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VOLUME XXII. NUMBER 119. SEWARD, ALASKA,
MONDAY, JUNE 13, 1927.
PRICE TEN CENTS
EIGHTEEN DAY MUSH
ONDRIFTINGICEFLOES
IN ARCTIC BUND SPOT
E. BEN. dEIELSON, DARDEVIL KING OF THE ARC
TIC AIR TRAILS, RELATES SOME EXPERIENCES
WHILE SEARCHING “BLIND SPOT”—DRIVEN
FROM ALTITUDE 5,000 FEET TO LAND ON ICE
PINNACLE
Five thousand feet above the eternal ice sheet of the
Polar seas, enveloped in the darkness which hovers like a
pall when the sun is gone and a mist wraps itself around
the landscape, with each succeeding pulse of the engine
threatening to be the last, and then, trusting to the guar
dian spirit that hovers about the men who dare the wild
places to guide him safely to a refuge on the ice sheet, wTas
the experience of E. Ben Eielson and Captain George H.
Wilkins- in their effort to determine what was within the
“Blind Spot” of the Arctic.
ENTRENCHED FOR 3
DATS, ROYALIST HEAD
SURRENDERS
PUBLISHER LIBELED TAXICAB
DRIVER IN CONNECTION WITH
DEATH OF SON
PARIS, June 13. (£>)—After three
days entrenched defiance of the au
thorities Leon Daudet, Royalist leader,
under sentence for libelling a taxicab
driver in connection with the death
of his son Phillippe several years ago,
surrendered to army policemen and
firemen surrounding the building in
which he has been holding out against
the authorities from behind a barbed
wire screen set about the office of his
r
newspaper.
HUGE GEM ROBBERY
CLEARED UP; POLICE
ARREST WOMAN. MAN
$150,000 IN GEMS. INCLUDING LIV
ERMORE JEWELS, RECOVER
ED
NEW YORK, June 13. {IP)— One
hundred and 50 thousand dollars in
gems, including the $82,000 worth of
jewels stolen rrom the home of Jesse
L. Livermore, a wealthy Wall Street
i broker, were in the hands of the
police last night, following the arrest
of one man and the detention of his
woman companion. The names of
the pair were not revealed by the
police, who refused to give the de
tails of the arrest, although they said
they had three other men under sur
veilence for complicity in the robber
ies.
■ It was the fifth and hnal landing
upon the ice, according to Eielson,
who passed through Seward yesterday
en route Outside after thrilling experi
ences gained while flying his airplane
; into the northermost unknown. If
one had Eielson’s diary, it would read
something like this:
The day was perfect for exploration,
and we sailed out of Point Barrow
with the engine working perfectly and
promise of a successful trip. Engine
trouble develops; we espy a smooth
sheet of ice and alight in safety;
Captain Wilkins proceeded to chisel a
hole through the ice for soundings.
The ice is three feet thick and the
depth of water indicates a mile to bot
tom. I am working on the engine.
We start to hop off. but the salty ice
is adhesive to the skiis. Three times
we dash across the ice and get up at
the fourth attempt. The joy-riding
over the icd had worn a smooth track.
We make three successive landings
for scientific purposes and because the
motor is giving trouble and have pene
trated the blind spot some 500 miles.
Successive tinkering with the motor
has served to reduce fuel The tem
perature is 42 degrees below zero, and
| the atmosphere clear. We had con
templating flying ten minutes longer,
but the temperature began to rise.
From 42 below the mercury rose to 25
■ above in 12 hours. We discovered
the reason when we headed back for
Point Barrow—a blizzard was blowing
in from the south. The sky became
dark and impenetrable to the vision,
so much so that flying was extremely
hazardous at best To land was a mat
ter of speculation and a trust to luck.
i
At 9:15 p. m. when hte stygian night
enveloped us, the engine began to
fail. It was, not a matter of choice
but of necessity which forced us to
come down. Looking from the plane
'all was darkness. What was below
' was unknown, but we knew that it
had 99 chances out of 100 of being
pressure ice, and great hummocks. To
land on such a surface in daylight
was taking a great chance; to land in
the pitchy blackness of night spelled
death. We first dropped downward
rapidly for about 1,000 feet, and then
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TELEPHONE NOTICE
| Telephone service on Adams St. to
[the beach, between Broadway and
Fifth Ave., will be out of service be
i ginning 8 o’clock Tuesday until 5
o’clock Wednesday.
WIFE KILLS HUSBAND
WHO THREATENED LIFE;
SEPAHATED 6 MONTHS
AGED MOTHER OF LOOKS ON;
SIX BULLETS PUMPED INTO
GRUBER
! SEATTLE, June 13. (/P)—While her
' aged mother looked on. Mrs. Lulu
Ethel Gruber, aged 42, shot and killed
her hisband, Charles E. Gruber, to
whom she had been married 25 years.
Mrs. Gruber and mother told the po
lice that Gruber threatened to kill his
wife before she wrested the gun from
him and pumped six shots into his
head and body. Gruber had been liv
ing apart from his wife six months.
He was a salesman, aged 44.
