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MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXIII. NUMBER 175.
SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JULY 2% 1928.
PRICE TEN CENTS
TUNNEY GOING TO COUNTRY FOR
FEW DAYS THEN SAILING
EUROPE WITH FOLKS
NEW YORK, July 27. (/P)—Rickard
announced the Madison Square Garden
corporation lost $155,719 on the
H'eeney.Tunney fiight.
Tunney said “I was never in danger.
Heeney had no punch”. Tunney plans
to go to the country and sp‘end a few
dayisl then, with his mother, sisters and j
brother, sail for Europe on August 16.:
Heeney is far from' broken .hearted
and looked forward with pleasure to
providing ‘entertainment for hisi trio |
of brothers who came from New Zea.
land.
Heeney said “I have no excuses to
offer. The best man won. What’s
the use of crying. Its a sporting pro.
position with me. I want to be a
good winner and a good losier.”
WOMEN AT GENEVA ASK .
FOR LIBOR “RIGHTS"
GENEVA, July 28, (£>)—No sex
determined restrictions, but equal
status, equal opportunity and equal
pay, are demanded by international
women’s organizations in a commu
nication received by the interna
tional labor organization here.
The women found an occasion for
presenting their manifesto in the
session of their labor conference
which took up the question of fix
ing a minimum wage machinery for
all workers.
SIIKS RESEARCH TASTE
PARIS, July 28. (iP)—Science does
not seem to fear a shortage of self
sacrificing workers in an age that
is supposed to seek wealth rather ;
than glory. # :
“The taste for disinterested work
will not disappear any more than <
that for art or beauty,” says S.
Charlety, rector of the University
of Paris, famous as “the Sorbonne.”
JOBS AND MARRIED WOMEN
ST. PAUL, July 28, (£>)—Mrs.
Jewell Schulstad has begun a cam
paign to prevent employment of
married women by the state when
husbands are capable of support? v' j
them. TTT !
MAY AVERT WAR
WASHINGTON, July 28. (JP)—'The
Federal government believes that in
view of the conciliatory attitude
shown by the Manchurian faction and
the Nationalists in China, further
civil war in that country may be
averted. Secretary of State Kellogg
said that his attitude was hopeful.
CAPTAIN ROBERT B. WOOLVERTON,
OFFICER IN CHARGE
The City of Seward and this district of Alaska is
extremely fortunate in that the reins of the Signal Corps
System is placed in the competent hands of a man bear-'
ng the reputation of Captain Robt. B. Woolverton, who*
succeeds Captain Ralph R. Guthrie, as Officer in Charge
of the Second Section of the Washington Alaska Military
Cable & Telegraph System.
Captain Woolverton, Radio Officer in Charge since
his arrival here a year ago, is a man excellently fitted
for the management of the communications proper. He
is a graduate of Harvard University and of the Camp
Vail Signal School, and has been a Fellow in the Institute
of Radio Engineers spice 1915 which is the highest hon
ors that Institution can confer on a radio engineer.;
Captain Woolverton is reputed to be one of the most;
competent radio technicians in the United States Army
and previous to his connection therewith earned a splen
did reputation in the communication field by having in-1
stalled.the high-powered radio plants at San Diego, Hon
olulu and Manila. He was responsible for the installa
tion of the complicated Army radio net covering the;
States and rightly bears the reputation of one of the best
radio engineers in America. He is also a veteran of the
World War, where he was Army Radio Officer of the
Second U. S. Army.
The Alaska Signal Corps System will continue to!
forge ahead under the direction of Captain Woolverton
and' in assuming command the well wishes and congratu
lations of the entire city—we know the outlying links of
the Svstem will join us in this—are sincerely arid re-;
spectfully tendered him.
flffWH Fit—j
CONFESSION ASSASSIN
MEXICO CITY, July 28. (£>)—Gen.
eral Nanitno Zertiuche, chief of police;
of Mexico City, stated that a lull con.
fession has been obtained from Jose
de Leon Torri, accused assassin of
President Elect Obregpn, but that he
was unable to reveal "what it contain,
ed.
