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MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXI, NUMBER 284.
SEWARD ALASKA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1926.
PRICE TEN CENTS
Alaska $2,236,000
BILL CARRIES $1,400,000 FOR ALASKA RAILROAD
AND $469,400 FOR THE BUREAU OF EDUCATION
—CARE OF TERRITORY’S INSANE $116,000—
HUGE SUM REPORTED AS AVAILABLE FOR|
VETERANS OF THREE WARS
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* WASHINGTON, Dec. 10. (/P)—The Interior depart-1
ment appropriations bill was reported carrying more than
m four-fifths of the $259,386,000, as available for Civil,
** Spanish-American and World war pensions. The Alas
ka appropriations are: McKinley National Park $22,500;
Bureau of Education $469,400; medical relief, $150,000;
reindeer fund $17,520; care of Alaska’s insane $161,000;'
suppression of the liquor traffic $16,200; Alaska Railroad
$1,400,000.
. THIRD TERM BOOM
COOLIE BEGINS
ON PACIFIC COAST
T ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF COOL
IDGE ADMINISTRATION IS
SATISFACTORY
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10. (JP)—'The
third term for President Coolidge in
1928 has been started on the Pacific
Coast. Ralph Arnold, Republican
county chairman of Los Angeles told
the president at the White House con
ference today that the people demand
ed him and that he would have to run.
California, he said needed protection
for its industries and its farming in
terests and not only is satisfied with,
but enthusiastic over the accomplish
ments of the Coolidge administration.
VAGRANT PROVES HAVE OVER
FIFTY BANK ACCOUNTS
LONG BEACH, Dec. 10. (£>)—An
aged man was arrested as a vagrant
yesterday showed police that he had
fifty-five accounts In savings banks
scattered all the way from Iowa to
Long Beach.
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DESERTS WIFE AND DAUGHTER
FOR TREASURER OF BAPTIST
church; woman left hus
band AND FOUR CHILDREN
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 10. (/P)—De
partment of Justice agents arrested
Reverend Walter G. Jones, former
pastor of the Third Baptist church of
^ Portland, on an Oregon indictment
under the Mann act. The minister
is accused of eloping to Fortworth,
Texas, in August, with Mrs. Pearl Lee
former treasurer of the church. The
government men declared he had de
serted his wife and daughter. Mrs.
Lee left her husband and four small
children. Jones referred his inter
viewers to his wife who is an attorney
saying, “I feel for my wife in this
hour of trouble.”
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ALAMEDA DUE TONIGHT
The S. S. Alameda, of the A. S. S.
Co., left Valdez at 3:30 o’clock this
morning and according to the local
office will arrive at 7 o’colck this
evening.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION IS
SOUGHT BY METHODIST
HOME SOCIETY
That Seward is well on the road
to securing a hospital and that an
institution of this nature will be con
structed within the next year, can be
accepted as an assured fact, judging
from expressions made at the last
Chamber of Commerce meeting.
Reverend Hatton, superintendent of
Jesse Lee Home, was present at the
meeting and voiced the desire to as
certain additional facts relative to the!
local situation in order that he may
transmit same to Mrs. Goode and
Mrs. McQueen, two of the leading of
ficials of the Methodist Home Mis
sionary Society, for their approval.
Providing the hospital is constructed
it is thought a wing will be added to
one of the two main buildings ample
in size and in equipment, to care for
local needs as well as the Home pro
per.
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NEW DIAMOND MINE
IN SOUTH AMERICA
DISCOVERY BELIEVED BE RICH
EST IN WORLD, $5,000,000,000
ESTIMATED VALUE
RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec. 10. (£>)—
Discovery of a rich diamond mine,
possibly* the richest mine in the world
was reported today in the State of
Manas Coreas. The mine which was
said to have been found on. an estate
owned by Home Secretary Estilla,
estimated the value of the mine to the
sum of $5,000,000,000.
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“THERE WiLL BE A LONG HARD
FIGHT BEFORE I GO BACK TO
CALIFORNIA,” HE STATES TO
OFFICERS
BEEN WRITING FOR MAGAZINES
Mingled Freely at Detectives Conven
tion at Atlantic City; Has Had No
Communication with Aimee ;
HARRISBURG, Penn., Dec. 10. (ff>)
—Ormiston was arrested last night in
an apartment house. He is now en
route to Chicago in the custody of
two detectives who traced him thru
a letter.
“Ormiston said “There will be a
long and hard fight before I go back
to California. I feel certain Attorney
Keyes is not very anxious to have me
go back on trial.” He has been writ
ing for radio magazines and sold one
article to appear over his own signa
ture. He was almost without money
when arrested.
“Really,” he said, “I can’t under
stand why it has taken so long for
somebody to find me. I made no par
ticular effort to hide and I’ve not
used any disguises aside, from assum
ing a different name. I’ve not avoid
ed public places and been occupying
the present apartment for two months.
When the American Detective So
ciety was in convention at the Am
bassador hotel at Atlantic City, I used
to stroll through the lobby every day
and mingle with the detectives and
not one gave me a second glance.”
He has had no communication with
Aimee McPherson.
