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VOLUME XXII. NUMBER 190.
SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1927.
PRINCE TEN CENTS
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SURVEY DISCLOSES VESSEL NOT|
AS SERIOUSLY DAMAGED AS
AT FIRST THOUGHT
WRANGELL, Sept. 5. <;P)—The j
Princess Charlotte was released and j
started for Equimalt, British Colum- j
bia, Saturday night after posting a,
$250,000 bond in the Alaska Packers j
suit for salvage. A survey disclosed
the vessel was not as seriously dam- j
aged as was at first supposed. It I
has a tremendous dent in the first j
bottom but is not punctured. Leaks j
were caused from sprung rivits. If,
the fuel oil hadn’t become mixed j
with water the Charlotte could have j
returned South under its own steam, j
The tug Salvage King is towing the i
vessel.
ALLEGED KILLER OF
BY MEREST CHANCE
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OFFICERS APPROACHES CAR
THIEF SUSPECTS WHO FREE- |
LY ADMITS IS FUGITIVE
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SEATTLE, Sept. 5. {/P)—Arrested
by the merest chance Harry Hill is
held in the city jail awaiting the ar
rival of extradition papers by which
the State of Illinois expects to return
him to Streator, 111., to stand trial for
the murder of his 55 year old mother.
Hill was arrested Saturday night by
a pawnshop detail patrolman who
wished to question him as a car thief
■suspect. When the detective ap
proaohed him and showed his badge
Hill, much to the officer’s surprise, an
nounced he was the Streator fugitive
sought throughout the United States
for the last two weeks. All through
a long, hard, eight hour grilling he
held steadfastly to protestations of
innocence. He admitted he had forg
ed his mother’s name to checks as he '
had lost 'heavily' in gambling. He
left Streator when the coroners jury ;
held him guilty of murder but repeat
edly denied any connection with the!
slaying. Streator officials are ex
pected to arrive in Seattle on Wednes
day to begin extradition attempts.
Hili indicated he was willing to waive
extradition. The body of his mother,
Mrs. Eliza Hill, a wealthy recluse,
the divorced wife of a prominent i1
Streator physician, wras found buried
in the cellar of her home August 22.
The State charged Harry shot her;
August 13. .
KARACHI, British India, Sept. 5.
(#*)—Striving to make up for lost
time by Turkish red tape the world
flyers, Brock and Schlee, are on their ,
way to Allashabad 925 miles distant. ,
ARRIVE IN GOOD SHAPE <
ALLAHABAD, India, Sept. 5. i
The world flyers arrived at 3:30 this 1
afternoon. <
LABRADOR AGENTS
JOIN IN SEARCH
ENGLISH PLANE
EVERY AVAILABLE SOURCE
CALLED UPON ASSIST IN
SEARCH PRINCESS PLANE
ST. JOHNS, Sept. 5. (JP)—Private
Government agencies joined in the
search of the bleak Labrador coast
for the missing English plane, Saint
Raphael. Business firms, with branch
es in Labrador, have notified their
agents to make inquiries along the
coast as to whether the plane had
been sighted or heard in that re
gion. The government, through its
coastal vessels in the lighthouse ser
vice and wireless stations, are press
ing the search.
SIR CARLING OFF AGAIN
CARIBOU, Sept. 5. (JP)—The Lon
don plane of Sir John Carling hopped
off at 9:49 for Harbor Grace. Capt.
Tylly and Lieut. Medcalf made a per
fect hop from the hay field where they
were forced to land Thursday by rain
and fog.
HARDING IS INJURED
JUNEAU, Sept. 5. (/P)—Hunting
for moonshiners, two prohibition of
ficers encountered two brown bears.
One chewed the neck of Warren P.
Harding, while his companion Chas.
Ohisdester emptied his revolver into
the bear. Then the pair climbed a
tree wrhere they stayed until the
bears left. Harding was rushed to
the Juneau hospital in a serious con
dition.
JUNEAU, Sept. 5. (jP)—While
Harding was chewed about the neck
and shoulders it is believed he will
leave the hospital in two or three
days unless infection sets in which
it is believed has been averted.
