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♦ VOLUME XXIII. NUMBER 12. SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 1928. PRICE TEN CENTS
Mi AND WIFE IN
SEATTLE ARRESTED
WROTE THREAT NOTE
ASKED $50 FROM NEIGHBOR OR
SIMILAR FATE BEFALL CHILD
AS MARION PARKER
SEATTLE, Jan. 16. (/p)—Albert
Isabel, age 35, a bill collector, and
his wife Marion, were arrested after
a neighbor had received a note
threatening his child with the same
fate as befell Marion Parker of Los
Angeles.
The Isabels were arrested for ques
tioning when the handwriting on re
ceipts signed by Isabel wrere said to
resemble that in the kidnapping
notes which demanded $50.
The neighbor, Michael Wirtzfeld,
who has four small children was
ordered to put $50 cash in a mail
box near his home. Under police
directions he placed an envelope con- j
taining slips of paper In the mailbox
Officers who watched found Isabel
to be the only person to approach
the box. He peered into' it as he:
*
walked by without opening it the of
ficers said.
' MUST RENOUNCE WAR
in OH TO END WAR
• • DECLARES MRS. GATT
NEXT WAR COMING WITH PITI
LESS CERTAINTY OF AN AVA
LANCHE SHE STATES
WASHINGTON,* Jan. 16. (>P)—Co
ordinated action among the people?
of the world ^to prevent future wars
was urged by Mrs. Carrie Chapman
Catt in an address prepared for the
Bird Conference on the cure of war.
Mrs. Catt said, “the next war is
certainly moving upon us with the
pitiless certainty of an avalanche.
Until there are treaties pledging the
civilized nations who are led by
great pbwers, to agree to renounce
war between themselves,, nothing
can be done.”
LINDBERGH IN HEART
GAME COUNTRY TAKING
WELL DESERVED REST
PANAMA CITY, Jan. 16. (£>)—Col.
Charles A. Lindbergh is on a hunting
expedition in the region where Tapirs
mountain lions and deer abound.
While taking a rest from flying Col.
Lindbergh was a guest of fellow avia
tors somewhere in the heart of the
Province of Chiriqui.
Aviators Costes and Lebrix, French
fliers, who arrived enroute to New
York said they were considering a
Paris to New York flight.
COLLEGE WINS AGAIN
WRNGELL, Jan. 16. (JP)—'The Fair
banks College basketball team de
feated the Wrangell team by the
score of 25 to 21.
PRESIDENT OF CUBA
GREETS DELEGATES
COOLIDGE AND DELEGATES AR.
RtVE AT HAVANA FOR SIXTH
CONFERENCE
HAVANA, Jan. 16. (/P)—Stressing
idealism, fraternity and cooperation
as the aims of American countries^
General Gerardo Machado Morales,
President of Cuba, welcomed Presi
dent Coolidge, an<3 delegates from
Latin countries, to Cuba for the Sixth
Pan American conference.
President Machado said; “Pan
| Americanism is constructive work
and that does not imply to antago
nism but on the contrary cooperates
for universal peace and for better
understanding amongst all the peo
I pies toward spiritual and moral uni
5 ty of the world.”
>♦,
BEGINNING ON SMITH
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16. (>P)The
National Woman’s Democratic En
forcement League has opened, its
drive on Governor A1 Smith by adopt,
inging a resolution to demand a Dry
be nominated for President by their
party. *!
SEATTLE BARBER KILLS
WIFE DAKOTA MARSHAL
SEATTLE, Jan. 16. (/P)—Victor
Herman, a barber, whose attentions
had been unwelcome, shot and killed
Mrs. Stella Schrader, wife of Charles
W. Shrader, town marshal of Martin ^
N. Dakota, then ended his own life.
The woman leaves four children. „
PRESIDENT OF S. O. R. REPORTS TO PRESIDENT COOLIDGE
Urnest E. Rogers, president of the National Society of Sons of the
Revolution, who with his wife have just completed a 11,000 mile |rip
* during which they visited various chapters of the society, called at
the White House and told President Coolidge, an honary member,
of their trip. Left to right: F. B. Steele, secretary general of the
society; President Coolidge; Ernest E. Rogers, president, and R. C.
Schanck, director general of the S. O. R.
PRESIDENT COOLIDGE OFFICIAL.
LY OPENS SIXTH PAN-AMERI
CAN CONGRESS
HAVANA, Jan. 16. (>P)—The help
Lng hand of the United States in the
solution of problens that beset the
nations of the new world was extend
ed by Presdent Coolidge as he open
ed the Sixth Pan-American Congress.
In his address he dedicated the
government to work of internation
al conference, helpfulness, and good
will. He spoke in the National thea
tre before representatives of 20 na
tions of the Western Hemisphere.
As a spokesman of a country on
an equal plane with the sister repub
lic the President of the United States
gave assurance that his government
wras prepared to encourage all peace
ful pursuits that bring the American
family of states into a closer and
more permanent harmony.
