MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 158.
SEWARD, ALASKA. TUESDAY, JULY 9. 1929
PRICE TEN CENTS
EfflOUlKE ITS
of inn miles;
FOUR PEOPLE INJURED AND
DAMAGE TO EXTENT OF
$50,000 OCCURRED
LOS ANGELES. July 9, (A5)—An
earthquake of severe intensity
causing injury to four persons and
damaee in excess of $50,000 shook
Los Angeles and suburban com
munities within a radius of 30 miles ;
at 8:45 a. m. today.
The center of the zone appeared
to be at Sa.a Fe Springs and
Whittier districts, south and south
east of Los Angeles.
Two children at Santa Fe Springs
were injured when caught under a
washing machine which was over
turned by the tremor; two oil field
workers were hurt by objects fall
ing from oil derricks and two flow
ing oil wells stopped east of Whit
tier.
It is reported $50,000 in damages |
occurred. Portions of the East I
Whittier school wall caved in and
the structure shifted on its founda
tions: two residences were wrecked
by falling chimneys.
bitiUbT
CM; TWENTY
ONE HOE TRAPPED
SANK SO QUICKLY ONLY TWO
MEMBERS OF CREW SAV
ED; IN 270 FEET WATER
LONDON, July 9. (/P) — The
British submarine H-47, with a
crew of 21 who are believed to
be dead or trapped in her sank j
in 270 feet of water in St- !
George’s Channel, West of Fish-;
guard, after being struck by the
submarine L-12.
The larger vessel sank so fast
that only two of the crew were
saved. The L-12 lost one man
and another was wounded.
Details are lacking of the two
submarine crash; the submarine
H-47 sank in water nearly
marine sank in water nearly
twice as deep as that which the
3-4 and S-51 sunk. Salvage opera
tons at such a depth are exceed
ingly difficult. Arrangements are
being made to save the men if j
they are still alive.
6REIT THOROUGHBRED
WIHS URGE PURSE
PARIS, July 9. (/P)—Five hun
dred thousand racing enthusiasts
saw Hot Weed, winner of the
French derby, gallop home in \
front in the $43,400 Grand Prix j
and Longcuad. Hot Weeds’ per j
iormance marked him as one of
the greatest thoroughbreds of
the 20th century on the contin- i
ont. Bulanbaba and Alexandria
finished second and third re
spectively. A *
VACATION TIME
CAMBRIDGE, July 9, (/P)—John
Ooolidge. son of the formed Presi
dent, has obtained leave of absence
from the New York, New Haven &
Hartford Railroad, in the office of .
which he is employed as clerk, to (
take a six weeks summer course at ]
Harvard University. *•
OFF FOR COLON
TAMPA, Fla. July 9. (/P)—Capt
John Montgomery and crew of
five hopped off here on a 1.200
mile flight to Colon, Panama,
which he hopes to make without
a stop. He was last sighted fly
ing over Port Morelos.
PATHFINDER IS
NEARING COAST
OF EUROPE. TROT
NO ANXIETY FELT OWING TO
NO REPORT FROM U. S.
PLANE OYER ATLANTIC
NEW YORK, July 9, (TP)—The,
Rome bound monoplane Pathfind
er aided by tailwinds and nearly
perfect flying conditions is believed I
to be approaching the European,
coast flying at high speed increas
ed by a lightened fuel load.
Altho the craft, carrying Roger
Williams and Lewis Yancy, has not
been reported since last seen 75 (
miles off the east coast by the es
cort ship yesterday, no anxiety is
*elt as the trans-Atlantic plane
flew high and carried no radio.
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AMERICAN LEAGUE
Philadelpha 3, Chicago 2
New York 10, St. Louis 3
Cleveland 5, Boston 2
Washington 5, 6. Detroit 4, 16
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Chicago 11, Boston 3
Pittsburgh 8, Brooklyn 4
Philadelphia 6, St- Louis 5
New York 3, Cincinnatti 0
TAX TALK LAPSES
WASHINGTON, July 9, (/P)—Talk
of a reduction in federal taxes
aroused by the treasury surplus
lapsed while congressional leaders
studied President Hoover’s an
nouncement upon the subject.
I
TRANSFER PASSENGERS FROM
PLANES TO TRAINS EF
FECTED QUICKLY
COLUMBUS, Ohio, July 8, (/P)— j
Despit e wet weather the air and j
rail Service of the Pennsylvania!
Railroad & Transcontinental Air j
Transport was inaugurated when I
two planes took-off each carrying!
10 passengers.
Secretary of Commerce Lamont
pressed a button in Washington;
and a gong sounded in Columbus
and the first plane took off. Ame
lia vE?rhart, trans-Atlantic flier,
| was one of the passengers from
Columbus to Wayncko, Oklahoma, i
This marked the first time im
history a plane and train have i
been linked in a regular trans
continental service. The transfer
of passengers was effected quickly;
! when the Pennsylvania Airway
! Limited slid into the station
I passengers for the West coast
| walked across the station to the
i hangar where the planes await
ed
SCHOONER ASHORE
ir urn of
SEVEN DESTROYERS
SAN FRANCISCO, July 9, (/P>—At
Point Honda, the graveyard of
seven navy destroyers, the steam
schooner Anne Hanify with a crew
of 30 men is ashore with the tanker
| Los Alamos standing by.
Two other vessels collided off
Point Conception and limped into
San Pedro badly damaged, with
|their holds filling with water. They
were the Standard Oil tanker “Dis
trict of Columbia” and the freight
er "Pacific Oak,” owned by the Di
mond Steamship Co.
