VOLUME XXIII. NUMBER 49. SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1928
PRICE TEN CENTS
MOTHER OF JACKIE
COOGAiy IS HIKED
IN DIVORCE SDH
WiFE OF JACK’S MANAGER SAYS
MOTHER INDUCED HUSBAND
VIOLATE VOWS
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 29. {/?)—'The
mother of Jackie Coogan, Mrs. Lillian
Coogan, lias been named as corres
pondent in a divorce suit filed by Mrs.
Corabel Bernstein, wife of Arthur
Bernstein, business manager of the
Jackie Coogan Picture Corporator^
The film juvenile star’s mother was
also made the defendant in a $750,000
alienation suit filed by Mrs. Bern
stein who charged Mrs. Coogan “mal
iciously gained the affections of Bern
-rstein and induced him to violate his
marriage vows.”
ANNAPOLIS, Feb. 29. (£>)—'The ap
piication of Herbert Hoover for plac
::g his name on the Republican pri
mary ballot of Maryland for Presiden
tial reference in the primary field
with the Secretary of State has been
filed.
A formal application and affidavit
filled out by Hoover was sent to the
Secretary’s office by J. Craig McLan
aran, Baltimore lawyer, who has been
-.elected as president of the Maryland
‘ Hoover for President” committee, re
cently formed. Hoover’s application
was the first to be filed in this state
by either party.
GODFREY GIN DECISION
DYED PAULINO IN ID SOUND
BOUT IN EOS ANGELES
WRIGLEY FIELD, Los Angeles,
Feb. 29. (jP)—George Godfrey, 236
pounds, took the 10 round decision
from Paulino, 192 pounds.
Paulino forced he fighting all the
way but referee Blake figured that the
terrific blows of the mammoth negro
outweighed the Spaniard’s attack.
Godfrey was slow in starting but the
Basque's rushing forced him into ac
tion by the fourth round.
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FOUR MARINES KILLED
MANAGUA, Feb. 29. (/p)—Four
American marines were killed and
nine wounded in an encounter with
Sandino rebels. Their names are un
known as yet.
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COMPLETES LONG TRIP
WASHINGTON, Feb. 29. _The
dirigible Los Aaigeles completed its
trip from Panama to Guacanyabo to
day and is moored at Patoka, the radio
said.
FUR SALE ENDED
SEATTLE, Feb. 29. (£>)—'The Fur
: Exchange completed the February
! auction with 1500 blue fox. The feat
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! ure offering for the best lot was $92.
150. Miscellaneous collections of rac
; coon, skunk, bear and civit cats, were
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: sold, practically, at market prices.
SEPALLA DEFEATED
BY MRS. RICKARD
WOMAN DOG MUSHER DEFEATS
ALASKAN MUSHER SEPPALA
AND BROTHER
POCONOMANTER, Penn., Feb. 29,
(#»)—Mrs. Elizabeh P. Rickard, Junior,
of Poland Springs, Maine, won the two
i day dog derby sled race with her team
| of Siberian huskies finishing ahead
’ of Leonard Seppala.
Mrs Rickard’s time for the 16-miles
was one hour, two minutes, three and
one-half seconds. Seppala’s ime was
one hour, six minutes, and that of his
! brother who was third, one hour, 10
minutes and 38 seconds.
ALASWliTE
BAWD COMPANY
! . GETS MORE TIME
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 29. (#•)—'The
I Alaska Antchracite Railroad Co., will
: be given two additional years to file a
; final map and definite location for the
StilhVater and Canyon Creek branches,
and three additional years to complete
constructipn of its main line and
branches.
Under bill the delegate’s measure
also would exempt the railroad com
pany from license tax during the per-;
iod of construction and for one year j
thereafter.
SIX PERSONS KILLED
AUTO, TRAIN, COLLIDE!
CENTERTON, Ind., Feb. 29. (£>)— j
Six persons were killed when the au
tomobile they were riding in collided!
with a Terrehaute Indianapolis and
Eastern interurban at the crossing,
here.
The dead are Mrs. Thacher and a
small daughter and Mr. and Mrs. John
Buckner and two daughters ages eight
and 10 years, all of Brooklyn, Ind.
“WELL FER GOODNESS SAKE!
BALTIMORE, Feb. 29. (>P)—Within
a few years women will go nude in
public with negligible effect on the
public morals in the opinion of Dr.
Knight Dunlap, John Hopkins Univer
sity psychologic expressed in an arti
cle in the current issue of the journal
of General Psychology.
STREETS TURNED INTO RIVERS
LANDSLIDE DESTROYS SEV
ERAL HOUSES: 3 DEAD
RIO JANEIRO, Feb. 29. (/P)—Twelve
persons have been killed as the re
sult of a heavy rain which approx
imated a cloudburst, police head
quarters reported.
Four and one-third inches of rain
fell in a comparatively short time. It
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poured down from the Rio hills in |
torrents and turned streets into riv-!
ers. •"
Two children tnd their mother were
killed in a landslide which destroyed
several houses and two other children
were killed when a house caved in.
