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. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1933.
SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1933.
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PRICE TEN CENTS
BIG ADVERTISING
GAIN IS ACCURATE
* BUSINESS INDEX
PRESIDENT SUMMONS COUN
CIL TO DISCUSS U. S.
CREDIT NEEDS
WASHINGTON, Sept. 12. —N. R.
A. reports the newspaper display
advertising has taken a definite,
appreciable upturn, today supplied
+ President Roosevelt’s recovery ef
forts with new impetus born of
these favorable tokens.
Twenty-five large cities, from
coast to coast, reported a 16 per
cent August advertising gain over
August of last year.
The National Recovery Adminis
I tration termed it as a definite re
flection by one of the most accur
ate business barometers of renewed
confidence on the part of the na
f tion’s business.
After this comment recovery
.eaderS from Roosevelt on down
settled anew to the multitude of
problems which lie ahead of them.
The President summoned the
Recovery Council to discuss the
whole line of the Governmens’t
endeavors and for stressing the
nation's credit needs.
Hugh S. Johnson called for a
public hearing on the troublesome
coal code and is pressing for a
midweek agreement. Johnson is
aided in his effort to secure an
agreement by the added spur of
♦ threatening labor conditions in
Pennsylvannia where strikes a r e
again feared.
Johnson also sought to stop vio
lations of industrial and reemply
lations of idustrial codes and re
employment agreements.
GOAT PATHS AND
ROADS FRONTIER
CLOSELY GUARDED
VIENNA. Sept. 12. —Chancellor
Englebert Dollfuss prepared to pro
claim a victory over Hitlerism.
The Chancellor h a s converted
the Austro-German fronteir into a
wall of steel against the pnssibilitv
of an Austrian Nazi invasion from
German soil and was expected to
declare his victory in the light
against overthrow by these ele
ments.
A survey of the fronteir shows
that almost every goat path or
roadway is guarded by detach
ments with steel helmets, rifles,
bayonets, m a c h i n e guns and
bombs.
SUNDAY’S SON DIES
SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 12. —
George M. Sunday, son of Billy
Sunday, evangelist, died of injuries
received in a fall from the window
of his fourth-floor apartment last
Thursday night. Before he died he
told police that the fall had been
accidental. The widow said he had
been worried over financial
troubles.
PREDICTS REMONETIZATION
SALT LAKE CITY. Sept. 12. —
Senator Key Pittman predicted to
day that the government will take
steps to remonetize silver within 30
days after the reconvening of
f Congress. He made this statement
in an address to the Chamber of
Commerce.
WANT DISCARD BARTER
SANTIAGO. Chile, Sept. 12. —
The Chamber of Commerce had a
% formal recommendation before the
ministry of finance asking that the
barter system of trade with Ecua
dor, Peru, Brazil. Argentina and
Italy be terminated. The Chamber
contends that under the present
system Chilean imports from these
countries are far greater than her
exports, thus unbalancing trade.
FORD AT HELM AGAIN
DETROIT, Mich., Sept. 12. —
Henry Ford was back at the con
trols of his giant industrial ma
chine yesterday, but is still firm
in his refusal to discuss the N. R.
A. while the Detroit city council
faced a dilemna growing out of his
failure to sign the motor industry
code.
DEFIANT OFFICERS
RESIST DEMANDS;
READY FOR SEIGE
HAVANA, Sept. 12. —Defiant
army officers barricaded them
elves for a seige at the sumptuous
Nationale Hotel and resisted the
demands of the new government
that they come to terms immed
iately.
They scoffed at the presidential
ultimatum that they yield in 24
or 36 hours and made ready for a
showdown.
Their stand is that former pre
sident Carlos de Cespedes be re
instated.
Backed by the powerful ABC se
cret society the erstwhile com
manders, estimated to number 300
to 500 men, prepared for any con
tingency. They are fully armed and
declare then can withstand a con
tinued seige or as some predicted,
a battle against the soldiers who
arose against them a week ago.
The soldiers are keeping an air
tight line around the hotel, it is
said.
The ultimatum to the army of
ficers was made by President Grau
San Martin after he had told Col
onel Horacio Ferrer that the Army
and Navy officers were in practi
cal rebellion at the hotel.
President San Martin yesterday
reiterated his stand that he was
going to aid Cuba in her fight to
throw off the shackles of foreign
nations. In a radio address he is
sued a bid for American friend
ship. He stated that Cuba was not
anti-American but was against im
perialism in all its forms.
Washington denied the report
the United States was not going
to recognize the new government.
President Roosevelt did. however,
state that recognition would not
; be made until the stability of the
Cuban government had been test
ed and it was stojwn that the
Cuban people have confidence in
their government.
SLEEP MALADY
NOT CAUSED BY
BITE TSETSE FLY
NEW YORK, Sept. 12. —It is 221
years since the sleeping sickness,
! epidemic encephalitis, was first re
corded; and 15 years since an al
! most world-wide search for its
| cause was begun.
