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SEWARD ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1926.
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' Hartley Recall Charges Approved
by Washington State Secretary
Injunction Proceedings Started
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! THREATS OF LAW SUIT DO NOT DISTURB RECALL
COMMITTEE, ANNOUNCES FIELD DIRECTOR
WILL ONLY DELAY MATTERS—IS FIRST RE
CALL PROCEEDINGS EVER TO BE MADE
AGAINST A GOVERNOR IN STATE OF WASHING
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SORRY DAY FOR STIFF, ANNOUNCES SECRETARY HINKLE
Petitions Ready for Circulation Today—Hinkle says Gov
ernor Violated Oath of Office Twice When Refused Ap
propriation Request and Failed Call Session Refores
tation Committee
OLYMPIA, Oet. 20. (/P)—Secretary of State Hinkle
approved the recall charges.
SEATTLE, Oct. 20. (/P)—Mr. Hinkle told the' Seattle
Times that Seattle lawyers had asked a delay of decision
* until suit be started and said probably injunction proceed
1 ings in either the Supreme court or in the Thurston Su
perior court would be instituted. E. F. Blaine of Seattle
! and Mr. Granger, recall campaign field director, said
“Threats of law suits are not disturbing excepting to de
lay action.”
LAWRENCE WEEKS CONFESSES
ROBBED CONSTANTINE GU
LEEN, WHO WAS SHOT
SAX FRANCISCO, Oct. 20. (£>)—
Two reputed bandits who killed four
men last week have been arrested.
Buck Kelly was shot as he attempted
y to escape by jumping through a win
dow. Kelly was trapped by informa
tion from a partner, Lawrence Weeks,
+ who was arrested -while working as a
laborer in the city tunnel. Police
J said Weeks confessed to robbing Con
stantine Guleen who was shot three
times. Guleen is recovering.
ANOTHER QUAKE RECORDED
WASHINGTON, Oct. 20. (£>)—The
Weather Bureau reported a tropical
disturbance- of great intensity moving
£ northwestward, 225 miles daily. The
disturbance is centered in the vicin
ity of the Swan islands.
APPEALS TO SEATTLE
GOVERNOR PARKS AND MANA
GER SMITH FAVOR RETEN
TION ARMY POST
SEATTLE, Oct. 20. (JP)—Governor
Parks and Manager Noel Smith of
the Alaska railroad favor the reten
tion of the Anchorage army post,
the Anchorage Chamber of Commerce
cabled to the Seattle Chamber. The
** Anchorage Chamber is appealing to
their Washington Congressional dele
gation to oppose the posts removal.
SEATTLE, Oct. 20. (;P) —Recall
against a governor in the State of
proceeding, the first ever started
Washington, were instituted against
Governor Hartley with the filing in
Olympia of -charges of misfeasance,
malfeansance and violation of the
oath of office. Secretary of State
Hinkle said of the citizens who went
to Olympia from Seattle and Tacoma
to file the charges that “it appears
to me this will be the sorriest day
ever experienced in the State of
Washington, for a goodly number of
people are convinced this is the pro
per way out of a political mess in
which we find ourselves.” Governor
Hartley is accused of seeking to pre
vent the expenditure of the State
School appropriation which was pas
sed over to his veto; discharging
three regents at the University of
Washington, and the trustee of the
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STRAWBERRY POINT CUM
CANNERY, CORDOVA BORNS
CORDOVA, Oct. 20. (JP)—A fire
started with the explosion of a pitch
pot and destroyed the $20,000 clam
plant of the Strawberry Point Pack
ing company near Cordova. A num
ber of boats stored for the winter
were burned. These were covered by
insurance amounting to $10,000.
INVESTIGATING POLITICS*
CHICAGO, Oct. 20. (}p)—1The Sen
ate Campaign funds committee has
decided to investigate the Indiana
political situation.
MRS. ANDREWS IN BUSINESS
NEW YORK, Oct. 20. (JP)—Mrs.
Lincoln C. Andrews, wife of the dry!
czar Andrews entered business, step-!
ping from social activities to partner-!
ship in a Now York travel service
bureau.
AVIATOR DEPARTS FOR THE
STATES WHERE WILL INVESTI
GATE AND PURCHASE TWO
OR THREE PLANES FOR SOUTH
WESTERN AND INTERIOR SER
VICE
Sea planes will roar over Seward
next year, according to Alonzo Cope,
of Anchorage, who departed for Se
; attle on the S. S. Alaska, for, to
gether with two prominent business
^men of Anchorage, an airplane com
pany has been formed,’ the hard cash
jput up, and he dispatched to the
States for the winter to investigate
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various types of machines, and to pur
chase either two or three sea planes
and ship them North early in the
year. Anchorage will be the base and
home office. Service will be render
ed to Seward, Westward and to In
terior points. Mr. Cope, who is a
veteran airplane mechanic and flier,
says he first took up with the flying
game when, literally speaking, they
flew ‘hacks.’ Those were the days
of 1917. Inasmuch as Mr. Cope gave
the names of the two Anchorage busi
ness men who are interested with him
in the project The Gateway sees no
reason it should not name them, A.
A. Shonbeck and G. Gelles. Both are
known to be progressive and energe
tic in their various successful under
takings.
