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VOLUME XXIII. NUMBER 96.
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SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 1928. PRICE TEN CENTS
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, Death of Willis
Reveals Leanings
Other Directions
ALASKANS RESORT TO PRIMARY SYSTEM TO
ELECT TWO DELEGATES TO CONVENTIONS—
SIX DELEGATES PLEDGED TO SUPPORT AL
SMITH—ONE SLATE OF 51 DELEGATES ARE
PLEDGED TO HOOVER—ONLY FEW CON
TESTS WILL BE SETTLED AT THE POLLS.
WASHINGTON, April 24. (/P)—With the Presiden
tial primaries on today’s political calendar in Ohio, Penn
sylvania, Massachusetts and Alaska, the fight in Ohio for
delegates to the Republican Convention held .the chief in
terest largly because of the bearing on Hoovers candi
dacy.
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WILKINS PLANE FOR!
SOUTH POLE WORK
WILKINS,WILL PROBABLY START
ANARCTIC VENTURE SOME.
TIME IN SEPTEMBER
GREEN HARBOR, April 24. (/P)—
^ Caflft. Wilkins received a telegraphic
offer from Lieut. Byrd to buy Wilkins’
plane for Byrd’s South Polar trip.
Wilkins replied he was unable te ac
cept the offer as he was planning an!
Anarctic expedition and will probably
start the venture in September.
♦ Roughly drawn up, the program will
be for exploration work. Repairing
parts of the plane is under way.
SEATTLE, April 24. (yp)—-With rot.
arians from Alaska to Southern Ore
gon present, the First District Con
vention opened. Leon Levy, 11 yearj
old Port Angeles boy, was the keynote!
speaker with an appeal for World i
peace, the si*th object of the Rotary.
DOWNWARD SLASH
WASHINGTON, April 24. (£>)—'Tlie
downward slash of the House from
$290,000,000 tax reduction bill to $210,.
000,000, was decided upon by the Re
publican majority of the Senate Fin
ance Committee.
LITTLE ATTENTION IN OHIO
Due to lack of contests balloting in
Pennsylvania and Massachusetts at
tracted less attention than in Ohio.
One slate of 51 delegates is pledged to
Hoover. The other, since the death
of Senator Willis, shows leanings to
! ward half a dozen Republican Presi
dential possibilities including Lowden
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and Dawes.
The Democratic organization slate
of 48 delegates of the Ohio Committee
is for former Senator Atlee Pomerene,
Dor first choice. Pennsylvania will
delegates at Kansas City, and 76
i at Houston while the Republican dele
! gates from Massachusetts number 39
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and the Democrats 36. Only a few
| contests will be! settled at the polls in
| either state.
Although Alaskans have no vote for
| President in November the Republi
! cane in the Territory have resorted to
the primary system to select two dele
gates to Kansas City with the Demo
crats going thru the formality of rati
fying their slate of six delegates pledg
ed to support A1 Smith.
RIVER BUNKS VANISH
IN SOUTHERN STATES
ATLANTA, Ga., April 24. (£>)—’The
river banks of parts of six southern
states vanished beneath spring tor
rents that shot 'toward their crest al
most overnight to isolate scores of
towns and villages and cause millions
of dollars damage. Georgia, Alabama,
Florida, Mississippi, Arkansas and
Tennessee felt the scourge of the ris
ing waters.
FREIGHTER WHEATON;
. RENAMED ALASKAN
NOW OIL BURNER
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REFRIGERATOR SHIP CHESTER
PENNSYLVANIA CONVERTED
TO CARGO CARRIER
SEATTLE, April 24. (£>)—'The
freighter Wheaton, recently purchas
ed by the American Hawaiian Steam,
ship Company, from the U. S. S. Ship
ping Board, will be renamed the Alas,
an. The 8,700 ton ship is being con
verted to an oil burner at the Sun Ship
Yards.
The Chester Pennsylvania is also
being converted from a refrigerator
ship to a straight cargo carrier and
will be ready for the intercoast trade
in the fall.
STIR OF ALASKA
SQUARE RIGGER
WINS OCEAN RACE
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MORE THAN $25,000 WAGERED ON
RACE FROM SAN FRANCISCO
TO ALASKA, TIS SAID
SAN FRANCISCO, April 24. (£>)—
The 42 year old Star of Alaska, square
rigged sailing ship, won the race from
San Francisco to Alaska from the bark
Star of England.
