MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 124.
SEWARD, ALASKA. TUESDAY, MAY 28, 1929.
PRICE TEN CENTS
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• COITION STATES
PRICES ARE FIRM; ADVERTIS
ING FISH 45 TRADE CENTERS
BRINGS RESULTS
SEATTLE, WASINGTON, May
27. {£>)—'The healthy condition
of the salmon market was em
phasized by reports of the lead
ing brokers and shippers who
state that the salmon sales for
the first half of May were as
great as the entire preceding two
months.
“One reason of the retarded
movement of salmon during the
was the fact that tremendous
shipments went out at the enr
of last year, beginning in 1929”.
Another reason was “ Cold
spring in much of the middle
west eastern territory as salmon
moves into consumption much
faster in warm weather ”
Last but not least was the
‘"trade feeling directly effecting
the high call of money rates of
New York bankers charging job
bers high rates of interest and
urging them to hold down in
ventories w'hich resulted in the
stocks being kept to minimum,
salmon being one of the leading
commodities to feel the effect.”
Consensus of opinion of the
leading brokers was that there
v as sufficient salmon on hand
to carry through until the new
pack arrives in late July and Aug
ust.
The prices and firm market are
generally exceptionally strong in
the national advertising program
fo the associated salmon packers,
demonstrating that there is value
in sustaining the interest of the
trade consumers. The advertising
appearing in weekly newspapers
is in 45 important salmon markets.
The early pack salmon of the
Columbia river was disappointing
ly small, the high water making
fishing difficult. This years pack
gives indication of being decided
ly short and higher prices are
a possibility. Gray’s harbor blue
back run is below normal,” P. J.
Andre of the Oceanic Sales corn
many said in a statement on the
industry.
MAJOR RANSOM DIOS
ON BOARD S. S. ALASKA
KETCHIKAN, May 28. W) —
Major Arthur Emmet Ransom,
Seattle life insurance man died
on the liner Alaska Sunday from
a sudden attack of heart trouble,
it became known yesterday with
the arrival of the ship
Mrs. Ransom is arranging to
have the body of her husband
sent back to Seattle. He had been
making summer business trips to
Alaska for 24 years.
JACK DEMPSEY WILL
COME BACK, STATED:
RENO. Nev., May 27, (/P)~Gene
Normile. who managed Jack Demp
sey during the first Tunney fight
displayed a contract that Dempsey
has signed agreeing for a $1,000,000;
guarantee to meet any unnamed
opponent at some future date at
Agua Caliente, Mexico for the
world's heavyweight championship
title. i
MELBOURNE, Australia, May 27.
(zp) —An air search discovered
that two fliers who lost them
selves in the vastness of Western
Australia. Lt. Moir and flying
officer, Owen who have been mis
ing for more than a week when
they attempted to fly from Bima,
Dutch East Indies, to Port Dar
win, were located by pilot Brain
at Capetown, Queensland. Brain
who figured in the Southern Cross
search, sighted the plane where it
bad crashed beside a lighthouse.
The lost fliers, it is said, mistook
the lighthouse for Port Darwin and
landed, unable to rise again.
HOOVER ADOIED
WITH BLACK EKE
MEME
BRANCH ON TROUT STREAM
BANK SWATS PRESIDENT
SMACK IN THE EYE
WASHINGTON, May 27, </PT—
President Hoover showed up for
work with what is popularly known
as a “shiner” .
While wading a mountain stream
Saturday the President hooked an
extermely large trout, during the
ensuing battle the President slipped
on a slippery rock and fell face
down bruising his eye on a branch
protruding from the water.
Even tho the pain was intense
for a moment and causing him to
be partially blind Mr. Hoover clung
to his rod and within a short time
landed his adversary.
Despite the ministrations of Dr.
Joel T. Boone, who was a member
of the fishing party, it became dis
colored. Mr. Hoover joked consid
erably with his friends over his
slight misfortune.
II. S, AGREES TO
SCALE PAYMENTS
FROM GERMANY
PAYMENTS WILL LAST LONGER
PERIOD; REDUCTION WILL
NOT BE GREAT
WASHINGTON, May 27, <£>)—'The
United States government has
agreed to scale down its reparations
payments due from Germany to
help bring about a settlement of
the entire reparations problem, it
was officially announced.
