COAST TERMINAL FOR THE ALASKA RAILROAD
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 1927.
VOLUME XXII. NUMBER 46.
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DRIPPING SPRINGS STRIKE OVER
SHADOWS RECENT WEEPAH
FIND—RUSH IS ON
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PHOENIX, Ariz., March 16. (JP)—A
gold strike overshadowing the Wee
pah, Nev., find, was made in the Drip
ping Springs country 130 miles east of
Phoenix. James B. Girand, veteran
hard rock miner and engineer, dis
played samples which a Phoenix assay
office .reported assayed $100,900 to the
ton. Hundreds of Arizonians are
rSfshing to the scene of the strike. Dan
McGraw, veteran Nevada prospector,
made the find. Girand said the gold
lies in brecciated masses, ground up
between quartzite and diabase forma
tions, the greater part being free wire
gold.
TRAP SHOOTING IS POPULAR
WASHINGTON, March 16. (JP)—
There are more than 5,000 trap
shooting clubs in the United States
and last year approximately 70,000,
000 targets were used in club shoots.
Sportmen in large numbers turn to
trap shooting for their recreation
after the game seasons are over.
W. P MOYES DROPPS DEAD FROM
HEART FAILURE-TOWN IS
WITHOUT LIGHT
PETERSBURG, March 16. (^—As
sistant Electrician W. P. Moyes drop
ped dead of heart failure at his post
at the city hydro-electric plant Sunday.
H^b.wife shut off the machinery and
the city was without light and power
for 24 hours. The telephone line wras
down because of snow and the body
did not arrive here until last night.
CAPT. F. T. COURTNEY PROPOSES
(PLANE HOP FROM LONDON
NEXT MONTH
l^gKDON, March 16. (£>)—Captain
F. T. Courtney who will make an at
tempt in April to fly from England
to New Zealand in seven days, has
selected the route to be taken.
The airplane will fly from England
across Europe to Malta, where the
first stop will be made. A second
hop will take the machine to Egypt,
thenqe it will fly to Bushire, Kara
chi, across the Indian Ocean to the
Straits Settlements and on to Port
Darwfti in Northern Australia. Three
more hops will take the airplane to
New Zealand. Landings will be made
6^'y in daylight.
Captain Courtney will have a re
lief pilot, and a navigator and a
wireless operator will complete the
crew.
ATTEMPT POISON
HUSBAND, CHILDREN;
LOVED ANOTHER MAN
INJECTED POISON INTO MEAT;
FAMILY WOULDN’T EAT IT
ACCOUNT OF BITTERNESS
SALT LAKE CITY, March 16. (£>)—
Mrs. Bernard Peterson confessed that
she poisoned Kenneth Peterson, aged
two years, and Margaret, aged one in
a plot to destroy her husband and
four children. She declared her love
for another man prompted the action.
She wanted to free herself so she
could run away with the other man.
The poison was placed in meat, but
her husband and two other children
would not eat the meat because it
tasted bitter.
RECORD IN H. FORD
CASE IS LIBRARY
MOST SCIENTIFIC ANALYSIS OF
PHILOSOPHY OF INVESTMENT
VALUES TO DATE
WASHINGTON, March 16. (/P)—
The government’s effort to collect
$30,000,000 additional taxes from form
er minority stockholders of the Ford
Motor company promises to produce
a valuable library of information and
precedents for future tax litigation.
The records of the hearings conduct
ed by the United States Board of Tax
Appeals, here and at Detroit, has at
tained huge dimensions and, in the
opinion of the score of attorneys en
gaged in the fight, contains a mass of
information not heretofore available
in such convenient form relating to
corporation stock valuation.
That knowledge, contributed by le
gal authorities, taxation experts and
economists, is expected to go far to
* ward clarifying the nebulous concep
tion of how common stock in a close
corporation is to be appraised, which
has prevailed since the federal income
tax law went into effect March 1, 1913.
