MONDAY
(TELEGRAPHIC)
NKdlBTlRY WALLACE
CAUiED BY DEATH
Washington. D. C., Oct. 21*, (AP)
- -Henry Cantwell Wallace. Secre
tary of Agriculture died at the
Naval Hospital here yesterday at
4 p. m. with Mrs. Wallace and his
daughter Ruth at his bedside. His
death was the result of complica
tions that arose after an operation
for acute appendicitis. Mr. Wal
lace was a native of Rock Island,
Illinois, having been born there on |
May 11. 1886. He was educated
at the Iowa Agricultural College
and later, besides being one of the
faculty of that school he estab
lished the magazine known as Wal
lace’s Farmer, which he has edited
since 1895. The three sons of
the secretary. Henry A.. John B.
and JameB Wallace have stepped
into the management of the paper
since their father has been on the
President's Cabinet. Three daught
ers also survive him. the eldest be
ing the wife of Major Angus Mc
Clay of Detroit and the others two
the Misses Mary and Ruth Wallace.
CHARLES F. MARVIN
ACTING SECY. AGRICULTURE
Washington. Oct. 26. (AP) To
fill the vacancy left by the death
of Secretary of Agriculture, of the
President's Cabinet. Charles F.
Marvin, Chief of the II. S. Weather
Bureau was appointed by President
Coolidge to act temporarily in that
capacity.
— WEEK-END FOOTBALI
Following are the results of the
Saturday inter-collegiate football
games :
Stanford 3; Idaho 0.
Gonzaga 14. Multnomah 0.
<Oregon 40: Whitman H.
California 20; Wash. State Col. 0.
Washington 6: Oregon Aggies 3.
R. California 21; Nevada 7.
Navy 7: W. Vir. Weslyan 10.
Carnegie . 6: Pittsburg 0.
Syracuse 10; Penn. State 6.
Army 20: Boston 17 0.
Notredamc 12: Princeton 0.
Ruggers IS: Leiglit 30.
CAPTURE PAY ROLL BANDITS
WITH LOOT OF 8(1800 CASH
Whippant. N. J.. (AP)— Screams
of a young woman who was tied
to a tree by five bandits caused
the discovery of a seven thousand
dollar payroll robbery of a paper
mill here yesterday. Three of the
bandits were captured when they
attempted to board a ferry for New’
York, and *6800 of the loot was
recovered.
SHENANDOAH COMPLETES
TRIAL ROUND TRIP
Lakehurst. N. J.. Oct. 26. (AP)
• The dirigible Shenandoah return
ing from her round trip across
the continent moored just prior to
midnight, the journey of 9000 miles
being made in 18 days, breaking
a world record. The greatest thrill
was the fact that this is the first
American-built dirigible and was
the first to accomplish the trifc
across the country.
INVESTIGATION OF
REVENUE BUREAU URGED
k BY LA FOLLETTE
Kingston**, N. Y., Oct. 86, (AP)
—It was made public here today
that Robert La Follette had sent
an appeal to Cousins, Chairman of
the Investigations Committee urg
ing him to demand Mellon and
Jljter every meal /
A pleasant
and agreeable
sweet and a
1-s-st-I-n-g
well.
Good for
teetb, breath
aad digestion.
Makes the
taate better.
E3s
Blair to tell by what authority they |
sought to "subvert th** will of ;
Congress'' in forbidding the pub- J
lication of th** amounts of income
tax payments made by prominent 1
capitalists.
SCUTTLES SHIP TO j
AVOID LIQUOR SEIZURE
San Francisco. Oct. 26, (API !
The Steamer Brookings brought to j
port yesterday Captain J. Hall. |
master, and twelve crewsrnen of j
the Steam yacht Hiulia, having
picked them up from life boats
yesterday after they had scuttled |
and abandoned their ship a few j
miles off San Luis Obispo Hall
said that he had liquor aboard
and decided to scuttle the ship
when he saw- the smoke of the
Brookings.
DK VALERA ORDERED
TO LEAVE ULSTER
Belfast. Oct. 26. (AP) DeVal
icra. formerly a great figure in the
j political fights here was arrested
yesterday for disobeying an order
against entering County ivown.
He has been released under bond
to leave Ulster.
