COAST TERMINAL FOR THE ALASKA RAILROAD
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXII. NUMBER 36. SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8,1927. PRICE TEN CENTS
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HUGE NOT 1
WHEN PROPER TIME COMES,
PRESIDENT WILL MAKE DEFI
NITE ANNOUNCEMENT
NEW YORK, Feb. 8. (/P)—Dr. Nicho
las Murray Butler, president of Col
umbia University, declared that when
the proper time comes, President
Coolidge will announce he is not will
ing to run for renomination. Butler
said: “One of the President’s strong
est characteristics is common sense,
and common sense dictates this course.
It is simply looking for unnecessary
and fatal trouble to raise the third
term issue in the Republican party.
We are going to have a hard enough
time without inviting certain defeat.”
Butler said he had heard nothing from
Coolidge, but has taken his refusal to
run for granted as a Republican, “who
is both a personal friend and political
supporter of the President.” A suc
cessful presidential candidate must
be anti-prohibitionist of the chief sup
porter of prohibition and the boot
leggers.
SECRETARY KELLOGG’S PROPOS
AL MADE PUBLIC—PROTEC
TION OF CITIZENS
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8. (^—Sec
retary Kellogg’s proposal, as made
public asserts that the fate of Am
erican interests in Shanghai is the “oc
sion for great anxifety to the American
government.” He wants neutraliza
tion so that “American citizens and
other foreigners may receive adequate
protection.”
BUILDING OF VESSELS
SHOWN IIS INCREASING
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 8. (JP)—On
January 1, 1927, American shipyards
were building or under contract to
build for private shipowners 247 steel
vessels of 286,777 gross tons as com
pared with 230 steel vessels of 291,
027 gross tons on December 1, 1926,
according to the Bureau of Naviga
tion, Department of Commerce.
SnOffleMESTED
ON SWINDLING CHARGE
NEW YORK, Feb. 8. (£>)—David
Deutsch, attorney, has been arrested
on a charge of having swindled rela
tives, friends and business associates
out of about §1,000,000. It is charged
that with forged mortgages he induced
his victims to underwrite fictitious
{loans. Tfhe defendant admitted (he
obtained §850,000 in intricate deals
which he had put through as lender
to owners of automobiles.
PEOPLE SUPPORTING REVOLT
LISBON, Feb. 8. (/P)—A movement
has broken out in Lisbon with the j
colaboration of the public forces and ;
the people supporting the Oporto re
volt.
MARSHAL SUN CHANG FANG
RUSHES LAST OF RESERVES,
8,000, TO FRONT LINES
SHANGHAI, Feb. 8. (JP)—A mes-!
sage from Hanchow declared that
the booming of artillery can be heard, |
indicating the Southerners’ advanced
again. Marshal Sun Shuan Fang
rushed his last reserves, his personal j
body guard of 8,000 men from Nan- j
king to the front. Unconfirmed re-!
ports said the attackers had reached
Fuyang, 15 miles southwest of Hang-:
chow, and that the Cantonese an- j
nouced they would not attack Shang-1
hai.
BEAR MAY RETURN
NEWPORT NEWS, Va., Feb. 8. (£>)
—Although every effort is being made
to get the Northland ready to sail
from Seattle in May, it is possible
the Bear may have to make another
cruise.
NEW LOCOMOTIVES
ON S. S. Til
SEATTLE REPRESENTATIVE OF
ALASKA RAILROAD MAKES
BELATED ANNOUNCEMENT
SEATTLE, Feb. 8. (/P)—J. R. TJm
mel, Seattle representative of the
Alaska Railroad, announced that two
Mikado type tender locomotives are
en route to Anchorage on the steam
ship Tanana, which will increase the
rolling stock of the railroad to 35 lo
comotives. They were shipped from
Eddystone, Pa., via the Panama canal!
to Seattle.
