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VOLUME XXIII. NUMBER 62.
SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1928.
PRICE TEN CENTS
WILIS TO HOP
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BELIEF EXPRESSED AVIATORS
CAN LIVE OFF THE COUN.
TRY INDEFINITELY
FAIRBANKS, March 15. (/P)—Capt.
Wilkins announced the first leg of the
iSpitzberger flight will be undertaken
iate this week. Early next week he
will hop-off from Point Barrow. Ac
taal time i3 dependent upon the
weather.
The Eochead plane has been taken
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up almost daily in test flights and pro
bounced to be in perfect conditionj
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■mechanically.
No doubt exists, say Wilkins and
Eielson, as to the fleasibility of skils
with which the plane is equipped, in
making hazardous landinlgs on the
Arctic ice pack.
The equipment assembled here in
cludes an extra steel propeller, snow
nhoes, skiis, rifle, 400 rounds of am
munition, enough food for nine days,
fishing nets and hooks, and a net for
catching small birds.
At Point Barrow, oil and gas and
condensed rations for 30 days* will be
taken on. Wilkins continues in the
firm belief that with the equipment
taken he and Eielson can live off the
country indefinitely if an emergency
•arises.
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SEATTLE, March 15. (/P)—Funeral
services for Captain Joseph Dodge,
veteran Seattle and Alaska skipper,
vho died Tuesday aboard the freighter
Latouehe, wil be held Monday. Dodge
was 65 years old and had served Al
aska vessels for 30 years. He had
been with the Alaska Steamship Com
pany as a pilot for 20 years. The body
wil rarive in Seattle Sunday on the
■S. S. Yukon.
RICH LEDGE QUARTZ
CORDOVA, Mar. 15. (>P)—A ledge
of rich quartz two miles long was re
ported uncovered near Mile 126, Cop
per River, by Gus Wilson. The news
brought a near stampede and excite
ment to Cordova. The strike lies on
the Copper River a half-mile from the
railroad. It is in the center of a rich
mineral belt.
FILES $100,000 SUIT
CHICAGO, March 15. (JP)—Richard
Von Zinnow, describing himself as
Baron, filed a $100,000 suit against a
local broker and his wife, saying they
alienated the affections of their
daughter from him after he became
engaged to her in Europe.
$85,000 FOR WRANGELL NARROWS
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WASHINGTON, Mar. 15. (£>)—The
allotment of $85,000 for improvement
of the Wrangell Narrows, was autho
rized by the Secretary of War. The
money is to be used to insure early
completion of rock removal and dredg
ing laready under contract.
OFFICIALS SAY DESCREPANCIES
IN STORY TOLD BY L.G.
BAGWELL
SPOKANE, March 15. (/P)—L. G.
Bagwell, 37, was jailed in connection
with the death of his wife wdio was
murdered last night. The woman
was bound and gagged, and~ appar
ently tsrangled.
The husband said he discovered
her body when he returned from
Spokane to the ranch home at the
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edge of the city. Two children, 11:
and nine slept in an adjoining roomj
and did not awaken though the |
mother had been bound to her bed j
and killed. Officials said there are*
descrepanci^ in Bagwell’s story.
WALKER DENIES WAS LATE
NEW YORK, March 15, (JP)—Mayor
Walker denied he was late for a con
ference with President Coolidge. He
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said new's was a little dead in Wash-:
ington and newspaper reporters fixed i
up the story about his tardiness for
themselves.
ENGLISH FLIER A! i
MISS MWM THOT
LOST III ATIMIC;
ARE NOW LONG OVERDUE FROM
FLIGHT FROM ENGLAND TO
NEW YORK
LONDON, March 15. (£>)—Captain
Hinchliffe anti Elsie Mackay welre
the sole occupants of the Stinson
Detroiter plane endeavour which
started a trans-Atlantic flight Tues
day morn^n^. This became kn(pwn
definitely when Major Gordon Sin
clair, a close friend of Hinchliffe and
whose whereabouts since the flight
started had been a mystery, appear
ed at the Purely suburban home of
the British War Ace.
