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VOL VII NO 17
TAKOTNA. ALASKA. SATURDAY, APRIL 2a, 1927
PRICE 25 CENTS
Lindburgh, American,
First I to . Cross Atlan
tic in Non-Stop Flight
ROOSEVELT FIELD,' < May 21.—
Charles A.. Lindburgh, captain of th<
Missouri. National Guard, set out to
tiny on an. unmarked air trail f o]
Paris. The Missourian, who plays t
lone hand, had no one to show hint
ho way. as he hurreld his Ryan mon
epiatie,. the Spirit of St. Louis, intc
the snappy air above Roosevelt Fielt
„ st 6:52 a. m.. By his unheralded de
parture Lindburgh stole a march .or
his rivals, Bellanca Plane-and Com
mander Richard E. Byrd.
MEW* YORK, May 2L—J undburgl
had flown 600 miles on his flight tc
Khris at 2:30 this afternoon and. was
right to the minute on his time sched
trie, that was taking him over a great
circle to the French capital. He was
booming along at 100 miles an hour
and as.small villages in Nova Scotij
sighted him in his flight it was appar
cat that his motor was functioning
accurately.
SEATTLE, May 2k-^Captain Chas
Lindburgh, in his Spirit of St. Louis
plane, in a non-stop flight from New
York, reached Paris at 9:30 this
morning, Seattle time, according tc
telegraphic advices, received by Logar
x £. Bryan, brokers.
Captain Lindburgh crossed Irelanc
early today, he having- been sighter
fast over Dover, England, according
to a naval communications statement
given out this morning. Lindburgl
, took , off at Roosevelt. Field at 7:5:
Friday morning.
LEBOURGET, Prance. -May 21.
The exultant; cry “Ha. has made it!’
. no. rapidly'from month to mouil
this afternoon as the waiting crowd:
i here, .heard the report that Captair
v Charles .Lindburgh hatkheen sights
off Ireland. Captain Lindburgh was
reported flying over County Kerry
. Ireland, in an official dispatch fron
. the British government, which state*
that the heroic, dash from New Yorl
to Paris would be completed jabou
12:30 on Sunday morning, Paris day
light time.
LEBOURGET FIELD, Paris, Maj
. 21.—Captain Charles Lindburgh, fly
ing mail man, arrived today by ail
from New York. When, the wheels ol
Lindburgh’s monoplane touched th«
ground the dream of airmen that thi
North American and European con
tinents had been linked in .a non-stpj
airplane flight was realized.
Lindburgh landed at 10i21, Paris
. time. Flying alone, Lindburgh was
escorted over the last iap from tin
French coast to Paris by pianos ol
the French .flying squadron, and as
he landed thousands of madly cheer
ing French citizens surrounded tht
field. Ambassador Herrick, attaches
of the American embassy and othei
officiate were nr3t to greet Lucky
,, Slim as he escaped from bis plane
Raymond Orting, donor of the $25,
©tkd won by Captain Lindburgh, was
in the group that received the flyer.
SEW WORLD S'ALTUDE REC
ORD root FREE BALLOONISTS
BELLEVILLE, ifl.—A new world’s
. altitude reeord for free 'balloonists
was established by Captain Earne C,
Gray WednasrUgy. His altimeter
•bowed 11,QQ0 feet. ... The _ previous
record was 3S,4S3 feet The balloonist
encountered a temperature of 60 de
r grees below at 41,000 feet.
: | PRESIDENT OF PHILIPPINE
SENATE SAYS GOVERNOR
, WOODS ABSOLUTE DESPOT
MANILA.—Manuel Queen, presi
dent of the Philippine Senate, today
1 declared that Governor General
Woods recently announced his deter
mination to sell government-con -
trolled enterprises on the islands
' without lawful authority and is a
most absolute despot, in a statement
issued today.
