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VOLUME XV. NUMBER 569. SEWARD, ALASKA MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1930. PRICE TEN CENTS
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LEADER OF DELIVERY SAID
TO BE YOUNG INSANE
BURGLAR
NEW YORK, Dec., 8, (/P)—'Three
armed desperadoes made a dar
ing and spectacular raid on the
Mattewan State hospital for
the criminal insane and bore
six dangerous maniacs away
with them to freedom.
The fugitives with their res
cuers headed for New York City,
eluding hundreds of State troop
ers an€ local police along the
•n-ay and are believed to be at
large here.
Every peace officer within a
radius of 100 miles has been en~
: sted in the hunt. The leader
of the delivery was recognized
by guards as being William Nel
son. young insane burglar who,
} mself. escaped from the insti
tute about a month ago.
He and two armed companions
backed up six guards, then aided
: :ie six frightened patients into
; waiting auto and sped away
t :th them.
The delivery was made much
in the same manner that Harry
X Thaw, millionaire slayer of
Stanford, White made his escape
‘ om the same ins- > it'.oe in 1913.
CANTANIA. Italy, Dec.. 8. (IP)—
Winifred Spooner. 23 year-old
British aviatrix, dived into the
Tyrrhenian Sea off Bel Monte
Calabro, near the toe of Italy’s
root, on an attempted record
Tight from London to Cape
Town, South Africa.
The plane kept afloat and af
:er waiting for some time with
her co-pilot, Captain Awards, for
aid which did not appear, the
plucky girl set out to swim for
shore, two miles away.
She reached land safely, but
was completely exhausted In
-.he meantime Ewards had been
t rescued by a fisherman.
HIM SMOOTHLY
HUSKS TO VICTORY
NEW YORK, Dec., 8, UP)—At
the charity game between Col
gate and New York University,
20,000 spectators saw Colgate
win 7 to 6. New York drove a
touch-down the last minute of
play but the kick was blocked
by Orsi, Colgate end who scored
in the first period on a pass from
Hart.
Mac Aulso kicked Colgate’s
extra point.
annual election
I Regular meeting Seward Chap
ter O. E. S. tonight (Monday) at
8. Annual election of officers.
MINING RIGHTS IN |
ALASKA DETERMINED
BJ COURT APPEALS
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec., 8, {#*) J
_The United States circuit court
of appeals affirmed the Alaska
federal court’s opinion in favor
of the Alaska Handy Gold Min-,
ing Company which was sued by |
the Chichakoff Extension Gold j
Mining Company to determine;
alleged rights of the Alaska com- |
pany in land the Chichakoff
had patented.
The lower court held that the
Alaska Handy had improved the.
claims in 1918 and 1919 thereby j
holding a greater title.
Id ITERS ss
TRAPPER NEARLY LOSES HIS
LIFE IN RAGING SEAS
NEAR KODIAK
If one can imagine swimming
a mile in the icy waters of Res
tin'
ar wit’
Bay
the
i bout
M.
at this time of the
winds heaping the
m ido ’ wdS be con
harrowing exper
Kc
reck m
nearly
r Mill
d
ana a complete outfit mciud
his trapper’s license, had star
out from Kodiak for some is
! lands to the north where he ex
j pected to set out his trap lines.
He ran into heavy weather go
ing up toward Spruce Island in
■ a place famous for its heavy
seas. He struck a reef off Mill
Bay and the boat went down
taking everything with it but
Herb.” The waves were breaking
! over the reef so there was no
| asylum there. He struck out for
; shore a mile away and finally
I made it, although exhausted.
| After making land there was
j no shelter for man or beast; his
i clothes were wet. he had no mat
\ ches and an icy wind blowing.
| He was in one h-- of a fix, he
j said. So he decided he’d better
I start walking the nine miles to
| Kodiak. He did that in the dark
jness and finally arrived after
much suffering.
“He even lost the trapping li
cense I had given him,” said
Commissioner Stowe of Kodiak,
speaking of the incident. “I’m go
ing to give him another one
when I get back, if he wants to
take another chance.”
MAY SPLIT MELON
SAN FRANCISCO. Dec., 8. (A5)_
Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Com
pany directors will meet Wednes
day to discuss inauguration of
dividends on common stock. The
rate will probably be 40c annu
| ally.
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HOCKEY SCORES
Portland 4, Tacoma 2; the
game was played in Portland and
by this win Portland took the
league leadership.
BATTLESHIP WAS 11 PER CENT
COMPLETED WHEN OR
DERED SCRAPPED
WASHINGTON, Dec., 8, (/P)—
Only 74c, but it had a place j
among figures in the millions
in Secretary Adams' annual re
port.
Construction of the battleship
Massachusetts was 11 per cent
completed by the Bethlehem j
Shipbuilding Company. Quincy, j
Mass., when it was scrapped un- j
der the Washington treaty The
Navy could not pay the bill un
til 1928, when it sent $3,907,636.
32.
Bethlehem found the cost to
be only $3,907,635.58, however, j
and remitted 74c.
The refund just missed being j
counted in last year’s report
but it has at last been included
with sums aggregating $50,000,
000. The rPst of the money was
spent for construction and for
scrapping of five- aernbat ships.
S O V'v. T CONFIS C A.T F AI, t O F
PROPER. rr,FS PF* OMGfNG
PRISONERS
MOSCOW, Dec*., 8, (/Pi -Five of
the eight engineers who were
tried on charges of conspiring
against the Soviet government,
were sentenced to death and the
three others sentenced to 10
years imprisonment and confis
cation of all of their property
Those sentenced to death are:
: Lenoid Ramsin. confessed leader
| of the conspirators; Victor Lar
! ichev, Nikoai Charnovskv, Ivan
j Kalinikov and Alexander Fedo
| tov.
