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VOLUME XIX. NUMBER 108.
SEWARD. ALASKA, TUESDAY. MAY 6* 1924
PRICE, TEN CENTS
AVIATORS LEAVING TODAY FOR ATTU;
BERING PATROL SEARCH FOR MARTIN
FALSE PASS, May 6,—Plans were completed for
the departure today of the army aviators from Atka is
land to Attn Island.
A Bering Sea patrol is being formed to search for
Major Martin.
Thirty-eight Chinese Bandits Killed
HONG KONG, May 6—Thirty-eight Chinese con
victed of piracy on the steam launch Kwongtak were shot
today by the Chinese authorities. Representatives of the
Ilong Kong police department were present at the execu
tions. A number of other excutions ar scheduled soon.
Senate Favors Two Per Cent Cut in Taxes
WASHINGTON, May 6—The Senate has now writ
ten into the tax bill, the Democratic income tax bill. On
both surtax and small incomes, the rates are normal. On
incomes below four thousand the rate is two per cent.
Bank Head Given Forty-Five Years
WICHITA, May 6—John Richardon was sentenced
to forty-five years in the penitentiary today for accepting
deposits in the American State bank, knowing the insti
tution to be insolvent.
NEW ENGLAND WILL
BUILD SOMEWHERE
(Alaska Weekly)
Guy Benners, western manager for
the New England Fish Company with j
headquarters at Vancouver, B. C.,
came south on the steamer Alameda ;
following a visit of inspection at Ko
diak, Seward and Juneau with a view
to seeking a location for the installa
tion of a large cold storage plant.
Kodiak, Seward and Juneau are nat-!
urally making a keen fight for the lo
cation of the proposed plant in their j
respective communities, but Mr. Ben
ners is not committal as to his final
choice. It seems assured however, that
at least a small cold storage plant will
be installed at Kodiak, Mr. Benners
being quoted as saying this much to
the Alaska newspaper men who inter
viewed him.
The New England Fish Company
has its headquarters in Boston and is
the largest fish company in the United
States with many branch establish
ments in the United States and Can
ada.
MILK Kill
. ENGINE FOR TWO HOURS
CHICAGO, May 6—Burning milk as
its sole fuel, a loeomtive of the Rock
Hand railroad made a two-hour trip
yesterday drawing five cars with two
hundred passengers.
The milk-fed train went from En
glewood to Beverly Hills and back
with 150 children passengers from the
Chicago Home for Friendless Child
ren and their Chicago orphan asylum
cheered the retreating telepraph
poles.
Health Commissioner A. Bunde
sen’s idea was to dramatize the fact
the human body.
NAME OF WILSON IS
REMOVED FROM STREET
GENOA, May 0- The name of Fir
mer President Wilson was removed
last night from the Via Wilson, nam
ed for him when he visited Genoa af
ter the World War and that of Nicola
Bonservizi, founder of the Fascisti
section in Paris, was erected in its
s'uad, surrounded by a laurel wreath.
FF.EAK CHICKEN} BORN
ON FARM NEAR SUMAS
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SUMAS, May 8—Mrs W. E. Wilson,
residing near flumas hau some freak
chickens hatch the first of this weke.
One has a cross beak and but one
P eye while ahhther has four fully de
ft veloped legs and but one eye and is
developing like a normal chick.
FUMIGATION TENT FOR
HOBOES IS PLANNED
MEDFORD, Ore., May 6—Dr. W.
H. Lytel, state veterinarian, on his
arrival here today, said that he will
establish a fumigation tent at the base
of the Siskiyou mountains for hoboes
traveling on Southern Pacific trains
from California. He declared local
peace officers would assist in l-ound
ing up the tramps whom he considers
dangerous carriers of the foot and
mouth disease.
FRENCH AVIATOR IS
NOW AT CALCUTTA
CALCUTTA May 6—Pcrsay the av
iator flying for the Frencn govern
ment, arrived from Agra this after
noon, completing a 750 mile flight in
six and one half hours.
AIRSHIP TENDER FOR
DIRIGIBLE NEARLY FINISHED
NORFOLK, May 6—The Patoka,
airship tender for the dirigible Shen
andoah and the first of her type, is
nearing completion.
SENATE HOLDING NIGHT
SESSIONS SO BE THRU JUNE
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 6—
The Senate began holding nightly ses
sions yesterday so as to be finished
with their work nad bring about an
early adjournment in June.
DAUGHTER OF ROBT. LEE DEAD
RICHMOND, May 6—Mary Bolling
Lee a daughter-in-law of Robert E.
Lee died here this morning.
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PATSY ruth miller
Movie Star, who will soon be seen
in “The Breaking Point.”
KEYSTONE WEW CO. NEW YORK
IN HONOR OF A GREAT AMERICAN
Mr. Robert Aitken, N. A., celebra ted New York sculptor ,is here shown
with his new bu/-t of Thomas Jeffer son, which is to be placed in the hall
of Fame, New York.
ISLANDS OF PUGET
SOLI Hill
San Juans Now Popular—One Alleged
Rum Running Depot
VANCOUVER, B. C., May 6—Is
lands in the Gulf of Georgia have sud
denly become in keen demand.
