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VOLUME XXII. NUMBER 279.
SEWARD, ALASKA, ' MONDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1927.
PRICE TEN CENTS
Submarine Rammed
By Destroyer Sinks
With Crew 40 Men
EMERGING FROM DEPTHS IN HARBOR EN
TRANCE, DEAD AHEAD OF INCOMING U. S.
S. PAULDING, SANK IMMEDIATELY FOLLOW
ING COLLISION—PAULDING MAKING RUN
FOR BEACH TO PREVENT SINKING—DIVERS
CONVERSE UNDERSEA WITH SIX IMPRISON
ED MEMBERS SUBMARINE
PROVINCETOWN, Mass., Dec. 19. (/P)—The sub
marine S-4 was rammed and sunk by the coast guard
destroyer Paulding at 3:35 Saturday afternoon near
Provincetown.
Boats from the destroyer have been in constant
search since for survivors of the submarine which car
ried four officers and between 35 and 40 men in the crew.
She was of the same class as the S151 which sank
off Block Island in September of 1925 in a collision with
the S. S. City of Rome with a loss of 33 lives.
The S-4 was making an availability run when it
crashed just outside of Provincetown harbor. The U. S.
S. Paulding’s lower hold was flooded and it was the in
tent of the officers to beach her to prevent its sinking.
MEASURE SENT WHiTE HOUSE
FOR PRESIDENT COOLIDGE’S
SIGNATURE
WASHINGTON, I). C., Dec. 19.(/P)—
The first appropriation bill to appear
before the session, the deficiency
measure carrying the item of $200,000,
v 000 to meet additional expenses for
the current fiscal year, was sent to
the White House by Congress.
The bill carries $9,140,000 for ele
vation of guns on the battleships Ok
lahoma and Nevada.
If the President determines this is
not in violation of the Washington
Arms Treaty, it is expected he well j
affix his signature.
The building item, proposed by the
Senate of $200,000 for a territorial
building at Juneau, has been elimi
nated.
NEW YORK AND TEXAS
LEAD NATION'S EXPORTS
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 19. UP)—New
York and Texas led all other states j
in contributing to the nation’s ex- j
ports in the second quarter of this j
year, the Department of Commerce
found.
New York shipments were worth
$188,000,000 and Texas $113,000,000;
Washington $24,000,000, Alaska $706,
593.
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GUARDSMEN EYE-WITNESSES
PROVINiCETOWN, Mass., Dec. 19.
(£>)—Coast guardsmen, who witness
ed the collision from a nearby shore
station, said the U. S. S. Paulding
was entering the harbor when the
submarine suddenly came to the sur
face, dead ahead, and that there was
no time for the destroyer to alter it’s
course before the vessels crashed.
The, S-4 immediately submerged.
TALK WITH SIX MEN
PROVINCETOWN, Mass., Dec. 19.
V/P)—six men, imprisoned in the
wounded hull of the submarine S-4
which lies on the ocean floor in 100
feet of water off Provincetown
Hurbor, were hopelessly awaiting
rescue Sunday night while their span
of life grew rapidly less.
Divers, who went down to survey
the hull of the submarine which
was rammed and sank Saturday by
the coast guard cutter Paulding,
brought back the story of an under
sea conversation conducted on either
side by rappings on the steel hull.
There was no serious gas condition
in the compartment the six imprison
ed men said but the air was foul.
All but these six of 40 odd men on
the submarine probably perished
when it went down. There was a
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MOTHER OF LINDBERGH,
FORD OFFICIALS, ON HOP
DETROIT, Dec. 19. >(jp)—«Mrs. Lind
bergh took the air at 10:15 on the
first lap of a flight to Mexico in a
huge Ford all metal monoplane pilot
ed by Harry Brooks. The plane also
carried Mr.' and Mrs. W. B. Stout,
Luis Le Jus and Harry Russell, Ford
officials.
IF OFF TRAPPER
CRAWLS 18 MILES
MEETS BEAR ON LINE, KNOCKED
UNCONSCIOUS; NOW IN KEN
NECOTT HOSPITAL
CORDOVA, Dec. 19. (/P)—After ly
ing for more than one month alone in
a cabin in the wilds of Interior Alas
ka with one leg burned off nearly to
the knee and the other foot badly
burned, Nick Raworth, young Cana
dian war veteran, was taken to the
Kennecott hospital Saturday.
On November 3rd, Raworth, who
was operating a trap-line on the Gul
kana river, was attacked by a bear.
His dog fought nobly to save his
master’s life but lost his own in the
attempt.
The bear then turned on Raworth
knocking him unconscious. What hap
pened after that Raw'orth could not
remember but he evidently came to
for he started a fire but the shock
and loss of blood carried him into a
coma and when next he became con
! scious one leg was burned off to the
knee and the other foot badly injured.
