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VOLUME XV. NUMBER 22.
SEWARD, ALASKA. TUESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1930.
PRICE TEN CENTS
LITTLE DOUBT BUT WHAT
EIELSON AND BORLAND
WERE KILLED
NEW YORK, Jan., 28, (JP)—
Graham B. Grosvenor, president
of the Aviation Corporation, said
that the finding of Eielson’s and
Borland’s plane left “little doubt’’
but what the fliers were killed.
“The knowledge, bravery and
determination of Colonel Eielson,
and his Arctic experience, kept
up our hopes that he and Bor
land would be found alive. Every
possible effort to locate them
» was made,” Grosvenor said.
“Pilots Joe Crosson, Gillam,
Dorbandt, Young, Neimenen and
other companions of Eielson and
Borland. fought against dis
couraging odds in one of the most
severe Arctic winters ever known
but their determination to find
the two fliers never dimmed.”
m CHIEF.
BAD. SENATO
INVESTIGATORS WERE ON HIS
TRAIL, ACCORDING TO
DISPATCH
WASHINGTON, Jan., 28. </P)—
Immediate removal of John Her
bert, prohibition administratr of
Montana and Idaho, was de
manded in the Senate by Borah
and Wheeler on the ground of
the charges placed before them
by Department of Justice inves
tigators.
Wheeler accompanied the de
mand with the declaration that
prohibition enforcements have
been broken down and blamed
“politicians”.
He called upon the law en
forcement commission to sum
mon the members of the Repub
lican National -Committee before
it and determine “how prohibi
tion officers were appointed.”
Herbert was recently trans
ferred from Baltimore.
SEWARD FIGURES 1
REFUTED IT DR. CHASE
CHAIRMAN COMMISSION
^ CORDOVA, Jan., 28, T/P)—Ac
tual figures tabulated by the
Alaska Game Commission refute
figures compiled by The Seward
Gateway on trapping licenses.
Two thousand 690 licenses were!
issued from July 1 to December
31 last year as compared to 2,556
the previous year or an increase
of five percent.
Big fur shipments will doubt- .
less be delayed due to interference -
*md non activity of the Alaska
Airways planes. '
Rev. W. R. Macpherson returned ]
to Seward from Anchorage on last 3
night’s train. ]
OVER PUPPY LOVE
BOISE, Jan., 28, (A3)—Upset by
a high school love affair Donald
Munson, 17, shot himself to death
at home upon return from a
' dance. Friends said Ruth Sum
mers had quarreled with the
1 Boise high school player.
[lELSillT
10 01 STRUCK
SIDE MOM
OVERSHOT NANUK IN THE FOG
AND CIRCLED OVER REIN
DEER CAMPS
NOME, Jan., 28, W-—The fact
that Eielson’s plane was 90 -miles
east of the Nanuk and 10 miles
from the coast, indicates he had
overshot the trading schooner
Nanuk in the fog and circled
over the reindeer camps 25 miles
south of the Nanuk while en
deavoring to find a place to
land.
Finding none he continued to
retrace his direction and when
he came was heard by the Rus
sian he was not over 50 miles
from the Nanuk going westward.
He evidently had endeavored
to fly back towards East Cape
and probably intended to reach
Teller where it was clear when
he left in the morning.
He evidently hit the side of a
mountain with the wing which
caused the wreck, not many
miles from a small village half
way between Takakokogen and
Cape Warikagen.
OFFICIALS BELIEVE PLANE EX
PLODED WHEN IT STRUCK
GROUND; MISJUDGED
LOS ANGELES, Jan.. 29, (/F) Of
ficials of the Transcontinental a r
Transport Maddux Lines, including
Colonel Lindbergh, conferred here
after viewing the wreckage of the .
large tri-motored pi me that era-ti
ed near San Clements carrying ir>
persons: all the occupants of the
ship, to their deaths.
