VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 15.
* SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 1929.
BRICE T
EN CENTS
LARGEST PASSENGER LIST OF
THE WINTER ON BOARD
A. S. S. CO. LINER
SEATTLE, Jan., 13, (#•)—The S.
S. Alameda sailed for the North
yesterday morning at 9 o’clock
withlVO passengers. The list of
reservations for Seward included:
Mrs. H. J. Johnson, Mrs. N. S.
Vanvoors, J. J. Marier, G. C. Stew
art, Jack Lodge, A. H. Anderson,
Leo J. Till, Earl Melsh, Mrs. A.
Warren, Mrs. A. C. Goss, C. E.
Smith, G. H. Ulsh, Robert E. Lee,
Jr., V. L. Boardway, Mrs. B. D.
Waugh, Mrs. J. P. Weman, F.
Churchill, J. T. Gardner, Capt. A.
M. Nelson, P. Willis, Miss R, Hal
lett, J. Cross, B. Lassiter, L. Dick
ison, and three steerage.
■If OF TI
WINDS IS UTEST
DIME FDD Hit
IS CONVINCED LAND EXISTS
BEYOND NORTHERN BOR
DERS ALASKA
SEATTLE, Jan.,/ 18, {&)—Bert
Rossman who is now in Seattle
preparing to head an expedition
into the “Cradle of Winds” in the
vast unknown stretch in the
Arctic, northwest of Alaska, plans
to start next summer.
Rossman has made eight trips
North and served with the Wil
kins expedition in 1926. He tried
to fly over Mount McKinley last
year reaching an altitude of 19,
000 feet but failed to soar over the
highest peak
He said he is convinced land
exists beyond the northern borders
of Alaskan and Siberia and thinks
weather disturbances originates
there and if properly observed
would be valuable in predicting
weather all over the Northern hem
isphere.
He said if land exists there it
will be possible to establish a met
eorological base, and a dirigible
mooring, mast thereby shorten
ing the distance between New York
and Tokyo 4,000 miles.
Ke expects to leave for the North
in about two weeks.
8BUISER BILL MIES
SLOW PROGRESS: IS
PUT ASIDE, SENATE
WASHINGTON, D. C. Jan., 18,
<JP)—The cruiser bill made slow
progress in the Senate and was
finally put aside to.allow Senate
debate on the prohibition quest
ion.
In the House the independent
office appropriation Bill of $541,
■ 100,000 for varous Government
Bureaus, was directed along its
path.
LABOR MAN DIES
CHICAGO. Jan., 18, </P)—Cornel
ls Shea, labor Union official, who
rose to be president of the Brother
bo sd of Teamsters is dead.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan., 18,
(/P)—President-elect Hoover an
nounced he would leave Monday
for Florida after a two-weeks con
ference with party leaders on the
three big administration prob
lems, farm relief, tariff revision
and prohibition enforcement.
IS RELIEVED OF
REMAINS UNDER THREE YEAR
CONTRACT WITH El, Li
SALARY
SEATTLE, Jan., 18, (/Pj—Enoch
Bagshaw has been relieved of his
duties as head coach of the Uni
versity' of Washington football
team by the Student Board of
control. Tbe finality of the boards
action was questioned by the fac
ulty athletic committee which
heretofore approved all actions of
the board relative to coaches.
Under the board’s order Bag
shaw will remain under his three
year contract at full pay totaling
about $2,000 but will be assigned
to other duties.
The board’s action served neither
to settle the debate as to the value
of Bagshaw as a coach nor deter
mine his exact status.
SECRET TO GRAVE
LOS ANGELES, Jan., 17, UP) -
George Scett, explorer and camera
expert, was found dead in a gas
filled room and it is believed to
have carried to his grave the secret
of the Handscheiekel process! for
coloring motion pictures.)
LARGE NUMBER OF PERSONS
BEING TAKEN FROM RUINS,
SAYS REPORTS
CAP,CAS, Venezuela,Jan., 18, </P»
—Steamers and all the smaller
craft available are rushing toward
the city of Cumana which was
Raveled by an earthcmake, with
food, medical supplies and tents.
They are also carrying nurses and
doctors to care for those injured.
Every building in the city was
destroyed the Governor of Cumana
informed President Gomez by
ireless, adding there were a great
number of victims.
