MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME IV. NUMBER 36.
SEWARD. ALASKA MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1928.
PRICE TEN GENTS
DEPOT REMOVAL
WORK III SEWARD
MACHINERY AND MEN OF RAIL
ROAD BEING MARSHALED
FOR IMPROVEMENT
An Alaska Railroad crew is now
engaged in preparatory work to bt
, followed by the removal of the
Alaska Road Commission ware
house, across the track from the
the B & PI warehouse to make
way for the new railroad depot at
the foot of Fifth avenue. Two oth
er crews will arrive the latter part
rvF Ws week and actual work will
then begin one week from today.
The steam shovel crew, Clias.
Nelson, foreman; is now at Heaiy.
wU-'.i he extra gang under *
foreman Ray Dancer, will be the!
outfits who will see the projectj
through. It is estimated at least1
40 men will be engaged on the job. j
Two work engines will first start j
cleaning out the railroad tracks;
I
crossing Lowell creek, widening the
yard, moving up to the new work
on the waterfront where the bed j
is to be widened many feet towards
the water. This will be a fill of con- j
siderable size covering all the wat
erfront round to near the Stand- 1
aid Oil plant. * *" *
The road commission warehouse
will be temporarily moved to a lo
cation across the track and later
to its permanent location.
Apprehension Grows
About Results Of
Storm In Florida
JACKSONVILLE, Sept. 17, (TP)—'
A radio message picked up by Gif
ford Grange, amateur, said that |
an undetermined number of per
sons have been injured and great
property damage has been done at
West Palm Beach and Palm Beach
by the hurricane bu tr.o known loss:
of life.
Many homes were wrecked and
buildings left intact are filled with
refugees. A message signed D. H.
Conkling; this is the name of a
publisher at West Palm Beach.
The Post hospital has been de- ■
stroyed and Miami is isolated ac- 1
cording to wire communications!
north of West Palm Beach.
Lack of communications extend
ed to Melborne more than 100 miles
north while conditions south were
unknown owing to wire failure.
Weird Death Trail
Still Baffling In
Seattle Manhunt
SEATTLE, Sept, 17, (A3)—Search
for the body of James Bassett,
missing Bremerton visitor has
turned from the wooded tract
around the deserted house in Sno^
homish county to Tacoma’s indus
trial district, when Tacoma police
reported that D. E. Mayer, suspect
ed murderer, had occupied a shack 1
on the Tacoma tideflats less than a
a fortnight aga
Tacoma police said Mayer and
a feminine companion visited the
bouse September 8 in a blue-toned
roadster for which it is believed
Bassett was murdered three days ‘
earlier 1
iviuyer and his alleged mother
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November Election
Expected To Bring
Out Greatest Vote
A record breaking popular votia is •
the only safe forecast in which Wash. I
ington correspondents, who serve as j
political prophots of the press, agree |
at this “baffling'’ stage of the presi- i
dential campaign, says the Literary j
Digest. More Womtan will vote than :
ever before, we are told, and mo^e j
mien are likely to vote, since bo’h j
parties will have funds to spend in |
actualy getting out the vote. Similar
predictions occur in the editorial col.
umns of other papers, and various
reasons why such a result may be ex- i
pected are brought to mind. Typical i
is the following paragraph from the j
Nsw York Times:
l no personalities of the candidates ;
and the increase in the ansa of debate. ; ■
able territory are two of the factors!:
which, supplemented by great camp-!
aign lands in both parties, are expect l
ed to bring out. in November the larg
est vote ever cast in the United
States. Simon Michelet, a Washing
ton lawyer, who ig the statistical
authority in thesis matters, expects a
minimum of 05,000,000 as against the
29,059,131 cast in tbs three cornered
contest of 1921 . An impending open
cleavage between the two parties on
the dry laws is counted upon to fum-!
ish an essential part of the increase. |
The more silent element of religious 1
feeling- may show itself in guaater |
votes in certain regions . An anti
Smith movement in the South, with 1
.-*>«•■ ut jofr-ro, pdiTticai i>riu_T
leges on the part of the negroes, en. j
couraged by the white division, should
make 'election day—for the first time !
in years—almost as important as pri.!
mary day in Dixie. And if the farm
leaders who are opposing Mr. Hoover ;
should be able to hold t.h'3 interest of •
uicir constituents, the food belt will'-,
show a greatly augumented vote.” !(
Oth'ar prominent coirrespondents c
point out that usually the stay.af. i
homes among the qualified voters out-1
number the actual voters—52 per -
cent., against 48 per cent, in 1921 for!1
example and women are slower to I
exercise suffrage than men. Conse.
quently, as David Lawrence puts it,
strategy in pivotal States makes i,
"°ne of the big tasks ahead to pm.
suade women to register and to vote.
ith the use of tbs automobile and
paid workers, both parties are plann
ing literally to carry their passive ad. i
herents to tire polls. And it is very j
ukely that much of the appeal over
the radio will get out the vote. It is a
job of organization and money eruLe. i
ly. because of the indifference of I
50 percent of American voters.” ;
There is a feeling now, reports j
W. W. Jermane to the Seattle Times, J
that the percentage of actual vot. j
ers may be raised to between 60
and 65 percent; “the pulling power
of prohibition, religion, and Tamma.
ny Hall, will be found to be great,
and all of it will not, by any mean,
be hostile to Smith.”
