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VOLUME XIX, NUMBER 203.
SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 28. 1924.
PRICE TEN CENTS
WILL INAUGURATE A SEARCH FOR
SCHOONER; TEACHER IS ABOARD
SEATTLE, Aug. 28.—Plans to inaugurate a search
for the power schooner Maid of Orleans with nine per
sons aboard, which is believed to be fast in the Arctic ice
near Victoria Land, were launched today. . The vessel
sailed from this port June 25, and no word has come here
> since she put to sea. Aboard the Maid of Orleans is Miss
Alice Supplee, 24, a former teacher in the Seattle schools
who was on her way to Victoria Land to establish a
school for Eskimos.
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DEATH SHADOWS
ON MURDERERS IN
FRANKS KILLING
CRIMINAL COURT ROOM, Chi
cago, HI., Aug. 28.—The final battle
to save Nathan Leopold and Richard
Loeb, scions of wealthy Chicago par
ents from the extreme penalty end
ed today with an eloquent plea for
mercy.
Immediately after the argument of
the defense by Attorney Darrow, the
.state, under the guiding hand of jus
tice displayed by State Attorney
Crowe once more took up the offen
sive before Justice Caverly ,in whose
court the darkest crime in the an
nals of Illinois have hadd all its hear
ings.
Attorney Crowe for the state ex
pressed his views strongly in an en
deavor to obtain a death sentence
for the brutal murder of the youth
ful Franks’ boy.
CHICAGO, Aug. 28.—If Nathan
Leopold, jr., had not corrcberated the
confession of Richard Loeb concern
ing the kidnapping and murder of
Robert Franks, the state today would
have no case against them, Young
Leopold said today in discussing the
case with reporters after the court
session being held to determine
whether the millionaire’s sons shall
be hanged or sent to the penitentiary
^ had closed. It was the first time
either of the youths had discussed
the killing since their confession.
“We would not be here now if I
had not corroborated Loeb’s con
cession,’’ Leopold said. “Without
the confessions all the police had
against us would have been circum
stantial evidence and that would not
have been worth anything. The
only thing they had on me was the
typewriter on which the ransom let
ter was written.”
WILL SIGN AGREEMENT
DESPITE REICHSTAG
BERLIN, Aug. 28.—The German
government will sign the London
agreement whether or not the Reich
stag approves it, it was stated offi
cially today. If the Reichstag rejects
part of the Daw'es reparation plan
elaborated at the National conference
in London the legislative body will
be dissoved.
• > TOWN IS SAVED
IOCO, B. C., Aug. 28.—Forest fires,
which wor a time threatened to de
stroy this town and 3,000,000 gallons
of oil stored here by the Imperial Oil
company, reached burned-over ground
J^Yen the wind changed late yester
ay. The town and valuable timber
preserves east of here were out of
p danger last night late.
FLIVVER CARAVAN
MAKES CALL ON
PRES. COOLIDGE
PLYMOUTH, Ver., Aug. 28.—A
flivver caravan, thousands strong,
chugged into Plymouth this afternoon
and provided President Cooidge with
another diversion during his vacation.
The callers were farmers from four
teen states who are touring the coun
try by motor car, investigating agri
cultural methods in different locali
ties. Coolidge will probably be ready
to announce revision of the existing
sugar rate this week.
EUGENE, Ore., Aug. 28.—Three
small girls were drowned today when j
they waded into a hole left when
blasting out a stump in the mill pond
of the Jamestown Oregon Lumber
tjfcmpany at Glenwood, three miles j
west of Alpine.
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DAVIS URGES PEOPLE .
TO GO TO THE POLLS
COLUMBUS, 0., Aug. 28.—In his
second speech day, John W. Davi;
yesterday afternoon made a stirring
appeal for the American public to
v >te in the November election.
Ten thousand visitors to the State
Fair, that is being held here, were
urged by Davis to make it to the
interest of their own government by
going to the polls.
Those who failed to vote, he said,
1 were a menace to the government
j and a greater disgrace to the Amer
ican institution at large than the rad
: ican Russian “Red.”
THIRD NATIONAL
RADIO CONFERENCE
ON SEPTEMBER 29
WASHINGTON, Aug. 28.— The
Third National Radio conference
to provide voluntary regulations of
wireless communication in the United
States was called today by Secretary
Hoover to meet in Washington, on
September 29th.
