MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXIII. NUMBER 252.
SEWARD, ALASKA MONDAY OCTOBER 22, 1928.
PRICE TEN GENTS
EDISON HONORED IN
ATTEMPT MADE TO BROADCAST
SELECTIONS FROM WIZ
ARD’S FIRST MACHINE
WEST ORANGE, N. J., Oct., 22,(A3)
—A Congressional Gold Medal
was presented Thomas A. Edison
at his laboratory Saturday night
The ceremonies were broadcast
over the Nation with a wide hook
up of stations.
President Coolidge opened pro
gram with an address from the
White House and at the conclu
sion the broadcast was shifted to
the laboratory where Mellon pre
sented the medal.
Edison followed with a brief ad
dress. Renditions from Edison’s
first phonograph were broadcast.
This machine was returned to Ed
ison by the British government
the presentation being made by
Ronald Campbell of the British
Embasse.
The gold medal was authorized
by Congress in commemoration of
Edison’s achievements “In illum
inating the path of progress thru
development and application of
inventions that have revolution
ized civilization the last half cen
tury.
SEATTLE POLICE
SHOOT FIRST 10
THEM INVESTIGATE
SUSPECT LEAPED ONTO FIRE
ESCAPE WHERE BULLETS
RIDDLE HIM
SEATTLE, Oct., 22, (A3)—Trapped
on a fire-escape of a men's fur
nishing store, one and one-half
stories above the ground, a bur
glar suspect was shot and killed
by police forming a shot-gun
squad, last night. At the morgue
the body was partly identified as
Harold Denfer of Portland.
A fireman, who saw the man
prowling around the store, report
ed it to the police who answered
the call by surrounding the store
and alley and closing in from
eack way they saw a man wield
ing a plank-like ram in an effort
to break down a door.
Seeing he was trapped the sus
pect leaped to a fire-escape in an
attempt to escape. As he neared
the top officers opened fire and
he fell to the ground dead.
English Shores Hit
By Devastating Gale
LONDON, Oct., 22, (^—Numer
ous wrecks of small craft and iso
lated fatilities resulted from the
gale which blew over the British
Isles yesterday. It blew itself out
during the night after doing con
siderable damage to farm prop
erty; liners were delayed by the
gale and were unable to enter or
leave ports.
Miss Rose I. Oates and Warner
Alford, popular Fairbanks couple,
were married in Fairbanks a few
days ago.
MILLION OSI.UH
SHOHIHOUSE1AIIS
AURORA, 111., Oct., 22, (/P)—The
Rialto theater building was des
troyed by fire. It is estimated the
loss is $1,000,000. The three-story
building housed six stores, num
erous offices; the Fox theater,
adjoining, was damaged to the ex
tent of about $10,000.
WILL CARRY FIGHT TO FIVE
STATES IN FINAL DRIVE
PRIOR CAMPAIGN
ALBANY, Oct., 22, (/P)— Confi
dent that he has lined up under
his banner all the States he has
touched on his 3,600 mile tour just
ended, Governor A1 Smith is now
pinning his hopes on the five
strategic Atlantic seaboard States
with a total electoral vote of 123
or 10 less than half the number
he will need to place him in the
White House.
Starting Wednesday with an ad
dress at Boston, Smith will carry
his fight to Maryland, Pennsylva
nia, New Jersey and New York
making a final whirlwind cam
paign in 10 days which will close
ly parallel his past gubernatorial
battle finishes.
FIRE, WARM SPRINGS
Fire from some unknown origin
destroyed a sawmill rooming house
at Warm Springs Bay. The loss
was estimated at approximately
34 000.
GENERAL HOWL WAS REPORTED
FROM DISTRICT WHEN VOT
ERS LOSE FRANCHISE
Because cf <ai reported general
howl that apparently went up
from all parts of the district or be
cause the court calendar made it
imperative, the date for calling the
session of the Grand Jury at Val
dez for the Third Distrct has been
changed by U. S. Distrct Judge E*
Coke Hill from October 30 to Nov
ember 12 to permit tax payers to'
stay at home and vote. Similarly,
the date of the attendance of the
petit jury was changed from' Nov
ember 5. to November 15.
The result of the new order will
mean that approximately 150 tax
payers who will be in attendance on
the court at the coming term will
have a chance to register their
choice in their own home town on
November 6 before departing for
the judical headquarters of the dis
trict.
