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VOLUME XXII, NUMBER 225. SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1927.
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INTERIM. TRAILER
CRASHED; HARE DEAD
HINT INJURED
SEHARA DRILL TEAM OF INDIAN
APOLIS NUMBERING 65 WAS
ENROUTE TO BARN DANCE
5NDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 15. {&)—Four
teen persons are known to have been
killed and 24 injured, five probably
V fatally, when a Union Traction Co. in
ternrban struck an automobile trailer
on the outskirts of the city. All the
dead and injured, except the motor
man and conductor, were members of
the Sehara Drill team of Indianapolis.
A party, numbering 65, were in the
truck and trailer bound for a barn
dance.
16 REPORTED KILLED
INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 15. (/P)—
Sixteen persons were killed, five of
them women, when the interurban
hit the automobile. Five others
were so seriously injured that they
may die. So violent was the crash
that bodies were hurled many feet.
The noise aroused the sparsely set
tled neighborhood a?d first aid was
quickly administered. Automobile
lights played on the dead and dying
as an effort was made to establish
order out of the chaos. Husbands,
wives and other relatives went fran
tically among the prostrate dead and
injured seeking their loved ones.
QUESTIONS DRIVERS
At one place a man stood silently
beside a blanket shrouded figure,
The picture hardly needed explana
tion: “It is my wife,” he said; he
merely stood guard until the body
was removed when he was led away.
Police took the driver of the auto,
Harry Stewart, to headquarters for
questioning.
ARGENTINE MARKET
' U. S. CANNED GOODS
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INSIDE OF THE CANS MUST BE
LACQUERED BEFORE SALMON
IS PACKED
SEATTLE, Oct. 15. (/P)—1The Argen
tine governmental restrictions forbid- I
ding the sale of canned salmon unless
the inside of the cans are lacquered
before fish are packed may be remov- j
ed within the next 10 days says advic- j
es to the McCormick Steamship Co. 1
Representatives say the restriction be. j
came effective in December applying
to all canned foods with sulphuric acid
reaction of three percent or more thus
ending the effects of West Coast Ship
pers and Brokers to establish an Ar
gentine market with present packing
method.
LEAVING WEDNESDAY
LISBON, Portugal Oct. 15. (JP)—It
has been arranged for Ruth Elder
and George Haldeman to leave Horta
for Lisbon on the steamer Lima which
is due here Wednesday.
EXTRA ALLOTMENT OF
511,500 IS GRANTED
FOR KENAI HIGHWAY
GLACIER HIGHWAY AND LOCA
TION SURVEYS, FORESTRY
DEPARTMENT, INCLUDED
WASHINGTON, Oct 15 (JP)—An al
lotment for an additional $55,000 for
forest highway projects in Alaska dur
ing the current year has been approv
ed by acting Secretary Dunlaw, of the
Department of Agriculture, for recon
struction work on the Glacier highway.
Included in the allotmentt is $11,500
for reconstruction of bridges on the
Kenai Lake highway and $23,500 for
the remainder of location surveys on
forest road projects.
FRENCH AVIATORS
ARRIVE PORT NATAL
AMID CHEERS CROWD
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NAVIGATION ACROSS THE BROAD !
EXPANSE SOUTH ATLANTIC
WAS ACCURATE
PERNAMBUCO, Brazil, Oct. 15. (JP) j
—Dieudonne Costes and Joseph Le
brix who hopped from St. Louis, Sene
gal, yesterday morning landed at Port j
Natal at 11.40 Friday night. Costes j
brought the plane “Nungesser-Coli” i
down amid the cheers of a great '
crowd. Navigation across the ex
panse of the South Atlantic was ac
curate and the radio equipment on the
plain proved a valuable help.
SON OF FORMER FAIRBANKS MAY
OR IS HELD IN CONTEMPT OF
COURT
OLYMPIA, Oct. 15. (/P)—The arrest
of Samuel J. Hames, State highway
engineer, for contempt of court was
ordered by the State Supreme court
in an opionion signed by all nine
members of the court. The writ of
committment was issued to the Thurs
ton county sheriff who immediately
sent deputies in search for Humes.
