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VOLUME XXII. NUMBER SI)
SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 1927.
PRICE TEN CENTS
* Nations Should Decline
To Lend Money Military
Purposes Says Hoover
MONEY SHOULD BE LOANED ONLY WHERE
SOME PRODUCTIVE RESULT BE GAINED BY
RECIPIENT NATION—NO NATION SHOULD IT
SELF OR PERMIT ITS CITIZENS TO BORROW
MONEY FROM FOREIGN COUNTRIES UNLESS
MONEY IS DEVOTED TO PRODUCTIVE ENTER
PRISE
WASHINGTON, May 4. (/P)—Secretary Hoover,
speaking before the Pan-American Commercial Confer
ence. advocated that nations should decline to lend money
for military preparation purposes, and Thomas W. La
mont of J. P. Morgan & Company foresaw the demoraliz
ing effect upon countries where he said some banking
firms are competing “on an almost violent scale for the
purpose of obtaining loans in various foreign money
markets.”
I Secretary Hoover declared money
should be loaned only where some pro
ductive result could be gained by the
recipient nation. “No nation should
itself or should 'permit its citizens to
borrow money from foreign countries
unless this money is devoted to pro
ductive enterprise.” he said.*
IS, SNYDER ON
STAND 121-2 HOURS:
MRS. SNYDER’S COUNSEL AND
STATE’S ATTORNEY ALMOST
COME TO BLOWS
NEW YORK. May 4. (£>)—Mrs.
Snyder’s defense rested this afternoon
when cross-examination was complete
ed after she had been on the stand
twelve and a half hours. Her counsel
and the State’s attorney almost came
to blows when the prosecution in
speaking of a discrepancy in the testi
mony asked if she made a mistake or
, lied. The judge averted a fight. Gray
then took the stand.
-p Gray admitted that lie once prom
ised Mrs. Snyder to help her obtain
poison to kill her husband. He testi
fied she tested out on him means for
killing her husband to be sure the
sleeping powders she had were strong
enough. She made him take them,
and after watching the effect decided
they would do. Gray said Mrs. Sny
der showed him a $5,000 insurance
policy on her husband and asked if it
4 wmuld be payable if her husband -were
drowned. He said she told him she
thought her husband would be drown
ed that summer. “Late in September,
Gray said, she told him she tried to
kill her husband by gas, but failed.
“I don’t have any luck,” he quoted her
as saying. “It’s too bad the tube
wasn’t long enough to stick in his
nose.” As Gray testified. Mrs. Sny
der sat bowed in her seat with her
^ head hanging.
EVANS BRINGING SMALL LIST
SEATTLE, May 4. (JF)—The S. S.
Admiral Evans sailed at 10 o’clock this
morning and carried 39 passengers.
Passengers booked for Seward are
Geo. S. Hosier, Harry A. Wertz, AJgo
na Markay, J. T. McRae, Henry Han
son and Ato steerage.
LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT CONTEND
ER SLAMS WAY TO TEN
ROUND DECISION
NEW YORK. May 4. f/P)—Tommy
Loughran, Philadelphia light heavy
weight contender, slammed his way to
a ten-round decision over Young
Stribling of Macon, Ga.. in the feature
match of New York’s first open-air
; fight of the season. Loughran clear
ly outpointed the Southerner in seven
of the ten rounds.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Philadelphia 4, Boston 7.
Brooklyn 7, New York 6.
Cincinnati 3, Chicago 4.
St. Louis 10, Pittsburg 11.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Cleveland 5. St. Louis 3.
New York 6, Washington 4.
Boston 2, Philadelphia 7.
Chicago 1, Detroit 5.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Seattle 2, Missions 3.
Portland 5, Hollywood 1.
Los Angeles 4, Oakland 1.
San Francisco 1, Sacramento 5.
PROSPECTOR NOW RICH
SAN DIEGO, May 4. (jP)—James Mc
Donald, discoverer of the new gold
ledge at Kofa, Ariz., will be offered
$2,000,000 for his claim by San Diego
and Detroit interests, ft is reported
that the ore runs $44,376 a ton.
NEW CREVASSES IN LEVEES
NEW ORLEANS, May 4. (£>)—New
crevasses between Vicksburg and
Natclies have occurred along the Miss
issippi loosening flood waters which
make more than a thousand homeless
and adds immensely to the vast stretch
of territory under water.
LEDGE DISTRICT; ILL
OE HABITANTS SICK
i
—
IS OF SERIOUS PROPORTIONS
WITH NEAREST PHYSICIAN
MORE THAN 200 MILES AWAY
'
TO CBNSOLlTE iCMFT
_
GOVERNOR PARKS, IN SPECIAL
MESSAGE, IS URGED SEND
AIRPLANE FORM NOME
NOME, May 4. (/P)—An influenza
epidemic of serious proportions is
raging in Fortuna Ledge precinct in
the lower Yukon Valley. The nearest
physician is 200 miles away at Name.
A message to the U. S. marshal said
all of the inhabitants of the precinct
are stricken. A message was sent to
Governor Parks urging him to send an
I
airplane from Nome with Dr. Rex
Schwartz, who is returning via air
plane from Nome to Anchorage.
