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VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 145.
SEWARD, ALASKA. SATURDAY, OCT. 19, 1929.
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FKSTIMONY BRINGING SORDID
DETAILS TO LIGHT: CON
TRADICTIONS MADE
LOS ANGELES. Oct., 19, (TP)—
Contradictions and denials were
l ung with startling rapidity in
t.ie Pantages trial as the defense
f night the state’s charges of
perjury and a statutory offense.
The first attempt of the de
f nse to clear Pantages was com
p eted with the last- testimony
from four medical experts. In its
s cond move the defense drew
testimony from Jake RosenstOn
publicity agent employe, that he
saw Miss Pringle in Pantages of
fices “At least once a week and
until late hours, from May 1 to
August 9.
Garland Biffle, book salesman,
was confronted with the affida
vit and testimony of Attorney L.
A. Mills that he made a state
ment repudiating his own testi
mony. Biffle dismissed the ques
tion with “I don’t recall it.” Later,
under the state hammering, Bif
f.o admitted most of Mill's declar
r.-’on but explaned it referred to
the actual crime and not to a
fr imeup.
Two doctors, bacteriological ex
perts, testified their conclusions
and opinions cited by Police
Chemist Rex Welch who appear
ed for the state regarding “germ
specimens of the two principals
in the case” were impossible and
faulty.
These assertions supplemented
the other two physicians yester
day who said the Pringle exami
nations, four days after the al
leged attack, revealed no crimi
nal offense.
It was announced that the state
had affidavits of Mills and indi
cted they will be used against
Fiffle if he pleaded not guilty
October 28. The affidavits allege
that Biffle talked with Mills in
Stockton, on October 3, discuss
ing the case.
* Mills said Biffle told him he
uad been subpoenaed by the de
fense but did not understand why
they wanted him- Mills quoted
Biffle as saying he (Bifflei said
I don’t know any thing about the
case. I was in the building at
the time of the alleged attack
but didn’t see or hear any thing.’
This is a direct contradiction
of Biffle's tetimony that he had
heard Miss Pringle say Pantages
would be sorry if he did not
book her dancing act.
dUSSl UK TO
TIKE-OFF THIS I. M,
VANCOUVER, Wash., Oct., 19,
■'TP)—Mechanical trouble and stor
my weather forced the plane
"Land of Soviet” down here in
slightly more than two hours af
ter it had left Seattle enroute to
Oakland.
ft Shestakov said the radiator’s
right motor sprung a leak over
Portland and announced they
would takeoff 8 o'clock Saturday
morning, weather permitting.
ON ITS WAY
! VANCOUVER, Oct., 19, (/P)- The
!Russian plane “Land of Soviets”
left Pearson field at 3:44 a. m. for
(Oakland.
DISCLAIMS ANY APPROVAL OF
ARCHITECT’S ACTION# PRES
IDENT STATES
WASHINGTON, Oct., 19, (/Pi
President Hoover emphatically op
posed the placing of the inscription
“Destroyed By German Fury And
Restored By American Generosity”
upon the new library university at
Louvain, Belgium, which was built
by an American..
The subscription was obtained
largely thru the efforts of the chief
executive, since Whitney Warren,
architect, when the building was
proposed, insisted upon the inscrip
tion more than three years ago. It
has been the center of a controver
sy.
“I and my associates with me in
the American gift library, wish to
disclaim any approval of the action
of Warren”, the President said.
OUR SILK STOCKINGS
WASHINGTON, Oct., 19, (/Pi
Ladies’ silk hosiery made in the
United States is being exported to
75 countries and political divisions
of the world.
MAJOR HOSTILITIES
SHANGHAI, Oct., 19, (/P)—Major
hostilities between local national
ists and the revolting peoples army
of Feng Yuhsian, has been report
ed. It has opened the neighborhood
of Chengchow Hoan Junction with
two trans-provincial railway lines.
WANDERED ABOUT STREETS
THREE HOURS WITH BULLET
IN HIP,
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct., 19, i/P)—
A 15-year-old boy, who was turned
over to a policeman by a grocery
man who charged the boy tried to
steal a loaf of bread and a sack of
salt, was shot when he tried to es
cape.
The boy, Lawrence O’Toole, is in
the hospital while Patrolmen
Thomas Cole and Thomas Hagen
faced an investigation by Chief of
Police Quinn for the shooting.
Joseph Ebsetz, grocery man said
the boy askfed for a loaf of bread I
and salt. When his back was turned
the boy ran out of the store with j
the articles. He was caught and
brought back.
O’Toole was shot when he broke
away from the patrolmen, who said
they fired in the air to try and stop
him. The boy wandered about the i
streets for three hours with a bullet
in his hip, afraid to seek medical
aid. He finally called his mother
by telephone.
COURT PARTY HERE
Headed by Judge E. Coke Hill,
the Third Division court party
arrived in Seward on the S. S.
