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VOLUME XXII NUMBER 164.
SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 1927.
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KILLED OF SHERIFF
SENTENCED TD DIG
BROTHERS GET LIFE
JURY DELIBERATES BUT THREE
HOURS IN BRINGING IN VER
\ „ DICT GUILTY
VANCOUVER, Wn„ Aug. 5. (£>)—■
Luther Baker was convicted last night
and will be hanged for murdering
Sheriff Lester M. Wood while he was
leading a raid on Baker’s still May 22.
Baker’s brothers, Ellis and Lewis, also
were convicted of first degree murder
but will be sentenced to life imprison
ment, The jury deliberated three
hours.
SWIMS THE CHANNEL
DOVER, Eng., Aug. 5. (/?)—E. H.
Temme, English swimmer, succeeded
in his first attempt to swim the Eng
lish Channel, taking off at Cape Griz
nez at 12:42 this morning and landed
two miles west of Dover.
MOTIVE FOR KILLING
HOLLYWflOD OFFICIAL
BETTY GOTTLIEB SLAYS HAM
ILTON mannoVj, MOVIE MAN,
WHILE IN AUTO
HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 5. (/P)—Unre
quited love is held by the police to
have caused Betty Gottleib,, aged 25,
to slay Hamilton Mannon, aged 26, a
movie studio official and then to fire
a bullet into her own head while the
two sat in an automobile about mid
night. Mannon was dead when the
police were called by neighbors who
heard the shooting. Miss Gottleib was
slumped in the seat beside Mannon
with a wound in her head and a gun in
her right hand. She died later at the
Emergency hospital. The police re
ported that associates of Mannon’s
told them the couple had been in each
other’s company for more than a year
and recently Mannon tried to end the
friendship.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 5. (/P)— Sar
dine canning is a rapidly growing in
dustry in the United States, last
ye""U earning amounting to 143,000,
000 pounds valued at $14,500,000, the
Bureau of Fisheries of the Depart
ment of Commerce annouced. In a
statement issued by the Bureau, it is
pointed out that the American indus
try uses chiefly the 'California pil
chard and the Maine ser herring.
Following is the full text of the
statement:
Almost 4,000,000 cases, or 143,000,
000 pounds of canned sardines, valu
ed at more than $14,500,000, were
packed in 1926. Sardine canning
ranks next to that of salmon canning
in ' "nortance, and, excluding Alaska
salmon, js first among the canned
fisi oroducts of the United States.
Sardine canning is a rapidly growing
industry in the United States, due to
the increasing world demand for
low.priced food of high protein con
tent.
WATSON REFLOATED
VICTORIA, B. C., Aug. 5. (TP)—A de
i laved wireless message said the Sal
vage King had refloated the Admiral
j Watson and was towing her to Seattle.
jBEflT flCOSTO ENTERS
ML 1 DERBY
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NEW YORK, Aug. 5. (£>)—Bert
! Acosta entered the national air derby
from New York to Spokane in Septem
1 ber. Thomas Mulray, chief engineer
j of Byrd’s North Pole and trans-Atlan
; tic flights, and Charles McLean, New
York newspaperman will accompany
! him.
IIICATION APPEAL
PRISONERS SCHEDULED BE ELEC
TROCUTED NEXT THURSDAY;
ON HUNGER STRIKE
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BOSTON, Aug. 5. (JP)—Indication
that an appeal to the Supreme court
of the United States on behalf of Sac
co and Vanzatti will be made within
a short time was given at the head
quarters of the defense committee.
Gardner Jackson, a member of the
committee, said an appeal would be
taken direct to the federal court.
Sacco and Vanzetti. who are scheduled
to be electrocuted next Thursday,
slept well. Both refused breakfast.
Sacco has prolonged his hunger strike
to the 20tli day.
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CLAY, Ky., Aug. 5. (PP)—Mute evi
i dence of a frantic struggle by two
negro miners to save their lives in the
West Kentucky coal mine disaster w'as
found by rescue workers. The two
men had torn the clothing from their
bodies and stuffed it into cracks in
the entry of the room in an attempt to
shut out the poisonous air. The
bodies of 15 miners, who died as a re
sult of the explosion were brought to
the surface. No other workers are
missing.
