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VOLUME 20. NUMBER 244 SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1925 • PRICE TEN CENTS
MISSING PN9-1 PICKED UP; CREW HALF STARVED
Submarine
Rescues 5
Of Ill-Fated
Air Cruiser
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HONOLULU, Sept. 11. (JP)—
Captain John Rodgers, comman
der of the missing naval seaplane
PN-9 No. 1, and crew of four men
were found alive tonight, fifteen
miles east of Kauai, by Submarine
R-4.
Submarine Rescues Crew
The missing plane was sighted very
shortly after four o’clock yesterday af
ternoon. floating lightly on the wmter,
when the submarine R-4 started to
meet the destroyers coming in from
the fleet.
Lieutenant Osborn, commanding the
submarine, after taking the plane in
tow, notified naval authorities saying
the plane was safe and that they
would arrive at Pearl Harbor that
night.
Kauai Island is sixty-four miles w'est
by north-west of Oahu Island, which
Honolulu, the principal city is located.
The mine sw-eeper Whippoorwill re
ported flares a day or two after the
search was started, and it wras off the
coast of Kauai that a white flare and
twro red flares were believed seen.
Searching operations wrere immediate
ly transferred to this region, which is
considerably outside the zone pre
viously searched.
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People Wild With Joy
A message was intercepted by an
amateur naval operator from Nawili
wili- which said. “We request a tug
be sent to Nawiliwili for Rodgers and
his crew, who are in good health.”
When the news of the finding of
Rodgers and his men was confirmed
by the Navy here, Honolulu papers is
sued extras, and people went wild with
joy, enacting scenes reminiscent of
the days of the Armistice. White clad
sailors from the fleet, some of whom
had been shipmates of the seaplane
crew, mingled with civilians in> an
eager rush to obtain papers contain
ing the news.
Rodgers and his crew left San Fran
cisco on August 31st and the follow'
ing afternoon, twenty-four hours lat
er, the plane and crew disappeared.
Obtain Supplies from Sub
The missing aviators obtained food
from the submarine while being tow
ed to port, the entire population of
Kauai waiting for them on the beach
to greet the fliers.
Admiral Robison radiocast to the
commander of the sumbarine “hearty
congratulations.” When the anchor
line broke in the harbor, the seaplane
drifted into the breakers, but the men
refused to leave the plane until they
were towed safe to anchorage, where
doctors inspected the men.
One of the first questions asked by
the aviators was, “Has the PB-1 made
a successful flight.”
Drifts Over 400 Miles
In two hundred and eighteen hours,
while lost, the plane, bouyed up by
empty gas tanks, drifted four hundred
.and fifty miles due westward. Food
and water was exhausted on the fifth
day out, the party being without food
for four days. Navy traditions were
upheld, when Commander Rodgers
was the last man to step from the
craft.
Mitchell Praises Crew
In a message from San Antonio,
Texas, General Mitchell said, “So few
capable fliers remain, that the loss of
a
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one is a calamity, and the finding of
Rodgers and his crew is a blessing,
not only from the humanitarian view,
but from a practical one.”
Aviators Tell Story
The plane anchored at Nawiliwili
Island, Kauai, late last evening, the
crew, bearded and tanned, and all but
starved, refusing to leave the craft un
til anchored, thereby technically com
pleting the non-stop plane cruise' from
Sail Francisco.
Food and supplies lasted five days
of the trip, rain water caught Tn fabric
torn from the wings of the seaplane
saving the lives of the men for the
remaining four days. A small still,
which Rodgers’ mother insisted he car
ry, provided water between rains. The
ribs of the seaplane and the wings
were burned under the spot where the
still was operated.
The missing craft picked up radio
messages but was unable to broadcast.
Navigator Connell said that when the
fliers heard the message from Lang
ley saying that at a conference of 21
pilots, “it was unanimously agreed the
plane and its crew were lost,” it made
them angry.”
Rodgers’ handling of the disabled
plane was highly praised by the crew.
The men told how he deprived himself
of rations and water, but insisted the
j crew take their full share. The com
mander received some bad finger cuts
from the tow line used to get the sea
plane ashore.
At the hotel here the fliers showed
the reaction of the strain of their voy
age. all talking at once aad trying to
tell high lights of their experiences
Physicians believed it to be necessary
to give them hypodermics to calm
them so they would sleep.
