MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
SEWARD, ALASKA SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1928
PRICE TEN GENTS
VOLUME IV. NUMBER 35.
LOS ANGELES POLICE BELIEVE
ARE ON TRAIL OF ASTRO
CIOUS CRIME
LOS ANGELES , Sept., 15, MP)
—An all night police investigation
after placing a crew of workmen
on the Northcott farm near River
side who have spaded up earth
near where police believe four
youths were slain and the bodies
buried
The search of the farm followed
charges of a 15-year-old youth that
four Southern California boys had
been held captive on the farm of
Cyrus Northcott and were later put
to death by Northcott’s son Stew
art. The preliminary search re
vealed what authorities claimed
were three crude graves from
which bodies had been lately re
moved.
The detectives thought further
^ evidence lays buried about t^c
farm and have organized workmen
to dig up the ground in hope that
additional clues will be uncovered.
SEATTLE. Sept. 15, (/P)—Three
youthful bandits, apparently in
toxicated, shot a policeman, proba
bly fatally after holding up 11 per
sons ir a grocery store.
The trio* then held up three drug
stores and two gasoline stations
and escaped. Two entered the
store and locked the three clerks
and five customers in the bacK
room, robbing them and three
more customers who came in.
Patrolman Sherard approaching,
caused the third bandit in the car
to give the alarm and two came
out shooting. William Pohhder oi
Cleveland lost $500.
Predicts Great
increase Stream
Alaska Travelers
“Within a short time you will wit
ness such a migration of travelers in.
to Alaska that even your fondest
dreams will be upset,” said II. B.
Blauvelt, building material man from
New Jersey who is on his way for a
hunting trip in the Chickaloon coun
try under the guidance of the Alaska
Guides, Inc. He arrived in the Pori
of Seward on the S. S. Yukon last
night.
“I have traveled extensively during
the past few years in Europe and
elsewhere but I have never seen such
a variety of imposing scenery as
in Alaska and I am looking forward
with keen enthusiasm for the hunting
trip that has been outlined for me.
“The people of the States are just
beginning to get “hep” to what Alas,
ka has to offer and they will be com
ma in an ever increasing stream from
all deductions I have been able to
draw.”
Aside from Ids activities in the
realm of business. Mr. Blauvelt is a
writer of note, hefner a contributor to
cevernl national matrazines. He W'll
gather material for more stories or.
his present trip.
ALASKA SAILS
SEATTLE, Sept. 15, (/P)—The S.
S. Alaska of the Alaska Steamship
'Co., sailed at 9 o’clock this morn
jing with 78 passengers. Those for
j Seward included Miss G. Clark, IV.
IE. Dunkle, C. T. Murray, Doris
Oheadle, Mrs. Leona Cheadle, Miss !
Louise Harding, Mrs. J. M. Collins, I
Mrs. Sam Keist, Fred Groadwell, I
Fred Hoffman, Wm. Coppern
John J. Murphy, Wm. Bonnett,!
Mrs. Carl Berge.
BIOS ARE ASKED
CITY COUNCIL SPEEDS UP WORK
IN ORDER TO PERMIT EARLY
CONSTRUCTION
After a hurried revision of the plans
for Seward’s new $50,000 school 1
I house, the City Council has once more !
'opened the lists for bidders who are
! asked do again submit proposals, the |
! proposed changes in the original plans
having been brought within the limit-,
of the new building.
Since the plans have been pretty
thoroughly discussed and are now gen
erally understood, the bids are asked
for Monday in the hope that the con.
twct can then he let and the work be
gin a once.
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TO BE C1PTIED
KILLER CORNERED IN CLEVE
LAND AND ATTEMPTS TO
SHOOT WAY OUT
CLEVELAND, Sept., "15, (£>)—Paul
Jaworski, one of the country’s most
Taring bandits credited with at least
■•ix murders and who was shot and
raptured following a gun battle with
policemen yesterday, today admitted
participation in the $10,000 robbery of
the Detroit News payroll a few months
igo when one policeman was killed
and another shot.
Jaworski said he was preparing to
return to Pittsburgh to “shoot his
brother out of jail with a machine gun.’
Jaworski was captured in a vacant
residence and fought it out with a
'mall army of policemen and was on.
v brought down by tear gas bombs
ind shot-gu'n slugs. With rewards of
M0,000 hanging over his head, Jawor.
ski had vowed he never would be tak
?n alive when the police squad locat.
cd him yesterday i:i a restaurant.
He fired without hesitation and kill
ad patrolman Wieczcrek; another of.
leer and a bystander were wounded.
G ALVEVST ON, Sept, la, (/P)—
Caught in a storm .'1,000 feet aloft
two army flyers leaped to safety in
their parachutes when the plane be
came unmanagable. To prevent tangl.
ing one flyer stayed wffh the plane
until the other dropped 1.50 feet.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
St. Louis 13; Philadelphia, (l.
New York, 5_G; Boston, 2-1.
Cincinnati, 1; Pittsburgh, 4.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Chicago, 5; St. Louis, 4.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Sacramento, G; Hollywood, 5.
San Francisco, 3; Portland, 1.
Misstons, 7; Oakland, 4.
