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MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXVIII. NUMBER 200.
SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 1932.
PRICE TEN CENTS
UNITED FRONT OF
EUROPE ON DEBTS SI
TO RITE BEEN BROKEN
PARIS. Aug.. 26, —The myster
ious visit of Montague Norman,
governor of the Bank of England,
to the United States, is the first
break in the united front of Eur
opean nations on the subject of
war debts.
Visiting America under an as
sumed name and with his move
ments shrouded ;in mystery, the
Uaglish financier’s mission is to
open Angio-American discussion
of war debts, it was said, thus un
dermining the gentlemen’s agree
ment reached by the former Al
lied powers at Lausanne. This
agreement provides that annul
ment of German reparations be
made contingent upon favorable
war debt action by America.
MOLLISON'S WIFE STILL
DESIRES FIT tTLINTIG
LONDON, Aug., 26, —Amy John
son, who used to do a lot of long
distance flying before she married
Capt, James Mollison, said she had
reconsidered her plan to fly across
the Atlantic.
This, she said, was in deference
to the wishes of her husband, who
last week made the first East to
West flight across the Atlantic,
from England to Newfoundland,
and who planned to take off today
on a return flight.
LIFE GUARD AND ENff
SIP BLOWS AT BENCH
ALEXANDRIA, Egypt., Aug. 26,
(JP)—Hilmey Bey, Egypt's celebrated
Channel swimmer and friend of
Gertrude Ederle, swapped punches;
with the Austrian Minister to Egypt (
after the diplomat had been drag
ged by police out of a boiling surf
where it was against police regu
lations to swim.
It happened at fashinable Stan
ley Bay where Hilmey is a beach in
spector. The fight was a draw but
the Egyptian government apolo
gized.
HUGE POWER PUNT IN
RUSSIA iSJIEDICITED:
KICHKAS, USSR, Aug., 26, —
Dnesprostroy, the world’s largest
power plant, was dedicated yester- |
day. This hydroelectric power
plant, far exceeding similar un- j
dertakings and difficulty of accom-,
plishment. is being completed on
the Dnieper river.
From an installed capacity of
756.000 horespower, abundant elec
tricity will be available to smelt
iron and other metals and to op
erate chemical industries.
EAST ST. LOUIS
EAST ST. LOUIS, 111., Aug. 26. (/P)
—This southern Illinois metropolis |
has been experiencing some of the j
same troubles as Chicago.
With funds lacking to meet pay
rolls, even after a 10 per cent cut,
a payless furlough of one week a
month was placed in effect in cer
tain departments.
BEAT HER OWN FIGURE
NEWARK, N. J., Aug., 26, —Mrs.
Amelia Earhart Putman arrived
at 11:30 p. m. Thursday from Los
Angeles, making a non-stop hop
in 19 hours and four iftinutes, five
minutes less than she had antici
pated. The noted aviatrix was to
leave today for her home at Rye,
there, to resume her knitting until
she figures out another record to
break.
AVALANCHE OF BUYING
NEW YORK, Aug., 26, —In the
; market commodities a navalanche
| of orders marked Thursday acti
I vities. Replenishment of depleted
stocks after two years of depres
sion, was given as the reason for
the tremendous amount of orders.
'ATTEMPT FIDE AMERICAN
CONSULATE FRUSTRATED
SEVILLE, Spain, Aug., 26, —Un
identified persons attempted to
burn the American consulate here
during the night, but the flames
were extinquished before serious
damage had been done.
A watchman aroused Richard
Ford, the consul, who lives in the
building, and assisted by neigh
bors, the blaze was put out before
more than a few hundred dollars
damage had been done.
OFF FOR OSLO
NEW YORK, Aug., 26, —While
Colonel Hutchinson and his flying
family flew from St. John, N. F-, to
Anticosti Island in three hours and
three miniutes, completing the se
cond leg of their flight from New
York to London, Clyde Lee and J.
Bochkon, who started from Barre,
Vt, hopped off from Harbor Grace
for Oslo, Norway.
TURTLE RACES HALTED
BY TIE AUTHOR!
HOLLYWQOD, Calif., Aug., 26. —
Uninvited guests ruined the opening
of the Hollywood Terrapin racing
season.
The unbidden guests were police
officers who raided the races and
took into custody for questioning,
Louis Hirsch, promoter, and Tod
Sloan, one-time premier jockey,
who had acted as judges.
Police said they believed specta
tors were gambling on the out
come of the races.
BAR CONVICT GOODS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug., 26. —
The American Federation of La
bor is campaigning to persuade
State legislatures to take advan
tage of the Hawes-Cooper act, per
mitting states to bar the sale of j
convict-made goods within their I
borders.
