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VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 156. SEWARD, ALASKA. SATURDAY, JULY 6. 1929.
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HEADING HOME!
CAPTAIN DAVE DUNBAR NOW
COMMANDS HIS OWN
PERSONAL YACHT
NOME, July 7. (/P)—Capt- Dave j
Dunbar with his personal yacht,!
“Reliance” of the Naitonal Gro-)
eery C., left Friday for St.!
Michael and upriver points. The!
trip is the maiden voyage of
f’ the boat which cost $10,000 and
was brought to Nome via Seattle. j
The steamer will be used by j
Capt. Dunbar for business pur-!
poses with the advantage of be
ing able to carry the samples
almost tolthe doors of their many
customers.
The Cutter Northland returned i
from St. Michael Thursday with!
Colonel Otto F. Ohlson, manager
of the Alaska Railroad and hs
party comprising Mr. and Mrs.
W. E. Fore of Juneau; Robert
Frothingham, New York; and L.
J. Palmer of Fairbanks; aboard.
The Chamber of Commerce en
tertained the party. The group
hopped off Friday in a plane pi
loted by A. A- Bennett. The
plane will meet Ed Young also a
f f.-er of the Bennett-Rodebaugh
Airplane Corp., at Ruby where
the baggage will be transferred
to Fairbanks. Bennett will then
continue on into the Kuskokwim
country to show Palmar i.he
reindeer grazing grounds, then
across the Broad Pass country
to the railroad belt.
SET, CLEVELAND
MICHELL AND NEWCOMB IN THE
AIR 174 HOURS AND 59 SEC
ONDS NEW RECORD
CLEVELAND, July 6, (JP)— Pilots
Hoy L Mitchell and Byron K. New
comb descended at the Cleveland
airport Saturday at 12:39 a. in.
eastern standard time, after setting
a new world’s record for refueling
flights.
The official timing gave them a
record of 174 hours and 59 seconds
in the air. The previous record of
i 172 hours, 32 minutes and one sec
ond was made recently by Reginald
Robbins and James Kelley of Fort
^ Worth, Texas.
The crowd at the airport caused
a traffic jam. The police lines held
the crowd eager to congratulate the
men. The fliers were exhausted
from more than a week in the air
and were rendered virtually deaf
from the roar of the motor. They
were taken from the plane and
hurried to the offices of the backers
of the flight.
THOS GEARY PASSES
SANTA ROSA, Calif., July 6, (/P)—
Thomas Geary, former California
congressman and author of the
Chinese Exclusion Act, died at the
age of 75. Geary became a nation
al figure thru the fight for Chinese
exclusion.
CLERGY INSTRUCTED
MEXICO CITY, Julv 6, (JP)—All
Mexican clergy and Catholics, were
▼ ' urged to avoid mixing in politics
and obey the laws as a means of
furthering a permanent solution of
the religous question.
BIK AGIST
AMERICAN FISHING
GRAFT SET JULY
VICTORIA. B. C., July 6, (/P)—
The hearing of charges against the
i seven American fishing craft for
|alleged violations of treaty regula
tions in Canada and the United
! States, are set for July 9th.
| The cases will be heard at a spec
ial setting of the Admiralty Divi
sion Exchequer Court of Canada.
\ The boats are “Tacora Jeanette”,
TWe” “Mary C. Fisher”, Catherine
3. May” and “557-GA. Two of the
boats are charged with illegal fish
ing in British Columbia and the
■'ther five with entering Canadian
ports for other purposes than shel
ter.
HISU WOOL ABOARD
DE S. 5. SIERRA
SEATTLE. July 6, (A5)—The motor
ship Sierra of the Arctic Transpor
tation C., is due here July 12th and
has a large shipment of wool from
Kashega Island, of the Aleutian
Island group, for discharge here.
The wool is from the herds of the
Western Pacific Livestock Co.
The Sierra is also bringing 1,000,
000 pounds of reindeer meat. She
:'<? scheduled to sail on her next Al
askan voyage on July 18th from
here.
THANKS BRITAIN
MADRID, July 5, (A3)—All Spain
gave fervent thanks to Great Brit
ain for the rescue of the crew of
the trans-Atlantic plane “Numan
cia” found by the English aircraft
carrier, “Eagle”, 140 miles south of
I he Azores. The plane, with its
crew of four, had been adrift on
i the Atlantic for a week and had
virtually been given up as lost.
WIDOW MAKES STATEMENT
THAT SHE HAD BEEN INTI
MATE WITH OFFICER
TRAVES, Fla., July 6, (/P)—Chris
Stephenson, veteran deputy sheriff,
is charged with murdering Homer
Jenkins, escaped convict, in a war
rant issued today. The charge is
based on the slain man’s widow’s
statement in which she stid that
she had been intimate with the
deputy The statement was corro
borated. police said, by Bessie Hol
land.
