VOLUME XIX. NUMBER 114
SEWARD. ALASKA, TUESDAY, MAY 13, 1924
PRICE, TEN CENTS
MAJOR MARTIN WILL CONTINUE FLIGHT
STANDING CANDIDATES
IN RECENT ELECTIONS
CASH COLE LEADS IN RACE FOR
GOVERNORSHIP—ARTHUR
FRAME SECOND
FIRST DIVISION
For Governor—Cole leads Valentine
by 262 votes.
For Attorney General—Rustgard
leads Coppernoll 1081.
For Territorial Committeeman—Ar
thur Frame S66; John Frame, 1262.
For Delegates to Republican Con
vention—Dawes, 1763; Sexton 985,
Robertson. 1019; Steel 661.
SECOND DIVISION
For Governor—Cole, 14; Schotield
91; Valentine 9.
For Attorney General—Coppernoll
18, and Rustgard 97.
For National Committeeman—Ar
thur Frame 43; John Frame, 38.
For Delegates to Republican Con
vention—Dawes, 62; Sexton 5S; Rob
ertson, IS; Steel 37.
The above vote is lor Nome only.
THIRD DIVISION
Governor—Cole, 495; Schitield, 71;
Valentine 352.
Attorney General—Coppernoll 498;
Rustgard, 616.
Republican Committeeman—Arthur
Frame 679; John Frame, 276.
Delegates to Repub. Convention,
_Dawes, 288; Sexton, 618; Robertson
471; Steel, 717.
Senator—Chamberlin, 295; Chase.
391; Howard, 562; Council, 321; Con
roy 225.
Representatives—Bugge. 602; Eis
ner, 533; Grier, 744; Murray, 598;
Old!in, 5S1; Suphellen, 492; Waller,
591.
fourth division
With approximately three lourths ol
the Fourth division returns received
the totals are: Cole 335; Schotield,
95; Valentine, 128; Slither’and, 613;
Coppernoll, 156; Rustgaid. 408; Ar
thur Frame, 278; Sexton, 283; Rob
ertson, 236; Steel, 281; Dunn, 579;
Shoup, 298.
MORGAN RETURNING
WITH MILLION DOLLAR
REPARATION CONTRACT
NEW YORK, May 13—It is reported
on Wall Street that J. P. Morgan is
returning from Europe with a hun
dred million dollar German reparation
loan contract in his pocket. I he -e
X pOVt is neither denied or confirmed
hv the financier on his arrival home
on the “Home: e* ”
Executioner Commits
Suicide by Shooting
CUT OFF HEADS OF ONE HUN
DRED THIRTY-FIVE CRIMI
NALS—74 YEARS OLD
BERLIN, May 13—Executioner M.
Schweiss, who has cut off the heads
of 135 criminals, committed suicide by
means of a revolver, making the sec
ond executioner to take his own life
within three months.
He was seventy-four years old and
had retired on a pension from the
German government.
SHERIFF AND BANDITS
STAGE GUN FIGHT
ELY, Nevada May 13—Worth White
forty seven years old, is dead, and his
son Clarence White, twenty-one is in
jail; Deputy Sheriff James Simpson
is wounded in the hand and shoulder,
as the result of a gun battle on Cher
ry creek, which ended a lour day
search for the outlaws.
Republicans Retain Control
Of Tax Reduction Bill
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 13—
The republicans retained control of
the conference on the tax reduction
< bill Ihrough the appointment today by
the Senate of three republicans and
two democrats, the same ration as
was appointed by the House.
ATTEND CIRCUS THIS P. M.
ft WASHINGTON, D. C., May 13
President Coolidge and wife are at
tending the circus this afternoon.
WHERE THE TURBINES WILL BE LOCATED AT WILSON DAM
Photo shows the present stage of construction in the power house at Wilson Dam, Muscle Shoals project,
Florence, Alabama, The concrete cones in the center of the picture are for the purpose of spreading the
streams of water after they have flown through the turbines. The water reaches the hydraulic turbines, which
will be placed above and around:the cones, by coming through penstocks, in the dam.
SUIT FOR $25,000 IS
FILED AGAINST THE
PACIFIC S. S. COMPANY
SUIT FILED BY INDIAN SCHOOL
AS RESULT OF ATTACK ON
INDIAN GIRL
SEATTLE, May 12—As an after
math of an attack on the high seas
for which two negroes are serving life
sentences at McNeill Island, a suit for
$25,000 has been filed against the Pa
cific Steamship Company in the Fed
eral Court by Superintendent Har
wood Hall of the Salem Indian School
at Chemewa, Oregon, and guardian of
Margaret Sutton, seventeen year old
Indian pupil, for injuries alleged to
have been inflicted on October third
of last year.
DELLW00D MAKING
GOOD TIME LAYING
NEW ALASKA CABLE
SEATTLE, May 13—The Dellwood
had one hundred miles of cable laid
at noon and expects to reach Troca
dao Arm near Ketchikan on the 17th
of the month.
