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VOLUME XXII. NUMBER 178.SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, AUGUST, 22, 1927.
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ALL PETITIONS FAIL
CONDEMNED MEN REFUSE LAST
RITES OF CHURCH; SLEPT
* v THRU NIGHT SOUNDLY
-’■'STONINGTON, Maine, Aug. 22. (/P)
—Justice Harlan F. Stone of the
United States Supreme Court refused
a stay of execution in the Sacco-Van
zetti case.
REFUSE LAST RITES
BOSTON, Aug. 22. (TP)—Sacco and
Vanzetti refused last rites of the
church saying they preferred to die
as they had ilved. Prison guards re
ported the condemned men slept
soundly on what was expected to be
their last night before their execution.
Clestino Madeiros, condemned to die
at the same time, also slept well.
PETITIONS DOCKETED
WASHINGTON, Aug. 22. (TP)—Peti
fense counsel, announced Chief Jus
asking reviews of the proceedings in
the case in Massachusetts courts were
docketed in the Supreme Court.
TAFT WIRES REFUSAL
BOSTON, Aug. 22. (/P)—Michael A.
pr Musmanno, of the Sacco-Vanzetti de
tice Taft wired him his refusal on the
ice Taft wired him his refusal on the
received petition for a stay of execu
j tion because the matter was outside
of his jurisdiction. Judge Taft advis
ed him to go before one of the three
Supreme Court justices now in the
district Musmanno has appealed in
4 vain to Judge Holmes and Brandies.
BOMB IS EXPLODED
CORDOVA. Argentina, Aug. 22
(/Pi—a bomb exploded in the Ford
shops doing much damage the walls
being blown out and neighboring
houses wrecked. Scores of residents
rushed to the streets. Police believe
the outrage is connected with the
Sacco-Vanzetti protest.
MEN, WOMEN JAILED
BOSTON, Aug. 22. (TP)—Several
men and wom^n wiere arrested in
Boston Common w'hen police charged
into a group of 20 carrying placards
bearing inscriptions relative to the
Sacco-Vanzetti case.
GRIND LARCENY FILED
AGAINST SEATTLE MAN
SEATTLE, Aug. 22 (IP)— Larceny
charges have been filed against A.
Morrison and Joe Grohman, two of
three men that attacked and robbed
E. N. Foss, Alaska sourdough Friday
night and left him to die in a gas fill
ed room, where the police rescued
| the victim in a dying condition.
WIFE I! DEED PENDING
‘ INQUEST IN SHOOTING
SOUTHBEND, Wash., Aug. 22. (/p)
—Mrs. James Boreano, age 45,is in
jail pending inquest into the shooting
of her husband at home Saturday
night. Four of the couple’s six chil
dren, saw Mrs. Boreano fire three
shots into her husband after their
quarrel.
WATER NOTICE
Water will be shut off on Fourth,
Fifth and Adams streets, including the
Van Gilder hotel, Harriman and Teck
, lenberg buildings, at 9 o’clock this
! evening.
SAILOR AN STEAMER
NORTHWESTERN IS
MISTAKEN FOR MAN FILIPINO
HAD FIGHT WITH DAY PRE
VIOUSLY
SEATTLE, Aug. 22. (£>)— Mistaken
for another man and stabbed six
times in the back Lewis Storey, a
sailor on the steamer Northwestern,
was taken from the vessel when it
arrived last night, to the hospital.
Gregorio Giron, a Filipino steerage
passenger, has been arrested. Capt.
John Livingston, master of the North
western, declared the stabbing oc
curred yesterday as the ship was
nearing port. Livingston said the
day before Giron and a sailor, Nels
Nelson, had a fight on the main deck,
but were separated and promised to
refrain from further disturbances. Li
vingston declared Giron evidently
mistook Storey for Nelson and leaped
on him with a knife.
BOGOSLOF ISLAND IS
SIMILAR TO INFERNO
SAYS DANISH CONSUL
APPEARS AS THOUGH GIANT
FIRE CRACKER EXPLODED,
STATES OFFICIAL
SEATTLE, Aug. 22, (JP)— Henning
Plaun, Danish Consul, arriving here
upon return from Ust, Siberia, on a
I trading vessel, declared Bogslof Is
land looks like it 'exploded like a
giant fire cracker. “We went within
three miles of the island and the en
tire island seemed afire. Smoke and
steam is issuing from every part of
it and many huge fire crackers were
jseen. It had the appearance of an
inferno. Hundreds of sea lions were
jin the water off the island and roar
!ing as if in protest to the burning of
| their home. We could hear their
roaring six miles away. Thousands
Iof birds swarmed about the island.
