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MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXIII. NUMBER 140. SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 1928. PRICE TEN CENTS
SENATOR mnis
S DISSATISFIED
G. D. P. PLATFD1
^ IS SAD DISAPPOINTMENT TO
EVERY PROGRESSIVE CITIZEN
UNITED STATES
WASHINGTON, June 16. (£>)—Dis.
; satisfied with the Republican Platform
and with the party nominee, Senator;
Norris declared the action of the Re.'
1 publican Convention will be a “sad
disappointment to every progressive!
cifizen in the United States.”
He said a “direct slap” has been
, given the farmers and at the same
P time he deplored the silence on the
activities of the power interests and
disregard of the disclosures made by!
the investigation of the Naval Oil!
leases; also silence as to Boulder Dam
and Muscle Shoals, the lame duck
constitutional amendment. Begin. j
ning with Senator Fess, Senator Nor.'
ris made . attacks on Mabel Wille-j
brandt, Senator Smoot, William Vare,
Pasco m Slemp and Irvine Lenroot.
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TAN AN A, June 16. (A>)—'The U. S.
Hospital boat Martha Angeline arriv.'
e«I at Tanana June 10 and left on June
15 for the upper Yukon river. The|
doctor and dentis-t are kept busy min.i
iK-tering to natives.
The hospital mission boat Pelican j
left Tanana for the upper Yukon to
^tneet Bishop Rowe who wifi inspect
Dpiscopal Missions. The natives are
having a big potlach at Kokrines be.
ginning June 17.
HELEN WILLS VICTOR
WIMBLEDON, Eng., June 16. (/?)—
Though she won the Wightman Cup
signifying the tennis team supremacy |
by winning four out of seven matches,
Helen Wills lost in the doubles match.
She won all the singles.
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HATTON, N. D., June 16. (£>)—
When Carl Ben Eielson and» Capt.
George Wilkins flew across the top
of the world, they missed one hazard f
which beset Eielson in his early fly.
ing days here.
it was Eielson’3 habit to land his
(plane in a pasture near his father’s
lurme. Villagers recall with a chuc
4de how he was delayed for several
days on one occasion when a group
r-i -'ows ate the canvas.ftom the wings
of Che machine.
MISSOURI LEIIEE GIVES
MV HUNDRED HOMELESS
KENNETT, Mo., June 16. (/p)—A
%
desperate fight for homes and crops
was lost today when St. Francis river
levee gave way spreading waste and
destruction over a fivejmile area.
One hundred families were driven
from their homes.
OVER NOT STAY
EVENING SPENT IN SPEECH.MAK_!
ING AND DANCE LASTING
SMALL HOURS MORNING
WISEMAN, June, 16. (/p)—-This
town was honored by an airplane vis*
it by Governor Parks, Major Elliott
and R. C. Sommers. The party arriv.
yesterday. Their visit extended over
ed on Pilot Bennett’s plane at 4 p. m.
last night leaving at 9 o’clock this
morning for Fort Yukon, thence to
Circle, Eagle and to Fairbanks, com.
pleting approximately a 2.500 imile'
trip thru the Interior.
The evening was spent in speech;
making and a dance which lasted un_
til early in the morning. It was the
first visit of the guests to any area
north of the Arctic.
No Seattle passenger Inst from the
S. S. Yukon arrived today prior to go_
ing to press.
VICTORIA, June 16. (/P)—Confirma.
tion of a placer gold strike on Squaw
Creek in the Yukon, was received by
Minister of Mines Sutherland from C.
L. Munroe, gold commissioner at At.
lin, British Columbia.
Munroe said Indians are taking $60
to $80 a day from their claims and
they are using the most primitive
methods. The strike is course gold
and^one nugget is valued at $32.
NOBILE RESCUE PLANE
--
VADSOE, Norway, June 16. (7P)—,
Major Maddelena, the Italian flyer |
who hopped off for Kingsbay to join;
in the Nobile recue work,-was forced j
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down in Varanger Fjord. The plane!
is beiing towed to Vadsoe. Hope of I
the possible rescue of the Nobile party;
today was dashed bV the mishap.
ALASKAN DROWNS
SHANGHAI, June 16. (/P)—Michael
Healy, Commissioner to Alaska from
1907 to 1918, fell from a Japanese
steamer enroute to Nagasaki, on
Thursday night and drowned. He
had been a resident of Shanghai for
nine years.
NEWPORT, June 16. (/P)—Nearly
6,000 acres of White River Valley is
flooded and thousands more are being
inundated gradually by water releas.
ed last night when Stevens Levie
broke. More than 700 families are
‘homeless. Many are being cared for
by the Red Cross.
HOOVER SYMPATHETIC
ANXIOUS TO RELIEVE
FARM DISTRESS
MC NARY CONFERS WITH G. O. P.
PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE;
UNITE IN EFFORTS
WASHINGTON, June 16. (£>)—Me.
Nary confered with Hoover and said
he found Hoover “sympathetic and
anxious to relieve the distress of the
farm population.’' McNary asserted j
“In my judgement the enactment of
the Bill passed at the last session with j
the omission of the Equalization fee
will improve the condition of agricul
ture, at least it will supply the basis
upon which helpful regulation may be
fashioned.”
He said if the remedy is tried and
is found to be ineffective Congress
and the administration would unite in
an effort to devise a more effective
remedy that will prove sound.
ED- CURTIS; COP STOPS CUR.
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TIC AT DOORWAY
KANSAS CITY, June 16. (£>)— Like
Hoover, Senator Curtis was nominated
I Vice-President? candidate on the first
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ballot and received 1,052 votes out of
1,086.
Herman Ekern of Wisconsin got 19
; votes, Dawes 13 and Mac Nider 2. Al_
iaska and Washington’s delegates sup.
, ported Curtis.
Curtis was accepted by delegates
| as the link between Hoover and the
| McNary .Haugen Farm Bloc. A big
| Pennsylvania delegation of 79 votes,
| turned the tide for Curtis, followed by
New York, llinois and a rush of oth
f
ers. It was virtually a nomination by
acclamation. f
Immediately after the nomination
Curtis went -to the Convention Hall
to express his appreciation but was
stopped by a policeman at the door
until he produced satisfactory iden.
tification. Chairman Moses then pre.
sented him as the next Vice.President
of the United States.
WATER NOTICE
Water will be shut off tonight at
9 o’clock on First Second and Third
y
streets between lAdams and Jefferson.
Herbert Hoover. His
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When Herbert Clark Hoover is not called elsewhere by official duties, he and his family make their home on the campus of Stanford
University, California. Their residence there is shown below. Mr. Hoover, Mrs. Hoover and their elder son, Herbert, jr„ all are Stanford
graduates and Alan, the younger son, is a student there. At the ‘.eft is Mr. Hoover on the porch of his Washington home; above are Mrs. Hoover,
Alan and Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Hoover, jr.
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