The lamest circulation
of any newspaper in the
2nd, 3rd, 4lh Divisions of
Alaska
“ALASKA’S HOME NEWSPAPER”
The Seward Weekly Gate
way ia the hest 16-pa*e
Weekly in the Territory
of Alaska
MEMBER AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION
VOLUME XVI. NUMBER 111.
SEWARD, ALASKA,
WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 1931.
PRICE TEN CENTS
COMPARISON MADE FROM 1926
TO END APRIL THIS
YEAR
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 20.
(JP)—in 1926 the wholesale dollar'
was worth $1,364. Last month;
the Labor Department found that
the dollar’s value during the year
had increased more in rubber pur- j
chasing power than in any of the j
other 550 commodities covered by j
calculations ending April, 1931. j
$2,212; in silk and rayonETAOIN j
The coin could have bought rub- ;
ber that would have cost $7,519 in j
April, 1926. Last month’s dollar j
was worth $2,264 in petroleum!
products; $2,212 in silk and rayon 1
and $2,188 in auto tires.
Among food the price decreased
last month in butter, cheese, fresh i
and cured meats, lard, rye and:
cornmeal. The only increases'were |
grains, other foods and automo-;
biles.
NEW YORK MAY
BE BJIOED AT THAT,
NEW YORK. May 19. (/P)—The
thrill of a practice air raid by
army planes, scheduled for next
Friday night, has been denied and
no one seems to know exactly why.
Washington authorities indicated
it was because of “violent pro
tests" from city officials. Peter
J. Brady, head of the city’s avia
tion committee, denied such was
the case.
“Far from it," he said, “the
maneuvers have been given wide
publicity and we have made ar
rangements for them." Lots of
telephoning is being done back
and forth and New York City may
be raided yet.
Meanwhile army air forces are
concentrating at Dayton, Ohio,
from where various maneuvers
will be staged over the Middle
West. Plans call for appearance
in the air of 799 fighting ships
at one time.
PLED OF SELF-DEFENSE
NICE, May 20. (/P)—Nxon Nird- !
linger was acquitted of killing her
husband, winning on a plea of
self-defense.
During the brief and dramatic
trial she wept on the stand; her
mother collapsed in the crowded
court room.
She said her husband seized
her by the throat during a quarrel
and she reached under her pillow'
for the revolver with which she |
shot him.
MULTIPLE APPROACH
CHICAGO, May 19. (JP) — The
Chicago Academy of Criminology,
destined to provide a multiple ap
proach to the problem of crime in
all its aspects, was organized here.
HALIBUT PRICES
PRINCE RUPERT, May 20. (JP)—
One hundred and 93,000 pounds
of American halibut sold for 4c
and 9c; Canadian, 4c and 7c. At
Seattle six boats with 16,200
pounds sold for 6c and 9c.
HEIRV COHON IS
GOLFING GKMIPION IT
BIS TOMMENT
SOUTHPORT, England, May 19.
(£>)_Henry Cotton won the pro
fessional golf tournament with a
score for four rounds of 287.
Archie Compston finished sec
ond with 289. Horton Smith of
America and Percy Arliss of Ber
lin tied for third with 290.
Joe Kirkwood, American trick
shot artist, withdrew after trail
ing hopelessly. Tony Manero had
298 and Joe Turnesa, the other
American, with only 305.
i Cotton and Arliss broke the I
i course record with 68 in the final j
I round.
STABBED IN BACK
SAN FRANCISCO, May 20. (/P>—
William H. Whittsorne, Sail Fran
cisco attorney, was concentrating
on a target in a contest of arch- i
ery and by mishap was hit in j
the back. He pulled out the ar- j
row. First aid was given at a
hospital.
KETCHIKAN. May 20. i/P> —Jim
Dodson, who was injured in a plane
crash more than two weeks ago
left for Seattle on the S. S. Yukon
to consult medical specialists for a
nose injury which he sustained.
C. J. Alexander, of Seattle, and
A1 Dano are still confined to the
hospital. They will probably remain
there for many weeks.
