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VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 156
SEWARD, ALASKA. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1929.
PRICE TEN CENTS
COUNTRY. STATED
MOTION FOR NEW TRIAL WILL
POSTPONE SENTENCE, AC
CORDING ATTORNEY
I OS ANGELES, Nov., 1, (/P)—Dis
t rit t attorney Fitts said that inves
tigators had discovered before the
*“lose of the Pantages trial that
Fantages had prepared an air
plane at San Diego for a flight
frjm the country.
Fitts said his office would re
✓ f.ise and oppose any attempts
ci the defense attorneys to ob
ain the release of Pantages from
.ail.
Jerry Geisler, Pantages’s attor
ley, said they will not request
:he release of his client tomor
row when he appears for sent
ence but said a motion for a
new trial has been filed which
would automatically postpone
sentence.
Garland Biffle plead not guilty
to perjury -” -
was set for -*^co aIia ^1S trial
November 26.
IAS SERVED SEVERAL TERMS
AS ATTORNEY GENERAL IN
HOME STATE
WASHINGTON, Nov., 1, (/P>— G.
A. Youngquist, attorney general of
Minnesota, was selected by Presi
dent Hoover to succeed Mrs. Wille
brandt as assistant attorney gener
forcement.
al in charge of the prohibition en
Youngquist was born n Sweden,
his home is now in Crookston Minn
He is now in Washington and will
take office in the near future.
The nomination is expected to be
transmitted to the senate this
week. The Minnesotan has served
several terms as attorney general
n his state and before that time
was assistant and close friend oi
Andrew Volstead, and S. B. Kvale ir
charge of prohibition in the north
west district.
KOBLE PRIZE IS
AWARDED DOGTSRS
STOCKHOLM, Nov., 1, (/P)—Th<
1 Noble prize in medicine for 192(
has been divided between Dr. Fred
jrick Gowland Hopkins, professoi
of biochemistry at the University
of Cambridge, Eng., and Dr. C. Eijk
mann, professor at the University
of Utrecht, Holland, the Carolim
Institute of Stockholm announced
RATIFY TREATY
BUENOS AIRES, Nov. 1, (/P)
- * After three weeks bitter debate th
Brazilian Chamber of Deputie
P ratified a treaty with Paraguay
whereby Brazil recognizes Para
guayan title to the territory on thi
west bank of the Paraguayan riv
er.
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COITIONS DEPRESSED
TIiOT THE NATION
SEATTLE, Nov., 1, (Special to
I the Gateway)—The recent heavy
declines on the New York stock
; market has depressed businesss
conditions throughout the coun
try and consequently the fur
| market very much unsettled at
j present and should anticipate
declines fully 20 percent on all
items. Further information on
| the fur market will be forwarded
as soon as the market becomes
stabilized.
WASHINGTON, Nov., 1, (/Pi
Three reporters, Gorham Hend
ricks, Linton Burkett and
jack
Nebin, of the Washington Times
who were sent to fQr con_
tempt of com* -ter they had re_
tsed to give information to the
grand jury as requested, were j
released under bonds of $500 on
habeas corpus proceedings.
This course was taken whenI
Justice Gofrion declined to re
consider his refusal for the re
lease of the trio on the bond
pending during appeal from his
decision.
j NEW YORK. Nov. 1, (A5)—Joe
Jacobs, manager of Max Schmeling,
sailed for Germany to broach the
boxer about two propositions for
fights one of which will net him
$250,000.
| IF FALL HAD BEEN IN GOOD
HEALTH WOULD HAVE
BEEN SOAKED
WASHINGTON, Nov., 1, (/P)— j
Fall, who was convicted of re
ceiving $100,000 as a bribe was
sentenced to one year in jail 1
and fined $100,000 after a mo
tion for a new trial had been de
nied by Justice Hitz, of the Dis
trict of Columbia Supreme Court.
Fall was found guilty last
week of recieving a bribe from
Doheny, the oil operator, was
granted a bond pending the ap
peal. A —
Under thp !^w a maximum
sentence could be given the for
mer cabine nrber and three
times the amount he recived j
or $300,000 and a three-year fed
eral sentence.
