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MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 119.
SEWARD, ALASKA. WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 1929.
PRICE TEN CENTS
CONSTANCE MORROW, THE
DAUGHTER OF AMBASSADOR
MEXICO, IS THREATENED
BOSTON, May 21, (#*)—A Boston
Post copywrighted story said that
Dwight Morrow, ambassador to
Mexico has been made the subject
of a $50,000 extortion plot. The
money is demanded under penalty
of torture and death to his young
est daughter, 15 year old Constance,
a student at Milton Academy.
The newspaper said it had learn
ed of the receipt of t " threaten
ing letters and are dii
sible for Saturday’s se
Colonel Lindbergh and mem
of the Morrow family to the 3\
row home at North Haven, Me.
The flight was also responsible
for the detective guard around the
home and the impersonation of
Constance by another girl at the
* academy while she was spirited
away to join Colonel Lindbergh.
Constance received a letter and
showed it to the school authorities.
The family was notified and a
guard placed around her. A second
letter contained detailed instruc
tions hs to placing the money and
named last Saturday as the time.
Morrow’s former partners in the
law firm, J. P. Morgan Co., have
been appealed to by Morrow and
the services of federal operatives
enlisted.
Alt ho Constance’s impersonator
followed instructions closely no one
appeared to claim the dummy
package. Meanwhile Constance and
Anne, the latter Col. Lindbergh’s
fiancee and others members of the
family, made a quick trip to Maine.
SEVEN PASSENGERS AND PI
LOTS LANDED SAFELY IN
DARKNESS, DESERT
V ELKO, Nev., May 22, (/P)—Seven
passengers and two pilots came
thru an accident without serious
injury when a westbound Boeing
airmail transport caught fire in
■i mid-air and made a forced landing
where it burned up.
The plane was enroute to San
Francisco when the left motor fail
ed and flames spouted from the
. dead engine and ignited a wing of
the plane 2,000 feet in the air.
It was forced to make a night
landing in the desert without lights, i
' Chief Pilot Barker nosed the craft
downward with flames sprouting
behind. Assistant Warner had the
door open before the plane stopped
and passengers hurired out.
Mail and freight was a total loss.
^ The motor failure cause is un
known.
WAS SPONTANEOUS
CLEVELAND, May 22, (Jp)—
After an investigation, fire war
dens reported that spontaneous
combusion caused the explosion
which wrecked the Cleveland Cli- j
nic and took the lives of more;
}25 patients. The heat came from
a leaky steam pipe in the base
ment of the building
CAUGHT IN WHEEL
SAN FRANCISCO, May 21, (/P)—
Caught in a whirling ferris wheel
which he was oiling, Harry Shan
non, 15 was instantly killed. His t
skull was fractured by the giant j
wheel.
WAITING FOR WEATHER TO
SETTLE; OLD ORCHARD,
MAINE TO ROME
OLD ORCHARD, Me., May 22. UP)
1—Thp monoplane Greenflash rest
■' at the hangar here awaiting to
on its 4,700 mile flight to
, .wane which, weather advices indi
cate!’, could not begin before Mon
day.
Roger O. Williams, pilot, and
Lewis A. Yancey, navigator, check
ed over the plane’s motor and in
struments and refueled during the
enforced delay.
“When the weatherman says ‘go’
we go”, Yancy said. The course
will be southeast along the 40lh
mrallel straight to Spain then over
the Mediterranean to Rome.
The plane will carry fuel for 60
hours but expects to make the
flight in 50.
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SAME OLD STUFF
WASHINGTON, May 21, UP)—A
’ong, stubborn, contest appears m
oro.'pect in the conference begin
ning between the senate and house
over their conflicting farm relief
measures. If advance notices count
a deadlock is ahead on the main
point of controversy, the .export de
benture plan.
SUED LARGE SUM
BREACH PROMISE
[
WOMAN WANTS SUM $500,000;
MONEY IN THE BANKS
IS GARNISHED
NEW HAVEN, Conn., May 21, (A3)
i—Mrs. Katherine King Fogarty of
New York sent papers of an alleged
breach of promise to marry suit
against James Tunney to Bridge
port and will be entered in the su
oerior court of Fairfield county.
Mrs. Fogarty asks $500,000 dam
ages. A deputy sheriff accompan
ied by a member of the late firm,
went to Bridgeport to file the pap
ers and arrange details of the suit.
All banks where Tunney might
have money has been garnisheed
land attachment has been entered
'against Tunney’s estate valued at
$14,000.
: Mrs. Fogarty formerly lived at
Fort Worth, Tex., where she secur
.ed a divorce from Fcgarty. Her
attorneys refused to say where she
jvas staying now. Details of the
suit were not divuldged.
