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CENTER of
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Gateway
DAILY AND WEEKLY
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
TERMINAL FOR THREE OCEAN
GOING STEAMSHIP LINES
VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 143.
SEWARD, ALASKA. SATURDAY, NOV. 9, 1929.
PRICE TEN CENTS
PERIOD TEN YEARS
X BROKE into tears when
HEARD RELEASED FROM
POSSIBLE SENTENCE
LOS ANGELES, Nov., 9, (A5)—
Probation for 10 years accom
panied by the judgement to pay
$78,500 as damages, was imposed
on Mrs. Lois Pantages, society
matron, yesterday, as the culmi
nation of her recent man
slaughter conviction for the death
of Juro Rokumoto, Japanese gar
dener, following an automobile
collision last June.
Mrs. Pantages was brought in
to the court room in a wheel
chair attended by two nurses.
She broke into tears as Superior
Judge Carlos S. Hardy read the
ruling which released her from
a possible one to 10-year sen
tence in San Quentin.
' She was in prison for just a
moment later when she signed
a certified check for the judge
ment awarded the destitute sur
vivors of her victim. Her pen
then fell from her hand clatter
ing to the floor.
Five-stories above Judge Hardy’s
court room, in the county jail,
sat her wealthy husband, Alex
ander Pantages, awaiting sen
tence for assaulting Eunice Prin
gle, 17 year-old coed dancer.
Mrs. Pantages was ordered to
surrender her automobile dri
vers license; forbidden the privi
ledge of driving her expensive
car for 10 years; forbidden to
drink intoxicating liquors during
the same period, and must obey
all laws and violation of any of
the probation orders would re
sult in the convicted woman be
ing ordered into curt again.
The term of the court order
divided the judgement into pay
ment of $35,000 to the estate of
the dead Japanese; $15,000 for
his widow and an equal amount
for the oldest son with the bal
ance going to two minor child
ren.
The foundation of the immense
Pantages fortune began in the
gold rush days of Alaska.
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WERE ABOUT TO
MINNEAPOLIS, Nov., 9, OP)—
Elimination of affairs here of
Foshay was made by representa
tives of the Insull interests, the
Minneapolis Journal said today,
adding that indications from re
ports at the preliminary inves
tigations were favorable.
The Journal understand the
projected deal which would have
involved all or the majority of
of properties, owned by the Pub
lic Utility Consolidated Corpor
ations, a subsidiary of Foshay,
4- is now considered unlikely and
that any transaction involving j
the sale of properties would not I
reach final stage until com- j
pletion of the present inventory
work.
DEAL WAS PENDING
MINNEAPOLIS, Nov., 9, (JP)—
The Minneapolis Journal said it
| had learned from a reputable
; financial concern that the In
| sull public utility interests of
Chicago had started a prelim
inary negotiation for the pur
I chase of the Foshay company
| properties.
EXPLOSIVE WAS IN SMALL
CAR TOWARD ENTRANCE
WHEN SET OFF
• WORCESTER Mass., Nov., 9,
i7P)—Five workmen were blown
! to piecfes by a premature explo
j sion of 80 pounds of dynamite
! in a shaft of the Metropolitan
water development at Goldbrook.
The cause for the explosion
! could not be immediately deter
mined. A fellow workmen told
investigators that a dynamite
explosion had been set off in the
tunnel at an early hour.
The five men were on their
way toward the entrance carry
ing the dynamite in one of the
small cars used for that purpose
when in some manner the dy
namite exploded.
SEATTLE, Nov., 9, (/P)—The S. S.
Yukon sailed at 9 a. m. carrying 72
passengers; four third class. There
are 23 for Seward as follows:
Miss Berry, Mrs. M. A. Berry, Mrs.
R. Swartz, Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Carp,
Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Patterson,-Mr.
and Mrs. W. R. Eubank, H. G. Ilder
ton, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Berge, W. G.
Culver, Ed Carlson, James Hagan,
Mrs. H. Seidenberg, Gladys Seiden
berg, Mrs. O. Anderson, Oscar Eric
son, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Lavegne and
two children and one third class.
BODIES FOUND GIVE MUTE
EVIDENCE HORROR WHICH
OVERWHELMED THEM
1 GUATAMELA CITY, Nov., 8,
(^—Overwhelmed b y molten
lava or suffocated by asphyxiat
ing gases, scores—300 or more—
of victims in Monday’s eruption
of Santa Maria volcano were
i found in their homes or along
| the roads near El Palmar where
; they perished.
