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VOLUME XXII. NUMBER 176.
SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST, 19, 1927.
PRICE TEN CENTS
COURT OVERRULES
EXCEPTIONS SJCCO
1IZETTICOUNSE
NEITHER JUDGE OR ASSOCIATE
HAVE JURISDICTION REVOKE
SENTENCE
BOSTON, Aug. 19. (/P)—A fu
bench of the Massachusetts Suprem
court overruled the exceptions by th
Sacco-Vanzetti defense counsel to th
decisions by Justice Sanderson of th
Supreme court and by Judge Thaye
of the Superior court who refused t
grant a writ from Sanderson, who r<
'fused a grant of writ of error afte
Thayer had refused to grant a ne^
trial. The revocation of the sentenc
and stay of execution decision whic]
upheld the ruling of the Thayer me
tion for a new trial, came too late be
cause sentence had been pronounced
The decision said neither the Judgi
nor associates have jurisdiction to en
tertain a motion of revocation of th<
sentence. The statutes are clear ii
the issuance of writ of error in a cap
ital case.
CLAIM HOLDERS IMPOSED
ON IN TIE TEDRITOR1
SEATTLE, Aug. 19. (/P)—Govern
mental regulation has stifled Alaska’s
development, Falcon Joslin told the
Seattle Mining Club and said the im
positions upon claim holders are eight
times more burdensome than in the
early western days.
PATROLMEN DISMISSED
UNBECOMING CONDUCT
SEATTLE, Aug. 19. f/P)—Patrol
man Dan Hogan. Headquarters wag
on man durng Mayor Edwin J.
Brown’s administration was dismiss
ed from the Seattle Police Depart
ment yesterday afternoon by Chief
of Police William H. Searing, for
conduct unbecoming an officer.
The dismissal was followed by a
near fist fight at. Police headquarters
between Hogan and Inspector Hans
Damm, under whose nose the dis
missed officer shook his fist, shout
ing “You framed me. I’ll get you
for this.”
ASKS FOII COMPENSATION
BROKE ARM BOXING RING
W VTERTOWN, N. Y„ Aug. 19 (JP)
—When a boxer breaks bis arm while
punching his opponent’s head, is the j
organization sponsoring the bout lia
ble under the workmen’s compensa
tion act?
That knotty question arose when j
William Simpson, who is a clerk in I
daily life, asked compensation for in- j
jury suffered in a boxing exhibition
in the Knights of Columbus gymna
sium. '
Simpson, who learned to box in I
the Army, maintained that he was
employed by the Knights of Colum
bus for the exhibition. Therefore,
after he fractov'ed his arm in whip
ping over a fast one to his opponent’s
head, he claimed that he was entitled
to compensation as one of the orga
nization’s employes.
BOMB EXPLOSION
! LONDON, Aug. 19. (/P)—An explo
sion of a bomb between the Ameri
can legation in Sofia and a house
occupied by the Bulgarian Minister
of Finance, is reported. None were
injured and no damage occured.
FACTIONAL QUARREL
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FORMER OFFICERS
DEPOSED OFFICERS ENDEAVOR.
ED TAG MILK TRUCK; ARGU
MENT, BATTLE ENSUED
WILLI MS ON, West Va., Aug. 19.
(TP)—Two factions in Williamson and
the police met and a street gun bat
tle ensued during which two officers
were killed. D. W. Deerfield and
Harvey McGuire were the victims.
Julius Lawson and James Kirkpat
rick surrendered to the county au
thorities and were placed in jail.
Strife in the police department has
existed for some time; one force
claimed to be regulars and the others
were known as the deposed. The
latter, however, continued to func
tion. Deerfield and McGuire were
among those deposed and attempted i
to tag a milk truck for not display-;
ing a light. Lawson and Kirk-pat- |
rick, regulars, tried to prevent an l
argument. The pistol fight followed.
TD ENTER PENITENTIARY
SAUSALITO, Calif., Aug. 19. (£>)—
His latest of attempts to avod
going to prison having failed, Robert
Hodden, former mayor of this city,
surrendered himself to the United
States Marshal’s office yesterday and
said he was ready to begin his two
year sentence for violating the prohi
bition laws. In return, for this, he
i will be liberated on parole in six
months.
