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VOLUME XVI. NUMBER 163.
SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 1931. PRICE TEN CENTS
HW AGAIN READY
TO HOP TO TOKTO (III
ROUTE OVER ALASKA
SEATTLE, July 22. (/P)—Robbins
and Jones checked over their
plane and made test flights Tues
day. They plan more flights Wed
nesday in addition to putting a
cowling on the motor and “pants”
on the wheels.
They hope to takeoff at 6:30
p. m. Thursday for Tokyo via
Alaska. The fliers said the new
motor performed perfectly. They
have had additional gas tanks in
stalled to care for greater fuel con
sumption of the 425 horsepower
motor.
Jones estimated the Tokyo hop
will be made in 40 hours unless
headwinds are encountered all
along the route.
BIG SUCTION DREDGE
IN TOW TUG (KUTIN
■DRIVES THOM SOUTH
The steam tug Akutan, Capt. L.
H. H. Jennings commanding, ar
rived in port early today from the
South w i t lr the large suction
dredge Portland in tow. It is said
the Akutan will remain here until
the dredging behind the recently
constructed break-water is com
pleted. when it will tow the dredge
back South.
J. C. Greely, general superinten
ol the Puget Sound Bridge &
Dredging Co., has been in the city
for several days getting things in
readiness for immediate work.
Together with the company’s
equipment now engaged on the
Thomas Basin project in the Pan
handle district, this prominent
contracting firm has nearly three
quarters of a million dollars in
equipment in Alaskan waters.
The Tug Eskimo also arrived
towing the barge Foss of Tacoma,
which will be used in connection
with the local project.
PHYSICIAN ON SHONE
DIRECTS OPERATION, SEA
NEW ORLEANS, La., July 22.
(.■?)—The tropical storm that swept
New Orleans did not keep a phy
sician here from giving directions
by radio for an operation on board
a ship at sea. A seaman on an
oil tanker suffered a broken pelvis
bone.
Immediately radio contact was
made with Dr. T. B. H. Anderson,
of the New Orleans Marine Hos
pital. For an hour and 15 min
utes he dictated surgical measures.
The ship was about 80 miles from
the mouth of the Mississippi River.
VESSEL IN TOW
SAN FRANCISCO, July 21. (JP)—
In tow of the navy tug “Sunna
din,” the Matson Line freighter
Golden Cloud was proceeding to
ward Honolulu, according to ad
vices to the company headquar
ters here. The vessel, enroute to
Honolulu from Australia, threw
her propellor Sunday.
FAMILY THOUGHT DROWNED
SEATTLE, July 22. (/P)—Capt. C. |
S. Carlson, of the steamer W. M.
Tupper, said the Seattle family of
Charles Nicolet, his Eskimo wife
and three children, apparently
were drowned in the Gulf of Al
ska off Kodiak Island. He said
their small boat was being towed
across a stormy sea when it broke
loose and was lost.
MISSIONARY PLANE
ENROUTE TO ALASKA
NEW YORK, July 22, {&)— Hav-;
ing lost one plane at Kotzebue in'
a crash last fall when two priests;
and Pilot Wien were killed, Brother!
George U. Feltes started today fly- j
ing another plane 4,000 square*
miles to a Catholic mission in Al- i
aska.
He will pick up Brother Martial i
Lapeyre who has just completed a!
flight of instruction on the west
coast. The plane is big enough
for ambulance work.
FURTHER DETAILS
ONTARIO, Calif., July 22, (£>)—
Thos. S. Scott, 45 years of age, j
prominent Cordova banker, com- J
mitted suicide in a hotel room!
here last Friday when he slashed j
his throat with a razor after a fu- j
! tile attempt to end his life with a \
revolver. The motive is unknown.
HGRESSIdL PITY
ffiij JUNEAU SCENES
JUNEAU, July 22. (JP)—The Con
gressional party spent three hours
here Tuesday enroute to Seward.
They spent a great part of-the j
time at Mendenhall Glacier and
were met here by an auto party
and greeted by officials and busi
ness men.
Charles P. Sisson, assistant U.
S. Attorney General, was a pas
senger aboard the SS Aleutian j
southbound. He is summoned to j
California because of the death of !
his brother and his nephew.
PRINCE VISITS POLAR SUB
PLYMOUTH, England, July 21.
