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VOLUME XXIII. NUMBER 263.
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SEWARD, ALASKA SATURDAY, NOV. 3. 1928.
PRICE TEN GENTS
HOOVER TALKS TO CROWDS
WHILE ENROUTE COAST
FROM THE EAST
ON BOARD HOOVER’S TRAIN,
Cumberland, Maryland, Nov. 3,
(JP)—On the basis progress in this
country must be continual pros
perity Hoover told an enthusias
tic audience, which greeted him
here enroute to California and
speaking in a public square near
the station, “That prosperity at
it-, base rests on there being a job
for every man.
That there shall be staple em
ployment and advancing stan- j
dards of living; that it rests'
equally upon stable agriculture!
industry and you will recollect
that when the Republican admin- |
iitration came into power seven j
and one-half years ago, on many1
ci the streets.
OUR PEOPLE WERE
discouraged and apprehensive of
a future series. Constructive acts
not only restored employment
but has built up the standards of
living and added security to every
home.
“The Republican Party gave an
administration which protected
and upheld these results. I am
committed to the task to that it
tee continued.” I
CROSSING HILLS [
MS HIT
CHICO, Calif., Nov. 3, (JP>—Six
passengers and two pilots of the
Tjfest Coast Air Co., were seriously
hurt when the plane crashed at
midnight in the heavy timbered
and mountainous country several
miles from Desabla, 20 miles north
east of here.
H. H. Putman of Portland and
S. Silver of San Francisco were
the most seriously injured. The
passengers were rushed to the
hospital here.
Miss Mildred Nevett of Seattle,
C R. Adams of Portland, passen
gers; Lewis Goldsmith, pilot, and
Noel Evans, assistant pilot, were
less seriously hurt. The names of
the other two passengers were
unavailable.
THE PLANE WAS
discovered after the crash by an
aged recluse of the mountain re
gion who brought the four injur- j
ed to the camp of the Pacific Pow
er & Gas Co., at 4 o’clock in the
tiie morning. The camp is four
miles from Desabla and is at the
top of the mountain.
The plane chashed on the op- j
posite side of the mountain from
Desabla. It left Portland yester
day morning and was due in San
Francisco late in the afternoon.;
Goldsmith encountered heavy |
weather in crossing the moun-;
tains into California and at 7 o’
clock at night landed at Corning,!
150 miles from San Francisco j
where he took on 200 gallons of
gas. He said the weather was bad
but believed he could make it in
vo hours. The plane had travel
ed but 50 miles when it crashed.1
Hawaiian Prelate
Summoned By Death
BALTIMORE, Nov., 2, (/P)—The
Right Rev. John La Mothe, Protes
tant Episcopal missionary bishop nf
the district of Honolulu, died in the
church home and infirmiry here.
Bishop La Mothe came from the
Hawaiian Islands to attend the
conference of his church in session
in Washington. He left the confer
ence to enter the hospital.
WEI TELLS
ENTRANCE OF HERB SIGNAL
FOR GREAT DEMONSTRA
TION ST. LOUIS
ST. LOUIS, Nov. 3, (JP)—Hoover
halted on the edge of the grain :
belt laid before the people here a
plan for a new institution for gov
ernment and farm aid expanding
the proposal for a federal farm
board which he made early in the
campaign.
Hoover said this board is well
cloaked with full power to cope j
with every phase of the agricul-I
tural problem of the party. He
said it provides that the board !
have full power to act and would !
be authorized to aid in the devel
oping of cooperative marketing,
clearing house for agricultural
products, adequate facilities, elim
ination of distribution wastes and,
"In particular, build up with the
initial advances of the govern
ment captital, farmer owned and
farmer controlled stabilization of
corporations which will protect
farmers from depressions and de
moralization of the summer and
periodic surpluses.
“IT IS PROPOSED THAT
this board should have placed at
its disposal such resources as will
be necessary to make its action |
effective.” Hoover expressed the
hope that the December session of
Congress would be able to reach a
solution but promised that “If
this is not possible I would call a
special session in order we might
speedily arrive at a determination
of the question before* the next
harvest.”
The entrance of the Republican
Nominee for the Presidency of the
United States was the signal for a
demonstration rivalling the one at
Madison Square Garden, 10 days
ago, the crowd rising tier upon
tier in the huge structure, and
arose and cheered; for about iO
minutes.
Jews Still Suiter
Curse Persecution
BUDAPEST, Hungary, Nov., 2, (/P)
—One hundred and 40 were arrest
ed in the outbreak of students and
working men who fought bitterly
in the Anti-Semetic trouble.
One American is reported hurt.
A Government order closing four
universities, a bitter parliamentary
debate ending in a challenge to a
duel and 140 arrests and numerous
minor casualties were the product
of renewed Anti-Semetic riots.
ENGINE TROUBLE CAUSED A
FORCED LANDING; PLANE
demolished
j TACOMA, Nov. 3, (/P)—Three
men and one woman were in
■ jured when a Scihson Detroiter
plane, owned by Adolph Muller
and piloted by Elliott Merrill,
crashed on a hill-side in South
Tacoma, during a forced landing,
overturning after it hit a stump.
