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VOLUME XVI. NUMBER 117.
SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1931
PRICE TEN CENTS
GERMAN SCIENTISTS, ENCASED
IN METAL BALL ATTACHED
TO BALLOON
AUGUSBURG, Germany, May
27. (jp)—Hermetically sealed with
in an aluminum ball, Professor
August Piccard, Brussels physicist,
and his assistant, Charles Kipper,
soared away on a giant balloon
scientific mission into the strato
sphere, that eerie fringe of the
earth’s atmosphere never seen by
man.
The basket shot up to an alti
tude of 1,000 feet, then drifted
northwest.
The ball, seven feet in diameter,
carries artificial oxygen. The bal
loon is* the largest ever built in
Germany and is 100 feet in dia
meter.
Piccard hopes to explore from
40,000 to 60,000 feet above the
earth to obtain new data on the
origin of cosmic rays and to dem
onstrate that human beings can
travel and live in such rarefied at
mosphere.
CANNED SALMON
SHIPMENTS SHOW
GREAT I
DEFINITE TREND TOWARD A
TRADE REVIVAL; ADVER
TISING CREDITED
Heralding a definite upward
trend in the canned salmon mar
ket and revival of one of the Pa
cific Northwest’s outstandng in
cific Northwest’s outstanding in
canned salmon shipments for
April, out of Seattle are noted.
Shipments for April amounted
to 140,593 cases, nearly three times
the total shipments for April of
last year. The figures, compiled
by the Merchants Exchange, show
that the Atlantic and Gulf Coast
states were the largest consumers.
The extraordinary increase was
definitely attributed by Seattle
and Alaska canners to the national
advertising campaign launched
last fall, and now being carried
on by the salmon canning indus
try.
The increased April demand is
only a beginning, it is estimated.
Indications are that May ship
ments will show a proportionate
increase over May of last year.
It is predicted that by 1932 the
canned salmon industry, with in
creasing benefit from the adver
tising campaign, will have attain
ed a development hardly dream
ed of a year ago.
FIRE DESTROYS COURT
SAN JOSE, Cal., May 27, (#*)—
The historic county courthouse
here, one of California’s architec
tural showplaces when it was
completed in 1868, was destroyed
by a spectacular fire which
threatened the entire business sec
tion. Although the physical loss
was estimated only at $250,000, the
fire destroyed many valuable re
cords which cannot be replaced.
HAUBUT PRICES
SEATTLE, May 27, (£>)—Halibut
from two vessels, 22,500 pounds,
brought 6c and 10c. At Prince Ru
pert 500,000 pounds of American
halibut brought 4c and 7 and
three-tenths; Canadian, 3c to 6c.
SOVIET SUBMARINE
EXPLODES IND SIS
LONDON, May 27. (/P)—Russian
airplanes and warships circled
above the spot where the Soviet
submarine No. 9 of the Baltic
fleet sank Friday.
The Soviet government remains
silent but Riga and Latvia dis
patches said the craft is under
stood to have gone down after
an explosion with all hands, 100
miles from Helingfors, Finland.
The numbr in the crew is un
known.
FIGHT iU SAYS
IS NOT INTERESTED
PHILADELPHIA, May 27, (JP)—
Joe Smith, manager of Tommy
| Loughran, said that his fighter
was not interested in substituting
for Primo Camera against Jack
Sharkey at Ebbets field, Brook
lyn, even if the fight were billed
as a world championship.
He had been queried after Car
nera had been ruled out of the
fight game June 10 by an injunc
tion.
NEW SUIT RECOMMENDED
PHOENIX, Ariz., May 27. (JP)—
Undiscouraged by the action of
the Supreme Court in dismissing
Arizona’s suit to test the consti
tutionality of Boulder Dam, Ari
zona's past and present Colorado
river commissioners met and rec
ommended a new suit addressed to
the Supreme Court and demanding
“equitable appropriation of the
waters from the river.”
