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VOLUME XV. NUMBER 20.
SEWARI), ALASKA. SATURDAY, January 25, 1930.
PRICE TEN CENTS
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SUFFERED BEYOND WORDS;
SUBSEQUENT PUBLICITY,
WORTH S 1,000,000
LOS ANGELES, Jan., 25, (/P)—;
Eunice Pringle filed a suit for
SI.000,000 damages against Alex
ander Pantages asking a half
million for the actual alleged
.assault and the other half mil- i
ion as exemplary damages which
followed the alleged assault on
August 9.
The girl’s name was damaged
through publicity and “that in
i.he course of the commission of
the alleged act the defendant
was suffered severely causing the
plaintiff physical pain, mental an-1
qiiisii and humiliation.”
Within an hour of the filing
of the action Garland Biffle. ac
cused of perjury as the result of
his testimony for the defense,
Pantages was asked by Biffle’s
attorney for permission to reopen
the case declaring the action
was filed with intent to influ
ence the jury against Biffle.
Judge Henderson ordered the
attorney to proceed with his ar
gument then summoned the Prin
gle girl and her mother, Mrs. Lou
Pringle; her attorneys and Nich
olas Duneauv, to appear tomor
row for questioning in connect
ion with the motion to reopen
the case.
Miss Pringle said she decided
to file the suit only today and
that it had no connection with
the Biffle suit.
Pantages, who is awaiting the
outcome of his appeal, refused
to make any comment.
His attorneys said they had
expected some such action and
“would fight it to the limit.”
She said: “I decided it was my
right that he should make up to
me for my lost future. I have suf
fered beyond words as a result
of the affair, not only for what
actually happened but from the
publicity which followed.”
RISK!) 10 FORTUNE
SET DRAW, POOTESNO
PORTLAND, Jan., 25, (fP)—Char
lley R i s k o, 170-pound Tacoma
fighter, and Bel Fontaine of Win
nipeg, fought 10 hard rounds to a
draw in the main event of the card
here. Fontaine's sportmanship cost
him a victory.
In the third round Risko landed
a sharp right to Fontaine’s chin as
the Canadian boxer was on his
knees on the canvas. Fontaine
flatly refused to accept the foul
and the fight proceeded.
THOUSANDS THREATENED
SWANSEA, Wales, Jan., 24, (fP)~
Ten thousand homes are threaten
ed with destruction and 40,000 peo
ple with destitution by huge masses 1
of moving mountains in the narrow
mining valleys of Wales. Engineers
believe great drainage schemes
would prevent wholesale destruc
tion.
H PART 0? TUG
VANCOUVER, B. C., Jan., 25, UP)
—A wreckage found on Bluden Is
land was identified as port of the
tug Farquhar. missing, since she left
here for Bellingham, last week. The
men believed lost were the captain
and five others, all of Vancouver.
The tug was presumed to have
foundered in the gale which swept
the Gulf of Georgia last week.
PURSUED TUG, RAMMED
SMASHING HOLE IN HULL,
THEN RAN FROM SCENE
VANCOUVER, B. C., Jan., 25, (JP)
—A protest was sent to the Domin
ion government in Ottawa concern
ing the alleged ramming of the deep
sea tug “Taiheiyo Maru” by the
coast guard vessel “Bonham” on
January 10, at the Guadelupe Is
lands off the coast of Mexico.
The owners of the vessel here re
ceived a report of the beaching of
their tug on the islands. The re
port also stated the Taiheiyo Maru
was pursued by the Bonham which
rammed her, smashing a hole in her
hull, then running from the scene.
The ramming occured, the mes
sage to the owners said, about 150
miles below the U. S. and Mexican
border.
SOVIET FLYER ILL
MOSCOW, Jan., 25, (TP)—The
Soviet aviator Gromov has been
suddenly taken ill with grippe
1 and has postponed his trip to
North Cape, in search of Eielson
\ and Borland. He hopes to be in
condition to fly again by Sun
day.
LOSS TOTALS 850,000; CLASS IN
SESSION WHEN THE FIRE
BROKE OUT
NEW YORK, Jan., 25, UP,—St.
Marks Episcopal church and school
at Nenana, completed and occu
pied less than a year ago, burn
! ed to the ground Thursday with
a loss of $50,000.
The dispatch was received by
; the Church Missions House, New
| York, and said that the 34 Alas
; ka children and five American
women missionaries and teachers
who had bem living in the build
ing, arc for lg temporarily quar
tered ' m chains.
