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MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXIII. NUMBER 178. SEWARD. ALASKA TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1928. PRICE TEN GENTS
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VICTIMS. ISLEEP
KILLS THREE AND WOUNDS
TWO WITHIN PERIOD OF 48
HOURS
OMAHA, Nov., 20, (JP)—A maniac
•“Hatchet Man” who in a brutal
.fury pounces upon his victims as
they sleep and crushes their skulls
with his instrument of death, is
■■“T sought by Omaha police lor the
•killing of two women and an aged
man and the wounding of anuM'.-r
man and his wife within a 48 hour
period.
While the madman apparently
slays grown persons without mercy
he does not harm babies Three
children, of two of the families he
attacked, were left unharmed in
their cribs.
THE LATEST VICTIMS
ynf the killer who is described by the
police as “a fiend and a crazy man”
were Harold Stribling, 23, former
high school football star, and wife,
who were attacked in the morning
3.3 ihey slept. He entered the
Ttribling home at 3 a. m. and bo..t
to Stribling’s head after a struggle
then calmly turned on the lights,
washed his hands and asked Mrs.
Stribling to see the baby.
He stood over the crib for several
minutes then forced Mrs. Stfiblmg
to eo with him to East Omaha
swamps where she finally escaped
3fter thre * nours.
STRIBiTNG WILL
probably die ond his wife is in the
hospital cruelly beaten and may
lose the sight of one eye. The a< -
—feck on the Striblings came while
hundreds of police were searching
the city for the maniac for the
killing of Mrs. Walter Resso. 21, and
mother of three children. Her
sister, Greta Brown and J. H.
Blackman, expressman, were ail
killed with an axe.
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PACT NO LONGER
EXISTS, STATED
AS FOREIGN OFFICIAL ATTi
TUDE; SAID TO BE SERIOUS
THREAT
BERLIN, Nov., 20, (!?,-■ In dis
cussion of reparations questions,
Foreign Minister Gustaf Strese
mann told the Reichstag he consid
ered it his duty to believe official
French and England declarations
to the effect that the notorious
Anglo-French Naval Pact no longer
exists.
Although this is the Foreign of
fices official attitude it is no secret
that Wilhelmstresse officials are
really convinced the pact is still
as effective as ever. Moreover they
tire known to regard it as most se
rious threat to world peace that
has developed since the war.
WITH A GOLDEN SPOON
NEW YORK, Nov., 20, (A1)—A
ha by boy has been born to Mrs.
Milicent Rogers Ramos the $40,
000,000 Standard Oil heiress. Moth
er and son are reported doing well.
WILL PROBATE
NEW YORK, Nov., 20, (/P)—The
will of George Barr McCutcheon
novelist, for an amount “exceeding
0.000.”, was probated. The bulK
of the estate goes to his widow.
SCIENTISTS IN PLANE EXPLORE “BLIND SPOT”
IN WASTES OF ALASKA
With the aid of a seaplane (below), scientists of the
United States Geological Survey explored hitherto in
accessible portions of Alaska. The expedition, headed
by S. R. Capps (right, and well known in Seward), found
a new river which they named “Another.” The “Tusk,”
an unusual granite formation (left,) is on this stream.
WASHINGTON. Nov.. 20. (JP)—,
Flying over rugged mountain peaks '
that ordinarily require weeks of
weary travel by foot and pack train
to surmount them, three American
geologists have recently returned ;
from Alaska to relate how nature's
barriers to an unexplored section i
of the Alaska Mountain range were
broken down by seaplane flights, i
WITH NO PROSPECTS
of smooth landing fields after they
should reach their rugged inland ’
objective, the American scientists:
of the United States Geological j
Survey who set out to map anu,
study one of Alaska’s “blind spots’’
were forced to trust to a seaplane's
ability to fly over rugged peaks un
til some inland lake near their
working base was reached,
i They took off from the harbor at
Anchorage and in an hour and 20
minutes the piloTset the plane
down on Chakathamna Lake—a
’distance inland from Anchorage
that requires three weeks by pack
train over treacherous country, fie
made four trips from Anchorage to
the mountain base, carrying the
three scientists and 3,000 pounds of
supplies. The seaplane’s flight made
l possible 93 days of exploration—the
fullest span under existing climatic
conditions in Alaska.
THE SIX MEMBERS
of the party included S. R. Capps,
the chief ; Gerald Fitz Gerald, topo
graphical engineer; W. E. Spur, re
corder; C. C. Tousley, packer; R. E.
Francis, assistant packer, and
“Jim” Brown—whom Capps re
members as a “real cook.”
“We found rivers, lakes and
mountains that were not Recorded
on the best available maps, while
many of those drawn on our maps
[were found to be non-existent,”
Capps said. “The tusk, an unusual
(granite formation on another river,
'was photographed and definitely
charted as we covered approxi
mately 1,000 square miles during
[the summer’s exploration.”
(Continued on Page Three.)
IS
SPOT CONTINENT
PRODUCER OF TIN
ORE COES TO SINGAPORE TO
REFINERY TIIENCE BACK TO
UNITED STATES
SEATTLE, Nov., 20. </P)—Alaska
is again revealed as a treasure
house by an item arriving aboaid
the M. S. Boxer Sunday with 50
tons of Alaska tin concentrates.
It is asserted here that Alaska is
the only commercial producer of
tin on the North American conti
nent. The world's canning indus
try depends on tin and if Alaska
can develop a substantial output it
can buv the world.
George Walkhelm and H. J.
Christensen produced the concen
trates using Eskimo labor. The base
of operations are at Tin City Cape
Prince of Wales Island.
