MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXI. NUMBERM 297.
SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1926.
PRICE TEN CENTS
LARGE AUDIENCE GREETS CHILDREN AFFAIR
WITH PROLONGED APPLAUSE CROWNING THE
SCHOOL TEACHERS AND PIONEER LODGE EF
FORTS WITH SUCCESS—WAS BEST EVER PRE
SENTED IN SEWARD
FLASHES OF TALENT SEEK IN VAUDEVILLE NUMBERS
■“Santa Claus Toy Shop” and “Christmas in Other Lands”
' Featured Numbers; Dancing, Monologues, Recitations,
Music and Singing Entertain
The spirit of jolly old St. Nicholas ruled at the Lib
erty Theatre Christmas eve, when the school children of
Seward ushered in the Yuletide with a program which re
flected great credit upon the young entertainers and
those who trained them for their work.
The entire program teemed with originality and fin
ish, and the honors were shared equally from the wee tot
to his or her more adult compatriot. It was a happy
thought of parading Santa Claus* store of toys, with the
kiddies representing everything from the bouncing rub
ber ball to the legendary folk-lore “Brier Rabbit,”
Jumping Jack, wee bears *n everything.
Dainty little fairies flitted hither and yon upon the
stage just as if they had stepped from the heart of some
fragrant flower, while the entire galaxy of allegorical
characters came and went as a brilliant panorama of
“Kris Kringle’s” Christmas Eve parade.
FILIPINOS SHOW
INDIFFERENCE TO
THOMPSON REPORT
SOME MANIFEST DISAPPOINT
MENT IN FAILURE OF
INDEPENDENCE
MANILA, Dec. 27. (JP)—Reaction
*to the Thompson report on the whole
is one of indifference for postponing
independence for the islands. Sena
tor Sergio Osema, referring to the re
port of friction between Filipino lead
ers and General Wood, said: “It is
a most significant statement."
STOCK RUCHES RECORD
RICH LEVEL NEW YORK
NEW YORK, Dec. 27. (^P)—Texas
Pacific Land and Trust stock is the
first issue to sell on the exchange
f &bove $2,000 per share. Fewer than
100 shares changed hands. During
the morning session the price mount
. ed to $1,800 and closed at $2,040. Ear
ly this year it was quoted at from
$5 to $10. Discovery of potash and
increases from mineral and oil leases
stimulated the demand. Only $2,000,
000 of the stock is outstanding. The
previous high record was $105.75 for
Atlantic refining company before the
declaration of a 900 per cent dividend
in 1922.
URGES ABOLITION XMAS
LONDON, Dec. 28. (/P)—George Ber
nard Shaw issued an article urging
abolition of Christmas as a nuisance.
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While the kiddies were half wrapt
in the spell of Santa Claus, they were
not alone, for the audience responded
repeatedly with salvos of applause as
some especially alluring tit-bit of
childish talent gave cause for expres
sion of approval.
The vaudeville features were finish
ed in every detail, allowing of flashes
of talent as pleasing as they were
surprising. What began as “flat”
turns, developed into finishes that all
brought the big audience to its feet,
one startling surprise following ano
ther with such rapid recurrence as to
keep the spectators on the qui vive
and hungry for more.
It was a glorious Christmas Eve,
with the big Seward familly ranged
about the fireside and reveling with
the kiddies in the joys that showered
down like autumn leaves clothed in
gdden tints, and bringing treasured
memories of other golden days when
all were young and felt the same
thrills which stirred the hearts of the
happy childhood on the stage.
KETCHIKAN, Dec. 27. (/P)—Friends
said that Thornton who will return
to Seattle to face indictment, report
ed that his attitude is that regardless
of any talk he has nothing to fear. He
operates a roadhouse and a radio
broadcasting station nearby. He ran
a dance hall in Seattle during the
Brown administration.
NEW YORK, Dec. 28. (IP)—All ter
minals were thronged with incoming
and outgoing holiday travelers with
three quarter^ of a milion people jam
ming the terminal.
NICARAGUA OFFICIAL DECLARES
THERE IS NO CAUSE FOR
WORRY
WASHINGTON, Dec. 27. (£>)—'The
State department announced that
American marines and sailors had
landed “without incident” at Puerto
Cabezas, Nicaragua, to protect United
States and foreign lives anr property.
Doctor T. S. Vaca, representative of
President Saca of Nicaragua, charged
that the movement was armed inter
vention undertaken during a congres
sional recess to avoid investigation.
“There are no American lives or prop
erty endangered at the zone of land
ing,” said Vaca.
GENE TUlElf
EIGHT CHIP .
NEAR COUNT
RESCUED BY HUMAN CHAIN AF
TER PLUNGING THRU ICE*
IN MAINE
ROCKWOOD, Maine, Dec. 27. (JP)~
A human chain of three companions
rescued Gene Tunney, world’s cham
pion heavyweight fighter, who plunged
into Moosehead lake were the watei
was at least 100 feet deep when he
lost his footing in attempting to leai
a treacherous ice wrinkle on a hike tc
Rockwood to attend mass. Rushing
to the spot where Tunney descended
one of the trio seized him as he wa:
struggling in the water while others
joined hands and soon had him baei
on the ice. He said “That’s the clos
est call I ever had. I’ll never forgei
this Christmas.”
