Seward Daily Gateway
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XV. NUMBER 167.
SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 1930.
PRICK TEN CENTS
POLITICAL BATTLE SOLE REA
SON FOR KILLING, SAYS
BROTHER
DETROIT, July 23, (/P)—Twc
and one-half hours after he hac
announced over the radio the re
call of Mayor Bowles, Charles
E. Buckley, political commentator
of radio station WMBC was assas
sinated by three gunmen as he
sat in the lobby of his hotel.
A reward of $50,000 for the ar
rest and conviction of the killers
of “those back-killing who insti
gated it” was posted by the City
Council.
The slaying is the climax of a
three-weeks gangster killings.
Governor Green took a hand
John Bersev. National Guard unit
in the affair ordering Colone]
t-o Detroit.
Commissioner Wilcox saw con
nection between the recall and
the killing. Paul Buckley, brother
01 unaries, saia me recau uauic
•‘was the sole reason for the
shooting.” Mayor Bowles said it
is a “terrible, terrible thing.”
EXCELLENT III 1829
VICTORIA, B. C., July 22. UP)—
The excellent progress made in this
empire of mineral wealth, British
Columbia, is shown by a value oi
S68.245.443 placed on its products
in 1929 in the annual report of the
Minister of Mines, W. A. McKenzie
This sum is comparable with $12,
393,131 to 1899 and the S13.743.30f
dividends of 1929 are comparable
with SI 1,666.688 paid in 1928 anc
S2.809.295 in 1923.
Half a million words are contain
ed in this book. They tell about
wealth being taken in spots from an
area 725 miles north and south and
400 east and west.
Among the new animals to be
imported into Alaska’s wide-open
spaces and sanctuaries, will be a
wild boar from the noted Black
Forest in Germany; the leaping
chamois of the Alps and an ibex
from the Koljal mountains of
Persia.
Other big game includes the tahr,
mouflin. audad, markhor, reed
deer, vak and muskoxen.
The makhor is a wild sheep of
mountains to the north of India.
From the islands of Sardinia
and Corsica will come the mouflin
a wild sheen. The audad is a
Barbara sheep from the the nor
thern mountains of Africa. The
ibex is found in Spain, parts of
Africa and Persia.
The muskox is acclimated in
Northern Canada.
A LOT OF “YVHOOEE!”
LONDON, July 23. (/P>—The
House of Commons will proceed
immediately to further considera
tion of the bill giving in effect the
London naval treaty. Premier
MacDonald informed the House
it will be considered on its second
reading tomorrow.
IMBEDS KILLED H
EMPKE, ITILY:
NAPLES STRUCK ■
NAPLES. July 23, (/P>—'Twc
hundred and 51 persons were kill
ed when three sharp earthquakes
shook the southern portion of
Italy and several hundred were
injured.
1 Relief measures were imme
diately gotten under way.
It is believed that at least 50
1 j died in Naples rm fright and if
the quake had been slightly shar
i per the entire city of Naples
would have been destroyed.
8Y LARGE VOTE
DECLARES INTENTION TO RUN
AGAIN FOR THE OFFICE
NEXT ELECTION
DETROIT. July 23, (JP)—Bowles
will be the first mayor to be re
called by a majority of 30.956
out of 210,000 votes cast. He is
called from office which he has
held for only six months.
After a bitter two weeks cam
paign the vote for him was 20.863
and against him 39.900.
Bowles continues in office un
til a successor has been elected.
He automatically becomes a can
didate at the next election which
must be held within 30 days and
h intends to run again.
No other candidates have been
announced.
THE STOCK MARKET
By Associated Press
Tel. and Tel. 46. A. Can 126.
Oil, N J. 73. Richfield 17, Zel
lerbach 15. Lehigh, no sale; Alas
ka Juneau, no sale; U. Oil 41,
Goldman 20. Bancorporation 30,
Gas 110, Motors 44. Kennecott 39,
Radio 44, Carbide 74, Steel 164,
Cities 29.
BARON OF PENRITH
LONDON. July 23. (/P)-Sir Esme
Howard, former British amabas§a
dor to the United States, who was
granted a barony on the recent
King’s birthday honors, has taken
the title of Baron Howard of Pen
rith.
