VOL VI11 NO. 32
TAKOl’NA ALASKA. SATURDAY. OCTOBER S?0- A':K
PRICE 25 CENtfS
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LUJLJS1SSL A. _-JUKI L!1 LLLLS
Work Issues
Statement
EXPLAINING HOW HOOVER WAS
i'JlfS.TED ON ENGLISH ROLL
Of VOTERS. V
V WASHINGTON, Oct. 19.—Chair
t suaR Hubert Work, of the Republican
* national committee, issued a state
4 anr.nt today, explaining that Hoover,
Republican presidential nominee; was
,‘liated on English voters rolls without
. ihis knowledge, years ago. Chairman
Work said he had been informed that
. .American detectives and newspapers
.have .taken photographs of these rolls
• and;, propose to produce them in the
Unit.-d States.
Witrk, in his statement, explained
that it was done by English officials,
v under, requirements of law, because
. Hoover, as lessor of a house near
London, paid taxes, and the names of
. all • taxpayers are automatically
, placid on the voters list.
Hanged At
San Quentin
V WILLIAM EDWARD HICKMAN
PRAYS PENALTY FOR MURDER
c OF MARION PARKER.
:gAN QUENTIN PRISON, Calif.,
r-Qci. 19.—William Edward Hickman
\ hrA hanged here today for the mur
r of Marion Parker, Los Angeles
scJmw.1 girl.
The trap was sprung at 10:30 a. m.
1 Tho? youth walked to the trap, white
in .pallor, but with little other out
• ward appearance of emotion. He was
; preceded by Priest William Fleming.
FORMER SEATTLE MAYOR
CHARGED WITH HAVING BOT
TLE OF LIQUOR AT HOTEL
- SEATTLE, Oct. 14.—C. B. Fitzger
t aid, former mayor of Seattle apd one
< »f the leading politicians of the
s state, was arrested last night in
", Walla Walla, charged with possession
j)£ liquor, the bottle having been
: found in his hotel room. Fitzgerald
claims the bottle was left there by
’ visiting friends. He was released on
i bail.
• CRITICAL POLITICAL SITUA
TION IN NEW YORK STATE
WASHINGTON, Oct. 17.—Hoover
returned here today from a brief cam
paign in Massachusetts, satisfied that
i the state will be won by him, and to
day turned his activities to the crit
ical situation in New York state. He
will speak in New York city on Mon
day.
Billy Senatkas, who arrived from
the Cripple secaion a couple of days
ago, left today for McGrath, and will
probably be an airplane passenger to
Fairbanks within the next couple of
• days.
Carl Lottsfeldt, A. R. C. road super
intendent, returned here Tuesday
. from a brief business trip to McGrath.
. Eric 'Hard, after a brief visit here,
left todpy for Ophir.
Del Thompson, local freighter, left
. today for Ophir.
Big Zeppelin
At Lakehurst
FIRST NON-STOP TRANSATLAN
TIC PASSENGER AIRSHIP
FLIGHT IN HISTORY.
NEW YORK, Oct. 13.—The Graf
Zeppelin, heading from Fredericks
uafen to Lakehurst, N. J., with 20
assengers and crew, fearing the pos
sibility of a forced landing on the
ocean, this morning sent out a re
quest that surface vessels in the vi
cinity be sent to follow the course of
the airship. The dirigible was then
1,800 miles east of Charleston, S. C.
The Zeppelin was damaged on the
port horizontal, was effecting repairs,
and was making half its speed, about
40 miles an hour.
LAKEHURST, N. J., Oct. 15.—The
Graf Zeppelin arrived from Freder
ickshafen at 5:30 this afternoon in
the first non-stop trans-Atlantic pas
senger airship flight in history.
The big Zeppelin encountered a
storm off the Bahamas and sustained
an accident to her stabilizing fin,
which reduced her speed at times to
as low as 25 miles an hour. The air
ship was in the air 112 hours. The
speed of the craft in flight averaged
about 55 miles an hour notwithstand
ing the accident.
The passengers and crew are all
well, and were joyously welcomed on
arrival here by a great throng.
Telegraphic Ticks.
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I CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. 15—Col.
| Charles A. Lindbergh, famed flyer,
intends to visit Mrs. Evangeline
Lindbergh, his mother, Who is touring
Turkey, and the two plan to make an
aero journey to Jerusalem and Holy
Land, the birthplace of Christianity
SEATTLE, Oct. 17—President Hes
keth of the city council resigned last
night, having accepted the position ol
secretary-treasurer of the Interna
I tional Hotel and Restaurant Em
ployes Association, with headquarters
at Cincinnati.
