SEWARD
ALASKA
Seward
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CENTER of
EVERYTHING”
Gateway
COAST TERMINAL OF THE
ALASKA RAILROAD
DAILY AND WEEKLY
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
TERMINAL FOR THREE OCEAN
GOING STEAMSHIP LINES
VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 204.
SEWARD, ALASKA. SATURDAY, AUGUST 31, 1929.
PRICE TEN CENTS
CAPTAIN BLAMES
S. S. Si JJUIN FOB
SAN JUAN WAS ONE OF OLDEST
VESSELS OPERATED ON
PACIFIC COAST
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug., 31, (/P)
—Capt. H. O. Bleumchen of the
Standard Oil tanker S. G. T. Dodd
declared at the hearing before
the U. S. Steamboat Inspectors,
that his ship’s collision with the
steamer San Juan would not
have occured if the latter ship
had kept on its course.
He sounded the signal hard as
tern expecting the San Juan to
keep on going and pass in front
of the Dodd. Instead, the San
Juan stopped which caused the
collision.
He said both ships were at a
dead stop at the time of the
crash. He had intended to go
ahead but was prevented by the
speedy sinking of the San Juan.
Captain Bleumchen also said
that the San Juan was one of
the oldest vessels operated on the
Pacific coast being built in 1882
but that despite its age he con
sidered the craft to have been
staunch and entirely seaworthy;
this view was also held by both
owners and federal inspectors.
ALAMlUT
FOR THE ifiRT
EXCELLENT LIST
SEATTLE. Aug., 31, T/P)—'The S. S.
'Alameda, of the A. S. S. Co., sailed
at 9 a. m. today and carried 162
passengers, 76 for Seward as fol
lows:
Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Fenno and
son, Mrs. M. E. Sullivan, Martha A.
Cobb, Gertrude McGilvary, Rosin
Borter, two Sisters, Mr. and Mrs. S.
A. Carlquist, Miss R. L. Wilson, Mrs.
H. Erwin and baby, Vernon Saun
ders, Mrs. L. M. Dow and two
* daughters, A. G. Nicodet, Mr. and
Mrs. H. V. Wilmot, G. L. Saunders,
Mary Britton, Laura V. Walker, Ira
+ Brumback, L. Abernathy, Miss F.
Harley, Geo. D. Nicholson.
Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Southwick, L,
E. Samlock, Mr. and Mrs. G. S. Wil
son, Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Christy, B.
F. Franton, Mrs. J. H. Mozee, Wal
ter Eicher, J. E. Kennealy, Mr. and
. Mrs. F. C. Winkler and two child
ren, Mrs. H. Hasson and baby, Miss
Mary Hushen, Frank Schully, H. R.
Skankard, M. A. Horner, H. N. Dun
ham, A. Shallit, O. Swenson, C. A.
Schonaker, Mr. and Mrs. Bernard
Wamser, Mrs. M. B. Hageman and
daughter, Rowena Hudgins.
w Mrs. A. H. Brooks and daughter,
Sister Bernice, Gertrude Watsbn,
Jennie Taylor, C. F. Lane, Miss L.
M. Moyer, Louis Simpson, Walter H.
Olson, Dorothy Young, Mrs. D. T. j
Moran and thre e steerage. I
CAUSE OF BURNING
OF COROlJNHIi
KETCHIKAN, Aug.,. 31, (IP)—
| Captain Courage and members
j of the halibut boat Corona which
I was destroyed by fire off Noyes
j Island, arrived here today. The
skipper says he does not know
how the fire started. The boat
was partly insured. Two members
of the crew were slightly burned.
0NS.S.SIJH
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PASSENGER LIST WAS OVER A
MONTH OLD, ASIDE FROM
LATE RESERVATIONS
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug., 31, (IP)—
The possibility that the San Juan
jcarried 116 persons instead of 110
!as previously reported, indicated
that the loss of life may be 74 per
sons. The owners of the San Juan
admitted that there may have been
66 passengers aboard; the crew
! numbered as high as 60.
I The passenger list is over a month
sold; the passengers on the list hav
ing been made on bookings several
I hours before the vessel sailed. The
I crew list also is over a month old.
(Tickets are sometimes sold aboard
(the vessel and the records were all
'lost in the sinking of the vessel.
Forty-two survivors reached San
Francisco while a search for the
others continued, investigation of
the wreck has been started and a
libel suit totaling $1,800,000 has
been filed against the Standard Oil.
HUNOREDS OF MINERS
ESCAPE WITH LIS
COIL MINE BUST
| RENTON, Penn., Aug., 31, (£>)—
j Three hundred miners escaped
but 12 were burned in an explosion
I in the Renton coal mine. The
! burned miners were taken to a
! hospital near New Kensington,
: where, it was reported, several
■ are said to be in a serious con
| dition. Officials have been unable
| to ascertain what caused the
| blast whiclr shook the surround
| ing countryside.
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SIR WILKINS WED
I
CLEVELAND, Aug., 31, (IP)—Sir
Herbert Wilkins and Susanne Ben
nett, an Australian actress, were
married quietly before Justice of
the Peace Myron J. Penty.
KEEPS WAR TRUST
NEW ORLEANS, Aug., 31, (IP)—
Former Lieut. Emmett Cochran,
Fourth Division, now of this city,
has presented a swagger stick en
trusted to him by Lieut. W. E. D. I
Cooper who was killed at Chateau j
Thierry, to Cooper’s mother after
a 10 year search.
