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VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 147.
SEWARD, ALASKA. THURSDAY, NOV. 14, 1929.
PRICE TEN CENTS
OLD PRINCESS MARRIED RUS
SIAN ADVENTURER FEW
YEARS AGO
V
BONN, Germany, Nov., 13, (A5)—
Frau Alexander Zubkoff, who was
the Princess Victoria von Prussia,
sister of the former Kaiser and
grandchild of the British Queen
Victoria, died at the St.Francis
cus hospital ending one of the
stranagest romancees ever written
across the records of European
royalty.
Death came while she slept
and followed a brief illness which
began last week shortly after
her husband, a Russian adven
turer, 34 years her junior, had
been served divorce papers in
her behalf.
Just a month ago she was
forced to auction off heirlooms
of great value to pay the debts
of her husband and succeeded
in raising only a small amount.
At one time she was a wealthy
woman in her own name. When
she married in 1927 she renounc
ed her right as a princess and
accepted estrangement from her
family.
Princess von Hesse, her hus
band Prince Frederick Charles,
were present at the deathbed.
She was 63 years old; by her first
was Princess Schaumberciippe.
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WASHINGTON, Nov., 14. (/P>—
Secretary of War Good underwent !
a difficult operation for gan
grenous perforating appendicitic,
at the Walter Reed hospital. His
condition is described as extreme
ly serious.
The operation lasted for more
than one hour and was decided
upon after the War Secretary
was suddenly stricken ill. It is
said he stood the operation well
as far as his nervous organiza
tion was concernded.
SHU REPUCES
PAPER IN SYRIA
BEIRUT, Syria, Nov., 14, (£>)—
Early in May French high com
mission decreed the creation of a
new Syrian silver currency. This
will consist of coins representing
25 and 50 Libano-Syrian piasters,
intended to replace the present
paper notes of like value of 10 Lib
ano-Syrian piasters. The total of
this coinage must not exceed 1,250,
000 Libano-Syrian pounds and shall
be apportioned among the states by
a subsequent decision.
IDAHO SPRINGS, Colo., Nov., 14,
<JP)—The Stanley mine may again j
be placed in production. It is said
the money, $100,000 for the sale is
in readiness as soon as the final
papers are executed turning the
property over for operation. The
dump will be worked as well as the I
veins in the tunnel. *
STOCK MET SGI
HITS THE BOTTOM
NEW YORK, Nov., 14, (£>)—
The stock market closed practic
ally at the bottom after another
storm of liquidation which car
1 ried leading issues down from
$1 to $20 a share. Total sales
were $7,700,000 which set a new
record for the three-hour ab
breviated session.
MESSAGE PROMISES REVENGE
UNLESS $50,000 RANSOM
IS PAID
TIENTSIN, China, Nov., 14, P)
-—Aaron Brenner, New York fur
rier, arrived here after nearly
a week’s captivity in the hands
of kidnappers, believed to have
been Russians.
He was in a highly nervous
condition and unable to give
a coherent account of what had
happened to him. It is believed
the gang became frightened at
the closeness of the police inves
tigation and permitted him to
escape.
A telephone message promised
revenge unless he promised to
pay a ransom of $50,000.
FOR SECOND DIVISION
WASHINGTON, Nov., 14, (/P)—
Julius Harold Hard was nomi
nated by President Hoover to be
United States Attorney in the
second Alaska division.
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WAS CONSIDERED THE MAS
TER MIND IN AUBURN
PRISON BREAK
NEW YORK, Nov., 13, (/P)—
| George Small, one of the four
; convicts who escaped from Aub
urn prison during the revolt of
1,700 convicts last July, was shot
! and seriously wounded by a
I Brooklyn policeman after bul
j lets, fired by Small at the police
; man, had killed Mrs. Ruth Sum
I mer, 30, as she was wheeling
her baby carriage on the side
walk.
The shooting followed an at
tempt by Small’s companion to
holdup a garage and as they
i fled the scene in a commandered
automobile followed by police,
j also in a commandered car.
Small was shot during the
running battle and his condition
is said to be serious. The other
bandit got away.
I Small was considered the mas
ter mind .^behind the Auburn
prison break.
