VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 143.
SEWARD, ALASKA. THURSDAY, JUNE 20 1929.
PRICE TEN CENTS
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THREE OF 44 CAPTURED THREE
HOURS LATER; OTHERS IN
BOTTOM LAND
BRAZORIA, Tex., June 20, (A5)—
Forty-four convicts kidnapped,
three guards at the prison farm
an£ escaped. A few hours later
three of them were captured; two
after they had been shot by a cat
tleman living near the farm. The,
others are believed scattered and |
i: is thought that they fled to the ,
underbrush in the Brazos river bot- |
toms.
A convict secured a pistol in an
unknown manner and held up the
guard inside hte barracks and took
his shotgun With the aid of an- ,
ether they overpowered two more j
guards. Then the ringleader un-1
hackeled the men in the barracks |
and invited all wishing to flee to
make a dash for freedom.
The others sat around about an
hour, fearing to gave an alarm.
Finally, a trusty entered, pulled the
alarm bell calling the guards to
other portions of the farm.
COG-RAGING RETT
DIVES HI RAIDED
CHICAGO, June 20. (/P)—Three
raids, which the United States
States Attorney Office described
as smashing blows at the dog-rac
ing rackett were executed simul
taneously.
Tracks said to be operated by
Moran and others of Chicago
syudicates were raided and three
machine guns confiscated. The
authorities said the raids had
put a definite stop to the rack
eit for good.
GALVESTON. June 20. (JP)—Miss
Lisle Goldarbeiter, beautiful blue
eyed Austrian brunette, barely
out of her teens, wears the crown
of “ Miss Universe. ” She is
the daughter of an Austrian mer
chant from the city of Vienna
and won the prize of $2,000 over
34 American beauties and 9 for
eign damsels, in the International
Pageant.
DIRECTOR STARTLES
HEARERS IT REARING
new YORK, June 20. (£>)—
Ralph Jonas, director of the Mu
tual Trust Company which or
ganized to take over the defunct
City Trust Company and pay
its depositors, startled his hear
ers at Moreland Commission bank
hearing, when he refused to de
clare definitely whether Mu
tual could perform this service
or not.
THROWS IN HAT
WASHINGTON, June 20. UP)—
The Department of Justice has
thrown its weight into the trea
stop the flow of liquor across the
Canadian border at Detroit and
vicinity.
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GUARD KILLED COLLISION
NEW YORK, June 20. (/P)—Ed
ward Brannan,. 25, a guard, was
killed and scores were injured in a
rear-end collision on the Interbor
ough elevated structure between
West 112th and West 113th streets.
ACUTE DISTRESS
FLOOD DISTRICT
BRITISH HUM
THOUSANDS STARVING IN SYH •
LET; RESOURCES ARE EX
HAUSTED
SYHLET ASSAM, British India,
•Tune 20, (/P)—Acute distress pre
vailed thru the Syhlet and Cachar
districts where the water is rising
fwo feet daily. Communication is
cut off. The suddenness of the
flood created a panic among the
llagers living on the river sides.
They were forced to abandon their
cattle and property and flee to the
hills. The Dhalaia valley is flood
ed and a number of deaths are re
ported. '
To add to the terrors, cholera
broke cut over an area of 500,000
by 500 mile square which has 1,750,
000 inhabitants. Thousands are
starving in Syhlet; resources are
exhausted and begging is prevalent.
NO AGREEMENT REACHED
MEXICO CITY. June 19, (/Pi
Striking students of the National
University who had seized the main
building of the institution and ran
up a red flag over it, agreed to
evacuate peacefully. No agreement
was reached on the student’s de
mand for resignation of the rector
of the university.
REPARATIONS APPROVED
PARIS, June 20. (/P)—The cabinet
in a meeting, unanimously approv
ed of the Young reparations plan
evolved at a recent conference of
experts here. It decided to take
steps for a ratification in conjunc
tion with other interested govern
ments.
SALVAGE GUNBOAT
SHANGHAI, June 20. (A5)—A
Japanese salvage concern has re
floated the United States gun
boat “Luzon” which went ashore
on a breaker near Wooshun. The
gunboat used its own steam to get
as far as Shanghai but imme
diately went on drydock for re
pairs.
PATROL BOATS BUSY
HALIFAX, June 20. UP)—United
States ice patrol boats have chart
ed more icebergs in the North
Atlantic this year than has been
observed any year since 1912
when the Titanic sank.
384 WERE KILLED
WASHINGTON, June 20. UP)—
Three hundred and eighty-four
persons were killed in 1,122 air
plane accidents in the United
States during 1928 according to an
official statement. Seven hun
dred and nine were injured while
1,213 escaped.
MUST PAY SOMETIME
PARIS, June 20. UP)—Former
finance minister Caillaux, leader
of radicals, urged acceptance of
tleing the French war debt to
the United States, saying that if
France does not pay now, she
will have to pay more in the long
run.
■HI OF HURT
II. S.
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WASHINGTON. June 20, (/P)—
The nomination by President Hoo
ver of Julius H. Hart, United States
attorney to the Second Division of
Alaska, was unconfirmed by the
senate and the nomination will
therefore lapse under the rules that
all nominations not acted upon be
fore the recess will be returned to
the President.
