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VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 163.
SEWARD, ALASKA. TUESDAY, DEC. 3, 1929.
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PRICE TEN CENTS
mum wage
GREAT VOLUME PRODUCTION
AND EXCELLENT OUT
LOOK FOR 1930
DETROIT, Dec., 3, (JP)—Wage
increases will add approximately
$20,000,000 annually to the pay- j
roll of the Ford Motor Co., it !
was announced by Edsel Ford, !
president of the company.
The minimum wage scale of $6 !
per day has been increased to $7
and increases on a graduation
basis of 5 cents an hour will be
given to employes already re
ceiving between $7 and $10 per
day.
The increase will be effective
December 1 and is confined to
employes within the United States.
The formal announcement by
Edsel Ford said;
“We are able to make this wage
increase partly because of the an
ticipated economies proposed,
the great volume of production
which we had over a period of
months, and partly because of
our excellent outlook for next
year Wage increases cannot be
collected from the public nor tak
en out of the quality of our pro
duct but have to be made up by
better management. We will work
that way to justify the increase.”
SESTIEI [MMTI0NS
TELLtfl DELAYS PILOTS
SEARCH El USE MEN
NOME, Dec., 3, (/P)—Pilots Dor
handt and Crosson are still de
layed at Teller on account of the
bad weather. Weather reports re
ceived here said conditions were
good in the schooner Nanuk area
yesterday but it is dark here.
Also that the Nanuk gasoline sup
ply is running so low that the
radio is handicapped in keeping
informed on weather conditions.
The radio plant may be forced
to suspend operation at any time.
The Nome plane, piloted by
Graham, arrived at Teller with
three passengers. He was delay
ed in coming from Nome on ac
count of fog.
COMMUNICATION IS
HIKE H POPE
ROME, Dec., 3, (JP)—An official
communication announced the
visit of Italian sovereigns with
Pope Pius at 11 a. m. Their Maj
esties will go to the Vatican, with
a large suite, including Foreign
Minister, Prefect of the Palace
Couit, the Chaplain and others
The spectacle will be an enormous
one and it is estimated 500,00c
people will attend.
BILLS INTRODUCED
WASHINGTON, Alaska’s dele
gate to Congress introduced twe
bills authorizing the Secretary ol
War to submit to Congress th<
estimates of maintenance of th(
government wharf at Juneai
and flood control work on Low
ell Creek, at Seward.
MAN HUNT
CHEYENNE, Wyo., Dec., 3, (£>)—
Three suspects were arrested here
as Wyoming’s most intensive man
j hunt since the train robbing days j
! of William Carlisle, last of the j
; West’s train bandits was pressed i
for the lone wolf who derailed the
; west-bound Union Pacific train
| three miles east of Cheyenne and
held up the passengers.
SOCKET i MAIL
SERVICE. OEM
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MAIL WILL BE CONVEYED TO
EARTH BY LONG SILK PARA
CHUTE
BERLIN, Dec., 2, (A3)—The rocket
air mail service from Berlin to New
York, conceived by Professor Her
man Oberth, depends on the suc
cess of an experiment to be con
ducted on a lonely Baltic Island, it
was learned. Professor Oberth, at
an early date will set off the trial
rocket from Horste Island in the
Baltic Sea.
Oberth hopes early in 1930 to
shoot a giant rocket to New York
The rocket will carry about 65
pounds of mail, which will be deliv
ered in the United States inside of
an hour after leaving Germany.
According to the German agent,
the mail will be conveyed to earth
; by means of a long silk parachute.
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HOLIDAY LIQUOR
PORT CHESTER, N. Y., Dec., 3,
(TP)—Loaded with 20,000 cases oi
liquor for the holiday trade, the
two masked schooner “S torm
Petrel” of New York, was chased
into a creek at Port Chester anc
captured. All the liquor was confis
cated and her crew placed undei
arrest.
MRS. HOOVER CHUCKS POMPOS 'V AND
LIVES AS A NY CAREFREE WIFE
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Since Lou Henry Hoover entered um- vvmte House as f irst Jbaay, sue
has scorned the conventions of high office. At upper left she is taking a
walk in the capital; at the lower left she is shown in a Girl Scout uni
form. At lower right she is shown in academic cap and gown.
[MILE RODEO
THOUGHT TO BE THE LONE
TRAIN ROBBER OF THE
LIMITED
PAWNEE, Okla., Dec., 3, (/P)—
Tom Vernon, 43-old erstwhile
cowboy, rodeo rider, fireman and
five times a convict, awaits in jail
here the outcome of efforts of
Wyoming and California officers
; to claim him for interrogation I
about the wrecking and robbing
of two passenger trains.
