MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 136.
SEWARD, ALASKA. WEDNESDAY, JUUE 12, 1929 .
PRICE TEN CENTS
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FAMILY OF FIVE
0001 IN Vi
EFFORT SAVE ONE
ALL PLUNGED FULLY CLOTHED
INTO WHITE RIVER SAVE
SON, BROTHER
RANDOLPH. Vermont, June 11,
(.•?)—A father, mother and two
sisters gave their lives in vdin
to save their son and brother,
Harry Boardman, 15, who was
seized with cramps while swim
ming in White river to the rear
of the home.
The dead are Mr .and Mrs.
Henry Boardman, Harryona, 14,
and Beatrice, 16 The tragedy
orphaned three other children the
oldest being but four years.
Harry was swimming with a
friend, Randolph Bennett, when
he was seized with cramps and
a: his outcry the father rushed
* - ^ f'0’ ’ his
cm plunging
in to the swiftly moving stream,
hilly clothed.
Bennett swam ashore seeking
assistance and when he return
ed the five bodies were floating
in the stream.
QUICK PROCEDURES SENTENCE
RUM RACKETEERS TO PENI
TENTIARY
SAN FRANCISCO, June 12, (7P)
Tn one of the Quickest court pro
cedure on record in San Francisco,
y” o members of Alameda county's
rum racketeer ring were tried in
federal court, found gu:lty. and
sentenced. They were G. B. Bacci
R ? tto and Henry Budreau.
Judge A. F. St. Sure sentenced
Ratto to two years in a federal pen
uentiarv and fined him $1,000.
Pudreau will serve one year in the
penitentiary.
Thev and several others were ar
rested in a surprise raid brought
about thru information furnished
by a local newspaper.
CUSTOMS 1C DRY
HERDS ORDERED
GATHER. CAPITOL
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CANADIAN BOOTLEGGERS EX- i
PORTED 3,624,000 GALLONS
LIQUOR TO U. S. IN YEAR
WASHINGTON, June 12, (/P)—A
final conference of 'the treasury
department officials to lay plans
for a campaign against Canadian
bootleggers will be held.
It is claimed that these bootleg- I
gers have, in one year, exported 3,
624.000 gallons of liquor from towns
opposite Detroit into the United
States.
The secretary of the.treasury has
already ordered all customs and j
prohibition agents available into;
the Detroit section and has sum- ■
mcnert the commanding officers of j
~heir forces to meet him.
“BABE” NOT SERIOUSLY ILL
NEW YORK, June 11, (JP)—From
la <na7p of conflicting reports as to
:he condition of “Babe” Ruth, there
emerged a statement to the Yankee
baseball club from Dr- Edw. A.
iving' that the home-run-hitter of
; he wcrld’s chamoions hr“? -
?ar heart trouble but is not serious
ly ill.
DETROITER AGAIN
ENROUTE ALASKA
PIRJTJF ROTS
ORGANIZER BRINGING BOYS TO
ALASKA ON TOUR; BUILD
ING CHARACTER
SEATTLE. June 12, (/P)—George
F. Bu^hannan, wealthy Detroit coal
operator, whose hobbies are bo vs
and Alaska, will arrive here ‘Aug
ust 10th on a tour of the Northwest.
The party consists of 50 boys be
tween t he ages of 10 and 17.
For the past seven years Mr
Buchannan has organized groups
of boys enterprising enough to
make one-third of their expenses
and taking them on an extensive
tour. The parents pay one-third,
ond Mr. Bu.channen one-third.
The boys are from many cities in
+,oe United States and Canada buo
mostly from Detroit. The object
is building character, the organizer
says. The jaunt this year will in
clude Alaska.
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DESTROYD I? FIDE
LOS ANGELES, June 11, (A3)—A
fire destroyed nine oil derricks
and over 40,000 barrels of oil on the
Santa Fe Springs field. It is still
burning and the damage is esti
mated over $1,000,000.
Asbestos clad firemen aided by
hundreds of volunteers worked in
an effort to control the flames. The
fire is believed to have started from
oil leaking into the boiler.
FROT
DEFENDS TIE
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AND RIDICULES THOSE PROPA
| GANDISTS WHO WOULD EX
TERMINATE HIM FOR COM
MERCIAL REASONS
—
Messrs Robert Frotnmgham, of
New York; B. R. Hart, vice-presi
dent of the Alaska Packers Asso
ciation and Garret B. Hunt of
Spokane, Wn., were the speakers at
yesterday’s weekly luncheon of the
Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Froth
mgham, who has just returned
from a very successful hunt for
brown bear down on Kodiak Island,
took occasion to comment upon the
propaganda emanating from cer
tain sections in Alaska looking to
the extermination of what he term
ed on° of the greatest attractions
of the Territory; the big brown
bear. He deplored that peculiar
Tendency so rampant in some men’s
make-up to subordinate Nature and
the wild creatures to rank commer
cialism. Said he:
“It’s a clear case of giving a dog
a bad name. A bear knocks over
a sheep that he happens to run
across, an eagle is caught with a
salmon, a starving wolf pulls down
a deer—and immediately there is a
hue and cry from those who are
commercially interested to wipe
these denizens of the wilderness off
face of the earth. Every student
of these conditions knows that
Old Dame Nature evens up the
score. She’s a better judge than
the average man who thinks she
needs his help. We have it on fair
ly good authority that ‘Not a
sparrow falleth to the ground’
without due and proper notice be
ing taken thereof. The man who
sets himself up as ‘Judge, Jury, and
Hangman’ on Apierica’s wild life
would do well to take thought that
our magnificent fauna has as much
right to its life as he has to his own.
