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VOLUME XXII. NUMBER 167. SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1927.
PRICE TEN CENTS
ORDER OF TAKE-OFF
IN DOLE HONOLULU
RACE: 12 ENTREES
FOUR OTHER PILOTS STILL UN
DECIDED WHETHER TO
ATTEMPT HOP
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 9. (£>)—
The Dole fliers to Honolulu and their
order of take-off from Bay Cities,from
Mills Field and from San Francisco,
are Major Livingstone Irving of Berke
ly, John W. Frost, the San Francis
co Examiner entry from Oakland,
Benneth Griffith of Bartleville, OkL;
Lieut. Norman Goddard of San Diego,
Charles W. Parkhurst of Lomas,111.;
John A. Pedler and Miss Mildred
Doran of Detroit; Arthur C. Goebel,
Hollywood stunt flier; Frank Clarke
of Hollywood and Captain A. V. Rod
gers of Los Angeles. Four other men
are still undecided whether or not to
attempt the take-off.
INTEREST MOUNTING
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 9. (JP)—
Interest is steadily mounting here in
the Dole prize flight to Honolulu sche
duled to start from here on August
12.with about 15 planes already en
tered and many others now under
going tests. The Navy department is
arranging to have four destroyers
patrolling the sea-shore near Hono
lulu and 13 submarines as well,also
the flying force stationed in the Is
lands, on hand to watch out for the
planes. Principle interest today is in
the monoplane of Bennett Griffith
and A1 Finley, which has just com
pleted a non-stop flight to Oakland.
HAVING MANY MISHAPS
SAN DIEGO, Aug. 9. (/P)— Mishaps
are marring the attempts of several
of the entries in the Hawaii sweep
stakes and unless the pilots have bet
ter luck airmen here assert that they
will be eliminated from the race.
MOVIE ACTRESS ILL
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 9. (/P,—Eve
lyn Brent, motion picture actress is
suffering from an infection caused
by having been bitten by a spider
during the filming on the Mojavi de
sert.
$22,000 IS RICH HAUL OF MASKED
MEN; EMPLOYES FORCED TO
•LIE ON FLOOR
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 99. (TP)—
Bank robbers raided banks in San
Francisco and Oakland yesterday, se
curing $22,000. The first robbery was
in the early afternoon when foui
masked men entered the Hayes and
Octovia branch of the French Ameri
can Bank and secured $6,000. One oi
the four cleaned out the availab-le casli
while the others covered the employ
es, making them lie cn the floor.
The second holdup took place aboul
an hour later in Oakland, when twc
unmasked men robbed the 41th and
Broadway branch of the Bank of Italj
securing $16,000. In this case the}
also made the employes lie on th€
floor, although the police are certair
that the two robberies were done bj
different gangs.
HAS CHANGE OF HEART
BOSTON, Aug. 9. (/P)—Edward
James, wealthy Sacco champion,
changed his mind about servng 90
days jail sentence tor inciting riot
ai;d assaulting policeman. He paid
$75 fine instead.
IDE BY 1IZETTI
SACCO COMMITTEE
PROTEST MEETINGS IN BOSTON
BROKEN UP BY POLICE AND
SCORES ARREST MADE
BOSTON, Aug. 9. (JP)—'Police broke
up several attempts ,to bold Sacco
jVanzetti protest meetings on the
Boston Common and a score of ar
rests were made. The Sacco-Vanzet
Iti defense committee announced “a
national march on Boston and a
solemn watch at the state capital
and at the Charleston jail, the night
of the execution, is being organized.
| We will eall 100,000 Americans to
come to Boston this week and watch
'solemnly the crucifixion of American
justice at the “cradle of Liberty.”
He further asserted the moment of
“national emergency exists” and that
.“ghosts of the Salem witch burners
\ are stalking the streets of Boston.”
The statement calls on “leaders of
j American letters, of science, art,
[education, and social reform to lead
a peaceful demonstration at the
Charleston jail.”
DEMAND OWN ARRESTS
BOSTON, Aug. 9. (£>)—Seven per
sons who testified at various times
as Vanzetti aliby witnesses, appeared
jin the Governor’s office for volun
tary arrest as perjurers. They said
the states refusal to acquit Vanzetti
is tantamount to calling them liars
and demand their own prosecution
for perjury.
