MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 149.
SEWARD, ALASKA. THURSDAY, JUNE 27 1929.
PRICE TEN CENTS
delegates are suspicious
AS TO GERMANY’S ABILITY
TO PAY
WASHINGTON, June 26, (/P) In
n conversation between President
Hoover Owen D. Young, J. P. Mor
gan and other government officials,
Mr. Morgan stressed the fact that
it was desirable to have American
citizens represented in the direc
torate cf the international bank of
settlements, which is to be set up
under the Young plan as a clear
ance house for handling the repar
ations payments to be made by
Germany,
However, the government of
ficials expressed the feeling that
difficulties stand in the way of
such an American participation,
for in the first place when Con
gress is asked to approve Ameri
can payments to the interna
tionaal bank. The plan will
have to be opened for general leg
islature debate and much delay and
opposition will result.
Then, again, the United States
would be compelled to make separ
ate reparations agreement with
Germany, which also must be sub
mitted to congress with the possi
bility of a defeat.
Messrs. Young and Morgan are
suspicious over Germany’s ability
to pay and contend the rep
arations settlement will stabilize
Europe to such an extent that
America export trade will be bene
fited and the farmers helped out
greatly.
OF EVERY CITY
IS MW SOW
EACH IMPORTANT AMERICAN
CITY SHOULD BE GUARDED,
AIR ATTACK
WASHINGTON, June 26, (IP)—
Fortification of every important
American city against the possibili
V of an air attack in war time haj
-~en recommended to Secretary ol
War Good in an armament pro
gram suggested by the Genera
Staff of tjie Army.
The army will ask for $13,000,00(
to begin the project which is ex
pected to take five years. Recom
mendation of the step by expert:
follows 10 years experimentatior
with aircraft guns which has satis
fied them that the new weapon:
will reduce the airplanes effective
ness to one-fifth of its world wa:
standard.
A highly developed three-incl
cun is said to be the deadly weapoi
to be used in the new air defense.
HAS DISAPPEARED
NEW YORK, June 27,. (/P)—Rob
crt Doughty, son of a prominent at
Wrney, has disappeared and it i
Relieved he has committed suicide
“ANOTHER GOETHALS”
WASHINGTON. June 27, (IP)—
President Hoover is reported to be
seeking “another Goethals” to head
army engineers and take over the
task of making the Mississippi Val
iev flood proof.
8200,000.000 SURPLUS
WASHINGTON, June 27, (IP)—
With the income tax payments al
ready above $500,000,000, the bud- j
get surplus of at least $200,000,000 j
was forecast, by the experts of the
treasury denartment.
PILOT AiOUNCES
PLAN TO BREAK
EXPECTS TO FLY AROUND THE
WORLD IN FIVE AND
ONE-HALF DAYS
BALTIMORE, June 26. UP) —
Alfred D- Hulse, who described
himself as a lieutenant in the of- J
ficers Reserve Corps, left today,
jin a plane for Detroit after out
lining plan's for a projected I
round-world and non-stop re-,
fueling flight.
He said that the flight will be1
made from the West to the East
in a five and one-half ton mono
plane, starting from Roosevelt
Field.
The first hop will be to Nova
Scotia then across the Atlantic
to Hamburg, thence to Novogood,
Russia, thence to Nome and next
to Seattle.
He expects to complete the air
trip in five and one-half days,
making 22 refueling contacts. Five
men are to constitute the crew,
he said, and the flight is backed
by Ray Morley of Nogales, Ariz.
He did not say when the pro
posed flight would begin.
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DES MOINES, June 26, (/P)—
rhree of the bandits who robbed
the Gilmore City Exchange Bank
of $5,000 after holding H. S
Van Alstine, one of the owners,
and his family prisoners over
night on May 12, are the men
who have been sentenced to pris
on for the kidnapping of W. B.
Kinne, Lieutenant Governor of
Idaho.
H. V. Yackey, state agent, said j
the men are August Becker,!
Donald Melavin and Roy Salmon j
all former residents of Iowa and
that iden* ^cation was made
from fir | S^JLint records.
MARTIN fe
GFF AGAIN TRYiNG
ROOSEVELT FIELD, N. Y„ June
?7. —Martin Jensen took-off at
r32 p m. eastern time in a new
attempt to set a refueling endur
ance flight record in a monoplane,
Thiee Musketeers”.