Arthur J. Lacy, of Detroit, counsel
for Senator James Couzens and three
other applicants is convinced that “in
this case more testimony has been
presented on the valuation of common
stocks and intangibles than has ever
been brought together in any one pre
ceding” and that it “probably contains
the most scientific analysis of the
philosophy of investment values ever
presented by experts in any similar
litization.”
The record, he thinks, will be of
great value not only to tax boards, se
curity and commerce commissions, but
to the investing public as well.
QUEEN'S PASTIME
THE HAGUE. March 16. (JP)—
Queen Wilhemina, although the mon
arch of some 56,399,932 persons, and
much restricted by duties of state
craft in connection with her empire,
still finds time to engage in her
favorite pastime of sleighing and
skating.
CLEGHORN WINS ANOTHER
SEATTLE, March 16. (/P)—With a
hard straight left and a slashing right
hook, Walter Cleghorn of Seldovia,
middleweight, piled up points over
Phil Sheridan of Tacoma and won a
four-round decision.
MUTER CREEPS
INTO PORT OILY
BATTERED BY GULES
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CREW EATS RAW FOOD FOR FIVE
DAYS — FISHERMAN SWEPT
OVERBOARD
PETERSBURG, March 16. (JP)—
Crippled and storm-torn the halibuter
Carolen crept into port here. For
five days the crew had eaten only raw
food and had shivered through ?a rag
ing blizzard in water-soaked clothing.
Giant waves swept the masts and pilot
house away in a blinding snowstorm
southeast of Yakutat Friday. John
Blyseth, taking the midnight turn at
the wheel, followed the deck gear over
the side, but saved himself by grasp
ing a line. The crew battled the gale
for 30 hours before being able to make
sufficient repairs to get the boat back
to port.
CHINESE GENERAL IS
WILLING EVACUATE
FOR FIVE MILLION
HUNDRED AND FIFTY SPECIAL
LY PICKED AGITATORS CON
DUCT STRIKE CAMPAIGN
LONDON, March 16. (£>)—With the
Nationalist farces pressing the Shang
tungese near Shanghai and Nanking
comes the report that General Chang
Tsung Chang, Shantungese defender,
has offered to evacuate the zone of
hostilities for $5,000,000. If the money
is not paid he threatens to retreat into
Shanghai itself, bringing it within the
war area. The Chinese merchants
are unable or unwilling to raise the
money. A hundred and fifty special
ly picked and trained agitators from
Hankow are conducting a campaign
of intimidation and murder to insure
solid and prompt response to the gen
eral strike call issued under their di
rection. Labor unrest is increasing
greatly.
STEAMER CONTRACT AWARDED
WASHINGTON, March 16. (JP)—
The contract for the Canadian-West
Indies steamship service has been
awarded to a subsidiary of the Cana
dian National Railways, and service
will begin, it is hoped, within 15
months, according to an announce
ment just issued by the Department
of Commerce.
LIZARD PORRIDGE
LEICESTER, Eng., March 16. (/P)
—Central African native wives have
a firm belief in lizard porridge as a
food for errant husbands, according
to the Rev. A. S. D. Ranger, who has
returned home after many years
missionary work in Central Africa.
CAPT. C. S. COCHRAN
ELEVATED COMMAND
BERING SEA PATROL
QUTTER RAIDA DEPARTS FOR
UNALASKA THIS MONTH-SIX
CUTTERS WESTWARD
SAN FRANCISCO, March 16. (JP)—
Captain C. S. Cochran of the cutter
Bear, will be commander of the coast
guard ships of the Bering sea patrol
this year. Orders reaching here an
nounce that Cochran will leave late
in March aboard the cutter Haida to
assume his new duties in which he
will direct the operations of six cut
ter*.
