SEWARD,
ALASKA
Seward
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“CENTER of
EVERYTHING”
Gateway
COAST TERMINAL OF THE
ALASKA RAILROAD
DAILY AND WEEKLY
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
TERMINAL FOR THREE OCEAN
GOING STEAMSHIP LINES
VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 149.
SEWARD, ALASKA. SATURDAY, NOV. 16, 1929.
PRICE TEN CENTS
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BOON TO INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITY is
AND EMPLOYMENT MAY !]
FOLLOW CONFERENCE
WASHINGTON, Nov., 16, (A3)— :
President Hoover is calling a small !
group of industrial, agricultural
and labor leaders to meet next week j
with high federal officials to plan
for a revival of construction activi - j
ty and other means of spurring
business.
In announcing the step the Pres
ident revealed he had engaged in
“numerous conferences with im- ,
portant business leaders and public j
officials with the view to co-ordi
nation of business and governmen- ,
tal agencies in a concerted action
for continued business progress.”.
Secretaries Mellon, Hyde, Lamont
and Davis will represent the treas- |
ury, agriculture, commerce and
labor departments and Chairman j
Legge for the farm board..
In the coming meeting Hoover j
has not named those outside the
government who will participate in
the tremendous public and private
construction program thruout the
country with a resultant boon to
industrial activity and employment
which may follow the conference.
PROPOSAL BE PASSED BEFORE
CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS
STATES TILSON
WASHINGTON, Nov., 15. (/Pi
Representative Tilson of Connect
icut, republican house leader,
predicted after a call at the
White House that the treasury
tax reduction proposal will be
passed by the house before the
Christmas holidays.
Tilson said he had canvassed
the possibility of the early pas
sage of the tax bill and with
the President is confident no ob
jection will be interposed in the
house.
This course of the treasury
proposal is for a one per cent
reduction in individual and cor
poration rates.
WASHINGTON, Nov., 16, (JP)—
The state department informed
Great Britain that January 21st is
acceptable to the United States for
the inauguration of the London
conference on naval arms limita
tion, revealing for the first time
the exact date upon which the par
ley will convene.
The American delegation plans
to arrive in London some three or
four days before the conference be
gins in order to orient itself and be
ready to devote its attention solely
to the work of the parley once it is
under way.
i. S. DEPEIE STRIKES '
HOCK: IS BESGHEDi
SEATTLE, Nov., 16, (/P)—The
reighter Depere, owned by the Al
tska Steamship Co., struck a rock
ibout 8 o’clock last night. It was
ater beached at Port McArthur.
The Seattle harbor radio station
•eported her position when she
;truck the rock as latitude 56 de
crees 20 minutes North longitude
134 degrees three minutes west.
NUMBER OF SUPPLY FIRMS
HAVE LIENS AGAINST SHIP
BUILT FOR FOSHAY CO.
SEATTLE, Nov., 16, OP)—Under a
superior court order issued here, P.
E. Voinot was appointed receiver
for the passenger freight ship W. B.
Foshay, recently launched for the
Alaskan service. The ship was built
for Foshay & Co., of Minneapolis
which recently went bankrupt.
The Washington Iron Works, the
petitioner in today’s action, is
bringing suit to protect its claim
of $69,000 on the ship’s engines. The
defendants named were citizens of
the Light & Power Water Co., of
Ketchikan a subsidiary of the Fos
hay Co. A number of supply firms
have liens against the craft.
WINS 10-ROUND DECISION
DETROIT, Nov., 16, uP)—Using a
terrific right hook to the head that
landed so often as to become al
most methodical Charlie Belanger.
Canadian light heavyweight cham
pion, won a 10-rouna decision over
neo Loraski, of Aberdeen, Wash.
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TUNNEL DUG SINCE OCTOBER
RIOT; POWDER AND TOOLS
ALSO FOUND
CANON CITY, Colo., Nov., 16, (JP)
—The discovery of a 10-foot tunnel
which reached to the base of the
I west wall of the state prison is be
jlieved by officials and guards to
ihave fustrated an incipient attempt
|to escape from prison.
Officials and guards, who for
two days had been searching the
prison found sledges, drills and
crowbars in the underground pas
sage. Five convicts have been plac
ed in solitary confinement.
Officials said one or two hours’
work would suffice in removing
j the remaining stones that barred
Ithem irom freedom. A small quan
tity of powder was found in the
tunnel for use in case tools failed tc
place the convicts thru the remain
ing wall. The tunnel had been dug
since the October riot when 13 men
lost their lives.
WORD RECEIVED YESTERDAY {
FROM FORMER CONVICT OF 1
CONSPIRACY :
JOLIET, 111., Nov., 16, (TP)—Ward- ;;
en Henry C. Hill issued a denial to
the published reports to the effect j
that guards in the new Stateville |
penitentiary have been doubled
upon the discovery of a plot of the j
prisoners to shoot dynamite in a !
break for freedom from prison.
Guards renewed vigilance upon I
receipts of warning from a paroled |
convict that a plot was underway to j
dynamite the walls.
