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VOLUME XXII. NUMBER 171. SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 13, 1927
PRICE TEN CENTS
Fishing In Southern
District 0i Alaska
Closed By O’Malley
f, LACK OF SEED FOR SPAWNING GROUNDS IS REA
f SON FOR IMMEDIATE CLOSING; TWENTY
CANNERIES IN AREA EFFECTED—SPECIAL
ORDER INCLUDES THE WEST COAST OF
PRINCE OF WALES ISLAND —GEAR TAKES
HEAVY TOLL AS COMPARED TO LAST YEAR,
COMMISSIONER STATES.
KETCHIKAN, Aug, 13. (/P)—An order, closing the fish
ing season at six o'clock tonight in the Southern district
of Alaska was cabled the resident agent of the Bureau of
fisheries from Juneau by Commissioner Henry O'Malley.
He declared any run coming now cannot any more than
adequately supply seed for the spawning grounds and
the gear to date has taken such a heavy toll of fish that
very few have reached the spawning beds. The season,
ordinarily, does not close until August 18. There are 20
canneries in the closed district and these had 102,000
cases packed on August 6th compared with 679,000 last
year on the same date. The special order includes the
wrest coast of Prince of Wales Island.
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EAPT, I. V. ROGERS. |
WAR ACE. CRASHES.
KILLED, TEST HOP
ONE OF THE CONTESTANTS IN
THE DOLE-HAWAII TRANS
PACIFIC FLIGHT
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 13. (/P)—'
Death, instead of Hawaii flight fame
and fortune, was the gift to Capt. A.
V. Rogers, of the plane Angel of Los
Angeles, when he crashed with a 35
year old British War Ace seven minut
es after taking off on the first test
flight. The victim’s wife, with her
eight months old daughter in her
arms, witnessed the crash and immed
iately started running towards the
scene two miles away. An automo
bile took her to the plane where she
found her husband’s mangled body
with practically every bone broken.
Rogers, is the third Dole flier to meet
death. He is credited with a war;
record of dropping 35 German (planes.
SACGO STILL REFUSES
eit. not mm
!_
BOSTON, Aug. 13. (fi>)—The hunger
strike of Sacco remained unbroken
when the breakfast tray was removed
from his cell. Vanzetti. strengthened
and prepared by liquid foods taken
after his fast, ate two frankfurters,
bread and mild coffee and suffered
none of the ill effects felt previously
when he suddenly broke his fast.
HORNS UNDER INVESTIGATION
PARIS, Aug. 13. (IP)—The bedlam
of honking horns on taxis and motor
vehicles, the visitor’s first impres
sion of Paris, is to be diminished.
Paris is to toot in one tone and toot
less o sn if the investigaton of the
Vrei 1 t ard of inquiry into traffic
p.ot ts comes to anything.
GOV GEORGE A PAIS
RETURNS FROM INTERIOR
Completing his tour of this district
of the Territory. Gov. George A.
Parks, returned to Seward yesterday
en route to the Capitol city. The
recent trip was purely routine, it is
stated. During his visit in the In
terior he conferred with J. F.
Gartland. representing Secretary
Work, of the Interior Department,
Noel W. Smith, general manager,
Alaska Railroad, and with J. R. Um
mel, of the Seattle office of the Bu
reau of Education and the Alaska
Railroad.
At noon today Governor Parks was
the guest of honor at a Chamber of
Commerce luncheon at the Seward
Grill. Other affairs for him, during
his brief stay in the city, have been
planned.
Governor Parks is registered at
the Sexton hotel.
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BUDGET DIRECTOR LORD
INCLUDES ESTIMATES
SIX NIVAL CRUISERS
RAPID CITY, Aug. 13. (#>)—-Gen
eral Lord, budget director, declared;
sufficient funds for the first year’s
work on all navy craft, including the |
six cruisers, Congress authorized last
winter, will be included in next year’s i
estimates.