GOOD MARKET IS SEEN
FOR NEW WREAT CROP
WASHINGTON, Aug. 5. (/P)—Des_
pile the increase in stocks on hand
and a larger crop forcast than last
year, government officials see a
whete market situation as favorable
for farmers this season as a year
ago. The domestic winter wheat
crop, reports indicate, will be^nearly
50,000,000 bushels below last year's
harvest, but the spring wheat crop
will be almost 70,000,000 bushels
larger, Possibility of smaller sur
pluses available for export from oth
er large exporting countries and con
tinued active demand from Europe
are cited as strengthening factors in
the market situation.
! FAMOUS LEADER OF
i IRISH DIES AFTER
SEVERE OPERATION
I
CONDEMNED THE GOVERNMENT’S
PRACTICE OF EXECUTING
REVOLUTIONARIES
LONDON, Aug. 6. (/P)— John Dillon.
! famous Irish leader, died in a London
Nursing Home, following a severe
abdominal operation.
John Dillon, who succeeded John
Redmond as chairman of the Irish
Nationalist party in 1918, was for
more than 30 years one of the out
standing figures in the fight for Irish
Home Rule. Almost from the day
he entered Parliment from Tipperary
in 1880 at the age of 29 years he was
iconspicious in Irish politics, begin
ning his career as a supporter of
; Charles Stewart Parnell, coadjutor
with Gladstone in starting the 'fight
for Home Rule.
Long an understudy of Redmond,
there were many who maintained
that Dillon dictated the policies of
his chief and shaped the Nationalist
party’s course for years before tak_
ing over the leaderstip dn name as
well as in fact. The brought
about many differences between the
two men, but there never was a ser
ious rupture. In all his ideas, ve
hemently, often vociferously express
ed, Dillon was regarded as the ven- •
turesome pioneer, while Redmond j
acted as a force of sober, second-day
reflection.
Dillon was a physican by training
and a politician by nature. Retiring
from Parliament in 1883, he spent
two years in California, but the
thought of a political campaign was
uppermost in his mind and the year
1885 found him back in Ireland run
ning for office. He was defeated as
member from North Tyrone, where
upon he entered the race to repre
sent East Mayo and went in by a
substantial majority.
Early in the second year of the
world war he bitterly opposed the
British government’s plan to raise
an additional 1,000,000 troops. Fail.,
ing to carry this program, he launch
ed an attack against conscription, but
I finally agreed to abide by the wishes
[of Redmond and withdrew his oppo
sition to the Military Service Bill.
In 1916 he renounced the govern
ment’s methods of dealing with the
Irish revolt and condemned the prac
tice of executing Irish revolutionar-'
ies. He was the author of several
motions in the House of Commons
urging the government to disclose
its plans for the administration of
Ireland, declaring that a decision to
hold elections on the Home Rule
question would be welcomed through
out the empire. In 1917 he attacked
the Sinn Feiners, declaring they had
alienated sympathy in the United
States for the Irish cause. In an
other speech a year later he deplored
the financial aid which the Sinn
Fein party was receiving from New
York.
Physically, Dillon was of great
height, which was accentuated by
his slenderness. His long, thin face
was covered by a full beard. His
disposition was described as melan
cholic when he entered Parliament
and his friends say it never changed.
Mr. Dillon was born in 1851. He ;
attended the Catholic University of ]
Dublin, and became a member of the <
Royal College of Surgeons upon his j
graduation. In 1895 he married Eliz. ’
abeth Mathew, daughter of Lord i
Justice Mathew. She died in 1907. i
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Philadelphia 5-3, Pittsburg 8-7.
New York 4, Cincinnati 1.
Boston 4, Chicago 5.
Brooklyn 4, St. Louis 2.
* AMERICAN LEAGUE
St. Louis 1-2 Washington 5-11.
Chicago 1, Boston' 2.
Cleveland 3, Philadelphia 0.
Detroit 6, New York 2. N
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Seattle 8, Sacramento 3.
San Francisco 0, Missions 4.
Portland 3,’ Hollywood 2.
Los Angeles 3, Oakland 4.
