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VOLUME XXII NUMBER 81.
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CORRESPONDENT
INDIANAPOLIS. Incl, April 28. (/P)—Former Unit
ed States Senator Albert Beveridge died suddenly yester
day of heart disease. .He had been working upon his lat
est book, ' The Life of Abraham Lincoln,” which was only
half completed. His health had been poor, but death
came as a shock to his friends.
MALONEY AND SHARKEY BOUT
SET FOR MAY 19 IN NftW YORK
STADIUM
OJA I, Calif.. April 28. (JP)—Jack
Dempsey said in answer to reports
hwt Rickard plans to match him with
Paolino Uzcudon, the Spanish wood
chopper. July 1: “It’s OK with me.
As soon as I have a chance to talk it
over with Tex in New York I will
go through with my part of the con
tract." The winner would fight the
victor of the Jimmy Maloney-Jack
Sharkey bout for a chance at Tunney’s
title. The Maloney-Sharkey bout is
set to take place in the New York
Stadium May 19.
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EMEU 10 FUN
KILLED; IMS SMASH
CASPER, Wyo., April 28. (£>)—'Two
locomotive engineers and qne fire
man were killed in a collision on the
Colorado & Southern railroad near
Uva, Wyo., early this morning The
officials said the failure of a freight
cxytvr to obey orders to clear for a
passenger train was responsible for
the wreck.
NOME SCHOONERS PREPARE
EOS FIRST TRIPS Of SEASON
SEATTLE, April 28. (/P)—The power
boat Silver Wave started loading per
ishables for a voyage to Nome via
the Inside Passage May 5. The Don
aldson, another Lomen vessel, will
«a|l May 5. Twelve passengers have
,'igned to sail on the Silver Wave.
Z One o: the pioneer exponents o!
he direct el ction of all public o‘
'iclals, Albert Jeremiah Beveridge
on-intently was unsuccessful as a
candidate tinder the sv. tem.
Twice he attained me.r.be: ship in
the J'rhted States Senate Ivoni Ind
ira through election by tse state
legislature, and twice he was reject
ed as an aspirant for th.e same place
by popular referendum.
When Theodore Roosevelt bolted
J the republican party in 1912. Bcve
| ridge went to him. At the Bull
: Moose convention in Chicago, the
1 Hoosier, as temporary chairman, ut
tered th.e principles upon which the
progressives relied for success.
Through the irony of circumstanc
es the measures which the progress
ives espoused and helped to enact
were cieterrants to the ambitions o:
Beveridge.
Since his* retirement from the
Senate in 1911 Beveridge twice
sought to return. In 1914, he was
defeated as a progressive candidate
and in 1922 he won the republican
;nomination over Harry A. New but
lost tiie election to Samuel M. Ral
ston. the democratic standard bear
er. In 1912, Beveridge was do eated
as the progressive candidate for gov
| ernor of Indiana.
(Continued on Page Three.)
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ARCTIC CIRCLE MAIL
SERVICE INAUGURATED
WISEMAN'. April 28. (JP)—A. A. Ben
nett. airplane pilot, arrived yesterday
afternoon from Fairbanks with the
first authorized air mail serviee north
of the Arctic circle. Only letter mail
was carried. The camp is jubilant
over the service as Wiseman would
otherwise be without mail until July.
SAN PEDRO, Calif., April 27. (£>)—
Radio advices to Norton Lilly and
Company, steamship operators gave
very meager details of the fire in one
oi the holds of the Shipping Board
steamer “Sagadahoc” which report
ed her position off Salina Cruz.
WDONALP Or ROYAL NORTH
WEST MOUNTED POLICE DIS
APPEARED IN 192 ;
PICKED UP ON BEACH NEAR
BAILLIE, NORTHWEST TER
RITORY, CANADA
BAILLIE. X. W Ter.. Canada, April
4.—By Courier to Aklavik. April 2S (7P)
—Natives west of here report the
discovery of the body of a white man
believed to be Constable McDonald of
the Rayol Northwest Mounted Police,
who disappeared off Capt. Klineberg’s
boat three years age. The body was
found on the beach of the Arctic
ocean.
ADRIFT ON ICE FLOE
EDMONTON, Alta., April 28. (/?)—
A special dispatch to the Edmonton
Journal from Aklacik on the Canadian
Arctic says: “Eskimos from Pierce
Point report that late last fall a man
was seen floating out to sea on an
Ice floe. He fired his gun many times
for help, but the natives were without
a boat and unable to render assistance.
The wreck of a schooner was found
and it is believed he belonged to the
same party. The identity of the man
is still a mystery.
MATE. CREW OEM
JUDGMENT OF 81,200 AWARDED
FOR SALVAGING GASBOAT
MORZHOVIO
SEATTLE, April 28. (/P)—Federal
Judge Jeremiah Neterer awarded H.
