COAST TERMINAL FOR THE ALASKA RAILROAD
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXII. NUMBER 41. SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14,1927. PRICE TEN CENTS
Liquor Industry
Has Created Big
Crooked Revenue
DEPLORABLE CRIME WAVE IN CHICAGO BLAM
ED ON OFFICERS FAILING TO ENFORCE THE
LAW AND TO CROOKED OFFICIALS, STATES RE
TIRING DISTRICT ATTORNEY EDWIN OLSON
CHICAGO, Feb. 14. (/P)—Retiring District Attorney
Edwin Olson, in a statement blaming officials for failure
to enforce the law as responsible for “the deplorable crime
situation in Chicago” said the liquor industry “has pro
vided tremendous revenues for crooked officials who are
also protecting other forms of vice' and crime.”
S. S. ALASKA SAILS
FROM SEATTLE WITH
1 PASSENGERS
NORTHWARD TREK FROM STATES
BEGINS—MANY ALASKANS ON
BOARD A. S. S. CO. LINER
SEATTLE. Feb. 14. (/P)—1The S. S.
Alaska sailed at 5 o’clock Saturday
and carried 180. Seward passengers
included: H. F. Mason, J. Hamrick,
A. M. Smith, C. B. Eielson, Capt. G. H.
Wilkins, C. E. Robinson, Y. H. Porter,
G. Johnsend, Helen B. Casy, Mrs. Van
Yoorhis, G. E. Young, R. H. Merrill,
wife and two children, Wm. Cook,
Mrs. A. Pold, J. J. Chisholm, Chas.
Fry, Sam Keist and wife, S. R. Weiss,
Clyde Brenner, M. E. Miller, wife and
two children, R. Cunningham, D. C.
Hornsby and wife, Rhoda Cooper, Or
pha Boreen, H. W. Frich and sister,
G. Ness, Mrs. P. Waugh, Mrs. E. Si
mons, T. E. Gardner and two steerage.
DEAUTREM1T ONCE
MEMBER OF POSSE
ONE OF TRIO OF BROTHERS CAP
TURED IN MANILA TELLS OF
FICERS ALL ABOUT IT
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MANILA, Feb. 14. (/P)—Hugh Dau
tremont, under arrest as one of a trio
of brothers who killed four men in a
train robbery at Siskiyou, Ore., three
years ago, admitted his identity. He
will be returned to the United States
on the transport Thomas Tuesday.
He told how he once joined a posse
hunting for him and his brothers.
“We’ll hang them if we catch them,”
one of the posse said. Dautremont re
| plied “we sure will.”
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PARLIAMENT OPENED
LONDON, Feb. 14. (JP)—Amid the
customary brilliant pagentry and
sparkling of royal jewels, King
George, Queen Marie and the Prince
of Wales opened the new parliament.
NOW YOU TELL ONE
CHICAGO, Feb. 13 .(#)—While fast
asleep a man got out of bed and
drove his car 12 blocks to a neigh
bor’s to fix the furnace before he woke
up.
Quoting from a magazine article
saying there was almost $20 graft in
every barrel sold by the outlaw brew
eries. Olson said: “If this is true
then revenue from this one source to
crooked officials, police and politicians
amounted to $6,000 daily.”
SECOND EXPEDITION OF CAPTAIN
WILKINS’ AND HIS LITTLE
BAND OF ADVENTURERS
Ml! HUE EIELSQN
DETROIT NEWSPAPER CORRE<
SPONDENT, TWO PILOTS, TWO
RADIO MEN, ONE MECHANIC
SEATTLE, Feb. 14. (£>)—'To delve a
second time into the mystery of the
Arctic blind spot, Captain G. H. Wil
kins and his little band of adventurers
sailed from Seattle. in addition to
hunting land, Wilkins expects to gath
er information which may help the
world plot future -weather. He also
seeks information bearing on the
theory that America and Asia were
once joined. The party includes Ben
Eielson; A. M. Smith, correspondent of
the Detroit News; Orville H. Porter,
airplane mechanician; Howard F.
Mason and A. Hemrick, rodio men.
Two pilots will join the party at Fair
banks. Two Stinson planes will go
north next Saturday.
SNOW STORM IN JH
WORST IN FIFTY YEIIS
TOKIO, Feb. 14. (/P)—Ninety-one
persons were killed and 120 buildings
destroyed in Discata Prefecture in the
worst snow storm in 50 years, say
dispatches to the Jiji Shipmo. The
from the city of Nigatta, the capital
of the prefecture, 160 miles northwest
of Tokio.
JUGOSLAVIA EARTHQUAKE
BELGRADE, Feb. 14. (£>)—An earth
quake was felt over a large area of
Jugoslavia and caused a number of
casualties and great damage in Stolac,
Herzogovina.
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JUDICIARY COMMITTEE
IPPROKES NOMINATIONS
OF ALASKA OFFICIALS
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14. (£>)—'The
Senate judiciary committee approved
the nomination of E. Coke Hill of San
Francisco as judge of the Third dis
trict of Alaska, and Justin Harding of
Ohio to be district attorney for the
First district.
MASON, WHO TOOK FIFTH
PLACE, SAYS ALASKAN “JUST
CLUCKED TO TEAM ONCE IN A
WHILE AND DOGS LAY INTO
COLLARS HARDER THAN EVER
HE SAW DOGS BEFORE
WOLFBORO, N. H., Feb. 14. (£>)—
Si Mason, of Tamworth, N. H., who
finished fifth in the dog Derby, attrib
utes Seppala’s victory to hypnotism.
“That man is a superman. He passed
me at least once every day in the
race and I was not loafing any. I
couldn’t see that he drove his dogs.
