FINAL PORT OF CALL FOR THREE
STEAMSHIP COMPANIES
HEADQUARTERS U, S. SIGNAL CORPS
COMMUNICATION FACILITIES I N
ALASKA PROPER
COAST TERMINAL FOR THE ALASKA
RAILROAD
ALASKA LEGISLATURE
PEW BILLS ARE LEF1
THIRTY-THREE MEASURES CON
FRONT MEMBERS FOR CON-.
SIDERATION
JUNEAU, May G. (/P)—On the fin a
day of the Legislature 33 measures an
left for consideration, including th<
general appropriations, revenue am
taxation measure, which are in th<
Senate and which are expected t<
reach the House in plenty of time ne
cessary for conferences to adjust th(
differences between the House. Onl^
three Senate bills failed to pass s<
far. Thirteen Senate bills remain ii
the House and 12 House bills are be
fore the Senate. It is believed a ma
jority will be acted upon today. 1
long night session with the clocl
stopped appears probable.
TOO MANY STADIUMS,
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SAYS AGED EDUCATOf
MARIETTA, Ga„ May 6. (/?)
American colleges are substitutinj
stadium building for mind buildin;
and the intellectual development o
the nation stands in a way to suf
fer as a result, says Dr. J. Coltoi
Lynes. who during his career as at
educator has been president of thre
southern schools and instructor v.
several others.
NEW NOME POSTMASTER
WASHINGTON, May 6. (/P)— Jame
H. Anderson has been appointed act
ing postmaster at Nome.
■ SIBERIAN CHILDREN GET
- THEIR FIRST SCHOOLINI
TELVISOCHNON, Petchorsk Pro
vince, U. S. S. R., May G. (/P)—Sam
oyed children in the wastes of north
ern Siberia are getting their firs
taste of schooling at the hands o
soviet teachers. The Samoyeds ar
sparely scattered from the Alta
Mountains to the Arctic Ocean am
have little written language, bu
their spoken language resembles tie
Finnish.
Most of the Samoyeds ai> hunter
and fishermen in the basins of tin
Ob and Yenisee. but in the fifth cen
tury they are supposed to have beei
prosperous farmers in districts of tin
Altai Mountains, where immense ir
rigation canals were in operation be
fore the Turks overran souther]
Siberia and drove the farmers out
FILM OF DUKE BURNED
WELLINGTON, N. Z;, May 6. (/P
—A fire at the Wellington govern
ment publicity studios destroys
8,000 feet of .cinema film showing th<
arrival of the Duke and Duchess o
York in New Zealand.
GREAT WHISKEY STILLS .
IN SWAYING TREE TOPS
MEMPHIS, Tenn., May 6. (IP)—In
swaying tree tops of lialf a dozen
Mississippi river islands, near Mem
phis ingenious moonshiners erected
a whiskel still and houses during the
‘ last few weeks to do a land office bus
iness while their competitors were
put out of business by the flood.
COMMITTEE REPORTS ADMINIS
i TRATION IN HIGH STANDING
IN FAR WEST
WASHINGTON. May 6. (/P)—1The
Coolidge administration and Repub
lican leaders went into a breakfast
conference before which William M
Butler, chairman of the Republican
national committee, and who returned
from a Western tour, said the admin
istration is in high standing in the
- far Western States. The guests in
l eluded Secretaries Kellogg, Mellon
* Wilbur and Work, Speaker Long
f worth. Senator Curtis of Kansas and
. Senator Borah.
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JAMES A. WILKINS DIES IN CUS
TOMS HOUSE WHILE PAYING
INCOME TAX
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J; SAN FRANCISCO, May 6. (£>)— Jas
A. Wilkins, who made a fortune in the
Alaska gold rush, dropped dead in the
■.customs house while paying income
■. tax .Wilkins was a San Franciscc
*,cafe owner before going to Alaska
c where he owned, a half interest in No
f 11 Grass Gulch mine as a member ol
-!the firm of Sullivan and Wilkins. He
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i sold out for about a million dollars.
:iKD ’CELLO TEACHERS
■i SAYS NOTED MUSICIAN
-j NEW YORK. May 5.—The mu.
•j
1 sical world needs more fine ’cellists
5 says Felix Salmond, English violon
- cellist, who has been familiar to Am
- erican audiences for five years and
1 who has often been compared favor
. ably -with Pablo Casals, America’s
master ’cellist.
) MEN ARE LIVE WIRES
■< PARIS, May 6. (/P)—Man is a mass
1 of "electric” cells, says Dr. Lakhov
» sky, a bioligical specialist whose
f conclusion's recently set the augusi
Academy of Sciences to buzzing.
WOMAN'S MAGNETISM
DREW GOAT HUNDREDS
OF MILES HE
STATES HE HAD NEVER SEEN
MAN WHOM HE JOINED PLOT
TO KILL
NEW YORK, May 6. OP)—Gray tes
tified that a woman’s magnetism
served to pull him hundreds of miles
to help kill Snyder. He told of trav
I eling from Syracuse to New York to
be led by the hand of Mrs. Snyder.
Both of them were armed with lethal
instruments when they went to the
j bedside of the sleeping husband. He
testified he had never seen Snyder
and that he joined the plot to kill a
| man against whom he had no enmity
j whatsoever
BT LEGISLATURE
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SENATE PASSES HOUSE BILL
CREATING AIRPLANE SUBSIDY
RAILROAD BELT TO NOME
! JUNEAU, May 6. (/P)—All records
for rapidity in handling appropriations
| and revenue measures were smashed
in the Senate yesterday. The bills
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! passed both houses in about ten min
utes. one appropriating about $2,000,
000. Under the other at least that
much more money will be raised in
taxes. No amendments were made
■ to either measure, which is believed
; to be the first time in Territorial
legislative history. The Senate passed
j Gafneys’ measure subsidizing air
| planes from the Alaska Railroad belt
| to Nome during the breakup season.
