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VOLUME XXIII. NUMBER 249.
SEWARD, ALASKA THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1928. PRICE TEN CENTS
CAPTAIN WOOLVERTON SOLVES
DIFFICULTIES OF “INTER
FERENCE” IN SEWARD
That which threatened to be a
serious catastrophe in the industri
al life of Seward and a paralyzing 1
blow to the city’s participation in '
the activities of the Territory seem j
to have been happily averted thru 1
the sincere and energetic activities j
of Captain Robert B. Woolverton.
chief of the TJ. S. Signal Corps here i
who has found the solution of the
problem of radio reception and
thereby staves off the order of the
War Department to move the whole
signal corps personnel and equip
ment to Cordova.
The order had been deemed nec
essary because of electrical inter
ference in Seward from the far
flung radio stations of Alaska, as
far away as Point Barrow and Un- 1
alaska. Because of the peculiar1
topographical situation in Resur
rection bay and the conformation
of the adjacent mountains, every
electric motor in Seward so “jazz
ed” up the air currants at this sta
tion that at times, radio messages
were absolutely unintelligible, a
very serious problem in the trans
action of army and navy business
and the transmission of weather
reports which are of outstanding
value to the U. S. Weather Bureau
because of the fact that Alaska and
the far Aleutians are the breeding
ground of the storms that sweep
South and Eastward over the
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GRAF ZEPPELIN TOO SLOW FOR
PROPOSED AIRSHIP SER
VICE ACROSS OCEAN
NEW YORK, Oct., 18, (/Pj—Mr.
Ekener said he hoped to induce
an American capitalist to contri
bute $14,000,000 to finance a regular
trans-ocean air service.
He plans to have four ships
running on a 50-hour schedule ■
between Switzerland and Balti
more. The dirigibles will cost j
$2,000,000 and the hangars $0,000,
000.
He said the Graf Zeppelin is to
slow and will have to build ships
with an 80-mile hourly cruising
speed. Letters will be carried for
50c each and passengers at $2,000.
ATLANTA CITY, Oct., 18, (/P)—A ;
veiy unusual story of having been !
‘shanghaied” by the Captain of a
freight steamer and being compell
ed to live with him as his “common
law” wife for 11 years, was related
by Mrs. Mary Currier when she en
tered court to receive the estate of
her husband who died recently.
E
CROSS SEX FLYER
DARING AVIATOR CARRIED
ENOUGH GASOLINE FOR
24-HOURS
UNDATED, England, (/P)—Ire
land is anxiously scanning the
Western sky for the tiny gypsy
Moth De Haviland plane in which
Commander MacDonald hopped
off in yesterday from Harbor Grace.
WTith favorable conditions it had
been hoped that MacDonald would
strike the coast of Ireland in about
20 hours.
At 10 a. m., Eastern standard
time, 22 hours after his take-off,
no word was received of his be
ing sighted along the Irish coast.
The visibility is poor; there was
a possibility that he might have
continued on to London. This
would bring him in about noon
today. Eastern time.
The weather condition has been
none to good along the Irish and
English coasts. It is estimated
MacDonald carried enough gas
oline to stay in the air 24 hours.
seek refuge
Driven from the halibut banks by
the record-breaking Southeaster's
that have been sweeping along the
lower Kenai Peninsula and off the
coast of Kodiak, several halibuters
have sought refuge in the Port of
Seward in the past 24 hours. Among
them are the Urania, the Uene and
the Sumner. The Uene came in to
repair a broken rudder and a
smashed pilot house suffered from
the battering waves, while the oth
ers took advantage of the visit to
refuel and re-provision. It was re
ported that the Washington and
the Hillside, herring boats of the
Utopian Fisheries would be in to
day.
HAS LIMITED NUMBER HOURS
IN AIR; PLANE HAS SMALL
WING SPREAD
i ST. JOHNS, Newfoundland, Oct.,
18, (/l5)—Commailder H. C. Mac
Donald, English aviator, hopped
off from Harbor Grace yesterday
in a Moth type of plane in an at
tempt to fly across the Atlantic
to England.
MacDonald came to Newfound
land three weeks ago. Although he
has had but 80 hours flying he is
confident he can make the flight
alone in the small plane. He is an
| experienced navigator. The plane
I has a wing spread of only 24 feet
; and weighs less than 800 pounds.
