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VOLUME XVI. NUMBER 172. SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, JULY 27, 1931.
PRICE TEN CENTS
HESSE COMMENDS
GENEROUS TREATMENT
D. OF PUBLIC HOODS
“While it cannot be said that
times are good anywhere that I
have been, yet one hopeful sign
that has manifested itself is the
return to prospecting throughout
the Territory,” stated Wm. A.
Hesse, Territorial Highway Engi
neer, now in Seward.
“With its resources in gold, Al
aska can and will, and must dig
itself out of this slump,” he add
ed. “Relief does not lie in ‘cure
all’ formulas nor Congressional
committees, sincere as they may
be to help us.
“The influx of men to Alaska
from the Outside this year seeking
employment has had a most de
pressing effect on many commun
ities.
“Speaking of roads, I read an
article in The Gateway in which
the necessity of connecting the
disconnecting roads that you now
have here was emphasized. Cer
tainly I do feel that you are for
tunate in having these disconnect
ed roads leading in each case to
a desirable objective.
“For instance, the Kenai road
beginning nowhere and ending no
where cost $112,000, the’ Seward
road cost $364,000, and the Moose
Pass road cost $507,000. It is in
credible that such splendid roads j
costing so much will not be con- \
nected in time, no one responsible :
lor them could possibly have any i
peace of mind until they are con- !
nected.
“These roads are purely Fed- ■
eral projects in which the Ter
ritory cannot and does not parti
cipate, though we do contribute
a little toward their maintenance. I
We are indeed receiving generous i
treatment from the Bureau of
Public Roads.”
Mr. Hesse goes to Seldovia on
the SS Admiral Evans, thence to ;
Wasilla, returning to Seward in j
a week or so enroute to his Ju
neau office.
GIRL IS STIRRED; !
SHEJflED ME
WHITE RIVER,Apache Indian
Reservation, Ariz., July 27. (£>)—
Discovery of the body of Henrietta
Scherler, 23, striking University of j
Columbia student sent here to!
study the customs of the Apaches,;
in a ravine revealed she was bat- j
tered and killed by knife wounds.
Seven Apache bucks and one
white man were questioned but
released. She wrote her family she
feared one Apache, who was un
named; she was last seen at a
reservation dance.
M
MOVING COMET
ADELAIDE, Aus., July 27. (/P)_
The government astronomer for
South Australia announced that
examination of photographic plates
of the constellation of Sagitarius
had disclosed a rapidly moving
body, which he described as prob
ably a new comet of 4.7 magni
tude.
L. W. Mickel, mess boy on the
SS Admiral Watson, is under
treatment in the Seward General
Hospital for an injured foot.
GRAF ZEPPELIN SIGHTED
j FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany,
'July 27. (/P)—'The German Graf
Zeppelin was last reported from
68 degrees north, 43 east, bound j
for Franzjosephland from Lenin
grad.
COMMISSION WOULD
PHI CONUS WAGES
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 27.
(£>)—The Wickersham commission
condmened the nation’s prison sys
tem as being antiquated and fail
ing to reform criminals and pro
tect society, that the are using
brutal measures, the cells are over
crowded, lacking in ventilation and
modern plumbing, and advocated
educatinoal methods and develop
ment systems of probation and
parole as well as payments of
wages to prisoners.
i BERLIN, July 27. (/P)—Germany’s
j reaction to the result of the seven
(power conference in London,
judged by the boards of press com
ment, is disappointment.
No violence was shown and the
representatives agreed the help
accorded the nation’s finances by
the powes stood as to stop a
shotage. The official Hohenzol
lern organization declares only the
monarch can save them afterward.
The former kaiser is following
developments with personal anx-;
iety.
!
PRESENTED TO HINDENBURG
BERLIN, July 27. (/P)—Secretary
Stimson was presented to Presi-!
dent Hindenburg by Ambassador
Frederic Scackitt. After a half
hour visit Stimson left, bound for
London, via Amsterdam, by plane.!
$485,101 NET PROFIT
CHICAGO, July 27. (/Pi—The
semi-annual report by the Chicago
Investors Corporation Investment
Trust showed that the company
liquidated substantial holdings and
made a net profit of $485,101.
