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VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 69.
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
SEWARD, ALASKA. MONDAY, MARCH 25, 1929.
PRICE TEN CENTS
HOPE FOR RECOVERY PRACTI
CALLY GIVEN UP ONE WEEK
AGO
A valiant struggle to recover
her strength and health was lost
yesterday morning at 6:45 o’clock
\ when Mrs. Gerald Protzman, ser
yl iously ill for the last month,
passed away at the residence
of her mother, Mrs. Charles A.
Sheldon. Her death is a sad loss to
the entire community which had
kept closely informed, daily, as to
her progress.
Mrs. Protzman’s condition took
a critical turn about 10 days ago
and Dr. Haverstock from Anchor
age was called over in consultation
with Dr. Hyatt. Several blood
transfusions were necessary to
"keep the patient alive at that time
and for awhile it was thought she
had improved but other complica
tions set in which resulted In
her death.
Mrs. Protzman was born at
Matsca Prairie, British Columbia,
on October 19, 1907. In August 1925,
she became the bride of Gerald
Protzman and had resided here,
practically, since that time. She
was an esteemed member of the
•5astern Star Lodge in .which she
was honored with the position as
secretary.
Aside from her husband and
( small son, Mrs. Protzman is sur
vived by her mother, Mrs. Chas.
A. Sheldon, Mr. Sheldon, Viola
Moran, a sister, of Fairbanks and
Mr. and Mrs. L. V. Ray, aunt and
■inclo, and cousins Patricia and
I ee Ray.
Funeral services will be held
Wednesday afternoon at 2 o’clock
from the lower Odd Fellow hall un
der the auspices of the Eastern
Stars. The Rev. C. T. Hatton will
be in charge of the service and will
deliveit the eulogy. The body is
resting at present in the Seward
Funeral Parlor.
HOOVER, STIMSOI\!
MEET TOMORROW
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OFFICIALS WILL BE GUESTS
AT WHITE HOUSE FOR RE
MAINDER OF WEEK
WASHINGTON, March 25, (A>)—
President Hoover and the new
Secretary of States, will have their
first meeting tomorrow with the
arrival of Mr. Stimson after his
long trip from Manila by way of
San Francisco.
The President and Stimson have
a host of subjects to discuss and
in order to facilitate the work
ahead of them new officials will
be White House guests for the re
mainder of hte week.
TRACTION MUDDLE
CHICAGO, March 25. (A5)—Chi
cago's traction muddle showed
■'lens 0,1 cleaning up when railway
omp nies withdrew their demand
for a new franchise which would
practically give them a free hand
m determining rates and sched
ules.
| EXTENSION AIR SERVICE
! SAN FRANCISCO, March 25, (A5)
j—Boeing airplane company offi
| cials announced extension of
I aerial transport route from Puget
; Sound to Ska'gway which will be
| made as soon as the survey is com
pleted.
FORTY-NINE LIVES
TENNESSEE IS HARDEST HIT;
j RIVER LEFT IT’S BANKS
SUNDAY MORNING
I
LOUISVILLE, Ky„ March 25, (/P)
'—Floods, rushing down from the
Cumberland mountains, took toll
jof 37 lives in southeastern Ken
tucky and northeastern Tennes
see over the week end while tor
iradoes and storms snreaa de,.
over four southern states.
|
i The total number of deaths is
estimated at 49 and possibly many
more.
1 Tennessee was the hardest hit
iwith 31 known deaths; Kentucky
6. Twenty persons, mostly women
and children, were lost when the
■ ’’mery river nt Harrirm.n left i
banks at 3 o’clock yesterday after
, noon.
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DFNIES BATTLE REPORT
PEKING, March 25, (A3)—Gov
j -ramcnt authorities issued vigor
ous denials of reported fighting at
Uwangmei on the Hupehanwei
border
RAILROADER PASSES
PHILADELPHIA, March 25, (JP)
Samuel Rea, former president of
the Pennsylvania railroad, died
today at his home “Gladwyne”
near Ardmore, a suberb. He was
73 years old.
FEDERALS STILL II
C01TS0L liZflTLl
RELIEFTROOPS DUE
CONTENDING FORCES SLOWLY
CLOSE UPON ONE ANOTH
ER, CENTRAL AREA
MEXICO CITY, March 25, (IP)—
The fourth week of the Mexican
revolution found the rebels in the
grip of their first major clash for
possession of the important sea
port city of Mazatlan.
Afted a two-day battle, in which
heavy losses seemed inevitable,
the federal garrison at Mazatlan,
out-numbered at least two to one,
. re st-11? '■■■! possession of the cu'-'
while relief troops are barely 40
miles away.
The main body of federal rein
forcements, numbering 6,000, will
probably cause the rebels to retire.
