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Evening star., 1926-05-21
C. NJ. UPHAM TO BUILD
MEXICAN HIGHWAYS
North Carolina Engineer to Direct
Spending of $12,OOO,COo Annual
ly for Better Roads.
BY the AssNciaied Press

BY the Associated Press.
RALEIGH. y. g, May 21.-~Charlcs
NJ. Cpham. nlanaGinl> director of the
American Road Builders Association
and until recently chief engineer of
North Carolina Highway Commission.
! has been appointed by the government
of Mexico as general manager of high
way construction in that country.
pointment and will leave Raleigh
Wednesday to take up his duties. He
said the Mexican government plans to
spend $l2. .000,oo0 annually for ro;&}S.
Mr.. I'pham visited Washington last
week and discussed his plans with
State Department officials and repre-
SentativeS of Mexico. His appoint
ment meets with the approval Of ;tu-
thoritieS ol both nations he believes.
The roads under construction" AIT.
Cpham said last night, ARE being
rushed to completion as quickly as
possible III order IL complete the high
way connection between the United
States and Mexico. The longest high
way will extend between Mexico City
and Laredo, on the American border
Two other highways will emanate
! from Mexico City. The total system
under contemplation Will include ap-
proXimately ] 900 miles Of progressive
roads d
Philadelphia has its first girl taxi
driver. a nattily-dressed girl who is
identified as Miss Ouaker (itV.'
Evening star., 1926-05-21
STOCKHOLDERS SUE:
BAKING FIRMS HEAD
Independent Group Say William B.
Ward Made $4,000, 900 on securi-
ties Obtained Free.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. May 2l.-The indie
pendent stockholders committee of
the General Baking Co, of which
William Deinger. former head of the
corporation, is chairman, yesterday
filed claim against William b. Ward
to cancel an illegal transaction in
which Mr.. Ward is alleged to have
made a profit OF $5.000,000 in the sale
of stock (which cost him nothing.
The defenders. in addition to Mr..
Ward. are the Chase Naional Bank,
the Chase Securities Corporation and
tho General Baking Corporations
The stockholders committee asserts
the suit IL brought tO cancel the
0.00G shares Of class a" stock is
sued by the General Baking Corpora
ton to Mr.. Ward in exchange for the
100000 shares Of bonus class b
stock, which he turned back into the
treasury of the company.
Evening star., 1926-05-21
&c JUNIORS PICKED
AT yALE"TAP DAY..
Three Washington Men Win
Honor of Election to
! Senior Societies.
~ the Associated Press.

" the Associated press.
NEW HAVEN, Conn. MAY IL
Tap day" was celebrated at Yale
yesterday, when 56 juniors We're elect
IA 10y the four senior societies. The
llgheSt honor OF the ceremony, that
"f being the last man tapped by Skull
and Bones. went u Philip w. Bun.
1ell OF Scranton Pa. captain elect Of
he Yale foot bah team.
In the elections hrHncn tapped last
Nero regarded as those most highly
IGNORED. while second hunors went
"a tho men tapped first.
The elections include:
Skull and Bones es-ThC1naS G rat
ttrson Huntington. ". Va, NJ. \.
Wallace, y. Ritchie, ST. Paul. Mimi:
William w. Robbins, SeWickley. Pa;
IaInes i. Wadsworth, Washington,
>. G. Philip w. BWuueu, Scranton.
10.
Scroll and kcyS-Itichard ClaytoT,
Washington, y. &: John MCLaren.
chicago: Samuel l.. Scott, ST. Louis;
Frederick T.. Collins. Seattle; James
p. :. Coleman, Macon, Ga.
Volts Head-William +. Clark.
Detroit. William W. knight, Toledo.
Donald Il. Wellcs, Duluth, Mimi; J"-
seph g. Wheelock. ST. Paul, MINI.
E.lihu Club-Stu4rt \. Scott, Ma0i-
son Wis. William W. Moutou. 81.
Louis: George +. Schcrcr. Washing
ton II. {
Evening star., 1926-05-21
WHEAT TARIFF LOOMS.
One Norway House Favors Duty on
Imported Grain.

