VOLUME XIV- NUMBER 133.
SEWARD, ALASKA. SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1929.
PRICE TEN CENTS
CHIEF JUSTICE
TAFT TIEN ILL:
SENT TO HOSPITAL
PATIENT MUST HAVE COMPLETE
REST FOR SEVERAL DAYS;
NOT SERIOUS
WASHINGTON. June 8, (/P)—
rhief Justice Taft has been taken
to the Garfield hospital for obser
vation because of gall bladder trou
ble. Physicians said Justice Taft
was suffering over exertion the re
sult of a trip to Cincinnati.
The patient must have complete
test for several days to recuperate,
ft is believed an operation is it -
necessary. Mr. Taft returned yes
terday from a visit to relatives in
Cincinnati and had planned to con
tinue on to his summer home in
Canada but decided his physical
condition was not satisfactory.
PROTESTS CONTINUE
OVER RELIEF MESSURE
WASHINGTON. June 8, (/P;—Op
position to the congressional recess
is developing. Senator Borah has
declared he will prevent an unani
mous agreement in the senate to
+ix thf date for voting on the tariff
hill in autumn.
Farm organizations are protest
g aeainst the high rates on ag
ricultural products and conferees
on the farm relief measure are still
waggling over the debenture clause.
II! St!! M TOTSL 511
NEW YORK, June 8. (/P)—Deaths
from extreme heat which blis
tered the northern Atlantic states
for four days neared the 50 mark
today. Nineteen persons died from
heat on one day and three were
drowned. With ‘the temperature
of the New York City area reach
ing a maximum of 90 degrees,
the highest thus far this season,
nine persons succombed and 18
others were prostrated.
PILOT KILLED DDT
SAN DIEGO, June 7. </P)—One
man was killed and a second es
caped death as a result of a 1,000
foot drop made near Nestor by
a North Island naval airplane
which plunged to earth as it was
being swung into position for a
"power drive” according to the
information at the naval air sta
tion. Ensign Henry P Gow, pilot,
was killed while his mechanic ;
cheated death by making a sue- |
cessful parachute landing.
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given monoplane
FORT WORTH, June 8. (/P)—
Riggie Robbins and Jim Kelley who
sat a new world’s record endurance
flight, were presented with a lux- :
urious new whirlwind motors mon- j
oplane valued at $14,350, by the
Wright Aeronautical Corporation, i
MARKET SLUMPED
NEW YORK, June 8. (JP)—A de
cided slump has occurred in the
New York stock exchange, 75 stocks j
dropping $5 or more while the gen
eral level of bond prices sank to the
lowest uomt in years.
TELEGRAPH BREVITIES
SPRAINED WRIST
NORTHAMPTON, June 8. (IP)—
Ex-President Calvin Coolidge se
verely sprained his left wrist when
he stumbled and fell while on a
fishing trip.
RELICS AUCTIONED
NEW YORK, June 7, (IP)—'The
last of the furnishings of the fam
ous old Waldorf Astoria hotel,
which will soon be torn down, were
sold at an auction. The sale brought
about $650,000.
A LONG WAY OFF
TACOMA, June 8. (/P)-A11 former
residents Qf Douglas Island, Alaska,
and other towns in that vicinity,
are invited to join a picnic at Point
Defiance Park here next summer.
v CRITICALLY ILL
NEW YORK, June 7. (^—Coun
tess Foulke Bernadotte, who was
formerly Miss Estelle R. Manville
of New York, is critically ill aboard
the Swedish-American liner Kung
sholm, enroute to this port.
AFTER A DIVORCE
RENO., June 7. (JP)—Mabel Tal
iaferro O’Brian, stage and screen
actress, was sued for divorce by
Captain Joseph Patrick 0‘Brian,
World War veteran, whom she
married in 1920 .
COUNTERFEITERS
NEW YORK, June 8. (IP’)—Five
men were arrested in the roundup
of a counterfeiting band which is
alleged to have distributed more
than $800,000 in face bills during
the last few months.
VIOLATIONS INCREASE *
WASHINGTON, June 8. (/P)— Pro
hibition violators brought into fed
eral courts were about 2,000 more in
number during the last six months
of 1928 than during the correspond
ing period of 1927.
ANCIENT LORE
St. LOUIS. June 8. (/P)—Steps to
preserve for scientific study the
mounds erected in the middle west
by prehistoric peoples, were taken
here at a conference called by the
National Research Council of
Washington.
