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VOLUME XVI. NUMBER 130.
SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 1931. ' PRICE TEN CENTS
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VOLCANO VORTEX
FATHER HUBBARD FLIES OVER
FAMOUS WESTWARD
CRATER
CHIGNIK, June 12. (A*)—Pilot
Harry Blunt of the Pacific Inter
national Airways of Alaska, Inc.,
and Father Bernard Hubbard flew
over the crater Aniakchak vol
cano and the suction of cold air
towards the hot crater pulled the
airplane toward the pit. A sudden
dive away from the gaseous mouth
saved the ship from plunging into
the hole.
A1 Monsen, mechanic, is with
the party.
An eagle attacked the plane,
sneaking behind and diving into
the propellor wash which turned
the giant bird over; it came back
screaming before leaving.
Sulphur fumes were noticeable
40 miles awray.
Pilot Blunt maneuvered the
plane to a great height and made
a dash over the crater while Fa
ther Hubbard took photos and
made observations over the 30
square mile area inside the crater.
The party landed in Kujulik bay.
NOT SERVE USEFUL
PURPOSE, IHGiLD
LONDON. June 12. (A*;—Prime
Minister told the House of Com
mons that the calling of an In
ternational Congress in the near
future to discuss mutual cancella
tion or reductions of war debts
would serve no useful purposes.
Nor is the time ripe for discus
sion of war debts and reparations
in the house, he declared.
Belief prevails that Mr. Mac
Donald and Foreign Secretary Hen
derson may relay a visit for Ger
many’s Chancellor Bruening and
Foreign Minister Curtius the same I
time American Secretary Stimson
and Mellon arrive in Berlin.
In Berlin hostile crowds of So
cialists greeted Chancellor Bruen
ing and Foreign Minister Curtius
upon their return from the visit
to Prime Minister MacDonald.
RAILROADS UNITE IN
PETITIONING INGRLASE
NEW YORK June 12. (A»)—Rail
roads in the United States are unit
edly behind the decision to peti
tion the Interstate Commerce Com
mission for a general increase in
freight rates of 15 per cent.
Representatives said the increase
was to offset some of the reductions
in freight tariffs since 1921 and
would bring and estimated increase
in revenue of 10 per cent or about
§400,000,000.
LONDON, June 12. (A3)—The Ry- j
der Cup team sailed for the Unit- 1
ed States where they will meet
Walter Hagen’s professional team
at Columbus, Ohio, June 26 and 27.
HAS FOUR ROUTES
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 12.
(/P)—Although Col. Charls A. Lind
bergh is considering four routes
to the Orient, final decision de
pends on the establishment of
satisfactory fuel bases. He is par
ticularly interested in the one
across Alaska over Bering Sea to
Siberia, then to the Nipponese
Islands.
EiOUTE ALASKA;
IS LARGE LIST
ONE OF THE LARGEST PASSEN
GER BOOKINGS OF THE
SEASON
SEATTLE, June 12. (/P)—The SS
Aleutian sailed at 9 a. m. today
carrying 346 passengers, 51 for
Seward as follows:
F. D. Scultheis, Miss. J. Stewart,
F. C. Outland, Lawrence Shrier,
Carl Schrier, Mrs. J. J. Ballos and
baby, I. Tolstoy, Mr. and Mrs. S.
W. Broe, J M. Young, Arthur I.
Denton, Bettie Changren, Mill L.
Fridell, Georgiana Henry, Martin
Little.
Mrs. L. Gensman, Chas. Preston,
Frederick Bond, Wm. Winters, Mr.
and Mrs. F. W. Moore, J. G. Shep
ard, R. E. Walters, Miss M. Sally,
Mrs. B Bailey, Mr. and Mrs. J. F.
Habrowski, Miss M. Rust, Francis
Faust.
Joe Holmes, Mrs. Amarh, Miss M.
Salt, Mrs. Carrie Boone, Mr. and
Mrs. C. E. Taylor, Mr. and Mrs.
John Muir and baby, John Lang,
John Muir, John Buckley, P. Fred
erick, E. Sawyer, Geo. B. Purvis,
Mrs. K. C. Cole, Mrs. Lulu Shepard,
Janet Borges, Miss Jarrett, Mrs.
