VOLUME XXIII. NUMBER 256. SEWARD, ALASKA FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1928,
PRICE TEN GENTS
Big Alaska Coal
Movement Looked
For Next Season
GENERAL MANAGER OHLSON OF THE ALASKA
RAILROAD SAYS NEW RATE HAS BEE?
GRANTED FROM MATANUSKA COAL FIELD!
TO SEWARD TO PERMIT COMPETITION WIT!
OUTSIDE PRODUCERS IN EFFORT TO CON
TROL MARKET AMONG CANNERIES ANI
GOVERNMENT VESSELS TO WESTWARD
' MAY BUILD BUNKERS HERE WHEN TON
NAGE JUSTIFIES.
After months of negotiation dur
ing which rates have been agreed
upon ,a large coal movement from
the Matanuska branch of the Alas
ka Railroad to tide water at Port of
Seward is practically assured for
next season, according to Otto F.
Ohlson, general manager of the
railroad who was in Seward this
week on a final inspection before
his departure for Washington to
morrw where he goes to lay a re
port before the Secretary of the I11
- tericr.
As a starter the coal will be yard
stacked here in thousand tons lots
or more ready for the fishing boats,
the vessels of the Bureau of Fisher
ies, craft of coast guard, geodetic
survey besides canneries, stores and
residents. The railroad will build
bunkers here as soon as the ton
age warrants, Mr. Ohlson said.
The new departure is being
made possible by contracts now
being signed up between the big
cannery corporations of Southeast
ern Alaska and the Evan Jones Coal
o, which is producing a superior
grade of steaming coal in the Mata
nuska field coupled with a new ra^e
granted by the railroad from the
mine to the ships of $1.50 per ton,
giving the coal company an oppor
tunity to compete with Outside
shippers with a superior coal.
A representative of the. Evan
Jones Co., is now in Seattle nego
tiating with the canning companies
but it is understood that enough
contracts have already been signed
up to insure a large tonnage and
make the new rate attractive.
Mr. Ohlson expressed himself as
highly pleased with the new ar
rangement as an entering wedge
toward real development of Alaska
i oals with its promise of enhanced
tonnage and income for the road.
It is one of his first moves towards
putting the railroad to the uses for
which it was originally intended.
School Teacher
And Pupils Die
FORSYTH, Mont., Oct., 26, (/P)—
Mrs. Ralph Abbott, assistant prin
cipal of the Howard high school,
10 miles west from here, and five
children were killed and three in
jured on their way from school,
when her car, containing them,
was struck by a freight train.
ABANDONS PLANS
LAKEHURST, N. J., Oct., 26,
Dr. Eckener abandoned plans for
a Middle West flight in the Ger
man dirigible Graf Zeppelin be
cause of numerous postponements
caused by unfavorable weather.
He expects to leave soon for Ger
many. 1
VICTORIA, B. C., Oct., 26, (/P)
With 3 9 feet of water in her fore
hold the British freighter Seapoc
reached Ecquimalt to drydock al
ter striking an unchartered roc
off Cape Beale, 86 miles from hen
Early Wednesday morning th
vessel left Victoria with 600,00
| feet of lumber. The pilots clair
the rock was unchartered and th
channel buoy was out of positioi
The bow of the ship was badl
damaged under water and it wi
take four days to unload the lum
ber before drydocking is possible
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ACCIDENT DUE TO FAILURE
SWITCH POINTS WORK
PROPERLY
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BUCHAREST, Rumania, Otc.,
26, (JP)—Thirty-one persons were
killed in a collision between the
Simplon Tunnel Express, outbound
from Budapest, and an Express
from Sibiu, near Slatina.
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Included among those killed
was an Italian engineer and his
wife and daughter. Twenty-five
were taken to hospitals. The
others killed were Rumanians
traveling third class in the Sibiu
train.
The accident was due to fail
ure of switch points to work prop
erly. The coaches of the Simplon
Express was one of the best
known trains in Europe. It was
completely wrecked.
