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VOLUME XXII, NUMBER 202
. SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1927.
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PRICE TEN CENTS
UAL AVIATORS MET
El MOJAVE DESERT
EiOIITE SPOKANE
FORCED INLAND BY FOGS AND
CRASHED; CARRYING SPARE
PARTS FOR RACERS
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 19. (£>)—'The
three naval aviators, apparently lost
in the Mojave Desert when they were
forced inland by fogs at sea, crashed
to their deaths hundreds of miles from
here. The dead are Lieutenant
Eaton Booth, pilot attached to the
staff of Rear Admiral Reeves of San
Diego; and machinist mates C. S. Har- j
rison and Kenneth McRae. The plane j
had been dispatched to Spokane with
spare parts for the air derby and the
flyers were ordered to proceed along
the coast, but probably were forced
inland by low haze.
I
IS
RUBY, Sept. 19. (/P)—'The gas boat;
Dorothy, in command of Captain Wil
liam Burk, left for Nenana with sev- j
eral round trip excursionists and a
barge load of dried fish. The Dorothy
will load at Nenana a cargo of per
ishables for Ruby merchants and leave
just before the ice starts to run.
JACK SPOILING FOH
FIGHT IS IMPRESSION
LINCOLN FIELD, CRETE. 111., Sept.
19. (/P)—Dempsey is leaving the im
pression he is just spoiling for a
fight and engaged Sunday in a final
boxing manner in which he whaled
four sparring partners. He has left
the impression he has reached his
oldtime fighting form. Dempsey rad
iated confidence, boxing skill, speed
in ring, and will be victorious and if
there is anyting wrong with him the
critics have been unable to detect it.
PARIS, Sept. 19. (IP)—Peacetime |
mobilization of 26,000 American Le-1
gion* members has been completed.
The Legionnaires spent part of Sun
day in churches of all denominations
where special services had been ar
ranged. They then proceeded to take
in the sights with the Boulevards and
the Champs Elysees as their favored
promenades.
AVIATOR MISSING
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 19. (/P)—Mar
tin Jensen, flying with Lion on a non
stop flight to San Diego to New York
is still unaccounted for today, two
and a half days after he left San Die
go.
FLIERS ARE SAFE
APACHE LODGE, ROOSEVELT,
Ariz., Sept. 19. (JP)—Martin Jensa \
the San Diego-New York flier, has
been located at H Bar Ranch, at Chil
sons, on the upper Rye Creek, 40 miles
north of here, Jensen and Lion are
both safe. -
FOKKERPASSENGER
PLANE CRASHES IN
JERSEY, SEVEN DIE
FAMOUS EUROPEAN PLANE HAD
BEEN IN SERVICE BUT FOR
TWO MONTHS
PLAINFIELD, N. J., Sept. 19. <£>)—
Seven persons were killed and five
injured when a Fokker airplane, whicfe
had flown over all the airways of Eur
ope and made one famous trip from
Holland to West Africa, crashed in an
apple orchard near here. The ma
chine was owned by the Reynolds Air
ways, and brought to this coutry from
Holland two months ago. It set out
from the Hadley field with its load
of passengers who were seeking their
first thrill in the air.
BODY EDITOR FOUND
NEW YORK, Sept. 19. (JP)—1The bo
dy of Lionel Stratchey, editor and
author, widely known in the United
States and a member of a prominent
British family, was found among the
dead listed as unknown in the mor
gue. He was run down and killed by a
locomotive on August 31.
FRISCO PREPARES Tfl
GREET LINDBERGH
CONQUEROR OF THE ATLANTIC
WAS DUE TO ARRIVE ON
SATURDAY
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 19 (JP)—
California’s metropolis is prewiring
to give Colonel Charles Lindbergh,
the boy conqueror of the Athiir.ic
the most rousing welcome ever given
a human being by a city the size of
the Western City. The young avia
tor was expected to arrive in his
trans-Atlantic plane “The Spirit of
St. Louis” about noon Saturday from
Spokane. Immediately on his arri
val he will be feted in a round of
events until he retires late at night.
Then on the next day he will again
be lionized by the city. Later in the
day he will continue South.
