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VOLUME XVI. NUMBER 146. SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 1, 1931.
PRICE TEN CENTS
POST, GATY TIKE
' OFF FROM STREET
EDMONTON. Rill
FIELD IS QUAGMIRE ON AC
COUNT OF STEADY RAIN
FOR 24 HOURS
EDMONTON, Alberta. July 1. (A1
—Using a paved street for a run
away Post and Gatty hopped of
for Cleveland beyond which lay th<
the home stretch of their flight
They hoped to reach Roosevel
Field by night for the completing
of the world flight in nine days
They took to the air at 3:31
mountain time, hoping to read
Cleveland in 11 or 12 hours.
Rain had been falling for thi
past 24 hours but ceased befori
the takeoff leaving the field ;
quagmire from which a take-of
with a heavy load was almost im
possible. Post ran the plane dowi
a street for a quarter of a mil<
before he lifted it into the air ii
the face of a northwest breeze.
Neither would say w’hat coursi
they would take. Police had t<
clear the street of spectators.
FOR POST w m
NEW YORK. July 1. (/P> — As
fuming that Post and Gatty ar
rive between 6 and 10 o'clock to
night, plans are being made to giv<
them a welcome befitting thei
feat which has captured the ima
gination of the world.
Their official welcome will be re
served for tomorrow after the flier,
have had a night’s rest and paradi
up Broadway behind an escor
of soldiers and sailors betweei
lanes of cheering throngs.
The reception by Mayor Jimme?
Walker will be at the City Hal
where the mayor is to presen
them with medals.
Mrs. Post and Mrs. Gatty wil
both be here to welcome their hus
bands.
HUM DEPOSITS IN
CMUIM APPEAR TO
BE VERY PROMISINI
TORONTO, Canada, July 1. UP)
A government assay of ore fron
the pitch-blende deposits in th<
Northwest Territories indicate,
possibility of this area being riel
in radium-bearing ore of a com
mercial character.
According to word received b;
the natural resources dejartmen
of the Canadian National Railways
the government tests which weri
made on two samples showed re
spectively 144.52 milligrams of ra
dium per ton and 162.39 milligram!
of radium per ton.
With radium valued at $50 pe:
milligram, the first sample woul<
rate $7,225.50 per ton of ore ant
the second $8,119.50.
ARRIVE AT EDMONTON
EDMONTON, Alberta, July 1. (JP)
—Post and Gatty landed here at
4:35 p. m., Tuesday, Mountain time.
GOVERNOR PARKS AND
OTHERS INVITED SOUTH
SAN FRANCISCO, July I. (JP)—
Invitations to the Pacific Foreign
Trade Council will be extended to
Governor Parks and trade leaders
in Wrangell and Sitka by John
1 L. Judge, assistant manager of
' the Bureau of Foreign and Do
mestic Commerce who sailed on
5 the SS Alaska for a three weeks
' visit.
The council will meet ip Oakland
’ on September 17 and 18.
SITS MIRES MUST
• WAIT ON DEMANDS
' FOR MORE METALS
i: SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, July 1.
j (JP)—F. H. Brownell, chairman of
i j the board of the American Smelt
)! ing & Refining company, advocat
j ed running metal mines on 50
; per cent production during the
summer to permit the demand to
; catch up with surplus metal stocks.
“That would be better for labor,”
1 he said in a newspaper interview,
! “because in the summer time those
who had been laid off could find
f other jobs on road building, etc.
I We should curtail the production
| of silver, copper, lead and other
minerals at once and in the long
■ run everybody would be ahead.”
IN 0. S. CONTINUES
; NEW YORK, July 1. (/P) — July
: came with a record heat wave still
i prevailing in many sections of the
! country.
'! Temperate relief is on the way to
l j Central States and may arrive to
;j nite or tomorrow pushing the heat
| farther East and South where re
l cords were broken yesterday.
The total number of deaths dur
ing the heat wave was 766. The
Pacific Coast is nearly normal.
