MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXIII. NUMBER I.
SEWARD, ALASKA, Tuesday, January 3, 1928.
PRICE TEN CENTS
SPIES INFORM REBEL COMMAND
ER WHO LAY IN WAIT FOR
U. S. ATTACK
MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Jan. 3. (^P)
—The United States is engaged in a
bitter campaign against rebeis led by
General Augustino Sandino after a
sanguinary battle in which five mar
ines were killed and 23 wounded.
The marines, operating with the
Nicaraguan National Guard, drove
the rebels frona Sandino’s headquar
ters, near Quilali, a few miles south
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of ihe Honduran border, on Friday.
The rebels were informed by spies
of the marine advance and were ful
ly prepared to meet and attack the
patrol with their 500 insurgents, all
well trained and equipped. It is re
garded as certain that Sandino is re
ceiving outside aid because his meh
wrere better equipped and armed than
..
It is estimated that for every
marine killed the rebels lost 10. The
marines suffered the heaviest cas
ualties since the American forces
landed here a year ago. The dead are;
First Sergeant John E. Hemphill, Cor
poral Adolph The ilk a ft, and Privates
George E. Goldsmith, Grady A. Wat
son and Estler Grosson.
ANCHORAGE, Jan. *3. (/P)—The
Pioneers are sending an invitation to
- Colonel Chas. A. Lindbergh to visit
Alaska with a plane next year be
lieving such a visit will focus nation
al attention in the development of
commercial aviation in Alaska.
The landing fields throughout the
Territory would permit the “Lone
Eagle” to visit all the important com
munities. The Pioneers will suggest
a route about the same followed by
the Army airmen, in the New York
to Nome flight, of a number of years
ago. This was to Fairbanks, thence
Anchorage, then to Nome by way of
the Kuskokwim.
MRS. LINDBERGH HOME
FROM EPOCAL FLIGHT
DETROIT, Jan. 3. (JP)—Smiling
happily, despite their experiences of
the last three days when a snow
storm twice forced to earth the Ford
monoplane in which she was a pas
senger, Mrs. Lindbergh stepped from
the ship's cabin at the Ford airport
epocal ronnd-trip flight to the capi
yesterday afternoon completing an
tal city of Mexico.
10 TRIPLE THU
WRECKS IN EAST
FOUR ARE KIEEED
MANY ARE INJURED WHEN
TRAINS CHASH INTO REAR
ENDS STANDING CARS
CHICAGO, Jan. 3. (/P)— J. O. Staf
ford and 11 others were injured in a
triple train accident on the Chicago
and Southbend Electric Railroad,
near Kessington and Stafford.
Stafford and Motorman Gary, of
the express train, were crushed to
death when the train crashed into
t'.e rear of the Southbend Limited
which was stalled on the tracks be
hind a disabled local train.
The accident was a duplication of
the wreck on the Chicago and Alton
Railroad, in Chicago on Saturday,
when two women were killed and 50
other persons were injured in a triple
rear end collision.
SHUT THREATENED
IKIES
SKAGWAY, Jan. 3, (/P)—This town
was threatened with destruction cn
Saturday when fire started in an old
warehouse, while a 60-mile gale raged
and the thermometer stood at 3 above
zero.
The building was owned by C. W.
Ask & Son and was totally destroyed.
An adjoining garage, an old commis
sary and store building, were also
burned up.
- Firemen kept the flames from
spreading with great difficulty.
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PASADENA, Jan. 3. (£>)—In a glo
rious final to an up and down season
Stanford trampled the (great Pitts
burgh team to win the annual tour
nament of roses game, score 7 to 6.
A colorful throng of 55,000 saw the
“Cardinals” make a thrilling come
back in the third period after a heart
rending break which set them at the
short end of a 6 to 0 score. On Stan
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(ford’s fumble, recovered by Pitts
I burgh, Hagen running 19 yards for a
l touchdown, was lashed into fury by
| the sudden reverse of the cards and
threw everything into one great of
fensive to caipture the game one
point making the margin.
J. B. Gdttsteln, Inlet business man,
who came in from the States on the
S. S. Alaska, left for the Interior yes
terday. ' - -
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NEWSPAPER PLANT
DYNAMITED: CHOI
LAWLESS ELEMENT DIRECT AN
j GER AGAINST BIG SCRANTON
DAILY PAPER
SCRANTON, Penn., Jan. 3. (/P)—
Three were injured and thousands of
N6w Year revellers were thrown into
a panic when windows, in a radius
of three blocks, were shattered by an
explosion of 16 sticks of dynamite
which damaged the three story plant
of the Scranton Sun, an evening news
paper.
Just as bells were tolling the New
Year the explosion o-ccured and au
thorities believe the blast was a re
prisal of the lawless element against
the Sun, as an institution, and not di
rectly toward any individual.
Hundreds of celebrants, leaving
nearby dance halls, were showered
with bits of glass and other debris.
SENDING MORE'* MARINES
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 3. (;P)—
Move marines, under orders to sail
for Nicaragua with five officers, a to
tal cf 150, will sail from New York
soon. Evidently the orders were re
ceived several days ago but made pu
blic Sunday night.