COUPLE ARE LOCATED
NEW LONDON, Conn. June 7.
—Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh
and his bride, who was Miss Anne
Morrow, daughter of the ambas
sador to Mexico, are spending
their “secret” honeymoon on a
35 foot motor boat cruising on
Long Island Sound.
FILM QUOTA ADOPTED
PARIS, June 7, (/P)—A four and
one quota, requiring American and
other foreign producers to purchase
one French film for every four they
import into France, was adopted by
the French Cinema Control Com
mission.
SUBSIDIZED COSTS
OTTOWA, June 8 (/P)—Subsidized
steamship services for the fiscal
year 1927-28 cost Canada $28,107
as compared to $751,719 in 1921-22.'
Secretary of State Bernard Reinfert
reported. The service subsidized
were to South Africa, Brazil, Ar
gentine, Uruguay, New Zealand, Al
aska and to British India.
PROPOUNDS THEORY
LEIPSIC, June 8, (£>)—Baron
Von Eickstedt, who headed an ex
pedition which spent three years
in the jungles of India, said that
Veddahs, the most ancient of Cau
casion races, showed Mongolian
traces. He deduces that the
Mongols once dominated India.
I
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FULLY CLOTHED, FOUND ON
BED IN GIRL’S ROOM, SHOT
IN HEAD
CAMDEN, N. J., June 7, (/P>—
Ruth Wilson, 25-year-old college
graduate, of good family, and Hor
ace Roberts Jr., her childhood
sweetheart, with whom she had
jroken her engagement to be mar
ied, were found dead with bullet
wounds in their heads.
The bodies of both, fully clothed,
were discovered lying across the
bed in Miss Wilson’s room. Miss
Wilson had been shot thru the tem
ple twice and Roberts three times,
Iso thru the head.
Despite the fact that the revolver
vas found in young Robert’s hand,
i idicating he had shot his former
iance and then committed suicide,
aoubt was expressed as to how he
could have shot himself in a vul
nerable spot three times.
A thorough investigation has
teen demanded.
HUSH CABINET
FILLED RECEIVE
SEALS OF OFFICE
Me DONALD DELIGHTED TO
FIND THE KING STRONG
ENOUGH CEREMONY
LONDON. June 8, (/P)—The Mc
Donald cabinet is filled and office
Members are journeying to Wind
er Castle to pay respects to the
King. Many returned bearing the
seals of office which the retiring
conservative government surren
dered yesterday.
l,My colleagues, I am highly de
3 ghted to find the King so well
.boking and to see how magnifi
cently he was able to perform the
ceremony without evidence of
brain. Everything went off smooth
37,” McDonald said. The King is
receiving members one by one and
giving them their seals of office in
order of precedence.
OIL ILL PLACES
OKLAHOMA FLOCK
ON EASY STREET
TULSA, Okla., June 7, (7F)—The
50 members of the Union Mission
ary Baptist Church, a small congre- j
pation in the country near Maud,
Okla., will have all their troubles
washed away in a bath of golden
petroleum.
The Packard Oil Co., of Oklaho- I
ma City has completed its No. 1 j
well on the church property of one
and a quarter acres, located in sec
tion 29-7-5, on the edge of the St.
Louis oil field, and the well is good
for 350 barrels of oil a day. The !
Prairie Pipe Line Co., is taking the
crude.
SIGN HUGE CONTRACT
DETROIT, June 8, (/P)—Henry
Ford a nd representatives of the j
Soviet government signed a con- I
iract under which Russia will pur- j
chase $30,000,000 of Ford products i
hi the next four years and con
struct a Ford factory at Nishni Nov
gorod.
ILLL
FLOW CEASING
NAPLES, June 7, (JP)—Lava from
Mt. Vesuvius has diminished in
quantity.
$13 PER DAY
CHICAGO, June 8, (/P)—Striking
structural iron workers voted un
animously to remain away from
woj-k unntil their demand of $13
per day is accepted by builders.
HEADS CHURCH
BOSTON, June 7. (^P)—William
W- Davis of Cambridge, Mass., was
elected president of the Christian
Science Mother Church at the
annual meeting here.
WITHDRAW PICTURES
WASHINGTON, June 7, (£>)—'The
State Department warns American
movies will be withdrawn from the
French market if the four to one
a.uota is established.
THE CENSUS BILL
WASHINGTON, uJne 7, (/P)—1The
census bill was passed by the house
representative and will be reapor
tioned on the basis of the 1930 cen
sus provided by the measure.
