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VOLUME XXII. NUMBER ICC
SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, AUGUST 1, 1927.
PRICE TEN CENTS
J. Lira. OLD
SIMM ID WIFE,
KILLED li OH
AMASSED FORTUNE IN INTERIOR
OPERATING RIVER BOATS
AND MINING
OAKLAND, Calif., Aug. 1. (<P)—Jo
seph Lancaster, aged 74, hotel proprie
tor. former Alaskan and his wife,
aged 41. were found shot to death in
their hotel rooms. The police decided
that Lancaster killed his wife and then
committed suicide after a quarrrel
over the husband’s plan for lending
money to his son and daughter by a
former marriage. Lancaster, who
amassed a fortune of $100,000 in
mining and operating Yukon and Kus
kokwim river boats, went to Los An
geles 17 years ago intending to op
erate fishing boats off Southern Cali
fornia. He stayed at a hotel con
ducted' by a young widow, fell in love
with her and was married and wrent
into the hotel business' with her. They
came to Oakland and bought a hotel
four years later.
The police said Mrs. Lancaster’s
body lay in bed as though she had
been shot while sleeping. Lancaster’s
body lay across the bed. Both were
shot through the head. The revolver
with tw'o discharged chambers lay on
the floor.
IS DISAPPOINTING
ELEVENTH HOUR AGREEMENT
MIGHT AVERT A BREAK—DIS
TRUST MICROBE ACTIVE
OSAKA, Japan, Aug. 1. (^—Dis
appointment was evident in commer
eial and financial circles here todaj
over the reports that the Geneva con
ference was progressing unfavor
ably. The imminent break in the
naval conference between Greal
Britain, the United States and Japar
goes to prove that Britain and Ameri
ca do not practice what they preach
Japanese officials said.
WRITER PESSIMISTIC
LONDON, Aug. 1. (/P)— Clouds of
doubt and fear hang over almost all of
the writers who comment in this
morning’s newspapers here on the
three-power naval limitation confer
ence at Geneva. Some of them sub
mitted dttailed analysis of the British
case with expression of hope that an
eleventh hour agreement might avert
a break, but for the most port, they
were pessimistic. In the course of an
editorial the London Daily Ne-ws re
marked that the danger of failure was
not an open quarrel between Great
Britain and the United States but pos
sibly that the deadly microbe of mu
tual distrust might be introduced into
the relations of the two countries.
HIDE-OUT DISCOVERED
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 1. .(5s)—The
New York hide-out of Jacob Berman,
million-dollar youngster, who fled when
the Julian Petroleum Corporation first
crumbled, is said to be known. Two
score or more financial charges are
against him.
TRANSFER PASSENGERS
KETCHIKAN, Aug. 1. (/P)—The pas-1
sengers from the S. S. Admiral Wat-,
son were transferred to the S. S. j
Queen from the S. S. Admiral Rogers |
which picked them up on Ivory Island, j
The Queen will reach Seattle late
Monday.
Hi SOUNDED BY
HEAD OF FISHERIES
INCREASING USE OF FISH MAY
ULTIMATELY CLOSE DOWN
CANNERIES
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KETCHIKAN, Aug. 1. (/P)—Henry
O’Malley sounded a warning that ever
! increasing use of fish will ultimately
| mean that none could operate on a
i profitable basis in. the salmon indus
try. O’Malley returned North from
here, while Representatives in Con
gress Fritz Lanham of Texas and
Thomas McKennon of Oklahoma, who
accompanied him to Seward and Fair
j banks, left Saturday for Seattle.
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GflitSHING PLANEKILLS
FIVE, TWO ON GROUND
NEW CASTLE, Ind., Aug. 1. (/P)—
George Mayers, aged 35, former army
lieutenant, and two youthful passen
gers were killed when Mayers’ plane
fell from an altitude of 200 feet. The
others killed were Evan Davis, aged
17, son of a Newcastle banker, and
Paul Wise, aged 20, a student.
SLEEPING BEAUTY WELL
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 1. (£>)—For
the first time in 120 days, Mrs. Clara
Drummond, the 21-year-old Fresno
sleeping beauty, w'as out of bed today.
She has been in a state of coma for
four months after being overcome by
! gas.
