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VOLUME XVI. NUMBER 194.
SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 1931
PRICE TEN CENTS
HANKOW IS BElffl
DOOMED BE FLOODING
OF YANGSTE RIVER
HANKOW, China, Aug. 21. (/P) —
Believing Hankow with a population
of 1,500,000 to be doomed to de
struction by the Yangtse River
flood, all natives are fleeing from
the city.
One thousand have been drowned
in the maelstrom of the flood with
9.000 square miles under water.
Thirty million people are home
less in this one of the greatest cal
amities of modern times and mil
lions of dollars in property has been
destroyed.
Hankow is a river-treaty port on
the Yangtse River, 700 miles from
its mouth. The city is an important
center of Chinese trade, and the
central market of the tea districts
of the Yangtse. It also exports
hides, vegetables, tallow, rhea fi
ber hemp bristles and Chinese med
icines. It is connected by railroad
with Peking.
MAKE SECOND ATTEMPT
SAN JEAN DE LUZ, France, Aug.
20. (£>)—Joseph Lebrix and Marcel
Doret-, who recently failed in an
attempt to fly to Japan, left for
Tulouse, France, to make a second
attempt.
CUMIN MILS HU
KILLED 50! REBELS
HAVANA, Cuba., Aug. 21. </P>—
The town of Gibara has been
practically razed, its entire popu
lation of nearly 7,000 shattered
and probably more than 500 rebels
have been slaughtered by Presi
dent Machado’s forces.
The federal forces have also
lost a considerable number of
men. Two rebel ships are reported
to have been sunk in the harbor
after being bombed from the air.
CHINO BUYS NT
FOR FLOOD SUFFERERS
WASHINGTON, Aug. 21. (/P)—
The Chinese government began ne
gotations looking toward the pur
chase of the Farm Board wheat
for the relief of flood sufferers.
An informal inquiry was address
ed to the State Department to learn
the amount of wheat available on
credit terms.
No definite proposition was in
cluded, however, either as to terms
or quantity. The communication
forwarded here by the American
Consulate at Nanking was sent on to
the Farm Board. The board controls
more than 200,000,00 bushels of
wheat.
LIEUTENANT KILLED
CALISHOT, Eng., Aug. 20. {IP)—
Flight Leiut. G. L. Brinton was
killed when a British Echneider
Cup plane fell into the sea near
here.
Miss Marion Rissoff of Anchor
age became the bride of Herbert
J. Brown at a wedding ceremony
solemnized at Anchorage recently,
reports the Times.
WINS 10-ROUND BOUT
NEW YORK, Aug. 21. (-$»)—Me -
Larnin, of Vancouver, pounded out
a 10-round victory last night over
Billy Petrolle, of Fargo, in their
return match before a small crowd.
McLarnin failed to score a knock
out but won the decision on points.
He weighed 146 and*Petrolle 139.
EMMA, HUGE
QUERIED ABOUT FIELD
FDD JUNKERS PEINE
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; CORDOVA, Aug. 21. (iP)—A cable
from the American Embassy at
Tokyo to the mayor Thursday
asked for information regarding
an available landing place for a
long-distance land Junkers plane
‘near Cordova.
The cable gave no information
about a proposed flight. A nat
jural beach, two and a half miles
! long, is available on Hinchin
i brook Island, 16 miles from here.
A similar request was sent to
the mayor of Anchorage where a
field is also available..
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TEXAS GOVERNOR SEES
SHADOW IMPEACHMENT
HOUSTON, Texas, Aug. 21. (IP)—
Governor Ross Sterling, basking
in the success of his 100 per cent
shut-down order in the east Texas
oil fields, saw a faint shadow of
threatened impeachment.
i Representative Hardy of Breck
| enridge announced that he had
(prepared a resolution calling for
an explanation of the order of
martial law and enforcement of
the order in one field and not in
others.
GOVERNORS TIKE STEPS
TO ALLEVIATE DISTRESS
—
i NEW YORK, Aug. 21. (/Pi—The
: Fresident and governors of all
■ eastern industrial states, men
i tioned prominently as aspirants
: for presidential honors in 1932,
took public steps to alleviate na
j tion-wide unemployment distress.
