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VOLUME XVI. NUMBER 143.
SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JUNE 27, 1931
PRICE TEN CENTS
SS ALEUTIAN SAILS
FOR NORTH WITH
219 PASSENGERS
ALEUTIAN MAKING SECOND
OF THE SEASON
NORTH
SEATLE, June 27. (JP) —The SSL
Aleutian of the A. S. S. Co., sailed
at 9:00 a. m. today carrying 219
passengers; 69 for Seward as fol
lows:
Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Closa, Mrs. C.
E. Goetzman, Miss M. E. Templin,
Mrs. W. J. Barows and two sons,
John and Racone, C. S. Farbell,
Miss L. M. Arp, Mrs. H. Finley, Miss
O. Hagberg, Miss B. Bonner, Mrs.
M. Alexander, Mrs. K. Whitcqpnb,
J. H. Robinson, Mrs. M. Alexander,
Miss L. Hobson, Miss G. Farley, Mrs.
j. A. Debach.
Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Leonard. Mrs.
P. Hopkins, Mrs. M. R. Bagley, Miss
H Flaring, Mrs. M. Means, Mrs. J.
Elliot and daugher, J. Elliot. Mrs.
R. Ward, Mrs. F. Miller and daugh
ter, Mrs. R. L. Good, Mrs Dewitt,
Mrs. H. Richardson .Miss Mathews,
H. Mathews, Mr. and Mrs. G. P.
Rideaux, Miss S. Pentecost, Mrs. B.
Johnson.
W. A. Shedd, R. C. Richard, Miss
H. Lange, Miss E. Hamilton, Miss H.
Mulcne, Mrs. F Berker, Miss J. M.
Underhill, Miss V. Wadsworth, Miss
B. Gilles, Larry Miller, Helen J
Bain, Miss A. E. Snow, Ruth Heven
ling, Ruth Gosse, Mrs. M. J. Cliil
berg. Mrs. A. Hall, Miss B. L. Smith,
Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Gregg, Miss R.
M. Patterson, A. Stein, Miss C. Wells,
Miss E. Brown, Mrs. R. Christian
son. Marie Parsons, Miss M. L. Pink
erton, Mrs. Occargan and Master
Winn.
MW1$ DEBT
PARIS, June 27. (A5)—Momentous
negotiations seeking to harmonize
the French and American view
points of Hoover’s debt suspension
plan were opened today between
Mellon and Laval and by a 386
to 189 vote after a stormy session
ending in the morning when the
Chamber of Deputies approved the
motion favoring the government’s
reply to the Hoover plan.
They authorized Laval to con
tinue negotiations with Mellon.
The government made a motion
to question the confidence vote
but approved the stand with qual
ifications.
COMPLETES ANOTHER LEG
IRUTSK Siberia, June 27. (/P) —
Post and Gatty landed here at noon
today—11 p. m. Eastern Standard
Time, and Fridayafter complet
ing a flight of 1,050 miles from Nov
osibirsk and another leg of their
round the world flight.
HALIBUT PRICES
SEATTLE, June 27. (JP) — Hali
but from three vessels and totaling
44,800 pounds brought 8 Vi and five
cents.
CONVICT FOUND DEAD
CHICAGO, June 27. (JP)—Sam
Pullano, former convict, was found
dead beneath a railroad viaduct
on the south side of Chicago. He
had been shot three times in the
back. It was the third Chicago
racketeer murder within the last
few days.
DEDUCES IBM
; CONVOYS IN WORLD
| WAD DECIDING FACTOR
LONDON, June 27. (£>) — Doubt
that the British fleet toward the
end of the war could have met the
German fleet on terms of equality
.s expressed in the final volume of
the official history of naval opera
tions of the Great War, just publish
ed.
The volume records that Admir
; al of the Fleet Earl Beatty told the
! naval conference that it no longer
was desirable to provoke a fleet ac •
tion similar to the battle of Jut
| land.
He felt that way because the Brit
| ish fleet was busy fighting the sub
| marine menace.
| This deduces the facts to where
i the American convoy scheme for
• the protection of merchant ships
! really won the war, the author says.
