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MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 118.
SEWARD, ALASKA. TUESDAY, MAY 21, 1929
PRICE TEN CENTS
G.W. WIGKERSHAM
SELECTED TO HEAD
NEW COMMISSION
WORK TO INCLUDE THOROUGH
SURVEY AND REORGANIZA
TION LAW MACHINERY
WASHINGTON, May 21, (£>)—
George W. Wickersham, attorney
general under the Taft administra
tion, has been selected by President
Hoover as chairman of the national
law enforcement commission which
will have nine other lawyers and
one woman representating the dif
ferent parts of the country assist
ing him.
President Hoover did not recog
nize either the drys or wets in mak
ing selections altho the drys urged
he give them recognition in gener
al.
Those named have not been iden
tified with either a dry or wet
cause. Politics was also disregard
-a as Newton D. Baker, secretary
_ „ar in the Wilson administra
tion was one of those chosen.
The work will include a thorough
going over and survey of the whole
subject of law enforcement includ
ing enforcement of the 18th
acendment with a view of reorgan
ization the whole federal, judicial
and enforcement machinery.
SECOND SEASON’S WORK IN
THE TERRITORY STARTS
SHORTLY
WASHINGTON, May 20, (JP)—An
aviators expedition is preparing to
go to Alaska to take air pictures
from which maps will be made of
certain sections of the country. The
expedition will operate under the
direction of the navy, agriculture
and interior departments.
The announcement is made by
the interior department which said
equipment is be.ing obtained and
the expedition will soon be ready to
depart.
Lieutenant Commander A. W.
Radford will be in charge; others
are Lieut. E. F. Burkett, executive
officer; Lieut. Commander A. C.
Smith, medical officer and Lieut.
Thomas Macklin in charge of the
airplane tender.
Lieutenants R. F. Whiehead, C. F.
Greber, F. P. Pawlikowski, E. F.
Carr are the other members- R. S
Sargent, topographical engineer of
the geological survey, will accom
pany the expedition.
MAYOR NORTH TOMORORW
Mayor P. C. McMullen departs
t morrow for the Interior and
down-river portions of the Ter
ritory, on personal business bus
iness which will require at least
an absence of six weeks.
Sam Cramer, veteran mariner
of northern waters and former
owner of the power boat Chase
arrived in Seward last evening
from Anchorage enroute to S. E.
Alaska where he will spend a few
weeks at one of the hot springs.
A banister is being erected on the
step at the Episcopal church. It
adds to the appearance of the
building and is also a safety meas
ure.
MOTHER SUICIDES
NEW YORK, May 21. (JP)—A
young mother, who had become
a night club hostess to support
her four year old son, swallowed
poison after writing a note to the
boy which said: “I can’t be good
and get by.”
RISK STREAMS
THREATENS lit
BUIS OF Bill
HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE MOVE
SELVES AND BELONGINGS
TO HIGHER GROUND
i UNDATED, May 21, (^—Rising
j streams and rivers, threatening
I many sections of the Mississippi
valley. sent emergency crews scur
rving to the scenes of the impend
ing disasters and breaks were
averted except in one instance, at
a point where danger was least ex
pected.
! While engineers were directing
; forces in three places near Kennett
Mo., the St. Francis river bounded
| thru a weakened bit of levee and
overflowed 50,000 acres.
No lives were lost but the force
is growing hourly. At Mounds Land
ing efforts are being made to avert
another break where a disastrous
crevice occurred in 1927.
A priviate levee, near Natchez,
Miss., showed signs of breaking.
There. 400 persons have taken their
livestock and belongings to higher
ground.
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AMERICAN LEAGUE
St. Louis 6; Chicago 3.
Philadelphia 5: Boston 1.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Brooklyn 6; New York 1.
St. Louis 5; Cincinnati 1.
Chicago 6; Pittsburgh 1.
SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN IM
PLICATED DISAPPEARANCE
TWO WILLIONS
OMAHA, Neb., May 20, (/P)—From
newspaper clippings and personal
papers found in the luggage of a
man who died Saturday, detectives
identified him as George Christian,
a former New York broker who be
came a fugitive in September 1924
;n connection with a $2,000,000 fail
ure of a Wall street brokerage
firm, Day & Heaton.
Christian was the one partner in
the firm who eluded arrast until
March this year when he was cap
tured and taken east then released
under a bond.
When told two days ago he was
dving he entered a hospital and
told attendants to open his suitcase
after his death. The suitcase con
tained about $800 and a batch of
newspaper clippings telling the
story.
GENERAL MUON
IS IT WASHINGTON
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SEATTLE, May 21, (/P)—Word has
been received here that General
Wilds Preston Richardson, first
president of the Alaska road com
mission, died early yesterday in
Washington, D. C. He was best
known as a former army officer in
'Alaska.
