Makk- Danszitswssy
VOLUME 19.'NUMBER 214
SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1924
PRICE TEX CENTS
World Flyers May Stay
in Capital Defense Day
Route Flight Changed
WASHINGTON, Sept. 11.—Concen
trated effort to keep the world flyers
in Washington until after Defense
Day, Friday, is announced by General
Patrick, chief of the Army Air serv
ice.
Route of Flyers Changed
^ WASHINGTON, Sept. 11.— The
route of the world flyers to Seattle
has been changed upon request ot
Lieut. Smith, flight commander, it
was announced today. The new course
will be over the southern portion o!
the United States, instead of the
northern route in order that the fly
^ers may cross the Rocky mountains
at their lowest altitude.
The cities where stops will be
made under the revised plan, leaving
Washington Saturday will be Dayton,
Ohio, Chicago, Omaha, St. Joseph,
Muskogee, El Paso, Tucson, San Di
ego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Eu
gene, Oregon, and Seattle.
Resume Flight Today
WASHINGTON, Sept. 10.—Weather
and other conditions permitting, the
Army World flyers will resume their
journey tomorrow (Thursday).
Stirring Parade Be a
Feature Seattle Defense
WASHINGTON, Sept. 11—With an
rollment of 8,000 volunteer defend
ers for participation in National De
fense Day to be observed here Fri
day. Members of the city Defense
Committee are assigning the citizen
soldiery to units for a stirring pa
rade which will be the principle fea
ture of the man-power test.
AUTHORITIES WILL TRY
KINDNESS ON PRISONER
OMAHA, Sept, 10.—Kindness rath
er than “third degree” methods, po
lice say, is to be used in questioning
Carl Hough, held at Bedford, Iowa,
connection with the slaying of Lil
lian McKinney, whose body was
found under a bridge near there,
says a special dispatch.
The dispatch quotes Hough’s fath
er as saying that although intent
upon ‘“fair plav” he would not
“spend a cent” for his son’s de
fense.
A report from Iowa City is ex
pected late today on the chemist’s
findings from an analysis of the
girl’s stomach.
Postmaster E E. Carson
a Successful Orchardist
Postmaster E. E. Carson of Hope,
who has resided there since 1898, is
one of the most successful orchard
ists and small fruit grower in Alaska.
Mr. Carlson has apple trees in bear
irg, two varieties of crabapples, rasp
berries, gooseberries, barley, rye,
wheat and buckwheat, flowers and
sunflowers seven feet tall and twelve
inches across the head. Mr. Carson
also has a large number of chickens
which have proven a good financial
^tpvestment.
BRITISH UNEMPLOYMENT
NUCLEUS OF MOVEMENT
FOB U. S. IMMIGRATION
t-ONDON, Sept. 11.—Increasing un
employment and strikes have caused
a band of 3,800 skilled mechanics
from the textile mills of Lancashire
% and Yorkshire to form an organiza
tion with the object of arranging
their entrance into the United States.
Native School May Be
Built Near Ketchikan
WALLA WALLA, Sept. 10.—Morse
Luken, president of the North Pa
cific Union conference of the Adven
tist church announces that he will
go to Alaska for the purpose of es
tablishing a school among the na
tives.
FORMER DRY AGENT WILL
MANAGE DEM. CAMPAIGN
SEATTLE, Sept. 11.—Donald A.
McDonald, former prohibition direc
tor, was appointed yesterday state
campaign manager in Washington,
for the democratic party by State
Chairman Clarence D. Martin, of
j£heney, Wn.
AMERICANIZATION IS
OUTSTANDING PROBLEM
WALLA WALLA, Sept. 11.—Am
ericanization is the outstanding prob
lem of the American Legion in its
educational program, Lester Albert,
of Boise, Ida., national vice comman
der of the American Legion, declared
last night at the annual meeting of
the state department of the organi
zation.
William A. Short, president of
the state federation of labor, pledged
support of the federation to the prin
ciples of the Legion and declared
that “in case of another war we must
not only conscript the man power of
the nation but the wealth as well.
