VOLUME XXVIII. NUMBER 106.
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 6, 1932.
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HONOLULU. May 6—Lt. Thomas
H. Massie has been ordered by the
Navy Department to report for
duty in the San Francisco district
and he is planning on leaving here
Saturday. Mrs. Massie' will accom
pany him Mrs. Granville Fortes
cue will probably be leaving the
island for the mainland at an early
date also.
Lieutenant Massie was trans
ferred by the Navy Department on
recommendation of Rear Admiral
Sterling, commandant of the Ha
waiian Naval District. A recom
mendation is awaiting from Ster
ling regarding the transfer of the
two enlisted men also convicted in
the slaying of Joe Kahahawai.
The Navy will not institute dis
ciplinary action in view of the ab
sence of undisciplinary action
against the Navy personnel in
volved in the case and that in view
of the absence of any action by the
Navy. President Hoover will not be
called on to consider whether or
not Massie should be dismissed
from the service
The Naval personnel here has
started a city-wide boycott against
the Honolulu merchants because
Governor Lawrence Judd issued
commutations instead of full par
dons to the four Americans con
victed of manslaughter in the kill
ing of Joe Kahahawai.
Governor Lawrence M. Judd, in
answering a query as to why he
commuted the sentences of the
four defendants instead of grant
ing them a pardon, said that he
had not been asked for a pardon.
A reprieve was what was demanded
and this is what they got.
The trial of the four remaining
alleged attackers of Mrs. Massie
appears to be destined to go by
the board, as general opinion is
that the case be dropped and hence
the plans are up in the air some
what.
BATTLE CONTROL STATE
CONVENTION UNDERWAY
SEATTLE, May 6. (/P> — Decisive
action in the battle for control of
the Republican State Convention
tomorrow was anticipated as the
Resolutions Committee assembled
here in an effort to frame a plat
form for the convention.
Former Lieutenant Governor Lon
Johnson, and an opponent of Gov
ernor Hartley, appeared to be in
for clear sailing for selection as
the G. O. P. keynoter.
POLITICAL DOPING
SEATTLE, May 6.—With Garner’s
apparent increasing success as evi
denced by the California election,
a move is underway to form a
coalition of the Garner and Roose
vent forces. In the coalition move,
Roosevelt would be placed on the
board for President and Garner for
Vice President.
ASKED FORGET POLITICS
WASHINGTON, D. C„ May 6.—
President Hoover sent Congress a
3.000-word message Thursday ask
ing members to forget party poli
tics so that they could more easily
agree on balancing the budget. The
Chief Executive pointed out that
the public is becoming alarmed
over the failure of Congress to set
tle this problem of balancing the
budget.
FARM EXPERIMENT
SEATTLE, May 6.—King County
officials are working on a plan of
conducting a collective farm ex
periment on a scale similar to
the plan now being used in Soviet
Russia. The plan is to turn a num
ber of farms, now owned by the
State, over to the unemployed, who
will operate the farms. If the of
ficials succeed in putting over their
plan, Washington will be the first
State in the Union to try the ex
periment
PRESIDENT OF MCE
PARIS. May G. (IP) — President
Paul Doumer was shot four times
while attending a booh exhibition
given by ex-soldiers
The assailant who shot Doumer
with a revolver was said to be a
Russian.
To save Doumer’s life, an opera
tion was necessary and after the
operation was completed, the sur
geon announced that Doumer’s
condition was very grave.
Claude Parrere, noted French
novelist, and Paul Guichard, in
spector of police, were also wound
ed as a result of the shooting.
FOR FllC KIMS
In his big Pilgrim 71 plane, Pilot
Frank Dorbandt landed on the bay
today from Anchorage, to make
Seward his permanent base of op
erations.
Accompanying Pilot Dorbandt
were his mother, Mrs. L. E. DeHay
of Fairbanks who is enroute to San
Diego; L. C. McGee, head of the
McGee Airways, who is enroute to
Detroit to purchase a new plane;
Mrs. McGee, and Herb Larison,
Dorbandt’s mechanic.
One of the founders of a pres
ent large Alaska flying concern,
; Pilot Dorbandt has been inactive
i in the commercial field for over a
j year, but now that his sales con
! tract, which forbade him to engage
! in commercial flying in Alaska
; over a certain period, has elapsed,
! he once more reenters the field as
I an independent flyer and has
j chosen Seward as his headquarters.
Coincident with his arrival in
| this city, came copies of the April
124 New York Sunday Times In
! which a full page in the rotograv
ure section is devoted to his most
recent exploit, that of making an
aerial survey of Alaska Peninsula
and Aleutian Island volcanoes in
cluding the famous Aniakchak,
Pavlof, Katmai and the flaming
| Shishaldin, which has been erupt
1 ing for the last two months. The
activity of these volcanoes has been
recorded to the world these past
months in dozens of news stories
| sent out by The Gateway. The
i New York Times photographs are
beauties, even that of Dorbandt,
himself.