OSLO. Norway. May II tP)--The
imposition Of Small duty on i'm
ported wheat is foreshadowed in a
proposal adopted by the OdelstinG yes
terday. 81 votes 10 80, to abrogate the
existing temporary corn monopoly and
give sa small extra bounty to Nor
weGG,n grown corn. the cost to be
met by duty on the imported prod
uct.
1t is expected that the other house
OF parliament. the Lagting. will ih-
dorse the proposal
Evening star., 1926-05-21
TANK GAS UP CENT HERE,
Standard of New Jersey Advances
Wholesale Price to 10.

NEW YORK. May q P.-The
Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey today
advanced the tank wagon price of
gasoline ! cent Il gallon throughout
fits territory.
New quotations are 70 cents in New
Jersey, Maryland, the District of Co.
}umbia. Virginia and West Virginia,
and 1919 cents in North Carolina.
Evening star., 1926-05-21
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The Nome nugget., 1926-07-24
TRYING TO ELIMINATE
 CROOKED PROMOTIONS

Seattle, July 20. lA9 Maurice D.
 Leehey, Seattle attorney and long
 associated with Alaska affairs. who
 returned from trip to Anchorage and Fairbanks, said. the members of the Seattle Mining Club are cent ering their efforts on q program. the object of which Is to divert a port ion of the hundred million dollars invested annually. by Puget Sound people for speculative purposes, to the Northwest and Alaska mining enterprises. He said that Mine f. ancing is the same as municipal
 and other projects The club Is try
 ing to assist Legitimate projects and eliminate the crooked ones.
The Nome nugget., 1926-07-24

mOlished by a heaving wiad A
 ninety foot steeple on the Ashbury
 Methodist church, at Springfield
 Mass, crashed to the ground The Coney Island Police Reserves were called upon to handle panic stric- ken throng. that was ttyiEg to board the trains. Sometime ase.r the storm broke, six were injured by the wire communications being crippled. The highways were blocked. In Central Pennsylvania, hail storms are prevailing. Murial Tell, of Mount Vernon and another boy of about the same age were out in sail boat and when it turned over they clung on and finally drift ed ashore at Robbins Island.
The Nome nugget., 1926-07-24
ELE( TICAL STORMS DO MUCH PROPERTY DAMAGE

New York, July 19. (R)-Nine deaths. and property damage esti- mated at two hundred and fifty thousand dollars marked the path, Sunday, of electrical. rain, and Wi d storms through the state of Ohio to Maine. In addition, three boys. who embarked in a canoe at Sandy Hook are missing. In New England three men and one girl were killed. by lightning which struck thu Lake Denmark arsenal, and also struck an engine conveying train of cars. occupied by one thousand si Ut seers. The railroad station at Brockton Mass, was partly buined. The back rows of the gr:rdstand lat Fenway baseball Park were de-
The Nome nugget., 1926-07-24
ALLEGED kIDNiPpERS
 NOT INDICTED

los Angeles. July 22, tA1 -Sufl
 cient evidence has n,d been found
 for the indictment of the alleged kid nappers of Aimee McPherson. Th, Grand Jnry. in its report tn super for judge, Keetch, reads "Thc Grand
 Jury had presented To it for consid eration evidence in tine alleged kid mapping of Aimee McPhersnn. We find that ther, is insufficient evi- denceto warrant an indictment
 When the case Was submitted tt
 he Grand Jury by he district at ttorney, he instructed the jury on he law and left them blank indici ments against two men and q wo
 man whom Aimee said abducted iier one man known as Steve and tn. woman known as Rose, The jury returned a report To the effect tha' 1 the evidence failed to substantiate Aimee's story. The foreman of tn
The Nome nugget., 1926-07-24
REPORTS OF ARCTIC HG.lTs

