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VOLUME XXI, NUMBER XI
SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1926.
PRICE TEN CENTS
HI JACKERS DIE
ON GALLOWS FOR
MURDER GILLIS
VANCOUVER, B. C., Jan. 14 (/P)—
Owen B. Baker, of Tacoma, and Harry
F. Howash of Seattle, were hanged
here today at Okalla prison for killing
Capttain Wm. J. Gillis and his son,
in a hi-jacking raid on the launch
Beryl G., September 15, 1924.
Before the trap was sprung Baker
said goodbye to the witnesses pres
ent, and Howash told Hangman Ellis,
to “Step on it, kid.” Baker was dead
in 7 minutes and Howash in 13. Bak
er in the last hour called Sheriff Mar
tin and said, “The last 13 days of my
life have been the happiest I have
spent on earth. This, my last hour,
is supreme. Christ died to save oth
ers. I die to save two who will soon
he here.”
On September 14, 1924, the men in
company with others, boarded the gas
launch, Beryl G., on her way from
Vancouver, B. C., to Seattle, and kill
ed the captain and his son, winding
the bodies in the anchor chain and
throwing them overboard. The liquor
was transhipped to the hi jackers’ boat
and sold in Seattle. The launch was
later found drifting about the bay.
Suspicion pointed to the men who
were arrested in different cities of the
United States, where they had fled
to escape arrest. After a hard fought
battle a conviction was obtained by
the crown and the men sentenced
to be hanged.
FLAMES SWEEP
GALVESTON DOCK
GALVESTON, Jan. 14 (IP)— Fire of
undetermined origin swept four blocks
of docks and warehouses last night
and today with a loss of over a half
million dollars. Four thousand bales
of cotton and forty carloads of valua
ble freight were destroyed.
Every available fireman and the
city’s fire tugs poured water on the
flames but so combustible was the
material that it was only when the
end of the docks wTas reached that
the flames were controlled.
SING SING INMATE
WINS BIG PRIZE
CHICAGO, Jan. 14 (TP)—Prisoner
76,180 of Sing Sing penitentiary, won
the National contest for suggestions
in the Poster Safety Campaign with
the slogan, Play Safe.”
FLIGHT SURGEONS STUDY AIR
HAZARDS TO REDUCE EFFECTS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 14. (TP)
—The gamut of ills to which the flesh
is heir is not going to be increased
unwittingly by man’s adventures into
the air realm if army flight surgeons
can help it.
A summary of recent experimental
investigations by the air service spe
cial school for doctors discloses the
intense study that is being made of
the physical effects of such things as
high altitude, cold, motor exhaust gas
and the like upon the army flying per
sonnel.
And it addiitonally shows that the
flight doctors of the school put in over
three hundred hours of high flying
in last calendar year to carry out their
researches, much of it above the^l5,
000-foot level.
Some phases of the study of the ef
fects of low oxygen on men doing phy
sical work had to do with the efficien
cy of airmen who are called upon tc
undergo work strains at high altitude
Twelve men came in from the
Bureau of Public Roads camp at
Moose Pass.
PUBLICITY OF INCOME TAX
DISAPPROVED BY SENATE
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WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 14 (/P)—
The Senate Finance Committee today
approved the discontinuance of pub
licity of income tax returns.
SCHWAB PREDICTS
MORE PROSPERITY
CHICAGO, Jan. 14 (£>)—Charles
Schwab, chairman of the Bethlehem
Steel Company forecast continued
prosperity, but warned of the neces
sity of economy throughout the eco
nomic structure of the United States
which is now deflated. Europe, with
its lower standard of living, longer
hours, and harder work, threatens to
undersell American goods, despite the
Sliigh tariff. Schwab said the barrier
i of economic production is the only
I thing which will save the markets.
WINNIPEG FUR
! AUCTION BRINGS
TOPMOST PRICES
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WINNIPEG, Jan. 14 (/P)— Furs val
I ued at $250,000 were sold at the first
auction of the season here yesterday.
Skunk brought $1.75 to $2.50; bears
I $3 to $10; badgers $3.50 to $6.25;
| lynx, large, §26.50, with an average of
$15 to $21; otter, choice, $40; fisher,
; best, $90; cross fox, $18 to $27; mink,
! $15 to $17.50.
SNOW PLANES TO
| START AT NENANA
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i SEATTLE, Jan. 14 (JP)—Rossman
announced that the airplanes of the
I Wilkins exploration party would be
taken to Fairbanks on one of the first
i freighters leaving for the North, and
that all three planes would hop from
Fairbanks to Point Barrow early in
the spring. The specially built snow
motors will go to Nenana, where they
! will start across country to Point
Barrow. One machine will be kept
in reserve at Nenana in case it is
needed.
These motors are built with esce
cially wide tread and are adapted for
work in deep snows.
