COAST TERMINAL FOR THE ALASKA RAILROAD
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
i VOLUME XXI, NUMBER 294.
SEWARD ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1926.
PRICE TEN CENTS
Sen. Hefflin Springs
Another Sensation
In Murder Charges
CHARGES SECRETARY MELLON ADVANCED
FUNDS TO BE LATER RETURNED BY BOOTLEG
GERS—INTIMATES JESS SMITH WAS MURDER
s ED TO PREVENT HIS REVEALING TRUTH IN
NATIONAL SCANDAL
Reveals Wliat Transpired At Secret Session of Senate
Judiciary Committee Whereby Marshals to Collect
Bootleg Money Were to Be Named—Calls Fall Jury
Collection Dice Shooters
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 22. (/P)—Senator Heflin told
the Senate that Jess Smith was murdered “because he
knew too much. It would open the eyes of the nation,”
if the inside story of the Fall-Doheny aquittal was reveal
ed. He pictured Secretary Mellon as receiving funds
which Smith collected from brewers and bootleggers in
payment for advances to the Harding campaign funds.
He" declared Mellon advanced $5,000,000 to the Republi
can National committee. Smith was delegated to get back
$2,000,000 of it from bootleggers through United States
district attorneys. Heflin produced excerpts from the
testimony of former District Attorney Boyles of South
ern Alamaba in a Mobile court proceeding to substantiate
his statements.
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AT NEXT MEETING WILL HERE
AFTER BE KNOWN AS PARLIA
MENT OF UNITED KINGDOM
LONDON, Dec. 22. (^—Parliament
hr -was prorogued never to meet again
under its present name. Instead, at
the next meeting, it will be known as
“Parliament of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Northern Ire
land” as a result of recommendations
made by an imperial conference. This
implies a similar change as announc
ed in the title of king. Proroguing
was held with traditional picturesque
ceremony. King George asked par
liament for an end of the ill will in
the coal strike and asked the entire
Ration to wipe out bitterness.
MONTEVIDEO, Dec. 22. (^—Bra
zilian revolutionaries under Zecca Net
p, to have defeated the government
forces of Hipolito Rivero in the Piedra
Alta region taking many prisoners
and capturing large numbers of horses
- according to reports received here.
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BRITISH ARMY REDUCED
LONDON, Dec. 22.—The British
army has reduced its fighting
^ strength to 413,500 men or one-third
less than pre-war strength.
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The Alabaman declared that Boyles
said in the Senate Judiciary commit
tee secret session that he asked Smith
to help his candidate for United States
marshal. Heflin asserted: “So Boyles
was to get Smith to have his man ap
pointed marshal to gather in loot on
this rotten work. Smith knew more
than anybody else connected with the
Department of Justice of the high
handed work of former Atty. Gen.
Daugherty. The reason for getting
rid of him was a very strong one. We
conducted an investigation of the
whole thing. It is rumored Smith
grew exceedingly nervous over it and
he made up his mind to make a clean
breast of it all, but Smith never lived
to make that clean breast. He was
murdered.” Heflin described the Fall
Jury as a collection of “dice shooters
and card players.”
JERSEY CITY, Dec. 22. (£>)—Jack
Delaney, light-heavyweight champion,
scored a sensational victory over Bud
Gorman of Wisconsin gaining a tech
nical knockout. With a slashing at
tack he ended the fight after one
minute and thirty-five seconds of the
second round. Charley Rosenberg,
bantamweight champion, decisevely
outpointed Petie Mack of Jersey City,
featherweight in ten rounds.
WINS $5,000 AT GOLF
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 22. (£>)—Har
ry Cooper with score of 293 captur
ed first money in the $5,000 Monterey
Peninsular Golf championship by two
strokes over Larry Nabholtz, John
Farrell and “Wild Bill” Melhorn tied
for third with 296.
MORN WINNER OVER
TACOMA MIDDLE-WEIGHT
SEATTLE, Dec. 22. (/P)—“Vic" Fo
ley, Vancouver featherweight, won a
decision over “Wildcat” Carter of
Everett in six rounds last night. Wal
ter Cleghorn, Cook Inlet middleweight,
took a six round decision over Irving
Seldon of Tacoma in the semi-final.
ROBBERY FRUSTRATED
NEW YORK, Dec. 22. (/P)—Plan to
rob Queen Marie of Rumania while
she was in U. S. was bared as John
Anderson, English gem thief suspect
was seized.
BAR0N0F-FRANKL1N INTERESTS
CONSOLIDATE UNDER NEW
FIRM NAME
SEATTLE, Dec. 22. (£»)—Lee H.
Wakefield announced the consolida
tion of the Baranof-Franklin Packing
companies, representing a million dol
lars. Wakefield will be president of
the new concern, known as the Wake
field Fisheries. The Baranof com
pany has a plant at Red Bluff Bay
and Franklin operates canneries at
Sawmill Bay, Shuyak Straits, Izhut
bay and Seldovia. Wakefield said the
merger will greatly facilitate the hand
ling of business. The company is in
corporated at Olympia for $999,000..
COMMUNITY TREE EVENT
LIBERTY THENTER, FRIDAY
The Community Xmas Tree program
which will be held at the Liberty
theater Friday evening, beginning
promptly at 8 o’clock under the aus
pices of the local Pioneer Order, has
been completed and the several num
bers will appear as follows:
1. High School orchestra, “Moonlight
and Shadows.”