DETECTIVES SEARCH
FOR BEN I. LIE
FORMER SEMITE
WEEK SEARCH PROVES FRUIT
LESS; LEFT HOME TO BUY
CATTLE, SAYS WIFE
SPOKANE, Dec. 10. (^—Disappear
ance of Ben R. Labaree, former Sew
ard mining man and engineer was
revealed by deputy sheriffs who said
they had been searching for him
since Monday night. Larabee drove
into Spokane from his country home
on Monday morning and left his auto
mobile in a garage here saying he
was going away for a few days.
His wife, who is ill with two young
children from influenza, said her hus
band announced when he left home,
that he contemplated buying cattle.
She asserted he had not been feeling
well.
HOUSE PASSES BILL FOR
INCREASE JUDGES SALARIES
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10. (£>)—After
listening to an attack on Judge Taft
for receiving an annuity from the
Carnegie trust fund the house passed
and sent to the president of the sen
ate a bill carrying a material increase
for judges salaries.
FORMER PREMIER W EX-MINISTER OF
WAS KNOWN AS ONE OF THE MOST CONSERVA
TIVE STATESMAN IN THE BALKANS—WAS SEN
TENCED TO PRISON IN CONNECTION ATTEMPT
TO ASSASSINATE KING MILAN—HIS POLICY UP
HELD BY GREAT BRITAIN, RUSSIA, FRANCE
AND ITALY
BELGRADE, Serbia, Dec. 10. (/P)—Former pre
mier and ex-minister of foreign affairs of Jugoslavia,
Nikola Pachitch, died here today. At the time of his elec
tion to the National Assembly of Serbia he had been a
statesman with a long and tempestuous political career.
He was born in 1848 and educated at the Polyechnic
School in Zurich, Switzerland. • His public life was punc
tuated with two death sentences and several exiles, as a
result of which he became an extreme radical. At the
time of his death, however, Pachitch was known as one of
the most conservative statesman in the Balkans.
He was successively, Mayor of Belgrade, President of
Skupshtina, head of the first radical cabinet and Minister
to Russia, when, in 1899, the attempt was made to assas
sinate King Milan in the streets of the Serbian capital.
Pachitch was placed on trial as one of a number of con
spirators responsible for the attempt on the King’s life.
He was sentenced to prison but afterward pardoned.
In 1902 King Alexander asked him
to form a ministry but he failed in
the task. After the assassination of
Alexander and his *c<>nsort, Queen
Draga, Pachitch became Minister of
Foreign Affairs in the Gruitch cab
inet. Subsequently he was also
Premier during the reign of King
Peter and occupied this position
when the world war broke out.
In 1908 the annexation of Bosnia
and Herzegovina by Austria-Hungary
and the revolution in Turkey brought
about an acute crisis. The whole na
tion clamored for war with Austria
Hungary to bring about the realiza
tion of the dream of many Serbs,
Bosnia, Herzegovina, Montenegro and
the Sanjak of Novibazar including
Northwestern Macedonia.
Serbia demanded compensation
from Austria-Hungary for the annex
ation of Bosnia and Herzegovnia, but
neither the dual monarchy nor the
young Turks would consider the ses
sion of any territory and in Janua
ry, 1909, the outcry for war was re
newed.
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NEW DANCE DUE ID
MEET WORLD FAVOR
NEW YORK, Dec. 10. (/P)—“Black
Bottom” is due for world favor be
cause, unlike many of its predecessors,
it is a genuine dance rather than a
“contortion.” At least, that is the
decision of three hundred dancing
teachers from all parts of Europe who
met in Paris to discuss the work of
their profession.
The Charleston, on the other hand,
was severely condemned and M.
Schwarz, of the Paris opera, went so
far as to demand its banishment be
cause of its alleged ill effects on tne
feminine anatomy.
A modified Charleston, which mot
fethe objections of physicians and mor
alists, was adopted as a partner of
the “Black Bottom” on the well regu
lated dancing floor.
COKE'S MESSAGE
IS ANNOUNCEMENT OF
CANDIDACY. STATED
ASHURST, DEMOCRAT, STATES
COOLIDGE WILL BE DEFEATED
AT THE POLLS
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10. (^—Dem
ocratic senators see in the Coolidge
message announcement of his candi
dacy for re-election. Senator Swan
son of Virginia said, “It surely is not
a farewell message for it has all the
platitudinous declarations that adorn
the dress of a candidate.”
Senator Harris of Mississippi said
“The American people will regard the
message as a doxology but he pro
claimed it as an announcement for re
election.”
Senator Ashurst of Arizona said
“It is the announcement of his can
didacy and he will be nominated on
the first ballot but will be defeated at
the polls.”
DRAFT DODGER MAY
RETURN TO AMERICA
GROVER CLEVELAND BERGDOLL
WILLING TO GIVE SELF UP
AND TAKE MEDICINE
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 10. (£>)—
Grover Cleveland Bergdoll may be
home for Christmas. The famous
war time draft dodger has written to
his mother here that he is sailing for
America within the next two weeks.
Bergdoll is ready to take his medicine
in this country and his only fear is
that he may be attacked by angry
mobs of ex-service men, the mother
Mrs. Emma C. Bergdoll announced.
Don’t miss the show tonight.