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VOLUME XVI. NUMBER 101. SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY; MAY 8, 1931.
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PRICE TEN CENTS
CHILDREN KILLED
m GRADE CROSSING
BUS. TRAIN COLLIDE
TWENTY-ONE IN HOSPITALS
WHERE FOUR ARE IN CRI
TICAL CONDITION
mekcejj, cam., may b, ;
Five school children ranging in
age seven to ten years, are dead,
and three others and a man are
in a critical condition. A school
bus and a train collided at a
grade crossing.
Hie school bus was crowded
with two-score small children
enroute home and were thrown
into a ditch when a locomotive,
on a slowly moving freight, hit
it broadside.
The children were crushed un
der the wreckage. The dead are
Robert Fuller, 10; Dolores Epsen,
3; Billy Epson, 8, twins; Dolores
Janette, 8; Marshal Pirtel, 7.
Eighteen children are in one
hospital and three in another, in
addition to several slightly injur
ed who were treated and taken to
their homes.
The sheriff’s investigation show
ed the bus was crossing the
tracks when the train, on a side
track, struck it.
Witnesses said they saw the
bus slow down as it approached
the track, as if the driver shifted
his gears, then move onto the
rails in front of the locomotive, j
The driver, Douglas Creggar, 59, j
was badly ' injured. He said he
thought he put the gears in
neutral but must have meshed;
them.
Other witnesses said Creggar
gasped, “I never saw the train!”!
CHICAGO, May 8, (/P)—It took
the Cubs 11 innings to beat Cin- i
cinnati and to sweep the three:
game series but managed to do it
by the score of 5-4.
Eight Cubs jumped on Pitcher
Si Johnson and his relief hurler,
Bennie Fry to tie the score.
The winning run came over
when Wilson, who was walked,
came in on a long fly by Earl
Grace, pinch hitter for Zach Tay
lor.
MUST OBSERVE
HUNTING LAWS, TOO
NEW YORK, May 7, (JP)—Now
the doggies are being enlisted to
conserve game for better hunt
ing when it's hunting time.
E. Lee LeCompte, state game
warden of Maryland, has announc
ed that his deputies will strictly
enforce a law makng it illegal for
dogs to run at large between
March 1 and September 1.
The warden blames dogs,
"hunting out of season” with the
wholesale destruction of rabbits,
game birds and eggs during the
nesting months.
ROBERT DOLUR IS
SERIOUSLY ILL, SOOTH
SAN RAFAEL, Calif., May 8. (JP)
—Robert Dollar, 86, president of
the Dollar Lines, is under the care
of physicians.
He had a fever of 103 last night.
His illness is attributed to con
tinuation of an ailment which
necessitated an operation several
weeks ago and he declined to go
to bed at the doctor’s orders.
MILLI001E CUSS
LOSES 24 MEMBERS
YEARLY 10 BRITAIN
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LONDON, May 8. (/P)—Great!
Britain’s millionaires are vanish
| ing at the rate of two a month.
There are now 487 millionaires
in the United Kingdom, 24 less
than last year.
In Britain a man is considered
a millionaire when his income ex
ceeds $250,000 yearly.
The “Blue Book” of the Inland
Revenue department, which is a
balance sheet of the nation’s tax
payers, shows 130 with incomes
above $500,000 and 104 with in
comes upwards of $375,000. '
The total income of the 487 mil- j
lionaires, as assessed for the su-!
per-tax, was $238,673,908.
Fifty thousand more people paid:
income taxes in England last year!
j than in the previous year, a total |
j of 2,250,000 persons.
I The man who has an income of
| $750,000 has to pay nearly half.
In all, income tax payers contri
buted to the government last year
$3,377,307,836.
SHOWER BATH ON TRAIN
! LONDON, May 7, (/Pi—The first
} hot and cold shower bath to be
! installed on a railway train in
j Great Britain has been fitted ex
! perimentally in a sleeping car
ion an Edinburgh express.
