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VOLUME XXIII. NUMBER 152. SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JUNE 30,'1928.
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PRICE TEN CENTS
ONE OF THE DEAD MEN WAS
DRAGGED THRU STREETS OF
CITY BY NECK
BROOKHAVEN, Miss., June 30. (/p)
An armed mob stormed the county
jail and seized two negroes and lynch
e<l them for assaulting a white. James
and Stanley Bearmen, the negroes,
were arrested after a shooting affray
wiith Claude and Caby Byrnes over
real! estate.
Claude, who was shot three times,
is in a critical condition. The mob
tied a rope around the neck of one
negro and dragged hi-m thru the city
streets before hanging.
GIVES UP II MILLION i
TU SHIM UP DEBTS
CHICAGO, June 30. (JP)—Corneliiusr
Vanderbilt, junniior, signed a docu.
ment relinquishing over $1,000,000 of
bis inheritance in another step to.
ward repaying stockholders in his
bankrupt publishing enterprises. He
had previously given up another mil.
lion to meet publishing obligations.
'WASHINGTON, June 30. (JP)_
James Francis Smith, 67, associated
Justice of the Court of Customs and
Appeals and former Governor General
of the Phillipines, died in the hospital
from a heart attack which! he suffered
while on the bench.
MfflTurn AND
OTHERS MUST KICK IN
CHICAGO, June 30. <£>)—The Circuit
Court ordered Mayor Thompson and
codefendants to refund to the city
$2,246,000 for fees illegally paid to
i eal estate;' experts under the previous
Thompson administration.
national league
Pittsburgh, 4; St. Louis, 9.
Chicago, 2; Cincinnati, 4.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Cleveland, 9; Chicago, 8.
New York, 4; .Philadelphia; €.
PAChFIC COAST LEAGUE
Sacramento, 9; Seattle, 6. •
San Francisco, 5; Lo» Angelos, l.
kfiasions, 2; Hollywood, 4.
Oakland, 8; Portland, 2.
PARKS BACK HOME
JUNEAU, June SO. (/P)— Gov. Park,
j returned to the Capitol after covering
i 2»500 miles in Interior Alaska on a
! month’s aerial tour.
GERMAN SIM CHS
i IP PUNS THIS TIME
; FOB ATLANTIC FLIGHT
NEW YORK, June 30. (/P)—Then
Rasch, German aviatrix, announced
she has definitely abandoned the at
tempt to fly the Atlantic and will re.
turn to Germany.
Her representatives and financial:
backers said the decision was made
after some of the fajrmer backers
blocked attempts for an amicable set.
tlement of their differences. Mias
Rasoh plans to return to America in
the near future for another try.
YANKEE TRACTOR'S WIN
ANGORA, Turkey, June 30, {/P)-~
American caterpillar tractors outdid
German, Or echo.Slovak and British
rivals in Turkish military tests while
^hgcrans bet on the results.
MUNICIPAL POWER DAM BREAKS
LETTING DOWN HUGE WALL
WATER TO VALLEY
NASHVILLE, June 30. (/P) Scatter,
ed reports from middle Tennessee and<
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Kentucky showed at least six persons
have been killed and (millions of dol.
lars damage caused by torrential rains
and windstorms which swept the two
States.
The breaking of Cookevi!les Munich
pal power dam sent a huge wall of
water down a narrow valley but caus.
ed no deaths. Twenty.three residents
were destroyed at Alexandria.
COLORADO TORNADO
JOHNSTON, Colo., June 30. (JP)—
Two were killed and between 25 and
40 injured, several seriously, and pro.
perty damaged at $200,000, when a tor.
rtado struck the thickly sailed farm,
tng district.
ALASKA CAN BEAT THIS BY MILLIONS
Ti Trout, are rai^cl in private hatcheries at the Cedar
Island, Wis., lodge where President Coolidge is spending
his vacation. Some estimates put the number of trout on
the estate as high as 150,000. Picture shows the President
m his fishing togs, in the Brule river. (He should fish
once down on Russian ritfer or over in that famous Kodiak
ICE CONDITIONS BAD
KINGS BAY, June 30. (/P)—lee con.
| ditions about the encampment of the
i survivors of the Italia are getting
; worse adding to their peril. Fog pre.
