THE
VOL. V. NO. 30
TOKOTNA, ALASKA. SATURDAY^ JULY 25* 1925*
PRICE 25 CENT
JURY OUT
8MINUTES
Arid (Brings In Verdict
oil Guilty Against
Scopes.
Daltont Te'nn., July 21.—A
verdict <of guilty was returned
today against John T. Scopes,
principal . of "the Rhea county
high school, charged with hav
ing violated the anti evolution
teaching! law of the State of
Tennessee.
The verdicb of guilty was re
turned eight1 minutes after the
case had beea given- to the jury.
J udge .Ralston** .in- imposing- pen
alty. fixed thefine- at $100, with
a $500'bond, pending appeal to a
higher court.'
“Have'you anything1; to say,
Mr. Scopes?” asked Jhdge Rals
ton, when the verdict was- read'.
“Your honor, I have been con*
victed of-violating an unjust
statute,’-’ replied Scopes. “Any
action other than I have pursued
would have been in violation of
my ideas of academic freedom.”
Scopes, m addressing the court,
added that he would continue to
oppose the daw in every way in
his power, as he considered it an
unjust law and in violation of
the constitution.
* The testimony of William J..
Brjanin defense of the Bible,
given yesterday; was expunged
from there cords today by Judge
Ralston as shedding no light on
the issue' that will be pending
before the higher court. Bryan
had testified his belief in the
Bible and admitted that he had
come to defend revealed reli
gion. *
Cdr Driver Murdered,
Body Left Limousine
Seattle,'July 24.—Earl A nable, 32, a
Reriton car driver, was found mur
dered today, hia body being discovered
in a limousine'on the road near the
* Fort Lawton rifle range. The police
and military authorities are searching
for ta man dressed in a sailor’s uniform*
who was a passenger in the car.
Seattle, July 25.—Lloyd L. Hudson,
20, a sailor on the battleship Arizona,
who was arrested last night, confessed
that he killed Earl Anable, claiming
he did so because the auto driver in
Dulfced Mrs. Huason, his bride of a few
weeks,
Mrs. Hudson,1 when questioned, said
she was not insulted, and the police be
lieve Hudson committed the murder for
• the purpose of robbery.
3 Killed in Crash of
Army, Navy Planes
Honolulu, July 24.—Three army and
navy airplanes crashed today over
Oahu island, killing Lieutenants John
A. Wyatt and Charles L. Morse, of
Virginia and New Hampshire, respect
ively, and Sergeant P. T. McMullen.
^ r
J. A. Denney, deputy internal reve
nue collector, returned here Wednes
dayufcoan a trip.to Oofairr
i*
EVOLUTION
TEACHERS
Cited to Appear in Court
and Show Why Pay
t Shouldn’t Be Stopped.
Washington, Jiily 23. — The
conflict between religion and
science, as exemplified in the
Seopes anti-evolution trial in
Tennessee, today came squarely
before the federal court of the
District of Columbia.
Declaring that children in the
National Capital are being taught
disrespect of the Holy Bible-,
Loren H. Wittner asked the Dis
trict supreme court to enjoin the
city’s fiscal agents from paying
salaries-to instructors who teach
the evolutionary theory of the
origin of man, in conflict with
Divine creation.
Wittner is an employe of the
Treasury Department. Justice
Siranaons ordered the defendants
named by Wittner to appear be
fore the court on July 28- and
show cause why payment of sal
aries to instructors, teaching sci
entific theories in conflict with
Bible terchings should not be
stopped._
American Vice Consul*
Mexico*. Shot in Back
Washington, July 23. — American
Vice Consul Harold G. Brotherton,
stationed at Agua Calientes, was shot
in the back and slightly wounded, last
night. The American embassy at
Mexico City has been instructed by the
State Department to takh up the case
with the Mexican government.
Plans for Harding
Tomb Are Accepted
New York, July 23.—Announcement;
is made that the plaDS for the Harding
tomb have been accepted by the Hard
ing. memorial commission. The tomb
will be a circular mausoleum of- gran
ite, eight feet in diameter and thirty-i
nine feet in height. It will be erected
at Marion: and will contain the bodies
! of Harding and bis wife.
