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MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 42
SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1929.
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ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE SUBSTI
TUTES DOCTRINE FORCE
FOR REASON
WASHINGTON, Feb., 19, </P)—
Two masters at oratory, Reed and
Borah, took opposing sides in the
Senate yesterday and for three and
one-half hours spoke to a tense
chamber on problems of prohibi- ,
tion. \
Reed denounced the law and;
Eorah made a thundering appeal'
for enforcement. Neither were in-- j
terrupted and at the close Reed }
walked over to where Borah was J
seated and warmly grasped his
hand.
Reed retires March 4 and Borah
prefaced his speech expressing re
gret at the passing of a man
•Whose industry, courage and gen
ius have placed him among the
foremost men of his day.”
Reed assured the Senate, with a
smile, that he had but jested yes
terday when he threatened to make
public the names of men who
“Vote dry and drink wet.” He add
ed: “I would not violate the con
fidence of my friends or the hos
pitality of my neighbors by ever
telling anything about them when
they merely are trying to get a bit
of sunshine out of life.”
Then, with biting sarcasm, he
tore into the prohibition law and
accused the Anti-Saloon League
with substituting a doctrine of
force for reason and declared that
great races have always been ad
dicted to the use of stimulants.
He denounced the corruption in
government as an outgrowth of
the liquor law and finally pleaded
for state control.
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ATTEMPT WILL BE MADE TO
PLACE DISCUSSIONS ON A
NEW PLANE
PARIS, Feb. 18, (£>)—The Com
mittee of Experts met to revise the
reparations amendments has been
thrown into closer discussion whicn
has not yet become public mention.
To prevent such argumentation,
tne Committee aaiourned its meet
ing at the close of the morning ses
lion. It is expected that each
delegation of Chairman Young wul
reply to the case which German
delegates have developed in the
last fev' days.
In this reply it is believed an at
tempt will be made to place trie
Ihcvisions on a new plane. It is
commercializing the German debt
a l the present sessions.
BANKERS ARRESTED
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb., 19, (A3)—
The manipulation of bank stock
amounting to $100,000 revealed
nere when Joseph C. Bray and R.
O. Ha idow, officers of the Bank of
Ttaly were arrested and charged
with embezzlement.
ALASKAN SENATORS
GUESTS IT OLYMPIA
OLYMPIA, Wn., Feb., 19, UP)—
Senators J. H. Anderson of Nome
and Will A. Steel of Juneau were
honored guests in the Washington
Senate yesterday. Both occupied
seats next to Lieutenant-gover-- :
nor Gellatly. They came to see
the new $7,000,000 state house and
to get ideas for the new Capitol
building in Juneau.
COLONEL LINDBERGH INFORMS
HOUSE LEADERS NEED FOR j
LEGISLATION
WASHINGTON, Feb., 19, (/P)—
Shortly after Col. Chas. A. Lind
bergh told House leaders of the
need for legislation to make avail- I
able a United States air mail ser
vice to Latin American countries,
the House passed the Kelly bill
authorizing the Postmaster Gen
eral to enter contracts with gov
ernments, individuals and corpor
ations for handling air mail to and
from Central and South American
countries, and Insular possesions.
PLANS ARE MADE
WASHINGTON. Frb.. 19,
rrostra nt and Mrs. Cooiidge win
if'sve Washington late in the after
v. -.on cf March 4, for Northampton.
-vlass..the home of Mrs. Lemira
wood hue, Mrs. Coolidge's mother.
SIGNS BIRD BILL
WASHINGTON, Feb., 19, (/P)—j
President Coolidge signed the bill
creating bird refuges in every
state and Alaska*
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REPLACED. FLOODS. !
THOOOUT EUBOPE
SERIOUS DAMAGE TO FISHING
FLEET IN SPAIN WHICH NA
TION NOW SMOTE
LONDON, Feb., 19, (JP)—Flood
terrors replaced the rigors of the
bitter cold over the greater portion
of Europe and it was feared that I
when the toll of inundations is j
complete it will equal or surpass
that of the cold.
