FINAL PORT OF CALL FOR THREE
STEAMSHIP COMPANIES
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HEADQUARTERS U. S. SIGNAL CORPS
COMMUNICATION FACILITIES I N
ALASKA PROPER
COAST TERMINAL FOR THE ALASKA
RAILROAD
VOLUME XXII. DUMBER 182.
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 26,1927.
PRICE TEN CENTS
BLOODHOUNDS AID 'RUNNING
, NEGRO TO EARTH EIGHT
i HOURS AFTER CRIME
WILMOT, Ark., Aug. 26. (JP)—Less
than eight hours after he is alleged
to have attacked a young married
woman, Winston Pounds, age 20, a
negro, was taken from a posse of
Deputy Sheriffs and hanged to a tree
one and one-half miles from Wilmot.
With the aid of bloodhounds the
negro was captured without a strug
gle and returned here about nine last
night. The sheriff was preparing to
take him to Hamburg when the mob
drove up and forced the deputies to
g ive up the negro. Fifty men drove
him into the country where he was
hanged.
PLANE OLD GLORY IS
AWAITING WEST WIND
FULLY LOADED AND READY TC
HOP OFF FOR NON-STOP
FLIGHT TO ROME
NEW YORK, Aug. 26. (/P)—Th«
monoplane Old Glory, loaded, fueled
and pearched on the runway top. i:
earthbound by a fresh east wine
which halted the take-off on its pro.
posed non-stop flight to Rome. Neith
er Bertraud or Hill, the pilots, ap
peared on the field. Mechanics saic
a west wind wras needed to lift th<
plane into the air.
GAINES SHOWS
WITHDRAW ACCOUNT
■ RIFT WITH Fill)
C. E. M. GFATT, WHO ADVANCE!
THEORY SYLVIA IS ‘ALIVE,
IS RETAINED
SEATTLE, Aug. 26. (JP)—Attorne;
Robert MacFarlane and John Car
mody announced they have with
drawn as defense counsel in th
Gaines murder case after a rift wit!
Gaines relatives as to the 'best meth
cd of future proceedure. G. E. M
Gratt, who advanced the theor;
Sylvia Gaines was still alive, ha
been retained to wage a final figh
for Gaines’ life.
MADRID. Spain, Aug. 26. (/P)
P1 edges in the Madrid pawnshoi
W which is run as a city monopolj
showed a decrease of 54,255 item
during the last fiscal year but th
municipality managed to earn 612,76
pesetas on the business.
Jewelry formed the larger part c
the pledges while clothing w'a
second. The annual public audio
of unredeemed pledges brought i
1,912,127 pesetas on articales upo
* .v ch only 1,299,360 pesetas ha
beer. lent. Pawnshops are municips
monoplies throughout Spain.
REDFEI HOPS Off FOR
SOUTH AMERICA POINTS
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GYNN ISLE, Radioed to BRUNS
WICK, Georgia, Aug. 26. (£>)—Paul
Redl'ern, Georgia aviator, hopped off
at 12:46 for Rio De Janerio or Per
namubuco, Brazil. Redfern is at
I tempting to break the distance and
! endurance flight records. As the
'monoplane disappeared from view his
| wife collapsed.
REDFERNIS PREPARED
IF EK IN THE AMU
"DO NOT LOSE HOPE ON MY RE
TURN NEXT SIX MONTHS”
STATES AVIATOR
—
BRUNSWICK. Georgia, Aug. 26
(/P)—‘Paul Redfern, hopped off for
Rio De Janerio, 4,600 miles away. II
successful he will establish a dis
tance record. The first land on the
i route is at Porto Rico, 1,200 miles
away. Redfern said if he was forced
Idown in an amazon valley he could
live indefinitely with the equipment
he is taking. He said, "Don’t lose
hope on my return for at least six
months or more.”
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A fairly smooth trip with good
. weather east from Unalaska to Sew.
. ard but with bad weather encounter.
. ed in Bristol Bay, marked the voyage
[ of the S. S. Starr, Capt. O. A. Johan
>Tsen, which returned to port yester
day. Aside from the fair voyage the
trip was uneventful. Incoming pas
sengers on the vessel included:
M. L. Adams, Mr. and Mrs. W. R
Sprout, Lieut. A. R. Colwell, A. Mai
lemberg, Frank Osborne. Jno. Hack
meister, J. A. Mulvahill, Mrs. Gou'a
and two Children, Mrs. W. E. Lee
Cora B. Charles, Helen Lentz, Mrs
J J. Torgransen, Mrs. Lewalters, E
Patterson, O. Warsenkari, H. E. Har
ris, Tom Padden, Capt. V. Willsgard
Dave Price, J. P. Morgan, E. Millei
) Hans Salo, A. Roberts, H. Sonberg
Hans Jensen, Geo. Zihrul, E. A. Le
: waiters.
