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VOLUME XXII. NUMBER 59. SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 1927.
PRICE TEN CENTS
CoalMine Explosion.
LEAGUE PAID COSTS
WHEELER IS GENERAL COUNSEL
FOR ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE;
GREAT SLUSH FUND
WASHINGTON, March 30. (/P)—
C. C. Hinckley, national secretary of
tion Amendment, charged thit Wayne
tion amendment, charged that Wayne
fU Wheeler is paying the expenses of
the House committee to enable it to
issue propaganda for the benefit of
the Anti-Saloon League. The charges
were made in a formal statement
prompted by the announcement of
Representative Hudson (Republican
of Michigan) that he favored a Con
^ gressional investigation of the asso-;
W ciation and its financing. Hudson is i
chairman of the House alcoholic liquor j
traffic committee. Hinckley said: “It'
has just been disclosed that Wheeler, |
who is general counsel for the Anti-j
Saloon League, has been paying the'
expenses of the committee on alco-j
holic traffic to enable it to issue propa-'
ganda for the benefit of the league, j
All money collected by the league has j
been used for the single purpose of
vcontrolling politics either directly or
indirectly. The league has never ac-|
counted to the public or contributors
for more than a mere fraction of the:
great slush fund it used.”
FOUR KILLINGS DOUR
JOSEPH CLEMENTS LOST JOB,'
FAMILY WOULD STARVE,
SHOOTS BOSS |
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CHICAGO, March 30. (/P)—Four men]
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were shot and killed within an hour, ^
making 11 children fatherless. Joseph'
Clements, who lost his job and thought
his family would starve, killed his for
mer employer, John Plumbo, a con
tractor and his assistant, Jack Prete,
while the pair were at the homes with
their children. Clements /was killed
a battle with the police. A fourth !
man, Frank Plumbo, who is not relat
ed to John, was shot in an automobile'
by an unidentified assailant.
COLD SPRING DAY N. Y.
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NEW YORK, March 30. (/P)— b:
Spring was ushered into New York b
with the coldest weather of the
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week. The minimum temperature
was 37 and the maximum was 44. j
^ snow storm rode into Chicago on : ei
a strong wind but warmer -weather is | d«
in sight. 2?
WATSON SAILS FOR ALASKA
SEATTLE, March 30. (£>)—'The S. S.
Admiral Watson sailed at 9 o’clock
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! this morning and carried 137 passen
gers, including Alma Boyle, Leonard
Seppala and eight steerage passengers
!for Seward.
STRING TIED TO
BUYING FIVE-JIGRE
TRACT OF LAND
RULE ONLY APPLIES TO “PUBLIC”
DOMAIN NOT TO FORESTRY
RESERVATIONS
JUNEAU, March 30. (£>)—'The five
acre homesite law applies only to the
public domain. I anticipate that the
Secretary’s instructions will provide
that areas not to exceed five acres
will be eliminated from the national
forests on application after permanent
homes, to the exclusion of homes else
where, have been established under
special use permits'issued by the local
forest supervisor. FLORY.
The above reply was received to a
cablegram directed to the Forestry
Bureau at Juneau, to ascertain if the
bill recently passed by Congress
would be applicable to all of the pub
lic domain or merely that held under
the jurisdiction of the Department of
the Interior.
Under Mr. Flory’s interpretation
it is possible for the Forestry Bureau
to permit of such purchase provided
no other home is maintained. Thus
anyone desiring to acquire a site for
a summer camp or other uses, while
maintaining their residence, say in
Seward or other town, would not come
within the scope of rights granted tin
ier the Forestry ruling.
The only recognized privilege thus
;ar is under the common practice of
squatting, which does not give the
egal right of excluding others from
respassing into a cabin or house, be
cause the builder is technically a
respasser.
PACIFIC JOIST LEAGUE
Hollywood 1, .Sacramento 10.
Missions 2, Oakland 3.
Portland 2, San Francisco 5.
Seattle-Los Angeles—rain.
P«IME MINISTER HURT
MADRID, March 30. (/P)—Prime (
Iinister Primo De Valera was badly .
ljured when he tripped over a waste
asket and cut a three inch gash in '
is head. j
DEBATE LIQUOR QUESTION
NEW YORK, March 30. (/P)—Clar
tice Darrow and Wayne Wheeler will i
ebate the liquor question here April \
DESPONDENT TAKES POISON
SAN FRANCISCO, Marfeh 30. (£>)—
Believed to have been despondent
over a love affair, Mary Whalen, 25,
attempted suicide by taking poison.
CONTRIBUTES $2,000,000
NEW YORK, March SO'. (TP)—J. P.
Morgan has given $2,000,000 for the
study of sleeping sickness it was
announced.
LAETARE MEDAL CONFERRED
NOTRE DAME, March 30. (TP)—1The
Laetare medal is conferred on Mar
garet Angelin who is the ninth wo
i
man so honored and second in the
theatrical profession.
JURY IS DISCHARGED.
CHlGAGCty March 30. (TP)—’The
jury hearing evidence in connection
with the furniture trust case was
discharged after they had been dead
locked for 95 hours.
