“Center of
Everything ”
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXIII. NUMBER 116.
SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MAY 17, 1928.
PRICE TEN CENTS
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BIDS WILL BE OPENED IN SEW
ARD JUNE 9 AT 9 O’CLOCK IN
THE MORNING
Anton Eide, in charge of the local
office, Alaska Road Commission, re
ceived in yesterday’s mail from the
headquarters office at Juneau, the
standard government form of invita
tion calling for bids for .the construc
tion of a flume and brush wing dykes
on Lowell Creek to handle the
flood waters of the stream. Contrac
tors interested are asked to call at
hie office where the plans and spec
ifications may be examined.
According to the U. S. District En.
gmeer's office at Juneau, Major Mal
colm Elliott, District Engineer, an
nounces bids will be opened June 9,
to Seward, at 9 a. an; at 10 a. m. in,
Juneau and at 11 a. m. in Seatte.
The limit the iost of ihe work
on the stream is $125,000 of which
$100,000 was made available by Fed
^ eral appropriation and $15,000 by the
town of Seward and $10,000 by the
Territory.
DESCRIPTION OF WORK
Th© work planned consists of the
construction of a timber flume and
brush, "wring dykes with cribs design
ed to carry off surplus waters from
Liowell Creek to tidewrater. The
flume will be on a pile foundation
to prevent under scouring but it will
in no place be more than three or
four feet above the ground.
The time of completion of the work
is to be specified by the bidders and
will be a material factor in award
ing the contract as an allowance of
$30 per calendar will be made for
each day saved the bidder. Payments
"will be made monthly for the work
done and materials delivered on the
ground on the basis of 90 percent.
The specifications call for 840,000
board feet of timber, either Douglas
fir or Alaska hemlock, but it is per
missable to use Alaska spruce for
the bottom of the flume. Eighty
eight thousand feet of local piling
will be required. The flume will be
about 3,300 feet long. The dykes are
to be 400 feet long and constructed
with brush wings to form an intake
to the flume.
An agreement has been reached
with the Alaska Railroad to make
certain changes of its main line to
facilitate the protection wrnrk. The
cost of such changes will be charged
against the flood control appropria
tion.
WATER NOTICE
Water will be shut-off tonight at
10 o’clock on 1st, 2nd and 3rd streets
from Adam street north.
WASHINGTON, May »16. (/P)—A
plea for more art and beauty in the
daily life of the American people in
order their “moral standards” might
be raised, was made by President
Coolidge.
“It is especially the practical side
of art that requires more emphasis,”
Coolidge said, in his address opening
the joint meeting of the American
Association of Museums.
“We need to pujt more effort into
the translating of art into the daily
life of the people if we could sur
round ourselves with these forms of
beauty, the evil things in life would
tend to disappear and our moral
standards be raised.”
NATIVES MAY KILL THEM ALSO
WHITES IF IN NEED OF
FOOD
WASHINGTON, May 17, (/P)—A
two years closing season on sea
lions and walruses has been ordered,
infective in Alaska, under date be
ginning May 1. The animals dur
ing that period may only be killed
by Alaskan natives or by whites
in actual need of food, or by mu
seum specimen hunters who must
possess a specifiic permit from the
Department of Commerce.
The animals have been shot dur
ing the late summer and early in the
fail as game but the new regula
tions now establish a closed season
tions now establish a closed season.
This move was considered nec
ersaary in order their numbers may
be maintained.
DUE TO FIGHT TONIGHT
FOR TEX RICKARD
NEW YORK, May 17, (Jp)—Sam
my Mandell is a two to one favorite
to retain the lightweight champion
ship when he meets- Jimmy McLarin
tonight although McLarin knocked
out “Sid” Terris, The fans feel that
Mandell will hold this own and evade
McLarin’s powerful right. The bout
is scheduled to go 15 rounds.
BOUT CALLED OFF
NEW YORK, May 17, (JP)~The Me
La:in, Mandell light has been post
poned by “Tex” Rickard until to
morrow because of threatening
weather.
! AIRWAY, RAILWAY
LINE WILL CUT
TIME TO COAST
{ NEW passenger transporta
tion COMPANY ANNOUNCED,
N. Y. TO L. A.
NEW YORK, May 16. The in
auguration within the next few mon
ths of a passenger transportation ser
vice from New York to Los Angeles
by airplane and railroad which will
cut running time from four to two
days, is announced by C. M. Keys,
president of the Curtis Airplane &
Motor Company.
