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VOLUME XXII. NUMBER 128. SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JUNE 23,1927.
PRICE TEN CENTS
PAJAMA BREAKFAST
FIGURES 1 TIL OF
“JUNGLE JAPANESE VALET” EX
PECTED TO SUPPLY “SPICE
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OF PROGRAM”
LOS ANGELES. June 23. (/P)—Tes
timony bearing upon pajama break
fasts served to Dorothy Mackaye in
the Hollywood apartment of Paul Kel- j
lv, screen plaver, promised to furnish
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delectable morsels for court fans at
today’s session of the dramatic actress
on charges of tempting to conceal
facts in the death of her husband, Ray |
Raymond, musical comedy star. Teno
Yabu, known as the “Jungle Japanese
valet,” has been summoned to take
the stand shortly after the trial re
sumes this afternoon and he is to tell
of the breakfasts served on hte morn
ings after gay gin parties in his mas
ter’s rooms. The house boy was pre
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ceded on hte stand by Max Wagner, ‘
Kelly’s room mate, who testified last
Friday that Kelly gave Miss Mackaye
$S00 for hospital expenses following
the death of Raymond, who died after
engaging the husky film actor in a fist
fight. 1
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RAGING AVIK REGION:
TWENTY-NINE DEAD
EPISCOPAL CHURCH HEADQUAR
TERS INFORMED OF GRAVITY
OF SITUATION
NEW YORK, June 23. (/Pi—An in- i
fluenza epidemic is raging in Avik.
Alaska, the Episcopal church head
quarters is informed in a radio mes
sage from Rev. John W. Chapman,
head of the church mission there.
Twenty-nine deaths are reported
among the Indians, all of them pa-?
rents, throwing immediate responsi-'
bilitv of 40 children upon the mission, j
the message said, urging that a train-:
ed nurse and a layman he sent at j
once. At least $3,000 are requested
for food supplies. Chapman’s mes
sage was supplemented by a dispatch
from Bishop Peter Rowe emphasizing
the gravity of the situation.
FISHING CREW MISSING
TRURO. Mass., June 23. (/P)—
Three members of the crew of the
fishing schooner Surge are missing
and are believed to have been drowned
after she was sunk in a collision with
the Clyde Line steamer Ozark five
miles off Cape Cod. Nineteen others
were rescued.
WATER NOTICE
Water wil be shut down about 10
o’clock tonight on Fourth annd Fifth
Avenue including Van Gilder, Teck
ienberg building and Harriman build
ing.
"TEN MODERN COM M AN DM ENTS'r
HOLLYWOOD, June 23. (/P)—"Ten
modern commandments,” which will
lie shown in a film shortly, includes
bans against: Parking and petting,
one-piece bathing suits, noisy chewing
gum, public powdering and rouging
and coveting other girls’ sweethearts.
AFTER GUN BATTLE
FEBERALS CAPTURE
SEVEN MEN ARRESTED—NOTORI
OUS RUM GANG BELIEVED TO
BE BROKEN UP
SAN FRANCISCO. June 23. (JP)—
With the arrest of seven Men. Federal
officials here believe they have suc
cessfully broken up one of the most.
notorious rum running gangs operat
ing on the Pacific coast. The arrests
were the result of two raiding parties
in the vicinity of Yellow Jacket Bay,
near Pescadero, San Mateo county,
Calif., the first Thursday and a sec
ond raid the following day. The first
raid occurred during the early morn
ing hours Thursday after a gun bat
tle between the rum runners and Fed
eral authorities who had been tipped
off that a large quantity of liquor was
to be landed from a rum runner sus
pected to be the Malahat. Four men
were arrested in this first fracas and
800 cases of liquor valued at $128,000,
two dories and two teams of horses
seized.
scon CIS NEW
TRIAL; IS REPRIEVED
■ FOR FOURTH TIME
SAVED SIX TIMES WHEN WITHIN
THE SHADOW OF THE GAL
LOWS
CHICAGO, June 23. (/P)—Six times
within the shadow of the gallows and
four times saved by last minute re
prieves Russell T. Scott, sentenced to
death for murder, gained a new trial
when the State Supreme court re
manded his case with severe criti
cism of Judge Marcus Kavanaugh and
the office of the State’s Attorney of
Cook county. “We wish it distinctly
understood we have not yet consid
ered the question of whether the de
fendant was shown by legitimate evi
dence in this case to be sane or in
sane within the meaning of the stat
ute,” said the court. The last phase
of Scott’s case went before the high
court on appeal from a decision that
he had recovered his sanity and was
subject .to hanging after his life had
once been saved by a last minute :
finding that he was insane after he i
had served many months in prison for 1
the criminal insane. The decision ;
read: “It is apparent the defendant -
has not had a fair trial.” j
s. s. idmihal itson
Ell lOUTE NORTH 180
SEATTLE, June 23. (jp)—'The S. S.
Admiral Watson sailed for the North
yesterday morning and carried 180
passengers. Among those destined
for Seward are Mrs. I. Mott, Miss
Mott, Don Ballum, Louis Manus, Es
ther M. Rangner, Maf M. Miller,
John Spier, Miss A. J. Arick, Robert
R. Brown, Walter Blue, Edith Hollo
way and sister, Mrs. Mattie Swan, J.
C. Beach and wife and A. P. Grediey
and wife.
SENATOR GEO. H.' MOSES OF NEW
HAMPSHIRE WILL SPONSOR
PLAN IN CONGRESS
SAX FRAXCISCO. June 2?,. (£»)—.