DISMISSES SUIT BROUGHT
THE HUSH FREE STATE
NEW YORK.—Supreme Court Jus
■ tice Peters today dismissed the suit
i brought by the Jrish Free State,
claiming to be successors of the Irish
Republic and entitled to bonds sub
scribed for in the United States for
fhe Republican cause. Justice Petei-s
also denied the claim of Eamon De
Valera to the bonds and ruled that
the proceeds, about $2,500,000. of the
bonds revert to the original sub
scribers.
NEW CUTTER NORTHLAND TO
- REPLACE THE BEAR JULY 1
SAN FRANCISCOi—Definite an
nouncement was made here today
'that the new Alaska cutter North
land, which is to replace, the Cutter
' Bear, will arrive here. July 1. The
Northland will then take over the
Bear’s duties, and the... Bear, will be
used as a receiving ship. The North
land. it is expected, will arrive at
Dutch Harbor July 10th or Llth.
TOM EDISON HAS DOUBTS
ABOUT GOVERNOR. Alt SMITH
FORT MYERS, FhwTharaas Ed-!
:! ison is on his way North fcpcRy, in
l ruddy health, after a vacation at his
| winter home here. ^Before leaving he
; expressed the opinion that A1 -Smith
will never make it, because he is all
j Tammany.
RAID BY BOOTLEGGERS.
NEW YORK.—Federal income j
’ taxes paid by bootleggers in this city i
i last year amounted to <5,000,000, j
Hugh McMillan, chief of the secret!
•service unit attached to the internal!
, revenue department, revealed here to-;
11 day.
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j GREAT INTERNATIONAL
ECONOMIC CONFERENCE
! GENEVA.—A great economic con
j i'ercnce, summoned ta evolve -.plans at
| St. Morita of ecoiwanie- eaii£itions
• throughout .the wcn-jjl, -apt-ned -today
i in Reformation Hall! 'One.tthamsend
delegates delegates are present rep
resenting .forty six nations! rneiudipp i
the United'States, Soviet'"Russia and j
Turkey.
The steamer Tapper, Captain 1
:ace Langley, left Seattle for Eet^/il |
on May 17th, ax-erding to privitourd- i
vices received here three or four .cay? !
ago.
Among those .leaving for Opiiir on
Friday ar«rt <Garl Lottsfeldt, Jack
Mistier and Virginia Strand, ns oas
sengers of Transporter W. H. Jones.
H. C. Wallick vras a Wednesday de
parture for .Gaugs
Telegraphic Ticks,
SPOKANE.—Declaring that when
responsibility is Vested control mus
not .be vested, Governor Hartley, in i
statement hereof* a-.ded attempt®. t<
depose him fironiV'tfv enairnlffftship ol
the state highway committee as th<
last desperate struggle of the cement
crowd to retain control of millions o1
dollars of highway money.
SEATTLE.—The purchase of th(
steamship Lakesing and Paria from
the United States Shipping Roard in
the International Packing Company
of Seattle, for the- • Alaska- fishing
trade, was announced toda:- by G
Chase, president of the company, or
his return from Washington
SEATTLE.—The ■ • Alaska ‘ Steam
ship Company -today" commissioned
two additoinal vessels for the Alaska
service . They are the Redondo and
Oduna. After making two voyages
teh Redondo will be operated the rest
of the season between Prince William
Sound and Cook Inlet ports.
RIO JANEIRO.—rApproaching.' the
Brazilian coast o: his; flight from
Port Opray, Cape Verde islands .yes
terday afternoon, Commander Juno
Barro’s plane fell into the sea. The
commander and his comrades were
rescued by the Italian .steamship An
dele.
NORFOLK.—Four naval aviators.
Lieut. George W, Lftwmin, Y. F. Mar
inelle, and machinists mates Pyner
and Mitchell were rW'rlbd- Lite yester
day afternoon when1-lightning struck
their plane .andt.pluaire/t it .into Chesa
peake bay.
JUNEAU.—I’Pi.-e Senate yesterday
passed the bill appropriating $125,000
for the Alaska A'gri«ultu>e College.
Fairbanks; also $17C1,060. ship subsidy
for service between Seward Peninsula
ports. Both bills. have gone to the
governor for signature.
