VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 179.
SEWARD, ALASKA. FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 1929.
PRICE TEN CENTS
ENGLAND SHOULD
Si PEW SHIPS
E0UNJ1Y SIP
FOLLOW U. S, EXAMPLE AND
SINK SHIPS; REDUCE INCEN
TIVE FOR WAR
WASHINGTON, Aug., 2, (ff)— The
attainment of an equality in naval
strength between the United States
and Great Britain thru the sinking
of some of the British ships was
advocated by Senator Borah, chair
man of the senate foreign relations
committee.
Senator Borah’s statement was
issued 24 hours after he had dis
cussed the general naval strength |
situation with President Hoover at
the White House at a luncheon.
It is unknown whether President j
Hoover knew in advance that
Borah was to make the statement, j
The matter is subject to specula
tion in official circles.
“If Great Britain will follow our
example at the Washington Con
ference to sink some of her ships,
and thus come to a parity, it will
not only relieve the tax payers but
will reduce the incentive to war, for
such huge armaments are always
an incentive to war parity or no
parity”, Senator Borah said.
LINE TO CHICAGO;
TULSA, Okla.., Aug. 2, (/P)—A big
financial combine that proposes
to construct pipe line and pipe
natural gas to Chicago from the
Texas Panhandle is in process of
formation by the Texas Company,
the Skelly Oil Company, the
Phillips Petroleum Corporation
and the Columbian Carbon Com
pany, L. E. Phillips, president of
the Phillips compny, said at his
office in Bartieville.
It is also said that the In- j
su;I companies, operating in the I
Chicago district, will buy the nat
ural gas at the city gate and dis
tribute it for industrial purposes, j
The Texas Company and Em
pire companies now have a 12- j
inch pipe line under construction j
from the Cushing field of Okla- ;
hcma to Chicago. The operating i
comany called the Texas-Empire j
Pipe Line Company.
Seven gas lines tap the Pan- j
handle area, which is the largest
in the world
FIVE GINNERY BOATS
ENROUTE FROM NORTH
SEATTLE, Aug., 1, (JP)—Five
ships of a cannery fleet are home
ward bound from the Bristol Bay
district. The ships include:
Perry L. Smithers, of the North
western Fisheries Co.; Otsego, of
Libby McNeill & Libby; Chirikof,
of the Alaska Packers; Glacier, of
the Bristol Bay Packing Co.; and
the Hyades, of the Red Salmon
Canning Co. The first two vessels
are bound for Seattle; the others
for San Francisco.
GREATER RESEARCH
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1. (A3) —
Greater research to promote the
interests of agriculture is urged
by Arthur Hyde, Secretary of
Agriculture.
PRISON OVERCROWDED
WASHINGTON, Aug., 2, (/P)—The
Department of Justice announced
the receipt of a report from Warden
White which said the riot in the
prison was due to overcrowded con
ditions and lack of work for the
prisoners.
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MUTINY BEGAN IN NARCOTIC
BLOCK AFTER LUNCHEON;
ATTACKED WARDEN
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LEAVENWORTH, Aug., 2, (IP)—
One convict was killed and several
injured in a riot which broke out
in the narcotic block of the federal
penitentiary Thursday.
The mutiny began immediately
after lunch when the convicts were
returned to their cells and was said
to have followed an attempt to at
tack Warden Thomas B. White.
Deputy F. G. Zerbst of the prison
personnel, handled the riot in the
strictest secrecy until the firing of
weapons and breaking of glass at
tracted the attention on the out
side walls of Mike Martinezt, who
had served one year of a 30 year
term. The convict reported killed
and the names of those injured
were not made public.
The cause of the riot has not def
initely been determined.
AUCTION ATTRACTS MANY 1
SEATTLE, Aug., 2, (>P>—Fred j
Hamburg, Hudson Bay Co., repre- j
sentative, bid $1,105 for 55 martin
skins sold Thursday by the U. S. j
Marshall. The skins were shipped
out of Alaska without a permit and
confiscated by the Postoffice De
partment. The auction attracted
a dozen of buyers.
THOUSANDS OF BOYS THRILLED
AT PROSPECTS MEETING
CHIEF SCOUT
BIRKENHEAD, England, Aug. 2,
(JP)—Fifty thousand Boy Scouts
from all parts of the world are
meeting the Prince of Wales here
to participate in their Internation
al jamboree.
The jamboree is in celebration of
the 21st anniversary of the birth of
scouting.
The Prince will spend night in
camp with the scouts and the
next day will witness a grand
rally from the dais in front of the
grandstand in Arrowe park.
In this international rally he
i will be greeted by boys fronj half
a hundred countries. At a given
signal the boys will raise the
‘Scout Howl” and dash in camp
formation toward the dais. At
another signal they will come to
! a standstill in semicircle rbund
ithe prince and listen to what he
has to say. ■
The Prince will fly back to Lon
i don and 50,000 boys will gloat
; ever the prospect of saying to
[their pals when they reach home
again:
I “Y/hat? The Prince of Wales?
