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VOLUME XVI. NUMBER 171. SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JULY 25, 1931.
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26 DIE IN FUMES
217 IN HOSPITALS AND MANY
MORE EXPECTED TO
DIE
PITTSBURGH, July 25. (/P>—
Twenty-six persons, all but one
believed to have been inmates of
the Little Sisters of the Poor
Home for the aged, were burned
* to death and 217 others are in
hospitals, victims of a fire which
' turned the haven into a place of
horror and suffering.
Fifteen are still unaccounted for.
It is feared the shock will increase
fatalities among the aged. Many,
however, were calm and helped
others but later collapsed.
The damage is estimated at $50,
000. The alarm came from the
outside but barred gates and a
st-one wall faced those desiring
to warn the inmates.
One nun is among the dead.
The inmates were all over 60 years
old. Nuns led many to safety;
firemen battered down the gates!
and used life nets. There were J
many heroes among the members
of the lowly neighborhood.
HOOIIEB REFUSES TO
PUCE EMBARGO ON
PETROLEUM IMPORTS
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 25.
(JP)—Another effort of domestic
oil products to stop the flow of
foreign importations, with the de
pressing effect upon the home
markets, ended when President
Hoover made known his refusal to
use any of the provisions of the
Smoot-Hawley tariff to place an
outright embargo on crude petro
leum imports.
The President’s action was an
nounced through issuance at the
White House of opinion by Attor
ney General William Mitchell,
holding that the President was
without authority to declare an
embargo.
Mr. Mitchell said the facts pre
sented by the local producers
failed to put petroleum in the class
of “unfair commodities” such as
are in any pursuance of any “con
spiracy on the part of importers
to create a monopoly.”
FIVE DIE IN CRASH
CASS LAKES, Minn., July 25. (/P)
—Five were killed in a plane crash
when a pilot zoomed low too quick
ly, to allow them to wave to friends
below, and a wing crumpled. The
dead are a Minnesota minister,
Charles Gault; Lawrence Ochugh,
J. J. Stapleton, Pilot A. B. Conrad
# fend Ralph Ausk.
NICE FOR UNEMPLOYED
WASHINGTON. D. C., July 25.
- v (JP)—Drastic economy government
expenditures are demanded by
President Hoover to meet the de
clining treasury receipts, and he
has ordered all government heads
to withhold funds not needed for
actual operation. He described
the present condition as a “serious
t one.”
HALIBUT PRICES
SEATTLE, July 25. (A*)—Halibut
from six vessels totaling 103,0001
pounds sold for 5c and 9c. At!
Prince Rupert 72,000 pounds of j
American brought 3c and 6, and’
Canadian 3c and 6.04c.
TWO FEDERHL AGENTS
KILLED 10 BATTLE WITH
ALLEGED BOOTLEGGER
FORT WAYNE, Ind., July 24. (/P)
—Two federal prohibition agents,
John I. Wilson and Walter M.
Gilbert, were killed in a pistol bat
tle with George Adams, alleged
Fort Wayne bootlegger on parole
from a federal penitentiary where
he was sentenced last year on a
liquor charge.
Adams was arrested later as he
sat in a car dazed with two bul
let wounds in his neck.
C. E. Green and Oliver J. Gettle,
two other agents, were wounded
but not seriously.
The officers stopped Adams’ car,
believing he carried a load of li
quor. Two bystanders were wound
ed in the battle.
PLANES GUIDE LOST
AVItTORS NICARAGUA
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MANAGUA, Nicaragua, July 25.
UP)—Sergeant Gordon Heritage and
Corporal Orville Simmons, of the
U. S. Marines, made a forced land
ing in the jungles 40 miles from
Logtown Wednesday, then burned
their plane.
Other aviators overhead flew as
a guard guiding them but lost
them on Thursday but last night
Simmons and Heritage reached
Puerto Cabezas safely.
BRIDGE IS OPENED
Durant, Okla., July 25. (/Pi—The
free bridge between here and Den
ison, Texas, was opened after a
federal injunction restraining the
opening was dissolved at Houston.
12 MINUTES BEHIND SCHEDULE
VILLA, France, July 24. UP)—
Only 12 minutes behind the sched
ule set for himself, William Abbott
Robinson, of Boston, Mass., sailed
his 32-foot launch into this har
bor yesterday, having left New
London in 1928.
