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VOLUME XXII. NUMBER 232. SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1927.
PRICE TEN CENTS
LEAVES CACHE CLOTHING AND
AMERICAN FLAG ON BEACH;
BLINDING SNOWSTORM
SEVOONGA, St. Lawrence Island,
Alaska, Oct. 24. (/P)—Search is being
pushed on this isolated island for an
unidentified mystery man who dissap
1 ipeared in a blinding snowstorm after
landing on the little known Eastern
end of the island in a 14 foot steel
boat. The boat was equipped only with
sails reports an Eskimo trapper who
saw the lone traveler make it ashore
through the Bering Sea surf on Octo
ber 12.
• He investigated but found no trace
of the stranger who left a somewhat
damaged boat, an oil stove, a pair of
shoes, a sack of wet clothing, and an
American flag cached on the beach.
Tracks from the beach were oblit
, erated by the storm.
4, The incident was reported to T. S.
Scupholm, Bureau of Education repre
sentative here who has ordered a
search for the man.
MAJOR GEN. DICKMAN
COMMANDER IB
U. S. ARMY IS DEAD
ORGANIZED AND COMMANDED
ARMY WHICH HE LED INTO
f GERMANY
WASHINGTON, Oct. 24. (/P)—Major
General Joseph Theodore Dickman,
age 70, organizer and commander of
the third American army in the world
war, died at his home after a sudden
heart attack.
Dickman spent practically all of his
life as a cavalryman since his gradua
tion from West Point in 1881. Lead
ing the Third Division in the regular
army overseas in March 1918 Dickman
participated in virtually every major
campaign of American troops rising
V rapidly in rank and finally received
command of the Third American army
which he led into Qermany.
HUH GILMORE IS
HELD MURDER CHARGE
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* NEW YORK, Oct. 24. (/P)—Harry
Gilmore, butcher, was held on charge
of homicide for having strangled to
death his paramour, Mrs. Helen
Brandon. Gil m-o-re said she 'had
'threatened him with knives on sever
al occasions, knowing that he feared
the tools he worked with, and said
that she constantly taunted him and
refused to do any work in the house.
On the night of the killing she once
more threatened him with knives.
ROMAN HOLIDAYS PROHIBITED
ROME, Oct. 24. (£>)—’There will be
no more Roman holidays. After No
vember 6th all ceremonies, imanifes
j^tations, celebrations, inaugurations
and anniversaries, also centennials,
will be prohibited, Premier Mussoli
ni announced.'
MW M5LC0LM ELLIOT
SUCCEEDS MAJOR GILLETTE
! HEAD 001 COMMISSION
JUNEAU, Oct. 24. (£>)—Major Mal
com Elliot, formerly the district en_
j gineer for the New Orleans area, U. S.
War Department, has been assigned
as President of the Alaska Road Com
mission relieving Major Douglas Gil
lette who will continue as Engineer
Officer.
JUSTICE SIDDONS
DEFERS DECISION
ADMIT EVIDENCE
IMMEDIATE POINT IN QUESTION
WAS ADMISSION OF SIN
CLAIR'S STATEMENT
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 24. (^—Jus
tice Siddons. deferred decision as to
the admission at the criminal conspi
racy,, trial of testimony given before
the Sentes oil committee by Sinclair
and Fall. Judge Siddons said he
wanted further evidence as to whether
Sinclair was subpoenied before the
committee before passing on the point
as neither side made it clear whether
Sinclair appeared voluntarily or had
been invited or legally summoned.
The immediate point which Judge
Siddons was asked to rule on was the
admission of Sinclair’s statement to
the Senate committee that he went
to Three Rivers, New Mexico, to see
Fall about leasing the Navy’s Teapot
oil reserve.
LINOBEflGH COMPLETES
i LONG PEINE TOUR US.
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MITCHELL FIELD, N. Y., Oct. 24.
(JP)—Colonel Lindbergh, completing a
22,350 mile tour of the country, landed
here just one minute ahead of his
schedule. He plans to rest for a wrhile
and has no plans for the future.
