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VOLUME XXII. NUMBER 224. SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1927.
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FLIT PROMOTERS
GET STUNG ATTEMPTS
SELL ELDER STORY
WANTED $150,000 FOR YARN; OF
FERED $1,500; PROMOTER
WILLING PUT UP $1
NEW YORK, Oct. 14. (£>)—Cashing
in on the maneuvers on Ruth Elder's
flight occupied promoters attention
yesterday. “We are going to keep
this thing botitled up until we sell
it,” said T. H. McArdle, one of the
promoters, “and I don’t mind telling
you that the fliers have been in- j
structed not to talk to anyone until!
they heard from us. Anyone would
be dumb not to know there is money ;
in this and we would be dumb if we
didn’t take it. Neither Miss Elder
nor Haldeman will say a word untii j
they get an okeh from us telling
them who bought the story.”
H. E. Cornell, another promoter
said, "we deserve something out of
this; look at whait we have done for
aviation. Why, we have put Ameri
ca on the map with this flight.” Me- f
ardle said he would rot consider any-1
thing less than $150,000 for the flight
story, but received only one bid of
$1,500. He finally sold the story,
after considerable /ickering, for con
siderable less than $20,000. An un- j
identified man, who described him
self as an independent motion pic
ture producer, told McArdle he was
willing to pay the sum of $1 to sea!
an option on Ruth Elder’s services
as a film actress.
FRENCH FLIERS OFF
ON LONGEST FLIGHT
P AK AR - SENEGAL, Oct. 14. (JP)—_
Dieudonne Costes and Lieut. Joseph
Lebrix, French aviators, hopped off :
on their trans-Atlantic flight to Na- j
tal, Brazil, 2,000 miles away, on the •
second leg of their Paris to Buenos
Aires flight.
SON OF F10US IRISH
REBEL, MRS. MCBRIDE,
IS HELD BT POLICE I
DUBLIN, Irish Free State, Oct. 14.
(JP)~Sarorstat police are holding Seon
McBride, son of Mrs. Maud Gonne Mc
Bride, a famous Irish rebel beauty, in I
connection with the murder of Kevin
O’Higgins, late minister of justice.
He is charged with conspiring to i
murder O’Higgins, *Hfrho was assassin- I
ated when several gunmen fired on
him from, an automobile while he was
on his way to church.
McBride is the son of parents who
have been intimately connected with
the Irish revolutionary movement. His
father was executed for treason after
the “Bloody Easter’' rebellion. Before
that Major McBride had fought the
British as second in command of the
Irish contingent of the Boer army.
Mrs. McBride is known as the Irish
“Joan of Arc.”
BANDIT LEADER KILLED
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 14. (£>)—
: American marines killed the Nicara
guan bandit leader Santos Lobos and
captured seven of his men, according
to a report received by the Navy De
partment.
RUTH'S PLANE GOES
UP IN FLAMES BEING
HOISTED ONTO SHIP
OVERHEATED ENGINE, GASOLINE,
TWO EXPLOSIONS, GOODBYE
“AMERICAN GIRL”
PARIS, Oct. 14. (Jp)—Forced down !
at sea after battling a storm of me- j
chanical trouble Ruth Elder and pilot
Haldeman are safe and sound on the
Dutch tanker Barendracht steaming
for the Azores. The vessel is due to
arrive tomorrow. The monoplane
took fire after the rescue and lies
beneath the waves a mass of charred
wreckage. When forced to alight they
had covered more than 2,600 miles
from New York in the longest flight
ever made entirely over water. They i
fell short of their goal by 1,200 miles, j
After being taken aboard the Baren- j
drecht the sailors attempted to hoist I
the .plane on the ship and in some
manner, probably thru fuel spilling on
the overheated engine, the gassoline
ignited and two explosions followed
md the plane burst into flames.
ARTIST WILL WED
RICHMOND, Va., Oct. 14. (^—Rich
mond will have as one of its most im
portant weddings this year that of 1
Miss Elsie Littleton Lindsey, noted (
irtist, to John Akin Branch, son of i
rohn Kerr Branch, the millionaire
Danker.
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RULE AMERICAN LABOR
AIL. A. CONVENTION
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NEW ORLEANS SELECTED AS
NEXT PLACE OF CONVEN
TION NOV. 21, 1928
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 14. (Jp)~An- i
other term of constervative rule for
the American. Federation of Labor !
was voted by the convention with j
the reelection of President Green. The i
reelection was without any opposition ;
as was also the other officers. The j
choise of New Orleans as the site for j
the next convention, which will be i
held on November 21, 1928, completed
the annual election.
