MEMBER ASSOCIATED RRES9
VOLUME XXIX. NUMBER 169.
SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JULY 21, 1933.
PRICE TEN CENTS
POSTS PLANE
WAS REPAIRED
BY P. A. A. MEN
Aviator Harold Post, flying round
the-world, who arrived in Alaska
yesterday morning after a flight
from Siberia fared rather ill when
he came down at Flat, Alaska yes
terday. In landing he damaged his
airplane and quite extensive repairs
were necessary.
Grave fears were held for the
safety of Aviator Post when he fail
ed to show up at Fairbanks and
when aviator Noel Wein, of the
Wiein Airways, arrived there and
said that Post had passed h i m
about 170 miles West of Fairbanks
the fears wrere in no w’ay lessened.
Post had left Nome at about 8:30
a.m. local time and should have
been in Fairbanks three hours la
ter, if he was to equal the time
he had made on his flight wTith
Gatty in 1931.
The rain, and low clouds, which
made visibility rather poor, prob
ably accounts for the fact that
Pilot Post got off his course and
came down at Flat where his plane
nosed over. Post was uninjured
Post, being dead tired, went to
bed immediately.
Meanwhile, Pilot Joe Crosson, of
the Pacific Alaska Airways. and
several mechanics left Fairbanks
with spare propellors and props
to go to Flat to repair Post’s plane
while the round-the-world flier
was getting some needed rest.
Today, Pilot A1 Monsen, picked
up Fairbanks on his airplane radio
and he reports that the plane had
been repaired and that Post was
in the ah’ at 5:15 a. m. this morn
ing. A later report says that he
and Pilot Wein, each in a plane,
flew to Fairbanks where further
minor repairs will be made. They
arrived in Fairbanks at 10:45 a.m.
From Fairbanks Post will fly to
Edmonton Canada and back to his
starting point, New York City.
In speaking about the speed of
Post’s plane when he passed him
near Fairbanks. Pilot Wein said
that Post passed him almost as if
he, Wien, was standing still.
BUSINESS IS
CLIMBING OUT
DEPRESSION PIT
WASHINGTON, July 21. —World
business, as it passed its 1933 mid
way mark in its struggle for re
covery, was heartened by indica
tions that it has at last climbed
from the bottom of the depression
pit.
The world outlook now, compared
with that of a year or six months
ago, seems generally improved, and
some of the most significant bus
iness indexes show definite gains
in leading industrial nations since
the beginning of 1933.
Government economists say,
however, that most of the gains are
still spotty and of an almost pure
ly domestic character. The most
striking advances, like those regis
tered in the United States, are at
tributed in considerable measure to
the result of governmental action
to improve the individual national
establishment.
R. C. Ingram, resident engineer of
the Bureau of Public Roads, re
turned to Seward Thursday even
ing via Lawing and the Seward
Lake Kenai highway from Moose:
Pass. Mr. Ingram spent a day in- j
specting the Bureau’s system ofj
roads in the Moose Pass district. |
MATTERN ON U. S. SOIL
NOME, July 21. —The Russian
aviator, Pilot Levinoffsky, arrived
f bout six miles West of Nome yes
terday at 4:10 p.m. Pacific Time.
He was out of gas. He was refuel
ed there and later arrived safely at
Nome where he landed Jimmy Mat
tern, the American aviator who
was forced down near Anadyr, Si
beria.
MARKET HAD
A DIZZY SPELL
NEW YORK, July 21. —Propelled
by unseen forces to a trading vol
ume which has not been equalled
in three years, stocks and commcfcl
ities markets collapsed yesterday
bringing huge losses to speculators.
From the most obscure to the
greatest, the markets felt this
sweep which in late trading seem
ed unbridled. Wildest confusion pre
vailed on the floor of the exchange
as sellers sought buyers.
At the close of the market traders
; and observers were dizzy trying to
account for the two successive days
of tobaganning prices which have
already brought billions of dollars
j in paper losses.
CAROLINA MAN
HAS MANY JOBS
; RALEIGH, N. C. July 21. —State
j Treasurer Charles M. Johnson of
; North Carolina is the state’s cham
pion office holder.
He holds 12 state offices, but
gets paid for only one. When the
legislature adjourned recently
Johnson went to bed and awoke to
find that he was a dozen state
officials. Here they are:
State treasurer, chairman local
government commission, dire ctor
local government, state board of
assessment, chairman of banking
commission, council of state, state
board of education, board of public
buildings and grounds, veterans’
loan board, member and treasurer
of state thrift society, sinking fund
commission and state school com
mission.
Miss Doris Sullivan arrived in
Seward last evening from. Anch
orage to visit with her sister, Mrs.
