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ALASKA
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COAST TERMINAL OF THE
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DAILY AND WEEKLY
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
TERMINAL FOR THREE OCEAN
GOING STEAMSHIP LINES
VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 205.
SEWARD, ALASKA. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3. 1929.
PRICE TEN CENTS
WEATHER SMILES !
UPON ZEPPELIN
HOMEWARD TRIP
TWENTY-TWO PASSENGERS ON
RETURN FLIGHT OF ZEP
TO HOME HANGAR
LAKEHURST, Sept. 3. UP) —
yight aided by favorable winds
the Graf Zeppelin is far over the
ocean on its fifth crossing of the
large span of water. The Graf
carried 22 passengers and is mak
ing about 80 miles an hour which
maximum speed up the five mo
tors it is expected to reach Frie
drichshafen before next Thursday
morning.
The Graf is flying homeward
under the the command of Capt.
Ernest Lehmann. Eckener saw
the huge ship off and then
boarded a train for Cleveland
to attend the National air races.
From Cleveland Eckener will
go to Akron. Ohio, to inspect the
two new dirigibles being con
structed for the navy before sail
ing for Germany Saturday.
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FIFV0I DIE IK
PIN MEMBERS OF ONE FAMILY
DIE IN FIRE ORIGINATING
CONFECTIONERS
SOUTH WEEK, Eng., Sept., 3., UP)
- Eleven persons, six of them mem
bers of one family named McDon
a' . lost their lives in a fire which
• iginated in a confectioner’* shop
ar.d spread to theatre apartments.
Three others are in the hospital
suffering from severe injuries.
Several families were trapped in
the burning building; some escaped
by jumping from the third story
windows.
Firemen, searching the ruins,
f. und the remains of the McDonald
family; father, mother and child
ren huddled together. The fathe?,
mother and son of a family named
Jones also perished, as did a Mrs.
Aston and a crippled person who is
unknown.
Twenty-eight persons lived in the
apartment. A search of the ruins
revealed charred bodies in beds and
hanging over girders where floors
had burned away. Great crowds
watched the firemen and with pit
iable incense witnessed as relatives
watched the removal.
SISTER BE PRESIDENT
BERLIN, Sept., 3. UP)—Fraulein
Ida Von Hindenberg, only sister of
President Von Hindenberg, died
after an operation at Potsdam hos
pital. The president’s vacation will
be cut short. The deceased was 77
years old and lived in an old ladies
home for nobility, where she was
one of the officials of the institu
tion.
ZEP TAKES OFF
LAKEHURST, N. J., Sept., 3,(/P)
—The German dirigible Graf Zep
pelin took off at 7:18 eastern
standard time yesterday morn
ing for Friedrichshafen. At 7:15
p. m. eastern time she was 1,020
miles east and slightly south of
Lakehurst.
SOME OF THE OCCUPANTS
JUMPED FROM THIRD
FOURTH FLOORS
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WINNIPEG, Sept., 3, (/P)—Mrs.
Madge Edwards, 42, her daughter
Marjorie, 14, and son Gordon, 9;
Alfred Applebee, 45, daughter
Irene, 11; Ralph Weighton, 56,
Mrs. H. L. Butler and Mrs. Sar
ah Gaunt, 68: lost their lives
and several were seriously in
jured in an apartment house
fire.
Property damage is estimated
, at $50,000. The flames are thought
to have started in the basement
! shooting up into the hallways, up
the stairways and throughout
the structure.
The roof collapsed and some
of the occupants* were compelled
i to leap from the third and fourth
floors to fire nets or to the pave
ments.
IS CONVALESCING
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CLERMONT ELWELYN PARK,
West Orange, N. J.. Sept., 3, <'/P)—
Thomas A. Edison is here conval
escing from attack of pneumonia,
physicians announced today. The
aged inventor’s sickness was pre
viously announced as a slight coM.
Edison contracted the illnes on
| August 14, and for 10 days his con
dition was serious but is now out of
danger, physicans said.
; Edison recently passed his 82nd
j birthday and the doctor said he
.should not resume work for two or
i three weeks.
VETERAN AIR PILOT
AWARDED FIRST PRIZE
CLEW. L. A. RACE
CLEVELAND, O., Sept., 3, (/Pi
Henry J. Brown, veteran air pilot,
i was awarded $5,000 as first prize for
|winning the non-stop Los Angeles
ClevelancTair race, which was fin
ished yesterday, in 13 hours and 18
minutes.
Lee Schoenhair, of Los Angeles,
who finished a week ago, was givep
the second prize of $2,500.
The race was against time; the
entrants being allowed to start on
different days but had to reach
Cleveland before 6 p. m. on the day
| of starting.
CONTINUOUS BOUT
SERVICE ALASKA
IMPORTANT SEED
FIVE HOTELS SHOULD BE CON
STRUCTED IN FIVE ALAS
KA CITIES
PORTLAND, Ore., Sept., 3, (JP)
—Jefferson Meyers, member ol
the U. S. Shipping Board. Ore
gon, and who has just returned
from Alaska, said the Territory
needed, a ship service from the
states 12 months of the year
rather than for four or five
months.
