SEWARD,
ALASKA
Seward
COAST TERMINAL OF THE
ALASKA RAILROAD
DAILY AND WEEKLY
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
“CENTER of
EVERYTHING”
Gateway
TERMINAL FOR THREE OCEAN
GOING STEAMSHIP LINES
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VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 199.
SEWARD, ALASKA. MONDAY, AUGUST 26. 1929.
PRICE TEN CENTS
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MUTE. TONIGHT
SIR WILKINS APPRECIATED THE
TRIP AND FREEDOM FROM
RESPONSIBILITY
LOS ANGELES, Aug., 26, (/P)—
Eleven o’clock tonight is the hour
set for the departure of the Graf
Zeppelin for Lakehurst, the final
leg of the gigantic air liner’s round
the-world tour. Refueling is ex
pected to be completed by 8 o’clock
and the passengers are ordered to
be ready to embark early in the
evening.
The Graf moored at 5:11 a. m.
completing the 5,800 mile flight
from Kasumigaura in 78 hours and
58 minutes. This the the first non
stop flight across the Pacific and
was achieved in one-third the time
of the fastest liners plying between
Japan and Seattle..
Dr. Eckener, who was seriously
ill two days of the Tokio trip, rush
ed to a downtown hotel where ar
rangements had been made to issue
a statement, but the prepared one
had been torn from his hand as he
leaned from the gondola room over
Santa Barbara. He was highly en
thusiastic over the success of the
trip and is convinced he has de
monstrated the lighter than ail
transport feasible for ocean travel
Hubert Wilkins said: “It was
pleasant to take the trip and £
pleasure to be free from responsi
bility. However, the globe torn
proved to us the value of meteoro
logical forcast before airplanes car
be operated successfully. We mus
have greater cooperation amoni
weather experts and reports fron
many more fields. I congratulati
Dr. Eckener on the success of thi
flight. We have seen many inter
esting points of the earth and ai
unusual view of the uncultivabl
Steppes of "Siberia. Rain drenche<
the fields in the Orient and a clou<
among the most interesting sight
bankd the Pacific. These wer
ever seen.”
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HE AIRTIGHT CASE
LOS ANGELES, Aug., 26. (£>)
District Attorney Buron Fitts d<
dared that the state has an aii
tight case against Alexander Par
tges, theater magnate, in h;
forthcoming superior court tri;
on two different charges of crin
inally assaulting Miss Euni:
Pringle, a dancer.
This is given emphasis, he
reported to have said, by the fa<
the Roy Keene, assistant manag<
of the Pantages Theater cor
esfsed to him giving positiv
evidence of a cover up plot 1
save Pantages. Keene was pla<
de under guard, the district a1
torney stated.
UNSEEING PILOT STEERS
SHIP BY RADIO COMPASS
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This blindfolded pilot held
his yacht to its course solely by
! means of a new small radio com
pass developed by Dr. A. F. Kol
| ster (lower right).
DIRIGIBLE SOARED
THE GOLDEN GATE
VISIT AT LOS ANGELES OC
CUPIED LESS THAN ONE
HOUR PERIOD
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug., 26, (IP)- ;
• The German dirigible Graf Zep
. pelin was sighted off Farralon
t Island by a marine lookout at
- 6:02 in the afternoon and was
r j also seen a few minutes later
i from the Presidio heading directly j
i for the Golden Gate.
; It nosed gracefully through a
- cloud bank, with the sun gleam-j
l ing from it’s silvery sides, and
i thousands crowded San Francis
I co's hills.
II Coming into the bay the Zep
s pelin swung directly over the city
3 above Market street while air
planes swarmed about her.
; The radio station asked the;
! ship’s radio operator if he liked
I the city and the answer came “Ja ,
j grossartig”, meaning “yes very'
much”. The ship went skirt- j
ing the Presidio and, without re-:
turning to the Golden Gate, j
5 headed southwest for the coast
and apparently intended to fol
! low on to Los Angeles. The visit
| to the city will occupy less than
one hour.
Activity is intense
5! LOS ANGELES FIELD
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! LbS ANGELES, Aug., 26, </P)—
is Four-thirty a. m. was the time set
it for the landing of the Graf Zeppe
ir lin though Dr. Eckcner will decide
l- i definitely upon the arrival over
e !the airport shortly before mid
;o [night. Marines and Bluejackets
'continued landing drills and activi
ties were intense as time drew near
I for the sighting of the big craft.
ST. LOUIS, Aug., 26, (/P)—Babe j
Ruth regained the major league
homerun leadership with his 341
th and 35th homers of the sea- j
son off Stewart but the Browns
scored their fourth successive vic
tory over the Yanks.
Ruth’s blow in the fourth end
ed 32 scoreless innings for the
Yanks. The other homer, also
with the bases bare, came in the
ninth.
The Browns scored three shut
out wins over the world champs
and the final game is to be play
ed today.
BRITISH 00 IT HO
OFFER IS STRIOOS
THE HAGUE, Aug. 26. (/P) —:
Philip Snowdon’s formal reply to I
the offer by France, Italy and
Belgium was refusal of accep
tance.
