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MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 166.
SEWARD, ALASKA. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1929.
PRICE TEN CENTS
CDT8II.I1I
$1,000,000 FOR MAINTENANCE
AND OPERATION FORTH
COMING FISCAL YEAR
WASHINGTON, Dec., 6, (JP)—
The Interior department bill
measure carried $1,000,000 for the
Alaska Railroad, a reduction of
$200,000 from the past fiscal
year appropriation; it also set
aside $50,000 for legislative ex
penses, and, as usual, a salary
of $7,000 for the governor; $22,
000 for reindeer and $147,000 for
the insane.
The bill also provided $16,000
for the suppression of liquor traf
fic, $752,000 for the Indian school
at Shoemaker Bay, $268,000 for
medical relief which is an in
crease of $96,000 over the past
fiscal year.
The appropriations exceeds the
budget by $75,000.
$1,314,000 IS PROVIDED; $124,
000 LESS THAN THE PRE
VIOUS YEAR
WASHINGTON, Dec., 6, (£»)—
A $283,000,000 bill, for carrying
on the activities of the Depart
ment of the Interior for the next
fiscal year, was reported to the j
House from the appropriations 1
commit t;ee.
An increase was allowed the j
Bureau of Education to assist it
in research work and teachers
training as well as for education
and medical relief in Alaska. The
figure provided $1,528,000 an in- ;
crease of $474,000 over the 1930
fiscal year.
The Alaska Railroad appropria- ,
tion is $1,314,000 which is $124,
000 less than that provided for
the 1930 fiscal year.
NOTED INVENTOR
DISCOVERS METHOD
Mil RUBBER
EDISON FINDS PROCESS FOR
SYNTHETIC RUBBER FROM
GOLDEN ROD PLANT
EAST ORANGE, Dec., , (/P)—Thos.
A. Edison has discovered a process
for making synthetic rubber from
the common golden rod, his sec
retary, William Meadowcroft, an
nounced In behalf of the famous
inventor.
Meadowcroft said the rubber!
can be manufactured in comrner- j
cial quantities at a cost of ap- ;
proximately 16 cents a pound, j
or almost 60 cents per pound less i
than manufactured rubber thus j
far produced.
No details of the new process;
were revealed except it involves j .1
an extending boiling of fluids!
obtained from the weed. j
! PAGO PAGO, Dec. 6, (fP)—The
■ 24 survivors from the wrecked
| British freighter Norwich City,
J are safe aboard rescue ships af
| ter having been marooned for
four exciting days on Gardner Is
land, an uninhabited dot of land
surrounded by dangerous coral
{reefs.
The freighter Trongate told of
'the rescue.
FISHERIES BUREAU
HE. LABORATORY
WASHINGTON, Dec., 6, (^—Au
thorization for the appropriation of
$4,470,000 to provide a five-year
construction and maintenance pro
gram by the Bureau of Fisheries,
was asked in a bill introduced in
the house. Construction of projects
proposed for the first year included
a fir'll laboratory in Alaska costing
$50,000.
CLEVELAND,. Dec., 6, (/P)—
Col. Chas. A. Lindbergh joined 14
other fliers taking-off to search
northwestern Pennsylvania and
northeastern Ohio, for Pilot Thos.
P. Nehdon, of the airmail ser
vice, who met an unknown fate
Monday while flying the mail
from Belle Fonte, Pa., to Cleve
land.
KEEPING AIRWAYS LIGHTED
IS A LONELY. AND ARUOUS JOB
(
The rough country of the west (above) has provid-,*
2d many difficulties to the crews placing the aerial bea- ^
20ns (below) which flash every 10 minutes to the night r
flier. Capt. F. C. Hingsburg (inset) is chief of the de- r
partment of commerce airwaqs division. i
VILLAGE HAS NO BANK BUT PLENTY INDUSTRY
Monsanto, III, is a village which has little except j
i factories and rows of workmen's cottages, as above. It i
j hasn't even a bank. Below is the town hall, rented for
$1 a year. Leod Sauget (inset) is the mayor.
