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VOLUME XXIII. NUMBER 134. SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JUNE 8, 1928.
PRICE TEN CENTS
LARGEST TYPE MONOPLANE Bl
USED; THREE MOTORS, 12
PASSENGERS
CHICAGO, June 8. (^)—Eugene Me
Donald, Arctic explorer and presiden
of the Zenith radio corporation, U. J
Herrmann, sportsman and tlieatn
owner, both of Chicago, plan a Pacifii
flight to Japan via the Aleutians thi:
summer.
The flight will be made in a Zenitl
Arbatrosst plane described as the larg.
es-t type of monoplane ever construct
ed.
Charles F. RocheviSe and Albiu K
Peterson, the designers, would be
pilots. McDonald and Herrmann maj
accompany them. The plane has three
motors and carries 12 passengers and
is capable of flying 60 hours. Either
Seattle or San Francisco will be the
starting point
INTIMATED NIGHT FLYING EQUIP
MENT ORDERED FOR FAIR
BANKS FIELD
FAIRBANKS, June 8. (JP)—On an
inspection tour \^hich -wlill include
every airplane landing in. the Terri
tory, Governor Parks, Major Malcolm
Elliott and Robert Sommers left in a
plane, Bennett piloting, for Nenana,1
thence to the upper Kuskokwim and
Iditarod, the lower Kuskokwim, Holy;
Cross, Nome, Candle, Kotzebue and
Wiseman and all the upper Yukon j
fields, returning to Fairbanks between
the 18th and 20th, of this month.
They will plot a program of im-j
provement and chart routes. The
Governor intimated that night flying
equipment, a beacon and flood light,
has already been ordered for the Fair
banks field.
VETOS BOULDER DAM
WASHINGTON, June 8. (^—Presi
dent Coolidge exercised his pocket
veto on the Muscle Shoals Bill when
he failed to sign at midnight, the end
of the 10 day period.
CANADIAN TRAIN WRECKED
QTJVEX, Ca^i-, June 8. (^)-One
man was killed and 10 injured when ;
the Canadian Pacific Railway train
was derailed by a tornado between
Stanbridge and Bedford Quebec.
0, TREATV iS SIGNFP
CONSTANDINOEDF Ju*v 8, (/?)—
J treaty of non agg*-*’sion lasting
f;ve years was signed cy representa
tives of Italy and Turkey.
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HOP-OFF DELAYED
j TREPASSEY, June 8. (JP)—A light
wind iniade it unlikely the plane
Friendship would take-off before
night.
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•| SENDING MESSAGES CONTINU
ALLY
! KINGSBAY, June 8. (/P)—Increas
i ingly doubtful that any direct radio
j signals have been heard from the
Italia the base ship kept sending out
, messages of confidence and cheer in
| the vague hope the Italia anight get
them. The base ship radio operator
picked up faint messages yesterday
which were thought sure were to be
from the Italia but he was unable to
get any answer today. Weather con
ditions are again unfavorable for res.
: cue flights.
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ALHSKA AUTHOR ON 1
WIT HOME TO NOME,
■ SEATTLE. June 8. (^—Esther
Birdsall Darling, author of Alaskan
i 'Stories, arrived in Seattle enrou-te to
her former home in Nome. She sails a
j Saturday. Mrs. Darling wrote “Baldy c
of Nome” and ‘‘The Breakup” the lat- 1
ter julst published. f
STORM THREATENED TO TURN
HOP INTO DISASTER; EXPECT
REACH GOAL THIS P. M.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 8. (Jp)—
Storms and violent tropical destur
bances pulled and twisted and boun
ced the Southern Cross' thru the worst
contortions ever experienced, so the
fliers reported. The Pacific flight
threatened to cast into history and
marking the venture onto its records
is "disaster”.
Things went smoothly until light
foll when the plane ran into a storm.
Early today it was buzzing along
smooth again and expected to reach
Brisbane about 2:3*0 Pacific Goajst
;irae.
