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VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 64.
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 1929.
PRICE TEN CENTS
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FOB CUES IS
GEORGE LOVE AND JOHN KEL
LY NAMED FOR TRUSTEES
ALASKA COLLEGE
JUNEAU, March 16, (Special to
the Gateway) —Without a dissent- j
ing vote the senate passed Steel’s
cannery sanitation measure which
now goes to the house. It was the 1
first major bill of the session to be
acted on.
The first measure involving tax- .
-atiop was introduced yesterday
when Benjamin presented a meas
ure raising taxes for non-resident
fishermen from $10 to $150.
A. J. Dimond introduced a meas
ure providing for repair and
maintenance of the Valdez dyke.
Dunn introduced one for the re
habilitation of the.abandoned sig
nal corps telegraph line from Ta
nana to Unalakleet.
The Governor sent to the senate
for confirmation the appointments
of George J. Love of Valdez and
John Kelly of Fairbanks as trus
ses for the Alaska College.
Frank Foster introduced a mem
orial in the house asking that the
federal government establish 20
training schools for tubercular
natives at Nome, Anchorage, Ju
neau and Ketchikan and suffi
cient, funds to care for indigent
natives. (20, the telegram read)
Donnelly introduced a bill seek
ing $15,000 for water improve
ments on the Yukon-Kuskokwim
'portage providing the government
made funds available for land
improvements.
The ways and means commit
tee brought in the first deficiency
bill asking for $12,000 for wolf
bounties, $700 for tax collection
and $1,389 to cover the school de
ficit.
10 WOOD RECEIVED
FROM PLANE1IEH
1.5 FLYING NORTH
SEATTLE, March 16, (/P)—With
the Boeing plane still unheard
irom and its non-arrival at Ju
neau, and with no word whether
the plane had left Alert bay yes
terday, efforts are being made to
learn from the bay if the plane
is still there or when it took to
the air. It is thought the plane
has either crashed or been forced
down. Five persons were on board.
* LUST OF EIGHT CRUISERS
1924 PROGRAM NAMED
WASHINGTON, March 16, (JP)—
The name of “Louiseville” has
been designated for the eight and
last 10,000-ton light cruiser, No.
28, of the 1924 building program,
now under construction at Puget
Sound Navy. Yard.
The keel for this cruiser was
laid July 4, 1928, and her pro
bable date of completion is March
^ 13, 1931.
S, S, ALEUTIAN WILL
LEAVE TOMORROW FOR
ALASKA, DUE REPAIRS
SEATTLE, March 16, (#•)— Of
ficials of the Alaska Steamship
company have postponed the sail
ing of the S. S. Aleutian, schedul
ed to have sailed this morning for
Alaska, to Sunday afternoon, (to
morrow).
The liner is being repaired in
the drydocks here and was not
complete in time for today. The
Aleutian is replacing the S. S. Al
ameda on the southwestern Alas
ka run. The Alameda is posted to
sail for southeastern Alaska from
Seattle on April 2.
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PUEBLO, Colo., March 15, VP)—
The trustees of the Rozella Oil Co.,
l ave refused an offer of $80,000
for oM and gas rights to the land
on which they recently brought in
the Rozella discovery well. R. A.
Grossman, one of the owners, said
that the well is not for sale. A
"roup of Texas oil men offered the
$80,000.
Wit'li a moderation in weather,
vork was resumed in erecting rigs
| or a dozen wells in the vicinity of
I he Rozella well.
DOGS OF JUDGE •
DOGS SHOWED MARKED EF
FECTS FROM THE HARD
DRIVING
FAIRBANKS, March 16, (A3)—
In a gruelling run over a 58-mile
course Judge Cecil H. Clegg’s team
of mixed Siberian and bird dogs,
captured the signal corps trophy
race running the course in five
hours, 33 minutes and 57 seconds.
Herbert Lawrence, lower Yukon
Indian, was the driver. Walter
Sakoff, from the Iditarod, came in
second, and Fred Stickman of Ne
nana was third. Joe Stickman of
Nulato, winner of last year’s race,
trailed the string of six entrants.
Stickman was handicapped to
some extent when he drew the
first start and was forced to break
trail through the fresh powdery
snoy until he had passed the half
way mark.
