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VOLUME XVI. NUMBER 157. SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 1931. PRICE TEN CENTS
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FAMOUS SCIENTIST
RETURNING SEWARD
FROM WESTWARD
HAVE AUTHENTIC RECORDS OF
ALASKA’S GREATEST
ERUPTION
CHIGNIK, July 15. (A*) — With J
specimens deposited in mineral;
waters, records of temperatures!
and photographic records of Al- j
aska’s greatest volcanic eruption
in recent years, Father Bernard
Hubbard, scientist and explorer,
and party are returning to Sew
ard via Anchorage.
Vill Regan and Dick Douglas
were brought here yesterday by
Pilot Blunt, of the Pacific Inter
national Airways of Alaska, to.:
catch the steamer Starr for Sew
ard.
Pilot Blunt, with Father Hub
bard, flew over the great moon
craters of Veniamince and Aniak
chak. Aniakchak was hotter, and
it seemed about ready for an ex
plosion. Hubbard said the down
drafts into the crater made flying ;
too close, dangerous.
After the flight over the craters,
the priest, Blunt, Kenneth Chris
holm and Mechanic Ames took off
for Anchorage.
PROSPECTOR m
FORTUNE
IN ill PLACER
WALLACE. Idaho. July 14, (/P»—
When Tom Kerruish. prospector,
left the Coeur d'Alene region several
years ago, he headed for the Yukon
■ with the avowed purpose of finding
a -mother lode” in the Big Salmon
country. He headed straight into
the heart of the old diggings of 30
years ago and bgan prospecting the
gulches. He found some gold but
not the big streak he was looking
for.
Late last fall he began to get nug
gets with quartz attached. They
grew in size as he panned up a nar
row gorge. Then he found some
pockets and took out $4,000 in less
than 10 days. Now comes the report
of his washing out $2,000 in two
days with the pay streak well de
fined and getting richer as the
slucing advances.
PUTMI STRIKE
IDE IN DIM
CUSTER, S. Dak., July 15, (/P>— It
is claimed that platinum has been
found with gold in prospecting of
claims by C. Whitney, pioneer miner
of Custer county who owns a num
ber of claims at the head of Dans
by creek.
He says he has been offered $20,
000 by eastern mining interests for
the claim on which he discovered
the platinum while placering for
gold. He has not decided whether
or not he will accept the offer.
WATSON SAILS NORTH j
SEATTLE, July 15. (&)—'The SS j
Admiral Watson, of the P. S. S. Co.,
sailed at 10 a. m. today and car
ried 35 passengers, 11 of which are
booked for Seward: Mr. and Mrs.
C. O. Campbell, Glenna Pierson,
Miss M. Derby, Howard E. Marsh, j
Norbeck Seanton, Miss B. Falk, j
Mrs. V. Falk, Mrs. G. Falk, C. E.
Mitchell and Monsen Hand.
IDEM BUCK
TO TIKE HIND IN
GERMAN CRISIS
BANKS WILL BE REOPENED
FOR A DAY TO MEET
PAYROLLS
BERLIN, July 15. (/P)—Hinden- !
burg came back to take a hand
in lifting Germany out of its fi- |
nancial crisis; he had been at his j
country place at Neudeck for the j
past two weeks.
It was learned on good authority
that the banks temporarily closed 1
will be reopened tomorrow to meet
the mid-month payroll. Meantime i
the cabinet is debating ways of;
meeting the situation without in. !
flating currency.
They have definitely discarded
the plan to put the domestic
“Rentenmark” back into circula
tion; it was a unit of currency
based on the agriculture industry
instead of gold issued after the
Mark was stabilized in 1923.
RUPERT HALIBUT PRICES
PRINCE RUPERT, July 15. (£>)—
Halibut totaling 121.000 pounds,
American, sold for 3c and 8.40c;
Canadian, 3c to 6.40c.
SANTA GLAUS 51 TO
SAIL ON AUGUST 20
That will be the role of the SS
W. M. Tupper of the Santa
Ana Steamship Company when she
sails on her next voyage to Bethel
on The Kuskokwim River of Al-;
; aska.
