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VOLUME XXII. NUMBER'LL - <— SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL 29,1927.
PRICE TEN CENTS
GENERAL ADVANCE
NOTED m SEATTLE j
EUR AUCTION SALE ,
WHITE FOX ADVANCES TEN KLK ,
CENT—ALL MUSKRATS DIS
* POSED OF <<
SEATTLE. April 29. (£>1—General
advances in fox prices were noted at
the opening day of the Seattle Fur
Exchange montly auction sale con
cluded Friday. Prices as reported by
J. E. Agnew, general manager of the
e-xohange follow: Red fox averaged
$25.75, white fox advanced 10 per cent
averaging S42.40. Virtually all musk
rat were sold at an average of $2.08.
Cross fox increased 10 per cent over
the open market figures with best su- <
periors fetching $105. A collection
averaged $74.10. Lynx went rapidly
on the open market on an average of
?33.
4 CHILES TAKES STEPS |
TO AVERT BIG DEFICIT:
ORDERS CUT IN BUDGET OF FIF
TY MILLION PESOS—WILL PAY
FOREIGN CLAIMS
MEXICO CITY, April 29. (/P>—To
avert a threatened treasury deficit
President Calles has issued orders
conferring on the Secretary of the
Treasury the powers of financial dic
tator. The President has ordered a
reduction of at least 50.000.000 pesos
in this year’s government budget, the
utmost economy in all government ex
pt sditures and the sharpest vigilance
in collecting all taxes and revenues
due the government. The dcree pro
vides that foreign debt payments un
der the Pailamon.T agreement will be
scrupulously carried out.
Ml CLERK EMBEZZLER |
IS MD FIVE LEHRS
SAX DIEGO, April 29. (/P)—Five
years in the naval prison at Port
* Smith, N. H.. was the sentence meted
out to Pay Clerk Oster, attached to j
the disbursing office of the Balboa ;
Park naval hospital. He was tried :
and found guilty of embezzlement of
approximately 8500 by manipulating !
the payrolls of the naval hospital. This '
was announced at the Eleventh naval
district headquarters here yesterday.
GIRL GUILTY MANSLAUGHTER j
CHICAGO, April 29. (/p>—Florence i
Stokes, aged 24. telephone operator,
was found guilty of manslaughter in !
the slaying of her sweetheart, James
v Glennon. She is liable to a sentence
of one year to life imprisonment.
_
IS. SNYDER AND FORMER
LOVER FACE EACH OTHER
NEW YORK, April 29. (£>)—Mrs.
luth Snyder and her former lover,
lenry Judd Gray, turned upon each
)ther at the trial for the murder of
VIrs. Snyder’s husband, each charging
>aeh other with the whole guilt of
daying Snyder, as the defense attor
leys made their opening statements.
COMMANDER'S PLANE
FALLS INTO THE SEA
IN APPROACHING COAST
3NE PERSON KILLED AND SEV
ERAL WOUNDED RESULT OF
NEWSPAPER REPORT
RIO JANIERO. April 29. (jPI—Ap
iroaching the Bzarllian coast on a
rails-Aatlantic flight Commander De
Karros’ plane fell into the sea. The
commander and his comrades were
•escued by the Italian steamer Angelo.
Pwo sets of propellers will be shipped
rom Pernambuco to Fernando Noron
la Island to replace those damaged in
he fall. One person was killed and
several wounded in a riot last night
iver a report, alleged to have been
circulated by a newspaper artist, that J
neompetence of the pilots was respon- j
;ib!e for the mishap.
BASEBALL SCORES
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Philadelphia 8, Brooklyn 4.
Cincinnati 1. St. Louis 3.
Chicago 16. Pittsburg 4.
Boston 3, New York 4.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Cleveland 5. Detroit 6.
Washington 7. Philadelphia 15.
St. Louis 1, Chicago 2.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Seattle 3. Portland 2—10 inuings.
Sacramento 2. Oakland 11.
San Francisco 5, Hollywood 3.
oLs Angeles 3, Missions 2—10 in
nings.
LOS ANGELES, April 29. (/P)—Dis
cord among the followers of Aimee j
Semple MacPherson, which reached a
climax last week in a revolt within
her congregation is attributed by the
evangelist’s former musical director1
and leaders of the dissenting parties, |
to a spirit of worldliness at the An- ‘
geles temple. The dissenters held
their first meeting at the church in i
Pasadena Sunday.
