MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXII. NUMBER 47.
SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 1927.
PRICE TEN CENTS
MOTORBOAT ISKUM AT UNALAS
KA AFTER HAZARDOUS TRIP
FROM SEATTLE
DUTCH HARBOR, March 17. (IP)
—The motorboat Iskum arrived at j
Unalaska from Seattle and reports a
heavy gale and big seas swept three
lifeboats and part of the deck cargo
overboard. The crew had to chop ice
off the vessel every four hours to keep
from capsizing. The motorship Ev
erett Hays also reports encountering
a. storm. The ship’s master said
Slight earthquakes were felt along the
Aleutian Islands all winter, but no ac
tive volcanos were seen.
ELEVEN BILLS AND TWO
, MEMORIALS INTRODUCED
IN ALASKA LEGISLATURE
JUNEAU, March 17. (iP)—Eleven
bills and two memorials have been in
troduced in the Legislature. Most of
them are of a judicial nature. One
makes the penalty for automobile
stealing second degree larceny. Here
tofore joy riding in stolen cars was
oiot an offense, the thief merely pay
ing for the gasoline or damage.
House bill No. 1, which was intro
duced Thursday by Rep. Gaffney of
Nome, seeks to amend the present old
age allowance to pioneers arriving in
Alaska prior to January, 1903 to §30
per month and other eligible to pen
sion to receive §25 per month.
House joint memorial No. 1 (Sund
quist of Candle) seeks the endorse
ment of the Territorial Legislature to
jfne proposed extension of the Nome
Shelton tramroad authorized in a reso
lution thwice passed by the lower
House in Congress but which has
twice failed to pass the Senate.
CANDY FACTORY
GUNMEN GET
NEW YORK, March 17. (/P)—Five |
gunmen early today forced their way
rnto Anerbach & Sons candy factory,
bound three employes and blew the
safe in the office, looting it of"$22,000.
When the gunmen departed they left
the victims bound and gagged with
heavy wire.
RACE HORSE SHIPPED
TIA JUANA, March 17. (£>)—Sir
Harry, winner of the $100,000 Coffroth
handicap, was shipped by his owners,
the Seagram Brothers of Canada, to
B^jfknore to ,try *or $75,000 Preak
ness stake race to be decided in May.
$25,000 FOR NOME HARBOR
WASHINGTON, March 17. (/P)—The
War Department announced that the
rivers and harbors allotments for the
fiscal year, beginning July 1, aggre
gating $42,000,000, include $25,000 for
the Nome harbor.
CHliUESE TAKE SHOT
AT II. S. DESTROYER;
FI IS RETURNED
NO CASUALTIES REPORTED UPON
WARSHIP BUT NATIVE RANKS
SUFFER
SHANGHAI, March 17. (IP)—A
United States destroyer was fired upon
by the Chinese yesterday and the ves
sel returned the fire. There were no
casualties aboard the warship but re
ported casualties in the ranks of the
natives from machine gun fire of the
Americans give strength to the rumor
that the bluejacketsi found their mark.
Unconfirmed reports of fighting be
tween the Cantonese and the North
erners has given rise to the rumor
that the Cantonese are advancing on
their fronts in the drive for Shanghai.
INDUSTRIAL UNREST
SHANGHAI, March 17. (/P)—An Am
erican warship was sent to Kiangnan
docks, -where a number of American
vessels are building, when General Pi
Ssu Chen seized the docks for the re
pair of Northern warships. News of
the results of fighting on extended
battle fronts west and south of Shang
hai has not been received. A trusted
representative of General Pi, confer
ring with General Chang Kai Shek,
Cantonese commander, reported that
negotiations intended to permit the
amicable occupation by Cantonese of
Shanghai are under way. Twenty
thousand mill hands are affected by
the growing industrial unrest. Ter
rorists murders are showing increase,
the murderers invariably escaping.
YAWL “ARROW” STOLEN
SAN DIEGO, March 17. (/^—Be
lieved to have been .stolen by a man
who had been looking it over with the
announced intention of buying it, the
43-foot yawl rig “Arrow” is missing
from its moorings in San Pedro har
bor since last night, according to a re
port received by the officer in charge
of the naval patrol here.
MN MIEN WINS
CO;ED BEAUTY CROWN
VERMILLION, 3. D. March 17. (JP)
—Miss Rosebud Yellow Robe, Indian
maiden, is one of the six most beau
tiful co-eds at the University of
South Dakota, in the judgment of
Cecil B. DeMille, motion picture pro
ducer.
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CONTEMPT SENATE
REFUSED TO ANSWER FOUR
QUESTIONS PROPOUNDED BY
SENATE COMMITTEE
WILL FICHT¥ I FINISH
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JURY FINDS MULTIMILLIONAIRE
OIL OPERATOR GUILTY ON
EACH COUNT
WASHINGTON, March 17. (£>)—
Harry F. Sinclair, oil operator, was;
convicted of having been in contempt
of the Senate when he refused to an- *
swer questions of the oil committee j
during the investigation of the Teapot.
Dome naval oil lease. Justice Hitz |
will fix Sinclair’s sentence at not more
than 12 months in jail and a fine of
not more than $1,000.
