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VOLUME XV. NUMBER 80.
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VICTORIA, Be. C.. April 9. (/?)
—Tolmie’s plan3 to survey the
Alaska road project awaits only
the endorsement of the Canadian
government. Tire Premier pro
;x>ses the survey should be car
ried out under a joint commit
tee of the Canadian, British Col
ombia and United States govern
ments, one representative each, In
the event the road is built.
It is believed the Federal Can
adian government will undertake
due section l^ing through Yukon.
Tolmie will go to Ottow’a to re
quest the aid of the government
before he returns to Victoria from
Arizona where he is vacationing.
MILL SEIM
(By the Associated Press)
The Coast League opened up at
Sacramento overwhelming the
Missions in the weirdest opening
Coast League game in history.
The Missions used three hurlers
all of whom were hit viciously for
24 hits, half of them for extra
« bases.
With Clyde Barfoot, who never
nas lost an opening game in his
career, pitching, Los Angeles
rot awray to a flying start, Bar
foet holding Portland to four hits,
one a homer by Bob Johnson in
the fourth inning with one on.
Hank Hulvey proved too much
for the Oaks, Hollywood winning,
handily. Oakland’s lone score was
a homer by Joe Mellana, pinch
hitting for Craig.
In the wildest opening day ever
witnessed in San Francisco, Seat
tle nosed out the Seals in 12 in
nings. Dave Barbee. Seattle rig'nt
fielder, made two homers and one
double batting in three runs and
scoring throe himself.
About 45,000 attended the fofir
games at all points.
FT. DURON IS f
WATER OPENING HP
POINT BARROW, April 9, 0?)— ;
The crisis of the fuel famine is j
evidently past and water is re- ;
maining open in many places. j
Several hunters are still out on j
the ice having left the village last |
Sunday, at midnight.
Formerly, native igloos were!
heated by a single oil lamp to a j
continuous and sweltering tem
perature but the modem white
man's cold frame houses with
their iron stoves, soon cleaned up
all the beach wood. Traders are :
selling coal at an almost prohibi- i
tive price, $4:00 a sack.
The natives, however, are ex- ,
treme communists, the poor flock
ing to rich native houses the past;
month; two industrious natives
have been feeding 25 sufferers |
daily.
DOLLAR RECOVERING
SAN FRANCISCO, April 9. (/P’5— ;
Captain Robert Dollar, San Fran- :
cisco world shipping magnate,
wes well on the road to recovery j
today from the acute bronchitis j
which has confined him to his
Sin Rafael home during the last;
week. This report was made by j
Dr. Richard G. Dufficy, Captain j
Dollar’s physician, in reporting on;
the rest the 88-year-old shipping!
man enjoyed during the night. i
I1
Wm. Neville, former local young I,
man, left today for Anchorage:,
where he will enter the boiler j;
making department of the Alaska I;
Railroad. !
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FIRE UPON CROWD
BOMBAY, April 9. (/P)—Thirty
persons were injured here when
the police fired on a crowd of
| striking Indian railroad workers.
\ Two European bystanders were
! hit. Meanwhile Ghandi and his
j passive resistors continue their
! challenge to the British govem
| ment.
NEW YORK, April 9. (/^—Sev
eral persons were reported in
jured in a series of explosions
that blew off a dozen manhole
covers in lower Broadway when
I workmen were repairing a gas
| main.
The blasts occurred between
28t.h and 40th streets. Police re
! serves were called out and a l1
persons immediately were order- j
ed out of the buildings in the vi- ;
cinity, which included several ho- ;
tels.
The first explosion occurred at
29th street and Broadway where
a manhole cover was blown high
into the air, followed by a sheet j
of flame. In the second that j
followed, five or 10 manholes to j
the north blew out, each follow- j
ed by flames that quickly sub- _
sided. j
Ambulances from New York, j
French and other hospitals were j
called for the injured who were ;
•given emergency treatment bythf
police.
Patrolman Angelo Sa.-o , ,
the emergency squad, was badly
injured shortly after he arrived!
on the scene when another se- j
ries of explosions ripped up the j
pavement.
STAR OF HURLING STAFF
NEW ORLEANS. April 7. UP)— j
W. Hudllin appears to have
clinched the honor of hurling the j
opening game of the season for the j
Clevland Indians. Hudlin has been
the star of the hurling staff so far
and his taming of the hard-hitting
Giants was impressive. West Ferris,
the Tribe’s ether pitching ace was
scheduled to start the game with
the New Yorkers.
