COAST TERMINAL FOR THE ALASKA RAILROAD
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VOLUME XXII. NUMBER 33. SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4,1927. ' PRICE TEN CENTS
Senate Committee
Approves Measure
Increasing Army
SUM OF $2,295,135 ADDED TO WAR DEPARTMENT
APPROPRIATIONS EXCEEDING BUDGET ESTI
MATE—$225,000 ADDED TO ALASKA APPROPRI
ATIONS FOR MAINTENANCE ROADS, TRAILS
AND BRIDGES
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4. (/P)—The Senate appropria
tions committee approved the House provision for an in
crease in the standing Army, making a total of $118,750,
and added $2,295,135 to the War Department appropria
tions, exceeding the budget estimate by $225,000. Of this
$360,000 is for repair, mantenance and construction of
roads, bridges and trails in Alaska.
WARRANTS ISSUED FOR
EMBEZZLEMENTS IS CHARGED
AGAINST PRESIDENT AND WO
^ MAN CASHIER
EUGENE, Ore., Feb. 4. (^—War
rants for Henry Bergman, president,
and Miss Harriet Weatherson, cashier,
of the Florence State bank, charging
embezzlement, followed an investi
gation of the report that an unmasked
bandit robbed Miss Weatherson of
§28,000 when she was alone in the
bank. Miss Weatherson disappeared
from the local hotel Monday night.
MRS. ORMISTON BACK IN U. S.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 4. (JP)—Mrs.
Ruth Ormiston said she will not
name any woman when she files a di
vorce suit against Kenneth Ormiston,
who figured in the Aimee sensation.
She arrived from Australia last night.
CIA1IIS SMUGGLE 10
IMPORT FROM STATES
REGINA, Sask., Feb. 4. (£>)—F. W.
Snyly of the Royal Northwest Mount
ed Police told -the Customs Commis
sion that tires for automobiles, radios
and even houses are smuggled into
Canada from the United States. Farm
ers buy small houses in the United
States whcih are shipped in sections.
SCION WEALTHY OF FAMILY
FITS DEATH PENKLTY
FOLSOM PRISON, Calif., Feb. 4.
Edward K. Sayer, aged 25 years, scion
of a wealthy Denver family, was
hanged here today for complicity in
the murder of a Japanese woman at
Penryn, Placer county, November 19,
1924.
FORFEITS “PUG”* BELT
NEW YORK, Feb. 4. (£>)—Charley
4 Phil Rosenberg forfeited the world’s
bantamweight championship. He was
four and a half pounds overweight in
the title match with “Bushey” Gra
ham last night.
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ADDITIONAL ROAD MONEY
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4. (^—Sev
en hundred and fifty thousand dollars
was authorized for Seward peninsula
tramroads in addition to the regular
road appropriations. The Alaska
Railroad appropriation of §1,400,000
is provided in the Department of the
Interior bill, which the President has
signed.
JENSEN ADVOCATES
CUT IN AIU SERVICE
NOME SENATOR SAYS COMMER
CIAL AVIATION IN ALASKA
SOON BE REALITY
SEATTLE, Feb. 4. (JP)—Senator
Tom Jensen of Nome, en route to
visit friends at Fargo, N. D., predicted
that commercial aviation will be an
accomplished fact in Alaska before it
gets a firm foothold in the States be
cause of long distances and slowness
of driving overland compared to fly
ing. Alaskans are willing to pay $50C
from Nome to Fairbanks by airplane,
He believes the price will be cut tc
$250, which would be a real saving
when the value of time is counted,
Alaska has 25 good landing fields.
HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS
COTTON PLANT, Ark., Feb. 4. (£»)
—Floods from the White and Cache
rivers have affected 5,000 personls.
Two hundred .thousand acres have
been inundated. The floods cover a
triangular area of 16 miles at its
widest point and 45 miles long.
LITERARY CLUB MEETING
The High School Literary society
will meet this evening in the High
School building at their regular
monthly gathering. Songs, music,
entertainment and a luncheon are a
few of the things looked forward to by
the members.
DELUGE VISITS BIG
CITIES CALIFORNIA
575.000 IN D1HGE
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STREETS OF OAKLAND FLOODED;
500 AUTOMOBILES STRANDED
ON HIGHWAYS
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 4. (£>)—
Two and 24 hundredths inches of rain
fell during 48 hours in San Francisco
and further precipitation is predicted.
Flooded streets of Oakland caused
200 citizens to protest to the City
Council. Damage estimated at $75,
000 has been inflicted and 500 automo
biles are stranded on the highway be
tween Oakland and San Francisco.
A landslide south of Matheson blocked
the Shasta route on the Southern Pa
cific railroad.
J.ARNSTONARRESTED
CONNECTION TREFT
SEATTLE JEWELRY STORE LOST
$20,00 IN DIAMONDS DAY BE
FORE CHRISTMAS
SEATTLE, Feb. 4. (/P)—Jimmy
Arnston was arrested ^ connection
with a $20,000 diamond robbery of the
A. Cassutt jewelry store the day be
fore Christmas. He was identified by
Cassutt as one of the holdups. The
police are seeking “Red” McCarthy,
believed to be in Portland.
NEWSPAPER MEN OF
GERMANY WIN BIG
LAW EXEMPT RULE
EDITORS, REPORTERS AND TYPE
SETTERS NOT COMPELLED
TO TESTIFY IN CIVIL CASES
BERLIN, Feb. 4. (/P)—Newspaper
men have won a significant victory
after a 20-year fight in the passage
by the Reichstag of a law exempting
editors, reporters, pressmen and type
setters from being compelled to tes
tify as witnesses in civil suits which
do not concern them personally. The
law recognizes journalism as a pro
fession carrying with it the same legal
privileges accorded to physicians,
clergymen and public officials.
