MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 21.
SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 1929.
PRICE 'i EN CENTS
DELUGE REQUESTS
IE! DUTY MEAT
CARL LOMEN URGES INCREASE
TO NINE CENTS POUND ON
DUTY REINDEER
WASHINGTON, Jan., 25, (/P)—
A deluge of requests for a higher
duty on livestock meat and pro
ducts was loosened upon the
House Ways and Means Commit
tee as it began consideration upon
the agricultural sections in the
tariff act with the view toward re
vision.
Western cattle growers were
united in urging higher rates but
New York chain store dealers op
posed the increases on beef, lamb
or mutton contending the higher
prices would cut ciomesiic meac.
consumption ruining their bus
iness.
Carl J. Lomen urged an increase
to nine cents per pound in the
present duty of four cents on rein
deer meat and venison and said
half of the Eskimos in Alaska
were dependent on this industry
for livelihood and need higher nvo
tection to preserve this business.
He se*d of the 900 nop —pn
Alaska Eskimos owned 500,000.
HUNDREDS OF UNIFORMED OF
FICERS SCATTERED THRU
OUT DISTRICT
NEW YORK, Jan., 24, (A5)—The
fhaatiical district is now under
war zone regulations as the drastic
system of traffic rules promulgat
ed by the Police Department are
in efiect.
Under this order, all parking in
the theatre zone is prohibited dur
ing theatre hours. Taxicab cruis
ing is banned. Pedestrains are for
bidden to cross the street except
with the green lights and all turns
>n principal streets are taboo.
Hundreds of uniformed officers
were .'.'ottered thruout the district
in prowler flivvers to enforce the
new ruling
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ALMOST MONTH 5AVE0
INTERIOR TRAVEL BY
PLANE VS. DOB TEAM
BETHEL, Jan., 25, (#>)—Cutting
24 days from previous similar
trips by dog teams, a plane hopped
off from here with an accused
murderer who will be tried in the
federal court at Fairbanks.
The plane will stop enroute, at
Sleetmute, to pick up witnesses.
The plane is piloted by Bennett
and Girard and carried Deputy
Marshal Wiseman, a native pris
oner and an interpreter.
BUSINESS PROTESTS
NEW YORK, Jan., 25, (^—Mer
chants and other business men m
the Times Square distrct have pro
tested against Commissioner Whal
en’s present plan for the preven
t on or parking in hte theatre dis
trict during the evening hours.
MEMBERSHIP IN THE
NEW YORK, Jan., 25, UP)—An
increase in membership of the
New York Stock Exchange by 25
percent making the roster 1,375
and with each member given the
right to dispose of his proportion
ate part of the increase within
three years, was recommended to
members by the governing com
mittee. A vote will be taken with
in two weeks.
ALASKA, SEATTLE
CABLE, SUGGESTED
WOULD MEAN AN ANNUAL SAV
ING OF ABOVE *200,000 IT
IS STATED
SEATTLE, Jan., 25, t(/P)—'The
abandonment of the War Depart
ment’s cable service between Alas
ka and Seattle is being seriously
considered, the current issue of
the Naval Register reveals.
Major General George Gibbs,
chief Signal Corps officer, is re
ported as favoring the substitu
tion of radio for cable. The plan
would mean the retirement of the
Cableship Dellwood and claims an
annual saving above $200,000.
LIFE IS STRANGE
SP4RTANSBURG, S. C„ Jan.. 25,
'V\—While staggeiing from an au
tomobile wreck from which he had
just escaped with onlv minor in
juries, Henry Mills of Compton,
stepped back into the road direct
ly in the path of another car and
was instantly killed.
PROTECTION OF COMMERCE IS
UNDERLYING REASON FOR
. LARGER NAVIES
WASHINGTON, Jan., 25, (/P;—
Senator Borah of Idaho asked the
Senate to adopt a cruiser construct
ion plan devised to accelerate dis
armament of navies instead of
promoting a new naval building
race betwen the United States and
Great Britain.
During the discussion on the ad
ministrations program for con
struction of 16 auxiliary airships
he declared the cruiser bill should
be adopted without a time clause
under which construction of all
ships must be started within three
years.