Dodson was accompanied by his
wife.
POLICE CALLED HANDLE
NICE, France, May 20. f/P)—Po
lice were called to handle a crowd
of 1,000 women who stormed the
court room where Mrs. Charlotte
Nash Nixon Nirdlinger is on trial
for shooting her husband.
She testified she shot him in
self-defense.
Police testified there evidently
had been a struggle before the
shooting.
SAILS FOR ENGLAND
| NEW YORK, May 19. (A5)— Mrs.
j Lawrence Harper of California,
| top-ranking American woman ten
nis player, sailed for England to
compete at Wimbleton. She was
runner-up to Miss Betty Nuthall
in the National championship last
August.
WALES GIVES INFORMATION
LONDON, May 19. (JP)—Nineteen
distinguished guests received first
rand information about what the
'Prince of Wales did on his trip
| to South America. He showed them
| a talking film of his and Prince
George’s experiences.
NOTABLES CUE
ALASKA ITINERARY;
TO DIVE JULY 20
CUTTER TAHOE WILL CONVEY
GOVERNMENT HEADS
ROUND TRIP
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 20.
(JP)—A revised itinerary is an
nounced for the Congressional
party to inspect the Interior De
partment projects in Alaska.
Chairman Murphy, of the In
terior Department sub-committee
and House appropriations group,
heads the party.
Director Albright of the National
Park Service will accompany the
Park Service will accompany the
June 21, via National Parks to
Los Angeles, sailing from Seattle
I July 18 on the Government cutter
I Tahoe.
i The prty will reach Ketchikan
| July 20, then Wrangell, Juneau,
j Cordova, Valdez, Seward, McKin- |
;ley Park and Fairbanks, returning;
| over the Richardson trail to Cor- i
j dova and arriving in Seattle on |
ithe Tahoe August 6.
ATTMEJS HOLD FLIC
OVER LIO TRESPASSES
WASHINGTON, D. C.. May 20.;
(/P)—Members of the American
Law Institute at its final session:
debated the involved question of;
whether an airplane trespasses!
when it flies over private land. 1
Professor Edward S. Thurston,
of Harvard, who presented a ten
tative draft of the Restatement!
of the Law in Torts, said the few
court decisions had almost uni-'
formly held that flying over
I
private land was a trespass.
BULK IF
i
ESTHE LEFT TO SON!
—
NEW YORK, May 20. (/P)—The :
bulk of the $75,000,000 estate of
George F. Baker was left to his
son George, Jr., and $5,000,000 each
was bequeathed to his two daugh
ters, Mrs. Florence Loew and Ev
elyn St. George.
A quarter of a million dollars
was willed to the New York Pub
lic Library and the same amount
to the Episcopal Cathedral in
Washingotn.
Other bequests included $25,000
to his secretary and legacies from
$15,000 to $1,000 to servnats. His
son was named sole executor. ,
PASADENA, Calif., May20. (/P)—j
Sir James and Lady Jeans left for
Baltimore. The noted British as
tronomer said his fortnight at
the Mount Wilson laboratory here
was of profound interest and value
to him.
From Baltimore Sir James will
go to Washington to deliver a lec
ture. He will then sail for Eng
land.
ADMIRAL EVANS SAILS
SEATTLE, May 20. (JP)—The SS
Evans, of the Pacific Steamship
Co., sailed at 10 a. m. and carried
105 passengers.
BRIGADIER mil
PUBLISHER BURNED TO
OEITH BUT SNEO 20
PARIS, May 20. (£>) — French
army engineers recovered the body
of Brigadier General Robert Dun
lap, U. S. Marine Corps, who was
| buried alive in Stoneage cave by
a landslide near Trours yesterday;
also the body of Denis Briant,
farmer, who was with the General.
The General went to the rescue
of Briant’s wife who was caught
in the landslide and whose screams
were heard from the back of the
cave. She was brought out alive.
; The General’s body will be sent
home. Mrs. Briant was badly in
jured and one leg has been am
putated by a surgeon who re
mained at the place all night.
