' VOL X NO. 2
TAKOTNA ALASKA. SATURDAY. JANUARY 11. 1930
PRICE 25
Ben Eielson,
PILOTCROSSON MAKES FLIGHT
( OtfER ANGUEMA KIVER, BUT
'FINDS NO TRACE.
SEATTLE, Jan. 6.t—Captain Reid,
i flight commander of the expedition
j foi'the.xelief of Eielson and Borland,
. is down, presumably in the vicinity of,
Nome, and-with him his mechanian,
William Hutchinson. They were in
j flight from Fairbanks to Nome, hav
ing-taken -eff SSaturday morning
.. fro miiairbanksj followed by another
, planei piloted by* Matt Nieminen. The
latter, mowing to the severity of the
weather, turned back to Nulato, while
Keid went on. There is much appre
hensip'i at Nome and Fairbanks as to
his fate.
SEUKT WURTH* Tex* Jan. 9.—Two!
. Fairohild- cabin planes in service here
v wilt he csent to Alaska! for search of
Eielsoia and- Borland.
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-FAIRBANKS, Jan. 11.—Still no
\ won. dfrom. Captain Pat Reid and
j. party," wppoosed to be down in Nor
toO"i|av-district* Weather conditions
aboout. tne. ship Nanuk are better and
Aviator Joe Crosson is resuming the
seaJfcafcrt^Ei»ls<p.
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SEATTLE.—Reod, Hutchinson and
- llu^-ness missing EieJsor* rescue fliers,
are safe and back at Unuiakleet, aftci
f iiawvpfjxbfwsi forced down owing to an
exhausted ^gas supply into bea of
; a tributary -of Ungalik river. The
j. l.isrhine was damaged, hut repaired
t by the.Jtrio. After six days of hard
-s!l"ps and food shortage they flew to
■: L mlakleet,. thence to Mulato.
i lKtWCOW.—A report that Carl
- .Ben.Eielson and Earl Borland were
nea»ibhe river Anguema, Siberia was
.received h ere by the Soviet govern- j
x. meant'Xoday, although not confirmed. |
Thd> Soviet authorities have ordered !
u a dog.aiea expedition to the place.
Tho Soviet Arctic Commission in
Mqsoow was. notified today that its
radio station n at Anadyr, Siberia,
had ^received report on January 14
that Eiefson and -Borland had landed
* near the river Anguema. This report
v aaxnA - from- the radio operator at
Pinkingly, who said he had received
: a letter dated December 30 from
V JrarrfjiJaptain Wellen, reportinng the
a mining- airmen.
NOME.4-Bfforts to confirm the
' reports .of’ the finding of Eielson and
»■ Borland near Anguema river, 150
miles’ from North Cape, have failed.
' FHothdod Urdsson flew over the dis
trict 'from the motorship Nanuk at
I, Korth Cape ahd reported no trace of
• finding the missing merf. Crosson was |
out an hour ahd a half yesterday. He
* went’ dver ’ the' Anguema nver delta,
1 ap the Valley, then continued on over
hand to the reindeer camp near Eka
- sura.
NEW CRAFT FOR ALASKA
BUREAU OP FISHERIES
SEATTLE,- Jan. 4.—Ihe motorship
Penguin, christened by Mrs. Mildred;
Fredericks, biiilt for the United
r States Bureau of Fisheries for Alas
" ka service, was launched today from'
' he Ballard marine ways. The new
* craft is 135 feet long and cost 4140,
* 000.
Bob LowTie and Dave Strandberg
were among those departing today
: from McGrath via airplane to Fair-:
1 hanks.
Happy Union
Of Royally
PRINCESS MARIE JOSE OF BEIr
GIU.M AND CROWN PRINCE
ITALY UNITED.