Hill denied extra precautions had
been taken and said warnings were j
received six weeks ago but Briga
dier General John V. Clinnin, Nat
ional Guard Commander, who sup
pressed the mutiny here a decade
ago, said the former convict had
come to him yesterday with word of i
the conspiracy.
OF
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LONDON, Nov., 16, (TP)—The sud
■den death of Richard Betliell, 46,
I heir to the estate of Lord West
jburtte, was revived in a discussion
S of the superstition of the curse
| resting upon Meddlers Tombs of
the Pharoahs.
; Bethell, secretary to Howard Car
iter, whose investigations in Egypt
disclosed treasures of the ancient
Tutankhamen, was the 10th death
among people concerned in explo
ration of the old Pharoah’s sepul
chre. Carter, chief disturber of the
Itomb, is still alive.
HAINES, Alaska, Nov., 16, (£’)—
f’ive hundred Point Barrow Indians
ire here for the annual Native Al
iskan Brotherhood and Sisterhood
Convention which meets until Nov
ember 21. William Paul, Ketchikan
ittorney and editor of the Alaskan
fisherman, and a former member
)f the legislature, is to preside as j ^
?rand master of the ceremonies j
md is principal speaker.
1 TO HIS KING
IN YEAR 1851 PAYS i
THIS Ml NOW I
WASHINGTON, Nov., 15, VP)—A :
royal haircut September 3, 1651,;
bulks large in the reason why Geo.!
W. Pendrell, retired Brooklyn laun- j
dryman, receives $400 a year from
the British crown.
It was the cavalier locks of
Charles II of England which fell
before shears wielded by Richard ,
Penderill, who trimmed the sover- ;
eign’s hair to typical “roundhead” |
appearance. George W. Pendrell is
one of 40 descendants of the an
cient Pendrills who disguised King
Charles and helped him escape his
Cromwell pursuers, and the per
petual annual grant was establish
ed for the family after the Restora
tion.
NORTHWESTERN SAILS
! SEATTLE, Nov., 16, (JP)—The S.
IS. Northwestern, of the A. S. S. Co.,
j sailed at 9 a. m. carrying 68 passen
gers; five steerage. There are 16
I passengers for Seward which in
cludes: Mrs. Ellen Alsa, Mr. and
Mrs. M. A. Meermemen, Mr. and
Mrs. Leslie Almquist and baby, Mr.
land Mrs. Henry Dewree, Mr. and
| Mrs. Charles T. Hatton, Canterbury
j Hatton, Ann Hatton, June Hatton,
Mr. and Mrs. P. Peterson, A. Stone.
BIG LENS MARKS LIFETIME
OF SCIENTIST’S DEVOTION
■i£L>
Dr. C. C. Crump, Wesleyan astronmy professor, and
Dr. George K. Burgess, director of the bureau of stan
dards, are shown inspecting America’s greatest optical
liens after it had been drilled for mounting.
IESCUE CREW HILLSIDE WHILE
SEARCHING FOR MAN WHO
WAS SWEPT OVERBOARD
PETERSBURG, Nov., 16, (/P)—
rragedy marked the ending of the
lalibut season with the arrival of
,he local halibut boat Middleton,
Dapt. Gus Issaacson, reporting the
oss of Knute Hauger, a member of
;he crew, who was swept overboard
oy a huge sea while the boat was
Dff Icy Bay on its way to port.
While searching for Haugen, the
Middletin sighted a flare from a
herring seiner Hillside, of Seattle
and rescued the crew two hours
before the boat sank a total loss. It
was owned by the Utopian Fisher
ies.
Haugen was unmarried and has
no relatives here. He arrived two
years ago from central Norway.
The Hillside crew was brought here
by the Middleton.
PARTIAL COPES
CLAIMED BESIDE
CURATIVE QUALITIES REPORT
ED; THOUSANDS OF
PEOPLE GATHER
MALDEN, Mass-, Nov., 15, (/Pi
Priests and nuns knelt beside
the laity at the grave of Rever
; end Patrick Power, in Holy Cross
! cemetery, as 50,000 persons as
! sembled to ask Devine interces
! sion in relief of body ailments,
i It was the largest week day
■crowd on record since the reports
! of reputedly curative qualities of
the 60-year old grave became
widespread.
Several partial cures were claim
ed among the visitors at the grave
among which was a partly para
lyzed priest; a band of 11 gypsy
girls brought a member of their
group who sought relief from
deafness.
SENATE ABANDONS
US TARIFF SESSION
WASHINGTON, Nov., 16, (fF)—
The senate abandoned plans for
the tariff at the session after an as
sertion by Senator Walsh that the
older members were traveling the
“pace that kills.”
Walsh first failed to obtain a
consent to a recess until Monday
after the finish of the afternoon
session when Senator Barkely ob
jected however, on a motion not
requiring unanimous consent but
accomplish the same purpose.
The senate voted favorably 68 to
7.
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Sgt. Urie, Mrs. Urie and family,
popular Seward residents for a
number of years, left today enroute
to Fort Monmouth, Signal station,
where the Sergeant was formerly
stationed.