Capt. C. S. Carlson, master of
the Tupper, announced that when
the vessel leaves Seattle August 20
on her second and last voyage
this year to the isolated Kuskok
wim River district, she will have
thousands of Christmas presents
for residents of this part of Al
| aska, as long before the usual ar
rival of Santa Claus, the river is
closed to navigation by ice.
On her last trip from Bethel,
this year, several hundred live
reindeer will be transported to
Seattle and shipped to various
parts of the United States to be
used as teams by department store
Santas. The Tupper will carry on
her August voyage, winter supplies
for a vast territory in the Kuskok.
wim River district.
Captain Carlson has been Santa
Claus for the Kuskokwim River
district for eight years and says
he likes the job. The trip he com
pleted recently to Bethel was his
14th in the Tupper.
Steve Ivanoff, Valdez native, who
was shot in the lung while bear
hunting on Montague Island, died
recently as a result of his injuries,
reports the Valdez Miner.
CRISIS AVERTED BY
MUTORIIi PUN
DECLARES OFFICIAL
MILLIONS WILL BE RELOANED
TO RESTORE EQUILIB
RIUM
WASHINGTON, D. C.. July 15.
(JP)—The moratorium plan is be
lieved by officials to have averted
a possible disastrous international
crisis by postponing German war |
debt payments due today.
Officials continued to study de- I
velopments of the German finan-:
cial situation. Castle said that j
had not this plan been adopted,!
serious default by Germany might
have resulted.
Under the Young plan he said,!
Germany would have to pay into I
the World Bank for settlements
today, at Basel, about $30,000,000.
Under the moratorium she will
pay about 41,000,000 Reichmarks
but $30,000,000 will immediately
be reloaned to that country in
an effort to restore her economic!
equilibrium. ,
HUSBINDS EXCHANGE
WIVESi EVERYTHING IS j
FINE. DECLARE BOTH
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POMONA, Calif., July 15. (/P)—
George Spotswood and F. L. Stev
ens announced at a dinner for
their families Saturday they cel
ebrated an exchange of wives. The
new romances began at a bridge
table. Each family had two child,
ren; there will be a new division
of children.
Spotswood said he and Mrs.
Stevens decided to make the cour
ageous step after the couple had i
met many times. Finally a tense
ness developed and each confessed
to their new love to mate.
They obtained divorces and mar
ried when they returned. The
other two went to Nevada and
married.
Stevens said “We had the cour
age to straighten out our affairs.”
Spotswood said “Yes, everything
is fine.”
HAGEN DEFEATS BRITISH PRO
TORONTO, July 15. (/P)—Walter
Hagen, American veteran, defeated
Percy Alliss, British pro, in the
36-hole playoff in the Canadian
open golf championship. Hagen
making 73-68; Alliss 72_70.
AMERICAN
St. Louis 5, Boston 3.
Chicago 9, Washington 1.
Detroit 12. Philadelphia 3.
New York 19-1, Cleveland 2-5.
NATIONAL
Philadelphia 4-3, Pittsburgh 9-4.
Boston 3, Cincinnati 2.
Chicago 8, New York 4.
St. Louis 3, Brooklyn 2.
PACIFIC COAST
Seattle 9, Hollywood 7.
Los Angeles 8, Sacramento 3.
San Francisco 8, Missions 1.
Oakland 8, Portland 4.
HOPPING THE ATLANTIC
HARBOR GRACE, July 15. {&)—
George Endres and Alexander
Magyar, reserve officers of the
Hungarian army, took off in their
plane “Justice to Hungary” at
9:18 Pacific time, on a projected
nonstop flight to Budapest. The
flight is planned as a means of
calling attention ot the wrong
they contend has been inflicted
on their country.
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CITY OF SEATTLE
REINSTATES ROSS AND WILL
OUST ALL EDWARD’S
APPOINTEES
SEATTLE, July 15. (A5)—Robert
H. Harlin, the “little coal miner,”
was elected mayor of Seattle by
the council to succeed Frank Ed
wards, recalled.
