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VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 150. SEWARD, ALASKA. FRIDAY, JUNE 28, 1929. PRICE TEN CENTS
DEFEATS HUM
THE DECISION OF THE REFEREE
AND TWO JUDGES WAS UN
ANIMOUS
NEW YORK, June 28, (A5)—Max
Schmeling, sensational German
heavyweight, hammered out a de
cisive and bloodv 15-round victory
1r;st night over Paulino Uzcudun,
the durable Spaniard.
A crowd of 45,000 saw Schmeling
willy after a slow start to slash and
rip Paulino thruout the last six
rounds Only the remarkable game
r.ess and ability to absorb terrific
ounisbment enabled Paulino to
weather Schmeling’s victory.
Paulino was cut about the eyes,
nose and mouth and was half
*1<:nded and bleeding from the
steady stream under the German’s
<marp blows. There were no knock
downs but Paulino, in at least three
of the closing six rounds was on the
verge of being put down by Schmel
ing’s sharp uppercuts and right
hooks to the face.
Paulino’s defense baffled Schmel
;ng and he administered considera
ble punishment to the German
about *he body the first half of the
fight. Schmeling proved himself
a good hitter and a capable boxer.
He weighed 187 to the Spaniard’s
l?f21/2. The decision of the referee,
Arthur Donovan and two judges,
was unanimous and was merely a
formality at the close.
WOOIS MO THEN
TWO-GUN MAN WOUNDS NEIGH
BOR VISITING HIS ROME;
PERORATES OFFICER
LONG BEACH, Calif. June 28,
‘ -R*—John Keller, 45 year old pipe
fitter, shot and killed his wife,
Ruth Keller. 25, probably fatally
wounded John Samson Finck
a neighbor, whom he found visit
ing his home, and wounded patrol
man J. M. Bullard.
Bullard accompanied by two
newspapermen, rushed to the
house at the call of Mrs Keller,
who telephoned the police she was
about to be murdered. The of
ficer found Finck wounded thou
the chest and attempted to arrest
Keller, who stood by with a pistol
in each hand. The man sudden
ly turned upon his wife, shooting
her to death. Bullard drew his
gun but was shot through the ab
domen by Keller, who then es
caped..
NINE WERE KILLED
BRUSSELS, Belguim June 28,
iJP)—Nine persons were killed and
many injured when a passenger
train from Ghent crashed into
a derailed engine near Enghien.
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THREE KILLED Si
BEACHHAVEN, N. J., June 28, (/P)
—Three were killed and two injur
ed in the fall of an amphibian
r>^ane owned by the Curtis Flying
Service into Barnegat Bay.
Those kiled were Franklin Con
klin, member of the Beachhaven
police: Harold Potts, 30, a plumber;
Leslie Broome, 28, a yacht captain.
The injured were Alison Price, 19,
cf Beachhaven and Paul Massell of
New York, pilot of the plane.
PARIS, June 28. (/P)—A plea
for less efficiency, more play,
! and more kindly tolerence in
;the United States was made by
Clarence Darrow, lawyer, at a
luncheon held at the American
Club in Paris. He said he had to
travel across the Atlantic in order
to have a drink unmolested.
BREAK ENDURANCE RECORD
MINNEAPOLIS, June 27, (/P>—
Owen I. Haughland and his co-pilot
Thor^ald Johnson, have been aloft
for more than 30 hours in their at
tempt to break the world’s endur
ance flight record.
PILOT IS KILLED
GASOLINE RAN OUT AND POOR
VISIBILITY, ACCOUNT OF
FOG, RESPONSIBLE
WESTBURY, N. Y., June 28, (/P)—
Jack Ashcraft, pilot, was killed and
Miss Viola Gentry, known as the
“Flying Cashier”, was critically in
jured as the biplane in which they
T.vere attempting to set a new en
durance record, crazhed into a tree.
Tt is believed their gasoline ran
short.
Witnesses said they heard the
I crash only and no motor noise. The
{gasoline tanks and carburator were
i found emptyi'^* heavy fog, blan
keting the 1 field, is believed
fo have beoJppI **>ntributing cause.
