Seward Daily Gateway
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XV. NUMBER 162.
SEWARD, ALASKA; THURSDAY. JULY 17, 1930.
PRICE TEN CENT
LOCAL BANQUET
GOV. PARKS, MAJOR ELLIOTT,
OHLSON, RAY, MC MUL
LEN. HATTEN, SPOKE
A gesture of friendship was
extended to visiting Territorial
officials last evening by the citi
zens of Seward and the Cham
ber of Commerce which enter
tained at a banquet in the Sew
ard Grill.
The honored guests were Gov.
ernor George A. Parks, Major
Malcolm Elliott, Col. Otto F. Ohl
son. Cash Cole, and Robert S.
Sommers.
Speakers of the evening were
Governor Parks, Major Elliott,
Colonel Ohlson, Mr. Hatten. May
or P. C. McMullen and Mr. Ray.
President Leon Urbach of the
Chamber of Commerce presided.
Governor Parks prefaced his
remarks by stating his visits
here were altogether too few but
t-hat he always felt at home in
Seward. He dwelt briefly on his
recent trip in British Columbia
over a portion of the route of
the International Highway and
of the enthusiasm encountered
everywhere for the project.
GOVERNOR PARKS
There is considerable progress
in the way of building through
cut the entire Territory, he said,
and indications pointed to much
activity. He anticipates a larger
gold production this year than
last.
Governor Parks congratulated
:he citizens of Seward for their
enterprise in procuring such a
splendid hospital, which had been
very much in need of for many
years; that it was undoubtedly
me of the best in Alaska.
He does not look forward to
any curtailment in the fisheries
and thought the output for fish
this year, excellent.
Mine labor is about the same
as in the past and the copper
situation, also, is practically the
same as the previous year. He
looks forward to solving the rein
deer problems, which confront
him. in the near future.
The plane trip which he re
cently made over McKinley Park
amazed him from a scenic stand
point and he heartily recommend
ed such a trip to those desiring
a new vista of the park.
MAJOR ELLIOTT
The present summer has been
one of adventure for him, Maj
or Elliott, President of the Alas
ka Road Commission, began, in
his capacity of assisting in the
promotion of the proposed In
ternational Highway. He, like
Governor Parks, dwelt on the
recent motor caravan from Seat
tle to Hazelton, B. C., but went
more into detail as to mileage
and connecting links to complete
the project which he estimated at
an approximate cost of $10,000,
(Continued Passe Two)
THE STOCK MARKET
(By Associated l>ress)
International Tel. 46
American Can 126
Standard Oil of N. J. 74
Richfield . 18
Zellerbach . 13
LeHigh .'.’ 9
Juneau . 51-2
U. of California . 42
Goldman . 21
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Tecklenburg
where to have left today for the
active quartz camp of Nuka Bay.
1 FRANCE NOT AGRESSOR
NEW YORK, July 17. (/P)— G.
! Wilsons, ambassador to Germany,
| expressed the belief on his return
! from France, that it is eminent
j that a new war is brewing be
tween France and Italy. Also that
it will be fought in the air. He
said that France was not the ag
ressor.
WRECKED PLANE WAS FOUND
THREE WEEKS AGO NEAR
CEDAR CITY
CEDAR CITY, Utah, July 17. (JP)
I —A lon£~feearch for Maurice Gra
ham, air mail-pilot, ended in the
1 finding of the body only.
The skeleton was found in the
rugged mountains near here. It
i was found by six men who were
headed by Major Richard McDon
I aid. a companion of Graham in
the world war.
The wrecked plane was found
i six miles South of here. Graham
apparently met his death from
exposure to one of the worst bliz
zards that the Southwest has
known.
In his right-hand was found a
revolver; his left hand held a
] knife. Beside him was a can of
| tomatoes.
EVANS SAILS NORTH
SEATTLE. July 17. (.-Pi—The Ad
miral Evans of the P. S. S. Co.,
; sailed at 10 a. m. yesterday for
! Alaska and carried 65 passengers
C. Westenvich, M. S. Gill, and
three steerage.