Pilot Young in an Anchorage plane
arrived from Nome from Candle with
Aviator Merrill and his mechanic,
Alonzo Cope. Nomeites have decided
!
to consoludate with the Anchorage
i
Air Transport company and raise the
required funds for a plane to be sta
tioned at Nome, where considerable
I
business is now in sight.
I
DESTROYERS ANSWER
! DISTRESS CULLS Iff
! SEA; PUT DUT FIRE
FRENCH VESSEL AFIRE IS SAVED
BY PROMPT ACTION TWO U.
S. DESTROYERS
| SAN DIEGO, May 4. (/P)—How two
San Diego destroyers answered a
i fire at sea and saved the S. S. Agin
can, a French ship -whose number
three hold was ablaze, its bullwarks
buckling and its fire fighting equip
ment broken down, was told yester
|day when the U. S. S. Sinclair, one
I
oi the rescue vessels arrived in port.
She was' bound for San Diego,
when she 'heard the distressed ves
sel radio piea and at once dashed to
the rescue, under forced draught.
The U. S. S. McDermott was the
first to reach the burning steamer,
but five minutes later the Sinclair
arrived and the fire was speedily ex
tinguished and the vessel was enabl
ed to proceed to port.
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President Emeritus of
University of California
Dies-Was 111 For Months
BENJAMIN IDE WHEELER WAS AUTHOR OF
MANY SCIENTIFIC AND EDUCATIONAL WORKS
AND CONTRIBUTED LARGELY TO DICTION
ARIES AND ENCYCLOPEDIAS ON PHILOLOGY,
PHILOSOPHY AND PSYCHOLOGY
VIENNA, May 4. (/P)—Dr. Benjamin Ide Wheeler,
president emeritus of the University of California, died
here last night after a long illness.
The story of the great physical growth of the Univer
sity of California is the story of the principal achievement
in the life of Dr. Benjamin Ide Wheeler, who for 20 years
as president guided the destinies of the institution. He
was elected president of the university while occupying
the chair of Greek and comparative philology at Cornell
in 1899. At that time the University of California, then
young in the universities of the country, had an enroll
ment of 2,439 students. When he retired as the active
head of the university in 1919 and became president
emeritus, the enrollment had reached nearly 20,000.
Few men of scholarly attainmentsII
had been the recipient of a greater
i number of academic honors from insti
tutions of learning than Dr. Wheeler.
Among those which conferred degrees
I
i upon him were Brown University,
from which he received his A- B. in
1875 and his master’s degree three j
vears later; Princeton, Harvard, Yale,
,
Cornell. Johns Hopkins,. Pennsylvania.
Dartmouth, Columbia, Colgate, Illi
nois, Wisconsin, University of Ken
tucky, University of Athens and Uni
versity of Heidelberg.
After he was graduated from Brown
| University Or. Wheeler spent several
I vears as instructor at his alma
i
i mater and at Harvard and Cornell.
I For two years, 1895 and 1S96, he was
professor of Greek ilterature at the
American School of Classic Studies,
Athens, and in 1909-1919 he was
Roosevelt professor at the University
of Berlin.
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FAMOUS RACER WINS
HAVRE DE GRACE, Md., Maj 4.
(/P)—J. E. Griffith’s “Singlefoot” and
“Canter” ran one and two in the Phila
adelphia handicap worth $8,650 to the
winner. “Singlefoot” negotiated the
distance in three-fifths of a second
under the record. Crusader was a hot
favorite before the race, and finished
fifth.
ELLSWORTH HONORED
NEW YORK, May 4. (JP)— Lincoln
Ellsworth was elected a trustee of the
New York Museum of Natural History.
CUD PEASANT WOMAN
KILLS THREE CHILDREN
MANILA, May 4. (/P)—A suddenly
crazed peasant woman attacked her
five children with a bolo, a large,
heavy swordlike knife, and killed
three and terribly wounded two others.
Two of the girls of five and three
years, and a baby boy were hacked to
BRITISH VIEWPOINT
REGARDS WAR DEBTS;
SENT IN NOTE 0. S.
IS OUTCOME OF CONTROVERSY
BETWEEN MELLON AND
CHANCELLOR CHURCHILL
LONDON, May 4. (^—Exposition
of the British viewpoint as regards
war debts is believed to be contained
in a note to the United States, publi
cation of which is set for tomorrow.
The note, it is understood, will be the
outcome of a controversy over the war
debt between Secretary Mellon and
British Chancellor Winston Churchill
and thought to be a reply to Mellon’s
viewpoint that Great Britain is receiv
ing more from her continental war
debtors than she is paying to the Unit
ed States.
RECOGNIZED AS WORLD’S BAN
TAMWEIGHT CHAMP.—GOES
TEN ROUNDS
CHICAGO, May 4. (/P)—“Bud" Tay
lor, recognized as the world’s bantam
weight champion, won a ten-round ver
dict over Abe Attel Goldstein, former
title-holder. Tony Canzoners of New
York, outstanding challenger for the
bantamweight title, scored a technical
knockout over Ray Rychell of Chicago
in the seventh of a scheduled t en
rounder. Rychell proved a rank set
up.
NEW YORK FUR SALE
NEW YORK, May 4. (£>)—Wolverine
pelts brought $30, an Increase of 25
per cent, at the annual spring fur
auction. Wolverine, northern wildcat
and badger made the best showings.