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MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXIII. NUMBER 30.
SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, February 6, 1928.
PRICE TEN CENTS
TWO MEDICAL EXPERTS TESTIFY
MURDERER OF GIRL WAS AND
IS SANE
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 6. (JP)—Dr.
Kerman Schorr testified at the Hick
man trial his suspicion that the youth
wae employing falsehood in his claim
to ‘'divine guidance'’ in killing Marion
Parker.
His suspicion was aroused soon
■after he began questioning the youth.
He said the suspicion became then a
conviction of the youth’s falsity when
aroused by observing his facial ex-!
preesions.
Dr. Victor Parkin of the Los Ange
les county sanity commission, testi
fies for the state in “my opinion Hick
man was sane at the time of the crime 1
and is now ’’ Parkin cited an in-1
stance when police visiting Hickman’s j
apartment, while he was there in bed
the morning after the crime, as assert
ed proof Hickman knew the deed was
9. crime.
Parkin related how Hickman offered
7a help the officers “find the fiend
who did it”, that Hickman, in des
cribing the action, referred to the
murder as “crime”.
TWO THOUSAND ARRESTED IN
ROUNDUP OF COMMUNISTS
BY GENERAL
SHANGHAI, Feb. 6. (JP)—Dispatch- j
e* from Canton say 270 of the 2,000
persons arrested in the past few days,
fcare been executed; from the ranks
of 600 Reds’ arrested in Canton, those,
executed, were selected.
The arrests were made in continu
ance of the roundup of Communists
by the Government of General Li Chai
Sum.
RECOMMENDS HIGHEST
MILITHRY RANK FOR
GENERAL SUL
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 6, (^—Pres
ident Coolidge has recommended the
highest possible military rank be
conferred upon Major General Sum
raerall after having summarily recall
's him from the Pacific Coast where
the General was denouncing the
Army housing conditions.
The title of General of the Army,
a rank heretofor held in active ser
vice only during -war, would be given
General Summerall under legislation
approved by the President, it was
made known.
AT PORT AUPRINCE
PORT AUPRINCE, Haiti, Feb.
—Completing a new lap on his good
will flight carrying him to the Pan
American conference at Havana, Col.
Charles A. Lindbergh landed from
Santo Domingo.
BATTLE LINES DRAWN AGAINST
SENATOR FRANK WILLIS OF
OHIO
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Feb. 6. (£>)—'The
first formal step in behalf of Secre
tray of Commerce Hoover’s candidacy
for Republican Presidental nomina
tion was made by his Ohio support-'
ers who at the same time have drawn
battle lines against the efforts of j
Senator Frank Willis, to obtain Ohio’s !
delegation to the National Convention.;
Thad Brown, former Secretary of i
the State of Ohio, and Robert Taft,!
former majority leader in the Ohio
House of Representatives, called a;
meeting of Hoover's Ohio friends for.
the purpose of preparing an address1
urging him to enter the State Primary
as candidate for President of the '
United State*.
TREATY IS SIGNED
WASHINGTON, Feb. 6. <7P)—The
j new Arbitration Treaty with France
I was signed by Robert E. Olds, under
j Secretary of State for, the United
j States, and Ambassador Paul Claudel,
! for France.
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ISTEHT IS ARRESTED
BY SENATE COMMITTEE
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 6, (/P)—Robtj
W. Stewart, chairman of the board of
the Standard Oil Company, was ar
rested Saturday by the United States
Senate, but released shortly on a1
writ of habeas corpus, granted by
Justice Bailey, in the Supreme Court. |
A hearing, on the writ, will be heard j
tomorrow. His bond was fixed at |
$1,000.
U. S. NEWSPAPERS
SHOULD COOPERATE i
PRESIDENT COOLIDGE, DEDICAT
ES NATIONAL PRESS CLUB
BUILDING
WASHINGTON, Feb. 6, (^—Ded
icating the new National Press Club,
President Coolidge declared that
American newspapers should coop-!
erate with their government in Inter
national affairs and extend to foreign
interests tolerant and sympathetic
candor. 1
He laid down the principle of the
government itself, charged with the
conduct of International relations,
and suggested that when the press
undertakes to exert influence in be
half of foreign interests, “the candor
of the situation would be greatly in
creased if their foreign connections
were publicly disclosed.”
Foreign interests, the President
said, have the privilege gf being rep
resented in the United States and
their right of fair treatment is ac
knowledged, “but when foreign gov
ernments are represented here their
agents should be required to come
publicly accredited and be publicly
received.”
