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VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 155.
SEWARD, ALASKA. SATURDAY, NOV. 23, 1929.
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MAY HAVE COME TO GRIEF
ON MOUNTAIN 10 MILES
FROM COAST
NOME, Nov.. 23, (IP)— It is the
belief of the Russian trader who
is said to be the last one to have
heard the motor of Colonel Eiel
son’s plane, that it went inland
in a fog and may have come to
grief with a mountain 10 miles
distant from the coast.
Three more dogteams have
started out from Nanuk in search
of the plane.
Poor flying weather prevails
at Nome, Teller and North Cape.
Dorbandt’s plane is ready and
waiting for a break in the weath
er to take-off and look for Eiel
son.
Workmen worked all night in
a blzzard and welded an axel as
well as making other minor re
pairs to the lower wing. Dor
bandt is using the same plane
that Eielson and Captan Wil
kins used between Fairbanks
and Point Barrow during their
first Polar expedition.
Him OF MO Ml®
NEW YORK, Nov., 23, (IP)—The
parade of the ‘’big time” gamblers,
that laconic soft spoken gentry to
whom the loss of $50,000 in a stud
poker game is nothing to get excit
ed about, began in the trial of
George McManus, for the murder
of Arnold Rothstein.
As a matter of fact, at times with
W dry humor and always deferential
In their attitude towards the pro
secutors, they described a 22 houi
session of stud at the home of Jim
my Meehan, one Saturday night
and Sunday in September 1928, ir
which they said Rothstein lost
$200,000.
KODIAK CITIZENS ABOUT TO
SEND OUT SEARCHING
PARTIES
KODIAK, Nov., 23, (Special tc
the Gateway)—John Brodkoff
and Chris Matsen, in the gasboal
Takli returned to Kodiak last
night after having been absenl
since October 27 on a trip tc
land trappers on Cherikoff Is
land, ordinarily a five or six-daj
trip.
The delay was due to making
three attempts to make a land
ing which were unsuccessful.
The people of Kodiak becamf
worried over their long absenc<
and were preparing to send ou
searching parties for them wher
they returned.
CONFESSES IE SHOT
TIE BLONDE BEIIITT
WASHINGTON, Nov., 23, UP)—
I Laurence Tulloch, employed in the
production department of the Nat
ional Broadcasting Co., broke down
and confessed that it was he who
fired the fatal shot into the head
of Mrs. Gertrude Lavine, 27, blonde
beauty, as he lay on the davenport
of his cottage on Telegraph Hill. He
stoutly contended that the shoot
ing was an accident, however.
EXECUTION SNOOK
FINDS THAT DR. SNOOK HAD
BEEN MISTREATED BY
THE PROSECUTION
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| COLUMBUS, Nov., 23, UP)—
i Chief Justice Carrington Marshall,
of the Ohio State Supreme Court
announced the court would grant
i an indefinite stay of execution
to James Snook.
The statement followed the
| decision of the district appeals
court denying Snook a retrial.
Judge Marshall instructed the
defense to file a motion of
| leave to enter a petition in error
alleging a mistrial and a peti
tion of their rights.
It is expected that the defense
■will set forth the federal grounds
! for an appeal to the United
States Supreme Court of Ap
f peals which found Dr. Snook had
been mistreated by the prosecu
tion before confessing.
LAYED TO REST
CEDAR RAPIDS, Nov., 23, (TP)—
Secretary of War Good was buried
beside his parens with mlitary
honors befitting his rank.
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iff ID 15 ACUTE
SITUATION STEADILY GROWING
WORSE WITH ABSENCE OF
RAIN FOR WATER FLOW
SEATTLE, Nov., 23, (IP)— Ordered
back from sea, after leaving the
Bremerton Navy Yard, the airplane
carrier Lexington was anchored in
Puget Sound waters awaiting or
ders from Washington, D. C. that
may enlist its powerful generators
in relief of the acute shortage in
the Puget Sound district.
The decision to return the Lex
ington was made after Tacoma and
Seattle officials had joined in an
appeal to President Hoovey for aid.
Their first request to the Navy de
partment failed.
Restricted use here of domestic
electricity and electrical appliances
and the dimmed street lights in
both cities*< \ evidence of tv'e
seriousne'-. situation, wfcneii
is steadily **>V. uig worse with the
absence of rain to increase the
water flow.
