MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME NUMBER 194.
SEWARD, ALASKA FRIDAY, DECEMBER, 21, 1928.
PRICE TEN GENTS
1
IS HONOR GUEST
AT STAG BANQUET
SPLENDID TRIBUTES PAID TO
PIONEER DOCTOR BY RESI
DENTS OF SEWARD
Attesting to the popularity and
esteem in which he is held by the
citizens of Seward at least 100
gathered last evening in the Sew
ard Grill in attendance at the stag
banquet honoring Dr. J. A. Baugh
man who departs for the East on
the next steamer south.
Every special box in the banquet
hall was taken down and through
out the long length of glistening
white spread of the table upon
which flower decorations were
prominent, not a seat was vacant.
The banqueting hall, itself, was
also artistically decorated apropos
to the occasion.
Hardy sons of the hills,
rugged pioneers, employes from
every local industry, and a rep
resentative group of business men,
were all there to pay their res
pects to their friend, Dr. Baugh
man. AGfcing as toast-master, Leon
Urbach, president of the Chamber
of Commerce, called first upon
Superintendent Hatten of the J.
L. Home for a few remarks. Mr.
Hatten made a neat and timely
talk during which he said:
“No doubt I was called on to
say something on account of my
large family of over 100 children.
Our relations with Dr. Baughman
lies been the best: ’re is certainly
to’wfe thanked for, after lie had
made up his mind to give up his
practice, he first saw to it that
a successor was on the job and
after he did arrive to spend much
time with him.”
“Of all my many acquaintances
in Alaska,” remarked Mayor L. V.
Ray, who ivas next called on, “I
do not know of a man who is held
in higher esteem by his fellowman
as Dr. Baughman. Almost all of
us can. recall times when Dr.
Baughman has rendered us ser
vice," Mr. Ray briefly described an
incident in his own affairs when
Dr. Baughman and four other
physicians were called upon to
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MARSHAL ENROITTE TO LOWER
RIVER COUNTRY TO ARREST
ALLEGRO KILLER
AEIFEL, Dec., 21, (P)—Travelers
arriving from Sleetmute reported a
murder had been committed there
months ago by a native named Bea
vf”. kiii'-ng a medicine man’s son.
A deputy marshal from Wiseman
is enroute up river to arrest the na
tive.
In the woman attack case here
it will continue at Sleetmute and
both cases will be heard by Commis
sioner Hoffman at Naoamute; then
the guilty parties will be brought
here.
KING IS MENDING
LONDON Dec. 21, tP)—Today’s
^ bulletin read;' “The King had a
restful night; there was na percep
tible change noted.” This is taken
4 a mean the King is slowly recover
HUSH RAILROAD TO
HAVE CHISAGO OFFICE
WASHINGTON, Dec., 21, (/P)—To
encourage tourist travel and tc as- j
sist in colonization the Alaska j
railroad will open an office in Chi- j
cago on January 15, Secretary ol
The Interior West announced. Chi
cago was selected because of its
advantageous position to a large
portion of Alaska Railroad travci
which originates in the middlewest.
WOMAN HAD DESERTED IIER
HUSBAND 10 YEARS AGO TO
LIVE WITH KILLER
NEW YORK, Dec., 21. (/P)—Stef
ano Burgio, a rather timid looking
nan, is held by police on a charge
of homicide. He is accused of com
mitting wonton murder in a fit of
unreasoning rage provoked by the
taunts of a woman who deserted
her husband to live with him.
Thcv had lived in the place for 10
vears and two daughters of Mrs.
Rose Damico had learned to call
| Burgio father..
Thev had introduced his son Al
jurzo to the household and the at
ent'/n he lavished on the boy
jnvoosec. the ice ousy < f Mb. Dunu
•ro. She hated Burgio because of the
-boy until in a fit of rage he killed
her. Then he turned his gun on
the girls and fatally wounded Zona
the younger sister.
When neighbors broke into the
o:n th. y I ..r.ci Buivio hac'- ' .g
jRosinr the second sister with a
BASIN STATES MUST RATIFY
COIMPACT P.FFORE IT BE
COMES EFFECTIVE
WASHINGTON. Dec., 21, (/P)—
President Coolidge signed the
Boulder Dam Bill making effective
fhe Act providing for reclamation
and Hood control of the power pro
l ect on the Colorado River. The
[President affixed his signature be
j fove a gathering of proponents or
Hie Dill.
The measure provides that the
Government supnlv $165,000,000 es
rimaced as necessary to construe!,
the dam and accompanying woH's
in B ack Canyon The money whl
be repaid under an ammortization
plan from fhe proceeds cf sale of
power.
His signature was the last official
act mo uired in providing federal
authority for construction but eith
er Utah or Arizona, of the seven
Colorado River B'sir 5?
ratify the Colorado River compact
v distribution of water power be
fore the act becomes effective.
CANNON FODDER
BERLIN. Dec., 21, (/PI—1To aid sci
entific experiments, Paul Peineit
was vn’untarily shot out of a can
non over the house tops of Berlin.
He landed in a net placed there
to receive him and survived the ex
plosion.
BY THE SENATE
COMPROMISE REACHED DURING
DAY ON KELLOGG TREATY,
CRUISER DILL
WASHINGTON, Dee., 21. (/P» —
Oongiess found a place, side by
nrie, for the Kellogg Treaty re
nouncing war, and the Naval cruiser
construction Bill, beginning Janu
ary 3. Both will be taken up under
the agreement to let each have -a
show each day.
