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The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-08-29
CHATHAMMAIL SERVICE GETS
 GOOD HEARING
Thoroughly Aired Before Chamber -Vandervoort
 Tells of Air Mail Plan

After an extended discussion of the proposed Juneau-Chatham Strait mail route in which Supt W. c. Vanderyoort, of the United States Railway Mail Service and members of the Chamber of Con- merce took part, MT. Vandervoort assured the Chamber that he would make comprehensive report on the matter to the Department, and would back this up with personal conference with the Second As sistant Postmaster General when he goes to Washington in October.
 He was a guest of the Chamber at it's regular weekly meeting at noon today. Following the discus sion of the Chatham Strait route, he. expressed confidence that an air mail route would be established be- tween Seattle and Juneau in the not distant future.
 Investigating Route
 MT. Vandervoort said frankly the main object of his visit to Juneau was to investigate the Chatham Strait matter. In establishing the present service, it was based on Ketchikan, because the Department felt that it was of prime importance to get the mail from the States tp points on the route, and from them to the States as quickly as possible. In fact, he added, this factor has been the governing one in the mak- ing up of Alaskan mail schedules.
 Mail dispatched from Seattle to points on the Chatham Strait route, distributed from Ketchikan, should reach the points of destination by the time the same mail would ar. rive in Juneau on the re egu al steamers. And this fact had been given weight in making the origi- nal route.
 Gets Other Viewpoint
 To MT. Vandervoort was present. ed by the Chamber, the views and desires of the residents along the route as well as those of local in- terests. The people affected along the route do more business with Juneau than with Seattle, have more communication locally than with the States, and in order to ob- viate delays incident to the present roundabout service are petitioning the department to change the route to local base. Communications with Territorial and Federal off
 (CnntinfInd ny, Dona Einhfl
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-08-29
THINK DANIEL BOONE
 CARVED TURTLES SHELL

INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 29.--Be- cause its undershell bore the in- scription, ID. Boone, 1760," a small, ordinary looking turtle has come under official notice.
 The turtle was found by Ralph Lyons of Wingate, Ind. while he was shocking wheat on a farm. Statehouse officials compared the lettering on the shell with those Boone inscribed on a tree when he killed a bear. The signatures bore a resemblance. they said.
 If hoax, those who examined the turtle said, the perpetrator had not lived to know the outcome. The inscription had been made years ago.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-08-29
BRITISH PUT DOWN JEWISH
 ARAB STRIFE
Troops Occupying Various Troubled Regions
 In Palestine
GUERRILLA WARFARE
 IS STILL REPORTED
Arabs in Nablus Are Und- erstood to Have Rais-
 ed Turkish Flag

JERUSALEM, Aug. 29.-Rioting in this city seems to be ceasing with the arrival of British troops but guerrilla warfare is in progress in the Jewish Colonies where the Arabs are burning houses and granaries.
 The situation seems controlled today although there are fears oi outbreaks in remote districts.
 One unconfirmed report states that the Arabs in Nablus have de- clared their independence from England and raised ,the Turkish flag.
 British forces have occupied most of the colonies.
 Refugees have been taken to Te Aviv.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-08-29
NEW STUNT IS DEMONSTRATED
 AT AIR RACES
Passenger Is Transferred in Midair from Ayship
 to Airplane

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Aug. 29.- Moored overnight to the stub mast, the Navy dirigible Los Angeles, is ready to return to join the Graf Zeppelin at Lakehurst after com- pleting for the first time the trans fer of a passenger while in flight.
 ---c maneuver was performed Ut the National Air Races being held here, when for the first time there was made in a public demonstra- ton a transfer in midair.
 Lieut. A. w. c. Orton, of the Navy, engaged a hawser stretched between two uprights to the top of the airplane, to a hook attached to the Los Angeles. After the contact was established, Lieut.. Cal- win Bolster, of the Los Angeles crew, descended to the plane. The plane was then unlocked and landed under it's own power and the Los Angeles scared away to the mooring mast.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-08-29
AIR PILOT IS
 FINED HUNDRED

CULVER CITY, Cal, Aug. 29.- Lester A. Carson, airplane pilot, has been fined $0l0 for violating an or dinance prohibiting fliers to pass over the city under 1,500 feet ele- vation.
 Carson was arrested yesterday by Major Robert Blair, Policeman Pilot, who sighted the plane flying low over motion picture studio.
 Carson is the first person ar rested under the new ordinance.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-08-29
MOST WOMEN SOLONS
 BACK UP PROHIBITION

