VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 1C2.
SEWARD, ALASKA. SATURDAY, JULY 13. 1929.
PRICE TEN CENTS
TOLD OFFICERS PEOPLE HAD
ROBBED HIM OF EVERY
THING; WAS CRIPPLED
MOUNT VERNON, Wash., July 15,
UP)—Joe Bailey, 35, a quarter-breed
Todian entered the home of Mose
Henry, 60; a rancher of Edison, to
bring away his sweetheart Virginia
Pay and then killed her.
^ > Henrv George Stump, Everett
hotel man was probably wounded ,
seriously as well as Mary Hoffman,
when they refused to let the Ray
girl depart with him. Bailey buried
an axe in Stump’s head then seized
a shotgun and shot Henry and the
Ray girl. Again using the axe he
slashed Miss Hoffman about the
throat head and shoulders.
After the killings Bailey sped in
his car to Stanwood where he gave
himself up. Bailey told officers he
khled Stump when the latter
threatened to kill'him if he tried to
take the Ray girl away.
“They had robbed me of my
money and things so I thought I
would end the whole business but
should have killed myself’too”, he
■‘cid the officers. Bailey was crip
I nled, the result of a logging acci
dent in which both legs were brok
en.
SAN FRANCISCO. July 13, (/P) !.
—The advance party for mapping
the route of the proposed world
flight sponsored by the Russian
government arrived here today
and are making arrangements
for the arrival of the plane which
scheduled tentatively as ar
riving here late in August or
early September.
The proiected route would in- ;
elude Alaska. San Francisco, New !
York. London. Paris and Berlin.
The distance is estimated at j
30.000 miles.
ESTABLISH BASE NOME
NOME, July 13, f/P)—The Bennett I
Rodebaugh Airplane Transporta- *
+ion Co., headquarters in Fairbanks
has established a base in Nome.
Pilot A. A. Bennett .president of the
company, is here with a six pas- 1
senger plane which will handle the j
^ewar'i Peninsula section of the J
business.
WHO MINE
PIES BIO PROFIT
TO SPECUliTORS
CREEDE, Colo-, July 13, (JP)—
The Amethyst Leasing Company,
W. C. Sloan, manager, paid a di
vidend of $16,000 on June 1,
bringing the grand total to $52,000,
on a capital of $3200. There are
eight shares in the company and
some time ago it was agreed to
pay each $1,000 a month, but ac
cumulations during May have a
mounted to twice that figure.
Nine persons participate in the
dividend, seven owning one share
and two holding half shares.
SHIPMENT OF MULE
BILLED TO KODIAK
AS LINSEED OIL
KODIAK. July 13. (Special to the
Gateway)—The U. S. Commissioner
here, with a special deputy U. S.
marshal, seized 50 gallons of moon
shine on the S. S. Redondo from
Seward and billed as lindseed oil.
George Walker, one of the con
consignors, was arrested and plead
ed guilty to handling of part of the
shipment and will be sentenced
Monday The commissioner says
the market at Kodiak belongs to
the home bootleggers of which
there are legions.
HUNDREDS LIVES
LOST III PERSIA;
*TARS FELT LOSS OF LIFE WILL
MOUNT; CLOUDBURST THOT
CAUSE OF FLOOD
I
TEHERAN, Persia. July 13, UP)—
least 375 persons were killed and
several villages wiped out in a flood
rt Tabriz on Thursday believed to
have been caused by a cloudburst.
The number of the dead are re
ported to have represented only the
number of bodies recovered and
fears are felt that the loss of life
will be higher.
Roads were destroyed; 2,000
houses collapsed and others are
''till falling and crops seriously
damaged.
Tabriz, the second largest city in
Persia with a population of abou
180,000 and was once the most pop
id os but. a series f misfortunes and
earthquakes reduced its prosperity.
MARK EXCEEDS PREVIOUS RE
CORD BY MORE THAN 72~
HOURS; PILOTS TIRED
CULVER CITY, July 13. (£>)— !
Loren W. Mendell of Los Angeles j
and Roland B. Reinhart of Salem, j
Oregon, brought their big Buhl j
Air Sedan, “Angeleno”, poweredI
with a second hand Wright whirl
wind motor to the ground today
at 2:13 p.m- after establishing
a record of 246 hours and 43
minutes and 32 seconds in the j
air. The record achieved by the j
second hand plane exceeds the j
previous record by 72 hours, 42
minutes and 33 seconds
The flight came to an end when
| the fabrication of the second hand
ship gave way and the flutter
ing tail group made it impos
sible to carry out the 38th re
! fueling. The motor was pronounc
ed as perfect by Wright experts.
