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VOLUME XXII. NUMBER 195.
SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1927.
PRICE TEN CENTS
WASHINGTON STATE
DRV DIRECTOR LYLE
TO BE SUPPLANTED
MANY WOLVES IN SHEEPSj
CIOTHING IN SERVICE
STATES LOWMAN
WASHINGTON, Sept. 10. (^—As
sistant Secretary Lowman of the j
Treasury Department and in charge!
f of prohibition enforcement, announc
ed Director Roy Lyle has been re
turned to his post “awaiting the out
come of the regular civil service ap
pointments.” Treasury officials reiter
ated he probably would be supplanted
soon. .
Lowman made Known he suspended
Alfred Hubbard and Richard L. Fry
ant, prohibition agents under Lyle,
from duty for “irregularities in con
nection with smuggling liquor.
“Determination to rid the Federal
^ prohibition, service of dishonest and
incompeten1. agents was expressed by
Lowman r- an oral statement in
which he declared, “If America can
be made ■ *-»r and temperate in 50
years a g< job will have been done’
Lowman said that while there wrere
“a lot of splendid fellows and fear
less men in the service there are also
many incompetent and crooked men
and bribery is rampant. There are
many wolves in sheeps clothing and
we are after them. Lately many have
been let out all over the country. The
Government’s Intelligence Service has
been very helpful. Some days my
arm gets tired signing orders of dis
missal. The customs and coast guard
r' is well organized and some crooks
show up in these bureaus but they go
out just as fast as we locate them.”
PIE OF DETROIT
ARRIVES SHHM
WORLD FILERS ROLLING RIGHT
ALONG; LAND ON CHINESE
AIRDOME
SHANGHAI, Sept. 10. (/P)—'The
Pride of Detroit arrived in Hong Kong
at 8:30 Saturday night after a flight
of 780 miles. The fliers left Hong
Kong at 6:25. The world fliers made
a landing on the Chinese Government
airdome 16 miles outside the interna
tional settlement.
AKIAK, Sept. 10. (#>)—Approaching
in seriousness the disasterous epidem
ic among the natives in 1919 neailv
200 Eskimo have died this summer of
influenza in the Kuskokwim region.
Federal teachers and nurses have fin
ally controlled the epidemic. The
disease first struck the fishing camps
then was carried to the villages.
COW IS RECORD MOTHER
CRITTENDEN, Ky., Sept. 10. {JP)~
W. D. Drennan is the owner of a cow
which holds the record of being the
mother of three pairs of twin calves,
all born within 28 months.
OLD GLORY SIGHTED
DFFST.JOHNS COAST
SAYS RELAYED WIRr
NAVY OFFICIALS SKEPTICAL OF j
AUTHENTICITY OF MESSAGE
400 MILES OUT
HALIFAX, Sept. 10. (IP)—C. H. |
Harvey, local agent for the Marini1
Fisheries Department, received a mes
sage from Ottawa stating the Old
Glory had been sighted approximately
400 miles east northeast of St. Johns.
SKEPTICAL OF REPORT
OTTAWA, Sept. 10. (>P)—The mes
sage relayed to Halifax from Ottawa
reported the plane Old Glory had been
sighted 400 miles off St. Johns origi-1
nated at Washington and was handed
to the Canadian Naval Services here
by the United States Embassy. Offi
cials of the Naval Service, while for
warding the message to Canadian
ships, were skeptical of its value.
LYLE FAILED 10
CONGRESSMAN JOHNSON OF
WASHINGTON SAYS CHARGE
IS PROVEN
—
HOQUIAM, Sept. 10. (£>)—Congress
i man Johnson said he had been inform
ed Lyle had failed to pass the civil
service examination which was one
cause of delay in securing from Wash
ington the decision as to his status.
“In my opinion this proves the charge
I made that the trouble with prohibi
tion enforcement in this State wras in
compentency in high places.”
ALASKA SAILS NORTH!
WITH 198 LISTED
SEWARD RESIDENTS RETURNING:
ON ALASKA STEAMSHIP
VESSEL
SEATTLE,Sept. 10. (£>)—'The S. S. j
Alaska, of the A. S. S. Co.„ sailed at I
9 a. m. carrying 198 passengers. The
Seward listing includes* W. O. Wook
ren, Mrs. L. Brasher, C. W. Peterson,
G. G. Lemons and wife, Mr. Short, M.
R. Rice, Mrs. K. Cecil, D. B. Mauir,
Joe Magill, C. Flanagan and wife, T.
Workman and wife, Mrs. A. Willis, W.
D. Congnon, Helen Durand, W. R.
Shellhorn and wife, Miss Wilma Shell
horn, Miss J. Merrill, Mrs. S. W. Dun-'
kei, R. D. Weiss, Miss B. Merrill, Mrs.
C. M. Schribner and son.
BASEBALL SCORES
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Seattle, 3-3; Oakland, 4-8.