Gillett Nominated for
Senate in Massachusetts
BOSTON, Sept. 11— Frederick Gil
lett, speaker of the National House
of Representatives, was nominated
for the United States Senate today
by Massachusetts Republicans.
STOWAWAYS ARE FOUND
BY IMMIGRATION MEN
ABERDEEN, Sept. 11.—Six addi
tional stowaways were .found this a.
ni. by immigration officials on the
aJpanese freighter Ryui Maru in a
search which followed the arrest in
Seattle yesterday of six men upon
their arrival from Aberdeen. With
them Kyntaro Nakai, cook, and T.
Izumi, saloon boy, were arrested on
suspicion that they fed the twelve
stowaways on the way from Japan.
Immigration officials learned that
the cook and saloon boy signed for
the trip at Mike, Japan, and believe
that they had accomplices in this
country in a plot lo smuggle in the
alien Japanese at SoOO each.
Fire at Girdwood
Was Expensive One
Passengers on last night’s train
report that the fire at Girdwood in
which the Joe Reno property was
burned, was much more serious than
was at first reported. The two large
store buildings owned by Mrs. Roy
croft were saved only by heroic ef
forts, but the store building, stock,
furniture and fixtures and the resi
dence of Mr. Reno were entirely de
stroyed entailing a loss of over
fifteen thousand dollars.
Washington Primaries
Show Many Surprises
SEATTLE, Sept. 11.—Attorney Gen
eral Dunbar, State Auditor Clausen,.
Public Road Commissioner Savage,
State Superintendent of Public In
struction Josephine Preston, and In
surance Commissioner Fishback were
I nominated in the Republican pri
maries by large majorities. John F.
Main, John R. Mitchell, Wm, Dav
is and Judge Adkren w'ere nominated
as superior court judges for King
county.
Englishmen Make Best
Husbands Says Novelist
NEW YORK, Sept. 11.—English
men make better husbands than Am
ercans, because they “treat their
wives as companions and not as Am
ican husbands treat theirs, as dolls,
spoiling- them with presents, furs and
jewels,” says Mary Borden, the nov
elist, who has returned to the Unit
ed States for a visit after an absence
of eleven years. She is the wife of
General E. L. Spears, who has been
a member of parliment for three
years.
“English husbands don’t nag,” con
tinued Mrs. Spears . “A wife to an
Englishman is a pal and their life
is more normal than over here. The
English tvomen do everything the
men do and so they do not have so
much time for bridge and clothes.
Consequently they are not as good
dressers as American women.”
KLEINSCHMIDT AT NOME
The schooner Noatak, under char
ter to Capt. Frank Kleinschmidt, the
moving pcture man has returned to
Nome from the edge of the ice pack
off Capt Van Karem. They brought
back four large polar bears and many
walrus hides. Many interesting pic
tures were obtained of these animals
in action.
KETCHIKAN FISH PRICES
Fresti halibut, 14 and 7:65.
Youthful Murderers of Franks
Sentenced Life Imprisonment
CHICAGO, Sept. 11.—Life im
prisonment was the penalty fix
ed yesterday by Judge Caverly
on Leopold and Loeb, the boy
murderers of the Franks boy.
In the Caverly decision he said
that no minor would ever be sen
tenced in Illinois on a plea of
guilty.
Darrow Triumphant
CHICAGO, Sept. 11.—Clarence Pai
iow, the country’s mosi tamous crim
inal laywer, and the wealth of the
Loeb and Leopold families scored a
victory here yesterday when Judge
Caverly of the Chicago criminal court
pronounced sentence upon Richard
Loeb and Nathan Leopold, self con
fessed slayers of the Frank boy in
one of the most revolting murders
the country has ever recorded in
recent years. The two youths, the
elder of whom is scarcely 19 years
of age, were sentenced to spend the ^
remainder of their lives in prison, J
life being imposed for murder and
99 years for kidnaping.
The two prisoners were apparently
unmoved by the prospect of going to
prison for life. They did not indicate
either that welcomed escape from
death, and showed no remorse over
their crime.
Public sentiment is very bitter over
the miscarriage of justice.
The judge in passing sentence re
iterated his belief that the two fiends
are of normal mentality and wrere
normal when the crime was com
mitted.