Mrs. Dorbandt will arrive shortly
from Anchorage to make her home
here. Mr. Larison (this is good
news, girls) is single; thus far.
NATIONAL
Boston 6, Cincinnati 9.
Brooklyn 2, Chicago 1.
New York 6, St. Louis 10.
AMERICAN
St. Louis 11, Boston 3.
Cleveland 3, Philadelphia 15.
PACIFIC COAST
Portland 6, Seattle 2.
GIVEN 10 LASHES
WILMINGTON, Del., May 5.—
i Three negroes convicted of stealing
| chickens were given 10 lashes each
i in the New Castle County work
house. In addition, they must
! serve jail terms.
NEW AIRPLANE
j LONDON, May 5.—The invention
of a wingless, practically uncrash
able airplane, capable of flying be
tween 300 and 400 miles an hour,
is the claim of Senor De La Cierva,
the designer of the windmill. It
is of the autogyro type.
DISCOVER RUINS
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 5.—
Discovery of ruins of a hitherto
unknown city of enormous size and
great archaeological importance in
the jungles of Yucatan was an
nounced by the Carnegie Institu
tion of Washington.
PROSPECTING FROM AIR WILL
BE COMBINED IN SURVEY OF
WESTWARD ISLANDS AND BAYS
The first prospecting trip via the
air to be recorded in Alaska will
begin when the USS Gannet ar
rives at her destination at Chignik
Bay and begins mapping that por
tion of the Territory under the
direction of S. M. Farrar and his
assistant, C. Blattmann.
Primarily, the photographic
work, such as has been carried on
about the Seward harbor, is for
the purpose of providing an accu
rate topographical map for the use
of the Coast and Geodetic Survey
and other departments. However,
It is altogether possible that Ste
phen R. Capps, who in the present:
instance has become a marine!
prospector—principally in finding
a part of the ship where it rolls
least—will add to his experiences
that of reading the geologic phe- j
nomena from the air.
Prospecting for precious minerals
by airplane is now a recognized
departure of mineral science- Air
planes are being used extensively
in preliminary work, thus bridg
j a wide gap between the grizzled
j knight of the burro and plenty of
whiskers and the places where gold
and other precious metals may be
found.
Equipment Same as For Mapping
The equipment for this work
consists of practically the same im
plements employed in mapping
from the air. This consists of a
fast, powerful, stable cabin plane,
one which will not yaw and which
will, in the words of the pilot, fly
“hands off,” and a specially de
signed photographing apparatus.
The photographic map obtained
with this camera is a composit or
mosaic made from a series of skill
fully matched vertical shots which
must be true vertical exposures
taken at the same distance from
the earth and at right angles to
the earth’s surface, both in line of
flight and in lateral direction.
The pilot working usually in high
altitudes is handicapped by a scar
city of oxygen and impeded by his
! necessary heavy clothing. Never
j theless, he must fly an even keel,
J compensate for every vagary of
wind, updraft or downdraft. He
must see and retain in his memory
the location of ground objects,
perhaps over a 50-mile strip, that
a layman would not discern if they
were pointed out to him. He must
instruct his photographer when to
start taking pictures. He must re
member his boundaries; always he
must fly a predetermined compass
course.
The camera man, to keep his in
I strument at a true vertical, is aid
ed by a gimbal joint and a spirit
level which he must in turn ad
just for unavoidable, sudden move
ments of the ship.
Perfect Coordination Required
Quite frequently in mountainous
country, vertical air movements
known as “bumps” will be encoun
tered. A downdraft can drop a
ship abruptly hundreds of feet in
one second. In the next instant,
like a shot, an updraft can lift
it again 500 feet above the original
position. So constantly, the cam
era man must be on the alert.
Shots are so made that they will
overlap 60 per cent in the line of
flight and 50 per cent laterally.
The geologist is thus able to study
individual shots to follow a ledge
or stream from one photograph on
to the next.
Every flaw in the landscape is
shown by nature; these flaws are
what the geologist seeks, to best
advantage, in the full dress of
green vegetation. Vegetation var
ies in character with soil so that
the line of demarkation between
a fault and adjacent soil is shown
; distinctly.
i So great must the care be in tak
ing these aerial photographs, either
for mapping or prospecting, that
they must be taken as near as pos
sible at the same time of day,
otherwise shadows may change the
aspect of photographs so they are
unmatchable.
