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SEWARD,
ALASKA
“CENTER of
EVERYTHING”
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUMNE XIV. NUMBER 183.
SEWARD, ALASKA. WEDNESDAY, AUGUSTy^ 1929.
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INTERESTING MEETING CIVIC
ORGANIZATION HELD; BIG
ATTENDANCE
Principal speaker at the week
ly luncheon of the Seward Cham
ber of Commerce yesterday, Capt.
J. Satow, commanding officer of
the Japanese freighter Taiyu Ma
ru, enthralled his listeners by
describing graphically the man
ner in which his preconception
of Alaska has been radically
changed by his first visit to “the
land of (frozen?-* tundra” where
he has found railroads, farms
and forests, and modern con
veniences of every kind.
Tbo conversant with the Eng
lish language. Captain Satow
made the address in Japanese,
which was interpreted in English
b" Harry Kawabe. local business
man- As far as is known this
was the first time that an inter
pret-ed speech has been heard at
the Chamber.
Following Capt. J. Satow’s op
timistc talk on Seward yesterday
afternoon before the Chamber
of Commerce, in which he re
ferred to the Port of Seward as
a world port, Capt. O. A. Johan
sen of Seward and one of Alas
ka's best known of mariners,
took occasion to again urge the
organization into action towards
better navigation aids for Alas
ka, particularly this area, a sub
ject which the aggressive Skip
per has been propounding for
years past.
Captain Johansen cited the
$2,000 additional insurance which
the owners of the Japanese
freighter Taiyu Maru were forced
to pay in order to enter Alaska
waters, a penalty which most
certainly would not have been
Imposed if the necessary aids to
navigation were placed.
“Alaska’s vast quantities of
timber and reindeer meat are
commodities that could be ex
ported to Japan continuously,
but- unprotected harbors are poor
invitations to foreign trade and
insurance rates are increased be
cause of the hazzards of our
coast line. As another example
the Taiyu Maru is to proceed
from Seward to Vancouver, B- C.,
to take on a million feet of logs,
a cargo that could be easily be
supplied from the timber stand
ing in the vicinity of Seward.”
EVANS SAILS NORTH
SEATTLE, Aug., 7, (A5)—The Ad
miral Evans, of the P. S. S. Co., sail
ed at 10 a. m. and carried 74 first
class passengers and three steer
age. Passengers for Seward include
Alec Dupoe, Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Hap
pen, Mr. and Mrs. Axel Larsen, Mr.
and Mrs. John Oden and Mrs.
Katherine Roycroft.
ALASKAN DIES
TACOMA, Aug., 7, (JP)— Louis P.
Shackelford, former Assistant Dis
trict Attorney for Alaska, died here
July 26. Shackelford lived in Alas
ka from 1902 to 1904 and was 54
years old. He had lived in Tacoma
for the last four years and died
following a general breakdown, i
JUNEAU, Aug., 6, (JP)—'The con
gressional party making the Alaska
tour changed its intinerary to the
Wsetward and will go to Cordova,
thence over the highway to Fair
banks and out by the Alaska Rail
road, thence direct to Seattle from
Seward. The party left Sunday
night at 8 o’clock for Sitka enroute
to Cordova.
ANOTHER 0UT8H
i rnmrn at
LUG. KB
DISSATISFACTION WORKING IN
MINES CAUSE OF SEVERAL
ATTEMPTED BREAKS
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LANSING. Kas., Aug., 7. (JP)—
|Two prisoners, William Webb, 39.
and Robert Collins, 30, were killed
,and J. B. Knight. 49, was wounded
in the head in an attempt to break
out of the State penitentiary.
W. L. Heslop, a guard. w7as
wounded in the leg: Eddie Jenkins,
37; O. G. Schultz, 35; Charles
Cheapman, 27; fell in -the railroad
I stock yards where they were cap
jtured. The prisoners had four re
volvers smuggled into the prison.
! They used the other prisoners to
shield them in making their escape
which hampered the efforts of the
guards to frustrate the outbreak.
The attempt to escape came
when the men came in from work
ing in the prison mine. Dissatis
faction with working in the mine
has caused several attempted
breaks the last few years.
POWER NOTICE
Electric power will be shut off
tomorrow (Thursday) from 1 p.
m. to 4 o’clock.
S. L. & P. Co.
STOCKS REPRESENTED REAL
VALUES; ADDED TO TRADE;
NOT IMMORAL
WASHINGTON, Aug., 6, UP)—
Bishop James Cannon, one of the
foremost leaders of the dry ele
ment, issued a 18,000 word state
ment in which he denied war pro
fiteering, gambling and diversion
of the temperance board funds for
his own use.
