VOLUME XXVIII. NUMBER 119.
SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MAY 21, 1932.
PRICE TEN CENTS
PIM STRKNDED ON
MMOW GLACIERi
HIS BROKEN IXtl!
FAIRBANKS. May 21, (A3)— Nich- |
olas Spadevecchia, of the Carpe'
McKinley Park cosmic ray expedi-j
tion of the Chicago University, is
still unreported after an absence,
of 12 days, it was revealed here by j
Pilot Jerry Jones, of the Alaskan j
Airways, who returned from a hop :
over the Muldrow Glacier camp of j
the expedition. Pilot Jones made j
his flight Friday.
Jerry Jones also learned that
Pilot S. E- Robbins, of the Alaskan
Airways, and Percy T. Olton, Jr.,
who Robbins intended to take out
from the McKinley Park region in
his plane were both safe. Robbins
has been unable to take off be
cause of a broken axel which was
apparently damaged in a previous
attempt.
Pilot Jones was unable to land
his plane on the glacier because
his ship was equipped with wheels.
The men on the ground informed
Jones, overhead, of their predica
ment through black letters written
on the snow. These letters were
made in the snow from lamp black
which Pilot Jones dropped to the
marooned rnen.
Soon after his arrival here Fri
day Jones again took off with a
spare axle and tools and flew back
to the glacier area. He intended
to drop the articles by parachute
to Robbins so that he could repair
the damage and takeoff.
GIRL FLYING ATLANTIC
HAR3CRGRACE. May 21, (/P>—
Amelia Earheart hopped off for
Paris at 2 o'clock Friday afternoon.
Pacific Time.
ADMIRAL BENSON DIES
WASHINGTON, May 21, (JP) —
Admiral William 8. Benson, 7G,
chief of naval operations during
the World War, died suddenly at
his home from cerebreal hemorr
aghe.
WASHINGTON. D. C.. May 21. (/P)
—President Hoover has started a
countrywide movement to get hes
itant bankers and industrialists to
gether and start credit flowing
once more into constructive enter
prises.
His program is to apply the New
York banker-business man com
mittee plan to each of the Federal
reserve districts. The Governors
of the reserve banks have been
asked to step out in organizing
groups and when all are formed,
President Hoover intends to call
the chairmen to Washington to
coordinate the entire program on
a national basis.
STOCKHOLM, May 21, (JP)—Ivar
Krueger, who until his suicide in
Paris was considered the greatest
financial genius of modern times
died pratically penniless. He
owned $168,300,000 it was revealed
in an announcement made by the
Swedish investigation committee
which in probing his affairs
There will be little if any money
left for distribution to unsecured
creditors.
Fictitious assets had been set up
on the Krueger books since 1924.
TEXTILE STRIKE
BLACKBURN, Eng., May 21.—A
decision to take a vote on a tex
tile strike thruout Lancashire af
fecting 200,000 employees was ar
rived at in a meeting of repre
sentatives of the Cotton Operatives
Association.
PREMIER BURIED
TOKYO, May 21.—Efforts to form
a new Japanese cabinet were sus
pended while political leaders at
tended Buddhist funeral rites for
Itukoshi Inuki, premier assassi
nated Sunday. The services were
conducted at the Premier’s official
residence. Police were on guard to
prevent further attempts at vio
lence.
SS YUKON ENROUTE i
TO TRE NORTHLAND
EXCELLENT LISTING
SEATTLE, May 21, (£>)—'The SS
Yukon, of the A. S. S. Co., sailed
for Alaska today at 9 a. m. carry
ing 152 passengers; of these 47
are booked through for Seward:
P. O. Peterson, L. A- Berg, Mrs.
George Bean and daughter, Mrs.
Irving Reed, Amelia H. Hill, Capt.
Ivan L. Peterson, Foster Singleton,
H. P. Sheppard, Samuel Apple
barn, Mrs. Libbie Bullock, Mrs. D
Steward and baby, Mrs. George
Nelson.
Louis Boos, Miss Pauline Boyer,
Miss Marguerite Barberger, D. C.
Lark, David Ross and Jr., Chas.
Farred, S. C. Carlson, Hilary Mc
1 Kanna, Mrs- A. C. O'Neil and
daughter.
Mrs. Lon McGarvey, Mrs. L. J.
Chilberg and daughter, Mr. and
Mrs. J. H. Harrison and son, Peter
J. Meden, Mrs- Meden and baby,
F. C. Bannister, Axel Lundberg,
Walter Lundberg, Andrew Almauist,
J. B. Ortliet, Mr. and Mrs. Jack
Koop. Mr. and Mrs. C. Brine, Hazel
Brinegar. Dora Brinegar, Lucille
Brinegar; there were also 12 steer
age.
