H Hemstrd Daily Gnteumy
VOLUME XX. NUMBER 13
SEWARD, ALASKA. THURSDAY, JANUARY 15 1925.
PRICE TEN CENTS
D. W FLANAGAN IS
FINED $100 AND 20
. DAYS IN FAIRBANKS
ALLEGED ASSAULT
(TRIED BEFORE CITY OFFICIAL IN
CONNECTION WITH PETER
KENDALL CASE—REFUSED JURY
TRIAL — DISTRICT ATTORNEY
REFUSED TO ACT IN MATTER
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!(By Associated Press)
FAIRBANKS. Jail. 15—D. W. Flan
agan, prohibition agent and revenue
officer with headquarters at Seward,
arrested here for the second time last
week, for alleged assault upon Peter
Kendall, an aged pioneer of this city,
in an alleged illegal raid on his home
October 12, was fined §100 and sen
tenced to serve twenty days in jail
by the city magistrate after the local
district attorney had dismissed the
first case Flanagan was denied trial
by jury, under the city ordinance.
The case is the outcome of a raid
* made by Flanagan and two deputy
marshals upon Kendall’s home, where
it is alleged the latter wraS engaged in
the manufacture and sale of beer.
The aged man refused the officers
access to his home, and it is alleged
Flanagan pushed him so violently as
to cause him to fall, and entering the
house confiscated the liquor. Flana
gan was arrested and upon orders
from Attorney General Stone, the dis
trict attorney dismissed the case. The
prohibition, officer was released on his
own recognizance previous to this,
and returned to Fairbanks to press
the case in the district court against
Kendall.
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VANDERLIP SUIT
IS COMPROMISED
(By Associated Press)
MARION, Jan. 15.—The Marion Star
announced today that its million, two
hundred thousand dollar suit against
Frank A. Vanderlip has been settled
out of court.
Vanderlip’s business manager issued
a statement that his client was too ill
to be told of the settlement. He said,
referring to the speech at Briarcliffe,
which caused the suit: There was no
justification in the statement that
the price paid Harding was too high.
He said Harding was most scrupu
lous in his property negotiations, and
that Vanderlip would concur in this
statement if able to talk.”
DAWSON MAN DEAD
DAWSON, Jan. 15.—Michael O’
Keefe, sixty-seven years of age, and
who entered the Territory in 1890,
died here yesterday. He is survived
by several nephews and nieces in Chi
cago.
WILL NOT EXERCISE POWER
TO PARDON DURING THE
ABSENCE OF GOVERNOR
OLYMPIA, Jan. 15.—W. Lon John
son, in an address this morning when
he was sworn in as Lt. Governor of
the state of Washington, promised “I
shall not exercise the pardoning pow
er during the absence of the gover
nor.”
Italian Deputies May Vote
Against Premier Mussolino
ROME, Italy, Jaan. 15.—The Presi
dent and deputies have received a res
olution signed by premiers Giolitti,
Orlando, and Salandro asking for a
vote against Mussolino. The resolu
tion declared that all forms of liberty
must be gained if the popular will is
to be expressed
DR. LUTHER IS CHANCELLOR
BERLIN, Jan. 15.—Doctor Hans
Luther has been appointed chancel-,
lor of Germatty.
RED CROSS WILL TRANSPORT
ESKIMOS TO HOMELAND
HARBIN, Jan. 15.—American con
sul Handen received a cablegram to
day from the American Red Cross as
sociation, proposing the transporta
tion of the American Eskimos taken
i from Wrangell island, back to their
home lands.
HOUSE UNFAVORABLE TO
CHANGE IN NAME RAINIER
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 15 —
The House Public Lands committee
voted nine to four not to report the
Dills’ Bill which passed the Senate,
to change the name of Rainier to Ta
coma.
girlmurderer
SAN FRANCISCO
FOUND IN CHEAP
ROOMING HOUSE
DOROTHY ELLINGSON, WHO SHOT
DOWN MOTHER, ARRESTED BY
POLICE IN DOWNTOWN ROOM
ING HOUSE WITH MALE COM
PANION.
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(By Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 15.—Doro
thy Ellingson, sixteen year old San
Francisco girl, was arrested in a down
town rooming house where she was
in hiding after brutally) murdering her
mother yesterday after a quarrel over
Dorothy’s attending jazz parties.
Dorothy said she was brought to the
place by a male companion who was
aiding her to escape. Police are now
searching for the young man who
was Dorothy’s companion on her mid
night frolics.
Confesses to Killing Mother
Dorothy Ellingson, bright young
school miss, cooly confessed she shot
her mother dead at their home Tues
day night, explaining: “I killed her be
cause she upbraided me for going out
with men.”
The body of Mrs. Ellingson wras
found by Earl, a son of the murdered
woman, wrhen he returned home at
night after his work in a drug store.
