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SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, JUNE 15,1931.
PRICE TEN CENTS
VOLUME XVI. NUMBER 132.
RADIO CORPORATION
SAYS LICENSES REFUSED
LIVES BE ENDANGERED
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 14.
i,<P)—The Radio Corporation of
America in a plea for injunction
against the Federal Radio Com
mission claim that if radio fre
quency licenses and renewal of li
censes are refused on charges of
monopoly, it would strike down
national broadcasting, internation
al broadcasting, experimental sys
tems involving years of research
and millions of investors’ money.
That it would render worth
less, vast international communi
cation systems and place in jeo
pardy through lack of communica
tion, millions of dollars worth of
shipping and thousands of lives
at sea.
LT COLONEL DLWSTESD
ARRIVES FROM KODIAK
Lt. Col. Dawson Olmstead, head
of the Washington-Alaska Military
Cable and Telegraph System, re
turned Saturday evening on the SS.
Admiral Watson from Kodiak and
planned to leave Seward today for
Anchorage with Col. Otto F. Ohl
son, general manager of the Alaska
Rairoad.
Colonel Olmstead spent Sunday
inspecting the local station and of
fices and a portion of the day on
one of the numerous local fishing
streams in company with promin
ent local residents.
—And he brought back some
choice specimens!
At noon today Colonel Olmstead
was the guest of honor at the
Chamber of Commerce luncheon.
DISCOVERER LEAVES
The U. S. S. Discoverer, of the
Coast and Geodetc Survey, left to
day at 10 o’clock for the vicinity of
Barren Island, where it will continue
its work of making surveys and
land observations. The Discoverer
returns to port July 3rd. for the
big Fourth of July celebration in
Seward.
STREAM DIVERTED
Swimming in Harriman lake is
rapidly becoming a real pleasure
now that the water has been made
to lose some of its previous frigid
ity. Through the work of Mayor D.
C. Brownell and Donald Shellhorn
the ice cold mountain stream, which
heretfore, has been flowing into the
lake, lias been diverted into a dif
ferent channel and it now flows
away from the lake.
5,000 OFFENSES
CHICAGO, June 14. UP)—Al
phonse Capone and 68 other de
fendants, many of them members
of his liquor and gambling syn
dicate, were indicted by a Federal
grand jury for conspiracy to vio
ate the Federal prohibition laws.
The indictments charged members
of Capone’s gang of 5,000 offenses.
Thanks are extended to Mrs. C.
Havorsen for her contribution of
a large bundle of magazines for
the Umnak school, which were
sent out on the SS Starr.
ASK FOR WARSHIPS
TOKYO, June 15. </P) — British
United States and Japanese con
suls at Foochow, China, have asked
their governments to send warships
to Fokin Province capitol to pro
tect their nationals from Commun
is disturbances.
BRTTLESHIP IS TOWING
WILKINS SIMM
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 14.
(/P)—The battleship Wyoming re
ported to the Navy Department
that it was towing the submarine
Nautilus at five knots on a course
East, Northeast from the position
in the mid-Atlantic where it be
came disabled early Sunday.
The Wyoming and Arkansas
' have been standing by the dis
i abled sub. Captain Wilkins re
ported one engine stalled. It. is
; believed the sub will be taken to
Queenstown.
NOTED MX ESCAPES
INJURY AUTOGYRO CRASH
I
PECOS, Texas, June 15. (JP) —
Amelia Earhart escaped injury when
her autogyro plane crashed from
. an altitude of about 30 feet as she
' was taking off from the airport
here, to resume her journey «ast
i ward from California.
While the plane was damaged
considerably, neither the noted
aviatrix nor her mchanic, Eddie De
Vaught, were hurt. The accident was
caused by the plane striking a
landing light upright as it took off.
MEH DIRS ON
JOB SUNKEN SUB BOUT
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WETHAIWEI, China, June 14. UP)
;—Divers of the American Navy’s
salvage vessel Pigeon descended in
unfavorable weather and fastened
cables around the British subma
rine Poisedon, lying with 18 dead
120 feet down in the Yellow Sea.