GIGANTIC MERGER
CHICAGO. May 20, (JP)—A two
hundred million dollar merger of
th£ Chicago Trust Co., and the Na
tional Bank of Republic was an
nounced.
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WILL BE RE-ELECTED
| JERSEY CITY, May 20. (A1)—Re
election of Mayor Frank Hague and
the commission ticket headed by
him was indicated by early returns
of the municipal election.
POPE TO PARTICIPATE
ROME, May 21, (/P)—Pope Pius
will make his first official visit
from the Vatican May 30, the
Feast of Corpus Christi, partici
pating in the processoni at mass
to St. Peters.
PRESIDENT CALLS
MEETING OF NEW
COMMISSION LAW
NAMES OF COMMISSION RE
LEASED FOR PUBLICATION;
11 MEMBERS
WASHINGTON, May 21, (/P)—
President Hoover called 11 members
of the law enforcement commission
to meet with him at a White
House luncheon May 28. After
luncheon they will hold an organi
zation meeting.
Besides Wickersham and Baker
the other members are three feder
al judges, William Kenyon, Wiliam
Grubb, Paul McCormick and four
atorneys, Roscoe Pound, Henry An
derson, Monte Lemann and Fran*
Loesch.
A former jurist, Kenneth Mack
intosh of Washington and one edu
cator, Miss Ada Comstock, complete
he personnel.
I DIRIGIBLE
SCHEDULED DEPART
CUERS, France. May 21. (JP)—
The Graf Zeppellin will sail un
der her own power either to
morrow or Thursday morning for
Friedrichshafen, minus her pas
sengers but manned by her own
crew.
Such was the decision of Dr.
Hugo Eckener, the dirigible com
mander, prior to his departure
for Friedrichshafen, which was
made public by Captain Lev
hamnn, second in command
COPPER PRICE SPURS ATTACK ON MOUNTAIN
THE famous Bingham mountain, which- produces 60,000 tons of copper
ore every 24 hours. Inset is of L. S. Cates, general manager of the company,
which operates the world’s largest copper mine.
I
IS CULLED OFF
BY ASSOCIATION
THOUSANDS WORKMEN WOULD
HAVE BEEN EFFECTED;
HALTED EXPENDITURE
; NEW YORK, May 20, (A5)—The
Building Trades Employers Asso
ciation called off the threatened
lockout of 75,000 workmen after
being served with a court injunc
tion forbidding them to put their
tieup mandate into effect to stop
the lockout as orginally schedul
ed. Union officials estimated that
it would have halted $150,000,000
worth of building operations and
caused cancellation of bids on
$150,000,000 worth more.
Altho Chairman of the board of
governors sent out a notice to its
members to defer the lockout, plans
until injunction proceeding is per
manently disposed of several lead
ers of the organization declared the
injunction would be disregarded
| and that work would be halted as
! originally planned.
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BOXING COMMISSION
ARE RECOMMENDED
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KETCHIKAN, May 21, (£>)—'The
Territorial boxing commission to
day announced prize fights are
prohibited hereafter in the Terri
tory unless a permit has first been
obtained from the commission
headquarters at Ketchikan, Karl
Drager. secretary.
The following have been recom
mended by the commission to Gov.
^arks for appointment as local rep
resentatives in their cities. M.
Cartnev of Juneau; E. Dale of
Hyder; E. F. Jessen of Seward; A.
Gulf eld of Skagway; Owen Medals of
Valdez; B. Nevins of Nome and
I‘ Bud” Anderson of Cordova.
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KING’S REPRESENTATIVE
EDINBURGH, May 20- (A5)—The
Duke and Duchess of York will
occupy the historic Holyrood Pal
ace and the next fortnight the
duke will preside as representative
of the King in the office of the
Lord High Commissioner at the
meetings of the General Assembly
of the Church of Scotland.
BIG CHECKS ARRIVE
Chas. Harris, Andy Novak and
Harold Painter, three of the win
ners of the Nenana ice pool, re
ceived their checks last night
from the Interior. While Novak
and Painter are splitting $5,813.
69 between them, (Pay attention
to this, girls!) Harris’ check was
that entire amount. No wedding
bells for him, he says, (the same
old story) for he proposes to serve
out his hitch with the quarter
masters corps, then back to New
York, reenter the Columbia Col
lege and complete his C. P. A.
course
NINE SENT THRU
Nine new members were put thru
initiation paces in last night’s
regular meeting of the Seward Re
bekah Lodge No. 6-A in the I. O. O.
F. hall. To revive the spirit of those
~.’ho were just entering “Rebekah
idom” a delicious lunch was served
which concluded a very enjoyable
'evening.