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VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 106.
SEWARD, ALASKA. TUESDAY, MAY 7, 1929.
PRICE TEN CENTS
JAPANESE PROPOSAL IS ADOPT
ED, THE PARIS CONFERENCE
ACHIEVED RESULTS
GENEVA, May 6, (IP)—The dis
armament commission adjourned
and the next move toward disarm
ament is awaiting the action of five
naval powers. The date for the
next meeting was left open with the
understanding it will be convened
anew when the naval nations an
nounce they have achieved enough
progress towards an agreement to
justify summoning what is expect
ed to be the last session of the com
mission before convocation of the
International conference for dis
armament.
The commission adopted the
Japanese proposal to postpone fur
ther consideration of the naval
chapter in the draft of the treaty
to permit direct conversations be
tween five powers.
In a valedictory address the
chairman of politics for Greece in
sisted the conference achieved re
sults. Hugh Gibson, American del
egate, told the commission it favor
ed speed consistent with a sound
and effective handling of the im
portant problems without jeopard
izing the successful conduct of the
work and entering precipitately on
discussions which all were interest
ed in but unprepared to discuss.
“NOW IS THE TIME TO BLOW
OUT MY WIFE’S BRAINS,”
ALLEGED STATEMENT
LOS ANGELES, May 6, (/Pi
Stains found on the lid of a trunk
of Leland Wesley Abbott. 33, who is
being held for investigation in con
nection with the “torso murder
mysterv” will tonight be examined
bv county chemists for traces of
human blood.
The trunk was discovered in the
United States forestry service camp
% north of here. Abbott denied any
knowledge of the young woman
found on the banks of the Los An
geles river a month ago.
Abbott was brought here after
reports of warehouse employes,
where he formerly worked, that
Abbott had said he was “going east
and now is the time to go out and
■ blow out the brains of my wife who
is living with another man.”
GLIDER DESIGNER AND
„ BUILDER IS INJURED
SANTA MONICA, May 6, (/P)—
Paul Chamberlain, builder of a
gilder is in a serious condition for
when the glider was being towed
by an autobobile launch it nose
dived when 25 feet in the air and
vas demolished. The accident was
caused by bumpy air and the tow
rope ripping loose a part of the
nose of the glider.
I
THOUSANDS OF INSANE
TERRIFIED OF FIRE
MORRISTOWN, N. J., May 6, (JP)
—Four thousand patients in the
New Jersey state hospital for in
sane were terrified by a fire which
burned part of the main building
from the right wing which was de
ftroly*»d.
One thousand, 40 men were re
moved to safety and quick work
saved all inmates from injury.
Many were removed with difficulty
yelling in frenzy. Six escaped but
four recaptured.
torn ECLIPSE OF
SUN OE VISIBLE
TONS OF INSTRUMENTS AND
MANY ASTRONOMERS IN
PHILIPPINES
MANILA, May 6, (JP)—The great
est group of astronomers ever to
come to the Philippines are now in
central island of the Archipelago to
ooserve the total eclipse of the sun
on May 9th.
Two groups of scientists from the
United States, one from Germany
and one from the Naila observatory
have established stations from
which to view the phenomonom.
Outside groups have brought tons
of instruments on the 50-50 chance
the sky would be clear. Scientists
nope to study the sun’s corona,
that little known body surrounding
the sun and present at all time but
can't be seen for the sun’s bright
ness, but in the eclipse it blossoms
forth like a brilliant flower. They
feel a further study might reveal
secrets of atoms, or the ultimate
structure of the universe.
CONVERSATIONS OVER TELE
PHONE MAY NOW TAKE PLACE
ON SPEEDING TRAINS
TORONTO, May 6, (/P)—The
I feasibility of a two-way telephone
! conversation from a moving train
to a stationary point, was demon
strated by the Canadian National
Railway.
The service will be made availa
ble shortly and telegraph wires on
the right-of-way will be used in the
system which was developed under
I t he direction of the Bell Telephone
[laboratories.
Radio waves carry the voice from
the railway car to the telephone
| wires right-of-way whence they are
[transmitted to a receiving point of
the svstem operative as long as
[the telegraph wires but not over
[200 feet from the track,
j Single wires will be strung in
| tunnels and other places where
telegraph wires are not available.
NEWSPAPERMEN SHOT
MING BERLIN RIOTS
BERLIN, May 6, (JP)—The num
ber of dead from the communists
disorders reached 27 deaths and
six wounded. Among the dead
is Charles MacKay, English news
paperman who was shot while
walking on a street contrary to
police orders.
Another slightly injured journ
alist was Paul Weymar. More than
150 were hurt in the three-day
rioting. The police believe the dis
orders have come to an end.