EVANSTON, H.. Aug. 29--Wom- en help make the laws of all but 10 states in the Union. and a ma- jority are dry"
 A survey by the Women's Chris tian Temperance union shows that women sit in the legislatures of 38 states.
 They report that 54 out of 75 women representing 29 states are listed as. dry. Sentiment of repre- sentatives in nine states was not ascertained.
 Twenty eight feminine legislators are members of the w. c. T. U.. whose headquarters are here.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-08-29

Strangely enough, thinks the w. c. T. U. all women lawmakers in the wet" states of Illinois. Massa- chusetts and New York, are dry.
 However, the one woman member of the Georgia legislature is classed as wet, and the lone Nebraska woman solon is referred to as mot in favor of prohibition.
 The w. c. T. U. mentions that Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, un- til recently the assistant United States attorney general in charge of prohibition prosecution, is a member,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-08-29

M. s. Wilson, Alaska representa- tive of Blake, Moffitt & Towne, wholesale paper dealers, returned home today on the Yukon after a trip to western and interior Alas ka. He made an auto trip over Steese Highway to Circle and came out to the coast over the Richard son Highway.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-08-29
GRAF ZEPPELIN COMPLETES FLIGHT AROUND WORLD
'sShutle' Seeks Practical Endurance Test

"sauttling" transcontinental m l plane was forced down here when struck by a 5-gallon can of oil during a refueling contact last night on the return flight from New York in an attempt to estab- fish an endurance record.
 Capt. Baker, pilot, has made an effort to secure permission to re- attempt the flight. The plane is not damaged. Neither Baker nor Thompson were injured in the landing which was made under the impression the oil line had been broken.
 The shuttle plane being used is a single motored Boeing Hornet. Capt. Ira c. Baker and Lieut.. Ber- hard Thompson are aboard. Mail is carried and discharged and talk en aboard at all refuelling points.
 The army air corps, the post of flee department and the United Aircraft and Transport, Inc, are cooperating in the flight to test the mileage which may be piled up by standard mail and express plane over a regular mail route.
 It is not an endurance flight in the sense of those which have ground out the hours over airports in numerous cities.
 Four nurse ships" are along the line of flight the shuttle" will fol- low. At each refuelling point the fliers will take on an 11-hour sup ply of gasoline.
 Capt St. Clair Street and Lieut. Newton Longfellow, both of the army, pilot two of the refueling planes while two air mail pilots of the Boeing system man the others four passenger mail carriers in use on the Pacific Coast route of the company.
 Harold T. Lewis, second ranking air mail pilot in the United States and Claire K. Vance, veteran noun tain. and night flier, will operate the latter.
 The nurses" will transfer and take off regular mail from shut tle," will supply the crew clean clothing and other necessities. Since some of the refuelings will be night contacts, specially designed lights have been placed in the landing gear of the refueling planes, to flood the mail planes. The refuel- ing pit of the endurance craft is lighted.
 This flight, it is claimed, is the first where a motor of more than 250 horsepower powered the air plane A motor of 525 horsepower is used. Also, it is to be the first to be run at normal cruising speed The pilot rides in an open cock pit while the regular express com partment is fitted up for the second man while off duty. This is the only change made in the stock plane.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-08-29
FOREST FIRE EXPLODES GUN OF TRAPPER; SKELETON IS FOUND, LEWIS CLARK FOREST

The fire fighting crews heard the explosion and then found the skeleton.
 The man had apparently been killed by an animal, on the spot where he had made his camp. The rifle was beside the skeleton with date of 1873 upon it. There was an old iron skillet, of the type long off the market, salt shaker and two bottles of trappers' poison.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-08-29
RUTH ELDER TO
 WED TOMORROW

NEW YORK, Aug. 29.-Walter Camp, Jr., head of moving pie ture company, and Ruth Elder, av- iatrix, announced they will be mar ried here tomorrow.
 Where the wedding will be, is our business and where we will spend our honeymoon is also our business" Camp said.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-08-29
THREE PERISH IN N. '. FIRE

NEW YORK, Aug. 29. = Three persons were killed and II injured when fire destroyed four story tenement house on the lower West Side this morning. Charles Hol- lander was killed when he leaped from a window The bodies of Mrs. Sophie Brunwasher and her IT, year-old son were found in the ruins of the house.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-08-29
William Mckay Passes
 Away at Mayo, in Yukon

