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DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE LL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” * PRICE TEN CENTS EIELSON'S CABIN PLANE IS FOUND, SMASHED UP * * » * * * * * * * * * * * * » » » » * * » » VOL. XXXV., NO. 5317. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 1930. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS * * “ BODIES NOT FOUND IN WRECKAGE NEW cmsmm Smoking Wreckage of Air Liner Which Cauised 16 Deaths FATRER OF COL, | Eretson's PLANE WREGKE PLANE i IS FOUND CHICAGO;SCHOOL | ' EIELSON TOLD | npie IS LOCATED IN ISLAND GOAL BINS LOW i , | OF SON'S FATE |77 srzgprar | ARCTIC REGION New I{ltm'?“ Appears in ’ : Hoped Against Hope but Pilots Joe Crosson and C. City’s Empty Money & " \ ‘ Feels Better Now that L \ H. Gillam Make Dis- Bags Sttuation . . : Suspense Is Over covery Saturday 1, Jan.. 27.—Dw : ¢ Al bins i the Chicego ; he A0 b HAD FAITH CROSSON >+ TWO MISSING FLIERS Ky R L by : ‘ WOULD GET"RESULTS 20 NOT FOUND, WRECKAGE edged by > Airmen Return to Scene d of the Citi- ¢ / ; Sunday to Make Furth- cc Campbell, Presid p W o ec The arrow in the avove map- er Search for Bodies icago Board of Fd . & 5 : i 3 piciure may indicate approximately DIEpRZ to A.slth : :{;‘,fl . . S b GRAND FORKS, North Da- ;. g 's plane was found The eabin plane piloted by dealoms to- Co ‘“‘-‘r‘ “*‘1 e m; B i : . kota, Jan. knew it I1a ¢ morning by Pilots 0o Ban - Bielson and o S 5 4 e ; s 5 . i ;s going 0 be like at, 1 © and Gillam. The dispatches 2 4 bill of $480, : 4 3 k. “,(.“s :f,(.llnh; .‘4')“\0 IV \‘L tthh :llhe tha' plans was ' ssen . gibbels D carrying Earl Borland, respite until 3 : : R oLier DOW i ng in the sun I=ht aboui 90 miles his mechanician, from Nome Mo gooomenn s . L - : . N : cuspense, which has been ter- .o r (ne Naauk, position indl- Jagt November S, on a flight . » “» Council Finance ; Sl aF % ey . O r:hlfu-l‘w over. cated abeve. to the scheoner Nanuk, at ve to setting in This was the statement PR ol b “millions - . ; 4 , North Cape, Siberia, was lars pledged r::),“ b(:lxi:xu“: b ; v : iy X madc by Ole Eielson, of Hat- Gov. Parks Pays | found Saturday smashed up ts to aid the City Govern ; : ton, North Daketa, father ef Respects to by Aviators Joe Crosson and ituation is caused by Mayor - : v . . : e (‘:',!._ Carl Ben _Eu- on, when (77 Eielson |C. H. Gillam, 90 miles south- n's vetoing of the city’s . 4 £ o : - rotilied that his sow’s wreck- 3 "cast of the Napuk. The bodies f| essing regrel that Col. @ 55,000,000 budget | ‘ ed plare had been found. PLESEND 2OEEO ot o 2 : . en Elelssn of Eielson an land we = 4 : : ; nows from newspapermen and also ° Was found badly em not found in the wreckage. Lf} L : / ; ; . : ] / a message from Pilot Joe Crosson, gFan “ - L . . . cne of the two airmen, who found near North Cape, ov. By the (illdil\g of the the sed plane, © : & V i« 5 . e ¢ 4 { Tho elder Eielsoh appeared dazed. 3 A e . | Crosson's message was read sev- _ PR P LOAEHNMIe-OT KEseuers. searcing 4or bodies in th: whedked AL Maddux aid maisl plane which crashed and burned 54 4 § u L “He was the father of e mygteries of aviation has been Alaskan aviation,” Gov, e Parks said, “and undoubted- e '_so!ved. iy * nelped “Move <l sng ecsThe -FLRGcl was given 4o, other one man to develop ' ® the Seattle Daily Times in a air travel in the Territory. e/ .. . It is to be regretted that e radio from Marion Swenson, ) been prepared,” said Ole Eielson he is gore,” o ‘aboard the Nanuk. . e epared, 501 o i3 3 SERE Two Chraged with Rob-‘ . _ : TO Define (;llilt i" BT R el o ceecsecenses e According to Associated . find him, his friend Crosson would |Press dispatches received b; bmg Branch Bank of in 5 | P y 1 . i i d P I knew J‘oe would stay on the ;’”‘ E 4 oday, the § S Ttaly of $2.000 ETT L8 Ordering Bootleg Rum = i e s s o RIB MYSTERY i “Timen hes. bes iionid tribute to the missing fuer, o Wrecked plane, one of the 'eral times ‘and ] -] -1 =2 g 3 near Oceanside, Ca passengers, pilet and co-piloi a week ago yesterday. Cress indicates where nlane crashed. dawned upon Efelson's father.. 