MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XIV NUMBER 19.
SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, January 23, 1929.
PRICE TEN GENTS
KALI' DOZEN CRAFT IN A BAD
WAY; FEW LIVES REPORTED
LOST
NEW YORK, Jan., 23, (A5)—The
steamship America reported she
was so close to the disabled freight
er Florida that the latter’s wireless
signals are very strong. The lincr
Presidont Harrison had previously i
reported she could not find the j
Florida. The S. S. America said!
the tanker Dannedaike, in distress |
in the same vicinity 300 miles off
Virginia Capes had set up a jury
rig and is attempting to make Ber
muda under her own steam.
Search for the British freighter j
Teesbridge with a crew of 30 was j
abandoned when rescue vesseis
could find no trace of her 300 miles
°ast of Cape Race, Newfoundland.
Other marine accidents have
been :eported along the coast. The J
four master schooner Kinsway
burned to the waterline at Broad
cove, Me., where she'was laid up for
the winter. The Norwegian freight
er Terne is held in the ice which
may imprison her all winter after
escaping from rocks which threat
ened her destruction off Friars
Head at the entrance to Margaree,
NTo\a Scotia and the Diesel trawler
Mariner became disabled oif Nan
tucket. were taken iflider tow for
Boston.
The S. S. President Garfield,
which went aground in the Baha
mas, has been refloated and pro- j
eeea to Nassau The Garfield will
pick up her passengers.
FRED CREWE DIES
LONELY PROSPECTOR
CABIN, INTERIOR:
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ONCE WAS THE FASTEST COM- i
rOSITOR ON STAFF OF THE
NEW YORK WORLD
FAIRBANKS, Jan.. 23, VP)—Fred
Crewe aged printer and journalist,
lured from type to gold during the
haydr.v of the early Klondike rush,
died in a lonely snowbound pros
pector's cabin l-’*-. week
A hasty scribbled note left by
Crewe to his invalid son, in a trail
box, told of “his terrible illness and
probable death,” was found two
days later.
Crewe was reputed to be one of ;
tiie fastest compositors on the New !
York World before the advent of
the lynotype. He followed gold j
rushes to Nome and Fairbanks.
I
WESTWARD !S HONORED
GRATEFUL EMPLOYES
SEATTLE, Jan., 23, (.^—Recog
nition of honors have come to Gee
Wing, Government cook at the
United States Fisheries station on
the Pribilof Islands.
Grateful employes who always
found coffee hot and flapjacks
ready for the past 30 years pre
sented him with a gold watch and
chain. A few words fo apprecia
tion for his services were printed in
the latest U. S. Fisheries Bulletin. *
HARDING’S FAMOUS
H1ADDIE” DIES
NEWTONVILLE, Mass., Jan., 23,
—“Laddie Boy”, magnificient
airdaie which as “the first dog of
the land” which once roamed at
wiil about the White House
grounds, is dead at the home of
Harry Barker, secret service man
to whose care he was entrusted
seven years ago at the death of
Presdent Harding. The dog had
been ailing for several months
from old age.
THREE PROJECTED FLIGHTS
NORTH OF ALASKA DURING
SPRING OF 1330
NEW YORK, Jan., 23, (A3)—Dr.;
Fridtiof Nansen, Norwegian Arctic j
explorer and scientist, reached New]
York from Norway today and plans i
to spend two months in this coun
try planning an expedition in the]
Graf Zeppelin over the North Polar i
-eas in the spring of 1930.
He also will discuss with the
American Government the need ;
for a mooring mast at Nome in
order to accomplish his trip. He
hopes to make three flights; first
to Leningrad, to Spitsbergen and
fheice over North Greenland and
the Canadian Archipelago to Nome.
The second will be northeast to
Wrangell thence over the unknown
area returning to Nome for refuel
ing. The third will follow the rim
of the continental shelf of Asia to
Leningrad from Nome.
A GOOD REST
MIAMI BEACH, Jan., 23, (/P)— :
With nothing but fishing and visits
with friends and associates n pros- -
oect for the next few days Presi- ;
lent-elect Herbert Hoover is rest- .
ng at his pre-inaugural home on :
3die Isle at the Penney estate. ji
FORMER ANCHORAGE HOSPI
TAL GARDENER IS NOW
HORTICULTURIST
SEATTLE Jan., 23. (IP)—Ernest
A Eggersgluss, U. S. horticulturist,
here today, is a man of accom
plishments and ambition!?.
Among his accomplishments
with the rest of the Government
agricultural staff n Alaska are the
crossing of the domestic strawberry
with h!e Alaska wild variety mak
ing a hardy flourishing hybrid de
velopment; hardy tvpes of oafs,
wheat, bariey and rye which thrive
in th° North; breeding Galloway
cattle with yak and creating a
heavy type of bovine.