The compromise was reached
during the day and cleared the cal
endars of big controversial issues
given an outlook for a peaceful two
days before the Christmas recess.
T!>
O00 Interior Department measure
and ,b? House passed the c 112,000,
rtOf) I>ii! for the Departments cl
State, Justice, Labor and Com
merce.
WASTfINOTOM. Dec., ?1, (tP)—Out
of a population or 450 at Hoomh,
Alaska, the cut Lor Unalga reported
there are 444 cases of Influenza: tin.
I report also stated there was only
one doctor, one nurse and one
teacher to care for the sufferers.
The Unalga reported to coaso
•snare headquarters here, that site
hs visiting outlying: communities m
[Alaska giving a>d. Her reported
j position was off False Pass in Chat
jham Strait, and planned to proceed
!to Tcnakee front there and to other
I points afflicted.
IT
L
Argentine officials hailed with sat
isfaction Bolivia’s announced inten
tion to accept the good offices of
the Pan-American Conference at
Washington in the dispute with
Paraguay. It was generally believ
ed here that the last threat
of warfare had been removed.
SENATE AND HOUSE WORKING
DESPERATELY TO CLEAN UP
ON MEASURES
WASHINGTON, Dec., 21, (JP)
With the approach of Christmas
holidays threatening Io leave much
important legislation high and dry
i on the beach of procrastination, the
i Senate and House worked desper
ately to get the most necessary
measures out of the way.
The Senate Foreign Committee,
hv a vote of 14 to 2 with two not
voting agreed to report the
Pact to the Senate. Agreement was
reached whereby Senator Moses will
modify his demands with the un
derstanding that the Pact will oe
jreported to the Senate without re
commendation. President Coolidgc
expressed confidence that the
Treaty will- be ratified without
any long wait.
THE REASON WHY
! SA NFRANCISCO, Dec., 21, CP)—
;"The reason we have so much jazz
music in the United States,” in the
opinion of William John Coopei,
State Superintendent of Education,
I “is that our sense of sound is as re
fined as the sense of smell of savag
es who are content to live on refuse
! heaps.”
MICHIGAN READY FOR ANNUAL RATTLE
Snow, as hazardous to human life as beautiful in the
Northland forests, yearly produce a problem to engin
eering talent. Michigan has increased its equipment to
clear such blockades of snow as that shown above, which
often cut off whole communities from sources of food and
communication. Below is a typical upper Michigan snow
belt scene.
HERRING PACKERS
SERIOUSLY INJURED
BY RECULA1NS
FAULTY METHOD OF INSPEC
TION PRACTICED IN ALAS
KA. SAYS IMLACH
At the Tuesday mating of the
Seward Chamber of Commerce,
President Leon TJrbach referred to
the Executive Committee a matter
presented by W. J. Imlach, Alaska
ipacker, having important bearings
|on tne herring industry in Alaska.
Mr. Imlach is regarded in Alaska as
| one of the foremost authorities on
iherring. On account of a vast
I knowledge of the industry gained
by following it since boyhood, he
was selected in 1926 by the Govern
iment of Great Elite in and sent to
the United States to inspect and
j oversee the curing of all herring
!shipped to England or English pos
sessions.
ILL ADVISED P.CLINGS
Later recognizing the superiority
of the herring found in Alaskan
(inters, and because of several times
greater fishing area in Alaska than
Scotland, Britain or Holland, Mr.
!T»r> -<b established himself in Alas
ka and became a prominent figure
among herring packers here. Ho
now complains that not only is he
and all other herring packers in
Alaska being seriously set back by
what he terms “ill advised fishing
regulations” by Com mi si oner of
Fisheries Henry O’Malley, but that
Alaska as a whole, and its people
are being deprived of the great ad
vancement that would be enioved if
herring fishing in Alaska was per
mitted the development that other
countries not only permit, but en
tourage and assist in.
‘•THERE IS SOMETHING
wrong in Alaska” declared Mr. Im
jlach, “when Scotland, with a fish
ing area loss in size than Kodiak
and Pwncc William Sound, accord
ing to the 46th annual report of the
Fishery Board, shows 6,399 sailing,
motor, steam and other vessels en
gaged in sex fad ing in 1927, giving
employment to 25,6/7 fishermen,
I which number when augmeote * by
|the chore workers and persons en
gaged in the industry to 67,471.
While these figures pertain .to all
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'.GEOGRAPHERS HAD THOUGHT
| MOUNTAINS EXTENDED WITH
OUT INTERRUPTION
NEW YORK, Dec., 21, (JP)—'Tiie
I American in a copyrighted dispatch
.from Capt. Sir George H. Wilkins,
at Deception Island in the Antarc
tic say? he has solved the problem
which has baffled geographers for
many years and proving that Gra
ham Land is separate from the
Polar continent by an ice filleu
channel.
Geographers had thought the
mountains extended v/ithout inter -
.uption into the heart of the con
tinent. Capt. Wilkins has made a
flight in the monoplane “San Fran
cisco”, piloted by Ben Eielson, to the
volcanic mountains of Graham
Land
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SIGNS DOTTED LINE
WASHINGTON, Dec., 21, (A>)—
■ President Coolidge signed the bil
lion dollar Treasury and P .s.ol'ice
Bill.