Heumrd Daily Gntemsty
VOLUME XPIII NUMBER 203
SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 1923
PRICE TEN CENTS
THIRTY-SEVEN COAL MINERS RESCUED
UP TO PRESENT DME
THIRTY-SEVEN MINERS RESCUED
DURING PAST TWENTY-FOUR
HOURS—ONE MISSING
KREM MERER, August 16—Ninety
seven bodies of the entombed miners
were recovered yesterday with one
still missing. Thirty-seven we^e res
cued.
REPUTED OVERSIGHT IN LAUS
ANNE PACT LEAVES ILLICIT
TRADE WIDE OPEN
LAUSANNE August 16—It was sud
denly discovered Tuesday mat The
Hague opium convention had not been
included in the Turkish peace treaty,
which has recently been signed. This
oversight is causing intense concern
in America since all the opium used
in the United States both' for illigiti
mate purposes and legitimate purpos
es, comes from Turkey ancr Persia, and
sufficient pressure has never been put
on either country to make them curb
production or control their exports.
Almost all of the opium smuggled
into the United States comes direct
from Turkey, via the Basle district or
Switzerland.
Neither allies nor America are now
in a good position to enforce The
Hague convention, which establishes
a severe control over opiums in 'i ur
key, which draws a large revenue
from poppy production.
The allied delegates say that to have
forced The Hague convention on rhe
Turks might have delayed the signing
of peace.
TODAY'S FISH PRICES
KETCHIKAN, August 16—Fresh
halibut twelve and niue; sable Tour 1-2
cents.
SEATTLE, August 15—Price noon j
today twelve and one-half cents.
SEATTLE, August 16—The Admiral
Evans left this morning with sixty
four passengers aboard, including the
following for Seward: John R. Thomp
son, C. E. and Thomas Gray, G. Gego
lulus, J. Lenopas, Frank Lazier and
wife, Miss M. Rice, Clias. A. Gragan,
Miss Alice McVay, Mrs. L. W. W est,
Mrs. E. Gattis, S. W. WTnsor, and
wife, R. W\ Huntoon, anc? wife, W. L.
Parish, Elizabeth and Elsie Hamilton,
Bessie Alderson, Mrs. Mary V*. Mad
den, Anna M. Madden.
The steamship Admiral W’atson ar
rived in port this forenoon an<? depart
ed about an hour latev with every ac
comodation on the ship taken. The fol
lowing were outgoing passengers from
Seward:
Henry Lierer, Seattle, Mrs. Frank
Gilbert, Seattle, E. L. Gordon, Seattle,
C. A. Ewald, Seattle, A. Levanzen, Ju
neau, C. Boredale, Juneau, Dr. W. E.
Peterson, wife and children, Ketchi
kan, W. T. Jacobsen, and wife, Valdez,
Ford Rhemes, Cordova, and seven
steerage for Seattle.
Chief mail clerk, Alavah Eames was
an outgoing passenger on today's pas
senger train.
PRESIDENT DOES NOT FAVOR
CANCELLATION WAR DEBTS
WASHINGTON, D. C., August 16—;
Any statement that Coolidge favors
the cancellation of any part or the for-1
eign debts owed the (Jnited States is j
absolutely untrue and unfounded, was
the declaration made by Smoo?, arter
he had a long conference with the
president
“ONLY WAY TO OBTAIN PEACE IS
TO BE EVERY READY FOR
WAR”, SAYS LETTER
WASHINGTON, D. €., August 16
Secretary Weeks made public a hither
to unpublished letter written by Gen
eral Washington to Robert H. Hender
son, shortly after the surrender of the
British general Cornwallis, in I7S5, in
which letter the general said:
“One thing we may be sure of, and
that is that the only certain way to ob
tain peace is to be prepared for war.”
BLAZES ARE HELD CONNECTED
WITH FARM LABOR STRIKE
BELFAST, August 16—Large tires,
believed to be of incendiary origin,
began last night in the Port Law dis
trict of County Waterford. The coun
tryside for several miles was ablaze
and large quantities of hay and straw
and five buildings were destroyed.
