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VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 187. SEWARD, ALASKA. MONDAY, AUGUST 12. 1929.
PRICE TEN CENTS
SPEEDING Til
TWEE!
BUDGET WATCHED ACCIDENT
FROM HOME WHERE HE WAS
DRAWING WATER
DALLAS. Aug., 12, (/P)—Thirteen
were killed when the Sunshine
Special struck a truck virtually
wiping out two families who were
returning home from a picnic
Eleven were killed outright. Two
died in hospitals. The 14th member
is in the hospital with both legs
broken.
Mrs. Iva Badgett, her seven child
ren; two unidentified persons and
three members of A. M. C. Henry
family, were the victims of the ac
cident which occurred as Badgett
watched from a home where he
was drawing water from a well.
The names of those killed are:
Mrs. Iva Badgett, 46; Vera and Eva,
twins, 23 years old; Emma. 19; Tex
as. 16; Birdie, seven; Maeak, seven;
Mary Joe, two; Jessie six; E. Henry
55: Mrs. Henry, 50; Willie, five;
Beulah, 16; Henry eight; and an
unidentified person. v
IMHT
GOLF STS5T5 SEPT. 2
NEW YORK. Aug., 12. UP)—After
applying the official pruning knife
to the original entry list, the United
States Golf Association made pub
lic the pairings for 162 starters in
the National amateur champion
• ship. Play starts on September 2,
over the Pebble beach course of the
^ Del Monte golf and country club,
California.
Headed by Bobby Jones, the four
time champion, the file comprises
the foremost picked amateur tal
ent.
ISSUED AN OFFER
WASHINGTON. Aug.. 12, UP)—
Foreign capital issued, offered pub
.. tty in the United States during
the second quarter of 1929 amount
ed to S212.000.000. Canada led in
financing.
McPherson, Kas-, Aug., 12,(/P)
Because a 5,000 barrel oil well wras
completed on his place near here,
O. M. Ritz lost his job of hcfti car
rier in McPherson and with it his
". ages of $5 a day.
He told his employer that he
would not quit his job until his pay
checks from his oil land started to
ccme in or he was fired. “Alright,
consider yourself fired”, replied his
boss and Ritz had to quit work.
CREW SAFE ON BEACH
SEATTLE, Aug., 12, (/P)—Await
ing the arrival of the Russian ship
Stavatoll, 20 men of the crew of
the Elisif are safe on the beach
with plenty of provisions after
beaching the Elisif Saturday three
miles east' of Kolyma river, Siberia
to prevent its foundering. The
vessel was damaged by ice. The
Stavatoll is expected today.
SENATORS WON
ST. LOUIS, Aug., 12, (/P)—The St.
I Louis Browns lost to Washington.
iThis dropped them from third to
(fourth place as Cleveland beat the
Yankees. Blaeholder yielded 11 hits;
one a homer by Corin. The Browns
hammered Burke for nine innings,
retiring in the ninth with Thomas
at the finish.
SEES OF THIS
ROCKED POIITIOIIS OF
FIVE EflSTERN STSTES
UNDATED, Aug., 12, (/P)—A series
of earth tremors varying in inten
sity, rocked portions of five eastern
states and one Canadian province.
The tremors were reported as far
east as Springfield, Mass to Asha
bula, Ohio; south to Pennsylvania;
and north to Toronto.
Considerable damage was done
in western New York and other
places. The shocks were confined
to window shaking and awakening
sleepers at Attica, N. Y. It is also
reported that the walls of a church
collapsed. Falling chimneys dam
aged other buildings.
STAMBOUL. Turkey, Aug., 12,(/P)
—The old question “Am I my broth
er’s keeper?” has just been auswer
ed in the affirmative by the pre
fecture of Stamboul, the answer
taking the form of a drastic law.
Under this law every well-to-do
family in each of the many dis
tricts into which the city is divided,
must see to it that at least one pau
perized family living in the same
district does not starve or suffer
from exposure.
DEATH RATE INDUSTRIAL PO
PULATION PARELLELS RATE
ENTIRE COUNTRY
g a statis
entire pro
the United
WASHINGTON, Aug. 12. (£>)—
A mounting death rsite from al
coholism and an increased alco
holic insanity was pictured by the
charts published by i the associa
tion against the prohibition
amendment presentii
tical survey of the
hibition period in
States.
These manifestations wer
companied by evide ices o.
i creased production afid. eeffsump
; tion of illicit liquor.
The charts are based on indices
| “accepted by both wets and drys
| being accurate and valid.” The |
death rate is* described as being
[almost prewar level; having shown
| a steady increase since 1920.
After a sharp decline prior to
j and during the first year of pro
hibition, the statistics of life in-;
! surance 'companies co not bear
! out the contention that drink
ing is confined onlvjn the rich I
while among the working classes
the drinking almost entirelly dis
appeared. On the contrary the
! chart shows that the rate from
alcoholism among the industrial
population parallels the death
j rate for the entire country. This j
i rate is placed at six tenths of
: one per cent per 100.000 popula
i tion.
In 1920 this rate reached its
slight decline in the next two years :
peak of 37 in 1926 followed a
i drunkeness figures are said to
have been nearly equal.
