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VOLUME XXII.
NUMBER 122.
SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JUNE 16,1927. .
PRICE TEN CENTS
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LINDBERGH AGAIN j
DEMONSTRATES HE
NEEDS ND SLEEP
FLIES TO WASHINGTON, D. C., IN
“WE SMA’ ” HOURS OF THE
MORNING
NE^y YORK, June 16. (^—Lind
bergh, who flew to Washington in the ;
small hours of the morning for the j
“Spirit of St. Louis” returned at 7:57 j
this morning. The trip was made in ;
less than five hours. He left here in '
a borrowed army plane at 3 o’clock,,
arriving at Bolling Field, Washington, |
at 4:44. He took off for New York;
at 5:09. The flight again demonstrat
ed the ability of the flier to do with
out sleep. He had attended a mid
night benefit show for the missing
French fliers, and unexpectedly left
the theatre for the air field. Catching
the reporters unawares, he took a
short nap before another day of re
ceptions.
INDESTRUCTIBILITY
(iecoro is mu ey
HOSPITAL PATIENT
MAN SLASHES WRISTS, JUMPS
THROUGH WINDOW, STRIKES
CAR, BURSTS WINDOW
LOS ANGELES, June 16. (/P)—Fe
lice Mazzina, 37 years old, 'vvas recov
ering at the receiving hospital last
night after having hung up what the
police declared was a new record for
indestructibility. Last night, accord
ing to the police reports, Mazinna
rented a room| at a hotel and after go
ing to bed. slashed both his wrists,
slashed his throat with a knife and
stabbed himself in the breast. A
chambermaid looked in the room and
at once sent for the police. With the
arrival of the officers, Mazzina leaped
through the window, struck the top of
a car, and was hurled through a plate
glass front of a store. He told the
officers that he had attempted to take
his life wThen despondent over financial
difficulties.
CANADA REGRETS RECENT
ACTION ON IMMIGRATION
WASHINGTON. June 16. (IP)—
Canada, in reply to Secretary Kel
logg’s recent note on American Imi
gration Policy, regrets Gie action and
protests that those crossing the bord
er daily for business should not be
considered as being immigrants.
PRINCE SWELL DANCER
PARIS, June 16. (IP)—For the sec
ond time within three months, Prince
Henry of England distinguished him
self in the field of terpsichore by win
ning a black bottom contest at a
Montmartre night club.
MISSING FISHERMAN IS
FOUND DEAD IN BAY
KETCHIKAN, June 16. (/P)—'The
body of John Aspaugh, fisherman, was
found in the bay at the west end of
Ketchikan. The police have been
searching for Aspang since May 13,
when he was reported missing. A
coroner’s jury attributed his death to
accidental drowning.
ASSASSIN QF SOVIET
MINISTER SENTENCED
TO PENAL SERVITUDE
EUROPE IS PRESENTING UNITED
FRONT AGAINST RUSSIA, SAYS
REPORT
WARSAW, June 16. (£>)—Boris
Kowceda, who assassinated Soviet
Minister Voskoff, was sentenced to
penal servitude for life and loss of all
civil rights,
At Geneva the Anglo-Soviet break,
the assassination of the Soviet envoy
to Poland and the Southern Europe
impasse involving Jugoslavia and Al
bania are factors in a situation caus
ing undisguised concern to states
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men attending the League of Nations
Council. Some are reported to hold
!
it imperative that preventive steps
be instituted at once to avert an out
break of war. Various diplomatic
'clouds and danger of giving the im
pression in Moscow that Europe is
forging a united front aganist Russia
has led to the brakes being put! on the
original plan to take formal’collective
action denouncing Communist propa
ganda abroad.
PANAMA NEGOTIATE
! TREJITY OF DEFENSE
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TO MEET THE NEEDS OF THE AM
ERICAN PEOPLE SATISFY OB
LIGATIONS
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MEXICO CITY, June 16. (£>)—Pan
ama and the United States are nego
tiating a new treaty which will meet
the needs of the American people, in
the matter of national defence, and at
the same time satisfy the obligations
|of the Isthmus republic, as a member
of the League of Nations. This decla
j ration was made today by the Minister
of Panama to Mexico and Cuba. The
new agreement will take the place of
the one that provoked a world contro
versy several months ago when a
diplomatic leak resulted in it become
ing public property, before it had been
voted on by the Panamaian Congress.
AVIATORS LEAVE HANOVER
HANOVER, June 16. (JP)—Chamber
lin and Levine arrived from Frankfort
on their way to Bremen.
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THROUGHOUT RUSSIA i
AT DANGER POINT
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EUROPEAN POWERS ABANDON
CONCERTED PLAN AGAINST
PROPAGANDA
LONDON, June 16. (£>)—Fear of
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arousing Russian nationalist feeling
to a danger point caused abandonment
of the plan for concerted warning by
the European powers against further
Communist propaganda abroad and al
leged terrorism by the Soviets at
home. In reconsidering the original
decision the European Ministers in
Geneva are said to have concluded
that formal collective action of the
nature contemplated might create the
impression in Moscow thsit a united
front was being formed against the
Soviet Union. It is believed the Ger
man Foreign Minister will acquaint
the Russian Commissar Tchitcherin
with the feeling engendered through
out Europe by the activities of the
Third International and warn him in
a friendly way that these activities
are militating against Russia.
ROGERS HORNSBY WILL
the manrs job
ST. LOUIS, June 1C. (£>)—John J.