CONVENT FOUNDER BE FIRST U. S. SAINT
A trial tms summer sponsored by Bishop Joseph r.
Pummel of Omaha (right) will open proceedings to
determine if sainthood shall be conferred on Mother
Magdalene (left), founder of Omaha’s Poor Clare Con
vent (below).
REPORT DENIED
WASHINGTON, July 9, (/P)—!
Secretary of Treasury Mellon issued
a formal denial of the persistent!
reports that Assistant Secretary
Seymour Lowman and Prohibition j
Commissioner Doran intend to re
sign.
CJPT. KMD
FROM ENGLAND TO AMERICA IS
NEXT HOP PLANNED BY
NOTED AVIATOR
ROME, July 9, UP)—Capt. Charles j
Xingsfcrd Smith told the Associat
ed Press he had decided to fly from
England to the United States in
the “Southern Cross” as soon as he
has the three motors overhauled.
. Captain Smith arrived at Rome
from Sydnev. N S. W., enroute to
London He was met by a Wright
motor representative who will fly j
to London with him and overhaul
the motors which have flown 500
hours.
Captain Smith will inspect four
airplanes for his United States
flight.
HIS FIRST FLIGHT
ST. LOUIS, July 9. (/P)—Col
Charles A. Lindbergh had his
first flight in a glider here when
he soared in one at Lambert, St.
Louis field, with more than 10,
000 persons as spectators.
CUSTOMS AIM IS !
PLATTSBURG, N. Y., July 9, (JP) \
W. J. Cheatham, a customs border
natrolman. was arrested on a
charge of manslaughter in connec
tion with the fatal shooting on |
Tune 15th of Arthur Gordon of
Plattsburgh, alleged liquor runner.
A warrant for Cheatham was is
sued bv Coroner Edwin Hartwell,!
I following an inquest. Cheatham
pleaded not guilty. Bail was set at
I $10,000.
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I
AMERICAN CPIS
ROW 10 VICTORY ST
ST THUS RECATTA
HENLEY, Eng., July 9, (/P)—1Two
American crews rowed to impres
sive victories in the famed Henley
Regatta on the Thames. The crack
-right cf Columbia University swept
.past Kingston with a well-timed
last minute spurt that gave the
American on one length final mar
gin in the second round of the pre
liminaries for the Thames cup. A
few minutes later the Brown Nich
ols Prep School eight of Boston
flashed over the finish line a
length ahead of Peterhouse College,
50 INJURED
MEXICO CITY, July 9,(iP)—Fifty
persons were injured in a riot
marking the first mass in three
years at Our Lady of Guadalupe
church
DECIDES TO RESIGN
TOKIO, July 9. (JP)—Baron
Tanakas Conservative cabinet de
cided to resign as a result of the
criticism levelled at them over
the handling of Kellogg’s Peace
Pact.
10 GROSS B»
FIGURED THEY HAD MORE OF A
CHANCE WITH THE ICE
THAN WITH RUSSIANS
NOME, July 9, (/P)_Pilot Noel
Wien, of the Wien Alaska Airways,
arrived from Fairbanks late yester
day afternoon with Attorney J.
Hart of Juneau who is going to take
up the duties of District Attorney
of the Second Division with head
quarters at Nome.
The Nome motor trading ship
Nanuk. belonging to Olaf Swenson
and captured by Captain Weeding,
arrived and departed Friday. It
had been as far north as Cape
Serge. Captain Swenson reported
two Russians crossed Bering Sea
Straits last winter from East Cape
to Little Dimoedes Island in Ameri
can territory.
This is the first time white men
ever crossed Bering Straits as far
as is known and only a few Eskimos
have ever made the journey which
is doubly hazardous because of
moving ice floes and open water.
Ice sometimes piles up to heights
of 40 and 50 feet and 30 or more
miles long. The Russians said they
were afraid they would be killed if
they remained in Siberia so
thought they had more of a chance
with the ice than Russia. All they
desired! was to get to American
territory.
NOTED DEMO DIES
CHICAGO, July 9. (/P)—James
P. Connery, 63, prominent demo
crat, and former business part
ner of Will Hayes, movie Czar,
died.
STUBBORN BATTLE
FGR LIFE IS LIST
TO IRIS! REAPER
LOS ANGELES, July 9, (JP)— Fun
|eral services for Gladys Brockwell.
motion picture star who died from
(injuries received in an automobile
I accident, were held at the Holly -
Iwood cemetery chapel.
Miss Brockwell was on the verge
of becoming one of the nation’s
I foremost moving picture actresses,
being one of the latest “finds” in
the talking moving picture indus
try. Her voice was said to have been
unsurpassed for reproduction on
the wax disc.
She fought death stubbornly day
after day despite the fact that phy
sicians held little hope for her re
covery. Four blood transfusions
failed to aid her in her losing battle
with the “Grim Reaper”, and her
strength slowly ebbed. The im
mediate cause of death was peri
tonitis.
DRIVE LAUNCHED
MIKE FLYING SAFE
NEW YORK, July 9, (^—Revela
tions that Wilmer Stutz, ocean flier
who was killed with tow compan
tions that Wilmer Stultz, ocean
flier who was killed with two
companions when his airplane
crashed when doing some stunts,
was “very drunk” when he took
the machine aloft resultng in a
launching drive to dry up Nas
sau county to make flying safe.