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VOLUME XXII. NUMBER 143.
SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JULY 12, 1927.
PRICE TEN CENTS
WILL, 200 YEARS OLD.
SIXTH GENERATION OF DECEND
ANTS GETS ESTATE OF HUN.
DRED MILLION
CHICAGO, July 12. (£>)—Alvina
Olson, nurse in a sanitarium here
will quit her job this week and be
come quite suddenly a millionaires.
The story of Miss Olson’s fortune
dates back two centuries, lwhen
James Sabo, a sailor was wrecked
on the Holland coast. He started in
business there, amassed a fortune
which totalled $25,000,000 at the time
of his death and then willed it to
the sixth generation of descendants
of his only sister Elizabeth. The
fortune now totals $100,000,000 and
will be divided between about 200
relatives.
OEMPSEYISlTEI
11 EVER BEFORE
SENDS SPARRING PARTNERS TO
HOSPITAL; HAS THE PUNCH
ING CRAZE
SARATOGA SPRINGS. N. Y., July
12. (JP)—Jack Dempsey, former
world’s heavy weight champion, sent
two of his sparring partners to the
hospital, knocked out two more and
had three others sagging at the knees
after a furious morning of training
in his newly established camp. Leo
Flynn, his manager declared that
,Dempsey had shown more speed and
more hitting power yesterday than
ever before in his life. He is even
better than the Dempsey of old and
has the punching craze more than
his pre-Toledo days.
SHOWS BURST OF SPEED
NEW YORK, July 12. (/P)—Jack
Dempsey showing the speed he dem
onstrated when the champion went
through three strenuous workouts at
his quarters at Saratoga, knocking
out two sparring partners and badly
battering the remainder.
DRUNKEN PASSENGERS
CAUSED PEINE TO CRASH
FRONT SEAT PASSENGER FELL
AGAINST CONTROLS KNOCKED
FROM PILOT’S HANDS
SEATTLE, July 12. (^P)—A coroner’s
jury found that the drunken condition
of passengers was responsible for the
death of O. H. Johnson, pilot and three
passengers in the Lake Washington
crash on July 5. The testimony indi
cated that a front seat passenger, Fred
Stanclift, seized or fell against the
dual control shoving it out of the pi
lot’s hands.
THREE HUNDRED READ
IN QUAKE THAT ROCKS
TRANS-JORDANIA
EYE-WITNESS RELATES TERRIFY
ING EFFECT OF EARTH MOVE
MENT
JERUSALEM, July 12. (&)—'The
latest official reports from Nablus, 30
miles north of Jerusalem, give earth
quake casualties at 62 dead and 250 in
jured, while at Ramleh 12 were killed,
25 injured and 30 injured at Ludd.
Most of the casualties occurred when
a bazaar collapsed at Nablus.
EARTH MOVEMENT 40 SECONDS
CAIRO, July 12. (JP)—An eye-witness
who arrived by airplane from Trans
Jordania said 300 were killed in yes
j terday’s earthquake. The eye-witness
said that at Amman, Arabia most of
the houses were damaged* or collapsed
completely while a mosque in course
; of erection was seriously damaged.
The movements of the earth lasted
40 seconds and were visible in the j
| surrounding lava beds. He said the
effect was terrifying. Many persons
were killed at Amman and Palestine,
while others were killed at Rudd and
Ramleh. As in villages in Trans- j
Jordania desert bedouins everywhere !
appeared terrified by the earth move
ment. The quake was felt here but
no damage was reported.
O.S. PROSPERITY)UE
TO DEMOCRATS SAYS
SENATOR J, A REEO
__
DEVOTES MAJOR PART OF AD
DRESS TO REVIEWING PAST
SCANDALS IN POLITICS
ATLANTA, July 12. (j/p)—Addressing
the joint session of the Georgia Legis-J
jlature, Senator James A. Reed of Mis-j
! souri ascribed “whatever there is of j
prosperity today” to the Federal Re- J
serve banking system, and gave to the '
Democratic party credit for the origin ‘
and perfection of the system. The
Senator disputed the “great boast of
the present administration that it
produced the condition of prosperity,”
j and stated that no government can
■ produce wealth which, he said, is pro
duced by the people under a given fa
i
vorable condition. Here he referred j
I specifically to the advantages of the ■■
Federal Reserve bank system. Speak
ing of the prosperity claim, Senator
Reed said the present administration
was run for and by the wealthy class.
He devoted a large part of his address
to reviewing incidents of scandal and
the corrupt use of money in politics
for many years past.
SON OF COUNT JAILED
DUBLIN, July 12. (/P)—George
Plunket, son of Count George Plunket,
was one of ten men appearing in court
charged with consipiring to murder
Kevin O’Higgins, who was assassinat
ed Sunday.
DISMEMBERED BOOK
WOMEN DISCOVERED
STREWN ABOUT N. Y.
MUTILATED BODY OF MAN FOUND
IN CELLAR ADDS TO DAY OF
BUTCHERIES
NEW YORK, July 12. (£>)—A trail
that started Saturday with the finding
in Battery Park of the dismembered
parts of a woman’s legs has led to
a double murder mystery and the ar
rest of a man suspect. Bit by bit
parts of the torso of a slain woman
came to light and the trail finally led
to a Brooklyn house where the dis
membered body of another woman
was found. The victims were Miss
Sarah Brownell, aged 60 and Mrs. Al
fred Bennett, aged 48, the mother of
four children. The police are holding
on a homicide charge Charles Ludwig
Lee, aged 38, janitor -of the house
where Miss Brownell Wed. The po
lice theory is that Miss Brownell w'as
slain for robbery and Mrs. Bennett
was killed when she chanced to sur
prise the murderer at work.
