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VOLUME XV. NUMBER 24.
SEWARD, ALASKA. THURSDAY, January 30, 1930.
PRICE TEN CENTS
GUN REFUSED TO FUNCTION;
FOUND WANDERING AIM
LESSLY STREETS
SEATTLE, Jail., 29, (^—Kid
napped by a gang of bootlegger j
suspects whom he and another;
under-cover prohibition agent at-, I
tempted to trap in a whiskey deal,
D. Dunning, one of the agents,
was “taken for a ride” and ter
ribly beaten by a gang of three
men and two women.
Dunning was taken to the
city hospital by the police who
found him wandering aimlesslyj
about the street in the south
end of the city. He had previous
ly stumbled into M. S. Jackson,
a southend resident whom he |
requested to notify the police, j
While he was telephoning head
quarters Dunning wandered aw?ay
but was found later by a prow
ler car.
Later, the story in detail as
related by Dunning, was this:
One of the women in the car
strangled him while the other
occupants of the car took turns
beating him. He said he snapp
ed his pistol at them several
times but the cartridges failed
to explode.
He said he was thrown out of
the machine on the highway to
ward Tacoma when the car was
temporarily stalled.. The other
agent, R. Ginn, and Dunning, had
arranged to meet the suspects
in the University district to
complete a supposed whiekey
deal.
4
Dun- mg rot into the car and
Ginn .raid while he was stand*
ine- on 1 he runnier beard he
snapped handcuffs onto the wrist
of one man who swung at him
tv’ h pig fhand knocking Mm
into the street. The car then
sped away with Dunning inside.
ALLARABAD. India, Jan., 29, (IP) j
—Three Moslems were killed and !
22 injured in a fight between Hin- i
dus and Moslems at Lor, a message |
from Gorap stated. The fighting :
broke out during the election of a
chairman for a certain town com- i
mittee in which a Hindu and a ,
Moslem were rivals. Lor is in the
Gorakpur district of the United
Provinces.
I LOB ANGELES, Jan., 80, (IP)—
Dr. Benjamin Black, county phy
sician, testified that Alexander
Pontages is a victim of heart
disease and that further incur
w-L ,r .night prove fatal. He was
test1-tying at Pantage’s hearing
on neMtion for release.
*D". • Tenry H. Lissncr, a private
physician, agreed with Dr. Black.
The hearing was not finished and
was continued over to the after
noon.
►
PICKS HEADQUARTERS
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., Jan., 29,
(/P)—American league headquarters
during the spring training grind
will be St. Petersburg, President E.
S. Barnard has announced. The
junior circuit executive will visit all
of the six American league camps
in Florida.
OFFICERS STAGE
GUI FIGHT. FID
OUT. HEAD
SIRCVATKA SERIOUSLY INJUR
ED, LITTLE CHANCE RECOV
ERY, DREW GUN FIRST
CHICAGO, Jan., 29, f/PT—Police
man George Sirovatka and George
Polaski were unable to settle the is
sue of who was going to drive the
patrol wagin, so they resorted to
their trusty revolvers to settle the
argument.
Latest bulletins from Sirovatka’s
hospital bed, held little chance for
his recovery. He is seriously injured
with bullet wounds in his chest, ab
domen and arm.
Sirovatka was driving when Pol
aski decided that it was his turn to
drive. Sirovatka refused to move
and drew his gun and shot once,
acording to witnesses. Polaski re
turned the fire and his companion
officer fell.
SEVEN MEASURES TO REPEAL
18 th AMENDMENT BE
FORE GROUP
I
—
WASHINGTON, Jan., 30, (/P)—
! Chairman Graham of the House
judiciary committee, announced
hearings will begin before this
group February 12 on seven mea
sures to repeal the 18th amend
j ment.
This is the first time since
! enactment of the amendment
I that such a course has been tak
! en by the committee.
I Many efforts have been made
; by the wet bloc to have the hear
| ings opened, in the past, on a
; measure to repeal but heretofore
' they had always failed.
-———.
VOTE SEEMS LIKELY
WASHINGTON, Jan-, 30, (/P)—
The vote of the Senate on Phil
ipine independence during the
present session of Congress ap
peared likely, according to the
l announcement of Chairman Bing
ham, of the Senate Territories
: committee. It will be reported as
soon as possible after February
10.
PIRATES GAMBLE ON GUSSIE SUHR
I ' ( l
if Gussie Suhr, Pittsburgh’s recruit first basemen,
has as much confidence in himself as the Pirates have,
he will easily make the big league grade.
