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DAILY AND WEEKLY
TERMINAL FOR THREE OCEAN
GOING STEAMSHIP LINES
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VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 168 SEWARD, ALASKA. MONDAY, DECEMBER, 9, 1929.
PRICE TEN CENTS
ElilCE PllE
PILOTS KILLED
TAKEOFF CRASH
PILOTS BURNED TO DEATH;
ONE WAS CLOSE FRIEND
OF LINDBERGHS
TAMPA, Dec., 9, (A*)—Two pilots,
refueling from their ship to an
endurance plane, were killed on
Sunday when their craft crashed
in a take-off with 80-gallons of
fuel for the other plane which
was forced down about 15 min
utes later.
Mechanical trouble compelled
them to descend and both of the
pilots in this plane were injured
in the forced landing, and in fog.
E. A. Dempsey and Stanley
Smith, both of St. Louis, were
burned to death in the refueling
plane which caught fire after
the crash.
R. W. Schrock, of St. Louis, and
Leonard Carr others, * of Cedar
Rapids, Iowa, suffered minor in
juries when the endurance plane
was forced to land. Dempsey was
a personal friend of Lindbergh's.
LIGHT SNOW ACCOMPANIED BY
RISING TEMPERATURES IN
CENTRAL STATES
NEW YORK, Dec., 9, <7P)-Altho
freeziiv temperatures maintained
their chilling grip thruout a large
part of northern United States, the
thermometer showed a general rise
over a low range. While the central
states and the Great Lakes region
were benefited most by the lifting
of the cold spell, they face the
promise of another frigid wave
which is moving down from the
northwest regions.
Three deaths were reported in
New York state; two of them re
sulting from the blizzard which
swept the upper portion of the
state. New York City shivered in a
temperature that ranged from 18
to 32 degrees. The light snow which
accompanied the rising tempera
tuhes In central states, caused
some traffic delays.
HURLED 10 DEATH
FROM GLIDER SOARING
OVER GOLDEN GATE
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec., 9, (/P)—
Charles J. Ferguson, Army war
rant officer who attempted to
span the Golden Gate in a glider,
was hurled from his machine 100
feet to his death when the gli
der, towed by an airplane, nosed
up into a cross-current and Fer
guson’s safety strap broke hurl
ing him from his seat.
He twisted in the air, as he was
falling, and landed upon his feet
but with such force that it killed
him.
| ST. LOUIS, Dec., 9, {^)—Paul
I Goldsborough, vice president of
the Universal Aviation Corpora
tion, said arrangements have
been made with his company to
send three Fairchild wingfold
type airplanes to Alaska to aid
in the search for Colonel Eielson
and Mechanicain Borland.
The machines will go by way
of Canada and to Nome. It was
also said planes may be sent part
of the way by steamship; it was
not known when the planes will
start.
mm KILLED
EXPLOSION CLOCK
i B0P1II DOME
MOTHER AND TWO OTHER
CHILDREN UPSTAIRS ES
CAPED INJURY
! NEW YORK, Dec., 9, (£>)—Three
children were killed Sunday in an
explosion which wrecked their
home in Brooklyn.
The police investigation showed
that the explosion was caused
by a bomb made from a piece of
iron pipe with a time fuse at
. tached to an alarm clock.
The dead are Mary Flazone, 15;
her brother Philip, 13; both were
killed instantly, and Rose, 8, who
j died in the hospital 30 minutes
I later.
The mother and two other chil
dren, who were upstairs, escaped
; injury.
Seward Chamber of Commerce
luncheon tomorrow at noon. A
good attendance is asked for this
meeting.
AVAL GROUP
WINS CUP
The Schiff Memorial trophy for safe flying was awarded to the entire
naval air squadron shown, command-ed by Lieut Thomas Gearing Fisher,
(light). Lieut Janies E. Dyer, (left),a member of the squadron, was the
last individual winner.
CHIIESE PIRATES
ATTEMPT SEIZE
BRITISH STEM
WERE DISGUISED AS PASSEN
GERS; NATIVES TOOK TO
THE WATER
HONGKONG, Dec., 9, (/P)~
Twelve were killed and 60 natives
jumped overboard when Chinese
pirates, disguised as passengers,
attempted to take possession of
the British steamer Hatching.
Three American women were
aboard but escaped injury. Third
officer Woodward was among
those killed.
A number of the pirates were
killed and 38 wounded; these
were taken to hospitals. Others
were brought ashore bound and
thrown into jail.
