VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 30.
SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1929. PRICE TEN GENTS
THOUSANDS ILL
FLU EPIDEMIC
HOSPITALS IN PARIS ARE TAX
ED TO CAPACITY RESULT
OF EPIDEMIC
LONDON, Feb., 5, (/P)—Thousands
are ill in Europe as the result of
an epidemic of influenza from
which few localities have been
spared.
In France some of the most not
able figures in public life are
among those afflicted. In Paris
the victims included President
Doumergue, Premier Poincare, his
Ministers, Aristide, Briand, Georges,
and Leygues. Their cases were
mild but of a more serious"aspect
to that of Marsal Foch.
Others sick were Marshal Petain,
Sir William Tyrrell, British Am
bassador; S. Parker Gilbert, agent
general of reparations. The hos
pitals in Paris are taxed to cap
acity.
NEW YORK, Feb., 5, (^—Con
tinuance of the name of Morgan
in the most powerful private fin
ancial organization in the world
has been assured for at least
another generation.
Entrance of Henry Sturgis Mor
gan, 28-year-old son of the present
head of the House of Morgan, into
the firm as a partner fulfills the
agreement that the name of J. P
Morgan & Co., be retained until 15
years after a lineal descendant of
J. P. Morgan, bearing his name,
shall have ceased to be a member.
The new partner is one of three
youths who only a few years ago
directed their footsteps from the
gravel of the campus path to the
hollows worn by the predeces
sors—and relatives—in the marble
flight giving entrance to the low
browed banking structure which
maintains its dignity among the
skyscrapers at Broad and Wall
streets.
SCURVY IV BE MORE
COMMON THAN THOT. |
v DECLARES SCIENTIST [
BAT TIMORE, Feb., 4, UP)— I
Scurvy may be a much more com- j
-non disease than has been sup- |
nosed. Dr. George Walker, BalU- j
more surgeon and research worker
is convinced after a study of the
eating habits of 750 Maryland fam
ilies.
His dietary investigation, under
taken to find out what families in
all walks of life actually eat ana
how their food selections compare
with their needs, discloses an al
most universal deficiency of vitu
mum O.
FLANS RE LOCATION
NEW YORK, Feb., 4, (/PI—Plans
for re-location and alteration of
T,he United States Senate Chambei,
giving that room an outside wall
and direct lighting and ventilation,
iv.ve been completed by Thomas
Hastings, architect.
HOOVER ELECTS REMAIN !
FEW OflYS MORE SOUTH
MIAMI BEACH, Feb., 5, (£>)—
President-elect Herber Hoover de
cided to spend two days inspect
ing the floodjswept Okeechobee
district of souhtren Florida and to
attend a birthday dinner in honor
of his friend, Thomas A. Edison,
at the inventor’s estate at Fort
Meyers, next Monday.
SENATE GOES OVER
WISH OF GOOLIDGE
REGARD CRUISERS
HARRISON OF MISSISSIPPI OF
FERS AMENDMENT GIVING
CAL FREE REIGN
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb., 5,
| (/P)—Over-riding the expressed
wish of President Coolidge the
Senate, by a vote of 54 to 28, re
fused late yesterday to eliminate
from the cruiser bill the stipula
tion that 16 ships be laid down be
■ fore July, 1931.
Party lines went to smash on the
ov'joj. 'v'.o i. with Senator xiEimson,
Democrat from Mississippi, offering
• an amendment to give the Pres
ident free reign over the naval
program, and 20 Republicans vot
This disposed of the dominant
issue in the cruiser fight. The Sen
ate adjourned aitc ; veto.
o • ' y. •' "'■>
Mills son'.. e li r p ; ■ c ; .-1
arts and father of Cg . n Mil Or.,
former Under-Sc-cretary of Treas
ury, died at the ir;e of 72, alter an
dines of lc~s than a month.
I
EIGHT OF HOST
TOKAO, Feb., i. (JP)—Last of the |
i' bt IP.00')-ton '•ruiser? called fori
by tho Japanese navy’s current j
building- program?, the Maya is!
now under construction in the big :
Kawasaki dockyard at Kobe.
A dozen Shinto prists, in white i
robes ar.d carrying branches of the
'sacred "sukaki” tree, emblem of
sacramental purity, recently per
formed the simple purification rites
j accompanying the laying of her ■
keel, designed to ward off evil in- i
i fluenres and beseech the blessing [
f ’ld protection of the national gods '
for this instrument of empire.
