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COAST TERMINAL OF THE
ALASKA RAILROAD
DAILY AND WEEKLY
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
TERMINAL FOR THREE OCEAN
GOING STEAMSHIP LINES
VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 210.
SEWARD, ALASKA. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9. 1929.
PRICE TEN CENTS
NO INDICATIONS TO THE EF- j
FECT THE PLANE HAD BEEN
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING
GRANT, N. M„ Sept., 9, <7P>—'The
last search for the plane “City of
San Francisco” ended as a party
of forest rangers, ambulance crew
and newspapermen lifted the burnt
and crumpled fuselage from the
charred bodies of five passengers
and the crew of three on the side
of Mount Taylor, seven miles from
the summet.
The bodies were unrecognizable
with the exception of a woman who
can be identified by dental work
only.
The plane plowed a swath 3UU
feet long thru the heavily wooded
mountain side and the bodies were
thrown forward and crowded to the
front of the cabin. An area of 300
feet square about the wreckage was j
covered with debris and only the
doors and windows of the all metal
plane were left intact. There was
no indication that the plane had
been struck by lightning.
Those lost were Amatha B. Mc
Geffey of Albuquerque, William
Henry Beers of New York. William
Livermore, Mrs. Corina Raymond of
Glendale, Calif.. J. B. Stone, chief
pilot of Clovis. N. M., Edwin A. Die
tel, co-pilot of New Braunfels, Tex.,
C. F. Canfield of New York and M.
M. Campbell of Cincinnati. The
victims’ bodies were brought down
by hand stretchers seven miles,
then 20 miles by auto to Grant.
PILOT FOR COMPANY DISCOV
ERS PLANE ON TOP 11,000
FOOT MT. TABOR
GRANT, N. M„ Sept., 9, (IP)—Geo.
Rice, a piolt of the Trans-continen
tal Air Transport, reported finding
the T. A. Airliner “City of San
Francisco”. It crashed near the
top of Mount Tabor, the 11,000 foot
New Mexico peak.
The plane had apparently been
struck by lightning which set it on
lire. The pilot was unable to see
the bodies of the eight occupants
but it is believed all burned to
death.
Land parties are making thdr
way to the scene but were not ex
pected to reach the plane for many
hours because of the rugged coun
try.
MRS. DOUGLAS LEAVES
Mrs. Leo Douglas, wife of the pro
prietor of the Seward Cash & Car
ry Store, bid farewell to frends this
morning, leaving Seward for Nena
na. Mrs. Douglas will take the last
river boat of the Alaska Railroad,
leaving Nenana this season for
Halt a g on the Yukon river, where
she will teach school for a term.
C. M. Brosius, local lumber and
Valdez bound passenger on the S.
building material dealer, was a
S. Alameda.
CHICAGO MOILS
HOLO THEIfl LEAD
OVER BOSTON BOWES
CHICAGO, Sept., 9, (JP)—'The
Chicago Nationals lost a free hit
ting contest to Boston but held
their 13 game lead as Brooklyn was
nosed out by Pittsburgh. Both;
times they used three hurleds;
Bush was knocked out in the sec
ond inning and Hal Carlson and
Mike Cvenglos followed.
Leverett started for the Braves
but a seven run attack drove him
out in the sixth. Ed Brandt and
Jim Cooney finished Brandt get
ting credit for the victory.
Hornsby hit his 35th homeh and
also got a pair of doubles and a
‘single. Marnaville hit four times
| in six trips to the plate.
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STOICISM MUCKS
El OF 111
HUNG. FAIRBANKS
DEATH CHANT BEGUN IN PRI
SON CELL ENDS AS TRAP IS
SPRUNG
FAIRBANKS. Sept., 9, (/P»— Con
stantine Beaver, the Kuskokwim
i native convicted last spring of first
degree murder in connection with
the death of Ignaty Necketta, a fel
low tribesman, in a. drunken brawl,
mounted the gallows here at 4:16
Saturday morning and was pro
nounced dead nine minutes later.
The Indian’s death chant started
when the prisoner’s arms were
! strapped, in the cell, ending with
the spring of the trap.
Beaver’s marked stoicism was
'(identical with that of “Old” Hamil
ton, a native, hanged here seven
years ago. Beaver leavs a widow
jon th Holitna river on the lowei
Kuskokwim.
Fill VESSEL
TINS OVER STORM
82 ARE DROWNED
MOST OF DEAD SAID TO BE
SCHOOL CHILDREN; WAVE
SWAMPED BOAT
HELSINGFORD, Finland, Sept., 9
(A3)—Police set a tentative total of
82 persons, most of them school
children, drowned Saturday when
the Finnish steamer Kura went
down in a storm outsde the har
bor of Tammerfors. More than 20
were saved.
A coherent account of the disas
ter was unobtainable and those
saved were so unnerved from shock
that they were unable to give any
kind of a story. The ship is be
lieved to have ran into a huge wave
'which swamped it. The passengers
man;' of them belov/, became panic
i stricken and ran to one side of the
|vessel causing it to capsize.
Rescue steamers reaching the
, scene found the Kura bottom-side
up and many persons clinging to it
iuntil -swrept off by huge w?aves; life
boats were overturned in the tur
ibulent water.
