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VOLUME XXII. NUMBER 106.
SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 1927.
PRICE TEN CENTS
RESULTED INCREASE
DRINK SAYS CHURCi
AMENDMENT HAS BLEMISHEC
THE CONSTITUTION SAYS
CHURCH DIRECTOR
NEW YORK. May 25. (/P)—The
Eighteenth amendment has blemished
the Constitution of the United States
and the Volstead act resulted in in
creased drunkenness declared a reso
lution passed at a meeting of the
board of directors of the Church Tern
perance Society of the Protestant
Episcopal church. rHhe resolution
classed temperance as an educational
rather than a legislative problem.
BALDWIN STATES
WILL TERMINATE
RUSS TRADE PACT
MAY REVEAL MYSTERIOUS SOVI
ET RAID IF BRITISH RECALLS
MOSCOW MISSION
LONDON. May 25. (/P)—Premier
Baldwin told the House of Commons
that Great Britain would terminate
her trade agreement with Russia
Thursday and requires the withdrawal
of the trade delegation and Soviet mis
sion from London, unless the House
should express disapproval of the
course. He said if the House ap
proved, Great Britain would also re
call the mission from Moscow. Bald
win said he will make a full statement
regarding the Soviet raid and said
that for many months the police and
mlitary authorities investigated the
activities of a group of secret agents
engaged in an attempt to obtain high
ly confidential documents relating to
the armed forces of Great Britain. He
said the suspecions were confirmed
this year when a British subject em
ployed by the air force was convict
ed of stealing two such documents.
During the raid on the Soviet House,
he declared a locked room was found
to contain a man hastily burning pa
pers. After a struggle one of the pa
pers was secured. It consisted of a
list of addresses including some in the
United States.
BUTTLE FLEET MOVES
AFTER BIG WAR GIF.
NEW YORK. May 25. (TP)—The fleet
is getting ready to quit the Hudson
and gather along the New England
coast. Monday morning a sham bat
tle will begin. The army and navy
will play at war and work out intricate
problem. jg the week. The en
tire f pc
‘•'ate.
TWO STATES ENIICT LAWS
10 MANUFACTURE LIQUOR
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CHICAGO. May 25. (/P)—Two meas
ures, striking at the Federal prohibi
tion laws, by legalizing the’manufac
!ture of alcoholic liquors and beverag
! es in the individual States, were
passed yesterday, one in Wisconsin
and the other was in Illinois. Both
States have been considered wet for
several years.
ML FORESTS
GET MORE MONEY
ALASKA DISTRICTS NATIONAL
FORESTS COLLECT TOTAL OF
S66.288
WASHINGTON, May 25. (/P)—Coun
ties in which national forests are lo
cated receive moi’e money for road
building and school development this
year from the government, which re
turns annually 25 per cent of the col
i
ilections in lieu of taxes. The Alaska
district collected $69,28S.
TINPLATE KING'S SON
MAKES FORCED VOYAGE
NEW YORK. May 25. </P)—1The sto
ry of how William Leeds, son of the
tinplate millionaire, was forced to
take a trans-Atlantic trip when the
ship sailed while he was visiting
friends on board in New York became
known yesterday. The ship on which
he is an involuntary passenger docks
at Southampton today and he will im
mediately return.
GERMANY RAZES FORTS
BERLIN, May 25. Y/P)—Germany
has blown up the forts on her eastern
or Polish frontier, in accordance with
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the demands of the Allies, according
to announcement from General von
Pawles. The Inter-allied commission
demand an examination of the forts,
but Germany, the loser of the pact, ar
gues that the authority of the Inter
allied Commission expired last Feb
; ruarv, but they are willing to sponsor
the invsetigation by a smaller body
of experts.
STRAIGHT AND NARROW
BANGOR. Me., May 25. (/P)—A
I deed has been drawn here for a
j parcel of land with a street front
page of five inches and a depth of
100 feet.
TAXES GET LOWER
I PARIS, May 25. (JP)—Automobiles
in service nine years are taxed one
half the usual amount in France.
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UNABLE CROSS RICE
| PLANE FAILS TO ATTAIN ALTI
TUDE DESIRED—WILL GO VIA
NOME
—
P'AIRBANKS, May 25. (JP)—Captain
George H. Wilkins and Alger Graham,
pilot, who hopped off for Point Barrow
en route to Etah, Greenland, returned
after the plane had failed to reach an
’ altitude of more than 3,500 feet. To
cross the Brooks mountain range the
plane would have had to reach an alti
!
tude of 8,500 feet. Wilkins is receiv
ing Ruby and Nulato weather reports
! indicating that he plans to flv to Nome
i
or Kotzebue and thence to Point Bar
row on the next attempt.
APPREHENSION FELT
WILKINS' SAFETY IF
ATTEMPTS FLIGHT
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AMUNDSEN STATES GREAT DAN
GER OF STARVATION IN HOP
TO GREENLAND
SASKATOON, Sask.. May 25. (JP)—
Amundsen feels apprehension for the
j Wilkins party safety if he attempts
I to fly from Point Barrow to Green
land. They would be in great danger
of starvation if they leave without an
ample supply of provisions, says
Amundsen. “There is very little—
almost no animal life—in the country
to which he is going.”
