M KM HER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXIII. NUMBER 71.
SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, MARCH 26, 1928.
PRICE TEN CENTS
fIT.il C0CHR1
TO PURCHASE BEAR'
FOR PERM USE
WILL KEEP GOVERNMENT FROM
JUNKING IT; WILL ROUND
OUT LIVES TOGETHER
SAN FRANCISCO, March 26. (£>)—
Capt. Claude Cochran, of the coast
guard, announced plans for buying
the superannuated cutter Bear if Con
gress fails to appropriate money for
its upkeep.
Capt. Cochran commanded the Bear
for years and said “I think my invest
ments are going to turn out big and
1 propo-se to buy the Bear to keep the
Government from junking or selling
it to a wrecker. I will use it for a
yacht and the Bear and I together
will pass the evening of our lives
cruising about the South Seas and
other out-of-way places.”
STEAMSHIP SANTA ANA
SOLI. WILL RE-ENTER
SEATTLE, Mar. 26. (A3)—The fam
ous x\laskan steamship Santa Anna
f was sold to the Washington Alaska
Transportation Co., by the Santa Anna
Steamship Company. The vessel will
be the nucleus for a new passengei
' and freight line between Seattle and
Southwestern and Southeastern Alas
lea ports. It is understood that othei
.-diips will be added as business war
rants. The Santa Anna will sail for the
North within 10 days.
ZIEFIELO IS ILL il
W STAGING MUSH SHOWS
GOES CANADIAN GAME
NEW YORK, Mar. 26. (JP)—A state
ment from the office of Florenz Zieg
field said that he had collapsed unde:
the strain of staging his musical pro
duction and had gone to his camp ii
Canada. While there he will not b<
permitted to do any work of any sort
nor to receive telephone calls, cables
or telegrams. The statement say:
he was accompanied by Doctor Jer
ome Wagner.
The last 13 months have been al
most the busiest in his career, witl
five pnoduttion3 to his credit, thi
latest which opened last week.
“WHITE COAL" ON FARMS
PULLMAN, Wash., March 26. (£>)
A hundred farm uses of electricit;
were found by Prof. L. J. Smith of th
state school of agriculture in a Wash
ington survey. They ranged fror
cranberry cleaning and cider makini
to sheep-shearing and cow lipping.
LEAVE FOR HOME, KOVUKUK
/
TANANA, Mar. 26. (/P)—Ben Sirr
and Larrimore, who returned from
a trip to Seattle, left Tanana yester
day, by dog team, for the upper Koyu
kuk River, where they have prospect
ed for many years.
SEMITE SUNOS PST
WASHINGTON, March 26. (IP)—The
Senate stood pat in its demand that
the Congressional Committee investi
gate the sinking of the submarine S-4
and turned down the compromise offer
from the House that a Presidential
Commission with, some Congressional
| membership, make an inquiry.
GERMANS TOITTEMPT
HOP ACROSS ATLANTIC
i _
BERLIN, March 26. (/p)—Another
attempt to conquer the Atlantic from
|
| the east to the west is under way with
| the departure of the Junkers plane
1 presumably for Baldonnel, Ireland.
| On the first lap of the hazardous jour
ney the plane is carrying Baron Von
Huenefeld, Captain Hermann Koehl
and mechanic. Spindler. They left
I secretly.
HONORS FOR AGED
TOKYO, March 26. (/P)—When
coronation ceremonies for Emperor
Hirohito are held in November all Jap
anese over 80, including those living
^abroad, will receive imperial gifts.
FASCISM DOWNFALL !
1 OFFING; CRISIS
Si BE ST HD
LONDON, Mar. 2G, (&*)—'That Fas
cism in Italy is undergoing a “crisis
that curiously resembles the Trotsky-'
1st crisis in Soviet Russia” was charg-,
ed in a special dispatch to the Daily!
Herald, the British Labor organ, from!
a special correspondent on the Italian •
frontier. “A number of the most pro
minent Fascist leaders,” the article
declared, “including Signor Farinacci,
formerly Secretary General of the
party, and Signor Rossoni, acting Sec- j
retary General of the Fascist trad?
unions, are being threatened with se
vere disciplinary measures, including
explusion from the party and deporta
tion to the Lipari Islands. These op
positionists are accused of trying to
create a faction within the Fascist
Party. They are accused of demand
ing the Democratization of the party.”
