FINAL PORT OF CALL FOR THREE
STEAMSHIP COMPANIES
HEADQUARTERS U. S. SIGNAL CORPS
COMMUNICATION FACILITIES I N
ALASKA PROPER
COAST TERMINAL -FOR THE ALASKA
RAILROAD
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXII. NUMBER 159.
SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY. JULY 30, 1927.
PRICE TEN CENTS
ADMIRAL WATSON
RUNS AGROUND IN ■
FOG IVORY ISLAND
PASSENGERS AND CREW LEAVE
STEAMER —THREE VESSELS
EN ROUTE TO SCENE
VICTORIA, B. C., July 30. (^—Run
ning aground in a dense fog, the Pa
cific Coast Steamship Company’s ves
sel, the Admiral Watson, is ashore off
Ivory Island, near Prince Rupert. The
Golzales wireless statiton .message
said, the passengers and crew had left
the vessel. The steamship Salvage
King was dispatched to the scene of
the accident, also the Admiral Rogers
and the tug Lome.
MOTION PICTURES BE
USED IN EXPOS!
TAMPA ‘SPEAK-EASY’
FASHIONABLE AND EXCLUSIVE
DIVE CLUB FOR BUSINESS,
CIVIC LEADERS
TAMPA, Fla., July 30. (IP)—An ex
pose revealing the operations in Tam
pa of the most fashionable “speak
easy” in the city, with prominent busi
ness and civic leaders as select ha
bitues has been forecast for next week
by Municipal Judge Stalnaker follow
ing raids. “The Key club,” the judge
announced, showing motion picture
films depicting scenes at the club in
which a number of representative
citizens unknowingly enact leading
roles.
BISHOP PI HOWE TO
FLY TO point hope
NOME, July 30. (IP)—Bishop Peter
Trimble Rowe leaves today by air
plane for Point Hope and Point Bar
row. This is the first time he has
used the plane in missionary work.
Noel Wein, pioneer pilot, in in com
mand of the lpaaie.
PRINCE OF WALES
PREMIER BALDWIN
ARRIVE IN CANADA
WILL TAKE PART IN DIAMOND
JUBILEE OP CONFEDERATION
CELEBRATION
QUEBEC, July 30. (#>)—The Prince
of Wales, Prince George and Premier
Baldwin are visiting Canada to take
part in the diamond jubilee confedera
tion celebration, and were officially
welcomed to Canada shortly after
10; 30 this morning. They were given
aa enthusiastic reception. The party
was first greeted by Prime Minister
Mackenzie, who went aboard the Em
press of Australia, which came into
the harbor shortly after midnight. An
official reception was held on Kong’s
wharf. e
QUEEN MAY ENTER CONVENT
i BUCHAREST, July 30. (ff)— Friends
isaid: “Queen Marie, who has given
I
herself over completely to religion
j since King Ferdinand’s death,may
soon enter a convent.
I
SITUATION BETWEEN U. S. AND
BRITAIN TOO DELICATE FOR
MEDIATION
X
GENEVA, July 30. (&)—What will
Washington do is the universal ques
tion concerning the naval conference.
Hugh Gibson told the British and Jap
anese he was convinced that the latest
British plan was entirely unacceptable.
The Japanese said the situation be
tween the British and Americans was
too delicate for mediation. The Jap
anese continued pessimistic concern
ing the outcome of the conference. In
an effort to agree to the American
principles the British suggest that
they allow the Americans a certain
number of additional eight-inch gun
cruisers if the United States over- j
comes its objection to six-inch gun
cruisers.
DUPONT COMPANY CHAIRMAN;
SAYS REPORT UNTRUE, DE- !
CLINES TO TALK
CARLSBAD, Chechoslovakia, July j
30. (/P)—“There is no basis for the!
report,” was the only comment by
Pierre Dupont, chairman of the board
of directors of the Dupont company on
reports received here of a possible
combine with General Motors and
United States Steel. Dupont declined j
to make further comment.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Brooklyn 2, Pittsburg 4.
New York 4, Chicago 6.
Philadelphia 3, St. Louis 6.
