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VOLUME XXII. NUMBER 31. SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURUDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1927. PRICE TEN CENTS
OVER FARMERS BILL
*>0 ITICAL LEADERS PREPARED
TO SEE CONTEST CARRIED TO
1928 CAMPAIGN
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26. (^—Chair
man McNary of the Senate agricul
tural committee said he would make
ho effort to override the veto of the
McNary-Haughen bill. A new battle
over the new farm relief bill is prom
ised when Congress meets again in
December. Political leaders of both
sides are prepared to see the contest
carried over into the 1928 campaign.
Coolidge took a stand against the
bill in unequivocal fashion. In a long
^ .veto message dissecting the bill he de
clared it "economic folly” to attempt
to regulate farm surpluses by levying
an equalization fee on basic farm
products. He also pronounced the
proposal discriminatory and said in
plain terms is was a scheme for price
fixing that would raise the cost of liv
ing for good measure. He sent along
Attorney General Sargent’s opinion
declaring the bill unconstitutional.
SCAFFOLD. YOUTH
' PUTS ODD REQUEST
WANTS ROPE CUT INTO THIR
TEEN PIECES AND SENT TO
JURORS AND JUDGE
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SACREMENTO, Feb. 26. (£>)—
When Ray Arnold, youth slayer, went
to the gallows last Saturday swear
ing to the last he was innocent of
the crime, he refused to accept pray
er or cleric aid in the march to the
death trap. Standing on the plat
form from which he was a moment
later to swing into eternity he again
declared he was innocent; and then
gave the warden his last wish which
it is compulsary for A warden to
carry out. It was that the rope
which was used to hang him be cut
into thirteen pieces which would be
sent to the twelve jurors who con
victed him and the thirteenth piece
to the judge who pronounced the
death sentence. He went to death
calmly saying he was ready.
FLAG ASSOCIATION FORMED
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26. (JP)— An
organization, known as the United
States Flag Association, has been in
corporated in Washington to meet
the demand for the purchase of flags
and encourage proper use of them,
tide Department of War has just
^announced.
Dynamite Used Halt
Flames Spreading to
Empress Apartments
BOATS IN HARBOR
IN SPECTACULAR
FIGHT WITH STORM
STARR, CAPE BEAL AND ATTU
FORCED TO WEIGH ANCHOR
AND RIDE OUT GALE
Lashed and threatened by high
winds, which reached the proportions
of a gale, yesteTday afternoon,, the
steamer Starr and halibut boats Cape
Beal and Attu waged a spectacular
battle with elements in Seward har
bor, the Starr narrowly averting going
on the beach, when caught by a heavy
flaw of wind and dragging her anchor.
Only the starting of the engines and
putting out into the bay was she able
to find safety.
The Attu, anchored west of the dock
and just in advance of the Starr, was
unable to hold her position, her an
chor giving until she threatened to
foul the Starr, lying just beyond. Si
multaneously the engines of the two
craft were started and they headed
into the teeth of the gale.
The Cape Beal of Vancouver, B. C.,
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was to windward of the Attu several
hundred feet from the government
dock, when it became evident her
hooks would not hold against the al
most hurricane sweeping in from the
North Pacific. Weighing 'anchor, she
headed across the bay to the eastward
in search of better water, but found
conditions there no better than those
she • had left. The Tollers sweeping
inshore tossed the staunch little
craft like an egg-shell, her decks be
ing swept as she went into the
trough.
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BARRAGE FOR REVISION
MIS PUN SOUNDED
BERLIN, Feb. 26. (IP)—A new inter
national Dawes plan controversy has
been provoked by what the German
press calls a Robinson or Henry Rob
inson of Los Angeles, -banker. The
Budget speech of -Finance Minister
Koesler Is partly a preparatory bar
rage for the revision of the Dawes
plan, nick both Germany and the
collector of German reparations, Par
ker Gilbert, expect, and which is like
ly to lead to a world finance in 1928.
HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS DAMAGE SUS
TAINED WHEN FIRE BREAKS OUT IN STAR RES
TAURANT-CONFLAGRATION SWEEPS AWAY
CORDOVA DRUG STORE BUILDING, GENERAL
STORE AND BARBER SHOP—PLATE GLASS WIN- j
DOWS SHATTERED—RAIN FAILS TO HALT
FLAMES WHICH BURN FOUR HOURS
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CORDOVA, Feb. 26. (/P)—The most disastrous fire in
the history of Cordova started in the Star restaurant
in the basement of the Borden building, which was totally
destroyed, including the stock of Swanson's dry goods
store, all the personal belongings of occupants of apart->
ments on the second floor and the Cordova Drug company
and stock removed from the Ray Dryson general mer
chandise store and the Rex barber shop in the Hubbard
building, which was dynamited to keep the flames from
spreading to the Empress theatre. The concussion broke
plate glass windows on Front street. The fire burned
for four hours despite a heavy rain. The loss is estimat
ed at more than $100,000, partly covered by insurance. Its
origin is undetermined.
