VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 114.
SEWARD; ALASKA. THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1929.
PRICE TEN CENTS
BIG SUM LOPPED
OFF MINING FOB
COMING SEASON
TREE MEASURES RECENT LEG
ISLATURE WERE POCKET
VETOED BY GOVERNOR
JUNEAU, May 16 (Special to the
Gateway)—The engrossing com
mittee of the late Territorial
house of representatives lopped
off $5,000 from the sum alloted
for federal mining supervision.
The house passed a bill for $25,000
but the senate refused the sum
but later agreed to the measure
for the sum of $20,000, which
the Governor signed.
Three measures in the recent
legislature were pocket vetoed by
Governor Parks; the senate bill
for making surveys of mining
claims applicable as an annual
assessment was not approved; the
bill for $5,000 fund for filling
of a road on the Tongass High
way to the cemetary near Ketchi
kan was unaj#roved,—covered in
road appropriation; the third mea
sure being an appropriation for
$1,500 for building a sidewalk from
the beach to the drain swamps at
Kotzebue, because title to the
measure was defective and did
not cover the subject.
CASE TAKES ME
SAN FRANCISCO, May 16. (JP)—
Differences of opinion between the
district Attorney, Matthew Brady
and the grand jury over whether
he should file vouchers cover
ing expenditures from his contin
gent fund, took a turn favorable
to him.
The jurors had formerly held
that Brady should file vouchers,
but later the majority of them
indicated that they would not
insist upon his doing so. Threats
of impeachment were heard on
Brady’s refusal to comply with
the jury’s wishes.
BODY OF SALESMAN
FOUND IN DRYWASH
SHOT TWO PLAGES
PHOENIX,Ariz., May 16, </P)—
The body, believed to be that of
Jack Martin, Mesa salesman, was:
found in a drywash near Beards
ley where Richard Burrows, the
Chicago youth confessed to a slay
hag, and who is now in custody at
Denver, and where he said he
had buried. the body of the taxi
driver.
The body was shot in two places,
once on the right side and the!
ether place in the right leg. Thej
body, when found was badly de- j
composed, but the signet ring I
found on finger was identified as
that which Martin wore.
SEVEN DROWN
DALLAS, Tex. May 16. '(/F)—Re
ports, which found their way to
Dallas thru wrecked lines of com
munication from Livingston, Tex,
said that seven persons have been
reported drowned there due to
ihe floods caused by the swiftly
rising Trinity River. !
SENATE PISSES FARM
BILL OVER HBOVEfl
WASHINGTON, May 16, (/P)—
The farm relief bill is unaccepta
ble to President Hoover because
it contained the export debenture
plan but, nevertheless, was passed
by the senate by a vote of 54 to
33. The bill must now go to the
house for action. On the debenture
feature administration leaders as
sert the house will not accede to
the senate's move in adding the
debenture to the bill.
GRAF ZEPPELIN
E10UTE AMERICA
SECOND FLIGHT
CREW OF 40 ABOARD, 18 PAS
SENGERS INCLUDING ONE
WOMAN AND GORILLA
UNDATED, May 16. (/P)—The
dirigible, Graf Zeppelin is reported
to have passed over Spain toward
Portugal on its second flight to
America.
It left Fredrichshafen at 11:57,
eastern time last night. Aboard
were the 40 members of the crew,
18 passengers and the female goril
la. Susi
The only woman passenger was
Mary Pierce, wife of a New York
broker who made the trip despite
the pleading of her husband and
relatives. Captain Sir Hubert Wil
kins is also among the passengers.
The airship is expected to reach
Lakehurst, New York, late Satur
ay or early Sunday. The Southern
course is expected to be followed.
TESTIFIED Til
MANY WELL KNOWN ALASKANS
IN VICTORIA TESTIFYING
IN CASE
VICTORIA, B. C., (£>)—With a
number of best known mining
characters in Alaska here to tes
tify in the William F- Harris fight
against his old prospecting part
rer Dan Lindborg for a $100,000
share in the Big Missouri enter
prise, the trial came t oan end
when Chief Justice Aulay Morri
son took the case under advise- j
ment.
