MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXVIII. NUMBER 147.
SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 1932.
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RUGKETEEH MS BEING
DISTURBED 01 GHOULS
CHICAGO, June 24, — Mayor G. (
Hahn, of South Chicago Heights.'
called the leaden bluff of three'
bandits on the deserted highway,
near here and, disregarding his
personal danger, shot one to death
and forced the others to flee.
The trio of ghouls, apparently in
tent on robbing the grave of Geo.
“Red” Barker, labor racketeer and
public enemy, who was recently
slain by rival gangsters, were
bending over the ground and had
started to dig into the grave when
they were seen by Hahn^’ho shot
it out with them.
Valuable papers and jewelry,
which were reported to have been!
buried with the gangster, was be
lieved to have been the motive for
the thievery. The caretaker asked
them what they were doing and
they answered with a volley of bul-1
lets, but missed him.
About this time Mayor Hahn
came along when he opened fire
on them.
DEBITS STRIVE FOB
II CONCISE PLATFORM
CHICAGO, June 24, (/P>—'The
Democratic platform makers are
trying to set a record; their goal
is for the shortest and most con
cise declaration of party principals
ever to have been written.
They have Roosevelt’s support
for a tentative limit of 1,000 words.
Dill of Washington believes the
prohibition plank will be written
in 25 words, and that it will call
for resubmission to the states the
question of retention, modification
or repeal of the 18th amendment.
Murray of Oklahoma says if the
Democrats succeed in abolishing
the two-thirds rule, a third party
will be formed.
SOME DELEGATES MS!
HOLD OUT FIRST BALLOT
CHICAGO, June 24, (iP>— Claims
of Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt’s
spokesmen that he will be nomi
nated for the presidency by the
Democratic party on the conven
tion’s first ballot, were debated by
his rivals.
There are reports indicating that
he may fall short about 100 votes
and this estimate is based upon
belief that many favorite votes,
and instructed delegates headed by
Alfred Smith of New York, will hold
out against the Governor for enuff
ballots to prevent a band wagon
rush.
WILL NOT SUPPORT HERB
PORTLAND, June 24, (/Pi—Doc
tor Clarence True Wilson, head of
the Methodist board of temperance,
prohibition and public morals, ex
pressed doubt that he would sup
port President Hoover, although he
is not advocating a third party.
He is scheduled to go on trial here
next week charged with reckless
driving
AWAIT APPROVAL
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 24,
(A3)—Awaiting President Hoover’s
approval, is the legislation which
will enable 97,000 world war veter
ans to renew their five-year gov
ernment insurance contracts for
an equal period without further
medical examinations.
DANGER PESTILENCE
COLMA, Mexica, June 24, —
Governor Sausedo said at least 100
died in the tidal wave and that the
great danger now is that of pesti
lence, even though outside aid is
arriving. Most of the dead are in
the Cutyutlan district, a famous
summer resort, where 20,000 are
living outdoors.
GORE IS CONFIRMED
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 24,
(/P)—Lester O. Gore was confirmed
Thursday by the Senate as Judge
of the Second Divsion in Alaska.
UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEF
BILL PISSED SENATE
WASHINGTON, D. C , June 24,
(yP)—The $2,300,000,000 Democratic
unemployment relief program was
approved Thursday by the Senate
but a veto was expected in view
that there is a $500,000,000 public
works bond issue provision to which
President Hoover is opposed.
The final form of the measure
is still a matter of speculation as
it caries to conference the $2,300,
000,000 Garner relief bill which
passed the House,
i It is expected that a compromise
1 will be worked out.
: DUBLIN IS SCENE
RELIGIOUS FESTIVALS
DUBLIN, June 24, —Thousands
i of Catholic pilgrims crowded St. j
! Mary’s cathedral for the celebra- I
' tion of mass on the second day of
the international Eucharistic con
i i
gress.
; General meetings and lectures |
' were held at local theaters and at j
i University College. The Papal Le- ;
gate, Cardinal Lauri, was to take
i the salute this afternoon from the
thousands of men participating in
a mass meeting at Phoenix Park.
Great crowds assembled at all j
meetings, but only a small percen
tage of the million or more pil
grims, gained admission.
BRITISH COLUMBIA
! COLO PLACER PIELO
i IS STAGING A BOOM
CRANBROOK. B. C., June 24. —
This week witnessed the active pre
parations on the part of some 30
men for the Perry Creek placer
fields. Included in the number of
gclcl seekers are some 20 local Chin
ese, who are outfitting for a sea
son’s work in the vicinity.