FLIGHT POSTPONED
LIBERTY, N. Y., May 27. (£>)—
A soaking field forced Otto Hillig
to postpone his take-off on the
first leg of a projected trans-At
lantic flight. Hillig and his pilot,
Holgar Hoirtis, were at the Liberty
field ready to fly to Roosevelt field
but the weather kept their plane
on the ground.
ESSEN’S CITE COUNCIL
OUTHDWLS FIRE SIOEN
ESSEN, Germany, May 27. (JP)—
Frequent brawls, noisy disputes
and wild yells in th city council
between radical deputies induced
the burgomaster of this steel city
to install a howling fire siren ini
the hall here where the city fa
thers meet. The presiding offic-J
I er’s gong has proven ineffective.
I Although the blast of the siren
nearly blew the plaster off the
walls, the first session was so;
lively that it had to be closed!
eary despite this new device.
WELTERWEIGHTS FIGHT
CHICAGO, May 27. (/P)—Bucky
Lawless, welterweight, defeated
“Gorilla” Jones, Negro, in a 10
round decision fight here.
LIST MIDSHIPMAN
THINE ON FRIGNTE
CONSTITUTION, OILS
SEATTLE, May 27, (#)—The last
man to serve a midshipman
training period on the. U. S. frig
ate Constitution, commgnly known
as “Old Ironsides,” 1%. William
j Robert Inge Dalton, was buried
ihere today.
Dr. Dalton died Monday at the
age of 89; he served in the Con
federate naval forces during the
Civil War and fought at the bat
tle of New Orleans.
Dr. Dalton had many impor
! tant assignments among which
were running the Charleston block
ade, taking messages to Sidell;
Confederate Minister at London
and Paris.
After the war he studied medi
cine and practiced first in New
. York, then Seattle, retiring in
1918.
Two grown children, and his
widow surive.
STOCKHOLDER CHARGES
SPRECKELS, 2 OTHERS.
1ECEEOJIO RDM:
NEW YORK, May 27, (&)—An
echo from the collapse of the;
Kolster Radio Corporation, was •
sounded in the Supreme Court;
Tuesday when Kritzer Barnes, a j
stockholder, charged R u d olph I
Spreckles, capitalist, and two
others, Frederick Dietrich and
Ellery W. Stone, with having de
by conspiracy.
stroyed the corporation unlawfully
He charged them with monop
olizing stock market sales result
ing in ruin for the Kolster com
pany and that they made $17,
600,000 for themselves.
Barnes asked for an accounting.
PEE SPEED RECORDS
SHATTERED OFTENj
CALSHOT, England, May 27. (JP)
—The world’s airplane speed rec
ord of 357 miles per hour, made
by Squadron Commander August
H. Orlebar in 1929, was reported
to have been broken several times
by pilots in training for the
Schneider Cup races.
It was understood that pilots
exceeded 360 miles per hour.
NEARLY 700 PLANES IN AIR
MITCHELL FIELD, May 27. (/P)
—Nearly 700 Army fighting planes
winged their way to New England
to protect that area from a the
oretical enemy. The planes start
ed off from the five Long Island
flying fields at daybreak.
ARREST ORCHESTRA DIRECTOR
PARIS, May 27. (^—Declaring
the incident when Arturo Tosca
nini, New York orchestra director,
was held under technical arrest
following his refusal to play a
fascist anthem at a concert was
a disgrace to the Italian govern
ment, Serge Koussevitsky, con,
ductor of the Boston Symphony
Orchestra, refused to keep an en
gagement to play in Milan.
REFUSED CITIZENSHIP
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 27.
(/P)—A Yale theology professor and
a Canadian war nurse were re
fused citizenship by the Supreme
Court because of their scruples
against bearing arms in time of
war. One was Douglas C. McIn
tosh and the other was Marie
Ablandi.
STIITE SOUGHT SEND
TMIMECTHIC CHI
VALPARAISO, Ind., May 27, (#)
—Virgil Kirkland, 20 year-old
Gary steel mill worker, was con
victed last night of assault and
battery in an attempted attack
upon Arlene Draves for whose
death the State sought to send
him to the electric chair. .
