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VOLUME XV. NUMBER 17.
SEWARD, ALASKA iL.ESDAY, January 22, 1930.
DRICE TEN CENTS
TRAIN HIT BUS SQUARELY IN
MIDDLE SCATTERING BOD
IES, WRECKAGE
CLEVELAND, O., Jan., 22, (/P)—A
collision of a school bus and a
speeding New York Central train
cost the lives of 10 small school
children and the bus driver at Shel
don, a railroad crossing near Berea,
O., 15 miles from Cleveland. At
least three other children are injur
ed; two may die.
The train was bound for Chicago
and hit the bus squarely in the
middle, scattering bodies and
wreckage several hundred feet
down the track.
The cause of the tragedy is be
lieved in the failure of the driver to
see the passenger train coming. On
the track on the other side was a
freight train which he waited to
pass.
As quickly as the train could be
stopped the crew and others aboard
jumped off and rendered all possi
ble aid to the surviving children.
IP DEVICE USES
HI1-D10 TO
OETEBMINE BISTSNCE
WASHINGTON, Jan., 22, (IP)—
A radio-sound device for minimiz
ing danger of navigation at sea is
being tried on the Clyde in England,
the Department of Commerce is in
formed by its office at London.
It is a combination of raido tele
phone and foghorn and is based
upon relative speeds of transmis
sion of radio and sound signals.
When the foghorn on the Cum
brae Lighthouse sounds, the radio
telephone inside it at once begins
to count, one, two, three; the inter
val btween the figures represents
the length of time that sound takes
to travel a mile. When the count
begins the radio operator on the re
ceiving ship listens for the foghorn
and upon hearing it, notes the dis
tance in miles between the ship and
the lighthouse.
This method of calculating dis
tances is reminiscent of htat pre
scribed in naval papers of some 30
or 40 years ago, when the distance
to a hostile ship was computed
after determining the flash of the
hostile gun and the sound thereof.
FMOIHEKI TIDE
IS ON THE INCREASE
WASHINGTON, Jan., 22, (IP)—
President Hoover said that the De
partment of Labor reported that for
the first time since the stock mar
ket crash the tide of employment
has changed in the right direction.
“There’s been a distinct increase
in employment all over the country
within the last 10 days,” President
Hoover said.
ITALIANS HEAVY SMOKERS
ROME, Jan., 22, {/P)—Figures just
given out show that Italy consumed
1,911,452,400 cigarettes last fiscal
year. Some 400,000 pounds of cigar
tobacco were consumed.
GUNTHER APPOINTEED
WASHINGTON, Jan., 22, (/P)—
The appointment of Franklin Mott
Gunther, now minister to Egypt,
as minister to Equador, was an
nounced by President Hoover. He
succeeds Gerhard Bading of Wis
consin.
IF WEATHER GOOD WILL CON
TINUE TO NORTH CAPE; BE
GIN SEARCH AT ONCE
NOME, Jan., 22, (/P)—Both the
Fairchild planes took-off at 9:45 a.
m. yesterday, piloted by Young and
Reid and accompanied by Mechan
ics Hughes and MacAuley.
It is highly probable if they find
wether conditions good over Bering
Strait that they will continue on to
North Cape where they will immed
iately begin the search for Eielson
and Borland.
Nome weather changed from rain
to snow and to 20 above zero.
OPENS DOOR BY RADIO
BERNE, Switzerland, Jan., 22, (rP)
—A system for opening and closing
garage doors automatically by rad o
waves has been invented in Switz
erland according to an announce
ment of the chief engineer of the
electric plants of Neufchatel ap
paring in the Swiss press.
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LAKE PLACID, N, Y., Jan., 22, (JP)
j—Walter Channing, of Bo ton, won
the third annual Lake Placid sled
race, his dog nosing out Leonard
Seppala, of Alaska, who won the
past two years.
Channing’s time for the 12-mile
heat was 57 minutes and six sec
onds giving him the total time for
the 24 miles in the two days as one
hour, 56 minutes and 10 seconds.
Sepala’s time was one hour, four
minutes and 25 seconds today with
a total of two hours, one minute
and 29 seconds.
1 WIFE OF 1111
I MINES BRUIN DIES
i IT DOME BIUSIITEB
HOLLYWOOD, Jan.. 22, (JP)—Mrs.
Mary Baird Bryan, widow of Wil
liam Jennings, died at the home of
her daughter. She was 64 years
old and had been an invalid for 12
years from paralysis but was not
bed-ridden until two weeks ago
when she became much worse.
At her bedside were her daughter
Mrs. Grace Bryan Hartway and son
William Jennings Jr., attorney.
WES FESLER SHINES AS HANDY MAN
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A football player by accident, Wesley Fesler, Ohio’s
great All-American end, took up basketball to keep in
condition for the gridiron game. He became a regular.
