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VOLUME XVI. NUMBER 26.
SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1931.
PRICE TEN CENTS
S« URGES
ALASKA AIRMAIL
C0I5I ROUTE
RECOMMENDS OFFICIALS BE
GIN ON COMPARATIVE
SYSTEMS
WASHINGTON, Feb., 2, </P)—
Ernest Walker Sawyer, member
cf the Pacific-Yukon Highway
Commission, said that he has
urged the Postmaster General
to establish an airmail line to
Alaska via Vancouver, B. C., and
Dawson from Seattle.
Sawyer differed from the pro
,-ouents of the plan for an air
.route from the United States to
..Alaska, Russia, and China, via
Ottawa, Toronto, MacKenzie
and Arlavik.
He said the latter route would
tie a route over a comparative
•wilderness; he proposes a course
-over populous territory and a
fair weather line, differing from
the passible coastal route to Ju
neau which, he contended, is
tampered by fog most of the
Lime.
Lakes, along the proposed
Seattle-Fairbanks highway, could
toe used for landing fields. The
route through MacKenzie has
been flown but once while five
“.rips have been made over the
proposed Seattle, Dawson and
Fairbanks route.
Airmail for Juneau could be
taken along the eastern side of
the mountains to Atlin. Sawyer
named the following places as
points of call on the proposed
route:
Seattle, Vancouver, Harrison
Hot Springs. Seton Lake, Prince
George. Stuart Lake, Babing
Lake, Takla Lake, Dease Lake.
Teslin Lake, Atlin Lake, Car
cross, Whitehorse. Selkirk. Daw
son. Eagle, Fairbanks.
He recommended that Ameri
can and Canadian pastal author
ties w7ork out a comparative sys
tem soon.
RESERVATION
WASHINGTON, Feb., 2, (£>)—
A reservation to the Root-Hurst
formula specifically protecting
the United States against the
menace of advisory opinions by
the League of Nations court was
advocated by Senator David A.
Reed, Republican, of Pennsyl
vania.
SPECLAL INVESTIGATOR
WASHINGTON, Feb., 2, (JP)—
A special investigator for the Na
tional Red Cross will arrive in
tiie Danville textile strike area
to investigate claims by strikers
that there are hungary families
there not being fed by the local
Red Cross and that the Red
Cross there is sympathetic with
the company.
ROCKET TEST-SHIP
LOS ANGELES, Feb., 2,
A small rocket airplane carrying
no passengers and constructed to
furnish scientific data for build
ing of a larger ship, will receive
its first tests here. Equipped with
fuel to carry it five miles, the
plane is expected to attain a
speed of 500 miles per hour, ac
cording to the inventer, Maurice
Poirer.
LAST LINK FINISHED
ST. PAUL, Feb., 2, (/P)—The
opening of the St. Paul-Winni
peg air mail service today com
pletes the last link of the 9,000
mile air mail fehain from Akla
vik, in northwest Canada, to
Buenos Aires. A daily mail ser
vice over the link is planned,
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: WINS CONFIDENCE OF
; CWUIEHEPIITIES
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j PARIS, Feb. 2, (A*)— Pierre
Laval, a butcher’s son and one of
the youngest Prime Ministers
in the history of France, won
j two votes of confidence from
the Chamber of Deputies which
was asked to vote on his declar
ation of government policy, in
cluding the extension of free
education.
He also won with his amend
ment defending secularized
schools. Laval then demanded
the amendment be rejected wan
ning by a vote .of 309 to 258.
SECOND DOLLAR LINER
WILL BE NAMED AFTER
CALVIN COUE
NEW YORK, Feb,, 2. (IP)—
The second of the $8,000,000 turbo
electric Dollar liners will be
known as President Coolidge, Dol
lar line officials announced after
securing the consent of former
Pres. Calvin Coolidge for the use
of his name.
The new steamer will be launch
ed at Newport News, Virginia, on
February 21, and will take her
place in schedule sailing from
New York westward on Oct., 15,
1931.
IKiBOIS Will
MIGBflTE T9 MEXICO
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb., 2, (/P)
—The migration of 20,000 Duk
hobors, a Russian religious sect,
from the Canadian prairies to
Mexico has been arranged, said
David Russek, of Chihuahua,
Mexico, land owner and banker.