WILL PLEAD LAW GASES
IN EUROPEAN COURTS
DETROIT, Sept. 5. (JP)—An Ameri
can women attorney will try cases
in Paris, Athens and London while
on a “vacation.”
She is Miss Grace H. Brown of De
troit, who plans to sail to Europe
soon to carry out her legal plans.
In Paris, Miss Brown will repre
sent an Armenian claiming $500,000
from the Turkish government for
land he alleges was confiscated. She
has been retained in an immigration
case in Athens and an involved es
tate will claim her attention in the
London courts.
Miss Brown has received introduc
tor letters to the foreign courts from .
Secretary of St^te Frank B. Kellogg. ,
MAKE TRIP ON STARR
Captain R. R. Guthrie, head of the (
U. S. Signal Corps for this area, and
T. R. Me Ewen, superintendent of
Seward schools, made the round-trip <
>n tjhe S. S. Starr from Seward to Saw- j
mill' bay, to Tutka bay, and return. ]
It is reported Ted is improving as a i
Jeep water seaman.
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AMERICAN IS SHOT
j DRESDEN, Germany, Sept. 5. (/P)—
I An unidentified person shot and
I seriously wounded Emil Steger, sec
retary of the United States > Consu
!late. The assailant escaped.
THEATRICAL OWNER
MARCUS LOEW DIES
AT GLENCOVE HUME
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HAD SPECTACULAR YET STEADY
RISE FROM BOYHOOD DAYS;
LITTLE SCHOOLING
GLENCOVE, N. Y„ Sept. 5. (/p)—
Marcus Loew, theatrical owner, died
at his home here tonight.
Pennies grew into dollars for Mar
cus Loew until they made a fortune
for him in the theatrical business.
Popular’ priced vaudeville and motion
pictures yielded him a harvest from
one of the largest chains of theaters
in the world.
Loew opened his first motion pic
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ture theaters, in Cincinnati and New
York when the industry was young
converting his penny arc4des, which
were making him rich, to] this pur
pose. His entrance into the vaudeville
field likewise was modest, but it help
ed to swell the profits {jtypt wer^ al
ready pouring in. Exploiting the op
portunities in cheap amusement by
opening new theaters as fast as prof
its from the existing ones permitted,
the former furrier found success to
compensate early failures in other bus
iness ^ndeavors. In New York City
alone more than eight thousand per
sons at one time were entertained
each night in Loew theaters and his
daily receipts ran into hundreds of
thousands of dollars. He was also
president of the Metro-Goldwyn Pic
ture corporation. Born in New York
May 7, 1870, Loew’s schooling- was
meagre, having been interupted when
he went to work at the age of nine.
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GOinY COMTEf LUTES
REGISTERING IIRPLANES
PARIS, Sept. 5. (iP)—'Airplanes of
the world are to he registered, clas
sified and listed in volumes available)
to all who care to consult them.
The work.ssimilar to Lloyd’s regis
ter of shipping and that of the
French Bureau Veritas, will be un
dertaken by a new organization, the
“Aircraft International Register.” All
registered planes, of whatever count- .
ry, will be given special numbers oy
the Register.
CITY PUNS PROVIDE
FOR TWO NEW T0WN5
PARIS, Sept. 5. (IP)—“Beautiful
Paris” will be “Ugly Paris,” if city
zoning and other improvements are
not adopted immediately, says M.
Chardon, member of the Academy of
ted a plan of modified city zoning to
Moral Science. Chardon has submit
the municipal council.
Chardon’s greatest plan however,
and one that has already received
sound support, is for the erection of
two new towns in the vicinity of -
Paris, one of them for factories and
workshops and the other to be ex- ,
clusively residential.
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ASKS DELEGATE TO SEE COOL.
IDGE; 5,000 FACE DESTITU
TION, IS STATED
KETCHIKAN, Sept, 5. (JP)—Pro
testing the order closing fall fishing
as unfair Ketchikan seiners have
drafted a resolution to Delegate Dan
Sutherland asking him to go to!
President Coolidge with their views, j
The resolution read, “Five thousand
resident seiners and r^eir depend- j
ents, especially natives, rfacing a
long winter with nothing id if the j
premature closing order is not re
cinded destitution will follow.”
