Hemard Bale Gatemny
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS.
VOLUME XX. NUMBER 294
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SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1925.
PRICE TEN CENTS
MITCHELL MUST
FACE CHARGE OF
MISCONDUCT
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 29. (/P)—
Mitchell’s pleas for immunity from
trial were overruled by the court to
day, which held that when Mitchell
charged the War and Navy officers
with criminal and almost treasonable
conduct in their administration of the
air service, he committed an offense
against military discipline of the U.
S. Army.
Colonel Sherman Mooreland, Judge
Advocate told the court the .whole sys
tem of military discipline would be
upset by the acceptance of Mitchell’s
contention he was only exercising his
constitutional right of free speech.
The Judge declared the defense over
looked the fact of “that element which
was entered into the contract made,
when a civilian becomes a member of
a military establishment.” He ar
gued that without the right of military
discipline the army would become a
mob in which “the major could lam
poon the Colonel and the private could
berate the captain before the com
pany.”
Only Exercising Rights
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 29. {{P)
■—Mitchell told the court yesterday
he was merely obeying an order of his
Commander-in-Chief, the President,
who told the graduating class at the
“aval academy at Annapolis on June
v 3rd “Officers of the navy are given
the fullest latitude in expressing their
beliefs before citizens, but are sub
ject to requirements of not betraying
^ confidential affairs, which would be
detrimental to the service.” Mitchell
contended he only tried, by sweeping
criticism, to arouse the country to the
jealizataion that the navy and army
were not “in keeping with the great
aess and dignity of the country.”
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 29. (£)
—Congressman Reid, Illinois, Mitchell
counsel moved that the charges be
stricken from the records, declaring
“If Mitchell is guilty of any offense,
the commanding officer should charge
that at the time.” Mooreland replied
“This is a Presidential court.” The
charges were signed by an officer of
the judge advocate general’s office, and
an officer of the war department. The
President designated an officer to act
as the accuser, as he has a right under
his position as commander in chief of
the Army and Navy.”
Reid said in reply to this, “I hate
to think this is a case where necessity
knows no law. What strange power
are we facing? This is indeed an ab
normal case.”
Scarcity of Whales Causes
Station To Be Dismantled
PREVIOUS YEARS WHALE CATCH
AVERAGED FROM 200 TO
300 A SEASON.
SEATTLE, Oct. 29. (/P)—The Bay
€ity whale station of the American
Pacific Whaling Company, one of a
few remaining in the United States,
is being dismantled. Lack of whales
in tbe ocean tributary to Grays Har
bor necessitated the shut-dowTn. Only
21 whales have been brought into
the station since the opening of the
season last April. In previous years
the catch averaged from 200 to 300
whales a season.
Radical changes in ocean currents
along the north and south Pacific
-coast have made new fedeing zones.
PAINLEVE TO CONTINUE ON
PARIS, Oct. 29. (/P)—Painlve sub
mitted the Doumergue ministry, ex
cluding Caillaux. Painleve continues
on as Premier and assumes the finan
cial office.
Family Reunion in Finland
1000 Descendants Attend
SOME CAME FROM THE UNITED
STATES AND CANADA; 70
PERCENT PEASANTS
HELSINGFORS, Oct. 29. (JP)—At
a recent family reunion in Central
Finland there assembled 1,000 des
cendants of the family, whose rec
ords date back to 1412. A number
of those present came from distant
countries, including the United States
and Canada. A remarkable feature
of the la^ge gathering -was that ap
proximately 70 per cent were peas
ants as were their progenitors.
The event aroused so much interest
in Finland that the government sent
Premier Tulenlieimo and Archbishop
Gummerus as its representatives.
BATTERY WILL
DRIVE CAR FOR
OVER TEN DAYS
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j LENINGRAD.—A scientific discov
ery that may have a revolutionary
effect on industry is claimed by A.
F. Joffe of the academy of science.
Experimenting in his owm labora
tory, Joffe says he succeeded in ob
taining a tremendous concentration
of electric energy in a very small ob
ject. The accumulator which he con
structed and charged with energy
“sufficient to drive the most power
ful motor car for ten days” is small
enough to go into a waistcoat pock
et.
He declares his experiments show
the possibilities of still greater con
centration of electrical energy, and
expresses the hope that it soon may
be possible to apply the discovery to
general industries.
STRANGE MURDER
CASE DISCOVERED
CHICAGO HOME
CHICAGO, Oct. 29. (/P)—Attired in
feminine clothing, a woman’s wig on
his head, the body of Edwin Gardner
j twenty-eight years old, was found
| hanging from a rafter in the attic .of
! his parents home. His father found
| the body with the wrists tied together
i to his feet, several inches above the
I floor. Police said suicide was im
posible, as a man could not binu his
hands in such a shape and hang him
self. Mother and son were alone that
afternoon.
