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VOLUME XXII. NUMBER 173. SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, AUGUST, 16, 1927.
PRICE TEN CENTS
FAILURE OF CONFERENCE WIL
LEAD TO GREATER DEMANDS
BY PUBLIC
BUFFALO, N. Y., Aug. 16. (JP)—I
the presence of Prime Mnister Star
ley Baldwin, of Great Britain an
the Prince of Wales, Vice-Presiden
Charles G. Dawes plunged into cri
ticism of the Geneva arms parle
and declared it unthinkable tha
Great Britain and America shoul
enter into a competitive naval con
struction campaign, simply becaus
their technical experts had been un
able to agree to a practical principa
of limitation.
He strongly indicated that in hi;
opinion, the failure of the conferenci
• was due to insufficient preparator;
work and declared the failure of thii
conference was bound to lead to ;
greater demand by the public fo
arms limitations. He said that th<
Geneva meeting co,uld not be exaetl;
regarded as a failure however, sinc<
in the end it would prove a mere in
cident in the great onward march o
the English speaking people towan
disarmament.
f General Dawes’ unexpected ant
dramatic declaration came as the cli
max to the ceremonies attending tht
dedication of the Peace Bridge, link
ing Buffalo in the United States ant
Fort Erie, in Ontairo, Canada. Tht
Prince of Wales formally opened tht
bridge by cutting a ribbon and turn
ing a golden key. Later he stool
hands with Vice-President Dawes
exactly in the center of the bridge
Premier MacKinzie, Governor Smitl
and the Prince of Wales made
speeches emphasizing the friendship
between Great Britain and America.
The only other mention of the Ge
neva conference was contained in a
speech of Premier Baldwin. He said
“The United States and Britain have
to differ for a moment, but this does
not affect their friendship.”
SEATTLE POLICE ARREST TWO
MEN AND WOMEN IN SNO
HOMISH HOTEL
SEATTLE, Aug. 16. (/P)—With the
arrest last night of two men and two
women in a hotel in Snohomish, H.
H. Maxwell, special investigator for
the American Railway Express, and
Detective Sergeant R. R. Roberts, of
Seattle; and Sonohomish County De
puty Sheriffs; and the arrest of Jas.
C. Cuthbert, in Tacoma, it developed
that peace officers of Western Wash
ington are seeking to round up a
gang of hotel robbers who are oper
ating in Seattle, Tacoma and Everett.
CALIFORNIA BANK IS
ROBBED IN DITT1H
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 16. (JP)—
Three heavily armed but unmasked
men held up the City Market branch
of the California Bank yesterday,
escaping with approximately $1,000,
in currency.
Police declared that the identity of!
the trio is believed to be known. No]
arrests have been made so far.
BISHOP ROWE INSIDE
NOME, Aug. 16. (/P)—The moto
| ship Brower arrived from Point Bai
rows without eneouutering ice. Bisho
Rowe, who is reported sailing froi
Seattle on the cutter Northland, lei
(Nome Sunday for St. Michael and Ii
terior Yukon points.
-SON OTMiST
J FEARS FOR HIS LIFE
: HIRES DETECTIVES
\ FRED VAN BLARCON, ARRIVE!
FROM SEATTLE HURRIED TRIP
FROM EAST
j SEATTLE, Aug. 16. (JP)—Assertini
attempts were being made to kill him
5 Fred Van Blarcon, age 42. a son of thi
5 late Jacob Craigh Van Blarcon, St
r Louis banker and capitalist, arrive*
i and applied to the Burns Detectivi
i Agency for protection against his un
- known enemies. Van Blarcon has
? filed 'suit for his parents millions
- which he said were willed to him bu
1 which distant relatives are seeking
- He told the detectives of the attemp
M made to kidnap, poison and slay hin
1 and that he fled from St. Louis to es
cape repuuted assassins. He was
! dusty and begrimed from his hurriec
• travel.
M
II TROOPS ARE
REDUCED SLIGHTS
FRENCH SEND HOME 5,000 SOL
DIERS FROM GERMANY; 35,.
000 LEFT
—
| PARIS, Aug. 16. (JP)—Yielding to
pleas of Foreign Minister Briand, the
Council of Ministers agreed to /a re
duction of th^ French forces who are
now occupying the Rhineland. Al
| though the reduction is merely nomi
inal, Briand at once got in touch with
German Foreign Minister Stressman
| to convince him that Franco-German
accord is still possible, despite acute
Nationalism ot Premier Poincaire
The reduction, according to unofficial
reports will bring down the French
strength in Germany from 40,000 to
: about 35,000.