Alameda from their Valdez head
quarters, holding court here to
day beginning at 10 a. m. Court
will continue until Tuesday after
noon the party leaving Wednes
day morning for Anchorage where
i a short session will be held
SPECTACULAR EXHIBIT IN MEMPHIS
TO SHOW DIVERSITY OF COTTON
From a Dixie’s quiet fields (below) to the battle
heights of the air the modern marvel of cotton will be
traced at the annual Memphis show. This dirigible, now
under construction for the army, uses thousands of
yards of cotton in its outer envelope.
BARRACKS DESTROYED
AUSTIN, Oct., 19, UP)—'Two bar
racks buildings were destroyed and
a third damaged in a fire at Camp
Mabry. One building was filled
with national guard equipment,
much of which was new and un
used. The second was used as an
indoie rifle range and contained
little of any value.
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SOVIET PLANE TAKE-OFF
SEATTLE. Oct., 19, (JP)—The
Russian plah3 “Land of Soviet''
took-off from here yesterday
morning at 9:25 0‘clock, en
route to Oakland, and landed at
the Vancouver, Wash., airport, at
12:21 p. m. on account of oil-line
trouble.
OF IIS RIGHT EYE
FILES SUIT IN SEATTLE COURT
AGAINST ROBINSON FISH
ERIES COMPANY
SEATTLE, Oct., 19, UP)—For the
loss of an eye, Axel Hagenson, 40.
a seaman, filed suit in Superior
Court for $25,000 against the Rob
inson Fisheries Co.
While he was a fisheman in the
Bering Sea last June on the schoon
er Axalea, filth from the deck of
the vessel splashed in his eye, caus
ing an infection. Hagenson said
that he pleaded with the officers to
put him ashore for medical atten
tion but they declined to give up
fishing operations. When he fin
ally arrived “outside” the eye was
so far gone that it had to be remov
ed the complaint said.
REPORTS MADE TO NAVY CAN
NOT BE MADE PUBLIC
IT IS STATED
WASHINGTON, Oct., 19, (/P)—
1 The defense called on J. Cramp
i ton Anderson, president of the
Pan American Petroleum Com
pany of Los Angeles, and other
witnesses in an effort to con
tradict the government’s conten
tion that Fall, on trial for brib
! ery, disregarded the recommen
dation of his subordinates and
leased the entire Elk Hills naval
oil reserve to the company head
ed by Doheny.
Anderson said the lease had
been contemplated for only cer
tain sections. It also developed
that the reports made to the
navy eight years ago from Asia
tic stations by Rear Admiral
Greaves is still considered con
fidential by the secretary of the
navy and can not be made public.
FISH POND AIDS FARMERS
THOMASVILLE, Ga„ Oct., 19, (/P)
—Georgia farmers who own fish
ponds in this section are reaping
at golden harvest. A large pond,
drained recently, yielded $3,800.
The owners sold tickets at $2 each
for the privilege of getting the fish. |
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DRAWINGS ON ROCKS, MANY
! COLORED: MAY DATE BACK
THOUSANDS OF YEARS
ADELAIDE, Australia, Oct., 18,
(&)—Perhaps the closest contact
which modern man may ever ex
pect with the days of caveman is
reported by a party of Australian
I ethnologists.
The last of the cave men is gen
erally credited with having lived
not less than 10,000 years ago. He
was a stone worker, his tools of
chipped flint, in flakes and other
simple forms.
The Australian party came upon
a pile of these flints and scrapers,
perfect specimens, all arranged as
if the artisan who made them had
just left his work neatly stacked in
a circle.
The find was made in Mootwin
gee Gorge, which lies buried, almost
inaccessible in the interior, north
of the famous mining region of
Broken Hill.
The flints were true stone age
workmanship. How long their mak
er had been departed is unknown,
but the present Australian aborigi
nal who still inhabits the region is
regarded as a living example of
stone age cave men. He has no
architecture, but lives in caves, or
under branches thrown against
trees, and his implements and wea
pons all are stone.
I The party from Mootwingee
Gorge believe that the place repre
sents a culture that may date back
thousands of years. There are draw
ings on the cave rocks, many of
them brilliantly colored.
FAIRBANKS WILL BE BASE: DE
TAILS WILL BE SETTLED
BY REPRESENTATIVES
BERLIN, Oct., 19, UP)—Despite
difficulties with the crew which
showed disinclination to take the
! German dirigible Graf Zeppelin
on a Polar flight next spring the
| Aero Arctic Society is proceeding
with its preparations for thehop.
The society’s representative,
Professor Blisteine, left for New
York to complete arrangements
for a Fairbanks, Alaska base and
tto supervise shipment of fuel re
! serves and spare parts. He will
also arrange for radio equipment
and discuss the flight’s scientific
work with American scientists.
The society insists the flight
will be made according to con
tract and that the trouble with
the crew is up to Dr. Ekener and
three representatives who have
gone to Friedrichshafen to set
tle the details.
K. K. Katz, Alaska representa
tive of the Northern Pacific, re
turned last evening from one of
his many trips to the Interior *
in the interest of Alaskans and
his company.