:
LONDON, May 21, (JP) — Amelia
Earhart putman is said by a press
association to have landed at Lon
donderry, Ireland this afternoon
after she had trouble with the ex
haust manifold which burned out
Mrs. Putman’s plane was unhurt. “I
had this trouble for about ten hours
and for almost a day idled thru
storms, mists, rain and fog” she is
quoted by the press association.
She is the first woman to fly across
the Atlantic Ocean.
When she landed Mrs. Eahart
said “I’ve done it. I had to land in
the pastures outside Londonderry
but I’m not a bit hurt. I think the
plane is all right. In addition to
the manifold trouble the gasoline
gauge was broken and there was a
little leakage so I decided to land I
came down in an open field.”
Mrs. Earhart took off from New
foundland Friday afternoon.
Mrs. Earhart started on her East
i ward solo flight over the North
Atlantic just five years to the day
after Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh
blazed the Trans-Atlantic trail
trail from New York to Paris.
FOLLOW PRESENT ONE
WASHINGTON, May 21.—Anoth
er world disarmament conference
to follow the present discussion at
Geneva was visualized in adminis
tration quarters upon the return of
Secretary of State Henry Stimson.
He is understood to be considering
the delivery of a formal speech
outlining his ideas of the work of
the conference.
It is emphasized that complete
, agreement can not be obatined in
one conference and the prospect
may be contemplated that there
will be several conferences, per
haps at the rate of one a year.
TIFF ITEMS WILL DE
INCLUDED REVENUE BILL
WASHINGTON, D. C„ May 21, (/P)
—Tariff seekers scored twice in the
Senate and drove hard through a
storm of filibustering oratory to
win the entire import duty pro
gram of the billion dollar revenue
bill.
A tariff on foreign oil and anoth
er on coal, was carried by a coali
tion which spliced both parties.
In two votes on lumber and cop
per, which are still to come up, the
prospects are considered that they
might carry.
NEW YORK, May 21. — Easy
money from violation of the pro
hibition law is financing over a
million criminals General John
Pershing said in an article pub
lished in a magazine in which the
World war leader advocated the re
peal of prohibition.
To meet the criminal army which
is defying the government Persh
ing recommended doing away with
the prohibition laws, organizing of
local vigilance committees and the
European system of police cards for
every resident of the United States.
WORLD-WIDE BREVITIES
UNDER TREATMENT
BALTIMORE, Md., May 21.—
Carl Laemmle, motion picture pro
ducer, is being treated at Johns!
Hopkins University hospital for an
undisclosed ailment.
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GOOD INCREASE
WASHINGTON, May 21.—Russia
has three times as many newspa
pers as under the Czar, Soviet
figures say, and freedom of the
press is now greater than ever in
the history of Russia, and has 10
times as many newspaper readers
as before.
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DO-X TAKES OFF
HARBOR GRACE, Newfoundland,
j May 21, (/P)—The giant flying boat,
DO-X took off from Holy Rood at
3 a. m. today enroute to Germany, j
Weather conditions were favora
ble when the craft left.
ITALIANS VICTORS
ROME, May 21. —Italy reached
the third round of the European
zone Davis cup tennis competition
by defeating Spain in singles
| matches.
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MEN ENTOMBED
j SANTIAGA, Chile, May 21.—Res
I cue workers labored frantically to
! reach 42 men entombed by the col
lapse of a tunnel on the new Trans
Andean railway. Rescue workers
were handicapped by the necessity
of cutting a new shaft four feet
j square throught solid granite.
FRENCH GOLF CHAMP
i LA TUNQUET, France, May 21.—
| H. G. Bentley of Hesketh, Lanca
i shire, won the French internation
! al amateur golf championship, de
feating Noel Layton of Walton
Heath, Surrey.
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ELECTED CHAIRMAN
HARRISBURG, Pa., May 21.—
Warren Van Dike, head of the
Roosevelt for President League in
man of the Democratic state com
j Pennsylvania, was elected chair
j mittee defeating John Collins, pres
! ent chairman, 65 to 46.
TOLD TO GET OUT
MEXICO CITY, May 21.—Oscar
I Barrencliea Rydgadas, Peruvian
1 Minister to Mexico, has been hand
| ed his passports by Foreign Minis
| ter Manuel Tellez.