NEW FRAULEIN RECORD
BERLIN, July 23, (ZP)-Fraulein
Ellen Braumuller tossed the javelin
132 feet and one fifty-seven hun
1 reths inches Monday to establish
a new record for women.
| FISH CANNERIES SET RECORD
1 WASHINGTON, July 23, (/P)-The
output of canned fishery products
and byproducts in the United
!Qt*tes and Alaska established a re
! cord last year with a value of
$124,832,711.
ALASKA RHUBARB
In a recent edition of the Seat
tle Times there appeared an ex
cellent photograph of a rhubarb
grown at Sitka. The “pie-plant”
! held over a charming young Miss
as a parasol was 50 inches in
length.
| e. W. Davis, resident of Juneau
for a number of years, recently
i returned from Seattle with a
‘ bride, the former Miss Mattie
1 Simpson, nurse.
LIBERATED RHINELAND CELE
BRATION TRAGICALLY
CUT SHORT
COBLENZ, July 23. (£>)—Von
; Hindenburg’s triumpha progress
of a liberated Rhineland was tra
gically cut short in the collapse
lof a rickety pontoon bridge across
the Moselle River and between
135 to 50 persons lost their lives.
■ The President gave up the re
■ mainder of the trip and returned
, to Berlin, after attending mourn
ing services.
Raymond Lawler, age six, an
| American boy from Akron, Ohio,
| was among the victims. He fell
with his grand-father, Peter Con
rad.
inn KITES EOS
VOLUNTEER JUMPERS
WASHINGTON, July 21. UP) —
After August I voluntary parachute
jumpers will be required to wear
two parachutes, under an amend
ment to the government’s air com
merce regulations.
The rule will apply to exhibition,
testing, training, and demonstrat
ing jumps.
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AMERICAN
Bost n 4. Chicago 3
St. Louis 3. Washington 1
Detroit 6. Philadelphia 5
Cleveland 6. 10. New York 5, 3
NATIONAL
Philadelphia 11. Pittsburg 5
Brooklyn 1, St. Louis 0
The “Robins’’ went into first
place with this victory.
Cincinnati at Boston, rain.
New York 4. 6. Chicago 5. 1
COAST
Night games
Portland 12, Missions 2
Los Angeles 5, Sacramento 4
Seattle 5, Hollywood 5. This was
a day game.
I San Francisco 6, Oakland 5
ECHO SOUNDING NOT NEW
WASHINGTON, July 21. (/P> —
.Though echo sounding is regarded
las new, the coast and geodetic
survey has been engagd in it for
six years. Charting of the ocean
bottom near the coastlines * has
been speeded up by many years
——
VIE FOR INDUSTRIES
NEW YORK, July 23, 0P>-Cities
now compete with cheap fuel and
cheap power as factors in deter
mining the location of industries
says Charles W. Cuno of St. Louis
in a report to the Amercan Chem
ical society.
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HAS SERIOUS OPERATION
BUCHAREST, July 23. ^-Prem
ier Benito Mussolini of Italy under
went a serious operation for cancer
of the stomach at Bologna, it was
reported here by the newspaper
Ajsag.
S2,000,000, 18 MONTHS
‘ new YORK. July 23. (AVRack
teers have collected more than
$2,000,000 from garment manufac
turers here in the last 18 months,
labor officials told federal authori
ties.
1
GLENN H. CITISS
PUSSES IT SUFFAU
BUFFALO, July 23. (7P;— Glenn
i H. Curtiss, aviation pioneer, died
in the General Hospital to where
he was brought several days age
j from his home at Hammondsport,
:N. Y„ for an operation for ap
pendicitis.
Mrs. Curtis arrived after the
j death anc\ is staying at a down
town hotel.
Death was due to pulmonary
embolus caused by a blood clot
on one of the main arteries lead
ing out of the heart.
FIGURES SHOW GAIN IN SILVER
AND LOSS IN GOLD FROM
MINES OF U. S.
WASHINGTON, July 22, (/P>—'The
director of the mint announces
2,208,386 ounces of refined gold
valued at $45,651,400, was produced
in the United States in 1929 and
that silver refinery production to
taled 61,327.868 ounces, valued at
$32,087,754. The gold production
in 1929 showed a reduction from
1928 of $514,000 while there was an
; increase of 2,865.361 ounces of sil
ver.
The chief production by States
showed that California led in gold
with 409.669 ounces, valued at $8.
