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VOLUME XVI. NUMBER 203.
PRICE TEN CENTS
SEWARD, ALASKA, TIJESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1931.
MAS. LINDY IS “BELL
OF THE BILL;' IT
BRILLIANT AFFAIR
TOKYO, Sept. 1. (/P)—Lindy ha§*
lost the spot light to his wife. The
Colonel, himself, commented on it.
The occasion was a brilliant din
ner by Premier Wakatsuki to the
Lindys and brought to an end a
round of socis.l functions in honoi
of the fliers.
The invitations were phrased so
she came first. The Premier gave
the dinner “to a daughter of my
friend, Dwight W. Morrow and her
husband.”
During the evening cabinet mem- j
ber, their wives, and other distin
guished guests gathered around
Mrs. Lindbergh and the Colonel re
marked “she’s the belle of the ball.”
There was no doubt about that be
cause later he agreed “it’s Anne’s
party, all right.” The affair was
one of the most brilliant here in
years. After a few more days of
sight-seeing the Lindberghs go to'
China. i
SCARLET FEKB IS
I ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Sept. 1.
(VP)—a radio request from Nush
agak was picked up by an am
ateur radio operator at Anchorage
slating that the village was in
need of serum to combat and
prevent the spread of a scarlet
fever epidemic which has broken
\ out in that region.
/ The request has been sent on to
the Bureau orf Indian Affairs at
Juneau.
FINE GUI FUTURE
*
KIRKCUDBRIGHT, Scotland,
Aug. 31. (/P)—The world’s exper
ience in the precent economic dis
tress will be of great value as a
guide for the future and in bring
ing about needed domestic reforms
in the various nations, American
Ambassador Charles G. Dawes said
in a speech here at the dedication
of a memorial gymnasium, given
xc Kirkcudbright by Thomas Coch
ran, New York banker.
The ambassador said that at the
same time, the hope of constructive
accomplishment in international
negotiations is advanced.
i
SEALED ARMORIES IN
VILLAGES PROTESTER
JERUSALEM, Aug. 31. (A5)—Pro
testing the use of sealed armories
in outlying Jewish villages, the
entire Arab population of Pales
tine was on strike and authorities
feared disturbances.
Military authorities have taken
charge in Nabulus, where a British
police officer and six Arabs were
injured in a clash. The Arabs
hurled stones at the police and
the latter fired when the Arabs
refused to disperse.
BACKS HEARST PLAN
SEATTLE, Sept. 1. (/P)—In line
with the calling of an extra ses
sion of Congress to deal with the
unemployment situation and for
the purpose of floating tfre $5,
000,000,000 “prosperity bond” plan
of William Randolph Hearst, the
Seattle City Council has approved j
of the plan.
HOMEMIIDE PLANE IS
SMALL BUT WINNER
CLEVELAN, O., Sept. 1. (/P)—
Ben O. Howard of this city has a
plane so small that no larger man
could get into it. Among the
other “small” dimensions which
his craft claims is that he has to
get into the plane sideways, be
cause of its narrowness and he
has to fly without shoes. How
ever, this did not prevent him
from challenging other and much
larger planes in the National Air
races here.
He entered a race, “just to be
ornery,” he said and succeeded in
coming in third. He made an av
erage of 162 miles per hour.
He built the plane in his yard in
back of his garage.
SWORN IN TODAY
WASHINGTON. D. C., Sept. 1,
(/Pi—Mr. Evans, new member of
the Federal Farm Board, was to
be sworn in today by President
Herbert Hoover. He fill the va
cancy caused by the recent resig
nation of a member. o
THOUSANDS DISABLED
SETS OF WORLD 10
ARE OUT OF WORK
WASHINGTON, Sep I. 1. (JP) —
More than 61,000 disabled veterans
of the World War were reported
by E. C. Babcock, divisional com
|mander, to be out of jobs.
Based on a questionaire to near
i ly 300.000 men its compensation
rolls and returns from nearly half
that number showed 46,424 were
: employed and 61,666 out of work
I and 11,278 unemployable.