Tf ther° is any creature more pre
datory than the animal man, I’d
(Continued on Pa;^e Five)
WHERE G. 0. R CELEBRATED DIAMOND JUBILEE
me old scnoolhouse in which the republican party is
said to have originated was the scene last Saturday of the
75th anniversary. President Hoover, Secretary James W.
Good (center) and Gov. Walter J. Kohler (lower left) of
Wisconsin took part.
GUEST OF HONOR
SEATTLE, June 12, (JP)—Gover
nor Parks will be guest of honor to
night a* the Queen City Yacht Club
when final details for the Olympic
Juneau cruiser race wll be an
nounced
OIL COMPANIES
ARE CONVICTED
| FOR VIOLATIONS
FORCED INDEPENDENT CON
CERNS TO PAY ROYALTIES
FOR USE PATENTS
CHICAGO, June 12, (/P>—Fifty -
t'vo oil companies headed by the
Standard Oil Co., were convicted
of violating the Sherman anti-trust
law.
The United States District court
found the companies of restraining
trade and monoplizing the oil in
dustry by pooling their interests in
various oil cracking patents.
The court ruled the government
is entitled to an injunction re
straining the companies from
further violation of the law and
/'ailing for an agreement between
the counsel on both sides for set
ting aside the existing patent pool
ing arrangements.
The government charges that the
companies pooled patent interests
and forced independent concerns to
pay royalty privileges for using the
patents.
MEASURE CUES
$58,11 ITEM FOR
ALASKA FISHERIES
WASHINGTON, June 12, </P>—
The chairman of the White House
Fisheries committee reintroduced a
bill to provide a five year construc
tion and maintenance program for
the bureau of fisheries.
The measure passed both houses
in the last congress but was pocket
vetoed. The new bill would provide
among other items $50,000 for fish
eries labratories in Alaska in 1929.
HOUSE LEADERS
GIVE UP EFFORT
SOLVE PROBLEM
FEAR AMENDMENTS WOULD DE
FEAT RE APPORTIONMENT;
NO SOLUTION
WASHINGTON, June 11, (&)—
Pear that the alien and disen
Lranchment amendments that have
been attached to the census bill
vould defeat reapportionment, was
expressed as house leaders aban
doned efforts to work a plan for
taking the two proposals out of the
neasure.
The house was adjourned to give
the republican standing committee
in opportunity to work out a meth
od of coping with the situation,
Kut after a series of meetings, lead
ers said they were no closer to a so
ution.
Major Malcolm Elliott, president
of the Alaska Road Commission,
is expected to arrive from the
Interior on one of the next trains.
Major Elliott went Inside via the
Richardson Highway. ,
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SON. DISINHERITED
SEEKING DIVORCE:
FAMILY PRESSURE
MARRIAGE SEVERAL YEARS AGO
FOI LOWED BY ENFORCED
SEPARATION
LAS VEGAS, Nev., June 12, (£>)—
Harvey Harmon, attorney for Leon
ard “Kip’,’ Rhinelander, disinherit
ed son of the well known New York
family disclosed he had prepared
a divorce complant. Rhinelander
plans to file against his wife Alice
Jones Rhinelander, daughter of a
New Rochelle negro.
Harmon said Rhinelander has
been living for the past six months
at a mountain resort under an as
sumed name to establish a resi
dence and to file a divorce for
cruelty based on “the humiliation
my wife has caused me by her ac
tions”.
Rhinelander’s marriage several
years ago was followed by an en
forced separation, by the family,
end the subsequent suit for divorce
which was denied but the couple
were permanently separated.
Rhinelander was cut off by the
familv a year ago because of pub
licity.
SILL POSTOFFICE
! LICE AMOUNT
! BUSINESS. ONE OUT
FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY ELEC
TRIC LIGHT; THOUSANDS
PURCHASE STAMPS
MENLO PARK, N. J., June 12,(/P)
—The post office in the cottage of
Postmaster James F. Shepard in
this small borough of not more
than 35 houses did more business
than if would normally have done
in 35 years.
The natives of the community
stood around in wonderment as
thousands of persons from all over
fhe United States swarmed in and
around the post office to purchase
some of the new edition of stamps
that commemorate the 50th year
of the invention of the incandes
cent electric lamp.
OHIO STJTE SPRINTER
CLIPS WORLD RECORD
CHICAGO, June 11, (A>)_With
“Speedv” Simpson of Ohio state
clipping the world's record of the
100 yard dash to win the event in
nine and 4-10 seconds, Ohio State
College won the National Collegi
ate A.A. track and field champion
ship with 50 points.
The University of Washington^
was second with 42. Southern
California rated third place with
32 and Stanford was fourth with 28.
FOLLOW LITERARY CAREER
HARTFORD, Conn., June 12, (A3)
—“Gene Tunney plans t" follow a
literary career”, Mrs. Edwin A.
Dewin?, sister of the former cham
pion said here.
Mr. Robert Frothingham of New
York was host to a number of
friends last evening at a dinner
party in the banquet room of the
Seward Grill.