MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXIII. NUMBER 48. SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY .FEBRUARY 28, 1928.
PRICE TEN CENTS
LOS ANGELES ON
ITS LONGEST HOP
FORMER 2R-3 HOLDS RECORD
FOR LONGEST NONSTOP
AIR VOYAGE
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28. (&)—
Sailing over Southern waters in a;
nonstop flight from Lakehurst, N. J.
to the Panama Canal Zone, the air '
ship Los Angeles was reported by the
Navy Department being three-miles
off the south point of Negri! Point,
Jamaica. This would place the ship
6i2. miles from it’s destination.
The start of the flight was unan
nounced. The dirigible is attempting
the longest journey since flown from
Germany as the ZR-3.
This trip is approximately 2200.'
miles mostly over water. The air-!
craft should reach the France field,
at Havana, tonight at S o’clock, east
ern time.
ARRIVES AND DEPARTS
FRANCE FIELD, Canal Zone. Feb.
(/P)—The dirigible Los Angeles
aruved last night completing the sec
ond longest nonstop flight in her
toiy. Siie took olf this morning ou
«U return flight, with a stop at Cuba.!
SMITE PISSES M ■
APPROPRIATIONS BILL :
ISOS TWO MILLIONS ]
Washington, Feb. 28, {JP)~Having
<uided more than $2,000,000 to the1
ttousc total the Senate passed the 0
iinj appropriations bill providing ^
$398,0080,000 to meet the expenses of't(
he next iiscal year. Of this amount n
$-j7.000,000 is for non military activ-j n
hies including rivers and harbors. la
FIRST NEIT DERBY!
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POCONO MANOR, Penn., Feb. 28
(.4^—Facing a 50-mile gale Leonard
Seppala won the first leg of the Dog
Derby. Owing to strong winds only
•kx miles was raced j'esteialay. The
liaal will be run off Tuesday over a
~0-miIe course. Seppala’s time was
*-1 minutes,20 and 12 seconds. Mrs.
Elizabeth P. Ricker was second an;l
Aste Seppala, a brother of Leonard,
came in third.
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BERLIN, Feb. 28. (;p)—Alexander
Zubkoff, husband -of the Princess Vic.
oria, sister of the former Czar may
be expelled from Germany as an un- J
desirable foreigner because he as- j
vaulted a boy attendant in a Berlin I
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FRENCH FEATHER BEATEN
NEW YORK, Feb. 28. (£>)—Eddie
“Cannoball” Martin,' former welter
weight champion, scored a technical j
knockout over Jack Petbon, French
featherweight, in the third round of
3 six round match.
HEM VOTE IS
FORECAST SEATTLE
PRIARV ELECTION
TWO CANDIDATES FOR MAYOR
TO BE CHOSEN, LANDES IS \
FAVORITE
SEATTLE, Feb. 28. (/P)— Bright I
weather brought many to the polls
iorecasting a heavy vote in the mun
icipal primary election.
Two candidates for mayor will be
chosen from the following; Mrs.
Bertha K. Landes, Mrs. Kathryn Mir
acle, Edwin J. Brown, Dr. W. T.
Christensen, Clifford H. Clark, A.
Lou Cohen, Frank Edwstrds, Joseph
L. Green well and Phillip Tindall."
The betting favors Mrs. Landes I,
with Brown and Edwards competing I
or second place. Six candidates fori
.he City Council will be chosen from
i field of 13 entrants. i
CAUGHT NAPPING
ATLANTA, Ga., Feb. 28. (!■P)—
'layor Jimmy Walker slept his way
nto Atlanta on his return from New
)rleans and caught the local reception
ommittee napping. City officials'
"ere off their guard because Walker
rrived ahead of schedule.
SHATTERS RECORD
NEW YORK, Feb. 28. (/P)—Soaring
ver the bar at a height of 14 feet
ne inch, Sabin W. Carr, of Yale, shat
?red his own world indoor pole vault
-cord in winning this feature of the
ational senior A. A. U. indoor track
id field meet here.
BATTLE THURSDAY
NEW YORK, Feb. 28. (JP)—Jack
elaney, of Bridgeport, Conn., and
om Heeney of New Zealand will
ruggle over the 15 round distance
Madison Square Garden Thursday
ght in the first section of Tex Rick
d’s heavyweight elimination service
r the selection of a suitable oppo
;nt for the champion Gene Tunney.
HOT AFTER 'EM
HONOLULU, Feb. 28. (/P)^—The
tgest force of detectives ever con
ntrated on one criminal case in
iwaii was centered on the anticipat
capture of the men who disappear
nine days ago after extracting
10,000 from Thomas Needham, weal
Y British visitor, by means of a fake
rse race betting game.