Pat Daly, the discoverer of the j
Premier mine and Mountain Boy, j
swore that Lindborg had said \
Harris had an interest in the big;
Missouri; Johnny Ho viand of j
Seattle, who discovered the claims I
around the Big Missouri and the|
Premier Gold, swore Harris had j
said in Lindborg's cabin at Hyder, j
in 190?, that he did not consider j
that he had any interest in the
claims which statement Harris
denied in court.
Harris, who is now 77, lives in
Port Angeles.
TWO GREATEST ENEMIES
LANCASTER, Penn, May 16. (/P) I
—America’s two greatest enemies
were named as militarism and al
coholism by William M. Bell of
Harrisburg, president and bishop
of the United Brethren of Christ. 1
MANY NOW ALIVE EXPECTED
TO DIE, ACCORDING TO
DOCTORS
CLEVELAND, May 16, (jP)—
Ninety persons are knpwn to
have lost their lives and scores
injured in an explosion and fire
at the Cleveland Clinic Hospital.
Police said the death list might
run much highef; most of those
killed were patients but a few are
believed to have been nurses and
doctors.
Two hours alter the building
took fire all the occupants had
been removed and the fire ex
cmquished. Most of the fatilities
rescued from the fire but many
are believed to have been suffo
cated by the poisonous lumes of
burning chemicais, Some of the
dead turned a gh&stly green col
or after the have been removed
*rom the building.
WALL OF FUMES
Mrs. Irene Lentz of Parsrons, W.
Virginia, who was in the hospital
waiting for a physical exemina
tion, described the approach of the
ghastly brown wall of bromide
gas as* it trapped and strangled
its victims. She was in the wait
ing room and savf smoke issuing
from the next room- She thought
nothing of it as the doctor had
been smoking.
The instant red lights flashed
doctors and nurrses rushed franti
cally about and began wheeling
out the patients.
TWO HOUR TRAGEDY
Mrs. Lentz ran toward the door
and others followed. The wall of
bromide intercepted many who
collapsed. One woman screamed:
“Oh my God! My daughter!” as
she fell to the floor.
Hardly two hours were required
to complete the tragedy. Fire
men battled the scorching flames
while others, with gas masks on,
risked their lives inside the build
ing. The victims were removed
thru windows and off the roof.
Some were burned horribly and
others removed uncounscious. It
it thought, say doctors ,that many
of those now alive will be added
shortly to the death list.
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AMERICAN LEAGUE
8t. Louis 5; Washington 3.
Detroit 6; Philadelphia 5.
Chicago 8; Boston 4.
. Cleveland 7; New York X.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
St. Louis 4; Philadelphia 1.
Pittsburgh 9; Brooklyn 4.
Cincinnati 12; New York 3.
Chicago 7; Boston 4.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Los Angeles 4; San Francisco 3.
Sacramento 5; Oakland 2.
Portland 7; Seattle 6.
60 PERISH IN FIRE
MEXICO CITY, May 16, (JP)—
Forty children and 20 adults are
reported to have perished in a for
est fire which destroyed the village
of Ochilapa. Another fierce forest
fire was gaining much headway
rapidly spreading thru the heavily
timbered Patagonia mountain
range 10 miles northeast of Nogales j
Ariz.
THREE WEEKS RECESS
CUBES IN JRNE
WASHINGTON, May 16, (JP)—A
three week's recess for congress in
June give the members a chance
to cool off after the controversy
between Senator Fess and Borah,
was under discussion by senate
leaders. The recess would be taken
after the passage of the farm re
lief bill and before the difficult
teriff problem is taken up in sen
ate.
TWO HUNDRED NATIONAL
GUARDSMEN DISPATCHED
AND 100 ARRESTED
ELIZABETHON, Tenn. May 16.
(/P)—An explosion of dynamite se
vered the water main serving two
of Elizabethon Rayon plants, the
American Bemberg and American
Glanztoff. George Crow has been
identified as the man who warned
the sheriff the main was to be
dynamited and has been arrested.