181 llHt ARRIVES
FOR FRENCH JlTflfi
PARIS, Aug. 16. (JP)—Maurice
Broughin, French aviator, whose fret
fulness over the delay of starting on
the trans.Atlantic hop, has been tem
pered by the hope of seeing an expect
ed baby before he goes. The stork
proved faster than the time the air
plane Columbia ma(de, for Moselle
Monique Droughin arrived this morn
ing.
SHIRT FRONT 300 GUINEAS
FOLKSTONE, Eng., Aug. 16. (JP)—
white shirt front bearing the signa
tures of Chaliapin and other celebrat
ed artists who appeared at a concert
in connection with British Music
Trades Convention, was sold at auc
tion five times and realized 300 guin
eas. The shirt front was autographed
by the artists while being worn by a
member of the convention.
FAMILY BLOWN FROM BEDS NAR
ROWLY AVERT DEATH;
GUARDS DISPATCHED
I
EAST MILTON, Mass., Aug. 16. (JP
—An explosion, believed by the polici
| to have beeta caused by a bomb
equipped with a time fuse wrecke<
the home of Lewis McHardy, a jure
* on the Sacco-Vanzetti trial of sevei
years ago. McHardy, his wife, ant
their three grow’n children, who weri
| blown from their beds by the force o
r! the blast, narrowly escaped death
’; All five suffered from cuts and bruise:
’ | and Mrs. McHardy thought to havt
' j suffered from concussion. She was
’! trapped in her room on the seconc
J floor of a two and one-lhalf storj
j wooden house before the police rescu
ed her.
The husband was able to work hk
; way from the ruins and the two sons
iJack and Theodore,* carried their sis
! ter Helen from her room. Windows
, were blown front houses a mile awa>
; and nearby trees were stripped ol
t their leaves. With the exception ol
’! the rear wall and sides the McHardj
i.house was blown out and the granite
; foundation cracked A line of police
was thrown about the house and in
j vestigation started by state police
Guards have been dispatched to the
i homes of other jurors.
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GOES OUT COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. Aug. 16.(£>)—
—The Navy Department has issued
i orders placing the U. S. S. Scropion
lout of commission at the Navy yard
in Philadelphia.
i REINDEER SHIP SIEBHft
| ARRIVES OFF NOME
NOME, Aug. 16. (/P)—The motor*
, ship, arrived, 16 days out from Seat
j ship, aarrived, 16 days out from Seat
j tie. The freight included‘complete
machinery for a meat cannery and
packing plant at Golovin Bay. The
arrival of the ship was heralded as
| marking a new ara in the Alaska
reindeer industry.
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I WANS GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP
I CLEVELAND, AUg. 16. (jp)—Carl
j Kauffman, of Pittsburg, ;won the Na
tional Public Links Championship at
Ridgewood Club, by defeating Willi
am Serrick, of New York in 37 holes.
FIVE PLANES START IN
DDEE-RAMIIAN AIR RACE
OAKLAND, Aug. 16. (JP)—All five
of the graceful mechanical birds raced
out over the ocean in pursuit of the
Dole prizes of §25,000 and §10,000.
The planes left in the wake of one
crashing, one failing to take off, and
the third is returning because of mo
tor trouble.
INVENTS $7.50 TYPEWRITER
LENINGRAD, Aug. 16. (JP)—L. S.
Zatonski, technician coonstructor of
Leningrad, claims to have in- nf ~!d a
new typewriter which, if j roc r d on.
a large scale, will cost §7
VISITS VETS
! TORONTO, Aug. 16. (&)— Tl:
Prince of Wales and Prince Geors
I
cheered disabled war veterans, on
i visit to hospitals. Prime Ministt
! Baldwin was the principal speaker £
the dedication of the new Unio
Station.
I
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IS
1 CLERGYMAN SENDS OUT COM
MUNICATION TELLING OF DI
SASTROUS QUAKE
PEKING, Aug. 16. (/P)—Fifty thou
and are dead in the Liang Chow dis
trict of Kansu Province as a resul
of the disastrous earthquake of Ma;
23, is the latest Chinese official re
port, as sent by M. Theodore Bud
denbrook, of the Steyle Mission a
Liang Chow.
