COAST TERMINAL FOR THE ALASKA RAILROAD
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXII. NUMBER 38. SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, MARCH 7,1927. PRICE TEN CENTS
LEGISLATURE IS
ORGAKIZED FOR
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HOWARD CHOSEN PRESIDENT
SENATE—SUMNER SMITH IS
SPEAKER OF HOUSE
- CASH COLE IS CHIEF CLERK
CHOICE OF OFFICERS SAID TO BE
VICTORY FOR ANTI-PAUL
FACTION
JUNEAU, March 7. (/P)—Bartley
Howard, Senator from the Third divi
sion was chosen president of the Sen
j ate today, and Sumner Smith, repre
V 6entative from the Third, was chosen
as speaker of the House.
The Eighth Territorial Legislature
■was organized today at noon. John W.
Dunn of the Fourth division was made
temporary chairman of the Senate and
Miss Ruth Reat, “reindeer queen,” was
chosen temporary secretary. Howard
L' and Brown of the Second division
were placed in nomination for perma
nent president. The vote gave How
ard four and Brown three votes.
Pratt of the Fourth division wras ab
sent. Miss Ruth Reat was made per
manent chief clerk of the Sofiate and
Rev. Gaily, Methodist, of Juneau, was
chosen chaplain, and A. J. Sprague of
Juneau seageant-at-arms.
The House began to organize at
12:30. Tom Gaffney of Nome and
Hosea Ross of Fairbanks were nomi
nated for temporary speaker, the vote
giving Ross nine and Gafney six. Ro
man of the Second division was ab
sent. Cash Cole of Juneau and Miss
Berry of Fairbanks were named for
temporary chief clerk, Cole getting
nine and Miss Berry six votes. Mur
ray moved an adjournment until 4 p.
m. tomorrow. Paul amended, making
it only ten minutes. The amendment
f carried.
Reassembling, Ross and Smith
were placed in nomination for speaker,
the vote giving Smith nine and Ross
six. Cole was elected chief clerk and
James Russell of Juneau sergeant-at
arms.
The House then adjourned until
3 p. m., when a chaplain and other
aides will be selected.
The selection of both the president
of the Senate and speaker of the
House is considered a victory for the
anti-Paul faction.
WM. F. HERRIN DIES
SAN FRANCOSCO, March 7. (JP)—
^frilliam F. Herrin, vice-president
and for many years chief counsel of
the Southern Pacific, and for a part
of three decades controled the polit
ical destines of California, died here
yesterday. He succumed to heart
disease.
EXPERIMENT FAILS
NEW YORK, March 7. (^—Sing
ing into a microphone, in a tiny
Compartment in an airplane as it
soars a mile above New York, Miss
Hazel Glenn, has been trying to make
herself heard, hut .the apparatus has
,been found too weak, and a more
powerful set will be installed.
FINAL ARGUMENT STARTS
FAIRBANKS, March 7. (£>)— Final
argument in the Nellie Bates trial be
gan when the defense rested today.
FILE ARTICLES FOR
SNUG HARBOR PLANT
INCORPORATORS ARE E. J. FRI
BROCK, I. M. FOSTER, A. S.
FOSTER, L. J. HULL
OLYMPIA, March 7. (£>)—Four Se
attle men associated with various fish
eries companies, filed articles of in
corporation for $100,000 for the Snug
Harbor Packing company, to operate
a salmon cannery on Cook Inlet. The
incorporators are E. J. Frisbock, presi
dent; I.' M. Foster, vice-president; A.
S. Foster, secretary; L. J. Hull, treas
urer.
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JAPANESE SAILORS
LAND IN SHANGHAI
INTEREST CENTERS IN FATE OF
HOOCHOW WHERE GENERAL
CHANG IS ENTRENCHED
SHANGHAI, March 7. (£>)— Five
hundred Japanese sailors landed and
are quartered in the Japanese cotton
mills. Interest is centered around the
fate of Hoochow where General Chang
i Tsung Chang has strengthened his po
sition of the Northern troops against
the Cantonese, who are steadily press
ing the city in the hope of cutting
the Shanghai-Nanking railway which
is Chang’s main supply route. It is
reliably reported that the Cantonese
are five miles below Foochow which
is in a precarious position.
