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VOLUME XVI. NUMBER 188.
SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 1931.
PRICE TEN CENTS
SEINE DOITS UNABLE
SELL LOADS OF PINKS;
GINNERIES OIM
KETCHIKAN, Aug. 14. (/P) -
Eight seine boats loaded with sal
mon docked yesterday. They foun<
runs of pinks filled all traps bu
all cannery floors are now over
flowing with fish and they wen
unable to sell their product.
The run took -a sudden spur
Tuesday w h e n moderate rain
filled the streams, assuring es
capement now and after the closi
of the season on Saturday.
Only 12 of the 19 canneries havi
been operating in this district bu
all are far ahead of last year’,
pack.
The market is 80c and 85c i
dozen but is expected to be $1.0i
later.
ONE OF LINDBERGH'S
1BITI0N5 FULFILLED:
FETING TO ILISKI
NOME. Aug. 14. UP) — The Lind
berghs are planning to leave fo:
Safety Bay at 9 a. m. Pacific time
and hope to hop off two hours lat
er. if weather continues to im
prove, to Karagin Island.
Lindbergh disclosed to a feu
friends that following a visit tc
Japanese and Chinese cities thai
Mrs. Lindbergh and he would cros^
the Atlantic via the Azores.
The flight from here will be the
first across the Bering Sea via St
Lawrence Island.
Both Lindys spoke in the Arctic
Brotherhood hall before a crowded
house Thursday night. Lindy said
two of his great boyhood ambitions
have been fulfilled: First, he want
ed to learn to fly; Second, he want
ed to fly to Alaska.
LINDBERGHS WILL
GIRGLE TIE GLOBE
NOME, Aug. 14. (/P)—The Lind
berghs disclosed here Thursday
night their plan to continue their
flight around the world after reach
ing Tokyo.
Colonel Lindbergh plans to take
off Friday morning if the weather
is at all favorable.
Without going into details of the
proposed route he said they would
make a series of flights to Europe
and cross the Atlantic by way of
the Azores Islands.
BRITISH 'HEAVIES' SEEK
IDINDONED TITLE
LONDON, Aug. 15. UP) — Phil
Scott has resigned his heavyweight
championship of Britain and the
British Boxing board has announc
ed the title vacant.
The stewards have decided that
Charlie Smith be recognized as the
leading contender and that Reggie
Meen shall meet Bobbie Shields,
Scottish heavyweight champion,
and the winner of this match for
the right to oppose Smith.
POSTPONE VISIT
PARIS, Aug. 14. (/P)—Laval and
i Briaad postponed their visit to
Berlin until after the League of
Nations council meeting next
month because of Briand’s heatlh.
I STILL MAKING RECORDS
t NEW YORK, Aug. 14. (/P)— Cap
-1 tain Frank Hawks marked up an
j other record by flying here from
! Chicago in three hours and 49
t ] minutes.
3 i
21 FOUND DEAD IN MOUNTAIN
>; BASLE, Aug. 14. (/P)—Three of
jficers, two noncommissioned offi
> j cers and 16 soldiers were found
t dead under an avalanche in the
j mountain above Bardeonechia, the
worst Alpine tragedy in recent
11 years.
)
SUICIDE PACT
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 14. (/P>—
(Mrs. Flora Williams Walz, former
I film actress, entered into a suicide
i pact with her aged mother and
'took poison. She was dead when
! discovered in her apartment; her
! mother, Mrs. Williams, died later
|; at the hospital.
APPEAL FOR WHEAT SUPPLIES
| SHANGHAI Aug. 14. {IP)—An ap
■ peal for supplies of wheat from the
United States to save 10.000,000
-j Chinese flood sufferers, who said
they may die of starvation before
spring unless aided, was made by
John Earl Baker. American au
' thority on disasters in China.
UPHELDS REMOVAL
MEXICO CITY. Aug. 14. (/P)—
President Ortiz Rubio upheld re- ;
moval by Congress of Acting Gov- ;
ernor Jose Ramon Valdes of Du- ■
rango on charges of violating the
religious law.
19-YEAR-OLD BOY WOUNDED
BERLIN. Aug. 14. (AP) — A 19
year-old boy was fatally wounded
when police fired into a com
munist demonstration in front of
the party headquarters of Buelow
Platz. Five others were wounded.
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COOLIDGES RETURN HOME
NORTHAMPTON, Mass., Aug. 14.
(TP)—Former President and Mrs.
Calvin Coolidge returned home
after passing a vacation of sev
eral weeks at Coolidge’s boyhood
home in Plymouth, Vermont.