ROME, Jan. S.—The royal houses
of Italy and Belgium were united to
day when Princess Marie Jose of BeL
gium and Crown Prince Humbert of
Italy were married in the Pruline
Chapel, Royal Quirinal place. It was
a genuine love match, set in nail the
glittering of royalty. Following the
ceremony the bridal couple were
driven directly to St. Damaschu court
yard, where they were received hy
Monsignor Cacio Domimoni and es
corted to the small throne room, in
which the Pope received them to give
his formal benediction upon their
union.
$15,000,000 FOB CONSTRUC
TION OF ROADS FEEDING NA
TIONAL HIGHWAY SYSTEMS
WASHINGTON, dan. 7.—The ex
penditure of fifteen million dollars
over the three-year period beginning
with the fiscal year 1931 by the Sec
retary of the Interior for the con
struction of roads leading to high
way systems of national parks would
be authorised under a bill introduced
in the House today by Representative
Leavitt of Montana.
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12 SHOTS FIRED INTO SEDAN
WITH OBJECT OF ‘GETTING’
DETROIT POLICE INSPECTOR
DETROIT, Jan. 2.—Henry J. Gar
vin, head of the crimes and bombs
squad of the police department, was
shoot lour times and seriously wound
ed by a group of men in a sedan, who
drove along the inspector’s car and
tired twelve shots to within.
39 COAST GUARDSMEN HELD
TO FACE COURT MARTIAL
NEW LONDON, Conn., Jan. 6.—
Thirty-nine coast guardsmen are
being held here for court martial.
Twenty-four are accused of drunken
ness and fifteen are held for stealing
seized rum. Nine have already plead
ed guilty.
WOULD MAKE STOCK MARKET
GAMBLING FEDERAL CRIME
WASHNux’ON, Jan. 6.—Gambling
on stock and grain exchanges thruout
the country would be made a federal
crime by a bill introduced in the Sen
ate by Brookhart.
CHIEF JUSTICE TAFT
CONFINED TO HOSPITAL
WASHINGTON, Jan. 6—Chief Jus
tice l'aft has been in Garfield Hos
pital for the past week fo* treat
ment. With improvement he will go
to Asheville, N. C., for a six-weeks’
rest. He is suffering with bladder
trouble.
ALASKA JUNEAU SURPLUS
PAST YEAR ABOUT $1,100,000
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 8.—The
Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Company
tooday announced that its surplus for
the past year’s operations totaled
about $1,100,000.
SEATTLE, Jan. 8—The assay office
here handled $8,350,000 last year, of
which Alaska districts contributed'
aboout $7,000,000. •]
! FOUR MILLION AMERICAN
' TOURISTS VTRITED*»CANAf>A
I
IN t92&>ANI>M’RNT|30Ot»#¥t dOO
OTTAWA fJan. it.—Th* Iie|u»t
i meat o£ National. Revenue announced
1 today that. 4't000,0t)0 tourists. «ros>«*cr
; the1 border. from the United r.St#tses
i into Canada dast year- atod that they
.Spent $301>,MKUItkl.
Telcgrgmbic Ticks.
SEATTLE, 6..—United
.States Signidi Corps ^officer here is
prepared to comply with the FederaL
Radio Comrn.ssion order, .giving the
Signal Corps supervision over appli
cations. these applications are to tie
turned over to the ollicer-in charge of
the Wash ngio ^ Alaska .JHiiitary- Ca
1 b.e & leiegxapn system,, who later
w.il pass on the .applications and
j make recommendations to the Federal
i Radio commission.
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WASHNGTON, Jan. 8.—A latter
read today before the Senate lobby
committee said that W..C. Darcy,
publicity man of the Coco-L'ola com -
I pany, had a personal method of ap
proach to Hoover and is going to see
| that Hoover gets full but concise data
j on the sugar subject.
SEAnLE, Jan. 1.—Philip L.,Jour
den, drug narcotic agent, is inn the
hospital, dangerously wounded ,by
James u Jensen, his fellow narcotic
agent. Jensen was celebrating New
fear’s eve, got drunk and was taken
home by Jourden. The shooting oc
curred at the Jensen home.
