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VOLUME XXIII. NUMBER 59. SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, March 12, 1928.
PRICE TEN CENTS
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WORLD SEALERS 1
FOR TO COME !
SEATTLE APRIL
TEN MODELS FROM NEW YORK
BE FEATURE CONVENTION;
FUR SALE AUCTION
SEATTLE, March 12. (£>)—National
far dealers will hold their annual con
vention in Seattle on April 24 to the
27th inclusive. David C. Mills of New
York, director general, will be in at
tendance as will other officers of the
big organization of principal fur men
of London, Paris, Berlin, and other
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4 European cities,.
Fur buyers from Ottawa, Quebec,
Toronto, New York, Boston, Chicago
and other cities will be present at the
annual convention which will be the
largest of its nature in the history of
the west and which will be the fore
runner for making thos city one of the
biggest fur centers in the world.
Seattle fur men declare Charles
Gray, designer and style director of
the Fur Garment Manufacturers As
sociation of New York, will bring 10
models to conduct a style show which
will be ilie feature of the gathering.
The Seattle Fur Exchange will put on
a fur sale beginning April 25.
fflOTHEH NAVAL OIL
comky looms
INVOLVING TITLE
STANDARD OIL COMPANY OF
CALIFORNIA GIVEN PATENT
ED LAND BY STATE
WASHINGTON, Mar. 12. (#7—An
other oil reserve controversy is aris
ing out of the acts of Albert Fall will
be passed upon by the Supreme Court.
The Government today is being
granted a review in the case against
the Standard Oil Co., involving title
to part of the reserve No. 1 in Cali
fornia.
President Taft, in September 1912,
withdrew the land in question which
had been granted California for public
school purposes and made it a part of
the Naval Reserve No. 1.
California, however, had patented
the land to the Standard Oil Co. Sec
retary Fall, in 1921, decided in favor
of the oil company.
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LAND AT PALM BEACH
WEST PALM BEACH, Mar. 12. (/P)
—Charles Levine, Miss Mabel Boll
and Wilmer Stultz landed at 3:10
Friday afternoon, after a flight from
Havana, Cuba.
LEAD BY A LAP
NEW YORK, Mar. 32. (JP)—‘Teams
of Georgetti and Debaets Letourner
and Brocardo and Horan and Garri
son lead by one lap in the six-day
bicycle race at end of fifth day.
HiCKMUN 1ND HUNT ■
SENTENCED FOR FIFE
LOS ANGELES, March 12. (£>)—
Hickman and Huntt were convicted of
the murder of C. Ivy Toms but the
verdict carried with it the recommen
dation of life imprisonment for both.
! A half hour later the same jury, de
liberating on Hickman’s second plea
of not guilty by reason of insanity,
found him sane.
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KANSAS CITY, Mar. 12. (JP)—Ten- j
tative assignments to hotels of State j
delegations to the Republican Nation
al Convention is announced. A num
ber of rooms in various hotels have i
been designated to Alaska as well as |
two rooms in the Savoy hotel. .
AGREEMENT ENROUTE
BERLIN, Mar. 12. (/P)—Principal
; negotiators of improved Russo-Ger
1 man commercial agreement, have left
Berlin,, but tfrfee technical commit
tees were formed to level difficulties
now blocking way to solution.
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WALT HOWIER WINS
ENDICOTT TROPHY
FAIRBANKS DERBY
LOWER YUKON RIVER TEAMS
MAKE A CLEAN SWEEP OF j
ALL THE RACES
FAIRBANKE, March 12. (^—Wal
ter Ilollner of Galena won the Wen
dell Endicott trophy when he drove
his dog team over the 17 and three
fourths miles course in the fast time
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of one hour, nine minutes and 16 sec-j
m
onds. Dog men were amazed at the
time and declared it to be the fastest
on record in Alaska; and the race was
run over a hilly course thru a rough
and drifted trail.
Joe Stickman of Nulato was second;
his brother Fred was third. Joe’s
time was one hour, 13 miliutes and
two seconds. His brother’s time was
one hour, 18 minutes and 36 seconds.
With the women’s race on Sunday
the only remain^?, event, teams from
lower Yukon made a clean sweep of
all the races.
INVENTOR SHOCKED
WASHINGTON, Mar. 12. (/P)—Lest
I er Hendershot, inventor of so-called
fuelless motor, is under-going treat
ment for an electric shock, that left
him partly paralyzed, while experi
, meriting with the motor.