Further, the British say they
do not regard the offer as a
serious attempt to meet their j
demands. Nevertheless, Mr. Snow
don has agreed to naming a
committee of experts from the
five creditor nations to determine
the monetary value of the offer
made Britain by the four other
powers.
DIES EVE OF WEDDING
NEW YORK, Aug., 26, UP)—John
B. Daniel, well known radio an
nouncer* died of peritonitis on the
eve of his wedding to Miss Bertha
Cable of Washington, D. C.
CITIZENS OF II. S. i
WORDED. OFFENSE I
OF JEWISH COLLEGE
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STIMSON WIRES DAWES HAVE
BRITISH PROTECT AMERI
CAN LIVES, PROPERTY
JERUSALEM, Aug., 26, (/?)—Fif
teen Americans were wounded and
12 killed by Arabs r.s they a-sisted
Jews in the defense of Slaboka
Rabbinical college at Hebron where
students stop.
Casualities in three days fighting
over the Wailing Wall reached more
than 70 Jews and probably many
hundreds of Arabs were wounded.
Property damage is large.
The names of the Americans as
yet are unknown but all are report
ed to be from American cities
I studying to be Rabbis. Several con
tingents of British troops number
ing 650 men arrived from Egypt
:and are patroling the streets. Three
British warships arrived from Mal
jta.
Charges were made that the up
risings are a part of a well ordered
’plot of the Arabs to overthrow the
government and not occasioned
1 alone by the Wailing Wall contro
versy. "Hie fighting started in
Jerusalem and spread rapidly to
I other suburbs where spirited fight
ing and unknown casualities re
sulted.
British airplanes bombed the
City of Lifta, said to be Arab head
i quarters and armored cars darted
thru the streets giving the region
the appearance of an armed camp
Accounts said the police were una
ble to cope with the situation.
Secretary Stimson wired Ambas
sador Dawes to tell the British For
eign office he hoped the govern
ment will do all in its power im
mediately to protect American lives
and property.
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IERIH KILLER: T1
INJURED, IRIII WRECK
DUEREN. Germany, Aug., 26, (/P)
—One American was killed and two
seriously injured in a wreck of an
engine and six coaches of the Paris
to Warsaw Express as it entered
Buir, north of here.
Eight were killed and 17 seriously
injured and 25 others bruised and
cut. The accident closed the line
for more than 20 hours.
Paul Herraman of New York was
killed and John Kowals of Trow
bridge, (state not known) and a
'man named Kohn were the injured
Americans.
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AT LOS ANGELES
LOS ANGELES, Aug., . 26, </P)—
The Graf Zeppelin sailed over at
1:16 a. m. on its 16,880 miles of its
round-the-world cruise. The huge
air liner has only 2500 miles to go
It continued to soar the skies and
| prepared to moor at 5 a.m.
WASHINGTON, Aug., 26, (JP)—
The French government has form
ally approved of Senator Walter E
Edge of New Jersey as the next
• United States Ambassador to Paris
WM WARFARE
RAMPANT MS
mm road
CHINA WILL APPEAL TO LEA
GUE OF NATIONS IF RUS
SIA DECLARES WAR
SHANGHAI, China, Aug., 26. UP)
—A policy in the crisis with Rus
sia is rapidly shaping towards a
world wide appeal for help to
repel the Russian invasian or
for pressure to be brot to force
the Soviet to arbitrate.
Kellogg Pact signatories in par
ticular are looked to for action.
At the same time the Chinese
minister to Berlin has been ask
ed to have the German govern
ment ascertain if repeated Red
military incursions in Manchuria
have been taken by order of
Moscow and the state council.
The official spokesman at Nan
king announced that if Russia
declares war China will appeal to
the League of Nations for assis
tance. Soviet troops have pene
trated Manchuria to Delainor, a
coal mining town 20 miles east
of Manchuli, the western ter
minus of the Eastern Chinese
Railway. After five hours of
brisk fighting the Chinese lost,
two killed and 10 wounded.
On the eastern front many in
cursions have been made into the
province of Kirin. Mongolians
are aiding the Soviet troops in
these depredations. Eleven minor
clashes between the Chinese and
Russian troops have taken place
and the Nanking government has
firmly declared itself ready to
resist the organized Russian in
vasion.
Meanwhile along the border,
i press dispatches present a picture
| showing guerilla warfare at its
; height, although there is as yet
! no official sanction for war.
GRANDMOTHER ARRESTED
j CHICAGO, Aug., 26, (/P)—The
j Jones law with a maximum pen
alty of five years in prison and
j ten thousand fine has ensnared
' its first Chicago grandmother.
'She is Mrs. Catherine Kearns 64
I years old, who was arrested for
seling a pint of liquor to a pro
hibition agent.
DRIFT ICE PHOTS
LAND CADDO AT BARROW
POINT BARROW, Aug., 26, (JP)—
A second attempt to land a cargo
from his vessel was made here
Thursday by Captain Blackland
but drifting ice prevented any suc
cess.
With a fouled anchor the ship
drifted into a large field of ice but
with blasting and the aid of small
power boats the ship was worked
free. Skin boats were hauled out
Friday over the ice to get to the
boat. Last week a 40-mile gale forc
ed the ship to abandon its three
anchors at Wainwright.