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VOLUME XVI. NUMBER 25.
SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 1931.
PRICE TEN CENTS
DISAPPEARANCE OF
MEN. AND MURDER
PUZZLE OFFICERS
TWO MEN HELD; SAID HAVE
TOLD CONFLICTING STOR
IES AS TO BOAT
PETERSBURG, Alaska, Jan., 31,
kjp)—Clarence Langford and C.
Anderson, bound over by the
grand jury with bail set at $1,000
each, charged with violation of
ihe prohibition act. are also
being held for investigation re
garding the disappearance of L.
C. Davis and A1 Farrow, missing
•rom Petersburg since Novem
ber 9.
The prisoners were arrested at
Wales Pass, near Prince of
Wales Island and were brought
here yesterday by Deputies Wm.
H, Caswell and Hans Wick of
Petersburg.
The deputies, in the gasboat
Sunrise, have been searching for
Parrow and Davis who also were
under suspicion, in connection
with the murder last October of
a Ketchikan fish buyer.
CONFLICTING STORIES
JUNEAU, Jan., 31, (/P)—Mar
shal White said Farrow and Da
vis left for Langton’s and An
derson’s camp on Prince of
Wales Island when they disap
peared and that the latter pair
t-old conflicting stories as to the
binding of the former’s missing
gas boat five miles from camp
with no one aboard.
Mrs. Farrow, waiting from Day
ton. Oregon, asked authorities
io search for her husband. She
claimed that her husband and
Anderson and Farrow* had pre
viously had trouble.
EINSTEIN urn IS
S SCHOOLBOY: IS
TUG EOT
PASADENA, Calif., Jan., 31,
JP)—Albert Einstein is as happy
as a school boy. He was ready
for a vacation.
For the past twro weeks the
wessons of his 40th year in school
nave been the kind that corru
gate brows.
He now goes into the desert.
Three days will be spent in the
quietude of the Coachella Val
ley, near Palm Springs, where
the great German scientist will
be a guest of Samuel Utermey
er, New York attorney.
NEW PHINE SERVICE
BETWEEN II. S. - CHILE
SANTIAGO, Chile, Jan. 31. {JP}
—Through airplane service from
the United States to Chile and
Argentina within a short time was
forecast by aviation officials when
President Carlos Ibanez signed a
decree permitting the Pan-Am-,
ericar.-Grace Airways, Inc., a four
year concession to fly to Chilean j
territory, carrying mails, cargo
and passengers.
DOX LANDS
LA PALMAS, Canary Islands,
January 31, (/?)—'The largest
plane in the world, the DOX
landed here at 7:10 a. m. after
a 715 mile hop from Lisbon, Por
tugal. Officers planned to re
main overnight.
ss nun SAILS
FOR THE NORTH WITH
178 PASSENGERS
SEATTLE, Jan., 31. (/P)—The
SS Alameda, of the A. S. S. Co.,
sailed for Alaska at 9 a. m., with
176 passengers: 21 for Seward:
Mr. and Mrs. C.' Olson, Chas.
IS. Mathison, L. J. Scanlon, Har
| ry Kawabe, Mrs. A. H. Mellick,
Roy Button, Mrs. F. D. Padge and
! daughter, Miss Anne Olson, Mrs.
A. J. Nordale and daughter, J.
Swanson, L. Jacobson, A. W.
Fading, R, E. Bunce, Wrn. S.
Christensen, B. Flo man, M.
Brench, J. F. Hoffman and F.
O'Donnell.
HUGE GERMAN PLANE
OGX ENROUTE OVER
TIE ATLANTIC OCEAN
LISBON, Portugal, Jan., 31. UP)
—The DOX, great eGrman plane,
left here this morning at 12:08
Pacific Standard time on the
first leg of a flight to South
America.
Nineteen persons were aboard;
the plane is under the command
of Capt. Frederick Christiansen;
Second in command is the Clar
ence Schilhaurer, American.
They plan to fly only during
daylight, skimming the ocean
during the nights while enroute
across the ocean.
