COAST TERMINAL FOR THE ALASKA RAILROAD
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MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXII. NUMBER 45. SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 1927. PRICE TEN CENTS
Sinister Figure
. Nathan Leopold
Behind Jailhreak
PAROLED CONVICT REVEALS PLOT TO CHICAGO
POLICE—PLAN FINANCED BY LEOPOLD AND
, FRIENDS—WAS TO LIVE IN LUXURY IN MEXICO
IF HE GAINED FREEDOM—ARCH FIEND FI
NANCED LAST WEEK’S BREAK
CHICAGO, March 15. (/P)—Leon Dengoda, a paroled
convict, revealed to the Chicago police a plot to free 1,200
inmates of Joliet penitentiary by the wholesale poisoning
of the guards next Saturday. The plot is the third of a
\ series behind which looms the youthful and sinister figure
of Nathan Leopold, Jr., murderer of Bobby Franks. The
convict said Leopold conceived or financed the break of
seven men last year and six last week. Delgoda said:
“Leopold obtained $8,000 from friends outside to finance
the original flight of himself and some picked associates.
They were first to go to Detroit, thence to Canada and
finally to Mexico.” The men were to live luxuriously at
Palos Verdes, Mexico, on money Leopold’s friends in
Chicago furnished. Leopold would not flee the first time
because he turned sick at the sight of blood when his com
v panions killed the Warden. Delgodo said he expected to
be killed for telling the story, but could not stand for the
wholesale murder. A Mexican poolroom proprietor said
Bernardo Roa is lying in a secret stronghold armed with
two pistols and two shotguns awaiting an opportunity to
make good his boast that he would “kill 15 policemen and
then shoot myself with the last bullet.”
ELUSIVE KETCHIKAN
, MAN FOILS SEATTLE
OFFICERS AT DOCK
ROY THORNTON ARRIVES AT
KETCHIKAN — BOARDED S. S.
NORTHWESTERN AT SEA
KETCHIKAN, March 15. Roy
Thornton, who is wanted on a bench
warrant to testify before the King
county grand jury, arrived aboard the
| S. S. Northwestern. He said he was
sorry to disappoint the officers who
were waiting to arrest him at the
dock. He was unable to make the
ship by sailing time, so hired a sea
plane and overtook the vessel 400
miles out of Seattle. Thornton re
turned to Ketchikan to finish his per
sonal business before facing two Fed
eral charges on which he posted bond
Friday.
FRENCH HOLLYWOOD
j NICE, March 16. (£>)—American in
itiative has made a new Hollywood
of the Riviera and the film stars who
used to enjoy the sunny Azure Coast
only as a winter playground now come
only as a playground and fashion cen
tre, now come here to work.
BILL WOULD REGULATE
EUf EMPLOYES' PM
JUNEAU, March 15. (JP)—A mini
mum wage of 320 per week, plus room
and board would be granted employes
of the fishing industry under one of
four bills introduced in the Senate,
and would regulate contracts and pre
scribe the manner and method of pay
ing compensation.
LESTER R. HENDERSON
RE-ELECTED TO OFFICE
JUNEAU, Barch 15. (£>)—'The
Board of Education unanimously re
elected Lester B Henderson Terri
torial Commissioner of Education for
the sixth term. He has held the of
fice since it was created in 1917. The
board consists of the Governor and
four hold-over Senators.
STUDIED LISZT
DENVER, March 16. (^P)—Living
again the two years of 1860 and 1861
when he studied music under Franz
Liszt, Dr. James M. Tracy, perhaps
the last of the living American pu
pils of the great composer. Dr.
Tracy is celebrating his nintieth birth
day in Denver, where he has spent
many years.
_£.!", .
FORESTRY ROAD WORK
FOR SEASON OF 1927
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
APPROVES ALLOTMENTS AG
GREGATING $425,000
Formal approval of the Forest Ser
vice road construction program for
the fical year beginning July 1, in
volving the expenditure of §425,000 on
various projects, has been given by
Secretary Jardine, of the Department
of Agriculture, it was anmjunced in
Juneau by District Forester Charles
H. Flory, in the Empire. The allot
ment for the Territory from Forest
Highway Fund for the same period
w'as about §470,000.
‘Continuation of Tongass Highway,
a new road into the Texas Creek re
gion near Hyder, launching of a pro
ject at Pt. Aggasiz, improvement of
the Petersburg-Scow Bay road, con
stitutes the major items in South
eastern Alaska. Continued work on
the Moose Pass route, reconstruction
of the Kenai River bridge on the
Seward-Kenai route are specified in
Western Alaska.
An allotment of $20,000 was also
approved to finance surveys of possi
ble low-type roads from tidewater to
the headwaters of streams heading
into the divide along the internation
al boundary.
