Heutan Baily Gateumu
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS.
VOLUME XX. NUMBER 297
SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1925
PRICE TEN CENTS
RELIEF SHIP FAILS
TO REACH POST
AT REPULSE BAY
RADIO MESSAGE PICKED UP ASK
ING THAT FOOD BE SENT
FOR RELIEF NATIVES
BOSTON, Nov. 3 (/P)—Station W.
3D here heard the following message
yesterday:
“This message is for the Hudson
Bay post at Chesterfield Inlet, Repulse
3ay, Wagner Inlet. The company’s
relief ship failed to reach Southamp
ton Island this season, ocnsequently
this post is insufficiently supplied
with provisions. If Chesterfield or
Wagner posts receive this message,
rush special courier to Repulse and
have forwarded from there to South
ampton two sled loads of staple foods,
advising Southampton to draw upon
Repulse where stocks are plentiful.
Should Repulse receive this message
act on it at once without waiting to
receive word from Chesterfield. Signed
Wagner. Hudson Bay Company, Mon
treal.”
More than a year ago the company
equipped many of its posts in the Arc
tic with radio receiving sets for re
ceiving messages otherwise taking
months to deliver and for the enter
tainment of the factors and trappers.
ELECT WINS CAUSE
MANY KILLINGS
MEXICO CITY. Nov. 3 (£>)—Five
persons were killed and 27 wounded
in gubernatorial elections in Yucatan,
it is reported from Merida, the capital
of that state. Rival factions were
the cause of the killings.
DAVIS RELEASED AT
PORTLAND-WAS CASE
OF MISTAKEN IDENTITY
J. P. HANNON RECEIVES WIRE
FROM MERRILL—CASE CAME
UP THIS MORNING
In a telegram received at noon today
by J. P. Hannon, secretary of the local
chamber of commerce, from R. H. Mer
rill, local aviator, now at Portland,
Oregon, the news is received that the
trial of Roy J. Davis, owner of the
j plane which operated in Seward the
* past summer, and who later was ar
rested at Seldovia, charged with im
personating a government official, and
later taken to Portland to stand trial,
was dismissed this morning, it being
shown that it was a case of mistaken
identity and that Mr. Davis was abso
lutely innocent, of all wrong-doing and
in fact was nowhere about the state
at the time the crime was committed.
His many friends here are jubilant
over the outcome of the case.
Both Mr. Davis and Mr. Merrill ex
pect to return to Seward this month
to make arrangements for carrying
on their airplane business next sum
mer.
FOOTBALL GAMES
To be played Saturday, November
7 th:
Ohio State vs. Indiana at Columbus.
Minnesota vs. Butler at Minneapo
lis.
Chicago vs. Illinois at Urbana.
Iowa vs. Wisconsin at Iowa City.
Perdue vs. Franklin at Lafayette.
Michigan vs. Northwestern at Chi
cago (Grant Park Stadium)
GEORGETOWN, S. W. Earth tre
mors lasting ten minutes and of suf
ficient strength to awaken the inhab
itants were felt here today.
Commission Reports On
Muscle Shoals Project
WASHNIGTON, D. C., Nov. 3 (/P)—
A report by a majority of the Muscle
Shoals commission recommended the
temporary operation of the project by
the government if satisfactory and
private leases cannot be obtained. A
minority report is expected.
BANDITS HOLDING
PRIESTS RANSOM
PEKING, China, Nov. 3 (/P)—The
American legation was informed that
bandits are holding two American
priests for ransom on the island of
St. Johns, south of Hongkong. It is
understood that an American destroy
er and a Chinese warship are pro
ceeding to the island.
SCHOOL BUS AND
TRAIN COLLIDE
WAYCROSS, Ga., Nov. 3 (IP)—1The
collision of a fast New York to Flor
ida passenger train and a school bus
resulted in the deaths of eight children
and the injury of 21,-many of whom
will die. The driver of the bus said
he had his side curtains down and did
not see the train approaching.
i Pupils Seward Schools
Begin Athletic Exercises
Mondays and Wednesdays the boys
of the Seward public school will be
given athletic instruction at the local
gymnasium and on Tuesdays and
Thursdays the girls will hold forth
in the gym. Exercises began yester
day by the boys and this afternoon the
girls made their first appearance on
I the floor. The time allotted on these
I days to the pupils will be an hour or
more according to the time available.
Supt. Guy Barnett, head of the Sew
ard schools, announces credits will be
given the children as in other school
studies.
POLICE RESERVES CALLED
NEW YORK: Police reserves last
night repelled an attack of 400 per
sons said to be members of the anti
Fascisti alliance of North America on
the Hoteel Pennsylvania where 600
members of the Italian Fascisli league
were holding a dinner.