Irwin Dyer. She -will return to An
chorage Saturday and intends to
.return to Seward the following
week en route to San Francisco
where she will attend school. Doris
graduated from the Seward High
school this Spring.
Cook Inlet is enjoying a big
salmon run at the present time
and everyone in the area is work
ing feverishly to handle all the
fish. The Emard cannery at An
chorage is working night and day.
Wednesday, 41,000 fish were brot
to that cannery.
AT THE HOTELS
VAN GILDER—J. P. Morgan, Jun
eau; Margaret Gilbert, Fairbanks;
Mrs. N. L. Peterson, Nenana; Geo.
Ringstead, Bellingham; F. A. Gep
nes, Seattle; K. B. Edwards, Jun
eau; Lt. John R. Noyes, Seattle;
C .A. Steadman, Seattle.
GILLILAND—C. E. Smith; Dell
E. Sheriff, Mrs. Moore, A1 Roddin,
Ed Leran, E. Lee, C. M. Yould, T.
Shaughnessey.
OVERLAND— Dr. Frederick G.
Nichols and son, Seattle.
SEWARD— Bill Hammer, Katei
Sominski, Patsy Bonker, Phyllis*
Thomasson, Inez Thomasson, H. B.j
Crewson, P. C Gallagher, S. W. Os- j
trander.
TENNESSEE HAS
BIG DRY VOTE
EARLY RETURNS
I
! MEMPHIS, Term., July 21. —First
| returns from the wet city precincts
,in yesterday’s vote in Tennessee on
jthe repeal of the Eighteenth Am
jendment whittled down consider
ably the lead that the prohibition
lists built up in the early reports
from rural districts.
An unofficial tabulation of the
! returns from 982 of the State’s
2,253 percincts showed 46,516 for re
peal and 56,817 against.
Another electon was being held
in Oregon today. Oregon was one
of the first states in the nation to
| go bone dry. Advance predictions
!are that wet forces will score a
substantial victory,
j In the November elections, Ore
gon repealed its dry enforcement
;law by a heavy majority, 27 of its
counties voting for repeal and nine
against.
SEATTLE CHAMBER
PROMISES TO WORK
ALASKA INTEREST
Cassius E. Gates, president of
the Seattle Chamber of Commerce,
and a member of the Seattle Ex
cursion tour which recently made
a visit to the Territory and who
journeyed as far as Anchorage, has
written a letter to Leon Urbach,
president of the local chamber of
commerce unit, extending warmest
thanks for the courtesies shown
them during their visit in Seward.
Mr. Gates wrote in behalf of mem
bers of the excursion party as well
as the Seattle Chamber.
He said that the Seattle Cham
ber is looking forward to spon
soring a tour to Alaska every two
years and that on the next trip
arrangements will be made to
spend more time in Seward. The
Seattleites who made the last ex
cursion trip were most enthusias
tic about it and Mr. Gates felt cer
tain that contacts were made which
will prove mutually helpful.
J- J. Underwood, manager of the
Seattle Chamber of Commerces of
fice in Washington, D. C.. and a
former Alaskan, had just arrived
in Seattle, and Seattle Chamber
men were to submit to him the
matters wrhich Alaskans are parti
cularly interested in with a view
to placing an Alaskan program be
fore the Washington state delega
tion in Congress.
In closing the letter Mr. Gates
stated, as he told the Members’ j
Council, in an address, that “Ij
sincerely hope our recent tour will
be the beginning of a better under
standing and knowledge of Alas
ka. We sincerely desire to do every-!
thing we can to assist the Terri-!
tory and will keep it up as hard
as we know how.”
BASEBALL SCORES
NATIONAL IfAGUE
Brooklyn 0, Cincinnati 1.
New York 5, Pittsburgh 6.
Philadelphia 1, Chicago 10.
Boston 3, St. Louis 2.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Chicago 0, Boston 5.
Cleveland 3, New York 1.
St. Louis 5, Philadelphia 6.
Detroit 1, Washington 0.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Portland 5, Missions 2.
Los Angeles 6, Oakland 8.
TO BE DRY
SACRAMENTO, July 21. — For
two more years part of Berkeley
,will have to remain the one dry
spot in an otherwise wet California.
The Senate judiciary committee
yesterday killed a bill which would
have permitted the sale of 3.2 beer
within the one-mile limit of the
University of California.
DRY LAW BE OUT
BY CHRISTMAS
WASHINGTON, July 21. —Presi
dent Roosevelt believes that the
Eighteenth Amendment will be re
pealed before Christmas, Postmas
ter General Farley said today after
a White House conference.
Farley reported on his trip thru
the southern states in behalf rof re
peal and said that the country is
safe for repeal. Farley added that
President Roosevelt agrees with
him.
