MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXII. NUMBER 235. SEWARD, ALASKA THURSDAY, SEPT., 27, 1928.
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PRICE TEN GENTS
GENERAL MANAGER OIILSON
REACHES AGREEMENT WITH
LOCAL PROPERTY OWNERS
After conference with T. W.
Hawkins of the Brown & Hawkins
Corporation here, Otto F. Ohlson,
General manager of the Alaska
Railroad announced that an agree
ment had been reached regarding
the removal of the Brown & Haw
kins warehouse on the south water
front, thus completing the last and
biggest detail in connection with
the change of depot location in the
city. This particular matter has
been under discussion for some
weeks owing to the fact that the
Brown & Hawkins lease had some
time to run and that they were not
disposed to go to the trouble and
expense of moving their warehouse
from the present location while
fheir lease endured. However, it
is understood that concessions were
made on both sides with the result
that the ground will soon be clear
ed for the transfer of the depot to
its new site at the foot of Fifth
Avenue.
Work was immediately ordered
under the foundations of the ware
house that it might be moved to
the Brown & Hawkins ground at
the foot of Sixth Avenue and this
operation will now go forward rap
idly.
General Manager Ohlson con
ferred with the members of his of
ficial family here in relation to the
numerous details connected with
the changes contemplated includ
ing track raising and realignment
and filling; the Lowell Creek repair
and bridge work and the necessary
changes at the city dock made im
perative by the new track arrange
ment. He announced that all
matters v.'ere now well in hand and
that the whole work would go thru
rapidly to completion.
Washington Attorney
General Cleared Of
Charge Being Drunk
OLYMPIA, Sept., 27, (/I5)—Attor
ney General Dunbar was acquitted
of the charges of intoxication in
the police court 'after three phy
sicians testified he was not under
the influence of intoxicating liq
uor when arrested Monday night
for the second time within a week.
The first time he paid a $50
fine on charges of reckless driv
ing. This charge was later chang
ed to driving while drunk.
Has Hunch If
Weather Good
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HARBOR GRACE, Sept., 27, (/P)— i
A young British Naval officer is
here who believes in hunches and
therefore proposes a solo flight
across the Atlantic within the
next fortnight if the weather is
favorable. He has the hunch that
this is an excellent time to attempt
such a flight; if not he will pack
up hi£ plane and return home.
CAN’T GIVE AWAY
JERSEY CITY N. J. Sept. 27^ (A5)
—It has been impossible to give
away a twenty story apartment
building, it was offered for nothing
to anyone who would move it away.
Now it must be torn down by folks
who plan a new hotel on the site.
TOO BAD!
HAVANA, Sept. 26, (/P)—Former
j Treasurer Jose Vasquez has been
arrested following the discovery bj
secret agents of a plot to counter
feit $1,000,000 Federal Revenue
. stamps.
TROUBLE OVER R(UD
Bens smug
DEATH II IDAHO
FLED CLIMAXED BY SHOOTING
MARRIED COUPLE; WIFE
KILLED INSTANTLY
TWN FALLS, Idaho, Sept., 27, (A3)
--W. O. Tharp, dairyman and
i father of four children, is held in
the county jail charged with the
murder of Mrs. Lois Bowen and
: wounding her husband.
During the shooting, which is
claimed to have climaxed a feud
between three families, the woman
| was shot and killed in front of her
j home. The fray followed an at
I tack made by Tharp and his two
j young sons of Weleta Bowen,
i daughter of the slain woman and
of six children of Harry Rose,
1 another neighbor.
According to the police Tharp is
alleged to have struck the girl
with a club. The mother and fath
er started to interfere when they
were shot. The trouble is said to
have started over a road owner
ship dispute.
PHI OFFICERS
FIRE 01) MJTO
GIRL WOUNDED
CHAFFEUR THINKS THEY ARI
HIGHWAYMEN AND STEPS
ON THE GAS
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LORAINE, -Ohio, Sept., 27, (A3)—
' Miss Betty Heywoocl, 22, is in a
serious condition in the hospital
from a bullet wound alleged to have
been received when city prohibi
tion officers fired on her car in
which she was returning home.
