VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 132.
SEWARD, ALASKA. FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 1929.
PRICE TEN CENTS
KIERIOR OFFICIAL
LEAVES TOMORROW
FOR TERRITORY
GOVERNOR PARKS TERM END
ING SHORTLY; CANDIDATES,
APPOINTMENTS CONSIDERED
PORTLAND, June 7. (/P)—Ernest
Walker Sawyer, executive assistant
of the Interior Department, arrived
last night from San Francisco en
route to Alaska and will sail Sun
day making Fairbanks his head
quarters while flying to various Al
askan cities.
He freely discussed the outstand
ing problems confronting the In
terior Department and specifically
mentioned the expiration of Gover
nor Parks’ term and the guberna
torial appointment which must be
made
He said the Graf Zeppelin will
operate from Fairbanks on voyages
in exploration in the North Pole re
gion. Supplies must be taken North
over the Alaska Railroad, from
Seward, which is operated by the
Interior Department.
“The air traffic from Siberia to
• he Far East will develop via Fair
banks because Fairbanks is on the
short route from the Pacific .north
west to the Orient”, he said, and
mentioned the fact reindeer farm
ing has increased from 2,000 head
to 350 000.
Also that in the past year 60 new
airplane landing fields have been
established in Alaska and said the
Interior Department has taken a
vast interest in this.
Mr.' Sawyer will be the guest of
Governor Parks on July 4: he in
tends visiting Circle City, Fort Yu
kon and Tanana on the trip.
CEREMONY BRITF AND SIMPLE;
DOORS OPEN FIRST TIME
IN 59 YEARS
VATICAN CITY. June 7, <7P>— All
Rome resounded to the pealing of
bells as Premier Mussolini and Car
dinal Gasparri exchanged ratifica
tions of the historic Lateran treaty
bringing to an end the long strife
between the church and the state
of Italy.
The ceremony was brief and sim
ple and with no speeches. One of
the most striking symbolical mo
ments was when the great bronze
doors of the St. Peters Square col
onnade, which had remained shut
for 59 years, swung open and Mus
solini entered the Vatican for the
first time in his life.
The crowd cheered, then rushed
across the square to witness the
opening doors which ended the vol
untary imprisonment of Pope Pius
The agreement recognizes the
Pope’s sovereignty and status of the
Catholicism as the state religion. •
TOO MUCH HIGH LIFE
DETROIT, June 6, (/P)—Brought
back to Detroit to face a charge of
publishing a worthless check, Har
old Thiele, 30, said his trouble was
caused by too much high life
Thiele, an automobile dealer, was
accused of having given the Ford
Motor Co., worthless checks for
53.800 in payment of cars bought
from them.
THREE DIE IN SHAFT
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[ NOME, June 7, (JP)—Three men
|met their death yesterday in the
'bottom of a prospect shaft from
! car bon monoxide gas near Nome
when the windlass was lowered.
'The dead are Ralph Ingram, owner j
of the mine and two native boys, i
j Bernard and Joe Paul. j
GIRL EMISSARIES
EIOUTE ALASKA
WITH INVITATIONS
ALASKANS IN “PANHANDLE”
DISTRICTS, AND YUKON,
ONLY TO BE VISITED
SEATTLE, June 7, (A*)—A party of
Seattle girls left Thursday night to1
invite Alaskans, both Sourdoughs
and Checlraekos, to attend the
“Sourdough’s Stampede” here Aug
ust 16, 17, and 18.
The fair emissaries are Misses \
Jessie Bridgeman, Earle Dentley.j
jTelina Mercer, Merkiece Rovig, May !
Nyberg Lucille Sunderman. and
Irene Ducey. The party is headed
bv Mrs. Dorothy O’Keefe, “Lady of
the Midnight Sun” in the local
■ chapter of the “Daughters of the
IGolden North”, who spent her girl
hood in Dawson .and Fairbanks.
The girls are making the trip on
the invitation of the Seattle camp
;of the Alaska and Yukon Pioneers
j which has charge of plans for the
|‘Sourdoughs Stampede” celebration
hte 33rd anniversary of the discov
ery of gold in the Klondike.
None of the girls have ever visit
: ed Alaska before. The party will
make stops at Ketchikan, Juneau,
Skagway, Dawson, Lake Atlin, Alert
Bay and Prince Rupert and will be
gone three weeks.
—
SECOND STEP IS
TIEN BT HOOVER
mw EIHCEMEI
UNIFICATION IS SOUGHT PRIOl
TO THE CONVENING OF
DECEMBER CONGRESS
WASHINGTON, June 7, (fP)
President Hoover took his secom
step in carrying out the law en
forcement observance program re
commending to congress the ap
pointment of a joint cainmittee o
the house and senate to frame leg
islation transferring the majo
activities of the prohibition en
forcement from the treasury to th
justice department.
