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VOLUME XXIII. NUMBER 185. SEWARD, ALASKA THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 1928.
PRICE TEN GENTS
AMENT HOUSE
JUNEAU DESTROYED
EARLY MOON BLAZE
FIREMEN SUFFER BURNED HANDS
TENANTS LOSE ALL; WAS
PARTICALLY INSURED
JUNEAU, Aug. 9. (£>)—'The Feldon
apartment formerly the Juneau apart
ments, a three story frame structure
containing 35 apartments all of which
were occupied, was destroyed by fire
early this morning.
After a three hour fight the fire
men kept the flames from spreading.
Many of the firemen- suffered scoareh
ed hands.
The loss is $20,000 which is parti
ally covered by /insurance. The ten.
ants narrowly escaped with their lives
and lost everything they possessed.
CONTINUES INN.!. I
' TO IKE HER DU!
G»-T CLUBS AND SPEAKEAS
IES BY THE SCORE BEING
RAIDED AND PADLOCKED
NEW YORK, Aug. 9. (/P)—The
clri"e to make New York dry receiv
ed rew impetus as padlock proceed
ings were instituted against 36 ad
•;i,;onal night clubs and speakeasies
in the white light district and else
where. Five Long Island resorts
were raided by dry agents and the
alleged proprietors were arrested
*;■ liquor was seized,
ners of all 3G places mentioned
r. * :e new padlock proceedings will
■ summoned to explain away com
LL.hs. Failure to do so will mean
th- ’araping on of padlocks.
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SLuTEN, Aug. 9, (JP)—Charles Mc
Ilvame and Paul Costello, American
* double scullers, beat the Austrians,
Lo.sert and Flessl, two lengths in the
se ui inals.
The vicory found the Americans
lea ling all other countries with four
bo^t loads of oarsmen in the finals
to be rowed tomorrown
United States entries have be^n
elitainated in only three of the seven
classes, England second best showine
was with three crews, Switzerland
two, Canada, Australia, Germany,
France and Ita’y, one each.
AN IMPORTANT CLAUSE
PARIS, Aug. 9, (/P)—The most im
portant clause of the Franco-British
naral agreement is understood to be
c.vtcorrned 'ritb tbe Que-tion of 10,000
ton cruiser.
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QUAKE ROCKS FRISCO
SAN FRANCISCO; Aug. 9. (^—Sec
tions of San Fran disco and points Bast
of San Francisco Bay, were shaken
last night by an earthquake -said to
have its center four miles South of the
city limits. No damage occured.
ERUPTION VALCANO
DEATH TOLL BELIEVED BE 1,000;
600 INJURED HIT BY CRATER
FRAGMENTS
BATAVA, Java, Aug. 9. (/P)—Ac
cording to reports transmitted by the'
Resident agent at Timor noarly the
entire island of Paloeweh, in the
Dutch East Indies, has boan destroy,
ed by the eruption of FSlokatinda vol
cano on August 4th and 5th.
Six villages were destroyed by fine
and the death toll is believ»3d to be
nearly 1,000. Six hundred were in.
jured whan hit by fragments thrown
out by the crater.
Further casualties were caused by
the submersion of th>3 island sea.
| board thru the earthquake accom.|
S par.yVn g the eruption. The remain
der of tb3 islanders number 5.000 in.
; habitants, and these, it is stated, are
: believed to be saf-3. Ample provisions
are available, It is feared that nine
nativ»3 boats, enroute from Celebes'
Isia.r.r to Paloeweh, has foijndenad
i with their crews.
The Dutch resident, of Timor is
! proceeding to the scene of the dis
! aster. The ‘island lies about five miles
I
I off the North coast.
| Flores Island is one of the largest
Malay Archipelago islands about four
miles in diameter and rises to a peak
1.593 9?et high which is covered with
traps to the summit.
CORNERED AND SHOT
LOS ANGELS, Aug. 9. (/F)—Within
a few minutes after he had staged a
lone handed bank robbery and obtain,
j ed SI.100 in currency, Geo Murphy,|
i 35, was cornered in the fashionable
wealthy park district and wounded,
j
j probably fatally, in a spectacular gun
j fight.
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TROPICAL HURRIGANE
[1ST COAST RACINE
TOIRI! EIILF Alt!
JACKSONVILLE, Aug. 9. {&)—'The
Government Weather Buneau an.
nounced the tropical disturbance
j which struck the East coast and raced
! thru the citrus section to the West
coast, centered this morning near the
Gulf coast about 50 miles north of
Tampa, and was moving slowly up the
coast in a Northwesterly direction.
It is greatly decreased in velocity.
The fruit.crop suffered greatly; sev
. •' V ; '5j ...
; eral towns in the cfentrai portion ot
j t he s torm area, are * still lakilat edi .- ^
THE WORLD’S LARGEST PLANE
LONDON, England, Aug. 9, (yP)—A
feature of the Air Pageant at Croy
don this year was the exhibition of
the world’s largest airplane, the "In
flexible,”—an all-metal tri-motored
^monoplane. It weighs 14 tons, its wing
span is 150 feet and is 75 feet lo’ g
Photo shows one of the Inflexible’s
giant landing wheels, eight feet high.
