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Ll'ME XV. NUMBER 117.
SEV vRD, Al.A.l
RSDAY, MAY 22, 1930.
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WANTS FORT LEWIS FORTl- ;
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WASHINGTON, May 22. (/P)— .
Admiral Reeves said before the
House naval committee that three
dirigible bases need proper pro
tection. The bases, which are lo
cated on the Pacific Coast, are
Sunnyvillc. and Camp Kearney
in California and Fort Lewis in
Washington.
Fort Kearney should be the
first choice in giving the added
protection according to Represent
ative Miller of Washington. He
contends that this should have
additional protection in order to
serve as a protection to all of
the Northwest and Pacific states
by being able to offset any at
temp of invasion that might be
made by a hostile fleet which, he
added, could very easily hide am
ong the archipelago of islands
toward Alaska and launch an at
tack on Puget Sound.
Representative Miller also term
ed the Southeastern Alaska ar
chipelago was the only one be
tween Barrow and Cape Horn on
the Pacific coast where an en
emy fleet coidd be concealed and
still be in key position to launch
an attack.
WASHINGTON. May 22. </P> —
The battle of Californians over
whether the new $5,000,000 air j
ship base should be situated at
Sunnyvale, near San Francisco,
or at Camp Kearney, near San
Diego, will be fought out before
the house naval committee. Both
northern and southern California
have their delegations here. Two
huge dirigibles are being built
for the navy at Akron. Ohio.
It is planned to make Lake
hurst. N. J. the home port of one,
the other to operate on a West
coast base.
SMI crats
PIENTI Of SilS
PORT ARTHUR, Texas, May 22.
iff) —if it had been anything but
a shark, Secretary of Agriculture
Arthur M. Hyde, fishing here
would have game conservatoinists
hot on his trail. He hooked a
shark and got so much fun out
it that he decided to go out for
more.
The result was a big one; 101 in
ches in length and weighing more
than 800 pounds. After it had been
towed in and pulled up on the j
dock it gave birth to seven little j
fellows.
tried to bribe judge
MIAMI, May 21, (/Pi—Nathan
Gebstein, local realtor, was held in
contempt of court on the charge
of approaching Circuit Judge
Barnes with a proposal to pay the
judge $5,000 to decide the padlock
proceedings against A1 Capone s
residence, allegedly in Capone s fa
vor.
PLANNING TRIP
WASHINGTON, May 22, (/P)—
While the western tour of President
Hoover is determined for August,
the itinerary is still indefinite. The
plan of cutting across from Yellow
stone to Portland, Seattle and Ta
coma is being considered. The
President may visit Mexico and
Cuba in October oe November.
SIMS MOUNT BE
NAMED MEMORY HUT.!
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WASHINGTON, May 22, (£>)—'The
naval lieutenant who directed the
aerial survey of 23,000 square miles
in Alaska is to have a mountain
named in his memory. A pinnacle, j
seven miles north of Devils Thumb.
Alaska will be called Mt. Burkett.
The navy announced it will hon
or Lieut. Eugene F. Burkett, who
was killed in an airplane crash at
San Diego on January 7. Burkett’s
home was in Abiline, Tex. He was
thet navigator for the Alaska aerial
surveys
HEN GREENE
ELECTED SOUTH II;
PIERRE. S. D. May 21. </P>—
Warren Green, who placed last
; in a field of five candidates at
the state primaries two weeks
| ago as the Republican candidate
for Governor was nominated by
the State Convention.
After a heated fight the Con
vention deposed of Gladys Pyle,
secretary of state, who was nom
1 mated at the primaries but failed
to poll the necessary 35 per cent
necessitating a convention to nom
inate.
WANTS APPRO PRI AT ION
WASHINGTON. May 21. UP)—
Professor John Dewey, the presi
dent of the People’s Lobby, issued
a statement in which he estimated
from 3.000.000 to 5.000.000 men and
women have ’been unemployed for
at least three months. He announc
ed that he had asked President
Hoovr to have Congress appropri
ate $250,000 for support of state
unemployment insurance.
TWO DAYS BEFORE RESIGNA
TION HE DEMONSTRATED
THE RISKY MANEUVER
WASHINGTON, May 22. UP) — j
Lieut. Alferd J. Williams, noted i
navel aviator, has said his fare-j
well to the service with a new i
maneuver, the lone remaining:
feat, he says, previously accornp- i
lislied by aviation.
It is called the “inverted fall
ing leaf.” Two days before his
resignation from the navy went
into effect, spectators were privi
leged to reveal a flight they saw
in which the maneuver was dem
onstrated.
Performing high in the air, Wil
liams fluttered toward earth, the
landing gear of the plane on top
and himself hanging downward
with only his safety belt holding
him in the craft. He tipped the
plane from side to side, checking
it just short of the point at which
it would fall in a deadly spin,
and zigzagged downward like a
nlaying card dropped from a sky
scraper.
The maneuver, he explained,
has no military value but is of
value to aviators in an inverted
flight to teach them when and
how to avoid spinr. His ser
vices were volunteered for the
hazardous tests and in recogni
tion he was awarded the distin
guished flying cross.
LINDBERGH TEST PLANE
Roosevelt Field, May 22. (/Pi—
Colonel Charles A. Lindberkh
arrived here to test and flv a
new monoplane, it was learned.
The plane he is to test is a Fleet
stcr and is almost a replica of
the Lockhead in which Colonel
and Mrs. Lindbergh set a trans
continental record recently, ex
cept that it is of all-metal con
struction while the Lockhead was
almost entirely of wood.
