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VOLUME XXII. NUMBER 198.
SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1927. PRICE TEN CENTS
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VESSEL ENROUTE FROM ALEU
TIAN ISLANDS REPORTS SEE
ING WRECKAGE
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 14. (IP)—
A piece of wreckage painted a bright
yellow with several wires dangling
* from it is thought possibly to have
been part of the monoplane Golden
Eagle, the missing Honolulu flight
contestant, sighted in the Pacific sev
eral hundred miles off Cape Flattery
September 1, by two members of the
crew of the four masted fishing schoon
er William H. Smith, Capt. Gustav A.
Schmidt, master. It is reported the
schooner, which was four days out
from the Aleutians bound for San
Francisco, was making about 16 knots
per hour in a heavy sea when Isaac
Neilsen, at the helm, and Mose Riley
on deck, sighted a piece of wreckage
sticking four feet out of the water but
two - seaman thought it was a piece
from another fishing vessel and made
no attempt to pick it up.
The vessel was not equipped with a
radio and no one aboard had any
knowledge of the airplane race to
Honolulu which started August 16.
The wreckage was sighted September
1, thus Capt. Schmidt stated a drift
of one-half mile per hour could have
brought the wreckage to a position
where it was seen even if the plane
had landed in water on a direct course
to the islands. He added there was
no life on the wreckage and said even
if there was it couldn’t have hung on
long in view of the heavy sea which
was running.
LITTLE PROFIT TAKING
ON TIE STOCK MARKET
NEW YORK. Sept. 14. (IP)_Con
trary to expectations there was little
profit taking on the stock market.
General Motors and U. S. Steel com
mon moved in a narrow range while
American Can and Postum cereal
were specialties in demand. Ease in
money was a decided factor in
4 ■ strength of the market.
BULL UNO RATTLE SIKES
REFUSE TO ENTERTAIN
MEMPHIS, Tenn., Sept. 14. (IP)—
Three pairs of bull snakes and rattler
snakes, supposed to be born enemies,
refused to battle at a scheduled fight
here. Instead they showed affection
to each other thus disgusting the fans.
The referree poked them with stick
in an effort to make them fight but
their inactivity showed they were in
a peac^ parley .
JAPAN AMBASSADOR TO
U. S. TRANSFERRED
WASHINGTON, Sept. 14. (#>)—
Tsuendo Matsuidara, Japanese Ambas
sador to the United States, has been
don. His successor according to dip
slated by Tokyo for a transfer to Lon
lomatic circles reports as to be Katsuji
D >buchi Voe, Vice-minister of foreign
affj irs at Tokyo.
BROCK AND SCHLEE
TOKYO,'Sept. 14. (/P)—Ignoring all
protests Brack and Schlee announced
their intention to fly to Midway Is
land and said if they missed the island
j they will continue on to Honolulu.
The aviators Arrived here Wednesday.
ENORMOUS LOSS OF
LIFE FROM TYPHOON
TIDAL WAVE JAPAN
_
CITY OF NAGASAKI WAS DIRECT.
; LY IN PATH; TAIL END IN.
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UNDATES TOKYO HOUSES
TOKYO, Sept. 14. (;£>)—Four hun
dred persons are death, 2,300 injured
and 700 houses destroyed in the Yu
mamoto Prefecture, the consequence
of the typhoon tidal wave. Reports
from the Japanese home office sta
ted the western part of Kiuskiu Is
land suffered the most. Nagasaki
City, with a population of 160,000,,
was directly in the typhoon’s path.
Th» tail of the typhoon struck Tok-i
jyo this morning and several thou
sand houses in the low lying" sectons
were flooded.
!SPECIAL SESlfOE j
CONGRESS DOUBTFUL
WASHINGTON, Sept. 14. {JP)~ I
It is stated officially at the White \
House that unless he was convinced
| by a further investigation that a spec
ial session of the new Congress this
fall is necessary Pres. Coolidge will
adhere to his original decision against
calling one. 'i
FIRST Ml CARRIER
TO NOME, DIES SEATTLE
SEATTLE,V Sept. 14. (£>)_jr0hn
Clinton Ware, age 62, who carried
the first mail into Nome driving a
dog team from Dawson, died here.
Ware was the man from whom Rex
Beach created the character Steve
in his novel “The Silver Hbrde.”
BODIES FROM WRECKED
FREIGHTER FOUND. SHORE
ARCHANGEL, Russia, Sept. 14. (JP)
—Eight bodies found in the White
Sea revealed the fate of the Soviet
freighter Siriena which was two weeks
overdue and unreported. The bodies
of the seamen furnished a clue which
resulted in locating the hull of the
freighter four miles off the mouth of
the Dvina River in the White Sea.
