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VOLUME XXII. NUMBER 168. SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1927.
PRICE TEN CENTS
After Midnight
PROTESTS POURING IN FROM ALL OYER THE
WORLD REQUESTING STAY OF EXECUTION OF |
SACCO AND VANZETTI- CONDEMNED MEN DUE
GO TO THE CHAIR AT MIDNIGHT - AMERICAN LE
GATIONS FOREIGN COUNTRIES UNDER GUARD
PROTEST DEMONSTRATION PARADES BROKEN.
POLICE OF WORLD DREAR UP DEMONSTRATIONS
Bomb is exploded in railway station near Buenos Aires
Insurance companies write many new policies guarding*
against explosions, strikes, riots and civil commotions.
By Associated Press
Protests came from nearly all parts of the civilized
world to have the Sacco-Vanzetti execution delayed. On:F
this last scheduled day of their lives the protests are most-j
Iv peaceful. In Buenos Aires a bomb damaged the Palace
• of Justice slightly and in Montevido an unexploded bomb
was found. In France, Ireland and Canada it is reported <
meetings have been marked by good order In Havana!;
K and Santa Domingo, the American legations are guarded. I;
A 16 year old girl led a wild Chicago crowd and did some j;
damage. > # L
Sacco and Vanzetti began their last day refusing break-;
* fast and apparently apathetic.
____m WAITING ON GOVERNOR
Governor Fuller's reply to their re
quest for a delay execution was not j
expected until late today. The in
dustrial section of eastern United j
States was tranquil in the forenoon.!
MOB DISPERSED
CHICAGO, Aug. 10. (/P)—Several
hundred men and women were dis
persed quickly by the police when j
they attempted to start a riot in svm- j
pathy of Sacco and Vanzetti. The |
riot was inqited in a small print shop
when labor unions called a half hour
rest period the crowd started to
march when it ran abreast of the po
lice reserves. Six men -were arrested.
TEAR BOMBS USED
CHICAGO Aug. 10. {&)—Police used
tear bombs and fired one shot early
this morning in breaking up the radi
cals’ parade. Both men and women
were intent upon marching on the
loop district as a protest of the exe
cution of Sacco and Vanzetti.
FREIGHT CARS DAMAGED
BUENOS AIRES, Aug. 10. (JP)—A
bomb exploded tonight in the rail
way station of Valex Sarsfeld, near
Buenos Aires. A few' freight cars
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were damaged.
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POLICE KEPT BUSY
BOSTON, Aug. 10. (JP)—It is es- j
timated over $100,000 worth of ex
plosion, strike, riot and civil commo
tion insurance has been written in the
past 24 hours covering property in
Boston and suberbs. Insurance firms
say this coverage is the result of
fears from the seemingly universal
bomb explosions and threats of Sacco
Vanzetti sympathizers to strike here.
Outside of the Boston sympathy
; strike, others have be$n called in
! such widely seperated places that no
JUDGE DENIES LUST
EFFORT OF DEFENSE;
WIEN DIE TONIGHT
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EXECUTION OF SACCO-V ANZETTi
SCHEDULED TO OCCUR TO.
DEDHAM. Aug. 10. (/P)—Judge
Thayer, of the Superior Court, denied
motions made by (he defense counsel
for the revocation of the death sen
tence and stay of execution of Sacco
Yauzetti. Their respite expires at
midnight, tonight (Wednesday).
The Judge telephoned his decision «j
from his Worchester horns to the
court clerk the complete text being
“Motion for revocation of Urn death
sentence and stay of execution is
hereby denied. To the denial of this
m:~Tn the le^endants duly waived
all rights to which they were en
titled as a mater of law whether by
exception of appeal or otherwise”.
$ JUDGE MAKES ANNOUNCEMENT
BOSTON, Aug. 10. (/P)—Judge San
erson of the Supreme Court announc
ed he will give his decision tomorrow
.^morning on the question whether he
1 has the power to permit sending to
the full bench of that court, bill of
exceptions to his refusal to grant a
writ of error and writ of habeas cor
pus in the Sacco-Vanzetti case. The
execution of the men is set for some
4. time after midnight tonight. Wheth
er the announcement presaged post
I ** ponement will not be told in advance
| ' of Governor Fuller’s announcement of
A possible decision to grant stay of ex
ecution.
FORMER PRESIDENTS
BUILT FOR ETERNITY
STATES COOLIE
KEYSTONE, S. D., Aug. 10. (£>)—i
Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and;
Roosevelt, by following the truth,
built for eternity, Coolidge declared at
the exercises beginning the work on
the gigantic Rushmore Memorial.
The four Presidents “fundemental
principals, which they represented,
have been wrought into the very being
of our coun t»y and they are as stead
fast as these, these ancient hills,”
the President said. President Cool
dige came far into the wilderness to
dedicate the massive piece of granite
out of which the figures of four Pres
idents are being carved. The mem
orial is sponsored by the people of
South Dakota.
If! AIRMEN KILLED
POINT LOMA CRASH
FLIERS HAD ENTERED THE DOLE
HONOLULU FLIGHT; A^TER
ALTITUDE RECORD
SAN DIEGO, Aug. 10. (/P;—Lieut.
George Cowell and R. S. Wagner, U.
S. N., which left here in an airplane
and which was entered in the Dole
flight to Honolulu, were killed when
their plane crashed into Point Loma
near here and totally destroyed. In
less than 15 minutes after their leav
ing for Oakland the accident occured.
The plane burst into flames after
striking. It is believed they hit the
point in an effort to gain altitude.