The accident resulted in the
highest toll of lives ever taken in a
crash of a heavier than air ma
chine. The plane Los Angeles,
bound from Agua Caliente, struck
bhe ground and exploded, officials j
believe, when Pilots Basil Russell I
and Fredie Kalker misjudged their I
altitude while turning about to re- i
burn to San Diego in ? drizzling!
rain.
SHERIFF. DEPUTIES.
IHIJIILEI, JUSTED
HOUSTON, Jan., 27, (JP)—Seven
teen perrons, including Sheriff H.
iVyatt Collins of Fort Ben dcounty,
ais jailer and four deputy sheriffs
vere arrested when a squad of 30
federal agents swooped down on :
Richmond, 40 miles from here, and
nade 11 simultaneous raids on al
eged resorts. •
HOSPITAL, PLANE
ANOTHER CHAPTER IS ADDED
BY NEIIVHNEN AND COPE TO
ALASKA AIR HEROICS
Fred Gothenberg, better known
as “Mulligan”, lies in the Anchor
age hospital as the result of illness
brought on by exposure while trap
ping in the region of Trading Bay
report local arrivals.
! That Gothenberg did not follow
the many who have died far away
from the beaten paths of civiliza
tion is due to the courage and skill
of Matt Nieminen, air pilot, and Al
onzo Cope, his mechanician.
Receiving word that Gothenberg
was lying desperately ill, Nieminen
leapt into the air Sunday morning
armed merely with verbal instruc
tions as to where the sick man
might be found, crossed upper Cook
Inlet with its drifting ice, circled
about Trading Bay until he located
Gothenberg’s cabin, scouted the
country until he found a suitable
landing place, came to rest upon
the snow and Within a few hdurs
had his patient snugly tucked into
the cabin of .iis rk.ne and brought
hi: 1 safe to Anchorage.
So serious was Gothenberg’s con
dition that he had begun to shoot
his dogs, being unable longer to
prepare food for them. It is said
he had cut a hole in the ice in pre
paration of a last final plunge
when his suffering cuuid no longer
be borne. Then he began a letter
to be left behind explaining his
plight. An Indian from Tyonek
passed, and under Gothenberg’s di
rection finished the letter and took
it to Tyonek where it was delivered
to Wm. K. Leise, teacher at the
school. Mr. Leise. accompanied by
a number of natives, Led started to
Anchorage by dogteani. and send
ing help to Gothenberg, they has
tened thinking that a plane might
be sent for the patient. Arriving at
the Beluga river they found it open
necessitating returning and drag
ging a dory with dogs a distance of
12 miles. Mr. Leise arrived in An
chorage Friday. On Nieminen’s re
turn from a search for trappers in
in the Rainey Pass country Sunday
morning, he immediately took to
the air and added another chapter
to Alaskan air heroics.
TIE PLOT THICKENS
SINCE PtH H IEI
IHINCE RECONCILED
MONTE CARLO, Jan., 27, (JP)— j
Since Pola Negri and her husband
Prince Serge M’Divani have been
reconciled, Mary McCormick, noted
opera star, is seeking new world’s to j
conquer.
The famous French writer of best
sellers, Maurice Dekobra, has been |
constantly in her company during
tier recent visit here. Many say!
Maurice is just a big brother, noth
ing more.
She admitted that M was her
.ucky initial as she was born in
Malden, made her debut in Manon, j
net Prince M’Divani, returned to
Surope on the Majestic and now it
s Maurice.
GERMAN FORD PLANT
| COLOGNE, Germany, Jan., 27, (JP)
—The Ford Motor Co., signed a
contract with the municipality for
erection of a plant at a cost of
more than $1,000,000. Professor
Edmund Koerner, Essen architect,
has been entrusted with the plans.
siwur
HMD HD BEEP
REPORTS CROSSON
—
EIELSON’S PLANE SCATTERED
HUNDREDS FEET; STRUCK
FLYING SPEED
I NOME, Jan., 28, (JP)~The fol
lowing message was received by
Lomen who flew from Nome to
Teller where the two Fairchild
planes are still delayed:
“Gillam and I left the Nanuk
Sunday morning -with the Rus
sians Doitry, Miroshnichenko and
Gostorg^ the agent at North Cape;
also Williams of the Nanuk crew
and two natives are leaving for
the wrecked plane. Two dog
teams are now over half-way.
