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VOLUME XXII. NUMBER 162
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3,1927
PRICE TEN CENTS
Coolidge’s Announcement
Electrifying General
Public Opinion Varies
NATION’S NEWSPAPERS’ COMMENT VARIES
FROM COMPLETE ACCEPTANCE TO UTTER
SKEPTICISM—REPUBLICAN PAPERS ANTICI
PATE COOLIDGE BE FORCED INTO THIRD TERM
DEMOCRATIC SAY HIS REFUSAL ADDS TO
PRINCIPLE OF ANTI-THIRD TERM—INDEPEN
DENT SAYS DECLARATION HAS TWO MEAN
INGS
NEW YORK, Aug. 3. (/P)—The nation’s newspaper
comment upon President Coolidge’s electrifying an
nouncement varies from complete acceptance to utter
skepticism. Staunch Republican papers anticipate that
public opinion is forcing Coolidge into a third term. The
comment of New York editors is typical of the nation
wide attitude. ’ •
WATSON PASSENGERS
LANDED IN SEATTLE;
LOCAL PASSENGERS FROM THIS
DISTRICT ARE NAMED IN DIS
PATCH
SEATTLE, Aug. 3. (JP)—Fifty-six
passengers from the S. S. Admiral
Watson who arrived here aboard the
steamship Queen revealed that ■ Otto
Oritzmacher, presumably a resident
of Juneau, committed suicide by leap
ing off the Watson when the boat hit a
reef on Ivory Island last Friday night.
Gritzmacher, who boarded the vessel
at Juneau, was middle-aged, and his
occupation is unknown. He *was ap
parently despondent during the entire
trip. The passengers arriving here in
cluded R. C. Lane, Cordova; Mrs. D.
E. Yalade of Seward, O. Kraft, Kodi
ak merchant; E. Bortz and wife, who
are enroute to Reading, Pa., from An
chorage.
FORMER ALASKAN DIES
EL PASO, Texas, Aug. 3. (JP)—Wil
liam H. Heamon, aged 68, pioneer of
the Southewest and Alaska, well
known geologist, died at his home. He
was a professor in the Texas School
of Mines and formerly (professor of
chemistry at the Rolla School of
Mines.
I
m m DEATH 1 BLACK
LAKE H OLYMPIA, 1
OLYMPIA, Wash., Aug. 3. (£>)—Jas.
Thayer, aged 28, of this city, was
drowned in Black Lake shortly before
noon today while relatives and friends
watched helplessly from shore. Thayer
dived into the lake, came up and
called for help, then disappeared and
was not seen again.
CALLED ON THE CARPET
WASHINGTON, Aug. 3. (£>)— Lieut.
T. B. Williamson, Naval aviator
whose swoops and loops frightened
Washington, has been summoned be
fore a court of inquiry on charges of
flving low over the city.
The World (Democratic) says: “By
voluntary refusal the President has
added great weight to the great prin
ciple of anti-third term tradition
which his less thoughtful supporters
are ready to abandon. We believe the
President has spoked without reserva
tion and done a great service in the
preservation of the essential spirit of
the American constitutional system.’’
The Herald-Tribune (Republican)
says: “The statement seems more
the expression of personal feeling
with regard to a situation in which the
President could hardly escape the ap
pearance of being actively a candi
date to succeed himself. What would
the President do if he had to choose
between personal inclination and ob
ligation as a citizen. We believe firm
ly that such a call will come and he
will respond to it.’’
The Times (Independent)) says the
declaration “is susceptible to two
meanings. We would not be so un
complimentary as to question his sin
cerity. Friends of other candidates
will be warranted in maintaining that
Coolidge has taken himself out of the
field.”
TO FIGHT SEPT. 15
NEW YORK, Aug. 3. (£>)—'The
Demysey-Tunney fight in Chicago may
be staged September 15 after all, as
originally planned, instead of Septem
ber 22, Rickard declared on his return
from Chicago.