BY HOMELESS WMF!
■ | MOSCOW, Aug. 26. (JP)—A ne\
| wave of homeless children is sweep
;ing over Moscow. Their number, es
| timated by the city authorities t
ihave fallen as low as 250,-has sud
jdenly jumped to some 1,500. Th
new rush is believed to have com
I from Rostov-on-Don in the soutl
Recruited from the families o
peasantry and workmen, they com
. to Moscow attracted by the temp'ta
Uions of a modern city. Organize
_.in gangs, they roam Moscow street
( snatching women’s ba’gs, pickin
pockets and raiding street peddlar;
’ practically without interference fror
the militia, who have abandoned hop
, of suppressing them.
f B. OF E. CHIEF RETURNS
s Jonathan H. Wagner, chief of th
n Alaska Division, Bureau of Educa
a tion, returned to Seward today o
a the M. S. Discoverer, from his annua
3 trip of inspection to schools an
.1 (stations in the far Westward an
Bristol bay districts.
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CHARGED WITH CONSPIRING TO
VIOLATE PROHIBITION LAW;
SECRET INDICTMENT
SEATTLE, Aug. 26. (/P)— Seven
residents of Vancouver, British
Columbia, some of them prominent in j
liquor exporting and distilling con-1
cerns, are under indictments here on j
charges of conspiracy to violate the!
prohibition law, it was revealed when j
Federal Judge Neterer released a j
secret indictment returned by the;
Grand Jury June 2, in connection i
with the seizure of the liquor laden j
Canadian motor launch Zev, Cana- j
dian. The defendants are Oakland
Lampman, managing director of the ’
Joseph Kennedy Liquor Export
House of Vancouver; Harry Reifel,;
secretary to the Kennedy Co., and a
member of a millionaire family ' of
Vancouver; George Reifel, a brother
of Harry Lamond; N. Milne, ware.:
house man for the Kennedy Co.; Geo.
jMasie, warehouse man and Louis
Bernadina*a liquor dealer. A Cana-;
dian customs ^official is unofficially!
reported to be among the three of:
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the 10 mentioned in the indictment
as John Doe. None of the Canadians
have been arrested.
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PRIDE OF DETROIT TAKES
AIR FOR NEWFOUNDLAND
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OLDORCHARD, Maine. Aug. 26.
(/P)—The monoplane Pride of Detroit
hopped off at 5:25 for Harbor Grace,
Newfoundland, where the start of an
j attempt on a new world circling re
i cord will be made.
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PASSES OUT OF U. S. A.
| EASTPORT, Maine. Aug. 26. (;P)—
, The Pride of Detroit passed out of
, the United States at 7:55.
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LONDON, Aug. 26. (£>)—Sir W. Mit
chell Thomson, Postmaster General,
',r! warns farmers against the Socialist
'! proposal for the nationalization of ag
“ | ricuiture.
3 • “Nationalization would be ruinous to
~' the industry,” he declares. “The
~ British farmer is far better able to
manage his own affairs than an offi
j cialat Whitehall. It would be the
B blackest in the history of agriculture
if farmers allowed state officials to
} come and teach them nationalization
s or by the Liberal scheme, which is
g barely veiled nationalization.”
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HASN’T LOST A DAY
WHELING, W. Va., Aug., 26. (/P)—
Keeping out in the fresh air and
taking lots of exercise is the prescrip
tion* “Colonel” William Graham, 70,
would give to anyone desiring to work
q 38 years without losing a single day.
1 The “Colonel” has been a mail carrier
4 since 1889, with no days lost. Altho
a eligible lor retirement long ago he
prefers to “carry on.”
BASEBALL SCORES
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Seattle, 1; San Francisco, 15.
Hollywood, 4; Oakland, nothing.
Los Angeles, 2; Mission?, 5.
Portland, 1; Sacramento, 4.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
New York, 8; Detroit, 2. 3
Washington, 5; Cleveland, 7.
Philadelphia, 6? St. Louis, 1.
Chicago, 4; Boston, 6.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Chicago, 8; Philadelphia, nothing.
Pittsburgh, 1-8; Boston, 5-1.
