MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXIII. NUMBER 185.
SEWARD, ALASKA TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1928. PRICE TEN GENTS
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BEFORE MEMBERS
THREE ALASKAN DEPATMENTS
UP BEFORE APPROPRIA
TION COMMITTEE
WASHINGTON, Dec.,*- 11, (JP)—
Encouragement over the future of
Alaska is reflected in the testimo
ny of Dr. George Otis Smith,
director of the Geological Survey
L and the Alaska Railroad’s Man
ager, Otto F. Ohlson, before the
House sub-committee on Inter
The needs for better educational
facilities for natives was stressed
by Lewis A. Kalbach, acting com
missioner of the Burean of Edu
cation. Referring to the possibili
ties of mineral development, in ad
dition to coal mines which are
producing more coal than Alas
kans can consume, Smith said
‘THERE id SO MUCH
unknown country there that I am
more of an optomist regarding the
future of Alaska than some who
visited Alaska from time to time.”
More than 200,000 square miles
have not been examined for min
eral resources,, he said, and de
clared that the Alaska Railroad
had added to the mineral develop
ment because of freight items
which had been a great drawback
to the development of Alaska
mines.
MANAGER OHLSON SAID
numerous food products could be
grown in Alaska and urged that
efforts be made to attract north
ern Europeans to settle in the Ter
ritory pointing out there were ac
comodations for 1,500 families in
the Tanana Valley.
He said the deficit of the line
this year amounted to $840,890 a
decline as compared with 1927 de
ficit of $900,174. The deficit for
next year, he said, the -deficit may
be less than $900,000.
DEVELOPMENT OF THE
reindeer industry south of the
Alaska range, is suggested by Ohl
son who said under present con
ditions reindeer on the northern
range had to be slaughtered seven
months before being exported from
ports, frozen in, in that area. The
railroad could ship the meat from
the southern ranges to southern
ports.
MORE THAN THIRTY
villages with school populations
of and from 15 to 50 children are
without schools while more than
500, who sought admission to in
dustrial schools, were turned down
because of insufficient accommo
dations, Kalbach testified.
He said that medical relief was
limited in Alaska there being but
few physicians, nurses or hospitals
and with many of the large vil
lages being without any person
having knowledge of medical
science.
EIGHTEEN CANNED
1X33 ANGL ES, Dec., 11, (£>)—Dis
missal of 1" A in from the city Dry
Squad whiclToperated under former
District Attorney Asa Keyes, was
announced by his successor Buron
Fitts.
WALL PAPFR LEAKED
NEW YORK, Dec., 11, (/P)—Cus
tom agent? who sensed something
decidedly wrong when they saw a
case of wall paper begin to leak
after it was dropped from a truck,
: >7cd 120 cases rf liquor valued ai
f -3,000 on a Red Star pier.
, LINDY IN “VIRGINY”
RICHMOND, Va.. Dec., 11, UP)- I
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, accom- :
panied by Harry r. Guggenheim ol j
jthe Guggenheim Foundation l'ai
promotion oi aeronautics, lauded :.r
the Richard E. Eyrd airport from
New Yor. He will hunt birds with
Gov. Harry F. Byro.
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SILVER WAVE TEN
DAYS OVERDUE HI
RALPH LOMEN BELIEVES BOAT
ANCHORED AT ISOLATED
SHELTER j
SEATTLE, Dec-, 11, (/P)—No '
word has been heard from the
Motorsbip Silver Wave with 12 [
men on board which sailed from
' Ketchikan for Seattle 10 days ago.
The Silver Wave left Ketchikan
on December 1 enroute from Nome
to Seattle. The liner Northwest
ern, which arrived yesterday, kept
a close watch for the vessel but
did not sight her. The Silver Wave
was carrying the Motorship Don
i aldson’s crew as passengers and
should have made the voyage from
Ketchikan to this city in 80 hours.
“Heavy southeast weather and ■
poor visibility is reported from
'Southeastern Alaska and I be
lieve the Silver Wave was forced
i to anchor in a shelter in some iso
lated cover,” said Ralph Lomen.
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FUNERAL TOMORROW
SEATTLE, Dec., 11, (/P)—Funeral
services will be held tomorrow tor
Mrs. Nellie Storey, pioneer oi Seat
tle and Alaska. Mrs. Storey and
her husband came to Seattle in
1886 going to Alaska m 1898 living
In Dawson and Nome.
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J y r r h e n ! a n < S e a
Mount Etna, dealing death and destruction from its smoking
crater (above), is a helper as well as a destroyer .The lava flow re
mains to fertilize Sicilian fields. The stragetic position of the great
volcano for purposes of wreaking destruction is shown by the map,
prepared by the National Geographic society.
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PRINCIPAL AUTHORIZED IN
VESTIGATION COLUMBIA
BASIN PROJECT
WASHINGTON, Dec., 11, (/P)—
Congress began another week to
] its three months session with the
Boulder Dam fight still on and the
end not in sight.
While the Senate struggled with
its own problem the House start
led another appropriation bill on
jits way calling lor $283,000,000 tor
| the Interior Department which
j supervises the care of Indians, re
clamation, irrigation, administra
tion of public lands and other
work.