The fires are believed to be connect
ed with the strike of farm labor.
TODAY'S WEATHER REPORT
JUNEAU, August 16—Generally fair
tonight and Friday.
Mr. S. K. Sharpies, trainmaster, ar
rived in Seward last night, and will
return to Anchorage via the freight
today.
SENATOR WHEELER BLAMES THE
FARMERS FOR FAILURE TO
TAKE PART IN POLITICS
KALISPELL, Mont., August 16—A
prediction of the failure of the Russian
Soviet government was made by Bur
ton K. Wheeler, United States Sena
tor, who recently visited Russia, in an
address before a farmer’s picnic here
last night. He said that American rec
ognition of the Soviet government un
der present circumstances is "practi
cally impossible.”
Declaring that "the United States is
the most perfect form of government
ever created,” Senator Wheeler char
acterized conditions abroad as a “dam
nable indictment against reactionary
forces,” and said “the United States
is a hundred years ahead of Europe,
and is progressing, while most Euro
pean nations, notably France, are de
cadent.
While he said that co-operative mar
keting by farmers, with special legis
lation to stabalize wheat prices until
foreign markets are reopened, is nec
essary for the restoration of the Am
erican farmer’s prosperity, Senator
Wheeler declared that farmers are
partially to blame for conditions thru
their failure to take an intelligent in
terest in politics.
"You fail to vote,” he said, "and
then complain because the government
does not suit. You get what you de
serve, no better and no worse.”
AMERICANS HELD NOT ALLOWED
TO SEE NEWSPAPERMEN AT
ALL—HAVE PROTECTION
EDERBACH, August 16—Hoover
Griffiths and Victor Nielson, two Am
ericans arrested after an attempt to
kidnap Grover Cleveland Bergdol, a
U. S. draft evader, are held in separ
ate cells in the Bosbach jail, and are
not allowed to receive newspaper men.
Take Precautionary Measures
WASHINGTON, D. C., August 16—
James A. McFarland, National Com
mander of the Disables American Vet
1 erans, called upon Secretary Hughes
today and asked him to “take every
precaution” for the safety of Griffith’s
one of the two American imprisoned
in Germany, in connection with the at*
tempt, several days ago, to kidnap
Bergdoll, the draft evader.
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NAME BE CHANGED TO THAT OF
NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, IS
ANNOUNCEMENT MADE
INDIANAPOLIS, August 16—Nego
tions have been completed for the tak
ing over of the Valparaiso University,
! at Valparaiso, Indiana, by the Ku Klux
Klan, it was announced here today by
I Milton Elrod, editor of the Fiery Cross
the official publication of the Klan.
The name will be changed to that
of the National University.
ASSAILANT OF WOMAN AT SAC
RAMENTO HAS BULLET HOLE
IN HEAD
SACRAMENTO, Cal., August 16—
The body of Frank Blasha, alias Stan
ley, who fatally shot Mrs. Mary Blair,
at her home here last night was tound
at South Side park today with a bul
let hole in his head. Beside the body
was a pistol with three spent cartridg
es. Blasha, actuated by jealousy, the
police believe, entered a room in the
home of Mrs. Blair, where she and
Henry Shea were sitting, and fired 2
shots, one of which mortally wounded
Mrs. Blair. Blasha fled in an automo
| bile. Blasha served a term in the Ne
vada State prison at Carson City,, ac
cording to the police, for roobery com
mitted at Reno, in 1915.
EX-WIFE OF HARRY THAW HELD
DRY LAW VIOLATOR
ATLANTIC CITY, August 16—Eve
lyn Nesbit, former wife of Harry K.
Thaw, and A1 McDonald, manager of
the El Prinkipo cafe, were arrested in
a raid early today on charges of vio
lating the state prohibition enforce
ment £Ct.