Rodgers Promoted
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 11. (/P)
—Rodgers was appointed Assistant
Chief of the Navy’s Bureau of Aero
nautics when Wilbur learned of his
rescue. He has been ordered to re
port at Washington as soon as pos
sible.
PB-1 to Make Trip Soon
' WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 11. (JP)
—It has been announced here the PB
! 1 will attempt the San Francisco- Ha
waii flight soon after September 21,
when the Equinoctial storms are ex
pected to conclude on the Pacific.
HEAD TEMPERANCE
UNION SHOT BY
BOOTLEGGERS
VINTON, Iowa, Sept. 11. (£>)—Mrs.
C. B. Cook, president of the Benton
County W. C. T. U. was shot to death
when a bullet was fired through the
window on the first floor of her home,
at which she sat sewing last night.
She had been active in furnishing
information leading to the arrest of
bootleggers and rumrunners in the
country. A convention of the organ
ization was to have opened today with
her presiding.
TYPHOON IN SUA SEA
DROWNS MANY FISHERMEN
MANILA, Sept. 11. (£>)—Five sur
vivors who drifted in on a sailboat, af
ter battling with a gale for several
days, reported thirty-five more fish
ermen drowned as the result of a ty
phoon in the Sua Sea near Palawan
Island.
WILL CONTROL DRUG TRADE
JERUSALEM, Sept. 11. (/P)—An or
dinance, providing for the control of
the manufacture and exportation of
dangerous drugs, will soon be enact
ed by the government of Palestine.
CARPENTER TRIES
TAKE LIFE IN FIT
OF DESPONDENCY
WIFE FAILED TO ARRIVE TRAIN
AS FIELD FORGOT TO MAIL !
HER LETTER
LOS ANGELES. Sept. 10. (/p)—El
mer Field, a stage carpenter, was tak
en to a receiving hospital here yester
day in a serious state, suffering from
self-inflicted wounds, which may
prove fatal.
It was said he had just arrived from
Enid, Oklahoma, and. after waiting
several hours for his wife to meet
him, he became despondent.
A letter he had written to his wife
telling her which train to meet, and
which he had forgotten to post, was
later found in his pocket.
MOONSHINERS IN
IRELAND LOSE
ALL PROTECTION
BELFAST, Sept. 10. {JP)— Moonshin
ers in the South of Ulster have lost
the protection which was formerly ac
corded them by the border line, over
which they used to flit w1i'§n hard
pressed on one side of the other. The
Ulster constabulary under the com
mand of Inspector Robinson and the
Civic Guards under Chief Murphy,
carried out a raid last night, along an
eighteen mile front. It was the first
time that rival police have cooperat
ed, and they thoroughly cleaned up
the stills.
TULSA VETERANS
WANT PAYMENT
BONUS NEXT YEAR
TULSA, Okla, Sept. 10. (#)—Veter
ans of Foreign Wars, convening here,
adopted a resolution calling on the
government to arrange for the pay
ment of the adjusted compensation to
World War Veterans during 1926.
BANK BANDIT SENTENCED
VANCOUVER, B. C., Sept. 11. (/P)—
Fred Campbell, eighteen year old bank
bandit, who attempted to hold up the
Canadian Bank of Commerce, here last
Friday, pleaded guilty in the police
court this morning and was sentenced
to serve seven years imprisonment.
SOFIA, September 11. (JP)—A num
ber of arrests were made recently in
which persons were charged with is
suing fraudulent certificates of immi
gration for Bulgarians to enter the U.
S.
SIXTEENDEAD
AS RESULT OF
FATAL FLOOD
WENATCHEE, Sept. 11. (£>)—'The
death list from the cloudburst has now
been put at sixteen. Twelve of the
known dead lived at Wenatchee, En
tiat, Leavenwmrth and Everett. '
It is believed that the bodies w'hicli
have not been recovered, were swept
across the railroad yard with the first
rush of water and were washed into
the Columbia river.
DESTROYER IN SHANGHAI
WITH BODIES OF HER DEAD
SHANGHAI, Sept. 11. (/P)—The de
stroyer Noah arrived here yesterday
with the bodies of her dead, killed in
explosion.
BEAUTY PAGEANT HALTED
IN HONOR OF DEAD FLIER
ATLANTIC CITY, Sept. 11. (/P)—
Preparations for the annual beauty pa
geant were halted here yesterday to
honor Charles Harrison Broome, chief
machinists mate, who was killed in
the Shenandoah disaster. All traf
fic was halted for one minute while
interment took place.
