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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1927. SEWARD, ALASKA, VOLUME XXII. NUMBER 234.
PRICE TEN CENTS
ITU STEAMSHIP
SINKS COAST BRAZIL
100 ARE DROWNED
REPORTS VARY AS TO NUMBER
OF PASSENGERS CARRIED ON
BOARD; CAUSE UNKNOWN
RIO JANEIRO, Oct. 26. The
luxurious Italian steamship Principes
sa Mafalda, carrying more than 1,000
^ passengers most of them Italian imi*
grants to Brazil, Argentina, sank last j
night off the coast of Brazil.
With the death toll believed to num- j
her 100., rescue ships are standing j
by and picked up about 720 persons of j
the 1,200 stated to have been aboard
the vessel. The Mafalda sent ont an
S O S at 7:15 and five hours later
sank when the boilers exploded.
Shipping circles here said 1,600 per
sons were aboard but the owners of
the ship insisted there were not more
than 1,200 and all but 110 were Ital
ian imigrants bound for a new home
^ land in Argentina and Brazil.
No "word as to the cause of the dis
aster has been received but it is thot
it possibly might have been due to
explosion of the engines or hitting a
submerged rock.
GENERAL SUTTOfl LOST
TORONTO, Oct. 26. OP)—General
Frank Sutton, former military adviser
to the Chinese war lord and prominent
Chinese financier who left two weeks
ago for Peace River, Alberta, is lost
near Long Portage. He was making
power site investigations.
LANDED ON ISLAND
THQT BE K. L. GRAY
LEFT NOME THREE WEEKS AGO
BELIEVED SWEPT OFF COURSE
IN LATE STORMS
NOME, Oct. 26. (JP)—The unidenti
fied mystery man being sought by
searching parties, after landing in a
blinding snowstorm on St. Lawrence
Island is thought to be a lone roamer
known as K. L. Gray, who left Nome
for Seattle three weeks ago in a 14
foot steel skiff. Gray arrived at Nome
last spring after being shipwrecked
along the coast and was probably
blown out of his course during the
recent storms.
BANK MESSENGER SHOT
FIGHTING BEE BANDITS
PHILADELPHIA, Oot. 26. (JP)—One
bank messenger was killed and anoth
er seriously wounded when they
fought off an attempt of bandits to
rob a $13,000 payroll. Three police
men who ran up as the robbers shot
the payroll guardians drove off the
thieves who escaped in an automobile.
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MAKES QUICK EXIT
PARIS, Oct. 26. (JP)—Without both
ering to present a letter of recall to
President Doumergue of France,
Christian Rakovsky, former ambassa
dor for Russia to France, left Sunday
by automobile for Moscow via Berlin.
' RUTH ELDER ILL
LISBON, Oct. 26. (£>)—Ruth Elder
is suffering from influenza and has
taken to bed. She needs a complete
rest and her departure from Lisbon |
for Madrid ennroute -to Paris has !
therefore been postponed indefinitely. !
DR. MAR TO HEAD
EXPEDITION EXPLORE
SCIENTIST WHO CARRIED ON IN
VESTIGATIONS WESTWARD
RECENTLY, RETURNING
WASHINGTON, Oct. 26. (^)—An
expedition to study the unknown Pav
lof volcano in the group of islands of
the Alaskan Peninsula, will be sent 1
next April by the National Geographi
cal Society.
]5r. Thomas A. Jaggar, Director of
the Geographical Survey Station at
the Mount Kilauea Volcanic Labora
tory in Hawaii, will lead the party
which will explore the region west of
Mount Kafemai, the world’s largest ac
tive volcano, and the Valley of Ten
Thousand Smokes.
FULL AND DOHENY
IE DIFFERENCE
OF OPINION. Si
CHIEF COUNSEL FOR SINCLAIR
OFFERS VIGOROUS PROTEST
BEFORE JUDGE
WASHINGTON, Oct. 26. (JP)—A dif
ference in opinion between the defend
ants, Fall and Doheny, developed as
the government continued to unfold
to the jury the story upon which is
conspiracy in connection with the
leasing of the Teapot Dome Naval
oil reserve.
