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VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 148. SEWARD, ALASKA. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26. 1929. PRICE TEN CENTS
LARGE AMOUNTS Of
GOLD DUST 51
TO BE IN SSFE
SAFE LAYS IN 272 FEET WATER:
REPORTED TO CONTAIN
HALF MILLION
JUNEAU, June 26, (/P)— It is
reported that Capt. H Finch,
Seattle diver, who came to Ju
neau last night, reported having
told what he believed to be the
safe in the wrecked S. S. Is
lander, which crashed into an
iceberg and foundered off Doug
las Island, 28 years ago, has been
located.
The safe is thought to con
temn between $100,000 and $600,000
in gold dust. Captain Finch re
turned to the scene early this
morning. The safe is said to lay
in 272 feet of water and attempts
tr raise the object are progressing
t, day, according to reports.
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ENROUTE TO USH
SEATTLE, June 26, </P>— The
S S. Admiral Evans, of the P. 3
S. Co., sailed at 10 a. m. today
for Alaska and carried 98 passen
gers, 1st class, and 143 3rd class
The Seward reservations, 25,
were as follows:
Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Neider, Al
bert Suomela, Evelyn Punchacha,
Agnes Landsberger, F. W. Heide,
Mrs. J- H. Weaver and daughter,
Mrs. F. W. Heide and daughter,
Mrs. W. I. Pierce, Catherine
Mays. Miss L- Neide, Miss M.
Keide, Mrs. H. L. Schuk, J. Cam
eron, Mrs. Maude Cameron, Chas.
Fester, Edward Clark, Mrs. Vie
Peterson. Thomas Earl
KINESEGRD
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SYDNEY. Australia, June 26, (JP)
--Capt. Charles Kingsford Smith,
trans-Pacific conqueror, took-off
on an attempt to break the speed
record for a flight between here
and England.
He flew the “Southern Cross”, the
rame plane in which he and his two
companions were forced down in a
desert, on a previous attempt to set
a new7 mark. He planned to make a
non-stop flight across Australia to
Derby as the first step in the long
hop.
FIRE UNDER CONTROL
RED BLUFF, Calif., June 26, (/P)
—Sweeping over a 20-mile front
and fanned by a stiff wind the
grass and grain fire is reported to
be under control. Last night the
fire broke out in new fury and
the blaze began moving in the
direction of the timbered hills
which are about 20 miles away
with great rapidty.
VOIGHT AT JUNEAU
JUNEAU, June 26, (A5)—Albert
Veight, German from Los An
geles, arrived here today and ex
pects to leave tomorrow in a
n alrus skin boat for the south
cnroute to New York City through
the Panama Canal. He hopes to
reach his destination next April
:r May.
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AMERICAN LEAGUE
Philadelphia 7-8; Boston 1-2.
Detroit 14; Chicago 2.
Cleveland 10-0; St. Louis 8-7.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Brooklyn 12; New Yrk 10.
Philadelphia 4-8; Boston 5-6.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Los Angeles ; San Francisco 5.
Missions 9; Hollywood 8.
Seattle 2; Sacramento 1.
Oakland 3; Portland 1.
SAFE OF SUNKEN
I ALASKA STEAMER
REPORTED FOUND
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; NEW DIVING BELL SHAPED
LIKE AN EGG IS BEING
USED
JUNEAU, June 26, (/P)—The
Iship safe of the sunken steamer
Islander is reported to have been
; located by E. H. Wiley of Olym
i pia who, with his brother Carl,
in charge of the party, are work
ing the scene of the S. S. Island
er wreck.
They hope to raise it within a
few days. An entirely new diving
bell, shaped like an egg, is be
ing used. The bell is filled with
iair and dropped over the side of
a barge, attached to a cable; a
telephone line is also connected
It is possible to remain under
water for approximately one
hour. The bell has treads on the
bottom which enables it to move
along the bottom.
Mr. Wiley said the Islander
! is encrusted with barnacles and
marine growth from eight to 10
! inches thick and is alive with
leels and other sea creatures. The
| diver plans to search for the ex
press boxes which also contained
j a large amount of gold dust.
LONDON, June 2, (TP)—Sir Mor
timer Singei, American millionaire
-
philanthropist, who became a nat
valized Englishman in 1900, died at
'the age of 65.
FIRST DEGREE
MURDER CHARGE
IS FILED. REED
MAN ALLEGED TO HAVE BEEN
SHOT WHILE UNCONSCIOUS
FROM BOOZE
PETERSBURG, June 26, (/P)—
Charges of first degree murder will
be filed against A1 Reed, 54, em
ploye of the Port Walter Herring &
Packing Co., at Saginaw Bay, for
the fatal shooting on Sunday of Ole
Brudeseth, 44, saltry foreman.
At the conclusion of what was
Sc.:d to be a drunken party Reed
brandished a revolver and ejected
the other from the cabin.
He then is alleged to have shot
Brudeseth once, thru each leg.
Brudeseth then unconscious from
liquor, never knew what had hap
pened and bled to death before aid
reached him witnesses testified.
Reed was brought here late yester
day.
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TWO NEW CHAINS OF
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JUNEAU, June 25- (JP)—R. H.
