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VOLUME XVI. NUMBER 160. SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JULY 18. 1931.
PRICE TEN CENTS
HOPES UNO FEARS
GERMAN PEOPLE
RESTS STATESMEN
BREUNING IS OPTIMISTIC BUT
TENSION RUNS HIGH ALL
OVER GERMANY
BERLIN, July 18, (£>)—'The
hopes and fears of the Fatherland
went with her statesmen tg Paris
to convince France that unless
financial aid is forthcoming Ger
many's crisis may become Europe’s
catastrophe.
Millions of Germans are hoping
Ereuning and Curtius will be able
to secure French collaboration in
a long term loan or credits but
fearing political conditions attach
ed to such assistance will be un*
acceptable to the Reich. Breuning
however, is optimistic but bill un
a tension all over Germany judg
ing from press and official com
ment, even greater than when
President H o o v e r’s moratorium
hung in the balance.
AFTER HAWKS’ RECORD
NEW YORK, July 18. (/P)—James
Goodman Hall, New York stock
broker and war aviator, hopped
off at 4:30 Eastern Standard time,
for a nonstop flight to Havana in
an attempt to shatter Captain
Hawks’ record.
SCHOONER FAIRLAi
DESTROYED 81 FIRE
JUNEAU. July 13, (IP)—Fire de
stroyed the fishing craft Fairland.
in Idaho Inlet, on the north shore
of Chichagof Island Wednesday
right, according to a radio mes
sage received here which said
Capt. R. P. Rudic and members of
the crew are reported to have had
a narrow escape losing all of their
personal effects.
The captain and crew will be
brought here Monday and sent on
to Ketchikan.
DEI II” IS
BACK III EERMANY
BERLIN, July 18, (JP)—Max
Schmeling is back home again,
this time fully recognized by Ger
man boxing experts as the legiti
mate heavy-weight champion of
the world and a credit to the Fath
erland.
“Der Maxie” arrived in Berlin by
air from Bremen and found an en
thusiastic crowd of 8,000 waiting
to cheer the champion who proved
his right to the crown by whipping
Young Stribling so easily in
rj Cleveland.
SOCIETY WEDDING
NEW YORK July 18. (/P)—Clar
ence H. McKay, chairman of the
board of directors of the Postal
Telegraph and Cable Corporation
and Miss Anna Case, concert so
prano and for eight years a mem
ber of the Metropolitan Opera
Company, were married in St
Mary’s Catholic Church at Roslyn
Long Island.
EDITOR SELBY BUYS PAPER
JUNEAU, July 18, (jP)—L. Lati
mer Gray, olcfctimer of Juneau and
for years chief of the fire depart
ment, with Hal B. Selby, former
publisher of Valdez and Seward
newspapers, lately linotyper in
Florida, Oklahoma, Seattle and
Bellingham, announced the pur
chase of Stroller’s Weekly.
MCI FITE OF
GERMUNY IN DUE
PARIS, July- 18, (JP)—The arrival
of the heads of the German gov
ernment for the first time since
the end of the war is awaited with
the belief that the financial fate
of Germany, if not all of Europe,
hangs, upon their meeting with
French statesmen.
Should they fail to agree on con
ditions for credit, the negotiations
might be protracted and might re
sult in cancellation of Monday’s
seven-power conference in Lon
don.
IX MUST REM
BOXING THREE MONTHS
BERLIN, July 18, (/Pi—Prospects
of a heavy-weight title match in
September between Max Sclimel
. ing and Primo Camera went
glimmering when Schmelin g's
! oculist warned him he must re
1 train from boxing or training at
! least two or three months because
. of eye trouble.
I Schmeling, who just returned
I here, complained of pain about his
; left eye. He said after the battle
that Stribling had struck his giov
! cd thumb in his eye in the first
round.
GOLUB IS WORTH
« GENTS MORE
NOWTHAN IN 1926
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 18,
(/p)_Lowering costs of living and
wholesale prices in June have been
set forth by the Labor Department
to show that the 1926 dollar is now
worth $1.42.
Last month the department also
reported an increase of 2.7 percent
in building construction and em
ployment in 20 representative cit
ies and 2.1 percent payroll in
crease.