! The Pigeon was to attempt to
raise the Poisedon Sunday from
! her tragic beat where she lies
! after a collision last Tuesday with
I the Chinese steamer Yuta.
| Donald Shellhorn, Seward’s fancy
high diver, has built a 12-foot div*
ing board out at Harriman lake and
anyone interested in plunging into
the placid waters of Seward’s most
popular swimmin’ hole are now giv
en an opportunity to do so.
INDIAN IS SUICIDE
PONCA CITY, Okla., June 14. (JP)
i —Returning to his home near
Washunga, where he had shot and
killed his wife, a white woman,
A. Farbron, a Kaw Indian, com
mitted suicide.
I a
| Boats in port today included the
' U. S. S. Discoverer, Mariaan, Rolph
11, Roy Bill, Joan B. F. M., Flattery,
and the Helldiver.
The sports reporter was hot on
the trail of an alleged gang of
“bookies” and betting operators yes
terday. But. alas, it was only a
group of baseball devotees from the
ships in port wagering five cases of
—canned salmon—on yesterday's
baseball tussle.
DEATH TOLL PLACED AT 442;
TERRIBLE SUNDAY
TRAGEDY
ST. ANZAIRE, France, June 14.
OP)—More than 400 inen, women
and children were drowned yes
terday when a hurricane capsized
the excursion steamer St. Philibert.
Dozens of harbor craft picked
their way across the Bay of Bis
cay with lookouts scanning the
water for bodies. Eight persons
were rescued and eight bodies
were recovered.
It is believed 460 were aboard
when the vessel left; it is possible
others secaped death but have
not yet reported.
The toll of the disaster is esti
mated with as much accuracy as
possible at 442 dead. The St.
Philibert, a flimsy 100-foot river
steamer, put out from Nantes with
a crowd of picnickers on an outing
run by a labor organization and
was steaming down the river to
St. Nazaire and across the bay
to the Island of Noirmoutier.
Most of the passengers went
ashore. The weather was threat
ening when they started on the
return trip and when off Point
Pest Giidas the storm broke in a
! sudden fury. The passengers
i stampeded to the leeward side
I which threw the boat off an even
| keel and it turned over, spilling a
j human cargo into the ordinarily
calm waters of the bay which be
came a maelstorm of struggling
| humans.
! The majority sank without a
i chance for their lives. Cries of
I the nearly drowning out-liowled
: the storm; the strong current evi
j dently carried scores of bodies to
: sea.
Most of the passengers were of
! the working class affiliated with
: socialistic societies and party,
j A lighthouse keeper was the first
: person ashore and sensing an im
pending tragedy, telephoned for
help. Life-saving crews put out
and tugs and patrol boats arrived
but the scene of disaster was
merely a gray expanse of water
dotted with a few survivors and
bits of wreckage.
SHEEP FOR VISITORS
The Admiral Watson brought this
year’s first shipment of sheep from
the ranch of H. S. Abbert of Ko
diak to Seward for the Los Angeles
Chamber of Commerce party. Mr.
Abbert congratulates himself that
these are a few of the sheep that
he kept the bears from eating. Af
ter 12 days of intensive hunting he
succeeded in killing one of these
marauding beasts, vz: the Kodiak
brown bear.
PROTEST RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
TOLEDO, Spain, June 15. (fP)—
In a pubic manifesto issued here,
the highest Preates of the Catho
lic Church in Spain, expressed vig
orous censure of the Republican
governments recent decree estab
lishing complete religious freedom
in Spain.
The regular bi-monthly meeting
of the Seward City Council takes
place this evening.
PRESIDENT OF CHINA
NANKING, June 1. UP)—Chiang
Kaishek was re-elected President
of the Chinese Republic by the
fifth plenary session of the cen
tral executive committee of the
Komintang party.
YOUNG REPUMNS
RICK PRES. HOOVER
WASHINGTON, June 1. (IP) —
The attention of the conference of
Yoimg Republicans was centered
again on President Hoover, as Cab
inet officers and party leaders, call
ed for an aggressive campaign in
1932.
Secretary Hurley, in concluding i
the conference program, praised
Mr. Hoover’s policies nd denounced
his critics. He said, also, that Hoo
ver’s policies were progressive and
aggressive, and urged that “we keep j
the leadership of the Republicans!
safe.”
