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VOLUME XVI. NUMBER 178. SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, AUGUST 3,1931. PRICE TEN CENTS
RUSSIAN VESSEL IS
CRUSHED (RCTIC ICE;
mi 81 WIRELESS
POINT BARROW, Alaska, Aug. 3.
<;p)—The Signal Corps received* an
appeal for the aid of the Russian
ship Tschoucotaka, crushed in the
ice off the Siberian Coast across
from Point Hope.
One member of the crew has been
lost but the others are reported
safe.
The Cutter Northland, carrying
Colonel Lindbergh’s gas, is a few
miles south of Wainwrignt and has
been ordered to proceed to the edge
of the ice pack and land supplies.
Point Barrow is ice-locsed
HEAVY DAMAGE CROPS
DENVER, Aug. 3. (/P>—Hail and
rainstorms caused heavy damage
to crops and the cities in the Rocky
Mountain region and other towns
Butte, Montana; Nogales, New Mex
ico; Lander, Wyoming; and other
points were flooded and several
deaths occurred. The rains quench
ed the forest fires in Montana and
Idaho.
GERMAN DELEGATES
AT BANKERS MEET
BERLIN, Aug. 3. f/P> — Germany’s
representatives, who will take part
in bankers’ discussions, recom
mended by the London Conference
to work out methods of sustaining
the Reich’s foreign credits, start
ed the task of assembling data for
the impending negotiations.
The German delegates are Herr
schmidt, managing director of the
German dye trust, and Carl Mel
choir, who attended the 1929 Young
conference.
PANGBORN, HERNDON
23 HOURS BEHIND
TOKYO, Aug. 3. (&)—Pangborn
and Hernhon arrived at Khaba
rovsk, Siberia, at 3:50 p. m., 10:50
p. m., Pacific Time, on a 1,200
mile flight from Chita through
heavy rain.
They left Chita at 5:30 p. m.
6:50 a. m., Pacific Time, and were
22 hours and 58 minutes behind
Post and Gatty at Khabarovsk but
the latter were mired in mud and
spent 26 V2 hours there.
The next stop will be in Alaska.
POSTPONEMENT OF
ARMS CONFERENCE
GENEVA, Aug. 3. (/P) — Postpone
rnent of the world Arms Conference
scheduled for February was con
sidered in League of Nation’s
quarters.
Doubt was expressed that the
conference would be a success earlj
in 1932. The German financial cris
is and the danger of the rest oi
Europe may be involved in a ser
ious economic struggle were re
garded as sufficient reason to post
pone the conference.
ARRIVE AND DEPART
MOSCOW, Aug. 3. (JP) — Pang
gorn and Herndon arrived at Omsk
at 2 p. m. Pacific Time and took
off for Chita three hours and 15
minutes later.
PUNE FORT NORTH IT
FIR REFUELS
MID STURTS TOKYO
FAIRBANKS, Aug. 3. (/P)—With
in 50 minutes after their appear
ance over Fairbanks, the first re
j fueling contact was completed and
the refueler returned to the ground
to fill its tanks of 700 gallon ca
pacity.
The two ships slowed down to
80 miles an hour for refueling,
then the “Fort Worth” proceeded
westward to be followed shortly
by the refueler. ,
Weather reports exchanged
showed rain at Nome and fair
weather at Unalakleet. It was be
lieved the fliers would take a
southern route.
The “Fort Worth” was followed
by the refueler which proceeded
toward Unalakleet because of get
iter weather than at Nome.
Mattern said one or more con
tacts will be made between here
and Unalakleet; they will trans
fer another 200 gallons then be
fore returning to Unalakleet where
the refueler will transfer the rest
| of its load.
The Seattle Weather Bureau said
indications were that the fliers
would have a tailwind much of the
way down the Siberian coast, also
j along the Kuriles Islands and well
' towards Tokyo.
AMY AT IRKUTSK
MOSCOW, Aug. 3. (JP) —Amy
Johnson, British aviatrix, arrived
at Irkutsk for an overnight stop.
PLANNED HOP SUNDAY
SEATTLE, Aug. 3, (JP)—Robbins
and Jones announced Saturday
they would take off Sunday at six
a.m. Pacific Standard Time,
weather permitting.
