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VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 172 .
SEWARD, ALASKA. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1929.
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WOTTLD INCREASE ALASKA
EXPORTS
* WASHINGTON, Dec., 13, <7P)—
Along with the propagation of
reindeer in Alaska by the feder
al government comes the prob
lem of eradicating insect pests
from attacking the animals which
l has grown in proportion with an
increase of 1,260 reindeer in 1892,
to 1,000,000.
The growth of the herds is
descriptive of the parasites, par
| #WQriv the warble fly, which
| penetrates the hides. As related
to the appropriations committee,
considering the agricultural sup
ply bill, reported to the House,
Dr. Carl J. Lomen, president of
the Lomen Reindeer Corporation,
testified that the hides are five
"times as valuable if free from
Lite insects.
He said about 17.000 animals
^ were brought into United States
during the past year but that
this mu*her cotgd have h“en
100,000 had better shipping facil
ities been available.
RAILROAD DIRECTED TO BE
GIN ACTUAL CONSTRUCT
ION EXTENSION
WASHINGTON, Dec., 13, (/P)—
The Interstate Commerce Com
mission for the first time a serf
ed its power to comnel a railroad
to build, against its will, new
lines when it directed the Union
Pacific System to construct a 180
mile line between Crane and
Crescent Lake, Oregon.
The approximate cost is esti
mated at $9,000,000. Because of
4 to© principle involved t>ie pro
ceedings drew in all railroads in
the Pacific Northwest.
*n handing down the verdict
the commission also ruled it had
the power to compel railroads
to undertake work and the Oregon
and Washington Railroad & Nav
gation Company, a subsidiary of
the Union Pacific, was directed
to begin actual construction.
FREIGHTING SUPPLIES
The Alaska Road Commission
crew in McKinley Park is taking
advantage of the fine weather and
is freighting supplies into the park
in preparation for next season’s
work. The work is progressing much
faster than in the spring, when
deep snow makes freighting a slow
proposition. The supplies are being
taken in 40 miles from the railroad
to the East Fork of the Toklat river.
Rich. Johnson was arrested at
Wrangell charged with larceny in
a dwelling.
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WASHINGTON, Dec., 13, (/P)—
Dwight E. Aultman, of Allegheny,
j Pa., ranking Brigadier General,
died in the Walter Reed Hospital
after an illness of five months.
General Aultman was 56 years
old and was on active duty. He is
survived by his widow and three
children.
Brigadier General Albert J.
Bowley, now on duty at Wash
ington, succeeds Aultman as rank
; ing brigadier.
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PLEOMORPHIC STREPTOCOCCUS
RESEMBLING PEARLS, NOT
WELL MATCHED
CHICAGO, Dec., 13, (A3)—A 30
year-old scientist, Dr. Isadores
S. Falk, University of Chicago,
announced the successful isola
tion of germs causing influenza.
Dr. Falk, professor of hygiene
bacteriology, began search for the
influenza germ a year ago yes
terday and succeeded isolating
the germ on September 30.
During the course of the exper
iments 13 coworkers, as well as
Dr. Falk, himself a victim of the
disease, expressed the hope that
a vaccine or antitoxin might be
developed to bring influenza and
common colds under control.
The influenza germ, Dr. Falk
said, was of the pleomorphic
type resembling a string of pearls
not well matched.
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HI AUBURN PM
AFTER OUTBIW
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FEW RIOTERS LEFT TO CON
| TEMPLATE CERTAIN FATE
BE METED OUT
! ——
! AUBURN. N. Y., Dec., 13, (/P)—
: Grim silence reigned throughout
j Auburn State Prison where yes
j terday its walls echoed to the
| battle of machine guns, the crack
I of pistols and taint of tear gas
I which has cleared from the
| corridors.
I Armed peace followed in the
I wake of the mutiny and eight
convict bodies lying in the
i local undertaking parlors bore
| mute testimony of the marksman
i ship of the New York State troop
l ers who broke the back of the
I prison revolt and tore Warden
\ Jennings and seven prison guards
| from the grasp of the mutineers
| and finally battled the armed
[convicts to death or to their cells.
| In the punishment cells a few
of the rioters are left to contem
plate what prison officials de
clared to be certain fate, follow
ing trial for the murder,, of prin
iCiml keepef George A. Durnford.