The five late marine deaths brot
the corps total up, since May, to 20.
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PEIS. ILL THREE DAYS
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PARIS, Jan. 3. (/P)—Lois Fuller,
who became the center of controver
sy during tlie visit to the United
States of Queen Marie, died of pneu
monia after a 10 day illness.
A half-dozen physicians worked in
relays night and day administering
oxygen but her life ebbed out as the
Newr Year came in.
IJHNEAU STREETS SWAY
WHEN QUAKE STIES
JUNEAU, Jan. 3, (/P)—An earth
shock, lasting from 15 to 30 seconds,
occured here Saturday morning at
eight minutes after 10 o’clock. *
Merchants reported articles on
shelves rattled and the barometers
in the Weather Bureau station were
shaken. Pedestrians said the streets
swayed.
DOG DERBY RUN OFF
RUBY, Jan. 3. (/P)—The second an
nual dog derby at Kikrines over a
six and one-half miles course was
won by Harry Pitka; .time 27 min
utes and eight seconds. Lena Cleav
er won the ladies race in 32 minutes
and 12 seconds.
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BED MEN HOLD
UP INN AND KILL
INTENDED TO KILL BOXER WHO
WAS NOT IN PLACE, SAY AU
THORITIES
BUFFALO, N. Y., Jan. 3! (/P)—
While the New Year’s celebration was
at its height, in the Peacock Inn,
three men, two of them masked, all
of whom had entered the place to kill
a former boxer, shot and killed
Michael George, aged 30, the proprie
ter of the Inn, and fatally wounded a
girl patron. Three others were shot.
The police said a man by the name
of Laving was the man sought and he
was not in the place.
Charlotte Gaiser, a stenographer
who was on her first visit to the place,
aged 20 years, died ill the Emergency
hospital with a bullet in her brain.
The gunmen escaped after emptying
their revolvers into the room.
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HOST 13 UUI
SAN SALVADOR, Jan. 3. (/P)—The
inhabitants of the smallest' Central
American republic are celebrating
the arrival of Colonel Chas. A Lind
bergh. After spending the day here
the Colonel expected to fly 140 miles
■to Tegucigaler, Honduras, less than
30 miles north of the section where
United States marines are engaged
in a severe campaign against rebels.
CORDOVA, Jan. 3. (/P)—’The three
weeks search for the little motorship
Pioneer ended with the finding of the
bodies of her two occupants frozen
to death on Strawberry Point, 10 miles
from Cordova.
The wreckage of the craft was lit
tered on the beach and was mute evi
dence of her struggle against storms
and ice floes. The finding of the
boat’s skiff right side up indicated it
had broken loose taking away the
sailors only chance of escape.
The bodies of Capt. William Taylor
and Engineer Harry Hart, who man
ned the craft were found on New
Year’s day by the launch Virginia,
one of several government boats
which had been searching for the
Pioneer, which plied between Cordova
and Katalla.
Contrary to other items elsewhere
in this issue Jack McCord is not
leaving today for the Westward but
expects to the latter part of the week.
AVALANCHE SWEEPS
OVER TRACK, TRAIN
PLUNGES TO RIVER
PORTLAND TRAIN OF 11 COACH
ES FEELING WAY THROUGH
BLINDING STORM
PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 3. (ff)—
Five were injured and 90 had a nar
row escape from death or feerious in
jury when a Union Pacific train,
bound for Portland from Salt Lake
and feelings its way through a ter
rific blizzard, crashed into a slide 30
miles east of Portland.
An avalanche cf snow, ice and
rock, hurled down the side of Colum
bia Gorge from 1,500 feet above the
tracks, obliterating the rails and high
way.
Two locomotives, pulling a train of
11 coaches, were struck. In the lead
were the engines, mail car, baggage
car, and these plunged, over the river
bank into shallow water. All but two
of the cars were derailed and were
hanging over the river at a perilous
45 degree angle Wiien the passengers
were safely removed from them.
PLANE FORCED DOWN
EDWARDS3URGH, Mich., Jan. 3,
(J-P)—The airplane carrying Mrs. Lind
bergh and party from Mexico City to
Detroit, were forced down on a field
here on Sunday, during a terrific
snow and sleet storm.
SLIF016 “BOllS"
DEFEAT PENNSYLVANIA
DUE REDHEADED FLASH
BEREKLEY, Cal., Jan. 3. (£>)—In
the finest display of individual play
ing ever seen here this year, “Brick”
Oarcus of California, beisrjrctacled
halfback, closed his football career
by almost • single handedly enabling
the California “Bears” defeat Penn
sylvania 27 to 13.
Coming into the game near the end
of the third period, with the teams
tied at 13 to 13, the redheaded flash
instilled new life into the weary
Californian squad with brilliant end
runs, great passing and snagging,
crossing the Penn line twice in the
last quarter mounting up the winning
total.
INTERUHBAN TRAINS IN
GEORGIA CUSH 3 DEAD
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MARIETT, Georgia, Jan. 3. (JP)—
The head on collission of two inter
urban electric cars, attributed indi
rectly to freezing weather, killed
three persons and injured 12. The
crash occured when a northbound
train ran past a signal into an empty
car.