The newspaper Universal put
the number of dead at 20") out o£
die citv’s population of 25.000. The
paper said a great number were
injured Persons are being taken
from the ruins.
The earthquake severed tele
graphic and communications with
the city and accounts are frag
mently regarding the extent of the
disaster.
SAILING DATES TO
BERING SERB! THE
STEAMER VICTORIA
SEATTLE, Jan., 18, (JP)—'The
Alaska Steamship Co., liner S. S.
Victoria is scheduled to sail on
June 5, July 6, September 4 and
on October 10 on the Seattle, Ber
ing Sea route.
The freighter sailing date will
be about June 15. for the first trip,
calling at the usual Bering Sea
ports, Teller, and at Kotzebue
ports.
WASHINGTON. Jan., i7, '<P1— j
Promotion of industrial prepared
ness by the enactment of the Morin
Pill to permit the Government to
place trial munitions and equip
ment orders with commercial plants
was urged by Representatives of the
Chamber of Commerce of the Unit
ed Styles in a testimony before th::
House Military Committee.
ONLY ONE OF MANY AGENTS
TO STIMULATE VICIOUS
BUSINESS
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan., 17. (yp)—
Wholesale efforts to shackle school
children in the slavery of the dope
habit '"ere revealed when George
King, alias Yee Sing, was sent to
P'd-or. for five years for violatin’
of tii° Federal anti-narcotic Act.
The Chinese, who is 76 years old,
is only one of many agents, it was
disclosed, of an illicit drug syndi
cate which stimulate its vicious
business by developing the dope
habit among the children.
Ah n serving his term Sing will
he d parted as an imdesirabde citi
zen.
THOUSANDS GALLONS
NEW YORK, Jan., 17, (API—Cus
toms agents hunting smuggled nar
cotics among freight on the Atlan
tic pieis on the Hudson have dis
covered 3,540 gallons of whiskey
malt on the French line pier where
it hru been unloaded from the He
De France.
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FREIGHT CARS HURLED INTO
EXPRESS PLOUGHS THRU
COACHES
ABERDEEN, Maryland, Jan., 18,
(/P)—Death from a collision yes
terday by two passenger trains and
a freight near here, mounted tci
five when Leon Sweeting, engineer
on one of the passengers, died
this morning. Four others of the
train crews were killed in" the dou
ble crash the cause of which has
not been determined.
Hundreds of passengers were
shaken up but were able to proceed
on relief trains to their destina
tions.
A local, bound from Baltimore to
Philadelphia, crashed into the
rear end of a northbound freight
during a fog. The impact hurled
three freight cars onto the south
bound track of an Express bound
from New York to Washington and
ploughed into it overturning the
first four Pullman ceaeires.
6.0. P. AUTHORITY
PLACED IAIN. Y.
COMING YEARS
THRE WILL AGREE UPON REC
OMMENDATIONS FOR AP
POINTMENTS
WASHINGTON, D, C. Jan., 18, UP)
—The placing of the Republican
j political authority in New York
State for the next four years ana
! in the hands of thre leaders, was
| announced by H. Edmond Mac
Hold, state committee chairman,
after he and William Hill and Og
den ?dills. the under-secretary
of the treasury, had breakfast
and conference with Herbert Hoo
ver.
' Besides MacHold and Hill, was
Charles Hilles, national committ
eeman who conferred with Hoover
earlier in the week.
MacHold will represent the group
in most of the negotiations with
the new President. He said the
three would agree upon recommen
dations for appointments for fed
eral office before names are sub
mitted to Mr. Hoover for his con
sideration.
REAL PEACE SOT IN
SIGHT. SAYS GERMANY
BERLIN, Jan., 17, (A“)—Real peace
cannot come until the Treaty ot
Versailles is revived as it crushes
Germany and prevents the nations
of Europe from coming to an un- .
derstandintr, is the claim made in a
campaign that is being relaunched
in Germany to revise the Pact.
POLICE SEEK WOMAN
LONDON Jan 18, (P)—Police of
New York have been asked to trace
i woman whose letters signed in
wieroglyphinics are most interest
ing clues in the murder of Vivian
Meseler, sup’t., of an oil com
3any who was found shot to death
n his garage.