VOLUME XXIII. NUMBER 68. SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 1928. PRICE TEN CENTS
-MOTHER OF DEAD GIRL FIRES
SHOT AND AUNT STABS HIM
IN THE NECK
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COLUMBIANA, Ala., March 22. (JP)
—H. F. Blake, police chief of Calera,
was fired at and then stabbed by two
women in the Circuit Court just after
he had been acquitted of murder of
*'heir relative, Miss Louise Montea
baro.
Mrs. Mabel Monteabaro, mother of
the girl, fired the pistol from five feet
away as Blake was being congratulat
.-ted by friends. The shot went wild, j
Miss Cecil Tubbs, aunt of the girl,;
^fchen leaped at Blake and drawing a(
knife stabbed him in the neck. Blake
fell with blood streaming from the
wound.
The court was in a turmoil and the
State Attorney General, McCall, who
prosecuted Blake, fainted. Blake is"
in a critical condition. The women
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were arrested after they fought hys- j
terically with officers. Blake testi
fied Miss Monteabaro killed herself
on a highway after he arrested her for
speeding.
One message was received last nite j
by Capt. Robert B. Wollverton, U. S.!
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Signal Corps, from Capt. Geo. Wilkins:
at Point Barrow. The message was;
brief and was received at 8:03 p. m.,1
Seward time. Captain Wilkins stated |
everything was alright with Lieuten-!
ant Eileson and himself.
VjL/
captain Woolverton reported he con
tinued to get interference from amat-j
ear stations those of last night being j
stations OZ4AO and OZ2BE. Both of
them were exactly on Wilkins wave.
Wilkins seemed to be having trouble
with his gas engine which he is using
Jti Barrow to drive his generator when
his plane is not in flight. But he got
his message thru in fine shape to the
Seward station.
The Associated Press informed The
Gateway today that they were publish
ing the names of the interfering sta
tions and were asking the radio super
visor to again take action.
SI1C ACT PERFORMED
BT STATE OFFICIAL
ABERDEEN, Wash., March 22. (IP)—
When the cable of Queets River ferry
♦•tapped, George Northup, State Rep
resentative of Jefferson county, leap
ed into the water with a rope and
ssram ashore, secured the rope to a
ar&e bringing the ferry to the bank,
«avlng five people from disaster.
F1IRB1NKS YOUTH WAS
OWE AVIATORS KILLED
WILMINGTON, Calif., Mar. 22. (/P)
—Airport officials said Jack Martin,
who was one of the three fliers here
Sunday, was an Alaska youth formerly
living in Fairbanks. He was a win
ner of the Nenana ice pool two years
ago and came here to take up aviation.
His mother is residing in Fairbanks.
STAND; TESTIFY
TEARS COURSE DOWN CHEEK;
“WE MUST HAVE OVERLOOK
ED SOMETHING.”
LOS ANGELES, Mar. 22. (£>)-—Wil- !
liam Mulholland, testifying at the cor
oner’s inquest over the St. Francis
dam victims and who was the engi
neer in charge of construction of the
dam, said leak conditions 11 honrs be.
fore the collapse was “bad, very bad.”'
With tears coursing down his cheeks j
he moaned, “the only ones I envy are !
those who are dead,
must have overlooked
We certainly |
something”. I
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DOES NOT LIKE PUBLICITY
PHILADELPHIA, Mar. 22. (£>)— j
Prince Joachim Albricht, cousin of the
former Kaiser, has cancelled all con
cert engagements in America, because
of unfavorable publicity.
LINDBERGH HONORED
WASHINGTON, Mar. 22. (£>)
President Cooiidge placed abouti
the shoulders of Col. Charles Ai
Lindbergh the blue ribbon of the!
Congressional Medal. The hon
| or is one of the rarest of Ameri-f
j can tributes to courage and initi*
i ative.
BIG TOURIST SEASON
FORECAST BY P. S. S. CO.