CONTINUE SEARCH
COPENHAGEN, Aug. 13. {IP)—
Danish Naval flying boats and
I the Admiralty Survey ship Island
of Falk continued their search of
the North Sea for Parker Cramer,
American airman, and his radio
operator, but Naval and flying au
thorities are of the opinion that
both men have perished.
LONG ROUND TRIP
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 13. {IP)—
A nonstop round trip flight from
1 Los Angeles to Tokyo is planned
by Captain Roy W. Ammel, who
made the nonstop flight from
New York to Panama last year.
(He will have a refueling ship at
Tokyo.
CHANGE THEIR MIND
BOMBAY, Aug. 13. {IP)—'The In
j dian Nationalist congress decided
not to participate at the London
| round-table conference. Indian
! affairs charged repeated violations ]
'of the Delphi pact by the Pro
vincial government.
MURINE COWBOYS
ARRIVE IN NORTH
WITH PONY HERD
CAPTAIN MADSEN AND WOLD TO
TAKE PINTO HORSES TO KENAI
PENINSULA FOR SPORTSMEN
Bound for the Kenai Peninsula
of Alaska, big game hunters’ para
dise, Capt. Charles Madsen and
Capt. Pete Wold seafaring cowboys,
taking with them nine pinto ponies,
were due to arrive in Seward to
day from Seattle.
They came north on the sturdy
motorship purchased in Seattle re
cently by Captain Madsen for the
Kodiak Guides’ Association from
Alex Hannah and O. E. Nelson. The
vessel is now known as the Marg
nita but was given the name of
Polar Bear at an interesting cere
mony on the Seattle waterfront.
The rechristening took place at
Pier 3 with Betty Anderson. Seattle
singer, as the sponsor. When the
schooner Sea Wolf was launched
from the shipyards of Ward & Sons
in Seattle for Capt. Madsen dur
ing the winter of 1908 Betty An
derson christened the vessel.
MADE F*NE RECORD
The Sea Wolf made a fine record
as a walrus and polar bear hunter
and a trading schooner. Captain
Madsen wanted the same good for
tune to follow his new craft so
Betty Anderson was invited to be
the sponsor of- the ceremony. The
Sea Wolf was sold by Captain Mad
'■'n to the United States Mercan
tile Company of Nome and is still
operating in the Far North as a
trading and mail vessel.
Captain Madsen first went to
Alaska in 1900. He spent 15 years in
the Arctic. He was a fur trader for
many years before becoming an Al
aska guide. He has piloted big game
and moving picture expeditions into
the wilds of Alaska, has been a
game warden, a member of the ter
ritorial police, is an expert horse
man as well as one of the best
shots with a high-powered rifle in
all the northland. and last but not
least, is a master mariner. He rides
a horse like a veteran of the plains
and can nurse a vessel through the
biggest storm that ever swept the
Arctic. Captain Madsen was the
official guide for the expedition of
Baron von Guttman, Austrian
nobleman and steel king, when he
visited Alaska in 1909.
WALRUS AND POLAR BEAR
“I used the Sea Wolf in hunting!
walrus and polar bear in the Arc
tic and in trading expeditions to
Siberia, and may put the new ves- |
sel into the same service some day,” j
said Captain Madsen. “But I must j
tell you about the pintos. The little j
fellows will be used as pack and j
trail ponies on moose and mountain |
sheep expeditions on the Kenai j
Peninsula. They will be put ashore!
at the mouth of the Kusilof River j
and sent over the trail to the base
of the Kodiak Guides’ Association
on Tustumena Lake in the heart of
Peninsula. On our way to the
mouth of the Kusilof we will go to
Kodiak, where we will take aboard
12 men; including guides, packers,
and cooks. Our supplies will be
oaded in flat-bottom riVer boats eq
uipped with 32-horsepower motors
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NAUTILUS PROCEEDING
OSLO, Aug. 14. (JP) — The Sir
Wilkins submarine Nautilus passed
Bear Island at midnight enroute
to Spitzgerben.
RECOMMENDS FINE FLIERS
TOKYO, Aug. 14. (JP)—The Pang
born and Herndon case was re
ferred by the public procurator to
the district court, recommending
they be fined.
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■ $400,000 TO TURN ELECTION
! CHICAGO, Aug. 14. (JP) — The
| American Business Men’s Prohi
| bition Foundation charged that
I five pre-prohibition brewers had
; raised a secret fund of $400,000
to be used in connection with
I election activities.
