VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 37. SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, February 13, 1929.
PRICE TEN GENTS
ALLOW AY BRANDED AS MENACE
TO NAVIGATION, CAPTAIN
OF MONTAUK
’ . SEATTLE, Feb., 13, (fP)—JhS £5
lMmen on the freighter Meiyu Maru
'are fighting to save the ship from
the fate of the freighter Alloway
which is now a storm-tossed der
elict in Unimak Pass manned -.1
lv by a mad oiler who refused to
abandon ship wth his 33 compan
ions.
With her engines useless and
apparantly a broken hatchway,
No. 2, the Meiyo Maru is attempt
ing to hold her own against the
gale which is pounding her on the
rocks.
The tiring fight is watched
from the steamship Nanko Maru
which does not dare to come close
for fear of being dashed against
the Meiyo.
The steamship Illinois is rushing
to her assistance but was forced
to seek shelter overnight in the
same pass- Unimak Pass. Here,
rides the Alloway with nothing
but her anchors to save her and a
.solitary passenger, from destruct
ion. She is branded as a menace
to navigation by Captain Healy of
the freighter Montauk who sec
, - eued the crew when he lost the
Wearing' attempt to save the ship.
lie refused to risk his ship and
crew to save Oiler Poiey of Seat
tle, who is crazed from the five
day nightmare in which the Al
loway’s men fought a valiant blit
losing battle against the relent
less storm.
He drove off his companions
when they tried to force him into
.. life-boat when the Alloway was
taken in tow by the Montauk after
the steamer Bronnoy was unable
to manage her in the 90-mile wind.
As they neared the haven where
the freighter could anchor until
the storm subsided the towline
ripped in two and the steamers
crashed into each other in Uni
mak Pass. The Montauk backed
away with a damaged super
structure, midship and a bulk
head. It was impossible to man
euver In the Pass and so the an
chors of the Alloway were dropp
ed to hold her off the rocks.
The crew took to lifeboats and
all were picked up exhausted but
safe and the Montauk turned to
ward Dutch Harbor leaving the
■V, oiler and the Alloway to fate.
y CHE SICNS ON
THE DOTTED LINE
WASHINGTON, Feb., 13, (fP)—
President Coolidge signed the Na
val bill calling for the construct
ion of 15 cruisers and one air
craft carrier. Approval was given
in spite of measures n the clause
requiring all vessels to be laid
down by July 1, 1931, to which he
had previously opposed.
REPORT IS DENIED
LOS ANGELES, Feb., 13, (£>)—
Officials of film corporations here
denied reports from the East that
Warner Bros., Inc., and Metro
Goldwyn Mayyer were planning
a huge motion picture merger.
MMCEHOF
MINT LIB i
GIRL WAS GRADUATED LAST
YEAR SMITH COLLEGE
HIGH HONORS
MEXICO CITY, Feb., 13, (JP)—
Ambassador Morrow announced
the engagement of his daughter
Anne, 22, to Col. Chas. A. Lind
bergh. She is now here at the
American Embassy with her par
ents.
The young couple first met
when Colonel Lindbergh made
a non-stop flight from Washing
ton to Mexico City a year ago.
Last year she won scholarship
prizes at Smith College where she
was graduated.
DEFEATS ALLAN
SCOTTY ALLAN OF ALASKA IS
SECOND WHILE NOME
WOMAN IS THIRD
TRUCKEE, Calif., Feb., 13, (/T*)—
Trotting behind his seven Irish
' setters, Fred Printz, of Portland,
Oregon, crossed the finish line
15 minutes ahead of Scotty Allan
! of Alaska winning the first an
I nual dog derby and a $3,000 prize.
He had won both previous heats
over the 32-mile course. Allan
won second place. He drove oveh
the three-day course in nine hours,
nine minutes and 18 seconds which
was 30 minutes behind the win
i ner’s time. Fay Delezene of Nome,
, the sole woman entry, took third
place; time 10 hours and 43 min
utes.
DIFFICULT TO SAY WHAT SPEC
ULATIVE AND WHAT IS
NOT, SAYS SOLON
WASHINGTON, Feb., 13, <A>)—
The Senate adopted the Heflin
resolution for suggestions as to
how to check stock speculation
and members of the House moved
for a general investigation includ
ing an inquiry into the alleged
conferences between Governor
Montagne Norman and the Bank
England; also of board members.
Senator Glass pointed out the
difficulty attendant to curbing
stock market transactions saying
“It is an absurdity and that Con
gress has always permitted this
legalized form of gambling yet al
lows poker and house gambling
It does not contribute a thing on
earth to the welfare of the nation,
“If the reserve board has the
nerve and courage to have taken
acton before this we would nevei
had gone to this startling peak ol
$6,000,000,000 of loans to stock
brokers.”