Win SETS EIRE
TO 1.S00 ACRES OF
PASTURE LAND, CAL
SANTA ROSA, Calif., June 27. (£’>
_A turkey buzzard which became
entangled with a high voltage wire
on the Mcecham ranch, eight miles
south of here, started a fire that
| burned 1.500 acres of pasture land
and two miles of fencing and called
I out 250 fire fighters and a number
' of rural fire departments.
The bird’s talons, as it was in
1 the act of alighting, short-circuit
ithe wire which broke and dropped
| e-ncs a wire fence. The arcing end."
' touched off hundreds of grass coh
ered acres.
The fire wept the grazing ground
| and burned a large quantity of
; wood and hundreds of fine eucauyp
| tus trees and burned for several
; hours.
m
THE STOCK MARKET
SEATTLE, June 27. (^—Yester
day’s quotations:
Alaska Juneau . 13
American Can . 112V4
Bancorporation . 17
Cities Service . 13%
I Consolidated Gas.100%
j Zellerbach . 3
j Durant . 1%
'General Motors . 3914
! Goldman . 6%
International Telephone . 35%
jKennecott Copper . 24%
Lehigh .No Sale
Radio . 21%
Richfield . 1%
Standard Oil of N. J. 41
Carbide . 54%
Union California . 19%
U. S. Steel.102
Standard Oil of California . 38%
Standard Oil of N. Y. 18%
POST HID GUTTY
IRE Fill ifl) OF
FLIGHT SCHEDULE
GLOBE-CIRCLING FLIERS TO
MAKE 1,200-MILE HOP
* TO NOME
IRKUTSK, June 27. (/P) — Far
ahead of their pell-mell schedule
and well past the half-way point
on their world flight, Aviators
Post and Gatty sped out of here
at 9:10 last night, Pacific Stand
ard Time, for the 800 mile hop to
Blagoveshchensk.
They took only one hour to pre
pare for the dash over some of
the wildest country on the globe.
They originally had planned to
go to Khaborovsk but decided to
make the shorter hop in order to
pick up weather reports. They
expected to reach their destination
tonight and rest until dawn, then
proceeding to Khaborovsk, wea
ther permitting.
They expect to make a non-stop
flight from Khaborovsk straight
to Nome, 1,200 miles away. They
are feeling fine though they have
only had eight hours of sleep since
they started.
DRIiLlll
TOOK DRUGS LOSE
SELF III OBLIVION
FATHER ASSERTS LETTERS
OF DOCTOR ARE
FORGERIES
NEW YORK, June 27. UP) —Starr
Faithful drank liquor and tool
drugs to forget a “boring and use
less” life and committed suicide af
ter a diappointing affair with L
G. Jameson, ship’s surgeon, accord
ing to letters she wrote the doctor
a few days before she was fcun
dead on the sands of Long Bea"
Long Island.
Such were the facts laid before
the Nassau County grand jury h
letters said to have been written
by Miss Faithful to Dr. Carr and
brought by the doctor to New Yc-i
in an attempt to clear up the case.
Her intention to take her life after
tasting for the last time the plea
sures of the world was disclosed in
one letter she wrote June 4.
“It is all up to me now,” she
wrote to the doctor,“This is some
thing I am going to put through.”
“I want oblivion.”
Stanley Faithful, Starr’s step
father denounced the letters of Dr.
Carr as forgeries and asserted th
District Attorney had made up :
mind to call her death a suicide and
wind up the case.
LANDED IN MUD HOLE
SHANGHAI, June 27. (A5)—Av
iator Post and his navigator,
Gatty, arrived at Blagoveshchensk
at 3 o’clock, Pacific Standard
Time, landing in a mud hole but
were not harmed on their 850-mile
trip from Irkutsk. They planned
to leave for Khaborovsk almost
immediately.
DAYLIGHT ROBBERY
SAN FRANCISCO, June 27. (JP) —
This city experienced its fourth
daring daylight robbery when
branch bank of the American Trust
Company was held up by a one
armed man who escaped with $300.
The robbery was the fourth in th
last three days.
LH Si FOB
SEGBET OINK HINT
BRONX BEER GABON
NEW YORK, June 27. (IP) —Unit
ed States Attorney G. Medalie op
ened a drive against racketeers in
New York by uncovering $856,000
in a secret bank account of Dutch
Arthur Shultz, Bronx beer baron.
Shultz had not paid taxes on this
sum which represented his earn
ings of 5,500 daily for a six-months
period.
