COAST TERMINAL FOR THE ALASKA RAILROAD
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXII. NUMBER 40. SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12,1927. PRICE TEN CENTS
Senate
Farm Measure
BILL LOADED DOWN WITH LAST
MINUTE AMENDMENTS MAK
ING LIKELY MEASURE WILL
GO TO CONFERENCE — ATTI
TUDE OF COOLIDGE UNCER
TAIN — FINAL HOUSE VOTE
TUESDAY
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12. (/P)—The,
Senate passed the McNary-Haughen i
farm bill which it killed less than eight
months ago. The vote was 47 to 39.
The measure will immediately be trans
mitted to the House and efforts made
there to substitute if for a companion
measure pending since Wednesday.
The final House vote is expected Tues
day or Wednesday. The Senate bill is
loaded down with last-minute amend
ments, making likely that the measure
will go to conference and then run the
gauntlet of a legislative jam during the
last few days of the session unless the
House approves it without change.
Favorable action in the House is antici
pated, but there is uncertainty regard
ing the attitude of President Coolidge.
The bill was passed by a machine
driven by Democrats and Western Re
publicans.
Abrahant Itncoltt
1809—1865
TTNFLINCHING, he kept the helm while those he
^ trusted best failed him. Farseeing, he looked
beyond the issues of the day when others cried for
ruthless conquest and subjection, he labored for the
day that would see the North and South united again.
His goal achieved, he died upon the threshold of his
glory. But the lessons he taught us guide us today*
and Abraham Lincoln belongs to all mankind.
He is one of the world’s immortals.
Skulls Discovered
Police Hunt For
Grave Robber
BLOOD CLOTTED BRAIDS O F
HAIR FOUND IN ABANDONED
TRUNK — CHILDREN MAKE
GRUESOME FIND — SOCIETY
COLUMN MARKED WITH PEN
CILED DATES, NUMBERS AND
NAMES
DETROIT, Feb. 12. (/P)—The police
expressed doubt whether four skulls
and two br is of hair, one of which
was blood t otted, found in an aban
doned trunk in a Royal Oak house,
were those of slain women or had been
stolen from graves. They began a
search for James Coyner, a negro
grave robber, who was the previous oc
cupant of the house. The skulls were
discovered by children of a family
which had moved into the house.
The grave robbing theory does not
explain the blood clotted strand of hair.
The skulls were wrapped in the society
page of a newspaper, on which the
names of women had been marked over
with penciled dates, numbers and
names. A notebook contained the
names of society women. The woman
who owned the house said a man by
the name of Ed Crayton, an alias of
Coyner, was recently convicted of
grave robbing and sentenced to the
penitentiary, but she did not remember
where.
OFFICERS BELIEVE ENTIRE HAUL
OF LOOT IS STILL ABOARD
THE VESSEL
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 12. (£>)—
Fifty-one thousand dollars is report
ed missing from the specie tanks of
the steamship Colombia on its arrival
here from Qentral American ports
yesterday afternoon. No trace of the
loot was found. The officers believe
that the entire haul is still aboard the
ship. A high-speed power boat con
voyed the boat into Los Angeles har
bor, where a careful watch was kept
on those arriving and departing from
the ship. A guard was dispatched on
the vessel when it sailed for San
Francisco.
COWBOY AND INDIANS
KILLED RESERVATION
ALBUQUERQUE, N. M., Feb. 12.
(IP)—A cowboy and two Navajo in
i dians were killed last nigh^n a bat
tle on the Indian reservation hear Pu- :
eblo Alto over the possession of range 1
.cattle, said a dispatch to the Albu- ■
querque Journal. <
PIONEER ALASKAN DIES
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 12. (/P)—
Steward Menzies, secretary and treas
urer of the Alaska Commercial com
pany during the early pioneer develop
ment of the Northland, died here.
