COAST TERMINAL FOR THE ALASKA RAILROAD
VOLUME XXII. NUMBER 60.
SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1927.
PRICE TEN CENTS
DELIBERATE ATTEMPT
TO KILL FORD CLOSE
FRIENDS REVEAL
RETAIL GROCERS OF DETROIT
BOYCOTTING THEIR LEADING
CITIZEN
IS RENDERED UNCONCIOUS
DEEP CUT OVER ^YE, ANOTHER
ON TOP OF HEAD AND IS
BADLY BRUISED
DETROIT. March 31. (VP)—Sources
close to Henry Ford declare his in
juries are the result of a deliberate at
tempt to kill him by crushing a larger
motor car into the Ford coupe in
which he was riding alone. The
coupe was knocked off the road just
after it passed over the Michigan
avenue bridge on the river Rouge and
crashed down a 15-foot embankment
and overturned against a huge elm
%ree six feet from the water’s edge.
Ford was rendered unconscious, but
soon recovered and made his way to
the gatekeeper of his estate. Mrs.
Ford was summoned and Ford was
taken home and later to a hospital.
The Detroit Free Press prints this
description of his injuries: “A deep
cut over the eye, another on top
of his head, his body covered with
bruises and so wrenched that he moans
ar the slightest movement. He some
fwnes cries out in pain and is men
aced by a threat of pneumonia.”
In addition to Aaron Sapiro’s libel
suit against him, Ford recently re
ceived widespread publicity in connec
tion with a reported boycott by De
troit retail grocers. The boycott is
said to have eben organized by retail
ers who protested to Ford about his
alleged practice of underselling them
in his grocery tores. They declared
^iev received an unsatisfactory re
ply from him.
MILLIONS OF BARRELS
OF OIL SHIPPED TO
PEARL HARBOR BASE
FIVE U. S. TANKERS WILL RE.
QUIRE 15 MONTHS TO TRANS
PORT OIL
; SAN DIEGO, March 31. (^—Tran
sportation of 2,700,000 barrels of oil
from Southern California to the
Navy’s Petroleum reserve base at
Pearl Harbor is to be commenced in
June by five United States tankers,
the Cuyaa. Curama, Kanawha, Ram
apo and Neches according to plans
announced by the Navy Department.
The length of time required to move
the oil will be 15 months and the
project when completed will be the
latest concentration of Naval Fuel
supply in history, states the Depart
ment.
FUNERAL SERVICES HELD IN'
FAIRBANKS FOR EDWARD A.
HERRING
—
FAIRBANKS, March 31. (^—Busi
ness ceased for four hours during the
i
funeral services for Edward A. Her
ring, Dawson and Fairbanks pioneer
who died Sunday of pneiynonia. The
business houses closed all day Friday
,as a final tribute. Herring was associ
ated with the newspapers of Dawson
and Fairbank in the early days, and
later entered the transfer business in
Fairbanks. He leaves a widow and
nine children, seven of whom live in
Fairbanks.
!
NATIONAL GUARD
SURROUNDS BAHTS
II DEIST WOODS
FOUR ROBBERS STAGED DAY
LIGHGT HOLDUP OF NEWTON
COUNTY BANK
JASPER, Ark., March 31. (TP)—A
detachment of national guardsmen
and a hundred possemen urrounded a
dense woods whwere three bandits
who participated in a S6,500 daylight
robbery of the Newton County bank
Tuesday are believed to be hidden. A
fourth bandit was jailed and is report
ed to have confessed having partici
pated in the holdup. The bandits are
heavily armed. The guardsmen have
;
machine guns.
AVIATOR EXPLAINED TO POLICE
HE HAD DIFFICULTY TAKING
OFF
—
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LOS ANGELES, March 30. (£>)—
Earl Carlisle, commercial aviator,
| will go to trial in the municipal
I
! court here tomorrow in which it is
said is California’s first airplane
reckless driving case.
Carlisle was arrested February 8th
| of this year after his plane had
crashed into a lamp post on a street
in Venice. A jury will hear the
charge of reckless driving brought
by the police. Carlisle told police at
'the time of his arrest that he had
trouble getting his plane up after
leaving a Venice flying field to de
liver the craft to a purchaser.
TROOPS WILL REMAIN
SAN DIEGO, March 31. (£>)—
Troops of the 11th Calvary will be
retained permanently at camp here
for border patrol duty. Senator
Samuel Shortridge was informed yes
terday by the War Department. .
DELEGATE'S WRATH
GIVEN FULL PLAY
BEFORE MEMBERS
SUTHERLAND SPEECH FEATURE
OF PUBLIC HEARING ON CON
TROLLER BILL
(Juneau Empire)
A crowd that filed the hall of the
House of Representatives listened
to four speakers support the Con
trollers Bill, heard two splendid
political rally declamations, but the
Controller Bill itself was not even
taken off the table. Delegate Dan
Sutherland was the principal con
tributor to the one-sided discussion,
speaking for one hour during which
he attacked things sundry, including
bureaucracy in general, Alaska bu
reaus in particular, the Bureau of
Fisheries by name, the city of Juneau
and the local press.
Others who spoke were Henry Ro
den, Grover C. Winn, and Senator
Will A. Steel. Chairman of the Sen
ate Committee on Finance and spon
sor of the measure about which
the meeting was centered. The
Senator read what he termed was an
outline of the measure which he de
clared was the burning issue of the
day. The Legislature, he added, is
being flooded with petitions for the
passage of his bill, unqualified en
dorsements of it and demands for
quick action. He concluded by wav
ing aloit a typewritten list which
he said contained 373 names of the
leading citizens of Ketchikan, “busi
ness men, working men and fisher
men,” who endorsed the measure.