CONDITION NOT SERIOUS
PARIS, April 7, (JP)—Premier
Tardieau was taken ill at a com
mittee meeting and had to be as
sisted to his automobile and taken
to the hotel where he resides. Dr.
Yacoel, the Premier’s physician ex
amined him and said his condition
was not serious.
INSECT EXTERMINATION !
BY BIO PIES
WASHINGTON, April 7, (.•?)—
Whether radio waves can be utiliz
ed to exterminate bugs and insects I
probably will not be determined of
ficially at least for some time
The Federal Radio Commission
rejected an application filed by the
Electric Spray Corp., of the State of
Washington for permission to op
erate two low pressure frequency
stations for insect extermination.
Th applicants stated they had per
fected a process for utilization of
the waves.
THOUSANDS SEE TWO DIE
TILDEN, Neb., April 7, (J?)—
Two were killed, Leon Baldwin,
24, and Leonard Alexander, 22,
and Kenneth Kirk, 26, the pilot,
critically injured when their plane
went into a tail-spin at 500 feet j'
during dedication ceremonies at i
the new state game reserve here, j
There were thousands of witness- i:
es to the tragedy. !<
ANSWER ACCUSATIONS
OAKLAND, April 7, (/P)—Charged
vith willful misconduct in office, ’
Commissioner Wm. H. Paker of :
Oakland, faces court to answer to j
m accusation returned by the Ala- j
iit'da County Grand Jury in its j (
saving, gambling, bootlegging and j,
trait investigation. ■
ji
AYS BUCK. “YOURI
l CUB” SAYS EOlIBfl
WASHINGTON, April 9. UP)—
Senator Black of Alabama told
J. E. Pierce, Editor of the Hunts
ville, Alabama Times, who was be
fore the Senate lobby committee,
that he was a “coward.” Pierce
retorted that Black u'as a "con
temptible cur."
Black questioning Pierce about
a $1,000 check sent him by J.
W. Worthington, chairman of the
executive committee of the Ten
nessee River Improvement Asso
ciation which Pierce said was for
expenses in connection with the
association’s work in behalf of
•private ownership and operation
of Muscle Shoals.
Asserting that Black was re
flecting on him, Pierce declared
the insinuations were a "contemp
tible lie." The arguments then
grew warm and Walsh, of Monta
na, the chairman, had great dif
ficulty in restoring order.
In a few minutes the commit
tee adjourned.
PORTLAND, April 9. (IP)—The
first adverse critiesim of the con
duct of the crew aboard the
coastwise steamer Davenport fol
lowing the vessel's collision with
the pleasure barge Swan on the
barge Swan on the Columbia riv
er, was offered by E. S. Lindley.
secretary of the Vancouver, Wash
ington Chamber of Commerce.
Lindley, whose organization
soonsored the cruise, told Federal
Steamboat Inspectors that it was
fully an hour after the crash be
fore the Davenport sounded dis
tress signals.
SAN FRANCISCO. April 7, 0?)—
Arthur McCarthy, 14-year-old boy
scout of El Cerrito, halted a runa
way street car in Richmond.
Julius J. Miller, Key System elec
trician lost consciousness, fell from
the car and was killed. Young j
McCarthy jumped on the running ]
board of an automobile, overtook j
the car and stopped it a half mile
away.
SUES SCION SOCIETY
SAN FRANCISCO, April 8. <JP)— j
Mrs. Emily Pope Taylor, da ugh- !
ter of George A. Pope, million- i
aire lumberman, filed suit for di- i
vorce here against Lieut. Mosley |
Taylor, scion of a famous Boston
society family. Mrs. Taylor charg
ed dc-senion, neglect and failure
to provide the common necessi
ties of life.
IN COURT AGAIN
LOS ANGELES, April 8. (&)—
Juan A. Ramos, former Mexican
banker and political leader, was
given a suspended prison sen
tence by the Federal court for
embezzlement of more than $40,
390 from the United States Bank
of Los Angeles three years ago.
SHOT AND KILLED
LOS ANGELES, April 9. (JP)— 1
\ robber identified by police fin
ger prints as being Joseph Luby,
?7, a gangster wanted in De
troit for a double slaying, was
?hot and killed 15 minutes after
;ie had robbed a Hollywood bank
>f $500.
WILL BE ON THE JOB
l.OS ANGELES, April 9. CP)—
rake Roger Hornsby’s word for it,
to such small matter as a sore
led will keep him from pat
•oiling the second sack for the
3ubs when the season's onening
iesh with the St. Louis Cardi-i
sals rolls around. t
WHAT THEY WONT DO!