TERRIFIC FOREST FIRE
RAGING IN ARIZONA
DOUGLAS, May 13—A terrific for
est fire is raging in Long’s Canyon
forty miles north of here. Troops at
Camp Jones here are being held in
readiness to aid, should it become ne
cessary.
FRENCH AVIATOR IS
NOW IN INDO CHINA
SHANGHAI, May 13—Lieut. Doisey,
flying from Paris to Tokyo, has arriv
ed at Panio, French Indo China, from
Saigon Cochin, China.
Bootleggers’ Convention
Held in Washington, D. C.
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 13
Word has reached Congress that the
Bootleggers’ Union is in convention
at Washington, and has unanimously
adopted resolutions protesting against
modification of the Volstead Act to
legalize 2 3-4 per cent beer.
George Colwell, roadmaster for the
Seward Division of the Alaska Rail
road, was an arrival in town on a
speeder from his headquarters at Tun
nel.
STRiBLING WINS DECISION
YOUNGSTOWN, May 13—Young
Stribling won a newspaper decision
over Billy Conley of Spokane in a 12
round bout.
Admiral Watson in Port
At Early Hour Today
The steamship Admiral Watson ar
rived in port at an early hour this
morning with the following passen
gers aboard:
For Seward
Mrs. A. Walker, A. Hamm, H. Capp,
C. H. Brown, Mrs. Mary Millar, Mrs.
B. Levision, R. H. Liverick, C. A.
Howes, Mrs. Mary Paakanen, W. S
Harding, Ida Cruse, Governor Scott C.
Bone and wife, John Kest, W. L. Dod
son, E. Wentworth, Jack Hannell, J.
Gates, Mrs. H. Vanaja, D. Williams,
Robert Nakki, Charles A. Watson, E.
Holtz, Onni Tuomi, Nellie Cashman,
jc. N. Beatty, F. J. Caraway, Pat Cal
1 vey, C. Larsen, Nick Stot'nes, Jack
Price, B. Jacobson, Harry Kellogg, E.
Nelson, Karl Spath, Mrs. J. Erickson,
S. Koley, Sam Skaa and three steer
age.
For Anchorage
F. C. Zimmerman, S. Sankey, W. H.
Rogers, J. B. Beeson and one steer
j age.
For Kodiak
Mrs. Wm. Stone, Jas. O’Brien, W.
T. Scott.
For Seldovia
C. S. Vickers, Fred Stone and wife,
j Miss L. Stone, Marguerite Stc-ne, C.
De Brox, N. P. White.
For Uzinkie
Mrs. E. Rosenberg.
Round Trip
E. Bohlinger, Ray Stevens and wife,
I Mrs. M. Haas, Mrs. E. R. Bohlinger.
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SEATTLE HAS HOTTEST
MAY DAY IN THE
HISTORY OF CITY
SEATTLE, May 13—The thermome
ter registered seventy-seven this af
ternoon, the hottest May day ever ex
perienced here.
FED. COURT APPEALS
REVERSES JUDGMENT
SAN FRANCISCO, May 13—Federal
Circuit Court of appeals reversed the
judgment of thirty-one thousand dol
lars awarded Mrs. Isabelle Barnette,
against the Wells Fargo National
Bank and Fred G. Noyes, former re
ceiver of the Washington Alaska bank
of Fairbanks, and dismissed the case.
SACRAMENTO, May 13—Fire de
stroyed fifteen hundred feet of the
Southern Pacific Railway Company
sheds on the Sacramento River. The
loss is estimated at one million dol
lars.
Governor Bone in Seward
Governor Scott C. Bone and Mrs.
Bone were arrivals in Seward on the
Watson this morning, where the gov
ernor will attend a meeting of the
Government Advisory Board, which
has its headquarters here.
DECLARES REPUBLICANS
WILL LOSE 11 STATES
UNLESS COME OUT SQUARELY ON
WET AND DRY QUESTION
STRONG FOR LIQUOR
NEW YORK, May 13—Declaring the
Republican party would lose eleven
important states in the Presidential
election if they did not declare them
selves on the wet and dry question,
Doctor Nicholas Murry Butler, Pres
ident of the Columbia University,
came out squarely for the adoption
of the anti-prohibition plank in the
Republican platform.
NEW YORK, May 13—Elliott, Pres
ident emeritus of Harvard, comment
ing on the recent wet declaration of
Butler, President of Columbia univer
sity, asserted neither the republican
of the democratic party would dare,
much less be compelled, to spike a
wet plank to the presidential cam
paign platform.
HARRY GREB AND
NEGRO PUG GET
STIFF SENTENCES
BOSTON, May 13.—The state box
ing commission today suspended for
six months the licenses of Harry Greb,
world’s middleweight champion, and
Kid Norfolk, negro middleweight, as
a result of their bout here recently
when Norfolk was given a decision on
a foul. When asked what rules had
been violated, the boxing commission
ers said “practically all of them.”
