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VOLUME XXII. NUMBE R237.
SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29,1927.
PRICE TEN CENTS
REPUBLICAN RULE
LEAVES PROBLEMS
SAME SEVEN YEARS
!
REPRESENTATIVE BOYLAN, DEM
OCRAT OF NEW YORK, RECITES
FEW FORGOTTEN FACTS
FORDULAC, Wis., Oct. 29. (JP)—
Seven years of Republican rule has
left most of the major problems of
government unsolved Representative
Boylan, Democrat of New York, told
the Democratic State conference.
He said, “President Coolidge and
his economy has been paper economy
and the unwise curtailment of govern
ment activities which must result
within a few years of larger appro
priations to make up for the failure
of the Coolidge regime. Our Repub
lican friends would answer that Cool
idge reduced the National debt and
cut taxes but let me remind them that
in the two years before Woodrow
Wilson left the Whitehouse, even
tho the war was a few years away,
the National debt had been cut by.
$2,000,000,000.”
He declared Wisconsin with its
“forward looking progressive spirit”
should have a President to its liking
in Governor Smith.
FISHING SCHOONER
AVALON IS RAMMED
BY LINER WILSON
SIXTEEN MEN DROWN; STEAMER
SEARCHED VICINITY FOR
HOURS IN HEAVY FOG
PROVINCETOWN, Mass., Oct. 29.
(jP)—The Gloucester Fishing schooner
Avalon, which carried a crew of about
19, sank off Cape Cod after being
rammed by the liner S. S. President
Wilson.
Three men were saved by the Wil
son which searched the vicinity for
several hours before proceeding on to
Boston. A heavy fog prevailed and
the schooner sank quickly.
WOMAN SEEKING OFFICE
OPPOSES DEATH PENALTY
JERSEY CITY, Oct. 29. (^—Oppo
nents of capital punishment will have
a staunch fighter added to their ranks
if Miss Anna B. Hogan, youthful law
yer, is elected to the New Jersey
House of Assembly.
Miss Hogan, who is a republican
candidate, promises to carry her fight
to the Legislature at its next session.
Life imprisonment, she maintains, is
the more human way of punishing
slayers and leaves the possibility of
correction in the event of a miscar
riage of justice.
BIG LEAGUER AFTER DEGREE
GREENCASTLE, Ind., Oct. 29. Iff)—
W. Guy Morrison, head baseball coach
at De Pauw University and a member
of this year’s Boston Braves, has en
rolled in the teachers college* of Colum
bia University, and expects to take
his master's degree in education there. >
MAKING TEST FLIGHT
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 29. (£>)—
The monoplane “Southern Cross” in
which four Australian fliers projjose
to make a trip to New Zealand soon,
took-off for a test flight to Santa
Monica where they will remain over
the week-end.
CAPTAIN MID CREW
RESCUED AFTER DAYS
IN SMALL DOIT
AMERICAN SCHOONER SORATION
C. FOS8 FOUNDERED HEAVY
SEAS OCTOBER 22
S. S. VOLENDAM, By Wireless to
the Associated Press, Oct. 29.—The
Captain and crew of nine men from
the American schooner Soration C.
Foss, of Boston, were rescued by the
Holland American liner Volendam en
route from Bermuda to New York.
The men were picked up from a
small open motorboat in which they
had been floating since October 22
when the vessel sank in heavy seas
about 200 miles northeast of Bermuda.
MOB? FOREIGN STATIONS
NEW /YORK, Oct. 29. (A3)—Only
200 foreign radio stations were listed
at the Department of Commerce in
Washington during 1924. The num
ber increased to 265 in October, 1925,
384 in October, 1926, and 420' in Aug
ust, 1927.
SEATTLE, Oct. 29. (IF)—'The S. S.
Aleutian, of the A. S. S. Co., sailed at
9 o’clock this morning carrying 78 pas
sengers. The Seward listing includes:
Josephine Boyer, Mrs. Mailloux, John
Lapdahl, August Bjeremark, Alex Mc
Kenzie, Leta Rivers and three steer
age. #
PLANS PARTY EARLY
CINCINNATI, Oct. 29. (£>)—Stephan
A. Gerrard, fruit dealer, is issuing in
vitations for a party three years hence
to celebrate the gQlden wedding anni
versary of the Gerrards. Already he
has invited 784 couples, he says he
has only started. He will take over
the ballroom of a Cincinnati hotel for
the affair.
