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VOLUME XVI. NUMBER 190.
SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, AUGUST 17, 1931.
PRICE TEN CENTS
LINDBERGHS STUDY
WITHER CONDITIONS
FOR FINIl FLIGHTS
NEMURO, Aug. 17. (/P) —A ra
dio from the steamship Kokuasi
Maru, returning after the delivery
of gasoline for Koshi Harai’s pro
posed flight, said that Col. and
Mrs. Chas. A. Lindbergh were still
at Petroplavlask tonight studying
weather reports and forecasts of
approaching bad flying weather.
Reporters and photographers are
swarming here and this will be
the first spot when the iLndy’s
make their first landing in Jap
anese territory.
The only hotel rooms vacant
the first spot when the Lindy’s
at “The Two S m i li n g Beauties
Inn,” translated from “Nibiki Ryo
kan.”
The Lindberghs have flown a
total of 5.622 miles; 1,510 miles re
main on the two hops to Nemuro
and Tokyo.
ESTELLE VICTORIOUS
IN M BOUT WITH
MB MAULER
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 17.
Estelle Taylor’s missing automo
bile, just a little $13,000 Rolls
Royce town car, is coming home
and the return of the expensive
machine promises a speedy settle
ment of her prolonged divorce ne
gotiations with Jack Dempsey.
The actress’ attorney. Joseph
Scott, said he had been informed
Dempsey was sending the big car
back from Reno, where it had
been since it was taken from Miss
Taylor’s chauffeur while she was
attending a Hollywood garden
party recently.
The automobile was a gift from
Dempsey to his wife. The return
of the car, Scott explained, fol
lowed an ultimatum from Miss
Taylor that all negotiations toward
a friendly divorce would remain
at a standstill until it was sur
rendered to her.
cm POUNCES UPON
SNAKE, SAVES BABIES
RAWLINS, Wyo., Aug. 17. (/Pi—
Pussy, a house cat owned by Ted
Cross of South Rawlins, pounced
upon a rattlesnake approaching
his three children playing in the
back yard of the Cross home, and
held the reptile off until passers
by killed it.
The cat, Cross said, sprang on
the snake and tore at its back.
When the snake coiled, the cat
sprang away and when it un
coiled Pussy again sprang upon
the reptile and clawed.
The snake had eight ratles and
a button.
The East may have its White
Socks, but so to has Seward. For the
last three days “white sox,” those
little pesky insects which fly into
your mouth, up one’s nostrils, into
the eyes, and what not, have been
worse than anytime during the last
165 years.
SEAPLANE SANK
SEATTLE, Aug. 17. (JP) —A1 Mace, j
43 years of age, drowned and four
other Seattleites were saved when
a seaplane taking off from Lake
Union sank.
WEN JUMP INTO
BUM, BUTTLE FIRE
_
j SPOKANE, Aug. 17. (/P) — Their
: homes being threatened, w o men
! grabbed axes and shovels and aid
| ed 700 men fighting two fires
I which were showering brands and
cinders on the town from north
| of here.
| The wind shifted just before a
| lumber mill whistle was to give
, the signal for evacuation from the
fire which had leaped the Clark
, fork of the river. The wind died
| later after 25 fighters had been
; trapped for several hours.
BROTHER DROWNED
The shocking report was received
today from Seattle that a brother
of Elbert Kunz, local assistant to
1 Alaska Railroad Agent Sweek, was
| drowned Sunday in Lake Union,
j Seattle. It is said the telegram was
; received from his parents. Elbert
, could not be seen today by the
press, being home.
NEW TORTURE INVENTED
I BY BANDITS OF SWATOW
SWATOW, China, Aug. ll.(fP)—
i A new torture has been invented by
bandits of this district for victims
. whose relatives fail to pay ran
som.
This was revealed when district
guards raided a bandit camp in the
hills. Several of the rescued cap
tives had been made stone deaf by
liquid cement which had been
poured into their ears and allowed
to harden.
comm sms
MINE 11 BE tin
I __________
Removal of existing restrictions
on location of mining claims in
Alaska seems likely.to result from
the visit of the Congressional del
egation to Alaska, it was intimat
led in Juneau by Congressman
i William R. Eaton, Republican of
Colorado, chairman of the House
committee on Public Lands and
j member of the Appropriations
! committee.