POINCARE LOSES IN
HOUSE OF DEPUTIES
PARIS, May 13—Yesterday’s Parlia
mentary elections resulted in the loss
of the Poincare majority in the House
of Deputies and may mean the resig
nation of both Poincare and Miller
and.
Poincare Will Retire
PARIS, May 13.—Interpreting the
recent election results as a repudia
tion of his government, Premier Poin
care announced that he will retire
June Fourth.
House Takes up Report
On Exclusion of Japanese
WASHINGTON, D. C. May 13— I
The House took up the conference re
port on the Japanese exclusion, but
postponed action until Thursday. The
House also passed a resolution refund
ing two million dollars Hungary owes
the United States for food.
Don’t forget that Thursday, Mayl5,
is “CLEANUP DAY.”
MARTIN AND HARVEY WILL BE GIVEN ANOTHER TRY AT
WORLD TRIP-PLANE BEING SHIPPED TO THE
FAR EAST FOR THEIR USE
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 13-Major Martin and Har
vey, despite their mishap in the Aleutian range, will rejoin
the three so-far successful! planes of the Round-the-World
flight, somewhere in Japan or India, the War Department
i
announced today.
An air cruiser for their use in the remaining portion
of the flight is to he shipped to the Far East. Martin and
Haryey will go to Washington before proceeding to join the
other World Flyers.
MARTIN' LEAVES FOR STATES TODAY
BELLINGHAM, May 13—The Catherine I)., with Martin and
Harvey aboard, departed for Bellingham via Ketchikan and Xanimo
last midnight.
DOESN’T WANT HUSBAND TO MAKE TRIP
SAN DIEGO, May 13—Mrs. Martin declares that Major Martin
will not rejoin the flight in Asia as proposed if she can prevent it.
P. M. OGLE DISPOSES OF
PROPERTY TO J. A. EAMON
J. A. Eamon today purchased lot
16 in block 11, located on Third aven
ue, from P. M. Ogle. Mr. Eamon
will erect a large residence on the ac
quired property. The deal was tran
sacted thru the Seward Real Estate
company, and is but the latest of
of several real estate changes put
thru by this firm during the past ten
days.
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 13—The
President’s veto of the Bursum bill
was sustained today by the Senate.
LANSING SELECTED TO ADJUST
MEXICAN CLAIMS
' F? „ I , ~ - T
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\cOPY RIGHT K£YSTONF^_IEW CO., NEW YORK
Robert Lansing, Secretary of State
in the Wilson Cabinet, has been se
lected by President Coolidge as the
American member of the mixed com
mission which will adjust claims be
tween the United States and Mexico.
Mr. Lansing’s long service in the De
partment of State,... and his intiment
knowledge of Mexican affairs, fit him
for the post. Photo shows Mr. Lansing
after conferring with the President at
the White House.
BANK PRESIDENT IS
ARRESTED BY ACTS.
OF DEPT. OF JUSTICE
EMBEZZLED $75,000 OF BANK’S
FUNDS— SEARCH NATION
WIDE
SEATTLE, May 13—Department of
Justice agents arrested Lawrence A.
O Brien, former Vice-President of the
First National Bank of Bay Point, Cal.
charged with embezzling $75,000, there
by ending a national search for O’
Brien and L. A, Crowell. The latter
was former president of the same
bank and was indicted by a Federal
jury last January. O’Brien left the
bank in January, 1921, and Crowell
left in August, 1922.
LUDENDORF STAGES
DEMONSTRATION
IN CITY OF BERLIN
BERLIN, May 13—Ludendorf Sun
day led an army of twenty-five thous
and men to Hall headquarters of the
German Communists and staged a
Monarchist demonstration which had
as a sequel the killing of eleven com
munists at the nearby town of Belle
berg.
CUNNINGHAM INDICTED
BY VALDEZ GRAND JURY
VALDEZ, May 13—Frank Cunning
ham was indicted today for destroy
ing the evidence under section sixty
five, Federal Code. No indictment was
brought against Ike Beal.
Cunningham, it is stated by the gov
ernment, disposed of a quantity of liq
uor when he was being pursued by
federal agents in his boat near Cor
dova, recently.
FORMER KAISER GOES TO
SILESIA OX VACATION
NEW YORK, May 13.—Former Kai
ser Wilhelm and wife, Queen Hermine
left Doom today for Saafor, Silesia,
ostensibly to spend a vacation with
the Queen’s children, according to a
wireless report sent broadcast from
Nauen Germany and which was picked
up by the New York World.
DENBY WLIL NOT BE
CANDIDATE FOR SENATE
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 13—
Edwyn Denby former Secretary of the
Navy, who has been considered as a
possible candidate for the Senate
from Michigan today, declared that he
would not be a candidate.