A. E. Craddock of the County of
Limerick in Ireland, has purchased the
north end of Prevost Island, half way
between Vancouver and Victoria.
Two other islands recently changed
hands, one going to a prominent Brit
ish distiller, and the other to a San
Francisco capitalist who has money
invested in Pacific Coast liquor run
ning ventures.
Of several purchases recently made
in the Gulf, only one is credited as
being other than for a rum running
depot.
Publicity given Smugglers Cove, on
Discovery Island ,recently has driven
rum runners to other islands in the
gulf. More than twenty of these little
dots of land are credited with being
each a Scotch oasis in a desert of salt
water.
C. P. R. MAY ACQUIRE
JAP STEAMSHIP LINE
SEATTLE, May 6—Negotiations
the object of which is the pui'chase of
the Toyo Risen Kaisha, a Japanese
ship operating concern, by the Canad
ian Pacific railway, have been insti
tuted ,according to a dispatch received
by the Seattle Times today from Vic
toria, B. C. The dispatch sai dthat the
news of the negotiations was brought
to Victoria by the steamship Empress
of Russia, which arrived yesterday
from the Far East.
Acording to this dispatch, negotia
tions for the merger of the T. K. K.
with the Nippon Yusen Kaisha have
failed. The proposal had been for the
N. Y. K. to take the T. K. K. fleet of
18 vessels and with them the right to
operate the Taiyo Maru ,a large liner
owned by the Japanese government.
TRAINS ARE ATTACKED
BY MEXICAN REBELS
VERA CRUZ, May 6—Mexican reb
els presumed to belong to the band of
Higinio Aguliar attacked two freight
trains on the Mexican Railway near
Maltrata yesterday. The engineer on
one train was killed and the engineer
and firemen on the other were wound
ed.
A tight followed between the rebels
and the train guard, but neither side
suffered seriously.
A small band of rebels at Altoyas
was wiped out in a fight with ranch
ers and the rebel cnief was cootured
The princqed rebel bands in this
region have remained unactr’e.
INSPECT TEAPOT DOME
LOS ANGELES May 6—A presiden
tial commission composed of Doctor
George Otis Smith, Admiral Hilliary
Jones and R. D. Rush, to inspect the
naval petroleum reserves including
Teapot Dome arrived here today.
: Declares Her Son Ended Life With
Squirrel Poison)/
URIAH, Calif., May 6—Mrs. Anna
G. Matson, 60, held in the investiga
tion of the death by poison of her 23
year-old son, near here yesterday, told
the district attorney that her son com
mitted suicide by taking poison kept
in the house for killing squirrels.
Officials investigating the case said
that Mrs. Matson’s husband was
found with his head crushed twenty
years ago and that another son was
shot and killed five years ago.
Near the son, who died yesterday,
was found a stick, according to the
district attorney, on which was pencil
ed and scratched “good bye.”
Calvacade of East-Bound Tourists
Breaking Up—Autoists Return
ing To Coast
YUMA, Ma y6—Liklihood of a re
currence of the situation which arose
last week when severa lhundred mo
torists stormed the Califomia-Arizona
state line bridge here in defiance of
Governor Hunt’s foot and mouth em
bargo, appeared remote today as the
new calvacade of eastbound touriets
which last week began forming at the
siding, fourteen miles west of here,
showed signs of weakening.
All the forepart of this week the de
termined caravan of fourteen motor
parties demanding fumigation and ad
mission to Arizona melted away in
the blistering heat to an uncomfort
able group of half-dozen. These were
persuaded to abandon the idea of mo
touring through Arizona.
SPOT VISIBLE ON FACE
OF SUN TOMORROW EVE
There will be a transit of Mercury
over the sun’s disc tomoirow, May 7,
which will be visible to Sewardites be
tween noon and 7:30 p. m„ the least
distance of the centers being at 3:40.
Mercury will appear as a small dark
spot against the sun’s disk and can
be seen with a smoked glass, or even
better with dark colored glass over
binoculars.
WASHINGTON, May 5—The com
mission of banking currency is expect
ed to shortly consider the bill intro
duced in the senate supplanting the
Pittman silver act. The new measure
would provide for the additional pur
chases by the government amount
ing to over thirteen million dollars
at a price of one dollar per ounce.
SEATTLE, May 6—The Victoria
sailed this morning with one hundred
whalers to operate the Akutan sta
I tion.
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 6—
Chairman Jones of the Commerce j
Committee declared tonight that the ;
salmon packers have laid down a na- j
tion-wide barrage on the Senate in a ;
final effort to keep their grip upon i
the Alaska salmon supply, chat a i
flood of telegrams are sent daily to
the Senate by influential businessmen 1
tin plate manufacturers, wholesale and
retail grocers in an effort to defeat j
the bill.
IRDTZKY TAKES ft
RAP AT THE STATES
Colossal Tower of Babel, Says Soviet
War Chief
MOSCOW, May 6—After an ab
sence of nearly six months from all
participation in Soviet affairs, Leon
Trotzky, the Soviet war minister, is
now preparing to take an active part
in the Communist party congress to
be held this month, and the conven
tion ot the Third Internationale in the
middle of June.