Lifting the Earth’s Face
With a complete mosaic of pho
tographs, the geologist may discern
every fault, and every contact may
be traced even through patches of
heavy undergrowth. By the use of
sterescope, the photograph is
brought out in miniature relief so
that every surface gouge, each
tree, mountain peak and rock out
cropping stands out in comparative
topographical relief.
Having determined the place
where mineral prospects should lie,
and in the absence of surface evi
dence, the next step is the intro
; duction of the geophysical or elec
i trie prospecting apparatus. On
: most sulphide ores, i.e-, the arsen
| ides, antimonides, tellurides and
;some native metals, it is infallible
I to a depth of 500 feet.
! So soaring majestically over the
landscape, as Mr. Farrar and his
skilled pilots have done in survey
ing Resurrection Bay and environs
during the past week, there is more
to it than merely working the shut
ter of a thousand dollar camera.
While performing his difficult
cast, Mr. Farrar must remain
poised on the balls of his feet,
ready to take up any sudden oscil
lation which might follow “bumps”
i or sudden wind flurries.
As pointed out above, both pilot
and photographer must synchro
ize accurately to obtain that which
has given Mr. Farrar and the ace
Naval pilots the reputation of being
the best in the U. S. Navy, and ex
nlains why they were selected for
the highly difficult work of map
ping the shoreline of Alaska.
Honor Men on the Job
And it may be pointed in pass
ing that every man aboard the
Gannet is an honor man in the
Navy. It is only such men that are
selected for such cruises as the
Gannet is now making.
This fact could be readily recog
nized by both the conduct and per
sonality of the fine body of offi
cers and men, and the readiness
| with which they won a high place
in the hearts of all the people of
! Seward.
| As pointed out by Mr. Capps, he
j is on a mission of determining
something of the nature of the
mineralogical and geological aspect
of the region where the Gannet
will be stationed for the summer.
In this work, it will be possible to
combine prospecting from the air
with mapping the country, and
thus a field may be covered within
a few weeks which would require
several years to view by the old
method of pack train. Of course,
the petrological and geological sur
vey work will naturally follow by
the old method, but the phenomena
which indicates the possibilities of
mineralization will have been gath
ered in advance.
The time appears to be not far
distant when the airplanes now op
erating in the Territory will be
utilized as they are in the States,
to ascertain the possibilities of
large regions which have not been
| penetrated by the prospector.
EXTORTION PLOT REVEALED
j PHILADELPHIA, May 6. — Au
| thorities are reported to be inves
j tigating an attempt by Philadel
1 phia racketeers to shake down Wil
liam A. Edison, son of the late
Thomas A. Edison, for $150,000. The
extortion is said to have been at
tempted by a threat to hinder Edi
son in his marketing of an inven
tion to eliminate static from radio
sets.
BEGIN WITHDRAWAL
SHANGHAI, May 6. — Japanese
authorities announced they have
ordered their troops to begin a
withdrawal from the positions they
now occupy in to the International
Settlement and adjacent areas. It
was the first step to carry out the
armistice signed to put an end to
the hostilities between China and
Japan in the Shanghai sector.
JOHN GARNER HOLDS
PLURALITY OF WOO
SAN FRANCISCO, May 6.—Com
plete figures for 9,600 of the 10,271
precincts in, the indicated
small change in the primary elec
tion returns indicated by earlier
counts.
John N. Garner, Speaker of the
House, was assured of California’s
44 votes in the Democratic Na
tional Convention when it meets
to nominate a candidate for Presi
dent, a check showed.
Garner held a plurality of better
than 60,000 over Franklin D. Roose
velt and Alfred Smith, largely due
to his success in Los Angeles
County and other parts of Southern
California.
PILOT HIRRY BLUNT, OF
THE ALASKAN IK
BASE PLANE AT SEWARD
The roar of a motor and a mo
mentary glimpse of a descending
plane marked the arrival in Sew
ard this morning of the first air
plane to be based here. Pilot Harry
Blunt, “The Bering Sea Eagle,”
of the Alaskan Airways, brought
his ship in and until further notice
will make Seward his home and
headquarters.
Mrs. Blunt and children are ex
pected to move here from Anchor
age after the closing of school.
Mechanician William Gill accom
panied Pilot Blunt and also re
mains here indefinitely.
! The takeoff from Anchorage was
at 4:55 a. m. and, bucking a strong
wind sweeping over age-old pla
teaus, terrain and mountainous
battlements, “the eagle” set his
ship down on Resurrection Bay 70
minutes later.
Negotiations have been underway
with the Alaskan Airways manage
ment over a period of two months
to base a plane here and it is the
intent of Pilot Blunt to fly direct
: to destination points unless trans
j fer at the Anchorage base is de
| sired or essential.