FOKKER PUUIIES FOR
CANADIAN SURVEY IN I
ARCTIC AT OTTAWA
FIFTY OFFICERS AND MEN WILL
BE ENGAGED IN PROJECT
THIS SEASON
OTTAWA, April 29. (&)—'The first
of six Fokker seaplanes to be used j
by the Royal Canadian Air Force in j
a 15 months aerial survey of the Can- j
adian Arctic regions arrived here. The;
expedition is leaving Halifax on the |
Canadian government ship Stanley j
early in July. Flights will be made in ;
all kinds of weather to observe fog j
and ice conditions. Five other planes j
will be brought from New York soon.
Nearly 50 officers and men will be en
gaged in the project.
NORTHERN LIGHT AT VICTORIA
VICTORIA. R C.. April 29. </P)—En I
route from San Francisco to the Arc-1
tic with the John Borden Field Muse
um expedition the auxiliary schooner
yacht. Northern Light, berthed at
|
Esquimau last night for minor ad
justments and repairs.
SEATTLE DENTIST FOUND
NOT GUILTY 4G MINUTES
SEATTLE, April 29. </P)—Aftei
deliberating 46 minutes tffce Superior
court jury acquitted Dr. Chester C
Dobbs of the charge of murdering 14
year-old Letitia Whitehall. One bal
lot was taken.
AGREEMENT REACHED
WITH MEXICO ON OIL
GOVERNMENT PROMISES NOT TO
SEIZE LANDS BELONGING TO
AMERICANS
NEW YORK, April 29. (/P)—Presi
dent Coolidge last night revealed thal
a private understanding between the
United States and Mexico had beer
reached under which Mexico would
not seize oil lands belonging to citi
zens of the United States.
FAIL TO RECOVER BODY
SAN FRANCISCO. April 29. (IP)—
Search forthe body of Alfred May
believed to have been drowned in
ocean southwest of Colma, has so fai
proved unavailing.
MOTHER’S DAY
"\
is
MAY EIGHTH
MARK it down so that you won't
i” forget it. On that day Ameri
ca pays homage to the queen of the
home, “the hand that rocks the
cradle" and thereby “rules the
world"
CONCENTRATION OF
THOUSANDS OF RESIDENTS OF
TWO CITIES ARRIVE SAFELY
AT NEW ORLEANS
MEMPHIS, Tenn., April 29. (JP)—A
new levee break, immediate threats
of others and continuous inundation
of more territory as the crest of the
flood carries its menace towards the
gulf created further demands upon
the American Red Cross, already bur
dened with its greatest peace-time re
lief necessity. The Red Cross direct
ed the greatest concentration of boats
on the lower Mississippi ever known
to meet possible emergencies.
Around a thousand persons are re
ported marooned about Lake Village,
Ark. The town’s water supply has
failed and there are 1.500 refugees
there drinking lake and river water
which analysis shows contains typhoid
germs.
EVACUATING DISTRICTS
, XEW ORLEANS, April 29. (JF)—
Five thousand residents of St. Ber
nard and Plaquemine parishes are safe
in New Orleans. When the military
authorities reported the area would
be affected by cutting the levee below
New Orleans and should be evacuated
a few resident refused to leave, pre
ferring to take chances with the flood.
HANOI, French Indo-China, April
29. (jp,—A French railway manager
and a number of railway employes
have been captured and carried away
by bandits who cut the railway line
between the frontier and capital of
the Chinese Province of Yunan. Ran
som has bean demanded.
The struggle continues between the
rival factions in Yunan Province, and
thousands of bandits are profiting by
the disorders to commit acts of van
dalism.
IHHN PESCE IS '
IK HUS OF STUN
MEXICO CITY. April 28. (^—Nic
aragua’s last hope for the establish
ment of peace lies in the honesty of
Henry Stimson, said the representa
tive of the Liberal Nicaraguan revolu
tionists when he referred to the per
sonal representative of President
Ccolidge. Such peace is impossible,
he added, if the United States insists on
keeping Diaz in power. The consti
tution provides that the Preside ji t
must be a nat ve-born Nicaraguan.
PLAN TO GO-MAY DAY DANCE SATURDAY
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