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VOLUME XVI. NUMBER 182. SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 7, 1931. PRICE TEN CENTS
WINE BRICKS IS THE
LITEST BHICHT IDEA
FOR THE THIRSTY
NEW YORK, Aug. 7. (/PY—A wine
drink which was on the market
a few days, as the latest method
of circumventing prohibitoin, set
tled down when federal agents, on
authority of a warrant issued by
the United States commissioner,
raided a shop selling bricks and
arrested three employees in the
place.
The bricks, which are a grape
concentrate, were sold under a la
bel which carefully told the pur
chaser not to put the brick in
water and leave it so for 30 days,
for by doing so, he was in danger
of producing one gallon of grape
wine with 13 per cent alcoholic
content.
The wine bricks were sold in
Fort, Sherry. Burgundy, Cham
pagne, Malaga, Muscatelle and
other flavors, weighing one and
a half pounds; they were sold in
attractive boxes. Charles Eng.
John Skiff and Charles Brown
were those arrested.
OFF FOR FAROE ISLANDS
REYKJAVIK, Aug. 7. (IP)—.Cra
mer took off for the Faroe Is
lands, 450 miles distant.
DO-X HEADED FOR PARA
NATAL. Brazil, Aug. 7. (A3)—The
German plane DO-X took off to
day for Para, 900 miles away.
EMM, PICTURE
Father Bernard Hubbard, the
‘•Glacier Priest,” internationally
known explorer, lecturer, writer
and professor of geology at Santa
Clara University, accompanied by
Kenneth Chisholm, of the Uni
versity of San Francisco, returned
to Seward Thursday from Anchor
age and Holy Cross, enroute to
the States.
This season’s explorations of the
“Moon Craters” on the Alaska
Peninsula, and his long trek along j
the Yukon last winter, are ended |
and Father Hubbard will now pre
pare for his lecture and moving
picture tour which will occupy the I
coming winter and which call for j
appearances from coast to coast, i
HURTS PRESS HIPS
PINTS OFF EDITOR
Quick thinking averted a hor
rible accident Thursday in the gi
gantic plant of The Gateway. As
sociate Editor Otto Sandbeck’s j
pants got caught in the belt and ;
wheel of the huge news press and
in the twinkling of an eye he stood j
before his fellowmen as naked as a i
bathing beauty.
Blushing like a young bride, the '
modest lad quickly and fittingly
clothed himself with several issues j
of the day’s paper until brother :
Edwin brought a new pair of trous- I
ers from home.
But in all seriousness, it might j
not have been such a laughable in- j
cident.
I
See New Fur
Section on Page Two
GERMANS ARRIVE IN ROME
ROME, Aug. 7. (&)—Chancellor
Bruening and Foreign Minister
Curtius arrived here and were
greeted by Mussolini and Foreign
Minister Grandi in a series of
friendly talks to cement Itlao
German relations.
iim FLIGHT
PILOTJN ICELAND
REYKJAVIK, Iceland, Aug. 7.
(£>)_Parker Cramer landed here
from Angmagsalik. Greenland, on
his way to Copenhagen, mapping
a trans-Arctic mail route.
Telling of his mystery flight, he
said: “We left Detroit nine days
ago, having good weather except
for a bad day over Hudson Bay.
We arrived at Hosteinborg, on the
west coast of Greenland Tuesday
^nd the next day crossed Green
land.
j “Glorious views of the illumin
ated snow fields would be a splen
did tourist attraction in the fu
ture.”
THOUSANDS CASES OF
COOD BOOZE SEIZED
NEW YORK, -Aug. 7. (JP)—A yacht
with 2,000 cases of whiskey and
manned by a crew of nine men,
dressed as yachtsmen, and two
girls in sport clothes, was cap
tured 95 miles at sea, after a 35
mile chase. Coast Guards reported.
The capture was made by a
Coast Guard patrol boat from
Cape May base. The crew of thej
yacht disabled the engines and
it was necessary to tow the seized
boat to shore, according to the i
Coast Guards.
WESTWARD RESIDENT DIES
Brought to Seward a few weeks |
ago in an extremely serious con
dition from the Westward on the
cutter Chelan, Einar Iverson lost j
in his battle to recover his health
and early last evening passed
away. Little could be learned
about the aged gentleman today I
but efforts are being made by P. j
C. McMullen, of the Seward Un- j
dertaking establishment, to ascer
tain the whereabouts of relatives. |
AT IKE HOTELS
VAN GILDER — Albert Wile,
Martha M. Alexander, Sicler M.
