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VOLUME XXII. NUMBER 193.
SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8,1927.
PRICE TEN CENTS
AREA OF 500 MILES SEARCHED
WITHOUT RESULTS; HEARST
OFFERS REWARD
NEW YORK, Sept. 8. (/P)—Hope
for the survival of the crew of the
Old Glory sank when the time set
for the monoplane to span the ocean
on its way from Old Orchard to
Rome passed with no news received
here of its whereabouts or fate.
Tbe pilots and plane should have
passed over Bordeaux, France before
midnight Wednesday. Twenty-four
hours has elapsed since the SOS
calls were received and a search
over the Atlantic for 500 miles out
of Newfoundland brought no sign of
the plane or the rubber boat which
the fliers had for emergency use.
OFFERS $25,000
NEW YORK, Sejt. S. (IP)—Wm.
Randolf Hearst, the backer of the
Old Glory flight, offered $25,000 re
ward to the Captain and crew of the
ship that finis the missing aviators.
“I know of no reward necessary to
stimulate the search for Old Glory
and its occupants but gladly will
give $25,000 to the captain and crew
who finds them merely as an ex
pression of my gratitude.”
LARGER NUMBER OF SEAL
SKINS TAKEN IS YEAR
WASHINGTON, Sept. 8. (/P)—There
v;eve IS,507 fur seal skiios taken on
St. Paul Island and 5,679 on St.
George Island during the summer
ending July 31. The Commerce de
partment reported this is co»sidera
ble more than last year. »
LEVINE IS POPULAR
LONDON, Sept. 8. (/P)—Charles
Levine is popular. No less than 112
•women have besought him to take
them as passengers on his return
flight to the United States from Croy
din Field.
PERMITS 1TTLER TO
BITE HIM. SNAKE DIES
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LAREDO, Tex., Sept. 8. (/P)—John
Rice, a farmer boy of Holy Roller ^
persuasion, decided to put his faith, to
the test. He captured a “cotton-mouth
ed” moccasin and permitted the snake
to bite his arm. While the on-lookers
shuddered and waited breathlessly,
the snake^ rolled over and died and
Rice is still living.
BROTHER, SISITER REUNITED
CAMDEN, Ark., Sept. 8. </P)—After
having lived within 100 miles of each
other—a fact unknown to them—a
brother and sister who had not met
in 43 years have been reunited hex*e.
They are John Ledbetter, 64-, of Dod
son, and Mrs. S. V. Merritt, 79, of
Camden.
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DROWN. FERRY CMS
TOKYO, Sept. 8. (JP)—At -least 250 j
Koreans drowned when a fer”y boat'
capsized near Kaushu, in Kekaida
province. The dispatches to the Tokyo
newspaper Jiji, said only six were
rescued out of 286 passengers Thus!
far 19 bodies have been recovered.!
rann CAR
INS, OPEN SWITCH,
FOUH ARE KILLED
FIFTEEN INJURED, MANY FA I'AL-j
LY; TROLLEY CRASHES INTO
THREE BOX CARS
EVANSVILLE, Ind., Sept.’ 8. -JP)—
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Four persons are known to ha/e been
killed and 15 others injured, some
probably fatally, when an interrurba
car coming from Bade Park *} the
race track sped through an open
switch and crashed into three box
cars loaded with brick on a sidi .g.
The dead are William Tilley, farrae,\
Chester Erown, avotorman of the in*
terrurban. Max Meyers, and an un
identified man.
FOURTH VICTIM DIES
NEW YORK, Sept. 8. (#>)—Th
fourth death from shooting occure
when Robert McGority, aged 29,
stage manager died. Death was du
i
i to injuries when struck by the bod
oof Steinberg falling yesterday from
minth story window.
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WATSON NORTHBOUND
| SEATTLE, Sept. 8. (/P)—'The Ad
miral Watson sailed at 9 o’clock las
night with 135 passengers. The Sew
ard listing includes: B. Bunde and
Thyra Merrill.
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OCKOUT STARTS WHEN CHICAGO
ORPHEUM THEATRE DISMISS
ED UNION MEN
CHICAGO, Sept. 8. (JP)~A nation
wide strike of motion picture opera
tors threatened, as Chicago opera
tors and exhibitors gird for a finish
fight.
Squads of police are guarding 30
theaters which were closed by the
lockout. Managers of motion pic
ture exchanges have sided with the
exhibitors.
The lockout started when the Or
pheum theater dismissed two Union
men. As a result, % 400,000 theater
goers of Chicago must turn to other
amusement fields, temporarily.
STAGE HANDS QUIT
CHICAGO, Sept. 8. (IP)— Stage
hands retired from work to reinforce
the strike of a motion picture machine
operators. There is ilttle chance that
the break between the operators and
the executives will be patched up
in the near future.
TO
T
PUCE OF VICW
VICTORIA, NOW AT AKUTAN WITH
BLOWN CYLINDER HEAD, TO
CONTINUE VOYAGE
SEATTLE, Sept. 8. (JP)—Replacing
the steamship Victoria which is de
layed at Akutan with a blown cylind
er head while Southbound from
Nome the steamship Alameda, which
cancelled its Southeastern Alaska
trip, sails north on September 15.
The Victoria is planning to attempt
to continue its journey without the
intermediary- cylinder shooting steam
direct from high to low pressure.
IS LI TO REST
BURIED IN NORTH CEMETERY,
BUTLER, PENN., WHERE HE
WAS BORN
BUTLER, Penn.,* Sept,. K. (/P)—Fin
al rites for the Reverend S. Hall
Young, former Alaskan, were held
with interment in the North ceme
tery. Funeral services were also
held at. French Creek on Sunday and
the body brought here where he was
born. The minister’s death followed
an accident when he was struck by
an interrurban trolley.
