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ALASKA FISH BILL DRAWS FIRE
Uffiir TUW GRANTED MtEFIMTE PAROLE
MAJOR MARTIN AND
PUNE STILL MISSING
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FALSE PASS, May ,3—The search for Ma^or Martin, th*i United j
States world (light commander, today turned inland (roan the coast of Ai- j
Mka Peninsula to the Aleutian Range. The belief is held that Major |
ltortin started soon alter leaving Chignik to cut across the mount
Ains to shorten the distance. A searching party is to leave Chignik today
tp continue the search from that end.
CORDOVA, May 3—No trace of Major Martin at midnigh* Thursday.
A.HKRICAN MISSIONARIK8 ROBBKD IN CHINA
HONO KONG, May 2—Two American Missionaries. Fathers Glea
son and Ford, of the Mbit Knoll Mission, were attacked and robbed by
Chinese bandits. ^he bandits, at the time of the outrage, were crossing
the Laichon Peninsula.
ADMIK.il* COONTZ AIUUVKS IN SEATTLE
RBATTUE, May 2—Admiral Coontz aboard the flagship Seattle Ar
rived from Southern waters this morning. This is the first of a fli^et of
aixty warships to arrive to participate In the Fourth of Ju!y celebration.
JAPAN PLANNING WAR IN RUSSIA
MOSCOW, May 2—Trotzsky, in an address delivered to th* public
here, declared that Japan is planning war on Russia in order to obtain
territory in the Far East for colonization purposes to make up for the
losses sustained by the immigration laws of Canada and the United States.
CYCLONE SOUTHERN
STATES KILLS 108
ATLANTA, May 2—The dead from Tuesday’s and W&dfcestia.* - tor
nadoes number sixty three tonight, with four hundred injured, many per
haps fatally.
DEATH LIST FHOM CYOiOXE INCREASED
ATLANTA, May 2-—Of more than a hundred reported dead to date
in the cyclone that swept the Southern States for the la«t two day* slx
ty-nine were killed in South Carolina. The property damage will run
between ten and twelve millions.
SOUTHERN STATES VISITED BY TORNADOES
ATLANTA, May 2—A series of tornadoes which dipped down, into six
Southern States early today took a toll of ten lives and caused millions of
dollars ip damages. The States that suffered moat are Georgia, South
Carolina, Mississippi, Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas.
ATLANTA, May 3—Late reports swell the death list of yesterday’s
/ tornado to one hundred and eight.
/ATLANTA, May 3—The known list of dead from the tornado is now
seventy nine. Incomplete reports Southeast incoming, are to the effect
that the disturbances continued to spread Eastward with equal violence.
Three were killed In North Carolina, and the storm extended to Virginia,
but with less intensity.
COLUMBIA, 8. C„ May 3—The known list of dead is now sixty one.
Property demote la more than a million. Deetrnttlon assumed propor
tion statewide dlmtor. Eighteen klUed. eighty Injured in Richland
County; Hfteen killed, Mty Injured In Florence Connty, mostly at
Lynchburg. Seym killed at Smlthrllle, Georgia, and the whole town of
Ploklongn rlrtnally destroyed, and other death, were reported from
ion Mats.
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PHILADELPHIA. May 3 Harry K. Thaw has bi^n granted an indef
inite parole today from the Pennsylvania Hospital for Nervous Diseases.
Evelyn Nesbitt Thaw-Clifford and her battery of legal talent were power
less to maintain his incarceration further.
PRESIDENT t'OOLIDGK SENDS LETTER ON ALASKA FISHERIES
WASHINGTON. May 3—-'These fisheries are in an extremely precar-*
aous condition. Salmon ar.- rapidly be-ink depleted in many sections and
are in grave danger of extermination. The situation cannot be met
under the existing law." President Cool id ge wrote in a letter to Chairman
Jones of the Senate Commerce Committee, urging prompt passage of the
pending bill to prevent monopolies further special privilege in the Alaska
lLshertes. The President continued: “In my message at the opening of
Congress I cad led attention to the access!! \ of legislation to preserve the
Alaskan fisheries. 1 am advised that the. bill now pending in the present,
form, affords am pi*- powers for the preservation of the* great but fast
failing source <rf food supply of the American people. In the long run it
is to the interest of both the canncrs and fishermen tha-j the industry be
preserved.”
HOOVKH <HAlJ,K\(iKW SENATOR K1N<» AND SI' THKK1A \ D
WASHINGTON, May 3- Seer clary Herbert Hoover, striking back at
what be terms a campaign of personal abuse, has challenged Senator King
of Utah and Delegate Sutherland -d Alaska, and also the Hearst news
papers to declare specifically whether they favor or oppose, the fisheries
conservation bill passed in the House and now pending in t.he Senate,
the en:u?tnient of which he has.advocated.
