VOLUME XIX. NUMBER ITS.
SEWARD, ALASK. WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 1924.
PRICE TEN CENTS
JUSTICE CAVERLY, TRYING SLAiERS OF FRANKS, IS THREATENED
CONFESSIONS OF MURDERERS
READ IN OPEN COURT; GOVT.
SURE TO OBTAIN CONVICTION
Judge Caverly Threatened by Letters from All Over Nation
If He Does Not Order Death Penalty—Leopold
and Loeb Accuse Each Other of Deed.
CHICAGO, July 30—Hundreds of letters, scores of them con
tainin': threats of death or other harm, unless he sentences Leopold
ihml Loeb to death, have been received by Chief Justice Caverly of the
United States Criminal Court, it beeam known today.
The threats have been sent in by letter and telephone calls, and
reached a climax today when Caverly was routed from his bed by a
lorn* distance call from New York, from a man who claimed he rep
resented ninety thousand signers of a petition in New York, demand
ing that the death penalty be imposed on the murderers.
TESTIMONY OF LEOPOLD READ IN OPEN COURT
CHICAGO, July 30—Leopold and Loeb, pleaders of guilty to
the kidnapping and murder of Robert Franks, today heard read in
open court their first denials to the crime, and then their confessions
to the murder. In reading Leopold’s confession it showed him as
accusing Loeb of having struck the fatal blow on the boys head, and
Loeb’s confession in which he depicted himself as the driver of the
car. Neither defendant glanced at each other as this was read.
LOEB ACCUSES LEOPOLD OF COMMITTING MURDER
CHICAGO, July 30—Loeb, according to evidence read in court
this afternoon, accused Leopold of having killed Young Franks when
the two were brought face to face by the States Attorney, after each
It.' 1 heard the confessions read this morning. These confessions were
made the night of Decoration Day when each was was questioned by
the District Attorney. This morning’s record showed Leopold as ac
cusing Loeb of the murder.
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HOPED TO GET OFF WITH LIFE IMPRISONMENT
CHICAGO, July 30—According to the testimony in the Leopold
Loeb murder trial now in progress here, it develops that Nathan
Leopold hoped to be let off with life imprisonment by a friendly judge.
The coroners declared yesterday that the blood stains on the tape
wrapped chisel, found near the scene of the murder, were made from
human blood, and that the stains appearing on the automobile robe,
foot board, and on his trousers and boots, were from the same cause.
NEW TERMINAL IS
TAKING SHAPE AT
SEATTLE HARBOR
SEATTLE, July 30—The site for
the extensive new terminals of the
E’acific Steamship company, to be
erected betwen Connecticut and Mas
sachusetts streets at Elliot Bay, is
now the scene of great activity. With j
the starting of channel dredging op- j
erations a large force of men have
found employment. R. C. Brennan,!
opei’atinb manager of the company is
in change of the work.
Many new features, the result of
experience in handling freight at the
original terminals, will be installed for
th?company. Excellent facilities for
the handling and comfort of passen
gers will be provided, according to the
completed plans.
ENGLAND GAINS LITTLE
FROM GERMAN TOURISTS |
LONDON, July 30.—However large
may be the numbers of Germans
flocking to Italy, Switzerland, France
and other countries of continental
Europe, and however lavishly they
may be spending money in these
places, England as yet is not receiv
ing any great influx of German tour
ists nor profiting to any noticeable
extent from their spending proclivit
ies.
The reason is twofold. First, Eng
land will not let them in and, sec
ondly, the Gennans do not think Eng
land is much of a tourist resort and
do not care to come. So far as any
commercial invasion of England is
concerned, that is regarded as impos
siblfc?%?id the Germans have not even
attempted it.
Reports from Italy are that more
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than 150,000 German tourists have
flocked into that country this year,
buying extensively and spending lav
ishly.
George A. Parks, chief of the field
division of the general land office
and assistant supervisor of surveys
and public lands, was a Seward pas
senger on the steamer Yukon en
route to his Anchorage headquarters
after an absence of several weeks in
Southeastern Alaska where he was
detained longer than, he had expected.
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BON VOYAGE!
Marguerite Clark Williams with huge
bouquet of flowers presented to her
as she was leaving New York for a
trip to Europe.
