MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
Grateful Tidings
Of Hissing Hen
Stirs The World
AIRMEN OF ROCKFORD CARRYING HOPES OF
CITY ON ATTEMPTED TRANS-ATLANTIC
FLIGHT FORCED DOWN IN WILDS OF GREEN
LAND UNHURT AND PLANE UNDAMAGED
HOME CITY GOES WILD ON RECEIPT OF
NEWS AFTER TWO WEEKS ANXIOUS SUS
PENSE—TREKED BACK TO CIVILIZATION
LIVING ON REDUCED RATIONS—PICKED UP
BY UNIVERSITY MICHIGAN EXPEDITION.
NEW YORK, Sept. 3., (/P)—Bert Hassel and Parker
Cramer, Rockford flyers are safe at Mt. Evans, Southern
Greenland, after the world has waited anxiously for two
weeks wondering as to their fate According to a copy
righted article in the New York Times .they made a forced
farming at -Sukertoppen fifty miles from Mt. Evans and
have slowly findmg their way back to civilization, living
off of reduced rations of pcmican Their plane was un
damaged and they ruffe ed no injury but they could not
ret
their ship off the ground again.
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NORWEGIAN SHIP PICKS UP
SEAPLANE PONTOON BE.
LONGED EXPLORER
TROMSOE, Norway, Sept., 3, (/P)
—The first definite clue as to the
fate of Amundsen and the five men
who accompanied him on the relief
expedition to rescue the members
of the Nobile Arctic party has been
brought here. It is a float from the
seaplane in which the adventurers
started for Spitzbergen on June 18.
The relic was found by the Norwe
gian fishing vessel Brood picked up
near Fugloe Islands, Cocky group
off this port but seldom approached
because so dangerous to shipping.
Officers of the Steamer Michael
Sars and the French vessel Dulacne,
identified the float as belonging to a
French naval seaplane in which
Amundsen rode with Gene Guiland
as pilot. Comparison of the float with
photographs of the plane tended to
confirm the identification.
Bes|ide Amundsen and Guiland,
plane carried Lief Dietrichsen and
three French navy men comprising
the regular crew.
The Brood has been operating
off Vannis Land put into Tromsoe
eiarly Saturday raoifiinjg. ChJHain
Haeig told the authorities he had
picked up the pontoon Friday night.
A Norwegian expert on Arctic wat
ers who accompanied the Russian
Icebreaker Krassin on relief (work
said the accident must have occurr
<■i after the plane had turned and
w: • coming back.
\\ ord o]' tlie flyers’ safety came to
t.se Times, via radio station in a dis
patch from Prolesser Hobbs, leader
oi the University of Michagen Green,
land 'expedition which has its base at
Mt. Evans. The flyers were stated
to be in excellent health although
hungry. They had been living on a
ration of eight ounces par day. They
said that shortage of gasoline forced
them down but their plane was un
hurt. Smoke signals they sent up
attracted a member of tlm Hobbs
party to their position on the coast
with a motorboat. They bad appar.
antly been forced off their course
by adverse weather.
ROCKFORD GOES WILD
ROCKFOREf, 111., Sept. 3. UP)—
The single word that the Rockford
flyers were unharmed unlocked . all
the pent-up emotion in the breasts
of Rockfordians stored for two
weeks as they waited word of their
heroes and of whom they had be.
gun to despair. When they heard
that Hassell and Cranner were safe
and sound they broke into a bedlam
of noise in spontaneous celebration,
the lilue of which has not been wit
nessed since the Armistice 10 years
ago.
JAPAN MOVES COMOAT
INFANT MORTALITY RATE
TOKYO, Sept., 4, UP)—'The Jap
anese home office has started wo'dc
on a plan to combat infant mortality
in this country, said to be the high
est in tlie world. The situation ba=
long baffled Japan’s health officials.
Experimental work will be conduct
ed in children’s health clinics soon
to be established in 10 leading Japan
ese cities. Government physicans and
surgeons will be attached to the clin
ics and persons too poor to pay for
medical attention will be treated
without charge.
Aleutian On Way
North With Fair
Passenger List
SEATTLE, Sept., 4, (tf*)—The S. S.
Aleutian of the Alaska Steamship
Company sailed from this port Satur
day morning with 128 passengers of
which the following were booked for
Seward: C. J. Burton, Mr F. L. Groth,
Mrs L. L. Nonini, Gladys Scott Alice
Anderson, Esther Ashorn, Z. J. Lousac
Mrs E. Porter, M. Engle Mrs E. C.
Redmonds, Mrs. E. MacMahill, Wm.
Binetti, Miss R. Moody, Margaret Him
lin, Miss A. Longert, Emma Grose,
Mis§ A. Tramp, T. W. Lockwood, P.
Andrison, P. Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. W.
Schraneek and son, Mr., Mrs. Degord,
Miss F Seeor, Mr. and Mrs P. R.
Frowbridge, O Roper, three steerage,
and ihree round trippers.
DALLAS, _ Tex., Sept. 3. (/p)— A I
promies was given to labor that the j
Democrartic Party, if placed in pow
er, purposed to end without imploring
the righteous authority of the judi
ciary in the granting of injunctions!
in “pretended emergencies”, was
made by Vice-Presidential nominee
Nominee Robinson in his speech here
today. He said it' was the formal
opening of his campaign for the Vice
Presidency as team mate with A1
Smith. He said that he would con
tinually advocate the protection of
th American worker as against com.
petition with convict labor.