SEATTLE, Aug. 29.-William R. Mckay, aged 76 years. former mem Der of the Washington State Leg islature, died recently at Mayo, Yukon Territory. It is reported here that he had been in the North since 1898 It is said he has left valuable mining interests.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-08-29
INJURED IN PLANE CRASH
Assistant Secretary Com merce Tn Accident
 Plane Wrecked

BRIDGEPORT, N. J., Aug. D. William McCracken, Jr., Assistant Secretary of Commerce, in charge of aeronautics, was slightly hurt last night when an airplane which he was flying from Cleveland to welcome the Graf, was wrecked in a forced landing.
 The plane struck telephone wires twice and landed upside down.
 McCracken suffered a cut on the knee. The pilot escaped with a sprained back.
 The accident was caused when the plane ran out of gasoline.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-08-29
Uses Strap from
 Artificial Leg to Attempt Suicide

DENVER, Colorado, Aug.
 Civilian Gibson, a pris- oner in the City Jail, serv- ing l00-day sentence for
 disorderly conduct, attempt cd to commit suicide in his cell last night by hanging himself with a strap torn from his artificial leg.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-08-29
Seattle Times to Build
 New $1,250,000 Plant

SEATTLE, Aug. 29.-Col. c. B Blethen, publisher of the Seattle Times, announced construction of new plant to cost $1 ,250,000 to re- place the present plant which has outgrown the present building.
 The new building will be outside the present business district, it is said.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-08-29
Sleeping Sickness
 Is Spreading; Many
 Deaths Are Reported

TOKYO, Aug. 29.-Sleeping sick ness, prevalent in Southwestern Prefectures, continues to spread, particularly in Kagawa and Hiro- shama
 Complete figures show total of 349 cases with 136 deaths.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-08-29

GREAT FALLS, Mont, Aug. %. The skeleton of trapper, which has lain undisturbed for years, per- haps half century, has been un- covered by forest fire in the Lewis Clark Forest.
 The skeleton was found when bullets from the trapper's old gun exploded from the heat of the flames.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-08-29
Bound from Juneau To Neiu York,
 ReacIes VdncoHUer

. VANCOUVER, B. C., Aug. . 29.-A bert Voight, of Los . Angeles, on voyage from . Juneau, Alaska, to New York . City, via the Panama canal, . in a 16-foot walrus hide . kyak, arrived here Tuesday c night. He will spend few . days here before proceeding . southward.
 . Voight left Juneau at 10:55
 . o'clock on the morning of . June 27.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-08-29
ALABAMA WATCHES PRISONS

MONTGOMERY, Ala.-Radio re- ceiving sets in all State penal in- stitutions. and four machine guns for the walls of Kilby State Prison were ordered after series of prison riots in various other parts Of the country.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-08-29

Miss Patricia Ray, daughter of L. V. Ray, prominent lawyer of Seward, is a southbound passen- ger on the Yukon on her way to Seattle where she will attend the University of Washington during the coming year
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-08-29

Mrs. L. Kane, merchant of Hoo- nah, and her daughter Miss Pat Kane. left for the south on the Yukon.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-08-29

Mrs. Ellen G. Hurlbutt of Tabor, Iowa, has attended the same church for 69 years.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-08-29

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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-05-09
CLUB MEMBERS
MEET SOCIALLY
Pine City Federated WOmen's Club
Hold Guest Meeting, Program
and Social.

The Wednesday Study club of Pine
City, held guest day program at the
armory at that place Wednesday after
noon of last week, which was open to
attendance of non-members of that
community as we'll as to members OF
the Willow River Community club.
The meeting was called to order by
Mrs. Jens p. Miller, club president
who stated the purpose of the guest
meeting and welcomed the visitors,
after which the meeting was turned
over to Mrs. Ell Huber, who had
charge of the program.
Numbers on the varied program
were a group of readings by Mrs. E.
Gillespie, cornet solos by j. j. Dufeck
vocal selections by the club chorus un-
der the direction of Mrs. Huber, a
report of the club activities at Will
low River by Mrs. Joe Stepan, who
has acted as secretary of that organi-
cation during the absence of Mrs
Robert BoXell, vocal selections by F.
p. GOttry, cello numbers by Mrs. H
c. Stratte, and vocal numbers by Mrs
Ben Boo. A native dance of Hawaii
in costume by Mrs. Harold Basso
who has lived on the islands was also
enjoyed. Mrs. Miller also gave a re-
port on the activities of the club dur
ing the past year.
A very dainty lunch was served al
the termination of the program on a
table decorated in pink and yellow.
The guests from Willow River, the
visiting club, included Mesdames Sex
ton, Laufenburg, Peters ST., Klatt
Linsley. ]. H. Stepan. Peters. Jr., Bor.
chardt, Weinberger, Clough, and F.
Stepan.
Willow River and Pine City are the
only villages in Pine county that have
federated women's clubs. The viii.
low River club was organized ii years
ago and has a membership of more
than forty, while the Pine City clut
was organized only years ago anG
has like number enrolled.
AS May II is the last meeting date
of this year, the Willow River clut
will extend an invitation to the county
seat club for visit at Willow River
during the next club year, which will
open September 20.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-05-09
FORMER AGED
PIONEER DIES
Came to Pine County i'm 1SS7.-Was
Ninety-three Years of Age.
Buried at Kerrick.

