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Six Found Dead in Pilot Mills Plane
1 AMERICANS BREAK AIR SPEEDS ATLANTIC
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Spanish Govt. Troops Flee Into French Territory
STEVE MILLS FIVE OTHERS
ALL KILLED IN AIRPLANE
CRASH NEAR ANCHORAGE
^ Necessary To Pack Bodies
Four Miles So Can Be
Flown Qut
(By The Associated Press')
ANCHORAGE, Sept. 3—Five
passengers and Pilot Steve Mills
died in the wrecked plane on
Kenai Peninsula, a dispatch from
Seward to the Anchorage Times,
which said Pilot A1 Horning, fly
^ ing from a small lake near the
crash scene, reported that the
rescue party reached the Mills
plane late yesterday and found
the six dead. They picked up
four men to aid in carrying the
bodies through four miles of the
rough wooded country.
Horning left for the lake where
a base rescue camp has been es
^ tablished. He is returning to
Seward this morning for addi
tional men.
Morgenthau To
Carry Insurance
Fund In Treas.
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Sept. 3—Dis
closing that he would seek four
hundred million dollars in new
cash in the U. S. Treasury’s Sep
tember financing,Secretary of the
Treasury Henry Morgenthau said
he planned to keep a working
balance of around a billion dol
lars because of threatening con
ditions abroad, and “its the safest
insurance we can carry for the
people should anything unfor
seen occur,” he also said that the
borrowing figures are one of the
smallest cash offerings since he
had assumed office.
REBELS UNLOOSE TERRIBLE
ATTACK ON CITY OF IRUN AS
DEFENDERS REFUSE GIVE IN
- (By The Associated Press)
UNDATED, Sept. 3—Armoured
cars with spitting machine guns
moved on Irun in the Rebel su
preme assault. Infantrymen also
pushed toward the government
town with its last defenses shatt
ered, while the government Fuen
terrabia batteries boomed desper
ate defiance.
In Irun the anarchists seized
command and built street barri
cades, ousted socialist leaders of
^ the defending militia because
they wanted to surrender.
Rebels Continue
Strong Efforts to
Capture Loyals
(By The Associated Press)
BEHOBIE, France Sept. 3rd—
Spanish government troops fled
across the Bidassoa river bridge
into this (French) territory,whi
ch was swept by bullets fired as
the Spanish rebels fought the de
fenders in a Spanish suburb.
Near the city of Irun the reb
a els continued toward Irun, altho
P the road is mined and Loyalists
troops blasted shell holes in the
| road every few hundred feet.
BAR ASSOCIATION IS
OPPOSED ANY LAWS
TO RESTRICT COURTS
(By The Associated Press)
BOSTON, Sept. 2—The Bar As
sociation went on record as op
posed to bills and amendments to
the United States Constitution,
designed to limit the jurisdictio
or abridge the powers of any
federal court to pass upon the
constitutionality of a law.
MINING BOOM TAKES
PLACE NEAR JUMBO
CLAIMS IN NEVADA
(By Hie Associated Press)
WIMNEMUCCA, Nevada, Sept.
1—Prospects of widespread min
ing operations encircling the sen
sational Jumbo gold strike near
Jumbo, Nevada, increased today
when the second big mining deal
of the area was completed. J.B.
Haffner of Ely, Nevada, took an
option on six claims and four
fractions adjoining the famous
Jumbo claim of George Austin,
the Jumbo storekeeper.
The price of the options was
rumored to be twenty five thous
and dollars.
Chinese Actress
Was Too Hot At
First In China
fBv The Associated Press»
PEIPING, Sept.2—Actress Pai
yushang, whose English name is
Miss White Jade Frost, known as
the Chinese Mae West, returned
to Peiping from which place she
had been expelled in 1934, be
cause of the city’s puritan mayor
Yuanliang. Miss Paiyushang’s
acting was regarded as “too hot.’
Several thousand of her admir
ers braved a rainstorm to wel
come her to the scenes of her
early triumphs.
White Jade Frost was granted
permission to return to Pieping
by the present Mayor Chintehi
chun, who, however, insists that
she must submit the text of her
plays to authorities before being
permitted to tread the boards
again.
Her period of exile was spent
in Shanghai and Nanking.
Bed Owned By
John Gilbert Is
Up for Auction
(By The Associated Press)
HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Sept. 3
John Gilbert’s massive bed,
large enough to hold eight per
sons, was one of the main at
tractions at the auction of the
late film star’s personal effects,
but none of the hundreds crowd
ing the salesroom would offer an
opening bid of $200.00.
Communication To
Hell Is Disrupted
(By The Associated Press)
HELL, Michigan, Sept. 2—Com
munications with Hell was dis
rupted last night. John Pressley
walked five miles to Pickney for
help after three youthful hi-jack
ers clipped Hell’s only telephone
line. The youths escaped after
robbing two slot machines in a
store operated by Pressley and
his brother James.
