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VOLUME XVI. NUMBER 22.
SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1931.
PRICE TEN CENTS
ANIAKCHAK CRATER PROBABLY
TO BE ALASKA’S NEXT NATIONAL j
PARK WITH SEWARD EQUIPPING
POINT FOR ALL EXPEDITIONS
FK. HUBBARD TO PREPARE DETAILED REPORT
ON CRATER FOR NATIONAL PARK SER
VICE—REDINGTON, HEAD OF BIOLOGICAL
SURVEY, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE,
TO VISIT CRATER IN JULY FOR OFFICIAL
REPORT.
So much widespread interest was elicited on the
* Outside when Fr. Bernard R. Hubbard, professor of
geology at Santa Clara University , nationally known
explorer and lecturer, broke the news of Alaska's new
est wonder, the huge Aniakchak Crater, that the Jes
uit scientist changed his original plans of devoting the
summer to glacier explorations in Southeastern Alaska
to another trek into the Alaska Peninsula in order to
make a thorough scientific report on the Crater.
In a final interview to The Seward Gateway the
Glacier Priest outlines his next summer's schedule:
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AMBASSADOR CHAS. D AWES
SUGGESTED AS CHAIR
MAN
GENEVA, Jan., 26, UP)— The
.nations of the world will gather
. nee more in the last week of
January 1932, for a general con
ference toward reduction of arms
n land, sea and in the air. the
council of the League of Nations !
nas decided. ,
Choice of a chairman was de
ferred until the next session of i
"he council in May. The name of
Dr. Edward Benes, of Czecho
slovakia, has been proposed but
Ji€ Germans .object to him.
There has been a suggestion,;
far purely formal, Ambas
sador Charles Dawes will be ask
- d to accept the job. j
The council did not decide;
where the conference would be;
held but Arthur Henderson, Brit- i
ash foreign minister, said it pro
bably would be at Geneva.
DEITH SENTENCES
OEMANDED, PLOTTERS
MENEMEN, Turkey, Jan. 27. </P)
*■ —Death sentences were demand
ed by the government for 50
Turks accused of plotting a holy
■var against the republic.
The group is the first of sev
eral hundred persons to be tried
before a military court for par
• licipation in a religious revolt on
December 24. The sentence will
* be made public later.
NEW GOVERNMENT
WASHINGTON, Jan., 27, (/P)—
The Senate passed the bill pro
viding for a new government in
Aimerican-Samoa and extending
American-Samoa and extending
-establishing a government of one
House and a legislature bill of
rights.
“Although we spent two weeks
iving inside the Aniakchak Cra
ter walls last year, and aided by
ilmost perfect weather covered
jvery main feature of its variety
)f wonders, we felt that we had
Dut superficially scratched the
surface.
“Thirty square miles of differ
ent' wonders are quite an area
to cover and in looking over the
5,000 feet of movies and 1.000
still pictures taken of the crater
last summer we noted many
points of scenic and scientific
interest that should have more
detailed study and examination.
•‘The personnel will be much
the same as last year, college
students and professors. Ken
neth Chisholm [and probably
“Red’' Chisholm, now professor
of Calculus at the University of
San Francisco; Professor Haley,
a note d botanist of the same
university; and Dick Douglas, of
the Martin Johnson African Ex
pedition, now attending George
town University, have already
signified their willingness to
form the party.
“They will come up from San
Francisco in a Bering Sea fish
ing steamer and we will ail meet
inside the Aniakchak Crater
early in June. Probably I will
have to fly across the Kusko
kwim country and get into the
crater from the air.
“We will not be the only ones
in Alaska’s new wonder crater
next summer. Mr. Friele, of the
Nakat Packing Company, phon
ed me in Seattle arranging to
fly into the crater the end of
June and leave a friend there
until he returns a week later
from Bristol Bay to pick him up
again. A telegram last week re
ceived in Juneau, from Washing
ton, D. c., brought the informa
tion that Paul Redington, of the
Biological Survey, is to be senl
officially to visit the crater ir
the middle of July, so as to make
an official report to the Nationa
Park Service next fall.