AMERICAN WOMAN TENNIS PLAYERS ABROAD FOR BIG GAINS
Left to right—Mrs. Jessup, Mrs. Mallory, Miss Gcus, Miss Helen Wills
and the captain of the team, Miss Wightman.
GILPATRICK RETURNS
FROM MNING PROPERTY
IN MOOSE PASS DST.
John Gilpatrick and partner, Mr.
Brown, of Anchorage, who have been
doing their annual assessment work
on their gold Quartz property in th?
Moose Pass district, returned to town
on last night’s train, after completing
their work, which has taken them
about two months. Three men were
employed by Gilpatrick and Brown in
doing the work.
Mr. Gilpatrick’s mining property,
which is considered one of the lead
ing quartz properties of the district,
is showing up better than ever. Sev
eral new leads were uncovered this
season and all of them showing up
good.
Mr. MacMillan, whose property is
situated near that of John Gilpatrick,
is busy now, taking ore from his mine
on the hill and transporting it down
to the mill. This property is also
i showing up well, according to Mr. Gil
patrick.
R. B. Heastan, who resides at Moosg
Pass, is putting in a busy season, en
gaged in building a road from Mile 15
on the Moose-Pass Sunrise trail, to
his property, which adjoins that of
Gilpatrick and Brown. Mr. Heastan
suffered a serious setback in his ef
forts to develop his property, when
a snowslide came down last spring and
buried his mill, making it impossible
for him to go ahead with actual de
velopment work until next season.
Joe Wilson has a crew of four or
| five men with him now working his
| rich placer claims.
! There are thirty-two men employ
| ed building the road, which starts at
Moose Pass station and will continue
I to Hope. Twelve surveyors are engag
ed in the work of laying out the route
of the road, which will be completed
as far as Mile 20 this year. It is
stated that the greatest grade will
not be over seven per cent.
This road will prove a great boon
to the district and will encourage
more extensive development of the
properties already discovered as well
as offering great inducements to the!
prospector.
Mr. Gilpatrick states that many peo-'
pie have visited the district this year
and everyone expressed the belief that
they had seen the most beautiful coun
try in the world.
THREEliONTHS COFFEE
SUPPLY NOW IN THE U. S.
NEW YORK, July 29—“Even if the
political outbreak in Sao Paulo, Bra
zil, grows more serious than the most
recent cables indicate, the American
coffee drinker may find comfort in the
fact that there is at least a three
month’s supply of coffee available for
the United States,” is the statement;
made today by Felix Coste, execu
tive secretary of the National Coffee
Roaster’s Association.
“It is estimated that there is about
a sixty day supply in the hands of
American wholesalers. The visible
supply also includes 355,799 bags of
Brazilian and 404,242. bags of mild
coffees in American warehouses and
627,400 bafjs of Brazilian coffees
afloat in the country. At the pres-i
ent rate of consumption, roughly nine
hundred thousand bags a month, this
total in warehouse and afloat of 1,
387,441 bags represents an additional
month and one-half’s supply.'
The situation in Brazil throws un
certainty upon the future coffee sup
ply. There are four Brazilian coffee
shipping ports, Santos,, the largest
and the seaport of Sao Paulo, where
the outbreak seems to center; Rio Jan
erio, Victoria and Bahia. We have fig
ures for only the two former. The
warehouses at Santos contain 1,236,
000 bags and those in Rio Janerio,
296,000 bags.
A cable today states that Santos
is safely in the hands of government
forces. If this situation continues,
shipments from that port will prob
ably continue as long as the supply
lasts. The same likelihood of con
ued »shipments holds good for Rio.
“If the outbreak spreads, this coun
try will find itself deprived of its
principal coffee source. For the past
two years Brazil has been building big
interior coffee warehouses capable of
holding 5,000,000 bags. These ware
houses contain not only 3,000,000 bags
of the old coffee crop, but such por
tion of the new crop as had been har
vested when the outbreak began. Nat
urally the contents of these warehous
es is not available as long as railroad
traffic is interrupted.”
