VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 117
SEWARD, ALASKA. MONDAY, MAY 20,'1929.
PRICE TEN CENTS
fflJSTUD OKEHS
VALIDITY MONEY
ALASKA OFFICES
EACH PROTEST TAKEN UP IN
ORDER DEALTH WITH
EXCLUSIVELY
JUNEAU, May 20, (/P)—In an
exhaustive opinion rendered to
the auditor, Cash Cole, the legal
ity and validity of salaries paid
from Territorial funds to the;
highway engineer, the secretary
of Alaskan and also the governor
and governor’s clerk, was upheld j
by Attorney General Rustgard.
He told the auditor to have no ]
fear from prosecutions for miss
feasance or malfeasance in ap
proving and paying vouchers for
such services.
The opinion was in answer to
a letter addressed to Cash Cole,
also to treasurer Smith, recently
received from Attorney James
Wickersham in which he charged
appropriations for the clerical
staff of the governor’s office was
illegal as there was no specific
appropriation for that purpose
and that no salary could be paid
the highway engineer.
Rustgard takes up each of the
Wickersham protest in order and
dealt with each exclusively.
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SEARCH BEING MADE ift AUS
TRALIA FOR BIRTII CER
TIFICATE
LONDON, May 20, (/P)—The
London Daily Mail said the right
to the present Earl of Egmont,
known as the ‘‘Rancher Earl,”
to the title is disputed by Janies
William Percival, a sexegenarian
baker, living in North London
who is making a claim for the
earldom.
Legal proceedings have been in
stituted by the claimant who
says he is the son of August Per
cival, sixth earl.
The present title holder re
cently came from Alberta, Cana
da has not yet received any
money from the estate and is not
likely to do so until the present
controversy is settled.
A search is being made in
Australia for the birth certificate
of the new claimant which he
said would settle his right to
the title without a doubt.
The present earl is the object
of much curiosity since his ar
rival for he often has expressed
preference to life on his Alberta
ranch than to the luxury of an
earldom.
EIRLS SUSPENDED
FROM HIGH SCHOOL
LONG BEACH, Calif., May 20, (Ap
—Ten girls were suspended from
the Polytechnic high school and
Long Beach Junior college for their
part in a scrority initiation in j
vbich an 18 year old candidate was
paddled so severely she had to re- j
main in bed several days. .
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PARIS. May 20. (A5)—Dr. Hugo
Eckener, commander of the diri
gible Graf Zeppelin, left for Fred
richshafen after a careful in
spection of his ship. He has com
pleted preparations placing the
huge airship back in service. The
report is that the collapse of the
dirigible was caused by sabotage.
MIX TO TRY
FOR NEW WORLD'S
ENDURANCE MARK
VIOLA GENTRY TAKES OFF TO
MORROW WITH DESIGN
ER OF CRAFT
ROOSEVELT FIELD, N. Y., May
20, (JP)—A woman will command
one of the two planes being fitt
ed up to challenge the world’s
refuelling flight* record which is
now held by the plane “Question
mark.”
Miss Viola Gentry, former hol
der of the woman’s endurance
record, announced simultaneous
ly with Lieut. H. B. Clarke, of a
new assault planned on the mark
of 150 hours, 40 minutes and 15
seconds.
Lieutenant Clarke plans to take
off today in an effort to stay
aloft 200 hours. Martin Jensen
and William Ulbrich, a young
German pilot, will accompany
| him. The plane’s refueling device
will enable them to pick up cans
of gasoline from the ground.
Miss Gentry plans to take off
tomorrow Walter Carr, designer
of the craft, will accompany her.
Refueling will be accomplished
by another plane flying beneath
with a special pumping device.
MURDERER LIBERIAN
JOL1LTT. 111., May 20, (/P)—Nath -
an Leopold, the boy murdered, has
been made liberian for the Jolielt
penitentiary, it was announced.
LOS ANGELES. May 20, UP)—
Police arrested Matthew Guardera,
20 years old, cn a charge of assault
with intent to kill in connection
with the slashing of Mrs. Mary
Sheril! 30 years old, said to be a
N«;W /ork society woman. Police
were told the man and woman had
a duel with knives.