Officers and the ship’s guards
managed to beat back the ' re
peated attempts of the pirates
to gain possession of the bridge.
Citizens Of Nome
V/ired Wilbur For
Planes Assist Rescue
WASHINGTON, Dec., % ^—Sec
retary Wilbur’s action in suggesting
to the War Department that re cue
planes be sent in search of Eielson
and Borland, followed the receipt
of a telegram from six leading citi
zens of Nome informing him that
the private expedition, headed by
Dorbrandt, was unable to function.
Charles D. Jones, United States
Marshall at Nome, informed the
Interior Department that planes
available .in Alaska for the Eielson
and Borland search, were unsuited
for such work and urged the gov
ernment to give assistance by send
ing planes suitable for long cruis
ing.
Dozens of people enjoyed the
fine skating yesterday on the se
cond lake; men women and chil
dren.
HIES ATTEMPT TO
FIT TO SIN B
HSLTEO: HEAVY TOC
FAIRBANKS, Dec., 9, (JP)—
Pilot Joe Crosson, after making
repairs to his plane damaged
last Friday, took-off Sunday for
Siberia but was forced to return
on account of the dense fog over
Bering Strait.
Pilot Barnhills, another Alaska
Airways pilot, accompanied by
Mechanic Mueller, arrived at
Nome Sunday from Fairbanks
enroute to Teller with repair parts
and supplies for Dorbandt’s plane
which was badly damaged during
the take-off Friday. Barnhill will
hop to Teller today.
for sea mm
IS SERIOUS POII
DESIRES TO' MAINTAIN SUFFI
CIENT CONTROL IN THE
MEDITERRANEAN
LONDON, Dec., 9, (A5)—As the
Naval conference approaches Eng
land’s demand for strength in the
Mediterranean Sea promises to
arise as a serious point of discus
sion. Great Britain is represented
as desiring to maintain sufficient
control in th Meriterranean to per
mit her the most important lines
of communication in that area.
While her entire policy has not
been formulated by the govern
ment and Admiralty general con
sensus in well informed circles is
I that Great Britain should have in
| the Mediterranean cruisers, de
stroyers and submarines equal to
| the combined strength of France
l and Italy.
Here it is almost the middle of
December end the “Green grass
is growing alround, alround,” etc.
GRIP BF WINTER
j
NINETEEN DEATHS ARE RE
PORTED FROM VARIOUS
SECTIONS OF COUNTRY
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec., 9, ffl—
Locked in the icy grip of a record
cold wave the millde west, east and
some parts of the south reported
unprecedented suffering. Nineteen
deaths were attributed to the in
tense cold; 18 in the middle west
and one in New York.
Shipping in the Great Lakes is
virtually at a standstill and millions
of dollars in cargo held up. Terrific
gales are lashing the North Atlan
tic steamer lane and at least two
steamers are known to be in dis
tress. The official thermometer in
New York ranged between 12 and
|21 degrees.
i Exposure, accidents caused by icy
I streets and fires were reported by
i Chicago. Cleveland, Pittsburgh and
I other middle western cities, and
{Florida and South Carolina were
i visited by below freezing tempera
| fares.
ULITIBI
THRU INDUSTRIAL
LEADERS PUH
WOULD WITHHOLD FROM BEL
LIGERENT NATIONS ESSEN
TIAL RAW MATERIAL
| WASHINGTON, Dec., 9, (JP)—A
plan for the abolition of war thru
agreements among great industrial
jleaders of the world to withhold
from belligerent nations essential
industria raw materials, is outlined
in a communication sent by Ed
ward Hurley of Chicago, war-time
; chairman of the United States
Shipping Board, to M. Geroges
Theunis of Belgium, president of
jthe International Chamber of Com
merce.
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SCORPIOS SUICIDES
RATHER THl APPEAR
AS MOVIE Sim
BERLIN, Dec., 9, (A5)—Rather
than become a movie star a Tunes
ian scorpion committed suicide here
by thrusting its poison sting into
its own neck. The scorpion first
tried to evade the camera by hiding
under a stone but the anima was
forced out by a little fire and find
ing itself caught between flames
land the camera took a desperate
course. Turning up its tail the
scorpion rolled its back over its
body and thrust its poison sting
I into its own xieck. It died instantly.
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FOKKERS, FIRST PLANNED
ST. LOUIS. Dec., 9, (JP)—It was
first decided to send Fokker air
planes to Alaska to aid in the
search for Eielson and Borland,
but later changed to Fairchilds
because the Fokkers could not be
folded to ship on a boat.