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WHAT HUBBY THINKS
NEW YORK, May 21, (TP)—Amelia
Earhart’s husband, George Palmer
■ Putman, was informed by tele
phone that his wife landed in Ire
land and said “Of course I am
over-joyed but we who know her
were sure that she could do it.
She has more courage than any
person I ever knew.”
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GRABBED THE COIN
SAN FRANCISCO, May 21, (TP)—
. Menacing a girl teller and another
: employee with his revolver, an un
identified robber entered the Fair
! mont Hotel branch of the American
l Trust Company and then leaped
; over the counter, grabbed all the
? money in sight believed in excess
■ of three thousand dollars and es
caped in a waiting automobile.
EYE IS BETTE R
LONDON, Eng., May 21.—Premier
Ramsay Macdonald, recuperating
from an eye operation, left for
Scotland, accompanied by his
daughter Ishbel. He appeared in
high spirits.
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WAIVER OF IMMUNITY
NEW YORK, May 21, {/P)— Dr.
John F. Condon, “Jafsie,” in the
mysterious negotiations for ran
soming the Lindbergh baby, was
asked to and did sign a waiver of
immunity today when he went be
fore the Bronz grand jury to tell of
his experiences.
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SPECIAL GUARD
PARIS, May 21, (/P)—A special
police guard was placed around
the United States Embassy here
today as the result of resolutions
passed by several communists
meetings in Paris and the subject
for a demonstration there to pro
test the forthcoming executions of
seven young negros at Scottsburg,
Alabama.
STARS WITHDRAW
PARIS, May 21.—Jean Borotra.
French Davis cup star, withdrew
from the French tennis champion
ships which will be started Sunday
at Auteuil. Wilfred Austin, Brit
ish cup star, also withdrew.
AMATEUR MATCH
NEW YORK, May 21.—Arrange
ments for an United States ama
teur golf championship to be held
at the Baltimore Country club, Sep
tember 12 to 17, were completed by
the United States Golf Association.
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ACTING PRESIDENT
PRINCETON. N. J„ May 21.—
Edward Dickinson Duffield of
South Orange, N. J., president of
the Prudential Insurance company,
was appointed acting president of
Princeton University. Duffield
wlil assume office upon the retire
ment of President John Hibben in
June and serve until the board of
trustees chooses a permanent suc
cessor to Dr. Hibben.
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FRONTIER CLOSED
ROME, May 21.—A report froir
Zara Tuesday night said that th€
Jugoslavian frontier was closed be
cause of disorders in Belgrade. Th(
report said there had been numer
ous attempts on the life of Fojisla^
Marinkovich, who came into pawei
last month after the resignation o:
General Pera Zevkovich. Zara v
on the Adriatic coast of Jugoslavia
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AMERICAN LEAGUE
St. Louis 7, Cleveland 11.
Detroit 8, Chicago 5; 11 innings
Washington 3, New York 6.
Boston 1, Philadelphia 6.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
New York 9, Brooklyn 4.
Philadelphia 0, Boston 10.
Pittsburgh 5, St. Louis 0.
Chicago 2, Cincinnati 3.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Hollywood 2, Missions 5,
I Seattle 7, Sacramento 4 .
HOPS OFF NEXT WEEK
SEATTLE, May 21, (JP)—Natt C.
Browne’s takeoff for Japan from
Boeing Field here will probably
not be until Monday or Tuesday of
next week, it is thought. The Chi
cago aviator had hoped to takeoff
Sunday but he will have to delay
his departure a couple of days.
Browne is out to win the prize
money which is offered for a non
stop flight across the Pacific to
the land of Nippon.
VIVIAN NILSON WON
NATIONAL HONOR IN
LITERARY AWARD
Vivian Nilson has won National
Honors in the annual Scholastic
Awards contest conducted at Co
lumbus, Ohio- Vivian was one of
the winners in the Literary Awrards
division of the contest. Her essay
was, “An Appreciation of O. E.
Rolvaag.”
This division was one of the ma
jor divisions of the contest, and in
it only eight prizes were awarded
i among high schools in the whole
! United States and its possessions.
; First prize -went to a boy in Su
! perior, Wisconsin High School; sec
ond to a girl in Tuscon, Arizona;
1 third to a member of the Peekskill,
New York High School; and five
honorable mentions to high schools:
one to Vivian Nilson, member of
this year’s class graduated Thurs
day night from the William H. Sew
ard High School; the other four to
students from high schools respec
tively in Detroit, Michigan; Mont
rose, Colorado; Norfolk, Virginia,
and Muncie, Indiana.
