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Memorial Services
[ For Capt. Lathrop
To Be Held Sunday
FAIRBANKS, (£>) — Final rites
were being arranged today for
Austin E, ‘Capt.” Lathrop.
Memorial services for the mil
lionaire businessman and indus
trailst, who was struck down
k Wednesday by a loaded coal car
at his Healy River mine, will be
held here Sunday in the Empress
Theater, one of five show places
which he owned in the Territory.
Burial will be in the Forest
Lawn Cemetery at Seattle Thurs
day, following services at Bonney
m Watson Funeral Home. As stipu
lated in his will, Lathrop will be
interred alongside his father,
mother and two sisters.
The body will be flown to Seat
tle.
Meanwhile, as telegrams from:
friends poured into the local of
fices of the Lathrop Co., a coron
er’s jury sitting at the scene of
Wednesday’s tragedy returned a
verdict of accidental death. j
The inquest had been called by ,
U. S. Commissioner Margaret Sul
livan of Nenana.
William E. Martin, timekeeper;
at the mine, 112 miles south of
here, said Lathrop either tripped
or fell under the wheels of the
C-47 Crashes In Sea
TOKYO, (/P)— A C-47 military
transport plane with 26 persons
aboard—believed to include four
war correspondents—plunged into
the sea yesterday 10 miles south
of Japan’s Oshima Island.
General MacArthur’s headquar
ters announcement of the ditching
said one survivor was picked up
and others are being sought.
The four war correspondents
left the Tokyo Correspondents
Club for Korea early Thursday.
They were identified in an unof
ficial list as:
James O. Supple, Chicago Sun
Times; Maximilien Philonenko,
Agence Prance Presse; Stephen
Simmons, Hilton Press and Lon
don Picture Post; and Albert Hin
ton, who represented the Norfolk
Journal and several other Negro
newspapers.
loaded car. The bulk of the car
hid the elderly, but active, man
from the view of the brakeman,
Martin said. /
The timekeeper said there were
no witnesses to the accident but
that the brakeman’s scream when
he saw Lathrop’s body on the
tracks brought him running from
the mine office.
Martin said he could find no
pulse and telephoned Fairbanks
for a doctor.
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PAINTING, DECORATING AND BUILDING
Capt. A. E. Lathrop
Meets Tragic Death
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1865, Lathrop came west to Seat
tle in June, 1889, a few days af
ter the Seattle fire razed much of
the city.
He pitched a tent, set himself
up as a contractor, and began raz
ing old buildings and excavating
for new. Within a year he was
known throughout the Pacific
Northwest as the “Boy contrac
tor.”
He contracted to build an elec
tric railroad from Anacortes,
Wash., to Fidalgo, on Fidalgo Is
land, but the railroad collapsed in
the 1893 financial panic.
Undiscouraged, he leased Pro
tection Island, off Sequim on the
Olympic Peninsula, setting up one,
of the northwest’s first modernized (
poultry ranches. It was there that
he entertained Benjamin Harri
son, former President of the
United States.
Lathrop acquired the title of
l Captain in 1896 when he bought a
half interest in the 110-foot steam
schooner L. J. Perry and piloted
it carrying gold-seekers from port
to port in Alaska.
He set up a draying business at
Valdez and hauled supplies over
the rugged trails to the interior
copper mines. With the start of
constructio non the Copper River
Northwestern Railroad, Lathrop
moved to Cordova, the rail ter
minus, an contracted to haul all
supplies from the docks to the |
railroad working areas.
It was at Cordova, Lathrop fre- j
1 quently said later, that he got his
1 start. He subsequently became a
director and president of the
Bank of Cordova, bought the Cor- j
dova Commercial Company and
his first theater.
Naturally, he has been a vital1
figure in the Territory’s politics.
A staunch Republican, he served
as the party’s national committee-'
j man during ex-President Hoover’s
! term and was recently renamed to
the post. He was opposed to Terri
torial Governor Ernest Gruening
and to statehood for Alaska. He
served in the Alaska Legislature
in 1921 as a representative from
the Third Division.
Survivors include a stepdaugh
ter, Mrs. Cleo Boyce of Seattle;
two nephews, Austin G. Cooley,
: head of the New York Times
photo section, and Frank E. Rich
! ardson, Klamath Falls, Ore.; and
, two nieces, Mrs. Ward Green,
Kent, Wash., and Mrs. Fred L.
Smith, Seattle.
When construction of the Alas
ka Railroad began in 1914, Lath
rop moved to Anchorage and set
up a transfer business there. He
also bought a theater and built an
apartment house.
With completion of the railroad
in 1922, he headed northward to
Fairbanks, where he bought an
other theater.
In 1926 he rebuilt the theater,
making it of concrete. It was the
first building of that type and size
in northern Alaska.
“People thought I was crazy,”
he used to comment.
Since then, his operations here
expanded. He put up a second
theater in both Fairbanks and An
chorage and built the modern
Lathrop building here, which
houses the Fairbanks News-Miner,
his newspaper; and KFAR, his ra
dia station.
“I’ve financed a lot of gold
mines, but I’ve never been a gold
, miner myself,” he told cronies.
He made one unsuccessful at
j tempt at gold mining around
Nome in 1900, but never went
back to it.
Canada Can’t Send
Troops And Be
Left Undefended
CHICAGO, (/P)—The Canadian
president-elect of Kiwanis Inter
national said yesterday “Canada
fighter planes must be kept in
Canada to guard against any pos
sible attack via Alaska and the
Northwest Territories.”
Don H. Murdock of Winnipeg,
i na talk prepared for the Kiwanis
Club of Chicago, said “it would be
folly” for all free nations to send
troops to Korea.” He said he has
reason to believe this view is
shared by Lester B. Pearson, Ca
nadian foreign minister.
“We are in the front line if a
surprise attack comes from Rus
sia,” he said.
“Canada could not send troops
to Korea and leave herself wide
open for possible Russian air at
tacks across Alaska and the
Northwest Territories.”
If a ship is too stable, that Is,
too little inclined to roll with the
seas, the result is a short, quick
roll often uncomfortable to pas
sengers.
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Pilot Killed In
Fall From Plane
POWELL RIVER, B. C., iff)—A
Dioette Airways pilot was killed
yesterday when thrown from his
plane into the water three min
utes after taking off from Las
queti Island, 15 miles west of
here.
Mrs. Marion Cooke, 33, the lone
passenger in the single engined
plane, suffered a broken leg. Res
cued by a passing fish boat, she
was brought to a hospital here.
An eyewitness said the pilot,
Ray Sims, 33, of Powell River,
was seen to fall from the plane
before it struck the water.
The'witness, Charles Williams,
said the plane fell into the water
from an altitude of 300 feet.
The engine did not cut out,” he
said. “She just rolled over on her
side and fell in.”
Mrs. Cooke was enroute here
to visit her husband who has been
hospitalized for six weeks, also
with a broken leg.
Even with oxygen equipment,
lack of oxygen begins to affect
fliers above 37,500 feet.
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