HARDING RATHER BEEN
AMBASSADOR TO ROME
RICHARD WASHBURN CHILD
WRITES SPECIAL ARTICLE
FOR COLLIER’S WEEKLY
NEW YORK, Feb. 8. (£>)—Richard
Washburn Child said that the late
President Harding told him he had
rather have been Ambassador to Rome
than President. Childs, in a Collier’s
Weekly article, said: “Harding re
marked* I’ve never pretended; they
say I’m not prepared for the presi
dency, but I cannot see I am less than
those who were up for nomination. I j
did not wan to be President; you
know that. I wrote I would have pre
ferred to have an appointment as Am
bassador to Rome. I love Rome.’ ”
PEKING, Feb. 8. (£>)—Marshal
Chang Tso Lin pledged that the
Northerners will protect foreign lives
and property.
YOSilTO'S FUNERAL
MOST PRETENTIOUS
HISTORY OF ORIENT
MILLION SUBJECTS VIEW COR
TEGE — MUSICAL WHEELS
EMIT WAILS
TOKIO, Feb.' 8. (JP)—Yoshohito was
tonight accorded the most pretentious
funeral in the history of the Orient.
Approximately a million subjects
viewed the gorgeous cortege which
marked the passing1 of a personage re
garded as a lineal descendant of the
mythical sun goddess.* Nine thousand
men marched. When the cortege
started, artillery throughout the na
tion fired 101 guns and the battle
ships 48.
The route was lighted by ten-foot
wooden lanterns and massive braziers
on wooden poles. Four almost coal
black oxen drew the catafalque. The
vehicle weighed over a ton and was
made of four kinds of wood. Musical
instruments concealed in the wheel
hubs emitted a wailing dirge. The
half suppressed sobs of men and wo
men were heard as it passed. The
crowds braved the cold all day and
in the evening awaiting the proces
sion. The imperial funerals are held
at night because the diety’s spirit
held at night because the diety’s spirit;
must go from darkness into darkness.
MANY INJURED
TOKIO, Feb. 8. — Seven hundred
and twenty persons were injured and
two killed in a crush while watching
Yoshohito’s funeral.
THOMAS A, BABCOCK
COMMITS SUICIDE
SOURDOUGH AND LIFE MEMBER
OF ARCTIC CLUB—WAS ONCE
WEALTHY
SEATTLE, Feb. 8. (IP)—Thomas A.
Babcock, Alaska* sourdough, and a life
member of the Arctic club, committed
suicide when his funds were gone yes
terday. During the Klondike days
Babcock was a Seattle restauranteur,
and was reported wealthy enough to
buy and sell a dozen men now ac
counted to be substantially wealthy.
He left a note to N. W. Parker ending:
“I hope people think it was an acci
dent.”
DUKE IS INITIATED INTO
REALMS FATHER NEPTUNE
H.M.S. RENOWN, AT SEA, Feb. 8.
(/P)—The Duke of York, second son of
King George, was initiated into the
realm on Neptune and Davy Jones
here yesterday when the British cruis
er crossed the equator. It is the usu
al initiation when one passed the line
for 'the first time. The Duchess was
not compelled to go through the stren
uous stunts, but was given the degree
as one of Neptune’s subjects. Re
ports say that the Duke was treated
“rawther” rough.
SENATOR'S HEALTH IMPROVED
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8. (&)—'The
condition of Senator Jones, who was
stricken with a heart attack Satur
day, is reported much improved.
MAKES DEBUT IN TEX RICKARD’S
HEAVYWEIGHT ELIMINATION
MATCH
NEW YORK, Feb. 8. (#>)—'Young
Stribling, making his debut in Tex
Rickard’s heavyweight elimination
tournament, cuffed and jabbed his way
to victory over Eddie Huffman of Los
Angeles in a bruising, rough and tum
bling match of ten rounds. Stribling,
while he clearly outpointed and out
boxed his rival failed to add materi
ally to his prospects as a heavyweight
contender in the judgment of most of
the ringside critics. A majority of
the experts give Stribling six rounds
and Huffman four. The bout was un
exciting and was punctuated chiefly by
acrobatic - clinching and slapping.
