MEMBER ASSOCIATED DRESS
VOLUME XV. NUMBER 253.
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,VAl;U. ALASl THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1930
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ALASKA SCENES OFF TO
CRADLE OF HUMAN RACE
CAPTAIN JACK ROBERTSON WHO NEARLY
LOST LIFE IN BARREN LANDS OF ARCTIC!
WILL BE BACK TO ALASKA FOR MORE PIC-:
TURES AFTER CENTRAL ASIA TRIP.
According to announcement received from New
York bv The Gateway, Captain Jack Robertson, who;
will be* remembered throughout Alaska by reason of
his connection with the Fox Film Expedition to Point
Barrow in 1928 when members of the party nearly lost
their lives as well as the late Pilot Russell. Merrill who
almost perished while going to their relief, and also
better known on account of his magnificent moving
pictures of Alaska, is now on his way to Cential Asia;
on a two-year expedition.
FIFTH WORLD'S
CHAMPIONSHIP I
FOI1 CONNIE MACK
JEARNSHAW WON TWO SUC
CESSIVE GAMES WORLD
SERIES
PHILADELPHIA, Oct.. 9, </P)—:
Tile Athletics hammered the of
fe rings of Bill Hallahan, Syl
vester Johnson and Jim Lind
say with the most sustained and
spectacular batting attack of
the series.
The champions made seven
count for as many runs. The
rampage quickly settled the is
sue that had been so hard
fought and close up to yester
day.
Hallahan lasted two innings.
Philadelphia started off by mak
ing two in the first inning, add
ing one in the third, two in the
fourth, one in the fifth and one
in the sixth. The Cards did not
score until the ninth when High
who batted for Adams in the
eighth scored on Hafey’s dou
bi-\
The Cards got five hits off
Eamshaw. Earnshaw started his
second successive game and fin
ished it overpowering the Cards
with a baffling delivery. Grove
was ready to jump in as a re
lief pitcher any time.
This was the fifth world cham
pionship for Connie Mack.
LUSKS GIRL IS
VANCOUVER, B. C., Oct,, 8,
(IP)—Miss Ruth Nellie Rinehart,
nurse 21, and a native of Wran
gell, Alaska bound for Seattle,
If believed to have been wash
ed overboard from the steam
ship Princess Louise which
has reached here.
She graduated from the Port
land, Oregon nursing school and
returned to Wrangell two months
ego. Officers said she did not
pay heed to warnings to go be
low when high seas were en
countered in Queen Charlotte
Sound Sunday night.
She was missing the next
morning.
The object of the trip is the |
making of four different pictures,
three of which are to be built
around the lives of the people
encountered and the other to
be an expedition picture with
interpretive dialogue somewhat
in the manner of “Across the
World with the Martin John
sons.” Captain Robertson has
already made several pictures in
Alaska such as “The True
North” (released as Alaska Ad
ventures) “The Breakup,” and
others one of which is now
showing widely in the States
and meeting with great suc
cess.
After he returns from Asia
he will again visit Alaska he
writes, to take further pictures.
On his present expedition he is
accompanied by McKenzie Young
who was long associated with
Roy Chapman Andrews in his
exploration work in Thibet.
The new work is being con
ducted under the Robertson Ex
pedition. Inc., which numbers
on its board of directors a num
ber of prominent men in the
business and motion picture
world. Captain Robertson is
president and the other direct
ors are William C. Chanler, Roy
P. Gates. W. Douglas Burden,
president pf the Burden Pictures
Company; Kermit Roosevelt,
president of the Roosvelt Steam
ship Company; Haydyen N.
Smith, also of the Burden Pic
t-ues Company.
“I certainly miss the old North
country,” writes Captain Robert
son, “especially when summer
comes. My next picture after I
finish in Asia will be in the
North again.”