SIX-MILER CLAIMS RECORD
BURLINGTON, N. C., Aug 26, (JP)
Paul “Hardrock” Simpson bettered
the American and world’s profes
sional record for the six-mile run
here when he covered the distance
in 30 minutes, four seconds. He
will make application for accept
ance of the record.
Mrs. M. D. Snodgrass and two:
daughters, Mary and Margaret, re- |
turned today from the States after j
an extended absence. Mr. Snod
grass, of the colonization depart-1
ment of the Alaska Railroad, at j
Anchorage, met the family here, j
ROUND-TRIPPERS
Among the round-trippers on the
SS Aleutian, in port today from
Seattle ,are: Mr. and Mrs. L. W.
Baker, Jean Baker, Mr. and Mrs.
L. E. Heppenstall, Joyce Heppen
stall, Elizabeth Johnson, Mrs. E
Johnson, Miss E. M. McKenzie,
Mrs. C. C. Moss, Robert Moss, Mary
E. Reed, Lt. Col. C. L. Sturdevant.
Wayne Fox, who has been stay
ing with his grandparents, Mr. and
Mrs. Dave Downey, at the Downey
& Babcock mine at Nuka bay, will
arrive in Seward on the next trip
of the MS Rolph III. Wayne will
enroll in the Seward high school.
Leon Urbach, local busness man
and president of the Chamber of
Commerce, who has been in Cali
fornia attending the annual U. S.
chamber convention and Olympic
Games, returned today, accompa
nied by son Lawrence.
COLD POTENTUTIES
OF AUSKIl ANALYZED BY
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 26.—
Recent reports from Alaska of the
discovry of gold deposits in Copper
River valued at $300,000,000 and
rich ore at Nuka Bay, in which val
ues as high as $50,000 per ton have
been made, have developed consid
erable interest in the gold possibili
ties of the Territory. Studies of
various districts by the Geological
Survey are now being scanned crit
ically, it was announced at the De
partment of the Interior.
Whether the estimates of the
probable values are or are not cor
rect, at least the discovery of new
gold deposits confirms the predic
tions of the Geological Survey from
a series of studies it has conducted
on the mineral potentialities of Al
aska, it was explained. The follow
ing additional information was sup
plied the Department:
Gold has been the most valuable
metal produced in Alaska during
the past 30 years. It is eit'mated
that the value of gold production
has amounted to $398,659 while the
next most valuable metal has been
copper, which has amounted to
$213,964,000. Silver production has
totaled $11,994,000 and coal $7,940,
000.
As reported recently by the Geo
logical Survey, gold production last
year led all other mineral and met
al production and exceeded by $1,
000.000 the production in 1930. The
value of gold produced in 1931 was
$9,507,000.
Greater interest has been cen- j
tered on the discovery of new gold
deposits in Alaska since the Geolog
ical Survey published reports cn
its studies of minerals in various
areas. In 1931 Congress voted
$250,000 to continue mineral studies
in Alaska, and from the investiga
tions under this apropriation va
rious studies have been issued from
time to time.
Of this amount $60,000 was alio-!
cated to Willow Creek, Fairbanks,
CGpper Mountain, Girdwood, Kan
tishna, and Moose Pass. total of
$24,000 was allocated to the West
Fork of Chulitna, Valdez Creek,
Talkeetna Mountains and Yentna
districts.
From a preliminary report on
lode mining activities in the Alaska
Railway Belt, it was asserted that
in the Fairbanks area, Ryan lode
can be mined at a profit. It is esti
mated that here over 1,000,000 tons
of ore are deposited, carrying be
tween $4 and $5 per ton in gold.
The Fairbanks district offers
great possibilities of having large
amounts of gold yet uncovered.
The Eva Creek reserves hold ap
proximately 50,000 tons of ore car
rying $20 per ton. The prospects
here are bright.
Veins varying from a few inches
to three feet in width and extend
in 100 feet in length lay in the Val
dez creek district with values in
gold $80 per ton and upward. There
are several gold bearing lodes near
placer workings which have bien
superficially prospected.
One of the veins is as much as
1,000 feet long and several feet
wide. This does not appear to be
of high average grade. However,
all of the veins appear to have pos
sibilities for future development.
An improvement in transportation
facilities might aid in their devel
opment extensively.
There is reason to hope that small
pockets of gold ore, with tellurides,
may exist in the Valdez district
Systematic search might result in
finding such pockets which would
give rich returns without the use
of much equipment.
Studies 4n the Girdwood and
Moose Pass districts give promise of
rich ore not yet extracted. The
Fairbanks district produced nearly
$80,000,000 from placer deposits
between 1904 and 1930. It is esti
mated that dredges or other me
chanical devices working the same
streams, and others that could not
be worked by hand methods, may
produce an even greater amount in
the next 25 years.
