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VOLUME XXI, NUMBER 182. SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, AUGUST 2,1926. PRICE TEN CENTS
GAIISTAO CHARGED
EMBEZZLEMENT OF
FUNDS. FAIRBANKS
RECEIVER AND TRUSTEE OF
WASHINGTON-ALASKA BANK OF
FAIRBANKS RELEASED UNDER
$2,500 BONDS
RESIGNED POSITION JULY 22
Sum of $28,000 Involved; Judge Clegg
Appoints M. R. Boyd to Position
FAIRBANKS, Aug. 2. {JP)—0. P.
Gaustad was released under $2,500
bonds after he had been arrested on
information charging him with em
bezzlement of $28,000 while receiver
and trustee of the defunct Washing
ton-Alaska bank here. Gaustad re
signed as receiver on July 22. M. A.
Thometz, a department of justice
agent, has been here for two months
investigating Gaustad’s administration
of the bank’s affairs.
The Fairbanks News-Miner of recent
date stated that following the resigna
tion of O. P. Gaustad as receiver for
the Washington-Alaska bank, Judge
Clegg .appointed M. R. Boyd to the
positiop. Mr. Gaustad resigned as
his duties as president of the Richard
son Highway company prevented him
from giving his full attention to the
receivership.
Sale of the bank’s property consist
ing of the Barnette and R. C. Wood
residences and the Fairbanks block
was held Saturday in accordance with
the plans of the former receiver. The
order for the release of the property
to the receiver was issued during the
latter part of May by the United
States Supreme Court, and also ap
plied to $45,000 deposited in a San
Francisco bank as well as Fairbanks
property.
There is little likelihood of the af
fairs of the bank being settled in the
immediate future as it will take some
time to dispose of property in Mexico
owned by the bank.
POLICE FOIL PLOT
jfflTE CALLES
SEVEN WOMEN AND TWO MEN
ARRESTED; STENOGRAPHER
DECLARED HEAD OF GANG
MEXICO CITY, Aug. 2. (£>)—Police
announced they have discovered a plot
to assassinate President Calles. Seven
women and two men have been arrest
ed. Senorita Dolores Lemus of Young
City, a stenographer was declared
to have headed the plot. Officers at
tached to the President’s personal
staff arrested her upon discovery of
the conspiracy which occurred after
the police investigated reports of the
organization movement among city
hall employees who openly opposed
the government’s religious policy. 1
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GLADSTONE BRINGS LOAD FISH 1
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The halibut schooner Gladstone, 1
Capt. George Christenson, arrived in t
port yesterday with over 30,000 t
pounds of fish. The vessel went over i
to Bainbridge glacier for ice and then c
proceeded south to Sitka. jc
GIGANTIC LINER TAKES FIRST PLUNGE
New Record for Size and Speed of U. S. Built
Ships Is Set Up by Launching of S. S.
Malolo for Honolulu Run.
LAGS fluttered, sirens
screamed, and the cheers
of ten thousand excited
spectators were heard for
miles up and down the his
toric Delaware when the S. S. Ma
lolo, the largest and speediest high
powered passenger steamship ever
built in the United States, recently
slid down her ways at Cramp’s
Shipyard, Philadelphia, for her first
plunge into her native element.
Among the official guests at the
launching was the Honorable Her
bert Hoover, Secretary of Com
merce. Included in the large dele
gations which came in special cars
from Washington and New York
were members of Congress, officials
of the United States Shipping
Board, and others prominent in the
shipping -world.
One of the features of the launch
ing was the singing of “Aloha” by
a group of Hawaiian delegates to
the National Education Association
meeting in Philadelphia. The last,
soft strains, “farewell to thee until
we meet again,” were reached just
as the nose of the vessel dipped
into the water. The singers were
decked with leis, the garlands of
flowers that for centuries have
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The picture above shows the
huge hull of the Malolo leaving the
ways. At the left the camera
shows the christening bottle just
before it crashed against the bows.
The group below Includes Secre
tary of Commerce Herbert Hoover
(center), Miss Wilhelmina Tenne>
(left), Mrs. W. P. Roth, the wife of
the vice-president of the Matson
Navigation Company (right), and
Lurline and Berenice Roth (fore
ground).
been emblematic of Hawaiian hos
pitality and friendship.
The Malolo was christened by
Miss Wilhelmina Tenney, daughter
of th&jwesident of the Matson Nav
igation Company. Lurline and
Berenice Roth, the six-year-old twin
daughters of the vice-president of
the same company, acted as hon
orary sponsors. The Malolo will be
placed in commission on the San
Francisco-Honolulu run by the
Matson Navigation Company next
spring, and will cut the time for
the round trip between the two
ports from twelve down to eight
days.
JAPANESE VESSEL IN
DISTRESS, PACIFIC,
CUTTER MAY ASSIST
STEAMER YONAN MARU, EN
ROUTE PORTLAND FROM MUR
ORAN, BREAKS SHAFT
CORDOVA, July 31. (JP)—A wireless
message from Dutch Harbor said the
Japanese steamer Yonan Maru is in
distress in the North Pacific on heir
way to Portland from Muroran. The
intercepted message from Yonan to
the Siberian Maru said “Our shaft is
broken in the stern and we are lying
to. Want to get the Yogen Maru so
please inform SOS. From most of
the transmissions in the Japanese
code it -was evident the distressed ves
sel sought only Japanese assistance.
