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VOLUME XXI, NUMBER 276. ^ ^ ~ SEWARD ALASKA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1926.
PRICE TEN CENTS
Rumanian Situation
Growing More Tense;
War Clouds Looming
OUTCOME OF OPERATION OF KING FERDINAND
MAY PLUNGE COUNTRY INTO CIVIL WAR—FOL
LOWERS OF CAROL PLAN TO ENTHRONE HIM
IF KING DIES—SUGGESTED THAT CROWN BE
HANDED OVER TO BRITISH PRINCE—ARMY
SAID TO BE BEHIND CAROL
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PARIS, Dec. 11. (/P)—It is reported King Ferdinand
of Rumania is to undergo an intestinal operation today.
If Ferdinand dies, followers of former Crown Prince
Carol plan a coup de etat to place him on the throne which
will*be followed by the establishment of a Fascist govern
ment. Another plan was to hand over the crown to an un
named British prince and after a period of regency rule,
* as constituted at present, it is reported the army will de
clare for Prince Carol if he appears on the frontier.
Queen Marie of Jugoslavia, pleaded with her mother for
a reconciliation wTith Carol but opposed his ascending the
throne. It is possible Jugoslav troops will aid Mane
against Carol.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 11. (£>)—1The
first real “dry" test in Congress show-,
ed yesterday that the Dry have a big
majority. With the sanction of Pres
ident Coolidge they have passed an
for prohibition enforcement.
FOR EXAMINATIONS
CAMPAIGN FUND COMMITTEE TO
RE-OPEN INVESTIGATIONS,
STATED
k WASHINGTON, Dec. 11. (ff)—'The
bring the omnibus flood prevention
bill before the hous despite the advice
of Secretary Davis. It is contrary to i
V the President’s financial program bill
and would appropriate §109,500 for
preliminary examination on 22 rivers
in IS states. The Sampaign Funds com
mittee agreed to reopen primary in
vestigation in Pennsylvania, Illinois,
Oregon and Arizona.
WAS ASKED VAINLY REGARDING
PACIFIC WAR SCARE
IN 1921
/ WASHINGTON, Dtec. 11. (^—Sec
retary of the Navy Wilbur on the
stand, refused to impart any informa
tion when asked and declared the re
r quest was improper and injurious to
the public interest. He was excused
after a few minutes. He was asked
vainly about the Pacific war scare
which preceded the decision to con
t struct an oil storage at Pearl Harbor
in 1921.
GNUHJUH FLEET
FORT WILLIAM, Dec. 11. (/P)—'The
grain-laden fleet which was frozen in
the river here, was released by tugs.
There was a doubt, however, whether
the vessels would be able to pass the
Soo canal and unless an icebreaker
ploughed a way it was feared all the
vessels on Lake Superior would have
been icebound for the winter.
At Sault Ste. Marie, the St. Marie,
the most powerful icebreaker in the
world was working her way up the St.
Mary river to release the long line of
1100 lake carriers which are icebound.
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HANKOW, China, Dec. 11. (^—Sen
tries walked their posts behind barri
cades around British and French con
cessions of Hankow awaiting develop
ments of the general strike of em
ployees of foreigners. Sailors and
marines of foreign warships were on
guard. Five American gunboats rode
quietly at their anchorage in the
Yangtze river.
VIOLENT STORM IN SPAIN
MADRID, Spain, Dec. 11. (;p)—Vio
lent storms continued to sweep a
greater part of the Spanish peninsula
increasing damage caused by storms
I over the week-end.
JAPAN’S EMPEROR SINKING
TOKYO, Dec. 11. (JP)—Six oxygen
tanks have been installed in Emper
or Yoshirito’s room, who is ill of
bronchial pneumonia. The empress
Radako is at the bedside. His pulse
is weak and heart stimulants are be
ing used.
GAVE HIM SUM PRIOR TO GOING .
TO WASHINGTON jPOR TRIAL; ,
ALSO LOANED OBREGON GOV
ERNMENT $10,000,000 ADVANCE
PAYMENT TAXES ON INTER
ESTS MEXICO—MONEY LATER
SPENT REHAB I LIT! ATE ARMY
WASHINGTON, Dec. 11. (^—Robi
son said Fall’s property in New Mex
ico is capitalized at $10,000 and valu
ed at $100 a share.
“Then your 33 shares given as se
curity are wort $3,300?’’ he asked.
Doheny assented.
Under cross-examination Doheny
testified he loaned Fall $5,000 just
before he came to Washington for
trial and said he spent a restless night
with an arm infection. His arm is in
a sling.
It has been disclosed he loaned the
Obregon government $10,000;000 in
the form of advance taxes on Pan
American properties. Fall, as the
Mexico agent for thePan-American in
terests, arranged the loan after he
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left the cabinet. The money was used
to rehabilitate the army. With a
whimsical smile Doheny conceded he
had not told “everything I knew” to
the senate oil committee. Wilbur wras
promised as a witness before night.
BELIEVED SUFFICIENT EVIDENCE
IN CASE TO SUPPORT VER
DICT OF GUILTY
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SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 11. (/P)—
With two of the eleven embezzlement
! counts against him dismissed by a
j government motion after four days of
trial, Colonel Ned Green won the
court’s decision to take under submis
sion, a defense motion to dismiss all
the remaining counts. A hint that all
the charges would not be thrown out,
however, was seen in the jurists state
ments that there was enough evidence
in the case to. support a verdict of
guilty.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 11. (£>)—
Soldiers, alive and dead, were parad
ed yesterday in the Federal Court as
Colonel Ned Green, former Prohibition
Administrator for northern California,
went on trial on charges of conspiracy
to violate the prohibition laws. Colon
el Johnson, former prohibition chief
of this district, testified that Green
gave parties at his rooms at the hotel
and that the government’s seized li
quor was served at these parties.
