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VOLUME XXIII. NUMBER 106.
SEWARD. ALASKA, SATURDAY, MAY 5.
PRICE TEN CENTS
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BOOK DESCRIBING
HIS POLAR FLIGHT
NOBILE TENDERED CAPTAIN IN
VITATION TO ACCOMPANY
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GREEN HARBOR, May 5. (/P)—
Captain Wilkins and Lieut. Eileson
hope to leave Monday or Tuesday. No
bile invited Wilkins to accompany him
on three trips in the Italia to Green
land, the North Pole and Nicholas,
Second Land, but Wilkins refused.
Wilkins is working day and night
on a new book describing his Polar
trip. He is writing it himself on a
typewriter hop|ng tjo get it iready
prior to his departure.
This is accepted as the basis of his
refusal. Weather conditions are in
creasingly unfavorable for the flight
of the Italia which arrived here from
Norway during a snowstorm.
CASE HINGED ON VALUE OF
STOCK AT TIME OF SALE AND
RESULTING PROFITS
WASHINGTON, May 5. (£>,—Form,
er stockholders in the Ford Motor
Company won their appeal from tax
assessments involving approximately
$35,000,000.
The board tax appeals were held for
protesting former stockholders in the
suitl which grew out of a dispute as to
the value of the Ford stock and what
these minority holders should pay the
Government after its sale.
The case hinged on the value of the
stock at the time of its sale and pro
fits of those who sold back to Ford.
NOTED NOVELIST WILE
SEATTL, May 5. (JP)—Stewart Ed
ward White, novelist, plans to start a
cruise next week to 'the Aleutian Is
lands with another author, Robert
Pinkerton, to explore and write dur
ing the summer.
UNALGA DUE TODAY
Stopping at Seward to take on HO
sacks of coal, the U. S. Coast Guard
ship Unalga is due to return today
on her way to the Westward. She
hasjust recently come up from Seat
tle where she underwent a thorough
overhauling in preparation for an ex
tended cruise out along the Aleutians
and info Bristol Bay which will keep
her out most of the summer.
WING FULLS OFF PLANE
THREE MEN HILLED
DAYTON, O., May 5. (/P)—Three
men ■were killed when an airplane i
■crashed on the Johnson Field. Har- j
old Forshay, Army reserve pilot, bor.J
.rowed the plane from the owner of
the field to take Walter Clark and,
Blair Cross for a ride. "When 1500
feet in the air a wing fell off.
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EMPLOYES JUMBO
MINE MCCARTHY
IN DEATH BATTLE
AL MATSON SHOT AND KILLED BY
A MATTSON IN BUNKHOUSE
BRAWL
CORDOVA, May 5. &—Arthur Matt-!
son, alias Bob McCoy, is being close- j
ly guarded in the McCarthy federalj
jail following his arrest for shooting;
and killing A1 Matson both employes
of the Jumbo mine of the Kennecoti
Copper Corporation. Details are lack
ing as the spring washout has tied
up the railroad.
The killing occured in the mine j
bunkhouse and is thought to be the
result of gambling and a fight.
BHLDGICIL SURVEY !
CHIEF P. REDDINGTON,
ENHOUTE TO SEIHD|
SEATTLE, May 5. (#>)—Paul Red
dington, Chief of the United States
Biological Survey; Harry Payne Wit
ney of Philadelphia and John Sculley
of Chicago, leave today on the S. S.
Yukon for Seward where they will
take the survey ship Seal to study the
entire Alaska game situation. They
will return at the end of August.
LAND FOR COLLEGE
WASHINGTON, May 5. <#>)—'The
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Alaska delegate Bill to grant an ad.
ditional 100,000 acres of public land
to Alaska for the use of the Agricul-1
tural College and School of Mines,!
was approved by the House Public
Lands Committee.
WALSH WITHDRAWS
WASHINGTON, May 5. (ffi)—'Thos.
J. Walsh withdrew from 'the Demo
cratic Presidential nomination declar
ing recent events clearly indicate the
Democrats preference for Governor
Smith. Reed said he would continue
to fight.
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SIGN CONVENTION
GENEVA, May 5, (JP)—Portugal,
and India signed the convention >
creating the International Relief
Union, which will function in cases1
like the earthquakes in Bulgaria and
Greece.
STRANGE FLAPPING
PUNE FLEW BUT
CRUSHED: Ml DEAD
INVENTOR GULL-SHAPED CRAFT
FLEW 3,000 FEET; ACCIDENT
LANDING
NEW YORK, May 5. (£>)—Just as
Leonard Bonney shouted exultation
at the successful flight of his strange
wing flapping airplane he plunged 50
feet to death.
The gull shaped craft was flown
3,000 feet and was about to land. As
(the fepectatars chewed it crashed.
Bnney was found unconscious 50 feet
from the wreckage and died shortly
after.
U. S. SIGH COUP
IN ALASKA DOES
GREAT BUSINESS
COMMERCIAL BUSINESS OVER*
*$278,000; $130,000 GOVERNMENT
BUSINESS
WASHINGTON, May 5. (£>)—Major
General C. McSaltzman, recently Chief
Signal Officer- Army, points out last
year was the greatest in the Alaska
Military Cable & Telegraph System.
The commercial b^iness was over
$278,000 and Government business
over $130,000 not including War De
partment business.
AMERICAN' LEAGUE
Cleveland 2; Boston, 3.
I Chicago, 4; New York, 10.
Detroit, 5; Philadelphia, 10.
