VOLUME XXVIII. NUMBER 194. SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, 1932.
PRICE TEN CENTS
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LOST IN BAD BUZ*
IN VICINITY OF TELLEH
LOS ANGELES, Aug., 19. —Word
received in the Hollywood studios
of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film
Company from W. S. Van Dyke, at
the movie camp near Teller, Alas
ka, is to the effect two men of the
film colony in that region are lost.
The message to studio executives
here stated that the men had been
missing for six days in a terrific
blizzard which is sweeping that
section.
The film colony is encamped at
a place about 30 miles from Tel
ler, between Nome and Point Bar
row. Van Dyke is the photographer
for the film company which is
filming the play entitled “Eskimo.”
The report said that as soon as
the storm subsides it is the intent
of the movie officials in Alaska to
launch an airplane hunt for the
missing men.
HENCHMAN DORAN
SAYS DIKE CIA AVER
ADD) OF MAS. HUSHES
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug., 19, —
V. Doran, on trial here on the
charge of being implicated with
former Public Defender Frank J.
Egan, and another henchman, Al
bert Tinnin, in the murder of Mrs.
Jessie Scott Hughes, 67 year-old
widow and a life-long friend of
Egan, ended his second day of
cross-examination Thursday.
Doran, who has turned state’s
evidence, admitted having been the
driver of the car which passed over
the inert body of Mrs. Hughes
while Tinnin, the other alleged
murder emmissary, held one foot
on the body and braced himself
against the garage walls.
The state is attempting to prove
that Frank Egan either murdered,
or ordered the murder of Mrs
Hughes and then had Doran and
Tinnin, two underworld characters,
drive over the body to make death
appear as if an accident had oc
curred.
SEVEN PERSONS DEAD |
US RESULT COLLISION
BETWEEN TWO HUTOSl
MIDLAND, Mich., Aug. 19. f/P)—
Four children were burned t o
death and three adults, including
the children’s parents, were critic
ally injured when the automobile
in which they were riding caught
fire after a collision with another
automobile.
The car was carrying two five
gallon cans of gasoline on the run
ning board. When the collision oc
curred the cans burst and sprayed
gasoline all over the car which
then caught fire. Seven occupants
of the car were trapped.
The dead are Edward, Forest, j
Stella and Ruth Messer. Mr. and j
Mrs. Messer and Harry Crane, the
ether occupants of the car are not
expected to live.
LATER—Mr. and Mrs. Messer'
died from injuries.
ALASKA JUNEAU SHOWING
JUNEAU, Aug., 19, —Although
recovery values do not show any
lead or silver and the gold recovery
has dropped to 76 cents a ton, the
Alaska Juneau mine had a profit
of more than $100,000 during its
operations for July, according to a
report made public here.
OFFER PRAYER
SEATTLE, Aug., 19, —Thursday’s
session of the Women’s Christian
Temperance Union was interrupted
by the members giving a prayer for
the new born son of Col. and Mrs
Charles A. Lindbergh. The W. C. T.
U. organization followed the pray
er by sending a wire of congratu
lation to the Lindbergh’s.
GRONAU AT RUPERT
PRINCE RUPERT, Aug. 19. (JP)—
Captain Wolgang von Gronau, Ger
man trans-oceanic flier arrived at
4:55 Thursday afternoon from La
biche lake- He left Labiche lake at
9:59 in the morning of the same
day and covered a distance of
about 800 miles. He did not say de
fintely when he would take off on
his next hop which will be to some
Alaska city. Von Gronau and his
companions are making a flight
around the world.
PROF. PUD PUNS
ANOTHER BALLOON HOP
FROM HUDSON OIF
DES ENGANO, Italy, Aug. 19. QP)
—Prof. August Piccard announced
he would begin immediately to pre
pare for his third ascent into the
stratosphere and that he intended
to take off this time from the
Northwest shore of Hudson Bay,
Canada. He has selected this point
because it is as close to the North
Pole as is possible and practical
for his balloon observations.
The purpose of this third trip
will be to study the cosmic rays at
a point where the lines of magnetic
force penetrate the stratosphere.
The expedition will probably be
started during the middle of next
summer.
It will take several months to
complete calculations on the data
which Prof. Piccard obtained on his
last ascent.
Prof. Piccard and his arsistant,
Max Cosyns, who went up in the
balloon also, went to bed almost
immediately following their des
cent to the earth and slept for 11
hours. When they awakened they
were faced with a batch of tele
grams congratulating them for the
achievement. Among the telegrams
was a message from the King and
Queen of Belguim.
