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VOLUME XXVII. NUMBER 201. SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1931. PRICE TEN CENTS
PASSENGERS ON ICE
LOCKED SHIP IV DE
BROUGHT OUT BV PUNE
VANCOUVER, B. C., Sept., 30,
L.q?)_Eleven passengers and the
crew of the steamship Bay Chimo,
a Hudson Bay ship, faced the
possibility of spending a winter
frozen in near Seahorse Island,
northwest of Point Barrow.
Advice received here said that
the ship had been plying between
a Hudson Bay post and the east-;
ern coast of Alaska. The ship
was bound for Vancouver with a
season’s fur trade as cargo
Airplanes may be used to bring
the passengers out and if the ship
cannot be moved until spring the
crew will remain on the boat
which is a well-provisioned ship
The Bay Chimo is commanded by
Captain Cornwall London.
FOREIGN MINISTER RESIGNS
NANKING, Sept. 30. OP) — The
Central Political Council Wednes
day accepted the resignation of
Dr. C. T. Wang as Foreign Minister
of the Nationalist government and
appointed Alfred Sze to succeed him
Sze will be a representative to the
League of Nations.
J
ST GALS!
LONDON. Sept. 30. OP)—Flight
Lieutenant G. H. Stainforth estab
lished a new world’s airplane speed
record of 408.8 miles per hour over
■ he three kilometer course at Cal
shot yesterday, it was officially an
nounced today.
Stainforth broke his own record
of 379.05 miles per hour which he
made in the Schneider Trophy race
on September 13 when he flew a
seaplane fitted with a Gecial en
gine.
The speeds for four successive
laps were 415.2, 405.1, 409.5, and
405.4 miles per hour.
II. S. TO BUILD FIVE OF
PROPOSED DESTROYERS
WASHINGTON, Sept., 30, (/P)—
The Hoover administration has
ordered a cut from 11 to five of
the number of destroyers to be
added to the Navy under the U.
S. Naval Building program.
Secretary of Navy Adams an
nounced that the award of cruiser
contracts will go to Boston, New
York and Puget Sound Navy
Yards and the Bathe, Maine Iron
Works and the Bethlehem Ship
building Co., of Quincy, Mass
The cut in the number of cruis
ers was made because of the need
to economize on governmental ex
penditures.
acquitted murder
SEATTLE, Sept. 30. (JP)— Harry
Loy was acquitted of a first degree
murder charge brought against him
for the slaying of his neighbor,
Louis Todd, whom he killed, alleg
ing that Todd attempted to become
familiar with his wife.
VALUABLE CARGO
! SAN FRANCISCO, Sept., 30, (/P)
—Laden with more than 7,000
furs and whalebone and ivory val
ued at $300,000, the MS Patterson
arrived here from a four-month’s
Arctic cruise. This is the vessel’s
Uth trip into the Arctic. This is
the sixth trip for the skipper and
present owner of the vessel, who
was accompanied on the present
voyage by his wife
DISARMAMENT AND
CHUM FEATURE
OF LEAGUE SESSION
GENEVA, Sept., 30, (/P)—1The as
sembly of the League of Nations
completed its 12th annual session
; in which the outstanding develop
ment was collaboration by the
United States along two lines, in
promoting the cause of disarma
ment and seeking conciliation be
tween Japan and China in the
Manchurian controversy
This cooperation by the United
States was valued chiefly at Gen
eva for what it seemed to promise
for the future. American collab
oration now is counted on by Lea
gue leaders in every move for se
curing world peace and prosperi
ty.
NAUTILUS TO BE SUNK
BERGEN, Sept., 30, (/P)—'The
| adventurous submarine Nautilus,
i which recently returned from a
i scientific voyage under the Arctic
ice, with Sir Hubert Wilkins in
| command, is now awaiting to be
; sunk. This is the result of a rul
! ing made by the Navy Depart
j me'nt.
BANKS CLOSED
PITTSBURGH, Sept., 30, (A3)—
The Bank of Pittsburgh Natinal
Association, Franklin Savings &
Trust Co., and Highland National
Bank of Pittsburgh were closed
after the Bank of Pittsburg asked
the Controller of Currency to take
charge of its assets.
KETCHIKAN, Sept. 30. </P)—The
body of Peter E. Nelson, about 65
years of age, painter, who had died
from exposure when he was within
a few minutes walk of shelter on
the Herring Cove highway, near
here, has been found.
