Seward,
Alaska
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
IS
VOLUME XXIII. NUMBER 150.
SEWARD, ALASKA,
THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 1928.
PRICE TEN
CENTS
FIST FITS START
PERMANENT CHAIRMAN STAR f 3
BATTLE INTERLOPING JEF
FERSON QUOTATIONS
HOUSTON, June 28, (£>)—The (ro
tation from Jefferson’s religious fre?
dom declarations fell like a firebrand
into the Convention and before +he
conflagration was over a half.dozen
fist fights raged around the standards
of Southern States in which paraders
'or Smith had sought to snatch uo
into a roaring cheering parade around
the Convention floor. The Convention
recessed until 7:15.
COPS ON THE JOB
Police officers used night sticks
freely in the melees that raged about
the standards of North Carolina, Ala.
tama, and Georgia principally but
touched a lesser degree other Dele
gations from the South who opposed
the nomination for President of a
Roman Catholic Governor. Apparent
ly there was no serious injuries.
SENATOR STARTS FIREWORKS
Senator Robinson of Arkansas, Per
manent Convention Chairman, started
the battle by interloping in a prepared
speech two quotations from tenets of
Jefferson when he was Chairman;
"pronouncement against the imposi
icn of any religious test for public
office.” That was the fuse wThich took
fire.
FOR “FAVORITE SON'1
Delegates from Mississippi, and
which was expected, by many of
Smith’s men to switch to the New
Yorker, cast its complimentary ball >t
to it’s “favorite son” Pat Harrison.
The Delegation burst out into the
center of the aisle bearing the Miss
issippi standard and shouting wildly
and the demonstrating parade began.
North Carolina and Alabama, seated
together in the front, sat silent amid
t<he din until a passing Smith man
sought to snatch up their standards;
then the fight began and the standard
of North Carolina was broken in +wo
pieces.
Nomination speeches were to be
heard last night.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Washing-ton, 1.4; Boston, 4.11.
N-w York, 7; Philadelphia, 4.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Philadelphia, 8; New York, 11.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Oakland, 1; Seattle, 5.
Sacramento, 7; Portland, 5.
Los Angeles, 0; San Francisco, 2.
Missions, 6; Hollywood, 7.
WILL DIRECT SEARCH
ROME, June 2S.(/P)—A dispatch re.
eeived here said Nobile will return by
air to direct the search for the strand.
ed Italia members.
91 HUM Kill
RUMOR HAS IT AMUNDSEN AND
PARTY ARE ADRIFT ON AN
ICE FLOE
ROME, June 28. (jp)—Nobile said
Vincenzo Pomella, motor attendant,
was killed when the gondola ripped
off.
Fog and snow today prevented any
attempt to rescue, have held up, in the
search for Amundsen. Nobile believes
a search for the men in the balloon
part of the dirigible should be made
within a 30.mile radius of the maroon,
ed men.
An exchange telegraph dispatch
from Copenhagen said an unconfirmed
rumor had it the Amundsen (party were
adrift on an ice floe southeast of
Spitzbergen; that they are attempting
to repair the plane.
The rumor was sent by Peter Freu.
chen from Murmansk, northern Rus.
sia to the newspaper. He said the re.
port was a fishing boat met a seal
hunter who told of sighting Amund.
sen.
CANDIDATES ARE
ALL BUT CHOSEN
DEMO CONVENTION
HOUSTON, June 28. (&)—Its candi
date all but chosen and its major dis.
pute over prohibition sidetracked in
the Committee the Democratic Con
vention turned itself over again to a
sweeping spirit of party revivalism
which was loosed by the Convention
keynote.
A short hot morning session, under
a sky threatening a downpour, had lit.
tie business before it but oratory and
music. Details of the Convention or
ganization party managers are being
planned and another night session
with more speech making is possible
including an oratorical flourish plac.
ing President Candidates in formal
nomination.
Smith’s nomination will probably be
on the first ballot. This became as
sured when the Ohio Delegation ar.
ranged to swing most of its 48 votes
to Smith. Oklahoma has decided to
cast its 20 votes for Deed.
FIRST WORD OF LOCAL PROJECT
IS SEEN IN THE JUNEAU
EMPIRE
A copy of the Juneau Empire, reach,
ing this office yesterday, is the first
word received regarding the local
Lfowell Creek improvement project
though there has been rumor,s for
days past that the Warrack Construe,
j tion Company in Seattle had been
awarded the contract. Evidently the
rumor was true. This firm is well
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known in Seward and it is a foregone
conclusion the work will be well done.
The Empire announcment follows:
The bid for the improvement of
Lowell Creek at Seward, which con.
sists of 3,000 feet of flume and 350
feet of dike and involves an outlay
of over $66,000, was awarded to the
Warrack Construction Company, of
Seattle, it wag made known at the of.
fice of the Alaska Road Commission
here. Work will begin about July 1,
and according to the terms of the bid,
it is required to be finished within 150
lays.
Preliminary examinations for this
work were made by the Alaska Road
Commission in 1925 and $25,000 of the
money necessary for the project was
appropriated by the last Territorial
Legislature and the remainder was
obtained by special Congressional ap.
propriation.