Do Away With Use
less Naval Activities
Swampscott. July 23. — Chairman
Hale, of the Senate naval committee,
has been asked by President Coolidge
to make an intensive study to deter
mine whether there are useless naval
activities that could be done away
with, with a view to reduciog appro
priations for that department.
Deputy Marshal Peter McMullen and
Mrs McMullen were Wednesday ar
rivals on the Sea Wolf. They made
the trip to Ganes and return on Thurs
day, and will return to McGrath to
morrow, being passengers to the Korks
on the| Wolf.<
Charles Kimball. Plume Dredge Com
pany manager, arrived Thursday from
Liittle creek, and left yesterday for
Yankee. He reports results from
■’"‘sdgesat both-points as satisfactory.
Every Federal'Piroiti^
tion Agent in Coun*
try to Lose Job—But
New York, July 22.—“As the new
reorganization under Assistant Secre
tary of Treasury Andrews takes effect,
every federal prohibition agent in the
country will lose his job, though »aoy
of them mav get re-appointment,”
Prohibition Commissioner Haynes an
nounced today.
9 DEATHS
FT.YUK0N
But Influenza Epidemic
Gradually Yielding
to Physicians.
Port Yukon, July 23.—Nine
deaths have resulted from the
influenza epidemic at this place
and vicinity. It is estimated that
no less than 250 natives have
been afflicted with the disease,
which it is believed is now grad
ually being gotten under control.
Bishop Rowe and two physi
cians, who arrived several days
ago. have done much in caring
for the sufferers. Also, from
Fairbanks, coming by airplane,
was a Red Cross nurse, who as
sumed general charge of dis
pensing food to the stricken and
otherwise doing everything in
her power in caring for the af
flicted. _
Henry Ford May Get
200 Shipping Bd. Ships
Washington, July 22. —Acceptance of
the bid of Henry Ford of $1,706,000 for
two hundred Shipping Board vessels
was recommended to the Shipping
Board by President Palmer, of the
United States Fleet Corporation, today.
Bootleggers Shipping
Plenty Liquor, Trunks
New York, July 3$.—A federal grand
jury is pressing its inquiry to learn the
source of liquor with which a bootleg
ging ring, discovered here, supplies
two hundred customers in twenty-nine
states by shipping the illicit goods in
trunks.
Washington Notes
Washington.—The balance of $6,
037,551 due the United States from the
Chinese government on the Boxer in
demnity payments has been remitted
bv Presidet Coolidpe, under congres
sional authority granted in May. 1024.
Washington.—Substantial accord has
been reached bv the powers on a form
ula to deal with the whole Chinese
problem, it is intimated by the State
Department.
Washington.—An air dispatch ser
vice between the summer White House
at Swampscott and Washington was
established by the Navy Department,
Monday. _
Washington.—Income tax records
for the year 1924 will be opened for
public inspection by all internal reve
nue collectors on,September J.
ROT READY
FDR CHANGE
Present Prohibition En
forcement System to
Continue for Time.
Washington, July 24. —The
Treasury Department this after
noon announced thattbe present
prohibition enforcement system
will be continued indefinitely.
Treasury oStckds in charge of
prohibition affairs have decided
that reorganization cannot be in.
augurated, as planned, on Au
gust 1. First Assistant Secre.
tary Andrews and others directly
concerned, it is stated, have en
countered repeated difficulties
and delays in drawing up details
for reorganization and also in
selecting its personnel.
436 Drowned* 215 Miss
ing in Korean Flood
Tokio, July 24.—In tbe Korean flood,
which centered around tbe capital city
of Seoul, 436 were drowned and 215 are
missing.
Telegraphic Ticks.
Spokane.—Grand Commander Asa C.
Jewett, of the Grand Commamlery of
Knights Templar, Rhode Island and
Massachusetts, died Thursday morning
in the Glacier National Park, while en
route to the Templars’1 conclave, Se
attle.