'Al SMILE FROM THE EAGLE’S MATE Supr(*mc C()urt ASk(’(! couldn’t help feeling that some- — thing like this happened and I have er0escscev00000 See e “Ben has been taken at the prime of his careér but I think if ‘that Crosson and Gillam, SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Jan. 27. | 5 B r > ‘ : o |2 man is able to pack as much as with two men in their planes, “Scarface” Chambers, for- 3 O N 0 - By L. A. BROPHY Potential Film Star 'he has in his brief carcer, 5 | P is 5 . Prison Guard, sought i 4 e (A. P. Feature Writer) some compensation for not living | took off at 10 o'clock Sunday st Thursday as the bandit S e 3 A o e & longer."” morning for the scene of the who robbed the Fairfax branch of §& & = ¢ WASHINGTON, Jan. 27—Ameri- 5 | Accompanied by his daughter : (it el " t Eielson wrt mak the Bank of Italy of $2.000, has e 3 1 ca’s liquor purchasing public short- Helen, a nurse in a hospital here, g plane eck,. to iz been arrested by Deputy Sheriffs. - N : 3 ly may leulxin what kmlai e Uj the elder Eielson left for Hatton a search of the bodies. Two Chambers was found hiding in a S | ; ; : guilt, as well as cracked ice anc 2 after sending a message to his §on v . . . . 'dog teams also left the litch east of Novato and.admitted 3 5 ginger ale, goes into a highball Oliver, now in Peru, to come home. Fm(hng of Eielson's Plane e AN A ne escaped posses twice when . # 3 L ot WAL st Bt dkes - G 3 ! Elelson also telegraphed his son Clears U D;'ian“ear- (Continued on Page Eight) swrrounded in Hicks Valley. i 4 : L5 o Delane UIL'A)‘CI e ou ; |Arthur in New York and his " P | s e il ch house was stormed: last B 3 o 3 A & R L"‘o BRies Stares of daughter Adelaide, at Wenatchee, ance of Months i night and tear gas bombs used to. ' R, ¢ Z R g Al{;‘rd S i ofie tWashmgum | ALASKA FLIERS rout another suspect. The bombs! L, : % S 5 i e i e 4 . It is announced that the Univer- The finding of the wrecked cabin +, 1 did their work and a man who RER : - 3 noted of ma : isity of North Dakota plaus a mem- plane of Col, Carl Ben Eielson in dave his name as Lewis, but who 3 ? ; : 5 ; s ;’C“TSV S”c;""l'z ‘:’ ) ; lorial to Col. Cerl Ben Eielson, a the Arctic region, clears up one of L has positively been identified as ; ; e Sl OF MTHRESES oWanss. 3 former student of that institution. the flying mysteries of the north, | another former Alcaraz guard, was e s i | It the coutt Ht 1t " e one that Has held not only Alaska ted. i G < will ¥ for decisi y 2 oo - ! in suspense for weeks, but also Chambers said his confederate : : : of whet & person who k. y ‘ARMY PLANES many parts of the world | | planned the job and had the loot.| % S i liquor, when transpor neces- | " So pronounced was the signifi- e | i : 7 to- tsies. W e o 1 . cance of the disappearance of Col.| e & . | acy against I Y I | % 3 | Eilelson and Earl Borland, that . Alils Only Reindeer e bmae 1 eptal 1 ! REAGH FARGU thiee Fairchild planes. manned by [ resident of Aviation Cor- | b Ak ‘ | 5 3 " E i \ g P events St ati Associated Fross ruoto i Ty 3 Canadian fliers were dispatched to ration Pa S & ¢ arvgtion Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh, wite of the flying colonel, countered | dU0r been guilty of no rbanks from the States and, i oh Respects In Arctic Region vith a smile when asked to pose for photographers when she and | crime, but there are v | Seventeen of Arctic Patrol ! aral MHED shetien were pepaet to Airmen her husband stopped in Clovis, N. M., on a tour of western air ways. state laws against possession. ; Fleel Are Assembled };m by the Soviet Government, both | c wis! . log team and flying expeditions. | NEW YORK, Jan. 27—Gi ! on One Field : (o, ' A ; POINT BARROW, Alaska, Jan. 27.