MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXIII. NUMBER 33.
SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1928
PRICE TEN CENTS
LARGE NEW ALASKA
INDUSTRY LAUNCHED
ON DALL ISLAND
STEAMBOAT LOADED WITH MEN
AND MATERIAL SET SAIL
FOR ALASKA
SEATTLE, Feb. 9. (£>)—Carrying
69 workmen, construction materiel, j
end machinery for quarrying lime.;
rock on Dali Island, near Ketchikan,
•for the $2,500,000 plant of the Paci
fic Coast Cement company, the S. S.
Manama sailed yesterday.
The vessel is loaded with piling
timber necessary for the construc
tion of loading facilities and with
power shovels, diesel engines to in
av.gurr.te quarrying operations.
The steamship is under the com
mand of Captain Chas. L. McGregor.
He will remain at the island for two
and one-half months to furnish
housing for the workmen while they
found permanent quarters. Engineers
have been engaged to survey prelim
inary developments cn the island.
Approximately $350,000 worth of
machinery have been ordered and
lie: first shipment will leave Seattle
in May or Jun.
WAV Y LIEUTENANT AND RADIO
MAN CRASH TO DEATHS
ALTITUDE 1,000 FEET
tSAX DIEGO, Cal., Feb. 9, </P)—
Lieutenant Fitzhugh Rhea and Leo
Lonnergan, radioman, first class, at
1 Ached to the observation detach
ment aboard the scout cruiser Oma
ha, were killed late yesterday after
noon when the plane in which they
were spotting torpedoes, crashed in
to the ocean at an altitude of 1,000
feet '
The accident occured 35 miles west
of Point Loma. The place was engag
ed in battle torpedo practice.
MAJOR GENERAL JADWIN
TURNS IN UNFAVORABLE
REPORT PORTAGE BAY
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9. (£*)—Major
General Jadwin, of the Army Engin
eers, made >an unfavorable reporr to
Congress on the projected improve
ment at Portage Bay, Alaska, or to
adjacent bays, with the view of pro
viding practicable'harbors for acces
sibility to the Cold Bay oil fields.
Hid PULP WILL
ASSIST PAPER INDUSTRY
NEW YORK, Feb. 8. </P)~It is
claimed that receat findings of the
Australian Council for Scientific and
Industrial Research concerning the
production of mechanical pulp in the
manufacture of newsprint will assist
materially in establishing newsprint
and sulphite cellulose industries in
that country.
INDIANA SENATOR MAKES THF
THIRD REPUBLICAN AFTER
THE PRESIDENCY
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9, (£>)—Sen
ator James E. Watson of Indiana
has decided to become an active can.
didate for the Republican Presidental
nomination.
His decision became known in an
announcement made by Burt Thur
man, of Indianapolis, as Watson’s
campaign manager. Senator Watson
| is the ''third Republican Senator to
;t: row his hat in the ring. The other.
| a e Curtis and Willis
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9. (/P)—Tbe
French aviators Lebrix and Costes
who reached Washington yesterday
plan a trans-continental flight to San
Francisco after a flight to New York.
Lebrix said after their return to
France, possibly by way of the Pa
cific steamer routes, plans might be
laid for an East to West flight across
the North Atlantic.
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CALVALRY AND INFANTRY FORM i
LINES TO PROTECT HIM
FROM ADMIRERS
HAVANA, Feb. 9, (/P)—Colonel!
Chas. A. Lindbergh, holding h.is fam
ed plane “Spirit of St. Louis’’ true J
to it’s course and on schedule time,
landed to.receive the plaudits of Cu
ba and representative from many
lands whom he had already visited.
The crowds, in which were numer-j
o”.s dlguataries to the Pan Amer-j
lean Congress, had awaited his arri-!
val and were excited almost beyond:
restraint, as the American aviator
performed a few stunts within their
view before swooping gracefully f3
earth.
Calvalrymen and infantry, with'
drawn sabers and bayonettes, quick
ly formed fresh lines, however, to
gin vd the hero from the enthusiasm
of his thousands of admirers.
SHELDON CLARK IS
FREED CRIMINAL
CONTEMPT CHARGE
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9. (£>)—Shel
don Clark, wealthy Chicago oil man
and sportsman, was freed of criminal
contempt charges entered against
him when the Fall-Sinclair case end
ed in a''mistrial.
