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MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXIII. NUMBER 57.
SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 1928.
PRICE TEN CENrJ>
Ill WOMEN LOST
IN RIVER COIM
MRS. E. FORREST AND MISS B.
LEAKE MISSING SINCE FEB.
RUARY 27, AND TEAM
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HOLLY CROSS, Alaska, March 9.J
(IP)—Mz-s. E. Forrest, wife of the
former superintendent of the Bureau
of Education Indian Schools, and Miss
B. Leake, nurse at the Government,
hospital at Akiak, who left Bethel, on|
the lower Kuskokwim River February
27, are missing with their team of
nine malamutes.
Urgent appeals from Mr. Forrest
for first hand knowledge have been
received here of the lost women. Al
phonse Detientieff left this morning
with a fast dog team to make a search
and will pick up additional teams and
Indians at Pimute to assist him.
The portage crossing is considered
the most dangerous in the windswopt
country with its many large lakes to
cross and no shelter for a distance of
50 miles. Northerly winds of high
velocity with low temperatures pre
vailed for the last five days and has
been a hazard to portage travel. Fear
is expressed the women lost the trail
and may have perished on the wind
swept ^country.
WOMAN LOST li TIE
INTERIOR MOTHER OF
CAME TO ALASKA 12 YEARS AGO
WITH HUSBAND PROFESSOR
FORREST
BELLINGHAM, March 9. (^>)—Mrs.
Earl Forrest, reported to be lost be
tween the Yukon and the Kuskokwim
rivers, with Miss B. Leake, was a
former student of the Bellingham
Normal Home and ■was also at Mo
|
clips, Wask.
Mrs. Forrest was a short story
writer and went to Alaska 12 years
ago with her husband and son, the
late Professor J. T. Forrest of the
Normal school faculty and later prin
cipal of the Fairhaven High school. |
Mr. Forrest and his wife have been
connected with the Indian school ser- |
vice for years but are now interested
in a merchantile company at Bethel.
Mrs. Forrest’ father is in California.
Her mother is dead. She is the moth
er of three children including twins.
VILLAGES INUNDATED
PEKING, March 9. (JP)—The Yellow
River is inundating 80 villages and has
made 20,000 persons homeless, near
its mouth. Chinese newspapers say
that several hundred people have been
drowned, but details are scarce.
V
The owls were right!
MAKES IT THREE STRAIGHT
LOS ANGELES, March 9* (/?)—The
University of Southern California won
ithe third straight game of basketball
from the University of Washington.
Ilf ENDING BREAK
BETWEEN AUSTRIA
COMPLAINTS REGARDING ITALY’S
TREATMENT OF GERMAN
SUBJECTS IN TYROL
VIENNA, March 9. (#>)—Giacinto
Aurit, Minister of Austria, is leaving!
for Rome to confer with Premier
Mussolini, in respect to Austria’s con
tinued complc^nts regarding Italian
treatment of German subjects in the!
Tyrol district.
His departure has already given
rise to rumors of an impending break
in the relations between Italy and
Austria.
The Tyrolese deputies insist Austria
cannot recede from the firm stand al
ready taken by Chancellor Sipel, rela
tive to “Italian Aggression.”
STARR DUE BACK 16
The S. S. Starr arrived at Ketchi
kan on the 5th and is due back in
Seward about March liL The vessol
goes direct to Tutka bay from Ket
chikan with the cannery crew which !
boarded the boat at that port.
George Colwell, roadmaster, south- j
ern division, Alaska, Railroad came i
into town last night.
Ml ASSENTS
! TO ENTRY OF NAME
IS CHALLENGING ANOTHER FAV
ORITE SON MOVEMENT; WAT
SON OF INDIANA
WASHINGTON, Mar. 9. After
a week of uncertainty as to his final
decision Herbert Hoover assented to
the entry of his name in the Republi
can Presidential primary in Indiana.
He declined to comment on the move
| but it is said, in his behalf, that the
Ohio situation where he is matched
against Senator Willis is the deter
mining factor.
