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VOLUME XXII. NUMBER 229. SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1927.
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ASSAULTS ST TRIAL
OF 10 OIL 111
E. C. FINNEY CALLED TO WITNESS
STAND; LETTERS FROM DE
PARTMENT INTRODUCED
WASHINGTON, Oct. 20. (^—Intro
ducing testimony designed to show
Albert Fall’s desire for secrecy in his
negotiations with Harry Sinclair for
the lease of the Teapot Dome and
went to the extent of misleading other
applicants for the Naval Oil Reserve,
the special government oil counsel
continued their assaults at the trials
of the two men on charges of criminal
conspiracy.
Recalling E. C. Finney, assistant
secretary of the Interior under Fall,
who testified yesterday, Owen J. Rob
erts of the Government counsel,
introduced letters written by Depart
ment of Interior officials to inquirers
about the lease as early as February,
1922.' C. B. Apland of Minneapolis in
quired whether “lease of the Dome
was in prospect and Finney replied
“no lease has been granted; that no
^ orders had been issued for owning up
of the reserve to leasing..” Finney
replied to a question that he had no
knowledge that Fall was negotiat
ing a lease with Sinclair at that time.
Finney said he did not tell this to Ap
land “because the policy was not to
give out information on the subject;
this was the secretary’s desire.”
PRINCESS HELEN OF
* RUMANIA. TO DEVOTE
LIFE TO NURSING
HER LOVE FOR PRINCE CAROL
IS DEAD AND FAITH IN MAN
KIND IS DESTROYED
NEW YORK,- Oct. 20. (£>)— Her
hope of happiness in marriage shat
tered by the desertion of Prince Car
ol, Princess Hplen of Rumania and
% mother of the boy king, has decided
to dedicate her life to the Red Cross
nursing and reclamation of fallen
girls. She has already established a
school for nurses in the Rumanian
capital and hopes to interest the
American Red Cross in her project.
* To her intimate friends, the Prin
cess confided that her love for
% Prince Carol was read and that her
faith in men is destroyed.
PENNSYLVUNIA PASSENGER
TRAIN CRISIS DOWN
DANK- TWO ARE KILLED
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HALLSTEAD, Penn., Oct. 20. (£>)—
Crashing Into a deep washout an en
gine and baggage car of the Lackawan
na passenger train, running from
Binghampton to New York, plunged
down an enbankment killing the en
A gineer and fireman and giving the
passengers a severe shaking. Three
other members of the train crew were
injured.
AUSTRALIAN PREMIER
CAPTAIN KINGSFORDSMITH DIS.
REGARDS WISHES AND PRO
POSES HOP NOVEMBER 3
SYDNEY, New South Wales, Oct. 20.
(JP)—Premier Thomas R. Bavin cabled
j Capt. Kingafordsmith he cannot see
1 his way to granting further financial
'assistance for the projected flight of
the Southern Cross from San Francis
| co to Sydney and urges the Captain
to abandon the project because of the
danger.
A GESTURE OF CONCERN
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 20. (JP)—
Capt. Kingafordsmith declared he will
proceed with the flight regardless of
the advice of Premier Bavin saying
the Premier had furnished all finan
cial assistance he agreed to give and
regarded Bavin’s recommendation as
only a gesture of concern for the safe
ty of the plane’s crew. Kingsford
smith said he would take off about
November 3 weather permitting.
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MILL IS WORKING
WALL STREET, Colo., Oct. 20.(/P)
—The Great Britain Mining company
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has completed the mill and started
it working last week.
NO ACTION EXPECTED UNTIL
ABOUT NOVEMBER 1, ACCORD
ING TO SENATOR JONES
I SEATTLE, Oct. 20. (JP)—Senator
Jones said former Dry Director Lyle
filed an application to make the oral
test again before the Civil Service
; Commission in an effort to retain his
post of prohibition administrator.
Jones said it was understood the com
mission has not ruled finally upon
; the Lyle application for a new exami
nation and “if they allow a new exami
nation he will take it. If he does not
pass a new appointment will have to
be made in either event. I do not
expect any action before November 1.”
TEKGNERS MAY 111111
IT ANYTIME, RULING
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 20. (JP)—
attorney General U. S. Webb, oi
Jalifornia, has ruled that teachers
an marry during the school year.
Vhen employing a teacher, Webb
aid, it is not a condition of eligibili
y whether or not the teacher is
larried or single.
HAS AUTOMOBILE HABIT
CHICO, Cal., Oct. 20. (^—Auto
mobiles has become a matter of hab
jit w£th R. K. Sears, of this city, who
has just purchased his 40th license.
Sears purchased his first car in Chi
cago, 25 years ago.
FIRST MID-OCEAN
AIRPORT PLANNED
ISLAND OF FATAL
INTEREST AROUSED OVER RE
PORT GERMAN OFFICIAL NE
GOTIATING WITH U. S.
HORTA, Oct. 20. (Jp)—Plans for the
establishment of the first mid-ocean
! airport has begun to take definite
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shape when materials which reached
here on a German vessel for use in
making repairs to planes using the
Island of Fayal as a port of call for
trans-Atlantic flights. Men have been
, assigned to build a hangar where
| work will be carried on in a metloro
gical station has been established with
six men assigned to operate it.
Intense Interest has been aroused
by reports from ^Berlin that Director
Kiep of the Hamburg American line
has gone to the United States to nego
tiate for a hydroplane service between
Germany and the United States.
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GIVE UP SEARCH
HOT SPRINGS, Alaska, Oct, 20. (/P)
{—Searchers for Donald Long and Her
bert Enstrom, missing on Fish lake
for a number of weeks, have abandon
the search until the ice freezes solid.
