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VOLUME XXI, NUMBER 271. SEWARD ALASKA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 26,1926. ■ PRICE TEN CENTS
Fall Was Evasive
As to the Source
Of Bribe Money
TEAPOT DOME SCANDAL AND OTHER EVIDEN
CES OF GRATITUDE ON PART OF THOSE HE
HAD HONORED SAID HAVE BROKEN HARD
ING’S HEART AND BROUGHT ABOUT HIS DEATH
—HAD PLANNED TO DEFEND ALASKA AND
CHAMPION NEW POLITICAL GOSPEL
‘ SECRETARY JOSEPHUS DANIELS TURNED DOWN EEASE
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Senator Lenroot Says Former Secretary of Interior
Claimed to Have Received Loan from Edward B. Mc
Lean, Publisher Washington Post—McLean claims Fall
Did Not Cash Check for $100,000, Saying He Received
Money from Another Source
WASHINGTON, Nov. 26. (/P)—Senator Lenroot tes
tified when he and Smoot urged Fall to tell where he got
the money, Fall named Edward B. McLean, publisher of
the Washington Post. McLean, who first said he gave
Fall $100,000, testified in Atlantic City in December, 1923,
and agreed to say h^ Wt the money, though he had not.
In 1921 he granted r all a loan of $100,000 but Fall never
I cashed the checks explaining he got the funds for another
' source.
DANIELS KEPT FAITH ,
WASHINGTON, Nov. 26. (/P)—Jose
phus Daniels was on the stand but
<ne minute and testified, while he was
secretary of the navy the leases to
drill for oil in the Elk hills was sought
and refused.
| Broke Harding’s Heart
NEW YORK, Nov. 26. (/^—Ingrati
tude of friends broke Harding’s heart
“and he died a martyr to that friend
ship,” said John A. Stewart, presi
dent of the Republican league of
clubs. Stewart said he felt it his
duty as a friend of Harding to correct
, “the impression in certain quarters”
\ regarding Harding’s connection with
scandals during his administration,
The Alaska trip was begun when
the president was on the point of
4 breaking of major political issues
with Fall and on his return he plan
ned to defend Alaskan’s against ex
ploitation and champion a new policy
of “political gospel.”
At a meeting in New York Stewart
said he suggested to Harding, the peo
ple might misconstrue the Daugherty
appointment but the president insist
ed even though there might be men
■who would make more practical ap
pointees; he valued friendship above
everything else.
' EIGHT BABY BANDITS
III TOIL OF THE Li
BERKELEY, Nov. 26. (/P)— Eight
baby bandits were locked up in the
Juvenile home as a results of a series
of arrests. The boys have confessed to
police that they had a cached loot
valued at $3,000.
DISSOLVE DANES PARLIAMENT
Ik COPENHAGEN, Nov. 26. (^—Dis
solutions of Danish parliament believ
ed imminent following a breakdown in
negotiations between the government
^ and members of the Liberal party.
GUNMAN CARRYING BE
SNOOT POLICE CHIEF
: LOS ANGELES, Nov. 26. (IP)—A
Bible carrying gunman who is said to
have shot and wounded James Mans
field, former Boston chief of police as
an outcome over an argument about
Aimee Semple McPherson is being
* sought here today.
ACCEPTS NOBEL HONOR
LONDON, Nov. 26. (>P)—Bernard
Shaw has accepted Nobel Honor for
1925 for literature, but has .refused
; the §35,000 cash prize which usually
goes to the winner.
'KID MW MUST
SERVE 221-2 YEARS
HARDEST WALLOP EVER TOOK
ON THE CHIN, DECLARES
‘ NORMAN SELBY
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SAN RAFAEL, Cal., Nov. 26. (IP)—
Norman Selby, known as “Kid Mc
Coy” former middleweight boxing
champion who is serving term for
murder of a woman friend in Los An
geles will fo before the parole board
to have his sentence fixed today.