He characterized the stories of his
dealing in stocks and flour as con
certed efforts of Raskob forces to
destroy his influence with the peo
ple. He asserts that the facts of
his calling in stocks and flour had
been the distorts of Roman Catho
lics and newspapers. He said he
traded in stocks which represented
real values and add £ that stock
trading is.not immoral.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Cleveland 6; Detroit 5.
St. Louis 8-3; Philadelphia 3-11.
Washington 13-0; New York 9-8.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
New York 5; Pittsburgh 3.
Brooklyn 5; Chicago 4.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Los Angeles 3; Hollywood 2.
Sacramento 4; Portland 1.
Missions 7; San Francisco 6.
Oakland 7; Seattle 5.
MEMBERS OF CREW
RESCUED 8! THUS
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VICTORIA, Aug., 7, (JP)—Four
members of the crew of the Ellwe
No. 11, which rail aground Satur
day night in high tide on Ridge
Reef, was rescued Monday night
from a barren rock off Bare Island
by tugs. The Ellwe was proceeding
thru O’Hara Strait when she
grounded. The crew scrambled to
the rocks after the crash.
ZEPPELIN MY
FI TftKEBFF DN
HISTORIC TOyS
TWO NAVY OBSERVERS MAK
ING TOUR OF THE GLOBE
HUGE AIRSHIP
LAKEHURST, Aug., 7, (fP)—A
company of adventurous souls
prepared to embark at midnite
upon the history-making- voyage,
circumnavigation Of the earth in
a Zeppelin, when Dr. Ekener or
dered passengers to be at the
hangar at 4 o'clock.
Although the start was not
expected before midnight it was
planned to have everything in
complete readiness for the start. I
Capt. Hubert Wilkins will be j
among those making the world
tour. Commander Charles Rosen
dahl and Lieut. J. C. Richardson
are going as observers for the
United States Navy. •
COLORFUL CEREMONY AT PROMULGATION OF TREATY
I
HENRY L. STiMSON
EAST ROOM
WHITE HOUSE
FRANK BI
KELLOGG I
- SIP- ESME HOWARD -
PAUL- CLAUDEL.
As capstone to the peace arch America has built, President
Hoover promulgated the Kellogg-Briand peace pact in the east ,
of the White House (above). Among world figures who were pre- 1
sent was the former Secretary of State, Frank B. Kellogg, whose (
name treaty bears, his successor, Henry L. Stimson, Sir Esme How
Jj
ard, British ambassador, and Ambassador Paul Claudel of France. ,
OR. SHOOK TELLS
JURY THREE YEAR '
LOVE AFFAIR. OIOL
WIFE HAD NO KNOWLEDGE OF
HUSBAND’S LOVE AFFAIR;
HAD NOTICED CHANGE
COLUMBUS, O., Aug., 7, F/P)— Dr.
James Snook told the jury in his
first degree murder trial, the story
of his three year love affair with
Theora Hix, medic coed, whom he
killed June 13.
It was a story that detailed their
meeting in June 1926; of their
friendship which grew into intima
cy and which ended at a lonely
rifle range near the edge of the
city where the girl’s body battered
and slashed was found /the day
after she went there for her last
tryst with the former Ohio State
professor.
Snook went to the witness chair
after his wife and mother had told
that it was their belief that in the
last few years Snook had changed.
His wife * testified she had no
knowledge of the affair. Both said
that the husband had displayed a
mental unrest in contrast to the
calm disposition that had been his
before.
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ULTIMATUM SERVED TONG
LEADERS—“MAKE PEACE
OR PACK UP”
NEW YORK, Aug. 7. UP) —
Peace reigned, at least technical
ly, throughout the United States
I again between O. I. Leong and
Hip Sing Tongs after three days
of warfare in which five were
killed and several wounded.
A new treaty was signed by
the national leaders of the rival
Tongs after they had been serv
ed with an ultimatum by the
“To make peace or pack up”
United States Attorney Tuttle
I ‘‘to make peace or pack up.”
Word of the signing of the
' treaty was telegraphed to the
! Tong leaders in Chicago, Bos
ton, Philadelphia, San Francisco
and other large cities which have
settlements of Chinese.
Before word of the signing was
out another shooting occured in
Chicago when a Hip Sing Tong
man was severely wounded.
The warfare is declared to be
the result of poaching on com
mercial territory claimed by each,
of the rival Tongs.
FORD 66 YEARS OLD
DETROIT, Aug. 6. UP)—Henry
Ford, well known aut o m o b i 1 e
manufacturer, was 66 years of
age recently. He worked as usual.
PAYMENT POSTPONED
WASHINGTON, Aug. 6. UP) —
Secretary Mellon in a note to
the French ambassador, M. Paul
Claudel, authorized the postpon
ment of France’s $400,000,000 war
stock debt payment, due August
first.