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VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 16.
SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, January 19, 1929.
PRICE TEN CENTS
TORMS 111 EAST
SOUTH TAKE
TOLL TEN LIS
MANY INJURED AND PROPERTY
DAMAGE HEAVY; CLOUD- *
HURSTS REPORTED
CHICAGO. Jan.. 19, (A*)— Spring
storms, two months ahead of time,
killed 10 persons in five States yes
terday; injured manv and caused
heavy property damage. It final
ly swirled away up the St. Law
rence River valley.
In several places, the storm that
moved Northeastward from South
ern Missouri across Illinois, In
diana and Ohio, was tornadic in
violence especially at Cape Girard
eau, Mo., where two small children
were killed.
At Maunie, 111., there were three
deaths and at Branch, Ind., where
one woman was killed, unseasonal
rains and high winds were report
ed. Over a wide area contiguous
to the path of the principal storm
and going as far South as the Miss
issippi where one man was killed.
Two men were drowned in the
Ohio River when the storm capsiz- i
ed a skiff; another was blown from
a bridge at Louisville, Ky. A negro
>s m’Sfiing in the Shelby, Miss.,
storm and is believed buried under
the wreckage of a three story hard
ware store in a Masonic Lodge
ouilding.
Cloudbursts were reported thru
southern and central Illinois caus
ing heavy damage try flooding
buildings. The small steamer
Mary J overturned in the Ohio
River at Mounds, 111. but no one
was on board. A school building
collapsed a,t Maunie killing two
children and injuring 25.
CHAMBER ENDORSES
STAND OF FISK
VESSEES ASSOCIATION
The following telegrams relative
to the tariff hearings at Washing
ton, D. C„ on the subject of Amer
ican caught fish which are landed
at Prince Rupert, are self-explan
atory. The wire was received by
the Seward Chamber of Commerce
a couple of days ago and follow
ing a meeting of the executive
board of the chamber, they framed
a telegram which is also published
herewith:
Seward Chamber of Commerce:
We are sending a representative
to the tariff hearings at Washing
ton, D. C„ to oppose the proposals
to levy a duty on American caught
fish landed in Prince Rupert and
shipped to the United States.
Please wire your views to Harold
E. Lokken, care of the New Willard
Hotel, Washington, D. C.
Fishing Vessel Ownership, Assn.
The answer:
Harold E. Lokken, New Willard
Hotel, Washington, D. C. Seward
Chamber of Commerce opposes
any tariff being levied on Amer
ican fish being shipped through
Canadian territory for sale in
American territory. We endorse
the stand of the Fishing Vessels
Owners Association on this subject.
Seward Chamber of Commerce,
Leon Urbach, president.
NEW TONOITAH SHAFT
TONOPAH, Nev., Jan., 19, (JP)—
Chris Hansen and Joseph Stewart
have token a contract from the L.
A. Tonopah Mining Co., to sink a
J-nth of 50 feet. The job includes
timbering.
GREAT GAS CLOUD !
IS SEEN IN SPACE
riH7>CA N. Y. Jan., 18, (/P)—-A j
'vast cloud of gas, lying in space in i
:fhe northern heavens near the
constellation Cassiopeia’s Chair,
has been found by S. L. Boothroyd,
professor in charge of the Fuertes
Observatory of Cornell University.
The observations were made
while working at the Dominion
Astrophysical Observatory at Vic
toria E C
SEATTLE PLANT WILL MANE -
FACTURE PLANES; FIRST
FLIGHT IN MARCH
SEATTLE, Jan., 19, UP)—Verne C.
Gorst, president of the Seattie Fly
ing Service announced the organi
zation of a half million dollar cor
poration to operate a air mail route
betv.cc • u (i'll*. r.:i • .rnneau ano
to equip a Seattle factory for the
manufacture of seaplanes.
nr Hate ‘ 'he " -v corporation
■which vill he named after himself,
had completed its financing and
I will net hate env public stock is
j sue but it is backed by Seattle ani
Ai.'ska business men and -.viR b
serb all property and assets of the
Seattle Flying Service within a
fortnight.
Grost is . to go to New V :K to
take delivery of a Keystone Loen
;ing flying boat which will under
take to survey the mail route m
March.
MRS POLLARD HERE
Mrs C. A. Pollard, wife of the
Anchorage and Fairbanks dentist,
arrived in Seward today accom
panied oy her two sons, enroute to
Anchorage, their home. Mrs. Pol
lard has been visiting at Kodiak
for tne last two months while Di.
Pollard has been in the lower Riv
Jer country.
S-4 RAISED AFTER ALL-NIGHT
BATTLE
NEW LONDON, Conn.,—Tlie
(submarine S-4, refitted as a naval
safety vessel, was finally raised by
divers eff Block Island in trials of
the recently perfected pad-eyes,
fater ■?r all night battle in which
the stem of the vessel remained
ir.bedded in the mud.
Photo shows members of the
crew of the Chewink tending the
air pumps forcing air into the
nontoones raising the S-4.
EYE WITNESSES OF
SOUTHERN QUAKE
RELATE DISASTER
LARGF NUMBER OF PEOPLE
WERE INJURED WHEN CITY
WAS I F.VELED
CAHACAS. Venezuela, Jan., 19,
UP)—The Dutch steamship Com
mewjne from which the first news
of the disastrous earthquake which
struck the seaport, city of Cumarro
arrived at Caracas with a large
number of persons who were injur
d in the quake.
Eye witnesses said the quake
asted 30 seconds and every build
ng in Camana was destroyed. Per
ons on the docks were thrown in
to the sea and a tidal wave follow
ed which wrecked sailboats.
