MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS.
VOLUME 20. NUMBER 274
SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1925
PRICE TEN CENTS
MAN CONFESSES
TO MURDER OF
POOL HALL MAN
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GAVE SELF UP WHEN HE READ
VICTIM WAS DEAD—CLAIMS
WAS ATTACKED
SEATTLE, Oct. 6 (/P)—Thomas Glo
ver, a laborer, walked into the police
station and surrendered, saying he
had killed John A. Edin, a poolroom
proprietor, with a piece of fire wood,
. less than three hours after he met
him Friday night. Edin’s body was
found yesterday at his home with his
head beaten in.
Glover said that Edin offered him a
job and then invited him to him home,
where after he entered Edin attacked
him. “When he came at me the third
time after I shoved him away, I
knocked him dock and hit him on the
( head with a stick of wood. He fell and
hit his head on the side of the door
way. He lay quiet and I became dis
gusted and walked out. I had no idea
he was killed. I went to Everett and
planned to go from there to Spokane.
"When I read in the paper that Edin
was dead I returned to Seattle and
gave myself up. I had no idea I hit
# him any harder than was necessary to
stop his advance,’' Glover told the
police.
Glover is being held on a charge of
manslaughter.
Storm At Sea Holds
. Gas Boat In Port
V __ -
Providing the present storm abates
the gas boat Rolfe I., Capt. Pete Sath
«r, will depart for Nuka Bay this even
f ing or in the morning. Among those
in Seward who are awaiting the pass
ing of the storm and who will go to
the bay on the boat are Otis E. Har
rington, J. D. Andrews, Dennis Hurley
and John H. Rice.
Vesel Is Almost
Wrecked In Portage
Bay from Icebergs
^ The gasboat Percival which was in
port over Sunday narrowly averted a
serious accident in Portage Bay last
week, according to a statement yes
terday. The vessel sought the bay as
a refuge from a heavy storm one eve
ning and was almost wrecked from
the numerous icebergs which were
drifting about. A stringent watch was
kept all through the night during
which the craft was warded off from
the bergs with the aid of pike poles
anu oars.
BASEBALL
Coast—
San Francisco 4, Vernon 2.
Portland 1, Sacramento 5.
Los Angeles 4, Oakland 0.
Seattle 2, Sale Lake 3, 11 innings.
'PLUCK GIRL AIDS
WOUNDED MAN
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EATONVILLE, Wn„ Oct. 6 (^—Oli
ver Owen, of Kapowsin, 10 miles north
of this place, was killed Sunday aft
ernoon while hunting, when an old
fashioned shotgun was discharged as
he stumbled. Miss Eva Whittlesey,
a young girl, who accompanied him,
carried Owen 100 yards and then left
him to summon help. When she re
turned with a party of rescuers, the
^ lad was dead.
U. S. Marshal H. P. Sullivan is ex
pected to arrive in Seward Saturday
on the steamer Yukon.
Convict Dying of T. B.
Tefls of Hidden Loot
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SAN QUENTIN, Cal., Oct. 7 (/P)—
Realizing that he is dying of tubercu
losis and will never leave San Quen
tin prison alive, “Big Bill” O’Connor,
j an inmate, agreed to divulge the hid
ing place of $100,000 worth of loot,
mostly jewelry, stolen from the Prov
ident Loan Association of Los Ange
les.
ANNUAL MEETING
A. H. M. CORPS
HELD MONDAY
/I'M m
OENNIS HURLEY APPOINTED AS
PRESIDENT AND GENERAL
MANAGER OF MINE.
The annual meeting of the officers
; and directors of the Alaska Hills Mine
i Corporation of Nuka Bay, was held in
I Seward Monday, at which Dennis Hur
ley, was elected president and general
manager for the ensuing year, suc
ceeding E. W. Barnette. J. D. An
drews was elected vice president and
| E. W. Barnette, secretary and treas
; urer, succeeding Otis E. Harrington.
, The directors named for the ensuing
year were John H. Rice, O. E. Har
rington. Dennis Hurley, J. D. Andrews
and E. W. Barnette.
In a statement issued yesterday by
Mr. Hurley, it is stated conditions are
very satisfactory and that the mill,
with which more or less trouble has
J been had during the first years’ oper
[ations, is now doing much better and
i little future trouble is anticipated. The
i new cyanide plant, which was recent
| ly installed, will be started up imme
j diately.
GEORGE EASTMAN
SEATTLE, Oct. 7 (JP)—After six
weeks’ vacation trip up the Stikine
river to the mountains of the inte
rior, George Eastman, Kodak manu
facturer of Rochester, N. Y., Dr. Al
jbert Kaiser and Mrs. George Norton,
; also from Rochester, returned here
| today with motion pictures of moun
j tain goats and bears.