The Dukhobors, who were dri
ven from Russia, have had fre
quent brushes with Canadian
authorities over schools, laws and
their customs of nudity.
They anticipate more freedom
in Mexico.
NEXT SECRETARY
WASHINGTON, Feb., 2, (/P)—
Oscar Solbert, formerly military
aide to Calvin Coolidge when he
was president, was mentioned as
the next secretary to President!
Hoovre, succeeding George Ak- j
erson, who will resign on February I
first.
AMONG WRESTLERS
BOSTON, Feb., 2, (/P)— Gus j
Sonnenberg, former claimant of
the heavyweight wrestling cham
pionship title, won a victory
over Lee Wykoff of St. Louis!
here when the latter was in j ur-!
ed in a fall from the ring while
attempting to administer a fly-1
ing tackle. J
H. t B. WALLACE
OIL EXPLOSION
! COMMUNITY SHOCKED AT
TRAGIC DEATH OF EN
GINEER
Henry Ernest David Wallace,
32 years of age, civil engineer,
, War Department, Alaska Road
Commission, and in charge of
construction of the Seward
breakwater, died early yesterday
afternoon from burns, received
in the morning, in the basement
of his residence at First and
Adams streets.
| Mr. Wallace, who was practi
cally conscious until the end,
said that he had started the
furnace fire and, when passing
by the furnace with a can of
gasoline, some spilled out onto
the floor, igniting, runing up to
the can which exploded, satura
ting him from his feet to his
head. He was dressed in his pa
jamas, slippers and cotton gloves.
Dashing out of the basement
he hurled himself into the snow
but he was burned terribly be
| fore the flames were extinquish
ied. It is not quite clear at this
point but it is believed he called
to Mrs. Wallace to phone for the
doctor. In the meantime, either
alone, or accompanied by his
wife, he had walked to the hos
pital, probably a block away,
where, in a few moments, Dr. A.
D. Haverstock and his assistant,
Harold Sogn, arrived.
Uppermost in his mind always
was his wife and little daughter,
whom he asked be tendered to
immediately. He had even in
structed Mrs. Wallace to phone
Leon Urbach, owner of the resi
dence. Mr. Urbach immediately
rushed to the home in his car,
and a short time later, took Mrs.
Wallace and daughter to his
home. An examination of the
house showed a few spots on the
floor had been burned and was
smouldering, the entire house
being filled with smoke. What
was once a round oil can, was
found bursted and flattened in
the basement.
In the yard, a pair of cotton
gloves were still blazing.
Mr. Wallace and family came
here just a few weeks ago to
initiate the local breakwater pro
ject, from the Anchorage head
quarters of the Alaska Road
Commission, but had spent the
last three or four years super
vising road work in McKinley
National Park. He was born in
Dodge City, Iow^a and was a
member of Masonic Lodges, Sil
ver Cord Lodge, No. 525 A. F. &
A, M. Ocheyedan, Iowa, and of
the Eeastern Star, Rosebud
Chapter No. 405, of the same
city.
Besides the widow and three
and one-half year-old daughter:
Patricia, a number of relatives'
reside in the East. Their names,
at this time, could not be defi
nitely ascertained, it is said it
is the wish of Mrs. Wallace to
take the body of her husband
to their former home in the East, j
for burial.
R. S. White, member of the!
Seward school faculty, is con- j
fined in the Seward General
Hospital with illness following
an examination yesterday.
MUST MODERNIZE
; URALSK, Siberia, Feb., 2, UP)—
j Declaring the women of the com
munity must be modernized, Bol
shevik officials recently ordered
them to cut their hair. When
| the women refused they were all
I called together and their tresses
forcibly shorn.
POLITICAL NAM
LONDON, Feb., 2, (A5)—Renew
al of menacing attacks on the
cabinet of Prime Minister J. Ram
i say MacDonald, coupled with the
. economic depression and growth
I of unemployment, caused serious
discussion in some quarters of
the possibility of a constitutional
dictatorship.
Political sources, which scoff
at the idea of such a system in
England have considered, how
ever, some other manner of radi
cal alteration in the parliament
ary machinery.
