VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 170.
SEWARD, ALASKA. TUESDAY, JULY 23, 1929.
PRICE TEN CENTS
PARKS, HOLMES AND DELE
GATE IN THREE-CORNERED
BATTLE, WASHINGTON
WASHINGTON, D. C. July 23.
— Around the ambitions of a
“sourdough Alaskan” and a Texan
who formerly lived in Alaska to
be governor of our most northern
^ territory a fight has arisen which
has divided Alaskans, brought a
“round robin” from the Alas
kan senate in favor of the Texan,
formal action in the lower house
and the introdution of a bill in
Congress giving Alaska the right
to choose its own governor at
the polls.
) The Texan who seeks the place
is W. H Holmes of Amarillo,
Republican candidate for gover
nor of Texas last year. Holmes,,
an oil man is backed by the
Texas Republican organization,
eight or 10 Republican United
States senators, four or five Re
publican state chairmen and a
half dozen Republican national
committeemen.
ALASKANS FAVOR HOLMES
* In addition to this four of the
five Republican members of the
Alaskan senate endorsed Holmes,
characterized him as a man of
superior ability and broad vision,
and that his early nomination
to the position as governor would
be received with deep gratifica
tion by the people of Alaska.
This “round robin” immediate
ly drew fire from the house of
representatives of the territorial
legislature. The first resolution
drawn up and passed after the
territorial legislature went into
session endorsed the “sourdough”
present Governor George A. Parks.
The resolution as passed by
the legislature, was received here
and laid before the senate by
Vice-President Curtis and pub
lished in the Congressional re
fer d.
LEAVE PROBLEM ALASKANS
Jvleanwhile, the Alaska delegate
introduced in the house a reso
lution to provide for the election
by the people of Alaska their
own governor, with the first el
ection for that purpose to be
held in November 1930 and the
term of office to be four years.
The bill also provides that no one
shall be qualified to act as the
governor for the Territory of Alas
ka unless he be at least 30 years
of age, a citizen of the United
> States and has been a bona fide
resident of Alaska for at least
five wears preceding the date
of his election
Both Holmes and Parks have a
strong backing. Some opposition
has been developed against W- H.
Holmes on the ground that he
strongly opposed and attacked the
oil conservation board made up
of Secretary of Commerce Hoover,
Secretary of Interior Work, Sec
ertary of War Work and Secre
tary of Navy Wilbur.
Whether that will militate
against Mr. Holmes now that
Secretary Hoover has become Pre
sident Hoover, and Secretary of
Interior Wilbur is a brother of
Secretary of Navy Wilbur and
Secretary Work has become the
chairman of the Republican na
tional committee is a moot ques
tion.
C; At any rate the contest for
the governor of Alaska has caus
ed a political fight with wide
ramifications.
iEIOTIQIM IN
| TURKEY TINES TOLL
THOUSAND LISES
| CONSTANTINOPLE, July 22, (JP)
;—Reports from northern Antolia
said that the recent earthquake
caused the deaths of 1,000 persons.
Ten thousand are homeless and
without food.
The Turkish Red Crescent Socie
ty is rushing aid to the scene. The
Constantinople press is appealing
for help from the International
Red Cross.
Shocks and landslides later caus
ed by torrential rains are reported
to be increasing the havoc.
STATE OF PANIC
CONSTANTINOPLE, July 22, (/P)
—The general amnesty proclaimed
by the Turkish republic in honor of
: its approaching 50th birthday and
I which liberated in this city 800 per
jsons incarcerated for thefts and
other petty offenses, has reduced
I the metropolis to a state bordering
on panic due to the sudden epi
.demic of holdups and burglaries.
LANDSLIDES CONTINUE
PARIS, July 22, (/P)—A news
agency dispatch from Angora, Tur
key, said it was estimated that 199
persons had been killed and 50 in
jured in the landslides which fol
lowed the floods in the vicinity of
Surmen on the Black Sea. More
than 216 houses were destroyed.
