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VOLUME XXII. NUMBER 197. SEWARD, ALASKA,
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1927.
PRICE TEN CENTS
EARLY FLYING US
MORE DANGEROUS
SAYS LINDBERGH
COLONEL ARRIVES AT SPOKANE
FROM BUTTE; TALKS TO AS
SOCIATED PRESS
SPOKANE, Sept. 13. (£>)_Colonel
Lindbergh told the Associated Press
“The trans-oceanic flights which have
been accomplished demonstrate the
feasibility of air transportation be
tween the continents and the trend
of future developments should be to
ward making such transportation prac
tical under all conditions. The pion
eering is over but the perfecting is
yet to be done. Regular trans-oceanic
travel by air is no more practical to
day than tranc-oceanic air lines were a
half decade ago. Years of develop
ment in scientific research must be re
quired before such a regular inter
continental service can be successfully
inaugurated. During this experimen
tal period we may expect causualties
vet to totally restrict these hazard
ous flights would have the same effect
on future trans-oceanic flying as the
air mail would have experienced had
it been abandoned during the heavy
casualty period of pioneering days.
A few years following the flight of
Wright Brothers any flight was more
dangerous than the trans-oceanic fly
ing at the present time.”
LINDBERGH TAKES OFF !
FROM SPOKANE, SEATTLE
SPOKANE, Sept. 11. (JP)—Colonel
Lindbergh took off from the airport
at 8:44 for Seattle. Leaving the air
port the giant monoplane circled over
the city and hospital to give the crip
pled children of the Shriners ward an
opportunity to see the flier, then head
ed westward. The take-off was made
in a thickly falling rain and the sky
was heavy with clouds.
LOfiN MAY RESIGN DOE
ACTION TAKEN, SPEECH
WASHINGTON, Sept Hi. (/Pi- Sey
mour, W. Lowman, assistant secre
tary of the Treasury, and in charge
of prohibition enforcement, may re
sign. This action may be taken as a
result of his statement of last week
when he said the dservice in
cluded crooked men. Secretary Mel
lon called him into conference.
AFTER S. A. TRADE
WASHINGTON, Sept. 13. (JP)— An
economic combination is being organ
ized in Europe that is bound to miti
gate against America in the opinion
of Senator Borah. He said the combi
nation is going after South American
trade.
PROMINENT COUPLE WED
NEW YORK, Sept. 13. (JP)—Miss
Emiry Sears of Weba, Mass., was mar
ried to Martyn Hemphill of Dublin,
Ireland in the rectory of St. Patricks
Cathedral. The couple sailed for
Italy.
BACK FROM BARROW
SEATTLE, Sept. 13. (/P)—The sail*
: ing schooner C. S. Holmes arrived
I from Point Barrows with a cargo of j
furs. Favorable ice conditions and an |
j easy voyage to and from Barrow is
reported by Capt. Backland.
TYPHOON TIDAL WAVE
II JAPAN TAKES 100
! LIVES. MANY MISSING
STORM REPORTED NEAR SCENE
OF WHERE BROCK-SCHLEE
AWAIT TAKE-OFF
TOKYO, Sept. 13. (IP)—More than !
100 persons were drowned and many
are missing, victims of a typhoon tidal
wave which inundated villages in the
neighborhood of the city of Kumamoto
I on the island of Kiushiu, say dispatch- *
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es received by the Asahi. The scene.;
of the storm is reported near Tmura ;
where the American round the 'world j
plane is waiting to take off on its!
next hop for Tokyo. The plane is not
believed to have been harmed though j
only a few miles southeast of the
storm scene. _ f
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE >
1 Sacramento, 3-3; Portland, 9-8.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Philadelphia, 2; Pittsburg, 3.
New York, 7; Chicago, 5.
Boston, 4-nothing; Cincinnati, 6-3.
Brooklyn, nothing, St. Louis, 2.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Detroit, 4; Philadelphia, 5.
BODY OF ROADHOUSE
KEEPER FOUND INFERIOR
TANANA. Sept. 13. (&)— J. J. Daw
yer and party who searched for Robt.
McMullen, who has been missing since
early July, have returned and reported
McMullen’s body was found partly
submerged in the grass near the bank
of Long Lake. The supposition is he
fell out of his boat into the lake and
drowned. McMullen had conducted
roadhouses in the Interior for many
years.
POLICE MAKE ARRESTS
CONNECTION BOMBING
NEW YORK, Sept. 13. (£>)—Six men
were held by police in connection with
attempt to blow up the Hall of Records
and the Court House at City Hall,
Brooklyn. Police found a bomb plant
four blocks from the scene of the
wreck with a large amount of anarch
istic literature. Of the six men ar
rested, four are Mexicans, one Cuban,
and the fifth was American. Two of
! the Mexicans, toured the United Stat
jes in the interest of the communist
'party. The bomb explosion did dam
age estimated at $500.
