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VOLUME XXIII. NUMBER 195. SEWARD, ALASKA TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1928. ‘ PRICE TEN GENTS
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PROMINENT AUTO SALESMAN
LIKES COUNTRY BUT DEPRE
CATES HOTEL SERVICE
Determined to go to the highest
government agencies possible to urge
the completion of the gap in the
Feward-Hope highway, A. S. Eldrid"",
head of the Eldridge Buick Company
and the Eldridge Securities company
of Seattle, left for the Outside yester
day on the S. S. Aleutian. He will re
* join his yacht and a cruising party
at Juneau who have been sailing about
the Inside Passage while Eldridge
has been going through the Interior
by train and automobile.
“Its one of the important links in
a fine highway,” he said, “and with
out criticism of the fine work the
road builders are doing thruout the
territory, I am most certainly going
to urge thru the agency of the ofiici
* als of the General Motors company
that the road between Mile 18 on the
upper end of Kenai Lake and Mils
^9 at Moose Pass be completed to
furnish nearly 90 miles of splcntii'
see :c and industrial highway be
tween Seward and Hope. This will
give Seward one of the finest high
way ^ in Alaska and also help vastly
to open up a rich mining territory
•where developments have been held
bac thru lack of transportation. It
is a very important part of the gen
era! scheme to furnish feeders to the
Ala :a Railroad, but because of ifs
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H!3 RECORD AS OPPONENT TO
IMMORALITY IS FIXED AND
SECURE, HE STATES
ALBANY, Aug., 21, (/P)— Answering
William Allen White and other crit
ics, Governor Alfred Smith reviewed
his stand on social legislation as a
member of the New York Assemblie.
He declared his record as an “op.
per :ut to immorality is fixed and se_
cur His statement assail'ed the
Republican National Committee for
“openly associating itself with this
personal attack.”
As for White, tine Democratic Pres,
idential nominee said the Editor’s
* stair ments were “sfanderous and an
• attack wholly unfair, unmanly and
unAmterican. No one in all my 2£
years of my public life ever dared tc
make such vil© suggestions whict
have emanated from Mr. White witl
the approval of Henry J. Allen, pub.
licity director of tbe Republican Nat.
ion il Committee. What a cowardly
co.. ie the committee has pursued.’
DAVE SHADE VICTOR
CHICAGO, Aug., 21, (£>)—Dave
Shade of San Francisco, a middle
weight, won a decision over Joe An.
derson of Cincinnati in 10 rounds af.
ter a bout marked by aggresiveness.
Shade was, after the fight, signed to
meet Mickey Walker, world’s middle,
weight champion, for a title bout in
Chicago this fall.
HEIRS OF ALASKA
SEALER WINNERS
CIRCUIT COURT
ARE AWARDED $17,873 DAMAGES
ERROR FIXING DAMAGES
WHEN SEIZED
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug., 21, (>P)—
The heirs of Capt. C. Peterson, Ber.
ing Sea sealer of th§ .90s (were the
winners in the United States Court
of Appeals when the court aw-arded
them $17,873 damages.
When Peterson’s vessel was seized
twice by government agents it w'as
charged he was sealing illegally. The
appeal wras based on claims of error
fixing the damages in loss of profits
during Peterson’s enforced idleness.
The vessel was first seized beyond
the three.mile Alaska coast in 1891.
TAX IH ADOPTED
ey city coin
Following the completion of the
sessions of the city council of Sew
ard sitting last week as a board of
equalization during which very litt.e
wa done to change the assessment
roll and few complaints heard, the
council last night -formally adopted
the tax roll for 1928.
At the same time it was declared
that the rate for the year will be 2t
j mills, and that on and after 5 p. m
! November 15, 1928, taxes will become
| delinquent. Only three or four com
plaints were acted upon by the boa^d
of equalization, and the action taker
was about 50-50 between rejection A
the protests and the granting thereof
Therefore it now b,ehooves all citizem
to get busy and come across witt
their mazuma, before the delinquencj
date set on November 15.
H F WHITING NAMED
SDCGESSOR TO IOOII
SUPERIOR, Aug., 21, (IP)—Pres
ident Coolidge accepted the resigna
tion of Herbert Hoover and appoint
ed William F. Whiting, of Holyoke
Mass., to succeed him. Whiting is i
personal friend and political supporte:
of Coolidge of many years stauwling
. The oath of office was administere<
. here. Whiting heads the Whitinj
. Paper Company and has never be
r fore held a political office but he hai
’{been active in State politics.
TORNADOES TAKE
TOLL EIGHT LIVES
SOUTH MINNESOTA
ST. PAUL, Aug., 21, (/P)—Two tor.
nadoes took tsight lives, injured more
than three.score and -caused proper,
ty damage estimated to be in excess
of a million dollars in Southern Min.
nesota and Northern Iowa, late Mon.
day.
Austin, Minqfeobta, tsnifferad ,the
heaviest loss when five were killed
and 50 injured; business buildings
and residences were /wrecked. Other
Minnesota casifalties occured near
Glenville; two women lost their lives
in Twin Lakes, near Rockwell City,
Iowa.
One.hundred members of tt^e Amer.
lean Legion aided bhe Minnesota Nat.
ional Guard in patrolling the streets
of Austin as a iecheck of the damage
started after a night of darkness
due to the failure of power lines. One
was injured in Austin and is not ex.
peettad to recover.
A heavy rain followed the- tornado;
roads ai*e flooded and some pave,
ment wrashed away. More than 50
automobiles were wrecked i*. Austin.
The storm seemed to pick out and
j follow the main street starting at
|4:55 and in less than two minutes
covered a path two blocks wide and
two miles long.