A number of gold shipments
reached Cranbrook from Wild Horse
recently, the largest recovery total
ing two ounces. New sluice boxes,
rockes and pans are finding their
wray to the diggings in quest of the
precious metal.
A large number of provincial free
miner’s certificates have been is
miner’s certificates have been issu
ed from the Cranbrook office of the
mining record
THIRD PARTY INTO FIELD
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 24,
j —Plans for a convention of the
veteran-bonus seekers to decide
whether their political activity
i would be confined to fighting bo
: nus opponents or whether they will
1 organize a third party move, w’ere
laid here by the leaders of this
j ragged army of world war veterans.
The opponents to the bonus are
attempting to make a survey of the
| petitioners to find out how many
1 of them actually were in active ser
I vice or whether most of them were
: last draft training camp soldiers,
1 or not.
MASONIC DELEGATES
YOSEMITE, Calif., June 24, —
I Delegates from the United States
■ and Canada gathered at Camp
| Curry for the annual international
i convention of the High Twelve
Masonic Luncheon Club.
VEGETABLES FOR HEALTH
GLENDALE, Calif., June 23, (/P)~
Eggs, poultry or other farm pro
ducts will be accepted by a Glen
dale hospital as payment for hos
pital services, the management an
nounced.
MIT0M11E PIOIH1
DIES IT CLEVELAND
CLEVELAND, O., June 24, —A. I
Winstcn, Sr., 72, one of the most
famous men of the automobile in-r
dustry, died here after a two weeks
illness.
He was generally credited with
being the first commercial manu
facturer of the automobile and the j
Winston car was seen in many;
parts of the country long before j
any other automobile had made
its first trials over the then dirt
roads.
WILL NOT BUDGE
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 24,:
(/P)—The new urgent request by
authorities that the bonus vets
be disbanded and start home, was
j met by the leaders with the declar
ation that they will not budge but
would seek to force an extra ses
j sion of Congress.
AGAINST CHANGE ,
CHICAGO, June 24. William Mc
Adoo, leading sponsor of the can- !
didacy of Speaker of the House,.
John N. Garner, came out today!
against a change in the two-thirds
nominating rule in the present
Democratic convention; h e thus
joined the anti-Roosevelt force.
HITLER MAY TAKE HAND
BERLIN, June 24, (TP)—Hitler’s
national socialists threatened to
j seize the police power unless the
; Von Papen government puts an
1 end to the rioting which has cost
the lives of 10 in Germany within
a week.
I
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PEIPING, China, June 24, —The
British nationals were advised to
evacuate the territory around Chi
entao and the Korean border, in
Kirin, after the alleged slaying of
a German catholic missionary, Fr.
Conrad Rapp, allegedly by Japan
ese soldiers.
Fearing anti-foreign uprisings
; the British were advised to leave,
and will probably evacuate at once.
It is believed that there are no
| Americans now in this region.
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PRINCE JOINS DAD
LONDON, June 24, (/P)—Former
Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm
joined his father, the former Kais
er, at Zanboorg, Holland, the Her
ald said, for a conference with res
pect to returning the former Kais
er to the German throne. A Berlin
i dispatch, however, denied the re
1 port.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
New York 6, St. Louis 1
Boston 8, Brooklyn 7.
Phillies 16, Chicago 10.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Detroit 6, Boston 3.
Washington 6, Cleveland 1.
St. Louis 14, New York 1.
Phillies 4. Chicago 3.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
i Sacs 5, Missions 3.
RUSSIAIV RECORDS SHOW ALASKA WAS
SETTLED PRIOR 1741 •
BERING DID NOT DISCOVER
ALASKA, ACCORDING TO
RECENT DATA
In a pamphlet reprinted from
I the Journal of American History,
Theodore S. Farrelly marshals evi
dence to show that Alaska was dis
j covered and settled more than a
, century and a half before the ac
; cepted date of 1741.
The evidence consists of compil
j lations made by a small group of
| men in St. Petersburg at about the
■ time of the outbreak of the World
: War. The archives of the capital
' of Russia says Rev. Nicholas J.
Kedroff an official of the church,
show that plans were under way |
for a search party to rediscover
the sites of the first settlements
when the war interfered.
While conducting further search j
j of the records Father Kedroff is |
i said to have found a narrative
mentioning an expedition which
had colonized in what appears
from the context to have been
Alaska before 1600.
In substance the recital recounts
that in the year 1570, a large group
of Russian refugees from the city
of Great Novgorod set sail from a
river in northern Siberia, across
the Pacific for America, in a fleet
of seven vessels. Arriving, Russian
priests in the party built a church
I and founded a town which they
named “Anadir.”
