Alaska
“Center of J
Everything”
VOLUME XXIII.
\ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
NUMBER 76. SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 1928. PRICE TEN CENTS
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SEATTLE MEN ARE
HELD SIX COUNTS;
JURY OUT 24 HOURS IN COM.
STOCK THORNTON CASE; TWO
PLEAD GUILTY
SEATTLE, Mar. 31. (/P)—Comstock
and Thornton were acquitted on the,
charges of liquor conspiracy. The
Jury was out 24 hours.
Frank and John Gatt, former Seat-'
tie liquor barons, co-defendants, plead- j
ed guilty and were given sentencesj
which did not add to the time they j
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Already had been sentenced to serYe
on previous liquor conspiracy cases, j
Four others were not brought to
trial. Comstock and Thornton were
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acquitted on six counts for conspiring.
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to violate the prohibition law in con
section with distribution of liquor and
payment of $1,000 a month protection
j during 1923 and 1924 when Comstock
headed the dry squad and Thornton
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was a dance hall operator. Both are
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defendants in the second Comstock
case in which nine Seattle policemen
*re defendants. This case has been
set for trial on May 15.
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< 366 A6E LISTED
ALASKA STEAMSHIP LINER TOPS
THE LIST OF SPRING RESER
VATION
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SEATTLE, March 31. (/P)—The S.
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3. Alaska, of^the A. S. S. Co., sailed at
9 o’clock this morning tor Alaska ear
ning 366 passengers. The Seward
Ust of reservations include Paul Hoff
man, H. C. Murray, L. H. Shaffer, M.
C. Caughrean, Mr. and Mrs. J. Mc
Phail, E. H. Sinclair, D. H. Williams,
Mr. and Mrs. Eldred Ireland, Colonel
artman, Lieut. Gargas and wife, A. J.
Arrivee, W. F. Gercker, Herman Lam
bert, HaHrry Stein, R. A. Anderson,
S. L. Godfrey, Mrs. McDonald and
baby, Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Emard, C. T.
Magaho, Miss Urlson, G. Buchingham.
Jack Gydin, H. Brown, F. K. Bigford,
E. Silvertson, C. Coombs, Mrs. Robin
son, A. Hendrickson, Mr. and Mrs. M.
C. McDonald and daughter, H. T. Wea
ver, J. Cessford, Mrs. Gorman, A Jen
sen, E. Frederickson, John Gunholm,
and 11 steerage.
NOME OLDTIMER DIES
NOME, Mar. 31. (£>)—Charles Akasi,
Japanese miner, was found frozen to
death in his cabin on Buster Creek.
He was an oldtime prospector and had
been in the Nome region for 25 years.
HARROW SCHOOL
BOONS TO CR01D
LOSS IS 110.000
FIRST WORD OF JANUARY BLAZE
REACHES SEATTLE BY DOG
TEAM, RADIO, CABLE
SEATTLE, March 31. (JP)~A dog!
team, the radio and cable brought
news to the farthest north school In ■
America, and probably the world, had
burned to the ground on January 18.
The school was operated by the Gov
ernment Bureau of Education at Point
Barrow and was valued at $10,000.
Seventy-two children, practically all
Eskimos, are going to school in a va
cant store building. The school will
be replaced next summer as soon as,
the schooner Boxer can reach Point
Barrow with carpenters and unmber.
Word of the burning wras carried by
dog team to Kotzebue, 500 miles away.
At first it -was believed the fire started
from a defective flue. Mr. and Mrs.
Leon S. Vincent of Seattle, and a na
tive teacher, Miss Ethel Kerek, were
aw’akened by the blaze at 2:50 in the
morning and w'ere forced to fight the
fire in a heavy snowstorm. All suffer
ed severe frost-bite. |
School supplies were brougjht by
dog team from Wainwright, 125 miles
Southeast of Barrow, and school was
resumed in the store.
COL LINDBERGH
MAJOR WRIER
TRIP WILL BE MADE THIS SPRING
SAY CLOSE FRIENDS OF THE
COLONEL
WASHINGTON, March 31. (JP)—
Friends of Colonel Lindbergh say the
wiator will make a round the world
trip in a Ford plane crossing the At
lantic and Pacific oceans by boat.
They say they have well-grounded
information the trip will be made this
spring. Colonel Lindbergh will be ac
companied by Major Thomas G. Lan
phier, flight commander of Self ridge
Field in Michigan.
