MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXII. NUMBER 45F L-( 0^ SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MARCH 11,1927.
PRICE TEN CENTS
USE OF KEROSENE
SIT FIRE SPELLS
DEATH FOR FAMILY
CHILDREN AGED SIX TO TWELVE
TRAPPED AS SLEPT IN ROOMS
ABOVE KITCHEN
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BROWNS MILLS, N. J., March 11.
(jp)—The use of kerosene to make a
kitchen fire resulted in the death of
a father, four children and one grand
child to day. They burned to death
■when the fire destroyed the home of
William Stevenson at Sunset Lake.!
Mrs. Stevenson and daughter were
badly burned, and one son is miss
(ing. The dead children ranged from
the age of six to 12 years and the
grandchild one month old. The chil
dren were trapped as they slept in the
rooms above the kitchen. The flames
spread so rapidly that the mother was
unable to rescue them. Stevenson,
wtih his clothes aflame, staggered
A from the house and died.
INDUSTRIALISTS FRANTIC
BERLIN, Mar. 11. (^—Industrial
ists of the Saar district are reported
as driven desperate by bickerings and
economic experiments of the politi
cians of France, Germany and the
League of Nations.
OLENSKY ONE HOUR
USD OF NEWEST
LAST LAP OF PRINCE ALBERT
DOG DERBY UNDER WAY—ST.
GODDARD FOURTH
PRINCE ALBERT, Sask., March 11.
y- (,zp)—The dog mushers are ready for
the last lap of the 160-mile race with
Olensky over an hour ahead of Brydg
es, who finisher firs-t yesterday in
4:31:15. Olensky was three seconds
behind. The total time of Olensky
is 12:29:19; Brydges, 13:12:12; Eliv
ry, 13:46:49; Leo St. Goddard, 13:5:42.
The pace was unusually slow for
the last two days racing, Earl Brydg
es and Tom Elvery of Prince Albert
had trouble with their dogs, which
moved slowly. Leo St. Goddard
^ advanced to within a mnute behind
' Olensky, but was unable to do more
than cut down the latter’s lead.
m SELLING ARMY PROPERTY
. WASHINGTON, March 11. (JP)—
Sealed bids for the purchase of
Nodule Point, located in the State of
Washington, will he opened by the
Quartermaster General on March 15,
the Department of War has just an
nounced in a statement. The proper
ty a military reservation of approxi
mately 178 acres, is to be sold pur
suant to authority of an act of Con
gress.
‘OT DOGS AT 3 A. M.
LONDON, March 11. (£>)—"Ot
‘ .
dogs” at 2 or 3 a.m., just before
Home Sweet Home and God Save
the King are played, have become
all the go in London society circles.
CONFERENCE ASSURED
WASHINGTON, March 11. (JF)—'The
three power naval disarmament con
ference at Geneva is assured with the
Japanese acceptance of America’s
proposal.
COURT DISCHARGES
NELLIE BUIES JURY
JURY REPORTED FOR SECOND
TIME HOPELESSLY DEAD
LOCKED—OUT 49 HOURS
FAIRBANKS, March 11. (£>)—'The
court discharged the Nellie Bates jury
when it reported a second time that
it was hopelessly deadlocked after
49% hours deliberation. The jury
asked the court lor a hearing at 9:30
last night. The trial started 23 days
ago.
ENTIRE FAMILY IS
BURNED TD DEATH
IN PENNSYLVANIA
CHILD ESCAPES FROM SECOND
STORY WINDOW, BUT PROB
ABLY FATALLY BURNED
BRAIRSVILLE, Pa., March 11. (£>)—
Nine persons, all members of one fam
ily, burned to death when fire de
stroyed the home of Clarence Marsh
at Tunnelton. The dead are Marsh,
his wife, their five children, Mrs.
Marsh, sister-in-law, Mrs. Harry Mont
gomery and one child. Montgomery
was the only one to escape from a sec
ond story window, and he was prob
ably fatally burned.
ATLANTIC FLIGHT
PLANS UNDER WAY
EFFORT MADE TO CLEAR PLANE
FROM BANKRUPTCY FRENCH
CONSTRUCTORS
WASHINGTON, March 11 .(£>)—
Failure of the company which was
manufacturing a plane to attempt the
trans-Atlantic crossing from Paris to
New York this year, may not affect
the plans for the flight, states Trade
Commissioner H. H. Kelly, in a report
just received by the Department of
Commerce.
According to the promoters, the ma
chine has been esquestered with the
other assets of the pankrupt firm
(Bernard Frebois company, Cour
neuve), but legal steps are being tak
en to free the plane from this entan
glement.
If successful, the macine will be fin
ished this month, it is hoped, and trial
flights will be begun immediately. The
voyage to America may be undertaken
in June.
The trans-Atlantic flight is being
planned under the auspices of a Paris
newspaper (Paris-Sport). It is the
only attempt now registered for the
Orteig prize of $25,000 for the first
machine which will cross the Atlan
tic from Paris to New York.
BATTLE FOR LIFE
OF ALBERT FR1CSI
ARTIFICIAL RESPIRATION FAILS
YOUTH KEPT ALIVE FOR FOUR
AND A HALF DAYS
CHICAGO, March 11. (/P)—Alber
Frick, aged 22, who lived four and £
half days, although powerless tc
breathe, lost a game battle for life
The boy who was kept alive thru ef
'forts of three score fellow employes
who breathed for him with their hands
through artifiicial respiration, died ir
a hospital at 10 o’clock, 108 hours aftei
artificial respiration started. Fricl
'was a victim of Landry’s paralysis, 8
I form of creeping paralysis which near
ily always proves fatal and which has
I
! amazed medical science. He died af
! ter a valiant fight for life' with the
! many men who worked over him ii
tears as they saw their efforts prove
unavailing to check the creeping pal
sy that started in his limbs last Satur
day and mounted Sunday to his dia
| phragm.
