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TERMINAL FOR THREE OCEAN
GOING STEAMSHIP LINES
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XV. NUMBER 23.
SEWARD, ALASKA. WEDNESDAY, January 29, 1930.
PRICE TEN CENTS
PICK TIKE
OFF FOP! SCEISE
EIFLSON WRECK
fVILL REMAIN SIBERIA UN
TIL BODIES FOUND AND
BRING BACK
NOME, Jan., 29, {&)— Lomen
returned from Teller with Pilot
Vic Ross. He said that both of
the Fairchild planes took-off
from Teller yesterday morning at
9:30 and intended to stop at the
scene of the Eielson wreck en
route to the Nanuk.
Lomen said that Reid and
Young will stay on the Siberian
side until everything is cleaned
up, meaning they will bring back
the bodies of Eielson and Borland
when found, and clean up the
fur shipments from Swenson on
th^ Nanuk.
Gas supp’ied by the Soviets
will be replaced. There were 18
cases of gasoline in Eielson’s
plane, and a case of eggs, and
these were only slightly damaged.
U. S. AND JAPAN HAVE NOTH
ING TO PROPOSE GENER
AL DISCUSSIONS
LONDON, Jan., 29, OP)—'The
French tonnage proposals have
been put to the head of the Na
val conference but the Italian
counter proprosal wiii also be giv
en their day in court at the next
open session.
A full conference will be call
ed on Thursday again invoking
the “big five” meeting at St.
James Palace.
It has been decided to call the
roll of tiie nations at Thursday’s
conference thus giving France the
right-of-way over her Italian
neighbor. France will present her
proposal to limit fleets, as a
whole, and not in separate cate
gories.
Great Britain reiterated brief
ly with preference for category
regulation. Italy will then make
her plea.
Actual relativity of the fleets
will be decided before all else.
The United States and Japan
have nothing to propose at this
general phase of the discussions.
SHEETS VICTORY
PLUSES IBIS
NEW YORK, Jan., 29, (A5)—Gene
Sarazen’s splendid victory in the
£20.000 Agua Caliente open tourney,
the richest golf tourney ever held,
will be pleasing to the many ad
mirers of this game little sportsman
©f a player. As a matter of fact,
Gene in recent years, while always
playing sportmanlike golf, has fail
ed to land on top consistently of
of the big national events.
DE RIVERA RESIGNS
MADRID, Jan., 29, (/P)—DeRivera,
Spanish director since 1923 and his
cabinet, have resigned. King Al
fonso has appointed General Ber
enguer to form a new cabinet. He is
chief of the King’s military staff
and gained wide fame in the Mo
roccoan campaign.
ElElSflfi MGS
TO HATH SA?S
ALFRED LIEN
BODIES STILL UNRECOVERED;
FAIRCHILD PLANES AR
RIVE AT NANUK
NOME, Jan., 29, (AV-Alfred
Lomen wired Graham Grosvenor,
president of the Aviation Corp
oration at New York, suggesting
that Colonel Eielson “The Father
of Aviation in Alaska” be buried
in Arlington Cemetery providing
Eielson’s family are agreeable
to the idea.
He belongs to the nation, Lo
men .said. Preparations are un
der way at Nome for services
upon the arrival of the bodies
from Siberia.
Both Fairchild planes arrived
at the Nanuk at 2:15 yesterday
without incident.
Crosson and Gillam returned
from to the Nanuk from the
| scene of the wreck late Monday.
They reported the bodies have
not yet been found and that dig
ging continues.
GAS MS USE
BUT 3T0HE EMPLOYEES
SANTA CLARA, Jan., 29, (/Pi—Gas
fumes drove employees from three
stores here and caused grave dan
ger. An explosion, resulting from
gas fumes caused the death of one
woman; Mrs. Bougdell, mother of
Policeman Bougdell, was carried
|from the store in a faint; several
others were injured, and a number
of stores were wrecked. Police sta
tioned themselves to prevent people
| smoking as they passed the danger
i zone.
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ESCAPED TO RANCH HOUSE
WHERE GIVEN DOSE OF
TEAR BOMBS
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan., 28, (TP)
—Jack “Scarface” Chambers, for
mer Alcatraz prison guard sought
since Thursday night as the ban
dit who robbed the Fairfax branch
of the Bank of Italy of $2,000,
was arrested by deputy sheriffs.
He was found hiding in a big.j
ditch east of Novato. He admitt- j
ed the robbery then escaped.j
The posse twice surrounded him'
in a Hicks Valley ranch house j
where he was eating; tear bombs
were flung into the house be
fore the officers entered.
He gave the name of Lewis but
was positively identified as the
former Alcatraz guard. Cham
bers said a confederate planned
the robbery and had the money. -
EOVFRKOfl EXPRESSES j
BECHET 10 PAYS I
TRIBUTE 10 FLEERS
' |
JUNEAU, Jan., 29, (/P)—Ex
pressing regret that the Eielson
plane was found smashed and
the flier probably killed, Gover-!
nor Parks paid the tribute that!