RUM RUNNERS NABBED
SECOND TIME SIX WEEKS
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 3. (IP)—For
the first time in six weeks two men
the second time in six weeks two
men, said by officers to be members
of a well known rum running gang,
were captured in a surprise raid on a
rum running party near Moss Land
ing, early yesterday morning. Be
sides the arrested men, eight others
were in the party and escaped in a
hail or bullets and may be wounded.
The prohibition officers seized 227
! cases of whiskey and two automobiles.
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WILL LOSE JOBS
NEW YORK, Aug. 3. (IP)—Mayor
Walker’s brother and two other
members of the Medical Board of the
Department of Education will lose
their jobs because they failed to take
the civil service test. _
THREE-CORNERED GUN
BATTLE DINING DOOM
OF CANNERY PLANT
JOHNNY VILLEGAS SHOOTS OLD
ENEMY—WAITER THEN KILLS
MURDERER
SEATTLE, Aug. 3. (/P)—In a three
cornered gun battle in the dining
room of the Alaska Packers Associa
at Kodiak Island, July 27, two cannery
workers, Jose Reyes, a lone survivor,
claims Johnny Villegas, aged 28,
emptied five shots into Serio Buen,
aged 49, while the latter was serving
a meal. They were old enemies. Vil
legas said nothing was said before the
shooting. Reyes slipped out, return
ing with a pistol and killed tha slayer.
GOOD RESULTS BUNG
OBTAINED IN ALASKA
WASHINGTON, Aug. 3. (^—Attor
ney General Sargent announced that
good results are heir-; obtained in
Alaska prohibition enforcement. Last
year during the week of the Fourth of
July celebration 16 persons were
jailed in Juneau compared with one
this year.
BASEBALL SCORES
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Brooklyn 1-4, Cincinnati 3-5.
Philadelphia 2, Chicago 6.
Boston 5, Pittsburg 2.
New York 2, St. Louis 6.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Chicago 7-5, Philadelphia 4-6.
St. Louis 3-0, Boston 2-3.
Detroit 7, Washington 6.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
San Francisco 12, Missions 7.
Seattle 2, Sacramento 8.
Portland 7, Hollywood 4.
Los Angeles 7, Oakland 18.
CHIN AVIATOR WILL
ENTER HONOLULU DERBY
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 3. (/P)—
Major Curson O. Osborne, Canadian
aviator, will enter the $25,000 James
D. Dole air derby, open at noon August
North American continent to Honolu
12. for a sustained fight between the
lu, Hawaii, the local headquarters of
the event were advised today. The
word was received from the Royal Air
Force at Vaneonver, B. C.
LIGHTNING IGNITES
OIL STORAGE TANK
BEAUMONT, Texas, Aug. 3. (iP)—
Lightning which struck an under
ground storage tank of the Gulf Re
fining Company at Sour Lake, 25 miles
from here today set fire to 320,000 bar
rels of oil shortly after noon today.
No one was injured and it is believed
that the fire will not spread.
$25,000 FUR COAT
CHICAGO, Aug. 3. (/P)—-Mrs. Sam
uel Insull has bought a $25,000 fur
coat which has been the center of
attraction at a bisr fur shon here
!
P. S. S, CO. OFFICIAL
MAKING ANNUAL VISIT
C. E. Five, assistant freight and
traffic manager of the Pacific Steam
ship Company, the Admiral line, ac
companied by Mrs. Five, arrived in
Seward this morning from his Seat
tle office. Mr. Flye who is in charge
of the Alaska business for the com
pany, is making his annual -visit to
the various offices in the Territory
and to renew his Alaskan acquaint
ances. Mr. and Mrs. Flye depart for
Fairbanks tomorrow and will proba
bly return to the coast enroute South
i within ten days.
A.S.S. CQMPMTO
ENTER COASTWISE
SERVICE TO SOUTH
_
ALASKA TOURIST SEASON CLOS
ING TO MARK INAUGURATION
OF ROUTE
SEATTLE, Aug. 3. (JP)—Rumors that
the Alaska Steamship Company was
| preparing to enter the coastwise serv
ice between Seattle and California was
confirmed when the firm’s agents ap
proached a local company with the
i idea of securing freight shipments
over the new service, waterfront re
ports say. The company, which has
j heretofore specialized in Alaska, will
start its coastal service immediately
upon the close of the Alaska tourist
season, precipitating a battle for the
coastwise and Alaska shipping su
I premacy.
