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VOLUME XVI. NUMBER 185. SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1931. PRICE TEN CENTS
WHS LIND
ON KOTZEBUE SOUND
ENROUTE TO NOME
NOME, Aug. 11. (£>)—The Lind
berghs landed in Kotzebue Sound
about 2 a. m., Pacific time.
Unexpected fog settled down
after clear weather when they
started to await daylight before
coming here. Their exact location
was not disclosed but they are
about 100 miles from here.
Mrs. Lindbergh messaged “all
okay.” Disappointed Nomeites
awaited in the chilling fog almost
two hours.
Piled driftwood and lumber
flares were ready to be lighted.
The Lindberghs passed over the
cutter Northland at Wainwright.
AMERICAN TENNIS
TEIMS TOO MUCH
FOH BRITISHERS
WEST SIDE TENNIS COURT,
FOREST HILLS, N. Y. Aug. 10. (IP)
_Due to two sensational finishes.
the first of which saw Helen Ja
cobs prevail over Betty Nutliall,
blonde British favorite, the Unit
ed States put the British Wight
man Cup team to rout by sweep
ing the first three single matches of
the international women’s tennis
series.
The California triple treat of the
American forces proved entirely too
much for the invaders, as Helen
Wills Moody, the acknowledge world
queen of the courts, and Mrs. Anna
L MeCune Harper, No. 1 National
Ranking star, helped Miss Jacobs
carry the day with the loss of only
one set.
Miss Jacobs furnished the chief
thrills for a sweltering gallery of
nearly 5,000 spectators by coming
back after the loss of the first four
games to take the measure of Miss
Nuthall, holder of the American,
singles championship, by scores of
8-6, 6-4 in a match that lasted one
hour and 15 minutes.
Mrs. Moody, with a characteristic
% display of polished and effective
storking power, scored the most de
cisive victory of the day as she dis
posed of Phyliss Mudgord, 6-1, 6-4,
in the opening match, lasting only
36 minutes.
MON GOLD FIELD
show ran
CARMACKS Y. T. Aug. 10. (IP)— j
Undiminished activity continues at j
the quartz mill and placer diggings;
^ near here.
Fifteen to 20 miles of placer claim j
leases are now recorded. Several
Indians with horses are steadily
employed packing supplies from
Carmacks to the new diggings.
About 25 miners are working
steadily in the district., Technical i
men, both American and Canadian,
have made examinations in the Big
Bear Creek strike district.
BRINGING NEW PLANE
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 11. (&)—
Brother George Feltes is expected
here tomorrow from Los Angeles.
He flew the new missionary plane
across the continent; it will be
used in Alaska to replace the
plane smashed at Kotzebue in
which three persons were killed.
TELEPHONE GREETINGS
kCRBSS CONTINENT TO
MISTER NEW LINEN
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. II. (/P)—
Captain Robert Dollar, 87-year-old
shipping magnate, from his office
! in San Francisco, conveyed tele
phonic greetings to Captain Fred
E. Anderson, master of the Dollar
liner President Hoover, at its dock
at Jersey City.
The ship’s crew and passengers
aboard the ship heard the greet
ings through a system of loud
speakers installed in the new $800,
000 liner. The greetings were sent
just half an hour before the vessel
left the dock on it’s maiden voyage
to Havana, California, Japan and
Phillipines.
This is the first occasion on
which the head of a steamship
company has personally dispatched
a vessel by telephone across an en
tire continent.
LONDON, Aug. 11. (IP)—George
Bernard Shaw is strong for Rus
sian communism. He was so im
pressed by what he saw in his j
brief tour of Russia that he de
clared: “After having observed
communism on the spot there is i
not a chance left for capitalism,” !
he says.
“And further states that it j
will net be long before Russia gets i
on her own feet and will be entire- j
ly independent of foreign help. I
Shaw made a six week tour of
Russia for the purpose of study and
observation.
GIRL FLYER WILL
ATTEMPT OCEAN HOP
ROOSEVELT FIELD, N. Y. Aug.
