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VOLUME XXIII. NUMBER 189. SEWARD, ALASKA SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1928.
PRICE TEN CENTS
ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY
OUNCES PLATINUM MINED
LAST SEASON
BETHEL, Dec., 15, (/PI- Lewis H.
Kappler. engineer in charge repre
senting a San Francisco company,
returned here via dog team from
Aralic Fiver where a crew worked
all summer and fall drilling with
the intention of developing a dredg
ing field.
It is understood, the. results thus
far have been satisfactory although
more prospecting is necessary and
drilling operations will be continued
next spring.
It h reported 130 ounces of plat -
News Pay district by six men work
ins? last season for 50 days. This
means renewed activity amons? the
prospectors along the Kuskokwim.
From the same district comes the
story of two Eskimo bovs who were
hunting foxes and were crossing
Good News Bay; the tide came in,
trapping them against a sheer
bluff. Soon the ice cracked and
’hey were immersed to the should
r>.q for hours The younger c nlapsrd
and the other canned him ashore
after the tide ebbed then with
freezing weather dragged the un
conscious youth 12 miles to a cabin
but death won the race. >
woiMosi
THRESHOLD OF NEW
HOOVER REPLIES TO ADDRESc
OF WELCOME IN BCENOS
AIRES
BUFNOS AIRES, Dec., 15. (JP)
Herbert Hoover, replying to th<
National Palace welcome of Foreigi
Minister Oyhanarte, said the work
stands on the threshold of a nev
area of advance adding “The grea
war gave a new impulse to swini
the world away from nast concep
’ions, a« never before.
Civilization is secured to the de
mccratlc institutions of Govern
ment and ‘the hope and faith o
humanity lies in its success I an
one who has full confidence in th
ultimate ability of the great Amen
can.experiment of peoples to goven
themselves.”
DISORDERLY CHARGE
FOR ANTONE ANDERSON
SEATTLE!. Dec., 15. {IP)—A man
slaughter case dwindled into a
drunk and disorderly charge in
j court today after five policemen
testified to finding the body of
John Borgen, Alaskan, beaten to
death in a hotel Thanksgiving Day.
Antone Anderson, Alaska fisher
man, who admitted striking Bor
gen, was given 90 days.
INSPECTION SERVICE ABSOLVED
FROM CHARGES LAXITY
EXAMINATION
WASHINGTON. Dec.. 15, (/Pi
Absence of dicipline on the part of
the crew was named as the chief
cause for the loss of life in the S. 3.
jVestress sinking. D. N. Hoover, In
spector General of the United'
States Steamboat Inspection Sei -
vice reported to the Secretary of
Commerce Whiting after a special
inquiry absolved the Inspection
Service from charges of failing to
make a thorough examination of
the vessel before sailing.
! FUTILE ATTEIfTS
, TIJG AKUTAN HEADING TOWARD
j KETCHIKAN AFTER* SEARCH
PRINCE WILLIAM SOUND
! JUNEAU, Dec.., 15,* (JP)—Captain
Jennings of the salvage tug Akutan
radioed the local Customs House
-jthat he had made two futile at
: tempts to land on Middleton Island
‘ in search of the halibuters Brun
vold aod Imperial and was return
r ing to Ketchikan via Petersburg.
& On account of the shortage of
' fuel '-applies search has been aban
- doned with the exception of the
party row enroute from Yakutat to
- jltalio River.
- | ROME, Dec., 15, (A5)—Italy's de
1 mocracy will be ended this week
2 when the Chamber of Deputies will
- hold its final meeting to declare the
i ,end of popular Representative Gov
erning Body.
WAITING FOR THAT “MESSAGE” FROM MARS
f iiz* s* ~ 'la I
London, Eng.,—Dr. Mansfield Robinson, who claims to have got in
touch with the inhabitants of Mars, listens-in with Professor Low
(wearing glasses) and newspaper reporters for a reply to the mes
sage he sent through the British Post Office radio station at Rugby.
Dr. Robinson was certain he received a reply but could not decipher it.
THE FIRST TRANS-ATLANTIC
AIR STOWAWAY
FRIFDRICHSKArLN, Germany,
—Clarence Terhune, young Ameri
can boy, who stowed away on the
Graf Zeppelin on its return voyage
to Germany, photographed upon
his arrival at Fredrichshafen. He
bears the distinction of being the
first to stowaway on a trans-Atlan
tic airship.
SETTLEMENT OF SIR
LUGANO, Dec., 15, UP)—An offi
cial. communique was issued by Sir
Austen Chamberlain, Foreign Min
ister Rriand and Foreign Minister
Stresemann, the essence of which
was that the Ministers are deter
mined to do everything in the'.i
power to arrive as ioon a.'- possible
at a complete ard fin d settlement
of the difficulty arising out of war
1 _- ■ ■
KING STRUGGLES
TO REGAIN HEALTH
LONDON, Dec., 15, (JP)— King
George is still struggling bravely for
a new foothold on. life. Today’s
bulletin read; “The King had sever
al hours of sleep and his local con
dition so far is satisfactory. There
has been no increase in exhaustion
and nis pulse remains steady.”
TATE PLANS TO SEND MAYEit ,i
• REST j.
