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VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 174.
SEWARD, ALASKA. MONDAY, DEC. 16, 1929.
PRICE TEN CENTS
CM HR
PUIS. PILOTS
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SIX EXPERIENCED “BAD WEA
THER” FLIERS TO SEARCH
START IN FEW DAYS
SEATTLE, Dec., 16, GP)—1The cut
ter Chelan has been authorized to
'take the three Fairchild airplanes
and six Canadian fliers to Seward
where the planes will be shipped by
rail to Fairbanks and assembled,
then flown to Nome or Teller to aid
I in the search for Eielson and Bor
land.
The Chelan is ready to depart as
soon as the planes and pilots arrive
here.
Major Howard C. Deckard, pro
duction manager of the Fairchilds
Airplane Manufacturing Corpora
tion, will accompany the planes to
Fairbanks. The search has been
organized by the Aviation Corpora
tion Co., of New York which is hold
ing controlling interest in Eielson’s
company.
The pilots who will be in charge,
are Capt. H. A. Oaks winner of the
McKee Trophy, the best Canadian
air achievement during 1927; the
other pilots are Pat Reed, Bill
Roach, Hector Peolmey, Clifford
Swartman and William Hicks, all
experienced “bad weather”, fliers.
The Chelan may go north within
two or three days and will take
about three days to get to Seward
i
MOSCOW, Dec., 1G, (£>)—The ac
tivities of the American marines ir
Haiti strike the Soviet official or
gans as a violation of the Kellogg
pact and are worthy of Secretary oi
State Stimson’s notice.
Disturbances such as those re
ported in Haiti attract communis
comment and sympathy, any timi
and any place but are particular^
greeted at the moment when th<
Russian government is still voicing
resentment over the Stimson not<
concerning the situation in Man
« churia.
SIX NEW CARDINALS
NIB THE POPE
AT CONSIST®
VATICAN CITY, Dec., 16, (JP)—Si:
new cardinals created by the Pop'
at a secret consistory of six, electe<
Sacred College Archbishop Gere
jiera, Lisbon; Laviatrano Palmerc
Sicily; Minoretti, Geoa; Macrorj
Armagh; Verdier, Paris; Pa Cell
Papal Nuncio, Berlin; three ne>>
Cardinals for Monitaliand; am
three Italians, bringing the Sacre
College up to the strength of 63.
Out of the possible seven so-call
ed “Foreiy” Cardinals in majority
33 against the Italian’s 30. Thi
disparity has not existed since th
■ end of the 14th Century.
WINNIPEG, Dec., 16, (/P)—Vilh
jalmur Stefansson, northern ex
plorer sought speedy air relief for
Col. Eielson and Borland from New
York. Stefansson telegraphed to
Edmonton suggesting that Charles
“punch” Dickinson, Edmonton pilot
and best man available, for a flight
north with planes necessary for the
search.
The planes must be dispatched
hurriedly .o Nome Stefansson
pointed out.
WASHINGTON, Dec., 16, (/P)~Six
United States destroyers have been
ordered from Manila to Chinese
waters, by Admiral E. G. B. McVey.
Reports continue to tell of the
peril to foreigners in the important
centers. Five areas are reported
in revolt against the Nationalish
government. Nanking is without
troops and is isolated without rail
road service.
There are 175 foreign women and
children, including 80 American
women in this zone alone.
IGNORE TESTIMONY
| WASHINGTON, Dec., 18. OP)--The
grand jury decided to ignore all
'testimony by Senator Brookhart of
Iowa, relating to the Wall Street
| “booze” party, given by Walter
Fahy, a New York broker, to new
members of congress in 1926, at
which the senator said liquor was
served.
ROCKEFELLER 3rd
SEATTLE. ALMA
SEARCH, FLIERS
jCAPT. OAKS, PILOTS AND ME
CHANICS FOR SEARCH NOW
ENROUTE TO SEATTLE
i MONTREAL, Dec., 16, (JP)— Era
jest Robinson, vice-president of the
Aviation Corporation of America,
| announced further details planned
in the search for Eielson and Bor
land.
He said Capt. H. A. Oaks would
be in charge of the search and that
three planes will be outfitted in
Iwinter flying equipment which will
be carried by boat from Seattle to
| Seward, thence by rail to Fair
■ banks.
The planes will be assembled at
Fairbanks and flown to either
Nome or Teller. Besides Oaks there
I will be three pilots and mechanics
in the new search. All are now en
I route to Seattle.