Breaking into the proceedings for
the second time in less than a week
Fall almost shouted that he had no
objection to the presentation of cer
tain technical testimony by the go
vernment to which Chief Counsel
Hoover, for Sinclair, offered vigorous
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protest before Justice Siddons.
MlIWOFF I
FOR ALASKA WITH 82
SEATTLE, Oct. 26. (/P)—The S. S.
Admiral Watson, of the Pacific Steam
ship Co., sailed at 10 o’clock this morn
ing carrying 82 passengers. The Sew
ard reservations include: Mrs. Hal
versen, Frank Moore, and Allen El
liott.
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LIFER TO BE PAROLED
ATLANTA, Ga., Oct. 26. (£>)—Gover- j
nor Hardman has announced that he
will parole I. B. Hall, a lifer in the
penitentiary, whose arrest is laid to
an alleged betrayal by his prospective
son-in-law.
HARRY HALL GUILTY
CHICAGO, Oct. 26. (^P)—Harry
Hill, who fled to the Pacific coast fol
lowing the murder of Ms mother a
wealthy widow, was indicted on a
charge of having killed her by the
court of Ottawa, 111.
SENATOR C. CURTIS
THROWS HAT IN RING
PRESIDENTIAL RACE
REPUBLICAN LEADER OF THE
SENATE PLEASED TO RUN IN
FORM FRIENDS
WASHINGTON, Oct. 26. (^—Se
nator Charles Curtis of Kansas, Re
publican leader of the Senate, entered
the Presidential race in a letter to
Roy L. Bone, organizer of the "Curtis
for President Club." Curtis wrote “If
my friends desire to send a delegation
to the next Republican National Con
vention, favorable to my nomination,
I will be greatly pleased to be a can
didate."
MAGAZINE ARTICLE ON NAVY
AND ECONOMY GETS ADMIRAL
IN BAD, SUPERIORS
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 26. (JP)— Rear
Admiral Magruder, whose recent ma
gazine articlee on Navy and Economy
caused a stir in Naval circles, has
been detached, ordering him to report
dant of the Fourth Naval district. A
telegram notifying him that he had
been detached, ordering him t oreport
to the Secretary of Navy about No
vember 5, was received by Magruder
from Secretary Wilbur.
The Admiral said the oi'der came
as a distinct shock to him, although he
had been aware his magazine article i
had not met with the approval of some ;
of the Naval officials. He stated he !
hoped the matter would be straighten
ed out and' the Admiral said he would
insist on a thorough investigation of
the whole affair.
AMUNDSEN SAILS FOR I
NORWAY SHORT NOTICE!
LEAVES MEDAL BEHIND
NEW YORK, Oct. 26. (£>)—Leaving j
behind him a cancelled lecture tour j
and an Explorers Club medal, sched- j
uled to be awarded him at,a dinner j
in his honor on Saturday evening, j
Amundsen sailed for Norway with no
explanation of his hasty departure. |
He telegraphed officials of the club ;
“am sailing today; sorry can’t be with
you.” /
CLOSED SEASON BEAVER
KENAI PENINSULA
The Alaska Game Commission has
recommended that the entire Kenai
peninsula district be closed to the
taking of heaver in 1928, according to
Mr. Terhune, executive officer of the
commission who left Seward yester
day for Cordova. This marks no dis
tinct change for the peninsula region
was closed the past year, he said*
101 INDICTMENTS
WASHINGTON, Oct. 26. (£>)—One
hundred and one indictments were re
turned by the Grand Jury against
members of the Ku Klux Klan for al
leged participation in floggings in
Crenshaw county, Alabama.
DELLWOOD EMOTE
TO ALASKA REPAIR
CAPTAIN FRED ANDREWS AND
30 MEN ENROUTE REPAIR
BROKEN CABLE
SEATTLE, Oct. 26. (&)—Colonel
Hartman, In change of the Alaska
cable announced the Cableship Dell
wood will sail from Seattle today for
Petersburg to repair lines breken by
the recent quake.