- . —.
ILLUSTRATOR SUICIDES
; NEW YORK, May 20. (/P)—-Ralph
.Barton, widely known illustrator,
: suicided at his East 57th Street
| home.
MTU HER KILLS
FBI ID TIEN SUICIDES
EDMONTON, Alberta, May 20. |
(ZP>—Running amuck, Josph Mich- i
alavich, 33, farmer of Edward,
near Smoky Lake, shot and killed j
his mother Baska Michalavich, 70; j
his brother Steven, 45; his brother’s |
daughter Mary, 13; and then shot)
himself.
Still alive he was rushed to the I
Edmonton hospital. Two other chil-:
dren were reported to have escaped.!
The motive for the killings has j
not yet been ascertained. More de
tails will be given later.
Dll GOLF COURSE
CHARLESTON, S. C., May 20. j
(/P)—Former Senator Truman H. j
Newberry of Michigan has gone j
into the golf business.
He has acquired by purchase the:
two 18-hole courses at Summer- j
ville, the country club and hotel, |
and plans to make it “the best
possible place for congenial people
to play golf."
The former senator was secre
tary of the navy in President
Roosevelt’s cabinet and was elect
ed senator from Michigan in 1915.
[ RESIGNS BIG JOB
; VANCOUVER, B. C., May 20. (/P)
j—Robert G. Grosse, who resigned
as vice president and general man
ager of the British Columbia Pack
ers, has been succeeded by his
brother, Richard.
AIRPLANE ACCIDENT FATAL
NAIROBI RENAY, Africa, May
20, (fP)—D. Hatton, brother of
the Earl of Winchelsea and Not
tingham was killed in an airplane
accident; As a well known big
game hunter, he accompanied the
Prince of Wales on an expedition
last year.
HEAT WAVE IN
SOUTH CARRIES IN
WAKE SERIES FIRE
PUBLIC AND PRIVATE AGENCIES
COORDINATED IN BATTLE
OF FLAMES
SAN FRANCISCO, May 20. (/P)—
The parching heat wave entered
its third day, carrying in its wake
a series of menacing forest and
grass brush *ires from Santa Bar
bara to the northern Sierras.
Oakland and San Jose tempera •
jtures were 92; San Francisco, Sac
Iramento and Red Bluff 90.
Fire fighters fought blazes in the
countryside and Forest City fire
men yesterday spent one of their
busiest days in years. The gover
nor prepared to coordinate public
and private fire fighting agencies
and will use the National Guard,
State and Highway Patrol in the
fire service should the situation
continue.
LUO'S FACE MANGLED
BY CIRCUS BEAR; SIRE
SAVED LIFE SMALL SON
PITTSFIELD. Mass., May 20. {&)
—A policeman, who took his child
ren to a carnival here, saved a
six-year-old boy from being
squeezed to death by a big brown
bear, but the lad’s face was man
gled before the animal released,
him.
The boy, John Cronin, hurrying
to see a sword swallower, ran un
der the chains behind which the
bear was imprisoned. The bear
seized him around the waist and
started tearing his face with his
teeth.
Patrolman McDermott hastened
to the boy’s aid. Seizing the
bear’s ears and standing on one
of its haunches, he shook the ani
mal’s head until it released the
child.
MORE WOMEN WANTED
FARM WORK IN RUSSIA
MOSCOW, May 20. (£>)—“Let the
Women do the Work,” has long
been a quaint old Russian custom,
and now the government has
started a campaign to increase
the female workers on collective
farms.
By putting more women to work
on the farms it is hoped the five
year plan may be speeded up.
Heretofore shortage of skilled and
unskilled labor has impeded the
plan, somewhat endangering the
possibility that it will be com
pleted on schedule.
RIOTING IN SWEDEN
STOCKHOLM, May 19. iff) — A
Swedish cruiser left here for Aad
alaen, where a general sawmill
strike has been ordered. A train
transporting troops and machine
guns to the district was stoned by
strikers. Six persons including a wo
man were shot and killed and sev<
eral others wounded.