The wounded guards and con
victs are reported, from the pri
son hospital, as in a serious con
dition and little hope is enter
I tained for the recovery of most.
ANNUAL INCREASE
The fur-seal herd of Alaska, un
der the Bureau’s program of hus
bandry has been built up to nearly
1,000,000 animals, or more than five
times the combined total of all oth
er fur-seal herds in the world. With
this growth it has been possible to
increase the take of skins from sur
j plus bulls to more than 40,000 per
annum. The herd is increasing at
I the rate of over f;ve percent each
year. .
InH ROBBER SISPEET
I PLEADS GUILTY GKK
_
LOS ANGELES, Dec., 13, (/P)—
Tom Vernon, suspect recently re
j turned from Pawnee, Oklahoma,
| pleaded guilty to the charge of
| train wrecking. December 17 is the
| date set for sentencing.
| At the request of physicians
I they will be allowed to examine
j Vernon for insanity. The maxi
mum penalty for train wrecking
is death and the district at
torney announced he would de
mand the maximum.
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TO SI CUE
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HEAD OF JAPANESE DELEGA
TION OUTLINES VIEWS
ON ARMAMENT
SEATTLE, Dec., 13, (^-Out
lining Japan’s policy toward the
coming naval disarmament con
ference at London as “minimum
defense strength” their standard,
Reijiro Jakatsuk, head of the Jap
anese delegation to the confer
ence, declared his country “pro
posed to be no menace to any
one and we want no menace to
our country.”
He made an address at a lun
cheon tendered the delegation by
the Japan society, of the Seattle
Chamber of Commerce.
The delegation arrived here
yesterday from Japan and after
a brief stop at Victoria, will
proceed Eastward tonight.
One whaling company in the
North Pacific this year captured
1225 whales.
PI«‘ EXPERTS HAD A SHOT AT D IEGEL’S. GOLFING CROWN
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was on display last week as the defen ding* champion
title tourney at Los Angeles.
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Pill IAHGE
FJULS TO EFFECT
JOSEPH GRU1Y
HARSH DISCUSSION OVER HIS
RIGHT TO SEAT MADE
VACANT, VARE
—
WASHINGTON, Dec., 13, (/P)—
After many hours during which
he heard himself and Governor
Fisher, of Pennsylvania, who ap
pointed him, assailed with out
j spoken language, Joseph Grundy,
I took the oath of office as Sen
ator from Pennsylvania.
The manufacturer and veteran
high tariff advocate, smiled fre
quently during the harsh dis
cussion over his right to the seat
made vacant by vare whom the
Senate unseated.
Senator Nye’s resolution pro
posing and declaring Grundy as
not entitled to retain his seat be
cause of his participation in the
$2,000,000 primary in 1926, was re
ferred to the elections committee.
Immediate administering of the
oath was ordered.
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CHARGED WITH BRIBING AL
BERT B. FALL, MATTER
OIL LEASES
WASHINGTON, Dec., 13, (A5)_
The date for the trial of Ed
ward L. Doheny, oil magnate,
on the charge of bribery, has been
set for March 10 by Justice Hitz,
of the District Court of Columbia.
The indictment against the
wealthy oil man is one of a ser
ies growing of oil leases made
during the Hardnig administra
tion which charged Doheny gave1
Albert B. Fall a bribe of $100,000
: in connection with a lease for
the Doheny company in the Elks
Naval oil reserve in California.
SIGNS COMET TO
0. OF ffl. FOOTBALL
MSEnJTLE' Dec" 13' W—James
M. Phelan, a product of Knute
Rockne of Notre Dame, who
coached the Notre Dame, who
football team to the “Big Ten’*
championship this year, signed a
: contract to coach the Univer
sity of Washington squads from
January 1930 to June 1933.
Phelan succeeds Enoch Brad
shaw, resigned. Phelan’s salary
is estimated between $12 000 and
$15,000 per year. He arrives next
month to take over his duties
Old Ring, a bird dog guilty of
numerous chicken thefts, is serving
a life sentence on a Texas prison
farm.
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