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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 219.
SEWARD, ALASKA. THURSDAY, SEPT. 19, 1929.
PRICE TEN CENTS
BRILEY'S ME
IS WRECKED SfJ
TRIAL FLIGHT
LIEUT FAHY, TEST PILOT. SER
IOUSLY INJURED WHEN
TAIL BREAKS
BURBANK, Calif., Sept., 19, (>P)—
Lieut. Herbert Fahy, test pilot, was
seriously injured and Harold Brom
* ley’s low winged monoplane, t^iilt
for the Tacoma-Tokyo flight was
wrecked beyond repaid when the
experimental tail group broke away
and dropped while the ship was 300
feet in the air in a trial flight.
Bromley witnessed the accident
from the ground and immendiatly
announced the trans-Pacific flight
to be called off for this year.
Fahy suffered a fractured arm
and was gashed about his face;
possible his skull is fractured. He
remained in a semiconscious con
dition in the Glendale hospital.
Surgeons are undecided as to the
extent of his head injuries.
The plane wreck today is the sec
ond for the “City of Tacoma” which
was built for Bromley by his back
ers for the Tokyo flighty
Fahy had circled the test field
once and was pulling out of a fig
ure eight maneuver when the tail
group fluttered loose pnd fell; this
Y deprived dicrectorial control. The
pilot managed to keep the piane
out of a spin and had descended to
within a few feet of the ground in
a long glide. When the ship slowed
down one wing struck a tree, tear
ing off. The plane then plunged
to the pavement of the city street
and skiddd against a tree; shat
teied the remaining wing; then
T. pped on its back.
SUFFOCATED BY SMOKE; SELF
INFLICTED WOUND INSUF
FICIENT CAUSE DEATH
VANCOUVER, B., C„ Sept., 19, (JP)
—A verdict that William C. Phillips,
while temporarily insane, slew his
two children, Owen 10, and Eric 4,
and himself died of asphyxiation
from smoke from a fire which he
set in the basement of his home
Monday morning, was returned by
the coroner’s jury.
Mrs. Phillips, the fourth victim
of the tragedy, is still unconscious
in a hospital. Medical evidence in
cheated that Phillips did not die
from a self inflicted wound in the
neck which was said to be insuffi
cient to cause death, but was suf
focated by smoke.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept.*, 19,(7P>
Prohibition administrator William
G. Walker announced that endorse
ment of licensed physicians will bo
required for the manufacture of
wine tonics in this district. The
order followed the Examiner’s re
cent ' expose of intoxicating wine
tonics now being sold as beverages.
rGUNS PUNE PILOT
PASSENGER, KILLED
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept., 19,(/P)—
Alfred J. Hanzl, 21-year-old pilot,
and two passengers were instantly
killed when their plane crashed a
few minutes after taking off from
Mills field. Robert O. Parker and
Walter J. Nelson, automobile sales
men, were the passengers.
MOTHER OF CHAS.
J, FISH, EDITOR
TIMES PUSSES
HAD BEEN ILL FOR LONG PER
IOD; SON VISITED HER FEW
MONTHS AGO
ANCHORAGE, Sept., 19, (/P>—Mrs.
Alice Reed Fisk, mother of Charles
Fisk, editor of the Anchorage
Times, died at*Ualting, Calif., Wed
nesday morning at the home of her
grandson after an illness of four
months with cancer of the stomach.
Funeral services will be held at
Vallejo Thursday at 3 p. m. for
burial there.
Mrs. Fisk was lorn in Erie, Pa
on March 25, 1854. She came fo
Ketchikan when she was 22 and re
mained there until last year when
she was called to California on ac
count of serious illness. She is sur
vived by a daughter and two sons,
Van H. Fisk of Ketchikan and
Charles J. Fisk of Anchorage.
LIBERALLY PAID
NEWCASTLE, Wyo„ Sept., 13. (/P>
—Two young women who were paid
liberally for their services but “act
ed unwittingly” sent the fraudulent
messages which allowed C. D. Wag
goner, president of the Bank of
Telluride, Colo., to obtain $500,000
from the New York banks.
ROAD MAKES AVAILABLE CIVIL WAR GROUND
3K
irw
Improved roads will make accessible new
of the Battle of the Crater near Petersburg, Va., in
cluding the entrance to a federal tunnel and one of the
early “repeating cannons.” Below is a reproduction of
a painting depicting the historic event.
