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COAST TERMINAL FOR THE ALASKA
RAILROAD
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXII.
NUMBER 110.
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SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 1927.
PRICE TEN CENTS
Trade Depression
Alaska Vanishing
After Ten Years
IMPORTS LAGGING BUT EXPORTS INCREASE, AC
CORDING TO DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
STATEMENT REVIEWING TERRITORIAL STA
TISTICS-REINDEER INDUSTRY IS BRIGHT—DE
MAND FOR MEAT STEADILY INCREASING-SAL
MON AND COPPER CUT SHARPLY INTO EXPORT
FIGURES
SEATTLE, June 1. (/P)—A Seattle Times special from
Washington said Alaska is pulling out of the trade depres
sion which struck in 1918 and back to a normal gain in
exports, although imports lag behind, says a statement
from the regional information division of the Department
of Commerce. Falling price levels, particularly in sal
mon and copper, cut sharply into export figures which
compared with war days.
SIX WALRUS HUNTERS
SWEPT ESI SIBERIA
FAMILIES OF HUNTERS SURVIVE
FAMINE WHICH CAUSED DE
PARTURE
SEVOONGA, June 1. (/P)—Six sur
vivors of a party of eight walrus hunt
ers who were driven from the coast of
Siberia to St. Lawrence Island during
a February Arctic snow storm, re
turned home in whale boats which
came to search for them. St. Law
rence Island has been free of ice since
May 15. The Eskimos are still suf
fering from frost bite. The Siberians
brought word that their families sur
vived the famine which caused the
hunters to set out in the storm to find
food.
SEIZURE AMERICAN
VESSELS HIGH SEAS
IS DEGEARED LEGAE
WASHINGTON, June 1. (£>)—'The
Supreme court declared legal coast
guard seizure of American vessels on
the high seas beyond the 12-mile limit.
The decision was made in the case of
the steamer Underwriter, captured 34
miles off Block Island.
SUES SEATTLE MAN
SEATTLE, June 1. (/P)—Glaver
Cleary, Alaskan fox farmer, asks §50,
000 damages from Chester Roberts,
president of the Imperial Candy com
pany of Seattle, for alienating his
wife’s affections. Cleary has also
filed suit for divorce.
I Canned salmon alone decreased sub
stantially 100 per cent from $38,000,000
in 1919 to S19,500.000 in 1921. The de
partment considers that at the end of
last year a readjustment to new con
ditions was completed. Exports in
total were up to .$73,000,000 compared
with $56,91S,000 in 1924. Imports of
the Territory in 1926 aggregated $31.
587.000. a decline of about a half a
million dollars in value from the pre
vious year, but ranking well above the
years of depression and approaching
toward the higher figures of the best
years of Alaska trade. The banner
year for exports was 1919 with $337,
476. “The reindeer industry gives
promise of ,becoming increasingly im
portant as the herds multiply and the
meat becomes better known in the
United States,’* says the department.
“It seems that at the end of last year
reindeer in Alaska numbered half a
million and that the Territory is capa
ble of maintaining 10,000,000. The
export of reindeer meat increased in
value from $53,000 in 1924 to $111,450
in 1925 to $127,760 last year.”
COURT DEFINES ACTION
WASHINGTON, June 1. (£>)—'The
Supreme court held in the case of
Vuco Perovech of Alaska that the
President, without the consent of a
convict can change the death sentence
to ilfe imprisonment.
NORTHERN SOURS
ARE BEING WITHDRAWN
PEKING, June 1. (£>)—’The North
ern authorities made an official an
nouncement of the wholesale with
drawal of Northern forces from the
front owing to reverses in Honan. The
withdrawal means surrender to the
Southern Nationalists of all of Honan
Province south of the Yellow river,
all of Anhwei Province and the entire
Lunghai railway.
WATER NOTICE
Water may be shut off at 1 o’clock
tonight on Fourth, Third, Second and
First streets.
NARROWS WORK BEGUN
PETERSBRG, June 1. (^—Dredg
ing and blasting Wrangell Narrows
has started. It is expected to take a
year to complete the work.
INFURIATED CITIZENS I
BUTTLE OFFICERS SIX;
HOURS FOR KILLER
TWO THOUSAND STORM TAMPA
JAIL—ELEVEN PERSONS ARE
WOUNDED
. I
TAMPA, Fla., June 1. (JP)—A six-1
hour battle betwefeen the police and ;
infuriated citizens .counted 11 persons j
wounded before it Jended when a com
pany of 100 National Guardsmen took
position behind ihachine guns, tear
and gas bombs in the Hillsbaraugh ,
jail. Throughout the night a mob of
, . . I
2,000 persons stormed the jail to get j
B. F. Levins, confessed murderer. De-j
spite the assurances of Sheriff Pliers !
that the prisoner had been removed to !
another jail the mob persisted in at-!
I
tempts to break into the jail and were
|
not deterred even when the sheriff
ordered deputies to fire on the crowd, j
Nine men and two women are known i
to have been wounded. Streams of j
amonia were played by the chemical
squad of the fire department. In one .
attack 50 men succeeded in breaking \
a hole in the jail wall. Two attackers
fell through the hole and were arrest
ed. Some of the attackers took a po
sition in a church across the street
and returned the officers’ fire. The
appearance of soldiers apparently cool
ed the mob’s anger.