PILOT M0LLI50N TOO
TIRED GO TO NEWYQRK
ST. JOHNS, New Brunswick, Aug.,
1 9, (JP)—Pilot Mollison completed
the first Westward solo flight over;
the Atlantic bringing his tiny plane .
to a perfect landing at Pennfield:
Ridge, 40 miles from St. Johns.
He had been at the controls for
more than 24 hours.
Mollison landed at 11:45 a. m.
Eastern time. He said he was tool
tired to continue on to New York, j
RETURNING TO U. S.
GLASGOW, Ireland, Aug., 19, —
The parents of Miss Betty Gow,
nurse of the Lindbergh household,
who is making a tour of Ireland,
are authority for the statement
that Miss Gow is returning to the
United States in October to re
sume her position with the Lind-!
berghs.
CRAIG, Colo., Aug., 13, —Sixteen
hundred and 75 acres of Moffat
county land hold promise of gold
for pick-and-pan artists who have
filed placer mining claims at the
office of the county clerk and re
corder since the first of the month.
Permits have been granted v on
claims varying in size from 20 to
160 acres in size.
Most of the claims filed have
been in the Timberlake and Four
mile country. Others are near Lay
and Browns Park.
The last claim was filed on Bed
rock No. 3, an 80-acre tract in the
Timberlake region.
ASH COVERS ANTIPODES
WELLINGTON, N. Z„ Aug., 19, (JP)
—The presence in the upper air of
ash from Chilean volcanoes was
responsible for unusually brilliant
sunsets, extraordinary moon halos
and lower temperatures in New
Zealand last month, says Ernest
Kidson, meteorological director of
1 the dominion.
BRITISH nmon IS
SUCCESSFUL WESIIRD
UUP ACROSS ATLANTIC
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, Aug. 19.
(JP)—William Mollison, famous Bri
tish aviator, completed the first
westward solo flight across the At
lantic ocean at 2:45 a. m. Pacific
time.
Just 24 hours and 10 minutes af
ter his takeoff he was sighted from
the Halifax airport which is ap
proximately 2,660 miles from the
starting point.
Mollison omitted his scheduled
refueling stop at Harbor Grace, 500
miles eastward of the Halifax air
port.
Airport officials hear the motor
and read the identifying letters
"ADXY” on the plane soon after
wards. Hubbards, a village 35 miles
west of here also heard the plane.
A heavy fog blanketed the coast.
FURNITURE ATTACHED
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., Aug., 19,
—New and beautiful furniture in
the home of Gloria Swanson here
has been attached for the sum of
$14,000 owed by the screen star to
a furniture company. The furniture
was to be taken out of the house
today unless someone put up a
bond of $28,000 to insure payment
of the debt. Gloria Swanson is at
present in Europe with her hus
band Michael Farmer, busy making
an English picture.
TOPEKA, Kas., Aug., 19, —Vice
President Charles Curtis reached
the starting point of his reelection
campaign Thursday when he was
officially notified of the Republi
can nomination.
Mr. Curtis looked a little older
at the ceremonies Thursday than
he did at the same exercises four
years ago. In accepting the nomi
nation he stated that he personal
ly was a dry but he approved the
entire Republican platform as
adopted at the Chicago convention,
and he also supported President
Hoover’s views as expressed in his
acceptance speech.
About 5.000 persons gathered
outside the Kansas state building
to hear the ceremonies.
HONOR SAVANT
PARIS, Aug., 19, (A5)—For the first
time since the world war a German
has been elected a corresponding
member of the Academy of Moral
and Political Science. He is Prof.
Edmond Husseri of the University
of Fribourg and was elected to the!
philosophy section.
SINKING FAST
CHICAGO, Aug., 19, —Hopes for
the recovery of Mrs. Edith McCor
mick, seriously ill for the last 10
days and who, for a few days show
ed a slight improvement, have been
given up. Physicians say she is now
sinking fast.
SALMON PRICES
KETCHIKAN, Aug., 19, —Prices
paid salmon fishermen at Ketchi
kan Thursday by fish buyers were
one cent to 5Y2 cents for cohoes
and 20 cents for kings. A few were
paid three cents to 5% cents for
cohoes an^ 25 cents for kings.
ELEPHANTS MENACE FARMS
WINDHOEK, Southwest Africa
not be shot but special licences are
charging settlers and damaging
farms in the district of Outjo. Be
ing classed as royal game, they can
not beshot but special licenses have
issued to the farmers to kill
beasts responsible for damage.