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MADE ON PLANE SHIP
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 8. (>P)
—To Lieut. William Miller Jr. has
gone the honor of making the 10,
000th airplane landing on board
the aircraft carrier Langley.
Hs even number landing was a
signal for similar acts by pilots
on the two other carriers. Lieut.
W. D. Johnson Jr. put his plane
down on the deck of the Lexing
ton for the 6,000th landing while
Lieut. H. S. Duckworth made the
9,000th carrier landing on the
Saratoga.
RADIO CHAIN FOR AFRICA
LONDON, May 8. (JP) — Africa
soon is to have a vast system of
radio stations, stretching from
Cairo to the Cape. It will link
Uganda, Kenya Colony, Tangan
yika, Northern Rhodesia, Southern
Rhodesia and the Union of South
Africa.
Inclosed in a metal cabinet, an
electric heater that employs a fan
to circulate the air is capable of
heating a large room quickly.
HALIBUT FARES
PRINCE RUPERT, B. C., May 8,
(iP)—One hundred and forty-five
thousand pounds of American hal
ibut sold for 7 to 12c. At Seattle
9,000 pounds sold for 7 and 11c.
EH HI FIELDS;
PEOPLE HETDRNIIIG
EVARTS, Ky., May 8. (/P)—This
town assumed a military air as
patrols of National guardsmen
were posted in strategic qoints to
guard against recurrence of labor
outbreaks costing five lives in
nearby coalfields.
Three hundred troops arrived
late yesterday; no disturbances
.took place and families, who fled
I from their homes, returned and
school will be reopened Monday.
The commander of the guards
conferred with <nineworkers and
operators with the view to ending
the disorders and it is said the
• conferences were satisfactory.
Governor Sampson said he looked
for a settlement of all differences.
NATIONAL
St. Louis 11, Pittsburg 5.
Cincinnati 4. Chicago 5; this j
game went 11 innings. No other;
i games were played.
AMERICAN
| Chicago 1, Detroit 6.
i Cleveland 4. St. Louis 10. These ,
| were the only games played.
COAST
: Seattle 1, Portland 3.
Frisco 8, Hollywood 4.
Los Angeles 6, Missions 12.
Sacramento 2, Oaland 3. This
' game went 13 innings. The last
three were night games.
FISH INDUSTRY IS
FACING DILEMMA
III HALIBUT WAR
Seattle’s huge fresh fish indus-'
try faced a dilemma last week
with the arrival in port of 16
schooners with nearly 300,000
pounds of halibut and cod, and
inability of the recently organized
United Pacific Fisheries, composed
of vessel owners, to purchase the
offerings.
Fish dealers who formerly pur
chased catches on the Seattle Hal
ibut Exchange at Pier, 8, refused
to deal with the vessel owners
and the fish, packed in ice, will be
held over.
A similar condition was report
ed in Prince Rupert, B. C., where
vessels were selling catches to in
dependent buyers for the first
time since the organization of the
United Pacific Fisheries. The Ca
nadian Fish & Cold Storage Com
pany and the Booth Fisheries were
the purchasers in Prince Rupert.
In Vancouver, B. C., the or
ganization of vessel owners was
unable to take all the fish offered
and schooners were tied up with
fish in their holds.
The 16 vessels arriving in Seat
tle were the ALitak, Reliance,
Husky L., Uraivus Albatross, Orbit,
Chancellor, Restitution, Flint, Ber
nice, Electra, Aleutian, Neptune,
Wizard and Seymour.
YOUNG SCIENTIST IS
FOUND IN CREENUND
COPENHAGEN, May 8, (JP)—
Augustine Courtauld, young Brit
ish scientist believed lost in the
Greenland ice-cap, was found to
day on his way back to the base
camp near the Greenland border.
Courtauld was found by one of
the dog team searching parties
which have been combing the!
area for some days.
KING UNO QUEEN
CANNOT LURE GHIPLIN
TO Mil 00 STAGE
LONDON, May 8. (iP)—Charlie
Chaplin will stick to the silver
screen like a shoemaker to his
last.