SEATTLE, March 22. (#>)—'The big
gest tourist season in the history of
the Northland is forecast by advance
bookings coming from nearly every
part of the United States, said the Pa
cific Steamship Co. Their new, sched
ule provides an increased service to
Southeastern and Southwestern Alas
ka. The Admiral Evans will start the
season May 9.
CHARLOTTE PICKFORD DIES
LOS .^NGELES, March 22, — j
Charlotte Pickford, mother of Mary
Pickford, screen star, died at midnight
after a lingering illness. Mary was
at the bedside. A cancerous growth
is reported as the cause of death.
WILL NOT RESIGN
V\ ASHINGTON, March 22. (,/P)—It
was made clear at the Treasury, re
gardless of the result of the vote of
the Senate on the resolution request
ing the retirement from the Cabinet,
Secretary Mellon will not resign.
EXECUTOR OF ESTATE
MARION, Ulno, March 22. (/P)—The
executor of the Harding estate an
nounced an examination of the records
by the special investigator of the Sen
ate Public Lands Committee, definite
ly established that Harding possessed
none of the Continental Trading bonds
involved iu the Teapot Dome scandal.
REITERATES DESIRE
WOT BE CANDIDATE
WYOMING COMMITTEE REQUESTS
PRESIDENT WAIVE PERSONAL
PREFERENCE
WASHINGTON, March 22. (&)—
Once again President Coolidge reit
erated his desire not to be a candidate
for reelection. He declined to accede
to the request of the Wyoming Repub
lican State Central Committee that
“he waive personal preference and
censent to continue for an additional
four years in that leadership which
has brought honor and prosperity to
this country.”
WALTER WINS AGAIN
SALEM, Ore., March 22. (^—Wal
ter Cleghorn, Seldovia, Alaska welter
weight, took a decision over Wesley
Hobbs of Los Angeles, outpointing
Hobbs in eight of the 10 rounds.
"The Meter-Reader"
FULL TO TESTIFY
NAVAL OIL LEASE
THUS IT DIE
WANTS PUBLIC TO KNOW WHOLE
6TORY AS PHYSICIANS GIVEN
HIM UP
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| WASHINGTON, Mar. 22. (JP)— Fall,
who has maintained a sphinx-like si
lence for more than four years, was
asked by the Senate Teapot Dome
Committee whether he was ready to
tell all in connection with the naval
oil leases and the Continental Trading
Co. Chairman Nye later received an
answer from Fall saying he would
rather give his testimony to the court
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rather than before the Committee.
It has been planned for the Sub
committee to leave immediately for
El Paso where he is too ill to be re
moved. His physicians say he may
i be able to come here for the trial of
i Sinclair on April 2nd., in the criminal
j conspiracy charge growing out of the
| Teapot Dome lease.
| The Committee telegraphed Fall on
the basis of newspaper reports quoting
him as saying he wanted the public
j to know the whole story because his
physicians told him he had only a few
months to live.
OR. JAGGAR TO HEAD
I NOTED VOLCANOLOGIST, TO THE
WESTWARD LAST SEASON, TO
CONTINUE STUDIES
SAN FRANCISCO, Mar. 22. (£>)—
A boat with wheels, described by some
as an automobile built like a fish, will
be utilized this summer for a scientific
expedition to lAaska.
The expedition will be comprised
of six men headed by Doctor Thomas
A. Jaggar, volcanologist of the United
States Geological Survey. The boat
is to travel on land and sea and study;
Alaskan volcanos. The party will
st,art from San Francisco about the
first of 'May.
CLOSING CHIIPTER IS
WHITTEN IN “BLACK
FAIRBANKS, March 22. (JP)—1The
closing of the Iditarod mail robbery
case was folded when William Scher
meyer, confessed participant, pleaded
to complicity and was sentenced to a
year and a day in the McNeil peniten
tiary. In passing sentence the court
recognized his assistance to the Gov
ernment as a prosecution witness in
the "Black Bear’* trial.