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VOLUME XVI. NUMBER 186.
SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1931.
PRICE TEN CENTS
IVIUTOR RESCUED IT
SEA IS NOW FACING
TROUBLE ON LIND
NORFOLK, Virginia, Aug. 12. (JP) j
—Captain Lisandro Garay who
clung to his wrecked plane 36 hours j
20 miles off in the sea near here un- |
til rescued by the steamer Biboco, j
faced new troubles besides being'
broken, bruised, and cut and near 1
exhaustion. j
For not returning to his homeland |
during the revoultionary distur- ,
bances he faces prosecution and in
the United States he violated avia
tion rules by taking off on a non
stop flight from New York to Hon
duras.
EOISON EXPECTS LIVE
TEN YEARS MORE
—
WEST ORANGE, Aug. 11. (JP)—\
Buoyed up by the continued im- j
provement in his condition, Thomas j
A. Edison predicted that he would ■
live 10 more years, long enough to'
celebrate is 94th birthday.
Edison told his physician, Dr. H. S. j
Howe, he based his estimate on a
theory that, if a person lived to be
72, he would live 10 years longer,!
and that if he passed the 82 mark, i
he would have still another decade j
of life.
ALL-NEW STAFF TO ENTER I.
KENTUCKY STATE CAPITOL
FRANKFORT, Ky. Aug. 12 UP)— ,
Regardless of the outcome of the ,
November election, every official of
the Kentucky state capitol next ,
year will be new in office.
The democratic state convention
selected a ticket, headed by Cir
cuit Judge Ruby Laffoon, of Madi
sonville, for governor and no incum
bent was nominated on the ticket, f
1
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CAPETOWN, Aug. 11. (JP) — A de
mand from Europe for ostrich fea
thers for the latest millinery has
made South Africa ostrich farmers
happier than in many years.
There has been a jump of about
50 per cent in the market value of
plumes and prices at Port Elizabeth
are the highest in seven years.
DRY ICE IN 1930
“Dry ice” is an industry that for
ged ahead in 1930 despite the gen
eral business depression. The first
dry ice plant using natural Co2 was
contracted for in 1930 by the Con- j
tinental Oil Company to be erected ;
at the C02 well on the McCallum
dome regin of Colorado.
RERR.YLLIUM
The Berryllium Development Cor
poration of Cleveland, Ohio, had a i
daily production of from three to
five pounds of berryllium in 1930 ;
This was the only steady output in j
the United States. Beryl common
ly contains about five per cent ber
ryllium.
SS ADMIRAL EVANS SAILS
SEATTLE, Aug. 12. (£>)—'The SS
Admiral Evans, of the Pacific
Steamship Company, sailed at 10
o’clock this morning, carrying 24
passengers, of which Miss Ruth
Nye and two steerage passengers
are booked for Seward.
HEmWEIGHT SGWUF
WES ‘KID’ ns
; BOSTON. Aug. 12. (/P) — Ernie
i Schaaf of Boston knocked out
| Angus Snyder of Dodge City,
Kansas, in the fifth round of a
! scheduled 10-round bout in the
I Boston Garden Tuesday night.
' Snyder weighed 200 and Schaaf
208. Schaaf knocked Snyder down
three times in the fifth.
The referee stopped the fight
when Snyder was unable to scram
ble to his feet the third time.
Schaaf is regarded as a promising
heavyweight contender.
ENDING 100,000 MILE WALK
MILLEDGEVILLE, Aug. 11. (/P) —
The Rev. T. E. Farmer is planning
a trip to Egypt where he expects
to complete a 10,000 mile walking
jaunt. Farmer began his walking
in 1901, he says .when he got out
of college and found himself threat
ened with tuberculosis.
MISSOURI FLIERS ADOPT
WASHINGTON, Aug. 12. UP) —
Aviation has put goggles on the
Missouri mule.
An insignia approved by the Sec
retary of War for the 110th observa
tion squadron, Missouri national
guard represents the state by a
goggled mule head.
Observation is represented by a
pair of crossed telescopes.
fELEUPH BREVITIES
BRITISH FANS IN MILLIONS
LONDON, Aug. 12. (A*) — For the
first quarter of the present year 3,
326,186 radio receiving sets licenses
lad been issued.