[AIL USMAN MADE
III1AI? MEMBER OF
JUNEAU, Feb. 6. (/P)—Earl Ross
man has been elected an honorary
member of the Juneau Fire Depart
ment. This is the first time such an
honor has ever been conferred upon
an individual who has not served for
five consecutive years as a Juneau
fireman. The author said he consid-j
ered it as great an honor as a member
ship in the New York City Club. He
made movies of the fireman in action
while visiting here.
YOUNG MEN MAKE MILLION FROM BUSINESS INVENTION
BOSTON, Mass.—L. Frank Woodruff, professor of electrical
engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (left),
and Edward Rogal, a former Tech instructor, are shown making
final tests on a new electrical control machine which will do the
work of 60 percent of the clerks, auditors and messengers now
employed in department stores and factories.
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WHY THE OPPOSITION?
WASHINGTON, Feb. 6. (/P)—'The at
tempt by Chairman Borah to have the
i
1 Senate ask Secretary Wilbur for a
report on the use of American forces
in Nicaragua was blocked by Senator
Shortridge, Republican from Califor
nia. x
FORMER ALIEN CUSTODIAN IS
“NAILED TO THE MAST,” BY
FINAL DECISISION
NEW YORK, Feb. 6. (^—.Convic
tion of Thomas W. Miller, former
alien property custodian for conspir
ing to defraud the Government, was
upheld by the United States Circuit
Court.
•Appeals by Miller will be tried
jointly with former Attorney General
Daugherty but the indictment against
Daugherty was quashed after two
juries disagreed as to his innocence,
or guilt.
WARNING ISSUED
ROME, Feb. 6, (/P)—Fascists have
warned Jugoslavia to end hostilities:
toward Italy.
SEVEN FREEZE TO DEATH
CHICAGO, Feb. 6. (£>)—A total of
seven deaths from extreme cold are
reported. The temperature today was
two degrees below zero. The extreme
'cold was confined to the upper Missis
sippi valley and Great Lakes region.
SUGEESTS INVESTIGATION
OF MM COMPANY
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 6, (JP)—An
investigation into the activities of the
American Telephone and Telegraph
company, will be proposed by Sen
ator Hiram Johnson of California. He
will request the appointment of a
committee of five Senators for a spe
cial inquiry into the whole question
of telephone and telegraph commun
ication.
| MADRID, Spain, Feb. 6, (£>)—Vi
J cente Ibanez, the author who recently
| died, was the bitterest enemy of King
Alfonco. It was at first thought the
government would forbid that he be
buried in Spain. The famous author
had lost several fortunes but he died
a millionaire
ACOSTA RELEASED
NEW HAVEN, Feb. 6, (#*)—Judge
Pickett set Aviator Bert Acosta free
after Commander Byrd put in a plea
for his friend. Acosta was sentenced
to jail for flying low over the city.
IS FALSE DECLARATION NOT
BASED ON INFORMATION AS
TO CONDUCT
WASHINGTON, D. C... Feb. 6.
Charges of conspiracy made against
him by William B. Wilson, Democrat,
in the contest over the Pennsylvania
election in 1926, were declared by
William Vare, Republican Senator
elect, to be “wholly false and wilfully
made and without the slightest foun
dation in truth or fact. It is a cow
ardly attack without any justifica
tion.”
In his answer, filed with the Senate
elections committee, he said; “It is
a wanton assault upon me made sole
ly for the purpose of securing a re
count to which the complaintant
theretofore is not entitled and the
oath atached thereto, averring truth
thereof, is wilfully a false declaration
and not based on any information as
to my conduct.”
WASHINGTON, Feb. 6. (IP)—A
' parliament of peace, which would
| draw up an International code of laws,
| is conteinpalted in a resolution which
: Representative Black,"Democrat from
I
; New' York, has prepared for introduc
I tion.
I Representative Black said; “An In
i ternational code should be prepared
j by a convention drawn from National
legislative bodies of all the Nations.
Legislators are responsible to the
people and would reflect the peoples
desire for peace.”
THAT'S THAT
NEW YORK, Feb. 6. (IP)—'The Chase
National Bank does not believe its
j payment of interest and principal on
j Rusian bonds, sold in America, con
i flicts with the State department rul
ings and does not now plan to discon
tinue the practice.
PROFESSOR WANTS TO
BACK OUT OF MARRIAGE
CHICAGO, Feb. 6, (/P)—Professor
■ David M. Maynard is seeking annul
ment of marriage to the daughter of
Professor Chambersburgh, the Penn
sylvanian edusator. The couple were
married on the high seas and under
the ruling the Professor would in
validate all marriages performed on
high seas.