CROSSON NORTH-BOUND
SEATTLE, Oct., 9, UP)—Joe
j Crosson, Alaska pilot, and his
: bride, arrived here after a tour
j of the states on their honey
| moon. They visited the late Col.
| Carl B. Eielson’s father at North
! Dakota, and Eielson’s sister at
! Wenatchee. They sail for Alaska
Saturday.
ELECTED PRESIDENT
CLEVELAND, Oct., 9, UP)—
R. C. Stevenson, president of
the St. Joseph County Savings
Bank of South Bend, Ind., was
i elected president of the Amer
j ican Bankers Association at its
! annual convention.
DOMINION QUESTION
LONDON, Oct. 9. (JP) —The Bri
tish Empire conference will start
with the problem of finding a prac
tical application of the statement
that “Britain and its dominions are
anonomous communties, and not
subordinate to one another in anj
aspect of their external or domes
tic affairs.”
SPECTATORS IN STREETS SI
LENTLY SALUTE THE
DEAD
LONDON, Oct., 8, VP)—All En
gland is in mourning for the
victims of the R-lOi who were
taken from the war boats early
today and thence to London
where a public memorial ser
vice is to be held in St. Paul’s
Cathedral Friday; the bodies
will be buried at Cardington.
Guards paced silently before
the row of coffins after they
had been placed in the mortuary
under the shadow of Westmin
ister, about dawn.
Many came to view the sight
and others passing in the
street, raised their hats in si
lent salute to the dead.
Formalities, connected with
the disaster, will be resumed but
purely preliminary. No identi
fication evidence is being tak
en. It is understood that the
members of the government’s
inquiry court have not been
named and will not until the
successor of Lord 1 homason,
who died in the crash, is named.
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NEW YORK, Oct. 8. '.Pi
Central Park Casino, suave and
softly lighted rendezvous of New
York’s wealthy and socially pro
minent citizens is threatened W'tn
ordinary padlock. Alleging that
the elegant cafe is a place
where liquor is manufactured
and kept for sale Federal agents
are moving to have the first
floor and the basement shut off
as a common nuisance.
A suit to close the Casino is
the outgrowth of a raid made
last Jimp in which Federal
agents seized liquor in posses
: sion of some of the guests. The
i Casino is owned by Dieppe Cor
poration and is operated on city
owned, property but the city is
not named in the suit by the
; Federal agents.
The officials of the Dieppe Coi
! porution were given 20 days t'
answer the action.
Recently similar padlock suite
against hotels were decided againsi
the government.
Mill 1 AGE
MS-OFF FOO HOME
! HESTON. England, Oct., 9, (/P
—Kingsford Smith took-ofl hen
for Australia where he expect:
to -end his air career and marrj
Miss Mary Powell of Melbourne
He left in the Southern Cross
; Jr., plane, and expected to hoi
2,000 miles. He carried addition
al gas tanks in the extra cock
: pit.
i Friends of the couple expec
the wedding soon as he lands
It was deferred from Septembe
in Sydney after he announce<
plans for a solo flight home in
stead of taking a steamer.
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Hungary is expected to grow 70,
000,000 pounds of choice tobacc
this year.
NEW YORK, Oct., 8, (/P)
Vilhjalmur Stefannson arrived
from England where he has |
been lecturing at Cambridge.
He said a submarine is safer
and more practical by which to
reach the North Pole than an
airplane and predicted success
for the Sir Hubert Wilkins ex
pedition.
Wilkins was Stefannson’s first
! aide in 1913 and until 1916. The
| famous explorer said there were
no deep icebergs only floes of
| ice within 400 miles of the;
| Pole. j
SPEEFeIF
CIVIL WAR IN
CHI IS SEEN
REBEL ARMY BROKEN UP,
ACCORDNG TO THE NA
TIONALISTS
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j SHANGHAI, Oct.. 8, (IP)— -Na
j tionalist circles asserted that
j they had captured Cheng Chow,
! by President Chiang Kai Shek,
| and that the rebel general, Feng,
! was in retreat.
