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VOLUME XXIII. NUMBER 177. SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JULY 31, 1928.
PRICE TEN CENTS
HARRY JURZBACH, REPUBLICAN
CONGRESSMAN FROM TEXAS, j
WILL OPPOSE MC CL-OSKEY
DALLAS, Texas, July 31, (/P)— Dan
Moody was renominated on the Dem
ocratic ticket for Governor. The vote;
from 236 of the 253 precincts in the
counties gave Moody 349,283.
Louis Ward low received 192,387,;
Judge Hawkins 25,398, Mrs. Wilson
14,384.
United States Senator Earle May.i
field was given the plurality of votes i
in the race for reelection but lacked;
this majority so will enter the runoff |
primary with Congressman Connally.i
The totals gave Mayfield 159,864;
Conn ally 146,864. The Lieutenant
Governor’s figures wore Miller, in.
eumbent, 241,304; Love 155,278; Par.
nell 59,110.
All of the eight incumbents in the
Houte of Representatives ^who ba/d
contests seemed renominated except
Congressman Black who was trail.
Ing Pattman by 1,100 votes.
tho Congressman whose reelection
seemed certain was John ^Garner,
■foas mentioned as the probable
Speaker of the House in the event of
a National Democratic victory- j
O. H. Cross will succeed Connally!
as Congressman from the Eleventh.
District. Incomplete returns showed;
a runoff between R. O. Lee and J. P.
Perkins and it will probably be nec.
essary to nante a successor for Con.
gressman Thomas Blanton. Harry
from Texas, will probably be opposed
in August by McCloskey whose nom.
ination is assured.
MUSSOLINI FIRST TO WELCOME
HOME MEMBERS- ILL.FATED
ARCTIC EXPEDITION
ROME, July 31. (/P)—Nobile and
other Italia members came back to j
Italy to be greeted enthusiastically by |
thoir countryrryn (seeking to show
their unbound confidence in them de.!
spite the criticism from many parts
of Europe.
Mussolini symbolized the feelings
of the Italian people in the matter of
being the first to extend greetings to
the returning men. They are expect.
*sd to reach Rome tonight.
FIREWORKS BROADCAST
LILLE, July 30, (JP)—'The Lille
station recently broadcast a fire
works display. Listeners were advised
to shut their eyes and Jmagine the
scene as they listened to rockets
soaring skyward, wheels of fire turn
ing and giant crackers spluttering
and hanging/
BRITAIN IS VICTOR
AMSTERDAM, July 31. (/P)—Doug
las Lowe of Great Britain won the 800
niters race in the final retaining the
1924 championship. Lloyd Hahn.j
American, led the field until the final |
turn then wilted and finished sixth.
CONFER WITH NOEL W. SMITH AT
WASHINGTON; MOVING FAM.
ILY TO ANCHORAGE
WASHINGTON, July 31. (£>)—O. F.
Ohlson, new manager of the Alaska
Railroad, conferred with his predeces.
sor Noel W. Smith at th*3 Interior
Department office and will leave to.
morrow for Anchorage to assume his
new duties.
Ohlson said he contemplated no im.
mediate changes in administration and
said none will be made in view of
the faqj Smith, who has bean on a
furlough four years from the Pennsyl.
vania Railroad, has rehabilitated' the
toad and reduced expenditures.
Ohlson has been with the Northern
Pacific for 27 years, his last position
being Superintendent of the Lake Di.
vision at Bulah.
| He began his career in Sweden as
a tetegraph operator and in 40 years
I of railroad experience he has worked
j in South America, Europe, and East
| India. He was a Lteut. Col., in the
Engineer Corps of the U. S. Army in
France during the World War
Ohlson said he would move his fam.
ily from Duluth to Anchorage.
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TUNNEY 13 THROUGH
NEW YORK, July 31. (A. P.) —
,,Gene Tunney announced his re.
tirement from the ringj at a
luncheon given in his honor by
William Mulctoon, 82 year old
member of the New York State
Athletic Commission. Tunney
said M have fought my last bout
as professional boxer.”
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PILOT OWEN MEALS AND PHOTO
GRAPHER STEWART OF COR.
DOVA WERE UNHURT
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CORDOVA, July 31. (^P)—Owen
1 Meals, piloting the plane “Spirit of
; Vlaldez” from Fairbanks to Valdez,
* with Howard Stewart, Cordova photo,
grapher and Mrs. Staats of Valdez,
miles North of bore.