The Legislature adjourned sine die
at 11 o’clock last night. Many minor
' measures failed, including one provid
i ing an increase in pensions to pioneers
jin extreme cases; also the election of
a Territorial Treasurer, which was
■ not reported out of the House commit
tee until 10 o’clock. Then both were
killed when considered together.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Portland 2, Hollywood 3.
Los Angeles 0, Oakland 4.
Seattle 3, Missions 4.
San Francisco 3, Sacramento 4—12
innings.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Brooklyn 1, New York 4.
Boston-Philadelphia—rain.
St. Louis 4. Pittsburg 2.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Boston 3, Philadelphia 2.
Cleveland-St. Louis—rail.
Chicago 2, Detroit 3,
New York 1, Washington S. ...
PRISONERS HELD FDR
RANSOM ARE RELEASED
NEW YORK, May 6. (fP)—Abraham
Scharling and James Taylor, held
prisoners for ransom by a kidnapping
gang, were released. The police be
lieve the release was prompted by the
killing yesterday of Joseph Marcus
and the arrest of David Berman and
Charles Kraemer, suspected of being
involved in the kidnapping.
hkdUbe
TAX NON-RESIDENT
FISHERMEN FAILS
HOUSE PASSES BILL APPROPRb
ATING $6,000 FOR SEATTLE OR
THOPEDIC HOSPITAL
JUNEAU, May 6. (£>)— The House
defeated a bill increasing the tax for
non-resident fishermen to which pro
; tests had been received from Wash
! ington and California labor unions.
Both houses passed a bill appropri
ating $6,000 for the support of the
Orthopedic hospital at Seattle where
many Alaskans have been treated.
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THIRTY WIRELESS STATIONS OP
ERATING — 27 AIRPPLANES
AND 826 POWER BOATS
MEMPHIS, Tenn., May 6.(/P)—The
Mississippi flood, after more than
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three weeks rampage, has placed 323,
837, a record number for disasters, un
der the care of the Red Cross. The
list swelled hourly as additional flood
waters poured from the dikes. Re
ports to the Red Cross showed 95’000
have been immuned from typhoid
and 85,000 from smallpox. Seven'air
planes and 826 power boats were in
the flood waters assisting in rescue
: work. Thirty wireless stations are
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operating.
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WOMAN SPEAKS IN MOSQUE
| WOKING, Eng., May 6 (/P)—Miss
; Carol Ringer, a theosophist lecturer
is the first English woman to speak
in a Moslem place of worship. She
addressed a gathering of men and
women of both races at the mosque
at Woking.
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FAMOUS ‘milBHlD"
BECOMES A MABUSE
LONDON, May 6. (jP)—The Mar
quise de Casa-Maury, formerly Miss
Paula Gellibrand, who has been voted
one of London’s most beautiful brides,
has returned from Spain to make her
future home here.
UTO CHAPLIN WILL
SETTLE WITH CHARLIE
FOR SUM $111000
IS MOR^ MONEY THAN COMEDIAN
POSSESSES, CHARLIE’S COUN
SEL REPLIES
LOS ANGELES, May 6. (/P)—Coun
; sel for Charlie Chaplin disclosed that
Lita has set SI,250,000 as the sum for
which she would settle her divorce
suit. Chaplin's attorney in a formal
statement answered the charges of
Lita’s counsel that Charlie refused to
settle the case fairly out of court.
“At all times Charlie has been willing
to give Lita in excess of her share of
community property. A million and
a quarter is more money than Chap
lin possesses.” Lita’s attorneys sim
ultaneously issued a counter state
ment declaring Lita only asked $650.
000 with the addition of a trust fund
for Charlie’s two children and a share
of the receipts from his uncompleted
picture “The Circus.”
Gray was dismissed from the wit
ness stand after the State had cross
examined him for a half hour and
Mrs. Snyder’s attorney examined him
eight hours. His own attorney ex
amined him six hours and in redirect
examination three minutes.
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CAST IRON PAVEMENTS
PARIS. May 6. (JP)—-Cast iron is
j being tried out as paving materia’
at Le Mans. Ten tons of plates are
being laid on a part of a main high
way, the Avenue Leon Bailee, named
i after the automobile designer, and
j the experiment is being watched by
j engineers.
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CHICAGO WOMAN IKES
HER 36TH TRIP ABROAD
CHICAGO, May 6. (£>)—'The cham
pion trans-Atlantic traveler of the mid
dle West is a woman, Mrs. Edward A.
Leight of Chicago. She sailed recent
ly from New York on her thirty-sixth
trip abroad. Mrs. Leight’s record now
surpasses by three trips that of Mrs.
J. Ogden Armour of Chicago. Al
J though she has spent her summers
! abroad since she was four, she is visi
' tiing the Scandinavian countries for
the first time this season.
KANSAS CITY WATCHES
THE TRAINS COME IN
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KANSAS CITY, May 6. (/P)— Going
to thp depot, a custom that originat
ed when Kansas City was a whist
ling station, still is popular here.
Day and night—especially at night
—•members of Kansas City’s younger
set may be seen arovnd the Union
Station restaurant. Thev go there
after parties, after dances, and after
shows, in golf togs, riding habits,
'business dress, and evening attire. •