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VOLUME XXVII. NUMBER 197. SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1931. PRICE TEN CENTS
MOYLE, ALLEN PREPARE
LEAVE NOME: ATTEMPT
FLIGHT TO TACOMA i
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NOME. Sept., 18, (/P)—:Don
Moyle and Cecil Allen prepared to
leave Solomon Beach today on an
attempted 2,000 mile flight to Ta
coma.
Moyle, altho ill with influenza,
spent most of yesterday working.
The 800 gallons of gasoline were
transferred to the beach.
In relation to the story of a few
days ago when they were lost to
the world, they told of 100-mile
* an hour winds that they met on
the tip of the Aleutian chain
which forced them to land and
• remain for seven days on a small
island- i
After reaching the Aleutians
the wind became so strong that
* itvjy seemed to be standing still
m midair. They decided to look
for a landing place as their fuel
was running low and they feared
they would be unable to reach
Seattle. They flew back to Kiska
Island, the largest of the Rat Is
lands, and about 800 miles west
of Dutch Harbor.
A landing was made on a small
uninhabited island, about two
miles long. The storm continued.
They remained on the island
for seven days with no shelter
and no food other than what they
carried with them. It was almost
impossible to anchor the plane
and the high winds were threat
ening to wreck and destroy it.
Finally they took-off and landed
on Miano Pilgino- They got in
touch with a Soviet freight which
contacted St. Paul Island’s naval
radio station. Both men are cer
tain that they could have made
the 4700 mile flight to Seattle in
^ about 45 hours but for the storm.
OFF FOR TACOMA
NOME, Sept. 25. (/P)—Don Moyle
and Cecil Allen hopped off from
Solomon Field on a non-stop flight
to Tacoma at 11:15 a. m., Pacific
Standard Time.
REPORTED) OO-MILE GALE
SEATTLE, Sept, 25. (/?) — C. C.
Schick, government weather ob
server at the Boeing airfield, is
surprised at Don Moyle and Cecil
Allen’s accounts of a 100-mile wind
in the Aleutian Islands.
-f • He said reports from Dutch Har
bor, St. Paul and a steamship now
to the Westward at Dutch Harbor,
indicated that only light winds
were blowing on September 7 and 8,
on the dates that the fliers were
there.
IGNORE INTERVENTION
TOKIO, Sept., 25, (JP)—A strong
force of Chinese troops made a
counter attack at Kungchuling,
south of Changshung and about
half way between Mukden and
Harbin. This action was in spite
of intervention of the League of
Nations, which called upon both
China and Japan to withdraw
troops from the disputed area,
and summoned spokesmen of the
two nations to meet with the
League Council to devise means
for settling the dispute
FOUNDER METLAKATLA DIES j
KETCHIKAN, Sept. 25. (£>)—■'The- j
odore Dundas, 89 years of age, who |
emigrated to Annette Island in the !
last century and who with Father I
Duncan, of a native colony, helped !
to established Metlakatla, died
here.
CHICAGO BUNKED IS
BOOSTED, DEMITIC
CHOICE EOH PRESIDENT
COLUMBIA, Ky., Sept. 25. (£»)—
A “home town” boy who went West
on the first train he ever saw, a
freight train, made good in a big
way and is being honored by his
home town.
He never forgot the time, 31
years ago, when he, Melvin A. Tay
lor, then 22 years of age, headed
for the cattle country with $2 in
his pocket. Today he is president
of the First National Bank of Chi
cago and he is one of the West’s
financial leaders.
He is the choice of his own peo
ple for the Democratic nomination
for President. Civil and political
leaders from all of Kentucky are
here to participate in the “home
town rally” which they hope will
give impetus to the move to send
Taylor to the White House.
MYSTERY SHIP IIS 125
i SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 25. </P)—
j Somewhere on the broad and rest
| less pacific is an auxiliary schooner,
j the Mara Bella, coastbound from
near Hongkong, and Uncle Sam,
j worried guardian of the vested
| rights of 130,000,000, would give his
; striped swallow-tail to know the
iport for which the same schooner
is headed.