POSITION GIVEN
CHICAGO, Aug. 3. (JP) — a radio
I message from the Lindberghs, at
j 12.18 p. m. Central Time, Saturday,
I gave their position as 15 miles to
| the Northeast of Lake Expand.
CITY COMBER FOR
MNCSTER KILLERS
I
i NEW YORK, Aug. 3. (A1)—Scores
of police and detectives combed the
upper East Side, where gangsters
fatally wounded Michael Vengali,
five years of age, and injured four
other children, two of whom may
die.
The net result was one arrest, but
the prisoner was finally released
for lack of evidence. The gangsters
shot the children accidently while
sweeping a sidewalk with machine
gun fire intending to “get” another
victim of their own breed.
TAKE THE AIR
SEATTLE Aug. 3, (JP)—Robbins
and Jones took off at 7:02 Sunday
morning flying inland to Fair
banks for Nome. They expect to
reach Fairbanks in 11 or 12 hours.
TWO MILLION TONS IN EXCESS
OF THE AVERAGE CON
i SUMPTION
i
| NEW YORK, Aug. 3. (/P>— Offi
cers of the American Paper and
Pulp Association on Sunday sent
a letter to President Hoover, urg
ing him to take executive action
and halt pending negotiations for
the sale of National Forest timber
in Alaska for conversion into news
print.
The letter urged that pending
negogiations be dropped and that
no other offers of Alaskan or other
| National Forest timber entailing
pulp and mill construction be made
until “need arises which does not
now exist.”
The association said the sale of
pulp wood would thrust an un
wanted production upon an over
expended industry which would
not help consumers of news print
jin price or service,
j The association said a survey
I showed the present supplies of
pulp wood are ample <and that the
continental news print industry in
the United States, Canada and
Newfoundland are now equipped
to produce 2,000,000 tons in excess
of the average consumption over
the past five years.
SATURDAY’S GAMES
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
j Missions 4, Portland 15; firsl
i game.
j Mission 6. Portland 2; seconc
| game.
Hollywood 17, Seattle 4.
| Sacramento 13, Los Angeles 0.
Oakland 6, San Francisco 12.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Cleveland 5, St. Louis 7.
[ New York 2, Boston 9.
Chicago 6, Detroit 0.
Philadelphia 1, Washington 2.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
St. Louis 2, Chicago 3.
Boston 0, New York 2.
Cincinnati 0, Pittsburgh 1.
Brooklyn 8, Philadelphia 4.
SUNDAY’S GAMES
AMERICAN
Cleveland 9-11, St. Louis 7-9.
New York 4-0, Boston 1-1.
Chicago 4, Detroit 8.
Philadelphia 6, Washington 10.
NATIONAL
Philadelphia *5-5, Brooklyn 2-7.
Pittsburgh 3, Cincinnati 0.
Boston 2-2, New York 4-6.
St. Louis 6, Chicago 2.
PACIFIC COAST
’ Sacramento 5-1, Los Angeles 6-12
\ Oakland 4-4, San Francisco 6-2.
j Hollywood 1-0, Seattle 0-5; first
I game 10 innings.
I Missions 8-1, Portland 5-8.
REGULATE GAMBLING
MEXICO CITY, Aug. 3. (£>)— A
proposal for regulating gambling
throughout Mexico has been eub
mitted to the Interior Department
by Rodolfo Losada of Sinaloa. The
plan would suppress the present il
licit gambling house and put the
regular casinos under govenin*ent
supervision.
ENGLAND’S FLYING GIRL
MOSCOW, Aug. 3. (^P)—Amy
Johnson, flying from England to
Tokyo, took off from Chita at
11:30 p. m., 9:30 p. m., Pacific
Time.
PLOT TO OVERTHROW
PROVISO GOVERNMENT
URlfGUOT IS EXPOSED
BUENOS AIRES, Aug. 3. (/P) —
Charges that rebel Argentines in
Uruguay were plotting to over
throw the provisional government
of President Jose Uriburu are made
in an official police statement.
A secret meeting was held in^
July 14 at Llavallaja, Uruguay, the;
police charged.
The meeting was held for the
purpose of “bringing to an end the
provisional government by any,
means possible, even violence.”
According to police, the session1
was devoted to speeches against
the present regime and prating |
former presidents, Hipolito, Irigo-i
yen and Marcelot’ de Alevar.