(Continued on Page Three.)
THREE HUNDRED COAL
FOUR LIVES LOST—BLAST FELT
TEN MILES AWAY—ENTIRE
SHIFT AT WORK
HARRISBURG, Pa., March 31. (/P)
—Three hundred coal miners of the
Ehrenfeld region are safe in their
homes, survivors of one of the most
terrific explosions in the history of
the central Pennsylvania fields. They
walked to safety unharmed by the ter
rific blasts which took a toll of four
lives. The explosion ripped through
mine No. 3 of the Pennsyvania Coal
and Coke company when the gntire
day shift was at work. The force of
the blast was felt ten miles away. The
entire 300 were at first believen en
tombed, but they made their way
through the darkness to the only un
damaged entry.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Missions 2, Oakland 1.
Hollywood 3, Sacramento 7.
Portland 4, San Francisco 3.
Seattle 1, Los Angeles 7.
WANT TO COLLECT $4 000,000;
VALUE OF ORIGINAL RESER
VATION LAND
—
BENTON, Wash., March 31. (JP)—
Efforts of the Duwamish tribe of
Indians to collect $4,00,000 from the
United States «are being pressed in
the United States Court of Claims.
The $4,000,000 the Indians declared
represents the value of land which
j would have been given them for a
; reservation under the terms of a
I treaty alleged to have been signed by
the Territorial Governor on January
22, 1S55.
SHOOT TO KILL IN
THREE-FOURTHS OF INSTITU
TION INMATES ARE BEDRID
DEN OR MAINED
SANTA MONICA, March 31. (IP)—
An increased guard armed with ord
ers to arrest any suspicious persons
found about the grounds and to be
especially vigilant at night was set
by Governor John Hadley. The ac
tion was taken as the result of three
recent fires mostly among the wood
en buildings which the Governor said
looked like the work of fire bugs.
The Sawtelle institution houses 4,000
veterans nearly three-fourths of
whom are either bed ridden or main
ed and unable to protect themselves.
STUDENTS FORCED
TIE EXAM PLEDGE
FAILURE TO SIGN PLEDGE WILL
RESULT IN A FAILING GRADE
BERKELY, Cal., March 31. (/P)—
Students at the University of Cali
fornia from now on when completing
examinations, must sign * a pledge
that they have neither given nor
received assistance under the terms
of an order issued here yesterday by
President W. W. Campbell. The fol
lowing pledge must be signed and
turned in at the University: I here
by certify upot my honor that I
have neither given nor received un
authorized assistance in this exami
nation.
Failure to sign this pledge will
result in a failing grade.
COOLIDGE MAKES APPOINTMENTS
NEW YORK, March 31. (/P)—
Charles H. Tuttle, who was support
ed by the Republicans was appoint
ed by the United States to act as
attorney for the southern district of
New York. President Coolidge made
the appointment.
U. S. COMTE
MURDER TRIAL BRINGS OUT
FACT CHARGE OF $10 PRICE
FOR ASSASSINATION
SHANGHAI, March 31. (^—Coo
lies at Chung-king tore down and de
stroyed the American flag over the
United States consulate. Anti-Amer
icanism there forced the closing of
business houses and the concentration
of Americans near the water front.
The Cantonese commander, Ching
Kai Shek estimated the Anglo-Ameri
can bombardment of Sucony hill,
Nanking, resulted in the killing of six
and the wounding of 15, and the de
struction of 50 houses. A murder trial
revealed that $10 is the price for as
sassination in Shanghai. A coolie was
convicted of murdering a loyal fore
woman of a British cotton mill with
a gun loaned by a labor leader who
employedthe assassin.
ATTACK PIRATE! LAIP
HONGKONG, March 30. (^—Brit
ish warships attacked a Chinese pi
rate’s lair in Bias Bay near here to
day and demolished their huts.
There was no bloodshed. The air
craft carrier H. M. S. Hermes and
two cruisers took part in the action
and returned here last night. The
action was to punish the pirates for
a long series of depredations upon
shipping to and from Hongkong and
to break up if possible their base of
operating.
“FER GOODNESS SAKE!”
NEW YORK, March 31. (^)—
While suit for seperation was being
opened by former Countess Beau
mont against her husband, Bud Fish
er, cartoonist, he traveled down the
bay to greet a,New York show girl.
HORSEWHIPPING IS
SIGNAL FOR SUIT
AGAINST FILM MAN
FRENCHMAN ALLEGED TO HAVE
STRUCK WIFE OF COMMOD
ORE BLACKTON
LOS ANGELES, March 31. (TP)—
Tender sentiments contained in
an alleged note which Gerard De
Merbeaux, Hollywood fencer claims
to have received from Mrs. J. Stuart
Blackton, may be heard here tomor
row. By means of a phonograph re
cord De Merbeahx is suing Commo
dore Blackton, film producer for
$25,000 for an alleged undeserved
horsewhipping. The whipping was
administrated in April, 1925, when
Blackton returned to his home where
De Merbeaux was a guest and was
told that the Frenchman had struck
his wife.
BOYS’ BASKETBALL TO-NITE
ANCHORAGE
VS.
SEWARD