But as doctors in St. Louis and
vicinity watched the mounting toll
| of deaths, the cause was still un
! known, although guessed at. The
general medical guess ascribes this
infection to a non-filterable virus,
one of those living disease organ
isms too small to be caught in fil
ters, or seen under microscopes.
This “epidemic” sleeping sickness
j is not classed as the same illness
which is spread by the bite of the
* tsetse fly.
. The form in midwest is due to
infection in the central nervous
system. The attack centers in var
ious parts of the brain and of
i the brain coverings, the meninges,
and of the spinal cord.
Stupor resembling sleep results
; and gives the illness its common
j name. The onset is sudden. Some
j times the lethargy is accompanied
j by distortion of vision, at others by
| delerium and terror. The symp
j tons are likely to be widely dif
ferent in different outbreaks. The
cases in one epidemic may be
mostly similar, only to vary with
the next appearance.
CROW CREEK MINE
SENDS 600 OUNCES
AMALGAM,EXPORT
Another producing gold mine has
! been developed for Alaska by the
Crow Creek Corporation, operat
ing the Monarch Gold Mine, near
Girdwood, 70 miles North from
Seward, and it is stated that on
August 31, after running a No. 1,
Denver Quartz mill some 150 hours,
the mine management sent in 600
ounces of good clean amalgam to
be exported to the free market
for gold.
| The gold produced by the mine
j is said to be quite course and the
amalgam is certain to run around
50 per cent in gold. It is said that
in the'little mill on the property
there is a continuous ring of
amalgam, both on the inside and
the outside of the mortar.
The developers of the mine, Har
ry I. Staser, president and general
; manager, started from bedrock.
They were limited in finances but
were able to buy a mill, concen
trating table, tram, grub, and
other mine accessories. These were
: all bought on a cash basis. As us
ual, the developers, had their set
backs. Pieces of machinery were
missing or broken and the future
presented a dark picture for them
unless the mine made good. Work
ing with Mr. Staser at the mine is
Harry Riley, formerly B & B fore
man on the Alaska Railroad, and
a veteran in the mining game, is
doing the honors in the Gird
wood mine. Assisting him are Wil
liam Nelson. Fritz- Larson, Aibin
Isaacson. John W. Nelson, and
John Titland, all veteran, young
and husky quartz miners. Harry
Sagers, formerly chief chef for the
| Alaska Guides keeps the miners
: happy and contented with his
fine cooking. Oscar Grey, with his
15 Caterpillar, has hauled up some
60 tons of freight from sea level
to the mine at an altitude of
3.000 feet. John Titland is the head
machinist, blacksmith, carpenter
and general mechanic. The de
| pression caught John Outside, took
: his job. home and life insurance
from him. So he came to Alaska.
; Mr. Staser. in addition to his
| duties as president and general
i manager, is the chief metallurgist,
i mill-man, gas monkey and water
: boy.
The history of the mine reads
about the same as many other
gold quartz properties on the
i Kenai Peninsula. It was discovered
j many years ago, about 1909. It
j changed hands many times—sold
for $30,000 in 1910 and for $60,000
I twice later. In 1926 it was open for
j location. The record shows that
i there have been five mills pur
i chased for the mine but none of
j the mills ever reached the proper
) ty.
The present operators of the
mine are doing exceptionally fine
and really much better than they
expected. They have plenty of ore
in sight for this and all of next
year and it is the intention of
President Staser to keep the mine
operating all winter.
About the only trouble encount
ered at the mine is a shortage of
power. They have only a 15-horse
power Fairbanks Morse engine and
they can only run one piece of
I machinery at a time. They hope,
however, to eliminate this incon
! venience soon.
j All of the dead work at the mine
1 has been done, it is said. A new
| bunkhouse has been erected, ore
I bins at the mine and mill have
j been completed, a tram has been
; built and the mill and machin
ery have been installed. Many
other mining appliances have been
rebuilt for the Winter and the
mine power plant is kept fully oc
cupied for 15 hours each day in
handling high-grade ore.
It may be of interest to miners
in the Kenai area to know that
STORMED JAIL
PRICE, Utah, Sept. 12. — A mob
of some 400 members which storm
ed the Carbon County jail here
yesterday in an effort to liberate
two leaders of the National Min
ers’ Union, was repulsed by sher
iff’s deputies with tear gas bombs
and fire hose after more than an
hour of resistance.
INDUSTRIAL PULSE
OF NATION IS
GAINING VIGOR
NEW YORK. Sept. 12. —Team
work bit at the turbulence of the
market and metropolitan scene
here as the industrial pulse beat
livelier in an effort to recapture
prosperity.
Strikes, fatter pay checks, short
er hours and brighter employment
statistics, and plans for a huge
N. R. A. parade were the highlights
with the Blue Eagle cocking a
watchful eye over all.
Strikes paralyzed most of the
Northern New Jersey silk industry.
Violence burst out in that area
when pickets tried to storm the
the plant of the United-P ie r c e
Dye Works. At Lodi more than 30
persons were hurt as police drove
battling strikers back with clubs
and tear gas bombs.
