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VOLUME XXIII. NUMBER 161. SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1928.
PRICE TEN CENTS
OHLSON NOT NELSON
GENERAL MANAGER
IS 57 YEARS OLD AND A VETERAN j
AT THE GAME; IS OVERSEAS
MAN
SEATTLE, July 12 (/P)—By error
the name of O. F. Nelson was sent
in yesterday’s dispatch as Noel W.
Smith’s successor or general m an a.
ger of the Alaska Railroad when it !
should have head O. F. Ohlson.
Mr. Smith has filled the post of;
general manager of tire railroad for
almost four years and goes to the
States next Sunday. He is credited
by the Department, of Interior offi.
cials with having effected a consul,
erable saving in operating expendi.
tures of the system.
Ohlson is 57 years old, and a vet.;
eran rlairoad man of about 40 years'
experience. For seven years he was^
with the Pennsylvania Railroad and
for 27 years with the Northern Pacif.
ic beginning as a telegraph operator;
and ■working in va-wong--departments
to ills present position.
During the war he was a Lieuten.
ant Colonel assigned to train opera,
tion with the American Expeditionary
Forces in France. He has had much
experience in handling snow block,
ade-s on the Northern Pacific under
conditions simildr to those met on
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the Alaska system, a part of his
division on tl*3 Northern Pacific being
in the Cascade mountains on the Pa.
cific coast; -there snow falls some,
times 25 feet deep and the tempera,
ture drops to 50 degrees below zero.
Secretary Work praised Smith’s
-work in reorganizing the railroad and
said deficit in receipts over expendi.
tures in 1923 totaled SI,888,460 and
in 1927 the deficit had been reduced
to 8900.174 or about half the defi.
fiencv before Smith took charge..
“Smith has felt for sometime the
purposes for which he was appointed
has been served and has asked to be
relieved so he may return to the
States.”
CANADIAN PACIFIC
WINNIPEG, July 12. (d3)—Three
trainman were killed when a boiler
pushier engine on a Canadian Pacific
Railawy freight, exploded near Glac.
ier, B, C. The dead are M. Rogers
•engineer; W. Stranbury, fireman; W
Clay, conductor. All lived at Revel,
stocke. The blast is attributed tc
water shortage.
POWER SHUTOFF NOTICE
Tomorrow, if the weather is dry,
power will be shut off from 1 o’clock
to 3 o’clock.
S. L. & P. Co.
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GEHRIG GETS HOMERS
NEW YORK, July 12. (/P)—Lou!
Gehrig hit his 17th and 18th home
runs, in the Yankee.AfchJetic double,
header, before a crowd of 60,000. He
is far behind his record of 1927, when j
he hit 46 to finish s*3cond to Ruth.
NORMAN THOMAS, SOCIALIST,
ALMOST TIES NORRIS IN THE
BALLOTING
CHICAGO, July 12. (/P)—Senator
Norris w'ill become an unwilling can.
didate for the Presidency on the
Farmer.Labor Ticket, despite his re.
ported refusal to he$d a Third Party.
Norris was placed in nomination
last night. The Convention neceived
16 ballots for Norris to 14 for Norman
Thomas, Socialist nominee. The
Farmer.Laborites named Will Vereen
of Moultrie, Ga.„ cotton mill owner, as
a Vice.President possibility.
The merger of the prohibition party
and the Farmer.Labor 'group ended
when both vetoed the (proposal.
SMITH'S SUCCESSOR
WORKED WHY TO TOP
FROM THE BOTTOMj
DULUTH, July 12. (#>)—Starting
work on a railroad at 17 years of age,
Otto F. Oh Ison worked his way from
the bottom to the head of the Alaska
Railroad. He was born in Sparling,
sholm, Sweden, in 1S70, and started
railroading as a telegrapher operator
in 1S93 when he joined the Pennsyl
vania Railroajd as telegrapher. He
then in turn was a switchman, a yard
formean and then assistant trainmas
ter.
In 1921 be started telegraphing on'
the Northern Pacific and became a
dispatcher, assistant trainmater, then
assistant to the general manager. He
joined the engineering corps of the
Army during the war as captain, sup
erintendent of terminals in France
and later became a major.
He was appointed General Super,
intendent and Lieutenent Colonel in
1919 then returned to the Northern
Pacific and in 1921 named trainmas.
ter. A year later he was made as.
sistant superintendent of th»3 St. Paul
Division and last year was promoted
to the superintendency of the Lake
Superior Division.
These Meckanical Servants Work
With Housewives Many Miles Away
telephone. The machine U set to lilt
the receiver and begin making an
Identifying sound that tells the caller
the mechanism has “answered." Then
the human blows a whistle. The
machine automatically completes elec
trical circuits to perform the task for
which the whistle Is keyed. A half
dozen whistles of different pitches, a
half-dozen different tasks. The oven
containing the family dinner Is start
tfcCHANfCAL
30 A INS
Mechanical men who obey the bid
ding of their masters, even though
the human being may be many miles
distant, are science’s latest arrange
ment to simplify living in this ma
chine age.
Motors and mechanisms clean our
homes, bake our bread, wash our
clothes. Pood grinders make the fam
ily hash nowadays, so that the chief
market for the chopping bowls of our
grandmothers has becdme among
small boys who Invert them for use
as birdhouse roofs!