He said Miss Mackay was the only
passenger in the plane. “The whole
thing was rather hurriedly arranged,’
said Sinclair, “for it originally had
been intended that I would accom
pany Hinchliffe but Miss Mackay
was keen on going so I gave way at
her request. I agreed to be a party
to the fiction that I was flying with
the Captain for she did not wish her
family to know anything about her
trip as she desired they be spared
the anxity. So far as Hinchliffe was
concerned he was indifferent as to
whether Miss Mackay or I accom
pany him.”
WHITE SAILOR CAPS
PARIS, Mar. 15. (JP)—The up-turned
starched white cap of the middy is
offered by Paris for wear with beach
clothes. '
HOUSE PASSES BILL
WASHINGTON, Mar. 15. (JP)—'The
Delegate from Alaska bill to relieve \
the Territory of Alaska from filing for,
bonds in legal proceedings was passed
by the House and sent to the Senate.!
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BE LINKED WITH
COASTAL STATES AND TERRI
TORY WILL SOON HAVE PAS
SENGER PLANE SERVICE
SEATTLE, March 15. <£>)—'The en
tire Pacific coast from Los Angeles
to Alaska will probably be linked with
airplanes within the year if an ade
quate landing field is developed in
Seattle, Charles Eaking, Portland Gen
eral Manager of the West Coast Air
Transport, revealed.
He said a new service from Vancou
ver to Seattle connecting with lines
to California will be 'Started in 30 or
40 days by his company. This will
be followed, he said, by regular ser
' vice to Skagway plans for which al
ready are under way. Plans for ser
vice to Ketchikan and Seward are
also being discussed.
3,000 BOOTLEGGERS
WASHINGTON, March 15, (/P)— A
volunteer sleuth told the House Com
mittee that Washington has 3,000
bootleggers. Spying organizations
were disappointed lie said because
! they could find few citizens willing
1 to press liquor charges.
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LIVES ID HOMES
LOST CALIFORNIA
DIFFICULT TO MAKE ACCURATE
CHECK OWING TO SEARCH
FOR RELATIVES
LOS ANGELES, March 15. (^—Es
timates of the number of homele**
persons in the San. Francisquito flood
area is almost as varied as the ever
©hanging figures on the death toll.
The chaotic condition resulting from
the devasting sweep of the flood made
it almost impossible to- get a definite
line on the number of persons who
lost their homes. - se af
fected kept up a tragical hunt for
missing relatives and did not keep in
one place long enough to give much
Information on their families or
homes.
The toll of death, fluctuating on
wide margins, stood in the neighbor
hood of 200 with 300 still missing.
Shattered communications in the
mud-bound countryside is making
^strangers o£ towns which formerly
were neighbors and rendered impos
I sible a positive checking. Bodies are
being moved from one morgue to an
other.
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GENERALLY FEARED
NORTH
ATLANTIC HAS INCREASED
VICTIMS BY TWO
NEW YORK, March 15. (/P)—De
spite widespread but unconfirmed re
ports of planes heard winging thru
the night fear increased that a Vis
count’s daughter has followed a Prin
cess to death in an attempt to fly the
perilous western air lane across the
N^rth Atlantic.
There is still hope that Elsie Mac
kay and Major Hinchliffe somehow
escaped the same fate met by Prin
cess Lowensteip Wettheim and her
two pilots, and by Nungesser and
Coli, but this hope was of despera
tion.
An optimistic computation was
that the gasoline could only have
kept them aloft until dawn today but
hours afer no definite word had been
received and aviators generally fear
ed the North Atlantic increased the
number of its victims by two.
PLANE ARRIVES NEW YORK?
No Associated Press dispatch has
been received but at 2:30 this after
noon a report began circulating about
town that the English plane had cross
ed the Atlantic and was now in New
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