In the course of a long speech at
Tiflis, M. Trotzky referred to the fact
that the United States and France
have not yet recognized Russia.
“The United States has become a
colossal tower of Babel and is trying
to digest in its stomach all the huge
gains it realized from the war. It is
now keeping aloof from European af
fairs but at the same time it is care
fully preparing for future wars. It
is placing aviation and asphyxiating
gas foremost in its equipment; it is
developing these destructive agents
not only Tor a struggle against en
feebled Japan, but also against Eur
ope.
Work on Criminals
“We ail know the use to which the
dentist puts asphyxiating gas/’ he
continued, “but when we see the U.
S. Preparing to use gas to extract a
revohrionary tooth from Europe we
must be on the alert. In the mean
time Americans are trying these new
gasses upon their criminals discard
ing the use of electricity as a means
of killing wrongdoers.
“Picture yourself, rich and satis
fied America, sending to famine
stricken revolutionary Europe whole
squadrons of airplanes which, threaten
to rain these noxious gases upon us.
This is fantastic romance.”
LONG SKIRT BACK;
BOARDWALK PARADE
REAL FASHION SHOW
ATLANTIC CITY May 6—Undaunt
ed by overcast skies, a crowd esti
mated at more than 200,000 thronged
the board walk for Atlantic City s
Eastei fashion parade.
Yesterday’s outpouring of fashion
proved conclusively ihat the long
skirt had not lost any of its popular
ity. While the skirt that trailed to the
ground was not as much in evidence,
the full-length garment, reaching to
the shoe-tops, appeared to be the
reigning favorite.
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RICHEST BOY IN AMERICA
Perhaps the first photo ever obtain
ed, for publication, of John Nicholas
Brown, of New York, long known as
“the richest boy in America.”
SLiie OF TACOMA
WOMAN THOUGHT
TO BE I SUICIDE
Fritz Berning Leaves Note Declaring
"I Am Going to Take My Girl
With Me."
TACOMA, May 6—No trace of F
Berning, 26, slayer of Miss Albertine
Otto, 27, in a hotel here, has been
found by the police. A note eddrssed
to the police and signed by Berning,
said:
“I can’t stand it any longer, so F
am going to take my girl with me.’
The j oine regarded the note as in
dicating Berning contemplated sui
cide, but nothing to indicate he has
carried cut his plan has been discov
ered. Berning was a baker and serv
ed in the .del man ar.vv during the
world war. Miss Otto had lived here
for many years.
Band That Plundered in Flanders Fol
lowing Armistice Stearnly Dealt
With by Government
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GHENT, Belgium, May 6—A trial
that surpassed all records in the his
tory of Belgian justice has just been
concluded in the Eastern Flanders as
sizes with a verdict condemning ten
men to death, seven to life imprison
ment, five to twenty years, four to
fifteen years and one to twelve years.
The men were members of a band
of thirty-six criminals who operated
almost with impunity throughout
Belgian Flanders in the period fol
lowing the armistice, profiting by the
J disorganization of the ploice. Forty
j crimes were charged against them.
Only nine of the defendants were
acquitted.
REBELLION III MEXICO
Mexico City Claims All Opposition
is Crushed
WASHINGTON. D. C., May 6—
The Mexican embassy announced to
i day the receipt of advices from Mex
| ico which said that with the occupa
tion of the southeastern states, “the
rebellion started last December has
come to an end, and the authority of
the government reestablished over the
whole of the republic.”
Federal troops under the command
of General Eugenio Martinez landed
at the port of Progresso, Yucatan, a
week ago,” said the statement. “The
capital of the state, Merida, also was
taken, and the government exercises
full control over the whole of Yuca
j tan.
“Federal troops are advancing on
Campeche and it will be occupied very
shortly. Government expeditionary
troops are operating in Tabasco.
“The group headed by rebel lead
ers Dieguez and Garcia Vigil, was to
tally annihilated and the latter, as
well as the principal leaders of the
Oaxaca rebellion, were captured.
ABERDEEN MAN SLAIN
IN SHOOTING SCRAPE
ABERDEEN, May 6—Harry D. Dun
can, Gray’s Harbor manager for a
sewing machine company, was shot
and killed and Ben Pierie, clerk in a
local grocery store, was held by the
police today as a result of the shoot
ing affray in the store here late yes
terday.
According to Pierie’s story to the
police he took a revolver from a re
cess under the counter in the grocery
'store and fired several shots at Dun
can in self defense.
LANDIS ARRIVES SEWARD
Col. Lee H .Landis arived in Sew
ard yesterday on a special at 4:45 p.
m. on a business trip, accompanied by
Mrs. Landis, Mrs. H. S. Balderston,
Mr. Johnson, motion picture man, and
others.
Mr. Johnson secured some fine pic
tures at various points along the road.
Conductor Frank O'Shea and Engineer
Clark brought the special down and
will leave again for the North about
7:00 a. m. tomorrow.