FRANK REEDY PARTY
AFRAID WILL MISS EVANS;
GO DIRECT TO BOAT
Although the Frank Reedy party
had promised to spend several hours
in Seward on their return from the
Interior, the party, under the guidance
of Frank Reedy, went direct from the
train to the Admiral Evans, and left
immediately on their southbound trip,
The Frank Reedy, party were delay
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JULIA HOYT FILES DIVORCE
SUIT
Julia Hoyt, nee Julia Robbins, fam
ous New York society beauty, for
mer leading woman for William Fav
ersham in revival of “The Squaw
Man,” and movie actress. Mrs. Hoyt
has just filed suit in Paris to divorce
Lydig Hoyt, New York clubman, to
whom she was maried in 1914, when
I he was only 17 years of age... After
many triumphs in society... amateur
theatricals, Mrs. Hoyt went on... the
professional stage three jyears.. ago.
AMERICAN FLYERS LEAVE TODAY
ON LAST LAP OF LONG JOURNEY;
HAVE AUTHORITY CHOOSE ROUTE
Aviators Given Authority to Choose Own Route in Case they
Meet With Obstacles in Present journey— Leave
England for Orkneys Today
BROUGH, ENGLAND, Jul}>30—The American aviators, contin
uing their world flight this morning on the last lap aeross the At
lantic, hopped of at ten-forty-four for Kirkwal, the capital of the Ork
ney Islands, off the northern coast of Scotland.
, UNEXPECTED ICE FIELDS FOUND
WASHINGTON, D- C. July 30—If Lieutenant Smith and his
; fellow flyers of the Army globe-girdling expedition, run into dunger
!«>us ice conditions in Greenland, they are authorized to change their
itinerary for safer lanes without consulting Washington, the Air Ser
vice announced today
The reason for this authority being granted was the receipt of a
report that the ice drift from Spitzenberg to Cape Farewell, at the
I southermost point of Greenland, has attained a width of one hundred
miles and is impenetrable to any vessel except ice boats.
ARGENTINE AVIATOR LEAVES ROME
ROME, July 30—Major Zanno, Argentine aviator, hopped off
this morning for Corfu on his attempted flight around the world.
I
! .
ed in Anchorage over night, leaving
there at seven this morning and stop
ping an hour for lunch at Mile 23
As preparations had been made for
{their entertainment here and several
cars reserved for trips over the road,!
some of us are beginning to lose
! faith in these tourist parties, especial- j
1 ly those from Texas.
LONDON, July 30—Practically all
persons implicated in the killing of
Imbrie, the American vice consul at
Tehex-an, have been arx*ested, the Per
| sian legation announced.
Join the Chamber of Commerce.
WATSON LEAVES FOR
SEWARD YESTERDAY
SEATTLE, July 30—The Admiral
Watson left Seattle yesterday mom
for Seward and Anchorage with nine
ty-one passengers aboard including 48
round-trippers, those for Seward being
listed as follows: F. G. McDonald, J.
McElmer, Alfred Ryan, N. H. Nicker
son, W. V. Certon, and L. Benarskey.
The steamship Admiral Evans left
about three-thirty on her southbound
trip.
LAFOLLETTE CHARGES SUGAR PROBE
I COMPLETED AND THAT DEALERS
| ARE INTIMIDATING COMMITTEE
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 30—Charging that the sugar inter
ests have been powerful enough to delay through the highest official
channels the final decision and report of the tariff committee and that
attempts have been made to intimidate and otherwise obstruct the ac
tion of that body, Senator Lafollette has asked the committee to send
him a record in connection with the investigations made by that body
into the present tariff and duties on sugar. lie charges that the in
vestigation ordered by the Senate eighteen months ago, has been com
pleted, but for some unexplained reason had been witheld.
GOVERNOR BRYAN OBJECTS TO
MOBILIZATION CITIZENS FOR WAR
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 30—Governor Bryan of Nebraska
has drawn rather an extraordinary inference from what seems to bo
a perfectly clear document, the War Department declared in a state
ment answering the Governor’s criticism of Defense Day programs of
September 12. Bryan’s statement that he does not favor any plan
contemplating the mobilization of citizens for a National Holiday de
voted to the preparation for war, drew a reply that such inferences
were a source of surprise to the war department.
FRANCE WILL WITHDRAW TPOOPS
FROM RUHR DISTRICT OCTOBER IS
LONDON, July 30—Under a preserve from aff American-Britisli
banking group France has yielded her rights to separate action in
Germany, and Premier Herriot proposes to offer the military evacua
tion of the Ruhr District October 15th. This information was re
ceived from unquestionable sources today and is given as reliable.