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VOLUME XXII. NUMBER 231
SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22,1927.
PRICE TEN CENTS
AMERICAN ENGINEERS, AFTER
MANY YEARS RESIDENCE,
FORCED TO LEAVE
MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Oct. 22. (/P)
—Conditions in the northern part of
Nicaragua are going from banditary
into insurrection say reports from gov
ernment sources and published in lo
cal papers. The papers agree with
the accounts given by American en
gineers who have been forced to leave
the region after many years spent
there. The number of bands of socall
ed insurrectionests are increasing.
JUNE SHELDON, BORN
IN NOME, HAS HONOR
UNFURLING NLASKN FLAG
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SEATTLE, Oct, 22. (/P)— Jane Shel- j
don, born at No-me, unfurled the Alas- |
ka Territorial flag, designed by Ben- j
nie Benson, Seward schoolboy, at the j
Seattle Chamber of Commerce an- j
niversary of the (purchase of Alaska. :
At the luncheon, Edward W. Allan,
well known Seattle attorney and stu
dent of Alaska history, spoke on the
limitless millions held in the Alaskan
matrix.
VISITORS TO pm
Mlf REAR 010 ORGAN
BERLIN, Oct. 22. (!■P)—Tourists vis
iting the Bavarian city of Passau of
late have had an opportunity on Sun
days to hear one of the world’s largest
pipe organs which' is in the city’s
cathedral. The organ has 16,000 pipes
and 208 stops. The 1600th anniver
sary of the consecration of the cathe
dral will be celebrated this month,
when a local holiday will be declared
and the vast collection of the cathe
dral’s historic treasures will be placed
on exhibition.
TRANSPORT OF GOLD OK
AIRPLANES INCREASING
LONDON, Oct. 22. (/P)—Transport
of gold bullion between London and
European capitals by airplane is be
coming more and more common.
This new mode of transport is
cheaper than by sea and the saving
in time compensates the banks for the
transport cost and insurance by re
ducing the interest charges by many
days.
All pilots and mechanics of air
planes carrying gold cargoes are arm
ed with revolvers. If a forced land
ing has to be made the help of local i
police is immediately obtained to j
guard the machine until its consign
ment is transferred to the nearest
bank.
EXPECT LONGER LIVES
LONDON, Oct. 22. (JP)—The ex
pectation of life for a child born in
England today is 17 years longer
than it was for a child born in 1846,
according to a report of Sir George
Newman, chief medical officer of
the Minister^ of Health.
REIGN OF TERROR
DUE KIDNAPPING
SWEEPS CHINESE
TWENTY RICH CHINESE MER.
CHANTS, BANKERS, PROFES
SIONAL MEN, KIDNAPPED
SHANGHAI, Oct. 22. (/P)—A reign
of terror has swept the wealthy Chin
ese districts of the international set
tlement during the last 48 house the
result of 20 kidnappings of rich Chin,
ese merchants, bankers, and profes
sional men. The authorities are una
ble to cope with the situation because
of the families of the victims who are
fearful of the rebels and refuse to
supply information.
CARDINAL DIES
DUBLIN, Oct. 22. (JP)—Patrich Car
dinal O’Donnell, Primate of Ireland,
died after a long illness from double
pneumonia.
ONE PARIS COURT DAT
FOR AMERICAN DIVORCES
PARIS, Oct. 22. (>P)—Americans
seeking divorces in French courts are
becoming more and more numerous
despite the discouraging attitude of
judges who of recent months have
been adhering more and more rigidly
to the exact letter of the law.
So many apparently bona fide appli
cations are now before the tribunal
of the Seine that the presiding judge
has been compelled to set one day
aside one day a week for hearings on
American applications alone.
GRAND RAPIDS lllffl
PICKS NEW TRDLLEYS
CLEVELAND, Oct. 22. (JP)—’fhe
public picks the colors for its street
cars in Grand Rapids, Mich. Its every
preference has been consulted in the
rejuvenation of the city’s trolley set^
vice, and the success of the Grand
Rapids Railway Co., in “making it
stylish to ride in street cars” has won
it the Charles A. Coffin prize, annual
ly awarded to the electric railway com
pany contributing most to the ad
vancement of local transportatioo.
