MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 103. SEWARD, ALASKA. FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1929 .
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UNIMAK PASS WOULD BE USED
BY VIRTUALLY ALL ORIEN
TAL TRADE VESSELS
SEATTLE. May 3, (A5)—The.Ho
ouiam Chamber of Commerce
launched a drive to make Unimak
Pass safe as a winter passage to
Bering sea and to the subsequent
calmer water of the Orient and has
written W. C. Dibrell of Ketchikan,
-superintendent of lighthouses, re
commending that lights on Seal
Rock, South Rock, Sana Reef and a
beacon on the north side of Uga
noak island, strong enough to oe
seen for 20 miles to light the south
side of Unimak island, be made. Its
flashing will be visible 20 miles
westward.
Investigation revealed virtually
all Oriental trade ships from north
ward ports would decide to use
Unimak Pass to escape fogs if pro
perly guarded.
Hoquiam seeks the aid of other
northwest chambers of commerce
fcr a congressional delegation on
the project.
WATERS EXPECTED TO
REACH CREST TONIGHT
ST. LOUIS, May 3, (JP) —The
sidewalks and pavements and ce
ment levee running parallel to
and a mile east of the St. Louis
business district was entirely sub
merged by the rising waters of
the Mississippi river and the riv
er's crest is expected to be reach
ed tomorrow night with a. stage
of 34 feet, nine inches.
HUGE IMPROVEMENT
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SAN FRANCISCO, May 3, (JP)—
A $10,000,000 program of improve
ment of San Francisco’s water
front on which a part will be spent
in the construction of several new
piers besides reclaimation of large
areas for industrial sites and the
opening of new channels, was an
nounced by the State board of
harbor commissioners.
SAN DIEGO WILL RE
CHOSEN FOR SITES
SAN DIEGO, Calif., May 3, (JP)—
Belief that San Diego will be se
lected as the site for the Navy’s
$5,000,000 dirigible station and of
the army’s $3,000,000 airport, was
expressed by Major Theodore
Macaillay, chairman of the avia
tion committee of the Chamber of
Commerce, who returned from a
trip to Washington.
A H— OF A SHIP
NEW YORK, May 3. (PP)—'With
her cement decks ripped out by
diligent searchers of customs en
forcement bureau in three at
tempts to find liquor aboard her
me schooner Ernestine was releas
ed without a bottle having been
discovered.
USE OF CIGHTTES
INCREASING BY HUGE
j STRIDES, TUX IEVEALS
WASHINGTON, May 3, (£>)—'The
use of cigarettes increased in the
United States during the first nine
months of the fiscal year, the In
ternal revenue bureau reported and
the tax for that period was $247,
160,000 which exceeded the corres
ponding period of the previous
year by $23,632,000.
The tax figures showed all other j
forms of tobacco decreased.
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MYSTERIOUS DEATH
Of GIRL WHILE IN
WHEN PHYSICIAN RETURNED
OFFICE HOURS LATER TO
FIND GIRL HUNG
i SAN JOSE, Calif., May 3, (/P)—
The death of a former San Fran
j cisco girl, under mysterious cir
cumstances while visiting a phy
sician at Agnew State hospital
more than two weeks ago, was re
vealed here.
The girl was Elizabeth Gebhart,
aged 28. The physician is Dr.
Paul A. Gleibe, assistant at the
hospital. Dr. Gleibe spoke feebly
when questioned after being ab
solved by the coroner’s jury which
held the inquest.
He said he left her in his room
while he visited various patients
in the hospital. When he return
ed several hours later, according
to his account Miss Gebhart was
dead, hanging by a cord to a hook
in his clothes closet.
GENE AND GEORGE
POLA Italy, May 3, (JP)—Colorful
accounts cf Gene Tunney and Geo.
Bernard Shaw sunbathing together
have reached here from Brioni, Ad
riatic Isle, which both happen’to be
visiting just now.
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PICE CUSPS
l PURPLE SSRTEfi
EMPEROR HIROHITO
KMPEROR OF JAPAN THEN RE- |
STOWED HIGHEST ORDER
OF REALM ON HENRY
TOKIO, Japan May 3, (/P)—Prince
j Henry of England, third <?on of
King George, knelt at the feet of
Emperor Hirohoto of Japan, and j
clasped upon the left leg the Royal
| Purple Garter the insignia of Eng- |
| land’s highest order of knighthood. 1
Then Emperor Hirohito bestowed
| upon the Prince the Order of
Chrysanthemum, the highest deco
ration. The two ceremonies was
the climax of a trip half around the
world.
The Order of the Garter was
founded in 1350 in honor of the!
! Holy Trinity.