TO BE A CROONER
LOS ANGELES, July 21. —David
Hutton forgot about his plans to
divorce Aimee Semple McPherson
for the time being to concentrate
on his debut as a stage crooner
at Long Beach.
AMERICANS ARE
FAVORED TO WIN
AUTIUEL, France, July 21. —
The American tennis team was in
stalled as a slight betting favorite
to beat the British and gain the
,right to meet France in he chal
lenge round for the Davis Cup.
There was, however, little betting
on the outcome of the three-day
meeting which starts today, as most
Americans here regard it as an
even money proposition.
French and British enthusiasts,
however, feel that the Americans
should be seven to five favorites.
So most of the friendly bets are
made cn the outcome of the dif
ferent matches.
SATHER IN PORT
Capt. Pete Sather, of the Nuka
Bay Transportation Company, brot
his sturdy craft, the Rolfh III, in
to port at midnight last night and
left again this morning for the
Sather fox island and the Nuka Bay
Quartz camp. Capt. Sather brought
Dr. Frederick G. Nichols and son
Bud and Cal M. Brosius into the
city. Gaylorde Skinner. Nuka Bay
Quartz operator, left with Sather
for the Nuka Bay camp. The Rolfh
will return to Seward on July 30.
Shirley Lindsey, young daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Lindsey, re
turned to Seward on Thursday’s
train from a brief visit in Anch
orage.
SEEKS FURTHER
WAGE INCREASES
WASHINGTON, July 21. — Al
though still somewhat indisposed
from his week-end cherry feast,
President Roosevelt welcomed Gen
eral Italo Balbo and his officers at
a White House luncheon yesterday.
Besides the luncheon Mr. Roose
velt worked on details to hurry up
the National Industry Recovery As
sociation’s plans to include the so
called “white-collar” workers in
the new deal for higher wages and
a shorter work week.
The five navy destroyers arriv
ed in Ketchikan yesterday on the
first stop of their cruise into Al
askan waters.
WOODLEY LOST
HIS AIRPLANE
IN HEAVY SURF
Word was flashed out of the Bris
tol Bay region yesterday by ama
teur radio that Pilot Art Woodley
and his party of five passengers,
who had been missing since last
I Sunday when they left Egegik on
a proposed a i r plane sightseeing
trip to Aniakchak crater, walked
into Egegik Thursday and all were
safe.
Pilot Woodley reported that they
had been forced to abandon his
j airplane in the heavy surf of the
Bering Sea about 18 miles North of
Port Heiden. Port Heiden is about
100 miles South from Egegik and is
! on the West side of the famed Ani
akchak crater that the party was
to visit. It is thought that one of
the sudden Bering Sea squalls or
other bad weather conditions forc
ed Pilot Woodley to set his plane
down.
When no word was heard from
the aviator and his party for sev
eral days, plans for an aerial hunt
were being made. However, even
though no word was heard for some
time, it was not feared that the
party was in dire distress as there
are many places were they would
be one or two days’ walk from es
tablished communication systems,
cf the Bristol Bay region on the
Pilot Woodley has informed lo
cal persons that he will come out
MS. Polar Bear, which is in the
area at the present time.
FANS STILL INTERESTED
NEW YORK. July 21. —Major
league baseball is making a suc
cessful fight to hold the interest
of the fans despite increasing com
petition of golf, football, and
other games, a press survey dis
closed. This estimate is based on
figures because major league club
leaders generally maintain some re
ticence about such things.
Mrs. Homer Boe, of Hope, came
into Seward last evening on the
train for a brief visit.
IRISH FIGHTERS ARRIVE
CHICAGO. July 21. —The ama
teur boxing champions of Ireland
arrived in the Fair City for their
International bouts with the Chi
cago Golden Glove champions in
Soldiers’ Field on August 2. The
Irish boxers were officially greet
ed by Mayor Kelly at the City Hall
after a parade through the streets.
DREDGE BEING
BUILT SEATTLE
ALASKA MINE
The Washington Iron Works of
Seattle is constructing a dredge for
the Walkers Fork Gold Corpora
tion, to be installed on Walkers
Fork of the Forty Mile River in
| Alaska. This will be a combination
screen and flume dredge with a
daily capacity of about 3,000 cubic
yards.
The Walkers Fork Company has
been under production for the past
five years with a small scraping
plant, and is now taking advant
age of the low costs of machinery,
etc., to install a good mo dern
dredge. This company has purchas
1 ed more than $10,000 worth of sup
plies and tools annually in Seat
tle and also purchased its large
hydraulic plant and is now get
ting its dredge and approximately
$250,000 worth of additional mach
inery and supplies in that city, ac
cording to the Seattle Times.
DANCE TONIGHT I. 0. 0. F. HALL