The prize, consisting of $1,000 and a
gold medal, was awarded today at
the convention of the American Elec
tric Railway Association.
TEXIS OIL WILDCAT
BRINGS
SAN ANGELO, -Texas, Oct. 22. (ZP) j
—The faith of P. H. Williams in
Crocker County oil has had its re
ward in his sale of a 244-acre lease
that he acquired from L- P. Powell
for $10 an acre for a consideration
df $500,000 to the Cushing Refining
& Gasoline Co., of Cushing, Okla.
The deal included a producer that
‘he brought in June 3 which since
has averaged 500 barrels production
of 32.5 gravity oil.
Williams conceived the theory of
a southern nose to Powell field and
bought the lease, more than a mil-}
from production, on Nov. 10, 1026.
NET APPEARS TO
TIGHTER ABOUT
TALL AND SINCLAIR
LAWYERS FOR THE DEFENSE BE
COME MOST PERSISTENT IN
CROSS EXAMINATION
WASHINGTON, Oct. 22. (^—Slow
ly but persistently the special govern
ment oil counsel is weaving a web in
which they hope Fall or Sinclair, or j
both, will take the witness stand in
the oil conspiracy trail in the iDstrict
of Columbia Supreme Court,
Their plan of campaign began to de
velop clearly as they again blocked
the defense counsel in repeated ef
forts to explain away or weaken the
Government’s case by carrying the
prosecution of witnesses on cross ex
amination far beyond the fields open
ed by direct examination.
The lawyers for the defense became
most persistent in their cross exami
nation of K. C. Heald, former Govern
ment geologist, about the report he
made to Fall that there was no im
mediate extensive drainage on the
Teapot Dome. The Government coun
sel stipulated the report offered only
to show such a report was made to
Fall who contended the danger of
drainage was the impelling cause of
leasing the Teapot Dome to Sinclair.
I
HEAVE ROCKS AT MINE GUARDS
AND DARE THEM TO COME
OUT AND START SOMETHING
WALSENBRG, Oct. 22. (^-Wo
men headed the I. W. W. picket forces
in <the coal fields and dared the mine
guards to start something as they
hurled stones at them. The men re
mained in automobiles while the wo
men took the offensive. The 40 per
sons who were arrested sang an I. W.
W. song almost continuously. Mining
is practically at a standstill.
REGREATI01 IN WILDS
IS CHILD'S RIGHTS
MEMPHIS, Oct. 22. (/P)—'The mod
ern soul is starving to be Leather
stocking in the school of the woods,
Dr. William G. Vinal of the State Col
lege of Forestry, Syracuse, N. Y., told
the national congress of the Play
ground and Recreation association to
day in an address on nature play.
“The chances in the city of liberat
ing the instincts of tree climbing, cave
hiding, stone throwing and brook wad
ing are reduced to a minimum,” he
said. “Someone is needed to give the
city boy and girl substitute nature op
portunities.’
MINES OF BOULDER
BLACK HAWK, Coo., Oct. 22. (;P)
—W. M. Muehow, of Evans ion; 111.,
accompanied by parties interested
with him "in the San Juan, and other
mining properties on Quartz hill,
spent several days here the first of
the week attending to business mat
ters and looking over cheir holdings.
AIM FAILS 111
SECOliD ATTEMPT TO
MAKE OCEAN FLIGHT!
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PLANE FLIES 12 MILES AND UNA-j
BLE TO RISE FROM WATER
BUT FEW FEET
OLD ORCHARDS, Oct. 22. (^—Aft
er a second false start for Copenhagen
Mrs. Grayson said “we just couldn’t
fly down the winds”. After the plane
flew 12 miles out it returned after it
was unable to rise only a few yards
above the water. She said she might
again late today but doesn’t like
to fly two nights.
BROUGHT TO LIGHT
LONDON, Oct. 22. (&)—'The casual
removal of some ivy has disclosed
the ruined and forgotten tower of a
once famous Canterbury Pilgrims
Chapel in Brentwood, Essex.
