COAST TERMINAL FOR THE ALASKA RAILROAD
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS/.X/ %JcUj , O' &~ ]M
VOLUME XXI. NUMBER 296.
SEWARD ALASKA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1926.
PRICE TEN CENTS
America Was Fooled
4 Scrapping Big Ships
Says Chairman Butler
CHAIRMAN OF HOUSE NAVAL AFFAIRS COMMIT
TEE ARRIVES AT CONCLUSION UNITED STATES
BEEN MADE FOOL OF WHEN LEARNED OTHER
NATIONS HAD BUILT MORE SHIPS THAN THEY
800,000 TONS OF GOOD U. S. STEEL HAS BEEN WASTED
Butler Now Realizes That Nations, Like Individuals, W!ll
* Continue to Be Governed by Force in the Future—All
United States has Received has Been Appreciation of
Generosity
WASHINGTON, Dec. 24. (/P)—America was fooled
into scrapping hastily while other signatories of the 1922
arms treaty pact violated the spirit of the agreement by
♦ building more ships than they discarded, Chairman Butler
of the House naval affairs committee wrote in .the Army
and Navy Journal. He says: “I have come to realize
that nations, like individuals, always have been governed
by force and will continue to be so governed in the future.
HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
START HOLIDAYS, PARTY
Yesterday afternoon the High school
students celebrated the beginning of
the Christmas holidays by giving a
party. The program, consisting of
recitations and songs, began at 2
o’clock and ended at 3:15 with the
j distribution of presents from the
Christmas tree. Then came the long
looked for horde of refreshments of
sandwiches, cake, coffee and ice
cream; and how quickly those deli
cious things disappeared! By 4
o’clock most of the ■•students left for
their homes, prepared to enjoy a long
Christmas holiday.
{ COOLIDGE *WILL RUN
PARIS, Dec. 24. (JP)—Colonel George
Harvey quoted President Coolidge as
saying he would run for the Presi
dency if the Republican national or
ganization and voters wanted him.
LEIGH WADE IS HONORED
NEW YORK, Dec. 24. (JP)—For forti
tude and distinction on the army
globe flight Leigh Wade received the
Japanese medal of the Order of the
Rising Sun.
EDITOR WAS WABNED
DF PLOT TO KILL ill
KASCHOLK TOLD M’DERMOTT HE
WAS GOING TO SLUG AN
EDITOR
CANTON, Ohio, Dec. 23. (^—Wit
ness McDermott testified he warned
Millet, the editor whose slaying fol
lowed a crusade against lawlessness,
of a plot against him. He denied
knowing Ben Rudner, co-defendant,
and testified that he went with Steve
Kasholk, the state’s chief informer,
to Massillion, from Cleveland, on July
8 at the latter’s invitation. Kascholk
told him he was going to “slug an
editor.”
Having succeeded in inducing nations
to destroy some 30 great ships, I sup
pose the friendly relations had begun;
that when America sank 800,000 tons
of good steel those other -nations ap
‘ predated the generosity expressed in
our willingiess to sacrifice, but when
I learned in the past week that those
other nations had built more ships
than they sad sacrificed, I began to
conclude that America had been
fooled.”
NO PAPER TOMORROW
In observance of Christmas day,
tomorrow, there will be no paper
published. The bank, the postof
fice, all government offices and
practically all business houses will
also be closed.
MAIL CLERK AMONG THOSE CON*
VICTED BY JURY IN WYO
MING
CHEYENNE, Wyo., Dec. 24. (/P)—A
jury convicted six men and one wo
man of robbing a Union Pacific mail
train August 13, near Rock Springs,
Wyo., of $320,000. Jack Madigan, a
mail clerk on the robbed train; Jack
Kearns, How'ard E. Barnett and John
Kamariotis were convicted on 11
counts; Theodore and Paul Sourlos
on six counts and Edna Nagley on one
count.
WALLA WALLA, Wn„ Dec. 24. (/P)
—J. W. Wilson died here yesterday.
He built the Hotel St. Michael in 1S97
and operated a hotel in Dawson, re
maining in the North for eight years.
He opened a restaurant here 15 years
ago.
THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS
Thruout the civilized world today the child-heart pul
sates under the sweetest fiction ever promulgated by man
—the arrival tonight of Santa Claus with his reindeer
drawn sled, laden with treasured gifts. And the child
heart will not beat alone, for there are memories of the
now grown-up children which will steal forth from the
past and parade in all the vividness of the happy hours
when Christmas brought them the same anticipations and
fanciful dreams. To those who wish to travel back fur
ther along the roads of time there comes the conscious
ness of the full significance of this day which marks the
coming of the great Law Giver upon whose precepts and
undying philosophies the world has been stimilated to its
present epoch of greatness, with the golden thread of
these laws interwoven thruout the fabric of our ma
terial and spiritual well-being.