BASEBALL GAME
I ATTRACTS MANY
WOMEN TO GYM
! Besides the many women spectators
that sat in the gallery of the S. A. C.
gym Tuesday night, twenty or more
ladies turned out for indoor baseball
practice supervised by Mr. Joe Bad
ger, after instructor Swetmann’s cales
‘thenic’s class had gone thru their
weekly grind of muscular exercising
and limbering up.
Following some thirty minutes of
rudimentary work, including instruc
| tions on fielding and throwing batted
: balls, a seven-inning game was played
i in which the nine players chosen and
| captained by Mrs. Rucker came out
! victorious over the side assembled by
Mrs. Hannon, by the scant margin of
one run. All took the game serious
ly and, according to coach Badger,
are going to play good baseball in a
ifew weeks.
So interested were the ladies some
remained after the game for batting
practice and others had a lively time
playing hi-lo until the closing hour.
Practice will be continued next
Tuesday evening at the usual hour,
following the calest.henics.
The best asset a candidate can have
is a good campaign vindicator.
TEACHERS OPEN
WAR HARTLEY’
EDUCATION VETO
SEATTLE, Jan. 14 The King
County Alumni Association declared
open war on Governor Hartley and
his supporters at a banquet given its
members today, when Herbert Little,
president, announced that the organi
zation would actively oppose the re
election of any members of the mi
nority. The luncheon was for the
who voted for increased millage to
purpose of honoring the 15 legislators
be used for higher educational pur
poses.
Senator Fred Hastings said that
Governor Hartleys attack on the
State’s timber policy was intended to
stop the sale of timber. Hastings
quoted Governor Hartley as saying,
in a conversation, “It’s a damnable
outrage for the state to compete with
private concerns in the sale of state
timber.”
AUSTRIAN CABINET RESIGNS
VIENNA, Jan. 14 (>P)—The Austrian
cabinet .resigned yesterday, declaring
it had fulfilled the fiscal reform plan
laid down by the League of Nations.
IMPORTS TOTAL 4
BILLION BY U. S.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 14 (iT»)—
Imports to the United States last year
are valued at $4,224,200,000; with ex
ports of 54,910,000, leaving a balance
of $684,518,000.
LOW ROBBERY RECORD LAID TO
POLICE DEXTERITV WITH GUNS
SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Jan. 14. (#>)—
Down here in the shadow of the old
Alamo, folks generally and the police
in particular have a reputation for be
ing quick on the draw and quicker on
the trigger. But San Antonio, with
a population of more than two hun
dred thousand and a police department
of 193, has not had a major robbery in
five years.
The remarkable absence of gunmen,
safe blowers and others of that portion
of the population is accredited to the
fact that there are 25 men on the po
lice force wrho are expert pistol shots.
The w’hole force, including the marks
man medal-holding Chief T. O. Miller,
engage in pistol practice at regular in
tervals. It is said that if officers
were beaten on the “draw” they would
hand over their weapons in disgust.
The 193 persons of the force which
includes matrons and other attaches,
patrol an area of approximately fifty
square miles.
PROPOSE NORTHEAST CANADA
TO MEXICO CITY HIGHWAY
CHICAGO, Jan. 14. (/P)—A highway
extending from Northwest Canada to
Mexico City will be considered at an
international traffic conference held in
connection with the convention of
the American Road Builders’ Associa
tion here Jan. 11-15.
The proposed highway would be
created by connecting roads already
in existence into a unified link be
tween the two extremes of the conti
nent.
Charles M. Schwrab, steel magnate,
will make the opening address at the
conference.
NEW MODEL OF SPATS FOR MEN
LONDON, Jan. 14 (/P)—Arbiters oi
men’s fashion, spurred by the popular
ity of Russian boots for women, have
designed new spats for men. These
are made of rubber in varying shades
and besides being easy to clean, are
claimed to be more close fitting tc
tthe ankles and shoes than the present
cloth spats.
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FACILITIES OF INDIANA BANK
TAKEN TO FARMERS IN FIELD
RISING SUN, Ind., Jan. 14. (£>)—
When the farmers of southeastern In
diana find themselves unable to keep
banker’s hours, the Rising Sun State
bank takes its facilities to the farm
ers.
Representatives of the institution
cover the surrounding territory in au
tomobiles, accepting bank deposits,
transacting small loans and cashing
checks.
The bank representatives also re
ceive deposits from cream stations on
the way and sell fire and tornado in
surance as a sideline.
WILL BILL TAMED
BY PORTLANDER
BELLINGHAM, Wn„ Jan. 14 (£>)—
j “Moose” Norbeck, «a Portland wrest
ler, knocked out “Wild Bill” McKen
zie, the Vancouver Island heavyweight
logger, in the second round of a six
round go here last night. Norbeck
kept McKenzie guessing by his crouch
ing tactics.
