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VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 203.
SEWARD, ALASKA.
T GUST 30, 1929.
PRICE TEN CENTS
BRITISH COLUMBIA]
PROVINCIAL POLICE HERD SECT
INT\T AUTOS, IN NATURE’S
COSTUME AND JAILED
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NELSON, B. C., Aug., 30, (/Pj—One j
. hundred Doukhobors were arrest- I
ed and jailed for parading on the ;
highway 15 miles south of here.
Provincial police left here to arrest
four members of the sect who were
disrobed. When the police appear- ,
ed three-fourths of a party of 150
I were disrobed and chanting. Gov
ernment Agent John Cartmel gave
them 30 minutes to dress but they
refused to do so.
Sixty special officers herded
them into automobiles, trucks and
busses to jails which overflowed.
Babies were entrusted to younger
members of the group now failed
to follow their elders in disrobing.
Their clothes were dumped into
the prison yard for them. Peter
Veregin, Christian University Bro
k therhood leader, who ordered the
fanatics from the colonies, tried to
get the group to dress and be or
derly.
SEATTLE LUMBER IN
C. D. STIMSON, DIES:
ACUTE INDIGESTION
SEATTLE, Aug., 30, (/P)—Suc
cumbing to a heart attack brought
on by acute indigestion a week ago,
Charles D. Stimson, Seattle lumber
man and state leader, died, aged
72.
He was born at Big Rapids, Mich.,
and came to Seattle in 1889. He is
survived by Thomas D. Stimson,
Mrs. A. Scott Bullitt, and his wife.
In 1928 he was democratic candi
date for governor. During the war
he devoted much of his time to the
Red Cross work in Oregon, Wash
ington, Idaho and Alaska.
TONE BEACH CIHL
WINS US MILE DACE
TORONTO CLEVELAND
CLEVELAND, Aug., 30, (/P)—Mrs.
Gladys O’Donnel, of Long Beach,
Calif., won the 60 mile race for
women with a speed of 137 6-10
miles per hour. Mrs. Louise Thaden
of Pittsburgh was second and Mrs.
Blanche Nokes of Cleveland, third.
The planes listed were those with
510 *to 800 cubic inch motors.
Hubert St. Martin of Montreal, won
the non-stop Toronto-Clevelaiid
race for commercial planes in two
hours 10 minues and 24 seconds.
Kenneth Whyte, of Hamilton,
Ont., won the Toronto race which
stopped at Buffalo enroute, in
three hours and 26 minutes.
Lffi IW KITH
CASHED TH1 HOOF:
CRIU CONDITION
CLEVELAND, 'Aug., 30, (/P>—At
the air derby Lady Mary Heath, fa
mous British aviatrix, crashed thru
a factory roof when practicing
a deadlock landing in prepara
tion to enter such a contest.
She is in a critical condition in a
hospital with a fractured skull, in
ternal injuries and many cuts and
bruises. Mechanic Irwin Kirk, 28,
jumped from the plane before the
crash; then jumped thru the hole
in the roof to help Lady Heath. He
broke his ankle and cut off three
fingers by glass in the leap.
CONFERENCE WILL
AGREEMENT REACHED BY BEL
GIUM, ITALY, GREAT BRIT
AIN, FRANCE, GERMANY
THE HAGUE, Aug., 30, (^—Let
ters and documents recording an
agreement between France, Great
Britain, Italy, Belgium and Ger
many on evacuation of the Rhine
land and financial questions, inci
dent to the acceptance of the
|Young plan, were signed by repre
sentatives.
Other documents in which will
be registered the results of the
Hague conference, will be ready for
approval later; the conference will
I adjourn and sine die tomorrow.
Several matters were left for fu
ture action either by another con
ference or by individual action by
the governments concerned. Among
I these proposed is the international
bank settlement and the repara
tions problem as it effects success
ors to the Austro-Hungarian em
'pire and final accounting between
I powers for private property se
I quested and sold.
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AMERICAN LEAGUE
Chicago 2; Cleveland 1.
Philadelphia 7; Boston 6.
New York 5-4; Washington 4-8.
St. Louis 6; Detroit 0.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Philadelphia 5; Boston 0.
New York 6; Brooklyn 2.
Pittsburgh 5; Chicago 4.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Hollywood 7-0; Sacramento 3-1.
Missions 11; Oakland 0.
Seattle 3; San Francisco 1.
Los Angeles 3; Portland 0.
THE DEATH LIST
JERUSALEM, Aug., 30, (^—Of
ficial British figures to August 28
jgive the list of dead and wounded
in Palestine as: Dead Moslems 52;
Cristians 4; Jews 96. Wounded in
;hospitals: Moslems 103; Christians
9; Jews 51.
SEALS SAVED FOR MILADY’S WARDROBE
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Seals on the Pribilof Islands of Alaska promise to
yield a record number of skins for milady’s adorn
jment this year. Furring is done by the United States
! government.
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LIGHTWEIGHTS PUT UP GREAT
BATTLE FOR EDIFICATION
OF THE FANS
POLO GROUNDS, N. Y., Aug., 30,
(JP)—Kid Chocolate, the flashy
ebony fighting blade from Cuba,
won the decision over A1 Singer,
Jewish pride of the Bronx in a furi
ous match last night.