Japan Combats illiteracy
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20 Percent Examined for Army Were
Unable to Read and Write Name
TOKIO, Oct. 29. (£>)—During the
conscript examinations, the authori
ties discovered that more than 20
percent of the young men examined
for the army were unable to write
their own names. Consequently the
department of education has decided
to establish a system of circulating
classes for the illiterate youth of the
Empire.
SHOULD BETTER CONDITIONS
ST. LOUIS, Oct. 29. (£>)—'The high
est function of American industry is
not to make profit but to bring about
the betterment of conditions for em
ployers and workers, the National As
sociation of Manufacturers said in a
resolution opposing the federal amend
ment of the Child Labor Law. They
asked a general tax reduction and a
mote liberal immigration policy.
FLOATING STORE
BACK FROM LONG
TRIP IN ARCTIC
SEATTLE, Oct. 29. (IP)—A dispatch
from Edmonton, Alberta, related that
Alex Hamilton of Baclibiche, had re
turned from Aklavik, one hundred and
twenty-five miles beyond the Arctic
Circle, with his boat fitted iike a cro
ceteria, which he shipped to the Atha
basca river. He sold seventeen tons
of dry goods and groceries on his four
thousand mile trip.
ROBBERS SHOOT BANK EMPLOYE
BUFFALO, Oct. 29. (IP)— Robbers
shot a Bank of Buffalo employee last
evening and escaped with S93.000 in
an automobile.
RIOTING IN SYRIA CONTINUES
ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, Oct. 29. (IP)—
A refugee Syrian from Bierut reiter
ated the report that rioting was going
on in Damascus, caused by French pa
rading the bodies of rebels killed in
the neighborhood.
ANCHORAGE KLAN
FORMED STAMP
OUT DISORDERS
ANCHORAGE, Oct. 29. (JP)—'The
first appearance of the Ku Klux Klan
in this vicinity took place yesterday,
when seventy persons including some
of the most prominent men in the city,
organized to stamp out law infractions.
Matt Hugger, a prospector on Mills
Creek in the Fairview district struck
pay running a dollar and sixty cents
to the pan. The discovery was made
25 miles west of Cache creek diggings.
Three Million Fascists Now
Answer Mussolini’s Call
|rA£>UISM, Uni L Y A H A IN Ur U L SUMt
TEN YEARS AGO, NOW HAS
FORMIDABLE ARMY.
HOME, Oct. 29. (TP)—When Benito
Mussolini stretches his right arm for
ward in Roman salute and calls:
“Fascists, attention!’’, the answer
“President!” is a chorus of voicse
of about 3,000,000 men, women and
children.
Fascism, only a handful of men
some ten years ago, is now a formid
able report made by Roberto Farin
acci, secretary general of the Fas
cist Party. Here are his figures:
68 Provincial Federations;
6,317 Communal Organizations;
317 National Trade Unions;
18 Children’s Organizations;
16 Vanguard Organizations;
590 Women’s Groups;
9,000 Men’s Groups.
POLICE QUELL RIOT IN
NEW YORKON HOTEL PENN.
NEW YORK, Oct. 29. (TP)—Police re
serves last night quelled an attack of
four hundred persons, believed to be
members of the anti-Fascist Alliance
of North America, upon the Hotel Pen
sylvania, where six hundred members
of the Italian Facist league of North
America were dining.
Yukon Expected Arrive
In Port Friday Morning
The steamer Yukon of the Alaska
Steamship company arrived at Cordo
va last evening, it is reported, and
according to the schedule -was ex
pected to depart for Seward this
morning, which would make her time
of arrival in the local port tomorrow
morning.
Experiment with Wind As
Source for Rural Power
EXPERIMENT BEING MADE BY
FACULTY OF IOWA
STATE COLLEGE
AMES, la., Oct. 29. (£>)—The possi
bility of using wind as a source of
farm power is being experimented
with by the agricultural engineering
faculty at Iowa State College.
A windmill on the top of a 100
foot steel tower with the generator
attached, generated 200 kilowatt
hours in thirty days. The average
farm home does not use more than
25 kilowatU^iours a month.
The velflftty and distribution of
the wind will be the determining
factor, said Fred C. Fenton. Power
generated by the windmill can be
used for almost any activity on the
farm.
