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* VOLUME XXI, NUMBER 299. SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1926. PRICE TEN CENTS
VATICAN CRITICIZES MUSSOLINI REIGN
4 TRUS WIDENING BREACH NOW EXISTING
BETWEEN POPE ID DESPOTIC RULER
PONTIFF SCORES FACISTI EXCESSES AND IDEAS
OF MAKING THE STATE THE END OF LIFE
WITHOUT REGARD TO INDIVIDUAL AND NA
TURAL RIGHTS—DUCE CALLS IT PAST HISTORY
ROME, Dec. 29. (/P)—A spokesman for Premier Mus
solini said the duce was amazed at an allocation of the
Pope in which he scored the Facisti excesses and ideas of
< the Facisti making the state the end in life without regard
to individual and natural rights. Thespokesman said the
Premier will reply to the Pope and point out that the ex
cesses spoken of are things of the past which have been
wiped out and which should not have been raked up. The
feeling is that the allocation has widened the breach be
tween the government and the Vatican to the extent of
forbidding the settlement of the Roman question.
JAPANESE DENY
ABE EXCEED!
WARSHIP LIMIT
SAY THAT CRUISERS RECENTLV
LAUNCHED WILL NOT BE
FINISHED TILL 1928
TOKIO, Dec. 29. (/P)—The authori
ties denied that Japan was building
light cruisers of 10,000 tons or less
and thereby violating the spirit of the
$ Washington agreement of 1922, as
charged in the American House of
, Representatives. The tvijo cruisers
recently launched, they said, would
be completed in 1928, and two others
are to be commissioned in 1929. The
new five-year program will be shelved
indefinitely. Next year Japan con
templates building four 10,000 ton
^ cruisers as replacements for cruisers
eliminated by age.
TOLL DF DEATH
REAGAHES TWELVE
IN TENNESSEE
WEATHER FORECAST INDICATES
FURTHER FLOOD DAMAGE
WILL FOLLOW
MEMPHIS, Tenn., Dec. 29. (/P)—
The flood toll has reached a total of
12 dead, 4,000 homeless and property
damage of over a million dollars. Con
tinued rain is the forecast.
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ALABAMA "CRIMSON" TO
FACE PASADENA JAN. I
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TUSCOLUSA, Dec. 28.. (£>)—'The
Alabama crimson tribe face one and
possibly two scrimmages before leav
^ . ing for the first leg of their second
consecutive visit to the Rose bowl at
r
Pasadena, California, where on New
Year’s day the southern conference
champions will meet Leland Stan
^ ford university.
AIR PASSENGERS RESCUED
SAN PEDRO, Dec. 29. (JP)—Three
persons were rescued when a Pacific
marine airways plane, bound for Cat
aline islands crashed here. No one
was injured and the cause of the
accident was not determined.
IOWA LOAN AND TRUST COM
PANY IN HANDS OF STATE
OFFICIALS
DES MOINES, la., Dec. 28. (&)—'The
Iowa Loan and Trust company, one
of the largest banking institutions in
Des Moines, failed to open its doors
yesterday. Representatives of the
State Banking Department are in
charge. Closing of the institution
was decided upon after an unsuccess
ful attempt by the Des Moines clear
ing house to effect a consolidation
with another local bank.
MOVIE FUSPPEI CLARA
HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 29. (&)—Clara
Bow, movie flapper was singed, her
$500 gown ruined, and the hands of
Gary Cooper, her leading man, burned
when her dress caught fire from a cig
garette in the hands of Cooper. His
quick work saved Miss Bow from seri
ous burns.
AVIATOR RUSHES PLANS TO
TRANSPORT PROSPECTORS
VIA AIRPLANES
SIOUX LOOKOUT, Ont., Dec. 28.
{JP)—Plans for transporting prospec
tors to gold fields were rushed after
Capt. H. A. Oaks arrived from the
Teterboro airport, New Jersey. He
started December 16 but was delay
ed) by blizzards and cold which is gen
erally below zero and ■& distance of
1,700 miles. : '
i WASHINGTON NOTES
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The wet bloc in the house is pre
paring to go into action in behalf of
a modification proposal after the
j holiday recess of Congress. Mean
while its members and senate col
leagues are being accused by Wayne
B. Wheeler of the anti-saloon league
of trying to starve the prohibition
cats so it cannot catch the liquor mice.
Representative Bloom presented a
bill to permit issuance of copyrights
to married women, their maiden
names following a pro-test of the Na
tional women’s party at the refusal of
a copyright to a Denver poetess.
Senator Borah strongly implied that
U. S. oil interests are forcing Wash
ington intervention in Nicaragua.
FAMILY SLAYER
TELLS IN DETAIL
STORY OF CUE
WIFE AND EIGHT STEPCHILDREN
FALL VICTIMS OF HUSBAND’S
RAGE
FAREWELL, Texas, Dec. 29. (/P)—
George J. Hassel confessed to the
slaying of his wife and eight stepchild
ren whose bories were found Friday
on the Hassel farm near Farwell and
to killing a woman and three children
December S, after his wife had accus
ed him of intimacy with her oldest
daughter. Hassel shot, the oldest boy
two days later. The boy was away
when Hassel killed his wife and other
children. When he returned Hassell
told him they went to Oklahoma. Then
he induced the son to play cards with
him. The boy finally fell asleep and
Hassell shot him and placed the body
with the others in a shallow dugout
ten feet from his kitchen door.