ROBBERS STEAL LIQUOR
NEW YORK: Robbers yesterday
stole the entire stock of liquors, 14
barrels in all and valued at $10,000,
shippede here from Hollywood, Cal.,
by Jessie L. Lasky, vice president of
the Famous Players. Theey also took
four barrels of silver ware.
HAD NO LIGHTS SHOWING
BOSTON: “If the submarine S51
had her running lights on I assure you
gentlemen in this room that the City
of Rome would never have crashed
into the under sea ship on the night
of September 25, and that one of the
worst submarine accidents on record
would have been avoided,” said Capt.
John H. Diehl, master of the City of
Rome the night of the crash at the
close of the day’s hearing at Charles
ton. Capt. Diehl said that the sub
violated one of the strictest rules in
navigation by crossing in front of the
City of Rome.
REAL ESTATE AGENTS SHOT
LANCASTER, Cal.: A coroner’s
jury investigating the slaying near
here last week of M. E. Roach and
Benjamin Fadden, Los Angeles real
tors, returned a verdict that they had
come to their death from gunshot
wounds inflicted by Cyrus Kirkpat
rick, an elderly rancher.
MITCHELL COURT
MARTIAL NEARS
ITS CONCLUSION
COURT UPHOLDS DEFENDANT IN
RIGHT TO SUBPOENA HIS
OFFICIAL WITNESSES
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 3 (£>)—
The judge advocate general in charge
of the Mitchell court martial held
that the defendant was within his
rights in asking a long list of wit
nesses including three cabinet offi
cers to testify in his behalf. The
court denied the motion of Mitchell’s
counsel to dismiss the charges on
he plea that the prosecution presented
no proof of his guilt.
Harry McCleary, of the San Anto
nio News, and Kenneth McCall of the
Houston Press testified that Colonel
Mitchell gave them his statement
September 5. Lloyd Gregory of the
Austin office of the Associated Press
told of going to Port Aransas and
remaining there with Mitchell after
his statement was published. The
prosecution rested and the defense
moved to strike four of the eight
specifications. The court adjourned
without ruling on this or the question
of subpoenaes.
n:?di Refuses To
Give Vote Confkieaei
PARIS, Nov. 3 (/P)—The Socialist
council refused to give a vote of con
fidence to the Painleve cabinet by a
close vote.
PIONEER CARIBOU
DISTRICT DEAD
VANCOUVER, B. C., Nov. 3 (£>)—
Stephen Thall, 79, a British Columbia
pioneer, express agent and postmas
ter at Fifty-Mile House in the Cari
bou district in the gold rush days,
died yesterday.
FLAMING CROSS
BURNS CORDOVA
CORDOVA, Nov. 3 (JP)—'The flam
ing cross of the Ku Klux Klan was
seen for the first time in the history
of Cordova Sunday night, burning on
a hill near town.
Weir and Selig Reverse
Pleas In Local Court;
Sentenced Yesterday
John A. Wier and W. J. Selig, who
were arrested last Saturday by U. S.
Game Warden A1 Hardy, charged with
killing mountain sheep in the Kenai
reserve, both of whom entered pleas
of not guilty at the hearing held later
in the U. S. Commissioner’s Court,
reversed their pleas yesterday, plead
ing guilty to the charges. At the hear
ing held yesterday before C. R. Mor
ford, U. S. commissioner, Wier was
fined $250 and given 90 days in jail,
and Selig was sentenced to serve 30
days in jail.
CHARGED WITH SPEEDING
REDDING, Cal., Nov. 3 (JP)—A 16
year old youth in jail here for speed
ing has been identified as Fred Fortier
of Seattle and Vancouver, wanted for
auto theft.
BRIDGE COLLAPSES, 50 DEAD
LONDON, Eng.: Fifty persons were
missing today and three are known
to be dead from the collapse of a
bridge at Bindjoi Sumatra according
to a message from Batavia.
Carl Lomen Arrives In
Seattle On the Alameda
SEATTLE, Nov, 3 (/P)—Among the
passengers arriving in Seattle frdTn
Nome on the steamship Alameda was
Carl J. Lomen, who reported that his
company had shipped 3600 reindeer
this season. The herds show a good
increase.
The Alameda brought a large ship
ment of gold dust and furs.
SEATTLEREVISE
CITY CHARTER
SEATTLE, Nov. 3 (/P)—The coun
cil yesterday voted seven to two to
adopt the Carroll ordinance providing
for an eleection March 9 for 15 free
holders to revise the city charter.
President Suzzailo Says
State Spends Too Much
In Aiding Its Lunatics
SPOKANE, Nov. 3 (/P)—President
Suzzailo told the Spokane Alumnae
Association yesterday that the State
is doing more to aid its “lunatics”
than to develop the average person.
