MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXIII. NUMBER 53. SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, MARCH 5, 1928.
PRICE TEN CENTS
h FIVE MEN KILLED
HOME-MADE PL®
ALL VICTIMS TERRIBLY CUT
PLANE NOSE-DIVED 300 FT.
TELESCOPED
SAN DIEGO, Cal., March 5, (£>) —
Five men were killed when a home-,
made experimental monoplane in
which they were traveling, nosed-j
j
dived 300 feet to the earth. They
were thrown against the engine
which telescoped through the frame-j
work ?s it crushed.
All but one man was dead when ^
taken froTi the wreckage and he died
a few minutes 1:,.'er without regain-!
ing consciousness. All the victims'
v\eie terribly cut.
The dead are W. W. Bird, pilot :
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Ralph Craig, Chester Kidwe11, C.n
ford Dill and Urvin Thomas.
i
When the plane left the airpn*,
against regulations, having been pro
nounced unairworthy, the passen
gers knew pilot and builder Bird bad
been refused a pilot’s license.
APIA. Samoa, Mar. 5. </P)—Four
hundred members of the Mau, or Lea
gue of Samoa, were sentenced to serve
sii months in prison, for attempting
to boycott local European stores, as a
means of embarrassing the Govern
ment.
The Mau has objected to the Admin- j
istration on the grounds that the Sa-!
moans should be granted more voice
in the Government, and that prohibi-j
tion should not be enforced in the is
lands when it is not enforced in New
Zealand, the home Government coun.
try.'
' MEETING BISHOP ROWE
m BE ORDAINED IS
MINISTER OF GOSPEL
TANANA. Mar. 5. (JP)—R. G. Fuller
ton in charge of the Indian' Mission
above Tanana left the Mission Thurs
day for a brief visit to Fairbanks. It
»3 expected that Fullerton’s trip to
Fairbanks is to meet the Right Rev
j^erend Peter Trimble Rowe, Episcopal
Bishop of Alaska, who is due in Fair
banks soon and where he will be or
dained as a minister of the gospel in
connection with his duties as mission
ary at the Mission.
t) RAILROAD HEAD DIES
t WILMINGTON, Mar. 5. (#)—John
R. Kenly, president of the Atlantic
Coast-lines Railroad, died at his home.
LINDBERGH TAKES OFF
WASHINGTON. March 5, (/P)—
Colonel Chas. A. Lindbergh, with
four companions, hopped off for an
unannounced destination. A broken
tail skid prevented an earlier start.
WALSH ASSENTS TO
ENTRY DEMOCRATIC
HAS NO CAMPAIGN PLANS ANC
NO THOUGHT OF QUITTING
DUTIES FOR CANDIDACY
WASHINGTON, Mar. 5. Sena
tor Walsh said while lie assented t<
the entry of his name in the Democrat
ic Presidential preference primaries
in Wisconsin, S. Dakota and Californn
he had no campaign plans and pc
thought “of quitting my duties here t<
promote my candidacy, if such it mai
be called.”
MacAdoo confirmed the announce
ment to his friends that he had t.<
fight in California for Walsh but pre
dieted Walsh would have a Californi;
delegation.
MISS ELDER RECEIVES MEDAL
ALBANY, N. Y., Mar. 5. (/P)—Rutl
Elder received from State Senator J
Griswold Wobb, the medal of the
Spanish Legion of Honor, conferee
upon her by King Alfonso, for her at
tempted trans-Atlantic flight.
CONFESSES TO SLAYING TWO
SONS THEN ATTEMPTS DO
WAY WITH SELF
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| INDIANA HARBOR, George Chis
j holm, who confessed to slaying his
| two sons, attempted suicide after he
| had been brought here from Chicago.
Threatened mob violence was res
! ronsible for his removal here from
| the Chicago jail. He attempted
| suicide with the prong of a belt
buckle with which he pierced his
11 throat.
'I Following the attempt he pleaded
, i
’ j with the guard “to let me die. I told
L everything. Let me go.” He wept
' hysterically.
lilL uUlflrHmLJ LUURHd
NEV YORK, Mar. 5. (/Pi—The New
York Times said that reports have
j reached Wall Street that preliminary
conversation has taken place between
interests representing the Standard
Oil Co., of Indiana and the Gulf Oil
Corporation, looking toward possible
consolidation of the two companies
which have combined assets of nearly
$1,000,000,000.
