VOLUME XXIII. NUMBER 168. SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JULY 20, 1928. PRICE TEN CENTS
COAST GUARDSMEN
KILLED VESSELS
COLLIDE II FDD
VESSEL CUT IN TWO WHEN
STRUCK BY FREIGHTER, DEL.
EWARE CAPES
CAPE MAY, N. J., July 20. (/P)—
F. Haines, Motor Machinists Mate,
First Class, and E. T. Hale, Motor
Machinists Mate, Second Class, were
drowned and five rescued when the
(steamer CulUerson sank the Coast
Guard Patrol Boat No. 113, in a thick
fop off Delegare Caries.
According to survivors story Dels,
ware Capes was covered with a dense
fog and the patrol boat was proceed
ing slowly along patrol duty when
suddenly ouf of the mirk loomed the
high bow of the freighter and struck
the government boat amidships cut
ting it in half.
U. 5. TENNIS TEAM
WINS FIRST ITCHES
AUTEUIL. France, July 20. (/P)—
America’s Davis Cup tennis players,
minus Wiliam Tild^n, produced a
great surprise when they won the
first two singles matches of the inher.
zone finals with Italy. Frances Hunt,
er defeated Plaoido Gaslini 6.1, 6.1,
6.0, and John Hennessey beat Baron
De Morpurgo 6.4, 7.5, 6.2.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Philadelphia, 5; St. Louis, 6.
Brooklyn, 3; Pittsburgh, 0.
Boston, 9; Cincinnati, 4.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Detroit, 9-2; Washington, 3-7.
Cleveland. 2; Boston, 3. '
St. Louis. 0-3; Philadelphia, £-4
Chicago, 4; New York, 6.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
San Francisco. 2; Hollywood.
Los Angeles, 4; Missions, 13.
Seattle, 2; Scramento, 13.
Portland, 3i Oakland, 7.
HER SACK HOME
RECEPTION HALTED
STANFORD UNIVERSITY, July 20
(7p)—Herbert Hoover arrived at bis
home on 'the Stanford campus com.
pic ting his trip from Washington
His hom'3 coming was very quiet anti
■the elaborate receptions planned wer*
postponed because of Hoovr's fathrer.
in.law C. D. Henry funeral services
this afternoon.
POSITIONS REVERSED
HELENA, July 20. ^—Fourteen,
hundred and 20 out of 1,490 pre.
cincts give Ayers 23,192 and Erickson
23,595 vot»3S.
BETTER THAN EVER
SPECULATOR, July 20. (/P)—Phy_
jsically Gene Turnkey is better equipp.
! ed to defend his title than at any pre.
! vious bout, according to Dr. Robert
Shea, Tunney’s surgeon for 10 years.
!
WABASH FREIGHT
TORRENTIAL RAINS WASHES OUT
SPANS UNDER WOODEN TRES.
TLE; SWELL CREEK
OMAHA. July 20. (£>)—D. D. Tucker,
j George Wilson, engineers, and Jesse
Davis and John Butts, firemen, were
| kilted when a doubleheader Wabash
I freight train plunged into a rain swol.
jlen.creek near Mineola.
Torrential rains during the night
filled tli'3 creek and washing out the
!
ventral spans of the wood trestle. Six
j oars, of a 54.ear ‘train, ;piled into the
creek following the locomotive.
—
BLACKMAILERS FOILED
i
| COLUMBUS, July 20. (#>)—One man
%Ss shot and wounded and four cth.
I er members of an alleged gang of
blackmailers were captured on an un.
I successful attempt to collect $10,000
from Colomba Massa, wealthy Indian
merchant.
AUTHORITIES STILL UNDECID.
ED WHETHER JUMPED FROM
PLANE OR ACCCIDENT
BOULOGNESURMER, France, July
j 20. (TP)—The body of Capt. Alfred
i Lowenstem, missing Belgian million.
; aire, was found floating facta down,
ward 10 miles off Cape Grisnez. It
' was readily identified by a wrist
! watch otherwise it was unrecogniza.
| hi© so decomposed was it.
j French and Belgian authorities still
I have to determine whether Lowen.