Officers from b<}th states de- j
dared passengers 1 on the Port
land Limited, of the Union Pa
cific, derailed and robbed near
Cheyenne, and the Pacific Coast
Limited, similarly derailed and
plundered near Saugus, Calif-,
i have identified Vernon’s photo
graphs as those of the man who
single-handed lined them up and
took their money.
Thos. J. Higgins, deputy sher
iff of Los Angeles, picked up Ver
non’s trail having known Vernon
for almost a decade; also the
fact he had* been a locomotive
fireman at one time.
TURN OFF LIGHTS
SEATTLE, Dec., 3, (/P)—One
fourth of Seattle’s street lights were
turned out by orders of the City
Light Department after Tacoma
and Seattle had been notified that
the Navy Department would not
permit the use of the airplane car
ried Lexington’s generators to re
lieve the water power crisis here
! until assured the cities had taken
I steps to curtail u e of power.
JAPAN DECLARES ITSELF
TOKYO, Dec., 3, (/P)—In an
official statement from, here Jap
m does not intend to issue a
teclaring supporting the Amer
ican, China-Russia, plan warning
them of obligations under the
Kellogg-anti war pact, or other
wise associate herself with the
proposal.
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BY NNEGIH
WHOLE EXPEDITION SPECULA
TION SENSATIONS; NOT
INSPIRING
LONDON, Dec., 3, (/P)—'Today,
The London Mail, says the accur
acy of the report of Commander
Byrd regarding his South Pole
flight has been challenged by
Major Trygove Gran, the Norwe
gian airman and explorer, who
was a member of the Scott Ant
arctic expedition.
A dispatch from Copenhagen
cites the statement of Major Grar
made to the newspaper Ekstra
Bladet in which he said:
I “I am not justified in saying
j Commander Byrd did not pass
! over the Pole but the whole ex
pedition appears to be one o:
i “speculation in sensations’’ an<
that the report of the America*
aviator does not inspire confi
dence and in particular he doubt
ed the statement that Byrd sav
the cairns of Scott and Amund
sen.
STEAL MILK STOCK
tffew YORK, Dec., 3, (A5)—St at
; senate authorities ordered a searc
for three men one of whom it i
said to be a Chicago banker. The
are wanted for theft of $85,000 c
Bordon Condensed Milk stock.
0, S. TAKES STEP
IT HOSTILITIES
IN liDI
GREATEST MOVE FOR PEACE
EVER MADE HISTORY OF
DIPLOMACY
WASHINGTON, Dec., 3, —Mob
ilization of world opinion to halt
hostilities in Manchuria between
| China and Soviets have been ini
| tiated by the United States in the
! most comprehensive move for
* peace ever made in the history
I of American and probably in
world diplomacy.
Secretary Stimson has appealed
to 53 nations, signatories to the
general pact for renuciation of
war, to urge China and the Soviet
for cessation of hostilities.
Simultaneously, America has
addressed to Nanking and Mos
cow governments in a second
plea for peace since the trouble
| between the two started last sum
mer when the Chinese took over
the control of the Chinese East
ern Railway.
Throughout the •world discuss
ions will be held between Amer
! ican diplomatic representatives
, 1 and foreign ministers in conform
' | ity with the Secretary’s instruc
> 1 tions, that war must be averted
I - and should be laid before all for
] eign powers.
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FOB SERIES SIS
MEMPHIS, Dec., 2. </P)—’The
Memphis Evening Appeal said it
had learned that a force of 35 pro
hibition agents of the federal en
forcement bureau had arrived in
Memphis to conduct a series of
raids against rum runners and oth
ers involved in the illegal liquor
traffic in retaliation for the bomb
ing two weeks ago of two govern
ment rum chasers in the Memphis
harbor.
The local chief prohibition agent
told the newspapers that he knew
nothing of any such mobilization.
SEN, MOGLER SHOT
TO DEATH; EfflUED
RELATIONS UNGSTERS
ST. LOUIS, Dec., 3, (/P)—State
Senator Joseph Mogler, 53, owner
of three moving picture theaters,
was shot to death here by one of
two men who waited for him in
the Mogler theater.
: The circumstances surround
; ing the murder have caused the
i police to dismiss the theory of
robbery believing Mogler was kill
ed by men envolved in his rela
tions with gangster!.
, Mogler frequently signed crimi
nal bail bonds for gangsters and
others charged with major crimes.
LONDON, Dec., 3, (/P)--Gales are
I still sweeping over Great Britain
land are causing loss of life and ex
tensive property damage. The worst
effects have been felt in Wales and
along the northern coasts.