MANY DROWNED
DAM BREAKS LN
WALES VILLAGE
LLANDUDNO, Wales, Nov. 3 (/P)—
Seven reported drowned and 17, in
cluding a woman and nine children
are missing after a dam burst destroy
ing the village of Dolgarroghouse.
Dozens of villages were swept aw^y,
hundreds of cattle and sheep were
drownd, when 80,000 millions gallons
of water from the Eigian lake rushed
down Conway vale yesterday.
New York City Holds
Municipal Election Today;
NEW YORK, Nov. 3 (/P)—'The
apathy which marked the municipal
campaign after the primaries is re
flected in slow voting today.
NO PORK BARREL BILLS GO
WASHINGTON: President Cool
idge today assailed the pork barrel
congressmen issuing a solemn warn
ing that he would veto any attempt of
congress to evolve pork barrel bills
out of the deluge of postoffice, public
building and river and harbors legis
lation.
DENT IN RAIL CASES WRECK
MEMPHIS, Tenn.: An invisible
dent in a 96 pound steel rail was held
responsible for the loss of 18 lives
and injury to 50 persons when the
Sunny Land St. Louis San Francisco
passenger train -was wrecked 33 miles
south of Memphis.
SCHOOL BOYS CAUSE DEATHS
MONTROSE, Col.: School boys
throwing a quantity of dynamite into
a furnace of the school at McPhee,
Colorado, caused the death of one boy
and injury which may be fatal to four
others.
DRIVE AGAINST GUNMEN
CHICAGO: What is heralded as
the greatest drive ever undertaken
against Chicago gunmen and gang
sters was opened here today. Squads
Df detectives and police in automo
biles dashed into disreputable districts
making scores of raids and arrests.
Orders have been issued to shoot to
kill and the police were told to take
ao chances but to get the first shot.
Scaramouche at the Liberty.
ALGONQUIN LANDS
IN SEATTLE WITH
PLENTY OF NEWS
SEVENTH MEMBER OF WRECKED
MISSION SCHOONER BROT
SOUTH ON CUTTER.
ATTU ISLAND POPULATION 38
Volcanoes To Far Westward Appear
Inactive Since Big Eruption
of Mount Katmai.
SEATTLE, Wn., Nov. 3. (/Pi—The
Alaska Coast Guard Cutter Algon
quin arrived here last night, with
Lieut.-Commander C. F. Howell in
command. The commander reported,
“I have been cruising Alaska waters
for the last twenty-three year, but
never before have I seen volcanoes
in the Aleutian group of islands so
active. Katai, Pavlof, Makushin, Shis
aldin and Vsediov are all smoking,
with mushroom halos hanging over
their craters. Makushin has the most
active halo, with a more dense and
larger volume of smoke issuing from
its crater. The less intermittent vol
canoes have been comparatively quiet
since the eruption of Mount Katmai.
I learned from the Natives that there
have been no earthquakes for a year,
their inactivity probably having caus
ed the disturbances near the center
of the earth.”
The Algonquin brought Chryss
tahym, the seventh member of the
crew of the ill-fated mission schoon
er Ariel, wrecked north of Nome
this fall, who suffered from expos
ure as a result of the wreck. He was
lashed to the engine of a Nome coast
guard life-saving boat in an effort to
keep him warm during the voyage
to Nome from the point of the ac
cident. He will be cared for by the
Alaska Steamship Company and tak
en to Sitka.
The Algonquin found some sick
ness in Nushagak when they inves
tigated the reports concerning the
influenza epidemic which was broad
cast from there last July. It is re
ported that Attu Island has a popu
lation of thirty-eight natives.
DEMENTED WOMAN
USE AXE TO KILL
YOUNG CHILD
SAID SHE KILLED BOY BECAUSE
“HE NEVER HAD BEEN
RIGHT IN MIND
KELSO, Wn., Nov. 3 (£>)—Mrs. Cora
Zack, the demented mother of nine
children, who has lived for twenty
years on a loneley ranch on the upper
Kalama river, killed her youngest
son, aged five years, by hacking his
head off with a double bitted axe.
After killing the boy the woman
walked a mile and a half to a school
where she told the children and a
neighbor who reeported the murder
to the authorities. The woman said
she killed the boy because, “he had
never been quite right.”
RESCUED FROM HOUSE ILL FAME
SEATTLE, Nov. 3 (JP)—A sixteen
year old girl who disappeared from
her home at Port Angeles, Washing
ton, ten days ago, was rescued late
yesterday by detectives from a house
of ill fame operated by a half caste
woman, and frequented by negroes.
The woman, the white men and one
negro were arrested. The girl said
she left home and attended one of the
balls for which the underworld is fa
mt«is and was nticed into a room and
kept there.
See “Scaramouche” at the Liberty
tonight.