HUGH DAUTREMONT
ARRESTED IN MANILA
ADMITS IDENTITY
TWO BROTHERS, ROY AND RAY,
STILL BEING SOUGHT BY THE
AUTHORITIES
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 12. (£>)—
Hugh Dautremont has been captured.
The international chase for the noto
rious train bandit and killer was re
ported at an end in Manila, according
to a message received by the postal
authorities here. Dautremont has ad
mitted his identity. His two brothers,
Ray and Ray, also sought in the mur
lers and mail robbery of October,
L922, when three men were killed,
are still at liberty.
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INVITATION ACCEPTED
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12. (£>)—
President Coolidge’s invitation to a
!ive power Naval' disarmament par
ey will be accepted by Great Britain,
Prance, Japan and Italy according to
jfficial >ad vices received yesterday.
EIGHTEEN PEHSONS
FORMER MEMBER OKLAHOMA
BANKERS’ ASSOCIATION AR
RESTED FOR FORGERY
LITTLE ROCK, Feb. 12. (^—De
claring be had slain 18 persons whose
names he refused to give, fearing
death at the hands of his victims’
friends, J. M. Saunders, former Okla
homa Bankers’ Association official,
professed reluctance to return to Ok
lahoma to face a forgery charge and
the investigation of his killing of his
wife. He told of four people he had
killed and said he never heard of the
others. The records revealed only
two cases in which he is accused of
murder. Saunders insisted he would
be exonerated of all the killings, and
said he had been tried nine times for
murder.
AL SMITH FOR PRESIDENT
SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 12. (/P)— i
A club to foster the nomination of
A1 Smith of New York as candidate
for president in 1928 was organized
here yesterday.
FRISCO MOULDER’S WAR
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 12. (£>)—
One man was shot and probably fat
ally injured in an outbreak of the
moulders war here eyesterday.
“BILL” HART DIVORCED
RENO, Nev., Feb. 12. {^—Wini
fred Hart, wife of William Hart, was
granted a divorce on the grounds of
I desertion.
impeIlH
CORNICES ON BUILDINGS DAM
AGED—SHOCKS BEEN STRIK
ING SINCE EARLY JANUARY
CALEXICO, Feb. 12. (ff)—Earth
quakes again shook the Imperial val
ley this morning inflicting nominal
damage. The quake shook down cor
nices of buildings which were dam
aged by the disturbances of January 1.
Two light shocks followed the first
severe one, which was shortly after
j midnight.
WE RUTH ISIS FOB
$100,000 THIS SEASON
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 12. (IP)—
“Babe” Ruth the home run swat king
of baseball, demanded a salary of
$100,000 from the New York Yankees
or declared that he would quit base
ball and devote his time to a string of
gymnasiums throughout the country.
MAY DAVENPORT DEAD
NEW YORK, Fen. 12. (IP)—May
Davenport once famed actress died
here yesterday.
SEPPSU NOSES OUI
IN SECOND LAP OF
EASTERN OOG RICE
SEPPALA FEW SECONDS BEHIND
DUPOIS—KINGEAK ENTERED
DERBY AS ALASKAN
NORTH CONWAY, N. H., Feb. 12.
(IP)—Dupuis led Seppala 25 seconds in
tlie second lap, putting him three
minutes and 50 esconds ahead of the
Alaskan for two days racing. St.
Goddard is still three minutes behind
Seppala. Theodore Kingeak entered
as a resident of Alaska, and was sev
enth among nine. The contestants
who finish the Derby will make a 42
mile run Saturday into Wolfeboro.
NORTH CONWAY, N. H., Feb 12.
(IP)—Leonard Seppala was first to
finish in the second lap of the dog
Derby. The second lap, a distance of
52% miles in 4:44:10, making the to
tal for the two days eight hours and 55
seconds.
MODERN JOAN OF ARK
MANAGUA, NICARAGUA. Feb. 12.
(JP)—A battalion of women led by a
girl 20 years old assisted the Conser
vative forces in defeating the Leb
eralor rebel troops of Bicaragua and
the recapture of China.