! SAN FRANCISCO, April D. (ff)—
A rancher In a remote section of
California moved his home 500
feet to a new location to improve
reception over his radio, the State
; Railroad commission announced.
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DEFENDS TITLE
MADISON SQUARE GARDEN,
|N. Y., April 9. iff)—Jack Berg, jun
lor welterweight champion of the
! world, successfully defended his
i title hero by beating Joe Glick to
a decision.
AMONG THE BOXERS
VALLEJO, Cal., April 9. f/P)—
| Racehorse Roberts knocked out
I Sylvester Nolan in the second
! round of the main event here.
| Four of the fights on the pro
i gram failed to go the limit.
AVIATION ACCIDENTS
SACRAMENTO, April 8. iff)—
| Aviation accidents resulted in 92
; in California during the last year
| and 371 during the last decade.
| These official figures were an
| nounced by the State Depart
ment of Public Health.
ROYALISTS RETURN
BRUSSELS, Belgium, April 8. OP)
i —King Albert and Queen Eliza
: beth returned from their Egyp
tian trip. They were welcomed
| at the station by Prince Leopold.
| Princess Astrid, Burgomaster Max
and other government officials.
MISSONARIES SOUGHT
SAN FRANCISCO, April 9. (£>)—
Three American Episcopal mis
sionaries, now being held by Chi
nese bandits, are being sought
by a brigade of Chinese soldiers,
according to reports from Yuan
Chow.
TEN MEN INJURED
MOUNT VERNON, Wash., April
9. (/P)—Ten men were injured,
three of them seriously, when a
logging locomotive, pulling a car
loaded with ties and steel rails,
ran away down a steep incline
and land'd in a ditch near Mont
b^rne, west of Mount Vernon.
TpTAL ECLIPSE OF SUN
SAN FRANCISCO. April 7, f/P)—A
total eclipse of the sim will be visi
ble from northern and central Cal
ifornia on April 28th. The eclipse
wil be 99 percent in San Francisco.
The sun will enter the moon's
shadow at 9:33 a. in. here and will
emerge at 12:27 p. in. The maxi
mum eclipse will be at 10:57 a. m.
THREE DIE IN CRASH
HAYS, Kansas, April 7, (JP)—
Three were killed at the airport
here, Leslie Marshall, Pilot Orville
Herbert and Melvin Ridgeway, the
latter two 20 years of age, in a
crash nose dive at a low altitude.
The plane burst into flames.
CONFIRMATION LACKING
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla., April
9. </P>—Confirmation of reports
that “Cannonball” Baker, an
American, would succeed Kaye
Don, Englishman, as driver of
the English racing car “Silver
Bullet” in an effort to estab’ish
a new world's automobile SDeed
record, is lacking. W. S. Strum,
manager of Don, denied the re
port and other backers of the
Don campaign refused to com
ment.
“THE AMBLING ALP"
LOS ANGELES, April 9. (/P)—
Ptfmo Camera, alias Goliath, the
“Amb’ing Alp,” and countless oth
er ring titles, got down to the
serious business of preparing for
the task ahead; his "battle” of
10 rounds or less, with Neil Clis
by, Riverside negro, at the Olym
oic Club. Camera, with his corps
of trainers, motored to Echo Park;
shortly after sunup and then took
the graveled paths for a condi
tioning jog of some four miles.
Too often we try to crowd to
morrow's troubles into today's.
BEEN NEUTRALIZED
; NEW YORK, April 9. (/P)—A
census enumerator in th-e Bronx
|tells this: “Are you a citizen of
1 the United States,” he asked a
housewife. “Yes,” she replied
complacently, “I’ve been neutral
ized.”
00. H. HENRY WELCH
HONORED BY WORLD,
1I1L BIRTHDAY
WASHINGTON, April 9. W—
President Hoover characterized Dr.
William Hejiry Welch as “Our
greatest statesman in the field of
public health” at the Washing
ton exercises of the International
celebration marking the 80th
birthday of the Baltimore path
ologist and Dean of American
medicine who now holds the chair
of history and medicine at John
Hopkins.
He was honored from many
i parts of the world, 39 other ci
j ties joining in the Nation’s and
I Caoital’s tribute.
j In his radio address Mr. Hoover
said the present age was marked
| by two tendencies, Democratic and j
I scientific.
BORDER PATROLMAN
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I DETROIT, April 9. (JP)—Gordon
Marsden, 32, customs border pat
rolman, was wounded In a bat
I tie between nun runners and
: Federal officers on the Detroit
river.
i A shotgun slug entered Mars
j den's hand. Marsden and his
j companions reported that the
: rum runners opened fire on the i
• government boat after they were ;
I ordered to halt while attempting i
j to dash across the river to the '
Michigan shore in a speed boat. I
| The officers said they retail- j
| ated with 10 shots, but the smug- j
, glers escaped to Canada.
