VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 9. SEWARD, ALASKA FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, 1929. PRICE TEN CENTS
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DIBS SERI
HOTEL IH SEATTLE
TIMELY WARNING OF NIGHT
CLERK CAUSE SAVING OF
ALL LIVES
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SEATTLE, Jan., 11, (£>)—'Ten
nerson^ were rescued by firemen
from flames which ate its way
through the Seneca hotel in the
downtown section of the city late
last night and which endangered
the lives of 50 roomers.
Although the 10 persons who
•*'ere trapped were carried out un
conscious, none were seriously in
jured. No lives were lost. The fire
chief estimated the loss to the
hotel and adjacent hoselry, two
stores and laundry, at $75,000.
The 50 roomers credited the
night clerk to saving their lives
owing to his timely warning. The
clerk is D. W. Parrado; he spread
the alarm through the building
when he saw smoke curling thru
a floor. An explosion, apparantly
of a gasoline tank in the rear of
the laundry, shot the flames
across First avenue and spread
the blaze through the hotel before
the firemen arrived.
Twenty-four fire companies
brought the blaze under control
vrfthin half' an hour and extin
guished it after midnight.
Mrs. Nellie Ashton, who was kept
from jumping from the third
story by the cries of onlookers,
was recued by Patrolman W. M.
Palmer who dashed into the hotel
ahead of the firemen, siezed the
woman as she collapsed, and safe
ly gained the street where cheers
from the crowd greeted him.
The crowds hampered the fire
men who were keeping a cordon
about the area. Police were unable
to identify a man who was carried
semi-delirious from the building
crying “Get the other man! Get
the other man!” Attendants at
the City hospital ascribed his con
dition as too much alcohol and
shock.
W. B. Wood, who thrilled the
crowds by leaping from the 4th
story to an extension ladder, was
not satisfied when brought to saf
ety and tearfully pleaded with the
firemen until they returned and
carried out his eight canaries.
The origin of the firs has not
‘been determined.
< ST THE. POSE PM
MALMESBURY. Eng., Jan., 11,
-,V)—This is a variation of the fam
ous French necklace story, and the
necklace in this case was real.
Robert Rich, who despite his
name is an inmate of the Malmes
jury noor house, found a necklace
worth $00 in the street. He return
ed it to the owner, a woman motor
ist who was passing thru the town.
She rewarded him with four cents.
, DEATH PENALTY MEETS
‘ OPPOSITION IN FRANCE
PARIS, Jan., 11, «Pi—The sup
pression of the death penalty has
again come up for the considera
tion of the French Parliament.
Ph'.lanthropically inclined depu
tes are also working for the sup- |
prossion of military courts martial.
CONFERENCE FAILS
WASHINGTON Jan.. 11, (JP)—
Hopes for a vote on the Kellogg
Treaty this week almost flickered
out w.hen new conferences for
agreement on the interpretive reso
ution for the Pact failed.
FAMOUS ALASKA
HUSKIE IS LOST
II WILDS SEATTLE
ONE OF THE DOGS OF SEPALLA’S
TEAM OF TWO YEARS AGO,
IS SOUGHT
SEATTLF. Jan. 11, (/P)—The can
ine hero, one of the huskies who
pulled Sepalla and diptheria anti
toxine into Nome two vears ago, is
lost in Seattle and is believed to h
wandering bewildered and friend
less in the wooded section of Bea
con hill.
Passing thru Seattle yesterday
with hiv owner’s wife enroute to the
dog team races being run by the
famous driver in Maine, the dog
•was cared for the night at the ken
nels of G. M Babcock Shortly after
5 o’clock the huskey eluded his
guards and departed for the hill
with Babcock in pursuit.
For seven hours the man and dog
played hide and seek on the hill
and at midnight the hunter was
forced to return empty handed.
FRENCH ARCHEOLOGISTS
FIND GORGEOUS MOSIAC
DAMASCUS, Syria, Jan., 11, i/Pi
Magnificent mosaics dating from
the Eighth century have been dis
covered in the Mosque of the Omey
ades bv E. deLerey, director of the
French Institute of Archeology and
Moslem Art.
FISH SCIENTISTS
EiOUTE TflOHTH
CiTINUEpTUDIFS
TWO MONTHS STUdV OF ALAS
KA HALIBUT FISHERIES
WILL BE MADE
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SEATTLE. Jan.. ll.f(/P)—Heading
for the Gulf of Alaska to continue
I’ts hydrographic biological investi
gations relating to halibut, a parLy
of scientists and representatives of
the Ini emotional Fisheries Com
mission sailed today aboard the
power schooner Dorothy.
Richard Butt, a graduate of the
University of Washington has
charge and is assisted by J. L. Kask,
a graduate of the University. The
crew of seven will be gone for two
months.
HO COMMISSION
ENGINEER GILLETTE
MURRIES II TOM!
TACOMA, Jan.. 11. (/P)—Major
Douglas Hamilton Gil'ette of the
Alaska Road Commission, and Miss
Dorothy Kvme, daughter of Mrs.
Walter Ellis of Tacoma, were mar
ried Tuesday.
| Onlv members of the immediate
j family and close friends were pres
ent. The newylweds left for a trip
to California and will return to Ta
coma before leaving for Juneau
where they will make their home.