SEATTLE, J.an.- 8.—Albert Nich
Olson, former Alaskan, who died here
thi'ee years ago, left an estate of
; 850,0(11) to his widow. She later died,
j leaving a will bequeathing $30,000 to
; the Salvation Army .orthoopedic hos
| pital, with George E. Hall, the second
husband, now staging a contest.
! WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.—A bal
ance of $15,000 in the treasury of the
Democratic national committee, and
outstanding obligations of $450,000,
i were reported today by James W.
Gerald, treasurer of that organisa
tion.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8.—Seeking
a way out of the public airing of dif
ferences, Senate Republican leaders
today agreed to the appointment of
La Follette as a member of Western
independents to the finance commit- i
tee.
j SEATTLE, Dec. 31.—Wayiie Hemp
I sill, vice president of the National
; Bank of Commerce, was elected pres
J ident of the SSeattle Chamber of
' Commerce for the coming year.
SEATTLE, Jan. 8.—Thugs last*
night held up the Nifty Grocery, inci
dentally disarming Policeman T. G.
Sawyer, who happened to be in the
stoore at the time.
SEATTLE, Jan. 6.—Roy E. Bige
low has resigned as president and
manager of w.ieacty’ Inc., and will
establish a similar establishment of
his o^n .
ST. PAUL, Jan. 5.—Martin J. Cos
tello, of Seattle, Western traffic man
ager of the Great Nortthern, fell
dead h ere oday.
SEATTLE, Jan. 6.—Announcement
was made today that the Owl and
Ligget drug stores throughout the
country have been merged.
WASHNUTON, Jan. 11.—The Sen
' ate Friday confirmed the nomination
of Karl Thiele as Secretary of the
| '^Mritpry-of.A laska. J
Initial Move
I
lor Highway
TULL'aSKS appointment of
KEFTKESENTATIVES TO CON
'fJBRAVITH CANADA,
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’ TVAStiiNCi-ON, Jan. ltL—To con
fer with Canadian government repre
sentatives for study of the construc
tion of a highway between .the Pacific
Northwest and Alaska, a special com
mission of representatives of the In
terior- and Agricultural Departments
-and-the Alaska Hoad Commission is
provided in a hill introduced by Dele
gate Sutherland of Alaska. The com
mission -would see if such a highway
would be f easihie-and economically
practicable.
■ SEATTLE,* .Jan. 10.—Dor. a Id Mac
Donald, locating .engineer of the
Alaska Road Com mission, .announced
today that a squadron of naval air
planes are do make a reconnoisance
over the enttire route of the proposed
international' highway to Fairbanks
next summer.
EORTWCOMING NAVAL LIM
ITATIONS MEETING MOST IM
PORTANT, DECLARES HOOVER
WASHINGTON, Jan. 7.—President
Hoover today desoribed the fortbcom
| ing* naval limitations meeting'.*! Lon
. don as .the most important of inter
i raticuia! ■cdrtferenees in a great many
!.years. ajid proHahly >the most import
ant for many tyears <to 'come.
JOHN jRLt8T6AIH> FILES DJ3C
LARATON OF *' CANDIDACY
AS DELEG ATE TO JCONGRfeSS
JUNEAU, Jan. S.-^-Stsirmistoing
preceding the Territorial election bat
tle in the April primaries* was start
| ed today when Jehn .Rustgard( attor
ney general, filed his declaration of
candidacy as Delegate to Congress to
■ succeed Dan Sutherland. ]
Walstein Smith also filed foor re
j election as Territorial treasurer.
WENIGEARD NAMED CHIEF
OF FRENCH ARMY STIFF
PARIS, Jan. 2.—General Maxim
! Wenigeard today was named chief of
the French general array staff. Wen
igeard was Marshal Foch5s chief of
staff' during the world war.