Gustaf Sandberg passed away at
the home of his daughter, Mrs. Joe
Russell of Minneapolis, May 3. He
was born in Sweden Dec. "a, 1885,
coming to America in 1854, where he
settled in Wisconsin, but moved to
Pine county in 1887. He was one of
the pioneers of the Kerrick community
and reached the ripe old age of SO
years, months and 9 days. Mrs.
Sandberg died in 1917, and since that
time he has made his home with his
daughter in Minneapolis. He leaves
to mourn his death, two daughters.
Mrs. Ed Armstrong and Mrs. Joe Rus
sell, also Z grandchildren and 4 great
grandchildren. The funeral was held
from the Union church in Kerrick.
Saturday afternoon and burial was
made in the Riverside cemetery. The
Rev. Fillinger officiated The pail
bearers were John Olson, G. E. Car
roll, c. E. Anderson, John WOlby,
Frank Hullander, and Olaf Erickson.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-05-09
BRUNO

Mrs. Swan Eklund will entertain the
| Ladies' Aid at the Swedish Lutheran
church Friday, May 10. Mrs. Otto
Olson and Mrs. Wigand will assist
| Mrs. Eklund.
Mr. Norris, the Misses Russell anC
Hendricks, were in the Twin Cities
| Saturday.
Mrs. John Steele and son left fol
Morris, ILL.,, to visit relatives and from
there to Pontiac, Mich, to join hel
husband, who is working there.
Mr.. Starch lost very valuable
horse. 1t died of pneumonia.
Mr.. Dracy is saving lumber this
| week.
Donald McNeal is having a great
deal of sport with his new bicycle
The Domman boys are working al
the Ferndale Nursery at Askov
The Misses Della Greene, Alice
Reecke, Mary Rose, Marion Starch
| Oscar Eklund, and Carlton Stafford
| attended the st. CroiX district M. E
convention held at Pine City Saturday
Leslie Darling, Allen Starch, Leona
and Marion attended all day Sunday
They reported a very good conven.
ton.
| Mr.. and Mrs. C. A. Nash and son
Charles, spent Sunday and Monday al
the Mrs. John Stafford home.
Mrs. Ivan Skinner spent from Sun
day until Tuesday in Hinckley.
/
Mr.. and Mrs. j. H. Lingren went t
Finlayson Sunday. Mrs. Lingren re-
manned with her sister, Mrs. Hoag
lund, to help care for her father, who
is very low.
A. Markus and Bert Rose attended
the Masonic Lodge meeting in Sand
stone Monday evening.
The Rev. Fillinger and John Arm
strong went to the Twin Cities Tues
day. y.f. s4..
/ Mr.. and Mrs. Francis Pearson, Don
aid and mother, Mrs. Grace Pearson
were in Brook Park Sunday to visi
Mr.. and Mrs. Ekmark.
Mrs. A. Campbell died Sunday eve
ming at the home of her daughter u
|
Tuesday at her old home in st
Charles. She would have been 8,
years old June 4.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Work and sons
Elmer and Jim of Sandstone, were
guests at the Fred Saasted home Sun
day.
| Presbyterian Notes-Sunday schOo
at 9:45. church services at II o'clock
G.. E. at 1870. Mrs John Stafford
will entertain the Ladies' Aid at the
church Wednesday, May 18TH She
will be assisted by the Mesdames ia
cob Smith, Rose, Norris, and Walter
Hammer. A supper will be served
from $3.50 to 1870. Menu-mashed po
tatoes, baked meat loaf, brown gravy
creamed carrots and peas, mashed
rutabagas, cabbage salad, bread, but
ter, cake and ice cream, coffee, anC
pickles. Price 25 cents. Everybody
invited to come.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-05-09
GRASSTON