I
KETCHIKAN, Oct. 14. (£>)—Frank
Aldrich of Juneau announced his can
iidacy as republican national commit
teeman for Alaska. He is a former 1
Nome resident and one of the organ- ,
izers of the Alaska pioneers. He bas- j
5s his candidacy on his record in the
rerritorial Legislature and long resi
lence. He is now in Ketchikan with
:he Federal court.
MOTHERS GET VACATION
STORRS, Conn., Oct. 14. (/P)—Re
versing the usual order, a group of
Connecticut farm women .went on a €
vacation this summer while their {
laughters stayed at home and did the
lousework. .
WITHDRAWS TROOPS
| PEKIN, Oct. 14. (/p)—The possibili
j ty of the withdrawal of Manchurian
j troops from Peking is indicated today
I by the departure of aviation and
| heavy artillery units from Peking for
j Tientsin to the Southeast.
NOT 6UILTY ASSIZE
COURT OF B. C. FINDS
CHIEF IDENTIFICATION WIT
NESSES FAIL >TO PICK HIM
OUT AS HIJACKER
VICTORIA, B. €., Oct. 14. (Jp)—1The
assize court jury found Milo Eggers,
of Tacoma, not guilty of robbery with
violence in the hijacking of liquor
landed from the launch Hazel in Brit
ish Columbia waters on March 4, 1924.
Eggers, who was spirited from Tacoma j
to Canada after fighting extradition i
there for years, is alleged to have shot i
and seriously wounded Elmer Larum,
Helmsmann of the craft during the
piracy. The Hadsell-Crowns case col- f
"apsed when Andrew Martin and Joe •
Edwards, who had been relied upon as
-hief identification witnesses, failed
:o pick out Eggers as the one man
vho asserted 'had hijacked Hadsell. j
mOST it
IMSTHi MUTE!
AMSTERDAM, Holland, Oct. 14. UP)
-The Heinkel hydro airplane D 1220, :
nioute to the United States by way
»f the Azores, arrived from Wilhem- ,
haven, completing the first lap then
lew to Azores.
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I MANY TOKENS OF PREHISTORIC
; LIFE LIE IN AGATE SPRINGS
FOSSIL BEDS
—
i AGATE, Neb., Oct. 14. (JP)—The
queer-terrain of the Agate Springs fos
sil quarries, which nature has corru
gated in fanciful fashion, has yielded
further evidence to' support the con
| tention of some scientists that it may
! have been the birthplace of man.
Expeditions of the American Mus
eum of Natural History and of the
Colorado Museum of Natural History
have completed a summer of delving,
and the scientists said they uncovered
much valuable proof of prehistoric
life.
Dr. Harold J. Cook, owner of the
Cook ranch which contains* the quar
ries, and honorary curator of paleon
tology for the Colorado Museum, has
dug into the quarries for years. He
is convinced that evidence eventually
will be obtained showing that man
inhabited North America thousands of
years earlier than had been previously
accepted, and that the cradle of the
human race was not in Asia or west
ern Europe, but in this part of the
United States.
JAP GIRLS SMOKING
TOKYO, Oct. 14. (JP)—Cigarette
smoking among young Japanese girls
is- said to be growing and the authori
ses are thereby much perturbed.
[RIPPED COAL MINERS
RESCUED. GOOD SHAPE
_!_
SCRANTON, Penn., Oct. 14. (JP)—
letween 40 and 50 miners, trapped in
he Peck mines of the Glandale Coal
!o., at noon, were rescued last night,
ill were in good condition and appar
ntly suffered but little from their
mprisonment. A heavy steel cage,
jaded with rock, wedged in the shaft
rapping the miners.
j MCBRIDE STEPS INTO
SHOES OE LUTE INTI
SUN HEAD,WHEELER
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Oct. 14. (/P)—
Francis Scott McBride, general sup
erintendent of the Anti-Saloon League,
ihas stepped into the shoes of the late
Wayne B. Wheeler, as legislative sup
erintendent of the dry organization.
| An attorney will be chosen to do
Wheeler’s work as general counsel for
the league.
McBride is 55, a native of Ohio.
From pastorates in the Presbyterian
church he turned 18 years ago to Anti
Saloon league work serving as state
superintendent of the league in Illinois
before becoming general superintend
ent in 1924.
RICHEST CHILD IN WORLD
LONDON, Oct. 14. (£>)—Next to
Princess Elizabeth, the one year old
daughter of the Duke and Duchess
of York, three-year-old Lady Patrica
Mountbatten holds attention more
than any other child in the British,
public eye. She is the richest baby
in England, If not the world.