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STATES CARMEL GROCERY LISTS
AND SERMON WRITING TO BE
THE SAME
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 20. (^-Mil
ton Carlson, a handwriting exi>ert,
testified the Carmel grocery slips and
the sermon, “Light and Darkness”
which Aimee McPherson left on the
beach when she. disappeared, are in
| the same handwriting. Attorney Gil
bert failed to shake him in the cross
examination. Carlson is expected to
be the last state witness in the hear
ing which has run into it’s fourth
week.
LIEUT. JONES AT ANCHORAGE
Lieutenant Jones, quartermaster
department, local cable and radio sys
tem, has been over in Anchorage
since Monday looking over the quar
termaster stores at the army post
which will shortly be abandoned.
Postmaster Chas. Sheldon reports
some people are still leaving letters
at the old postoffice. Yesterday he
discovered 1G letters crammed thru a
crack in the front door and laying on
the floor.
MAIIINES GUARDING ALL
SEATTLE Ml TINS
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j nounced that GO marines equipped
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with riot guns and instructions to
shoot to kill will guard all Seattle
mail trains.
ELEVEN VESSELS LOST, JAPAN
LONDON, Oct. 19. (/P)— A Tokyo
dispatch said eleven vessels were
wrecked in a gale in Northern Japan
and that the Kaitsu Maru of Kobe
foundered with many passengers.
GOVERNMENT ROUSES
IN SEWARD BE SOLO
!can be purchased wijh very
SMALL PAYMENT OVER EX
TENDED NUMBER YEARS
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The sale of government lots in Sew
: ard Monday afternoon brought out
some keen competition, according to
J. A. Ramsey, of the general land of
fice, who conducted the auction, and
indicates the interest shown in Sew
ard to build up the city. It was the
first sale' of lots ever held in the Cliff
addition but will shortly be followed
by another, he said, for recently in
discussing matters with General
Manager Noel W. Smith, of the Alas
ka railroad, permission was secured
to dispose of a few of the local gov
ernment houses and also the lots.
These are located on Third and A
street.
Anyone interested in procuring one
of these substantially constructed
homes are requested 'by Mr. Ramsey
to -write to Mr. Barndollar, at An
chorage. It is presumed the proper
ties will be appraised at a very rea
sonable figure for Mr. Ramsey point
ed out that during the sale at An
chorage the property brought just
about one-half of the actual value;
the terms were very reasonable being
one-third the purchase price down,
the remainder of the payments ex
tending over a number of years, and
drawing no interest. Mr. Ramsey will
appraise the lots and Mr. Smith will
appraise the buildings. Announce
ment of when this sale will take place
will be made at a later date.
PUBLIC LEDGER OPPOSES
ELECTION OF SEN. VIDE
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PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 20. (£>)—'The
Public Ledger, an Independent Re
publican paper, announced last night
it would oppose Vare, “because of
the excessive use of campaign funds
in the primary election “and said
Wilson “is a good man and a repre
sentative citizen.” Their only regret
if he is elected, is that he is not a Re
publican.
Mrs. Ralph R. Guthrie, wife of Cap
tain Gnfhrie, head of the second divi
sion of cable and radio operations, lo
cal headquarters, is expected to re
turn home this evening from Anchor
age.
A light snow fall fell in Anchorage
Monday, according to telephone re
ports in Seward yesterday.
. BETHEL LOST SINCE
FRIDAY; RIVER FROZE
‘CAPTAIN GUTHRIE, COMMANDING
OFFICER RADIO, CABLE HEAD
QUARTERS, INSTRUCTS SEARCH
parties for young soldier
YUKON RIVER FROZEN OVER
Private Paul Estle Leaves in Skiff,
Bethel for Akiak to rnstall Radio;
Station Since been Silent
Somewhere, mushing over the fro
zen tundra, floundering among count
less sloughs, or perhaps frozen in his
open skiff on the broad bosom of the
Kuskokwim now turned to ice, is Pri
vate Paul Estle, the Signal Corps op
erator, in charge of the radio station
at Bethel.
Estle left Bethel a week ago to go
to Akiak twenty miles up the river to
help install a private radio station.
He left Akiak Friday morning in his
skiff to float down the Kuskokwim
and that is the last that has been
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seen of him. He did not arrive at Be
thel. His little station-home beneath
the towering radio mast was empty
the next day but attempts to notify
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ULTIMATE PURPOSE OF QUEEN
MARIE’S VISIT U. S. TO IN
TEREST OIL CAPITAL
! NEW YORK, Oct. 20. (^—Speak
ers at the meeting under the auspices
jof the International Labor defense
declared the purpose of Queen Marie’s
'visit is to obtain money to aid Ru
! mania in completing forcible domin
jion over Bessarabia with the ultimate
purpose of allowing American oil in
terests to gain the advantage over
British competitors in the South
Russian field. Speakers denounced
Ambassador Kellog for “toadying to
royalty while refusing to admit to
this country Count Karolyi of Hun
gary, a true Democrat.” A resolution
was adopted condemning the Queen
as a representative of a country
which persecuted peasants.
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SEAL OF THE TERRITORY PRE
SENTED TO HEAD OF STATE
INSTITUTION
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 20. (JP)—Al
jaska Day was observed at the Sesqui
centennial Exposition and Philip A.
Bradley of Juneau, in behalf of Gov
ernor Parks, presented the seal of
the territory to Mrs. W. Freeland
Kendrick, wife of the Philadelphia
mayor, who heads the Women’s State
Committee institution. The seal will
be duplicated in Alaskan metals and
made a permanent* gift to the city.