Sargent, topographer for the
Geological Survey, who is ac
jcompanying the naval aerial ex
! pedition and which is now at
| Juneau, announced the discovery
I of two chains of hitherto un
known lakes in the central part of
Baranoff Island of which the aver
age sive is frm one to three miles
long. The first chain consists
of four lakes and the second,
| two lakes.
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I REINDEER SHIP SAILS
! NOME, June 26, (/P)—The M- S.
Sierra, the reindeer ship of the
iLomen Reindeer Corporation, left
yesterday for Seattle with more
than 6,000 reindeer carcasses in
cold storage. The ship also is
taking mail and a few passen
gers. The vessel will stop at Nun
ivak and Kashigan enroute to
Seattle.
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COME TO SEWARD!
THE TOWNS OF KODIAK, AFOGNAK,
HOMER, SELDOVIA, UGANIK, PORTLOCK,
PORT GRAHAM, PORT CHATHAM, SAW
MILL BAY AND LATOUCHE AS WELL AS
ALL OTHER VILLAGES IN THIS AND
THE WESTWARD AREA, ARE CORDIAL
LY EXTENDED AN INVITATION TO AT
TEND THE BIG LOCAL FOURTH OF JULY
CELEBRATION.
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PHILIPPINE MONEY IS MODEL FOR NEW
CURRENCY OF THE U. S.
me united btates bureau ot engraving and print
ing is a busy place these days. Above is shown a press-!
room of the bureau where money is printed. Below,
Secretary Mellon (seated) and Alvin W. Hall (left),
'director of the bureau, are being shown the new cur
rency designs by Charles S. Dewey, assistant secretary'
of the treasury. The diagram shows relative sizes of
•the old and new.
WILLIAM F. HARRIS. PROSPECT
OR, WAS RECENTLY AWARD
ED $100,000
VICTORIA " C., June 26, (/P)—
An appeal to the decision awarding
fo William F. Harris, aged prospect
or and miner of $100,000, his share
in the big Missouri group of mining
claims in the Salmon River district,
British Columbia, will be taken to
the higher court.
The case will be heard in October
"itting in Vancouver. Harris claim
ed he found the mines and gave
ethers an interest in order to obtain
a buyer for the property retaining
a third interest himself.
The money was paid into the
bank for claims of which Harris
claimed one-third interest. Harris
now lives in Port Angeles, Wash.
ffl-IH PACT
TOKIO, June 26, (/P)—In an unu
sually strained atmosphere the
Privy Council, presided over by the
Emperor, finally approved of the
Kellogg anti-war pact.
The approval was given without
reservation but an interpretative
declaration was attached regarding
the hotly contested phrase: “In the
name of the irrespective peoples”.
This, many said, violated the Em
peror’s constitutional prerogative.
JUNEAU DRUGGIST, NORWAY
CONSUL, NOW KNOWN
AS SIR WILLIAM
SEATTLE, June 26, (/P)—Sir Wil
liam, known to his Alaskan friends
:js olain William Britt, a druggist,
will leave here fro Juneau tomor
Irow. He arrived recently to at
jtend the graduation of his son
Jacob, at the Naval Academy at
jAnapolis, and visited Washington
| where he was decorated by the
[Norwegian Minister with a Knight
Ihood Degree conferred by the King
of Norway.
He is Norway’s consul in Alaska
where he first went 30 years ago
joining the Klondike gold rush but
found drug business better than
gold digging.
He opened the firs tstore in Skag
iway in 1900 and at present operates
a store in Juneau.
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WASHINGTON, June 26, (/P)—
Senator Blease of South Carolina
startled the Senate when he in
troduced a resolution “to request
the Chief Executive to respect
the White House, alluring to
the recent action of Mistress Her
bert Hoover,_ wife of the Presi
dent, in entertaining Mistress
Oscar Depriest, wife of the negro
Congressman from Chicago. The
| resolution was referred to the
committee without printing. The
Florida House of Representatives
adopted a Resolution condemning
the “social policies of the ad
ministeration.'’
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PRINCIPLES, NEXT
j WASHINGTON, June 26, (/P)—A
public campaign, the purpose of
which will be to uphold the Hoover
administration and principles of
the government and having the en
dorsement of republican leaders,
was revealed in a circular letter
asking recipitents to make finan
cial contributions to the movement.
The action is said to be aimed
I against radicals.
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MINERS TRAPPED
NAGASAKI, Japan, June 26, (A3)
—Frantic efforts are being made to
rescue 50 miners entrapped in the
Masushima mine which flooded
during the ^ight. One section of
the mine has been abancfcned be
cause of the rising water.
CLEGHORN GETS DRAW
PORTLAND, June 26, (^—Wal
ter Cleghorn of Seldovia fought “K.
O.” White, Chicago negro, 10-rounds
to a draw in a slashing battle. Cleg
horn weighed 161 and White 1641/2
The battle was a thriller tho there
were no knockdowns.
CROSS COUNTRY FLIGHT
LOS ANGELES, June 26, (JP)—
Capt. Frank Hawks, holder of the
west to east non-stop coast to coast
record hopped-off from here on an
attempted cross country flight. He
was sighted over Alburaurque, New
Mexico.