SOLONS AT EXTREMES
OKLAHOMA CITY, Aug., 19., (JP)
— Oklahoma’s senators, Elmer
Thos. and T. P. George, made con
trasting records in the last con
gressional session. Thomas intro
duced 142 bills compared with
Gore’s 21’.' Hie average for solons is
slightly over 56.
FRAGMENT NOAH'S ARK
BEEN PHOTOGRAPHED
BY ENGLISH EXPLORER
LONDON, Aug. 19. (JP) —Calvert
Wells, noted explorer and lecturer,
who has just arrived here from
Russia said he had found and made
movies of a supposed piece of the
bibical Noah’s Ark.
Wells said that the relic has been
held so sacred that it had never be
fore been beheld by a layman and
never by any woman except Mrs.
Wells, who talked the Archbishop
Mezrop into permitting her to see
it.
The fragment is concealed in the
ancient Armenian church in the
village of Echizian, on the borders
of Turkey and Armenia.
The Bishop of Mezrop stated le
gend says angels deposited the slab
of petrified wood in the church dur
ing the fourth century after taking
pity on the monks, many of whom
lost their lives seeking to scale
Mount Ararat to find it.
COMMODITY POOL CAUSES
STOCK MKT ACTIVITY
NEW YORK, Aug., 19, -^Stock
market speculators took a flyer on
cotton in Thursday's trading fol
lowing a report that a $100,000,000
commodity pool would be announc
ed today. This move jolted the mar
ket to such an extent that it clos
ed Thursday night with sizeable
gains in many instances.
The commodity pool is being
formed by a group of big bankers
and it is their intention to buy up
huge quantities of farm board
wheat and cotton. Some of the
closing quotations Thursday were:
Harvester 29%, Steel, common,
41%, General Electric 18%, West
inghouse 38%, American Telephone
12%, American Can 53%. A total of
1,800,000 shares were turned over.
GARNER HASN'T GIVEN
UP FIGHT HELP JOBLESS
DALLAS, Tex., Aug., 19, —Spea
ker John Nance Garner, running
mate of Gov. Franklin D. Roose
velt in the coming presidential
election, stopped off here Thursday
for a brief while.
He is traveling by airplane from
Washington to his Texas home. He
denied the report that he had
dropped his fight for unemployment
relief. He said that he was still at
work to aid the jobless but that
some of his recent acts in connect
ion with the present administra
tion had been misinterpreted.
SCHOOLS CLOSED
SCUTARI, Turkey, Aug., 19, OP)—
The annual congress of American
schools decided to close the Goz
tepe School for boys and the Ada
na Schools for girls because insuffi
cient funds came from America
this year.
Exports from Alaska to the Unit
ed States and foreign countries
since 1910 have totaled more than
186 times the purchase price of
$7,200,000 paid for the Territory.
SHIPBUILDING EBBS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug., 19,
OP)—World shipbuilding has been
found by a commerce department
survey to be at a lower level than
at any other time during the last
50 years.
BASEBALL SCORES
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Boston 7, St. Louis 6; 15 innings.
All others rained out.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Boston 3, Chicago 4; 15 innings.
New York 7, Cincinnati 3.
Phillies 10-9, St. Louis 4-4.
PACIFIC COAST
Missions 4, Los Angeles 3.
Hollywood 7, San Francisco 0.
TO BEGIN CAMPAIGN
ALBANY, N. Y., Aug., 19, —Gov.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Democratic
nominee for president, was to leave
her today for Columbus, Ohio,
where he will deliver one of his
first campaign speeches. The Gov
ernor has outlined a speaking tour
to the Western states which will
take him through 22 states. He ex
pects to leave New York September
12 and scheduled to be in Seat
tle September 20. He speaks in
Portland the following day.
PAST OLYMPIC EVENT
CHICAGO, Aug., 19, —An inter
national post-Olympic exhibition
5,000 meter race was run off here
Thursday evening by Larry Leh
tinen of Finland, Ralph Hill of the
United States, and Kushinoski, of
Poland.
These athletes put on one of the
highlights of the Olympic Games
by their close running and quite
a controversy arose over the finish
of the race when it was declared
the Finnish runner, Lehtinen, took
unfair advantage of Hill by zig
zagging in front of him as they
neared the finish line, Lehtinen
breasting the tape first.
In the Chicago race the Poland
representative came in first with
Hill second and with Lehtinen
dropping out of the race early. His
coach and trainer said that he had
pulled a tendon in his leg but spec
tators said the Finn was not limp
ing.
