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VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 141
SEWARD, ALASKA.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1929.
PRICE TEN CENTS
REINDEER AND MEDICAL DE
PARTMENTS ARE TO BE
TRANSFERRED
SEATLE, Oct., 15, (/P)—Reorgan
ization of the Federal Bureau of
Education by Commissioner Wm.
Cooper will probably mean the
transfer from Seattle office to
Alaska, according to the belief of
Jonathan H. Wagner, chief of
the Alaska division of the U. S.
Education bureau with head
quarters at Seattle.
Wagner has just returned from
Washington where he conferred
with Cooper about the prospect
ive reorganization.
Juneau will probably become the
new headquarters of the Alaska
bureau, it is believed here but the
purchasing department will pro
bably remain in Seattle when
Wagner is ordered North, it is
also said.
Wagner said he did not know
what other agency of the admin
istration of the Alaska education
al system could be turned over
but was inclined to the view that
the reindeer and medical bran
ches of the Alaska bureau might
be turned over to some other de
partment of interior official for
administration.
URGES! AIRSHIP
1 THE
OH TEST FLIGHT
CRUISED OVER LONDON AT
AVERAGE SPEED 55 MILES
COST $5,000,000
CARDINGTON. England, Oct.,
15. (/P)—The dirigible R-101 made
a 300-mile trial flight over south
eastern England and cruised
over London so that Londoners
could see the largest airship in
the world.
The giant dirigible cost England
$5,000,000; Comander Major G. H
Scott said the flight was “Very
satisfactory.” An average speed
of 55-miles per hour was main
tained. The parachute drill re
vealed there were 52 persons on
board and only 50 chutes.
Speed trials later, experts de
clare, will show a speed of 85
miles an hour.
FIRST FLIGHT
LONDON, Oct., 14, (/P)—After sev
eral postponements, the new diri
gible R-101 is expected to make its
first flight Wednesday.
WOOD CARVER SELECTED
OBERAMONERGAN, Oct., 14, (/P»
s —Aloys Lang, 38, a wood carver,
was chosen to succeed the world
famous Anton Lang, in the role of
Jesus Christ in the 1930 Passion
Play at the village elections, which
were marked by much electioneer
ing. Lang had played the role for
30 years.
HEBPETOLOGISI DIES
MORGANTOWN. Oct.. 14. (/P)—
Bit by a rattlesnake which es
caped while being transferred
from one cage to another, prov
ed fatal to Col. Charles William
Cramer. 53, nationally known
herpetologist and veteran of the
Spanish American and World
Wars. He was a prominent crim
inal lawyer and his hobby was
studying venomous snakes of
which he had various specimens
at his country home
WRANGELL !■$
1 DUIKER IS SEEN
PASSENGERS WILL BE TAKEN
OFF; HEAVY FOG AND
TIDE-RIPS
SEATTLE, Oct.. 15, f/P)—Be- j
lieved to have lost her way in
the heavy fog the S. S. Alameda, I
of the A- S. S. Co., was carried
by the swiftly moving tide-rips
to ground stern first at the south
end of Wrangell Narrows at 5:30
j this morning.
The coast guard cutter Unalga,
at Juneau, was asked to come to
the Alameda’s assistance as the
stranded vessel is unable to turn
j its propellor. The bow is free,
however, in deep water.
The 56 passengers and crew
of 80 are believed to be in no
danger as the weather is report
; ed to be calm near the ship.
Other vessels are being sent from
Wrangell and arrangements have
been made to take the passengers
off.
HI11S IN FRUIT
HUGE TIEII
NEW YORK. Oct.. 14, (/P>—With
$5,000,000 worth of fruit and pro
duce tied up in New Yv'-i and New
Jersey terminals, a striks of 2,000
truckmen technically vent into ef
fect last night The men are de
manding an eight-horn day.
Loadec car s and br a is are clog
ging streets and piers along the j
waterfront and there is no one to
discharge their cargoes. Some 250
policemen are patrolling the areas
where strike pickets are stationed.
State and city officials are working
to obtain an agreement and it is
believed a settlement will be reach
ed within a week.
The truckmen claim they will win |
the strike. j
HOMELY AND DUMB
WASHINGTON, Oct., 14, (/P)— I
American girls are very graceful i
and charming, but take less inter
est in their country’s affairs than i
their British sisters. Miss Ishbell
MacDonald, daughter of Premier
Ramsay MacDonald said while here
at the White House. She was in
terviewed by a number of news
paper women, who said she is very (
homely and dumb, compared with I
our American girls. The reporters ;
added that her opinion is very in
correct.
