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VOLUME XXII. NUMBER 245. SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1927.
PRICE TEN CENTS
CAPITALIST HEARS
IN COURT HOW ILL
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DAUGHTER OF JUDGE REED, Al
ASKAN, SEEKING DIVORCE
FROM SEATTLE MAN
SEATTLE, Nov. 8. (/P)—Theodore
Haller, Seattle, capitalist, sat thru a
long court session and listened to his
wife, Constance Reed Haller, daugh
ter of Judge Reed of Alaska, who is
seeking a divorce, call him a stingy;
refer to his house as decrepit, his
allowance as insufficient, and his
personal habits crude.
She ocupied the stand throughout
the day and told the court she nearly
froze to death, almost collapsed from
nervous strain £nd suffered rheuma-,
tism, when she tried to run the
household and keep It warm on $150
to $200 a month.
UP IN KITCHEN STOVE
KITTANNING, Pa, Nov. 8. (£>)—
Five thousand dollars in paper bills
was used to start the kitchen fire yes
terday. Peter Sealensky drew the
money, his life’s savings, from the j
bank and left them wrapped in a
newspaper, in the kitchen. The wife,
who did not know where the money j
was hid, used the newspaper to start;
the fire, the bills being wrapped inside, j
lilt CONCERNS HE
SUED, PLBIZINC
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 8. (/P)—
Suit for $1,000,000 was filed in the
Superior Court here against the Fa
mous Players Lasky Corporation and
Cecil de Mille by a former San Fran
cico woman who alleges that the pro
ducers plagarized her play in making
the ‘‘Ten Commandants.”*
WILL FINISH EDUCATION
BERKELEY, Nov. 8. (IP)—'Hete-i
Wills, American tennis champion, re
turned to Berkeley yesterday with
the avowed intention of finishing her
education before starting any more
conquests on the court of the nation.
She smilingly denied that he had be
come engaged during her last trip.
SIX ARE INJURED
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 8. (IP)—
Six persons were injured when a
split switch sent a municipal and
market street car into collision, at
Church and Market streets.
SMITH WANTS MOST
OFFICES IN ANCHORAGE,
BUREAU EDUCATION
SEATTLE, Nov. 8. (JP)—In an en
deavor to move the Alaska Division
of the United States Bureau of Edu
cation headquarters from Seattle to
Anchorage, Noel Smith, general man
ager of the Alaska Railroad, arrived
enroute to Washington to interview
Secretary of Interior Hubert Work.
The Alaska Department of the Bu
reau of Education and the railroad
are operated jointly by the Depart
ment of Interior.
BIG SUIT AGAINST
STEE'RAGERS SOUGHT $45,000 ON
ACCOUNT OF ALLEGED POOR
GRUB, BAD BUNKS
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 8. (/P)—
Forty-two steerage passengers, who
traveled from Nome to Seattle on the
S. S. Victoria in August and Septem
ber in 1924, lost their suit against
the Alaska Steamship Co., aggregat
ing $45,000 due to alleged vile food
and filthy lodgings. The court’s opin
ion was that out of 190 men passen
gers more than half were satisfied
with the passage.
ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED
I
j LONDON, Nov. 8. (£>)—'The engage
ment of the Honorable Janet Aitken,
only daughter of Lord Beaverbrook,
to Ian Dauglas Campbell, heir to the
Duke of Argyle, has been announced.
IN. T. TUNE PUSSES
MANAGER OF JUNEAU GOLD
MINES FOR 10 YEARS; FAMI
LY AT BEDSIDE
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 8. (/p)—W.
L. Thane, mining engineer who was
well known for his operations in Al
aska, died in New York^from an ill
ness but of three days. Word of his
death was received today by friends.
For 10 years Thane was manager
of the Juneau gold mines, owned by
D. G. Kackling, but recently he w^as
interested in mining manganese de
posits in Russia. Thane v/as a grad
uate of the University of California.
He is survived by his widow and a
daughter in Berkeley. They were
with him when he died.
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PLEADS GUILTY TO
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 8. (/p)—
Charles Borgenso assumed the mar
tyrdom of prison yesterday in the hope
that his example might deter drunken
and reckless automobile drivers.
Borgenso pleaded guilty to a charge
of manslaughter and "was sentenced
to from one to ten years in prison for
the running down and killing of
Charles Malloy, 70, on September 9.
REPEATS CHARGES
NEW YORK, Nov. 8. (/P)—Colonel
Theordore Roosevelt repeated his
charges that Governor Alfred Smith, i
and the Tammany organization of,
Albany, are linked up with vice and
graft.
