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VOLUME XXIII. NUMBER 173 SEWARD, ALASKA WEDNESDAY, NOV. 14, 1928.
PRICE TEN GENTS
DEVELOPING REINDEER HERDS
PASSES EXPERIMENT STAGE
NOW AN INDUSTRY
SEATTLE, Nov., 14, (/P)—Leonard
Baldwin. New York financier repre
senting Eastern capital in develop
ing the Loinen reindeer herds on
Seward Peninsula, said Alaska
reindeer production will be increas
ed 100 percent next year.
^ Baldwin declared the laso decade
has witnessed the evolution oi the
industry from an experiment to big
business assuming nation wide pro
portions wth Seattle as the distri
bution center and base of supplies.
HE POINTED OUT
his company spends $250,000 yearly
in Seattle directly in addition to a
million dollar Alaska payroll which
finds its way here. He said these
fgurrs face an increase next year
when they will produce 30.000 head
as compared to 15,000 this year.
He said the industry has passed
thru its first stage of development
and is a problem no longer in find
ing a market but is a question of
production declaring “killing 30.000
head of reindeer and prepara
tions for shipment inside the Arctic
Circle is by no means simple.”
HE OBSERVED
the demand for reindeer increased
a ".aiyii’v tun, year and has be
come recognized in leading cafes
and hotels as a <=taole article of diet
addng ‘ There's no danger of creat
ing a demand greater than the sup
ply. We have 180,000 reindeer this
year and 05,000 more will be born
, next year. We will be able to kill
30,000 without depleting the herd
a bit.
"The possibilities of expansion is
unlimited and government experts
have estimated there is ample pas
turage in Alaska for three to four
million reindeer and the industry
should eventually surpass the min
eral industry of Alaska ranking
second only to fishing.”
Baldwin expects to remain in
Seattle a week preparing next
year's financing.
Former Ball Player
Drops 11 Stories To
Death In Frisco
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 14. (/Pi
Dropping like a plummet from a
window on the 11th floor of the
Flood building, the body of “Cliff”
Ireland, 60, wealthy broker and
well known as a baseball player
crashed to the curb in Powell street
almost in the midst of a group oi
pedestrains. His body which nar
rowly missed striking several per
sons and an auto, was almost be
yond recognition. ^
“Bright Youngster”
Of Stock Debacle
Out Under Bail
LOS ANGELES, Nov., 14, (/P)—
Jacob Berman, alias Jack Bennett
bright youngster” of the Julian
Petroleum *100.000 stock debacle
who was sentenced to Federal pri
son lor mail fraud and under in
dictment for br’bing District Attor
ney Asa Kevc, was released from
the county jail under $75,000 bail
The bail was allowed pending Ber
man s appeal from his conviction
a Federal court on the bribed
charges.
Schooner With Eight
Aboard in Distress
—
! WASHINGTON. Nov., 14, (/PI—A
[Navy communication from Norfolk,
Va., said the steamer K. R. Kings
bury passed the schooner Anna
Heidritter flying distress signals
asking for food provisions and that
its boats were gone. The Kings
bury sent broadcast SOS and re
sumed its course. The schooner has
eight aboard.
RAIL TRIP WILL GIVE PRESI
DENT-ELECT OPPORTUNITY
STUDY THE LAND
STANFORD UNIVERSITY Nov.,
14, (/Pi—President-Elect Hoover will
I visit Mexico during his “good wiP'’
tour. Whde all details of his itin
erary is being carefully guarded.
It is the belief here that he will
i prefer to make an official call upon
I the President at Mexico City since
he will call on Presidents of other
Republics in their Canitals. The
rail trip to Mexico City would give
| Hoover an opportunity to see and
study part oi'^the country.
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Led Large Estate
NEW ORLEANS. Nov.. 14. i/P)—-E.
jc. V. Cornish, prominent Southern .
|banker committed suicide in a hotel
| here. He left an estate of nearly I
$500,000 and police are at a loss to
explain his actions.
WITH ALL VIGOR COMMANDS
WILL CONTINUE TO RATTLE
FOR DEMOCRAT PARTY
NEW YORK, Nov., 14, (/P)—Gov.
A1 Smith told the country over the
radio last night that the principles :
)f the Democratic Party are as
great in defeat as they would have
been in victory and that the Party’s ,
:luty was to carry on and vindicate
:,he principles for which it fought.
His speech urged for united sup- '
port of Herbert Hoover, although
be dri not mention Hoover’s name, i
isserring that Hoover “Was not
President of the Republican Party
but President of the United States ’
SMITH SAID HL
would not let “bitterness, racor or
indignation over the results of the'
election blind us to the out standi, g
fact that we are Americans” and
said he did not regard the defeat
of his Party a interfering with the
soundness of the principles for
which it stood and that with chi
the vigor ho commands he would :
continue to battle for ihe.n.
