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L VOLUME XXVII. NUMBER 251.
SEWARD, ALASKA,
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1,1931.
PRICE TEN CENTS
SCHOONER BAY*
IS SWALLOWED BY
ICE OF TIE ARCTIC
FIND NO SIGN OF VESSEL AFTER
HEAVY GA^E SWEPT THE
ARCTIC COAST
POINT BARROW, Dec. 1. <>P)—
The treacherous Arctic has claimed
one more victim. The ice-locked
ship Baychimo mysteriously disap
peared in the heavy gale of the
past few days, and one of the
worst storms in many years which
struck the coast here on the night
of November 26..
The next day, November 27, the
crew looked out over the wastes to
where the Baychimo had been but
saw only a huge pile of crushed ice
± where the ship had been last seen.
The ice pile was almost 50 feet high.
The high gale prohibited a search
for the vessel for a while and it
was not until the weather calmed
hat a search could be made and a'
search over a 10-mile radius failed
To reveal any sign of the boat.
The Baychimo belonged to the
Hudson Bay Trading Company and
was frozen in the ice of the Arctic
Coast, between Point Barrow and
Herschel Island. The vessel had
been making annual voyages to the
Arctic carrying supplies to the
Hudson Bay trading posts on the
Arctic Coast and brought back to
Vancouver, B. C., the fur and ivory
4 obtained by the company factors
,n the course of their business.
FAMOUS BONESETTER
DIES AT HIS HOME IN
YOUNGSTOWN. OHIO
’ DOCTOR HAD MARVELOUS BONE
HEALING POWER IN HIS
HANDS
YOUNGSTON, Ohio, Dec. 1. (/Pj—
Dr. John D. Reese, noted bone
setter, died of a heart attack here
Lt the age of 87 years.
International fame was won by
Bonesetter” Reese by his uncanny
ability to cure lameness in the
arms and legs of athletes. In his
active days at Youngstown, Ohio,
he treated many prominent pa
tients, ranging from world political
figures to big league baseball stars
and champion prize fighters.
Born in England May 5, 1855,
Reese was christened “John D.” He
was left an orphan while still in his
teens and went to work in the steel
mills of Rhymney. In 1887 he de
parted from his active land to go
to Pittsburgh where he worked at
his trade. A short time later he
vent to Youngstown, and was
working as an assistant roller in
a steel mill when it was discovered
he had marvelous bone healing
powers in his hands.
As a lad he had been trained by
the'famous bonesetters of his na
tive hills of Cambria, but he did not
discover he was a natural master
»f orthopedic surgery until he
came to the Ohio city.
At first Reese practiced his mani
pulation of dislocated bones among
his fellow workers. But when he
came to realize he could do much
to lessen the sufferings of the
CALIFORNIA'S OPPORTUNITIES IN
THE RAILROAD BELT OF ALASKA
Some day the fruit and vegetable shippers of California
i and the salmon canners of Alaska will discover that they
I can save a good many hundreds of thousands of dollars
• a year by using Alaska poplar and Alaska cottonwood in
| their crates, instead of spruce and pine. And that day
| may not be so far off, either. That discovery has been
jmade already by some of them, who are doing serious
j thinking about it.
When all the facts in the case are considered, the pos
| sibilities appear logical and inviting for a very large in
i dustry centering at Seward, to supply a market for fruit
and vegetable crates in California and for salmon crates
■ in Alaska, amounting in total value to many millions of
i dollars a year.
Scientific tests completed by the Forest Products
I Laboratory of the Forest Service, Department of Agri
I culture, as given in Technical Bulletin No. 226, issued this
| year, show that Alaska poplars and cottonwoods weigh
2o pounds to the cubic foot, seasoned, as compared with 28
pounds for the pine and spruce of Alaska, Washington
and Oregon. That is a difference of one-seventh in weight
j in favor of the Alaska poplars and cottonwoods, or 400
pounds to the 1,000 board foot.
Just what that difference means in saving on freight
rates will appear from a small amount of calculation.