SOLON ALASKA BOUND
! BELLINGHAM, July 1. (JP) —
! Representative Robert G. Simmons,
republican from Nebraska and a
member of the House appropria
1 tions committee, is sailing today
I on the Pacific American Fishery
Steamship, Catherine D, to study
J agricultural conditions in Alaska.
l AFTER $25,000 PRIZE
i BOISE, Idaho, Jul 1, (/P) —Reg
i Robbins and H. S. Jones, flying to
i Seattle for a non-stop refueling
■ flight to Tokyo via Fairbanks and
• Nome, landed here from Fort
r Worth, Texas. They seek the $25,
t 000 prize offered by a Japanese!
» newspaper for a non-stop flight
J from the United States.
Dr. C. L. Fenton, of Oakland,
5 Calif., with six years’ practice
there, arrived in Juneau recently
* and after looking the city over
l immediately decided to locate
l there and open an office, says the
Empire.
TEXAS Ml IS
« WAT FROM HOME;
SEWARD GUEST TODAY
Though only catching brief
glimpses of Alaska enroute to
Seward from the famous Lone
Star State of Texas, Walter F. Hall
of San Marcus, is “sold” on Alas
ka 100 per cent and regrets but
one thing, that time does not per
mit of a longer stay in order to
become more intimately acquaint
ed.
Mr. Hall, joint agent for the
Missouri, Kansan & Texas Rail
way, and who is making the Al
! aska tour from an educational
standpoint, is accompanied by
Mrs. Hall, teacher of social science
in Austin and also, with Mr. and
Mrs. Hall, are Miss Ellen Johnson
of San Francisco and Miss Frances
Switzer of Yuba City, Calif.
The party will make the short
sight-seeing trip over the Alaska
Railroad to Potter returning in
time to join in with Sewardites in
celebrating the two-day Fourth
of July celebration, then connecting
with the Admiral Watson for the
southbound and homeward trip.
While in the city Mr. Hall is call
ing upon local business men for
the purpose of absorbing as much
Alaska atmosphere and as many
viewpoints as he can. It is sel
dom a visitor comes to find Al
aska so filled to the brim with en
thusiasm as this man from Texas
—a mighty fine fellow to meet per
sonally—and it is certain that
upon his return to the state of his
adoption he will let go one of
those rumored Texas booster yells,
“I’ve been to Alaska and its my
time to howl!”
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Night garner
Portland 4. Seattle 1.
Missions 3, Hollywood 0.
Los Angeles 7, San Francisco 2.
Sacramento 7, Oakland 2.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Philadelphia 11, Cleveland 7.
Boston 7, Chicago 1.
Detroit 8, New York 7. The game
went to 11 innings.
St. Louis 7, Washington 0.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
St. Louis 1, New York 10.
Chicago 14, Philadelphia 3.
Cincinnati 4, Brooklyn 3.
Boston 5, Pittsburgh 1.
PHILADELPHIA, July 1. (JP) —
Hornsby hit two more home runs
counting for five of Chicago’s 14
runs.
ST. LOUIS, July 1. (#) —George
Blaholder shut out Washington
and allowed only two hits.
Dewey Metzdorf, head of the
stores department of the Alaska
Railroad, was a brief business vis
itor in the city Tuesday from An
chorage. Mr. Metzdorf made the
trip over the southern division
in the interest of railroad tie
activities and expects to return
next week.
George Colwell, roadmaster, Al
aska Railroad, arrived in the city
yesterday from Tunnel, on a gen
eral trip of inspection of the
southern division.
SEATTLE HALIBUT FARE
SEATTLE, Wash., July 1, (A?)—
Six vessels with 60,000 pounds of
medium halibut and 38,000 pounds
of small sold for 4c and 8V2C.
i
HUSK) FI RETURNS
LESS SCCOIMT PRICE
| WASHINGTON, July 1, (JP) —
| The Agricultural Department an
! nounced that 494,547 fur land
| animal skins valued at $2,128,148
were exported from Alaska in 1930.
This value is $2,385,715 less than
I the year previous although there
I were 197,245 more pelts and the
i prices were considerably lower.