The Governor called the Demo
cratic Party the “Creat Liberal
Party of the Nation, leading in pro
gressive thought and holding out
only in the hope of the return of
the fundamental principles on
which this country was built and
as a result on which it has grown
and thrived.”
ERUPTION WANING
CATANIA, Sicily. Nov., 14. (IP)—
Scientists agreed the eruption of
Mt. Etna is waning. It is estimated
the damage will amount to $18,500,
000.
Violent Cyclone In
South Kills, Injures
BUENOS AIRES, Nov., 14, OP)
Forty-one are reported to have
been killed and 150 injured in a
violent cyclone in the vicinity of
Villa Marie, Province of Cordova.
Wires are down • and details a.ie
meagre. Houses are reported to
have been flattened and unroofed.
ADMIRAL TAYLOR WIRELESSES
BATTLESHIP DISCONTINUED
SEARCH
WASHINGTON, Nov.. 14, (/P)—
Vice-Admiral Taylor of the battle
ship Wyoming wirelessed the Navy
Department that a number of defad
from the S. S. Vestris had been
sighted and that the battleship
would discontinue its search last
evening as it is “Not thought pos
sible" any more could be rescued.
The message said a make-shift
raft evidently had broken up by the
heavy seas; also that a boat cap
sized at t> p. m. Monday and the
people had been afloat since then.
Large Crowd Curious
Vfomen At Funeral
NEW YORK, Nov., 14, OP)—A little
knot of mourning relatives and a
large crowd of curious women at
tended the funeral of 15-year-old
Alice Joost, for the murder of
whom Vincent Rice, her 17-year-old
admirer will go on trial.
CZECHOSLOVAKIA OBSERVES 10TII BIRTHDAY
!
Led by President T. G. Masaryk (upper right) and
Dr. Edward Benes, foreign minister (center), both among
its founders, Czechoslovakia is celebrating its tenth an
niversary as an independent republic. Woodrow Wilson,
who as President of the United States aided the young
nation, is commemorated in Prague by a monument
(left) and a railroad station (below).
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ANOTHER GROUP PRAISE CAP
TAIN AND CREW FOR AC
TION ABOARD VESTRIS
MEW YORK, Nov., 14, (A5)—Criti
cisms of Capt. Carey, master of the
S. S. Vestris, were voiced by some
of the 125 survivors of the liner who
reached port on the S. S. American
Shipper.
The rescued passengers anti
members of the crew alike are se
vere in their references to the Cap
tain’s delay in sending out an S O S
Monday morning and in ordering
life boats out. Not a life would
have been lost the passengers said
had the boats been safe and pro
perly equipped or had they been
launched before the awkward list
ing angle which she took and
made every descent into a lire craft
[a trio of terror and confusion.
THE EXPERIENCE
they have been thru is written on
the pale and drawn Races of the
|survivors; several received medical
I attention. Some said the Gulf
Stream was responsible for savihg
;many of their lives for the water
whch drenched their clothing was
warm.
Capt. Frederick Sorenson, a pas
senger on the Vestris and who
holds a master's license, is particu
larly bitter in. }irj .critjjWm of what
he called ‘ C “ v liicn
he said marked the disaster.
He said “I know about ships and
the reason the vessel'foundered is
criminal neglect. The Captain did
everything wrong. He should have
had ships standing by us long be
fore be did. Not a passenger should
have been sent overboard before
other vessels were standing by.”
MRS. EARL DEVORE
saw a lifeboat, in which her hus
band, an automobile racer, was* sit
ting, go down with a small crew. A
negro seaman in her own boat, she
said, refused to go to the aid of
those struggling in the water after
their craft was lost. The negroes
veiled at her to sit down saying It
would be dangerous to let so many
others clamber into their boat.
The 23 survivors were brought
here on the liner Berlin were not so
|severe in their criticism; one whole
group was strong in their praxsj i f
the way the Captain and crew act
ed. The list of survivors stood at
218 with a search continuing for
the 110 missing.
iRepublican Victory
Sends Stock Flarket
Soaring High Marks
NEW YORK, Nov. 14. (/P)—1The
biggest “bull” session in history
signalized the beginning of what
willl hereafter be known, as the
“Hoover market” in Wall street.
An avalanche of buying orders, al
most as imprestve as the land
slide of votes which carried the Re
publican national ticket to victory
lifted scores of stocks from one to
$15 per share.
Foiled In Shooting
Killer, So Suicides
MEXICO CITY, Nov., 14, (A’>
—Foiled in an attempt to kill Torai
in revenge for his uncle’s assassina
tion, Capt. Jesus Obregon returned
dome here and committed suicide.
He had been disarmed when he
drew a pistol at the door of Torai's
:ell.