VOLUME XXVIII. NUMBER 141. SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JUNE 17, 1932.
PRICE TEN CENTS
DEBITS BEGIN
' TRIMMING STIGE FOB
OPENING CONVENTION
CHICAGO, June 17, (£*)—'With
the big Republican show over, the
Democrats are moving in with even
a more imposing array of political
stage trimmings for their conven
tion June 27.
The vanguard was here before
the Republican delegates were be
yond the city limits. Advance agents
of a dozen presidential candidates
will set up headquarters over the
week-end.
The outstanding events of the
last hours of the G. O. P. conven
tion was the upward surge of sen
timent for a prohibition repeal,
curbed only after a real convention
battle, and the other was the final
victory of Charles Curtis despite
strong wet opposition to him. For
a time it looked like defeat stared
him in the face; also the move
ment to choose younger and more
spectacular figures in place of
Curtis.
There was an undercurrent over
the social war between Dolly Gann
and Alice Longworth. Mrs. Gann,
herself, worked for months before
the convention for her brother. Had
the field been able to get behind
one man, the result probably would
have been different, and Hoover
would have had a new running
mate.
ANGELENOS ARRIVE
ANNUAL EXCURSION
TO THE NORTHLAND
With government and city offi-;
cials on hand to extend a warm1
welcome to the members of the an- !
nual Alaska excursion party of j
the Los Angeles Chamber of Com-!
merce, the visitors, soon after ar
riving this morning on the SS
Aleutian, were taken to Anchor
age, where, following a luncheon
in their honor by the Anchorage
civic body, and motor trips about
the city, they will return to Sew
ard for the southbound voyage on !
the liner.
A number of other toursists also
arrived, some making the round
trip on the big vessel, while others
are enroute over the Circle tour.
Governor George A. Parks. Colo
nel Dawson Olmstead, head of the
Washington-Alaska Signal Corps;
Col. Otto F. Ohlson, general mana
ger of the Alaska Railroad, Sena
tors Robert Bragaw and A- J. Dim
ond, E. R.Tarwater of the Bank of
Anchorage, Mayor D. C. Brownell,
C. M. Brosius, acting-president of
the Seward Chamber of Commerce,
P.C. McMullen, councilman; H. S.
Balderston, president of the Bank
of Seward, and numerous other lo
cal prominent business men, ac
corded the visitors welcome. The
Anchorage delegation accompanied
them on today’s special car.
The party is led by Charles Bay
er, Los Angeles Chamber official.
The Los Angeles party included
the following:
Miss May O. Benson, Miss Elsa
Evans, Mrs. Emma Friese, Miss
Beatrice Gracey, Mr. and- Mrs. C
H. Howland, Miss Violet Ingram,
Mrs. Josephine F. Jamison, Mr.
and Mrs. F. A. Jeffers, Dr. and Mrs.
E. J. Johnston, Mrs. Martha Mahl
stedt, Mr. and Mrs. Dwight P. Nick- |
lin.
4th JULY CONTRIBUTIONS
Voluntary contributions received
todate by the American Legion for
the 4th of July celebration include
the following: Seward Volunteer
Fire Department $25, C. R. Brook
$5, J. S- Hof man $1, The Northern
$5, J. D. Lander $5, Urbach & Val
ade $5, Seward Trading Co., mer
chandise prizes $10; Seward Gate
way, advertising space.
E. J- Cronin, general manager of
the Northern Commercial Compa
ny at Anchorage, was an overnight
business visitor, returning today to
his home city.
FORMAL NOTIFICATION j
CHICAGO, June 17, (£>)—Alberti
White, Alaska delegate, was nam- |
ed a member of a committee to
formally notify Herbert Hoover of
his nomination as the G. O- P.
presidential candidate. Karl Thiele
was named Alaska’s representative
on a committee to notify Charles
Curtis of his nomination as the
choice of the party for the vice
presidency.
