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VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 112.
SEWARD, ALASKA.
TUESDAY, MAY 14, 1929.
PRICE TEN CENTS
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FROM GOROOVA
SEWARD PASSED UP BY GORST
PLANE FLYING CORDOVA
ANCHORAGE
Cordova, May 14, </P)—Ending
another pioneering trip the Gorst
plane Alaska, Clayton Scott at
the controls, returned to Cordova
late Sunday after blazing air
trails to Anchorage, 170 miles by
air.
The entire city of Anchorage
turned out for a gigantic recep
tion to greet the first plane ever
to fly from Cordova. Aboard the
plane were James L. Galen, pres
ident of the Mt. McKinley Park
Transportation Co.; H. G. Steel,
editor of the Cordova Times; Fred
Reed, head of the Alaska Piggly
Wiggly stores; Alan Faith, asso
ciate editor of the Cordova Times;
Henry Wolking, J. E. Mathison
and H. W. McDermott of Juneau;
also, Gordon Graves, mechanic.
The trip was made in one hour
and 40 minutes; the pioneering
plane was met by the two planes
of the Anchorage Air Transport
Co., and escorted through Turn
again Arm to the landing field.
TREATY SUITS WERE
VIOLATED BH SOUS
ANCHORING .WATERS
VANCOUVER, B. C„ May 14, (/P
-—Violation of treaty rights in an
choring in Canadian waters i;
charged against five United State;
salmon trollers seized at Goose
harbor by the Canadian patro
4 boat.
Major Motherwell, chief super
visor of fisheries, declared the
boats are only allowed to entei
Canadian waters for food, shelter
repairs and wood and said the seiz
ed boats were at anchor and tha
there was no necessity for shelter
He said the cases would be deal
with in the usual way. One of th
boats has since been released.
V
MOTHER OF HIE IS
ENOOOTE TO HOME
NEW YORK, May 14, (&)—'The
New York American said Ml'S.
Dwight Morrow left for North Hav
en. Me., to prepare the Morrow
summer home for the honeymoon
of Anne and Col. Lindbergh.
Reports are that the wedding will
take place in the Morrow home at
Englewood on June 17. Anne Mor
row left the home at Englewood for
a visit to a girl near Boston, the
American said, and Col. Lindbergh
will commute from New York to
Boston to visit his fiance before the
wedding. The dispatches said a
sheep pasture at North Haven has
been smoothed out to make a land
ing place for airplanes.
BIT BY SNAKE
NEW YORK, May 14, (JP)— One of
the world’s leading authorities on
snakes is dead, a victim of an in
furiated mate of a rattlesnake just
captured. Charles Snyder, former
head of the reptile department ol
the Bronx Zoo, died while aid was
reaching him.
BASEBALL
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Philadelphia 10; St. Louis 9,
Chicago 6; Boston 4.
Pittsburgh 12; Brooklyn 4.
Cincinnati 7; New York 0.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Detroit 5; Philadelphia 3.
Cleveland 4; New York 3.
Boston 2; Chicago 1.
1 RECEPTION FOR
ALASKA MAPPERS
IN SEATTLE HOTEL
BIG FEED WILL BE THROWN
INTO THE BOYS THURS
DAY EVENING
SEATTLE, May 14, {IP)—A din
ner reception to the members of
the naval air mapping expedition,
who carried on a topographical
i survey in southeastern Alaska twc
! years ago, will be given in the
New Washington Hotel .Thursday
evening.
The party is enroute North for
I another season’s work
j Alaska aviation and naval affair*
i will be discussed by the variou*
committees of the chamber witT
members of the expedition.
The mapping unit includes of
ficers of the Alaska division o:
the U. S. Geological Survey, pilots
! photogrraphers and technician:
from the navy aviation departmen'
Commander A. H. Radford, U
S. N-, and R. H. Sargent, of thi
survey, will tell of the past ac
complishments of the expedition
i BOY SIT STEPFATHER
so is in in
* | SEATTLE, May 14, (/P)— Leo Ex
' tell. 17, must face a first degree
" murder charge for the shooting oi
• his step-father, Wade Wadell. The
“ prosecution attorney s office de
3 cided this question yesterday. The
’boy’s three uncles,, brothers of the
dead man, and the mother, came
to his. defense declaring he was
treated shamefully and had beer
neglected by the step-father. The
uncles have retained council.
PAST ELECTION DATA MEAS
URES UNABLE TO BE ACT
ED UPON
WASHINGTON, May 13, (/P)—
Three measures designed to pre
vent curruption in political cam
paigns were advanced by Senator
I Cutting, republican from New
Mexico, one for a constitutional
amendment to give congress un
| questionable supervision and nom
i ination of all federal officials both
for primaries and conventions.
| The second; a constitutional
amendment to impose a penalty
of ilegibility of any candidate
who in the campaign, nomination
or election violated rules.
The third; would create a fed
eral commission of elections and
this fact-finding body would be
charged with audition and verify
ing all elections- All these meas
ures were introduced in the last
congress but he was unable to
get any action on them.
LIVINGSTON, Tex., May 14, (TP)—
Seven dead and property damage
running into the hundreds of
thousands of dollars,, was the toll
of a flood following many days of
torrential rains which sent Trinity
I river and several streams out of
,their banks.
I Communication has been dis
rupted: the exact number of lives
lost cannot be determined yet. Res
cue forces, in row boats, worked
frantically all night taking resi
dents from house tops and trees.
| Four members of one family were
drowned when swept from their
house top and when a row boat was
on its way to rescue them capsized.