It is believed by experts of the
Geological Survey that the lode gold
POLICE RESIST EFFORT
STRIKERS TO INVADE
FRANKLIN COAL RAINES
CHRISTOPHER, 111., Aug., 26, —
Guns blazed as a force of more
than 500 deputy sheriffs repelled
the first attempt of approximately
15,000 striking miners from North
and Central Illinois to invade
Franklin county to close coal
mines operating under the new $5
daily wage contract.
Shotguns, pistols and clubs were
used by the deputy sheriffs in the
first clash of the long threatened
mine war, but the gunfire was di
rected chiefly at the tires of auto
mobiles used by the strikers.
Two miners were shot and slight
ly wounded and at least 100 of the
invaders were injured by blows
from clubs. In the riot, the strik
ers’ vanguard of 2,000, deserted
about 300 automobiles and trucks,
the tires of which had been pierced
by bullets and the windshields
shattered by clubs.
Attempting to make a hasty re
treat, drivers ran their cars into
the ditches or into cornfields of
Franklin county. Some women were
in the cars. The miners escaped
into the fields and woods and be
gan striking back westward to join
the main body of the 15,000 strik
ers, who were determined to in
vade the mine fields at dawn.
DESCRIBE BEAUTIES !
OF ALASKAN TRIP IN i
HOME-TOWN PAPER!
“The Alaska of reality does not
appear as the Alaska of the geo
graphy book,” Mrs. Fred Bader of
Fremont, Neb., said upon returning
home from a trip to the North
land. “It is so much more wonder
ful and beautiful than mere words
or even pictures could ever por
tray.”
At Seward Mr. and Mrs. Bader
were met by Miss Maud May, a re
gular summer visitor to Alaska, who
took them on an automobile drive.
The beautiful scenery and the Jes
se Lee Home for children, and
other attractions, were features of
the trip.
Arriving in Alaska just after the
longest day in the year, the Fre
monters were able to determine
why Alaska is called “the Land of
the Midnight Sun.” They were able
to read at night until a late hour
without artificial light. It was ex
plained to the interesting couple
that the long days accounted for
the phenomenal growth of vegeta
tion.
Mrs. T. S. Thomasson and daugh
ters, Phyllis and Inez, arrive in the
city Thursday evening from their
home in Anchorage for a brief vis
it, returning home today.
BASEBALL SCORES
AMERICAN LEAGUE
New York 4, Cleveland 3.
Boston 5, Chicago 4.
Washington 8, Detroit 5.
Phillies 15, St. Louis 5.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Chicago 9, Brooklyn 3.
Phillies 11-6, Pittsburgh 3-5.
New York 6, St. Louis 5.
PACIFIC COAST
Missions 9, Hollywood 7.
Portland 8, Oakland 0.
San Francisco 10, Los Angeles 2
Seattle 13, Sacramento 5.
deposits in this area, which pro
duced nearly $2,000,000 between
1910 and 1930, can produce in the
next 25 years, under adequate fi
nancial support and skilled tech
nical and administrative direction,
an amount of gold that will com
pare favorably with the $80,000,000
production so far yielded by the
placer deposits.
Similarly prospects are bright
for new discoveries of gold in the
WiMow Creek lode district, the Den
nison Fork area, and the Mount
Eielson district.
MRS. MC CORMICK DIES
CHICAGO, Aug., 26, —The long
illness of Mrs. Edith Rockefeller
! McCormick terminated in death on
[ Thursday at 4:40 p. m. Mrs. Me
Cormick’s death was brought about
by a cancer. She was 60 years of
age.
HERB GIVEN BETTER
RATING IN THE BALLOTS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug., 26, —
President Hoover slightly improv
ed his position in the latest tabu
lation of ballots in the nation
wide presidential poll of all the
Hearst newspapers.
With 80,472 votes canvassed Mr.
Hoover had 391 more who voted
Republican in 1928 now supporting
him, than Governor Roosevelt has
of the 1928 Democrats.
Last Tuesday, Governor Roose
velt had 131 more Democrats than
Hoover had Republicans.
BEAT PREVIOUS MARK
ZURICH, Switzerland, Aug., 26,
—Professor Piccard, Swiss scien
tist, back from Italy where his
stratosphere balloon landed, was
notified by the Federation of In
ternational Aeronautics, that he
reached an altitude of 16,500 met
ers, or 10*4 miles altitude.
RECORD IS MADE IN
PREVENTION OP FIRES
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug., 26, —
The year 1932 may set an all-time
record in efficient prevention of
forest fires.
Up to July 31 of 1931, 251,000
acres of national forest land had i
been burned over.
This year, in August, only 54,000
acres had been lost. Last year the
Federal government spent $888,000
in fighting fires before August 1.