— Absolute starvation Weather conditions, the most se- B. Grosvenor, President of the | R PR o7 into 1 law a provision to make R R paoto would face the natives of the | YEAR,S DEA D’ I E TTER‘S {the buyer guilky Wish the seller Marjorle White Is one of the can- vere in the north for years, hind-'Aviation Corporation, said that the | entire coast from Kotzebue to There 1s this ‘about the Norrls| didates for “Wampas baby star” | FARCO, North Dakota, Jan. 27— ared search, ifinding of Eielson's wrecked plane Demarcation except for the Y LT oy 6 14 case, however. It seeks to fix the | monors In Hollywood. |Seventeen planes of the Arctic. Tt was many weeks before any left “little doubt” that Col. Car} reindeer as the fur catch to (,I VE L . b_ &25(’ (’-\)U‘Eu..' only of an individual or- — |Patrol have reached here after piane could fly from Nome or Tel-|Ben Eielson and Earl Borland, had date is less than a tenth of the | : > |ders liquor, and thus, in effect, ar-| |flights from various parts of North ler to North Cape. Joe Crosson been killed. usual amount. R ST UL es for its transportation. The |Former Kaiser |Dakota and Montana. The eigh- came north and joined the search,| “The knowledge of the bravery Mice, which the foxes eat, WASHINGTON, Jan. 27. — Mo An odd assoriment of ar person who buys from a bootlegger. |Celeb Hi |teenth plarie remained at Bismarck peing an old friend of Col. Eielson.|and determination of Col. Eielson were killed in an epidemic a |!22D 23000000 undelivered lettersfound their way to the dead letter |who, unsolicited, brings his ws |Lelebrates His over. night. _'Crosson and Gillam finally took in his Arctic experience, kept up year ago, forcing the foxes |Were buried in 1929 in the lintfices. Narcotics were secreted in to home, is not involved Tlst Bi”hday | With the 17 planes here, it IS off from Teller and made the flight jour hopes that he and Borland and even the owls to seek mew |lefter departments of the post of-|magazines, and papers; silk hose| Norris, a New York broker. or- | jcne of the few occasions that s0ity the Nanuk. Gillam made the would be found alive. Every pose grounds. j fice and $250,000 thereby reverted t0 and lingerie essayed travel under |d liquor over a period of months| DO s o o [T Planes have been assembled nop safely but Crosson was de- sible effort to locate and rescue The Point Barrow herd of |the United States treasury. g periodicals !from Joel D. Kerper in Philadel~ , Holland, p jon one fleld since the hop-off from |ayed by fog and was forced down them were made,” said Grosvenor, 4 & 7 3 5 O e _|mer Kaiser Wilhelm, for more than |Michigan to Spokane, Wash., and but took the air ti t day. “Cy Gills Dorl reindeer is 10,000 and ample to That amount represented mone: An infernal machine, revolvers P Each was ndicted In Penn- 1y, orc e e atie * oelebrated his |return but took the air the next day. i “Crosson, am, bandt and carry the village through what |received in mail coming to the of- | pe utiously from the lids of |Svlvania on a charge of conspiracy. | ¥ Gasoline Exhausted | young Nlenllngn and other com- the natives say is a “typical f[‘ and the proceeds from the t s, a- human skull sug-|K r pleaded guilty and is in After several flights from the panions of Eielson and Borland |seventy - first anniversary of his| Seven planes arrived here from S, : |birth quietly. He attended divine Bismarck, eight from a beach near nup, i i 5 i ,, e a jotv. 1 4 yon in the lower . 3 g o ! uk, gasoline was exhausted and found against discouraging odds in starsmblon yosp Ale of undelivered articles of value. |gestive of a Borneo head hunter,| Norris won in the l0Wer |soryige with his family, his staff |the State line, Major Royce in the 5 supply was loaned from two one of the most me,eg,,fmc wine Russian craft in the vicinity. Bad ters ever known but their determ- . - nd an arsenal of arms were among |COurts and the government ap-|unq servants and received con- | ninth remained at Bismarck. weather prevented many flights and ination to find the two fliers was dead letters.” g | gratulations, Two other planes arrived from it was not until last week that never dimmed,” concluded Gros- A i : : BrltlSh Women’s Y(’ar Letters usually reach the dead | '’ record specifically points out| " puring the day the Hohenzollern|Great Falls where they were conditions prevailed for searching:venor. | | | stter office itk o e con | D2 id rye whiskey was DUr-|flag floated on the castle and over |stranded a we letter office after they have been by the defendant, Alfred E. i ek ago. . . e " ik g 4 the entrance gate. | — Hailed for Achlevements | They are opened hera with a Hane. [NOFrs, {OF his owm consumption o | The former manarch occupied his| HILL SELLS BENFABIN jiripe that finally ended in the dis . e ining cutter, capable "of handling |/ Of his guests; and he was intime in reading hundreds of tele- | TELAND W9 B OHAMBERS * L raentid Tanes are High School —_— g ol B T no sense a dealer of liquor grams and letters from admirers | R 1 e . f ) LONDON, Jan. 27.