BASEBALL SCORES
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
San Francisco 3, Seattle 5.
Los Angeles 5, Partland 3.
Sacramento 6, Missions 11.
! Oakland 2, Hollywood 5.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Detroit 6, Cleveland 3. Onlv game
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played.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
:
Pittsburg 11, Cincinnati 1.
SOON OE COMPLETED
| CROCKETT. Calif., May 25. (JP)—
The longest single overland highway
in America will come into existence
next Saturday wTien the new Can
quinez bridge Avill be formally dedi
cated and opened to traffic. The span
is the connecting link in the Pacific
highway, extending from British Col
umbia to Mexico.
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Fill
LOS ANGELES, May 25, (^—Fed
eral warrants for Adolpho de la Huer
ta, former provisional president of
Mexico, on a charge of conspiracy to
violate the neutrality laws of the
United States, were received here yes
terday. Later de la Huerta surren
dered to the . S. Commissioner. He is
charged specifically with shipping
arms and ammunition to Tucson for
further shipment across the border,
to be used in a revolution against the
Calles government.
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CHICAGO. May 25. (/P)—Former
Mayor William E. Dever, who was de
feated for re-election by William Hale
(Big Bill) Thompson, his accepted a
position as vice-president, member of
the board of trustees and the chief
trust executive of the Bank of Ameri
ca. the oldest banking house in Chica
go. The institution was until recently
j
known as Greenbaum & Sons.
WOMAN SENTENCED AFTER
OVERTIME OF FREEDOM
OAKLAND, Calif., May 25. (/P>—
Mrs. Anita Whitney, convicted of vio
lating California’s syndicalism laws,
I must go to prison for from one to 14
years as the United States Surpeme
court yesterday denied to reverse the
'
findings of the lower court, and her
only hope now is a pardon from Gov
i
ernor Young. The case has been in
(the courts for six years now.
GOVERNOR M FULLER
WEIGHS HIS 01 [IFF
BOSTON, May 25. (/P)—Alert post
office workers prevented the delivery
of a package containing dynamite to
Governor Alvin T. Fuller. The pack
age was sent by a sympathizer of
Sacco and Vanzetti. The message
with the dynamite warned the Gover
nor not to allow the execution of the
two men or the sender would get
more dynamite and use it.
PLANTING UNDER WAY
WASHINGTON, May 25. (&)—'The
Department of Agriculture reports
crop planting in progress in much of
the once flooded area of the Mississip
pi Valley, except Louisiana.
EVANS SAILS FOR NORTH
SEATTLE, May 25. (/P)—The S. S.
Admiral Evans sailed at 10 o’clock
this morning and carried 59 passen
gers. Seward passengers: Alfred
Benson, L. E. Grannar and three
steerage.
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I
SIX HUNDRED TRANSMITTING
| STATIONS AFFECTED AT 3
O’CLOCK TODAY
—
WASHINGTON, May 25. (JP)—The
recasting of the radio broadcasting
web which the Federal Radio Com
mission put into effect June 1 was an
nounced with reassignments of wave
length and power affecting 600 trans
mitting stations which are requested
| to go on the new wave lengths tomor
I row. The new list of assignments in
j elude KFOA, Seattle. 447.5 meters;
' KFR, Seattle, 384.0 meters; KGBU,
| Ketchikan. 228.0 metres; KFIE, Ju
|neau, 225.4 meters; KFOD, Anchorage.
344.6 meters.
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VOLUNTARY CONFESSION RE
VEALS GANG PARTICIPATING
IN TRAIN HOLDUP
RENO, Nev., May 25. (/P)—J. W.
Fredenberg, brought back here from
Auburn, Calif., to answer a charge of
forgery, today in a voluntary confes
sion to Sheriff Hillhouse said that he
was a member ofthe Dautremont gang
of Southern Oregon and that he aided
in the holdup of the Southern Pacific
| train near Siskiyou. Ore., in October,
; 1923. as a result of which several
: members of the mail crew were killed.
Fredenberg. who admits prison
I terms in Oregon and Washington, told
i the sheriff that he had murdered an ex
I convict named Navy Williams at Hilt,
I Calif., in 1922, and that he had also
compelled M. P. Vockmavor to swal
low poison in Spokane several years
ago.
The story of the murders did not
sound so good to the sheriff but he
was so familiar with the Siskiyou af
fair that he wired his information to
Southern Pacific officers and to post
office authorities with the hope that
Fredenberg might have some valuable
information.
Fredenberg said that it was he who
rendered the dynamite to make the
nitroglycerine for the train robbery,
but said he did not actually partici
pate in the train robbery.
DE PINEDO SAFE AT FAYAL
NEW YORK, May 25. (/P)—Unin
jured despite his forced landing in the
mod-Atlantic during his 1,600-mile
flight from New Foundland to the
Azores De Pinedo ~-fe with his
plane at Fayal, A
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