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VOLUME XXVII. NUMBER 192. SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1931. PRICE TEN CENTS
TOKYO NEWER TO
GIVE MOYLE AND ALLEN
$2900 FOR COURAGE
TOKYO, Sept. 18. (/P)—The Rengo
News Agency says its investigation
revealed Maing Pilging, where Don
Moyle and Cecil Allen were set
ashore by a Soviet steamer, is a
fishing village on the Siberian
mainland and not ah island a3 pre
viously reported.
The village issouthwest of Cape
Navarin, which is almost directly
opposite Nome. Cape Navarin is
about 500 miles north of the
course selected by the fliers.
The Asahi, one of the Tokyo news
papers which put up $25,000 as a
prize for the Pacific flight, an
nounced that they would give the
fliers 5,000 yen, about $2500, for
their “courage and bravery.”
The St. Paul Naval radio station
reported that the Buriat is standing
by but the water is so rough that
they could not communicate with
the fliers.
The Buriat intends to put small
boats overside as soon as the storm
is over.
MIC MANIACS ESCAPE
FROM FRISCO HOSPITAL
SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 18. (£>)—
Two dangerous, raving maniacs
were loose Thursday in San Fran
cisco and police and other city
officials put on an intensive search
for them.
The maniacs. Jack Thompson,
charged with the murder of a prohi
agent in Louisiana, and Tommy
Lights, burglar, escaped from a
sanitarium wherein they had been
confined.
Dr. E. E. Waite, of the hospital
from which the escape was made,
believes that the maniacs had out
side help as Thompson was slightly
paralyzed and could not possibly
get away so rapidly from the hos
pital without being whisked away
in a waiting automobile.
CANAL PLANS DROPPED
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 18.
/P)—The administration’s plan for
construction of an inter-ocean
canal across Nicaragua has been
dropped for the time being, on ac
count of press of other economic
problems, it was authoritatively
stated.
COTTON HOLIDAY BILL
CHARLESTON, S. C., Sept. 18. (/P)
—A bill to prohibit the production
of cotton entirely in 1932 in South j
*> Carolina, passed the State Senate |
and went to the Assembly. Backers
declared it would become a law by
the end of the week. The cotton
holiday movement originated in
Louisiana and is designed to in
crease the cost of the staple.
WORK FOR MANY
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 18. (TP)—
Men out of work in California will
have an opportunity to secure work
for some time at least, according to
an announcement by the Los An
geles Employment Bureau, it re
ports that it has four months work
for 15,000 men and the first come
will be first served with jobs. The
work will be done in harvesting
crops in the Imperial Valley.
RESCUED AFTER YEAR, ARCTIC!
SYDNEY, N. S., Sept., 18, (JP)— '
[After near a year in the Arctic,
| the crew from a Scotish Trader
ifrom Peterhead, Scotland, landed
here Thursday aboard a Cana
dian relief ship. The trading ship
was wrecked at Baffin Land where
it went to trade with natives
The crew were rescued by Eskimos
and mounted police.
JHIIHIMMENT
SITUATION IS ACUTE
In a special telegram to the Sew
ard Gateway the Juneau Chamber
of Commerce says that the unem
ployment situation in Juneau is
extremely acute with a large num
ber of idle men and no work to be
had and no prospect of any.
The telegram requests that The
Gateway warn all men to stay away
from Juneau unless they have suf
ficient funds to carry them through
! the coming winter and to give the
above the widest possible publicity.
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LOUISVILLE, Sept.. 18, (ff)—
Marvin Hart died of high blood
pressure after nine months ill
ness.
Hart was born* September 16,
1876, in a farming community i
near Fern Creek, Ky. His parents
were of German stock. He at
tended the grade schools in Louis
ville and then learned the plumb
ing trade
Hart soon forgot his plumbing j
wrenches and took up boxing in!
earnest and he was heavyweight
champion of the world in the lean
pugilistic days following the re
tirement of Jim Jefferies and just
before the “White Hope” era that
finally produced Jess Willard and
Jack Dempsey.
He held the title eight months
and estimated that it netted him
only about $10,000.
“I was born 20 years too soon”,
he philosophized.
Hart married Miss Florence
Ziegler of the Fern Creek com
munity in September 1902. There
were no children.