The water is discolored and there
was a strong smell of sulphur in the
lair.”
SHOOTS FAMILY THEN
j TURNS GUN ON SELF
OAKLAND, Calif., Aug. 22. (JP)—
Clyde Wilcox, aged 49, a well to do,
shot and killed his daughters Patricia,
three and Cleo 10, and fatally wroud
ed his wife, after which he committed
suicide at their family home
AVIATOR IS KILLED
ST. LEWIS, Aug. 22. {#>)— Lieut.
George Stump of the 35th division
air corps at Lambert, St, Louis fly
ing field was killed and Lieut. C. C.
Hutchinson, pilot, injured seriously,
when their airplane crashed 20 miles
south of here today. Stump was a
passenger in the plane.
LETS “ROLL, PITCH"
TOGETHER, ADVISES
SENATOR FROM OHIO
SENATOR FRANK B. WILLIS
MAKES WONDERFUL IMPRES
SION WITH SEWARDITES
Sincerity, expressing a keen desire .
to be really helpful to Alaska, marked
the trend of the Hon. Frank B. Wil
lis, United plates Senator from Ohio,
remarks, at the luncheon tendered
the city Saturday from the Inter
Grill by the Seward Chamber of Com-,
merce.
Senator Willis, upon his arrival in '
the city last evening from the Inter-,
ior, was met at the depot by Mayor L. :
V, Ray, Leon Urbach, President of j
the Chamber of Commerce, and by j
numerous other citizens and personal j
friends of the Senator, and escorted
directly to the luncheon where, he
personally met others, informally.
President Urbach, presiding officer,
called upon Mr. Ray, as Mayor of Sew
ard, to officially welcome Senator
Willis. This the Mayor did in behalf
of the Chamber of Commerce, the
izens of the city and the community
as a whole. John E. Ballaine, founder
of Seward, followed Mayor Ray in
calling the attention of the Senator
to various problems in the Territory
after which, upon request from the
chair, Senator Willis took the floor.
“I desire at the very outset”, the
I Senator first remarked, ‘‘to say I
;am not here for the purpose of solving
i any problems confronting the Terri
j tory, nor am I here in an official cap
acity. I chance to be Chairman of the
; Senate Committee on Insular affairs,
and as such, am interested in Alaska.
I was also a member of a similar com
mittee during my days in the House.
I early became interested in this great
: Empire.or for the last 20 years. I am
now a friend of Alaska and so shall
continue to be.
“No one sent me here, I am paying
my own way. I am here as an Ameri
: can citizen to learn at first hand the
situation. And it has been the most
delightful trip of my life.
! “I have enjoyed the differences of
opinion as has been expressed. The
J fact you have these differences of
opinion is a matter of encouragement.
I It is the way we have worked out all
problems of the government since the
Republic was founded. And that is
the way we will work out this, togeth
er. The problem of what ought to be
done, and its outcome, is one that con
cerns all of the great American Re
public. These stalwart men and worn
ne of Alaska, and their friends in
Washington, must co-operate and do
the best we can to help solve the pro
blem.
“I recall a remark of Captain Nord,
£ou all no doubt know Captain Nord
of the steamer Aleutian. He was point
ing out to some fine ladies on bear'd
of the ideal weather on the voyage
and one of the ladies began to inter
rogate him .somewhat in this fashion.
‘You do have stormy trips, do you
not?’
‘Yes.’
‘Rough sometimes?’
‘Yes.’
‘Well, what do yon do?’
‘Just roll and ipitch.’
“So lets roll and pitch together and
work out these problems Mr. Ballaine
was good enough to ,uy I am descen
ded from pioneer stock, that I am a
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ROAD CLOSED TWO DAYS
The road at Mile 5 will be closed for
two days, tomorrow and Wednesday,
while repairs are under way.
EXPLORER DIES SELF;
OUT FROM HIICKAJHCK
E
GEOLOGIST, IN DAZED CONDI.
TION AFTER EIGHT DAYS
HARROWING EXPERIENCE
SHELLMOUND, Ten., Aug. 22. </P)
—Lawrence S. Ashley, explorer and (
geologist, lost in the Nickajack Cave
since last Monday, dug himself out
eight miles from the main entrance
on Sunday. Ashley was in a semi- j
dazed condition and declared he had
discovered a new cavern even larger
than the Mammoth Cave of Kentuc-i
ky. He was trapped from behind by
falling rock and earth after entering
the passage from -which he finally
emerged. h
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FIVE DAY SEARCH
FDR AVIATORS HAVE
PROVED FRUITLESS
NAVY MAPS OUT ANOTHER AREA
TO CONTINUE SEARCH FOR
DOLE FLIERS i
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 22. (/P)—
No word has been received from any
of the missing planes.