“At the lecture which I gave
at the Department of Interioi
Auditorium last November, the
National Park Service were se
impressed with the wonder o;
Amakchak that they wished te
start preliminary movements te
declaring it a National Park.
feel that it will be Alaska’;
greatest wonder spot. McKinlej
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AMATEUR BANDITS TAKE TO j «
HEELS; THOUGHT SHOT }
FIRED AT ‘EM
NICE, France, Jan, 27, (/P)—
A punctured tire that blew out
just at the proper moment toj
frighten a band of young ama- >
teur robbers, saved two Ameri-j -
can dancers from a holdup on «
the Nice-Cannes road. ]
Reggie Voorhees of Memphis, j
and his partner, Jeanne Edwards,
of Washington, were stopped by :
five young highwaymen while ,
they were motoring to Marseilles, j i
The car was halted by a young ;
| man waving a red lantern. The
bandits surrounded the car just
as a loud explosion occurred and j
the five youths took to their j
heels.
| The dancers discovered the
explosion was caused by the j
: heavy car stopping on a broken
| bottle.
HOCKEY* SCORES
VANCOUVER, Jan., 27, (/Pi— j
The Vancouver hockey team re- !
gained first place in the coast
pennant race when they defeat
ed Seattle 4-3.
NEW YORK, Jan. 27. (IP) —
In the velvet curtained club Abbey, j
one of the hot spots of Broad
ways night life, two rival mobs
of gunmen shot it out before I
dawn.
Police who got to the place
i after Charles Sherman, night club :
owner and reputed gambler, had
been taken to a hospital by the
; club’s cigarct girl, found the
place a deserted shamble:Sher
man had many bruises and sev
eral wounds believed to have been
caused by bullets, but his most
serious injuries were stab wounds.
U. OF WN. WINS AGAIN
!l CORVALLIS, Oregon, Jan., 27,
(.Pj—The University of Washing
ton basketball team defeated
j Oregon State College 31-23.
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: RIOT SUITES IH
MISSOURI PH
i JEFFERSON CITY, Jan. 27. (JP)
: | —An apparent riot started in one
> hall of the Missouri state peni
- tentiary where the hardboiled
- convicts are kept.
The prisoners had captured the
3 guards in the building and fired
t several shots at a guard tower
i on the north wall of the prison.
j Warden Rudolph organized a
1 force of guards in an attempt tc
subdue the rioters.
r OLD DOCTOR DIES
e SELMA, N. C., Jan., 26, {£>)—
3 James Clarke Briggs, who gave
f his age at 108, and claimed to be
& the oldest physician in the Unit
3 ed States, died here. Beginning
his medical career as a surgeon
s in the Confederate Army, Dr.
V Briggs practiced for 63 years be
fore retiring.
NOTED AVIATOR FALLS
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, J a n., i
27, (/P)—Captain Einar Lund- |
oorg, Swedish aviator who res- j
sued Nobile, was seriously injur
ed when his plane crashed from
the height of 140 feet during a
practice flight.
woman explorer
GATHERS EXPEDITION
THIRD TRIP ARCTIC
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan., 26, (/P) j
—Miss Louise A. Boyd, San Fran
cisco society woman, announced
plans of her third expedition in
to the Arctic.
Miss Boyd has chartered the
Norwegian ship Veslekari which
is sailing from Aalesund, Norway
on July 1 for Northeast Green
land, Janmeyen Island.
The expedition is sponsored by
the National Geographic Society
to take photographs, gathering
i specimens of seal and polar bear
[and other hunting.
The same expedition was
I abandoned two years ago when
■ she searched for Amundsen and
1 Italia survivors, instead.
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CONFIDENCE HIE
SWINDLED DUfiBTER
MILLION DOME
CHICAGO, Jan., 26, (/P>—Re
ports that Mrs. Myrtle Black
! lidge was but one of many who
| were swindled by a confidence
ring were published in the Chi
cago Herald and Examiner.