C. Larson, third mate of the steamer
Derblay and several of the ,crew a
judgment for $1,200 for salvaging the
gash a at Morzhovio off Ocean Cape,
Gulf of Alaska, August 30, and towing
her to Cordova.
MOTHER OF SCREEN FAMILY
HOLLYWOOD. April 28. (JP)—Mrs.
Helene Rosson, who came here from
the East in 1913 to start her six chil
dren in what has proved to be suc
cessful movie careers, died at the
Rosson home. Two sons, Arthur and
Richard, now are directors, and the
third son, Harold, has met with suc
cess as a cinema photographer. The
Rosson daughrers are Helen, a fea
tured film actress, Gladys, secretary to
Cecil De Miile, and Queenie, who left
the screen to marry.
MRS. SNYDER TAKING STAND
NEW YORK, April 28. (£>)—'The
State rested shortly after noon in the
inyder murder trial The defense
•ounsel announced thah Mrs. Snyder
would take the stand in her own de
tense tomorrow.
COMMUNIST AND 17 PRISONERS
CAPTURED IN RECENT RAID ON
SOVIET COMPOUND
PEKING. April 28. (/Py —Lit.a Ch ;o.
a well know Communist, and 17 other
Chinese arrested during the recent
raid on the Soviet compound, were
strangled to death at police headquar
ers tips afternoon. The prisoners
were expected to be tried by special
court for supporting the Cantonese
against the Northern government, but
the rolice apparently decided the evi
deuce completely proved the guilt of
the accused and ordered summary ex
i ecution.
I
IS A BIG DIFFERENCE ELECTION
TREASURER AND ATTORNEY
!
GENERAL
JUNEAU, April 28. (fi>)—Ruling that
there is material difference between
;ihe measures requiring the election of
!a Territorial Trasurer and Attorney
'General similar to sections comprised
i in the original Comptroller bill.
Speaker Sumner Smith admitted two
bills in the House for that purpose. A
point of order was raise ! which callet
‘"or a ruling.
BASEBULL SCORES
NATIONAL LEAGUE
New York-Brooklyn—rain.
Chicago 2, Cincinnati 1.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
St. Louis 4. Cleveland 2.
Washington-New York—rain.
' Philadelphia 4, Boston 1.
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Detroit 2, Chicago 7.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
| Seattle 3. Portland 6.
San Francisco 0, Hollywood 1.
Sacramento 1, Oakland 8.
Los Angeles 3, Missions 6
TRAPPED IN VESSEL, DROWNED
TOKIO, Aupril 28. (/P)—Two hun
dred persons were drowned when
the Japanese steamer Daihachi Chin
kai Maru sank at its pier at Fussan.
The vessel sand suddenly and those
[aboard her, nearly all passengers,
were trapped within the vessel.
OVER $200,000,030 DAMAGE—LOU '3
IANA AND NEW ORLEANS UN
DER CIVILIAN DICTATORSHIP
c ffl RirOfl
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PUPOI
RESENTMENT AND INDIGNATION
EXPRESSED OVER SACRIFIC
ING HOMES
MEMPHIS, Tenn., April 28. {&)—
After completing an inspection tour
Secretary EL :ov r estimates there are
H’OO persons dr ad. 200.<X'0 homeless
and S200.000.000 damage. The Red
1 Cross reports the situation acute in
14 Arkansas refugee camps where
measles, mumps, whooping cough, ma
laria and pellagra are spreading rap
i idly. Louisiana and the city of New
Orleans are under a civilian dictator
i ship for the duration of the flood
I emergency as former Governor John
I Parker becomes director under ap
; pointment under Hoover.
Soldiers patrol many miles of Lou
siana levees following rumors of dy
namite plots. Resentment and in
dignation at the sacrifice of homes to
save New Orleans mingle in expres
j sions of citizens of two parishes to be
j inundated, as they continue the exo
! dus before dynamiting of the giant
crevasse.
SEIZURE OF THE RUM RUNNER
FEDERALSHIP ILLEGAL DE
CLARES JUDGE
|
SAN FRANCISCO. April 27. (/P)—
Prohibition was struck one of the
hardest blows in its history Satur
jday when Federal Judge Bourquin de
nounced the seizure of the rum ship
Federalship as illegal and ordered that
the vessel and the crew be released at
once. The Federalship was seized
more than 200 miles off the coast by
a coast guard cutter. She is of Pan
ama registry.
REFUSE TO RETURN SHIP
SAN FRAQISCO, April 27. (/P>—
A new litigation developed over the
alleged rum running ship Federalship
Saturday, when the customs officers
refused to turn the vessel back to its
crew. The crew had been freed from
jail by Federal Judge Bourquin after
he had ruled that the seizure of the
rum ship was sheer aggression and
illegal.
PLAN TO