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SEW. HD, A EASE i, FRIDAY, MAY 23, 1930.
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GREETED WITH BLASTS. WHIS
TLES, SHIPS; RAN INTO DE
LUGE BUT NOT EFFECTED
PERNAMBUCO. Brazil. May 23. !
..P)—Flying over the Equator for
the first time, the Graf Zeppelin
made a bow to the southern hemis- j
phere. Aftr flying 59 hours and 53
minutes and covering 3,750 miles.
It tied to the mooring mast at 8:05
yesterday afternoon or 3:05 Pacific
Coast time.
Northern Brazil . was delirious
with excitement during the night
The Graf will take on water, fuel,
gas and new larder provisions and
will head for Rio Janeiro late today.
Her arrival was hailed with blasts
sirens, whistles from factories, and
ships.
A test of the ship for this flight
came early yesterday morning
when it ran into areas of an Equa- |
torial deluge. Tons of water fell
on the boa but no ballast was drop- j
ped. A three-quarters degree an
gle elevation was necessary to off
set the increased weight. The ship’s
speed was little effected.
C. Booth, who has been in ,
ward for some time, will leave
Seward for Hope tomorrow to '
join the Forestry Service. Later,
he will be transferred to Gird
wood.
NINE MONTHS
BOMBAY. Calcutta. May 22. UP\
—Mrs. Sarojini Naidu was sen
tenced to nine months of simple
imprisonment as a result of be
ing the leader of the Ghandi
salt raiders at Dharsana last Wed
nesday.
WASHINGTON, May 22. (/P) —
McBride informed the Sen % e
Lobby investigators he thought
Mellon had gone ‘'just as far on
prohibition enforcement as his
superiors wanted him to go,” in
an opinion expressed in a letter
to J. G. Brown, Port Huron. Mich.,
who had written criticising Hoo
ver and Mellon.
One of the largest crowds to
attend any function in Latouche
was in attendence at the program
and dance given at the Latouche
School commencement exercises
held last Tuesday evening.
Practically everyone in town
was present. An admission price 'of
one dollar a couple was charged;
the proceeds to go to the Girl
Scout chapter here.
Between fifty and sixty dollars
were taken in and a very enjoy
abl evening was had by all those
in attndance at the affair which
lasted until the first streaks of
dawn appeared in the East.
Chas. L.Cadwallader, game war
den, arrived in Seward this morn
ing. He is a guest at the Van Gil
der hotel.
Pantages Receives Far-r'y
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VALLETA, Malta, May 22. </P>—!
An attempt was made to assasin- j
ate Lord Strickland, the prime i
minister of the Maltese govern-1
ment.
Lord Strickland was fired at
point blank range but was un
hurt. A man named Miller is
charged with the shooting and
has been seized by the police.
The attempt was made as Lord'
Strickland was entering a court]
to attend a case. :
T. P. Stamey was an arrival on
the S. S. Admiral Evans last night
from Latouche. He is a guest of
the Overland hotel.
Mr. Everett Lasher, who for the
last four years was radio operator
in Latouche, left on the S. S. Alaska
for Seattle. Mr. Lasher has no im
mediate prospect of employment.
Ernestine and Lois Jessen will
depart from Seward on the S. S.
Yukon for an extended visit with
June Geyer.
E. M. Polly, territorial tax col
lector, is an arrival from the
South. He is a guest at the Van
Gilder hotel.
MAJOR GENERAL DEAD
WASHINGTON, May 22, (/Pi
Major General George Barnett, 70,
commandant of the Marine Corps
from 1914 to 1920, died here of
pneumonia. He had served with
the marines since 1881, when he
graduated from the Naval Acade
my. He saw service in the Philip
pines, Samoa, Cuba, Porto Rico
and Peking.
H. W. Terhune is a visitor in
Seward.
INDIANS STARVING
! THE PAS, Manitoba, May 22, (/P)
—One hundred and 50 York area
Indians are on the verge of starva
tion and death. Scarcity of wild
game is the cause of the plight.
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Mrs. O. Sanbbek, accompanied;
by her daughter, Sylvia and son,
Glenn will leave on the S. S.
Yukon for a visit in the States.
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Leo Margules, Seward property
owner and former resdeint ar
1 rived on the S. S. Yukon from
San Francisco.
j Mrs. Carl Robinson has been con
fined to her home by illness.
DESPONDENT FARMER I
IORRIE1 OVER LOSSES.
WIKESBARRE, Pa. May 22. (/Pi
—A triple- murder suicide was dis- j
covered on the farm of Ernest
Snyder, 60, a wealthy fruit grow
er, who had killed himself after
slaying his son-in-law, his daugh
ter, and his grand-son.
All three of the slain had been,
shot through the head while as
leep. Snyder was worried over his
stock market losses.
* BASEBALL
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YESTERDAY’S GAMES
AMERICAN LEAGUE
New York 10-20; Phillies 1-13.
St. Louis 3; Cleveland 2.
Boston 2-1; Washington 3-13.
Detroit 6; Chicago 1.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Chicago 12; Pittsburgh 5.
Cincinnati 2; St Louis 4.
Brooklyn 5; Boston 6.
Philadelphia 10; New York 8. 12
innings.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
San Francisco 5; Oakland 3.
Seattle 8; Missions 6, 10 innings.
Portland 6-1; Hollywood 7-2.
Los Angeles 8; Sacramento 4.
The outgoing passenger listing
on the S. S. Admiral Evans, Cap
, tain S. K. Gilje Commander, which
left at an early hour this morn
ing included—
For KODIAK—R. H. Chadwick,
J. A. Ramsey, J. Weaver, T. J.
Falton, T. H. Jasper, Ray Mathe
| son, Mrs. Ray Matheson, Fred
: Cope.
j For SELDOVIA—L. M. Carrigan,
' M. Padilla.
