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VOLUME XXIII. NUMBER 32. SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1928
PRICE TEN CENTS
PESSIMISTIC REPRESENTATIVE
TELLS UNTRUTH BEFORE
THE HOUSE
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8, (JP)—,A
stirring defense of the government
owned railroad in Alaska, operating
from Seward to Fairbanks, was made,
in the House by Representative Ves-j
tal, Indiana Republican “Whip” in re
ply to the attack made on the Alaska
Railroad by Representative Treadway,
Republican from Massachusetts.
The Alaska Railroad operates
throughout the entire year and traf
fic is substantially increasing, said
Representative Vestal, in answer to
the charge of Treadway that a large
part of the road was built on glaciers.
“No part of the Alaska Railroad is
constructed upon ice formations.” Ves
tal informed the House members.
He pointed out that the railroad
pierces the great interior districts of
the Territory where vast mineral re
sources lie undeveloped.
He added that one proposed line
from Fairbanks would cost SI 6.000,
000 and would enter a region where
1 here is $150,000,000 in gold resources.
He said the Territory has resources
valued at $1,500,000,000 and “its
wealth has been a tremendous fac
tor in building up the Pacific Coast.”
[ ILL NOT
M II DISPUTE
WASHINGTON, Feb 8. (^—Presi
dent Coolidge is not expected to in
terfere in the dispute between Naval
Academy and West Point football eli
gibility rules. The Military Academy
officials refused to meet Annapolis
in conference to attempt reconcilia
tion.
MYSTERIOUS TABLETS
BERLIN, Feb. 8. (flP)—The mysteri
ous tablets found on Mount Sinai by
Sir William Petrie in 1906 are genuine
and Moses probably jvas the inventor
o* the writing Dr. Hubert Grimme as
serted in a lecture.
The Petrie tablets supposedly date
back to the year 1500 before Christ.
ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED
LONDON, Feb. 8. (#>)—The engage
ment of Michael Arlin, author of The
Green Hat, to a Greek Countess, will
be announced shortly it was reported.
The Countess is Atlanta Mercati,
daughter of the former Lord Chamber
lain to the King of Greece.
DECLARES WAS DEFRAUDED
FILES SUIT CANCELLING
ILL PROPERTY LEASES
NEW YORK, Feb. 8. (/■P)—Declaring
he was defrauded out of $107,000 in
cash in leasing a 31 story apartraeut
known as “Cromwell Arms”, James
M. Cronwell, son of Mrs. Edward T.
Stotebury, wife of a Philadelphia
banker, filed suit to cancel all leases
and contracts involved in the property
and obtain judgment for the money
lost.
RED PIRATES KILE
HUNDREDS IN CHINA
SACK. BURN TOWN
CHRISTIAN MINISTER IS SLAIN
SEVERAL ARE KIDNAPPED
NO FOREIGNERS
HONGKONG, Feb. 8, OP)— The
N'.mrican Presbyterian minister at
the Mission at Hoi how, Hainan ls
; p 1, lias been informed that 300
merchant, a Chinese missionary,
and his family, have been murdered
by Red pirates.
The slain minister was a 'member
o' the Hoihow mission; the town
\vj' looted and partly burned and
merchandise carried off in large
Qu antities.
Several men are reported to have
been kidnapped. It is ~ believed the
pirates took them for recruits.
No foreigners were in the town
they having been withdrawn last
year on account of the general' dis
turbed conditions.
GETS 10 YEARS
NEW YORK, Feb. 8. (/P)—Herman
Booth, who was recently expelled
from the New York Stock Exchange,
was sentenced to serve not less than
10 years in Sing Sing! prison for grand
larceny. He had stolen almost $4,
000,000 of customers money.
FAMINE STALKS CHINA
> SHANGHAI, Feb. 8. (£>)—Four mil
lian Chinese are stricken with famine
according to reports made public here.
America is asked to donate $300,000
toward their relief.
TELEPHONE COMPANY
REFUSE EXAMINATION
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SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 8. (JP)—'The
Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co.,
officials flatly refused to permit of
ficials of cities opposing its requested
' race increase to examine its books to
obtain certain important data. City
officials said lack of the information
might seriously hamper their case
against the company.
60 AS GOOD AS 30
PITTSBURGH, Feb. 8. <£>)—Persons
of 60-years are capable of work as
those of 3o-years, according to Secre
tary of Labor Davis.
THUG SLUGS WOMAN IN
ATTEMPT STEAL JEWELS
SAX FRANCISCO, Feb. 8. (JP)—A
thug, believed to be a diamond thief,
met Mrs. Gertrude Jarou, 27, of 1227
9th Ave., as she stepped thru the door
of her home and "slugged her into un
consciousness. Her husband being
with her is believed to have foiled the
| bandit’s attempt to get a valuable
diamond she wore. She was taken to
a hospital seriously injured.