The crowd booed and jeered both box
ers in a large share of the last four
rounds.
PETIT MUST TINS
GiRL BUTCHERS TWO
BERLIN, Feb. 8. (.flP)—Physicians
have been called in to examine the 18
year-old girl, pretty and modest, who
confessed to butchering a girl of six
years and a boy of 9 years old, in a
crime resembling the Loeb and Leo
pold murder.
NENANA WOMAN DIES
JUNEAU, Feb. 8. (£>)—Mrs. Esther
Hall, of Nenana, who died Sunday,
will be buried "Wednesday.
APPROPRIATION ASKED
PROPAGATION OF FISHES
WASHINGTON Feb. 8. (£>)—'The
President, In a letter just sent to
Congress, asks for an appropriation
of $60,000 for the Department of
Commerce, for the propagation of
food fishes. The Director of the
Bureau of the Budget, in a letter
which accompanied the President’s
stated that the money would be used
to effect an extension of cooperative
fish culture work between the Gov
ernment and States and clubs.
EUROPE PREPARING FOR WAR
PARIS, Feb. 8. (JP)—Every Europe
an army is undergoing intensive train
ing in chemical warfare. The French
War Department hinted ‘that liquid
flame throwing squads would be in
corporated in their battalions in the
future.
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ORMOND BEACH, Fla., Feb. 8. (jP)
—John D. Rockefeller, jigged and
joked and whistled merrily as a re
sult of shooting 45 over eight holes of
the golf course.
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DECISION MAY LOSE
AGED PROSPECTOR
A LARGE FORTUNE
MONTANA MINING PATENT CASE
IS DECIDED AGAINST GEORGE
CAMPBELL CARSON.
BUTTE, Mont., Feb. 8. (/P)—G-eorge
Campbell Carson, aged prospector,
had lost one phase of his fight fo’’
millions following the action of
Judge Bourquin in deciding against
him in a $15,000,000 damage suit
against the Anaconda Copper Com.
pany.
Carson, through the Carson Invest
ment Company, brought suit, alleg
ing infringement of patent rights,
■while the defendant company attack
ed the validity of the patent which
Carson held on side-feeding, revet*,
brating furnaces.
Judge Bourquin, in a decision ren
dered last Monday, held that Sei
man’s patents were the same as Car
son’s, and that the operation of this
method of refining copper ore was
used at Dollar Bay, Mich., in 1905
and 1906, constituting prior public
use of Carson’s principle in smelting
work.
The decree of Judge Bourquin is
just opposite to a Carson victory
against the American Smelting Com
pany in the Ninth district appellate
court. In this connection, Judge
Bourquin said, “The integrity of
,trials demands that judgment of one
trier of facts be not influenced by
that of another in a different case.”
The court also held that Carson’s
patent was granted thru an error on
the part of the patent board.
Carson announced here today, thru
his attorney^ that the case would be
appealed.
I RUSSIAN MURDERS INCREASE
MOSCOW, Feb. 8. (JP)—'The number
of murders committed in Russia show
a large increase duriing the past few
years, court records indicate.
INDIAN TRAPPER KILLS
YAKIMA, Feb. 8. (JP)—Jomes
Stronf, aged 18, Indian, shot and
killed George Nelson, aged 25, a
farmer, when they quarreled over
placing of traps yesterday. Strong was
accused of murder and placed in jail.
He said he shot in self-defense. Sev
eral persons witnessed the killing.
CHIU "BUTTERFLY”
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 8. (JP)—
Ham Leong, the butterfly of San Fran
cisco China Town, is dead by the
hand of some slinking killer. She
was found In her silky, perfumed gar
ments Saturday, with a pair of thin
barber shears thrust deep into her
breast. Murder was not the only mo
tive as all her jewelry was taken.