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VOLUME XXII. NUMBER 236.
SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28.1927.
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HUGE MVY PROGRAM
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FAILURE OF GENEVA CONFER.
ENCE LIMITING WARCRAFT
TONNAGE RESPONSIBLE
WASHINGTON, Oct. 28. (Jp)—A
perceptible more is on foot to bring
about the naval building program
forcibly before the approaching Con
gress.
While plana for a big navy men are
in somewhat a nebulous state there is
a current thought among a number of
members that the failure of the Gen
eva conference to reach an agreement
limiting warcraft tonnage is not af
fected by the Washington arms treaty
and calls for serious consideration.
The advisability of providing funds
for additional fighting craft will be
taken up by Representative Britten of
Illinois, ranking republican on the
House Naval committee. He declar
ed he will introduce a bill proposing
the construction, over a five year per
iod, of 30 cruisers of 10,000 tons each
and two airplane carriers.
LITTLE MIIIE 111
DISCOVERY OF JACK PICKENS,
PROSPECTOR, PROVES TO BE
A FORTUNE.MAKER
COLORADO, SPRINGS, Colo., Oct.
28, (/P)—A resumption of the bonanza
gold shipments from the Pickens high
grade lease near Del Norte in the San
Juan has been started.
Hon. J. C. Wiley, Judge of the Dis
trict court at Del Norte, Colo., who se
cured the lease last year with Jack
Pickens, oldtime prospector, and un
dertook the development of a suppos
edly worked-out mining property, the
Little Annie mine, near Del Norte,
with phenomenal results, has been a
visitor in Colorado Springs, where he
supervised the sampling of a special
ore shipment. Last year 22 tons of
ore from this lease brought the lessees
over $100,000. While no figures have
been given out, it is understood that
the value of the present shipment to
the Golden Cycle mill will be in excess
of $50,000.
The Summitville mining district
near Del Norte was a large producer
cf high-grade ore about 50 years ago,
but for many eyars has been inactive.
Last year Judge Wiley, associated
with John S. Pickens, a practical min
ing man of southwestern Colorado,
undertook the development of the pro
perty and last summer made some
noteworthy shipments of high-grade
ore. Pickens had opened the bonan
za gold ore at grass-roots where many
hundreds of prospectors had passed
Nit by. He kept his discovery secret
for 20 years until he was able to se
cure a lease.
NEW WAGE SCALE
RHTJR, Oct. 28'. (y^P)—District miners
have framed new wage demands and
threatened to strike also while the
British organization has sent a mes
sage expressing solidary of spirit.
moors UNO raws
i CUSH Nan BELGRADE
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BELGRADE, Jugo Slavia, Oct 28.
(i^P)—Government troops came into
coiission at Kishinev with National
peasants who were informed Prince
Carol was in Rumania commanding
an army. Numerous arrests were
made.
COOLIE REFUSES
TAKE HIND RECALL
ADMIRAL MICGRIH
ADMIRAL ASKS FOR PERSONAL
INTERVIEW; WILBUR TURNS
HIM DOWN FLATLY
WASHINGTON, Oct. 28. (£>)—Presi
dent Coolidge refused to take a hand
in the controversy arising out of the
recall of Admiral Macgruder as. Com
mandant of the Fourth Naval District,
Philadelphia, for written and verbal
criticisms of Navy administration.
The announcement of the Presi
dent’s action was made by the Secre
tary of the Navy Wilbur who after a i
conference told newspapermen the
Admiral’s request for a personal inter
view and for revocation of the recall
order had been denied.
ALAMEDA SAILS FROM
NOME WITH RIO LIST
NOME, Oct. 28. (JP)—‘The S. S. Ala- j
meda, of the A. S. S. Co., sailed yester- |
day with 237 passengers. The ves
sel carried bullion valued at $ $270,000,
and a big shipment of reindeer. Se
palla, the dog racer, his wife and
daughter are passengers on board and
are taking 20 dogs for races in the
Eastern States.