The fliers were tired and were
: taken to the hospital for a long
sleep although they said that
, they were all right, j Dr. Frederick
j Rhodes of the Culi-er City hos
i pital, who examined the fliers
said that their condition was
i“much better than might have
been expected. The temperature,
blood pressure and pulse being
about what a person would show
after violent exercise under nor
mal conditions with the excep
tion that the return to normal
is slower.”
DROWNS YUKON RIVER
TANANA, July 13. (JP)—James
jBennedict, native, age 26, was
; drowned Thursday afternoon while
j swimming in an eddy of the Yukon
I river near here. The body was re
covered two hours later. All efforts
i by his comnanions to save him were
i unsuccessful.
FORMER CONSUL IS j
SAN FRANCISCO, July 13, (/Pi
Charged with violation of the Jones
Vi Her act, Ying Kao, former vice
consu! here, and his wife, Susie Kao
and Suen Foon, chancellor consu
late, were arrested today in con
nection with an opium smuggling
plot.
Officials announced that more;
arrest13 will probably follow. The
opium was in the baggage of Mrs.!
Kao and was seized Monday. It is
-aid to be worth $600,000 wholesale. ;
All the prisoners were released on
310,00ft bond.
TRADERS EXAMINE
AVIATION STOCKS
MORE CAUTIOUSLY
“WEEDING OUT” PROCESS IS IN
EVITABLE; PUBLIC FINANC
ING TOO RAPID
i
NEW YORK. July 13, (/P)— Recent
rapid expansion and growth in air
plane and accessory ocmpanies
nave revived fears in Wall street of
a general “shake up” in those is
sues such as has taken place in the
stocks of nearly all new it Castries
in th: past generation.
While there is a general unanim
ity of opinion htat hte aviation in
dustry is on the threshold of a
great era of prosperity, many con
servative bankers believe that re
cent development has been too
’'epid, particularly in regards pub
lic financing of securities, and a
(“weeding out” process is inevitable,
lit will be the old story, they say, of
+he survival of the fittest.
RADIO CENTRAL LINKS 32 COUNTRIES TO U. S.
Air lanes of the world lead into this New York city
office, where 32 countries are tapped by radio telegraph
circuits that involve the use of 40 long and short wave
stations. At one end of the operating room is a large
control panel, containing special amplifiers.
HOPPED OFF YESTERDAY IN
FRANCE AND DUE ARRIVE
NEW YORK SUNDAY
LE BOURGET, France, July 13.
UP)—Two rival airplanes, one
bearing the colors of France and
the other Poland, are speeding
over the ocean on the first trans
Atlantic air race from -Paris to
New York.
Perfect weather gave every hope
that the French and Polish fliers
were well on their route. The
Poles are taking the northerly
route and the Frenchmen the
southerly one.
Major Ludwick Idzikowski and
his companion, Major Casimir
Kubla, took off first in the plane
called the “Marshal Pilsudski”
while Captain Dieudonne Coste
and Jacques Bellonte followed 45
minutes later. Both planes are
arrive in New York
I kj UllUuj
FRED HARRISON DIES
JUNEAU, July 13, UP)— Fred Har
rison, former U. S. District Attorney
'of Nome died in the local hospital
of paralysis. He remained in a
iccma which resulted before hH ar
rival here three days ae:o and con
tinued in that state until the end.
Funeral arrangements are pending
advices from the Bar Association in
Nome
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NEGOTIATIONS EH
AGREEMENT
BRUSSELS, July 13, (#)—Nego
tiations between representatives of
the German and Belgium govern
ments for settlement of the long
pending marks questions has been
concluded and an agreement sign
ed ending Belgium’s conditional
signature to the Young plan re
cently signed in Paris.
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BOULDER 01
PLACER GOLD IS
BEING SOUGHT
LOS ANGELES, July 13, (JF)—
Work is progressing in the estab
lishment of a camp at the Mus
grove dam site on the Colorado
River at the mouth of the Grand
Canyon on the Arizona side, to
serve as headquarters for Boul
der Dam Gold Placers, Inc., ac
cording to a statement made by
President Musgrove. Machinery
he says, has been ordered for the
pupiping unit of the proposed gold
recovery plant, which will include
a dragline scraper outfit, besides
flume and sluice boxes for the
handling of the rich gravel bars
existing below the mouth of the
Canyon.
An order has been placed, Mus
grove reports, for the purchase of
a 30-foot launch to be used in
connection with the company’s
placer mining operations up and
down the river for a distance cov
ering approximately 20 miles.
TOKIO, July 13, (/P)—Y. Hama
ouichi. the third untitled premier
in Japan’s history and the member
of the new Minseito Cabinet were
installed in the palace in the pres
ence of the Emperor.