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MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXIII. NUMBER 39. SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1928.
PRICE TEN CENTS
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OIL 11 THROWS
LITTLE LIGHT DN
NATIONAL SCANDAL
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STAND; REPUBLICAN FUND
ROCKEFELLER, JR., ON WITNESS
INVOLVED
WASHINGTON, Feb 16, (/P)—
v.Tiile John D. Rockefeller, Jr., was
denouncing on the witness stand!
thaf the Continental oil transactions |
were a national scandal and promised
to render all possible aid in uncover j
ia£ all the facts as to those who pro
fited by the deal, the Senate Lands j
Committee received a report from!
i
on? of its investigators that $24,000
of the Continental profits were used
to wipe out part of the Republican ;
National campaign deficit in 1920.
The report, according to Senator I
Nye, Chairman of the Commitie°,!
i elated to the inspector of books of j
tha Potter Sr Co., of New York, and
showed the investigator had traced
S.M.Ohu in Libert^’ bond?, bought with !
Continental money, to the Republican
Notional Committee.
rhepe bond,3 app&rantly were an
ph'ed to notes held against the Com
mittee by tile Empire Trust Co., and
were paid off in 1923. It was said the
bends had been handed to General
T. C. Dupont, Chairman of the Bank
Board, by Will H. Hays, then chair
man of the Republican committee.
^enaVr Nyfe said that Mr. Hays
was in communication with the com
mittee and would reme to Washing
ton at say time th-- committee de
sired him to do so. He will probable
be summoned •will in 10 days.
John T. Adams. Mr. Hays success
or, who sailed for Paly last week,
saJd before his departure he had no
’ ^collection of the Eepubhcan Com
mittee profiting by any oil bonds
Mr. Rockefeller, while throwing
little light on the oil situation, ex
pressed every desire to aid and said
it was imperative that is be Cleared
up for the good of the industry- He
said he knew little outside of what
he had read in the papers but intend
ed to find out more.
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■HOT SHIPMENT
ALASKA PUNT ON WAT
—
SEATTLE, Feb. 16, (TP)—Shipments
of machinery for tha $2,500,000 cem
ent plant to be constructed m Seat
tle by the Pacific Coast Cement Co.,
will soon be moving from the East
to Seattle, it is announced. The ere
for fhe plant will be shipped from
A’aska.
OFFICE SALARY FIXED
WASHINGTON, Feb. 16, —It Is
announced the committee on public
land? and survey will recommend the
salary of the registrar of the local
land office at Juneau be fixed ?.t
13600 a year without the benefit of
fee?. v
TO FEDERAL TRADE
SENATE IN SESSION FOR MORE
THAN NINE HOURS AFTER
PROPONENTS PLAN
WASHINGTON, Feb. 16, {!?)
By a margin of 15 votes the Senate
referred to the Federal Trade Com
mission the investigation of the
financing of the public utilities and
power corporations. The vote was
46 to 31 with the party lines oblit
eratod when the showdown came.
The amendment of Senator George
of Georgia, Democrat, to the original
proposal, was adopted.
The Senate itself will conduct the
inquiry through a special committee
of five to be selected from its mem
bership •
The vote came after the Senate
had been in session for more than
nine hours and after the proponents
r f the Walsh plan had made three
separate attempts to force the vote
over the day.
iTFR HUH
EDDIE FOY DIES ON
VETERAN VAUDEVILLE STAR !N
LAST ROLE: ATTACK OF
HEART FATAL
KANSAS CITY, Feb. 16, (/P)—Ed
:lie Foy, veteran musical comedy
■tar and vaudeville headliner, died
unexpectedly while on a farewell
tour of the stage on which he had
played for more than half a century.
Foy was 70-years old when he pas
sed away. The heart attack left him
week but conscious to the end..
FLOOD CONTROL DILL
PRESENTED TO ROUSE
WASHINGTON, Feb. 16, (/P)—
Placing the entire burden and cost
upon the Federal government and
carrying an appropriation of S473,
000,000, the flood control bill was
piesented to the House by the Flood
Control Committee.
BODIES DEPUTIES
! FOUND MODS
TWO CONVICTS BELIEVED BEEN
RESPONSIBLE FOR DEATHS
STILL UNCAPTURED
DANVILLE, Illinois, Feb. 16, UP)—
| The bodies of the two missing dep
uty marshals, John GrOve and Wal
lace McClure, were found at noon at'
I Foster. The bodies were lying face
j upward with the arms carefully I
! ■ i
J straightened at their sides,
j The discovery terminated move
: fhan a week of intensive search of
! territory by hundreds of s tate
land city police. Two ^onvicts, John
Burns and Samuel Baxter, believed
i to have been responsible for the di; -
■‘ppeu^nce of the officers, are still
at large.