PEKING, Oct. 17.—General Che
Chih Chung, commander of gen
darmes, is rounding up 50,000 Chinese
left with queues, and barbers are
snipping them off at high speed.
SEATTLE, Oct. 13.—The steamship
Northwestern was placed on the
Southwestern Alaska rhn today, sail
ing again this afternoon with forty
two passengers.
NEW YORK, Oct. 17.—Frederick
Vanderbilt, 23, great-grandson of
Commander Vanderbilt, a graduate of
Harvard, became a member of the So
cialist party today.
NEW YORK, Oct. 17.—Benjamin
Strong, governor of the Federal Re
serve Bank of New Jersey, died hare
today.
COLFAX, Wash., Oct. 17.—State
Senator William B. Kirkman was
killed in an auto accident here today.
SEATTLE, Oct. 17.—Registration
for the presidential election totals
142,218.
SEATTLE, Oct. 20.—The steamer
Yukon sailed for Seward this morn
ling, carrying seventy passengers.
: .j'lYOR JIMMIE WALKER OF
NEW YORK ADDRESSES CHI
CAGOANS, EE HALF AL SMITH
CHICAGO, Oct. 15.—Mayor Jim
mie Walker of New York, last night,
in his speech in behalf of A1 Smith,
said:
“I wonder what the Unknown Sol,
dier buyied in Arlington cemetery,
would think if he knew the door of
Washington might be closed against
a citizen of the highest type and at
tractive attainments because he wor
shiped Almighty God according tohis
conscience? When the flower of
American manhood was given a gun
to go overseas to fight for what the
Declaration of Independence stood
for, no one asked the fighter what his
religion was,” said Walker.
PRESIDENT COOLIDGE AM)
KING ALFONZO EXCHANGE
GREETINGS OYER TELEPHONE
WASHINGTON, Oct. .15.—Speak
1 mg over the radio and cable circuit of
6,400 miles, President Coolidge and
King Alfonzo opened today the tele
phone service between the two coun
J tries.
A1 Smith At
Sedaiia, Mo.
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| ATTACKS HOOVER AND BRANDS
COOLIDGE ECONOMY MIS
LEADING MYTH.
SEDALIA,„Mjq., Oct. 17.—Confident
of his election to the presidency, A1
Smith last night, in his speech here,
attacked Hoover,. branded Coolidge
economy a misleading myth, and chal
lenged Hoover to make good his
statement that. Government expenses
had been reduced two billion dollars
per year.
“Hoover knows . better,” Smith as
serted, ':ar.d lie knows that two billion
dollars’ reduction is the difference be
tween peace-time cost of government
and wartime cost.of government.”
I Smith also charged that the pres
ent government had failed to provide
proper housing for soldiers and made
an appropriation of only nine cents a
day to feed Indian children.
MELLON BRANDS AS UNFAIR
SMITH’S ATTACK ON COOL
IDGE’S gECONOMY RECORD
WASHINGTON, Oct. 19.—Secre
tary of the Treasury Mellon branded
today as unfair Governor Smith’s at
tack at Sedalia, Mo., on the economy
record of the Coolidge Administra
tion.
GRAF ZEPPELIN WILL MAKE
TRIAL FLIGHT TO CHICAGO
LAKEHURST, N. J., Oct. 19.—
Next Wednesday the Graf Zeppelin
will .be wheeled out of the navy
hangar here and flown on a trial trip
over Chicago and Cleveland.
John ,Koski, who arrived from Crip
ple on Thursday, left today for Mc
Grath, from which point he will take
the airplane to Fairbanks. He will
visit at bis old home in Portland for
the next two or three months.
John Myklebust was a Wednesday
arrival from Ophir, and left the fol
lowing day for McGrath, on his7 way
to tho Outside.
Confesses
To Murder!
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.V'OMAN AT SEATTLE SAYS SON
MURDERED JAMES EUGENE
BASSETT OF BALTIMORE.
SEATTLE, Oct. 11—Mrs. Mary
Eleanor 'French late this afternoon
confessed to Prosecuting Attorney
Colvin that her son, Decasto Ear)
Mayer, murdered Eugene Janies Bas
sette of .Baltimore.
“If we plead guilty and tell you all
about it, how we did it, and where the
body is, will you be lenient with my
son?” she asked.
Colvin declined to entertain any
proposition, asserting that he would
hang Mayer for the crime.
AMERICAN PROSPERITY AND
STANDARDS OF LIVING THE
HIGHEST IN' HUMAN HISTORY
FREDERICKSBURG, Va„ Oht. 19 !