; SBSENT SEKTOBS
I warn iip
WASHINGTON. July 17. <7P)—
Concerned, over the persistent fight
being waged against the London
Naval Treaty, its advocates de
manded a roundup of the absentee
Senator for a showdown on the
; first of several reservations to be
; taken up.
Leaders were taking serious note
of the reservations offered by Sen
iatorf Norris, providing that this
^government should not be bound
!by any secret understandings
j which may be embodied in the
papers President Hoover has refus
ed to give the Senate.
PAID WITH LIVES
McALESTER, Okla. July 17. (IP)—
Tom Guest, 47, ccnvicted murder
er, and James Forrest, 23, negro,
sentenced on assault charges to
a white woman, paid with their
lives in the electric chair.
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The S. S. Yukon is scheduled to
arrive in Seward tomorrow morn
ing at 5 o’clock, according to the
A. S. S. Co., bulletin board.
GOLD STAR MOTHERS
NEW YORK, July 17, (#)—Sixty
iegro Gold Star mothers will sail
•n the liner American Merchant to
isit the graves of their sons in
’ranee, but a spokesman said that
many of them will sail unhappily
lecause of the inferior boat and
totel accommodations and dis
rimination made in segregating
hem.
THIRTEEN MEN ANOTHER AD
JACENT SHAFT BROT TO
SURFACE
CAMP MICHEL, Calif., July 17.
(IP)—A gas explosion killed the
entire shift of 12 men who were
working in a tunnel of the Hetch
Hetchy project of a San Francisco
municipal water area.
The tunnel was one of a score
constructed to bring mountain
water from the high Sierra range
to San Francisco.
Two bodies have been recovered.
Thirteen men, who were working
in another adjacent shaft at the
time of the explosion were brought
to the surface in a badly shaken
up and somewhat gassed condi
tion. The shaft belched forth a
great column of smoke.
SOUTHBOUND LISTING
SEATTLE—-Mrs. R Nielson. Mr.
and Mrs. B. Christianson, Loren
Wigmaster, F. B. Woodworth, F. E.
Furbush, Mrs. Wm. Johnson, Laura
Nielson, G. M- Gray, Amanda Jac
osbon, Mr. and Mrsv J. D. Valentine,
Laurence Keff.
JUNEAU—Cash Cole. Lieut- R. B.
Oxreider, Gov. Geo. A. Parks. J.
Meheim, Sam Setken.
CORDOVA—Alex K. Hodoff, Tom
N- Dorty. Oscar R. Hart. Leonard
Rodland, A. Amundson.
LATOUCHE—W. E. Peterson.
WRANGELL—R. J- Sommers.
KETCHIKAN—P. H. McCue. O.
H. Sundmacher, Oscar Borgseth
INJURES RIB IN GAME
NEWPORT, R. I-. July 17, (IP—
Tommy Hitchcock, Jr., member of
the United States polo team, suf
fered a rib injury during the Long
Island game and is under medical
care here.
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NATIONAL LEAGUE
Chicago 6, 3, Brooklyn 4, 5. Bis
sonette was knocked, out at the
plate after a close play in the first
game when pop bottles descended
on him. Hartnett is held respons
ible by the crowd for the accident.
St. Louis 5, Philadelphia 10. This
was the Phillies first victory after
five losses. Hurst and Watkins
homered.
Cincinnati 8, New York 1. Wal
ker homered with two on bases.
Pittsburgh 3, 9, Boston 4, 5. Com
orsky homered twice in the fourth
inning; Bej^jer made his 25th
homer in the second game.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
New York 2, St. Louis 1. Gehrig
won the game for New York m the
seventh inning when he hit his
24th homer. Rice also homered.
This was the sixth straight de
feat for the Browns.
Philadelphia 14, Chicago 7.
