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VOLUME 35. So. II. * O M (C . ALASKA. SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 1934 P«r Copy 3Sat*. Par *o*th *1.85
SMITH MAYOR OF SEATTLE
SOVIET FLYERS ARE ENROUTE TO NOME
ALASKA AIRMAIL SERVICE DISCUSSED
DORE SNOWED UNDER
MAYORALTY ELECTION
(By The Associated Press’
SEATTLE, March 14 — Lore
was snowed under In the mayor
alty election today by Charles
L. Smith# j Smith fln'shed with
62,0^3;<st5ore 46,662 as the voters
clashed Jrjecklesisly ‘ in demand for
u new deal. In the city elections
(j*vid U- 'T , 27, loiiflui uu- j
iversity football star, led the race
for the council, as the new Order
cf Cncinatus shoved over its
candidates wHh the aims bf clean
ing ii]> politics and cutting the
cost of government. About the
same votes were received by
Smith. James Scavotto and Aus
tin Orifflths were also elected to
j he Council. The vote on Day
v: ng Time lost, three to
two. J. A. Barly was elected as
Port Commissioner.
Mayor Smith an ovei-Tseas cap
lain of the World War. described 1
the campaign in that "pergonal
victory was inconsequential." It
is an outburst of sentiment from
the awakened citizenry, demand
ing youth, new blood, new stand
ards and principles in city gov
ernment.” V. C. Webster and
Ralph Nichols, council members,
•o suporters of Dore’s re
trei hment ideas, were defeated
by his Order of Cincinatus, »which
was founded last September. New
post" of this organization are now
und-r , way in Tacoma, Spokane,
Olyiypia and other cities, and a
caTl is being Tuade*Tor the reduc
tion of taxes by at least fifty per
cent through its plan of state or
ganization. As one aim, it in
tends to consolidate the counties,
school, port and ‘ other tax dis
tricts into ten or twelve adminis
trative districts for the whole
state.
JAPS SCORPION
IS WRECKED
JAPANESE TORPEDO BOAT
MYSTERIOUSLY SUNK
(By The Associated Press)
TOKYO, March 12 —..Japan's'
newest scorpion of the seas, the
Tomozurjj, a torpedo boat with
armaments greater than most
ships twice her sine, was myater
i on »ly wrecked with a probable
loss ot a hundred and twenty
men.
TOKYO, March 12 — The Jap
enese Navy has declined to des
cribe the disaster at the present
time of one of its crack torpedo
boats which capsized today. It is
almost certain that the Tomozuru
capsized off Casebo Naval Base.
Th® Ministry announced it was
probably caused by heavy weather
and that the ship was found, after
missing since early morning, bad
ly damaged and drifting. “Many
of her crew were drowned” and
there have been many maneuvers
recently wrlth the ship carrying
a 120 men and officers,
a number far above the normal
complement. The v announcement
said that rescue efforts were pro
ceeding but made no mention of
any survivors.
THIRTEEN SAILORS RESCUED
FROM JAPANESE WARSHIP
(By The Associated Presa)
SASEBO. March 14 — Thirteen
sailors were snatched from slow
death in a torpedo boat, the Tom
ozuru, which capsized with a hun
dred and thirteen aboard. The
thirteen were near death when
«. . • - » >
they were saved! and hopes of
finding any mpre alive waned/
Workers are still taking out bod
ice. Twenty-two have been saved.
A naval officer quoted one man
as aaying, "When we felt the ves
sel turn over, a small group of us
in our compartment grasped hands
and prepared to die together,
shouting, ‘Bansais’ for the em
peror and the Imperial Navy.
About noon, thirty hours after the
accident, breathing became ex
tremely difficult. Suddenly a gust
of fresh air came through and
three of us were sufficiently re
vived to be able to -open the
hatch through which we saw a
diver beconing to us. We emerg
ed and floated to the surface. It
Is. a miracle that we are alive
now.”
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JUDGE LOMEN
VERY ILL
(By The Associated Press)
SEATTLE. March 13 — .Judge
IG. J. Lomen, for many years the
| federal judge of Nome, is crit
ically ill at his home in Seattle.
His son .Ralph Lomen, is with
him.
Judge Lomen. who is now
eighty, practiced law in Alaska
from 1899 to 1920, whej, he was
appointed to the Territorial Bench.
He held that position until two
years ago. Many are his friends
in Nome who send tlj*^ kindest
sympathies and hope fdwhis early
recovery.