SPLPIT DEVELOPING
LONDON, March 7. (£>)—'The Reu
ters Hankow correspondent declares
thers is no question that a definite
split is developing between the left
wing and the military leaders of the
Cantonese. Hus Chein, Cantonese
Minister of Justice, is heading a move
to restrict the growing power of Gen
eral Chang Kai Shek. The radicals
are taking advantage of Chang’s mili
tary preoccupation to regain the po
sition from which he ousted them in
Canton last year.
PIRATES ARE EXECUTED
HONGKONG, March 7. (£>)—'Two
of the many pirates, that have pray
ed upon ships along the Chinese
coast for years, were executed yes
terday, the executed pair was with
two other bacaneers, also under
death sentence, who started a sensa
tional prison break.
SUIT IS DISMISSED
NEW YORK, March 7. (^—Sup
reme Court Justice Nathan, dismiss
ed the $50,000 alienation of affections
suit of Therma Helms Foster, against
Nona McAdoo, foster sister-in-law of
William G. McAdoo, because of fail
ure to prosecute.
M'KIIULEY NATIONAL
PARK BY WORK
TO COMMENCE SOON
RECOMMENDED THAT $60,000
BE EXPENDED DURING SUM
MER MONTHS
(Special to the Gateway by Park
Correspondent)
A recent report received by McKin
ley Park headquarters from the Na
tional Park Service, Washington, D.
C., gives the news that an extensive
road-building program will be continu
ed in the park this summer.
It has been recommended that au
thority be granted the Alaska Road
Commission to expend $60,000. Of
this amount $30,000 will be used for
general maintenance of the park high
way from the railroad at Mile 0 to
Savage river, at Mile 13, and further
standardization of the incomplete
highway from Savage river to Sanc
tuary at Mile 22%; $25,000 for the
clearing, grubbing, removal of moss,
drainage, etc., from Sanctuary bridge
to Igloo creek at Sable pass at Mile
36%, and $5,000 for the improvement
of the coach road from the Park
Transportation company camp at Sav
age river to the head of Savage, a
distance of eight miles.
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M1J. BORGES ALIVE
BEING GUIDED BACK
SHATTERED PLANE LED TO BE
LIEF URUGUAYAN AVIATOR
HAD PERISHED
CASA BLANCA, Morocco, March 7.
(/P)—It is reported that Major Tadeo
Larre-Borges, the Uruguayan aviator,
and three companions, guided by
friendly Moors, are trekking south
ward along a desolate stretch of the
African coast toward Cape Jubi, 60
miles from where his shattered plane
was discovered. The fliers risked
their lives, landing in territory near
the wreck which is inhabited by sav
age unfriendly tribes.
KETCHIKAN TO COMPETE
CHICAGO, March 7. (£>)—It is an
nounced that Ketchikan has accepted
an invitation to compete in the na
tional prep school championship tour
nament at the University of Chicago.
THOUSANDS AMERICAN
STUDENTS IN FRANCE
PARIS, March 7. (/P)— About 4,500
American students in all classifica
tions are studying “somewhere in
France” this year, according to 'the
preliminary estimates of the Paris
branch of the American University
Union. This number includes pro
fessors bent on research, graduate
students, and undergraduates, as well
as those taking independent courses
in art and architecture.
BAD MAN’S!
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NEW YORK, March 7 (/?)—Mrs.
Helen C. Meyer brought suit for
$100,000 against Julius Rabiner, brok
er and bucket shop operator, for
breach of promise. She accuses Rab
iner of marrying another, while he
courted her.
ROY FELTER, TRAPPER, SENDS
DOGS BACK TO CIVILIZATION
BEARING NOTES
CIRCLE, March 7. (/P)— How two
malamutes sped on a losing race
across the - most uninhabited section
of Northern Alaska to summon aid
for their dying master is revealed by
Ginnis Solomon, Indian, who lives on
Black river, 100 miles northeast of
Circle. Two dogs of Roy Felter, trap
per, arrived at Solomon’s cabin bear
ing notes from Felter. Wet and faded
he could not read them, but Solomon
started out for Felters’ camp, feeling
that the trapper was ill and needed
assistance. Felter was dead when
Solomon arrived. Signs in the snow
j showed he started out for assistance
| but was overcome by weariness and
■■ returned to his cabin. Felter was .33
| years of age and a World war veteran.