IlATRA JEAN LIBBEY
NOVELIST PASSES AWAY
New York, Oct. 26. (AP)—The
noted woman writer, Laura Jean
Libbey. passed away in Brooklyn
yesterday at the age of 62. The
noted woman is n stionclly known
as the author of more than 50
novels, in which the theme of vir
tually all was love - of a very ar
dent kind. Laura Jean Libbey was
born in New York City March 22,
j 1S62. the daughter of Thorns- IT.
(and Elizabeth Libbey. She was
{educated in private schools. On
j September 21. 1S9* she was inar
med to Van Meter Stilwell a Brook
llyn lawyer, and has since mad* her
PAY TRIBUTE TO
DECEASED CANDIDATE
Juneau. Oct. 20. (AP) In Trib
ute to W. \V. Casey, who was this
cratic ticket for representative, the
business houses were all closed
during the. funeral which was ;b<
largest ever held in this city
—
j Juneau. Oct 20. (AP)- The
j Democratic Divisional Committee
{nominated James McCloskey of
j Juneau to fill the vacancy caused
by Casey’s death. The Clerk of
'the Court is distributing sticker
; tickets with instructions to election
i judges to paste them to the bal
i lots before giving the same to the
! voters on election day.
RASMUSSEN PARTY
ARK AT It'VKAU
! Juneau. Oct. 26. (AP) - Knud Ras
im ussen and party arrived yester
day from Nome after having cov
ered twenty thousand miles in his
I explorations from Denmark to
Whalen and announce that he will
write a book on the Eskimos and
their life, asserting that he had
obtained positive knowledge of
their origin and stated that one
could travel his whole route and
be understood by all Eskimos in
one common language. He said
that* the Shenandoah would have
every chance for success in reach
ing the north pole with a station
and . mooring mast at Point Bar
TUESDAY
TELEGRAPHIC)
TRIER NEW CODE
Simla. India. Oct. 26. (AP)—Earl
Reading, vice-roy of India has pro
mulgated a supplement of crimnal
law w'hicb he declares is for the
purpose of suppressing .anarchical
and revolutionary crimes.
CAROLINE PRICER ARE
DOWN IN RKATLB
Seattle. Oct. 27. (AP)— The
Standard Oil Company. Associated
Oil Company. Union Oil Company
and General Petrolium Company
today announced the reduction In
gasoline prices from twenty-one
cents to eighteen cents a gallon.
It is reported that a two-cent re
duction was made for the .states
of California,. Oregon and Nevada.
The reason for the greater cut
in Washington was the fact that
gasoline is shipped by water which
is cbeai>er than the rail transpor
AGREEMENT REACHED BY
FRENCH AND RUSSIANS
derstood that an agreement has,
been reached whereby Eran< has |
accorded Russia recognition after j
AMERICAN MARINES
LAND IN CHINA
Tientsin. China. Oct. 27. (AP) j
— One hundred American Marines
from the Cruiser Huron were land- ,
ed today at Taku and hurried j
toward Poking. j
GENERAL WILLIAM B.
HALLDEMAN DEAD |
Louisville. Ky., Oct. 28. < AI *)
General William Birch Halldeman |
seventy-eight. Commander in chief j
of the Confederate Veterans, died ;
in the hospital at Churchill Downs j
where he was taken after being
stricken while watching the races,
yesterday. General Halldeman
has long been known as one of
the formost newspaper men of
the south and an ardent devotee
ALBERT LOKB DIES
AFTER LONG ILLNESS
Chicago. Oct. 2S, (AP)—Albert
Loeb. vice-president of the Sears
Roebuck Co., and father of Rich
ard Loeb, one of the kidnappers
of Leo Franks, died tonight at the
family home after an illness of
PROMISES EXCITING
FOOTBALL MATCH
j New York. Oct. 27. (AIM The
crack teams of LaFayetie and the
Saturday and the match is causing
considerable excitement among tin
grid fans. Neither team has been
beaten this season, the Quakers
j having played six games and the
jTHREE GASSED AT
STANDARD LAID >RAT« Hi'
New .York. Oct. 2S. (AP) -The
third victim of gas poisoning yes
terday at the Standard Oil Labor
died last night All three vic
Mwe DONALD PLAYER OFT
ON SPEECH TOFU
Aberavon. Wales, Oct. 27. (AP)
Premier McDonald started a day
of speech making here today but
after delivering one address went
to bed in a state of insomnia fat
< \\ HI NET DECIDES TAX
RETURN PUBLICATION
IS NOT LEGAL
Washington. Oct. 28. (AP > —
Attorney-General Stone made the
statement today that the Cabinet
had tuet and made a general
agreement that regarding tie pub
lication of income tax returns,
such publications should be con
sidered illegal.