TRIPLE GIBBET 15
BUILT FROM WHICH
TO HANG SIX MEN
MARCH 4, “BLACK FRIDAY,” DATE
SET FOR EXECUTION SLAY
ERS OF WARDEN
JOLIET, 111., Feb. 26. (JP)— In the
Jolie there has been constructed a
triple gibbet from which six men are
to be hanged on “black Friday,” March
4. They are six convicts sentenced to
be hanged for the slaying of Warden
Peter Klein ofthe State penitentiary
On the upper floor of the jail the six
men are confined, almost overlooking
the pit where they will end their
lives They are: Walter Stralsky,
Charles Ducfhowks, Charles Shader,
Bernaro Roa, Gregario Rizzo and
Robert Torez. For weeks past the
sawing of the heavy planks and the
creak of the wrenches as the gibbet
was bolted together have been audible
to the condemned men.
SIGNAL CORPS WINNERS
BROOKLYN, N. Y. Feb. 26. (JP)—
The Army Signal Corps again has
won principal honors at the Brooklyn
Concourse Pigeon Show, just closed
at Brooklyn, N. Y., in a competition
in which more than 900 racing pig
eons were matched.
SENATE ACCEPTS AMENDMENT
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26. (IP)—'The
Senate accepted the House amend
ment to the naval appropriation bill
providing for $400,000 toward con
struction of three light cruisers.
LOSS OF SCANDIA
IULTS ACTIVITIES
APPROPRIATION FOR GROUND
WORK OF SCIENTIFIC CON
SERVATION IS DEPLETED
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SEATTLE, Feb. 26. (IP)—Because
of the loss of the schooner Scandia
experimental surveys undertaken as
the groundwork of scientific conserva
tion of the halibut Industry will be
delayed a year, Dr. W. F. Thompson,
director of the International Fisheries
Commission, announced. The loss of
the vessel and its replacement would
deplete the year’s appropriation.
RUSSIAN LEADER ILL
PARIS, Feb. 26. (IP)—Joseph Stalin,
Russian leader, is seriously ill with an
abscess of the stomach and malaria,
according to reports made here.
M’DONALD PLEDGES SUPPORT
LONDON, Feb. 26. (IP)—Ramsay
McDonald pledged Labor Department
support in the British effort to pre
serve peace in China through treaty
revision, but warns against force.
PROFESSES FRIENDLY RELATION
BUT IS TAKING ADVANTAGE
OF CHINA
CANTON, Feb. 26. (JP)—Three in
ternational workers congress delegates
from France, England and the United
States told the Laborers’ party that
American imperialism is the most in
sidious, hypocritical and dangerous
enemy of China. They said America,
while professing friendly relation, is
taking advantage of China’s libera
tion struggle to oust British and Jap
anese competitors.
CORDOVA, Feb. 26. (JP)—'The lost
gasboat Imp, carrying lighthouse
stores and naval personnel to Hinch
inbrook was found by the forestry
boat Chugach in a small pothole off
Port Etches, under cover from the
weather. All men are safe.
VICTORIA NORTHBOUND
WITH170 PASSENGERS
SEATTLE, Feb. 26. (JP)—The S. S.
Victoria sailer a t9 o'clock this morn
ing and carried 172 passengers. Sew
ard passengers: Guy Stevick and
wife, Gerald Fitzgerald, R. Prenning
west, J. G. Andree, H. Neergaard, Har
ry Steen, H. Olson, G. R. Day, O. An
derson, Bruno Hushk, S. Peterson,
Ray Lalsen, W. H. McFarland, J. C.
Murrayy and wife, J. B. McAllister, R.
E. McDonald, O. E. Knuteson, J. Ross
kapp, M. Hyland, Tom Barstovich,
Mrs. D. Donaldson, J. A. Gustaffson,
R. F. Deybwad, and three steerage.
NEW YORK, Feb. 26. (JP)—Paulino
Uzcudo, Spanish woodchopper, beat
Knute Hansen of Wisconsin to gain
the decision in a gruelling ten-round
match at Madison Square Garden. It
was the Spaniard’s debut in Rickard’s
heavyweight elimination tournament.
BYRD, BENNETT GET MEDALS
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26. (^P)—
President Coolidge presented Byrd
and Bennett with the Congressional
medal of honor. The presentation
was made in the presence of the Sec
retary of War and other high ranking
army officials.