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VOLUME XXII. NUMBER 69. SEWARD, ALASKA,MONDAY, APRIL 11, 1927 PRICE TEN CENTS
Urges Recognition
Of Russia Because
« Means Money U.S.
BORAH, IN ADDRESS, STATES WHITE RACE DO
MINION OVER YELLOW AT AN END—PICTURES
POSSIBLE WHITE-YELLOW WAR WHICH WILL
MAKE WORLD WAR APPEAR BUT A CIRCUM
STANCE—RUSSIANS NUMBER 160,000,000 AND
OCCUPY ONE-SIXTH OF THE WORLD’S TERRI
TORY
WORCESTER, Mass., April 11. (/P)—Senator Borah
said here in an address: “Dominion of the white race
over the yellow is at an end.” Picturing possible war
between the yellow and white race which would make the
4 World war seem but a circumstance, Borah pleaded for
recognition of Russia as a step toward the settlement of
the European problem. “I do not want to see us identi
fied with the policy of Great Britain. We are not un
friendly to Great Britain, but we are in an entirely differ
ent situation and face a different problem.
SEX CAST GUILTY
JOHN CORT, STOCKHOLDER, ONLY
ONE TO ESCAPE; 20 GUILTY
NEW YORK, April 11. (TP)—Mae
Weat, James A. Timoney. C. W.
Morganstern and 19 other persons 1
involved in the production of the
play “Sex” were found guilty on the
^charge of corrupting the morals of j
youth and the Moral t Productions
Corporation was also adjudged guilty.
The maximum sentence under the;
law is $1000 fine and one year in
prison and sentence will be pronoun
ced April 18th. Of all the principals
concerned, only John Cort, main
stockholder in Daly’s 63rd Street
Theatre, where the drama was
shown, escaped the decree of guilt,
the charges against him being dis
missed.
Pin COIST LEAGUE
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Saturday’s Games
Portland 0, Oakland 2.
Los Angeles 3, Hollywood 2.
San Francisco 13, Missions 1.
Seattle 3, Sacramento 2.
Sunday’s Games
Portland 1-4, Oakland 6-0.
San Francisco 1-10, Missions 5-8.
Seattle 3-3, Sacramento 5-7.
Hollywood-Los Angeles postponed,
-wet grounds.
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PRIZEFIGHTER DROPS DEAD
DENVER, April 11. (iP)-Wm, Roth
well, known in the ring as “Young Cor
bett,” dropped dead on the street. He
won the featherweight championship
from “Terrible Terry” McGovern in
1901 and lost it in 1904 to Jimmy Britt.
vance her influence in China as others
are doing. I venture the Soviets have
no more influence than any other peo
ple. If the Chinese Nationalists get
control the Chinese will not accept
the communistic doctrines any more
than we will.” Borah urged the re
cognition of Russia on the ground that
there is money in it. ‘‘The Russian
people number 160,000,000, the they
occupy one-sixth of the territory of the
world. They will be doing business
whether we recognize them or not.”
PROMINENT MEN OF
MILWAUKEE COMING
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WANT TO SECURE SPECIMENS
BROWN BEAR FOR MILWAU
KEE MUSEUM
MILWAUKEE, April 11. (jp)—Os
born Goodrich, manufacturer, and
John Cudahy, attorney, member of the
meat packing family, an experienced
hunter, plan to spend four weeks on
the extreme tip of the Alaska Penin
sula hunting rare brown bear known
as the Kodiak bear. They plan to
sail from Bellingham April 13 and re
turn to Milwaukee in June bearing
trophies of the bear to complete a
collection of bear skins for the crea
tion of a group of brown bear for the
Milwaukee museum.
DENIED NEW TRIAL
BOSTON, April 11. (IP)—A new
trial for Nicola Sacco and Batolemo
Vanzetti, the principals in a murder
case of international importance, was
refused by the Massachusetts Sup
reme Co^jirt and the deatlr sentence
will be pronounced.
I
ARE CREDITED WITH THREE DE
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CISIVE VICTORIES—1,300 JAP- J
I
ANESE ARRIVE
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SHANGHAI, April 11. (/P)—Meager
(wireless messages from Chung-kiang,
140 miles east of Nanking, Indicate that
the reorganized forces of Marshal Sun
Chuang Fang are steadily driying the
Cantonese back toward the Yangtze.
The Northerners are credited with
three victories. Thirteen hundred
Japanese, mostly women and children,
arrived from Hankow.
S. CONTEMPLATES
MORE MURINES EOR
SOUTHERN CHI
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FEARS FELT FOR SAFETY OF
STUDENTS AND CHRISTIANS
IN SOUTHERN PART
WASHINGTON, April 11. (£>)—
I President Coolidge and Secretary of
State Kellogg held a conference to
further discuss the prospects lor
'sending an additional 1500 Marines,
inow being concentrated in San Diego,
|to China as an additional precaution
ary measure against other possible
outbreaks. Fiirther dispatches from
Admiral Williams at Hankow declar
ed conditions were very bad there
'and that steamers had to take off a
number of Americans that had fled
from nearby cities because of the
(j anti-foreign sentiment. He predict
ed a sorry fate for Chinese students
and Christians left behind, in South
ern China.
