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VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 181.
SEWARD, ALASKA. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1929.
PRICE TEN CENTS
CHIEF EXECUTIVE IHSPOSED
TO IGNORE STATEMENTS
BY GROUP
WASHINGTON, Dec.. 23, f/P)—
President Hoover was confront
ed by a warning from the min
ority leader of the House, Rep
resentative Garner, in the ab
* sence of any word from the
White House that undue impor
tance Mn any way be attached to
the testimony before the Cara
way lobby committee tending to
link the Chief Executive activi
ties to those opposing high tariff
on Cuban sugar.
The President is disposed to
ignore the statements made by
the Caraway group to the effect
he instructed Secretary Walter
Nr- an to establish a contact
n-ovs and
v« iuj i tne sugar
.interests.
It is indicated that this atti
tude will be continued. No state
ment is expected from Hoover
but Garner said the President
owes it to the country to make
a direct pronouncement on the
subject.
PLANE ? ENDING ENDED WITH
DEATH OF ONE, INJURIES
TO TWO OTHERS
INDIANAPOLIS, Dec., 23, (TP)—
A snow covered stump brought
death and injury to others when
a trimotored passenger ship of
the Transcontinental Air Trans
port Lines, crashed on Stout
Field here last night.
The ship was flying from St. j
Louis to Columbus.
D. C. Law, of Philadelphia, died 1
from a fractured skull; the in-1
Jured were C. L. Kline, of Phila
delphia; Miss Mary Feamow,
secretary to Donald Bartlow, as
sistant manager of the airline.
D. W. Burford, 28, the pilot,
decided to land in a heavy snow
fall, the landing gear striking a
stump at one end of the field.
The other eight passengers in
the plane were not injured ex
cept for the shock. Law was a
pioneer in the development of
colored photography and talking
pictures.
LARGE PRIVATE CARS
STOCKHOLM, Dec., 23, (/P)~ 1
Three private railroad cars are
being built in Sweden for Mustapha
Kemal, president of Turkey. Each i
will contain a reception room, berth ;
for 10 passengers, bath, kitchen and
servants’ quarters.
SHU PLUNGES INTO
SQL LINE: MS I?
OPORTO, r~^”g:il, Dec., 24, (/P)
—Plunging into the rough seas
at Liedoes, near here, a sailor
swam to the sinking trawler Santa
Maria, on Sunday, carrying a
line which made it possible sav
ing the 12 men on board for the
vessel was sinking rapidly after
it had run onto rocks.
COMPLIMENTARY DANCE
Complimentary to the Canadian
aviators and officers and crew of
the Cutter Chelan, the Seward
Chamber of Commerce is pre
senting a public dance tomor
row evening in the I. O. O. F. hall.
SENDS GREETINGS
SEATTLE, Dec., 23, (Special
to the Gateway)—“To all
my friends—and I have no
enemies—I wish a mighty
Merry Christmas and a
bright and prosperous New
Year. All of the Oldtimers
in Seattle seem to be lined
up for that kind of a time.”
T. W. Hawkins
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VOLCANO SPOUTING
BATAVIA. Java, Dec. 24, (tf)—
; The island volcano of Krak-atao
; is again showing alarming acti
j /ities with 400 eruptions at an
I average heigth of more than 900
| feet. Many heavy detonations
' have been heard, I
EMEU SILL
failed to tan
BERLIN, Dec., 24, m—The Nat
ionalist bill “against the enslave
ment of the German people”,
which would have rejected the
Young plan of reparations pay
ments, failed to obtain more than
one-fourth of the required 21,
000,000 votes to give it effect.
A CLOSE CALL
LONDON, Dec., 23, (A5)—The
Exchange Telegraph, in a dispatch,
said that Lord Irwin, Viceroy of
India, narrowly escaped death by
a bomb thrown into the railroad
car he had been riding, at New
derhi. No one was injured.
The Make lip Specialist*'
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■ REQUESTS
SOVIET IIO IH
RESCUE AVIATORS
INDEPENDENT ACTION TAKEN
BY SECRETARY WILBUR
MRS. WILLEBRANDT
WASHINGTON, Dec., 24, (A>)—
A direct request to the Soviet
government for aid in rescuing
Colonel Eieison and Mechanician
Borland has been made by Chair
man Borah of the Senate foreign
relations committee. The request
was made in a cablegram to
M. Litvinoff, acting secretary of
foreign affairs, at the request
of Mrs- Mabel Walker Wiliebrandt,
former assistant attorney general
in charge of prohibition enforce
ments, now counsel for the Avia
tion Corporation, which em
ploys Eieison and Borland.
Senator Borah said in his cable
gram, sent independently, that
action would be taken by Secre
tary Wilbur who has ince appeal
ed to the Soviet government to
aid.
Senator Borah has long advo
cated recognition by the United
States of the Soviet government.
His cablegram said: “Two Amer
! iean aviators, Eieison and Bor
land, flying from Teller are known
to be down in the vicinity of the
ice-bound motorship Nanuk with
in 100 miles of your ice-breaker
Stavrapol. I bring this to your
, attention believing you will be
glad to direct the Stavropal to
; make such search for them as
is practicable.”
PASSENGER WAS GOING ABOUT
45 OR 50 MILES HOUR
OVER BRIDGE
WASHINGTON, Dec., 24, (JP)—
The derailment of the Chicago,
Rock Island-Pacific railway train
near Stratton, Colorado on July
18, 1929, resulting in the death
of 10 people, was held by the In
terstate Commerce Commission
Safety Bureau, as caused by un
dermining of the road bed dur
ing the flood.
The train ran on the weakened
bridge, over Spring Creek, after
two engines and five cars passed
over, and nine cars of the train
were derailed, one being sub
merged in the water of the creek.
The train, it is estimated, was
traveling between 45 and 55 miles
an hour when it crossed the
bridge.
The Admiral Rogers, of the P.
S. S- Co., is due to arrive in port
from the south at 8 o'clock this
evening, according to the local
office.