MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXIX. NUMBER 171.
SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, JULY 24, 1933.
PRICE TEN CENTS
MOLUSONS HAD j
BAD ACCIDENT
IN LANDING SHIP
BRIDGEPORT. Conn., July 24. —
After flying safely across the At
lantic James Mollison and his wife
Amy Johnson, famous woman avia
trix, cracked up their airplane Sun-j
day night at the Bridgeport airport!
in attempting to make a landing.
The airport manager said the)
Mollisons attempted to bring their |
plane down on the unlighted field
and plunged into a marsh beyond
the field. He did not know whether
they were injured in the crackup.
The Mollisons left Wales Satur
day to hop the Atlantic.
A first bulletin on the condition
of the Mollisons said that both;
were sleeping and that their condi- j
tion was improved. The plane was;
badly damaged.
No announcement has been made :
yet whether they will continue on!
to New York, thence to Bagdad, andj
thence to England as they had
planned.
Physical exhaustion caused the1
accident after they had flown 39'
hours from Pendine Sands. Wales,
to within 60 miles of New York.
Their gasoline was nearly gone.
They tried to bring their plane
down on the runaway of the air
port only to have it overshoot into
the marshlands and turn over.
"I was so tired I didn’t know
where I was headed,” said Mollison,
as he and his w’ife were carried
off the field on stretchers. “He
couldn't see,” cried Mrs. Mollison.
On their flight over the Atlantic
the Mollisons fought contrary winds
and then hit fog patches and head
winds over Newfoundland and down
the coast. It was six p.m. Sunday
night when their black plane soar
ed over this airport and Fred Mol
ler. the airport manager went aloft
and tried to guide the Mollisons
to the airport runaway.
Mollison had been signally frant
ically and suddenly shot down and
nosed over into a drainage ditch.
He had previously cut his ignition
switch to prevent a fire. The Mol
lisons were thrown clear of the
plane and a distance of 15 feet.
As the airport attendants sought
the bodies in the darkness with
their flashlights they heard the
cry: “For God’s sake come over
here.”
It was Mollison and not far from
him they found his wife. The at
tendants slashed fabric from the
plane to make emergency stretchers
and hastened the pair to the hos
pital.
“It was a much more difficult
journey than we anticipated,” Mol
lison told doctors as they bandaged
abrasions on his legs and treated
other cuts. Bandages were applied
to Mrs. Mollison’s lacerated right
hand and abrasions on her legs
treated. She said she was sorry they
had not landed in the daylight
when they found their gas running
low. “I wanted to land at Boston ”
Mollison had been at the plane’s
control for 37 hours.
.EXCLUSIVE CLUB
PATRONS ROBBED
CHICAGO, uly 24. —Five shot
gun bandits stormed the exclusive
Olympic Golf and Country Club
% early Sunday and wrested $44,100
4n cash and jewelry from 93 ter
rorized patrons.
The robbers held possession of
the Club for 40 minutes and then
made their getaway in an automo
bile. The 82 guests and 11 employ
ees were surprised by the gunmen
just as the Club’s dance tyas con
cluding. I
ENGLAND WINS CUP
AUTEUIL, France, July 24. —!
With Ellsworth Vines, the United
States tennis champion dropping
unconscious on the sun scorched;
tennis court, America’s sixth con-;
secutive campaign to regain the|
Davis Cup failed dramatically Sun- j
day. England won the interzone fi-;
nal four matches to one.
POSSE ROUTED
ILLINOIS ROBBERS j
IN A FEW HOURS
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CHICAGO, July 24. —An all night
manhunt by vigilantes was climax
ed Sunday by the slaying of a bank
robber and the imprisonment of his
two campanions. The dead man
has not been identfied and the
others refused to give their names J
Officers, however, were convinced
that they were Chicago gangsters
as they asked a Chicago lawyer to
1 defend them.
The manhunt followed the rob
| bery of $300 from the Millbrock
! State Bank. Within a half hour af
| ter the robbery there was a posse
| of 150 vigilantes on their trail and
j they soon recovered the loot in
lan overturned bandit car. They cap
i tured one robber here. The others
j were taken into custody in the
I nearby woods early Sunday.
ROOSEVELT TO
MAKE ADDRESS
WASHINGTON, July 24. —Presi
dent Roosevelt will open the ad
ministration's gigantic and unpre
cedented campaign to increa.se the
nation's mass purchasing power to
day by asking industry to sign, on
the dotted line, agreements for uni
form higher wages and shorter
working hours.
The chief executive’s address to
night was drafted Sunday aboard
the yatch Sequoia and will be the
signal for such a mass attack on
public opinion as this nation has
i not seen since World War days.
RECORDS SMASHED
JONES BEACH. N. Y. July 24. —
Five world records in the official
l races and two in a special event
I were left in the wake of the wo
! men’s National Amateur Athletic
Association swimming champion
ships which reached their fourth
1 and concluding round of competi
i tion here Sunday.