TOOK-OFF LAST NIGHT
SUVA, June 8. (JP)—The Southern
>osg took-off from Naselai Beach
or Brisbane, Australia at 2:52 yes
erday afternoon, or 6:52 Thursday,
Pacific Coast time. The fli|gfht of
,762 miles is expected to take from
8 to 20 hours.
SIGNALS WERE STRONG
PORTLAND, June 8. (JP)—At 7:47
. m. the Southern Cross signals were
oming in strong to the Mackay radio,
’he plane is believed to be 450 miles
rom Brisbane.
TAKES OFF TOMORROW
NEW YORK, June 8. (Jp)—Tin
monoplane Columbia is expected t<
take-off at dawn tomorrow in its sec
ond attempt to fly to Old Orchard
Maine, on the first leg of a trans
Atlantic flight.
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TEACHER ON ST. PAUL
ISLAND SERIOUSLY III
ST PAUL ISLAND, June 8. (Jp)—
Mrs. Scupholm, Sevoonga teacher, is
seriously ill. Her husband, the only
white doctor, is treating her by radio
while the cutter Northland is proceed,
ing to Sevoonga thru foggy ice fields
expecting to arrive last night.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Bo ton, 2; Detroit, 5.
Washington, 7; Chicago, 5.
Philadelphia, 1; St. Louis, 4.
New York, 8; Cleveland, 2.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Pittsburgh, 8; Boston, 6, 12 innings.
Cincinnati, 0; Brooklyn, 1, 11 in
nings.
Chicago, 2; Philadelphia, 4.
St. Louis, 3; New York, 4.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Oakland, 7; Hollywood, 4.
Sacramento, 5; Missions, 6, 12in
nings, ,
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San Francisco, 3; Seattle, 2.
Los Angeles, 4; Portland, 8.
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JURY DECIDES MAN WHO SUI
CIDED KILLED SELF FROM
REMORSE, MURDER
AKIAK, June 8. (,/P)—Tie discovery
of the body of Charles P. Lindfors
‘hanging from the rafters in a cabin
bared a murder mystery of last fall.
Lindfor’s partner, Arthur Kirk, dis
appeared and was supposed to have
drowned when his raft was wrecked.
A body was discovered at the minp
where it had been burned in the re
tort.
The partners had been mining
quicksilver on a tributary to the Kus.
kokwim and made a large sale of min
erals just previous to Kirk’s disap
pearance.
The coroner's jury decided Lind
for suicided because of remorse or
fear he had been suspected of foul
play in connection with Kirk’s death
but there was no evidence.
BUSED PERSONALITY
DECLARES EXPERT
ANTI-HOOVER PARTY JUST WISH
ES TO SHOW HARD FIGHT
LOOMS
KANSAS CITY, June 8. {£>)— Mrs.
Ruth Hanna McCormick, Director of
Puglicity for the anti-Hoover party,,
declared the campaign opposition is
not based on personalities and if
Hoover is nominated all Republicans
will support him.
The plan of the coalition, she said,,
is to bring a& forcibly as possible be
fore the delegate the superior availa
bility of Lowden, Curtis or Watson.
over Hoover, for the nomination and
in order that the Republican party be
placed in a better position to carry
the election.
This campaign is to show Hoover’s
nomination means a hard fight lor
the party in November.
ANTI WAR CONFERENCE
PARIS, June 8, (JP)—Sir Austen
Chamberlain conferred w'ith Foreign
Minister Briand relative to proposed
Anti War Treaty and agreed that
LLe present committments must stand.
Criana as well as Foreign Minister
Stresemann will be absent from the
league conference because of illness
DESPISED HORSE WINS
NEW YORK, June S, (&)—Dolv.
lespised 25 to 1 shot, won the r*cn
suburban handicap at Belmont Park
•unning against Chance Shot, Chance
Play, Scapa Flow and other fast
:orses.