Reduction will not be great, but
will make American receipts much
less than 2*4 percent of the total
oayment which the United States
is getting under the Dawes plan.
Under the plan of reduction, pay
ments are to last over a longer per
iod than that specified in the
Dawes agreement.
A decision to cut American de
mands was reached at the White
House by a conference participated
m by Secretary of Treasury Mellon
under Secretary Mills, Secretary of
State Stimson, Senator Borah and
the majority of minority leaders of
both the house and the senate.
TIDE OF SELLING
NINETY-FOUR SEPARATE ISSU
ES DROPPED TO NEW LOW
LEVELS FOR YEAR
| NEW YORK, May 28, (^—Mar
ket values running into the mil- !
’ions were washed away by the
flood tide of selling which struck ;
| the stock exchange and sent prices i
hurtling downward. The losses
ranged from one to 18 points and
Effected every group therein. Good
stocks and bad alike were driven
to lower ground as the public threw
hs shares overboard on the news
that the Federal Reserve advisory
(council had recommended allowing
| a higher re-discount rate.
Ninety-four separate issues drop
ped to new lows for the year or
longer as results of unloading by
disappointed traders and specula
tors wno knew that they were skal
jing on very thin ice and had put
jin loss orders. Those traders wicn !
bearish tendencies went plunging1
in among favorites and added to;
the decline with their orders to sell.
There was some support of oiis
where losses were mostly held to
less than two points and elsewhere. \
while decline was sweeping no evi
dence of a crash could be seen.
General Motors, United Corpora
tion, General Electric. United States
Steel, American Can, American
and foreign power, United Air and
Transport, Internetio: ^Telephone
land a host of others were among
the group that dropped four or
more points. The total sales for
the day amounted to over $5,000,000.
BII115 DISPUTE
SUPREME COURT OVERRULES
COMMERCE COMMISSION
RAILROAD TEST
WASHINGTON, May 27, (/P)—The |
i railroads won the famous St. Louis
land O’Fallon railway vaulation
ease in the supreme court.
The high court reversed the de- j
jcision of the St. Louis federal court
in a long standing dispute and over
turned the valuations used by the
Interstate commerce commission
for rate making and other purpos
es which are approximately $11,
000,000.000 less than claimed by the
railroads. Under the ruling the
commission must scrap its valua
tion of years conducted at great ex
pense and prepare a new valuation
data, giving consideration to re
production values.
The railroad contended that the
'commission had used a formula in
! valuing its property and had failed
to give proper consideration to cost
iof reproduction at current prices
'and other elements. It challenged
I that the commission’s valuation was
| used as a basis for order requiring
•■it to pay to the government part
I of its net earnings for four years
|beginning in 1920. The case was
| made a test for the commission’s j
whole method of railroad valuation, j
RECORD SHATTERED
BERLIN, May 27, (A3)—Chief Pilot
Starke, of the Heinkel Airplane
Works, carrying over 500 kilograms
extra weight, set a new world’s
plane speed record of 260 kilomet- |
res per hour, bettering the former,
mark by 23 kilometres. I
WASHINGTON, My 27. (£>)—
The house conferences on the
farm relief bill left the conerence
with the declaration that when
the senate is ready to yield
on the export debenture plan they
will be ready to begin arbitration
on other phases of the measure.
The conference, after almost
a week of negotiations which re
sulted in but little progress, ap
parantly has reached a deadlock
which brought the house group
to their ultimation. The house
has declined to take up the other
disputed points in the measure
until the debenture is struck from
the senate measure.
ONLY TWO OF THE 1747 CANDI
DATES WITHOUT OPPOSI
TION ELECTION
LONDON, May 27, (/P)—A total of
1.747 candidates for parliament, the
greatest number in British history,
appeared before the election offi
1° on nor;'nation day to secure
tlieir poll certifications.
Only two of the candidates are
without opposition, one being the
■meaker of the house of commons,
Captain Fitzroy in Daventry, and
the other Commodore Douglas
King, minister of mines in the Troy
stronghold of south Padington,
I ondon. Seventh-nine of the can
didates are women. Conservatives
are the most numerous, numbering
599 of the total. The contest ends
in 19 days.