McGraw, manager of the Giants, an
nounced that Rogers Hornsby, former
manager of the St. Louis Cardinals,
now captain of the Giants, become ac
tive manager next year. McGraw
said he is getting tired of traveling,
i and would turn over his duties to
Hornsby.
BASEBALL SCORES
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
San Franciscol 8, Los Angeles 9.
Seattle 4, Oakland S.
Hollywood 10, Miissions G.
Portland 2, Sacramento 3.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
New York 0, St. Louis 5.
Philadelphia 5, Chicago 12.
Brooklyn 2, Cincinnati 1.
Boston 4, Pittsburg 7.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Chicago 6, Philadelphia 4.
St. Louis-Boston—rain.
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IN CUSTOOY IN HH
WINNIPEG, June 16. (£>)— A man
who escaped from Killarney jail 15
minutes after being lodged in a double
locked cell leads to the suspicion that
he might be the “gorilla man,” slayer
of a score of women and children in
the United States and Canada. He
was recaptured within a fewj hours af*
ter his escape.
ADMIRAL EVANS SAILS '
FROM SEATTLE NORTH
SEATTLE, June 16. (>P)—The S. S.
Admiral Evans sailed at 10 o’clock yes
terday morning. Among passengers
destined to Seward are: Garnett C.
Watt, Herbert Norris, Jr., Irene Jones,
J. H. Stewart, Mrs. J. H. Stewart, Guy
H. Bergman, Mrs. G. H. Bergman,
Emma Jean Bergman, P. E. Baseler,
Miss J. Hart and one steerage.
JUDGE CHALLENGED
TO FISTIC BUTTLE
TIKES DECISION
STEPPING FROM BENCH TAKES
TWO WALLOPS AT IRATE
SALESMAN
j MODESTO, Calif., June 16. (£>)—
Stern justice gave way to justice of
the fists! here, yesterday afternoon. A
real estate salesman demanded that
the court issue an arresting order
against an 18-year-old youth. The
court refused, saying that the evidence
!
did not warrant it. The judge was
j then challenged to fistic combat.
Stepping from the bench, he scored a
' one-round victory over his opponent,
then took his place on the bench and
proceeded to send his opponent to jail.
Twenty minutes later he relented and
freed him.
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NO MOVIES, TAKES POISON
HOLLYWOOD, Calif., June 16. (£>)—
Because her husband refused to take
her to the movies Mrs. Mary St.
Cheeir took poison and died last night.
FUND IS INCREASED TO $130,000
FOLLOWING CHARGES THAT
USUARY WAS PRACTICED
LOS ANGELES, June 16. (£>)—'The
restitution fund of the Julian Petro
leum Corporation, consisting of inter
est on loans said to have been made at
usurious interest rates, causing a huge
stock over-issue, was fattened to the
extent of $130,000 today after City
Prosecutor E. J. Yickley had issued a
usury complaint against three Los An
geles men.
CRIMINAL CHARGES HOLD
LOS ANGEGLES, June 16. (^—Al
though financiers who loaned money
on alleged usurious rates to the Ju
lian Petroleum corporation have in
some instances made restitution, that
does not automatically release them
of criminal charges, was the an
nouncement at the district attorney’s
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office yesterday. It was pointed out
that the grand jury will go ahead with
the investigation and' should it be
found that there is grounds for crimi
nal action, such action will be taken.
iiyGESSF.fi ID GOLI
ARE REPORTED ALIVE
IN QUEBEC WOODS
LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE RE
PORT RECEIVED — DISTRESS
FLARES VISIBLE
MOTHER GETS PHONE CALL
. QUEBEC, June 16. (JP)—It is unot
j ficially reported here that the French
! aviators, Nungesser and Coli, were
found alive. The information came
from River Bend through an employe
named Blair, in the district north of
Saguenay river. The information was
contained in a telephone message to
Blair’s mother, who lives in Quebec.
CHICOUTIMI, Quebec, June 16. (IP)
—Reports received here from towmen
employed in the Lake St. John region,
stated they again had sighted last
night what they believed to be dis
tress signals coming from the direc
tion of St. Germain township. The
flares were previously reported in this
district leading to the hope that the
signals might come from the missing
I French aviators, Nungesser and Coli.
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REPORT UNFOUNDED
QUEBEC, June 16. (/P)—Investiga
| tion disclosed that there is no foun
j dation for the report that Nungesser
and Coli are alive at River Bend.
UNITED STATES COURT HOLDS
GOVERNMENT WAS WRONG IN
SEIZING VESSEL
NEW ORLEANS, June 16. (/P)—The
United States Circuit Court of Ap
peals yesterday ordered the United
States marshal and Federal prohibi
tion agents to turn over to J. K. Hart
wig, its owner, the schooner Chiquita,
■which was seized by the coast guard
in August, 1025, about 35 miles out of
the Gulf of Mexico. The schooner
contained a cargo of liquor valued at
$85,000.
The United States court held that
the government was wrong in seizing
the vessel because it flew the Hondu
rian flag. The owner proved that it
was a Hondurian registered vessel,
plying between Havana and Truxillo,
Honduras. Since seizure, the vessel
has sunk, and is practically unfit for
navigation.
JONES HEADS DELEGATION
WASHINGTON, June 16. (/P)—The
United States delegation to .the Nav
al Conference, to be held in Geneva
will be led by Rear Admiral Jones.
It was said that an appointment of a
Cabinet Officer to the delegation ia
unlikely.