VICIOUS MURDERS
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HUY BE REVEALED
WIFE OF GANGMAN BRINGS
ABOUT ARREST BY LET
TER WRITING
CHICAGO, Oct., 15, (A5)—The |
state's attorney held in custody
a man whom he believes holds
the key to some of the most vi- i
cious gang murders of recent
years.
A man by the name of Frank
Beige, alias Perry, is being asked j
these questions: Who killed Me
Swiggin, assistant state’s attor
ney, who was assassinated in front !
of the Pont Cafe in April, three j
years ago? “Were you one of the
men who took part in the execu
tion of seven men of “Bug’s” Mor
an’s gangsters, lining them against1
a wall and shooting them down i
last Valentine’s Day?”
Beiges arrest resulted from three
letters written by Beiges wife to
A1 Capone, in jail in Philadelphia,
to “Tell everything” if he failed
to give her money.
SPACE AT PREMIUM I
WASHINGTON, Otc., 14, bPl—1The |
federal farm board's report to the
senate depicts an acute wheat sit
uation in the Northwest. Elevator
space is at a premium. Another
report showed export shipments in
the decline as compared with last
year.
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PHILADELPHIA. Oct., 14, UP)—
“Babe” Ruth will not manage
the New York “Yankees” in 1930.
The big slugger identified him
self as “The right-fielder of the
Yankees” and has no manager
ial aspirations at this time.
He added that at some future
date he might be a candidate as
manager of some major league
club but not at this time.
TESTIMONY SHOWS CASH AND
LIBERTY BOND TRANS
ACTIONS
WASHINGTON, Oct-, 15, OP)—
The government won a point in
the bribery trial of Fall by the
ruling it could introduce testi
mony showing Fall’s transactions
with Sinclair which resulted in
Sinclair getting the lease on the
Teapot Dome.
The government desired to
use the testimony to show that
about the same time Fall received
$100,000 from Doheny and that
he was also negotiating with Sin
clair who paid his son-in-law.
Mahlon Everhart, a total of $233,
500 in liberty bonds and several
thousands of dollars in cash.
GIRL SCIENTIST’S MISTAKE
DELIGHTS ABYSSINIAN KING
Gertrude Sanford, New York cociety girl and scien
tist, unwittingly sat on the throne of Abyssinia and is
shown above wTith mule given her by the king who en
joyed the joke. Below Miss Sanford in camp.
DRAMATIC NINTH INNING RAL
LY DEFEATED THE CHICA
GO CUBS
PHILADELPHIA, Oct., 14, (/P)—
The Athletics, with a dramatic
ninth inning rally, won the world’s
baseball championship, by beat
ing the Chicago Cubs 3 to 2 in
the fifth and deciding game
played.
President and Mrs. Hoover were
spectators.
Rube Walberg, the Athletics’
southpaw, making his second ap
pearance in the series, checked
the National League champions
after they had driven Howard
Ehmke, erstwhile hero, from the
box in the fourth inning scoring
two runs after two were out on
hits by Cuyler, Grimm and Tay
lor, and a pass to Stephenson.
Walberg retired the first 10
men to face him. The Athletics
great rally then started with
! Bishop’s single; followed by a
homer by Haas; Simmons double
caused Malone to walk Foxx but
Miller came up and knocked in
the winning run by another
double into center.
The short scores were Chicago
2, 8 and 1; Philadelphia 3, 6 and
0. Batteries were Malone and Tay
lor, Ehmke, Walberg and Coch
rane.
LIOH TRAFFIC
STUDY REVEALS ANSWER TO
U. S. PROBLEM IN EFFECT
IN CANADA
WASHINGTON, Oct., 14. (/P>—
The Association against Prohibi
tion Amendment concluded, after
a study of the Canadian liquor
I control system, that 93 percent
of the Canadian people have rid
themselves of “bootleggers” by
doing away with prohibition and
adopting various methods of gov
ernment regulation.
Other conclusions drawn from
the investigation were that gov
ernment control “demonstrates
that the liquor business can
be regulated so as to prevent
abuses which affect the public
welfare and morality.”
Intemperance has decreased,
it was stated, and savings in
| creased.
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MORTGAGE CHURCH
BERLIN, Oct., 15, (A5)—Impovis
i ished Russian immigrants must
| raise 80,0000 marks within the next
'two weeks or lose their house of
[worship in Berlin which has been
; auctioned off to satisfy a second
1 mortgage.
AUCTION RELICS
! BERLIN, Oct., 15, (/P)—A stately
array of Hoenzollern relics will be
up for auction when the property
of Princess Victoria of Prussia, a
sister of the former German Kaiser,
is sold under the hammer to satisfy
claims against the Princess who has
been declared bankrupt.