LONG DRAWN OUT SUIT ;
LASTED THIRTY YEARS;
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MASON, Texas, Oct 28. (^P)—The i
high cost of living is only a slight ag- j
gravation to F. H. Lehmann of Mason, j
He has a suit of clothes he has been
wearing for 35 years. The suit is
made of buckskin and was given to
him while a captive by an Indian tribe
during the frontier days. Lehmann j
was captured by Indians in 1870 and
lived with them nine years. The suit
was made for him by an Indian and
he says it is still as good as new.
REED DEFERS TO RACES
HUTCHINGTON, Kas., Oct. 28. (JP)
—Kansas farmers like automobile rac
ing and even refuse to let a speech
by a possible presidental candidate in
terfere. A crowd at the Kansas State
Fair, impatient at the length of Sena
tor James A. Reed’s speech, which
was holding up the races, 'began to
heckle him. He cut his address short.
RUTH IN PARIS
PARIS, Oct 28. (^P)—Ruth Elder,
aviatrix, and pilot George Haldeman,
arrived from Madrid by airplane.
JUSTICE SIDOONS
STOPS GOVERNMENT
FORCING CITIZEN TO
DISCLOSE BUSINESS
WITNESS MUST BE GIVEN FULL
CONSTITUTIONAL GUARAN
TEES “IN THIS COURT"
WASHINGTON, Oct. 28. (£>)—'The
Government was stopped by Justice
"Siddons from forcing M. T. Everhart,
sori-in-law of Fall, to disclose the
sohrce of $230,500 in liberty bonds fig
uring in the trial.
Judge Siddons interrupted the coun
one of the most difficult the court hah
one of hte most difficult the court had
ever been called upon to decide and
“the duty of this court ‘ts to see the
witness is not trifling with the court
but the witness must be given his
full constitutional guarantees and in
this court he is going to get it.”
SON-IN-LAW OF FALL
REFUSES DISCLOSE
SOURCE OF FUNDS
JUDGE TAKES NJATTER UNDER
ADVISEMENT; DCLARED PART
OF CO NS I ITERATION
WASHINGTON, Oct. 28. (£>)—Flat
refusal to reveal the source of ?230,
500 liberty bonds which bulk so large
in the Teapot Dome conspiracy trial
was made by the man the Government
contends can furnish valuable informa
tion. He is M. T. Everhart, a Pueblo,
Colo., baker, a sdi-in-law of Fall, who
after a visit to New York and Wash
ington and other eastern points re
turned to his home town with that
amount in bonds which went into a
lock box in the First National bank of
Pueblo and in Falls name,
Everhart based his refusal to an
swer on his constitutional rights con
tending such testimony might incrim
inate him and lead to the indictment
on the charge of Fall and Sinclair.
Justice Siddons will determine later
whether Everhart will be required to
tell from whom he received the bonds.
The Government contends Sinclair
gave Fall the bonds as a part con
sideration for the lease of the naval
oil reserve.
PANTS FOR HORSE
ALLERTON, 111., Oct. 28. (£>)—An
Allerton farmer outfitted his horse
with trousers to protect it from the
flies. He dismembered a pair of
overalls, slipped them over the horse’s
legs, and contrived a pair of suspend
ers to hold them up.
POST-BELLUM RELICS
CHICAGO, Oct. 28. (£>)—A large
sign advertising “Dempsey-Tunney
fight tickets for sale here", hung in
front of a Chicago billiard hall for
several days after the fight. When
informed that the scrap was over the
owner said he knew it, but he “still
had the tickets and they were still for
sale.”
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RAILROAD ill TO OWE
BETTE HOLDERS
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I FAIRBANKS, Oct. 28. (£>)—Ivory
'cigarette holders carved by Eskimos
near Nome will be presented to the
players of the Oakland baseball team
sfe personal gifts from H. G. Ilderton,
general agent of the Alaska Railroad,
i The holders arrived today by airplane
from Nome.
CURTIS IS FREED
CONTEMPT COURT
CHARGES. SEATTLE
COURT FINDS NOTED PHOTO
GRAPHER NAS NEITHER MEANS
OR ABILITY TO PAY
SEATTLE, Oct. 28. (/P)—Eddie
Edward Curtis, was freed from con
tempt ofVourt charges filed against
him by his divorced wife for failure
to pay $4,400 alimony over a period of
seven years.