TO SWIM 25 MIEES ON
HER C/TH BIRTHDAY
SANTA MONICA, Cal., Aug. 13.(£>)
—Mrs. Anna E. Van Skike, 66, who1
took np swimming 10 years ago and
marathoned her way from sickness to
health, beleives she is just reaching
her prime as a swimmer.
To prove it, she has decided to cele
brate her 67th birthday with a 25.mile
sea jaunt.
S. S. YUKON LEAVES
ALASKA STEAMSHIP COMPANY
LINER HAS RETURNING ALAS
KANS ON BOARD
SEATTLE, Aug. 13, (£>)—'The S. S.
Yukon, of the A. S. S. Co., sailed from
Seattle at 9 o’clock this morning car
rying 125 passengers. Reservations
for Seward included: E. C. Coats, P.
A Cole, Mrs. W. L. Gassam, Miss M.
Schwerkert, Miss D.' Lantry, Myrtle
Fordtan, Miss A. Smith, Mrs. F. J.
Spack and son, J. T. Swan, Mr. and
Mrs. Geo. Sommers, jMrs. O. Geehel,
Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Hemrick, G. Beck
worth, S. Boyle, C. L Patriquin, Mr.
and Mrs. M. S. Gilbert, Miss R. Clark,
Mr. and Mrs. J. Meyer, son and daugh
ter, C. Jones, F. D. Lihn, Edw Keogh,
Mrs. F. Hawos, Rev. Warren, Mr. and
Mrs. A. N. Ferris, Mrs. M. Banbury,
S. E. Finch, Mrs. L. m. Platzman, C.
R. Brooks, Rev Manager, and one
steerage.
HUNDRED MILLIONS
LOST OUETO DROP
MANY ISSUES CRASH; HOLDERS
OF SHAKY STOCKS STAM
PEDE; FULLER CO. FAILS
NEW YORK, Aug. 13. (^—Follow
ing a 60 point drop in the stock of the
Manhattan Electrical Supply on Thurs
day and failure of the A. L. Fuller &
Co, a stock exchange firm, on Friday,
began selling orders which w'ere
hurricaned through the stock market
blowing down a dozen flimsy specu
lative structures which pool operat
ors laboriously erected. Prices on
many issues crashed from five to 25
points wiping out hundreds of mil
lions of dollars in “values as holders
of shaky stock stampeded."
PILOTS MARK TIME
WAITING WEATHER
ON ATLANTIC HOP
UNFAVORABLE CONDITIONS HALT
PROSPECTS EARLY TAKE.OFF
FROM EUROPE
PARIS, Aug. 13. (/P)—Prospects are
not brilliant for trans-Atlantic fliers
for wrhile there is some hope French
fliers migljt take off Sunday the idea
is not encouraged by the wreather man,
SAME REPORT IN ENGLAND
CALSHOT, England, Aug. 13. (£>)—
With unfavorable wreather over the
Atlantic, Courtney said he had nc
idea when he might get away for the
trans-Atlantic hop.
NO ATTEMPT TODAY
DESSAU, Germany, Aug. 13. (/P)
The Junker’s trans-Atlantic planes
Europa and Breman, will make no at
tempt to start today owing to adverse
weather over the Atlantic.
SOUTH! F B WILLIS
IS EXPECTED TO ARRIVE
United States Senator Frank B. Wil
lis of Ohio is expected on the Aleu
tian this evening. Dispatches from
Seattle 10 days ago announced his in
tention of sailing the 6th of August
for a tour of Alaska, the date of the
Aleutian’s departure No word has
since been given the press indicating
whether he did sail, or w’hether he
stopped off enroute. But friends of
the Senator are expecting him this
evening, and reservations have been
made for him at the Van Gilder.
In an interview carried in the As
sociated Press two weeks ago Senator
"Willis announced that his trip to Alas
ka would be made at his own expense
and solely to inform himself as to con
ditions in the Territory.