MOTORSHIP PATTERSON
ENROUTE TO ARCTIC
SAN FRANCISCO, June 17. —
On his 42nd trip into the frozen
Arctic, Capt. C. T. Pederson sailed
this week in the 500-ton Motorship
Patterson, bound for a fur trading
expedition.
In late autumn, the Patterson
Ehould return with a million dollar
cargo of fur, obtained from natives
in exchange for the varied cargo
taken out. Various practical com
modities are used as “money” in
dealing with the natives and the*
trappers.
Before returning, the Patterson
will make an effort to reach Point
Barrow, the most northerly settle
ment in the western hemisphere.
Capt. Pederson has been identi
fied with many Arctic expeditions
including those of Roald Amund
sen and of Steffansson.
FOUR KILLED
MONTREAL, June 17, (JF)—Four
persons, 16 missing and 43 injured,
was the result of two explosions on
board the oil tanker “Cymbaline”
at the docks here.
$200,000 FOREST
HIGHWAY FUNDS RAVE
Official authorization for funds
for the road maintenance and con
struction of the United States
Bureau of Public Roads in the Ter
ritory for the current season has
just been received by the Bureau
from the Secretary of Agriculture.
The total sum involved is $200,
000, of which 50 per cent is for
maintenance work and the other
50 per cent for new projects. Ten j
thousand dollars v/ere authorized I
for a bridge across Larson creek on !
Douglas Highway.
None of the work will be started
for several weeks. It is first neces
sary to advertise for bids on all
jobs and award contracts before
work can be inaugurated. Funds
for the program do not become
available until after June 30.
Other projects included: $10,000
for the Mud Bay-Higgens point
section of Tongass Highway, clear
ing and grubbing, only, three miles;
$25,000 Mitkof Highway, for recon
struction of six miles immediately
adjacent to the town of Peters
burg; $35,000 for Sitka Highway,
construction of one mile of road
along Jamestown Bay, just out
side of Sitka National Monument.
For maintenance of all roads on
the Forest Highway system, $100,
000 was authorized. Ten thousand
dollars was set up for emergency
work.
Funds for projects now under
construction, of which there are
but two at this time—Thane and
Moose Pass—are also available.
Mrs. Jake Green, 71 years old,
an Indian who had lived in Ju
neau many years, died in the Gov
ernment hospital in Juneau. She
is survived by her husband, who
with relatives lives in Juneau, and
by other relatives who live in Hoo
nah.
Adrian (Casey) Roff and Shel
don Simmons, employes of the Al
aska Juneau mine, arrived in Ju
neau last week in their own low
winged monoplane, demonstrating
that they can fly as well as mine.
The plane is a neat machine and is
intended for pleasure purposes
only.
WHITEHORSE DISTRICT
SCENE OE COED HUSH
JUNEAU, June 17, (/P)—Reports
received here from Whitehorse are
to the effect that a gold stampede
is on in the general area. Miners
are rushing in by plane from Daw
son and Mayo.
No word has been received here
from the planes which left here on
Wednesday. One is a Detroit expe
dition and the other is composed
of John Stenbraten, Loss Bernard,
who are backed by Juneau business
men.
Rivalry grew out of a disagree
ment about a joint attempt to lo
cate property, supposedly in the
Laird mining district. One outfit is
here outfitting and headed by a
man named Mitchell, who claims he
has a contract to locate claims.
Stenbraten is said to have threat
ened litigation if the claims were lo
cated independently.
MORATORIUM PRIVATE
RESTS APPEARS OFFING
LAUSANNE, June 17, (&)— Great
Britain offered to wipe the slate
clean of reparation war debts at
the international economic confer
ence, but France insisted that eli
mination of trade barriers to be
more important than the cancella
tion of war payments.
The Germany’s spokesman made
no reference to repudiation of re
parations but indicated it might
be necessary to declare a morator
ium on private debts most of which
is owed to Americans.