Passengers included represen
tatives of European airlines.
HOCKEY SCORES
SEATTLE, Jan., 31, |/P>—1The
Seattle and Portland ice hockey
teams went to a 2 to 2 tie here.
FISHERMAN, Tim
LOSES BOAT: ItT CLIFF
PETERSBURG, Jan., 31, (/Pi
Jack Mitchell, well known fisher
man and trapper, lost his boat
near Fanshaw, Alaska, January
19, but saved his gun and blan
kets; he rowed 10 miles in a
heavy sea to Storm Island.
Mitchell was repairing the
generator ‘when the boat swung
out of its course striking a cliff
and sinking almost immediately.
He can salvage the engine but
the boat is a total loss.
DEMAND EXPULSION
SACRAMENTO, Jan. 31. (/P) —
Expulsion of all unassimilable
aliens in California as a means of
improving employment conditions
is demanded in a resolution ad
opted by J. Holland Laider Camp,
United Spanish War Veterans of
Sacramento. The veterans declar
ed that there are at least two
million aliens in the United States
illegally.
TWENTY-EIGHT COIL
MINERS KILLED IN
ENGLAND EXPLOSION
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I WHITEHAVEN, Eng.. Jan., 30.
! (/P)—Twenty-eight coal miners
were killed in the explosion
which buried them in the Haig
pit.
Sixteen bodies have been re
covered and others have been lo
; cated. Twenty-five were brought
; out alive but 20 of them are in a
: serious condition.
| The death total p r o b a bly
j have been more if miners, on the
I fringe of the explosion, hadn’t
turned back.
The cause for the explosion
has not been determined.
| DEPARTMENTS HE
! miuHinm
| BUILDING HI JUNEAU
j JUNEAU, Jan., 31, (^—Occu
pancy of the new capitol build
>ing started with the Customs
'offices being installed today.
I Governor Parks takes possess
| ion Monday and the Post Office
moves in Tuesday.
| Other departments will follow
;and announcement will officially
be made Tuesday when District
Engineer Newman, of the Treas
ury department, arrives from
San Francisco.
The illness of J. I. Marshall,
I supervising engineer, prevented
; earlier acceptance. Marshall fell
; and had to undergo a slight op
eration.
I PRESIDENT JACKSON
| WILL INAUGURATE
STEAMER SEISE
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 31. (/P)—
The Eastward Orient-California
New York service of the Dollar
'Line, announced recently, will be
inaugurated with the sailing of
the liner President Jackson from
Manila March 26th, it was an
nounced.
Under the plan a President
liner wil leave New York every
: Thursday at 4 p. m., arriving in
jsan Francisco 17 days later,
The East-bound sailings from
San Francisco on the Manila to
New York route will occur on
alternate Thursdays.
RED LEADER BURIED
MANILA, Jan. 31. (/P)—Amid
the waving of red flags of com
munism, and accompanied by
fiery speeches against capitalism
| and imperialism, funeral services
[were held here for Antonio Ora,
| Filippino Communist leader, who
was killed a week ago in an auto
mobile accident.
KILLED IN FUMES
NEW YORK, Jan. 31. (/P) —
Jacob Cohen, his wife and four
children were killed by carbon
monoxide fumes when continuous
burning of a gas water-heater
used up all of the oxygen in the
rooms, Five of the victims were1
apparently overcome in their
sleep.
UNOFFICIAL RECORD
NEW YORK CITY, Jan., 31, (/P) j
Captain Frank Hawkes set an un- j
official speed flying record when j
he landed in New York, having ^
flown 1400 miles from Fort
Worth, Texas, at an average speed
BRIDES BL1ZZSR0 TO
AID MINPED MED
JUNEAU, Jan., 31, E/P)—Brav
ing a blizzard and sub-zero
weather, Dr. W. A. Borland re
turned to Kanakanak from To
■ giak, a distance of 70 miles,
j with two men badly wounded
;and frost-bitten.
The radio message to Gover
nor Parks did not give the names
i of the men.
