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MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXIII. NUMBER 193.
SEWARD, ALASKA THURSDAY, December 20, 1928.
PRICE TEN CENTS
WAS THE ONLY STATION ON THE
PACIFIC COAST TO PICK
UP THE SHIP
WASHINGTON, Dec., 20, (A3)—
The initiative shown by Gorden
Pebbles, operator at the Navy ra
dio station at St. Paul Island when
he handled alone the distress sig
nals of the American-Canadian
r ''liner Chief Maquilla, wrecked in a
storm in the Gulf of Alaska on
November 29, was especially com
mended to the Navy department
by Rear Admiral H. J. Ziegmeier,
commandant at Seattle, a san “ex
cellent example of the judgement
and resourcefullness of enlisted
men serving in the outlying radio
stations.”
FORMAL THANKS
of the Canadian- American Line
and the Stanley Dollar Line at
Vancouver for the service received
from Alaska stations and the Brem
erton station, was transmitted in
a letter from D. R. Girdwood, Seat
tle General Manager of the Line,
and a further message from the
master of the lost vessel who cited
St. Paul as the “only station on the
Pacific to pick up our distress
signals before the main aerial
«.-as carried away.”
GIVEN LONDON IS
OP
miniature earthquake cave
IN FRONTS HEAVES UP CURBS
OF STREETS
LONDON, Dec., 20, (/PI—West and
central London was given a start
ling reminder of war time air raids
when exploding gas mains caused
a miniature earthquake that heav
ed up long stretches of streets and
caved in shop fronts.
The explosions started when a
workman entered a manhole with
an electric blower used to remove
e0ul air from passages leading into
a large inspection chamber below
the railway.
The first explosion was followed
bv a series of shocks along the
street flinging curbstones into the
air knocking down pedestrams and
scratching shop windows. Seven
teen people were injured.
SHORTAGE OF SAILORS
WASHINGTON Dec... 20, (/P)—
Secretary of Navy Wilbur in his an
nual report to the President, sav.
that a serious shortage of enlisted
personal has impaired the efficien
cy of the fleet.
LAWRENCE ACCUSED
MOSCOW. Dec , 20, (/P)—Colonel
Lawrence, famous for his exploits
in Arabia during the war is accused
of beiner the e.-Aral figure in the
intrigue in the remote principality
of Swat in Southern Africa.
WILL TELL ALL
LOS ANGELES. Dec..'20, (/P)—“I’ll
tell the whole story,” Mrs. Louise
Nortlicott, mother of Gordon Stew
art, Northcott charged with foul
hoy murders on his riverside farm,
promised, if she is permitted^to see
per son
SUM WAS INCLUDED
BILL FOB PROTECTION
ALASKA SEAL HERDS
WASHINGTON, Dec., 20, (yP)—
Under the appropriation bill for
the postoffice and treasury depart
ment a sum is made immediately
available for protecting the seal
fisheries of Alaska. In the item of
$125,000 is included the purchase
of construction of a power boat as
a local tender for the Pribilof Is
lands and to assist in the protect
ion of the fur seals and fisheries
of Alaska.
STAMPEDE DAYS
SITE OF FORMER GAMBLING
JOINT AND SALOON SUP
PLIES BRIEF PAYSTREAK
SEATTLE Dec., 20, (/P)—A gold
rush stopped street repairing op
erations on Washington street and
First Avenue South for several
hours when a workman turned up
a gold nugget with a shovel.
J. Obless, an onlooker, saw him
make the find and the stampede
began over the site where the M.
N gambling house and saloon
was the mecca for returning Klon
dike prospectors during the gold
rush
Fighting men (reenacted the
scenes of 30 years ago on a mina
ture scale in the muddy streets
which yielded nuggets, gold chains,
coins, South American currency,
I lockets rings necklaces and broocn
|es One prospector. found a string
of nuggets and another staked out
a claim posting all to keep out. The
sign of another with bucket panned
I pay dirt but the pay streak was
small
SCION DROWNS
NEW YORK, Dec., 20, (/P)—Alton
W. Reynolds, disinherited scion of a
wealthv tobacco family, was drown
ed in Long IslandSound while re
turning from a hunting trip.
HEELS HESS
PJSSSGE REPORT
NAVY CONSIDERATION BLOCK
ED BY FRIENDS OF KELLOGG
ANTI-WAR PACT
WASHINGTON, Dec.. 20, (/P)—
While the Kellogg Treaty to outlaw
’.var and the Bill for more cruisers
vied for Senate consideration the
House passed the agricultural ap
propriation Bill providing for t‘r
expenditure of $143.000,000 next
year and received the supply Bill
from four other departments. Jus
tice, Senate, Labor and Commeice.
Things broke swiftly after the
Kellogg anti-war Treaty had been
formally reported and the Bill co
prevent inter-State commerce or
prison made goods was passed. The
Senators found the cruiser Bill was
next in order. Friends of the Kei
,ogg Pact, however, blocked the
consideration in the Navy measure
asking the Treaty be made next in
! order; the Executive session failed
to settle the dispute and the Senate
adjourned after an agreement had
been reached to take up the ques
tion tomorrow.