(;P)_The Prince of Wales paid a
visit of inspection to the sub
marine in which the Wilkins-Ells
worth trans - Arctic expedition
plans to voyage under the ice at
the North Pole and wishes the ex
pedition every success. The Prince
was received aboard the Nautilus
by Captain Sir Hubert Wilkins,
the expedition commander.
REACHES STONE ILL
ROME, July 22. (JP)—The bitter
controversey between the Roman
Catholic Church and the Fascist
State apparently had reached a
stone wall, with little hope of a set
| tlement for months.
I The Vatican’s secret publication
I abroad of Pope Pius’ article against
Fasicst education methods, fol
lowed by the Fascist directorate’s
sharp protest in reply, has left,
it was felt, no avenue for re-open
•ing negotiations.
MITO owes ASKED
REGISTER THY FOR
FRIDAY’S LAKE TRIP
There are 14 Congressmen and
Washington, D. C., officials on
board the Cutter Tahoe, now en
route to the PoPrt of Seward from
the South, and on the SS Yukon,
six or eight said a telegram receiv
ed today by President Leon Ur
bach of the Seward Chamber of
Commerce, from Ernest Walker
Sawyer, assistant to Secretary
Wilbur, who is accompanying the
distinguished party on their Alas
ka tour.
Advices are to the effect both
vessels will arrive in port Friday
morning between the hours of 6
and 8 o’clock.
Auto owners who are willing to
assist taking the party to Lake
Kenai, are asked to list their
names today with Mr. Urbach for
it is the present purpose to leave ■
Seward with the party at 9 a. m.
Friday, returning at 11.30 when a:
banquet will be tendered the visi
tors and to which the general pub- I
lie is invited to attend, ladies as |
well as the men, of course, for a \
number of the Congressmen and |
official’s wives are accompanying!
their husbands.
After the local luncheon, which
presumably will be held in the
Seward Grill (11.30 a. m.) the ma
jority of the visitors will board a
Brill car, which arrives Thursday
with General Manager Otto F.;
Ohlson, of the Alaska Railroad,!
and taken to Anchorage and on
into Fairbanks.
It is anticipated that Command
er TOvVle, of the U. S. S. Tahoe, will
remain in port during the absence
of the party, which will give local
residents an opportunity to enter
tain himself, officers and crew,,
either socially cr accompanying
them to nearby fishing streams.
AMERICAN
Cleveland 2, Boston 3; ten in
nings
Chicago 5, Philadelphia 10.
Detroit 4, Washington 3.
St. Louis at New York, rain.
NATIONAL
Brooklyn 4, Chicago 3.
New York 5, St. Louis 8.
Only National games played.
PACIFIC COAST
Missions 5, Seattle 1.
Oakland 3, Los Angeles 2.
Sacramento 3, San Francisco 4.
Hollywood 4, Portland 8.
Taking a three run lead in the
first two innings of ’ Tuesday
night’s Coast League game at San
Francisco, Missions defeated the
Seattle Indians 5 to 1. The In
dians’ errors combined with
bunched hits accounted for Mis
sions early lead.
RECORD UNOFFICIAL RUN
GARDONNE RIVERIA, Italy,
July 22. (JP)—-Kaye Don, British
speedboat driver, made an unof
ficial run of 104.15 miles an hour
on Lake Garda in testing out a
new propellor for his Miss Eng
land II, the boat in which he set
the world’s record of 110.23 miles
an hour a few days ago. j
BREWERY SEIZED
NEW YORK, July 22. (.^—Thirty
prohibition agents under the per
sonal direction of Administrator
Andrew McCampbell seized the
five-story Phoenix brewery valued
at $1,000,000 on Tenth Avenue and
25th Street. They broke in with
sledge hammers and battering
rams; 50 escaped and four were
arrested.
DESIRES BUTTLE JAPAN
HONGKONG, July 22. (JP)—The ;
insurgent Canton government an
nounced receipt of a telegram from
Chang Hsueh Liang, Governor of ]
Manchuria, in behalf of Chiangj;
Kai Shek, Nationalist president, in j]
which the latter offers to resign j
suggesting China unite in war onj;
Japan and send 500,000 troops to i
the Korean border
Chiang is willing to resign if he:
remains .to command the Nanking \
army and navy.