Captain Fred Andrews and 30 ex
pert cable repair men will engage in
this repair work exclusively. The Sig
nal Corps operate the radio between
Ketchikan and Wrangell. The cable
breaks cut communication North of
Juneau including the White Pass
Railroad.
SEATTLE CIVIC-BODY
ASKING CONGRESS, SHIPPING
BOARD MAINTAIN SAME
REGULATIONS
SEATTLE, Oct. 26. (/P)—'Trustees
of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce
have adopted a resolution asking
Congress and the United States Ship
ping Board to maintain the present
regulations for steamboat inspection
and the licensing of smaller craft in
sofar as it effects the fishing indus
try.
The resolution followed the reports
or agitation to bring 2,000 Alaska,
State of Washington, and Oregon
fishing craft under rigid rules gov
erning the licensing of pilots and
engineers of larger vessels.
BOOTLEG KING IS HELD
FOR me OF WIFE
CINCINNATI, Oct. 26. (#>)—George
Remus, bootleg king held for the mur
der of his wife, is seeking depositions
from Attorney General Sargent Roy
Haynes and other prominent men in
his fight to clear himself in the trial
on a plea that he was the subject of a
plot.
ADVANCES CONTENTION
WASHINGTON, Oct. 26. (/P)—Sena
tor Glass replied to President Cool
idge’s defense of administration policy
of scrutinizing foreign loans. He ad
vanced the contention that the policy
is extra constitutional1 and without
legal sanction.
RETURNING TO PORT
NEW YORK, Oct. 26. (£*)—D. Con
ger Reynolds, American consul at
Stuttgart, Germany, is returning on
the S. S. Republic to his poet, accom
panied by his wife.
WHO ALLEGED SWAM
CHANNEL SAKS FAKE
PERPETRATED FRAUD TO PUT TO
END PUBLIC DECEPTION ES
TABLISHING RECORDS
LONDON, Oct. 26. (JP)—Dorothy
Cochrane Logan, London female phy
sician, did not swim the English Chan
nel, according to her own statement
which appeared in the News of the
World published Sunday. According
to the alleged confession which ap
pears in that paper Miss Logan did
not break Miss Ederle’s channel swim
ming performance. In admitting the
hoax the young doctor says her fraud
was the first to end fakes. Her pur
pose in perpetrating the fraud was to
put the ©end to pubic deception and
demonstrate the advisability of prov
ing records established in channel
swims. Miss Logan returned to the
paper, the World, the check for $5,000
offered to any English woman who
would improve on Miss Ederle’s chan
nel swimming record.
NOT GIVEN CREDIT
LONDON, Oct. 26. (JP)—As sequel
to the confession of Doctor Dorothy
Logan, in which she admitted that
the story of her swimming the chan
nel. was a hoax, it was revealed that
Georges Michel, French baker, who
claimed to have swum the English
Channel, was not given credit by the
French Swimming Association be
cause he accomplished the feat in
secret.
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1 ARMY RELEASED
AFTER DAY IN JAIL
CAPTAIN CLAMPITT WAS THOT
TO HAVE BEEN IMPLICATED
IN BURGLARY
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 26. (JP)—Capt.
Clampitt, former Chaplain, was releas
ed from jail in Culver City after police
hada held him all day for investiga
tion in connection with the arrest of
Spencer Farley, age 15, a confessed
burgler. Police said they had been
unable to connect Clampitt with the
case Farley detailed when police found
Farley sleeping in Claimpitt’s automo
bile.
IlKS INTO ISM ID
ASKS BE LOCKED OF
CONCORD, N. H., Oct. 26. (ff)—Mrs.
Mary Folsom walked into the asylum
here and asked that she be locked up.
She said that she was the woman who
escaped from here in 1914. Since her
escape she has used the name of Mrs.
Mary Rust and has been a successful
business woman of Troy, N. Y.
ORDERED TO PAY UP
NEW YORK, Oct. 26. (^—Thurs
ton Hall, stage and movie actor, was
ordered by the supreme court to pay
$200 counsel fees to Mrs. Amy Hall,
his estranged wife. The wife also
charged Hall is $1300 behind in ali
mony payments.