Senator Barkley said “It was
hardly correct to say banks had
loaned such an amount for this
purpose. I think the Senator will
find that about half the 1 sum
mentioned comprises loans mads
by others than banks, including
corporations and private indivicl
uals. It is difficult to say what i;
purely speculative and what i:
not.”
LAW IS I VOGUE
CHFUENT'TE. Wyo., Feb.. 13. OT.
Phe Senate defeated a meusur !
lowing women to serve on juri»- r
debate It was pointed out fhol
Wvoming, pioneer women suffer -
ace State, had a law 58 years age
under which women served on jur
ies.
SEAS SO 9IEAT
! IMPOSSIBLE SET
IMPOSSIBLE TO ATTEMPT RES
CUE WHILE SEAS SO GREA
SAYS MESSAGE
SEATTLE, Feb., 13, (A-)—Little
is known here as to the troubles
of the Meiyo Maru whose c
for aid were heard yesterday. Ap
parently her engines are out of
commission. One of the few mes
sages not sent in Japanese indi
cated her engine room was flood
ing and her power failed.
Only necessary messages are b
ing sent as the radio operator is
forced to use batteries and these he
wished to conserve for essentia!
calls.
The Nankoh furnished the in
' formation the Meiyo is apparent
ly broken at No. 2 hatch and said
it was impossible to effect a res
cue while the seas were so great.
She is awaiting the first lull in the
gale to get a line aboard.
SEPPALA IS SECOND
IN SECOND LAP OF
1E1 EILAi RACE
LACONIA. Feb., 13, (A*)—Leon
ard Seppala finished second in
the second lap of the New England
championship dog derby race, 11
minutes and 43 seconds ahead of
St. Goddard, giving him a lead of
eight and one-half minutes for
i the two days.
i Goddard started with five dogs
and finished with four. During the
' run one of the dogs became lame
and he was forced to halt and
1 unhitch him, losing several min
utes. Seppala finished with all of
his seven dogs in harness.
ROUTE RECENTLY FLOWN BY LINDBERGH
V<T
The above shows Col. Chas. A. Lindbergh, his plane a
excellent map showing the route he recently flew in blaz
ing the new air-mail route to Panama.
Mil FIRST
SCENE OF RUIN
nisToov. met
AMERICAN CONTINENT YOUNG
ER WITH REGARD HUMAN
OCCUPATION
NEW HAVEN, Conn., Feb., 13,
—Edward Moffatt Weyer, anthro
pologist and archaeologist lor the
Stoll-McCracken expedition which
explored the Arctic last summer
on the schooner Morrisey, last
night described the discovery in
Alaska of buried prehistoric vil
lages which yielded 100 relics new
to science.
Talking before the Yale An
thropology Club, he described
! Alaska as the probable gateway
; through which passed early Asia
tic immigrants and where the first
scene in the human history of
I American took place.
For a month Weyer and his two
companions encamped on the site
of an ancient village on the Alas
jka Peninsula. During 11 days of
this period they were short of pro
visions and for four days they
were isolated by a storm and dug
clams from the mud flats.
On an almost inaccessible sum
mit on a precipitous island in the
Aleutian chain, the expedition
' discovered a grave containing the
mummies of people whose age and
period of life is uiiki-ov.-n. By rea
son of careful preparation the bod
ies were in a remarkable stage of
preservation. This grave afforded
i the first comprehensive informa
; tion concerning- this type of bur
ial in the Aleutans and introduc
tion of a higher civilization.
Later, for six weeks, Weyer in
vestigated a region of Bering
Strait; a part of this time was
spent on Diomede Island where
dweil the most primitive Eskimos
in the Arctic. There, he took many
1 reels of moving pictures.
Weyer told his audience that
"The American continents are
younger, with regard to human oc
cupation, than the Eastern hem
isphere. The very first immigrants,
forerunners to American indians,
doubtless came from Asia. Thus,
Alaska, which lies much closer to.
Asia than any other part of Amer
ica, is probably the gateway thru,
which passed these early immi
grants to the Northwestern cor
ner of North America; therefore,
it can be regarded as being the
first scene of human history in.
America.”
EDISON CELEBRATES
ENTERTAINED FRIENDS
FORT MEYER, Fla., Feb., 13, (JP)
—Thomas A. Edison celebrated his.
82nd birthday by entertaining:
President-elect Herbert Hoover.
Henry Ford, Mr. Firestone, and
many other friends. The inventor
said he has a plan to grow rubber
in the South and that he has:
100 plants producing rubber.
HUGE PROGRAM
ST. PAUL, Feb., 13, (/Pj—The
Northern Pacific Railway Co., an
nounced a $46,500,000 program o?
expenditures in 1929 for roau* i,
building and equipment mainten
ance of roadway and building im
provements and new equipment.