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VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 162.
PRICE TEN CENTS
SEWARD, ALASKA. MONDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1929.
SURVIVORS OF TOE
HALIBUT VESSEL
ENGINEER BROKE HIS BACK
BUT MAY RECOVER; NO
WORD OF KANATAK
JUNEAU, Dec., 2, (JFI—The coast
guard cutter Unalga arrived Sat
urday at noon with the survivors
of the wrecked halibut schooner
Seabird.
They are Engineer Alfred Dyb,
who sustained a broken back
while bailing the craft when it
was sinking. He was taken to
the Juneau hospital and it is be
lieved that he will recover; Cap
tain Holton Reitan, Ivan Horn,
Martin Carlson and Olaf Evens
vas.
The three other members of the
crew, the Dyb brothers, and
Louis Elis, were lost when the sea
took away the pilot house.
Captain Reitan also went
overboard but in some manner
finally returned aboard.
The Unalga cruised along the
coast from Juneau to Point Mar
tin but saw no trace of the hali
but vessel Kanatak which is be
lieved swamped in the high
seas. The Unalga was unable to
get close to Middleton Island on
account of the heavy seas.
ARMY’S FOflTBIL
TEAM LOST GAME
LAST 11 SECOND
NOTITv DAME STOPPED FIGHT
ING ARMY MEN BEFORE
CROWD 82,000
NEW YORK, Dec. 2, (/P>—The
Army’s fighting football team
stopped Notre Dame for the en
tire game with the exception of
the last 11 seconds, in their an
nual football battle, but that 11
seconds spelled victory for the
undefeated Notre Dame squad.
Score; Notre Dame 7, Army 0
More than 83,000 fans, an East
ern record, saw the game des
parately fought in a bitterly cold
day.
Jack Elder, one of the fastest
men in football uniform in this
country, won the game for Notre
Dame early in the second period
on an intercepted forward pass
on his own goal line and ran the
length of the field, which was the
only score of the game. He caught
Cagle’s pass to Hutchinson at
the corner of the field; he was
the hero of the game.
Cagle, of the Army, was playing
his last football game in the
East, and won the all-around
playing honors of the game play
ing a great defensive and bril
liant ball packing game. It was
the third time for Cagle to see
Notre Dame beat the Army by one
flashing play.
BLIZZARD AT NOME
NOME, Dec. 2, (TP)—A terrific
blizzard raged all night and most
of yesterday at Teller. There was
no visibility at North Cape again
delaying planes taking-off in
search for Eielson and Borland.
COIL MB KILLED
ILLINOIS EXPLOSION I
WEST FRANKFORT, 111., Dec. 2,
(/P)—Seven coal miners were kill
ed but 15 others escaped injury
in a localized explosion Sunday
in a drift at the Old Ben mine, j
No. 8. The bodies of five have I
been recovered and ohers are j
expected to be brought out. The I
explosion is believed to have oc
cured from coal dust gas.'
SLLEGED SHOE
IS FOUND ALIVE
ON PAPER STAFF;
WHEN VANISHED LEFT NOTE
SAYING WAS WALKING IN
TO THE OCEAN
OMAHA, Dec., 2, t/P)—Richard
Gale Brophy, business manager
j for the Byrd Antarctic expedi
; tion and who resigned suddenly
| at New Zealand last spring, and
who later disappeared from New
York leaving a suicide note, has
been found alive working on the
'copy desk of the Omaha Bee.
| That newspaper, in a copy
righted story, said that Brophy’s
identity was learned from a
photograph showing him with
Commander Byrd,
i Brophy, who has been working
here as “C. Manning Mitchell,”
admitted his identity and left
! immediately for New York say
i ing he intended to straighten out
his affairs there.
Brophy disappeared from New
Tork last August saying no word
to his wife but to others said he
was ^ going to Coney Island and
“walk into the waves until they
cover me then I will be rib more.”
Brophy said he only w?anted
rest. He was .second in command
of the Byrd expedition at the
i time oi his unexplained resigna
tion.
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i mm STATION
PUNISHED BECAUSE
OF WRONG REPORT
TOKIO, Dec., 2, (^P)—Formal
|punishment has been meted out
Ion officials of a large Japanese
; broadcasting station in T o k i o
| which sent out word early in Sep
tember that a son and heir to the
Japanese throne had been born to
his majesty, the Emperor.
It so happened that the child
. was a girl and the spontaneous
'celebrations which broke out in
many parts of the country when
,the report was received that a son
.had been born, made the position
,'of the broadcasting concern most
} embarrassing.
!
F. E. Swartz, engineer with the
Bureau of Public Roads who has j
i been attached during the past
; several months to the Afognak ;
j Island road, is enrout to the Ju- j
. neau headquarters, aboard the i
| Admiral Rogers.