This means a speedy end to
I the civil war and the beginning
j of a new era cf peace and re
I habilitation.
j Despite the reports, Feng is
- said to be massing troops while
awaiting further developments.
The Nationalist spokesmen,
said that the rebels would be
I ’enable to continue fighting and
g vernmint leaders insisted both
! military factions expected to
be incorporated into the govern
ment.
| Important political develop
ments are said to be imminent.
Dispatches said that the Feng
I army had repeatedly been bro
k n up by the Nationalists who
• captured 40.000 rebels and large
stores of arms and ammunition.
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PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Seattle 4, 6, Angels 12, 1.
Seattle allowed Los Angeles
only three hits in the second
game which went seven innings
1 by mutual agreement.
! Portland 6, Missions 4.
j Hollywood 2, Sacs 0.
Oakland 5, Frisco 4, 10 inn.
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PINKERTON DIES
- NEW YORK, Oct., 8, f/P)—Al
ign Pinkerton, 54, head of the
‘ famous detective agency founded
by his grandfather of the same
name, in Chicago, died here.
5 PARALYSIS OUTBREAK
r WASHINGTON, Oct. 8. (/P)—
- \ widespread outbreak of in
- fantile paralysis is shown in re
> oorts of the public health ser
' | vice. With four states yet to re
■ nort a total of 594 cases has been
i ?poried.
: FEARS MISCALCULATIONS
i LONDON, Oct. 9- (/P)—Sir John
- Norton Griffiths comitted suicide
at Alexandria. He was said to have
been worried because he feared
- j miscalculations had been made in
31 the contract for the construction
of a dam.
GEORGE ®
AMR S
FOR RIG
DELEGATE CANDIDATE MAK
ING VIGOROUS CAM
PAIGN, ISSUE
After a speech-making tour
of the Interior during which he
has outlined the issues of the
present campaign, George B.
Grigsby, of Ketchikan, Demo
cratic nominee for Delegate to
Congress, will arrive in Seward
on tomorrow’s train and will
address the voters of the city
at the Liberty theater tomor
row night.
George Grigsby is well known
throughout Alaska by reason of
his long connection with pub
lic affairs, and has a wide
knowledge of the Territory as
a whole. For a number of years
he was active as a prom
inent attorney at Nome, and
later came into general promi
nence when he filled out an un
expired term in the position, he
now seeks. He has been practic
ing law in Southeastern Alaska
for some years* and has a strong
following in that portion of the
Territory.
On his present tour he has
been in full support of the whole
Democratic ticket as well as
Pleading his own cas°. He has
made strong endorsements of
Thomas Gaffney, for auditor;
K. E. Karnes, candidate for com
missioner of education; R E.
Hardcastle, candidate for terri
torial treasurer, and William A.
Hesse, for Territorial highway
engineer.
He has been confining his
fight against James Wicker
sham, Republican nominee for
| Delegate to Congress to the gen
eral propositions that he does
not like Wickersham’s organic
act and the granting of less
self-government than enjoyed
by other territories. He wants
more home rule; he will un
! doubtedlv tell the Seward voters
his entire views on this subject
i as well as his desire for a more
! liberal program o nthe devel
j ment of natural resources and
I greater transportation exten
| sions.
Mr. Grigsby will be met by
| a committee of Leading Demo
j crats of the city and is expect
ed to get a rousing reception at
the Liberty theater tomorrow
night.
cm VICTORIES
ON TWO P10NTS
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Oct.,
8, (/P)—The Brazilian revolution
i ary sources claimed that Bahia.
| the third largest city in the
Republic, north of Rio de Jan
! iero, had joined the rebellion.
Colonel Ataliva Osorio is said
to have led the movement w::th
i success which is considered im
| portant to the revolution as it
: will facilitate the movement of
! troops northward.
I The rebels also claimed to
I have consolidated their posi
! tion in the north, in the region
I of the city of Pernambuco and
j State of Parahyba.
| A rebel communicque said
that Pernambuco was captured
J after a 24-hour battle.