Los Angeles, G; Seattle, 4.
FOUND DYING IN HOTEL WITH
DOOR LOCKED FROM THE
INSIDE
DENVER,
Sept., 15, (/p)—-Mrs. I.
Ruby of Tulsa, Oklahoma and re
ported to be wealthy, was found nn.
clothed, with 50 slashes on her body,
in a hotel room. She died here in the
hospital sometime later. Prior to her
passing she was asked by the nurse
“d'I(| you do this yourself?” She shook
her head. When asked if a man had
attacked her she nodded “yes.”
No weapon was found in the room
after the dfoor had been bntterTd
down.
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Jules Verne Is to Blame—He Started It All!
' EMPnjETg? OFAU5TI?AUft"
/Jr yoVo/^M-o
John Henry Mears and Capt. Charles
B D. Collycr, on the “Olympic" across
the Atlantic from New York: by air
plane across Europe and Asia; on the
“Empress of Russia" across the Pacific
12 hours ahead of schedule: and by
airplane from Victoria to New Yot¥
circled the globe in 23 days, 15 hours.
21 minutes and 15 seconds, a record
breaking and astounding achieve
ment, That Is one way to go around
the world, but It recalls the China
mans remark about the toboggan
slide, "Zippe like-; wallcee back a
mile!”
Another way to circumnavigate the
globe Is to board a palatial steamship
like the Empress of Australia, which
sails from New York December 1,1928.
and devote 138 days to visiting and
actually seeing the wonders of 21
countries and 26 ports on a grand
tour of 29,100 miles, 9,100 miles longer
than that of the Intrepid Mears and
Collyer. This view was well expressed
by Lady Wllllams-Taylor, of Mon
4>
o Sul ao ca/ Cart, Jlqnti, jn-ci&
<r
trea!. who went around the world on
the Empress of Australia a year ago:
"We passed in luxurious comfort, free
from any care or irritating responsi
bility from continent to continent.
With sheltered ease we had unfolded
to us the soul-penetrating magnifi
cence and the somewhat repellent
fanatical conditions of India and dis
traught. yet ever thrllllngly interest
ing China. We steamed up and down
the dangerous Pearl River, and saw
first-hand the devastation of Canton.
Mysterious Java, and almost un
touched Sumatra, held us spellbound.
Singaj i>re and tts evergrowing docks
amazed us, and l-’vely Ceylon en
chanted us Cue Hawaii wound Itself
about our hearts, and to Its haunt
ing ‘Aloha Oe‘ we saw It fade away
through regretful tears."
Those on the big "Empress” during
her next voyage will spend Christmas
in the Holy Land and New Year’s
Eve In Cairo, see Japan In plum- \
blossom time, visit Slam, the seldom
visited; China, India, Java, Egypt, the
Philippines, Hawaii, the Panama
Canal, Havana and other wonder
spots too numerous to mention.
TWO TORNADOES
MKT DEATH
II MIDDLE WEST
;
Violent storms lift up num
ber BUILDINGS AND BLOW
THEM AWAY
CHICAGO, Sept., 15, (JP)— Two
tornadoes, wiping out lives and
smahing buildings and homes, left
portions of Nebraska and South
Dakota in ruins.
Eleven are known to be dead. Dav
is, South Dakota, a community of 250
people, is a mass of wreckage and
here more than 100 were injured,
many of them seriously.
Roth storms traveled in a north
easterly direction crippling com.
munications; four country schools
filled with pupils, crumbled in the
the path of the Nebraska storm which
began near Bancroft and continued
into Iowa taking five lives.
A special train with doctors left
to care for the SO injured. More than
20 houses and the Minneapolis &
Omaha Railroad depot in Dakota City
were whecked or blown away.
Injured persons filled hospitals and
hotels; a baby was carried half a
mile from its farm home, near Win
nebago, and was found dead in a hay_
stack; six were killed near Yank
town. South Dakota. Many farms
. M *>.t •*. . <reds " imr-l
of livestock, were destroyed.
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MANY MISSING RELIEVED BUR
IED UNDER CHAOS OF
WRECKAGE
; ROCKFORD, 111.. Sept. 15, (JP)—
| The tornado which mowed a nar
Irow swath thru Rockford’s indus
trial section and nearby country
side is known to have crushed sev
en persons to death and resulted
in a property damage of $5,000,000.
Fifteen persons out of more than
100 employed in factories bowled
over are still missing. Thirty-four
(are in hospitals seriously hurt
| while others less seriously injured
i have been removed to their homes.
Those who are missing are be
lieved to be buried under tons of
debris of two furniture factories.
; There is a possibility that some of
(the missing are still alive in their
wreckage prison.
Giants Continue
Winning Streak
BOSTON, Sept. 15, (A3)—The Giants
1 finished a happy Boston pilgrimage
100 percent successful winning both
j ends of a double header and cleaning
the eight game series run off with
four twin games. The second game
today was called on account of dark
i neiss in the eight.
These four double victories set a
| new record and hauled the Giants to
within one game of the Cardinals
who maintained hteir leadership by
beating Philadelphia. The Cai'ds will
play two games in Philadelphia to
! morrow; the Giants meet Brooklyn in
i one contest.