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BREAKS BELGIAN AIR RECORD
BRUSSELS, Nov., 14, (£>)—. Adju
tant Lang, King Albert’s official
aviator, has beaten the Belgian al
titude record of 7,400 meters in
reaching 9,156 meters <30,031 feet).
CONTRIBUTE S2.000
MADRID, Spain, Nov., 14, <7P)
—The Spanish government has
J decided to contribute $2,000 to
! wards expenses of the Polar
flighp °f the Graf Zeppelin. The
flight is expected to start at
Spitsbergen and end at Seattle.
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rams 8i i
[ PLENTY HIGH
BELIZE, British Honduras, Nov.,
j 13, (/P)—Americans in Belize are
| getting daily newspapers from the
| United States promptly by air mail.
'But they are paying for them.
Postage from Miami to Belize for
a week day edition runs from $1.75
to $2 and Sunday papers require
about $2 worth of stamps.
ILL DIFFICULTIES
ZEPPELIN FLIGHT
IE IRONED OUT
AEROARCTIC SOCIETY STATES
FLIGHT WILL BE MADE
TO THREE STATES
NEW YORK, Nov., 14, (JP)—
Following close upon the Madrid
report that the Graf Zeppelin
would end its North Pole flight
at Seattle, which was first sug
gested by the Madrid dispatch,
a later report was to the effect
I that - all previous information
was correct indicating the Zep
! pelin would end its flight at Trom
soe.
The plans, as outlined by the
Aeroarctic Society, said the flight
wrould be embrace three states
and end at Tromsoe.
Although trouble with the crew
over sanitary conditions in the
dirigible, insurance and other
factors have been encountered,
yet plans are going steadily on
as these have been practically
settled.
A whale shark caught off Knight
Key, Fla., in 1912 weighed 26,590
pounds.
SOURDOUGHS FIND BURIED FORTUNE ~
IN RUINS OF GHOST MINING TOWN
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In an old cabin (above) two old prospectoors made a “strike” uncovering $5,000 worth
of gold coins (lower right) in the “ghost” town of Aurora, Nev. Lower left shows the ruins
of the town today. ‘
STMT MADE
1ST DEATHBED
FALSE, SMB
ASSUMES FULL RESPONSIBILI
TY SAN FRANCISCO PAR
ADE BOMBING
LOS ANGELES, Nov., 13, (£>)—
Declaring the deathbed state
ment of Lewis Smith, reported
from Bellaire, Ohio, assuming
full responsibility for the San
Francisco preparedness day par
ade bombing, in 1916, could not
be based on fact, Charles M.
Fickert, district attorney at San
Francisco and attorney during the
Mooney trial, said the confess
ion was either a ‘.‘hallucination”
of a sick man or was “fabricated
after his- death for the purpose
of aiding Mooney agitation.”
He declared Smith’s statement
that the bomb was thrown shows
he was ignorant of what occurr
ed for Fickert said the bomb,
with a time clock to detonate it,
was enclosed in a suitcase which
was left at the scene of the ex
plosion and could not possibly
have been thrown.
WASHINGTON, Nov., 14, (/P)_
The sale of 25 cargo ships to
Johanna G. Ohsol of New York
for operation between Vladivos
tok, Siberia, the Black Sea and
Persian Gulf ports, as well as
to other Russian ports, was auth
orized by the U. S. Shipping
Board.
Ohsol is a director of the Am
torg Trading Company. All of the
vessels have been laid up for
seven years or more.
HI ALASKA CAPITOL
SUN PARLOR STYLE:
AAAXIMUM WINDOWS
JUNEAU, Nov., 13, (£>)—'The new
capitol of Alaska will resemble a
huge sun-parlor when it is com
pleted two years hence.
To make the most of the short
daylight hours in this locality,
architects have arranged for a
maximum of windows. Marble cor
ridors and senate and house cham
aers with appropriate ornaments
vill greet the eight senators and
L6 representatives when they as
semble here in March for a 60-day
session.
The governor’s suite will be in
seeping with the dignity of the of
fice. The various federal and Ter- •
ritorial offices, which have been
scattered around Juneau since the
sapitol was moved here from Sitka,
vill be assembled under one roof.
The new capitol will cover 15,800
square feet and will be six stories
ligh.