EUROPEAN AVIATORS
SET NEW ENDURANCE
FLIGHT MARK WOULD
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SMASH CHAMBERLIN’S AND ACOS-;
TA’S RECORD BY ONE HOUR
AND EIGHTEEN MINUTES
DESSAU, Aug. 5. (J-P)—Cornelius
Edzard and Johan Ristiez brought
their Junker plane to earth at 10:13
o’clock this morning after establish
ing a world’s endurance flight with a ;
record of 52 hrs. 29 mins. The former j
record was 51 hours and 11 minutes j
held by Chamberlin and Acosta. Ed-:
i
zard and Ristiez began their flight at j
5:50 Wednesday morning.
frenchTviator gets
NEW CONTRACT LEVINE
—
PARIS, Aug. 5. (/P)—a new contract'
covering Maurice Drouhin’s partici-1
pation in a Paris to New York flight.
with Levine’s Columbia monoplane
will be presented to Levine soon. The
contract was drafted by attorneys of (
the two men. It is understood to have !
provided for the establishment of Le
vine of insurance of 300,000 francs in ^
favor of Drouhin’s family/
FEWER HUNTERS FOR
BIG GAME IS NOTED
LONDON, Aug. 5. (/P)—Big gam,e
hunting has largely died out, in the
opinion of J. B. Burlace, taxidermist,
who presides over the “Jungle” at
Rowland Ward’s where the spoils of
famous animal hunters are mounted.
“It is largely to the men who
went into the wilderness as hunters
and adventurers that the spread of
cur Empire is due”, he said, “but
the race of big game hunters seems
to be dying out nowadays.”
A large proportion of the skins
brought in to the “Jungle” for mount
ing are of animals shot by foreign
sportsmen, Burlace said. Mounting
;he stuffed bodies of big game is
considered a specialist’s job. The
art is often handed down from father
;o son.
HOBO REPAYS KINDNESS
MARSHFIELD, Ore.. Aug. 5. (£>)—
\ letter has come to Mrs. Sarah
Jaughton of Myrtle Point informing
ler that 24 years ago when the writ
er was passing her home, afoot and
ired, she gave him some sandwiches,
rwo dollars were enclosed to convey
he one time hobo’s appreciation of 3
he favor. 1
JUHEMGHN DELEGATE
LABORED UNDER MISAPPREH EN
SION REGARDING VALUE ARM
ED MERCHANT SHIPS
GENEVA, Aug. 5. (/P)—Hugh Gib
son, American chief delegate to the
naval arms conference, evidently la
bored under a misapprehension in
making statements regarding the val
ue of armed merchant ships, Admiral
Jellicoe, former commander of the
British Grand fleet, declared. A con
verted merchant ship is for defense of
trade and not to attack, Jellicoe said.
Gibson, in statements on the offensive
power of converted merchant ships,
referred to Jellicoe as an authority.
Jellicoe explained that the type of
armed merchant ships he referred to
as offensive ships were German raid
ers of war which were disguised men
of war with guns carefully concealed.
WIRELESS SYSTEM
SEND PHOTOGRAPHS
COMPLETE MESSAGE
RADIO CORPORATION AMERICA
MAKES STARTLING COMMU
NICATION ANNOUNCEMENT
NEW YORK, Aug. 5. (TP)—A wire
less transmission system enabling
photographs and complete messages
to be sent across the ocean at ten
times greater speed than at present
will be in operation within a month
between New York and London the
Radio Corporation of America an
nounced. It will adopt the short wave
method. The corporation officials ex
pressed the belief that within three
years they would link the world’s
leading cities by radio communication
on a fac simile basis.
PENNIES START FIRE
NORFOLK, Neb., Aug. 5. (£>)—Two
pennies, substituted for fuse plugs
set fire to the Frank Schinkus home
here by causing a short circuit.
Firemen put out the blaze and start
ed a campaign for “penniless fuse
blocks.”
SMUGGLERS OF SILK
AND SUGAR ACTIVE
BRITISH COAST GUARD ATTEMPT
ING TO CURB EXTENSIVE
OPERATIONS NEAR SUSSEX
CHICHESTER, Eng., Aug. 5. (£>)—
The shades of Captain Avery and the
Chouans of La Vendee and those
other “grand old smugglers” hang
over the white coasts of Sussex, for
in these black nights which descend
on the English Channel smuggling
?oes on as it has for centjuries.
British coast guards are attempting
;o curb extensive smuggling opera
:ions which have been making head
way in the neighborhood of Selsey
3|11, Sussex. Signal lights have been
seen off the coast, answering signal
ights have been detected from the
lills, and strange men appear in the
owns and villages hereabouts.