The ships, which started the race
on April 3, are owned by the Alaska
Packers Association. The purse was'
$100. Word that the Star of Alaska
had passed Chirikof Island was the
first received by the packers.
It is asserted that more than $25,000
wafe. bet jon the race including a
month’s pay won by Captain Morton
sen from Capt. Weise.
$10,000 JEWELRY STOLEN
WASHINGTON, April 24. (£>)—Mrs.
Dietrich Kohlsan has reported the loss
of $10,000 in jewelry on a train en>'
route from New York.
WIDOW OF JIMES HILL
EXONERATED BY COURT
ST. LOUIS, April 24. (JP)—The Uni
ted States court exonerated the late
Mrs. Mary Hills, widow of James Hill,
norhwestem railroad magnate, on
charge of attempt to evade payment
of $1,000,000 inheritance taxes when
she created two trust funds transfer
ring $5,000,000 to her nine children.
CONDITION REAL SERIOUS
QUEBEC, April 24. (/P)—Bennett is j
resting somewhat more comfortably
but is very low. He passed a fairly
good night but his condition is still
serious.
CHAIRMAN STUD
OIL WAS AWARDED
SHARE OE PROFITS
WAS HANDED PACKAGE OF
1750,000 THOUGH HE PROTEST
ED ACCEPTANCE
I WASHINGTON, April 24. <#)—
Robert Stewart, Chairman of the
Board of the Standard Oil Co., of In
diana, testified to the Senate Teapot
Dome Committee, he was awarded a
i one-foufth share of profits in the
f Continental Trading Co., of Canada
even though he protested he did not
want the money.
. Stewart said H. S. Osier, President
of the Continental, handed him pack
ages of Liberty bonds totaling $759,
000. Stewart is under indictment for
once having refused to answer Com
, mittee questions. He now agrees to
reply to any queries directed at him.
ENTIRE WINTER
TANANA, April 24. </p)—Johnny
I Evans, three-year son of Wilfred
I Evans, Alatna merchant, died at the
Bureau of Education hospital at Tan
ana. He had been ill during the win
ter and was brought here in a deliri
ous condition over the trail to the hos
pital 10 days ago.
The boy died from complications of
scurvy and meningitis.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 24. (£>)—
George Diamond, 52, former prospector
in the days of the Alaska gold rush,
shot and killed himself in his home
in Berkeley. He was a diamond ma
chinist and had' been in ill health for
months, his wife said.
MUSH ICE ON YUKON
TANANA, April 24. (^)^-The sur
face ice on the Yukon river has turn
ed to mush making travel difficult.
Oldtimers predict an early breakup.
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LKI
61 OUT BEFORE
THIRD FAILURE TO RISE FROM
ICE OCCURED ON FRIDAY 13TH
AN UNLUCKY DAY
NEW YORK, April 24. (jpy—In the
Times copyrighted article from Capt.
j Wilkins he says the plane's wireless,
although carefuly tested in advance
j of the flight, gave out before the fli
j ers landed. After running for, many
j hours.
The third failure to rise from the
ice at Point Barrow occured on Fri
day 13. Wilkins attributed this last
failure solely to the unlucky day. Two
days later, after 48 hours of hard
shoveling, the fliers were in the air
and on their way.
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BEQUESTS ESTATE
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LARGEST SINGLE BEQUEST t$
MILLION TO YALE UNIVERSI
TY WITHOUT RESTRICTION
NEW YORK, April 24. (£>)—Direct
bequests totalling more than $2,200,
i
000 are stipulated in the will of the
late Chauncey M. Depew, financier.
The total value of the estate was not
announced, but it is estimated to be
between $5,000,000 and $15,000,000.
The largest single bequest is $1,
000,000 to the Yale University, with
out restriction as to its use. To his
wife, May Palmer Depew, is left $200,
000 in lieu of dower right together
with his personal effects, and their
wedding presents. In addition Mrs.
Depew receives one half residuary
estate in trust during her life, the
principal going to their son, Chaun
cey Depew, Jr., or his descendants
after her death.
SUCH ORDERED FOR
TWO CUBAN OFFICERS
HAVANA, April 24. <£>)—Extensive
search has been ordered for two Cu
ban officers who took off on a prac
tice flight from Columbia field last
evening, and have disappeared. When
last seen their plane was flying at an
altitude of 4,000 feet, and heavy head
winds were blowing. The men were,
flight Lieut. Ponce De Leon, and En
sign Porez of the Cuban navy.