This year it has spent $195,000.
BLIND GIRL EXPERT TYPIST
PITTSBURG, Kas., Aug. 26, (/P)—
Totally blind since she was 3 years
old, Claudia Gwendolyn Lamb, 6,
nevertheless has become an expert
typist and a talented player of pi
ano and violin. With a younger
sister she plans to enter a college
within a year of two and study for
a journalistic career.
HORSE SWAPPING REVIVED
PRENTISS, Miss., Aug. 26, (A5)—
Horse lovers of south Mississippi
have moved to revive the Horse
Swapping league, an institution
that flourished 40 years ago. The
purpose is to increase interest in
horse breeding, which has become
dormant with the “machine age.”
RELIEF IN THREE YEARS
LONDON, Aug., 26, —Scotland
will be able to secure self-govern
ment in three years, according to
a prediction by the Scottish na
tionalist party.
FOR CHINESE RELIEF
HARBIN, Aug., 26, —Appropria
tions were received from the i
League of Nations for immediate
assistance to the more than 1,000,
D00 sufferers from floods which
ruined large areas in Manchuria.
PILOT COPE BRINGS 3
First of the Anchorage air “ace”
to alight today, was Pilot Lon Cope,
3f the Pacific International Air
ways, who brought three passen
gers from the thriving Cook Inlet
City and “Center of Everything.”
Pilot Cope was to return to Anchor
age, with a full load, this forenoon.
TEXAS VISITORS
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Kurth and two
children, from Texas, are among
the round-trip visitors today from
the SS Aleutian. They are friends
of Mr. and Mrs. P. C. McMullen
who are entertaining them while
here. Mrs. McMullen took the Tex
as visitors out to Lawlng for the
day, a trip which the Kurths’ will
no doubt greatly enjoy, traversing
as it does, the beautiful auto tour
over a remarkably fine highway to
renowned Kenai lake.
MIN? PASSENGERS
WERE ENDANGERED IN
COLLISION ON OCEAN
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug., 26, —
Forty passengers who sailed from
here last Tuesday were endanger
ed early yesterday when the
French passenger and freight ship
“Wyoming” collided with the cargo
boat “Peter Helms” in a dense fog
off Fort Bragg.
Among the passengers on the
French vessel were Francis Tap
pan, University of Southern Cali
fornia football star, and All-Amer
ican choice, and his bride, the for
mer Betty Moreno, daughter of
Antonio Moreno, screen actor.
The “Wyoming,” commanded by
Captain I. David, was enroute to
Vancouver, while the, “Peter Helms”
of the McCormick Line, was bound
for San Francisco from Astoria,
under the command of Captain J.
Silvia.
FAMOUS JOCKEIWLL
HERD RACING SUES
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Y., Aug.
26, —Colonel Maxwell Howard, of
Dayton, Ohio, a prominent paper
manufacturer, plans formation of
a new racing stable with Earle
Sande in complete charge.
Sande revealed that he would
become trainer and manager for
Colonel Howard at the close of the
present Saratoga meeting. Buying
and selling horses will be entirely
in the famous jockey’s, hands.
SILK SHIPMENT IS
SEATTLE, Aug., 26, —The lar
gest silk cargo shipped across the
Pacific since 1924, arrived on the
liner President Cleveland from
ports in the Far East.
The silk shipment, valued at $1,
752,450 is in 4,494 bales, 513 of
which were unloaded at Victoria,
B. C.
The Victoria shipment was to be
reloaded on the SS H. F. Alexan
der, for San Francisco, to be re
shipped to New York by water.
Two special trains of 16 cars
each will hurry the Seattle cargo
to New York.
FORE, OLD CROWS!
MILDRUA, Australia, Aug. 26, (JP)
—Golfers playing a championship
match at Mildura, Victoria, had a
shotgun barrage in front of them
to chase large flocks of crows which
had taken to stealing the golf balls.
When a contestant teed up, the
crows gathered at the next green
waiting for the ball. This caused
the tournament committee to dele
gate a caddy for picket duty at ad
vance posts with a shotgun.
SANDS NEAR 5EID0I
HELD GOLD IDES
A fellow working the gravels on
the beach between Bluff Point and
Anchor Point, across from Seldo
via and about 15 miles from that
thriving metropolis, is making sat
isfactory recovery of gold.
With a rocker and a long-tom,
this lone-miner on one occasion is
said to have taken out $7 in one
day’s cleanup. The values harvested
vary greatly. A long-tom is said to
be the most suitable method for
handling the sand, it is reported.
LIFE IMPRISONMENT
MADRID, Spain, Aug., 26, —The
death penalty sentence for General
Jose San Jurgo, leader of the re
cent Seville revolt, was changed
Thursday to life inprisonment