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VOLUME XXII. NUMBER 136.
SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JULY 2, 1927.
PRICE TEN CENTS
FILES HER ANSWER
TO CROSS COMPLAINT
DENIES ALLEGATIONS OF CHAR
LEY SAYING ALL BASED ON
HEARSAY
LOS ANGELES, July 2. (JP)—Lita
Grey Chaplin filed answer to the
cross complaint here of her screen
comedian husband Charley, denying
all his allegations and declaring them
based principally on hearsay and with
out foundation of fact. Her first spe
cific charge is improper association of
Chaplin with an unnamed woman
was made in her answer, the occasion,
according to the actor’s wife, being in
July, 1925 at 10:30 in the evening at
a bungalow owned by Chaplin on a
Hollywood studio lot. Similar miscon
duct, she charged occurred at other
times in the Chaplin Beverly Hills
mansion and other places in Southern
California. Answering the more sen
sational charges of the film comedi
an’s counter complaint she denied that
during her marriage she ever had been
infatuated with any man in any sense
other than as an innocent and friendly
preference.
HELEN HILLS DEFEATS
SEMI IT TENNIS
WIMBLEDON, July 2. (£>)—Henri
Conchet, conquerer of Bill Tilden, won
the men’s singles title defeating a
fellow-countryman, Jean Borotra, in
another famous uphill battle by 4-6,
4-6, 6-3, 6-4. 7-5. Helen Wills captured
the women’s singles championship, de
feating Senorita Elia De Alvarez of
Spain 6-2, 6-4.
$22,000 PLEDGED
SAN FRANCISCO, July 2. (/P)—
San Francisco is considering a pro
posal for the San Francisco-Honolulu
flight which was made to the airport
committee for which a $50,000 purse
is being raised. Twenty-two thou
sandd dollars is already pledged.
GIGANTIC FIRE
SACRAMENTO, July 2. (JP)— Merced
county yesterday called upon the
State for help against the gigantic
fire which has raged for four days in
the vicinity of Newman. It has burn-'
ed over 40,000 acres. The towns of
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Gilroy and Hot Springs are in the path
of the fire and fire rangers are re
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cruiting men from every available
source for service.
VANDERBILTS DIVORCED
PARIS, July 2. (jp)—Mr. and Mrs.
William H. Vandervilt were divorced
by the French courts yesterday, when
Mrs. Vanderbilt was awarded a de
cree.
WANT BANK REPORTS
WASHINGTON, July 2. (/P)—The
Comptroller of the Currency has is
sued a call for the condition of all the
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national banks at the close of busi
' ness June 30.
AVIATORS COMPELLED TO FIGHT
WAY THRU DENSE THRONG
TO WAITING AUTOMOBILES
P/VRIS, July 2. (£>)—Byrd and his
companions arrived here, receiving a
tremendouh ovation. So dense was
the throng that the aviators, after a
short reception, had to fight their way
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to waiting automobiles while the
crowd cheered wildly and threw flow
| ers in their path. Men held women
high in the air to watch the passage
of the fliers. i
PLANE IS SALVAGED
plane America was salvaged with the
assistance of fishermen and naval men
from the Cherbourg base. Acosta and
Balchen superintended the job. The
plane was dragged onto the beach and
the engines demounted and carefully
gone over and stowed away. Byrd is
hopeful that the plane will be com
pletely restored to use.
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CHARTS AND RECORDS SAVED
PARIS, July 2. (iT>)—Byrd found to
his happy surprise that most of his
charts and important' records were
saved.
SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE
T. F. Gartland, representative of j
the Interior Department, Washing
ton, D. C., arrived from Juneau yes
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terday on the S. S. Aleutian. Mr. j
Gartland is in Alaska to place la
effect and to co-ordinate various act
jivities of the Interior Department.;
Such co-ordination is authorized by
law which was approved by the last
Congress. Mr. Gartland departed
for Anchorage today but it is learned
he expects to return to Seward with
in a week.