DID NOT PAY
NEW YORK, May 20, UP)—United
States custom coffers are richer by
'$24,595 representing duties and
penalties levied against Mrs. Lou
McQu’sten, influential resident of
Boston, who tried to smuggle jewel
ry and clothing into this country.
REPORTERS IDT TOLD TO
GO TO OLD IN HADES
WASHINGTON, May 20, (A5)—
Stepping out of role of diplomat for
I once Charles Dawes, newly apaoint
iod ambassador to Great Britain,
told reporters they could “go to
hell” when they askel him if ne
'was taking along silk knickerbock
ers to wear at royal functions.
GREATEST BRUSH FIRE
NOGALES, Ariz., May 20, UP)—
The greatest forest fire in the his
tory of Arizona was definitely
jchecked after laying to waste 15,000
to ores of timberland.
THRU ARCTIC ICE
CAPT. CHAS. WHITE, INSPECT- j
OR OF HULLS, AND SAVINE
ON BOILERS, SAIL
SEATTLE, May 20, (£»)—Pre
pared to blast his way thru the
ice-choked lanes in the Arctic,
Capt. John Backland, former
University of Washington student
and one of the youngest master
mariners in the North Pacific,
pointed his four-masted schooner,
the C. S. Holmes, for Point Bar
row where he expected to reach
in August.
The first points to be touched
enroute will be Gambel, Savoonga,
Tin City in Bering Strait, Cape
Prince of Wales, Kotzebue, Kavalia
Point, Point Hope and later, at
Wainwright
Capt- Crales White, inspector
of hulls, and paptain Savine Craft,
inspector of boilers, United States
steamboat inspection service, both
sailed on the W. M. Tupper for
a journey up the Yukon river to
Tanana, thence over the Alaska
Railroad to Fairbanks. They will
return via Skagway in Septem
ber.
BOARD AFPROKES !
EXPENDITURE FOB
LOCAL PLANE FIELO
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The following telegram relative
! to the local aviation field was \
received today by Mayor P. C.
McMullen from Major Malcolm
Elliott, president of the Alaska
Road Commission at Juneau and
I is self explanatory,
i Mayor P. C. McMullen:
| “Pursuant to your wire of the
16th the territorial board has ap
proved of the allotment of $6,000
for the Seward aviation field on
the condition that $1,500 thereof
land the necessary land be con
jtributed by local interests. Local
i cash contribution will be called
I for in installments as work pro
| gresses.
! “We propose to invite proposals
! in Seward and Anchorage and
! let contract to best bidder for
[clearing and grading approxi
; mately 12 acres limit of which
will be indicated on ground in
near future by our engineer.
“Publication of this informa
tion local press is authorized.”
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NATIONAL
Saturday’s Games
! Brooklyn 20, 6, Phillies 16, 8
Boston 5, 5, New York 4, 6
Pittsburgh 6, St- Louis 3
Chicago 7, Cincinnatti 0
AMERICAN
Phillies 5, 7, Washington 4, 5
New York 5, 5, Boston 2, 0
Detroit 11, Chicago 4
COAST
San Francisco 6, Los Angeles 3 ]
Hollywood 8, Missions 4 „
Sacramento 4, Oakland 3
Seattle 3, Portland 2
| TOI EDO, O., May 20, (£>)—A bank
'robber was shot and killed in hold
ing up the Ohio Saving Trust Co.,
bank.
MARRIAGE PREVENTED
SOFIA, Bulgaria, May 20. (/P)—
Rules of the Bulgarian Nat
ional church and the Roman
Catholic church prevented the
marriage of King Boris and the
Princess Giovanna of Italy it was
learned on high authority.
THREE MEN ARRESTED NEW
ORLEANS WITH MONEY
AROUND WAISTS
PINE BLUFF, Ark., May 20, UP)
—A city official is at liberty un
der a $25,000 bond and nine
others are in jail charged with
complicity to hold up the People’s
Bank & Trust Co., on April 26.
The bank was robbed on that
date by five unmasked men and
Ralph Reed, city attorney, is
charged with being an accessory
and with receiving stolen proper
ty.