He said that he intended to
seek “Government mail aid” for
the purpose of speeding things up
‘ T intend taking the matter up
with Washington, D. C. officials
Senator McNary of Oregon and
Senator Jones of Washington.”
To increase tourist travel and
to draw investors to Alaska five
! hotels should be built, one ir
each of five cities, these to cosl
$1,000,000.
RUSS PLANE COMING
MOSCOW, Sept., 3. (JP) — Th<
Russian plane, “Land of Soviets,’
reached Blagoveschensk, one o:
the principal cities on the Amui
river in Eastern Siberia. The air
plane flew from Chita. The nex:
stop will be at Kanachatak.
THE SOVIET PLANE
MOSCOW, Sept., 3, (JP)—'Th<
airplane “Land of the Soviets” en
route from Moscow to New York
arrived at Chita, Siberia.
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MAKE SECOND ATTEMPT
! MITCHEL FIELD, Sept., 3, (TP)
—In their second attempt to
break the refueling and endur
ance flight record, Captain Ira
Eaker and Lieut. Bernard Thomp
son hopped off in the transconti
nental plane “Shuttle.”
CUTTER NOBTHlf:
i LANDS GREW OF
! ELISIF11 NOME
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MEN WERE RESCUED FROM
LITTLE DIOMEDE ISLAND
BERING SEA
SEATTLE, Sept. 3, (TP)—'The U. S.
Cutter NorThland, rescued from the
coast of Siberia, where they were
i marooned when the fur ship Elisif
was wrecked by ice, 20 seamen, and
have landed them safely at Nome.
; Reports here said that Charles
Huntley, wireless operator on the
Elisif, had sent a message to his
! father, Clyne M. Huntley here, say
ing he had arrived at Nome. He also
| reported a hectic trip in launches
j across the Straits and “feeling
! great”.
The men were rescued from Lit
, tie Diomede Island, Bering Sea,
, where they had made their way
. after a 520 mile trip in the Elisif’s
' launches after the wreck on the
north Siberian coast on August 11.
REMEMBER DEAD
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Sept,, 3,(TP)
—Names of Mobile county World
war dead will be inscribed over the
; entrance to The American Legion
park to be dedicated here with a
, Toward-Birmingham southern foot
ball game.
WORK INTlU'DES ON THE REST
OF FAMED OPERA SINGERS
I Leonora Corona (above) of the Metropolitan Opera
| frolics on the beach a tRimini, but she adds work to
| her play. Beniamino Gigli, shown with his family, also
Jis on vacation in Italy but is not loafing.
ROBERT DMAS IS
! ALLEGED TO HAVE
KILLED, WILLIAMS
FRIENDS OF LONG STANDING
ONE IS ALLEGED KILLED
PARTNER
KODIAK, Sept., 3, (Special to
! the Gateway (—Another killing
; has happened under the shadow
of Mt. Katmai in the Valley of
| Ten Thousand Smokes and Kana
tak, former oil camp, has one
i more victim to the list of its sin
j ister doings.
According to meager advices
received here Robert Davis shot
i and killed Tom Williams, his
| partner, at Lake Becharof, about
; seven miles from Kanatak.
] Both men were natives and
friends of long standing, having
: worked together thru the sum
j mer at Chignik. The wherefore
of the bad blood between them
, is not known.
! Word of the tragedy came to
IU. S. Commissioner Stowe here
| from Dwight W. Mason, govern
i ment school teacher at Kanatak
I who said that Davis was being
j held under guard by the citizens.
After many wires between Kodaik.
Valdez and Washington, Stowe
was finally ordered to sally forth
and investgate. Accordingly Judge
Stowe, with Special Deputy Mar
shal Norman Noble and Dr. L.
Pryor, chartered the Motorship
Olive, Capt. Jake Johnson, and
| left Friday afternoon for Kana
tak to hold an inquest and a
possible hearing if Davis is res
ponsible for the death. The body
is supposed to be at Lake Bach
arof which will necessitate a
| trip inland for the court party.
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40TII FENCE BUSTER
BOSTON, Sept. 3. (/P)_"Babe”
Ruth hit his 40th homer as the
j Yanks defeated Boston before
30,000 fans. Lazzeri hit two ho
; mers and fielded brilliantly.
Ruth’s homer came in the first
j inning with two out and nobody
! on tiie line; the drive was too
deep center field bleachers.
Lazzeri’s smashed one'out with
the bases empty and the second
followed in the third inning scor
ing a man on.
CRIF Em TO
ESTABLISH RECORD
FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Sept., 3,
(TP)—The Graf Zeppelin raced
toward 1 ?r home port intent on
j breakin the round-the-world
I time.
The freighter Exhibitor, of the
American Export Line, radioed its
offices in New York that it was
jin communication with the Graf
which was asking for weather
conditions. The Exhibitor was
about 2,000 miles east of New
York; the Graf is expected to
j reach the European coast late
I today.