REACH A DECISION ' j
LONDON, July 22, OP)—’The fin-!
ancial committee of the seven-;
power conference, reported they
have reached a decision. Details!
will be disclosed at the Plenary
conference today.
LONDON, July 22. (/P) — Two
recommendations are understood'
to have been adopted by the1
: seven-power conference consider-!
ing Germany’s financial crisis.
First, governments should invite |
the Bank of England, the Bank of !
France, the Federal Reserve Bank
' of the United States and the Bank j
I of International Settlements and 1
; renew for three months the $100.- J
! 000,000 credit granted Germany
! for one month, July 15.
Second, private banks of these
countries should leave existing
credits in Germany’s hands.
HITCH-HIKERS AIDED
BATAVIA, N. Y., July 21. (/P)—
! Weary and footsore after a seven
, months hitch hike from California,
j James C. Peters, 36, and his wife,
36, were aided by police. The
wife carried a three months old
baby for which she had begged
milk and orange juice.
DO-X TO START FOR NEW YORK
RIO DE JANEIRO, July 21. (/P)—
The seaplane DO-X, which has
been in dry-dock here since the
end of her trans-Atlantic flight,
will start a leisurely trip to New
York at the end of next week, it
was announced.
I
FRENCHMEN WILL
MIKE SECOND THE
MOSCOW, July 22. ■(&>)—Joseph
Le Brlx nd Marcel Doret, French
airmen, left Nijni, Undinsk, Siberia,
by train for Moscow on their way
back to Paris to have another try
at a nonstop flight to Tokyo.
They were accompanied by their
mechanic. They crashed in Cen
tral Siberia several days ago after
they had covered about two-thirds
of their journey.
IDMINISTMTIVE SURVEY
KUSKII NATIVE AFFAIRS
SOON IE CONCLUDED
DUTCH HARBOR, July 22. (/P)—
Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Anderson, both
of the Stanford University staff,
are surveying the administration
of native affairs for the Office of
Education and are enroute to the
Pribilof Islands aboard the cutter
Itasca.
This is their second and last
year of research to report whether
the present system is suitable.
Dr. Henry Suzzalo of the Car
negie foundation and former pres
ident of the University of Wash
ington, is cooperating with the An
dersons. They will return via
:Atka and the Aleutians. The test
! in each village will occupy three
! days.
ADMIRAL 1INEH IN
PORT, WESTBOUND;
HAS LARGE LISTING
Incoming locals, Westbound and
round-trippers on board the SS
Admiral Watson, Capt. Emar
Thomsen, Pacific Steamship Com
pany, in port last evening from
the South, included the following
large list of reservations:
Mrs. M. N. Bashan, Mr. and Mrs.
C. O. Campbell, R. N. Cowling,
Miss M. Derby, Miss Grace Dela
guna, Miss B. Falk, Victor Falk Jr.,
Mrs. V. G. Falk, Charlotte Gray,
Sarah W. Gray, Miss M. Gregoroff,
Mary A. Herman, Mrs. O. Herman,
Mrs. Harrington, Mrs. W. F. Jenne,
W. P. Lass, Frances Lass, E. L.
McKee, Howerd E. March, C. E.
Mitchell, N. Monsen, Glenna Pier
son, Glen Parks, H. S. Price.
Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Ramsey,
Dr. F. C. Shultis, Frances Schmidt,
Mrs. J. A. Strobel, Miss Grace
Welch, Miss Helen Weber, Capt.
A. E. Lathrop, Sen. Peter Norbeck,
C. Foster Jones, Mrs. C. A. Mat
tie, H. W. Terhune, L. F. Hebert,
T. Email, A. Westman.
| The Admiral Watson returns to
I Seward Sunday morning at 6
o’clock enroute South.
SENS CONCERN FELT
OVER SOVIET INFLUENCE
PEIPING, China July 22. (/P)—
The Chinese government is begin
ning to show serious concern about
[the developments in Sinkiang and
Inner Mongolia, where Soviet in
j fluence has become so great that
Chinese officials are openly flaunt
ed by the local rules.
Plans were announced for expe
ditions into Sinkiang and the
northwest desined to repair Chi
nese control.
REMOVE TRADE BARRIERS
i
| MOSCOW, July 22. (TP)—A step
toward restoration of normal trade
| relations between Soviet Russia
and France was taken with the
simultaneous issuance of decrees
in Moscow and Paris removing
commercial barriers set up last
October.