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TO TAKE COMMAND
I SAN GIEGO, Sept. 13. (ff)— Lieut.
Ben H. Wy^tt, well known San Die
go airman now on duty with the
fleet air forces at North Island, is
slated to take command of the na
jval air station at Sand Point, Wash
ington this fall.
MISS AMERICA FOR 1927
ATLANTA CITY, Sept. 13. (£>)—
Miss Lois Eleanor Delander of Joliet,
111., is Miss America for 1927 the na
tion’s most beautiful bathing girl.
She entered the beauty parade as Miss
Illinois and is 16, slender, fair com
plection and has long brown hair.
GIANT FRENCH PUNE
WRECKED IN TAKING
TIRE BURST SENDING PLANE IN
TO NOSEDIVE; QUICK WIT
PILOT TURNS SWITCH
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! ETAMPES, France, Sept. 13. (JP)—
! The giant Potex biplane, piloted by
Lionel Demarnier and Louis Favreau,
was wrecked while taking off in an
attempt to break the world’s distance
record. The machine progressed a
half a mile down the field wiien a tire
burst sending the plane into a nose
dive. The airmen were uninjured.
Demarnier cut the ignition at the mo
ment of the accident preventing fire
as the tanks burst spilling a thousand
gallons of gasoline.
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TO FIGHT ON 29th.
SAN DIEGO, Sept, 13. <£>)—Ace
Hudkins, Pacific coast welterweight,
will fight Joe Dundee for the world’s
; welterweight championship at the
jwrigley ball park in Los Angeles on
j the 29th of October.
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SURGEONS USE PLANE
NEW YORK, Sept. 13. (JP)—‘Two
I Boston surgeons flew by airplane
^here to operate on Miss Annette Bail
| ey, daughter of former Secretary of
j War R. A. Alger. The operation was
ito mend a broken shoulder.
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WRECKAGE OF PLANES
FOUND IN ATLANTIC
IN THREE PEACES
NO TRACE OF AVIATORS; WING
FLOATS ASHORE ON ENGLISH
COAST
NEW YORK, Sept. 13. (/P)—Water
logged airplane wreckage is reported
to have been found in three widely
seperated points at sea provided clews
regarding the 10 brave adventurers
who vanished into the Atlantic skies
in a great gamble. The deep Atlantic
began to yield secrets concerning the
lost monoplane Old Glory and possibly
the expedition of Nungesser-Coli and
the monoplane Straphael, which car
ried Princess Lowenstein Wertheim,
and the monoplane Car.ling. Wreck
age from the Old Glory is reported
found by the steamship Kyle. The
rudder and part of an unidentified
plane was found on the beach at New
Quay Cornwall, England. A French
fishing schooner reported having sight
ed. airplane wreckage three weeks ago
300 miles east of Halifax. No trace of
the fliers have been reported. The
schooner which sighted the wreckage
which wras partially submerged advis
ed the plane w^as of a yellowish color
with black lettering. After the fall of
Old Glory it evidently has been wash
ed 100 miles northeast of where was
sent the SOS.
ST. JOHNS. Sept. 13. (/P)—1The gov
ernment steamer Kyle, chartered by
the New York Daily Mirror to search
for the missing monoplane Old Glory,
reported to the government today she
had picked up a piece of the plane but
found no sign of the crew\
NO HOPE IS HELD
ST. JOHNS, Sept. 13. (/P)—It is in
dicated by the location of the Old
! Glory wreckage 300 miles north of the
! fishing grounds that it was improba
ble fishermen may have rescued the
three occupants.
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: LEVIATHAN IS OFF FOR
: FRANCE WITH i LEGION
NEW YORK, Sept. 13. (/P)—Scream
r;£ tugs, des'.'ovu.: airplanes, fire
department boat- and giant dirigi
bles, including the Los Angeles, es
corted Legionaires and then families
on board the S. S. Leviathan, en
route to France. A huge crowd on
shore saw' them off.
MURINES CONSTABULARY
HAVE LIGHT SKIRMISH
MANAGAR, Nicaragua, Sept. 13. (IP)
—Patrols composed of marines and
natives constabulary have had light
skirmishes recently with marauding
bands wounding several ofthebandits.
Three cities are now occupied by the
marines. Two Rebel leaders are re
ported in the hills near thee cities.
HAGEN WINS AGAIN
CHICAGO, Sept. 13. (JP)—Walter
Hagen, defending his championship,
romped home to victory in the West
ern open championship at Olympic
Field.