Harlin was Labor’s representa- j
tive on the council. He was born '
in England and was a miner in
British Columbia; he moved to
Seattle in 1907 and was former
president of the United Mine
Workers of Washington.
He reinstated J. D. Ross as sup- 1
erintendent of the city light plant
who was deposed by Edwards.
He said he would discharge all
of Edwards’ appointees including
Chief of Police Louis Forbes.
SEATTLE HALIBUT PRICES
SEATTLE, July 15. (/P)—Five ves
sels with 60,000 medium and 47,000
small brought 8c and 814c for
mediums and 4c to 5c for smalls.
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{ Seattle shipyards now have con
tracts for $495,300 worth of wood
en vessels of various sizes and
types. The Berg Shipbuilding Co- *
within the next two weeks will |
lay the keel for the $400,000 Al- j
aska school supply ship to be j
built for the United States Bu
reau of Indian Affairs of the De
partment of Commerce.
This yard aso has the contract
for a 65-foot twinjscrew vessel
for" the United States Coast and
Geodetic Survey which will cost
$36,000. The vessel is framed and
ready for planking. She will be
operated in Hawaii and will be
sent to the island under her ownJ
power.
The Berg plant is building a j
vessel for the United States Bio- j
logical Survey in Alaska which willj
cost $3,800. This vessel is now inj
frame.
The Jensen plant is building an[
80-foot yacht for A. G. Griswold j
which will cost $50,000. The Bar-1
bee Dry Dock & Shipbuiding Com- '
pany has the keels laid for two
small tenders for the United
States Lighthouse Service in Ket
chikan which will cost $5,500.
ALUMINUM
The metal aluminum was discov
ered in Germany in 1828. Its cost
! in 1855 was $90 a pound. In 1911 the
| market price of the metal was 22
cents and the annual production
40,000,000 pounds.
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WICKERSHAM LAW COMMITTEE
COMMENTS ON TRIAL OF
MOONEY, BILLINGS
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 15.
(/P)—The Wickersham commission
denounced as “shocking to one’s
sense of justice” the laws under
which the famous Mooney-Billings
case was conducted.
Embedded deep in the formal
report to President Hoover on the
methods of criminal procedure,
| that body cited this case arising
from the bombing in Frisco as
one which motions for a new trial
“held were indaquate to prevent
injustice.”
The commission made no direct
recommendation, however, that
the case be reopened. The com
mission concluded that the blame
should be laid at the door of “in
competent, weak or political ridden
judges” for the general com
plaint against the country’s crim
inal procedure.
PLACER GRAVEL
IS OPPORTUNITY
OF UNEMPLOYED
SPOKANE, Wash., July 15, 1A5)—
The Montana Hardware Co., at
Butte has run out of gold pans in
supplying the men who would go
prospecting in the last month, ac
cording to Dr. Francis A. Thompson,
president of the Butte School of
Mines. The wholesalers are out too,
so it became necessary to place an
order with a factory. Stocks had be
come low in the lack of demand for
many years.
“Idle men, who have some capital
or who can get a grubstake, should
go to work in the placers of eastern
Washington, Oregon., Idaho and
Montana,” said Dr. Thompson.
“They can make wages with rocker,
long tom or sluce box, out where the
cost of living is low and the delight
of living and at work that is hon
est.”
MEXICO GOLD GIMP
I MEXICO CITY, July 15, (JP)—An
| average of eight persons per day are
, dying of a strange malady which is
( sweeping El Tambor, in the gold re
jgion, according to reports here.
1 Many Americans recently rushed
I to El Tambor on news of a fresh
! gold strike, disregarding the Indian
legend of a curse on the gold taken
from there.
TOKYO ONLY 40 HOURS AWAY
SEATTLE, July 15. (JP)—'Tokyo
will be only 40 hours from Seattle,
said Robbins and Jones when they
install the new 425 horsepower mo
tor. The bigger motor will in
crease the speed margin safety
after the last refueling over Nome.
They will not takeoff for at least
a week.