ONE-HORSE ENGINE
Rill FUR. RELIC
BALTIMORE, Oct. 29. (JP)—Days
when a “one-horse power railroad en
gine” was really one horse power were
recalled by a strange looking contrap
tion at the centennial celebration of
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad.
The “engine” consisted of a tread
mill on wheels, tried out in the early
days of the road’s existance. The
horse supplied the power by running
on the treadmill. Behind was hauled
one small open car.
The treadmill car was not a start
ling success, according to railroad re
cords. One day the outfit crashed in
to *a stray cow and was ditched. It
was forthwith abandoned.
CHICAGO BIKER
ID WIFE KILLED
IN AUTO ACCIDENT
YOUNG BANKER BUILT UP TRE
MENDOUS DEPOSITS WITHIN
PERIOD 20 YEARS
CHICAGO, Oct. 29. (JF)—John
Mitchell, banker, and wife, were kill
ed in an auto accident.
Emulating his father in choosing
| banking as his life work, John J.
i Mitchell 'became president of a Chi
cago bank at 26, was acclaimed one
I of that city’s greatest financiers at
j 40, and was redalled from retirement
j after four years to head the second
| ranking bank in Illinois at the age
of 70.
| He was born Nov. 3, 1853, at Al
ton, 111., where he received a public
school education, and went with his
parents to Chicago when he was 20
years old. His first Job was as mes
senger for the Illinois Trust and Sav
ings Bank, and in six years he climb
ed to a high place in the councils of
the bank. In 1878 a financial flurry
all but wrecked the bank and when
it was tottering, its destiny was
placed in the hands of young Mit
chell. He instituted a series of re
form principles, duo. of which was
that no loans wot*’-to be made un
less cohered by full collateral.
On one occasion it is related that
P. D. Armour sent to the bank from
the floor of the stock exchange, a
j hurry call for a loan of $100,000, but
the young bank president sent back
word that he could not recognize
Mr. Armour's request without suffi
cient guarantee for the loan. The
transaction finally was consumated
on Mr. Mitchell’s terms and his de
; termination to stick to the bank’s
| rule made a firm friend of Mr.
! Armour.
} The Illinois Trust prospered under
the guidance of Mr. Mitchell and in
20 years its deposits grew from $1,
000,000 to $69,000,000. He retired
from the active leadership of the
bank in 1919. Four years later it
was merged with the Merchants
Loan and Trust Company and the
i Corn Exchange National Bank under
; the name of the Illinois Merchant’s
i Trust Company. This merger made
i the new bank the second in rank in
j Illinois and Mr. Mitchell was called
! out of retirement to become its bead.
| He was a member of the boards
of several other Chicago and New York
j financial institutions and was di
j rector of five railway companies and
i many large business enterprises,
j He preached and practiced econo
my in private life as well as in busi
ness, and in a public statement once
declared that “extravagance is one
of the economic sins of the nation.”
Mr. Mitchell in 1890 married Mary
Jewett of Bristol, R. I. They had
three sons and two daughters.
VOCAL STUNT FOR DADS
HARINGTON, Neb., Oct. 29. (/F)—
A “put the baby to sleep” contest is
the newest competition at county
fairs, taking its place with hog-calling
and husband-calling contests. It is
limited to fathers, and each must coo
to his own child.
SCHOOL OUT IN ROCKIES
BIRDSEYE, Mont., Oct. 29. (£>)—
While the school year is just start
ing throughout the country, one Mon
tana school is just about to finish its
regtilar term. Here on the summit
of the Monotana Rockies “the term
starts in March and ends in Novem
ber to avoid the heavy snows.
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ACQUITTED SECOND TIME
CHICAGO, Oct. 29. (£>)—For the
second time within a year State Sena
tor Lowell Mason and Major Percy
Owen, former Illinois prohibition di
rector, were acquitted of conspiracy
of violation of the prohibition law.
RUTH ELDED STILL
DRESSED IN FLYING
CLOTHES. IN PARIS
TICKLED TO DEATH TO BE IN
“GAY PAREE”; 18 GIVEN BIG
RECEPTION
PARIS, Oct. 29. (i<P)—Ruth Elder in
in the first calm interval after her
strenuous reception in Paris said she
was tickled to death to be in Paris.
