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VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 175.
SEWARD, ALASKA. TUESDAY, DEC. 17, 1929.
PRICE TEN CENTS
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MYSTERY APPEARS
II MILE WEST
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SECURITIES. MACHINE GUNS,
RIFLES, TEAR BOMBS, SHOT
GUN, SHELL FOUND
ST. JOSEPH. Mich.. Dec., 16, (>P)—
With police thruout the middle
west seeking Frederick Dane as the
murderer bank robber, acquain
tances and neighbors of the fash
ionable Lake Shore Drive, where
three months ago he purchased a
luxurious home here are digesting
a Dr. Jekyl-Hyde story.
Dane got into a tight place Sat
urday night and showed his true
self after a minor traffic accident
in which he shot and fatally
wounded Charles Skellv, 30, a mo
torcycle patrolman rather than go
to police headquarters for question
ing.
He forced three persons to aid
him in escaping after wrecking his
own car in the getaway,
r Police found garage bills in the
car which identified the driver as
Done. They raided the Laks Shore
minion and found $319,000 in se
curities, stolen in November in a
holdup of the Farmers Merchants
Bank at Jefferson, Wis.
Two machine guns, a sawed-off
shotgun, two high-powered rifles,
bags and cans of shells and tear
bombs were also discovered.
Fin ST PLANE WitL BE IN AIR ?A
HO*' S AFTER Ar'lRIY.lL;
PLANES WELL EQUIPPED
SEATTLE, Dec., 17. (fP)—The Ca
nadian airmen enroute to Seattle to
start search for Col. Eielson and
Borland, have about 50 percent
chance of succes, said Major How
ard C. Deckard, who is here and
*;who will send three planes and
eight fliers North,
“Everything possible is being
done to hasten the start”, Deckard
said, “We will have the first plane
in the air in 24 hours after our ar
rival at Fairbanks. We have what
I believe to be the pick of northern
fliers and they are being equipped
with planes that can go anywhere.'’
m or [ielson
' HI HE IIP SHU
FARGO. N. D., Dec., 17, (/P>—11
others fail to find Carl Ben Eielson
North Dakota aviator lo'-'t in Alas
ka. by February 1, his father, Ole
Eielson of Hatton, will undertake
the search. The elder Eielson is
here on a visit and said that he wil
start ofr Alaska about February 1
4/ no news is received of his son. He
said he would get the help of Joe
Crosson, formerly associated with
his son and Captain Wilkins ir
aerial explorations.
BILL PASSED
WASHINGTON, Dec., 16, (/P)—
house passed the White bill to ex
tend the life of the Federal Radio
Commission indefinitely.
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WASTE PIM
BUTT,DING HI AZTNG FURNACE
BEFORE FIRST FIRE APPAR
ATUS ARRIVED
BALTIMORE, Dec., 16, {/P)-~At
least four persons died in a fire of
the four-story plant of the Thomas
H. O’Connor Waste Paper Co., in
the downtown railroad district.
The firemen recovered three bod
ies from the building. Another
victim whose back was broken when
he leaped from a third story win
dow, died in the hospital.
About 50 other employees in the
building fled by fire escapes.
The rush of flames thru quanti
ties of old paper converted the
the building into a furnace before
the first fire aparatus and ambu
lances arrived. The fire is believed
to have started on the fourth floor
though it burst out so suddenly the
firemen were unable to get definite
information.
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IN REDS WITH ONE OR MORE
CUTS ABOUT THROAT; EX- |
FATHER TO RECOVER
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THREE RIVERS, Quebec, Dec., 16,
UP)—Mrs. Andrew Dav and her
seven children ranging in age from
one to 14 years, were found dead in
their home with their throats cut,
apparently with an ax.
Mr. Day, the father of the family,
was found wandering about the
streets with his throat cut also. At
the Day home police found the wo
man and her children in beds in
three different rooms, all received
one or more cuts about the throat
as though the perpetrator of the
crime had wanted to decapitate his
victims.
Day made no statement at the
hospital. He is expected to recover.
OUT IN FIRST ROUND
NEW YORK, Dec., 7, (/?)—'“Kid
Chocolate” the sensational Cuban
featherweight, knocked cut Her
man Silberberg c?*3rook.’.yn, m the
first round of their 10-round bout
at the Lenox Sporting Club.
A WORTH-WHILE ENDEAVOR
The Seward Chamber of Commerce is hereby com
X iimented for its efforts in presenting today this special
issue dedicated to the road builders; hundreds of copies
will be mailed throughout the United States, it is
their hope—a most worthy ambition—to publish
every few months a special issue dealing with the activ
ities of the various resources of this area and of develop
ments. This issue is made possible by the hearty coop
t rati n of locaj business firms.
Community unity, such as is evidenced by this organ
ization, will one day enjoy its just reward.
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; PORT ANGELES, Wn., Dec., 17,
\(/P)—The coast guard cutter Sno
homish left here to examine the
jwheck of the steam schooner Skag- 1
way which purposely was run
ground near Cape Flattery yester
day so that the crew might escape
from fire.
Captain E. Strandquist was per
suaded to leave the flaming ship
after it had been given up for a!
| total loss. Other officers and the
jcrew, 26, in all, were brought here
last night.
