VOLUME XXVIII. NUMBER 180.
SE WARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3,1932.
PRICE TEN CENTS
SECURE IN OUTLET TO
SEN, PHUT HR
LA PAZ, Bolivia, Aug., 3, —Bolivia
flatly declared her determination
to win an outlet to the sea on the
banks of the Paraguay river, in a
message rejecting, in effect, the
latest peace plea of the neutrals (
at Washington. j
The landlocked nation which has j
long been frustrated in her strug
gle for a seaport on either the west
or east coast of South America,
said it was determined to press for
final solution of the Gran Chaco
dispute with Paraguay even if arm
ed force is necessary.
The note continued ‘,we are not
interested in investigations which
do not define the fundamental
question. Bolivia desires a final so
lution of the dispute and does not
want to be forever on guard against
Paraguan advances in the Chaco.
For this reason, this country is re
acting with all forces to solve the
dispute, even by force of arms. We
are defending territory which is
ours. Historically we have a right
to a bank on the River Paraguay.”
FORSIGHTEDNESS?
TOPEKA, Kas., Aug., 3, —The|
Governor of Kansas has completed,
the appointment of a commission
to make a study of the condition
that Kansas will be in this com
ing winter with respect to unem
ployment
SEWED HEART CASING
VANCOUVER, B. C , Aug., 3, (JP)
—Sewing up a casing of a boy’s
heart. Dr. J. H. McDermont and Dr.
J. E. Seldon accomplished the only
operation of its kind ever perform
ed in Canada. The operation has
been performed only once in the
United States.
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MOflF. POLITIC!!. RIOTS
BERLIN, Aug., 3, (/Pi—Rioting
guns and knives flared anew and
three men are dead and several in
jured when, at Koenigsberg, com
munists retaliated the attacks by
nationalist socialists by firing a
volley into a Nazis meeting.
One was killed, four slabbed, or
shot, during the following riot.
A socialist-labor and father of!
10 children was killed at Zei- j
brucken- Police arrested 200 arm
ed Nazis storm troops.
Windows in the Hungarian con-.
sulate at Frankfurt au Main were j
smashed.
SARATOGA Springs, N. Y., Aug.,|
3. —William Woodward’s “Belair j
Stud,” carried off major honors in
the Saratoga handicap and flash
stakes, twin features of the initial
program of the Saratoga racing
associations 30-day summer meet
“Faireno,” winner of the Bel
mont, Shevlin and Dwyer stakes,
won the Saratoga handicap in rol
licking fashion. He opened up a
wide lead early and never relin
quished command, flashing past
the final marker two and a half,
lengths in advance of Joseph E.
Winener’s “Pari Mutuel.” The lat
ter was under a drive to beat “Roc
ky News” by less than a length for
the place award.
WILLING TO JOIN
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug., 3, (&)
_The United States is willing to
join the world economic conclave
that will ignore debts and tariff
rates but the way is left open to
the possibility of debt discussions
with individual nations. The Amer
ican note, accepting the League of
Nations’ invitation was delivered
by Senator Borah with the sugges
tion that debts and reparations be
considered along with disarma
ment passed up.
RATIFY AMENDMENT
HARRISBURG, Pa., Aug., 3, —
The Pennsylvania State Legislature
Tuesday completed action on the
“Lame Duck” resolution by rati
fying the measure. Pennsylvania
is the 14th state to ratify the mea
sure which was recently passed by
Congress.
PERFORMDNCES STILL
BEINC MU OLYMPICS
LOS ANGELES, Aug., 3, (JP)—
Featured by the thrilling world
record for the 800 meters by Tom
Hampson of Great Britain, who was
clocked at one minute 49.8-10ths
seconds, another barrage of super
lative performances were made at
the Olympic Games.
Hampson, aged 24, a school
teacher, defeated Alex Genung, U.
of Washington star, and Ned Ed
wards and Charles Hornbostel, the
American entries who finished in
that order. The previous record was
one minute and 50.6-10ths seconds.
With eight men’s events com
pleted, the United States piled up
a total of 81 points, Ireland, second,
with 20; Canada 19, Finland 16,
Great Britain 13, Germany and Po
land 10 each; Sweden 8 and Japan
7.
TROOPERS ASKED OUELL
TROUBLE WITH MINERS
TERRA HAUTE, Ind., Aug., 3, —
Trouble between union and non
union coal miners flared out into
the open here Tuesday as the two
factions began firing lead at each
other.
The spasmodic burst of rifle fire
could be heard for many miles and
a number of persons have been in
jured. Deaths, so far, are unreport
ed.