There is a Santa Claus—a subtle something nomi
nated by modern nomenclature as psychology. We pre
fer to call it by its more generally understood and appreci
ated name—spiritual manifestation which, under the in
fluences of the festivities attendant upon celebrating the
birth of the Savior, creeps into every heart and brings
warmth and Joy.
Rushing Thru the Night
Fast Passenger Trains
Georgia Crash Head-on
- «
PALATIAL TRAINS OF SOUTHERN RAILWAY CON
VERTED INTO SHAMBLES WHEN THEY COL
LIDE HEAD-ON WHILE TRAVELING AT TER
RIFIC SPEED
Signal for Emergency stop Too Late to Avert Impending
Tragedy-Men, Women and Children Crushed to Un
recognizable Mass—Darkness and Rain Add to Horror
of Situation
ROCKMART, Ga., Dec. 24. (/P)—Eighteen persons
were killed and 29 seriously injured in a head-on collision
last night between the palatial train,, Ponce de Leon,
northbound between Miami, Fla., and Chicago and the
Royal Palm train, southbound. Railroad ofricials said it
is believed there are no more dead. All identified dead
are from the Eastern States.
ATLANTA, Dec. 24. (/p)— John Gil
lespie, former Detroit police commis
sioner, who led the rescue workers,
told the story of the wreck when a
remnant of the Ponce de Leon pas
sengers arrived. He told of dead men
hanging out of windows, decapitated
women, unrecognizable corpses and
the mutilated and injured.
“The crash came at 6:40 at night,”
said Gillespie. “Our train was mak
ing 50 miles an hour. I was in the
second car behind the diner. Every
person in the car was thrown to the
floor. The impact was terrific. The
train jerked, groaned and creaked.
There was a great crunching sound.
If the brakes on our train were ap
plied at all it was at the very moment
of the crash. I got out and a fireman
of a freight on a siding told me the
freight engineer signaled the Ponce
de Leon train to make an emergency
stop as it sped toward the southbound
train around a bend.
“The day coach was virtually driven
thru the dining car and telescoped al
most its entire length. The lights in
the diner were out, and because of the
darkness and a pouring rain it was
impossible to see inside. I gathered
two or three of the uninjured men,,
commandeered an automobile and
went to Rochmart for aid and re
turned. Under the light of flares
from two windows on the wrecked
diner I saw terribly torn parts of two
negro waiters, their bodies hanging
and their white coats smeared with
blood. From another window we
dragged the decapitated body of an
apparently middle-aged woman. Two
tots who had expected to greet Santa
Claus tomorrow were so badly crushed
identification will be almost impossi
ble.
“I saw a man still seated in a chair
at a table, apparently only dazed. I
got him out, and found that his body
had been severed just below the
waist..”
The diner was split down the mid
dle. It was of modern steel construc
tion. The railway company stated:
“The wreck was apparently caused
by the engineer of the Pon de Leon
train overlooking an order to take the
siding.’’
VANCOUVER, B. C., Dec. 24. (JP)—
The Morning Star said the Reindeer
Company, Ltd., capitalized at $500,000,
is a reorganization of an Alaskan
company to transfer a herd, including
4,700 cows and 300 bulls from Alaska
to the Great Slave Lake range be
| cause of the reported greater advant
| ages.
ESKIMO LAUGHS AT BELOW
ZERO WEATHER DENIER
DENVER, Dec. 24. (JP)—Ji-kig-yak,
| called Sam, from Kivalina, laughed at
the sub-zero weather. Sam lives in
an imitation igloo caring for reindeer
for a department store which broad
casted over KAO station that the
weather was much too w'arm for him.
TRIAL SET FOR FEBRUARY
WASHINGTON, Dec. 24. (JP)—'The
District of Columbia Sepreme Court
denied the motion to quash the Sin
clair-Fall indictments in which the
defendants pleaded not guilty. The
trial is set for February 2.
TWO KILLED. SEVERAL
BUSINESS BUILDING AND SIX
OTHERS DEMOLISHED I N
BALDWIN, N. Y.
BALDWIN, N. Y., Dec. ’4. (JP)—An
explosion wrecked a business building
and demolished six others, killing two
persons and injuring many, three crit
ically. Some of the buildings caught
fire. Unconfirmed reports were that
two children were burned. Reports
attributed the explosion to a gasoline
furnace under a still.