MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXII, NUMBER, 286. SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1927
PRICE TEN CENTS
♦*03,858,078, AFFECTING 240,000
FEORLE, WILL BE REFUNDEO,
8AYS MELLON *
WASHINGTON, Doc. 23.' {&)—
Coding illegally collected taxea total
ing $103,858,63? and affecting appro*. I
imately. namely 240,000 persona, was
reported : to Congress tty Secretary
Mellon of the Treasury.
The Department's report covered
12,000 typewritten pages and includ
ed the refunds ranging from one cent 1
to millions. *
Mellon said the credits covered 1
years back to 1925. Congress, at
last session, appropriated the money
to provide Tor these repayments.
UNALGA ARRESTED
NARCOTIC CHARGE
DISPENSED NARCOTICS WITHOUT j
A LICENSE, NURSE IS ALSO j
ARRESTED
JUNEAU, Dec. 28. (ff)—After two
weeks investigation Dr. G. A. Lurie,
ships surgeon on the U. S. S. Unalga,
was arrested by federal officers j
charged with dispensing narcotics!
without license.
Mrs. Hazel McKeon, nurse, was ar-,
rested simultaneously and is accused
of being a narcofic addict. Lurie
•was released on a $1,000 bond and ;
his preliminary bearing set forj
Thursday.
BESSIE KOI HIES
SEATTLE BOOB SHAPE
SEATTLE, Dec. 2S. ' {IP)— Death
was a lap behind in its race with a
dog team, airplane, train and steam
ship, when Bessie Howe, government
school teacher, who accidently shot
self at Ninilchick 10 day* ago, watf
placed in Virginia Mason hospital
where her chances are reported fa
vorable. She arrived on the steam
ship Alameda from Seward.
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AN EASY INSTRUMENT
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PARIS, Dec. 28. (Jp)—Crowds storm |
ed the opera to hear the recital by
Leon Theremin on a unique instru
ment which is played without touch
ing. An American piano company
has offered the young man a fortune
for the rights to the invention, his
managers announced.
COLD IN JUNEAU
JUNEAU, Dec. .28. (#)—Fourteen
iChes bf snow fell during the last
) hours while an icy Taku wind sent j
ve thermometer down to seven
t>ove. -T
LECTED CHAIRMAN OF THE
BOARD OF DIRECTORS U. H <
3TEEL CORPORATION
NEW YORK, Dec. 28. (£>)--Jbhn
Merpont Morgan, international bank
er, became the nominal head of the
Jnited' States Steel Corporation
vhich hia father founded.
The Board of Directors elected him
is chairman of the board succeeding
Albert Gray and Myron C. Taylor,
jjiaaiftnan of the Finance C-onimttee,
ikewise succeeding Gary. James
Farrell remains president.
OLDTIMER PASSES
JUNEAU, Dec. 28. (/P)—Clarence C.
Nichols, age 42 years, a motorman
!
for the Alaska Juneau mine and who
came ;o Alaska in 1910, died of
apoplexy. He was unconscious 54
hours.
LOS! 10 WEEKS;
NUMBER OF PASSENGERS ON
BOARD UNKNOWN; BOATS
CONDUCTING SEARCH
CORDOVA, Dec. 28. (JP)—With two
boats thrice balked by heavy seas
and ice in search for the diesel pow
er boat Pioneer, which has been
missing for two weeks, Governor
Parks was asked to send the U. S.
S. cutter Unalga to aid.
It i3 feared the Pioneer, which
runs from Cordova to Katalla, sunk
unless it reached a sheltered anch
orage. A 75 mile an hour gale has
been blowing for days
It is unknown how many were
aboard the Pioneer w'hich was under
the command of William A. Taylor.
The Game Commission boat Seal and
the Forestry boat Chugach are
searching for the Pioneer.
SOCIETY GIRL LOSER
CHICAGO, Dec. 28. {iP)—^Louise
Willard, New York siciety girl, lost
a valuable antique lorgnette at the
Charity rummage sale. A salesgirl
accidentally picked it up and sold
it for $1.50.
PHOUSANDS GATHER tH RAtL«
ROAD YARDS TO WATCH AR*
RIVAL OF OHKL KILLER
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 28. <£>)—With
Hickman returned to fcbei scene of
the kidnapping and slaying and aafe-'l
ly behind the bars of. the county Jail
the autopsy, surgeon . H. T. Wagner,
announced "Mariae Parker’s death
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was not primarily due to strangula
tion” as Hickman said/ - ' ~
The surgeon, ■who was a neighbor
of the slain girl, texprbesed the be
lief that wheiT her captor "applied
the towel about her neck she realiz
ed what was about „ to happen and
her heart stopped as the result of}
fnight and exhaustion. Hickman may ]
have attempted to do what he con
fessed but there were no .marks of
contusions or constrictions about the
neck; the lungs were not congested
but on the contrary were quite pale
and bloodless.” -
REALIZED DEATH NEAR
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“Marian was a very nervous child
and when she realized the situation
she probably neither slept nor ate j
during those three terrible days as j
is shown by the empty, contracted
stomach and from her letters to her
parents it appears that her captor
had told her he would kill her if she
was not ransomed. She realized
what was about to happen and her
heart stopped.”