While the police were working on
the murder of the two women an
other mystery cropped up in a dark
cellar in the lower East Side, where
a plumber sent to repair a water leak
came upon two bundles containing
dismembered portions of a man’s
body. Identification was not estab
lished. The police were starting a
systematic search of all sewer inlets,
when a boy walking in the yard at
St. Augustine’s Roman Catholic church
noticed a bundle wrapped in a piece
of blanket. A policeman who opened
it found a portion of the lower part
of a woman’s torso. Three hours later
the manager of a motion picture the
ater in Brooklyn told the police of
finding a package under the fire es
escape. It contained a woman’s left
shoulder and arm. A finger was sev
ered. Lee wras arrested when the po
lice found human fragments in three
ash cans where ihe lived. Fred
Schmidt, who lives opposite Lee, told
the police he sawr Lee leave the build
ing twice yesterday carrying a parcel.
HOMEWARD BOUND ON THE S. S.
LEVIATHAN — PICKING U P
OTHER FLIERS
SOUTHAMPTON, Eng., July 12. (/P)
—Carrying back to the United States
his long distance air record, Clarence
Chamberlin, accompanied by Mrs.
Chamberlin, sailed for home on the
S. S. Leviathan which left for Cher
bourg to pick up Commander Byrd
and three compiafnion^. Fraulein
Thea Rasche, Germany’s only woman
licensed pilot, boarded the Leviathan
at Southampton with her little stunt
plane..
ALLEGED MURDERER
YOUNG GIRL TAKEN
INTO CUSTODY S.F.
DEATH LAYED TO CRAZED MAN.
I AC; THREE YOUTHS ARE RE
LEASED
I
SAN FRANCISCO, July 12. (£>)—;
Late yesterday afternoon the policeI
took into custody a neighbor of Ma
bel Mayer, the 15 year old girl who
yas brutally clubbed to death last j
Saturday evening. The man, said to!
be a man of the type to be respon- J
sible for the murder lives just across
the street from the Mayer home.
Neighbors tell weird tales about the
murder suspect.
CLUBBED TO DEATH
OAKLAND, July 12. (jp)—The mur
der of Mabel Mayer, 15 year old girl
who was brutally clubbed to death
Saturday night, was laid to the work
of a crazed maniac by the local po
lice. It followed the release of three
youths, all of wrhich had known Ma
bel during her short span of life.
"ANOTHER TAX CUT
SAN FRANCISCO. July 12. (/P)—
Russell L. Wolden, city and county
assessor, predicts another cut in the
tax rate. It will be the first time in
the city’s history that the tax has
been cut in two successive years.
COL i HEX HIE
UNDERTAKE FLIGHT
FORMER OFFICER OF LAFAYETTE
ESCADRILLE PLANS ROUND
TRIP N. Y. TO PARIS
NEW YORK, July 12. {/?)—'The ^er
ald-Tribune says Colonel R. Rex Ren
nee, former officer of the Lafayette
Escadrille and World war ace, an
nounced he will in September attempt
a flight to Paris and return in 24
hours. Rennee is credited with hav
ing shot down 40 planes during the
Avar. His trans-Atlantic plane will be
propelled by two special 1280 Pack
ard motors and use special fuel which
he invented. The machine will be
capable of a cruising speed of between
300 and 375 miles per hour, which ex
ceeds the plane record of 278.48 miles.
NEW DRILLING RULING
IN MEXICOJNUS IGNORED
WASHINGTON, July 12. (JP)—A
new ruling by the Mexican Depart
ment of Interior refusing an oil drill
ing permit to an American fuel com~
pany in Mexico because it was al
leged to have ignored Mexican laws
in effect. The case may have an
important bearing on America’s stand
on the oil rights question.
ARE NOT ENTITLED TO
COMPTROLLER GENERAL HOLDS
MEN CANNOT COLLECT BACK
WAGES FROM ALASKA R. R.
WASHINGTON, July 12. (A3)—'The
Alaska Railroad employes are not en
titled to retroactive wages under the
schedule promulgated last March the
Comptroller General held in the case
of J. J. Brennan, conductor and brake
man, whose pay voucher, under the
new rate for a period between Febru
ary 1925 and December, 1926, was dis
allowed. Approximately 40 other em
ploye! of the road are affected by the
ruling. The comptroller held that
Brennan had "be paid for service in
volved at a rate of compensation fixed
by a valid regulation in effect at the
time the service was rendered" and
therefore was “not entitled to any fur
ther payment therefor.”
DEADLOCKED; BOTH
ARE STANDING PIT
JAPAN CLINGING TO U. S. DE
MANDS FOR LIMITING BRIT
ISH STRENGTH
SUMMER WHITE HOUSE, RAPID
CITY, S. D„ July 12. (£>)--Great
Britain has served upon the LT. S.
at Geneva, a formal demand for the
right to maintain a vast fleet of ten
thousand tons displacement each,
it became known last night. Presi
dent Coolidge, it is understood, has
sent instructions to Hugh Gibson’,
American Representative at the meet
to tell Great Britain that her de
mands are preposterous. Negotiations
between the two nations have beea
strained almost to the breaking point
during the meet and Britains demand
to build and maintain the greatest
fleet in modern history despite the
disarmament plans which were to
curtail, rather than promote fleet
building, leaves only a glimmering
hope that the armament conference
■will meet with success.
WIFE OF Timid
PRODUCER II0PT5 CHILD
NEW YORK, July 12. (/P)—Mrs.
Flo Ziegfield, formerly Billie Burke
has decided to adopt a little girl
waif who was abandoned in a room
ing house here. Mrs. Ziegfield ex
pressed the desire to take the aband
oned child into her home at once.
She said she would like to back an.
institution for suah unfortunates^
but if she did, it would be a real
home.