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VOLUME XXIII. NUMBER 63. SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 1928.
PRICE TEN CENTS
GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL IN ALAS
KA FOR MANY YEARS AT VAL
DEZ AND NOME
SEATTLE, March 16. (&)—Word o
the death in Washington, D. C., yes
terday of Thomas Rochewter Shepard
?5, formerly a law partner of the late
Judge Thomas Burks, prominent law
-ver of Seattle and Alaska, was recelv
ed by the Seattle Times.
Mr. Shepard died from a heart at
tack he suffered last week. The fun.
eral will be held tomorrow at Dans,
ville, New York, where he was borr
in. 1890.
Mr. Shepard was city attorney here
and later joined with Judge Burke ir
mining litigation which led him to Al
aska. He lived at Nome for a numbei
of years and returned to Seattle £
few years only to go back as Unite<3
States Commissioner and Judge of
Probate at Valdez. After two more
years in Alaska he returned to Seattle
and lived here until 1T17 when he was
appointed as an Assistant Attorney
in the Department of the Interior. He
then moved to Washington.
Surviving him are his wife, formerly
Agnes W. Bowen of Tacoma, a brothei
Charles of Spokane; a sister, Mary
Shepard of Salt Lake; and his two
.ions, Arthur and Charles.
WASHINGTON, March 1G. (/P)—An
earthquake of intensity', greater than
ever before noted on the Georgetown
University seismograph, was reported
by Director Tondorf. The shocks
tasted four hours.
Carson City, Nev., reported two
severe earthquake shocks; dishes and
windows rattled. London and Berlin
reported they had recorded quakes on
their instruments.
EMiL ST. GODDARD WINS
- THE PAS DOG DERBY
THE PAS, March 16. (JP)—Emil St.
Goddard captured the annual dog der
by when he finished the last of a 40
mile leg race well in front of Earl
Brydges. St. Goddard’s total elapsed
time for the three running days was
12 hours, three minutes and 36 sec.
onda.
EIGHT DEMOCRATS PLEDGED FOR
SMITH; EIGHT FAVORABLE
TOWARD HIM
,1
I CONCORD, N. H., March 16. (£>)—
This state is the first in the country
' to hold Presidential primaries and to
' send solid deligations-at-large for Hei*
' i bert C. Hoover,
I
j The nearly completed election re
| turns showed all Republican delegates
•at-large unpledged but they announced
they favored Hoover. Seven of the
eight Democrats pledged Smith. The
eight was favorable toward him.
DOG TEAM BRINGS FIRST
RELIEF STRICKEN CUT
SAIILT STE. MARIE. Mich., March
16. (/P)—A team of seven dogs guided
by two men brought the first relief to
the snow-bound village of Detour
reaching the stricken settlement
ahead of an airplane and snow motor
expeditions, in a race to prevent fam
ine and deaths. The city became iso
lated 16 days ago.
BUILDINGS COLLAPSE
ATHENS, March 16. (,/P)—Eartl
tremors caused a number of buildings
to collapse at Xylocastron, near Cor.
inth. The population is panic strick
en.
ACTION OF BORAH REGARDEC
NOT WITHOUT POLITICAL SIG
NIFICANCE
WASHINGTON, March 16. (£>)—
Callinjg upon Republicans over the
country to repudiate the $160,000 con.
tribution of Sinclair to the Hepublicar
campaign fund in 1920, Senator Bora!
set in a lone hand endeavoring to raise
funds to pay off Sinclair.
The Idahoan announced the course
after submitting his request severa
days ago to the Republican Nationa
Committee to collect money and re
turn it to Sinclair. He said he was
going ahead independently “because
the Committee has not acted in lieu o:
his earlier appeal to the party leaders
i
| including chairman Biyg^r of the Nat
1 ional Committee, to wipe out the Sin
I clair contribution.
The independent action of Borah is
i not regarded as without political sig
nificance. However, he will not make
an attack on the present party heads.
-saSS*
The Republican Presidential candidate for 1928?
Herbert Hoover
An Oregonian, who did his schooling in California and the
first real contender for the Presidency from thePacific Coast. It
goes without saying that a Pacific Coast man would be a friend
of Alaska.