An appeal has been made to the
Governor of Indiana for State
troops to come and quell the out
break.
YOUTHS VOLUNTEER
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug., 3, —
Twenty-five Bolivian youths in the
San Francisco bay district have
offered to volunteer in case of war
between Paraguay and Bolivia, H.
Pelarde, Bolivian consul, said. They
come from the University of Cali
fornia and other schools.
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WASHINGTON, D. C.; Aug., 3, —
The New Hampshire measure for
increasing employment by shorten
ing the working day and week was
presented to Secretary of Com
merce Lamont by a delegation of
New Englanders headed by Gover
nor Winant, at a preliminary meet
ing before the delegation discuss
ed the plan at the White House
with President Hoover.
Later, the visitors presented to
Secretary Doak the project for re
employing thousands of persons.
INVESTIGATE FIRE
NEW YORK, Aug., 3, —Officials
are trying to fix the cause for the
explosion and fire which occurred
in the Arthur Brisbane hotel here
which resulted in seven deaths and
many critically injured. The prop
erty damage was over $200,000.
POLICE EXONERATED
WASHINGTON, D. C-, Aug., 3, —
The policemen involved in the
shooting affray of last Thursday in
the raid upon veterans’ camps and
which resulted in two deaths, have
been completely exonerated by a
grand jury investigating the case.
The police did their duty and only
used their guns in self-defense,
was the jury’s verdict.
BEAT GRIFFITHS
CLEVELAND, Aug., 3, —Johnny
Risko, of Cleveland, won a 12
| round decision here over “Tuffy”
Griffiths, of Chicago.
RICHEST PUTI1M
FIND MIERICR THOUGHT
EXIST ROOD NEWS BIT
Exploration with a view to de
termining if the platinum depo
sits of Good News Bay are the re
sult of rock dis-integration and
the resultant placers, or if there
is a lode still existing at what is
believed to be the source of plati
num, is the plan of H. S. Graves,
Juneau business man, Pete Brevik,
an experienced miner, and Lars
Hylen, also experienced in mining.
The party has just arrived in
Seward from Good News Bay af
ter acquiring a large area of po
tential platinum ground. For the
most part the holdings are situat
ed upon creeks where tests have
shown commercial values to be
present.
It is estimated that approximate
ly 1100 ounces of platinum were
extracted in 1931 from a number
of creeks having their source in
’Red Mountain, which lies south of
the entrance to Good News Bay.
In addition to a quantity of the
precious metal—an ounce or more—
the party brought back one nug
get weighing several pennyweights,
and other prospectors returning by
the SS Starr exhibit coarse speci
mens of pure platinum.
According to Mr. Graves the bed
rock in the various creeks ranges
from five to eight feet in depth. To |
work the ground in the absence \
of a heavy flow of water, miners
are using the automatic gate or
“splasher,” impounded water a t
higher levels of the creeks.
The enriched creeks have their
genesis in Red Mountain, a 2,000
foot eminence, bounded on the!
west by Kuskokwim Bay and on
the east by a range of mountains
running south to Cape Newnham,
a southern extension of the Kil
buck mountains.
Red Mountain, according to data
available, is a big uplift of basaltic
rock intrusives which are inter
spersed with flows and volcanic
tufts, dunite, pyroxenite, peridotite, j
small sections of later or basic
rocks like diorite, granite and i
quartz diorite, the north side of j
the mountain having a large rem
nant of slates, ranging from in
durated to argillites. Other geolo
gic evidence, by which Messrs.
Graves and associates set store
is the weathered and disintegrated
serpentine, one of the constituents
of platinum, and with dunite, be
lieved to be its mattrix, or magna.
According to a description of
the region, supplied by Mr. Graves
and associates, the laydown of the
platinum placers has been through
oxidization and erosions rather
than by glacial action. It is for
this reason that prospecting was
directed to the higher reaches
above the creeks to discover if pos
sible, the source. Mr. Graves says
this has, in a measure, been ac
complished, and will carry the
prospecting further by driving in
to what he believes will prove to
be a deposit or ledge of platinum
bearing ore.
To date there has been no dis
covery of platinum in lode form
on the American continent, in com
mercial quantities. But it has
with structures such as character
ize the Good News Bay deposit, in
cluding gabbro, which comes from
the lower horizons of plutonic or
basic rocks.
Speaking of the country from a
prospecting standpoint, Mr. Graves
says that, due to the small area,
and the fact that all possible com
mercial deposits have been staked,
there is little room for others and
small chance of acquiring holdings.
“However, I believe this is one of
the richest platinum deposits yet
discovered in the wqrld,” said Mr.
