MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXIII. NUMBER 41. SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, February 18, 1928.
PRICE TEN CENTS
HUNDRED PEOPLE
SWEPT INTO GOLDEN
GALE SWEEPING HARBOR FOR.
CEO THE PASSENGER LADEN
PROW UNDER WAVES
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 18, (/P) -
At least eight persons are still inis
«iug alter police and rescuers check
ed all reports in an effort to ascer
tain the number of casualties in the
accident to the ferry boat Peralta,
from whose decks, an unknown mini
her of passengers were swept in»o
to return to their homes.
The number of passengers swept
believed to have been on the boat
t st night when the passenger laden
pfow dipped into the bay, .had failed
to return to their hames.
The numbed of passengers swept
into the bay is still undetermined an !
investigators are without means in
checking estimates. Passengers, who
plunged overt • * wer* at least 100.
•Che official list showed 17 had been
rescued.
What caused the submerging of
the forward part of the boat as it
oped along toward Oakland during
the evening rush is still undetermin
ed. As to the original six persons
repotted missing whether or not
they had returned home at night is
not known. A systematic search
of the bay failed to reveal any trace
of bodies. Although the ferry was
not filled to capacity which is 4,000,
e • large crowd was on board Many
of these had gathered on the lower
forward deck when suddenly the for
ward deck of the huge ferry gave a
sudden lurch downward and scopes of
passengers, in the bow, found them
t*dves submerged and washed over
board.
Pandemonium broke loose among
tUe others because they thought the
ferry was going down. Women knelt
on the decks and prayed while the
men attacked the lockers filled with
life preservers. The air was filled
with the cries of those struggling in.
the water and the screams of women
aod children on the decks.
The Peraltas crew was ordered to
* 'e life boats as the ferry slowly
settled back to an even keel.
The ferry Hayward, which was pas
sing th scene, launched life boats]
did the naval training station, at
float Island, a few hundred yards
from the scene. The choppy waters
were strewn with coats, hats, and
bits of wreckage. The rapidly falling
twilight handicapped the rescuers.
TO ENTER DOG DERBY
RUBY, Feb. 18, (A>)—Joe Sticgman,
of Nulato, and Walter Nollner, of Gal
ena, have left for Fairbanks with two
dog teams which they will enter the
dog races at Fairbanks, on March 15.
PILOT IS KILLED III !
j MID AIR BT BOMB
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MACON, Geogia, Feb. 18, (/p)-—
It'c pilot killed in mid-air in a pre
mature explosion of an aerial bomb,
an airplane, entered in the South
eastern Air Derby, crashed down in
to the main business thoroughfare
| killing the other occupant and per
haps fatally injuring one, a pedes
t’-ian, and inflicting slighf hurts to a
score or more.
THREE HOUSES FULL
INTO I I SUBWAY
PROPS SLIP AND BROWNSTONE ,
HOUSE, FASHIONABLE SORT j
LATE YEARS. FALL
NEW YORK, Feb. 18. </P)—Three
h* own .-Tone houses jf the, a nT tiia I
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:ash; enable in j*. A'o • - in'
19th century, plunged 40 feet into a
■subway excavation,, burying b*!f a
dozen men. Only one was kill.1!
Twenty men were tunneling un
der houses, cutting out space for the j
station of the new municipal subway,
n.idm- construction, when props slip
ped and the houses hurled down.
WANTS RELATIONS BROKEN
PARIS, Feb. 18, (/P)—A Haves dis-1
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patch from Budapest, Hungary; says
the Christian Social party has asked
the government to break diplomatic!
relations with Mexico because of the
religious persecutions there.
BIG STEP
PHOT
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PARIS, Feb. 18. {#>)—'The discovery!.
of the long sought for process of tak- •,
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ing and reproducing natural color (
motion pictures has been claimed by
the French scientist, Rudolph Bisthon.
Details of the invention are still vig
orously guarded but never-the-less it!
is understood that the keystone of the
invention is an ingenious combination
of colored screens.
FORWARD III
OGRAPHY IS IDE
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WINCHESTER, Mass., Feb. 18.
—Henry M. Havean, Boston architect,
who was one of those technically in
dicted in connection with the collapse
of the Pickwick night club here in
which 55 lives were lost in 1925, took
his life by inhaling illuminating gas
at his home here. Friends say that
his mind had become affected over
the indictment.
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WAS INSTRUCTED TO SIGN WITH!
RESERVATIONS PROJECTED
CLAUSES
HAVANA, Feb. 18. (/P)—Honorioi
Pueyrredon, Ambassador to Wash
ington and President of the Argon
tine delegation to the-Pan American;
Conference, has refused to withdraw.
His resignation from both posts is
disclosed.
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When the telegrams |are made pub.!
ic, and the cable he sent liis govern
ment, revealed that the resignations
were submitted Tuesday following!
receipts on instructions to sign with
reservations on the dotted line, even
if the convention did not contain th 1
clause looking toward removal of
tariff barriers on which he had in
sisted.
RESIGNATION ACCEPTED
BUENOS AIRES, Feb. 18, (£>) v
The Argentine has a.* ;
o'•. t°i the resignation f Eou,’i*
ppeyrredor, Ambassador to Washing
ton, and also President o: the Argen
tine delegation to the Pan American
conference at Havana
SEATTLE, Feb. 18. (/P)—The S. S.!
