VOLUME XXIII. NUMBER 50. SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 1928.
PRICE TEN CENTS
*' LEATHERNECKS MUSS I
NORTHERN NICARAGUA
AGIST INSURGENTS!
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REBEL COMMANDER DEALT THE
MARINES MOST SEVERE
BLOW TODATE
MANGUA, Nicaragua, March 1, (fi>)
—With five American Marines dead '
after being trapped in a jungle am
bush. the “Leathernecks” are massing
in Northern Nicaragua. The followers j
i of the rebel commander, Sandino.;
de-alt the marines the severest blow
they have suffered since the marines |
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■drove the insurgents from their [
strongholds at Quilali and El Chipote j
in January, when they ambushed a1
» patrol of 26 marines.
As soon as word of die encounter
was received at headquarters three
detachments of marines were sent
from various points in the vicinity.
Three marines were killed in action I
and two died from wounds.
The dead are Privates John C.J
Pump of Council Bluffs, Iowa; Geo.,
K. Bobbins of San Antonio. Texas;;
Albert Schlaugh of Jamestown, X. D; j
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Curtis J. Mott of Trenton. Wash : i
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and Corporal Cicero D. Austin of |
Crockett, Texas.
* Eighty were injured including Sgt. j
Charles Hisham of Long mire, Wash
I ieutenant O’Dav spent the night at i
the scene of the battle burvine the !
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dead and treating the wounded j
Marine patrols came into contact i
with the rebels who have scattered \
to various points in the last few |
days.
MARSHAL Ml! SELECT
■ HIS OWN DEPUB
JUNEAU, Mar. 1. (/P)—United
States Marshal Albert White granted
permission to Douglas City to suggest
its own Deputy Marshal as a successor
. to William M. Eddy whose body has
s * been shipped South for burial in Port
land. A Douglas special election will
decide the candidate Saturday. This
is believed to be the first time such
procedure has been authorized by a
Federal Marshal.
OFFICERS ARRESTED
DETROIT, Mar. 1. (/p)—Eleven
officers and non-com officers of the
regular army and the Michigan Na
tional guard “ 32nd. Division” have
been arrested by United States Secret
Service agents on charges of perpet
rating frauds amounting to thousands
of dollars by payroll padding and pay
check forging.
DIRIGIBLE LEAVES CUBA
WASHINGTON, March 1, (JP)—The
dirigible Los Angeles left Cuba for
Lakehurst, New Jersey.
DEMPSEY NOT INTERESTED!
IN EIGHT WITH PIOIINO
LOS ANGELES, Mar. 1. (£>)—Stat- j
ing he had not an offer to fight Paol-1
ino Uzcudun and that he was not in
terested even if an offer was made
Jack Dempsey quieted rumors that he
was to meet the Spanish “Basque”.
Dempsey said he would fight nowhere
but in the east and as yet has not
signed up with anyone
ON FOR FUGITIVE OF
SAN FRANCISCO, Mar. 1. (/P)—A
world wide search for E. A. Hutchins,
king Of Buneomen and fugitive from
California justice was revived with
redoubled vigor today when officials
declared their belief that the noted
crook engineered the recent swindling
of a wealhy Englishman in Honolulu
ou of 8140,000. Both Honolulu and
San Francisco detectives believe
Hutchin was the “brains” of the swin
dle gang that embezzled Tliomas
Needham 75, thru the well known race
track payroll game.
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
BT UNITED STATES
WASHINGTON, Mar. 1. (/P)—The
sincerity of the desire of France and
the League of Nations for world peace
was gravely questioned in a note from
the American government in which
the French are invited to act jointly
with the United States in negotiating
universal treaties to outlaw war.
The document is regarded in official
circles as a remarkable frank declara
tion that members of the League can
enter into such treaties. The League,
it is said, is not- what it professes to
be. .
GOAAPANV FORMED TO
DEVELOP NEW MOTOR
DETROIT, Mar. 1. (Jp)—a corpora
tion has been formed to develop a
“free energy” motor invented by Les
ter Shindershat of Pittsburgh.
The secret of the motor is said to
lie in the manner in w'hieh the arma
ture of the motor is wound enabling
it to draw energy directly from the
electrical currents in the air or
ground.
WELL, GO AHEAD!
NEW YORK, Mar. 1. (jP)—Robert
Bell, a leader in the little theatre
movement, and his wife, Miss Jose
phine Hutchinson, have seperated,
they announce. Mr. B^ll is prominent
in Washington society.
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DELANEY ON EDGE
BRIDGEPORT, Conn., Mar. 1. {/?)—
Crammed full of energy and teeming
with confidence, Jack Delaney bent
to the task of polishing the rough edg
es from a fighting machine that must
withstand the desperate plunges of
Tom Heeney, granite man of New Zea
land, in the ring at Madison Square
Garden tonight.
NEW CANNERY KODIAK
SEATTLE!, Mar. 1. (/P)—A new can
nery for Kodiak was announced by
the Trinity Packing Co., which pur
chased a saltery on the island and
will transform it into a two line can
nery ii} time for the season’s fishing.
Equipment is going north on the regu
lar liners.
CLAYTON, Ca., MAr. 1. (£>)— Ruth
Elder, axiatrix, charged with a statu
' tory offense in an indictment returned
here four years ago, failed to appear
: when the case was called in the Su
perior Court and forfeited her bond
of S500.
The indictment alleged the offense
was committed in 1924 while Miss
Elder, then Mrs. C. El Moody,, lived
here with her husband, a teacher in
a small mountain school.
Shuford Jenkins, described as an i
| tenant evangelist against whom a sii
ilar charge was returned, has not be(
apprehended.