WIDOW ARRESTED
NEWARK, N. J., Sept. 18. (/P)—
Mrs. Otto Ziegler, 36, widow of a
wealthy silk mill owner, who was
shot to death by one of his work
men as he returned home, was ar
rested and charged with conspiring
to have him slain.
10 NEW DESTROYERS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 18.
(/P)_The Navy Department received
bids for construction of 10 new de
stroyers to replace obsolete vessels
built during the war. Congress ap
propriated $10,000,000 for construc
tion of 11 such vessels allowed un
der the London Naval Treaty.
NO TRACE
NEW YORK, Sept-, 18, (/P)—Lat
est reports state that no trace has
been found of Wihelm Rody and
his two fellow fliers, who disap
peared on an attempted non-stop
flight from Lisbon to New York,
and that they had been given up
as lost
COOPERATIVE FUN IS ■
SUGGESTED ELIMINATE
JOBLESS SITUATION
NEW YORK, Sept. 18. (#’)—A co
operative management employee
plan which he said would help elim
inate unemployment, stabilize busi
ness and remove workers’ fear of
idleness, illness and old age, wasi
offered industry by George Swope, |
president of General Electric Com- j
pany, addressing the National Man
ufacturers Association.
Swope warned industry, it must
act to forestall legislation which
he says threatens the fundamental
structure of American business and
society.
UNDER1RLD
SOUGHT BV POLICE
DETROIT, Sept. 17. (/P)—Nine men
are being held for questioning as
police sought four underworld ex
ecutioners whose pistols ended the
reign of three liquor racketeers
against gangdom’s regulations. The
men killed were Joseph Lebord,
Isaac Sutkar and Herman Paul.
Their bullet riddled bodies were
found in an apartment house in a
quiet residential district where 15
pistol shots were heard, and from
where four men raced down a stair
way to a waiting automobile.
The assassins left their pistols in
a can of paint in the Apartment.
The paint obliterated finger prints.
SHRINKAGE OCCURS lit
HIRER LIQUOR KECS
SEATTLE, Sept. 17. (JP) — When
firemen were putting out the
flames caused by the explosion of
a big still at a house on Capitol
Hill here they qaw 67 10-gallon
kegs of liquor through the smoke.
When investigators went to the
house a few days after the fire they
they found only 18 kegs in the
house. They are now investigating
the shrinkage in number of kegs.
BASEBALL
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Oakland 2; Sacramento 5.
Missions 3; Hollywood 1.
Los Angeles 1; San Francisco 5
Portland at Seattle postponed
on account ofrain.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Boston 1-2; Pittsburgh 0-4.
New York 7; St. Louis 2.
Philadelphia 8; Cincinnati 3.
Brooklyn 3; Chicago 4.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
St. Louis 0-1; New York 17-6
Detroit 3; Washington 1.
Cleveland 2-2; Boston 9-1.
Chicago at Philadelphia post
poned on account of rain.
GANDHI WEARIES
LONDON, Sept. 18. (/P)—Mahatma
Gandhi, weary of waiting for Brit
ain to get down to cases on his pro- ;
posal for the restoration of peace- j
ful relation between India and j
Great Briatin, said today if they
did not consider his proposal at
once that he would take the first
boat and go back to India—loin
cloth, goats and all.
FORMER SENATOR DIES
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 18.
(A5)—John F. Nugget, 63, Democrat,
former Idaho Senator, died at his
home here of heart disease. He had
been ill for a short time. He was
Appointed to the Senate in 1918
and resigned in 1921 to become a
member of the Federal Trade Com
mission of which he was chairman
for one year. Since 1927 he prac
ticed law here.
CIS STITION OPERATOR
IS KILLER OF THREE
ATLANTA, Texas, Sept. 18. (/P)—
Three men, Hardy Luck, Bill Fish,
and Early Sullivan were shot to
death and a fourth, Bill Sullivan,
brother of Early Sullivan is not ex
pected to live.
They were shot by J. H. Boyd, 50,
a gasoline Station operator, who
said they lured him from his sta
tion and kidnapped him. His right
arm was shot off in the first at
tack. The cause of the attack was
not made clear.