The contempt proceedings grew out
of the refusal of the highway engin
eer to deliver to the State committee
some of its records seized by the en
gineer last May when Governor Hart
ley, member of the committee, split
with State Auditor Clausen and Treas
urer Potts. Humes was appointed by
Hartley. His defense in the contempt
proceedings was the State director of
efficiency, also a gubernatorial ap
pointee, had taken over the records .to
make an audit and that he was physi
cally unable to deliver them.
WITH BOOTLEGGERS
OLYMPIA, Oct. 15. (>P)—Engineer
Humes was placed in the same cell
with 15 others more than half of whom
are accused of violating the prohibi
tion law.
FIRST GIRL EDITOR
GETTYSBURG, Pa., Oct. 15. (/p)—
For the first time in the 75 years
that “The Gettysburgian” has been
published, a girl takes her place on
the editorial staff of the Gettysburg
College paper this fall.
EVERETT OFFICIALS
ARE ACQUITTED OF
JURY OUT THREE HOURS RE
TURNED SEALED VERDICT;
ALL PROMINENT CITIZENS
SEATTLE, Oct. 15. (JP)—C. T. Ros
coe, Snohomish county prosecutor and
four other Everett officials, were ac
quitted of liquor conspiracy charges.
The jury out three hours last night,
returned a sealed verdict which
was opened today. The acquitted de
fendants were J. Howard Shattuck,
former State legislator and patrole of
ficer John McCulloch, former Snohom
ish county deputy sheriff; Thomas
Headlee, Everett Public Safety Com
missioner; and Harry Brinkman, Ev
erett detective chief.
MURDERER CALMLY ADMITS IN
TENTION SAYING CENA WISH
ED BETRAY COUNTRY •
! PRAGE, Czecho Slovakia, Oct. 15.
(/P)—Cena Beg, newly appointed Al
banian minister, was assassinated by
an Albanian student Agivianih Bebi,
| while dining in a hotel. Bebi was ar
! rested immediately and calmly admitt
| ed his intention to kill Cena because
| he said Cena wishes to betray Alban
lia to Czecho Slovakia.
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TWENTY-FOUR OF 31 PASSENGERS
RESCUED; FREIGHTER SANK
WITHIN 15 MINUTES
NEW YORK, Oct, 15. (/P)—The giant
French liner Paris looming out of the
shadow of the Statue of Liberty in
i New York Bay rammed and sank the
Norwegian freighter Besseggen at
1:30 this morning.
! Of the 31 passengers and members;
of the crew of the freighter at least
24 were brought to safety in spectacu
lar rescues by ferry boats and police
boats and other harbor craft. The
survivors included several women and
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children.
The freighter went down within 15
minutes while those aboard clambered
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to the super-structure when it was
! found all lifeboats had been thrown
from the davits and time prohibited
; the use of life belts. No warning of
the crash came to the sleeping per
sons and within a few minutes the
super-structure of the freighter was
dotted with frantic passengers and
seamen.
As the vessel listed heavily by the
stern many jumped into the black
water and called to the rapidly gather
ing in the water, fought to reach for
life preservers and the lowered life
boats.
Three possible causes of the colli
sion are advanced by witnesses; a
■strong northwest wind, which had
swept across the upper bay at ebb tide
at which point where the collision oc
cured, runs with considerable strength,
and the hulk, lying a short distance
away, of a freighter which went down
last fall.
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DARING AllX
Si COPILOT ST
HOOTS; BOTH WELL
PLANE BURST INTO FLAMES
WHEN BUMPED SIDE OF SHIP;
WINGS BROKEN ROUGH SEA
HORTAN ISLAND, Azores, Oct. 15.
(JP)—Vivacious as ever and minus
neither her poise nor lipstick Ruth
Elder stepped ashore safe with her
co-pilot George Haldeman from a dar
ing venture over the Atlantic in the
plane “American Girl”. Altho Mis3
Elder was unwilling to give an inter
view until later it was learned in a
statement given out by a radio officer
member that the explosion in the
“American Girl’s” engine followed
bumping of the plane against the side
of the freighter Barendracht after the
wings had broken off by rough seas.
Flames from the plane shot up so
high that had the Barendracht carried
benzine or gasoline she would have
blown up also. 'ifl
Miss Elder and Haldeman are in.
fine shape, except for fatigue, and the
first thing Miss Elder did was to pro
duce lipstick and her first words were,
“thank you very much”. Passports,
parachutes and luggage were lost in
the ocean. 11