■-Iis ambiton and hones are A.as
ka will some day be exporting
rtgs, ciieeese and other dairy pro
ducts Outside.
colonization in Alaska will pro
reed rapidly enough to provide a
borne market for the fast growing
if i mine industry. The moist re
gions in Southeastern Alaska wiii
eecome a bower of fruits and vege
tables and the plains near the Are • j
ic Circle will be a u'ide expanse of
waving grain with a hinterland
providing millions of acres of graz
ing land, he said.
FAIRBANKS, Jan., 23, UP)— |
slight quakes at increasing intei-j
mis apparently indicate final con- j
rulsions of the earth following
yesterday’s unheavals. Geologists
amiliar with the country forecast
■ecuirances even more severe until
he cycle is complete.
MANUGA Nicaragua, Jan., 23, (/P)
—Latest advices from northern
Nicaragua state three marines or a
patru of seven which clashed with
outlaws northeast of Yali have
been klPed. They were Privates
Everett Hector of Des Moines, Ras
tus Collins of Lyons, Ga., and
George Oswell of Miami.
MELLON SAYS APPROPRIATION
VIOLATES GOVERNMENT
BUSINESS PRINCIPALS
WASHINGTON, Jan., 23, (A5)—
The Senate voted the President
$24,000,000 for use in an attempt
to enforce prohibition.
The appropriation action must
be approved by the House and
Presdent Coolidge and if this is
forthcoming the expenditure is ex
pected to be made by President
elect Hoover under the amend
ment adopted.
Wide powers will be given the j
President in expenditure funds and
it is offered by Senator Harris of
Georgia, a dry, as part of the first
deficiency appropriation Bill. The !
Senate voted this additional sum j
for dry enforcement over the vig
orous opposition of Mellon who I
argued it violated Government
business principals
FARMERS VS BANDITS
HANKOW, Jan., 23, </P)— Candi- ;
dates for membership in the Red !
Spears, an organization of far
mers against bandits, must guar- i
antee the secrecy of of instruct- j
ions by eating the paper they are ■
written upon. They are taught to -
believe that they are immune from ;
enemy bullets. :
SCIENCE OF FISHERIES TO BE SURVEYED
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the scientists who work in laboratories and far
places to assure adequate fisheries for the future will,
at their second biennial conference, consider the cultiva
tion of fish, like that done at the fisheries biological lab
oratory of the bureau at Fairmont, Iowa (above), and
the fish tagging work of Dr. Willis H. Fish (below).
AUTHORITIES UNABLE TO DE
TERMINE CAUSE OF ACCI
DENT; SNOWSTORM
BELLEVUE, O, Jan., 23, (/P)—At
east 17 persons were killed and a
number of others injured when a
West-bound Lakeshore Electric Xu
terurban car crashed into a Pitts
burgh Chicago bus of the Gray
hound Co, in a blindng snowstorm
one mile and a half east of hero
yesterday afternoon.
• Eight bodies were brought to one
of tiie undertaking establishments,
two more to another and four to a
third. In addition to the ambu
lance crew reported one more body
had been recovered and two or
three others are still pinned be
neath the wreckage.
Some of the bodies are so badly
nangled that identification will
be impossible. The four dead were
women. None of the passengers of
the interurban were hurt.
Authorities are unable to deter
mine the manner in which the
crash occurred but believe the bus
driver failed to see the electric car
because of the snowstorm.
ECS COMPANY’S ATTORNEY
Cl AIMS DRIVER STOPPED
AT CROSSING
■ BELLEVUE. O.. Jon., 23 (JP/~
:The defiuh toll in yesterday’s crash
between a bus and interurban
amounted to 19 today with the
deatn of Richard Freeman.
George Gould, attorney for tne
ous company declared he was hold
ing Butler, the bus driver, blame
less Gould said Butler could not
see more than 200 feet end that cite
interurban was running 15 miles
an hour on a iate schedule.
'.v said there was no warning
signal at the crossing and that the
driver had stopped 12 feet from the
crossing; that he got out of his
mo mine and locked up and down
l ire tracks; 14 were seriously inirr
?d. ' '
j FREIGHTERS FLORIDA AND
DANNEDATKE SEND SOS;
ALSO TEESRRIDGE
NEW YORK, ,Tan., 23, (JP)—Two
freighters, the Florida and the
Dannedaike are in distress off the
Virginia coast and the British
steamer Maine reported she is con
tinuing search for the steamer
Teesbridge which was in distress
southeast of Cape Race but thus
far has been unable to find her.
The United States liner America
and the Dollar liner President Har
ris are both reported rushing to
to the aid of the S. S.Floridaand
S. S. Dannedaike.