FINAL PORT OF CALL FOR THREE
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VOLUME XXII, NUMBER 228.
SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19,1927
PRICE TEN CENTS
CURRENT REVENUE FROM BACK
TAX WILL GROW LESS NEXT
FEW YEARS
WASHINGTON, Oct. 19. (^—Treas
ury officials estimated the tax reduc
tion cannot safely exceed $250,000,000.
A high treasury official declared the
controlling factor for the 1929 cur
tailment will be the 1928 surplus es
timated between $550,000,000 and $600,
000,000. He said items such as Ihe
$170,000,000 payment from railroad
loans, $300,000,000 back taxes, $60,000,
000 farm loan bonds, and $27,000,000
war finance are included in this fi
gure.
The current revenue of only $250,
000,000, officials declare, from back
tax income will grow less in the next
few years.
SOUGHT BY COPS
PUPILS WILL BE FINGERPRINT.
ED IN AN EFFORT FIND THOSE
RESPONSIBLE
BAKERSFIELD, Oct. 19. (^—Of
ficials of the Kern Criminal Identifi
cation Bureau will fingerprint more
than a score of school children in an
effort to apprehend vandals who
wrecked the interior of the Weldon
school. Every window was shattered
paint was poured on floors and walls,
pages was torn out of a dictionary
and pasted on the walls, and a dozen
desks were torn from their fastenings.
Fingerprints show the vandalism was
the work of youngsters.
POLICE FIND BOMB
IN
NEW YORK, Oct. 19. (£>)— Final
check-up in New York’s tenement
-house bomb explosion revealed five
dead and 11 injured.
Police discovered an unexploded
bomb in the ruins of the building simi
lar to that used in an atempt to blow
up the subway, during the Sacco-Van
zetti disturbances, last- July.
SECOND EXPEDITION !
INTO TOE ARCTIC IS
PLANNED BY NOBILE
MILAN, Italy, Oct. 19. (£>)—Com
mander Nobile plans another expedi
tion into the Arctic it was learned at
a meeting called to make necessary
preparations for scientific expeditions,
one to Himalay, by the Milin section
of the Italian Alpine Club, and the
other to the Arctic by Nobile. Both
expeditions are scheduled for next
year in order to commemorate the
10th anniversary of war victory.
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WATER NOTICE
Water may be shut ofl' this evening
at 8 o’clock on Sixth street, including
the power plant, depot and the Stand
ard Oil plant.
Seward Water Supply
JUDSON ADAMS OF CORDOVA AND
W. P. SCOTT OF JUNEAU MADE
KNIGHT COMMANDER'S
j WASHINGTON, Oct. 19. (&)—The
Supreme Court of the Ancient accept
ed Scottish rite for the Southern Jur
isdiction conferred the 33rd degree
Inspector General Honorary on 226
members of the Masonic Order and
also elected 436 members Knights
Commander in the Court of Honor in
the States.
Those elected Knights Commander
from Alaska were Judson Adams of
Cordova and Walter Preston Scott of
Juneau; the Inspectors General for
'Alaska are Milson Seymour Dobbs of
Ketchikan and John Henry Dunn of
Juneau.
SUCCEEDS DEBS
NEWr YORK, Oct. 19. (IP)—'The elec
tion of Congressman Derger, Socialist,
; to succeed the late Eugene Debs as
chairman of the National Executive
Committee of the Socialist party, was
announced at Socialist headquarters.
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FRA1LI1F. KORELL
DEFEATS DEMOCRAT
THIRD DISTRICT
SUCCEEDS THE LATE MAURICE E.
CRUMPACKER, U. S. REPRE
SENTATIVE OREGON
PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 19. (£>)—
Franklin F. Korell, republican attor
ney, defeated Elton Watkins, inde
pendent democrat, by a vote of i
17,600 to 12,500 as United States rep
resentative from the Third Congress- j
ional district to succeed the late Mau
rice E. Crumpacker. Korell will have i
18 months to serve of the unexpired
term of Crumpacker.
YOUTH KILLS WARDEN
WHILE PARDON EMIOUTE
MEETS END GALLOWS
OLNUETZ, Moravia, Oct. 19. (£>)—
The criminal career of Martin. Lecian,
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19 year old Czecho Slavakia youth,
charged with the murder of seven
persons, was ended yesterday on the
gallows. Lecian had asked for and
was about to receive a pardon from j
President Msaryk. His appeal was
made on the grounds of ill health that
would soon result in death. While
his pardon was pending he killed a
warden of the prison.
