VOLUME XXIII. NUMBER 208. SEWARD, ALASKA WEDNESDAY,. SEPTEMBER 5, 1928 PRICE TEN GENTS
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
Seven Meet Tragic
Death In Airplane
Crash At Pocatello
NEW NATIONAL PARK AIRWAYS SHIP ON TP*IP
FROM GREAT FALLS TO OGDEN SIDESLIPS'
ON LANDING AT POCATELLO AIRPORT AND
AFTER NOSE DIVE ROLLS OVER SEVERAL
TIMES KILLING EVERY OCCUPANT—TWO
WERE FRIENDS OF SEWARD RESIDENT.
POCATELLO, Idaho, Sept. 5, (/P)—Seven persons
were almost instantly killed late yesterday when an air
mail plane crashed as it was making a landing at Pocatello
airport. The plane was flying low for the landing and
when about 70 feet above the field the pilot headed into
the wind banking too steeply. The right wing tipped up
and the machine took a nose dive to the ground, rolling
over several times.
The machine was owned by the National Parks Air
ways and had left the northern terminus at Great Falls,
Mont., early in the morning.
The dead included Pilot Wheatley; W. A. McLean,
traveling magazine representative; Mrs. Lawrence Shaf
er and her children Carl, 6 and Ramona, 18months; Lloyd
Timmerman, Ogden and Salt Lake newspaperman and
Jesse Richards, secretary of the Ogden Chamber of Com
merce and the Ogden Livestock Association.
Both Lloyd rimnierman and Josse
Richards mentioned in the above dis
patch were close friends of Frank
Becker, reporter of the Gateway,,
who had been associated with both
them in Chamber of Commerce
c l newspaper work for several
years. Timmerman was one of the
vest known newspaper men of the
lm.ermottnl.ain country, ranking as an
A-l police importer and general pub
licity writer. Jesse Richards who
leaves a wife and two children, was
one of the most popular Chamber of
Commerce officials in the intermoun
tain states and had done much to
forward the industrial interests of'
Ogden and Utah. In addition to
being one of the organizers of the
inter-State baseball league from Og
den, lie was also instrumental in
making Ogden a great grain shipping
center as well as one of the biggest
livestock distributing points in all the
west. The news of their tragic pass
ing will be a shock to thousands of
friends in Idaho and Utah.
British Statesman
Coming California
To Regain Health
LA ROCHELLE. France, Sept. 5,
(,T>)—The condition of Sir Aus'in
Chamberlain, British Foreign Minis,
ter, has shown little improvement
on the first two days of his sea voy
age to California where he expects
to regain his impaired health. He
was carried aboard tbs steamer Or
corna at Liverpool and when the slv.p
arrived liere was too ill to receive
official French callers.
Question Capital
Punishment Is Up
SEATTLE, Sept. 5, (£>)—'The ques
tion of capital punishment, or life im
prisonment for murders in the State
of Washington, promised to lie a lead
ing issue in the campaign this: fall
for Seats in the legislature.
Prominent club men of tba State
weie planning to organize a poll o!
all candidates for the law making
tody to bring out whether or not
they favored abolition of hanging.
‘NOTHER SPASM WALL ST.
NEW YORK, Sepl. I, Prices
again were whirled upward on the
New York Stock Exchange when in.
sttead of the widely predicted money
shortage, the foreign banks dumped
huge sums into the money market
and tbs call loan rate dropped to
seven percent. The prices of CO
issues were boosted one to nine- dol
lars to new high records in the Ex.
change.
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WHEN THREE SHOTGUNS AREi
FIRED AT ONCE; BOAT IS j
OVERTURNED
JUNEAU, Sept. 5, (/P)—Slmultan. j
eons firing of three shot guns re-1
suited in the drowning of Henry C. |
Hanna, 28, when the recoil caused
a rowboat to capsize. Hanna was a
popular baseball player here.
The duck hunter, with twro compan
ions, were in Gambier Bay and he at.
tempted to swim ahore instead of
hanging to the boat with the others.
The body was recovered and brot
here. His wife and three children
■survive hi me.