SEATTLE CHAMUKK OK ( tiMMKRCK KAl kS I I* HOOV KH
SEATTLE, May 2 — Approval of Hoover's policy of fish conservation
was voted tonight by the Alaska Bureau of the Seattle Chamber of Com
merce. a telegram from Herbert Hoover was read requesting this en
dorsement. The attitude of the Cham her* of Commerce is diametrically
opposite to that of Senator King of I'tah and Delegate Sutherland of
MOVIE MAN SAILS FOR ALASKA
SEATTLE, May 3—Arthur H.-.Young sailed from here this morning on
the Steamer Queen. Young is a resident of San Francisco and an ex
pert shot with a bow and arrow. He proposes to shoot bears in Alaska
with these archaic implements. The activities will be filmed by \V. \V.
JAPANESE CiRATIFIED BY PRESIDENT’S ATTITUDE
TOKIO, May. 3—Foreign Military Attache Matsu expressed great
gratification over the efforts'of President Coolidge to affect a compromise
agreement on the Asiatic Exclusion Clause in the United States Immigra
tion Bill. He said that he was convinced of the President’s sincerity
in the matter and in his ability to find a suitable way out of the problem.
DEFENSIVE ALLIANCE TREATY SICi-NICD
BUCHAREST, May 2—A defenseve alliance treaty between Rumania
England and Turkey has been signed.
AMERICAN, BRITISH, FRENCH FLYERS TO MEET TOKYO j
WASHINGTON, May 2—All three detachments of the globe circling •
Army flyers representing the United States, Great Britain and France, I
are expected to meet in Tokyo. Japan according to calculations made today
by the War Department aviation experts. McLaren, the British flyer,
has reached Calcutta; Doisy, the French, arrived at. Agra. India with three
of the American detachment at Dutch Harbor, Alaska.
SOLDIER BONUS INSURANCE BILL BEFORE PRESD>KNT
WASHINGTON, May 3—The Conference Committee which has been
engaged on the bfll providing for paid-up insurance for the Veterans of the
World War instead of a cash bonus, have informed the President that the
Mil wfY bC ready for hta signature Saturday.
ALASKA CANNERY SHIP
IGNORES COURT ORDER
MKX CLAIM SHAN< »H AIKI» ALASKA « AWKRY SHIP
SEATTLE. May 2 Twenty eight of forty seven men arrested for
deserting the Alaska cannery ship Benjamin F. Packard. claiming they
were held aboard the ship by force of arms, were released this afternoon
through habeas corpus proceedings. Judge Smith in releasing them,
cited them to appear in Judge Williams' Court to air their complaints
against the conditions existing on the Packard, and methods restraining
them there. The. ship’s officers were also cited to appear before the
< ANNKHY SHIP KiNORKS (X)IRT OKIFKKS
SEATTLE, May 3— Without waiting for the final outcome of the
legal battles waging arouDd the charges of restraint by a show of arms
made by forty seven Alaskan cannery workers who fled her deck, officers
of the cannery ship Benjamin F, Packard. Captain Deatrichson. put to
sea for Alaska, failing to appear as ordered by the Court to answer to a
habeas corpus writ. The Packard also took away the personal effect4*
of some of the forty seven workers.
H1I»K FOItTl \K TO I>KFItAlT> < ItKDITOIlS. SITT IIKOL'OHT f
SEATTLE, May 2 Trustee in Bankruptcy Dougen, filed suit in the
Superior Court today charging Mrs. Sanders, widow of Friend Sanders,
late capitalist, whose children are E. Sanders, Jr.. Elizabeth and Lilly,
with attempting hide $150,000 of estate to defraud creditors. All of
the defendant' are pioneers and are socially prominent.
SYDXEY KEIWER Sl’MfUKS IN SEATTLE
•SEATTLE. May 3—Sydney Renner. recently prominent as an author
and in local industrial affairs, committed suicide Iasi night by hurling him
self under moving street car. Iteuner has lost two fortunes
MORE OF FALL’S LEASES
AIRED AT HEARING
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WASHINGTON, May l* Former Secretary Full teased. 3,05 7 acres in
l the Bueno Vista, -Calilornia Naival Oil Reserve without tue approval of
President Harding, Assistant. Secretary of the Interior Finney testified
before the Senate Oil Investigation Committee this afternoon. He said
the lease was made to the Honolulu Consolidated Oil Company. Com
menting on this testimony, II. Foster Bain. Director of the Bureau of
Mines, stated that that the' late Franklyn K. Lane resigned as Secretary
of the Interior because President Wilson set aside his ruling which grant
ed the Honolulu Consolidated Oil Company patent to 305 acres of land
in the Bueno Vista Naval Oil Reserve. However, Fall made the lease.
Fall denied, however, that John Barton Payne, successor to Secretary
Lane, also denied the Honolulu Consolidated Oil Company's application
for patents to thi-i land.
WILLIAM M. HI TLER INTENDS RESIGN
W’ASHINGTON. May 2—The White House announced tonight that
William M. Butler. Chairman of the incoming Republican National Com
mittee. succeeding Chairman John T. Adams of Iowa, has signified hie in
tention to resign in the event that President Coolidge i9 nominated at the
National Convention at Cleveland in June.
FORMER KAISER WIRES AN ENTREATY
BERLIN, May 2—Former Emperor William, in a private telegram re
ceived here observes that the Fat her land's Liberator Is he who succeeds
in the abrogation of the Versailles Treaty, thus ending the intolerable
foreign rule in Germany.
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