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VOLUME XIV. NUMBER230.
SEWARD, ALASKA. WEDNESDAY. OCT. 2, 1929.
PRICE TEN CENTS
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HflS. H MITTEN
CHS WHILE II
POCOi HILLS
PROMINENT AMERICAN RAIL
ROAD TRANSPORTATION
EXPERT
PHILADELPHIA, Oct., 2, (/P)—
•f Thomas E. Mitten, transportation
expert, was drowned yesterday in
the Pocona mountains near Mil
ford. Details of the death have
not yet been learned.
If a college or university were
prepared to confer such a degree as
doctor of transportation science,
Thomas E. Mitten would have been
entitled to that honor.
He had a peculiar genius for tak
ing hold of troubled street railway
systems, curing them of their ills,
and putting them on a basis of op
eration with resulatant beneftis to
stockholders, employes and the
public.
One of his pet theories in bring
ing about such conditions was that
of labor becoming capital and fos
tering the cooperative effort be
tween employe and ^employer. His
theory was given the test of time,
and in the opinion of Philadelph
ians at least, was found to be prac
ticable in every respect.
The achievement of the Mitten
policy in Philadelphia might be
said to have been the climax of pre
vious efforts in Milwaukee, Buffa
lo and Chicago.
Altho financial reward usually
accompanied his success, Mr. Mit
ten’s chief joy in rehabilitating a
street railway system lay in the ac
complishment. That he was little
interested in material reward for
his work was indicated after he had
begun to put Philadelphia’s trans
portation system upon its feet.
•When I was 40.” he said. “I had
ar the .money I wanted—enough to
afford any one man as much as he
could reasonably enjoy in this
world. Today I have less personal
wealth than I had at 40. If I live
w be 100 I shall have no more.”
Mr. Mitten was born at Brighton,
Sussex, England, March 31, 1864.
His father, with his family of eight
came to hte United States n 1875
and settled on a small farm at
Goodland, Ind. The son did his
share of the farm work until he
was 21, and in his spare time learn
ed telegraphy in the railroad freight
office at Goodland.
Mr. Mitten began his practical
railroad experience as joint agent
for the Chicago & Indiana Coal
Railway and the Big Four Railroad
at Wyndham, Ind., in 1885. His pay.
was $30 a month. Two years later
he was made local agent at Attica,
2nd., where he obtained experience
in train dispatching. Next he went
with the Denver & Rio Grande at
Pueblo, Colo., and later as assistant
freight agent at Denver.
After three years Mr. Mitten took
charge of a short steam suburban
line running from Denver to the
coal mines in the foothills at Gold
en, Colo. While in that position he
electrified parts of the road, thus
gaining his first knowledge of elec
tricity as a transportation agency.
The success of that experiment
created in him an ambition to
enter the electric street railway in
dustry.
A southeaster, which swept the
Wrangell district recently, is re
ported to have caused damage
to fishing to the extent of a
quarter of a million dollars.
TAKE-OFF1 THURSDAY
SITKA, Oct., 2, (/P)—Because of
motor trouble the flight of the Rus
sian aviators is postponed until
Thursday. The fliers will overhaul
the two motors and take-off early j
in the morning for Seattle.
BLESOH CLINGS
TO FIT HOPE
MERRILL SAFE
BELIEF PILOT SOUGHT NEW
ROUTE THRU MOUNTAINS
SOUTH MERRILL PASS
According to reports from Anch
orage, received last night, Colonel
Ben Eielson and his fellow pilots,
refuse to abandon hope that Rus
sell Merrill, chief pilot of the Anch
orage division of the Alaska Air
ways, is still alive and will be found. '
The faint hope is based upon the
knowledge that Merrill had often
remarked about another pass thru
the man range of the Alaska chain,
south of Merrill Pass, named in his
honor as the discoverer. He had ex
pressed his determination to ex
plore this pass in securing a shorter
route to the Kuskokwim.
It is believed that he might have
taken this route and encountered j
trouble which forced him to make I
an emergency landing. As far as j
local knowledge goes, if he has j
landed in the unexplored pass .in ;
the Illiamna country, it would re- j
quire many days to make his way ;
out to the coast. With two weeks
rations in the plane which may be
augmented by fish, game birds and
animals, he could exist many weeks
without suffering hunger, and es
cape the hardships encountered
when he was forced down in the
Arctic in May a year ago.
Colonel Eielson has cancelled all
regular plane service out of Anch
orage to concentrate three planes
in the search for the lost pilot,
serving only those routes that will!
aid in possibly discovering some!
trace of Merrill.
