MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 93.
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SEWARD, ALASKA. * ION DAY, APRIL 22, 1929.
PRICE TEN CENTS
REPORTED THAT PILOT SAW
CHANCE GIVE PASSENGERS
A THRILL
SAN DIEGO, Calif., April 22, (/P)
—Six persons met death in a
large passenger plane of the Mad
dox Air Line when a pursuit
plane with an army insignia,
•crashed in midair over the eastern
part of the city.
Both planes were badly crippled
Fby the impact which was heard
<over a large part of the city, and
•crashed to the ground on the side
of a canyon killing all the occu
pants.
The dead are Lieutenant How
ard Keefer, pilot of the pursuit
plane; Maurice Murphy, pilot of
the Maddux plane; Louis Pratt,
relief pilot; Arturo Guajardo
Amelia Guarjardo, Cecelia Kelly,
passengers.
Keefer attempted to leap to
safety but his parachute became
entangled on a wing of the plane j
and he was carried down with
it. Army observers said the army
plane was seen to be following
the liner some distance to the
left of the local airport enroute
to Phoenix, Arizona. The army
plane was much speedier and ap
parantly maneuvered about with
ease.
Suddenly, the pursuit plane,
above the air liner, dropped
down with great force and
a. part of the liner fell to the
ground some distance away from
the rest of the wreck. The in- !
vestigation showed that a part of
the army plane had hooked one
of the outboard motors of the
passenger.
It is said that Pilot Keefer had
made one successful maneuver
over the ship and was trying
another when he crashed.
Murphy leaves a widow, Lucille
Lee Stewart, a sister of Anita
Stewart, the film star.
J. Allison Moore, president of |
the San Diego board of air con
trol, made 3 report that the
“Stunting of Keefer was in open j
violation of traffic rules; that
Keefer evidently saw a chance to
gi^e the liner’s passengers a thrill ;
but had no business near the big
plane. It was just a case of mis- ;
judging distance and hitting the
plane.”
WASHINGTON, April 22, (.?)—
William Spry, land office commiss
ioner, died here yesterday. He had
b^en in poor health for months
and yesterday suffered a stroke, j
He recently had been appointed
to the oil conservation committee
of the Interior Department which
was formed to carry out the Hoo
ver policy of conservation.
Mr. Spry was governor of Utah |
for two terms from 1909 to 1917
and in 1927 was a candidate for
at Salt Lake City. He was born in
the U. S. senate. His home was
1864.
CONSUME LESS BEER
BUT DRINK MORE IB
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LONDON, April 22, (/P)—Great
Britain is consuming less beer and
; more tea,, Winston Churchill
Chancellor of the Exchequer told
the House of Commons, in com
i meriting on the drop in the na
tional excises. He described the
change as a "National movement
towards greater temperance for all
classes.”
HOUSE BEACHES
LUST NY DEBATE
01 FARM RELIEF
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BOTH CHAMBERS ARE GIVING
RIGHT OF WAY TO THE
FARM BILLS
WASHINGTON, April 22, (/Pi
Farm relief claimed the over
whelming and predominating at
tention on both sides of the Cap
itol as congress entered upon the
second week of the special session.
Not only President Hoover’s de
claration against the export be
benture plan focused interest on
this subject but the house reach
ed the last day of the general de
bate on the farm relief bill which
meets his views.
The senate, at the beginning of
the discussion of its measure as
the principle piece of legislation,
recommended to the President j
that both chambers give the
farm bills the right of way.
NATIONAL WORRY
LONDON, April 22, (£>)—With
stock exchange sweepstakes on
English Derby closed at a total of
$5,000,000. prominent sportsmen are
advising the government to insti
tute national lottery on next year’s !
event.
STORMS. SMS
TIE LIVES OF 35:
MILLIONS LOST
TWO BOYS KILLED WHEN WERE
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING
NEGROES DIE
CHICAGO, April 22, (JP)—In an
concerted outburst of the elements,
including floods, tornadoes, wind,
hail and rain, a toll of 32 lives
were taken in the midwest, south
west and in the south, over the
week-end.
The storms injured two-score
and did hundreds of thousands of
dollars damage throughout those|
areas.
Arkansas tornadoes killed 13,
11 of them negroes. Arkansas is
also fighting the rising waters of
the Mississippi.
A 15-minute storm at Louisville |
and at New Albany, Indiana, across
the Ohio river, cost the lives of [
two and did half a million dol- j
lars damage.