FINS SMUGGLE RUM
[ HELSINGFORS, Aug. 11. (VP>—
i Smugglers running rum into pro
| hibition Finland are reported to be
forming a trust to regulate their
! activities. One group is said to have
| imported 265,000 gallons of contra
band into Finland this year.
FOUR YEAR’S VACATION
new YORK, Aug. 12. (/P) — Jack
;“Legs” Diamond was sentenced to
four years in the Atlanta peniten
tiary and fined $11,000. He was con
victed of the ownership of the
'Applejack still in Greene County,
| New York. It was the first time the
notorious gangster had ever been
convicted.
TRYOUT FOR FUTURE STARS
CHICAGO, Aug. 11. (A5) — A pro
gram called “Stars of Tomorrow”
is being broadcast regularly by sta
tion WENR, and embryo microphone
entertainers are given a chance
for a workout under actual broad
casting conditions. It is conducted
by Benson K. Pratt of the station’s
staff.
ALASKA AIRWAYS AGE
AND KATZ FLY IRE
ANCHORAGE BASE
Lighting upon Resurrection Bay
as softly and deftly as a falling
feather, then toddling up onto
the beach like a duck, an am
phibian plane of the Alaskan Air
ways, with Chief Pilot Matt A.
Nieminen at the controls, and
Karl K. Katz, manager of the
Anchorage base, as passenger,!
came out of the sun this morning !
for a brief visit.
And thereby, Mr. Katz kept a i
promise; that upon assuming his j
new duties, one of the first things <
he would do would be to pay this'
city an air-visit; and he did. He \
said: “It was one of my pleasures j
to make my first call here. My |
faith in Alaska aviation is such;
that I am willing to forego my 25
years of railroad transportation!
experience and devote my entire j
time to my new duties.”
Mrs. Katz and three children will j
arrive from Seattle in the very j
near future, he said, to make their j
home with him at Anchorage.
Of importance to Seward is the
announcement made by Mr. Katz
that Elwyn Swetmann, of the
Seward Drug Company, has been
appointed local representative. It
is the hope of the officials that
local business will be such that it;
will become necessary to base a
plane here permanently. With this |
in view, Katz and Nieminen, fol
lowing the arrival from the South
of the Admiral Watson, intended
| to make a trip of investigation of ■
the several lakes and other places
in this area, points where business ■
may be developed. The first of j
these flights will be to Cooper’s:
Landing and Russian River. The
Westward district will also be
flown, out of Seward, with this
purpose in mind.
A second important announce- !
ment is that Robert Ellis, pilot i
with the Alaska-Washington Air- j
ways, who has been based at Ju- I
neau since that organization was i
affected, will join the Alaskan *
Airways staff before or on Sep
tember 1, with Anchorage as his
base.
EH, BLUE HIDINGS
FORECAST TO EASE EYES
SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Aug. 12, (JP)
—Blue and green sidewalks and
buildings, to absorb light and pre
vent glare, were predicted by Dr. O.
J. Melvin of Omaha, Neb., speaker
before the American Optometric as
sociation here.
He believes some day architects
will specify green brick for struc
tures up to a height of about nine I
feet, and from that point upward— i
sky blue. i
INDIANS IN SUMMER POW-WOW
HOT SPRINGS, S. D., Aug. 12.(A>)
—Several thousand North American
Indians will gather here to discuss
progress of the suit whch the Sioux
nation has pending against the
federal government for alleged il
legal seizure of the Black Hills of
South Dakota.
The Wisconsin conservation de
partment has issued 2,0CQ non-resi
dent fishing licenses.
LINDBERGHS AT NOME
NOME, Aug. 12. (JP)—The Lind
berghs took off from Shismaref
at noon, Tuesday, Pacific Time,
for Nome. They spent the night
at a safe anchorage at Shismaref
and arrived here at 1:25 p. m.
Circling the city, they landed safe
ly in a bay 21 miles away.
HAVANA, Aug. 12. (£>)__ The
revolution swung to Havana where
the soldiers routed the rebels try
ing to blast the city reservoir at
Regia.