The landslides continue.
BIO LOSS FROM BLAZE
CONSTANTINOPLE, July 22, (7P>
—Fire raged over a big part of An
gora, the Turkish capital. Ghazi
Mustapha Kemal, president of the
republic, personally directed the
fire fighters. The blaze was brought
under control after eight hours.
Six bodies were recovered and 1,000
shops and houses were destroyed.
FOUND GUILTY
SAN FRANCISCO, July 22, (/P)—
Lloyd Sampsel and Ethan A. Mc
Nab, fashionable young men who
maintained a private yacht for
their coastwise travels, were found
guilty of bank robbery by a jury in
the court Gf Superior Judge Homer
R. Spence of Alameda county.
PHOTOGRAPHER IS EXHAUSTED
UPON RETURN TO JUNEAU
FROM AERIAL VOYAGE
JUNEAU, July 23, (/P)—The two
naval planes making aerial survey
in Alaska have made a group of ex
cellent photographs, R. H. Sargent,
representing the Interior Depart
ment, said.
I A plane made a four-hour flight
'over the rugged country in the vi
Icinity of Glacier Bay to obtain
photographs of the glacier front
iand the glacier in action for the
Geological Survey; also for the In
ternational Boundary Coitimission.
The pictures taken include 50 ob
lique photographs and 400 feet of
moving pictures showing the fronts
of Glacier Bay with closeups of Ivit.
Fairweather, Mt. Quincy Adams
and also Lituyia mountain. The
planes circled the peaks as high as
15,000 feet.
A picture taken of the Grand
Pacific glacier showed the glacier
has so far receded that salt water is
actually on the Canadian side of
the International Boundary. The
photographs also show! snow cap
ped peaks 100 miles away.
Photographer Hasse | practically
fell from his plane upon landing at
Juneau following the cold and ex
ertion of holding the heavy camera
which weighs 75 pounds^ and which
was worked continuously at a high
altitude over the side of the plane.
CHINESE STEAMERS
GOILIDE: 62 DIM
SHANGHAI, July 23, (/P)—Sixty
two Chinese passengers of the
Chinese steamer Hsing Hong were
drowned Sunday when the ship
collided with the Steamer Tatsunc
Maru during a fog. The Hsing
Hong sank in 20 minutes; 42 were
picked up by the Japanese ship
which was enroute to Kobe. Fog
hindered the rescue work.
SPORTSMEN’S BOATS HOPE TO
BEAT TIME OF FAMED RIVER RUN
When the Robert E. Lee beat the, Natchez (above) from New
Orleanes to St. Lous in 1870, it set a mark for all time. Dr. Lous
Leroy (inset) hopes with his modern craft (below) to beat that mark
land also trim a friend.
PUEBLO WILL PH!
$10,001] fos fmsi
COUNT! OIL WELL
| PUEBLO, Colo., July 22, (/P)—
Ten thousand dollars for the pro
ducers who bring in the first
'oil well in Pueblo county! Such is
j the plan of the Pueblo Commerce
I Club. It is suggested at the meet
ing of the board directors of the
club that a committee be named
to raise $10,000 to go to the first
i producers of oil in the Pueblo
j county. E. F Stone, president of
j the Commerce Club, stated that
he would name a committee im
mediately.
The proposition was brought up
at the meeting to create new life
to the Pueblo oil industry. Officials
of the organization believe that
| if there is oil in the county it
should be discovered and that
prospecting should be encouraged.
MEMBER 46 YEARS
LONDON, July 22, (/P)—Frederick
Booth Tucker, a member of the
Salvation Army for 46 years, died
of heart failure.
TREK IS ENDED
SPOKANE, July 22, (/P)—An ad
venturous trek started in Canada
with a 16 horse pack-train load of
liquor ended in the county jail for
three men conducting the train,
who will be charged under the
Jones law.