As the result Mr. Medailie file'*
tax assesment against him for $80.
000 representing the regular tax and
penalties. As yet no erim:
charges have been filed againc'
him but an indictment may b
sought on grounds similar to tho.^
which brought a prison sentence r
A1 Capone—namely that he is
tax dodger.
KFTCU ME
!1 (JLl
SEVEN HALF HOURS
! Zooming close over Seward Fri
day afternoon with a stupendous
roar, a Lockheed-Vega monoplane,
a pontoon job, from Ketchikan, cir
cled the city once then slid onto
the bosom of Resurrection Bay,
thereby completing seven hours
cf actual flying time from the Pan
handle City.
Pilot E. A. Meyring was at the
; controls of the Washington-Alaska
'Airways plane; Agent Larry Parks
i accompanied Pilot Meyring and
Mechanic Frank Wadman; passen
gers were Mrs. Meyring, Mrs. S.
Conover of Ketchikan and a Mr.
Beattie.
The plane was flown to Cor
dova, from Ketchikan in six hours
and 15 minutes, said Mr. Parks,
and from Cordova to Seward in
one hour and 15 minutes.
Within a half hour of the land
ing here the plane took to the
air heading for Anchorage. Mr.
Parks stated from the Inlet city
the plane would take off for Cor
dova, last evening, where it would
be based for the remainder of the
season.
BASEBALL
•« *
NATIONAL
Cincinnati 0, New York 2.r * }. ,
St. Louis 5, Brooklyn 16.
Pittsburgh 2, Philadelphia 13.
Chicago 3, Boston 7.
AMERICAN
Boston 2, St. Louis 3.
Washington 3, Chicago 4.
Other games postponed; rain.
PACIFIC COAST
Hollywood 5, Los Angeles 10.
Sacramento 0, Seattle 3.
Oakland 2, Portland 7.
1 Missions 5, Seals 6.
FRANCE DESIRES TO
KNOW WHY AMERICA
COIUHNY
PRESENCE OF MELLON IN PAR
IS INCREASES
INTEREST
PARIS. June 27. (JP) —The French
Chamber of Deputies took a jeal
ous hold on the negotiations which
Premier Laval started officially
with Andrew W. Mellon, American
Secretary of the Treasury, with a
view to finding a method suitable
to both countries for aiding Ger
many and the world.
The Chamber, in one of the most
important debates in a long time,
laid down the broad lines along
which the government must follow
in considering President Hoover’s
proposal. These lines, as brought
out by numerous speakers in tense
debate, consit of strict adherance
to the Young Plan and the prin
ciple of the anctity of the uncon
ditional reparations payments.
The government which made
known its reply to President Hoo
ver’s proposal for the first time,
stated these principles in its mem
orandum to Washington, but nu
merous speakers in the Chamber
took occasion to remind the Pre
mier that he must not deviate from
them
The presence of Mellon in Paris
j increased popular interest in the'
i Chamber debate. Shortly after the
! session opened the galleries were
! crowded and during the afternoon
I large numbers were turned away.
The opposition to Hoover’s pro
j posal made queries abut the rea
i sons of the United States for com
! ing to the aid of Germany; and
j the flod or oratory continued until
late in the evening; Premier Laval
demanding that the Chamber sit
until it gave him a mandate to ne
gotiate with Mellon.
The atmosphere in the Chamber
[ lobbies reflected comments by the
deputies that they intended to fol
! low closely every step taken by the
Premier and the Secretary of For
ign Affairs.
Premier Laval opened the debate
by reading President Hoover’s pro
posal.
INTENSE HUT CUIMS
49 LIVES OKI COUNTRY
NEW YORK, June 27. (JP)—
Forty-nine lives were burned out
since summer heat went on a
rampage Thursday and singed a
| path of destruction across the
country from the Ohio River valley
to Southern California.
Temperatures sizzled at 100 de
grees and over and no relief is in
sight for over the week-end.
Michigan, Ohio and Western
Pennsylvania were swept by storms
and 12 lives were lost on the Pa
cific coast where the rains have
apparently ceased but no heat.
Freight on the SS. Denali, in
port today consisted mainly of ties
and creoatejtbd piling. Two large
oil tanks were also discharged and
they are billed for Fairbanks.