Before reporting the Interior
bill the House approved the Greek
debt settlement from $175,000,000
to $155,000,000.
The Senate managed to squeeze
through several uncontested mea
sures before resuming the Boul
der Dam dispute. The principal
one authorized is the investiga
tion of the Columbia Basin irri
gation project.
BOOTH IMPROVING
LONDON, Dec., 11, t>P)—C n. W:1
liam Bramwell Bootli, head of the
Salvation Army, continues to make
■dow but steady improvement from
the serious illness from which ho
has suffered for weeks.
TWO EXPLOSIONS
NEW YORK, Dec., 11, (£>)—'Two
persons are known to be dead and
four believed burned in the ruins
six inipred and five rescued in two
explosions here.
ETNA’S LAVA FLOW REMAINS TO BETTER RUINED COUNTRYSIDE
THE PIANO OF THE FUTURE
NEW YORK CITIY. — The first
double banked piano has made its
appearance in this country. The
invention of Emanuel Moor, of
Switzerland, and introduced into
America by Chickering, is now on
exhibit at Ampico Hall. Prominent
musicians have called it the piano
of the future. It can do what no
other piano has ever done. What
one playsyy singly, the double
tiered keyboard with its pedals,
doubles the octaves. It is like two
men playing and will make pos-'
sible more difficult compositions
than have ever been played.
Photo shows Vincenzo Bellezza, j
conductor of the Metropolitan ,
Opera House, trying out the double ,
tiered keyboard piano at Ampico
Hall.
SUPPORT ITTITUDE
CHARGE DE AFFAIRES IS IN
SULTED WHILE ON HIS WAY
TO THE FRONTIER
; LAPAZ, Bolivia, Dec., 11, (JP)—
Mass meetings in support of the
Bolivian government’s attitude on
the Paraguan frontier dispute,
I held many sections of the country
and volunteers are flooding the
administration with offers of ser
vice.
In Trinidad a full regiment of
; 1,000 men has been organized and
have been asked to be sent to the
! frontier.
' Many physicians have offered
hospital facilities and also volun
teered to go in person to Chaco
in case of necessity.
School teachers of the League
of Lapaz have been requested to
immediately muster into govern
ment service. The men asked to be
taken into the army and the wom
en teachers volunteered for Red
Cross work.
The Foreign Office issued anoth
er communique relative to the de
parture of Elias Ayala, Paraguan
Charge de Affaires, in which it
declared, according to Ayala’s
statements, that he had been in
sulted while on his way to the
frontier, was not accurate.
Lin canc still
FIST ON THE ROCKS
COBH, Ireland, Dec., 11, (iT*)—
The liner Celtic is still last upon
the rocks. Moderating weather and
a calm sea, however, considera
bly lessened the danger of her
breaking up.
White Star engineers boarded
the vessel for an investigation on
which depended whether there
would be attempts to salvage her.
Captain Berry, and some of the
ship’s officers, remained aboard.
PRINCE OF WALES DUE TO AR
RIVE LONDON TONIGHT OR
TOMORROW
LONDON, Dec., 11, (yP)—-King
George’s pliycisians are waging a
fight against death today. Unof
ficially it is stated that the chan
ces for the King’s recovery is very
slight and most persons are now
wondering if the Prince of Wales,
who is expected to reach London
tonight or tomorrow, would win
his race with time and again see
his father alive.
The official bulletin, which was
brief, was non-commital and con
i veyed little to the public and cer
tainly gave no ground for the be
lief there was, any change for the
better in the King’s condition.
It is evident that the persistent
fever which has wracked the
King’s body for more than three
| weeks and sapping his strength,
still held a firm grip upon him.
The King’s power of resistance has
been ebbing for days under the
strain of the lung infection which
has spread to his general system.
This is evident from the physi
cians recent reports. The reports
were of some comfort to his anx
ious subjects who have been hop
| ing, almost against hope, he was on
! the road to recovery.
Today’s bulletin said there has
been no further dimunition of
strength after a night which brot
several hours of sleep to his Maj
esty. Whether this was natural
sleep was not stated in the report.
SILL IS PROSPOSED
TO GIVE VALDEZ
MEASURE PROVIDES THAT THE
TOWN MUST PROVIDE 510,
000 TOWARDS WORK
WASHINGTON, D. C. Dec., 11, (flV
—The expenditure of $50,000 >. by
the Secretary of War to protect
Valdez harbor from glacier stream
floods, is proposed in a bill.
Water from the Valdez glacier
discharges into the Port of Valdez,
it was stated, and the improve
ment is needed to protect the
terminal of the Richardson high
way, buildings of the Alaska Road
Commission, Department of Jus
ticeand Signal Corps Army Post
from overflows.
The measure provides that Val
dez contribute $10,000 towards the
work.
INVITES HERB TO CHINA
NANKING, Dec., 11, (&)—Chiang
Kai Shek, head of the Nationalist
government, has invited Hoover
to visit China as a means of bet
tering relations between China
and the United States. The invi
tation was extended through the
Chineses Minister of Lima, Peru.
SOUTH FOR WINTER
NEW YORK, Dec., It, (JP)—John
D. Rockefeller Senior is speeding
Southward for his annual winter
sojourn at Ormand, Fla. With him
'is a retinue of nurses and servants