Jewelry Worth $250,000
Stolen from Oil Man
NEW YORK, Sept. 11.—Jewelry val
ued at $250,000 was stolen from the
home of J. B. Cosben, oil man and
race horse owner of Sand Point, I. I.
last night. There is no clue to the
thieves. A reward of $50,000 has
been offered for recovery.
Former Deputy County
Attorney Takes Life
YAKIMA, Sept. 9.—Roy C. Brown,
former deputy prosecuting attorney
committed suicide by shooting him
self in the forehead in a garage in
the rear of his home here. Death
was practically instantaneous.* Brown
since an attack of influenza four
years ago, had been troubled by men
tal lapses and on several occasions
had remarked that if -he did not get
better he would end his life.
“BADGE BANDIT” CONVICTED
ON THREE CHARGES
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 11.—The
“badge bandit” career of Harry Dun
lap probably cost him a lifetime of
penal servitude as the result of his
conviction in superior court here last
night on five counts of robbery, one
of criminal assault and one of as
sault with intent to murder.
On each of the two assault charg
es he may be given sentences of from
one to fourteen years; on each of
two counts of first degree robbery
he may draw from five years to life,
and on each 'of the three counts of
second degree one year to life. He
will appear for sentence next week.
Dunlap was captured in Detroit
about a month ago after a nation
wide search and brought here for
trial. The crimes charged against
him were committed over a period
o fabout two years and consisted
chiefly of the victimizing of ^'oung
couples he found indulging in auto
mobile “petting parties.’’ His sys
tem was to overawe the surprised
pair Math a deputy sheriff,s badge,
then rob the man and assault his
woman companion.
Vancouver Girl Was
Murdered Says Jury
VANCOUVER, B. C., Sept. 11.—"We
find that Janet K. Smith was on
July 26 wilfully murdered in the
course of her employment in the
laundry in the basement of the bak
ery of her home by being shot thru
the head, by whom we do not know."
This verdict was delivered by a coro
ner’s jury this afternoon in the sec
ond inquest held on- the body of the
girl who was; killed two months ago.
DEFENSE DA Y PROGRAM
SEWARD TOMORROW
The committee in charge of the
program for Defense Day have
arranged an interesting and at
tractive program for tomorrow
which will be given in the Liber
ty Theater at 3 o’clock p. m.
A fine orchestra of 4 pieces
has been secured to render spe
cial music. Other numbers on
the program is a solo by Mrs.
Anita Spaulding and Address by
Hon. E. E. Chamberlin. The chil
dren of the public school will at
tend in a body.
All business houses will be clos
ed from 3 to 4 o’clock, p. m., and
all citizens are requested to at
tend th eprogram in a patriotic
duty, so that Seward may have
a good rating among the other
cities of the Pacific coast in the
observance of this day.
Costs to Decide Fate
of Kidnaper-Slayers
Is Quarter of Million
CHICAGO, Sept. 11.—The cost of
deciding between hanging and prison
sentence for Nathan Leopold, jr., and
Richard Loeb for kidnaping and mur
dering Robert Franks will amount to
a quarter of a million dollars, ac
cording to a compilation of estimates
by state and defense. Fees to mental
experts make up the big items of
both state and defense bills.
Not all bills are in, but Lawrence
Cuneo, secretary to the state’s at
! torney, estimated the total would be
“between $50,000 and $60,000.” The
| defense spent another $50,000, ae
1 cording to Clarence Darrow, chief
I of - defense counsel, with attorneys’
fees yet to be fixed.
Several actual trials have cost the
state greater amounts, it was point
ed out, but the Franks hearing es
tablished a record for a plea of guil
ty, the state’s effort being dh-ected
I toward obtaining the severest of two
! punishments.
The salary of Judge John R. Cav
erly, who has the case under advise
ment until September 10, was figur
ed in the state’s expense ,as was that
of Mr. Crowe and his assistants. That
! totaled $5,850. Stenographer costs
! were $5,000 and guards cot a like
amount. Alienists' fees are estimat
ed at $14,000. To save a rental bill,
the state purchased for $400 the
rented automobile in which Loeb and
Leopold killed the Franks boy.