Graves, “and next spring we
intend to do considerable explora
tion work to determine every ques
tion associated with both placer
operations and the possibility of a
lode being buried in Red Mountain.” j
“In addition to the five or more;
creeks showing values, there may
be possibilities in Salmon river, in
to which these creeks flow,” said
Mr. Graves. “I am informed that
one test hole was sunk by driving
JOHNSTOWN MAYOR IS
IN STHONG SYMPATHY
WITH B. E, F. MEMBERS
JOHNSTOWN, Pa., Aug., 3, —
Walter W. Waters, commanding the
Bonus Expeditionary force, in an
address to the thousands of cheer
ing refugees from Washington, D.
C., told them, “You have proved
to the world that you are men in
every respect. We don’t want a
bloody revolution and we must con
tinue to act like gentlemen.”
Mayor Eddie McCloskey, of the
city, and a former prize fighter
and tailor, also addressed the vet
erans; he said. “I don’t care for any
of these Jonhstown people who
don’t want you here; you are wel
come to stay. The situation,” the
Mayor continued, “is greater than
the Johnstown flood of 1889. I in
vited the staff of the B. E. F., here
and God sent you all. The Red
Cross law provides that relief
should be extended when an act
of God makes men destitute and
what is the condition here? Orders
to drive you from Washington came
from Andrew Mellon’s president.
The condition in the United States
is worse than in the time of the
Czar in Russia. If they force you
out of Johnstown and Somerset
county where the camp is located,
I will go with you. To Hell with
everything else.”
BUSINESS IMPROVING
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Aug., 3, (/P)
—Business, reports the Department
of Commerce, is looking up, citing
improved bond prices, increases in
commodity prices and the ending
of foreign gold withdrawals. Mar
ket liquidations, which contribut
ed to the improvement, increased
and July automobile, textile, ce
ment and tobacco industries gain
ed.
NEW YORK, Aug., 3. —Industri
als gained 0.68; rails off 0.40; util
ities 0.02.
The market was up 2 y2 points
shortly before closing but reacted
on news of several small bond de
faults. Commodities are unchang
ed.
Steel sentiment improved; Nat
ional City Bank views the outlook
with greater favor. Several new
bull pools believed to have been
formed during the latter part of
last week.
COMB HIS SPEECH
GUT SHORT ET 'BREST
JOHNSTOWN, Pa., Aug., 3, —
Mayor Eddie McClbskey and six
stalwart military police drafted
from the bonus army’s camp here,
took care of a communist speaker
who attempted to address a mass
meeting in the heart of Johns
town Tuesday.
George Hart, an organizer for the
International metal workers in
dustrial league, tried to tell a gath
ering of 10,000 people that they
were the down-trodden victims of
a capitalistic system. He had start
ed speaking when six of the bonus
army, deputized by Mayor Me Clos
key, dragged him from the plat
form and hustled him to the May
or’s office.
Capt. Arthur Ryning, of the SS
Starr, announces his vessel will
sail for the Westward and Bristol
Bay August 8. This voyage will be
the second to the last for the sea
son to Bristol Bay.
drill casing, but am not informed
of the result. This is a flat, tim
ber and boulder-free strip offering
splendid facilities for dredging. It
is approximately 30 feet to bed
rock and easily accessible from
water.”
While in Seward the party is reg
istered at the Hotel Van Gilder.
EVANS SAILS NORTH
The Admiral Evans, of the P. S.
S. Co., sailed from Seattle today
for Alaska with 90 passengers on
board of which seven are for Sew
ard, Mrs. May B. Gore, and six
steerage, the names of which were
not received.
ALASKA DIVER FOR GOLD
SENTENCED TC SERVE
10 YEARS AT MCNEIL’S
SEATTLE, Aug., 3, —A1 Wiley of
Olympia, who participated in a
robbery of the Seattle postoffice in
an effort to secure funds with
which to finance another gold div
ing expedition in Alaska, Monday
was sentenced to serve a prison
term of 10 years in the Federal pen
itentiary at McNeil’s Island.
Edgar A. Chitwood, former as
sistant postoffice clerk in the Seat
tle postoffice, and who assertedly
planned the robbery, was sentenced
to a term of 15 years.
Raymond, a brother of A1 Wiley,
was sentenced to three years for
having concealed stolen property
and Mrs. Ann Wiley, wife of Al,
was given a suspended sentence
for having helped to conceal stol
en property.
TrPHOID EPIDEMIC IS
SMDJOJE FEUDED
JOHNSTOWN, Pa., Aug., 3, —
An epidemic of typhoid fever and
other diseases is threatening the
camp of the bonus army here, with
20 men already hospitalized and
with authorities straining every
effort to obtain equipment and
medical supplies.
