MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 137
SEWARD, ALASKA. THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1929.
PRICE TEN CENTS
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AFTER LONG AND TEDIOUS
WAIT UPON WEATHER CON
DITIONS PLANES SOAR
OLD ORCHARD, Me., June 13, (/P)
_One of the two trans-Atlantic
planes got away to a good start for
•Paris but the other, destined for
Rome, crashed before it left the
ground.
'•Yellow Bird”, the French mono
plane, manned by three young
Frenchmen, made a beautiful take
off and sped away east accompa
nied by a coast guard convoy plane.
“Greenflash” the American plane
:iijd crew nosed over the beach and
swerved into a ground loop on the
midway run. Lewis Yancy and
Roger Williams were unhurt.
The “Yellow Bird” got away two
weeks ago but was forced to return
on account of a leaky fuel tank.
The plane was using a mixture of
benzol and gasoline to reduce the
: . * honzol proportion
will be reduced as the plane nears
Pans.
The “Yellow Bird” crew consists
o' Armond Lotti Jr., Jean Assolant
ana Rene Lefevre. Assolant was
riarried three days ago to Pauiir.2
P. rker of New York. She accom
panied him to the beach and grave
ly bade him goodbye. The French
carried two inner tuoes and life
preservers. The rubber boat was
discarded as too heavy.
The “Greenflash'” propellef was
broken in the nose over and the left
wm strut landing gear smashed
The rear part of the fuselage was
dented and a wing torn; also, the
motor crowling has a dent. Wil
liams, the pilot, said he felt the
wheels spread and he shut off the
gas and pulled her aground to pre
vent a more serious accident.
The "Yellow Bird” is reportec
Vvell out to sea by tne coast guaic.
TONOPAH, Nev. Jane 13. (/P)—
L piece of ore that was described
by Tonopah mining mn as be
ing the most remarkable they had
ever seen was shown here by W.
j. Tobin of Pioneer. It contains—
all clearly visible—gold, silver, cop
per, cinnibar and lead, the color
ing given by these metals mak
ing a beautiful speciman.
The ore came from a group
of claims owned by Tobin and
Deputy Sheriff I. G. Southey of
Beatty, three miles south of the
Gold Ace mine at Carrara, now
attracting attention because of the
opening of rich gold ore- The
Tobin-Southey ore, only three
miles away, indicates the pos
sibilitiess of this region.
The claim from which the ore
came has been worked occasional
ly by Tobin and Southey for the
last 15 years. A shaft is sunk 100
feet, all the way in the vein of
$100 ore. “It is one of the most
interesting mines I have seen,”
Tobin said.
AMARILLO, Tex., June 13, (JP)—
S. Dorothy Alexander of the Pacific
Steamship Co., sailed for south
eastern Alaska at 10 a. m.
carrying 85 first class passengers
and 112 steerage. Mr. and Mrs.
Claude B. Ramsey, Seward passen
gers are also aboard the vessel.
MINERS AND PROSPECTORS 1
i “ All honor to the miner! All hail
ithe prospector! In every land a j
'monument should be built to them
'for all they have done to bless hu
j manity.”—Ex-Governor William
jSulzer of New York.
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| PRESIDENT OF AMERICAN EX
- CHANGE BANK IS TRUSTEE
NEW ALLIANCE
SEATTLE, June 13, (ff)—To form
a defensive alliance and transact
ja wholesale fish ^business, 134 fish
ing vessels’ owners with boats and
gear conservatively valued at $2,
000,000, have banded together with
700 members of the Deep Sea Fish
! ermens’ Union in a new corporation
named the United Pacific Fisheries
with a capital of $50,000.
Buying operations have been
concluded in Prince Rupert and
'Ketchikan.
Otto K. Strizek, president of the
American Exchange Bank of Seat
tle is trustee and leading represen
; tative of the new alliance.
SUITE!! Dili IN
went, mu
5 BUCHAREST. Rumania, June 12
(/P)—sixteen persons were drowned
5 in a torrent which swept the Swin
D eseh district of Transylvania.
Wide areas of farmland is inun
3 dated and thousands of cattle have
3 been drowned. The damage is ex
' tensive and the frightened popula
3 tion have fled to the mountains tc
3 i escape the water.
The streams are still rising anc
further loss oh live and damage i:
* expected.
IN THE FUTURE ,
NEW YORK, June 12, iff3)—Capt. ‘
Albin Ahrenberg and two com- -
panions, flying a Junkers plane,
plan to take off in New York.
He will take the Antarctic route
touching at Iceland and Greenland, j
INTENDED COME NORTH
SEATTLE, June 13, (/P)—Pilot
Rector, who safely brot a flaming
plane to earth on Sunday, had in- ;
tended to fly the ship to Alaska j
I for Adolph Muller of Fairbanks.
This was the second mishap to
Mr. Muller’s planes during the
last six months: the previous one i
occurred over Tacoma.
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i BARRING UNCONSTITUTIONAL j
; RICHMOND, Va„ June 12, (/P)— !
1 jThe Virginia primary law, which
has had the effect of barring ne
; igroes from the democratic primary
: by giving political parties right
1 to make their own rules, was de
| blared unconstitutional in the
United States District Court here.
PLAYED DEAD
| CHICAGO, June 12, </P)—Oliver
^ Olsen, 52, was taken for a ride
and beaten so badly that a leg
", and six ribs were broken and
then he was dumped out for
dead in a ditch. He says that
only the fact that he played dead
saved his life.
• i Charles Mayben, Alaska Road
5 Commission foreman will have
. charge of improvement work on the
- Yukon-Kuskokwim portage this
summer.
