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VOLUME XVI. NUMBER 161.
SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, JULY 20, 1931. PRICE TEN CENTS
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GERMAN MONEY.
CHECKS DEFUSED
BANKS. HOTELS
EUROPE’S FINANCIAL SITUA
ASSUMES DORMANT
OUTLOOK
LONDON, July 20. (/P> —The
effects of the German crisis were
apparent throughout Europe. Brit
ish banks refused German curren
cy and the stock market closed
weak.
In Stockholm the banks and the
hotels refused to accept German
currency and it was feared thal
thousands of tourists would be
stranded without funds as the
banks would not accept German
checks '
A Budapest report has it thal
all the Hungarian banks were clos
ed suddenly after a ministerial
conference, for three daysfc
At Brussels the reports from the
borders of Begium and Luxem
bourg told of thousands of Ger
mans who were crossing over with
their cash. Luxemburg suspended
its marks exchange.
In Bucharest financial circlet
were distressed by the closing ol
the Dacia bank at Jassy with a
SI.000,000 deficit. The Riga Inter
national bank and the Bank ol
Libau suspended in respect to cur
rent accounts and deposits.
The Latavian cabinet guaran
teed deposits in Latavian currency
but declared that it would not be
responsible for deposits in foreigi:
currency.
The Mercur Bank, of Vienna
which was controlled by the Darm
staeder Und National Bank of Ber
lin, closed its doors. The Bourse
suspended trading in Hungariar
stocks for three days.
■ DOMES SOIL
OD TAHOE FOIINOHTH
SEATTLE, July 20. (/P)—On the
U. S. Coast Guard cutter Tahoe
which sailed from Seattle Satur
day, were Congressmen Will Wooc
of Indiana, chairman of the House
appropriations committee; Frank
Murphy of Ohio; William Hastings
of Oklahoma, wife and three
daughters; Don Colton of Utah
wife and daughter; Addison Smith
of Idaho and wife; Scott Leavitt
of Montana.
They will visit Ketchikan, Wran
gell, Juneau, Cordova, Columbia
Glacier. Valdez, Seward, Anchor
age, Mt. McKniley Park and Fair
banks, thence over the Richardsor
Highway by auto to Chitina where
they will board the Copper Rivet
& Northwestern Railroad for Cor
dova.
Six members of the party will
return to Seattle by way of Ju
neau while the others will returr
+■ on the cutter Tahoe.
LANDS IN CHURCHYARD
EASTON, Pa., July 20. (£>)—A
Navy balloon of 35,000 cubic feel
capacity, which left Lakehurst, N
J., landed in the j'ard of the Dry
land church at Hecktown. The
balloon was piloted by Lieutenanl
Samuel H. Bailey.
800 ENTERTAINED BY ROYALTY
LONDON, July 20. (/P) — King
George V and Queen Mary enter
tained between 800 and 900 guests
who were commanded to attend
the first royal ball in Buckingham
Palace since 1924.
OIL FIRE CAUSE
OF EIGHT DEATHS.
SEVEN BURNED
WELL CAME IN PRIO RTO EX
PLOSION STORAGE TANK;
EIGHT DEAD
MT. PLEASANT, Mich., July 20,
(/p)—An oil fire, which brought a
ghastly finish to a celebration
over the shooting of a gusher Sat
urday, took a toll of eight lives
and seven others were terribly
burned and are fighting death in
the hospital.
The 2,000 barrel well attracted
the victims and 20 other spectators
to the scene of the tragedy. The
well came in just before a storage
tank exploded from a cause unde
! termined.
Buck Hewett, a tool dresser,
risked his life capping the well,
thereby preventing more deaths.
Many men dashed into the flames
to rescue others.