WOMAN'S FIE BRINGS
SADNESS SAYS PRINCESS
NEW YORK, Aug. 19. (/p)—The
purely feminine woman as opposed
to the successful feminist has $
champion ih Princess Alexandra Kro.
potkin, who believes economic suc
cess brings sadness rather than joy
because with its attainment she loses
her natural attributes,
“Nine out of 10 independent, un
mated women are dissatisfied,” she
declares in the Red Book Magazine.
“Every successful woman is faced a
thousand times in her business ca
reer with the choice between assert
ing herself as an efficient worker,
and the trick of being purely femi
nine.
MARRIAGE FACILITATED
PARIS, Aug. 19. (£>)—A bill just
passed by the .French parliament
greatly simplifies the marriage of
foreigners. Hitherto written consent
has been required from the parents
of contracting parties. Under the
new law this can be dispensed with
upon a formal declaration that both
bride and bridegroom are more than
25 years of age.
GLICERII FOUND
RAILROAD BRIDGE
PREVIOUS EXPLOSION DAMAGES
FREIGHT CAR PASSING OVER
SAME BRIDGE
PITTSBURGH, Aug. 19. (Jp)—An at
tempt to blow up a bridge of the Penn
sylvania Railroad was made when
railroad officials reported a can con
taining three quarts of nitro glicerine,
had been found under a span near
Mayview, a suburb. The discovery was
made after a small explosion damaged
a freight car in passing over the
bridge. At the time the explosive
was found, on the other end of the
bridge from the one where the explo
sion occured, there were no indica
tions of wires or fuse to set off and
explode the nitro glicerine.
AIRPLANE NAVIGATOR
PREFERSSTEAMSHIP
3ACIFIC FLIGHT WAS HIS FIRST
RIDE IN THE AIR; WHEELS
TOUCHED SEA
HONOLULU, Aug. 19. (JP)—Paul i
Jhluter, navigator of the airplane!
Uoha, said his only airplane ride was ;
he~ non-stop flight to Honolulu. He
aid he plans to fly again but not over I
o much water for “we came down so
ow once that the w hi els toucher the <\
t'ater and tliats too near the ocean (
’ j
or me. I want to be at least 10 feet j l
hove it and still better on the bridge t
f a good steamship.” |1
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DEMPSEy LEAVES FOB
j CAMP. TRAIN FOR GENE
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| CHICAGO, Aug. 19. (/P)— Jack Dem
sev, who will meet Gene Tunney,
heavyweight champion, for the
world’s heavyweight title, in Chicago,
September 22, left Los Angeles for
his training •camp. He was accom
panied by his wife Estella Taylor,
film star. ^
MAY CHANGE MIND
CHICAGO, Aug. 19. (/P)—Jack Dem
sey will set up his training quarters,
in preparation for his fight with
Gene Tunney, September 22nd. Box
ing fans of Chicago have started a
campaign to have Dempsey recede
his decision which will bar everyone
but newspaper correspondents from
his quarters.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Philadelphia, 1; Cleveland, 2.
New York, 5, Chicago, 4.
Washington, 5; St. Louis, 6.
Detroit, Boston, rain.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Rain. *
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Sacramento, 10; Hollywood, 4.
Oakland, 2; Missions, 6.
Los Angeles, 11; Seattle, 1.
- San Francisco, 4; Portland, 5
LICENSE SUSPENDED
j SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 19. (/?>—
The State Corporation Department,
j suspended the license of Clyde S.
I Cook Company, local investment
j house, today.
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WOMAN CLAIMS BANDITS BUR.