On analyzing the validity of
these contentions as to early col
onization, there is found certain
encouragement for the belief that
there did. exist Russian settlements
in Alaska before the date given in
most histories for the discovery
credited to Bering
When discussing the early mi
grations out of Russia, says Mr.
Farrelly, we know that Russia, us
ing the name in the broadest sense,
went through many stages of vio
lent domestic upheaval before the
end of the 16th century; that the!
frightfulness of many of them, es
pecially those of the reign of Czar
Ivan Vassilievich the Terrible, was
: beyond description; escape of the
vanquished beyond the ultimate
boundaries was often the price of
life. All avenues of escape were
closed save to Siberia and the
Aleutian chain of islands, which
marked a route to Alaska and safe
ty. It was but a step across, and
intercourse between the primitive
peoples of the two had been com
mon from time immemorial.
That a complete and compre
hensive history of this earliest ex- '
odus was not made available is ex
plained thru the circumstances of
these migrations. While the Span-1
iards and other explorers enlarged ■
upon their exploits in order to el
evate their prestige, publicity by
the emigres was the least thing de- j
sired, rather courting secrecy as to j
their movements and final desti-!
nation.
As all history of America was
compiled after the invention of:
printing, it is natural that what
occurred prior to that time, lost:
much thru the tedium and labor !
involved. These hand-compiled re- J
cords are now in the archives of j
the Soviet government and offer a I
splendid field for research on the j
part of the modern historian. Be
lief that a practically complete re
cord exists is fortified by the fact
that the peak of Muscovite civili
zation in some regions was reach
ed prior to the date of invention
of printing The city of Novgorod
was approximately ten times as
populous as it is today, and as
great in cultural respects.
Manuscripts, written from verbal
reports of explorers and travelers
are what we now have to rely on
for reference, many of which says
Mr. Farrelly, undoubtedly were un
touched by Bancroft and other
compilers of Alaskan history.
Maps, copies of which are in ex
istence, and one of which has been
loaned The Gateway, offer a crude
effort at delineating the coast line
of Alaska from Point Barrow to
Cape Spencer. This chart, executed
in 1597, teems with Latin nomen
clature. The chart approximates
Seward as located in latitude 42 N.
longitude 205 E. As near as can be
interpreted from the chart it is
on “Bahia de las Islas (Bay of Is
lands) with Cook Inlet and Por
; tage bay joining somewhere about
the spot where Knik Arm intrudes
northward past Anchorage.
The draughtsman executing the
chart established an alibi desig
nating most of “Anian Regnum”
(Unknown Region)
FIGHT ABROGATION
CHICAGO, June 24, (A5;—The F.
Roosevelt men unanimously decid
ed to fight for abrogation of the
100 year old, two-thirds nomination
rule.
WRECKED FLYER ~~
IS LANDED MIAMI
MIAMI, June 24, —This vacation
city declared a holiday of its own
today for Stanislaus Hausner, mo
tion picture operator and flier,
who clung seven days without food
or water to his wrecked plane, and
who yesterday returned from Eur
ope.
He told his friends here that “if
I had a plane I’d be willing to try
the same flight tomorrow.”
His recent unsuccessful attempt
to hop the Atlantic was financed
by friends, at Warsaw and in the
United States.
FRANCE, BRITAIN AGREE
GERMANY CANT PAY
GENEVA, June 24, —Premier Ed
ouard Herriot of France and Prime
Minister Ramsay MacDonald o f
Great Britain, agreed tentatively
that Germany cannot be asked to
pay her reparation debt now or
during the period of recovery from
the world crisis.
This development followed r e
newal of the British drive to wipe
! off the reparations slatfe clean,
when MacDonald conferred for
• two hours with Herriot.
KANSAS CITY MAN
INVENTS MACHINE
FOR PLACER GOLD
W. C. Rickel, of Kansas City, is
in Denver arranging to take a pla
cer machine, which he has perfect
ed, to the Washington Placer near
Breckenridge, Colo., formerly own
ed by Senator Henry M. Teller. Mr.
Rickel says he has been demon
strating his machine in Denver to
the satisfaction of numerous min
ing men and engineers. The ma
chine represent six years of devel
opment and experimentation and
some $25,000 of expense.