NEW UR-MML HOUTE
BOSTON Feb., 5, (/P)—Col. Ch.,5.1
. Lindbergh took-off from Belize,!
.British Honduras, on the second lap .
of the air mail flight to Panama |
rnd arrived at Tela.
A radio message received litre re
ported Col. Lindbergh made th: •
flight in one hour and a naif.. Hr ;
planned to refuel at Tela then con
tinue in a direct fight to LTanagu.;
where he will spend the night.
P/:~;T3, Feb.. 4, I.
rorsch enlist, who
with V .'hnf the first A
fire o chot in the Vv er!c
found dead in bed in U
^ °nc0.
Dr, I
is crecjl'oi
ncriean to
i War, was
Paris re >1
can KEEP HOOVER
sway FROM THE FISH
MIAMI BEACH. Feb.. 5, (ff)—
After recevirg a few callers Presi
dent-elect Hoover called it a day
and went fishing with Mark Wood,
large Nebraska landholder, using
o small boat. Mr. Hoover and liic
guest went outside of Miami Bay lo
ihc edge of the Pull Stream where
sail fish are running heavily.
COMPANY HAD NO ASSETS AND
NOT ENGAGED BUSINESS
PRIOR TO 1925
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb.,5,
(/P)~The United States Court of
Claims, dismissed the Alaska Con
solidated Canneries claim for
31,864 refuted on capital stock
taxes paid in August, 1925
The company’s petition recited
it had no assets and was not en
gaged in business before June.
1925, and that the value of its
stock should have been computed
by taking a twelfth of its value of
$2,000,000 which should have re
sulted in a tax liability of only_
$131.
Z>Ik-;r* LAST SATURDAY
SEATTLE, Feb., 5, (/P'—Mrs. Lena
De Gros, whose death was made
known yesterday, died Saturday.
She was a. former resident of Seat
tle and is said to have had exten
sive mining interests in Alaska.
Palm Springs, Calif., was her re
cent place of residence.
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STOLE MILLION
SENTENCED PRISON
FIVE, SEVEN YEARS
STIPULATION AGRFFD UPON IN
PLEADING GUILTY ON ONE
INDICTMENT
| ATLANTA, Ga., Feb., 5, (/P)—Clin
ton Carnes, former treasurer of the
Southern Baptist Home Mission
| Board whose disappearance last
Uiimmer led to the discovery of an
;alleged shortage of nearly $1,000,
100 in his accounts and his subse
'luest arrest in Canada, pleadeu
guilty in the Superior Court to em
bezzlement and was sentenced
from five to seven years.
The plea was cn one indictment
hargmg theft of $30,000. Carne
agreed lo plead guilty in the conai
!tion that the 19 other indictments
jbe attached in the former memu
: *anda
| If he attempts to seek pardon be
fore the minimum sentence is serv
ed prosecution will be started on
the otner bills but if he does not
they will be dropped.
i PITTSBURGH, Feb. 4, (/Pi—T!. '
value of a lump of cor! is engaging
• the attention of Milnd? Friedlovc.,
■74. res-arch chemist firm Czecho
slovakia.
Mies Friedlova dc-votcs nearly all
her time to the study of coal an
ilysis and heat experimentation at
Carnegie Institute of Technology.
She spent nine years at the Univer
sity of Prague and the last four
veaies has been doing chemical re
search work in the State Higher
nductrial School of Prague.
ITHACA, N. Y.. Feb., 4, (IP)—An
accidental cut that half severed the
end of his forefinger has provided
Dr. K. M. Dallenbacli. professor of
jpsyology at Cornell University, with
four years scientific study of re
generation of nerves.
The manner in which the sensa
tion of feeling has returned is at
variance with the generally believ
ed process of nerve growth. That
theory is that nerves after being
cut, must grow, if at all, like roots,
starting from the stumps.
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HAMILTON. Bermuda, Feb.. 4.
P)—The recently published an
nouncement that a United States
concern planned to build a sea
drome midway between New York
land Bermuda faded to cause much
excitement here.
Bermuda officials see two rea
sons operating aeainst such a pro
ject. In the first place, they say,
airplanes cannot fly between Ber
muda and the United States with
out tht concent of the Imperial
Airways of London. Moreover,
weather conditions a*’e held to be
too uncertain for the establishment
of a regular flying route.