The officers, alleged to have
done the shooting, are in jail held
jon technical charges for investi
j nation. It is alleged they fired on
jthe car when it failed to stop at
an officer’s command.
The driver, Charles Edwards,
said he thought the agents were
holdup men and so increased the
speed of the car when he was or
dered to halt. No liquor was found
in the car.
MAY GET TOGETHER
TIENTSIN China. Sept. 27. (A3)—
Peace terms under which the war
fare between the Nationalists and
the ramnants of the former north
ern armies would cease are under
negotiation.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
St. Louis, 1; Brooklyn, 6.
Chicago, 8; Philadelphia, 3.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Missions, 8: San Francisco, 9.
Portland, 4; Sacramento, 3.
Seattle, 4; Oakland, 3.
Los Angeles, 3; Hollywood, 10.
DEMOCRATIC DELEGATE NOM
INEE TELLS WHY OPPO
NENT BE UNFIT
NOME, Sept., 27, UP)—George
Grigsby, Democratic candidate
for Delegate to Congress from Al
aska, launched his political cam
paign in the far North when he
{attacked the ncumbent before a
|packed house.
! The audience applauded loudly
when he read from the Congress
; ional record of the attacks the
1 present delegate had made on
Hoover. Grigsby returned to Fair
i bank today by airplane to begin a
! tour of Central Alaska.
Mystery Grows
As Bassett Case
Becomes Involved
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man seen taking soundings
j THREE DAYS AFTER BAS
SETT VANISHED
SEATTLE, Sept., 27, OP)—The
.'earch for Bassett has shifted to
Puget Sound when E. H. Hanson
of’ Edmunds was identified by
Mayer as the man he saw taking
soundings a half-mile off Rich
mond Beach three days after Bas
sett disappeared.
Hanson explained that while
fishing he saw a man in a row
boat w'ith a quarter-inch line and
when he approached the man
dropped the line and picked up a
light line as though he was fish
ing.
Detective Charles Tennant said
“This may mean that Bassett’s
body may never be found for the
use of a sounding line means the
deepest possible depth sought for
bodies. However, it has been
known, in rare cases, that bodies!
will ^come to the surface even I
when weighed.”
KIMS POUR
BURR OIL OKI
VICTIM; STRIKE
KENOSHA, Wis., Sept., 27, (/P)—
Blistered by hot tar poured on
him by kidnappers, Harold Hend
rickson, employee of the Allen A.
Co., returned home. He was re
turned there by a friend to whose
home he had wandered after be
ing bound and left on a highway.
He said he released himself af
ter a struggle. He had been taken
from an automobile at night by
four masked men and at the point
of a gun ordered into his kidnap
pers car. After a struggel he was
hit over the head with a pistol
butt and lost consciousness. A
number of the Tllen company em
ployees have been on a strike.
KENTUCKIAN DAMAGED
SEATTLE. Sept. 27, (#>)_'The
learners Kentuckn^
mos collided off Point Sur, Calif,
rhe Kentuckian said its port bilge
vas leaking.
“THE FOX”
SAN QUENTIN, Sept. 27, (JP) —
William Edward Hickman, con
demned slayer of Marion Parker,
who is now awaiting death in the
condemned cell, has petitioned the
warden not to give him a cell mate
Hickman nearly killed his last com
panion in a fight.
101 CRIME
CRIMINOLOGIST FORGING A
NEW LINK; ENVELOPES
NEW EVIDENCE
LOS ANGELES, Sept., 27, (/Pj—
Another link has been forged in
chain of evidence of the asserted
crimes at the Riverside farm of
Northcott when Clarke Sellers,
criminologist, announced the enve
lopes found on the ranch gave a
clue to two boy murders.