Loutta, J. P. Morgan, L. J. Jewett,
M. S. Wilson, Mr. and Mrs. H. B.
Crewson.
SEWARD—T. C. Price, Gus Gel
les, John W. Horner, B. R. Michell,
Chas. Balhiser, Ed Carlson, D. Don
aldson, C. S. Wetzler, Anna E.
Wetzler, Mrs. Wm. Scarsbaugh,
Fred Harris, F. B. Bennett, Mrs.
Jessie Hawrie, Grace Surley.
OVERLAND — Laney McDonald,
E. F. Bittner and wife, Billie Bitt
ner, E. P. Donnelly, J. W. Petrie,
M. Erickson, G. Brakney, T. H.
Voyl.
GILLILANDG—Fred Johnson. .
NOTICE
A meeting of fire-department
members will be held tonite at 8
o’clock.
ALASKA INTERESTS
III THE NATIONAL
CAPITOL WASH.
WASHINGTON, D. C. Aug. 7. (By
William A. Steel)—C. E. Giebel, of
Ketchikan, has applied for elimina
tion of a small tract of land in
Loring and an order of elimina
tion is expected to soon issue for
this tract and two or three others.
A request comes from the In
terior to send copies of land with
drawal orders that President Hoo
"'*• b1? rmde in Mt. McKinley Na
tional Park, but the President has
not issued my such order.
$ ij. jt;*
The Common Council of Seward
has memorialized the Bureau of
Fisheries here to prohibit the tak
ing of salmon from any stream
emptying into Resurrection Bay, so J
as to insure the escapement of sal- !
mon to their spawning grounds, and
thus aid what is becoming an im- ;
portant industry to Seward.
The other day D. N. Protopapas
came over from New York to attend
to some business. In the early days j
he was mining at Nome and still'
has property in several sections of
Alaska, coming out from theer
Alaska, coming out from there last
in 1925. and stating that he will
return next year. For some time
past he has been engaged in rais
ing plantago psiliu min the Argos
district of Peleponnesus, Greece. It
is a medicinal product and he has
500 acres under cultivation, employ
ing twenty workmen,
ing 20 workmen, 14 horses, and us
ing 14 plows. He wil return tc !
Greece in August.
For 11 years Albert J. Zyvoloski
worked on the Alaska Railroad and
the Copper River & Northwestern
Railway, but recently came outsfde
and took a civil service examination !
in Seattle. He successfully passed!
and was assigned to the Navy De- j
partment at Washington, where he j
has been for three months. He was:
in to see Delegate Wickersham the
other day and said that he intended
to return to Alaska and wishes to1
retain his legal residence in Chit
na, where he last lived and voted,
and wanted to know whether the
Act that was passed at the last ses
sion of the Territorial Legislature
providing for absentee voting would
permit him to cast a ballot in Alas
ka at the next election. Unless Con
gress approves this Act or some
thing similar there can be no ab -
sentee voting in the Territory.
Completing a very enjoyable
outing and motor trip over the
Richardson Highway, Malcolm Wil
son, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Crewson
and J. P. Morgan arrived on the
SS Yukon today from Valdez. Mrs.
Wilson also made the trip but
continued on to Juneau from Val
dez.
GOLDEN BELT TRIPPERS
Golden Belt tourists arriving in
Seward on the SS. Yukon Friday
morning were Vera Berry, Mrs. E
Leonard, C. J. Perry, Dorothy Til
den, E. A. Towle, Eugenia Towle.
REGULAR PLANE SERVICE
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 7. </P)—A
regular plane express-mail service
is to be inaugurated in the near
future according to John McCord,
Mining engineer of Alaska. Mc
Cord is here conferring with un
named parties interested in the
project.
WITNESS WHS THIRD
MIN KILLING MY
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 7. (^—Da
vid H. Clark, former deputy dis
trict attorney, positively identified
the State’s witness as third man
in the office of Charles Crawford,
wealthy political leader, when
Crawford and Herbert Spencer,
former newspaper and editor of
a crusading magazine, were shot
and killed.
