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VOLUME XIV NUMBER 179.
SEWARD, ALASKA. SATURDAY, DEC. 21, 1929.
PRICE TEN CENTS
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YOUNG OFF TODAY FOR SIBER
IA; BARNHILL RETURNED;
DORBANDT HOPPING
I —-——
NOME, Dec., 21, (JP)—Pilot Young
took off this morning for Siberia;
the weather is good today. Pilot
Barnhill was to fly another ship
but for some unknown reason is
returning to Fairbanks.
No wrord has yet been heard
from Pilot Joe Crosson who yes
terday flew into the West Arctic
in search of Eielson and Borland
who have been missing for five
weeks.
Yesterday Matt Niemenen, Barn
hill and Moller left Nome for Fair
banks on the repaired Stinson
pi ne. Dorbandt is returning to
Teller from here with a Standard
plane and will probably hop for Si
beria tomorrow morning.
PRINCE OF WALES GREETS NEW
AMBASSADOR FROM RUSSIA
* IN ST. JAMES PALACE
LONDAN, Dec., 20, cP)—Full re
sumption of diplomatic relations
between Great Britain and Soviet
Russia complete"! as the new
Soviet Ambassador M. Sokoinikov
present: 1 official credentials to the
Prince oJ' Wales. The new British
ambassador to Soviet Russia was to
present his credentials simultane
ously.
An exchange of notes, dealing
with the question of propaganda is
to follow immediately; this being
one of the conditions for the re
sumption of relations. King George
did not see the new ambassador but
if the Prince of Wales greeted him in
the audience ..chamber in St. James
palace.
JOE CBOSS0IIFIILS
TO AHRIVE IT Kill
NOME, Dec., 21, (TP)—Pilot Gii
lam arrived at North Cape,
where the schoofier Nanuk is an
chored, yesterday afternoon but
Pilot Joe Crosson had not ar
rived at the time the message was
sent. Gillam believes Crosson is
alright for they became separated
by fog only after having, traveled
half of the distance across the
Bering Sea to Siberia. Yesterday
Pilot Young flew to East Cape
and could not find a suitable
place to land so returned to Tel
ler. -
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“LIGHT EXTINGUISHED”
MONTELIMAR, France, Dec., 21,
(/P)—Emile Loubet, former presi
dent of France, died at the age of j
90. His physician said he suffered ;
from no special disease. “His light!
was just distinguished by old age.”
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REPEAT PRAYERS
iS GOES TO Gil
CONFESSED LURING BOY WITH
CANDY; KILLING HIM WHEN
HE CRIED FOR MOTHER
% TRENTON. N. J., Dec., 21, (/P)—
Nervous and unable to repeat play
ers uttered by his priest, Peter
Kidzonowski, slayer of a seven-year
old New York boy, died in the elec
tric chair at the state prison.
Kidzonowski. a pale, peaked little
man of 27 years, who lured Joseph
Storelli and his playmates, with a
bag of candy and killed him when
he cried for his mother,, while he
was drunk, he confessed. He twid
dled his fingers as he walked from
the death House, staring around the
execution chamber, shuffled to the
death chair and sat down without
a word to hte guards.
DRAMATIC MOMENT WHEN GIRL
POINTED OUT MAN THOT
MURDERED
MCI' NT A IN VIE W, Ark.. Dec., 21.
—Herman Greenwav, Herbert
Hester. Bill Younger and Joe White,
mountain farmers, were acquitted
of murder after a man, who ap
peared as a defense witness at their
trial, testified that he was Connie
Franklin, the man they had been
indicted for slaying.
Herman Greenway was put under
bond of $1500 with charges of at
tacking Franklin’s former sweet
heart, Tillar Ruminer, age 17, on
the same night the slaying was said
to have occurred.
The girl told officials that she
and Franklin were on their way to
jbe married and were stopped by
I the men. Franklin was mutilated
land thrown on brush and burned
alive. She was attacked, she said,
but had remained silent for months
i under death threats. Finally she
| told the authorities.
| Franklin testified that he was
| hurt falling from a mule and quiet
jly left the community. He came
iback when he learned of the mur
der charges. He was identified by
various farmer acquaintances;
some of them failed to recognize
him as Connie Franklin; notably
,his former sweetheart.
ROME, Dec., 21, (/P)—The Pope
i descended into St. Peters while an
I immense congregation of 70,000
icheered and applauded and .cele
brated the 50th anniversary of his
1 first mass.
CAPTAIN USED
GOOD JUDGEMENT
BEACHING HESS
ACCUSATIONS MADE AGAINST
CAPTAIN HELD GROUND
LESS BY INSPECTORS
SEATTLE, Dec., 21, (P)—Captain
Eric Strandquist, of the steamer
Skagway, used good judgement in
beaching the burning vessel near
Cape Flattery, Monday, Steamboat
Inspectors Donald S. Ames and
Thomas Short said in making
known the result of their investiga
tion of the wreck.
The inspectors exonerated the
captain from all blame for the ac
cident. As master of the ship he
was responsible for the property
under his care and the lives of his
officers and crew. The captain
followed what he believed the
safest course.
The inspectors said that accusa
tions to the effect that the captain
ignored the counsel of his officers
and crew and had headed for the
rocks after being told he could
make Neah Bay, three miles away,
were held as groundless by Ames
and Short, V
SEAWEED PAPER
MOSCOW, Dec., 20. (A3)—After
two years of experiments, Russian
paper plants have produced what
is regarded as a satisfactory grade
of paper from seaweed. Russia has
been importing 50 percent of her
raw material for paper.
