VOLUME XXI, NUMBER 261.
SEWARD ALASKA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1926.
PRICE TEN CENTS
Woman Parachute Jumper
Is Rescued High in Air
When Lines Are Fouled
THRILLER GETS THRILL NOT ON PROGRAM AS
HELD DANGLING TO UNDERGEAR OF PLANE
EIGHT HUNDRED FEET ABOVE EARTH WHERE
ROPE CAUGHT WHEN SHE JUMPED AT SANTA
MONICA, CALIFORNIA
SECOND PLANE COMES TO RESCUE IMPERILED JUMPER
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Maneuvering Plane, Rescuers Succeed in Cutting Rope
Allowing Parachute to Soar to Earth Two Miles From
Scene of Adventure—Lands Without Injury—Specta
tors Get Double Thrill
SANTA MONICA, Nov. 13. (/P)—Leaping from a
speeding airplane at an altitude of 800 feet, Miss Bobby
Chase, woman parachute jumper became suspended be
neath the plane when one of the ropes of her parachute
«r caught the plane’s undergear. She was rescued by a se
cond airplane after she dangled in the air for two minutes.
An occupant of the second plane cut the cord wThich held
Miss Chase, the parachute then opened and she landed j
safely two miles away. Hundreds of spectators were:
thrilled at the feat, which occurred in connection withi
the exhibition of the Byrd polar plane.
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GREWSOME EXHIBIT
SHIES MRS. HALL
HENRY STEVENS DEFINITELY
PLACED AT SCENE OF MURDER
BY DETECTIVE STORY
NEW YORK, Nov. 13. (/P)—Henry
Stevens of the wealthy Stevens-Hall
Carpenter clan, charged with the mur
der of Rev. Dr. Hall and his choir
singer sweetheart, Mrs. Mills, near
New Brunswick, N. J., four years ago,
was definitely placed at the scene of
the murder with a gun in his hand by
a detective testifying at the Somerset
trial.
William Garvin, a sleuth, who work
on the alleged corrupted investiga
4 tion of the crime four years ago, said
Ralph Gorsline, vestryman, told him
lie say Henry Stevens at the scene
of the murder after hearing shots and
heard a woman scream. Gorsline then
was told to get out, and shots were
fired at him by Henry to scare him
off and he was later sworn to secrecy
at a lodge meeting, the detective said
Gorsline told him.
Gorsline, a married churchman, ad
mitted on the stand this -week he
had been near the murder scene in
a parked car with a girl, but denied
seeing Henry, his brother Willie and
their sister, Mrs. Hall, widow of the
slain rector. All are being tried for
the murders, while their cousin, Hen
ry Carpenter, a New York stock ex
change member, will be tried separ
ately for the same crime.
Mrs. Hall Loses Composure
Mrs. Hall lost her composure for
the first time in the history of the
case. The stone-faced widow of the
slain rector wilted and averted her
face as State Medical Schultze con
^ fronted the court with an exact repli
ca of the bust of the slain Mrs. Mills.
Experts slowly marked with red cray
on the spots where bullets entered
■^|he singer, and when asked by Prose
cutor Simpson whether the spots in
dicated expert marksmanship, Schultze
answered yes. By this the prosecu
tion hopes to prove Henry Stevens,
once an arms company expert and
crack shot, fired the fatal bullets.
The prosecutions’ dramatic gesture
may be followed by another Wednes
day when it is planned to confront
the widow with the real throat of the
slain singer, which it is charged was
cut with a shoe knife after Mrs. Mills
and Dr. Hall were shot down.
FORMER YUKON MAGNATE
HURT BY EXPLODING BUN
SACRAMENTO, Nov. 13. (fl*)—Hen
ry F. Berry, capitalist, of San Fran
cisco, former owner of the Pacific
Coast league baseball team of that
city was seriously injured as the re
sult of the explosion of a shotgun in
his hands at Live Oak park, Sunday.
Berry made his fortune in Dawson
during the bonanza days, and will be
remembered by many oldtimers.
ARMY RADIO STATIONS
SAVE LARGE AMOUNTS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 12. (ff>)
—The War department recently an
nounced that no less than §74,313.74
had been saved to the federal trea
sury by the use of army radio stations
instead of the commercial agencies
in the sending of messages by 31 oth
er department of the governments of
the government in addition to the
Army.
SENATOR LAFOLLETTE ILL
ROCHESTER, Nov. 13. (^—Sena
tor Robert LaFollette of Wisconsin is
under the care of physicians at Mayo
clinic. He arrived yesterday for treat- <
ment. 1
Laughter and tears at the Liberty.
I ^ASSOCIATED PfZESS (©UNDtRU/OOD)
' 005EPH <3. CANNON
im MS LIGHT LIST
SEATTLE, Nov. 13. (£*)—'The S. S.
Alameda sailed at nine o’clock this
morning carrying 78 passengers. Pas
sengers for the Westward: Mrs. J. A.
Marsh, G. D. Metcalf, N. F. Monjo,
Miss C. Gentry, Mrs. Frank Lavalla,
Cliff Rusher and wife, H. Burge, J.
R. Lowden, R. WT. J. Reed and two
steerage.
AIDES TO QUEEN MARIE
IN FIGHT ABOARD TRAIN
ABOARD QUEEN MARIE’S SPE
CIAL TRAIN, Nov. 12. (£>)—Chaos
reigns aboard this royal special limit
ed passenger train. Lowe Fuller, a
friend of the queen’s, is still under
the care of a physician as the result
of a battle among the aides of the
royal visitors.