Alameda, of the A. S. S. Co., sailed at
i
) o’clock carrying 111 passengers. The
Seward listing includes: Ed Carlson,
CTarl Nelson, H. Sundberg, Mrs. Hur-^
ey, Chas. Lechner, Wm. Cook, L. V. ’
Stanley, A. B. Johnson, JJ. N. Nichol- j
son, Carl Weisse, Mr. and Mrs. E.:
Swetmann, J. L. Freeman, Wm. F.!
Jarrison, Elsie Roy, John Helm, Mrs.
Williams, J. S. Dillan, Geo. L. Jenk
ns, A. Singleton, J. Johnson, W. A.:
Iriffin, Olaf Larson, C. R. West, F.
fones and three steerage.
1EFEKDIN6 HIS MOTHER
BOY KILLS OFFICER
WITH SINGLE SHOT:
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PORTOLA, Calif., Feb. 18, (£>)—'
a defense of his mother, John SchaL:
,ster, aged 16, drew a gun on an of
icer and shot him dead. Deputy
Jheriff William A. Stevenson, aged ■
5, of Pulmas County, was .the victim. \ i
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’he boy entered the room to see his.c
aother and Stevenson quarreling. He \
rent to his room, got his revolver, 1
nd returned to the scene of the quar- ‘
el. At last Stevenson drew a gun C
nd the boy fired one shot which kill- C
d the officer instantly. e
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STEM FILES BRIEF
ASKING FOR DISMISSAL
WASHINGTON, Feb. '18, (£>)•
Arguing for dismissal of the writ of
abeas corpus obtained by Robert W
Stewart, chairman of the Standard
Oil company of Indiana, the govern
ment filed a brief in the district
court asserting the Senate, in order
ing Stewart’s arrest, was not inflict
ing punishment but adopting means
to force him to follow its lawful
course.
NOEL WIEN ST NOME
OEUVED FOII WEEK
KOTZEBUE REGION
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NOME, Feb. IS. (/P)—Noel Wien re.'
turned to Nome after being delayed:
for more than a week by storms on
his northern trip to Kotzebue.
Wien, with three passengers, had
been forced down by stormy weather
and bSTOTiStr bT'Tvroken communication
ines he and his passengers were thot
lost until his return.
He immediately left with mail and
Four passengers for Fairbanks. He ex
pects to return as soon as possible
with mail and take more passengers
o Fairbanks.
BOMB WRECKS HOME
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Feb. 18, (^P)
—Mayor T. Roy Gordon, of Campbell,
his wife and three children, narrowly
sscaped death when a bomb wrecked
their home. Gordon has been fight
ing a bootlegging ring.
MESSES THREATENED i
FOLSOM PRISON CASE
SACRAMENTO, Feb. 18. (AP)—
rhreats have been made against the
Sb-te witnesses in the trial of the
six Folsom Prison convicts who are
moused of murder in connection
vith the Thanksgiving Day break for
ibertv in which the lives of 13 were
ost. Guards have been placed about
he convict informers ’ following re
ceipt of the death notes.
CHICAGO, Feb. IS. (AP)—A list of
10 books published in the United
States for inclusion in the world list
f notable books of 1926 contained no <
fork of fiction. “On trail of Ancient i
lay” by Roy Chapman Andrews and ]
The Great God Brown”, by Eugene <
I’Neill and “Abraham Lincoln,” by 1
lari Sandberg were among thos chos- 1
n.
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1C IDENTIFIED AS BODY OF MAN
TWICE BURIED AT SEA
HENRY FROEUCH
VENTURA, Feb. IS. (ZP)—-The body
lound on the beach and believed to
have been that of a missing Dole
flight aviator, has been identified as
that of Henry Froelicb, of Honobi'i?
who twice had been buried at sea.
Deputy sheriffs identified the •».
mains by a necktie which was the on
ly article of cubing left, and ey
three scars. According to records c
the sheriffs office Froelich died at
sea enroute from Havana to Ilonobi
lu.
Relatives had ordered the remains
to be again buried at sea and on
June 19, the body, encased in an
airtight coffin, was dowered into the
sea. On®June 20 the casket was pick
ed up afloat. On June 25. it was again
confirm! to the 'sea wrapped in a
h-aul:et and weighed Sown heavily.
The latter burial took place nine
miles off-shore.
IS GRANTED DIVORCE
PARIS, Feb. 18. (/P)—Mrs. Elizabeth
De Selding Day was granted a divorce
from Henry Mason Day, vice presi
dent of the Sinclair Exploitation Co.,
on grounds of abandonment.
SOCIETY BUD WEDS
PARIS, Feb. 18.8 (Jp)—Miss Mar
garet McMullin, daughter of the late
Frank McMullin, was married to Alex
ander Robertson, Edinburgh lawyer.
BABY PLANE HOPS
CROYDEN, England, Feb. 18,(i5>)—
Bert Kinkier, British flier, has hopped
off in a baby plane on a flight to
Australia. He intends to make his
first stop at Rome. Hinkler and a
British aviator last November at
tempted a non stop flight to India but
were forced down in South Poland.
WANTS DAUGHTER NOW
NEW YORK, Feb. 18. (fP)—A suit
has been started by Consuelo Flower
ton for the custody of her daughter.
Mis Flowerton is the divorced wife of
Dick Fock, Dutch musician. She
claims that the divorce was invalid be
cause it was obtained thru a woman’s
control over her by means of Christ
ian Science.
YUKON BEING HELD OVER
It was decided this afternoon to hold
:he S. S. Yukon over until Monday in
jrder to make connections with the
rain from the Interior, which is
leld back by storm conditions. How
ever, if it is learned before Monday
hat the train is further delayed, the
fukon will probably sail South at any
ime, from midnight tonight, on.