AMERICAN FLIERS
WITH FRENCH
ARE NOW ACTIVE
MEZZ AN, Morocco, Sept. 11. (/p)—
American volunteer aviators, fighting
with the French against the Moroc
can natives, made their second bomb
ing trip over Shehunan yesterday and
dropped a ton of explosives.
When the Riffians spied the planes
fires flared up and smoke signals gave
warning of their coming, so that when
the airmen arrived the streets were
empty. Riffians have installed mach
ine gun batteries in the mountains.
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16-YEAR-OLD GOLF STAR
WINS SPRECKLES GOLD CUP
SAN DIEGO. Sept. 11. (;P)—Alan
Moser, 16-year-old golfing star, from
the Wilshire Country Club of Los An
geles, won the second annual A. B.
! Spreckles Cup Gold Tournament, de
feating Captain A. Bullock Webster,
State Amateur Golf Champion, with
a score of two to one in the 36th hole,
of the final match at the Coronado
Country Club of this city.
ENGLISH DOCTOR ABANDONS
ATTEMPT TO SWIN CHANNEL
DOVER, England, Sept. 11. (/P)—G.
B. Brewster, a London doctor, who
started here this morning to swim the
English channel abandoned his ef
forts when seven miles off shore. He
had gone about thirteen miles, in the
heavy sea and wind, when he was forc
ed to quit.
DEMPSEY MAY
FIGHT WILLS
AT HOLLYWOOD
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 11. (£>)— A
motion picture bout for the heavy
weight championship of the world
loomed today as Jack Dempsey, filn
star and prize fighter, went into con
ference with Louis B. Mayer, filn
producer, to discuss the possibilities
of staging the title bout in Los An
geles. It is understood that these ar
rangements will be satisfactory witl
Harry Wills, his persistent negrt
challenger.
TRADE EXHIBITION WILL
OPEN SEPTEMBER 15TI
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 11. (/P
—With the official participation by i
half dozen Latin-American govern
ments, and private displays by com
mercial associations and corporations
from all over the world, the Internat
ional Trade Exhibition will open ai
New Orleans September fifteenth.
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Fine show at the Liberty tomorrow
PROSPECTORS
ARRIVE AT GOLD
PAN CREEK HALF
STARVED COND’N
Only Ten Pounds of Flour
1 Between Them—Only Gun
in Party Broken Before
j Trip is Well-Started
i ONLY FIFTY IN CASSIAR
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No Fortunes Made to Date
But Many Diggings Now
Yielding: Satisfactory Re
turns.
SEATTLE, Sept. 1U. (/P)—Word has
been received here that the party of
prospectors, headed by Alex Capewell,
of Seattle, has completed the two
hundred eighty mile hike from the
Interior of the Cassiar country to Gold
Pan Creek, with only ten pounds of
flour between them to do them for
the long journey.
The party arrived in Gold Pan in a
half-starved condition and nearly ex
hausted. They were hunting a placer
deposit discovered years ago by C.
Mell, while traveling the overland
trail to the Klondike. The deposit
was not found by the prospectors, who
delayed their start hack until only the
flour remained, intending to live by
the rifle on their return journey.
The only gun in the party was brok
en early on the return trip, and the
men managed to live on suuch wild
life as they could kill with clubs and
stones.
Reports from the Cassiar, brought
back with the men, stated only fifty
veteran fortune hunters remained in
the district. No fortunes have been
made but many of the diggings have
yielded satisfctory, said the prospec
I tors.
U. S. ASKS HUGE
SUM ANNUALLY
FROM ITALIANS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 11. (IP)
—The United States will ask about
sixty or seventy million dollars an
nually from Italy and Italy will offer
approximately half that amount in set
tlement of the two billion dollar war
debt owed the American treasury, ac
cording to information obtained in an
authorative quarter here today.
The amount of the debt which Italy
owes the United States is placed at
32,139,000,000.
Wilbur Asserts “Nothing
to Conceal”; Unpartisan
Commission Unnecesary
. DAVIS PERSISTENT IN HIS PLAN
MAKING HUGE INFIELD
, AIR BASE.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 10.
(jP)—Secretary of the Navy Wilbur
asserted today that the unpartisan
investigation is “wholly unnecessary,
although the Navy has nothing to
conceal, and has no fear whatsoever
. over the results of the investiga
. tion.” \
Assistant Secretary of the Navy
. Davis announced today that the ag
ency he has promulgated should in
vestigate the question regarding the
advisability of establishing an in
field air service.