Singer had the advantage in
weight, scaling at 128% to 125 for
■ Chocolate.
The crowd of more than 45,000,
among whom Singer was a two to
one favorite, booed the decision
altho the negro lad seemed to have
punched out a clear margin on
'points. There were no knock
downs though both wavered under
clan smashes at times.
The crowd paid approximately
$200,000 to see the fight.
PUNE HIM SOUGHT
FOR ALOSKON FORESTS
WASHINGTON, Aug., 30, (A5)—
The forest service hopes to install,
within the next two or three years,
seaplanes for use in patrolling the
two national forests in Alaska, to
! supplement the patrol boats now in
| use covering the coast line,
j Seaplanes to look out for fires, 1
| and for other patrol purposes, are
necessary to supplement the boats,1
jthe department explained, on ac
j count of the peculiar nature of the
’Alaskan national forests that
makes it practically impossible to
jreconnoiter the woods by land.
WASHINGTON, Aug., 29., (/P)—
Seal skin coats, long a symbol of
‘emini^e luxury, are guaranteed
i continuous lead in the fashion
parade, thanks to Uncle Sam’s
strict policy of conservation.
Under the guidance of the bur
eau of fisheries, the seal herd on
the Pribilof Islands, once near
destruction because of indiscrim
nate slaughtering, has grown un
;il it now comprises nearly 90
per cent of all existing fur seals.
With the completion of the re
gular sealing season in July, W.
r. Bower, chief of Alaskan in
vestigations, reports that 39,253
skins have been taken. Between
700 and 1,000 skins will be taken
in the fall to increase the total
more than 6,000 beyond the take
in 1928.
“It is necessary to go back 40
years,” he said, “to find a year
in which there were as many
skins taken at the Pribilofs as
in the current season. In the in
tervening- period the take has
been so small that in 1913, it
amounted to a mere 2,403 skins.”
The seal industry is strictly a
government venture, based on an
international agreement with Ja
pan, . Russia and Great Britain
to stem the wholesale destruction
Df the once plentiful animals.
]iVhen Alaska was purchased
from Russia in 1867, the herd is
estimated to have numbered se
veral million animals. Pelagic
sealing, the taking of seals at
sea, was particularly destructive
because no discrimination was
made in the slaughter and the
herd faced extinction.
In 1911, the four nations out
lawed pelagic sealing and the
United States was charged with
building up the herd. No killing
of seals is allowed, except by
government agents and natives
who depend upon the animals for
sustenance.
Seals are killed for their skins
by government employes, who se
lect prima rily three-year-old
bachelors but guard the future
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BOATS COLLIDE 1
FOO: n PASSENGERS
REPORTED MISSING
SMALL STEAMER SAN JUAN AND
STANDARD OIL TANKER
S. C. T. DODD CRASHED
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug., 30, UP)—
Revised figures as to the number of
passengers aboard the coastwise
teamer San Juan when she sank
cff Pigeon Point south of here was
that 74 persons were unaccounted
for and may have been drowned.
The offices of the company re
ported 65 passengers were aboard
the vessel when it collided in the
fog with the Standard Oil tanker
S. C. T. Dodd and that tfee crew of
the San Juan numbered 45.
Radio stations confirmed the
rumor that the Munami had re
sumed its search of the wreckage
strewn on the waters but failed to
find additional bodies. The San
Juan sank in five minutes after
the crash. Altho one side of the
Dodd was stove in its crew lowered
boats and went to the aid of vic
tims struggling in the water.
Most of the passenger on the list
were from Los Angeles. The San
Juan was a small boat that carried
persons for reduced rates between
San Francisco and Los Angeles.
The survivors said Captain Adolph
Asenlund sank with his ship and
that cries of passengers pierced the
j darkness as searchlights strove to
! penetrate the fog arid rescue those
struggling in the water.
AIETSL OUTPUT GAINS
. IN EASTERN STATES
I NEW YORK, Aug., 30, (/P)—In
crease in both quantity and value
I of gold, silver, copper, lead and
zinc produced in the eastern states
during 1928 were recorded, accord
ing to a report from J. P. Dunlop,
of the Bureau of Mines, Depart
jment of Commerec.
! The quantity of crude ore treated
Jin 1928 was 3,770,070 tons, which
was about 569,000 tons more than
in 1927. Only about 200 tons of
gold ore were treated; the larger
portion of the remainder was zinc
ore, lead-zinc ore, and copper ore
sent to concentrating plants. The
total quantity of copper ore con
centrated and directly smelted
amounted to 833,325 tons. The
pyritiferous magnetite ore of Penn
sylvania yielded a large output of
copper concentrates containing
some gold and silver.
“FER GOODNESS SAKE!”
HAMILTON, Bermuda, Aug., 30,
UP)—Dr. William Beebe, noted na
turalist, who is spending the sum
mer at Nonsuch Island, in deep sea
exploration, has caught so many
deep sea fish that they number
hundreds of varieties. Never satis
fied with his enormous finds on the
'ocean floor, he is reported by local
scientists to be searching for an
I elusive fish that is its own mother.
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