MEMBER AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION
VOLUME XVI. NUMBER 118. SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MAY 28, 1931. PRICE TEN CENTS
ENTIRE TRIIN OF
12 COACHES LIFTED
TRICKS. CYCLONE
ONE DEAD, TWO OTHERS SER
IOUSLY INJURED; SCORE
SLIGHTLY HURT
FARGO, N. D., May 28, (/P)—
Dashing 50 miles an hour the
crack Great Northern “ Empire
Builder” coast train, Eastbound
from Seattle, was picked up like
a toy from the tracks and wreck
ed by a tornado eight miles
southeast of here, late yesterday.
Andrew Anderson of Montesano,
Wash., was hurled through a win
dow and ground to death beneath
'he wheels of the following coach.
Mrs. Emily Hannan of Seattle
suffered a broken back and it is
said has a slight chance for re
covery.
Mrs. M. Troll of Minot was al
so seriously injured, and her in
fant daughter.
Mrs. Hilda Qualley of Winches
ter, Wash., was injured about
the head; more than a score of
others were slightly injured.
The 12 coaches were picked up
without warning as if handled
like a cradle and deposited with
a thud on the prairie leaving only
the engine and tender on the
tracks.
The injured were taken here in
autos and ambulances. The spe
cial train was all-steel and none
collapsed.
Moorehcad citizens helped in
removing the injured.
PAU. Fiance, May 27. UP) —Or
ville Wright will be the guest of
honor at the unveiling of the mon
ument commemorating the first
flight made in the vicinity of Pau,
in 1909, an achievement of his
brother, Wilbur. The monument is
cledicated to both brothers.
Th date of the unveiling has
been definitely fixed for July 23.
Coste and Bellpnte, who laid the
first stone of the monument when
they visited Pau during their tour
of France in November, 1930, will
attend the ceremony, as will F.
H. Prince, of Boston, father of Nor
man Prince, one of the first Am
erican aviators to meet death with
the Lafayette Escadrille during the
war.
The monument will consist of
a marble column, to which will
be affixed a bronze plaque depict
ing the original Wright plane and
showing profiles of the two
Wrights.
EXPEDITION MAROONED
PARIS, May 28. (£*)—A message
was received here from Juba, in
the central province of British
India, from the “Bradley Bigelow”
expediiton of Chicago disclosing
that the party was marooned at
Juba until its airplanes could be
repaired. The party was engaged
in hunting elephants.
HALIBUT PRICES
SEATTLE, May 28, {JP)—Halibut
from five vessels bringing 76,000
pounds, sold for 6c and lOV^t. At
Prince Rupert 215,000 pounds of
American halibut sold for 4c to
7 and nine-tenths cents; Canadian
3c to 6 and four tenths cents.
MS FUR PRICES
i BEGINNING TO STIFFEN
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TACOMA, May 28, (/P)—Prices
in the fur market showed a stif
fening at the monthly sale held
here by the West Coast Pur Sales.
A total volume of $50,000 repre
sented the pelts from Alaska and
from several Western States.
Cross fox, lynx, muskrats and
j martens were prime favorites.
jMost of the furs purchased will
j be shipped to New York.
EDISON RECEIVES BORNS
i BOHLE LABELED WRONG
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FORT MYERS, Fla., May 28. (/P)
'—Thomas A. Edison, the inventor,
had the fingers of both hands
; bandaged as a result of acid burns
received last week.
! “Got hold of a bottle with the
wrong label,” the inventor said.
The burns were received during
the experiments to produce rub
ber from golden rod.
MILLION ALLEGED LOSE
CHICAGO, May 28. i/Pi—'The
Herald and Examiner said that
more than $2,000,000 of the $8,
000,000 which John Factor, known
as ••Jake, the barber.” was said
to have accumulated in interna
tional swindles, was found here
by Scotland Yard operatives.
Attorneys for the British Em
bassy in Washington, it was said,
contemplated starting suit to at
tack the funds for the benefit of
British investors who allegedly lost
millions through Factor’s stock
; operations.