The clergyman who first sent tin
details of the terrible quake, in tin
wilds, says in a communication date(
July 1, “We are sitting in the mids
of misery, produced by the grea
quakes of May 23. Shocks are con
tinuing daily, but without damage
owing to the wholesale destructioi
in the Liang Chow district. Fou
thousand homeless, half-starved per
sons are wandering about the dis
trict. The Chinese are aiding a;
much as their resources will permit.’
BRIDE IS JAILED
ACCOUNT FLIRTING
HUSBAND SAYS SHE MUST
i PROVE INNOCENSE BEFORE
CONTINUE HONEYMOON
j OAKLAND, Aug. 16.(/P)—A twenty
itwo year old bride is in jail for'flirt
ling and her young husband says that
the honeymoon is over until she
! proves her mnocense.
1 The trouble started from a quarrel
[between the bride and her husband.
;She left the house and went to a
j corner drugstore for candy, and
while there she met a friend of both
j herself and her husband. A moment
later the police arrested her for flirt
ing. She is now in jail, and further
more, she is on a hunger strike.
STUNT AVIflTRIX DIES
FROM INJURIES 0110
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YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Aug. 166. (JF)
—Gladys Roy, age 25, aviatrix who
planned a New York to Rome flight
as the climax to seven years of stunt
flying, died -in the hospital from in
juries received when a whirling ipro
pellor struck her at Watson Field
Several years ago she broke several
world's parachute leaping records.
ICE “CORNER” COSTLY
ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo.,Aug. 16.(/P)
—Mike Lemich claims the record for
the payment of the top price for ice
here this summer—$25 for 100 pounds.
He tried to take it for nothing from a
refrigerator car and ended up in a jus
tice of the peace court where his alibi
that he was carrying it to a friend
with a headache failed to get over.
SEATTLE, HOT WATER
n
SEARING TAKES PERSONAL HAND
IN SQUABBLES; OFFICERS
ARE DEVIDED
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SEATTLE, Aug. 16. (/P)—Seattle’s
latest inthe police Department halt
ed yesterday with a fistic battle be
tween Sergeant W. I. Smith and Pat_
rolman Dan Hogan when the latter
attempted to arrest his superior of
ficer on a liquor charge.
With charges and counter cahrge3
flying thick and fast, Chief of Police
William H. Searing annouunced last
night that he had taken a hand in
the affair and had both officers un
der investigation. Neither has been
suspended, but buzzing talk around
headquarters and at the precinct sta
tions indicates that the whole force
is inclined to line up in pro-Hogan
and pro-Smith camps and spark3
from the fray are near the powder
box of the whole department.
; STORM JAIL, EIGHT
! HILLED, MANY HURT
i
.1 MOB ATTEMPTS TO LYNCH POL
ICEMAN WHO SHOT PROM I
; NENT CITIZEN
PANAMA, Aug. 166. (/p)—Eight per
sons are reported killed and many in
jured in an attempt to storm the jail
at Buena Ventura. The dispatches
said the mob sought to lynch a police
man whom it held responsible for the
shooting to death of a prominent citi
i zen. Unable to obtain arms the mob
I used rocks and sticks freely. The
police and a handful of soldiers tried
i to force them back but reinforcements
I had to be called from a nearby town.
iMIMED EARTH SHOCKS
FEI IftYS TI1KEST1N
f MOSCOW. Aug. 16. (/P)—Nearly 100
j earth shocks have been felt the past
i few days in the region of Ferghana,
I Turkestan, with a list of 34 dead and
172 injured: All buildings in the new
town of Diamangan have been damag
ed while 500 houses in the old town
have been destroyed. The railway
bridge, which was damaged, was the
first indication of the earthquake not
ed on Saturday.
ALLEGED TEMPERAMENTAL
ACTRESSES IN MIX-UP
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 16.(4>)—Paul
ine Caroh and Gertrude Short, mo
tion picture actresses, patched up
their differences in the District At
torney’s office and agreed not to get
! temperamental again. It was reveal
ed here that Pauline had punched
Gertrude while the two were making
pictures and the latter had filed an
assult charge against her former
friend.
\ FARRAGUT DUE TOMORROW
; The S. S. Admiral Farragut, of the
f\ S. S. Co., is due to arrive in. port
tomorrow morning from the South,
according to the local office.