The next Congress will provide the
Postmaster General w,?h funds with
which to experiment on ocean airmail
routes, is the opinion of United
States Senator George H. Moses of
New Hampshire, who has arrived here
with his wife from a vacation in Hon-,
alulu. Moses is chairman of the Sen
ate committee on postoffices and post-:
roads. The first route probably will |
he south over the Gulf of Mexico, for
New Orleans to Nicaragua. One of
the early ocean air mail routes prob-i
ably will be from San Francisco to J
Honolulu and eventually an air mail
schedule will be maintained over the
Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. The
achievement of Colonel Charles Lind
bergh and Chamberlain demonstrated
that the air mail has reached the stage
where ocean air mail transportation
is possible.
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PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Ookland 0. Portland 3.
Sacramento 2, Seattle 6.
Hollywood 9, Los Angeles 6.
Missions 3, San Francisco 9.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
St. Louis 3-5, Chicago 2-8.
Washington 4-7, Philadelphia 2-13.
New York 7-3, Boston 4-2.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Chicago 5. St. Louis 11.
Cincinnati 9, Pittsburg 11.
Boston-New York—Rain.
Philadelphia-Brooklyn—Rain.
WANTS NO CHEAP DISPLAY
ST. LOUIS, June 23. (/P)—Colonel
Charles Lindbergjh showed -temper
when he found that the medals pre
sented him for his trans-Atlantic
flight by the crowned heads of Europe
were on display in a department store
at once and stowed them in a vault at
window. He ordered them removed <
a bank.
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PRESIDENT MISSES STORM
CHICAGO, June 23. (/P)—President
1 Coolidge visited Rapid City, S. D., to
negotiate the nation’s business. He
! narrowly escaped a severe hailstorm
which struck the town only 40 min
utes after he left to return to his sum
; mer home in the hills.
TEXAS OFFICIALS
ARE SENT TO THE PEN
UNDER PEONAGE ACT
IN COLLUSION WITH PLANTERS
HELD VAGRANT PRISONERS
IN BONDS OF SLAVERY
CORPUS CHRISTT, Texas, June 23.
Sheriff Raymond Teller of Willacy
county, two other officers and two
Willacy county farmers were sen
tenced to jail or prison by Federal
Judge Hutcheson for violating the Pe
onage act. Teller drew 18 months
sentence in the Federal prison at
Leavenworth, Kas. The indictments
were based on charges of several per
sons who were used as witnesses and
who revealed what was termed a “con
federacy between officers and large
cotton farmers in Willacy county for
the enslavement of vagrant prisoners |
in the county jail.”
SAILS AUGUST FIRST
WASHINGTON, June 28. (/P)—John 1
C. Grew concluded his services as un-;
der Secretary of State and will sail j
August 1 to take up his duties as Am-!
bassador to Turkey.
UiEBERfiH CANCELS
ALL ARRANGEMENTS
AFP TO WASHINGTON
ARRIVES AT CAPITOL WHERE
MET BY HIGH GOVERNMENT
OFFICIALS
DAYTON, Ohio, June 23. (^P)—Can
celling all previous arrangements for
his entertainment made by the Day
ton reception committee, Colonel Chas.
Lindbergh took off in an army pursuit j
plane from Wright Field for Wash-*
ington. In a brief interview before
leaving he said he was sorry the resi
dents of Dayton were disappointed in
not getting to see him, but stated he
knew nothing of the plans' for a recep
tion and declined to participate be
cause his visit to Dayton was unoffi-j
cial and for the purpose of paying his J
respects to Orville Wright only.
LANDS IN WASHINGTON
WASHINGTON, June 23. (JP)—Col.
Chas. Lindbergh landed at Bolling
Field at 11:27 from Dayton. He was
met by officials of the War, Navy and
Commerce Departments who will con
fer with him on /his future plans and
Dbtain his views on the development <
of aviation abroad. i
SEED Si PEDRO
FOUR TRUCKS DRIVEN BY MEXI.
CANS CAPTURED NORTH SAN
TA BARBARA IN TRANSIT
SAN PEDRO, Calif., June 23. (£>)—
A rumored plot to ship millions of dol
' lars worth of war munitions to some
southern country was believed frus
trated 'today with the seizure by De
partment of Justice agents of $500,000
worth of arms, ammunitions and other
supplies purchased in San Francisco
and now stacked on a dock here await
in the expected arrival of a ship to
transport them south. The capture
was made 50 miles north of Santa
Barbara, and the four Mexicans of the
trucks carrying the materials were or
dered to proceed in accordance with
their instructions. The munitions
were brought on to Los Angeles with
Federal agents accompanying the
trucks and later driven here, where a
watch was kept for the craft.
TRIPLE SLAYING IN
CHICAGO AS POLICE
AUTO THIEF BATTLE
MYSTERY GIRL ESCAPES—SIX
BULLETS OUT OF SEVEN FIND
MARK
CHICAGO. June 23. (/P)— Darkness
mantled a triple slaying on the North.
Side Valley with no witnesses left to
tell what happened except a mystery
gild who tied in horror before the roar
of the last revolver shot died away.
Two policemen shot it out with an au
tomobile thief and all three -were
killed. Officer Farley is still living
and conscious, and said when the po
lice reserves arrived “they threw a
woman in a car with him. She ran.”
The deadly accuracy of the aim w*as
shown by the fact that all but one of
seven shots found their mark, with a
single wild shot fired by the robber.
MINE MULES' OUTS
CONVICTS AND 14 CAPTIVE GUAR
DIANS BARRICADED IN COAL
MINE THREE DAYS
LANSING, Mich., June 23. (£>)—
Oats issued as rations to mules con
stitute the only food known to be
available to 328 convicts and 14 cap
tive guards barricaded in the prison
2oal mine since uesday morning. As
:he mutineers passed the 45th hour
rnderground there was nothing to in
licate they wished to withdraw the
lltimatum: “No eigaretets, no coal.’*