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SEWARD,
ALASKA
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“CENTER of
EVERYTHING”
Gateway
COAST TERMINAL OF THE
ALASKA RAILROAD
DAILY AND WEEKLY
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
TERMINAL FOR THREE OCEAN
GOING STEAMSHIP LINES
VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 157.
SEWARD, ALASKA. TUESDAY, NOV. 26, 1929.
PRICE TEN CENTS
WAR DEPARTMENT MAY BE ASKED TO SEND A
PLANE FROM SEATTLE OR SOME OTHER j
NORTHWESTERN PLANE, FOR THE PUR
POSE OF FLYING OVER THE TERRITORY
WHERE EIELSON’S PLANE WAS I VST SEEN.
WASHINGTON, D. C. Nov., 26, (/P)—Search for!
Colonel Carl Ben Eielson, pioneer Alaska aviator who
has been missing for about two weeks in Siberia from |
where he was engaged in transporting passengers and 1
fur from the trading schooner Nanuk, locked in the
ice, to Alaska, may be undertaken by the Federal de
partment.
The Department of the Interior has asked Gover
nor Parks, of Alaska, for details concerning the search
being made for the missing flier and to advise what |
can be done by the government. *
Assistant Secretary Ernest Walker Sawyer said;
that if Governor Parks recommended such a move, the
Interior Department would place all government facil- j
Ities at Alaska’s disposition.
* He also intimated that if it "became necessary the
War Department would be asked to send a plane from
Seattle, or some other northwestern airplane, and fly
*»ver the territory where Eielson’s plane was last seen
or heard.
I
DIED SUDDENLY FROM HEART
ATTACK; ILL FOR NUM
BER MONTHS PAST
LOS ANGELES Nov., 25. </P>—
Raymond Hitchcock. 64, stage
actor and musical comedy fav
orite, died suddenly from a heart
attack.
The veteran actor and his
wife were returning to their Bev
erly Hills home from . a short
automobile trip and as they
reached the driveway of their j
home, Hitchcock gave a gasp and |
fell over his wife’s shoulder. Death j
was believed to have been insta- i
nious.
Hitchcock, who came to Holly
wood several years ago to under
take moving pictures, was the
subject of heart attacks several
years ago, friends said.
He had occupied a foremost j
position among the stage lum- J
inaries of America; his biggest1
success was “Hitchy Koo” produc
ed in New York in 1917. Mrs.
Hitchcock said her husband had
been ill for the past seven
months.
SIFT TBBeOf
SAYS SUPREME COURT
WASHINGTON, Nov., 26, (/P)— 1
Gift taxes, imposed under the
federal revenue law, were held
valid by the Supreme Court in
the case brought by Joseph H.
Bramley, of Philadelphia, who
was required to pay a tax of $26,
#00 on gifts totalling over $568,
♦00.
A
TERRIFIC EXPLOSION
ESSEN, Germany, Nov., 26, (JP)—
Two persons were killed and 26
injured in a terrific explosion in
the public market. Two persons
are missing and of the 26 injur
ed 17 are in a serious condition.
It is believed the explosion was
caused by gas.
CAPABLE CARRYING 200 PAS
SENGERS AT SPEED OF
145 MILES HOUR
NEW YORK, Nov., 26, (/P)—
Plans for the construction of
four monoplanes so big that Fifth
Avenue could pass between the
‘Landing legs”, was announced
by the General Development Co.
of Connecticut,
The air titanapos wing spread
will be 262 feet; their gross weight
72^ tons and will be capable of
carrying 200 passengers.
Completion of the monoplanes
is scheduled for next year. It is
estimated they will cost $2,000,000
and will havve a speed from 65 to
145 miles an hour. The planes
will be powered by eight 1,000
horsepower engines. They are in
tended for long distance cross
country passenger, mail and
freight transportation. The pass
engers will be carried in the steel
wings which will be nine feet
hick. Each monoplane will have
a crew of 17 men.
R- C Gehling, well known res
ident of the Kenai Lake country,
was among last evening’s arrivals '
in the city.
CONCERTED ACTION IS NOW
POSSIBLE, ANNOUNCES
SECRETARY HYDE
WASHINGTON, Nov., 26, (/P)—
Representatives of national agri
cultural organizations pledged
their support to President Hoover’s
stabilization program and in turn
demanded that farmers receive a
lower interest rate from the gov
ernment credit agencies.
