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MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXII. NUMBER 196.
SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1927.
PRICE TEN CENTS
northern light is
AT SAN FRANCISCO;
HAD GREAT VOYAGE
BORDEN PARTY BRING OUT
MANY TROPHIES; OFF FOR
HAWAII NEXT
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 12. (JP)~
■schooner Northern Light returned
from a four and one-half months
cruise in the Arctic seas bringing on
her deck salt packs of skins of bears,
walrus, seal, and birds for the Csiea
go Field Museum. John Borden, weal
thy Chicago-'-explorer, owmer and mas
ter of the Northern Light, said the
hides consisted of 11 Kodiak bears, 15
walrus, one Oogrok, eight polar bear
and 135 birds.
After remodeling the schooner the
vessel will be taken on a trip to Haw
aii. Much fog, rain and heavy seas
were encountered on the trip. The
bad weather forced Borden to seek
the lee of Point Hope several times.
Kodiak bear -were an easy target for'
the hunters. Borden said he bagged
the polar bear and had a license to
boast for these animals were wary and
could only be gotten from a distance, j
The sea scouts declared they had the!
adventure of their lives and all wrant
to return North again.
OHIST OF AIMS
WAS DISCREDITED
PLAYING OVER RADIO DISGUST
ING TO HIM; ALSO PLAYED
SECOND FIDDLE
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 12. (£>)— R. R. i
Brignall, former organist of the Ange
lus Temple, filed suit in the Superior
court for $2,400 damages against
Aimee McPherson, her mother, Mrs.
Kennedy and the Echo Park Evange
lical Association. Brignall seeks dam
ages for the asserted discredit made
to his ability as a musician by being
required to play "second fiddle” and
"an inferior schedule’’ after being hir
ed at $225 monthly to play at the regu
lar services. He said after the con
tract was given him by Aimee, Mrs.
Esther Greene was engaged to take
his place. Thereafter he was asked to
do “odd musical work” such as playing
over the radio from the Evangelist’s
broadcasting station which he said
proved disgusting to him.
MISS ELDER ID PILOT
HOP OFF FDR NEW YORK
TAMPA, Sept. 12. (>P)—The mono- |
plane American Girl, with George
Haldeman, pilot and Miss Ruuth Elder
in the co-pilot’s seat, left at 7:11 for
Wheeling, West Virginia. The flight
is expected to take 11 hours. After a
stop to consult their backers on a pro
projected New York to Paris flight
they plan to leave for New York and
await favorable weather for the take
off.
OF MOTHER REPEATS
DENIAL OF CHIME
HARRY HILL GRILLED FOR HOURS
i
IN GLOOM OF BASEMENT OF
HOMESTEAD
/
OTTAWA, 111., Sept. 12. (£>)—Harry
Hill stood in the gloom of the shadow
ed basement, in the Hill homestead,
and looked into the shallow grave
where the body of his mother had
been found and repeated again his
denial of all knowledge of how she
met death. For an hour he was ques
tioned in the dimly lit cellar by offi
cials who had driven him 300 miles
overland from Lacrosse, Wis., first
f.om Ottawa then, with hardly a pause,
to Streator. After the questioning
Hill was locked up in the county jail
here.
"SPIRIT OF ST. LOUS"
ARRIVES SAFE BUTTE
BUTTE, Sept. 12, (£>)—'The Spirit
of St. Louis is safe in the hanger af
ter it had been piloted over the haz
ardous trip from Helena by Colonel
Lindbergh. He was forced to fight
rain, snow, fog and cold with the con
stant danger of smashing into a peak
of the Rockies because of the poor
visibility. And he had to fly extreme
ly low.
"Excursion Rates"
FOR VOOR CONVENIENCE
WE ARE MAKING- A
SPECIALTY OF THIS
ROUND-TRIP TICKET.
Sort of an
EXCURSlONjYOU KNOW?
I
E PROTESTS;
TO
E
PACIFIC JUMPS, BRANDED AS
SUICIDAL, BOTHERS THEN
NOT AT ALL
OMURA, Sept. 12, (JP)~Schlee and
Brock told the Associated Pres3 they
firmly expected to fly from Japan to
Midway Island then to' Honolulu and
San Francisco. The announcement
means they intend to ignore the rising
opposition to overseas flights.
To tackle the undertaking has been
branded suicidal. The Midway flight,
but not the Pacific, it is very difficult
to find the best navigation over the
2,400 miles from Japan; the 1,400 miles
to Honolulu and another 2,400 mile
| stretch to San Francisco.