Mark Sullivan informs his papers
;hat the only campaign certainty,
‘every other element is baffling and
in which precedent provides almost
no dependable guide for anything, j
is that the total vote will be "sen- ^
sationablie large,”
Veteran campaigners look for
?ome of the sharpest fghting of the
campaign over the votes of women: j
t “will be colored by the women, j
oiks as a political campaign never
ia,s been before.” observes the
Springfield Union.
NOTICE
Official inspection of chimneys
ind flues beginning at 9 a. m. to
norrow starting on Fourth Avenue. a
Chief of Fire Department ^
C
ROBERT GUEST.
HURRICANE WRECKS DESTRUC- '
TION IN WEST INDIES AND
SWEEPS TO FLORIDA
SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, Sept., 17,!
A>)~A death list reaching 1,000
ind property damage of $100,000,
)00 was the conservative estimate j
is partial restoration of cornmun- :
cations permitted some check on
rhursday’s tropical hurricane af
:.er death and destruction had
seen spread throughout the islands
vhich contained a population of
1,000.000.
Uabated, after leaving a trail
sf devastation in the West Indies,
;he hurricane hit the East Florida
mast, between Jupiter and Ft.
Lauderdale where communications j
were severed.
A hundred mile an hour wind j
was renorted. The extent of dam- i
ige or loss of life, in Florida, is not1
<nown. Buildings were renorted
unroofed and all towns in. the rp- |
non are isolated
Witness Tells Of
Admissions Made
Quadruple Murder
LOS ANGELES. Sept. 17. (/P) - ;
lyrus George Northcott, held as a
witness to the killing cf four boys
m a Riverside, Calif., farm, told |
ifficiers his son and grandson ad- 1
nittcd to him they had committed
he murders.
Another Thousand
Miles Added To
Maps Of Alaska
Another thousand miles has been
adde 1 to the mapped Territory of
Alaska according to S. R. Capps
the United States Geological |
Survey, who with G. Fitzgerald and !
W. A. Spun- have just come out of I
the territory comprising the head
waters of the Kuskokwim and trib
utaries of the Susitna. In that j
territory is Spurr mountain, named
?fter the elder Spurr whose record !
in the geological survey is perpet- j
uated in many treatises on the;
mining country of the United
States and the Territory of Alaska,
After their summer’s work the
party is now proceeding to Wash
ington where they will translate
;heir notes to maps for guidance of
future invaders of that big expanse
-f country holding lures for gold
'eekers.
Yanks Lead Cut
To Half Gamej
ST. LOUIS, Sept., 17. UP)—The
lead of tlie Yankees was reduced
to half a game when the Browns
shaded New York by the score of
six to five. “Babe” Ruth hit anoth
er home-run bringing his total for
the first inning. One ..of the
runs of the Brown’s came in when
Pipgras hit hard past third: In
the third and fourth innings the !
Yanks got three runs.
FLIGHT HALTED
BERLIN, Sept. 17, (JP)—'The flight
if the Zeppelin carrying mail and
passengers from Germany to the
'Jnited States was postponed. Capt.
Sickener has failed to comply with
ormalities which are prerequisit
lor starting.
CARDS CLIMBING
WITH AID OF HORSESHOE |
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Milt Simpson, village blacksmith of Iola, Kan., is a mighty man
t more things than pounding anvil. He has a penchant for presenting
is tokens of good luck to the right team. His latest gift went to the
ardinals coincident with the start of their climb back to the lead.
SHIRE POLICE
SHIFT SEARCH TO
HOUSE IN RAVINE THOUGHT TO
BE SCENE OF RECENT SEAT
TLE MURDER
SEATTLE, Sept., 17, (/Pj—Be
lieving they have found the mur
der house where Bassett was done
to death the police have shifted
all of their efforts to a little brown
residence on a side road off the
Seattle-Edmonds highway.
The house was one of the three
Mayer was said to have visited be
fore Bassett’s disappearance. The
brown house was said to be the
only one in which Mayer actually
lived.
The deep ravine near the house
and the house are being combed
in hopes of finding some clue to
the manner in which Bassett met
his fate.
At the same time another house
in which stains were found is be
ing studied although the officers
were at first inclined to believe
they might be blood stains, but no
further clues have been found to
prove the house was the murder
place.
SAN JUAN, Porto Rico. Sept. 17,
PP)—The spectre of famine stalked
thru Porto Rico today when at
least 300,000 persons became hun
gry after the terrific hurricane had
swept away their homes.
Martial law has been declared,
food has been requisitioned from
Government suplies and drafting
:>f all able-bodied men has been
arged upon Governor Towner by a
7roup of leading citizens.
The National guard has been
n-dered to protect property from
ooters and stop profiteering.
From nine of the islands come
•eports that 77 towns have been de
-troyed with 250 dead and another
veek before an adequate estimate
:an be made. Americans from the
states are reported killed but their
rames are not yet checked. Homes
if the natives have been blown
iway and they are now coming in
>y hundreds begging food. Hard
jressed merchants are giving cut
>ags of beans and rice to an ever
ncreasing horde of hungry sup
iliants.
Sir Russians Trek
Two Hundred Miles
After Plane Crashes
MOSCOW, Sept. 17, <JP)—Six men
f the Russian plane “Soviet of
forth” missing since August 22 on
flight from Vladivostok to Len
igrad, were picked up by the
teamer Stavropol.
Their airplane was wrecked dur
ig a storm near Kolyuchin Bay,
iberia. The crew, apparently un
urt, walked more than 200 miles
ver the bleak and frozen plains to
he icebound coast, where the
teamer took them aboard.