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TIE 'll" HOPS OFF
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IS FORCED BACK
MRS GRAYSONS PLANE FORCED
RETURN ON ACCOUNT DE
FECTIVE MOTOR AND FOG
OLD ORCHARD Me., Oct. 24. (£>)—
Mrs. Frances Graysons amphibian
plane, the “Dawn”, hopped off at 6:13
yesterday morning for Europe but re
turned at 4 o'clock in the afternoon
driven back by a -defective motor and
a heavy fog. The plane, carrying Mrs.
Grayson, navigator Brice Goldborough
and pilot Wilbur Stultz, reached a
point off Cape Sable when the decision j
to return was made.
A NEW COMMISSION
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 24. (&)— 1
Governor Young is contemplating
the appointment of a commission to
study methods of conserving oil and
gas resources of California.
University af Wn.14, Wn. State 0
Idaho 42, Montana 6.
Yale 10, Army 6.
Cornell 10, Princeton 21.
Dartmouth 30, Harvard 6.
Chicago 13, Pennsylvania 7.
Minnesota 38, Iowa 0.
Cclumbia 19, Williams 0.
Michigan 21, Ohio State 0.
Illinois 7, Northwestern 6.
Wisconsin 12, Purdue 6.
Stanford 20, Oregon Aggies 6.
Notre Dame 19, Indiana 6.
California 21, Olympic Club 0.
So. Calif., 51, Calif. Institute Tech.0.
St. Marys 38, Nevada 0.
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MILITARY CABLE BELIEVED SEV
ERED BY TREMBLOR; PEOPLE
RUSH INTO STREETS
JUNEAU, Oct. ,2i. (/P)—A severe
earthquake at 7 o'clock ‘this morning
lasted 30 seconds. TJie movement
was north to south and awoke sleeping
people.
Sitka reports two severe quakes the
first at 6:59 followed five minutes lat
er with another.
BREAKS WINDOWS
PETERSBURG, Oct. 24. (/P)—A two
minute earthquake at 6:41 broke win
dows and shook the town severely.
The tremor’s direction was northwest
to southeast. Other damage is report
ed in the city.
DASH INTO STREETS
JUNEAU, Oct. 24. (/P)—Following a
30 second quake three shorter quakes
were felt and many residents rushed
from their beds, donned dressing rob
es, and rushed into the streets; dishes
rattled, drop lights swung and clocks
stopped. The United States Military
cable between Juneau, Haines and
Skagway was broken it is believed, by
the quake.
SHOCK IS REGISTERED
SEATTLE, Oct. 24. (£>)—Both need
les at the University of Washington
siesmograph station were tnrown off
the recording drum at 8 o’clock indi
cating a shock of great intensity.
NEW YORK GOT IT
NEW YORK, Oct. 24. (JP)— An earth
quake 2,300 miles away, described as
the seismograph station at Fordham
the seismugraph station at Fordham
University. Officials said the trem
lors were tremendous.
THOUSANDS OF MINERS
STRIKE IN GERMANY
BERLIN, Oct. 24. (ff)—Eighty
thousand soft coal miners wulked
out in central Germany, endangering
Berlin’s coal and electricity supply.
Sixty thousand textile workers were
locked out at Muenchengladbach and
coal barons have issued a call for
soldiers to protect the mines, al
though workers have volunteered
emergency service.
STEAMSHIP ALASKA OFF
FOR ALASKA WITH 55
SEATTLE, Oct. 24. (^*)—The S. S.
Alaska, of the Alaska Steamship Co.,
sailed for the North on Saturday with
55 reservations. The Seward passen
gers include Mrs. Cook, Mike Murphy,
Mrs. Lander and daughter, Elmer Ca
ton, A. M. Me Kern, and three steer
age.
SEVEN PERSONS ARE
KILLED IN SUNDAY
AIRPLANE ACCIDENTS
ACCIDENTS OCCURED IN VARIOUS
PARTS OF COUNTRY WHEN
FIVE PLANES CRASH
NEW YORK, Oct. 24. (JP)—Seven
persons were killed in five Sunday
airplane accidents in widely seperated
parts of the United States.
