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* VOLUME XXI, NUMBER 293.
SEWARD ALASKA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 21,1926.
PRICE TEN CENTS
Students of University
And Faculty Wish to
Revise Debt Settlement
PRESIDENT BUTLER ENDORSES STATEMENT IN
SISTING SETTLEMENTS “HAVE CREATED AND
ARE FOSTERING DEEP SENSE GRIEVANCE
AGAINST U. S.; HATRED BETWEEN NATIONS
OF EUROPE BEING TRANSFERRED TO UNITED
STATES.”
I1IIIS REGARDS UNIVERSITY SUGGESTION FIRMLY
“We Do Not Urge that the Debts Be Completely Cancell
ed,” Butler Says, “But urge Reconsideration as Basis
Justice and Generous Intention.”
NEW YORK, Dec. 21. (/P)—Forty-two members of
the Columbia university political science and faculty sign
ed a statement yesterday contending the debt settlement
was unsound and an international conference should re
adjust them. President Butler indorsed the statement
insisting the settlements “have created and are fostering
a deep sense of grievance against us” and the hatreds
9 among the European nations themselves are being trans
ferred to the United States. “Coalition of Europe against
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MOTHER LARGE FAMILY
ATTEMPTS KILL SELF
MODESTO, Calif., Dec. 21. (/P)—
Calmly arising from a family gather
ing at her home this afternoon, Mrs.
Aletha McKinsey, 52 years of age, and
mother of seven children walked into
the next room, placed a barrel of a
shot gun under her heart and pulled
the trigger. The full charge entered
her body. She is not expected to live.
KING WISHES, ABDICATE
PARIS, Dec. 21. (JP)—From a high
Rumanian source it is said King Fer
dinand declared last week to the
ministers in the council that he wish
ed to abdicate and restore Prince Car
ol.
THIRD SURVIVOR FOUND
CAPE MARY, N. J., Dec. 21. (#>)—
A radio message said a third survivor
of the schooner Lincoln has been res
cued. Five yet remain unaccounted
for.
TO CONTINUE GREEN
r OUSE ANOTHER WEEK
GOVERNMENT AND DEFENSE
START THROWING BOMBS AT
ONE ANOTHER
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 21.—Just
as it seemed that the trial of Col.
Ned Green on charges of embezzling
government liquors in his custody
as prohibition administrator of North
ern California was ready to go to the
final arguments both the government
and the defense started throwing
toombs which will run the trial over
the week. The government intimat
ed that ais the outgrowth of new
testimony yesterday it was probable
that charges of perjury would be
made against several witnesses,
rthe United States might prove a good
thing for Europe but can anyone be
lieve it would be a good thing for
the United States.” American rep
resentatives, without rigid instruc
tions, should attend the conference.
“We don’t urge that debts be com
pletely cancelled but we urge recon
sideration in the light of present
knowledge and fle-adjustment on the
basis of justice and generous inten
tion.”
LONDON, Dec. 21. (£>) —London
newspapers gave big headlines to the
statement that 42 political and sci
ence members and instructors at Col
umbia university are proposing an
international debt and reparations
conference to revise war debt settle
ments. The Daily News said the state
ment is a significant development re
sulting in American uneasiness to
ward the debts.
WASHINGTON NOTES
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20. (^—Pres
ident Coolidge compromised in his
dispute with Congressional leaders on
naval building plans by giving a prom
ise of 10 new cruisers for future use,
instead of authorizing the proceeding
of three new cruisers already ordered.
The agreement between President
Coolidge and Congress ignores both
dirigible and aircraft construction and
still leaves U. S. below 5 5 3 basis
set by Washington accord.
The plan wins the support of the
President for $105,000,000 authoriza
tion but no appropriations until 1927.
• WASHINGTON, Dec. 20. (£>)—The
House passed a bill for the return of
all alien property. Democratic Senate
leaders agreed to vote to bar Sena
tor-Elect Smith of Illinois at the door
of the senate before he takes oath as
a result of the Illinois primary scan
dal. *
The Senate planned to order a
sweeping investigation into Republi
can patronage system throughout the
South following charges that post
masterships and other offices are free
ly bought and sold.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20. (^—At
tacking the forces of the American
navy as inadequate and n6t up to the
5 5 3 ratio with Great Britain, Fred
A. Britten, ranking Republican of the
House Naval committee yesterday de
clared that one of two things must be
done. Either the United States must
get other powers to cut down on build
ing operations and programs or else
keep the American navy strictly up
to the 5 5 3 ration and at the pinnacle
of perfection and efficiency. * It is not
that now he declared.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20. (>P) —
President Coolidge and the House of
Naval Affairs committee today agreed
to a §105,000,000 naval building pro
gram to place the American navy
among the first in the world, it "was
announced today by Representative
Statler, of Pennsylvania.
PARIS, Dec. 21. (JP)—The Columbia
university suggestion is regarded fav
orably here.
STARVING FISHERMAN
EATS DEAD COMPANION
AVALON, Calif., Dec. 22. (/P)—John Kelly,
aged 76, a fisherman, was rescued half starved, af
ter drifting in the ocean for 10 days in a 20-foot
sailing craft. James McKinley, his companion, died
on the eighth day, after twice making attempts to
commit suicide. Kelly pulled him out of the water
once. A storm swept the pair to sea on December
9,.when they set out on the tighth from the Redondo
Fishing expedition with one day’s provisions. The
food was depleted on the fifth day.