PULLMAN AND BUNGALOW
COMBINED BY MILLIONAIRE
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Fred D. Martin of Kansas City (above) has all the home com
forts in his traveling motor car (above).
REMARKABLE CROSSING
HORTA, Azorie Islands, Aug., 12, ,
(/P)—The 46-foot “Ketch Carlsark” !
dropped anchor in the harbor here
with its crew of four amateur sail
ors, all of whom were Cornell Uni- j
versity men, after a remarkable'
crossing of the Atlantic in 12 days.
They intend continuing thru Gi-1
bralter to the Mediterranean.
FIVE ARRESTED
FOR ASSAULTING
LOS ANGELES GI
COAT LED TO ARREST ONE;
OTHERS FOLLOWED AFTER
QUESTIONING
LOS ANGELES, Aug., 12, (/P)—
Ansel Alvarado, 25; Henry Dapper,
22; Lewis Burton, 22; Robert Warn
er, 20; and Carl Bright, ‘23, all of
Los Angeles, were arrested on
charges of assaulting Ruth Manske,
17 year-old shop girl.
It is alleged .{.j^ kidnapped her
from the sidewajjf in front of the
girl’s home. girl’s story said
a man escorted her home and left
her when five men grabbed her and
drove her to an isolated section.
Three held her down in the rear
seat using improvised gag. She was
then-dragged from the car by four
of the men and "attacked.”1 Tft'efT
one man relieved the fifth in the
car. She forced one hand free and
pulled away the gag and screamed
as the fifth man arrived; she then
fainted.
Alvarado was arrested near the
lot; a coat found led to the arrest
of Burton; others followed after
questioning of the two.
STiDllG OF LESEUES
AMERICAN LEAGUE
CLUB
Philadelphia
New York
Cleveland
St. Louis
Detroit
Washington
Chicago
Boston
W.
78
65
56
56*
52
44
43
32
L.
31
39
51
52
55
60
65
73
NATIONAL LEAGUE
CLUB
Chicago
Pittsburgh
New York
Brooklyn
Cincinnati
Boston
Philadelphia
W.
70
63
60
46
44
43
41
L.
30
41
48
60
61
63
63
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
CLUB W. L.
San Francisco 27 16
Mission 27 16
Hollywood 26 16
Los Angeles 25 3 8
Oakland 22 22
Portland 20 2fi
Sacramento 15 26
Seattle 9 35
Pet.
716
625
523
519
514
423
391
305
Pet.
686
606
556
434
419
406
394
Pet
628
628
619
581
500
476
636
205
NO STEAM TRAINS
HONOLULU, Aug., 12. (ZP)— All
steam passenger trains have been I
discontinued on the Island of
panies report heavy bookings
places- Steam freight trains are
used to haul pineapples to the
packing plants in this city or
to carry sugar cane from the
plantations to the mills.
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DULY GASES I!
COOLED EXPLODE
THREE MEN DEAD
CLEANING AND REPAIRING IN
STORAGE ROOM; BODIES
BLOWN 20 FEET
HOUSTON, Tex., Aug., 12, (/PL
Three crushed and amonia-black
ened bodies are in the morgues and
several workmen and rescuers are
recovering from the effects of the
deadly refrigeration gases, as a re
sult of an explosion at a Phoenix
dairy.
The dead are Chester Hilton, en
gineer; L. A. Robinson, electrician;
and Robert E. Williams, a work
man and all of Houston.
The blast occurred while Hilton,
and Robinson were cleaning out a
shell tube brine copier in the ice
storage room, preparatory to re
pairing an amonia leak. Hilton’s
body was blown 20 feet into an ice
pit where it was found floating an
hour later. Robinson’s body was
blown thru a cork insulated wall.
GILROY, Calif., Aug., 12, (/P)—
One man is dead and 15.000 acres
of bushland has been burned over
as a result of a fire near Mt. Hamil
ton. The fire was checked.
Ed Cooper is the dead man. He
was killed while fighting fire on
the O’Connell ranch. His clothing,
saturated with an inflamable
squirrel killing fluid, caught fire
and caused his death.
The fire on the mountain, ex
tended into three counties before
it was controlled.
POISON CANDY
OTTAWA. Kas., Aug., 12, (/P)—Ray
Kenneback, 22, confessed to offi
cers that he had put poison in
candy last week which caused the
de^th of his six-year-old niece,
Elvaerne Barnes.'
L
ID HOSE PRIZE
KANSAS CITY, Aug., 12, f/P*—
Prizes for the American Royal
horse show next fall will total $40,
000, double the amount previously
awarded at this annual turf classic.
Most of the additional prize
money will go'to winners of the
three and five-gaited saddle cham
pionships to attract more entrants.
LEFT $25,000,000 ESTATE
LONDON, Aug., 12, (A5)—The late
Bernard Baron, tobacco magnate,
left an estate estimated at $25,000.
000 on which taxes will amount to
$10,000,000. It is expected $5,000,000
will go to charities.
BURNED TO DEATH
SACRAMENTO, Aug., 12, (/P)—
Six members of a party of Chinese
returning from a wedding near
here, were burned to death when
their automobile collided with an
other car which overturned and
caught on fire. Two other Chinese
were injured; one perhaps fatally.