Following are some of the feat
ures embodied in the Rickel ma
chine: Three wray motion, plane
tary at both ends with different
speeds; a rocking motion varying
in degree as desired; longitudinal
motion. Altogether this motion
combines the principles of the fol
lowing standard devices: Gold min
er’s pan, sluice box, flume, long
tom, rocker, ocean undertow, cas
cading, wave motion, amalgama
tion, carpet process, Hungarian
riffles, concentration, etc., This
comdination avoids caking of con
tents, says the inventor.
The Rickel machine will work in
connection with steam shovel
equipment. All assay by J. W.
Richards & Son of Denver of head
and tail samples from a test on
Clear Creek gravel showed a recov
ery of 96% per cent considered very
good since this gravel is mixed with
mill tailings.
Mr. Rickel expects to have his
machine in operation near Breck
enridge in June.
THE KING’S HORSE WON
ASCOT HEATH, Eng., June 20,
—A tremendous popular ovation
was given King George when his
colt “Limelight’’ won the Jersey
stakes, the climax of the Royal As
cot meeting. Hats of the fashion
able women and gentlemen were
trampled by the crowd that tried
to -watch the King personally lead
in the winner.
CALIFORNIA MINE DEAL
The Black Hawke mine, near
Soulsbyville, Calif., has been ac
quired by the Organized Gold Min
ing Company, a recently formed
California corporation headed by
Col. C. H. Silliman of I os Angeles
SCHMELING MAY BE
MATCHED WITH SAILOR
NEW YORK, June 24, —The post
mortems over the Sharkey-Schmel
ing fight has resulted only in a
statement by the Boxing Commis
sion that the affair is a closed case
and Madison Square Garden pro
mised to arrange a third meeting
between the two.
Bert Stand, secretary of the New
York State Athletic Commission,
formally announced that no offi
cial action had been requested in
the matter and that none would
be taken. Stand said “Sharkey won
the fight fairly. He is the world
champion.”
Jimmy Johnston, shrewd director
of boxing for the Garden, took ad
vantage of the situation to an
nounce that he would arrange for
a return match in September or
next June. Sport writers and fans
throughout the country are in dis
agreement over the 15-round deci
sion which passed the title to Jack
Sharkey. Most believe Schmeling
won.
SUffll IS HITE
m GOLFB
FLUSHING, N. J-, June 24, —
Gene Sarazen, who used to be U.
S. open champion and who is the
present title holder, went out yes
terday and made himself a snappy
par 70 in beating the great Bobby
Jones, 3 to 1, to remain a firm fav
orite on the eve of the National
Golf tournament.
The Sarazen-Jones duel was
scarcely more than a friendly
match, but it served to demonstrate
Gene’s scoring ability on the
lengthy and tricky Fresh Meadow
course.
AMONG THE GOLFERS
FLUSHING, N. Y., June 24, —
Olin Dutra, of Lcs Angeles, shot
a sensational 69. one under par, to
lead the first round in the U. S.
Open Golf championship. Leo Die
gel had a 73; Sarazen had a 74; Jos.
Jurado o f Argentine, and Bill
Burke, the defending champion,
as well as Hagen, all had a 75. Mor
tie Dutra, came home with a 77.
VINES IN THE LEAD
WIMBLEDON, Eng., June 24. —
Vines led the Americans in the in
ter final 16 of English champion
ships, defeating Harry Hopman, of
Australia, 7-5, 6-2, 7-5.
BRAVES BUY PITCHER
BOSTON, June 24, —“Hub” Pru
ett, southpaw pitcher, has been
purchased by the Boston Braves
from the Newark International
league team. He formerly twirled
for the Oakland club.
I
VICTORIOUS MARCH
WIMBLEDON, Eng., June 24, —
, Helen Wills Moody and Sidney B.
Woods, defending the champion
; ship in the women’s and men’s
singles, continued their victorious
advance in the British National
Tennis tournament. Mrs. Moody
advanced to the third round with
j a 6-1, 6-2 victory ovr Miss W. M. C.
Bower, left-handed British star.
NOW IN THIRD PLACE
NEW YORK, June 2 4, —The
Pittsburgh “Pirates” replaced the
Brooklyn “Dodgers” in third place
in the National league standings,
when they nosed out the “Dodgers”
by the score of 7-6, despite “Hack”
Wilson’s two homerts for the “Flat
bushers.”
26 NATIONS APPROVE
GENEVA, June 24, (£>)—'The U.
S- planto reduce the world’s arma
ments by one-third and relieve the
world of an expenditure of from
10 to 15 billions of dollars in 10
years, had the approval of 26 na
tions, either publicly or privately,
representatives o f these nations
have informed Ambassador Hugh
Gib'cn.