AUSTRALIA LEADING
MELBOURNE, Jan., 10, (TP)—Aus
tralia is now leading by 327 runs in
the third cricket test match with
Fngland.
FLIERS “BOMB” CAMERA TO ACQUIRE SKILL, DESTRUCTION
... ifimm—im» wwniaiw
> A "camera” big enough for a man to sit inside records the effect
iveness of imaginary bombs dropped by cadets of the United States (
Army air corps flying school at Kelly Field, Tex. The “camera” is a
building (above), with an opening in the roof, over which bombing
planes fly to "drop their bombs.”
PEACE AT ANY PRICE
MEXICO CITY, Jan., 10, (A3)—In
an effort to pacify the country,
President Portes Gil has instructed
military commanders of all zones
where insurgents are active, to ac
cent their surrender and give each
a parrel of land.
CAPTAIN WILKINS
FIRST PHASE FINISHED; WILL,
CONTINUE STUDY, FLIGHTS
NEXT YEAR
NEW YORK, Jan., 11, (A3)—Having
completed the first phase of the
Wilkirs-Hearst expedition's work in
the Antarctic, Capt. Wi'kins ai.
101111'.'pd in a radio message to the
New York American and associated
Hearst papers that he will return to
America to prepare for the second
phase which will be carried on next
year from a different base.
The announcement was made
following a new 500 mile flight yes
terday during which Capt. Wilkins
searched Graham Land in the hope
of finding a suitable and more
southerly base to enable him to con
tinue explorations further south.
Thruout the present season no such
base could be found.
OIL PROSPECTS FOR
YEAR ENCOURAGING
SAYS AUTHORITY
(By J. Edgar Pew)
DALLAS, Texas, Jan., 11, (A3)—
Oil prospects for the Mid-Conti
nent field, both in prices and pro
duction, are encouraging for 1929.
The opinion of southwest oil
men is that the crude market has
maintained a relatively level trend
thruout the year, considering the
amount of oil marketed during the
period. ,
Price prospects for 1929 are en
couraging because operators have
shown unmistakeable signs of
starting drilling operations only
when a new source of output is
needed.
PANAMA. Jan., 11, (A3)—The
Steamship President Adams, of
the Dollar Steamship Line, bound
for San Francisco by way of the
Panama Canal, struck a reef out
side of the Cristobal breakwater
and went aground.
Tugs are trying to pull her free.
The ship left New York January
3 with 90 passengers.
MINT ARANDUNMENT
RECALLS COLDEN DAYS
CARSON CITY, Nev., Jan., 11, (A3)
—Silent, brooding, gray, the United
States Mint Building here stands In
massive silence as a reminder of
:he days of silver and Nevada’s
rolden age of miring.
The Treasury Department of the
Jnited States has recommended its
:omp!ete abandment. For nearly
wo decades only two persons have
ised the building— a secretary of
he Civil Service Commission and
:n assayer.
SALMON PRODUCTION CONSID
ERABLE UNDER NORMAL,
STATED
(By J. H. Matthews)
NEW YORK, Jan., 11, (tP)—The
prosperity of the fishing indus
try has been rather spotted dur
ing the past year.
The New England fisheries have
been developed to a considerable
extent over previous years due
principally to the growth of the
nacKaged-fish trade. Increased
landings of haddock, the principal
variety filleted, amounting to more
than 100 per cent over 1922, when
this method of marketing was first
employed.
Production of the middle Atlan
tic states was less as regards some
varieties, while others were taken
in increased quantities. The south
Atlantic and gulf states report
production as about normal. The
shell fisheries of the entire Atlant
ic and gulf coasts are in better con
dition than for several years.
I The shrimp and ovster indus
tries report larger packs than in
1927, while the sardine pack of
Maine was smaller than in 1927.
The menhaden industry experienc
ed its fourth successive poor year.
On the Pacific coast the hali
but catch was about equal to that
of 1927. Salmon was curtailed
through scarcity of fish. The Cal
i ifornia sardine and tuna fish
[pack was greater than in any
i year since the post-war depress
! ion.
! The outlook for 1929 is much
brighter for packaged and canned
fish; the fresh fish market will be
governed more by supply than by
demand.
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HUMAN FACE TRACED
TO ANIMAL ORIGIN
PROFESSOR REPORTS
NEW YORK, Jan. 11, (TP)—Man
owes Jus “'mobile” face to humbler
animals that preceded the anthro
poids, from whom he directly de
scended, the American Association
for the Advancement of Science
was told today. The early animals
transformed faces from the charac
teristics oi inflexible masks.
This report was made in a paper
on "Man's Debt 1o His Animal An
cestors” by Prof. William K. Greg
ory cf Columbia University and the
American Museum of Natural His
tory.
From these humbler and earlier
ancetors, he said, both the anthro
poids and man gained adaption to
temperature changes, a skeletal
"truchire and the beginning of a
-nnmmnlian brain ‘‘which finally
led us into untrodden paths.”
DARTMOUTH TO p¥y
NAVY NEAT NOVEMBER
HANOVER, N. H„ Jan., 10, (£>)—
The Dartmouth Athletic Associa
tion confirmed the report that
Dartmouth will play the Navy on
November 30th either in New York
or Philadelphia in 1929. The Navy
formerly played the Army on that
late.