I1GH0H OR
JUNEAU MAY BE
REINDEER CENTER
WILBUR FAVORS ONE OF TWO
PLACES FOR CENTERING
ACTIVITIES
WASHINGTON, Dec., 2, (fl*)—
Declaring that Alaska schools and
reindeer are to remote to be ad
ministered successfully from the
educational office at Washington,
the annual report of Secretary
Wilbur was issued today and rec
ommendes the view of divorcing
the two from Washington con
trol and that the seat of authori
ty be removed to Juneau or An
chorage.
The recommendation also sug
gests that the Alaska adminis
tration officer be given large dis
cretionary powers.
Wilbur explained that many
matters could have been settled
on the ground in Alaska in the
past but in the light of the broad
policies laid down at Washington,
serious delays have taken place.
A disbursing officer should be
stationed in Alaska to settle ob
ligations promptly. The report
also stated that the Commissioner
of Education * should be rapidly
relieved of administrive responsi
bilities and immediate transfer of
overseeing the reindeer industry,
overseeing financial transactions,
including the socalled Alaska trust
fund, transfer of hospital admin
istration; and that the hospital
work should be under the health
service of the territorial govern
ment.
WINNIPEG, Man., Dec., 2, (/Pi—
Two fishermen caught on Lake
Winnipeg in a howling gale with
the temperature below zero were
frozen to death.
SCIENTIST SEES ASIA AS HOLDING
SECRET OF AMERICAN PREHISTORY
Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, shown at left beside the oldest
grave found along the Yukon river, says ancient village
sites near the river appear as mere rifts (above). He
has made observations of Eskimo (right) and Indian
(below) types.
AGGiOENT AT GRADE
GROSSING KILLS SIX
WHITTIER,, Calif., Dec., 2, (#)—
Six were killed at a grade cross
ing when an auto was struck by
the southbound Sante Fe train.
The dead were Joseph Me Cann
and his wife, of Centralia, Wash.,
who were on their honeymoon;
W. R. Deford, Charles E. Bike,
Mrs. Audan Day, Miss Ilene Herr,
all of Los Angeles. McCann was
a former University of Washing
ton football star.
PETITIOH FROM
STOCKHOLDERS GF
FOSMY. DENIED
RECEIVER CHAPMAN CRITI
CIZED BY TWO HOLDERS
OF STOCK, CONCERN
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MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 2, (/P)—
1 Federal Judge Sanborn ' denied
the stockholders ‘petition for the
| appointment of a new receiver,
and attorneys for the Public
Utilities Consolidated Corporation,
the Foshay holding company, and
for permission to examine the
books and accounts of the firm.
1 The petitions were filed in be
half of Gustav and Josephine
Schiefeidbein, stockholders of the
concern.
They had criticized Receiver
Chapman for recent actions. The
Judge said the stockholders will
be given an opportunity for such
| action on completion of the for
mal audits now being made for
such an examination now would
only interfere with the progress
of the audits.
OTHERS SWEPT BUT
FURTHER DETAILS RECEIVED
BY JUDGE HILL AT VAL
DEZ OFFICE
JUNEAU, Dec., 2, (/P)—Heavy
property losses, mainly to can
neries and floating equipment,
but no loss of life, accompanied
last Sunday’s storm at high tide
in the Bristol Bay section, es
pecially in the Nushagak dis
trict, was revealed in details to
Governor Parks from Federal
Judge .E Coke Hill, at Valdez,
jwho is receiving advices from
Deputy Marshal Fleckenstein of
I Dillingham.
! Two Indian villages, Kuku and
| Clark’s Point, have been destroy
ed and Nelsonville and Bradford
! were partly washed away. The
village at Nushagak was also des
troyed and the Indian population
in all of the places were reported
to be destitute.
Many canneries at Nushagak
i were hit including the North
j western Fisheries, Libby, McNeill
& Libby, the Pacific American
Fisheries, the P. H. W. cannery
at Snag Point, and other plants
MERIT IF 5.
OUFIHI DEFEATS
WASH, STATE COLLEGE
LOS ANGELES, Dec-, 2, (/P)—
The deceptive driving runs and
rushes of Saunders, University of
Southern California quarterback,
put to rout the sturdy giants of
the Washington State College, as
they pounded their way to victory
’ over the Northerners,
i Washington was not subdued,
until they had thrown a scare
into California by scoring in the
! opening period and holding Cali
; fornia seven to seven for the first
two periods.
Washington began to wilt in the
second quarter; California scored
once in the second period, three
in the third, the final resulting in
a listless battle with California’s
substitutes in the lineup. Saun
ders gained the bulk of Califor
nia’s yardage.
SIX MEN DROWN
IN EAKE MR:
STEAMER AGROUND
SAULT ST. MARIE, Mich., Dec.
2, {£>)—Official radio reports from
the coast guard headquarters at
Grand Marais, Mich., said six
men were lost and 18 saved, when
:the steamer Kiowa went aground
in Lake Superior, near there, last
night during the terrific storm.
The survivors, suffering after a
I day fighting the blizzard, were
rescued after the flax-laden boat
sank. One unidentified body was
! found. The missing Captain, Alex
I Young, of Duluth, the steward,
! wheelman, watchman and porter,
I are believed to be dead.