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VOLUME XXII. NUMBER 146. SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JULY 15,1927.
PRICE TEN CENTS
FOR STEAMSHIPS RUSHING TO
AID OF PLANE—IN AIR OVER
TWENTY-ONE HOURS
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SAN FRANCISCO, July 15. {/?)— A
message received by the navy here, in
T tercepted from the monoplane City of
Oakland, said: “Landing in water;
rush help; about 500 miles northeast
of Pia Maui.” A previous message
from the plane said it was running out
of gas and would have to land. The
plane carries a rubber raft like Byrd
used.
DIRECTED RENDER ALL AID
WASHINGTON, July 15. (^—Sec
retary Wilbur directed the command
ant of the naval station at Hawaii,
Rear-Admiral MacDonald, to render
all possible assistance to the fliers.
COVERED 1,800 MILES
HONOLULU, July 15. (£>)—'The City
of Oakland monoplane struck the
water some 500 miles from land at
7:45 a. m., Pacific time, after running
out of gasoline. Summoning four
steamships to her aid by tlie'*us& of
her radio, the liners Wilhelmina and
President Pierce and army transport
Menowis continue towards the plane’s
position. The plane computed it had
been in the air 24 hours and five min
utes and covered a distance of 1.S00
miles.
CROWDS CHEER AVIATOR
OAKLAND, July 15. (/P)—Eight es
cort planes followed Ernest L. Smith
and Emory B. Bronte when they took
off for Honolulu yesterday. The mon
oplane straightened out and headed
straight for the Golden Gate. The
crowds cheered the aviators at the
takeoff and the mechanics who worked
night and day to make the little plane
ready leaped into the air waving their
arms.
INI MOB WRECKS
PALACE OF JUSTICE
RESULT OF VERDICT
SOLDIERS ACCUSED OF KILLING
SOCIALIST ACQUITTED BY
JURY CAUSES RIOT
VIENNA, July 15. (;P)—Crowds
rushed the Palace of Justice smashing
windows, forcing doors and throwing
documents into the streets in resent
ment which grew out of a jury verdict
which acquitted a number of former
soldiers who wrere accused of having
killed a Socialist in a fight in Schal
lendord, in January. The police were
^ powerless to clear the building. The
iron gates were demolished. Mani
festations were also carried out in
front of the Nationalist newspaper,
suffered some damage. The crowd
Weiner Neuste Nachrichten, which
grew during the day and street car
traffic was halted. Documents and
papers seized in the palace were burn
ed in the streets. Thirty people were
► injured when the police tried to eejct
the demonstrators.
FORMER llSli IS
! FRANCE,ITSLf DEAD
I PITTSFIELD, Mass., July 15. (£>)—
Henry White, former Ambassador to
France and Italy and American dele
gate to j^he Paris peace conference,
died in Lenox. He underwent an op
eration three years ago and had been
in ill health since.
i HANGED AT JOLIET;:
DENIED USE RAZORS;
HUNDRE STRUGGLE FOR AD
MITTANCE TO WITNESS EXE
CUTION OF THREE MEN
—
JOLIET, 111., July 15. (/P)—Outdoors
in a heavy fog while 400 men who only
a moment before had been laughing
and shouting looked on, three of seven
convicts who slew Peter Kline, war
den at the penitentiary, May 5, 1926,
were hanged this morning. Those
who witnessed the execution had
fought and struggled for an hour to
get into the inclosure. The three men
mounted the scaffold with long, flow
ing hair, mustaches and beards. Since
.their attempted rsrai cs»o” a third time
six weeks ago they had been denied
razors of the services of a barber.
dFfflCE HIES
ON BHITI, JAPAN;
CRUISER PROBLEM
UNITED STATES CERTAIN TO AC
CEPT, STATES HUGH S. GIB
SON, AFTER MEETING
GENEVA, July 15. (/P)—At a meet
ing tonight in which representatives
of Great Britain, the United States
and Japan aired their views, Hugh S.
Gibson said if Great Britain and Japan
reach an agreement on the cruiser
problem the United States will be cer
tain to accept, which would avert the
threatened break-up of the conference.