—The year 1929| The duchess of Bedford accom® (70000 Pleces of mail % ; vhile the Norris-Kerper frans-|while flowers arrived in profusion| J. L.Hill, ploneer Lynn Canal fox (1O% 8t Teller awaiting tavorable Love A ffair was a record one for British women. | plished a women's air record Money 1s neia ior 2 vear, anc ons were between two cities, it [from many sources, farmer, has sold his half in weather conditions. They. were l»("[\- Fatal One In May last for the first time in | flying from London to Karachi and |then, if delivery cannot be made.|i; pointed out that & phone call to Sl o est in the Benjamin Island plant|#ke @R extra supply of gasoline LS hopping off from Fairbanks for{® BOISE, Idaho, Jan. 27— the history of the country, women |back—a distance of 9,000 miles—in |E0es to the treasury la bootlegger iu the same citv as| HELPFUL ACT COSTS LIFE |to his partner, Harry Chambers |Cn¢ Of the Fairchild planes, after| ¢-|® As the result of an upset RETURNING TO SITKA [result in transportation CHICAGO, Jan. 21. — A good [selling the fact that he has be- | ¢ Was forced down in the Nor-| e of 21 years old and over voted on seven and a half days. | e T the same terms as men in a general| The Hon. Mrs. Victor Bruce broka ' s b st forl® 8 - ection; and this landmark in | the 24-hour record for cars up fnl XL |, Thus at stake is the broad issuc|Samaritan act cost John Mann,|come interested In mining Proper-( e wes - rhe ot s e g;fi:mm:;::xs;:vea;:d British history was appropriatelv |five litres capacity by keeping up |of liquor purchasing by order. no|salesman, his life today. Mann|ties in the Taku district. sarmad 10 Nulsht and o b |5 17 Toatt, ot Rinatt T celebrated by theé nomination of no an average speed of over 90 miles| Miss Mae Mills sister of W. P./matter what distance separates the |stopped to offer assistarice to two| Mr. Hill retains his ownership of | urdP th o flight t B,? ‘e;; g g '® death early Sunday morning fewer than 68 women candidates for an hour for the full time at the |Mills, well known merchant of S an with the thirst and the one|workmen wrecking a building an(li»he Sullivan Island fox farm whvre":ul da\]f SO e Nt wv-‘- in his home on return from election to the house of commons. Montlhery track near Paris; andka, is a passenger on the Qu with the means to satisfy it |¥as injured fatally by a falling he has a large number of bluel‘ r;,us an searchers have also been |® @ dance. Friends said Mun~ Fourteen were elected, and among the famous motoring sisters, Violct returning to her home after a six-| The court s expected t s |plank. foxes. He says his properties at|gejaved by weather conditions. “*le son and Miss Ruth Summers them was Miss Margaret Bondfield, and Evelyn Cordery, put up a re: |months’ visit to Atlantic coast upon the applicati for W ot o e ! > 5 3 k Benjamin and Sullivan Islands have | Many Rumors had a gquarrel. Munson was who, by her appointment as minis- |ord endurance test by driving of!cities. She was accompanied on|within a few weeks, and, if it is| C. V. Wagoner, prominent can-|prospered this year. Before selling | gince the disappearance of Col|® @ high school football player. ter of labor, became Britain's first 'Brooklands for 30,000 miles in 30-|the trip by Miss Porter, formerly of |granted, to hear the case probably ‘neryman of Sitka, is a passenger on the Benjamin Island place a large E e woman cabinet minister, 1000 minutes, ‘the Sitka Public Schools, ibrforv the end of the present term.|the Queen, number of pelts had been taken (Continued on .P;Rr “Eight) ) ithe spective purchaser would| Mr. Hill gave as his reason for LR RN ] e0 000 "'.QO'QOQ...'h'