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THE SUNDAY OREGONIAX, PORTXAXD, AUGUST 7, 1921 ALASKA IS WRECKED ON - BLUNTS REEF S. O. S. Ceases in Less Than Hour After Crash. PASSENGERS TAKE BOATS Vessel Strikes Rocks In Fog and Was Ia st Reported Listing Heavily. as (Continued From First Page.) miles north of the Alaska's position and could not reach her before 10 o'clock this morning. 131 Passengers Aboard. The Alaska had accommodations for 225 passengers in all, but on her present voyage carried 131, all but eight of whom -were in the cab ins. General dimensions and the registered description of the vessel are: Gross tonnage, 3709; net ton nage, 2308; length, 327 feet; breadth, 45 feet. She carried a crew of 75 all told. The steamer Alaska was added to the Portland-San Francisco run last October, when she was first chartered and then purchased from the Alaska Steamship company by the San Francisco & Portland Steamship company. She was slightly larger than her fleet-mate, the Rose City, and had a number of special features, such as a glassed in sun room for the comfort of passengers and other conveniences not found on any of the other steamers plying regularly out of this port. The Alaska was commanded by Cap tain G. Hobey, who had been her master for about three weeks, since he relieved Captain J. G. Nord, her regular master. Vessel Believed Sank. The vessel was an old-fashioned single bottom steamer, and, accord ins to marine men,, would have little chance of surviving' after striking: on such a point as Blunts reef. From the fact that the Alaska's wireless calls for help ceased shortly after .they started, it was presumed that she had hlipped off into deep water aiid sunk. At the time of the crash the Alaska was on her way from Portland to San Francisco, and many of her pas sengers were naturally Portland peo pie. Later telegraphic advices from the North Head radio station and from Eureka and San Francisco stated that at least three more steamers had Joined in the rush to the aid of the .Alaska's passengers. These were the Ernest H. Meyer, 90 miles north of San Francisco, or about 100 miles south of the Alaska's position; the Wahkeena, only five miles from the Alaska's position at 10:15 P. M., and the tug Ranger, at Eureka. " 'Wireless Stations Help. .The work of dispatching vessels to the assistance of the Alaska and her passengers was greatly expedited by the Radio Corporation of America and the government wireless stations up and down the coast. Immediately upon receipt of the S. O. S. call from the stranded steamer, the shore radio stations picked up and relayed 11 to each other and to all vessels that could be picked up within day's cruising of Blunt's reef. - The passenger list filed at the San Francisco & Portland Steamship com panys' office does not contain the addresses of any of the passengers, or even the cities in which they made their homes. The crew of the vesse was signed on at San Francisco, where the Alaska made their home port and consequently their names could not be learned last night. Captain Harry Hobey came to Port land on the trip to San Francisco made previously by the ship. He has only been in command of the Alaska since that time. His home is in Seattle. - William E. MeClintock of Alameda. Cal., was first officer of the Alaska; J. M. Callfaa of Seattle was chief engineer, and Mr. Parker of Seattle first assistant engineer; E. E. Morgan of Seattle was purser of the ill-fated ship, and Charles Dehne of Seattle was the purser, according to Fred Heywood, agent here. Surf Declared Bad. Fred Heywood, local agent of the San Francisco & Portland Steamship company, who was on the Bear when she struck on Blunts reef several years ago, stated last night that the prospects for the lifeboats to reach the beach in that vicinity without being swamped in the surf were very poor. Mr. Heywood said that all the lifeboats from the Bear, with the ex ception of two. landed their passen gers on the Blunts reef lightship, which is just off the Mendocino light on the coast. The two boats which attempted to land on the beach were swamped on .no rocus ana live persons were drowned. Two of these were women and three men. The ten other life boats from .the ship all landed their passengers safely on the, lightship, from which they were rescued by another ship and a tugboat. - The Bear struck in a hteavy fog, and it was with great difficulty that the lifeboats were able to find their way to the lightship, according to Mr. Heywood. Blunt's reef consists of two low rocks awash at high tide. The rocks are about 200 yards apart and are ap proximately three miles from Cape Mendocino lighthouse. A lightship is moored two miles from the outer rock as a warning to mariners. Between the reef and the cape are a number of sunken rocks and ledges, making the territory exceedingly dan gerous. Masters of steamers are con tinually warned to beware of the reef and the shore line around Cape Men docino. The cape is the turning; point on the shore and ia many times blan keted with fog. come about. tou haven t gathered here to greet me personally, because I've been here before and you scarce ly noticed it. But you have come to me tonight because I am your spokes man. ' When a man is a candidate he is always seeking to , come among you and make himself heard, but when man is in office the people want him to come among them, and he ought to come among them. "mat s as it should be, for this is a popular government and let me say tnat no president ever could do any thing of which the American people did not approve. Let me tell you also that it Is a difficult thing to conduct the govern ment of the United States. We have just emerged from a cataclysmic world war. Things have been turned upside down. It is a time when Amer ica must keep her hat on straight, when America must be confident of herself. And I like to say that I have more confidence in America to night than I ever had before.. I be lieve America has found her soul and has found the inspiration to become not the first great republic, as we are. but to grow into the mightiest power in the world, leading mankind to higher and higher levels. 