[ Seattle, July 19, (R)-The Ameri- can motor schooner Charles D. Brewer, reported that the American motor schooner Patterson sighted the Canadian motor schooner Old Maid No. ?, Captain Kleinkenberg, caught in the ice twenty miles North by East of Point Barrow, and drift ing in an easterly direction at one and one half miles per hour The crew are still aboard The Brewer and Patterson arrived at Point Bar row. The Bear will proceed to Point Barrow.
The Nome nugget., 1926-07-24
TUESDAY tTELEoR Apt4iCl
Aica- h lElttsty.s iAhk BECOMES
 MORE COMPLICATED

Los Angeles, Jnly IS, (R)-o. A.
 Wick, of Culver City, and wife. con tronted Aimee before the Grand
 Jury. and identified her as the wo-
 maR they saw in an automobile pas sing through Culver City in the direction of Los Angeles. from Ocean Beach. three or four o'clock lon the afternoon of the day that the Evangelist disappeared.
 Police captain. M. 0. Barnard and Mrs. Barnard, of Culver City. pre-
 viously told the jury the same
 thing. Jos Ryan. deputy district at |torney. announced that Aimee was Identified as the woman who accom-
 panied Ormiaton. when he drove in to Salinas garage early on the morning of May 2sth, eleven days |after she disappeared. It was learn
 cd by District Attorney. Reyes. upon
 receipt of . telegram from Ormis- toa. In South Carolina. in which Or miston aaid that he was sending Reyes important documents by air
 mall. Milton Carson. 2 haad writ ling expsst. said he testified before
 the jHry for half aA hour. that Ofmiston wrote telegram and sent t from, Oakland to Minnie. three days Sftsr:. Aimse'a disappearance. telling her that her daughter was safe. Carson said that the sender Iattsmpted to disguise his handwrit- Iiag but the resemblance was very IelaAF.
The Nome nugget., 1926-07-24
REINFORCEMENT NEEDER TO
 RATTLE THE FOREST FIRES

Seattle. July IS, @-0n the be- ginning Of the second week of the forest Ares. started by a stroke of lightning and heat wave. showed the improving of the situations in the Pacific Northwest. The conditions of Western Washington. British Columbia are much improved. The conditions in Northwestern Wash ington. Idaho, and Montana grew worse. The fire in Kaniksu and the Pendorsille forests will be blown out of control unless rain comes pretty soen. e! One fourth of the entire aEsa in KaniksH viii he asstreyea sAid oMclals. The men in the Oregon farests are offering stubborn resis- tance. and the garFison at Fort Ms soula. Montana was called upoa for the hrst tims In sixteen years to re- inforce the civilians in battling the Ares.
The Nome nugget., 1926-07-24
STANDINGS OF
 pCiiII.ISTIC (OMHATANTS

New York, July 20.. lP) is said that Paul Berlenbach was paid at the rate to two thousand, four hundred and ninety three dollars peE minute for one hours ilghtih- with Jack Delaney. Dan Hickey the former champions manager, D ceived n check of one hun 'red and forty nine thousand five hundred and forty eight dollars from ;he promoters, represented by HInberi Fugazy, who received thirty sever and one half per cent of the net re ceipts. Delaney got eight hundred and twenty one dollars per minute.
The Nome nugget., 1926-07-24
SENATOR EDW ARDS
 DENOU NtES BORAIi

Washington, July 22, (A1- Sena- tor Edwards, democrat from New Jersey. accused Senator Boruh of casting ''a dastarlly Alur ou hund- reds of Amer!oans who were seeking he modification of the Nolstead Law /" Edwards said lhia Eorah'a Augusta speech oontitincs more fnry and less sense and thought ,han any other he ever made since he al tain ed lis heights III American states manship. He mrlhrr said "'fo place honest sincere advocates of lhe repeal oi the Eighteenth Amend ment and the modification of the Volstead Law ill the same category as Russian b"lshcvisis, Black shirt Fascicts, and Polish dcmogogic die tatOrs. is a dastardly slur on score. aye, hundreds of minds. just as gen timely patriotic and just as unaffect- ed with dishonest motives, inst as free of dissemhlance and false pre- tense as his own. .sI shall cnntin- ue my right as q good untrammeled American 10 voice my praise of the good and my denunciation of the bad"
The Nome nugget., 1926-07-24
NOTICE OF NPPIIC tTION FOR PATENT

