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VOLUME XVI. A'\<)t
SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1931.
PRICE TEN CENTS
SEATTLE - TOKYO
SHIP WURTH'
FLIES OYER HUSK*
ROBBINS AND JONES, TRANS
PACIFIC FLIERS, HEADING
FOR SIBERIA
FAIRBANKS. July 9. (IP)—The
Robbins and Jones monoplane
"Fort Worth” arrived over Fair
banks at 7:33 p. m., Fairbanks
time. Wednesday for refueling in
the air.
As the “Fort Worth” circled the
city the refueling plane took off
with 753 gallons of gas. The con
tact required only a few minutes
and 200 gallons were taken aboard;
the two planes then turned and
flew westward down the Tanana
Valley.
Before taking off Pilot Mattern
of the refueling plane said he
probably would land at Solomon
Beach and take on more gas, then
accompany the “Fort Worth” to
Siberia.
OFF FOR SIBERIA I
NOME. July 9. (/P)—The “Fort;!
Worth” was refueled over Solo- j
mon Beach and here before head- {
ing into the cloud bank hovering j
over the water of Bering Sea at I
3:30 Nome time.
The refueling plane set down :
here to load for a refueling con- ;
tact over Siberia. Two refuels1
between Fairbanks and here were j
made, arriving from Fairbanks at
2:10.
Fog and misty weather slowed j
the trip. The planes were greeted ‘
by all Nome; the weather was I
clearing somewhat as the fliers I
were about to continue.
PLANE FORCED DOWN
SOLOMON BEACH, July 9. <7P>—
Bobbins and Jones were forced
down at 3:50 a. m. owing to in
ability to make a refueling con
tact because of bad weather.
SEEK HUGE LOAN
BERLIN, July 9. (&*)—Germany
is reported seeking an interna,
tional loan of two billion marks
on the strength of her nation-wide
"credit front” to restore confi
dence in her financial status. It
is believed Hans Luther, president
of the Reichstag, has left for Lon
don to arrange details.
START FINAL TESTS
LOS ANGELES, July 9. (A5)—De
partment of Commerce pilots
started final tests on the new 220
miles per hour, $25,000 superjspeed
monoplane purchased by A. Cand
ler, Jr., member of the multi-mil
lionaire Atlanta family, for a
trans-continental hop to Savan
nah.
YUKON DUE IN MORNING
According to the noon report
the SS Yukon, of the Alaska
Steamship Company, will arrive in
port from the South at 8 o’clock
in the morning. The Yukon will
discharge over 500 tons of general
cargo, 107 tons for Seward and 45
tons for the SS Starr which sails
Saturday for the Westward. Two
carloads of steel for the new resur
rection bridge is also in the local
tonnage.
CHEERING NEWS
| JUNEAU, July 9 (/P)—More than
250,000 cases of salmon have been
packed in the Bristol Bay district
up to the week ending July 4,
bringing the total pack to 350,000
cases, reds accounting for above
90 per cent. Conditions are ex
cellent.
IVES OF AVIATORS
COLUMBUS, O., July 9. (£>)— j
Undeterred by their accident in j
landing yesterday Mrs. Post and J
Mrs. Gatty hopped off for Chica- j
sha, Okla., this morning.
The women escaped serious in- j
jury when the plane ground-looped
and was badly damaged. The sis-'
tership “Winnie Mae” took the
women westward. Post and Gatty,
seeing their wives safely in the
air,climbed into their own ship
and took off.
CHAMPS FLY WEST
NE WYORK, July 9. (A>>—Wiley
Post and Harold Gatty, held up:
for the day by unfavorable wea-.
ther, took off in their world-gird-,
ing plane, the Winnie Mae/ to fly j
westward to 'receive the plaudits I
of their home town. 4
LOST GOLD LEDGE
i The remarkably good news
; brought to Seward by Capt. Pete
j Sather, of the Nuka Bay Trans-1
' portation Co., that on July 3 the
1 lost ledge of the Alaska Hills gold 1
| mine was found just a few’ feet
j from w’here it was lost a few years
' ago. The rediscovery has revived
local intrest in the camp im_
J mensely and undoubtedly means
resumption of activities on a large
scale.