UNEMPLOYMENT IN ROME
ROME, Aug. 28.—Statistics just is
sued show that during the first four
months of 1924 the number of unem
ployed in Italy was reduced by 234,
000. This makes the country’s unem
ployment figure about half what it1
was last year.
GOVERNMENT HOTEL
FOR TOWN SEWARD
“In connection with the Railroad,”
said Mr. Sulzer, “the Government
should build in Seward an up-to-date
hotel, with all modern improvements.
Here is the place for it, and it will
pay the Government from the day it
opens. There is no finer or better
place in all Alaska for a Tourist
Hotel than the beautiful city of Sew
ard.”
SHOOTING IN SCOTLAND
! LONDON, Aug. 28.—The shooting
I season in Scotland which opened on
! August 12, finds many American ten
ants, mostly New Y'orkers, of North
| country grouse and deer-stalking
' estates. Shooting in Scotland is year
ly attracting more and more Ameri
cans , to the exclusion of British
j sportsmen on account of the steadily
increasing expenses involved. Moors
which some years before the war
could be rented for the season for
as little as $125 now cost as much
as $5000.
COPYRIGHT UNDERWOOD * UNOfcftWOOO. *Vv
WJLL MANAGE LA FOLLEITE
CAMPAIGN
John M. Nelson, of Madisjr. Wis.,
insurgent leader in the House, who
is general manager of “Fighting
Bob’s” campaign for President.
'-OEVUIOMT KETETONE VIEW CO., NEW YOMK
KINSEY BROTHERS
Robert and Howard Kinsey, Wes tern tennis stars.
PASSENGERS INJURED
WHEN HURRICANE
HITS OCEAN LINER
NEW YORK, Aug. 28.—Several
passengers were injured on a Whits
Star liner, Arabic, bound from Ham
burg to New York, when the ship
ran into a hurricance.
DEFENSE DAY PROGRAM
WAS WELL ATTENDED
The Secretary of War, through Ma
jor General Chas. G. Morton, com
manding Ninth Army Corps Area at
>the Presidio of San Francisco, re
quested the governor of Alaska to se
lect and designate certain citizens ot
Alaska to comprise a Central Mobili
zation committee.
The Mayor of Seward was selected
as one of such committee and as
signed to certain territorial sub-divi
sions.
A meeting was called at the Fed
eral court room last evening in ac
cordance with the authority confer
red.
The attendance was limited to ex
service men, most of whom say serv
ice overseas. These men having once
done their “bit” did not fail to again
demonstrate their continual loyalty
and patriotism.
Capt. C. C. Hinde was selected as
enrolling officer for the Town or Se
ward. Of Seward’s quota of 28, for
service for one day only .September
12, 1924, 17 of the world war veter
ans unhesitatingly signed up.
All officers holding commissions
in the Reserve Corps have reported
to local authority as instructed from
headquarters.
A program committee, consisting
of Henderson, Bogard and McKen
na, was given charge of the day’s
program, ceremonies.
Upon arrival of Governor Ccott C.
Bone, a proclamation will be issued,
jointly, by the Governor and Mayor
Pay as member of the Central Com
mittee for the Ter'tory of Alaska.
Ray stated today that this is no
“kindergarten affair,” and wnile 1
am proud of the Seward me., who
showed their colors !aut evening, we
should register ICO per cent, e'ficien
cy.
“It is with great feeding of pleas
ure, added the Mayor, the names of
ti e honor men will be forwarded thru
p oper chanrtels to the Secretary of
War. ’
APPOINT AMBASSADORS
PLYMOUTH, Vt., Aug. 8.—Presi
dent tonight announced the appoint
ments of Edgar Addison Bancroft,
of Illinois and James Rockwell Shef
field rf New Yrork, as ambassador
respectively to Japan and Mexico.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 28.—
California is practically freed from
the mouth epizootic, Dr. John R. M.
Mohler, chief of the bureau of ani
mal industry reported to Secretary of
Agriculture Wallace.
••om ti-e Chamber of Commerce.
