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DAILY AND WEEKLY
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TERMINAL FOR THREE OCEAN
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VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 186.
SEWARD, ALASKA. TUESDAY, December 31, 1929.
PRICE TEN CENTS
CASES OF LIQUOR SEIZED
FROM RUM RUNNER, DIS
APPEAR
NEW LONDON, Dec., 31, (/P)—!
Seven coast guardsmen are un- j
der arrest and several others are
on the report in the inquiry be
ll/ mg made into the theft of liq
uor, 'by gaurdsmen, from the
Flor del Mar, rum runner, seized :
with 4,000 cases aboard.
An investigation into the theft
was ordered by Captain L. T.
Chalker, chief of staff, after a
rooming house brawl in which
a sailor, attached to the submar
ine base, also guardsmen, were
beaten.
The guardsmen arrested by the
coast guard officials face court
¥ martial. The Flor del Mar was
unloaded Sunday night and many
eases of liquor were broken in
to on the boat.
Two material witnesses were
arrested by New London police
as a result of the rooming house
brawd.
SEATTLE, Dec., 31, The cut
ter Chelan returned from Seward,
completing what officers said to be
the fastest, though roughest voyage
in years. The cutter left Seattle
December 21 with the Canadian air
men, to search for Eielson and Bor
land.
Captain Dempwolf, master of the
cutter, was slightly injured when
fee was knocked down by the force
of the gale encountered. #
A JOLLY PARTY
WASHINGTON, Dec., 31, m~
like any jolly young people’s
party in an American home was
the dance given at the White
6ouse last night by Allan Hoov
er. The party was characterized
by the informality and general
good time.
BIG BUSINESS IN GOATS
AUSTIN, Dec., 31, The three
inspectors for the Sheep and Goat
Raisers’ Association of Texas are
guardians of 5,000,000 sheep and
3,000,000 goats.
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NEW YEAR’S
GREETINGS
“May the passing of |
the Old Year and the g
dawning of the New |
bring to each of us g
a challenge to profit |
by the experiences of |
the p~st 12 months |
that we may live to- |
get her in harmony |
and enjoy prosperity |
in the coming New g
Year.” §
P. C. McMullen, Mayor g
BUT NO ONE TO BLAME BUT
THEMSELVES, STATES
TREASURY OFFICIAL
| WASHINGTON, Dec., 31, (A5)—
S vmour Lowman, assistant sec
tary of the treasury, in a
i statement, said the killing of
the three alleged liquor smug
| glers and wounding of a fourth,
| at Newport on Sunday, was “un
| fortunate but unavoidable”; that
I the alleged smugglers having de
j fied the government “have no
1 one to blame but themselves.”
He said that because of the
New Year’s demand that smug
glers were making unusual ef
forts to land liquor along the
Atlantic coast.
He congratulated the coast
guard pon their work and said
it had “done well.”
PILOT NIEMEHEN
RELIEVES DR01TGH
FAIRBANKS, Dec., 31, (/P)—
Pilot Matt Niemenen arrived in
the afternoon in an open cock
pit plane from Anchorage on his
third attempt to penetrate the
haze which shrouded the field.
The thermometer remained,
virtually stationary, at 50 below
during the day. If the spell con
tinues it is probable the flight
| will not be attempted today.
] Neimenen relieves Broatch who j
left for the states Sunday.
THIRD PLANE TO START THURS
DAY PILOTED BY NIEMENEN
FORCED BACK YESTERDAY
FAIRBANKS, Dec., 31, (JP)—With
a temperature hovering around 50
below, two of the Fairchild planes,
which will be used in the expedition
searching for Eielson and Borland,
were given a final test and Pat
Reid, chief pilot of the expedition,
said the two planes will leave Tues
day regardless of weather or visi
bility.
The third plane will leave Thurs
day, piloted, by Matt Niemenen who
was forced back to Anchorage yes
terday by a snowstorm -while at
tempting to reach here from Nome.
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VICTORY ASSURED £
SEATTLE, Dec., 31, (Special g !
to the Gateway)—Final re- ts |
turns will not be in for a cou- ^!
pie of days but Patsy Ray is ||
unquestionably elected. “The ^'
Alaska Weekly'’. *2 i
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TOUIIITEB CHINIS
I
' NANKING, Dec., 31, (/P)—The:
! Nationalist government’s foreign |
! office inditcated last night that!
| it had dispatched identical £el- j
cgrams to Chinese ministers, ac
credited * to various powers en-!
joying extraterritorial rights in
China, instructing ministers to
“notify their respective govern-1
i ments of the Nationalist govern- i
1 ment’s mandate terminating ex- j
traterritoriality.”
PRINCE OF WALES PLANS
NEW AFRICAN GAME HUNT
The map hows airplane and steamship routes avail
able to the Prince of Wales for his big-game hunt in
Africa. He will go first to Cape Town, then to the game
country northward.
CUB STUBBED
BT CQfICT II
BREAK FOB LIBERTY
DAVIS SHOT WHILE CRAWLING
OVER PRISON WALL; HAN
SEN CAPTURED
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., Dec., 31,
(IP)—A tower guard was stabbed
and a convict shot when two in
mates of the Mi-souri State peni
tentiary made an ineffectual at
tempt to escape.
John T. Bradly, guard, is in the
hospital with a slashed abdomen
and wounds about the head from a
black-jack.
Virgil Davis, 24, convict, is in the
prison hospital with buckshot
wounds about the hips. Bradley
was stabbed when Davis and Clar
ence Hancen crawled over the pri
son wall in a dash for liberty. Davis
was shot by another tower guard.
Hansen was captured within a
block of the prison.
PETITION ALLEGES THE COM
PANY COMMITTED ACTS OF
BANKRUPTCY MONTHS AGO
INDIANAPOLIS, Dec., 31, (/P)—A
petition of involuntary bankrup
tcy was filed in the federal court
against the Stutz Motor Car Co., of
America by thr^s* Indianapolis
creditors listing aggregate claims
of $2,175, the Hide Leather & Belt
ing Co., C. C. Atkins Co., and the
Vonnegut Hardware Co.
The filed petition alleges the
company committed acts of bank
suptcy while insolvent within the
last four months by transferring a
portion of its property to one of the
creditors with the intent to prefer
such creditors over the other credi
tors.
WILL ACCEPT OFFICE
HAVANA, Dec., 31, <A»)—Sen
ator Frederic A. Sackett of Ken
tucky aid he would return to
the United States at once and
tender his resignation as Sen
\ ator prepatory to an early de
parture for Berlin if his nom
ination as Ambassador is con
firmed. Germany has informed
the United States that Sackett
is acceptable to them.
Firemen’s Annual Mask Ball Tonight— !!!!
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