Sellers said the envelopes were
the same size, color and texture, as
those found and on which Louis
Winslow wrote 12 letters to his j
parents a few days after he and
his brother Nelson, aged nine, dis
appeared from thet Rome of their
oarents n Pomona on May 1G.
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BBOTHERLV LOVE
cmf BIFE Will
POLICE GIFT
PHILADELPHIA IS TORN WIDE
| OPEN AS GRAFT INVESTI
GATION CONTINUES
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PHILADELPHIA, Sept., 27, t/P)—
A police captain and 22 policemen
have been arrested on charges of
extortion, bribery and conspiracy.
I Among the prisoners were seven
sergeants and two city hall detec
! tives.
They were taken into custody in
the office of the district attorney
where they had been under exam
ination for four hours. All were
placed in cells in the city hall to
await a hearing before Judge Lew
is who ordered the current Grand j
Jury to investigate bootjegging, |
gang warfare and corruption.
Two other police captains, a
half-dozen detectives and a Rep- j
ublican organization ward leader,
were previously arrested.
Darrow Says Its
| Brain Agitation
CHICAGO, Sept., 2«, 07)—'The
assertion by Chairman Cl.ibaugh
that Loeb and Leopold could apply
for parole in seven years due to
errors in papers committing them,
met with a general denial by the
Prosecuting Attorney’s office which
declared “ If Clabaugh and the
board do their duty there is no
way the boys can get out until
death releases them.”
Darrow characterized the asser
tions as ‘‘A lot of bunk and the
brain child of some one suffering
from brain-storm.”
r TELLS
j MAN WHO MADE THE HISTORIC
I NOMINATION ADDRESS A
GAIN IS ELOQUENT
ATLANTA, Sept., 27, (A5)—Frank
i lin Roosevelt, who nominated
Governor Alfred E. Smith for Pres
ident of the United States on the
Democratic Ticket, told the State
Democratic rally that “it is satis
factory to note the come-back of
Georgia and thereby discover that
most of the stories about the trend
of the Republican Party in the
South are untrue and that when
November comes along the South
will be found true to its historic
principles.”
Roosevelt took a fling at Heflin,
Upshaw, Straton and Wllebrandt
“who either for notoriety or for
private gain are making them
selves ridiculous up and down the
country.”
He added “I have known Pres
idents in the White House since
my father used to take me as a
boy to call on his close friends,
I have known Roosevelt, Wilson,
Harding and Coolidge, and I can
tell you that Alfred Smith will be
in dignity and ability a fit suc
cessor to the most illustrious of
cheat.”
WILL TRY ONCE MORE
COPENHAGEN, Sept., 26, (/P)—
Bert Hassel and •Parker Cramer
arrived from Greenland and an
nouced they will make another
attempt next year to fly from the
United States to Stockholm by way
of Greenland. They arrived aboard
the steamer Fulton.
American Teachers
Held For Teaching
Religious Views
CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept., 27, (/P)
! —Three American teachers, again
charged with disseminating relig
ious propaganda, have been sen
tenced to three days imprison
ment and a fine of about $13.
When the case against them was
retried the teachers, Miss Jennie
Wilson, Miss Edith Sanderson and
Mis Lucille Day, received the sen
tence from Judge Nizameddine
whose former identical verdict was
set aside by the Court of Appeals.
The defense appealed to the
Judge in resentencing the three
and interpreted the comment on
the first verdict, as by the Court
of Appeals as a call for expansion
to his reason of condemnation,
rather than disapproval of the
verdict.
Cardinal Margin
Whittled Down
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BROOKLYN, Sept., 27, (£>)—'The
long arm of "Dazzy” Vance sprink
led loads of salt on the tail feath
ers of the strutting Robins and
with three red birds perched on
the bases, “Gink” Hendricks slam
med out a homer which enabled
Brooklyn to defeat St. Louis by a
score of six to one.
The Cardinal margin is thus
reduced to half a game over the
Giants who sat idle in the chill
stands. Vance gave five hits Brook
lyn hit Mtchell for seven.