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VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 170.
SEWARD, ALASKA.
DNESDAY, DECEMBER 11,19:
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BITTERS EUROPE'S
COM DEAD
FIFTY-TWO LIVES LOST ON
THE FRENCH COAST:
HIGH WATER
LONDON, Dec., 10, (IP)—'The
known deaths from the teirifle
storm which battered the Great
Britain continental coast during
the past week reached 163 the
most occurring at sea.
The heaviest losses were in
the waters around the British
Isles where at least 69 vessels
were wrecked or badly damaged.
Partial reports tabulated at Par
is showed 52 lives lost on the
French coast or inland while at
least a half a dozen steamers and
fishing vessels foundered or were
badly damaged.
The stormy waters have some
what quieted but signs of worst
conditions come from England.
There, the chief worry is the
high water on the Thames and
other rivers leading to the fear
^ of a repitition of last year’s ser
ious floods.
* MAURICE COSTELLO ASTON
ISHED WHICH HE TERMS
A “SHAKE-DOWN”
Luo ArsLiHiLiiiis, jviaunce Cos
tello, one time idol of Broadway
but now a gray-haired member
of Hollywood’s motion picture
colony, prepared to combat in
the superior court a SI00,000
breach of promise suit filed by
Vivienne Sengler, youthful mus
ician, artist and author.
Declaring he was astonished at
the suit, which he termed as an
“absurd attempt to shake me
down,’’ he proposes to fight the
case to a finish.
He is the father of Mrs. John
Barrymore and Helene Costello,
prominent film actresses. He de
nied that there ever was an un
derstanding between he and the
girl, but said she had proposed
to him and that he had not seen
her since.
PILOTS YOUNG, GILLUM
HI NOME, TWO RMS
NOME, Dec., 11, OP)—Pilots Ec
Young and C. H. Gillam arrivec
at Nome with two planes froir
Fairbanks enroute to Teller anc
are expected to proceed to Tel
ler this afternoon.
The weather is good here bu
cloudy at Teller. Pilot Barnhil
hopped off this morning for Tel
ler and Pilot Niemenen is ex
pected to arrive via the air to
A night from Anchorage
All planes are bound for Telle
to assist in the search for Eielsoi
and Podland, lost for about on
month. The weather is clear, an
below zero, in the trading schoone
Nanuk area.
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PASSAGE ASSURED
WASHINGTON, Dec., 11, (/P)—
Passage of the $160,000,000 tax cut
resolution by the senate before the
Christmas holidays appears assur
ed. Other legislation will be delay
ed until the tax cut is adopted.
ORDERED GATE OPENED; CON
VICTS TOLD TO FILE OUT
1,000 PREPARED TO FIGHT
AUBURN, N. Y., Dec., 11, (JP)—
Armed with guns smuggled into
prison from the outside walls, ap
proximately 1,580 convicts in the
Auburn state prison, revolted and
shot down the principal keeper,
George A. Durnford and seized
Warden Edgar S. Jennings and sev
eral other keepers and held them as
hostages for the release of about 12
ring leaders of the mutiny.
With the walls entirely surround
ed by national guardsmen with
loaded guns, city officials ordered
the front gate of the prison openec
and sent word to the convicts tc
file out. One thousand men prepar
ed to stage a battle should the con
victs refuse.
GREATLY IMPROVED
Miss Verna Wheeler, third anc
fourth grade teacher who has beer
ill with a bad cold for the las
few days, is much improved nov
and expects to be with her classe.
again very soon.
, ..OVER SEEKS TO UNITE THE i .NATE G. O. P.
IN REGULAR SESSION OF CONGRESS
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Around the standard* of administration policies, President Hoover (up
per left) hopes to solidify the republi can ranks in the regular session or
congress Senators Norris (lower (ri ght), Nebraska, and La Foliette (low
er left)’ Wisconsin, have been the out lending lenders of the republican
independent ranks. Vice President. Civ/tis ( ’ per right ) and Speaker
Longworth (center) again rule the senate and house respectively.
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SUICIDE PACT, SAY POLICE; j
FOUND LYING UPON BED
ARTIST’S STUDIO
NEW YORK, Dec. 11, (A>)—
Henry Crew Crosby, 32, ar.d Mrs.