FILIPINOS IN OLYMPICS
AMSTERDAM, Hollanp, Mar. 26. (£>)
—The Philippine Islands probably will
participate in the Olympic track and
field events, the Netherlands Olympic
Committee has announced.
HE CAN TAKE IT
CHICAGO, Mar. 26. (/P)— Jimmy Me
Larnin, Pacific coast lightweight, can
take it as well as hit. In his Chicago
fight with Louis (“Kid”) Kaplan he
was knocked down twice in the first
round, but came back to put Kaplan
away in the eighth.
MRS. GOODHUE HAS RELAPSE
NORTHAMPTON, March 26. (/P)—
rhe condition of Mrs. Lemire Good
hue, mother of Mrs. Calvin Coolidge,
ias taken a turn for the worse when
she suffered a relapse yesterday. Mrs.
Coolidge is expected to leave Wash
ington today for her mother’s bedside.
WASHINGTON, Mar. 26. (^—Sec
retary Davis, of the Labor Department,
reported to the Senate the unemploy
ed situation is serious although “not
so extensive or grave as estimated
which have generally been circulated.”
COMMITTEE CONFERENCE
IS AGAIN POSTPONED
GENEVA, Mar. 26. (/P)—'The Pre
paratory Disarmament Committee, re.
jecting Count Von Bernstorff’s pro
posal that the date for disarmameni
conference be set, adopted the resolu
tion postponing further work by th(
committee until the governments set
tied the differences on naval disarm
ament.
GERMAN PLANE ARRIVES
DUBLIN, March 26. (fP)—The Ger
man plane Bremen, ott it‘s first la]
across the Atlantic, arrived at th<
Baldonnel airdrome.
KILLS FAMILY AND SELF
LOWDEN, Iowa, March 26. (/P)
Lambert Meier, postmaster, killed hi
wife, three children and self.
FLOOD WATERS SI
RENO SHE LOWERING
DANGER IS PAST
BASEMENTS AND PARK SECTIONS
OF CITY INUNDATED; TOR
RENT DROPPING
RENO, March 26. (/P)—-Danger of
future inundation of Reno by flood
waters of the Truckee River diminish
ed considerably as word from Boca
Dam, 20 miles up the stream, indicat
ed an hourly improvement in the sit
uation there and less of a possibility
that the structure will break.
i
After passing a night of anxiety,
during which the police prepared to
spread alarm in the event the dam
broke, the stream showed a drop of 18
inches here. A torrent of water, five
inches deep, is still rushing over the
dam but this represented a drop of
five inches during the night.
Lower sections of th city were in
undated last night when the overflow
’ water entered basements and covered
! a section of the city’s park system.
Fears had been expressed the excess
water would weaken the dam and
break it throwing more than 500 acres
of water down the valley thru the
town.
)
1SISS FUNDS PH
OFF G. 01 DEFICIT
CHICAGO, Mar. 26. (/P)—Methods
pursued by the late Clarence W. Lp
haffl, Republican National Treasurer,
in raising funds to pay off the 1920
deficit, were revealed to the Senate
; Public Lands Subcommittee, now in
session here, investigating the oil
; scandal.
i
! A letter from Upham to William J.
! Loudenbergh, financial agent for the
CDeering family of millionaires, was
read, in which contributions were
urged because President Harding and
his Cabinet had performed mighty
satisfactorily. Startling revelations
in the oil inquiry were promised for
next week.
HOUSE CLIMBS INTO AUTO
INJURES SEVEN PEOPEE
DOWNSY, Calif., March 26. (JP)—
When an automobile runs over a horse
that is not news—but, early yesterday
a maddened horse climbed into a pass
ing automobile, severely injured the
seven passengers and wrecked the
car. Authorities are now wondering
what made the mad horse mad.
IRISH STENOGS FOR LEAGUE
GENEVA, Switzerland, Mar. 26. (£>)
—Ten Irish girls will be added to the
staff of the secretariat of the League
of Nations. English girls now hold
most of these positions.
“BackTo The Job"
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