!CW EPS CHECK
! FOREIGN PUNE PILOTS
i SHANGHAI, May 27. (/P)—Air
planes owned and piloted by for
* eigners will hereafter not be per
! mitted to fly over China without
i the official sanction of the Chin
ese Government. And a permit
!must be applied for a month in
• advance.
Foreign navigators failing to ob
: serve these regulations will have
| their planes placed in detention,
government has decreed.
NOT DISCOURAGED
I WASHINGTON, D. C., May 28.
; (/P)—President Hoover returned to
his desk with little hope of elim
inating the Postoffice Department
deficit this year but with expecta
tions of trimming its expenditures
by $53,000,000 for the coming year.
The president had spent the week
end at his Rapidan Camp.
PLANE IS IN OLD
CHILE OUT ISO ILL
THE CHINEE, MIL
TACHIKAWA, May 28, (^—Con
ceding that his plane would be
“somewhat cumbersome and rath
er difficult to manipulate,” Ash
made final plans for his around
I the-world flight.
| “She doesn’t fly herself like
some of the up-to-date planes
| and the pilot has to tend to bus- |
liness every second and keep his
| eyes peeled to make sure every
j thing is functioning.”
Ruth Barron, Hollywood aviat
rix, who came here to assist Ash
in preparation for the flight, said
she will not go to Samushiro to
see the takeoff and said the re
port that she was to accompany
Ash was ridiculous. She returns
by steamer next week.
! AMERICAN
j Washington 11, 4, Boston 3, 3.
New York 5, Phillies 6.
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St. Louis 4, Cleveland 5.
I Detroit 4, 1, Chicago 5, 10.
NATIONAL.
Pittsburg 4, St. Louis 0.
Chicago 8, Cincinnati 4.
Boston 4. New York 7.
These were the only games.
COAST
Los Angeles 10, Portland 6.
Sacramento 6, Missions 7.
Oakland 6, Hollywood 8.
Frisco 4, Seattle 5; 13 innings.
MADRID, May 28. (/P>—Five
thousand men in the regular army
, will be mustered out under an
i order for abolishment of four cav
! airy regiments and one of in
' fantry here and at Badiloz.
This step comes as the opening
I of an economy campaign by the
I new government which calls for
a substantial reduction in the
army.
HIGHWAY IS OPEN
CORDOVA, May 28, (/P)—1The j
Richardson Highway is now open j
to automobiles from Chitina to!
Fairbanks for the first time in
May since the opening of the
road, Oldtimers say. The Valdez
end is still snowbound with two
inches falling Wednesday.
! SALMON imOIIS
LEHE SEATTLE JUNE 10
' This year’s field work in Alas
ka by the Bureau of Fisheries will
again be supervised by Dr. Willis
H. Rich, who expects to leave
Seattle June 10 for Kodiak Island,
where he has been personally
handling important investigations;
later making a general tour of
the various fishery areas.
A dozen members of the his staff
will be at various Alaska points,
observing conditions and gathering
data for subsequent study.
MICH ELS ON INDICTED
CORDOVA, May 28, (/P)—The
grand jury in session at Valdez,
indicted James Michelson for as
sault with a dangerous weapon
upon Mrs. Charles Svendson and
Peter Orloff, all of Shuyak Island.
MC HUN TIKES
DECISION, PETROLIC
NEW YORK, May 28, (/PWim
my McLarnin evened; up the count
with Billy Petrolle by winning a
10-round decision before'a crowd
of 18,000 Wednesday night.
Petrolle won a decision over Me
Larnin last November.
There were no knock-downs. Pe
trolle weighed 138 and McLarnin j
142.
BUN ROM TOSSED
COPENHAGEN, May 28. (&)—
Prince Erik of Denmark, nephew
of King Christian X, his Princess
and their small daughter narrowly
escaped inury when their auto
escaped injury in a collision with
another car near a rockslide.
The seven occupants of both
machines were hurled through wifi-”
dows and doors but apparently es
i caped with only minor scratches.