BANKER PASSES
NEW YORK, May 6, (>P)—John
H. Carl, president of the Rockville
Center National Bank, for the last
120 years, died in his 79th year.
COAST WINDJAMMERS ON LAST TRIP,
ALASKA
The Star of Alaska is making her last trip out of
the port of San Francisco to the salmon banks. Capt.
Carl Peterson ) inset) is her master.
PALO ALTO, ,Calif., May 6, (/P)—
;Three passengers in a monoplane,
piloted by Lieut. W. H. Brown,
firmer British ace, escaped only
: superficial burns when the plane
caught fire in air. Brown was bad
ly burned.
Th^u a signal from a passenger
Brown was warned of the fire along
the exhaust line and brought the
machine down to the field. Me
chanics began to work on the motor
vhen it backfired and burst into
frames but the passengers escaped.
The passengers were Mr. and Mrs. j
J. H. Shaw and Mr. Shaw’s mother
oi Palo Alao.
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COLORED YOUTHS
ARE NOMINATED
TO ACAOAIES
HAVE BEEN SEVERAL NEGRO
CANDIDATES PREVIOUSLY;
ONE GRADUATE
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WAvSHINGTON, May 7, (/P)—For '
the first time in years two negroes
were nominated to take entrance
examinations to the Annapolis
TTaval Academy and one to tiie
West Point Military School. They
were named by Representative Os
car Depriest of Illinois, republican,!
the only negro in congress.
The voung men are Laurence
Alexander Whitfield and Claude
Henson Burns for Annapolis and
Alonzo Souleigh for West Point. Ail
are of Chicago. If any or all fail j
tD pass the physical and mental!
tests alternates will be named.
There have been several negro
candidates for United States schools
in the past, notably Col. Charles
Young who graduated from West
point and after became a military
attache to Liberia. He died several
3 ears ago and was buried in Arling
ton cemetery. Other appointees
f ailed to graduate.
FIST THREE HEARS,
MAY BE UNCORD
BUFFALO, N. Y., May 6, (JP)—The
story of three slayings and a series
ot robberies covering a period of
three years, is related in the con
fession of a member of the “Big
Korney Gang” and has caused
police to redouble their efforts to
capture members still at large.
They hope to establish connec
tion in other murders about the
nation Two men and a woman
have been arrested when gangsters
killed one of their own number for
treachery.
SINCLAIR IN JAIL
WASHINGTON, May 7, (/P)—
Harry F. Sinclair entered jail to
serve three months for contempt
i in the senate oil case trial. His at
torney and brother accompanied
Sinclair who was nervous and ap- I
parentlv startled each time the:
j flashlight from a score of photo-!
graphers boomed.
FORMER ALIEN PROPERTY CUS
TODIAN SERVED LITTLE
MORE THAN YEAR
ATLANTA, Ga., May 7, (/P)—
Thomas Miller, former alien pro
perty custodian, is reported to have
been released on parole from the
federal penitentiary after serving
a little more than a year of the 18
months sentence for conspiracy to
defraud the government. •
At the prison the attaches said
they are not allowed to talk and
declined to confirm the rumor of
the release of Miller who was con
victed in New York in 1927 after a
spectacular trial in which he ac
cused jointly, former Attorney
General Harry Daugherty with
conspiring to obtain German own
ed property.
He was fined $5,000 but the jury
disagreed as to Daugherty.
ASK ABAD, Russian Turkestan,
May 6, (*P)—Earthquakes shook
the vast stretches of Samarkand
where it is reported a heavy toll
was taken.
Unconfirmed reports said 1,000
persons were killed in three Per
sian towns from four successive
tremors which brought down
houses and buildings in many of
the villages.
BETWEEN
SMS, HISII
WASHINGTON. May 7, (JP)—'The
establishment of an air mail service
between the United States and Al
aska was discussed with President
Hoover by Senators Bingham of
Conneticut and Moses of New
Hampshire.
As yet. no definite route has been
chosen for the new service wi\ich is
authorized by the amendment in
tne air mail law and approved by
congress at the last session.
JUNEAU, May 7, (JP)—Private ad
vices say the Nenana ice broke on
May 5 at 1:41 p. m. and 10 winners
will divide approximately $52,300.
Thev are Mrs. P. Chilecy, Francis
M. Cribb, J. Cribbs and Gil Shep
pard of Anchorage; Charles Harris.
Andy Novak and Harold Painter of
Seward: Jack Keating of Fish
creek: A. Chileris of Healy Fork; E.
M. Reynolds of Hyder and Jay F.
Kelly of Miller House.
A MAN AMONG MEN
DETROIT, May 6, (A*)—An
nouncement that former Senator
James Couzesn Jhad given $10,000,
000 for child welfare revealed he
had already given $7,000,000 for the
same cause.
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