>Jeu) i ora Subway
Keeps Up Record
Disastrous Luck
NEW YORK, Sept. 3, (/P)—Scores
of passengers were overcome by
smoke and several of them fainted
and were trampled in the panic when
an interborougu subway train stalled
and was filled with smoke from a
abort -circuited third rail while pass,
ing under East River. Forty-three of
those effected were treated at hos
pitals while others were given emer.
gency treatment on the scene.
The train was nearly to the end of
the tunnel when dense smoke billow
ed from the first car. The passen
gers still mindful of the recent wreck
at Times Square, stampeded for the
door of the second car.
HOPE FLARES AGAIN
COPENHAGEN, Sept. 3, (#>)—'The
reported sighting by Norwegian seal
ers of a big bonfire on the edge of an
island of the Spitzbergen group has
again raised the questtion whether
Amundsen and his five companions
might still be alive. Sealers saw the
bonfire a fortnight ago.
FIRST MILD CURE PLANT IN
SEWARD DESTINED TO EN.
LARGEMENT
“The results already achieved in
Resurrection Bay this season will he
a revelation to fishermen of the en
tire Northwest, in quantity and grade
of mi'ld-cure salimon they have put
up,” sand John Torwick, of the Gor
man Packing company, who has just
finished a successful season in An.
chorage and is now on his way to
Seattle for the winter. He and Mrs.
Torwick left on the Steamer Alaska
yesterday.
“There seems now to he only one
thing holding Seward back and that
is a safe harbor for jinall boats, and
■_ „ are glad to knew iha’ arrsng
’n.h'ts hav airen’iy been tor •,
breakwater that will protect small
boats front the Souh winds that sweep
up the bay.
“I’ll tell you something. They had
more silver salmon than they could
handle at the local plant and they
sent some up to us at Anchorage and
they were a splendid grade of fish.
The mild-enre process in Seward
has a great future.”
Torwick said that the salmon sea
son had been a success with a total
catch on the upper Cook Inlet of about
60,000 cases at Anchorage. Four out.
fits shared in the harvest, including
the Gorman Go.,, the Magifl Fisher
ies company, the Emard Packing Co.,
and the Tomen company. In the case
of the Mag ill company they had a
fine season, making a mark that will
be shot at during future seasons.
“The Gorman company is still op.
erating at Anchorage,” said Torwick,
“under charge of F. O. ‘Scotty’ Perry.
Weather conditions have been bad,
but there is still good chance for a
good run before the close of the sea
son.
“In Seward, Mr. Chaimpenes and
his associates have achieved an en
viable record, and there is no telling
what they will reach before they
knock off salting down the salmon
for this and many seasons.”
Another New York
Subway Accident
NEW YORK, Sept. 3. (/P)—Ten
cars of an interurban subway train
were side.swiped by a work train on
the elevated tracks in the Bronx,
causing injuries to four persons and
.shaking up 75. The supply car of the
train derailed on a turn, telescoped
flat cars ahead and was carried
against the Sicars of the passenger
train and the trucks of the passenger
cars the trucks oof which were shov.
ed from the rails. Glass in nearly the
train was shattered.
LACE CAPE VOGUE
PARIS, Sept., 4, </P)—Lace capes
which, with lace dresses, form an en
semble costume are a distinct vogue
at fashionable French race tracks.
Tom Mix Is No
Mollycoddle In
Handling Fists
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I LOS ANGELES, Sept. 3, (&)—
With the acquittal written by the Los
Angeles court the final scene in a
house warming party which came to
an end one Sunday morning on the
beach was enacted here Saturday
with the freeing of Tom Mix, West
ern movie star who was tried in the
municipal court on charges of as.
■sault and battery preferred by Will
Morrissey, cabaret and stage com
edian.
The case was heard by Judge Wil
son who decided that both Morris
sey and his wife were drunk and got
into a scrap which involved a stream
of profanity from the comedian. Mix
was provoked and the court held
that he had acted “as only a prudent,
red blooded’’ man would act under
the circumstances and had a right
to defend himself from a verbal and
| fistic attack.
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HAPS; SHROUD MIST GRIPS
CALIFORNIA COAST
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SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 3. </P)—
Collisions in a dense fog off the
North Pacific coast over the weeK-end
caused heavy damage to four steam
freighters. One vessel with a great
hole amidship is approaching San
Francisco under tow. Another is eith
er sunk or a derelict. Two are steam,
ing foj* port to undergo repairs. The
worst damaged is the American
Steamship Floridian, which was aban
doned after a collision Saturday
night with the Admiral Fiske, 65 miles
south of Tatoosh Island on the Wash
ington coast.
The Fiskes sailors, it was reported,
that the vessel had sunk, but later the
hulk was sighed by a lookout aboard
the Fiske. The steamer Calrnar, own.
ed by the Bethlehem Steel Corpora
tion and the Canadian Rover operated
by the Canadian National Steamship
Co., crashed Sunday in the fog seven
miles southwest of Point Arena 100
miles north of here. A large hole was
torn in the Calmar’s port side.
/. W. W. Sentenced
For Insulting Flag
John Stevenson tore down an Am
erican flag at Ketchikan, stepped on
it and spit on it, and when arrested
toid U ?. O', lmisioner J. W. Kehoe .
that he was a Bciehevik and an I. W.
W. and d'en’t care how big a seat
ence he was given, according to ad
vices receivd by U. S. Marshal Albert
White at Juneau. Judge Kehoe sent,
enced Stevenson to serve one year
in the Federal jail at Juneau and pay
a fine of $500, a later message said.