Aboard the Mara Bella, according
;to Federal information, are 125
Chinese and an almost invaluable
'cargo of narcotics. Both are sched
uled to be smuggled into the Unit
ed States, according to underground
information which has reached
Washington, D. C., from its agents
abroad.
But so secretly did the Mara Bella
j leave China that port officials were
j unaware what flag the craft sailed.
VERA CRUZ RIOTS
VERA CRUZ, Mex., Sept. 25. (JP)
i —Ten persons were killed and
(many others wounded in riots in
the State of Vera Cruz. The riots
were due to clashes between fol
lowers of national revolutionary
and labor candidates.
ST- LOUIS, Sept., 25, (;P)_ln an
exhibition game here the Browns
scored seven to the Cardinal’s
four.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Philadelphia 5; Pittsburgh 1.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Boston 4; Philadelphia 9.
Detroit 4; Cleveland 6.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Missions 7; Los Angeles 2.
Sacramento 4; Portland 2.
Oakland 8; Seattle 6
Hollywood 7; San Francisco 15.
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"WANDERING REPORTER
FROM PRAGUE ARRIVES
IN SEWARO ON ALASKA!
Charles Tulka
! t
Charles Tulka of Prague, Czecho
slovakia, known as the “Wandering !
!Reporter,” arrived in Seward this,
: morning on the SS Alaska. Mr. |
i Tulka is a representative of “Press
j Service,” a newspaper agency in
Prague. He left his homeland in
May, 1928. He has traveled nearly
62,250 miles in almost every con
ceivable conveyance through 23 dif
ferent countries of Europe, Asia
and America.
He has had many adventurers on
;his way and many times he has
been risking his life to get to the
non-civilized places of Asia.
In Turkey, in the town of Ismid,
lying on the shores of Marmora
Sea, he was arrested as a spy. He
had been taking pictures of the na- j
fives in the narrow street riding
on a donkey’s back. The military
fortifications happened to be in
the background of the street and
; the Turks thought he had been
taking pictures of those.
His next destination was Bag
jdad. The fare from Damascus was
$150- He didn’t have the $150 so
he walked. The distance is 700
miles—weary miles—across the
Syrian and Iraquian deserts and
it was summer time. He started
with nothing but several pounds;
of dried dates and his canteen
bottle filled with the murky water
of the Euphrates river.
On the way he got lost in a
furious sand-storm. In the 18
hours the sand-storm lasted, he
experienced one of his most hor
rible adventures.
He struggled for three days.
A stray patrol of the French Le
Jgion on camel back, followed his
i trail and found him almost dying
(from heat and thirst. They took
I him to a native village on the
! border of Syria and Iraq
t After visiting the ruins of Baby
ilon, walking between the Tigris
■ and Euphrates rivers, where the
| Garden of Eden supposedly was
; located, he came to the Persian
;Gulf.
i In Arabia, he saw the war
among the native tribes for pos
■ session of water holes.
j In southern Persia he found the
| Mohammedans of the Shiah who
refused to sell him food. They
can’t touch anything that has
been touched by anybody not a
member of their sect. When they
did give him some food, they took
ACCEPTS INVITATION
PARIS, Sept. 25. (/P)_The French
cabinet approved of the invitation
tendered to Premier Laval, of
’ France, to visit President Hoover at
I Washington. Premier Laval accept
jed the invitation which was ten
jdered by Ambassador Edges, of the
'United States.
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mm. INDDSTHML
I MEN EXERT PRESSURE
TO LEGALIZE BEER, U.S.
! WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 25.
{/P)—Growing agitation in favor of
legalized beer reached new heights
when it was disclosed that Walter
Newtorn, secretary to President
Hoover, had called on the Census
Bureau for figures on the number
i of men employed in breweries in
11914, 1919 and 1929.
j Newton asserted that the infor
Imation was to be furnished to a
'private citizen who had written a
I letter requesting it, and that the
! President had no knowledge of the
i request.
It is known that the President
ias been under pressure from bank
! ers, industrial and labor leaders
and others, to legalize beer as an
*aid to stimulating employment.
