MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXIII. NUMBER 175. SEWARD, ALASKA WEDNESDAY, NOV., 28, 1928.
PRICE TEN GENTS
H URGES
U. S. BIB ML
THROUGH corny
AMERICAN PEOPLE WILL CO
OPERATE FOR BUILDING UP
OF PROSPERITY
u. S. S. MARYLAND, off CORIN
TO, Nicaragua, Nov., 28. (/P)—Presi
dent Diaz and President-elect Mon
cada of Nicaragua urged that the
^United States build the Nicaragua
Canal linking the Atlantic with the
Pacific.
Following a luncheon aboard the
Maryland with Mr. Hoover the two
officials expressed this view to
newspapermen in an interview de
claring they favored retention of
the United States marines in Nic
aragua until the training of their
own national guard has been com
pleted two years hence.
Both declared the construction of
the canal would be economically
advantagous, also a bulwark to the
liberties of American Republics.
Moncada said he had discussed the
canal with Hoover.
At the luncheon Mr. Hoover
toasted Nicaragua, in water, saying
before drinking “American people
will co-operate with Nicaraguan
people for building up the prosperi
ty of Nicaragua.” Then turning to
Moncada he added: “I treasure this
as a great day in my care"* aiu^as
President-elect of the United States
T hope General Moncada will re
member it as one of the great days
of his career."
NOISY WELCOME
EXTENDED HOOVER
AT COSTA RICA
SJIORE BATTERIES EXCHANGE
SALUTES WITH BATTLESHIP
MARYLAND
PUNTA AREHAS, Costa Rica,
Wov., 38, i.P)—President-elect Her
hert Hoover was Riven a noisy wel
come when he landed at 8:30 this
morning. Shore batteries exchanged
salutes with the Battleship Mary
land which anchored half an hour
earlier in the roadstead.
Ships in the harbor including the
British vessel Salvador, decorated
with flags; a large crowd awaited
on the wharf and a native police
band played as the visitors came!
ashore
A Cabinet delegation met Mr.
Hoover who left soon for the capi
tal. San Jose, where he will be re
ceived by President Cleto Gonzales
Viqucz.
SIX PLANES CRASH
WARSAW, Poland, Nov., 28, (/P)
FA>: airplanes crashed in a dense fog
as they tried to land at the aviation
field and three of the pilots were
killed.
DENIED ESTATE
PARIS, Nov., 27, (/P)—Petite
Jacques Lebaudy, self styled wid
ow of the “Emperor of the Sa
r hara” was denied any part in the
estate of her ‘“husband” on the
grounds that their union was not
a legal marriage.
STUDIES SCHOOLS
I WASHINGTON, Nov., 28, ■(£>)—
Miss Charlotte Young, the first
woman to hold a Rhodes travel
ing fellowship, is in this country
inspecting the various universities
and studying the educational sy
stem. She is a graduate of Oxford
] university.
POLICEMAN SHOT
BY USE ss m
\ WOUNDED IN BED
PREVIOUS LOVE AFFAIR; NURSE
TURNED GUN UPON HERSELF
MAY DIE
DENVER, Nov.. 28, (/P)— Rovert K
Evans, Denver policeman, confin
ed to the General Hospital by
wounds received in a gun fight last
week which cost the life of his com
panion, Patrolman Harry Ohle, was
shot and killed as he lay in bed
shortlv after 5 o’clock this morning
by Miss Fraice King, nurse at the
hospital. She then turned the gun
on herself inflicting a wound which
is expected to cause her death
One of the two notes found on a
stand in the room, written by the
nurse gave her reason for the
shooting. Attaches at the hospital
.•verc u't tne opinion Miss King and
i Evans, prior to Evans’ marriage,
had had a love affair.
CUBA TO RAISE RICE
HAVANA, Nov., 27, UP)—Havana
province of Cuba expects to become
an important rice center. Cultiva
tion there has proven such a suc
cess that the Department of Agri
culture is planning to stimulate
production by aiding growers with
sprout plantings and technical ad
ministration.
ANOTHER STORM i
BREWING Oil WEST
COAST OF EUROPE
DECEIVED BY TEMPORARY LULL
10 FISHING BOATS LEFT;
' TWO SINK
I
PARTS, Nov., 28, (/P)—With tne
lowlands of Holland and Belgium
flooded another storm appeared to
he brewing over Western Europe.
Mountainous seas prevented pi- ’
lots from reaching ships off the
french coast with the result many
j vessels were forced to remain on
i the tossing waves outisde of Harve,
j Bordeaux and other ports.
I Deceived bv the temporary lull in
'the storm 10 fishing boats put out
to see and were caught in a squall;
eight got back but two sank and
1 three men drowned.
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F1II.S II ATTEMPT
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KF\WEST. Fla., Nov., 28, <JP)—
Leonard Flo, youthful Canadian
fiver who was attempting a non
stop hop from Wakerville, Ont., to
Havana Cuba, failed late yesterday
when within 90 miles of his goal.