NO DETAILS YET
No details of the entertainment
planned for the five Navy destroy
ers due here the latter part of this
month have been announced to the
Gateway but it is thought that quite
a schedule of events has been plan
j ned. It is known that several
I dances wrill be staged, a baseball
j game or two played and other ac
j tivities carried on but no official
J word has reached the sanctum
sanctorum of ye editor.
GOING TO FAIRBANKS
i NOME, July 24. —Jimmy Mattern
has not received any definite word
from his backers as to whether
they want him to continue his
round-the-world flight. It is thot
that Mattern will be flwon to Fair
banks soon by the Alexander party.
PHILADELPHIAN SHOT
PHILADELPHIA, July 24. —Frank
McClathy, 56-year old real estate
man was shot when he offered re
sistance to kidnappers.
A LONG FLIGHT
NEW YORK, July 24. — Two
French aviators were poised here
over the week-end awaiting today
,to lift their gasoline-loaded air
plane into the skies and soar off
for the Persian Gulf.
JOLSON,WINCHELL
STAGED A BRIEF
FIGHT THEIR OWN j
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HOLLYWOOD, July 24. — En-i
emity between A1 Jolson, “mammy j
song singer,” and Walter Winchell,!
Hollywood’s star columnist, flared
into the open here when Jolson,
led a stiff right to Winchell’s jaw.!
Friends separated the two before
they had much of a chance to mess
each other.
Jolson, it is said, took exception (
to one of Wincell’s scenarios, which
he said followed his life in a man
ner that was not only derrogatory
to himself but also to his wife,
Miss Ruby Keeler.
The incident occurred in the Hol
lywood stadium.
Riffling a stack of congratula- •
tory telegrams, A1 “one-punch” Jol- i
son announced himself ready for;
a rematch today of his famous,
fight with Walter Winchell. The
^macking right which the “Mam-!
my singer” planted on the colum
nist’s head still resounded as the
principals maintained armed peace.
Describing himself as supposed to
be ‘something of a clown anyway,”
Winchell protested Jolson was too
serious about the whole matter. He
said, “there’s no use to get indig-1
nant. Jolson is a nice fellow except
his shoes squeak.”
“Why don’t you 'hake hands wTith
him,” Winchell was asked. Winchell
replied. “Not for three days yet,'
this publicity is priceless.”
GOVERNORS GIVEN
ROARIN' WELCOME
SACRAMENTO, Calif., July 24. —
California, with a rip roarin’ fron
tier welcome at Truckee and a ban
quet Sunday at the State Capital,
gave the 25th annual conference
of governors a taste of Western
hospitality that hasn’t been equalled
since the boys put on a special re
ception for “Rattlesnake Dick”
down in Dutch Flat.
Gov. James Rolph, Jr., of Calif
fornia was master of ceremonies.
The conference is held annually
by the governors to enable them to
get together and discuss the var
ious phases of their executiveship.
YANKEES AGAIN
LEAGUE LEADERS
NEW YORK, July 24. — The New
York Yankees again recaptured the
; American League lead from the
Washington Senators Sunday by
winning both ends of a double
i header from the Cleveland Indians
| while the Senators lost one game
’ to Detroit.
■ The Yankes smothered the In
I dians in both contests with the
! identical score of 8 to 1.
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GOOD INDICATIONS
| NEW YORK, July 24. —Dunn &
Bradstreet’s latest analysis of ec
! cxnomic conditions in the United
l States is of an optimistic tone and
reports that additional gains are
being made steadily by businesses
and in the number and amount of
payrolls.
ALL IN FUN
HOLLYWOOD, July 24. — The
l Marx brothers, on behalf of their
heavyweight fighter, “Canvasback”
Cohen, issued a challenge to Jol
son and Winchel. Cohen was dis
qualified in his last fight for re
fusing to mix.
BASEBALL SCORES
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Los Angeles 1-7, Oakland 2-2.
Portland 3-3, Missions 1-2.
San Francisco 7-7. Sacramento
STOCK QUOTATIONS I
NEW YORK, July 24. —A few of |
the latest stock market quotations i
available are Alaska Juneau 23,'
Chicago, Milwaukee, pfd, 12, Co
lumbia Gas and Electric 18%, Gen
eral Motors 25%, Kennecott 19, N..
Y. Cent. 29%, Radio 7%, United
Aircraft 30%, Unit- Corp 12%, U. S.
Steel 52%.
OIL MAN WAS
KIDNAPPED AT
POINT OF GUNS
OKLAHOMA CITY, July 24. —Ar
rangements have been made by
the family of Charles F. Urschel,
millionaire oil man, snatched from
his home late Saturday by two
machine gunners, to pay ransom as i
.soon as contact writh the kidnappers'
,is established, it was learned au
! thoritatively today.
Urschel and Walter Jarrett, oil;
operator, were spirited from the|
former’s home at the point of!
