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VOLUME XXII. NUMBER 117. SEWARD, ALASKA,
FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 1927.
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Pioneer Suffragist
Victoria C.W. Martin
Dies While Asleep
MEMORIALIZED CONGRESS IN BEHALF OF WO
MAN SUFFRAGE IN 1870—TWO YEARS LATER
WAS AN CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT OF THE
UNITED STATES—WAS NOMINATED BY THE
EQUAL RIGHTS PARTY—WAS THE MOVING SPI
RIT IS PURCHASE OF HOME OF GEORGE WASH
INGTON
CHELTENHAM, Eng., June 10. (/P)—Victoria Claf
fin Woodhull Martin, author, pioneer suffragist and who
ran for President of the United States- died here. Her
death occurred during sleep at her home in North Park.
Mrs. Victoria Woodhull Martin, a native-born Ameri
can had resided in England since her marriage to John
• Riddulph Martin, a noted banker and philanthropist. In
her adopted country she carried on her work in behalf of
woman suffrage, which she began here and which made
V her known throughout the United States, and in addition
was one of the most active workers in England for the
promotion of friendly relations between that country and
America.
■ - s ar Home,];. Uluo, bvptemcer
1^3 '. Mr- Martin v. as the daugh
ter oi' Reuben and Roxanna Ciiafliv.
A> a young woman she engrced in
the • banking business for a short
ine in New Yo’k and also was edi
tor ot Woodhuill and Chaf'lin’s Week
Fnrly in life she became an ardent
advocate of woman suffrage and her
! lectures favoring the movement took
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her to all parts of the United States.
She also lectured on the scientific
!
and religious improvements of the
• human race and was the author of a
number of works dealing with the
i
two subiects
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Mrs. Martin memorialized Congress
in behalf of woman suffrage in 1S7U
and two years later was a candidate
for President of the United States,
having been nominated by the Equal
Rights Party. She was the organiz
er of various conventions for the dis
cussion of social reform and had
carried on propaganda work in the
interest of the working classes both
in the United States and Europe for
more than 30 years.
Aider the death of her first hus
band. Dr. Canning Woodhull, in 1S73,:
| Mrs. Martin went to Europe for a
; speaking tour. It was at one of her
lectures at Old St. James’ Hall that
she met Mr. Martin, and their mar
riage followed. He died in 1897.
S’nee then Mrs. Martin has devoted
much of her time and had spent;
liberally of her fortune in all pro-!
.lects to cement the friendship be-1
tween her native and adopted coun
tries.
Mrs. Martin was a moving spirit
in the purchase of Sulgrave Manor,
the home of George Washington's
ancestors and was a generous con
tributor to the fund raised for its
purchase. In recent years, especial
ly since the granting of woman, suf
frage both in the United States and
England, she has ceased many of he.
activlties and lived in almost com
plete retirement.
OPEN TRANSITION TO TERRORISM
BY OPPONENTS OF SOVIET
REGIME
MOSCOW. June 10. (TP)—The execu
tion of 20 persons as a reply to “open
transition to terrorism” by opponents
of the Soviet regime is announced in
an .official communique. “In view of
•open transition to terrorism and the
destructive struggle of monarchists
and White Guardist elements, acting
from abroad on instructions and with
funds from the foreign intelligence
services, the Collegium of State and
political department passed death sen
tences at its session on June 9 on 20
persons, and the sentences have been
carried out,” the communique says.
| 1 KILLING OSTRICHES
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa,
June 10. (Tp)—More than 200,000 or
triches have been killed recently by
their owners because of a market
depression. A revival of demand for
ostrich feathers might be difficult to
meet because of the wholesale
slaughter.
BAN WAR EXECUTIONS
PARIS, June 10. (TP)—Re-enactment
on the stage of military executions
at Vingres during the war have been
prohibited by the police. A play by
Pierre Irondy dramatizing what many
consider the unjustified shooting of
six soldiers December 4, 1914, has
been staged by extremists. The pol
ice regard it intentionally inflam
matory.
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WILKINS' ATTEMPT
ALL A MISTAKE
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ALSO HIS RECENT VENTURE:
WITH NOBILE IN NORGE AN
ERROR
VANCOUVER, B. C., June 10. (/p)—
As he sailed for a Japanese lecture
tour Raold Amundsen said any trav
eling he would do in the Far North
in future would be with rod and gun.
“Exploring will all be done from the j
air in the future. I am to old to take j
up flying and do not intend to start j
anything which I cannot carry out!
myself. My trip on the Norge was a j
mistake. Nobile was a flyer and I am j
an explorer. We did not see things !
alike.” Commenting upon the Wil-'
kins expedition, the explorer said the 1
whole thing was a mistake from begin-;
ning to end. and that Wilkins should
never have attempted to carry on '
flights from Fairbanks as a base. He
should have used Point Barrow as a
base. “Wilkins was too obstinate,”
he concluded.
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SHAKE HANDS AND SMILE UPON
LONG LINE OF WORLD WAR
VETERANS
WASHINGTON, June lo.(/P)— Ac
cording with the annual custom Pres- i
ident and Mrs. Coolidge were hosts to
800 disabled World War veterans at an
afternoon garden party on the south i
lawn of the White House. They stood j
for 45 minutes under an elm, which ■
shielded them from a warm sun, ex-1
tending a smile and handshake to a j
long line that filed past. The more i
seriously disabled men were taken by j
in wheel chairs.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
; Portland 1, Los Angeles 4.
i Hollywood 2, Oakland 5.