California alone uses 600,000,000 board feet of pine
! and spruce per year in the shipment of her fruits and
vegetables to Eastern markets. At 3,000 pounds per 1,000
board feet, that is 900,000 tons of lumber used in the ship
I ment of California fruits and vegetables to the markets
! of Central and Eastern States. The average freight rate |
| on those shipments is $10 per ton. The gross cost of!
.freight charge on the lumber in the fruit and vegetable j
j crates therefore runs up to the staggering sum of $9,000,- j
, 000 per year, over and above the cost of freight on the
' fruits and vegetables that the crates contain.
Consequently, by using Alaska poplar and cotton- j
wood in their crates with a saving of one-seventh in,
weight, those California shippers would economize ap-1
proximately $1,285,000 per year in the one item of freight
rates.
An additional saving of lalge amounts would be in
the original cost of poplar and cottonwood veneers and
lumber. They are the only carieties of timber that are
turned into veneer without first being steamed in a vat.
Poplar and cottonwood veneers for that reason cost about i
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world he decided to devote his en
tire time to his art.
Although not licensed, Ohio per
mitted him to open an operating
office in Youngstown in 1894, and
he gave his entire time to his prac
tice. His fame as a healer spread
rapidly, and he was besieged by
the rich and the poor, by the high
and the low. Soon he won the
nickname “Bonesetter” by which
he was known to thousands
throughout the world.
Reese treated all who came to
him. The rich paid well for their
treatments; the poor paid what
they could, and many times they
could pay nothing. In his late
days, Reese’s patients came in such
great numbers that his engagement
book was filled a month and more
in advance.
Among some of Reese’s most fam
ous patients were David Lloyd
George, the British statesman; Will
Rogers, American humorist; Fred
Stone, the comedian; Ty Cobb,
Hans Wagner and other prominent
big league baseball stars; Gene
Tunney, Battling Nelson and other
note prize fighters.
UP NEW 5PEE0 RECORDS
AGUA CALIENTE, Mex., Dec. 1.
(IP)—J. R. Wedell, of New Orleans,
in his speedster plane, zoomed into
the air from San Diego, touched
his wheels at the airport here and
raced toward Vancouver. B.C., on a
round-trip three-nation flight rec
ord.
He did not stop here so that he
would not have to stop at San
Diego again to clear the Customs
Office there.
Captain Frank Hawks pointed his
ship toward Vancouver, B. C., and
started a flight at 8 o’clock for an
attempted flight record to Vancou
ver from San Diego.
PROMINENT MAN DIES
i VICTORIA, B. C., Dec. 3. (A1)—
I Captain J. W. Troup, for 60 years
identified with shipping and rail
way development on the Pacific
Coast, died of heart failure after
being somewhat’ ill from bronchitis
ailments.
SHORT DECREE
BERLIN, Dec. 1. (/?)— In one of j
the shortest decrees he ever issued
President Paul vcn Hindenburg gave
the Bruening government almost
unlimited power to raise the cus
toms to the Dutch to a prohibitive
point.
I MANCHURIA IS
ACCEPTED BY HA
- ___ I
JAPAN DENIED RIGHT PURSUE
BANDITS IN MANCHURIA
BY LEAGUE COUNCIL
PARIS, Dec. 1. pP)—China an
nounced herself ready to abandon
her key position in the Manchuria
dispute ' which was a determined
stand against acceptance of non
partisan committee of inquiry un
til Japan agreed to withdraw her
troops completely from the occu
pied area.
Acting upon official orders from
Nanking, A. Sze, Chinese delegate,
issued a statement that “China will,
take a draft of the League Council
as it stands without specifying
time limit for complete evacuation” i
providing neutral observers con- j
firm reports that Japanese have.
withdrawn from the Chin Chow
region to the east bank of the Liao.
River.
Decision in the case is now up to
the investigating committee to be
appointed by the League Council,
but it cannot possibly complete
inquiry before next spring.
The Japanese are demanding the
right to pursue bandits in Man- j
churia, but the League Council and ■
China have rejected this demand
and this point now stands as the !
sole remaining obstacle to settle
ment.