Governor Gifford Pinchot, Re
publican of Pennsylvania, sent a
j letter to President Hoover, urging
j him to call a special session of
i Congress soon to consider federal
!aid for the; jobless. The Presi
i dent’s position in opposition to an
extra session remained unchanged.
New York’s Democratic chief
executive, Franklin D. Roosevelt,
in an address at Ithaca, N. Y., an
nounced he would appoint a com
mission to consider the State un
employment situation.
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TEST FLIGHT NEXT WEEK
AKRON, Ohio, Aug. 20. (IP)—The
Navy zeppelin Akron, world’s larg
jest airship which has just been
| completed, will make its first test
flight next week, according to an
nouncements made.
DROP IN PACK
N. O. Hardy, acting agent for the
Bureau of Fisheries, stationed at
Cordova, reported recently that the
total salmon pack for all species
this year, to August 5, was 453,672
cases as compared with 526,034
cases to August second last year, re
1 ports the Times.
SEVEN-YEAR-OLD
SEND UD FELL
FROM RIFT, DROILO
While playing on a small raft
in Harriman Lake, local swim
ming pool, little seven-year-old
Tony Aquino, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Aquino, in some unexplained man
ner fell into the water and was
drowned.
Mrs. Aquino who, with her three
remaining children, two girls and ;
a boy, is a new arrival in Seward
and resides on Fifth Avenue, near
the Osbo residence.
First intimations that the lad
was in distress was voiced when
Tony’s sister saw the lad in the
water and called attention to
others who were at the lake, a
group of children and a Signal
Corps member.
The Signal Corps member, Mar
vin Mulloch, a radio operator at
the Seward remote control, who is
an expert swimmer and who, it is
reported, has passed life guard
examinations, and others warned
;the little boy to stay away from
the raft, immediately dived into
the lake to hasten to the area,
on the left side of the lake, where
the lad fell in the water.
Mulloch swam under the water
trying to locate the boy but the
water was muddy and cold and
was forced to give up trying to
locate the boy after many at
tempts and when Mulloch was
taken out of the water he was
nearly exhausted and began to
contract symptons of cramps from
his over-exertion in the cold wa
ters.
When the body could not be lo
cated by the swimmer, dragging
was resorted to and for this pur
pose a couple of boats and some
poles were secured from town. The
dragging work was hampered by
the many snags in the water and
it was some time before the life
less body was located by Paul
Nekeferoff.
The body is in the local morgue
and will be buried in the Seward
cemetery. Funeral services will be
held at 2 o’clock Sunday with Rev.
W. R. Macpherson officiating.
BASEBALL
AMERICAN
Washington 8, Cleveland 10.
New York 7, St. Louis 3.
Boston 2, Detroit 7.
Philadelphia 6, Chicago 11.
NATIONAL
Cincinnati 1, New York 3.
Chicago 1. Brooklyn 4.
Pittsburgh, 1-5, Boston 2-$.
Philadelphia at St. Louis, rain.
PACIFIC COAST
Sacramento 5, Missions 3.
Los Angeles 14, Portland 7.
San Francisco 9, Seattle 3.
Oakland 5, Hollywood 6.
BECAME ALARMED
Fear that five Cordova women,
long overdue from a hike to Mount
Eccles, might be in need of assis
tance, sent about 35 men and boys
out into the hills on a search, re
cently, says the-Times. The women
returned home later in the even
ing and reported they had been
forced to postpone their return
home when a heavy fog closed in
on them making it impossible for
them to find their way.
TOWING LINDY’S PLANE
TOKYO, Aug. 21. (£>)—'The Japr
anese steamer Shimushiru Maxu
started to tow Lindbergh’s plane i
to Murton Bay where repairs to j
the carburetor will be made. It
is undecided when the flight will
be resumed.
FOUR TOWNS WIPED
BUT BY FOREST FIOES;
BOISE. Aug. 21. (/P)—Four hun
dred fighters held the forest fire
at bay within a half a mile of
Placerville after it had destroyed
the mining towns of Quartzburg,
Granite Creek, Fourthtown and
Centerville.
