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DAILY AND WEEKLY
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VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 156.
SEWARD, ALASKA. MONDAY, NOV. 25, 1929,
PRICE TEN CENTS
BRIEF PERIODS LUCIDITY BE
FORE DEATH; DIED IN
ARMS OLD FRIEND
PARIS, Nov., 25, (JP)—Georges
Ciemenceau, former Premier of
France, generally characterized
as the most forceful personage
the French naton has ever pro
duced, died while unconscious. He
had been in an absolute state of
k coma since 11 p. m. Saturday
night; in the following hours he
had but brief periods of lucidity.
The statesman was 88 years
old.
Dr. Laubry, one of his chief
physicians, arrived in time for
his old friend to die in his arms.
Madame Jacquemaire and Mich
el Ciemenceau, daughter and son
of the “Tiger of France” were
at the bedside.
Dr. Jacquemaire, grandson of
the former Premier, announced
the death to newspapermen and
others awaiting the fatal issue
* which came at 2:30 a. m. yester
day.
Dr. Jacquemaire said; “My
grandfather just died.”
After his retirement from pub
lic life, in 1919, he moved to
the Bay of Biscay a few miles
from where he was born. In 1922
he visited the United States which
marked the only time he appear
ed before public audences after
his retirement.
He was a physician, editor, pol
itician, scholar, duellist and twice
Premier of France; his public
career was more than 50 years.
His indomitable courage was a
byword in the land. Ciemenceau
iirst came to the United States
in lo b when he was 25 years
c;d. He had a physician’s certi
ficate, some instruments, but lit
tle money. His days in America,
he wrote later, were the happiest
lie had ever known, and as
cribed his intellectual develop
ment from that period on.
He had, when a young man,
served a short sentence in pris
on for shoutng on the streets of
Paris “Vive la Republic.”
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NOTED FRENCHMAN MAKING j
VALIANT FIGHT AGAINST
DEATH
PARIS, Nov., 25, (JP)—Clemen -
ceau is making a valiant fight j
against death but the end does!
not seem far off, especially so
when Dr. Degennes visited him
shortly after noon on Saturday <
and found his patient “Sleeping I
like a child.”
He marveled at the vitality j
which kept the “Tiger” alive af
ter such a long crisis of acute
suffering.
“Death may come at anytime,” ,
the Doctor said, “and it is quiet
possible within 24 hours; but j
with Clemeneau a miracle is al- j
ways possible.”
KIR SES IS STILL
OPEN: UTE SEASON
POINT BARROW, Nov., 25, (JP)
—With the ocean still open the
seal pack has not yet been sight
ed since spring. Oldtimers as
cribed the fall and winter sea
son as very unusual,
j The first overland mail since
spring arrived yesterday. The
mail contractor was forced to
| come by way of the difficult tun
; dra route instead of the usual
!sea trail as the ice is still un
safe for travel.
POSSE FOLLOW BLOOD TRAIL !
TO NEGRO S HOME WHERE
MURDERER KILLED
MADISONVILLE, Ky„ Nov. 25,
j (/P)—Chief of Police John Ashby,
! 65, was shot and killed here by j
j Houston Cooksey, a negro, 28
years old. and Cooksey was shot j
and killed by a posse which |
j trailed him to his home.
Ashby received a report that
; two negroes had stopped a car
and searched two white youths i
and were walking up and down j
the street flourishing guns.
Chief patrolman S, A. Demoss j
found Cooksey and A. B. Cooksey, j
a brother, on a corner. Houston
resisted arrest and snatched the
| gun of Demoss who fled with a j
I finger shot off.
Houston then turned and fired
Iat Ashby, who, with his back
turned, was strucggling and try
ing to handcuff A. B. Cooksey.
Les Duke, a white resident,
rushed out with a shotgun and
wounded Houston. The posse '
followed the blood trail to the i
negroes home where Houston was I
killed when he resisted; the j
brother was captured later at
nearby mines.
COLLECTION PLATE
PASSED ON STREET
IS OISCONTINIIED
WASHINGTON, Nov., 25, (IP)
-The collection plate being pass
ed along Irving Street by friends
of the Assembly Quaker Church
which President Hoover attends,
has been discontinued because
the trustees of the church feel
that many tourist^ at the ser
vices are drawn thereby by the
President’s presence and might
be given the impression of a
commercial atmosphere.
Members of the congregation
have been notified that here
after they are expected to send
in their collections weekly by
mail or messenger.
THREE DIE IN C A VEIN
LOS ANGELES, Nov., 25, (/Pi
Three Mexican laborers lost their
lives in a cavein in an excava
tion, from a gas explosion, which
preceded the cavein. Police were
hampered in their work by the
escaping fumes.
