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VOLUME XVI. NUMBER 126. SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, JUNE 8, 1931. PRICE TEN CENTS
TROOPS MOBILIZING WEEKS
IN SOUTH CHINA IMPEND
ING STRUGGLE
TOKYO, June 8. (>P)—The new
-ovemment is in revolt against
the National government of Chi
na, acording to a Rengo News
Agency dispatch from Canton.
The revolt was launched in
Kwangtung and Kwangsi provinc
es. in South China.
Eugene Chen, styling himself as
the foreign minister of the Canton
government, sent a telegram to
representatives of foreign govern
ments in Peiping repudiating Nan
king as the central government.
Censorship has prevented news
reaching the outside w'orld to a
iarge extent but its been known
that large bodies of troops have
seen mobilizing for weeks in
.South China for the impending
onflict.
ALLEGED LEARNED MEN
MEN ANALYZE LINCOLN AS
TORONTO, June 8, (/P)-Abraham
-incoln was analyzed as ‘‘a schi
zoid maniac, personally a Doctor
Jekyll and a Mr. Hyde who had
a baser nature under rigid con
trol” at the American Physchia
tric Association meeting in an an
alysis read by Dr. A. A. Bril.l phys
hoanalyst of New York City.
Brill ranked him with the twain
f Uncle Remus and other great
American humorists. He confined
:is study to the emotional side of
he emancipator.
BEHIND HERDING OIL
CALLS FOR ANOTHER SRIP
SEATTLE, June 8, (JP) —The de
mand for herring oil and other
herring products is so great that
the Steamer Curacao will be shift
ed from the Mexican coastal trade
to northern waters.
Shippers said that the Curacac
has been scheduled to make eight
trips from Seattle to Chatham
Strait.
Special oil tanks with a capacity
of 85,000 gallons have been install
ed in the steamer. The vessel will
also be engaged in passenger ser
vice from the Puget Sound City
to Chatham Strait.
BIG TANKER IN PORT
The big Standard Oil Company
tanker Richmond, Capt. Joseph
Fox, arrived in port Sunday from
San Pedro, Calif., via Dutch Har
bor, and discharged 6,000 barrles
of fuel oil and 4,000 barrels of
Deisel oil at the local general
headquarters plant. The tanker
got under way early in the evening
bound for Cordova; 20,000 barrels
of oil were unloaded at Dutch
Harbor.
HEADS STATE POLICE
PORTLAND, June 8, (/P)— Gov
ernor Julius L. Meirer appointed
Charles P. Pray, State parole offi
cer and superintendent of the
State police on which General
Smedley Butler has been engaged
in a preliminary organization.
DEVELOPMENTS HINT IT
WORLD CONFEHENCE ON
LONDON, June 8, (£>)—The pos
sibility of a world conference to
reopen completely the problem of
war reparations loomed in the wake
of the past week-end.
In the conference between the
heads of the British and German
governments newspapers linked the
forthcoming visits to Europe of
iStimson and Mellon.
With the promise made at the
i onference to collaborate with other
i governments, spokesmen of the
conference said that the field of
economic and political troubles will
be discussed particuary as affect
ed by the Young plan and other
! factors.
“EXPERIMENT" FOOD
SAN PEDRO, June 8, (/P>—One
man was fatally shot and two others
were captured by the Coast Guard
Cutter Arrow after a six hour chase
in the open sea 70 miles north of
here. Officers of the cutter said
they found 200 cases of liquor
aboard the alleged rum-runner
Diatone.
SUNDAYS GAMES
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Cleveland 1. New York 5.
Cl icago 1. Washington 8.
Philadelphia 12, Detroit 2.
St. Louis 3. Boston 6.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Brooklyn 6, 0. St. Louis 4, 9.
Boston 2, 10, Cincinnati 8. 9.
New York 3, Chicago 8.
The above were the only Nation
al League games played.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Los Angeles 3, 0. Seattle 5, 6.
Oakland 6, 3, Missions 7, 6. The
fh'st game went 11 innings.