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IS STURTS FLOWING
DOWN SLOPES VESUVIUS
ROME, Aug. 1. (/P)—At .the pinnacle
of its most violent eruption in 12
years, Mt. Vesuvius is hurling hun
dreds of tons of incandescent frag
ments far into the air while a huge
column of lava nearly filling the in
ner crater, began to creep over the
edge into the valley of Hell toward
the Bay ow Naples.
JAPANESE AUTHORITIES
PLAN 1 QUARANTINE
TOKIO, Aug. 1. (JP)—Believing that
numerous aerial aviators will be com
ing to Japan in the near future, the
Yokohama customs authorities are
drawing up plans for an air quaran
tine.
It is expected that all foreign avi
ators, together with passengers of
airplanes and dirigibles, will be sub
jected to the same .medical examina
tion as are incoming ship passengers.
The baggage brought over by air is to
be inspected by the customs men and
duties affixed.
LONDON, Aug. 1. (IP)— Kemal
Pasha, ruler of Turkey, assumed vir
tual Dictatorship of Turkey by tak
ing over authority of naming each
man who may be a candidate for De
puty at fall elections.
ESCAPED MURDERER
SHOT ID HILLED
H GUI BATTLE
•LOCATED IN SHACK TWENTY
MILES FROM EVERETT—GIRL
WITH HIM
EVERETT. WflL Aug. 1. (#>)—Ed- j
ward Sickles, a $4-year-old-murderer, j
who escaped fr#*m the Snohomish
county jail while under extension of
sentence, died from wounds received
in a gun battle Saturday night with
two deputy sheriffs who had been
trailing him for three weeks. Sickles
shot and killed Percy Brewster, Sul
tan town marshal, March 2. He was
convicted March 23 and sentenced to
be hanged May 13. While awaiting
an appeal to the State Supreme court
he escaped May 1. Deputies located
him in a shack in the woods 20 ^miles
from Everett. He had driven to the
cabin in an automobile which had
been stolen in Seattle. Edith Collins,
aged 25, employed in an Everett book
1 bindery, was found in the cabin with
Sickles.
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OFFICERS AND MEN KILLED AND
WOUNDED ON NIPPON’S LARG
EST MINE LAYER
TOKIO, Aug. 1. (/P)—-Twenty officers
and men were killed or wounded by
an explosion during naval maneuvers
off Wiushiu Island. Three mines of
the middle deck of the mine layer
Tukiwa, says a dispatch to the Asshi
from Kiushiu. The dispatch says the
Tokiwa, which-is Japan’s largest mine
layer, was damaged severely. A fire
which followed the explosions was ex
tinguished by blejackets from neigh
boring warships participating in the
maneuveres.
FAIREST GIRL KILLED
; SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 1. (£>)—Miss
Florence Salustro, selected as the
fairest girl in Gilroy, Calif., to com
pete in a State-wide beauty contest,
was killed in an elevator accident at
the Mark Hopkins hotel last night.
FARRAGUT DUE TOMORROW
The Admiral Farragut, of the P. S.
S. Co., is due to arrive in port from
the Westward tomorrow evening at
7 o’clock, according to the local re
port. No word had been received
fro mthe S. S. Admiral Evans up to
the time of going to press.
SYMPATHIZERS GATHER
BOSTON, Aug. 1. (£>)—Wednesday
night 50,000 people gathered in the
streets to hear condemnation of in
justice to Sacco and Vanzetti. Po
lice were called on to disperse sym
pathizers.
ATTENTION
Seward members Nile Temple, A.
A. O. N. M. S., are requested to meet
Alaska Transfer office, Arcade build
ing, Tuesday 7:30 p. m., August 2.
HOBEN.
I LADY LAUDER DIES
DUNOON, Scotland, Aug. l.(/P)—j
Lady Lauder, aged 5S, wife of Harry 1
Lauder, the comedian, died after an
illness of a fortnight.
GHAMBERL1 IKES
FLIT FROM BOAT
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TESTING PRACTICABILITY O F
COMBINING STEAMSHIP AND
AIRPLANE ROUTES
PETERBORO, N. J., Aug. 1. UP)—
Chamberlin ended his flight from the j
Leviathan to Peterboro at 10:51. The :
flyer hopped off the flying bridge of j
the ship at 8:15 off Fire Island. He
first landed at Curtis' Field because of
fog. After a short stop he took off
again at 10:3. The flight was to test
the practicability of combining steam
ship and airplane routes to expedite
mail service and to some extent pas
senger travel.