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OF THREE FOUND
DRIVER IS JAILED
KILLED AS THEY SLEPT; HATCH
ET, KNIFE AND ICE PICK
FOUND NEAR CORPSES
SAN ANGELO, Tex., March 12. (JP)
—'The discovery of the mutilated bod
ies of Mrs. W. J. Juergens, her daught
er Myrna 13, and Mrs. Juergens’
mother, Mrs. Rosa Schirra, in their
home here led to the arrest of a man
believed to be Newt Burns, the family
chauffeur.
The bodies were found yesterday
when a neighbor became suspicious.
All apparently were killed as they
slept. A hatchet, a large knife and
an ice pick was found near the bodies.
Burns was arrested at Sulphur
Springs several hundred miles away.
HELLO! IS THIS PARIS?
■ PARIS, Mar. 12. (£>)—New York
j called up Paris on the telephone, for
the first time, Friday. Call was only
| experimental, although entire sue- j
} 0'issful, and service will not be es- j
J tablished for several days.
a. press
JGSm&EnL_., ..
The title an estate of the late Field Marshal Haig of Britain
have passed to his only son, the ten-year-old lad shown above
with his sister, Lady Irene. The new Lord Haig comes into pos
session of Bemersyde Castle (below), traditional home of the
Haig clan in Scotland,
HIES, EDWARDS
F!S» CAMPAIGNS !
MRS. LANDES BASES CLAIMS RE
ELECTION ON HER PAST AD
MINISTRATION
SEATTLE, March 12. (/P)—Mayor
Landes and her opponent, Frank Ed
wards, retired theatre owner, wound
up their mayoralty campaigns with
downtown mass meeting while shock
troops of campaign forces went^on the
air over all radio stations in a frenzied
barrage which hoped to bring hesitant
voters in to their camps in tomor
row’s election.
Mrs. Landes based her claims for
reelection on her administration re
cord. Edwards promised a business
administration.
CARS SELL ABROAD
WASHINGTON, March 12. (JP)—
Foreign automobile buyers apparently
have out grown the idea of merely
buying a car in America; now they
want an expensive machine. Figures
of the Department of Commerce in
dicate that the higher priced cars
made the greatest gains in exports
last year.
NUMBER SIDE TRIPS ARRANGED
FOR SEATTLE ORGANIZA.
TIONS, 150 STRONG
SEATTLE, March 12. (/P)—Members
of the Alaska Committee of the Cham.
Men’s Businesl Club joined in an
ber of Commerce and the Young
nouncing an excursion to Southwest
ern Alaska next June, sailing June 2.
obtained for the cruise and will return
here 16 days later after visiting Ket
chikan, Wrangell, Petersburg, Juneau,
Skagway, Sitka, Cordova, Valdez, La
touche, Seward and Anchorage.
Special attention will be paid to
business contracts of trade friend
ships. Addis Gutmann, chairman of
the Young Men’s Club excursion com
mittee said it was planned to organ
ize a party of 150. An opportunity
will be given for a number of side
trnps and stops will be made at glac
iers and at other points of scenic in
terest. Thi$ year’s trip will be the
third to Alaska in which the Young
Men’s Club has participated.
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MELLON WILL FACE OIL COMMIT
TEE TOMORROW; BE ASKED
ABOUT $50,000
WASHINGTON, March 12. (^—Re
viewing the testimony before the Tea
pot Dome Committee Senator Robin
son, the Arkansas Democratic leader,
declared Will H. Hays had "subject
himself to the possible charge of per
jury”.
j ThS Democratic leader carried the
oil case before the Senate shortly aft
er it "was announced Secretary Mellon
would appear before the Oil Commit
tee. Tomorrow Mellon will be asked
about the $50,000 in the Continental
Trading Co., bonds sent him by Hays,
who was the former Secretary of the
Republican National Committee, and
which was refused by Mellon.
HISTORIC TOWN LOTS
WEYBRIDGE, Eng., Mar. 12. (/P)—
George’s Hill will probably be turned
into a suburban development and de
stroyed.
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EXPAND RICE CULTIVATION
HARBIN, Mar. 12. (£>)—Seeing the
success of Japanese rice farmers in.
raising cultivating Manchurian river
banks, Chinese capitalists are plan
ning to develop rice farming along the
waterways of the three eastern pro
vinces of Manchuria,