JUSTICE raw I
OF SUM CCUUTI;
I MEXICO CITY, June 13, i(/P)—
Former Supreme Court Justice
Frederick W. Henshaw, prominent
in California and politics a genera
tion ago, died at his home.
He was born in Illinois in 1858,
; graduated from the University of
| California in 1879, was elected su
perior judge of Alameda county in
j 1890 and to the supreme bench in
11894. He was reelected in 1906 and
I in 1917 resigned from the bench, j
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GREATEST TAKE OF
SEALS III YEARS
OFF SITKA COAST
JUNEAU, June 13, (/P)—The
greatest seal take since 1911, total
ling 988 skins was made this year
fay Indian hunters out of Sitka.
The former record was 600 skins
normal. This is about 460 increase
in the seal herd passing Sitka to
Pribilof.
It is estimated 850,000 seals pass
ed thru the waters of trie Gulf of
Alaska during the spring weather.
Conditions were unfavorable as the
catch would have been larger.
Eleven hunters were engaged in the
| chase which averaged about six
,'days.
DISPLAYED CLASS
NEW YORK, June 13, (A3)—“Blue
: Lark” displayed his class around
- the muddy Belmont Park race
- course to cop the Belmont stakes in
) America’s premier, the three-year
old race.
i -—
FORMER ADMIRAL DEAD
LONDON, June 13. (JP)—The
former Admiral of the British Fleet.
Sir Cecil Burney, died at his home
at Upham Hants, at the age of 71.
He retired in 1925.
OFFICIALS RESIGN
BOGOTA, Colombia, June 13, (#)
-The Governor, two cabinet minis
ters, and the chief of police resign- i
^d on the demand of citizens irate ;
over the marshal law of Mayor Luis ;
Cuervo.
INVESTIGATION DEMANDED IN
TO OPERATIONS TELEPHONE
AND TELEGRAPH CO
; SAN FRANCISCO, June 13, UP)—
: The persistent demand of San
Francisco and other California cit
ies for an investigation into the
operations of the American Tele
t phone & Telegraph Co., and its
j subsidiaries, including the Pacific
Telephone & Telegraph Co., brot
i results.
The Interstate Commerce com
Imittee of the United States senate
| announced that it would conduct
the investigation- These cities are
faced by a huge increase in rates.
MIR PATHOL AGENT
ABSOLVED SHOOTING.
HURM
DETROIT, June 13, (IP)—.Prose
i :utor James E. Chenot, representa
l tive for Robert J. Clary, absolvec
> Jonah Cox, customs border patro
[ inspector, of all blame in connectior
. ‘with the shooting here Tuesday
: morning of Archibald Eugster or
the banks of the Detroit river.
Frank Cooper, one of Eugster’;
: companions on the night of th<
* shooting, admitted they were run
, ning 35 cases of liquor across tin
- Detroit river from Canada. Eug
. ster maintained they were goim
! fishing, in his death bed statement
DISPLAY MOUNTS
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THE United States army is sending four of its best
horsemen and mounts to compete in European horse
shows this spring, Left to right are Maj. Harry D.
Chamberlain, Capt. W. B. Bradford, Lieut. E. Y. Argo
and Lieut. E. F. Thompson. Garry Owen (below) is one
of the crack mounts Major Chamberlain is up.
LIEUT, GQV. KIIE
,ABDUCTED
THUDS SEARCH
MEN WHO ATTEMPTED RESCLE
HIM ESCAPE; BANDITS TAKE
MONEY AND CAR
ORIFINO, Idaho, June 13, (/P)—
Several thousand men and boys,
j comprising nearly all the male pop
ulation of three Idaho counties,
were pressed in organized and un
organized search of the mountain
ious region forfour armed bandits
who abducted W. B. Kinne. Idaho
Lieutenant-Governor.
Two men who attempted to res
cue Kinne, W. L. Tribbey and Paul
Kille, made their escape after the
bandits had tied them to trees and
drove off in Tribbey’s automobile.
Kinne is unhurt; Kille is suffer
ing from a gunshot wound in leg
and battered head as a result of the
battle. Tribbey is bruised.
Every highway and road for miles
around are being watched. Blood
hounds are searching the woods in
the belief that the men may have
abandoned the automobile and are
afoot.
Kinne, traveling from Lewiston to
jOrofino, was attacked shortly after
leaving Lewiston. The bandits
hoarded his car and ordered him
to the rear and drove off at a furi
ous pace. Near Orofino a tire blew
I out and the machine ctapaulted
into a ditch, bottom up. None were
hurt.
i -Tribbey and Kille-drove up and
- were met with drawn pistols. A
- truggle ensued and Kinne said the
1 nen intimated they needed the car
11 o carry on robbery plans. The
i andits tock $200 from Tribbey and
/ l 14 from Kinne.
IS FLY m
OCEAN TO SUMMER
| WASHINGTON, June 12, (/P)—
jThe original trans-Pacific flyers,
| bristle-thighed curlews, soon will
;be on the wing from Hawaiian
'winter quarters for another sum
imer in northern Alaaska. The
I birds have been seen to arrive
in the north in the latter part of
May, summering there until mid
August. Then they start south
ward over the ocean to Hawaii.
Science has yet to study the
birds, for little is known about
them despite the fact that they
were discovered more than 140
years ago.
Ornithologists do know that
the bird as a flier is not follewed
by an equally meritorious life on
land. It is believed that breeding
takes place in extreme northern
or northwestern Alaska.
CO. IRES STRIKE
PORTLAND, June 13. <£>)—'The
New York Copper company is
making arrangements for the ex
penditure of approximately $500,
000 in the development of the
Baker copper belt in Oregon. This
action is said to be the result of
a strike assaying from 3 to 6 per
cent copper, $1 gold and several
ounces of silver to the ton.