The program as approved follows: |
Moose Pass route, surfacing $26,000. |
Peters burg-Scow Bay recon
i
, struction and resurfacing $20,00j0
Cascade Creek-Pt. Aggasiz
building bridges only . $10,000
Salmon Creek route, surfac
ing, cemetery to Fish
Creek . $14,000
Seward-Kenai Lake, new
bridge . $25,000
Texas Creek, Salmon River
Texas Creek bridge sec
tion . $25,000
Tongass Highway, Mountain
Bt.-Herring Bay _ $110,000
Tongass Highway, Saxman
Mountain Pt., surfacing.-. $19,000
Maintainance all routes .. $52,000
Location surveys .._.. $5,000
Contingent . $34,000
Special Surveys . $20,000
$425,000
Total
L1C0STEI5 CHAUFFEUR
FOR FRENCH GENERAL
PARIS, March 15. (JP)—Rene La
coste, the tennis star and heir to
many millions, is chauffeur to a gen
eral. 'The general rides in state in
young Lacoste’s c because the
young man prefers >10 drive his own
magnificent automobile to the shop
worn affair the army furnishes the
general.
SEARCHING PARTIES ORGANIZED;
BELIEVED FORCED DOWN IN
GALE
M’GRATH, March 15. (/P)—Search
ing parties have been organized to
look for Ed Young, who hopped off for
Bethel at 11:50 Sunday morning, after
successfully flying over the Alaska
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range. He should have arrived at
Bethel in three hours, but the latest
■wireless communications said he had
not arrived. A 65-mile gale was blow
| ing and the temperature was 25 below
zero. It is feared he was forced to
land in a trackless frozen waste of
tundra between Iditarod and Bethel.
The last person known to have seen
the plane was a dog musher on the
: summit at Tacotna. Bennett, await
i ing favorable weather to fly to Fair
banks on his regular run, announced^
his intention of flying over the course
; taken by Young in an attempt to lo
cate the lost aviator. Young was-one
of the aviators selected to pilot one
of the Wilkins planes in the Point
Barrow flight.
SHANGHAI IN SERIOUS
DANGER OF LOOTING;
FORCES REINFORCED
EIGHT HUNDRED AMERICANS
EVACUATE NANKIN—TREACH
ERY RUNNING RAJVIPANT
LONDON, March 15. (JP)—So seri
ous is the fear of looting in shang
hai by Shantung forces which are de
fending it the French authorities
call for reinforcements of 1,000 colo
nial troops, says a Shanghai dispatch
to the Westminster Gazette. The dis
patch adds that orders have been is
sued to. 800 Americans and British to
evacuate Nankin. The orders appar
ently are due to fear that Nankin wall
fall into the hands of the Cantonese
in a rew days more through treach
ery than force of arms as sections of
Sun Chuan Fang's recently defeated
troops have seceded to the Cantonese.
ROYAL FAMILY WELL READ
LONDON, March 15. The Brit
ish royal family is exceptionally well
read. The Duke and Duchess of
York insisted on having a parcel of
new books sent Ho them every week
during their Austrailian tour.
LAWMAKER, PREACHER
LINCOLN, Neb., March 16.(£>)—All
week long Victor M. Hovis attends to
his duties as a member of the Ne
braska Legislature. Each Sunday he
goes home to Lexington, Neb., and
preaches at the Christian church.
GALE WRECKS TENT
EVERYTHING MOVABLE, 7,.,
PLANS, STOVES, CANS, TENTS,
BLOWN DOWN CANYON
TONOPAH, March 15. (/P)—A 60
mile gale, accompanied by hail and
snow, tore down Weepah’s tent city.
Everything movable' went down a can
yon in a wild whirl of tin pans, camp
stoves, gasoline cons, and canvas
housing. The storm swept over the
camp from the direction of Silver
Lake mountains. As the gale struck
the town, the dwellers awoke suddenly
to find their homes being lifted bodily
from over their beds The time-hon
ored custom of going to bed fully clad
prevented additional hardship. There
are no women and children in the
camp. As soon as the storm had
blown out its fury the sun broke thru
the clouds and miners began hunting
their lost property
SAN FRANCISCO, March 15. (IP)—
The Southern Pacific Railway com
pany announces the opening of the
new Cascade line April 17, which will
cut off three and a half hours from
the schedule between San Francisco
and Portland, and seven hours be
tween Portland and Los Angeles. The
new train will make the Portland-San
Francisco run in 23 hours and 30 min
utes
NEVADA SENATE KILLS
CARSON CITY, Nev., March 15.(£>)
—The Nevada Senate killed a bill to
legalize wide-open gambling which
passed the Assembly Friday. It
failed in the Senate by a vote of nine
to eight. It was previously reported
that the Senators favored the bill ten
to seven.
HISTORIC PEBBLES TO
BE BIBBING MARKER
METLAKATA, Alaska., March 15.
(/P)—Four pebbles from the estate
of George Washington at Mount
Vernon will form part of a memorial
to be erected in this Indian town in
honor of the late President Harding.
The memorial will mark the spot on
which the President stood in making
the first address of his Alaskan tour,
Roderick F. Davis, full-blooded
Tsimpsian Indian, who as mayor of
Metlakatla, welcomed the President
to Alaska, obtained the pebbles when
on a visit to Washington.