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VOLUME XXII. NUMBER 126.
SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 1927.
PRICE TEN CENTS
COURT 'SURROUNDED
BY GUARDSMEN AS
ALLEGED TO HAVE CONFESSED
ASSAULTED, KILLED TWO
WHITE WOMEN
JACKSON. Miss., June 21. (/P)—
Walter Burley, indicted for murder
and criminal assault of two white wo
men, was brought here for trial in a
court house su mounded by bar bod
wire entanglements and guarded by
600 National Guardsmen with machine
guns to prevent any possible mob vio
lence. Tear and gas bombs are also
on hand to thwart any attackers. The
negro is alleged to have confessed he
killed two women.
GIRL CHARGES TWO U. OF WASH
INGTON STUDENTS WITH
GRAVE OFFENSE
SEATTLE, June 21. (/P)—Franke A.
Reedy, aged 21. University of Wash
ington student, son of Dr. Ernest S.
Reedy, a Seattle physician and former
physician in charge of the Government
hospital at Anchorage, and Norland M.
Arentsen, 23, son of Elling Arentson
& Co., fish packers, are held in the
county jail on a charge of assaulting
Ruth Vanstone, daughter of a former
policeman, according to her story to
ihe police. The boys, she said, prom
ised to take her home from a dance in
an automobile but instead carried her
north of the city where both attacked
her. Dr. Reedy said he had no com
ment to make on his son’s arrest.
FUST STEPS TAKEN
MAKE 2-YEAR STUD!
FIELD ENGINEERS ARRIVE A7
KETCHIKAN IN THE INTER
ESTS OF PULP PROJECT
KETCHIKAN, June 21. (/P)—1The
first steps looking toward the devel
opment of the Ketchikan and Juneau
newsprint industry were taken here
when A. Kenzie, consulting engineer
for Zellerbach, and George Cameron
of the San Francisco Chronicle, an
nounced that field men will make a
two-year study of the two projects
which (have been selected. Kenzie
left for Juneau planning to return
soon. Cameron and C. D. Jackline are
expected here on the Aleutian next
'VeeIt- • « |
WILL SUCCEED GEN. PATRICK
WASHINGTON, June 21. (jP)— Brig.
Gen. Jas. E. Fetchet was named by
President Coolidge to be chief of the
Air Corps upon the retirement of Maj.
Gen. Mason M. Patrick on Decem
ber 14.
ALKSKA FLIER Will
ENTER PACIFIC HOP
SEATTLE, June 21. (/P)—Ben Eiel
son announced that he will attempt a
flight from Seattle to Tokio in the Fok
ker monoplane Alaskan. He said he
would fly alone in the $25,000 purse
flight. '
DE AUTREMONT BROS.
ARE IN PORTLAND JAIL
AFTER FOUR TEARS
UNKEMPT AND BEDRAGGLED,
TWINS LODGED IN OREGON
PRISON YESTERDAY
PORTLAND, Or., June 21. (£>)—Roy
and Ray De Autremont, twins, un
kempt, tired and bedraggled, slept in
the Oregon jail last night four years
after a world-wide search had been
launched for their capture an rewards
totalling thousands had been offered
for conviction on the charge of com
plicity in connection with the Siskiyou
tunnel train holdup and quardruple
murder, October 1923. The prisoners
arrived from Stubenville, Ohio, where
they were arrested early this month.
J TEN RUSSIANS FIND DEATH AT
ODESSA FOR RUMANIAN SE
CRET SERVICE*
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MOSCOW, June 21. (&)—'The tur
moil of internal and external affairs
' of the Soviet government is increas
ing. The war talk ringing through
the Union is sending terror into the
hearts of the adherents of the Czaris-t
regime. Ten more Russians, said to
have been in the employ of the Ruma
nian secret service, have been sen
tenced to death at Odessa. A man
and his wife are on trial at Leningrad
charged with espionage in favor of
England. It is said a bloody war is
looming, and the situation is highly
tense at the present time.
OWEN D. YOUNG SAILS
NEW YORK, June 21. </P)—Owen
D. Young sailed on the S. S. George
Washington as head of a delegation
of 150 American business men, to
attend the Stockholm conference of
the International Chamber of Com
merce.
PLACE TABLES WORLD
SEATTLE WILL BE DISTRIBUTING
CENTER FOR HUGE ALASKA
INDUSTRY
PLANT IT GOLOVIN BIT
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Motorship is 210 Feet Long—Has 45,
000 Cubic Feet of Refrigeration
Space
SEATTLE, June 21. (/P)— Carl Lo
men arrived here and announced the
purchase of a refrigerator ship and
canning 'machinery to place Alaska
reindeer meat on the tables of the
world. Seattle will be the distribut
ing center for the industry. The ves
sel purchased the motorship Sierra,
210 feet long and fitted with 35,000
cubic feet of refrigeration space giv
ing her a carrying capacity of 5,000
carcasses. She wilt ^sail north July
15. She is scheduled to make two
trips this season. The Lomen Rein
deer Corporation plans to double the
season’s output next year and also
plans to make three round trips with
the Sierra. The meats will be taken
on board at Suckland, Teller, Nome,
Golovin and Egavik.