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j VOTE IN THE SOUTH
{ ASKED BY TINKHAM
WASHINGTON, Mar. 1. (^—An
swering the plea of churchmen for a
veto of naval construction plans,
President Coolidge explained the
building program reported by the
House of Representatives is not in
excess of this country’s proposal at
Geneva, and is not cause for alarm
anywhere.
At the same time the President
elaborated his views on flood control,
I Asserting that he still insists on local
contributions towards defraying costs
and denying that he had said he had
shifted his position.
Representative Tinkham demanded
the suppression of the negro vote in
the South and assailed William Mc
Adoo and Senator Glass as hypocrites.
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HALIBUT SEVEN AND FOUR
JUNEAU, Mar. 1. (/P)—Although
25,000 pounds of halibut arrived here
it sold for four and seven. Only 24
boxes were shipped to Seattle on the
S. S. Alameda. The remainder Is in
cold storage.
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LLOYD HAHN WINS MILE
CENTURY FEATURE RAGE
NEW YORK, Mar. 1. (^)—Lloyd
Hahn won the mile race of the Cen
tury Feature of the Knights of Colum
bus Indoor Track Field Carnival lead
ing Ray Conger by 25 yards with Dr.
Otto Peltzer, champion of Germany, a
poor third. He missed the world re
cord by one second. His time was
four minutes and 13 seconds.
ADDITIOINAL DETAILS
! ON RECENT WRECKING
j ROSS, ITALIAN VESSELS
LONDON, Mar. 1 UP)—'The Even
. ing News received a radio from the
; Russian steamer Tovarisch which
rammed and sank the Italian vessel
Alcantara stating that one survivor of
the Alcantara crew was aboard. This
makes it clear that 20 men of the lat
ter ship are missing and that the Tov
arisch is afloat though crippled.
Vessels searching thru the fog about
the scene of the accident have been
able to find much wreckage irurn the
Alcantara but no bodies.
FILIPINO LABOR LEADER
! ARRESTED LOS ANGELES
i PLANNING BIG STHIKE
LOS ANGELES, Mar. 1. (/P)— Police
reported that when they arrested Pab
lo Manlapit, former Filipino labor
leader during a raid on a meeting of
i
The All American Anti Imperialist
i League here, they found papers dis
closing plans for a strike next month
! of 6,000 Filipino ranch workers in
I Stockton, Calif., and details of the
j formation of a labor union among
: 7,000 Filipino sailors aboard United
States naval ships in the Pacific fleet.
Other papers taken from Manlapit
| were said to have shown that he has
: been an employee of the Communist
i party working on a salary.
TO REFUTE CHARGES
IN PUBLIC MANNER
LOS ANGELES, Mar. 1. (Jp)—Mrs.
Lillian <Coogan, mother of Jackie Coo
gan, wil shortly appear in public with
her husband and Arthur Bernstein to
refute the charges of Mrs. Bernstein,
who is suing Mrs. Coogan for aliena
tion of her husband’s affections and
her husband for divorce. The an
nouncement was made the trio will
dine in public.
WILLIS BILL OKEH
WASHINGTON, Mar. 1. <£>)—The
Willis bill replacing the so-called
“military cabinet” of the Philippines
with civilians was approved today by
'the Senate Territorial Committee.
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CLARIFICATION OF
VIEWS PROVIDES
MUCH DISCUSSION
PROHIBITIONISTS WOULD MAKE
VIOLATIONS ACTS OF FELON.
IES; REVISE PRACTICE
WASHINGTON, Mar. 1. (/^—Clari
fication of administrations views on
flood relief and amendments to the
Volstead act offered by prohibitionists
provided Congress with two of the big
gest discussions.
Secretary Hoover appearing before
the Senate Commerce Committee on
flood control declined to commit him
self on a plan to ask the states in the
Mississippi valley to supply 20 percent
of the funds necessary to provide ade
quate protection. He favored the plan
offered by President Coolidge for the
Commission to give the problem new
study however.
President Coolidge has heretofore
beelT opposed to having the Federal
Government be%r the entire burden of
flood control, and indicated that he
will not insist cn this po'nt as far as
the Mississippi Basin is concerned.
He stood firm in the question of con
trol along tributaries to the Mississ
ippi.
j The Volstead law amendments of
fered in the House, sponsored by
j Canon Chase, leading Efry 3(obbist,
i would virtually wipe out constitution
al guarantee against unreasonable
search. They would provide among
other things prohibition of medical
liquor and make violations of the Vol
stead act felonies and revise court
practice in dQ- trials.
KISSES HUBBY GOODBYE
! LEAPS EDOM WINDOW
| SAN FRANCISCO, Mar. 1. (/P)—
Mrs. Laurella Cowin, 40, wife of James
I Cowin of San Mateo, president of the
Steel Service Co., kissed her husband
goodby as he started east and less
than an hour later leaped from a win
dow on the 20th story of the Hunter
killed. Despondency over ill health is
Burle building. She was instantly
believed to have caused the act.
A GALA PARADE
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| MOSCOW, Mar. 1. (/P)— Amid the
roar of batteries from the Kremlin,
(the blaring of mammoth bands and
.deafening cheers from the multitude
the flower of the Red garrison of
Moscow swept by the tomb of the
Soviet hero Lenin today in a gala
parade in celebration of the 10th anni
versary of the Red Army.
CLUE WAS WORTHLESS
WASHINGTON, Mar. 1 {#»)—While
the report of a lighthouse keeper gave
the clue to the whereabouts of Com
mander Elly^on and two other naval
oficers who vanished in a plane dur
ing a short flight Monday, his testi
mony failed to reveal any trace of
them.
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