VOLUME XVI. NUMBER 151. SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 1931.
PRICE TEN CENTS
CONDITIONS IN lUSII
EXCELLENT. SITS GOV.
PILRKS; NO ONE IDLI
JUNEAU, July 8. (JP)—After vis
iting points from Circle to Nome
and railroad points, Gov. George
A. Parks returned encouraged ovei
conditions he found to exist which
are much better than has beer
reported.
Gold mining is prosperous anc
there is a revived interest ir
quartz. Fishing is most promis
ing and indications are that there
will be a good catch.
People everywhere are engagec
in gainful occupation and there
are no idle laborers anywhere;
neither are there any extra jobs
PHILADELPHIA, July 8. (/P>—
Believed to have been drowned
after five minutes at the bottom
cf Laurel Lake, N. J., William
Dugan is alive and well today.
For nine hours physicians and
nurses made efforts to revive him
although his heart and pulse had
stopped and his body was blue
with cold.
He was wrapped in blankets,
lined with hotwater bottles, and
riven hypodermics and inha la tors
were used. Finally he sighed and
opened his eyes.
AUDIENCE GOT PAY
NEW YORK. July 8. < INS)—An
audience was paid to listen at St.
Fatrick’s Cathedral recently when
50 students of New York Univer
sity were hired by th Beil Labora
tories to assist in an “articula
tion test,’’ The students were
scattered over the auditorium in
groups of five, and for four hours
listened to words in an effort to
determine the accoustical qualities
of the Cathedral.
ARMY FLIERS TO ESCAPE
DETROIT, July 8, (/P)—Summer
heat means nothing to army pilots
of the 94th Pursuit Squadron.
Eighteen planes have been fitted
with liquid oxygen equipment for
a season of high altitude flying.
A diary is being kept of trou
bles and defects encountered in
flight to aid the Air Corps in im
proving all oxygen equipment.
ABLE TO SERVE SENTENCE
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 8. (/P)
—Request will be made that Al
bert B. Fall, former Secretary of
the Interior, be brought here at
once to begin his jail sentence.
^ His health is said to be such that
he will be able to serve his sen
tence.
COMEBACK FOR BILLIARDS
CHICAGO, July 8. (/P)—Billiards
are coming back into sport fash
ion. A total of 1,035 tournaments,
in which at least 8,280 players will
compete, has been arranged for
the 1931-32 season by the National
Billiard Association.
JAPANESE FLIGHT
JUNEAU, July 8. {JP)—Governor
Parks is informed that the Japan
ese aviator, Yoshihara, will start
on his flight not later than Aug
ust 3. Kodiak and Portland have
been added to his itinerary. The
' plane carries no radio.
MORATORIUM IS STEF
TOWARD DISARMAMENT
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 8. (IP)
—A long stride toward world dis
armament was viewed by the gov
ernment today as the possible out
standing result of the moratorium
and President Hoover hopes the
general disarmament conference
at Geneva in February will bring
about curtailment in the growing
costs of armies, navies and fortifi
cations and thereby ease the
world’s economic burdens.
FINGER LAKES MARATHON
GENEVA, N. Y., July 8. (INS) —
1 The fourth annual Finger Lakes
Marathon has been scheduled for
July 10-11 at Geneva. In addi
tion to the outboard races, 125
j cubic inch and runabout events
I are planned. Lee A. Taylor, of
j the Geneva Chamber of Commerce,
is secretary of the Seneca Lake
! Regatta Committee.
SWEDEN'S PLANE CARRIER
T9 CADDY EIGHT PEANES
GOTHENBURG, Sweden, July 8.
| iINS)—The keel to Sweden’s first
airplane carrier will soon be laid
down here. Estimated to cost
j about S12.000.000 kronor >32.216,
; 000 > the new vessel will be equip
; ped with two catapults and have
room for eight planes which will
| be fueled from a 15-ton tank of
| gasoline.
Scheduled to have a speed of
27.5 knots, the carrier will be fitted
! with six 15-centimeter guns, four
75-millimeter anti-aircraft guns,
four heavy-bore machine guns and
six torpedo tubes. The ship will be
called “Gotland” after the Swedish
island in the Baltic Sea by that
name.