AS CAR LEAVES ROAD
SAN RAFAEL, Calif., Dec. 27. (ff)—
Miss Peggie Hawes, aged 32, secre
tary of an oil company official, while
driving at night from San Franciscc
to Napa, carrying three other young
women, tried to brush the dust from
her speedometer, the car leaving the
road and overturning, pinning her in
four feet of water. The others es
caped. The body and a number ol
presents floated to the surface when
the car was lifted.
FORTY ON S. S. ALASKA
SEATTLE, Dec. 27. <£>)—'The S. S,
Alameda sailed for the North Satur
day morning carrying 40 passengers,
Seward reservations were Mrs. E. R,
Pilgram, C. Sladelman, Mrs. J. Miller,
Mr. and Mrs. John Ellis and son and
four steerage.
AMERICAN LEGION MEETING
American Legion meeting tonight at
8 o’clock at the Seward Grill. Instal
lation of officers. All members are
urged to attend. Visiting members
welcome.
Higher-Ups Enmeshed
In Dragnet Sweeping
Seattle’s Mule Corral
AMONG INDICTED IS J. H. SHATTUCK, SOMETIME
POLITICIAN, CHURCH WORKER, SHERIFF, LEG
ISLATOR AND PAROLE OFFICER—CLAIMED HE
WAS FIXER FOR ARRESTED BOOTLEGGERS
Tom DF eo ARRESTS OUT OF 160 INDICTED IS STATED
Former Captain of Police and Proprietor of Hotel Among
Indicted Now in Vancouver, B. C., Face Extradition
Proceedings—Discovered Previous Indictments Not
Acted Upon
SEATTLE, Dec. 27. (/P)-—Verification of all forecasts
of indictments of higher-ups is seen in the case of J. How
ard Shattuck, Seattle politician, church worker and form
erly the fighting sheriff of Kitsap county, a member of
the Legislature and parole officer, who is held in $3,000
bond. Bootleggers are reported to have made affidavits
that Shattuck is involved in offers to fix cases when the
federal agents arrested them.
Sixty have been arrested of the 160
indictments returned Wednesday. W.
E. Craw, former captain of police at
Everett ,and Rex Hall, former pro
prietor of a hotel at Everett, are in
dicted, but are In Vancouver, B. C. It
is declared that proof will be submitt
ed in the extradition proceedings to
show that Hall bought a hotel in Van
. couver.
Craw is slowly recovering from an
operation and was near death a month
: ago. Students of a two-year series of
. federal liquor and grand jury reports
here cited the fact that there was
, failure to press charges against about
200 indictments made May 12, includ
. ing Lieut. Comdr. James Hale Strong
.! of the navy. Sheriff Gookins of Is
land county and some of those indict
ed may be reindicted in the December
session of the grand jury just held.
Others are expected to appear as gov
ernment witnesses.
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NINE COPS SUSPENDED
SEATTLE, Dec. 27. (JP)— Nine of
the ten policemen indicted by the
grand jury have been suspended.
Chief Searing said that Lieutenant
Comstock was not suspended, but
was relieved.of his duties for 30 days
last spring when he was indicted in
a liquor conspiracy case. The pres
ent indictments include virtually the
same charges.
68 BLUE FOXES
MAKE GETAWAY
ANAOKA, Minn., Dec. 27. (ff)—Six
ty-eight blue foxes of 72 which arrived
from Alaska for a Minnesota’s phy
sicians’s farm escaped from their tem
porary quarters. They pushed away
a loose board in the farm granary
where they were housed.
FORMER CONGRESSMAN DEAD
TACOMA, Dec. 27. (JP)—Former
Representative in Congress Stanton
Warburton, aged 71, died Friday in
Boston.
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CITIZENS ASKED TO HEAR SEW
ARD MEMORIAL DISCUSSION
Citizens are asked to make special
efforts to attend the Chamber of Com
merce luncheon tomorrow at noon at
the Seward Grill at which time regu
lar business will be waived and the
entire hour devoted to discussion of
the Seward Memorial and its organi
zation. Preliminary details have been
worked out and will be offered for ap
proval at the meeting. As on former
occasions a plate charge of 50 will be
made.
The importance of having a good
representative attendance cannot be
stressed enough in view of the fact
tha erection of a memorial to for
mer Secretary of State Seward, who
purchased Alaska for the United
States from Russia, means consider
ably to the city. Every member
of the chamber is expected to be pre
sent, as has been stated, but it is
very important the general public be
also present.
WHEN ISLE THE WORLD
LOVES WITH A LOVER
That the “world loves a lover” is
not a myth but at uncertain times re
ceives confirmation in various ways,
was evidenced Friday evening when
the radio operators aboard the big lin
ers plying between Alaska and the
south, and who keep their fingers up
on the pulse of the world, halted long
enough to hear this message floating
upon the air and await its delivery:
“I love you dear Alena.”
Nobody but a misanthrope would
have jammed the air at this moment,
and they didn’t. Rather the message
flashed back from a thousand points:
“We love you Alena, because you love
him."