MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXIII. NUMBER 54. SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, MARGH 6, 1928.
PRICE TEN CENTS
II III POSTAGE
RATE IS REDUCED
PASSED BY DOUSE
MEASURE OBJJECTED TO BY LA
GARDIA WAS APPROVED BY
COLONEL LINDBERGH
WASHINGTON, March 6. (/P)—'The
Kelly Bill authorized to reduction of
the air mail postage rate and extend
ing air mail route contracts was pass
ed by the House and sent to the Sen
ate.
The mail postage rate will be reduc
ed from 10 cents for one-half an ounce
to five cents for an ounce. Earlier in
the day the measure had been object
ed to by Representative Larguardia
(Republican from New York although
Representative Kelly, Republican from
Pennsylvania, the bill’s author said it
had been approved by Colonel Chas.
A. Lindbergh.
SKSGIY RESIDENT
TELLS EASTERNERS
Df WITER GOLF
MINE HOLE COURSE IN ACTION
ALL WINTER, HE INFORMS
MONTREAL FANS
MONTREAL, March 6, (IP)—While
golf enthusiasts have been flocking to
Southern resorts in pursuit of their
sports residents of Skagway, Alaska,
have been enjoying the game on their
nine hole course within 400 miles of
the Arctic Circle. L. J. Johnson, rail
way agent in the Yukon and Northern
British Columbia and who has arriv
ed here, said the game has been play
ed all winter on the Skagway links.
* JUDGE 1C INTDSH
RESIGNS AT OLYMPIA
OLYMPIA, March 6. (IP)—Chief Jus
tice Kenneth Mac Intosh tended his
resignation to the Governor effective
H April 15. It is understood he will be
a candidate for the seat in the United
States Senate held by Senator Dill.
HAMMER SLAYER GETS
LIFE. KILLED HURRY
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PAINESVILLE, Ohio, March 6. (JP)
—Yelma West, 21, hammer slayer of
her husband Thomas West, was sen
tenced to life imprisonment after she
pleaded guilty to second degree mur
der. Velma received the sentence in
tears and slumped into her chair.
SKATING IS GREAT!
Skating on both lakes is great re
(Ports Leonard Hopkins, champion
fancy skater of the Territory. “But
| bring your own lantern,” lie added.
JACK WELLIAUS, NOME
OLDTIMEA, IS BIIRIEO
SEATTLE, March 6. -(/P)—The fun
eral of Jack Williams, 36, who died
Saturday of heart disease, will be held
Wednesday. He wras Past Dictator of
of the Nome Lodge of Moose and came
to Seattle two years ago after living
in Nome 20 years. A widow and two
children survive him.
TWO GIRLS KILLED
STRUCK BY flUTD
CAR CRASHES INTO GROUP FIVE
HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS WAITING
FOR STREET CAR
SEATTLE, Mar. 6. (#>)—'The second
victim of an automobile which crashed
into a group of five high school girls
waiting for a street car, Louise Lang,
15, died today. Marie Machardie, 16,
died a few minutes after the accident.
George Dfobtrtd, confessed driver,
a<nd Joe McKay, his companion, have
been arrested..
Victoria Astlett is still unconscious
and two other girls are out of danger.
Diebold and McKay, both taxi drivers,
stole the car after they became drunk.
APPOOPIINS WILL
OE ABOUT BIGHT, OIL
WASHINGTON, Mar. 6. (£>)—Presi
dent Coolidge believes Congressional
appropriation will be about as estim
i ated by the Budget and will not jeo
pardize a moderate tax reduction. His
opinion is based on the belief Con
gress will not attempt large new en
i
terprises calling for large expendi
tures.
PRISON SENTENCE
FOB PAST MEMBERS
IFFFCT SENDING FEW EX-MEM
BERS TO PE >1 MAKE ODOR
LESS OFFENSIVE
WASHINGTON. March *j.(/P)-A
| jiisoL* sentence former memb r>
-'vC'cngress engaging in obj.'tr.
- :rhin two years from the date of
| C>eir retirement "r- m the Senate or
■ the House, is asked in a bill <1 ruled
for introduction bv Representative
Howard, Damoci •. from Nebraska.
He said “I feel that if we send a
few ex-members, now lobbyists, to the
penitentiary the effect might serve
to make a less offensive odor to the
nose. Common decency is less dam
jaj^ng to the public welfare than the
! practices of predatory interests which
! employ ex-members of Congress.”
Howard said he regarded the plan
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as ‘‘responsive to an aroused and in
dignant public sentiment over the
large activities of a powerful lobby
1 marshaled by a former member of the
I Senate for defeat of legislation look
ing into the investigation of certain
! great combines of wealth invested in
in public securities.”
