MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XX111. NUMBER 11. SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, 1928. PRICE TEN CENTS
Army Engineers
Report Favorably
On Local Project
ESTIMATED COST $85,000 IS ONE-HALF OF TOTAL
COST OF PROPOSED PROJECT—IMPROVE
MENT OF KETCHIKAN CREEK, COSTING $272,
000, AND CHANNELS FOR LAGOON, PORT
ALEXANDER, .ESTIMATED AT $17,000 ALSO
APPROVED—HOUSE APPROVES INTERIOR
DEPARTMENT APPROPRIATION BILL.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 14. (/P)—The army engineers
report was submitted to Congress yesterday and approv
ed of the improvement of Ketchikan Creek, Saxman Har
bor, at an estimated cost of $272,000. The engineers have
made a preliminary examination and survey of the work
contemplated which involves the construction of a break
water, dredging and the annual cost of maintenance.
Engineers said this maintenance would be merely nomi
nal for many years.
NOTED SPORTSMAN DIES
APPROVE SEWARD PROJECT
At the same time the engineers ap
prove of the proposals from local in-1
terests in Resurrection Bay for the >
development of a refuge harbor at
Seward, estimated to cost $85,000,
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 14. (/P)—A.
, J. Reach, one of the founders of the
Sporting Goods Co., bearing his name
and an old time baseball player, died
at Atlantic City at the age of 87.
half of :ho total cost.
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They also approved the proposals
to provide a channel 15 feet deep and
40 feet wide at the entrance to the
inner lagoon at Port Alexander, Chat_
ham Strait, near the lower end of
Baranoff Island, as an operating base j
for fishing vessels in season. The ‘
estimated cost of this is $17,000.
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INTERIOR BILL PASSES
WASHINGTON, Jan. 14. (£>)—'The
House approved the Interior Depart
meat- appropriation bill carrying
$272,427,000 and sent it to the Senate.
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KETCHIKAN, Jan. 14. (&)—'The
Republican Club organized last night
and voted to ask other towns in the
First Division to consider a sectional
meeting here at an early date with
the view towards a Territorial Con
vention later. At the next meeting
it was proposed to adopt a platform.
Harry McCain was elected president
and M. E. Giddea, secretary.
STRIBBLING WINNER
WITCHITA, Kas., Jan. 14. (/P)—
Young Stribbling defeated Chuck
Wiggins of Indianapolis.
TUXES WILL HE BID
EFFECTS Oil BUSINESS
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NEW YORK? Jan. 14. (£>)—Secre
tary of the Treasury Andrew Mellor
declared that if Congress reduced tax
es below 3225,000,000 which tht
' Treasury recommends, higher rates
i might have to be voted to meet gov
I ernment expenses with consequent
harmful effects on business. He ad
dressed the Woman’s National Repub
lician Club.
TO CONVEY PRESIDENT
NEW YORK, Jan. 14. (/P)—The bat
tleship Texas is at Keywest, Fla.,
to take President Coolidge and party
to Havana and bring them back after
Coolidge delivers a speech at the
Pan-American Congress.
BATTLESHIP TEXAS WILL CON
VEY PRESIDENTIAL PARTY
FROM KEYWEST
RICHMOND, Va., Jan. 14. (£>)—
Bound lor Cuba to address the Pan_
American Congress President Cool
| idge, in the early stages of the jour
ney, passed territory rich in American
history.
A long special train, which left
Washington in the afternoon, arrived
at Fredericksburg, Va., the heart of
the battleground in the Civil War, be
j fore dinner.
Richmond, once the Confederate
capital, was reached from here on the
j route. The President’s special then
| went thru Carolina, Georgia, Florida
j and Jacksonville was reached in the
morning.
| He stopped for one hour at Miami
during the night. The train will stop
at Keywest where the Presidential
party will board the battleship Texas
Sunday morning for the crossing to
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Havana.
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DEMOCRATS SQUARE
AWAY TO TASK OF
ALL LEADERS OF PARTY, EX
CEPTING SMITH, ATTEND
WASHINGTON BANQUET
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 14. (£>)—'With
the fires of the Jacksonian Democra
tic party kindled anew to guide it
tho Demo-cratic party squared aw-ay
for the task of selecting a presi
dential nominee next June at Hous
\ ton^ Texas.
The picture of a pathway to the
White house was illuminated by the
principles of Jackson and Jefferson
which stands before the party lead
ers. This was portrayed to them
last night by a parade,
i Contenders for nomination, who
i voiced for pleas for internal accord
and a united front for the campaign,
all a^e prominently mentioned ex
cept Governor Smith, who sent a
message, appeared before the party
leaders who, with the Democratic
National Committee, partook of a
Jackson day dinner winch had har_
mony as its main course.
All factional strife that marked
the recent party history appeared
forgotten at the banquet table. But
one suggestion of controversy, com
with the triple mention of the
prohibition, was the subject intro
duced by Governor Ritchie of Mary
land who urged the prohibition ques
t.on be settled by the self determina
tion and Home Rule.
That prompted John W. Davis, 1924
Standard bearer and banquet toast
master to voice his opinion that a
test of a candidates fitness hould
not be based upon his views on pro
hibition.
WARDEN’S NERVES SHATTERED
NEW YORK, Jan. 14. (/P)—Warden
■jewis Laws of Sing Sing prison, is
)n his way to Palm Beach for a 10
lays rest. His nerves are shattered
>y the ordeal of the execution of Mrs.
luth Snyder and H. Judd Gray. He
ong has been opposed to capital pun
shmemt.
LINDY ON VACATION
COLON, Jan. 14. (Jp)—Colonel Chas.
l Lindbergh hopped off this«morning
or a five day vacation near the town
f David, 200 miles west of Panama,
le will hunt and fish before continu,
ng his fliight.
OLD TIMER DROPS DEAD
SEATTLE, Jan. 14. (Jp)—William
V. Ward, age 69, a veteran Alaska
old rusher, dropped dead from heart
allure at his home yesterday.