RUSSIAN PLANE “LAND OF
SOVIETS” BE IN SEWARD
BEWEEN SEPT. 16 AND 21
BREMERTON, Sept. 9. </P) — |
Contingent upon the time of the
arrival of the Attu at the Aleu- !
tian Islands the Naval Bureau of
Navigation operations announced
following the schedule of the
plane “Land of Soviets” would
leave Attu between September 13
and 18 and arrive in Seward be
tween September 16 and 21.
From Seward the plane will
go to Sitka and will arrive there
between September 18 and 23;
Puget Sound will be reached be
tween September 20 and 25; San
Francisco between September 28
and October 3’; Cheyenne Septem
ber 29 and October 4; New York
October 1 and 6.
This schedule was released by
Soviet officials in Moscow thru
, the United States navy.
'PASSENGERS SAVED
FRUJUD PRISE
VIGO, Spain, Sept., 9, (/P)—All
passengers were saved and none in
jured from the Nelson Line steamer
Highland Pride bound from London
to Btienos Aires which grounded in
a fog. The ship was apparently
only slightly damaged and tugs ex
pected to pull her off. She carried
•44 passengers who will be taken to
their destination on other liners.
MURDER THIRL ENOS
ABRUPTLY AS JUROR
BECOMES INSANE
CHARLOTTE, N. C., Sept., 9, (/P)
—The trial of 16 Gastonia textile I
strikers on charges of murder grow
ing out of the death of O. F. Ader
holt came to an abrupt end when j
J. G. Campbell ,a juror, became i
violently insane.
Judge Barnhill declared a mis- j
trial. Campbell suffered from re
ligious emotional insanity. The
first attack was on Saturday and j
hten again Sunday while being
taken to court when he became j
violent; it took four men to subdue j
him.
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corns
HOLLYWOOD, Sept., 9, (£>)—
Mickey Walker, middleweight
champion, was jailed on charges of
being drunk and possessing mtoxi-'
cants. The boxer and three com
panions from the motion picture
colony, were arrested after police
answered frantic calls from resi
j dents in the fashionable Whitley
Heights district that a fight was on
in an apartment house.
Officers said they found furni
ture scattered and broken. Arrest
ed with Walker were Ray Hallor
and Arthur Housman, actors and
Gordon Sweeney a director.
The police said they found Walk
er and three unidentified men
fighting on the Canyon Road but
released them when they insisted
they were engaged in a friendly
'scuffle.
RURAL CREDIT REFORM GIVES CO OP
COUNCIL CHANCES TO MAKE GOOD
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C. O. Moser (upper right), cotton man selected to head national
forum cn problems common to farm coperatives. Charles W. Hol
man (lower right), dairy representative instrumental in creating the
National Cooperative council and who acts as its secretary. Paul S.
Armstrong of the fruit industry (upper right) and J. J. Knight (lower
left), grain man, prominent among the directors.
WILL MAKE PERSONAL IN
VESTIGATION WITHIN
THE MONTH
“I’ve read so much about Nuka
Bay that my curiosity and in
terest was aroused and yesterday
when I was shown a sample of
Nuka Bay quartz, that decided
it with respect to going down to
the district myself and look it
over”. Thus spoke E. T. Eckle.
well known independent * mining
engineer who arrived in Seward
last week from Fairbanks. The
rock which Mr. Eckle examined
was a fair sample of the sugar
rose quartz, free gold, found
at almost every point in the re
gion.
Mr. Eckle’s remarks through
out the entire interview accord
ed the Gateway, hinged on con
servative lines but, he stated,
; “He likes the looks of this ore
better than any he ever saw, and
from hs statements, he has seen
plenty as will be seen latter in
this article. “The green stain in
Nuka Bay ore is not a vegetable
stain,” he said, “but a chemical
stain assuring me that the country
warrants investigation.’
He goes to Nuka Bay in about
two weeks or upon his return
! from Cordova to which city he
departed for last night. He said
he intended to continue his in
vestigation Westward upon re
turning from Nuka Bay as he de
sired to examine ore fields out
that waty and also up at Good
News Bay, the scene of the plat
inum strike this spring.
FREE EXAMINATION
Mr. Eckle stated that during
I his absence he desired local min
| ing men to arrange to meet him
j upon his return and, if they so
! wished, he would gladly examine
! their prospects without charge,
j excepting transportation. He stat
ed he realized the average pros
pector could not afford to pay
a mining engineer to report on
their ground therefore he does
not desire payment. His only
j ambition is to assist the pros
pector and to that end all they
have to do to enlist his services
is to so inform him. He does not
propose omitting a single pros
pect in this and the Westward
j region, he said, for that is what
j he is in Alaska for.
AN EARLY START
Beginning his study of chem
istry as a child of 12 he said
mining is the only game he has
followed and though he admits
he is learning all the time, yet
he understands nature fairly
well for a young fellow 32 years
‘of age who has been under every
one of the 43 flags of the world—
mining. During his career he
has reported on 17 properties
which have made real mines; some
i of them in the United States,
! some in Russia, a few in South
i America and also in Mexico. He
j has also located 22 oil weells.
BIG PRODUCER
Eisbee, Arizona was his start
ing point and he has been in
Alaska, off and on, since 1923.
The first mine he reported
favorably upon was the El Tiegre
mine in Sonora State, Old Mex
; ico. This mine had been turned
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