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VOLUME XXII. NUMBER 90.
SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MAY 5,1927.
PRICE TEN CENTS
* CUT. RALPH 6UTHBIE
HIS NOVEL ACCEPTED
**THEtMILKSOP” TITLE OF WORK
BY COMMANDER LOCAL SIG
NAL SERVICE CORPS
Another niche has been carved for
Seward in the hall of fame. Captain
Ralph R. Guthrie is the carver and the j
tool he used is “The Milksop.” a book-- i
length novel, which is soon to appear
on the shelves of current fiction. j
Announcement was received by
Captain Guthrie today from Street &
Smith, publishing company of New'
i
York City, of the acceptance of his'
first book-length novel.
“The Milksop” contains 82.000 j
words; its scenes are laid in the Ne
braska sandhills, in what 13 known as
the old ‘‘badlands.” Love and adven-:
tare are blended in the efforts of a
young man who previously had led a
« protected life, to be as tough possible, j
Captain Guthrie, from time to time
published many short stories but this >
is his first effort at novel writing.
Literature is his avocation rather
than his vocation, its indulgence being
purely for the love of it and applied
as recreation between his labors as
officer in command of the Army Sig
nal Service in Seward and Interior
Alaska. j
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ALTITUDE RECORD FOR
' FREE BALLOONS MADE
CAPTAIN HAWTHORNE C. GRAY
>- BREAKS ALL RECORDS—LIT
TLE PAIN FELT
SCOTTSFIELD, BELLEVILLE, 111.,
May 5. (JP)—A new world’s altitude re
cord for free balloons apparently was
established when Captain Hawthorne
C. Gray descended at Golden Gate, 111.,
after his altometer showed a reading
of approximately 41.000 feet. Two
German aeronauts made previous re
cords of 35,000 feet 26 rears ago.
i
Captain Gray, on his descent, found
he was falling 1,500 feet per minute
at an altitude of 8,000 feet. He imme
diately climbed over the side of the,
basket and made a parachute land-1
ing. Gray said a pain in his chest at
the maximum height caused some dis
comfort.
< OFF ON LONS FLIGHT
DAKAR, West Africa, May 5. (JP)—
Captain Saint Roman, French aviator,
left St. Louis, Senegal, at 6:30 this
morning in an attempt to fly across
^ the Atlantic in a non-stop voyage to
Pernambuco, Brazil, a distance of 1,800
milest
THOUSANDS MORE THREATENED
NEW ORLEANS, May 5. (£>)—Fifty
thousand more persons are threatened
with the wrath of the Mississippi river
and tributaries. The towns of St.
Joseph, Waterproof, Newellton and
several smaller communities are being
deserted.
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NEGRO HANGED. SHOT
DRAGGED THRU TOWN.
BODY IS THEN BURNED
MOB LYNCHES CARTER, WHO YES
TERDAY CONFESSED ATTACK
ING WOMEN
.
LITTLE ROCK. Ark., May 5. (ZP)—
The militia is guarding Little Rock af
ter John Carter, a negro, who admit
ted attacking white women yesterday,
was lynched last night. Miss Glennie
Stewart, one of the women, identified
the prisoner and saw him lynched. Her!
mother is in a hospital suffering from
injuries the negro inflicted.
The mob, together with a posse of
officers, pursued Carter into a forest
and captured him. A mob numbering
several hundred took charge of the ne-j
gro and hanged him from a telephone
pole, then riddled his body with bul
lets, cut it down, tied it behind an
automobile, dragged it through the
principal business thoroughfares and
later saturated it with gasoline and
burned it in a street bordering the ne
gro section.
DEVISE SEA TECHNIQUE
WASHINGTON, May 5. (ZP)—Nat
ural color photography beneath the!
surface of the sea is the achievement
of Dr. W. H. Longley, ichtyologist of
Goucher College and Charles Martin
of the National Geographic society.