In Indiana Hoover Is challenging
another favorite son movement. Wat
son previously entered to contest his
state’s 33 delegates it -is said and it
has been the belief that if Hoover is I
i
out of the Indiana primary it would
be harmful to his Ohio contest as it I
would make it appear he has singled !
out Willis for a foe.
■11 *«ra DIES
IS ILL TEN DAYS
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ATLANTA CITY, March 9. {£>)—
| Rodman Wanamaker died today from
| uraemia. The veteran merchant came
I here a month ago to recover from a
| cold. He apparently was recovering
I until he suffered a relapse 10 days
ago.
STORM STOPS FLIGHT
j DETROIT, March 9. (/P)—A sudden
(snowstorm forced Stinson and Halde
jman to .abandon their flight of an en
durance attempt after flying about 20
l h«ur9.
CAFE OWNER GETS
TWO, ONE-HALF YEARS
iCHASED SEVERAL THOUSANDS
MILES, BOATS, PLANES, THEN
GIVES SELF UP
LOS ANGELES, Mar. 9. (£>)—Gene
Wolay, owner of a cafe in Culver
City was sentenced to a total of two
and one-half years in the county jail
when he pleaded guilty to liquor law
violations in the municipal court.
Wolay was arrested in Ketchikan,
Alaska after a chase of several thous
and of miles in which steamships and
(airplanes were used by officers in the
j man hunt. He returned here and en
tered a plea of guilty.
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CALENDAR MAN RETURNS
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George B. Phillips, representative
of Lm famous Osborne Art Calendars
j returned to Seward last evening from
| a successful selling trip to Infcerior
points. Mr. Phillips departs for the
vuth on Saturday.
A1 Ferrin, mail carrier from Hope,
was among thd' local arrivals last nite
from Moose Pass.
HOOVER CALLS STANFORD CAMPUS HIS HOME
Stanford University in California bolds a big place in the interests of
Herbert Hoover (upper left), most recent entrant for the Republican Pres
idential nomination. Both he and * Mrs. Hoover (right) are graduates of Stan
ford, and their home (center) stands on its campus. Below at the left is
Hoover as he looked in 1896, the year he finish ed-his education there,
WAGNER RECEIVES OFFICIAL
SANCTION FOR REGULAR AL
ASKA AIR FEATURE
SEATTLE, March 9. (JP)—Radio
station K O M O has been authorized
by the United States Bureau of Edu
cation to conduct a radio institute for
Alaska teachers in the Government
service which will be probably the
most far-flung from point distance
lever established for teachers or stu
! dents anywhere.
This plan to use the radio broadcast
| came to light when Mr. Wagner, head
of the Bureau of Education in Seattle,
; received the official sanction for his
! department. The institute air feature
I will be known as the Alaska School
; Teachers Institute.
Tentative arrangements were made
| with K O M O several weeks ago but
j it just received final approval. Pro
gram will be broadcast each Friday
at 11 o’clock at night, beginning
March 16.
MEN JUMP FROM A DISTANCE OF
250 FEET UP AND ARE IN
STANTLY KILLED
MANAGUA, Mar. 9. (/P)—1The Buz
zard, slow and clumsey in flight, is
; credited with having brought to earth
i
: a fast moving American marine plane
! and killing its two Occupants, Capt.
i
William C. Byrd of Orangeburg, S. C.,
| and Sgt., Rudolph A. Frankforter of
■ Quantico, Va.
Speeding along over a heavily woocT
ed country in a test flight the plane
was struck by a large buzzard break
I ing a strut supporting the right wing
! as the plane was about to land at
| Esteli. The wing collapsed and the
; plane fell. The men jumped out when
250 feet up and were instantly killed.
MUNSON LINES SINKS
l IN MISSISSIPPI HIKER
! COLLISION, NORWEGIAN
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—
! NEW ORLEANS, Mar. 9. UP)—'Tho
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1 Munson liner Hermes sank in the
Mississippi River 30 miles below New
Orleans after a collision with the Nor
wegian steamer Modemi. The Mun
son offices reported the crew was tak
en aboard the Modemi which is badly
damaged and is being towed to New
Orleans. The collision occurred in a
dense fog.