RED CROSS DIRECTOR
KILPATRICK KILLED
1 AIRPLANE CRASH
WAS CHIEF OF REHABILITATION
IN SOUTHERN ZONE OF FLOOD
DEVASTATION
BATON ROUGE, June 1. (/P)—Earl
Kilpatrick, chief of rehabilitation of
the American Red Cross, was killed
when an airplane up 1,500 feet, in
which he was a passenger en route
from Memphis to New Orleans, crash
ed in a field at Hohen, 40 miles south
of here. Lieutenant Joe Grogory,
naval aviator, piloting the plane, was
unhurt. Kilpatrick had been directing
Red Cross work from Memphis and
was en route from a conference on
reconstruction work in the flood devas
tated valley.
IS FIRST UNIT ONLY
SEATTLE, June 1. (/P)—It is report
ed here that direct service between
San Francisco and Alaska will be es
tablished soon by the Western Alas
ka Transportation company of Anchor
age. The firm has chartered the mo*
torship Lassen for the first unit.
QUALITY OF ALASKA
COLL IS SIMILAR TO
IT PACIFIC COAST
QUALITY
TIME NOT FAR DISTANT WHEN
UPPER MATANUSKA COALS
BE MINED
CAPPS REPORT ON COAL FIELD
EMBRACES 200 MILES SQUARE
CHICKALOON INCLUDED
SEATTLE, June 1. (JP)—A Times
special dispatch from Washington said
considerable bodies of coal in the up
per Matanuska valley are of as good
quality as any other coals of the en
tire Pacific coast. This is described
as a “significant economic fact” of the
Geological Survey report by Stephen
Ft. Capps, issued by the Department of
the Interior. “Mining of these coals
will involve many technical prob
lems” says the report, “as the beds
are much folded and faulted, and
here and there are intruded by igneoi:
rocks and considerable prospecting
should therefore precede any exten
sive expenditures. Mining will doubt
less be costly, and at present there is
no adequate means of transportation,
so development of the field to be suc
cessful should be undertaken only af
ter mining and marketing costs have
been carefully determined.” It is sug
gested that competition of cheap Cali
I fornia oil will inevitably decrease
j and thatthe time* may not be far
j away when the coal of the upper Mat
! anuska field can be profitably mined
land become a valuable aid to the in
| dustries of Alaska. The region cov
I ered by the report embraces about 200
j square miles, including the Chickaloon
mine on the Alaska Railroad coal spur
and the country east of it. The coals
are described as ranking in quality
from high rank bituminous to anthra
cite.
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PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
j Oakland 12, Missions 7.
Los Angeles 7, Seattle 5.—12 in
nings. .
San Francisco 3, Portland 1.
Sacramento 2, Hollywood S.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Cleveland 0, Detroit 1.
New York 10-18, Philadelphia 3-5.
Boston 4, Washington 1.
St. Louis 2, Chicago 7.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Brooklyn 3, Boston 2.
Philadelphia 3, New York 13.
Chicago 9. Pittsburg 10.
Ciccinnati 0, St. Louis 1.
NEW BOARD MEMBER
WASHINGTON, June 1. (/P)—
Claude M. Henry of Redfield S. D.;
was appointed today, a member ol
the Federal Board of Vocationa:
Education by President Coolidge.
CALL BOY” WINS DERBY
EPSOM, Eng., June 1. (/P)—Frank
Curzon’s ‘‘Call Boy” won the 144th
running of the historic Derby with
King George and King George among
the thousands of spectators.
JUDGE DEED GIVES
JUS. iCKEOl
TEMPORARY ORDER
INJUNCTION APPLIES TO SECRE
TARY FOR SALARY AND OVER
TIME FOR STENOGRAPHERS
JUNEAU, June 1. (JP)—Federal
Judge Reed in a 41-page decision, is
sued a temporary injunction restrain
ing the Territorial Treasurer from pay
ing out money from the Treasury' for
overtime to subordinate officers of the
recent Legislature, whose compensa
tion is provided by the Federal gov
ernment. Judge Reed enjoined the
Treasurer from payment of any mon
eys to Secretary Karl Thiele as salary
carried on under Territorial laws. The
injunction was denied in all other
items oJ the suit brought by James
Wickersham who sought to prevent
1 payment of salaries to the Governor
and members of his staff, for enter
tainment. repairs to the Executive
mansion, for salaries of chief clerk of
'the Secretary of Alaska and other
members of his staff and office ex
penses. Judge Reed held that the Ter
! ritorial Secretary is not eligible for
appointment to any office under the
Alaska government which he has been
performing as imposed upon him by
every Legislature since 1913. The de
cision read: “By acquiescence, he is
an officer de facto of the Territorial
government.”
DEMENT GETS
ALLEGED LIST 0 F
«. S. COMMUNISTS
RUSSIAN FIRMS WILL FULFILL
PRESENT CONTRACTS, IS
STATED
—
WASHINGTON, June 1. (/P)—Thte
! State Department has received the
(names of Americans listed as com
^ munists, as revealed by the British
raid on Arcos House, but found prac
tically no information. Reports from
Moscow stated that Commisar M.
Mickoian declared his department
would stop all trade operataions in
Great Britain but Russian firms will
fulfill present contracts.
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SENDING BIG REPRESENTATION
AMSTERDAM, Holland, June 1.
! (/P)—Germans seem to be determined
to carry all before them by sheer
weight of numbers at next year’s
Olympic Games here. Preliminary
figiwes issued by the Olympic Com
mittee show that of some 2,000 pros
pective competitors from 14 different
nations 400 are Germans.