VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 130. SEWARD, ALASKA. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 1929. PRICE TEN CENTS
PATIENTS ESCAPE
HOSPITAL FIRE:
OUIZ IDEM
QUANTITY OF X-RAY FILMS
FOUND CARELESSLY STORED
IN BASEMENT
CHICAGO, June 4. -(/P) —The
General Hospital was swept by
fire but the 17 patients, several
doctors and nurses escaped unhurt.
Some were carried down ladders
while others were taken from the
smoke filled rooms by a pass
erby.
The fire did a $25,000 damage
and started in the laundry. The
authorities have started an in
vestigation for a quantity of the
X-ray films that were stored in
the basement in a careless man
ner.
With the Cleveland disaster in
mind an effort will be made to
fix the blame for the way the
films were handled. Dr. Edward
Meyer, house physician, said a
man offered to buy the films last
week and that they were taken
from the various vaults in the
building and placed in the base
ment until he called
SYDNEY, Australia. June 4, (/Pi
After being lost for eight days when
forced to make a landing during
the last lap of a flight from Eng
land to Australia, Lieut. J. Moir of
the Australian Air Force and Flying
Officer H. Owens were found alive
and well on Arnsen Land in north
ern Australia.
The two were last seen passing
over Plupan Island May 18th on
their way to Port Darwin from
Pima in the Dutch East Indies. It
had been their intention to make a
non-stop flight of it but an acci
dent compelled them to descend.
It was feared they had been killed.
PARKS REVISITS CALIFORNIA
AFTER AN ABSENCE OF 25
YEARS
SAN FRANCISCO, June 5, (/Pi
Goverr.or George A. Parks delighted
his friends by recounting his ex
periences in the Far North after an
absence from California of 25 years.
Since his arrival last night the
Governor has been telling of the
progress Alaska has made in avia
tion; “We have at present 60 land
ing fields and are spending 30 per
cent of our road appropriation for
the development of airport facili
ties.”
Governor Parks will remain here
until June 10 for the graduation of
his niece at Mills College and ex
pects to visit Lcr Angeles before rc -
turning North.
SAILS FOR SEWARD
SEATTLE, June 5. (/P)—1The S. S.
Northwestern of the A. S. S. Co.,
sailed for Seward at 9 p- m. Tues
day and carried 95 passengers and
12 steerage.
HUNDREDS LOST AT SEA
JAPANESE STESMER
LONDON, June 5, (/P)—A Lloyd's
i message from Yokohoma said the
|Japanese steamer Ugo Maru is a
total loss from fire and the crew
and passengers are believed to have
drowned.
The fire started May 28 off the
Kamchatka coast. Other dispatches
reported the ship was ablaze with
700 Russian passengers, 380 of them
women; 43 were crew members.
TUSK OUTBURST
ORGY ON MARKET
CRITICS DECLARE , DEALINGS
HAVE ATTRACTED EXCESS
AMOUNT CAPITAL
WASHINGTON, June 5. (/P)—A
general outburst against “ an orgy
of speculation” in the stock mar
ket occurred and the senate feder
al reserve board, President Hoover,
Calvin Coolidge and various gov
ernment officials were singled out
.for condemnation.
| Investigations of the tax market
speculations, raising of the dis
count rate and amendments to
. \ fedori) <. resr ^ act were ad
vanced as a means of checking
the flow of billions of dollars thru
the market.
Critics declared the dealings had
attracted an excessive amount of
capital at the expense of legiti
mate business.
CONFIDENCE MSN
BLAMES PARENTS
CAREER OF CRIME
SHANGHAI, June 5, (A5)—Brand
son Louis Trent became a confi
dence man he said after starting to
serve his sentence from one to 10
j years in prison, was to avoid mar
riage to the girl his parents back in
Camden, N. J., had picked out for
him.
j His parents are wealthy residents
of Camden, he said. “They had
arranged a marriage for me with a
girl I did not like so I left. I knew
if I got into trouble with the police
the marriage would be off. That’s
one reason I entered the racket.”
Passing worthless checks was
Trent’s trouble.