The jury recommended that he
be sentenced from one to 10
years in prison.
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LOST SON IN FUMES
GIRDLEY, Calif., May 27.- (JP)—
An agonized mother screamed
and struggled with police while
her only son was burned to death
in their home.
Trapped by fire and smoke the
boy, James ^Beckwith, 15, beat
uselessly against a tightly wedged
door while the flames flowed in
around him. His charred body
was found in the ruins of his bed
room.
DISCARDING CLOTHING
BERLIN, May 27. (jP)—Nude cul
ture is sweeping over Germany
with hundreds of men and women
being converted weekly. Their
fervor is almost equal to that of
participants in a religious revival.
More than 18 societies and clubs
which believe in doing away with
clothing are in existence.
VISITING YOSEMITE VALLEY
SAN FRANCISCO, May 27. (/P)—
His Highness Prince Takamatsu of
Japan and his bride, Princess Ki
kudo, left for Yosemite Valley for
a two-day visit. They visited the;
University of California at Ber- j
keley and were entertained at a j
tea given by President Robert |
Sproul of the school.
ONLY 113,10! MRS
SURVIVE LIQUOR LIS
BRUSSELS, May 27. {/P) —There
are only 103,022 public bars in
Belgium, as against 219,405 shortly
before the war.
The decrease is due to legisla
tion forbidding th retailing of
spirits in cafes, restaurants and
hotels.
Spirits can be bought, but only
in bottles from licensed stores
and at least two quarts must be
purchasd at a time.
SWEDISH AVIATOR RETURNS
COPENHAGEN, May 27. (/P)—
Captain Albin Ahrenberg, Swedish
aviator, returning home after his
flight over the Swedish ice-cap to
assist in the rescue of Augustine
Courtland, explorer, arrived here
by steamer.
SEVEN WIDELY KNOWN PEO
PLE MISSING; TWO IN
HOSPITAL
NEW YORK, May 27. <£>)—Eight
coast guard cutters searched Long
Island Sound for the bodies and
victims of the Seafox, a pleasure
sloop, which apparently foundered
Saturday with a loss of four
men ana mree women widely
known in New York educational
and medical circles.
The body of Mrs. Marcia Sned
den, 25, a psychiatrist, was washed
| ashore at Darien, Connecticut last
I night. She was the wife of the
New York University instructor and
owner of the Seafox, who is also
missing. He was a former Stan
ford athlete.
Mark Coyne, New York instruct
or; Mrs. Florence Mendenhall, a
former actress, and Robert, her
husband, a statistical professor at
Columbia University, and brother
of Mrs. Snedden.
Robert Johnson, night club en
tertainer, and Miss Doris Dewey,
a phychologist, are in Bellevue
, Hospital.
Most of them we~3 former Stan
ford students. Friends notified po
lice that the sloop was missing and
that its motor had not been work
ing well when the party left for
a cruise with a 40-mile gale blow
ing.
HEAD DF PARTY
Fill AIDE
MODESTY IS SINCERE; ONLY
INTEREST IS WORK AS A
GEOLOGIST
OSLO, May 27, (JP)—Dr. Gunnar
Horn, the quiet Norwegian scien
tist who headed the expedition
which found the long-lost Andree
camp last summer, is considering
a tour of America.
Btft he isn’t sure. Suddenly
caught up in an avalanche of pub
licity when he returned home from
the Arctic, Horn has been not a
little puzzled by the limelight.
Discovery of the Andree camp
had a certain scientific value,
Horn said, but hardly merited
the intense interest which follow
ed.
He has been on many expedi
tions into the Arctic, and plans
another this summer, for the
Norwegian bureau of exploration,
a state institution.
He is greatly interested in the
Wilkins submarine expedition,
which he thinks is entirely feas
ible.
DEMANDS REDUCTIONS
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 27.
(TP)—The first gun in the Army
appropriations war was fired in
Congress by Representative Rose
Collins of Mississippi. Speaking
for the “Little Army” supporters
he demanded wholesale reductions
of the officer personnel.