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MORE POWER
' WASHINGTON, July 22, (/P)—
The dollar today is worth 103 in
purchasing power, compared with
100 in 1926, according to the Bu
reau of Labor statistics.
SWIM TO HELLESPONT
LONDON, July 22, (/P)—'Three
American college girls swam the
Hellespont, a dispatch from Chan
ak, Turkey stated. They were Miss
Eleanor Studley of Wellesley, Mass.,
Letty Hancock of Charlotteville,
Va., and Eugenia Peterson, also of
Wellesley. The distance was a
mile and a half.
FIRST DEGREE MURDER
PHOENIX, July 22- (/P»—The
charges of first degree murder
faces four former policemen here
on a complaint of accusing them
with the fatal shooting of a Ni
caraguan and Mexican during
a drug store holdup said to have
been prearranged by them.
MAKE FINAL CHECKS
TACOMA, July 22, (/P)—Lieut.
Bromley said that if all goes well
he hopes to take off for Tokyo at
dawn Wednesday, but it may be a
I week yet as he is waiting for the
I arrival of factory engineers who
' are expected tomorrow. Final
j checks and replacements will then
; be made.
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FISH STORY
! LEXINGTON, N. C., July 22, (IP)
;—This is only fish story No. 1,
■ 347,652 but it helps to make life
: brighter. Sons of F. G. Fitz
gerald, Linwood, set out some
! hooks for catfish with the bait
near the top. They returned to
find a huge owl, the hook sunk
in its wing and its body en
meshed in the line.
FORCED DOWN
LOS ANGELES, July 23, (IP)—
Herbert Fahy, who left here on
I an attempt to make a 32 hour
| flight to New York and return,
! was forced down at Kansas by
! the failure of the oil supply in
J his plane.
I LYNCH BROTHERS OF SEATTLE
AUTHORITY FOR FAVORA
BLE STATEMENT
JUNEAU, July 23, (/P)—Juneau is
taking on some aspects of the old
stampede days in outfitting pros
pectors for Taku river where dis
coveries have been made by large
mining interests which have taken
options, it is reported from the
! properties bought by Patrick Lynch
of Seattle, Diamond drilling firm of
; Lynch Bros.
! Lynch said the developments of
Eaton Williams and groud are
more than satisfactory and said
the property, which was optioned
by the United Eastern, promises to
become a great mine.
The Alaska-Juneau company is
sending a crew of men to the Man
; ville-Goldstein group which it has
under option to build camps and
begin development work.
1. S. LINER’S RECORD CROSSING
ATLANTIC IS LOWERED BY
EIGHT HOCR3
i
—
I new YORK. July 23, (>P)—The
'giant liner Bremen, symbolic of
Germany’s bid to regain her mari
time prestige, came into port on
.her maiden voyage today beating
the Cunard liner Mauretania’s re
cord of five days, two hours and 34
minutes from Chersbourg to Am
brose Light, lower N. Y. bay, by
eight hours and 52 minutes,
j The new North German Lloyd
liner is of almost 50,000 tons; but
few vessels have attracted such at
tention as has its arrival here.
A mail plane was catapulated
from the deck, off Fire Island, and
landed mail in New York five hours
before the Breman docked. Her
arrival was marked by a deafening
welcome from land, sea and sky.
FIRST COLLISION SINCE INTER
NATIONAL ICE PATROL WAS
ESTABLISHED
WASHINGTON, July 23, (^P)—
jThe first collision between a steam
iship and an iceberg in the Atlantic
shipping lanes since the Interna
tional ice patrol was established 15
| years ago was reported in a mes
sage to coast guard headquarters.
The British steamer Vimeira,
bound from Glasgow, struck an ice
iberg off the Grand Banks; none
were injured but the steering gear
was disabled and other damage was
caused.
The vessel is proceeding towards
I a port. It is unknown what port
or whether with or without assist
ance. The ice patrol was organized
after the S. S. Titanic disaster.