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 26. (IP)—
LATER—He must serve 22 and one
half years more in San Quentin for
killing Mrs. Teresa Mors in Los An
geles two years ago and for other
crimes growing out of her death.
“That’s the stiffest jolt I’ve ever tak
en on the chin. It’s pretty tough,”
said Selby breaking down, when in
formed of the action of the prison
board.
CATHOLIC SUNDAY SCHOOL
Catholic Sunday school will be held
tomorrow (Saturday) morning at 10
o’clock in the Blue apartments.
EXPERIENCED MEN
SENT TO WHEEL
THREE WHITE MEN ON ISLAND
DID NOT PERISH FROM STAR
VATION, EXPLORER STEFANS
SON STATES; ONE OF THE MEN
ACCOMPANIED HIM OVER ARC
TIC SLOPES AND KNEW HOW
TO SUBSIST OFF THE COUNTRY
—
SEATTLE, Nov. 26. (d*)— Stefans
son said the diaries of the three white
men who perished in the Wrangell Is
land venture “show they didn’t die
of starvation but two accidentally
were drowned when they tried to
reach Siberia where they were evi
dently going to organize another ex
pedition. The man who remained be-v
hind with Ada Blackjack and was dead
before ice came, wrote of a number of
polar bear about the camp. The
charge that I sent inexperienced men
on the expedition has been refuted.
Knight was an experienced man, for
he was one of the three white men
who accompanied me on my 700 mile
trip over the Arctic ice when we liv- j
ed off the country.”
CATHOLIC TRIBUNAL
GRANTS ANNULMENT
DUKE MARLBOROUGH STATES
BRIDE CONFESSED MRS. VAN
DERBILT FORCED WEDDING
ROME, Nov. 26. (£>)—'The Roman
Catholic Tribunal announced that the
marriage in 1895 of Consuelo Vander
bilt to the Duke of Marlborough is
annulled because the evidence show
ed that the society girl, then 17 years
of age, was torn from her American
lover and forced to marry the Duke.
A sentence in the decree said
Mrs. Vanderbilt threatened to kill
Winthrop Rutherford if Consuelo
eloped with him, and she would be
hanged for the crime, her daughter
thus being responsible for the tragedy.
She declared she would die if her
daughter did not marry Marlborough.
The Duke said 20 days after he mar
ried Consuelo she told him she mar
ried him only because forced to.
Rutherford is a descendant} of Peter
Stuyvesant, the last Dutch governor
of New York. Consuelo’s mother is
now* Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont.
MISTU'!S PREMIER
DECLARES COLONIAL
STRUCCLE IS WRONG
LONDON, • Nov. 26. (/P)—Premier
Bruce of Australia told the American
Chamber of Commerce that Australia
would have fought along side of the
American revolutionists in 1776. Six
?asjs were heard from England guests
as the Premier vehemently declared
the British government throne wrong
in the Colonial struggle. “In Austra
lia we regard ourselves as inheritors
Df all American forefathers.” E
COIL MINERS RESCUED
AFTER 3 DAYS EFFORT
HAZELETON, Penn., Nov. 26. (/P)
—Five of six miners entombed Nov.
16 in the Tomhickin mine flood were
taken out alive.
The miners who had been imprison
ed nine days returned to Hicken and
celebrated Thanksgiving. They de
clared the sixth miner yas probably
drowned in the first rush of waters,
’ but this did not lessen the efforts to
find him. The imprisoned men had
i no food as they were about ready to
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leave the mine when it was flooded.
All said they were confident they
would be rescued.
WILLS BIG SUM
START A BANK
CHARLES SHALKINBACH LEAVES
STRANGE REQUEST THAT
PUZZLES LAWYERS
SEATTLE, Nov. 26. (/P)—Charles
Shalkinbach, a Seattle-Alaska trader
and packer, who died in Los Angeles
July Fourth, left $250,000 to create a
municipal bank in a manufacturing
town, preferably in Washington State
with a populationof 40,000 to 125,000.
