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VOLUME XXVIII. NUMBER 152.
SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JUNE 30,1932.
PRICE TEN CENTS
SLACIER PRIEST AND
AN1AKCHAK CRATER RIVALS
THE VALLEY OF 10,000 IN
NUMBER SMOKES
Registering the highest tempera
ture ever recorded in an Alaskan
volcano, discovering a new erup
tive crater in Aniakchak volcano,
and two previously unknown pre
historic villages in the Aleutian
Islands, climbing Katmai crater,
securing many feet of film of Bo
goslof Island and making addition
al surveys of the Valley of Ten
Thousand Smokes, epitomizes the
activities of Rev. Bernard R. Hub
bard, S. J. of the University of
Santa Clara, Calif., who arrived in
Seward Wednesday night aboard
the MS Polar Bear. This completes
an exploration trip begun last
March.
The temperature recorded was
1080 degrees centegrade, which
melted copper within a few min
utes.
In the party arriving with Fr.
Hubbard are: Rev. Paul Galtes, S.
J., mineralogist and chemist of San
Francisco; Roderick Chisholm, car
tographer of the University of San
Francisco; Edgar Levin, of Stan
ford University, Calif; Kenneth
Chisholm, George Peterson and
Jack Morton, the latter of Anchor
age.
The outstanding feature of the
expedition, says Father Hubbard,
was the first ascent of Katmai in
winter. With him on this trip in
'.‘..icL he studied the Katmai Na
tional Monument, were Kenneth
Chisholm and Jack Morton. In
climbing the crater mountain, Fr.
Hubbard was accompanied only by
Chisholm and Mageik. a blue-eyed
Siberian husky dog. Owing to lack
of proper clothing, Father Hubbard
and Chisholm suffered intensely
from the sub-zero weather and the
blizzards which caught them on
the mountain.
The explorers were rewarded by
the sight of a marvelous green lake
of warm water filling the crater,
and they checked up with scienti
fic observations the changes in the
volcano since the Glacier Priest
. climbed it four years ago.
The breakup of the ice in the
Katmai Flats made the return trip
to the Shelikof Straits dangerous,
* and the shortage of food and a long
overdue boat forced the party to
subsist on dog flesh and shell fish.
The motorship Polar Bear, and
at the request of The Gateway,
hearing of their plight, went to
Katmai beach and rescued the par
ty after locating them by their dis
tress signals. As guests of Captain
Peter Wold and Carl Anderson,
veteran skippers of Alaskan waters,
the explorers had an enjoyable
tho stormy trip to Unimak Island.
. Pacific American Cannery
at False Pass furnished headquar
ters for the Glacier Priest and par
ty, and the ascent of unclimbed
Shishaldin was planned.
. A young trapper, George Peter
son by name, was added to the par
ty as guide. A novel invention o f
Father Hubbard solved the trans
portation problem on Unimak Is
land. Attaching wide axels to four
motorcycle wheels, upon which was
placed his 12-foot dcgsled, the Gla
cier Priest put a thousand pounds
• of equipment therein and the 11
sled dogs pulled the load with ease
during the three weeks trek that
, ended in a 21-hour climb and the
first conquest by man of the migh
ty Shishaldin volcano.
Frank Dorbandt, noted Alaskan
airman, happened in at False Pass
and when Fr. Hubbard arrived
there, back from Shishaldin, flew
the fomous geologist and ex
plorer over the erupting mountain
conquered a few days previously on
foot. Then he persuaded Father
Hubbard to fly with him to Aniak
chak crater. A successful landing
was made on Surprise Lake, inside
the crater rim, and several hours
were spent on the volcano’s floor.
Father Hubbard noted a new
eruptive area that broke out since
E. J. BECK REELECTED
ATLANTIC CITY, June 30, </P)—
State directors to serve foi*the en
suing year elected by the National
Education Association, included E.
J. Beck, superintendent of the
| school at Nome.
CONGRESSIONAL ACTION
COMPLETED ON NAVAL
APPROPRIATION BILL
WASHINGTON, p. C., June 30, —
The Navy bill upon which Congress
ional action was completed yester
day, leaving only the President’s
signature necessary to make it a
law, carries appropriations of $317,
583,591.
The Senate provision for $650,000
for summer training cruises for re
serves was struck out by the House.
The elimination was approved by
the Senate.
The bill limits the average num
ber of chief petty officers and those
octing under appointment to 5,900
and 7,900 respectively. Non-flying
officers entitled to flying pay are
limited to eight above the grade of
lieutenant commander.
Major items in the bill are; mod
ernizing the USS New Mexico, Mis
sissippi and Idaho, $30,000,000; con
struction of machinery $15,063,000,
armor, armament and ammunition,
$3,000,000^ public works, bureau of
dock and yards, $5,000,092; subsis
tence and travel of Navy personnel
$149,012,000
No part of the money is to be
used to pay the cost of sending
additional marines to Nicaragua to
supervise elections.