FRANCE NOT IN OLYMPICS I
PARIS, July 27 VP)—'The French
of the Olympic committee decided
not to send a team to the Los
Angeles Olympic games in 1931.
Sufficient funds were not avail
able to finance the leap of a repre
sentative team.
LECTURING OVER RADIO j
Those having short wave radioi
sets may have heard a lecture by j
Judge Rutherford, jurist and;
world’s greatest scholar on the
Bible, Sunday morning, (yester-1
day ) from 7 to 8 a. m. This lec- i
ture came over a chain of almost ;
400 long and short wave stations. |
W2XAD and W2XAF will be among |
short wave stations used. Start- j
ing yesterday his lectures may be |
heard every Sunday in 15-minute
electrical transcriptions from
KFQD Anchorage station.
Walter Holben, who returned
Friday from the States, brought
back with him a Studebaker coupe.
CUTTER TAKING GAS
POINT BARROW, July 27. (/P)—
The cutter Northland, bringing
aviation gas for Colonel Lindbergh,
messaged Sunday that it would
arrive at Point Hope Monday,
i Three hundred miles southwest
j of here an icepack remains solid
son shore; the steamer Baychimo
j was forced to anchor south of
sWainwright Sunday and reported
the ice appeared solid clear to the
beach.
BASEBALL
(Sunday’s Games)
AMERICAN
Chicago 5-5, New York 4-4.
Philadelphia 2, Cleveland 13.
St Louis 5, Washington 2.
Detroit 6-7, Boston 7-3.
NATIONAL
Boston 3-4, St. Louis 2-5.
Brooklyn 0-5, Cincinnati 4-0.
j Philadelphia 1, Chicago 2.
Only National games played.
! PACIFIC COAST
Missions 2-1, Seattle 4-7.
! Oakland 5-1, Los Angeles 6-113.
! Sacramento 4-9, San Francisco
5-8.
Hollywood 8-4, Portland 2-6.
. (Saturday’s Games) .j
NATIONAL
Brooklyn 2, Pittsburgh 5.
New York 7, Cincinnati 3.
Boston 1, Chicago 6.
Philadelphia 1, St. Louls 3.
AMERICAN
Detroit 7, Cleveland 10.
Chicago 7, Boston 5.
St. Louis 1. ETAO
St. Louis 1, Washington 7.
Cleveland 3-2, Philadelphia 6-3,
PACIFIC COAST
Hollywood 4, Portland 7.
Sacramento 1, San Francisco 20.
Oakland 1, Los Angeles 9.
Missions 1, Seattle 11.
Sacramento 4, San Francisco . i
LEAGUE STANDINGS
PACIFIC COAST
D L Pet.
Seattle .13 8 619
San Francisco .13 9 591
Oakland .13 10 565
Los Angeles .13 10 565
Hollywood .9 12 429
Portland .9 12 429
Sacramento .9 13 409
Missions .8 13 381
AMERICAN
D L Pet.
Philadelphia .70 26 729
Washington .58 36 617
New York .54 37 593
Cleveland .45 49 479
St. Louis .42 49 462
Boston .35 57 380
Chicago .34 58 370
Detroit .66635 61 365
NATIONAL
W L Pet.
St. Louis .61 35 635
Chicago .51 41 554
New York .49 40 551
Brooklyn .52 45 536
Boston . 45 46 495
Pittsburg .'.41 48 461
Philadelphia .37 56 398
Cincinnati .35 60 368
Mrs. W. M. Jackson, of Valdez,
has entered the Seward Ganeral
Hospital for an operation.
DEATH TOLL MOUNTING
PITTSGURGH, July 27. </P)—The
death toll from the Little Sisters
of the Poor House fire is 40; there
are still more than 100 in hospi
tals.
ROYAL WEDDING IN
SINAIA, Rumania, July 27. (#*)—
Prince Anton of Austria and Prin
cess Ileana of Rumania were mar
ried Sunday in the palace at
Pelesh, with the presence of 300
guests.
They are starting the honeymoon
at Castle Bran in Transsylvania,
then on to London, flying there
to Frieberg in an airplane, the gift ;
of King Carol. Anton is an ex-!
perienced pilot.