Disk STICK
| ELECTRIC THIS
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I SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 3. {JP)—1Two
| women were struck and killed by elec
i trie trains in the East Bay district
! yesterday, and a third woman, iiyster
j ical from witnessing one of the mis
; haps, died from shock a few minutes
later. The dead women are Mrs.
Mary E. Brown, aged 40, of 1038 Eigh
teen street, Oakland; Mrs. Matilda
Ward, 67, of 929 Anthony street, Berke
ley, and Mrs. Susan Carroll, 61, of the
same address. Both Mrs. Ward and
Mrs. Carroll were deaf and failed to
hear the train approaching.
MEMORIAL ARCH IS
UNVEILED TO SOLDIERS
YPRES, Aug. 3. (JP)—In memory of
56,000 soldiers of the British Empire
who fall during the war and were
-buried in nameless graves, a great
memorial arch was unveiled by Field
Marshal Lord Premier, High Commis
sioner of Palestine, in the presence of
King Albert of Belgium and sime 40,
000 relatives of the dead. Free pas
sage to Ypres was given the poor so
they could participate in the ceremony.
MAY AND SEPTEMBER
DETROIT, Aug. 3. {JP)—'The pos
sibility that S. S. Kreske, .five and
ten cent store multimillionaire will
obtain an uncontested divorce from
his young wife loomed yesterday. A
cash settlement will probably be
made outside of court.
PARTNER CARMACK.
HOWARD R. HART. 76,
DIES IN BERKELEY
AMASSED FORTUNE IN THE KLON
DIKE-LOST IT IN A SHIP
WRECK-MADE ANOTHER
BERKELEY, Calif., Aug. 3. (/P)—
j Howard H. Hart, aged 73, an out
| standing Klondiker, and partner of
George Carmack, Yukon miner, died
j at his home after three months illness
' from heart trouble. A fortune Hart
amassed in the Klondike was lost in.
I a shipwreck when he came to Califor
nia to make another fortune in oil.
Hart was former president of’the San
Francisco Alaska Club at Washington.
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FRENCH AVIATOR SMS
SUIT AOAINST LEVINE
__
i PARIS, Aug. 3. (#*)—Maurice Drouh
in, French aviator, has begun action
against Levine seeking to compel him
to fulfill the terms of their tentative
contract, sogned early »n July when
Drouhin was chosen to pilot Levine’s
monoplane, the Columbia, on a return
Atlantic flight from Paris to New
York.
DISINCORPORATE TOWN
TANANA, Aug. 3. (/P)—Twenty
seven to 15 citizens voted to disincor
porate the municipality of Tanaa.
JAPAN IS FACE TO FACE
\ WITH GREAT PROBLEM
—
HONOLULU, Aug. 3. (/P)—Dr. Shi
roshi Nasu of the University of To
kio told the Institute of Pacific Re
lations today that Japan is face to
face with a big problem. He said the
increasing population and food supply
which fails to keep pace either with
the population or the better stand
ards of living presents a problem
which is bound to impair the peaceful
,'progress of the world.
I
l
IN SEARCH
I
FOR TWO
TRACKLESS WASTE LANDS OF
| CENTRAL YUMA COUNTY, CAS
TLE DOME
YUMA, Ariz., Aug. 3. (/P)—Two
United States naval airplanes carry
ing five men who scanned the dry
washes and arroyas with field glasses
skimmed low over the trackles sdesert
of central Yuma county today, search
ing together with desert men afoot
and on horseback for two men who
have been lost for days. The airplanes
which came to Yuma from San Diego
yesterday afternoon, delayed long
enough to refuel and then started for
the desert, made possible the renewal
of the hunt for Andrew Arsenwal, aged
30, Welton, Ariz., mining man, who
has been lost in the Castle Dome coun
try, 50 miles northeast of here, since
a week today. A five-day search by
men afoot and on horseback was
abandoned yesterday as hopeless.