Congresss moved fast to accep
the recommendations, Jones offer
ing a resolution for the appoint
ment of three senators and fou
representatives to get the prograr
ready for unification of enforce
ment so it can be submitted at th
regular session of congress begin
ning December 2.
SPRINGFIELD. June 6. (/P)~lh
state senate defeated the Webe
O’Grady house bill for the referen
dum question on repeal of the stat
prohibition act by a vote of 28 to 2:
The bill passed the house by
wide margin; the senate, which i
recognized as being dry, was sharp
ly divided.
Chicagoan senators voted solidl
for the bill. The downstaters, ex
cept two, were against a simila
measure defeated in the senate tw
vars ago.
FOR ST. MICHAELS
NOME, June 7, (JP)—The motor- j
ship Silver Wave sailed last night
for St. Michaels. The ice is report- '
ed out. of the bay and the first boat!
with passengers and mail are
awaiting the arrival of the Silver
Wave.
OUT OF GAMES F00
T
r OVERTAXED AND WEAKENED
HEART,, ATTRIBUTED TO
RUTH’S PRESENT ILLNESS
! NEW YORK, uJne 7, (A5)—The
Evening World said an overtaxed
nd weakened heart will keep
‘Babe” Ruth from the Yankee line
up for a. month and perhaps for the
remainder of the season. Ruth is
described as a “Pretty sick man”
caused by a stubborn lung conges
tion taxing his strength. He is
fretting at the physician’s order
but must avoid excitement and will
not be allowed even to drive an au- j
t.omobile and has been refused per
mission to attend baseball games.
A doctor has been visiting him
two or three times nightly. The
exact nature of the illness, How
ever, is still unknown.
Newspapermen and visitors were
refused admission to the Ruth
apartment mainly because of the
excitement. Mrs. Ruth, a bride of
two months is in constant attend
ance and does her part in seeing
'Ruth obeys the doctor’s orders.
It has been almost a week since
Ruth appeared in the Yankee line
up. Lest Saturday he slammed out
his 10th homer and on Monday it
was announced he would be unable
to play because of a heavy cold.
“KING OF THE SWATTERS” OUT OF THE GAME.
DMEIMEDS
CAUGHT H FARCE
STAGER DEPUTIES
CONFUSION IN NAMES LED TO
GREAT MIXUP ON CONTIN
ENTAL TRAIN
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif., June
6, (JP)—Three trans-continental
trains, plus a honeymoon couple
enrout.e east, are slightly behind
schedule after two deputy sheriffs
spent two hours unscrambling vow
els and consonants.
The deputies, seeking James
Brewer who is wanted on a non
support charge and supposed to oe
eloping with another woman, stop
ped the Continental Limited at a
crossing outside of Los Angeles.
The deputies found Mr. and Mrs.
Finn Bruun of Nome, just married,
enroute to England on a wedding
trip. By the time the honeymoon
ers demonstrated, by much wield
ing of paper and pencil the name
was Bruun and not Brewer, the
Continental’s tail light had faded
down the track and deputies start
ed to rectify their mistake.
They wired to San Bernardino to
hold the “Chief” another trans
continental train, and arriving by
automobile they put Mr. and Mrs.
Bruun on. The conductor put them
off explaining it was the wrong
train; then the Los Angeles Limited
was halted and the deputies put the
newlyweds on but the conductor
put them off.
Finally the Continental caught
up with them and this time every
body was right. Mr. and Mrs. Bruun
found a recently vacated pullman
section and the deputies found
James BreWer and the three trains
proceeded.
LOS ANGELES, June 6, (A5)—Dr.
Frank Westlake, held as the sus
pected slayer of Mrs. Laura Sutton
whose torso was found in the Los
Angeles river, was also charged
with the death of John Vanzandt
who was murdered 32 years ago in
Perry, 111.
Westlake admitted that he lived
in Perry at that time but had no
connection with the death of his
former companion. He further de
clared that Vanzandt was his best
pal and described the death being
caused by drowning in a well.
Meanwhile authorities said new
evidence which has been uncovered
linked Westlake with three killings.
.W FLIER SET II '
NEW ALTITUDE MIRK
IN ELICIT LAST WEEK
WASHINGTON, June 7. (A>)—
Lt. Apollo Soucek established a
new world’s seaplane altitude re
cord in his attempt of last Tues
day was announced by the Na
tional Aeronautic Association after
i barograph check.
Soucek exceeded by 560 feet the
mark of 37,995 feet record made
by Lt. C. C. Champion two years
ago- In the same plane Soucek re
cently set a new mark of 39,144
feet for land planes.