AVALON, Santa Catlina Island, Dec. 22. (/P)—
Eli B. John Kelly, whom fishermen found on the
beach, confessed to carving strips of flesh away
from McKinley’s right leg and thigh and eating it.
The storm tore away the mainsail and swamped the
auxiliary motor. McKinley went insane in two days
and asked Kelly to row for shore which he thought
he saT Kelly started, going by the compass,
when Bi .xuniey started for Kelly with a fishing
knife. Kelly wrested it from him and billeted Mc
Kinley to the stern sheets where he died.
U. S. COURT DISMISSES
WYOMING SIM SUIT
NEW YORK, Dec. 21. (yR)—The
United States district court today dis
missed the suit brought by H. Leslie
Parker of Wyoming, against Harry F. j
Sinclair for an accounting as to Sin
clair’s disposition of a holding cor-!
poration known as the Salt Creek Oil.
field in Wyoming, alleged to be worth
one hundred million dollars.
HUNGER CRAZED WOLF
KNOCKED ANIMAL THRU DOOR,
WOLF THEN LEAPS BACK
THRU WINDOW; WAS AF
TER CHILDREN
MODESTO, Calif., Dec. 21.—A wo
man fought off a hunger-crazed
timber wolf yesterday when it in
vaded her home and attacked her in
an effort to get to two children.
She was badly slashed by the ani
mal’s fangs. Hitting it with a chair
she knocked the animal thru the
door, barred it only to find that the
hunger ?crazed wolf had leaped thru
a windowr glass. Her screams
brought neighbors and one of the
men killed the animal. It measured
three feet in height/
FOUND WITH BULLET WOUND IN
.. HEART; WOUNDED MAN, A
FRIEND OF MANY YEARS, DE
CLARES SHE SHOT HIM AND
KILLED SELF ’
NEW YORK, Dec. 21. (£>)—Mrs. P.
H. Ingersoll, aged 58, wife of the
watch manufacturer ,was found dead j
in her apartment with a bullet wound}
in her heart. Wallace Probasco,
General Manager of the new Century
Color Plate company, was discovered
there with four bullet wounds in his
body. He was taken to a hospital and
placed under arrest. Probasco said
she shot him when he refused to con
tinue their friendship, then killed
herself. Probasco’s wife, who was Miss
Maud Ingersoll, a daughter of Colonel
Robert G. Ingersoll, noted agnostic,
said her husband telephoned excitedly
saying, “Maud come quickly.” She
went to the apartment and found the
body. Ingersoll said his wife and
Probasco have been intimate for 10
years.
TRAP SET FOR ROBBER
KILLED BT GUARDS
MOUNT SHASTA, Calif., Dec. 21.
—California’s most robed store, which
has been raided by bandits more ;
than 20 times in the past few years j
retaliated last night. The bandit \
who tried to gain entrance was shot j
and killed by a guard posted iniside.
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COMP. GEN. MW
—
! SENATOR BORAH DECLARES AD
MINISTRATION “WORST SYS
TEM OF LOOTING THIS COUN
TRY HAS EVER KNOWN”
| WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec, 21. (£>)
—Senator Borah declared Comptroller
General McCarls alien property ad
ministration report disclosed “the
worst system of looting this country
has ever known” and predicted the
senate will order an investigation af
ter Christmas.
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NEW YORK, Dec. 21. (#>)—A Wash
ington World dispatch said McCarl,
in a special report to President Cool
idge revealed many irregularities in
the administration of half a billion
dollars alien property seized during
the war. *.* V
AGREE TO AMEND ALIEN •
PROPERTY BILL; HOUSE
PASSES, SENT SENSTE
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 20. (&)—'The
Committee agreed to amend the
alien property bill to prevent Berg
doll from benefiting.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 20. (JP)—
The property of Grover Cleveland
Bergdoll, draft evader, seized by the
government under the trading with
the enemy act had been increased to
about $1,500,000 today. The latest
sum seized is $20,000, his share in a
trust fund divided among heirs of
Elizabeth Bergdoll Shoening and Louis
Bergdoll, father of the draft evader.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20. (£>)—The
House passed and sent to the senate
the alien property bill to settle Ger
man and American war claims and dis
pose of holding alien property by a
custodian.
MINERS RE-ELECT LEWIS
INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. 20. (£>)—John
L. Lewis, president and others of the
administration ticket of the United
Mine workers, were overwhelmingly
re-elected at the International poll
taken December 14.
LARGE LAUNCH FILLED WITH
WORKMEN, CRUSHED
BY ICE
NEW YORK, Dec. 21. (IP)—Fifteen
drowned in the icy waters of Hud
son river when ice crushed a 60-foot
launch carrying 10S employes to a
manufacturing plant. Three bodies
were picked up in the river and 12
were taken from the partially sub
merged launch when the tide carried
it upstream and grounded. River craft
speeded to the rescue of those strug
gling in the waters. Many were sub
merged for half an hour.
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