Others fled from the police after j
trying to fire Shell Oil Co., stor-!
age tank; 14 rebels were killed and ;
19 wounded in a series of engage-!
ments. The rebels claim they killed j
30 at Santa Clara.
BUYS CHICAGO PAPER
CHICAGO, Aug. 12. (#*) —Control
of the Chicago Daily News was pur-j
chased from the executors of thej
Walter A Strong estate by Frank |
Knox, publisher of the Manchester,!
New Hampshire Union Leader and '
Theodore T. Ellis, former publisher j
of the Worcester, Massachusetts, I
Telegram Gazette.
BAD LUCK MYTH HALTS
COIN CIRCULATION
LONDON, Aug. 11. (/P)—England
as two coins which are seldom seen
and not much wanted by super
stitious Britons.
The 5-shilling piece, or “crown,” j
and the 4-shilling piece are fast
disappearing from circulation and j
are no longer minted.
To the crown attaches a bad
luck myth like that owned by Am
erican $2 bills.
SUB OFF AGAIN
TROMSOE, Norway, August 12.
(JP)—The submarine Nautilus, of
Capt. Sir Hubert Wilkins proceeded
after its engine was repaired.
JONES AND HARE OLDTIMERS
NEW YORK, Aug. 12. (JP) — Billy
Jones and Ernie Hare will celebrate
their 10th anniversary as radio ar
tists this fall. They say they are
due for a party as a result.
CAR OF LUMBER
BATON ROUGE, La., Aug. 12. (JP)
—A cypress tree, probably 1,300
years old, cut on the Anite river
swamp, produced a carload of lum
ber, 16,175 board feet. The swamp
giant had a total length of 80 feet
and the stump diameter wasft 92
inches.
NON-STOP PIANO MARK
ROMA, Autralia, Aug. 12. (£>) —
Les Madison played the piano for
86 hours and 15 minutes, lost 13
pounds and set what he claims is a
world record. He played “in a
trance” the last night, with blocks
of ice applied to his back and
chest.
Railroads handled an average of
10.6 tons of freight last year for
every person in the United States.
null RESENTS
SOVIET THE III
CANBERRA, Australia, Aug. 11.
(/P)—Tariff reprisals against British
goods are being freely mentioned in
Australia as a result of Russian sales
in England.
A year ago such suggestions would
have been regarded as unpatrio
tic.
Russian business in England is
affecting Australian sales there and
protests have been made to the
British government. It is suggest
ed, for example, that Soviet but
ter will ruin the Australian dairy
men.
lUTOMITIC FISHFMIM 1
MAKES HIT IN«
GENOA, Aug. 11. (JP)— Izaak
Waltons of this seaport and fish
ing town are all agog over a new
labor saving gadget which rings a
bell, hoists a lighted lamp and gives
a strong jerk to the line when a
fish bites.
A demonstration by the inventor
was attended by officials of fisher
men's clubs, port authorities and
hundreds of spectators.
It was reported that a few fish
were present as well.
NEW ‘STREAMLINE’ TIE
AKRON, O. Aug. 11. (fP) — Air
plane tires have gone streamline.
Out of the search for ways of de
creasing air resistance of autos
and airplanes has come a new
parabolic type airplane tire, ex
hibited at the recent national air
show at Detroit.
The new “shoe” was developed to
be used with a new type wheel.
NIGS FIND DID KICK
LONDON, Aug. 11. (/P) —A drink,
rightfully styled chain lightning,
was discovered by horses.
Substantiating the old saw about
leading a horse to water without
making him drink, tradesmen here
were startled to see their horses
rear when they took a couple of
drinks out of a trough.
Investigation showed a high ten
sion cable had fallen into one end
of the trough, charging the water.
SULFHER ttJ 1930
The Texas sulphur production con
tinued to dominate the world trade
in 1930, but two intc rooting re
searches carried on during the year
indicate the pcxsibility of pyrites
again becoming the major reliance.
TWO LARGE MILLS
The letup in manufacturing caus
ing the low price of metals reduced
mining developments in 1930, but
two large mills in Canada—Inter
national Nickel and Hudson Bay
M. & S. at Flin Flon—commenced
aperating during the year.