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VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 202.
SEWARD, ALASKA. THURSDAY, AUGUST 29- 1929.
PRICE TEN CENTS
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AUTOGYRO PLANE TAKEN IN
TO THE AIR FOR EXHI
BITION PURPOSES
CLEVELAND, Aug., 29, (£>)—
Loren W. Mendell of Los Angeles
won the Oakland to Cleveland air
race finishing in less than three
minutes ahead of Joe Barrows
of Oakland.
In 'the Cleveland race Everett
Williams of Greensville, South
Carolina, won the heavy class
event.
J. Wesley Smith, of Philadel
phia, won the light plane race;
Juan De la Viera, the Spanish in
ventor, took his autogyro plane
into the air before the grand
stand and, at a high altitude,
shut off his motor the plane sink
ing slowly to earth landing as
gentle as a feather.
The windmill-like device oper
ates automatically and is de
signed to prevent crashes in cases
of stalled motors.
73 AND 80 WED
LOS ANGELES, Aug., 29, </P)~ j
Charles Penn, 80, who claims to be
a descendant of William Penn, ap
plied for a license to wed Miss
Annie M. Farrell, 73.
SHOOT EACH OTHER
CLOVER, Ga., Aug., 29, (/P)—Two
farmers, Pete Huddelston 53, and
Markus Brown, 42, shot each other
to death in a duel fought with
shotguns at arms length on a
street corner of this town.
PEEP 50 LIFE LORE
WASHINGTON, Aug., 29, (JP)—A j
means whereby scientific knowl- J
edge of deep sea life may be con- 1
siderably enriched is outlinded by i
Dr. Austin H. Clark, Smithsonian I
biologist.
Creatures clinging to trans
oceanic cables brought to the sur
face for repair would be saved by
staff members of cable-repair ships
and turned over to scientists for j
study, according to his plan.
EASTMAN S SUCCESS
WATERVTLLE, N. Y„ Aug., 29, (JP)
—George Eastman, internationally,
known camera manufacturer, re
cently visited his boyhood home
here. When asked what he con
sidered the most important con
tributing factor in his success, he
is said to have replied, “Being
born.”
HUNG HIMSELF
AMHERST, Mass., Aug., 29, (JP)—
The body of Frederick McCan Jr., !
an Amherst college sophomore, !
missing since last May, wTas found \
in the woods a mile from the cam- |
pus. A rope suspended from a tree ;
nearby indicated he had hanged
himself.
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VOIGHT MADE IT
VANCOUVER, B. C., Aug., 29, (/P)
—Albert Voight, of Los Angeles, on
a voyage from Juneau to New York
in a 16-foot walrus hide Eskimo
kyak arrived Tuesday night and
will spend a few days in the city
before proceeding southward.
CUTTER PICKS UP
VESSEL REPORTED TO BE A
TOTAL LOSS; ONE MAN WAS
BADLY BURNED
SEATTLE, Aug., 29, (/P)—'The
Coast Guard Cutter Unalga was
sent from Ketchikan to Craig Wed
nesday to pick up the crew from
the “Corona” a Seattle fishing ves
sel, which burned near Cape Ad
dington Monday, about 150 miles
southeast of Ketchikan.
The vessel is reported a total loss
and was abandoned 20 miles off
the Cape. The crew of seven and
Captain John Courage, reached
land in dories. One man was bad
ly burned, collector of customs in
Juneau is informed and is in the
hospital at Craig. The crew is des
titute of clothing.
PUNE PILOT ARRESTED
FOR FLYING TOO LOW
CULVER CITY, Calif., Aug., 29,
(A1)—Lester A. Carson, airplane pi
lot, was fined $100 for violating
the ordinance prohibiting fliers
to pass over the city under a
1,500 foot elevation. Carson was
arrested yesterday by Major Robt.
Blair, policeman pilot, who sight
ed the plane flying low over a
motion picture studio. Carson is
the first person to be arrested
under the ordinance.
TACOMA, Aug., 29. (/P)—The Ta
coma Curb, Oil & Milling Exchange
has been incorporated. It will be
affiliated with the recently formed
Puget Sound Stock Exchange.
The new exchange was formed to
promote and regulate the mining,
oil, stock brokerage and investment
business in Tacoma; to promote
and regulate and furnish facilities
for buying, selling and trading in
stocks, bonds, grain and other se
curities and commodities.
FAKE STOCK SALES
NEW YORK, Aug., 29, (/P)—Fin
ancial speakeasies have mulcted
the public out of §36,000,000 on fake
stock sales in the last year, accord
ing to information unearthed by
authorities in a drive to close the
bucketshops.