445.200, while Alaska was second
with 374.669 ounces, valued at $7,
745.100.
South Dakota produced 312,328
ounces, valued at 237,221 ounces
worth $6,456,400, while Utah pro
duced $4,903,800 and Co.ora do 220,
285 ounces valued at $4 553 700 and
Arizona 211,108 ounces worth $4,
364,000.
Nevada produced 158.941 ounces
worth $3,285,600, while Montana
produced 55.854 ounces which brot
$1,154,600; Idaho produced 19,597
valued at $405,100; New Mexico 33
026 worth $682,700; Oregon 17,657
ounces worth $365,000.
The Philippine Islands produced
151,757 ounces of gold valued at
$3,137,100. In the states listed,
Wyoming had the smallest gold
| production with 48 ounces worth
$1,000.
Utah led the way in silver pro
duction with 17,844.657 ounces
■ worth $9,511,202. Montana was
second with 12.613,580 ounces
worth $6,723,038, wiaile Idaho was
third, producing 9,533,327 ounces
valued at $5,081,263.
1 Arizona produced 7,840,321 oun
j ces of silver valued at $4,178,891,
while Colorado reported 4.415.838
ounces valued at $2,353,642 ounces
worth $2,353,642. Nevada had a
total of 4,746,750 ounces valued at
$2,530,018. Georgia produced 13
| ounces of silver, while Wyoming
was listed as having produced
eight ounces valued at $4.
EXPECT 16,000,000 TONS
| MOSCOW, July 23. (TP)—The
Soviet Oil Trust Co., says that
when the industry was nationalized
in 1920 the production totaled 3,
800,000 tons, whereas this year is
expected to reach 16,000,000 tons
and 40,000,000 is the goal for 1932
1933.
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1 | ASSISITANT TO WILBUR WILL
ACCOMPANY MRS. WILBUR,
SON JR., ON TRIP
JUNEAU, July 23, (/P)_On a
tour which will take them almost
I to the Arctic Circle, Mrs. Ray Ly
j man Wilbur and son. Junior,,
! wife and son of the Secretary of
! the Interior, will start from Seat
j tie August 16, Governor George A.
Parks has been informed.
They will be accompanied by
E. K. Burlew, administrative as
sistant to Secretary Wilbur.
The party plans a four or five
day stop in McKinley National
Park, then on to Fairbanks for
an automobile trip over the Steese
Highway to Circle.
They will return to the coast
I over the Richardson Highway to
i Chitina then over the Copper Riv
1 er Railroad to Cordova.
1 Mr Burlew will remain at Ju
neau ior a wees ouiouunu, me
I others will proceed to Seattle.
!
: CITS DOWN COST
IN BUTTE HES
! _
1 BUTTE, Mont., July 21. i/Pi—The
1 automatic machine, scientific pro
1 cesses and combinations are sweep
■ ing all classes of workers into the
employment army.
> Due to the modern machinery 100
^ miners get out as much ore in the
' Butte mines as 400 did in the old
l days of Marcus Daly and former U.
' S. Senator Clark. Yet these men,
operating on 10 and 11 cents copper
5 made hundreds of millions of dol
’ lars.
One man at a local manganese
■ plant in South Butte throws an el
1 ectric switch and the nodulating of
• that ore is' complete without the
aid of man power.
i %liN TAGGING 10
;| BE RESUMED SHORTLY
In continuation of its salmon
tagging program started several
years ago to determine the routes
of migration of salmon entering
and passing thru Alaskan waters,
fish will be tagged in the southern
district this season, it was an
nounced at Juneau by the U. S.
Bureau of Fisheries,
j Warden Hynes of Ketchikan will
have charge of the work. Fish will
be tagged at Sanganut, Sitklan and
Cape Fox, all in the Ketchikan or
southern district.
In a telegram received by the
Bureau from Warden Hynes, it was
reported that indications i>oint to
a good run of fish in the southern
} district
MORE GOLD FOR ENGLAND
I NEW YORK, July 23, (SP)~The
worldwide drop in security values
ilast October and the outflow of
funds from New York has enriched
the gold stocks of the iBank of
England to offset the decrease of
last year.
i Optimism reigns with regards
to uncovering a large vein of
[high grade ore in the famous
Chichagof mine.