Strange voc*uous in leimmne workers will be demonstrated
in Chicago at the Woman’s World Fair in May. Miss Florence
Ethelyn Schell, Chicago blacksmith and worker in wrought iron,
will show some of her work.
HAS FILL LONG FLIGHTS
NEW YORK, Mar. 5. (£>)—‘Tm not
contemplating any more long flights,
I want to return to private life”, was
what Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh
said during an interview.
SEPPALA TO FIGHT
D1PTHERIA UNDER
AUSPICES SITE
- |
; TAKING PART IN PROMOTION OF
PROJECT PROTECT CHIL
DREN FROM MENACE
_
NEW YORK, March 5, (^—Leon
ard Seppala will again drive his
huskies in a fight against diptheria
but this time under the auspices of
the State Charities and Aid Asso
elation.
He will take part this week in the
promotion of a five-year project ».r.
protect children from deptheria. He
will drive seven huskies during the
series and will be accompanied by
I Mrs. Elizabeth Ricker, who recently
! defeated him in a race.
ACTRESS ENTERS PRISON
I SAN QUENTIN, Mar. 5. (/P)—Doro
! thy Mackay, actress who was sen
tenced to a three year prison term for
: withholding evidence in connection
with the death of her husband, Ray
Raymond, entered this prison.
ItI LESTHER HELMETS
1 FOUND BY FISHERMEN
IN CHESAPEAKE BAY
NORFOLK, March 5, (IP)— Fisher
men have found twro leather aviators
helmets in the surf a short distance
from the spot where wreckage from
the missing navy amphibian plane
was picked up. Officials believe the
helmets are those belonging to Com
mander Ellyson and Schmidt, or of
RaDsehousen.
ILL HOPE HONED
FOR MISSING FLIERS
WASHINGTON, Mar. 5. (/P)—Seere
taryWilbur said that the hope of find
ing Commander T. G. Ellyson, Lieut.
Commander Hugo Schmidt, and Lieut.
Rogers Ransehousen, missing naval
aviators, is fast waning,
It is believed that the plane, in
which the three men wmre flying to
Annapolis, fell into Horn Harbor.
TO SIGN BOXING BILL
TRENTON, N. J., Mar. 5. (^—Box
ing bouts to a decision probably will
be held in New Jersey soon. The
State Senate passed the Altman bill
permitting 15 round decision bouts,
and Governor Moore is expected to
sign the bill.
PROHIBITION BE
DEFIIE ISSUE
COMING CAMPAIGN
DRY CONVENTION UNDER WAY
IN FLORIDA, LAND OF THE
LIME JUICE
ST. PETERSBURG. Fla., March 5,
(/P)—Prohibition, as a deiinite issue
in the 1928 Presidential campaign in
the South, was placed squarely be
fore the Anti-Saloon League officials
attending the dry convention of nine
Southern States.
This was voiced in an address an
nounced as an official expression of
the leagues attitude toward the can
didates. Bishop James Cannon, told
the session the nomination of Gov
ernor’s Smith and Ritchie, and that
cf Senator Reed, would be “the
greatest calamity that could befall
the Democratic Party."
He called upon the Dry Southern
Democrats to hold the party leaders
strictly to account if a Wet should
be named.
1 MOSCOW, Mar. 5. (£>)—Revival of
the dead and extension of human life
to its utmost potential duration, pro
bably far beyond the century mark,
are held possible by Prof. Feodore
Andreiff, noted Biologist.
Speaking at the Polytechnical Musr
eum, Prof. Andreiff described some
of the results of 20 years of experi
I
mentation by himself and a group of
colleagues which led him to hold out
the hope, or threat, of prolonged hu
I
man life.
The experiments have been conduct
ed upon animals, and upon human,
corpses. /
BE FUTHEfl DEAD DDES
INDIANA HARBOR, Mar. 5. (/P)—
George Kavach, alias George Smith,
arrived for questioning after Kavach’s
landlord had identified the bodies of
the two boys taken from Indiana Har
bor ship canal as those of two of Kav
ach’s three children.
FUNERAL SERVICE TODAY
Funeral services for Edward Aug
ust Thede, oldtime and respected cit
izen of Seward who died Friday nito
after a prolonged illness, were to be
held this afternoon at 2:30 o’clock
under the auspices of the local Pio
neers of Alaska lodge. The account of
the funeral will appear in tomorrow’s
issue.