NO TRACE REVEALED
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 22. (£>)—
The aviation world has turned its
eyes westward with a heavy heart
I and watched aircraft, naval vessels
and merchants ships, continue an ex
tensive search in the wastes of the
Pacific for the fliers. The efforts
of 58 naval vessels aided by mer
chant craft are steering a course
aiong the 2,400 mile great circle be
tween San Francisco and Honolulu.
After a five day search, this has fail
ed to reveal any trace of the three
missing planes.
REFUSE GIVE UP HOPE
HONOLULU, Aug 22. (>P)—The
Navy mapped out another area of
Hawaiin waters to cover in search
for the missing Dole fliers. Despite
the fact that the Golden Eagle and
Miss Doran, with five persons on
'board, were five days overdue here
jand the Dallas Spirit has not yet
| been heard from since Friday nightf
'searchers refused to give up hope.
HOME MEN ILL SET TO
i PADOEE ALASKAN COAST
NOME, Aug. 22. (IP)—Frank E.
Barden, age 24, a ^Chicago newspa
perman, and Fred Yenny, age 22, a
Nome merchant are ready tb leave
for Seattle in a 15-foot* open walrus
skin boat with an outboard motor.
They expect to continue the trip to
San Francisco. The voyagers will
follow the coastline taking the inside
passage,
YACHT SOUTHBOJUND
NOME, Aug. 22. (£>)—The yacht
Northern Light left Nome on the re
turn trip after gathering specimens
! for the Chicago Field Museum.
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JACK MCCORD TELLS
OF SENATOR WILLIS'
ALASKAN ACTIVITY
PERSONAL CONTACT WITH HIM
AT WASHINGTON, D. C.t WAS
A REVELATION
(By Jack McCord)
“Big, but not too big to be great”.
We all know Senator Willis, as a
big man in his Party, and an out
standing figure in the United States
Senate, but you have to look on from
the galleries, see him in his commit
tee rooms, or request his attention to
some legislation to realize the basic
elements of his greatness.
Last year I was in Washington, in
behalf of a grazing bill for Alaska.
When the bill came up on, unani
mous consent, on calender, Senator
Willis, ever elert, rose in the Sen
ate, and stopped it by objection. I
called on him to know why he object
ed and he said, “this bill effects to
pouch territory to pass without care
ful study. I have now studied the bill
and support it.”
I noticed when the Department of
Agriculture desired an ammehdment
to the bill, they chose Senator Willis
to attend to the matter; I also noticed
that when the Secretary of Interior,
Agriculture and Commerce desired a
bill to simplify the administration
of Alaskan affairs, these three cabinet
pfficers chose Senator Willis to spon
sor the bill; he put it through by unan
imous consent But I am thinking
now of those last days of the last
Congress, in the midst of the tightest
legislative tangle known, when dis
couraged, and fighting a seemingly
losing battle. I^eame to Senator Wil
lis for /'assistance. He immediately
saw to it that the bill was placed on
Vice-President Dawes desk ready for
action. He reported back to me. anx
iously waiting in the halls, that all
Vas in readiness, and somehow or
other that bill passed.
He has earnestly assisted the farm
ers and herdsmen of the last frontier,
from whom he could receive no polit
ical assistance and he had given them
the same attention that he would give
a member of the President's Cabinet,
thereby showing himself to be truly
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great.
GOOLIDGE SUFFERING
SLIGHT INDISPOSITION
RAPID CITY, S. D., Aug. 22. (&)—
President Coolidge suffered a slight
indisposition which kept him from
church service, before leaving for a
weeks trip to Yellowstone Park. He
stayed in bed until noon with a cold.
A long fishing trip in the su.i Satur
day played a part in his indisposi
tion.
LITA CHAT CHAPLIN
IS GRANTED DIVORCE
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 22. (/P)— Lita
Grey Chaplin was granted a degree
of divorce from Charles Chaplin. Af
ter presenting brief testimony in the
Superior Court to establish the
charge of cruelty, Edwin T. MeMur
ray, Lita’s counsel, announced a pro
perty settlement will be reached out
of court.