COAST TERMINAL FOR THE ALASKA RAILROAD
^ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1927. PRICE TEN CENTS
VOLUME XXII. NUMBER 37.
CATHOLIC PLOT SAID
BEEN NIPPED IN BUD
EIGHTY REBELS BEING PUR
SUED BY FEDERAL FORCES;
ONE IS KILLED
MEXICO CITY, Feb. 9. (£>)—'The
government announces it has nipped
in the bud what officials describe as
another “Catholic plot” for a rebellion
in the State of Queretaro. At Guana
juato, SO rebels, alleged to have par
ticipate din the plot, are being pur
sued by Federal forces, killed one
and captured three, who confessed
that the League for the Defense of Re
ligious Liberty plotted the uprising.
General Alvarez Calles, chief of staff,
said: “The government ordered the
necessary measures to be taken.”
This is being construed as meaning
that those found guilty will face a
firing squad.
'TY'CDBB SIGNS UP i
WITH PHILADELPHIA
WILL BET 180,900
EXPECTS TO TAKE CHARGE OF
THE RIGHT GARDEN—CONFI
DENT ATHLETICS WIN
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 9. </P)—'“Ty”
Cobb signed w'ith the Philadelphia
Athletics for the year.
That Cobb will play with the Ath
letics was announced at a dinner of
Philadelphia sports writers. He ac
cepted the offer of Manager Connie
Mack. It is unofficially reported
Cobb will receive $60,000, the largest
salary ever paid a baseball player.
Cobb said he expects to cover right
field and is confident the Athletics will
will win the pennant.
LIBERAL FORCES Si
HOISTED WHITT FLAG
RESULT OF AIR AHAGK
MANAGUA, Feb. 9. (JP)—After an
air attack with bombs and machine
guns by two Conservative airplanes,
the Liberal forces are reported to
have hoisted the white flag over Chin
nandega, which was captured Sunday.
The Conservatives predicted that the
Liberals, scattered to nearby towns,
will return and renew the fighting.
MAY SMOKE CIGARETTES
TOPEKA, Feb. 8. (JP)—After several ,
years of anti-cigarette regime in this :
State, when smokers had to buy from
bootleggers, the Legislature yester
day repealed the law with a vote of
35 to 2.
DEATH TOLL IS TWENTY i
LONDON, Feb. 8. (JP)—The death J
toll of the great rain and wind storm 1
which swept Great Britain from the 2
southern part of Engand to the north- 1
ern tip of Scotland, reached 20 with *
fully 200 injured by flying objects. 3
SENATOR NORBECK INJURED
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9. <£>)—Sena
tor Norbeck of South Dakota was in
jured in an automobile accident last
night. It is reported he had a very
good night.
BEATTIE TRIAL IS
POSTPONED OWiNG
EXPECTED TO RESUME TOMOR
ROW MORNING — NO WORD
FROM AIR WITNESSES
FAIRBANKS, Feb. 9. (IP)— The Be
attie trial was postponed because
Thomas Marquam, the defense coun
sel, is ill. Resumption depends upon
his recovery. The trial was tentative
ly set for Thursday morning. The
trial of Shermeyer, jointly indicted
with Beattie, depends on a ruling on
a demurrer filed by the defense. No
word was received last night from
Pilot Bennett, who is bringing wit
nesses from Iditarod by airplane. It
is believed snow flurries and fogs
have forced him down.
SIX NEW WITNESSES
SUMMED TESTIFY
DEFENSE BEATTIE
ARE SPEEDING TO FAIRBANKS
VIA DOGTEAM AND AIR
PLANE
FAIRBANKS, Feb. 9. (£>)—Six new
witnesses have been summoned by
the government to testify in defense
of Nellie Beattie, who is indicted for
robbing the mails. The witnesses
are speeding from Iditarod by dog
team and airplane. The robbery oc
curred at the Shermeyer roadhouse,
on the Opliir-Iditarod trail, November,
1922. The request for additional
witnesses was granted when the de
fense took the pauper’s oath. Pilot
Bennett is flying to McGrath where he
will meet the dogteams en route from
Iditarod. The trial will open when
the witnesses arrive.
FISHERIES EXPERIMENT
STATION BILL PASSED
x *
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9. (£>)—'The
Senate passed last night and sent to
Lhe House a bill for the establish
ment of the Pacific coast fisheries ex
periment station in Washington State,
md authorized an appropriation of
£50,000.
SATISFIED WITH BUCK LAW
DETROIT, Feb. 9. (£>)—Michigan,
vhich has a buck law for the protec
ion of deer, is now undergoing the
lsual agitation of a legislative year.
Some would change the law to allow
ailing of does and fawns for one
rear and then go back to the buck
aw; others would open on all deer
md have an open season every o.ther
ear.
PROPOSES ACTION
TAKEN 110 REMOVAL
OF JUDGE 1EED
SENATOR KING OF UTAH WANTS
COMMITTEE DETERMINE IF
“REED IS NOT USURPER"
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9. (ff)—King
j (Democrat of Utah) proposed to the
| Senate judiciary committee an inves
tigation to determine if any action
can be taken for the removal of Judge
| Reed of the First division of Alaska,
| whose term expired in August, 1025.
| King wants the committee to deter
mine if he is not “an intruder and a
• usurper.”
GOURDS PATROL PLOT
TO PREVENT BURIAL
!