Moses Says Hoover
Will Throw Scare
Into ‘ Solid South’’
BOSTON, Sept., 5, (/P)—Senator |
Moses, in charge of Hoover’s cam. |
paign in the East, declared the Nom
inee is fairly certain of curving j
North Carolina and the Bonk; States!
ami of giving the Democrat .■ such aj
scare for the future, that the term
.-olid South will pass into th realm
of the obsolete.”
PROBLEM ARISES
DALLAS, Slept. 5, (/p)—Discussion
of problems arising from the shift of >
population from rural districts to the :
city and the change from an agricul.
lure to an industrial nation, occupied
the Kiwanians of Tiaxas and Oklaho. j
ma at the 11th district meeting here. ;
HERRICK IS SILENT
NEW YORK, Sept., 5, (/P)—Herrick,
Ambassador to France from the
United States, has returned to France
until November. He was silent as to
whether he will take the stump dur
ing the present campaign.
WOLF HICKMAN
SEATTLE MERCHANT WHO WAS
FIRST GIVE ALARM GETS
NO CUT MONEY
LOS ANGELES, Sept., 5, (/Pj—
The two Oregon officers who arrest,
ed Hickman which ended the man
hunt for the kidnapper 'and slayer of
little Marion Parker, have been award
ed 60 percent of the §27,700 reward
collected by the radio division made
by the committee headed by Mayor
Oyer.
Gurdane and Lieuallen , of Pendle
ton, Ore., will receive $16,800.
Seventeen-Y ear-Old
Girl Breaks Running \
Record Fc~ Women
CHICAGO. Sept. 5, (/P)— Betty
Robin-on. 17 year-old woman Olympic
100 meter . champion clipped two.
fifths of a second off the 100 yards
da h mark for women established
;vvo years ago by Helen Filkey for mi
unofficial record of 11 seconds.
Betty’s effort in the event was at
a track and field meet held in con
junction with th Labor Day program
at Soldier Field.
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PROMINENT rail
OLD TIMES EiS
QUEST FOR HEALTH FAILS AND
ALASKAN WHO MINED A
FORTUNE, DIES
SEATTLE, Sept., 5, (,p>)—George
Dull, 62, prominent Alaskan pioneer,
died at his home after a vain search
over the Nation, including Mayo
Brothers Hospital, to regain his fail
ing health.
He went North 30 years ago and ob.
tained a fortune, first as a hard-rock
miner, later turning to placer work
with the Last Chance mine near Ju
neau. He returned to the South three
years ago on account of his health.
His widow and two sons, George
and Edward, survive him.
French Flyers
Return To Lan d
After Ocean Try
CASA BLANCA, Sept., 5, (/P)—Af
ter an air jaunt Southward today the
French trans. Atlantic aspirants As
shlant and Lefebre returned indicat
ing they had abandoned, for the time
being, their project of flying either to
North or South America. The mach
ine came down yesterday due to an
oil leak.
Gets Too Close To
The Bull Al Better
Stick Closer Tiger
NEW YORK, Sept. 5. (/P)—Governor
Al Smith attended the State Fair at
Syracuse, and was followed around
by about 50,000 people who watched
him inspect cows and horses and eat
“hot dogs’’. He narrowly escaped in
jury when he was almost kicked by a
nearing bull. Interference of his
body guard placed the Governor out
of danger. /
Headless Body Of
Man Is Found In
Railroad Yards
PORTLAND, Sept. 5, (/P)—The de.
capitated body of a man believed to
be that of Charles K. Rankin, 36, of
Philadelphia, was found here in the
Southern Pacific Railroad yards and
is being hield by the coroner pending
word from Mrs. J. G. McKenney, 3542
South Flower St., Los Angeles.
An identification card found on the
body requested that Mrs. McKenney
be notified in case of acciuenl. in
vestigating officers believe that Ran
kin committed suicide, as nothing so
far points to intentional disposal by
any persons unknown.
Prohis Showing
Decided Fear Of
Al Smith Vote
WASHINGTON, Spt. 5, (/P)—Indi
cations that the Prohibition Party
is going to give Herbert Hoover, the
Republican Nominee, tangible support
in his race for the Presidency, were
given by Jamies Edgerton, vice-presi
dent nominee of the Prohibition
Party. In his acceptance speech, Mr.
Edgierton urged the withdrawal of
prohibition tickets in States where
voting might be close and where votes
taken by the Drys might mean vie.
tory for Governor Al Smith.