PROTEST FROM PULPIT
PARIS, Aug. 9. (/P)—Bishop Man
ning of New York, from the pulpit of
!the American Cathedral of Holy Tri
nity, voiced a protest against Parisi
jan divorces and the slipshod modern
morality.
SUPER-AIRCRAFT BIT
FIR THE I S ARMY
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NEW YORK.* Aug. 9. (IP)—The
•most formidable air drednaught to
be constructed in the United States
and possibly in the world, has been
.secretly completed fo£ the United
States Army by the Heystone Air
! craft Corporation of Briston, Pa., it
I was announced today. The craft is
Isaid to weigh 16000 pounds when ful_
Ty loaded.
LEGION MEMBERS HELP
BATTLE STUBBORN FIRE
—
SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Aug.9.
(,/P)—Members of the American Le_
gion in convention here, joined the
Santa Barbara fire department in
! battling a stubborn fire that broke
out in a lumber company and did
damage amounting to over $100,000.
I Largely through the help of the Le
gion, many of whom are members of
California fire departments, the fire
was prevented from destroying an
1 adjoining wharf building belonging
to the city.
TIN KILLS THREE
TRYING TO SAVE YOUNGER BRO
THER CLARENCE RUFFNER
IS KILLED
OIL CITY, Penn.,Aug. 9. (/P)— A
passenger train crashed into a group
of six small boys killing three and in
juring one. Clarence Ruffner,age 11,
was killed in trying to carry his small
brother Robert,age 5,to safety from
the tracks. Clifford and Carl Keener,
ages 12 and 7,were also killed. Willis
and James Ruffner, 8 and 9 years of
age, escaped uninjured,
GOVERNOR GENERAL'
BODY WILL BE PLACED IN PLOT
RESERVED FOR MEMBERS OF
ROUGH RIDERS
WASHINGTON, Aug. 9. (/P)—With,
colors at half mast and the army he
served for more than two score years,
sorrowfully making preparations for
the burial of the Governor General
Leonard Wood in the Arlington Nat
ional cemetery alongside his com
rades of the Spanish-American War,
the body will arrive early Tuesday
accompanied by the widow and mil
itary escort and will be taken im
mediately to the cemetery. rl he
burial in Arlington will be at the re
quest of Mrs. Wood who asked the
body be placed in the plot reserved
for members of the Rough Riders
regiment which he commanded dur
ing the war with Spain.
COASriiiN
AND ALLEGED RUM
BATTLE ON THE FRINGE OF THE
BAHAMAS CLAIM LIVES OF
TWO OFFICERS
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.. Aug.
9. (/p)—-A thrilling battle between
coast guardsmen and alleged rum
runners on the high sea near the
| western fringe of the Bahamas claim
ed the lives of two government men
and sent four other of the partici
pants to the hospital where the con
dition of three of them is reported
| serious. Two of the injured are
| government men and two are alleged
' rum runners. The fight occured
when the motorboat failed to stop at
the command of coast guardsmen.
NEW YORK MANAGER OF
JULIAN OIL ARRESTED
NEW YORK, Aug. 9.(/P)—A. Swan
son, manager of the New York office
of the Julian Petroleum Corporation,
was arrested yesterday in connection
with the company’s collapse and sub
sequent loss of $100,000,000. He was
held on $20,000 bail and will be ex
tradited to Los Angeles in the near
future.
WILL NOT DIE
NEW YORK, Aug. 9.(/P)—Mrs- Au_
gusta Stetson has announced that
she will not die. She says that she
has so grasped Christianity as it is
set forth by Mrs. Ely, that she will
not undergo any change in the fut
ure. She is now 85 years of age.