EXPENDITURE OF APPROXIMATE
LY $48,000,000—400,000,000 GAL
LONS DAILY
SAN FRANCISCO, March 16. (/P)—
Twelve years of actual construction
work and the expenditure of approxi
mately $48,000,000 on the Hetch
Hetchy project has brought an addi
tional water supuly of 400,000,000 gal
lons daily, close to San Francisco.
The ultimate cost, however, will be
about $79,000,000 and will require sev
eral years more work before the
! maximum development of power and
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water is achieved as planned.
A variety of problems faced the
city engineers in attempting trans
portation of water more than 150 miles
from an altitude of 5,000 feet to sea
level; among these was construc
tion in a mountainous district of the
Sierras, of a railroad costing $3,000,
000, a series of water tunnels, the
longest of which was 18.2 miles, build
ing of several dams, one of which
stands 221 feet high and will have an
ultimate height of 312 feet, and put
ting a bridge pipe line across San
Francisco bay.
The completed aqueduct will consist
of 87 miles of tunnel, 10 feet 3 inches
in diameter, and 69 miles of large
steel pipe The tallest dam has a
foundation extending 118 feet below
the stream level.
The city is already using Hetch
Hetchy current. The ultimate output
is expected to yield five percent re
turn to the city on an investment of
$55,000,000
OSTEOPATH ISTS DENIED
WASHINGTON, March 16. (JP)—
An osteopathic physician has' no con
stitutional right that is infringed by
a regulation of .the State Board ex
cluding osteopathic physicians from
the conduct of a hospital maintain
ed by a State or subdivision thereof,
the use of which is reserved for
purposes of medical instruction, the
Supreme Court held in this appeal
from the District Court .for the
Southern District of Texas.
LIT* STARVING. MUST
ENTER FILMS TO LIVE;
BUT NOT THE BABIES
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WAS OFFERED $2,500 A WEEK TO^
APPEAR IN VAUDEVILLE WITH
CHILDREN
LOS ANGELES, March 16. (£>)—
Lita Grey Chaplin, unable to collect
alimony from Charlie, has been
“starved” into returning to the films.
The cost of maintaining the Beverly
Hills mansion is $2,000 a month. She
only received $100 weekly since she
'separated from her husband. Lita
! has been receving many offers from
motion picture and vaudeville circuits,
but all have been rejected. She an
nounced that she will return to the pic
tures within two weeks. An offer of
$2,500 a week and royalties for ap
pearance of herself and children was
| rejected because the babies will not
| be filmed.
JEFF ASHWORTH, UNDER 40 FEET
OF DIRT, SAYS HE RESTED
ALRIGHT
—
FUQUAY SPRINGS, N. C., March
i 16. (/P)—Buried alive for 13 hours un
der 40 feet of dirt in a 70-foot well,
; Jeff Ashworth was rescued by crews
which labored all night. He said he
I rested easily during the last five hours
and was able to talk to his companions
part of the time he was entombed.
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KOHL'S STORE STUM
IS DESTROYED BY EIRE
j DUTCH HARBOR, March 16. (£>)—
| United States oCmmissioner Drif
| field reported fire destroyed Komedal’s
! store at Unga, damaged other build
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I ings and threatened .the whole town.
Wet blankets and a bucket brigade
averted further damage. A high wind
raged while the fire burned.
CLOSE SILVER MINE
WASHINGTON, aMrch 16. (£>)—
The Norwegian government, which is
the owner of the Konigsberg silver
mine, is considering closing down the
mine, states a Teport to the Depart
ment of Commerce from Commercial
attache H. Sorensen, Oslo,-Norway,
just made public. The reason for this
step, it is stated, is the continued de
cline in silver prices which makes
continued operation of the mine un
profitable.
COUPLE SHARE PASTORATES
MANSFIELD CENTER, Conn., Mar.
16. (JP)—The Rev. Mrs. Florence
Jones is co-pastor with her husband,
the Rev. T. Hawthorne Jones, of two
churches of different denominations
here and at Spring Hill.