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Reed is said to have received
$10,000 and his arrest followed.
The capture of three negroes on
accessory charges and recovery
of $1,000 in travelers checks, is
reported and are checks said
to be part of the funds stolen.
The three men were arrested
in New Orleans and each had
$7,000 in cash in money-belts.
They are said to be among the
five who actually staged the rob
bery. Two men and a woman
were arrested the day after the
holdup in Littlerock, also on ac
cessory charges.
MONTREAL, May 20, (/P)—Max
Schmflling, German heavyweight,
sjgne^ to fight Paulino at the Yan
kee Stadium, New York, on June 27,
Ur the benefit of the milk fund.
SCIENTIFIC CUP TO
JOIN FSCULTY STIFF
SAN FRANCISCO, May 20, {/P)—
Chief of Police August Vollmer, the
scientific cop of Berkeley, is to be
come a member of the faculty of
tne University of Chicago for six
months beginning October 1st, to
establish a bureau of research and
molice organization and adminis
tration.
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LEVEE GIVES IE
THOUSANDS ACHES
UNDER SI. HUBS
MEMPHIS, Term., May 20, (£>)—
The St. Francis river levee gave
way endangering the levees and
property on approximately 50,000
acres of land.
The break occurred at a spot
considered the weakest where sev
eral hundred men had been labor
ing desperately for several days to
avert the catastrophe.
There is no large town in the
path of the flood and it is believed
all residents escaped. Workers are
strengthening two other weak
places in the dike.
HAS PANTS LEFT
WASHINGTON, May 20 (/Pf— j
Prison authorities took away from i
Harry .Sinclair, oil magnate, all his
money except five or six dollars. !
SCIENTISTS TO
VISIT TERRITORY
AGAIN THIS YEAR
PARTY WILL HUNT BEAR ON
THE SEWARD PENINSULA
FOR MUSEUM
SEATTLE, May 20, (/P)—Wrang
ell Island will be the goal of a
scientific expedition sponsored
by the Filed Museum of Natural
History which will sail from Seat
tle June 5, on the liner Victoria.
Bruce Thornton of Chicago,
who will head the expedition, has
chartered the power schooner
Dorothy from Capt. O. O. Hvatum
and will use it for the cruise
from Nome to the Siberian Arc
tic.
Thorne will be accompanied by
two other scientists from the
j Field Museum. The Dorothy will
sail from Seattle on June 18 and
will take aboard a party of scien
tists at Nome before heading in
; to the Arctic.
The party will hunt bear on
Seward peninsula and will seek
walrus and other marine mam
mals, and birds, of the Arctic.
VALUABLE CARGO OF FURS TO
BE BROUGHT OUT BY
SCHOONER HOLMES
SEATTLE, May 20, '(^Begin
ning more than a 2,000 mile jour
ney by dogteam, B. F. McCut
cheon, veteran trader will leave
Banksland, in the Canadian Arc
tic, soon for Point Barrow where
he will meet the schooner C- S.
Holmes from Seattle, to bring
out a valuable cargo of furs ob
tained thru two years of trading
among the natives
The Holmes sailed from Seat
tle Saturday for Point Barrow via
the little settlements and trading
stations along the shores of Ber
ing Sea and the Arctic Ocean.
| In the cargo is included a sled
propelled by an airplane motor
and a tractor for use on the Arc
tic trails.
The first radio broadcasting set
has been sent to the top of the
world, on the schooner. A sea
sled, capable of making 30 miles
an hour, also radio receiving sets
for Eskimos living on the Arc
tic rim, are also included in the
large cargo. The broadcasting set
is for the Presbyterian mission
at Point Barrow.
IRISH VATICAN ENVOY
DUBLIN, May 20, (A3)—The Irish
Free State government officially
anounced it will send a diplomatic
envoy to the Vatican. The Vatican
will also be represented in Dublin.
SOLONS III AMAZED
IT ACTION OF WOMEN
WASHINGTON, May 20, (JP)—
Senators and other spectators rub
bpd their eyes in amazement when
Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth and
| Mrs. Dolly Gann, rival leaders in
the capitol’s social war, strolled
in the senate gallery together, sat
I down, and had a long amiable chat.