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ANSWERS $50,000 BREACH OF
PROMISE SUIT BROUGHT BY
MINISTER
SEATTLE, May 3, (£>)—Mrs Min- •
nie E. Kennedy answered the suit
for $50,000 for alleged breach of
promise, brought by Rev. H. H.
Clark, as “merely one of the instru
ments used by the plaintiff in car
rying out a preconceived plan of
blackmail and extortion.”
She charged Clark was only an
acquaintance. Clark said she made
advances to him.
The filing of the suit reconciled
Mrs. Kennedy with her evangelist i
daughter Aimee McPherson. She
claimed her only interest in Clark
was in putting him back on his feet.
UNO! AND FIANCEE
CHUCKLE IN ELUDING
CURIOUS N. J. PEOPLE
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| ENGLEWOOD, N. J., May 3, (JP)—
Colonel Lindbergh and his fiancee
‘Anne Morrow are chuckling as to
how they eluded curious folks and
senjoyed an undisturbed automobile
;ride of 11 hours over Jersey roads.
Where they went is undisclosed.
Reporters made a frantic search
over the countryside in the belief
they had eloped as all information
as to the time and place of the
wedding has been refused at the
Morrow home where the secretary
^told the men to leave.
DEAD ARMY PILOT
IS BLAMED FOB
TRAGIC ACCIDENT
WAS CRIMINALLY NEGLIGENT
IN FOLLOWING AND AP
PPROACHING OTHER
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SAN DIEGO, May 3, (A*)—Lieut.
Howard W. Taeefer, pilot of the
army pursuit plane which struck
the Maddux Tri-motored Airliner
over San Diego Sunday, the trag
ic accident resulting in his own
death and the death of five per
sons in the passenger plane, was
'found to have been criminally
| negligent in following and ap
proaching the Maddux plane, and
was held responsible for the death
of all concerned.
An emphatic denial that other
aviators attached to aircraft
squadrons battle fleet have been
interfering with Maddux Air Liners
or other commercial craft flying
in the vicinity of San Diego,
was voiced by Rear Admiral J. M.
Reeves.
GANG WARFARE
CLEVELAND, May 3, (/P)—Gang
warfare broke out here with the
slaying of two racketeers by their
rivals.
NEW MATERIAL DEVELOPED F OR PARACHUTES
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A navai officer-(above) is pulled from the wing of a speeding plane to
test one of the navy’s new parachutes of American woven silk. Joshua Mil
ler (left) and James E. Sullivan, navy materials engineer, shown in inset,
are testing the fabrics tensile strength
INTO THE HOS OF
; BRITTON ATTACKS SUGGES
TION OF GIBSON’S TO
COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, May 3, (A>)—
Chairman Britton, of the house
| naval committee, attacked Am
bassador Hugh Gibson’s suggestion
: to the preparatory disarmament
commission at Geneva that train
I ed reserves of the army be not
included in computing the mili
tary strength of a nation.
The Illinois representative issued
a statement, declaring the sugges
tion was equivalent to agreeing
that battleships, cruisers and sub
marines in reserve, but ready to
fight, should not be included in
establishing the strength of a na
tions naval power.
This is the second time within
10 days that Gibson has played in
to the hands of- British and
French diplomacy, Britton said.
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BRAKES ON CAR REFUSED TO
FUNCTION, DRIVER LOST
ALL CONTROL
SARATOGA, Calif., May 3, (A5)—
Out of control, its brakes power
less, a heavy automobile contain
ing four persons, raced down the
sloping main street of Saratoga
this morning.
| Standing in front of a grocery
store was Lee A. Taylor, aged 27,
a war veteran employed by the
Saratoga Lumber Co. He heard
the warning of the auto horn
sounded by Don E. Lux, the driv
er, who was frantically attempt
ing to gain control of the car.
The automobile, after leaping
the curb, crushed Taylor against
the brick wall of the grocery store
inflicting injuries from which he
died two hours later.
85i KEYES SERIOUSLY
ILL IN COUNTY JML
LOS ANGELES, May 3, (JP)—
Former District Attorney Asa
Keyes, under conviction for brib
ery in the Julian Petroleum case,
is seriously ill in the county jail
hospital, Dr. Benjamin Blank an
nounced this afternoon.
In part Dr. Blank said,. “Keyes
has not been able to stand recrea
tion despite the popular impres
sion that .ie las a rugged phy
sique.”
GAIN ON STORM
ATLANTA, Ga., May 3, (A3)—Re
lief and rehabitation measures
gained momentum in the disaster
area of Southern Georgia where
at least 47 persons were killed and
several hundred were injured in
a series of tornadoes.