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VOLUME XXII. NUMBER 156. SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 1927. PRICE TEN CENTS
OPINION OF GOVERNMENT NO
DIFFICULTY IN ARRIVING AT
UNDERSTANDING
LONDON, -July -27. .^P)—W. _C.
Bridgeman, first Lord of the Admi
ralty, and Viscount Cecil left for
Geneva to participate in the resump
tion of the naval conference there.
They have been in London a week,
having come from Geneva to place be
fore the Cabinet a report on the status
of the naval parleys and receive fur
ther instructions. Before leaving
Bridgeman said they would finish the
work this time one way or another.
He said the government had thorough
ly discussed the whole situation and
the position of Great Britain remains
fundamentally unchanged. The dele
gates are due at Geneva Thursday
morning. Foreign Secretary Cham
berlin in a statement in the House of
Commons said the opinion of the gov
ernment was that 'there need be no
difficulty in arriving at a temporary
arrangement regarding the immediate
future of cruiser building.
BUILD TOLL BRIDGE
SEATTLE CONCERN RENEWS RE
QUEST TO COUNCIL TO CON
- STRUCT, OPERATE BRIDGE
SEATTLE, July 27. (/P)—One con
cern renewed its request to the City
Council for permission to construct a
toll bridge across Lake Washington,
from Mercer Island to Seward Park,
and another made an application.
Thus two firms seek the right to con
struct and operate a bridge. The sec
ond firm to make application is the
Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging
Company, the other is the Olympic
Bridge and Engineering Company. A
public hearing will be held, Chairman
William Hichman Moore, of the judi
ciary committee, announced.
PIRATES STILL OPERATE
HONG KONG, July 27. (/P)—Pirates
still operate, despite the destructive
raid on the notorious pirate strong
hold, Bias Bay, last March. The Nor
wegian steamer Sloviken,” which left
Hong Kong Tuesday for Saigon, was
attacked by pirates. Two of its of
ficers were wounded and the ship was
taken to Bias Bay, where last night it
was looted of $20,000 worth of gold
bars, and the belongings of the passen
gers.
EVANS SAILS NORTH
SEATTLE, July 27. (£>)—'The S. S.
Admiral Evans sailed at 10 o’clock
this morning and carried 45 passen
gers. Among the Seward passengers
are Mrs. R. V. Anderson and two sons,
Minne Burland, A. Johnson, J. Minnis
and C. E. Flye and wife.
in ion picks
UP VESSEL AT SEA
_
DUTCH HARBOR, July 27. (/P)—
The steamship Mofanna with a high
pressure cylinder head blown off was
picked up by the Coast Guard cutter
'Haida 50 miles south of Unimax
Island and taken in tow for Akutan.
The Haida is cruising <the Aleutians
| with the floating court from Valdez.
COMPANION ESCAPED AND NOTI
FIED AUTHORITIES—'POSSE IS
SEARCHING WOODS
HAGERSTOWN, Md.f July 27. (£>)—
: Ambushed by moonshiners R. Stotler,
aged 52, head of the dry agents of
Washington, Alleghany and Garret
| counties, was shot to death. R. E.
Walters, another dry investigator, es
caped and notified the authorities. A
posse is hunting for the murderers
who fired from a densely wooded sec
j tion near Bonsboro while the agent
was passing. The agents had gone
; there looking for a still.
QUEEN TO VISIT AGAIN
| BUCHAREST, July 27. (/P)—Queen
Marie has decided to visit the United
States again. She hopes to start soon
after the period of mourning for King
Ferdinand is over, she told a corre
spondent of the Associated Press.
BLAZE IN INDUSTRIAL
DISTRICT DANGEROUS
—
FIFTEEN SEATTLE FIREMEN, IN
CLUDING CHIEF, INJURED;
OVERCOME BY SMOKE
] SEATTLE, July 27. (^P)—A three
hour battle was required to subdue
the $15,000 fire at the Seattle Cedar
Company, 1540 West 46th street. Fif
teen Seattle firemen, including Fire
; Chief George M. Mantor, were either
injured or overcome by smoke and
■ the center of Seattle’s lumber manu
| facturing industry, in Ballard, was
'threatened with destruction. The fire
spread in the dry kilns and was only
subdued after three hours of fighting.
BANDITS MADE ESCAPE
IN HAIL OF BULLETS
SEATTLE, July 27. (JP)—Two ban
dits attempted a hold up of the col
lectors for an automobile rental com
pany, at Railroad and Yessler, early
yesterday, and escaped in a hail of
bullets from two police officers, who
chased them nearly two miles. The
bandits drove into a machine driven
by the collectors and ordered them to
stick up their hands, when a police
prowler car appeared.
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oratories, 35 Tulsa, Okla.
MOTORBOAT SEIZED
TWO MEN CAPTURED,
BY CIST GUARD
CRAFT REFUSED TO HALT UNTIL
THREE SHOTS WERE FIRED;
BOOZE RUNNER
KETCHIKAN, July 27. (£>)— Refus
ing to stop until three shots were fired
the American motorboat “609,with
J. Butler and A. W. Pratt of Ketchi
kan aboard, was overhauled by the
Coast Guard cutter Cygan, the men ar
rested and the boat towed into Ketchi
kan. The seizure occurred oft Reef
Point. It is reported that during the
chase Butler threw three sacks over
board which are believed to have con
tained liquor. One bottle of brandy
was found aboard the craft.