Four quarts of whiskey and several
bottles of choice wines were seized In
the cafe where Evelyn has appeared
as a dancer.
Both were lodged in the city jail, but
later gained their release on posting
$1000 bail. Evelyn gave her age as 32.
U. S. ID MEXICO
Oi FRIENDLY
FOOTING AGAIN
AFTER SIGNING WARREN-ROA AC
CORD, COMMISSION AD
JOURNS
MEXICO CITY, August 16—The U.
S. and Mexican mixed commission, ad
journed today, sin die, after signing
the Warren-Roa accord, which likely
will result in the resumption of diplo
matic relations between the two coun
tries.
Wayne and Warren, who concluded
the work at the pre-recognition confei
once, left last night for Washington,
aboard a special train to submit to
Coolidge and Hughes, a it cord or the
negotiations.
SE VALERA WILL BE
GOVERNMENT EXPECTS ACTION
BY FREE STATERS OVER AR
REST OF CHIEF
DUBLIN, August 16—De Valera will
probably be brought from Limerick,
where he is imprisoned to the Mt. Joy
jail, in a few days. Events in the Free
States during the next fortnight prob
ably will influence government action
with regard to the republican leader,
whose arrest has created a profound
impression in County Clare, and
throughout Munster.
TROUBLE ON STOCK CAR ASCRIB
ED TO I. W. W. ORGANIZERS
OMAHA, Neb. August 16—Wiley W.
Jones, Omaha, a Chicago, Burlington,
and Quincy railroad brakeman, was in
a hospital today suffering from bullet
wounds which he said were inflicted
during a pistol duel on top of a mov
ing stock train near Gretna, Neb., this
morning, between a transient and two
alleged I. W. W. organizers, precipi
tated when the former refused the or
ganizers’ demands to join the organi
zation and pay membership dues. The
transient was unhurt.
Omaha police rounded up about 20
men when the train reached here, ar
resting two for investigation.
SHANGHAI SMUGGLING
CASE IS POSTPONED
HEARING OF AMERICANS HELD
INVOLVED IN PLOT POST
PONED
SHANGHAI, August 16—Postpon
ment until September of a hearing of
the cases of Lawrence H. Kearney, C.
C. Stein, and the latter’s wife, Ameri
cans, who are alleged to have figured
in a plot to smuggle 160,000 rifles into
China from Russia and Japan oecame
necessary today when Judge Lobin
gier and officers of the Chinese de
partment of the United States court,
departed northward to open sessions
in Tientsin and Harbin.
Kearney is held here in bail of $500.
Stein, who was arrested at Mukden
by United States consular agents, was
brought back here today, arraigned,
and his bail fixed at $1000.
NORMAN DAWN, FAMOUS
DIRECTOR ON THE ALASKA
Norman Dawn, veteran cameraman
and producer of California will be an
arrival in Seward on the Alaska.
Mr. Dawn is paying Alaska a visit
in hopes of securing suitable locations
for some of his northern plays, which
he hopes to produce this coming win
ter.
Norman Dawn is one of the veterans
of the moving picture industry, begin
ning as a cameraman in 1904. During
the following years he produced a ser
ies of well-known plays, such as “The
Adorable Savage,” “Thunder Island,”
“The Vermilion Pencil,” and among
his latest, “The Son of the Wolf.” Mr.
Dawn has made an extensive study of
the motion picture game, and is in the
North intending to make it his future
production center.
MANY PRISONERS RELEASED TO
DAY BY FASCISTI—MOST ALL
CRIMINALS
BERLIN, August 16—A dispatch to
the Deutche Allgereine, Zeitung, from
Halle, says a large mob today stormed
the jail at Zietz, smashing doors and
opening prison cells, liberating all the
prisoners in the building. Most of the
released men were criminals ol the
worse type.
The stearship Alaska arrived in
Cordova at one a. m. this morning, and
is expected in Seward sometime to
morrow night.