Asherbeen a flier for a
iiumbe^ppvears. Miss Gentry at
trac'^Kttention in 1926 piloting a
|"u _te under the Brooklyn and
Manhattan bridges in a New York
plane called “The Answer”.
The plane was last seen over the
field early in the day when a me
chanic found a note saying their
gasoline was running low.
DISPUTE IS EH
! VATICAN CITY, June 28, (/P)—
The dispute between Pope Pius XI
and Premier- Mussolino over the
latters remarks concerning the a
greement creating the Vactican
into a state, flared up again. The
I pontiff restated his objections to
j the Dukes remarks. The occasion
; was the publication of the
Premier’s speeches in the “Bron
chure Forum”.
ALLEGED DDBBESS DE
BANK ARE IDENTIFIED
WANTED OTHER CITIES
i SAN FRANCISCO, June 28. f/P)
—Lloyd Sampsel, alias L. V. Sum
mers, “Dapper Dick” was identified
las the man who held up and robbed
ithe Berkeley branch of the Bank
jof America. M. H. Faust, manager
|and C T. Stout, tire dealer in the
bank at hte time made the identif
ication.
Ethan A. McNab, arrested in
i San Francisco with Sampsel, is
' accused by police of complicity
in the crime. Police said that the
two are wanted in other cities for
alleged crime.
HISTORY STUDENTS STUDY VIR GINIA SHRINES
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THE spread of visual methods in American history has led many child
ren to historic old Virginia. The Moore house at Yorktown (above), where
Its an attraction, as is the old churehit Jamestown (below) , where was
founded the first permanent settle ment in America. Wahunsunacook
(right), Pamunkey Indian chieftain, who says he is a descendent of Pow
hatan, delights in telling the story of Pocahantas.
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OVER T01I BEFORE
WAS PUBLISHED
OPERATIONS ON SUNKEN VES
i SEL ISLANDER IS DIRECT
LY IN TRAFFIC LANE
| JUNEAU, June 28, (JP)—W. H.
Wiley talked freely to many respon
sible people including naval offi
cers regarding operations in raising
the S. S. Islander’s safe and about
the discovery of the safe and in
vited several to visit him and see
the work.
Operations are being conducted
in one of the must used water
courses in soutneas Alaska in
broad day light the location being
on the course of all boats plying be
tween Juneau and Skagway, and
Iskagway and Juneau and westward
I points.
In Olympia the suggestion to
I maintain secrecy regarding the
| story was absurd as iit was all
j over the town before it was pub
| lished.
ATTEMPT NEW RECORD
ROOSEVELT FIELD, N. Y., June
?8, (A1)—Miss Viola Gentry took-off
j at 8:49 p. m. eastern daylight
i standard time on her second at
tempt to set a new refueling endur
ance record. She is flying “The
| Answer” a light cabin biplane.
TRAPPER REPORTED
MB. Use
POST DISTRICT
REPUTED HAVE BEEN WORTH
$15,000 FROM SALE OF MIN
ING CLAIMS
WRANGELL, June 28. (^—Re
cent arrivals from Telegraph Creek
reporter1 Oscar Anderson, trader on
McDames Creek, brought news to
Telegraph Creek that Angus Mc
Donald trapper in the Liard sec
tion, had disappeared with foul
play suspected as McDonald’s ef
fects including all furs, were miss
;ng from his cabin.
McDonald was reputed to be
worth $15,000 from the sale of min
ing claims. He went from Atlin a
number of years ago across country
from Tesline Lake to the Laird dis
trict and built a cabin in the woods
150 miles back from the Liard post.
The past eight or 10 years he has
appeared but once a year at the
Liard post turning in furs for a
year’s supply of food and ammuni
tion.
PLENTY OR HEAT
NEW YORK, June 28. (A5)—Rain
and cool winds ended the heat
wave in the East after eight
days of exceptionally high tem
peratures. Two deaths were re
ported, but maximum tempera
ture was only 86 and minimum
ra.
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