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VOLUME XXIII. NUMBER 52.
SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 1928.
PRICE TEN CENTS
OWING TO LOW PRICE FISH AND
TO CREATE MARKET NEW IN.
DUSTRY BEGUN
JUNEAU, Mar. 3. (/P)—In order to
create more demand for halibut, which
prices indicate are at a low ebb, two
Juneau women, Mrs. Harry M. Sabin
and Mrs. Olaf Winters, have started
making home-made fish balls which
have been placed on sale in local gro
cery stores.
The demand is already swamping
the manufacturers and others will
probably be forced to take up making
them.
WEALTHY OIL MAN STATES COM
PANY WILL EVENTUALLY
CONSTRUCT PLANES
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SAN ANTONIO, Mar. 3. (JP)—Or
ganization of the Texas-Mexico Air
ways Co., to carry mail, passengers or
packages, teach flying, market air
planes and eventually to manufacture
airplanes was announced here by J.
N. Kincaid, wealthy oil man, who
heads the company.
The company hopes to obtain the
contract for airmail service between
Laredo and Mexico City and within
hO days expects to establish a service
City. The route would be covered
once a day in seven hours or less.
MANAGUA, Mar. 3. (#>)—Supplies
are being speeded by airplane to mar
nes who are swarming over the Darai
li region hunting Sandino rebels.
Transport planes successfully landed
supplies at newly constructed fields
at Apali and Winotega.
The Sandino forces are believed to
be hiding in the mountains to which
they fled after the clash last Monday
when five marines were killed. One
rebel was slain and another wounded
by the marines near Somoto in the
only encounter since Monday.
BANDITS EXECUTED
MEXICO CITY, Mar. 2. (/P)—Eleven
bandits, one of whom was a former
member of the Federal police were
executed by troops.
WHAT, ANOTHER ONE!
PARIS, Mar. 2. (/■P)—A new French
tariff bill increasing the duties on
some American products was adopted
by the Chamber of Deputies by a vote
of 403 t<$ 74. The tariff is considered
satisfactory by the American Em
bassy.
LAKE HURST, N. J., Mar. 3r (£>)—
After battling strong winds and blind
ing snowstorms over the home field
all night the dirigible Los Angeles
was taken into its hangar at 7 a. m.
completing a 4,000 mile round-trip to
Panama.
Four sailors were carried into the
air clinging to handrails of the air
ship when the snowstorm swept
across the field forcing a sudden as
cent *ifter an attempted landing, but
were pulled to safety. Inside a cabin
another member >of the ground crew,
who had hung on until the dirigible
was 20 feet off the ground, was slight
ly injured in a fall*
The airship quickly disappeared in
the storm and fear was felt for awhile
that she would meet the same fate as
the Shenandoah but when the wind
ceased-her silvery hulk again appear
ed and she landed safely. j
AIRPLANE PARTS FOUND
IN CROSAPEAKE BAT
NORFOLK, Va., Mar. 3. (/P)—The
horizontal stabilizer and horizontal
rudder of an airplane was found in
lower Chesapeake Bay was definitely
identified by officers from the naval
air station as parts of the plane which
disappeared Monday with Commander,
T. G. Ellyson and two other nary j
pilots.
PUBLIC DEMONSTRATION
PITTSBURGH, Mar. 2. (£>)—'The
public and doubting scientist will be
given an opportunity, probably within
the next 30 days, of seeing the new
fuelless motor that, has created a sen
sation in motordom, actually in opera
tion in an airplane. This announce
ment was made by an associate of
the inventor.
GETS LEGAL REBUKE
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NEW YORK, Mar. 2. (/P)—Major
Maurice Campbell, head of prohibition
j enforcement in New York, received a
j legal rebuke when eight defendants
i arrested in a raid on Helen Morgan's
j fright club on charge that they de
frauded the Government of liquor tax
es, were excused.
YOUNG IN SPIRIT
NEW YORK, Mar. 2. (jP)—Edwin
Howland Blashfield, American artist,
now 79 years old, married Miss Grace
Hall, age 58.
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THREE NEW FORESTRY EXPERI
MENT STATIONS IN UTAH AND
ALASKA NEEDED
WASHINGTON, Mar. 3. (£>)— Lack j
of facilities and funds is hampering j
work designed to develop timber lands j
in Alaska and in the United States, j
William B. Greeley, chief of the For- s
estry Service, told the House Agricul- j
ture Committee during the hearings j
on the McSweeney reforestation bill.
He urged adoption of a bill which j
would authorize $3,000,000 for a re-;
forestration and timber conservation
program including the establishment
of three new forestry experiment sta
tions in Utah and Alaska and. in
American possessions in the West
Indies.
He declared “It is very urgent to
have adequate forestry conservation
iu Alaska without further delay be
cause of the pulp resources in the
Territory.” Greeley added a wider re
search was necessary- la accomplish
efficient production of hard wood
timber and paper pulp wood.
SEATTLE. Mar. 3. (/P)—The S. S.
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Yukon .saled at 9 o’clock this morning j
with 2S4 passengers. The Seward i
listing is Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Stevens, ;
N. G. Nicholson, Wm. McFarland, R.:
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E. Pederson, W. S. Christinson, Walter;
Culver, Wolf Siman, Mrs. C. Peterson,
Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Lippe, Mr. and
Mrs. Humphrey and baby, Mr. and
Mrs. Wm. Bolander, Ed Hayes, H. C.