M1EGED ACCOMPLICES
BE MB II MEXICO
MEXICO CITY, Nov., 23, (/P>—
Universal Service says the Prose
cutor of the federal district will
give to the court an outline of his
case against Carlos Sastro Baida
and 10 associates, preparatory to
the trial, soon.
They will be charged with being
accomplices in the assassination of
General Alvaro Cbregon, by Jose
de Leon Toral. instead of bomb
ing the Chamber of Deputies and
Obregon campaign headquarters,
on which they had been held.
Eft WN OUT
SEATTLE, Nov., 23, (/P)—Mike
Fickhachy, 26, who had one eye
blown out in a premature explo
son in the Juneau Gold mine on
October 8, arrived on the S. S.
Yukon last night hoping that
surgeons ma; save his other
eye. Travelers aided him, met
him at the dock and put him in
in the hands of friends. He went j
to Alaska sx months ago from l
Russia.
CONGRESS ENDS
TARIFF COMES UP DECEMBER
REGULAR SESSION, UN
FINISHED BUSINESS
WASHINGTON, Nov., 23, (JP)— I
Still arguing over the unsettled j
tariff legislation, Congress ended
the extra session for a week’s j
holiday before the regular sess- 1
ion next month.
Weary and wan after days
I and nights of debate, the Sen
ate found it was unable to keep
a quorum on the final day and
so gave up the contest. They
! could not adjourn before 10 at
; night so recessed from noon un
till 9:45.
The tariff comes up in Decem
ber as unfinished business the
leaders believing they can dis
pose of it before the first of the
year.
RETURNING 8340,000
CHICAGO, Nov., 23. f/P)— James
Murray, the Chicago politician who
helped dispose of the Rondout mail
robbery loot, is returning $340,000
in the hope of winning a commuta
jtion of his sentence.
WELL OILED GUNS OF COAST GUARD WILL HAVE WINTER
OF TARGET PRACTICE IN S OUTHERN WATERS; FLORIDA
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Coast guard gunners (upper left) will winter in Florida waters, plugg
ing such floating targets as the one at upper right. The destroyer Terry
(lower left) is a typical coast guard craft. Com. C. G. Roemer (lower
right) is in charge of the base at St. Petersburg, Fla.
BASSETT'S BODY
PROSECUTOR TORTURED PRIS
ONER BY USE OF TRUTH
SERUM
SEATTLE, Nov. 23, f/P)—Mayer
is scheduled to appear today in
the Superior court in an effort
to make permanent the tempor
ary injunction obtained restrain
ing Prosecutor Colvin from “Tor
turing” him by means of the
“Truth serum” an application of
the “Le detector” in an effort to
force him to reveal the place
where Bassett’s body is supposed
to be hidden.
Mayer is suspected of murder
ing Bassett who disappeared here
over a year ago.
Colvin said he was prepared
to demonstrate the use of the
“Le Detect
Dep opened
two gia,. : ceme
tery near wuv. d
for some time, were unsuccessful
in their quest for Bassett’s body.
ILLINOIS JUDGE
- TIKES IN PLENTY
OF TERRITORY .
GUEST IN HOME WHERE LIQUOR
IS SERVED IS GUILTY AS IS
POSSESSOR OR SELLER
PEORIA, 111., Nov., 23, (/P)—All
persons who buy liquor, or who are
acquainted with one who possesses
liquor for beverage purposes are
felons, in the eyes of the law, un
less they report their knowledge to
the United Statees government.
A judge in the federal court here,
|so ruled in upholding the consti
tutionality of the Jones law. The
! decision, which was delivered in a
case which did not involve the pur
chase of liquor, pointed out that
in 1790 congress passed an act that
a person who does not report a fel
ony becomes a felon. Since the
Jones law makes a felony of selling
transporting or possession of liq
uor, one not reporting such acts be
comes a criminal.
The judge ruled that under the
two laws mentioned, the buyer of
liquor, or the guest in a home
where liquor is served is equally
guilty with the seller or possessor,
and subject to the same punish
ment.
AliMEDA EMOTE
NORTH W SEME
SEATTLE, Nov., 23, (£>)—'The S.
|S. Alameda, A. S. S. Co., sailed at
;9 a. m. carrying 52 passengers; nine
[third class. Fourteen are listed
I for Seward as follows;
A. G. Vachon, A. J. Vorhis, Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Yusuda, Mrs. R.
Lucurson and baby, Richard Lucur
|son, Mr. and Mrs. D. I. Galloway,
|T. Neville, Roy Nevills, Mrs. E.
■Harydahl, R. T. MacCullough, C. O.
Thatcher.