; vented airmen from rescuing them
j yesterday; the weather is improving
however.
DREW REVOLVER FROM
BENEATH PILLOW KILLS
WALULA, Wn.; June 30. (£>)—'When
two men entered his room in his
house last night shortly after he had
gone to bed and demanded’ his money,
Lee Faulkerson, rancher and ‘govern,
ment trapper, told them he ‘‘didn’t
have any money’'.
As he was saying this he drew his
revolver from under a pillow and fired
five shots killing both men.
Guns from the East which went
West May 14; returned to Seward
last evening on the S. S. Starr; and
before the keen marksmanship of
itoberi Frothingham of; New York,
Newton Hess and L. Taylor from1
Pennsylvania, six splendid brown
bear trophies-—Kodiak specimens, the
largest and most ferocious bea’s
known in ti.e world-bit the dust.
V ’ Mr. Tay.’or goes the laurels for
he broufii. down three brownies; M \
Hess is credited with tWo and Mr.
Frothir'rr.Mni v.ptb one. In addiGm
to Ms bears, Mr, Taylor, just for good
luck, knocked over a tremendously
large- sealion, down on Seal Rocks at
the head of Resurrection Bay. In
falling the bjrute fell down on the
rocks upon which a baby, sealion : was
sleeping; crushing it’s life out. * j
Chief field guide Andy Simon, of
the Alaska Guided Association, ; was
in charge of the party. ^Details*of the
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hunt and the personnel pf the hunters
will be published in Monday’s issue.
And it’s a migthy interesting story!
A PROMINENT VISITOR
R. D. Wise> of tire Department of
Justice, Washington. D.C., is num
bered among the prominent citizens
from the State^ who are visiting in
Seward today; Mr. Wise continues on
to the Interior tomorrow. During his
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stay here iw is a guest st the Van
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Gilder hotel.
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DEMO VICE.PRESIDENT NOMINEE
IS STRONG DRY; NO MODIFI.
CATION
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HOUSTON, June 30. (jp)— Joseph T.
j Robinson of Arkansas1 was nominated
I Smith’s running mate. His nomina.
| tjon was like that of Smith, in a
smashing first ballot, £fnd triumph
over a scattered field rivals.
For the past 24 hours there was lit.
i tie doubt of his vict > out.
; set of the proceedings he ,left his
post as Presiding Officer of the Con.
vention annd retired to his hotel.
While his nomination was consnmat.
ed those who first proposed Robinson,
to balance off the Smith ticket, argued
he would strengthen the Party in the
South and West ‘and the argument
went like wildfire.
as Permanent Chairman of the Con.
Robinson i3 a Dry and his speech,
vention, he warned his Party against
listening to pleas for modification of
this platform.
In the same speech he started a
tremendous Smith demonstration by
quoting Jefferson and the Constitu.
tion ni support of religeous equality;
he supported the McNary.Haugen Bill
and voted to pass it over President
Coolidge’s veto.
I So overwhelming was the landslide
I to Robinson that when the column wagt
! added up it totaled more than 900 of
the 1,100 in the whole Contention.
Immediately his two nearest rivals,
Senator Barkley of Kentucky, with 77
votes and Mrs. Nellie Ross, with 33,
withdrew- in favor of Robinson.
The „off ileal count after the whole
sale witching gave Robinson 1,032 and
one.half; Allen 21, Mrs. Ross 2, Bark
ley 9, Fletcher 7, Moody 9 and one.
half, Berry 11 and one.half, Woollen
2, Stevenson 2; total votes cast ,1,099.
VOTEBS REPUDIATE
ATTEMPT REPEAL LAW
FAJRGO, N. Dak., Ju;ne 30. (JP)—
Voters repudiated the attempt to re.
peal the State's- prohibition law, the
returns showed, wh&i they turned
down the proposal to wipe out the
Dry cause in the State Constitution,
by a margin of about 5,000 votes.
40 MINERS MISSING
STETIENTNE, Prance, June 30. (/P)~
Forty coal miners are missing: after
an outbreak of fire in-a pile of coal
duet at the town of Roche la Amoliere.
A dozen anen, working the sector# ee_
caped hut 40 remained and H i^feared
they were asphyxiated.