‘ Eielson was the father of avia- j
tion in Alaska and undoubtedly
helped more than any other man
to develop air travel in the Ter
ritory. It is to be regretted that
he has gone.”
Captain Oaks, who went to
Fairbanks with the Fairchilds, is
enreuie to Vancouver, B. C., and
is leaving Tuesday night on the
Princess Mary. He regretted to
iiear that Eielson and Borland
1 are jprobably dead.
BRIGADIER GEN. DIES
WASHINGTON, Jan., 29, (.Pi
Brigadier General Davis Stuart
Gordon, retired and oldest of
i ficer in the United States Army,
: died at his home at the age of
97.
AFTER NEW MARK
PORT DARWIN, Jan., 29, (A3)— ;
V. C. Khichester, lone British flyer,
irrived here from the Dutch East
Indies, completing a trip from Eng- j
and in 36 days. He left Croydon |
n a tiny Moth plane hoping to beat
;he record of Bert Hinklers of 15
lays.
TO 10 POINTER |
RATHER PREMATURE!
I
PUTMAN’S EXPLORATIONS AT- .
TRACTED AS MUCH PUBLIC
ITY AS ATLANTIC FLIGHT
NEW YORK, Jan., 29t (A3)—Re
ports that Amelia Earhart and
George Palmer Putman, millionaire
publisher, were to be married, were
declared to be a bit premature,
when a reporter interviewed the
aviatrix in her suite on the 21st
floor of the American Women’s As
sociation Building.
Z am much too bury to be mar
ried right now,1’ M ss Earhart an
nounced emphatically. She refused
to go into details regarding her re
ported romance with the publisher
explorer, whose expeditions into
Baffin Land and the Arctic with his
eldest son David, now 6, attracted
almost as much puoiicity as Miss
Earhart’s flight across the Atlantic.
RtGH ill STRiKE
NOR SETTLES, REPORTS
SITES, LOS ANGELES
LOS ANGELES, Jan., 29, (A3)—
Ernest Walker Sawyer, assistant
to Secretary Wilbur, announced
receipt of telegraphic word of
an apparently rich strike of gold
in the Wild River district, near
Betties.
Sawyer said miners have brot
out samples which created great
interest in Fairbanks and that
airplane parties are speeding in
to the Wild River country to lo
cate claims and to make prepar
ations for mining in the spring.
No more expenditures of the
prospectors aid act fund will be
made until March 30, 1930.
BACK LINES LOWERED TO SUN’ S RAYS
AS ELITE LOLL ON THE WINTER BEACHES
!
Sun baks are lower than ever at the Florida resorts this winter.
DISAGREEMENT OVER QUALI
FICATIONS OF MARY
LAND OFFICIAL
WASHINGTON, Jan., 29, (/P)—
A Senate investigation of the
prohibition enforcement service
is in prospect as the result of a
sharp disagreement between As
sitant Secretary Lowman and
Senators Borah and Wheeler over
the qualifications of John Her
bert, dry administrator of Mon
tana and Idaho.
Borah indicated he would ask
the Senate judiciary committee to
?o into conference on enforcement
problems as soon as the committee
takes up the pending dry bills,
as the result of Lowman’s de
fense of Herbert.
“We ought to have the facts.
We were told by an investigator
Df the Department of Justice
about Herbert as prohibition di
rector of Maryland. We may
have been misinformed but we
now have to find out,’’ Borah
said.
MAINTAIN VALUE
PARIS, Jan., 29, (^—Napoleon
ic relics maintained their values at
an auction here when $6,200 was
bid for one of the famous brazen
eagles which surmounted regimen
tal colors. This one was pierced by
a bullet.
CHICAGO. Jan., 29. (IP)—Art
Shires, “Peek’s Bad Boy” of baseball
and “his own big boy” of boxing,
appeared before Keneshaw M. Lan
dis, baseball’s high commissioner to
receive a warning that he either
must quit boxing or forsake the na
tional pastime.
Shires spent only about three
minutes before Commissioner Lan
dis and emerged with the laconic
comment, “It looks like I’ll have to
quit the ring”, and hurried out of
the building without issuing any
statement or posing for pictures
both of which have been among his
favorites.
MOTHER HO FI
HER DIE III FIRE -
FREDERICK, Colo., Jan., 29, (/P)
—Seven persons were burned to
death when a fire broke out in
a two-room shack near the slope
of the mine.
Mrs. Paul Martinex and her
five children ranging in age
from 13 months to 15 years, and
a miner named Nedion, lost
their lives
Nedion discovered the fire and
broke into the shack through a
window. He was burned to
death trying to rescue the fam
ily