The organization is making plans
| for cooperation in finding them
i jobs.
CUT IN SALARIES
GARNETT, Kansas, Sept. 1. (JP)—
| A bill calling for a 25 per cent cut
i in all salaries of elective and ap
| pointive officers and employees or
| the Federal Government will be in
! troduced in the next session or
: Congress by representative Harold
j McGugin, republican of the third
Kansas district.
MUST HAVE GARDENS
IRON MOUNTAIN, Mich., Sept.
11. (JP)—All family men employed
; at the local Ford plant must have
|'gardens next year if they want
| to hold their jobs, Henry Ford
j said. Those who have na avail
I able space will be provided land
j by the company.
! Mrs. Anna Kaykin, aged 105, of
Sheffield, Eng., smokes two ounces
of tobacco a week and drinks a
daily glass of beer.
ITEMS OF ALASKA
1TERESTIIT TIE
NATH CAPITAL
(By W. A. Steel)
In a recent letter from Henry O’
Malley, Commissioner of Fisheries,
he states that the run of salmon
this year in Alaskan waters is prov
ing very satisfactory, adding: “Bris
tol Bay did not secure a big pack,
but very much better than last!
year, as they packed nearly 1,100,
000 cases. The Nushagak side of
the bay was poor, but that was
forecast from the statistics avail
able. The south side did very well.
Chignik was having a good run
of reds. The run of pinks around
Kodiak is excellent, altho there is
a shortage of reds in that area.
Cook Inlet^ is behind last year but
the season of 1930 was an excep
tionally good one in that area.
Prince William Sound to-date is
ahead of last season. Southeastern
Alaska is not up to 1930, but it I
looks as if it is going to be an im-!
provement over 1929, which of
course was the return of fish from
1927, which was an extremely poor
year.”
Although the Alaska salmon pack
of 1931 promises to exceed the av
erage year, there is a fear that there
will be a further decline in the sell
ing price, which went down last
year and hardly netted producing
costs. The packing of salmon is a
business subject to great fluctua -
tions as is shown by the figures for
1929 and 1930.
A decline was recorded from 1,
1 700,000 cases of red salmon in 1929
I to 850,000 cases in 1930. The total
j pack of 1929 was valued at $41,
700,000 and that of 1930 was $29,
j 900,000 for all types of salmon. The
figures on red salmon compare with
a total pack of that type of fish
with the record 2,600,000 cases in
1918, a figure abnormally high.
R. S. Hollinghead, Assistant
Chief, Foodstuffs Division, Depart
ment of Commerce, in discussing
the Alaska salmon pack last week
said: “While the pack this year may
be even larger than the early stages
indicate, there is not the prospect
of great profits for canning com
panies who are faced with produc
tion costs that threaten to eat up
much of their returns. The com
panies, however, are generally re
garded as being well financed and
able to stand the difficulties that
have accompanied the economic
distress characterizing gen erai
conditions.”
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The inspection of the Post Office
Department has discovered a short
age of $2,100 in the accounts of
the Postmaster at Unga. As a con
sequence Gus E. Sjoberg has been
installed as Acting Postmaster,
pending the naming of a perman
ent official. Because of the curtail
men of postal business at Kenne
cott that office as been relegated
from the third to the fourth class.
A petition has been filed with the
Post Office Department requesting
the reestablishment of the office
at Alatna, which is on the Koyukuk
river and on the mail routes be
DECLARED WINNER
CLEVELAND, Sept. 1. (/P)—Mrs.
Phoebe Omlie of Memphis, Tenn.,
was declared the winner of the
transcontinental handicap air der
by from Santa Monica, Calif. The
race is held annually as a pre- j
liminary to the national air races.!
SID HALL CAINE, DEAD
LONDON, Sept. 1. (/P) —Sir Hall
| Caine, 78 years of age, noted Bri
tish author, died at 10:50 Monday
night.
