VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 45 SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY SR UA.
PRICE TEN CEN iY
AERIAL!
S. E.
SURVEY BE RESUMED ABOUT
MAY 25: BASE WILL BE AT
KETCHIKAN
WASHINGTON, Feb., 23, (/P)—
The Navy will complete its aerial
survey of Southeastern Alaska
this summer at the requests of the
departments of Agriculture and
Interior.
Three Boeing amphibian planes
from the Seattle battle fleet, with
the U. S. S. Gannett as tender and
a barge now stationed at the Pu
get Sound Navy Yard, will arrive
in Southeastern Alaska about May
25 to resume the survey started in
1926.
The survey party will probably
have its base at Ketchikan: also,
at other times, at Juneau, Peters
burg, Sitka, and several photo
graphers will fly at an altitude of
10,000 feet over an area between
10,000 and 15,000 square miles.
The region under the survey in
clude Chiciagofand Baranof Is
lands, the Alaskan-Canadian bor
der, and a portion of the Tongass
National Forest which was not in
cluded in the previous survey.
The Interior, and Agriculture de
partments agreed' to furnish $15,
000 for the survey.
MURDER WAS THE ONLY WAY
KILLER SAID COULD SHOW
LOVE FOR GIRL
EAST ORANGE, N. J„ Feb., 22,
;7P)—Margaret Bowes, 20, was in
stantly killed and her twin sister
Frances seriously wounded when
shot by Peter Mooney, sergeant of
the Lackawanna railroad police.
He shot himself afterwards.
Frances and Monoey were taken
to the hospital.
In Mooney’s pocket was found
a note saying “Murder is the only
way I can prove my love for this
girl.”
SEPPHJ TAKES THE
SEMI UP IN DDE
DERBY m QUEBECi
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QUEBEC Feb.. 23. «P1—Winning J
i,he second heat in the Seventh In j
ernat’.onal dog derbv with a mar-;
:rin of 13 minutes and 22 seconds
aver iris nearest rival. Seppnla to
day took the lead from Frank Du
; nis, who won the first lap Thurs- j
day. Hi Goddard third, finishing j
11 minutes behind Dupuis.
Sepmla, bv his feat, gained seven !
minute' and 22 seconds on Dupuis .
His time, however, is about 30 min- |
utes slower than the record Dupuis j
ret.
NEW JOB FOR LINDY
WASHINGTON, Feb., 23, iff]—
Secretary Whiting announced the
appointment of Col. Cnas. A. Lind
jbergh as technical adviser of the
aeronautics branch in the Com
merce department.
ROCKEFELLER RANGE IS THE
NAME GIVEN VAST NEW
MOUNTAINS
1 NEW YORK, Feb., 22, (ff)—'The
Times and St. Louis Dispatch an
nounced Commander Byrd, in an
j extensive airplane flight made
1 with two planes last Monday, dis
covered and mapped in part a
vast new territory in the Antarc
tic which he has claimed for the
United States and named for his
wife, Marie Byrd Land.
! He also discovered a second new
mountain range, east and south
of the first discovered by him, and
named it Rockefeller Range.
About 40,000 square miles has
been explored from the air.
WASHINGTON, Feb., 23, (ff)—
The United States is producing
minerals with a value of $0,000,000,
000 annually and is finding em
ployment for a million workers In
mines, quarries, coke ovens and
metal plants. The figures were
made public by Scott Turner, di
rector of the Bureau of Mines, in
connection with his annual re
port of the year’s activities.
CORAH DEFINITELY REFUSED
OFFER ATTORNEY GENER
ALSHIP, STATED
WASHINGTON, Feb., 23, —
Intensive consideration in the se
lection or members oi the cabinet
occupied President-elect Hoover
yesterday.
In the course of the lengthy con
ferences advisers, political leaders
and friends of Senator Borah, said
he had announced definitely that
he had refused the offer to the
post oi Attorney General which
Mr. Hoover made to him.
Hoover conferred with Mellon,
Eugene Meyeyr, chairman of the
federal farm loan board; Carl
Vrooman of Illinois, assistant sec
retary of agriculture under the
Wilson administration; Work of
the National Republican organiza
tion, and Representative Wood of
Indiana, chairman of the Congress
ional campaign committee.
JUNEAU. Feb. 23. ;,P> The fx
halibut of the s°' 'on. 300 Mine.-,
from 11 beets only three or for
*’ 'VS cut, was shim; on '1
steamer Queen Iasi n! ht. Tu«
nricc nere is it to r'jht cents a •• 1
12 and one-half to nine cents.
WALKER WINNER
FRANCISCO, Feb.. 23, UP) -
Vhekoy Walker, the middleweight
hampion, deci ionc-d over Jacs
Willis c.f San Antonio, in a non
*">tio fight before 15,000.
