Seward,
Alaska
“Center of
Everything”
VOLUME XXIII. NUMBER 58.
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 1928. PRICE TEN CENTS
STEAMER ROBERT
E. LEE ASHORE ON
PLYMOUTH COAST
HUNDRED FIFTY PASSENGERS
ON BOARD AND A CREW OF
113: ALL SAFE
PLYMOUTH, Mass., March 10. (/P)
—The Eastern Steamship company
steamei Robert E. Lee is high and
dry on Mary Ann Rocks, two miles
grounded while bound from Boston
to New York.
Last night the engine room was
flooded. The stormy weather is im
proving. It is indicated no attempt
will be made to take off the 150 pas
sengers and 113 members of the crew
before high water late today. Earlier
plans were to transfer them to •
sistership of the Lee, the George
Washington tut this plan was abar.
doited due to the numerous reefs and
shallow water.
Several rescue ships are standing
by in the blinding snowstorm. The
gale is abating considerably. Radio
aif.ssag"? • srthe .sfeamer duri?»£
the night indicated she was in great
danger but later, fears were abated
The passengers are comfortab! b and
shore is no confusion.
PASSENGERS RESCUED
BOSTON, Mar. 10. (fl*)—The steam
ship company reported all of the 150
passengers on the Robert E. Lee
were safely removed and landed at
Plymouth.
LIFE GUARDS DROWN
PLYMOUTH, March 10. (£>)—'Two
members of the Manomet Coast
Guard station drowned when a surf
boat capsized in a heavy sea while
' returning to shore from the Robert
E. Lee. Seven others clung to an
c verturned boat and were rescued.
1
(MIDGE SIGNS
ALIEN PROPERTY
BILL, SETTLEMENT
WASHINGTON, March 10. (£>)—
President Coolidge signed the Alier
ft Property Bill providing for the settle
ment of American claims. againsl
Germany <and return of seized proper
ty. It has been disclosed previously
that President Coolidge did not regard
the ljill as satisfactory as the one
which was recommended by the Treas
ury.
He did not like the proposal of sal
aries for the clerk of the Senate an,d
House and some of the Tdeasury of
ficials.
The bill authorizes §100,000,000 ap
propriation for German-Aus tro-Hun
garian claims of §100,000 be settled in
ful. Claims of greater value will be
settled immediately at eight percent.
HUNDREDS DEAD, SLIDE
RIO JANEIRO, March 10. (JP)—
Reports from Santos said more than
200 were killed in a landslide in
Motserrat which buried many houses
and streets.
WAY 1 SEATTLE
CONFERENCES BEEN GOING ON
FOR TWO YEARS; LAST
MEET FAILURE
SAN FRANCISCO, March 10, (£>)—
Efforts to arrange a merger of eight
| Alaskan salmon canneries are con
itinuing though the confrees have an
! nounced they have thus far been un
| able to reach a decision. It was said
i the Conference would be continued
i Monday.
The confrees said they represented
small independent canneries operat
ing on the Southeastern Alaska Coast
and «ought C'v><iidat.i,o" to meet the
more”*aggressive competition of the
Facific American Fisheries company,
Bellingham and the Alaska Packers,
of San Francisco. They added that
th conference would be continued
| for two years and that the recent one
held in Seattle ended in failure.
ALASKA NORTHBOUND
HUS 289 ABOARD FOR
• ALASKAN PORTS
SEATTLE, March 10. (JP)—The S.
S. Alaska, of the A. S: S. Co., sailed
at 10 o’clock this morning carrying
289 passengers. The Seward listing
included: Earl S. Young, C. W. Huey,
Pete Johnson, B. H. Barndollar, Mr.
and Mrs. Ray Larson, J. L. Lucky, A.
J. Edwards, Ed Clausen, Henry P.
Karstens Otto Schallerer, F. Bolstad,
H. Lipsan, J. B. Methieb, H. Owen,
Dr. C. F. Dela Wergre, Burton Marsh
and brother, Mrs. Shorts, Mrs. Skelly,
Mrs. JoJhnson, Joe Dalton, C. J. Ryan,
Issac Bayles, R. A. Miosplat, Charles
Nicdlletti, H. Yago, Mr. and Mrs. Wm.
Anderson and child, H. Preisig, J. Y.
Vican and eight steerage.
PRIEST IS SENTENCED
TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT
I %
SANTA, March 10. (£>)—Mr. Good
win, former priest of the American
Catholic church was sentenced to life
imprisonment ill Folsom penitentiary
for the murder of J. J. Patterson of
Los Angeles. At a previous trial h€
was sentenced to hang but was give
a new trial. He was convicted again.
CHICAGO THE
SPECIAL ARTICLE
ALASKA RAILROAD
SENATE INQUIRY TO BE MADE;
$90,000,000 LINE SERVING ON
LY 8,000 PATRONS
The following article by Arthur
Crawford, special writer on the staff of j
the Chicago Tribune, will give Alas-j
kans an excellent idea of the real
harm to Alaska the jecent, article of
Col. W. P. Richardson in the Atlantic'
Monthly, has created in that it has1
served to bring to the fore the annual
squabble over the Congressional “foot-!
ball,” the Alaska Railroad. (Editor’s
’ . I
note.)
| WASHINGTON, (Special) Agita-1
tion is developing in Congress for an !
investigation to ascertain whether
American taxpayers are getting their
money’s worth for the millions of dol
i !
lars the government has poured into
i
Alaskan development.
Members of both branches of Con
gress are evidencing a desire to know
whether the expenditure of upward
of $60,000,000 for the construction of
the Alaskan Railroad, together with
more than $30,000,000 additional rep
resenting accrued interest charges and
operating deficits, has been justified.