TO DANCE ALl^SU.MMER
NEW YORK, July 28. A dancej
marathon, which the promoters say
will continue all summer, began'at
Cone Isandstadum.lystwll.nyvyiyiyaiar
Coney Island stadium. About 100
couple are participating.
“SPEAKEA'SIES” padlocked
NEW YORK. July 28. (£>)—Eleven
“ j^iakeasies^' wiere padlocked1 in
Brooklyn in the new campaign to dry
up New York.
HICKMAN STILL ALIVE
HEARING IS SLATED
L03 ANGELES, July 28. {&)—An
appeal for a rehearing’ of the Califoor.
nia Supreme Court decision affirming
the death penalty for Williams Hick,
man, convicted kidnapper and slayer
of 12 year old Marian Parker, will be
heard here by Hickman’s attorneys.
NATIONAL liHSlS
50 GETS THE HONOR
a; _
NEW YORK, July 28. (JP)—'The ac.
ceptance speeches of Hoover and
Smith will be broadcasted by the Na_
tional Broadcasting Compfa|iy it is
learned. According to the Associated
Press the Hoover speech is to be made
August 11th. Smith will be on the air
probably during the week o.f August
19*th as no definite date has yet been
set.
RUSSIAN GEOLOGIST
PREDICT OIL CRISIS
MOSCOW, July 28. (JP)—Professor
Slrlgev, Russian geologist and oil
expert, who has just returned from
the United, States, where he studied
American oil production methods,
declares t'hat in five years America
will suffer a serious oil shortage,
in which event Russia will step to
the fore. „
“The United States in not a land
of technical miracles, as is gener
ally imagined, and the Soviet Un
it. does not lag technically behind
America.’*
. "the all-seeing medium
STEP R1&WT UP FOt-KSA
Qcy A CjOOD VIEW OF
THE PRESIDENT AT
PLAV- VO U CAN V
A0SOLUTBLV SEE
EACH AND El/ERV
NOVE HE MAKES
TO VISIT ALASKA
THREE WEEKS WILL BE SPENT
IN SOUTHEASTERN ALASKA,
STUDY RESOURCES
WASHINGTON, July 28. *(/P)—Sec
retary Jardine left Washington yes.
terday for a three weeks! inspection
tour of Southeastern Alaska. Secre.
tary Jardine will spend Sunday even,
ing and Monday with President Cool.
idg*a at Brule, and sail North from
Seattle August 7.
He plans to >sltudv the various ex.
future growth of Alaska with refer,
ence to 'power sites, forest and wild
life resources. Stops will be made
at Ketchikan, Sitka and at Juneau
where he will visit Governor George
i
A. Parks.
ABOLISH PRIZE FIGHTS?
SACRAMENTO, July 28. (/P)—'The
initiative measure to abolish prizie
fighting in California qualified for a
place on th*e November g'aneral elec,
tkra ballot.
WASHINGTON, July 28, (^—Es
tablishment of a wireless station at
the port of Manzanillo, provided the
people and city government r
funds for the construction of a build
ing, is planned by the Mexican
government.
The station will be of considerable
value to American shipping interests
as Manzanillo is the second most
important port of call on the west
coast of Mexico, Edward H. Hall, U.
S. vice consul there, says.
HD ENABLED TO STUDY
POLAR ELORA-AND11
BUFFALO, N. Y., July 28, (£>)
The Buffalo Society of Natural Sci
ences is supplying the Byrd Antarc
tic Expedition with equipment for
an oceanological survey, results of
which will provide comparison with
plant and animal life ar the North
Pole.
“Life in waters of the South Pole
is richer than in any other body of
vater in the world,” says Dr. Charles
F. Fish, director of the society. “All
cod is derived from the sea and
ne of the problems is its source.”
Data on life at the North Pole
vas obtained by the Putnam ex
pedition in 1927.
DROPS, REGAINS SPEECH
LOS ANGELES, July 28. (JP)—After
Iropping 11,000 feet in an airplane,
Mrs. Jennie Fowle, 70 years old wa-ss
ible to hear and speak for the first
ime.