CHARGED WITH GUILT
FIJEMINGTON. N. J., June 30, —
Boatbuilder John Hughes Curtis
was directly charged Wednesday
with having “aided the people who
were guilty of kidnaping Charles
A. Lindbergh, Jr.” The charge was
made by Frank J. Wilson, special
agent of the Department of Inter
nal Revenue, testifying as a pros
ecution witness, who said Curtis ob
structed justice.
UNTOLD EPISODE UNDY
CASE REVEALED IN COURT
FLEMINGTON, N. J., June 30,
A story of how Charles A. Lind
bergh tried to jump into a stormy
sea to swim to a boat on which he
believed his kidnaped son was held,
was related at the John Hughes
Curtis trial.
The flyer smiled broadly as the
hitherto untold episode came to
light.
Seated at the prosecution table,
he turned to whisper a laughing
remark to a neighbor, W. E. Haskill,
business manager of the New York
Herald Tribune and a prosecution!
witness.
NEW CLUE
ALPINE, N. J., June 30. — A de
finite and important clue in the
Lindbergh baby kidnapping case
has been found by New Jersey state
police after the questioning of a
New York cab driver, it was learn
from a reliable source. Police of
ficials feel certain, it was under
stood, that they have a line on the
identity of the persons who obtain
ed the $50,000 ransom money from
Dr. John F. “Jafsie” Condon. The
name of the cab driver, a negro,
was not made public.
his visit to the world’s largest cra
ter last year. Taking off inside the
volcano, Dorbandt flew out over
the rim and landed the explorer
at Nushagak. The MS Polar Bear
was anchored there after having
brought a charter party of fisher-^
men to Bristol Bay. Finding the
motorship idle, Father Hubbard
chartered it for his party until the
middle of July. In a stormy voyage
down Bering Sea the ship return
ed to False Pass, and picking up
Chisholm and Morton, made a sen
sational and successful trip to Bo
goslof, the mysterious volcanic is
land of the Bering Sea.
Remarkable motion pictures were
taken of the volcanic wonders and
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ALASKAN DELEGATES
THE WEI MAJORITY
CHICAGO, June 30, (£>)—Alaska’s
placard was born aloft by Mrs. W.
B. Kirk, wife of Delegate Kirk of
Juneau, Wednesday night, as the
Democrats put on a noisy demon
stration in favor of repeal of the
national prohibition laws
Although the rest of the Alaska
delegation did not join in the pro
cession they nevertheless heartily
supported the wet majority. In fact
the language of the prohibition
plank referring to the immediate
repeal of the Volstead act to legal
ize wines and beer was said by other
delegates to have been referred by
John W. Troy, of Juneau, to Sen
ator liavid I. Walsh, a personal
friend of publisher Troy, late Wed
nesday and the resolutions com
mittee considered tentively the ap
proval of the home rule planks for
| the territories of Alaska and Hawaii
but with the consent of the Alaskan
and Hawiian delegation they were
■ not includued in the tentative plat
form.
The reason for this was that it
was desired to keep the platform
short and confined to subjects of
a national scope and for which rea
son the Territories agreed for the
ommission of their planks.
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GOLD MINING OFFERS
SOLUTION ‘BONOS ARMY'
NEW YORK, June 30. — In a
statement issued by James Ran
dolph Walker, former publisher and
moving picture executive, he de
clared the gold fields of the Rocky
Mountains and the Pacific Coast
offer a sound and easy solution to
the “bonus army” and the unem
ployed.
“One hundred thousand people
of the cities have already started
panning free gold out of the same
creeks and rivers which first at
tracted the attention of the forty
niners, and are making from two to
five dollars per day,” he said.
WELCOME DISARMAMENT
VATICAN CITY, June 30. — A
spokesman for Cardinal Facelli,
Papal Secretary said “any move
any quarter to bring about concrete
disarmament would be welcomed
with the deepest gratification by
the Holy see.”
CIA BEEN DEPRIVED
ALL REVENUE MANCHURIA
MANCHUKUO, China, June 30. —
Finance minister T. V- Soong, en
route to Nanking announced that
Manchukuo authorities, aided by
Japanese advisors, had forcibly
seized all custom revenues at An
tung and Newchang and removed
deposits from the bank of China to
the Bank of Manchuria.
This action was taken “despite
all protest and in violation of treaty
rights” Soong declared.
Manchukuo officials notified the
custom commissioner that further
remittances to the Chinese Govern
ment will be forbidden and will be
| considered hostile, resulting in “ef
fective measures” being taken.
NANKING, June 30. —Hundreds
of farmers in the valley of the Kan
River have drowned and thousands
are homeless as a result of floods
which are continuing in the Yang
tse district.