Lawyers said a legislative act would
be necessary for the provisions of the
will to be carried out. Mrs. Shalkin
bach, John D. Reagh, vice-president
of the Northern Commercial company
and John L. Burnside, agent of the!
i
Alaska Commercial company, are nam- j
ed as trustees.
DENIED ADMISSION TO U. S.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 26. (/P)—So
viet Russia’s only woman diplomat,
Mme Kollantay has been denied ad
mission into the United States under
the same law that Secretary Kellogg
used to bar Count and Countess Kar
olyi.
POLICE ALLEGE
Cl'S II
THREE YOUTHS JAILED, OTHERS
UNDER SUSPICION IN LETITIA
WHITEHALL CASE
SEATTLE, Nov. 26. (^—Officials
declared that with three youths jail
ed on complaint of assaulting a Kirk
land girl, and with warrants out for
three others, the slaying of Letitia
Whitehall is near a solution. The j
girl is feared to make known the
names of a vice gang which preyed
upon them until Letitia Whitehall’s
violated body was found.
CRUISER DAMAGED
HAMBURG, Ger., Nov. 26. (£>)—'The
United States cruiser Memphis collid
3d with the Hamburg American steam
3r Carstenruss in the North Sea. The
cruiser was damaged to the extent
that it will have to be drydocked at :
amburg. ;
SUi BODY OF
WEALTHY WIDOW
IS DISCOVERED
MONKS MURDER SAID TO BE
WORK OF ROBBERS WHO LOOT
ED HOUSE AFTER CRIME
SEATTLE, Nov. 26. (;P)—The slain
body of Mrs. Florence Monks, a
wealthy Seattle widow, aged 60, was
found stuffed behind the furnace in
the basement of her home in the fa
shionable residental district. The po
lice said that robbers smashed her
over the head, and looted the house.
She talked to friends over the tele
phone at 11 o'clock Tuesday morning.
When J. M. Coy, a friend called at the
house upon appointment at 8 o’clock
Tuesday night he found it locked and
dark. T. ' J. Raymond, caretaker of
her country home in northeast Seat
tle, found the body. She was the wi
dow of John J. Monks, retired busi
ness man, with whom she came to Se
attle from New York five years ago.
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RELATIONS WITH HALL WERE
CORDIAL; SHOWS GOOD JUDG
MENT ON STAND, ASSERTS AT
TORNEY SIMPSON; OWNED RE
VOLVER BUT HAD NOT BEEN
DISCHARGED FOR YEARS
SOMERVILLE, Nov. 26. (/P)—Wil
lie Stevens finished his testimony
which began yesterday. He was on
the stand today for but seven min
utes. Simpson asked if he was wil
ling for a physician to talk with him
about epilephy. He replied “I should
prefer to consult my lawyer, Sir.”
Simpson, then said ‘‘It shows very
good judgment.” He testified he had
nothing to do with the murders and
knew “nothing at all” about them or
the case. He was asked questions
intended to offset the testimony from
the prosecution. He answered all in
the same tone of voice and said his
relations with Hall wTere cordial and
the husband and wife’s relations
were normal. He noted nothing un
usual on the night of the killing. He
said he owned a hammerless revolver
which had not been fired for years.
FLEECED WHOLESALERS
SENTENCED 30 MONTHS
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 26. (£>)—
Ben Rice, former prince of Phoenix,
Arizona, who is alleged to have fleec
ed San Francisco wholesalers out of
?20,000 worth of women’s apparel in
1921 reported yesterday en route to
Atlanta Federal prison to begin a sen
tence of 30 months.
WILL SUPPORT SMITH
BIRMINGHAM, Nov. 26. (£>)—Sena
:or Underwood of Alabama reiterated
:he statement that Smith would win.
announced his intention of aiding
Smith get get the nomination.