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VOLUME XXII. NUMBER 103.
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SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MAY 21,1927.
PRICE TEN CENTS
LINDBERGH
ARRIVES
IN FRANCE
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FLYING ALONE WITH BUT TWO HOURS SLEEP IN
SIXTY, INTREPID MONARCH OF THE AIR
TRAILS FINISHES HAZARDOUS JOURNEY TWO
AND HALF HOURS AHEAD OF SCHEDULE, AR
RIVING IN NIGHT
LEBOURGET FLYING FIELD, Paris, May 21 (/P)
—Lindbergh landed safely here at 10:21 tonight, two and
a half hours ahead of his schedule.
The entire way from the coast to Paris was emblazon
ed with flares to guide the airman to his destination.
A large concourse of people had gathered when the
news was flashed that Lindbergh had passed over Bayeux,
on the French coast and was heading for Paris. He was
received with a great demonstration.
JACK SHARKEY WINS
OVER MALONEY; GETS
TECHNICAL KAYO
CRUSHING OVERHEAD RIGHT IN
FIFTH SPELLS FADE-OUT FOR
MALONEY
YANKEE STADUIM, N. Y., May 21.
(/P)—Jack Sharkey’s crushing over
head right smashed Jim Maloney out
of the heavyweight picture in five
rounds in Tex Rickard’s scheduled 15
round semi-final of the elimination
tournament. Maloney was down twice
in the fi.fth the referee awarded the
decision to Sharkey on a technical
knockout. The same punch dropped
Maloney in the fourth for no count.
While a pop-eyed crowd of 30,000
looked on in astonishment, Sharkey
ended the fight with a slashing right
handed assault, which left the beaten
man a gory and battered figure. Ma
loney w'as bleeding from his left eye,
nose and mouth and plunged to the
floor from a vicious succession of
right-handers to the head.
IT BE THE DEMOCRATIC
(COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 21. (£>)—!
A country prints hop didn’t yield rev
enue enough to feed Vic Donahey’s
big family. He had to make money,
so he sought and won the county au
ditorship at ew Philadelphia. His
entrance into politics, he says, was
n a dollar and cents basis. He be
came state auditor, then governor of
Ohio—three times. His friends say
he may he democratic nominee for
president—for he’s the democratic
favorite of a big republican state.
Drjur aoi, ueiaiiu, ivia> ll. \tv) —
Lind berg’s plane was reported sighted
over I}ingle Harbor, County Kerry,
Southwestern Ireland, at 5:30 this af
ternoon flying toward Cork.
NO SLEEP FOR CAPTAIN
NEW YORK. May 21. (£>)— If Liml
; bergh reaches Paris on schedule time
he will have passed 60 hours with
only two hours sleep from midnight
Thursday to 2 in the morning.
PLANS AUSTRALIAN FLIGHT
ST. LOUIS, May 21. (/P)—Lindbergh
plans to be the first person to fly from
the United States to Australia accord
ing to Harry Knight, one of his back
! ers.
ON FRENCH COAST AT 8 O’CLOCK
NEW YORK, May 21. (#>)—'The
French Cable company announced the
receipt of official advices saying that
Lindberg passed over Bayeux, on the
French coast, at S o’clock tonight,
French time, or noon, Pacific Coast
time. At the rate of speed he was re
ported to be traveling he should have
reached Parish shortly after noon,
French time. Bayeux is 150 miles
from Paris.
BASE
AMERICAN LEAGUE
New York 1, Cleveland 2.
Philadelphia 12, Chicago 5.
Only games played.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Pittsburg 8, New York 3—12 in
Pittsburg 8, New York 3—Twelve
innings.
Cincinnati 6, Philadelphia 3.
Cincinnati 2, Philadelphia 15.
Chicago 7, Brooklyn 5.
St. Louis-Boston—rain.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Hollywood 0, San Francisco 5.
Missions 9, Los Angeles 4.
Oakland 1, Sacramento 9.
Portland-Seattle-rain.
BALL SCORES
! BE BUILT NORTH BE
i THE SAN JUAN PLANT
WILL BE SUFFICIENT TO ACCOM
MODATE ALL SMALL BOATS
ENTERING THIS PORT
The breakwater to be built under
the direction of Col. J. G. Steese next
year will be located just north of the
San Juan cold storage plant, accord
ing to Colonel Steese. The site se
lected will be far enough north to es
cape the winds blowing down from
the inland to give partial shelter from
i inshore gales, due to a projection of
i the shoreline into the bay. Its dimen
sions will be sufficient to accommo
date all of the small shipping entering
the harbor and have a depth of 12 1-2
feet at low tide.
According ito the present plans
dolphine will be set and a track con
nected with the Alaska railroad run
out from the shore on which stone
will be hauled and dumped.
ft is estimated that the initial cost
will be S170.000 after which it will be
the purpose of the engineers to se
i cure appropriations to dredge the ba
sin to give greater depth. At the
present time the greatest depth of
draught of any boat requiring shelter
jis nine feet.
Like the improvement of Lowell
i creek, the improvement will be main
tained at the expense of the Federal
! government with no cost to Seward.
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MR. AND MRS. JACK M’CORD,
FRANK MOORE AMONG RE
SERVATIONS
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SEATTLE, May 21. (/?)—'The S. S.