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TWO FORCED LANDINGS
TOKYO, Sept, 12. (JP)—After being |
forced to land twice ot the Navy air
dome at Omura, in Southwestern ■
Japan, because of the weather. Brock
and Schlee plan to leave Tuesday
for Tokyo continuing their flight
from Shanghai.
TUNNEY,S EYE SPLIT
LAKE VILLA, Illinois, Sept. 11, (/P)
—Nursing a cracked eye-lfi! inflicted j
by a real rough sparring partner, Sen-1
or Gene Tunney, declared a holiday
and visited with friends across the j
lake. The vacation will continue for;
but a day for boxing wurk-outs are
scheduled for today and tomorrow.
THE PLANES STILL
TO AHEMPT FLIGHT
ACROSS ATLANTIC
GIRL STUDENT, AND NAVIGATOR
WILL USE'SEKORSKY AMPHI
BIAN PLANE
NEW YORK, Sept. 12. (^—Not
withstanding the failure in the search
for the Old Glory and withdrawal of
four projected flights, three planes
remain in the trans-Atlantic air ad
venture. Miss Frances Grayson, Long
Island student and aviatrix said she
intended to fly to Europe with a pilot
and navigator in a Sekorsky amphi
bian plane. While Miss Elder, at
Tampa, and Capt. Robert Macintosh of
Dublin, reiterated their determination
to attempt flights. The latest with
drawals are Paul Trascon, who plann
ed a Paris to New York hop, and
Levine.
FRENCHMEN WIN TENNIS
ITCH, WORLD CHIMPS.
TILDEN,JOHNSON,LOSE
GERMANTOWN, Cricket Club,
Philadelphia, Sept. 12. (JP)—France
won the Davis cup for the first
time when <thay captured both the
closing singles matches ending Ameri- i
ca’s seven year tennis supremacy.:
The final score was three to two.
Rene Lacoste vanquished Bill Tilden
and Heri Cochet defeated Bill John
ston.
ALASKA MEAT COMING INTO NAT
IONAL DEMAND AT AMAZING
SPEED
SEATTLE, Sept. 12. (&)—'The Chi
cago packing houses which earned an
international reputation for losing
nothing but the squeal had better look
to their laurels for the Alaska rein
deer industry is getting ready to util
ize by-products in a similar manner,
the Alaska Department of the Seattle
Chamber of Commerce declared. Re
cently the Chamber was asked to get
quotations on Alaska reindeer hides
but inquiry showed that the skins of
the private 'herds slaughtered this
year have all been sold, plans are
being made to ship the antlers to the
States for sale and the hoofs are to
go into another by-product;the residue
of the animals will be turned into fer
tilizer. Reindeer sausage is now on
the market and the canned reindeer
is coming into a national demand the
Chamber’s survey showed.
“TIGER III" TRIES
00 WAY WITH SELF;
WILL TRY AGAIN; PRISON OFFI
CIALS WATCHING CAREFUL
LY; IS MOROSE
SAN QUINTIN, PENITENTIARY,
Calif., Sept. 12. (/P)—Clara Phillips,
the “tiger woman'’ who killed Alberta
Meadows with a hammer In ix>s An
geles in 1922, is under guard after a
unsuccessful attempt to commit sui
cide by slashing her wrists with a
safety razor blade. Prison officials
took form her everything that might
be used as a weapon as she announc
3d her intent of taking her own life at
the first opportunity. The suicide
attempts was made in her cell Thurs
lay night. Warden James B. Holohan
said Mrs. Phillips has been morose re
cently and had quarreled with a pri
son friend. Eleanor Walling, serving
ive years to life for the Taft Banfc
robbery.
COURT REFUSES TU STOP
TUNNET-DEMPSET FIGHT
CHICAGO, Sept. 12. (#»)—Judge Eer
ier, of the Circuit Court, refused to
itop the Dempsey-Tunney fight when
ie denied the injunction to restrain
Dempsey form boxing until he had
:arried out an alleged contract with
he Coliseum Clulr of Chicago to fight
larry Wills.
DONATES LIBRARY
•GENEVA, Sept. 12. (£>)—John D.
toekefeller, Junior, is the sol#' donor
>f a $2,000,000 fund for the erection
if a library for the League of Nations,
nnounced the Assembly.
PRESIDENT AT CAPITOL
WASHINGTON, Sept. 12. (&)—Pres
lent Coolidge, Mrs. Coolidge and son
ohn returned from a three months
ojourn in South Dakota.