THOUSANDS GATHER
Hickman’s return and speedy race
; from the railroad yards into the
county jail was without any great
j demonstration on the part of thous
; ands of spectators who gathered to
watch his arrival. He was taken in
i to court but arraignment was post
poned until Thursday to permit
Hickman’s attorney to arrive from
; Kansas City.
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WANTS SPEEDY TRIAL
| LOS ANGELES, Dec. 28. (£>)—
j Hickman wants a speedy trial "but
: not too speedy” the youth^ said. "I
I will be pleased to stand by ray con
i fession regardless w hat the Kansas
Cty attorney, engagd by my mother,
advises me to do,” Hickman declared.
WRIT HABEAUS CORPUS
NEW YORK, Dec. 28. (JP)—A writ
of habeaus corpus for the Baroness
Johanna Von Steer was signed
Thursday. The Baroness is being
held at Ellis Island for deportation.
Her attorney claimed that such an
action would work extreme hardship
on her since her divorced husband
who pays her $20 per week in the
United States, will suspend payments
if she is sent back to Europe.
DIES‘AT AGE 115
JUNEAU, Dec. 28. (£>)—Mrs.
Jndokum Jim, Jinovyn .as the oldest
ndian woman in Southeastern Alas
ka, died yesterday. Members of the
amily said she was 115.
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■off for niem
CENTRAL AMERICA
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AMERICAN “LONE EAGLE” ANO t
MOTHER CONCLUDE THEIR V1
VISIT TO MEXICO 3
MEXICO CITY, tiec. 28. (JP ~ '*
Chas. A. Lindbergh hopped off at
6:35 for Guatemala, city the first stop
Ml bis Central American “Good Will”
flight.
The take-off was made in perfect
weather, no wind and a slight veil of j
mist near the ground. The flyer’s
mother bim goodbye then a few
minutes later hopped-off in the Ford
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plane which will carry her back to
her Detroit class room.
TO APPOINT FOUR CARDINALS
ROME, Dec. 28. {JP)—The Pope in
tends to appoint four non-Italian
candinals at the next consistory.
The Italians will then have 33 car
dinals in college and 32 non-Italians.
THE N. 1, STOCK MARKET :
REASONS IRE GIVEN!
1
NEW YORK, Dec. 28. (JP)—Sharp j
recessions in many of the important <
isues ranging from one to four dollars ]
or more per share occured at the i
opening of the stock market. The -
selling was attributed to the market's ;
reaction to President Coolidge’s reit- ]
eration of his intention not to be a
j candidate next year and perhaps to
some fears that shipments of $1,000,
;000 in gold to England might be fol- j
' ed by other transfers and lead to
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higher interests rates.
WILL SEEK DIVORCE
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NEW YORK, Dec. 28. (/P)—Wild a
Benneth, musical comedy star, an
nounced she will seek divorce from
Poppi De Albro on grounds of incom
patibility.
OFFICERS LOST ON * SUB
WASHINGTON, D. C. Dec. 28. (JP)—
The four officers lost aboard the S-4
submarine were Lieut. Commdr. Roy
Keylor, m sn rierdmaoweLbyeCor.mt
Keylor Jones of Halethorpe; Lieut.
Joseph McGinley of San Diego; Lieut.
Graham Fitch of Washington, D. C.;
Lieut. Donald Weller of Los Angeles.
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ITEM SEARCH
TAILS TO LOCATE
ECOND MESSAGE REPORTED
HEARD FROM PLANE NEW*
FOUNDLANO STATION
(Aboard the U. 8. Destroyer State
ant off Sable Island) NOVA SCOT
Dec, 28. </P)—Naval coast guard
easels are engaged in an intensive
earch but have uund no trace of
le missing plane “Dawn” up to this
torbittg'. *' L
’he Stutevant received word from
ie radio station on Sable Inland of
tie report of a message which was
taught came from the Grayson
lane heard at Hearts Content, New
aundland.
1SS0LINI WANTS
PARLEY BETWEEN
SELL AND BRIANS
ANNOT FORSEE IMMEDIATE OR
IMMINENT SOLUTION OF
PROBLEMS
ROME, Dec. 28. (/P)—Premier Mos
olini speaking at the Cabinet Coun
il approved of the meeting between
Limself and Foreign Minister Briand
if France looking towards an amica
>le settlement of their differences.
Agreement between the two nations
s “possible useful and almost neces
iary” Mussolini said but added it is
le-cessary for the Italian and French
Chancellories to first reach an under
standing. For this reason he could
10 forsee immediate or imminent so
ution of problems.
lets SEEKS ESTABLISH
NEW MITO MEL Ml
PARIS, Dec. 28. (ff)—After estab
lishing a new record of 150 hours, 31
minutes for 10,000 miles, the auto
mobile in whch Mr. and Mrs. Victor
Bruce are striving to drive a dis
tance equivalent to the earth’s cir
cumference, capsized. The couple
were unhurt and continued after re
pairs were made.
GERMANY WAS ROBBED
BERLIN, Dec. 28. (£>)—Freemasons,
Jesuits and Jews robbed Germany in
the World War, General Erich Von.
Lundendorff said, while speaking at
a meeting of the Tannenburg Feder
ation.
Alaska College -vs- S. A. C. Jan. 1 - Jan.2