'Knowing your sentiment, I have recently been able to ask the great nations to meet with us around the council table and ask each other why there should be any war. We are go ing to have that kind of a conference and. I hope it will be my fortune be fore my term of office is done to be able to say that our America some how appealed to the conscience of mankind and that in the awakening of that conscience we put aside con flict. That ia a fine ideal for America." As the president finished a band struck up the "Star-Spangled Banner" and Mr. Harding called out to the au dience to aing. lie and Mrs. Hardine joined in and then the crowd gave tbem three cneers. The presidential partv reached Pr land before 10 P. M. and went to the home of Mrs. Eugene Hale, mother of Senator Hale, where they paid a so cial call while a street crowd over ran the lawn, and peered in at the windows. The president requested those in the street to form a line so he could meet each one. A handshaking- ses sion followed. The line was formed by a committee of the Kiwanls club. which presented Mrs. Harding with a bouquet. EMBARGO ON DYES URGED SOVIET TOMORROW TO FREE AMERICANS European Relief Director No tified of Intention. AUGUST 8 LATEST DATE of Pedro valley between Colma and the coast. The searchers found two abandoned horses, saddled and with empty gun holsters strapped to the saddles and a religious book that had been lost but a short time. The officials believe the book belongs to Father Heslin. 1 I.. Message From SI. Eamaneff Is Sent to Walter Ii. Brown. Sleeting- Is Suggested. WAR AD XATY SECRET ARIKS WANT TARIFF RESTORED. Needs of Xational Defense Held to Demand Preparedness in Chemical Industry. WASHINGTON, D. C. Aug. 6. Secretaries Weeks and Denby have come out in support of an embargo on dyes and chemicals and have urged restoration to the Fordney tariff bill of the embargo provision, stricken out by the house. Their attitude was made known today when Chairman Penrose of the senate fi nance committee made public letters from them to the committee. The cabinet officers explained that they favored an embargo because of national defense needs. "It is of great value to the navy," Mr. Denby wrote,(f"to encourage -the development of chemical activities in the manufacture of all products con nected with explosives and gases, es pecially those manufacturers whose establishment can easily be diverted to the manufacture of war materials. Restoration of the embargo clause will be of material help and I will greatly appreciate your assistance." Embargo orders have been found necessary in England, Japan, France and Italy, Mr. Weeks said. He also declared that the chemical authority was vital to Germany in prolonging her efforts in the world war and ex pressed the opinion that high explo sives and war gases would play far mo;i important part in future wars. "So fully did Germany realize be fore, during and after the world war, he continued, "that predominance in the organized chemical industry, and particularly the dye industry, meant the most valuable measure of pre paredness possible, that she has united all her organic chemical Industries into one great trust." LONDON, 'Aug. 6. (By the Asso ciated Press.) All the American pris oners in Moscow and Petrograd will be sent across the Russian border by Monday at the latest, according to a message received here today by Walter L. Brown, European director of the American relief administration, from Leo Kamaneff. chairman of the Russian relief committee. The telegram from M. Kamaneff, dated Moscow, August 5, read as fol lows: "All Americans detained at Mos cow, Petrograd, in prisons and the camps, will be sent over the frontier tomorrow, or by August 8 at the latest. The delay is due to unavoid able formalities connected with grant ing free pardons. The central au thorities are unaware of any Amer icans being interned or in prison in provincial places, but orders have been given for the release of Amer icans if there are any. "M. Litvlnofif, a member of the All Russian commission for combatting famine, is leaving for Riga August 8, and is due to arrive there on Au gust 10. He is authorized to discuss with you and to arrange all details for American relief in Russia and to sign an agreement. He proposes to meet with you Wednesday at the Russian legation at Riga." If this arrangement for the meet ing should be unsatisfactory to Mr. Brown, the message suggests that he please suggest to M. Litvinoff some other time or place." Mr. Brown will leave here lor itiga tomorrow morning. RICH PEASANTS EXECUTED Soviet Authorities Inflict Penalty for Food Hoarding. RIGA. Ausr. 6. (By the Associated Press.) The beginning of the food- tax collection by the Russian soviet authorities was marked by the exe cution of a group of rich peasants in the Mariopol district of south Rus sia, who had concealed their grain and were trying to dodge their tax. said a dispatcn received Dy soviet wireless from Moscow today. An ex ample was made of these peasants to prevent the practice of hoarding, it was declared. The aistrici mentioned is in south Russia, near the Sea of Azov. At the same time, the message added, counter revolutionary bandits in the Volga and Ural districts are destroying what grain was left in