Chief Engineer Cumerford is suf
fering from exposure, the only
member of the crew suffering ill
effects from the experience. The
i j fire broke out on the Skagway,
which wa? heading for Seattle from
San Francisco, among the cargo of
ij gasoline, oil and alcohol. Smoke
from the hold prevented the crew
from fighting the fire or determin
ing the came. Water let into the
hold made the ship immanagable.
EDMONTON, Dc., 17, (JP)—A Cur
tis-Robin airplane, equipped with
Challenger engines, property of
the Rutledge Airways Ldt., of Cal
gary, has been offered Stefansson,
the Arctic explorer, in an effort to
to locate Eielson and Borland.
No reply to the offer has been re
ceived yet. Dill Rutledge, pilot and
one other aviator yet to be selected,
are preparing to make the hop im
mediately if their services are ac
cepted.
The route outlined, if they fly
from Calgary, would be to Vancou
ver and up the coast, then inland
to Fairbanks.
RADIO TELEVISION
SAN FRANCISCO, Dc., 16, (JP)—
The perfection of a radio television
instrument, said to be adaptable to
home use, at a price well within the
purchasing power of the average
radio fan, has been announced here
by W. W. Charles, president of the
Kemper Radio Corp„ of Los Ange
les.
PROJECTS, WORTHY OF CONSIDERATION
“Seward, at the head of Resurrection Bay, would be the trade cen
,er of this section of Alaska with the aid of further construction of
rails, highways and roads. On Kenai Peninsula, tributary to Seward,
n various and numerous settlements, is a large population who would
3e served and benefited by the construction of a road leading to such
centers of population. Particularly beneficial for the further develop
nent of this region would be a trunk-line road from Seward to Kenai
in Cook Inlet, up Resurrection River, with branches extending to Kas
loff and Ninilchik, Anchor Point, Homer, and other settlements along
die shores of Cook Inlet.
“I am informed, from Skilak Lake, sometimes designated “Lower
Kenai mixe, cunsuucenm on tne giavei pmteau to Kenai and otner
points mentioned, wornd be the xeast cosuy to ound in compari
son to any otner section of Aiasxa. A trail leading from Snow River to
taiadise Vahey would seem to be a project worthy of consideration,
for possibly outside of the Glacier National Park, no more wonaenui
vailcj tnsus on the American Continent
**A connection of tne Sewara-Kenai Highway with the Moose Pass
and Lope Highway is aimost a necssity, opening up a possibility oi
tourist ..ravel through one of the most interesting sections in the en
tire Territory. Any person who has motored over tne two highways
is reauy to testuy as to the wonderful scenery which meets the view.
“I nave a further project in mind, which possibly is a little far
vis*omd, but I think a road v.ould be constructed without much ex
pense, except for the first mile and a half, from Seward down the
west coast of Resurrection Bay to Cain’s Head. A little south of Cain's
Le-.d on the upland, would make an ideal place for a tourist hotel,
with iishing and hunting unsurpassed in ail Alaska.
“We have reached the age in the progress of Alaska where its
future development depends upon the linking up and connecting of
the var.ous pioneer settlements. Time is too short to depend upon
steamship travel and the future growth of the Territory seems to me
depends upon connecting up the present settlements by a system of
roads and trails.”
Mayor P. C. McMullen
MEN WHO ARE MAKING ALASKA
Alaskan needs more men of the type of Mr. C. H. Flory, whose
headquarters are at Juneau, Alaska. Mr. Flory has devoted the past
ten years to the study of Alaska’s vast forests of spruce, hemlock, birch
and many other varieties of marketable timber. He is spending the
best years of his life in this Far North country serving his govern
ment; not eight hours a day as is done in other forms of government
offices, but devoting 12 to 14 hours a day to help develop and populate
Alaska striving to induce large pulp mills, saw mills and other indus
tries to locate in this vast storehouse of undeveloped opportunities;
nor is this all. He is one one of the board of three who are co-ordinat
ing the different bureaus, of the government in Alaska to make them
function more quickly, and to prevent over-lapping one another as
was often done in days gone past.
Mr. Flory represents several other departments, also of the De
partments of Commerce and Agriculture. Last summer when the Con
gressional party, representing the powerful Appropriation Committee
toured Alaska gathering information and data, it was their good for
tune to have along Mr. Flory who was able to give them a tremendous
amount of information, on practically all the problems that they were
interested in, and Alaska will gain tremendously by reason of the
first hand information this Committee was able to procure through
contact with Mr. Flory.
The building of trails in the Chugach National Forest is another
important item that Mr. Flory is handling in a masterfully manner
ably assisted by Forest Supervisor W. J. McDonald, of the Chugach
National Forest. In closing we can only say to the powers that be In
Washington, please send us. more men of the type of Mr. C. H. Flory.
Leon Urbach, President of the Seward Chamber of Commerce
The Seward Chamber of Commerce takes this opportunity to
thank Mr. D. H. Williams, Chief Officer of the Bureau of Public Roads
, in the Chugach National Forest, of which this district is a part, for
| his loyal co-operation with this body in ail the road building opera -
| tions in this section of Alaska in which we are all vitally interested.
: Whenever any problem of this nature was under consideraton and a
j request made on Mr. Williams for his decision the Seward Chamber
; of Commerce has always been favored with a courteous ai\d frank
! statement of his attitude toward the improvement sought and he has
WILLIAMS—TH& ENGINEER
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