Death Looms in Fatal Fire
WEDDING PLANS of Christopher Johnson, Jr., and Miss Alhe
Sorenson, 21, were broken by fatal fire that took the lives of John
son's father, two brothers and two sisters. Miss Sorenson received
word of the fire in the Johnson home in Brooklyn, N. x„ and has
tened there to save the wedding ring and marriage license, which
the couple had taken out two days ago, preparatory to an Easter
wedding. Firemen prevented her from entering. Johnson, trapped
with the others, jumped with his mother from second floor win
dow. and both are now in hospital seriously burned and may aw
WATSON SAILS
SEATTLE, May 22. (/P»— The
S. S. Admiral Watson of the P.
S. S. Co., sailed at 10 A. M. yes
terday carrying 58 passengers and
73 steerage. Four passengers are
booked for Seward, H? Boe, E. H.
Hodges, P. A. Hawkins, Mrs. May
Hawkins, and seven steerage.
AKIAK, May 22, (&)—'The lower
Kuskokwim villages were inundat
ed by unusually high water during
an ice breakup. The water is stead- j
ily rising and there apparently is a
large ice jam between the villages
of Akiak and Bethel.
The fate of the natives in the
muskrat camps is unknown. Com- ]
munication between homes is by
boat. Bethel is likely to suffer
considerable damage when the ice
jam breaks.
The greatest concern is for the
native families in, the muskrat
camps who have no boats.
YUKON SOUTH FRIDAY
According to the local office, the
S. S. Yukon of the A. S. S. Co., is
due in Seward from the south at 1
a .m- and is scheduled to depart
for the south again at 9 p. m. Fri
day. The vessel is carrying a heavy
tonnage for discharge here, nearly
900 tons; 495 of which is for West
ward canneries and will be trans
ferred to the S. S- Redondo. The
balance of the cargo is distributed
as follows; Seward 44 tons; railroad
points 327; including 50 tons of
empty cans. There is one auto on
board for Seward and one for An
chorage.
LONG BSSTICE TftLK
IIP TO SHOOT Rfl.O!9
Sin Francisco. May 22. f.T) —
The longest ship to shore radio
telephone conversation was ac
complished aboard the White
Star liner Majestic, according to
word received by L. E. Archer,
coast manager of the line. The
vessel was 500 miles from South
ampton in the North Atlantic
when Captain E. L. Trant he!'
an extended conversation with
Colonel William Repp, vice-presi
dent in Buenos Aires of the In
ternational Telephone and Tele
j graph Company.
When rates have been filed
I this telephone service will be open
| and available to the public.
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s. S. EVANS TONIGHT
i The S. S. Admiral Evans, of the
P. S. S- Co., is due to arrive in port
at 9 p. m. tonight.
BASEBALL
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NATIONAL LEAGUE
Cincinnati 2; St. Louis 3.
Brooklyn 12; Boston 1.
i Chicago 3; Pittsburgh 10.
i Philadelphia 4; New York 11.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Boston 2-1; Washington 10-6.
New York 7-1; Philadelphia 15-4.
Detroit 3; Chicago 9.
i st. Louis 6; Cleveland 5.
PACIFIC COA^T LEAGUE
i Portland 4; Hollywood 6.
| Seattle 2; Missions 3.
Los Angeles 2; Sacramento 5.
[ San Francisco 6; Oakland 9, 12
innings.
WILL MAKE BRIEF STAYS BE
FORE RETURNING TO PER
NAMBUCO, HAVANA
RIO JANEIRO, May 22, (rP)—The
Graf Zeppelin, bound for Pernam
buco, crossed the equator and made
its first appearance in the south
ern hemisphere.
Commander Eckener, making his
first crossing of the equator, be
came a member of Neptune’s band
being baptized by other members
the party who already were Nep
tune’s sons and daughters.
The Graf expected to reach Per
nambuco tonight and stay there
several hours, then go to Rio. After
a brief stay there it is planned to
return to Pernambuco and start
for Havana Sunday or Monday.
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MASS RAID SUNDAY
BOMBAY, India, May 22, —
British troops, sent by the govern
ment, operated the salt depot at
Dharsana to prevent further raid
ing by the nationalists and volun
teers. The Nationalists headquar
ters announced the next mass raid
will take place Sunday. Hitherto
only police defended the salt works.
WASHINGTON, May 21 '#)—
Hanford MacNider of Iowa was
selected by President Hoover as
M nister to Canada. His name
has been submitted to the Canad
ian g vernment and a favorable
reply is expected soon.
MacNider was a former assis
tant to the Secretary of War, and
former National Commander of
the American Legion.
BALTIMORE, May 22. </P) —The
body of Mrs. Mary Textor wras
found in several inches of water
in the basemen* of her palatial
home where she lived alone.
Strands of heavy wire about
her neck and with water gushing
out of a water pipe was the scene
which confronted the police.
Later they found many jewels,
cash and bonds hidden in various
places. It is thought that she
is a suicide.
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UNDER FOX BANNER
NEW YORK, May 21, (^—Nego
tiations have been completed which
brings the Midland Circuit of thea
tres, located in the Middlewest, un
der the banner of Fox Film Corp,
it was announced by Harley L.
iClarke, president. The new circuit
will be added to the present Fox
theater organization, and a spec
ial division office will be establish
ed in Kansas City.
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MR SHOW CLOSED
; NEW YORK, May 21. OP)—1The
air show closed its doors bringing
an end to an eight-day period of
i unprecedented aviation activity.
'Officials reported more than 120,
1000 persons visited the show and
jthe acquisition of many sales pros
pects.