| M. S. No. fH:s5. NJ |. No. O.6.. IN THE UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE. AT NOME, ALASKA. June 9a, 1926. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that ELIZABETH JOLLlFFE, by C. R. Jackson. her attorney in fact. whose residence and postoiiice ad dress is Nome. Alaska, has made application before the United States Land Office at Nome, Alaska, for q United States Patent for placer mining claim known as "RYRON ASSOCIATION PLACER" situated on the east side of l4indblunm Creek about eight and one-luurth miles northerly from the Town oi Nome, 1 in the Cape Nome kceordiOe Ere cinct, Territory of Alaska. aud de- signated hy the Office ui the ! Cadastral EnEineer of Alaska IS | Mineral Survey No lS35; tlle cNl"r- iior boundaries Of said cl;iipl. accord ing to the plat and field notes of said survey HOW on file in said Land Office. with magnetic variations "f IS deg. , min to f9 deg. . min.
 E.. are as follows:
 Byron Association Placer. | Commencing lt Cor No. |. a fir post ins. sq, 3 It. long IS iBs. in ground scribed 1B-1S35 whence t. Is. L. M. No. 1895 bears s. 56 deg.
 4G min. E 2374S0 fl; thenre "
 39 deg. 57 min, w. 1920 1t. to Cor | NS 2, Il fir post: thence N. 51 deg.
 55 min. F 5253.o fl. to Cor No 2. a fir post: frcm whence fork of | [ f,J 70 l,au
 30 min. W. a65 it.; thence from
 1920 Il to Cor. No. I thence s, Fl
 deg. 5S min. W. 5253 1t. to Cor. No,
 1 anl place of beginning, containing an area of 159.09G acres.
 This claim is on unsurveycd
 ground situated on left side of Lind
 bloom Creek. and on the east water shed of Snake River. about S,25 miles northerly from the Town of Nome. in the Cape Nome Recording
 Precinct. Territory of Alaska. U. $. IL. M. Sur 1895 to which this claim is tied is on a lone outcrop ofsehist bedrock about 20x12 it.. about 10 it, high. the top surface of which is marked (X) U. s. l.. NJ. s. 1885. Mt. Bryntesen Y. s. q, s. station bears N. 30 deg 03 min. F. about
 mi. Cor No. Glacier Placer Sur yey No. 704 bears s. 32 deg. 1T min. w. 2474 fl. This monument is on elevated ground about 1G00 it. N. and W. of Rock Creek about 7,75 mt nOrtherlv from thn said Town of Nome and In Lat. 64 deg. s6 min. 5 sec. North. Long. 1G5 deg. 26. fmin. W.
 Adjoining claims are unsurveved and names and claimants nnkno~"- A. N. KITTILSEN. 5Reetstar.
 Publish Jnly :. 10. IT. q, s1. Aug. 2. 14. 21. 2s. 1926.
The Nome nugget., 1926-07-24
BIG RUN OF RED
 SALMON THIS YEAR

Seward, Alaska, July 20, (P)-A remarkable early run of salmon is reported from karluk. and Weir. where the Bureau of Fisheries have been experimenting for the past five years, said Dr. C. II. Gilbert who is an authority on the subject, and is here enroute to Seattle. Last year eighty four thousand salmon were counted passing through Weir. this season over one million has passed thru. The probable indications are that there will be q very large run of red salmon. Last year was the largest escapement in five years when over million and half fish went thru, but so far this season over one million two hundred thou sand have passed thru.
The Nome nugget., 1926-07-24
WINE CAUSES MAN KILL
 WYE IN sELR nRtRNaR