Mission, 2-4; San Francisco, 3-3.
Sacramento, 2; Portland, 6.
Hollywood, 5-7; Los Angeles, 3-2.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Philadelphia, 2; Pittsburg, 3.
Brooklyn, 6; St. Louis, 8.
Boston, 1^ Cincinnati, 8.
New Yoork 7; Chicago, 2.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Cleveland, 1; Boston, 6.
Detroit, 5; Philadelphia, 2.
St. Louis,, 3; New York 9.
Chicago, 8; Washington, nothing.
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NAVY REVOKES LEAVE
WASHINGTON, Sept. 10. (/P)—1The
Navy Department revoked the leave
granted Lieut. L. W. Curtis and En
sign S. V. Edwards who planned to ac
company Fonck across the Atlantic.
STORM OF PROTEST
IS AROUSED OVER
OCEANIC FLYING
SEARCH FOR OLD GLORY AND SIR
CARLING CONTINUES TO
PROVE FRUITLESS
NEW YORK, Sept. 10. (£>)—An in
tensified storm of protests against1
trans-Atlantic flying will make the |
abandoment of at least two more pro-i
jected oversea hops a certainty. The j
prospects of a Presidential investiga
tion to make such adventures safe i
looms. The Navy Department openly j
displayed opposition to transoceanic
flights by withdrawing the leave of
absence of two officers who had been
planning a flight.
President Coolidge voiced concern
over the recent disasters and it is re
vealed may have oceanic flying inves
tigated. Philadelphia and Boston have
withdrawn their $25,000 prizes Friends
and relatives of the three men plan- j
ning hops appealed to the flyers to|
abandon their intentions. Meanwhile,'
a fruitless search for Old Glory and;
Sir Carling continued.
COOLIE DEDICATES
STATE COLLEGE LIBRARY
| BROOKINGS, S. Dak., Sept. 10. (IP)
—’President Coolidge dedicated the
Lincoln Memorial Library at the South
Dakota State College with an address
devoted almost wholly to education
and marked of absence of any refer
ence to farm relief fight or other
Tcontroversal problems.
"His Best Donor."
I HAVE
NO KICK
TO MAKE
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GOVERNOR JACKSON INDICATED
ON BRIBERY CHARGE; MAYOR,
CORRUPT PRACTICE
INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 10. (^—Gov
ernor Ed. Jackson of Indiana has been
indicted for conspiricy to commit a
felony in attempted bribery. John L.
Buvall, mayor of Indianapolis, is nam
ed in another indictment charging vio
lation of corrupt practices act. Nam
ed in the same indictment with Jack
son were George V. Coffin, chairman
of the Marion county republican com
mittee; Robert I. Marsh, formerly a
law partner of Jackson and counsel
for the Ku Klux Klan during the
Grand Dragonship; and D. C. Stephen
son. The return of the indictment
was the climax to an 11 months in
quiry by three successive Grand Juries
into the charges of political corrup
tion in the State of Indiana.
WANTED BOY ,GOT GIRL
TOKYO, Sept. 10. </P)—Empress
Nagako of Japan gave birth to a
daughter.
FILERS ORDERED HOME
WINDSOR, Ont, Sept. 10. (/?)—'The
Windsor flight committee has ordered
chiller and Wood to abandon then
trans-Atlantic flight and return home.
WHEN DID ALASKA
FIRST "FREE UP"
DEPARTMENT ASKEO
WASHINGTON, Sept. 10. (^—Num
erous inquiries as to the date when
I Alaska “froze up” have been received
every year by the Geological Survey,
Department of the Interior.
Some of the inquiries, it was said,
estimated the time, the estimate vary
ing from 40 to several hundred years
ago, and ask the Survey for a verifi
cation of one of the dates.
The Survey has just made public the
following answer to one of the inquir
ies:
“The present Alaska glaciers are
only shriveled remnants of much
greater glaciers that have existed
there in the past. Many parts of the
interior of the Territory that are now
free of ice have been covered by it in
the past. This, indeed, is true not
of Alaska only but of the whole north
ern part of North America.
At one time the northern ice sheets
extended down across the present
Canadian boundary line and covered
much of the northern part of the
United States. How long agt) this
succession periods of glaciation began
is largly a matter of conjecture. Mod
ern estimates indicate that it may
have been a million years ago. So we
suppose that might be said to be the
time when Alaska ‘‘froze up”. Mod.
| era geological text books contain dis
cussion of glaciation.”
MOUSE IN CARBURATOR
PHILLIPSBURG, Kas., Sept. 10. (IF)
—John Van Wyck of Prairie View,
near here, intends to carry a mouse
trap in his gasoline tamk hereafter.
Van Wyck’s car stalled recently. He
was unable to locate the trouble and
sent for a mechanic. Investigation
disclosed a mouse in the carburator.