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VOLUME XXII. NUMBER 32. SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3,1927.
PRICE TEN CENTS
House Passes
Bill Authorize
Bureau Head
DEPARTMENTAL ACTIVITIES IN ALASKA MAY
BE CONSOLIDATED UNDER RESIDENT REPRE
SENTATIVE OF THE DEPARTMENTS OF THE IN
TERIOR AND AGRICULTURE—WOULD HAVE
COMPLETE SUPERVISION—WRANGELL $50,000
SCHOOL BOND BILL PASSES HOUSE—RESOLU
TIONS AUTHORIZE PRESIDENT PAY SUR
GEONS FOR CLAIMS AGAINST RAILROAD
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3. (/P)The House passed the
Senate bill authorizing the Secretaries of the Interior and
^ Agriculture to appoint a resident representative having
complete supervision over departmental activities in
Alaska. The House passed and sent to the President a
bill authorizing the town of Wrangell to issue $50,000 in
school bonds. The House passed and sent to the Senate
resolutions authorizing the President to pay surgeons for
claims against the Alaska Railroad and validating cer
tain claims against the Alaskan Engineering Commission
lor the railroad.
GIRL SLAYS FATHER;
ACT WAS JUSTIFIED
SIXTEEN YEAR OLD HAZEL HUF
FINES IS FREED OF MURDER
CHARGE
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ELIZABETHTOWN, N. J. Feb. 3.
(,/P)—Declaring that her act was just
ified, county Judge H. B. Fife dis
missed charge of murder against
Hazel Huffines, 16, who was given
hearing here yesterday in connection
•with slaying of her father, Ben Huf
* fines, 61, at their home near here
Monday. Between sobs, the girl told
of her father’s improper proposals
to her, and how, Monday, when her
mother went to a store to make pur
chases, her father <sent her ibrother
over to a neighbors, and then attack
ed her. She said that was when she
shot him.
PREDICT DEFEAT FOR
ANY WET CANDIDATE
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 (^—Certain
defeat for any candidate running on
the wet platform in 1928 is a fore
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gone conclusion, Senator Arthur Cap
per of Kansas told the Woman’s
Christian Temperance Union conven
tion. No political party da- Tin a
wet candidate. “They knov we
know that the party who runs a wet
presidential candidate will be over
whelmingly defeated,” he said.
3 CRUISER BILL SENT THROUGH
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3. (^P)—With
out debate, the House refused to ac
cept the Senate amendment to the
naval appropriation bill providing for
three new cruisers. The bill was sent
to conference. The House also re
fused to accept all . other Senate
amendments. This procedure is cus
i tomary.
— HUNDRED MARINES ARRIVE
MANILA, Feb. 3. (IP)—A hundred
marines arrived from Guam and an
other hundred will arrive tomorrow
and immediately go to Shanghai.
OLD ACE PON BILL
DEFEATED IT OLYMPIA
OLYMPIA, Feb. 3. (IP)—Mustering
11 more votes than necessary, the op
ponents of the Eagles’ old-age pension
bill defeated the measure in the House
by sustaining Governor Hartley’s veto
50 to 43. The Senate overrode the
veto a week ago by1 a vote of 30 to 10.
PRINCE STILL IN PARIS
PARIS, Feb. 3. (IP)—Prince Carol
of Rumania is not going home just
yet he informed th Associated Press.
At the some time he declined to dis
cuss current reports that King Ferdi
nand would shortly reinstate him.
BATTALION DUE
j HONGKONG, Feb. 3. (IP)—The Suf
folk battalion will arrive tomorrow
and the troops will be quartered here.
CRUISERS SAIL
PANAMA, Feb. 3. (IP)—Three cruis
ers sail from Balboa within 24 hours,
presumably from China. A fourth
cruiser follows.
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VICTORIA SCHEDULED
MAKE FIVE VOYAGES
TO NOME DISTRICT
NO FREIGHTER SAILINGS YET AN
NOUNCED—VIC WILL CALL AT
KOTZEBUE POINTS
SEATTLE, Feb. 3. (£>)—'The Alaska
Steamship company announces the
summer Bering sea schedule as fol
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lows: The S. S. Victoria is scheduled
to make five sailings this season—
June 2, July 2, August 11, September
8, October 6. Calls will be made at
Teller for reindeer1 in July and Au
gust. No freighter is scheduled, but
it is announced that one may sail
about June 15, stopping also at Kotze
bue sound ports.
TOPEKA, Kas., Feb. 3. (£>)—'The
House passed and sent to the Senate
a bill requiring physical examination
of all applicants for marriage and the
postponement of the ceremony three
days after the issuance of the license.