The bids for the project were simul.
taneously opened in Seward, Seattle
| and Juneau on June 9. Other con.
cerns putting in bids were S. P. Ray.
<mond, local company; Johnson Gard.
ner & Co. of Portland, Ore., and the
Sims.Carlson Co., of Spokane, Wn.
The improvement, when finished,
will handle all of the water from Low.
ell Creek, in both high water and low.
It will entirely eliminate the flood
danger to Seward when the creek is
high.
WATSON NORTHBOUND
HRS URGE LISTING
SEATTLE, June 28. {/p)~The Ad.
miral Watson, ot the P. s! S. Co., sail,
ed at 9! o'clock yesterday morning car.
rying 236 passengers. The Seward
liting was:
E. Plunkett, George Dunham, W. C.
Johnson, E. Jacobs, Mr. and Mrs. R.
J. Lemons, W. H. Barnhill, E. H.
Blume, Mr. and Mrs. John Straser,
Anna Straser, Lulu Straser, Miss
Dickson.
HOME RULE PLANK
HOUSTON, June 28. (£>)—'The Al.
askan Delegation submitted a Home
Rule Plank which will be considered
by the Platform Committee in execu.
tive session.
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SMITH HIKES
FB1KLIW ROOSEVELT
AL IS THE TRAIL BLAZER TO THE
HIGH ROAD; LIVELY FIGHTS
OCCUR
HOUSTON, June 28. (JP)~In a late
session the Democrats staged a more
spirited demonstration. Franklin
Roosevelt, in nominating A1 Smith,
called him a “happy ■warrior” upon
whose sihoulders victory is already
perched.
A wild 20 minute ovation followed
the nomination which was marked by!
several lively fights over the State
banners of dubious Southern States-.
Senator George from Georgia, Evans
Woollen and Representative Ayres
from Kansas, also received their share
of praise from their sponsors.
Roosevelt said “America needs not
only an administrator but a leader, a
pathfinder, a blazer of the trail to the
high road that will avoid the bottom,
less morass of crass materialism that
has engulfed so many of the great
civilizations in the past. Its a privi.
lege of democracy not only to offer
such a man but to offer him as the
surest leader to victory, to sally forth
to battle and win for the principles.
“It is heroic to sally forth to battle
but to win for principles is something
more than heroic. We offer one who
has the will to win; one who not only
deserves success but commands it.
Victory is his habit.”
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OVERWHELMING VOTE
SEATS DELEGATES
PLEDGED SMITH
HOUSTON, June 28. <£>)—By an
overwhelming vote the Credentials
Committee of the Democratic Conven.
tion seated 26 Delegates, pledged or
instructed for A1 Smith.
Foremost in interest was the Dele,
gate contest from Louisiana in which
a block _of 20 Smith pledged votes
were given preference over the slate
claimed by Reed. Of the 49 votes re.
corded only spvofn favored seating
Reed; the faction of the other six
Smiith delegates seated were the
Canal Zone faction.
MORE NOMINATIONS SPEECHES
ARE ON TAP THIS EVENING’S
SESSION
HOUSTON, June 28. (/P)—While its
last real disagreement over prohibi.
tion is adjusting itself in the Commit,
tee the Democratic Convention spent
its wailing hours paying tribute to a
little cortege of “Favorite Son” Can.
didates whose supporters are still re.
fusing to board the Smith “band
wagon”, in hours of stump speaking
hurrahing one after another of the
already beaten minor candidates who
have been placed formally in nornina.
tion; and some have given militant
and colorful demonstrations of loyalty
by Home State Delegations.
SECONDING SPEECHES
The Convention likewise heard an.
other batch of seconding speeches for
Smith whose name was presented last
night by Miseourians who want Jim
Reed, in which the House put on 20
minutes of demonstration when he
was put in nomination.
With the help of Conventionn bands,
enough cowbells to supply a sizable
dairy herd, they kept the Convention
Hall vibrating as they paraded about
the wide aisles shouting praises of
their man.
RECESSED THIS A. M.
It was the hope of Convention mana.
gers to get the nominating speeches
over and Platform adopted before
night, then nominate the Presidential
nominee in the evening sssion. That
will make final adjustment poscsdble
for tomorrow.
The Convention recessed this morn,
ing until 3 o’clock this afternoon when
more nominating speeches and the
Platform presentation is expected.
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GERMAN GIRL'S PLANE
CRASHES IN TIKE-OFF
CAPE de la MADELEINE, Quebec,
June 28. {IP)—Miss Thea Rasche, Ger.
man girl flier who hoped to make a
nonstop flight to Berlin and crew, es.
caped uninjured when their memo,
plane the Northern Star, crashed thru
busses in an attempt to take.off in a
test flight.
Ulrich Koenemann, pilot and me.
chanic Zebora, were in the plane with
Miss Rasche. The ship was net
seriously damaged.
NOTED ACTOR DIES
l HIGHLAND, New Jersey, June 28,
(flP)—Robert Bruce Mantell, noted
Shakespearian actor and produce*’,
died after a two month’s illness.
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