MRS. LANDES LEADS
PRIMARY ELECTION
MORE 310 VOTES
SEATTLE, Feb. 29. (/P)—More than'j
3,000 votes ahead of her nearest op- i
ponent in the primaries Mayor Landes j
marshalled her forces for the final
drive to obtain re-election at the city
election on March 13. Frank Edwards,
retired theatre magnate, will run
against her in the finals
Mrs. Landes polled 28,711 votes; Ed
wards 25,488 votes; Dr. EdwBjn J.
Brown, 22,792, Mrs. Kathryn Miracle,
the other woman candidate^- polled
only 232 votes.
More than 92,000 votes, the highest
number in history, were cast.
Three councilmen, seeking re-elec
tion, topped other candidates. These
were Oliver Erickson, Otto Cash, and
L. Blaine, being in order first, second
and third. I. Shorrock, Ralph Nich
ols and F. L. Laube ran against them.
NARCOTIC BUREAU
ADMITS UP AGAINST
IT. ENFORCEMENT
WASHINGTON, Feb. 29. (^—Ad
mittedly up against it in enforcement
of the Harrison narcotic act the Fed
aral Narcotic Bureau started an un
denting drive against smuggling
which it regards as virtually the only
source of supply for illicit drugs.
The national survey disclosed there
were 100,000 addicts in the United
States using 420,000 ounces of drugs
mnually. Users of opium are small
in number, and nearly all of this
2omes tjjru Seattle.
REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING
Seward Shrine Club, Thursday Mar.
I. Same hour, same place.
WILL JOIN BROTHER
BARI, Italy, Feb. 2D. (/P)—Professor
Amended Nobile, brother of General
Nobile, will join his broher’s polar
expedition. He expects to embark for
the North in a Swedish ship soon.
ICE BREAKING SHIP
BEING EQUIPPED BY
FORTHCOMING AERIAL EXPEDI
TION TO NORTH POLAR RF.
GIONS SOON READY
SPEZIA, Italy, Feb. 29. (/P)—'The
ice breaking ship City of Milan, which
will be used as a base by General Um
berto Nobile’s forthcoming aerial ex
pedition to north polar regions, is be
ing outfitted here with all the latest
scientific instruments to pursue num
erous researches of a , geodetic geo
physix character.
He intends to make a hydrographic
study of Kings Bay, Spitzenbergen
and adjacent anchorages. The ship
will carry a crew of 150 and a small
detachment of Alpine troops. *
GREATEST AERIAL
SEARCH EVER MADE
PROVING USELESS
WASHINGTON, Feb. 29. (^>)—What
is described by navy officials as the
greatest aerial search ever made for
missing men was rushed with renewed
vigor as 41 aircraft scoured Chesapeak
Bay district for Lieut. T. G. Ellyson
and two companions
Virtually no clue of what happened
to the trio has been uncovered al
though the search has been pursued
relentlessly. The navy department is
slowly giving up hope that they will
be found.
MOFFIIT TUNNEL WILL
BE OPENED SUNMI
DENVER, Feb. 29. (IP)—'The Moffat
Tunnel penetrating six and two-tenths
miles under the rocky mountains and
the longest railroad bore on the North
American continent, will be officiially
opened at noon .Sunday with State of
ficials from Colorado and Utah head
ing a special formal program in honor
of he historic event.
The tunnel tfill cut off 27 miles
over the divide.
CLEGHORN KAYOES BLACKWELL
SEATTLE, Feb. 29. (IP)—Walter
Cleghorn, of Seldovia, kayoed Black
well, of Lagrande, Ore., in the second
round of a six round bout. This vic
tory places the Alaskan on par with
George Dixon as the leading North
western middleweight.
IIS LOGICAL CANDIDATE FOR THE
j PRESIDENCY ASSERTS DEM
CHAIRMAN
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■ ST. JOSEPH, Missouri, Feb. 29, (/P)
j—Declaring that Senator James Reed
has rendered to the people of the
I United States a life long service, for
i mer Governor Gardner, emporary
i
i chairman of the Democratic State
' Convention, championed him as the
logical candidate for the Presidential
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nomination.
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[ Gardner pointed to Reed as the
one man '\vho could “cure the ills” of
the National government by leading
the Democratic Party to victory.
BISMARK, N. D., Feb. 29. (^—Gov
ernor Lowden announced himself as a
candidate for the Republican Presi
dential nomination in a personal de
laration filed with the Secretary of the
State.
Lowden previously had been assur
ed a place in this State’s Presidential
preference ballot in the March 21 pri
number of petitions supplied last Sat
mary. Though the filing required a
urday his own declaration was not re
i quired by law.
BAKERSFIELD, Feb. 29. (JP)—A
series of earthquakes which shook the
oil fields and outskirts of the city was
revealed as one of the “all bark and
no bite” variety.
Although the shocks rattled doors
and windows and gradually increased
in violence until the last group, de
scribed as accompanied by a roar re
sembling an explosion, no material
damage was reported
GERMAN PROPERTY IN
II. S. TO BE RETURNED
WASHINGTON, Feb. 29. (/P)—Final
action by Congress on the alien pro
perty bill was taken wrhen the House
approved the report of the Senate
House conferees on the measure
which provides for settlement of
American claims and return of Ger
man seized property. The Senate ap
proved the report yesterday.