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MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS.
VOLUME XX. NUMBER 294.
SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1925.
PRICE TEN CENTS
I MITCHELL BEGINS DEFENSE IN COURTMARTIAL
PROCEEDINGS BY DRIVING FROM BENCH
THREE MEMBERS OF THE COURT
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 28- (/P)—Brigadier Gen
eral Mitchell began his defense today, in the first day of
his courtmartial trial, by driving from the bench three
members of the court including its president, Major Gen
eral Charles P. Summerall, who withdrew after he had
been charged with prejudice against the defendant.
Brigadier General A. 0. Bowley was disqualified by
the court after the defense challenged him. The counsel
^ for the defense quoted from statements made by Summer
all before the President’s air board in which speech Bow
ley opposed a separate air department, which was favored
by Mitchell.
Summerall said in resigning from the board, “I
learned for the first time, during the air board hearing, of
the enmity of Mitchell toward me. The report he made
is untrue, unfair and ignorant. This is not the place to
prove the efficiency of the air service and the Hawaiian
t department. I cannot sit as a member of this court un
der the circumstances, and I beg the court to excuse me
from attendance.”
A preemptory challenge unseated Major General Fred
W. Sladen, superintendent of the military academy at the
Point. This challenge permitted no argument.
UNFROCKED BISHOP
. PREACHESNEGRO
MEETING
CHICAGO, Oct. 28. (/P)—William
Montgomery Brown, unfrocked bishop
of the protestant Episcopal church,
shouted before an American Negro La
bor Congress last night, “Long live
communism. Long live the American
negroes, on an equal with the Caucas
ians. There is more hope for work
| ers of the international labor defense
movement than any other. You Dar
winian, and Marxian evolutionists have
opened my eyes. I hope you open the
eyes of these poor blind bishops.”
SALVAGECREW
FIND $500000 IN
1 GOLD IN OCEAN
TOKIO, Oct. 28. —Gold bullion val
ued at $500,000, which has lain at the
bottom of the Mediterranean Sea,
near Port Said, since the Japanese
steamship Yasaka Maru was torpe
does by a German submarine in No
j vember, 1915, has been salvaged, ac
cording to word received here. The
salvage crew, which was sent from I
Japan by the Japan Salvage com
pany, reports that the bullion is in
good condition.
$ ATHENS, Oct. 28. (^P)—Greece,
who was ordered to evacuate the
Bulgarian border by the League of
Nations has heeded the order and
her guardsmen have been withdrawn.
aumoNfjti
tW.YOItf
SENATOR CAMERON INVOLVED
IN SUIT
The U. S. Government has brought
203 civil suits in Arizona in order to
dispossess Cameron’s friends of min
ing claims in Grand Canyon, Colorado
River Basin, which gives the holders
control of the Boulder dam water pow
er development. Singularly enough,
no one of the suits mention Senator
Cameron’s name—although it is gen
erally known that he is involved.
ATASCADERO, Calif., Oct. 28. (#)
—Scott C. Bone, former governor of
Alaska has completed arrangements
here to take over the editorial direc
tion of the Americanization Maga
zine.
CHARLES DAVIS
ARRESTED FOR
SALE OF BONDS
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PROMINENT CLUB MAN AND EN
GINEER OF SEATTLE—SAYS
SEVERED RELATIONS
SEATTLE, Oct. 28. (JP)— Charles
Davis, prominent club man and en
gineer was arrested today on a war
rant in connection with his indictment
in New York, alleging unlawful sale of
bonds on the Alaska Anthracite rail
road. of which Davis is president, 'yhe
deputy marshal, serving the warrants,
is seeking George V. Whittle, general
manager of the railroad. The pair are
charged with unlawful sale of part of i
a million and a half dollar bond issue
which was authorized by the Inter
state Commerce Commission, with the
provision no bonds would be sold un
til a copy of the mortgage had been
filed with the commissioner for at
least ten days. The commission also
ordered that the bonds would not be
sold less than a certain percentage of
the par value of the stock. The war
rant charges that these provisions had
been violated.
The railroad is twenty-one miles out
of Cordova. Davis contends he sev
ered relations with the company in
1922.
TWO AMERICAN
HUNTERS FINED
BRITISH COLUMBIA
VANCOUVER, Oct. 28. (^—Corne
lius V. Whitney and Harry P. Da
vison, New York millionaires, have
been fined $100 and costs, with the
option of thirty days in jail, for vio
lating the provincial game regula
tions. Two ham roasts of venison
are the evidence produced agaainst
the hunters. They went into the
mountains of the southern interior of
British Columbia several days ago.
WOULD CONSULT FRIENDS
BEFORE FORMING CABINET
PARIS, Oct. 2S. (JP)—Painleve told
Doumergue that he would consult his
friends and party leaders before ac
cepting the task of forming the new
cabinet. It is understood Painleve
told several of his friends he would
recommend the President chosing
Herriot in his place.