( -Fear is felt the flood will enguif
! jthe refugees before aid arrives. The
• I flood cut off train service and a
>!food shortage loomed; some fear a
i | water famine unless the pumping
5 i system put out of order by the
‘flood, is started soon.
ISLAND DREAM CITY PLANNED BY CHICAGO
ChicagT^uans a fairyland for the world fair of 1933. Above i:
! shown an artist’s sketch of the amphitheater with moving sidewalk:
I for transportation of pedestrains outlined .
ICE GOES OUT
-FORT GIBBON, May 14, (JP)—'The ;
ice went out of the Yukon at Tan
ana at 1 a. m. Monday.
NOTED HIKER IS DEAD
NEW YORK, May 14, (A5)—Ed
wcrd Payson Weston, famous long
distance hiker, died, age 90.
ENTERING SUIT TO
OBTAIN THOUSANDS
INSTEAD OF RECEIVING $100,
| 000 OBTAINED SMALL SUM
OF $364
VICTORIA, May 13. {&)—William
Harris, 76 year old miner living in
retirement at Port Angeles, filed a
| suit against Daniel Lindborg and
| executors, the late Andrew Lind
borg, James Proudfoot and Hir
am Stevenson, claiming $100,000
of $300,000 said to be on deposit
l at Vancouver.
Harris claims that the sum
sought is his share of developing
,the big Missouri group of claims
■ at Stewart, British Columbia and
Imany in Alaska.
Harris is now in Victoria were
he is to testify before the court
today. Harris claims that he dis
covered the claims in ‘04-‘05 and 5
years later entered in an agree
ment with Proudfoot, Stevenson,
jand associates to keep claims alive
land negotiate for the sale of the
cairns that of the $100,000, his
third interest in the sale, he re
. i ceived only $364.
!
WINNIPEG, May 14, (/P)—Air
planes were used to good advan
tage in controlling the forest fires
in Manitoba carrying men to
stragetic points to prevent spread
of the flames in the Cold lake
'area. The most dangerous sector
of the conflagration were report
ied to be out after burning over
: 1,000 acres. Three government
Iplanes were employed.
TRUSTED BANK OFFICISL
WENT "HUYWIRE" CSSH
OAKLAND, May 13, (£>)—Roy B.
Baker, assistant vice president of
the Oakland bank, confessed to em
bezzlement of $27,000 from the
bank and $35,000 from the Berkeley
Divinity school of which he was
treasurer. He said he took the
funds to cover losses in a Chicago
radio firm in which he had invest
ed heavily. He had been with the
bank over 23 years.
I
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UP TO THE WOMEN
LONDON, May 13, (/P)—Interna
tional peace depends upon the wo
men of the world, Lloyd George told
an audience of 10,000 in an election
[speech. The address was regarded
ias an appeal to the new flapper
I vote. Ramsay McDonald, labor
leader came out for all-round debt
reduction in another speech.
NO RIGHT
WASHINGTON, May 13. (/P)—
Representative Brand, dry Georgia
democrat, contends in the House,
| that no arresting officer has the
, right to kill a prohibition violator,
[except in case of self defense.
CLUE IS FOUND
SLAYERS OF TAXI
DRIVER IN SOUTH
POLICE UNABLE TO FIND THE
MONEY ALLEGED BEEN ON
SLAIN DRIVER
DOUGLAS, Ariz., May 14, (JP)—A
crumbling trench in which rebel
soldiers had occupied in expectance
of a battle, furnished the chief
due in the search of the slayers of
Thomas Chambers, Douglas taxicab
driver whose knife-slashed body
| was found in a shallow grave on the
Yutskirts of the city by a group of
j Mexican children yesterday.
Chambers had been missing since
Wednesday when he left his stand
with a passenger, reported to have
been an American friend. He is
said to have had $300 on his person
when he disappeared.
Police were unable to find the
money but are working the trench
which is the basis of the present
investigation. The police are also
trying to run' down rumors that
there had been an eye witness to
the slaying and burial; also reports
that’ the machine had been seen in
several places in Mexico since the
slaying. ■ •
SECOND MCE
ACBGSS ATLANTIC
OF COSE ZEPPELIN
WILKINS WILL BE A MEMBER
OF THE ARCTIC DIRIGIBLE
EXPLORATION EXPEDITION
FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany,
May 14 (JP)—Fine weather is pie
; dieted for the start of the dirigible
Graf Zeppelin on its second trip to
America Wednesday.
Friedtemof Nansen, Arctic ex
plorer and Hubert Wilkins will be
among the passengers. Nansen said
an important conference is sched
uled with Dr. Eckner regarding the
Arctic expedition to be made under
the command of Nansen.
It is understood Wilkins has also
promised to accompany the expedi
tion if he finished his work in the
Antarctic in time. Wilkins expects
to make navigational studies en
route to America.
| The plans of an attempted stowa
way, a young painter’s assistant,
were frustrated when he was found
and ejected from the zeppelin.
Mill WILL BE,
AMONG THOSE PRESENT
FRIEDRICHSHAVEN, Germany,
May 14, (A5)—Fifty-one persons
and one female gorilla will con
stitute the passengers of the crew
of the dirigible Graf Zeppelin on
its second Atlantic Ocean- Amer
ican trop scheduled to start to
morrow, May 15. The gorilla is in
tended for the Chicago Zoo. The
motors will be given a thorough
testout at the Zeppelin works as
a precautionary measure. The
route wil be via the Azores.
WANTS INFORMATION
WASHINGTON, May 14, (/P)—A
request will be made the Canadian
government for information con
cerning the sizure of five boats for
alleged violation of the fishing
j treaty.