MEW kO.iCK, >Y>, .
• Pauinio Uzeik.w-i ...
‘Ohrisimei i.\ lj ou .,s.
| OVERHEATED STOVES CAUSED
FIRES IN TWO DESTHOV
ED HOMES
PITTSBURGH, Feb., 22, UP)—
Persons and members of two fam
ilies were burned to death in fires
which destroyed homes in western
Pennsylvania.
Mi s. Leo Mangold and her five
children perished at Hillsboro;
Zenas Berkey and her three chil
dren died in their home. Both
fires resulted from overheated
stoves.
Mr. Mangold and his brother
Donald escaped uninjured from
their home and Mrs. Berfcey’s
husband escaped the other fire but
suffered burns.
FRUSNO, Calif., Feb., 23, UP)—
Mrs. Reyes Cota, aged 130. proba
bly the oldest woman hi Califor
nia, died at Mendnta. Fresno Coun
t". Her daughter, Mrs. Rosenda de
/ rango, who is 90 years old, vouch
es for her mother’s age.
The woman made he” home at
a ranch near Mendota where mem
bers of her family are employed
rs cotton pickers. Mrs. Cota was
born in Mexico December 24, 1798.
-Tne had enjoyed good health un
il the illness which resulted in
her death.
for tor I /»S’r VVRRR HAO RRRN
j LEV*vO AVTTll WOMAN WHO
CLAIMED RE MOTHER
SAN WPAVCISCO. Feb., 23. bP)-_
Doris Murohv war returned safelv
;o he; parents. For the last wsw
■ 'e w««» living • t the home of Mi
'.nd Mre wbnrtes Snarp who saul
‘hev b-lieved hci their daughter
Hetty a^d told a story of being re
"uited by a stranger. They said
thi.y had not, seen their child hr
nany months.
Mrs. Helen Murphy when told of
ne discovery, almost suffered a
••oliapse when she met the child
and id nti'ied her
Captain of Detectives Duncan
Matheson said two men and a
”omnn whose names he xa . he
did not know, would be charged
with kidnapping. He said that the
three, two of whom were presuma
ble Mr. and Mrs. Sharp, are under
arrest.
Following the story related by
Mrs. Sharp as how she obtained
Doris .die said she went to Vallejo
‘iv fe> >’v and there on the dock was
a dark-haired man with the little
girl. The child was dressed in a
pink and wiiite cotton frock and
bloomers. When Doris disappeared
barely two hours, previously, she
was wearing a & of blue and
white checkered material. Then
the man gave her the child and
disappeared.
She said the ch.l i did not i<w
hke her Betty Lad :be was friendly
and in a short ton > t! nuii • r be
came convinced she wa - her own
daughter. Mrs. Sharp said she had
no further suspicion the child was
not. bee’s until yesterday when .
•eal estate man, C. C. Bidwell, saw
ihe woman end child on the strttf
md exclaimed "That's ihe mis ing
baby”. She said she was surprised
mt gave the child up wnen the ut
i: ition was explained.
THE DISCOVERER OF NEW LAND S IN THE FRIGID
ANTARCTIC
Uuinniander Richai u r>yiu (inset) who n o days ago tascov'eied a vast new
land in the Antarctic which he has na med after his wife, Marie Byrd Land.
Above shows a photograph of the des olate areas of ice which surronds the
F*'” r f The Bvrd expedition’s h°*p ^mn, Above is one of the planes.
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SEATTLE, Feb., 23, iTPi—The S. S.
Lleut’an, of the A S. S. Co., sailed
,t 9 o’clock this morning with 198
lassmgers. The Reward passengais
,'ere: Mrs W. D. Clark, Tony Lind
trom, L. Lee, Wm. Cook, Stephen
aspee Mrs. H. Beebe. Mrs. C. A.
ifatson. J. J. Datton, ,T. F. Tolman,
t. Williams, Frank Wright, L. Nun
■>11, C E. Robinson, Geo. Hanley, R.
t A'britton, James Miller.
Jar Barrack, Wm. Bryson, R. T.
irsh C. Randall, Harry Seiden
erg, Jack Collin. J o. -
asmu«sen, Mrs. p. Cavanaugh ana
lild.Mr. and. Mis. Joe Henderson,
dna Flowers. Mrs. D. C. Beyers and
vo children, Ray Larson, Mr. and
!rs. Jas. Kennedy, Fred Pader'on,
r. and Mrs. D. Runyan, Jane Run
in. J. W. Noble. W. F. Smith, A. K.
onney, A R. Simmons. H. W. Wh
in, C A. Cobb, J. E. Wadman, M.
viand, j. J. Clausen, A. J. Han
m, Fail E. Borland. Mrs. E. Kou
ad, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Perl and
ur steerage.
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