During the past two years Senator
Willis has frequently expressed a de
sire to visit Alaska and, in his capaci
ty of chairman of the Senate commit
tee, on Territories, has taken an act_
ive interest in Alaskan matters. He
is also particularly interested in the
industrial development now taking
place and the opportunities and addi
tional development of resources now
! dormant.
BASEBALL SCORES
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Philadelphia 6, Boston 12.
Brooklyn 6, New York 7 10 innings.
Pittsburgh 1, St. Louis 2.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Boston 1, Philadelphia 7.
St. Louis 3, Detroit 7.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Oakland 1, Collywood 9
Los Angeles 4. Portland 9.
Sacramento 1, Missions 4.
San Francisco 1-4, Seattle nothing-9.
The second game went seven in_
nings by previous agreement.
WILL INSPECT NEW ALASKAN
SULPHUR DISCOVERIES; MAY
DEVELOP
SAN PEDRO, Aug. 13# (£>)—'The
possibility of opening a new sulphur
trade is seen in the departure of the
Union Sulphur Company's steamer,
Henry D. Whiton, for Alaska, with a
group of company officials aboard.
They will inspect the new sulphur dis
coveries in Alaska with the view of
developing them and provide sulphur
for southern California refineries.
REVOLVER BUTTLE FIILS
DISTURB PRISON STENOG
BALTIMORE, Aug., 13. (£>)— Being
caught in the cross fire of pistols
during an attempted escape of two
prisoners from the Maryland penit
entiary was nothing to Mary E. Sul
‘ livan, prison telephone operator.
1 Miss Sullivan said that the exper
■ ienc was no more exciting than being
i caught between a barrage of an
gry voices at the switchboard.
INCAS Oil 1H PATH
III BOLIVIA WIPING
ARMED WITH CLUBS AND SLING
SHOTS ARE SLAYING WHITES,
BURNING HOUSES
LAPAZ, Bolivia, Aug. 13. (£>)—Arm.
ed with clubs and sling-shot3, 80,000
descendants of the ancient Incas, are
on the war path in the districts of
Potosi, Cochabama and Sucre. They
are slaying whites, burnnig farm
houses and endeavoring to destroy
every vintjage of the white man^s
civilization. The rebels are no match
for the troops who are being rushed
from concentration points so the
movement is expected to be stamped
out although not before many lives
have been sacrificed. Women, with
babies slung upon their backs, follow
the red blanketed warriors onto the
path of destruction.
RADIO MESSAGES FROM YACHT
NORTHERN LIGHT ANNOUNC
ES SAFE ARRIVAL
EVERETT, Aug. 13. (&)—'The yacht
Northern Light, bearing John Borden,
Chicago millionaire and the Field
Museum Expedition through the Arc
tic on a scientific expedition, arrived
at Wrangell Island, according to a
radio message received from the
| party The expedition reported the
' island has been inhabited by a Rus
sian settlement which erected five
large and several small houses near
Rogers Bay.
SENSATIONAL RISE
WASHINGTON, Aug. 13.(£>>—Right
[from college to the American league
without a bit of “seasoning” is the
distinction Bobby Reeves,sensational
young shortstop of the Washington
Senators has chalked up for himself.
BOTTLE FOB LIFE
OWOSSO, Aug. 13. (/P)— Fighting
seemingly a losing battle to save the
life of James Oliver Curwood, noted
author, physicians admitted there was
little hope of recovery and expressed
the belief the author will not live 24
hours. Curwood is suffering from an
infection and has been seriously ill
for several days.
SKATES ALL SUMMER
CHICAGO, Aug., 13. (£>)—The sun
may beam with a 97-degree fury,
but Bobby McLean goes on ice skat
ing just the same. While others sip
cooling drinks and complain of the
heat, M L* an.wood’s champion ice
skater, tali s an almost daily skim
over artificial u*.