TELEGRAPH BREVITIES
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 28.—
With 11,672 cases of salmon the Al
aska Packers’ Association bark, Star,
of Finland, arrived here from Uga
shik.
CHICAGO, Aug. 28.—Secretary of
Commerce Hoover after a conference
with Butler said, “We shall elect
Coolidge and carry every state west
of the Rockies if we put our should
ers to the wheel and work hard and
if everybody get out to vote. This
includes California.’’
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 28.—Sen
ator Phelan of California was ap
pointed financial director of the De
mocratic Pacific coast states it was
anounced at a rally here last night.
BERLIN, Ang. 28.—Max Stress
mann and under delegates to the re
cent London conferece gave Reichs
tag a formal accounting of the rep
arations problem. Governments pros
pects of obtaining a majority approv
al is viewed highly probable.
SEATTLE, Aug. 28.—W. 0. Groves,
former hotel man of Issaquah report
ed yesterday to Sheriff Matt Star
wich that twenty-six members of the
Klan threatened him with bodily in
jury if he didn’t apoligize for some
remarks he made about it. So far,
he is still together and hasn’t com
plied with the klan’s request.
MERCEDE, Cal., Aug. 28.—Lucille
Dooling, sixteen, of Hollywood, while
wading in a pool above Vernal Falls
was swept to her death over a three
hundred foot cascade here yesterday.
MINING JOURNAL DEALS
WITH WAGE REDUCTIONS
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Aug. 27.—
The United Mine Workers’ Journal,
official organ of the United Mine
Workers of America, in its issue of
August stated:
“There appears to be a well defin
ed movement among a certain class
of coal operators and coal companies
throughout the country to force a
revision of the Jacksonville agree
ment has been under way for the
last several months. It has 'centered
in and around West Virginia and
certain parts of other coal mining
fields.
“The attack on the Jacksonville
agreement and the present wage
scale of the mine workers of the
country will fail. America will not
permit anything of the kind to hap
pen. There is not going to be any
reduction in wages.
“It is but just to state that as far ,
as is known, the operators who are ;
parties to the Jacksonville agree
ment are taking part in the at- 1
tempts to discard that document.
The effort is being made by coal
companies in outlying fields and not
by those of the central competitive
fields who are under the Jackson- 1
ville agreement.” i
Join the Chamber of Commerce. <
AMERICICAN GOVERNMENT WOULD
GIVES FINANCIAL AID TO SHIP
IN DISTRESS IN ICE-LOCKED ARCTIC
SEATTLE, Aug. 28.—Shipping interests today wir
'd the Canadian government’s department of marine, of
fering to finance an expedition to rescue 22 men maroon
ed on the wrecked auxiliary power schooner, Lady Kin
derslev in the Arctic ice, 50 miles east of Point liarrow.
It was also offered to outfit the schooner Rubv and
send her with airplanes to rescue (’apt. (Jus Foeller, and
22 men in distress on the wrecked schooner Lady Kin
derslv in the ice off Point Barrow was submitted to the
British consul here this afternoon by the Ruby's owners
and Capt. Louis Knaflich.
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Why Blame the
Paper for Errors?
NEW YORK, Arnr. 2S.—Com
pelling power cult of Tanti Or
kom worshippers of Nyack has
conquered away from second of
Mrs. Wm. K. Vanderbilt heiress
daughters for Miss Barbara C.
Rutherford Hatch been eleven
to Winifred Nichols assistant in
Nyack headquarters cult of lov
ing Garu to Dr. Pierre A. Ber
nard.
The above message was re
ceived from our -press corres
pondent and is verbatim. If you
can decipher it you take the
tadpole’s eyebrows.—Ed.
MASTER MIND IN
POSTOFF'CE ROBBERY
APPREHENDED
CHICAGO, Aug. 28.—William Fahv, j
regarded as a menace by postoffice
inspectors, was arrested here today
in his office, charged with being the!
mastermind of the recent two million
mail robbery at Roundout, Illinois.
He made no effort to raise his bond,
set at $50,000.
CHICAGO, Aug. 28.—William F.
Fahy ,postoffice inspector held as be
ing the “brains’ ’of the $2,000,000
Roundout, 111., mail robbery has con
fessed to complicity in the crime,
NOTE IN FLASK TELLS
OF MARINER’S PLIGHT!
PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 28.—The:
finding of a bottle containing a note
purporting to announce the sinking
of a smad boat operated by Olaf An
derson, forty miles off the Columbia
river on June 29, and Anderson’s ex
pectations of death by drowning, was
reported in messages received last
night from Frank L. Griffin, jr., of
Manhattan Beach.
Mr. Griffin said he found the note
along the high tide mark while he
was walking with his mother and
two sisters. It was in a tightly cork-1
ed battle.
The note follows:
“Forty miles off Columbia June
29, 1924. Goodbye, everybody. Boat
is sinking . Engine -dead.”
HERRIOTT GIVEN
CONFIDENCE VOTE
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PARIS, Aug. 28.—The French sen
ite last evening gave a vote of con-1
’idence to Premier Herriott regard-:
ng the negotiation of the London
’eparations agreement.
GRAND ARMY PROTEST
TO HAVE NO EFFECT
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 27.—
Protests filed by the treasury de
portment by members of the Grand
A.rmy of the Republic and similar
>rganizations against the minting of
i special 50-cent piece to commemor
ate the beginning of the Stone
Mountain Confederate memorial in
Georgia, will have no effect, it was
announced today at the treasury de
aartment, in view of specific instruc
aons carried in the act of congress.
Designs for the coin already have
jeen forwarded to the federal art
commission for study. It has not
iee ndetermined how many of the
coins will be minted.
BEEN
VANCOUVER, Aug. 28.—A dis
patch from the Hudson Bay Company
states that the motorship Lady Kin
dersly is fast in the ice 42 miles
east of Point Barrow and was drift
ing northeast, at the rate of half a
mile an hour. The captain wired that
he had hopes of finally getting clear
from the ice. The crew is remaining
aboard.
NOME, Aug. 26.—The motorship
Herman left Nome Saturday after
noon for the edge of the Arctic ice
pack to hunt and take moving pic
tures of big game. Captain Lane, in
command of the Herman said that he
expects to make the trip to Pt. Bar
row for Leibes & Co., to render as
sistance and take supplies to the lit
tle power schooner Arctic which was
wrecked off Point Barrow last week.
Navigators are waiting anxiously
to push a pasage into the Lady Kin
dersley to rescue the members of the
crew unable to reach the shore from
the ice on account of waters inter
vening. The Kindersley crew was
forced to return 'to the stranded ves
sel.
WARNING FLASHED
BE ON LOOKOUT
FOR RUMRUNNERS
SEATTLE, Aug. 28.—Warnings to
day were flashed to all coast guard
officers throut the coast to guard
against the smuggling of twenty
thousand cases of bonded liquor.
It was tipped off that a rumrun
ner left Victoria, B. C. yesterday
with a liquor cargo reload from the
a Canadian skirmisher which arrived
at the Canadian port from Scotland
recently. ... «■>
BRITISH AND AMERICAN
WARSHIPS TO SHANGHAI
LONDON, Aug. 28.—The foreign
office was advised last night by ca
ble that the British and American
warships at Shanghai are landing
guns and marines.
International volunteers have been
mobilized and the Chinese have oc
cupied railway stations and have cut
off all communication with Peking.
GIRL KILLED; FATHER
HURT IN AUTO CRASH
SALEM, Ore., Aug. 28.—Emma
Mina Hockenberry, 19, of Fresno,
Cal., was instantly killed and B. M.
Hockenberry, her father, suffered
minor sprains in an accident on the
Pacific highway about three miles
south of here early today.
The cause of the accident is un
known, the girl’s father, who was
driving the car, declaring that he
has no recollection of what hap
pened other than the mere fact of
the crash . No other car was near at
the time of the mishap. The acci
dent occurred at a place where the
road makes a turn at the bottom of
a gully.
CIVIL WAR IMINENT
OVER IN FAR EAST
AVER OBSERVERS
SHANGHAI, Aug. 28.—Civil war
for the control of China is tbreaten
2d as a result of the growing rival
ry between the powerful political
factions seems iminent in the opinion
sf foreign observers today.
It is reported that heavy troop,
movements are in progress between
Soo Cow and here. Martial law has
been proclaimed in Kiangau and the
province of Checkiagn.