WHALERS ARRIVE
SEATTLE FROM
SIBERIAN COAST
SEATTLE, Oct. 29. (JP)—The steam
er Kommandoren 1, mother ship of the
Vega Whaling company of Sandefjord
Norway, and four whalers arrived yes
terday from the Bering Sea, off North
eastern Siberia, with the season’s take
of ten thousand barrels of whale oil.
The fleet is the first in several years
to hunt whales off Siberian, operating
under concessions from Russia which
receives a percentage of the oil.
FEW REINDEER
LOST DURING
MIGRATION
The rutting season, the most trying
season in so far as holding the rein
deer herds together, was passed thru
successfully by the Cantwell herds,
announced B. B. Mozee, head of the
Bureau of Education activities in this
district, during his recent visit in the
city. This took place in the upper
passes of Wells Creek to the East of
Cantwell, which was the route of trav
el of the migrating caribou, making for
constant shifting of the reindeer.
Mr. Mozee stated that W. G. Culver
has succeeded Harold Graham as lo
cal superintendent oT these herds.
Says An American Invented
First Practical Typewriter
HERKIMER, N. Y„ Oct. 29. (£>)—
Austrian claims that the typewriter
is an Austrian, not an American, in
vention, which were given concrete
form by the recent unveiling of a
memorial tablet at Innsbroolt, Aus
tria, to Peter Mitterdorfer as the
inventor of the typewriter, are chal
lenged by John W. Vrooman, presi
dent of the Herkimer County Histo
rical Society. *
Mr. Yrooman declared that “the
outstanding and important fact is
that Christopher Latham Sholes’ ma
chine was the first practical machine
made available to the world.” The
American Sholes’ model was patent
ed by the Remington arms factory in
1873.
Vrooman credited Mitterdorfer
with being one of a long list of in
dividuals who “had been, trying to
devise a practical typewriter” ever
since the first patent was granted
by the British Patent office in 1714.
PARIS, Oct. 29. (/P)—A dispatch to
the League of Nations stated despite
the Bulgarian attack the Greek govern
ment has definitely ordered the quick
evacuation of Bulgaria.
SUSPECT PLOT
TO ASSASSINATE
MEXICAN HEAD
I MEXICO CITY, Oct. 29.—The death
of an unknown man thru a myster
ious explosion of Tuesday in the star
dium, when President Calles was
present, was (believed to be part of a
plan to assassinate the president.
! Witnesses say the man jumped
from the grandstand. When he struck
the ground the explosion occurred,
practically blowing his body to bits.
The deaths occurred near an exit
of the stadium, and few spectators
were aware of the happening. It is
reported that the man was carrying
a small package, which exploded
whn he struck the ground. In spite
of reports, the officials decline to
comment.
SUPPORT BUILDING BILL
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 29. (ff>)
—The administration will support the
hundred and fifty million dollar pub
lic building bill this coming congress,
President Coolidge believing such leg
islation is necessary to take care of
public building throughout the coun
try.
YOUNG GIRL
DIES AFTER AN
OPERATION
MISS EVELYN CAMPBELL MAKES
ANTE-MORTEM STATEMENTS
—WAS 21 YEARS OLD
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Four Young Men Are Arrested and
Charged with Murder.
VANCOUVER, Oct. 29.—As the re
sult of the ante-mortem statements of
Evelyn Campbell, the 21-year-old Van
couver girl who died at the General
Hospital the other as the result of
an alleged illegal operation, James
Montgomery, aged 33, alleged to have
performed the operation; John Clash,
aged 27; Joseph Green, aged 21, and
l Ray Nelson, aged 21, were arrested
| by the police, charged with murde^.
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Seek New Name and Use
Of “Blue Stain” Lumber
HAS BEEN CURSE TO LUMBER
MANUFACTURERS SO THEY
SEEK THE CHANGE.
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WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 29. (£>)
—The name “blue stain” as applied
to certain discolorations on lumber
is a ten million dollar hoodoo, says
the National Lumber Manufacturers’
Association, which has begun a cam
paign to popularize use of such lum
ber and find a new name for the
stain which will remove the curse
of it.
“Blue stain” is regarded as a blem
ish in lumber grading, but Associa
tion officials declare they have been
assured by the Forest Service that
it does not detract from the useful
ness of the lumber for many pur
poses. Mi4P
Chemical dips have been tried in
an effort to remove ‘ blue stain.” but
have been found impracticable.
A committee reported that the
present unpopularity of the stain
was resulting in a loss of $10,000,000
annually to lumber producers, and
that the best means of improving the
situation lay in the discovery of a
less obnoxious name that would con
vert the blueness into an asset.
GREEKS IN OWN COUNTRY
ATHENS, Oct. 29. (/P)—It was offi
cially announced that all Greek forces
had evacuated Bulgaria.