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VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 207.
SEWARD, ALASKA. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5. 1929.
PRICE TEN CENTS
FIFTH OUTBREAK
AUTOMATIC PISTOLS AND SAW
ED OFF SHOTGUNS FIRED
AT CLOSE RANGE
CHICAGO. Sept., 5, (/P)—A double
murder, the fifth outbreak of a
gang with guns within a week, was
committed in the peaceful shadows
of Jacob Riis Park. One of the
victims is a well known Westside
hoodlum, bomber and terrorist and
“muscle man” named C. Y. Cawley.
The other man was unknown to the
police. He was identified after the
confusion as Eddie Westcott.
The bodies, bearing dozens of
wounds, were found on the lawn
bordering the park. Automatic pis
tols and sawed off shotguns had
been fired at close range.
On April 19, William Clifford and
Michael Riley, pals of Cawley, were
killed in an automobile back of the
Cicero hotel which is known as the
headquarters of “Scarface” A1
Capone.
LARGE SHIPMENT OF
INK FOS WESTWARD
A shipment of 20 mink from
Keinie Snider’s ranch near Was
illa reached Seward last night.
The animals are billed to the
A. W. Bennett fur farm which
is said to be one of the largest
of the new fur farms now in pro
cess of expansion.
It was noted on the specially
c instructed boxes each which
is the domicile of one mink, that
instructions as to feeding the
mink, is given; a few ounces of
liver a day. The boxes were re
r instructed from Red Crown gas
cine containers with a little
c mpartment on one end; the en
trance being a small hole. The
c. Ure box. or rather each box. is
v. rapped with strong wire net
ting.
PLANE WRECK IS
A special Associated Press dis
patch sent to the Gateway todaj
from the Seattle office is to the
effect that the Transcontinental
Air Transport plane, reported tc
have been wrecked, is not con
firmed regardless of other report*
received. Officials of the com
pany deny the plane was fount
v;recked and those aboard ar<
still missing.
OFF FOR THE NORTH
•Bud” Dyer, king of the hand
bailers and member of the loca
dock office force, Alaska Rail
road, headed for the North Pol<
today. Dyer will meet his brothei
Timothy, in Fairbanks, and to
gether tour the new Steese high
way running to Circle City, lo
cated on the muddy banks of th<
mighty Yukon. “Bud’ will be ab
sent for at least two weeks.
Miss Sigrid Rosness, who hat
been a brief visitor at Anchr
age, returned to Seward las
evening.
DELAYED 10 DAYS
KHABAROVSK. Siberia, Sept., 5,
(/Pi—Because of the delay in
changing the “Land of Soviets”
from a \and plane to a seaplane for
the hop across the north Atlantic,
Semyon Shestakov will be unable to
leave for at least 10 days. He ex
pected to be in New York by the
middle of October.
PEOPLE'S DESIRE FOR
PESCE WILL SOLVE
TOE ft PROBLEM
GENEVA, Sept., 5, (/P)—The tre- i'
mendous desire for peace is shared
by 95 percent of all the people of
the world and they will enable!
President Hoover and the British
Premier to solve the naval power
problem, Ramsay MacDonald,
speaking at a luncheon of the
Council of the League of Nations
said.
Amid the applause he said, “This
| spirit of peace will support the
! plans of President Hoover and my
self and enable us to settle the j
questions.”
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GARFIELD MAKING
HIGHWAY JOURNEY
Manager Garfield of the Alaska
department of the Seattle Cham
ber of Commerce, who accom- j
panied Commissioner Meyer, of i
the U: S. Shipping Board on a trip
to Southeastern Alaska recently,
is at * present in the Fairbanks j
district, having left the steamer j
j Alaska at Cordova. He will return |
to the coast via the railroad, stop- |
ping off at Anchorage for a meet
ing with the local chamber.
Accompaning Mr. Garfield on
the highway trip were Traffic j
Manager Baker and Auditor Lord
of the Alaska Steamship company.
FLYERS PMC*
IOLEIO IN SESRGH
WASHINGTON, Sept., 5, f/P)—
The first photographs ever taken
over the crater of the volcano
Moukuaweoneo, Hawaii, were se
cured recently by Lieut. J. H. Hicks,
of the Army Air Corps, in an effort
I to prove or disprove the rumor that
lone of the planes lost in the “Dole
j Derby” to Hawaii had landed in
the wild, rugged territory sur
jaFrtm-aF a o rou nd r eehr mRe
' bounding the mountain.
■ Lieut. Hicks, accompanied by
Technical Sergeant Arthur Stolte,
> flew an amphibian over the crater
■ and made a number of pictures,
( but no trace of the missing plane
was found.
WILL TOUR PASS
Harry Balderston, vice-president
of the Bank of Seward, shipped his
Studebaker coupe to Moose Pass
yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. Balderston
anticipate leaving for the Pass on
Saturday’s train and motoring
lover the highway returning to
j Seward Sunday on the train from
the Interior.
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vywc o‘M nf Alaska, the “Babe”
Ruth of the Alaska coast league,
1 returned last night from abroad.
-: During his travels Mr. Painter
b | toured Moose Pass, Hope, Sunrise
i and Porcupine city.
