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MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 43
SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, February 20, 1929.
PRICE TEN CENTS
ICLQO SESSION AT
CORDOVA UNDERWAY
TAKE UP PROBLEMS
NINE DELEGATES ARE IN AT
TENDANCE AT CORDOVA
CONVENTION
CORDOVA, Feb., 20, (£’)—With
the arrival of nine delegates from
all parts of Alaska’s half-million
square miles, the Grand Igloo Con
vention of the Pioneers of Alaska
was called to order here by Capt.
Erik Forss, Ketchikan grand pres
ident.
The problems confronting the
delegates include a finish fight on
the proposal to do away with the
pension fund which enables aged
pioneers of Alaska to live inde
pendently from aid not exceeding
$25 monthly from the Territory,
and to force those in need, to live
in the institutions provided.
The delegates will also fight for
the establishment of a Pioneer's
home at Anchorage.
Among the delegates here are
J. W. Dunn Senator from Ruby;
Representative McCutcheon from
Anchorage; Cal M. Brosius from
Seward, and Representative Roth
enburg of Fairbanks.
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BORAII DECLARES HE WILL NOT
BECOME A MEMBER OF
THE CABINET
WASHINGTON, Feb., 20, (/PI—
President-elect Hoover returned to
Washington yesterday from his
vacation in Florida with the in
tention of holding an early confer
ence with President Coolidge from
whom he takes over the reigns of
government March 4.
Senator Borah of Idaho got
back into Cabinet discussions in
connection with the Attorney
Generalship but his friends de
clare Borah says he will not be
come a member of the Cabinet
prefering to remain chairman of
the foreign relations committee.
RECOMMENDS MORE
MILLIONS BE GIVEN
• DRY ENFORCEMENT
WASHINGTON, Feb., 20, </P)—
President Coolidge has drawn up
for submission to Congress a sup
plemental budget estimate rec
ommending an additional $2,427,
000 be appropriated for prohibi
tion enforcement for the fiscal
year ending June 30, 1930.
THOUGHT FOR TODAY
NORTH WEYMOUTH, Mass.,
Fc-b.. ?0, (/P)—A clam distributer
here finds no trouble in getting
f -ustomers to remember his name.
His business sign reads: “Dam Ih
Clam Man.”
NOMINATED POSTMASTER
WASHINGTON, Feb., 20, (JP)—
I William Arthur of Nome was nom
inated postmaster for Nome by
I President Coolidge.
FIRE ON TRAIN
TRAIN STALLED BY A SHORT
CIRCUIT IN A CAR CAUSE
OF ACCIDENT
NEW YORK, Feb., 20, (A5)—Fifty
persons were injured, four men
and two women seriously, and 200
passengers affected by smoke and
fumes last night when fire broke
out in the first car, New Jersey
bound, of a seven-car Hudson
tube train.
The fire broke out when the train
was 1,000 feet west of the Man
hattan station.
The panic stricken passengers
trampled over one another in their
wild attempt to leave the stalled
train. A short circuit in the car
was said to be the cause of the ac
cident.
RICHMOND. Ind., Feb.. 20. (/Pi—
Itrlhpm College has lifted its 30
; ?ar ban on secret Greek letter
icieties, but only to the extent of
remitting honor fraternities to
ve cn the campus. Social frater
1 ities -till are outside the pale.
ANONYMOUS LETTEH AKES HOW
HE WOULD LIKE TO “KICK
THE BUCKET”
CHICAGO, Feb., 20, (A>)—Cor
oner Herman Bundesen revealed
that his life has been threatened
twice during the past three days
to which he attributed to his ac
tivity in investigating the St. Val
entine's Day massacre of seven
gangmen.
Bundesen said he also received
an anonymous telephone call in
which he was told “You will be the
next to die if you don’t watch out.”
He said he received an anony
mous letter asking him "How he
would like to kick the bucket."
SUBMARINE UNDERGOES
BRIEF REPAIRS HOLDS
UP FORTHF.fi IFSTS
KEY WEST, Fla., Feb., 19, (/P)—
The submarine S-4 which has ar
rived here to repair a leaky per
iscope, halted the safety,, tests be
ing conducted by the under-sea
craft near Smith Shoals.