PRISON LIFE SOFTENS REBELLIOUS
NATURES OF “THRILL” SLAYERS
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Five years ago Nathan Leopold and Rich
ard Loeb, Chicago “thrill” slayers, entered
Joliet penintentiary, where their rebellious
natures have been tamed. Leopold (left) and
Loeb as they appeared in court.
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NATIONAL LEAGUE
Brooklyn at New York rained, j
Chicago 2; Cincinnati 3.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
San Francisco 0; Sacramento 3.
Portland 3; Hollywood 0.
Los Angeles 3; Oakland 4.
Seattle 2; Missions 12.
No American games scheduled.
‘IRISH LANDLORD’ ROLE APPEALS TO SMITH
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Alfred E. Smith is president of an organization
which will erect the world’s tallest building in New |
York. The Woolworth Building, 60 stories high, is the j
tallest at present. An artist’s conception shows how the ;
new building will rear above that peak. 1
PATRIOTIC TASK
IS IDEM
IMPROVE DRY LAW
BETTER ENFORCEMENT AS RE
LIEF OF CONGESTION IS
SOUGHT
WASHINGTON, Oct., 2, (/P)—As j
a patriotic duty John L. McNab j
San Francisco attorney, has under- !
taken, at President Hoover’s re- j
quest, the difficult task of formu- j
lating a legislation to bring about
better prohibition enforcement and
relieve court congestion.
McNab has no official connec
tion with the government but has
been urged by Mellon and Mitchell
and Charman Wickersham of the
law enforcement commssion to
draft legislation for submission in
congress in December which would
:entralize prohibition enforce
ment under the justice depart
ment. Altho describing it as a duty
be said he accepted because “No
me who has caught the spirit of
;he President on hte ardent desire
;o make hte country a law-abiding
nation could hesitate to undertake
;he task.”
LIEUT. GOV. KINNE
OF IDAHO, PASSES
OROFINO, Idaho, Oct., 2, (/P)—
Lieut. Governor W. B. Kinne, of
Idaho, died following an opeiation
for appendicitis. He was stricken
Saturday and operated on Sunday. I
He rallied yesterday but had a sink
ing spell today.
He was acting governor while
Baldridge was in Utah.
KILLED I BATTLE
AFTER WALK-GOT
SOURCE OF THE FIRST SHOT IS
UNDERTERMINED SO FAR,
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MARION, N. C., Oct., 2, iTP)—Two
nen were killed, 15 wounded and
L2 seriously wounded in a battle be
tween Union and non-Union work
ers at the Marion Manufacturing
Company’s cotton mill.
The trouble started when 80
members of the United Textile
Workers of America, which recently
settled a strike at the mill, walked
Dut and formed a picket line out
side the gate. When the shifts
’hanged several fights started.
Sheriff Adkins and a number of
deputies intervened. Someone fired
a shot and in a few minutes there
was a general fusillade.
The dead are Sam Vickers and
Randolph Hall, both Union men.
All but foiy of the injured were
shot the others were clubbed.
The source of the first shot is
undetermined Adkins said but
thought it came from the picket
line. A number of the wounded
were shot down by their own people
Adkins said. He telegraphed Gov
ernor Gardner asking for troops.
ALASKA AVIATOR
ID J. LOMU
• PREPARE BIG TREK
GREATEST REINDEER DRIVE TO
CROSS ALASKA TO MACKEN
ZIE DELTA
SEATTLE, Oct., 2, UP)—Pilot
Frank Dorbandt of the Alaska Air
ways Incorp., Alfred J. Loman of
the Loman Reindeer Co., and A. W.
Porsill, representative for the Ca
nadian government, took-off this
morning to prepare for history the
most important reindeer drive.
Commencing the flight from
Kotzebue Sound they will go along
the coast of Arctic Alaska to Kitti
gazuit Peninsula, on the east side
of the Mackenzie Delta and along
the Arctic coast to the northwest
territories of Canada.
The plane will fly to the head of
Colville river, covering in eight
hours what will take a moving herd
nearly a year picking out camping
and feeding grounds.
The Canadian government has
contracted with the Lomen Co., for
the delivery to the Canadian min
ister of the interior, 3,000 selected
reindeer. The caravan will be fully
equipped with 40 sleds specially
manufactured, 50 trained sled rein
deer to transport provisions for the
reindeer and clothing for the per
sonnel.
The men will be aided by trained
reindeer sheep dogs of Alaska and
Idaho. The drive will cross the
American Arctic thru an unpeopled
untimbered and little known sec
tion for a distance of 300 miles.
Scouting planes will be used in
keeping in touch with the expedi
tion. Leonard Baldwin and Carl
Lomen completed plans here before
sailing on the reindeer ship “Sier
ra” now due in Seattle.