OFFICERS WILL BE GUILLOTINED
BERLIN, March 30. (TP)—“Former
German officers have been sentenced
to death for slaying Sergeant Wilms
in 1923. Members of the black reiehs
wehr will be guillotined.
NEW AIR SPEED RECORD
BERLIN, March 30. (TP)—A new
record was established by a German
aviator who covered 1,641 miles in
22 hours 11 minutes, making an av
erage speed of 77 1-10 miles per hour.
LEVEE BREAKS ON MISSISSIPPI
MEMPHIS, Tenn., March 30* (TP)—
Two thousand persons fled from the
lowlands of Laconia Circle when the
Mississippi levee broke inundating
15,000 acres.
AMERICAN CATHOLIC MISSION
FUCHOW LOOTED — PRIESTS
COMPELLED FLEE
SHANGHAI, March 30. (£>)—'The
United States destroyer John D. Ford
-n route to Nanking was fired upon
)y Nationalist troops. The destroyer *
’eplied with four-inch guns and ma
chine guns. It is reported that the
American Catholic mission at Fuchow j
v^as looted and the priests fled. Forty- ^
ieven Americans and Britishers leav
ng Nanking were stoned by mobs.
UNDER CONSTANT FIRE
SHANGHAI,. March 30. (IP)—Re- a
noval of Americans from the Yangtse s
alley continues with constant firing 1
ipon detroyers and other refuge ships, t
Hundreds Miners
Said Be Entombed
Eight Known Dead
LITTLE HOPE HELD FOR ENTOMBED MEN EX
PERIENCED MINERS STATE — GAS TOUCHED
OFF PRESUMABLY BY MINER’S OPEN LIGHT;
BRICK BUILDING 200 FEET FROM MINE EN
TRANCE SHATTERED—TWO WORKERS TAKEN
FROM 1,500-FOOT LEVEL BADLY BURNED
HARRISBURG, Pa., March 30. (/P)—An explosion
so terrific it blew down a two-story brick office building’
200 feet from the mine entrance of the Pennslvania Coal
and Coke company mine No. 3, at Ehrenfield. Some of
the office employes were injured when the building col
lapsed. Experienced miners said because of the force of
the explosion little hope is entertained for the entombed
men. Volunteer crews from the entire Cambria field
have rushed to Ehrenfeld.
DISPATCH RESCUE CAR
HARRISBURG. Pa., March 30. (/P)
—It is reported about 500 miners are
entombed by an explosion in the Penn
sylvania Coal and Coke company No.
3 mine, at Ehrenfeld, Pa. A rescue
car has been sent to the mouth of
the wrecked mine.
GAS ACCUMULATED IN POCKET
HARRISBURG, III., March 30. (/P)—
Eight miners are reported killed by
a gas explosion in the Saline County
Coal Corporation^ mine No. 2, at Led
ford, five miles south of here. The of
ficials said gas accumulated in a pock
et near the entry and was touched off
presumably by a miners’ open light.
Two workers 1,500 feet from the ex
plosion are the first to be brought out.
They were badly burned and injured
by flying timbers.
ami TO DOIT THE
TERRITORY FOB SESTTLE
SEATTLE, March 30. (/P)—Leonard
Seppala announced that he is leaving
:he North to make his home in Seat
tle. He will bring his wife and daugh*
;er out early next winter. He is a
passenger for Seward on the Admiral
tVatson, and will make an overland
ourney to Nome with his 14 dogs.
CLOTHIERS SEEK NAME
LONDON, March 30. (/P)—Clothiers
tere are seeking a new name for plus
ours. -
“PEACHES” WILL TRY AGAIN
NEW YORK, March 30. (/P)—
Peaches’’ Brownings’ lawyer has
sked the court for additional coun
el fees of $5,00.0. The plea is be
eved to preface an appeal for separa- <
on.
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CONDITION NOT SERIOUS—UN
DERWENT MINOR OPERATION;
DRIVING ALONE
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| DETROIT, March 30. (IP)—Henry
;Ford is in a hospital for treatment for
injuries received in an automobile ac
cident Sunday night. He underwest
a minor operation. Members of the
Ford organization issued an official
statement saying that while driving
a Ford coupe along, the manufacturer
was crowded off the road and down a
steep embankftient into a tree. The
facts were withheld from the public
because of the libel suit in progress,
and ‘unavoidable and unfounded in
ferences that may be drawn.” His
condition is not serious.
ARCTIC PLANES IRE HEADY
TO HOP OFF FROM BARROW
FAIRBANKS, March 30. (IP)—The
planes Detroit News No. 1 and No. 2
are at Point Barrow in good order
ready for flights into the unexplored
Arctic. Joe Crosson, pilot of the
super-swallow plane, arrived at Kot
zebu late yesterday. It is not known
svhether the plane will continue to
SToine or return direct to Fairbanks.
QUAKE SHAKES CORDOVA
CORDOVA, March 30. (IP)—An
;arthquake shook the radio station'
mildings. It lasted five seconds.