Hassell refused to give the names
of his California victims. He said:
“I had just quarreled with my wife and
gone out to the barn and taken a
drink of whiskey. When I returned
my wife again began quarreling. I
grabbed a hammer and struck her and
she fell to the floor. The smallest
baby began crying. I reached down
and choked it. Then I secured a
stocking and tied it around the baby’s
neck. I don't know why, but when
I saw what I had done, I decided I
had best kill the whole outfit.”
BOB O’FARRELL NAMED
TO MANAGE UHLS
SAINT LOUIS, Dec. 29. {JP)~Bob
O’Farrel, catcher, was appointed to
manage the Cardinals. A committee
of sports writers named O'Farrel the
“most valuable man to his team in
the National League” last season.
DRY RAIDERS ACTIVE, N. Y.
NEW YORK, Dec. 28. (^—Christ
mas and New Year’s dry padlock raids
on Broadway con*; tied. Dry officials
admitted there L no hope of drying
up the white light district but said
the raids may put the fear of God in
some of the cabaret owners.
WOMEN AND CHILDREN BURIED ALIVE ALONG
RUSSIAN COAST WHILE MEN AWAY FISHING
CATASTROPHE FOLLOWS SIESMIC DISTURBAN
CES—MOUNTAINS SHOWER LAVA ON PETRO
PAVLOVSK
NIKOLAEVSK, Russia, Dec. 29. (/P)—Mountainous
waves from the Pacific ocean in a snow storm hurled tons
of ice upon fishing villages, burying women and children
alive. The men were away fishing.
Mountains Spout Molten Earth
PETROPAVLOVSK, Kamchatka —
Dec. 29. (/P)—The inhabitants fled to
the hills when Mount Novsky and
Avatchinskayasopka erupted hurling
molten earth onto the city. Heavy
rumblings continue and the property
damage is heavy.
DISCOVERY MADE WITHIN NINE
MILES OF FOLSOM, ELDOR
ADO COUNTY
SACRAMENTO, Calif., Dec. 29. (/P)
—The Sacramento Union said the gold
strike reported to be the most import
ant in California history has been
made in the Big Buzzard mine, nine
miles northeast of Folsom, Eldorado
county. George W. Pelties, a bank
er, and Albert E. Vandercock, a met
allurgist, owners, announced that
enough ore has been blocked out to
insure operation for four years with
a 50-stamp mill which will be built
in the spring. The mineralized zone
is from 200 to 500 feet wide and car
ries silver, copper and gold in paying
quantities.
FRANCE WILL BROADCAST
PARIS, Dec. 29. (IP)—The French
government is planning to declare a
radio broadcasting station monopoly
on January 1, despite protests from
temps and other influential sources.
GOVERNMENT FORCES
DEFEATED, LIBERALS
REAR ADMIRAL LATIMER RE
PORTS WASHINGTON ABOUT
NICARAGUAN BATTLE
WASHINGTON, Dec. 28. (/P)—Rear
Admiral Latimer, who landed the
American bluejackets at Puerto Ca
bezas, Nicargua, and proclaimed it a
neutral zone, advised the State depart
ment fie had been notified the Nicara
guan government forces were defeat
ed by Liberal troops and that, they
would be disarmed if forced into the
Bluefleld’s neutral zone. • ■
FORMER MW
CONGRESS IN PEN
FIS GET PILE
EXPECT17,D RELEASE ON CHRIST
MAS MORNING; IS NOT
WORRYING
ATLANTA, Ga., Dec. 28. (^—For
mer Congressman John W. Langley
failed to receive his Christmas present
in the morning mail at the Federal
penitentiary Saturday.
Pacing up and down the prison cor
ridor in his trusty uniform, the one
time Kentucky representative, when
told the expected parole failed said
jokingly “What’s the use of worrying.
I’ll only have to stay around a couple
of hours more anyway.
USE TEAR BOMBS
TO GET FARMERS
TWO BROTHERS AND SISTER
OPEN FIRE ON STATE
CONSTABULARY
CLINTON, Dec. 29. (JF)—Two bro
thers and a sister, James, Tom and
Beatrice Meaney, fought off state
troopers thru the night as an after
math of their refusal to allow repre
sentatives of the Society for the Pre
vention of Cruelty to Animals to in
spect cattle on their farm. Tear
bombs were used by the troopers to
effect a capture. Two troopers were
wounded. The sister and one of the,
brothers were slightly wounded.
DRY OFFICERS BREAK
UP DIE CONSPIRACY
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., Dec. 29.
(£■)—Prohibition headquarters broke
up one of the biggest bootleg con
spiracies in the history of Florida
when nine whiskey ships with cargoes
of 30,000 quarts each were seized with
state! officials! and, prominent residents
Involved in the plot.