The lives of two wer* oLjutned at
Lincoln, Nebraska, when a plane
crashed in a cemetery. A student fly
er met death in Los Angeles when his
parachute failed to open. A second
fatality of the same nature was re
corded at Kansas City, Mo., a plane
crash at Santa Monica, Calif., during a
fog, claimed the lives of two persons
and seriously injured a third. A pas
senger was killed near Mount Clem
ens, Mich., when a plane fell into a
field.
SISTE1 SHIP NORGE
DESTROYED IN JAPAN
TOKYO, Oct. 24. (JP)—The crew of
the Japanese airship N.3. sister ship of
the Norge, were stranded on a small
island when the N.3 was forced to land
on account of bad weather and lack
of fuel. After the crew left the air
ship it swept seaward and exploded
in midair and burst into flames.
SUMMERALL ORDERED
BACK TO HIS POST;
HAD TROUBLE DAVIS
GENERAL FROM “OUT WEST”
SENT BACK WITHOUT OPPOR
TUNITY-INTERVIEW CAL
WASHINGTON, Oct. 24. (^—Ge
neral Summerall was ordered back
to his post in the West by President
Coolidge without having been grant
ed an interview. It is expected that
Coolidge will drop the alleged dif
ferences with General Summerall.
Secretary of War Davis, confered
with the President, but the subject
of the conference was not made
known.
ON YEAR’S FLIGHT
BERRE, France, Oct. 24. (JP)—The
British seaplane squadron *~©f four
flying boats which left Plymouth on
Monday on a 25,000-mile empire
cruise, scheduled to take a year,
landed here today.
KILLED CHILD TO SAVE HER
FURTHER TERRIBLE SUFFER
ING INCURABLE DISEASE
LONDON, Oct. 24. (£>)— All England
is iplunged into the discussion of the
“right to kill” as the result of the ac
quittal of a young widower, Albert
Davis, of the charge of murder for
drowning his three year old daughter
in order to save her further terrible
suffering from an incurable disease.
Most of the newspapers applaud the
acquittal but insist the case is excep
tional; that there should be no loos
ening of laws protecting human life.
The Daily Express quoted Conan
Doyle, famous author and physician,
as “I think if there were a law that
three medical certificates would justi
fy putting away a person in a hopeless
position, as regards to life and death,
it would be humanity and common
sense.
Justice Branson said, "The matter
gives us food tor thought when one
considers the poor child. Had it been
an animal instead of a human there
would not have been anything blame
worthy in the man’s action. In put
ting an end to the child’s suffering he
actually had been liable to punish
| ment.”
NOW AMBASSADOR TO PERU
FROM WHICH POSITION WILL
IMMEDIATELY RESIGN
SPOKANE, Oct. 24. (£>)—Miles
Poindexter of Spokane, ambassador to
Peru, announced his candidacy for the
Republican nomination for the United
States Senatorial seat of C. C. Dill of
Spokane. Poindexter, who lost the
Senatorship to Dill, said he would re
sign the ambassadorship and begin his
comeback campaign next March. The
Senator said he stood for peace, fed
eral farm aid, prohibition enforcement
and rigid immigration exclusion.
AUTOMOBILE STRIKES
AND KILLS SMALL 801
NEW YORK, Oct. 24.(/P)—An auto
mobile in which Mrs. H, H. Rogers,
mother of Millicent Rogers, was rid
ing from New York to her home at
Tuxedo Park, struck and killed a
four-year-old boy. The chauffeur
w'as absolved from guilt. ' Mrs. Rog
ers paid the boy’s father $500
through a representative and made
a visit to the mother expressing her
sympathy.
BRITISH CRUISERS ARRIVE
WASHINGTON, Oct. 24. (£>)—'The
British cruisers, Calcutta and Cairo,
arrived for a 10-day visit and ex
changed courtesies with the U. rS.
Naval Department. A series of re
ceptions will be held in honor of the
officers of the two ships.