MURDERED WOMAN FOUND IN
HOME — BODY UNCLOTHED
GIRL FOUND IN HOTEL
WINNIPEG, June 13. (/P)—'The po
' lice are seeking a man believed to
have murdered two women in widely
| separated parts of the city. The first
1 slaying was that of Mrs. Emily Pat
terson. whose body was discovered in
her home Friday. The man who mur
dered her took a suit of her husband’s
clothes and left his own at her home.
| The proprietor of a rooming house in
which the slayer lived identified the
clothing left at the Patterson home as
those of a man to whom he had rented
a room six days ago. When the i>o
lice broke into the murderer’s room
Sunday they found the unclothed body
of a 17-year-old girl. The body, which
is unidentified, had been lifeless for
several days.
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SEARCH FOR NUNGESSER AND
COLI IS ABANDONED BY U. S.
WASHINGTON, June 13, (£>)—'The
government lias concluded the hydro
plane search for the missing French
aviators, Nungesser and Ccli The
two hydroplanes were on their way
from Natashquan where they have
spent the last few day's in searching
the surrounding region. Eelle Is
land and Black Sabion previously had
been searched without yielding any
traces of the “White Bird” or it’s crew.
MY, IVY PLANES
ESCORT LINDBERGH
TO NEW YORK FIELD
'‘SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS” DEVELOPS
MOTOR TROUBLE. SO IS NOT
USED
MOTHER, SON TOGETHER
Gold-nosed Pursuit Plane Makes Trip
From Washington to New York
in Two Hours Four Minutes
NEW YORK, June 13. (/P)—Mrs. j
Lindbergh arrived at 8:05 from Wash-.
| ington and was given a cheering wel-1
'come by crowds. She was driven im-1
mediately to an apartment in the mid
town section reserved for herself and
|
1 son.
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LANDS IN BAY
MITCHELL FIELD, N. Y., June 13.
(>P)—Lindbergh flew from Washington
to Mitchel Field in two hours and four
minutes, traveling alone in a gold
1 nosed pursuit piafle. and then trans
ferred as a passenger in an amphibian
plane scheduled to land him in the
waters of New York Bay.
HONORED BY ASSOCIATION
WASHINGTON, June 13. (^—Lind
bergh hopped off from Bolling Field
, for New York in a Curtis army pur
1 suit plane after the “Spirit of St.
Louis” developed motor trouble. He
left at 8:04 accompanied by an escort
of 31 army and navy planes, Command
er Byrd riding in one of them. Break
fast was given in Lindbergh’s honor
by the National Aeronautic Associa
tion. Lindbergh said the San Fran
cisco to Hawaii flight was practical,
but warned that the use of accurate
navigation methods was highly im
portant.
ROAR OF WELCOME
NEW YORK, June 13. (A3)—Lind
bergh came back to the city he left
on his New York to Paris flight as he
stepped from the tug Macom at 1:20,
after being brought from quarantine,
where he landed after his flight from
Mitchell field. As the Macom hove
into sight crowds burst into such a
roar that the famous welcoming
ground never heard before. The si
rens of countless craft added to the
din.
EGYPT, ENGLAND CRISIS
LONDON, June 13. (/P)—It is re
ported that the Egyptians have stood
upon claims that Great Britain has
no business interfering with the
Egyptian army, despite British pro
testions to the contrary.
FEAR WET MAJORITY
WASHINGTON, June 13. (^—De
claring that the drys fear re-appor
tionment of Congress because they"
think that it would mean a wet ma
jority, the leader of the Anti-prohibi
tion Association challenged William
MeAdoo to demand such action!'^'’ 5
WATER NOTICE
Water may be shut off at 12
o’clock tonight on First, Second and
Third Avenues.
SUMMER WILL BE SPENT IN RE
MOTE SECTION—TO DEDICATE
PARK
WASHINGTON, June 13. (^—Pres
ident and Mrs. Coolidge will leave
Washington for western South Dakota
to spend the summer vacation in a
State game lodge in the Black Hills.
It is the first time the President has
planned such an extended thip in so
comparatively remote section of the
country. The presidential train will
make the first scheduled trip to Ham
mond, Ind., where President Coolidge
will dedicate the Wicker Memorial
Park for World War veterans Tues
day. Tuesday at Pierce, the Governor
of South Dakota will welcome the
President to the State.
ROBBERS STAGE SIEGE
1 LABORATORY; AFTER
CHEMICAL FORMULAS
ARMED WITH MACHINE GUNS
AND PISTOLS LOOT BUILDING
IN NIGHT
CHICAGO, June 13. (/R)—Eight rob
bers with machine guns and pistols
maintained an early morning siege of
the Abbot Chemical Laboratories, in
North Chicago, overpowering two
night watchmen. The gang blew the
strong boxes and ransacked all of the
company’s offices. The police "were
unable to find that money or securi
ties were taken and are working on
the theory that valuable secret chem
ical formulas were sought. The gang
arrived in two automobiles and vir
tually stormed the $3,000,000 concern.
They proceeded to loot the buildings,
spending all night at the task after
setitng up a guard of three machine
guns.
CHAMBERLIN, LEVINE
TO TOUR BLACK FOREST
BADEN BADEN, Germany, June 13.
(J-P)—Chamberlin and Levine -were giv
en an enthusiastic reception by a
crowd of 2,000 persons on their arrival
from Berlin by train. They plan a
tour of the Black forest and leave for
Bremen the latter part of the week
tq meet their wives, due to arrive Fri
day from New York.
MORE MARINES TO CHINA
SHANGHAI, June 13, 1927. (£>)—
The United States transport Chau
mont arrived from Manila with 1,500
marines and aviation unit.