His greatest weakness is that he is not a politician.
Gus Gelles, of Anchorage and Seward, candidate as delegate
to the Republican National Convention, is making Herbert C.
Hoover his first choice as a candidate for the Presidency.
A vote for Gus is a vote for Herb!
CAPTAIN OF FLIGHT SIGNALLED
CHANGE WHICH OFFICER
FAILED FOLLOW
SAN DIEGO, March 16. (£>)—Four
marine flyers, Lieut. Qjaurence De*
1 wine, his mechanic, H. C. Bailey, Lieut.
J. D. Swartwout, and his mechanic
Corporal H. C. Chappell, were instant
ly killed when their planes crashed in
air while flying in formation and
plunged nose down 1,500 feet to the
ground.
The formation was being led by
Capt. Harold D. Campbell in another
machine and was returning to the
marine flying field after hours of
maneuver. Capt. Campbell landed hi3
[ i
l plane about three-quarters of a mile
! from the spot where the crash occur
ed. “I had signalled for Dewing to
take the lead but Swartwout instead
) '
!of standing pat moved forward and the
1 planes collided. My mechanic knew
nothing of the crash until I called his
attention to it.”
ILL HOPE FADES FOR .
HU FLIER HD
MISS ELSE WHIT
NEW YORK, March 16. (/P)—All in
dications are that Elsie Mackay and
Capt. Hinchliffe are lost and the only
optimism felt was the hope they had
been picked up by a vessel as in the
cases of Hawker, George Haldeman
and Ruth Elder. Some suggested they
| might have reached New Foundland
{and landed hi some remote spot.
TREASURER REPUBLICAN
COMMITTEE RESIGNING
DENVER, aMrch 15. (/P)—William
V. Hodges, Treasurer of the Repub
lican National Committee, confirmed
the Chicago report that he will not
be a candidate party treasurship at
the expiration of his presaint four
year term. He said his term will
expire at the first meeting of the
Committee after the convention.
DANCER WINS RACE
PARIS, March 16. (/P)—Mademoisel
le Gaitry , Hindu dancer, won a 700
mile horseback journey from Paris to
Cannes. Five young men started but
only one other, Mademoiselle Rachel
Grossi, finished the race which was
run in 13 days.
TERRIFIC BLAST DEMOLISHES
HOME KILLING TWO AND IN
JURING FOUR
PORTLAND, March 16. (^—Seem
ingly too dull to comprehend the trag
edy that brought about the terrible
death to his mother and younger
brother, Earl Jones, 19, admitted he
placed the charge of dynamite that
killed and mangled them but in the
same breath maintained that it was
not he who applied the fatal spark at
dawn yesterday in which the residence
of Robert B. Jones was totally demol
l»hed.
TWO INJURED
PORTLAND, r.Iarch 1G. (£>)—His
mother and 15 year old brother dead
from injuries received when a terrific
blast shattered their house, and his
father and three other members of
the family suffering serious injuries,
j Earl Jones, 19, was questioned by the
| police as to his knowledge of a parcel
| of dynamite.
He admitted purchasing the dyna
mite on March 7 but maintained he
used the explosives for blasting
stumps on another farm. A younger
brother, Richard, age 14, likewise un
injured in the blast, said the dyna
mite had not been used.
MEXICAN POLITIC!
ASSASSINATED III OFFICE
OBREGON BOWERS
MEXICO .CITY, March 16. (/P)—Gen
eral Macario Gahiola, Secretary of the
“Obregon for President" organization
in Sinaloa, and himself a candidate
for Governor of that state, was assas
sinated in his office at the Obregon
headquarters. Local leiaders of the
Obregon party believe some enemy to
their candidates was responsible for
the killing.
MINNESOTA PLEDGES
24 DELEGATES, SMITH
THUNDEROUS MUSE
MINNEAPOLIS, March 16. (JP)—
Minnesota’s 24 delegates to the Demo
cratic National Convention pledged
to vote for A\ Smith amid thunderous
applause.
The Democratic State Convention
adopted a resolution instructing the
Minnesota delegates to “vote as a
unit” for the nomination of A1 Smith.
St. Patrick’s Ball Tomorrow Night