1800 BOATS INVOLVED
NEW WESTMINISTER, B. C., Aug
21, (>P)—The strike of fishermen ir
the whole of district No. 1 is report,
ed compete and it is estimated 1,80(
boats and 3,000 fishermen are in
volved. It is said the canners now of
fer ?0c for sockeyes.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Club
New York
St. Louis
Chicago
Cincinnati
Pittsburg
Brooklyn
Boston
Philadelphia
W.
66
70
67
64
62
51
34
31
L.
63
46
51
51
51
60
71
77
Pet.
606
603
563
557
549
483
324
287
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Club W. L. Pet
New York 80 38 678
Philadelphia 74 42 638
St. Louis 61 58 513
Cleveland 55 64 462
Chicago 53 64 453
Washington 53 66 445
Detroit 51 65 440
Boston 43 74 371
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Club
Sacramento
Hollywood
San Francisco
Oakland
Mission
Los Angeles
Portland
Seattle
L.
15
16
19
23
21 29
21 29
18 32
13 37
W.
35
34
31
27
Pet.
700
680
629
540
420
420
360
260
NEW B. C. PREMIER
VICTORIA, B. C., Aug., 21. (£>)—
Dr. S. F. Tol-mie, Conservative Lead,
er, was sworn in as Premier of Brit,
ish Columbia and announced he would
announce his Cabinet tomorrow. Dr.
J. D. MacLean resigned before the
ceremony bringing to an end a Liberal
tenure of almost 12 years.
TRAINMEN' KILLED
MANY ARE INJURED
TRAINS COLLIDE
MC CRACKEN, Kansas, Aug., 21,
(;p)—Three trainmen wer^ killed,
eight injured seriously, two of whom
are not expected to survive, as the
result of a headon collision between
a Western Missouri Pacific passen.
ger train, enroute from St. Louis
to Denver, and a freight train, six
miies West of here last night.
Officials of the railroad are inves.
tigating the cause. It is reported it
resulted from a misunderstanding of
train orders to the passenger train
which, it was said, had been ordered
to a siding here to let the freight
pass but passed ahead of schedule.
BOY SCOUT SELECTED
TO ACCOMPANY BYRD
NEW YORK, Aug., 21, (/P)—Paul
A. Siple, 19 years old, of Erie, Pa.,
, was selected as the Boy Scout to ac.
company the Byrd South Pole expe.
dition as a special assistant orderly
i to Commander Byrd. Siple tood at the
. | bead of the list of six Scouts chosen
from thousands on the basis of physi.
’cal fitness, adaptibility, stamina, skill,
courage, character and resourcefull.
ness.
ROME, Aug., 21, (/P)—The Nor.
j wegian sealing ship Branganza, which
| Thursday sailed from Kjingsbay to
i resume search for Amundsen and for
! the lost members of ,the dirigible
: Italia, reported failure. The message
| said that on Sunday two Italian hy.
! droplanes explored, at a low altitude,
seven islands off North Cape, near
Spitzbergen.
PLANE SEARCH UNDERWAY
ST. JOHNS, Newfoundland, Aug.;
21, (;p)—The government has in.
structed the steamer Susu, on the
coast of Northern Labrador, to make
evtery effort to discover the where,
abouts of the missing plan© and of
Hassel and Cramer.
DANISH SEARCH STARTS
COPENHAGEN, Aug., 21, (/P)—1The
Danish inspection ship, Godthaab
in- Greenland waters, has been in.
structed by the government to im.
mediately begin rearching for the
massing American airmen, T^assel
and Cramer.
Upheaval
Scatters
Dead Fish
Thousands of red snappers floating
an top of the water, most of them
lead but some still feebly flopping
unable to regain depth is a freak
phenomenum observed recently ir
Whale Pass between Kodiak and
Afognag islands by Alf Henrickson, a
homesteader and fisherman on Spruce
Island, who is a visitor in Seward.
“Our boat plowed through this
shoal of dead fish for more than two
miles,” said Henrickson. “we easily
took all we wanted of the live ones.
As you know, the red snapper is a
deep water fish and once on the sur
face he can’t get back again. There
were literally thousands of them and
the only possible explanation we could
think of was that there must have
been some strange subterranean up
heaval or earthquake that forced the
fish u'p from the bottom. The matter
was a nine-days’ wonder to the fish
ermen of the district who are still
speculating on the occurrence.”
Henrickson has a home and family on
Spruce Island where he intends to
start a stock farm. “I don’t think I’d
tackle either Kodiak or Afognak
right now on account of the bear
| which are doing a great deal of
| harm,” he said.
! “It is one of the silliest things I
lever heard of to protect the brown
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TAKES A LOOK AT THE OLD
WELL IN THE BACKYARD •
VISITS KITCHEN
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1 WEST BRANCH, Iowa., Aug., 21,
(/P)—Herbert Hoover came back to
the cross.roads of the village of his
birth. The cares of the Presidential
| campaign wens forgotten as he re_
1 newed old friendships and revisited
| the scenes of his childhood.
Arriving early in the day Hoover
| droves directly to the little frame
i house where he was born to have
breakfast as the guest of Mrs. Jen.
nie Sdsllats, who owns the building.
Befbre the call to breakfast Hoover
i visited this kitchen whre he once
helped his widowed mother with the
chores; he than steppd out onto the
back.porch, which overlooks a small
garden, and there he saw the w»3ll
from which, as a boy, he drew water
for this home.
Senator Brookhart called at the
Scellat home to greet the candidate
to whom he pledged the upport of a
i number of Iowa Congressmen -as well
l as Party Leaders, who also were on
hand for the celebration.