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SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1931.
VOLUME XVI. NUMBER 141,
PRICE TEN CENTS
ZAMORA POWER
HR ASSEMBLY
MONARCHISTS CLAIM REPUB
LICANS GIVEN BREAKS NEW
ELECTION LAWS
MADRID, Spain, June 25. (£>) —
The republican-socialist coalition,
controlling the provisional govern
ment of Spain, expects to have a
three to one majority in the na
tional constituent assembly to be
elected June 28 and meet here
July 14.
Since assuming power the Alcala
Zamora government has revised
The election laws—and the mon
archist complain that the revi
sion has given the republicans all
the breaks.
The republicans retort that they
suffered disadvantages for years,
but they finally won and the new
system can be no worse than the
old.
The election scheme is involved,
but what it amounts to is that
the winning party in each pro
‘ vince takes 80 per cent of the as
sembly seats from that province
and the minority gets 20 per cent.
Seats are apportioned by pro
vinces in the ratio of one mem
ber of the assembly to each 50,000
population.
There probably will be 6657
members of the new assembly, al
though this total is subject to
some last minute revisions.
It is calculated that the govern
ment wil have 349 seats against
118 for all its possible opponents.
ALASKA GUIDE IS
SUCCESSFUL USING
PiSTT TOP HIM
On the -last trip of the SS
Aleutian Andrew M. Taylor, well
known Alaska guide and mount- !
aineer was on board.
Mr. Taylor had just returned
from the first successful expedi
tion to climb Mount Fairweather
which has baffled similar expedi- ;
tions since early in the 18th cen
tury.
Parties from all over the world
have tried on numerous occasions
to scale the nearly impregnable
peak which rears it’s head 15,330 .
feet above sea level. This success- I
ful ascent was made June 8th,
the culmination of more than two
months, effort. The temperature at
the summit wras 10 degrees below
zero on that day.
The members of the party were:
Dr. W. S. Ladd of New York City, j
Allan Carpe and Terris Moore of
Philadelphia, and Mr. Taylor of i
McCarthy, Alaska.
TEACH BOYS TO DRIVE
STOCKHOLM, June 25. (JP) — j
Boys in Swedish boarding schools
are now taught to run automobiles.j
They are given two hours’ instruc- :
tions each week.
LONGEST PHONE LINE
SYDNEY, Australia, June 25. (/P) |
—Telephone service between Bris
bane and Perth makes speech pos
sible over the world’s longest land
line, from Geraldton to Cairns,
4,762 miles.
RUPERT HALIBUT PRICE
PRINCE RUPERT, B. C., June
25, (/P)—Forty-three thousand
pounds of halibut from American
vessels were sold for 8 and 3-I0c
and 3c; Canadian, 8 and 3-10c to
4c.
SCKRLET FEVER IT
KWH REPORTED
I
SEATTLE, June 25, (JP)—Enough
scarlet fever serum for 75 patients
is being rushed to Kanakanak
on the SS Admiral Watson.
The serum for the fever strick
en district will probably be tak
en from Seward by plane to Dr.
Borland, government physician at
Kanakanak where 43 cases are
reported.
NEW SEMINIR WILL STUDY
CHANGING HD IN HSU
BERKELEY, Calif. June 25. (/P)
—A five-year study of historical,
political, economic and cultural
factors in the relations of Russia,
China and Japan will be the pur
pose of a northeastern Asia sem
inar sponsored by the Institute of
Social Sciences.
The research objectives include
the history of the eastward expan
sion of Russia to the Pacific, the
relations of China in Mongolia
and Manchuria, Japan’s policy in .
northeastern Asia and northeast- j
ern Asia’s problems of the Pacific |
Basin.
Plans contemplate visits of grad- :
uate students and faculty members !
to the countries under study.
SANTA FE, N. M. June 25. (/P)— |
The new leasing act became ef- j
fective in New Mexico last wreek. |
The new law will do away with j
the preferance right to renewal!
of an expiring lease, by competi
tive and will substitute a blanket
renewal right.
Under the old law the holder
of a lease could obtain a renewal
only by accepting the rentals est- I
ablished by competitive bidding.
The new law gives him the privi
lege of converting his present
lease for the unexpired period in
to a new lease at the expiration
of which he has the right to a 5
year extension at double the pre
sent rentals.
TO LEAD TRACK SQUAD
STANFORD UNIVERSITY, June
25. (iP) —Alvin “Ike” Hables, quar
ter-miler member of Stanford’s
great relay team, will captain next
year’s track team.
LOST HEARING
An enraged male brown bear
near Ketchikan rushing to the aid
af his wounded mate forced George
Walker of Texas to fire his big
gun so fast as to deafen Wesley
Myers, guide. Myers told Walker,
who had the only gun, to shoot,
and Walker stopped the bear. Doc
tors said that Myers would re
cover his hearing. Walker is with
the hunting party of Charles de
Granahl of New York—Exchange, fa
post no sum
STMT WORLD HOP
III DIM OF GLORY
BERLIN, June 25. (£>) —Post and
Gatty completed the first lap of
their world flight landing at 2:30
Eastern Standard time after stops
at Hanover and Chester within
24 hours after their departure
from Harbor Grace, Newfoundland.
Officials welcomed the airmen
with flowers and bottles of cham
pagne.
The aviators broadcasted their
greetings to the United States. Mrs.
Gatty in Los Angeles heard her
husband.
They will stay all night here
and continue their flight tomor
row.
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ADMIRAL WATSON Off
FOR NORTH WITH 71
SEATLE, June 25. UP) —The SS.