PRESIDENTS COOLIDGE AND CALLES CHAT—INAUGURATING TELE.
PHONE COMMUNICATION BETWEEN CAPITAL AND
MEXICO CITY
WASHINGTON, D. C. —Photo shows an impressive view of the ceremonies
at the Pan-American Building, in Washington, D. C., where President Cool
idge and President Calles of Mexico formally opened the new telephone line
from Washington to Mexico City when they greeted each other over 3,300
miles of wire.
IS PLUCKIEST SCHOOL I
TEACHER lU ALASKA
RUBY, Nov. 8. (vR)—Mrs. Marie
Franzen, Bureau of Education school
teacher at Kokrines, is the pluckiest
woman in Alaska. She teaches school
from her bedside to which she is con-#
fined with a broken leg.
DANGER OF BUDGET
BEING THROWN OUT
OF BALANGE. SAID'
TREASURY OFFICIALS SCARED TO
DEATH LET HOARDED WEALTH
BE DRAWN
WASHINGTON, Nov. 8. (/P)—When
treasury officials go before ethe House
Ways and Means Committee for sum
mation of arguments for limitations of
tax reduction to $225,000,000 they will
claim that if the proposed comprom
ise figure of $325,000,000 is agreed
upon a deficit will be shown in the
budget.
Under-secretary Mills declared the
estimates of income were “liberal on
the revenue side” and if Congress goes
beyond the treasury figure there is
genuine danger of the budget being
thrown out of balancb. Officials of
the treasury expressed concern over
the heavy pressure being brought for
repeal of the automobile tax.
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ENGLAND’S POTATO CHOP
SHORT. DUE WEATHER
LONDON, Nov. 8. (JP)—Cold rainy ;
weather has out England’s potato crop
very short. Excessive moisture has
produced much disease in potatoes and
it is estimated htat the average yield 1
the country over will be 5.8 tons per
acre, or a quarter of a ton below the
10-year average. Although the total
acerage is in excess of 500,000 the
ministry of agriculture describes the
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shortage as serious.
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MAN BLOWN TO PIECES
MARYSVILLE, Calif., Nov. 8. (/P)—
John McKay, 32 year old employee of
the United States Engineering Ser-;
vice, was blown to pieces when 75
pounds of dymamite exploded. His ,
rawboat was also blown up and Geo.
Thompson, a fellow employee, was
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blasting stumps in the river, the fuse
burned too rapidly and McKay drop
ped it in the bottom of the boat. It
ignited the dynamite stored there.
CENTRAL AMERICAN
DIPLOMAT IS DEAD;
OPERATED, SATURDAY
FRIENDS BELIEVE STRENGTH
WAS TAXED TO LIMIT RE
SULT OF OLD WOUND
WASHINGTON, Nov 8. (/P)—Senor
Don Francisco Sanchez Latour, Guat
emalan minister to the United States
and one of the most widely known of
Central American diplomats, died
here last ni£ht after an operation
Saturday for appendicitis.
His close friends believe hia
strength, which was taxed percepita
bly since he was found unconscious
in his study last July with a bullet
wound near the heart from his own
pistol, was not sufficient to with
stand the strain of the operation.
The shooting was described as acci
dental.
ACCEPTS POSITION, FUND
NEW YORK, Nov. 8. (JP)—Rejecting
many offeers of high salaried posi
tions with commercial aviation con
cerns, Colonel Charles Lindbergh has
accepted a position with the Daniel
Guggenheim fund for the promotion
of aeronautics. He will be given a
free hand for an indefinite time.
NORBECK BACKING LOWDEN
WASHIHNGTON, Nov. 8, (/P)—Sen.
ator Norbeck, Republican leader of
S. Dakota, announced his decision to
back Frank Lowden for President. He
said he had accepted President Cool
idge’s “I do not choose to run” state
ment at it’s face value.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky., Nov. 8. (£>)—'The
longest road in Kentucky—524miles—
will be completed before snow flies.
It covers a greater distance than that
from Louisville to Chicago or Sit
Louis. From Catlettsburg the high
way skirts the Kentucky mountains
thru western Kentucky, ending at
Wickliffe. Seven of eleven congres
sional districts and all important riv
ers in the State are crossed by the
road.
* MIGHTY COBB TO RETIRE
■DETROIT, Nov. 8. (^>)—'Ty Cobb
will retire from orgonized baseball,
according to a story published here.