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VOLUME XXIII. NUMBER 177. SEWARD, ALASKA MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1928.
PRICE TEN CENTS
PLANE, EXPRESS
SERVICE, SEATTLE
TO S. E. ALASKA
1«JKEE GIANT PASSENGER AM
PHIBIAN PLANES HAVE BEEN
ORDERED 1
.SEATTLE, Nov., 19, UP)—A daiiy
passenger and express service be
tween Seattle and Southeastern Al
aska by which the trip can be made ■
in a few hours will start April 1 by .
means of three giant 14-passengei
amphibian planes. These plans
were disclosed Saturday by Charles
V EaMn, president and general
manager of the Union Air Line who
has been in Seattle during recent
weeks planning the proposed ser
vice.
This means,” he said “that busi
ness men in Juneau may arrive 'n
Seattle in nine hours and from Ket
chikan in six hours. Passengers
from the North may spend a night'
in Seattle then be in Los Angeles
the next morning by means of our
Westcoast Air Transport affiliated
■rvice.”
ON THE SE ATTLE-ALASKA
tin a plane is to start each morn
nog from each end of the route.
Landings in Alaska will be in the
vaster and landings in Seattle will
he at Boeing Field which will he the
operating headquarters for th ^er
n:ce. - *
Construction of hangars starts ac
Boeing Field today Eakin said and
Capital for the Seattle-Alaska ser
vice has been over-subscribed here
Seattle by cannefy men and
others to whom T have presented
the proposal.”
THE COMPANY ALSO
:,uv5 a new triangular service be
tween Seattle-Vancouver and Vic-j
:.ria; hire raft "or both services
•.eve been ordered. Referring lo
these Vnk:n said “Five Sikorsky
amphibian planes have been order
'd for there two services at a cost
oi SCO 000 a piece.
On the Alaska run, which v/e ’
propose to maintain on a daily
schedule from April 1 to November
i we shall have on each ship
licenser1 marine navigator in addi
tion lo the air pilot and mechanic.
The phones wP! be so built that the
central portion will be a boat;
there will be no pontoons except;
lateral ones on each side as aid in 1
balancing the craft.
“AS A MATTER OF FACT
the planes will be able to taxi over
' he surface of the water at 60 miles
an hour as easiiy as fly. Each plane j
will have twin motors either motor j
capable of li;mg fue ship msily rtj
r apacity load. We shall supply fly- ;
mg places for eight passengers on j
each of the tnree planes on the A1 - i
ask a route.”
The planes have a cruising speed;
of about 110 mile? an hour ana &j
maximum speed of 135 miles. The
olanes will fly low. Eakin said, fol
lowing the Inside Passage. All five
planes will be enuioped with radio 1
and be in continuous communica
tion with stations on both ends.
BOY HANGS SELF
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov., 19, C/P) -
Cobby Foster, 16,-year-old high
.school boy. despondent because he
had been taken out of a football
game, hanged himself in his home
at Walnut Creek.
JOINS PRESIDENT-ELECT
WASHINGTON, Nov. 19, (/P)—
! Henry P. Fletcher .now Ambassador
! to Italy and regarded as the States
foremost authority on Latin Ameri
can affairs was designated to ac
company President-elect Hoover on i
his “good will” tour to South Amer
ica.
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PROPERTY DAMAGE RUNS IN
TO THE MILLIONS OVER
FOUR STATES
Tr f\ X tc; a q (~?Tn','r'' 'T1 ° ^
Snow fell over the flooded areas of
; Kansas .Missouri and Oklihoma in
tensifying the suffering and hard
ship ef thousand of ner-ons who
jweve driven from their homes by
overflows which followed an unpio
cedented November downpour.
With the known toll of dead and
missing standing at 12 additional
hives are endangered by possible
\ outbreaks of disease which is ex
, peeled to follow from the severe
[climatic change which held the
■ temperature in the lower.30?.
National and local relief agencies
■ o-V" -I the flooned section
^ginyi to o mbat the ,.ew menace
mid aid r’e^abiUtation
many of whom will be hard put to
’•ead.inst their living conditions oc
: fore the advent of severe winter
: weather.