From Le Bourget field, where a thous
and people composed largely of wo
men who came to greet her, she ran
the gauntlet of welcome stretching
from the Inter-Alied Club to the Aero
Club in the luxurious hotel within a
stone’s throw of the shopping center.
She is still dressed in flying clothes
because she hasn’t others. She plans
to visit the mother of Nungesser and
the tomb of the unknown soldier.
WOMEN STAGE HINDS
BREAK THEATRE STRIAE
MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 29. (£>)—When
stage hands in the theatre of A. R.
Bainbridge -went on a strick he
promptly filled their places with wo
men scene shifters.
But women employes are not a new
thing in Bainbridge’s theatre, a dram
atic stock house. The orchestra is
composed of women, there are women
ushers, janitors and office help. He
asserts they do the work as well as
men.
When the stage hands quit he called
the women employes into conference
and substitutes were obtained immed
iately.
MAIL MIN DECLINE
TO 0E1E IT OS
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas, Oct. 29.
(JP)—Walking a distance equal to four
times around the earth and carrying
900,000 pounds of mail is the record
of G. M. Little, Corpus Christi mail
carrier, who becomes eligible for re
tirement on his 65th birthday, this
month. But he won’t retire. Uncle
Sam has granted him a two-years’ ex
tension. “If I quit now,” he says, “I
probably wouldn’t live long. You
know there’s an old saying that a ‘man
will rust out as last as he’ll wear out.”’
500 YEAR-OLD VEIL
LONDON, Oct. 29. <jF)-^Miss Jean
Gairdner, who was married to Step*
hen Phillips, M. C., wore a medieval
wedding dress, with a veil of real
lace dating back more than 00 years.
MISSISSIPPI DEFENSE
STARKEVILLE, Mis., Oct. 29. (JF)
—'Although Mississippi A. & M. Col
lege is playing under the direction of
a new coach this season, its line at
tack and defense is built abound W.
wiuutOu, vtscci*»n tac&ler.
WITNESSES CONNECT
OIL MAN DIRECTLY
S230.000 BONDS
LIBERTY BONDS TRAVELED ALL
OVER THE WORLD BEFORE
FINDING RESTING PLACE
WASHINGTON. Oct. 29. (^—Sin
clair was linked directly by Govern
ment witnesses with the operation of
the Continential Trading Co., which at
one time had possession of $230,000
in liberty bonds which eventually
found their way into the hands of
Everhart, a son-in-law of Fall.
Shortly after the lease of the Tea
pot Dome trial the bonds were taken
from New York to Paris, Pueblo, El
Paso, Caarrizozo, New Mexivo, Den
ver, and then to Washington, where
the cancelled coupons were safely
locked away in the Federal treasury
and from which the old counsel ob
tained them.
CLUB. IN NEW YORK
BROOKLYN, Oct. 29. (/P)—An or
ganization composed of some of the
most prominent men in the country
who dabbled in amateur journalism
40 years ago was incorporated here
recently as "The Fossils.”
"To perpetuate friendships formed
40 years ago between members when,
as youths, they edited or wrote for
what were then known as amateur
journals”, is the way the incorporation
papers read.
It is planned to hold occasional re
unions and to maintain a library in
which their juvenile literary outbursts
can be bound and exhibited.
Among the incorporators were
Thomas A. Edison, United States Sen
ator George H. Moses, former United
States Solicitor General James M.
Beck, former Secretary of t4je Navy
Josephus Daniels, Cyrus H. Curtis,
New York and Philadelphia news
paper publisher; William G. Snow,
Meriden, Conn., and Leonard T. Til
den, Marlboro, N. H.
ACTIVE DAUGHTER OF
HANNA SEEKS SEAT
CHICAGO, Oct. 29. (£>)—Mark Han
na’s daughter has followed parental
precept. She will run for public of
fice. Announcement of Mrs. Mediil
McCormick that she will seek the re
publican nomination as Illinois con
gressman-at-large, climaxes a long
career in politics that began when
"Hanna of Ohio” was called “the presi
dent maker.”
She will undertake her campaign
with the same vigor that characterized
the career of her father, a figure of
legendary power in politics. She has
announced she will stump every Illi
nois county in an effart to win the
nomination at the primary next April.
FIREARMS INSPECTED
DETROIT, Oct. 29. {&)—Under a
new state law all persons owning
firearms must submit them to a safe
ty inspection. They then are given
a license.