F1B1KS Ml 1
SEATTLE CLAIMS WAS
“ROLLED” BYWOMEN
WALLETS MYSTERIOUSLY REAP.;
PEAR IN COOTES POCKET
WHILE ENROUTE JAIL
SEATTLE. Aug. 9. UP)—Three
women are in the city jail on the
charge of “rolling” John C. R. Cootes, j
Fairbanks contractor, at a liquor j
party in Cootes room in the Savoy
hotel. The contractor related that |
he and H. W. Fielding and J. F. Ne- j
page, president of the Nepage Mc
Kenny Contracting Company, and
three women, were sitting in his
room drinking when Cootes and
Fielding simultaneously missed their
wallets, Cootes’ wallet contained
$600 and Fielding had $25. 'Cootes
called the police and while the entire
party was in the patrol wagin en
route to jail, Cootes and Fielding’s
missing pocketbooks suddenly reap
peared in Cootes pocket. Only eight
of Cootes original $600 remained
while Fielding’s pocketbook contain,
ed only $5. The three women are
being held pending investigation.
Cootes admitted liquor freely flowed
at the party.
ON TRIP IS MISSING
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 9.(/P)—The
Honolulu plane of Miss Mildred Doran,
‘‘The Flying School Marm” carrying
her here Pilot Eugene Pedlar and
her navigator are reported as miss
ing in its flight from Long Beach to
San Francisco. The plane left Long
Beach shortly after 11 o’clock yester
day and ■vvas due in San Francisco
at about 2;30. Up until late last
night no reports of the plane had
been received.
GROWERS AND PACKERS
DISAGREEMENT SETTLED
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 9. {&)—
The disagreements that have blocked
the sale and packing of California’s
1927 fruit canning crops, were set
tled here yesterday. The growers
and packers reached a compromise
'Which 'will give the growers the price
they asked and saves the packers
the risk they would have been forced
to have taken if different grades of
fruit would have been packed. The
agreement provides only first grade
fruit will be packed.
BASEBALL SCORES
NATIONAL LEAGUE
All postponed, rain.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Detroit 2, Boston 3.
Cleveland 6, Washington 1.
Chicago, New York, wet grounds.
St. Louis, Philadelphia, rain.
GOVERNMENT HAS NOT SPENT
A DOLLAR IN SKAGWAY IN
LAST TEN YEARS
SEATTLE, Aug. 9. (fi>)—Sir Hugh
Denison, Austrian Commissioner to
the LTnited States, declared “it is a
pity the United States doesn’t take
more interest in the development of
Alaska. I am shocked at conditions
which Skagway has been allowed to
fall. Its houses are empty and its
port developments are rapidly disap
pearing. The United States has not
spent any money there in 10 years.
Skagway is the natural port for the
big section of British Columbia and
the Yukon district. I think the so
lution to the difficulty could be ob
tained by internationalizing the nar
row strip of area on which Skagway
and the White Pass are situated.
This would lead to the port being
utilized without much cost to the
United States. Failing to do this,
leave should be granted to the gov_
eminent of British Columbia or to
some public company conditionally
on their agreeing to maintain im
provement of the port and spend
certain amounts opening up lines of
communication.”
LONG LEASE HER
SEATTLE PROPERTY
TIMES SQUARE WILL BE HOME
OF NEW BUILDING IN THE
NEAR FUTURE
SEATTLE, Aug. 9. (/P)—Consum
mation of 1^0,000,000 real estate deal
involving a 99 year lease of the
Southwest corner of Second and Pike
Streets now occupied by the Bon
Marche was announced yesterday.
Coincident with this announcement
was the forecast that the Bon
Marche would in the near future
commence erection of a 10 story
$1,500,000 building on their property
jin the vicinity of the Times Square.
It is thought that an Eastern depart,
ment store will erect a new building
jon the site of the present Bon
Marche.
OVER DICK RAMUS BY
K 0 IN EIGHT ROUND
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SAN DIEGO, Aug. 9. (IP)—Baby Joe
Gans packs too many guns for Dick
Ramies, the negro lightweight sham
pion clearly demonstrated that at the
Coliseum last night before the largest
crowd that has ever witnessed a fight
program in San Diego in more than, a
year, by knocking out the game Mexi
can battler in the eighth round of
their scheduled 10 rouncl main event.
A short right hook delivered with all
the force the visitor i could summon,
landed, squarely on Ramies chin and
ended the great fight. Even standing
room was sold at premium, so great
was the interest in the main event.