TOMB OF QUEEN
IS BARED IN EGYPT:
CONTAINS TREASURE
i CAIRO, Egypt, Feb., 2, </P)—
The tomb of an ancient queen,
containing magnificant treasures,
was bared at the Raouer tomb
enclosure by Professor Salim Has
j san. noted Egyptologist.
. The queen has not been iden
! tified, but the tomb consists of
two chambers, one containing her
sarcophagus and the other fur
nitures and other objects as toi
i let requisites in pure gold.
Alabaster figures and a bed w’ere
also found, the design of the
latter resembling some modern
I European styles,
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HOME FOLK DEMAND
worn on food, fuel
OWOSSO, Mich., Feb. 2, (/Pi
Fifty jobless men demanded of
Mayor W. A. Seegmiller that
they be given either work or
food and fuel for their families.
They protested against the em
ployment of married women and
of men from farms and other
cities while residents of Oswosso
were out of work. Mayor Seeg
miller promised them food, fuel
and elothing, but said the city
had no work for them.
OPTIMISM REIGNS
NEW YORK, Feb., 2, (/P)—
The revolt against pessimism made
further gains in the financial
markets. Shares continued to re
cover in brisker trading, and the
bond houses again reflected the
salutary influence of favorable
credit position.
STANDS MUTE
CHICAGO, Feb., 2, (JP>— Leo'
V. Brother, arraigned for the i
murder of Jake Lingle, Tribune!
reporter, stood mute when asked
his answer to the indictment, by
Chief Justice McGoorty of the'
criminal courts who entered a
plea of not guilty in his behalf.
FIFTY PER CENT
CASH LOAN ON
VETERANS'BONUS
ADMINISTRATION IS WILLING
TO ACCEPT COMPROMISE
SAYS PATMAN
WASHINGTON, Feb., 2, (/P)—
Representative Patman told of
the compromise offers which had
been discussed as settlement of
the issue over cash redemption
of veterans’ bonus certificates.
He said that Senator Vanden
burg of Michigan, after a White
j house visit, expressed the belief
jthat an increase to 50 per cent
! of the loan value and reduction
of interest, would meet the ad
ministration’s approval.
The loan value is nowr 22 per
cent.
Patman said, “We have defi
| nite information that the ad
| ministration would only be too
| willing to accept a compromise.,”
and added that it wTould please
Mellon. The proposal has been
discussed with all those advocat
ing a full cash bonus.
DECIDES TO JOIN
NEW YORK, Feb., 2. PP)_Lin
; coin Ellsworth, co-leader on the
Amundson-Nobile transpolar hop
in 1926. has announced he will
join the Sir Hubert Wilkins sub
marine voyage to the North Pole
next summer, which will be call
ed the Wilkins-ElLsworth Expe
! d it ion .
FISH-SKIN SLIPPERS
ATLANTIC CITY, Feb., 2, (JP)
-Gold-fish skin is the latest
in covering for smart evening
slippers. At the business con
ference of the Middle Atlantic
j shoe retailers here, it was an
' nounced that the new slippers
: may be had at $80 a pair.
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SPEED-BOAT DEMON
LONDON, Feb., 2, (TP)—Kaye
Don traveled more than 100
miles an hour in the speed-boat
“Miss England 2” in a trial run
in Northern Ireland, beating the
world record of 98.7 miles an
hour, set by Sir Henry Segrave
in the same boat in which he
was killed.
RAISED QUESTION
WASHINGTON, Feb., 2, (A*)—
In handlnig the problem left on
the White House doorstep by the
Wickersham report, Pres. Hoo
er raised the question of how
far an administration may go in
seeking to influence publip opin
ion by inspired information dis
tributed anonymously.
DESTROY DESTROYERS
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb., 2, (A5)
Two American destroyers , the
Hart and Rizal of the Asiatic
squadron will be destroyed next
spring in Southern California. The
vessels are now bound for Cali
fornia from Honolulu. They will
be scrapped in accordance with
the London Naval Treaty.
MONOPLY WHALES
COLOMBO, Ceylon, Feb., 2, (£>)
—Under a contract signed with
the Ceylon government, Norway
acquires virtual monoply of the
whaling industry off Ceylon.