With less than 30,000 white resi
dents in the entire territory of Alaska
served by the Alaska Railroad1, with
the population tending to dwindle
rather than increase, with placer
mines exhausted, and with conditions
showing little justification for imme
diate attempts to draw upon the min
eral and forest resources of the coun
try, members of Congress are coming
to the conclusion that,, the time is ripe
for a "checkup on the situation.
SPONSORS INVESTIGATION
Senator Howell (Rep., Neb.) is spon
' soring a resolution for an investiga
■ tion by a Senate Committee. His pro
posal has met with the approval of
• Senator Smoot (Rep., Utah) and Sena
’ tor Overman (Dem., N. C.,) ranking
- members of the Senate Committee on
1 apropriations, who for years have been
' skeptical of the wisdom of the Alas
• kan development program embarked
1 upon by the Government.
Senator Howell failed in an attempt
■ to amend the annual Interior Depart
;ment appropriations bill by providing
for the abandoment of two sections of
i
the Alaskan Railroad, but Senator
Smoot and others who opposed that
particular suggestion gave assurance
that the whole matter would be gone
into in an independent inquiry.
Impetus has been given to the pro
posal for an investigation by a recent
1 magazine article by Col, Willis P.
- Richardson, who spent 20 years in the
■ Territory and for whom the Richard
• son highway extending from Valdez
to Fairbanks is named.
RAISES QUESTION OF VALUE
(Continued on Page Two)
ANTENNA FOR UNDERSEA
WASHINGTON, March 10. {/?)—'To 1
keep the radio submarines in con
stant operation in all kinds of weath
er, navy engineers are working on the
problem of stormproof antenna.
MRS. FORREST AND MISS LEAKE
SUFFERING FROM COLD
AND EXPOSURE
HOLY CROSS, Alaska., March 10,
(/P)—Lost on the wind-swept wastes
of the 50-mile portage between the
Kuskokwim and the Yukon rivers,
two women were guided to safety
their lead dog of their team of hu
kies.
Word of the safe arrival of Krj
Forrest and Mir.-. I cake was brought
by Indian Sergie. They are at La’ce
■ Pimute. He sai l t Lc* v. t •* 13 *-tif
fering from cold and exposure as the
result of several nights spent on tin
shelterless portage and tnot knowing
where they were. During that period
they faced strong northerly winds
and low'tempert u.r - until the time
the lead dog lad them ,.nto a ’ALe
settlement named Pimute
1
TROUBLE AVERTED
I IT Mil ARRIVAL
ST. CLAIRSVILLE, March 10. (/P)—
The timely arival of Don Caldwell and
j a contingent of deputy U. S. marshals
' and national guardsmen at the Flor
ence mine probably averted serious
trouble between union miners, sympa
thizers and non-union employees of
the mine.
I The authorities were advised b|y
mine officials that a large mob was
attacking non-union workers as they
came to the mine. Caldwell hastily
assembled 21 guardsmen and marshals
| and hastened to the scene and found
250 men attempting to keep non-union
workers from entering the mine. A
;few stones were thrown. Caldwell in
1 duced the crowrd todisperse.
I
AUSTRALIAN BOY CULLED
FUTURE TENNIS CHAMP
SYDNEY, Australia, Mar. 10. (JP)—
Jack Crawford, Sydney’s 10-year-old
tennis player, is “undoubtedly a com
ing world’s champion,” in the opinion
of Jean Borotra, French Davis Cup
star. In two matches betweem the
two here recently Borotra won one
and Crawford the other.
PROMOTER JOSHUA
D. MEENACH, DIES
CAME TO TERRITORY IN 1895
WAS FIRST PRESIDENT OF
MOTHER LODE
|
-
SEATTLE, March 19, (/P)—Joshua
| D. Meenach, pioneer Alaska mining
| promoter and operator, died Thurs
| day night. The funeral is set for Sat
; urday morning. He was a life mem
| ber of the Arctic Club.
Mr. Meenach made his first trip
1 fo Alaska in 1895 and two years lat
located on Bonanza creek. Later he
er joined the Klondyke gold rush. He
i
led an expedition into the remote
Copper River valley, in 1903, in the
interest of John Andrus, New York
' millionaire, developing the Nizina
j placer gold fields of that district.
Mr. Meenach was also the first
president of the Mother I/ode Copper
mines. He is survived by the widow,
i two daughters, a son, and six broth
ers.
MOMENT ABOLISH
LIE DUCK SESSIONS
CONGRESS IS LOST
CHANGE IN PRESIDENTIAL !N
AUGARATALS DATE IS RE
JECTED
WASHINGTON, ...March ...10, (/P>—
The recent White-Norris Constitu
tional amendment to abolish the
lame duck sessions of Congress and
to change the Presidential inaugurat
'd dates was rejected by a House
vote of 209 to 157, lacking 36 votes
necessary for the two-thirds for ap
proval of Constitutional amendments
The House action definitely settles
and shelves the amendment for this
session of Congress. The amend
ment, in a slightly modified form,
had been approved earlier by the
Senate which in three previous con
gresses voted for its adoption.
Republican House leaders led a
vigorous fight against the proposal.
RUSSIA TO BUILD
01 MOTOR GARS
MOSCOW, Mar. 10. (JP)—'The muni
|cipal is planning to build an automo
| bile factory in tbe city at a cost of
about $20,000,000 for the annual pro
duction of an estimated 10,000 light
cars. The type is to be selected from
foreign makes. Skilled workmen will
be sought as there are few at present
available. A special commission is
to be sent abroad to purchase equip
ment.