Alas
ka, is expected to remain in the ser
vice, but not in Alaska.
Franklin Erickson from Fairbanks,
left today from Seattle on the North
western. He plans remaining in the
States over the winter.