Presidential Candidate
Succumbs Suddenly
At Delaware, Ohio
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SEEKS PROTECTION FROM AL
LEGED ACCOMPLICE WHO
THREATENED HER
LOS ANGELES, March 31. (IP)—
Word from Portland and Seattle police
is being awaited in the check confes
sion of Henrietta Nelson, 18, that she
and a man robber and murdered Fred
erick Johnson, Seattle fisherman, in
Portland a year ago.
The police said a preliminary inves
tigation by the Portland police failed
to reveal any record of such a murder.
The girl, who said she was the daugh
ter of Harry Nelson of Jackson Island,
an Alaska fisherman, made the confes
sion after seeking police protection
from her alleged accomplice.
She declared George Howard, her
accomplice, accompanied her and
threatened her life after they became
estranged during their career of gaso
line holdups. Howard is also accused
by the girl in aiding two other men in
the holdup of the First National Bank
in Seattle last June of $15,000.
BEAT FORMER AIRPLANE ENDUR.
ANCE RECORD BY MORE THAN
HOUR
JACKSONVILLE BEACH, Fla., Mar
31. (JP)—Haldeman and Stinson, avia
torB, set a new world's record for ar
airplane endurance flight of 53 hours
and 35 minutes bettering the old re
cord by one hour and 12 minutes anc
40 seconds.
They landed a mile from the take-ofi
and after taxiing to the spot still hac
some gasoline in the tanks and tht
motor was still running.
GLEE CLUB HAD JUST COMPLETED SINGING
“THE END OF A PERFECT DAY” WHEN SENA
TOR LEFT PLATFORM WALKING TO ANTE
CHAMBER WHERE HE PASSED AWAY IMMED
IATELY—THOUSANDS OF FELLOW TOWNS
MEN ASSEMBLED WELCOMING HIM HOME.
WAS A STIICI liTIF THE TERRITORY
—
Physicians from audience pronounced death caused from
cerebral hemorrhage— Senator rose from farmer boy
to high post—his early education was meagre—was
formPable opponent of Hoover
DELAWARE, Ohio, March 31. (^--United States
Senator Frank B. Willis of Ohio, (Republican) died here
last night
He had been sitting on the platform of the Grays
Chapel where 25,000 persons had gathered to listen to the
city’s native son speak in his own behalf as a Presidential
candidate, when he suddenly arose and walked to an
ante-chamber where he succumbed at 9:05 o’clock.
A physician was called from the audience and pro
nounced Senator Willis dead from cerebral hemorrhage.
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F. L. HIGGINS OF MINNESOTA SUC
CEEDS G. W. GASSER, WHO
RESIGNED
JUNEAU, March 31. (IP)—Dr. H. W. j
Alberts, chief of the Federal Agricul
ture and Experiment stations in Alas
ka, announced the Federal Civil Ser
vice Commission has appointed F. L.
Higgins, formerly on the staff of the
University of Minnesota Schools of
Agriculture, to be Superintendent of
the Fairbanks station succeeding G.
W. Gasser, resigned.
, | Higgins leaves Seattle on April 5, to
, assume charge of his new wark. Al
berts is here enroute to the Interior
to inspect stations and launch the sea
! son’s work. He announced also he
will investigate grazing areas on the
i Alaska Peninsula and Aleutian Islands
during the summer.
HUGE AUDIENCE
CINCINNATI, March 31. (/P)—Sena.
;or Frank B. Willis, Republican Presi
iential candidate, died at Delaware, O.,
Friday night while thousands of his
fellow townsmen assembled at t|ie
;ampaign meeting were welcoming
bim home. His death occured at Gray
Chapel on the campus of Ohio Weet
leyan University a few minutes before
be was to appear before the huge audi
ence and make a speech.
DRAMA IN PASSING
There was drama in the passing of
Senator Willis. While the Glee Club
was singing “The End of a Perfect
Day" he rose from his seat on the
platform and walked with forced un
concern to the side door. He was
seen to stagger into the corridor and
bystanders helped him into the dress
ing room where he collapsed. Doctors
were summoned immediately from the
audience and pronounced him dead.
Senator Willis, who was considered
a formidable compeditor of Herbert
Hoover, in the Republican primary,
rose to high political office from a
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