NOTICE TO MEMBERS
There will be a meeting of the
Alaska Native Brotherhood to be
held at the Club House, Saturday
September 5th, at 7:30 P.M. All
members are requested to be
present. Important business.
SAM MOGG, President
Am. Legion Aux.
Meets In Juneau
Gets A Welcome
(By The Associated Press)
JUNEAU, Sept. 3—American
Legion Ladies Auxiliary opened
the seventeenth annual conven
tion of the Department of Alaska.
Governor Troy and Mayor I.Gold
stein welcomed the delegates and
responses were made to the Leg
ionnaire Auxiliary heads. Oscar
Wortwine, National Vice-Com
mander, arrived Wednesday A.M.
Committees will be appointed at
S the regular business sessions to
] be held Thursday and Friday. &
Selection of officers Saturday. Sol
diers from Chilkoot Barracks are
here for a rifle shoot and other
competitions.
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Man Is Waiting
For Answer To
Offer of Blood
(Bv The Associated Press)
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 3—Rob
ert Sprague, aged 33, a Holly
wood studio worker, awaited an
I answer to his offer to donate
blood to seven year-old Phillip
Levitt of Chicago, who is suffer
ing from a rare heart infection.
the studio painter made his of
fer after hearing an appeal had
been sent out by the boys physi
cian for the blood of a person
who had recovered from this
type of infection.
Dispatches said the youth was
suffering from streptococcus infec
tion of the lining of the heart and
was doomed to die within a few
days unless the right kind of
blood is obtained. Sprague said
he suffered the same illness five
years ago and recovered.
Four Are Dead In
A Mine Explosion
(By The Associated Press)
LOGAN, West Virginia, Sept. 3
The number of know dead from
an explosion in the MacBeth
mine is four, with the recovery
of two of the bodies by the res
cuers who are digging desperate
ly through a four hundred foot
wall of slate, behind which six
more men are trapped.
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ATLANTICA FLIERS
SET RECORD PLANE
FLIGHTS ENGLAND
FLIERS SAID HEY SAW OCEAN ONLY FOR AN
HOUR AT ONE TIME OTHERWISE
FLEW BY INSTRUMENTS
(By The Associated Press)
Lloyncelyn, Carmarthenshire,
South Wales, Sept. 3—Richman
& Merrill landed here on the
field out of gasoline but safe.
Flying about eleven thousand
feet all the way as they sped
across the Atlantic in less than
[sixteen hours to outshine the
speed feats of an imposing list oi
pilots.
Richman said “it was a comfy
trip but were not going to fly
back to America right away.-’
The plane landed on the field
about 10:15 A.M. EST.
Richman is quoted as saying:
“the plane ran beautifully, we
did not see the Atlantic Ocean
for more than an hour at any
time. Everything went accord
ing to plans, except when half
way across the plane went into
a steep nosedive, and we were
both thrown from our seats. I
certainly was scared and had to
struggle hard for a minute or two
to regain control, which seemed
an age before we finally did.
“We averaged more than two
j hundred miles per hour,and some
times flew at a speed of two hun
dred and fifty miles per hour.
The reason they didn't hear us
when we got near England, was
due to the radio being out of com
mission while trying to talk to
London, where we circled around
for an hour and a half hunting a
j landing place: there seemed to be
cattle every place.’’
U
| The plane flew about thirty
three hundred miles in approxi
mately eight hours and thirty
eight minutes. It was reported
oil the Irish coast fifteen hours
'and forty minutes after the take
off from Brooklyn, New York.
STRONG MAN OF MADRID
GOVERNMENT CHARGES 2
FOREIGN NATIONS AIDING
(By The Associated Press)
MADRID, Sept. I—indalecio
Pretio, the strong man behind
the Madrid government, declared
recently, with bitterness, that
France and Great Britain,by with
holding aid were making Spain
the Ethiopia of Europe.
At the same time he asserted,
that should the government em
erge victorious in the civil war,
large sections of the country
“would have to be collectivized”
although adding that Spain was
“not ready or well enough devel
oped economically for pure com
munism.”
At the present time, he said,
the Madrid government would
not seek a loan from foreign gov
ernments as “the country which
borrows abroad gives its lender
an opportunity to dominate it
politically.”
The unofficial “man behind the
scenes” in Madrid said, that Fas
cist nations were surreptiously
but effectively helping the Span
ish Rebels. He named Germany,
Italy and Portugal as aiding the
insurgents.
1 cannot understand why tran
ce and Britain can be so blind to
their own interests. What will
they say if the Rebel General
Franco wins and gives the Bal
earic Islands to Italy or Germany
as a reward for their aid?”
Found Guilty Of
Carelessness In
Naval Matters
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Sept. 3—Lieu
tenant William A. Moffett, Jr.,
naval aviator & son of the late
Rear Admiral William Moffett,
has been found guilty by a Gen
eral Court Martial, of careless
ness in the loss of a confidential
service publication. He was sen
tenced to a loss of fifty numbers.
This means, naval officers said,
he was demoted to a rank below
fifty officers, formerly his juniors
and consequently it will effect his
prospects of promotion.