[Sure, I know him.”
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GOOD WEATHER
WASHINGTON, Aug., 2, (JP)— j
V/eather Bureau officials said a
high pressure area extended from ,
the Spanish coast southwestward to 1
south of the Azores and thence
westward to Bermuda which indi
cates good flying weather for the !
Graf Zeppelin.
YOUNG REPRESENTATIVE
SEATTLE, Aug., 2, (JP)—Arthur
Huston, son of Bishop A. S. Huston,
! Episcopal diocese of Olympia, is 16
and the youngest of nine youths to
compete in the State finals. Super
intendent Showwalter, of public in
struction named him as State rep
resentative for the National con
gest. He graduated from the Seat
tle high school last June.
1SH1T1 STATE
LAD IS WINDER
OF SCHOLARS!
FORTY-NINE CONTE S T A N T S
LINED UP FOR EDISON
EXAMINATION
WEST ORANGE, Aug., 2, (/P)—
Wilbur Huston of Port Madison,
Wash., was named winned in
the Edison competition for the fol
lower in the footsteps of the
famous inventor.
Forty-nine contestants lined up
on the lawn of the Edison home in
Llewelyn Park. As the announce
ment was made by Dr. S. W. Strat
ton, president of the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, and who is
also chairman of the committee of
Judges, Stratton gave high praise
to the boys who participated in the
gruelling examination and in sub
jects ranging from morals and
ethics to science.
START LEGAL FIGHT
BIRMINGHAM, N. Y. Aug. 1.
; (A*)—Representatives of John, D.
Rockefeller have started a legal
fight to prevent the removal of
the oil king’s birthplace in the
Michigan Hills near Richford, to
Coney Island- The building was
recently purchased by a Brooklyn
woman for the Coney Island
Chamber of Commerce.
AMERICAN INTERESTS WATCH ROW OVER
SEIZURE OF THE CHINESE RAILWAY
©NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY
C.E.fC
•V;.
Figuring in the controvery over control of the Chinese Eastern
railway are (above, left to right), Chang Hseuh-Liang, war lord of
Manchuria; L. M. Karakhan, vice commissar for foreign affairs of
Russia, and C. T. Wang, foreign minister of the nationlist govern
ment. Map by the National Geographic society shows railway system.
SI S FilST
STILL HAS 3,000 MORE MILES
TO GO BEFORE REACH
ING AMERICA
UNDATED, Aug., 2, (£>)—'The
Graf Zeppelin is hitting a rapid
clip as she sped across the Atlantic
on her second voyage to the United
States. At 7:30 eastern time she
reported to the radio station at
Gasablance, Morocco that she was
600 miles west of Gilbraltar and
was headed toward the Azores but
it is not certain whether she will
pass over them or skirt them in a
northwesterly course.
In a previous report, two morn
ipgs ago, she gave her position as
26 miles west of Gibraltar and said
weather conditions were good. In
coverr
Graf
70 miles
! The Zeppeln
head winds over
of the Mediterranea
pick up speed as soon
ed the Atlantic She
miles to go.
ft the flight the
•ed from 65 to
e,^d strong
and parts
began to
e reach
as 3,000
; a
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NEW PROCESS FOR
■Ml!$
! INSTALLED VESSEL
GLASGOW, Scotland, Aug., 1, f/P)
—The Berwindlea, the first vessel
built in Europe for burning pul
verized coal, has been launched
here for ore carrying service.
Several steamers already have
been using powered coal as fuel, but
these have been “adapted” for
this use.
The Berwindlea carries the “raw”
coal in ordinary bunkers. After the
coal has been reduced to powder it
is passed into a hermetically sealed
chamber from which it is forced
into the furnace thru nozzels. In
the furnaces it forms a fine spray
and maintains a constant and
easily controlled heat.
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QUELLS A RIOT
NEW YORK, Aug. 1, </P)—One
j hundred and 50 communists who
| came to give a sendoff to one
of their number sailing for Eu
rope caused such a commotion
on the dock with their cries
“Down with the United States”
that the police reserves had to
be called to quell the riot.
1931 IfM STAKES
INCREASED TO $93,039
NEW YORK, Aug., 2, (£>)—'The
Latonia championship stakes—an
annual one and three-quarters mile
feature of the fall meeting at La
tonia—will carry a value of $60,000
in its 1931 running.
With a purse division of $49,
000 to the winner, it will be among
the highest price specials for
three- year- olds in the country.
SOLDIERS KILLED
TEHERAN, Persia, Aug. l.(/P)
—One thousand government sol
diers were killed in a clash with
I rebels who were aided by the
^Lur tribe, it is reported.