ADgiTIONAL DETAILS
ON STOCK IMIHKET
ORGY, WASHINGTON
WASHINGTON, June 5, (A5)—A!
general outburst against the orgy
of speculation in the stock markets
occurred in the senate with the
many critics prescribing almost as
many different remedies for the
situation as the Federal Reserve!
Board was singled out especially
for attacks.
President Hoover, Calvin Coolidge
and various government officials
also came in for condemnation.
Senator Glass threatened to intro
duce a bill that would call for a tax 1
on all stocks held for a period of
less than 60 days. j
IFROM SEWARO TO
NEW YORK, SMALL
CRAFT. PINED
DARING YOUNG GERMAN WILL
RISK LIFE IN SMALL BOAT
LONG CRUISE
Over in the shops of the C.
M. B., lumber concern can be
seen a strange appearing and ex
tremely small craft and thereby
I hangs a tale which, to the ven
turesome, will start a little tingle
| down their spinal column.
From Seward, Alaska to New
York City in a 16-foot (collapsible)
Klepper boat, is the astonishing
feat which Albert Voight of Los
Angeles, formerly of Hartenstein,
Saxeny. Germany, anticipates ac
complishing. And he starts from
the Port of Seward tomorrow.
To hear Mr.. Voight talk about
his projected voyage one is struck
with his utter lack of the difficul
tities confronting him and total
absence of fear. To him, this is
to be a pleasure trip; a dream en
visioned since a boy!
Mr- Voight arrived today from
the south a passenger on the S.
S. Admiral Watson; his craft
he carried with him, knocked
down. This afternoon he is busy
unfolding the contraption and
stepping a small mast. As re
gards to food this will comprise
mostly of canned stuff; about six
gallons cf fresh water will be
placed in several cans about the
small interior. Without any dun
nage the boat weighs about 60
pounds and was made in Ger
many being of the same type as
that used by a German last year
who safely crossed the Atlantic
from Germany only to lose his
life when he became tangled up
in a hurricane off Porto Rico.
From Seward the daring ad
venturer will set a course for
Cordova, thence hug the shore
line down the coast to Southeast
ern Alaska and so on down to
Port Graham, near Vancouver, B.
C., then shooting out onto the
broad expanse of the mighty Pa
cific ocean.
A couple of stops are planned
enroute to the Golden Gate,
then on down the California coast
to Mexico, Central America, thru
the Panama Canal to the East
Coast and up to New York by
short easy runs. Regarding the j
material from which the craft is!
made it is interesting to note wal- j
rus skin and canvas are the two'
substances which must carry the i
stout-hearted Voight to his far
away goal which, he said, would
be reached in about five months.
By at least six months, he stated,
Alaskans can figure he will be on
the famous “White Way” and no
place but!
In any case the best wishes of
Alaskans will go with him hoping
he will realize his ambition.
Newspapers along the route will
telegraph his arrivals and depart
ures in case he is marooned at
any place along the coast.
Goodbye and good-luck.
EVANS SAILS NORTH
SEATTLE, June 5. (/P)—The Ad
miral Evans of the P- S. S. Co.,
sailed at 10 a. m. today and car
ried 59 passengers and 48 steer
age; 11 passengers are for Seward
and none for Fairbanks. The pas
sengers are: G. M. Scammon, Miss
A. Peterson, Miss Alice Moreland,!
M. Kimura, Mrs. S. B- Baur, C.
Young, Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Jewett,
Walter Blue and J. I. McCrea
NAPLES, June 5. (A5)—Lava from
Vesuvius inverted the hamlet of
Pagani destroying 40 dwellings.
;The fiery torrent was 23 feet high i
!and proceeded at the rate of \
nearly 500 feet hourly.
A slight change in its course >
| aroused the hopes of the rich
agricultural ssection around Ter
zigno, supporting 7,000 people, that
it might be saved.