VITIH IS HUT
FOR FIVE FUGITIVES
ITALIHN GOVERNMENT
VATICAN CITY, Rome, Sept., 18
(TP)—Five leaders of the Catholic
Action organization are voluntary
prisoners in the Vatican and do
not care to leave Vatican City be
cause of their participation in the
recent Italo-Vatican controversy.
One is Count Della Torre, editor
of the “Observatore Romano”, who
has not left the Vatican since the
dispute four months ago- A detec
tive stands outside the gate of his
editorial offices night and day to
arrest him as soon as he sets a
foot beyond the papal confines.
Torre is with Jesuit Father
Roasa, who is slated for dismissal
by the Pope as a concession to the
Italian government and as a rec
ognition of the settlement of the
controversy.
The other prisoner is an offi
cer of the Palatine Guards, v.ho,
it is said, furnished the Pope with
information for a speech against
the head of a Facist University
group.
HOP FROM NOME TO SEATTLE
ST- PAUL, Sept., 18, (JP)—Radios
received from Buriat said Moyle
and Allen planned to hop from
Miano Pilgino to Nome. The radio
also said the fliers will go from
Nome to Seattle, possibly in hops,
but did not say where the stops
enroute would be.
CIVIL WAR VET DIES
NEW YORK, Sept. 18. (/P)—Real
Admiral Eugene Henry Cozzens
Leutze, U. S. Naval hero of the
“Battle of Manila Bay,” and a vet
eran of the Civil War, died at the
age of 84. He was appointed to
the Naval Academy by President
Lincoln in 1863.
ANCHORAGE ENROLLMLENT
The total enrollment of pupils at
the Anchorage school is 352, with
the likelihood that additional reg- j
istrations will be made before the j
term is well under way. Of the ,
total, there are 277 in the grades’
and 75 in the high school, says the j
Anchorage Times.
TELEGRAPH GOMPAIY
PROTESTS TREATMENT
OF CUSTOMS OFFICIALS
NEW YORK, Sept., 18, (&)—
Clarence H. Mackay, chairman of
the Postal Telegraph Co., and his
bride, the former Anna Case,
opera singer, were detained for
two and one-half hours upon their
return home from their European
honeymoon trip, while Customs
officers made a rigid examination
of their 17 pieces of baggage
It was understood the unusual
preceeding was prompted by an
I anonymous tip received by Cus
toms men from abroad. No arti
cle which had not been declared
was found but Mackay was re
quired to pay more than $2200 in
duties at the pier.
The Telegraph Company's head
promptly put in a protest to the
Treasury Department at Wash
ington over the treatment accord
ed him and it was announced that
P. A.Ebe, commissioner of customs
would come to New York to inves
tigate the case in person.
BRITISH ATLINTIG FLEET
RETURN TO MANEUVERS
LONDON, Sept., 18, (/P)—Normal
conditions were returned to ships
of the British navy whose crews
protested the cut in wages, and
the vessels are now to return to
the North Sea where they are to
participate in marine maneuvers.
The Admiralty took steps to
end the “unrest” in the fleet by
promising a re-examination of the
order reducing the pay of sailors.
The announcement said the gov
ernment had authorized such
measures as may be necessary for
“alleviating special hardships”
among lower naval ratings be
cause of pay cuts
ESTATE SHRINKS
NEW YORK, Sept. 18. (JP)—The
will of C. H. Smith, philanthropist,
who once asked advice on how to
give away a fortune of $10,000,000,
was filed here. It revealed his es
tate had shrunk to about $4,000,000.
SECURES MANY VOTES
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 18. UP)—
Hampton Moore, former Congress
man, was nominated for mayor by
one of the biggest votes ever cast
for a Republican candidate in the
primary here.
GRAF MAKES ANOTHER TRIP
FRIEDRICHSHAEN, Sept. 18. (/P)
—The Graf Zeppelin left on its
second nonstop cruise to South
America in three weeks. The Graf
will remain five days at Pernambuco
for mail before returning. Ten
passengers were aboard.
IMMIGRATION FALLS OFF
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Sept. 18.
UP)—Immigration from European
countries to the United States has
fallen off 54 per cent in the last
year, from the preceding 12 months,
according to figures of the Immi
gration Bureau of the Department
of Labor.