VOLUME XXIII. NUMBER 75.
SEWARD,
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
ALASKA, FRIDAY, MARCH 30, l!
“Center of
(fkttnuan
228.
PRICE TEN CENTS
H BE CLOSED
DETER THIS SPRING
NEW REGULATIONS
PROTECTION ON BLACK BEAR TO
BE LIFTED OWING DESTRUC
TIVE HABITS
jt WASHINGTON, March 30. (JP)—Re
establishment of a closed season on
heaver after an open season this
spring is included in the revised hunt
ing and trapping regulations for Alas
ka has been adopted by the Depart
ment of Agriculture effective June 2S.
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Moose is given complete protection
-south and west of Kvichak River,
fliamna Lake, Kamishak and Kahonak
portage. The non-resident limit of
caribou and mountain sheep has been
reduced to two throughout the Terri
► iory.
Black bears in the northern portion
of the district will have protection lift
ed because of their habits of killing
moose and caribou calves. The scarci
ty of minks in certain parts of the dis
trict three, brought a closed season on
them.
JUNEAU, March 30, (JP)—Private
Sdwin W. Hall, operator in charge of
the cable office at Chilkoot, U. S. Sig
nal Corps, has been missing since
Sunday when he mysteriouly disap
peared. A warrant, charging larceny,
has been issued by the marshal’s of
fice. It is alleged he stole a boat, also
a one-cylnder motor. He enlisted at
Fort Lawton in 1927.
JSK STATIONS TO MARA
TOWEOS AS FLYING AID
WASHINGTON, March 29. (JP)—To
eliminate a serious hazard to aviation
which is developing rapidly in com
mercial centers, the Federal Radio
Commission may find is necessary to
order owners of broadcasting stations
to mark their towers in order to in
crease the visibility to fliers.
Aeronautical experts of the Army,
Navy and Commerce departments
have approved methods of marking
air navigation obstruction such as
radio msts, transmission towers and
Gag poles in the immediate vicinity
of an airport, intermediate Ijanding
HDbld or civil airway.
Three methods of painting are re
commended; For the maximum de
sired visibility, towers less than 250
feet in height should be painted alter
nate bands of white and chrome yel
low, separated by black bands of one
^ half the width of the white and
chrome yellow bands.
TAX REDUCTION
WASHINGTON, March 29.
Secretary Mellon will make the new
tax reduction recommendation or
April 3. It is expected -to be around
$200,000,000. President Coolidge is ex
pected to endorse them.
SPORTSWOMAN POTS
SOUGHT RECONCILIATION WITH
HUBBY WHOM SHE SHOT,
WOUNDED
NEW YORK, March 30. (TP)—Mrs
Esther Wilson, big game hunter and
sportswoman, shot and seriously
wounded her husband, Dallett 'Wilson
attorney, in the Fifth Avenue office ol
the corporation with which he is as.
sociated.
She told the police she had come
from Washington, where she has liv
ed for some time, to seek a reconcilia
tion with her husband. She said she
insisted “he stop running around with
other women,"
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TO CITIZENS AND FRIENDS
“I am not a candidate for the office
of Mayor of Seward and refuse to al
low my name to be placed on the bal
lot for the office of Mayor or Coun
cilman of the Town of Seward.”
Leon Urbach, Mar. 29, 1928
EPIDEMIC OF COUGH
RESULTS THREE DEATHS
NOME, Mar. 30. (jP)—The epidemie
of cough which has prevailed on St
Lawrence Island during the past foui
months resulted in the death of three
Eskimos. The toll this far has been
infants. Teachers of Gambell and
Sevoonga have not entirely escaped
the effects.
TORNADO STRIKES S. C.
, ROCKHILL, S. C., March 30. <£>)—
A tornado struck smashing windows,
blowing dowfn signs and damaging
buildings. It was not known an hour
after the storm if any were killed or
injured.
COLD FLOUT IS FOUND
NEAR RENO, NEVADA
RENO, Nev., March 30. (/P)—Rich
float with a streak of gold running
thru it and high silver content found
last fall, in the neighborhood of Red
Rock, a few miles north of this city,
is the object of a search for its source
by* William Berry, the discoverer of
the Berry mines in Six Mile Canyon
near Virginia. Berry believes he will
be : mcessful in locating the ledge
jfrom which the float came.
MOTHER ACCUSED
| KILLING YOUNGEST
EIGHT CHILDREN
NEIGHBOR WOMAN TELLS OFFI
CIAL SHE WITNESSED THE
KILLING
LOS ANGELES, March 30 (/P)—A
34-year-old mother is accused of kill
ing the youngest of her eight children
by dashing it to the flood, and has
been charged formally with first de
gree murder. The complaint was filed
against Mrs. Marie Ybarra by the Dis
trict Attorney after hearing the story
of a neighbor woman who said she
witnessed the killing of the child.