LAKES OF MINNESOTA
TOO MANY TO COUNT
?>7. PAUL, Minn., May 5. (ZP)—
Minnesota, “’and of ten thousand
lakes,” may be too modest in It',
boast. Listing the :akes fo” distri
bution of infant fish, Thaddeu? Sur
bei of the state fish ana game dc
paitment has found three of Minne
-oi l’s 87 countie ■ v iih more Tha i
1,000 lakes ap?ee« ami several wit1,
more than 500, and
to+al greater than t>
he estimates a
vaunted 10,000.
GOD OF TODAY IS MONEY
DECLAHES NOTED AUTHOI
LONDON, May 5. (£>)—1The theatre
is dangerously ill. Phideas, Socrates
and Aristotle are dead. The gods of
our time are petrol, eggs, butter,
wheat prices and railway shares,”
declared Madame Xaren Bramsen the
Danish authoress addressing the
Ango-Danis’n Society. She. said dram
atic authors look on those facts with
tears in their eyes. “There is only
one power, one aim and one dream
in the world—money.”
SEWARD LAO OILS AFTER
BRIEF FLUE STRUGGLE
— I
Sidney Jacobsen, 12-year old son of
' Mr. and Mrs. I. Jacobsen, pioneer resi
dents of Seward, passed away a few
minutes before 4 o’clock this morning
at the Anchorage hospital following a
two weeks illness which began with
an attack of influenza. His parents
had been at Sidney’s bedside through
out the week and were with him when
!
the end came this morning. It) is said
the lad wras conscious until almost the
end. Everything that medical skill
could contribute was done.
Sidney was born in Seward and this
month, on May 29, would have been 13
years of age. He w~as affectionately
known by a great majority of local
residents as a flue, upstanding little
chap, and was a favorite among his,
playmates.
According to Mr. P. ! Anderson, I
brother of Mrs. Jacobsen, i the body I
will be brought over to Seward on
Saturday and, providing arrangements,
can be made to hold the S. S. Admir-j
al Farragut in port for a few hours,
on Sunday morning at which time
the vessel is due to return from the
Westward, funeral services will be
held at 11 o’clock Sunday morning.
Mr. and Mrs. Jacobsen will take the
body of their only child to Seattle
■where interment will be made.
REVENUE BILL IS
PASSED BY HOUSE;
BUT TWO REDUCTIONS ARE
MADE IN THE GENERAL AP
PROPRIATIONS
JUNEAU, May 5. (/P)—The House
last night passed the revenue bill and
the general appropriation measure.
In the former there is not a single
raise in taxes, but two reductions. The
general appropriation measure carries
approximately $2,000,000, the largest,
single appropriation being $850,000
for schools, and for roads and trails
$460,000. Territorial taxes on ships
registered in Alaska was eliminated
from the tax bill.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
St. Louis 8, Pittsburg 3.
Cincinnati 9, Chicago 13.
Brooklyn 3, New York 4.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Boston-Philadelphia—rain.
Chicago 11, Detroit 5.
New York 4, Washington 7.
Cleveland 3, St. Louis 13.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
San Francisco 6, Sacramento 2.
Los Angeles 0, Oakland 1.
Portland 10, Hollywood 6.
Seattle 7, Missions 8.
CAN BECOME FRENCH
PARIS, May 5. (/P)—Quine a num
ber or' German ‘‘war guilty” can, ii'
they wish, become French citizens
without any formality to speak o',
by the terms of a new law revising
the method of obtaining naturaliza
tion papers, now before the French
parliament.
m UNITED SUITES;
SAYS MELLON ERRED
CHALLENGES STATEMENT OF
MELLON ON DEBT PAYMENT
TO U. S.
