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VOLUME XV. NUMBER 107
■SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MAY 10, 1930.
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EXP'OSER MAY TAKE TO UN
ii«vii-SEA NEXT YEAR;
SIMON LAKE VESSEL
WASHINTGON, May 9, (/P)—'
Captain Sir Wilkins may under
take his proposed trip beneath
the Arctic ice in an obsolete U.
g. submarine, the submersible
boat •‘Explorer".
Simon Lake, submarine boat in
ventor, called upon Assistant Sec
retary Jahncke to try and pur
chase such a boat. Whether the
Navy will sll it is not known.
Wi’kins said he planned to
make a sub-ice voyage into the
North sometime next year, proba
bly May 31.
He hopes to use scientific
equipment and replace all fight
ing equipment, the vessel to be
made over generally for cruising
:nto th North and submerging
inder the ice: It may be necessary
:or them to cut there way up
again.
NUMBER OF INDICTMENTS; IN
CORDOVA SESSION; TWO
PLEAD GUILTY
CORDOVA. May 10, i/pt-Mwk
~*v-or,-,iea.cl?d guilty to “liquor
violation and was fined S350; J. M.
Murie from McCarthy’ pleaded
guilty to the same charge and was
lined $400.
Tim grand jury Drought in two
nvre score. indie:men i and in
dictments again--1 Fain n:te for
iarceny of furs belonging to Ghas
Wallen who .ms found’ to
death near Gulkumi: Robert Davis
for first degree murder of Toni
Williams near Kmiah k: "m u m
Dirks, larceny at Kodiak and J S.
Bogart. Jr., f-.r making a false
claim against the government.
SEATTLE, May 10, (/P)—George
* W. Hutchinson, 68, pioneer Fair
banks banker, died in the hospital
after a short illness.
He had been visiting here and
expected to return soon to Fair
banks with his wife. Funeral ser
vices will be held here tomorrow.
Mr. Hutchinson was a native of
Canada.
LEASES CANCELLED
VALDEZ, May 10, {&)—On com
plaints brought by the United
States, the District court cancelled
the leases of the Alaska Petroleum
& Coal Co., and of the Alaska Coke
Coal Co., all in the Bering river
coal fields.
POET LAUREATE
LONDON, May 10, (/P)— John
Masefield, English poet, has been
appointed Poet Laureate, succeed
ing Robert Bridges. He roamed the
world in hobo fashion and once was
a porter in a New York saloon. He
is 35, is married and has two child
ren.
\tfhoop«e.
SFFffiS HIT TIE
EOT HIE
SEATTLE, May 9. (JP)—The next
move in the uprising against Fil
ipinos by white workers in West
ern Washington is awaited by
sheriffs and deputies following in
formation that a Japanese vege
table grower near Auburn -was
warned that unless he released
his Filipino laborers within 24
hours “his place would be burned.”
Yesterday a fire, which officers
believed to have beep incendiary,
destroyed a 5-room dwelling near
Auburn. Several Filipinos em
ployees were sleeping nearby.
ASSISTANT DISTRICT ATTOR
NEY DYEING WAR, SPECIAL
DEPUTY ATTY. GEN.
WASHINGTON, May 10, UP)—
Owen J. Roberts of Philadelphia,
special government counsel for the
Teapot Dome and other oil cases,
has been selected by President
Hoover for the vacancy *in the Su
preme Court and it is expected his
nomination will be sent to the Sen
ate soon.
Senator Norris, leader of the op
position to Parker, is elated. Presi
dent Hoover consulted the various
members of the Senate before his
selection
Roberts is a Republican, 55 years
of age, and first enteered public
service 30 years ago. He was As
sistant District Attorney of Phila
delphia County during the World
War and a special deputy for the
Attorney General representing the
government in espionage cases in
Pennsylvania.
SENT TO THE SENATE
| WASHINGTON, May 10, UP)—
President Hocver sent r'-"'n D.
Roberts nomination to t' e .ienate.
According to progress being
made on the new Seward General
Hospital it appears as though the
institution will be open about the
middle of next month.
JACKIE FIELDS BOWS HEAD IN
DEFEAT TO NEGRO; SOBS
IN CORNER LIKE CHILD
DETROIT, May 10, (IF)—In one
of the most startling upsets in
years Jack Thompson,, Oakland
negro, decisively defeated Jackie
Fields, title holder, in aL blistering
15 rotrifd battle to win the welter
weight championship of the world.
Fifteen thousand fans roared
their approval as Fields, his head
buried in his hands in his corner
crushed in defeat and cried baby
like.
It was the first time he had de
fended his title since he won it a
year ago- Thompson is the first
negro to win the welterweight title;
29 years ago Joe Wolcott beat
“Rube" Ferns, by a knockout in
1301, to win it.
Thompson won 10 of the rounds
and Fields three; the 9th and 12th
rounds were even.
Fields had Thompson near a
knockout in the second and follow
ed up his advantage but was unable
to put him out.
BASEBALL I
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YESTERDAY’S GAMES
AMERICAN LEAGUE
; Cleveland 4; Philadelphia 9.
St. Louis 2; Boston 5.
Detroit 5; New York 4.
: Chicago 3; Washington 14.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Boston 6; St. Louis 10.
Brooklyn 7; Pittsburgh 4.
j New York 5; Chicago 6.
