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VOLUME XXII. NUMBER 142. SEWARD, ALASKA,
MONDAY, JULY 11, 1927.
PRICE TEN CENTS
ALASKA FLAG UNFURLED FOR FIRST TIME
AT DEDICATION OF‘MTO" BUILDING JESSE
LEE HOME PAID FOR BV CHILDREN OF STATES
BENNIE BENSON, DESIGNER OF FLAG, UNDER
DIRECTION CAPTAIN RALPH R. GUTHRIE, AT
TACHES TERRITORIAL EMBLEM TO HAL
YARDS—IMPRESSIVE CEREMONIES AT DEDI
CATION SERVICES
At the hour of 4 o'clock p. m., Saturday the official
flag of Alaska was flung to the breezes for the first time
on the flagpole at the Jesse Lee Home, one and a half miles
north of the City of Seward. Those officiating at the
cememony were Captain Ralph R. Guthrie of the United
States Signal Corps and Privates Edwin S. Diehl and
Charles Harris.
Bennie Benson, 13-year-old student at the Jesse Lee
Home, designer of the flag, attached it to the halyards just
below the national emblem and stood at attention while
the multicolored folds of Old Glory and the deep violet
blue of Alaska’s official emblem, studded with the golden
stars of the Big Dipper pointing to the North star, flut
tered about him.
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LATEST CASE AGIST
TERRITORY IS ARGUED
BEFORE JUDGE REED
SUIT BROUGHT BY WICKERSHAM
SEEKS TO RESTRAIN DISBURS
IN MONIES
JUNEAU, July July 11. (JF)—The
question of the right of the taxpayers
to invoke the interposition of the
courts to restrain the expenditure of
Territorial money appropriated by the
Legislature was argued before Judge
Thomas M. Reed in the latest suit
brought by James Wickersham and
others against the Territorial Treas
urer Walstein Smith. Judge Reed
announced he "would consider the ques
tion a few days before giving his opin
ion. Wickersham seeks to restrain
Smith from disbursing moneys appro
priated for the Governor’s office.
PEES III S. F. H
SAN FRANCISCO, July 11. (/P)—
Two boys digging in the ruins of an
old abandoned saloon at Point Arena,
north of here, and in its heyday one
of the prominent ports of the coast,
found five hundred and forty dollars
in twenty dollar gold pieces yester
day. The latest date on the coins
was 1873.
POLICE UP IN THE AIR
OAKLAND, July 11. (£>)—'The po
lice admitted last night that they had
made no headway towards locating
the Isayer of Mabel Mayer the fifteen
year old girl who was beaten to death.
Several persons have been arrested as
suspects, but all have been released
for lack of evidence.
' #While the pupils of the Home
sang the National Anthem, the troop
of Boy Scouts standing at attention
and in salute, and citizens of Seward
and dignitaries of the Methodist
Episcopal church stood uncovered, the
halyards tightened, and climbing into
the billiant sunshine of a perfect day,
Old Glory led her child to the top
most heights of the towering flagpole,
where both straightened out and flut
tered proudly in the cooling breezes
blowing in from Resurrection Bay.
About the Zero Milestone of imper
ishable concrete, erected in honor of
the children of the United States,
whose pennies, nickels and dimes con
tributed the cost of the new $60,000
building, the entire student body was
grouped in a hollow square. Within
the square, a platoon of Jesse Lee
Home Boy Scouts stood like bronze
statues. In the foreground and group
ed about the Zero Milestone, were
Bishop W. O. Shepard of the Method
ist-Episcopal area, Portland, Ore.;
Mrs. J. T. McQueen, representing the
Home Mission Board ofthe Methodist
Episcopal church; Rev. J. T. McQueen,
superintendent of the Methodist-Epic
copal church in Alaska; Dr. R. E.
Smith, superintendent of the Spokane
district, representing the Home Mis
sion Board, and Mrs. Annie Hobbs
Woodcock of California, whose efforts
in organizing the “Baltos” of the Unit
ed States made the new building a
possibility.