LONDON.—»The police -today raid
ed the Areoa House, th£ hearquartcrs
of the soviet .fcfyde.delegation. After
the rail uniformed police .guarded the
doorway and refused, admittance .to
all callers.
SEATTLE.-feI>v. George.M. Horton,
pioneer Seattle surgeon, died this af
ternoon of, heart failure, following a
minor surgical operation. He was
onelof.-,the ablest Surgeons,in the pro
fession.
SEATTLE.—Br. Chauncey J. Ka
pias, w de'y fen< \vn pastor of Ply
mouth Congregational Church, has
accepted ’the-pasturage of the. First
Co, gregationa! Church San Fran
cisco.
LOS ANGELES.- Federal agents
'-'•day captured i in w airplanes in
which aliens were being smuggled
into California fr >ni Mexico. Oil*1 avi
ator was shot and killed in the fight.
PEKING.—Twenty Chinese com
muni&tfi,'including .women-, arrested in
a recent raid by northern authorities
on bviiii'nsrs attached to the soviet
^ir.bagwj her,;, sv, re executed today.
LONDON—Declaring that he
neediirtHe" prayers of all churches,
GtuvgA-kfinrnard • Klinw has proclaimed
his impartiality respecting various re
iigbvat fadies of the v. rid.
V, :liHGTQN.-—Using radio and
other n dly.'m of communication,
c • today caliiin in
51-7UO.CChX.1) outstanding bonds of
the : r.?id Liber':* an.
SEATTLE.—Th? steamship Vic
toria sailed today for for Western
Alaska ports with $37 whalers and
ret foryrntrt.
Device of Diabolical
Fiend Causes Death of
Forty School Children
-BUTLER SAYS COOLIDGE AD
1 MINISTRATION IS IN HIGH
. STANDING IN MANY STATES
'WASHINGTON. — Administration
and Republican party leaders were
called into a breakfast conference by
Coolidge today to Hear the report of
Chairman Butler, of the Republican
national committee, who has just com
pleted a tour of the West- Butler,: in
his report, said that the Administra
tion was in high standing ■ in the
■Stafcas he had visited.
BUREAU OF EDUCATION
SCHOONER BOXER EN ROUTE
SEATT' auxiliary schoon
er Boxer . VilUams, of the
United i ».a- of Education,
sailed S... ning for Alaskan
ports at v.. -otof b n*-' are main
tained by tiie Bureau. Including
the passengers are .H&ir.y B. Collins,
Jr., T. Dale and Stewart Smithson,
scientists, en route tn Nrnivak island;
j Air, and Mrs.-SaftVniieV,- teachers,
i bound for Tokiak; E. \V. Hunnicutt,
l teacher for- Katsheg* rtlpar. Unalaska;
| C. W. Hawkeeworth, ''superintendent
of the southeaster** district, • F.. •‘J.
Beck, superintendent of 'the South
western district, en-rtnt* tn f-is head
quarters at Eanakanak, and two sci
entists whe are fciaking • investiga
' tions in an effort to -d< termine the
| origin of ancient tribes of Alasaka
j whose forbears, are believed to- have
I migrated from Asia.
NOT UP TO. STANDARD FOR
ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE
WASHINGTON.—The Anti-Saloon
League of the United-States issued a
j statement, today that it >\ill at once
j start a campaign against Candidate1
j Governo1' Smith of’New York for the
I Democratic pr.esidentia1 nomination
land that “neithei Gove—iiors Hitchie,
i.iViOi ley, .nor .Senator Reed of-Missouri
! would be satisfactory.”
j .SEATTLE COUPLE RECONCILED
I AND DIVIDING BIG ESTATE
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SEATTLE.—Mrs. Sarah Smith j
Wilbur Schollard and he;- husband,1
George Schollard, who - parted in
Buencs Aires last December 6th andj
began a race and tifetif- for her estate, |
valued at $200.000,uiiavt become rec
onciled and are dividing the "property
| on the basis of a fortune to each. The
I criminal charges brought by her
! against Schollard have also been
J dropped, and the coup.e are living to
| gether again.