I Most of the defense’s expenditures
I so far went to the alienists hired at
i $250 a day to prepare the defense
j of “mental sickness” relied op to
, save the boys from the gallows,
i Mr. Darrow and his associates
| agreed to have their fees set by a
committee of the Chicago Bar asso
; ciation, which has not acted.
i
Arch Enemy of Tobacco
Passes Away In Chicago
[ CHICAGO, Sept. 11.—Miss Lucy
; Page Gaston, founder of the National
j Anti-Cigarette league, died today in
a Hinsdale hospital.
Miss Gaston was injured in a street
car accident several months ago.
During her career she had led
raids on saloons, gambling resorts
j and cigarette store.
_
Steamship Admiral Watson
Sails South Last Night
The steamship Admiral Watson
sailed south last night, after the
arrival of the train with the follow
ing passengers:
For Valdez—M. A. Boyd, W. W.
Gorjm.
For Cordova—J. C. LeFever.
For Juneau—L. G. Brigel, Carl
Field.
For Ketchikan—G. Gibson.
For Seatttle—G. A. Spangler, G. F.
Tomlinson, Mike McNeil, Christopher
George, J. B. Lambert.
WILLS-FlftPO FIGHT TONIGHT
The Wills-Firpo fight is scheduled
to take place tonight. It will be in
tomorrow’s paper.
SON OF SLAIN SHERIFF
RUNS DOWN ASSAILANT
VALE, Ore., Sept. 11.—Fred E.
Yardlow, of Elko, Ne*\, who Wednes
day shot and killed W. Austin Good
man, sheriff of Harney county, then
fled on horseback was captured this
morning on the side of Steins moun
tain, by F. Goodman, 37, son of the
slain sheriff, assisted by Deputy
Sheriff Renshaw and a posse of citi
zens. Yardlow surrendered after his
horse had been shot from under him
He offered no resistance.
Superior Court Judges
Be Elected November 1
SEATTLE, Sept. 9.—Six out of
nine Superior court judges were re
leased from offce today by a major
ity vote in King county. Their names
will appear, however, unopposed on
the general ballot in November.
One negro will be among the can
didates, Alman Drinker a well known
attorney opposing Everett Smith.
MOTORIST SOLDERING
GAS TANK IS KILLED
KELSO, Wn., Sept. 10.—Attempt
ing to solder a leak in the gasoline
tank of his automobile at a garage
in West Kelso Saturday afternoon,
last, caused the death of Sam Mc
Gladdery, 23, and the injury of A.
Collona, proprietor of the garage,
and Clifford Cook.
Collona had warned McGladdery
to use caution before attempting to
solder the tank. McGladdery drained
the tank but fumes remaining in it
exploded. He was unmarried . His
parents reside in Saskatchewan. H.
McGladdery, a brother, resides here.
The dead man worked for the Long
Bell company.
Filipinos Are Being
Replaced by Americans
SEATTLE, Sept. 11.—When the
Admiral Oriental liner President Mc
Kinley sails for the Far East from
here Sunday, all Filipinos, numbering
I more than 100 in the deck and engi
| neers departments of five vessels of
: the line, will have been replaced by
Americans, officials of the company
I announced today.
An order to replace the Filyrinos
j was issued by the United States
| shipping board this summer*.
Chinese will still be employed in
! the steward’s department of the
| vessels, officials said. No change
I is expected in this department, ac
| cording to representatives of the
l shipping board here.
Liberian Government .
Action Is Denounced
NEW YORK, Sept. 11—Marcus Gar
vey, self-styled “his highness, the
| potentate of the Universal Negro Im
i provement Association and Provision
al President General of Africa,” de
nounced last night the action of the
Liberian government in presenting a
! statement to the effect that it was
unalterably opposed to the incendiary
policy of the organization represent
ed by Garvey.
The communication referred to is
the result of the machinations of a
few negro politicians in America and
Liberia who are opposed to the best
interests of their race, said Garvey
in a formal statement.