MIAMI, Oct., 17, (,/P)—All appoint
monts at the disposal ot the Pres
ident during the next lour years
will be drawn from the ranks of
the Wets if Governor A1 Smith is
elected, Charles Walsh, former
Democratic National Committee
man from Iowa and one time sec
retary of the Democratic National
Committee, told an audience last
night.
He said “The people of the South
favor prohibition and the Eight
eenth amendment: so does Her
bert Hoover and so do I, and this
is the very strong tie that binds
me to him.”
GREAT BALL
TO
REC
^ \LL
“OLE
VIRGINIE’
Splendor of the. Old Dominion’s great socialfunctions of pre-Civil war
days will live again this month at the ball in Richmondat which the State League
of Women Voters will honor Gov. Harry Flood Byrd (left) and other distin
quished persons, including Lady Nancy Astor (right),member of the British Par
liament and one of the celebrated Langhorne sisters of Virginia. Lady Astor, who
will be a guest at the executive mansion, will probablyvisit her girlhood home,
“Miradow (above), near Charlottesville.
GIRL FELL ON KNEES BEFORE i
MOTHER ASKING HER FOR
GIVENESS
BELGRADE, Jugoslavia, Oct., 13,
j RP)—A drama of revenge character
istic of the Medieval Ages, bat
strange to modern society, was en
| acted in the Semlin District of
Jugoslavia when Radmila Puloric, I
one of the prettiest girls of the I
countryside, was killed by her own I
mother.
! |
The mother was enraged because !
her daughter had fled from her
home with her lover. Ivan Vujic.
| Radmila had been in love with
Vujic for a long time, but because
thfe man was poor and her daughter
rich, Mrs. Puloric prohibited the
marriage. When she heard that
Radmila had escaped she went at:
'once to the home of Vojic and de- \
manded the girl.
The young woman fell upon her
; knees before her
i forgiveness and pt.
: ry, but Mrs. Pule ic
‘ and killed the girl
knife.
CHICAGO. Oct.. 13, (TP)—Televis
ion, telephone and radio will unite
Saturday evening to seal the mar
riage of a Chicago couple. The
minister’s vioce will come over the
telephone while television will
throw his features on a screen in
the hall where the bride and bride
groom will be united in Holy wed
lock.
MINI BUT OPERATORS
TELL SEWARD C. IF C.
PROSPECTS EOS
NEW BLOOD IN THE HILLS AND
MORE INTENSIVE WORK
FOR A NEW CAMP
“We have wonderful pras
pects in Nuka Bay district,” said
Tom Babcock of Babcock and Dow
ney, operators of the “Sonny Fox”
group of claims at the head of
Surprise Bay, in addressing the
business men of Seward at the
weekly luncheon of the Chamber
of Commerce. “It is my firm con
viction that within another year
or two we will have at least three
producing mines, and a real min
ing camp.
“But there are not enough pros
pectors in the hills and we who
have been staying with our ground
and working it diligently for the
past three years would certainly
urge the Seward chamber to do all
in its power to induce men to go
forth into this heavily mineralized
section for almost certain reward.
There is no question aabout the
j|ineral being there and it only
B:es honest effort to find it.”
jMr. Babcock said that much of
the land is held by those who are
no^ prospectors nor miners, but
who go out for a month or two
eaq,' sunm-..-*v to do assessment
work and who never get any real
development done. lie eagerly
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WAVES STILL GIVE
yp ICES OF
TANK FOUND MUCH FURTHER
SOUTH THAN WHERE OTHER
PARTS FOUND
COPENHAGEN, Oct., 18, (/P)—
A fuel tank believed to belong to
the French Latham piano in which
Amundsen and his five compan
ions are presumed to have perished
in an attempt to reach survivors
of the ill-fated dirigible Italia,
has been found by the M. S. Keif
; which arrived with the tank hav
j ing found it Saturday, 200 miles
| north of Christiansund.
It was capable of holding 600
litres of fuel but contained only
30. The tank was found at a point
farther south than other places
where parts of a seaplane have
been picked up.
Amundsen Exploit
To Be Anniversary
—
OSLO. Norway, Oct., 13, (JP)—
The anniversary of the discovery
iof the South Pole by Amundsen in
toil will be celebrated December
14 by Norwegans and the govern
jment as memorial day for the fa
^mous explorer who died in an ef
: fort to bring relief to the lost No
j bile expedition.
OH ! Oil !
.DENVER, Oct., 18, (/P)(/P)—F.
Keenan, widely known character
!actor, and more than 70 years old,
married Leah May, 39, who has
Veen his leading lady for many
years. This is the actor’s third
marriage.