MAKING LONG HOP
RIO JANEIRO, Oct. 19. (^—Avia
tors Costes and Lebrix hopped off for
Buenos Aires 1,140 miles from here.
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SURVEY TIN MINES IN TOFTY RE- j
GION; TO SPEND SIX WEEKS
FAIRBANKS DISTRICT
HOT SPRINGS, Oct. 19. (/P)—C. J.
Inder, representing a London engineer
ing firm, and Mr. Henderson returned
from a survey of placer tin claims
near Tofty. They were accompanied
by J. Spaulding, engineer and Mrs.
Charles Hellander, representative for •
the Lemon interests in the Interior.
Mrs. Howell, owner of a group of
claims and other large interests, and
party, will return to Fairbanks via an
airplane. The party are making
further investigations during the next
six weeks.
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EM CHILL WILL *
BE ROUSED AT ONCE;
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 19. (/p)—Bari '
Carroll will be released from Atlanta
penitentiary within a few days. Re- j
commendation of the parole board for
his release was approved by Attorney <
General Sargent and papers will be
forwarded to the penitentiary warden i
directing him to liberate the New
York theatrical producer.
This .picture shows members of the American Legion from Alaska on their
way to the Paris convention, leaving Seattle on the “North Coast Limited”
train of the Northern Pacific. The delegates left Seattle on the morning of
August 31, accompanied by Karl K. Katz, representative of the Northern
Pacific and also a member of the Legion. Mr. Katz is well knowjti in Seward,
and throughout the Territory in general, through his special attention to
Alaskans making trips in the States. He was a visitor in Seward on Monday
and is now in the Interior country resuming acqaintances with his host of
friends and attending to company business. If by chance one has not met
this fine gentleman turn to page two of this issue and look him over.
COOLIE ACCEPTS
MONUMENT MEMORY
GENERAL MEADE
PRESIDENTAL LAUDS CITY OF
GETTYSBURG; MONUMENT
LOCATED IN GARDENS
WASHINGTON, Oct. 19. (^—Ac
cepting the monument in memory of
General George Gordon Meade from
Pennsylvania on behalf of the Govern
ment President Coolidge lauded the
City of Gettsyburg as “responsible and
the reliable commander” one of whom
inspired confidence and could be trust
ed. The monument is in the Botani
cal gardens near the foot of the Caw
etaol.
President Coolidge said “the conflict
in which he took such an important
part has long since passed away and
the peace, which he loved, has come;
the reconciliation w'hich he sought is
complete. Loyalty to the flag he fol
lowed is universal and thru all this
shines his own immortal fame.”
STATES DICTATOR
GENERAL PRIMO DE RIVERO AND
SIR AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN
HOLD CONFERENCE
LONDON, Oct. 19. (£>)—General
Primo De Rivera, Spanish Dictator,
has given an interview which may af
fect ‘profoundly the whole course of
European Diplomacy. He reveals that
Sir Austen Chamberlain and himself
have discussed three projects of high
est importance. An Ango-Spanish
Entente cordiale is to be cemented
by a new treaty. The proposal that
Spain should cede her African pos
sessions to France in return for some
satisfactory arrangement, and lastly—
that under England’s tutelage Spain
should regain her place in the sun.
The plan is vie-wed as a step to a Med
iterranean League, including Italy, and
also as a union against Bolshevism.
INTERIOR BOIII CREWS
SAFE, HOT PICS
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HOT SPRINGS, Alaska, Oct. 19. (/P)
I—Uncertainty regarding the safety of
Capt. Hoelscher and the Northern
} Commercial Co., launch Agnes and
Danaco from the Iditarod was cleared
I wdth the arrival of Oscar Keturi from
the Danaco. The launches and crews
! are safe in a slough 30 miles below
here. Three men from both launches
arrived.
THE DIRECT PRIHRY
PORTLAND, Me., Oct. 19. (£>)—By a
rote of 35,000 to 19,000 Maine decided
to retain the direct primary and re
jected the referendum seeking return
to caucus and convention system in
nominating candidates.