Twenty-five hundred fans cheered
the Portland man to victory.
ARCTIC SLEDS ARE
NEARLY FINISHED
BY CAL BROSIUS
Cal M. Brosius, local contractor and
manufacturer of Arctic supplies, has j
completed three of the ten sleds con
tracted for by'the Wilkins Arctic Ex
ploration party, which will arrive in
Seward on the 23rd of this month on
its way to Point Barrow. These sleds
are of the double ender type and are
of the best material throughout. Mr. j
Brosius also drew plans for the LaVoy
sled built in Anchorage, the toboggan
bottom being suggested to Mr. LaVoy,
for use in deep snows.
The remaining seven sleds will be
completed for the exploration party
by the time they arrive here, and they
will be shipped to Nenana, where they
will be loaded with supplies and haul
ed by a number of snow tractors.
The airplanes which will arrive on
a freighter will be shipped • to Fair
banks where they will be assembled in
Ihe spring and the flight made to Pt.j
Barrow. .
OFFER REWARD TO FILIPINO
WHO DOUBLES RETAIL TRADE
MANILA, Jan. 14—To encourage
Filipinos to engage in the retail busi
ness in Manila, the Philippine Cham
ber of Commerce has authorized pay
ment of a reward of $250 to any Fili
pino retail merchant who may double
an original capital of $2500 within
a period of five years.
According to hte plan preference!
will be given those Filipinos wrho can
thrive in the face of competition of
foreign retail dealers in the districts
where the city’s retail business is vir
tually all in the hands of the Chinese
aand Japanese.
Ice Machine and
Green House for
the Curry Hotel
FRESH GARDEN TRUCK FOR HO
TEL AND RAILROAD MEN’S
DINING ROOM
Among the innovations at the Curry
Hotel for the coming summer will be
an ice making machine of one and
one-half ton capacity,‘according to rail
officials who were in Seward a few
days agb. The machine is now on its
way to Seward and will probably ar
rive on one of the next vessels.
Travellers over the road next spring
will also be surprised to note the con
92 MINERS DEAD
FROM FIRE. IN
WILBURTON MINE
WILBURTON, Okla., Jan* 14 (/P)—
Cecil McKinney, one of the 101 miners
enttombed in a burning mine here, was
rescued alive today, eight others being
rescued yesterday from the higher
levels. The other 92 entombed men
have been given up as dead. McKin
ney was found near the mouth of the
mine, the first survivor from the low
er levels. McKinney said he crawled
for 23 hours over debris and dead bod
dies. His face was covered with soot
and he was seriously burnetj.
The ffre which was raging on the
fourteenth level was extinguished last
night and six bodies were brought out
last night, with three more to be hoist
ed.
Forty-five coffins with three under
takers have arrived here the latter
working at top speed to prepare the
bodies for burial.
Efforts will be made today to pene
trate the lower levels with the hope
i of finding some of the men alive.
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Another Survivor Rescued
j Fire again started in entry 14 halt
ling the work of removing the bodies
i after twelve had been taken out. The
rescuers were ordered from the work
1 ings and fire extinguishers were low
ered to volunteer firemen.
Bertyle Holland, a negro, the sec
ond survivor from the lower levels,
when rescued and was unable to tell
whether others were living or not. He
was so weak that he could not utter
;a sound. Physicians said he was suf
! fering from fright and nervous ex
haustion. When word that another
I survivor was being brought out more
than 2000 relatives and friends of
the entombed miners crowded against
ithe ropes.
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DAWSON DANCE
HALL PLAYER IS
IN PUBLIC EYE
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SUMNER, Wn., Jan. 14 (/P)—'The
i many friends of Billy Huson, who has
been playing the piano in public for
fifty years in Alaska and Washington,
urging him to accept the invitation of
Henry Ford to go to Detroit to play
old time dance tunes for him. Huson
jand his wife took the first piano into
Dawson, carrying it over Chilkoot
Pass on the back of natives.
The Steamer Alaska is due in port
some time tomorrow. No definite
time of the vessel’s arrival could be
obtained at a late hour this afternoon.
More than one-half of all the per
sons in the United States more than
100 years old are widows.
Miss Rosalind Wheeler, a former
Boston girl has met with success as a
real estate operator in London.
Mohammedan women who desire to
observe the rites of their religion are
not permitted to appear on the stage.
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struction of a green house at Curry,
30 by 40 feet in size. With the ex
ception of putting in the glass, the
building will be completed within a
few days. Glass and putty arrived
in Seward on the last steamer.
In the car shops of the Alaska
Railroad, coach No. 3 is being entirely
rebuilt and equipped with modern
safety devices. The coach is being
finished inside with native Alaska
birchwood.
Considerable work has been done
on the big rotary plow No. 2. The
front end hood was rebuilt and new
trucks placed under the huge snow
fighting machine.