How widespread is the interest in
this contest among high schools in
the United States may be seen from
how widely separated are these
various winning high schools.
It is not known how many papers
were entered in this particular
division, but the judges announce
that more than sixteen thousand
manuscripts were entered in the
various literary divisions.
Vivian is the first student from
Seward High School to place among
the National winners in the liter
ary divisions, We placed Nation
ally last year in journalism.
Our school has shown consistent
advancement in the number of lit
erary prizes won each year. Last
year nine students won Alaskan
honors, including those who won
All-American honors in journalism
The year before that three students
won Alaskan honors.
This year’s Alaska and state hon
ors will be announced in a book
which the judges publish June 1
A number of the other Seward stu
dents may be listed among the
Alaskan winners, as other entries
were submitted.
i The Vivian Nilson award of Na
! tional Literary Honors was omit
, ted thru oversight in announce
ment of honors in the High Schoo:
| Commencement Exercises. We are
! pleased to make this announce
| ment thru the Gateway.
V. H. DeBoll
WHISPERED DOWN X
II BUM OF LIGHT
!
I SCHNECTADY, N. Y., May 21.—
The dirigible Los Angeles whis
pered down a beam of light to the
ground of what she saw from the
air as she cruised over the city.
The experiment with this new talk
ing system of communication was
conducted by officers of the navy
dirigible and engineers of the Gen
eral Electric laboratories.
The voices from the air, fading
occasionally as the ray of light
projected from the Los Angeles
swerved from the mirror picking it
up, were broadcasted by radio.
Experimenters said such communi
cation offered a means of reporting
aerial observations to the ground
without the danger of pickup by an
enemy.
CURTIS SI HE IS
BADGERED HI POLICE
TO MICE STITEMEIir
HOPEWELL, N. J. May 21. —
John H. Curtis, intermediary in the
Lindbergh case who made a state
ment the other day in which he
termed his negotiations as nothing
but a hoax on his part, made a sur
prise statement here Friday.
Curtis, in jail here, said that he
had been badgered into making
the statement by the police and he
also added that many parts of his
statement were not so.
I The police denied using any dur
! ess in getting Mr. Curtis’ state
ment.
The latest statement made by
Curtis is taken to indicate that he
apparently had something to do
with the persons who demanded
I the ransom money and that his
negotiations were not all a hoax.
The police have satisfied them
; selves that Curtis was home on the
| night of the kidnapping but are
j now trying to ascertain his where
i abouts on the night of April 2,
| the night the ralnsom money is
alleged to have been paid to the
supposed kidnappers.
The police have not had any
more success in their attempt to
bring Rev. H. Dodson-Peacock and
Curtis together.
The possibility that Curtis’ story
may be false in part received the
: attention of police today. A por
tion of his confession is already
considered as having been disprov
: ed. This is the part in which he ex
plained that his purpose in lying
to officials was to get money by the
sale of his story to newspapers.
Police pointed out that his hoax
was three weeks old before Curtis
! attempted to sell his story and
even so he did not hope to find any
buyers unless he recovered the baby
which he must have known was
impossible.
An inquiry is under way here
to learn if Curtis may not have
had some other motive.
An attorney has been engaged
at Norfolk to defend Curtis.
Rev. H. Dodson-Peacock is still
! under scrutiny,
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SAN FRANCISCO, May 21, (/P)—
Five North Beach characters were
i arrested for questioning in the
murder of Luigi Maivese, asserted
: Mafia extortion thug and racketeer,
| as police began a citywide drive to
pick all known racketeers and check
I the menace of widespread gang
| warfare. Maivese was put on the
spot Thursday in front of a Colum
bus Avenue barber shop by a gun
who fired shot after shot into his
twitching body as he lay on the
; sidewalk.
DE HEM'S BILL
PASSED IRISH BAIL
DUBLIN, Irish Free State, May
21. — President Eamon de Valera’s
bill which passed in the Dail by a
dangerous margin will come up for
approval or rejection in the Irish
Free State senate next Wednesday.
Although the Senate will not have
the final say as to whether the bill
shall pass or not they can turn in
a vote of not favoring the bill and
thus delay action for 18 days. The
bill is the proposal of Valera to ab
olish the oath of allegiance to the
King of England.
REPORTED FAVORABLY
WASHINGTON, May 21, (A*) —
The House agriculture committee
reported favorable the Jones bill
providing strict government regu
lations of short selling on the Com
modity Exchanges.
PUBLIC DANCE TONIGHT I. 0. 0. F. HALL