DEPOT! SUES I
PLEAD NOT GUILTY
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|
ARDMORE, Okla., June 14. (JP)—[
Deputy Sheriffs W. E. Guess and j
Cecil Crossby pleaded not guilty!
at the district court arraignment
on charges for the slaying here'
last Monday of Emilio Cortes Ru
bio, cousin of the Mexican presi
dent, and his college chum, Manuel j
Gomez.
District Judge John B. Ogden i
said he will set the trial for the j
week of June 22.
SATURDAY’S GAMES
AMERICAN
St. Louis 3-1, Philadelphia 10-14.
Detroit 1, Boston 7.
Chicago 6, New York 11.
Cleveland 0, Washington 5.
NATIONAL
Philadelphia 6, Chicago 7.
Brooklyn 1, Cincinnati 6.
New York 6, Pittsburgh 4.
Boston 0, St. Louis 4.
PACIFIC COAST
Portland 5, Missions 4; evelen
innings.
San Francisco 11, Oakland 7.
Los Angeles 7, Sacramento 9.
Seattle 6, Hollywood 20.
SUNDAY’S GAMES
AMERICAN
Chicago 7, Boston 4.
Detroit 4, New York 2; ten in
ings.
Philadelphia 4, Cleveland 6.
St. Louis 3, Washington 9.
NATIONAL
Philadelphia 3-4, St. Louis 7-13. |
Pittsburgh 3, Brooklyn 6.
Boston 3, Chicago 1. (
New York 3, Cincinnati 2.
PACIFIC COAST
Seattle 4-3, Hollywood 12-4.
Los Angeles 8-14, Sacramento 4-2.
San Francisco 3-12, Oakland 0-3.
Portland 3, Missions 0.
SHIP ALMOST GONE
LOS ANGELES, June 15. (/P) —
Only a portion of the coastwise
liner Harvard, which drove into a
reef off Point Arguello, remains
above the water. Her foremast has
been carried away by the heavy
&as.
TIL OF W
MURDER BILE IS
MINEOLA, N. Y., June 14. (/P)—
A grand jury probe into the riddle
of the murder of 25-year-old Starr
Faithful, Greenwich Village play
girl beauty, whose beaten body
was found in the surf at Long
Beach, Long Island, got under
way.
District Attorney Edwards, who
maintains that the girl was
slugged and then deliberately
drowned in shallow water, entered
the grand jury room with a sheaf
of documents under his arm, in
cluding the love diary of the mur
dered girl.
DETROIT UNO OREGON
HUNTERS ARRIVE SOON
A party of eight big game hun
ters from Detroit and Carleton, Ore
gon, will arrive in Alaska in Aug
ust. They will first hunt moose and
mountain sheep on Kenai Penin
sula, then caribou at Cantwell or
some other point on the Alaska
Rairoad and wind up their outing
with a brown bear hunt on Kodiak
Island.
The party will be under the lead
ership of Chas. Madsen, field mana
ger of the Kodiak Guides Ass’n.
Madsen’s many successful hunts
are fast giving him fame through
out the United States and Canada.
This is one enterprise of which
Kodiak can be proud.
U. S. THE “GOAT’’
LONDON, June 14. (JP)— One of
the solutions suggested at the con
ference of German and British
statesmen on ways and means to
ameliorate the German repara
tions burden is that of suspension
of debt payments to the United
States by the allied nations or at
least a rebate in the present rate
-'f interest in international loans.
It is reported that two of Seward’s
adventurous young lads have start
ed to build a couple of cabins on a
nearby RT&hway. Maybe they are
constructing the aforesaid cabins
on acount of the world-wide bus
iness depression and are now build
ing a foundation for prosperity to
return on a sound basis. Anything in
it?
KODIAK WOOL
Due to continued good weather,
H. S. Abbert has finished planting
oats and feed in one field of 70
acres and unless it rains within a
few days his entire band of sheep
will be sheared and the wool made
ready for shipment.
Mrs. A. Young and children, who
arrived on Saturdays ttaln from
Anchorage, are the house guests of
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Richards while
they are in Seward. Tlry erps'ct to
return to Anchorage Friday.
If, while in Alaska Stewart Ed
ward White will include Kodiak in
his itinerary and explain how the
brown bear in a valley of one fish
stream can be exterminated in one
week, he will be doing something
for posterity.