WASHINGTON, April 8. (/P)—
i Warned of defeat for his attacks 1
On the dry law, Senator Tydings, i
j Democrat, of Maryland, was ap
plauded enthusiastically from the
gallery in the Senate as he shout- '
ed that he would continue to
fight a cause which is simply <
dragging the United States and
all its traditions and philosophy i
down into the mire of crime and l
corruption. !
DESPERATE STRATEGY 1
SAN FRANCISCO, April 9. (JP)— <
San Franciscans were consider- ’
ably stirred, some gaily and some :
sadly, as alumni of Stanford and 1
California universities reacted to 1
the collegiate classic of Thursday !
night when Stanford students by 1
desperate strategy reclaimed their 1
school’s traditional axe after !
many an effort since the axe was *
stolen from them by California in i<
1899. 5
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THE ONLY WAY
ZAPOROJIC, S. R., April 9. (JP)
—Four officials of the state of j
Granrust were sentenced to death!
for selling hundreds of tons of j
high grade flour to private spe- j
culators during the extremest 1
period in the government grain 11
collection campaign. Thirty other! \
officials, Implicated in the sales, c
were sentenced to from one to 3
10 years imprisonment. c
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KILLS FOURTH WIFE
DALLAS, April 7, (JP)—E. Ugus
tus Mincheu, 49, wealthy oil op
erator, shot and killed his fourth
wife, thon committed suicide in
the presence of his 18-months
old baby, Nancy, who was play
ing with a doll. It was a family
quarrel.
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BARROW, April 9. (,?}—'The fuel
famine was broken yesterday. The
water is still open in spots all
along the coast.
Tiie majority of the hunters
are still out five miles at the edge
of the water where the sound of
guns is almost continuous.. The
odor of burnin blubber is al
ready strong in the village. The
reports indicate that a great num
ber of seals have been killed.
There is a strong indication the
ice crack near beach is forming
a lead for whaling as usual the
first port of May, but there if?
grave doubt if the entire pack
will leave as usual in July and
August to follow the ships, on ac
count of unusual .southerly winds
OF SEWARD SCHSO
SYSTEM ELECTED
All members of the Seward
school faculty have been reelected,
with the exception of one; and
this one would also have been in
cluded in those reelected, at last
evening’s meeting of the school
board, providing the board had
had information at hand with re
gard to the teacher’s future
plans. As it was, reelection was
temporarily held up.
W. C. Erwin, director, was unan
imously elected to head the school
board as president for the ensu
ing year, succeeding E. F. Jessen
who has held the position two
fears; the latter is now treasurer
W. H. Abbott, new member of the
board, was unanimously elected
as clerk, succeeding A. H. L. Mey
ers, retiring clerk.
Mr. Meyer’s did not have any
Swan song” to sing but said he
would gladly assist the new clerk
along in getting away to a good
start. The Board gave Mr. Meyers
i vote of thanks in appreciation
ef his zeal during tenure of of
fice—three years. President Erwin
expressed the thanks of the Board
;o Mr. Meyer for his earnest co
pperation, unflagging interest,
jamest efforts and conscientious
work.
Superintendent M. B. Roaney
was present during a part of the
meeting and upon the suggestion
)f President Erwin gave a verbal
report- of the past year’s work and
performance of the staff. In part
Superintendent stated that in be
ialf of the teachers he desired to
express thanks to the school
)Osw*d and members of the city
ncil. for cooperation given;
t everything which had been
ed for had been received. He
I that with the possible exceo
l of one member of the pre
t faculty, all would like to
t: that the one referred to
terred employment in a larger
em, etc., and to that end has
•ady made application to sev
other systems. Mr. Roaney
ce very highly of all members
pis staff stating he considered
staff far above the average,
uch other business was trans
‘d. The next meeting of the
rd was set for Friday evening.
Cal M. Broslus, prominent local
»usiness man, wired Mrs. Wey
>recht today from San Francisco,
/here he and H. V. Hoben motor
d from Seattle, that they arrived
esterday and were busy calling
n George Phelps and other for
mer Sewardites. Cal is leaving
hortly, by plane, for Seattle and
>lans sailing for Seward on the
9th.
S. Lindblad, well konwn local
itizen and business man who has
een in the states during the past
inter, returned home last night
n the Admiral Evans.