Sacramento 3,10, Hollywood 13, 3..
San Francisco 6, 7, Portland 9, 10.
SATURDAY GAMES
NATIONAL LEAGUE
i Brooklyn 6, St. Louis 8.
| Philadelphia 2. Pittsburgh 3.
New York 1, Chicago 5.
Boston 5, Cincinnati 6.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Detroit 5, Philadelphia 11.
Chicago 3, Washington 7.
St. Louis 8, Boston 9.
Cleveland 7, New York 5.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
San Francisco 5. Portland 2.
Oakland 1, Missions 2.
Second games:
Oakland 4, Missions 0.
Los Angeles 7, Seattle 1.
Sacramento 5, Hollywood 3.
REPLY TO PROTEST
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 8, (/P)
1 —President Hoover and Gen.
i Douglas McArthur made a militant
! reply to pacifists who protested
| against the great air maneuvers
! over the Eastern half of the Unit
ed States the last two weeks.
On the Oil Trail
There’s many a long, long trail awinding 'down thru
the last half century or more in Alaska. The oldest liv
ing, toothless, almost sightless, smoking his pipe in the
sunshine ,still remembers tales of the long ago told by
whalers, sailors and soldiers of fortune sailing South
western Alaskan waters.
Dutch Harbor on Unalaska
Island and Unimak Pass were well
known in the Aleutian Chain, the
; island, ranges of perpetualy snow
capped mountains, rock-ribbed and
bound, and the Pass with its rough,
wild waters always th same, dash
ing in mad frenzy of wind and
iwave between high and savage
cliffs. Inhospitable to the nth de
| gree are these last with not footing
|or little sustenance for man or
beast, were such thrown by acci
dent from ships wrecked in these
waters.
Dutch Harbor was an imprtant
coaling station for Russian and
other vessels long before Alaska
was purchased from Russia. Vol
canoes smoked lazily from high
and distant peaks intermittently
then as now. Occasionally the
dreaded temblors visited this cold
and desolate country," seeming
like an angry parent, to wish by
a thorough shaking up to waken
its stupid child to more action.
Sea gulls -and goonies still swung
overhead in utter independence
of man and his doings, screaming
their pleasure in fair weather or
foul.
Old stations along the peninsular
coast were Sancl Point on Unga
Island, and Chignik to the north
esat on the mainland, both having
coal fields. Black Mountain and
Black Lake were known to be in
an oil field (hence the name) and
oil claims were located in that
vicinity many years ago. Wide
Bay, southeast of Lake Ugashik,
was the landing place of early
argonauts like the Alaska Juneau,
the Alaska Treadwell and other
companies, their oil claims being
situated about halfway between
Lake Ugashik and Wide Bay. Here
surface indications must have
been exceedingly good, for the
maps show these same claims
were located over each other
three or four different times. Work
was done by Poindexter, if not
the others—the last we do not
know.
Farther up this coast is Portage
Bay, Jute Bay, Dry Bay, and Oil
Bay, before Cold Bay is reached.
At all these bays landings were
made over a period of years by
adventurous souls on the trail of
the oil, and many claims were lo
cated. The entire southern shore
of Becharof Lake as well as parts
of the eastern and western shores
were blanketed with oil claims.
Nearly all the land between the
three large lakes and Shelikof
Strait was located and much of
it three and for times over.
Again trailing along northward,
Inniskin Bay, Illiamna Bay, Kam
ishak Bay are encountred. In all
these districts oil fields are strong
ly indicated in divers ways. Sur
face showings, seepage, oil shale,
sand and dome formations have;
long pointed out to the open- j
minded the whereabouts of “black
gold.”
At Cold Bay the tundra or
oil soaked peat covered the ground
for years. Neither trees nor shrubs
grew in the oil soaked earth, and
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EXPLOSION OF OIL
BARGE AT DOCK.
NORFOLK. COSTLY
THIRTY PERSONS REPORTED
BE IN HOSPITAL—OTHERS
INJURED
NORFOLK, Virginia, June 8. (/P)
i —A three million dollar fire which
resulted through the explosion of
j an oil barge at the Buxton Line
| piers rode the strong wind along
200 feet of wharves and destroyed
a hotel.