10. (JP) — Reports that Miss Elinor
Smith, 19 years old girl flyer, might
attempt a trans-Atlantic flight were
current here.
Her father said he knew nothing
of an intended flight. “However,”
he said, “she has something up her
sleeve.”
Miss Smith is now in California.
FLYING TO AMERICA
REYKJAVIK, Iceland, Aug. 10.
UP)—Wolfgang von Gronau landed
here unheralded on a flight to
America. The German aviator is
following the same route of a pre
vious flight.
CHINA TO INCREASE ROADS
NANKING, Aug. 11. (JP) — Plans
of the Central Nanking government
call for construction of more than
22,000 miles of national highways •
over a period of 22 years.
ICY SEAS HOLD
SECRET OF ARCTIC
FOODSTUFF SUPPLY
GRAF ZEPPELIN’S ROUTE FLOWN
TOOK IT NEAR “BLIND
SPOT’’ IN ARCTIC
NEW YORK, Aug. 10. (JPf — Seen
through the eyes of an Andree or
a Stefannson, the Arctic ice over
which the Graf Zeppelin flew was
anything but a bleak waste.
Stefannson saw it and lived. An
dree saw—and died. But both saw
it filled with life.
Where from? Andree, more than
30 years ago, thought this life might
be drifting across the polar seas
from some unknown land to the
northward.
If such a land exists, it must lie
in the great “blind” spot, an un
explored area inside the circle of
“eighty north,” a region in whose
southern edge the Graf had plan
ned to skim.
There is another explanation than
land for the life Andree found on
top of the ice floes. He and two
companions, landing in July from
their balloon, walked for weeks
without the sight of land.
They started with little food, yet
in October when they made land,
they already had gathered a fair
supply of food for the winter.
This was principally meat of the
bears which they found plentiful
on the ice. They saw also seals and
various kinds of birds, some of
which they shot.
Instead of coming from some un
known land, these animals and
birds might have been attracted
from distant but chartered shores
by the food supply under the ice,
the marine life.
Although the Arctic surface is a
vast expanse mostly of ice and
snow, the cold seas beneath are
among the ocean’s greenest ’’green
pastures.”
There flourish the diatoms, tiny
plants, which the the basic foods
of creatures a little larger, in turn
eaten by still bigger sea dwellers,
until the wholl cycle is fed.
Stefannsan said civilized man
could be healthy on meat alone, as
in the Arctic, and tried the ex
periment in New York city with ap
parent success.
What most people don’t know
about this Stefannson diet is his
definition of “meat”. Lean meat as
an exclusive diet has been shown
to be bad for the health. But Ste
fannson’s meat includes the fat.
There is an anecdote concerning
a Washington stenographer re
cruited from the Arctic.
“Oh,” she sighed on a hot sum
mer day, “if only I had a piece of
seal blubber to chew.”
NATIONAL
Pittsburgh 4, Chicago 3.
No other major league games
played.
HOP OFF FOR NOME
POINT BARROW Aug. 11. (A1)—
rhe Lindberghs hopped for Nome
at 8:52 a. m., Pacific time.
NAUTILUS ADRIFT AGAIN
TROMSOE, Nerway, Aug. 11. (/P)
—The Sir Wilkins submarine Nau
tilus is reported adrift owing to
engine trouble and the crew un
able to make repairs. Bound for
the North Pole, the submarine
left here yesterday for Spitz
bergen.
TOKYO IS PREPIRINC
HIT DECEPTION FOR
COL, MRS. LINDBERGH
TOKYO, Aug. 11. (>P)—A sea of
silk hats will greet Colonel and
Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh when
the aerial vacationists arrive in
this city, and two elaborate recep
tions are being prepared for the
couple.
Countless silk toppers, which i
have been placed away for the sum- j
mer, are being brought down from j
the shelves to be worn when the
Lindberghs arrive; as not only
Japanese here but foreign resid
ents as well favor the formal hats
on such special occasions.