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DEEP, ■ EEEREI
STROUDENBURG. Pa. May 22.
(/Pj—Indications that the wedding
: of Miss Anne Morrow and Col.
i Charles Lindbergh may take place
at the Morrow home in Englewood,
IN. J., possibly within a few days,
1 were seen here when the Inter
national News Service learned
that the Labar Nurseries of this
city have already shipped six or
seven carloads of flowers and
| plants to Englewood.
TALKS TO BYRD
LONG BEACH, Calif., May 22, i/P)
—Don Wallace, radio amateur was
in short wave communication wnh
Oomdr Byrd in his winter quarters
in the Antarctic. Comdr. Byrd said
it was 40 below zero but that it had
been warm during the day.
GEN. RICHARDSON
WILL BE BURIED
m WEST PBINT
NOTED ALASKA ROAD BUILDER
WILL'REST IN BEAUTIFUL
MILITARY CEMETARY
WASHINGTON, May 22, (/P)—Col.
Whlds Richardson, U. S. A., retired,
.died at the Walter Reed hospital
from an illness of some months.
He was awarded the distinguish
ed service medal for his work in
Russia during the world war.
Brigadier General Richardson
v as well known for his Alaska acti
i vities and was in Alaska from
1897 to 1899. He was assigned to
the adiutant department in Alaska
in 1900 and two years later engaged
in the construction of Fort Seward.
| When this project was completed
be was made a member of the
board of road commissioners in
1905.
j The body will be taken to West
Point today for burial.
U OF C HEAD RESIGNS
BERKELEY, May 22, (/Pi—Dr.
William Wallace Campbell, presi
dent of the University of California
for the last six years, announced
his resignation, effective July 1st
1930. He will also retire on that
date as director of Lick observatory
at Mt. Hamilton as professor of as
tronomy.
STRONG FIELD COMPETED ON HISTORIC LINKS
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Glenns
Collette
Marion
Turpie
Joyce
Wethered
This.is a sample of the ingredients that gave the British laidies’ champ
ionship at St. Andrews such a strong international flavor. Glenna Collett
was defeated by Joyce Wethered.
MEN ID u
IN TOILS OF II
POLICE, BUSIINESS MEN AND
RACKETEERS .“COUGH UP”
ALL THEY KNOW
OAKLAND, May 21. (/P)—Thirty
eight men and one woman, all
connected with illicit “rackets”
in Oakland and Alameda, were im
plicated before the Federal Dis
trict Attorney George Hatfield, as
a result of a flood of confessions
from police officers, business men
and racketeers, who fell within
the toils of the law in a specta
cular roundup.
As a result of the clean-up.
seven police officers, inc 1 u di n g
Captain Thorvald Brown, Com
mander of the Eastern District of
Oakland, were suspended after
their arrest.
There is a wholesale evidence
of graft that has gone on for
years; of the “pay-off” to the
police officers, of the power of
John Fillape, Oakland bail bond
czar and self styled “owner of all
Alameda,” and of the son of G.
B. Bacci Ratto, alleged brewery
owner, head of the wet goods
supply and go-between in the far
flung racketeer organization.
The entire case will be laid be
fore the grand jury in the near
future.
IBi PLIES
LEME FOR (MS:
WEATHER IS GOOD
i SEATTLE, May 22, (A5)—Four
Inavy amphibian planes, part of the
Navy’s Alaska air mapping expedi
tion, left for Sitka after being forc
ed to turn back once because of
fog off Cape Flattery.
Carrying valuable photographic
j equipment the planes will be used
; to chart 12,000 square miles in
isoutheastern Alaska.
Commander A. H. Radford, lead
er of the expedition planes, left a
few hours after and returned this
morning when weather improved.
The tender Gannet is waiting here
[for a pilot. It is not known when
pt will sail.
FATHER ADD SON
VANISH IN LUKE:
WASHINGTON, May 22, (^P)—
Carey Hodgson, scientist and as
sistant chief of the division of geo
desy of the coast and geodetic sur
vey, and his 10-year-old son are
missing after being caught in a
storm while canoeing o\\ Chesa
peake bay.
Seaplanes and submarine chasers
searched in vain and little hope is
held that the pair will b found alive
since the canoe was caught in the
sudden storm which churned the
waters of the bay.
WEDDING GIFT
MEXICO CITY, May 21, (A*)—A
valuable masterpiece of Mexican
flowers, painted by Ramos Martin
ez. director of the Mexican school
of arts, has been purchased oy
President and Mrs. Emilio Porces
Gil as a wedding present, it is un
|derstood, for Miss Anne Morrow
and Colonel Lindbergh.