In 1931 there were a total of 6,
777 vessels employed in the Alaska
fisheries.
BODIES no MBS
MEN FBOM VOLCANO
HILO, * Hawaii, June 17. — The
bodies of two lovers were removed
from the depths of Halemaumau
volcano, where they had rested
following a murder and suicide.
A brave Japanese, R. Konishi, re
covered the bodies after spending
five hours in the pit of the cra
ter. The two were Sylvester Nunes,
20 ,and Margaret Enos, 17.
The bodies were turned over to
relatives living in Hilo.
Konishi was lowered into the
smoking depths in a steel cage. He
did not use a gas mask and suf
fered no ill effects from his des
cent.
mil RESULTS
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Washington 4, Detroit 0.
New York 6, Chicago 1.
Philadelphia 5, St. Louis 1.
Boston at Cleveland, rain.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Chicago 2, New York 1.
Cincinnati 8, Brooklyn 6.
St. Louis 2, Philadelphia 0
Pittsburgh at Boston, rain.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Seattle 8, Portland 3.
WILL HOLD CONFAB
SEATTLE, June 17, (/P)—It has
been learned here from. Washing
ton that the House probably will
ask for a conference on the Alas
ka Road Commission fund. The
| Senate recently increased the al
lotment from $354,310 to $494,310.
Miss Nels Niklas, of the office
staff at Kennecott, is now in Seat
tle having been transferred to the
Seattle office of the Alaska Steam
ship company.
MOOSE PASS AND HOPE MINERAL RESOURCES ARE
The U. S. Geological Survey, De
partment of the Interior, announ
ces the completion of a manuscript
report of the geology and mineral
resources of the Moose Pass-Hope
district, Alaska, by Ralph Tuck,
made in the summer of 1931. The
report when published will contain
geologic and topographic maps. It
describes the geologic an other
conditions existing in the district
and lays especial emphasis on eco
nomic geology and gold lode and
placer deposits and their develop
ment. It w'ill be many months be
fore this report can be printed and
available for distribution, but a
summary of the results is herej
presented.
The Moose Pass-Hope district
lies in the Chugach mountains, in
the northern part of the Kenia
Peninsula, directly adjacent to the
Alaska Railroad and to Turnagain
Arm. More than 60 miles of well
constructed roads within the dis
trict make it one of the motet ac
cessible mining areas in the Rail
road Belt. The topography is ty
pical of the Chugach mountains,
the altitude ranging from sea level
to more than 5,000 feet. Vegeta
tion is heavy along the streams,
and the timber line is around 2,000
feet above sea level.
The bedrock thruout most of the
district consists of a series of inter
bedded slates and graywackes, pro
bably of Cretaceous age. The bed
rock in the northwest corner of
the district is a series of tufts and
agglomerates whose age is not de
finitely known. The only intrus
ive rocks there are a fine-grain
ed acidic dikes that are remark
able for their continuity across the
country in spite of their small
width. The region has been gla
ciated up to an altitude of about
4,000 feet, and glacial outwash
sand and gravel cover the valley
bottoms and walls.
The structure is highly complex,
and the lack of any recognizable
horizons makes interpretation dif
ficult. Close folds with overturn
ing are the rule. Numerous strike
faults occur, and traverse faulting
, of unknown displacement has tak
I en place.
Auiferous gravels were early ais- ^
covered in this district, which was
one of the first gold-producing dis
tricts in Alaska, but lode mining
has never been very successful.
Two types of lode deposits are re
cognized—Mineralized dikes and
fissure veins- Both types are iden
tical in mineralization and hav
the same origin. The mineralized
dikes are the acidic dikes that
in places have been fractured and
the fractures subsequently filled
with vein material. The gold con
tent of the dikes is erratically dis
tributed, and they have not yet
been found to have sufficient value
to be worked at a profit. The fis
sure veins have been worked pro
fitably in a few places but only on
a small scale. The veins have
well-defined walls but are narrow,
and have not been found to be
continuous for more than a few
hundred feet. The tenor of the ore
in the veins is usually good.
