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MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXIII. NUMBER 181.
SEWARD, ALASKA FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1928.
PRICE TEN GENTS
HTTIE, JLASKK
MAIL SLICE S?
P©8PM ASTER SUGGESTS ThlvJ !
ROUND TRIPS WEEKLY TO
SOUTHEASTERN ALASKA
SEATTLE, Nov.. 23. (JP) —On the :
teeels of plans for a Seattle-Alaska
airplane passenger service, air mail
oossibilities have developed. Pose
master Perkins of Seattle revealed. 1
Since early summer he has been i
checking prospects for such a ser • i
vice and says he is convinced it ■
would pay within six months. The ;
—postmaster’s interest began when
promoters approached him urging,
that he recommend such a line as j
they wished to bid for a contract.
Perkins made an investigation,!
being unwilling to recommend the |
!>roject until convinced fog along
Ifce Inside Passage would not en
danger schedules.
PERKINS REVEALED
1,700 pounds of first class mail goes
North on each steamer with 1,100
voiding South. Figuring eight per
cent of this should go by air mail
tthe total gives 136 pounds which is
a pay load
Perkins favors three round trips
vreeke/ requiring three seaplanes
wupab'e of carrying "passengers. Vis
'•ns of a 10-hour schedule with
*f-ops at Vancouver, Ketchikan,
Wrangell and Prince Rupert, loom.
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first mnuN
SEATTLE Nov., 23. ftp)—wilHnm
McIntyre, 76. who took the first
linotyDe machine to Interior Alas
ka and starting the first news
paper The Dawson News, in the
“Says of the gold rush, underwent
an operation for appendicitis here
yesterday. He returned from Alas
ka several years ago making his
homo at Pinehurst near Everett,
lihen moving to Seattle.
GERMAN, INSTRUCTOR
SHANGHAI, Nov., 23, (JP)—Col.
Max Bauer, a protege of General
Lndendorff and noted German ar
tillery expert, has undertaken to
krain the inlaw ry of the Chinese
Nationalist ior.-es.
Russia Will Construct
Three Radio Stations
SAMARKAND, Turkestan, Nov.,
?.?>, (/Pi—The Commissariat of Pose
and Telegraphs has ordered the
construction of three powerful
wireless stations in Central Asia: in
Parmir, Khorog, on the Soviet-In
dian Border and Hassan Kul.
QUAKE TESTS FIND OIL
CHICAGO, Nov. 23. (A5)— How
the seismograph is used to dis
cover oil will be described in tech
nical papers at the annual meet
ing of the Amercan Petroleum In
stitute here December 3 to 6.
SOME SORT OF RECORD
STATESVILLE, N. P„ Nov., 23, (/P)
v —W. B. C'-'mnboll, 63. says he has
never taken a drink of coffee, soda
water or intoxicating beverage, has
nevei chewed, smoked or used to
> icco in any form and has never
owned a watch.
Japanese Steamer Is
Driven Ashore Storm
MANILA, Nov.. 23, OP)—The Jap
anese steamer, Saka Maru was
driven aground on the Island of
Maibate by a tvphoon Which is
sweeping the central part of the
Archipedago. The messages which
were received said the crew appar
ently, was safe.
JAPANESE LINER
OH TOE ROOKS IN
DISTRESS CALL BRINGS ANOTII -
ER JAPANESE STEAMER;
STANDS BY
SEATTLE, Nov. 23, OP)—An ex
planation of the SOS call pickea
up by the S. S. President Madison
enroute to Japan, was received oy
the American Mail Line from the
Madison today.
The Japanese coasting steamer
Shinryu Maru is ashore on the
rocks in Hakodate Straits, in the
Japanese Archipelago. The distress
calls brought the steamer Muroran
Naru, No. 6, to the scene and it
is standing by.
tree Admission Spoils
Paris Society Trials'
PARTS, Nov., 23, UP)—Society
trials have had their dr.v. No long
er can the ladies of leasure, re
splendent in new gowns, enliven
murder trials with their smiles and
their chatter.
The society trial has been killed
bv the simple process of applying
the rule “first come, first served",
to admission. There are to be no
reserved seats for pretty women to
encourage w iathpplause the ora
itory of brilliant lawyers.
I
FARMING GENTER
li GRIP OF FEAR
' i
—
STATION AGENT FLOUTS HE
TOOK HATCHET AWAY FROM
YOUNG MULATTO
KANSAS CITY. Nov, 23, UP) —
Fear lias gripped the farming com
munity about Wolcott and Lansing,
Kas, near here, following reports
that a man resembling the Omaha
axe murdered has been seen in the
vicinit v.
Many guarded their homes with
dogs end guns throughout the night
and ail police have been ordered to
be on the lookout for a young mu
latto.
] Roger Williams, Missouri-Pacific
station agent at Cochran Junction,
was the only man who met the
negro face to face Williams re
ported he took the hatchet away
from the negro Wednesday night.
I I
! WASHINGTON. Nov., 23 (JP)~Re- j
comn pnctotions for the expenditure
of $1 ,372.000 this coming year im- i
proving lighthouse property wns]
made by George Putman, Commis
sioner of Lighthouses. This amount
would include $75,000 forT f abllSx.
ing a signal station and lights at
Cape Decision, Alaska with $15,000
additional for other Alaska naviga
tion aids.