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N. Y. TEMPERATURE
raw YORK, Feb. 28. (JP)—'Temper
ire minimum 47, maximum 52.
DEFENSE SCORES IN
FIRST CLASH SECOND
TRUE NELLIE BITES!
SCHERMEYER. WHO TURNED
STATES EVIDENCE EARLY
WITNESS
FAIRBANKS, Feb. 28. (Jp)—'The de
fense scored in the first clash o'
he second trial of Nellie Bates, who
is charged with having concealing I
and having in her possession $18,000!
purported to have been stolen fromj
the mail near Iditarod in 1923.
The court allowed the motion that j
the government stand the cost of
transportation of four defense wit
nesses from Iditarod by airplane.
William Schermeyer, who turned
State’s evidence by confessing to
complicity in the theft and who has
been held in jail here for a yenr^
will be an early witness for the pros-j
?cution.
HUDKINS WINS AGAIN
BOSTON, Feb. 28. (/P)—“Ace” Hud
-ins won in fire Lburtu round from
il Mello, Lowell* welterweight, in a
cheduled 10 round match in the Bos
on arena.
BISHOP TALBOH DIES
TUCKAHOE, Kentucky, Feb. 28
(JP)—Bishop Ethelbert Talboh, of
Bethlehem, Perm., former presiding
bishop of the Protestant Episcopal
church, died at the home of his
daughter at the age of 80.
CLAIMS HE AND HICKMAN CAR
RIED DIFFERENT CALIBRE
REVOLVERS
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 28. (JP)—}
Hunt, glib and sharp wilted and ap
parantly self confident, resumed on
the witness stand telling how “we
were scared into taking part in the
holdup which resulted in the murder
of the druggist, Toms,” saying “he
was scaj’ed to death by Hickman and
still more scared as lie dodged about1
the drugstore during the gun battle
with the* police.”
He said “Edward did all the shoot
ing.” Hunt and Hickman each claim
ed having carried different calibre
cans than the one wliich killed Toms.
Appraisal of the crown jewels of the Turkish empire, now in
the hands of the republic and said to be worth around $15,000,000,
is reported to have proved their survival intact through tumultuous
post-war hazards. Among them are a diamond-studded aigrette,
shown (upper left) on the head of Sultan Abdul Medjid; the gold
throne (below) of Shah Ismail of Persia, made of gold inlaid with;
enamel, pearls, rubies and emeralds; and many pewter and bronze
utensils (upper right) encrested with brilliants.
TWO SUSPENDED PROHIBITION
AGENTS PRINCIPAL WITNESS.
ES FOR GOVERNMENT
SEATTLE, Feb. 28. '(#)—Ben,amin
A Newman, John AHliur Boyd,
j Christopher Skrondahl. Lauren; Ver
| eecken, Fred Nourse, and Dan Huron
I were convicted and Jack Minsky,
! Louie Bussanich and Mrs. Eva Boyd
were acquitted in the Zev liquor con
I spiracy case
Newman and Boyd were sentenced
to 15 months each and lined 1,000.
Skrondahl and Nourse got a year and
a day and fined $500 each. Vereee
ken and Huron, six months each
and fined $250.
Hubbard and Bryant, suspended
prohibition agents, were the princi
pal government witnesses.
The sum of $,1000, alleged to have
been paid as an attempted bribe and
a quantity of liquor was seized when
Lie speedboat Zev was captured, was
the material evidence against the de
fndants.
The defense sought to prove their
clients were enticed into the rum
smuggling business and entrapped
by government agents.
; THREE AVIATORS, CARRIER LEX
INGTON, MISSiNG SINCE
YESTERDAY
WASHINGTON. Feb. 28. (#>)—
Twenty-three airplanes and two array
blimps have been ordered to search
lower Chesapeake Bay area for the
three aviators of the Carrier Lexing
ton who have been missing since
yesterday morning when they took
off from the Norfolk Naval Air Sta
tion, for Annapolis.
The fliers were Commander T. G.
Ellyson and Lieutenant Commanders
Hugo Schmidt and Roger Ranse
housen. They mysteriously ■ disap
peared on the flight which was in
tended to bring Ellyson to the bed
side of his 12 year old daughter, who
is critically ill.
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JAPAN ELECTION
TOKYO, Feb. 28. (/?)—'The general
election has resulted in a stalemate
with 461 out of 466 members to the
legislature elected. The Minseito party
and the Allies command 233 rotes
while the government has 228 with al
most the certainty of winning the oth
er five seats.