SEWARD,
ALASKA
Gateway
Seward
COAST TERMINAL OF THE
ALASKA RAILROAD
DAILY AND WEEKLY
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
TERMINAL FOR THREE OCEAN
GOING STEAMSHIP LINES
VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 158.
SEWARD, ALASKA. WEDNESDAY, NOV. 27, 1929.
PRICE TEN CENTS
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TWO ARMY PLANES REQUEST
ED TO ASSIST SEARCH
EIELSON, DORLAND
NOME, Nov., 27, (/P)—Pilot Dor
bant took off yesterday for Teller
where he will wait for the first
opportunity to resume the search
for Pilots Eielson and Dorland.
Strenuous efforts are being
made to assemble all the equip
ment of the Alaska Airways here
to expedite the rescue but wea
ther is hampering even the as
sembling.
The rescuers, Crosson and
Young were forced to return to
Fairbanks each time because of
ice on the planes. The first re
ported it had fought its way to
Ruby. Frank Graham is also to
aid in the search but was last
reported stormbound at St. Mich
ael from where he was return
ing here wi ' ” ~shal Jones
and a prison L.
Govenor Parks has requested
the use of two Army planes to
aid in the rescue. The establish
ment of a supply base on the Si
berian ccast is needed tc insure
success of the plans. The planes,
if available, will be capable of
transporting gasoline to this base
from which planes can be oper
ated over the shorter distance.
There is said to be considerable
gasoline at Teller but that point
is about 400 miles from where
Colonel Eielson’s plane was last
>een.
HAD NOT ATTENDED A MEET
ING IN SEVERAL YEARS
SENT ItEPRESENTATVE
DEARBORN, Nov., 27, (A5)—
Henry Ford, Dearborn’s wealth
iest citizen, resigned from the
local board of education because
some of the citizens resented his
non-attendance at board meet
ings.
Ford had been a trustee of the
school district for 18 years and
was regarded by many of the
school electors as an honorary
member.
He had not attended meetings
for several years but had always
sent a personal representative
to act in an advisory capacity.
His representative was not allow
ed to vote at any of the meetings
held by the Ford school which
was dedicated to Ford.
EARTHQUAKE AT SEA
NEW YORK, Nov., 27, (/P)_'The
earthquake which was felt along j
the coast from New York to Halifax i
shook the liner Olympic, 640 miles
out at sea, from stem to stern, her j
commander reported on arrival
here from Southampton and Cher
bourg. Officers of the Olympic did |
not know what had happened and j
for a time feared the ship had hit j
a submerged v/reck and perhaps j
damaged her hull. j
EVENTFUL VOYAGE
SEATTLE, Nov., 27 ^—Af
ter an eventful voyage the Kana
ga Island Trading vessel Aleutian
Native, owned by the Kanaga
Island Ranching Company, dock
ed. Capt. Harold E. Bowman, head
of the island ranching firm, was
in command of the vessel. Pass
engers were R. H. Milne and Capt.
James Naro.
IH OFFICIALS
m SERVICE FOB
SE1T8R in
LATE SENATOR HELPED TO
- MOULD AND PIONEER
THE WEST
WASHINGTON, Nov., 27, (/P)_
In the chamber where Francis
E. Warren, as Senator from Wy
oming was a familiar figure for
nearly two score years, President
Hoover and other high officials
attended the funeral services for
one who helped mould and
neer the West into the thriving
America of the present.
The funeral service was con
ducted by Rev. Z. B. Phillips,
chaplain of the senate, who
read the funeral service of the
Protestant Episcopal church.
After the service the body was
taken to the Union Station where
a special section of the Capital
Limited of the Baltimore, Ohio,
will carry it on the first part of
the long journey West.
FROM THE NANUK
SEATTLE, Nov., 27, (JP)—Six
members from the Swenson trad
ing schooner Nanuk, arrived here
from Nome on the S. S. Sierra.
THREE OF CREW DROWNED
TRYING TO SWIM ASHORE
IN HIGH SEAS
TILFORDHAVEN, Wales, Nov.,
27, (/P)—A lifeboat rescued 28
persons from the rapidly disin
tergating steamship Molesley but
reached the wreck too late to
save eight others.