Dedication Services
The flag raising was part of the
ceremony of dedication of the new
building and of the Zero Milestone
for wrhich the church dignitaries
journeyed to Alaska,
Preceding the flag ceremonies, the
entire school assembled in the chapel
in the “Balto” building, where a short
religious and pageant service was held.
The pageant represented the “Auc
tion of Children.’' First came a mai
den just budding into womanhood,
skipping along and tossing a toy bal
loon into the air, intoning a mono
logue representing the spirit of youth
Continued on Page Four.)
NEW CANNED FOOD
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LOMENS ANNOUNCE DEAL PEND
ING FOR MATANUSKA POTATO
CROP
SEATTLE, July 11. Marking
the start of a new industry for Alas
ka and the world the motorship Sier
ra, which the Lomen Reindeer Cor
poration recently purchased will ar
rive in Seattle July 19 to load a com
plete line of canneries and by-product
equipment for a reindeer packing
plant at Golovin. The machinery is
the equipment for what is equivalent
to a two-line salmon cannery. It is ex
pected that 10,000 cases will be packed
before navigation closes, after which
packing will be continued for the Na
tional Fruit Canning company of Seat
tle. The Sierra will bring the can
ning product and frozen carcasses to
Seattle for canning and shipment to
New York. The company will pack 40
per cent of the natural increase of 25,
000 head of reindeer leaving the re
mainder for a safety margin. Two
thousand cases just turned out here
proved quite satisfactory. The com
pany will use Alaskan labor exclusive
ly,, and plans to contract for Alaskan
vegetables. A deal is pending for
the Matanuska potato crop which will
be used with reindeer meat for putting
up meat loaf.
SEATTLE, July 11. (/P)—'The S. S.
j Alaska sailed at 9 o’clock Saturday
morning and carried 265 passengers.
Seward passengers include: Edward
Barber, A. E. Goss Davis, G. C. Full
inweider and wife, Wanda Hawkins,
Mrs. F. Schwartz, L. C. Thompson,
| Paul Week, Will Morrison, Fred Body,
Charles Monday and wife, Sara Baw
ditch, Martha Wheatland, Miss F.
Poor, J. O. Gosfredson, wife and daugh
ter, John Roslund, J. A. Nydigger,
Miss H. Keeney and sister, Mrs. W.
Phelps, Mrs. Hansen, son and daugh
ter, P. S. Wick and wife, Dr. Chas.
Payne, E. R. Ederer, T. G. Burns and
wife, L. A. Healy, V. Richmond and
wife, Mary Chung, Mary Lam, Hilma
Standel, Dr. C. B. Pettri and wife, Vera
Richards, Florence Prentice, Sarah
McDonald, Louise Shannon, Miss W.
F. Parker, Mrs. B. L. Burchatt, Doro
thy Stedel, A. T. Keeney and wife, O.
E. Johnson, Ella Allbower, Miss M.
Allranshaw, Mrs. B. Craft, H. L. Leer,
Anna Taylor, Marian Schipper, W.
Dawson, J. M. Jackson, Edward Bor
den, C. O. Thomp and wife, Dr. W. H.
Frye, Chas. Opdyke and wife, R. Mur
ray, C. B. Smith and wife. Miss N.
Hughes, Miss M. Roberts and two ster
age.
FIRST FLYING COURT
COMPLETES BUSINESS
WISEMAN, July 11. (/P)—'The
world’s first flying court completed its
legal business at Wiseman and left
Saturday for Betels, Hughes and Ruby,
where it will arrive about July 15,
A farewell entertainment for the court
party, which includes Federal Judge
Cecil Clegg, was featured by Eskimo
interpretive dances.