AGED INVENTOR ILL
NEW YORK, July 25. (^—Thom
as A. Edison has not been feeling
■ well for the last three weeks. The
aged inventor is feeling the effects
of the hard winter he spent at
work at his Florida home.
HAS CAPONE NOTHING?
CHICAGO, July 25. (#>) — The
United States government is hav
ing a hard time finding anything
belonging to A1 Capone, racketeer,
which it might attach for evasion
of its income tax bill, Assistant
United States Attorney Dwight
Green indicated. The gangster is
supposed to have concealed all of
his assets.
The total area of Alaska is 590,
884 square miles, being approxi
mately one-fifth the size of con
tinental United States.
GlflL STUDENT FIND
DEAD IN RAVINE ON
HE RESERVATION
WHITE RIVER, Apache Reserva
tion, Ariz., July 25. (IP)—The body
of Miss Henrietta Schmeler, 25,
anthropology student of Columbia
University, New York, was found
in a shallow ravine near Fort
Apache cemetery Friday. The
earth had been trampled, evidenc
ing a struggle. She was accus
tomed to set out on hiking expe
ditions alone.
The girl disappeared last Sat
urday and because she mingled
freely with men of the tribe the
theory is advanced she may have
been the victim of tribal jealousy
as her conduct aroused the ani
mosity of women in the tribe, but
authorities said there was no con
firmation to this angle.
The body was unmarked which
led to the belief if the girl was
murdered, she was smothered.
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REBEKAH HEAD ARRIVES
Gertrude Manier, of Olympia,
Wash., and president of the Re
! bekah assembly, I. O. O. F., of
| Washington and Alaska, arrived in
Seward on last night's train from
Anchorage. Mrs. Manier, who is
making an official tour of the
Territory, went into the Interior
by the way of the Richardson
Highway. A special meeting of
the Seward Rebekah Lodge will
be held this evening in honor of
Mrs. Manier, in the I. O. O. F.
hall. A social is to follow the
lodge meeting.
SAW NO MOUNTAINS
Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Underwood,
theatrical folk of California, ar
rived in Seward Thursday from
' the Interior, having entered the
Territory via Skagway. Since their
i arrival, some 15 days ago, they
have not had the pleasure of view
ing an entire mountain because
of cloudy or misty weather and
I the same condition held true with
| their arrival here. However, they
look forward to returning North
! again for they have enjoyed the
! trip and want some more of it.
A Brill car, with General Man
ager Ohlson on board, will arrive
in Seward Tuesday from Curry
and will convey the incoming Sen
ators aboard the B. of F. vessel
Penguin, and other officials, to
[the Interior.
The SS Admiral Watson, of the
P. S. S. Co., sails South from
; Seward tomorrow (Sunday) eve
ning at 6 o’cock.
I PLANE BRINGS PASSENGER
i Pilot Barnhill, flying a P. i. a.
plane, dropped down in Seward
■Friday from Anchorage with one
‘ passenger, F. H. Bailey, cannery
;man, who boarded the SS Yukon
'for the South. Pilot Barnhill took
] off for Bristol Bay.
BOW OR STERN?
| Many of Seward’s younger ele
ment, and old folks as well, who
'never had seen a dredge, are hav
ing difficulty in ascertaining which
is the bow and stern. The bow
of the big P. S. D. Co. dredge,
which arrived in port a few days
ago from the South, is, according to
The Gateway’s maritime reporter,
where the suction pipes project.
OFF FOR ARCTIC
BERLIN, July 25. (/P)—The Graf
Zeppelin took off for Leningrad
and was sighted eight hours later
over Dagoe Island, the entrance
to the Gulf of Finland. From
Leningrad the dirigible flies to
Archangel and Franz Joseph Land.
ENGINE USING TOO
MUCH OIL SO HOP
HILTED FEW NFS
SEATTLE, July 25. (fP)—Robbins
and Jones were forced to postpone
their Tokyo flight because the mo
tor installed here was found to be
using too much oil.
They telegraphed Duncan, Okla
homa,, for a 425 horsepower motor j
with which the plane was origin-,
ally equipped. They said it would
be shipped by express and should
reach Seattle in four days.
Allowing for a day’s installation
and testing, they expect to be
ready to hop off August 3 or 4.
CIRCUS MAN DIES
INDIO, Calif., July 25. (£>)—A1
G. Barnes, circus man, died here
today.
