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VOLUME XXI, NUMBER 274. SEWARD ALASKA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30,1926. PRICE TEN CENTS
Bank Officials on Trial
Charged With Smuggling
In Shiploads of Liquor
COASTWISE STEAMER SEIZED WITH THIRTY
THOUSAND CASES OF ALCOHOL ABOARD—
PRESIDENT CHELSEA EXCHANGE BANK OF
NEW YORK, HIS SECRETARY AND ASSISTANT
CASHIER INCLUDED IN INDICTMENTS, ALONG
MYTH CAPTAIN OF STEAMER CRETAN
‘ Hi ll DOLLARS A TRIP SAID 10 HAVE BEEN MADE
Indictments Allege That Forty Persons Involved in Great
Rum Ring Which Has Been Operating Out of Boston
and New York—Claimed Banker Rothchild Was Finan
cial Backer of Whiskey Enterprise
BOSTON, Nov. 30. (/P)—Lewis H. Rothchild, vice
president of the Chelsea Exchange bank of New York,
and forty others who are charged with conspiracy to
smuggle liquor on a vast scale, were placed on trial. They
were indicted in August. The indictments were revealed
.with the arrest of several defendants. The charges are
* based on a seizure on July 7, on the coastwise steamer
Cretan, of a cargo of 30,000 cases of alcohol. The accus
ed include Captain August Alksne of the Cretan and the
crew of 22. Harold Smithe, Rothchild’s secretary and
James V. Boice, assistant cashier of the bank. Federal
officials said Rothchild was the financial backer of the
plan to land the liquor in the United States in “million
dollar trips.”
« ONTARIO HAS RECORD
TEH. YIELD OF GOLD
TORONTO, Ontario, Nov. 29. (IP)—
Ontario is coming forward as a gold
producer, with a record production for
the eight months of the present year
^of $20,750,000. This is the high wa
ter mark in the history of the yellow
metal in that province. The provin
' cial government estimates a total
year’s output of $32,000,000.
WATSON DUE TONIGHT
Reports received from the S. S. Ad
miral Watson today gave her arrival
time, in port at 4:30 this afternoon.
J. C. CAREY TAKEN INTO CUS
TODY FOLLOWING TESTI
MONY AT INQUEST
SEATTLE, Nov. 30. (TP)—J. C. Carey
a tailor of Kirkland, was arrested at
the conclusion of his testimony on
the death of Letitia Whitehall, aged
14, whose body was found in a Sam
manish slough, Nov. 15. The inquest
met in Seattle Saturday and at Kirk
land Monday, when it adjourned.
Remember the Jesse Lee Home sale
of articles, the handiwork of the girls,
which will be held Saturday afternoon
'Posite the Seward Drug store.
SEMAPHORE GIVE
WAY TO PROGRESS
ELECTRIC LIGHTS BE SUBSTI
TUTED, REPORTS ASSOCIA
TION
WASHINGTON, Nov. 30. (/P)—’The
railroad semaphore, whose familiar
lines have stood out so long against
the sky in metropolis and tank towns,
is giving way to the march of indus
trial progress.
Reports to the American Railway
association show that electric lights
are being substituted for semaphore
arms on most of the roads of the coun
try. The electric signals are regard
ed as more economical, as well as
more effective.
Three principal types of lighting
have found favor. One involves the
use of white lights only, so arranged
as to reproduce the lines of the sema
phore. Another type employes red,
yellow and green lights in semaphore
outline, and the third uses the colors
individually, like street traffic lights
in cities.
Peking civil huht
TENDERS ITS IMSTION
PEKING, Nov. 30. (£>)—'The Peking
civil government, which was stripped
of power because of factional strife,
lias resigned and has called upon the
northern militarists to establish “an
effective government for the welfare
of the country.”
PASADENA, Nov. 30. (/P)—Plans
for a graduate school of aeronautics
have been announced by the Califor
nia Institute of Technology here fol
lowing the donation of $305,000 to the
institution by the Daniel Guggenheim
Fund.
MILAN — Thousands of Italians,
barred from entering the , United
States, have their eyes on Australia
as a new promised land.
SAN DIEGO, Cal.—A new fruit, the
cucumber-apple, has appeared. It is
particularly adapted for salads. It is
an apple with a distinct cucumber
flavor, grown in Australia.
SEDEFIELD, Eng.—Better health
has resulted among persons living in
the Durham County mining area since
the miners’ dispute began because the
people have been eating less, says the
report of the district medical officer.
JERUSALEM—Arabs and Jews have
taken so enthusiastically to electricity
for cooking and heating that the Jaffa
Electric Company has been able to
declare a six per cent dividend.
CAPE TOWN, Africa—The discov
ery of 180 unknown stars is reported
by Dr. Xandebos, a Dutch atronomer,
who ha been investigating the heavens
from South Africa.
DESSAU, Ger.—Passengers on Ger-1
man air liners will soon be spared the j
present inconvenience of traveling'
“dry,” as the air service management
is preparing to cater to the thirst of
its patrons.
NEW YORK—Forty-four will be the
signal at the dinner to be given here
December 19 to Daniel Froham in
celebration of his 44 years as an of
ficer of the Actors’ Fund, of America.
TOKYO.—Marquis K. Kuni, elder
brother of the Crown Princess Nagako
has renounced his army career and
gone into the business of chicken rais
ing.
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CHICAGO—Dallin’s much celebrat
ed equestrian statue “A Signal of
Peace” is about to be restored to
Chicago.