The defense attorney made a
brief formal motion at the open
ing of court proceedings which
were over in a few tnirnr ^es. Hitz
said that had Fall been in good
physical condition he would j
have imposed full sentence but i
in view of his poor health he !
would suspend such action if
this sentence takes effect at
once.
Over in the “Banana Belt”, Anch
orage, the boys are still playing
outdoor golf.
WASHINGTON, Nov., 1, (JP)—
New leaders are in command for
both republican and democratic
sides.
Senator Jones of Washington
took over the helm for Republican
Senator Watson who has temporar
ily relinquished to take a rest. Sen
ator Walsh of Montana stepped
into the place of Senator Robinson
who is away arranging affairs be
fore leaving for the London Naval
Conference.
CHICAGO, Nov. 1, (fP)—Unlimit
ed government funds were pledged
American farmers for the purpose
of stabilizing tottering wheat prices
when the federal farm board an
nounced the immediate loan of
$100,000,000 to the newly organized
Farmers National Grain Corp.
The board promised more money
would be available when needed
even if congress had to be asked to
increase its $500,000,000 relief fund.
Prevailing wheat prices are too
low Alexander Legge, chairman of
the board declared in explaining
that he thought the sharp drop in
prices last week was unwarranted.
It is reported that Jim Murray,
Cache Creek operator, cleaned up
$30,000 during the past season.
hA FORWARD PASS TO THE FRONT PAGE
I
SOU 1 FERRY
PUSES10 BAY
TWO SO TO DEATH
jPUFF BLACK SMOKE SEEN TO
ENVELOP PLANE; BELIEVE
EXPLOSION OCCURRED
SEATTLE, Nov., 1, (/P)—Plunging
into Puget Sound off Manett Point
soon aftSi* taking-off from Bremer
ton to Seattle, the Gorst Air Ferry
plane, carrying Pilot Albert Van
Vleet, 25 and Mechanic Don Mon
roe, 23, to their deaths.
Tugs rushed to the scene and
brought up the plane. Van Vleet’s
body and head were crushed. No
trace was found of Monroe. There
were no passengers aboard.
A puff of black smoke was seen
to envelop the plane just before it
struck the water which led to the
belief that an explosion may have
occurred and damaged the motor.
GEIHUir US
PRE-W1R ST18I1
US TOURIST HI
BERLIN, Nov. 1„ t/P)—Ten years
after Versailles, Germany has won
back its place in the sun as a haven
for tourists. Nearly 50,000 foreign
ers steamed down Unterden Linden
this year, and in this almost un
precedented flood, Americans held
first place.
The 8,000 or more Americans who
'visited the Heich this summer con
stituted a 12 percent increase over
(last year, and nearly 15 percent of
I all foreign callers. In centers such
| as Heidelberg and watering places
j like Baden-Baden or Wiesbaden,
this proportion soared much higher
and at the height of the summer
season, more than 50 percent of all
tourists were Americans.
ICE-BREAKER REACHES
SOVIET COW
NOME, Oct., 31, </P)—A special
wire from Olaf Swenson, agent of
the Swenson Trading Co., aboard
the Nanuk, which is frozen in an
Arctic ice pack near North Cape,
stating, “The Soviet ice-breaker
Litke, Captain Dubletsky, will leave
Vladivostok November 1 for Provi
dence Bay, along the Siberian coast,
with two airplanes. They will
transport the 32 passengers from
the Soviet steamer Stavopool, now
ice-bound at Cape North.
Sixteen of the passengers are
members of a scientific expedition
who spent the past year in the Kol
yma river district. The ice-breaker
Litke, on August 28, landed supplies
for the Soviet colony of Wrangell
Island.”
PLANES STORM BOUND
DENVER, Nov. 1, (JP)—Snow
| storms which swept into the Rocky
I Mountain region on the heels of a
gale, held storm-bound the West
ern Air Express planes which were
to have taken off to aid in the
I search for the missing Western Air
Transport plane which is believed
jto be down in western New Mexico
ior eastern Arizona.