COAST TERMINAL FOR THE ALASKA RAILROAD
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXII. NUMBER 31.
SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2,1927.
PRICE TEN CENTS
WIFE AND DAUGHTER
. HACK HUSBAND TO
AFRAID ANTON LISZKA MEANT
TO KILL WIFE—BEEN WHIP
PING WIFE AND CHILDREN
CLEVELAND, Feb. 2. (jP)—Anton
Liszka, aged 38, was hacked to death
by axes wielded by his daughter Eliz
abeth, aged 12, and wife Anna, aged
36, because they were “afraid he
would kill us.” Anna said Anton had
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been whipping her and her three chil
dren. The oldest, Victoria, aged 14,
was compelled to leave home. Anna
got up in the night for a drink of
water, which her husband refused to
get her, and in returning stumbled
over the axe. Fearing her husband
meant to kill her, she awoke Eliza
beth and slew him.
SPEAKER WILL PLAY
IN CENTER SENATORS
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CLARK GRIFFITH OUTBIDS FIVE
CLUBS FOR SERVICES OF
CELEBRATED PLAYER
TAMPA, Fla., Feb. 2. (£>)—'“Tris”
Speaker, former manager of the Cleve
land American team, agreed to play
centre field for the Washington Sen
ators during the coming season. Clark
Griffith, manager of the Senators, said
he outbid New York, Philadelphia,
Chicago and Detroit for Speaker’s
services. I determined to get
‘Tris,’ and it will take a neat pile
of money to get him from me,” said
Griffith.
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BROWNING DUES
ALL ALLEGATIONS
WHITE PLAINS COURTROOM,
Feb. 2. (JP)—"Daddy” Browning took
M( tbe stand yesterday and denied all
the allegations made by his 16-year-old
wife, who tells all sorts of tales about
him and his habits, matrimonially and
otherwise, and to make good measure,
"Peaches,” the girl wife, mounted the
stand again, and once more denied all
of ‘‘Daddy’s” story. Then the lid was
the Browning matrimonial can was
clamped on for another two weeks.
SULLHAN OF ENGLAND
SWIMS CATAUN1 COURSE
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LONG BEAACH, Calif., Feb. 2. (IP)—
Henry F. Sullivan of Lowell, Mass.,
English channel swimmer, who failed
in the Wrigley Santa Catalina swim,
declared he swam the channel yes
terday in 20 hours and 45 minutes.
He said there were nine witnesses of
the swim. The reported time is sev
en hours longer than George Young
took.
“BUD’S” WIFE GETS ALIMONY
NEW YORK, Feb. 2. (JP)—Mrs.
Alda Fisher, former countess, was yes
terday granted a decree of divorce
from “Bud” Fisher, comic cartoon
artist. She was awarded $250 week-j
ly alimony.
CANTONESE REFUSE
SIGN NEW TREATY
WITH THE BRITISH
NEGOTIATIONS DISCONTIN U E D
BY CHINESE GOVERNMENT
WHILE TROOPS REMAIN
HANKOW, Feb. 2. (/P)—1The Can
tonese government discontinued ne
gotiations with the British for a new
treaty and refused to sign an agree
ment while British troops remain in
China. The agreement was prepared
to make way for a treaty in which
Great Britain would recede the con
cessions districts, many Chinese cities j
retaining only partial administrative
control and insure the rights of for
eigners. Shanghai was excepted be
cause under international control ex
traterritoriality will be renounced and
the Chinese will be granted partial
tariff autonomy.
FAILS TO DOFF HIT
SIGNAL FI SHE
ALL AUSTRIAN MAIL SERVICE
HALTS WHEN CLERK RE
FUSED TO TAKE OFF HAT
VIENNA, Feb. 2. (£>)—All Austria
is without mail service because a post
office employe failed to remove his
hat in the presence of the postmaster
of the Vienna district. The post
master reprimanded the employe for
carelessness. His fellow workers
took offense and called a general strike
of postmen and mail wagon drivers.
ON RECORD SATURDAY
AA,! l(iitheb6tUetaoin}shikdluetaoinshrd
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2. (£>)—'The
Senate agreed to go on record before
Saturday concerning the Democratic
tax reduction proposal.
RECEIVES DEBT PAYMENT
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2. (£>)—'The
i semi-annual payment of $10,000,000
| interest on the French war debt was
' received.
Groundhog in Optimistic Mood
This is “Groundhog” day—the day when this legendary arbiter of the
weather at this season of the year, is supposed to reveal what may be ex
pected for the next six weeks. To get the “low down” on the secret the
Gateway inter
cine majesty who (
bromide about
ow is all fiction,
low see his shad
residence was lo
north side of onej
cent sky-scraper (
“When I had
grape fruit and
viewed his por
said: “That old
seeing my shad
How could a fel
ow if his winter
1 cated on the
of the magnifi
I mountains?
finished my
coffee I took a
squint at the landscape, and decided that everybody was satisfied with the
brand of weather Seward enjoys except the flappers with chaillblains on their
knees, so decided to hold off on anything unusual until March, when there
might be a bit of a flurry that 'Will make the young pet stock take time to
roll ’em up.”
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THOMAS HARDY AROUSES SUSPI
CION WHEN HE SOUGHT TO
HIRE EXTRA AUTOMOBILE
TACOMA, Feb. 2. (/P)—'The police i
said Thomas Hardy, aged 25, captured
last night, confessed to participating
in the robbery of the Mayville, Wn.,
bank of $10,000. Suspicion was
aroused when Hardy attempted to
rent another automobile instead of
the one he was driving. The garage
man identified him from newspaper
descriptions and telephoned the po
lice. Two thousand dollars in curren
cy bearing the serial numbers of the
stolen notes were found in his pos
session.
