MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 138. SEWARD, ALASKA. FRIDAY, JUNE 14. 1929.
PRICE TEN CENTS
BY REP. SEW
TREASURY DEPARTMENT UP- |
HELD KILLING BY OFFICER,
NOT COMPLY REQUEST
WASHINGTON. uJne 14, {IP)—
Representative Schafer of Wiscon
sin asked congress to appropriate
5525,000 to investigate the dry law j
enforcement by federal officers.
Schafer characterized the killing !
of Henry Virkula at International
Falls as “assassination”.
The treasury department upheld
the killing of Archibald Eugster in
Detroit by Jonah Cox as a justified
nerformance of his duty; also, the
Killing of J. J. Thompson at Silver
City New Mexico. Thompson is
said to have been caught delivering
liquor and opened fire on the offi
cers first.
The treasury department has re
ceived no report yet of the Virkula
shooting. The department reiter
ated it could not comply with the
lequest to disarm its law enforce
ment officers.
DAWES IN ENGLAND
SOUTHAMPTON, June 14, (£>)—
Ambassador Dawes accepted his
welcome to this city upon arriving
here but declined to be interviewed.
He expressed delight in coming
over to England but made no tns
olosures of any message that he
might be bearing from President
Hoover to MacDonald.
1
OTTAWA Ontario, June 14, (/P)— T
Canada has the largest magnetic ;
survey in the world, according to '
A. O. Gorman, dominion land sur
veyor.
The amount of deflection of the j
compass needle from the true as
tronomic north varies for different
parts of Canada. Since the year
1880, Mr. Gorman points out, the
*opogrophical survey has been
making magnetic observations in j
order to chart the variation for all
parts of the country. More than ;
?4,000 such observations have been j
taken
ABOUT FACE POLICY
RESULTS, [LECTIONS
LONDON, . June 14, UP)—Com
ments emanating from abroad, in- ;
dicating some sort of an about
face in the British foreign policy
is expected as a result of the labor
victory in elections, are without!
sound basis, British observers say. j
In the first place Ramsey Mac- !
Donald will not rule unhampered
and even if he did he is known !
as a “Conservative Socialist” with
out a disposition to upset things.
REFUELING UNSUCCESSFUL
SAN FRANCISCO, June 14, UP)— ]
The monoplane “San Francisco” I
which took-off from Mills Field!
last night in an attempt to estab- j
lish a new refueling endurance re
cord, landed at 7:24 when an at
tempt to refuel was unsuccessful |
because of propellor draft. James j
Warner one of the fliers, said a j
new attempt will be made today i
perhaps. j
THREE MEN KILLED
DDE BOCK EXPLOSION
NEW YORK. June 14, (/P)—Three
men-were killed and two seriously
injured and five slightly hurt in an
explosion at the Brooklyn Dry Dock
The cause is undetermined.
About 50 men were working at
The bottom of the Robbins Dry Dock
k the time, scraping the starboard
I'dde of the tanker Gulf Penn. It is
believed a leak in the compressed
| air lines might have caused the
nontoon to explode.
HELEN 15 ENTHUSED
i
BERLIN, June 14 (/P)—Miss
Helen Wills will begin a two
days match against German wom
an tennis championship at Gru
enwald. She has spent mornings
practicing tennis and afternoons
in art galleries and is displaying
greatest enthusiasm for the atmos
phere of the city which she
finds more American than any
; other in Europe
■DA EXCEEDS 0. S.
IN DATA OF GROWTH
RABAT, Morocco, June 14, (A3)—
Royal Bank of Canada has compil
ed statistics showing that Canada’!
rate of increase in industrial acti
vity since 1926 has been approxi
mately six times that of the Unitec
States.
I An index prepared by the Domin
lion Bureau of Statistics shows tha
Canada has increased her genera
volume of industrial production 1'
percent in the past two years, com
pared with a rise of two percen
Por the United States as announce<
by the federal reserve board.
FRENCH MONOPLANE
IS STILE WINGING
WAY OVER OCEAN
‘ YELLOW BIRD” HEARD BY
STEAMER; POSITION PLANE
WAS NOT LEARNED
—
; NEW YORK, June 14, (/P)—
Twenty-four hours after the
French monoplane took-off for
France, it is still roaring toward its
goal so far as could be judged from I
s;ant information.
The “Yellow Bird” was heard by
1 he steamship American Farmer
about 1 this morning eastern time.
The steamship was about 1600 miles
from New York and at that time
the position of the plane was not
learned
Should the rate of speed be main
tained thruout the remainder of
the flight the “Yellow Bird” should
arrve at its destination at 10 o’clock
(astern time.