There will be a dance tonight
in the Odd Fellow’s Hall.
H. V. Hoben, Seward business
man arrived today on the S. S.
! Yukon from the South.
Mr. and Mrs. John Rosness re
ceived their new Tudor Ford car
on the S. S. Admiral Evans last
night.
Dow Irving Galloway plans to
leave on the S. S. Yukon for the
big Outside.
REGARDING PROHIBITION
WASHINGTON, May 22. (/IN
Senator Caraway has wired Bi
ship Cannon to ascertain if he is j
able to appear before the Senate j
Lobby Committee next Wednesday
for questioning regarding his pro- j
hibition activities.
GIN IMITATION TO
(STTFND BDEK
The following letter received by
Mr. Leon Urbach, president of the
Seward Chamber of Commerce is
self-explanatory.
May 16, 1930 j
Mr. Leon Urbach,
President, Seward Chamber of
Commerce,
Seward, Alaska.
Dear Mr. Urbach:—
The Anchorage Chamber of
Commerce is planning a barbecue
of reindeer, king salmon and rain
bow trout, complimentary to the
members of the Seattle Chamber
of Commerce Excursion to Alaska,
which will arrive in your city on
the S. S. Aleutian on May 30.
We expect to send an excursion
of members of this organization,
as a reception committee, to your
city, on the evening of May 29
returning with the Seattle Cham
ber excursion, and it is our pla
sure to extend, through you, to
■he members of your organization,
md to citizens of Seward, our
most cordial invitation to come to
Anchorage with the Seattle ex
curionists, to join with us m
entertaining them at the barbe
cue.
We sincerely hope that you will
acept our invitation and respect
fully ask that you advise us re
garding the probable number who
might come, so that w<
range transportation to Lake
Spenard, where the barbecue will
be held, acordingly.
Very truly yours,
Harry F. Morton,
President.
The Seward Chamber of Com
merce will accept the invitation
if it is found that any one from
here can arrange to go and has
written the Anchorage Chamber
to that effect.
ANOTHER MARVEL
LONDON, May 22, (/P)—London^
was on one end of yet another new
development in communication
methods which during this century
have piled marvel upon marvel.
Telephone messages were ex
changed between an ordinary desk
phone here and a phone in a rap
idly moving train on the Canadian
National Railways line between To
ronto and Montreal.
Norman Noble, of Kodiak, wrho
has been in the South for some
time was a passenger for Kodiak
on the S. S. Evans.
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i Miss Verna Wheeler, member of
S the Seward Schools faculty will be
| an outgoing passenger on the
S. S. Yukon.
Mrs. J. Paulson will be an out
going passenger on the Yukon for
the States. She is going as a re
presentative of the local Rebekah
Lodge.
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The Seattle Chamber of Com
merce Excursion will arrive in Sew
[ard May 30, on the new Aleutian
of the Alaska Steamship Co.
HAIDA, CHUGACH, KITTIWAKE,
AND SULTAN ARE CARRY
ING ON SEARCH
Mr. James Dineen, of Cordova,
and a small boy who was with him
at the time, have not been seen
since about 2 p. m. on May 10, when
they left Cape Hinchinbrook, head
ing for Zaikoff Bay.
After delivering the mail at the
Cape, Mr. Dineen headed for Mon
tague Island where he was to pick
up two trappers and bring them
to Latouche, Dineen was last seen
about 2:30 when about half way
from Hinchinbrook to Zaigoff Bay,
at which time he seemed to be hav
ing trouble with his engine.
When he didn’t return to Cordo
va, after three days, search was
started for him and his boat, but as
yet no trace has been found of
either himself and the boy, nor
any trace of the boat or wreckage
At present, the search is being
carried on by the coast guard cut
ter Haida, the U- S. Forestry boat
Chugach, the U. S. Fisheries boat
Kittiwake and another Cordova
mail boat, the Sultan.
To date the search has covered
all the bays, rivers and small is
lands around Montague, and be
tween there and Latouche, the en
tire section having been thor
oughly combed over, but without
finding any trace of the two people
and the boat. The search is now
going on further to the west ana
out to sea.
The Chugach and the Kittiwake
have searched between Latouche
and Clear Bay and the intervening
country and as far as Resurrection
B,o without resi.lt'and are now re
turning to Cordova.
On May 1 a full pardon was re
ceived from President Hoover for
Berndt Benson of Wrangell, who
was serving a sentence of 300 days
in jail and a $1,000 fine. He was
convicted last September in the U.
S- Commissioner’s court at Wran
gell, for violation of the liquor laws
. and sentenced by Commissioner W.
G. Thomas of Wrangell,
i Benson’s pardon, which came by
wire, was procured thru the U. S
Marshall’s office on recommenda
tion of the jail physician, because
of his physical condition.
I President Hoover’s pardon car
ried the remittal of the fine and all
costs, giving Benson his freedom
immediately upon receipt of the
wire by the marshal.
i DECISIVE INITIAL
I BATTLE FOUGHT
SHANGHAI, May 22, (^—Nat
ionalist government official sourc
es stated that what was considered
as the "decisive initial battle”
against the rebellious northern co
alition, was raging along the north
west border of Anhwei province
and along the Haichow-Tungkwan
Railway in northwsetern Honan
I province.
The nationalist forces were said
to have pierced the lines of the
northerners, capturing much am
munition and forcing the rebels to
beat a hasty retreat westward.