The Seward Drug Company is
the local agent for the Alaskan
Airways; phone calls and tele
grams should be so directed. The
Seward plane is equipped with pon
toons.
ME MON, EQUIPMENT
ARRIVE IN SEWING HIV
The advance moving picture
talkie man, L. B. Spaulding, of the
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Corpora
tion, Hollywood, which company
will film the feature picture “Es
kimo” in the Arctic passed through
Seward today enroute to Nome.
Together with A. C. Stewart, op
erator of the Monument gold mine
near Nome, and Geo. E. Noggle,
Mr. Spaulding flew to Anchorage
today with Pilot Harry Blunt of the
Alaskan Airways which company
today established a local base.
Mr. Spaulding arrived ahead of
the major cast, loaded down with
750 pounds of equipment, in order
to obtain native polar bear and
whale hunting pictures. The cast
of stars, directors and corps of as
sistants will leave Seattle for Nome
in July in the famous trading ves
sel Nanock. From Nome, the entire
party will sail for Point Barrow
where entire villages and other sets
will be erected.
SENTENCE BE COMPLETED
SANTE FE, N. M., May 6.—The
prison sentence of Albert B. Fall,
former Secretary 'of the Interior
during the Harding administration,
will be completed Sunday. Fall
was charged with accepting bribes
in the oil scandals and was sen
tenced to serve one year in the New
Mexico State prison, having been
sent there on July 20. Fall has not
paid his $100,000 fine yet, but it is
understood that this will not stand
in the way of his freedom.
FORMER INVESTIGATOR
GIVEN SI 00100 SECURE
KIDNAPPED LINDY SON
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 6.—
The world wide search for the kid
napped Lindbergh baby was ech
oed dramatically in the arrest of
Gaston B. Means on a charge of
obtaining $100,000 on false repre
sentations that he could obtain the
child from its abductors.
The former Justice Department
investigator was arrested after a
secret inquiry into allegations that
he had been paid the money by
Mrs. Edward B. McLean, wife of
the publisher of the Washington
Post.
In a statement through her at
torney, Mrs. McLean said that Col
onel Charles A. Lindbergh knew of
her activities but that they were
kept secret from her closest friends.
Means was confined in jail at
Washington when he failed to raise
a very high bail set by the author
ities at $100,000. Hearing will be
next Tuesday.
A grand jury investigation has
been ordered to look into the
charges that Means obtained $100,
000 under false representations that
he eould obtain the Lindbergh baby
from its abductors.
ON TRIAL
LOS ANGELES, May 6.—Charged
with supplying huge quantities of
narcotics to Alma Rubens, bril
liant and beautiful film actress
who died a drug victim, Dr. Jesse
Citron, one time fashionable phy
sician of Hollywood and Beverly
Hills, was to go on trial in Superior
Court. Mrs. Theresa Rubens, mo
! ther of the actress, is the govern
| ment’s star witness.
INCOME TAX OATES ARE
! BOOSTED TO RICH LEVEL
WASHINGTON, D. C„ May 6. (A>)
—In a final desperate lunge to
reach its goal of balancing the bud
get, the Senate Finance Committee
has written into a new revenue bill
the stiffest income tax rates ever
adopted.
The new rate begins at the nor
mal rate of four per cent on the
first $4,000 income with eight per
cent on all above that plus surtax
rates beginning at one per cent on
incomes between $6,000 and $10,000
| and graduating up to 55 per cent
on incomes above $1,000,000.
ARMY FLIER KILLED
SACRAMENTO, May 6.—Sgt. Al
fred Miller, 25, of the Army Air
Corps, was killed at Mather Field
in a practice 2,000-foot jump. He
wore two parachutes and Army
officials who examined the equip
ment said that neither rip-cord, by
which they are opened, had been
pulled. It was Miller’s first jump
since he joined the Air Corps a
year ago.
FAILURE FORESHADOWED
WASHINGTON, D. C„ May 6.—
Chairman Borah of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee warn
ed the Senate that failure of the
Lausanne Conference in June was
foreshadowed. The summer of 1932
either will mark the beginning of
economic recovery or will denote
greater misery than we have been
wont to experience, he said.
HAS NEW MONICKER
ATLANTA, Ga., May 6-—“Scar
face” A1 Capone began a new life
as convict No. 40886 in the Atlanta
Federal penitentiary. The Chicago
gang leader was just one of the
3,100 convists as he was put thru
examination to see where he will
fill in the prison microcosm.
HAD EYE OPERATION
LONDON, May 6.—Premier Ram
say MacDonald, who is suffering
from ailing eyesight, underwent an
operation on his eye Thursday and
it was thought that the operation
would probably be successful. Brit
ish eye specialists fear that the
great statesman may eventually
lose sight in both his eyes.