Husband and Wife Must
Make Separate Returns
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.—Solicitor
Hartson of the internal revenue bu
reau, in an opinion today held that if
both husband and wife actually ren
dered personal service in which each
reach $10,000 or more, they may make
separate tax returns and claim the
per cent reduction allowed in earned
incomes.
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Earthquake Destroys
Four Asian Villages
(By Associated Press)
LONDON, Jan. 15.—An earthquake
destroyed four villages and killed 142.
Thousands are homeless in a temper
ature of 22 below zero. The most se
vere shocks occurred in the vicinity
of Ardahan, in trans-Caucasia.
ROLAND HARTLEY
INAUGURATED
10TH GOV. WASH
(By Associated Press)
OLYMPIA, Jan. 15.—A reduction in
state expenditures, the simplification
of the government, lower taxation, the
creation of an authoritative tax com
mission, the continuance of the pres
ent highway policy .with reduced out
lays, the substitution of the commis
sion for a board of higher curricula,
modification of the administrative
code, the rejection of the child labor
amendment, and other measures were
urged by Roland Hartley, as he was
inaugurated tenth governor of the
state of Washington. ■
BOARD ASKS THAT
BISHOP BROWN BE
DISMISSED OFFICE;
BROWN ON STAND
RECOMMENDATION SUBJECT TO
APPROVAL OF MEETING NEW
ORLEANS NEXT FALL—STATES
GOD IS SYMBOL OF PRECIOUS
REALTY.
(By Associated Press)
CLEVELAND, Jan. 15.—The Protes
tant Episcopal Board of review in con
firming the conviction of Brown for
Heresy, recommended the deposition
of William Montgomery Brown, retired
Bishop of Arkansas from office, the
sentence being subject to the approv
al of the House of Bishop’s meeting
at New Orleans next Autumn
Brown in a short plea on the stand
today, said he believed in God, “Not
as a being with masculinity or one
with legs, but as a symbol of precious
realty which has brought us all things
into being as part of itself.”
He expressed his belief in Christ as
“A symbol of the Son of God, who was
conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of
the Virgin Mary, not literally of
course. Modern biology has made
a literal acceptance of this belief im
possible.”
“I see in Christ,” said Brown, “every
toiling, sweating, bleeding son of man
and uncounted, unnamed, unknown
workers of the world, despised, disin
herited, crucified!—My, God!—made
manifest in suffering flesh.”
CLEVELAND, Jan. 15.—The Protes
tant Episcopal church never taught
the literal interpretation of the Bible,
said Dibble, on the stand here today.
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SOURDOUGH MINER
NOME DISTRICT
FOUND DEAD
KOUGAROK MINER FOUND IN HIS
CABIN DRESSED FOR WORK
NO RECORD OF SICKNESS; WAS
ALIVE CHRISTMAS DAY
(By Associated Press)
NOME, Jan. 15—Joseph Sale, fifty
five, sourdough Kougarok miner, was
found dead in his cabin dressed for
work. Sale had shown no symptoms
of sickness and' was last seen alive on
December 22. He was known to have
been alive on Christmas day.
Sale was found on the 30th of De
cember by James Corrigan, a miner,
of Nome. Joseph Sale’s body was
taken to Nome, where it will be given
burial.
The deceased has a partner, James
Kellisher Arnold, who is now in New
York City, also two sisters residing in
Brooklyn.
SECRETARY TO
C00LIDGE QUITS
(By Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 15 —
Congressman Everett Sanders of In
diana, will succeed G. Bascom Slemp
as secretary to President Coolidge, as
suming his office on March fourth.
Slemp will enter the practice of law
in Washington. He feels that his
work with the President was com
pleted with the outcome of the late
election, and the establishment of sev
eral new avenues of approach to con
gress and to the president.
LORENZ WAS ON CRUISE
SOUTH FOR HIS HEALTH
(By Associated Press)
MADISON, Jan. 15.—Lorenz, Presi
dent of the Wisconsin State Board of
Control, who is being held prisoner at
Progreso by the Mexicon government,
left this city on the first of January
on a cruise south for his health.
RENEWS PROPOSAL OF
DE^BT SETTLEMENT
PARIS, Jan. 15.—Chancellor of Ex
chequer Einston Churchill, in a recent
letter to Finance Minister Clementel,
renewed the proposal for the settle
ment of interallied debts which Bal
four’s note of 1922 contained.
CREW OF SUB REMOVED TO TUG
CHATHAM, Jan. 15.—The crew of
the U. S Submarine 19 were remov
ed under the glare of search lights
last night by small boats carrying five
officers and forty two men to the
naval tug standing by.
REMAINS OF THREE
AIRPLANES FOUND
IN FOREST; RELICS
WORLD WAR DAYS
REMAINS OF GERMAN AND TWO
FRENCH PLANES WHICH CAME
TOGETHER DURING EUROPEAN
WAR, FOUND FOREST ST.PIERRE
VAAST.
