MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 141.
SEWARD, ALASKA. TUESDAY, JUNE 18. 1929.
PRICE TEN CENTS
FIRST ACCIDENT IN 30 YEARS
SERVICE AS MASTER MARIN
ER ALASKA WATERS
SEATTLE, June 18, OP)—United
Steamboat Instpecors, Donald
Ames and Thomas Short today sus
pended for 60 days the license of
Captain J. G. Nord of the S. S.
Aleutian which sunk May 26th near
Kodiak Island.
The inspectors said the rock
which the ship hit was marked in
the latest charts.
All efforts of the Coast Guard
and Geodetic Survey to find the
Aleutian were unsuccessful it was
learned today. The investigation
showed the rock was shattered by
the impact of tire ship. Metal, the
shps hull, and the copper ore cargo
was found on the rock which, at ex
tremely low water, is awash and
As covered 37 l/2 feet at high tide.
The investigators found the ship
was out of its course at the time of
the wreck. The accident is the
first that Captain Nord is responsi
ble for in his 30 years’ service as
marine master in Alaska waters.
YOUTH ENTERED PLEA; WOMAN
WAS TO PARTICIPATE IN
INSURANCE
MACON, Ga„ June 18, (/P)—Earl
Manchester, 19, slayer of James
Parks, his room mate in the “In
surance murder plot” was convicted
last night of murder.
The jury made no recommenda
ti'-.ns which automatically fixes the
penalty of death in the electric
ehair. The trial lasted one day.
Tne youth entered no plea and at
the opening of the trial, in a signed
r.( nfession, declared he killed Parks
on May 27th on the promise of Mrs
J. C. Powers, 71, a rooming house
keeper that she would give him
M.000 of the $14,000 life insurance
of Parks which named her the
beneficiary.
MOTHER OF 10 FACES
' JAIL, 800/E CHARGE
FORT SMITH, Ark. June 18. (&)
—Mrs. Joe Post, 50, mother of 16
children, 11 of whom are still
living, faced a year and six months
m the Federal prison and a $100
fine as a result of pleading guilty
to a liquor selling charge. Mrs.
Post accepted full responsibility
lor an alleged retail liquor sell
ing business on the Post farm. As
a result, the liquor law violation
charge filed against her husband
have been dropped.
PRESIDENT SIGNS CENSUS
WASHINGTON, June 17, {&)—
President Hoover signed the census
and the reapportionment bill for
the census count to be made for the
calendar year 1930. House mem
bers will be apportioned upon it.
OFFICERS INDICTED
SAN FRANCISCO, June 18. (/P)
—Climaxing the scandal involv
ing San Francisco Federal pro
hibition agents, six officers who j
were charged with stealing sugar ,
and liquors siezed in raids were j
indicted by the Federal Grand
Jury.
POUil SEAS
CAPTAIN REFUSES TO LEAVE
i SHIP AFTER MEMBERS OF
CREW DEPART
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ASTORIA, Ore., June 18, (/P)—
Determined to salvage the half of
his ship if possible, Louis Johnson,
captain of the ill-fated steamer
jLaurel, still remained aboard the
wreck playing a game of freeze-out
against the pounding sea after
spurning the pleas of coast guards
men to come ashore.
Wedged on Peacock Spit at the
mouth of the Columbia river, the
larger portion of the Laurel was
held. Only the gnty captain re- ;
mained. after 30 members of the
1 crew had been taken off in groups, j
The coast guardsmen tried to take |
off the captain yesterday but he re- :
fused to go. The Portland agents \
iof the States Line sent word to the j
captain to leave the ship but the j
j rough sea prevented the coast
j guard cutter from relaying the!
1 message.
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1 YOUTH IS
KILLED 8! AGENTS
DETROIT, June 18. (JP)—Archi
; bald Wagner, youth who was
seriously wounded by a border pro
hibition agent, died of his wounds.
Two hundred and ninety pro
| hibition agents reached here and
j they will be used in an attempt
to stop the flow of liquor across
the border from Canada. The
Treasury Department announced
it would hold patrolmen respon
' sible for any unwarranted gun
'; Play.
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1 WARDEN SUICIDES
5 CHICAGO, June 18. (/P)—War
■ den Fogartw of the Cook county
J jail, committed suicide by shoot
1; ing himself. Despondency over
J ill health and conduct while in
2 offfice was blamed.'
RESULT OF STUDY TO BE PUB
i LISHED BY GOVERNMENT;
RETURN IN SEPTEMBER
! NEW YORK, June 18, (JP)—Dr.
Leuman M. Waugh, associated dean
of Columbia University Dental &
Oral Sergury school, will leave
: Seattle July 6th to conduct an ex
jpedition in dental research among
'Alaska Eskimos.
eoCu-Seat inlAt herra ofh tet heth
Waugh has been commissioned
in the dental surgern federal
health service reserve to the rank
'of Lieutenant Commander and will
travel on the cutter Northland.
In addition to an X-ray machine
and a complete dental equipment
he will take gay-colored handker
■ chiefs, beads, tobacco, and chewing
gum to “pay” his patients-who as
sist him in his research work. He
, will return in September and the
j result of his study will be published
5 in a government document.
mm hues
IliNCEBT IS
TO ME SERVICE
NEW YORK, June 18, (&)—Of
ficials' of the Trans-Contffigfttal Air
, Transport made public a report by
Col. Charles Lindbergh that pre
parations by the company for a
coast to coast air-rail system, which
is scheduled to begin regular ser
vice July 8th, have been made.
Thirty-two skilled pilots and 10
trimotored monoplanes will be used
at the start. An elaborate radio
system, supplying the pilots with
| weather information has been
[worked out by Colonel Lindbergh,
chairman of the company’s techni
cal committee.