STEEL DRESSES FOR
MILADY BEING SHOWN
LONDON, Oct. 22. (/P)—Milady may
boon be buying her gowns from the
United States and Bethlehem Steel
Companies. The Shipping, Engineer
ing and Mechanical Exhibition at the
Olypmia is showing fabrics made from
steel which are as fine as the finest
muslin. But steel dresses will proba
bly be delayed for some time, as the
cost of manufacturing is still prohibi
tive.
BLUE POPP! SOUGHT
IN WILDS OF INDIA
KARACHI, India, Oct. 22. (£>)—An
expedition is on its way from England
to .search for a blue poppy in the
northwest frontier mountains of India.
The head of the team will be Capt.
Kingdon Ward, noted explorer and
naturalist, who has already made
journeys into China and Thibet to
search for unknown plants.
“Blue poppies are by no means un
known,” says Captain Ward, “but
they are very rare. We shall search
for mountain plants and fauna of all
kinds and wre shall be away from Eng
land about a year.”
FLIPPERS OF FRH !
USE DOUBLE IHAKEUP
PARIS, Oct. 22. </P)—It takes two j
,coats of lipstick to make the up-to- j
•the-minute Parisian flapper a per- j
feet product. The first coat is mere
priming and is a salve applied for i
the same reasons filler is put on raw j
oak. The second coat dees the work i
and perfects the color. It is darker
than the fountation salve.
Good lipstick, says a prominent j
manufacturer of feminie make-up, ^
should not come off on napkins or
tV- boy friends' cheek.
KING TUT WINNER
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 22. (£>)—King
Tut, Minneapolis lightweight, batter
ed his way through 10 rounds of fu
rious and bloody fighting here last
night to a decision over Stanislaus
Loayza, Chilean boxer.
HI GEO. PARKS
DEDICATES STATUE
AT TRANSFER SPOT
“ALASKANS SHOULD BE REMIND
ED OF PRIVILEGES WE EN
JOY”, DECLARES PARKS
SITKA, Oct. 22. (/P)—A monument
marking the spot where the actual
transfer of Alaska from Russia to the
United States 60 years ago, was dedi
cated by Governor Parks. As the
memorial was unveiled the Governor
said Alaskans should be reminded of
the “privileges we enjoy and possibili
ties we have assumed as citizens of
the United States.”
BANKER PRESENTS T01
MARTEL, Neb., Oct. 22. (£>)—Altho
he has no children of his own, William
H. Moore, Martel bank cashier, built
a modern shcool house entirely with
his own money and presented it to the
school district. The district previous
ly had but one school, and it was so
crowded that a new building was bad
ly needed. When a disagreement
arose as to where the structure should
be located, Moore, hoping to prevent
ill-feeling in the community, made his
offer and carried it out.
MUSI BUS HOI
Bn FRATERNITY GRAFT
HART, Mich., Oct. 2. (IP)—Square,
level and compass of Masonry meant
something more .than symbols to hf
Briggs Mitchell of Hart. After be
coming a Mason he constructed his
home from attic to cellar in accord
ance with the craft of his fraternity.
Applying, as he believed, the prin
ciples of Masonry and its instruments
of labor, and laying out his work on
his trestle-board, Mitchell hewed,
sawed and hammered his comfortable
six-room home into shape.
ENGINE TOOTS WOKE
PIS SUBURBANITES
PARIS, Oct. 22. (IP)—Life at Levall
ois-Perret, a suburb of Paris, is just
one locomotive whistle after another,
and the inhabitants protest that they
haven’t had a peaceful night’s sleep
in 10 years.
Three thousand locomotives pass
under the signal bridges in the suburb
every 24 hours, coming in and out of
Paris. Some of them stop to take on
coal, -which gives them additional op
portunity to -whistle. In their protests
to the railroad, the inhabitants estim
ated that each locomotive whistled at
least five times on every visit to Le
vallos-Perret, making 15,000 screeches
a day, more than 10 a minute.
FACES COURT MARTIAL
SANA ANTONIO, Oct. 22. (/P)—
Cadet Elmer P. Rose today faced a
general court martial here on a
charge of manslaughter, growing out
of his alleged careless handling of
his plane.