QUEEN IVIARIE WILL
REMAIN REAL RULER
INSTEAD MICHAEL
j PRINCE MICHAEL, BUT SIX YEARS
OF AGE, WAS PROCLAIMED
KING
BUCHAREST, July 27. {&)— Prince
Michael, six year old son of former
Crown Prince Carol, was proclaimed
King of Rumania in less than 12 hours
: after his grandfather, King Ferdinand,
| had succumbed to cancer. The coun
| cil, composed of Patriarch Miron
i Cristea, Prince Nicholas and Supreme
! Justice G. V. Buzdugan, will act dur
j ing his minority, but the real ruler of
' Rumania will be the woman, whose
j personality has dominated it for years
1 —Queen Marie.
BASEBALL SCORES
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Brooklyn 5, Pittsburg 6.
St. Louis 10, Cincinnati 11.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
St. Louis 1-3, New York 5-12.
Detroit 10-2, Philadelphia 4-5.
Chicago 1-5, Washington 5-6. Sec
ond game 11 innings.
Cleveland 7, Boston 2.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Missions 4, Oakland 8.
Hollywood 3, Sacramento 4.
Portland 1, San Francisco 4.
CHAMBERLIN TELLS IT
HE BROKE WITH LEVINE
NEW YORK, July 27. (£>)—In an in
terview, after his reception here,
Clarence Chamberlin, Atlantic flier,
admitted breaking with Levine, his
backer and passenger. “He wanted
to run things his own way all of the
time and I got tired," Chamberlin ex
plained.
MARY JANE WINS
RACELAND, Ky., July 27. (JP)—
Jockey Connoly Quoted Mary Jane to
victory in the Raceland Derby here,
with Yeeido and Laurel Hill close be
hind. The time was 2:08.
NURSE DENIES SHE IS
RELINQUISHING ESTBTE
NEW YORK, July 27. (^P)—Ethel
Sears, nurse, to whom Sherwood Al
drich, copper magnate, left his $5,000,
000 estate, denied that she is relin
quishing it to Aldrich’s mother. She
announced she will merely establish a
trust fund to provide $7,500 annually
for his mother. Aldrichs’ will explain
ed that he had already provided amply
for his estranged wife and his mother.
THROWS ARMS ABOUT MOTHER
SCREAMING “OH, MOTHER, I’M
DYING”
NEW YORK, July 27.(^P)-^June
Mathis, s-cenario writer and highest
paid woman executive of motion pic
tures, is dead a victim of heart at
tack while attending a performance in
a Broadway theater. While seated be
side her mother she suddenly threw
her arms about her mother’s neck and
screamed “Oh, mother, I’m dying; I’m
dying.” Scores of persons arose from
their seats and ushers hurried her to
an alleyway alongside of the theater.
Two physicians from the audience
bent over her and a moment later pro
nounced her dead.
FERRY TEflMlL AS
CENTRAL STATION IS
PLANNED IN SEATTLE
WOULD LINK SEATTLE WITH
EVERY PART O F PUGET
SOUND DISTRICTS
SEATTLE, July 27. (Jp)—Plans for
the construction of a great ferry ter
minal on the central waterfront are
being considered by the Port Commis
sion and 'the owners of docks on El
liott Bay. The building contemplated
would be a “union station ’> for all
vessels of Seattle’s 15 ferry services
and would link the city with every
part of Puget Sound. Such a termi
nal is urgently needed, the promoters
say, first for the sake of public con
venience and second to relieve traf
fic congestion on Railroad avenue.
SEiTUEumn
AIRPORT WORK STARTS
' ( ..
SEATTLE, July 27. (JP)—With a con
ference today between Robert S.
Boyne and Earl F. Gould, the aviation
committee of the Chamber of Com
merce and a committee of the mu
nicipal planning commission, of which
they are respectively chairman, be
gan work as one body in the selection
of a site for a frubUcly dwned airport
here.
TO CONFESS WORLD;
TOLD THE TRUTH
ACCCUSATION OF REV. GLADWYN
NICHOLS IS SPIRITEDLY RE
PLIED TO
LOS ANGELES, July 27. (/p}— Aimee
McPherson replied promptly and spir
itedly to the accusation of Rev. Glad
wyn Nichols, her former confidential
aide, of fabricating a strange story of
kidnapping and imprisonment in Mex
ico. Nichols, former Angelus Temple
choir leader and now head of a Phila
delphia congregation, said: “Aimee
and her mother have confessions to
make and until they do the world will
never trust them again.” Aimee re
plied: “I am not surprised; Reverend
Nichols and his church need adver
tising. I have no confession to make
whatever. I told the truth.
SUPREME COURT ORDERS EN
GINEER HUMES TO RETURN
BOOKS AND RECORDS
OLYMPIA, July 27. (/P)—Governor
Hartley lost the fourth and final round
of his fight to dictate the actions of
the code committee, of which he was a
member, when the Supreme court yes
terday afternoon, directed the State
highway engineer, Samuel J. Humes,
to return to the highway committee all
books, records and unopened bids
which the Governor ordered seized on
May 5, after his open rupture with
Auditor C. W. Clausen and Treasurer
: W. G. Potts, fellow highway commit
teemen.
IENSIlIkE
PUNE UNDINES SAFE
WASHINGTON, July 27. (/P)—Fran
cis Jenkins of Washington, inventor
of several airplane devices, announced
he had originated an apparatus to en
able an aviator to make a safe landing
in fog or mist. The instrument meas
ures the time ■which it takes sound to
travel from the plane to earth and
back and tell the aviator whether he
is five or 50 feet from the ground.
CLUBMAN IS KILLED
AND OTHERS INJURED
SAN FRANCISCO, July 27. (/P)—A
young San Francisco clubman, Lan
des M. Stoox, 26 yeasr old, was killed
and two society girls and two other
youths were injured when the automo
bile in which they were riding crashed
into a telephone pole, near Walnut
Creek.