SMITH Will ATTEND
BRENNAN FUNERAL
LEAVES N. Y. TONIGHT
; ALBANY, Aug. 9, CP)—Gov. Alfred
i
: Smith decided to go ;o Chicago to
• attend the funeral of National Com
mitteeman Brennan. It was the in
tention of the President;! nominee
to leave tonight and arrive in Chi
cago Friday morning, but now lie
.plans to return to Albany t te same
I night.
j The Governor decided to drop work
Jon his acceptance -speech and be
j present at the funeral o tne Illinois
|Democratic leader who in recent
years has been one of Smith’s
[ staunch supporters.
DIES IN ms- CCrF.N
j BUDAPEST. Aug. 9. CP; Em
!yenrs Victor Kas.-mu, an actor, slept
|a coffin fearing dealt was approacu
jiug He has since been found dead
! in it.
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STILL FIGHTING
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PUERTO CABEZAS, Nicaragua,
Aug. 9. UP)—One American marine
i
j was killed and three wounded in an
| encounter with rebels Tuesday. Ten |
: Insurgents were killed and three f
w o ended,
PROJECTED FLIGHT !
PARIS TO H YORK1
ENDS IN DISASTER
-—
NOTED FRENCH “ACE” MAURICE
DROUHIN SERIOUSLY INJUR- j
ED; MECHANIC KILLED
ORLY, France, Aug. 9. <^P)—Ano.th.
er attempt to fly from Paris to Now
!
York ended in disaster when the giant
trimotored “Arc En Ciel” crashed on
the landing field here killing mechan
ic Lennet, fatally (injuring Maurice
Drouhiin, noted French flyer seriously
injuring Gionolle and Manuel.
The plane was being put thru a
final test.
SUCCUMBS FROM INJURIES
PARIS, Aug. 9. (JP)—Maurice Drou
sin, ono of France’s foremost pilots,
died from injuries received in the fmai
test < f the flight .plane in which he
hoped shortly to fly from Paris to
New York, when the plane crashed
Wednesday.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Chicago, 3; Philadelphia, 4.
St. Louis, 5; New York. 10.
i Pittsburgh. 4; Brooklyn, 3.
! Cincinnati, 3.1; Eos-on, 6-12.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
, San Francisco. 5; Missions, 3.
j Oakland, S: Seattle, 6.
Sacramento, 2: Portland, 1.
! Los Angeles, 8; Hollywood, 4.
“BEACH-GOLF”, NEWEST OF FADS
A new idea in summer sport has developed itself
among this season's bathers who also happen to be golf
enthusiasts. It is called “Beach Golf ' and is played on
the same principles as the original game of golf, except
ing that instead of link greens the beach sands replace it.
The golf sticks are somewhat larger of a special design
forr this particular game.
Photo shows the girls of “Sunny Days” giving an ex
hibition of “Beach Gtfef atjthe Clarendon beach, Chicago.
THEY TO MARRY
RICH SOCIETY GIRL
OE BRISTOL. MAINE
MOTHER AND DAUGHTER ON
SELECT REGISTER FOREMOST
IN AMERICA
SOUTH BRISTOL, Me., Aug. 9. (£>)
—Formal announcement of the en_
I gagement of Gene Tunn'ay, retired,
heavyweight champion, to Miss Jose,
i phine Lauder, of Greenwich, Conn.,
I was mad*a by Mrs. Georg© Lauder, Jr.,
her mother.
i By the engagement Tunney is allied
: with a family forefront in American
i society and wealth. The mother and
| daughter are on the social register;
the father, a yatchsman of note died
' sevtaral years ago.
FATHER AND SON
INDICTED CHICAGO
MANY OFFENSES
CHARGED WITH EVERYTHING ON
THE 300X; ALL COUNTS CAR.
RY HEAVY SENTENCES
j CHICAGO, Aug. 9, (JP)—Morris Fi
ler, an imporrtant cog in Mayor
Thompson’s Chicago politicaLunachine
was indicted together with his son,
Judge Emmanuel Eller and 17 aides
on 23 counts, charging conspiracy to
murder, to kidnap, to assault, to com.
mit election frauds, and to stuff pay.
rolls of Cook County and the city of
Chicago with the names of his follow,
ers for criminal purposes:. All the of.
fenses named are felonies and may
carry heavy sentences.
I The action of the grand jury grew
out of an investigation into the elec,
tion primary violence, in which Oc.
tavius Granady, negro opponent of
Eller, was shot and killed.
: PEASANT PAHLIAMENTIIRY
I LEADER DIES WOUNDS
i
f _
; VIENNA, Aug. 9. (;p)—'Stefan Ra.
; ditch, Croatian peasant Parliamentary
leader, died in Zagres. The city is
grief stricken and troops have be*en
placed everywhere to suppress trou
| bl'e.
Raditch died from a wound teceived
last June in the Parliament when a
radical deputy, infuriated by frequent
interruptions, fired six shots into a
group.
SHOT AND KILLED
NEW YORK, Aug. 9, (jP)—The
body of a young man who had been
shot and killed and then burned be
yound recognition, was found here
fcy a startled motorist, ten feet from
a lane that winds through Palisades
near Englewood cliff, New Jersey