WES
NEW YORK, July 25. (£>;—The
Wall Street storm was left in per
| plexity and uncertainty by the
j conclusion of the seven-power
conference and the stock market
lapsed into a state of lethargy in
comparable to the pall of Monday.
Several prices tottered uncer
| tainly, sagging a little until morn
| ing, recovering moderately for a
; time in the afternoon, and again
; falling off during the night.
| The market closed with steadi
; ness, and for most part, negligi
ble change.
TOTTER AND ~
SIS, WILE STREET
NATIONAL
Brooklyn 7, Pittsburgh 8.
New York 3, Cincinnati 5.
Boston 1, Chicago 3.
Philadelphia 0-2, St. Louis 10-7.
AMERICAN
Detroit 5, New York 6.
Chicago 3, Boston 1.
Cleveland 1, Philadelphia 2.
Only American games played.
PACIFIC COAST
Sacramento 4, San Francisco 1.
Missions 8, Seattle 3.
Hollywood 6, Portland 1.
Oakland 2, Los Angeles 0.
BAD WEATHER OFF SHORE
The U. S. Coast and Geodetic
Survey vessel Discoverer, H. B.
Campbell, commander, arrived in
port during the light from Bar
ren Island, where weather condi
tions have been had for the past
week. Oil, mail and supplies will
be taken on while here. Shore
parties have been landed in the
Barren Island area, carrying for
ward triangulation work.
E. T. Malloy, conductor in charge
of a Burlington Tour, passed thru
the city Friday enroute to the In
terior.
SSILEM OFF
FOR THE NORTH
WITH FI LIST
MAJORITY OF PASSENGERS ARE
ROUND-TRIPPERS; FEW
FOR INTERIOR
SEATTLE, July 25. (£>)—'The S3
Aleutian, of the Alaska Steamship
Company, sailed at 9 a. m. today
and carried 142 pasengers, 44 for
Seward as follows:
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. E. McKinnon,
Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Thurber, Pack
ard Thurber, Doris Thurber, Mrs.
A. Neiderhaiser, Mr. and Mrs. S.
E. Chandler, Mr. and Mrs. Louis
Schroeder, Mr and Mrs. Ernest
McCleary, Lillie Dehay, Mary Kib
bell, Miss V. Fauly, Esther Hever
ling, Fred J. Heintz.
Fred Carlquist, Peter Shutz, Dr.
and Mrs. A. S. Parker, Miss C.
Nagel, Miss S. Brumberg, Bessie
C. Kay, J. Day, J. H. Irving, F. C.
Hzelvigg, Jas. Hagan, G. E. Burns,
Ruth Forsyth, Maria Johnson, Miss
R. McCausland, Mr. and Mrs. Jas.
Brazell, Miss H. Callahan, Miss I.
Rasmussen, Dr. and Mrs. A. L.
Standfast, Jr L. McKareth, Mrs.
H. W.'~i£eHy and baby, Mr. and
! Mrs. Carl Kelsey and five steerage.
ESKIMOS TO READ
OF KINO'S POWER
i IN OWN LINOUIEE
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LONDON, July 24. UP)—A strange
jbook just off the presses here is
j“An Eskimo Book of Knowledge,”
| written in the Eskimo dialect.
Rev. W. W. Perrett, for 40 years
a missionary among the chubby
furclad clans translated the book
and the Hudson Bay Company
published it. The first part deals
with the British Empire in the
following fashion:
“The greatest ruler of all, who
governs white men, brown men.
and black men is King George V.
He is your king.
“He is also a great sailor which
is fitting for a man who lives on
an island. He sails a boat faster
than all other boats of the same
size.
“Edward, the eldest son of King
George, races across country on a
large four-legged animal called
‘horse’ which eats grass like a
deer.”
DIVORCE TRIAL ENDS
CAMDEN, N. J., July 25. (TP)—
The divorce trial of Reverend Ca
mille Estornello ended with Spe
cial Master William Knight recom
mending that the decree be grant
ed the wife, Mrs. Florence Estor
nello, on the grounds of miscon
duct.
J. C. McBride, head of Alaska’s
Customs, accompanied by Mrs. Mc
Bride, both of whom arrived Fri
day on the SS Yukon from their
Juneau home, continued on to the
Interior today. They return to
the coast via Skagway.
Vesels in port today included
the U. S. S. Tahoe, U. S. C. & G.
vessel Discoverer and the fishing
schooner Marian.