The court found Curtis had neither
the means nor the ability to pay.
Curtis was arrested on Actober 10
when he returned from Nome where
he had been studying Eskimo and Al
askan Indians.
“NICEST DOCTOR
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IS
EXPOSED. WOMEN SAD
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KRYNICA, Poland, Oct. 28. (£>)—Dr.
Janusz Chmoski was so nice to the
women of this fashionable health re
sort, and he was “such a marvelous
dancer” that soon all the ladies want
ed to be treated by him. Great was
their consternation when the police
searched the doctor’s house and ex
posed him as only a “masseur”. The
famous doctor’s papers, police said,
were all forgeries.
W S IZ ASKS INCREASE
POWER FOR STATION
WASHINGTON, Oct. 28. (£>)—
Broadcasting station W S A Z, Hunt
ington, W. Va., will be heard by the
Federal Radio Commissiion on its pe
tition to use 250 watts power instead
of 100 watts as now specified.
The following stations have been
notified: WEDCandWGES, Chi
cago; W N B X, Springfield, Vt.; W
F C, I, Pawtucket, R. I.; W E B R,
Buffalo; K F K B, Milford, Kas.; W
E B C, Superior, Wis.; and K F O N,
Long Beach, Cal.
HUGE SAFETY DRIVE
CHICAGO, Dct. 28. (IP)—Twenty-five
thousand churches, 15,000 schools,
9,500 civic clubs and industrial con
cerns all over the country will partici
pate in a new highway safety cam
paign launched by the American |toad
Builders Association.
PREPARING RADIO STATISTICS
WASHINGTON, Oct. 28. (ff)—Just
what position radio holds in United
States industry should he determined
soon, as collection of data by the De
partment of Commerce nears com
pletion.
OFF BRAZIL COAST
SURVIVORS REACHING SHORE
EXPRESS BELIEF 600 TO 800
WERE DROWNED
BAHAI, Brazil, Oct. 28. (£>)—'The be
lief that the Captain and at least 400
passengers and crew of the sunken
vessel Principessa Maralda went down
with the vessel was expressed by sur
vivors reaching here despite the re
ports from other sources that only a
hat full of the more than 1,200 aboard
were lost.
Tales of horror which filled the
night' were told by the first victims to
reach port aboard the French steamer
j Mosella. Despite the warmth of the
water and the calmness of the sea
four of those rescued by Mosella died
from exposure before reaching port.
The survivors said many others
rescued will not live and said it would
not be surprising if the final death toll
amounted to between 600 and 800.
MILO E8GERS ID
WIFE ARE RELEASED
SUSPECTED OF BEING PARTICI
PANTS OF THEATRE ROBBERY
FIVE OTHERS HELD
SEATTLE, Oct. 28. (/P)—Milo Eg
gers and his wife were released from
jail after being held 36 hours suspect
ed of being participants in an attempt
to rob a theatre safe. Eggers’ sister,
Mrs. Erma Brown, and three others,
are still held and will be charged with
attempted burglary the police an
nounced.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 28. (/P)—
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., was arraign- «
ed as a “bone-head” and a high class
moron, also a blundering key-noter,
by Representative Mary N >rton, Dem
ocrat of New Jersey, because of his
recent attack on Goverao' A1 Smith
of New York.
TEACH SPANISH WOMEN
OBEDIENCE IN POISON
MADRID, Spain, Oct. 28. (^—Wo
men criminals are not numerous in
Spain, and when they do commit
crimes they ate looked after by the
authorities almost parentally.
The women’s prison for those con
victed in Madrid is a spacious institu
tion under the direction of men, but
the actual guardianship of the prison
ers is confided to nuns. They guide
their charges with gentleness, but are
strong disciplinarians when necessary.
WOMAN ENGINEER
tJRBANA, 111., Oct. 28. (£>)—1The
first time in its history the University
of Illinois has a woman student in the
engineering college. She is Grace
Wilson, of Ur-bana, studying to be an
electrical engineer. She enrolled this
semester.