MAY LOSE STATEHOOD
LOS ANGELES, July 2. (£>)— Arizo
na faces loss of her Statehood and
may revert to her former status of a
territory, according to Representative
Joe Crail, who pointed out several il
legal points regarding the Colorado
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river pact and Arizona’s action with
them.
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PREPARE THEIR DEFENSE
LOS ANGGELES, July 2. (£5)—Fifty
bankers, financiers and business men
will appear in court today to answer
charges ranging from usury to conspi
racy to defraud the public, in connec
tion with the Julian Petroleum com
pany’s stock fiasco.
10. DEMPSEY KILLS
WIFE ID SUICIDES;
BROTHER PUGILIST
BEEN SEPARATED FOR SEVERAL
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MONTHS—ARE SURVIVED BY
THREE-YEAR-OLD CHILD
SCHNECTADY, N. Y., July 2. (£>)—
John Dempsey, aged 38, brother of
Jack Dempsey, former heavyweight
champion, shot and killed his wife,
Edna, aged 21, and then turned the
gun on himself, dying almost instantly.
The woman had been livinng in a ;
rooming house several months, and
Dempsey had been an infrequent call
er. After a brief conversation with
the woman both went upstairs. A
few minutes later the landlady heard
three shots. She found the woman
still breathing and called an ambu
lance. Dempsey was dead. The wo
man died before the ambulance ar
rived. A three-year-old daughter,
Ruth, survives.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Boston 4, New York 7.
Detroit 10, Cleveland 5.
Philadelphia 1, Washington 2.
Chicago 12, St. Louis 14.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
New York 6-4, Boston 7-1.
St. Louis 2, Chicago 6.
Brooklyn 6, Philadelphia 7.
Cincinnati 1, Pittsburg 5.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Oakland 4, Seattle 3.
Los Angeles 8, San Francisco 9.
Sacramento 5, Portland 4.
Missions 2, Hollywood 4.
FLIER READY TO HOP
KAKAHA, Hawaii, July 2. (/P)—
The hour for the hop-off of Richard
Grace, civilian flier, for San Francisco
was tentatively set for 7 o’clock a. m.
Honolulu time, but indications are
that there would be a strong and un
favorable wind at that hour, which
caused the pilot to declare that he
might wait longer.
JOHN DREW SINKING
SAN FRANCISCO, July 2. (£>)—
John Drew, veteran actor, who was
stricken ill here, is reported to be
sinking slowly, following several
weeks of illness, and marked with sev
eral relapses when he seemed on the
verge of recovering.
WALKER KAYOS BRITISHER
LONDON, July 2. (/P)—Mickey Walk
er, world’s middleweight champion,
knocked out England’s champion,
Tommie Milligan, in a battle for the
world’s title. Walker knocked out
Milligan after a furious exchange in
the tenth round of what was ito have
been a 20-round fight.
HAS ESCORT 12 PLANES
SELFRIDGE FIELD, MOUNT CLE
MENS, Mich., July 2. (VP)—Lindbergh
hopped oft' for Ottawa accompanied
| by 12 fliers in a pursuit group.
ALASKA "SPUDS" ON SALE
IN SEATTLE MARKETS
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SEATTLE, July 2. (VP)—Another
jolt was given the almost extinct im
pression that Alaska is a cold place
when the Alaska Railroad sent a car
load of potatoes grown in Alaska to
Seattle. The Alaska spuds were sent
to a wholesale house. They are the
first Alaska grown potatoes to reach
! Seattle.
S. S. YUKON IS 8DINGING
255 PASSENGERS NORTH
SEATTLE, July 2. (£>)—'The S. S.
Yukon sailed for Alaska at 9 o’clock
this morning and carried 255 passen
gers. Seward passengers include:
George Moses, George Fitzgerald, H.!
N. Evans, James Girdwood, F. C. Wise
man, Mrs. Warren and son, J. T. Mer-,
neer, wife and child, Miss A. Clapp, j
Miss Warren, Mrs. B. Lockart, D~ F.
Collins and wife, Mr, Colline, Helen
Lowry, Grace Hawthorne. Miss C. Ban
nister, G. Farrigton and wife, A. R.