The dead are Mrs. Mary Mc
Clanahan, Mrs. Lola Guy, Ruby
Melvin. Marion Fugate, Mrs. Anna
| Lamb, Mrs. H. E. Whittekind and
A. E. Gorman.
DIM 15 EASY
VICTOR OVER KEY
NEW YORK, July 20, (/Pi—Mid
get Wolgast, speedy Philadelphian,
who is recognized in some states
| as flyweight champion, clearly de
! monstrated his right to the crown
; as far as Rudy “Dark Cloud”
Bradley of Holyoke, Mass., is con
' cerned.
Wolgast punched out easy 15
j round decision over the New Eng
i land negro at the Coney Island
| Stadium, in the first championship
battle there since Jim Jefferies
and Jim Corbett clashed for the
’ heavyweight title 30 years ago.
BROTHER, NEPHEW DROWN'
• Chas. P. Sission, of the Justice
! Department, Washington, D. C.,
who returned unexpectedly Friday
from the Westward by plane and
boarded the S3 Aleutian for the
South, is hurrying back to the
States owing to receiving word
that his only brother and his
brother’s three-year-old son, had
met death by drowning. It was
also said this was the third trag
edy in the family in eight years.
DESIRE LARGE ATTENDANCE
A full attendance is requested by
President Leon Urbach at Tues
day’s meeting of the Seward
Chamber of Commerce at noon in
' the Seward Grill, at which time
plans will be made for the recep
tion of the two Congressional par
ties who will arrive Friday from
i the South on the Cutter Tahoe
and the SS Yukon.
IN EFFORT TO SAVE
PARTIAL AGREEMENT REACH
ED BETWEEN FRANCE AND
GERMANY
LONDON, July 20, (^—States
men from the United States, Great
Britain, Italy, France Germany
Belgium and Japan assembled at
the most important international
conference since the Versailles
meeting where they wrote war in
to a new map of the world.
They are now charged with the
task of reconciling the conflicting
interests into a program which
will pull Germany free from eco
nomic catastrophe and lessen fin
ancial stress thruout the world.
At the first meeting Premier
MacDonald, in the House of Com
mons, met with France and Ger
many who reached an agreement
that Paris would do everything to
create conditions favorable to ef
fective collaboration.
Laval, Briand, Breuning and
Curtius in Paris, failed to agree,
however, on financial guarantees
of political appeasement which
France asks.
Mellon, Gibson and Stimson are
here.
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Pittsburgh .36 47
Philadelphia .37 52
Cincinnati .32 56
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PROVIDING THEY ACCEPT
j Providing the Congressional
; party, duetto arrive in Seward Fri
, day from the South, will accept
i the Seward Chamber of Commerce
invitation for an auto tour to Lake
Kenai, they will be taken over the
beautiful drive by local residents.
Also, to Russian River for rainbow
trout fishing, if time permits.
Mr. and Mrs. George James, of
The Alaska Shop, who are spend
ing much of the summer at their
lodge on Lake Kenai, near Lawing
are building what is said to be one
of the most beautiful fire places
in the Territory.
HEAT TAKES TOLL OF 23
CHICAGO, July 20. (JP) — The
heat wave now sweeping the mid
dle west has taken a toll of 23
lives, 8 of them in Chicago. Dam
age to crops is enormous.
LEADER NATIONALIST ARM*
PLEDGED ALLEGIANCE; RE
SULT MAY BE FATAL
PEIPING, July 20, (£>)—Martial
law has been declared in Peiping
and Tientsin and rigid censorship
has been imposed by Manchurian
authorities commandeering mili
tary supplies. It is evident theii
I intention is to move against the
; opposing forces at Hohan, where
| clashes with Manchurians have
1 occurred.
General Shih Yu San is controll
i ing north Hohan and professes
loyalty to the Nanking govern
i ment but is commandeering rail
1 road rolling stock and interrupting
; traffic.
General Chen Ming- Shu, leader
of the 19th Nationalist army, is re
ported to have pledged allegiance
to the new Canton government
The result may be fatal to the
Nationalist government.