FOOTBALL SCORE
Army 19, Weleyan 6
N. Y. U. 20, Rutgers 7
Illinois 27, Ohio 0
Harvard 10, Yale 6
Lehigh 13, Lafayette 12
Michigan 0, Iowa 0
Swarthmore 32, Dickinson 0
Florida 20, So. Carolina 7
Oregon Aggies 14, U. Detroit 7
Notre Dame 26, Northwestern 6
Chicago 26, U. of Wash. 6
Missouri 7, Kansas 7
Nebraska 10, Kansas Aggies 6
Navy 30, W. Va. Wesleyan 6
Purdue 32, Indiana 0
Minn. 13, Wisconsin 12
Oregon 7, Hawaii 0
U. of So. Calif. 72, Idaho 0
Stanford 21, Calif. 6
Wash. State 27, Gonzaga 0
LARGEST BUDGET IN HISTORY
OF THE ROAD; §50,000,000
WILL BE SPENT
CHICAGO, Nov., 25, <JP)—In
line with President Hoover’s pro
gram for maintaining business
condiions on a normal bass, Pres- i
ident J. E- Gorman announced
he proprosed that the 1930 im
provement budget of the Rock
Island Lines, will total about
$50,000,000.
This is the largest budget for
expenditures in the history of j
the railroad and will exceed by j
about $10,000,000 the expendit- j
ures of the present year.
SEATTLE, Nov., 25. UP)—All
but two of the five overdue hal
ibut schooners have been heard
from, the Fishing Vessels’ Own
ers Association reported.
The Polaris arrived in Seattle
Friday, the Resolute Friday and
the Mitkof arrived Saturday at
Prince Rupert. The Kanatak and
the Seabird are believed to be
anchored in protected waters.
SEVERE LOSS OF LIFE, GREAT
^OMMUNICA
OKEN
LISBON, Portugal, Nov., 25, (/P)
—Troops have been hurried to
the northeast coast where fierce
Atlantic gales are reported to
have inflicted great damage and
it is feared a severe loss of life.
Communications are broken
preventing an estimate of losses
sustained. A torrential flood hit
cities, the Limia river was swept
clear of all bridges, trees carried
off by the wrind, cattle lost, and
peasants marooned on housetops
screaming for help.
The Lisbon power station was
submerged plunging the city in
darkness.
NEWEST MAILBOX KEEPS
ARMER’S PAivv.
ELS DRY
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# Col. Joseph C. Bonner has invented a community j!
mailbox to replace the unsightly crossroads clusters of j?
individual receptacles, as at upper left. The new box has j]
15 individual mail receptacles and a compartment for U
parcel post. The empty pigeonhole is for outgoing mail, p
FOB GLEMENCEAU
BODY PLACED BESIDE THAT
OF HIS FATHER IN SMALL
VILLAGE PLOT
MOUCHAMPS VENDEE, France,
Nov., 25, (/P)—Georges Clemen
ceau was buried shortly after
noon yesterday as he wished,
with little pomp or ceremony.
The body of the “Father of
Victory” was placed beside that
of his father in the little plot in
iColombier just outside the vil
i lage, to rest forever at his be
loved Vendean home.
Only members of the family
and about 20 of his most inti
mate friends were present at the
interment, gandarmes keeping at
a distance the villagers and
other spectators.
The rain ceased but the sky
remained gray and misty as the
little cortege entered the burial
place.
Although the late Premier’s
closest friends had announced
that he would be buried stand
ing upright, the family decided
i at the last moment the grave be
dug as usual, bcause of the solid
rock which crops out at the bur
ial place to within a yard of the
surface.
ADMINISTRATIVE DUTIES OF
REINDEER SHOULD BE
TRANSFERRED
WASHINGTON, Nov., 25, (/P)—
Commissioner Cooper, of the
Bureau of Education, in his an
nual report, recommended that
his office be relieved of admin
istrative duties in connection with
the government and Alaska
reindeer industry which has de
veloped under the supervision of
the Bureau of Education, and
that the office be transferred
but urged that the chief of Alas
ka affairs be stationed in Alaska
rather than Seattle officer in
charge of administration.
Alaska affairs, under the rec
ommendations made in the re
port, will be given large discre
tionary powers in the many mat
ters now settled at Washngton.
am admits
BLOCKED BT WITNESSES
SACRAMENTO, Nov., 25, (/P)_
Admittedly blocked by the unwil
ingness of witnesses to give infor
nation and claiming that he has
lot been able to form an opinion,
ifter months of study, Governor
foung announced that he was ask
ng the advisory pardon board to
nvestigate and recommend action
n the pardon appeal of Thomas J.
/looney, convicted of the 1916 Pre
>aredness Day bombing in San
'’rancisco.