At the consent of Territorial
I authorities they will be permitted
! to be housed in vacant govern
; ment buildings at Nenana.
! Classes were being held when
the fire broke out.
1 NJT1, GRIP WINTER
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CHICAGO, Jan., 25, f/P)—Winter
held merciless domination over the
land. From the cotton fields of
Dixie to the northwest territory
stretched a sheet of ice glistening
under a cold sun.
Zero weather stunned the south
west as it struggled against the fet
ters cf deep snow and worse than
zero weather visited upon the popu
lace cf central and western prair
ies.
An ice-bound river fended off the
rescuers that sought to bring food
and fuel to the little town of Cath
lamet, isolated four days by snow
and ice on the noith banks of the
Columbia river, in Washington.
NEW YORK, Jan., 25, f/P)—Clara j
Bow, the “personality pronoun girl” j
arrived from Hollywood and fell in
to the arms of Harry Richman, her
announced fiance, who was waiting
at the train to meet her. Harry
and Clara posed smiling for the j
cameraman. Clara had a cold and
could speak hardly above a whisper.!
BELIEVE DEATH CAUSED FROM
IMPACT RATHER THAN FIRE
FRACTURED SKULLS
LOS ANGELES, Jan., 25, (/P)—A
coroner’s jury will hear the testi
mony of aviation experts and eye
\ witness at inquest in Oceanside
in an effort to determine the cause .
and fix the responsibility for the
crash of a transcontinental Air
Transport Maddux Airliner, which
brought death to two pilots and 14
passengers.
i At the first inquest at Ocean
side, held by Coroner Schuyler Kel
ley of San Diego county, for the
purpose of releasing the bodies for
burial, the T. A. T. Maddux board’s
belief that death occured from im
pact rather than fire, was corrobo- j
rated. John J. Shea, San Diego
county autopsy surgeon, said ail
had fractured skulls and multiple
injuries.
NEW MINE GAS SIGNAL
! LONDON. Jan., 25, (A3)—A new
gas detection has been adopted for
British mines after tests in the
house of commons. The invention
which signals the presence of dead
ly fumes by lighting a red lamp,
: was produced about two years ago. j
But it did not catch on until after
trials in Parliament in the presence
of a solemn concave of officials.
NEW YEAR IS SEEN AS A FRUITFUL ERA
IN THE GROWTH OF INLAND WATERWAYS
Great advances in inland waterwa y work are expected this
upper left are government barges and towboats passing through
at Hastings, Minn. Upper right shows a Mississippi barge loadii
Louis, while at lower right is a towboat “at work” near St. Lou'
RUSSIAN WHO FIRST ORDERED
SIBERIAN SEARCH NOW
IN SEATTLE
SEATTLE, Jan., 25, {/Pi—P. I.
Baranov, president of the Rus
sian Civil Aviation Council, the
man who ordered the seven Rus
sian aviators to search for Col
onel Eielson and Earl Borland,
mechanician, is here with seven
other representatives of the Sov
iet council to study the Boeing
plant and landing fields.
“We are sparing no effort to
find the American aviators and
we realize the utmost difficulty
of the undertaking,” he said.
“Our pilots are endeavoring to
traverse some of the wildest and
roughest country in the world at
a time when weather conditions
are almost impossible for hu
mans to face- There will be no
cessation of activities, however,
until the fliers are found, dead
or alive, or if it is definitely de
termined that they can not be
found,” Baranv concluded.
EXPERTS SEME
NAUGHTY AUTOMOBILE
IS J DISTILLERY
LOS ANGELES, Jan., 25, (/P)—A
still, for the production of gasoline
whiskey, aged in the crankcase and
filtered thru the carburator to all
appearances, was under examina
tion by the Los Angeles police.
Officers discovered the contri
vance when they raised up the hood
of Paul Charity’s automobile, after
a lively chase down the highway.
The still was joined to the engine
block, experts declared, and had
been making moonshine whiskey.
Heat was furnished by the motor
and the generator supplied the
electric aging of the liquor.
SCHILLING SIGNS
TO FIGHT ON JUNE K
NEW YORK, Jan., 25, (/P)— Max
Schmelling and the winner of the
Sharkey-Scott fight at Miami, will
f eet for the heavyweight champ
Jhip of the world at the Yankee
!um on June 26, with the local
md and Madison Square Gar
mint promoters.
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