2. Reading by Francis Leslie, “Hir
am Blows In.”
3. “Santa’s Toyshop” by the primary
grades.
4. Reading by Eddie Starr, “Yulius
Yensen, Yanitor.”
5. Carol, “Holy Night” and “It Came
Upon the Midnight Clear.”
Ready by Sigrid Rosness, “Si and I.”
7. “Christmas In Other Lands,” by
the upper grades.
Santa Claus appears!
Orchestra—“Baby Dreams”, waltz.
Candy distributed by Santa Claus.
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DUTCH' LEONARD
INFORMS LANDIS
HOW DEAL MADE
DETAILS OF BASEBALL SCANDAL
ARE RE-AIRED IN WINDY
CITY
CHICAGO, Dec. 22. (^—Recalling
the third baseball scandal in six
years, Ty Cobb said the America*
baseball league officials gave “Dutch”
Leonard $20,000 for innocent letters
from Cobb and Wood.
Judge Landis said as Cobb and
Speaker “are out of baseball, no de
cision can be made unless conditions
changed.”
Cobb declared he did not know of
the bet until long afterward. Leonard
bet Wood $600 against $420 that De
troit would finish in third place and
be beaten by Cleveland for second
place. The result of the game was
nine to five, in which Cobb's team
neither pitched Speaker o rhit heavily,
Cobb hitting only once.
Cobb and Speaker were linked by
Commissioner Landis in the investi
gation of charges that the Detroit
! Cleveland game of September 5, 1919,
was fixed. “Dutch” Leopard, once
Detroit pitcher and Joe Wood, a Cleve
land pitcher were named indicating
that they bet on the game.
Leonard told Landis: “Cobb, Speak
er, Wood and I happened to meet un
der the stand to talk about baseball
and we (Detroit) wanted to finish
third. Speaker said: ‘Don’t worry
about tomorrow’s game; we (Cleve
land) have second place cinched and
you win tomorrow.’ Everybody agreed
'that if it was going to be a setup, we
might as well get some money out
of it. I was to put up $1,500, as I
! remember; Cobb, $2,000, Wood and
j Speaker $1,000 each. I was thru for
• the season and gave a check to Fred
West and left for Independence, Mo.
I received W'ood’s letter with $1,630.
West wrote that he was only able
to put up part of the money.’
The letter Cobb wrote Leonard said:
| “Wood and myself are considerably
disappointed in our business propo
sition as we had $2,000 to put into it;
the other side $1,400. When we final
ly secured that it was about, 2 o'clock,
and they refused to deal with us as
men had been sent to Chicago to take
the matter up.”
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WEST PATTERSON, N. Y., Dec.
22. (/P)—An explosion of 300 kegs of
powder in a car of a derailed freight
trrfin injured 18, demolished two
houses, damaged several and hurled
parts of the car for a quarter of a
mile.
Mr. Finch, U. S. Commissioner and
postmaster at Unalaska, came in on
the S. S. Starr this morning. Mr.
Finch is on his way to the States
where he anticipates a brief change
of climate may improve his health
which has not been of the best for
some months past. Commissioner
Finch is stopping at the Sexton ho
tel.
MUSS MEETING BE
COUNCI LMEN WISH TO HEAR
OPINIONS OF CITIZENRY RE
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GARDING PROPOSED CONSTRUC
TION OF A NEW SCHOOL HOUSE
BY BONDING THE CITY
So that the people of Seward may
be in possession of all facts regarding
the proposed bonding of the city for
the construction of a new school build
ing, the City Council, at the regular
meeting on Monday night, agreed to
call a mass meeting at the Liberty
theatre on January 2, Sunday after
noon at one o’clock at which time
suggestions from the citizenry will be
welcomed and the merits or demerits
of the plan discussed.
Winning essays from the school
children of the city written on the
subject “Why Seward should have a
new school building” will be read at
this public gathering. Decision as to
the winners will be made prior by tt
judges, selected by
and who will comr
Whittlesey, Captain
and Mrs. R. Reed, president of the
Seward Woman’s Club. Three prizes,
first of §5.00; second §3.00 and third
§1.00, will be awarded the winning
essays which are limited to 1,000
words. Essays must be filed with City
Clerk J. P. Hannon by December 30,
Thursday at 3 o’clock.
WARSAW, Dec. 22. (IP)— All Polish
| political factions are dissatisfied with
removal of allied arms control over
Germany. Fears are expressed that
Germany might start invasion on the
eastern frontier at any moment.
WESTWARD WERE UNTRUE
Contrary to reports received from
the Westward, regarding bad storms
and dirty weather, arrivals on the S.
S. Starr, Capt. O. A. Johansen, com
mander, which came into port at an
early hour this morning, the round
trip was not bad at all and little
rough weather was encountered. The
supposed large damage to far West
ward towns and communities by gales
was no worse than in the past which
has been comparatively small. Fine
weather was prevailing at Unalaska
when the steamer was in port.
Westbound the vessel anchored off
Wide bay and twice betvreen' Kana
tak and Chignik. On the return trip
the boat anchored off Belkofsky un
til the surf quieted down; at Kodiak
the vessel remained overnight and at
Afognak island the Starr hove to for
a few hours.
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WATER SHUT-OFF NOTICE
Water will be shut off on Adams
and Sixth, including the Federal build
ing, depot and the Standard Oil plant,
at 8 o’clock tonight, while brief re
pairs are being made. S. W. &. P. CO.