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VOLUME XXII. NUMBER 87
SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, MAY 2, 1927.
PRICE TEN CENTS
AMERICAN POLICY IN
PROOF OF INTERNATIONAL BRIB
ERY FORWARDED TO WASH
INGTON, D. C.
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i PEKING, May 2. (/Pi—America has
withdrawn from all participation in
the discussion of the action to be em
ployed in the event of further refusal
by Eugene Schong to meet promptly,
the demands ofthe powers for an apol
ogy, reparations and the punishment
of the guilty in connection with the
Nanking killings.
This was announced at a meeting of
the diplomatic corps by Minister Me
Murray, acting on instructions from
the State Department, w^hose state
ment of the policy thus transforms
America, at one stroke, from an actor
to an observer of the stormy Chinese
scene.
Consternation has been caused in
the Legation quarter by this develop
ment. particularly because American
nationals were the principal sufferers <
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810 OF MON IS
ACCEPTED By FOREST
SERVICE FOB TIMBER
CONTRACT REQUIRES CONSTRUC
TION 200-TON DAILY CAPACITY
MILL
WASHINGTON. May 2. (/P)—'The
Forest Service accepted the hid of
George T. Cameron, president of the
San Francisco Chronicle, and associ
ates for purchase of £35,000,000 cubic
feet of pulp timber in tlie vicinity of
Juneau, They submitted the only of
fer agreeing to pay a minimum price
set forth in the advertisements of "
00 cents per hundred cubic feet for
spruce and 30 cents for hemlock. This
award and the one to Zellerbach of (
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pulpwood near Ketchikan are the ”
largest timber sales the Forest Service
ever made. Today’s contract requires 1
the construction of a 200-ton daily
capacity paper mill and enlargement
to 400 tons within 15 years. Cam
eron’s group applied for a power per
mit covering Long and Crater lakes
in Port Snettisham.
ALASKA LEGISLATURE i
■ ENDORSES PROJECTS
JUNEAU, May 2. (JP)—The Senate
assed a resolution promising encour
agement and support to every legiti
mate industrial enterprise desiring to
?stablish itself in Alaska. It particu
larly welcomes the Zellerbach inter
ests and George Cameron interests in
pulp and paper development projects.
VANDERBILTS WANT DIVORCE
PARIS. May 2. (£>)—Mr. and Mrs.
William K. Vanderbilt, prominent in
New York society, yesterday brought
suit against each other for divorce.
PRISONER SENTENCED
TO BE HANGED MAY 13
ESCAPES EDOM JAIL
EDWARD C. SICKLES. MURDERER
OF MARSHAL. SAWS WAV TO
LIBERTY
EVERETT, Wn., May 2. (/?)—Ed
ward C. Sickles, under sentence of
death for the murder of Percy Z.
Brewster, town marshal of Sultan,
escaped from the county jail. The
County Commissioners have offered
$500 reward for his capture dead or
alive. Posses which have started a
search have been goven orders to
shoot to kill. The night jailor said
Sickles was in his cell at 1 o’clock
this morning. His absence was no
ticed when the jailor made the
rounds at daybreak. Sickles picked
the padlock on his cell door and es
caped from the jail through a window,
from which outside confederates had
sawed the screening and iron liars.i
An automobile stolen Saturday night
while parked six blocks from the jail,
was found abandoned. Officers be
lieve Sickles used it. His hanging
was set for May 13 at Walla Walla.
Sunday’s Games
NATIONAL LEAGUE
New York 3. Brooklyn 4.
Pittsburg 7. Chicago 6.
Cincinnati 4. St. Louis 12.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Boston 0, Washington 6.
Philadelphia 3, New York 7.
Cleveland 0, Detroit 7.
St. Louis C>. Chicago 7.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Sacramento 2-3, Oakland 3-4. First,
game ten innings.
Los Angeles 3-5, Missions 2-6.
San Francisco 6-13. Hollywood 7-0.
Came seven innings.
Second game seven innings.
Seattle 6, Portland 4. First game
rain.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Saturday’s Games
Chicago 5, Pittsburg 4.
Boston 7. New York 8.
Cincinanti 4-9. St. Louis S-8.
Philadelphia 1. Brooklyn 7.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
St. Louis 0, Chicago 2.
Washington-Philadelphia—rain.
New York 2, Boston 3.
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Cleveland 6. Detroit 2.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
San Francisco 5, Hollywood 4.
Sacramento 2, Oakland 4.
LITA GETS PIN MONEY
LOS ANGELES, May 2. (/P)—Lita
Grey Chaplin was yesterday awarded I
$1,500 monthly alimony, pending her :
divorce suit against Charlie Chaplin, 1
•ib lOaiedian. i
AFFECTION TURNS TO BITTER
HATRED — GRAY’S CONFES
SION SAYS WOMAN HELPED
NEW YORK. May 2. (/P>—Mrs. Ruth
Snyder, enraged at her former sweet
heart, Henry Judd Gray, on trial with
her for having murdered her husband,
Albert Snyder, gave vent to her fury
on the man she now terms a craven
coward.
She said that Gray lied in his con
fession when he accuser! her of hav
ing battered her husband with a win
doy sash weigh* and garroted him
with a steel wire. She said that Gray
alone, committed the murder and
that she was an unwilling tool. She
claimed that any part she may have
had in the conspiracy was in the na
ture of justifiable homicide, because
her husband, on several occasions,
threatened to k; 11 her.
Members of Gray's legal staff de
clared it was possible that he would
take the stand and add to the dam
aging evidence already offered in his
confession against his erstwhile con
federate, Mrs. Snyder.