Hickerson and wife, Mrs. H. B. Davis,
; Miss C. Feeney and sister. E. G. Ma
ther and wife, Miss B. Tait, Elizabeth
Ruppel, E. T. Wolcott, H. Iberton, C.
| A. Balcolm, Dr. G. C. Kilpatrick, O.
M. Thompson and wife, Miss D.
Thompson and sister, Mrs. M. Foy,
! Mrs. M. Warren, T. J. Meier, F. Foy,
J. G. Donaldson, Bulah Leech, Eliza
beth Howard, Wilson Leech and wife,
F. G. Niggeman and wife, Mrs. W. C.
Gordon. Miss L. J. Wallace, Mrs. M.
[ Simel, John Doe, J. Butwell, G. T.
j Masury, Miss B. Peppier, Nucott
Holmes, Miss A. Horner, Miss V. Half,
William Smyser, Mrs. Smyser, Euward
A. Smyser and wife, Edward Smyser,
Jr., Mrs. B. Blaken and daughter, Mrs.
Ed Lindgrin and two daughters. Geo.
T. Arensson, Emma Cody, Mrs. Chas.
Curtis, Mrs. H. Lem, Mrs. J. D. Bur
ton, J. T. Davis, Mrs. R. C. Markuist
and three children, Miss Smith, Tom
Ford, Dr. S. G. Daniers and wife and
three steerage.
WISCONSIN PISSES BEER
BILL BE VOTE OF 17-14
MADISON, July 2. (&)—'The Wis
consin Senate yesterday passed the
Duncan Beer Bill by a vote of 17 to
14 which legalized the manufacture
of 2.75 percent beer, as far as State
Prohibition laws are concerned. It
now goes to Governor Zimmerman,
to either sign or veto.
BALLOONS FOR KIDS
Brown & Hawkins are giving away
free to the kiddies of Seward toy
balloons. “C‘mon skinny!”
COOUDGE RECEIVING
FIRST SOUNDINGS OF
RESENTMENT OF VETO PASSING
WITH HOPE PRESIDENT RE
CONSIDER NEW PROPOSAL
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RAPID CITY, S. D., July 2. (JP)—In
the quiet of his mountain retreat Pres
ident Coolidge is receiving the first
I soundings of popular reaction to the
veto to the McNary-Haugen farm relief
bill in the resident State which is part
of the great agricultural cradle which
supported this farm measure against
others. The President is yet to wel
1 come a visitor with a message other
; than his veto. While deplored at first
in some sections it is no longer spoken
of in harsh or disappointed tones.
Some of his callers predicate their
opinion that resentment of the veto is
passing upon the hope that Coolidge
is considering as' a new relief proposal
one affecting a compromise between
the proponents of an equalization fee
and its opponents.
HUGE ABOLISHES
OFFICE CITY ATTORNEY
(By Special Correspondent)
ANCHORAGE, July 2. (>P)—Three
cases pending in the District court on
appeal from the municipal magis
trate’s court of Anchorage, were dis
missed by Judge Hill this morning be
cause of lack of prosecution. Two of
'the cases were against prominent
citizens of the Inlet city for violating
the traffic ordinance, and the other
was the outgrowth of an argument be
tween an army officer formerly sta
tioned in Anchorage 'and' an ex-soldier.
The City Council of Anchorage, hav
ing abolished the office of municipal
attorney, refused to authorize the em
ployment of an attorney to prosecute
these cases.
ONE DEMlsI
HOT WEATHER IN SOUTH
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SAN FRANCISCO, July 2. (£>)—
Tleat prostrations yesterday caused
one death in San Francisco, and with
the entire state of California swel
tering under excessive heat, warn
ings were sent out by Forest Offi
cials;, on fires in forest Flands.
Hundreds of men have been drafted
to fight forest fires, as well as fires
in the grassed regions of the state.
Tourists are forbidden to build camp
fires in the wooded areas, until the
hazard period is over.
HOT WEATHER IN CHICAGO
CHICAGO, July 2. (JP)—Twenty-one
persons are dead here, following yes
terday’s heat wave.
MARATHON MOUNTAIN RACE SUNDAY 4:00 P.M.