I stein accidently fell from the plane as
i it flew over the English Channel on
July 4, or delibertly wrenched open
the exit door and plunged to his death.
It is believed the French govern,
ment will begin an inquiry to ©stab,
lish ttte cause of his death.
AL INDORSED
SAN FRANCISCO, July 20. </P)—
| The candidacy of A1 Smith was indor.
ed by the Convention of International
Brotherhood of Bookbinders.
SAN FRANCISCO. July 20. (TP)—
Harry Lyons and Jim Warner, heroes
of the Southern Cross flight to Sydney
arrived to be engulfed by a welcome
only as San Francisco can give.
SURVIVORS KINGSBAY
KINGSBAY, July 20. (/P)—'The ice.
breaker Krassin arrived with all the
known survivors of the Italia. The
base ship men greeted them with
cheers.
TOM REMINDS CORBETT OF JACK
SHARKEY AND PREDICTS BET.
TER BATTLE EXPECTED
FAIRHAVEN, Tom Heaney boxed
; before the critical 'eyes of James J.
j Corbett, Jack Kearns and other box.
ing dignitaries.
The terrific h'eat forced the chal.
lenger to cut down/ his workout but he
looked almost as impressive as yes.
terday. Corbett .said Heeney remind.
| ed him of Tom Sharkey and predicted
the battle would be better than the
! public anticipated.
SEEKS U. S. ADVICE
WASHINGTON, July 20. (JP)—
; China although much experienced
with the age old problem of wrestling
with restless rivers, has come to the
United States for information as to
how Americans control and improve
■ them.
FLOATING GYM CARRIES YANKS TO OLYMPICS;
THEY WILL TRAIN ON THE WAY
LLOYD
HAHN
DOROTHY POYNTON
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Bound1 for the 1928 Olympic Games at Amsterdam,
America’s best men and women athletes sailed July 11 on
the S. S. President Roosevelt. Lloyd Hahn and Dorothy
Poynton (upper) are among the best in their classes in
the land. Hahn runs the 800 and 1,500 meters and Miss
Poynton is a fancy diver. LawsQn Robertson (lower
right) heads the staff of coaches.
mm WARNED
NOT FLY TO N. Y.
BY TEX RICKARD
WILL PROCEED WITH INJUNC.
T!ON IF CHAMPION REFUSES
FOLLOW HIS WISHES
NEW YORK, July 20. (/P)—“Tex”
Rickard warned Champion Gen© Tun.
ney if he persisted in flying her'3 from
Speculator for the title match “Tex”
will have the law on him.
“You owe it to the promoter or this
fight and the fight fans to see von
take no chances doing anything that
might prevent your appearance the
day of the fight with Tom Heeney.
As a promoter I insist you do not
come by airplane,and will proceed
with an injunction if you refuse.” he
telegraphed.
M. S. PATTERSON AGAIN
RIST VESSEL BARROW
PIONT BARROW, July 20. (>P)—
| The motorship Patterson reached
Barrow at noon on July IS. It has
been the first ship for six consecutive
years. Th'a ice was moving, the day
before the Patterson arrived. The
vessel proceeded Eastward the same
! afternoon after landing mail and fruit.
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I
PROHIBITION AGENT -
SHOT ID HILLED
ALBANY, July 20. <£>)—Irving
| Washburn, prohibition agent, was .shot
and killed and a fellow officer barely
escaped when they invaded a district
of the city from which they had been
! warned. They were subjected to gun.
fire from a crowd of men who weds
armed from a .stop?. Ten suspects are
! held.
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i SMITH P WTO
WILL TOUCH ON REORGANIZA.
TION FEDERAL FUNCTIONS,
ECONOMY, AT SPEECH
ALBANY, July 20. (£>)—Governor
Smith declared he Intended to deal
with the prohibition and farm relief
question extensively in his speech of
acceptance.
j Smith disclosed his intention when
! asked 'by newspapermen about the
published reports that he had planned
subordinate farm relief and prohibi
tion issues.
He intends to stress his ideas about
i reorganization of federal government
functions and governmental economy
and said he intended to touch on all
major issues.