He was lost on a prospecting trip.
The searchers hunted him for 18
hours. It is believed that he has
relatives at Enumclaw, Wash. The
search started when E. A. Rivers,
also suffering from exposure and
in a semi-conscious condition, ap
peared at the electric power plant
at Herring Cove. He was unable
to give a coherent story and mum
bled only the words, “Help Pete.”
GUERILLA FIGHTING
TOKYO, Sept. 30. (A5)—Sporadic
; and guerilla fighting took place in
; Manchuria as Japanese troops held
! positions within the south Man
churian railway zone. Fighting oc
curred at Fench Wang Chen be
tween Japanese troops and 300 con
j victs who escaped from the Man
j churian prison there, 80 miles from
; the Korean border.
SIX-MILE SECTION BE
BUILT NUT YEAR LINK
Word that work will be started
next year towards the elimination
of the “missing link” in the Sew
ard Highway and the Moose Pass
system of roads is contained in
a message sent to the Seward
Chamber of Commerce by Hon. F.
G. Walcott, a member of the U- S.
Senate, and who visited Alaska
last summer.
Senator Walcott stated that'the
Bureau of Public Hoads officials
had advised him that although
the surveyors had made a survey
of the connecting link between
Seward and Moose Pass, that no
work had been done yet on the
designing. Walcott said it would
be impossible and inadvisable to
attempt any work this fall. The
message said in part that: “a six
mile section will be completed
next year which if arrangements
are made for a lake ferry, will
make the connection with Seward
and Moose Pass.”
: The telegram was sent in answ
er to the Seward Chamber of
! Commerce asking for Senator
Walcott’s endorsement of the pro
ject. The Chamber hoped to se
cure the initial construction work
on the connecting link to be start
ed this fall, as much of the work
which ordinarily is summer work,
could be done in the winter and
thereby bolster Seward and vicin
ity unemployment conditions
II! MEN RUSHING
TO SCENE OF NEW FI
OF MONJFRRIM
WHITEHORSE, Sept. 30. (/P)—'The
discovery of a highly mineralized
gold quartz bearing area in the
Livingstone Creek at the headwa
ters of Big Salmon in Southern
j Yukon Territory is drawing a rush
of stampeders from all parts of the
Yukon and Alaska.
Mining men from Juneau, Skag
way, Whitehorse, Dawson and other
Yukon points are moving to the
scene to stake ground. Tom Kol
off, who made the discovery, is a
practical miner who has been
scouting the southern Yukon terri
tory for the past four years. He
was backed by £. Johnson, and W.
A .Puckett, of Whitehorse.
From an open cut in a moun
tainside, 2,500 feet above Livings
stone, he uncovered assays running
from a trace to $70 of gold per ton.
R. R. Rumsey, mining engineer
and geologist, is there and he is re
ported to be backed by Eastern in
terests and other prominent mining
men who have their eyes on the
Livingstone field.
’ The Wernecke Treadwell Yukon
silver mines at Mayo; Frank Man
ley, of San Francisco; Charles
Crawford, of Seattle; H. C. Tumle,
of Tacoma, and a number of old
timers have been cleaning up con
sistent gold "strikes in the creek
district for the past two seasons.
It is said that over $1,000,000
worth of gold has been taken from
Livingstone proper since the early
days. It is the assumption here
that this gold was washed down
from the mountain now being ex
plored, as the gold occurs in ground
of a glaciated nature.
EDISON WORSE
! WEST ORANGE, N. J., Sept., 30,
I (JP)—Thomas A. Edison, noted in
i ventor, has taken a turn for the
worse, according to a bulletin is
sued by his physcian, Herbert S.
Howe- According to the bulletin
Edison spent a restless night and
was low. Edison has been ill from
urenic poisoning since he return
ed from Florida.
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DEMOCRATS HOPE TO
CONTROE NEXT HOUSE
SOAR, RETURNS SHOW
| SEDALIA, Mo., Sept., 30, (jP)—!
Hopes of Democrats that they
will control the next house, soar
ed as returns from a special elec
tion in the Seventh Missouri Con
gressional District showed that
Robert D. Johnson, Democrat, 47
years of age, won from the G. O.