Leon Cote, who came home from
GAINESVILLE, Wis.,, for a vacation, is
nursing bad case of inflammatory
| rheumatism.
Ben Anderson has been hauling
fence posts to the Macallen farm
stead.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hilmor Forsberg and
family of Braham, and Mrs. Randall
of Cambridge, and Ester Fosberg
were Sunday callers at the Bonnie
Stigen home. Miss Fosberg is from
New York and is now enroute to
Oregon. She has done much travel
ing and has had some very daring adj
ventures.
A few choice friends of the C. Han
son family gathered at their home
Friday evening and spent few hours
at pleasant entertainment
Mr.. and Mrs. ALT Berg and family
and little Lillian and Helen Swensen
were Sunday afternoon callers at the
2. E. Grayson home.
Mrs. Andrew TOssy and children
spent Sunday evening at the Bonnie
Stigen home.
1.-The Wind-mills of Holland" an
operetta in two acts, will be presented
by grade pupils at the Christensen
hall at GrasstOn Friday evening, May
10th. Let's all turn out and see this
play.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Nor
deem, baby girl, April 25th, at the
Braham hospital and they arrived
home Sunday. Mother and baby are
doing nicely.
Friends have been informed that
Herman Gerber, passed to the Great
Beyond few weeks ago. Mr. Gerber
was pioneer of this community and
his old time friends and neighbors
will be greatly shocked to hear of his
death. He spent a number of years
on the farm now owned by Alfred
Tossy, and was living at Great Plains,
Mimi, at the time of his death.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-05-09
DISARMAMENT
UP TO POWERS
Chemical and Bacteria Warfare
Is Again Banned At
ParIey.

Geneva, Switzerland-The prepare
tory disarmament commission has adj
journed it's sixth session, leaving the
responsibility for the next step in
world disarmament upon the shout
ders of the big naval powers.
when you have reached an agree
ment on naval reductions come back
and let us know" was virtually the
last word of the commission. 1t was
the general opinion that any collapse
of the forthcoming conversations be-
tween the naval powers would be dis
astrOus to the cause of disarmament.
The commission adjourned without
being able to register agreements on
the methods of reducing land arma-
ments. Trained army reserves have
been dropped from the scope of the
treaty and no other way was discov-
war material. Tables were arranged
however for limiting land and air eff
fectives and military airplanes Chem
ical and bacteria warfare was again
banned.
An encouraging start was made on
the problem of naval reductions in
consequence of the U. S. initiative
which in the closing hours of the pre-
1iminary conference gain was hailed
with words of welcome from the Bri-
fish, French, Japanese and Italian
delegations. Consideration of the
methods of limiting navies however
was postponed at the request of the
naval powers themselves who wished
to seek an agreement by negotiations
outside of the commission.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-05-09
WILLOW POSTS
HAVE BUSY DAYS
Plan Memorial Day Exercises, Erect
Flag Pole, Help Disabled and Ac.
.cOmplish Other Deeds.

The Willow River Legion Post and
Unit No. 1853 held their respective
meetings at the high school building
Wednesday night, May LIST. The post
members have cleaned up the local
cemetery, given a carnival and dance
jointly with the Unit, which Melted
them a neat sum, and they are now
planning a Memorial day service,
putting up a flag pole on the school
grounds, and intend to present medals
to school children on commencement
night.
The Unit has given a gift of cash
to a member, who lost her home by
ling hospital, and layette to head
quarters at 707 Boston Block, Mime
apolis. also voted to send their dimes
to help the disabled get their claims
through and decided to order blue and
gold caps and march in a body for
Memorial day exercises. All officers
of the Unit were reelected with Mrs
J. F. Dubie as president; Mrs. Ann
Anderson, vice president; Mrs. b
Amundsen, treasurer; Mrs. r. She
forgen, sergeant at arms; Mrs. v
King, chaplain; Mrs. E. Macleod
historian. A second vice president
was also elected this year, namely
Mrs. E. ClOugh. and Mrs. ]. Flanni-
gan was again selected as secretary
After program of music and con-
test on which Mrs. Anderson received
first prize and Mrs. ShefOrgen foot
prize, the Mesdames V. King and Ann
Anderson served a delicious lunch to
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