SNELflllisF '
DEELOFING COLD AT >
! MM GROUP
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j
PRESCOTT, Ariz., July 1. (JP)— j
Operations have commenced at1
;the Sheldon Mining Company’s!
Walker property to develop some’
: gold veins indicated on the sur- j
: face. H. R. Lathrop, president, of!
| New oYrk City, while in Prescott \
’said the outlook was favorable.
“We expect to continue these op
erations all summer,” he said.
!“The smelter at Humboldt is being
kept in good repair for any favor
able upturn in the copper market,
and in fact can be started up on j
short notice.”
He and George D. French, gen- ;
eral superintendent, who was in
the city with him, explained the
Sheldon mine originally was a
good property, though it has been
developed into a copper producer.
ffl BONUS IN
i FILL, IS PIEI
PORT ANGELES, July 1, (/P) —
j A plea for “no armistice until the
I United States government shall
have paid holders of adjusted com
pensation certificates 100 cents on
! the dollar” was made before the
opening session of the state en
campment of Veterans of Foreign
Wars by National Commander in
Chief Paul C. Wolman.
Wolman accused the govern
ment of “making a profit off her
soldiers and sailors who held cer
tificates,” and pledged the V. F. W.
to continue fighting for a full
bonus payment.
MINERS MOSTLY AMERICAN
WALLACE, Idaho, July 1. (£>)—Of
the 1300 men employed at the
; Bunker Hill & Sullivan Mining and
| Concentrating company’s mine,
j mills and smelters, 840 or 65 per
(cent are American born, according
to a census by James W. Gwinn
of the engineering department,
made under direction of Stanley
A. Easton, vice president and
manager.
CLEARING CONTRACTS
Within a few days the Fairbanks
office of the Alaska Road Com
mission will call for bids for the
clearing of the Olnes-Livengood
road from Station 219 to Station
1100, a-distance of approximately
18 miles. Contracts will probably
be let in three different sections,
reports the News-Miner.
HOOVER PUN FOR
MORATORIUM MAY
DOES NOT CONTEMPLATE PUSH
THE MORATORIUM
PROPOSAL
WASHINGTON, July 1. (ffi) —
Despite the so far irreconciled dif
ferences with France and the
United States over the moratorium
the administration is loath to dis
cuss possible other means for im
proving Germany’s economic con
dition.
President Hoover, it is said, will
make no proposal to push the
plan without agreement from othei
sources and appeared reluctanl
toward discussion of the two pos
sible courses, one of which involve.
a new agreement for financial as
sistance to Germany and the other
for other powers to proceed with
a moratorium, France continuing
to collect her unconditional repara
tions from Germany and paying
full war debts to her creditors.
FULL INCUS
CABLED TO MELLON
COUNTER PROPOSALS
PARIS , July 1. (/P) —Complete
instructions from Washington
about how to handle France’s coun
ter proposals to the Hoover Mora
torium plan were received by Sec
retary Mellon and Ambassadoi
Edge. The instructions were being
held strictly secret until after the
conference today with French au
thorities.
It is believed that if the Ameri
cans find themselves unable to ac
cept all of the French counte:
suggestions that they will be readj
to show a spirit of conciliation on
some points.
ST. LOUIS AIRPORT
IMPROVED TO CAIN
FEOERALJOP RINA
ST. LOUIS, July 1, (JP) —Foilw
ing installation of additional flood
lights and radio facilities, Lam
bert-St. Louis field has been given
an A-l-A 'rating, the highest
awarded by the aeronautics branch
of the United States Department
of Commerce.
It is one of six fields in the
country to be so designated.
When first used as a municipal
landing field, in 1928, the field
measured 169 acres. It has been
increased to 560 acres in area, with
3,000 feet of hard-surfaced run
ways.
About 400 acres are suitable for
landing purposes, while, along one
side is a concrete apron 2,500 feet
long and 200 feet wide.
RUPERT HALIBUT PRICE
PRINCE RUPERT, B. C., July 1,
(/P)—One hundred thousand lbs.
of American halibut was landed
here bringing 4c to .10.30c per lb.