VESSEL STILL FAST
WASHINGTON. June 7, (/P)—The
U. S. S. Luzon which ran aground
on the Woosung China breakwater
is stili fast with all available ships
of the Asiatic fleet ordered to assist,
in refloating it.
CABINET COMPLETE
LONDON, June 7, (/P)—The new
labor cabinet is understood to be
completed and it was learned that
a minister to handle the unemploy
ment situation in England is pro
vided for in Premier Ramsey Mac
Donald’s program.
LEAVES ON JUNE 20
FRT^DICHSHAFE - '
June 8. i/P)—The Hamburg-Ameri
ran booking office announced that
the next flight of the dirigible
Graf Zeppelin to the United States
had bden set for June 20, weather
permitting.
FIRST POLICY NOTE
WASHINGTON, June 8, (/P)—
President Hoover’s first demonstra
tion of policy on the question of
American extra territorial rights in
China will be made in a note to the
Chinese government now being
drafted by the State Department.
DAWES AT CAPITOL
WASHINGTON, June 7, (/P)—
Charles G. Dawes, new ambassador
to Great Britain, arrived here for
a conference with Secretary of
State Stimson and President Hoo
ver before sailing for New York for
his post in London.
MILLIONS FOR CHINA
WASHINGTON, June 7, (/Pi
Three Red Cross Commissioners;
have been sent to China at the re
quest of President Hoover to inves-!
tigate starvation conditions with j
the idea of sending surplus Ameri
can wheat there. A bill pending in j
the senate would appropriate $1,-!
000,000,000 for htis purpose.
ON THE WAGON
WASHINGTON, June 7, (&)—'The
British embassy here is going on
ihe wagon. A diplomatic sensation
was created when it became known
that Sir Esme Howard the courtly
dean of the corps has informed!
members of his staff that he will j
sign no more requests to the State '
Department for permission to im- !
port liouors. I
DEGENERATE ESCAPES GUIL
LOTINE BY TWIST IN
COURT PROCEDURE
LIMOGES, France, June 8, (JP)—
Twenty persons were seriously in
jured in a rioting outbreak incident
to the storming of a prison by a
mob of 10,000. The disturbance fol
lowed the sentence to life impris
onment of Charles Bartaud, degen
erate, convicted of two sordid mur
ders and saved from the guillotine
hv a twist of court procedure.
The mob demanded Bartaud be
lgiven to them. Troops joined the
police in an effort to quell the dis
turbance but failed until they
jcharged time and again into the
t.rowd There were a large number
iof minor injuries.
HUHHICHE DECKS OF
BRONCOS, SAFEST
NEW YORK, June 8. (JP)—Daniel
Long Wolf, George Sitting Holy,
and Roy Bear Nose are convinced
the hurricane decks of bucking
broncos are relatively safe. They
are Indians in town with a circus.
They were gi ft an -\uto to ride
by an agency trying to sell them
a car. Now they are in the hos
pital—the result of the car hit
ting a truck.
STRONSESTmI WORLD
FALLS MULLER ONE
NEW YORK, June 8. (JP)—'The
strongest man in the world, billed
at Coney Island, six feet tall,
weight 225, bites railroad spikes
and like but he was beaten up
by a little fellow. Warren Lincoln
Travis prosecuted William Pol
lock, five feet two, weight 115,
age 60, for assault. They had a
row over a realty deal and Wil
liam swung undaunted. The judge
let him go.
HUGHES TC HUGHES,
DEPARTMENTAL El
WASHINGTON, June 7, (/P>—
Charles Evans Hughes, Jr., just ap
pointed solicitor general of the
United States, is only 40 years of
age.
He will have as his right-hand
man another Hughes, who has been
in the department of justice-more
than 44 years.
William J. Hughes, assistant so
licitor general, in so far as he
knows, is not related to his boss.
But he knows the senior Hughes
well and stands ready to lend as
sistance to the son wherever possi
ble.
DIPLOMATIC BREAK
BERLIN, June 8, (#*)—Reports of
a diplomatic break between Russia
and hte Chinese nationalist gov
ernment reached here. It is said
both nations have withdrawn con
sular officials and ministers.
PARKS MADE DEPUTY
KANSAS CITY, June 8, (^—Gov
ernor Parks accepted the appoint
ment as Deputy for the Grand
Council of the Order of Demolay
or Alaska.