When the 22-months-old baby be
gan screaming Mrs. Ybarra shouted
(shut up and cursed the child as it con
tinued to cry. She is said to have
then seized it, raised it above her
head, and flung it to the floor. The
child died a few minutes later from a
fractured skull.
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[jury is deadlocked
IN SEATTLE BOOZE USE
SEATTLE, March 30, (^—Indica
tions point to the fact the jury has
reached a deadlock, deliberating the
liquor conspiracy case of Police Lieut
! enant George Comstock and Roy
Thornton, of Ketchikan. The case
w’ent to the jury Wednesday after
noon.
HURRAH FOR WALTER
TACOMA, March 30. (^—Continu
ing his spectacular winning streak,
Walter Cleghorn, of Seldovia, defeated
“Wildcat” Willie O’Brien of Boston.
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GALES SUBSIDING
DUBLIN, March 30. (/P)—Gales con
tinued to delay the German flight but
! it began subsiding this morning.
REMUS IS FREE
LIMA, Ohio, March 30, ijP)~-Oeorg€
Remus, former bootleg king and wif«
slayer, -won hie fight for freedom from
the insane hospital when the Third
District Court of Appeals held him
sane.
worn BIG GW
HUNTER TIKES SHOT
AT FRIEND HUSBAND
WANTED TO EITHER LIVE TO
| GETHER OR BE DIVORCED,
TELLS POLICE
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NEW YORK, March 30. (/p)—Mrs
Esther Wilson, Arctic explorer and big
game hunter, was arrested on the
charge of felonious assault after shoot
ing and seriously wounding her es
tranged husband, Dallett Wilson, Ne’W
York attorney.
i She told the police she had called ai
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her husband’s office to demand a set
tlement of their martial difficulty
and said “she wanted either they live
together or be divorced.”
ONE KILLED, FIVE INJURED
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j LONDON, March 29. (£>)—'The Dailj
1 Mail says that an airplane, piloted
by Miss Winthrop Brown, crashed in
to a stone wall near Dukinfield, Che
shire, today, killing a 10-year old boj
and injuring five other children
Neither Miss Brown nor her compan
| ion, a Captain Browning, was hurt.
Igoolidge signs dill
ISSUANCE SCHOOL BONDS
WASHINGTON, March 30, (/?)—
President Coolidge signed the bill
authorizing Seward and Anchorage
to float bonds of $50,000 and $100,00C
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respectively, for construction of new
schools. Seward is to pay semi-an
nually seven percent interest and An
chorage six percent.
Indian women ran tribal affairs, as well as their homes, says
Miss Margaret Ashley (upper left), who has been digging into the
mounds left by aborigines in Georgia. One of her finds was the
boulder above. Its carvings indicate to Miss Ashley that it was
I a monument to the Indians’ favorite sport, “chunkey stone.”
DEMOCRATS ARE -
RESPONSIBLE FOR
THE OIL SCANDAL
RECORDS SHOW, SAYS SENATOR
IN FULL BLOOM WILSON AD.
MINISTRATION
WASHINGTON, March 30, <£>)—
Senator Robinson, before the Senate,
said the conspiracy to get the control
of the Naval Oil Reserves was not
formed in Chicago during the Repub
lican Convention of 1920, but iin Wash
ington during the Wilson adminis
tration.
The conspiracy was participated
in by high administration officials
and aided and abetted by other high
standing Democrats.
The Senator said the record shows
wholesale influencing, by private oil
interests, of federal officials includ
ing Cabinet officers and important
assistants, and was in full bloom un
der the Wilson admistration; that ex
haustion of the Nation’s and the
Navy’s oil supply was already under
way and due to Democratic acts, both
in legislation and in administration.
GUS AGAIN STATES IS
STRONG FOR HOOVER
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CORDOVA, March 30, (£>)—Gus
Gelles, candidate to the Republican
National Convention, believes Her
bert Hoover the best qualified to give
Alaska the help needed for immediate
development. If Hoover is not nom
inated Mr. Gelles favors Lowden or
Dawes.
JACK RILEY, MINER,
MAKES FORTUNE IN
STOCKS AND QUITS
BUTTE, Mont., March 30. (£>)—Jack
Kiley, most prominent hoisting engin
eer in Butte, has retired after 39 years
of service in the world's mining me
tropolis. Mr. Kiley started as a boy
of 15 years at the Moulton mine in
1889 and was put in charge of all the
new hoists installed by the Anaconda
Copper Mining Company, his last ser- <*
vice being on the new 5,000 foot hoist
at the Belmont mine. His record dur
ing these years was flawless. Mr.
Kiley’s name will be found in many
stories of facts and fiction written
about Butte and its mines. Some time
ago he made an investment in stocks
which appreciated so heavily that Mr.
Kiley made the big stake. It is rum
ored that his investments were made
principally in Calumet & Arizona and
Greene Cananea.
The S. S. Starr was scheduled to ar
rive in port this afternoon from the
Westward.