Show ' ICE PREVENTS TIIE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SUNDAY HORNING MARCH 22 SEEK SUNKEN YUKON 1931 ’ GOLD VIKING RESCUE Treasure Hunters Await Summer SHIPSMOVING ParrottPlays Floes Jam Traffic Cop Vessels Balclien’s Can’t Budge Hop Delayed ST JOHNS N£V March 21 (P) Great blocks of Ice Jammed hi White bay by a westerly wind made It impossible today for ships carrying survivors of the Viking disaster to budge The Sagonawlth 110 of the rescued aboard was blocked In hummocks live miles off Horse island unable to make the slightest progress toward St Johns where the injured men might ease themselves in hospital beds With navigation impossible the slim hope of finding any of the 26 men now missmg was fixed on avi- t:lh ation Bernt Balchen veteran arctic flier was held up at St John N B 686 miles away where he worked feverishly reloading his Sikorsky amphibian He found he had 1770 pounds too much aboard Balchen planned to cruise over the me wastes In the hope that Varick T'rissell New York picture producer and others of the missing might still be alive Of the 155 men who were aboard the Viking when she blew up last Sunday off Horse island two are known to be dead (the bodies have been recovered) eight are on the island 110 are on the Sagona nine are believed to be on the Imogene and other sealing vessels in the Bowring Brothers fleet and 26 are piissmg Marauders Loot Moving Box Cars TRINIDAD Colo (UP)— Thieves in a manner yet unknown to police broke Into a box car on a moving Santa Fe freight tram near Trinidad and removed two of Its porcine occupants Four more of the pigs removed by the robbers or else which fell out of the opened door were found wandering near the tracks by sheriffs officers searching for clues to the Identity of the robbers and their methods The officers fouhd the tracks of an automobile near a grade on the line and assumed that the missing porkers had been placed In the machine and driven irom the scene of the robbery Sheep are now being raised extensively In the Aleutian islands s Causes Crash Bay JUNEAU Alaska March 31 (P— A buoy swung Idly over the watery grave of the “treasure ship" Islander sunk near here In 1901 while homeward bound with Yukon as another attempt was being planned to wrest fabled wealth from the rusted hulk under 360 feet of water Just how much gold dust bullion and money was aboard the vessel when it went down with the loss of many lives no one knows The Wiley brothers who have conducted diving operatiohs at the wreck for several years are convinced several millions of dollars are burled Oldtlmers who talked to survivors are ef varying opinions as to the treasure Monte Enow 8eattle newspaperman at the scene a few hours after the vessel sank feels the Wileys will be lucky if they get anything as there have been a number of attempts to reach the sunken gold The ship’s safe opened when it became apparent sinking was unavoidable Snow says Many of the prospectors bound their wealth to their belts and Jumped overboard —to be carried to the bottom by their gold Speculation however has not prevented Carl H Wiley an Olympia Wash mechanic from proceeding with his treasure hunt “Tor two summer seasons WUey and his assistants have been diving in a curiously constructed diving bell equipped with powerful lights and a movable arm Navigating instruments the ship’s bell suitcases of personal belongings and a few pokes filled with gold dust and nuggets have been brought to the surface Last summer the divers believed they had found the purser's office add hoped soon to locate the safe Yesterday Frank Curtis of the Seattle and Portland firm of Curtis Brothers house movers announced a contract had been made wtth the Wileys to attempt to raise the Islanded hulk by means of huge scows and pull her Into shallow water In the meantime prevented by winter storms from continuing with their diving the Wiley brothers’ outfit is anchored in Greens cove about 12 miles from here and near the wreck The diving bell Invented by Carl WUey is large enough for only one man It is of caststeel and said to be strong enough to resist ocean pressure at a depth of 500 feet SEATTLE (UP) — Traffic officers are a necessary nui- sance but a creature that impersonates one is an abomination according to J B Swanders salesman Swanders was driving along an arterial highway when he "heard a shrill whistle then another and another Thinking that he must have unconsciously violated a traffic law on his Swanders slapped brakes and stopped so quickly that a truck smashed Into the rear end of his automobile: He stepped from his car and looked for the eop There was none Then he heard the whistle' again and saw a parrot bobbing Its head Jauntily in a cage nearby MINER BRINGS NEW LIFE TO ‘GHOST’ CAMP EMPIRE Colo (UP)— Many Colohave become “ghost" cities since depression struck the pioneer Industry of this state but Walter Swanson has the credit of bringing one of them “back from rado mining towns the grave” Empire once prosperous had run the gamut of boom camp days to that of a deserted village lost In the hills Swanson himself a veteran once took half a million dollars in gold iroin a mine invested it later and lost it After that adventure he went back to prospecting and acquired a lease on the Gold Dirt mine A neighbor mine the Benton once owned by Colonel Dumont who took a million dollars from it was idle at the time and Swanson obtained it too The Gold Dirt mine had an excellent tunnel and drainage system but CAR WRECKED DODGING DOG little good ore The Benton had not WESTPORT Conn (UP)— A pet only pay dirt but also rich veins of dog owes its life to the fact that when it ran across the highway here high grade oie The veteran miner studied modern Zenon Hackey was so mining methods connected his two he swerved his automobile off thr properties by a new tunnel and there load the machine overturning and struck a fortune in gold plunging thirty feet Into the salt The result of all of this is that Em- marshes “Well 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