E. Barnett, former superintend
ent, is today enroute to Seward
from Anchorage and will board the
MS Rolph which is being .held over i
for him. The report said the ledge I
is four feet wide. Capt. Sather
will bring Mr. Barnett back to
j Seward about the 28th of this i:
month at which time full details :
will be learned 1
KING MIX EIROUTE
TO OH HOME
NEW YORK, July 9. (^>)_Max
Schmeling, king of the heavy
weights, will be back in the ring
September 17, risking his cham
pionship and swapping punches
with another challenger, this time'
Primo Carnera, the “man moun
tain” from Italy.
Schmeling is on his way to Ger_ i
many for a brief visit and will -
return to the United States to re-!
sume training in August.
LONG DELAY
RIO DE JANEIRO, July 9 (#>)—
Further delay in the flying pro
gram of the Dornier DO-X, Ger
many’s monster flying boat, was
revealed by newspaper reports.
The giant ship is not expected to
hop from Rio de Janeiro to the
United States until the end of
August or the beginning of Sep
tember.
GOLD PRODUCTION
IN ALASKA WELL
ON WAY TO RECORD
GAINS SHOWN IN ALL DIS
TRICTS, REPORTS
McBRIDE
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j JUNEAU, July 9. (/P)—Collector
| of Customs McBride reported Al
jaskan gold shipments for the first
!six months of 1931 totaled $3,780,
380 which is 50 per cent in excess
of the corresponding month of
last year. ... 1
j Mine authorities said the gold
output might reach $10,00,000 for
'the year and that a strong proba
bility exists that the production
will be the largest since 1917.
McBride said the mining industry
showed gains in all sections of
the Territory.
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GIRL YULE SHIITE;
MARRIED ON MONDAY
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NEW YORK, July 9. (/P>—Rudy
Vallee, who crooned himself to
fame and fortune with a collegiate
jazz band and megaphone, found
his ideal girl and married a Yale
graduate, Miss Fay Webb, screen
actress and daughter of the Santa
Monica, Calif., police chief.
The marriage * was performed
Monday night in West Orange,
N. J. She is a brown-eyed bru
nette, 23 years of age, an accom
plished dancer, pianist, swimmer,
equestrienne and has played small
parts in movies.
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POLICE IRE MYSTIFIED
NEW YORK, July 9 (/P>—Miss
Evelyn Wilson, 23, musical comedy
actress, is at home and police are
trying to find out why she has
been away She disappeared Sun
day from her sister’s apartment
while on an errand to a drug store
for her mother
At 12:30 a. m. today she ap
peared at her home on 72nd Street
having been driven there by a
taxi cab she hailed at 175nd Street
and Broadway.
Arthur Fitzgerald, the taxi driv
er, told detectives that Miss Wil
son jumped out of the taxi with
out paying him.
OFF ON VACATION
Mrs. John Rosness and son,
Henry, will leave with Capt. Pete
Sather this evening for Nuka Is
land where Mrs. Rosness will visit
with Mrs. Sather. Bennie Craw
ford, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Craw
ford, is going with Henry, the lat
ter lad being the high mogul of
the mailing department of The
Gateway
Anton Johnson will be among
the passengers for Nuka Bay this
evening, on the MS Rolph III,
where he will go to work for Bab
cock & Downey, mine operators
HALIBUT PRICES
SEATTLE, July 9. (£>)—Halibut
; from five vessels totaling 82,000
i pounds brought 5c and 9 Vic. At
Prince Rupert 75,000 pounds of
American brought 8c and 9c and
Canadian 3c and 7c.
CLAIM VICTORY OVER
DUMH FORCES
LIMA, Peru, July 9. (&)—The Pe
ruvian government claimed a vic
tory over revolutionary forces in
southern Peru and pressing its
troops forward to end the rebel
lion. Insurgent forces were rout
ed in a battle near Cuzco with a
few casualties, a government bul
letin said.
The government also stated that
| an uprising of officers in the gar
I rison had been squashed and 20
leaders arrested
MUST PAY $10,000
LOS ANGELES, July 9. (^—Al
bert Fuchs, 67, must pay Martha
Marse Gullickson $10,000 because
of a broken marriage promise, by
a jury’s verdictafter five hours
of deliberation.