The property damage inns into
the million:; I he princin .1 loss being
to crons, livestock, floodea homes
aiid business buildings
BOXEll WILL ENTER SOUTH
EASTER ALASKA SERVICE
DURING TIIE WINTER
SEATTLE, Nov., 19, (/P)—“I wan
ta see bears and camels and ali
kinds of animals,” wailed little
Sigrid Allison, age 11, when she
! arrived yesterday aboard the M
S. Boxer, Bureau of Education
vessel, from Kodiak.
|
She has lived at Kodiak all of her
life, and saw her first locomotive
here. She will now go to Burling
ton, California to live with an
Aunt for her mother died in Alas
; ka.
Another small passenger was
Eva,; also three other Eskimo,
| all four whom will enter the Or
thopedic hospital for treatment
for face disfiguration.
Miss Olive Earnhouse, nurse at
White Mountain, brought the
i youngsters down on the Boxer af
' ter four months away, to a day,
since the vessel left here before.
The Boxer brought in Polar
bear skins, furs, GO tons of tin ore
from Prince of Wales Island, and
other cargo was loaded at principal
Alaska ports.
Captain Whitman says he will
stay here for awhile then enter
into the service of Southeastern
Alaska calling at Bureau stations
in that district.
EMBARKS TOMORROW
i
PALO ALTO, Nov., 19, (/P)—
President Elect Herbert Hoover
left in a special car for San Pedro
where he embarks tomorrow for
his “Good Will’ trip to South Amer
ica.
body will be returned to
MARION FOR BURIAL IN
FAMILY BLOT
SANTA ANA, Calif., Nov., 19, (JP)
—Dr. George Harding, 85, father
of the late President Warren Hard
ing, died this morning the result
of a paralytic stroke on Friday
Dr. Harding came here from
Marion, Ohio recently, to spend the
winter and to be among some of
his comrades of the Civil war
whom he sometimes treated.
He was unconscious much of
the time after the stroke which
affected his entire right side and
vocal organs. In his few conscious
moments he was able to speak a
few words to Mrs. Harding and
dander Mrs. Carl Votaw, both of
whom were at the bedside, as also j
was Mrs. E. E. Remsberg, another
daughter.
He had been staying at the
P ■ .berg home and here funeral
services will be held tomorrow ;the
body will be returned to Marion
for burial.
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NEGRO STOKER TESTIFIES OF
FICERS, MEN THOUGHT
BOAT WOULD FLOAT
NEW YORK, Nov., 19, (/P)—In be
half of the owners of the British
steamship Vestris, which sank last
week oft the coast of Hampton
Roads ancl in which over 100 lives
were lost, that they cautioned the
Captain of the steamer to delay
sending out SOS calls, focusses
attention on the radio messages
obtained by Federal Attorney Tut
tle, on David Cook, vice president;
and Sanderson & Son, American
agents for the Lamport & Holt
Line
The company representative de
clared “We had no message from
Captain Carey
UNTIL AFTER WE HAD
asked him what the trouble was.
The first we knew of any trouble
was at 10:15 Monday morning
when somebody at station W O R
called up and asked us if we had
heard of the S O S signals which
the Vestris was sending ant.
“I immediately rang up the Ra
dio Marine Corporation and asked,
them for details which they gave
me. I then instructed them to send
a wireless to Captain Carey asking
him what the trouble was and his
reply was the first communica
tion we had had from him.”
Attorney Tuttle has subpoenaed
| the radio files of merchant ships,
including the Voltaire of the Lam
oort Line, which was the nearest
of it’s ships to the Vestris. He also
obtained Navy records of all radio
messages concerning the Vestris.
John Boxil. negro stoker, testi
fied that officers and the crew did
not believe that the Vestris would
sink but thought they would have
to be towed in and wished the Vol
tairs to do this in order to save
salvage fees.
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FAIRBANKS MINING SIAN SENDS
i gold SHIP TO SEATTLE BY
MAIL ROUTE
[B SJEvni
SEATTLE, Nov., 19,
of bonanza days in Alaska were re
Ivealed when J. R. .Weaver of Fair
banks sent a poke of gold by mail
to the Outside in a few days. The
;poke jcaaiq, here just as the big
joad%-<?f: M dirt from the Klondike
came during the memorial golsl
r\iqU dnd qbpsisted of two nuggets
an4 dast Ayjth -a pp^e. .en^esed.
, Hre note xeadi'^he 'eiicjosed is
fine.gold and I V.’ill thtiWk you if
yfnv can co’Teet'anything for it and
place flie proceeds to my. credit.”
The&dld ia being-assaved hv a sav
ing .association..