Food prices are credited with a
decline of 15.8 percent during the
past six months. Clothing 4.6;
rents 3.1 as compared with Janu
ary figures.
RETURN FROM SOUTH SEAS
LOS ANGELES, July 18, (/P)—
Zane Grey, author and fisherman,
and his daughter, Betty, and her
husband, Robert C. Carney return
ed to Los Angeles from a tour of
four months in the South Seas,
j They steamed here in 13 days from
the Marquesas Islands.
| A safety fuel for automobiles
! and airplanes is as incombustible
as Diesel oil but as productive
of engine performance as good
aviation gasoline.
ANOTHER EPIC IN ALASKA FLY
ING IS RECORDED BY
PILOT BLUNT
Since arriving in Alaska last
January Father Bernard Hubbard'
“The Glacier Priest”, professor of j
geology at Santa Clara, lecturer |
and explorer, has mushed 1600
'miles, flown 4,000 miles and walked
350 miles under a 100-pound pack,
! saying . nothing of minor trips.
I Arriving in Seward Friday where
the initial start was made, he was j
enthused with the photographic
and scientific fecords obtained of
Alaska’s “crater of the moons,”
Aniakchak volcano which was ob
served from both air and ground
while the crater was in active
eruption.
Father Hubbard paid a glowing
tribute to “the Bering Sea Eagle,”
Chief Pilot Harry Blunt, of the
'Pacific International Airways of
Alaska, of whom he said is an
’ animate part of his plane.
, Aniakchak crater ^as finally
conquered from the air after. Fa
ther Hubbard and Pilot Blunt were
almost sucked into the crater in
their first attempt to fly over
the crater; they were unable to
gain altitude from the volcanic
gasses and hampered by almost
constant storms which, however,
did not prevent thorough investi
gation afoot.
Father Hubbard and Pilot Blunt
made the last attempt to fly over
Aniakchak before bringing the
summer’s work to a close by throw
ing out every bit of unnecessary
weight from the plane until just
bare essentials were left.
! The “Padre of Snows” and
Blunt took off from Chignik,
headed for the moon crater, 60
miles distant, soaring above the
gas laden areas until they reached
a height of 10,000 feet where they
'looked down upon a seething mass
flying across while Hubbard shot
pictures.
Their objective thus gained they
: spiraled down to Meshik Lake
I where they made their base camp
'and picked up Kenneth Chisholm,
(professor at' the University of San
Francisco, and Mechanic Ollie
Ames and equipment and then to
Chignik. Fog and clouds blocked
up Iliamna Pass and the plane
came down at the end of Iliamna
Lake, remaining overnight.
Yesterday Blunt tried a pass
| further south of Iliamna, boring
j through a hole in which a storm
jwas brewing into Kamashak Bay,
| flying most of the way only a few
feet above the ground and water,
speeding on to Anchorage where
'they arrived Friday. The entire
/flight of five hours brought to a
j close a new epic in Alaska flying
and exploration.
Father Hubbard arrived in Sew.
ard last evening and stated the
party would reassemble here thence
to Seattle the latter part of this
month.
The exploror left today on a
flight to Holy Cross and the lower
Yukon where he will gather per
sonal effects and data collected
last winter prior to the hop across
the lonely regions to Alaska Penin
sula He returns to Seward in a
WILL TRY HOP AGAIN
SEATTLE, July 18, OP)—Avia
tors Robbins and Jones said the
work of installing the new 410
horse power motor in the “Fort
worth” is near completion and
they hope to make a second at
tempt on a Tokio hop on Monday,
weather permitting.
UIHfiE NOT FIT TO
HSR PEISLET
JUNEAU, July 18 UP)—1The yacht
Linda, Capt. Matt Pleasly at the
helm, arrived today with Profess
or Schmoe, naturalist of the Puget
Sound Academy of Science at
Seattle in charge of the party.
Captain Pleasly refused to talk at
the luncheon given them by the
Chamber for he said his wife at
times claimed his language was
not fit for anyone to hear.
The yacht will cruise Northward
to photograph whales and sea life
in the vicinity of Fairweather.
NOTED NRGHITEGT OIES
IN MTH DOUSE ROOM
SAN FRANCISCO, July 18, (JP)—
John Galen Howard, 67, widely
known as an architect, died in a
! room in a bath establishment. The
coroner’s office said death was ap
parently from natural causes.