The papers said prominent
men and women were swindled
! out of more than $250,000 during
| the last six months.
They said a Senator, whose
name was not made known, lost
$68,000 on a racing racket. David
Tinkham, an Englishman, lost,
$33,000 in a stock swindle nad
others lost amounts from $3,000
! to $90,000 on paper,
j Police are said to have defi
: nitely determined the same
group swindled Mrs. Blacklidge
j in a faro game.
YOUTHFUL SOLON US
NEK CABINET FORMEB
PARIS, Jan. 27. (tf*) —Pierre La
val, youthful independent social
ist senator and one of the lead
ers of the left center Moderates
took up the task of forming a
cabinet to succeed that headed
by Senator Theodore Steeg. which
, was overthrown in the Chamber
, of Deputies.
’ He accepted the task at the
[ hands of President Doumergue
after Briand, veteran of many
» ministeries, had declined the
l premiership, had for the fourth
. time in a year and a half.
t CHAMPION COWBOY
j SALINAS, Calif., Jan., 26, OP)
—Clay Carr, of Visalia, was an
nounced to be the world’s cham
pion all-around cowboy. Carr
. won with l,487.y2 points made
* at nine shows.
GO TO A DRAW
r PHILADELPHIA, Jan., 27, (/P)
i —Tommy Loy^hran, former light
. heavyweight champion, and Jack
- Gross, of Salem, New Jersey,
fought a 10-round draw.
RIOT STARVING. •
BUT EARLY 80.
ARKANSAS COUNTY
DISEASE SPREADING OWING
TO UNDERNOURISHED
HUMANS
FOREST CITY, Arkansas, Jan.,
27, (/P)—More than 21,000 persons
in St. Francis County out of a
population of 3,350 are receiving
aid.
Officials said the figue includ
ed practically the entire rural
population. These dependents are
receiving approximately one
third of the food they had for
merly been accustomed to, al
though they never had been ac
customed to luxury.
The average meal is comprised
of bread, molasses, beans or rice.
Disease, the result of under
nourishment, is spreading rap
idly especially among the neg
roes. The present mild weather
is an aid in combatting sick
ness although many are insuf
i ficiently clothed.'
SMOOT IS ILL
| WASHINGTON, Jan., 27, (JP>—
! Senator Reed Smoot of Utah,
| who was 69 years old this month,
has been added to the Congress
ional list of sufferers from influ
enza
SUIINEE SPECIE
WRECKED, TEIESSEE
HELENWOOD, Tenn. Jan. 27.
(/P)—The Suwanee River special
of the Southern Railways was de
railed near here and from the
wreckage five bodies have been
The names of four of the dead
were given as Harry Lindle, en
gineer, of Somerset. Kentucky;
Charles .Sexton, fireman, also of
Somerset; Mrs, Charles D, Rin
heart. of Pasadena, California;
and Mrs. Logan Crowkill, of In
dianapolis and Tampa, Florida.
The fifth body was that of an
unidentified woman passenger.
ON ACCOUNT OF BOOZE
j NEW YORK, Jan., 27, (£>)—
. Captain William Cluett of the
; schooner Josephine was shot and
killed by Coast Guardsmen off
| Staten Island. The sloop was
j seized with $100,000 worth of
,; liquors and 15 persons were
j placed under arrest.
FAMILY CRYPT FOR
;j BOOT All RUBERS
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■ FRESNO, Calif., Jan., 27, OP)—
1 The body of Alma Rubens, 33
year-old motion picture actress
who died recently in Los Angeles,
reposed in solitary state at an
i undertaker’s, awaiting entomb
• ment at the Fresno Mausoleum
• in the family crypt.
The actress lived here when
; a girl. Her mother, Mrs. Theresa
Rubens, and her sister, Mrs. Haz
el Large, live in Madera.
t SOFIA, Bulgaria, Jan. 27. OP) —
; Queen Giovanna, bride of King
: Boris’ brother and sister to Prince
, Cyril and Princess Eudoxia, are
suffering from influenza.