RELIEF BIEL DRAWN
1
| WASHINGTON, June 14, </P)—
The farm relief bill, drawn to meet
President Hoover’s views is assured,
with the rejection in the house of
he export debenture plan by a vote
of 250 to M3. A vot^Jhad been de
manded by the senate but after
. the debenture leaders learned the
overwhelming majority against
; their proposal, they declared that
no further obstacles to the enact
• ment of the agricultural legislation
l would be interposed by them.
APPROVED MEASURE
[ WASHINGTON, June 14, (/P>—In
, line with decision of the house con
curring with the views cf President
t Hoover, the senate and house farrr
j conference committee approved, ol
the farm measure minus the deben
ture proposition.
SECOND MPT IS
JUNEAU, June 14, UP)—Starting ;
a second attempt to make the 990-1
mile distance between Juneau and
Seattle in less £han the steamer
time of 60 hours, Raymond Haines,
iin a 15-foot open outboard motor
boat, left here at 122 yesterday af
ternoon. The dash is sponsored by
the American Power Boat Associa
tion.
The first attempt failed south of I
Ketchikan when the crankshaft
broke and Haines returned here lo
start over.
I RABAT. Morocco, June 12, (/P)— {
Thirteen French soldiers were kill- j
jed and 10 wounded in an ambush of
>French and native troops by rebel
lious tribesmen.
The fate of 15 Frenchmen and 65
S native auxiliaries caught in the
| ambush and unable to fall back
with the rest of the force is un
known. Reinforcements have been
| sent to the region to take retribu
tive measures.
LAKE DEPTHS IT TEILD
SECRET OF ANTIQUITY
! BEND, Oreg., June 14, UP)—1The
i date of a catastrophe which de
stroyed a great forest and created
Cedar Lake at the summit of the
central Oregon Cascade mountains
may be computed from the growth
nngs of trees buried for centuries
in icy water.
Scientists of the National Geo
graphic society have interested
themselves in the undertaking and
'an expedition will visit the site this
'Summer.
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CABINS BUILT TO LURE NATURE LOVERS
In the Pacific northwest, the government is coop
erating in plans to erect sturdy homes of the Swiss cha
let type (left) for nature lovers In the recreation areas,
summer camps (lower right) are comfortable.
TO DISARM AGENTS WOULD
NULLIFY 18TII AMENDMENT
DETAILS NOT PUBLIC
WASHINGTON, June 14, (/P> —
Assistant Secretary Lowman an
Jnounoed that E. J. White, customs
jpatro’man who shot Virkula “Was
,retina within his authority under
I the law and has a perfect de
fense ” Lowman said that if White
is indicted his case will be trans
ferred to the United States courts
[and added that the newspaper ac
counts of the shooting were highly
colored.
He said emphatically that the
treasury had no intention of dis
arming the customs patrolmen and
;Ahat if congress should pass such a
Haw it will effect the repeal of the
tariff laws. The same rules holds
{good with the prohibition agents
land to disarm them would nullify
Hhe 18th amendment, he continued.
In his statement he did not make
public the details of the official re
I ort.
CHARGED WITH MURDER
INTERNATIONAL FALLS, June
14. (jpi—County authorities went
froward with plans to bring first
{degree murder charges against
Se J. White who will be given a pre
I liminerv hearing Monday on sec
ond degree manslaughter charge.
I At that time the county attorney
plans to charge White with murder.
PHILADELPHIA, June 14, (JP)—
Phifadclphia is to have a planetar
ium, the gift of Samuel S. Fels, mil
lionaire soap manufacturer, to tne
Franklin institute.
The “synthetic sky”, as it also is
known is a representation of the
heavens at night, its diameter 30
feet, rod its zenith 50 feet above
the floor.
It will exhibit not only the heav
ens of northern latitudes, but cne
!,'outhern skies never seen north of
!-he equator, and, finally, the sky as
’t app°ared nearly 5,000 years ago,
end the changes that will have tak
en place 10.000 years hence.
INVENT1 m TAKE
I PLACE OF 5MELTEOS
HILLSIDE, Ariz. June 13. (/P)—
! After more than three years of
research, the Bagdad Copper Co.,
of Hillside Arizona, has developed
'and patented a metallurgical pro
cess which has proven satisfac
tory in the laboratory and, if
possible commercialy will make
it possible to produce electrolytic
j copper direct from copper con
i centrate, thus eliminating both
the smelting and refininf steps.
LONDON, June 13, (Jp)—Unless
oil producers of the world begin at
once to exercise greater care in the
jproduction of their products, the
whole industry may be faced by a
crisis according to Sir Henri Reter
ding, retiring British oil magnate,
in a statement just made.