Mr. Howard was dean of archi
tecture, University of California,
and served as a consulting archi
tect in 1901 for the Buffalo Expo
sition, the Alaska-Yukon Exposi
tion and the Panama-Pacific In
ternational Exposition.
RUN AGAINST CHAMP
ARLINGTON PARK, CHICAGO.
July 18, (/P)—“Mate” about the
! only three-year-old this season
with the stuff to challenge “Twen
ty Grand”, was here preparing to
race against the champion in the
famous Arlington Stakes today.
osSTnEs
AMERICAN
j Detroit 3. Philadelphia 6.
St. Louis 6, Boston 2.
i Cleveland 2, New oYrk 1.
Chicago 7, Washington 12.
NATIONAL
Philadelphia 4, Pittsburgh 1.
Boston 0 Cincinnati 5.
New York 7, Chicago 6.
Brooklyn 4, St. Louis 1.
PACIFIC COAST
Seattle 6, Hollywood 3.
San Francisco 4, Missions 5.
Los Angeles 12, Sacramento 8.
Portland 7, Oakland 9.
week where he will await the ar
rival of the mail steamer Starr
bringing the remainder of the
party from Chignik, composed ol
Dick Douglas, Georgetown Univer
sity, Boy Scout member of the
Martin Johnson African explora
tion; Bill Regan, of the University
of Santa Clara.
Three books will be written by
three members of the expedition
Father Hubbard will begin torn
of lectures throughout the States
probably in September.
Upon his return to Seward nexl
week Father Hubbard plans tc
exhibit last season’s moving pic
tures of his explorations in the
Moon Crater of Aniakchak.
CONGRESSMEN 1
11 VESSELS. DUE
HERE IN WEEK
SOLOXS ABOARD CUTTER TA
HOE AND THE STEAMER
YUKON
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SEATTLE, July 18, (Special to
I The Gateway)—The cutter Tahoe
! and the steamer Yukon will main
tain the same schedules and
should arrive at the usual time,
j Those who are on the cutter
: Tahoe are Congressman Frank
Murphy of Ohio, Congressman W.
iw. Hastings of Oklahoma, Joseph
| W. Byrns of Tennesee, Scott Lea
j vitt of Montana, Addison Smith of
i Idaho. Don Dalton of Utah.
With their husbands are Mrs.
Murphy, Hastings, Byrns, Leavitt,
Smith and Dalton. Congressman
! Edward Taylor of Colorado and W.
| A. Duvall, who has charge of ar
i rangements, are also aboard the
, cutter.
On the steamer Yukon are Con
i gressman and Mrs. William Eaton
of Colorado, Congressman Robert
! Luce °f Massachusetts, F. J. Bailey,
j assistant to director of budget;
i also Horace Albright, director of
t national parks; W. C. Mendenhall
| and D. F. Hewitt of the geological
! survey are also scheduled to be on
j the steamer Yukon.
t
I
SEATTLE, July IS. (7Pi—With
: plans for an extended tour of In
j terior Alaska, Congressman Wil
liam Eaton of Denver, Mrs. Eaton,
Robert Luce of Massachusetts,
Horace Albright, director of the
National park service, F. J. Bailey,
; assistant to the director of the
I budget and W. A. Duvall, commit
| tee clerk, sailed on the SS Yukon.
j COMPLICATIONS Mist
' FROM RENO DIVORCES
RENO, Nev., July 17. UP)—A bolt
of lightning out of the desert skies
fell onto tlie oasis of Reno when
a series of Supreme Court deci
sions were interpreted as render
ing thousands of quick and easy
divorces unstable.
The almost endless chain of com
plications that may arise from un
sound divorces is creating visions
of sleepless nights for lords, movie
stars, society leaders, captains of
industry and other prominent folk
who had believed their decrees
were above reproach.
NO RECONCILIATION
RENO, July 18, (/P)—Jack Demp
. sey and his wife Estelle Taylor,
film actress, are going to be di
► vorced but there will be no “sensa
tion” in the case. This became
, practically assured when both
) Dempsey in Reno and Estelle in
Hollywood, declared that no re
i conciliation between them was
possible.