The vessel had evidently struck a
j rock and gone to the bottom instantly
with all hand.
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BASEBALL SCORES
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PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Oakland, 10; Portland, 11.
San Francisco, 2; Hollywood, 3.
Los Angeles, nothing; Missions 13.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Cleveland, 3-3; New York, 5-5.
Chicago, 5; Philadelphia, 15.
St. Louis, 4-2; Boston, 5-£.
Detroit, 2-3; Washington, 3-5.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
New York, 2-12; St. Louis, 5-6.
Philadelphia, 3; Cincinnati, 5.
Boston, 1-4; Pittsburgh, 6-5.
Brooklyn, 6; Chicago, 5.
WHY NO DIVIDENDS?
CHICAGO, Sept. 14. (/P)— Allied
; Packers Incorporated, said to be a
$100,000,000 merger of meat compan-;
ies of the U. S. and Canada, has been '
sued for accounting by stockholders
who want to know why no dividends.
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TANGLED MASS OF STAYS GIVE
EVIDENCE OF LATE BOIST
ROUS WEATHER
NEW YORK, Sept. 14. The
Daily Mirror announced receipt of
the following mesage from the
steamer Kyle; “The wreckage of
the Old Glory was taken from the
heavy sea consists of 34 feet of a
wing containing three tanks, sections
of glass fuel gauges and feed pipes
connected to tanks; four tanks are
missing, the other three contained ,
large quantities of gasoline. The
engine and the body were evidently I
torn from the wings leaving no
| trace. The control cockpit, except I
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one lever, a speaking tube, the ship's
undercarriage, and a left wheel is
fairly complete, but the wing sup
ports are tangled in a mass of stays
giving evidence of boistrous weath
er existing since the disaster.”
SMOKING BAD, WOMEN
NEW YORK, Sept. 14. (JP)—Dr. R.
Hofstatter, famous Viennese special
ist, says smoking makes women mas- j
culine, makes their eyes less alert and
causes some to become crosseyed in
his book called the 'smoking woman’, i
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Better Keep This One'!
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£li§g
f 1 GUESS ID BETTER
HANG ON TO THIS
ONE" A WHILE .
IT LOOKS AS
F ITS DUE FOR.
A RAPID
RISE IN
V/\LUE
AMERICAN LEAGUE
PEiANT FOR 1027
CLIHCKED YANKEES
FINISH OF SEASON THREE WEEKS
OFF; BABE RUTH LED AT
TACK
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NEW YORK, Sept. 14. (JP)_The
Yankees chinched the American Lea
gue pennant beyond all mathematical
doubt with a double victory over
Cleveland each by the ^eore of 5-3.
Babe Ruth clubbing out one homer ih
each game brought his total to 52 and
led the attack that definitely assured
the Yankees of their second straight
championship and the fifth in seven
years under the management of Miller
Huggins. The Yankee steamroller
flattened all opposition almost from
the start of- the season and clinched,
the flag with tfhe finish of the season
still nearly three weeks away and
with the overwhelming safety margin
of 17 games over second place held
by the Athletics.
WIFE CHINESE GENERAL
DENIES ALLEGAUDNS
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 14. (JP)—
Denying many sensational rumors,
Madame Chiang Kai Shek, wife of the
former Chinese Nationalist General,
arrived here today aboard the Dollar
liner President Jackson. It is untrue
she asserted that she fled China with
$6,000,000 and that her husband later
is to leave surrepitiously and join her
in Paris there to finish out his life'in
ease. She is on a pleasure trip she
asserted.
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 14. (JP)— B. C.
Butler, street car conductor, took his
life in his hands here this morning by
kicking a pair of bandits off his car.
They had stuck guns in Butler’s face
and he told them to “put them guns
back in your pockets and get off this
car~pronto.” They didn’t do it so But
ler kicked them off, one of them fired
and the bullet was deflected by a
small book in his vest. Th$ bandits''
finally fled.
NEW YORK, Sept. 14. (jP)—Valeska
3uratt, former screen and stage star,
las sued Cecil B. DeMille for ^1,000,
>00 charging that the “spectacular”
ilm, King of Kings, was lifted from
he book, Mary Magdalen, the exclu
iive motion picture rights which be
onged to her. King of Kings was pro
duced, she charged, after she h^d sub
nitted the book to De Mille who kept
t for five months before rejecting it.
U. S. AFTER SCALPERS
WASHINGTON, Sept. 14. (JP)—1The
;overnment plans to push the federal
irive on ticket scalpers to every sec
ion ct the country it was announced
a New York.