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THE
| M( CARTHY WEEKLY NEWS
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Entered as second class matter. Sep
tember 17th, 1918, at the Post Office at
McCarthy, Alaska, under the Act of
March 3, 1879.
Flo Malehorn Editor
M. Snyder Circulation Manager
>»ubsenpt.ion Kates
Single Copies - .15
Three Months 1.00
Six Months 1.90
One Year 9.50
Payable In Advance
Saturday. Apr. 9,1927
:
I)KOLA RES HUMAN LI KK
CAN HE PROLONGED
BY 2.') YEARS
Philadelphia: Dr. Leorgc 15.
R<*iziss, professor of chemoth
erapy of the University of lVnn
sylvania, declares that human life
may bo prolonged for 2.’ veai s ’o s'
I a ivw mercury com[>ound called
motaph which lie has discoverod.
I)r. Reiziss said the com —
; pound is the strongest antisptic
Sami most powerful organic com
I !>oii!id in chemistry*. He said he
hoped to develop the compound
I as a possible cu»e for t n bercul —
[osis, influenza, arid swptLma.
MAN saved from death
BY FOUR INCH LIFT
New York—Thirteen men with
improvised timber levers, lifted a
72 ton steel ear four inches in the
air so Richard O'Connell, railroad
bivakman could take his shoe off
and slip from under the shadow
of death where he had been held
for two hours when <*aught be —
tween a locomotive cowcatcher
and the rear of a freight car. A
slightly horsizontal movement of
either would have killed him.
.ALASKA PEAKS AKENAMED
P»Y GEOGRAPHIC BOARD
Seattle: A special dispatch to
1 the Seattle Daily Times from
j Washington announces that the
i Geographic Hoard has named
eight peaks, ma ruing the angles
of tlie International boundary as
follows;-Ashni::n, Brundago, i-’re
mont, Moi so. Hefty, Hill, Kay moud
j and \ an Wagenon, in honor ol *th«*
! United States members of the
j I nternational.Bounda ry Comm—
! ission.
Two glaciers a few miles
j northwest of Hyder have been
| iwtnw Gray and Red because of
I coloring boulders which strew
j their moraine.
Another glacier in t lie same
vicinity has been names (/teen
1 Point.
A crater six miles in dia
! meter on the Alaska Peninsula.
|-0 mil -s northwest of Aniakehak
Bay has been named Aniakehak
| Peak,
A peak 4,600 feet high, two
j and one half miles southwest of
j Hyder has been tinned Mount
i Hinckley, after Earl Hinckley,
who was killed last summer in
falling from a cliff ol the peak.
PACIFIC STEAMSHIP CO.
PURCHASES 2 STEAMERS
U. F Alexander President oi the
Pacilic Steamship Co., announces
1 the purchase oi two modern pass
enger and cargo ships oi 5000 tons
leach. The new ships will operate
on tiie California route.
The ships were formerly tiie
"Mary Weems’’ and "Ester Weems
now plying between Baltimore,
Philadelphia, and Miami in service
of the Baltimore and Carolina
Steamship Co.
The delivery of the new ships
will be made in April and will be
gin operating in June. They will
he rechristened and given names
of American Admirals.
The vessels are ol2 feet long,
built in 1924. They carry 200 first
class passengers, hot and cold
water in eaco room, many de-luxe
rooms with private bath and sho
wer. in addition to the space for
the large amount of general carg,
the steamers leave refrigerator
compartment for perishables.