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VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 177.
SEWARD, ALASKA. THURSDAY, DEC. 19, 1929.
PRICE TEN CENTS
PLIES FORCED
RETURN TO TELLER
BY THICK FOI
TWO PLANES RETURN OWING
TO FOGGY WEATHER. BER
ING SEA
NOME. Dc., 19, (TP)—Four planes
took-off from Teller this morning
for Siberia. Weather conditions in
Nanuk are favorable, clear, calm
and 32 below. The temperature
here and in Teller is 22 above. A
10-mile wind is blowing and visi
* bility is good.
Neimenen lock-off from Nome at
10 a. m. and returned from Teller
at 12:30. bringing two passengers.
Two of the four planes which left
Teller for Siberia returned to Teller
due to foggy weather in the Bering
Sea. Owing to no radio schediues,
a report cannot be given before 3
o’clock this afternoon.
EXECUTION WILL GO FORWARD
UNLESS COURT ACTS ON
APPEAL
COLUMBUS, Dec., 19, (/Pi—
Warden Thomas, of the Ohio
% penitentiary, said that unless
the State Supreme Court acts
on the appeal of Dr. Snook before
midnight, tonight, he is under
authority to proceed with the
electrocution.
Dr. Snook was found guilty of
the murder of his cced paramour,
Theora Mix. lari- June, the 16th,
a stay of execution was granted
Snook which expires at midnight,
tonight.
Warden Thomas refused to say
the exact hour the execution
would take place; if no further
order is received from the court
all legal papers for the electrocu
tion are now in his hands.
* FOUR PLIES TOOK
Off FOR SIBERIA:
CUPELLED RETURN I
NOME, Dec., 19, (/P)—Pilots Cros
son, Young, Gillams and Barnhill, '
with their four planes were forced j
to return to Teller after two hours’ i
, flying. They encountered a snow
storm and fog over Bering Strait.
A storm of blown ice from the ]
Alaska coast toward the Siberian '
coast was over the water as far as j
the eye could observe from the !
plane. i
Pilot Neimenen wall fly the old
Stinson plane to Fairbanks in a few 1
days as soon as temporary repairs ;1
are made. Pilot Mouler will also !
return to Fairbanks.
F
UNNEL ATTACHED TO GARDEN HOSE
SPOTS BERGS BY PICKING UP NOISE
Dr. Howard T. Barnes (inset), who dev<
iceberg detection apparatus on the ship Uvira, which
followed the course from Halifax shown on the map.
The iscberg shown, named the Sphinx from its resem
bance to that figure, was the first berg detected by its
noise.
j
PHYSICIANS LEFT FOR SCENE
TO A D AND TAKE FLIERS
TO HOSPITAL
RIO RE JANEIRO. Dec., 19. (/P)—
Major Tadeo Larr-Borges, Urugua
yan flier, and his French compan
ion. Lieut. Leon Challe, were seri
ously injured in a forced landing
last night on the northwestern i
coast of Brazil after a 3,609 mile
flight from Seville across the At
lantic.
The Uruguayan legation at Rio j
Janeiro issued a statement describ
ing the two pilots who were injured
when their plane overturned on a
wet spot in the state of Rio Gran
dedenorte near the village of Mara
cuja.
A third man, Plabe, the mechan
ic, was apparently unhurt. Physi- !
nans and others left Natal for the j
scene of the disaster to render aid
md transport the fliers to a hospi- 1
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RECEIVE SET-BACK
NEW YORK, Dec., 19, (/P>—'The
•ecovery of stock prices received a {
let-back. Last week’s bull move- j
nent was carried over to the early j
lours of the session, but profit tak- j
ng, combined with bear pressure,
loured into the market in increas- :
ng volume as the day wore on and I
urned the trend distinctly down- i
yard before the close. i
AIRSHIP BASE SITE
WASHINGTON, Dec., 19, (/P)—
Supporting the recommendation
of Secretary Adams, the general
board Navy report was made
public by the House Naval Com
mittee. The report advocated the
Camp Kearney location, in Cal
ifornia, as the Pacific Coast Nav
al airship base.
NEW YORKERS THRILL TO OPPERETTA
AS FRITZ! SCHEFF WARBLES AGAIN
Milton Aborn (left),
>rima donna of a generation ago,
vifch revivals of operettas.
Fritzi Scheff, famed
Broadway this winter !
189 DRUNKS IN ONE DAY
WASHINGTON, Dec., 19, UP)—A
new record has been hung up here
for other cities to shoot at. A com
pleted count shows that 189 per
sons faced Police Judge Isaac R.
Hitt, charged with being intoxicat
ed. Court attaches said it is the
greatest number that lias ever
passed thru the police court in a
.single day.
fifty-Wdead
I EXPLOSION
ST Hit ESTER
CONVICTS PRESSED INTO SER
VICE DIGGING GRAVES FOR
WHOLESALE BURIAL
McALESTER, Okla., Dec-, 18, (/P)
—Five more bodies, bringing the
j total to 52 known dead from the
explosion in the Oldtown Coal
\ Company mine, at North McAles
ter, have been brought to the
surface.
i The five bodies were recovered
after three hours spent in res
toring ventilation . so tha tthe
rescue crews could proceed with
the work.
Caveins had to be dug thru
to reach the bodies which were
bruised, torn and burned beyond
recognition; identification cound
not be made immediately. It is
believed that other bodies will
be found during the day.
It was announced that convicts,
from the state penitentiary, will
be pressed into service digging
graves for a wholesale burial.
THREE SHOT BOWS
1 THEIR HOIS
SHOT MiAC
CALLED TO DOOR OF HOME AND
INSTANTLY KILLED; HAD
TROUBLE BEFORE
ROMNEY, Wyo., Dec., 18, (&)~
Three men were killed by a man
1 who visited them in their respective
homes and shot them down with a
: shotgun.
Among the victims was the jus
tice of the peace and the county
jailer. He also shot and injured a
,11-year-old girl and two women.
Walter Crabtree, 30, is held for
the slayings. He is alleged to have
had in his possession a list of five
names, including those three men
slain and the sheriff of the county.
Authoritiesi said he apparently had
written out the “death list." of his
intended victims.
H. C. Inskeep, 50, Justice of t.he
Peace, was called to the door of his
home and instantly killed by a
charge from a shotgun. The slay
er then went to the county jail
where Ben E. Miller, 55, lived. Mil
ler was called to the door and shot.
The third victim was Asa Wolford,
28, who was killed when lie was
fired at thru the window of his
home.
Crabtree has had trouble with
authorities at various times.
OTHERS MUTE DURING THEIR
ARRAIGNMENT; WILL GO TO
TRIAL
FLINT, Mich., Dec., 19, 0P}_Nine
of the 15 former executives and em
ployes of the Union Industrial Bank
pleaded guilty to taking part in the
wholesale embezzelments which di
verted $3,592,000 of the bank’s funds
to unfortunate speculation in the
securities market.
They were ordered to be sentenc
ed January 25; the others stood
mute during their arraignment be
fore the circuit judge thereby elect
ing to go to trial.
SPANISH AVIATORS
SET BED'S RECORD
MARSEILLES, Dec., 19, (/F)—
Capt. Dieudonne Coste, and his
companion Paul Codos, landed at
the Istres aviation field after set
ting a new world’s record for closed
circuit flight of 5,062 miles. The
airmen were in the air 52 hours and
14 minutes and during the period
covered a wide circuit which car
ried them over from the Avignon
tfimes to the Istres flying field in
South America.
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