RANK OUTSIDER
CAPTURES DERBY
m huge m
MILLIONS CHANGE HANDS AS
A 33 TO 1 SHOT ROMPS
ACROSS THE TAPE
EPSOMDOWNS, Eng. June 5. (/P) I
—Trigo, owned by W. Barnett, an
outsider at 33 to 1, ran away from j
a picked field of 25 rivals to win
the 149th running of the English
Derby. Millions changed hands
as a result of the betting. It is
fztimated that this amount will
reach $100,000,000
Waiter Gay was second and Tir- I
ienz third. I
G. L. Brillian, 26 year old cloth- <’
ier won the second prize in the j
Calcutta sweepstakes estimated to
be about $337,000. The first prize I
winner is reported to be an ob- |
scure resident of Oudtshoorn, near
Cape Town, South Africa, who is
unidentified.
PRISONER 111
ON STREET MAKES !
SOLO DISCOffli
PRESCOTT, Ariz., June 5, (/P)—
Robert Brown went to jail because
he could not pay a $10 fine but fol
lowing his discovery of gold he
cleared the account and had
enough left over to buy a pick and
led a rush into Granite creek.
Brown discovered gold in a paved
ctreet. He and several other pris
oners were working their sentences
by placing traffic buttons on a
newly paved thoroughfare. Brown
dug out two nuggets. Police said ,
the gold had come from Granite
creek where the sand used in the
concrete road surface had been ob
tained.
II GANGSTERS IRE j
FOUND SHOT DEATH
IN BLOODY CHICAGO.
CHICAGO, June 5, (JP)—Two j
gangsters were found shot to death J
in widely separated parts of the
city while a gambler was reported 1
kidnaoped for $20,000 ransom. 1
One of the slain men was Thom- 1
as McElligott who fought a losing *
pistol duel in a downtown cafe '
where the police found him with a
bullet thru his heart. The other
slain man was found face down in
a field near Hinsdale, a suburb. He f
had been shot several times in the (
back. The bullets had been fired i
at such close range that his shirt if
had been burned and his neck was(s
ourple with powder. 'c
AGREEMENT WILL BE SIGNED
LATER IN THE WEEK; BEL
GIUM, GERMANY
PARIS, June 5, (JP)—The last bar
rier and complete agreement by the
experts of the committee on rep
arations and a question removed
from the long outstanding problem
of Europ’s post-war life, was offi
cially settled when the Belgians ac
cepted the proposals of Dr. Schacht
for the solution of the redemption
of German marks left in Belgium
after the war.
The agreement is expected to be
signed later in the week. The agree
ment reduces Germany’s repara
tion debt from $33,000,000,000 to
$9,000,000,000 and eventually will
give France between $1,600,000,000
and $2,000,000,000, the remainder
going to other nations.
Payments will be made under the
Young annuity plan instead of the
Dawes’ plan and payment will be
made over a period of 37 years.
NEW YORK, June 4, <7P)—Charg
ing that Eugene O’Neill, playwright,
stole the plot of “Strange Inter
lude” from a privately printed
novel of her own entitled “The
Temple of Pallas Athenae”, Miss
Georgia Lewys of New York filed
suit against him in the United
States District court for $1,125,000.
She also brought an injunction
and asked for an accounting from
Theatre Guild, which produced the
play, and book publishers who pub
lished the play, are also named in'
the suit.
Mine thi is
RAZED FOREST FIRE
PEOPLE DESTITUTE
rHOUSAND PEOPLE HOMELESS;
GOVERNMENT ASSISTANCE
IS ASKED
THE PAS, Manitoba, June 5, (SP)
-Cranberry Portage is half in
•uins razed by a forest fire and the
•emainder of the mining town ts
breatened by backfiring ana a
arge portion of the 1,000 inhabi
tants are likely to be left destitute.
Northern Manitoba commission
jrs asked for government assist
ance as the loss is expected to run
nto hundreds of thousands of dol
ars.
No deaths have been reported
tnd all inhabitants are thought to
lave escaped injury. No one car
ied insurance. Scores are wander -
ng about in the ruins of the homes
earching for trinkets and money.
REFUSE TO BEAR ARMS
WASHINGTON, June 4, (/P)—The
upreme court upheld the federal
listrict court of Chicago in deny
ng citizenship to Madame Rosika
Jchwimmer, noted pacifist because
he refused to bear arms in defense
»f the government.