FLIGHT POSTPONED
SOUTHAMPTON, Aug. 10. (£>)—
Owing to adverse wind reports, Court_
nev decided he would not attempt j
today to fly to Ualenia, Ireland, on !
the first lap of his proposed Trans
Atlantic flight. He has not announced
just when the attempt to start will
be made.
EXPLOSION WRECKS
SCORE OF HOWIES
AUTHORITIES SCOUT BELIEF EX
PLOSION WORK OF RADICAL
ELEMENT
PITCHER, Okl., Aug. 10. (/P)— An
j explosion in a dynamite magazine in
j the residential district of the mining
town wrecked or damaged more than
a score of homes without causing
serious injury to anyone. Although
many residents attributed the blast
to radicals, the authorities scouted
the belief. The police said their in
j vestigations failed to indicate the
| cause.
WEATHER CONDITIONS BAD
PARIS, Aug. 10. (;P)—With weather
conditions over Atlantic still uncer
I tain there seems little chance of any
! of the trans-Atlantic fliers hopping off
! within 48 hours.
i estimate of the number of workers
I involved is possible. Simultaneously,
i the police of larger American indus
| trial cities and foreign capitals, are
| kept bus^’ breaking up demonstra
tions and protest parades.
WATER NOTICE
Water will be shut off at 8 o'clock
tonight on Fourth and Washington,
and on Fifth and a portion of Adams,
including the Van Gilder, Tecklen
burg and Harriman building.
IMPRESSIVE FUNERAL
ARLINGTON CEMETERY
GOV, GEN. L .WOOD
TRIBUTE PROM PHILIPPINES EX
PRESSED BY PRESENCE IS
LAND COMMISSIONER
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10. (/P)—'The 1
late Governor General Leonard Wood;1
yesterday joined the long list of the.1
Nation’s figures who have made the
journey down Pennsylvania Avenue (
to Arlington cementery and to his j
final resting place. i
Full military honors marked the '
burial in which participated high j
goverment officials. The funeral pro-1
cession bespoke the -country's tri
bute to the famous old soldier wno
died in Boston last Sunday.
Arriving early yesterday morning
the General’s body was moved from
the train to the Presidents room in
the Union station where it lay for. a j.
time before entrusted to the reg
iment of troops -waiting to escort the ;
body to the grave in the Rough
Riders section in the Heroes plot,
i Mrs. Wood, her two sons and j
daughter were in the funeral party.
Tribute from the Philippines was
expressed by the presence of Pedro;
Guervaro, Philippine Commissioner.!
jand a group Filipino residents of
the Capital.
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MANUFACTURING OF
BY 0, S. ABANDONED
DECISION REACHED OWING TO
DECREASE IN WITHDRAWALS
MEDICINAL PURPOSES
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10. (£>)—'The
Treasury abandoned proposals for re
sumption ^o manufacture medicine
liquor this year, Assistant Secretary
Lowmanannoomced. He said the de
cision was reached after a confer
ence with Commissioner Doran of
the Prohibition Bureau and based
their decision on the decrease of li_
quor withdrawals for medical pur
poses. Without disclosing the stock
on hand, Lowman said there would
be a sufficient supply to make un
necessary any immediate resumption
of manufacturing.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Brooklyn nothing-5, ChCicago 2-4.
New York 6, Pittsburgh 7.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
New York 1, Philadelphia 8.
Cleveland 2, Washington 4.
Detroit Boston rain.
COAST LEAGUE
Oakland 9, Hollywood nothing.
Los Angeles, 3, Portland 7.
San Francisco 2, Seattle 11.
Sacramento 8, Missions 9-10 innings.
PORTION ARKANSAS
THREATENED IIHITH
DISASTROUS FLOOD
WATER EXPECTED TO REACH
OUTSKIRTS OF ' THE CITY
THIS EVENING
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Aug. 10.(fl>)—
Swept by three successive Hoods this
rear, Southeastern Arkansas faced
nundation again as flood waters
poured through gaps in the levees at
Pendleton and Medford, 40 miles
south of Pine Bluff. Arkansas City
las been out from the recent flood
waters less than a month, but is pre
pared to carry on if the new ap
proaching flood reaches the city,
rhe water was expected to reach the
>utskirts of the town today.
VANCOUVER CHINESE
QUARREL, THREE DIE
NEWSPAPER OFFICE
AFFAIRS OF KONG MING TANG
NATIONALIST SOCIETY LED
TO ARGUMENT
VANCOUVER, B. C., Aug. 10. (Ip)—
Dissention in the ranks of the
Kong Ming Tang Chinese Nationalist
Society cultimated last night in the
of the Canada Morning Press, a Chi
nese daily, in a shooting scrap which
took the lives of two members of the
newspaper staff and a Chinese from
Kamloops.
The dead are Louis Man Har,Pres
ident of the paper aiAl Commission
er for Canada from the Hankow gov
ernment,and Wong Park, a writer.
The Wang Suey Sang shooting fol
lowed an argument over the affairs
of the society. The police believe
Wong Suey shot the others then
Turned the gun upon himself,
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BOMB IS EXPLODED
I LONDON, Aug.,10.(/P)—-A bomb ex
ploded in the Aldwych station under,
ground railway but no one was in
jured and the damage was small.
Some of the newspapers made a
: sensation of the explosion connect
ling it with the world -wide demon
strations in behalf of the Sacco
Vanzettl case but in the official re
port of the bombing railroad offi
cials expressed the belief it was the
work of a practical joker.
MENOMINEE, Aug. 10. (^—Mar
shall Lloyd, millionaire and interna
tionally known as an inventor of the
Lloyd loom, died from heart disease
after an illness of two weeks. He is
credited with revolutionizing three
industries through his inventions.
Lloyd was better known as the invent
or of the loom for weaving fiber fur
niture and by which baby carriages
were made from.