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HOOVER TREES
j SINTON Tex., Jan., IS, (/P)_Two
large ralm trees. J. M. Hochstet
er’s gift to Sinton High schor,
were named .
Hoover” by the donor.
SHARKEY AND STRIBLING FOR CHOICE BOUT
Young
Stribling
IN THE
^SMAPE OF
, -J THE
^WELTERING
PALMS!
JACK
SHARKfY
BhL
@D
Riches await the winner or the Sharkey-btribbhng
fight, February 26. A bout with Dempsey, Loughran or
Paulino probably will be the reward.
LEO LOMSKI TAKES
FIGHT FROM UGOGGK
NEW YORK, Jan., 19, (£>)— Leo 1
Lomski, Aberdeen, Wash., light j
heavy, battered out a 10-round de- :
vision over James J. Braddock in
the feature bout at Madison Square
Garden boxing card. Braddock
recently knocked out “Tuffy” Grif
fu-hs end fractured Pete Latzos
iaw.
AGAIN MAKING
OIL HISTORY
GOLF OIL CORPORATION TAPS
RESERVOIR GETS ROAR
ING GUSHER
HORT WORTH. Tex.. Jan., 19, (JP)
—The Gulf Oil Corporation has
brought in a well gushing over
'10.000 barrels of oil a day in the
southernmost extension of the
Wink field in W'nker county, West
snapped the casing connections
and derrick timbers, spraying high
in the air and covering the country
side with oil.
Excavations arc being made as
rapidly as possible in an attempc
;to save a portion of the overflow
I’while the weH is being brought un
j der control.
The new gushe.r, which is said to
be one of the largest ever complet
ed in the United States, is making
6,000 barrels a day more than the
famous Barton well, completed in
1922 in the El Dorado, Ark., pool.
Tt also betters the 60.000 barrel
Skelly Oil Co., well in the Hendrick
field, also in Winker county. This
well has been pinched in, in ac
cordance with the Texas petroleum
I conservation agreement and a sim
ilar program will be follower in the
|Goif Company’s gu her as soon as
jthe flow can b"
'tire Winker county production is
limited to 175,00 barrels a day un
der an order of the Texas railroad
commission.
_ —
I
m THE
Capt. E. Thomsen, commander
of the S. S. Admiral Rogers, of the
Pacific Steamship Co., returned to
the Port of Seward early this
morning from th° Westward and
upon taking on a large number of
local reservations from the Inter
ior. whom will arrive on tonglit’s
|tr°’o qoii
The trip across from Kodiak was
ideal with not a ripple on the sea.
Incoming passengers included:
i Seward: Annie Anderson, P. Gar
bin, J. H. Hillborn, Lillian Hill
born, Jack Lee, Mrs. C. A. Pollard,
Clayton Pollard, George Pollard,
J. E. F. Schwegler, W. T. White,
Yakutat: Sadie Opeim.
Juneau: Mr. adn Mrs. C. C. Ham
elbecher, William Olsen.
Ketchikan: Mrs. A. B. Com
stock.
Seattle: R. V. Anderson, Mr.
and Mrs. Seth Brooks, E. Fjeldahl,
Ben Gjorde, W. A. Keller, Anton
Kvaas, C. L. Lippencott, W. H.
Trout.
About 500 barrels of herring is
aboard for shipment to Seattle.
HUGE BIEL PASSED
CARRIES MILLIONS
OB! DEBATE NEXT
SPECIAL APPROPRIATION PRO
POSED FOR HOOVER DRY
INVESTIGATION
WASHINGTON, Jin.. 19, (IP)—
While the House passed the $541,
POO.Oun indenendent office appro
P’iaton Bill the Senate was in the
forum for another prohibition de
bate as an attempt will be made
to decide how much, if any addi
tional money will be expended to
enforce the dry laws.
The observation by Senator Noi
ris on prohibition appointments
are dictated largely bv political in
fluence and brought the declara
tion from Senator Robinson that
nroh’hition workers had been mob
ilized for election of the Republican
; ticket during the last campaign.
Senator Glass of Virginia pio
nosed $250,00 be appropriated for
the President’s use in making a
searching investigation of prohibi
tion
j Pivsident-elect Hoover has indi ■
Seated he intends to do this.
FOOTBALL COUCH
BA9SHAW FIGHT !S
m STANDSTILL
BUCK IS PASSED TO THE RUL
ING OF THE FACULTY
COMMITTEE
| SEATTLE, Jan.. 19. (/P)—The
.fight over Enoch Bagshaw whose
virtual ouster as football coach
7/as ordered yesterday by the stu
dent Board of Control, is at a
!standstill today.
The faculty committee which has
the right to review the Board's ac
tion, was to meet to receive legal,
opinion on whether the coach
could be legally dismissed before
!remaining the three years contract
expired
Dean Schwepoe, of the lav/
!school opined action on the subject
to the ruling faculty committee.
WAT,DEN, Colo.. Jan., 19, (/P)—J.
W. Willford, pioneer ranchman and
miner of the Pearl section of the
Park, has brought word of consid
erable mining activites in the old
copper camp which about 20 yeais
ago was the scene of a real mining
boom. The little town of Pearl is
located near the center of the dis
trict, being a prospector's mecca
and boasting a population of 200
citizens.
| During this boom period several
promising copper deposits were
partially developed but the isola
tion of the district and expense of
transportation was too much of a
problem for the early-day miner.
The camp and mines were aban
doned. Now copper is at a profit
making price again. Truck haul
ing has solved the transportation
problem and makes possible the
profitable operation of the mines
that have so long been idle.