Admiral Watson, of the Pacific
Steamship Company, sailed at 10
a. m., Wednesday carrying 71 pas
sengers, eight of whom were for
Seward, as follows:^
Mrs. L. L. Shepherd, Wm. Thom
as, Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Hall, Mr.
and Mrs M. Fitch, Donald Cardy.
There were no steerage pas
sengers.
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, June
25, UP)—A “softened” communism j
is the aim of Gen. Augusto San
dino, says Ramiro Molla Sanz, a
Spanish explorer who has return
ed here after a three weeks stay :
at the mountain headquarters of
the Nicaraguan insurgent.
Molla Sanz fell into the hands of
a Sandinista band while he was
making his way through Nicara-'
gua on foot as part of a walking j
journey from New York to Buenos
Aires.
Escorted to the headquarters of :
the commander, he was received as j
a guest and given opportunity to
learn much of the methods and
objects of the Sandino campaign.
“The Russian brand of commun- I
ism is not my taste,” Sandino told
him. “It is much too agitated. I
want a quiet Spanish commuism,
softened and made orderly.”
The U. S. Survey ship Discoverer, i
Comdr. H. B. Campbell, arrived in j
port early Thursday morning from i
the vicinity of the Barren Islands
where triangulation work is being
carried on.
On account of inclement weath- i
er conditions the work has been j
somewhat delayed.
The Discoverer came in for sup
plies and mail and will leave to
night at 7. The vessel returns to
the Port of Seward July 3 for the
local two-day 4th of July cele
ration.
SEATTLE HALIBUT PRICE
SEATTLE, June 25, (/P)—Six
vessels arrived with 69,000 pounds
of halibut which were sold for
5c and 9Vic.
KETCH SPEEDBOAT
SEIZED BT CUSTOMS
PRINCE RUPERT, B. C., June
25, (A3)—The Ketchikan speedboat
T-817 was seized by Customs
authorities last evening near Digby
Island.
The owners are charged with
evading clearances.
Two men on board at the time
of capture are being held for in
vestigation.
KE1EC0TT HIP T9
PIT DIVIDENDS SOON
Kennecott Copper Corp., direc
tors have reduced the annual div
idend basis on the stock to $1
from $2 by declaring in a quarter
ly payment of 25 cents per share.
Utah Copper Company directors
reduced the annual dividend basis
to $6 a share from $8 by declar
ing a quarterly dividend of $1.50.
Nevada consolidated Copper Co.,
directors declared the regular
quarterly dividend of 25 cents per
share.
The dividends are payable July
1 to stockholders of record June
10.
STOCKHOLM, June 25. (JP) —
In the artillery museum of Stock
holm there is an ancient burning j
mirror of big dimensions, formerly
used by the Swedish army as a
means of defense against hostile
ships.
The mirror was placed in the
sun so its reflection set fire to the
vessels approaching Sweden’s
shore.
A scientific adaption of the
burning mirror has been made by
two Swedish scientists, who con
structed a powerful melting fur
nace using an elliptical mirror
and a strong electric arc light.
During a demonstration of the
furnace before the Society of Phy
sical Research, the inventors ob
tained heat enough to melt a met
al with the melting point of about
2,1000 degrees centigrade.
IDAHO FORMS GOLF TEAM
MOSCOW, Idaho, June 25. (IP)—
The University of Idaho has a golf
team this year for the first time
in its history. Robert O’Brien, of
Spokane, shot a hole-in-one during
the team’s first practice.
HOPE COMPLETES MILL
SPOKANE, June 25. (JP) — The
Hope Mining Company has com
pleted a new flotation mill at a
cost of from $40,000 to $50,000 at
Clarkesfork, Idaho. It Is fully el
ectrified.
SILVER WILL TAKE CARE OF
ITSELF BUT SUGGEST
IT BE AIDED
NEW YORK, June 25. (JP) —
A suggestion that the United
States alone dry up the glutted
world silver markets by immediate
purchase of its requirements for
the next 30 years, was suggested
to the National Foreign Trade con
vention by George W. Leman, as
sistant secretary of the Irving
Trust Company. -
Mr. Leman doubted that an in
ternational formal conference as
suggested by the American and
international chambers of com
merce would be successful “be
| cause unfortunately, altruism on
| the part of nations is an unknown
quantity, and, accordingly, the
only results that may be attained
will be through bargaining.”
“If nothing is done for silver,
it will eventually take care of it
self; and the fact that the pre
sent reports point to a curtail
ment in this year’s production of
at least 30 per cent is significant
. . . But, if the great nations of
the world wait for natural forces
to operate in the case of silver,
they may witness dislocations in
the commerce between the Orient
and the Occident far more serious
than any that have already oc
curred, with coresponding damage
to world trade.”
NATIONS 00
INI MEETING
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, June
25, UP)—Senator Smoot, chair
man of the senate finance com
mittee, made public a telegram
he received from President Hoo
ver saying informal discussions
have revealed other nations are
opposed to holding an internation
al silver conference at this time.
The president’s telegram read:
“I am now able to inform you
that informal discussions among
nations, some of whose partici
pation is vitally necessary, devel
op the fact that they do not con
sider tliis a proper time to call
an international conference on sil
ver and would oppose holding such
a conference now.”
As an alternative to an offic
ial conference, Senator Smoot,
suggested that the international
chamber of commerce call “ a
nonoffical informal conference of
representative men on this ques
tion at some point in Europe,
preferably London.”
S. S. YUKON TONNAGE
The SS Yukon, of the A. S. S.
Co., due in port tonight from the
South, will discharge a total of
508 tons of general cargo, as fol
lows: Seward 129 tons, San Juan
dock 48 tons, Railroad points
331 tons. The rail shipments in
clude carloads of structural iron
and mining machinery for Fair
banks and several cars of empty
cans for Anchorage fish packing
plants.