Not even an invitation or “com
mand" from the King and Queen i
of England can lure him to the|
stage.
Chaplin refused an invitation to
appear at a benefit vaudeville
which their Majesties were to at
tend. “I don’t appear in public
j that way and it is the last thing
| in the world I want to do; to make
i stage appearance now would be in
I bad taste."
I
I STUDY BUINESS FAILURES
WASHINGTON, May 8, (£>)—
| A study of business failures is to
; be conducted in the middle west
by experts of the department of
commerce. Personal contacts will
| be established with insolvents to
j obtain the fundamental causes of
| failures.
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KUSH TO IMPROVE PORT
i MUKDEN, May 7, (/P>—Manchur
ian newspapers report that Sov
iet Russia’s five year program in
; eludes the expenditure of $8,500,
1000 for the improvement of the
j port of Vladivostok.
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FOR OIL FROM MOPUUIE
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CANBERRA, May 8. (^—Because
discovery of oil in commercial
quantities in Australia would solve
some economic difficulties of this
country, the Royal Australian air
i force is to make an aerial photo*
! graphic survey of likely oil-bearing
j country.
Dr. Woolnough, geological advis
| er to the federal government, be
ilieves Australia’s search for petro
! leum will soon be rewarded.
MARCONI WINS CONTRACT
CAIRO, May 8. (/P) — The im
portant contract for wireless tele
phone communication between
Egypt and Europe has been award
ed the Marconi company. The
Egyptian cabinet has approved the
granting of the concession.
FIRST CIVILIAN PILOT
LISBON, May 8. ^—Portugal’s
first civilian air pilot obtained his
flying certificate. He is Joaquim
Fernandes, who received his train
ing at the Granjo do Marques
aviation school and has had 160
flying hours.
PHI AGENTS BURN
UP ME FARMS
WHEN FOtl STILL
“GEODUCKS” ARE SUSPENDED
BUT MAY BE REINSTATED,
SAYS AMOS
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SEATTLE, May 8, (/P)—Colonel
Amos W. Woodcock, national pro
hibition director, today indefinite
ly suspended Frederick M. Tay
lor and Basil V. Cunningham,
the two prohibition agents who
set fire to 250 acres in Pierce
County when they burned a still
which they had captured.
Woodcock said he is convinced
the agents did not intend to
destroy more than the shack but
“displayed fearful judgement and
were careless beyond all reason."
The fire burned out three farms.
Woodcock said he would endeav
or to seek compensation for the
farmers through Congress.
The still was not on any of
the farms burned out. Woodcock
said the agents might be rein
stated later if their future con
duct merited such action.
NEW ANTENNA DESIGNED
NEW YORK; May 8. (JP)—An an
tenna said to be an improvement
over previous ones has been de
signed. It has an asbestos cov
ered wire core over which is wound
a second wire. The core is ground
ed and the other wire connected
to the set.
OUT TO GET CIPONE
‘UNDER OUR TERMS'
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CHICAGO, May 7, (^—Deter
mined to apprehend “Scar-face”
A1 Capone on “our own terms,”
Pat Roche, chief investigator for
the State Attorney, widened and
intensified his search for the
gang leader,
Capone is wanted in connection
with the murder of “Mike de
Pike,” pioneer Chicago vice lord.
RECORD RADIO TALK
WASHINGTON, May 7, (&)—
The longest telephone conversation
between ship and shore was car
ried on between the Belgenland,
located near Hong Kong, and
| London, a distance of more than
7,000 miles.
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DOUGHBOYS PUT HIM
IN JOINS OF [OK
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 8. {&)
—Pershing’s “doughboys” not only
helped to win the war, but they
also started a new American mar
ket overseas. Aided by made-in
America movies, the put chewing
gum on the export map.
More than half a billions sticks,
valued at $1,38,000, were sent to
Europe last year. There was al
most no gum exported before the
war.
Devised especially to develop the
swimmer’s leg movements, a pad
dle-propelled float has proved pop
ular at bathing beaches.