For the first time canned reindeer
meat will make its appearance on the
market this fall. Lomen purchased
a one-line cannery and machinery^for
handling by-products and will shfp it
| soon to Golovin Bay. where it will be
installed. The plant will be in opera
tion in time to make a shipment to
i Seattle on the last boat out of the
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| North. Lomen is shipping 10,000
empty cans north.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Pittsburg 4, Chicago 0.
No Coast or American League
games played.
THIRTEEN HEIR OLD DOT
PREVENTS TRAIN WRECK
.INGLEWOOD, Calif., June 21. (/P)—
George Teams, a 13-year-old boy, did
his good turn and stepped into the
ranks of heroism. At the risk of be
ing ground to death by a speeding lo
comotive he flogged and stopped a
Santa Fe passenger train which was
about to be wrecked by an obstruc
tion of ties and rocks which had been
placed on the tracks by some unknown
person.
ACTOR FACING CRISIS
SAN FRANCISCO, June 21. (fP)—
John Drew, the famous actor is near
the crisis in his critical illness here,
physicians in constant attendance
say that he should pass the crisis
shortly and that his condition wa3
exceedingly grave.
FINANCE MINISTER KILLED
MUNICH, June 21. (Jp)—Dr. Wilhelm
Krausneck, Bavarian Finance Minis
ter, was killed almost instantly when
he slipped beneath the wheels of a
street car while hurrying to see his
wife who is seriously ill in a hospital.
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NAPA, June 21. (/P)— No trace of
the Hindu insane slayer who escaped
from the State insane asylum here
last week has been found. An at
tendant at the hospital has been ar
rested for acting as an alleged ac
complice of the Hindu in aiding his
escape.
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TAKING FOUeTH MAN
TO DEMONSTRATE HOP
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WEATHER AGAIN DELAYS COM
j MANDER BYRD FROM TAKE
OFF ROOSEVELT FIELD
ROOSEVELT FIELD, June 21. (ff)
■ —Formal announcement was made
that the fourth man to travel in the
trans-Atlantic monoplane America on
its ocean flight would be Bernt Bal
chen, former lieutenant in the Nor
wegian army. Byrd said he had de
, cided to take four men to demonstrate
■ that such number could be carried in
an airship. Belchen was a member
, of Amundsen’s North Pole expedition
in the airship Norge, being stationed
, at Spitzbergen. After Byrd had flown
over the pole he brought Belchen back
, to this country with him. The weath
, er has again delayed the takeoff for
, ja hop to Europe.
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PRISON GUARDS MAKE
TARGETS OE CONVICTS
IN GUN BATTLE IN JAIL
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CHEAT HANGMAN OF ONE LIFE
k AS ANOTHER OF THE FIVE
IS WOUNDED
1 JOLIET, 111., June 21. (£>)—In a gun
> fight with guards in the jail yard at
■ noon Monday, two of five condemned
• convicts who escaped from their cells
» were shot, two others were recaptured
> and one, Charles Shade escaped. One
■ of the wounded men died later. They
i were all sentenced to to hang for the
l murder of Deputy Warden Peter N.
Blein during an escape from the new
State prison a year ftgo.
NOTABLES AT ASCOT RACE
LONDON, June 21. (/P)—King
George and Queen Mary saw W. M.
Cazalets “Duke of Buckingham"
triumph in the historic Ascot race.
Many others, notable in society were
there.
TECHNICAL EXPERTS
TO EXCHANGE VIEWS
STATUS OF IVIES
WILL BEGIN STUDY OF THREE
SETS OF PROPOSALS PLACED
BEFORE CONFERENCE
GENEVA, June 21. (;P)--The execu
tive committee of the tri-partite naval
conference decided to convoke a
meeting of technical experts from
the United States, Great Britain and
Japan. The experts are instructed to
exchange views and reach an agree
ment on the existing status of the
three navies, including the building
programs, and to begin the study of
three sets of proposals placed before
the conference with a view to cralifl
i cation of their real purport.
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TANFORAN TRACK WILL RESUME
RACING THIS FALL HEADED
BY JUDGE MURPHY
| SAN FRANCISCO, June 21. (£>)—
One of the most important sporting an-*
nouncements of years was made puV
lie here yesterday when it was report
ed that horse racing was .to be re
vived in San Francisco. The report
followed closely on the heels of the
leasing of the famous Tanforan track
by an orginazation headed by Judge
Murphy, St. Louis sportsman. Tan
foran is on the outskirts of the city.
The certificate plan of wagering simi
lar to that used in Florida, Louisiana
and Chicago will be used here, it was
reported.
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MEETS APPROVAL OF FANS
SAN FRANCISCO, June 21. (£>)—
Yesterday’s report that horse racing
j was to be resumed at the .Tanforan
'tracks near here brought many tele
phone- <;alls and letters of approval to
1 officials from racing fans. Horse
! racing will be seen again this lali af
• ter a layoff of. many years. Plans an
nounced today revealed that a 37-day
: meeting will be held starting October
27 and ending December 10.
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GOLD I THE KIR FOR
FIGHT TO HMIIN ISLES
SAN FRANCISCO, June 21. (£>)—
Plans for the non-stop Pacific Ocean
hop were going ahead with revived
interest yesterday. The $50,000 San
Francisco pot of gold prize and the
$35,000 Dole prize were attracting
many of the country’s most prominent
flyers to enter the one-hop flight to
Hawaii. The start is ,to be made on
August 12, and it will probably be one
of the greatest races in the history of
man.