342 WHALES
CAUGHT DURING
LAST SEASON
VICTORIA, B. C., Oct. 28. (/P)—
With the closing of the Naden Har
bor station, October 10, successful
operations of the Consolidated Whal
ing corporation have been brought to
a close for the season. Three hund
red and forty-two whales had been
taken up to the end of September.
OSTRICHES NOW
KILLED FOR SKINS
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PORT ELIZABETH, South Africa,
Oct. 28. (JP)—'Because of the lack of
demand overseas for their feathers
ostriches are being slaghtered whole
sale for their skins and flesh.
The skins are used for fancy shoes,
while theflesh is dried for the use
of Rand natives. In, the Sunday Riv
er district alone 6,060 birds have been
slaughtered recently.
KEYSTONE VIEW CO- NEW VO*f?
FORMER FREMIER RAPS TARIFF
POLICY PRESENT PREMIER
Arthur Meighen, leader of the Con
servatives of Canada, and former Pre
mier who has opened his attack on
Premier MacKenzie King, claiming
that King h.30 not handled Canadian
tariff properly. When 65 other nations
were raising tariffs, Canada has reduc
ed hers under King, and while the U.
S. was increasing to nearly fifty per
cent more tariff Mr. King has been
slowly reducing tariffs. Mr. Meighen
claims that Canada is the one nation
in the universe that needs tariff more
than any other nation.
EIGHT INCHES .
OF SNOW IN
SOUTH MONTANA
DENVER, Oct. 28. (JP)—With south
ern Montana under eight inches of
snow and the temperature hovering
around nine above zero, a half million
dollars in unharvested sugar beets are
in danger of freezing. School child
ren and businessmen are aiding the
farmers in an attempt to save the
crop.
HALFBREED SENTENCED HANG
VANCOUVER, Oct. 28. (^—Con
victed of hacking to death Frank Fos
si, a north-Vancouver storekeeper on
June 22nd, Charles Henry White, 23
year-old halfbreed, was sentenced to
hang on January 14. White was ar
rested within twenty-four hours after
the murder, while spending the mon
ey he secured when he robbed Fossi.
NEW RACEHAS
BEEN REPORTED
WESTERN SIBERIA;
MOSCOW, Oct. 28.—Discovery of
a new race is reported by Prpfessor
B. N. Gorodoff, the Russian explor
er who recently traversed Western
Siberia.
He found on the River Pura, he
states, five clans containing more
than 600 people, having a language
different from any of the tribes of
the Western Siberia jungles, and
differing from the adjacent Samo
yede tribes by their dark hair and
complexions.
They have little intercourse with
their neighbors, and only a few
engage in the fall fishing beyond the
borders of their own country. They
call themselves the “forest people."
Madame R. P. Mitussova, a col
laborator of the Russian adademy
of science, is now on her way to
the Pura district to follow up the
professor’s discovery.
5
THOUSANDS
nr:> r ix * r,
DEAD NEAR
DAMASCUS
O' i* 5
WOMEN AND CHILDREN
ARE EVACUATING
THE CITY
BIERUT, Syria, Oct. 28.
(/P)—Women and children of
Damascus today are evacu
ating the city under the in
structions of the general of
fice Two regiments of cav
alry sent from Morocco are
expected to arrive this week
to aid in quelling disturb
ances.
Unrest is general through
out the country surrounding
Damascus, and the Druse
tribesmen, are growing more
active daily. It is understood
the authorities have asked
Paris for reinforcements.
"W;r ^ J. „
THOUSAND KILLED
LONDON, Oct. 28. —Sev
eral small bands of French
| refugees arriving in Jerusa
lem today from Damascus
reported a thousand people
had been killed during the
past week. They appeared
only mildly surprised when
shown radio reports putting
the losses at twenty-five
thousand.
NABESNA RAMS
KETCHIKAN DOCK
KETCHIKAN, Oct. 28. (£>)—When
the engines failed on the steamer Na
besna, the sfyip rammed the Ketchi
kan wharf. The boat was stopping
to take on water for 76 live reindeer
the vessel is carrying. The dock and
boat are slightly damaged with no cas
ualties resulting.
Captain Johannes Johansen avoided
striking an apartment building on the
wharf by dropping his anchor.
WOLVES EXACT
HEAVY TOLL IN
RUSSIA IN YEAR
MOSCOW, Oct. 28. —Special de
tachments of wolf hunters equipped
with traps, poison, guns and dogs,
some riding and some on foot, are
being sent out by the Commissariat
for Agriculture to combat the un
precedented plague of v|^ves which
have already destroyed this year
nearly 400,000 head of cattle and
horses in Russia alone.
In many portions of the country
the wolves have destroyed one-fifth
of the whole yearly increase of cat
tle. During the current year to
late in Russia alone they have kill
ed 52,684 horses, 50,253 cattle and
550,000 sheep, goats and other small
er domestic animals.