SPECIAL COMMITTEE
TO PROBE CAPITAL
WASHINGTON STATE
PLANNED TO SUMMON WITNES
SES AND INVESTIGATE EVERY
DEPARTMENT
OLYMPIA, Nov. 30. QP)—Savidge and
Clausen announced: “While the leg
islature awaits fitting of its new quar
ters we will ask that a special com
mitee with power to send for papers,
subpoena witnesses and probe every
detail of capitol business, be appoint
ed to make a sweepin ginvestigation.
Steps are to be taken to rush the man
ufacture of specially designed furni
ture and it may be possible to furnish
the legislative halls before the legis
lature adjourns. The members may
concude this work in the new capitol.”
TUNNEY’S TROUBLES START
NEW YORK, Nov. 30. (£>)—Gene
Tunney, heavyweight champion, was
charged appearing in an unlicensed
boxing exhibition and was arrested
following his second appearance with
sparring partners on a broadway
stage.
CHILD OF ELEVEN
KILLS BROTHER
THEN SUICIDES
WITH FATHER’S GUN SHOOTS
TOT OF FIVE WHILE ANOTH
ER LOOKS ON
BAKER CITY, Ore., Nov. 30. (£>)—
Orville Williamson, aged 11 years, shot
and killed his brother Edward, aged
five and then turned the gup on him
self and committing suicide with the
remaining bullet. Arthur, aged four,
witnessed the shotting, and told the
officers that Orville took his father’s
gun from the sewing machine drawer
and pointed it at a wall paper figure
near Edward’s head. As Orville
aimed the gun it discharged and Ed
ward fell with a bullet thru his brain.
Orville then excited^/ turned the gun
on himself and fell fs a shot entered
his heart. His mother was in a
neighbor’s house at the time and hur
ried home on hearing the shooting.
The father was absent. La Verne, a
two-year-old baby was asleep at the
time of the shooting.
OFFICIAL COUNT VOTES
FOR THIS DIVISION
The following is the official count
of returns from the recent election in
this division as compiled by Clerk of
the Court, W. N. Cuddy, Valdez court
headquarters. As Mr. Cuddy states
there are aproximately 200 votes yet
to be received but it is doubtful if
they will change the proportionate
standing of any of the candidates.
The official count:
Territorial Senator—Arthur Frame,
1758, Anthony J. Dimond 1,669.
Territorial Representative—Be n A.
Grier, 2,024, Sumner S. Smith 2,007,
Joseph H. Murray, 1,771, Thos. S.
Scott, 1,733, Thos. C. Price 1,182, W.
A. Sherman, 1,386, John F. Coffey 1,
275, C. H. Wilcox 791.
MOOSE LODGE MOVIE FILM
POSTPONED FOR WEEK
Owing to the inability of Mr. Wal
stedt, Moose lodge official, to make
connections with the S. S. Admiral
Watson at Cordova, it wilyl be impos
sible to exhibit the super-film, “Em
blems of Love,” as had been planned
and advertised. Mr. Walstedt has
been exhibiting the film at Kennecott
and was to have made connections
with the Watson but missed it. There
fore, according to a revision of plans,
the film will be shown locally at the
Liberty theatre under the auspices of
the L. O. O. M. order, week from
tomorrow night, Dec° '8. Chil
dren will be charged the regular ad
mission of 15 cents but the adult
charge will be 50 cents.
SUPREME COURT
HITS Hill
PRESCRIPTIONS
SUSTAINS VOLSTEAD ACT WITH
RESPECT TO QUANTITY OF
LIQUOR
WASHINGTON, Nov. 30. (/P)—1The
Supreme Court sustained the Volstead
act planing restrictions on the amount
of liquor • physicians may prescribe
for patients every ten days.
The interesting question of the right
of physicians to prescribe intoxicating
liquor without legal limit reached the
Supreme Court in an appeal brought
| by Dr. Samuel W. Lambert of New
(York City.
i m tne practice oi ms proiession ur.
Lambert encountered cases requiring
jin bis judgment the use of whiskey as
'a medicine, without any effective sub
stitute available. He demanded re
! cognition by the government of what
I he claimed was his right as a physi
Ician and as his duty toward his pa
tients to treat them by the untram
melled exercise of his best skill and
scientifically trained judgment. He
demanded freedom to use such medi
cines and medical treatment as in his
opinion were best calculated to effect
a cure.
In this contention he was support
ed by The American Medical Associa
tion, which declared that alcohol had
a therapeutic value, and expressed its
disapproval of those portions of the
prohibition act which interferred
“with the proper relation between
the physician and his patient in pre
scribing alcohol medicinally.”
The government asserted that the
limitation placed upon physicians in
prescribing liquors was a fair exer
cise of the police power delegated to
Congress by the prohibition amend
ment.
Congress had, however, only re
stricted the physician, it argued in the
use of liquor for beverage purposes,
and had left him free under the law
to use it without limitation in medical
prescriptions. There was nothing in
the law to prohibit a physician, it in
sisted, from exercising freely his best
judgment in the treatment of patients
to the extent of prescribing in such
medical prescriptions whatever quan
tity of liquor he though necessary.
MINERAL
SU MJU* iu?wyi
MINISTER OF MINES’ REPORT
i SHOWS GAIN OF SIX MILLION
DOLLARS
VANCOUVER, Nov. 30. (^—Wil
liam Sloan, Minister of Mines, esti
mated the British Columbia mineral
production this year will be ?67,71S,
000, making a total of §6,000,000 more
than last year.
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’funeral service tomorrow
SEATTLE, Nov. 30. (^P)—Funeral
services for the late William Keene,
aged 68, former councilman of Nome,
will be held Wednesday.