Muller, who lives at Kaltag,
Alaska, accepted delivery of the
plane yesterday intending to use
it in Alaska to assist in the trap
ping game. He was cut and bruis
ed; Merrill, the pilot, was also
bruised; Mrs. C. L. Steinhauser
of Seattle, was cut about the head
and face. Her husband v/as bruis
ed.
Muller and Mrs. Steinhauser
were taken to the Pierce County
hospital. Engine trouble caused
the forced landing which demol
ished the machine which was val
ued at $3,000. Muller was going
from Seattle to Tacoma on bus
iness when the crashed occurred.
H'M mil ME
LANCASTER, Pa., Nov., 2. (Pi - -
Kidnapped in an auto by two men
and a woman whom he was escort
ing to a police station and forced to
witness the holdup of another State
patrolman, Robert Troup of York
reported to headquarters that he
had been left by his captors outside
of Baltimore but relieved of his re
volver.
ATLANTA, Nov. 3, (/P)—Earth
tremors varying in intensity are
reported from five States the first
report coming in shortly after 11
o’clock last night. The States were
North and South Carolina, Tenn
essee and Georgia. No damage oc
curred but residents reported that
dishes rattled, furniture moved
and a couple of chimneys fell. At
Asheville, N. C., telephones were
thrown out of order.
HUSBAND SEVEKLY BURNED
IN VAIN ATTEMPT SAVE
HIS WIFE
JUNEAU, Nov. 3, (7P)—Mrs. Har
riet Conn, 28, was burned to death
and the husband, John, badly
burned as he went to her assis
ance, when their home was des
troyed by fire.
Their son, aged three, was play
ing outdoors and thus escajjed
death.
As far as is known the mother
was alone in the kitchen cleaning
a rifle with gasoline. An explosion
brought the husband rushing from
another part of the house. He was
severely burned in a vain attempt
to rescue her.
Mr. Conn was taken to the hos
pital in an uncounscious condi
tion. Mrs. Conn has a sister liv
ing in Everett, Washington.
SALEM JAIL OFFICE FOR NEWBURYPORT MAYOR
The Salem, Mass., jail tbelow) is now headquarters of Mayor An
drew J. Gilles (inset), the red-haired ex-gob, of Newburyport. Gillis,
who has long sought to operate a gasoline station, pleaded guilty to
running one without a permit and was sentenced to 60 days’ hard la
bor and fined $545. He is shown (right) demonstrating how he can
wield an axe. He was photographed about the time he was summoned
to court for cutting down shade trees to make way for his station.
WENT TO WASHINGTON ASK
DELEGATE TO INTRODUCE
BILL FOR CANNERY
KETCHIKAN, Nov., | 3, (/P)—
In answering Senator Hunt’s let
ter published in the Chronicle
on Saturday, October 27, charg
ing him with selling out to the
canneries, William L. Paul, the
right hand of the Delegate to
Washington, admitted at the in
cumbent’s public meeting here. ?f
recieving $6,000 from the Nakat
Packing Corporation, the Sun
Point company, and the Deep
Sea Salmon Packing co., and that
he went to Washington for the
purpose of asking the delegate to
introduce a bill in Congress giv
ing to trap owners a lease of four
years for their traps with the pro
vision for renewal of a subsequent
four year term or terms, which
amounts to a perpetual title to
trap sites.
THIS WAS PAUL’S FIRST
statement regarding receiving the
money and was made in answer
to Hunt’s letter and to the paid
advertisement from the Demo
cratic committee giving the month
a portion of the money was re
ceived and the amount of the
check.
Dili SMILE
now joyous IS
FORTUNE LOOMS
PLANS TO FORM STOCK SHOW
AND AGAIN TOUR ALASKA
HER FORMER HOME
SEATTLE, 'Nov. 3, (^—“Dia
mond Tooth Lil” has struck it
rich again!
The once sparkling girl of Alas
kan musical comedy, famous from
Seattle to Nome, learned today
she has inherited $150,000,000
from her mother, Mrs. A. Crin
stein, who died recently in Los
Angeles.
Sedately settled in Seattle as
Mrs, Lillian Miller, apartment
house owner, the woman known
along the Alaska frontier for her
flashing diamond set on her front
teeth, saw her riches dwindle away
as the years went by. Once she
owned jewels which might have
ransomed a King for the show
business paid in fabulous sums in
the Klondike. Some of the dia
monds were lost, some stolen, but
she never parted from the huge
solitaire which still flashes from
her mouth.
She does not intend to spend
her new fortune on diamonds but
she does plan to form a stock
show here and resume Arctic
trouping.
She was divorced last week from
her husband, George Miller, and
is now Lillian Crinstein.
YUKON RIVER FROZEN
DAWSON, Y. T., Nov. 3, (£>)—The
Yukon river is reported to be fro
zen over throughout its entire
length of 2,000 miles, at 5 o’clock
this morning.