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WALTER KDTOFF OF
HERO ARRIVE8 AT SELDOVIA IN
EXHAUSTED CONDITION AFT
ER 150 MILE MUSH
(Special to The Gateway)
fiELDOVIA, Nor. 28. —Walter Kot
tjfif of Ninilchik arrived in Seldovia
yesterday in a nearly exhausted condi-j
* lion to report the accident of the
school, teacher, Bessie Howe. He
mushed to Kusiloff to where William
son, a fox rancher, had a radio station
hut there was no operator and Kotoff,
being an operator in Russia 25 years
ago, undertook to send out a catll for
•help which was picked up by the Sel
dovia and Anchorage radio stations.
.After sending out the call for help
he then returned to Ninilchik and find
ing no help had arrived he started on
foot mushing it to Homer about 50
miles over all kinds of froz m streams
and bitter cold. Arriving there he
came over in a gasboat to Seldovia and
when he found that his efforts were
successful he nearly wrept with joy.
He traveled nearly 100 miles to
bring the news of the accident to Sel
dovia.
Adam Lipke of Seldovia stood a con
tinuous watch thru out the time from
the time of the call was received to
the time the plane arrived at Anchor
age calling Anchorage hourly.
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FOUR SERIOUSLY INJURED AND
30 OTHERS SLIGHTLY: FAULT
OF FREIGHT
BELLEVILE, Ontario, Nov. 23. \JP)
—Four dead, four seriously injured
and 30 slightly hurt, was the toll of a
head on collision 50 miles west of here
between a Canadian passenger train
and a freight.
The crash is attributed to failure of
the freight to take a siding. The two
engines left the track rolling down the
embankment and mail, baggage and
passengers in one ea' were badly
smashed, ^ire brotte out in the for
ward cars.
It is believed all of the VIZ passen
gers unaccounted for ir. «he list of tile
dead and injured, esctpxl
COMMUNICATION HALTED
MEXICO CITY, Nov. 28. (/P)--Cable
communication between Mexico City
and Vera Cruz has been severed.
SIGNS AGREENMET
MADRID, Nov. 28. (jP)—Spain has
signed an agreement with the Soviet
Naptha Syndicate for half the oil
consumption of the nation.
FLIGHT POSTPONED
BERLIN, Nov. 28. (£>)—'The crew of
the Junkers plane D 1230 at Azores
decided to give up the attempt to fly
to America this year when the propel
ler bent in an attempt to hop-off today.
MOTHER PURPORTED
SECRET TREATY IS!
PUBLISHED. HEARST
CALLES PLEDGES SACASA WOULD
ABROGATE MANY TREATIES
INCLUDING U. S.
NEW YORK, Nov. 28. (^—Continu
ing the copyrighted publication pur-'
ported to be official Mexican docu-1
ments, Hearst newspapers say the
purported secret treaty between Presi-■
dent Calles and £)octor Juan Bautista
Sacasa, leaders of the unsuccessful
liberal revolution in Nicaragua, pledg
ed Sacasa to abrogate such treaties as
i
the one under which the United States
■has a right to build the Nicarjuat can
al.
The treaty also gave Mexico the
right to colonize the proposed- canal
route with persons from Me/nro -,r -
another nation The irf'c-e further
I
said in return for these c'messier s !
the Mexican government plalged it
self to extend every inert! and mater
ial aid to Sacasa “to tl.e end he may
recover the executive ojtver in Nicara
gua”
Translation of the text purported to
!
be the treaty accompanies the article, j
FORMER ALASKAN PLANE “DE
TROITER” RECHRIS TEN EC)
“SPIRIT OF CALIFORNIA”
—
SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. ”S. (/Pi—A
tri-motered Fokkjr airplane "The
Spirit of California” once known as
“Detroiter” when used In the Captain
Wilkins Polar expeditia.ca will attempt
tc break a world ^ec -rd fw sustained
flight starting Tuesdiv an! hovering
over C t’ifor *.ia.
Lieut. George R. Pond, navy avia
tor, will pilot the pi.me accompanied
t-> Captain Charles Kingiord Smith,
■r»c of the Australians preparing here
foi a Golden Gate to Australia flight.
The plane which was named "The
^ruthern Cross” aft3. it was brought
south from Alaski lias been rechris
tei cd. "The Spirit of California” tem
porarily *A- :’.e a?.t* ntu to b eak thj,
endurance fiigv record *#f 5:! hours
and 11 minut e which two German
flj-vs set last s'ltwir
ARMY SINKS NAVY
11! BATTLE
BY SCORE 14 TB 8
CAPTAIN HAHRV WILSON, SCORES
TWO TOUCHDOWNS DURING
TH»RD PERIOD
NEW YORK, Nov. 28. (&)—The sen
sational spurt in the thirl period when
Captain Harry Wilson scored two
touchdowns enabled the Army to et(n
quer the Navy 14 to before 76,000.
The midshipmen came back to score
on a touchdown 'n the final period but
were stopped in another drive by the
!
whistle.
The thrilling exhibition of football
was played at the Polo grounds.
With the score 2 to 3 against them
at the end of the firs: half the Army
led by halfbacks Wilycn and Cagle
slashed thru the Nav;| defenses for
two t .uchdowns in the third period.
The Navy’s touchdown came in the
final m’nutes of the game whin Lloyd
■
threw a long pass ..o «|iid Sloan who
caught it while lying on his back be
hind the goal line.