Boston-Cincinnati—called in the
third innings because of rain.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
St. Louis 2, Boston 8.
Chicago 6, Philadelphia 4.
Cleveland 6, New York 4.
Detroit 4, Washington 5—11 innings.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Seattle 8, Los Angeles 3.
Portland 5, San Francisco 12.
Missions 1, Oakland 2.
Hollywood 15-4, Sacramento 2-5.
Second game eight innuings.
BOXER ARRIVES IN PORT
The Bureau of Education vessel
Boxer, Captain Whitlam, arrived in
port today from Seattle enroute to
Point Barrow with the annual supply
of school materials ,general* cargo
for the farthest north government
institution. No cargo or supplies are
being discharged locally. The Boxer
will leave port sometime this even
ing for the North.
A. S. Elford, of the New13 York ;
Life Insurance Company, will be
among those arriving in Seward this -
vening enroute to the States.
sacco-vinzetti
NEAR END OF SEVEN
YEARS FIGHT FOR LIFE
MASSACHUSETTS CRIMINAL CASE
ATTRACTS ATTENTION O F
WORLD
BOSTON, July 30. (£>)—'The end of
seven years of waiting in the shadow
of the electric chair is in sight for
Nicola Cacco and Bartolomeo Van
zetti.
The result of the latest, and pos
sibly the last fight to save the lives
of the internationally known pair, who
claim they were convicted of murder
because they were radicals, is expect
ed soon.
The long struggle in the Massachu
setts courts ended last April when
Judge Webster Thayer sentenced the
men to die during the week of July 10.
They had been convicted of murdering
a paymaster and his guard during a
robbery in 1920.
Then the eyes of the world turned
to Governor Alvan T. Fuller of Massa
chusetts when Vanzetti, in a long
written plea, asked him, not for a
“pardon,” but for “justice.” Accom
panying the plea were five affidavits
by persons who affirmed that Judge
Thayer, during the trial, had spoken
out of the court room in language that
showed he was prejudiced against the
defendants.
The Governor assumed the task of
reviewing the evidence, and also
questioned the jurors who brought
in the verdict of guilty. He worked
with an advisory board consisting of
President A. Lawrence Lowell of
Harvard University, President Samuel;
W. Stratton of the Massachusetts In- j
stitute of Technology, and Judge Rob
ert Grant.
When it became evident that the
work of reviewing the evidence would
not be accomplished before the week
in which Sacco and Vanzetti w'ere sen
tenced to die, Governor Fuller grant
ed a respite until the week of August
10. In the meantime, the committee
visited and made measurements at the j
scene where Frederick A. Parmenter,!
the paymaster, and his guard, Alesan- j
dro Berrardelli, were shot to death,
they also examined witnesses who tes-!
tified at the trial and questioned mem- j
bers of the jury, 11 of whom are still!
alive. I
William G. Thompson, defense coun
sel, was invited to present any new
witnesses and any new evidence he
had. This .move was interpreted in
some quarters as indicating a desire
on the part of the committee to in
vestigate a line of defense that was
excluded by the various courts under
rules of evidence binding them.
No other criminal case in the his
tory of Massachusetts ever attracted
such a world-wide attention as that
of Sacco and Vanzetti. For seven
years the men, htemselves, steadfastly
protested their innocence, basing their
battle for liberty on the contention
that they did not have a fair trial.
They declared that they were tried
while “Red’* hysteria was at its height
and were condemned because of their
admitted radicalism, and because they
had been draft evaders during the
war. In daramtic court room state
ments, just before Judge Thayer sen
tenced them, Sacco and Vanzetti ac
cused him of prejudice and of influ
encing the jury against them. The
fudge thrice denied motions for a new
trial, and the Massachusetts Supreme
court had overruled exceptions.