The cutter Haida was instructed to
communicate with the Yonan and if
it’s captain so desired to proceed to
:he vessel’s assistance and take her
into Dutch Harbor.
TOURISTS ARRIVE IT
TANANA ON JEFF DAVIS
TANANA, Aug. 2. (/P)—The govern- !
nent mail and passenger steamer Jeff
Davis arrived from Nena yesterday <
vith nine tourist passengers of the ]
3artlett tours en route through Alas- ]
:a. All are from Ohio and are going j
[own the river to Ruby, then back up ]
he Yukon and Tanana rivers to Ne- c
iana, thence to Fairbanks and out i
ver the Richardson highway to the <
oast.
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MELLON NOT ON OFFICI
BUSINESS, BUT VACATION
PAUL SMITHS, July 31. (£>)—It is
learned officially that Mellon has not
gone to Europe on government busi
ness. It is asserted he has no author
ity to conduct debt negotiations.
Coolidge’s spokesman added that Mel
lon merely has gone abroad to enjoy
a vacation with his son and visit his
daughter in Rome.
HUSBAND ARRESTED
CONNECTION DEATH,
- SUICIDE OF WIFE
FOUND IN THICKET ATTEMPTING
TO HANG SELF WITH
PIECE OF TWINE
MIAMI Aug. .2.—Baron Royce Gar
ret has been arrested for questioning
about his wife who, last Friday night,
leaped to death from the 18th floor
)f 'the Everglades hotel. He was found
n a thicket and police said he was at
;empting to hang himself -with a small 1
aiece of twine. He had been missing 1
since last Friday noon. He said he 5
md, his wife had formed a compact to i
lie together, “but she sent me away t
Friday morning and told me to come c
lome on the last car but not to buy a
l Herald newspaper before coming t
lome. But I bought one anyway and s
liscovered she had killed herself s
without giying me an opportunity to r
lie with her as we had promised each a
>ther.” f
NEITHER FOREIGNERS1
NOR RUSSIANS TO
EXPLOIT RESOURCES
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE WILLj
ORGANIZE DEFENSES, DEVEL
OP TRADE FOR ISLANDS
MOSCOW, July 31. (/P)—The coun
cil of the people’s commissars has de
cided to make efforts to populate
Wrangell and Herald islands from the
mainland and make out of them pro
ductive factors in the Soviet union.
The islands have been placed under
the jurisdiction of the Soviet far
eastern regional executive committee
who will organize defenses, develop
tnade and furnish prospective colon
ists with supplies. Neither foreign
ers on*r Russians will be allowed to
?o to the islands and exploit the re
sources without a special permit.
OWNER FIFTEEN HOUSES
DIES FROM STARVATION
PHILADELPHIA, July 29. (£>)—
Hugh Monihan, the owner of 15
louses with an estimated value of
1250,000 is dead of starvation- and
ilargaret Monihan, 88, his sister, is
lying of the same cause according to
letectives who entered the house in
rhich they lived. Their absence from
he yard for several days aroused the
uspicions of their neighbors who
ummoned the police. They fouujl the
nan dead and his sister unconscious
nd the only food in the house was
our oranges.
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CANDIDATE GIVEN GLAD HAND
BY MAJORITY OF SEWARD'S
CITIZENS
Organization plans were begun in
Seward Saturday evening by support
ers of Thomas A. Marquam, candidate
on the Independent ticket for Delegate
to congress and, judging from the en
thusiastic reception given to Mr. Mar
quam, his local campaign will be ably
taken care of. Complete announce
ment of the organization will be made
shortly.
Mr. Marquam, who is already being
haled as Alaska’s new delegate to con
gress, addressed the meeting giving
a brief resume of campaign work un
der way in the First division and of
the remarkable support being given
him in every town and community.
He frankly confessed to friends
that he “sort of forgot about politics”
in his pleasure at meeting and visiting
with so many of the oldtimers, his
friends of two decades standing. “It
is just like going home to be back
at these places and the time I have to
3pend here is all too short for any
conversations on political topics,” Mr.
Marquam said. “However, I was given
the word of my old friends and many
new ones that they will stand by me
in the campaign and the election.
Their promises are enough for me.
I know them and I am relying ab
solutely on them.”
He spent a wreek or more at Ketchi
kan and sufficiently long in both
Wrangell and Petersburg to meet
numerous citizens *and he returns to
Seward with increased confidence
his former assurance that he will poll
a heavy vote in November. On his
return to Juneau he found the organi
zation in his behalf, as well as that
of the Divisional Independent ticket,
active in organization w'ork and mak
ing marked inroads in the trenches
of the enemy.
Mr. Marquam left for Fairbanks
yesterday on a flying visit to his of
fice but is returning immediately from
the Interior in time to go Westward
on the steamer Starr. Upon his re
turn from the Bristol bay district he
will campaign throughout the Second
and Fourth divisions, via airplane,
closing in this and the First division.
10 HUNT MOOSE. BEAR AND
SHEEP. MOVIE CHS
During the latter part of next
nonth, August, there will arrive in
Seward from New York, a Mr. Burk
lart, president of a large radio cor
)oration, and another well known
Eastern business man. They have al
eady completed plans for a forty day
noose, bear and sheep hunt in the
ower Skilak lake country and
iave employ^ the services of
leorge Nelson and Henry Lucas,
amous Alaskan licensed guides and
»ig game hunters. Later it is learn
d, the men from the East may go in
o the Interior after caribou. This
unting trip, contrary to general ex- i
ectations, will not be with guns but n
rith movie picture cameras.