RETURNED UNEXPECTEDLY
i LONDON, Aug. 13. (JP) — Prime
| Minister MacDonald unexpectedly
j interrupting his vacation in Scot
j land, returned to London with his
I daughter to consult with cabinet
members on the economy com
! mission’s report and on the gen
eral financial situation.
TRAGIC ENDING
| NEW YORK, Aug. 13. (JP) — A
| game of guillotine, with a tragic
ending took place at a gay birth
day party of young folks, when 21
year old Harold Finn was held on
a technical charge of manslaugh
1 ter for the death of Alfshild Iver
| son.
“USELESS” JAIL RAZED
KEENSBURG, 111., Aug. 12. (JP)—
When does a jail become useless?
Keensburg’s bastile hasn’t had a
customer since 1916, so the village
board has decided that’s proof
enough. Therefore the jail is being
torn down.
HALT MONARCHIST MOVE
VIENNA, Aug. 14. UP)—Prompt
action is being taken by the gov
ernment to halt reactionary move
ments of monarchist elements. A
plot is alleged to have been dis
covered to crown the son of former
Empress Zita.
DENIES PRESS CLIPPING
SEATTLE, Aug. 14. (JP)—Secre
tary of War Hurley denied pub
lished reports that President Hoo
ver is trying to establish a press
clipping bureau at Washington on
doings of his administration. Hur
ley characterized the report as
the work of “paid character as
sassins.”
TO DEPORT ALIENS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 14.
(JP)—A call for more men and
equipment to seek out and deport!
a huge body of aliens allegedly
residing in the United States, came
from Secretary Doak.
LINOTYPE HEAD DIES
NEW YORK, Aug. 14. (JP)— P. T.
Dodge, president of the Mergen
thaler Linotype Compony for sev
eral years and originator of the
pioneer linotype machine, died of
bronchial pneumonia at the age
of 80.
MOSLEMS ATTACK PROCESSION
CALCUTTA, Aug. 14. (JP) — A
numerous mob of Moslems at
tacked a Hindu procession with
stones and clubs. Police sup
pressed the disturbance after the
wildest commotion by charging
the manifestants.
MOB MOOES FOUR
RTTEMPTS TO LYNCH
THREE PRISONERS
ANN ARBOR, Mich., Aug., 14,
(j4P)—Three men were sentenced
to life imprisonment and placed
in solitary confinement in Jack
, son prison within six hours after
confessing to the killing and
burning of two boys and two girls
in an automobile on a lonely
country road Tuesday night after
they robbed the young couples
and attacked one of the girls.
Angry crowds, four times, tried
to lynch the prisoners, Fred Smith,
I Ex-convict; Frank Oliver, 19-year
old painter, a.. ^ L«*vid Bjackstone,
ian itinerant negro.
| The first lynching was tried
when the trio confessed at Yp
slanti, again when they were
'brought here, the third time when
taken to court for sentence and
! the fourth attack was made on
the trip to Jackson.
The prisoners’ clothing were torn
and they were scratched and
mauled as the mob fought with
the police. The police used tear
gas in protecting their prisoners,
i The confessions came when
Smith’s landlord gave police a
■ gun identified as the one used.
The boys killed were Harry Lore
and Thomas Wheatley, of Ypslanti,
and the girls were Vivian Gold
j and Anna Harrison. They were
: Lore’s cousins from Cleveland.
ImyOBCE ‘SPEEDUP’
! HOT SPRINGS. Ark. Aug. 14. (>P)
' —Quick divorces in Arkansas have
j been slowed up until this fall,
i Then the state supreme court will
decide whether there will be any
at all under the new 90-day ' law
passed by the last legislature.
Possibility of divorces being grant
ed here while litigation over the
act was pendng was removed when
Chancellor W. R. Duffle adjourned
the chanery court until September,
about the time the appellate court
reconvenes.
Several suits had been filed un
der the law and were scheduled
to come up soon for hearing.
Opponents claimed the law’s op
eration was suspended when it was
attacked in the supreme court,
but, lacking definite ford from of
ficials, Chancellor Duffle said he
would consider each case on its
merits.
FIRST DEPORTMENT
REPORT OF ITS KIND
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 14.
(/P)—A report of the first obstret
ical advice sent by the Public
Health Service by radio to a ship
at sea, was received at headquar
ters here when a nurse aboard the
steamship Emma Alexander asked
advice by radio when 394 miles
out from Victoria from the Marine
Hospital at San Francisco.
She was told how to care for her
woman patient.