Conditions have reached such a
serious state that Dr. Charles Shaf
fer, medical director for Somerset
county and Mayor Eddie McClos
key, of Johnstown, chartered an
airplane for a flight to Harrisburg
where they were to confer with
Governor Pinchot.
WRITING ANOTHER BOOK
SEATTLE, Aug., 3. —Zane Grey*
noted author, and party, left here
Tuesday for Campbell river, B. C.,
where will spend several • days
on an outing. Campbell river is
the home of the Tyee salmon and
Author Grey plans to do consider
able fishing. Grey is writing a new
book and is using a Washington
state locale.
BONUS SEEKERS HALTED
AT CAPITAL’S BRUISES
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug., 3, —
About 50 bonus seekers were pre
vented from entering the capital
when they were stopped by police
guarding the bridges fading from
Virginia and were told they could
not enter the city.
The District of Columbia com
! missioners ordered the police to
prevent the bonus marchers re
turning. Meanwhile, at Johnstown,
the bonus expeditionary force was
bedded down in Central Park for
the night.
GRONAU AT CHICAGO
CHICAGO, Aug., 3, —Wolfgang
von Gronau, German trans-Atlan
tic flyer, set his seaplane down on
the waters of Lake Michigan on
Tuesday. He was greeted on his ar
rival by prominent officials of the
city and also by members of the
German-American Society.
BASEBALL SCORES
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Washington 4, Chicago 1.
St. Louis 6, Boston 4.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
New York 3, Cincinnati 2.
Brooklyn 4, Chicago 2.
Phillies 11, Pittsburgh 6.
Boston 4, St. Louis 3.
PACIFIC COAST
Missions 2, Seattle 1.
San Francisco 1, Oakland 2.
B. E. F. COMMANDER
ADVISES VETERANS TO
RETURN TO ROMES
JOHNSTOWN, Pa., Aug., 3, —
Governor Ritchie of Maryland,
spent Tuesday in conference with
the Attorney General in an effort
to find some cause for keeping the
veterans from establishing a per
manent camp in that state and to
keep them off property which they
purchased for the sum of one dol
lar.
As a result of this interview be
tween the state leaders a decision
was arrived at saying that for the
veterans to gather in such large
numbers as comprises the B. E. F.,
would be a violation of the state
sanitary law. The violation would
result because property where they
would set up a camp, is without the
sanitary means prescribed for any
large group of people.
Following this announcement by
Governor Ritchie, Commander W.
W. Waters, of the B. E. F., announc
ed the futility of their attempt to
establish camp in Maryland and
he advised the veterans to break
camp and return to their homes
until such a time as a real and
permanent organization can be
formed to carry out their demands,
i Meanwhile, at Johnstown, great
difficulty was found in supplying
the veterans with tents in during
their visit to that city.
DRAWS MORE FIRE
FRESNO, Calif., Aug., 3, (/P)—
i President Hoover’s executive or
der driving the bonus army out of
Washington, was assailed here by
B. W. Gearhart, prominent attor
ney and past commander of the
American Legion as “an attempt
by the President to establish a re
putation as a strong man at the
expense of starving American ex
service men.”
HTMTMni!l
SULKED BY DISASTER
HARBIN, Manchuria. Aug., 3, (JP)
—Twenty-one days of continuous
rains have converted North and
I Central Manchuria into a vast
lake which has brought national
disaster to tens of thousands of
I square miles.
Harvests have been destroyed,
enormous stocks of grain and soy
beans have been destroyed, and
farmers have lost their homes and
are flocking into the cities.
The damage is estimated at sev
eral hundred million in Mexican
dollars; there has been a consid
erable loss of life and of livestock.
The floods are unabating.
NEW YORK, Aug., 3, —The up
ward pace of the stock market
slackened as traders in increasing
numbers took advantage of the
heavy buying to realize on profits
accumulated in the past fortnight
by rising prices.
It was not until most of the lea
ders reached new height levels of
the recovery, however, that selling
became of sufficient importance to
check the upturn and even then
gains predominated at the close.
The only group to suffer much
from the selling was the railroad,
which had previously moved ahead
faster than the remainder of the
market.
ARMY MEN FOUND
HONOLULU, Aug., 3, —Weak
from hunger, four of the seven U.
S. army men, lost since Friday in
the wild Koolau mountains, emerg
ed safely yesterday. A carrier pig
eon, bleeding and exhausted, ar
rived at Schofield Barracks at
about the same time. The three
still in the mountains were located
later in the day by airplanes, which
dropped food.