“If the proper sort of bill is
prepared by Alaskans and intro
duced in Congress to wipe out the
restrictions and extend to the Ter
ritory the general mining laws of
;the United States, it probably will
receive favorable consideration
fro mthe Public Lands committee,”
Mr. Eaton sadi.
| Arrivals from Kodiak bring word
that the MS. Polar Bear, the Kodiak
Guides new vessel recently pur
chased at Seattle, was at that port
but that Chas. Madsen, head of the
association and Capt. Peter Wold
would probably be in Seward soon.
No definite particulars could be
learned but from the Westward
comes report of another fishing
vessel wreck, Friday night, on the
reefs of Augustine Island, at the
Southern end of Cook Inlet.
LOCAL, SOUTHBOUND
LISTING ON UHL
WATSON FOR WEST
With one of the largest passenger
listings, southbound of the present
season on board, the SS. Admiral
Watson, Capt. Einar Thompson,
Pacific Steamship Company, re
turned to port early today from
Kodiak, loaded a car of cased sal
j mon, then continued on South with
i the following list of reservations.
! FOR SEWARD—Mrs. W. A. Ben
nett, R. Sheely, Lydia-Fohn Han
sen, Mrs. John Ostrom, John
Ostrom.
FOR CORDOVA— Oscar Hart,
Frank Foster, Jr.
FOR KETCHIKAN FROM KO
DIAK—Crew of shipwrecked boat
the MS. Marmot. Capt. Arne Lar
sen, Chief Engineer C. Hansen, C.
Lang, Matt Jeffs, John Olsvick, C.
Lund.
FOR SEATTLE FROM PORT
GRAHAM—Seid Back, Dip Gay Seid,
W. Groke, Bob Collins, P. Norman,
John Barndoll. Hans Endestad, O.
Endestad, T. Wester, Paul Ander
son, Simon Anderson, Alfred An
derson, Marvin Larson Geo. Newell,
A. N. Anderson, J. R. Daly, I. A.
Gana, H. A. Lee, Ted Wood.
FROM SELDOVIA—Miss Maiy
i Block, Chas. Hamley.
FROM KUKAK BAY—Eva John
son, W. H. Swan. Mrs W Ti Swan
FROM KODIVC-Mrs D
|TUmDs. Geo. D. r vr* L^r.is- ! ul.bs,
| Duaine Tubbs, Ralph Thov.i;;son,
I Frank Thompson, A. N. Nead. Mar
tha C. Miles, Ina Deemer, Mrs. Ina
W. Briggs, Judge Jacob Kanzler,
Irene Clark, E. A. Shaeffer, Bertha
Brown, E. H. Ziegler.
BI SjjJ L L
SATURDAY’S GAMES
AMERICAN LEAGUE
f Philadelphia 4, Cleveland 3.
Washington 3, St. Louis 2. The
game went 12 innings.
New York 7, Detroit 5. Sixteen
innings were played.
Boston 1, Chicago 0.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Pittsburgh 4-1, Philadelphia 5-3.
Other National League games
were postponed on account of
rain.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Portland 5, Seals 7.
Seattle 4, Sacramento 2.
Missions 2, Oakland 5.
Los Angeles 4, Hollywood 24.
SUNDAY’S GAMES
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Seattle 3, Sacramento 1. Eleven
innings.
Missions 1-8, Oakland 5-2.
Los Angeles 9-3, Hollywood 5-6.
Portland 5-9, San Francisco 2-5.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Cincinnati 2-7, Brooklyn 9-8.
Chicago 7-5, Boston 1-1.
St. Louis 1-3, New York 7-2.
The above were the only Nation
al League games played.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Washington 5-8, St. Louis 3-6.
Boston 2-5, Chicago 9-1.
Philadelphia 6, Cleveland 4.
New York 9, Detroit 6.
Later details received as to the
reported wreck of a fishing schooner
in the southern part of Cook Inlet,
give the vessel’s name as the Dem
ocrat. The crew was rescued, said
the report.
MAKING TRACKS
TOKYO, Aug. 17. (£>)—'The Ochi
ishi wireless station intercepted a
message from the Lindberghs say
ing they landed at Petropablovisk,
Kamchatka, at 3 p. m. Tokyo
time which is 10 p. m. Pacific
Standard time Saturday. They were
off for Karagin at 5:50 Pacific
Standard time Saturday.
HEADS OF REVOLT
IMPRISONED FORTRESS
HAVANA. Aug. 17. (JP) —Form
er President M. Nocal and 10
other leaders are imprisoned in
the. Cabana fortress.