The race between the United
States runner and the Polish lad
was hotly contested. The Polish
I athlete was in the lead near the
finish when Hill put on a sprint,
succeeding in passing him. Then
Kushinoski put on steam beating
Hill to the tape.
! LITTLE HOPE IS HELD
BODIES BE RECOVERED
KETCHIKAN, Aug., 19, —Little
hope is held for the recovery of the
bodies of Oren Hill, Hyder business
man, and Tom Walters, who are
thought to have perished in Port
land Canal when their sea-sled j
overturned.
The sea-sled was sighted about
the middle of a three-mile channel
with only its nose sticking above
the waves. The motor was still at
tached to the boat and in it was
found the shotgun which the men
had taken along.
FOREST FIRE
SAN DIEGO, Aug., 19, —Hun
dreds of men have been called to
aid in combating a forest fire in
the national forest reserve near
here.
REPORTS DOWN AT SEA
BOSTON, August 19, —A Coast
Guard plane, which dropped out of
sight after making an unsuccess
ful search for a fishing boat on
which a man was ill, reported it
self down at sea but within sight of
an island. A message received
said that because of weather con
ditions the men were unable to de
termine their exact position. Mean
while the patrol boat Jackson re
ported it had reached the fishing
schooner and removed the sick
member of the crew.
HOTTER THAN HADES
LOS ANGELES, Aug., 19, —Anoth
er Olympic record was shattered
Thursday when the thermometer
rose to 96 degrees in the shade at
11:15 a. m.
BISHOP CRANSTON DIES
NEW RICHMOND, Ohio, Aug., 19,
(JP)—Bishop Earl Cranston, 92, dean
of Bishops Methodist Episcopal
Church, died following several
months illness.
U. S. AIRPLANE CARRIER
SARATOGA WENT ASHE
CLOSE TO LONC BEACH
LONG BEACH, Calif., Aug , 19,—
The huge airplane carrier USS Sar
atoga went aground at, Huntington
Beach, a short distance from Long
Beach, Thursday evening.
Naval authorities refused at first
to disclose the cause of the ground
ing but it was thought that the
heavy fog was responsible.
Tugs and mine sweepers were im
mediately dispatched from the San
Diego naval base to try and tow
the 800 foot craft to deep water.
The craft was aground for more
than one hour and was taken off
the ocean floor by two tugs. The
vessel immediately proceded to San
Pedro naval base- This is the largest
ship in navy history to be ground
ed.
Today the craft was to rejoin the
Pacific fleet in war maneuvers off
the California coast. The report
that the Saratoga was aground
drew hundreds of motorists to the
scene and for a while the highways
around Huntington eBach were
jammed with traffic.
BRITAIN ID DIM
If NOT SETTLE TO
DIFFERENCES THIS TIME
OTTAWA, Aug., 19, —The ques
tion of whether or not England
shall continue to grant free entry to
Russian goods upon the British
market in the future may disrupt
the Ottowa trades conference as
far as Great Britain and Canada
are concerned.
Canada wants the British mar
ket restricted to Russian dump
ing while at the same time securing
preferential tariffs for Canadian
goods on the market. In return
Canada was to grant preferential
tariffs to British goods in their en
try into the dominion. However,
Britain has shown a desire of not
having Canada dictate to the Em
pire.
Premier Bennett, of Canada, has
stated that as far as the Canadian
agreements with England are con
cerned, they will be all off unless
England grants Canada trade priv
ileges with the.mother country.
E. Strong, well known contractor
of Aurora, 111., left on today’s train
for Fairbanks where he will take
charge of all the concrete and plas
ter work on the new Federal build
ing.
Mr. Strong was given the con
tract by the McDonald Construc
tion Co., of St. Louis, who have the
major contract. Mr. Strong is pro
bably best known as the contrac
tor who had charge of all concrete
and plaster work on the Moose
heart buildings, near Chicago and
Aurora, 111.
He arrived in Seward a few days
ago from the South and during his
stay in the city has been a guest
of the Hotel Overland.
$3,000,000 NEW REVENUE
WASHINGTON, D. C-, Aug., 19. —
The State Treasury Department re
ports that during the month of
July the new excise tax brought in
revenue to ithe government of
slightly less than $3,000,000. Two
thirds of this revenue was derived
from the two-cent tax on checks.
The low figure is attributed to the
heavy pre-tax buying of the var
ious taxable goods.
MORE GOLD FOUND
GOLDFIELD, Nev., Aug., 19, —.
Tom Clark, an oldtime prosepector
of this district reports the discov
ery Qf a new gold find within 30
miles of this once famous gold
mining town.