H YORK ITALIAN
RETAINS DOUBLE TITLE
|
LOS ANGELES, - July 20. (/P>
Tony Canzoneri, New York Italian
still retained his double schamp
ionship after his 10-round boul
here with Cecil Payne, wild swing
ing Kentuckian, for the junior wel
terweight title. In winning the de
cision Canonzeri demonstrated be
yond all question, his right to the
title, scoring a knockout in the
'first round when he caught the
! challenger flush on the chin witt
ja r^ght hook, dropping him to the
! count of three..
GAME HEAD DUE TONIGHT
Mr. Terhune, head of the Alas
ka Game Commission, who arrivec
in the city Friday by plane froir
Bristol Bay, has been down in the
Cooper Landing, Lake Kenai area
with Game Warden George Nelsor
both of whom are expected to re
turn to the city this evening. Mr
Terhune boards the Admiral line]
for Kodiak but is returning here
to meet the Paul Redington partj
aboard the Bureau of Fisheries
vessel Penquin, now enroute froir
the Westward.
BOY FOR THE HOPKINS
A seven pound, two and one-hall
ounce boy was brought to the
Seward General Hospital by Mr
Stork, assisted by Dr. A. D. Haver
stock, Saturday at 11:59 a. m., anc
j delivered to Mr. and Mrs. Leon
ard Hopkins, popular young loca!
couple. Mrs. Hopkins and babj
are doing fine, it was reported
today, and Papa Hopkins has beer
busy ever since passing out the
cigars in honor of the occasion.
ft!
M
IS SAFE IN ARMS
“MA” KENNEDY' HUDSON EX
PECTS BE GREAT GRAND
MOTHER, DECEMBER
LOS ANGELES, July 20, (A*)—
This business of being a happy
bride, a machmaker for her daugh
ter, Aimee Semple McPherson, and
a prospective g.'eat grand mother
in the next few months, is too
much, even for “Ma” Minnie Ken
nedy Hudson.
With “What A Man”, G. Edward
Hudson safely in her arms, and
the world clamoring for details of
her romance and plans for the fu
ture, “Ma” Kennedy folded her
“honeymoon tent” and announced
that for the next few days, she will
be “just rolling along”.
But before she started out fof
the wide open spaces, still clinging
to “What A Man”, she made known
these interesting facts.
Some time in December, said Ma,
she expects to become a great
grandmother. The happy event is
expected, she confided, in the
home of Mrs. Roberta Semple
Smythe, Mrs. McPherson’s pretty
daughter, whose romantic wedding
in Singapore last spring, started
the honeymoon express of the Mc
Pherson household in motion.
Some time before *that date,
“Ma’ and her man Hudson expects
to find “just the right kind of a
man for Aimee” that “lonely little
sparrow” Ma called her, and some
time in the near future, Mrs. Ken
nedy Hudson and the new husband
expect to adopt a nice little baby
boy.
The many residents in Seward
who have known Thomas S. Scott,
vice president of the Bank of Al
aska at Cordova for many years,
received a terrible shock Sunday
when a report was brought to the
effect he had committed suicide at
San Francisco.
■ j The report is difficult to believe
i i by the majority and not until def
. inite and authentic word comes,
( will they believe it so. No item was
, received today by The Gateway
but this is not unusual for not all
Alaska items are sent north from
the States.
It is known that Mr. Scott has
f been in the States and also that
' he was not in the best of health, a
i report to this effect having been
. noticed in the Juneau Empire.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Scott were visi
tors in Seward last summer.
TRIUMPHS AGAIN
CHICAGO, July 20. (JP) —“Mate”
. who conquered “Twenty Grand” at
the Preakness triumphed over him
i again to win $70,000 and added
tlje Arlington Classic to its laurels,
i “Spanish Play” was second and
r Twenty Grand third. The Mate
i broke the track records in running
i the mile and a quarter in 2.00 min~
utes and two fifths seconds before
a crowd of 67,00 people.