VOLUME XVI. NUMBER 174.
SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 1931.
PRICE TEN CENTS
EIGHTEEN THOUSAND
HONGKONG, July 29. (^—Re
ports of a massacre of 18,000 peo
ple during a reign of terror car
ried on by communists, who seized
the town of Tunglan Kwangsi
province, were received here in
messages from the interior.
More than 70,000 persons were
made homeless by pillaging and
burning by the reds, advices said,
and damage was estimated at
„ more than $5,000,000.
The interior districts have been
neglected by the military during
the last several weeks during the
struggle of the Canton insurgents
to assert themselves against the
rule of Chiang Kai Shek and his
Nanking government.
Appeals for aid were reecived
from many parts of southern
China.
SALINAS, Calif.. July 29. (£>)—
Four contestants, three of them
women, were injured in the pro
gram of the 20th annual Cali
fornia rodeo.
Dona Cowan, twice world cham
pion all-around cowgirl, was in
jured in the girls’ relay race when
her spirited horse fell over back
wards; she suffered internal in
juries and a possible broken hip.
Others injured were Mary Lee,
19; Perry Ivoro, and a man whose
identity was not learned.
THOUSUND MILES OF
HHIIS FLYIIG
WINNIPEG, Can., July 29. (A3)—
A thousand miles of the “most
hazardous country he could fly
over without an accompanying
protective plane” is the way Cana
dian airmen described Lindbergh’s
route across Canada.
Airmen, familiar with the Hud
son Bay, Churchill, Baker Lake,
^Aklavik route, say it is not as safe
as via Sioux Lookout, The Pas
down the MacKenzie River to Ak
lavik route.
It is the same distance and it
is said natural lakes dot the route
where safe landings can be made.
TAKE OFF AT MOSCOW
MOSCOW, July 29. (JP) — Amy
Johnson, British aviatrix, and her
companion J. Humphreys, took off
here and expect to spend the night
at Sverdlovsk, a thousand miles
distant. They are bound for Tok
yo. Moscow was the fourth stop
since leaving England.
FROM NUKA BAY
Capt. Pete Sather, head of the
Nuka Bay Transportation Co., re
turned to port Tuesday night from
the gold camp bringing with him
as passengers: Thos. Babcock, Mr.
and Mrs. Chas. Tecklenberg, Mrs.
John Rosness and son Henry and
Benny Crawford, Axel Wilson, Dave
Andrews Earl Mount, Christ Lar
sen, Frank Goyne and Earl Pilgrim.
BILLFOLD SAVES LIFE
BOMBAY, July 29. (/P)—A metal
studded pocket-book saved the
life of Acting Governor Hotson, of
Bombay, at Poona, when a student
named Gonhale fired two shots at
him from close range. The first j
struck the pocket-book and the j
other went wild.
HO-UnCUTER If
GET BOLKJF FORTUNE
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 29.
(;p)—The effort of the late Mrs.
Mary F. Henderson, capitol society
leader, to prevent the Henderson
millions from going to an adopted
grand-daughter, Mrs. Beatrice H.
Wholean, may result in the latter
getting the bulk of the fortune
after all.
Under the wills of the late Sen
ator from Missouri, John B. Hen
derson, Mrs. Henderson’s husband
and his son, John B. Henderson,
Jr., much of the property went to
Mrs. Wholean.
EX-MINISTERS ACQUITTED
PARIS, July 29. (/P)—Raoui Peret
and Rene Bernard, former cabinet
ministers, were acquitted by the
senate sitting as a high court of
justice to hear evidence in the
charges which grew out of the
Oustrice Bank failure.
INVOKES 1 TO
JOIN HOBBY, FtlLf
MOSCOW, July 29. (/P)—'The wife ,
of Professor Dmitru Tanend, of
Yale University, was found by the
Associated Press and informed that 1
her husband had invoked the aid
of Lady Astor and George Bernard j
Shaw in efforts to aid her to re- i
join her husband and family in
the United States
The Soviet had refused her per
mission to leave the country.
CONSTRUCTING SPEEDWAY
OAKLAND, July 29. (/Rj—Oak- ]
land will soon enjoy all the thrills j
of major auto racing, according i
to plans made public. A mile '
speedway is to be constructed to
be ready for racing early in Sep
tember.