ANTI-CATHOLIC
CANDIDATE WINS
SPOKANE, Wn, Oct. 7 (#>)—'Thos’
McCormack, the Republican sticker
candidate, backed by the anti-Catholic
interests, was elected to the State
Legislature to fill a vacancy, his oppo
| sition being Mrs. Lucy Linder, regu
lar Republican candidate, and Ed
Powers, Democrat.
Student Suicides By
Holding Head In Water
MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 7 (&)— Gerald
Welch Lambert, a Montana university
student attending school here, was
found dead in the attic of a rooming
house yesterday with his head im
mersed in a pail of water around which
he had wrapped a blanket.
Twelve vessels entered and cleared
the port of Seward last month accord
ing to the local customs office.
The schooner Waterland, which has
been under charter this season to the
Imlach herring plants, arrived in port
yesterday afternoon from Latouche.
Due to the storm now prevailing the'
Waterland sought shelter in Thumb
bay, about five miles dowm Resurrec
tion bay on the east shore.
FRED A. HAZELTINE
PROHIBITION CHIEF
RESIGNS FROM JOB
WILL RETURN TO NEWSPAPER
INTERESTS AT SOUTH
BEND, WASHINGTON
SEATTLE, Oct. 7 (/P)—Frederick A.
Hazeltine, divisional prohibition chief
for the past four years, whose place in
the Federal prohibition enforcement
service has been most uncertain, since
the appointment of Roy A. Lyle as
district administrator, has tendered
his resignation to become effective
October 14. Hazeltine will return to
South Bend, where he has newspaper
and power company interests.
Lyle’s appointments have not yet
been announced.
Hazeltine’s letter of resignation said,
“We first contended against American
bonded liquor which utterly disap
peared from the State of Washington;
then came a flood of Canadian liquor
,that practically reduced the local
moonshine, redistilled denatured alco
hol and home brew slop.’’
WINTER ROUND
TRIP RATES ON
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VESSELS SOON
ALASKA STEAMSHIP COMPANY
* ANNOUNCES WINTER ROUND
TRIP RATES BEGIN NOV.
The first of November will mark the
winter round trip fare schedule of the
Alaska Steamship Company service to
Southwestern Alaskan ports stated J.
H. Flickinger, local agent for the com
pany.
A saving of $31 will be made over
the former roundtrip rates which were
$125. The new rate includes either
the saloon deck or the upper deck
staterooms.
The winter rates are limited with
respect to the departure north out of
Seattle, the last sailing date being on
March 25. Winter round trip rates
will be on sale from November 1 to
February 28.
CHILDREN BURN
WHEN MISSION
IS DESTROYED
LEWISTON, Idaho, Oct. 6 (/P)—Six
children were burned to death last
night in a fire which swept the boys’
dormitory in a Catholic mission on
the Nez Perce Indian reservation, 25
miles east of here. The sisters In
charge of the school saved many of
the 31 sleeping in the dormitory. Five
of the Indian boys died when they re
turned into the building to help other
boys supposed to be in the building.
COMMUNISM ON
RAPID INCREASE
UNITED STATES
OMAHA, Neb., Oct. 6 (IP)—Commu
nism is increasing rapidly in the
United States, President Coolidge told
the delegates to the American Legion
convention, assembled at Omaha this
week. He declared that it rested with
anarchy and sedition. Communism
the citizens of the nation to suppress
had never proved successful where
ever tried, the President declared.
Men who take things seriously get
away with them.
Ship Laden with Bombs
Explodes Bordeaux Mole
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BORDEAUX, France, Oct. 7 (IP)—
Many persons were wounded today
when a ship laden with bombs des
tined for the French forces in Morocco
exploded at the mole in Bordeax har
bor. The vessel was completely
wrecked.
Shenandoah Should Be
Replaced by Larger Ship
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 7 (£»!
Admiral Moffett told the Air Board
the Shenandoah should be replaced
with a rigid airship built in the Uni
ted States of at least 6,000,000 cubic
feet capacity as compared to the 2,
250,000 cubic feet capacity of the ill
fated Shenandoah.
LOGICAL SAFETY THINKING
ON PART TIF HUMANS, IS
GREAT NEED IN STATES
ACCIDENTS ARE NOT THE PRICE
OF MODERNISM, INDULTRI
ALISM OR AMBITION.
HEADS MUST SEE THEMSELVES
When Anthracite Miners Quit Their
Mines Hereabouts, the Cats
Went In and are Fattening.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, Oct. 5.