Two boys were killed when they I
were struck by lightning; five
negroes were killed in a series of
tornadoes in Mississippi.
Colorado and Wyoming are
piled high with snow and sections
of Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri,
are having floods and tornado
worries. Three Indians were kill
ed in Oklahoma tornadoes.
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National
Pittsburgh 5, Cincinnati 4.
Philadelphia 5, Brooklyn 2. i
American
Boston 6, Washington 5.
St. Louis 9, Detroit 4.
Coast
San Francisco 8, Oakland 3.
Missions 4, Portland 1.
Los Angeles 3, Sacramento 2.
JONES UNO VOLSTEAD
UWS BITTE1LT OSSOILED
KANSAS CITY, April 22, (/P)—
The Jones law and the Volstead
Act were bitterly assailed here
by former Senator James A. R eed,
in a speech before the Young
Democrats Jefferson Club of Mis
souri. Hex read convictions on his
two former associates, their laws |
and their intellects and declared
he had cross-examined Volstead
and associated with Jones and
neither ever had a thought.
II. S. STEEL COUP.
GIGANTC INDUSTRIAL OUTPUT
FORECAST PRESENT YEAR
IT IS ANNOUNCED
NEW YORK, April 22, (/P)—One
billion, five hundred million dol-1
lar’s worth of business will be
done by the United States Steel
Corporation in 1929, President J.
A. Farrell told the stockholders at
the annual meeting. Sales for
1928 totalled at $1,374,443,434 and
net earnings were $126,067,623.
Stockholders approved the plan
of the directors to increase auth
orized common stock to some 12,
500,000 shares, $100 par from pres
ent authorized amount of 7, 533,
210 shares. The board of direc
tors will hold a meeting tomorrow
to determine terms on which the
new stock will be offered.
Walter S. Gifford was elected
new director.
FOR FIRST TIME
NEW YORK, April 22, (/P)—Mary
Harden and Benjamin Gigli, ten
31-, will appear together for the
first time in their careers in “Na
ion” in a benefit concert.
CUBS, WITH HORNSBY, ARE THE FAVORITES IN THE NATIONALS
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&ILLY SOUTH WORTH
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Phillies Podgers
JACK HENDRICKS
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JOHN M*GRAV
Giants
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j McCarthy gets the spotlight. He had a mighty club in 1928, but has a better
one now with Rogers Hornsby as his big double-threai artist.
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SOLUTION OF TWO PROBLEMS
WILL ELIMINATE PRESENT
WEAKNESS OF LAW
NEW YORK, April 22, (/P)—
President Hoover in an earnest
appeal to fellow citizens to ob
serve the law, declared life and
property in the United States is
“Relatively more unsafe than in
any other civilized country in the
world,” in an address before the
annual luncheon of the Associated
Press.
The Chief Executive said he was
wondering whether the time was
not at hand to “Realize that we
are confronted with a national
necessity of the first degree; we
are not suffering from an ephem
eral crime wave but one from the
subsidence of our v ery founda
tions.
“In order to dispel certain il
lusions from the public mind on
this subject let me say at once
that while violations of the law
have increased by the inclusion of
crimes under the 18th amendment,
and by the vast sums poured into
the hands of the criminal classes
by patronage in illicit liquor by
otherwise responsible citizens, yet
this is but one segment of our
problem.”
He explained that only a small
percentage of murder, burglary,
robbery, forgery and embezzlement
sould be attributed to prohibition
and asserted of the total number
af convictions for felony last year
less than eight percent came from
the source of the dry law.
He said the two immediate pro
blems before the government was
,o investigate the existing system
af enforcement agencies and to
reorganize the system in such a
manner as to eliminate the weak
aess.
POLICV. MARKET
EDERAL AGENCY ARRAYED IN
A BATTLE OF BUSINESS
INTERESTS NATION
NEW YORK, April 22, (/P)—Wil
am C. Durant, stock manipulator
nd automobile manufacturer,
lade outspoken attacks on the
ederal Reserve Board for its ef
)rts to curb speculation in the
,ock market through restriction
f broker’s loans. He told of hav
ig questioned 500 prominent
tdustrialists to declare themsel
;s regarding the Reserve Board’s
Dlicy and only 12 upheld the
oard.
He depicted the * Federal agency
; arrayed in a battle on business
terests of the country and some
the members of the board were
laracterized by him as an auto
atic group. Mr. Durant predict
nation-wide movement to cur
il power of the board and urged
duction in re-discount rate to
ree per cent to aid the current
arket.