(By Associated Press)
AMIENS, Jan. 15.—The remains of
a lone German plane, and the skele
ton of the pilot, shot down by the
French during the World War, was
found in the forest of St. Pierre-Vaast
near the French battle plane discov
ered early this month. The skele
tons of two French machines which
collided there September 24, 1916
while attacking a German machine,
were also found.
Democrats To Conduct
Congressional Campaign
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.—The dem
ocratic party intends to “conduct an
active campaign in every congres
sional district, and expects to carry
the House in 1926,” Representative
Oldfield of Arkansas, new chairman
of the National Committee announced
here today.
JONES SUBSTITUTE REJECTED
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 15 —
The Jones substitute was rejected by
a vote of 43 to 38, leaving the Under
wood measure intact.
Deep Sea Salvage Ship
Breaks All Record
(By Associated Press)
NEW YORK, Jan. 15—Capt. Ben
jamin J. Leavitt, of Philadephia, broke
all records for deep sea salvage re
cently when he recovered $600,000
worth of copper, which has been un
der water since 1869, following the
wreck of the British frigate, Cape
Horn, off Chile, according to a mes
sage from the salvage ship, Blakesley,
outfitted by the United States Ship
ping Board. The divers worked as in
daylight, using high-pressure suits
at a depth of 318 feet. An attempt will
be made next to salvage $4,000,000 in
bullion from the $6,000,000 treasure
carried on the ill-fated Lusitania.
DIBBLE ANSWERS
CHARGES MADE
IN HERESY CASE
(By Associated Press)
CLEVELAND, Jan. 15.—Charles
Dibble, Kalamazoo church divine to
day answered the declaration of the
defense that the doctrine of trinity
was a mathmatical absurdity, bydeny
ing it implied God was three connectd
persons. He said God was an indi
visible being, adverting Brown’s first
assertion that Christ was a version of
the Sun Myth, without historical exis
tence. Dibble said early German
scientists advanced that theory, but
that German scientists exploded it a
hundred years ago.
WICHITA MAN PAID
HUGE SUM TO HAVE
HIS SON RELEASED
FROM FEDERAL PEN
PROMINENT MERCHANT SAID HE
PAID SUM TO RECEIVE PAROLE
FOR SON ACCUSED OF THEFT
OF AUTOMOBILE—MONEY TO BE
SPLIT AMONG HEADS.
(By Associated Press)
TOPEKA, Jan. 15.—C. H. Bartholo
mew. wealthy Wichita merchant and
well-known throughout the state, told
the’ Attorney General yesterday that
he paid twleve hundred and fifty dol
lars to a man named Johnson for the
parol eof Ernest Bartholpmew his son,
convicted of the theft of an automo
bile, and serving time for the offense.
His affidavit asserted Johnson told
him that five hundred dollars of the
amount paid, was to go to Governor
Davis, five hundred to the bank com
missioner, Peterson, and Johnson was
to keep the other two hundred and
fifty dollars.
Other affidavits have been receiv
ed by the Attorney General’s office,
w'ho states that before he is through
with his prosecution of Davis, he will
place the former Governor behind the
walls of the state prison for at least
ten years.
IMPRISONMENT MANDATORY
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 15.—The
House judiciary committee reported
a bill today making imprisonment
mandatory upon conviction of viola
tion of the prohibition laws.
LORENZ FREED OF CHARGE
MADISON, Jan. 14 —Calles tele
graphed Governor Blaine today that
Lorenz, chairman of the board of con
trol, who sailed south for his health,
and accused of filibustering, has been
released.
ASSASSIN GIVEN
DEATH SENTENCE
(By Associated Press)
MOSCOW, Jan. 15—Ivan Okladski,
sixty-one years old, one of the assas
sinators of Czar Alexander forty-five
years ago, and under trial for betray
ing his accomplices, was convicted to
day and sentenced to death. It is ex
pected his sentence will be commut
ed to ten years in prison.
BLANKET SNOW
IS COVERING THE
SOUTHWEST DIST
(By Associated Press)
KANSAS CITY, Jan. 14—Over a
blanket of snow, from a bare covering
to several inches in depth, the new
year tripped into the Southwest, and
since the first, the cold spell has held
in most instances, unbroken. An inch
and one half of snow fell in this city
and more is expected at any time.
Northern Oklahoma had rain that
turned to snow; the Texas panhandle
had a light covering; Arkansas had a
cold rain and sleet, and most of Mis
souri was blanketed.
Carlyon Taken from
Committee On Rules
OLYMPIA, Jan. 15.—The announce
ment of the personnel of committees
appointed by Lieut. Governor John
son shows that Senator Carlyon has
been eliminated as chairman of the
committee on rules, in which position
he has served since entering the sen
ate from the house, 12 years ago. W.
W. Connor of Seattle was displaced as
chairman of the public utilities com
mittee.