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“CENTER of
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MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 191.
SEWARD, ALASKA.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 16. 1929.
PRICE TEN CENTS
STUDIED AERONAUTICS FOR 16
YEARS AND CONSTRUCTED
14 DIRIGIBLES
3ERLIN, Aug., 16, (/P)—General I
Nobile arrived in Berlin and is
conjectured to be planning another
Arctic expedition. Yesterday he
conferred with Berlin aeronautical
experts and left for Gotha to talk
with scientists.
Nobile declined to discuss the
disaster of his last adventure say
ing: “I am convinced that when my
book is published the truth about
the catastrophe will rapidly become
known.” His answers to questions
as to whether he would attempt a
third flight 'he replied, “I am 44
years old and have studied aero
nautics for 16 years and I have con
structed 14 dirigibles. For four years
I have tried- to find new land for
Italy; I am young enough.”
DOUBLE REFUELING
COHTICT MiE W
PUNE IT FRISCO
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug., 16. UP)—
The endurance plane from Spokane
the “Sun God”, made a double re
fueling contact and hurried east
ward in an effort to fly across the
continent and back without land
ing.
The plane flew from Spokane to
San Francicso in nine hours but
hovered in a fog waiting for the re
fueling supply ship. She took aloft
180 gallons of gasoline in two loads.
The “Sun God” left for Cheyenne,
the next refueling point. Nick
Mamer and Art Walker reported
that all is well except for a little
motor trouble last night which was
ironed out.
TOM HEtNEY LOSES
TO GUT HNTI
BROOKLYN, Aug., 16, (JP)—'The Ar
gentine giant, Victorio Campolo,
223 pounds, battered his way into
the heavyweight picture last night
over Tom Heeney. Campolo was
awarded the fight by a technical
knockout in the nineth round of a
a hard beating, staggered into the
arms of Referee Tom Crowley.
ALASKA VOLCANO ACTIVE
CORDOVA, Aug., 16, (/P)—Arrivals j
from the Interior report three;
mountain peaks of the Wrangell.
range, show signs of volcanic ac
tivity. The display at Mt. Wrangell
is said to be spectacular but the J
eruption is not expected to be seri
ous.
CONGRESS OF ARCHITECTS
RIO JANEIRO, Aug., 16, (/P)—!
A committee on arrangements is
already making plans for the
fourth Pan-American Congress
of Architects, which is to be \
held here from June 19 to 30
next year. More than 300 archi
tects from the western hemi-;
sphere are expected to attend.
SOUTHWEST HUSKS
PICK SATISFACTORY
JUNEAU, Aug., 16, (/P)— At the
close of operations August 10th the
salmon canneries in southeast Al
aska had a pack of 1,541,000 cases
of all varieties. The feature of the
pack is the unusual proportion of
red salmon.
Mr. O’Malley said that over 150,
000 of this variety was packed. It
will be about two weeks before the
season ends and no estimate of the
pack has thus far been made.
GRAF ZEPPELIN IN RADIO COM
MUNICATION WITH MOS
COW; GOOD PROGRESS
BERLIN, Aug., 16, (IP)—A dis
patch from Moscow said the Graf
Zeppelin crossed the Ural moun
tains ^rom Europe to Asia; passing
the town of Nadeshdinsky, about
350 miles east of Perm under favor
able weather conditions.
The Graf is in touch with the
Morcow radio station and is receiv
ing weather reports from Perm, 700
miles east of Moscow. The Ural
mountains were crossed by a grad
ual slope; the divide was hardly
noticed only by a pole alongside the
railroad tracks which tells travel
ers they are passing from Europe
into Asia.
ARRESTED FOR THEFT
NEW YORK, Aug. 15. — i
Joseph Price, former manager of;
a branch bank of the United1
states and A. Siegman, paying j
teller, were arrested on a charge!
of being responsible for a theft!
of more than $111,000 from the j
bank. i
HE KILLED GIRL
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE BY TYING
ROCKS AROUND NECK AND
WADING IN WATER
DULUTH, Minn., Aug., 16. (A5)—
Oscar Olson, 29, a Duluth dock
worker, confessed to the slaying of
Dorothy Aunne in Minneapolis
Tuesday.
Chief of Detectives R. E. Donald
son, expressed doubt concerning
the man’s story. Olson told the
police that he was drunk Tuesday
and wandered in a vacant lot and
went to sleep. He saw the Aune
girl go by. “I didn’t know what
I was doing. I don’t think I did
anything to her but when she be
gan screaming I killed her then I
got scared and found some gunny
sacks and wrapped her in them and
threw her in the tall grass. I don’t
remember everything I did”, Olson
said.
Olson was arrested by police when
he attempted to commit suicide,
saying he was trying to escape pun
ishment. He tied rocks around his
neck and waded out in the water
up to his chin trying to drown him
self.
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NATIONAL LEAGUE
Philadelphia 5; Cincinnati 4.
New York 9; St. Louis 7.
Boston 2; Pittsburgh 1.
Chicago 9-4; Brooklyn 5-5.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Washington 9; Chicago 4.
St. Louis 3; Boston 0.
Detroit 2; New York 0.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Hollywood 6; San Francisco 4.
Missions 7; Los Angeles 6.
Portland 6; Seattle 2.