Tuberculosis, epilepsy and any com
municable disease or mental disor
ders prevent marriage.
BOY THOUGHT DEAD
IS FOUND IN IOWA
|WAS KIDNAPPED THREE YEARS
AGO; PARENTS BELfEVED BOY
BURIED IN FAMILY PLOT
SEATTLE, Feb. 3. (^P)—Artie Mace
who was believed to have been
drowned thr6e years ago and his
body claimed by (parents and buried
in the family plot has been found in
Iowa according to reports from Sioux
City yesterday. The boy had been
kidnapped he said. He told his par
ents name and names of a brother
and sister. Identity of the body
which was buried as Artie will prob
ably never be known. The parents of
the boy, overjoyea, are preparing to
leave at once for Iowa.
HUNDREDS OF PATIENTS
RESCUED FROM BLUE
ANN ARBOR, Mich., Feb. 3. (£>)—
Two hundred patients were rescued
last night from the old hospital at the
University of Michigan, when the in
stitution was partially destroyed by
fire. The fire Is reported to have
been of incendiary origin.
LOWELL BILL
PASSES NOW
UP COOLIDGE
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SENATE BILL AUTHORIZES THE EXPENDITURE
OF $125,000 TO REGULATE LOWELL CREEK;
WRANGELL. WATERWORKS BOND ISSUE FOR
$30,000 IS PASSED—FAIRBANKS IS AUTHOR
IZED ISSUE $100,000 BONDS FOR CONSTRUC
TION OF POWER PLANT—TRAMROAD ASSUR
| ED BETWEEN SHELTON AND CANDLE CREEK
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_ WASHINGTON, Feb. 3. (7P)The Senate at a night ses
sion passed the House bill authorizing Wrangell to issue
$30,000 bonds for improvement of its waterworks system.
The House approved and sent to the President the Senate
bill authorizing the expenditure of $125,000 to regulate
Lowell creek at Seward, and passed the House bill author
izing Fairbanks to issue $100,000 in bonds for the con
struction of an electric light, power plant and telephone
system. The House passed and sent to the Senate a reso
lution to authorize the construction of a $57,000 tram
road on the Seward Peninsular between Shelton and Can
dle Creek.
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PROPOSAL IS REJECTED
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3. (jp)—'The
House ways and means committee re
jected the Treasury proposal for re
plenishing the stock of medical liquor
.including the creation of a government
corporation for the manufacture and
control of liquor, with the provision
ithat the stock could pass to private
individuals. The committee felt that
' the provision might injure prohibition
! enforcement. A sub-committee was
; appointed to make inqqiries and draft
a new proposal eliminating the objec
tionable features.
TWO ARE INDICTED
ON SLAVERY CHARGE
SOLD NEGRO TO FARMER FOR $20;
COMPELLED TO WORK UNDER
GUARD
NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 3. (£>)—
Webb Bellie and John Alford of Amite
county, in Mississippi, were indicted
by a federal grand- jury for the auc
tion sale and enslavement of a family
of five negroes. They sold an aged
negro whom they took from his sick
bed, and his wife and three children,
the latter under 12 years of age, to a
farmer for $20. They were forced to
work under a guard without pay.
KETCHIKAN WINS AGAIN
- SEATTLE, Feb. 3. (jP)—The Ketchi
kan basketball team defeated the Mo
ran High School by a score of 13 to
22.
TWO PRISONERS REMAIN AT
LARGE; FRANK McOLDRICK
IS RECAPTURED
ATLANTA, Geo., Feb. 3. (£»)—
Three guards at the Federal peniten
tiary were under suspension today
pending an investigation of the es
cape of three prisoners, last Tuesday
uight. W. U. Brown, in charge of the
wall watch tower,A. S. Van, in
charge of the outside guard box near
the left wing of the prison, and Geo.
Wolford, on duty in the cell block
from which the prisoners escaped
were the suspended ones. Albert Ros
enberg, and Basil Hugh Lauhart were
still at large today. Frank. McOldrick
was recaptured yesterday.
DEMPSEY IN SECOND PLACE
NEW YORK, Feb. 3. (jP)—Jack
Dempsey and Jack Sharkey rank sec
ond and third to Gene Tunney in a
list of boxers compiled by Tex Rick
ard, noted fight promoter. A second,
group has Jack Delaney, Paul Berlin
bachi and Jim Maloney ranked on par.
PADLOCKING CLUBS
NEW YORK, Feb. 3. (£>)—More than
100 society clubs will be padlocked 9
in New York State in a huge prohi
bition drive. , |! !