In both the dikes and the veins
the chief value lies in gold, which
occurs free and also combined with
sulphides. The gangue is predom
inantly quartz, with small amounts
of calcite. The sulphides present
arsenopyrite, pyrite, galena, spha
lorite, and chalcopyrite, but the to
tal forms only a small percentage
of the vein material. The pres
ence of galena and sphalerite is
usally a good indication of gold.
The genesis of the ores is closely
associated with the origin of the
probably derived from the same
dikes, as both ores and dikes were
parent magna. After the intru
sion of the dikes the region was
subjected to stresses that fractur
ed the dikes and the country rock.
Subsequently mineral-bearing so
lutions from an underlying source
filled the fissures and deposited
the present vein material.
Lode deposits of sufficient size
for large-scale operations have
not been found, but some of the
veins can be worked successfully
by careful operations on a small
scale. Of the placer deposits only
low-grade gravel remains.
MACHINE REORGANIZED \
CHICAGO, June 17, (A*)—The Re
publican machine reorganized on
Thursday for the coming campaign
with Everett Sanders of Indiana,
as the new chairman of the Nation
al Committee. He is a former sec-!
rotary t o ex-president Coolidge
and the choice of Hoover for the
G. O. P. campaign manager.
CHILE'S SOCIALIST JUNTA
OVERTHROWN, COLONEL
THROWN IN PRISON
SANTAGO, Chile, June 17, (JP)—
Chile’s socialist junta which took
control by over-throwing the gov
ernment of President Juan Esteban
Montero two weeks ago, was over
thrown in a brief but dramatic
counter-revolt.
Colonel Marmaduke Grove, leader
of the revolt of June 4 and head of
the junta since Davila resigned on
Sunday, was taken prisoner with
his associate Eugenio Matte. The
junta was temporarily formed by
military and naval officers.
Colonel Marmaduke Grove is the
person who, as commandei; of the
Chilean Air Force, helped Carlos
Davila overthrow the regime of
Juan Esteban Montero, and who
assumed the presidency of the re
volutionary junta, following the
forced resignation of Davila.
Davila’s downfall, led by Grove,
centered about the charge that he
pursued a too moderate policy of
socialism, and in particular, that
he was too lenient in dealing with
foreign interests.
SEITTLE HUM GETS
THE GONTIMCT FOR
UNULASKH nil
Kammeyer & Medach, Seattle
builders, were successful bidders
for the Indian Service hospital con
tract at Unalaska. The firm’s ten- ;
der of $17,190 was the lowest of 13
received for the project.
Warrack Construction Company
was second with $17,500, and Ju-!
neau Construction Company, C. T. j
Gardner, was third with $18,500. j
The wrork will start as soon as pos- |
sible after the contract has been ’
signed and approved.
Other bidders were: Alfred Di
shaw, Juneau, $22,944; Curtis Gard
ner, $19,670; A. T. Groomer, $21,-!
984; Frank H. Kline, $24,980; J. H
Jones, $22,485; William Peterson,
$24,688; Joseph Potucah. $24,550;
Johnson Bros., Inc., $20,144; Com-!
mercial Construction Company
$19,700; and R. J. Sommers $21,
182.76. Two other telegraphic bids
were received but not considered:
C. T. Bunker, $17,400, and E. G.
Walker, $19,250.
1T(e building is to be a two- i
story frame and stucco structure!
with concrete foundation and base- j
ment. It will have ample space for j
staff quarters. It will not only j
serve the Indian population of the |
district, but will also take care of j
marine patients of the Public j
Health Service.
All timber used in construction,
except a few small specified items,
is required to be Alaska timber and
sold by a resident Alaska dealer.