MCI PUNE
EXPLODES MIDAIR
MAJOR KILLED
’LANE ENTRANT LOS ANGELES
CLEVELAND AIR RACE; LEFT
LOS ANGELES MONDAY
NEEDLES, Calif., Sept., 5, (/P)—
tlajor John H. Wood, of Nausau, j
iATis., was blown to pieces when his j
■acing monoplane exploded in mid- !
lir at 3 o’clock Monday morning I
Dver the great California desert 25 j
niles northeast of here.
Remains, revealing instant death j
*vere found with the wreckage of ;
;he ship today. Ward Miller, me- j
jhanic, escaped practically un-;
scathed when he was blown from j
,he cabin of the ship by the force ’
3f a blast of 500 gallons of gasoline, j
Miller ripped the cord of his par
achute as he lapsed into uncon
sciousness and awakened hours
later on the rock strewn desert,
rhirty hours later he reached here.
The plane was an entrant in the
Los Angeles-Cleveland air race, j
Leaving Los Angeles at 1 a. m. Mon
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AMERICAN LEAGUE
Cleveland 7; Detroit 2.
St. Louis 7; Chicago 2.
Boston 5; Washington 1.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
St. Louis 14-3; Chicago 8-8.
Cincinnati 5; Pittsburgh 4.
Boston 8; New York 7.
Brooklyn 4-9; Philadelphia 3-7.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Los Angeles 9; Seattle 4.
Missions 4; Sacramento 3.
Hollywood 6; Oakland 4.
San Francisco 12; Portland 11.
MORE VISIT ITALY
ROME, Sept., 4, (/F>—An in
crease of about two per cent in
the number of foreign visitors
landing at Italian ports in May
of this year was reported by the
national tourist agency. The first
five months of the year saw 41, j
677 f( reigners land, as against j
38,000 for the corresponding per- |
iod of 1928. Americans were 39
per cent of this total.
PEONS SSI
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WAGE IS TOG SMS
MEXICO CITY, Sept., 5, (£>)—
Publication of the industrial survey
made by the Department of Indus
try, Commerce and Labor, showed
that the daily average wage of
peons in more than 400 sections of
the country ranged from 12 to 35
cents in American money.
Furthermore the report showed
that about 35 percent of the labor
ing class was required to toil be
yond the legal limit of working j
hours daily and that it was those
who worked longest that received
the least.
The investigators report stated
flatly that the small pay given to
workers was insuffifient for bare
living under present conditions in
Mexico, even though food which
th peons eat is usually cheap.
Labor conditions were found to
be worst in the mountainous min
ing regions and in some isolated
agricultural sections. In the some
what mere advanced industrial
sections it was revealed that work
ers received slightly more pay, tho
barely enough for existence.
Mr. and Mrs. Martin Banbury
1 returned last evening frm an en
joyable outing in Moose Pass.
ELEANOKA’S DOVECOTE AS MOVIE MAN’S
BRIDE IS A CASTLE ON THE HUDSON
When Sam Katz, who heads a chain of 1,200 movie
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of the late Maurice, return from their honeymoon they
will reside on a New York estate which has a private
theater and on which the buildings are artificially cool
ed in summer.
OF GUT PUSNE
PASSENGERS, CREW MEET WITH
DEATH WHEN PLANE WAS
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING
ALBUQUERQUE, N. M., Sept., 5,
:/P)—Trans-Continental Air Trans
port officials confirmed the report
of the wreck of one of their giant
airliners, 26 miles south of Gallup,
N. M., in a black rock wash with
death to all on board.
Officials said the plane had been
struck by lightning. The plane
carried five passengers and a crew
of three. The passengers were Geo.
B. Raymond, Glendale Calif.; A. B.
McGaggey, Albuquerque; William
Henery Beers, New York; Harris
Livermore, Boston; M. M. Camp
bell, Cincinnati. The crew consist
ed of J. B. Stone, chief pilot; Edwin
Dietel, co-pilot, and C. F. Canfield,
courier.
H J. HC Kill TO
EMBIHK NEW FIELD
Announcement is made today
by R. J. McKanna that he has
severed connections with the
Seward Trading Company in
order to engage in another line,
of which announcement will be
made shortly.
In announcing his retirement
from the local firm Mr. McKan
na stated his association with
the firm has always been of the
best but an opportunity has arisen,
in a line he is more familiar with,
therefore his decision to embark
independently in a new line of
endeavor.
Mr. McKanna is one of Seward’s
most promising of younger bus
iness men and recently purchased
the valuable corner property on
Fourth avenue and Washingtn;
the present location of the Candy
Cqttage. Eventually he plans the
j construction of a concrete build
ing on this property. Last year
he broke into city politics and
was elected as a member of the
city council. It is now reported
he is being groomed to run for
the Alaska Legislature.
DR. ECKENER GRANTED
PITENT FOR AIRSHIP
NEW YORK, Sept., 5, (£>)—'The
patent office issued a patent to Dr.
H. Eckener, of Friedrichshafen,
for a rigid airship and separate
gas cells. The doctor’s patent is
embodied in the Graf Zep with
which he just completed a trip
around the world.
The petition which was filed in
Germany in 1922 and in the United
States patent office on November
27, 1922, describes the patent as “an
airship comprising a cell filled with
a non-inflammable gas, a collapsi
ble cell within said latter cell com
municating with said former cell
and means connected with said lat
ter cell for allowing the escape of
inflammable gas therefrom.”
A. W. Kendle, wire chief of
the T & T department, Alaska
Railroad, arrived last night from
up the line leaving again today.