Lindy Is Quick
On The Trigger
MEXICO CITY, Oct., 26, t/P)—
The Department of Agriculture ,
has issued Col. Charles Lindbergh 1
a license to kill two cinnamon
bear and two deer. Friends have
word that he has shot
; received
ms first bear, within three hours
of his arrival, near the Hal Man
gum ranch in Northern Mexico.
ROBBERS ESCAPED
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STOCKTON, Calif., Oct., 26, (/P)—,
Two unmasked men held up the
United States postoffice at Tracy
and made their escape under
gun fire in a car driven by a third
outlaw. They got $20,000 in cur
rency intended for a Southern
Pacific payroll.
Reward Offered As
Means Recovering
Body Of Brother
KETCHIKAN, Oct., 26, (A3)—C.
Trent of Kirkland, Wash., has of
fered a $100 reward for the recov
ery of the body of his brother R. J.
Trent, who disappeared from the
Steamer Alaska on October 20 in
or near Ketchikan while enroute
to Cordova from Seattle. He was a
former employee of the Alaska
Road Commission and was thought
to be about 30 years of age.
STMiE LIFE OF
OBE-TIME Mil
COMES TO CLOSE
JOINED ALASKA GOLD RUSH
BECOMING STEAMBOAT
MAN LATER
PORT ANGELES, Oct., 26, (A')—
Thomas Rodgers. 76, who said he
was the father of a Buffalo, N. Y.,
capitalist, died penniless after a
colorful life under an assumed
name.
Before death overtook him Rod
gers said his real name was T. H.
Cummer which he abandoned af
ter serving six years for a crime
of which he was innoclnt. The
death bed confession of another
man absolved him but he continmd
the alias.
He started life anew first as a
steel worker then came West to
trap and joined the Alaska gold
rush becoming a steamboat man
and finally ended up by working
in the paper plant here. He told
of his visit to his son, when he
was West when he intended to re
veal his identity but lie changed
his mind.
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IF ELECTED WILL INVITE FARM
LEADERS INTO CONFER
ENCE, WASHINGTON
WASHINGTON, Oct,, 26, (/P)—
The events of the Presidential
campaign down to the present
time has caused no change in
Hoover’s major political strategy
; confining his speeches to discuss
| ion of what he concieves to be the
| issues and has kept clear the ex
changes with A1 Smith.
HOWEVER, IN HIS
St. Louis address Hoover took up
1 two subjects which Smith has em
phasized, waterways development
land farm relief. Hoover already
! has spoken on these having de
clared for a coordinated system
, of inland waterways and for fed
I oral financial aid to the farm
i board to assist in meeting the
problems fo seasonal surpluses in
major farm crops.
He also stated that if he was
elected he would invite farm lead
ers, such as Lowden, into confer
ence to help work out details.
i SUBJECT OF ADDRESS IS NOT
DISCLOSED MAYBE LABOR
OR FOREIGN
NEW YORK, Oct., 26, (A3)—Gov.
Alfred Smith set today aside to
confer with party chieftains to
collect new ammunition to be
I hurled verbally at Republican
foes.
| Smith arranged to give a last
look to a speech prepared for del
: ivery tomorrow night in Philadel
' phia the home city of William Vare
! who started the swing to Hoover
| among the Pennsylvania delegates
to the Kansas City convention.
The Governor did not disclose
the subject of his address but it
j may be on labor or* on foreign re
! lations as it was announced both
I of these questions would be touch
| ed upon before election day.
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I RECORD SHATTERED
EASI-WEST HOP
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LOS ANGELES, Oct., 26, (>P)—
The monoplane Yankee Doodle,
with Captain Collyer at the con
trols and Harry Tucker as pass
enger, landed here at 2:12 yester
day completing a non-stop flight
from New York City. The time of
the flight was 24 hours and 55
minutes.
The flight constituted a new
East to West non-stop record the
best previous time having been
made by MacCready and Kelly
in 26 hours and 50 minutes, in 1923.
1923.