ABOARD QUEEN MARIE’S TRAIN
AT SPOKANE, Nov. 13. (£>)—Queen
Marie’s royal train moved east in an
atmosphere of harmony, tempered
with expectancy of still further
changes in the trains personnel be
for the journey is completed. While
Queen Marie and Princess Ileana
were being motored around Spokane
by Prince Nicholas, during their two
hour stop, guiding powers of the trip
were in conference with Mis3 Louis
Fuller, close friend of the queen and
associated with Samuel Hill in the
millionaire’s Mary Hill museum ven
ture and with Miss May Birkhead of
Paris and New York described as Miss
Fuller’s publicity representative. Mr.
Hill who acted as Marie’s host during
the tour thru Oregon and Washington,
left the train in Seattle Saturday
night. Although he said during the
day that he was undecided how long
he may remain Mr. Hill’s indecision
had emphasized the differences be
tween himself and Major Stanley
Washburn, special' aide to Marie.
EIGHTEEN DEATHS OCCUR
IN TIDAL WAVE IN ITALY
BARI, Italy, Nov. 12. (£>)—Eigh- <
:een deaths have been reported as 1
a result of a tidal wave which swept 1
this city causing heavy property
lamage and driving hundreds from <
;heir homes. 1
Great show on at Liberty tonite.
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PHYSICIANS ANNOUNCE NO DISEASE WAS EVI
DENT BUT THAT PATRIARCH OF AMERICAN
STATESMEN GRADUALLY YIELDED AS GREAT
HUMAN MACHINE WORE OUT—CAREER SYN
ONYMOUS WITH THAT OF MANY OF GREAT
MEN OF AMERICAN HISTORY-ROSE FROM
RANKS
LAST HOURS OF AGED STATESMAN SPENT IN MEDITATION
Orphaned in Youth, Battled Way to Front by Sheer Force
of Character—Oldest Continuous Service of Any Man
Identified with National Politics—Loved by Partisans
and Opponents Alike—Father of American Aviation
DANVILLE, Nov. 13. (/P)—After his physicians had
announced that the patient was sinking and would not
likely be about on Monday, former Representative Joe
Cannon died at 6:20.
The last hours of the aged statesman were spent in
retrospect and he announced recently that he could pass
in peace, conscious of the honors a nation had. bestowed
upon him.
LIFE OF UNCLE JOE I
“Uncle Joe” came to the end of his
career as the eldest statesman of the
nation; the man of longest service in
the Congress; the object of honors
among his colleagues that took no
thought of party or political differ
ences.
In the musty files of the Congres
sional Record there stands written a
moving tale of this man’s great ser
vice. It begins back in 1873 when he
first came out of Illinois to take his
seat in the house, even then a pic
turesque, fire-eating political gladia
tor to whom the uproar of debate and
the tense moments in committee were
the breath of life.
Month by month he climbed toward
leadership, growing more knowing as
each session brought ita new conflicts,
hardning with time into the forceful,
relentless champion of his party until
the day when the gavel was placed
in his hands and he mounted the
speaker’s rostrum as master of the
House to rule alone for four years as,
few men before him had ruled that
body.
Yet great was his fall when the
House in 1910 revolted against his
czar-like rule and stripped him of his
power through a combination of in
surgents in his own party with the
Democratic minority. Even then,
however, when the battle in the
House swept all other happenings in
America into the background, the
rebels of the House were content to
strip his pows of power but to retain
him as speaker.
In the political deluge that fell up
Dn his party two years later “Uncle
Joe” failed of re-election for the se
cond time in his national career.
Born in a little Quaker settlement
near Guilford, N. C., May 7, 1836, Mr.
Cannon often remarked that he seem- j
3d to have drifted away from the
aith and habits of the pious people of
lis birthplace.
“Uncle Joe” smoked incessantly, a <
:igar tilted sharply upward toward <
lis hat brim. On his 85th birthday,
l box of cigars and a letter telling 1
lim that if they were not to his lik- ['
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PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD
RAISES SHOP CRAFT PAY
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 12. (TP)— All
shop mechanics, helpers and appren
tices in the employ of the Pennsyl
vania railroad have received an in
crease of three cents an hour in their
rates of pay, effective October 16,
1926. Approximately 43,000 men are
affected by this increase which was
the result of a series of conferences
held in Pittsburgh between the rail
road and the duly elected represen
tatives of the shop craft employes.
The negotiations were conducted un
der the Pennsylvania Railroad’s Plan
of Employe Representation.
BE PROSECUTED TWICE
WASHINGTON, Nov. 13. (TP)—'The
Supreme court ruled that a person who
violated dry law may be prosecuted for
the same offense in State! and^ Federal
courts without doing violence to the
constitutional rule against double jeo
pardy.
ing to come down to the White House
and pick out something else.
“Raising the tariff in the afternoon
and the ante at night” was one of
“Uncle Joe’s” pet remarks when ask
ed how he killed time.
During the world war a reporter
made “Uncle Joe” to say in print that
“army officers in Washington wore
spurs to keep their feet from slipping
off the desks.” While it was fiction
he never denied it, but seemed to
relish it, Being always good copy
’or the reporters he numbered them
ill among his friends.
As chairman of the appropriations
committee back in the days when
here was no billion dollar budgets,
Cannon fought eternally to hold down
expenditures.
When Professor Langley appeared
>efore the appropriations committee
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