WILL TOUCH DUTCH HARBOR
AND SITKA BNROUTE
TO NEW YORK CITY
MOSCOW. May 27, (A*)—Russ
ian aviators are planning a
flight to New York via Alaska
during August. A plane call
ed Land of the Soviets, to
be manned by aviators, Shesta
York via Alaska during August.
A plane called Land of the Soviets,
to be manned by aviators, Shesta
kov, Bolotov and Sterlingov with
mechanic Fufave
The proposed route covers 12,
500 miles. The Russian plane will
leave Moscow and make its first
stop at Novisibirsk in the Urals.
Next stop on the route following
the Siberian railroad will “be at
Khavarovsk, on the Amur river.
The wheels will be removed there
and landing floats substituted
From Kharovsk the airmen will
fly to Petropovlovsk, in Kamchat
ka, with another stop being made
at Dutch Harbor. From Dutch Har
bor they will fly to Sitka, then
down the coast to Seattle, San
Francisco, eastward to Chicago
and New York.
SUNKEN STEAMER
ARRIVE SEWARD
_
ALEUTIAN CREW RROT TO
PORT BY SURVEYOR; OUT
FITTED, SENT TO SEATTLE
Capt. John S. Nord, master of
the lost S- S. Aleutian, had little
to add to the wreck of his ves
; sel when interviewed upon his
arrival here; not that he did not
care to talk for pub li c a t i o n
due to grieving over the loss of
his splendid vessel.
“I’m sorry,” he said, “but like
Lindbergh I have nothing to say.
A fine vessel is lost and that is
all there is to it.”
MANY ON DOCK
Hundreds of citizens were gath
jered on the Seward dock as Cap
tain Lukens, of the Surveyor,
brot his vesel alongside. Then the
survivors came ashore clad in al
most the identical clothing in
which they had fled the vessel
early Sunday morning. Over the
shoulders of a few were blankets,
others were lacking shirts, coats,
hats, ties and collars; overalls
seemed to be the most popular
worn garment while the ladies
were garbed in civilian and sail
ors. dungerees, shirts and caps.
A few of the survivors were as
immaculate as if they never had
passed through an ordeal en
dangering their lives.
FEW WERE INJURED
The majority appeared in ex
cellent spirits from their ad
venture with fate but there were
many somber countenances, too.
A half a dozen limped having
sustained slight injuries and
bruises in the haste of aban
doning the stricken steamer which
was listed at the dangerous angle
of about 45 degrees.
Immediately upon the arrival
of the survivors Captain Gilje,
master of the Admiral Evans, and
Wayne Blue, Seward agent for
the Pacific Steamship Co., ex
tended every courtesy to the
officers and crew of the Aleutian
land held the vessel in port for at
least an hour beyond the sched
uled sailing hour to permit send
ing of messages, purchases of
clothing and the numerous other
personal matters by individuals
PRAISES CREW
“It was the most efficient act of
life saving at sea that I ever heard
of,” said Capt. R. R. Lukens, speak
ing of the work of Capt. John S.
!Nord and his men. “We were at
Zacher Bay, tied to the dock when
at 9 o’clock we received word of the
accident to the S. S. Aleutian, and
proceeded at once to Uyak under
full steam. At Larsons Bay we met
the gas boat Raven towing a string
of life boats occupied by the Aleu
tian survivors. The life boats rep
resent the only bits of equipment
left of the liner. My calling to the
[occupants that we would take ther#
to Seward in the Surveyor was hail
ed with a burst of cheers.
SOUGHT LOCATE ROCK
“After seeing all safely aboard
the Surveyor, Captain Nord insist
ed upon leaving the party and re
turning in a small boat to the vi
cinity of the accident, in an en
deavor to locate the hidden rock,
jour tender Helianthes being along
[side, I put it at the disposal of Capt.
iNord’s mission, and accompanied by
| Thomas Healy, first officer of the
Aleutian, he directed the Ilelian
!thes back to Uyak Bay, only to re
turn in about three hours unsuc
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