SEWARD,
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ALASKA
“CENTER of
EVERYTHING”
Seward
COAST TERMINAL OF THE
ALASKA RAILROAD
Gateway
DAILY AND WEEKLY
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VOLUME XIV, NUMBER 113.
SEWARD, ALASKA. THURSDAY, OCT. 17, 1929.
PRICE TEN CENTS
HAD KNOWN PANTAGES FOR
NINE YEARS BUT WAS
NOT FRIENDLY
LOS ANGELES. Oct.. 17, (/Pi
Charges of perjury denials by
the defense witness of statements
credited to him by the district
attorney’s investigators, over
shadowed the issue at stake in
the Pantages trial
Garland Biffile was indicted by
the grand jury on secret perjury
charges. He had testified for the
defense yesterday and was ar
rested immediately after leaving
the stand. Bail was set at $7,000
on which Biffle’s attorney said
he will surrender tomorrow.
Dr. C. H. Herd was summoned
by Pantages attorneys and creat
ed a sensation in his repudiation
of statements he is alleged to
have made about Eunice Pringle.
Herd is an optician and rents
rooms on the second floor of the
Pantages theater. He said he was
standing in the doorway of his
reception room when he saw
Pantages come out of his main
office and go to the exit on the
second flood then stop to open
a door. He said he made no mo
tion.
State witnesses alleged Pan
tages seated Miss Pringle before
taking her to the scene of the
alleged attack, then returned
und motioned for her to come to
the little office room
Dr. Herd said he had known
Pantages for nine years and had
.riven him the “high sign” when
he saw the theater man emerge
from his main office for nine
years yet was not friendly with
him.
DETROIT, Oct., 13. <7P)- Police
relieve they have broken up plans
of Detroit river rum runners to run
the federal prohibition blockade
under cover of machine guns and
automatic rifles with the smugglers
disguised as military and naval au
thorities.
The supposed plot was unearthed
•with the seizure of a small arsenal
which included a machine gun
stolen from the U. S. Marine Corps
reserve armory, two rifles, a pistol
used for shooting flares, hundreds
of rounds of ammunition, blankets
and marine and army uniforms.
BEG HER TO POSE
PARIS, Oct-, 17, (TP)—Maurice
Chevalier, French motion <picture
actor, set out for Hollywood with
shouts of well wishers and the
familiar click of cameras ringing
in his ears. On the same boat train
was Madame Curie, discoverer of
radium- Cameramen begged her
To pose for them.
PLAY FOR CHAMPIONSHIP
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct., 17, (/P)
Mrs. W. L. Archibald of Harding
Park and Mrs. J. C. Kilbourne of I
the Presidio will play for the
Northern California Women’s goh
championship.
“LAND OF SOVIETS’’
SEATTLE, Oct.. 17. (TP)—Broken
control wires, discovered just as
the Russian fliers were preparing
to leave for Oakland, caused a post
ponement of the flight.
COMPTROLLER OF WHITE PASS
YUKON ROUTES REPORTS
QUARTZ RFEF
SEATTLE, Oct., 17, (TP)—Discov
ery of a quartz reef believed to
be the “Mother Lode” of the
Klondike from which came mil
lions of dollars in dust and nug
gets during the height of the gold
rush, is reported by O. J. Rogers,
comptroller of the White Pass and
Yukon routes, who arrived from
Whitehorse and Dawson.
The reef runs across the upper
reaches of Bonaza and Eldorado
Creeks and the Dawson Mining
Co. uncovered the promising ap
pearing ore.
He said the silver camp at Ma
yo. on Stewart River, had shipped
8.000 tons of silver ore concen
trates valued at more than $2,000,
000 during the summer.
NAMED CHAIRMAN
WASHINGTON, Oct.. 17. (/P)—
James Garfield, secretary of the
interior department under the
Roosevelt administration, has
been designated by President
Hoover to be chairman of the
commission on conservation and
management of the public do
main.
U. S. GIVES PILOTS STRICT TESTS TO PROTECT
THE LIVES OF EVERY PASSENGER
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L. H. Bauer (upper left), head of the department of commerce medical
section. The ability of a pilot to land is gauged by the depth perception
apparatus )upper right). The perimeter (lower left) measures the field of
vision. Standing on one foot with ey es closed has supplanted the whirling
chair in determining equilibrium.
When Harry Whitney, of Phila
delphia, departed from Seward on
the steamer Alaska last Saturday,
he brought to an end what he stat
ed was the most successful game
hunt that he ever embarked upon.
Others, after viewing the 19 troph
ies declared it to have been the
greatest hunt conducted in Alaska
in recent years.
Mr. Whitney who is a naturalist,
as well as internationally known as
a big game hunter, heaped the
credit for the hunt just completed
on his friend and guide A1 Blair
who was in charge of the expedi
tion.