The shipment Sunday is the larg
est ever sent out of Alaska to Seat
tle being the third so far. The con
signment is worth $700 a ton total
ling $35,000 and will be shipped
from here to Singapore where it
will be refined then perhaps re
turned as tin plate to Seattle and
Alaska
HANDS IN RESIGNATION
WASHINGTON, Nov., 20, (/Pi—u
W. McIntosh, Comptroller of Cur
rency tendered his reug lation to
Presidi nt Coolidee.
TO ARGUE SOME MORE
WASHINGTON Nov., 20, (/P)—
The Supreme Court ordered reargu
ment on January 4th next of the
suit involving a move to fix a seven
cent fare on subway and elevated
lines of New York City.
FUNERAL SERVICE
TOMORROW, SEATTLE,
'SEATTLE, Nov., 20. (IP)—Last
rites will be held tomorrow for Mar
ion Ross, 69, member of the Alaska
family of Rosses which operated
the Green Tree Hotel at Nome 10
years ago.
Later they began raising stock in
Oregon, finally settling at Bothell,
near here. Marian Ross is survived
by the widower Charles, and three
sons, James, Norman and Charles
Jr., all in Seattle and a daughter,
Mrs. Agnes Cavanaugh of Anchor
a.ac.
DESTROYERS AND PLANES ES
CORT BATTLESHIP OUT OF
SAN DIEGO HARBOR
ABOARD U. S. S. MARYLAND AT
SEA, Nov., 20, (Special .Associated
Press Dispatch)—With every honor
except that of the Presidential flag
President-elect Herbert Hoover left
the Uni' c u" e? on a mission < f
friendship to sister Republics of the
West:‘rn Hemisphere,
i The Hoover party was cheered
\when it arrived at San Pedro on a
special train and boarded the Ad
miral W. V. Pratts barge and cruis
ed two miles across the harbor un
der escort of Navy launches filled
with cheering officers in full dress.
Rear Admirals Nulton ,and Coie
were among the officers standing
at the gang plank to receive Mi.
Hoover while the Maryland’s guns,
and those of nine other battleships,
boomed a salute of 21 guns.
Mr. and Mrs. Hoover stood on the
Quarter deck with Ambassador
Fletcher as the ship cast off. De
stroyers and planes escorted the
j Maryland out of the harbor. The
'first stop will be at Corinto.
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DURING PAST YEAR
TFTY-TWO MOVE UP INTO MIL
LION DOLLAR CLASS, BU
REAU SHOWS
WASHINGTON, Nov.. 20, (/P)—A
sensational spurt which increased
to 233 the number of perrons who
reported incomes of $1,000,000 or
more, was revealed by Internal Re
venue Bureaus statistics for 1927
tax payments.
This means that within one year
52 people moved up into the million
dollar income class The tremend
ous growth in fortunes and in in
comes,, inflated suddenly by large
speculative profits in the stock
market, was demonstrated by the
decrease in group with incomes Up
to $10,000 and increase in practicai
’y every higher income group.
ON BOARD MARYLAND
U. S. S. MARYLAND, Nov.. 20, hP>
—Steaming Southward at 15 knots
Herb^-’t Hoover is completing plans
for his million of '‘Good will”” and
understanding to the Republics In
Latin America.
TAKE TOLL LIVES
MILLIONS OF DOLLARS DAMAGE
XO FERTILE FARM LANDS
IN THREE STATES
UNDATED. Nov.. 20 f/P)—Into the.
lap of the “Old Man River Himself"
the deep rolling untarcable Mississ
ippi poured its anger of late
autumn floods. Levees near Quincy.
III., crumbled, permitting the wat
ers to sweep over thousands of
acres of corn, wheat and rice on
both the Missouri and Illinois side.
Th e Mississippi, with this flood
damage done by the Kentucky and
Cumberland Fivers in Kentucky
uncontrolled waters, claimed 17
lives and inflicted property loss
roughly estimated at $10,000,000.
IN MISSOURI, KANSAS,
and Oklahoma, where 14 lives were
lost and where property damage
has been the heaviest, the recession
of waters in making possible a sur
vey of the greatest flood damage to
•hose States ever known.
The Missouri liiver is running
dangerously close to the flood stage
| across the entire State and inun
dation of the great areas of bottom
lands, near St. Louis, is feared
Smaller streams in the St. Louis
territory are choked with waters
jand many railroads and highways.
!are blocked.
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SMALL SKIFF OVERTURNED;
WERE ON DUCK HUNT;
OTHERS GOT ASHORE
PETERSBURG. Nov., 20,
M. Holm and Paul Lund, prominent
business men of this city, were
drowned last night when their
small skiff, in which they were en
tering a blind slough on a hunting
trip, swamped. Three others in
the party reached shore safely.
Holm is survived by a brother
here; his parents reside in Snohom
ish. Wash. He was a World War
fiver and instructor at I.angly Field
and subsequently owned a tele
phone exchange and other local
property.
Lund is survived by two brothers
.here. He recently retired from
| business to make an extended trip
to Europe. Holm was a member of
the City Council here and belonged
to the^ Masons, Elks, Moose and Le
gion Lodges.
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MIAMI, Nov., 20, (/P)—'The Greek
steamer Alexandra is reported in
distres off Fayal in the Azores. A
tug is proceedine to : er assistance.
In an S O S message picked up
here it was said the Alexandra left
Montreal on November 9 for Italian
ports.
A report from London^ said the
vessel’s rudder was broken. Sever
al motor launches have been unable
to reach her because of the high
seas.