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VOLUME XXII. NUMBER 246.
SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1927.
PRICE TEN CENTS
KILLINGS OCCURED TWO DIFFER.
ENT TOWNS; CANDIDATE FOR
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OFFICE SLAIN
LOUISVILLE, Nov. 9. (/P)—1Two
men, one a candidate for office, were
killed in shooting scrapes at the polls
at the general election in Kentucky, j
Gill Lewis, age 30, a candidate for
city councilman, a non-:partisan, was
( killed at the election and a man by the
name of Evarts was fatally shot by
his opponent for office. Wayne Gib
son, age 45, in the other shooting af
fair at Johns Creek took the life of
Lindsey Clark.
BRUTAL BOBBERY ID
MURDER AGED WOMAN
THOT CLEARED UP
GRANDSON AND PAL HELD BY
POLICE; $27,000 RECOVERED
FROM ROOMS
ST. LOUIS, Nov. 9. (£>)—'The brutal
robbery and murder of ^n aged wo
man recludes in Zwingle, Iowa, was
solved police believe with the arrest
of two nattily dressed youths who
said they were Leonard Cota, age 18
and Harold Kramer, age 19.
Police found $27,000 in cash and a
4. large amount of securities in their
hotel room. The youths admit, the
police said, they had slugged, bound
and gagged Mrs. Elizabeth McKitrick,
age 73, Cota’s grandmother and robbed
her of the cash and securities on the
night of November 1.
» According to their confessions Cota
and Kramer planned to rob the woman
after a chance discovery by Cota three
months ago his grandmother had a
fortune hid in her cottage.
GETS ANOTHER MEDAL
WASHINGTON, Nov. 9. (JP)—Colon- j
el Charles A. Lindbergh will receive
the coveted gold medal of the Nation
al Geographical Society from the
hands of President Coolidge, Novem-j
ber 14.
ANOTHER TRIAL SPIN
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 9. (JP)—'The
monoplane “Southern Cross” in which
four Austrailian propose to make a
trip from here to New Zealand soon,
will take off at Mills Field tofay for
a test flight to Santa Monica.
BROOKLYN BOY TWICE WON
RADIO’S HIGHEST
HONORS
John Harrison Hartley, 17 years
old and a student at Brooklyn Tech
nical High School, won once more
the International Championship Tro
nical High School, won for the time
Radio World’s Fair. The winnig set
is a 14 inch tube, super-heterodyne
encased in a deluxe cabinet.
Photo shows young Hartley show
ing his prize-winning set.
AUTO OVERTURNS, SON
OF BIKER IS KIEEED
PASO ROBLES, Nov. 9. (^—Rich
ard Friedlander, 22 year old broker,
son of a banker, was killed when his
automobile overturned near here.
Friedlander w'ith two companions was |
driving to Los Angeles to witness the
U. S. C.-'California football game.
RUSSIANS ARE JAILER
SANTA ANNA, CALIF
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SANTA ANNA, Nov. 9. (^—Eight
een Russians, who said they were in
California, to inspect farm lands on
which they hoped to settle, were ar
rested by Immigration authorities,
pending an investigation of th§ legali
ty of their presence in the United
States.
REBELS SUFFER DEFEAT
tT HANDS OF MEXICAN
FEDERALS, ORICABA
MEXICO CITY, Nov. 9. (/p)—Re
bels, near Oricaba on the slopes .of
the Oricaba mountains, were defeated
and dispensed in fighting which has
been going on for the past week
there, says a bulletin issued by the
Presidential Bureau which quoted a
report from General Jesus Aguirre,
who declares that the whole region
will be pacified completely within
the next few days.
MOVIE CONCERN BACKING TRIP
WHICH WILL REQUIRE TWO
YEARS TO MAKE
SEATTLE, Nov. 9. (JP)—Jack E.
Dawson of Nome plans a dog team
trip from Nome to Petrograd across
Bering Strait and Siberia a total of
4,000 miles. Dawson says such a trip
has never been accomplished even by
an airplane.
Max Gattschalk, the only white man |
to have driven a dog team acress Ber
ing Strait, will accompany Dawson.
Gottschalk Is now enroute to Siberia
to make arrangements and Dawson is
enroute to Los Angeles to arrange
financial backing with a 'movie con
cern which is backing him. If possi
ble, says Dawson, the trip will start
from Nome on February 19, 1929 and
will occupy two years. He will use
Siberian dogs which are better adapt
ed to the cold weather.