CMIHE MRRRIACE
DESCRIBED BK MU
NEW YORK, Feb. 8. (/P)—Marriage
; on approval is the way Mrs. Betrand
Russell describes companionate wed
| lock upon her arrival from England.
' It is a plan which permits women
to shop in husband market until the
proper man is obtained. When she
is quite certain that marriage will
stick it is time enough for woman to
think of children Mrs. Russell said.
RADIO SET FOR HOSPITAL TO OPERATE 550 HEADPHONES
LONDON, Eng.,—A radio receiving set made by the Oxford wire
less Telephone Co., for the St. Giles Hospital, Camberwell, Eng., which
is designed to operate 550 pairs of headphones and 42 loudspeakers,
believed to be the' largest in the worlds
RELIGIOUS MS !
AGAIN TO THE FORE
THROUGHOUT MEXICO
MEXICO CITY, Feb. 8. (^—Religi
ous affairs are again flaring up with
increased police activities in the clos
ing of Catholic schools said to be oper
ating in violation of the laws and ar
resting persons said to be distributing
Catholic literature and engaged in
seditious activities. It is estimated
that 300 persons were arrested this
week. These included both teachers
and students at Catholic schools.
U. OF W. STUDENTS
STUDENT LEADER
ALL ARE PROMINENT STUDENTS
WERE ON PROBATION SINCE
BEGINNING OF TERM
SEATTLE, Feb. 8. (#>)—Nine
University of Washington students,
all prominent in school activi.es have
been suspended or expelled for par
ticipation in the kidnapping and
ducking of Marion Zioncherk, pies
idert o!' the student body,
Two who had been on probation
have been expelled; six have been sus
t'- ided until the beginning of the
next winter term, next January; one
suspended until the fall term begin
ning next October.
They include live members of the
Varsity football team, one basket
ball playgr, the football manager and
the basketball manager.
NEGOTIATIONS RESUMED
NEW YORK, Feb. 8. (JP)—Negotia
tions for the annual Army and Navy
football tilt were resumed with indi
cations that the inter-service squabble
would be ironed out in time for the
annual classic to be played on the
calendar for the fall of 1928.
t SCHOOL IS CLOSED
MEXICO -CITY, Feb. 8. (/P)—Police
closed the Seminario De Regina and
arrested 225 students and instructors
for participating in dissemination of
religious learning.
VIEWS WONDERS OF PARIS
PARIS, Feb. 8. (JP)—King Amuer
wonders of Paris on the second day
of his visit to France. The Queen
spent the morning trying on dresses.
She would grant no interviews.
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NEW GERMAN KAISER?
RERUN, .Feb. 8. (£>)—S. Parker
Gilbert, American in charge of (ferry
ing our Dawes Reparation plan was
arraigned as the new German Kaiser
in a manifesto put out by the Reac
tionaries.
REPRESENTATIVE CASEY WANTS
INVESTIGATION OF CONDI.
TIONS MINES
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8. (^—De
claring the “poltce are in the employ
of the coal companies” and are ter
rorizing and assaulting the striking
coal miners in Western Pennsylva
nia, ^Representative Casey, D^moc'at
of Pennsylvania, in a speech before
the House laid the chief responsibil
ity upon the Pittsburgh Coal compa
ny.
Speaking in. support of his solu
tion, seeking a Congressional investi
gation of conditions in the coal -a
austry, Representative Casey sain the
police, commissioned by th" State
buf hired and paid for by the oval
companies, who a•**. directing T
ities, charged the ■ • - ice with “ca*
ing cn a vicious campaign for hr
destruction of the United Mine Wor
kers of A meric t in an effort to to v i
He said there was frightful desti
tution and starvation rampant as
the result of wage cutting and union
busting campaign throughout the
entire coal mining regions.
OTTAWA, Feb. 8. (IP)—Cancella
tion of Customs bonds held by liquor
exporting firms on the ground that
these companies almost without an
exception are formed for smuggling
liquor into the United States is recom
, mended in a report of the Roiyal
I Commission on exports and customs.
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GKE IN POSITIONS
ASTOUNDED SHIPMATES
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8. (/P)—News
that Herbert Hartley, who resigned
his position as Captain of steamships
recently, had cancelled plans to enter
the Cotton Txtile business and has
become associated with the Trans
I oceanic corporation of the United
i States astounded the shippiing wrorld.
GAINS CONTROL
CHICAGO, Feb. 8. (TP)—Mayor
Thompson has gained complete con
trol of the school board. Walter J.
Raymer, his administration oppon
j ent has resigned.
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WINS STEEPLECHASE
LONDON, Feb. 8. (£>)—Billy Barton
American entry in the coming Grand
National Steeplechase at Liverpool,
won the Winchester steeplechase.
Anchorage Vs. Seward Girls Thursday Night
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