Human safety is a mental attitude
while mechanical safety is simply a
physical reality, in the opinion of
Captain A. A. Nicholson of The Tex
as Company, as expressed in an ad
dress today before the National safe
ty Council.
"More logical safety thinking on
the part of the humans behind the
machines is our great need,” he de
clared, and added that while God
made man, man made the accidents.
Captain Nicholson does not be
lieve. that accidents are the price of
modernism, industrialism, or exces
sive ambition.
The speaker urged the executives
to become better acquainted with
their safety engineers; to desert their
swivel chairs and visit the men in
their mills “where human flesh is
straining under the desire to suit the
requirements for production.”’
Rats Come Up for Air.
WILKES-BARRE, Pa., Oct. 5. (JP)
—Rats that ordinarily lived wrell
from the remnants of food left by mi
ners were compelled to seek food
above-ground in stores and homes in
the vicinity of the collieries. It was
a challenge to the neighborhood cats.
They are not only waging war on
the rats that venture from the shafts
but they race them to their source.
At first, the cats were inclined to
wmit at the mine entrance for their
prey. Competition grew too keen
and finally many of them ventured
in—for the first time. Cats prowl the
workings now.
FIGHT PROMOTERS
HELD FOR MURDER
OF KELSO EDITOR
KELSO, Wn., Oct. 6 (/P)—Assistant
Attorney General Sharpe announced
tonight that he would issue a warrant
charging Frank L. Hart, a boxing pro
motor, with the murder of Thomas
Dovery. John W. Smith, a cook asso
ciated with Hart in the promotion of
boxing matches, was arrested in con
nection with the murder last night.
The Admiral Watson is scheduled
to arrive in Seward tomorrow after
noon or evening, from the south, ac
cording to Agent Wayne Blue.
WORLD SERIES
STARTS TODAY
£:* >
FIFTY THOUSAND WILL SEE THE
OPENING GAME BETWEEN
PENNANT WINNERS
FORBES FIELD, Oct. 7 (/P)—With
the sun shining brightly on the bat
tleground, and with prospects of fine
weather during the day, the opening
clash of the world series started to
day between the Washington and
Pittsburgh teams, the former repre
, senting the Americans and Pittsburgh
the National Leagues. Intense inter
est in the games is promised, as two
hours before the starting time the
seats in the stands at left center and
the concrete bleacher off the left field
four line was filled with a crowd
which promised to reach over 50,000.
Washington Wins Game
FORBES FIELD, Oct. 7 (^—Wash
ington, 4 runs, 8 hits, 1 error.
Pittsburgh, 1 run, 5 hits, no errors.
Batteries—Johnson and Ruel for
Washington; Meadow's, Morrison,
Smith and Gooch for Pittsburgh.
Johnson pitched a brilliant victory,
w'hile the Senators hammered Lee
Meadoms and his successor, Johnny
Morrison, for eight hits, mostly when
they counted.
Joe Harris, Washington’s right field
er, hit a homer in the second inning.
Traynor, the Pittsburgh third base
man, socked a homer into the right
field stands in the fifth inning, making
the Pirates only score.
The Senators got two in the fifth
and one in the ninth.
Attendance 50,000.
WHALE RUNSOFF
WITH SMALL BOAT
CORDOVA, Oct. 7 (TP)—Capt. Louis
Lane, who came here to catch the
steamship Yukon for the south, said
that a whale towed his small vessel
21 y2 hours for over 70 miles at night,
through rock strewn waters. The
whale broke away three times before
being worn out and beached at the
Green Island fox farms where it is
intended for whale feed.
MISSING BANKER
FOUND MURDERED
SEATTLE, Oct. 7 (TP)—Police Com
missioner Bryan of Alberta telegraph
ed Luke May, a Seattle criminologist,
that the body of a man found on the
banks of the Peace river was believed
to be that of John Woodward, the
missing Oklahoma banker. The mes
sage said the man had been mur
dered.
Fish Commission To Make
University Headquarters
SEATTLE, Oct. 7 (TP)—Dean Cobb,
of the School of Fisheries, University
of Washington, announced yesterday
that Pacific coast scientists and inves
tigators of the United States Bureau
of Fisheries would make the Univer
sity its headquarters. Wm. S, Thomp
son, of the California State Fish
eries will be in charge of the labora
tories of the fisheries commission,
and Dr. H. F. Rich, of Washington, D.
C., will handle the research work.
The Seward Woman’s Club is hold
ing a reception to the local school
teachers Friday evening at Odd Fel
lows hall, and extend a cordial invita
tioon to the public in general to at
tend. . ..