Philadelphia 3; Cincinnati 1.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Seattle 3; Portland 2.
Sacramento 1; Oakland 2.
; San Francisco 9; Hollywood 3.
Los Angeles 13; Missions 17.
IIAVERSTOCKS HERE
f Dr. C. D. Haverstock, prominent
physician and surgeon who is to
| head the Seward General Hospi
tal staff, accompanied by Mrs.
Haverstock, arrived in the city
last evening from Anchorage. The
Haverstocks are guests at the Van
1 Gilder hotel.
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RECENT HIE H010H
COLUMBUS, O., May 9, UP)—All
shops at Ohio penitentiary with
the exception of the cotton and
woolen mills were running! while
Colonel Robert Haubrich, National
guard commander continued his
program of gradually putting pris
oners back to work. ^
Work on reconditioning dftl^||i
cells has progressed satisfactorily,
the guaud coijimstp'ier said.odwr-ftt/
present approximately 200 convicts
are housed in the cells- About 75
of those in the block were among
the convicts who hid. attempted
passive resistance. They are on a
bread and water diet and are in
cells closed by locks and chains.
WASHINGTON, May 10, .JV-De
scribing the Anti-Saloon league
as “Born of God” F. Scott McBride
said before the Senate Lobby Com
mittee that “Those things in the
way of progress to the Kingdom of
God must get out of the way”.
Blaine ot Wisconsin described
the dry leader’s remarks as “sacri
legious and outrageous” and said
he didn’t believe “God would ap
prove of some of your practices”.
EIFTEEEN THOUSAND
CHINESE USE KILLED
SHANGHAI, May 10, (^—Cli
maxing China's unparrelled ban
ditry of recent months, 15.00Q
Chinese in Yungkang, Honan Pro
vince, were killed April 23, said un
verified dispatches to Chinese news
papers.
The looting, burning and killing
lasted for four days.
Mr. and Mrs George B. Nelson,
newlyweds, returned last evening
from their honeymoon trip to
Fairbanks. The popular yoyng
couple are guests at the Seward
hotel.
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EXIS HE Li
ID Cl SIDS
KILL NEGRO
WOMEN SHRIEK IN GHOULISH
GLEE AS BODY WAS TOSSED
TO GROUND
SHERMAN, Tex., May 10, (/P/—
Driven to cover by a driving rain,
a mob which tok the life of a
negro, George Hughes, burned the
Grayson county’s $60,000 court
house and destroyed three blocks
of buildings in the negro section.
Partly broken up at 8:30 a. m
by national guardsmen, who ap
parently controlled the situation,
15 men charged with inciting the
riot were arrested; nine men were
injured, one of them a captain of
the national guard troups sent
from Dallas after the mob had
four times stormed the courthouse
'where Hughes was locked in a
■ vault
Hughes confessed to attacking a
white woman, The mob, unable to
| get the prisoner, poured gasoline
in the basement and set the court
house afire, then blasted thru the
j vault where they found the negro
who apparently had lived thru the
excruciating heat around him. His
head was dashed in when the door
I fell.
!• Women shrieked with ghoulish
glee as the body of the negro was
.tossed to the ground; men tied the
body to the rear of an automobile
and dragged it thru the negro sec
tion. then strung it up on a tree.
TWO HUNDRED AND SIXTY
PASSENGERS EXROUTE
ALASKA CITIES
SEATTLE. May 10, (/Pi—The S.
S. Alaska, of the A. S. S. Co.,
sailed at 9 o'clock this morning
for Alaskan ports with 235 pas
sengers on board of which 69 are
for Seward, as follows:
Miss Nelie Burns. Mr. and Mrs.
C. O. Winrick, H. B. O’Connor. Mr.
and Mrs. Ivan L. Peterson, Walter
Stryker, Capt. I. L- Peterson, Rob
ert S. Acheson, Mrs. J. Collins, S.
Jacobson, Mrs. E- Haughey, Mr. and
I Mrs. John Beaton and son, H.
Clark, Geo. A. FI inn, Thomas
Rodes, R- J. Cacy, Mr. and Mrs. C
H. Jacobs and son, Mrs. Alex Math
eson, Mrs. E. Sutton, Fred Hudson,
j Miss M. L. Olson, H. W. Stewart,
M. D. Sheppard, Mrs T. Ramsey, L.
V. Hauge, A. elly, A Anderson, K.
Decker. Carl Nelson, K. W. Fading,
Floyd Kothensneck, J. Erickson, C.
VanWald, C- J. McKregor, Thomp
son W. G. Gallagher, J. E. Moody,
John Happi, Miss Eunice McIntosh,
Lenore H. Pierce, Joe T. Josnold.
M- L. Hestness, Dr. A. Hadlicka, H.
Koster, Mr. and Mrs. H. Hairlte,
Axel Almdahl, Mrs. M. Schneider,
Louis Giolette, P. Keating, Jack
Schneider, J. A. Balger, Ross Hurst,
C. H. Chandler, Oriental and 39
steerage.
CHICAGO, May 10, pf)—Mrs. Al
|bino Deporre, for two months a
I widow, killed her three children
then committed suicide; the bodies
were found by neighbors. She had
slashed the throat of the eldest
; daughter, shot her boy of nine and
i daughter of 11, then cut her own
1 throat as well as shooting herself.
Two Plays: “ A Case of Suspension ” and “In 1999 Tuesday, May 13