SCHOOL GIRL KILLED
BY MOTORCYCLIST
Seattle. Oct. 27. (AP)—Eliza
beth Ann Edmonds, nineteen a
student in a Seattle business col
lege and whose home is in Falls,
City, near Snoqttolmie Falls wan
killed today in the streets when
a motorcyclist hit her and crushed
her against an auto stage. The
cyclist who was unidentified, dis
appeared and has not been appre
ITALY CELEBRATES
NEW HOLIDAY
Rome, Oct. 28. (AP)— Italy]
celebrated yesterday the comple
toin of the second year under the j
Fascist! government in public j
buildings throughout the country I
by order of Mussoloni. All busin- ;
ess houses and thousands of pri- j
vate ones were profusely flagged. J
SECY AGRICULTURE WILL
BE NAMED SOON j
Washington. Oct 27. (AP)—It j
is not expected that President I
Coolidge will appoint the Agricul- j
tural Committee until after he
has decided upon a man to fill I
the vacancy in the cabinet caused !
by the death of Secretary Wallace.
Those in mind for the position
are Frank D. Lowden, John Lee
Coulter, President of the North
Dakota ‘Agricultural College and
also listed as a probable member
c»f the Agricultural Committee,
find Samuel Adams, former pres- j
Ident of the Agricultural Editors’ j
Association. The appointment is
expected to be made soon.
resign account of
PA I LURK TO PROSECI‘TK j
Washington, Oct. 27. (AP) It:
was brought out here today that
four district attorneys have their j
resignations in and that six others j
have resigned since July on at - j
count of failures to inforce pros- j
♦ cut ions.
RE-BURY BODIES OF
EXECUTED IRISH 1
IJuhlin. Oct. 2S. CAP) Bodies
of Seventy-seven executed Free ^
State people, executed by military .
authorities in 1022 and 1022 were j
delivered to their relatives for'
reburial in consecrated ground j
PREACHER GETS FIVE
YEARS IN PENITENTIARY
Fairmont. W. Vir.. Oct. 27.
(A P) Convicted of conspiracy in
the shooting of Dan Washington,
colored on account of his alleged
association with white women.
Reverand I). Jones. General Klon
gle of the Ku Klux Klan here re
ceived a sentence of five years in
the state penetentiarv yesterday
with six months stay of execution.
JAP SOI.BIERS TO
GO TO TIENTSIN
Tokio. Oct. 27. (API The Jap
anese Cabinet today declared that
I they would send two more com
j panics of troops with a machine
, %un corps from Manchuria to
Tientsin to protect the Japanese
interests there in case that there
: is another clash between Feng and
AMERICAN OFFICIAL I»EA1>
FROM STIR HiE IN CHIN A
Peking. Oct. 27. (APi Edward
, Bell. American Charge de Affairs
at Peking died after suffering a
i paraletie stroke last night
WEDNESDAY
TELEGRAPHIC .
jitRYAN SAYS ELECTION
THROWN TO HOUSE
IF DAVIS MHISKS
New York. Oct. 2S. (API
i Charles W Bryan, Democratic
; candidate tor vice-president wired
i to W. F. Shaver Saturday stating
: that in the event that Davis is not
!elected to the presidency. the
'election will surely be thrown to
’the House.
SUGGESTS \ E WSPAPEIC
EVANGELISM AT HOME
Chicago. Oct. 28. (AP) Rev.
J. T It. Smith suggested to the
Publicity Congress that it would
he wise to employ the newspapers
for domestic evangelism while the
missionaries are working on the
foreign missions
ASSOCIATED PRESS JOINS
IN PUBLICITY CONFERENCE
Chicago. Oct. 28. (AP • A letter
from Frederick Roy Martin, gen
eral manager of the Associated
Press was read at the Publicity
Conference held by t P. ** Chicago
churches in which ho said in part
“The aim of the Associated Press
is to report for publication what
really is worth representing. We
don’t avoid crime. Especially but
we don’t revel in it.’
COOLIDGK CALLS TO
EX-SERVICE PEOPLE
Chicago, Oct. 28. (AP)—Hana
ford McNider. former National
Commander of the American Leg
ion. divulged that he had received
a letter from President Coolidge,
appealing to the ex-service men
and women to “stand united and
unyielding against this menace of
our institutions" alluding to La
Follette’s proposal to curb the
powers of the Supreme Court.