W. S. Horning and daughter.
DEPUTIES IN READINESS
TO BATTLE GOAL MINERS
ST. CLAIRSVILLE, Ohio. June
12. (/Pi—More than 40 deputies
are in readiness for a second at
tack threatened by leaders of a
crowd of 2,000 striking coal miners
and women sympathizers who
were beaten away from the Bel
mont county jail last night to free
those arrested.
Seven were arrested and 12 over
come by tear gas at the outbreak
the result of a week-old strike in
Eastern Ohio affecting 1,000 work
ers.
CANNERY EXECUTIVE
B. R. Hart, vice-president of the
Alaska Packers Association and
one of the best known cannery
men in the Territory, returned to
the city today from his San Fran
cisco headquarters. Mr. Hart goes
Westward Saturday on the SS
Starr on his annual inspection of
the company’s many plants.
COSMIC MASSES
BERLIN, June 12. (£>)— prof Al
bert Einstein in a treatise sub
mitted to the Prussian Academy
of Science offers further proof of
the theory of an expanding uni
verse which holds that cosmic
masses are constantly moving out
ward.
On the Gold Trail
; (By May
The lure of gold is not t
are attracted by various oth
numerous other attractions
know something of the acti
other words, psychology. ]
some knowledge of the reas
tion as they do. ! This last
study of the planetary aspe<
I ly bodies at the time of birt’
ing science reveals the live;
nothing else can do, and ac
magnets which lead men on.
FILLING STATl"
FOR MOON ROCKET
i TO DIG IN SPACE
j
j
CENTRIFUGAL FORCE WOULD
BALANCE THE PULL OF
GRAVITY
BERLIN, June 19. (£>)—How
rocket planes, propelled beyond
the stratosphere, or outer layer
of the atmosphere, could be rescued
’ from circling the earth indefinitely
has been worked out by enthusias
tic theorists of the propulsion mo
tor school.
The Verein fuer Raumschiffahrt,
or Society for Space Ship Travel,
is a natural center for such cal
culations and its enthusiasts con
tend that to get the full effect
of recoil motors the missile or ship
should be sent 600 miles from the
earth.
At that distance centrifugal
force would balance the pull of
gravity and a machine would be
come, in effect, an asteroid, going
round and round the world until
kingdom come.
It is proposed that use should
be made of this fact by establish
ing a super-terrestrial fueling sta
tion, built up of rockets separately
launched from the earth and
“hooked up” after arriving at the
asteroid level.
Each rocket unit would be shot
upward with a load of fuel, oxy
gen and other service supplies,
but with just enough power to
reach the 600-mile level.
Then a rocket carrying a crew
would set out and hrd together
the various units like so many
floating barrels. Joined, they
would form a hermetically sealed
space station with oxygen supply
for its crew and surplus fuel for
rockets enroute to more distant
goals.
At first such a celestial filling
station would be used for the re
fueling of fast round-the-world
rocket planes capable of encircling
the globe in 90 minutes.
The next step then would be the
building of a moon rocket which
could be refueled 600 miles up—
figuratively speaking at the “top
of the hill,” for the hardest part
of the trip would be the 600-mile
climb against gravity.
Escaping from the mon’s attrac
tion on the return trip would con
jsume far less fuel, because of the
smaller “pull” of the moon.
L. Kellogg)
he only lure in Alaska. Many
er things* To understand the
of this Northland one should
m of the human mind—in
Following that should come
,ons why human minds func
can only be explained by a
its or position of the heaven
i. This great and far-reach
5 and inclinations of men as
counts for the lodestones or
■
Besides the desire for gold there
is the lure for travel in distant
lands—love of novelty, pioneering,
a wish to leave the beaten paths,
a longing for making discoveries
and for notoriety. Then again,
many have been known to long
for freedom from various and sun
dry persons following estrange
j ments, and even sometimes a wish
| to escape the penalty of crime.
;This last may be considered by
isome an unworthy motive and not
| to be carried out, but the scope
! of psychology includes this and
i more.