Sir* Hall Caine was born May 11,
1853, at Runcorn, Chesire, of mix
ed Manx and Cumberland parent
age. At an early age he went to
live with relatives on the Isle of
Man where his boyhood, spent m
a condition of poverty, consider
ably influenced his imaginative
writings in later years.
Sir Hall was married and had two
sons. One of them, Derwent Hah
Caine became an actor of note ana
appeared in the leading roles of
j many of his father’s dramatic
I works.
BUILDS PLANE FOR $220
BERLIN, Sept. 1. (JP)—Folks who
cannot afford a car may be able
to get around in' a Sturmvogel.
F. Koch, has built for $220, a little
airplane which he calls the Storm
Mird.” It has a v/ing spread of
| 26 feet.
SMOTHERED POLITICAL
EM SCANDAL OF 1928
HE TO LIFE AGAIN
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 31.
I i/p)— Through investigation into
the $183,000 political fund kept by
Claudius H. Huston, former Re- j
publican national chairman, in a |
New York bank during the 1928
Presidential campaign, disclosed
checks given and never before
reported, loomed as a result of
the startling disclosures of the
Nye committee’s inquiry into the
political affairs of Bishop James
Cannon, Jr.
The committee’s inquiry stood!
adjourned until October, but the
investigators will probe the Hus
ton account.
When 50 girls appeared in high
school at Lancaster, Pa., without
stockings, they were sent home with
the admonition to not return until
completely garbed.
tween Tanana and Betties. The
Episcopal Mission and an important
trading post are at Alatna.
The residents of St. Timothys,
which is north-west of the Chisna
Mining section, are petitioning the
Department for the reestablisment
of the post office at this location.
The office was closed five years
ago when Rev. Wright, the mission
ary, left and there was no one who
was willing to act as Postmaster.
The mission is to be reopened and
Rev. E. A. McIntosh is agreeable to
serving as Postmaster. The Bureau
of Indian Affairs is also opening a
school there next month.
EXCELLENT ADVICE IS
RELATIVE TOLERANCE
OSLO, Norway, Sept. 1. (/P)—Dur
ex-king Alfonso’s, of Spain, recent
visit to a small Norweigian coast
town he warned in an interview,
that some day the world would re
gret its tolerance of Russian Com
munism.
“I noticed a Russian ship in the
harbor,” he remarked. ‘‘I hope you
Norwegians are discreet enough
not to allow a crew to come ashore.'
The Russians seem to me to be the
important cause of our economic
troubles which exist ail over the
world.”
Of his own country he said: “Do
you believe that the deeply relig
ious Spanish people would have •
looted and burned their own con
vents had there been no Russian in
fluence at work?”
THINK ITTOMEY
CLEARED OF CHARGES
; NEW YORK. Sept. 1. (£>)—'Thomas
*C. T. Crain, Tammany district at
J torney of New York City, was clear
| ed of charges of incompetency in
i office and Governor Franklin Roc
t sevelt dismissed the allegations pre
ferred by the City Club after re
ceiving recommendations of Sam
uel Seabury, anti-Tammany demo- „
crat council for the legislative com
mittee investigating city govern
{ ment.
} Seabury found there had been
I no proof of personal dishonesty or
i gross incompetance to warrant At
l torney Crain’s dismissal.
NOT YET
BRUSSELS, Aug. 31. (£>) — Pro
fessor Picard has decided to make
a second ascent by balloon before
presenting the report on his re
cent ascent into the stratosphere
to the Belgian Funds National De
Rocherche Scientifique.
In this second ascent he will not
go higher than 13,000 to 16,000 feet.
His object will be to verify certain
observations that he made in the
stratosphere.
USE VIOLENT METHODS
MADRID, Aug. 31. (£>)—'The Mad
rid police are working hard to
check the activity of Communist
agitators who have been much in
evidence lately.
Three nights ago 13 alleged
Communists were arrested, ac
cording to the police. Documents
of importance were found on them
showing that the Communists are
prepared to use violent methods.
Edith McDonald Stolberg and
Eddie Dahl were married at Hot
Springs recently, reports the Fair
banks News-Miner.