Although the Colonel has insisted !
he and his wife are coming mere- I
ly as tourists a large outdoor recep- |
tions is being arranged under the j
auspices of the municipality at Hi- i
beya Park and elaborate prepara- j
tions are under way for receiving
the Lindberghs at the Kasumig
aura naval airport.
PLEADS NATION JOIN
OVERCOME DIFFICULTY
BERLIN, Aug. 11. (/P)—Celebra
tion of the 12th anniversary of
the adoption of the Republican
constitution was marked with ad
dresses by Chancellor Bruening
and Vice Chancellor Dietrich.
In the presence of President Von
Hindenberg, the cabinet and dip
lomatic corps, Bruening pleaded
that the nation join to overcome
financial difficulties.
Dietrich said the issue today is
capitalism versus bolshevism.
MINE CITY IS
COINS "HUE"
BUENOS AIRES, Aug. 11. (£>)—
The sale of liquor, cigarettes, cigars,
matches and lottery tickets is pro
hibited here on Sunday in accord
dance with an old law which was
revived by the provisional govern
ment recently.
Although bars are permitted to
sell beer and restaurants may serve
wine, no liquor may be sold on
Sunday.
CANNERY TENDER ON FIRE
BELLINGHAM, Aug. 11. (/P)— The
cannery tender Alasko, of the Far
west Fisheries, was damaged by
fire. Hjalmar Wood, engineer, was
injured. The ferry Alympia, bound
from Victoria to Bellingham, help
ed extinguish the fire.
EXPECT TO BE FINED
TOKYO, Aug. 10. (JP) — Signed
statements and the Pangborn and
Herndon photographs were sub
mitted to the procurator for a de
cision whether the case should go
to the courts. The law is rigid
but only a fine is expected.
MOUND THE WOOLS
IH SIX HITS IS
PREDICTED, DILCHEN
ABOARD SS BREMEN, At Sea.^P)
—Around the world by airplane
in six days such is the prediction
of Bernt Balchen, who piloted Ad
miral Richard E. Byrd across the
Atlantic and to the South Pole.
He said he believed it was possible
to surpass the record of Wiley Post
and Harold Gatty with present
heavier than air machines. He
predicted light planes would attain
an average speed of 300 miles an
hour withinu 10 years and foresaw
imminent developments in aircraft
particularly in efficiency and speed.
Balchen is on the way to visit for
a few weeks at the Fokker Aircraft
factories in Holland and the Junk
ers Works at Dessau, Germany.
SIX KILLED WHEN
PROPELLOR CHICKED,
PURE DOVE EARTH
CINCINNATI!, Aug. 11. (£>)—Six
were killed when the passenger
plane of the American Airways line
crashed soon after taking off from.
Lunken airport Atlanta, Ga.
The. plane was 300 feet in the
air when the propeller cracked and
a moment later the motor plunged
to the ground. The pilot was un
able to right ship because of the
unequal balance and plane crashed
head first into a sand bank, over
turning and burying the victims in
the wreckage killing them instantly.
The dead are: M. T. Odell of Cin
cinnati!; William Dewald of Fort
Thomas, Ky; William Keith of At
lanta; William Brimberry of Atlan
ta; V. B. Baum of Memphis Tenn.
Experts believe that the strain of
getting altitude caused the prop
eller to crack which caused the
motor to vibrate with such force
that it tore loose from it’s mooring
on the right wing of the plane.
The accident is the worst of it’s
kind since last spring when Knute
Rockne, former Notre Dame foot
ball coach and seven others were
killed in a plane crash in western
Kansas.
This unfortunate and amazing
crash was witnessed by several
thousand persons.
OPTICIL INSPECTION
BE IMOE ISLANDS
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 10. (JP) —
Bernard J. Linden, federal radio
supervisor for the sixth district,
with headquarters in the Custom
House in San Francisco left here
for Hawaii for an optical inspection
of radio stations in Hawaii.
He will inspect 20 stations and
radio plants, including broadcast
stations; stations of the Mutual
Telephone Company and others on
various islands in the Hawaiian
group.
Linden will be in Hawaii for a
month. „ n