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TOKOTJf A, ALASKA. SEPT. 12, 1925
Seadog Laughs at
Bombs and Airplanes
Replacing Battleships
Washington.—Taking a shot at. Col.
Wllliktn Mitchell, deposed assistaut
•bief ot the army air service, Rear Ad
■elral1 “Albert ©leaves, retired, io an
address before the Washington Rotary
CltibSodav, declared that, the proposi ■
that our countrv can her- -defended
••lei} by aircraft is born o' ignorance.
“It is impossible to conceive of the
United Statss resting contest with a
defedse by airplanes only, without
•hips', without fortifications, without a
merchant marine, which would cer
tainHr pass out with the navy,” Ad
miral Gleaves asserted. ’’There is no
country which would advocate such na
tional suicide.”
Discussing the ' ueetiott o a united
air set-vice, K3*t:feCrarbd“t'Bc,t to com
Wne naval, bil itafjr,'commercial
aviation into a singOd^pt. ice i^ould be
• colossal and dises^g an mistake.
“Only'a landsm^^M,.iacquainted with
the sea could seriously advocate a
united air force,” Admiral Gleaves de
clared.. “All this talk that the air
plane can win wars bv dropping gas
bomba on cities is rubbish. To show
what utter rot such statements are, let
a* consider New York. It has an area
®f 330 square miles. Between the sur
face Of the ground and the height of
the toil of the Woolworth building over
this arei there would be *9 cubic miles
of aiO, weighing 250,000,000 tons. To
poisob the population of the city of New
York is very like diverting the gulf
stream bv a dyke. It would cost more
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to destroy New York by poisoning the
air titan it did to construct the city."
Summing up, Admiral Gleaves de
clared that while the airship is indis
pensable to the fleet, it is still so limit
ed bj physical laws that it would be
the height of folly to abandon the bat
tleship as the backbone o? the fleet.
'Perfect Crime Seen
as Wife Slayer s Aim
Los Angeles.—A coroner’s jury late
today returned a verdict to the effect
that Mrs. Grace Young, who was the
widow of Patrick Grogan, a million
aire. died of lethal eas and strangula
tion at the hands of her husband. Dr.
Thomas W. Youug, dentist.
"Like Leopold aDd Loeb, the Chi
cago youths who murdered Bobbv
Franks, Dr. Young thought ha - had
worked out the ‘perfect crime,’Dis
trier. A.ttorney Asa Keyes declared to
day.
“For vears the dentist had planned
his wife’s murder, I believe, and even
went so far as to construct the cistern
■bum ath his summer cabin home, into
which he dropped her body.’
But the "murder of science" had one
hole, according to Keyes, who declared
that Young boldlv Stripped J‘rotr, his
wife’s hand a large diamond ring,
which be later presented to his pretty
The state will demand-the d^ath pen
al t\ for Dr. Young, according to dis
trict attorneys, who today "laid plans to
obtain a speedy trial :'or the wealthy
den'ist, block bis defense of insanity,
and send him to the gallows for the
"scientific minder" o' his 'beautiful
wife.
Young, who broke down Saturday
night after hours of grilling and made
a hi ief confession, today pave the de
tails of the crime on his return from j
the scene of the murder
"I brought her to the cabin in my j
car the night of February’71, after we
had quarreled and she fiad slapped- me.
Previously If had given her some
whisky in my oflice‘down town. She
was drowsy. 7 todk a 'vial of somno
fortu and a rubber cone from my office.
‘‘When we reached the cabin she
was very sleepy from the whisky, and I
placed the cone oyer her mouth, placed !
cotton in her nostrils, and she died j
shortly after Inhaling the gas."
OTwo nights later, according to the
authorities, Young took hir wife s- son,
Charles Patrick Grogan, heir tor the
mi!lions of the late Pat Grogan, "ripe
olive" king, to the cabin. The body
had started tc give odor, Young de
clared, according to detectives, and he
ha! the boy mis concrete outside the
cabin, which the dentist poured over
the corpse-in the cistern.