SENATE RAISES ALASKA'S
FUNBJO $146100
Road appropriations for Alaska,
as carried in the Army bilL recent
ly passed by the House of Repre
sentatives, is increased by $140,000
in the measure that was approved
by the Senate.
The bill now goes to a confer
ence committee comprised of mem
bers of both branches of Congress,
this committee being charged with
composing conflicting items.
As passed by the House, the Ar
my Appropriation bill carried an
item of $354,310 for construction
and maintenance of Alaska roads.
As amended by the Senate the
measure provides for highway work
in the Territory the sum of $494,
310.
CURTIS SELECTED
AS RUNNING MATE
FOR HERBERT HOOVER
CHICAGO, June 17. (/P) — The
new Republican Committee as ap
proved by the G. O. P. Convention
meeting in Chicago Thursday in
cluded E. A. Rasmussen, of Skag
way, and Mrs- Frank I, Reed, of
Anchorage, as the Alaska commit
teemen; Mark Reed and Mrs. E.
C. Young are the Washington
members of the National Commit
tee; and Ralph Williams and Mrs.
Pat Allen, are the Oregon members.
Senator J. France, of Maryland,
during the heat of nominating a
choice for the presidency, had to
be forcibly ejected from the speak
er’s platform Thursday as he sought
to place the name of Calvin Coo
lidge in nomination. “They have to
carry out a presidential candidate
to stop me,” France had said be
fore he attempted to take over the
speaker’s platform. The police did
practically tear him from the plat
form and carry him out a few min
utes later
The new total of ballots cast by
the delegates up until the latter
part of Thursday’s conference gave
the following new totals figures:
Hoover 1,126%; Senator Blaine, of
Wisconsin, 13; James Wadsworth,
former senator of New York, 1;
Charles Gates Dawes, 1; Senator
J. France, of Maryland, 4; and
four delegates had not voted.
When the result was announced
Chairman Bertrand H. Snell said
a motion to make it unanimous for
Hoover would be in order and Mil
ton Klepper, of Portland, Oregon,
made the motion. The motion, af
ter being duly seconded, was ad
op t e d to the accompaniment of
much shouting and cheering.
Following the choice of their
presidential candidate the dele
gates began formal work of choos
ing Hoover’s running mate — the
partys’ candidate for vice-president.
Charles Scott, of Iola, Kansas,
made the nominating speech for
Curtis and Snell was then nomin
ated. However, Chairman Snell,
told the convention delegates that
‘'Under no circumstances would I
consider having my name before
the convention.”
Chairman Snell then left the af
fairs of the convention and took
the honor of informing Hoover of
his nomination by special wire.
The convention continued its
business of nominating its choice
for the vice-presidency and among
the candidates nominated for this
position were General James Har
bord. who resigned as chairman of
the Radio Corporation aboard so
that his name coul be presented
for nomination; Hanford McNei
der, minister to Canada, was also
nominated. Dawres was not nomi
nated.
However, in the battle of nomi
nating ballots, Curtis won, the anti
Curtis movement having been
checked.
Curtis, on the first ballot, fell
just short- of the 578 needed to
nominate him but the Pennsylva
nia delegation changed its vote and
gave him the margin. The official
vote on the first ballot gave Curtis
66%; MacNeider 178%; and Kar
bord 61%.
Following the nomination o f
Hoover and Curtis as the standard
bearers only the adoption of some
perfunctory motions remained be
fore the convention delegates before
final adjounrment.
To show tourists where some of
the ornamental fur rugs in front
of fire-places come from, Harry
Yunnan, proprietor of Yurman,
Pur Shop, at Juneau, has obtained
a black bear cub. He has provided
a strong chicken wire fcage for the
animal and has it on exhibition at
his place of business.
Pilot Oscar Winchell, of the Mc
Gee Airways, hopped off for An
chorage this morning with a full
load of passengers.
Ray C. Larson, well known An
chorage business man, was an over
night visitor in the city, return
ing today to his Inlet home.