P. candidate and former represen
tative John W. Palmer by about
9,000 votes
The victory gives the Democrats
214 seats in the House and the
seme number as the Republicans.
The Seventh Missouri District
normally had a Democratic vote
of from 1500 to 3500. Johnson’s
triumph tops the heavy Demo
cratic returns.
Six other elections to fill House
; vacancies are to be held.
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FORMER SURVEYOR DIES
STOCKTON, Calif., Sept. 30. (/P)
!—William H. Ranes, reputed to be
101 years old and a veteran of
Mexican and Civil wars, died. In
' 1872 he went to Alaska with a Fed
leral surveying force.
FAVOR ATHLETICS
I NEW YORK, Sept., 30, (/P)_Bet
I ting odds here on the World’s
j championship series favor the
; Athletics. Odds are one to two
J that the Athletics won’t win the
i series and nine to five that the
Cardinals won’t win.
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Iadiierse weather delays
PANGBORN-HERNDON OOP
SUMUSHIRU, Sept., 30, (A5)—
Adverse weather conditions caus
ed Pangborn and Herndon to
postpone their contemplated start
to daylight Thursday for their
long distance flight attempt
across the Pacific Ocean.
The plane landing gear is being
readjusted so that the fliers can
use a wooden ramp which Brom
ley devised for giving his plane
momentum. Because Bromley’s
landing gear was much wider
than Pangborn and Herndon’s it
was necessary to make this read
justment.
POSTPONE FLIGHT AGAIN
SUMOSHIRO, Sept. 30. </P) —
Pangborn and Herndon postponed
their flight across the Pacific until
tomorrow on account of bad wea
ther in the Aleutians.
MAY TAKE MOUND
ST. LOUIS, Sept., 30, (^—Gab
by Street of the Cardinals is said
to have almost given assurance
that Paul Diringer, giant right
handed pitcher, is almost certain
rc take the mound for St. Louis
in the opening game against the
Athletics
GAL'S ELIMINATION
DISSIPATES UD TO
HERB'S niMN
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 30.
(>P)—Calvin Coolidge does not in
tend to run for President in 1932
but proposes to support President
Hoover for a second nomination
which the the ex-President brought
immeasurably nearer when he said,
“When we need more harmony,
more cooperation, more confidence,
it would be a distinct disservice to
promote a factionary conflict
against a President in office who is
responsible for these elements.
“Our party should offer a solid
front in support of the President
and that is the course I propose to
pursue,” Coolidge said in a copy
righted article Jappearing in the
Saturday Evening Post.
While a few of the skeptical par
ty leaders hesitated and sought to
read between the lines, most of the
political leaders saw in these words
a final dissipation of the greatest
hazard which has stood between
Herbert Hoover and renomination.
FATHER OCEAN
—
NEW YORK, Sept. 30. (/Pi—Avia
| tion shook its fist on Old Father
! Ocean and exulted the records of
i 1931 which indicate that the great
seas with all their terrors, are yield
ing at last before man’s brain as
one child and more than 250 per
sons have crossed the Atlantic or
Pacific by air since the beginning
of the year and only nine lives have
been lost compared with the year
| of 1927, the year of Lindy’s flight
: to France when 17 /persons lost
; their lives in the Atlantic and only
116 got across. None crossed the Pa
! cific that year but 10 lost their
i lives in the Dole race from Oak
i land to Honolulu.
The Graf Zeppelin accounted for
nearly 200 persons this year, mak
ing two round trips between Ger
; many and Brazil.
CONSUMED BUYING CAN
j 'MAKE ODJREIK' JOBS
NEW YORK, Sept. 30. (/P)—Con
sumer buying was the pilot recom
mended by Walter S. Gifford to
steer the nation from the unchart
ed morass of depression.
“If the public buys neither work
nor goods, it is the public that is
indirectly discharging men,” the
President’s national relief director
told the country in the first of a
series of winter addresses on the
relief program.
Gifford said that emergencies
like the present one occur in this
country so seldom that there is not
and probably never will be, a per
manent organization to cope with
it. He described the condition as
temporary and best met by volun
tary mass efforts of the people.
DANES SUSPEND GOLD
COPENHAGEN, Sept., 30, (/P)—
The Danish government suspend
ed the gold standard by rushing
- necessary legislation through
both#Houses of Parliament.