I
Missions 3, Sacramento 4.
Seattle 10, San Francisco 2.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Detroit 6, Boston 4.
i St. Louis 3, Philadelphia 9.
Chicago 3, New York 8.
! Cleveland 7, Washington 1.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Brooklyn 3, Chicago 4.
New York 12, Pittsburg 1.
Philadelphia 6, Cincinnati 5.
Boston 1, St. Louis 6.
BERLIN, June 10. (iP)—Always on
the hunt for new epithets for the
United States, some German news
papers have hit upon “Dollarika,” an
expression coined from two words,
“dollar America”, which have become
threadbare.
MINERS ELECTROCUTED
BUTTE, Mont., June 10. (JP)—Four
; miners were electrocuted at the Bel
! mont mine white moving an electric
ventilating fau.
FURTHER HONORS ARE
ACCORDED O.S. FLIERS
LEVINE. CHAMBERLIN
STREETS OF BERLIN THRONGED
WITH CHEERING NOONDAY
CROWDS
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BERLIN, June 10.(/P)—Through
(streets lined with cheering noonday
j crowds, Chamberlin and Levine drove
| to the Rahtaus accompanied by Am
bassador Schurman to receive further
honors in recognition of their sensa
tional non-stop fight. The fliers sign
ed the city’s Golden Book at a
luncheon in their honor. The Lord
Mayor announced that the thorough
fare leading from Templehofer Field
would henceforth be known as Colum
bia strasse after the trans-Atlantic
plane. lie then bestowed upon the
guests the city’s honorary placque
which is usually reserved for distin
guished citizens of Berlin.
The wives of Levine and Chamber
lin will not join them at Bremen, but
at Prague, the capital of Czechslava
kia, under changes announced.
SIX DROWN I N ^SQUALL
ON AMI A, Minn., June 10. LP)—Huge
waves lashed up by a sudden squall
; claimed the lives of five men and one
woman who were fishing in Lake
Milleracs. Dozens of others were
rescued in heroic life-saving work.
RECALL IF GLN
POLITICAL INDEPENDENCE IS
SOUGHT AS STIMULUS TO
DEVELOPMENT
NEW YORK, June 10. (/P)—Isauro
Babaldon, resident Commissioner from
the Philippines in the House of Rep
resentatives, urged the recall of Gov
ernor General Wood. “We desire po
litical independence,” Gabaldon said
in a statement, “because we believe it
will serve as a stimulus to our ma
terial development. Wood is too big,
too great for the Philippines. There
is not room enough for him in the
islands. His presence is serving only
to make the situation worse.”
TAXI MOUNTAIN CLIMBING
ST. MORITZ, Switzerland, June 10.
aghats at the prospects of an air.
(fP)—Mountain climbing fans are
plane taxi service from St. Moritz
10,000 feet up to the top of the Alps
to save tourists from the ardors of
mountain climbing.
DIRIGIBLES, 96 PLANES AND SIX
DESTROYERS WILL CONVOY
AIRMAN
WASHINGTON, June 10. (/P)—'This
city is prepared to honor Captain
Charles Lindbergh with one of its
greatest welcoming ceremonies in his
tory. The dirigible Los Angeles and
60 army and navy planes will convoy
six destroyers on the way to meet the
cruiser Memphis as she rounds the
Virginia capes. As the cruiser steams
up Chesapeake Bay and the Potomic
river another array of aircraft includ
i i
ing 90 army, navy, commerce and post
office airplanes, and more than a score
of civilian planes will escort the
aviator to the Washington navy yard
dock, where he will disembark.
DESTROYER HUMPHREYS MEET
CRUISER MEMPHIS 250 MILES
OUT
i u. S. S. MEMPHIS (By wireless to
the Associated Press). June 10. —The
first home contact of Captain Charles
Lindbergh occurred yhen the destrjoyer
I Humphreys met the Memphis at 6:05
o’clock this morning. The vessels
J met 250 miles off the coast. The
destroyer took aboard movie films
made of the aviator during his voyage,
and a bag of official mail, which she
will carry to New York.
ERI DEGROOM KILTED
GLASGOW. Scotland, June 10. (/P)
I—At a recent fashionable wedding
'at Dungave! Castle here even the
bridegroom, C. E. W. Mackintosh,
i wore kilts. The plaids of several
: Scottish families were in evidence,
I
Mackintosh wearing in addition to
! the tartan of bis clan a magnificant
i Caurngorn brooch and dirk. Miss
Marjorie Glasgow, of Richmond, Ya.,
was the bridesmaid.
WANT DOORBELLS REVIVED
NORFOLK, Va.f June 10. (£>)—The
“park and honk’’ motorist is persona
non grata here. Police are insisting
that automobile drivers renew ac
quaintance with doorbells and aband
on the habit of sitting in their cars
: blowing horns.
OLD AGE FOUNTAIN
TAMPA, Fla., June 10. (£>)—Wil
liam Mack Lee, 89, negro body ser
vant to General Robert E. Lee, has a
new formula for attaining old age.
“I ’bey de law of man, de law of
nature and votes de democratic tick
et,” he says.