Clark, a vice-president of the Sin
clair Refining Co., was included in
the proceedings instituted against
Sinclair by Burns and four others be
! cause he had received reports from
detectives who shadowed a member
of the jury, Henry Mason Day, and
hired detectives on instructions from
Sinclair. Clark was mentioned not
lesss than 12 times in the testimony
| during the contempt hearing.
FORD’S NEWEST MODEL AIRPLANE
DETROIT, Mich.,—A single-seater Ford monoplane which made its
appearance for the first time when it was shown at the Ford Airport,
near Detroit, at the start of the Reliability Tour.
NOBILE PURCHASING ;
CLOTHING FOR FLIGHT1
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COPENHAGEN, Feb. 9. (/P)—Um
berto Nobile, who is planning another
North Pole Air Expedition, arrived
from Oslo to buy furs and clothes for
the expedition which is expected to
leave Rome sometime in April for
headquarters in Spitzenbergen.
RIGHT BECK RETAIN i
SEAT IS UPHELD BY
HOUSE ELECTIONS
ELIGIBILITY CHALLENGED BY
REPRESENTATIVE GARRETT
DEMO LEADER
WASHINGTON, Feb 9. *(£>)—The
right of James M. Beck to retain bis
seat as the Republican Representa;
live from Pennsylvania was upheldj
by the House Elections Committee |
by a vote of six to three.
Beck’s eligibility was challenged
by Representative Garrett, Democrat
ic Floor Reader, on the ground the
former Solictor General of the Unit
ed States, was not a legal resident
o; Philadelphia. The House must still
pass on the question.
PLANE IS OKEH
HAVANA, Feb. 9. (/P)—Colonel
Chas. A. Lindbergh said “no special
overhauling will be necessary” for
the flight to St. Louis on Monday.
HUGE PLANE CARRIED THEM
ACROSS SOUTH ATLANTIC
FROM PARIS
WASHINGTON,Feb. 9, (/P)—Just
| as the sun broke through an over
cast sky that had caused some con
| eern for their safety, .the French
aviators Costes and Lebrix, swooped
down upon Bolling Field on the huge
plane which had carried them from
Paris, across the South Atlantic, and
over South America to Mexico and
the United States
Up until a late hour thos after
terroon no word had been heard
j from the S. S. Alaska, of the A. S.
S. Co , as to her arrival in po^t
from the South.
The freighter Denali, of the Alesh
ka Steamship company, sails from
Seattle for Seward and way ports on
February 15, next Wednesday.
DELEGATE'S FRIEND
FIS IN EFFORT
CUT OFF FUNDS
AMENDMENT TO CUT OFF. RAIL
ROAD ITEMS ARE DEFEATED
BILLS REMAIN INTACT
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9, (/P)—Re
considering the Department of the
Interior supply bill the Senate re
jected the amendment by Senate**
Howell, Republican from Nebraska, to
eliminate funds for maintenance of a
branch of the Alaska Railroad north
of Fairbanks.
SHADES OF SUTHERLAND
Another amendment made by Sen
ator Howell was to strike out the
funds for the Alaska Railroad be
tween Seward and Anchorage. The
amendment was defeated and the bi’l
then repassed as before.
THE HARDEST WORKERS
/
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9. (^—En
gineers and pumpmen are given the
distinction 6f being the hardest work
ed employes in the bituminous min
inb industry, in a report recently
made public by the Bureau of Labor
Statistics, Department of Labor.
ASSOCIATIQNS PETITIONS THAT
STRICT DUTY EE IMPOSED
ALASKA SALMON
PRINCE RUPERT, B. C. Feb, 9,
(£»)—The proposals of the Dominion
Department of Fisheries regarding
reduction of fishing gear and the
closing of certain areas were rejected
unanimously by the Northern Brit
ish Columbia Fisherman’s Associa
i tion.
The convention petitioned the
government to impose a strict duty
on salmon from Alaska many of the
delegates declaring considerable lax
ity in this regard has been notice,
able.
The S. S. Starr, Captain Johansen,
will sail for the Westward on Tues
day.
The court party from Valdez are
looked for on the S. S. Alaska, due
in port Friday.
Frank Moore, local resident who
has been in the Seward General Hos
pital for a number of months, is
getting along very well. Friends, who
have visited him recently, say he
looks alot better.
Anchorage -vs- Seward Girls Tonight