Sacramento 8; Oakland 2.
BOASTS
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TO GIRL
REVEAL ATHLETE BANDIT
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Because he boasted of athletic prowess to Dolores
Bannon (left) as he kidnapped her, Henry W. Nelson,
former champion skater is facing robbery charges.
DECREASE. NHL
| BUNKS, IS REPORTED
WASHINGTON, Aug., 16, (/P)— A
i decrease of $1,500,000,000 in re- ,
sources of the National Banks in \
| the United States, Alaska and I
Hawaii has been reported by J. W. j
Pole, comptroller of currency. But I
1 nstitutions, thru an increase of
$90,000,000 invested in capital last
year were described to be relatively
i stronger in position than in the
past.
3’MALLEY’S FISHERIES POLICY
IN ALASKA VINDICATED
BY RETURNS
CORDOVA, Aug., 16, {/P)—Ap- j
parently vindicating the policy of
he United States Bureau of Fish
eries policy under Henry 0‘Mal- j
ley, to establish consistent and
perpetual production, on the basis
of final tabulation figures reveal!
844.895 cases of salmon were j
packed in this district or a gain j
of nearly 200,000 cases over last
3 ear.
These figures are larger than
any year since 1925 and a gain
is shown despite the fact the sea
son was an off year and that sev
eral days were cut off this season
by a bureau order.
VESSEL SAILING FOB
NORTH IBIS MONTH
j VANCOUVER, B. C., Aug., 16, (IP) j
i—It will be the end of this month
before the freighter Golden Forest j
will be ready to start her voyage j
back to Seattle from Akutan har
bor. A. C. Burkick, managing di- :
rector of the Pacific Salvage Co., i
was informed by T. W. Allen aboard
the Salvage King that it will be
necessary to transfer the cargo to
the freighter Elcedro by August 19.
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1ICKELJHORW
NEW YORK, Aug., 16, (/P)—There
has been for the last eight months
a world shortage of nickel so seri
ous that in spite of every effort to
.expand production facilities and to
increase them by new installations
on a really gigantic scale, consump
tion and new uses in particular
have out-stripped the expanded
production by more than 50 per
cent. Nor is the end of this situa
tion in sight yet. The new con
struction does not fully cover it.
It has been and still is so serious
that industries which have been!
using nickel in their regular work I
for 30 years have not been able to !
keep properly supplied.
TORONTO, Ont., Aug., 16, <7P)—
Indian guides, airplanes and friends
from New York and Toronto have
been enlisted in the search for 10
year-old Peter Mack, who disap
peared while on a canoe1 trip. The
empty canoe has been found.
IIlQliCEH OF
PURCHASE ALASKA
PLANE COMPANIES
COL. CARL BEN EIELSON NAM
ED EXECUTIVE, VICE PRE
SIDENT AND GEN. MGR.
NEW YORK, Aug., 16, (/P)—The
Aviation Corporation announced
the formation of the Alaska Air
ways Inc., as a holding corporation
to promote commercial flying in
Alaska and the acquisition by the
new concern of two Alaska air
transport companies.
Graham B. Grosvenor, president,
said that Carl Ben Eielson, polar
flyer, had been appointed executive
vice-president and general mana
ger of the holding corporation. A
telegram from Eielson at Fairbanks
advised that he had completed ne
gotiations whereby the ownership
of the Wein Alaska Airways Inc.,
and the Herbert Rodebaugh Air
plane Co., passes to the Alaska Air
ways.
ATTEMPT DUNK
FLIGHT, EAST, SOUTH
SPOKANE, Aug., 16, (A3)—N. B.
Mamer and Art Walker hopped-off
at 5:58 p. m. Pacific time, heading
the plane “Sun God” westward on
the Spokane-San Francisco-New
York-3pokane endurance flight.
The plane will refuel in the air in
an attempt to determine the feasi
bility to refuel commercial planes
during a flight and to eliminate de
lay of cost. If the plane completes
the trip successfully it may attempt
to break the endurance record on
its return to Spokane.
SPECIMENS, MUSEUM
CORDOVA, Aug., 16, (JP)—John
Jonas, from Yonkers, New York, is
enrcirte south on the Admiral Wat
son with specimens of 40 walrus
and six polar bear for the Philadel
phia Museum of Natural History.
MILLIONS SEE TROPHIES
SHOWERED Oil LIND1
ST. LOUIS, Aug., 15, VP)—The
daily stream of visitors thru the
Lindbergh room in Jefferson mem
orial here continues undimi’nished.
More than 3,000,000 persons have
seen the collction of trophies which
were showered on the aviator.
The most popular bauble is a dia
mond tie pin, exquisitely cut from
a large stone to represent an air
plane. The donor is not listed nor
is is value.
Second in popularity are the gold
passes showered upon the flier by
railroads, theatre managers, clubs,
and lifetime passes to all major
league baseball games.
1,000 YACHTS
LONDON, Aug. 15. (JP)—More
than 1,000 yachts, representing
10 different nations were pre
sent at the first day’s racing at
Cowes. The races were held under
Dhe auspices of the Royal London
Vacht Club. The main race w7as
won by A. A. Patons “Lulworth”
with Sir Thomas Lipton’s “Sham
rock the Fourth”, second.