'UNEMPLOYMENT ARMY
INCREASED 8111,100
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 25.
i7P)—William Greene,' head of the
Federation of Labor, estimated that
the 5,600,000 idle has been increased
by 500,000 over the estimate of a
month ago.
Senator Burley regretted that the
corporation's actions of cutting
wages but said there is a “possibil
ity that it may be a step towards
ending the depression.”
QUARTERLY DIVIDEND
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 25. (#»)—
The Alaska Juneau Gold Mining
Company declared a regular quar
terly dividend of 10 per cent.
ston^ and broke the dishes. On
; top of this he was attacked by
j bandits and robbed of all his pos
| ctssions.
In India most of his time was
spent in the remote sections of
the country, studying the life of
the natives.
In the South Seas he escaped
a terrific typhoon; he tramped
the iungles of Indo-China; he
visited the mysterious ruins of
Anghkhor Wat, the city built by
the Angles, as the natives call it
After having had a glance at the
Chinese revolution, where he saw
hundreds of persons being mas
sacred in the streets, he called it
a day, and sailed for the Philip
pines, Japan, Hawaiian Islands,
Mexico and the United States. He
^jsited 38 states before coming to
AUuka
Tulka intends to continue on
north from Seward, going to An
chorage, Fairbanks and Nome, Af
ter finishing his tour, which he
hopes to lengthen into 100,000 miles,
| he will write a book on his exper
iences. He intends to arrange for
; a lecture while he is in Seward.
He is making his way by lectur
jing, writing articles for the news
{papers, prizefighting and other
means.
JLISKE DOE'S HEROISM
BELITTLED, NEW TORK
DESEEDED ASSOCIATION
NEW YORK, Sept., 25, (JP)~A
Central Park dog, smarted from
a kick in the ribs by the Vacci
nation Research Association
which asked Mayor Jimmy Walk
er to tear down the statue of
Balto, claiming that he was not
the dog hero painted, as far as
the association can learn.
Balto is the Alaska dog who is
credited with the spectacular
dash to Nome several years ago,
carrying the much needed anti
toxin to the stricken inhabitants
of that city. The association says
it is sorry but the alleged heroism
was a “hoax, pure and simple".
IUSO LEM1RES
FHOII WET RESOLUTION
DETROIT, Sept., 25, (TP)—The
! Alaska Department of the Ameri
! can Legion voted for the wet reso
| lution. The convention rejected
I the resolution endorsing the im
! mediate payment of bonus certifi
| cvtes on their face value.
Henry L. Stevens Jr., Warsaw,
N. C, was elected Commander.
He is 35 and the youngest ever
; elected. He was chosen by ac
j clamation when all others with
' drew. He served over-seas in the
i 318th Machine Gun Battalion, 81
I Division at Vosges, Argonne and
I St. Die sectors. His great grand
' father was a Revolutionary War
; vet and his grandfather served in
32 battles in the Civil War.
IS. GOLD RESERVE!$
; DECREASED BY MILLIONS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 25.
!(/P)—A decrease of $118,000,000 in
the amount of monetary gold which
was held in the United States for
the week ending September 23, was
announced in the Federal Reserve
board’s weekly statement.
The decrease reduced the total
amount of gold held by the United
States to $4,897,000,000. This con
stitutes the first sizeable reduction
of gold in this country during the
past year.
IMAGINARY DISPUTE
BELLINGHAM, Sept., 25, (#)—
Angered by what witnesses said
was an imaginary dispute over an
accordion, Frank Linquist, aged
reclude, shot and killed Alfred
Ostrom, 37. and then committed
suicide by shooting himself.
VISIT JAPAN
BRUSSELS, Belgium, Sept., 25,
(/P)—The Duke and Duchess of
Brabant, will visit Japan next
March at the invitation of Emper-*
or Hirohito, it was announced.
INQUIRY ENDS
LONDON, Sept., 25, (/P)—Official
inquiry into the “pay mutiny" of
12,000 seamen of the British fleet
at Invergordon, Scotland, came to
an end following a statement by
Prime Minister MacDonald that
there will be pay cuts in the Air
Forces, Army and Navy.