For a while the fire completely
circled 300 refugees driven from
their homes.
The loss at Quartzburg is esti
mated at $500,000 in equipment.
A gold imne, employing 200, was
destroyed.
There are more than 275 fires
in north Idaho, Montana and
Washington.
WINTER LODGING
SEATTLE, Aug. 21. </P)—John P.
i Greenwood, 52, was released by
police officials when Nome au
; thorities decided no mail theft
charges would be placed against
him.
i He surrendered here, saying he
’lost a letter several years ago con
| taining $20 entrusted him by a
: fisherman, known as “Five Dollar
1 Bill” in the Nome region.
MARKET REFUSES TO
NEW YORK, Aug. 21. (/P)—A
heavy stock marketf again refused
to be dragged upward by the oil
shares and although the trading
ended with a preponderance of
narrow gains in the more active
issues, the net advance for the
average of 90 representative stocks
was only a quarter of one point.
Continued bullishness over the
oil shares reflected the growing
befied that the Texas and Okla
homa shut-downs will result in
| substantial increases in prices, not
I only bringing larger profits to
crude producers, but bringing a
sharp appreciation in value of the
large inventories of the leading
' companies.
IN THE ICE-PACK
BERLIN, Aug. 21. </P)—A Wil
kins radio to a newspaper here
said the submarine Nautilus had
penetrated the ice-pack zone 20
miles and was traveling eight
knots an hour; the ice fields were
becoming thicker. When suitable,
a diving trial will be made.
MOVES TO JUNEAU
Paul Bloedhorn returned to Cor
dova recently after making definite
arrangements to move his jewelry
and watch making business from
Cordova to Juneau. He expects to
move about the middle of Septem
ber. ; •
LINDBERGH MS
NIGHT IFIOIT WHS
WORST EXPERIENCE
NEMURO, Aug. 21. (/P) — The
Lindberghs reached Muroton Bay,
400 miles northeast of here, after
a 15-mile tow from Ketoi Island
by the steamship Shimushiru
Maru.
Lindy, who says little about the
perils of flying, admitted the “first
night afloat was the worst I ever
experienced.”
Now at a safer anchorage, he
hopes to repair the motor alone
but requested mechanics to await
a call from Nemuro. The car
buretor fails to vaporize the gaso
! line because of moisture,
j He hopes to hop Saturday or
| Sunday.
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VIA NORTH POLE
| WINNIPEG, Aug. 21. (/P)—Cap
j tain James Slaughter plans to take
off from Omaha September 15 on
a flight to Tokyo via the North
Pole, stopping at Fort Resolution.
Supplies are being rushed to bases.
j DISCUS THROWER DROWNED
I SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 20. (A*)—
Eric Krenz, former holder of the
world’s discus record, and nation
ally known athlete of Stanford
University, was drowned in Lake
Tahoe. He was one of America’s
chief hopes at the forthcoming
Olympics.
BATTLESHIP UTAH TO
I BE TARGET SHIP
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j WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 21.
! (&)—A ghost hand of radio will
j steer the old battleship Utah in
| the near future as she goes in and
lout, in an effort to escape a bap
jtism of fire.
Selected as a target ship, the
craft is now making equipment
for remote radio control installed
at the Norfolk Navy Yard. Con
trolling apparatus will be placed
on the destroyer.
Provision will be made for
steaming the battleship at vary
ing rates of speed for smoke
screens, in fact, for all maneuvers
that it might make to escape gun
fire.
JAPANESE “ICE” WILL
MIKE SECOND TRY
TOKYO, Aug. 21. (>P)—Seiji
Yoshihara again plans to attempt
a flight from Japan to the United
States in September and the
American Embassy inquired of
possible landing fields at Anchor
age and Cordova.
He plans to make two or three
hops in a bigger plane than the
last attempt which ended at Mu
roton Bay where the plane was
wrecked in rough seas
13 DEATHS FROM STORMS
LONDON, Aug. 20. (/P)—At least
13 deaths are reported as a result
of storms around the English
coast. In the bungalow town of
Winchilsea Beach, Sussex, dozens
of houses have been submerged
by waves which swept over the sea
defenses into low lying marshland.