“ANTI FASCIST MEETINGS IN GER
MANY TO BE HELD INDOORS
BERLINI, August 16—The commun
ists have decided to cafl off their open
air “anti-fascist” demonstrations.
They will confine their protest meet
ings, which will be under rigid police
surveillance all over Germany.
WAR DEPARTMENT AT CAPITAL
UNDER IMPRESSION BACK
IN UNITED STATES
MEXICO CITY, August 16—Consid
erable mystery surrounds the case of
the American rancher, R. A. Newman,
who was reported killed by bandits
in Mexico. The American embassy re
ceived a report from the consul at Tor
reon of May 5, to the effect that New
man, an American, had been kidnap
ed by the Durango bandit leader, Juan
Galindo, shortly after another Ameri
can, Oliver W. Krull, had escaped
from Galindo, where they had held
him a fortnight for ransom.
Letters signed with Newman’s sig
nature, dated Durango mountains, on
the fourth of June, were received on
June 15th by a local newspaper, stat
ing he had been kidnapped April 25th
by colonel Jesus Carrillo and Lieuten
ant Galindo and was being held for
30,400 pesos ransom. It was added that
Newman was being badly treated.
Shortly afterwards press reports
from Durango asserted that Galindc
had been murdered by another lieu
tenant, Leon Chavez. An official war
department statement later said that
Galindo had been killed by federal
troops.
Inquiry at the war department brot
forth the statement that it was the of
ficial opinion Newman never was cap
tured, but that he returned to the U,
S.
TESTIMONY TODAY SHOWS THAT
MOTHER OF ACTRESS WAS
IN LOVE WITH TAYLOR
MARY NOT “MERE CIO
Newspaper Man Claims He is Father
of Mary and that She is thirty,
and Not a Mere Child.
LOS ANGELES, August 16—During
testimony taken today in the re-open
ing of the William Desmond-Taylor
murder case, the assertion was made
by Mary Miles Mnuer, that her moth
er, Mrs. Oha'doOe Shelby. also and ac
tress, was despera'.-dy in love w::h ihe
murdered man. She also s.ated that
Mrs. Shelby was one of the last per
sons to be seen with the director.
The opening of the case is causing
considerable comment here, and it is
expected that this trial will clear up
the murder mystery.
LOS ANGELES, August 16—Homer
Riley, a newspaper proofreader of the
Dallas, Texas News, came forward
this afternoon and made the announce
ment that he is the father ot Mary
Miles Minter, and that she is thirty
years eid, and not a “mere child’’ as
claimed by her mother, wno is being
sued by the daughter to recover a mil
lion noliars made by the actress.
Fine ciiy
NEWSPAPERS REGARD BRITISH
ARMING OF SINGAPORE WITH
ALARM
HONOLL LL , August 16—Powerful
Japanese newspapers, regarded as the
government mouthpieces, are combin
ed editorially in expressing fear that
there is to be a war between Japan
and England, according to Tokio dis
patches publis ehidanNII I figii
patches, published in a Honolulu Jap
anese daily. This fear takes the basis
that the fortification of Singapore by
Gieat Britain will pave the way for
, another world war.
commenting on the British decision
to establish a huge naval base at Sing
apore, the Tokio Nichi Nichi, says:
“Does not Japan fear that the for
tification of Singapore disturbs the
peace and presents opportunity for an
other world war?” The Tokio Jiji, an
other conservative paper, comments
editorially “It is regrettable that some
ot the British statesmen consider the
Japanese empire as an imaginary en
emy.
FEET TIED TOGETHER AND HEAD
SEVERELY BEATEN BY MAN
—
AMARILLO, Tex., August 16—With
his feet tied together and his head
severely beaten the body of Parea
Diego, 63 years old, formerly Catholic
prient, was found in his home here to
night.
Nurse Perry reports that Mr. Nash,
who is in the hospital at Anchorage
under the care of Dr. Beason, is im
proving rapidly and wishes to inform
his many friends that he is anxious to,
and will, return to Seward as soon as
possible.