The Danube and its tributaries
swelled over their banks and forc
ed many from their homes. Melt
ing snow and ice caused the dis
astrous floods and in Macedonia
and Thrace the damage was par
ticularly great.
Storms off the Spanish coast did
serious damage to the fishing fleet.
Spain, until now, had escaped the
general European cold wave.
PERSHING HAS FLU
CHERBOURG, France, Feb.. 19,
</P)— General John Pershing is
still suffering from influenza.
STILL IN NO. CAROLINA
RALEIGH, N. C„ Feb.. 10, Lib—
Col. Chas. A. Lindbergh rested
Saturday night at the Hatteras
Inlet coast guard station, after be
ing forced down by fog and rain
on iiis way from Charleston to
Washington.
GUIS DETECTIVES
PLACED UNDER SUREST
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb., 19, (/P)—
Two Burns detectives, Robert L.
Shore and Claude Colley, have been
arrested on a charge of assault
with intent to commit murder as
a result of their part in the stab- j
bing last week of Clark Bengston, i
pianist, by Walter A. Sutcliffe of 1
Los Angeles.
TIP AND CARLOAD DF
coo™ is seized;
SUDBURY, Pa., Feb., 19, (/P)—
State police took a tip coming
from a woman and seized a car
load of beer as it was being loaded
on a siding in the central sec
tion of the city.
More than 159 half-barrels of
high-pressure beverage, which was
said to be worth $3,000, was taken
and turned over to the Louisburg
enforcement officers for its safe
removal from that place.
TILDEN DEFEATED
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V°'i n, (i•■'.BUI T;-d?n, 6-1.
0-4, 9-3 in finals of the Casim
Heights Tennis Tournament. The
tourn i spent- was Tilden’s first pub
lic aijne-uence on tht courr.> in si.,
months.
MaHE FIH HAUL
NEW YORK, Feb., 13, (/Pi--TJn
•cov'ir prohibition "■ • made
: he ’.'‘ggest. haul of the year whe
in two raids wiinin the city they
seize liquors valued at $500,090.
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Detroit’s new sports arena. His name i <« “Dick” Dunn.
BUNDING SNOW STORM OBLIT
ERATED TRACKS ESCAPING
CONVICTS
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Feb., 19, (/Pi
Three life-termers, including Pat
McDermott, slayer of Don Mellett,
Canton publisher, and two other
prisoners, sawed their way to free
dom from the penintentiary. They
dropped from the roof of the res
idence of Warden Preston Thomas
and escaped under cover of a blind
ing snowstorm that soon obliter
ated their tracks.
Besides McDermott the convicts
were William Young, serving a
life-term, and Mike Jacko; both
were saving life-murder-terms.
There were also James Walton,
serving 12 to 25 years for robbery,
and Joe Rosso, serving 10 to 25
years for robbery.
The snowstorm left officials with
no clues as to the direction the men
took in leaving the prison. All ex
tra guards have been sent out to
search towns and cities have been
notified to be on the look-out for
the men.
Seven other prisoners, including
another life-term murderer who
was quartered with the five escap
ed men, refused to leave. One bar
on each cell was sawed in two.
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ACCUSES OIL COMPANY BEING
FRIEND OF BOOTLEGGERS:
PRODl XT CONVERTED
WASHINGTON, Feb., 19. (£>)—
Representative Sproul of Kansas,
in a resolution which he has pre
pared to present to the House.
: charges that a product of the
Standard Oil Company of Indian
i na which is known as "Standare”
: is being widely used by bootleggers
to convert industrial alcohol into
bootleg whiskey.
The resolution demands that an
investigation be made and also it
particularly wants to know wheth
er Col. Robert Stewart, head of the
company, approves of this prac
tice.
Sproul is known as “one of the
; driest of drys” in the House.
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j ELI ROOT TO ATTEND
MEETING OF JURISTS
WASHINGTON, Feb., 19, (/P)—
Elihu Root will attend the meet
ing of jurists at Geneva on March
11 to seek an understanding with
other powers in regard to Ameri
can adherence to the world court,
with reservations. The statutes of
the world court are to be revised
at next month’s meeting.
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