STRONG OfiHVHU
HEIST RELATIONS
LONDON, Dec., 5, (JP)—'The
House of Lords registered strong
disapproval of the Labor govern
ment’s efforts to resume diplomat
ic relations with the Soviet Un- j
ion. The House was supported by
43 to 21 Lord Birkenhead’s motion !
That diplomatic recognition of
the Soviet government was not
desirable.”
ISTIMSl ICES
ST SOVIET REPLY
DENOUNCED ALLEGATIONS BY
RUSSIANS OF UNFRIEND
LINESS OF AMERICA
!
WASHINGTON, Dec., 5, (/P)— j
The Soviet resentment to Secre- j
jtary Stimson’s note looking to- .
ward pacification of the Chinese j
and Russian troubles, has created j
quite a furore, it being said that j
Stimson asserted the right of any j
adherent of Kellogg’s anti-war |
pact to call attention of other
adherents and their obligations j
under the treaty, was out of or
der.
With a slight ring of anger
Stimson denounced the allega
tions by the Soviet government of
unfriendliness on the part of the
United States reported to have J
been made by the Moscow govern
ment and their reply to the U.
S. plea to China and the Soviets.
The secretary made the state
ment to newspapermen but will
not be sent to Moscow authorities.
ARMED REBELLION
RAMPANT VARIOUS
PARTS MUll
SHANGHAI, Dec., 5, (/P)—'The
Nationalist government announc- ,
ed they would do everything pos- '
sible to effect a peaceable settle- .
ment with Russia on the East- •
ern railv/ay controversy in Man- ]
churia. ,
A plague of war and violence
has gripped several sections of
the country and threatens to
spread challenging the powers of !
the Nationalist government or a c:
large scale. Mutiny oi troops and ^
wholesale murder, by the com
munistic government and armed 11
rebellion is rampant in various r
parts of the Young government. ja
ilHilLu I HI SiUL
PORI PRINCE
JETER RICH
TWO AMERICANS AND A NUM
BER OF NATIVES WERE
INJURED
PORTAU PRINCE, Haiti, Dec.,
6, (JP)—Portau Prince and Cape
Haitien, with their stseets par
oiled by United States marines,
acting under authority of martial
law, were quiet, after the rioting
in which two Americans and a
number of natives had been in
jured, and stores were open again
throughout both cities.
The American colony is said
to feel no apprehension although
there is an undercurrent of un
rest.
Authorities dispatched a patrol
of 40 marines to Cayes where
the situation was reported to
have been tense, but it is under
stood they have quieted that sec
tion, also.
A proclamation of martial law
was issued Wednesday night by
General Richard Cutts, brigade
commander of the . S. marine
corps, after a strike at the cus
toms house which threatened ser
ious consequences out of which
the rioting began.
Collector D. P. Johnsson, anoth
er American, was struck by clubs
while endeavoring to curb the
disorder.
MIH PEOPLE
IfOLLE RESPONSIBLE
CONTINUED PROSPERITY
WASHINGTON, Dec., 6, (/P)—
President Hoover looks upon the
American people, as a whole, as
responsible for the maintenance
and stability and prosperity of
the nation and feels that the key
note of their efforts should be
“the good old word, Work.”
This is the message he gave
personally to a conference of
several hundred business men,
all from prominent walks of life,
who were called into session by
the Chamber of Commerce here,
to further the prosperity program
recently laid down by the Chief
Executive. *
MC MANUS GLEB
OF MURDER CHARGE
NEW YORK, Dec. 6, (/P)—By a
directed verdict, George McMan
us was cleared of the charge of
;he murder of Arnold Rothstein,
nng of Broadway gamblers.
The trial started three weeks
igo; three others remain under
ndictment for the murder but
lone are in custody. These are
Syman Biller, pay-off man for
McManus; John Doe and Rich
trd Doe.
YUKON TONNAGE
The steamer Yukon due in Sew
■rd tonight from Seattle will dis
harge 200 tons of freight at the
ical port. The vessel is carrying
20 tons of merchandise for rail
oints, 30 tons for the steamer Starr
nd 50 tons for local merchants.