GUILTY VIOLATING TRADE
COMMITTEE ACTS j
Washington. Oct. 28. (AP)—
The Federal Trade Committee
was dismissed yesterday without
prejudicial complaint charging the
Duglas Fur Exploration Export
Company and a hundred seven
other individuals with having a
combination to fix prices to limit
competition In interstate and for
eign commerce. Chairman Hus
ton ThompHon dissented from dis
missal declaring tin respondents
guilty in both law and fart of
unfair competition that violated
tin- Federal Trade Committee act.
cooliim.i: preparing
FOR WyTHKR TERM
Washington. (>• r
stated fere tin
his friends that
pointed to the
Republican ticket
making his plans
iccordingly.
it Cooli.'lpe told
and that he is
for th*- future
If Kail RECORDS FOR
MONTHS CARLO IDINOS
New York. Oct US. (Ai’i The
establishment during the week
ending Saturday night of the high
record for all time for freight car
loadings with publication of fav
orable reports for September earn
ing* has greatly stimulated the
having of rails.
INDEPENDENCE »>i THREE
EAST PROVINCES \ NVI’LED
Mukden. Oct. life. (AIM Chang
today annottnced ’hat the inde
pendence of the three eastern
provinces of China would soon
he annulled and recommended the
deportation of Wu military com
mander for Tsao The deposed
president pledged his support to
Tuan Chi Sui. former candidate,
for the presidency the dispatch
MEET CALLED TO
DiSTRIRl TE REPAR \ Tlo\S
ierence of experts of the associat
ed powers ant! finance ministers
is expected to !>*• called in Novem
ber to consider the distribution
ot the reparations under file
Dawes plan. The American claim
of about three hundred million
i dollars besides two hundred and
forty million due for costs of the
i American Army of Occupation is
one of the claims to he discussed
i
i HINA.MAN SHOT IN
OMAHA TKOIRLE
J Lem a waiter was shot and killed
[while at work yesterday in what
i is supposed to he long trouble,
i Chin Ilia. member of th*- flan
plicated In th • shooting.
risoin navy gets
Hl’HV AT BOSTON
a off ' .ip-- ' id and Cape Ann
scattered today for the reas
on of their fir major engagement
with th«* nc w prohibition enforce
ment navj Flight prize ships
taken in the last few days art
tied up here and (Jlocbester lead*
th* campaign with over a score
of persons prisoners
t IT EUAN FOOTBALL
t'OAt'H PASSES A WAV
Now York. Oct. 28. (AP)—Per
c-y [). Iiaughton. forty nine, head
football coach of Columbia College
and founder of the famous Haugh
ton system at Harvard, who was
gc n< rally regarded as one of the
formost exponents of football died
at «i hospital an hour after being
stricken with acute indigestion at
Baker field while* directing the
work of a squad.
X. PAYS TRIBUTE TO
LEM IKKTKSTADKK
New York.. Oct. 28, (API
Broad way checked its gayitles for
a time in mourning at the death
yesterday of Lem Dockstader. for
many years one of the most fam
mis black-face commedians in the
Cnited States. It is said that his
show in the late eighties was as
much a fixture in New York as
the city hall itself. Lem Dock
stacb*r was known as having re
reived till: highest salaries ever
paid in this branch of the pro
COST HEAVY IN
ENGLAND ELECTIONS
London. Oct. 28. (AP)- The
general election * to be held to
; morrow is expected to cost the
governmnt in the neighborhood of
i a million pounds.
.MSS WILLARD SELLS
HIS KANSAS FARM
Topeka. Kansas. Oct. 21). (AP1
Jess Willard, former world’s
champion heavy-weight boxer sold
his six hundred forty acre farm
near here yesterday at public
auction. The sum bid was said
to be 3151.650.
DE TO ORDER
FIRST CLASS WORKMANSHIP
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN'S CLEANING.
PRESSING AND REPAIRING
MODERN METHODS AND PROMPT SERVICE
Nome Tailoring Co.
Opposite- Nuggot Offica Nom», Alaska
ALASKA S.S. CO.
S. S. Alameda
Replaces S. S. Victoria'on last
trip of the season, sailing from
Nome about October 26th.
S. S. Cordova
Will sail for Seattle about Nov=
ember 1st.
SIILII6 DUES SUBJECT TO CHIN6E
James P. Daly, Agent, Nome