SEVEN ACRES TO HAVE BEEN
USED FOR NEGRO CEMETERY;
OFFICIALS CHANGE MIND
CHICAGO, Feb. 9. (£>)—The suburb
of Worth has armed guards patroling
a seven-acre plot of ground adjoining
the unincorporated village of Aslip to
prevent the burial of a negro. It is |
reported the seven acres was intend
ed to be used as a negro cemetery,
but the officials decided the creation
of another cemetery would be a me
nace to health, as there are 11 ceme
teries in or near Worth.
PRESIDENT SETS WEEK
TO INDUCE VETERANS
TO RENEW INSURANCE
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9. (£>)—'The
i weeks of January 31 to February 15
'has been named in a proclamation
by President Coolidge as a period for
ja nation-wide effort to induce all ex
service men to reinstate their lapsed
war risk insurence.
The date for reinstatement of year
ly renewable term insurence has
been extended to July 2, 1927, after
which the issuance cannot be rein
stated.
“Many veterans do not seem to
know about the continuance of the
war risk insurence after the war,”
the President said, “and its conver
sion within a limited time into such
form or forms of insurence usually
issued by life insurence companies.”
VIRTUALLY ALL GITIZENS
AGAINST eOVERNAAENT
LONDON, Feb. 9. (IP)—It is reported
that virtually all of the civilian pop
ulation of Lisbon is armed against
the government. It is reported that
the revolution for the restratation of
parliamentary government is sweep
ing Portugal.
Daugherty Pilloried
By Opposition At
Opening Of Trial
U. S. ATTORNEY BUCKNER TELLS FEDERAL
COURT DAUGHERTY’S AND MILLER’S HANDS
WERE EXTENDED FOR GRAFT—ACCUSED PAIR
LISTENED CALMLY TO FOUR-HOUR ADDRESS
NEY YORK, Feb. 9. (/P)—Hunched in his chair with
his coat collar turned up about his neck, Former Attorney
General Harry Daugherty heard United States Attor
ney Buckner tell the Federal court jury that the hand
Daugherty raised as he swore to enforce the law was later
extended for graft. Buckner’s picture of Daugherty was
given during a four-hour opening address at the trial of
Daugherty and Miller, former alien property custodian,
and brought no visible resp< \se from the defendants. The
pair are accused of conspiracy to accept payments from
a German concern in connection with the release of prop
erty seized during war time.
U. S. STAFF DOCTORS
I WED CHARGES
UNDER INVESTIGATION IN CON
NECTION WITH WHOLESALE
LIQUOR PRESCRIPTIONS
CHICAGO, Feb. 9. (£>)—'The Herald
Examiner said 19 of the 31 staff doc
tors of the United States Army at
Spidway hospital at Haywood are un
der investigation in onnection with
wholesale liquor prescriptions traffic.
It is reported that they sold thousands
of prescription blanks to bootlegging
druggists of §3.00 each.
BYRD AND MECHANIC TO
THY THANS-ATLANTIC HOP
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9. (5s)—Ben
nett has been granted six months
leave of absence by the Navy Depart
ment presumably to fly with Com
mander Byrd aghin on a proposed
trans-Atlantic hop to Paris for the
§25,000 Raymond Otheric prize.
GOLFER GARTHS BIG
TOURNAMENT AND PURSE
SAN ANTONIO, Feb. 8. (jP)—Bobby
Cruikshank, New York professional
golfer, won $6,000 in the Texas open
golf tournament, with a total of 292
for 72 holes. It was his second big
victory in three weeks, since he took
$10,00 in the Los Angeles open tourna
ment on January 9. His nearest com
petitor was three strokes behind him,
and such brilliant golfers as Harry
Cooper and Walter Hagen were left
completely out of it.
BRIAND IS JOKESTER
GENEVA, Feb. 9. (/P)—The humor
ist among European statesmen is Mr.
Briand, the Foreign Minister of <
Prance. When reporters badger him i
for political information he never says l
no and never gets angry. If he can’t 3
say anything helpful he always tells 1
i little joke. ]
ONCE IN CHARGE OF NUMBER OF
SPECIAL WRITERS SENT TO
SKAGWAY IN EARLY DAYS
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 9. (£>)—
Lee Gruener, Pacific coast newspaper
man, aged 74, died last night at 9
o’clock. In 189S he was sent to Alas
ka in charge of a number of writers,
including Joachin Miller, and made
his headquarters at Skagway. One
of his favorite stories was his ina
bility to read Miller’s writing. He
had to send the writings to a personal
secretary in San Francisco who trans
lated them.
SECOND BATALLION LEAVES
HONGKONG, Feb. 9. (£>)—’The Sec
ond battalion of the Worcestershire
regiment and the Second battalion of
the Durham Light Infantry sailed for
Shanghai.
PLACES HOT SIGN IN
MIAMI, Feb. 9. (£>)—Becaused hie
placed a sign in a novelty store "win
dow reading: “Selling out; going
back North where men are men and
rents are reasonable,” B. Lewis Kauf
man was arrested and sentenced to
ten days for disorderly conduct.
INSURGENTS SURRENDER
LONDON, Feb. 9. (/P)—Dispatches
3aid the Oporto insurgents have sur
rendered. Firing continues at Lis
bon. There have been many casual
ties during the three days battles.
WILKINS IN SEATTLE
SEATTLE, Feb. 9. (IP)—Captain
fVilkins, head of the Detroit Arctic
ixpedition, arrived today and will
sail for Seward Saturday en route to
r. ''inks, where preparations will be
nade for the first leg of the explora
ion journey by airplane to Point
Harrow.