GRANGES CONFUSED
If SOUTHERN CLIME
I RED BLUFF, Calif., Dec., 16, (TP)—
| Due to the unusually warm weather
(here, orange trees on the county
'farm have become confused in their
J schedule and are loaded with
oranges in all stages of cultivation,
from highly scented blossoms to the
full and glowing golden fruit. Harry
Whitegon, farm superintendent,
i exhibited a limb containing clos
soms, green fruit of all sizes and a
i group of five ripe oranges.
IS READY FOR BUSIN
U. OF 50. CSLIF.
DEFESTS cmegie
TECH 45 IS 13
LOS ANGELES, Dec., 16, (A1)—
Carnegie Tech, scoring an attack
which blossomed and flourished in
the first half, wilted as it was swept
away before the determined Tro
jans of southern California Univer
sity in the final two periods sending
the Carnegie 11 to a 45 to 13 defeat
before 50,000.
The tremendous reserve strength
of California, brought about the
crash of the great offensive of Car
negie. The first half ended 13 all.
STINE PUT! HE II. 5.
IS PHOTECT CITIZENS
MANILA, Dec., 16, (IP)—Declaring
that whenever American lives or
or property were endangered, the
routine duty of the United States
Navy was to protect them, Rear
Admiral Charles B. McVey Jr., an
nounced that the cruiser Pittsburgh
would leave for Shanghai.
Bound for the same destination,
the 39th Destroyer Division, com
posed of the McLeish, Simpson,
;Garrett, Edall, Bulmer and Mac
Cormick steamed from Manila.
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|
ACCEPTS INVITATION
HOT SPRINGS, Ark., Dec., 16, (IP)
—Pascual Ortiz Rubio, president
elect of Mexico, has signaled his
intention to accept the invitation of
president Hoover to visit the White
House while on his present visit to
the United States, it was revealed
at his hotel here.
ESS MANAGE RICHES
i
John D. Rockefeller 3rd (shown at ngitt m his Frinceton graduation
togs) is ready to learn the management of America’s mose famous for
tune, founded by his grandfather (left) and carried on by his father who
is ^bown in the center.
UfiPUK CARRIER
TO SUPPLY TAGOMft
ELECTRIC cunor
BEGIN DELIVERING ELECTRIC
POWER LATE TONIGHT OR
EARLY TOMORROW
TACOMA, Dec., 16, (/P)—'The air
plane carrier Lexington tied up at
a dock in Tacoma Sunday and will
be there for the next 30 days to
serve as an auxiliary steam plant to
furnish Tacoma with electrical cur
rent while the rains, delayed by a
daught unequalled in 39 years, fill
up the Cushman Lake reservoir.
,It is believed the ship’s genera
tors will be hooked up and begin
delivering power late Monday night
or early Tuesday morning.
IS § CKED
DUE TO QUAKES
FISHING BANKS SHIFTED; SEV
ERAL BREAKS OCCURRED IN
SAME CABLE
HALIFAX, N. S., Dec., 16, (A*)
That the bed of the North Atlantic
has shifted as a result of the earth
quake of November 18 was indicat
ed in the reports from cable ships
assigned to the task of repairing
the submarine breaks. Sonic sound
ings showed that the floor of the
ocean had been moved and that the
fishing banks had shifted as the re
sult of the disturbance.
Breaks in the cables connecting
the old world with the new have
been plotted over an ara of 400
miles southeast and 300 miles north
east of Halifax. In some cases sev
eral breaks occurred in the same
cable over a distance of 100 miles.
FRESH VISIT WINTER
EXPECTED ST CHIB
SCOUT OF CLOUD
CHICAGO, Dec., 16, (/P)—A black
pall of cloud, dark as a moonless
night, settled over the Chicago area
with the foreboding of the promis
ed fall of snow, that was to bring a
fresh visit of winter.
So deep was the shroud that mo
torists turned on their headlights
along the slippery streets, air bea
cons were lighted and the down
town Rialto took on its nightly sem
blance of the Great White Way.
The cloud was expected to bring
snow in Chicago and rain or snow
to most of the middle and north
western states.
U. S. ATTORNEY, ALASKA
WASHINGTON, Dec., 16, (A*)—A
favorable report for the nomination
of Julius Harold Hart to be United
States Attorney for the District of
Alaska, Division One and Two was
ordered by the senate judiciary
| committee.
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