MOTIONS HE
FINISHED FOR HEARING I
OF MONEY PARDON!
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 1. (£>)—Prep- j
arations were completed yesterday
for what Mayor James Walker pub-!
licly described as his “definite, sub- j
lime purpose” in coming to Cali-j
fornia —a hearing on Thomas J.!
Mooney’s application for a pardon, j
Governor Rolph, who must de- •
cide whether or not Mooney is en-1
titled to freedom, had several con-1
ferences with the men who will act
as his advisors during the sessions!
in the State Supreme Court room
here today.
Chief of Police Quinn, after con-1
suiting with officials at the State;
building, assigned 300 men to guard i
the building during the hearing, in!
anticipation of the crowd and pos- j
sible Communist disturbances.
AIRWAYS OFFICIAL RETURNING j
Arthur W. Johnson, general man- j
ager and vice president of the Al- j
askan Airways, is a returning pas-1
senger on the SS Victoria. He left
Fairbanks recently enroute to New!
York for a conference with execu- j
tives of the Aviation Corporation
of which the Alaska company is a
subsidy. He also was to have at
tended a conference of generar
managers of the American Airways,
operating division of the Aviation
Corporation.
JAP1 IS SENDING
REINFORCEMENTS
TO ISITSIHAR AREA
LEAGUE CONTINUES ATTEMPT
HAVE JAPANESE ACCEPT
PEACE PROPOSAL
(By Associated Press)
A Japanese announcement said
that reinforcements are being sent
direct from the South Manchurian
Railway zone to Tsitsihar, which is
described as a most “dangerous”
place because of the Chinese ad
vance upon Hailung.
An exchange telegraph message
to London from Hailung said that
200 bandits attacked the Hurheta
railway station and killed several
of the railway guards and robbing
the place.
The League of Nations continued
to work on the Japanese delegation
in trying to obtain acceptance of
the League plan to restore peace.
Maroru Shige Mitsu, the Japan
ese minister at Nanking said that
Japan had welcomed the Chinese
proposal for the establishment of
neutral ground between Chin Chow
and Mukden,
HEIMS OUTSIDE
8E6IN TOES TO NORTH
AND THEIR HOMELAND
SEATTLE, Dec. 1. (£>)—'The SS
Victoria, replacing the SS Alameda,
of the Alaska Steamship Company,
almost wholly destroyed by fire
in Seattle, sailed this morning at 9
o’clock and carried 94 passengers,
10 of whom were steerage.
There were 33 passengers who
boarded the vessel with Seward as
their destination and included J.
Barnhill, Marshal Dan Ross, Peter
Vachon, Katherine Brigham, Ev
erett McPhee, Mr. and Mrs. W. N.
Reed, W. A. Vinal, Arthur W. John
son, F. Armstrong, Stuart Sand
reuter, H. E. Smith, Mr. and Mrs.
Wm Bailey
Mrs. R. L. Scearce, Mrs. L. C.
Hess, Mrs. C. M. O’Neil and daugh
ter, Lon Clark, James Burns, H. S.
Mitchell, Mrs. D. J. Fairburn, Mrs.
Gus. Manthey, Ella B. Lucas, Mr.
and Mrs. S. D. McCutcheon, Mr. and
Mrs. J. W. Bentley, Mrs. P Cavan
augh, Mrs. E. Roycroft, Mrs. C. C.
Hottman and baby, T. H. Jones, C.
C. Koffman, W. Gafford, C. H.
Rogers.
SEATTLE FIRE
SEATTLE, Dec. 1. (JP) — Fire
sweeping through the industrial
section of the waterfront here de
stroyed one plant and damaged an
other. The total loss through the
fire is estimated at $100,000. The
Draper Engine Works was wiped
out and the Commercial Boiler
Works was partially destroyed. The
details as to the cause of the fire
were not made known.
ANOTHER VICTIM
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 30. (ff)—Oil
bert Collie, wholesale killer, has
been connected with another mur
der. J. F. Calligan, a World War
veteran, was last seen alive with
Collie, and officials are endeavor
ing to learn if he was another of
Collie's victims.