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FOR ALASKA INSANE.
JUNEAU.fi—-Thegeneral appro-j
j jobation bilL, -which passed both
' houses late todays cotit air.r d- ’an item
I of $6,000 for care erf Alaska patients
i in the Seattle Orfhoepedic * Hospital,
to be expended-1: **tUY cbtftKi'SSior.er
of health upon v6HKhr»» approved by
the governo;.
G. W. 0. GP.ss; v, ho returned from
Ophir on Friday r ated that the air-!
plane, landing f. d * that place was'
in apparent . . r.t condition.
Axei Pe . ; - • • a winter spentj
on Beavc ■ Thursday ar
r. v cti.
Bud Riiay-was a’Wtednesday-tfrrival
.from Qtphir
LANSING,‘Mich., May 18.—Twenty
bodies were recovered today from
wreckage of the district school at
Bath, ten miles north from here,,
which was destroyed by-a’’6lasT pre
sumably caused by dynamite.
The bodies recovered are mostly
those of small children. Among the
! bodies was that of Andrew Kehoe, a
‘ farmer, who was seen lurking near
! the schoolhouse before the explosion.
BATH, Micb., May 18.—Investiga
tion by State police late today into
the cause of the two explosions which
wrecked the schoolhouse here this
morning, with the loss of forty lives,
revealed that the cellar of the build
ing had been wired and connected
with 500 pounds of dynamite. The
State police said that Andrew Kehoe,
Clinton county farmer, who was
killed in the explosion, had turned off
the charge by firing a high-power
rifle into the box of explosives in the
rear seat of his, automobile. Thirty
six bodies had been recover'd-rnnight,
Twenty children were'injtiked
SPEAKS BY ’PHONE TO AVI
ATORS MANY MILES AWAY
WASHINGTON.—.Seated at a deal
here, William, P. Mcrri.eken, Assist
ant Secretary of Coaimerce for aero
nautics, spoke bv -’phone with the oc
cupants of an airplane flying Myl
above the earth, miles away.
BOOSTED FOR DEMOCRATIC
NOMINATION FOR PRESIDENT
INDIANAPOLIS.—The ^candidacy
of Evan Poolen, Inlianapolis banker
for the Democratic nomination off
president, was launched here hist
night by Thomas Taggart and a true
/lrn<l ntVioi* nortr Inorlowe
JACK McCORI) PROMOTES
ALEUTIAN ISLAND VRN3 I 40
SEATTLE.—Jack McFord, pictur
esque Alaskan, arrived here todaj
from New York, where he promoted
an Aleutian island venture. He vvil
sail north on the liner Yukon on thr
21st.
AFTER FIVE ALASKA BROWN
BEAR FOR CHICAGO MI SEL V
SEATTLE.—A. B. Mobeine P>cy
Battern and George W. Smith.' ••C-f'ia
cine, Wk, Ave*-; BrurtUafre aSnd R'ob
ert W. Tunhill, of Chicago, sailed to
day on the Diesel fishing bo*t L hel
for Alaska Peninsula to obtain five
Alaska brown bear for the Field ?vTu
seum, Chicago
EPIDEMIC OF INFLUENZA IN
FORTUNA LEDGE SECTION
NOME —An influenza epidemic of
serious proportions is reported-nag'ag
in Fortuna Ledge precinct, Lo*i- i'u
kon. An appeal lias been .noi*' ihe
governor for a doctor.
DOBBS INNOCENT OP AuliDER.
SEATTLE.—A jury-Bis1'night on
the first ballot founder! . c. Dobbs
innocent of the Lctitia Mit
chell.
Sig Wiig, .vhe ^’fflurocd to Fair
banks a few HSvvNvgo from a visit to
the 'Outsideroe' j.'telegram received
bv Chester Brink a couple of days
ago, stated that he expected to vdk*
..he plane-Tor this plac" todav