The steamer was bound for
Manchester f^om Cardiff when it
was dashed upon the rocks near
Wolltack Point. Efforts from the
land to effect a rescue of all per
i sons were prevented by the gale
and high seas.
Three of the crew tried to swim
to shore and were drowned. Five
others were washed overboard or
died from exposure including the
wife of the chief mate.
The radio operator, E. R. King,
n ordeir to
save tne uvea -rs- He stuck
to his post and sent messages
until a sea swept away his cabin.
NOME, Nov., 27, (£>)—Late yes
terday afternoon a dog team dri
ver at North Cape reported that
he had seen smoke in the foot
hills about 30 miles from the
trading schooner Nanuk. It is
believed that Eielson and Dorland
are still alive but uanble to ex
! Uicate themselves.
SIX MORE INDICTED
COUR d’ALENE, Idaho, Nov., 27, j
(/P)—The feredal grand jury indict
ed six more persons for violations
of the prohibition law, in connec
tion with the continued federal
drive against a rum ring operating
here. Previously, 45 persons had
been indicted for conspiracy and
further indictments are expected.
SHIP ON ROCKS IS BEING j
POUNDED TO PIECES
MANY MISSING I
LONDON, Nov., 27, (/P)—After !
a night of terror amid raging
seas and torrential rains the
; greater part of the crew of the
steamship Molesey, which ground
ed on the rocks off Mooltack Pt. j
Southeast Wales, were rescued by
the Milfordhaven lifeboats.
Six men and one woman, the
j chief officer’s wife, are still miss
ing and the ship is held fast on
the rocks and being pounded in
i to a total wreck,
j „ Twenty-eight persons have |
i been landed including the Cap
tain and two women. Those miss
ing are thought to have been
washed overboard or succumbed
in the cold. j
CITY IN FLAMES
HARBIN, Manchuria, Nov., 27, f/P) j
—Khailar, northwestern Manchu- !
ria, was described as being on fire
or in flames in messages received
here. All the Chinese evacuated the j
city which fell before a force of;
i Soviet cavalary and tanks.
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TO BE DISTURBED
MAN SEEN IN GRAVEYARD AT
TIIE TIME OF BASSETT’S
DISAPPEARANCE
SEATTLE, Nov., 27, (/P)—An
unmarked grave in an isolated
cemetery, near Malty, will be the
local point of search for the body
of Bassett. The grave is within
that area, according to Prosecutor
Colvin which information he said
was revealed to him by Mayer
who is suspected of having mur
dered Bassett. Mayer was being
subjected to tests from the “Lie
detector” when Colvin obtained
the information.
Colvin said three other per
sons also supplied him with in
formation which led him to in
vestigate the cemetery but that
he is not at liberty to divudge
their names. They saw a man,
answering Mayer’s description,
walking about the graveyard at
about the time Bassett disappear
ed.
Wih an iron probe Colvin said
he had struck a board or a box
at a depth of about two-feet
in a grave thought to contain
the remains of a man known as
Dillon, who had been killed in
an automobile accident about 18
months ago. Efforts are being
made to locate relatives in order
to obtain permission to open the
grave and ascertain if it contain
ed more than one body.
SEVERAL PROVINCES IN RE
VOLT AGAAINST NATION
AL GOVERNMENT
UNDATED— Nov. 27, (/P)—
The armed forces in Western
Manchuria are in a scattered and
panic condition before the in
vading Russian troops and China
has appealed to the League of
Nations, as one of the govern
ments which signed the Kellogg
Pact, to punish the invaders.
Simultaneously, China is ap
parently trying to come to terms
with the People’s army leaders
who led the troops in several
provinces which are in revolt
against the Nationalist govern
ment.
The fact that fighting between
the People’s army and the Nat
ionalists has ceased in Central
China is cited as corroborative of
the reports that officials are en
deavoring to unite all factions in
China against the foreign inva
der.
NAME PRESENTED
VANCOUVER, B. C., Nov., 27, (/P)
—The name of Governor Fred W.
3reen, of Michigan will be present
ed to President Hoover by Senator
^anderberg, of Michigan, for con
sideration in the election of a suc
cessor to the late Secretary of the
Var Good. Colonel Green is nat
onal commander of the Spanish
American War Veterans.