Now R. J. Wensley, an electrical
expert in big laboratories at Pitts
burgh, has a mechanical servant, a
device all metal and wires, to do a
string of domestic tasks given it by
| ed, the porch light Is turned on, the
! family dog is released from his kennei
to roam the grounds at nightfall.
“We have taken a similar idea for
granted for the past ten years in our
business.” commented C. U Williams,
president of the Williams Oil-O-Matic
Heating Corporation, of Bloomington.
111., world’s largest makers of oil burn
ers. “The owner of a Williams Oil-O
Matic always has enjoyd this same
convenience. Heat is turned on or ofl
at desired temperatures. Just as the
house-holder wishes, and without any
thought or action by him. He doesn’t
even have to whistle. Without mean
ing to take any credit from the Pitts
burgh man, we have given similar
convenience for a decade.’*
CHAIRMAN FOR DEMOS
NEW YORK July 12. (£>)—.John
Raskob, General Motors Finance
Committee Chairman, has been nam.
ed Chairman of the Democratic Com.
mittiee.
SURVIVORS ITALIA
1 NO FOOD FOR
THIRTEEN DATS
TWO ITALIANS WERE STANDING
GUARD OVER BODY COMRADE
WHEN RESCUED
SEATTLE, July 12,—(Copyrighted
by the Associated Press aboard the
Russian icebreaker Kassin in the
Arctic)—Captains Alberto Maniano
and Filippo Zappi, pilot and navigator
of the Italia, were without food for 13
days and seemingly doomed to an
agonizing death when rescued by the
Krassin.
An almost unbelievable epic of the
rescue was darkened by the news that
Dr. Malmgren, meterologist and lead,
er of the grodft that set ant. 43 days
ago to bring help to' the stranded drew
of the Italia, died 30 days ago.
Starving and exhausted, but still
standing guard over the body of their
comrade, the.two Italians were taken
! aboard the Krassin at 7 a. m. A few
j minutes later the vessel turned its
I bow Eastward to continue rescue ef_
forts in behalf of the other Italia men.
The full story of Malmgren’s death
and their own bitter suffering, -was
told aboard the Krassin by the two
men; how for 30 days they clung to
Malmgren’s body in the vague hope oi
taking it back to civilization. They
had all but resigned htemselves tc
death Tuesday when* the Russian
plane sighted them and directed tht
rescue efforts.
SAN * QUENTIN, July 12. (£>)—-Wil
liam Edward Hickman and Josepl
I Troche, condemned murderers, stagec
what is believed -would have been £
battle to the death but for the inter
j fererre of prison guards.
The guards, attracted by the frenz
ied ‘■'-outing of other occupants of thf
condemned row soperated the pair.
H?r*kman had torn a leg from £
stool within the cell, felled Trocht
and beat him severely. Troche was
taken to the prison hospital for treat
ment while prison officials ant
guards began questioning Hickman
Hickman was sullenly silent.
Troche was supposedly his onl]
friend amoiMg the Condemned men
since the hanging of Buck Kelley
San Francisco bandit.
PLATINUM STRIKE
IN GHS BAY
SAID LOOKS GOOD
CAPTAIN WHITLAM, OF BOXER,
ARRIVES SEATTLE AFTER
LONG TRIP NORTH
SEATTLE, July 12. (JP)—The B. of
E. vessel Boxer is in port after a Voy
age of 6,000 mileg to 17 Alaska vil_
lages. Capt. S. T. Whitlam said the
cann'ery steamship Hyades of the Red
Salmon Co., of San Francisco struck
an unchartered rock in the eastern
part of Bristol Bay and badly damag
ed the vessel.
Capt. Whitlam gave details ot mo
recent platinum strike in the Good.
Hews Bay district ^iyiri^ “Gordon
Betties oldtime mining man, has tak
en out a quantity of placer platinum
and has sent samples to Seattle for
analysis.
“I ann told 105 ounces have been
taken out of the claim 70 miles from
the village on Goodnews Bay. Bet
ties* and Tom Cod Charlie, formerly
of Nome, are working the claims.
“Tractors and supplies are befiT&
sent in to prepare for work on a larg
er scale.”
j Most of the world’s supply of plati
num is from the Ural mountains in
Russia. This is the first platinum in
paying quantities found in Alaska.
BIG GUN SOUGHT
IN BOOZE STEAL
FROM WAREHOUSE
SIPHONING $3,000,000 WORTH OF
SQUIRREL JUICE AND ALCO.
HOL FROM CASKS
NEW YORK, July 12. (TP)—A man
dseribed by the Government authori
ties as “one of the biggest in the liq
uor game" is 'sought in connection
with the siphoning of $3,000,000 -worth
of Government whiskey and alchojiol
from a warehouse in lower Manhat
tan.
Robert Watts, assistant United
States attorney, said confessions
L have been obtained from three or six
l men under arrest as conspirators in
i warehouse thefts. ,
L.
( STE ETENNE, France, July 12. (>P)
; —The bodies of 48 coal miners, killed
. by fire damp in a mine have been
[ recovered.
A roll call of employees showed
that all others have been accounded
r for and; that none remain in the* work.
ings. Andre Tardieu, Minister of
, Pubic Works, personally supervised
the rescue work.