NIL CONFERENCE AT
GENEVA AT LOGGERHEADS
GENEVA, Aug. 1. (/P)—'The dead
lock in the tripartite naval conference
was the subject of a long talk between
Viscount Ishi of Japan and Bridge
man of Great Britain. So far as
known nothing has taken place which
reduces the risks of the conference
failing.
AIR PILOT KILLED
WICHITA, Kas., Aug. 1. (/P)—Lieut.
C. A. Pearson, pilot, was killed and
Lieut. C. W. Luthey, navigator, was
seriously injured when their airplane
crashed near Wichita.
theInIgtsI
AT WOOD ALCOHOL PARTY
EXTRACTED POISON FROM PAINT;
TWO IN DYING CONDITION,
OTHERS BLIND
M’ALISTER, Okla., Aug. 1. (£>)—
After staging a party with a small can
| of wood alcohol within the walls of
| the State penitentiary three convicts
are dead and two others are believed
to be in a dying condition, while seven
are ill in the prison hospital. All of
the participants in the party who sur
' vive will be blinded as a result f
drinking poison it is stated by the
prison physician. It is believed the
men obtained the alcohol in the paint
shop and took it to the prison yard
after working hours.
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MUSSOLINI EXTENDS
' DICTATORIAL SYSTEM
ROME, Aug. 1. (/P)—Overburdened
by increasing tasks of dictatorship
Mussolini has elevated provincial pre
fects to the rank of “vice dictators,’
responsible only to himself and with
powers of absolute control over al
affairs in their respective regions.
Henceforth each iprefect will have
the title “head of the Province,” im
plying direct delegation of dictatorial
powers from Mussolini, who in addi
tion to being Prime Minister has the
special rank of “head of the govern
,ment>’ paralleling the king’s title o:
“head of the State.”
BOMB EXPLODES IN AUTOMOBILE
IN RESIDENTIAL SECTION
KILLS ONE
SAX FRANCISCO, Aug. 1. (£>)—
With one man killed and another se
riously injured by a bomb in an auto
mobile in the residence district the
police are untangling a web of under
world intrigue which seemed aimed at
the life of the police officials them
selves. A startling development of
the day’s investig ' Jon was the dis
covery of a bomb of the same type as
the two which were planted in the
Hall of Justice in the last two years.
The dead man was identified as
Dominick Caffodio of Alameda, and
the injured man in whose automobile
the bomb exploded is Angelo C. Luca
of San Francisco. Luca said CafTido
was carrrying the bomb in a suit
case between his knees when it ex
ploded, but denied knowing the explo
sive nature of the package until the
blast had been detonated tearing the
altomobile to pieces and blowing Caf
fodi to bits, and breaking windows in.
houses within a block of the explosion.
The explosion occurred early Sunday
as did the attempts to wreck the Hail
of Justice and repeated attempts to
bomb the church of St. Peter and Paul.
EUROPEAN STATES
CONTINUE Y1S 70
YEARS; NO FIGHTING
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1. (^)-War
still exists—more or less—in Europe.
The oldest republic in the world,
San Marino, is in a state of hostility
with Austria, and has been since the
! Italian war of independence in 1859.
| Similarly, the Isle of Man has not
| made peace with Russia since the
i Crimean war in 1854.
; San Marino is the smallest republic
j in the world, having a population of
9,500. Established in the tenth cen
tury, it enjoys sovereignty over 32
square miles on the top of the steepest
mountain in the Italian Peninsula.
That sovereignty has been respected
for 900 years by popes and kings, and
even the mighty Napoleon.
Occupying its mountain top, with
a sheer drop of 2,437 feet on one side,
San Marino has always felt safe from
invasion, although its army numbers
only -,200 men and its artillery con
sists of one 75 mm. field piece, pre
sented to it after the World war by
the King of Italy. Its gun has never
been fired, since no matter how it
might be pointed the shot would land
in foreign territory and cause interna
tional complications.
The Isle of Man is the lozenge
shaped island which has plenty of
room in the Irish sea, being 33 miles
long and 12 miles wide. It enjoys vir
tually the status of a dominion in the
British commonwealth. Through its
Legislature the House of Keys, it for
. mally followed England in declaring
• war on Russia in 1854, and its popula
i tion, then about 50,000, enthusiastical
■ ly did its “bit." Since then, the House
! of Keys has never seen fit to end the
state of war.