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Observers saw the plane turn over
twice and go into a dive. A boat 26
! miles away was sent for and the msi.
dents crossed the Copper River and
found the plane upside down. Tb3y
chopped open the fuselage with an
axe and the thre's were found inside
where they had been imprisoned sey.
<3ral hours.
Mrs. Staats was seriously injured
and was treated at Gokona and later
removed to the Kennecott hospital.
Neither of the men were seriously
hurt.
RECORD FOR GLIDER FLIGHT
NORTH TRURO, Mass., July 30. (Jp)
—An unofficial American record for
a glider flight was established when
Peter Huffelbach, German pilot, re.
maincd aloft 57 minutes, in a solo
flight above the cliffs of the Cape Cod
coast.
TO SPEND SIX MONTHS IN ALAS.;
KA; WILL STUDY CONDITIONS
AMONG NATIVES
SEATTLE, July 31. (/P)—After seal,
mg the heights of many lofty peaks in
Europe and ascending alone to the
summit of Mount Rainier, Stephen
Jarosz, representative of the Polish
Gowarnment ,sailed from Seattle for
Alaska on Saturday aboard the S. S.
Yukon with the top of Mt. McKinley
as his ultimate destination.
Jarosz is a forestry engineer and
has been connected with Posnan Uni.
versity, Poland. He has traveled ex.
tensively in Europa where he Is
known for his daring mountain climb,
ing.
He said “I am making investiga.
tions for the Polish Government and
expect to write a book of th*a results
of tmy studies”. Jorosz will go first
to Mt. McKinley, via Sew-ard, later to
St. Michael, Dawson, Fairbanks, and
other parts of Alaska, making a study
of natives and their customs and ex.
peets to make #a trip on the Yukon
River and come out of Alaska via
Skagway. His visit in Alaska will ha
of six months duration.
DISCOVERERS OF HITTITE RUINS CREATING
NEW PAST IN THE ORIENT
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Traces of the lost Hittite race, uncovered near Aiisn
ar, in Turkey, promise to lift another corner of the veil
of obscurity that hides mankinds early life. Above is a
sector of the excavated area. Prof. James Henry Breated^
(inset), of the University'of Chicago, directed the re*
search. Mr. and Mrs. H. H. von der Osten and Dr. Erich
. Schmidt, who supervised the excavating, are shown at
the outer postern gate of a city enclosure built in pre
classical times.
WHILE MINOR REPAIRS BEING
MADE TO SPECIAL’S ENGINE
CASCADE ROUNDED CURVE
SACRAMENTO, July 31. (JP)—‘Thir.
ty_s»3ven persons are in the hospitals
and h|)te^3 in W-cpdlajhd Arbuckle,
Oakland, last night, grim evidence of
the collision between the Cascade
Limiytd, crack Southern Pacific
Northern Limited and a section of the
American Ear Association special
train from Seattle at 5 o’clock Sunday
afternoon at Cortena.
Both trains were enroute to San
Francisco. Several injured are in a
critical condition and many of those
hurt were given emergency treatment,
at the sciene of the wreck while many
were able to continue on to Oakland
where they went to hospitals.
The accident occurred as the special
running 10 minutes ahead of the Cas.
cade, stopped at Oortena to make
minor repairs to the ‘angiHe. The
Cascade rounding the curve did not
see the stalled train and crashed into
it. The heavy Cascade engine tele,
scoped into th*3 observation car special
and both overturned.
Aside from the five passengers in.
jured were H. N. Wsymough, engin.
geer of the Cascade who suffered pos.
sible internal injurtes, while the fire,
man, E. W. Sutlife escaped with a
badly burnt foot.
EDITOR DELVES
INTO HISTORY OE
GOVERNOR SMITH
FIRST DOZEN YEARS AS ASSEM.
BLYMAN FAVORED WIDE OP.
EN TOWN AND SALOON^
NEW YORK, July 31. (/P)—William
Allen White, editor of the Emporia
Kjansas, made public the results of
a rwo weeks study made for him of
the New York Assembly Journal to
show the “record of Governor Smith
as it affects saloon and allies of the
saloon as made by him as Assembly,
man during th&- first dozen years of
his political career.”
White says the record shows Smith
favored “wide open, untrammeled and
unregulated saloons” and voted
against, measures introduced for the
purpose of putting restrictions upon
saloon.
He pointed out the record vr&s made
when Smith was a young man but
“still, something of his viewpoint may
be found in that record.”1
SEEKS AFRICAN GIANTS
NEW YORK, July 31. (JP)—An ex.
petition in search of a race of negro
giants, each more than seven feet tall,
sails on the Mauretania for the Jung.
>es of the Belgian Congo, in Africa. •