DEFEATS ENGLAND’S BEST
NEWPORT, R. L, Aug., 29, (/P>—
John Van Ryn, number six in the
American tennis ranking, defeated
Bunny Austin, England’s best sin
gles ace, 4-6, 6-4, 6-5, 6-1, in the
quarter finals of the Newport in
vitation tournament.
HEAT WAVE
CHICAGO, Aug., 29, OP)—The
sudden heat wave which swept Over
the middlewest from the south and
southwest, sent the temperature
soaring into the 90’s and left this
section of the country gasping for
breath. The temperature rose 11
degrees in two hours here.
SUES FOR DIVORCE
SEATTLE, Aug., 29, (A>)— Aimar
Auzias de Turenne, a Seattle bank
er, sued his wife Katherine der
Mauer de Turenne, for divorce
charging cruelty. Mrs. de Turenne
was the widow of an officer who
was on the staff of Marshal Foch.
Her marriage to the banker at
tracted international attention.
GENERAL AUDITOR
SEATTLE, Aug., 29, (fP)—A. C.
Blanchard has b en appointed
I general auditor of the White Pass
& Yukon route, succeeding H. Mil
ler, retired.
LANDED UNDER IMPRESSION
OIL LINE BROKEN WHEN
CAN RIPPED OPEN
CLEVELAND, Aug., 29, (/P)—The
transcontinental mail plane Shut
! tie was forced down when struck
by a five-gallon oil can during
j a refueling contact last night,
i The plane was on the return
flight from New York in an at
i tempt to establish an endurance
record.
Captain Eaker and his pilot
made an effort to escure per
mission to reattempt the flight
ias the plane is not" damaged and
neither Eaker nor Bernard Thomp
json were injured.
I Eaker landed under the im
pression the oil line had been
broken when the can was ripped
j in a fall from the refueling
! plane and began spurting oil.
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AMERICAN LEAGUE
Philadelphia 9; New York 7.
Washington 7; Boston 4.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Pittsburgh 10-7; Chicago 3-6.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Seattle 4; San Francisco 2.
Missions 5; Oakland 4.
Hollywood 14; Sacramento 3.
Los Angeles 8; Portland 3.
HISTORICAL GLOBE CIRCLING
FLIGHT ENDED WITHOUT
SINGLE MISHAP
LAKEHURST, New Jersey, Aug.,
39, (A3)—Looping the loop around
the world, one of the greatest
exploits in flying history, the
German dirigible Graf Zeppelin
settled to earth at 7:13 a. m., east
ern time, just 21 days, seven hours
and 33 minutes after leaving on
its 20,000 mile journey.
The actual flying time was 11
days, 23 hours and 14 minutes.
The last leg of • the flight was
completed in 51 hours and 59
minutes. Upon completion of the
flight. Dr. Eckener announced
he would not return immediately
to Friedrichshaven with the* Graf
but would spend about 12 days
in the United States before re
turning.
He plans visiting Washington
and Akron, Ohio. Captain Ernest
Lehmann will be in charge of
the Graf. on the return flight.
PASTOR ARRESTED
WOODRIDGE, N. Y., Aug., 29, (/P)
—Rev. Richard H. Hughes, pastor
of the Woodridge Presbyterian
church, was arrested charged with
running down and killing a six
year-old child while learning to
operate his new automobile.
GREAT TRIO OF RUTH, TILDEN, DEMPSEY FADING
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Ruth is going, Tilden is going, De mpsey has gone—that is the status
of sports greatest championship con bination.
j DURHAM. N. C., Aug., 29, (A5)—
The first unit of the $25,000,000
Duke university building program
to be brought into actual use will
be a concrete stadium seating 35,
000 persons. It will be opened Octo
ber 5 with a football game between
Duke and the University of Pitts
burgh.
The Duke building project was
made possible thru the benefac
tions of the late James B. Duke,
tobacco and power king.
THREE KILLED IN FIRE
NEW YORK, Aug., 29, (A5)—Three
persons were killed and 11 injured
when a fire destroyed a four-story
tenement house on the lower West
Side. Charles Hollander was killed
when he leaped from a window.
The bodies of Mrs. Sophie Brun
wasser and her 17-year-old son
were found in the ruins of an
apartment.
INTERIOR MINER KILLED
Victim of a cavein J. F. Zimmer
man, pioneer hard rock miner of
the Fairbanks district, died in a
prospect hole on Dome creek last
week, reports the News Miner.
The miner was well known thru
out the Territory and had pros
pected and mined in the Interior
districts since early days.