SENATOR NYE PREDICTS PAS
SAGE $70,000,000 BILL FOR
RIVERS AND HARBORS
WASHINGTON, Aug., 31, (£>)—
President Hoover’s avowed support
of inland waterway development
and the need of farmers and ship
pers for lower rates of transporta
tion, foretell passage of a rivers and
harbors bill in the regular session
of congress carrying appropriations
| approximating $70,000,000, accord
ing to Senator Nye republican of
! North Dakota.
| “The administration is so strong
ly and openly committed to water
way improvement and inland wat
erway transportation”, Senator Nye
[declared in a statement made pub
lic by his office that “it cannot well
stand in the way” of a bill such as
;the rivers and harbors measure
blocked by President Coolidge in
the last congress.
If “Congress insists on the War
Department getting down to busi
ness and hastening the completion
iof waterway improvements needed
;for the transportation of the pro
ducts of agriculture and industry,”
states Senator Nye, “ a large share
of the country’s inland waterway
! system could be completed in a
period of from three to five years.”
1 WARRENSBURG, N. Y„ Aug., 31,
j(/P)—-The American Legion has
erected a large sign here bearing
(the inscription, “Warrensburg, the
.home of Floyd Bennett, Byrd’s
North Pole pilot.”
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'FOX FIRM TENDER
| SAILS FOB ALASKA
SEATTLE, Aug., 30, (/P)—On its
maiden voyage the “Aleutian Na
Itive” of the Kanaga ranching Co.
f left to serve as a fox tender. The
jship has been remodeled and fitted
with two cargo holds, fuel tanks
[and new engines and has a cruis
ing radius of 8,000 miles.
STUPENis'WELGDME
| ACCGIDED DR. EGKNER
NEW FORK RECEPTION
NEW YORK CITY, Aug., 31, (/P)
—This city gave Dr. Eckener a re
ception second only to that ol
Colonel Lindburgh. Two and one
i half tons of paper floated down
upon Germany’s pioneer sky
: commander and he was presented
: with a scroll, the official medal
| of the City of New York. Medals
were also presented to other mem
j brs of the Graf Zeppelin’s crew,
and to passengers, who made the
round-world flight.
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NATIONAL LEAGUE
Philadelphia 9; Boston 5.
| Pittsburgh 15; Chicago 0.
Brooklyn 2; New York 1.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Boston 4; Philadelphia 2.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Portland 12; Los Angeles 7.
Sacramento 10; Hollywood 9.
Oakland 2; Missions 0.
1 San Francisco 7; Seattle 4.
Hidden Set May Be New Method _of Installation
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NOTE
SET COULD BE EITHER
IN CLOSET OR BASEMENT
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Artist's conception of a future radio instalation,
with the set, a plain metal cabinet, in a closet or in the
basement, operation being by remote control. The speak
er is a picture on the wall.
WHALING SEASON
AT PORT HOBROIV
! BEEI1I SUCCESSFUL
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ONE WHALE TAKEN AT STATION
MEASURED 86 FEET; JAW
BONE WAS 23 FEET
One of Alaska’s most thriving in
dustries, and one concerning which
little is known, is the American Pa
cific Whaling Co., of Port Hobron
and Akutan.
The present season has been an
{unusually successful one. Under
the efficient management of Su
perintendent Shoup, at Port Ho
bron, more than 200 whales have
jbeen taken and reduced to oil and
fish meal. The total output will be
} about 10,000 barrels of oil and ap
proximately 2,000 tons of meal of
(an aggregate value exceeding a
quarter of a million dollars.
To one whose idea of whaling is
derived from “Moby Dick” and oth
er yarns of old time whaling, the
operation of a modem whaling
plant is a revelation. The old time
| whaler sought the sperm whale
alone taking the choice sperm oil
from the reservoir in the mamal’s
head and the high grade oil from
ithe trying out of the blubber and
then casting a&ide'ihe carcass to
be food for sharks. The modern
whaler goes to sea in a fast diesel
boat 100 or more feet in length. In
stead of the dangerous system of
rowing up to the whale and thrust
ing a harpoon into his side trust
ing to strike a vulnerable spot be
fore the injured animal destroyed
iboat and crew in his mighty strug
gles, the modern whaler uses a
'whale gun casting a heavy harpoon
to which is attached a line from
the ship. In the head of the har
ipoon is a bomb which explodes in
side the leviathan making a sec
ond shot unnecessary as a rule.
In order to float the whale to the
reduction plant, the carcass is in
flated with compressed air. The
; sperm whale, once so highly prized,
'is no longer desired. The immense
(fish is then towed home and haui
jed up to a great platform on the.
iroof of the factory. By means of
| hoists, donkey engines and cutters,
jthe whale is swiftly stripped of his
blubber, the meat and bones, en
; trails, tail and fins, all go into great
ipots to be boiled for 16 hours or
more. Every ounce of the monster
is used for a beneficial purpose ex
icept as to the whalebone, once
{highly prized for use in the manu
facture of corsets and whipstocks.
| The ladies no longer wear corsets
;and the auto has driven the horse
jout> of business and the whalebone
i being of no value as fertilizer, is
j thrown away.
One whale taken at Port Hobron
last week, measured 86 feet and
produced more than 175 barrels of
oil besides 20 tons of meal. The
jaw bone of this animal was 23 feet
long and its opened mouth gave a
truly terrifying aspect altho in fact
its throat was not big enough to
swallow a baseball.
! The only whale having teeth is
{the sperm. This creature lives on
mud sharks, cuttle fish and the like
!
(while all other varieties subsist on
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