Although he spoke in English to
a predominately Spanish understand
ing audience President Coolidge was
frequently interrupted by prolonged
applause wrhich seemed to echo tine
tremendous ovation with which ho
was acclaimed on„ his way to the
theatre.
WRANGELL, Jan. 16. (£>)—Wm.
[ Lewis, age 68, a prominent Alaska
! Indian, died Saturday night from
4
i pneumonia. Lewis was Grand Treas
i urar of the Alaska Native Brother
j hood, of the Wrangell Camp, and
had served several terms on the
Wrangell City Council. He was pres
ident of the Alaska Labor Union in
1919. Surviving him are his widowr,
two daughters and three sons.
MAKES NONSTOP FLIGHT
MANAGUA, Nicaragua^ Jan. 16. (/P)
—Major Bourne, who hopped off
from Miama on a nonstop flight to
Managua, arrvier at 5:33 Saturday
afternoon, central time. #
SHEETS SEETHING
WITH CMS GREET
PRESIDENT OE U. S.
VISITING HEAD FOREIGN NA
TION GREATEST DEMON.
STRATION EVER
HAVANA, Jan. 16. (JP)—‘The sapor- j
duifdnaught Texas bearing Presi- j
dent Coolidge and the American
Deh-gr.tion to the Pan-American Con.'
itience entered Ha/im harbor Sun
day afternoon.
Tremendous crowds lined the wat
erfront to greet the President who j
boarded the Texas early in the morn
in# at Keywest, Florida.
Cuba’s Chief Executive and his;
cabinet met President Coolidge and
took him to the National Palace thru
streets seething with Cubans who
accorded the President of the tThfted
States the greatest demonstration
ever accorded a visiting head of* a
foreign nation.
TAKING NO CHANCES
LONDON, Jan. 16. (/P)—Although
England’s flood has died away almost
to a trickle the threat of another
gale kept officials on the alert against
a recurrence of a disaster.
-
CHARGED FOUR CITIES
WASHINGTON, Jan. 16. (/P)—
Wholesale fraud registration and vot
j ing in Philadelphia, Allegheny, and
| four other cities in Pennsylvania, is
charged in an amended petition filed
I with the Senate by William B. Wil
son, democrat, contesting the seat
of his republcan opponent William
S Vare.
' * '
TUNNEY VS DELANEY
NEW YORK, Jan. 16. (JP)—Joe
Jacobs, manager of Jack Delaney, re
turned from Chicago with the an
nouncement that promoter Jim Mullen
is planning a heavyweight title .bout
between Gene Tunney and Jack De
laney for a date around June 20 in
Chicago.
ALL EFFORTS FAIL TO
i SAVE LIFE OF INFANT
CHICAGO, Jan. 16. (JP)—Kept alive
for two days and nights by a fire,
men’s pulmotor squad and blood
transfusion, the 13 day old baby, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Smith, died.
The tiny spark of life which had been
kept alive by the constant efforts of
the firemen*a ©quad, grew gradually
dimmer until it finally went out.
OF FIVE YEAR GIRL
FIFTEEN THOUSAND PERSONS
FILE THROUGH MORTUARY
VIEW LITTLE BODY
FLINT, Mich., Jan. 16. </P)—'Three
army pursuit planes are enlisted in
! hte search for hte slayer of Dorothy
Schneider, age 5 who was kidnapped
and slain last Thursday.
The planes flew low over Gresee
county searching for the abandoned
j automobile of the description known
! to have been used by the man who
' kidnapped the child as she returned
home from kindergarten.
Oscar G. Olander, commissioner of
the State police, under orders from
Governor ■Green, assumed full charge
of the search. Fifteen thousand per
■ sons filed through the mortuary Sun
■ day to view the little body.
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FLYING SQUADRON
SWOOPS DM1 FROM
SKY KILL REBELS
FORTY REBELS KILLED BY AIR
MEN OF THE U. S. MARINES
CORPS, NICARAGUA
I
MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Jan. 16,(/P)
| —Forty rebels were killed by a mar
j ire corps airplane squadron which
attacked the Elchipota stronghold of
General Sandino.
The squadron’s Commander, Major
Howell, reported upon returning here
1 that the aviators hid 5,000 feet in
the air behind clouds and dived
! down when the opportunity offered
■ to drop bombs and fire machine guns
I and even throw hand grenades. This
' is believed to be the first time hand
grenades have ever been used from an.
airplane. v
'FORMER KLONDIKER DIES
I IN HOLLYWOOD HOSPITAL
I
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 16. (JP)—
Joseph H. Caldwell, one time sheriff
of the Black Hills country in S. Da
kota and who is reputed to have
weighed out the first gold taken from
the klondike, died in a Hollywood
hospital after an operation. He was
75 years old
WANT HOOVER
NEW YORK, Jan. 16. (/P)—A reso
lution was adopted by New Jersey
Republican Committee asking the
Delegates to the National Convention
to support the presidential candidate
indorsed at the primary and express
ed the hope that Secretary 'Hoover
will he a candidate.