(Continued on Pago Two)
MOUNT VESUVIOUS
ERUPTING; FOLK
PREPARE TO FLEE
HUGE COLUMN LAVA CREEPING NEAR EDGE OF
CRATER TOWARD BAY OF NAPLES—PROFES
SOR MILLADRA, HEAD OF OBSERVATORY, AS
SURES PEOPLE THERE IS NO IMMINENT DAN
GER-MOST VIOLENT ERUPTION IN TWELVE
YEARS
NAPLES, July 30 (/P)—In the throes of its most vio
lent eruption in 12 years Mount Vesuvius hurled tons of
incandescent fragments far into the air while a huge col
umn of lava, nearly filling the inner crater, began to creep
over the edge towards the Bay of Naples. Although Pro
fessor Alessandro Malladra, head of the observatory, re
newed assurances that there was no immediate danger,
parts of the populations of the towns of Torre Annuanzi
ata and Torre del Grego, and residents of the regions ly
ing below the valley, began to make preparations for
quick flight to Naples should the column of lava continue
its downward course toward their homes.
TWO HONORED FOOT
TORCH AHRACTS
MAiTO OIL FIELDS
INCREASE IN FLOW OF GAS
SHOWERED ROCKS — STEEL
DERRICK MELTS
HOUSTON, Texas, July 30. (£>)—A
200-foot torch fed by gas showing a
rate of approximately 50,000,000 cubic
feet per day shot from a well at Pierce
Junction attracted hundreds of spec- j
tutors and oil field workers. The
well, known as the Rio Brava Sette
gast, ignited last night while the crew
was pulling the casing. No one was
injured. The sudden increase in the
flow of gas caused a shower of rocks.
The crew of four escaped. The steel
derrick melted in a short time.
IBP APOLLO
IS LONG OVERDUE
LEFT MAZATLAND, MEXICO, FOR
BALBOA JULY 12—CREW\ OF
FOURTEEN MEN
VANCOVER, B. C., July 30. (£>)—
Anxiety is felt for the motorship
Apollo, no word of which has been re
ceived -since she left Mazatland, Mex
ico, for Balboa July 12. The Apollo,
which sailed from here May 26 with a
load of lumber for England, put into
Mazatland for repairs to her engine.
The vessel carried a crew of 14.
O. C. Billings, Sr., son Junior and
J. P. Satterfield, prominent residents
of Detroit, are arriving in the city i
this evening from the Interior on
their way to the States.
A Cook party of * nine people
are due to arrive in Seward tomor
row (Snnday) from Fairbanks en
route South.
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OPEIATORS OF STEHMER
CHICAGO, July 30. (£>)—Investiga
tions by the coroner, police, State’s
attorney and steamship inspector re
sulted in acquittal of the operators of
the Favorite for any negligence in the
accident in which 27 lives, mostly
women and chldren, were lost.
WITH I/I PASSENGERS
BUREAU OF EDUCATION CHIEF,
J. R. UMMEL, EN ROUTE TO
SEWARD
SEATTLE, July 30. (/P)—1The S. S.
Alaska sailed at 9 o’clock this morn
ing and carried 171 passengers. Sew
ard reservations include: Mrs. E.
Miller, Van S. McKenney and wife,
Mrs. C. F. Martin, C. E. Brice and wife,
Mrs. McDonald, Thomas Aitken, Chas.
Howe and wife, Mrs. C. C. Blain, J. R.
Ummel, S. H. Sharpless,* C. E. Dowden
and wife, William A. Eadman and
wife, F. B. Lazier and wife, George
Chester and wife, Miss Howard and
sister, Mrs. A. Strong, Mrs. E. Eng
berg, C. Jensen, K. M. Cotter, K. B.
Cotter, William Rutschow and wife, M.
K. Orr and wife, Mrs. L. Walter, Geo.
D. Griffiths, H. Pearson, J. C. Wing
field, Mrs. D. F. Jones and two daugh
ters, Sister Abignel, Sister Pius, Amie
Marcin, Miss R. Kalb, Sarah Parr and
four steerage.
30 PEOPLE IN PARTY
A Quigley tour party, Tour E. ap
proximating in number 30 people,
are passengers on the S. S. Yukon.
The party will disembark at this
port and await over for Monday’s
train leaving then for the beautiful
trip over the Alaska Railroad to the
‘Heart of Alaska”, Fairbanks. Most
ill of thaes folks come from Los
Ingeles.