,rhc auto mob Lie in vyl.mh the d o
! uik s started out from 1-alayette with
j the t r won-era was foiled shortly af
' U: their disappearance oh a desort
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ed street in Decatur. The only indica
jtion that a conflict might have tak
er place Avus a hole in the wind
jslield of the car which the police
i said was caused by a bullet.
I
Peports were that the back of the
deputies heads had been crushed
BREAK IS SEEN
BERLIN, Feb. 16, (/P)—Germany
; faces dissolution of the Reichstag
next week and general election by
j the end of March owing to Deputy
leader, Centristo Guerard, who or
I
dered the people’s party Ministers
out of the Cabinet for alleged breach !
1
j of educational policies.
WATSON SAILS NORTH
|
SEATTLE, Feb. 16. UP)—'The Ad
miral Watson, of the P. S. S. Co., sail
3d at 2 o’clock yesterday afternoon
ivith 39 passengers. The Seward list-'
ing was Leo A. Schlotfeldt and Mrs.!
Allen.
TACOMA FUR SALE
DISPOSES STOCK
AT FAIR PRICES
TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND DOL
LARS FURS DISPOSED OF
RED FOX HIGH
TACOMA, Feb. 16, (JP)—Furs vn!
ued at $200,000 were s*old at the auc
tion at which 90 per cent of the offer
Logs were sold.
Led fox was high at $57 with the
average going at $38 50 Cross fox
sold from $75 to $160. Lynx was high |
at $65, the average beng sold for $4S.!
Mink sold from $17 to $20. White j
fox $66 silver fox, highest, $250.
Wolves averaged $19, beaver, large
extra large, $32. weasel $2 to §3.50.';
Marten $28 to $33; for ordinary lots
blue fox $60 to $70, muskrats $1.60.
wolverines $23 to $27.
FRENI DANGER TRIES
SUICIDE IN PIN LANE
NEW YORK, Fev. 16. (JP)—Simone
Roserafe', French dancer, attempted
suicide by driving into an ice filled
Central Park lake.
She was rescued by a clerk but re
fused to explain the act. Police found
in her pocket a picture of Vicent Lop
ez, at whose night club she was a
performer.
CHICAGO BUREAU—HISTORIC HOSTELRY RECALLS
LINCOLN’S PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN
Abraham Lincoln, impersonated by George Billings, famous as a
player of the character, revisits the Briggs House in Chicago, the origi
nal hostelry where Lincoln registered during his first presidential cam
paign. This feature marked the wrecking of the Old Briggs House to
make way for the new Steuben Club building, under whose auspices the
historic event was arranged.
I LIUS LAWYER
LEE O'NEILL BROWNE
DROWNS IN DIVED
WAS DEMOCRACYS POWERFUL
FIGRE IN THE STATE: FELL
FROM WALL, ESTATE
OTTAWA, Illinois, Feb. .16, {/P) -
Lee O’Neill Browne, lawyer and legis
lator and one of the Democracy’s
most powerful figures, was drowned
ir. the swift waters of Fox river,
flowing past his estate, when he fel1
from a stone embankment at the
rear of his new home.
The body was carried nearly one
baif a mile before it was recovered.
A year ago Browne, who was G2
years old, slipped from the same wall
but was saved when his suspenders
caught on an iron hook.
Death came while a jury wa de
bating the fare of Harry Mill, whom
Browne had defended against the
charges of matricide. Erowne had
just returned from the court house
and Was in" high spirits believing the
long deliberations were favorable to
his client.
The jury was still unaware of the
death of Browne and continued their
deliberations having been unable fo
break the deadlock which, for the last
two days, prevented them from reach
ing a verdict. The vote is still report
ed at eight to four for conviction.
FILE APPEAL M THE
SUPREME COURT
CHILD SLAYER EXPECTS TO
LOOSEN ROPE A LITTLE
ROUND HIS NECK
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 16, (£>)—
More to loosen, figuratively speak*
ing, the noose placed about his neck
as the slayer of little Marion Par
ker, was the opening act of Hickman
today in the session, or joint trial
with Hunt, for the murder of drug
gist Thoms.
Hickman’s attorneys filed a writ
ten notice of appeal to the State
Supreme Court, on the death sen.
tnce and denial of a new sanity trial.
* TO DEAR OLD IRELAND
CORDOVA, Feb. 16, (£>)— James
Canning, oldtime gold miner, leavss
on the S. S. Alaska today for his
first trip to the States since 1906. fie
is going to visit his old home in Ire
land.
Fairbanks H. S. -vs- Seward H. S., Saturday and Sunday