With Jensen was his wife Mrs.
Margaret Jensen and William Ei
brich, who accompanied * Jensen
and II. B. Clarke on two previous
at temps to. set a new refueling re
cord.
They will use the same plane but
ave abandoned the catapult re
fueling device as unsatisfactory
and will use the auxiliary plane for
efueling.
THROUGH FIRST ROUND
WIMBLETON, June 27, (/P)—All
American Davis Cup players came
hru their first round matches in
he Wimbleton Lawn Tennis
‘hampionships. Tilden defeated
tfiki of Japan, Lott bested Duplaix
>f France. Hennessey conquered
Malcolm of South Africa, Coen sub
lued Wright of Canada and Alli
Y>n vanquished Chandler of Great
3ritain.
LOTS OF BUNKUM
SPILLED JUNEAU
REGARDING SAFE
COURT ACTION AGAINST PER
SON WHO TALKED; PUB
LISHERS BE SUED
OLYMPIA, June 27. iff)—Some- j
one talked out of turn, at least I
that was the claim made in Olym- i
pia today concerning the trea-;
sure of $600,000 which is sup
posed to be lying on the bottom
of the ocean in the steamship
Islander, which sank 28 years ago
off the coast of southeastern Alas
ka.
E. F. Wiley, of Olympia, who has
been in Juneau looking over the
situation with intentions of recov
ering the safe, has been guarding
big story of his activities well for
several months for some unexplain
ed reason.
Someone talked in Juneau at the
shops where diving apparatus is
made. When every one was silent
on the subject it was implied by
those close to Wiley that court ac
tion was being sought against the
person in Juneau who talked and
the publishers who used the story.
“Yes, someone talked, but the
publishers will be sued if any furth
er accounts of activities are pub
lished”, they said.
THOUSANDS CARS WESTWARD AS WHEAT CROP OF 1929 RIPENS.
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Storage elevators surrounded by carloads of wheat
(left) soon will be familiar sights in the wheat country.
Right, loading a car with newly harvested grain.
REDUCTION TALK
< AVAL QUESTION IS BEING
THRASHED OUT IN BRITISH
PARLIAMENT
LONDON, June 26, UP)—Another
important step towards the re
sumption of discussions between
the United States and Great Brit
ain looking toward naval reduct
duction was taken when Premier
McDonald conferred with Ambas
sadors Gibson and Dawes of the
United States.
After a series of conversations,
xhe Premier announced that they
had talked over the naval question
and that he hoped to be in a posi
tion snon to make a definite an
nouncement of how the negotia
tions for naval disarmament are
going. Previous to talking with
Britain’s premier, the two Ameri
can Ambassadors held a private
conference with the American Em
be ssy.
The new British parliament held
its first session. One of the first
acts of the Labor government was
to cable all dominions of Great
Britain to resume diplomatic rela
tions with Soviet Russia in the near
*uture. The approval of this ac
tion by the remainder of the empire
is now being sought. Relations be
tween Great Britain and Soviet
I Russia were severed in May of tne
|the year 1927.
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DAWES, GIBSON
STUDY METHODS
BP APPROACH
DISCUSSIONS CONSIDERED OF
GREATEST VALUE, AM
BASSADOR ADMITS
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LONDON, June 27, (IF)—. Ambas
sadors Dawes and Gibson discussed
i methods of approach of the naval
disarmament problem with Premier
Ramsay MacDonald Tuesday but
no definite form was reached, Am
bassador Dawes annouced to
the press.
Announcements regarding the
procedure attacking the naval
problems must be made to those in
authority in the countries concern
ed but not by the Ambassadors who
act as agents.
Ambassador Dawes said the dis
cussions were considered of the
greatest value because of Gibson’s
intimate knowledge of the question.
FISHING IN CLOSED PERIOD
KODIAK, June 27, —(Special to
the (Gateway)—David R. Potter
and J. H. April, fishing for the
Crosby Fisheries in Uganik Bay,
during the weekly closing period,
were arrested by H. H. Hungerford,
fish warden. They entered the plea
of guilty and were each fined $250
by the commissioner here today.
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