5 EN THOUSAND REVERf. N T PEAS
ANTS PAY HOMAGE TO VETER
AN STATESMAN
. ^
FLORICA, Rumania, Nov. 2S. (TP)—
'Six huge white oxen led by 50 priests
s *
| in medieval robes bore the body of Ion
iBratianu from the funeral train to ils
I
last resting place in the little Bazant
ine church which the late premier
built here himself.
The thousand reverent peasants
| bearing lighted candle3, wooden cross
jes and bottles containing Holy water,
came to Florica in their colorful em
broidered national costumes to pay
homage to the veteran statesman who
| ruled the country thru the darke-st
days of the war and the brightest days
of peace.
For 25 years in life as Dictator of
Rumania, he moved among kings and
princes but in death he prefered the
humble funeral of the peasant. His
dying wish was that there be no pomp
at his interment.
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RUBY • TRIPPER IS
NARROW SQUEAK LIFE
RUBY, Nov. 28. (JP)—Alex Brown,
Big Creek trapper, narowly escaped
freezing to death- Friday night when
his dog team went into an overflow
when the temperature stood 30 below
zero. Brown got wet to his waist but
as the nearest cabin was only one
mile away Brown thawed out in time.
MORE RED PLOTS
CONST ANTINOPOLE, Nov. 28. (#)
—Red plots, wliich resulted in 56
arrests, are- said to have been di
rected chiefly against American to
bacco industry in Anatolia.
SUE. BUIS
SHOULD BE HUNG.
SAYS SENATOR HUE
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT FAVORED
TO REMOVE TERRIBLE THREAT
OF MONEY
BOSTON, Nov. 28. (£>)—'The us© of
money for control of the Government
fconstitutes the greatest menace to
American democracy, Senator Nye,
Republican Independent of North Da
kota, declared in an address in the
Ford hall forum.
Selecting the oil scandal as the
“most flagrant example” of the place
of the American dollar is given in
American government, the Senator
said there was involved the ‘‘purchase
of an administrative oranch of the
government. I have never been an
advocate of capital punishment,” Nye
asserted “but when I see wliat men of
the type of Sinclair and Burns at
tempting to do I can only confess my
self as seeing on these occasions when
capital punishment is altogether pro
per.
“They and their kind with the means
which are at their command constitute
a threat against our well being as a
nation a thousand times greater than
| that afforded by all the Reds in crea
tion combined.”
S. CJILIFOU IS
DEFEATED By NOTRE
DIE SCORE 7 TO 6
WORLD'S LARGEST ATTENDANCE
AT FOOTBALL GAME, 113,000
WITNESSED BATTLE
| CHICAGO, Nov. :i. Notre
Dame defeated Southern California
17 to 6 repeating the one point triumph
jof a year ago. The bati;e was waged
I before 113,000 spectators the greatest
throng ever to have witnessed a foot
ball game in America. Both teams
scored in the first period, via the aerial
route after sensational open field lim
ning and terrific line smashing.
FOOTBALL SCORES
doaznga, 13; Idaho, 0.
Oregon State, 14; Carnegie Tech, 14
Drake, 25; California Southern
Branch, 6.
St. Mary’s, 22; Santa Clara, 0.
Hasten College, 6; Holy Cross, 0
CHAS. JL FOX,ALASKA
IS ELECTED MEMBER
OF CIVIL LEGION
CIVIL LEGION IS TO ITS MEMBERS
WHAT AMERICAN LEGION >8
EO EX-SERVICE MAN
CHICAGO, Nov. 28. (&)—'The Civil
Legion, a National organization com
posed of those who in non-uniformed
activities rendered patrotic service to
the National cause, during the World
War, has held its Second National
Convention and elected as its officers
the following: National President,
Charles R. Wilson of W. Virginia;
National vice-president, Tom Jones
Meek of New York; Charles A. How
ard of S. Dakota; and J. C. Heinlein of
Ohio. National Secretary, John P.
Tansey of Chicago; National Treas
urer, Frank G. Hajicek of Chicago.
National Legal Advisor, Hon. William
Lloyd Harding, War Governor of Iowa.
National Chaplain, Rt. Rev. James R.
Darlington, Episcopal Bishop of Har
risburg, Penn. National Historian,
Miss Leafa H. Seibert of Prophets
town, 111.
hjembers of the Executive Commit
tee from Alaska, Charles A. Fox of
!Douglas. National .Headquarters are
at 163 West Washington Street, Chi
cago, 111.
IS AVIATION EXAMINER FOR tHE
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE;
NORTH IN SPRING
COLORADO, SPRINGS, Nov. 28. (/P)
—'For the third time an airplane cir
cled and crossed above Pikes Peak.
A plane, piloted by Carl B. Eielson,
aviation examiner for the Department
of Commerce and veteran Alaskan
Ace, and containing as passenger Fred
Parriss, cameraman, climbed to an al
titude of 17,000 feet after three unsuc
cesful attempts, they managed to fly
over Pikes Peak which is 14,000 feet
high.
CRUICKSHANK IS SAFE
VANCOUVER, No r. 21. (&)— Lieut.
Cruickshank, who was reported miss
ing, is safe says his wife ; message to
his mother. The pilot encountered
severe weather which froze the engine
and ho landed :our m'.Jo.o from Mayo.
BANK CLEARING RECORD
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 28. (tf3)—
Bank clearings for the week broke all
records. The new record la $274,800,
000 breaking the previous Weekly re
cord of $252,000,000 established in the
week of October 27th.