He just clucked to them every now
and then and they lay into their col
lars harder than ever I have seen
dogs do before. Something came out
of him and went into those dogs with
that clucking. You’ve heard of some
men who hold unnatural control over
others. Hypnotism, I guess you call
it. I suppose it, is just as likely -to
work on dogs. Seppala certainly has
it if anyone has.”
Many dog enthusiasts declare that
Seppala’s victory demonstrates the
superiority of pure-blooded dogs over
cross-breeds.
STUDENT PRESIDENT
ABDUCTED.FLOGGED;
WANT LINDSAY DEBATE CALLED
OFF, “CAN INSTITUTION OF
MARRIAGE BE IMPROVED?”
DENVER, Feb. 14. (£>)—Ray Bats
chelet, president of the Sophomore
class at the Denver University, and
vice-president of the Thinkers Club,
was abducted by five masked men and
flogged. He is recovering in a hos
pital. The floggers phoned two other
officers of the club and said: “We
flogged your friend Batschelet and
you will be next unless the Lindsey
debate it called off.” The Thinkers
Club is sponsoring a debate between
Judge Ben Lindsey and the Rev. Bur
ris Jenkins of Kansas City on “Can
the present institution of marriage be
improved?”
BIG FIRE IN BANGOR
BANGOR, Me., Feb. 14. {£>)—Fire
last night threatened to destroy the
entire business section and was con
trolled after four hours. The loss is
estimated as 18,000,000.
Kila Peninsula
Be Next Scene
| Of Exploration
TWO SCANDINAVIAN EXPEDITIONS WILL EX
PLORE KILA PENINSULA BETWEEN FINLAND
AND WHITE SEA DIRECTLY NORTH OF ARCH
ANGEL-FIRST OF BOTANICAL EXPEDITIONS
STOCKHOLM, Feb. 14. (/P)—Hitherto little known
! Kila peninsula, where the East and West meet in the
Arctic, will be explored soon by two Scandinavian expe
ditions to the Kila peninsula, between Finland and the
White, sea, northwest of Archangel. It was virtually ter
ra incognito until visited by a Swedish zoological expedi
| tion in 1887.
The first of the projected expedi
tions will be botanical and under the
direction of Dr. Bjorn Floderus, chief
surgeon of the Crown Prince Louise
| Institute for Children at Stockholm.
He will start early this summer under
| the command of Fridtjof Nansen and
: not leave until a year from November.
It is aided by Lapra Spelman and
Rockefeller memorial of New York to
take up population problems.
AGENTS SWOOP 001
1 NEW YORK DIVES
HOPE TO SMASH ONE OF THE
LARGEST DOPE RINGS IN THE
COUNTRY
NEW YORK, Feb. 14. (JP)—Acting
on a tip that New York night clubs
| were participating in the drug and nar
cotic traffic, Federal agents swooped
: down on the White Light district last
! night and arrested four men and a
young woman in a move to smash one
of the largest dope ring in the coun
try. Police arrested Jack Rose, said
to be the owner of the Melody Club,
and a woman in Washington, from
whom it was learned that others were
involved in the conspiracy. Federal
agents raided the Grenbourt hotel in
New York and a house on West For
ty-eighth street. Thirty-five thousand
grains of morphine hydro chib ride
and 7,000 grains of opium were seized.
REV. R. S. P. GRANT DIES
KISKO, N. Y., Feb. 14. (£>)—Rev. R.
Percy Stickney Grant, noted modern
ist and former rector of the Church of
the Ascension in New York City, died
after an operation for appendicitis.
Grant’s controversy with Bishop
Manning over fundamentalism and his
engagement to Mrs. Rita Alcosta Ly
did, which was broken in 1924, made
him the centre of a heated theological
discussion.
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SEALANE FORCED TO LAND
SAN DIEGO, Feb. 14. (^—Sea
plane PB-1, attempting to break the
30-hour world’s endurance record,
landed after a 15-hour battle with rain
squalls.
GIT NEGRO GRAVE
TRUNK IN WHICH WOMAN’S TOR
SO DISCOVERED BELONGS TO
HIM, HE ADMITS
CHICAGO, Feb. 14. i/P)—Tlhat
Janies Coyner, giant negro grave rob
ber and convict may have been the
Toledo slugger of women and may
know about the torso of a woman
found in South Bend, Ind., are theo
ries the authorities are investigating.
Four women’s skulls were found in
Royal Oak, Mich. Coyner admited
that the trunk was his, but denied
knowing about the skulls. In letters
smuggled to his sister he urged her
to get the trunk, and alluded to “some
thing else” which make him “through
forever.”
BRIJNO WILL DRAFT
REPLV TO C00LI0GE
ACCEPTANCE OF DISARMAMENT
POPROSAL EXPECTED “UN
DER SERIOUS RESERVES”
PARIS, Feb. 14. (/P)—It is under
stood after a Cabinet meeting France’s
reply to President Coolidge’s disarm
ament proposals constitute acceptance
“under serious reserves.” Foreign
Minister Briand will draft a reply
and probably present it for approval
today.
SWIM WRANGELL HARBOR
WRANGELL, Feb. 14. (£>)—'The
weather is so mild that Emma Grant,
daughter of Mayor J. G. Grant, and
Irene Tozier, High school girls, swam
Wrangell harbor Saturday. Many
pictures were taken.
PROHIBITION COSTLY
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14. (/P)—Pro
hibition cost the United States more
than the navy last year, according to
statistics revealed yesterday. Three
hundred and twenty-two million dol
lar© were spent on the fighting forces
and $527,000,000 went for attempted
enforcement of the prohibition laws.