C. D. BLETHEN BECOMES SOLE
OWNER OF SEATTLE TIMES
SEATTLE, Jan. 1.—C. D. Blethen
announced in this afternoon’s Seattle
| Times that he Fad purchased the in
terests «f the other Alden D. HIethen
heirs and had become jsoole owner of
the paper.
JULIUS ROSENWALD MARRIES.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. Julius
1 Koreewald, head of ‘Sears-Ito buck
company, Ohicago, and Btrs. Atiele
Goodking, of St. Paul, were married
Wednesday at the home of Mrs. J.
: Lessing Kosenwald, a daughter of the
bride RAsenwald, who has been a
widow since May. Lessing Kosenwald
is a son of Julius.
T. A. Parsons, auditor and Alaska
superintendent of Northern Commer
cial Company stations, was a yester
day arrival at McGrath, coming from
■ Fairbanks with Pilot Frank Dor
bandt.
Charlie Nichols and Jesse Baugh
^were among the wee’g, arrivals.
Newspaper
Deal, Seattle
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C. B. IJLETIIEN ACQUIRES CON
TROL/OF TIMES, RESELLS BIG
BEfCK >TO EASTERNERS.
SEATTLE. Jan. 6.—1C. L. Btoher.
in the Sunday Times announces the
sale of 40 per cent of the stock of the
Times to KidbeT Brothers, Bernard H.
and Joseph S.. and -Victor L E-rank of
New York, who already own a string
of nine dailies on the Atlantic coast
and in the Middle West. Blethen re
tains SO per cent of the stock and
conferool oof the Times. He in turn
is made a director of the other Kid
ber publications. The sale was made
on a basis of $£,000,000 valuation of
the Times.
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MOR EDRINKING PER C APITA
IN IDAHh THAN NEW YORK,
DECLARES REP LA.ia VttDIA
WASHINGTON, Jan 2.—The Cap
ital's ever-present contnovergy flared
| up again ‘tooday with * declaration
! prepared .far the House by Repre
sentative LaOuardia of New Yorkt
who said there was more di inking
per capita in the State of Idaho than
there is in New fork. Idaho is me
home State af Senator Borah, who is
always lauding the djrys
28-TEAR -OLD FEMALE SLAYER
MAT GAIN HER FREEDOM
SAKiMA,-»He —ft.—dttutlv, Garrison,
28-year-old Seattle poison slayer, )«
the same, according to Superior
; Judge A. W, Hawkins, who today
! granted her petition for right to sue
, four a writ of habeas corpus in the
Superior CJourt of Walla W alla coun
ty. The decision means that the
slayer of Mrs . JJouglas Starrs will
gain her freedom, from the .peniten
tiary, where aht has been serving «
life term since -May, 1919, alter a Se
attle jury had found her insane.Undei
Prosecutor G. ii. Colvin of King coun
ty declares he will find a way to keep
her imprisoned.
HOOVER ATTENDS DINNER
GIVEN BS' VICE PRESIDENT
1 -WASMtNCrPON, Jen. 8.—President
Hootw attended a dinner given - in
his honor last night by Vice Presi
dent Curtis. The President was ac
companied by Mrs. Hurley, wife of
the Secretary of 'War,- Mrs. Hoover
being’ ill with a -cold.
SAYS NATIONAL 'CAPITAL IS
REEKING WITH-CORRUPTION
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8.—Charge
that the city of Washington is reek
ing-with vire and corruption was irui®
in the upper housa today by Senator
Please of South Carolina.
THEY’L'L GIVE NO EXPRESSION
ON PROHIBITION AMENDMENT
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.—After, a I
conference with Hoover’s law -en
forcement commission, Senator Jones
divulged today that it had deeded
unanimously to refrain from express
ing judgment on the merit of the
prohibition amendment.
CHARLES P. TAFT PASSES.
C1NC. fl, Jan. 1.—Charles P,
Taft, half brother ot Chief Justice
Taft, died New Year’s eve. The. fu
neral, which was held today, was at
tended by many men of promtMWR
including the Chief Justine
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