LONDON, May 5. <7P)—The British
government in a note to the United
States challenges the accuracy of the
statement March 17 by; Secretary Mel
lon that Great Britain’s debt pay
ments to the United States do not con
stitute a drain upon British economic
resources. The note declared that in
no circumstances will Great Britain
receive from reparations and inter
allied war debts taken together more
than she pays to America, and that it
is not the desire of the British gov
ernment to retain for itself anything
out of the receipts from reparations
and inter-allied war debts. The note
expresses a “trust that the United
States take steps to remove the un
fortunate impression that has been
created” by Secretary Mellon’s state
ments.
COOLIE ADDRESSES
PAN-AMERICAN H1
COMMERCIAL MEET
U. S. A. TO USE ITS RESOURCES
NOT TO BURDEN OTHERS,
BUT TO ASSIST
WASHINGTON, May 5. (^—Presi
dent Coolidge told the Pan-American
Commercial Conference last night
that all the members of the Pan-Am
erican Union are on an equal footing
with the United States. “It is the es
tablished policy of this government to
use its resources not to burden them
but to assist them; not to control
them, but to co-operate. The Pan
American Union is creating a new civ
ilization in these Western republics
representative of all that is best in
the history of the world.”
GAS ADDED 10 TERRORS
OE BOOTLEGGERS' LIFE
LOS ANGELES, May 4. (/P)—The
use of gas bombs as a reprisal against
liquor smugglers who have purchased
machine guns to combat Federal of
ficers and hijackers ,was threatened
yesterday by Frank R. McReynolds,
prohibition administrator for South
ern California and Arizona.
GMY ADMITS STRUCK
FIRST BLOW BUT WHS
HELPED BT WOMAN
| ADMITS THAT AFTER ASSAULT
COULD NOT STRANGLE SNY
DER THOUGH HE TRIED
j NEW YORK, May 5. (£>)—Gray ad
I mitted he struck the first blew in the
i Murder of Snyder, but said he would
| have failed if Mrs. Snyder had not
j helped him.
i
NEW YORK. May 5. (/P)— Gray’3 di
rect examination was concluded, and
under cross-examination he rose on
1 the -witness stand and demonstrated
how he wielded the sash weight to
slay Snyder. Gray said he tried to
strangle Snvder with wire after Mr3.
i
I Snyder had beaten him unconscious
and chloroformed him. “But I could
! not do it. I was too shaky and intox
icated,” he said. After killing Sny
der, Gray said, he mussed things up
to make it seem there had been burg
lary and tied up Mrs. Snyder, taking
a train for Syracuse. He declared he
J threw from the train the brief case
which contained poisons Mrs. Snyder
! gave him. As Syracuse he called on
his friend Haddon. Gray arranged
with him to “do me a favor by mus
sing up my bed and mailing some let
ters, hanging out a “don’t disturb
I sign.” In killing Snyder, Gray said,
he awoke and seemed to be -winning
the struggle for his life. “I dropped
the sash weight and cried: ‘Momie,
Momie, help me.’ If she hadn’t come
he would have got hte best of me. She
picked up the sash weight and hit
him from behind, and then threw
chloroform in his face. I got his
hands behind him and she tied them.
Then he lay still. She said: :‘Is he
dead?’ and I said ‘I think so.’ Then
she asked me to strangle him with
a picture wire. I tried, but couldn’t.”
SMITH-SCOLLARD
CASE COMES TO END
AMICABLE SETTLEMENT IS AR
RIVED AT REGARDING TWO
MILLION DOLLARS
VANCOUVER, B. C., May 5. (#)—
After months of dispute an amicable
| settlement has been reached between
Mrs. Sarah Wilbur Scollard in legal
differences with her husband, George
Francisco Scollard, to regain $2,000,000
worth of securities she charged he
misappropriated. The criminal charg
es against him will be withdrawn.
TO MARK WHISKEY REBELLION
PITTSBURGH, Pa., May 5. (&)—
The first civil war in the United
States, commonly known as the
Whiskey Rebellion of 1794, is to be
memorialized by the citizens’ com
mittee of this city, which has asked
that a part of the old Neville farm,
now owned by Alleghney County, be
set aside as a park.