6RDF RETURNS TO
BERLIN, Juy 27. (JP)—Success- j
fully completing its first lap of!
the Arctic flight the dirigible Graf
Zeppelin arrived over Berlin at1
3:20 p. m. Pacific Standard time'
and made a landing at Stacke air- |
port in tre suburbs.
The craft had departed from1
Friedrichshafen at 9:50 a. m. on
'its daring vayage since the diri
' gible encircled the world in 1929.
Dr. Eckener said, “We expect
good conditions for the cruise over
the hundreds of miles of Arctic j
waste, where a landing would be j
perilous if not impossible.”
i j
CAN DEVICE BOOSTS OUTPUT
LONDON, July 24. (JP)—Welsh j
tin plate will be used in making
20 cans a second here in what is
i claimed as the “most efficient
factory of its kind in the world.”
It is estimated the year’s output
| will be 100,000,000 cans.
FISH FARM INDUSTRY BIG
; WASHINGTON, July 27. (IP)—
This country’s fish farm industry
annually markets products valued
at $2,036,144, comprising the three
classifciations of gold fish, trout
fish.
BUG STOPS TRAINS
BROWNSVILLE, Tex., July 27.
0*P)—Trains in the Rio Grande val
ley are stopping for bugs. Small
field insects in the air brake con
nections cause the wheels on re
frigerator cars to lock, creating
difficulty and officials have decid
to spray the cars and brakes lo
kill the insects.
CABLE SHIP TAKES WATER
The cable ship Dellwood, sta
tioned at Anchorage pending the
completion of the governments
new radio station, found it neces
sary to sail for Port Graham re
cently, to sluice out the condens
ers and take on a supply of fresh
water. This could not be done at
| Anchorage conveniently because
I of the use of the Ocean dock for
| cannery purposes and because of
the fact that the work could not
be done between tides, reports the
Anchorage Times.
DIE TAMM
MID JOINS PUNE
GONCEON, ANCHORAGE
For years past Karl K. Katz has
been closely identified with Alaska
and States transportation thru his
long affiliation with the Northern
Pacific Railway. For years he
made frequent journeys to the
Northland in the interests of that
company from which he derived a
wide and profitable, to those he
represented, acquaintance.
But now Katz has turned the full
force of his high power salesman
ship directly upon Alaska in the
| capacity of public contact man
! and in charge of the Anchorage
j office of the Alaskan Airways, Inc.,
iand his family will make their
| home there, at least for a number
• of months each year.
Mr. Katz arrived on the SS Yu
| kon and immediately left for his
new position to get into’ harness.
He expects to be a frequent visitor
in Seward.
Without any qdestion Mr. Katz's
activities in Alaska will reflect in
increased business for it can safe
| ly be said with little fear of con
‘ tradiction that here is one man
! who knows the transportation
j game from one end to the other;
his arrival in Alaska is a great as
set to the Teritory, as well as to
the company he represents, and
his legion of friends will be de
lighted to learn he is now a neigh
bor and an associate instead of a
i visitor.
NOTABLES MARRY
j BUCHAREST, Rumania, July 27.
1 (/P)—A wedding festival which be
! gan Saturday lead up to the mar
. riage Sunday of pretty Princess
Ileana of Rumania, a Hohenzol
lern, to the young Archduke An
ton of Hapsburg, chaffeur and
aviator.
The Alaska Juneau’s production,
of gold for the month of June was
$325,000 and silver $500, according
to the Juneau Empire. The recov
ery value per ton was 95.06 cents,
and operating expenditures aver
aged 50.66 cents per ton.
The net operating surplus with
deducting for depreciation and de
pletion was $154,800. Tons mined
and trammed to mill, 342,440.
FRANCE RETAINS CUP
Paris, July 27. (JP)—France won
the Davis Cup, emblem of world
tennis supremacy, defeating Eng
land in three matches to two.
Fred Perry and Bunny Austin both
beat Jean Borotro but Henri Co
chet beat both Englishmen in the
French doubles.
CHILIAN HEAD RESIGNS
SANTIAGO, Chile, July 27. (JP)—
President Carlas Ibanez resigned
and fled on the destroyer Lynch
to an undisclosed foreign destina
tion because opponents were call
ing for his head. Pedro Opago has
been chosen acting president end
ing the “military dictatorship.”