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VOLUME XV NUMBER 2.
SEWARD, ALASKA. FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 1930.
PRICE TEN CENTS
• RESCUE PLIES
EXPEGTFD TAKEOFF
FOB NOME TODAY
WASP MOTOR IS ALL WHICH IS
LEFT OF $18,000 FAIR
CHILD PLANE
FAIRBANKS, Jan., 3, (/P)—
The loss of the Fairchild plane
yesterday will not further inter
upt the flight planes, Deckard in
dicated, and the two remaining
planes were expected to leave
early this morning for Nome.
Swartman and Macauley emerg
ed with a bad shaken up but
were not injured when the fuse
lage was damaged beyond repair.
Reid had just taken to the air
*• with Swartman following him;
the latter, realized he could not
climb over distant trees, after
ascending a few feet, started
to descend and came do.wn in
underbrush over rough ground.
Reid saw the accident and re
turned to the field. The Wasp
motor was the only part of the
$18,000 plane of any salvage value.
MOTION PICTURE PEOPLE; 3
THROWN CLEAR; PLANES
FELL 3,000 FEET
SANTA MONICA, Calif., Jan., 3,
(/P)—A midair crash between two
motion picture airplanes over the
Pacific Ocean took the lives of
10 persons. These were:
Kenneth Hawkes, director and
husband of Mary Astor; Max
Gold, assistant director and for
mer national handball champion;
George Easteman and Conrad
Wells, cameramen; Ben Frankel
and Otto Jordon, assistant camer
amen; Hank Johaness and Tom
Harris, property men; Hallock
House and Ross Cook, pilots.
All were employes of the Fox
Films except the pilots who were
from Clover Field.
The planes had gone up to
take pictures of a parachute
of a parachute jumper from a
third plane as it plunged into
the Pacific, when the planes
crashed at 3,000 feet.
Wedged together they burst in
to flames plunging into the sea
and sinking immediately. Three
passengers were thrown clear but
the other seven were carried to
th sea bottom; three of the bod
ies later rose to the top.
CHECK FORGER IS
NABBED ST OMARS
OMAHA, Neb., Jan., 3, (/P)^John
W. Williams, hunted by special
agents of several large railroad sys
tems as a check forger, was arrest
ed here by agents of the Bur
lington Railway.
C. C. Palmer, chief special agent
for the Burlington in the west,
said that Williams had cashed rail
road and express checks totalling
$300,000 in the past several years.
FBI! FLANE
CRACKS UP FAIRBANKS
FAIRBANKS, Jan., 3, (/P)~
The Fairchild plane piloted by
Swartman cracked up near the
field when it made a forced land
ing in a small slough. The land
ing was made after the engine
stopped. No one was injured.
Swartman and Reid had just
taken to the air and were en
route to Nulato.
KILLS. INJURES
BRIDE KILLED, SEVEN INJURED
FOUR OF WHOM BLIND
AND MAY DIE
MT. PLEASANT, Maryland, Jan.
3, (A5)—A crudely designed bomb
wrapped in Christmas trimmings,
killed Mrs. Naomi Hall Brady, a
bride of a few weeks, and injur
ed seven others, when it explod
ed in the kitchen of John S.
Hall.
The police are without clues
as to the identity of the sender
of the package which was ad
dressed to the girl.
The injured include Mrs. Nora
Hall, John’s wife; Leslie Hall,
16, who delivered the package;
Thomas Hall, 8, perhaps blinded;
Dorothy Hall, 4, believed to be
blinded and near death; Samuel
Hall, 18, ivho will be in a ser
ious condition for months; Mrs
Margaret Promley, 86, seriously
hurt, and Stuart Carneal, 12.
The husband, who was at work
could not explain why his wife
should have been sent a bomb.
HOOVER 10 3501
DISCUSS METHOD FDD
WASHINGTON, Jan., 2, (^-Sen
ator Borah’s despair of ever en
forcing prohibition with the pres
ent personnel, from top to bottom,
led to a personal discussion between
;him and the President, during a
luncheon at the White House. No
other subject was mentioned, but
details of the views exchanged were
withheld, both by the chief execu
tive and the republican dry from
Idaho.
; Having taken a leading role in
! the Hoover presidential campaign,
ithru his emphasis of the prohibi
tion issue, Senator Borah in his
New Year arraignment of the en
tire Volstead enforcement lineup
has intensified the tension over
prohibition in Washington.
MYSTERIOUS BLAZE
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan., 2, (A3)—
The Dollar liner President “Van
Buren” was seriously damaged by a
mysterious blaze, which broke out
while the ship was tied to her dock
in Singapore. According to dis
patches received here, all the 50
passengers were taken to Singapore
lhotels. None were injured.