SENTENCED TO DEATH
OKMULGEE, Okla., Sept. 19. (JP)—
Matthew Kimes, youthful outlaw, was
sentenced to death when the jury con
victed him of murder in connection
with a double bank robbery at Beggs
in which nine bandits killed the chief
of police.
CHAIRMAN OF BOH
DIRECTORS BE QUIZZED
NEW YORK, Sept. 19. (^—Ger
hard M. Dahl, chairman of the Board
of Directors of the Brooklyn-Man
hatten Transit Co. must tell the
city investigating committee how
much stock of Interborough rapid
transit he owns or go to jail, courts
rule. The action is part of the city’s'
attempt to reclaim Brooklyn sub-1
ways system.
JACK CHALLENGES
TINE! IN LETTER
ANSWER QUESTIONS
ON FORMER FIGOT
PENDING BATTLE ENLIVENED BY
PUBtICATION OF SUGGESTIVE
LETTER
TUNNEY CONSIDERS LETTER
CHEAP APPEAL PUBLIC SYM
PATHY
CHICAGO, Sept, 19. (>P)—The battle
atmosphere of the world’s heavy
weight championship spectacle was
enlivened with the publication in the
Chicago Herald and Examiner of a
copyrighted open letter upder Demp
sey’s signature challenging Gene Tun
ney to answer a series of questions
about asserted events leading up to
the title fight of'last September. The
Philadelphia newspaper story which
quotes Jack Dempsey as suggesting
the fight may have been framed asks
Tunney to reveal “all angles involved
in the suit which Max “Boo Boo” Hoff,
of Philadelphia, fired at you” and ex
plain “why a lot of gamblers made a
huge betting plunge on you to win the
fight after you and Hoff and Billy Gib
son, your manager, had one of those
conferences”.
In reply Tunney telegraphed Demp
sey, “My reaction is to ignore your
open letter completely; I cannot resist
saying, however, I consider it a cheap
appeal for public sympathy. Do you
think this is sportsmanlike?” .
Reciting the receipt by Dempsey of
“a tip” on the evening of the Philadel
phia fight that there “was something
phony” about it and that he was told
“some sort of a deal had been made
whereby somebody was going to steal
my title,” Dempsey’s open letter asks
why Gibson entered .into an agreement
with Hoff to borrow #20,000 on the
understanding this amount would be
paid if Tunney lost but if Tunney Avon
“Gibson would pay back to Hoff the
$20,000 as sort of bonus and you
(Tunney end) were to give Hoff 20
per cent of all your earnings as champ
ion.” Hoff, now in Philadelphia, is a
boxing fan and a political power, the
letter says.
GENERAL ELECTION
RETURNS IRELAND
GOVERNMENT LEADS
OPPOSITIONS POLLS 51 AGAINST
THE TOTAL GOVERNMENT
STRENGH OF 58
DUBLIN, Ireland Sept. 19. (^—In
complete general election returns give
the government a total strength of 58
against 51 for the oopposition parties.
The composition of 'fhe government
combination is, government party 44;
farmers 4; independents 10. The op
position is composed of De Valerites
38; Labor 10; Irish League 2; Work
ers Union 1.
'BODY OF SIX YEAR
I OLD GIRL IS FOUND
YOUTH CONFESSES
jPARENTS OF 14 YEAR OLD BOY
ARRESTED CHARGED OB
STRUCTING JUSTICE
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, Sept. 19.
(,/P)—Lyle Messner, age 14, confessed
to the slaying of Kathleen Forrest,
age 6, last Tuesday. The girl’s body
was found stuffed into a hole in the
basement of a vacant house after an
all night search. Lyle was arrested
at Rock Island, 111., Saturday. Suffo
cation caused the girl’s death. The
boy’s father and mother were also
arrested and charged with obstruct
ing justice. The story is told by the
boy is recounted by the police who de
j dared he left the girl’s body lying on
| the floor of the basement but it was
1 not in this position when found. The
; police said they would question the
boy’s father who is said to have been
i '
seen in the house before the body was
found.