The matter of interest rates
took up two hours of plain talk
ing among leaders of the National
Grange farmers, the Union Amer
ican Farm Bureau, the Federa
tion of Farmers and the Equity
Union, and with Hoover.
They voiced satisfaction with
the outcome but whether or not
they won their point was left open.
In the statement issued from
the White House Secretary Hyde
said “They felt concerted action
by the credit agencies of the gov
ernment was now possible and
that such action would reflect
back to agriculture the lower in
terest rate which followed the
stock market prices break.
Other agricultural leaders de
manded immediate extension of
a road program with special em
phasis on “Farm to market’’
roads.
FAMILY THREE, DEAD
NEW YORK, Nov., 26, (/P)—Dr. A.
G. Augustine, his wife and 10-year-,
old daughter were found dead of
i bullet wounds, in their apartment.
|The dentist had apparently killed
his wife and daughter and then
committed suicide.
ONLY FEET OF
PILOT ifl FELL
HOLE li EARTH
NOSE OF AIRPLANE PLOWED
TEN FEET INTO THE
EARTH
WASHINGTON, Nov., 26, (/P)—
Lieut. George T. Cuddihy, one of
the Navy’s most experienced
! nilots, was killed when the Brit
ish “Bulldog” airplane he was
testing, crashed dived from a
10.000 foot altitude and buried
! itself so far in the earth that
only the feet of the pilot were
visible above the plowed ground.
For more than a half-hour
the naval personnel of the Ana
costia Air Station dug in an ef
: fort to extricate the body.
The ship was delivered to the
Navy only last week and was
i constructed to make 180 miles
an hour with a full military
j load.
Persons at the airplane station
estimated that the Lieuenant
lost control at 6,000 feet altitude.
The nose of the airplane plowed
j 10 feet into the earth.
10UNTAIN SCENERY CALLS
SOIL TILLERS OF GRANGE
Farmers who attended the convention of the Nat
ional Grange in Seattle last week had a chance to fol
*ovy scen*c ^skyline trail” of Mt. Ranier (above) and i
lo feed candy to the begging bears (below). Louis J. Ta
bor (inset) who was elected national master of the
Grange for the fourth time.
RESCUE AIRPLANE
RUSSIAN SCIENTISTS STORM
BOUND; NO NEWS OF
COL. EIELSON
NOME, Nov., 26, UP)—With no
news of Col. Carl Ben Eielson,
Pilot Dorbandt is waiting for a
second plane to accompany him
on his rescue flight.
While there is visibility here
for 15 miles the two planes which
[left Fairbanks for Nome, are re
t ported to be stormbound at Ruby.
Nine members of the Academy
of Science, Leningrad, passengers
aboard the steamer Stavrapol.
are believed to be safely aboard
the Soviet ice-breaker Litke in
Providence Bay. The ice-breaker
reported that it had brought two
two Junkers, five-passenger planes,
with which to transfer the 21 or
more passenger from the Litke.
A telegram from Swenson, on
I the ice-locked trading schooner
Nanuk, said that the Soviet savants
had left North Cape by dog team
on October 29.
BODIES OF TWO RECOVERED;
j 22 INJURED; 200 MEN IN
THE CREW
NEW YORK, Nov., 26, </P)—
The bodies of two men have been
recovered from the ruins of -the
subway construction on Long Is
land after 200 men had stamped
ed from a fire which swept the
workings.
Twenty-two men were injured
Tlie men were engaged in digging
a tunnel under Newtown Creek
to connect with the new subway
to Brooklyn.
Most of the men were in the
locker room preparing to go to
work on the midnight shift when
the fire was discovered and they
started to rush the two stairways
leading down from the second
floor. The first men fell on ac
count of the low stairways and
others tumbled and rolled over
them.
LOBBY COMMITTEE
DECIDES INVESTICDTE
ITI-lfl MOVES.
WASHINGTON, Nov., 25, (JP)—
The senate lobby committee decid
ed to investigate the National
Council for Prevention of War and
other organizations, which accord
ing to the American Legion are
spreading “propaganda”, also,
“tending to weaken the national
defense.” Ten such organizations
have been named.
The lobby committee may also
inquire into the lobbying activities
of the anti-evolution league and
the association against prohibition
amendment.