The State’s witnesses said the
victims were unarmed, and the
State is attempting to show Clark
did not shoot in self defense; he
is being tried for the murder of
Spencer.
INCOMING LOCAL LIST
ON STUMER YUKON
Incoming local passengers on
the SS Yukon, other than the Seat
tle listing previously published, in
cluded the following:
From Juneau—L. S. Jewett, Elies
Fall, Mrs. H. B. Crewson Margaret
Murray.
From Cordova—T. M. Donohue,
L. H. Vogel.
From Valdez — Malcolm Wilson,
Rev. H. L. Wood, H. B. Crewson,
J. P. Morgan, Chester K. Went
worth, L. L. Ray.
ROUNDTRIPPERS
Roundtrip passengers arriving in
Seward Friday morning on the SS.
Yukon, of the A. SS. Co., were Anne
Cohn, Mrs. Sam Cohn, Miss Jean
Cohn, Hazel Gillson, Elizabeth S.
Gerhart, Ethel Kilburn, Lola G. |
Newton, C. C. Smith, Mrs. C. C. \
Smith, Edith Steininger, Grace
Steininger, Mrs. A. R. Thomas, El
izebeth Scarborough, and Alice C.j
Thomas.
AMERICAN
St. Louis 6, Chicago 7.
Cleveland 4, Detroit 3.
Boston 1, Washington 15.
Philadelphia 3. New York 5.
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NATIONAL
New York 4, Philadelphia 6.
Brooklyn 7, Boston 3.
Cincinnati 3, Pittsburgh 2.
RUTH GETS 30TH HOMER
NEW YORK, Aug. 7. (JP)—A rally
in the ninth inning enabled the
Yankees to turn back the Athletic
threat to win the game 5 to 3.
Babe Ruth got his 30th homer in
the fifth inning.
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PACIFIC COAST
San Francisco 3, Hollywood 13.
Seattle 2, Portland 7.
Los Angeles 7, Missions 5.
Sacramento 5, Oakland 0.
SHERIFF SHOT MID
KILLED II ID YEAR
ASOTIN, Wash., Aug. 7. {IP)—
Sheriff John Wornell, 72, was shot
and killed by a 10-year-old boy,
who said he had been promised a
trip to Canada and $2.00, for a
robbery.
The boy, Hubert Nicholas, Jr.,
was found robbing the Klause
Mercantile Co., was cornered by a
sheriff, a deputy and the owner.
While the sheriff was searching
the store, the boy fired at him
from five feet away, killing him
instantly.
Officers said the boy told a
story of being forced into the
robbery by William Robbinson, 60,
who was posted outside *the store
as a lookout, according to the boy.
Robbinson was arrested at his
house and denied the story.
Hubert told police Robbinson had
promised the money and the trip
if he would rob the store.
INTENDS TO GO TO WORK
EAST ORANGE, N. J., Aug. 7.
UP)—Thomas Edison, 74 years old,
was sufficiently recovered from
Saturday’s collapse to walk around
the house and read accounts of
his illness. He announced he in
tended to recover sufficiently to
go on with his work, insisting he
has too many things to do.
PRESENT IS ASKED
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug 7. (/P)
—The President was asked to re
store liquor traffic to Porto Rico
on the grounds that prohibition,
cannot be enforced there and it
deprives the people of more than
$4,000,000 annually in revenue.
F. Davilla, resigned commission
er who presented the plea to Pres
ident Hoover, said Porto Ricans
regard the liquor law as an un
just burden.
Tony McDonald, well known old
timer of the Kuskowim country,
arrived in Seward Thursday en
route to the States for special
treatment.
Attorney Thos. Donohue, Jr., of
Cordova, is a brief visitor in the
city while the SS Yukon is in
port.
ROBBINS INB MS
HIND PUKED STREET
EDMONTON, Alberta, Aug. 7. (/P)
—Robbins and Jones landed here
on a paved street at 10:30 a. m..
Pacific time, breaking the pro
jected nonstop flight from Fair
banks to Fort Worth, Texas.
Mattern and Greener had the
refueling plane ready but it was
raining too heavily. Robbins and
Jones left Fairbanks at 11:30 p. m.
Mrs. A. D. Haverstock, wife of
Dr. Haverstock of the Seward
day evening from a week’s visit
General Hospital, returned Thurs
to her parents at Anchorage.