There have been cases where news
paper plants have been crippled be
cause most of the staffs were sum
moned into court, a situation which
newspaper men asserted amounted to
closing down a public enterprise.
According to another clause in the
law, which will probably be subject
to judicial review, an editor cannot
be compelled to divulge the name of
an' anonymous contributor or that of
a staff man who has written an un
signed story against which offense is
taken.
STARR LEAVES MONDAY
The S. S. Starr departs for the
Westward on Monday, February 7.
FIRST MINISTER TO CANADA
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4. (^—Wil
liam Phillips, Ambassador to Belgium,
former Under Secretary of State, has
been selected as first American Min
ister to Canada.
LIT* GETTING S100
EACH WEEK DECURES
CHARLIE'S ATTORNEY
DISTRICT ATTORNEY KEYS OF
AIMEE FAME, ASKED TO ISSUE
COMPLAINT
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 4. (JP)—Lita’s
attorneys asked the district attorney
to issue a complaint charging Charlie
Chaplin will not provide for her and
her children. Attorney Keys said he
would take the request under consid
eration and probably confer with
Chaplin’s attorneys. He said he con
sidered the charges without basis be
cause Chaplin is sending his wife
$100 a week for maintaining the chil
dren.
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CLEGHORN DEFEATED
BELLINGHAM, Feb. 4. (JP)—Irving
Seldon of Tacoma beat Walter Cleg
horn of Seldovia in a six-round wind
up at middle weights.
STRONG MILITARY COLUMNS AT
TACK STRONGHOLDS OF RE
BELLIOUS INDIANS
MEXICO CITY, Feb. 4. (#>)—Strong
military columns are attacking the
strongholds of the rebellious Yaqui
Indians in the State of Sonora. Peace
negotiation were discontinued when
the Yaquis insisted upajn retaining
their arms. Orders have been given
for a general offensive until the In
dians yield or are exterminated.
WILKINS LEAVES TOMORROW
DETROIT, Feb. 4. (/P)—Wilkins will
start Saturday for Alaska, where he
goes to head an airplane expedition
in search of land believed to lie north
of Point Barrow. At a farewell re
ception, given by the Detroit Avia
tion club, Wilkins was presented with
an American flag with which to
Haim any land discovered in. the
blind ©pot of the Arctic.
TO JOIN U. S. FLEET
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4. (£>)—'The
cruisers Richmond, Marblehead and
Cincinnati left Balboa in the Canal
Zone to join the American naval
forces in China.
ALASKA DUE TOMORROW
The S. S. Alaska was scheduled to
leave Cordova at noon today for
Seward. According to the local office
the S. S. Alaska will arrive in p^rt
tomorrow at 10 A. M.
YACHT VAGABOND SUNK
LONG BEACH, Calif., Feb. 4. (£>)—
The 50-foot power yacht Vagabond,
valued at $20,000, sunk at her pier
when sideswiped by the shipping
board freighter West Isler. No one
was on board the yacht. i
WAGE PARLEY HELD
IN MIAMI. FEB. 14
BITUMINOUS FORCES TO HOLD
BIG CONFERENCE IN SUNNY
SOUTH
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Feb. 4. (£>)—
How steadily will burn the bobbing
lights on the caps of 200,000 miners
in the great central soft coal field of
the United States during the next
few years will be determined in the
sunshine of Miami, Fla., at a confer
ence starting February 14.
Miners’ and operators’ representa
tives in the central competitive field
of western Pennsylvania, Indiana,
Ohio and Illinois will start negotia
tions then for an agreement to sup
plant the Jacksonville wage scale,
which expires March 31, 1927.
Nation-wide importance attaches to
the gathering, however, because the
wages in other States having bitu
minous mines are based on the agree
ment reached for the central com
petitive field.
iNeiLiier miners iiur uyeiawis vviu
i give any definite indication of the de
J mands they expect to make at the con
! ference, but their attitudes during
|three years of the Jacksonville scale
was made plain at various times.
The miners firmly opposed any at- '
tempt to open mines at a wage scale
lower than that called for in the
Jacksonville agreement, and the op
erators in some States asserted they
could not pay the scale and success
fully compete with the product of the
West Virginia non-union ’fields.
“It would be indiscreet now,” said
John Lewis, president of the United
Mine Workers of America, ‘‘for either
side to venture its idea of the proper
wage terms.
“The theory of the joint conference
is that the committee representing
the miners ano operators will decide
at the conference what are acceptable
terms for the new wage agreement.”
Coal is pouring out of the central
competitive field mines in great quan
tities, because of the demand created
by the British strike, and big season
al demands of railroads, industrial
concern# and public utilities.
The present activity is expected to
give an advantage to the miners. Be
cause of the high prices being received
for coal, the Jacksonville scale is be
ing pair at virtually all mines, both
union and non-union.
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KILLED MAN FOR $25,000
CHICAGO, Feb. 4,(/P)—Convicted of
killing a man while robbing him of
$25 and a watch, nine' youths in their
teens faced sentences today of from
a year to life imprisonment.
BAYREUTH, Bavaria,Feb. 4. (/P)
—Birthplace of “The Ring of the
Nibelungen” and of “Parsifal,” the
Wagner Pestspielhaus here will cel
ebrate its 50th anniversary this sum
mer.
WIN THIRD STRAIGHT GAME
SEATTLE, Feb. 4. (JP)—Ketchikan
basketballers won by a score of 40 to
29 against the Pacific Coast Officials.