Syracuse. July IS. A-Aggos- tino Izso. . professor h music led the detectives to the grave of hia wife. He kpelt down and Hraysd forgivsnese saying. ''ths nuFdaF I innocently committed. was In self defence" He said that Wednesday night he tapped harrel oe Wine in the basement. his wife. kAifa in baud. threatened to cut hiM if hs Aida't stop talking about her con- tiaually. He said. ''I srabbed . hammar and struck at her shopl- der but missed and hit her On the head" ! dresssd her in her ssv clothes. Dacksd her h . hax thpse fo9t squars aad sprinkIsA holy wateF on her aaa surrounded hss be1 vith ligAte1 eanAlea. Ths nsxe day I Hired . trucknan to haul tha box sway. te whsss [ haA Aug IT. gravs myself.
The Nome nugget., 1926-07-24
STR. YUKON ARRIVED

Panama, July a2.iT1 The Steamer Yukon arrived here Monday with seventy-siX passengers. some tour isls will 20 through to Fairbanks and out over the Richardson High way Others through lack of in formation relative iu Fairhanks hot
 ! accommodations, plan keeping ,n Via the Alaska Railruad 10 in, coast The Yukon has full cargo of general freight for Nenana and Fairbanks. An unusually large shipment of ore and concentrates from Mayo mines, which heretofore went out over the White Pass. + now being shipped via thr Alaska Government Railroad
The Nome nugget., 1926-07-24
OLD MAID NO, 2 LEFT
 VANCOUVER JUNE 10TH

Vancouver, July 20, (RD-Old
 Maid No. 2, formerly the American schooner. Maid of Orleans. sailed from here on June 16. on a trading cruise to Herschell Island. The
 boat was owned and commanded by |C. Klingenburg. The crew were, H.
 Larson. first mate. Charles Johnson, second mate, Y, Klingenburg and A.
 klingenburg, sons of the owner, C.
 AlaredsOn and Edward Rauscher. all hailing from Seattle except E.
 Rauscher. who comes from Buffn,o
 New York.
The Nome nugget., 1926-07-24
WEDNESDAY,
 TelEGRAfHtch
NORRIS SAID HE
 HAD TO KILL. CUIrI'S

Fort Worth. Texas, July 20, t4, --J. Frank Norris. nationally known fundamentalist for the past fifteen years, who was charged with the murder of b. E. Chipps wealthy lumberman, confessed and claimed he killed Chipps in self defense in and was placed under ten thousand dollars bonds. which were largely furnished by members of his con |gregation.
 Chipps died in an ambulance after heinz shot twice by Norris. whn said, "I had to do It. he threatened my life" II. C, Meachman the mayor, who was attacked in ser mons, the subject matter which caused dispute and led to the mur der of Chipps. visited the mayors office more than an hour before the shooting and gaye no intention that he had intended to call on Meaeh- man. l.. II. Mutt. n bank auditor, and member of the congregation, was the only witness which sus- tained Norris story.
 Pastor Norris said last Saturday hat he would preach the regular Sunday sermon. Norris preached q series of sermons and In articles In the "Searchlight." Norris church organ attacking Meachman in con nection with street extensions. he declared the street improvement was made ill order 10 provide more di- rect access to Meachman's Depart ment Store. After being denounced the store officials ordered that no employee could belong to Norris church. According to the Search light" two employees quit the church, four left lhe store and when Chipps objected.
 Norris said he showed Chipps the door hut that Chipps came back land threatened the pastors life. Norris then obtained the night (watchman's pistol from his drawer land shot Chipps. According to his statement to the District Attorney he declared that Chipps was nn- armed as far as he knew.
The Nome nugget., 1926-07-24
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.