The government regards the re
volution as over but Colonels Hev
ia and Penate are still in the field
! and demand the resignation of
I President Machado, who is still
in the Santa Clara Province at
tempting to persuade the rebels to
quit.
FROM UNALASKA
The Coast Guard Cutter Mc
Lean, Capt. H. B. Nelson, arrived
in port Saturday from Unalaska
bringing a Russian priest and two
others. The priest speaks only
Russian.
WOMAN KILLER BE
RELEASED ON PAROLE
SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 17. (JP)—
Kid McCoy former world’s cham
pion middleweight prizefighter,
won his first bout in many years.
I The 50-year-old fighter, serving
a long term in San Quentin Prison,
. was awarded a future date parole
by the State Prison Board and will
walk out the prison gates Decem
ber 11, 18*2.
He will go to Detroit to accept
! a job offered by Henry Ford as
physical director for the Ford em
i ployees.
MUSK OX GULF KILLED
Blf BEAR NEIR COLLEGE
——
The remains of the carcass of
a musk ox calf were discovered
near the College recently. It had
been killed by a bear some time
ago, reports the Fairbanks News
Miner.
Its death reduces to 31 the num
ber of musk oxen sent there by
the federal government for ex
perimental purposes.
Many black bears have been
seen in the vicinity of the College
during the spring and summer.
Gus Neslund, of Seldovia, haa
disposed of his residence there to
Milo Hulbert and is going to make
Homer his headquarters, says the
Seldovia Herald.
CUPID’S ARROW STRIKES TWO
William Struve and Miss Leona
Lutz were married Saturday even
ing at 9 o’clock by Rev. Earl E.
Reisner in the Fernandies re
sidence in the Blue Apartments.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Fernandie stood
up for the couple. After the -wed
ding a large number of friends
gathered and were served a del
icious luncheon. Mrs. Struve is a
recent arrival in Seward but her
husband, local property owner and
a popular member of the S. L. &
P. Co., staff, is a pioneer.
MARVELOUS DISH
MADE BY MENU
UW COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, Aug. 17.
The twelfth Wickersham Commis
sion report suggested war against
slums, the breeding spots of crime.
The report itself, drawn up by a
half dozen experts, carried a brief
statement by the commission that
it was unable to discuss the sub
ject.
Colonel Henry Anderson of Vir
ginia, a member, wrote a report
I of his own criticising other mem
Ibers for failure to comment and
:to make recommendations.
One expert wrote: “The demand
| for intoxicating liquor and the
! tremendous profits in supplying,”
j made the activities of gangsters
| possible.
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SALMON SWARMING
BY THE MILLIONS IN
SMALL KODIAK AREA
; Pisces, (fish of archbacked var
iety) are swarming by the millions*
[ three miles southwest of Kodiak
and the Piscators (Fishermen) are
repeaping a harvest The Gateway
is informed.
Not only are they selling fish to
the Kodiak Fisheries at Kodiak but
the Alaska Packers Association are
sending for them from Larsens Bay
■ 110 miles distant. Their powerful
I boat “Chilkat” has made three trips
j and was to be back again last night
j for another load. They load the
[ fish on a huge scow or lighter bigger
! than the Seward baseball park.
Sunday they loaded more than
80,000 fish which will be in cans
within 30 hours after they are taken
from the water. It only takes Gor
don Jones with his six line cannery
but a brief spell to put tin around
that many fish. It is but a mere
incident n the day’s doings at his
fine plant.
The Chilkat was due at Kodiak
Sunday for another, the last load
as the season is now closed.
The Kodiak .Fisheries plant at
Kodiak will can at least 80,000 cases
it’s largest pack since it began to
operate in 1912 when the Katmai
Eruption occurred. No one seems
to know why such multitudinous
number of fish should congregate in
that small area so close to town.
It must be a Humpback conven
tion attended by delegates from the
entire area and depths of the
mighty sea. One of the best theory’s
advanced is that there is not
enough water in Buskin River to
afford space for the countless
throng seeking an opportunity to re
produce their kind.
Kodiak has had a long spell of dry
hot weather and there is but little
water in the creeks and rivers and
unless they have rain soon most of
these fish will be unable to find a
place to spawn and will die in salt
water.
Fisherman have done well this
season and everybodyy will have
money to spend.
Ross L. Sheeley, assistant director
of agriculture of the Extension De
partment of the Alaska College,
arrived in Seward on the Admiral
Watson. *