WATCH COMPANY IT
1 - i
OF
$100 DO IN GOLD
CHICAGO, April 11. (£>)—Fifteen
masked men held up four employes of
the Illinois Watch Case company
plant at Elgin, ransacked a vault and
several small safes and escaped In
, four automobiles with gold estimated
to be worth $100,000. Three workers
were bound and gagged and placed in
side the vault. A fourth was com
pelled at a pistol point to make the
rounds and ring the call boxes without
the police learning that anything was
wrong. The robbers, armed with pis
tols, rifles and machine guns, entered
the plant at midnight and remained
there hours. It took two hours be
fore acetylene torches ate their way
through the inner doors of the vault.
Thep lant employs 2,000 persons.
Wni I CnnLL A/n9C UrtltO
SEATTLE, April 11. (£>)—The trial
of Dr. Chester C. Dobbs, the Kirk
land dentist, for slaying Letitia White
hall opened here.
SPECIAL SESSION
CONDITION, DUE FAILURE PASS.
ING DEFICIENCY BILL, IS
DANGEROUS
WASHINGTON, April 11. (JP)—
Robert H. McNeil, a Washington at
torney, has urged president Coolidge
to call a special session of Congress
to pass the deficiency appropriations
bill. He said that the lack of funds
was hampering the activities of the
Federal courts and that the condi
tion was dangerous, as only the most
urgent matters may be attended to
until the fiscal year starts June 1st.
SEVERE QUAKE UNALASKA
| DNUTCH HARBOR, April 10. (JP)—
Apprehension was caused by a severe
earthquake kept the town awake Fri
i day night and Saturday morning. No
damage is reported.
PLANE GOES INTO TAILSPIN,
PLOWS THROUGH ARMY MA
CHINE ON FIELD
SEATTLE, April 11. (/P)—Raymond
Small, veteran coast air pilot, and
Frank Bemrick, passenger, were killed
when the plane went into a flat spin
and crashed on the Sand Point air
station, prowing through an army
plane on the ground. Small died
while being taken to the hospital.
Bemrick never regained consciousness
after being extricated from the tangle
of wreckage and died three hours
! later in the hospital.
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WIFE W CHIN
ON YUKON PISSES IWH
OLDTIMERS ARRIVE AT NENANA;
CHIEF'S DAUGHTERS IN DOU
BLE WEDDING
TANANA, April 11. (£>)—Cora Kee,
aged 40, wife of Chow Kee, the only
Chinaman on the Yukon, died at Tan
ana April 7.
i
I George Bojanshiih, wife of Peter
! Haslam, pioneer of Coldfoot and Wise
man, arrived at Tanana from Wise
man on April 7, being 15 days en
route. They are fulfilling the wish of
the aged Chief Lucas of the Coascha
ket Indians that his daughters marry
before he dies. Rose, aged 15 and
Dorothy, aged 16 participated in a
double wedding at Tanana Saturday.
PARIS, April 11. (JP)—It is estimat
ed that it costs Paris $20,00 annually
for its share of the expense of muni
cipal fetes and receptions.
CAVEIN OCCURS MILE BELOW
SURFACE PACIFIC COAST
COAL COMPANY MINE
CARBONADO, Wn„ April 11. (^)—
All hope is abandoned for seven min
ers caught late yesterday in a cave
in 3* milq below the surface in the Pa
cific Coast Coal company’s mine with
out warning. The seven men were
engulfed by hundreds of tons of sand
and gravel which broke through a thin
overhead seam of coal and filled a 150
foot section of the water-level tunnel.
Four bodies were recovered last night.
Rescue crews are -working in 30
minute shifts. Children and widows
of the trapped miners number 19.
Seven others working along the edges
of the cavein narrowly escaped.
SANTA ANA AT DUTCH HARBOR
DUTCH HARBOR, April 11. (£>)—
The steamer Santa Ana, bound for
Kamchatka, Siberia, called here for
fuel. The captain reported big seas
and wind. Her cargo is machinery
for a fish cannery to be installed at
Kanchatka.
MERRILL IS REPORTED
FOUND SAFE KIWJLIK
(Special to the Gateway)
NOME, (Sunday), April 10.(£>)—Avi
ator R. H. Merrill, Mechanic Alonzo
Cope and Passengers Edgar Broadway
and Hilkey Robinson reported safe at
Kewalik at 8 o’clock last night, the
plane evidently having flown directly
over Candle Tuesday in a storm and
landed 65 miles beyond at Kewalik.
It /is reported as still storming in that
vicinity.
PLANE DAMAGED
NOME, April 11. (JP)~R. H. Merrill,
the Anchorage aviator, and passengers
Hilkey Robinson and Edgar Broad
way, missing since Wednesday, are
alive and well. Word of thair safety
arrived it Nome Sunday in a radio
message from Broadway at Candle.
Broadway radioed that soon after they
hopped off from Nome a blizzard
arose. They passed Candle in a storm
and landed at Kewalik, 65 miles north
of Candle, near the shore of Kotze
bue sound. The plane was damaged
in landing. Broadway made his way
to Candle by dogteam.
NEW YORK, April 11. (JP)—Mrs.
Carolina S. Pratt, accused of having
beaten and branded her foster daugh
ter, Roberta Jane Pratt, answered a
summons to court, attended by a
body guard of detectives. The case
was adjourned until tomorrow, after
a brief hearing.