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MAWSON PARTY TO STUDY POLAR AIR
The antarctic expedite
Mawson (left) will use the (
Captain Davis (right) is th(
f BASEBALL f
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NATIONAL LEAGUE
Philadelphia 5; Cincinnati 9.
New York 7; Chicago 3.
Boston 5-2; Pittsburgh 4-5.
1 These were all that were sched
; uled.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Cleveland 7-2; New York 9-12.
St. Louis 6-3; Philadelphia 2-4.
Detroit 0-0; Washington 2-1.
There were all that were sched
uled.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Missions 5; San Francisco 10.
Sacramento 3; Portland 0.
Oakland 6; Seattle 2.
Hollywood at Los Angeles post
poned on account of rain.
i
>n headed by Sir Douglas
>ld ship Discovery, of which
» skipper.
KILLED MOTHER
ATTRACTIVE GIRL’S RELATIONS
WITH MAN BROT MOTHER’S
REPRIMAND
NORTPORT, Wash., Sept., 19,
(A3)—Prosecutor Thomas Oakshot
said that Helen Moses, 20 an
Indian girl, confessed that she shot
and killed her mother, Susie Moses,
45, last night, because the latter
objected to “her relations” with
Clarence Hartley, former inmate of
the State reformatory.
The prosecutor said the extreme
ly attractive girl told him that her
mother whipped her during the al
tercation over Hartley’s attentions.
The purported confession said she
shot her mother with a 22 calibre
rifle after which she and Hartley
dragged the body around the house
into some bushes. Then she said
she reported thet “discovery” of the
body.
Helen has been placed in jail on
and a warrant issued for Hartley’s
arrest on a charge of being an ac
cessory to the murder. He served
two terms in Monroe on grand
larceny charges, Oakshot stid.
OF
NEW YORK, Sept., 19, </P)—A
short session of the stock market
was irregular with price movements
narrow in range. The week-end
realizing was offset by bullish op
erations in selecting issues. A for
ward movement was carried on
during the first hour cf trading but
a backwash of selling wiped out
most of the gains.
Oils closed firm with advances of
from one to three points recorded
in such stocks as Standard Oil of
California, Superior Oil, New and
Royal Dutch. The total sales were
2,140,920.
1 TOIL OF Li!
ALLEGED CROOK
FORMER CUSTOMS MAN AND
DRUGGIST ALLEGED OP
ERATORS
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept., 19, (JP)
—Two men were arrested and
two other persons, one of them a
woman, are being hunted as the
principals in a purported con
spiracy which charged large
amounts of liquor had been ille
gally withdrawn from government
: warehouses on forged documents.
Those arrested were Daniel Cot
trell, former cashier in the Unit
ed States Customs House, and
R, N. Williams, proprieter of a
drugstore near the customs house.
The alleged operations of the
four was disclosed when com
! plaints were issued by the com
I missioner charging each with
conspiracy of violating prohibi
tion laws. Enough bonded liquor
was obtained, governmesf attor
neys stated, to “flood San Fran
: cisco.”
FIRST CROUD
CAPITOL. JIM
THREE QUARTERS MILLION
DOLLAR CAPITOL BUILD
ING UNDER WAY
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JUNEAU. Sept., 19, (/P)—While
motion pictures clicked Governor
Geo. A. Parks, at 12:55 yesterday
afternoon, turned the first spade
ful of earth on the site of the
Juneau Capitol building start
ing operations on a project which
will cost .three-quarters of a mil
lion dollars.
It took nearly 20 years to se
cure the appropriation for this
building. Several construction of
ficials are here ready to start
excavation an dto rush comple
tion of construction which is es
timated will require two years.
All government and city offi
cials and hundreds of citizens
and school children attended the
event.
CONTRACTS HELD UP
WASHINGTON, Sept., *18, (/P)_
President Hoover’s interdepartmen
tal committee recommended all
ocean mail contracts to be held up
pending action by congress as the
ruling will effect the United States
lines which applied for contracts.
ACTION SOVIET FLEET
WARSAW, Sept., 19, T/P)—Polish
newspapers expressed indignation
at what they characterized as the
provoking maneuvers of the Soviet
fleet near the Polish coast. Two
battleships, one light cruiser and
six destroyers passed two miies off
the shore of the Hel peninsula and
Port Ddyna.