St. Louis, 6; Washington, 13.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Boston, 3; Pittsburgh, 13.
New York, 11; Cincinnati, 7.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Seattle, 6-8; Portland, 3-5 second
j half of seventh inning.
San Francisco, 6; Hollywood, 7, 10
innings.
Los Angeles, 0; Missions, 13.
Sacramento^ 3; Oakland, 2.
SERVICES FOR JUDGE
JUNEAU, May 5. (/P)—Funeral ser
vices for Judge Reed were held at
3:30 yesterday afternoon in the Pres
byterian church under the Masonic
auspices. The body will probably be j
taken to! Olympia Saturday aboard the
steamer Princess Alice.
AVIATRIX IN CAPETOWN
LONDON, May 5, (#>)—Lady Bail
ey, wife of Sir Abe Ba'iley, South
African millionaire, landed in Cape
town after her flight from Croyden,
England.
SSI SHUCK IS
HIED TO R. TSSFFESS
JUNEAU, May 5. <(/P)—Ada Black
jack, Eskimo, known as the sole sur
vivor of the Harold Noice coloniza
tion expedition to Wrangell Island,
married Ralph Traffers, imate on the
motorship Margnita, plying between
Juneau and Sitka.
BECAME MAD BECAUSE FATHER
REFUSED HIM THE USE OF
AUTOMOBILE
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ELDORADO, Kas., May 5. (JP)—
Owen Osbrect, 11, a farmer youth,
confessed he shot his parents and his
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five brothers and a sister at the farm
home on the night of April 20 then
set fire to the farmhouse to destroy
the evidence of his deed.
Obrest said he planned the deed
only two hours before he carried out
the plan. He said he got mad be
cause his father refused him the fam
ily automobile.
CRIPPLED WARSHIP
TOWED INTO PORT
12 CREEKS DEAD
PORTLAND, England, May 5. {£>)—
The crippled warship Bacchus was
towed into port by two tugs and a
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battle cruiser. The crew and survi
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vors. of the Greek steamer abandoned
her but later returned. Ten Greeks
were drowned and two others died.
The Bacchus was forced to travel
backward after the crush because she
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was so down at the head.
FORD OCEAN FLIGHT
DETROIT, May 5, (JP)—It became
known today that the Ford Motor Co.,
is planning a flight of one of its
planes this summer from St. Johns^
Newfoundland, to Croyden, England,
via Mt. Evans, Greenland, and an
undetermined 'base at Iceland, and j
thence down through the Scandina
vian countries.
SEIMD US CINDIDHTE
CHICAGO, May 4, (^P)—Oscar De
Priest, negro, former Chicago Aider
man, has been selected to replace
the deceased Martin L. Madden, as
the Republican nominee for repre
sentative in Congress from the First
Illinois district. If elected De Priest
will be the first negro Congressman
from Illinois.
ALASKA STEAMSHIP LINER IS
BRINGING ALASKANS BACK
HOME
SEATTLE, May 5, (/p)—'The S. S.
Yukon, of the Alaska Steamship Co ,
sailed from Seattle this morning at
9 o’clock, carrying 333 passengers
for Aaskan ports. The Seward list
ing comprise the following:.
J. Keharn, Mrs. Machie J. S-chaf
fenk, Mrs. DeLong, R B. Muchmore,
A. Kooler, Henry Hanson, John Doe,
Miss Nicholson, Mrs. Quinn, Mrs.
Graff, Miss Pederson, Mrs. Wheeler,
Paul Roddington, H. Whitney, John
Scully, V. Hugo, I. Lohnes, Mrs.
Ward, S. M. Green, F. E. Weiland,
J. O’Donnell, Chris Koeler, W. Me
Gilligan, Florence Hayes, Mrs. Math
ewson, A. K. Pringle, Mrs. Borgm
and son. Mrs, Manning, Dave Webb,
J. J. Cooksey, A. Mortenson, Blanche
Cascaden, Miss Johnson, Margaret
Martin, C. F. Thompson, Fred An
derson, I. Swanson, William Allmanr
A. Pierson, Dennis Henley, Robert
Griffett. J. Crawley, J. McGiliigan,
| R. H*. Graham, William McKiniej, ,
I John A. Busch, C. E. Smith, R. R.
iHensey, Irene Ballenger, A. J. Boyle,
(Mrs. Setring. John Rice, L. Issaac
| son, F,, A. Gardner, O. P. Dam, Mis.
i.Baxtcr, Mrs. Gardner, Mrs. Curtis,
jcr.d 31 steerage.
ZONE AT TSINAN
CHINESE COMMANDER WIRELESS
CONSULS AND CITIZENS IN *
ZONE ARE SAFE
SHANGHAI, May 5. (/P)—Chiang
Kai Shek, Commander in Chief of the
Nationalists, sent a wireless message
from Tsinana 'that the British and
American Consul Generals and citi
zens are safe.
Japanese are rushing reinforce
ment from Tsingtao to Tsinana to aid
their force of 2,000 there in the fight
against between 20,000 and 40,000 Na
tionalists.
SPURNED LOVE, DIES
HAVANA, Cuba, May 5. (/P)—Ma
ria Teresa Ojeda, 19-year old society
girl of Cardenas, was shot and killed
by Baudilic Rodriguez, also of pro
minent Cuban family, when his pro
fered love was spurned.
ROME, Italy, May 5. UP)—Duke
of Pistoia and Princess Lydia of
Arenberg, daughter of the nineth
Luke of Arenberg and CfOfj ferflf
married at Turin, Italy with civil
and religious rites.