It has been said that the LOVE
; doubtless the cause —of the evil
I and this we think is a truism
none can deny. At the present
stage of civilization money is very
necessary, but extreme greed is to
; be deeply deplored. This last is
doubtless th ecause of the evil
i called “hard times’ ’among the
peoples of the entire world.
The seemingly discarded Golden
'Rule was long ago given to man
kind to prevent just such condi
. tions as prevail at present, and
the most astute minds to this tes
j tify.
So for many reasons we come
to Alaska. Not all expecting to
I accumulate millions, but all hoping
to better our condition in some
way or ways. Laudable this is,
jyes, certainly. Christofer Colurn
| bus was a planet-born discoverer,
his was a glorious mission, patient
ly and faithfully performed,
j While taking a peep behind the
| curtain of Science we also learn
j that there are times, seasons and
cycles. “A time for everything.”
Impatient mankind often pins to
tear away obstructions and to
, hasten developments not yet ripe
| for action—immature, unreal and
! disastrous if finally forced.
| Allowed then to peep into the
| minds of some people, we find, not
j as some mistakenly suppose, an
over-weening greed for gold, but
a modified desire for this by the
relish for adventure, novelty and
mystery. Mystery has wonderful
charm for most of us, and to the
prospector for gold, the magic
never leaves.
Men like these were Henderson,
Carmack and Lippy, when they
mushed into the Klondike more
than 30 years ago. Love of ad
venture, of the wilderness and the
wide open spaces wtih none to for
j bid them, George Carmack and
Bob Henderson had already made
their gold discovery among the
Klondike hills, but the news had
i not yet penetrated to the outside
I world, when Tom Lippy and his
wife strayed into Forty Mile. The
latter were not long in hitting the
snow trail with dog-sled and grub
finding the new gold creeks in due
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DICTATORSHIP IS
AGITATED GERMANY
By IB' DEPUTIES
RIOTING THROUGHOUT GER
MANY CONTINUES DUE
TAX DECREES
| BERLIN, June 12. (JP) — Wide
spread Communist riots against
the emergency tax decrees caused
police to take special precautions
on orders from the Ministry of
the Interior.
Communists clashed with police
at a mass meeting attended in
Berlin by 12,000 and scores were
arrested.
| Ernst Thaelman, chief speaker
j and member of the Reichstag, was
arrested when he refused to submit
; to search.
Police were forced to fire blanks
! and to use clubs in order to main
| tain order. Newspaper offices are
guarded, against feared attacks.
Five were wunded by the Ham
i burg police who broke up a demon
, stration by 10,000 people. A later
! report said that one was killed and
two were injured to some extent in
, quelling this disturbance.
| At Laurenburg police attempted
to separate Communists fighting
among themselves. The police
were then attacked and resorted to
firearms in order to fight their
way out.
| Communist deputies in the Prus
sian Diet agitated strongly for
revolutionary action and demanded
formation of a dictatorship.
THUS PEOPLE
SLAUGHTERED, CM
i _
NANKING, June 12. (/P>—Advices
from Nanchang, capital of Kiang
si province, said that 10,000 per
; sons had been slaughtered near
iKiangfu by reds and bandits.
The government announced a
, broadened program designed to
j coup with the situation. The ban
dits held up 10,000 farmers it was
stated and then drove them to
I wards a regiment of government
soldiers.
The outlaws charged the troops
after they had exhausted their am
munition on the farmers and then
mowed them down.
ikwHes.
DOUMER SHY
PARIS, June 12. (JP)—Paul Dou
mer will be inaugurated as the
13th president of the third Re
public of France tomorrow, seven
years from his election.
Gaston Doumergue, outgoing
president who presided over the
last cabinet session, today inform
ed his colleagues his unshakeable
confidence in the future pros
perity and happiness of France.
C. P. HALE ARRIVES
Crescent P. Hale, president of
the Alaska Salmon Co., the North
ern Fisheries and the Union Cod
Fish Co., was among today’s prom
inent arrivals from San Francisco,
enroute to his Westward plants,
on the SS Starr, sailing Saturday
evening.