FAIRBANKS CHEERS
CHAMPS INTERIOR
COLLEGE BASKET BALL TEAM
WINS 17 OUT OF 25 CONTESTS
THIS SEASON
FAIRBANKS, March 7. (^P)—1The
Alaska College Men’s Varsity and
women’s teams cinched the Interior
basketball championship by winning
fast games from the Fairbanks Ex
ploration company and town teams,
respectively. The Varsity won 17 of
25 contests, which included a coastal
tour. The women won 12 of 14 after
carrying the competition to the south
ern terminus of the railroad during
the holidays.
M TRIAL FLIGHT OF
AIRPLANES THIS WEEK
FAIRBANKS, March 7. (^—Wil
kins’ trial flight is in prospect for
early in the week with the Stinson
planes rapidly taking form in the local
hangar. Above zero temperatures
with intermittent light snow flurries
is expediting the mantling. Wilkins
says the tentative flight date is be
tween the l&th and 20th.
REPORT THEFT JEWELRY
SEATTLE, March 7. (IP)—Mrs. H.
P. Powis, today reported to the police
the -theft of jewelery valued at $16,
000, from her stateroom on board
the liner President Grant, while en
route from Yokohama to Seattle,
more than a month ago.
CHURCH BOMBERS
KILLED; POLICE LAY
TRAP; ID SLAIN
I TWENTY-SIX STICKS DYNAMITE
PACKED IN CLAY SEIZED;
i WOUNDED MAN IDENTIFIED
I
REASON FOR BOMBING UNKNOWN
POLICE IMPLICATE ECKLUND
IN OTHER PLOTS
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SAN FRANCISCO, March 7. (£>)—
The police surprised two men. who
were attempting to bomb the church
of St. Peter and Paul, shooting and
killing one and wounding the other.
The bombers fell into a carefully laid
trap. Since the fourth bombing of
: churches the police waited inside of
the church while eight policemen, os
i tensibly guarding the church, ap
peared to go to sleep. When a man.
came and placed a bomb the police
rushed out. He failed to heed the
i orders to stop and the police shot him.
"When the lookout also fled the police
shot and "wounded him. One police
man jerked the fuse from the bomb,
■which consisted of 26 sticks of dyna
mite packed in clay,
i The wounded man "was identified as
Celsien Ecklund, aged 45, who was
| arrested in Seattle several years ago
as an I. W. W. agitator. Mrs. Adele
Mortroni of Sacramento identified the
dead man as the bomber who thrice
attempted ;to dynamite her home. The
reason for the bombing is unknown.
REACHED FOR BIBLE, SHOT
SAN FRANCISCO, March 7. (JP)—
! The police found evidence tending to
implicate Ecklund in other California
bombings. Ecklund said he had been
to Telegraph Hill praying. The po
lice who shot him maintained that
i when he reached for a Bible they
, thought he was going to draw a pis
tol and stage a running fight. Eck
I lund fell pulling his Bible from his
pocket. His leg was filled with buck
j shot.
'WICKED' NIGHT TRIPS
THRU PARIS PROTESTED
Berlin, March 7. (IP)—Prelimi
tourist trips through the “wicked”
night life of Paris have aroused the
poet-singers and ballad-maker® of
Montmartre to protest. They say
the sight-seeing car crowds are tak
ing into imitation, faked cabarets in
stead of to the places where the
troubadour artists hold forth with an
art that may be less exciting to the
tourists but really represents the
picturesque side of France.
NO ALARM FELT
PARIS, March 7. (IP)—Those who
profit by American Tourist Army,
have recovered from alarm due to
rising Franc, and they now predict,
that during 1927 more than 300,000
Americans will come to France.
Steamship lines are planning to
handle the greatest ocean traffic in
history.