He tried baseball and developed into an all-around star.
FIVE KILLED
! DIEPPE, France, Jan., 22, (/P)— j
| Five persons were killed when |
j an airplane crasned against a;
cliff near here, probably on Mon-!
day. The four dead were pas-'
; sengers and the pilot. The plane
i had been missing for two days i
‘ and it was assumed the smashup
came during Monday’s storm.
EM
ESTABLISH PHI
OVER S400,000 CARRIED IN IN
CREASED PROVISIONS OF
FOR BUREAUS
WASHINGTON, Jan., 22, (/Pi
Increased provisions have been
made to the growing functions I
of four important governmentj
departments, the state, justice,!
commerce and labor, for the
annual supply bill for the fiscal
year of 1931.
The bill totals $13,799,000 and
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has been reported to the house j
by the appropriations committee.!
The provisions carry $65,000 i
for a by-products plant in Alas- j
ka and $376,000 for Alaska gen-j
eral service and commerce de-!
partment.
NATIVES FT. HHOI
! FEEL PIT? FOB STATES
POINT BARROW, Jan., 22, CP)—
Murky sunlight bathed the tip of
the continent for a few minutes at
noon yesterday for the --first time in
60 days. The Eskimos grouped
around the teachers’ radio and were
mystified at the reports of people
frezzing in the middle west.
During the zero weather they
suggested the sufferers to come to
Point Barrow which is enjoying 30
degrees above.
ATTACKS ILL STREET
IS ARRESTED
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan., 21, (IP)—
Chas. Lutter, 45, of Geary Street,
attracted quite a crowd when he
stood before a' brokerage office in
Montgomery street and started to
sell a pamphlet entitled “Was Jesse
James the Father of Wall Street?”
j He was doing fine work until
Police Officers Joseph Silva and
Louis Brooks escorted Lutten to the
hall of justice. Lutten was booked
on charge of peddling without a li
cense and later released.
Lutten admitted that he was the
' author of the paper and that he
had recently dropped $60,000 in the
stock market.
WAR HERO HONORED
FRIEDERICIISHAFEN, Germany,
Jan., 22, (IP)—Belated honor has
come to Count Harras Von Zeppe
lin, killed 30 years ago in the battle
of Elandslaagte in the Boer war.
His relatives have just received a
medal in commemoration of his
heroism. He was a nephew of the
inventor of the dirigible airship and
the medal has been placed in the
Zeppelin museum here.
ANY DOUBTS BY SUB-COMMIT
TEE ARE CLEARED UP; IN
CREASE POWER
WASHINGTON, Jan., 22, (£>)—
After Chairman Wickersham of the
Law Enforcement Commission ap
peared before it, the House Judi
ciary sub-committee decided to
draft three bills to carry out the
commission’s recommendations.
They are; to increase the powers
of United States Commissioners to
handle misdemeanor cases in an ef
fort to relieve congestion in the
Federal Courts.
Dean Roscoe Pound, member of
the commission, also appeared for
questioning. Representative Chris
topherson, republican for South
Dakota, said Wickersham and
Pound cleared up any doubts held
by the sub-committee as to the
constitutionality of the proposed
procedure.
ELUTION use
OF OBSCENE 1!L
T10 PBSTOFFICE
WASHINGTON, Jan., 22, (/P)—
An appeal for the rigid enforce
ment of state laws forbidding the
display and sale of indecent publi
cations has been made by the Post
master General, Walter F. Brown.
The Postmaster General pointed
out that there has ueen little slack
ing of effort on the part of some
distributors to use the mails for the
circulation of books and periodicals
containing matter coming within
the scope of postal obscene law.
Purveyors of so-called art studies
as well as vulgarly indecent pic
tures are more active, he declared.
Under the direction of the Solicitor
of the Department, Horace J. Don
nelly, many rulings adverse to
would-be mailers of such books and
pictures have been made and much
obscene matter h^s been barred
from the mails. Violators of the
law have been prosecuted and
strenuous efforts are being made to
check the activities of those engag
ed in mail-order traffic in obscen
ity.
MOVIE MAGNATE DENIES
SPECULATED FOX FUNDS
NEW YORK, Jan., 22, (/P)—Wil
liam Fox, motion picture magnate,
in a statement, denied he speculat
ed in Wall street with funds of the
Fox Film Corp.
His denial was in answer to the
charges contained in a suit of
equity for receivership for the cor
poration filed by Mrs. Susie Dry
den Juser, of Bernardsville, N. J..
one of the principal stockholders.
INTERNATIONAL GAMES
DARMSTADT, Germany, Jan., 22,
(TP)—Foreign Minister Dr. Curtius
has accepted the honorary chair
manship for the fourth internation
al students athletic championship
contests here in August 1930. From
400 to 500 foreign students, includ
ing many Americans will compete.