Dr. Borland is in charge of
j the Kanakanak Bureau of Edu
1 cation hospital in Bristol Bay.
; He amputated a leg from one of
j the men and both feet of the
! other.
!
m MICE
! BLOSSOMING IN THE
IEU IF SWEDES
! STOCKHOLM, Jan. 31. (JP) —
| Reports of a royal romance in
volving a grandson of King Gus
taf of Sweden with the daughter
of a prominent industrialist are
! intriguing all Sweden.
The newspaper, “Dagblad,” said
i announcement was imminent of
! the engagement of Prince Len
j narte, 21 year old son of Prince
! William. 2nd son of the king to
; Mademoiselle Karen Nisswandt,
j daughter of a prominent Stock
holm industrialist, whose family
| is of Dutch origin.
SUCCEEDS FOCH
PARIS, Jan. 31. (/P)—Marshal H.
Philippe Petain, defender of Ver
i dun, became one of the French
j Academy, succeeding Marshal
Joffre. the hero of the Marne.
prefers eras II
MODERN MELODIES
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. Jan. 31.
(/P) — Professor Albert Einstein
knows all about the celestial
the spheres, but here, in the
desert he prefers cactus to modern
melodies.
While only a short distance away
at a hotel, musical mannequinns
wTere putting on a fashion show\
'and one of America’s most pop
ular rythm boys was crooning love
ditties, the father of relativ
ity theory went sight-seeing in a
cactus garden.
CONTRIBUTIONS MANY
WASHINGTON, Jan. 31. (IP) —
Contributions toward the Red
Cross drive for $10,000,000 now
total $3,125,000, it was announced
The House appropriations com
mittee will begin its hearings on
the drought relief bill soon so
that the suffering of drought
stricken inhabitants may be al
leviated.
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DIFFICULTY SEEN
MAJOR HENRY LEONARD WILL
ACT AS COUNSEL, COURT
MARTIAL
WASHINGTON. Jan., JO, —
■ General Smedley Butler has ask
ed Major Henry Leonard, retir
ed, an old friend from the days
of the Boxer rebellion, to act as
his counsel at his court martial.
I Major Leonard has accepted.
I He has practiced law here since
I he retired from the Marines, in
j 1911. At one time he was assist
ant judge advocate general of
I the Navy.
Major Leonard saved General
Butier from probable death near
; Tientsien while his own arm was
shattered by gun fire.
The Navy department is hav
ing difficulty in getting officers
outranking General Butler to
sit on the board. They will pro
bably have to recall retired offi
cers.
Major General Fuller, of the
Marines, who outranks .Butles in
active service, will undoubtedly
be a member of the board.
General Butler continued to
; ’ ■* to talk or see anyone at
1 Quantico. Virginia, where he is
j under self-arrest,
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Pi D COLDER
REIGNS THROUGHOUT
EM GORSTLINE
NEW YORK, Jan. 31. (IP) —
The weather ranged from zero
to extreme ends of the Atlantic
; seaboard. It snowed in New Eng
| land with the temperature from
‘ 15 degrees below zero in the
| northern part, while in Florida it
registered 55 degrees in the
northern portion and 62 degrees
in Miami, where it was raining.
Cloudiness with snow was the
rule from Massachusetts South
through New York, Northern New
Jersey and Pennsylvania.
The southern part of New Eng
land showed temperatures from
TO degrees to 25.
toe Mil FriT
MOON IS NOW BLAMED
CLEVELAND, Ohio, Jan. 31. (JP)
-The Man in the Moon is now
suspected of easing static in ra
dio sets. Dr. Harlan F. Stetson,
Director of Perkins Observatory,
has found a direct correlation be
tween the moon’s position in the
heavens and the height of the
electrical ceiling in the earth’s
atmosphere, by which radio wavs
are deflected back towards the
earth. He explained this by as
suming that the moon has a neg
ative electric charge.
BASEBALL DEAL,
NEW YORK, Jan. 31. (/P) —
The New York Yankees have
signed Joe Sewall, veteran Cleve
land infielder, who was given un
conditional release a few days
ago.