There was some speculation as
to whether President Hoover under
the regulations will be permitted to
give the recess appointment to Hart
and two others not acted upon
Should he desire to do so there is
no reason given for the failure to
act upon the Hart appointment.
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NATIONAL LEAGUE
Pittsburgh 6; Cincinnati 5.
New York 15-12; Phillies 14-6
| Chicago 7-11; St. Louis 3-3.
Boston 8-9; Brooklyn 3-0.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Detroit 8; Cleveland 3.
New York 13; Boston 2.
St. Louis 5; Chicago 2.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Oakland 5; Seattle 3.
Sacramento 11-1; Portland 0-5.
Hollywood 9; Los Angeles 8.
Portland 5; Sacra*n»°nto 1.
San Francisco 5; Missions 3.
STOP SIGNS FOR FISH
YAKIMA, Wash. June 19. (A5)— j
Even the fish are going to have;
to obey electric stop signs. Elec- j
trie stops are being installed in
many of the irrigation canals
! of the Yakima Valley to pre
vent game fish from swimming
| into them and dying during per
iods of extremely low water.
DENIES OWNERSHIP
WASHINGTON, June 20. (/P)—A.
R. Graustein, president of the
International Paper and Power
Co., denied that his firm owned
newspapers throughout the United
States.
COL. LINDBERGH
FROM HONEYMOON
PLANES MUST BE MADE SAFER
AND EASIER TO HANDLE FOR
UNIVERSAL FLYING
MITCHELL FIELD, N. Y„ June 20
(ZP)—Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh
came out of their honeymoon seclu
sion to witness the first tests of
the $150,000 competition being held
by the Daniel Guggenheim Fund
Protection for aeronautics in the
hope of discovering a “fool proof’
airplane.
Both posed for news pictures and
Oolone1 Lindbergh told the report
ers ‘that while aviation was on a
sound footing commercially, planes
must be made far safer and easier
to handle than at present before
the day of universal flying could
dawn
ORGANIZE TO COMBAT
MTERIII1 FLY
SACRAMENTO, June 20. UP)—
Californa fruitgrowers, business
men, state officials and transpor
tation representatives organized
here to protect this state from
the Mediterranean Fruit Fly. A
proceedure was laid down and
arrangements were made to ask
the Federal government to con
duct an extensive research into
the fruit fly problm.
MILLIONAIRE DEVOTES FORTUNE SLUM BOYS
Making airplanes is part of the fun poor Chicago
I boys have in the club houses provided by L. L. Valentine,
| wealthy furniture manufacturer, shown below with two
I of his proteges
MAIDIE IN THE LEAD WITH
COLE’S JAZZ CLOSE RUNNER
UP
f ABOARD SNOHOMISH, June 20.
(/P)—The yachts, in the capitol to
capitol race, are slowly beginning
’o converge with the Maidie in the
’ead and the Jazz creeping up. By
6 o’clock last night all were expect
ed to pass the1 half way point.
At seven Tuesday all but the
Marlin had passed Milbank Sound.
The Marlin may have skirted the
j course. At 7 o’clock the Mary Arm
I had just started across with the
>utter Snohomish.
The Class and the Blonde were 60
miles north of Milbank at 1 o’clock
;n the afternoon and the Koyoia
was crossing Milbank Sound at 5
'o’clock. The Bolinder was in
Klemtu Pass at 4 o’clock the Wini
fred at Swanson Bay at 7, but tU§
Wittiwake and the Jazz’s exact lo
locations were unknown at 7 o’
: clock.
{HUGE BUNK MERGER
UNITES MILLIONS
SAN FRANCISCO, June 19, </P)
iThe merger of the Crocker First
{National Bank and the American
iTrust Co., involving resources m e:%~
rp*s r-i $400,000,000, was voted 07
the directors of both institutions,
live Crocker First National Tru:;
i Co., will be included in the merger
,the directors ancunced. Details will
be worked out and submitted to he
| stockholders for final approval.
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} WASHINGTON, June 20, (#)—De
partment of commerce records cov
jering 151 motor vehicle makers in
the United States show that 570,086
!more passenger automobiles] were
| produced during the first four
months this year than last.
If the same rate of increase is
maintained the total production of
this type of car in 1929 will be ap
proximately 5,500,000 compared
with 3,827,849 in 1928. There is a
correspeonding increase in the cur
rent production of motor trucks.
TILE EXCAVATORS
UNCOVER ANCIENT
SYRIAN REMNANTS
DAMASCUS, Syria, June 20. (JP)
—A Greek papyrus, the first dis
covered in Syria; three parch
ments, all as yet undeciphered;
! a wooden panel with a rare
; painting of Victory, graffiti and
! small sketches of Parthian horse
men, have been dug up by the
Yale Expedition which has been
site of ancient Doura, 20 miles
from the frontier of Irak.
The expedition, headed by Mr.
; Clark Hopkins, professor of class
ics at Yale, and Mr. Jotham John
son also of Connecticut, has been
at work in the old Syrian city
I for five months .