Seattle.—Captain M. M. Jensen, roas
ter of the Admiral Line vessels, and
Mrs. M. Grace Brumbaugh, widow of a
former Fairbanks and Tditarod, Alaska,
business man, ware united }e w-'.rriage
here, Tuesday.
Seattle.—The battleships New York,
Arkansas and Utah, with twelve hun
dred midshipmen just out of Ahnap
olis, arrived here yesterday for the
Knights Templar conclave celebration.
Seattle.—D. Jaekling, copper mag
nate. passed through this city Thurs
day, on his way to Alaska to inspect
the properties of the Kenaecott Copper
Corporation.
Juneau.—Theodore H. Ballinger, a
Pittsburgh, Pa., senior in the Univers
ity of Washington, was drowned from
his canoe overturning, near here, Tues
day.
Lakehurst, N. J.—The navy dirigibla
Shenandoah sailed Thursday to par
ticipate in maneuvers with ships of the
Atlantic fleet off the Virginia coast.
Los Angeles.—Lowell H. Smith, com
mander during the famous world flight,
was arrested here Thursday, charged
with auto speeding.
Seattle.—Dan Salt, local boxing pro
moter, of the firm of Austin & Salt,
died Thursday afternoon, following an
operation for peritonitis.
Seattle. -Fred H. Stiinson, youthful
millionaire, for driving an auto while
drunk, was sentenced to one month in
jail, Thursday.
Seattle.—George H. Ely, a former
Nome operator, died at his home here,
Thursday
STRIKING
IN BRITAIN
1,250,000 Coal Workers
Threaten Walkout
_On July 31.
London, July 24.—One million
two hundred and fifty thousand
coal miners in Britain will go on
strike on July 31 if notices sent
out by executives of the Miners’
Federation to terminate existing
agreements between miners and
mine ownors are not complied
with. _
Bradford, Eng., July 24.—A
shut-down in the wool textile
industry over wage disputes oc
curred here today. About 135,.
000 workers are affected.
Inadvisable for U. S.
to Join Germany in
a Polar Expedicion
San Franeiico, July 22.—-It will be
inadvisable for the United States to
join with German; in a dirigible expe
dition to the North Pole next spring,
as outlined by Germany’s Zeppelin
buildea, Dr. Hugo Eckner, Secretary
of Nary Wilbur said here.
Will Appeal From De
cision Military Court
Honolulu, July 23.— The central
council, if necessary, will take to the
United States supreme court the cases
of Haul Crouch and Walter Trumbull.
Crouch and Trumball were convicted
by a military court of inciting a com
munist uprising in the United States
army, in which they were privates.
Chinese Bandits Kill 1
American, Capture 1
Peking, July 23.—Morgan Palmer,
an American engineer, was killed by
bandits at his ranch, on the Suncari
river, pesterday. Dr. Howard, an eye
apecialist attached to the Rockefeller
hospital, was captured at the same
time. ___
Coming up on Joe Oates' boat from
McGrath. Tuesday, were Mr. and Mrs
Oates and family, Miss Hose, Joseph
and Freddie Oates, Mr. and Mrs.
George Mutchler. Mrs. B. J. Ftyd.
Bessie Boyd, Mis# Ellen Fred, Miss
Elizabeth Egsak, Marian McDonald,
August Smith.
Mr. and Mrs. George Mutchler and
Mis* Elizabeth Egsak, after a couple of
days’ visit here, returned to McGrath
on Thursday, going down on the be a
Wolf.
Chris Nelson and Bob Lowrie re
turned Thursday from a trip to Mc
Grath, coming up on the Billy.
The Sea Wolf made two round trips
to McGrath this week, completing the
first trip on Wednesday and lagan, ar
riving today noon.
August Smith left Thursdav for Mc
Grath, going down with Joe Oatea.
Ed Noll *tt, Yankee creek, w»a a
Monday and Tuesday town visitor.