Schooner Herman Has
Arrived Safely at Nome
The old trading and whaling ship
Herman, owned by the Liebes Com
pany; of San Francisco, and under
charter to Sydney Snow, whom it
will be remembered showed his big
game pictures in Seward last year,
with Capt. Louis Lane as master, ar
rived in Nome recently on its wafy
to the ice pack to hunt and take pic
tures of big game.
They will also go to Wrangell isl
and to bring back the people left
there last year by Harold Noice. *
Harold Painter, of the local dock,
Louis Mehan, purser of the Starr,
and John Gilpatrick are hunting in
the vicinity of Moose Pass.
J. B. Matthews, wife and three
daughters are leaving on the North
western. Mr. Matthews has been in
the employ of the N. C. Co. for a
number of years. He had charge of
the Hot Springs agency and later re
meved to Nenana.
Senator Couzens Beaten
By Arthur J. Tuttle
in Michigan Primaries
DETROIT, Sept. 11.—Returns from
1155 precincts out of 2765 in this
Rate for the Republican nomination
for Senator give Couzens 88,818 and
Arthur J. Tuttle 108,263.
QUESTION OF INSULATION
IN WAREHOUSE BUILDING
HAS SEQUENCE IN COURT
YAKIMA, Wn, Sept. 11.—The
question of whether shavings may be
used as insulation in the construc
tion of cold storage warehouses was
settled here in court through the
restraining order against the City of
Yakima issued today on petition of
the Roche Fruit & Produce company,
The Roche firm lost its building in
the recent produce row blaze, and
plans to rebuild, usin gshavings as
insulation. The city officials are
trying to force the concern to use
cork insulation. The company con
tends that shavings are as good, far
less expensive and that of cork must
be ordered at this stage of the build
ing the warehouse can not be com
•oleted in time for use this year. The
hearing on the matter is scheduled
for September 22. Construction has
progressed to the insulation stage.
Freighter Apollo Will
Bring Out Load Reindeer
SEATTLE, Sept. 11.—With the dis
tinction of being the first refrigera
tor power schooner on the Pacific
coast the freighter Apollo sails today
for Bethel, Nome and Teller. The
vessel has three thousand tons re
friegerating space and will be used
in carrying frozen reindeer meat
from Bethel to Seattle. She is tak
ing north equipment for a refriger
ator plant which will be constructed
in Bethel and be used for freezing
reindeer meat.
The steamship Santa Ana will also
bring out 1500 carcasses of frozen
reindeer.
NO MORE TOTAL ECLIPSES
OF SUN LISTED FOR 1924
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 11.—
, While no total eclipses of the sun
; are listed for this year, one of the
j best opportunities for observing a
! total shutout of Old Sol’s face will
be afforded the eastern part of the
countiy early in the coming year,
officials at the United States naval
observatory here say. -» * ”
On January 24, 1925, the sun will
be in total eclipse. This will start
at sunrise just beyond Lake Super
ior. Its path will be into New York
state and lower New England, east
ern New York and southern New
England will be the best positions
for observations. Vessels in the At
lantic ocean north of Scotland will
be able to see it at sunset. In the
middle of the Atlantic it will be vis
ible at noon.
Another total eclipse will take
place January 14, 1924. This will be
gin in Africa, crossing the Indian
ocean and the island of Sumatra in
the Dutch East Indies, and the lower
islands of the Philippines.
Woman Claims Dentist
Took Away False Teeth
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 11.—Be
cause Dr. C. M. Decker, dentist,
wrested from her mouth the false
teeth he had made for her, Mrs. Jo
sephine Mirata today filed suit for
$20,000 damages, of which $15,000 is
for shock and suffering and $5,000 as
punitive damages.
Attorneys for Decker admitted that
he forcibly abstracted the molars
from Mrs. Mirata’s oral cavity but
declared she had refused to pay for
them on the ground they were im
perfect.
Ben Hill Leading in
Democratic Primaries
SEATTLE, Sept. 11.—Ben F. Hill
of Walla Walla is leading in the
race for the Democratic gubernato
rial nomination of Washington, with
Walter Robinson of Spokane, second,
and Edward J. Mathes of Bellingham
third.
The Bridge Club will meet tonight
at 8 o’clock at the home of Mrs. W.
EL Root.