The dogs and drivers showed
marked effects of the hard driv
ing over the mountains of drift
ed trail and in 30 below zero tem
perature.
NO TRAIN TONIGHT
Tonight’s passenger train from
the Interior has been annulled
owing to slides all along the line.
The local office reports it will ar
rive tomorrow (Sunday) about
noon as it is scheduled to leave
Anchorage at 7 a. m. A rotary
and freight arrived in the yards
this morning from the north.
Mi TO JUNEAU
STURT ON JUNE 15
OLYMPIA, Wash., March 16, UP)
—Racing cruisers in the second
capitol to capitoi yacht race will
leave Olympia at noon on June
15 for Juneau, it was announced by
B. F. Hume, secretary of the rules
committee. The race is sponsored
by a joint committee o fthe Olym
pia and Juneau chambers of com
merce and run under the sanc
tion of the America power boat
association.
NIGHT PILOT FLIES
190 MILES AN HOUR
NEW YORK. March 15, (fP)—I„’s
nrt il! wind that blows no good.
While hundreds of New Yorkers
were complaining of the gale-like
wind which swept into the city
from the south, Donald Johnson,
air pilot, was riding the wind thru
ir,he night at the rate of 190 miles!
• an hour.
Johnson made his night trip
| from Richmond to New York in 93
! minutes flying time. The usual
i lime for the trip is more than
three hours.
STOLE THE CHIEF’S CAR
! CHARLOTTE, N. C., March 16,
[ i/Pj—Motor cars belonging to police
• are just as convenient as other
• kinds for a getaway. A man who
robbed a store here escaped in a
car owned by the Carrollton chief
of police.
EXCLUSIVE SOCIETY BASKS AT FLORIDA CLUB; PALM BEACH
The fashionable Bath and Tennis club at Palm Beach is the winter
meeting place of exclusive society on America’s Riviera. Above is an air
view of the club. At right, Mrs. Frone Underhill of New York is shown
wearing chic “cowboy pajamas,” fash ions latest style to invade the beach.
At left, Miss Brent, daughter of Mrs. Tt ac man Brent of Philadelphia, wear
ing a new modernistic bathing suit.
WEB IS TWEKTT
FEEI DEEP 0®
SITUATION BAD; THOUSANDS
EVACUATE TO REFUGEE
CAMPS
MONTGOMERY, Ala., March 16.
(A“i—South Alabama's rivers con
tinued to wreak havoc under
clearing skies and disease, the
dread aftermath of floods, has
broken out on Big Creek, in the
southeastern corner of the state.
The rampaging Pea river which
covered the city of Elba with a
murky overflow and today bore
down on Geneva on the Alabama
Florida state line which is al
ready flooded to some extent by
the Choctawhatchee river.
Reports reaching Dothan said
the water was 20 feet deep in the
business district in Geneva and
a one-story building in which was
the postoffice, is completely sub
merged.
A radiogram from the national
guard, which is operating a plane
in the area, said boatmen are pad
dling about in the torrents and
situation is very bad.
All of Geneva’s 3,500 residents
have evacua*ed to refugee camps
So far as confirmed reports in
dicated the death list from the
floods during the last three days
| stood at 12 but it is believed many
others drowned in the commun
ities which have not yet been res
tored to communication.
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BLACKWELL, Okla., March la.
Ah—Linguists have set out to re
ord the language of that unusual
.ribe of American Indians, thv
Tonka was.
This unit among the 2,000 tribes
and f.4 linguists stocks found west
of the Mississippi for years has
baffled students of Indian lore.
Nov with only 42 survivors in
the Tonkawa clan, the American
Association for the Advancement
>f Science is trving to trace the
| tribe’s history.
SHOUT FUR JACKET
PARTS, March 15, (A1)—Finger
length jackets of short or curled
<urs are the smartest mid-season
•levelopment of fashionable wo
men’s costumes, judging from
what is worn rather than what is
offered at the fashion houses.
Black astrakan is the most gen
eral choice and is worn with black
'loth skirts and light crepe de
chine or satin blouses. Less for
nal hut also worn are hip-length
jackets of beav«r or nutria with
roll collars or reefer lapels. They
are fivorites with golfing women.
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