HEARD AROUND WORLD
SCHENECTADY, N. Y., July 8.
(A3)—Station W2XAF, 40-kilowatt
short wave station of WGY, is
known wherever there are short
wave receivers. Ths station can be j
heard practically around the |
| world. !
NURMI
L
OLYMPIC ENTRY !
ikely 111 mini
LOS ANGELES, July 8. {&)—
Paavo Nurmi, inland’s great dis
tance runner, and champion of the
last three Olympic meets in all
events from 1,500 meters up to
10,000 meters, may try the mara_
thon in the international classic
here next summer.
This information comes from
Runar Ohis, Finnish Olympic at
tache here to make plans for ath
letes from his country.
Nurmi, besides his six Olympic
championships, holds all of the
world’s records from 3,000 meters
to 15,000 meters.
IDEAL WEATHER
REPORTED TOKYO.
SEATTLE FLIGHT
ROBBINS AND JONES TAKE
OFF FOR JAPAN VIA
ALASKA
SEATTLE, July 8. (#*)—Weathei
' conditions are reported ideal al
j most over the entire route t<
! Tokyo with fog over the Siberiar
coast but this is expected to di
minish by the time Robbins anc
Jones reach there.
They expect to reach Fairbanks
in about 17 hours after their in
land flight over British Columbia
and Yukon Territory.
The first refueling contact wil
! be made immediately and thej
; will then proceed Nomeward foj
the second refueling contact while
i flying over Bering Strait. The re
1 fueling plane will accompany then
as far as Siberia when it return*
to Solomon Beach. After the Iasi
contact they will await the fliers
i arrival at Tokyo,
j Jones predicted they will have
breakfast in Tokyo Friday morn,
ing. The plane took almost 4,00(
feet to get off the field with it*
toad of 300 gallons of gasoline
The plane climbed a foot off the
field for a distance of 2,000 feel
and then bumped down again
Robbins, piloting, gave her the
gun and she rose slowly over the
end of the field and the light*
of the plane disappeared north
ward within a minute.
They carried chicken sandwich
es, two gallons of water, emerg
ency rations of beans, rice, tea
bacon and chocolate. Neithei
smokes, so there is no tobacco.
They carried life-saving jacket*
in case they are forced down ir
water, but no parachutes. Tin
plane is a White Lockheed-Vega
monoplane, NR7429. It has the
words ‘’Fort Worth” in black let
tering on both sides.
EXPECT TAKEOFF TODAY
SEATTLE, July 8. (/P)—Robbin*
and Jones plan to take off for
their Tokyo hop between 3:00 and
3:30 a. m. Pacific Time today.
THEY ARE OFF!
SEATTLE, July 8. (/P)—Robbins
and Jones hopped off at 3.57 a,
m. this morning .
MONOPLANE SEEN
SEATTLE,July 8. (JF)—The mon
oplane ‘‘Fort Worth” is reported
having passed over Vanderhoof
at 9:35 this morning, flying high,
as they were expecting a tailwind.
It was seen over Prince George
at 9:30 heading for Hazelton.
CONDITIONS FAVORABLE
FAIRBANKS, July 8. (JP)—The
refueling plane of Robbins and
Jones made the hop from White
horse where it stopped enroute
from Telegraph Creek, in five
hours and 50 minutes. Weather
conditions are now reported fav
orable for the Seattle-Tokyo hop.
COSTLY HOUNDS IN DERBY
LONDON, July 8. (JP)—Dogs en
tered for the Greyhound Derby
at the dog races here were valued
at $250,000.
HALIBUT PRICES
SEATTLE, July 8. (^—Halibut
from six vessels totaling 75,500
pounds sold for 5c and 9%c. At
Prince Rupert 153,000 pounds ol
American brought 3c and ,7.02c;
• Canadian 3c and 6.01c.
IMPH BUSINESS
SENTIMENT IS SEEN
--
WASHINGTON. D. C., July 8. (/P)
• —The moratorium proposal i£
. credited by Commerce Department
, officials as having brought about
i improved b us i n e ss sentiment
. throughout the world.
[ The department said a study of
reports over several widely sep
; arated foreign countries since the
. war debt postponement plan was
announced, showed a psychologi
! cal effect on business which un.
questionably has been good but
- what material effect the plan will
■ give, however, is yet to be learned.