Huschker, F. E. Delezer, Jesse Noble,
Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Rogge, Minnie
Thompson, J. J. Chrisholm, Ethelyn
Lambson, L. B. Wallbridge, F. Com
rade, Pvt. J. E. Leedom, Wm. Lodge,
J. C. Lodge, Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Wil
son, Geo. Miller, A. Ursin, Mr. and
Mrs. J. W. Cain and child, Mr. and
Mrs. W. C. Walter, Mr. and Mrs. W.
B. Lawing, Jim Kirk, G. Schubart, Bert
Hansen and nine steerage.
EXPERIMENTS SUCCESSFUL
BERLIN, Mar. 2. (JP)—Experiments
in transmitting letters from ships to
Hamburg by means of radio photos
have proved successful, and will be
tried from all points of a vessel leav
ing on a round-the-world trip.
FOR OLYMPIC GAMES
SAN PEDRO, Mar. 2. (£>)-HFifty
picked athletes from the crews of the
United States battle fleet will leave
here March 15 for the Naval Academy
at Annapolis, where they will go thru '
six weeks’ training in preparation for I
the 1928 Olympic games. i
HARBOR COVERED WITH ICE
CORDOVA, Mar. 3. (IP)—Valdez
Harbor is covered with a foot of ice
for 10 miles out. This is the first
time in history this has occured at
this time of year. Boats report diffi
cult travel.
ACTION WRITTEN
AGAINST STEWART
WASHINGTON, Mar. 3. (IP)—The
ninth pending criminal action growing
out of th§, Senate’s investigation of
Teapot Dome Elk Hills leases was
written upon the Federal court dock
ets when Robert Stewart, Chairman
of the Board of Directors of the Stand
ard Oil Co., of Indiana, was indicted
for refusing to answer questions ask
ed by the Teapot Dome Committee.
Stewart is charged by the Grand
Jury with having refused to answer
questions concerning the disposition
of Liberty bonds and oil profits of the
Continental Trading Co..The Commit
tee is seeking to trace $3,0S0,000 pro
fit some of which reached Fall in the
3L233,payment from Sinclair.
The Committee asked Stewart if he
knew of anyone who received any
bonds and if he had discussed bond
transactions with Sinclair. The Stand
ard Oil man refused to answer the
two questions on different occasions.
He was indicted on one count for each
refusal.
SCHOOL CHILDREN SOL '
INJURED. TRAFFIC CRASH
ROCHESTER, Ind., Mar. 2.' (IP)—A
school bus carrying 36 children w*as
wrecked by an Erie freight train at
a crossing nine miles vrest of here.
Eleven of the children were serious
ly injured and 25 were shaken and
bruised. Several children were said
to be in a critical condition.
BlLLIARDISTS PAY TRIBUTE
BILLINGS, Montana, Mar. 2. (JP)—
Jake Schaefer, world’s 18-point bil
liard champion and Welker Cochran,
former champion, paid tribute here to
Robert Cahnefax, three cushion star,
who died early yesterday morning in
Phoenix, Ariz., as a sterling character,
a peach of a fellow,, and a credit to
the game.
MORE OUTSIDE LOOPS
WASHINGTON, Mar. 2. (IP)—-With
a tiny motor-driven camera strapped
to the upper wing of his Curtis Hawk
biplane making a permanent record
stresses and strains, Lieut. Alfred
T. Williams, navy racing pilot, nego
iated six more of the difficult outside
oops.
COLLECTED $19,645
NEW YORK, Mar. 2. (/P)—Jimmy
VIcLarin, the quiet boy, who knocked
3id Terris cold in one minute and 47
seconds of fighting, collected $19,645.
FIRST PROFIT EVER
PRODUCED BY ALASKA
RAILROAD REPORTED
; DEFICIT FOR FIRST HALF FISCAL
YEAR LOWER THAN THE
PAST YEAR
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WASHINGTON, Mar. 3. (/P)—In.
j making $5,619 more than expenses
| last December the Alaska Railroad
produced a profit for the first time
\ in its history, Noel Smith, General
Manager, reported to Secretary Work.
Heavy shipments of dredge mater
: freight and not a natural growth of
' commerce.
The roads deficit for the first half
; current of the fiscal year, Mr. Smith
said, was approximately $165,000 less
than that for the same period of last
year.
; TANANA, Mar. 3. (,/P)—Old timers
| and amateur weather prophets are
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i predicting that with the continuance
I of the present warm weather there
will be an early breakup of ice in the
Yukon River.
A mail carrier who returned from
Nenana reported melting snow along
the entire mail route with puddles and
running water on the surface. Ice
across lakes as well as some running
water is appearing on the ice across
frhe river.
NEW ACADEMY HEAD
WEST POINT. Mar. 2. (/P)—'The
United States Military Academy has
a 'new superintendent, General Wil
liam R. Smith, who succeeds Major
General Edwin B. Winands. The new
commander assumed his duties with
out official ceremony. Winands i3 to
be transferred to Honolulu.
TO WRITE MEMOIRS
NEW YORK, Mar. 2. (JF)—T. P.
(Tay Pay) O’Connor, veteral leader
lu the British Parliament, arrived in
New York and announced he is going
to write his memoirs, which will in
clude about 50 years of political ex
perience.
NEW ORLEANS RACING
'NEW ORLEANS, Mar. 2. (£>)—Bill
Seth led the field to the wire in the
third race at Jefferson Park, with
Venduse second and Southern Kiss
third. *
TO CARRY FIGHT ON
WASHINGTON, Mar. 2. (^—Nat
ional dry organizations adopted a res
olution to carry the fight to both nat
ional conventions for strict dry law
enforcement and to demand dry candi
iates in both parties.