Hold “Days Of ’98”
Banquet in Seattle
SEATTLE, </P> — Those fabled
“Days of ’98” of the Alaska gold
rush were relived once again Sat
urday night by members of the
Alaska-Yukon pioneers associa
tion, who celebrated the golden
anniversary of the historic stam
pede with a banquet.
Staged by Seattle cabin No. 1
of the association, the dinner was
attended by approximately 600
sourdoughs and their friends. It
was the fifth annual banquet.
Behind the main table in the
hall the pioneers had placed a sta
[ tue of ’he typical Klondiker, a
J figure executed by the late Victor
i Alonzo Lewis, which had been in
i spired by Skagway Bill Fonda, one
of the old-timers.
i Fonda’s widow, Mrs. Lucy Fon
da, was among those attending the
celebration. A famous couple
among the guests was Capt. and
Mrs. A. J. Goddard, who operated
the first steamboat down the Yu
kon River. Mrs. Goddard was the
first licensed woman pilot on the
river.
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38 Missing In Plane
Disappearances •
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cific seaboard.
Discouraging reports came in
yesterday from 19 search planes
seeking nine crewmen of a U. S.
navy patrol bomber that vanished
Thursday over Vancouver Island, i
off the British Columbia coast.
Prospects had seemed brightest
of finding at least some of these
men alive. Weak radio signals
picked up in the past two days
were traced to the west side of the 1
big island.
But all ^earch missions were
fruitless and listening posts said
there were no more faint calls.
The coast guard cutter Winona
cruised up and down Tahsis Inlet,
from which the signals appeared
to have come, and found no trace
of the four-engined Nept u n e
bomber.
The cutter then stood by to aid
three coast guard communications
trucks at Cape Flattery, on the
1 northwestern tip of Washington
I State, in securing an accurate fix
on any calls that might be heard.
There were none.
Navy authorities at the Whid
bey Island air sta ion said the
transmissions monitored Friday
and Saturday “were so weak we
could not tell if they were distress
signals, but we proceeded in that
hope; now that slight encourage
ment appears to have petered out.
The calls and sighting of an oil
slick at the mouth of Tahsis Inlet
gave rise to the belief that the
bomber had been ditched and at
least some of the crew had reached
shore. The plane’s life raft car
ried a hand-powered radio trans
mitter which would give off sig
nals similar to those heard.
Clearing weather gave the 15 U.
S. military and four Royal Cana
dian air force search planes a
chance to cover all lower levels
of Vancouver island. Clouds ob
scured mountain peaks where it is
now feared the bomber crashed.
Both the navy and coast guard
said that distress calls picked up
yesterday had no similarity io
those of the past two days. The
signals were on a different fre
quency and directional bearings
placed their origin in the Russian
held Kurile Islands of Japan.
Snow, rain squalls and low ceil
ings hampered the hunt for the
two other missing planes—a Pacif
ic-Alaska Air Express airliner
which disappeared in the Sitka
Ketchikan area Thursday wuh 17
aboard and a navy Privatter pa
trol bomber, with a crew of 12,
which failed to return to its Ko
diak base after an Aleutians flight
Wednesday.
Clues were lacking on the fate of
both planes. The only report on the
airliner was that of an unidenti
fied “ground observer” who told
the coast guard he believed he had
heard a plane crash Thursday on
Prince of Wales island, west of
Ketchikan.
More than 40 planes an da num
ber of surface ships were engaged
in the searches, described as the
most extensive ever conducted in
the area.
TRAPPED 21 HOURS IN WELL
WARNER, N. H. — Norman
Woods, 23-.vear-old army combat
veteran, was trapped for more
than 21 hours at the bottom of a
20-foot well which caved in on
him. Woods was unable to move
from his waist down, his legs be- 1
ing held fast by timbers and de- |
bris. Volunteers and State police ,
worked all night to dig him out. He j
was rushed to a hospital.
Negro Gunman
Kills Six In Wild
Shooting Fray
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walking along Market street when
someone took a shot at him from
the second story window.
Purnsley returned the fire and
during a furious exchange of shots
the detective and six others were
killed.
A crowd, attracted by the shoot
ing, quickly gathered. The entire
city police force was mobilized at
the scene.
The officers, firing rifles, sub
machine guns and tear gas, pour
ed bullets into the barricaded
room. Witnesses said they were
unable to tell during the shooting
whether the trapped man returned
the fire.
Terr orized residents of the
neighborhood peered from their
homes or skulked from door to
door as the barrage continued for
more than a half hour.
Then Desmond and other offi
cers, covered by the weapons of
police posted at strategic spots
around the building, pushed cau
Wallgren Denies
Offer Of Post
OLYMPIA, Wash. i/P)—A report
emanating from this city Frid v
that Gov. Mon C. Wallgren had
been offered the post of secret*- y
of the interior in President Tr i
man’s cabinet brought a flat t.
nial from the governor.
Wallgren, a close personal
friend of the President, scotch'd
the rumor before his departure for
an undisclosed destination in t
east. He did not disclose the pu
pose of his trip.
“I have not been offerer! the se
retaryship of the interior,” he sai I.
“There has been no talk of it l y
me or others in responsible por
tions. To the best of my know
edge there is no vacancy in the p
sition.”
Julius Krug is the present head
of the interior department.
tiously up the stairs and into tl
gunman’s room. They found him
dead in the bedroom.
Except for the detective, tho- >
killed were residents of the neigh
borhood.
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