The city of Nanchung was threat
ened and the people are strength
ening the dykes.
Word from the Hunan province
said-flood conditions were getting
worse and that in some places the
water is over the roofs of the cot
i tages.
CLEANUP CAMPAIGN IS
BEGAN CONGRESS ON ALL
PENDING PROBLEMS
Washington, June 30, (/P)—With
its legislative program just about
completed except for relief meas
ures, Congress plunged anew into
a vigorous cleanup campaign by
rushing toward completion minor
problems.
The Senate, after passing all
regular appropriations bills, took
up relatively inconsequential meas
ures before resuming consideration
of Philippine independence.
The House marked time as its
program is finished except for the
money bills which are now in con
ference. There is hope that all ap
propriation bills, except that for
the War department, would be at
the White House before the new
financial year dawned at midnight,
tonight.
Should the bills fail to become
law before the new fiscal year, the
government would be forced to op
erate on “its face” or-on a credit
basis. This is certain to lead to ex
tra expense and complexities.
PREMIER SHOWING OF
ANIAKCHAK EXPLORATION
The premier showing in Alaska of
the 1931 Bernard R. Hubbard, S. J.,
expedition before and after the
eruption of Aniakchak volcano, ac
companied by a lecture by the na
tionally prominent geologist, ex
plorer and author, will be presented
Sunday afternbon at 2 o’clock in
the Liberty Theater. This is the
program shown last winter thru
out the East and the same explor
ation trip which was published in
three or four issues of the Satur
day Evening Post.
CIBINET MEMBER MIRNTS
WEAR OVERALLS AGAIN
MONTREAL, June 30. —Petre He
I fan. former minister of labor and
privy councillor, announced that
; on July 8th he hopes to get back
' into overalls as a locamotive en
i gineer. July 8th will be the 13th
anniversary of his arrival in Ken
j ora where he began as an engineer.
| “It’s my trade and a good one. I
i came from overalls and I’ve always
1 kept it in mind that one day I must
I go back to them. The fact that a
man has been a cabinet member is
i no reason why he should expect to;
be babied through life. Besides. I■
| have a family to support,” he said. i
Yakutat is one town in Alaska
that has no unemployment prob- ‘
lem. Everyone is busy since the
fishing season opened.
TWO BOBBERS STICK-UP
OFFICIRL FOR $41,108
BAKERSFIELD, Calif., June 30
Two men held up Deputy Treasur
er Ray Holmes and robbed him of
approximately $41,000 in county
funds.
Holmes told the police that he
had placed the $41,000 bills in an
envelope preparatory to closing the
County treasurer’s office for the
day when two men entered.
“What have you got in the en
velope Buddy,” asked one of them
as he shoved a pistol through the
wicket of Holme’s office. *
“Give me that,” he demanded.
Holmes complied with the order.
The men immediately flSd from the
County Courthouse. Holmes set off
the burglar alarm system, but when
afficers answered, the men had fled.
OUTRIGHT REPEAL
CHICAGO, June 30, (£>)—'The
plank putting the Democratic par
ty on record for repeal of the 18th
amendment and the immediate
modification of the Volstead act,
was adopted early Thursday at the
Democratic National Convention by
a vote of 934% for outright repeal,
and 213% for the submission plank.
The entire Alaska delegation
voted for outright repeal of the
amendment.
AWAIT FAVORABLE WEATHER
JUNEAU, Alaska, June 30. — A
party of five Harvard graduates are
resting at the base of Mt. Fair
weather awaiting favorable wea
ther conditions which will permit
them to attempt to reach the sum
mit.
DEMO PROHIBITION PLANK
PROVIDES FOR IMMEDIATE
MODIFICATION DRY LAW
CHICAGO STADIUM, June 30.—
The text of the plank for prohi
bition repeal adopted by the Demo
cratic convention early this morn
ing follows:
“We favor the repeal of the
Eighteenth Amendment. To effect
such repeal, we demand that Con
gress immediately propose a con
stitutional amendment to truly re
presentative conventions in the
states called to act solely on that
proposal. We urge the enactment
of such measures by the several
states as will effectually promote
temperance, effectively prevent re
turn of the saloon and bring the
liquor traffic into the open under
complete supervision and control
by the states.
“We demand the federal govern
ment effective exercise its power
to enable the states to effectively
protect themselves against impor
tation of intoxicating liquors in
violation of their laws.
“Pending such repeal we favor
immediate modification of the Vol
stead Act to legalize the manufac
ture and sale of beer and other
beverages of such alcoholic con
tent as is permissable under the
Constitution and to provide there
from a proper and needed revenue.”
