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VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 160.
SEWARD, ALASKA. FRIDAY, NOV. 29, 1929.
PRICE TEN CENTS
SOME CANNERIES ARE TOTAI
WRECKS; WINTER SUP
PLIES ARE LOST
SEATTLE. Nov., 29, (JP)—A ter
rific gale accompanied by an ex
treme high tide, did heavy dam
age to canneries and other build
ings in the Bristol Bay district
a message to the United States
Bureau of Education said.
The message was from the
Bureau of Education radio sta
tion at Kanakanak, an Indian
village near Dillingham, and said
that an “extremely high tide
accompanying the southwest gale
on Novenlber 24 caused serious
damage in the Bristol Bay area
wrecking some canneries totally
Some not heard from may be in
ruins.”
There are 26 canneries in that
district. Horace Caldwell, school
teacher at Kanakanak, notified
the bureau offices here that two
► huge coal bins in the village were
destroyed and a large quantity
of winter supplies.
Bureau of Education officials
estimate the damage at about
$100,000.
George R. Gardner, government
school superintendent at Una
laska reported winter supplies to
5 eplace those lost, have been sent
to Kanakanak to stave off possi
ble suffering.
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CANNn-.Y COMPANIES PLAN TO
sen:> airplanes stricken
ELSTRICT, INVESTIGATE
SEA FTLE, Nov., 29, (/P)—As re
ports from canneries along Bris
tol Bay district continued to sift in
it is estimated the damage caused
by the terrific gale and tidal wave
on November 24 reached $200,000.
The havoc wrought by the storm
is far more serious than at first be
lieved reports revealed. The Seat
tle offices of Liboy, McNeil & Libby
advised that all of its buildings
and docks at Ekuk were carried
away; the cannery of the North
western Fisheries Co, at Naknek,
was undamaged r?porls indicated,
but all floating equipment, includ
ing numerous scows on the beach,
were swept away.
It is said here that the cannery
companies are preparing to send
airplanes from Seward and Fair
banks to the stricken district to in
vestigate damages and the need of
food supplies.
the flm player and the prince were
PERIL FOR GROUSE
WASHINGTON, Nov., 27, (A>)—
Grouse in Scoutland stand in dire
peril, for Senator Joseph Robinson,,
member of the American delega
tion to the disarmament confer
ence and holder of the record for
grouse shooting has begun practic
ing. He is expected to meet Briton
in a match with Ambassador Dawes
as arbitrator.
DEPERE IN TOW
I KETCHIKAN, Nov., 29, (£*)_
The freighter Deper, of the A. S
S. Co., left here at 9 o'clock ir
tw of the tug Salvage King foi
Tacoma. The vessel was brough
I here after minor repairs hac
| been made to its hull at Port Mc
Arthur where it was beaehec
two weeks ago .after hitting a
rock.
NEARLY TWO BILLION APPRO
PRIATIONS FOR PUBLIC
UTILITIES WORK
WASHINGTON, Nov., 29, (>P)—
A construction and maintenance
program of nearly $2,000,000,000
for the coming year was out
lined to President Hoover by
spokesmen from various public
utilities throughout the country.
This expansion is more than
$100,000,000 over the expenditures
for the same purpose this past
year.
The report was received with
gratification by the President.
Chairman of the Board of the
General Electric Corp., '•Samuel
Insull, of Chicago, one of the
largest among the utility inter
ests, and other officials, met with
the Chief Executive.
COMING HOME
BRIONI, Italy, Nov., 29, (JP)—
I Gene Tunney, former heavyweight
boxing champion of the world and
Mrs. Tunney, the former Polley
Lauder, plan to sail for United
j States from Naples on the liner
Valcania. Mr. and Mrs. Tunney re
jcently returned here after a trip to
Germany.
BODY PLACED UPON ARTIL
LERY CAISSON; ESCORT
GUARD HONOR
CHEYENNE, Nov., 29, (JP)—The
special funeral train bearing the
body of Senator Warren, arrived
at the Union Pacific Station. The
body was accompanied by Con
gressional members, the family
l and friends.
The flag-draped casket of Wy
oming’s “Grand old man” was
placed upon an artillery caisson
and taken to the State Capitol
by an escort of honor which com
prised the band of the 2nd bat
talion, Fort D. A. Russell, soldiers,
numbering about 240 men.
On reaching the capitol where
the body laid in state for two
hours the honor guard then re
ceived the remains and virtually
the entire garrison of Fort Rus
sell acted as escort to the ceme
tery.
SACRED COLLEGE
ROME, Nov., 27, (/P)—Pope Pius
appointed two aliens and three
non-Italians as members of the i
Sacred College for Cardinals, leav- ;
ing eight seats still unoccupied.
SCHOONER m
S TOTAL
TWO
UNALGA FINDS BOAT AND ITS
CREW; KANATAK TIIOT
TO BE LOST
SEATTLE, Nov., 29, (/P)—'The
wreck of the halibut schoonei
Seabird, and the loss of twc
| lives, Louis and Ellis Dyb, was
! reported to the coast guard of
j fice here by the cutter Unalgs
] which located the battered ves
i sel on Wingate Island, neai
'Prince William Sound,
j The Dybs were drowned but A
others of the crew taken unin
jured to the Unalga which ther
proceeded to the mouth of th(
Copper River where anothei
wreck was reported and which
it was thought, might be that ol
the halibut schooner Kanatak
All aboard the Seabird were frorr
Seattle.
01000!! BEFORE
BIS GALE STRUCK
JUNEAU, Nov., 29, f/P)—Just
an hour before a southeast gale
sprang up which would have
crushed her against the beach,
jthe S. S. Depere, of the Alaska
Steamship Company, was re
floated and towed into Port Me
Arthur where it was beached
two weeks ago after hitting a
rock at Cape Decision.