He was seized with illness after
! 1 he long Hight and was forced to
land here in the afternoon and was
taken to a hospital.
Later upon going to his hotel he
told the manager of the hotel that
he would fly to Havana tomorrow
and then attempt a non-stop flight,
from Havana to Detroit. The illness
was due to caffeine capsules taken
to keen him awake.
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j SEWARD HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL TEAM
These are the lads who leave Seward tomorrow on
their annual invasion of Anchorage where they will bat
tle out three games; Reading from the back row, left
to right; Guy Manthey, Francis Leslie, Captain Jack
Rosness, Coach E. J. Bath. Front row, left to right,
Donald Shellhorn, Raymond Manthey, Howard Hayes and
Otto Sandbeck.
OFF FOR COSTA RICA
TJ. S. S. MARYLAND, Nov., 28, (A5)
—President-elect Herbert Hoover j
departed from Corinto late yester- 1
day for Punta Arenas, Cast Rica,
where he was due this morning.
EXPLORATION OF
SUMMER OF 1930 IS TIME SET
FOR EXPLORATION OF THE
UNKNOWN
BERLIN, Nov. 28, (£>)—Air explor
ation in the Arctic, Northeast of Al
aska in April 1930 with he dirigible.
Graf Zeppelin ,was decided here
yesterday. Fridjoe Nansr. famous
Scandinavian explorer, will com
mand the expedition which will be
under the ausoi is of the Aero A.:
die Society.
Von Guerard, Minister of Com
merce. and the Director of Aviation,
Major Brandenburg, were called in
to conference which was attended
bv Nansen Eckener and Captain
;Bruirs. secretary general of the
Aero Arctic Society. Eckener is also
I ore of the directors of the Society
but has not decided whether he will
ake part in the flight.
I The tentative route calls for the
start at Friederichshafen via Lenin
frad to Nome and from there a loop
will be made over the unexplored
regions Northeast of Alaska. The
I return will be made the same route
'without the loop.
NOT CHICAGO!
! MARSEILLES, France, Nov., 28,
UP)—Marseilles witnessed its first
robbery in an American manner
when five armed bandits in an au
tomobile held up three bank em
ployees on a main street, kiilink one
and wounding the other two. The
thieves escaped with $14,300
FOR HAUBiiTERS
MEMBERS OF CREW
TWO BOATS PROBABLY MISSING
SINCE BEFORE NOVEMBER
15, THOUGHT
JUNEAU. Nov., 28. (/P)—The or
j ganized search underway for the
missing halibuters Brunvoll ana
Imperial of Ketchikan with 12 men
| aboard has been fruitless and fear
is growing that the vessels were
Host with all hand in the storm of
last week.
| The cutter Unalaa wirelessed she
was cruising around Middleton Is
land in the Gulf of Alaska, and
that the cutter Cygan is patrolling
around Icy Straits. Neither vessel
reported any trace of the missing
boats.
: Another cause for increasing
'alarm was word from Lem Butts,
of the troUer Skate at. SoaD Stone
Point, at the north end of the Alex
andei Archipelago, that the missing
boats were not in the Dixons Har
bor on November 15 as was first re
norted.
Meanwhile th° Volunteer, Rescue,
Crent and Senator, the latter one
of the largest of its type in South
eastern Alaska, jcined with the cui -
trrs in seaitb aid are setting out
from Ketchikan Monday nighf with
volunteers
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TUG BOAT WITH 12 VOLUN
TEERS ON BOARD SEARCH
GULF COAST
KETCHIKAN, Nov., 28. (/P)—Con
fidert that the crews of the missing
halibut schooners are alive a volun
teer crew of 12 men left last night
aboard the salvage tup Akutan to
search the coast of the Alaskan
Gulf.
The tug is under the joint com
mand of Capt. L. H. Jennings, own
er, and Capt. Chris Ross, and is
nrepared for a three weeks’ trip.
If nothing is found on the coast
from Yakutat to Cape St. Elias the
tug will proceed to Middleton Is
lar.o. Fishermen recalled when a
schooner wa* lost at Yakataga five
vears ago the men salvaged some
loco from their boat and. lived 22
days until rescued.
PLAN TO AID FARMERS
WSHINGTON, Nov. 27. (/P)—The
extension of the cooperative
marketing system with a Central
Administrative board and Feder
al support will be recommended
‘o Congress by President Coolidge
as a safe plan to aid the farmers,
it was said in official circles.
NO OBLIGATION
WASHINGTON, Nov. 27. (JP) —
Herbert Hoover need not feel that
he owes any obligation to the
j Methodist Episcopal Church, Anti
Saloon League, or the W. C. T. U.
This declaration was embodied in
I a statement from the Methodist
Episcopal Church.