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VOLUME XXIII. NUMBER 15.
SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY’ 19, 1928.
PRICE TEN CENTS
GIVEN VOTE THANKS
HEFLIN ATTEMPTED TO REMOVE
ROBINSON AS MEMBER MEXI
CAN COMMITTEE
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19. (#)—-Sena
tor Robinson, the Democratic Senate (
leader who told Senator Heflin he was
sick and tired of Alabama’s attacks
on the Catholic Church, was given a
vote of confidence and support by his
Democratic collegues in the Senate.
The vote for Robinson, whose lead
ership was challenged openly by Sena
tor Heflin, was unanimous. Heflin
and a dozen others did not attend.
The announcement resulted and made:
before the conference broke up, w'as!
given by Senator Caraway who said
the conference also had given Senator
Robinson a second vote of confidence
on his work as a member on the spec
ial Mexican slush # fund committee
from whidh committee H^eflin had
asked that Robinson be removed.
RUMOR IS CURRENT
REBEL COMMANDER I
MARINE HEADQUARTERS IN NIC
ARAGUA ATTEMPTING TO
VARIFY REPORT
MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Jan. 19. (/p) j
—Marine Corps headquarters are at- <
tempting to verify the report that the ;
rebel General, Sandino, was killed in .
the airplane bombardment of his -
headquarters last Saturday.
Nicaraguans arriving from the dis
trict of Nuevosegovia, where fighting
between the marines and Sandino’s
foroces took place, say he was killed
and his wife had left San Raefael ’
fhurridly for his headquarters in re-j
spouse to an urgent message.
Nicaraguans assert the body has'
been turned over to the widow. She
returns with it to San Raefael where
a big funeral will be held.
SEEMS POSSIBLE
NEW YORK, Jan. 19. (/P)—Com
munication ‘with the dead seems no
more possible than the radio did 25
years ago, Den William Darrach, of j
the Columbia medical research.
MAY BE *HE END
PARIS, Jan. 19.- (;P)—If Secretary
Kellogg’s official reply to Premier
Briand corresponds to the first dio
s?,pointing American reaction to the
French reply, regarding America’s
peace proposals, it will mean an end
of the anti-war movement.. it*is in
dicated.
STILL IN THE AIR
j SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 19.
1 The “Spirit of California” was still
|in the air at nonon yesterday and ap
parently everything was alright.
FEDERAL TROOPS
PURSUE REBELS IN
STATE OF JALISCO
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DETACHMENT ENGAGES IN BAT
TLE WITH MEMBERS OF CIVIL
DEFENSE LEAGUE
EL PASO, Tex., Jan. 19. (^—Fed
eral troops are pursuing a rebel de
tachment who engaged in battle with
a member*of the Civil Defense Lea
gue in Tala, S.tate of Jalisco.
In the battle 15 rebels were killed
and many wounded while the casual
ties among the league of Civil De
fense was reported as three killed
and several wounded.
During the retreat the rebels left
30 horses and important papers and
documents and many rounds of am
munition.
CORDOVA MAN KILLED
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CORDOVA, Jan. 19. (£>)— Fritz
Paulson, age 19, was killed when he
was struck on the head by a sack of ;
ore which he was loading on the'
freighter Denali, of the Alaska Steam
ship company.
LABOR LEADER DIES
NEW YORK, Jan. 19. (/P)—Sarah .
Agnes Conhov, one of the most prom.
i
inent of labor leaders in the U. S.,
died suddenly at her home following 1
a slight operation on her throat. 11
A blood clot caused her death. |i
ELOPE; FRIENDS BREAK NEWS
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TO PARENTS WHO WERE
AGAINST MARRIAGE
SEATTLE, Jan. 19. (#>)—Despite
the strong objections of their parents
Miss Pamele Leonard, daughter of A.
W. Leonard, millionaire Seattle trac
tion and power magnate, and Ransom
Foster, a Seattle newspaper report
er, eloped and were secretly married.
Foster and his 18 y^ar old bride met
last fall. He was of^en the guest at
the Leonard home but when the girl’s
parents became aware the couple en
ertained ideas of marriage th report
er is said to have been banned from!
the millionaire’s residence.
The newspaperman’s parents also1
have opposed the marriage. The
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bride left her home saying she was
going to the dentist. At a secret
meeting the young ciouple planned
the details of the elopement and were
married by a Justice of the Peace.
They then left on a week’s honey
moon requesting friends to break the;
news to their parents.