The Alaska Salvage Company
| offices reported the ship would
i be brought into port sometime
| on Thursday under tow. Fires
were started under the Depere
boilers for use of her steam
; steering gear.
| FATHER HI THE
CHILDREN KILLED:
MOTHER m DIE
HAVRE GRACE, Md., Nov., 29,
(JP)—H. Alexander Phipps and his
three children were killed when
their automobile was struck at
; a crossing by a Pennsylvania
Railroad express train which
hurled the car into the watch
man’s side-tracks.
Phipps was a foreman in charge
of a large farm. His two daught
ers Ethel, 16; and Virginia, 14;
also the son Garnet, 11; were
instantly killed.
Mrs. Phipps was taken to the
hospital in a critical condition
having sustained a fractured
skull. Another son, Francis, 6,
was only scratched.
YACHT CLUB IN SMOKE
LOS ANGELES, Nov., 29. (/P)_
Fire destroyed the California
Yacht Club; the loss is placed
at $100,000. Defective wiring is
blamed for the blaze; 34 gold
and silver trophies and momen
tos of the club’s prowess in sea
races were ruined.
N. VV. CHAMPIONS
WALLA WALLA, Wash., Nov., 29,
UP)—Willamette reigns as the new
Pacific Northwest football champ
ions by their defeat over Whitman
College. Willamette’s forward pass
ing overwhelmed their rivals five of
the six scores coming by an aerial
attack. Whitman made both touch
downs via the overhead route.
LIE
BUILT HIC A
CRASHES HOUSE
TWO OCCUPANTS ESCAPED
WITH INJURIES; HOUSES
DESTROYED
^ ROOSEVELT FIELD, N. Y. Nov.
‘ 29, (/P)—The —31, the recently
’ completed 32-passenger Fokker
monoplane, the largest airplane
ever built in this country, crash
ed into a house in the hamlet of
I Carle Place, adjacent to Roose
| velt Field, and the two occupants
escaped with injuries.
Two dwellings were destroyed
by the resultant fire. M. J. Botts,
! engine inspector of the depart
I ment of commerce, was slightly
injured, and Harry McDonald, a
mechanic, had his leg broken.
They crashed just after taking j
off.
CONSTRUCTION HELD OFF
WASHINGTON, Nov.. 29, (/P)— I
Secretary Adams said that the j
keels of the three cruisers whose
construction was suspended by
order of President Hoover last
summer will, in no event, be laid
until after the London armament
conference in January.
i
LITTLE DAMAGE; RUSSIAN
AIRMEN ABOARD; PLANE
DISMANTLED
NEW YORK, Nov., 29, (£>)—
The Cunard liner Mauretania,
j which collided with a railway
car float in the harbor near the
Statue of Liberty, last night, re
I turned to her pier under her own
! power with a great hole torn
jin her port bow above the water
line where three steel plates were
I smashed.
Workmen immediately began
| to replace them. Officials of the
j line said they hoped repairs
, would be completed by six that
; night. The interrupted sailing
was to be resumed a few hours
later.
The Russian fliers are aboard
the liner with their dismantled
plane which is being shipped to
Berlin where it will be reassem
bled for a flight to Moscow. Sov
iet authorities refused them per
mission to attempt the Atlantic
flight.
INCREASE BUSINESS
WASHINGTON, Nov., 29, (/P)—
Canadian Air Transport Companies
report a large increase in business
for the fiscal year ending Septem
ber 30.
91 HOPS OFF
1.81 MILE FLIGHT
IN DIRECT COMMUNICATION
EASTERN NEWSPAPERS:
BE GONE 24 HORS
NEW YORK, Nov., 29, (A5)—
The New York Times, St. Louis
Dispatch and other newspapers
affiliated with them, * published
reports that Commander Byrd
took off at 7:29 last night, Paci
fic time, on a 1,600 flight to the
! South pole.
Byrd, who is flying with Bernt
Balchen, pilot, Harold June, ra
dio operator, and Capt. Ashley
C. McKinley, photographer, in the
big tri-motored airplane which he
took to the Antarctic, expects to
be in direct communication thru
out the flight with the New York
Times radio station.
New York, as well as the base,
will report progress as it goes; if
all goes well they should return
to their base before 24 hours
have elapsed.
REESTABUSHMEWT
OF STATUS 000
i
MUKDEN CAPITULATES TO DE
MAND OF THE SOVIET
GOVERNMENT
MOSCOW, Nov., 29, (/P)—The
Mukden government officially is
reported to have capitulated to
the demands of the Soviet gov
ernment for reestablishment of
status quo on the Chinese East
ern Railway in Manchuria.
Before opening negotiations
for peaceful settlements of the
disputes, Acting Foreign Affair’s
of the Commissary, Maxim Lit
vinoff, forwarded the provincial
government a telegram recom
mending the reinstatement of
Memshanov as manager, Mets
mont as assistant manager of the
railroad.
M. Simanovsky has been ap
pointed foreign office agent at
the border point, and Kharovsk
as the representative of the Sov
iet government and to conduct
negotiations with Mukden.
wi was in
POSTS $500 BAIL
WASHINGTON, Nov., 29, (JP)~
Representative Dennison of IUi
rois who was recently indicted
>n the charge of illegal possess
on of liquor, appeared before
he clerk of the District of Col
imbia Supreme Court, and post
'd bail to the sum of $500.
John Layne, Dennison’s secre
ary, who was jointly indicted
vith him, has not yet been giv
■n bail. District Attorney Rover
aid that the investigating re
port made a mistake in the iden
ity made in the indictment of
ayne.