OF HIS LIE E
SEATTLE, Dec., 15, (/P)—After d;
iberating less than two hours a
jury of men found D. E. Mayer and
his mother, Mrs. Mary Smith, guilty
1 of grand larceny.
i An automobile and other articles,
belonging to James E. Bassett of
Maryland, was found in their pos
session a few days after Bassett dis
appeared three months ago.
I The State plans to have Mayer
sentenced to life imprisonment as a
habitual criminal.
THEO. liOBF.KFS DIES
HOLLYWOOD, Dec.. 15, (JP)—The j
grand old man of the stage ana
<rieen, Theodore Roberts, died to
day. He was 68 years old and be
gan his stage career in 1888.
THE DREADNOUGHT MARYLAND
The superdreadnought Maryland was commanded by Captain
; Victor A. Kimberly on President-elect Hoover’s recent voyage down
; the mighty Pacific.
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S.S.
•SEATTLE, Dec., 15, (VP)—1The S. S.
Northwestern, of the A. S. S. Co.,
sailed at 10 o’clock this morning loi
Alaska with 80 passengers. The
Seward reservations are:
| Mrs. H. Bird, Mrs. F. L. Higgins,
Frank Clark, Carl Clark, Mrs. Geo.
Burmaster C. C. Martin, Mrs. G. W.
Hicks, Jane McMullen, Mrs. P. C.
McMullen, Mrs J. H. Flickinger,
Miss Scott, Mrs. M. Scott, T. A.
Hamilton, J. O. Plummer, Jas. Clim
io, Ben Williams, Miss N. Beven,
liilly Rivers, and two steerage.
SECRET MEETING
LUGANO, Switzerland, Dec., 15,
(JP)— The 53i d session of the League
of Nations Council, so far as public
meetings are concerned, adjourned.
The Council then began a secret
!
jmeeting to discuss the Paraguayan
'and Bolivian boundary dispute.
NELSON CHILBERG DIES
SEATTLE, Dec., 15. (/P)—Nelson
Chilberg, pioneer business man ol
Seattle and Skagway, died here at
‘he age of 88.
HI10F
The local office of the Alaska ,
Steamship Company reports the j
Steamer Alameda took the Starr
’n tow last evening but was mak
ing slow progress, against the
storm and that its probable time
of arrival here was indefinite.
It was said that shortly following
the discharge of cargo from the
Alameda it would depart for the
south. No word has been heard
from the motorship Discoverer,
Capt- H. Berger, who left for the
Starr a few days ago. It is thought
all the Starr passengers are on the
Alameda.
Reuglar meting of the City Coun- j
cil Monday evening. ]
MULDER Mill
BILL APPPBOVED
SENT TO HOUSE
-ESS THAN SlOft.OftO PROVIDED
IN BILL FOR ALASKA FARM
STATIONS
WASHINGTON, Deo., 15, (fP)—
Tong .•'•‘sr took a. big step toward
learing the ca’endar in approving
he he My contested Boulder Canyon
3am Bill and sending it to tne
louse for adjustment of differ -
mces.
Senate action on the Bill, a heri
age from several previous sessions,
vas taken late in the day and dif
fers slighly from which the House
ipproved last winter but its spon
sors believe the difference will be
uroolbed over without difficulties.
While the Senate was wrestling
with this measure the House passed
;he annual Interior Department
Supply Bid of 885,000,000 and l >
reived from the committee on an
mul appropriation measures $143,
100,000 for the Department of Agri
Muture ; among other items in the
Bill r.assed it provided $85,000
ror maintenance ox agricultural
stations in Alaska.
ALASKA PULP DEVELOPMENT
COMPANY INCREASES CAPI
TAL STOCK
SEATTLE. Dec.. 15, (A1)—Visioning
the possibility that its Alaska devel
opment may demaAd an investment
as high as $20,000,000 the Crown,
Zellerbach Paper Co, has increased
its capital stock for this and other
improvements.
J. D Zellerbach, vice president,
said the Alaska paper pulp develop
ment near Ketchikan has been un
der investigation for two years and
said another year is necessary be
fore the company decide on plans.
Prisoner Would Spend
Rest Of Life In Jail
COLUMBIA. S C.; Dec., 14, (TP)—
Henry Scrivens Charleston negrt ,
Soul.i Cai o’lira’s oldest prisoner in
in fear that
the law may force him to lev v
penitentiary which has been his
home for 43 years.
The negro was sentenced to life
imprisonment in 1885 for burglary
and larceny. In 1924 Gov. Thomas
G. McLeod paroled him but hardly
three months passed before the
negro returned to the prison and
begged to be readmitted.
NOISE EXPENSIVE
NEW YORK, Dec., 14, (TP)—If all
room noise could be eliminated dur
ing the reception of telephoned
speech, says Dr Harvey Fletcher of
Bell Telephone Laboratories, tne
electrical power delivered to a tele
phone receiver could be reduced to
ane 1-100 of its present value.
FINDS BANK LOOT
SPRONGFIELD, Mo, Dec., 15, (TP)
—A local hunter, angry because he
had missed a quail, kicked a wind
row of leaves and uncovered a pile
af bank notes—part of the loot of a
Jiangua bank.