BOUND FOR CHURCHILL
MOOSE FACTORY, Aug. 3, (/P)— |
Lindberghs arrived here at two pm. j
Saturday and took off at 10 a.m. J
Sunday .fo^ Churchill. They ex-j
pect te refuel at Churchill and |
doubted if they would stay all
; night. They said they were unable
j to reach anyone by radio.
1 ^ '
THE LINDBERGHS
j CHURCHILL, Manitoba, Aug. 3.
UP)—The Lindberghs arrived at
6:50 p. m., Eastern Time, 750 miles i
from Moose Factory. The plane’s j
next stop will be at Baker Lake, j
nearly 300 miles due north of j
Hunter Bay on Great Bear Lake, j
thence to Fort Norman, down the !
MacKenzie to Aklavik.
AUTONOMOUS STATEHOOD
BARCELONA, Aug. 3. {fP)—The
i province of Catalonia cast an over
whelming vote in favor of autono
mous statehood within the Re
public of Spain. It is estimated
200,000 of the 580,000 voters fav
ored autonomy. The statue must
be ratified at the national assem
bly at Madrid.
BESIGNITION POVES
■UJMIWEO
WASHINGTON, Aug. 3. (/Pi
Henry Fletcher’s plan to resign as
chairman of the tariff commission
was hailed by administration sup
porters as paving the way for ap
pointment of a low tariff sympath
izer in an effort to check dissen
tion among influential circles who
blame the Hawley-Smoot rates for
aggravating the present depression.
Under the administration of Flet
cher, a Pennsylvania conservative,
the"CommisioTThas'made compara
tively few downward revisions of
rates as was promised by the presi
dent when he signed the bill.
GREAT GOLD VIEN
NOGALES, Mexico, Aug. 3. (IP) —
A vien of gold assaying approxi
mately $100,165 to the ton has been
found in the victoria mine in the
Altar district of Sonora, it was re
ported here.
NICK COMMISSI
DISCOVERS POLICE
FORCES IRE CORRUPT
WASHINGTON, Aug. 3. (JF) —The
Wickersham C o m m i ssion in a
blanket indictment said the police
forces of the country are a “general
failure,” in its eighth report to Pre
sident Hoover.
The report said,' with few ex
ceptions, that the forces are shot
through with graft and incompe
tence and are often under the con
trol of dishonest politicians.
Major criminals are known by
police but are allowed to continue
their careers.
Only one member of the Com
mission, Monte Lehman, New Or
leans attorney failed to sign the
report. There was no explanation
and no individual report by him.
The report said Milwaukee city
was free of crime but cited Indian
apolis where the mayor appointed
his tailor to be chief of police be
cause he was a good tailor. The re
port said Los Angeles and San
Francisco have been controlled by
gamblers and said that in Detroit,
gamblers who were driven out, re
taliated by ousting the commission
er and that elected officials fre
quently betrayed Chicago.
CONVICTED OF SMC
■WETS LIFE
EAGLE RIVER, Wis., Aug. 3. </P)
—George “Jiggs” Perry was con
victed of the slaying of Cora Bell
Hackett, one of the seven women
he married bigamously.
He was captured when San
Francisco policemen arrested him
on a minor traffic charge and rec
ognized him as the man sought
in several Middle West States.
TENNIS CRIMP ROEG
LEIDS IN SEMI-FINIL
SEABRIGHT, N. J., Aug. 3. (A*)—
John Doeg, National champion from
Newark, N. J. led the field into the
semi-final round of the nun's
singles in the forty-fourth annual
Seabright Invitation Tournament.
The champion, slow to round into
form this season, had to travel three
sets, to conquer the slightly built
Atlantan, Bryant Grant Jr., drop
ping the first set and trailing fn
the second before he became arous
ed sufficiently to pound out a vic
tory at 2-6, 7-5,6-2.
PRINCIPIE SYSTEMS
SHOULD COMBINE MHO
MEXICO CITY, Aug. 3. (£>)—Dr..
Charles H. Mayo, of the Mayo
Clinic at Rochester, Minn., speak
ing before the Pan-American Med
ical Congress here, urged the adop
tion of a cosmopolitan medical
system.
He declared there are three
principal systems of medicine,
British, Latin and Teutonic, which
should combine for the benefit of
all concerned.