CROSS-EvAMINATION TODAY
NEW YORK, May 2. (/P)—Intermit
tently defiant and sobbing. Ruth Sny
der took the witness stand in her own
defense and under direct examination
swore away the life of Henry Judd
Gray, accused with her by the State
of New York of having cruelly mur
dered her husband. Arthur Snyder.
Weeping at well chosen intervals
the widow Snyder declared that she
had urged Gray not to kill her hus
band. had begged him not to, but he
was determined to carry out the mur
der, and the fear of a like fate forced
her to agree. She said she tried to
free her husband after Gray had hit
him and bound him, but Gray took
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SCOTTISH RITES OF
JUNEAU WILL BUILD
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TO ERECT THREE-STORY CON
CRETE BUILDING COSTING (
$50,000
JUNEAU, May 2. UP)—The Scottish
Right Masons of Juneau have purchas- v
ed a lot to erect a $50,000 three-story q
concrete Masonic temple this summer j
to be ready for occupancy by fall, i
Harlan Thomas, Seattle architect, wall t
prepare the plans, and will also super
vise the new High school building
construction which will start July 1.
and which will cost $100,000.
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AVIATRIX PLANS HOP
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CHICAGO, May 2. (/P)—Ruth Law, i
the woman aviator, declared here
yesterday that she was planning a T
New York to Paris non-stop flight,!1'
after the $25,000 Orteig prize, f *
WEALTHY HUNTERS COMING
BELLINGHAM. Wn., April 2. (JP)—
John Cudahy and Osborn Goodrucli,
wealthy Milwaukee men, sailed aboard
the Catherine D for Port Moller to
hunt big game. They plan to hunt
Kodiak brown bears and return in
July.
■lira OF IE
SMITH BE DEFEATED
! BY WOMAN'S VOTE
W. C. T. U. START CAMPAIGN TO
DEFEAT DEMOCRATIC CHOICE
FOR PRESIDENT
CHICAGO, May 2. (#>)—Democratic
women, standing together, prevented
the nomination of A1 Smith as Demo
cratic choice for President in 1924,
and Democratic women standing to
gether can prevent his nomination I
next year, Mrs. Ella A. Boole, presi- j
dent of the National Women's O’ris-}
tian Temperance Union, said in a let- j
ter to State W. C. T. U. presidents. A
statement was issued from the na- j
tional headquarters at Evanston an- j
nouncing that the W. C. T. U. had j
started a campaign to defeat Smith if j
he is the Democratic candidate for!
President. It said: “The W. C. T. U.
will work to educate the people of the
people of the country that Smith is
wet and always will he.” The cam
paign will be pressed particularly in
the South.
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ABORIGINES WILL TEST SPEED
AND ENDURANCE FROM FRIS
CO TO GRANT'S PASS OR.
SAN FRANSICO, May 2. (£>)—
California and Oregon Indians will
run the longest competitive race ever
made by human feet when they leave
here next month ontheir 500-mile jog
to Grant's Pass, Or. The affair will
be a race, not merely a test of en
durance. Two thousand dollars in
prizes will go to the tireless aborigine I
coming in first. !
BURIAL PLANS ANNOUNCED
WASHINGTON, May 2. (/P)—Plans
were announced for the burial of
Commander Noel Davis, at Pensaco
la, Fla., today. His aide, Lieut.
Wooster, will be interred in Arlinsr
:on National Cemetery.
JAP SAKE HID IN RADISHES
SAN DIEGO. May 2. (/P)—Five
gallons of liquor thought to be Jap
anese saki, wrapped in cartons and
carefully concealed under bunches of
radishes in the back seat of an auto
mobile were seized and two Mexicans
were apprehended by border patrol
•officers.
WHEN HOUSE FAILS
PROCEDURE UNDER RULE SET
TING TIME LIMIT ON LOWER
BODY
JUNEAU, May 2. — President of the
Senate, Bartley Howard introduced
the general appropriations measure
appregating approximately $2,000,000.
Objections were voiced but were
withdrawn when joint rule No. 25 was
cited as authority for Howard’s action.
Normally the generally appropriation
bill is brought up in the House by the
ways and means committee. The last
clause of joint rule No. 25 provides
the measure 'shall be introduced not
later than the 55th day of the session.
The House adjourned without bring
ing in a measure so Howard intro
duced it. The bill practically follows
the main estimates prepared by the va
rious departments. A total of $460,000
provides for roads, an increase of
more than $200,000 over 1925; also
about $800,000 for schools.
1N0THEH MOVIE ACTRESS
FACES BAKU BECAUSE
OF HUSBAND'S KILLING
LOS ANGELES. May 2. (TP)—Mrs.
Sarah Kerrick. dark-haired film extra,
was held by the police today on a
murder charge following the shooting
to death of Tom Kerrick. her film
cowboy husband, at a party in their
Hollowood bungalow early today.
“Iff" s
| NEW YORK. May 2. (#*)—Com
| mander Francesco de Pinedo. the Ital
ian flier, narrowly escaped serious in
juries when 3,000 anti-Facisto stormed
a hall on the lower East Side, at the
conclusion of a Facisti meeting, caus
ing a riot which brought out reserves
j from two police precincts. More
j than 1,000 Facisto were in the hall,
* and as de Pinedo stepped from the
platform, a rock was hurled through a
window, crashing within a few feet of
him.
THOUSANDS OF SPECIAL
POLICE PLACED IN N. I
NEW YORK, Mav 2. (/P)—Sixteen
1
] thousand police were stationed
throughout New York City and special
guards placed at the homes of John
| D. Rockefeller, J. P. Morgan and in
the financial district Sunday as precau
tions against a violent demonstration
against the execution of Sacco and
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