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SIX VICTIMS
MOST OF MEN WERE MARRIED;
RESCUE WORKERS EXHAUST
ED HAZARDOUS STRUGGLE
DR xKESBORO, Ky Dec. 20, (/P)
—Drakesbcro is in mourning as
piano r.ie being made for the fun
nrais o* the victims of the disaster
in the Diamond mine which claim
ed the lives of six men. Most of
the dead were married and separate
funerals are planned
The recovery of the bodies, nearly
a mile from the entrance, was not
accomplished until large groups of
rescue workers virtually exhausted
themselves in the long and hazard
ous straggle against the heavy de
bris which closed the only avenue
of escape to the six men.
ALBERT C. GOSS OIES
UNEXPECTEDLY AFTER
SEATTLE OPERATION
SEATTLE, Dec., 20, (JP)—Albert
C. Goss, 32, who conducted the
Alaska Concolidated company in
Western and Southwestern Alas
ka, died in a sanitarium here yes
terday.
His death was wholly unexpect
ed after an operation on the gall
bladder. His wife and a son here,
survive him.
Goss had his headquarters at
Unalaska and came south recent
ly. He was taken to the hospital
two weeks ago.
CHILDREN ARE SPIRITED BACK
AND FORTH FROM KETCHI
KAN THREE TIMES
SEATTLE Dec.. 20, (/Pi—After
having been spirited three times
between Seattle and Ketchikan
while father and mother battled for
their possession, two small children
were ordered to be brought into
court tomorrow under writ of hab
eas corpus. They are Arlene Keeney,
five, and Raymond Jum~
The writ was issued when tne
mother, Mrs. Inza L. Keeney, tear
fully told her attorney of being de
fied to see them by Mr. and Mrs.
Merlin Frease of Bothell. Mrs.
Keeney, 2f>, says she left Ketchikan
last spring with her children for
Seattle. Her husband, Raymond G.
of Seattle, a fruit salesman, follow
ed her taking the children forceful
ly, she claims, hiding them here
until able to return them to Alaska.
Wnile the mother was trying to
raise funds to go to Ketchikan and
*ight for her children she was serv
ed with a divorce complaint filed
in AlasKa and filed in the cross
complaint, asking for the custody of
the children while suit is pending.
Sne says she learned the children
had been cent to her husband’s sis
ter, Mrs. Frease at Bothell, where
ishe was not allowed to see them.
•NEW MACHINE PRODUCES 5,200,000 VOLTS
Apparatus capable of producing electrical pressures of more than
5,200,000 volts, the highest ever obtained by man, has been developed
by scientists of the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism of Carnegie
Insttution of Washington. It includs the familiar high-frequency re
sonance coil (inset) high pressure oil tank, condenser, spark gap and
measuring gap and other parts, but is not too large to be housed in a
small room despite its unprecedented performance.
! VESSELS COLLIOE
III ENGLISH if,
TUGS STAND 8V
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NEITHER VESSEL IN IMMEDIATE
DANGER SINKING; TUGS
ARE STANDING BY
VANCOUVER, B. Dec. 2C, (JP)~
In one of the densest fogs exper
ienced this year the Canadian Pa
i cific Railway company’s coast
wise steamer Princess Adelaide
1 and the British freighter Hamp
: holm, collided in English Bay just
before noon yesterday.
The Adelaide was bound for Vic
; toria and Seattle with passengers
land damaged her engine room;
: this was flooded. Immediately af
i ter the crash the Hampholm
launched lifeboats and took oil’
the Adelaide’s passengers.
»These were later taken from the
freighter by the Princess Royal
of the Canadian Pacific and brot
back to Vancouver.
Two Canadian Pacific tugs are
standing by the Adelaide. Short
ly after the collission it was said
she was not in immediate danger.
The Hampholm also sustained
damage.
WHILE AT MASS WITH SACRED
MUSIC PEALING OUT MAKE
TtlEIR ESCAPE
SEATTLE, Dec.. ’.0, MP)—Searcn
for two convicts, one serving a lilfc
term, today shifted from the Mc
Neil Island Federal prison to the
mainland when an abandoned boat
was foun
,o the main shore.
The two fugitives are Jesse Wat
kins, murdered and Alvin Hodges,
automobile thief. Both sawed their
I'vay out of the penitentiary dining
room v hile attending mass. The
■racred music drowned out all noise
| of sawing and they stole the row
boat of a neighboring rancher
RELIEVED OF DUTIES
NEW YORK, Dec., 20, (/P)—Wil
bert Robinson, president and man
ager of the Brooklyn Dodgers base
ball team will be relieved of his dut
ies as president*at a meeting of di
rectors, it is reported
GRANTED IIIS
NEW YORK. Doc., 20, Court
land H. Young, wealthy magazine
publisher was granted a divorce
from Dorothea Campbell Young,
former Follies beauty after a litiga
tion lasting two years.
WILL CIRCLE GLOBE
NEW YORK, Dec., UP)—Deutsche
Lufthansa, Germany’s great com
mercial air company, is planning to
extend it’s air routes over the
Americas as well as Africa and Asia.
OttoMorkel, director of the corpora
tion announced upon arrival here.
ALL WET!
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec., 20, (/P)—
The heaviest rain of the season
drenched northern and central Cal
ifornia. The devulge in San Fran
cisco flooded basements while three
persons were hurt in the accom
panying gale.