FINAL PORT OF CALL FOR THREE
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VOLUME XXII, NUMBER 222. SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1927.
PRICE TEN CENTS
Bureaucracies,
Government by
Boards, Must Go
SENATOR JAMES REED OF MISSOURI MAKES
STIRRING ADDRESS AT DEMOCRATIC RAL
LY—DECLARES TIMES ARE “ROTTEN RIPE”
FOR CHANGE IN THE NATIONAL ADMINIS
TRATIONS. *
CITIZENS SHOULD BE PEINIITTEO HEME LIVES
Pleads for harmony in Democratic ranks—“Let us rally
our forces to the flag and proclaim inalienable rights of
ous citizens; the right of each citizen to chart his own
course through life.”
SEDALIA, Mo., Oct. 12. (/P)—Senator James Reed of
Missouri in an address of the statewide Democratic
rally declared “times are ripe, and rotten ripe, for a
change” in the National Administration.
The senator is regarded as a possible candidate for j
the Democratic nomination for President. He outlined!
his views on issues of the 1928 Presidential campaign and !
declared the need of today is “American administration |
that thinks only in terms of America and labor for the in
terest of our people.” Hie made plain that he spoke only
for himself and did not “arrogate myself the right to
speak for the Democratic party.” j
ASSAILS ADMINISTRATION
He assailed the Handing and Cool
idge administrations, declaring that
on the day Harding took office “sin
ister, financial conspiracies, to ail in
tents and purposes, took possession
of the government and have ever
since exercised a dominant control.”
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DEMANDS FOR ACTION TO BE
CARRIED DIRECTLY TO THE
\ DOORS OF CONGRESS
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 12. (^—Or
ganized labor decided to carry their
demands for action in legislation di
rectly to the doors of Congress when
•the American Federation of Labor
convention approved the meeting of J
labor representatives and other al
lied forces be called to Washington.
The purpose of the Washington
meeting will be to place a force''be
hind the demands for repeal or mo
dification of the Anti-Trust Act 4n
order not to interfere with labor ac
tivities, and a modification of the
prohibition law to permit the sale of
£ “wholesale beer.” The action of the
convention came from adoption of
resolutions from the committee
report.
BELGRADE, Oct. 12. (JP)— Flirting
and mashing are the targets of a cru
sade opened by the Jugo-Slav govern
ment, which has issued regulations to
its police to curb indecorum.
EFFECT, RULING
PECULIAR CONDITION IN ALAS
KA THEREFOR MUST BE
KEPT IN EFFECT
WASHINGTON, Oct. 12. (/P)—'The
Alaska Bone Dry law remains in full
effect notwithstanding subsequent en
actment of the National Prohibition
law, Assistant Attorney General Will
ebrandt contended in the Supreme
court, in the case won in the lower
Federal courts by Ole Berkness, ex
plaining that under the Bone Dry
statute possession of liquor in one’s
home in Alaska is unlawful while
under Federal Prohibition law, liquor
may lawfully be kept in the home.
Mrs. Willebrandt insisted Congress
intended this because .of the peculiar
condition in Alaska to keep the Bone
Dry law in effect. Berkness was not
represented by counsel during the
oral argument. He was arrested un
der the Alaska law fcr possession of
liquor in the home and was success
ful in the lower courts in the conten
tion that the search warrant, under
which the home was raided, was un
lawful.
CLEGHORN MAIN EVENT
SAN JOSE 'CALIF., Oct. 12. (>P)—
Walter Cleghorn of Soldo via and Vic
Morrison of Oakland bittled eight
rounds to a draw in a main event
last night.
American Girl
Is Winging Her
Way Atlantic
VESSELS REPORTS RUTH ELDER IN PLANE
“AMERICAN GIRL” SIGHTED 400 MILES AT SEA
MAKING GOOD TIME IN IDEAL FLYING CON
DITIONS—MAKING 100 MILES AN HOUR—HAS
SUFFICIENT FUEL TO CARRY THEM 4,400
MILES; PLAN IS TO LAND SAME FIELD IN
FRANCE AS WHERE LINDBERGH MADE MEM
MORABLE LANDING.
ROOSEVELT FIELD, Oct. 12. (/P)—An American
woman placed her life in balance in an attempt to be the
first of her sex to cross the Atlantic in an airplane. Ruth
Elder, age 23, and dressed for golf, hopped-off with her
pilot and townsman George Haldeman Stinson, in the De
troiter “American Girl”. The hop-off was made at 5:04
last evening with the destination Le Bourget Field, Paris,
where Lindbergh concluded his famous flight.
MU GIRL H
HOP OVER ATLANTIC
NEW YORK. Oct. 12. (/P)—Ruth
Elder and George Hardeman, will
hop-off for Paris at 5 o’clock east
ern standard time in the monoplane
‘American Girl”. They face the pro
spects of 600 miles of bad weather.
m * *,
FOLLOW SHIP LANES
The plane took off gracefully after
speeding down the runway for anout
2,000 feet. Miss Elder waved goodbye
to the few spectators from the cc\k
pit window. The plane carried 520
gallons of gasoline and a radio send
ing outfit capable of flashing mes
sages 75 miles. The course will be
about 1,200 miles due East, thence in
a Northeasterly direction following
ship lanes. The fuel supply is consid
ered sufficient to carry them 4.400
miles. The plane is expected to do
100 miles an hour.
PLANE IS SIGHTED
NEW YORK, Oct. 12. (/P)—The In
dependent Wireless 'Company an
nounced receipts of messages from
the steamer American Banker saying
the vessel had sighted the “Ameri
can Girl” 400 miles east of New York
A wind, on the tail of the plane, was
aiding its progress and it was mak
ing good time in ideal flying con
ditions.
CURTIS DECLARES HE
IS FINANCIALLY BROKE
SEATTLE, October 12. (£>)—Edward
Curtis took the witness stand in the
Superior Court to answer his divorced
wife’s demands he be adjudged in con
tempt of court for failure to pay $4,500
in back alimony. The author told the
court he was financially insolvent,
that he is writing a 20 volume work
on the American Indian but expected
no money for as it was his duty and
•lifework.
CELEBRATE ANNIVERSARY
WASHINGTON, Oct. 12. (&)—
President and and Mrs. Coolidge cel
brated their twenty-cesond wedding
anniversary in a quiet manner, on
Tuesday evening.