FILIPINOS BEATEN
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan., 29, (/P)
—Three Filipino youths were
severely beaten by two unident
ified taxicab drivers. Police are
preparing to take extra precau
tions against serious racial dis
turbances in San Francisco.
SlIF mu 5151
SALINAS. Jan., 29. (/P)—An an
swer setting forth the full legality
of the proceedings of the arrest and
conviction of Mrs. Sue Brown,
young Montrey matron, on a liquor
law violation charge, was filed by
District Attorney Albert Warth, in
response to Mrs. Brown’s appeal.
Notice of appeal to the Superior
Court of Montrey county was filed
some days ago by Judge A. J. Bar
din, attorney for Mrs. Brown on al
legations that she was arrested and
convicted on false information sup
plied by an under-cover informer
known as Henry Miller.
TRAIN FOR CANADA
LONDON. Jan., 29. (ZP)—Arrange
ments have been made in Great
Britain to train 3,000 unmarried
men from 19 to 35 in farm work.
They will be sent, to Canada in the
spring.
FAIRBANKS, Jan., 29, (.P)—
| There is no news here concern
ing the rich strike on Wild Eiv
j er. Pilot Dorbandt, returning
! from Bett'es last*night, said he
j had heard the usual optimisn
; warding hardrock prospects on
; Wild River where a few pros
1 nectors are engaged in tracing
| rich float found last summer in
! the hope of discovering free mill
ing gold quartz.
j Dorbandt is returning to Bet
i ties the latter part of this week
to bring out Captain Rowden,
mining engineer engaged in pla
cer development.
SUCCOR IS RUSHED
TO 11 MINER
RED RIVERE, Idaho, Jan., 29, (P)
—Starting their final dash of 18
miles to reach a suffering miner at
the Copper Kink mine-, a doctor and
three other men and 10 dogs,
plunged into snow eight and 10 feet
deep and at a temperature of 40 be
Tow zero, hoping to reach Ray Burke
before his blood poisoning should
prove fatal.
BROKERS ARRESTED
TORONTO. Jan., 29, (P)—Three
prominent mining brokers have
been arrested in the government’s
dim against bucket shop opera
tions in Canada.
TWO AGENTS KILJLED
WASHINGTON, Jan., 29. (P)—
The killing of two prohibition
agents in a raid on the Florida
home of a suspected boo; egger was
blamed by Prohibition Commission
er Doran upon “the recent inil tmo
tor y attacks upon our personnel.”
FATHER EIELSOI
I EiOUTE NORTH
WILL SAIL FROM SEATTLE
FOR SEWARD ON FEB
RUARY 5
FARGO, N. D., Jan., 30, (/P)—
Ole Eielson began his long jour
ney to Alaska to claim the body
of his son it it is found and in
tends to bring it back here for
burial in the Hatton, N. D-,
cemetery besides Ben’s mother.
Arriving here last night from
Hatton he left this afternoon for
Seattle where he will sail from,
for Seward, Alaska, February 5.
While in Seattle he will ex
tend his sympathy to the parents
and family of Mechanician Bor
land. He will be met in Seattle
by his daughter Adelaide who is
teaching school at Wenatchee.
E1L MM
OF
?S WILL
010 BODIES 8SC!!
NOME, Jan., 30, UP)—A funeral
squadron of four planes will
make the 500-mile flight across
from Siberia to Nome with the
bodies of Eielson and Borland.
Pilots Crosson and Gillam have
requested that they may have
the honor of carrying the bodies
in their big cabin planes when
the bodies are found and the re
turn trip to Nome begins.
Lemon asked them to circle
the Nome court house upon their
arrival at which time sirens will
notify residents the remains
have arrived.
JUNEAU, Jan., 30, UP)—The
halibut fishing boat owners of
Juneau, also, it is believed, of
Petersburg and Ketchikan, have
joined the Seattle association in
the agreement not to go to the
halibut banks until March 1, two
weeks after the season opens on
February 15.
The reason for this action is
given that the present halibut
market is glutted the same as
it was in 1928.
TWO I FROM
GOLD WEATHER IS
NEW YORK GUY
NEW YORK, Jan., 28, (/P)—Two
deaths were on record from the
coldest weather experienced in the
metropolitan area this winter. It
was much colder in Pennsylvania
and three deaths occured in that
state. The low temperature here
caused by a disturbance which brot
state. Low temperature here was
below zero aril a 15-inch snow in
many parts of Pennsylvania. The
mercury reached a minimum of 10
degrees abtive zero in New York.