TAKEN IN TOW
HORTA, Azores, Nov., 23, (AP)—
The rudderless steamer Alexandra
had been taken in tow and is head
ed for Horta..
TEN-YEAR OLD BECOMES MAYORESS IN
ENGLISH TOWN RUN BY MOTHER
Lady Elizabeth Townshed, 10-year-old daughter of 1
the Marchioness of Townshed, is new lady mayoress of !
King’s Lynn, England, where her mother is mayor. The <
official duties are mostly social. ;j
\ NEW DEVELOPMENT IN EYE
SCIENCE
LONDON,—This remarkable in
strument, which is in reality a bat
tery of lenses no bgger than a cigar
box. and enables the optician to se
cure over 1.000,000 combinations of
lenses almost instantaneously, is
one of the various new instruments
installed in the London Refraction
Hospital which has been rebuilt at
a cost of $50,000 This instrument
will reveal the fact that patient’s
eye deviates by a little as a quarter
of a degree from its normal outlook.
OFFICIALS WORRIED
MOSCOW, Nov., 23, (/P)—Class
warfare in Russian villages has re
sulted in six deaths within the laot
few days and widespread arson s
worring official-.
PORTUGESE CHEW
of s. s. m
GUNBOAT AND WARSHIPS AR
RIVE TOO LATE WHERE
BOAT FOUNDERED
LISBON. Nov., 23, (JP)—The Por
tugal crew of the Greek steamer
Vrginia which sent out SOS calls
Wednesday were rescued by a Span
ish trawler and landed at Leixoes,
Portugal, today. The Virginia sank
close to the Portugese coast before
gunboats o rwarships which were
sent to her rescue, were able to
reach Vy'. spot where they fdlir*'
only a ueserted raft.
Electricity Replaces
Oil Lamps In Arctic
—
MURMANSK, North Russia, Nov.,
;23, (/P)—The Esquimaux of North
: Russia, who brighten their long
Arctic night by burning seal oil and
grease, will soon know the joy of
electricity. A powerful hydro-elec
tric station is to be built, on the Ko
la River, north of the Polar Circle
on the Kola Peninsula..
Russia Sends Coats
To Moslem Women
TIFIIS, Caucasus, Nov., 23, (/P)—
One hundred thousand rubles
worth of heavy overcoats have been
rushed by the Soviet Government
to the Caucasus to provide Moham
medan women of the numerous
mountaineer tribes with warm j
clothing. The wearing of overcoats
by women wos formerly forbidden
by the law of the Prophet. The
women of the mountains are offer
ed the overcoats on Iona term cred
it and at production price.
KK GEORGE OF
ERGUH Si BE
SERIOUSLY SICK
PUBLIC RECALLS LAST ILLNESS
KING EDWARD SOMEWHAT
SIMILAR
LONDON Nov., 23, (£>)—King
George’s illness assumed somewhat
more of a serious aspect with furth
er development of congestion in one
lung.
A bulletin rend: ‘'The King pass
ed a restless night; his temperature
is remaining 101 and there is a
slight extension of mischief in a
lung but his Majesty’s strength is
maintained.”
Anxiety among the public, whick
recalled K;ng Edward’s fatal illness
started with congestion in a lung
and a third physician was called.
Late Czar's Yacht
Now Volga Fish Boat
ASTRAKAN, Russia, Nov., 23, (A*>
:—A pleasure yacht that once wai
|owned by a minister to Czar Niche
lias it is doing prolatarian duty
these days as a barge for hauling
fish along the lower reaches of the
Volga Officials of the Caspian
Fishcy Trust brought it for $35,09+
and orought it down the river with
; great ceremony.
GIRL IS SLAIN
PHILADELPHIA, Nov., 23, </P>—
Miss Emma Alley, 16-year-old, was
attacked and slain by an unknoww
man who beat her over the head
with a heavy instrument. Police
are seeking a boy who took Miss
Alley automobile riding.
GERMAN STEAMER
IIU DISTRESS OFF
WIND AND DARKNESS HAMPER
WORK OF RESCUE, REPORTS
DANISH BOAT
LONDON, Nov., 23, (/P)—‘The Val
entia wireless station announced a
Lloyd’s radio message from the
Danish steamer Estonia which said
it had saved six of the crew of the
German steamer Herrenvvayk hi
distress 645 miles west of Ireland.
The message said increasing wind
and darkness made further work
impossible but it was hoped to save
the remainder of the crew today.
Mexico City Banishes
Beggers From Streets
MEXICO CITY, Nov., 23, (TP)—
Mexico City’s streets are to be
cieaied of beggers. Inspector Gen
eral cf Police Rios Zertuche, hold
ing that the many waifs, cripn'es
and others who seek alms in the
capital’s streets constitute an eye
sore to the city, has ordered that
they be rounded up and sent to the
public poor house.
Or'^fr'j^R o\T S^’ANH
NEW YORK, No?., 23, (TP)—Chief
Officer Johnson, of the lost S. S.
Vestris, testified that the release
mechani'm for the lifeboats was
“not successful in two instances and
that chains attached to release that
handles broke.”