BULLION SEEKERS TOUT
IIIE FOUND TREASURE
SAN PEDRO, June 30. —Hurry
ing from Vancouver, B. C., to Cocos
Island in response to a call for re
inforcement for Col. J. S. Leckie’s
treasure hunting expedition, the
motorship Silver Wave arrived in
Los Angeles harbor Wednesday say
ing that the Booter. Capt. Gra
ham, and Leckie’s 18 treasure hun
ters were said by Capt R. A. Wol
fadnis, of the reinforcing party, to
have found the. bullion they were
j seeking under a river bed. The dis
I covery was made by means of a
i radio metal detector.
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CHILE'S INCOME TJX
FUCED HIGH BASIS
SANTAIGO, Chile. June 30. —In
comes will be taxed heavily under
a decree being prepared by Minister
of Finance Enrico Zantrau who re
vealed that an annual income of
one million pesos * (about sixty
thousand dollars) will be taxed 60
per cent.
Zantrau said the Socialist gov
ernment had no intention of mak
ing over the central bank into a
government bank. At present the
central bank is the same as former
ly except that a majority on the
board of directors are government
men .
BULL RESULTS
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Sacramento 5, Hollywood 2.
Missions 2, Oakland 1.
Seatle 4, San Francisco 2.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Brooklyn 7, Philadelphia 0.
St. Louis 10, Cincinnati 9.
Only games scheduled.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
New York 6, Washington 5.
Detroit 13,, Cleveland 4.
Only games scheduled.
REDISCOUNT RATE REDUCED
NEW YORK, June 30. —Directors
of the Federal Reserve Bank of
New York have reduced the redis
count rate to two and one half per
cent from three per cent.
WRINGING WEI DEMO
PROHIBITION PLUM
ADOPTED CONVENTION
CHICAGO, June 30, UP)— After
hours of wrangeling over the next
Democratic campaign - document,
the resolution committee adopted
a prohibition plank committing the
party to favor the repeal of the
18th amendment and immediate
modification of the Volstead act,
by a vote of 35 to 18.
Then followed the committee’s
wading through extended disputes
over the silver tariff declarations
which the party will take to the
people at the coming election
Meanwhile, the whole platform
will not be ready for the conven
tion before 4 o'clock this after
ternoon. The convention recessed
at 2:19 until 7 o'clock this evening.
This means most of the nominat
ing speeches for president will be
delayed until tomorrow.
No ballots will be taken until
late tomorrow at the earliest.
Roosevelt headquarters disavow
ed any connection with the at
tempt attributed to Frank Scho
field, manager for Melvin Tray
lor, to Roosevelt supporters, to
have Traylor withdraw from the
campaign. Schofield said the man
who described himself as a Rosse
velt supporter offered him $10,000
to withdraw his candidacy.
At Albany, airplanes with pilots
standing by, waited at the airport
to fly Governor Roosevelt to the
convention. It is believed that
when he is nominated he will fly
to the convention and address the
convention session which opened
at noon, but transacted no busi
ness as they are waiting for the
platform report.
The prohibition dispute will have
the right of way as the minority
will probably carry the fight to the
floor. The committee approved the
plank committing the party to
a “competitive tariff” based on
revenue only after sharp debate
DEMO PARTY WRITE
IN REPEAL PLUNK
I NOMINATION NEXT
CHICAGO. June 30, (TP)—T h e
Democratic party wrote in a plank
for the repeal of prohibition to
head their platform and then mov
! ed toward the nomination of can
j didates with Gov. Franklin D.
i Roosevelt pressing his advantage
j against his scattered rivals.
| As time for balloting on the par
ty’s choice aproaches, Roosevelt is
apparently hardly more than 100
votes short of the 770 needed for
the nomination, but his foes are as
insistent as ever that he will be
stopped.
It was admitted by Roosevelt
supporters that more than half of
i the convention’s 1,154 votes was
I based on orders given to the dele
gates at home caucusses, Predict
| ions made by leaders here showed
Roosevelt could claim 645 votes on
the first ballot, at least, but a more
liberal calculation showed him
increasing that total somewhat.
Farley, campaign manager for *
Roosevelt, claimed a poll of 690
on the first roll call and enough
delegates would switch before it
is over to decide the issue. The op
position is working hard, however.
The program for today called for
convening at noon. McAdoo urged
that in the minority report, a bank
depositors guarantee be included in
the plank; a roll call on “Alfafa
Bill” Murray’s minority platform;
a roll call on the McAdoo minority
report, and adoption of the plat
form, as well as a roll call of States
for nomination speeches.
The convention was to be in re
cess from six o’clock until nine
o’clock tonight.
GERALD LEADS SHAFER
CHICAGO, June 30, (/P)—Candi
date Gerald was said to be in the
lead in early tabulations of the
primary over Governor Shafer for
renomination on the Republican
ticket. Gerald took the lead from
the first.