Josephine Bigelow, 22, both so
cially prominent in Boston, were
found shot to death in an ar
tist’s studio. Police said it was a
[suicide pact.
j Both bodies, fully clothed, were
i found facing each other on the
ibed. Crosby’s left arm was about
! the woman’s neck and in his
i right hand was a pistol. Mrs.
| Bigelow had been shot through
I the left temple and Crosby thru
ithe right.
| There were no notes left. The
j police are convinced that the
i couple died in a suicide pact but
. are at a loss to ascribe the mo
tive.
| Crosby was a nephew of J. P.
Morgan; Mrs. Bigelow had been
| visiting friends in New York,
j She was married last June to
'! Alberts S. Bigelow, a graduate
' | student of Harvard. The gun is
I thought to have been borrowed
] from Stanley Mortimer, Jr., a
| friend of Crosby’s.
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I CLAUDE MEEKER DIES
- j COLUMBUS, O., Dec., 11, (IP)—
j Claude Meeker, nationally known
3 politician and democratic leader oi
Ohio, died here.
U. S. DELEGATE
WASHINGTON, Dec., 11, (ZP) —
Rear Admiral William Moffett, Rear
Admiral Joel Pringle, Admiral W. V.
Pratt and Rear Admiral Hilary will
be delegates from the United States
to the London conference.
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ALASKA HD
ASSIST ZEPPELIN
MAJOR ELLIOTT IS OFFICIAL
REPRESENTIVE OF MAJ
OR GEN. HINES
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec.,-11, (ZP)
—Major General John Hines,
commander of the 9th corps area,
has instructed army officers in
Alaska to render full coopera
tion to the crew of the giant Ger
man dirigible Graf Zeppelin when
it arrives there next April for the
Arctic flights.
General Hines has designated
Major Malcolm Elliott, of the
Alaska Road Commission, as hie
official representative on the ar
rival of the Graf at Fairbanks
Major Basil Spalding, comman
der of the 7th infantry, Chilkooi
Barracks, has been instructed t(
give all assistance to officers o
the Zeppelin.
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It is reported that the famil;
of John Nelson, superintendent o
the Seward Water Supply, wril
leave Seattle next Saturday fo
Seward to make their home her
after several years residency ii
1 Seattle.
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NATIONALIST REBELS FOLLOW
BEHIND A HERD OF
WATER BUFFALO
CANTON, Dec., 10, (fl*)—Chang
;Fakwies revolting “Ironsides”
i division knocked at the gates of
Canton after a precipitate over
sight advance which brought
(them near the city.
Artillery fire was plainly audi
ble and the rebels had apparently
broken through the government
1 lines over a wide front.
Rumors were circulated that the
fall of Canton was imminent and
the utmost uneasine^ resulted in
! native circles.
It was said that a breach had
been made in the loyalists lines
| in the Tsingyun district, 50 miles
1 north of Canton, where land
mines were exploded by a stam
; peding herd of water buffalo di
rected by nationalist rebels who
followed behind the cattle.
HAD BEEN SEPARATED SEVER
AL MONTHS; SMALL SON
EYE WITNESS
GRANTS’S PASS, Oregon, Dec.,
11, (/P)—'The result of alleged do
! rnestic troubles, A. Alberts shot
; and killed his wife and seriously
|wounded his son Henry, then sui
Icided.
| Alberts, who was 62 years old,
'is said by friends to have separ
ated from his wife several months
ago. Elmer, five years old, was
an eye-witness to his mother’s
death.
His screams brought in Henry
working outside on the front
porch where neighbors said he
met his father who levelled his
gun and fired at Henry.
He then returned into the
house and shot himself. No ac
counts of previous shootings had
been reported to the police but
the father had once been jailed
on the charge of threatening his
wife’s life.
SEN. WHEN LEAVES
ESTATE OF $7,00090
FAMILY AND FRIENDS
CHEYENNE, Wyoming, Dec., 11,
(JP)—The estate of the late Sen
: ator Warren, who died last
month at Washington, is conser
atively estimated as worth $7,000,
000.
The widow receives approxi
mately $6,400,000 in addition to
the Cheyenne residence. Eighteen
persons are named to share in
the estate including relatives, em
ployes, friends and sons, in a to
tal estimated at $356,000,