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THEY WILL ENTER
i RING DEMPSEY, BROKE.
, EXPENSES BEEN HEMIY
COMING FIGHT WITH EX-CHAMP
ION WILL BRING SUFFICIENT
LAST LIFETIME
CHICAGO, Sept. 8. (JP)—Gene Tun
ney said that he will enter the ring
with Jack Dempsey, in Chicago, broke.
; Obligations and expenses he had in
curred before the Philadelphia fight
took most of the purse, which had
jbeen small, compared to Dempsey’s
I end, he said; and the $7,000 per week
I that he had gotten in vaudeville, was
• also eaten up by expenses. The
champ says that the Chicago bout will
supply him, financially for the rest
of his days.
AL WOLGflST FORMED
PUG FACES LUNACY
COMMISSION IN L A
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LOS ANGELES, Sept. 8. (IP)—A
Wolgast, farmer lightweight champion
of the world, will emerge from ob
scurity to face a strange audience here
next Tuesday. On that date he will
appear before the County Lunacy
Commission. Friends of Wolgast say
that he is “punch goofy,” as a result
of the (terrific beating he took in the
days of his prime.
SIB JOHN CARLING IS
OVEROUE, OCEAN FLIGHT
BELFAST, Sept. S. (/P)—Reports j
from the Civic guard stations along;
the Galway shore at 4 o’clock this
afternoon stated they had failed to
sight Sir John Carling. The visibili
ty was bad and a strong southeast
erly gale was blowing. A heavy mist
is hanging over the entire coast.
ZERO HOUR PASSES
BELFAST, Sept. 8. (#»)— Six o’clock
when Sir John Carling’s gasoline wa
supposed to be exhausted, passed with
out o ward of the plane.
FUG FIGHT. BEGUN
WITH ARRIVAL OF
HOTELS IN BERLIN REFUSED TO
FLY REPUBLICAN FLAG, JIM
MIES ARRIVAL
BERLIN, Sept. 8. (&)—'The flag
fight that started in Germany with
the visit of Mayor Walker, of New
York, has become national in scope.
The Cabinet is considering it and
I Extremists threaten to bolt. The
trouble began when hotels in Berlin
refused to fly the Republican flag,
during the celebration for Mayor
Walker, and now a law is being con
sidered making such display manda
tory, when a foreign, flag is flown.
iff DEPARTMENT
COMPLETES ORDER
FOR NEW PLIES
ALL CONTRACTS BEEN LET EARLY
SETTING NEW RECORD FOR
DEPARTMENT
WASHINGTON, Sept. 8. (£•)—'Th«
Navy department has completed a con
tract for 48 additional bombing planes
for the fiscal year, now in progress.
With the signing of this contract
the only item yet nnaccounted for is
20 pursuit planes.
For the first time all contracts for
planes called for by available funds
have been let, prior to September 1.
The Martin Co., who were awarded
this contract, will have built 370
planes for the Navy in the last three
years.
SHRINERS ATTENTION
Your attendance is requested at
Leon Urbach’s store at 7:30 p. m. this
evening. Business meeting.
H. V. HOBEN, Shiek.
SUCCESS OF THE U S
IS DUE TO CHILDUEf
BERLIN, Sept. 8. (JP)—Mayor Jam©
' J. Walker of New York City, in an in
terview here said the success of the
United States has been brought about
by children who have not been brought
roaup by rehtos,uplidaO,(j<P)—deOOmO,
up by others. American children
bring themselves v \ a said.
STUNT FILGHTS ID
MEN COUNTENANCING
THEM DISAPPHOIIED
H. GUGGENHEIM, PRESIDENT
AERONAUTIC FUND TALKS
TO ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK, Sept. 8. (JP)—Stunt
flights and the men who back them
financially for the sake of the result
ing publicity should not be counten
anced, Harry Guggenheim, president
of the Daniel Guggenheim fund for
promotion of aeronautics, told the
Associated Press. “By stunt filghts
I mean a flight that does nothing for
the advancement of aviatioi^. A flight
merely accomplished precisely what
another flight has already done with
the same inferior equipment. Lind
bergh was not stunt flying because
he was blazing a trail. The Federal
government should have greater au
thority than it has to be exercised
through the Department of Com
merce to see that every aeroplane is
licensed.”
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PILOTS OF PLANE SAY
USELESS ASSIST SEARCH
HARBOR GRACE, Sept. 8. (/P)—
The pilots of the Royal Windsor,
announced after they had received
reports of the fruitless search for
Old Glory conducted over last night
by steamships, that they had decided
it was useless for them to institu'o
a search with their plane. The dis
covery of a leak in the right wing
gasoline tank caused postponement
and start of the flight to England.
The fliers hope to leave tomorrow.
RING OF EXTORTION
OBTAIN THOUSANDS
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 8. (/P)—The
Examiner says that Detective Lieut
enant Reed and Murray have declar
ed that a ring of extortion, equipped
with counterfeit police badges, 'and
operating as a private vice squad, had
been victimizing prominent Los Ange
i les men of huge sums of money.
With three suspects under arrest,
It was disclosed by police that hush
fees, sometimes as high as $20,000
have been extracted from victims of
the extortionists, under threat of ex
posure by prosecution.
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SPEED PLANE UNDERDOES
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Washington, Sept. 8. (/P)-The
spee<| plane of Lieut. Williams hae
had another satisfactory test flight,
but the speed was not timed over any
course, as is scheduled for today.
Reports indicate that the machine
functioned even better than on the
previous flights, when Lieut, drove the
plane at the rate of 275 miles per
hour for 15 minutes.