the fields to block the soviet food campaign. LONDON, A4g. 6. The 60viet au thorities have"" decided to send three special delegations abroad on behalf of starving Russia, declares a Reval message forwarded by the Exchange Telegraph agency from Copenhagen. Professor Bechterev, formerly of the University of Petrograd, will head the delegation to England, France. Spain and the United States, says the mes-sasre. Meanwhile, asserted the dispatch. the soviet representatives abroad have been ordered to suspend propa ganda work. It also was reported that orders for machinery and other goods will be held up, the money re mitted being used for the purchase of food. FAMIXE IS REPORTED WORSE MOONSHINERS IN ARREARS Serbian Finds It Costly to Rent to Liquor Makers. ALBANY, Or.," Aug. 6. (Special.) When Kuzman Ognjenovich of Lyons was fined $100 in the justice court here yesterday for possessing intoxi cating liquor he learned that it did not pay to rent land to moonshiners. The Serbian was unable to pay the fine and went to the county jail but it was expected he would obtain the money within a day or two. Ognjenovich asserted be was not the owner of the big still which Sher iff Jiendall found on his farm. He said he rented part of the land to two men who were operating the still. He said they left the farm and did not re turn and he was holding the still for security. While in Portland trying to collect $300 rent promised him the of' ficers came, he said. POSTAL MACHINE USED 1RIG0YEN FACES TROUBLE Argentine President Likely to Lose Control of Congress. BUENOS AIRES, Aug. 6. President Irigoyen is confronted by a sudden political crisis which seems to threa ten him with the loss of control of congress and at the beginning of the campaign for election of a new presi dent next March. Sessions of con gress Thursday and yesterday were without a quorum. The trouble grew out of a demand on the president by a majority of con gress for an explanation of hs failure to apply the provisions of the borne stead law enacted last year. Every Man Is Made His Own Stamp Printer by Device. NEW YORK, Aug. 6. New York was introduced today to the postage meter, a machine which makes every man his own stamp printer and does away with the necessity of sticking them on. The National City bank has the first one exhibited here. The machine, recently approved by the postoffice department, prints on the letters a little square about the size of a stamp. In which appear the world "U. S. Postage-Paid 2c." The machine Is equipped with register which can be set only by postoffice authorities. When the register shows the user has stamped as many letters as he paid for, the machine etops and has to be taken to the postoffice to be re-set. AUTO CARRIES WIRELESS Boy Touring With Parents Keeps in Touclt With World, ALBANY, Or.,1 Aug. 6. (Special.) A wireless outfit is part of the va cation equipment carried by the fam ily of Dr. Edwin Asbury Montague of Walla Walla, Wash., who are on an automobile trip from their home city to Eureka, Cal. They camped in Ery ant park here yesterday. One of Dr. Montague a boys brought his wireless outfit with him on the trp and wherever they camp the young man receives messages from many parts of the world. He uses a tree for antennae and- places the in struments on the running board of the car. Moscow Papers Make Xo-Mention of American Xotes RIGA. Aug. 6. (By the Associated Press.) The Russian public so far is apparently ignorant that the ques tion of the release oi American pris oners is involved in famine relief, as Moscow newspapers received today made no mention of the notes of Sec retaries loover and Hughes. These newspapers, however, re ported famine conditions were grow- Inar worse. particularly among chil dren, 300,000 of whom in the Volga district were reported by M. Lun archarsky, a leader in the soviet re lief measures, to nave oeen aoan doned by their parents to the care of the state. He was reported to nave declared that this action will furnish a better plea for the carrying out of the soviet programme of nationaliza tion of. children. William D. Hay- Political observers see in the situa- I wood. American Industrial Worker tion the first indication of the con- of the World leader, apparently had summation of plans for a com of socialists and conservatives effect the defeat of the president. me con-i " " " ...... - bination I changed his mind about returning to , " J America, according to an arrival INDICTED BANKER FREED Charges Against J. E. Chilberg Dismissed by Tacoma Judge. TACOMA, Wash., Aug. 6. J. E. Chilberg, former president of the Scandinavian-American banks here and in Seattle, today was freed of all charges in connection with the failure of the local bank. Five indict ments against Chilberg, returned by the county grand jury last spring, were dismissed by Judge M. L. Clif ford. The judge held that the indictments were vague and did not charge defi nite crimes under the state law. The bonds of Chilberg were ordered re leased on all five indictments. HARDING ENDS VACATION (Continued From Flrt Put ) disabled world war veterans that the government would do everything possible for their welfare. Both asked many questions about the needs of the patients, most of whom are suffering from the effects of gas. "I am happy," said the president in his short speech at West Brook, "to say to you how grateful we are for the cordial greeting we have received in Maine and New Hampshire. "I have thought what a change has MOTHER OF 16 OPTIMISTIC Woman Explains by, Admitting She Is Old-Fashioned. TACOMA. Wash., Aug. 6. Mrs. L. D. Shaffer, aged 38. is today the mother of her 16th child, a 12-pound boy. 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