'BEST FISHING EVER
!
“The best trout fishing I ever
enjoyed.” sums up what V. T.
j Newton of Kansas thinks of fish
ing at Alaska’s famed stream,
Russian River. Mr. Newton left
today on the MS Chugach for Cor
dova where his family proposes to
remain for the summer. Later he
intends to bring them to Seward
I and Anchorage for a visit while
he takes a moose hunt and proba
i bly another- fishing trip.
Mr. Newton is president of the
Wellington Chamber of Commerce,
Wellington, Kansas, but had little
time to discuss his activities along
that line so enthused was he with
his outing with Andy Simons and
Frank Towle. The largest Rain
bow he snared measured 25 inches
and weighed just under eight
; pounds The average size hooked
I was from 12 to 16 inches.
RELATIONS OF GHORGH
UNO STATE STRAINED
ROME, July 9. (/P)~Italian news
papers have resumed their editor
ial campaign against the Vatican,
Lavoro Fascista leading the way
with a charge that the Catholic
action organization plotted a
counter revolution against the Fas_
cist state.
Relations between church and
state are at a point where nego
tiations are extremely difficult if
not impossible.
92ND BIRTHDAY
NEW YORK, July 9. (A1)—The
distribution of dimes by John D.
Rockefeller was under way. It
was his 92nd birthday, and the
head of the house of Rockefeller
celebrated it quietly at fris 8,000
acre estate near Sleepy Hollow.
New York.
DEI INGE SEES
ENGLISH UTOPIA IN
HEIR I. D. 3.1
DECLARES FUTURE OF WORLD
LIES IN THE HANDS OF
MASSES
LONDON, July 9. (INS)—A land
without taxes, debt, disease, army,
navy, crime or lawyers, and in
1 which physical perfection will be
1 cultivated and beauty recognized
in the body as well as in the face.
This is the Utopian ideal which
“Goomy” Dean Inge foresees for
England in the year A.D. 3,000 if
the people really want it.
| Lecturing before the Royal In
jstitution on “The Future of the
1 i Human Race,” the Dean declared
ithat the future of the world lies
| in the hands of the masses and
. they can make or mar- it.
j He suggests the following con
ditions as a basis for an ideal so
jcial order:
! Cultivation of physical perfec
tion. No persons allowed to have
\ children without certificates of
bodily and mental fitness. Large
| families neither approved nor de
' sired. An A_1 husband or w’ife
Jas much sought after as wealth
and titles are now7.
A rational costume for both sex
es, cheap, becoming and scanty,
enabling beauty to be recognized
in the body and limbs as wTell as
jin the face.
War and all tariff walls abol
ished. Most of the nations nearly
! self-supporting.
j No army, navy, national debt,
| foreign politics or doles, which
would make the functions of the
i central government almost nom
; inal.
A parliament which meets only
i for a fortnight or so a year and
j is composed of a dignified and
! ederly senate of ex-officials and
! retired business men.
United Christian worship in
each parish. Medical assistance
given by the State,
j Crime never punished by im
prisonment. Reformatories for first
offenders, and if a delinquent is
pronounced incorrigibly anti-social,
he should be privately and pain
lessly extinguished in a lethal
chamber without any publicity or
humiliation to his family.
Infectious disease completely
| stamped out, except for the com
imon cold.
READY NEXT MONTH
i WASHINGTON, D. C., July 9. (/P)
j—Work on the rigid airship ZR-4
j at the plant of the Goodyear Zep
*pelin Corp., Akron, O., is rapidly
approaching completion and un
less unforeseen delays occur the
ship which, if accepted by the
Navy, will be christened “Akron,”
will be ready for its test flight
by the Navy personnel during the
latter half of August, according
to the Navy Department
SUBWAY TRAGEDY
NEW YORK, July 9. (JP)—Eight
men were injured, one seriously,
when a workman’s pick set off a
charge of dynamite in the tube
for the new Eighth Avenue sub
way 60 feet under Harlem River.
Thomas Withers, 43, was most ser
iously hurt; the others sustained
minor cuts and bruises.