PLACED UNDER DOUBLE GUARD
TO PREVENT LYNCHING—IS
EX-CONVICT
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Feb. 2. (JP)—
Horace De Vaughn, a negro, con
fessed to slaying Mrs. Ruby Thornton
and A. B. Moore January 19 because
Moore swore at him. The prisoner
was placed under double guard to pre
vent lynching. After shooting his vic
time De Vaughn robbed Moore. The
prisoner has served ten years in the
Tennessee penitentiary, for slaying a
negro woman.
CELEBRATED SWIMMER DEAD
CHICAGO, Feb. 2. (/P)—Sybil Baure,
at 22 one of the world’s celebrated
women swimmers, died from complica
tions resulting from an operation
two months ago.
TO PERM COEDS SMOKE
III SORORITY HOUSE
PALO ALTO, Calif., Feb. 2. (£>)—
Stanford University co-eds yesterday
announced their decision to allow
smoking in sorority houses. The de
cision followed the school’s move ask
ing the girls to vote on the question
of whether the rule of no smoking
be modified. It will be.
NEW RULE FOR PRIESTS
MEXICO CITY, Feb. 2. (/P)—El Sol
says the Attorney General has an
nounced that Catholic priests who
register with the municipal authori
ties thus conforming with the reli
gious laws will be permitted to of
ficiate at masses in private homes.
WHILE BRITISH REMAIN I N
SHANGHAI SIGNING TREATY
TANTAMOUNT TO DURESS
HANKOW, Feb. 2. (JP)—Eugene
Chen, Nationalist Minister of Foreign
Affairs, announced that the Nation
alist government would sign a new
treaty with Great Britain as soon as
the Britigfli forces were withdrawn
from Shanghai. The minister assert
ed that- his signature to the docu
ment While the troops remain in
Shanghai would be tantamount to
signing under duress.
PLAN GIGANTIC ARMADA
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LONDON, Feb. 2. (JP)— Bound for
China with Major General John Dun
can, who commanded the land forces
in the Far East, the warship Gigantic
departed from Malta after embark
ing two abttalions with auxiliaries of
medical forces, nurses, and other
transports are steaming for China,
which is taken to indicate that the
government will carry through its
plans to assemble a gigantic armada
in the disturbed area to protect for
eign residents.
HONG KONG, Feb. 2. (IP)—A pirate
crew brought the .steamer Seang
Bee to Gias Bay and kidnapped five
wealthy Chinese for ransom and made
off with $40,000 worth of jewelry.
Their craft, flying the British flag,
was found abandoned later with the
cargo untouched.
MARINES OFF FOR CHINA
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2. (IP)—'Twelve
hundred marines will sail from San
Diego for Guam aboard the trans
port Chaumont Thursday to take the
place of 300 marines at that place,
ordered to Manila to be nearby if
needed in China.
WHITTIER, Calif., Feb. 2. (£>)—'The
bodies of a woman and four children
who were murdered by George Has
sell, who has just been convicted and
sentenced to hang for nine other mur
ders in Texas, were found here yes
terday in the cefiar of a home oc
cupied by the family at the time of
the confessed murders. Hassell's de
sire to come clean before hanging
caused the discovery of the bodies.
PROSPECTS ARE GLOOMY
ANAPOLIS, Feb. 2. (£>)—'With two
stars swollen with mumps and two
others under observation, the Middies
varsity basketball team’s (prospects
are sinking.
SILET2 RESERVATION IN OREGON
SCENE OF SLAYING — TELLS
OF KILLING GIRL
TOLEDO, Or., Feb. 2. (#>)—Because
she refused to follow him in his be
liefs, Alexander Hill, religious fanatic,
strangled to death Minnie Washing
ton, a 17-year-old Indian girl on the
Siletz reservation. The body was
discovered in an abandoned house
after Hill had confided to friends he
“I have sent the girl on” because she
refused to subscribe to his beliefs.
Hill has been conducting gospel serv
ices at the Siletz church. He called
at the Washington home early in the
morning and persuaded Minnie to go
with him. At about 10 o’clock he
appeared at a friend’s house and an
nounced: “The Savior announced all
who refused to follow Him would
suffer.” He then told of the slaying.
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INADEQUATE AND DEGENER
ATE PERSONS MAY BE TAR
GET OF DRASTIC LAW
LINCOLN, Neb., Feb. 2. (JP)—A bill
introduced in the Senate provides for
sterilization of all inadequate and de
generate persons. A socially inade
quate person is defined as “one by
his or her own effort fails chronically
in comparison with a nomal person
who maintains himself as a useful
member of the organized life of the
State.”
NAVY PROPONENTS WIN
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2. (^—Pro
ponents of an adequate navy won a
victory in the Senate yesterday, when
that body voted to build three cruisers
for the navy at once. The vote was
49 to 28, sufficient to override the
veto of President Coolidge^ An ap
propriation of $1,200,000, to start im
mediate construction, was Voted. The
$1,200,000 will be available at once,
to start work on a program of eight
cruisers, the three mentioned to be
built as rapidly as possible.
PREPARING FOR EMERGENCY
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2. (£>)—'The
United States government is prepar
ing for any emergency in China. This
announcement was made yesterday
at the White . House. Orders were
issued to 1,200 marines to embark at
once for China. Increased pessimism
was noticed in every government quar
ter yesterday.
STRIBLING* MATCHED
NEW YORK( Feb. 2. (£>)—Young
Stribling, Georgia wonder lad, who
seeks a place in Tex Rickard’s elim
ination contest for the selection of
C; i o Tunney’s rival, was matched to
meet Eddie Huffman, Los Angeles
heavyweight, at Madison Square
•Garden on February 7.