TEACHERS REFUSED SALARY
HONGKONG, China, July 29. (jp)
—All school teachers were refused
their salary for the year by the
Nationalist government. Chiang
Kai Shek, president of the Na
tionalist government, said the
money would be used for a bigger !
and better army.
EXPLOSION destroys yacht i
AVALON, Calif., July 29. (/p)_I
Lester Schauck, a guest aboard!
the 110-foot two-masted yacht i
Windward, was slightly injured in [
a gasoline explosion which de-!
stroyed the vessel at anchor here.
locates new ore
VANCOUVER, B. C., July 29. (JP)
Texada Island, 50 miles from
here, may again be a gold pro
ducer. o. B. Bush and associates
of this city, after surveying the
north end of the island with geo
physical apparatus, have located
veins not htiherto known and have
staked a length of seven miles
across the island.
WILD LIFE SBLONS
ARRIVE IN THE CITY
WESTWARD HKE
With a study of Alaska game
and other wild life, oh sea and
land, as a part of their mission to
the Territory of Alaska, another
party, the second within a week,
of Congressmen, Senators and
heads of Federal departments, ar
rived in the city Tuesday after
noon from the Westward on board
the Bureau of Fisheries vessel
Penguin.
The party was tendered a ban
quet during the evening by the
Seward Chamber of Commerce
and during the day were taken
for motor trips to Lake Kenai.
Early last evening General Man
ager Otto F. Ohlson, of the Alaska
Railroad, arrived from his An
chorage headquarters, and this
morning the entire party departed
for Curry.
A brief stop will be made at An- !
chorage, then an overnight stay
at Curry. The following day the
party enters McKinley National
Park where two or t|iree days
will be spent, then ohf to Fair
banks. They return to the coast
via the Richardson Highway, the
Pdnguin picking them up at either
Valdez or Cordova.
Senator Frederick Walcott, Re
publican of Connecticutt, was the
first speaker at the banquet. The
Senator is a member of the Senate
Committee on Wild Life Conser
vation and spoke briefly of the
Westward trip just completed.
“The problems faced by the
country in preserving its wild life
are quite serious,” he said. “Our
work is to find the right soution
for them.”
Congressman Albert Carter, of
Oakland, Calif., who is serving
his fourth term in Congress, when
called upon for a few remarks,
said he was gathering information
in general about the Territory’s
resources and conditions and that
he is trying to help Alaska. Be
ing a member of the Rivers and
Harbors Committee, it was his
pleasure to assist in obtainnig the
appropriation for the Seward
breakwater and he added he was
glad to see the project almost
completed.
Senator Peter Norbeck of South
Dakota, another member of the
Wild Life Committee, said the
party had been Westward for 15
days and on 13 of those days it
rained.
Paul Redingfcon, Chief of the
U. S. Biological Survey, paying his
second visit to Alaska, commented
briefly on the trip but in the
main, on the successful experi
ment which is being carried on
in the Territory with regards to
buffalo.
Mel Horner, local business man,
addressed the assembly choosing
as his subject, pheasant experi
mentation in this area.
Represenattive Cal M. Brosius,
of the Third Division, impressed
upon the visitors the importance
of roads in the development of
Alaska; also that a territory of
today could in no way be com
pared with one of 50 years ago.
Capt. O. A. Johansen veteran
Alaska mariner, spoke on that
all-important of more aids to nav
igators in the waters of Alaska
RESTRAIN TALKING PICTURE
WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., July 29.
(^P)—Decision was reserved in the
Supreme Court on the application
of Theodore Dresier, novelist, to
restrain the Paramount Publix
from showing the talking version
of “An American Tragedy.”
IL SMITH WILL NOT
BE CHNDIDHTE IN 1992
NEW YORK, July 28. (/?>)—“Judg
ing from my talk with former Gov-,
ernor Smith, he is not in a re
ceptive mood to make another
try for the Presidency in 1932.”
This was the conclusion reached
by Mayor Anton J. Cermak of
Chicago, after his visit to the
former governor in his office in
the Empire State building.
This is the nearest to any pub
lic expression of Smith’s inten
tions in 1932. So far the former
Governor has maintained a
sphinx-like silence as to 1932.