LEFT $3,000,000 ESTATE
CHICAGO, March 11. (^)—George
F. Porter, capitalist who committee
suicide, left a $3,000,000 estate the
filing of the will showed. His widov
obtained $2,300,000 in cash bequests
and trust funds.
\
OSAKO, Japan, March 11. {IP)—A
terrific gale is sweeping Central Japar
demolishing many refugee shelters ii
[■the Tango earthquake district and add
nig to the misery of thousands of th(
homeless in the devastated region.
TOUflIST DEVELOPMENT
FOR m HON IN
UNI IS APPROVE!
WASHINGTON, March 11. (£>)
Plans are under way few the installa
tion of a half-million dollar tourisl
development on the North Rim o!
the Grand Canyon, in the Grand Can.
yon National Park in Arizona, accord
ing to an announcement made at .the
Department of the Interior.
Under the terms of the act of Con.
gress establishing the park the de.
partment recently advertised foi
bids for the installation of this Nortl:
Rim Tourist Service. Only one bid
was received, that of thee Utah Parks
Company, a corporation organized
under the laws of the State of Utah,
was opened, and found to be satisfac.
tory.
PARIS, March 11. (IP)—Andre de
Fouquieres, social dictator of Paris,
whose brother is social secretary
at the Elysee Palace, has dethroned
Georges Carpentier as leading model
for tailors’ dummies.
Wicker sham, St eel
ill Is Introduced
In the Legislature
COLONEL JAS. G. STEESE OF ALASKA ROAD COM
MISSION ANNOUNCES PROGRAM APPROXIMAT
ING $2,000,000 FOR COMING SUMMER SEASON;
BILL IS ENTITLED “TO REORGANIZE EXECU
TIVE DEPARTMENT OF ALASKA AND CREAT
ING OFFICE OF COMPTROLLER
JUNEAU, March 11. (/P)—The much-discussed Ter
ritorial Controller bill entitled “A bill to reorganize the
executive department of Alaska and creating the offices
of Controller, Treasurer, Attorney General and Board of
Control, defining their functions and declaring an emerg
’ ency” was introduced in the Senate today. An identical
| measure is expected to be introduced in the House. The
bill is sweeping in its provisions relieving the Governor of
all Territorial administrative functions; also those exer
cised by the Territorial Secretary.
The bill provides for the election every four years of
the officers named, who would compose a board of control
to supplant existing organizations, including the Board of
, Education, Board of Road Commissioners, Banking
Board, etc. The new board would appoint all Territorial
, commissions, including the trustees of the Fairbanks Ag
ricultural College. It is understood that a majority of
the Federal officers and Governor Parks oppose the meas
ure.
Colonel James G. Steese, president of the Alaska
Road Commission, announces a building program approx
imating $2,000,000 for the coming summer season.
AIRPLANE SERVICE TO
KUSKOKWIM BEGINS;
TO ILIAMl NEXT
ANCHORAGE PLANE HOPS OFF
FOR LOWER RIVER COUNTRY
IN THE INTERIOR
ANCHORAGE, March. 11. (&)—'The
Anchorage Air Transport inaugurated
commercial service with the dispatch
of a four-cabin "air travel" plane to
Bethel on the lower Kuskokwim river,
■ carrying the first consignment of ex
•
. press ever leaving Anchorage by air;
; aalso a cargo of gasoline. It will
! bring back J. W. Felder with a con
. signment of furs on the return trip.
A second plane is scheduled to leave
, for the Iliamna Lake district shortly.
Aviator Ed Young, veteran Fairbanks
pilot, is commanding the first plane.
Both planes are equipped with Wright
whirlwind motors of 200 horse power,
the same type as Commander Byrd
used on his polar flight.
GOLD EXPORTS DROP
NEW YORK. March 11. (^—De
clared exports to the United States
from Shanghai, China, during the
year 1926 amounted to $60,604,000 as
compared with $62,379,000 in 1925, a
decrease of almostN$2,000,000 or about
3 per cent, states a report from Con
sul General C. E. Gauss, Shanghai,
China, just made public.
HUT MYSTERY IS
STILL UNSOLVED
MARINE CAPTAIN INFORMS COM
MITTEE HE ONCE SAW THE
MAN IN FRANCE
WASHINGTON, aMrch 11. (IP)—A
further attempt was made by the
House committee on World War Vet
erans legislation to clear up the iden
tity of “Jerry Turbot,” so called, at
their meeting recently.
Captain Louis Cukla, U. S. Marine
Corps, Quantico, Va., stated before
the committee (that he had on two oc
casions in France, seen Tarbot, and
declared positively that he was at that
time a member of the Marine Corps
Representative Updike (Republican
of Indiana), declared that he also re
membered Tarbot as being a member
of the American forces. It was his
belief that Tarbot’s real name was
Markum.
Representatives of the Veterans Bu
reau stated that every resource ofl the
Marine Corps had been exhausted in
the attempt to find the record of Tar
bot, who claimed to be with ithat or
ganization.
WASHINGTON, March 11. (£>)—
Despite reports of epidemic preval
ence of influenza in Europe, and on
other continents, the incidence of the
disease in the United States is only
about half of what it was a year ago,
according to a comparison of re
ports of cases of influenza reported
by health officers.