I ED GOLD AND JEWELE IRON
CHEST IN 1855
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 19. (JP)—
Mrs. Helen Spiva today asked United
States District Attorney Hatfield for
permission to excavate on Govern
ment property in San Francisco
where she says more than $100,000
worth of gold and precious jewels are
buried in an old iron chest. She says
the treasure is the loot of eight ban
dits who buried it in 1855 and later
were captured. She says she has a
map of the location which she only
recently discovered although it • has
been in her husband’s family for sev-1
eral generations having been given |
to his grandfather by <the last of the
bandits. Hatfield is investigating to
fnd if the government can grant a
permit to excavate and if Mrs. Spiva
will have a right to the treasure if
iny be found. *
LAST OF SEVEN MEN
CONVICTED, FLOGGING
ONEONTA, La., Aug. 19. (JP)—With
he sentencing yesterday of the last
if seven men who participated in the
logging of Jefferson Calloway, the
rial of far reachTng interest was
►rought to an end. Calloway was al
eged to have been flogged by mem
lers of the Ku Klux Klan because he
.ttended church in an intoxicated
ondition.
ilium STATE PH
CHI WILL HE BOON
| WASHINGTON, Aug. 19. (JP)—The
.motorist who packs his wife and chil
mer and sets out along vacation ■
trails, will be able within a few years
to drive from coast to coast with a
different state park for a campsite
every night.
The prospect is held out by the
National Conference On State«d|arks,
which finds that already a tourist
starting by motor from Boston may j
journey all the way to Minnesota,
Iowa or Kansas with a stop almost
every night in a state park along the ,
way.
OFFERS PRINTED FELT
VIENNA, Aug. 19. (yP)^Some of
the newest felt hats shown here are '
printed in jungle effects.
Zebra stripes, snake scales, and
candy stripes predominate. The hats
are extremely light in weight and j
have a glossy silk finish.
Some of the winter hats have pat
terns burned on velour. The designs *
are in long nap, standing out in relief.
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WATER NOTICE
Water will be shut off on Fourth, i
Fifth and part of Adams and Wash- i
ington streets at 9 <s&lock this evening <
PROSECUTOR DICS
I UP OLD MARITIME
! LAW; ARRESTS TWO
SON OF FOUNDER FREDERICK &
NELSON AND CAPTAIN HELD
FOR DEATH OF GIRL
SEATTLE, Aug. 19. (JP)—Creigh
Nelson, wealthy clubman, son of the
founder of Frederick & Nelson, is
free under $20,000 bail and Armory
Bell, pilot of Nelsons yacht, has been
jailed on Charges of manslaughter
for failure to attempt to aid Miss
Violet Payne, dancing teacher, when
she drowned in shallow water follow
ing a drinking party aboard the yacht
Muriel on July 20. The coroner’s
jury acquitted the pair but branded
them “cowards and morally responsi
ble”. Prosecutor Colvin unearthed an
old provision in the English Common
Law governing maritime criminality
under which he believes Nelson and
Bell, as owner a<j.d captain, can be
held responsible for death.
BABE RUTH'S 3B HOMER
RUINS ANOTHER GAME
CHICAGO, Aug. 19. (JP)— Babe
Ruth’s 33th home run smash today
broke up an 11 inning pitching battle
between George Connally of the
Wihite Sox and Pipgras and Moore of
the Yankees to give New York its
second straght triumph here by 3-2.
Ruth’s home run placed him even
with his mate Lou Gehrig for home
run honors.
REBEL LEADER FOLLOWERS
LOOT KILL CHILIAN
I
MAN AGUE, Nicaragua, Aug. 19.
(/?)—General Jose Ramon Tellez, pol
itical chief of the Department of
Nuav Semovia, reported today that
the leader of Carlos Salgado and his
followers looted the village of Somo
:o forcing merchants to give up
merchandise and money. One civi
lian was killed and several were in
jured.
RELIEF FOB CURLERS
MONTE CARLO, Aug. 19. (/P)—
Those who lose their last dollar in
the Monte Carlo casino hereafter will
be just one trip home poorer than
those who formerly found themselves
in the same fix.
The reason is that the efficiency
experts attached to the casino have
decided to do away with the “viati
ques.”
Formerly, when a gambler went
“broke” in Monte Carlo, the casino
would supply him -with free trana--*
portation home providing he asked
for it and the secret service reported
that he had lost enough money to
justify the expense. The free rides
were called “viatiques.” It was sel
dom that a legitimate request was
refused.
Scores of gamblers were returned
to England each year. Many^went
to South America and the United
States at the expense of the casino.