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VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 155.
SEWARD, ALASKA. THURSDAY, October 31, 1929.
PRICE TEN CENTS
OFFICERS USED LOADED CANES,
STOOLS, MEN USED KNIVES
IN ATTEMPT ESCAPE
FOLSOM PRISON, Calif.. Oct., 31,
* (TP)—Convicts Anthony Brown and
Walter Burke, attempted to escape
from the prison gallows on which
they are sentenced to hang in Jan
uary for participation in the 1927
Thanksgiving Day prison riot.
Burke suffered two fractured
arms and Brown several lacerated
places on his scalp in a fierce fight
with the prison officers. The men
used knives and the officers used
loaded canes, stools and chairs.
Warden Smith is convinced that
Brown and Burke planned to at
tack Albert Steward, one of the 1927
rioters who turned state evidence
at the trial, then escape. The two
with several others, are sentenced
to liang for the murder of George
Baker, prison trusty, during the
riot in which Guard Ray Singleton
and 11 convicts met their death
and more than a sx>re of guards
^ and prisoners were injured.
BIOP HI STOCKS
IS ATTRIBUTED
REPBLIC! CHIEFS
COM?ION KNOWLEDGE PEPSIS
TANT DEPHESSION GRIPPED
BUSINESS, AGRICULTURE
WASHINGTON, Oct., 31, (£»)—'The
responsibility of the stupendous
drop of stock market prices is at
tributed to President Hovor and
other chieftains of the republican
"party by Senator Caraway, demo
cratic floor leader. Mellon and
Coolidge are also blamed for en
couraging the recent speculative
market with over-confident state
ments regarding the present ad
ministration and for not taking
steps to check recession when op
portunity presented itself.
Senator Robinson also took ex
f xception to the statements of Jul
ius Kline Regarding conditions of
American business industry as too
highly sounded, asserting that it is
common knowledge that persistent
economic depression thruout the
country has long gripped smaller
business industries and agriculture
as well.
NOME, Oct., 30, (/P)—Pilot Frank
Dorbrandt left Teller early yester
and landed at North Cape
Siberia at 2:30 in the afternoon.
This is the first trip. He brought
passengers and six tons of furs here
for shipment to Seattle.
Ben Eielson arrived here Monday
to join Dorbandt in the 15 airplane
trips to be made to Siberia.
ROUND-WORLD FLIGHT
: STOCKHOLM, Oct., 31, </P)—An
airplane flight around the world
from Sweden by way of Siberia,
j Kamchatka, Alaska and New York,
is planned by the Swedish court,
stated Douglas Hamilton, head of
the flying school at Ystad, in the
southern province of Scanie.
ARBITER FOR CLAIM
COMMISSION OILS
WASHINGTON, Oct., 30, (/Pi— Dr.
Edwin B. Parker, arbiter for the
I American and German mixed
claims’ commission, died. He had
'been ill for several weeks but as
late as yesterday it was stated at
his home that his condition was
limproving, and he was believed to
be on the way to recovery.
He was 61 years old and had a
distinguished career in the umpire
settlement of international dis
putes. He was a “Dollar-a-year”
man during the war.
TERMINAL PIER STILL
IS SMOULDERING
ALAMEDA,, Calif., Oct., 31, (/P)—
The fire ridden timbers of the ter
minal pier of the Ala^a Packers
Association, continued to smoulder
while scores of land and harbor
I fire fighting forces strove to avert
a recurrence of the blaze which
I caused losses estimated at $500,000.
While confined to the underside
I of the ponderous pier flooring, the
fire spread over an area of more
than 800 feet and rendered hazard
ous the loading on the surface of
the pier on which are located a set
of tracks running past the ware
house near by.
‘SYMBOL OF ENDURING FRIEND
SHIP BINDING IT. S. TO PO
LAND AND FRANCE”
WASHINGTON, Oct., 31, (VP)— j
In the presence of a distinguished
company of American officials and ;
scientists, Madame Curie was pre- J
sented with a bank draft for $50,000 j
by President Hoover, to carry on i
her researches in the Curie Polish
I cancer hospital laboratory at War- ;
saw.
President Hover said it was a gift ‘
of expression, on the part of the ,
'American people for their gratitude :
;for “The beneficient service Mad
lame Curie has given to all man
jkind.”