Thoe sentenced to prison were;
Valadimir Ochkin, youngest of
the group: Serges Kuprianov and
Xenophon Sitin. All confessed
fully as ^ to the truth of the
charges.
LATER: The death sentence was
commuted to 10 years imprison
ment
FOOTBALL SCORES
Colgate 7, N. Y. U. 6.
Navy 26, Pennsylvania 0.
Carnegie Tech 26, Wash. Jeff. 0
W. Maryland 7, Maryland 0.
Notre Dame 27, So- Calif. 0.
Georgia U. 13, Geo. Tech 0.
GIVES OPINION
LONDON, Dec., 8, (/P)—Testi
fying here before a board of in
quiry into the wreck of the diri
gible R-101 in Northern France,
Dr. Hugo Eckener, master of the
Graf Zeppelin, expressed the
opinion that the disaster was due
to a leak in one of her gasbags
which caused her head to become
neavy, and to dive.
PLOTTING KIET
FASCISTS POPULAR
NEW ITALIAN GAME
ROME, Dec., 8, (^—Confes
sion of the part she played in
an alleged w i d e s pread plot
against Fascist leaders, was made
by Mrs. Llilian Vernon de Bosis,
62, a native of Syacuse, N. Y.
Italian police asserted the con
fession was made Saturday. She
formerly lived in Boston and St.
Louis and is the widow of the
Italian poet Adolfo de Bosis.
Twenty-seven others in social
and intellectual circles w?ere ar
rested with her.
CHIEF TASK WILL BE TO PRE
VENT TOO RAPID, ARA
BLE ACREAGE
WASHINGTON, Dec., 8, (/P)—
Secretary Hyde pronounced the
feeeral reclamation policy in
consistent with present efforts
to curtail form production.
In his report to Pn-odent Hoo
ver, the Secretary said “it is a
serious question whether in view
of the existing over-product-ion
in agriculture it is advisable to
promt e agricu:tura 1 .expo nsion
through irrigation and drainage.
“Studies of our land require
ments which take into consider
ation the available land areas,
he continued, “the probable
growth of population, the trend
in consumption, technical pro
gress in agriculture, and foreign
trade prospects indicate that the
present need is not agriculture
expansion but contraction,
“For a decade at least our chief
task will be to prevent too rap
id an expansion of the arable
acreage-”
WORLD WIDE
NANKING, Dec., 8, W—World
wide communication was an
nounced by the Nationalist gov
ernment when the Shanghai
San Francisco direct wireless sta
tion is opened. The government
will control cable landings on
China’s shroes.
THIRD TIME FAILED
NEWPORT, R. I. Dec., 8, (JP)—
I Richard W. Child, writer, dip
plomat, was divorced by his
third wife, Mistress Eva Sander
son Child. She charged cruelty.
TWILIGHT TRAGEDY
Domestic tragedy in the twi
: light of life overtook Mr. and
Mrs. Jerry Callihan who were
granted a divorce last week in
the district court session at An
chorage. Callihan is 80 years of
•age and his wife almost as old.
He has been a barber of Anchor
age for years where they have
lived. Quarrels over their respec
tive pronertv rights is said to
have brought the parting.
STEEL COMBINE IS
AGAIN UP FOB
ANNUAL BASTING
ATTACK ON STEEL TRUST IS
LED BY SENATOR NOR
RIS, NEBRASKA
WASHINGTON, Dec.. 8, (/P)—
In addition to both Houses of
Congress planning to carry out
President Hoover’s supplmentary
message to Congress in which he
proposed an appropriation of
$150,000,000 to be distributed
at his order among various fed
eral agencies as an emergency
| fund for accelerating public
| works in the government fight
i on unemployment, bills have
| been introduced to carry out the
recommendation.
Moves were made in the Sen
ate for study of the anti-trust
llaw, preparatory to revision, and
for investigation of the price of
steel, announced by subsidiar
; ies of the United States Steel
| Corporation and quickly follow
ed by other concerns, including
Bethlehem.
j An attack on the "steel
i trust” was led by Senator Nor
| ids of Nebraska.
NEW YGEK. Dec . 8, UP)—The
carcass of the animal found in
Alaska ice and reported to the
j American Museum of Natural
! History, is probably that of a
i small whale. Dr. Chas. Bunnell,
j president of the Alaska College
stated in • telegram to Bernard
Brown, cur or
Brown said the specimen found
! floating in Columbia Bay is ap
parently from the Cateacean
.whale age. It is a small whale
and nothing indicates prehistor
ic origin/’
CARNEGIE TECH WINS
PITTSBURG, Dec., 8, (/P)—
Carnegie Tech defeated Wash
ington Jefferson 26-0 at the
charity game here. Three touch
j downs were made in the last
■ quarter.
ONETIME nil
PASTOR GALLED OT
DEATH IN MISSOURI
I KANSAS CITY, Dec., 8, </P>—
Rev. Samuel H. King, 68, who es
tablished the first white mission
at Juneau in the gold-rush days,
; will be buried here today. He
I died Saturday at Excelsior
Spring, Missouri where he went
last year.
He retired last year as a
Presbyterian pastor. For three
years he conducted services at
Juneau in a log hut called “Nor
thern Light.” He returned to
Alaska in 1928 to the dedication
of a new church built by mem
bers of the congregation which
from his mission.