PRESS SQUIBS,
It is hard to be a leader in America
You can’t tell which wav the darned
crowd is going.—Austin American
The objection to sleeping out-of-doora
is that insects don’t know when to go
to sleep.—Denton Record -Chronicle.
The fortunate thing about most of
the features of lost civilization is that
they are lost.—Wichita Falls Record
News.
A headline says the law punishes in
accent men, but the story doesn’t tell
wnere on earth it finds that kind.—
Roanoke World-News.
Modern woman may have faults, but
she doesn't look as bent and worn as a
‘dutiful wife” did in the old. days.—
Waco News-Tribune.
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Although there was some talk of
staging Defense Day on the anniver
sary of the armistice, nothing has been
lone so far about rnakiug Juue 21 the
jhioial opening of winter.—Detroit
Sews.
in Des Moines thev have a parade of
kji tleggers. New Tork has its police
m
parade. According to recent disclos
ures in Philadelphia it wouldn't mat ter
much what they called it there.—New
York Worlds
It would cost $250,000,000 a year to
keep the dry fleet at its present
strength on the Atlantic coast, but the
boys who operate motor trucks along
the Canadian border- agree that it
would be worth it.—Life.
Uncle Sam’s- appeal for payment
might have seemed more eloquent if
he hadn’t ;ust confessed to a $100,000,
000 surplus. —Richmond News-Leader
We are not without a twinge of envy
for J. T. Scopes. A young high school
teacher who can give a simple lessou
in biology and become a great national
menace is getting iDto the hall of fame
on an uncomplimentary ticket.—The
Hew Yorker.
The per capita wealth of the United
States is $2,86*1. If you haven’t re
ceived your share write to fyour con
gressman —San Antonio News.
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Civic pride is just, another name for
patriotism locally applied.—Port Worth
Star- Telegram.
The effort' to exterminate our wild
life see m3 easy for everybody except
the grand jury.^-Oil City Derrick.
No nation, unless it is crazy, will un
dertake to invade the United States,
bus natrons sometimes go crazy.—St.
Louis Globe-Democrat,
All hard -boiled eggs are yellow in
side.—Glendale livening News.
The old fashioned tombstone said
‘•Rest in Peace,’ but some of the later
varieties carry the phrase ‘-The brakes
failed to work.*’—MinneapolisJ ourual.
Persons who have built homes never
cease to wonder bow the birds accom
plish it with so little trouble.—Detroit
Free Press.
Soon they are going to vaccinate girls
on the ears. The scar won’t show
there.—Florida Times-UnioD.
J. It McLean
Tokotna
Native Spuds
This year’s crop 1
$7 Per 100 Lbs.
Better rates od larger quantities
Cabbage
$9 Per 100 Lbs. j
Swift’s Han and Bacon
Golden State Butter
and Cheese
New Stock ci Green Hood
Woolen Goods _
Hood All Rubber Pacs
Ladies’ Furnishings 1Si
Arctics jFelt Slippers
King Island Mukluks
Du Rand’s
Cafe and
Hotel
Flat City
Tokotna
Poo) Hall
Avoid the Rush!
Toilet Articles
Cigarette Holders
Cigar Holders
Pocket Combs
Sanitary Tooth Brushes
Extracts Lemon, Banana
and Straw berry Flavors
Imperial Cigarettes
at cost price
Jack Mutchler
Proprietor
McGrath, Alaska
Arriving on first boats
will be a complete as
sortment of the very
best goods, con
sisting of
Groceries
Hardware
Miners’ Supplies
of All Kinds
Ladies’ Furnishia&s
Salmon Netting
Furs Bought
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George Mutchler, Proprietor
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Cigars .Tobaccos, Candies, Fru
Old-Timers’ Popular Resort
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Geo. W. Hoffman
Pioneer Trader of the Kuskokwim Valley
Napamute, Alaska
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Good Prices for Yoiir Fur
Larson
ouse
Best of Home Cooked Meals. Prompt Attention
New Dog Houses.
Frank Larson
Proprietor
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ALASKA 8IVEKS NAVIGATION
COMPANY
Operating Light Draught Steamers
On the Kuskokwim.
Capt. Wallace Langley, Manager.