According to word received at the
local U. S. Marshal’s office, those
whose names were drawn on the
grand jury in Seward are R. C.
Robertson, Ingwald Jacobsen, Helen
M. DuMarce and Charles Crawford,
the latter being deceased.
On the petit jury those who. are
being served with summons are A.
F. Rasmussen, T. W. Hawkins and
Ludvig Larsson.
EXPECT RICH PAY
The Stulls were in Deering re
cently from their claims on the
Solomon River where they are
working at some property at the
edge of the lava flow, and expect to
strike rich pay as soon as the sea
son advanced so they can do some
winter drifting.
[Arabian Fleet Foot
Carries High Honors
Indoor Marathon \
j NEW YORK, Oct., 22, (IP)—El
[ Ouafi, Arabian holder of the
Olympic marathon title, defeated
Joie Ray over 26 miles, 385 yards
: of good track by almost three laps.
His time was two hours, 44 min
utes and 55,2-5 seconds, remarkably
[ fast time for indoors. Five of the
nine starters-finished.
RAISES QUESTION VERACITY
OF WORK; REPLY CON
TAINED NO PROOF
NEW YORK, Oct., 22, ■(A3)— Ras
kob, in an open letter to Dr. Hubert
Work, declared the Republican
party has now become “Simply1
the prohibition party of the Unit- :
ed States.”
He charged a deliberate mis
representation of facts has been
made by Republican leaders on
Smith’s attitude toward the Un
derwood tariff and that Hoover’s
attitude on the post-war wl ?;■'. :
price has been twisted about.
RASCOB SAYS IN
the first letter to Work in which
he offered to resign as chairman
of the Democi’atic party if Work
could prove that Smith had en
dorsed the Underwood tariff.
“It frankly raises the question
of your veracity and your reply
contains neither proof or retrac
tion. In this you express an indif
rerence to the question as you
have on other occasions to similar
issues.”
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ALL FIGrORED OUT/
With all of the returns in and the various leagues through with the madrace, Old Joe Fan can look back on
a hectic season in all of the leagues. A gnat’s nightie could have blanketed the first two or three clubs
at many stages of both major and minor league races.
HERB DEPRECATES
OVER -CHIKE
II G.O.P. SUCCESS
DECLINES TO DISCUSS ISSUES
OF CAMPAIGN BUT PROS
PERITY IS ONE
NEW YORK, Oct., 22, (/P)—Herb
ert Hoover declared today he had
not the slightest doubt of the out
come of the November election
if the Republicans of the country
continue their efforts. “The only
danger is that of over-confi
dence,” he added.
Hoover was addressing a confer
ence of newspaper correspondents
and is the first public statement
he has made regarding the out
come of the election.
“THERE NEVER HAS
been a greater unity in the Re
publican party in a quarter of a
century than at this moment. We
have an able organization and
more zeal is being shown than
ever before.”
Mr. Hoover declined to discuss
the issues of the campaign but in
response to questions he said that
prosperity was one of the larger
issues. He asserted the probabil
ities were, on his Westward trip
on the fine’ '■,~!% ■, u<\ » oiim sr>eak.»
in St. Louis.
Hoover will leave Washington
on October 13 in order to reach
his home at Stanford University
by November 5 to make a final
appeal to voters, over the radio,
to keep the Republican party in
control of the federal government.
CLASHING FACTION SUFFERED
INJURIES FROM MISSLES
AND FISTS
—
WILKESBARRE, Penn., Oct., 22,
(JP)—A fight between miners and
iron workers employed in No. 11
| collier of the Lehigh and Wilks
| barre company, at Plymouth, sent
J two men to the Mercy hospital,
one with a bullet in his right leg,
and the other badly beaten up.
Police and county detectives
quelled the disturbance but not
before at least a dozen other mem
bers of the clashing factions suf
fered minor injuries from flying
fists and missies.
SEED FOR HRS
FIELD IIPEH
Arthur Johnson, Wallace Porter
and George Lonard are working on
No. 6 Bench, right limit, Dime
Creek. They hydrauliked with plen
ty of water and have had a very
successful summer. Taken as a
whole, Dime Creek looks good. One
of the things that Dime Creek
needs is a landing field, says the
Nome Nugget. This community on
account of its isolation from either
radio or telephone, should have a
landing field built immediately.