Keys will be president of the new
service which will be known as the
Trans-corftinental Air Transport.
RAIN DELAYS PLANES
STE GORGES, Newfoundland, May
17, (yP)—Rain has delayed the take
off of the Army planes assigned to
! assist the German plane Bremen.
1
NO RIDES FOR CAL
WASHINGTON, May 16, (JP)~-Pre
sident Coolidge announced he will
m«ke no airplane flights while Presi
dent of the United States.
VESSEL ENCOUNTERS
TEN MILEJEIL HERD
JUNEAU, May 17, (/P)—The stea
mer Alaska, of the Alaska Steamship
Company, encountered a seal herd
10 miles long while enroute from
Seattle to Juneau, on lower Chatham
Strait, according to officers on the
liner. They stated such a sight is
seldom witnessed.
1ME ACCOMPLICE
OFFER NOW MADE BY GAINES
WILLING TO NAME ACCOM
PLICE IN MURDER
SEATTLE. May 17, (^—Pros
ecutor Colvin said an offer has been
made by Bob Gaines in his defense
to name the accomplice to Jhe mur
dei of his daughter, in return for the
E'cmise his action will reduce Tiis
death’s sentence to a sentence of
second degree murder.
Colvin admitted he had suspected
at the time of the trial Gaines had
been aided in t.he crime by an ac
complice defense obtain the confes
the defense obtain the confession
sion from Gaines naming the person.
SOUTH BAPTISTS
PASS RESOLUTION
ENDORSINB ORYS
MEMBERSHIP TOTALS 400,000;
BACK DRY CANDIDATES COM
ING ELECTION
CHATANOOGA, Tenn., May 16 (Jp)
—The Southern Baptist Missionary
Union Convention, representing a
membership of 400,000 unanimosly
passed resolutions endoreing only
those Presidential and Vice-presiden.
tial candidates, who are atrickly com
mitted to the “observance and vigor
ous enforcement of the Eighteenth
Amendment and the National Prohibi
tion Act.”
MOTION PICTURES TRANSMITTED BY TELEPHOTOGRAPH
NEW YORK, Another achievement in science was successfully
completed when motion pictures were transmitted over telephone
wires for first time. Ten feet of motion picture film showing in close
up the face of Vilma Banky,—smiling, talking with clearly marked
movements of the lips—were flashed 1,000 miles from Chicago to
New York by the telephotographic process and in less than five
hoirs after the Chicago telephotographic machine began sending the
film am accurate duplicate was available for showing to a New Yor'{
audience at the Embassy Theater. Photo shows the apparatus.
!
GUT
REACHED Of ITALIA
RETURN AWAITED
BELIEF IS EXPRESSED NOBILE
REACHED OBJECTIVE LAND
1,000 MILES AWAY
KINGSBAY, May 17, (&)—The Ital
ia has progressed so steadily in its
flight over the Arctic that the base
crew here believed General Nobile
has reached, his objective, Lenin
Land, 1,000-miles from Kings bay.
The -crew is eagerly awaiting the re
turn of the Italia to the base and learn
what the explorers discovered in the
unchartered wastes and at Lenin
Land which never has been explor
ed.
Nobile is expected to return to
morrow. He will then srurt ^med
iately on another flight to the so
! called Crocker Land.
The Italia wirelessed they were
encountering favorable flying weath
er and the last message said the
dirigible was in sight of Cape NieL
olas.
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DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION NAR
ROWLY ESCAPES BREAK
ING UP IN ROW
COLUMBIA, May 17, (^>)—Tbe
South Carolina Democratic Conven
tion voted to instruct its 18 delegate*
to support the dry candidate and
work for a dry plank by a voting of
194 to 147 and to vote in a unit and
on the third rule.
It endorsed the rule to nullify
the State rule for the support of the
party’s Presidential nominee which
was defeated by a vote of 194 to 117„
A physical clash'then occured bo
U’-een former Governor John Evau?
and Colonel Edgard Brown, former
Speaker of the State House.
Brown defended the rule %and de
clared the opponents were trying to
break up the party. Evans shouted
“You are already in the Republican
•party.” Fists then flew
A resolution to instruct gtoiith
was also defeated by the same vote.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Hollywood, 2; San Francisco, 4.
Missions, 6; Los Angeles, 7, 11 in
nings.
Seattle, 7; Oakland, 3.
Portland, 10; Sacramento 7.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Detroit, 4; Boston, 5.
Cleveland, 2; Philadelphia, 15.
Mo National League games.