“We stayed at the wreck for
over two hours but could not lo
I cate the bodies as the snow is
j deep and very hard packed. They
j must have hit at flying speed as
the plane is scattered for several
; hundred feet.
i “The right wing was 200 feet
from the cabin; the clock stopp
ed at 3:40. The altimeter showed
1,000 feet; the throttle was bent
over and was in a wide open
position; the propeller was bad
ly bent and was wrapped around
the engine. Some of the cylin
j tiers were broken off.
“We will make another trip
tomorrow and should have the
wreckage out of the now by then,”
Signed, Crosson.
i
POISON, NOXIOUS CHEMICALS
ALCOHOL CAUSING DEATHS
BLINDNESS
WASHINGTON, Jan., 29. (IP)—
President Hoover was told that the
government policy of putting poi
sons in industrial alcohol can be
changed without danger to prohi
bition enforcement. Representative
William Sirovich, democrat of New
York, a physician and chemist, con
ferred with the President at the j
Whitehouse and laid before him the i
poison alcohol issue.
He told the President that the j
present policy of putting noxious j
chemicals into alcohol is causing j
death and blindness, whereas the j
object of preventing diversion could j
be obtained by using emetics in-1
stead of poisons.
CENSUS GROWS
OSSINING, N. Y., Jan, 29, (IP)— 1
Sing Sing’s census reached 2.023,
Warden Lawes announced that
this is the largest total of prisoners ;
there in 15 years.
Mr. Corliss, of the local Stan- j
dard Oil Company office, is very!
ill at home from a heavy cold. I
jincnc pith
! TEST FLIGHT IS
| NOW IT FARGO
COLD WEATHER FLIERS NEED
ELECTRIC HEATED GARB
ASSERTS MAJOR
FARGO, Jan., 28, (/P)—Seven
I teen planes of the Army Arctic
| patrol reached the airport here
| after a flight from various parts
; of North Dakota and Montana.
! The 18th ship stayed a* S.s
| marck for the nighe one -e
I few occasions during the *n0nt
: with so many together at one
| time. Six of the planes came
I thru from Bismarck and eight
| from Beach, near the state line,
i with Major Royce.
Two came from Great Falls
where they had been stranded
; for a week. Only an adequate
! ground strength will permit the
fighting strength to operate ef
ficiently in the north in mid
winter, said Major Royce.
He also reported the defects
i in the equipment of suits, gloves,
! goggles and masks. These are not
all they should >e, he said, and
l there is need for electric heated
clothes, and a transport ship, to
keep up with the main body.
He said the men suffered in
tensely from the cold, for hours,
in starting the engines.
CHICAGO com
II11 IN I
t
FOES BEGAN EFFORT TO OVER
RIDE VETO MESSAGE BUD
GET OF MAYOR
CHICAGO, Jan. 27 (JP)—A rebelli
ous city council and an aroused
mayor squared off the arena of the
council chambers for a finish fight
over the civic budget
Meanwhile city and county em
ployees work on unpaid. The board
of education has prophesied the
closing of Chicago schools within
two months regardless of the action
on the bidget, and Cook county au
thorities are looking here and there
for a bank willing to pay $7,000,000
tax anticipation warrants to give
the county ready cash.
Hardly had Mayor William Hale
Thompson handed back the corpor
ate budget with his second veto
message, before his aldermanic foes
began an effort to over-ride the
veto at a night session.
THDS. GAFFNEY FILES
FOB AUDITOR'S OFFICE
NOME, Jan., 28, (/P)—Thomas
Gaffney, of Nome, a member of
the first and the 3th Territorial
legislature as representative from
the 2nd division, filed his declar
ation for candidacy lcr the demo
cratic nomination of Territorial
auditor.
Gaffney has resided in Nome
since the early days of the camp
and is father of the airmail bill
giving Nome its first winter mail
service.