HE “FLEW” AWAY; DIVORCE
CLEVELAND, July 8. (INS)—A
divorce was granted to Mrs. Eliz
abeth K. Canfield, by Judge Sam
i uel H. Silbert here because her
. husband literally flew away. Mrs.
I Canfield said that her husband
!; had taken an airplane to Detroit
| with another woman.
:! COAL MIS SS CENTS
,
OTTAWA, 111., July 8. (INS) —
Railroad values took a slump here
recently when a half-mile stretch
, of. the old Rutland, Toluca and
Northern railway sold fo $1. •
At the same sale which was
held by LaSalle county to collect
money for taxes that had never
been paid on certain properties,
three coal mines sold for 50 cents
each. One piece hod not furnished
taxes to the county for 73 years
while another was 53 years in
arrears.
CATTLE BURNED TO DEATH
i SAN FRANCISCO, July 8. (JP)—
Fire was roaring up three sides
jOf Mount Diablo and was virtually
lout of control. Numerous cattle
have been burned to death; county
jail prisoners at Martinez were
released to aid the army of 500
fire fighters and fire departments
from a dozen nearby cities have
been mobilized.
UAD SELLS FOH $1
CHEEK ADVOCATES BIC
NASHVILLE, Term., July 8. (/P)—
A more “economical division” of
the wealth of the nation through
heavy inheritance taxes was ad
vocated here last week by Presi
dent William Green of the Amer
ican Federation of Labor.
Unless this is done, he said, the
more favored will continue to pile
up huge fortunes that “may be
come a menace to the people.”
President Green also declared
that wealthy persons should be
prevented from making gifts of
their property before death in or
der to escape payment of inherit
ance taxes.
GOVERNMENT TOKEN
TO TUSK TflEATMENT
OF CHILD OFFENDERS
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 8.
(/P)—Criticism of the federal gov
ernment for allegedly dealing with
its youthful law breakers on the
same basis as older and hardened
criminals, was launched through
the White House by the disbanded
Wickersham commission
In a formal report on “children
offenders in the federal system
of justice,” the commission as
serted the government lacked
proper equipment to mete out this
type of justice and recommended
the treatment of juvenile delin
quency be relegated almost en
tirely to States.
RARE HOSPITAL CASE
| BRINGS DAMAGE SUIT
j LOS ANGELES, Calif., July 8.
j (INS A—As the result of the death
of Mrs. Nina M. Branton follow.
1 ing an explosion of ether in her
I lungs while she was under an
i anaesthetic, the Rev. Harry Bran
I ton, her husband, and two sons,
1 Robert and Ralph Branton, brought
suit for $151,500 damages against
several doctors, a nurse and a
hospital.
A spark was believed to have
caused the explosion which rup
tured Mrs. Branton’s lungs. The
accident was declared to be with
out parrallel in hospital circles.
ITALIAN PRESS ATTACKS POPE
ROME, July 8. (A5)—The Italian
I Press, which has been held in
check during the exchange of
j notes between the Vatican and
j the Italian government, delivered
i a blast against Pope Pius XI for
| his statement of Saturday. The
■ editorial manifestation was hailed
1 as the governments first retalia
tory move against the attack on
Fascism in the Pontiff’s pro
nouncement.
GENOA BUILDING WORLD’S
LARGEST MARINE AIRPORT
! SESTRI LEVANTE, Italy, July
18. (/P)—The largest marine airport
i in the world is in construction
here at Sestri Levante, financed
by the province and port of Genoa.
A special port has been built by
filling in the Mussolini basin of
the harbor and forming miniature
‘water ports 67 by 10 feet.
A system of low-lying lights will
be arranged that seaplanes land
safely on the darkest night.
GOLDEN WEDDING FETE
SAN FRANCISCO, July 8. (INS)
—When Mr. and Mrs. Peter H.
Wulff observed their 50th wedding
anniversary here, they observed
it in the same house in which
they ate their wedding supper a
half century ago.
PROMINENT LADY DIES
SANTA ROSA, July 8. <£>)—Mrs.
Mary Ells Merriam, wife of Lieu~
enant Governor Frank Merriam,
died here.