THREE STILL MISSING
FOLKESTONE. June 18,. (/Pi
Boats and tugs searched a wide
i area of the English Channel for the
bodies of three women still missing
in the crash of the giant liner Cit>
of Ottawa, off Dungeness wth a loss
of seven lives including at least one
American, Adolph Meister, vice
president of the Garfield Manufac
turing Co., of New Jersey. One wo
man is believed to be an American
PAUL C. REDDINGTON, NEW BIOLOGICAL CHIEF
I ... Dr. Edward W. Nelson (left), who has retired from
! the bureau of biological survey after 40 years of ser
1 vice. Paul Reddihgton (right) is the new chief.
DIES OF CANCER
CLEVELAND, June 17, (/P)—
Charles Kennedy, 78, former editor j
of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and j
one time associate of Mark Hanna, j
died of cancer. i
IS BRIDE AGAIN
SAVANNAH, Ga., June 17, (/P)
—Mrs. Sophia, first wife of the
famous Ted Coy, Yale football
star of wide renown, became the
bride 6f Seymour Shonnard, New
York stock broker.
REPORTS DENIED
LONDON, June 17, (/P)—Reports
•inking the name of the Prince of
Wales with Princess Ingrid of
Sweden were emphatically denied
by High Court Officials, according
to the Daily Mail.
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DAVIS WILL RESIGN
WASHINGTON, June 17, (JP)—
Secretary of Labor, Davis, will re
' sign early ngxt year to enter
business or become a candidate
J for Governor of Pennsylvania ac
j cording to labor leaders who are
promoting his candidacy.
WILL TRY AGAIN
REYHJAVIK, Iceland, June 17,
(/P)_Although aviation experts
are trying to dissuade him from
the attempt, Capt. Albin Ahren
berg, Swedish flyer announced he
would try another takeoff on his
Stockholm to New York flight.
BILL SIGNED
WA&m^GTON, June 17, (JP)—
President Hoover with a stroke of ,
his pen placed into effect the new j
farm policies which his adminis
tration have drawn to alleviate the
ills of agriculture. The bill was
signed at noon.
$500,000,000 MERGER
NEW YORK, June 17, (^—Nego
tiations for the merger of a large
oublic utility company in upper
New York state with total assets of
about $500,000,000 were virtually
completed in the offices of J. P.
Morgan & Co.
PROTEST REDUCING
BERLIN, June 17, .(/P)—Efforts
' of German women to reduce by
\; cutting down on their meat con
’ sumption brought a protest from
5 the German butcher association
3 who said the move was endanger -
. ing the meat industry of the
. j country.
SENTENCED TO CHAIR
NEW YORK, June 17, (/P)—H. C.
Campbell was found guilty of
murdering Mrs. Mildred Mowry,
whose body was found on a lone i
New Jersey roadway, saturated
with gasoline and in flames.
! Campbell was sentenced to die
in the electric chair.
OFFICIAL ARRESTED
NEW YORK, June 17, (/P)—F.
!h. Warder, former state superin
! tendent of banks, was arrested
and is being held in $12,000 bail
on three criminal charges, in
| connection with the alleged af
! filiations with the City Trust
Company which recently failed
| for $7,000,000.
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ONE AMERICAN LEFT
SANDWICH, Eng., June 17, (A5)
—John Dawson of Chicago won
his way into the sixth round of
the British Amateur Golf Cham
pionship when he defeated S. L.
McKinley, 2 up and 1 to play.
■ Dawson, the only American left
• i in the tournament, and Tolley
hoom up as probable finalists.
EXACT Hi
IN DOUBT AS TO
REVISION PLAN
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CONGRESSIONAL SANCTION BE
REQUIRED FOR REDUCTION
STATED
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WASHINGTON, June 18, (/P)—
. Confronted with doubts in congress
'as to the exact meaning of the
| Owen Young plan for revision of
I the German reparations payments
land just what it means to the Unit
ed States, the Hoover administra
tion insisted that America still
!views as entirely unrelated, the Al
lies debts to the United States and
the German reparations.
The plan of the Allies to reduce
the reparations demands, in pro
! portion as debts to the United
States might be reduced, weie
merely memorandum, signed by the
Allied and German delegates and
| eppended to experts report, the
j State Department pointed out.
It was emphazised that the
! American experts had not signed
| the memorandum and that the
^memo did not hold the committee
ir. any case. Because the Young
plan will probably call for a reduc
tion in American claims, senators
and representatives believe a con
gress;onal sanction will be required.
COLUMBUS, June 18, (/P)—Fed
erad authorities have been drawn
into six recent slayings when As
sistant United States District At
torney Bartels anounced he would
| start an investigation to determine
if the traffic in narcotics formed
the background for the slayings.
His announcement came after re
ports had been circulated that the
!six had been engaged in drug traf
fic with Dr. James Snook, until
yesterday a Ohio State University
professor, who is still being held for
investigation for the slayings.
SEEK NAME TO MARKET
MEAT OE TAME RABBITS
ATLANTA, June 17, ((A5)—A new
trade name for the nutritious
flesh of domestic rabbits will make
its appearance on the market
soon, if plans of 200 Atlanta breed
ers are successful.
In a resolution adopted here
the Atlana rabbit breeders called
for establishment of a non-part
isan committee of breeders from
all over the United States to se
| lect a name which will distinguish
! the marketed meat of domestic
bunnies from that of his cotton
tail bush brother.
OVERPAID LEGISLATORS
BELGRADE, June 17, </P)—Be
cause members of the parliament
iwhich was dissolved by King Alex
ander drew their pay several
months in advance, a deficit of
i nearly $60,000 has been found in
jthe accounts of that body. Some
I of the former legislators have de
1 dined to return the money and the
Tugo-Slavian government has or
dered the public prosecutor to start
ectiors against them.