The full story of the disaster
is reaching here through relief
workers who brought aid to
thousands of persons in the af
fected region.
Eight coffee plantations were
destroyed and most of the in
habitants killed. The bodies
found gave mute evidence of the
horror which had overtaken the
population.
! Some of the dead were caught
in the fields by the molten
stream of lava while others were
i asphyxiated behind their barri
f caded homes.
NEW YORK, Nov., 9, (/R)_The
$75,000 verdict awarded Marcia
Eastardus, night club hostess,
in her $100,000 suit against Harry
Thaw, was reduced to $25,000 by
the supreme court.
Justice Levy’s verdict was re
turned two weeks ago after the
second trial of the suit in which
■ the girl charged Thaw had bitten
| her, and paddled her with a
! toothbrush, during a New Year’s
^ party in his apartment in 1927.
ON TEST FLIGHT
LONDON, Nov., 8, (TP)—The giant
airship R-101 passed low over San
dringham Palace on a test flight
and was greeted by King George.
MOTHER. CHIHEii
HELD PEEK
FATHER FOUND BEATEN TO
DEATH WITH AUTOMO
BILE JACK
WENATCHEE, Wash., Nov., 8,
8, (/P)—Mrs. Vanna D. Woodall
and her children Bernie, Niel
and Paula, are being held in the
Chelan County jail pending sol
ution of the murder of William
R. Woodall, 55, who was killed at
his woodpile early Thursday
morning.
Mrs. Woodall told officers she
had called her husband at 5
o'clock in the morning and told
him to get some wood. He was
found a short time afterward
by one of the children. He had
been beaten to death with an
automobile jack.
Mrs. Woodall was reluctant to
talk saying she had a sore throat.
CHICAGO. Nov., 8, (/P)-Robber
ies in seven states were confessed,
police said, by two brothers, who
were arrested on information fur
bished by Indiana authorities that
one of the men was wanted in con
nection with a $33,000 bank robbery
at Cass City, Ind. Todd Salter, 23
years old, and his brother, 28, told
police they had robbed stores in Ar
kansas, Missouri, Kentucky, Ohio,
Indiana, Tennessee and Michigan,
following Todd’s escape last July
from the Michigan state prison at
Iona.
SCALES QUIVER UNDER PRESSURE
OF NEW P UGILISTIC PACHYDERMS
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comodate some of the new fistic prospects. That would give us the light
heavies, the heavies and the heavy heavies. Anyway here are the statistics
NAMES OF MEN LONG DEAD
BROUGHT UP BEFORE SEN
ATE LOBBY COMMITTEE
WASHINGTON, Nov., 8, (IP)—'The
circumstances that led to the
'nomination of the late Warren G.
! Harding, republican presidential
nominee at Chicago in 1920 and the
| names of the men now dead who
iwere instrumental in effecting his
| nomination, were brought to the
jfore the senate lobby committee
! continued its examination of
Joseph Grundy of the Pennsylvania
Manufacturers’ Association who
was active in the Harding conven
tion.
Grundy was questioned with re
ispect to his participation in nomi
nation of Harding. He denied re
sponsibility, but admitted talking
to Secretary of Bodies, Penrose, who
favored Harding’s candidacy. Mr.
Grundy referred to a meeting of
Old Guard republicans led by the
late senate lodge at which it was
decided to nominate Mr. Harding
as a compromise candidate, the late
Governor General Wood or former
Governor Lowden.
“Was there any suggestion that
ithey had put up too much money?”
* Grundy was asked. He did not
! answer.
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EARNINGS AT ANNUAL RATE
5.29 PERCENT ON PROP
ERTY INVESTMENT
WASHINGTON, Nov., 8, (/P)—
A net operating income of $960,
078, 699 was shown for Class 1
railroads during the first nine
months of this year, in reports
made public today by the Bureau
of Railway Economics.
The reports said the earnings
were at the annual rate of 5.29
percent on the property invest
ment.
The net operating income was
the amount left after paying
operating expenses, taxes, equip
ment and rentals, but before
interest on other fixed charges
were paid.
citDliriw -
m ACQUIRES
GRAND UK IN.
WASHINGTON, Nov., 9, (/P)—
Authorization for the Canadian
National Railway to acquire con
trol of the Grand Trunk West
ern Railway and for the latter
road to issue securities in con
nection with unification of its
several lines, was given by the
Interstate Commerce Commiss
ion. The Canadian National ob
tained control of the Grand Truck
through an exchange of secur
ities.