RUNNING SHORT OF GAS
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SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 19. (£>)—
The ‘Spirit of California” is still in
the air this morning but the supply
of gasoline is running low. It is be
lieved it will be nnable to remain
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aloft until 1:30 p. m. today to break
the record.
THE WORLD’S BEST KNOWN AMATEUR RADIO OPERATOR
One ofl the best if not the best known radio operator in the world
is Fergus McKeever, of Lawrence, Kas., known the world over as
the “Amateur Radio Wizard." McKeever, who entered the Univer
sity of Kansas last fall, operates Station 9 D G N, located on Mount
Oread and just west of the Kansas University campus. Station
9 D G N has been heard in nearly every country in the world, as
well as by steamers at sea. The station) is located in the attic of the
McKeever home and the walls of his room are decorated with the
call letters of every station on record.
Photo shows McKeever at his desk, which has been converted
into a broadcasting station.
ALAMEDA BREAKS CABLE
SEATTLE, Jan. 19. (£>)—'The S. S.
Alameda, of the A. S. S. Co., anchor
j broke the telegraph cable at Ketchi
kan last night. The cable officer re
ported it would be necessary for the
Cableship Dellwood to do the repair
work. The Dellwood left Seattle last
! night.
HOTELLING GETS
LIFE FOR KILLING .
MICHIGAN GIRL
CONFESSED SLAYING OF LITTLE
GIRL PLEADS GUILTY BEFORE
CIRCUIT COURT
FLINT, Mich., Jan. 19. (£>)—Adolph
Hotelling, confessed slayer of little
Dorothy Schneider, who was in Mar
quette prison yesterday afternoon to j
begin serving a life term, was hur-1
ried ecretly from the county court, j
Before .Circuit Judge Brennan, j
Hotelling plead guilty and sentence j
was pronounced. Sheriffs then start-1
ed him on his way to prison.
HIGH SUPREME COURT
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DENOUNCES “JUSTICE IN THIS
STATE” PRISONER INTER.
VIEWED IN CELL
SEATTLE, Jan. 19. (/P)—G. E.
Pratt, Gaines attorney, said every ef
fort would be made to save Gaines
from the gallows and said lie- would
immediately prepare an appeal, to the
High Supreme Court denouncing
“Justice in this State.”
Gaines declared “there wasn't one
bit of evidence against me,” when in
formed in his cell the Supreme Court
j had denied his petition. “The con-;
stitution was violated in 14 points in
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my trial,” he said.
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When asked what they were he
said “I don’t know. See my lawyer.
They know I would rather, have
i life imprisonment than the noose
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{Then there’s the chance to get out. j
Life’s a nice dose. I am sick and
innocent. I lived a good life; as
good as most any one. I drank a lit
tle bit.”
He then waved his hand and
thoughtfully concluded, “I hope the
Governor, or somebody, does some
thing.”
OLDTIMER DIES
I JUNfiAU, Jan. 19. (TP)—Nicholas
Long, age 74, a mining man of Doug- <
las near here, died today. His sur
vivors include the widow, one son, 1
and three daughters. c
SUDDEN MOVE CAUSES SURPRISE
AMONG DELEGATES PAN
AMERICAN MEET
HAVANA, Jan. 19. (/P)—Dwight
Morrow, American Ambassador to
Mexico, will leave the session at the
Pan-American conference on Monday
and erturn to Mexico City where he
“has important work to do.”
The announcement caused surprise
among the delegates as Morrow was
j regarded as one of the most strategic
I advantages of the United States at
the conference.. It is believed his
presence would conteract any possi
bility cntroversial or reactionary mat
ters being brought up; also any
against the United States which might
be proposed by the Mexican delegate.
1 SENATE; JTTSCK
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SENATOR HEFLIN LAUNCHES
BITTER ATTACK ON SMITH,
CATHOLIC CHURCH •
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19. (&)—In the
midst of a row in the Sennate pre
cipitated by the bitter attack of Sena
tor Heflin, of Alabama, on Governor
Smith and the Roman Catholic church,
Senator Robinson, of Arkansas, said
he would call the Democrats togeth
er tomorrow to determine whether or
not he continues as their leader.
Before crowded galleries Senator
Robinson undertook to reply to Sena
tor HeHflinn’s lengthy speech which
started with the denunciation of the
Hearst-Mexican documents.
ROAD IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM
NATIONAL FORESTS APPROV
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ED BY JARDINE
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19. (£>)—'The
appointment of $7,500,000 for road
improvements in National forests has
been approved by Secretary of Agri
culture Jardine.
The allotments include for Alaska
:he sum of $490,844 and for the State
>f Washington $633,879.
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