Two hundred national guards
men have been dispatched to the
scene and arrested 100 pieketters
under the intimiation of blocking
the highway
Joe Calhoun, bus driver, was
taking workers to the mills and
ran his machine through a gather
ing of strikers when he was order
ed to stop. He injured four. Cal
houn was spirited away by the
police for safe keeping.
SOPER GENEROSITY
II TIG OF PAST
DORCASTER, Eng., May 16, (IP)—
Ramsav MacDonald, labor leader,
addressing a meeting here said in
regard to the reparation’s situation
at Paris: “As far as the labor party
is concerned we are going to make
no more blunders by the acquiring
of more burdens unless we receive
a guarantee that nations, which
said they could not accept less
contributions from our old enemies,
prove their poverty by spending less
upon armaments. This nation is
not going to continue its policy of
super-generority which has char
acterized it in the past.”
SURRENDER OF CANTON
QUESTION SHORT TIME
CANTON, China. May 16. <£>)—
Kwansi troops suddenly resumed
the attack on Samshui by taking
advantage of the weakness which
occurred when reenforcements
were sent to the Tase River Dis
trict and captured 13 Canton gun
boats. Heavy casalties were in
flicted on the Canton troops in the
neighborhood of this city result
ing in a general panic whereof
surrender is now regarded as but
a question of a short time.
EDSEL FORD SAILS
NEW YORK, May 16. (£>)—Ed
sel Ford sailed with his wife and
two sons for three months in
France, Germany and Britain.
| MINK BROUGHT GOOD PRICE
i BUT COLLECTION SAID TO
HAVE BEEN POOR
TACOMA, May 16, (^—Consid
ering the quality of furs offered
) exceptionally high prices were re
alized at the sale held by the West
Coast Fur Sales on Monday.
Mink sold high at $29 but the
collection, as a whole was poor,
and brot the average down to
$12.25.
Lynx averaged $57.50 the top
price being $73.
Muskrats were in poor demand
and wolves averaged $13.25 with
t£e best bringing $16.25.
Weasel brot $195 for the average
with the top being $2.70.
| Cross foxes sold for $71 with the
top price of $200.
Wolverines sold for $20, the top
being $22. '
The average price on otter was
$28 with the top bringing $35.
| Silver foxes sold for $190, red
foxes average $48 with the top of
$66.
The next regular monthly sale
will be held in Tacoma on June 12
SI SITSS WANTED
IT THE DELEGATE
I
WASHINGTON, May 16, (/P)—
The abandoned military buildings
and grounds at Sitka would be
transferred from the federal
i government to the Territory of
Alaska and be used for a home
! for the aged and sick pioneers of
Alaska, under a bill introduced
by the Alaska delegate. The meas
{ure wrould provide that the Terri
tory could never dispose of the
'properties but if it should be
: abandoned the title to revert to
| the federal government.
CROSS-COUNTRY TEST
SUCCESSFUL: NEW FUEL
OIL IS DEVELOPED
I DETROIT, May 16, VP)—The
| Packard Diesel Motor for air
planes has successfully completed
its first cross country flight test
at a cost of $4.68 for oil fuel in
a 700 mile flight from Detroit to
Langleey field, according to an
announcement made here by the
officials of the Packard Motor Co
the developers of the motor.
Captain L. M- Wilson, aero
nautical engineer, with) Walter
Lees as pilot, flew the Stinson
Detroiter powered by the Diesal
Motor burning ordinary furnace
oil to the Virginia Air Field at
a cost of less than a cent a mile.
The flight was accomplished in
six hours and 50 minutes. The ap
proximate cost of such a flight for
a plane using gasoline would have
been $15.
KETCHELL LICKED
ELEM, Pa., May 16, (JP)—Joe Dun
dee of Baltimore, welterweight
champion of the world, handed
young Johnny Ketchell of Chester,
Pa., a good trouncing in a 10-round
bout here here.