The U. S. Biological Survey has
granted Mr. Whitney special per
mission to take full groups of Alas
kan game animals for permanent
exhibition purposes for the Acade
my of Natural Science, Philadel
phia. The caribou group obtained
consisted of one bull, tWo cows and
a calf. The sheep group included
one ram, two yews and a yearling.
To these groups were added a coy
otte and two Alaska .grouse. All
will be mounted life size for the
Academy. For himself, Mr. Whit
ney bagged three grizzly bears, two
rams, two bull caribou and a Kenai
moose with a 69 inch spread of an
tlers. This is the largest Kenai
moose taken so far this season.
Mr. Blair and his assistants suc
cessfully preserved all of the leg
bones, the pelvis and the head
bones of the animals to be used by
the Academy.
With the exception of the Kenai
moose which was taken at Tustem
ena lake, Kenai peninsula, the en
tire hunt, after Whitney and Blair
(Continued on Paire Five)
WILL REMAIN
WASHINGTON, Oct., 16. (/P)—
The White House announced that
Secretary Mellon has promised >
President Hoover to remain in the '
Cabinet until the end of the present
administration.
MAIL CLERK ON
SEATTLE VESSEL |
LEFT I FORTUNE:
WILLIAM B. DECATUR, AGED 65,
LEFT ESTATE TO TWO
SISTERS
SEATTLE, Oct., 17. </P)—Wm..
B. Decatur, who for more than
23 years was mail clerk on the
steamship City of Seattle runn
ing from here to Alaska, and who
died October 6, at 65, left $100,
000.
Attorneys said, in asking for
an administrator, that Decatur
had accumulated the fortune
by investing his earnings in stocks,
bonds and real estate.
The estate will be equally di
vided between his sisters, Miss
j Edith Decatur, and Mrs. Alice D.
, Pollock, wife of a Seattle capital
i ist. Both sisters reside in Seattle.
FIRST MEETING IN U. S.
BRIAR CLIFF, N. Y., Oct., 16, (/P)
—Many of the world’s greatest
legal authorities attended the
opening of the Institute of Inter
national Law Conferei ■ here.
Formd in 1873. the Institute is
meeting for the first time in the
United States. More than 50 dele
gates from foreign countries have
arrived.
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SWEPT
SEATTLE HOTEL
FIRE OVER IN LESS THAN HALF
AN HOUR; FIREMEN OVER
COME BY SMOKE
SEATTLE, Oct., 17, (/P>—Trapped
in a mass of flames and smoke,
seven persons lost their lives and
13 were injured in a fire which
swept thru the Portland hotel at
4:30 this morning. Several of the
injured are in a cri^cal condition;
some not expected to live.
The cause of the blaze is under
termined. The dead apparently had
been suffocated some while they
slept, firemen said.
John Fitzhenry, roomer at the
Grand Central hotel, across the
street, turned in the alarm. He said
he looked cut of his window at 4:30
and saw the fire thru the window
of the Portland hotel. He added
that it looked like it was burning
on the stairway.
None of the dead were identified
immediately after the fire as most
of their belongings were destroyed
in the flames. The hotel was an old
three-story bpck structure on First
Avenue just south of Yesler Way in
the oldest section of Seattle and
was operated by K. Mayeda, Japan
ese, whose wife was critically injur
ed when she leaped from the third
story window.
The fire apparatus was at the
scene three minutes after the alarm
was turned in. Three firemen were
overcome by smoke and were res
cued The fire was out in less than
half an hour despite the dense
smoke which made fighting it dif
ficult.
| KETCHIKAN, Oct., 17. f/Pt —
The body of Oscar Craig, the first
victim of the hunting season in
> Southeastern Alaska this year,
i was brought here from the flats
near Petersburg. Craig was 21
years of age and a member of a
prominent Ketchikan family. He
was hunting ducks when his gun
exploded pieces of steel from the
barrel severing the jugular vein
from which wound he died in a
few minutes.
AFFILIATE MEMBERS
TORONTO, Oct., 17, (A5)—Efforts
are now being made to affiliate
185,000 members of the Brotherhood
of the Railway Trainmen with the
| American Federation oi Labor,
j William Green, president of the
trainmen anounced.
MONSTER AIRSHIP
LONDON, Oct., 17, (A5)-Plans for
a monster airship which can land
on the water and be warped into a
I pier the same as an ocean liner, are
outlined in a new book by Com
hnander Charles Burney, builder of
the R-101.
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DEDICATE CHURCH
PARIS, Oct., 17, (A5)—Two hun
jdred American World War veterans
of the 26th Division led by General
Clarence Edwards dedicated the re
built church of Belleau as a mem
orial of their comrades who fell in
| the great church.