After escaping from the sub
marine at depths of 40 and 75
feet, officers announce that with
the new oxygen masks they will
try from a depth of 120 feet, next.
STATEMENT IS DENIED
LONDON, Feb., 20, (/P)—Replying
to a question Sit Chamberlain in
formed the House of Commons
that the government has no in
tention of issuing invitations to a
new conference on naval disarm
ament.
JONES MEASURE
IS APPROVED BY
SENATE MEMBERS
DRASTIC MEASURE GOES TO
THE HOUSE FOR FINAL
APPROVAL
WASHINGTON, Feb., 20, (/P>—
By a vote of 65 to 18 the Senate
approved of the measure of Jones
of Washington after several days
of debate including the clash be
tween Reed and Borah.
The bill makes first offenders,
as well as old violators of the pro
hibition law, liable to the max
imum penalty of a $10,000 fine or
five years in prison or both.
The measure now goes to the
House for approval or rejection.
DECISION NOT YET
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WASHINGTON. Feb., 20, (/P)—
President Coolidge has not yet ar
rived at a decision as to his occu
pation after his retirement from
office although he has been ap
proached by several persons with
proposals that he write syndicated
articles for newspapers.
GERMANS PREPARE INAUGURATE TRANS ATLANTIC AIR LINE IN MAY
Three giant flying boats of the Rohrbach “Romar” type (above) are be
ing completed in Germany for use on a regular trans-Atlantic passenger
route between Berlin and Buenos Aires to be inaugurated in May. Dr. Otto
Merkel (inset), director of the German Lufthansa, is laying plans for the
route. The dotted line on the map (below) shows the proposed route of the
first round-trip plane which will visit New York after reaching Buenos Aires
' WKECK ATTRIBUTED TO BRO
KEN FISH PLATE, BY OF
FICIALS OF ROAD
PEORIA, 111., Feb., 20, (£>)—. At
least five men are known to have
been kihed and a dozen others so
seriously injured that they may
die when four coaches of an 11 car
train of the Peoria Terminal Rail
way, overturned and caught fire
near Hollis, 10 miles south of here.
The train was carrying 1,200
i miners to the Crescent Coal mines,
115 miles south of here, and about
200 or 250 miners were in the four
I overturned coaches.
Rail and mine officials attribute
| the wreck to a broken “Fish-plate,”
j an iron bar joining the ends of
j two rails.
| Three of the dead were identi
fied as Cecil Walker, official of the
Miner’s Union; George Jones and
George Wisinson, all of Peoria.
Ambulances, doctors and nurses
were sent to the scene and the
worst injured were brbught here in
: automobiles by persons living near
the scene of the accident.
LIBERTY WAS SHORT LIVED;
OTHER TWO CAPTURE IS
NEARING
COLUMBUS, G„ Feb., 20, (/P)—
Three of the five convicts who es
' caped yesterday from the pen
intentiary, have been captured and
returned to solitary confinement.
Pat McDermott, gunman and
alleged slayer of Don Mellet, pub
lsher, and Mike Jacko, who mur
dured a Cleveland butcher, were
cornered in a power house tower
five-miles away and captured by
officers.
Joe Russo, Cleveland robber, was
taken a few hours later at a farm.
The other two men are expected
to be captured shortly.
BELFAST .Ireland, Feb., 19. (JP)
—Eamon de Valeria, the noted
Irish republican leader, was sen
tenced to one months imprison
ment for attempting to enter
northern Ireland in contradiction
of an order of seven years stand
ing. De Valeria was declared as
really trying to flount the law.
LIKES WOMEN’S CLOTHES
NEW LONDON. Conn., Feb., 20,
</P)—John McRobert.s, “Swamp
Hermit”, apparently found women’s
clothing better and more plentiful
in the city dump than men’s. When
taken to the county home he wore
silk stockings, bloomers, slip and
corset cover found on the dump.
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