: machine guns shortly before mid- j
night as they played cards with
their wives.
Jarret was released about 10
miles beyond the city limits. De
tectives refused to announce de-1
tails of the release but it is thot
.that details for the ransom pay
ment were sent with Jarrett.
MARKET CLOSED
IN BIG CRASH
NEW YORK, July 24. — The big
rise in financial markets that start
ed with the end of the banking
crisis last Spring came to a dram
' atic end last week witi the biggest
crash since the 1929 debacle.
A top-heavy speculative struc
ture built up in months of fever
ish speculation by professional tra
ders and the general public, top
pled like a house of playing cards!
| when several developments caused
a wild rush to get out of the mar
kets.
The Stock Exchange has an
nounced they will remain open only;
until noon on business days, here
; after, or until further notice.
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BACK AT WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON, July 24. —Presi
dent Roosevelt returned to the
, White House shortly after 6 p.m.
i Sunday from a week-end cruise on
! the yacht Sequoia on the Potomac
' river.
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DORBANDT COMING
Word comes from Los Angeles
that Pilot Frank Dorbandt, former
Alaskan air ace, has arranged a
sky vacation for A. E. Verrel, of
Los Angeles, and a party of nine.
Pilot Dorbandt states that the vac
ation will last three weeks and
j this time will be spent in tour
ing the Arctic air lanes. Dorbandt
has been in Los Angeles for some
j time and has been broadcasting
'over radio stations there of his air
experiences in the North. He took
■ part in the recent Fourth of July
air races held in that city.
NO DEVELOPMENTS
ALBANY, N. Y. July 24. — No
developments have been announced
in the John J. O’Connell kidnap
pig case for the last several days
by either police or friends of thej
family.
RUSS ACE DOWN
MOSCOW, July 24. —Pilot Levin
offsky, the Russian flyer who flew
Jimmy Mattern from Anadyr, Si
beria, to Nome, Alaska, was forced
down at Providence Bay by fog.
.The aviator is awaiting for better
weather conditions before contin
' uing.
BALBO AND POST
HAVE CONFAB IN
NEW YORK CITY
NEW YORK, July 24. — Two
heroes of the air, Wiley Post and
General Italo Balbo met Sunday af
ternoon to congratulate each other
on the successful completion of
their spectacular air journeys.
The leader of the Italian air
armada called at Post’s hotel to
bring the best wishes of his fly
ing comrades to the Oklahoma pilot,
who was refreshed from his gruel
ing flight by a 10-hour sleep.
Before he received General Bal
bo, Post motored to Floyd Bennett
Field to inspect his purple and
white monoplane, “the Winnie Mae”
of Oklahoma, in which he landed
Saturday night from Edmonton on
his world flight.
Aviator Post said he was feeling
fine considering the gruelling days
he had spent on his flight. The
temporary deafness caused by the
roar of his plane’s motor had vir
| tually disappeared.
Post has no illusions about the
longevity of his record of seven
;days, 18 hours and 49 minutes for
the round the world hop. He thinks
that someone will be sure to break
it in the not distant future. Post
believes he can make the trip in
five days if he has good weather.
Post was feeling fine today after
he had put several square meals
under his belt, taken a cooling and
soothing shower, and slept com
fortably for many hours.
In speaking of his robot pilot
Post said it helped him out quite
| a bit and the device is a big hit
land he is all for it. He related how,
in flying from Kharbarovsk to Nome
and on into Alaska that it would
have been almost impossible for
him to fly without this. He said
i that when the weather got so thick
that he was forced to fly low and
then again to climb to get above it
I that he would not have made it
without the robot. He set the ro
bot to climb steadily and that was
all here was too it.
New York is preparing a hero’s
reception for the Oklahoma avia
tor for Wednesday. Many notables
' have already called on he flier to
congratulate him and give him their.
best wishes.
Balbo and his air armada were"
to start for Italy this morning
from the United States, where, for
a week, they have been showered
jwith unbounded praise for their
I mass flight from Orbettello, Italy
| to this country.
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OREGON WET
PORTLAND, July 24.—Oregon vot
ers, in Friday’s election, cast an
apparent majority in favor of
the Repeal of the 18th Amendment.
All the returns have not been com
piled officially yet but the unoffic
ial count shows that Oregon is
certain to become the 20th state
to vote in favor of the law to
oust the dry measure. No state has
voted against the referendum in
the elections so far. Texas votes on
the law on August 26 and Wash
ington on August 29.
SOUND MEN ARE
ON A BIG STRIKE
HOLLYWOOD, July 24. —Deter
mined to avoid a threatened tie
up of the entire movie industry 11
film studios are advertising for
men to replace the 665 sound tech
icians who struck Saturday.
Because sound is practically thq
essence of movie production now,
the strike affects a large portion of
the 27,000 workers in the industry.
The sound men seek a certain con-*
tract embodying uniform wages and
hours. No progress had been made
in negotiations up to today.