Underwear workers in New York
City and vicinity were summoned
to strike for higher wages. The
; strike is also expected to tie-up
j the cleaning and dying industry.
The N. R. A. is expected to turn
its attention to these? strikes. On
L the other hand several companies
I announced pay boosts as high as
| six per cent.
EMPLOYMENT HIGH
WASHINGTON. D. C. Sept. 12. —
The Interstate Commerce Commis
Uion announced today that railroad
; employment reached 1.014.879 men
! on August 15, the first time this
i figure has passed the million mark
| since October 1932, when it was
! 1.016.951.
PLANE CRASHED
LJUBLJAMA, Yugoslavia, Sept.
112. —Six passengers and the pilot
| and mechanic were killed when a
passenger plane crashed on the
! bronnds of an insane asylum.
SS. STARR IS ON
LAST TRIP SEASON
TO BRISTOL BAY
The incoming listing of passen
gers on the SS. Starr, which ar
rived in Seward last evening short
ly after 9 o’clock from the Bristol
Bay area and wayports, included
the following:
C. H. Anderson, Florence Hatch,
Helen Hatch, Mrs. P. Hatch, Mar
tha Sandstrom, Demedof Sand
strom. Elmer Sandstrom, Mrs.
Crawford, Mrs. Joe Richards, Mrs.
Busey, Jim Busey, Betty Busey,
Richard Olssen, A. L. Peterson, Ed
Olsen, Norman Nilson, Robert
Claus, Gust Makris, Geo. Mavros.
The Starr sailed on the return
trip to the Westward at an early
hour this morning. This is the
Starr’s last trip to the Bristol Bay
I area this season.
On the Starr’s return to Seward
from the West she will continue
on to Seattle for semi-annual in
spection of hull and boilers.
The next Westward sailing out
of Seward will be about October
22.
the Crow Creek mine is on Kenai
Peninsula and in the same forma
tion as Moose Pass. It has aptly
been stated that there should be
many more such mines as the
Crow Creek mine operating be
tween Girdwood and Seward.
MAINE GOES WET
MONDAY'S POLL:
VOTE WAS 2 TO 1
DRY GROUPS FIGHTING IN THE *
HOPE OF STEMMING
WET TIDE
PORTLAND, Maine, Sept. 12. —
Maine, the stronghold of prohi
bition since the middle of the last
century wa‘j swept into the re
peal column Monday night when
the votes for the day’s election
were counted.
Maine became the 26th state in
the march of states favoring over
turn of prohibition when more
than four fifths of the precincts
reported showed a slightly more
than two to one margin in favor
of repeal.
Five hundred and twelve of the
state’s 632 precincts gave 91,809
against 45,124 in favor of repeal.
Reverand F. W. Smith, superin
tendent of the dry forces con
ceded a wet victory but said “we
shall continue the fight, We are
not beaten.” Smith was apparent
ly predicting a fight over the
state’s dry law.
Some of the larger cities in
Maine voted wet by a margin of
as much as four to one. Even in
some of the rural districts the
wet delegates received good sup
port. Maine will hold her formal
ratifying convention on December
6.
j Repealists expected similar re
sults in today’s elections in Mary
land, Colorado and Minneasota,
where election are being held on
j the question of repeal.
The dry groups in these states
| are fighting in the hope that they
1 can stem the repeal tide.
MOLLISONS GO TO
CANADA FOR A
LONG SEA HOP
] SOUTHAMPTON, Eng.. Sept. 12.
1 Capt. James A. Mollison. British
j trans-Atlantic flier, is en route to
Canada for the start of an at
tempt to fly from Toronto to Bag
i dad. The Mollison plane, Seafar
I er III, was also shipped to Can-'
j ada.
; *t replaces the first Seafarer
{Which was smashed at Connecti
cutt, almost at the end of the re
i cent flight of Mollison and his
{Wife, Amy, from England to New
; York.
! Mollison said they hoped to start
J at the end of September or be
j ginning of October when the moon
might help them. He and his wife’
! will take turns at piloting the
j airplane and sleeping.
ANOTHER WEAPON
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 12. Another
weapon was forged by the Los An
! geles County Board to help stem
i the invasion of Eastern gangsters
i into the city of Los Angeles. The
{ new weapon was in the form of an
{emergency law making it com
pulsory for all ex-convicts to re
I Sister with proper officials. They
must also make known any change
of address while residing in Los
Angeles. Violation of this law is
i punishable by a fine and a jail
1 sentence.
A. D. Balderston, city magis
■ trate who has been sojourning in
j the Moose Pass country these past
! few weeks, bagged a large moose
j two days ago, according to the lo
FALL REVIVAL
i YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Sept. 12.
—Fall revival of the steel business
was forecast by observers here,
following announcement that the
1 Youngstown district steel opera
i tion will advance 48 per cent of
j capacity next week, up three points
I from the current rate.