—American prosperity and standards;
of living have reached levels never
before experienced by any people in
human history, President. Coolidge
said here today in dedicating the
Fredericksburg and Pennsylvania
Court House battlefield. The Chief;
Executive traced this prosperity to!
the Union which the Civil War pre
served.
In a Political Way
NEW YORK, Oct. 14.—Asserting
that her speeches had rightly shocked
the country, John W. Davis, 1024
Democratip presidential nominee, in
an address here last night said the
public awaitts some rebuke of the ac
tion of Mable Walker Millebrandt by
either Coolidge or Hoover.
' WASHINGTON, Oct. 14.^-Secre
tary of the Treasury Mellon, in a
radio address to the nation tonight,
carry forward the Republican policies
which have brought about prosperity
unparalleled in the history of the
world.
NASHVILLE, Oct. 15.—A1 Smith,
in his address here last night, accused
Hoover of evasion and ducking and
dodging on the water-power issue.
j SEATTLE, Oct. 13.—Senator Jo
! seph T. Robinson, Democratic vice
presidential nominee, arrived here to
day, and will speak tonight in the
Civic Auditorium.
CHARLOTTE, N. C., Oct. 19.—
Senator William E. Borah, in his
speech here last night, asserted that
Governor A1 Smith did not stand for
anything the South wants.
APPEALS TO WOMEN VOTERS,
i SALISBURY, Mo., Oct. 17.—Sen
ator William E. Borah, in his speech
here last night, appealed to women
voters to prevent the overthrow of
prohibition by electing .Hoover.
Five hundred pounds off mail is hue
! to arrive here by airplane on October
27, according to advices received by
F. C. H. Spencer, local, postmaster, a
few days ago. On its return trip to
Fairbanks the plane will also carry an
equal amount.
Eli Walker, after a visit here of
three or four days, returned to his
headquarters over at Opbir.
A1 Smith
At Chicago
100,000 SCRAMBLE FFOR 10,00#
S EATS—BIG G EST I) E MON -
STRATION OF CAMPAIGN.
CHICAGO, Oct. 2U.—Snhh wo it ml
up his campaign in the West here last
night in a blaze of gl »ry- Official?
?ry his reception in the loop <h:;i i ict
during the after men wa- only rivaled
by the demons;ration there on Armis
tice Day. One nundred thousand peo
ple were in the mad scramble for >tet
thousand seats in the lUlst street.
Regimental Armory, where he spoke
tonight.
Throughout his speech Smith ham
mered Hoover for hi "expression of
satisfaction with the Republican rec
ord of the last seven and a half years
Smith will leave Chicago in tin
morning for Albany via Indianapolis
where he will call on Thomas Taggart
diming his hour stay there.
A1 Smith In
The South
CHEERS AND DEMONSTRATIONS*
AS SPECIAL TRAIN (JOES INTO
SOUTHERN STATES.
V*, J
GOV. AL SMITH’S TRAIN, AR
RIVING NASHVILLE, October 14.
Cheered by Virginian- and North Car
olinans, who greeted him v ith n<
demonstrations as he train cut
through those states ; st night. Gov
A1 Smith, Democr tie presidential
nominee, came into Tennessee today
for another round of receptions and a
flying rear-platform campaign before
heading for Louisville, where tomor
row night he. w ill deliver the firs;
formal address of bis second cam
paign tour.
The nominee was favored with. t.
big reception at. Chattanooga at noon
and another late today in Nashville.
Between these two cities the Gover
nor’s special train was routed intc
Northern Alabama for a brief stop or
two.
ONE KILLED AND SEVERAL IN
JURED IN AIRPLANE CRASH
ATLANTIC CITY, Oct. 19.—W. O
Chanute, banker, was killed last eve
ning in a crash of his airplane, ir
which Thomas M. Byhart, one of Col.
Charles Lindbergh’s backers, and sev
eral others were injured.
NON-STOP FLIER, NEWFOUND
LAND TO ENGLAND, OVERDUE
ST. JOHNS; N F., Oct. 17.—Com
mander H. C. ’Macdonald, English avi
ator, took off from Harbor Grace to
day in a Moth airplane in an attempt
to fly across the Atlantic to England,
NEW Y'ORK, Oct. 19.—When last
reported, .850 miles out, Lieutenant
Commander H. C. Macdonald, daring
British aviator, who yesterday set out
from Harboor Grace, Newfoundland,
in a tiny gypsy Moth De Havilani
plane, on a non-stop flight to Eng
land, was long overdue this after
noon.
Ed Poison, after a short visit at
McGrath, returned here Monday, and
left Tuesday fer Ophir, on hiswav-io
the Cripple section,