He pleaded that mutual confidence and i
feeling of security to be were deriv
able from the agreement would be
worth more than guns and ships.
NEW ORLEANS, July 15. (£>)—Wil- i
liam Randolph Hearst, the publisher, i
thinks that Andrew Mellon, Secretary :
of the Treasury, is the strongest can- 1
didate for the Republican nomination I
for President in 1928. Mr. Hearst !
also thinks that the Democrats have a 1
good chance for victory, but depre- 1
cates the chances of Governor A1 1
Smith to win the presidency. 1
I
TWENTIETH CHILD BORN i
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., July 15. (&)— <
A twentieth child was born to Mrs. <
Michael Dayton, aged 40, of Bottle
Creek. The baby, a son, weighs eight ]
pounds and is the fifth by the wo- 1
man's second husband, who is 44 years
old.
i
WHOLE FAMILY ENTERED RUS
SIAN ARMY DURING WORLD
WAR
DUBLIN. July 15. (/P)—Countess
Markievicz, active in the Irish Repub
lican cause died early Friday morn- ^
ing. She recently underwent two op-:
erations for appendicitis from which ,
she failed to recover.
The chief concern of Countess
Markievicz as Sinn Fein’s woman
leader was in the welfare of Ireland’s
laborers. She was beloved by the
poorest of Dublin’s wage earners |
who felt that in her they had an un- *
compromising friend.
Her first entry into public affairs,
in the rebellious course of which she j
several times was jailed and once
sentenced to death, was in connec
tion with the labor movement. It
was about the time -when James I
Larkin in 1913 brought off a long'
continued strike effecting nearly
every form of industry in Dublin.
Larkin demanded a minimum wage j
of one pound a week for unskilled ;
workers.
Constance Markievcz threw herself j
wholeheartedly into the agitation of j
Larkin for an improvement in the !
conditions of the poor, and was in j
close contact with James Connolly, t
chief organizer of the Citizen Army. j
When the world war broke out i
Count Markievicz, her husband, and j
their son of 14 or 15 years went off i
to fight for Russia. The countess j
remained in Dublin and wherever j
there was trouble she was in it.
She was conspicuous in the rebel- j
lion of Easter week, in 1916, when j
in top boots, breeches, service tunic i
and feathered hat. she commanded a j
contingent which captured the Col
lege of Surgeons. Her surrender
was characteristically dramatic. She
first shook hands with all her of
ficers, then kissed her revolver and
handed it over to the British com
mander. After court martial, she
was sentenced to death, but Sir John
Maxwell commuted her sentence to
penal servitude for life. In June,
1917, she was unconditionally releas
ed by the British government with
the other Sinn Fein prisoners.
A prominent figure in the subse
quent rise of Sinn Fein, Countess
Markievicz was elected a member of
:he Dail. She was the first woman
ever elected to a seat in the British
House of Commons, and had she not
joined the Sinn Fein members who
aoycotted parlimeut, she, rather than
Lady Astor, would have been the
first of her sex to be presented as a
member of parliment.
Countess Markievicz was the
laughter of an Anglo-Irish father,
3ir Henry Gore-Booth, who became 1
he Countess Markievicz, was passed 1
imid the usual occupations of a typ- 1
cal family of the territorial land- ;
ord class. She was a keen rider to I
lounds and a noted figure in the ;
social life of County Sligo. Her sis
er, Eva Gore-Booth, who shared her
ove of nature and of the tenants on
heir father’s estate, became a dis
inguised poet.
Through all her adventures Coun
ess Markievicz maintained the bear
ng of a lady of position. She had
harming manners and an elert and
juick intelligence. 1
The fact that in her youth she had 1
>een presented at the court of Queen -<
Victoria was a recollection that did
lot readily occur to those who first 1
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STEAMERS COLLIDE AT
SLA DLL NANTUCKET
NEW YORK, July 15. (£*)—'The
Holland-American line announced re
ceipt of a wireless message from the
captain of the company liner Veedam
saying the Veedam collided with and
sank the Norwegian steamer Sagaland
four miles east of Nantucket. All
those aboard the Sagaland were saved
except one. The Veedam was undam
aged and is inbound for New York.