LARGEST AMOUNT FOR BREACH
PROMISE CASE EVER AWARD
ED IN UNITED STATES
: DETROIT, Dec., 20, (A3)—Miss
Bertha Clevenger was awarded
$450,000 in her breach of promise
siyt against John H. Castle, weal
thy Detroit real estate operator,
i • Judge Homer Ferguson, presid
ing, said that the amount was the
largest ever awarded for a breach
of promise case in the United States
and twice the size of the next larg
est, the O’Brien-Manniny case in
New7 York, of $100,000.
The Clevenger suit asked for
$750,000; Castle’s attorneys said
they would make a motion for a
new trial.
CANAL TO COST 8100,000,000
STALINGRAD, Dec., 20, {JP)~
American engineers are to super
vise 40,000 men who are to start
next, spring a canal costing $100,
000,000 to link Stalingrad, on the
Volga, wuth Kalatch on the Don.
This waterway wall make it possible
for boats to go from the Caspian
Sea to the Black Se° and from the
latter to the White Sea.
EPISCOPAL CHURCH CHRIST
MAS TREE TONIGHT
A Christmas tre e and program
will be given by the children of the
Episcopal Sunday school in the
Episcopal church tonight at 8 p, m.
The public is cordially invited.
nuns TIEN
OFF FERRY BOUT
FOLLOWING CRASH
FERRY BEGAN TO LIST AFTER
PASSENGERS WERE TAKEN
OFF; PUSHED TO SHORE
WEEKAWXEN, N. J., Dec., 21, (/F)
—Seven hundred men, women and
children were taken off the West
Shore ferryboat -“Westpomt” after
it crashed with the Erie car float
off Hoboken last night.
The crash occurred as the ferry
cast off from New York. The hun
dreds of panic stricken passengers
leaped from the ferry to the car
float. Five railroad tugs answered
the distress call and others hasten
ed to the scene.
After the passengers got off the
ferry it began to list. Tugs pushed
her to the mud banks along the
shore to prevent her from sinking.
SAFE BELIEVED TO CONTAIN
GOLD BULLION; CAPT.
HAYES WILL TRY
JUNEAU, Dec,, 21, (JP)~C. H.
Wiley, in charge of the enter
prise in diving to the sunken Is
lander, offered $1,000 bonus for
the man locating the big safe
of the wrecked steamer which is
believed to contain gold bullion.
The safe was found and moved
a short distance from the wreck
last summer, during the diving
operations, but there being no
hoisting apparatus on hand pow
erful enough to lift it to the sur
face, it was left.
Capt- C. A. Hayes expects to
make a try for the bonus, ac
cording to Wiley who arrived
from the scene yesterday after
noon.
The diving apparatus was test
: ed out in 600 feet of water off
Taku Inlet a few days ago this
being the length of the electric
communication cable and the
divers found no bottom. Wiley
I was unable to remain at the
scene because of a serious injury
to a hand during last week’s
! storm.
MAIL ON CHELAN
The cutter Chelan left Seattle
this morning for Seward with the
Canadian airmen and planes who
will join the Arctic search for E'el
son and Borland. The Chelan,
which is due here on Chritmas day,
has local mail on board.
HISTORIC ALASKA
VESSEL. SUM DM.
HEPIESS IT SEI
| ONE OF FIRST VESSELS LEAV
ING SEATTLE DURING GOLD
RUSH; BEEN LYING^IDLE
MIAMI, Dec., 21, (/P)—A wireless
message received here from the
United Fruit Line Ship “Toloa”,
said that the passenger liner Santa
Ana was helpless in a rough sea 130
Imilse southwest of the Isle of Pines
with her rudder gone. The Toloa
also said she was standing by the
historic little steamer which left
Seattle on November 14 for the
Florida port when she became part
of the United Fruit Line fleet.
She was one of the first vessels to
leave Seattle during the Alaska
gold rush. She had been lying idle
in Lake Union, except for occasion
al trips for several years following
her discontinuance on the Alaska
route until pm'chased for the fruit
trade.
LEFT VATICAN TO CELEBRATE
50TH ANNIVERSARY; UNAS
SUMING DEPARTURE
ROME, Dec., 20, </P)—Pope Pius
11th,after ending nearly 60 years of
self imprisonment in the Pope's
Vatican, made his exit at 6:55 a. m.
from the Pontifical quarters, en
tered Italian Territory for the first
| time since 1870 when the Kingdom
of United Italy was formed and the
Papal state destroyed.
The Pope left Vatican and cele
brated mass in the church of St.
John Lateran in commemorating
the 50th anniversary of his ordina
tion as a priest. So unassuming was
his departure that hardly anyone
knew of his act.
! _-_
! PRESIDENT OE BANE
i SHOOTS TWO ROBBERS
AS TRET SPEED AWAY
GRACEMONT, Okla., Dec., 21, (/P)
;—William Granger, president of the
Gracemont bank, grabbed a pistol
and shot two robbers who held him
up, as they were making away with
the money and wounding both as
ithey were speeding away in an
automobile.
Oscar Logston and Bill Joseph
are both in the county jail. Log
ston is in a critical condition after
being pursued by citizens and a
posse which surrounded him in a
field after leaving the auto. The
'bay of money was recovered.