Green, through his attorney, admitted
that he drank occasionally.
GAINES APPEAL, MAY, JUNE
SEATTLE, Dec. 11. OP)—Defense at
torneys predicted the Gaines appeal
will be heard in the Supreme court in
May or June.
SHOW Cl AWARDED
S50.000 Of COOII
PITTSBURGH, Dec. 11. (£>)—'The
Federal Jury awarded Anne Caldwell, j
New York show girl $50,000 in a j
5500,000 breach of promise suit
against John Hubbard, Pittsburgh
shovel manufacturer.
CADET ALMOST BREAKS NECK
WORCESTER, Mass., Dec. 11. (IP)— j
A West Point cadet almost broke his j
neck trying to meet the academy’s;
standard for erect posture. He is re-1
cuperating at home.
BIG IMPROVEMENT NOTED
In the lobby of the Overland hotel
there is a large panorama photograph
of Seward taken in 1915. One need
but take a cursory glance to note the
vast improvement which has taken
place since then.
FOR JEWISH RELIEF
NEW YORK, Dec. 11. (IP)—Jews,
Protestants, and Catholics joined in a
meeting in the cathedral of St. Joseph
The Divine. The meeting concerns
the Aemrican Christian fund for Jew
ish relief.
SEWARD-LIKE GALE
FIFTY MILES WIND DOES CON
SIDERABLE DAMAGE IN
SOUTHERN CITY
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 11. (IP)— A
fifty-one mile per hour gale whipped
San Francisco waterfront. Scores of
small launches and sailboats, yachts
and barges, were swept on to the
beaches and battered by the heavy
seas. Mo'St of them will be a total
loss. A transportation barge with ten
thousand bags of rice aboard was
sunk at the dock. Scores of persons
were injured by falling trees, wires,
and other freak accidents. Mild winds
are reported for Saturday, with sub
siding seas. Storm warnings, how
ever, are still being displayed from
San Diego to Eureka.
VALENTINO’S HOME SOLD
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 11. (IP)—The
“Falcon Lair”, Rudolph Valentino’s
Los Angeles home was sold at auction
to Jules Howard of New York for the
sum of $145,000.
BUNNELL WILL T01
WITH COLLEGE TEAM
“FLASHES OF THE NORTH" BAS
KETBALL SQUAD, ARRIVE SEW
ARD TONIGHT WHERE FIRST
GAME ON LONG SCHEDULE
WILL BE PLAYED
FAIRBANKS, Dec. 11. (/P)—1The
Alaska College basketball team left
yesterday to play the all-star city
teams of Anchorage, Seward, Cordova,
Juneau, Wrangel, Metlakatla ard Ket
chikan. President Bunnell and Coach
Abell are accompanying the eight-man
team. Seventeen games are scheduled.
ALL DOGS AND HORSES EATEN;
DEAD LAY IN STREETS FOR
DAYS OWING TO DIFFICULTTY
IN BURYING; DYING BY THE
HUNDREDS
IMPOSSIBLE TO PURCHASE FOOD
Patients Must Forage for Selves; Hos
pital Staff Eating Mule Meat; Bean
Cakes; Only Few Days Food Left,
Letter States
PEKING, Dec. 11. (£>)—A letter
written November 19 in Sianfu, the
capital of Shensi province, said “hun
dreds were? dying daily from the siege
whih began in April. The city’s 750,
000 inhabitants had eaten all dogs and
horses and the flesh from the human
dead was being sold to keep the in
habitants alive. Nineteen foreigners
are in a desperate condition and we
have only a few day’s food left.”
The letter was written by Doctor C.
J. Stockley of the English Baptist
mission and continued “then our sup
ply will be ending. The hospital staff
is eating beancakes, mule meat and
sugar. We long ago stopped feeding
patients. They must feed themselves
as best they can. It is impossible to
buy food and difficult to bury all who
died of starvation, many of whom .lie
in the streets for days.”
WHALERS ARID SHIPS
AT TODDS,SEATTLE,
! ESCAPE BUS
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■DISASTROUS BLAZE BURNS DOWN
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DOCKS AND NUMBER OF
BUILDINGS
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SEATTLE, Dec. 11. (£»)— Fire des
troyed property valued at §112,000 in
this vicinity. The Todd dry docks
and the Erickson Mercantile whare
house at Bothell were the victims.
Dynamite and gasoline explosions
wrecked the Erickson plant and shat
tered windows thruout the small city
of Bothell.
Flames at the dry docks burned the
tool shed valued at §75,000. Three
docks valued at two million, the lin
er K. I. Lukenbach, the motorship
Challamba, and four whalers escaped
damage. Spontaneous combustion is
claimed to have been the cause of the
disaster at Todds.
A Seattle fire brigade was dispatch
ed to Bothell to aid in the fight
against the flames. Firemen rescued
seven persons from their residence
over a store where they were trapped.
DISCHARGED FOR SMOKING
DETROIT, Dec. 11. (IP)—The dis
charge of two senior nurses in the
Henry Ford hospital for cigarette
smoking in the nurses home was fol
lowed by Ousting, superintendent of
the hospital and the superintendent
of nurses.
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