The two women are charged with
! aiding in the slaying. The women
| said Septhenson agreed to take
I Jenkins and two other escaped
1 convicts across the Georgia line but
jthat he shot Jenkins instead.
| Stephenson told officers, when
'the body was discovered last week,
jthat he had shot Jenkins when he
I tried to arrest him.
EARTHQUAKE THOUGHT
OCCURRED, MANS
SEATTLE, July 6, J/P)—The Uni
versity of Washington seismograph
Recorded an earthquake beginning
;at 6:26 a. m. and ending about 9 a.
Im. It is estimated the shock oc
curred 1200 miles from Seattle,
jeithe~ly in a northerly or southerly
i direction.
Officials of the science depart
ment considered the disturbance
might have taken place in the Al
eutian Islands.
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mu EDITOR SLIPS
INTO ROT SPRINGS
DIES FROM BOONS
MAMMOTH SPRINGS, Wyo., July
6, (/p) —In less than 48 hours after
he stepped, accidently, into a hot
water pool near Castle geyser, near
Old Faithful geyser, George Lan
doy, editor of the “Matin” in Brus
sels, Germany, died from burns.
Landoy was a member of a party
of foreign journalists touring the
United States. He slipped into the
pool when he stepped back to ob
tain a better view. He managed to
pull himself out and was given first
aid by doctors, who worked un
ceasingly to save his life and re- j
lieve the pain but they were un- ,
successful.
TEACH SHOULD HAVE
HO FEAR LOSING JOBS
i CHICAGO, July 6, (/P)—Teachers
J should not be kept in fear of losing
their jobs because of bobbed hair,
i dancing, smoking, short skirts, card
1 playing movies and matrimony
Which is frowned upon by many
;school boards. The American Fed
eration of Teachers asserted this
{statement in which she said that
'stand on academic freedom before
,adjourning at the annual conven
tion.
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NOW SPEED BOAT DRIVER
BEDFORD, Ind., July 6, (JP)—Bill
Barmen, catcher, last with Cincin
nati in the major leagues, is a
speed boat enthusiast. Bill quit
baseball and came here to live.
FIRE THREATENS TOWN
j MOSSOULA, Mont., July 6, (/P)—
Fire threatened the entire south
portion of Milltown which has a
community of 650 persons.
NEW TUNNEL OPENS ZION PARK GRANDEURS
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A mile long tunnel thru the high
will open the inaccessible upper
location of the west portal and the
the cliff are shown by the w7hite
in the west portal .below) indicate
sandstone cliff in Zion national park
regions of the park to tourists. The
line of the tunnel inside the face of
dotted line above, The two trucks
the width of the passage.
MEMBERSHIP OF
FAH BOARD BE
SETTLED IN WEEK
WASHINGTON, July 6, (&)—Con
sent that the federal farm board
membership will be rounded out
within a week, President Hoover
decided to start it on July 15th in.
an effort to stablize agriculture.
The first meeting will probably
Lake place at the White House, pre
ceding the reconvening of the sen
ate for more than a month.
But if the views of the admin
istration desire to have the board
functioning time relieve this year’s
crop situation, the members must
go ahead under recess appoint
ments until session opens.
Five members were appointed
and have accepted the places. Of
fices have been made to fill thiee
vacancies amd the acceptance of
these is expected within a few days.
The Secretary of Agriculture will
serve as an ex-officio member,
bringing tho membership to nine.
President Hoover expected to ad
dress the board at an initial meet
ing and explain briefly what is ex
pected of them. The hoard will
then he ready to organize with Al
exander Legge, president of the In
ternational Harvester Co.
The President will have a fund of
$1.500,000 available for administra
tion expenses. One hundred ana
150 million of its $500,000,000 fund is
jat hand for immediate stabilizing
| operations.
THY NARROWLY
MED III 4TH JULY
TOWN CELEBUTION
WRANGELL, July 6, (JP)—.A trag
edy was narrowly averted at the
Wrangell celebration when a group
I of 13 boys from six to 12 years of
age were gathered on the bow of a
gasboaf watching the water sports
■ luring a log rolling contest.
As one contestant fell off the log
he swam a few feet and touched
| the gunwale of the gasboat with his
| hands. Instantly the boat, already
; overweighted on the bow, listed,
throwing the boys into the water.
| Quick work on the part of specta
tors on the nearby dock, saved
many of the little fellows who es
caped drowning by a narrow mar
gin.
WASHINGTON, July 5, (JP)—In
an effort to block the rapidly in
creasing toll of airplane crashes,
the air regulations division of the
Department of Commerce will
adopt drastic new requirements for
airplane pilots on September 1.
One of the rules limits the activi
ties of pilots to the special type of
plane in which they have qualified.
11 OCEAN LINERS
WASHINGTON, July 5, (A5)—
Plans for the construction of 11
ocean liners to cost in the neigh
borhood of $75,000,000 awaited ac
tion by the Shipping Board.
BOTH DOING WELL
BELGRADE, July 5, (JP)—Queen
Marie of Jugo Slavia and her in
fant son, born after her majesty
was rushed to the castle from a
motion picture house, was report
ed doing well.