Saturday’s Games
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Boston,, 3-2; Brooklyn, 2-3; second
game thirteen innings.
Pittsburg, 8; Cincinnati, 4.
St. Louis, 2; Chicago. 1.
Philadelphia, nothing; New York,
6.
_ ..... . AMERICAN LEAGUE
Cleveland, 6; Chicago, 3.
Boston, 5; Washington, 3.
Detroit, 3; St. Louis, 4.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Seattle, 6-4; Portland, 5.
Hollywood, 6-3; Missions, nothing-7.
Sacramento, 1-3; Oakland, 5-nothing,
San Francisco, 6-3; Los Angeles, 5-2.
Sunday’s Games
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Ney York, 0; Philadelphia, 1.
Detroit, 10; St. Louis, 11.
Boston,3; Washington, 4.
•Cleveland, 1; Chicago, 4.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Philadelphia, 5-4; New York, 6-7. .
Brooklyn, 3-6; Boston, 4-4.
St. Louis, 0; Pittsburg, 14.
Chicago, 1; Cincinnati, 2.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
San Francisco, 5; Los Angeles, 6.
Hollywood, 6; Missions, 7.
■Sacramento, 2; Oakland, 3.
Seattle, rain.
TRAIN AUTO STRIKE
XENIA, Ohio, Sept. 5. (JP)—Four
were killed and one seriously in
jured when the crack “All American”
flyer of the Pennsylvania Railroad
struck an automobile at a crossing.
The dead and injured were return
ing home from church.
WOULD CONVINCE MEN
WOAAEN ARE SAAARTER
NEW YORK, Sept. 5. (JP)—Are wo
men smarter than men?
“I wouW undertake to convince a
class of men nearly anything, merely
by repeating many times that it was
so,” answers Bernard de Voto, North
western University teacher in the
September Harper’s Magazine.
“One does not teach women in
that way. It may be the devilish .
obstinacy of the sex. One painstak
ingly examines all the facts, and in ,
every way prepares oneself for in- 1
telligent opposition.”
THEORY WAS WORK SACCO
VANZETTI DEMONSTRATORS
NEW YORK, SApt. 5. (>P)—A bomb
rocked the Broo • yn skyscraper dis
trict and shattered windows in the
Supreme court building and Hall of
the Records bu' none were injured.
The bomb »ded in an alleyway
seperating tht ourt from the Hall of
Records. It is believed to have been
a bomb. Authorities declined to
place responsibility although an in
vestigation has been started on the
theory it might be the work of
Sacco-Vanzetti demonstrators.
nnniioLLL NARROWS
DREDGE IS BURNED
PETERSBURG, Sept. Y(/P)- -A lire
of an unknown origin completely
destroyed the dredge used on the
Wrangell Narrows, halting the half
a million dredging project for tin
rest of the year. The '-rtJo't
filled oil tanks and had been hauled
on the beach for repairs when the
fire started. The rescue boat was
unable to get close enough to help.
SOUTHEASTERN PACK OF
SUII ONE-HALF LESS
JUNEAU, Sept. 5. (/P)—Individual
cannery reports show that the South
eastern salmon pack aggregates 921,
799 cases packed to date. The pack
for the Territory, with the Kodiak
territory unreported, is 2,776,241. The
Southeastern pack is about 50 per
cent below last year’s.
AVERS SEATTLE MAYOR
SEATTLE, Sept. 5. (JP)—Mayor
Landes' only recommendation for im
proving Alaska is that Governor
Parks get married. “The executive
mansion at Juneau is too big for
one man.”
LOOKS TOWARD ORIENT
FOR HER INSPIRATION
PARIS, Sept. 5. (jP)—Oriental
thought has solved many problems
with which the western world has
wrestled in vain, believes E. Barring
ton, English novelist. She is resting
in Paris, which provided the back
ground for her latest novel, “The
Thunderer,” based on the lfe of
Napoleon.
“I was much in touch with the
Oriental side of things, besides which
the interest of the governing races
pales,” she said.
“For contemporary heroes and he
roines of romance I should go to
Asia,” she says.
In real life the author is Mrs. L.
Adams Beck. Her home Is in Vic
toria, British Columbia, where she
will live after a trip to Ceylon.