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10 MUSE BIG GUN
BUNGE ON BSTTLESHIPS
WASHINGTON, Mar. 6. (/P)—An in
| crease of 10,000 in the firing range
of big turret guns on the battleships
j Pennsylvania and Arizona would be
provided for, under a S14,SO0,O0O ex
penditure, approved by the House
Naval Committee, for the moderniza
tion of two vessels.
HUGHES FOR CHAIRMAN
WASHINGTON, Mar. G. (jP)—-Clias.
Evans Hughes looms as the likely
[Chairman of the Republican National
Committee.
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One of the Republican Presidential candidates for 1928.
FRANK O. LOWDEN
ARREST IF STEWART
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WASHINGTON, March 6. (/P)—A
\ warrant for the arrest of Robert Stew.
| art, Chairman of the Board of the
Standard Oil Co., of Indiana, who was
indicted here for refusing to answer
questions asked by the Senate Teapot
Dome Committee, was sent to Chicago
to be served on the oil man.
FBENClW
ORDERED RETURN
FRANCE AT ONCE
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COSTES AND LEBRIX ORDERED
RETURN AND ABANDON PRO
J&CTED FLIGHT
PARIS, March 6, (JP)—It is semi
officially announced that Costes and
: Lebrix, French aviators now in the
! United States, have been instructed
j to return to France immediately and
| abandon the projected trans-Pacific
| steamship journey and Asiatic flight.
The plane, built for the Paris-New
jYork flight, is reported to be ready
for a trial. The instructions are in
; terpreted here as meaning the flight
, will be attempted in May b^- Costes
land Lebrix.
COLONEL IN ILLINOIS
SCOTTFIELD, Belluelville, 111., Mar.
6. (£>)—Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh
and five companions landed at 6:20
completing a flight from Washington
with an hour stop at Cincinnati.
NOTED ARTIST*DIES
SAN FRANCISCO, March 6. (£>)—
i Charles Rollo Peters, noted California
J artist, died here after an illness of a
j month. The funeral was held yester
|day.
TEN ARE KILLED
WHEN EIRE DESTROYS
: HOUSE IN PARISH
MOTHER LOSES LIFE IN VAIN AT
TEMPT SAVE CHILDREN; EIGHT
ARE TRAPPED
QUEBEC, March 6. (ff)—'Ten per
sons were killed in a fire which des
troyed the home of Thomas Cliche in
the parish of St. Marie Dobeauce. Mrs.
Cliche died in a vain attempt to rescue
some of her eight children who were
trapped in the blazing house.
Cliche also tried to reenter the
dwelling after he dashed from the
house in his night clothing to give the
alarm but was driven back by the
flames. Mrs. Cliche ©limbed thru a
window and was not seen again.
Charles Cliche, father of Thomas
who w^s sleeping on the top floor, is
believed to have sufficated. An over
heated furnace is blamed.
CHANGE IN VOTE IN LAKE CARGO
CASE LOSES ESCH PLACE ON
COMMITTEE
WASHINGTON, March 6. (/P)—An
unfavorable report on the renomina
iton of John W Esch as a member of
the Interstate Commerce Commission
was ordered by the Senate Interstate
Comhierce Committee. The vote was
seven for 10 against Escli’s nomina
tion.
He was opposed particularity by
Senators from Southern coal states
because of his change in vote in the
lake cargo coal case whereby rail
roads serving Pennsylvania mines are
permitted reduced rates to Lake ports
thus increasing the differential in fav
or of the Pennsylvania fields as
against the mines of West Virginia,
Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee.
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EVERY THE HE
OPENS US MOUTH
: POTS FOOT 1 IT
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DELEGATE SAYS “WOULD MEAN
THE ^ENTRANCE BUREAUCRA
CY INTO ALASKA”
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WASHINGTON, Mar. 6. (/P)—After
a lengthy debate during which the
Alaska delegate and Chairman Curry,
i of the Territory Committee, had a
heated verbal exchange, the House de
feated the Curry bill authorizing ad
ditional payments to Territorial of
ficers already appropriated by the Al
aska legislature by a vote of 130 to 12.
The measure would virtually mean
repeal of the Territory’s organic act,
the delegate said and would mean the
-entrance of “bureaucracy into Alaska.”
He added ‘I do not see why the dele
gate has to compromise with every
measure dealing with his territory.
That is unfair and unjustified.”
Curry jumped to his feet and said
“You have always got fair treatment.”
MINI FILE CUIMS
KSTftLLA OIL FIELD
CORADVA, March 6. (jP)—Eight
residents of Cordova have filed papers
for oil claims at Cimmissioner’s of
fice, in the oil fields at Katala which
are inaccessible due to the sinking
last December of the boat Pioneer. A
new boat, owned and commanded by
William Crooker, is now in service.
W. A. C. MEETING TONIGHT
The Seward Woman’s Athletic Club
meets tonight at 7:30 o’clock. A regu
lar business meeting will follow the
athletics at 8 o'clock.