PICE CAROL IS
UNPERTURBED OVER
SNEAK INTO RUMANIA; DIS
COUNTENANCES VIOLENCE
PARIS, Nov. 9. (IP)—In an inter
view, Prince Carol -says he is un
perturbed by the robbery of his pri
vate papers. “That merely shows
the reckless, panicky, ruthless me
thods of my enemies. It will not
fool my people, it will only react
against my enemies. There is no
need to fear that I would attempt to
return to Rumania any way except
in constitutional manner and I would
ot countenance bloodshed or vio
lence to regain the throne,” he said.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 9. (^—Leg
islation which would permit a closer j
co-operation between producers of!
petroleum would, in the opinion of
the President, be a desirable step
toward conservation of, this product.
He is not prepared to say, however,
whether he would favor a revision
of the Anti-Trust laws* to meet the
needs of the industry.
ARCHBISHOP DIES
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 9. (/P)—Arch
; bishop J. J. Harty of the Catholic
Arch-dicocese of Omaha, who has been
: critically ill at the St. Agnes Rectory
here for several days, died yesterday.
TWO OTHER JURORS
FALL-SINGLAIR CASE
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DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE
SEEKING ASCERTAIN IF MEN
WERE DETECTIVES
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 9. (yP)-^Jurors
. in the Fall-Sinclair criminal conspir
acy trial were approached with impro
per questions within the very shadow
of the courthouse two of them disclos
ed as they became grand jury witness
es in the latest of oil scandalsl
Their startling statements led Fed
eral agents on the trail of the ques
tioners but thus far the men are a
mystery. Two of the jurors declared
they had been questioned before the
mistrial was declared as to the proba*
ble outcome of the trial and as to
whether the trial and Judge Siddons
were on the square.
The District Attorney’s office Is
seeking to ascertain whether the ques
tioners were Burns detectives.
BANDITS SEIZE WOMEN
TAKE INTO MOUNTAINS
BELGRADE, Nov. 9. (/P)—Five men
were killed and a dozen more were
stabbed or beaten in a desperate but
futile effort to save a score of their
women who were overpowered and
carried into the mountains by Alban
ian tribesmen.
DENVER, Nov. 9. {£■)—■’With the de
livery, by Deputy Attorney General
Charles Roach to William H. Adams, j
of an order to mobilize the Colorado j
National Guard and declare martial!
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law in the affected coal mining areas |
of the State, military action on the
part of the- State awaited only the
signing of the order by the governor.
REAR ADMIRAL DIES
WASHINGTON, Nov. 9. (#>)—Rear
Admiral James M. Helm, 71, who once
commanded the gunboat Morney in
the blockade of Cuba during the Span
ish-American war, died from a heart
attack.
SEATTLE CAPITALIST
JUDGE GIVES HIM A DAY TO
CHECK-UP; HALLER SAID HE
WOULD REQUIRE WEEK
SEATTLE, Nov. 9. (/P)—Theodore
Haller, Seattle capitalist, admitted on
the witness stand in his wife’s divorce
trial, that he did not know how much
he was worth. He said he owned
1 stock bonds, contracts of sale, build
ings and other properties, individually
and by estate.
When asked to enumerate them he
said it would take a week but the
Judge gave him a day to prepare a
statement. Judge Fuller, who haB
known Mrs. Haller from childhood, has
also been an intimate friend of her
father Judge Reed, for a quarter of a
century. On the stand he said he had
lived in the Haller home for the last
nine years and said the Hallers had
been considerate of each other and
he saw no change in their mode of
living beiore the date in May when
divorce papers were filed on Haller
and weeks after when she continued
to run the household.
ARMED RESISTANCE
BERLIN, Nov. 9. (JP)—Premier
Bratiano, of Rumania, has informed
Prince Carol that any attempt of the
latter to return to Rumania will meet
with armed resistance.
AUTO IS FOUND BUT
NOT AGENT; FEARED
HAS BEEN KILLED
BULLET RIDDLED CAR FOUND
NEAR SAN JOSE; AGENT
TURNED BOOTLEGGER
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 9. (IP)—A
bullet riddled automobile bearing li
cense number 775624 was found near
San Jose. The registration card
shows that the car is owned by J. H.
Wyncoop of this city, which is the
only clue.
Wyncoop was formerly a prohibi
tion agent and is himself facing
charges of operating a still. He is
accused of being the proprietor of
a 300 gallon plant which was found
in a residence here.
Wyncoop is believed to have stir
red the enmity of a rum ring, and
authorities are checking up on the
possibility that he may have been
slain.