LAD HANGS HIMSELF
SENT TO BASEMENT
BY MOTHEH WORK
QUARRELED WITH YOUNGER SIS
TER, WHIPPED BY PARENTS,
GETS ANGRY
AI\ppN, Oct. 20. (£>)—Angered
when Tvhipped and sent to the base
Iment to work, by his mother, Hugh
Horsley, 12-year-old son of Mr. and
Mrs. Aroma Horsley, hanged himself
from the rafters of the cellar writh
his belt. The youth was punished
by his mother when he quarreled
iwith his younger sister. When the
| mother failed to hear the boy work
ing in the basement, she went down
; stairs and discovered the lifeless
form hanging from the rafter.
CREWS FROM RIVER
LAUNCHES INTERIOR
ARRIVE HOT SPRINGS
HOT SPRINGS, Oct. 20. (£>)—'Three
men from the launch Danaco, Vic
iBassati, Joe German and J. C. John
ston, arrived and reported Glen Day
1 and two companions are remaining on
board until the ice conditions improv
■ es to make the boat safe for *tbe win
der. Alex Kozenevikoff, engineer of
the launch Agnes, will remain until
spring. Two dog teams left for Fish
Lake with supplies.
QUAKE, PANIC FOLLOWS
VIENNA, Oct. 20. (/P)—This city
was in a panic for a period when
an earthquake damaged a wide area.
Buildings shook violently and shocks
were the worst felt in 50 years.
Communications suffered most of all.
DECLARES COPELAND
10 MADE CANVAS
GOVERNOR WILL GO INTO CON.
VENTION NEXT SPRING BACK
ED BY TEN STATES
WASHINGTON, Oct. 20. (^—Gover
nor Smith has “-won the west” Senator
Copeland, democrat, declared upon <his
return from a trip to that section. Ap
pealing to the “generosity, common
sense and fairness of the south” Cope
land asserted this is all that*is essen
tiol now to the nomination of the Gov
ernor as democratic candidate and
election as president for the south will
support his candidacy on the basis of
the western canvas.
The Senator insisted Smith will go
into the convention next year with
delegations from Idaho, California,
Oregon, Washington, Wyoming, Mon
tana, Nevada, New Mexico and Colo
rado.
POINT OF ACTION
JUGO-SLAV GOVERNMENT MAKES
FURTHER DEMANDS UPON
SOFIA, ATTACKS
BELGRADE, Oct. 20. (JP)—The
threat of another war overhangs the
Balkans. The Jugo-Slav government,
aroused by forages on Jugo-Slovia, is
reported to have closed the Jugo
slav frontier. It has made demands
on Sofia for guarantees against fur
ther attacks. Bulgarian Comitadjis
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are accused of assassinating General
Kovacevich. at Istip, some time ago.
Jugo-Slav newspapers urge the
breaking off of diplomatic relations
and a declaration of war unless Bul
garia gives satisfactory guarantees
that the irregularities will be curbed.
ONE KILLED; TEN INJURED
NEW YORK, Oct. 20. (JP)—One wo
man was killed and 10, mostly chil
dren, injured, when a blast wrecked
a tenement building. Police at first
suspected a still explosion, but now
are searching for clews to the
bombing.
NICE CIHE MUST
BE MMINED IN S. F.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 20. (JP)— i
Mayor James Rolph, Jr., in a formal
statement accompanying his declara
tion for the candidacy of mayor, as
serted that the five cent street car
fare must be maintained; that the
Hetch Hetchey water system must
be completed, and the city railways
be extended, James E. Power, an
other candidate for mayor, urged
that the Bernal power cut be com
pleted.
CHRIS KLINE, AGED PROSPECTOR
BELIEVED BEEN CAUGHT IN
RECENT BLIZZARD
ANCHORAGE, Oct. 20. (JP)—A res
cue party headed by “Iron Man” Alex
Liska started out with a dog team to
search for Chris Kline, aged prospect
or, believed lost between the head
waters of the Kink river and Matanus
ka junction. Kline was due to come
out before the freezeup but the recent
blizzard is believed to have caught
him on the trail without snowshoes
or dogs. Liska is a big game guide
and knows the rugged country which
is one of great hazzard for immense
glaciers and narrow gorges must be
crossed.
CANDIDACY OF HUGHES RECEIV
ES JOLT; DAWES TO GET
LOWDEN’S SUPPORT
WASHINGTON, Oct 20. (^—Nar
rowing of the Republican field of
presidential candidates to Herbert
Hoover and Vice President Dawes
is looked for by many Republican
National Committeemen who attend
ed the conferences during last week.
The Western Committeemen gave
a jolt to the candidacy of Supreme
Court Justice Charles Hughes, and
the impresion was left that Vice Pre
sident Dawes will gather most of
the strength of his friend, Frank
Lowden, in the middle West.
The Republican Rebels were stag
ing a move to put a candidate for
the 1928 presidential campaign, ac
cording to reports circulated through
the Capitol. The movement was
said to be based on favors shown
President Coolidge by certain Nation
al committeemen.
HIGH DEATH DUTIES
LONDON, Oct. 20. (£>)—Death du
ties payable to the British Treasury
on the estate of Lord Iveagh, head
of the Guinness Brewery, who died
yesterday, have been estimated at
$40,000,000.
NEW FORD H Will
NOT OE OUT NOV. 1
DETROIT, Oct. 20. (JP)—Rumors
that the new Ford car will reach
dealers about November 1st. were
spiked yesterday by Edsel Ford, pre
sident of the Ford Motor Company.
*We still are making some changes,”
he said. When asked whether the
car is settled upon in all its details
he replied, “No it is not. It will be
out soon, as there are some changes
to be made. That is as specific as
I can be.”