Sinclair will unquestionably appeal
the case and fight his way through the
highest court this case as he has j
fought the civil suit brought by the
government for the recovery of the
Teapot Dome reserve. The multmil-!
lionaire oil operator was convicted for I
refusing to answer four questions j
propounded by the Senate public
lands committee three years ago upon
his sixth appearance in the oil investi
gation, which furnished a sensation at
the time. The jury found him guilty;
on each of the four counts in the J
indictment, each containing one of the
questions which he refused to answer.
The jury deliberated eight hours.
YOUTH IS CHOSEN AS
FATHER OF “SUPERMAN”
LOS ANGELES, March 17. (/P)— I
Russell Lloyd Alley, aged 15 years, j
is said to have been chosen by leaders j
of the sacred school of White Brother-j
hood to be the father of a superman,
it was disclosed today to the officers
who took him and his father into cus
tody, in connection with the strange
custom of the Brotherhood.
TIKES ON EARNING IS
BASIS OF FARMERS' PLAN
INDIANAPOLIS, March 17. (IF)—
Indianana farmers have a very .def
inite plan for tax reduction, which in
some cases will halve their assess
ments.
Their own tax measure has passed
the senate and is before the lower
house of the state legislature, and
wiht a three-fourths majority in the
senate and two-thirds in the house
the farm group has announced its
intention to pass the measure over
the state tax hoard’s objections and,
if necessary over the veto of Gover
nor Ed. Jackson.
3,274 LOST IN QUAKE
j TOKIO, March 17. (£>)—'The death
i toll of the earthquake which shook
Japan was set at 3,274 by the Home
i
Minister yesterday. Damage amount
ed to about $50,000,000 or 100,000,000
yen.
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SON OF FLOUR DEALER BEAT
CHILD TO DEATH WITH HAM
MER-PLEADED INSANITY
CHICAGO, March 17. (£>)—After less
than three hours deliberation a jury
convicted Harold J. Croarkin of the
murder of six-year-old Walter Schrflidt,
whom he beat to death with a ham
mer, and fixed Croarkin’s punishment
at life imprisonment. The State con
tended that Croarkin, aged 26, the son
of a flour dealer, was sane when he
beat the child to death on December
17, after attempting to mistreat him,
and demanded the death penalty. The
defense plea was insanity.
CHITS PROBATION PLEA
| OF “DOCTOR” COOK
_
SERVING 14-YEAR TERM AT LEAV
ENWORTH— FINAL ACTION UP
TO COOLIDGE
FORT WORTH, Texas, March 17.
(JP)—Judge James C. Wilson granted
!a probation plea to Dr. Frederick A.
Cook, explorer, serving a 14-year
term in Leavenworth penitentiary for
using the mails to defraud. Parole is
also sought, but the matter must go
to the president for final action.
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UK FISHING VESSEL
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SAN DIEGO, March 17. (IP)—Two
members of the San Diego fishing
colony were drowned and the 60-ton
fishing schooners “M. K. 1” and “In
vincible were sunk as the result of a
collision between the two vessels 45
miles south of Point Loma, at' 2:45
o’clock yesterday morning.
NOVELIST SAYS SPAIN
ME FIT TO LIVE IN
HONOLULU, March 17. (£>)—Gov
erneur Morris, visiting Honolulu,
confided that his next book would
deal with an American boy growing
up in Spain.
“Spain is the only country left in
the world fit for a man to live in,”
he remarked en route to the Anti
podes to fish. Hawaii lacks the old
romance of the South Seas, he added.
WILKINS'FLIGHT TO
BiHOWIS DELAYED;
YOUNG PLANE FOUND
NOEL WEIN MAY JOIN EXPEDI
TION — ANCHORAGE PLANE
UNDAMAGED
FAIRBANKS, March 17. (£>)—Delay
in assembling planes necessitated
postponement of Wilkins* hop-off
which was scheduled for Thursday. It
will probably be Monday before the
planes get away. Weather conditions
continue unfavorable with snow fall
ing and low visibility. Noel Wein,
Fairbanks operator, returned from the
States, will likely join the Wilkins
party.
A message to the News-Miner from
A. A. Bennett said Young’s plane was
found by a mail carrier at Kaltakaga
mut, undamaged but abandoned.
Young, it is believed, sought refuge in
a nearby road house.
GUARD MANILA PAPER
MANILA, March 17. (^P)—-Armed
men are guarding the Manila Times,
an American newspaper following an
attempt last week to burn the build
ing. The paper has incurred the
wrath of the politicians by criticizing
the government.
PORTUGESE WORLD FLIER
PERNAMBUCO, Brazil, March 17.
(^P)—Major Surmento Bieres, Portu
gese aviator, arrived at the island of
Fernando, due north off the Brazilian
coast at 10 o’clock this morning, hav
ing flown across the Atlantic ocean
on a 90-day world circling flight. He
left Dissagos Island, near Bolama,
Portugese Guinea, at 6 o’clock last
night.
SELECTED COMPETE met
SAN DIEGO, March 17. (£>)—Byron
Woods, aged 16, the youngest airplane
pilot in San Diego, having been ten
hours in the air, has been designated
to represent San Diego in an air race
between young pilots of the west coast
from San Francisco to Boston in the
early summer.
TEXAS WOMAN HEADS
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas, March
16. (JP)—A long established prece
dent was broken in Corpus Christ!
when Mrs. Lorine Jones Spoonts,
who believes that an individual “debt
to a community can only be paid by
the public service,” was elected pres
ident of the Chamber of Commerce.