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MURDERER KILLED
SAN QUENTIN PRISON, Sept. 19.
(JP)—Hary Fisher, indian murderer
serving time in prison here was soht
down by a prison guard when he at
: tempted to kill a fellow prisoner.
SILL LISTING 1
THES.S.JLEUTI
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ALASKA STEAMSHIP LINER DE
PARTED FROM SEATTLE WITH
BUT 83
_
i SEATTLE, Sept. 19. (/P)—1The S. S.
! Aleutian of the A. S. S. Co., sailed
j Saturday morning at 9 o'clock carry
| ing 83 passengers. Those booked
| through to Seward were F. H. Long,
■J. W. Ma-nson, W. Peck, C. F. Craw
• ford, Mrs. Weir and son, Verna Wheel
er, Mrs. Turner, Mrs. Shultz, Dr. A. J.
! Buckingham, Mr. and Mrs. Peterson
1 and son, Mr. and Mrs. Kunkle, Louise
Davis, Helen E. D. Miller, ahd four
! steerage.
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ENGLISH ACTOR DIES
j LONDON, Sept. 19. (/P)—Arthur
[Bourchur, noted English actor-man
jager, died at Johannesbourgh, South
‘Africa. One of his famous produc
tions was on health.
TO CUT BIG MELLON
| SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 19. (£>)—
The Bank of Italy announced last
night a Christmas melon of more than
$65,000 would be cut out this winter.
CROSS COUNTRY PURE
ICE IS UNDER WAY
NEW YORK, Sept. 19. (#>)—Twenty
five light commercial planes tookoff
on the first leg of the cross country
flight to Spokane. The start was made
-at 6:01 Eastern standard time, and
the last of the starters left at 6:32.
The take-offs were made at one min
ute intervals with smoothness and
precision.
TUiEY IS FAVORITE
DEMPSEY SENTIMENTAL CHOICE
TO LAND KNOCKOUT IF ONE
OCCURS
CHICAGO, Sept. 19. (£>)—Gene Tun
ney is the favorite in betting circles,
but not by a convincing margin as
most of the title-holders have been.
In spite of his youth and superior
boxing ability and the fact he out
pointed Dempsey by a wide margin
last September, Tunney is- being back
ed generally at odds of eight to five.
Some profess to see a downward trend
and mention of odds six to five, but
this is merely simple variance of
opinion for Tunney generally picked
to win, especially if the fight goes the
limit. Dempsey is the sentimental
choice and is the favorite to land a
knockout if one is to occur.
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LEGIONNAIRES
SPECIAL TRAIN
I
| PARIJ, Sept. 19. (/P)—While Com
i niunists were enthusiastically' pl^n*
nig to hold a quiet conference on the
outskirts of Paris during American
Legion Day, the rest of the city wras
; interested in decorating the thorough
| fares in anticipation of the arrival of
| a special train carrying the last detail
i of Legionnaires from Cherbourg,
; where they landed a few' days ago.
FIGHTING HE IS
IN PINE CONDITION
LAKEVILLA, 111., Sept. 19. (£>)— Be
I for a crowd of 4,000 Tunney took
■ his last public workout. It was also
the last serious drill for the champ
ion who wiH coast the rest of the way
engaging in light workouts Monday,
'exercising on Tuesday and Wednes
day. The fighting marine impressed
the experts with his fine condition,
speed and boxing ability.
RUTH ELDER IS FRET
TO MARE OCEAN HOP
NEW YORK, Sept 19. (/P)-MiS3
Ruth Elder is now free to attempt her
non-stop flight across the Atlantic. J.
J. Lanin, owner of the Roosevelt
flying field said he would permit the
i
young woman and her pilot to take
off on the hazardous voyage but hop
ed she would not do so. Federal
authorities refused to ban pioneering
flights or would recommend no offi
cial action aganist sea trips. Miss El
,der may start her voyage immediate
ly.
HUGHES IS FAVORITE
WASHINGTON, Sept. 19. (£>)—
Further indications that Secretary
Mellon favors Charles Evans Hughes
for President was announced here
yesterday when. Mellon declared that
the Administration was keenly in fav
or of Hughes.