HOUSE (ONSIIHCKING
ALASKA 1‘ROHI BILL
(By The Aseociated Press)
WASHINGTON, March 12 —
The Alaskan-Hawaiian Prohibition
Itepeal bills were- placed on the
House calendar, and that body
w.'.i vote on >ime vviinfi: approx
imately a week. Both measures
previously passed tile Senate with
i-nt opposition.
ALASKA I'KOHI LIKKLY APRIL
„_CBr The Associated Press!
WASHINGTON, March 15
The repeal of prohibition in Alas
ka and Hawaii before the end of
the month is expected to become
legally effective following the
action of the House Territories
Committee. Progress on the re
peal bills is reported to be favor
able following action on the part
of the Senate On the simple repeal
of prohibition laws in the territ
ories.
REWARD GETS <X)AHT GUARD
PATROL BOAT
-(By The Associated Press)
• WASHiENOTON, March 16 —
In" a new shake-up of the IT. S.
Coast Guard, a hundred and twen
ty-five foot patrol boat, the TTSOG
Morris, was ordered transferred
from Oakland to Seward.
WASHINGTON VICTORS !
IN BASKETBALL |
(By The Associated If ess) ^
LOS AJNGELES, March 12 r
Washington defeated ’ the South
ern California Trojans in a score
of thirty-four to thirty in a final
contest of a three -game aerie*.
This makes them the winners of
the Coast Conference Basketball
Championship. TIM Trojans won
the first game but !os‘ the others.
SOVIET FLIERS
j ENROUTE NOME
—
RlSSl.W RESCUE
PILOT Missive
, (By The Associated Press)
MOSCOW. March 15 — The
intrepid Russian pilot, Liapides
vsky, who saved twelve women
and children from the Bering
Sea ice floe on which they were
drifting with eighty-nine others.
Is missing and it is believed that ■
he met disaster in his attempt to i
rescue the others of the party re
maining o„ the ice.*» It is thought
thiil he was forced down after
taking off from Cape Wellen, ac
ross the Straits from Alaska. The
other eighty-nine are still safe,
but they are in a precarious pos
ition .
RISSIAN RESCUERS
OX WAY TO NOME
(By The Associated Press)
SBATTL.E, Marih 15 The
Russian rescue party, composed
of Prof Assort; George Ushakov,
geographer, with Mauritz Slepnev
aiul Sigmund , Levonewski, avia
t rs, arrived in Seattle from New
York Wednesday and will outfit
here and sail for Seward Satur
day S S. Alaska.
there will go to Fairbanks by'
train and charter a plane for fly
ing to Nome. Under their pres
ent plans they will ferry the re
fugees now marooned on an ice
floe, to Kast Cape, frem whence
they will he taken to Vladivos
tok by boat. The most recent
information given on the location
of the ice floe is three hundred
fifty miles northwest of Nome.
Pilot Slepnev was prominent, in
the K'laon-Bordland search.
I„ O. O. M
Regular Mt-rting Monday, March
lit at 8 p.m.. Nomination of offi
cers.
W. H. Koch, Secty.
AMERICAN GUNBOAT
BURNS TO WATER
(By Th« Associated Press)
HONOKQNG, March 15 -- A
hundred and eighty-seven Amer
ican sailors and a mascot cat
were saved from death on the
flaming gunboat Fulton which
burned to the water’s edge north
of here and arrived here U>day.
Fire broke out in the engine
room, Injuring eight of the crew.
A gallant tribute to the British
tars who saved the Americans
came front the Fulton’s skipper,
Commander Harry McHenry,
UflN, who said that while the
Fulton still burned their officers
and crew were rescued and brot
here my the H?MS Wishart, which
also 3aved the S. S. Tsinan, a
commercial vessel. McHenry said,
‘‘I can't speak too highly of the
courageous action of the Wishart
crew whose display of seaman
ship should go down in naval
annals." McHenry said the Ful
ton ls being towed here although
still blazing with a likelihood of
further explosion. The exhaust
blew flames close to oil tanks In
the engine room, and one of the
crew said, "There was a hell of
an explosion with nu possibility
of putting out the flames which
spread over everything.'1
ALAKKA AIRMAIL »
SERVICE IHS4'18HEI>
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, March 16 —
The establishment of airmail ser
vice in Alaska was urged Thurs
day by Brigadier General Wil
liam Mitchell, former Assistant
Chief of the Army Air Corps.
Testifying before the Senate Post
Office Committee he characterised
such a proposed route as “very
Important." pointing out the long
delay sometimes occurred In mail
transmission throughout the Terr
itory. Chairman McKellar of the
committee replied that It might be
important from a military stand
point but not comercially. Brig
adier General Mitchell' added,
“We oan go from New York to
Peking via Alaska now in forty
five hours.”
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