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VOLUME XX111 NUMBER 156
SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY JULY 6,1928.
PRICE TEN CENTS
MUMMIFIED REMAINS
STONE AGE MAN IS
FOUND IN ALASKA
^ HAROLD MC CRACKEN EXPEDI
TION UNCOVER BODIES OF
THREE ADULTS, INFANT
NEW YORK, July 6, Up)—Disov
I
ery of what is believed to be the
mummified remains of a Stone Age
man is described in a dispatch in the
New York Times from Harold Me
Ciacken, head of the expedition of
the American Museum of Natural j
History, to the Aleutian Islands.
Four mummified bodies, three
adults and one infant, were found on
the summit of almost an inaccessible j
island along with clothing, domestic;
articles, hunting weapons, and other j
paraphenalia that went with the bur
ial of early barbarians.
The tomb bore evidence of Mongo
lian influence and nothing indicated
contact with ancient or modern civ
ilizations. The vault was made in a
v.ell shape, mortised with drift logs,
held together by bone nails and was
wedged in a rock crevice.
The lining of the vault was of cur
' ed otter skins; the vault was devided
in two parts. In one was the mao,
evidently of high rank, the other two
adults and child, w'ere in the second
compartment.
'The ice king was clothed in orter
skins surmounting a short shirt mad 2
from birds. Both were elaborately
decorated and wrapped around tb2
body were skins of northern animals
surmounted by a layer of wove a
grass, the whole enclosed in a parch
ment-like layer of sealion intestines.
The other bodies were less elaborate,
ly dressed and are believed to he
servants.
ALASKA STEAMSHIP COMPANY
LINER BRINGS DOWN HUGE
CARGO OIL, SALMON ~
SEATTLE, July 6. (^—Completing
its first voyage to Bering Sea of the
year the S, S. Victoria arrived from
Nome bringing 66 passengers; gold,
600 tons of wh&le oil, and 1,000 tons of
canned salmon. The liner left Nome
June 24.
Aboard were Mr. and Mrs. J. S.
Scupholm, whom the Northland took
off St. Lawrence Island in response
to radio calls. Mrs. Sculpholm' is
seriously ill suffering from overwork
during the influenza epidemic. j
DIE FROM HEAT
KANSAS CITY, July 6, (/P)—Three
died from heat and George Wells, 60,
was overcome fighting a brush fire.
John McCarter, 65, dropped dead near
his home.
VALET AND STENOGRAPHERS,
NOR PILOT, KNEW HE WAS
GONE UNTIL ARRIVAL
LONDON, July 6. (£*)—Capt. Alfred
Loewenstein, Belgian financier, was
drowned in one of the strangest fat.
ilities on record.
The plane which he was a passen.
ger, was crossing the English Chan,
nel from London to Brussels. His
valet, two stenographers and the pilot,
did not notice the incident until the
arrival when it was learned Laewen,
stein was gone. It is assumed he
opened the wrong door from a com.
partment and fell into the sea, when
he vanted to go to th« washroom.
RESCUE SEEMS NEAR
KINGSBAY, July 6. </P)—Fifty miles
pack of ice seperates the stranded
Italia crew from tlfe icebreaker Kras,
sin. Huge masses of ice halted the
Krassin but the castaways are drift,
ing nearer the vessel.
MAKES OUT NEW OFFICIAL RE
PORT; SUGGESTS NEW SEARCH
BE MADE 15.MILE AREA
ROME, July 6. (/P)—Alhtough still
uncertain as to what happened to the
six men aboard the Italia when it tore
loose from the main gondola, Nobile
still hopes they are alive.
In a new official report telling of
the mystery, Nobile recommended a
'search be made over 15 miles from
the point where the gondola came
down.
He felt the skeleton structure of the
i dirigible would not be found in this
j distance, but it was highly probable it
| had descended a few miles further in
i safety and the men were still alive.
BASEBALL GAMES
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Boston, 0; Philadelphia, 5.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Oakland, 11; San Francisco, 7.
Missions, 1; Seattle, 2, 12 innings.
Hollywood, 4; Portland, 3, 11 in.
nings. ,
Sacramento, 6; Los Angeles, 15.
No National League games played.
THREE DIE IN PLANE
JOILIET, 111., July 6. (£>)—Three
were killed when a wing of a com
mercial airplane crumped as it looped
the loop at an altitude of 1,500 feet.
(MICTION OF
HICll UPHELD i
MURDERER OF MARIAN PARKER
IS ORDERED RE.SENTENCED i
FOR TRIAL
i
SAN FRANCISCO, July 6. (/?)—'The
State Supreme Court upheld the con.
viction of Willlajm Hickman who kid.
napped and murdered Marian Parker.
The decision also upheld the Con.
stitutionality of California's new in.
sanity law under which Hickman was
tried and principally, on the asserted
unconstitutionality of this law, was the
appeal taken by Hickman’s attorneys.
He was resentenced for trial by the
eourt.
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MISS EARHART BACK U. S.
KEW YORK, July 6. (£>)—Miss
Earhart, the first woman to fly the
Atlantic, arrived at New York and re.
ceived a noisy welcome. ■ , j
FOUR MEN DROWN
ESTRAL BEACH; Mich., July 6. (JP)
—Pour men were drowned and a fifth
narrowly escaped when the boat, in
which they were rowing, overturned
in the backwash of a speeding launch.
“Clipping The Old Boy’s Whiskers”
/DAG-NAB^
( VER HIDE
\ ANW HOW ,
r-,
SQUAW HARBOR HAS
WONDERFUL FOURTH
JULY CELEBRATION
PACKING COMING STAGES AFFAIR
COMPARIBLE TO THOSE HELD
IN CITIES
SQUAW HARBOR, July 6. (Special *
to the Gateway)—Entertaining over
500 people of the Shumigan Island and
Unga, assisted by the Ulst, Cedar and
U. S. B. F., Crane, which arrived Tues_
day evening to spend the Fourth, the
Shumigan Packing Co., began their
annual Independence Day program at
2 p. m. with a speech by Dr. Thomas
Runnalls. 4
The opening speech was followed
by a large list of sports featuring a
cutter race between the Cedar and
cannery tender crews rowing over a
three.mile course. The Cedar won by
four lengths; although neither crew
has had much practice in this type of
craft they gave an exhibition of oar.
manship that would have done justice
to veteran crews.
Two, four.round boxing exhibitions
were held during the atfernoon. Kid
Scott of California kahoed Bardini, of
the U. S. 9. F. Crane;“Battling" Von.
da of Bellingham decisioned over A.
Garbaldi of Seattle. •**
After the afternoon sports, in which
$2500 was awarded in prizes, a base,
ball game was held in the early even,
ing followed by dancing .and an elab.
orate display of fireworks.
ITUS MAKE
NEW SUSTAINED
FLEW 4,600 MILES FROM EUROP
LANDING NEAR NATAL, I
BRAZIL
RIO JANERIO, Brazil, July 6.
A new distance record for sust
flight was completed when Cap
turo Ferrariin and Major Carlo
Prete lannded on the beach 10 mil*
north of Natal, 4,500 miles from th
takeoff.
Stormy weather with heavy clo
put the fliers in peril during the 1
hours of their trans.Atlanti ?
annd they had difficulty in n. n
ing bearings due to poor visibility
NAMES NEW CABINET
BERLIN, July 6, (/P)—Chancelk.
Appointee Mueller has completed the
Cabinet of Personalities by selecting
Gustav Stresemann. Although these
men have not been promised suppo
of their parties yet they ^ill be pr^
sented to President Hindenb^rg for
approval.