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■usoraissaiawwatfE’aai gativxhix&mir'. ’^w^wwaK^wsw* VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 47. SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1929. the SEWARD PONIES BECOME HIGH SCHOOL CHAMPIONS OF SOUTHWESTERN ALASKA WHEN THEY STAGED A FINAL RALLY TO WIN SATURDAY NIGHT S GAME FROM ANCHORAGE HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL TEAM BY THE SCORE OF 18 TO 16. Nosed out by two points at the end of the fast en counter, the Orange passed up a golden opportunity to take the game and tie the series at three up, when Holdi man and Ted and Bill Strandberg missed four consec utive chances to score on free throws in the final minutes of play. w Coa h Wright again nominated* his pat line-up of Inlet men, mak ing voluntary changes only when he substituted Carlson for Mc. Cutcheon late in the third quartet. McCutcheon was returned just oe fore *:he struggle endec! to replace Will St.randberg again retired on personal fouls. With Donald Shell horn, speedy Seward forward, in a temporary slump, Bath revamped his battle front playing “iron horse” Guy Manthey" at forwatn with Paymond, Rosness to jump cl liter and Edwin and Otto Sand hcck at the guard posts, which combination went the full route. Referee Groth, barely recovered from a recent il'neis, was lauded as lie appeared on the floor and sum moned the rival centers to the cir cle. Mr. Groth was assisted by Prancis Leslie, requested by the vis iting team, and much cred't is due both arbiters for having kept the game going at top speed. (Continued on Page Two) PASSENGERS AND FREIGHT ARf LEAVING SEATTLE IN MORN ING. FOR ALASKA SEATTLE, Feb., 25, (/T)—The 191 passengers from the steamer Aleu tian from Seattle to Alaska whici' "rounded Saturday night wert transferred to the S. S. Alameda >ff Waldron Island, 100 miles nortl: of Seattle. The S. S. Aleutian grounded or Maud Tsland in Seymour Narrows Tt came off Immediately and sent distress signals after which it start ed to ;eturn South but developed a bad list, when near Bellingham. It cast its anchor there and awaited the Alameda on which the passen gers vere taken to Seattle. FOWL WISDOM LAKELAND, Feb., 25, (A5)—A crowing rooster which disturber : rsidents proved to be a pet bantan c.f a eov who had taught it to flof its wr?s and crow whenever he de manded URGES SAFETY INDIANAPOLIS, Feb., 25, {JP)— .The American Lesion thru its 10, • o 00 posts has begun a natior.a. i-'afety campaign to cut down the • total of a' eidents that occur year 'v. Signs reading ‘'Protect Our '< ’hlidren” are used on highways. — r EXPEDITION WILL BE UNDER TAKEN WITHIN Till NEXT FEW MONTHS OTTAWA, Feb., 25- ,?)—The conquest oi the Arctic next spring will iDe attempted, from the air, according to a report here. A cir cuit of the Arctic regions is being planned by Germans with the dirigible Graf Zeppelin. Captain Walter Burns, German member of the Aero Arctic International scientific organization, and whc visited with officials of the Inter ior Department for the purpose oi seeking cooperation, said the ex pedition would be undertaker within the next few months when the sun shown 24 hours a day anc expansion of gas in the airshif would be obviated. SEPPALA WINS RACE QUEBEC, Feb., 25, M^-Leonan Sepalla, the noted Alaska mush er, won the Seventh Eastern In ternational dog derby. Prank Du puis was second and St. Goddarc third. ANDREWS SEEKS SIGNS OF “CRA DLE OF MAN” IN MONGOLIAN DESER1 ' . - museum or hat h/st Dr. Roy Chapman Andrews, famous archaeologist, will lead an expedition into the Mongolian desert this summer to search for human fossils of 5,000,000 years ago He is shown above holding dinosaur eggs and (below) is a scene of the camp established by him last year. ! ~ ~ i DAT .LAS, Tex.. F6b„ 25. !/Pi—Four ' ••lerson*! were killed and '.even r.r- 5 :'ious!y injured in severe wind storms which swooped down over two northwest Texas com muni: e . At Hooper Mr. and Mrs. W ti. Jones were killed when a tornado . :swept thru a path less than 2 .3 t met; the wind crashed tivir house ‘ :o the ground 10 miles away. T.v ,wind also took the lives of AlfioJ Gibson and his wife, risgros. ] DENTIST WAS THE MAN WHO IDENTIFIED PHOTOGRAPH GANG SLAYER i ~ ~ • V - DETROIT, Feb., 25, (A1)— Dr. Roy . al Tucker, who was kidnapped . from his home in Chicago Friday [ night, was found Saturday, in a dazed and half-fainting condition here. He was picked up by a po liceman; his hands, wrists and j ankles were bruised and lacerated. ' Dr. Tacker said he had been waylaid by four men wh oseized and threw him into an automobile 1 after slugging him. He asserted he recovered cons ciousness only a few moments before he was found in Detroit, j Tacker is reported to have iden tified a photograph which the po lice believed to be one of the gang slayers. SEARCH UNDER WAY FOR MAN WITH MISSING FINGER, R. BELLACASTRO i : ! j | CHICAGO, Feb., 25, (/P)—Marked ( men, one with a finger gone and another with a front tooth out, ; and still a third on whose face are scars from burns, danced tanta lizingly across the gang massacre investigation today. Each in turn appeared in the murder picture as reconstructed rom stories of witnesses. The man with a front tooth out and the man in the car with him are presumably members of the gang of four who executed the gangsters.; the man with the scars on his face may have receiv ed the injuries several days later when efforts were made to des troy the car. Not one of the three has been arrested. A search under wav for Rocco Bellacastro who has a finger missing. lEW’ARD BUSINESS MAN, CAL M. BROS tl'S. iS ELECTED GRAND TREASURER CORDOVA, Feb., 23, (A5)—After dopiing tiie resolution to con tract a permanent monument to doneers, The Grand Igioo Con ennon. of the Pioneers of Alaska, idjourned and delegates began preparations for their thousand niles mush back to their homes hroughout the Territory. The next convention will be held it Anchorage on March 4. 1930. The newly elected officers for ,he ensuing year included Pres dent Paul Rickarts of Fairbanks; rirst Vice President Herman >entsch of Anchorage; Secretary Jeorge Love of Valdez; Treasurer 2al M. Brosius of Seward. WOMAN TOLD SERIES OF DIF FERENT STORIES AS TO CUSTODY OF GIRL SAN FRANCISCO, Feb,, 25, (ZP)— With Mrs. Chas. Sharp assuming ill the responsibility for the kid napping ol Doris Murphy, the po lice announced John Williams, v, horn she accused on Friday as delivering the child to her, will probably be released by the court. Under questioning Mrs. Sharp told a series of different stories and admitted she had kidnapped the child from the school play ground. PROPOSAL TAKEN UP FOR SUR VEY CANAL ACROSS NIC ARAGARUA WASHINGTON, Feb., 25, (A5)— The Senate disposed of another major legislative proposal Satur day when they passed the Navy appropriation bill with a fund for beginning construction on 15 new cruisers. In the House the last ap propriation measure was taken up: It is known as the second def iciency bill and called for $191,000, 000. House leaders are planning to include the fund for $24,000,000 for extra dry enforcement, which the Senate voted for. With the Navy bill out of the way the Senate took up the pro posal, by Edge of New Jersey, for a survey of a canal route across Nicaragua.