CHIEF OF BOl |
SQUAD IS SHOT: '
II MARKED MHi;
SQUAD ORGANIZED 2 YEARS
AGO TO RID CITY OF
RACKETEERS
DETROIT, Jan,, 3, {^—Inspect
or Henry J. Garvin, head of the
crime bomb squad of the Detroit
'police department, was shot four
I times and seriously wounded by
a group of men in a large black
sedan who drove up Deside the
inspector’s car and fired 12 shots
at him.
I Eleven year-old Lois Bartlett,
t was wounded in the head and
one arm by the bullets and is re
ported to be dying.
• The inspector knew that he
was a marked man by the city’s
i underworld since the organiza
tion of the crime bomb squad
two years ago which was organ
ized for the purpose of ridding
the city of racketeers and hi
jackers.
J Garvin's condition is said to
be serious but he was able to
give his fellow-officers details of
the shooting. He was to appear
| oday as a state witness in the
trial of Martin Col>n, proprietor
o' the Study Club charged with
involuntary manslaughter in con
| ection with a fire in his cab
aret September 23 in which 23
l arsons lost their lives.
HMhtl DENIES HE
INTENDS TO RESIGN
MADRID, Jan, 3, (JP)—Premier
de Rivera issued a denial to the
reports that he intends to re
sign and declared there was no
political crisis. The Premier said
the program which he submitted
to King Alfonso called for a re
organization of the political par
ty, “the Patriotic Union”, and
that there would be an election
in February for provincial dele
gates to the Union.
NEW HI
SERVICE ROUTES
BE INAUGURATED
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan., 2, (£>)—
The Southern Pacific in connection
with the T. A. T. Maddox Air Lines,
has announced the inauguration of
a new era in pacific coast transpor
tation, when a combination rail
and air service will be started be
tween San Francisco and Los Ange
les and Agua Caliente, southern
California.
At the same time the Southern
Pacific announced that plans are
under way for the inauguration of
an extensive system of transcontin
ental rail and air routes, the first
of which will be between the Cana
dian border and Mexico, serving all
the leading Pacific coast cities from
Vancouver, B. C., to San Diego.
BOXING REGAINS TUNNEY’S SUPPORT
When he gaev up his boxing title 18 months ago
Gene Tunney said he was through with boxing. He is
back home now though eager to do what he can with
out, of course, putting on the gloves.
MEDICAL m
HOPE FID CUBE
FOR TUBERCULOSIS
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ANTICIPATE DIVORCING GERM
FROM CELL; A POSSIBLE
MEANS FOR CURE
DES MOINES, Jan., 3, OP)—
An amazing new kind of sugar
is described as the hope for
;the finding of a cure for tuber
culosis. This announcement was
made at the joint session of the
[American Association for the Ad
vancement of Science, and the
jlowa State Medical Association.
The sugar produced by the
; tuberculosis germs is a sweet, and
dusty white substance, highly
complex, but it is capable of be
,ing reproduced.
Ordinary glucose sugar, it was
:said, might be the chemical bond
between tuberculosis bacillus and
'one kind in the bodily cell in
which the tubercular germ at
tacks man successfully.
| “We hope, if the germs
can be divorced from this cell,
that it no longer can cause the
disease; in other words, a posi
tive cure might be possible,” Dr.
William White, of Washington,
said. It is now proposed to strike
at the sugar to learn whether
it is a link.
GASOLINE ON SURFACE OF SEA
IGNITED BY FIRE FROM
PUNT ALONGSIDE
SAN PEDRO, Calif., Jan., 3, (IP)
—A gasoline fire which flashed
oer the surface of the sea and
| up the sides of the U. S. S. Sara
toga, giant naval aircraft car
rier, killed two men and burned
four, three of them, seriously. The
bodies of the two killed have
not been recovered.
Commander A. C. Reid, of the
Saratoga, said the fire was caus
ed by a turpentine pot in a punt
alongside of the Saratoga catch
ing fire from an unknown cause,
firing the surface of water cov
ered with residue from the gaso
line compressor pump which was
being cleaned aboard the car
rier.
A gig, moored alongside of the
big ship burned; the loss was
placed at $25,000 but the damage
to the Saratoga has not yet been
estimated.
The dead are Mathew Lavielle,
22, and Vincent Lalor, 29; both
were seamen.
The injured were George Fe
brey, 19, Henry Kenfield, 24;
Albert Houston, 20, of Centralia,
Washington, whose recovery is
doubtful; and B. J. Morton. All
are seamen and all were burned.
ACCEPTS APOLOGIES
DETROIT, Jan., 3, (A3)—Rubio,
Mexico’s President-elect, accepted
the apologies of Mayor John
Lodge for the communist dem
onstration which marred his wel
come here last night. He passed
the incident off as of no conse
quence.