He urged that provision be made
for the conference to restate the
rights of neutrals at sea because
the protection of commerce is the
underlying ie&kun
vies. He also urged elimination
of time to give uie uiu^a o
an effective weapon for further
spending large sums for warships
which later might have to be
scrapped.
He said his idea for a powerful
instrument for the United States
to curb world navy building would
be to first postpone the actual
building of the American Navy
until the United States was satis
fied there could be no agreement
on size; and second, until the
agreement for the protection of
the rights of neutrals on the seas
was shown to be impossible.
NF.W YORK WEATHER
NEW YORK. Jan., 25. (A1)—1Tem
perature: minimum 32. maximum
47.
SAN ANGELO, Texas, Jan., 25,
(A3)—Three men were killed late
yesterday when a cabin monoplane
crashed 100 feet. Municipal air
port witnesses said tne crash
occurred when A1 Henley, the pil
ot, apparently tried to land with
the wind. A gust of wind caught
the craft hurling it to the ground
which i thit on the nose and de
molished.
IS LOST TO THE WORLD SAVE
FOR SMALL GROUP OF
COMPANIONS
KEYLARGO, Fla., Jan., 25, (IP)—
President-elect Herbert Hoover is
somewhere off the Keys near
here and again, today, is pursuing
big game fish which lured him
to this section for the fifth time
in recent years.
Since boarding the Yacht Ami
tie yesterday Mr. Hoover has been
lost to all save the little group of
companions of his real deep-sea
fishing adventure; the first he
has been able to embark upon
since he set out to win the Pres
idency.
SHIP BUILDING
WASHINGTON. Jan. 25. (/Pi—
Approximately $220,000,000 in new
commercial ship construction for
American operators will be under
way by the middle of this year,
cordite to a premise by the Ship
ping Board
\ CHAMPION I OG-LAYLFT
CALLED TO REST
HAD A RELAPSE A FEW DAYS
AGO: LEAVES WIDOW AND
TWO SONS
WASHINGTON, Jan., 25, (A*)—
Former Senator Oscar Underwood
of Alabama died at his home,
nearby in Virginia, at 11:15 this
morning.
He suffered a cerebral hemor
rhage early in December and lat
er in the month was stricken with,
paralysis.
He recovered for a time but a
few days ago had a relapse. He is
survived by his widow, Mrs. Ber
tha Woodward Undewood, and
by two sons, Oscar Underwood, Jr.,
of Washington and Lewis Under
wood of Birmingham.
STOLE CLOTHING
CHICAGO, Jan., 25. (TP)—Four
robbers abandoned $7,500 worth of
clothing and ran when the truck,
in which they were fleeing over
turned in a collision. The clothing
was stolen from the store of Albert
Hoefelcl.
ARCTIC BLASTS
RESPONSIBLE FOR
EASTERN STORMS
PARTIAL RELIEF IS LOOKED
FOR TOMORROW STORM
RIDDEN STATES
KANSAS CITY, Jan., 25, (fP)
Fierce blasts from oat the Arctic
wastes lashed the Rocky Mountain
states and middle western and
southwestern states alike, with
sub-zero readings from the moun
tains and upper plains being re
flected ,in freezing temperatures
along the Gulf of Mexico.
The severe weather, the coldest
of the winter, in several sections
was accompanied by snow, sleet
and heavy rains which doubly
handicapped transportation and
communications.
MAN PARACHUTE
JUNIPER PLUNGES
2,111 FEET DEATH
NEWHALL, Calif., Jan., 25, (S’)—
Leta Wishart, professional para
chute jumper, was killed yester
day afternoon while making a dou
ble jump with her husband during
the fiiminq- of n movie.
The parachute failed to open.
“Hoot” Gibson. eo^’hov actor, saw
the tragedy from the ground. Her
silken scarf interfered with he
pulling the parachute release and
she fell 2,000 feet.
MYSTERIOUS ATTACK
LOS ANGELES, Jan., 25, (fP)—A
victim of a mysterious attack, Jack
La Tour, principal witness for the
Government in an alleged airplane
plot to smuggle Chinese into the
United States from Mexico, was
unable to appear at the hearing of
the case. He was beaten uncon
scious and is now in a hospital.