WALES MAKES HOLE-IN-ONE
WIMBLETON, Eng., July 29. {JP)
—The Prince of Wales made an
other hole-in-one. He drove the
220-yard sixth hole at the home
course here and the ball ended in
the cup.
;ep comm not
ALARMED ABOUT GRNF
FREDERICHSHAFEN, Germany,
July 29. (JP) —The Zeppelin Works
officials here are not alarmed be
cause they have heard no word
from the Graf since its rendez
vous Monday night with the Rus
sian icebreaker Malign Franz
Joseph-Land. There is a possibility
that the Graf is in “the zone of
silence” of the Arctic and has pro
bably flown over the Wiese Kam
enev Islands,
50 DEATHS FROM HEAT
SAN FRANCISCO, July 29. (/P)—
A terrific heat wave continued over
central and southern California,
and the forest fire situation was
declared by State and Federal au
thorities to be the most dangerous
in the history of the States. Deaths
from the heat wave reached ap
proximately 50 since last Saturday.
TO VISIT MUSSOLINI
BERLIN, July 29. (>P)—Chancel
lor Heinrich Bruening and Foreign
Minister Julius Curtius are plan
ning a visit to Rome next week.
Mussolini, first to head the import
ant European governments, an
nounced his acceptance of the
Hoover moratorium and invited
the Germans to Rome immediately
after their visit to London.
POSSESSES DECORATION
CLEVELAND, Ohio, July 28. (>P)—
Former Secretary of War Newton
D. Baker has in his possession a
decoration of the Cross of Italy.
It was presented to him by Count
Alberto Bepradenigo, Italian con
sulere of King Victor Emanuel.
and the North Pacific.
C. T. Hatten, superintendent of
the Jesse Lee Home, dwelled on
the success of the institution in
raising and educating children and
of the few failures.
WOULD-BE ASSASSIN
OF IAEA. GOVERNOR
NOW IN HOSPITAL
JALAPA, Vera Cruz, Mex., July
29. (iP)—A young man, who at
tempted to assissinate Governor
Adalberte Tejeda, was in a hospital
and many of the plot leaders were
in jail after a night of rioting in
Which four of the principle
churches were damaged by fire. A
shot struck the governor’s ear.
In the city of Vera Cruz, two
priests, Father Dario Acosta, 22,
and Father Alberto Landa, 23,
were killed in a raid on the As
cunsion church.
The governor had warned that
unless the Catholic church com
piled with the new law, limiting
the number of priests in the State
of Vera Cruz, he would take meas
ures to enforce it. After the at
tack on the governor, a mob ob
taining gasoline, advanced on the
churches.
DIE 0. S. DIRIGIBLE
RETURNS TO HMD
LAKEHURST, N, J., July 29. (J?)
—The Naval dirigible Los Angeles
slipped to a landing here after
bearing the King and Queen of
Siam on an aerial tour of the
Metropolitan area.
The royal pair were enthusiastic
over the jaunt. They said it was
one of the finest experiences they
have had since they landed in the
United States.
The King on landing told news
j paper men he had “one of the
j best times in my life.”
SEVEI1LIWED IN
EXPLOSION ON WOT
PORT HARBOR, N. Y., July 29.
(JP)—Several were injured in an
explosion which sank Richman’s
I yacht at its dock here. The most
I seriously injured was Helen Walsh,
an actress.
As the fire tore through her
cabin, she was buried under a
flaming mattress; Richman seized
her and jumped with her into the
water Both of them were helped
to shore. Bystanders said that
she was seriously but not critically
injured.
CHILD VICTIM
NEW YORK, July 29. (JP) — Mich
ael Vengali, five years of age, died.
He was one of the five children
wounded by gangland machine
gunners who poured more than 50
slugs at a group of playing children
in an attempt to assassinate a man
believed to be a liquor rival who
was seen on the street. He fell to
pavement unhurt, and then fled.
PLANES SIGHTED
NEW YORK, July 29. (JP)—'The
trans-oceanic fliers Boardman Po
lando and Pangbom Herndon are
believed to be safe in a clear and
calm area over the ocean. It was
also thought that their planes were
sighted within 40 minutes of each
other over Southeastern Newfound
land late Tuesday.