Suffering intense agony he managed
to crawl 15 miles to one of his cabins
where he lay for a week. After the
week he was scarcely able to secure
food and water and in this condition
he was found by an Indian who pack
ed him, with a dog-team, to Copper
Center, 30 miles away.
Raworth was then taken to Chitina
| where he was placed aboard a C. R.
& N. W. R. R. train and taken to the
Kennecott hospital. It is still unde
termined if he has a fighting chance
'to live.
ilG PURNELL OF
! HOUSE OF DAVID
I DIED ON FRIDAY
ICOLONY OFFICIALS, BELIEVING
| IN TEACHINGS, REFRAIN
SUMMONING AUTHORITIES
—
BENTON HARBOR, Mich., Dec. 19.
(£>)—Benjamin Purnell, king of the
| House of David, is dead. He died
last Friday morning and today, the
third day after his death, the body
still lay in bed where he died.
Colony officials, believing in the
teachings of Purnell that the faithful
could not die, have refrained from
summoning 'the undertaker and made
no announcement of the leader’s
death.
Under the state law the body nrust
be moved within 72 hours.
ALAMEDA DUE WEDNESDAY
The S. S. Alameda, of the Alaska
Steamship company, left Juneau at
10 o’clock last night Westward bound.
The local office expects the vessel to
arrive in port sometime Wednesday.
Monsters in Human
Guise Dismembers
Body Little Girl
HUNDREDS OF DETECTIVES AND ARMED BANDS
OF PRIVATE CITIZENS COMBINE IN SEARCH
FOR BEAST IN HUMAN FORM WHO AFTER
KIDNAPPING 12 YEAR OLD DAUGHTER OF
BANKER KILLED HER—FATHER WITH RAN
SOM MONEY- AWAITED ON STREET CORNER
FOR KIDNAPPERS TO RETURN CHILD
NO TRACE OF FIEND FOUND TODATE
Reward of $50,000 posted for slayers—money pouring in
i
f % at the rate of $50 a minute swelling total of reward
© “girl was lured away from school by a stranger who
said her father was ill.
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LOS ANGELES’ Dec. 19. (/P)~~Hundreds of detec- -
tives and armed bands of private citizens joined in an un
precedented search for the slayer of Marion Parker, 12
year old daughter of the prominent bank official. The
mutilated body of the little Marion, who had been kidnap
ped last Thursday noon, was tossed out of an automobile
Saturday night at the feet of her father, Perry M. Park'
er, who had gone to the appointed street corner in the
Northwest section of the city carrying $1,500 in ransom
money demanded by abductor.
Parker received a telephone call at 7:35 Saturday
night instructing him to proceed to the corner of Fifth
street and Manhatten Place with $1,500 in gold certifi
cates and his daughter would be returned to him there.
SAID GIRL WAS ASLEEP
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The father, distracted and nearing
collapse, proceeded to the street corn
er with the money arriving there
(shortly afteer 8 o’clock. A few min-;
utes after he arrived a small road-!
ister drew up alongside of the Park
ier automobile and the banker saw
; his daughter beside the driver and
| was told by the kidnapper the little
girl was aslee.p and saying “here’s
your child give me the money and be
sure and follow instructions. She is
i asleep.”
Parker handed the kidnapper $1,500
jin $20 gold certificates and the kid
jnapper, after taking the money, drove
ahead of the father a little way. Then
climbing out of the car lie threw the
body of the girl on the grass in front
of a house a few doors up the street.
As soon as the man had driven
away Parker ran frantically to his
! daughter’s side and clasped her in
! his arms and found she was dead.
The first examination of the muli
lated child revealed both legs had
been cut off apparently close to the
body; a wire had been twisted so
tightly around the girl’s throat that
the flesh had been cut deeply. The
wire ran into a gaping wound around
the back of the head to the face where
it was thrust through the eyelids.
LURED FROM SCHOOL
Marian was lured from the Mount
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LINDBERGH HMDS
TWO BULL FIGHTS
GREATEST BULL FIGHTER EVER
LIVED COMES OUT OF RE.
TIREMENT FOR “LIN DY”
MEXICO CITY, Dec 39. (iP)—Col.
Chas. A. Lindbergh on Sunday saw
not only one but two bull fights des
pite some 50 protests from indivi
duals and humane societies in the
United States against thus giving
countenance to the Mexican national
sport.
The finest Mexico can produce in.
the way of bull fighting, horseman
ship, lassoing, cowboy stunts and
native dances were marshalled for
the delectation of “Lindy”. Rodolfo
Gadna, considered the greatest bull
fighter which ever lived, returned to
the ring after two years of retire
ment especially to fight a bull for
Colonel Lindbergh.
COAL OUTPUT INCREASES
NT3W YORK, Dec. 19. (ff3)—Pro
duction of coal in Canada during 1926
reached 16,478,131 -short tons, as
compared with 13,134,968 short tons
in 1925, the Department of Commerce
reported.