'Cincinnati, 1; Brooklyn, 2.
MORE THAN 700 PASSENGERS
WILL DISEMBARK AT SEAT.
TLE FROM LINER
JUNEAU, Aug. 26. UP)—The steam.
Dorothy Alexander called here South
bound for- extra life preservers and
lumber to make steerage bunks for
extra passengers. When the liner
reaches Seattle it is expected it will
have more than 700 passengers on
board the largest number believed
ever taken South o^ any steamer
from Alaska. The University Com
mercial club party is aboard and are
delighted with the trip.
AUGUST NUMBER OF A. S.
S. CD,, FOLDER OFF PRESS
The August number of the Alaske
Travelgraph published by the Alaske
Steamship company in Seattle is ofi
the press and copies received in the
last mail This month’s issue is de
voted almost entirely to the republish
ing of testimonials on their Alaska
steamers. Photographs of five ol
the steamers, a part of the Alaska
! fleet, and a- beautiful photograph ol
Auk Lake near Juneau, appear. In.
j closed in the booklet this month is
la paper souvenir totem pole on the
back of which is set forth interesting
information about the Territory
There was also inclosed a schedule
of rates for fall hunting by the Alas,
ka Glacier Tourist Association.
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KOSTROMA, Aug. 26. (#>)— Robbers
have raided the museum here, carry
ir.g away many objects of historica
importance.
Among the stolen things were c
shroud, richly embellished with gold
silver and pearls, presented to th<
Kostroma monasteries by Czar Boris
Godunoff in 1604; a set of churcl
vestments covered with precious
stones, a boyar dress, belonging t<
Prince Dmitri Poljarslcy, the savioi
of Moscow from the Poles in 1610.
Kostroma is one of the oldest Rus
sian cities, founded in 1152 and was
noted for its monasteries and church
es.
ALASKA DUE MIDNIGHT
The S. S. Alaska, of the A. S. S
Co., will, arrive in port from th<
South at midnight, according to thi
local office.
jFIVE PASSENGER CUSTOM BUILT
BIPLANE EQUIPPED WITH
SKIIS AND WHEELS
| WITCHITA, Kas., Aug. 26. (£>)—
! Equipped with skiis, as well as the
j regular landing gear, a five passen
Iger custom built biplane was crated
|and shipped to Fairbanks by Irl
! Beach, Witchita Airplane builder.
! The plane land3 on ice or on land
| and will enter the service of the
; Bennett-Rodebaugh Airways, at Fair
' banks.
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SANTA BARBARA, Aug. 26. (/P)—
| Two sharp earthguakes shocks were
| felt. The first at 4:45 caused people
to run into the streets the second
! following almost immediately. They
lasted but a few seconds. No dam
i
age was reported.
VENTURA FEELS QUAKE
VENTURA,A ug. 26. (JP)—A light
i earthquake was felt about 4:40. no
damage reported.
DEATH INTERRUPTS CALL
ACROSS TIE ATLANTIC
LONDON, Aug. 26. (>P)—For the
first time, death has spread its fingers
:over the trans-Atlantic telephone sys
tem.
Charles W. McKelvey, on a stu
dent’s tour of Europe, put through a
, call from the Savoy hotel here to his
. mother, Mrs. John A. McKelvey, at
. his home in New York
The call came through in due course.
After a minute or two of conversation,
; McKelvey heard his mother say, “Oh.
' Kim. hold on a minute.” He waited,
at the telephone, but could not hear
! anything. Repeated calls failed to
I bring any answer.
! About an hour later he put through
another call. Servants at the house
; told him that his mother had died
while speaking to him.
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HO WORD IS REARS FROM
FEIER BT COMPANY.
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, ''MIAMI STATION REPORTS HAD
COMMUNICATION WITH SEV
ERAL VESSELS
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1 i (MIAMI, Aug. 26. (#*)—The Hilaleah
’ station, of the Tropical Radio Tele
! graph company, reported ships east
1 of the Bahamas and south of Porto
1 Rico so far have failed to sight any
1 of the lost monoplanes. Port Bruns
1 wick radio officials said they had
communicated with several vessels
whose positions were reported direct
' ly or near the course Redfern is tak
1 ing on his flight to Brazil.
GOES 200 MILES FOR CAT
YORK Beach, Me., Aug. 26. (£>)—
A woman of Cantine, Me., traveled 200
» miles to recover her cat, which was
> inadvertently left here when she re
turned home from a visit#