The fire swept through the whole
sale district nd then leaped across
the main street and threatened
the retail business center.
The explosion for which a cause
; is being sought occurred at 5^30.
It was well after midnight be
fore the combined forces of the
Hampton Roads aided by 1,300
sailors and marines controlled it.
The driving rain before midnight
heped to hasten the bringing of the
fire under control.
Thirty persons are said to be
in the hospitals receiving treat
ment and sixteen others were in
jured sufficiently to cause them
to be kept in the hospital.
Many other persons received
ambulance treatment. Two tugs
and one barge were damaged by
the blaze.
HEAVY DRAIN ON DOLE
LONDON, June 8, (/P)—Premier
MacDonald’s idle commission re
commended that employers, work
ers and the state put 18 cents
weekly into its fund so that the
drain on it may be curbed.
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SOVIET COMPETITION IS
COSTLY TO HU
WASHINGTON, June 8, (/P)—
America will lose $1,000,000,000
worth of foreign trade in wheat,
lumber, oil and cotton during the
next four years, due to Soviet Rus
sia competition, representative H.
Fish, Jr., of New York, declared
in a radio address here.
Speaking under auspices of the
National Society of Sons of the
American Revolution, Fish said
that the five year national devel
opment plan of the Soviets had
made marked progress.
SPAIN IS DISCORDANT
PAMPLONA, Spain, June 8, (A3)
—A committee of farmer public
officials, claiming t o represnt
80,000 families, telegraphed Presi
dent Alcala Zamora that if the
government attempts to expel
Catholic orders from Spain it will
be met with the sternest resistance
from the Navarre province.
BAPTISTS BELIEVE
PAPERS FAIL TO
PRINT HI NEWS
CONDEMN TOBACCO ADVERTIS
ING; SUPPORT 18TH AMEND
MENT
i KANSAS CITY, June 8, (/P)—
'Mattison Boyd Jones of Los An
geles, lawyer, was elected pres
ident of the Northern Baptist
! Church at the convention. He suc
ceeds Rev. Albert W. Beaven of
I Rochester, N. Y.
The report of the resolutions
i committee expressed interest in
| interest in the establishment of
ja national daily to handle news
[from a moral standpoint; the re
| port protested against the present
ly cigarette advertising and urg
! ed Baptists to “discourage t he
growing use of tobacco in any
! form.”
i The committee called on all
members to “give their unflinch
ing “support to the 18th amend
ment.”
t The resolutions will be acted
upon today.
IMPOMT OMB
BIIIK C9NSQLIDM
CHICAGO, June 8. —Two of
the most important bank mergers
in the history of Chicago were ef
fected when the First National Bank
and the First Union Trust and Sav
ings Banks and its affiliated mem
ber banks absorbed the Foreman
State National Bank and the Fore
man State Trust and Savings Bank
and a consolidation arranged be
tween the Central Trust Company
of Illinois.
A consolidation was also arrang
ed between the Central Trust Com
pany of Illinois and the National
Bank of the Republic by the first
mentioned banks.
HUD IN ME
me SOLD FIELDS
VANCOUVER, June 8. (iP) — At
tracted by reports of rich placer
and gold property on Nation river,
a tributary of the Stikine and near
Finlay Forks, a group of Vancou
ver men, headed by W. C. Shelly are
enroute to northern British Colum
bia by auto and plane.
The find is reported to have been
made by two prospectors who, by
using crudest methods, have been
extracting $80 per day from their
diggings.
TITLES ABOLISHED
MADRID, Spain, June 8, (A*)—
The provisional government has
abolished titles of nobility because
Spain has entered a new regime
of liberty and democracy.
ANOTHER FIVE-YEAR PLAN
MOSCOW, June 8, (/P)—A defin
ite step toward the organization
of a second five-year plan of
industrial and economic level in
the Soviet Union was taken with
the appointment of a commission
of 75 members to prepare the plan.