In accepting the silver encased !
i draft Madame Curie thanked Presi- j
dent Hoover in a voice scarcely j
audible and promised to carry back
as a “symbol of enduring friendship
binding your country to France and
Poland.”
MR KING ADOHNEi)
FIRST LONG PANTS
BUCHAREST, Oct- 30. (/P)—'The
| entire regency council, ablaze with
decorations, cabinet officials, and
| army generals waited at Bucharest
station to see the seven-year-old
King Michael arrive wearing his
first long trousers. It was a
; momentous occasion in the life of
Jthe boy king.
SECOND DEGREE MURDER
COLUMBUS, Kas., Oct. 30. (/P)—
Mrs. Ethel Brotherton was convict
ed for second degree murder for
the slaying of Bonnie Davis 17. The
conviction carries a minimum of
10 years in prison. The jury was
out 17y2 hours. Sentence will be
pronounced November 4.
ALBUQUERQUE, N. M., Oct., 30,
(JP)— Missing since 10:30 yesterday
morning, Pilot Jimmy Doles brought
the Western Air Express plane thru
a snowstorm here from Trechado.
Allen Barrie, co-pilot; R. L. Brit
ton, steward; and Dr. A. W.Ward
and W. E. Merz, passengers, were
none the worse for having encoun
tered the snowstorm over Arizona
yesterday, where Dolse circled until
he found a safe place tc land.
They passed the night in a shack
nearby, which is five miles from
Trechardo. Searchers were ready
when the plane arrived.
FEDENL IBP!
FIS FIND USE
KENOSHA, Wis^ Oct., 31, (TP)—A
federal inquiry failed to ascertain
a reason why the steamer Wiscon
sin sank Tuesday morning, but fix
ed, definitely, at 16, the number of
persons who died in the wreck.
Because the chief officer went
down with the boat, inspectors said
they did not think the cause of the
disaster could be ascertained. It
was learned from Purser Harvey
Lyon that there were 75 aboard; 19
injured and 40 unhurt.
HER JOY IN MEETING PEOPLE AIDS
DOLLY GANN IN WASINGTON WHIRL
The Washington social pace does not bother Mrs. Dolly Gann,
shown at the left with her brother, Vice President Curtis, and in two
other poses. Her husband, Edward Everett Gann, is at the right.
HR WITS
PRESIDENT ANXIOUS HAVE BILL
PASSED AS PART OF SPECIAL
SESSION PROGRAM
WASHINGTON, Oct., 31, UP)—
Senator Watson announced in the
senate that President Hoover want
ed the tariff bill passed as soon as
possible and urged all factions to
approach the subject in a concilia
tory manner and to see that it is
done.
Senator Watson was told at the
conference at the White House
with President Monary of Oregon,
who also attended, that the Presi
dent was anxious to have the bill
passed as part of his special session
program which calls for farm re
lief thru the marketing act and
tariff legislation.
He added that he had no idea
what the President will do with the
measure and he hadn’t asked him
whether any concessions will be
made the independence democratic
coalition.
CHAOS WILL NOT
DISTURB INDUSTRY
PURCHASING POWER NOT IM
PAIRED REGARDLESS SPEC
ULATIVE UNCERTAINTIES
WASHINGTON, Oct., 30, (/P)—
After assessing all the effects of
the shocks administered by the
stock market during the past few
days, experienced business men as
sociated with the administration of
the national government unit, in a
declaration stated that fundamen
tally, commerce industry and fi
nance will emerge substantially
undisturbed. This is the latest word
given to the public by Julius Klein,
assistant secretary of commerce,
and has been echoed and re-echo
ed by officials and the cabinet
rank.
President Hoover briefly outlined
it as the “Growth and income of
the nation’s advance as well as
its business men, its wage earners,
and its farmers during recent years
and not due to temporary fleeting
causes.” He also said. “It has been
on a definite upward trend, that
the basically of normal purchasing
power had not been impaired, re
gardless of regretable speculative
uncertainties in the industrial and
commercial structure of the nation
which are sound.”
1H WILL OPERATE
SDUTHEASTERN ALASKA
SEATTLE, Oct., 30, (/P>—E. L.
Sheehan, general agent of the pas
senger department of the C. P. R.,
announced that starting November
6 the Princess Norah, British Co
lumbia coastwise liner, will be op
erated the coming winter between
Victoria, Vancouver and southeast
ern Alaska, via Prince Rupert.
Fort-nightly trips will be made
until March when the 10-day
schedule will be instituted.