COOLIE CHARGED BY
ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE
MALFEASANCE OEFICE
PROPOSAL TO ISSUE PROCLAMA
TION LOST BY VOTE OF FIVE
TO FOUR
NEW YORK, July 11. (&)—The Am
erican in a copyrighted article says
the executive committee of the Anti
Saloon League debated and voted
upon a proposal to issue a proclama
tion charging President Coolidge pub
licly with misfeasance and malfeas
ance in office at a meeting in Chi
cago on the 8th of November 1925.
Members of the committee voting for
the issuance of the proclamation em
bodying the charges, according to the
American, were Arthur J. Davis, su
perintendent of the New York Anti
Saloon League; L. Brecjc, a Musgrove,
Alabama, millionaire; Superintendent
Laughbawn of the Oklahoma Anti
Saloon League, and W. M. Forgrave of
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Massachusetts. The resolution was
lost by a five to four vote. The pro
clamation read in part:
“There has been presented to the
Anti-Saloon League reports which
! clearly indicate misfeasance or mal
feasance in the executive branch of
, the Federal government. The League
asserts the obvious truth that these
facts constitute an indictment of the
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Federal administration in respect to
prohibition enforcement. The consti
tution specifically places the duty of
, enforcing the laws on the President
of the United States.”
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NO RENUNCIATION INTENDED
BOSTON, July 11. (£>)—Forgrave ad
mitted the American story as true, but
said no renunciation of Coolidge was
intended.
FOREST FIRE SWEEPS
' THROUGH LARGE IREI
BAKERSFIELD, July 11. (/P)—
Flaming into the heart of Caliente
Canyon, a * forest fire has burned
over an area of twenty-five square
miles in the region of Loraine, fifty
miles east of Bakersfield, from a
small blaze which is believed to have
started twenty-eight hours ago. The
fire has burned out of control despite
efforts of three hundred men who
are fighting it.
KEVIN Q'HIGGiS.
“IRISH Ml."
IS ASSASSINATED
DYING IN STREET WHERE SHOT
DOWN GASPS FORGIVENESS
OF MURDERERS
DUBLIN, July 11. (£>)—Kevin O’Hig
gins, known a3 “the strong man” of
the Free State government, was shot
down in the street and killed. Hi3
murderers lay in wait for him as they
did in the case of Michael Collins, an
other.
O’Higgins, who was vice-president
of the Irish Free State council, Minis
ter of Justice and Foreign Affairs,
gasped out as he lay on the street
mortally wounded: “I forgive them
jail.’*
Six bullets passed through his head
| and body. He died at his home four
I hours later.
O’Higgins was known as the Irish
■ Mussolini on account of the strong
I measures he adopted for the suppres
sion-of the Republican attempt to
i smash the Free State by force ot
j arms. He was probably the mo3t re*
i spected and most hated man in Ire
j land. O’Higgins began his career- as
j a clerk. He was arrested and impris
J oned during the disorders of 1919 to
j 1921. Eamonn DeValera, the Repub
lican leader, later gave him a post in
the government, but he supported the
treaty of 1921 and was made minis
ter of Justice next year. Later in the
same year his father was shot dead in
i Queens county.
j DEATH AFFECTS CONFERENCE
GENEVA, July 11. (/P)—The tragic
death of the Irish Statesman Kevin
O’Higgings has by some strange desti
ny of events served to prevent the im
mediate collapse of the naval confer
ence. Out of respect to the memory
of O’Higgins, who was present at the
conference last week, the delegates
decided to postpone indefinitely the
plenary public session which had been
requested by W. C. Bridgeman, head
of the British delegation, who ha3
asked for the meeting in order to give
the British delegation opportunity to
restate their position on the cruiser
problem to clear up wrhat he called
misunderstandings and ask a series
of questions of the American delega
: tion.
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LEADING FILM PLAYERS
JOINING tssocm
LOS ANGELES, July 11. (£>)—'The
majority of the leading film players,
at a mass meeting voted to join the
motion picture branch of the Actors
Equity Association and drafted a
program for working conditions. The
program adopted requires a basic a
greement between actors and produ
cers, a standard contract and an
eight hour day.