HNTERS SAY FOUND LARGE
WHITE BOAT FORTH-EIGHT
MILES INLAND
ST. JOHNS, N. B., July 15. (£>)—
Wreckage believed to be that of the
‘White Bird,” flown by Nungesser
ind Coli, was found in the interior by
:wo hunters, it is reported. They said
that 48 miles inland they found what
looked like a large white boat.
STORY, filSOREDITED^
. ST. JOHNS, July 15. (JP)—The spark
af hope kindled yesterday when two
tiunters reported finding wreckage in
:he interior which was believed to be
remains of the plane flown by Nun
?esser and Coli was virtually extin
guished when Major F. Sidney Cotton,
after talking with the two men, dis
credited their story.
BASEBALL SCORES
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Pittsburg 6. Brooklyn 5.
St. Louis 3, Philadelphia 7.
Cincinnati S-8, New York 6-3.
Chicago 6, Boston 1.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
New York 1, Cleveland 4.
Boston 2, St. Louis 4.
Washington- Detroit, Philadelphia
Hhicago—rain.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Sacramento 4, Los Angeles 5.
Hollywood 3, Seattle 1.
Missions 0, Portland 6.
Oakland 7, San Francisco 8.
LIFE SIZED STITUE DF
LINDBERGH UNVEILED
SANTA MONICA, July 15. (JP)—A
ife-sized statue of Col. Chas. Lind
>ergh was unveiled within a few
docks of Clover Field where a few
rears ago the round the world fliers
ook off for one of the greatest
ichievments in American history.
IMF CORPORATION IS
ORDERED CEASE AADNOPOLY
WASHINGTON, July 15. (£>)—'The
i'amous Players Laskey Corporation,
vere today ordered by the Federal
Adolph Zukor and Jesse L. Laskey
rrade Commission to cease conspiring
o monopolize the motion picture in
lustry of the United States.
M. S. CARPENTER
SAILS FOR NOME ON
20TH FROM SEATTLE
FURTHER DETAILS OF RECENT
ADVENTRE IN ICE FLOES ARE
RELATED
SEATTLE, July 15. (/P)— After
fighting ice floe3 in Bering sea for 28
days the motorship A. B. Carpenter
arrived from Nome. When the vessel
seemed doomed amidst the ice 21 pas
sengers, including three women, left
the ship and started on a ten-mile
journey overthe ice for Nome. They
reached a point three miles from
shore and found open water. It was
too late to return to the ship. The
coast guard at Nome put out in small
boats and the party was rescued after
being marooned on the ice for many
hours.
The ship drifted a prisoner in the
floating bergs in a westerly direction
for eight days before it was able to
work back to Nome. It encountered
ice 50 miles north of Unimak Pa3s,
in Bering sea. Floes came down from
Port Moller, Bering sea, and Kuskok
wim bay. The rudder was carried
away, the stern smashed and the pro
peller bent in the ice battle. The
Carpenter reached here using a jury
rudder and will sail agaiii. July 20 for
Shumagin Islands.
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EARL ROSSMAN, FORMER ALAS
KAN, BACK FROM A FOUR
MONTHS JUNGLE TRIP
NEW YORK, July 15. (/P)—Wild an
imal life in Africa faces extinction as
the result of the “big game industry”
in the opinion of Earl Rossman, hunt
er and cameraman, who returned from
four months in the jungles of Abys
sinia. “The present day big game
hunters are for the most part the
smallest kind of sports. There is
more actual sport shooting small game
right in the United States,” said Ross
man.
45 DEATHS DUE TO HEAT
NEW YORK, July 15. (JP)—Deaths
directly attributed to the heat wave
under which the Eastern States are
sweltering in three days mounted to
45, with scores prostrated. Many
were drowned in seeking relief from
the humidity.
PROPOSED BIT BRIE
IKES ADVANCEMENT
SAN FRANCISCO, July 15. (/P)—
San Francisco’s proposed bridge
across the bay yesterday made the
greatest advancement toward actual
construction in its long pioneering
history when the War Department
gave its official O.K. of the project.
The Navy Department, on whose word,
the plan will either go ahead or fall
flat, is delaying its report pending the
threshing out of the clearance diffi
culties.