Yukon sailed at 9 o’clock this morning
and carried 327 passengers. Among
|the Seward passengers are: George
Rav, A. H. Bushman, J. w. Felder,
wife and daughter, Miss C. B. Flana
gan. Frank Moore, Jack McCord and
wife, Helen Barker, Fred J. Shafer, H.
McCormick, B. Howard. Mrs. Nora M.
Nash, Roy Lunz and wife, Mrs. E. M.
Evelyn W. Crump, K. Tillis, Jas. E.
Taylor, George Lantz, Miss V. Wray,
Gallery, C. E. Olsen, Mrs. Bert John
son, Mrs. B. Voizart, A. Mortensen, W.
F. Downing, H. G. Williams, E. A.
McCrimmon, E. Gedney, Fale Bartlett,
Miss D. Conrad, R. Stowell, Eva Blodg
et and child, R. E. Lang, A. H. Mc
Laughlin, E. Brigman, A. Ranter, J. H.
Hefferintrager, Mrs. A. Stahlton, W.
R. McPherson and wife, Mrs. Iris Ma
theson and two children, Albert Sollas,
G. W. Brown and seven steerage.
WILKINS TO GREENLAND
FAIRBANKS, May 21. (JP)—Pre
; pared for the take-off at Point Bar
row for the first long flight with Etah,
Greenland, as his objective, Capt. G.
H. Wilkins is awaiting favorable
weather. Overhung skies and light
rains prevented his contemplated
early start this morning.
SEYMOUR LOWMAN, FORMER LT.
GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK,
NAMED TO SUCCEED HIM
WASHINGTON, May 21. (^—Lin
coln Andrews, assistant Secretary of
the Treasury, in charge of prohibition
enforcement, resigned, effective Au
gust 1, and Seymer bowman, former
Lieutenant Governor of New York,
will succeed him. The Treasury De
partment announced that James Do
ran, prohibition chemist has been de
I
signated prohibition commissioner,
, succeeding Roy Haynes. Secretary
■
Mellon expects Havnes to resign. The
!
President has not made Lowman’s ap
pointment but Lowman will accept the
offer.
DORAN GETS JOB
WASHINGTON, May 21. (IP)—Doran
took over the duties as commissioner
of prohibition and recommended the
j appointment of Herbert H. White as
assistant commissioner.
IRON SANDS RESEARCH
WASHINGTON, May 20. {/Pi
Northern Japan’s iron sands will be
| the subject of researches during the
, next three years for which the Jao
l
anese government will furnish more
| than $500,000, according to a report
from the American Trade Commis
sioner at Tokyo. J. H. Elken.
NO TIME TO SUE
WHEN SCHOONER KIT
SIT MEMBERS CREW
BREAKERS HIT STERN OF EV
ERETT HAYS CAUSING LOSS
OF CONTROL
DUTCH HARBOR, May 21. (£>)— As
soon as a lifeboat shoved clear with
her crew the schooner Everett Hays
sank. The crew said, in telling the
story of the wreck: “We were in the
channel entrance battling our way to
Unimak for shelter on a lee shore
when we went aground. Breakers
hit her stem causing loss of control
of the vessel. The breakers threw
her on a reef. There was no time to
salvage anything. Personal effects
and 130 blue, 57 red and three cross
foxe3, with considerable cash went
down.**
jr; Jr
CHANGING COURSE
SILLS BUILT IN BED OF ATCHA
FALAYA I N 1886 HOLDING
CURRENT
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| NEW ORLEANS. May 21. UP)—The
! possibility that the Mississippi river
; might be changing its course so as to
run through the Atchafalaya basin,
was the opinion expressed by Major
! John C. Gotwals. All that is keeping
j the current from cutting a newer and
'shorter channel was a pair of stone
j sills built in the bed of the Atchafa
laya in 1886. The sills might collapse.
Refugees are continuing to pour out
of Points Coupee parish on warning
of a crevasse in the levees in Points
Coupee. This would inundate 2,000,
000. the last of the fertile “Sugar
Bowl” section and affect a hundred
\
j thousand persons.
CHURCH REPORT OW,
! ALASKA CONDITIONS
WAS EXAGGERATED
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PUBLICITY MAN EVIDENTLY MIS
INTERPRETED TENOR O F
CHURCH REPORT
| JUNEAU. May 21. (/P)—Replying to
i protests of Rev. O. A. Stillman and the
'Juneau Northern Light Presbyterian,
church congregation on reports that
the Presbyterian Board of National
, Missions was planning to urge the me
diation of the church between Alaska
whites and Indians because of unfav
orable economic conditions, Secretary
A. J. Montgomery of New York tele
! graphed that the church report did not
l contain the matter credited to it in
press reports, and simply stated that
economic adjustments of the natives
were in progress. Mediation was not
contemplated, Montgomery said, and
the board’s publicity man evidently
misinterpreted the tenor of the report
to the press.
DIAMOND DISCOVERIES
DEPLETES FAR MLIBDR
■PRETROIA, Transvaal, May 21.
(JP)—More than 60,000 Europeans
and 120,000 natives are working on
the newly discovered diamond fields
in the Lichienburg area according to
Dr. H. A. Lorentz. Dutch Consul
General here. The lure of lucky
strikes is responsible for a great
dearth of farm labor, and Lichten
burg farmers are bewailing the fact
that Kaffirs cannot he induced to do
farm work when they can earn SO
shillings a week on the diamond
fields.