To R. B. Bhstow. E. NJ. Andersen
 S. T. Andersen, T. J Andersen
 R J. Nugent, II. C. Edgington
 Fred w. Dashley, your aeirs. ex,
 cutors, administrators and as
 signs.
 You are hereby notified that the undersigned has expended the sun of One Hundred Dollars in repre- isenting the Byron Association Placer Mining Claim situated between Rock and Lindbloom Creeks. t1 Cape Nome precincts. Location Ger tiiicate recorded in Vol. l-G page I45. in the Cape Nome Recording District, Second Division. Territory of Alaska, during and for each of the years for annual expenditure OH placer m; m;1i,g claims as required by law. from the year begianir1. Jan nary 1st. 1915 to and including the year ending July 1, 1914. except for the three years in sail interval when the requirement for expendi' ure was suspended by Act of Con gress. And you and each of you. are notified that if you do not pay your prnportiOnate share of such expend' iture. to the undersigned at Nome Alaaka. within 90 days next follow. ing the ninety-day period of publf- cation of this notice. the interest of each of yDus in and to the said claim will forfeit and he and be- come the property Of he under. signed. ,s,si.z s
 EIIZABETu JOLI,IFFE Co-owner
 Publish Jnly 2. 10. IT. q, 31, Aug. 2. 14, 21. 2s. Sept. 4, II. IS, 25, 1926.
The Nome nugget., 1926-07-24
HOT WEATHER PREVAILS IN UNITED STATES

Chicago. July 21. R) A torrid wave prevailing over the country from the Rocky Mountains east ward resulted in many deaths. The
 following is the death rate as it stands now; Chicago. 12. Nebraska one: Missouri. two: South Dakota. two: Minnesota, three; Wisconson
 'ne; Indiana. three. The record Temperature in Chicago was ninety three point two, which was exceeded in the other midwest states.
The Nome nugget., 1926-07-24

Augusta, Ga, July 20. R)-Sen- ator Borah. when speaking to the Historical Presbyterian Church. re- lated the scene of Wilson's boyhOod worship and said. Arguments for inullifcation of the prohibition law are practices which make hell uf Europe. The positive enforcement of the amendment had never been tried"
The Nome nugget., 1926-07-24
SAYS COt NTRIES ARE
 BARKING VT SAME THING

New York, July 20. LIl Bolshr vism in Russia. Fascism in Italy. q mild dictatorship in Poland and nullitcation in the United states are whrlps from the same kennel bark ing at the same thing, constitutional government. If the Eighteenth amendment was injurious 10 the distribution Of power between the people can take out of thc Constitn ton thru the same proress they wrote 1t in.
The Nome nugget., 1926-07-24

selus Temple, records of the Sheriffs from the Patton insane hospital on May 22nd. He reported that all un him what room Aimee slept in as they intended to dynamite it. Fol lowing the disclosure of this infor- nation by Antonio guard was placed about the Temple before dawn.
The Nome nugget., 1926-07-24

.we cen Clark and Tabitha C. Brooks,
 mother or the three claimants.
 Lhs Jury declared itself satisfied with suv svslence of the marriages of Clark to Kate Stauner and to Anna Lsuchapeile and of blood re- latiUnship between the Senator and i've chiidren Of these two marriages. Tho claimants announced that they would appeal to the chief of re- iiapcs which were presented to the jury after . considerable argument.
The Nome nugget., 1926-07-24
i.IG MINE CLEANUP
 AT NIkN BAY

Seward, July 22. tAj The se- rond cleanup Of the month arrived from the Alaska Hills Mines Cor poration at Nuka Bay. The clean up is valued at seventy five hundred dollars, making more than sixty pounds received this month. which is the record for the inlet company in it's new quarters Al the present rat" thc indications are that the company may declare first dividends
 his year which will make the se- cond after the start of actual op- erations
The Nome nugget., 1926-07-24
ALAsKA RAILR0AD ORDERS
 NEW LOCOMOTIVES

Anchorage. July IS. R-rhe Ala ska Railroad ordered two Mikado Locomotives from Baldwin, the de- Only two new engines were bought. except two switches, the rest having come from the Panama Railroad. The railroad has increased the out put of orc by the ton from Mayo. A. W. Kelly. In the Portland once of Baldwin. sold the locomotives to Smith.
The Nome nugget., 1926-07-24
THURSDAY GTElEGRAPhiCj
NEW AIR EXHIBITIONS
 ARE PLANNED

New York July 22, (P,- Two now air expeditions ire planned. one by the French ace, Rene Funck. the Q, h CT hy Lincoln Ellsworth Fouck will start from New York and make Il nun-s flight to Paris, soon after August 10th. weather permitting. He will nse q giant three motored Sikorsky plane, which Is now near ing completion.