At Irapuata, while fighting raged
on the west coast, the main con
tending forces began slowly to
close upon each other and in cen
tral Mexico. »
NEW YORK. March '25. Mh—
Newark, N. J., police issued a
statement exon°ratinsr all parties
from responsibility for the air
plane crash in which 14 persons
were killed. The tragedy was re
corded as “just an accident.”
Federal investigations have not
oeen completed yet but it is
thought their verdict will also ex
cnera'o Lou Foote, the pilot, and
>fficiels of the Colonial Airways,
owners and operators of the giant
r’ord passenger plane.
GOV. STUBBS DIES
TOPEKA, Kansas. March 25, i/P)
,—W. R. Stubbs, governor of Kan
sas from 1909 to 1913, died here
following an extended illness. He
1 was 70 years of age.
DARING. AVIATORS SIGHTED
OVER CAPE SHORTLY AF
TER MIDNIGHT
—
SEVILLE, Spain, March 25, (£>)—
j Two Spanish aviators, both bachel
ors and neither over 30 years of
jage, are winging their way south
ward across the Atlantic ocean
kn ar> attempt iu mu ice a non-sto^
! flight to Rio Janeiro.
Captains Francisco Jiminez and
Ignacio Iglesas, Spansih aces of
the Moroccan campaign, left Se
ville in a secret take-off at 2:40
eastern time yesterday afternoon.
The total flight is 4,800 miles
hhev ■ morro
Word from Madrid was to the ef
fect they had been sighted over
Cape Juby shortly after midnight.
WIN AT ELECTIONS
ROME, March 25, (.T)—Premier
Mussolini and the Fascist party
wen an overwhelming victory on
Saturday at the parliamentary
elections. Practically the corn
complete returns showed 8,500,000
'.-avorahie votes with only 136.000
j opposition.
IHREE DTE IN FIRE
PEORIA, 111., March 25, (JP)— J
Three men lost their lives and
nropewy valued at $400,000 was.
de.strr ed in a fire which swept
.hru the Peoria Market, a four
■ tory business block in the heart
of the business district.
'LANDED'
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NORTHENERS CONTINUE HEAD
BACK NORTH FOR COMING
SEASON’S ACTIVITIES
SEATTLE, March 25, (£>)—'The S
S. Alaska, of the Alaska Steamship
company, left here for the north
Saturday morning at 9 o’clock.
There were 259 first class passen
gers on board and 77 steerage. Of
this listing 78 are booked for Sew
ard; as follows:
J. Gorham, A. Holstad, E. G.
Kunkel, C. E. Robinson, Mr. and
Mrs. G. M. Anderson, C. A. Bach,
J. H. Payne, W. K. Douning, W. G.
Seibold, John Huss, Carl Messer,
Breme Phlennigwerth, J. N. Stet
tle, S. S. Kinnear, J. B. Critel,
Grant Murdock.
O. Kieturi, E. Kenturi, L. Low
den, Mrs. Z. Swanson, Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Smith and baby, Miss
Smith, S. Green S. H. Green, Mr.
and Mrs. R. T. McCullough, Mrs.
M. Feary, Mrs. A. Herlund, Mrs. A1
Hltiy, Clara Smith, Jean Benton.
Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Koslosky, Chas.
Holky.
William Thompson, A. Davis,
Bartley Howard, Mr. and Mrs. J.
C. Murray, E. Hutchinson, Mr J.
A. Mslntosh, Mrs. Huff, Mrs. H. W.
Albert, M. McNamara. S. Wether
all, Bishop Rowe, Ralph R. Hensey,
Elbert Gould, Mr. and Mi’s. E. T.
Sullivan, R. M. Kuth, J. Luppi,
Mr. Burke, H. G. Ilderton, J. W.
Duncan, Mrs. M. Z. Clayton, Cal
M. Brosius, U. E. Rivers, D. L.
Thomas, Mary Tieg, Frank Dar
bandt, C. M. Eckman, Ira Rank,
Fred Anderson, Mr. and Mrs. Jas.
H. Pierce, N. S. Cambret, Mrs. V.
H. Pierce, Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Make, Miss A. Whitaker, George
Bonse, H. Johnson, Miss Anna Ed
wards, Miss M. Hurst; and 23 steer
age.
TOMBS POWERFUL ENOUGH TO
HIVE BLOWN TTP LARGE
PORTION OF CITY
NEW YORK, March 25, (JP)~
’our bombs and a sawed-off shot
:un were found by police in a
lackr ge mailed at the Grand Cen
ral cost office causing consid
rable excitement in post office
ircles.
The package of bombs was ad
ressed to a person in Chicago
•host identity was not revealed
v tia d police.
How the package came to be
uspecfed by post office authorities
’as also kept a mystery and when
ne police were called in all news
apermen were refused informa
on in the hope that the person
. wlh,rn the package was address
f might be arrested before he
uild flee.
The bombs were stated to be
'wen el encugh to blow up a con
derab’e nortion of Chicago s
I'siness section.