DEMPSEY PUNS TRIP
LOS ANGELES, BUSINESS
RENO, May 28. (/P)—Jack Demp
sey, former heavyweight champioij,
admitted that he contemplated go
ing to Los Angeles within the next
few days “only on business” and
not to confer with his wife regard
ing their marital difficulties.
“Nothing to it at all,” Demp
sey said, in answer to a report
that he would attempt to effect
a reconciliation with Estelle Tay
lor. “If I go to Los Angeles it
will be solely to confer with asso
ciates about the disposal of some
property at Ensenada, Mexico.
GAS-STEALEIS PERIL
lives er Min
OWENSBORO, Ky. May 27. (JP)
—Thefts of gasoline and oil from
airplanes here have caused pilots
great concern.
One pilot barely escaped with |
his life and those of his passen
gers when, after soaring into the i
air he found the gasoline connec
tion on his cabin plane had been
loosened and nearly all his gas
taken out.
The thefts occurred while the
planes were in the hangar at Shee
han field. i
171 MILES AN HOUR
SPARTANBURG, May 27. (/P)—
Pilot J. S. Charles, flying on the
regular route for Eastern Air
Transport, Inc., has set a record
for time between Suartanburg and
Atlanta. He flew the distance of
171 miles in one hour flat, making
one stop of 10 minutes at Green
ville, S. C.
GERMAN SCIENTISTS
REACHED ALTITUDE
OF NINE MILES
BALLOON AND SPHERE CAME
DOWN SAFELY TN EDGE
EDGE OF GLACIER
BERLIN, May 28, (£>)—A Tel
egraphen Union dispatch from
Insbruck said Professors Piccard
and Kilfer who yesterday went
aloft in an aluminum sphere at
tached to a balloon, are alive.
They met a rescue party which
was proceeding to the spot where
the balloon came down on a gla
cier near the Alpine town of
Gurgl glacier.
The message said that Piccard
told the party they had reached
an altitude of 52,500 feet, more
than nine miles.
Reports confirmed that the bal
loon landed 8,000 feet above sea
level at the edge of the great
Gurgl galcier.
The balloon did not appear to
be bady damaged.
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RADIO COMPANY VICTORIOUS
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 28.
(£>>—-The DeForest Radio Company
wog. a victory ot vast importance
f to the radio industry when the
Supreme Court held invalid the
1 Langmuire tube patents of the
i General Electric Company. The
decision frees independent radio
firms from the necessity of paying
i royalties until 1942.
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PRESIDENT MS TRIBUTE
■KNIT ‘DOUEHBDYS’
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ITHACA, N. Y., May 28. (/P)—
i President Hoover dedicated Cor
‘ nell University’s memorial to the
264 World war dead from 33
I states and four foreign lands.
| Speaking by radio from his
Rapidan, Va., camp, the president
j said that he saw in the occasion
a tribute to all the university men
! who served in that conflict.
j CURTAIL SOVIET TRADE
GENEVA, May 28. (/P)—A direct
| threat to curtail Soviet trade with
the United States was seen as a
result of conferences of Foreign
Commissioner Maxim Litvinoff of
the Soviet, with Foreign Secretary
Henderson of Great Britain and
; foreign ministers Curtius and
! Grandi of Germany and Italy.
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STRIKE DEFERRED
| TOKYO, May 28. (&)—1The strike
• of nearly 210,000 railway employ
; ees, which threatened to spread to
j include all classes of workers, was
| deferred and possibly averted by
! the Minister of Railways who
! agreed to ask the cabinet to re
jscind a wage cut affecting more
i than 9,000 officials of railways.
NO WINE CEREMONY FOR THEM
; LE HAVRE, France, May 28. (/P)
—Determined to “uphold the Con
stitution of the United States” on
foreign soil as well as at home,
Mayor and Mrs. John C. Potter
of Los Angeles refused to partici
pate in the wine of honor cere
mony on the occasion of their ar
rival in France with a party of
visiting American mayors.