Washington 10, 6, Cleveland 4,
13.
Boston 2, Detroit 3. Detroit used
three pitchers in the ninth inning
to stem the Boston rally.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Seattle 0, Missions 10.
Portland 8, Hollywood 1.
Los Angeles 0, Oakland 1.
San Francisco 4, Sacramento 2.
This was a game played at night.
>:ot SO SUCCESSFUL
CHICAGO, July 17, {&)—Earl
Sandes’ initial appearance in com
I petition at Arlington Park was not
;as successful as he expected.
; Mounted on Victorian, winner of
the $100,000 Agua Caliente handi
cap, the Earl managed to get by
i everyone but My Dandy in a six
'furlong test.
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FOURTEEN KILLED
SERIES OUTBREAKS
NEARLY 10,000 BRITISH TROOPS
STATIONED IN EGYPT; SIT
UATION NOW IN HAND
ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, uuly 17, (^P)
—At least 14 persons, eight of them
Europeans, were killed and 250
wounded, some of them seriously,
,in outbreaks growing out of what
| was officially described as a general
; political strike. Unconfirmed re
i ports said the casualty list was
much greater and that the dead
were being hauled away from the
scene of fighting in carts.
A detachment of Egyptian troops
occupied the main square and re
inforcements are reported to be on
the way here from Cairo.
The disturbance began with riot
ous youths bearing banners pro
claming their sympathy with the
victims of the recent political riot
ing in Mansourah and Bilbeis. They
became riotous in the streets and
commenced breaking shop windows.
The police were called and as the
mobs grew the streets were barri
caded and fighting became serious.
The authorities said the situation
Was in hand. It wras learned that
nearly 10.000 British troops are sta
tioned in Egypt.
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INDIANAPOLIS. July 17, (/Pi
Officials of the Washington Ath
letic Club here announced they ex- i
pected to attach the earnings of
Sammy Mandell, lightweight
champion, when he fights A1 Singer
in the Yankee Stadium, New York
City, tonight.
Mandell was matched to fight j
Spug Myers here the night before
I the Memorial Day automobile race
and posters advertising the show
had been distributed for several
days when Mandell refused to fill
I the engagement because the hall
was too small.
The club will ask for $5,000 dam
ages.
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WICHITA, Kas., July 17, (/P)—
Captain Frank Hawks, noted trans
continental flyer, was injured
slightly here when his monoplane
mysteriously crashed at the Trav
elair Airport. He suffered only
minor cuts. The plane fell from
a height of aout 50 feet after the
engine stalled when Hawks started
to land from a trial flight.
The flyer said he was traveling
about 80 or 90 miles an hour when
the engine suddenly went dead.
The plane hurtled over twice as it
struck the ground, but Hawks was
thrown from the cockpit.
BISTOl BUY PACK
WILL FALL SHORT
THAT OF LUST YEH
PILOT UNABLE TAKE O’MALLEY
AND PARTY TO BRISTOL
BAY FROM ILLIAMNA
JUNEAU, July 17. UP,—H. B.
Friele, vice-president and general
Manager of the Nakat Packing
Corporation arrived from BristoL
Bay aboard the seaplane Taku
yesterday afternoon and left on
the seaplane Skagway, pilot Rena
ham and six other men for Wat
erfall and will spend the night
there. They are to inspect the can
neries of Union Bay, Hidden In
let, and Ketchikan today. He ex
pects to reach Seattle tonight.
Friele estimated that the pack
of red salmon in the Bristol Bay
secion at about 400,000 cases this
year. This is a decrease of 100,000
cases from that of last year; and
also a decrease from the pack
of two years ago—1,300,000 cases.
The pack in Southeast Alaska
will be a large one, according to
indications.
Owing to fog and weather con
ditions the pilot was unable to
pick up O'Malley, of the Bureau of
Fisheries, and his party at Illiam
na and take it to Bristol Bay.
TACOMA, July 17. (/Pi— A
mid-summer auction sale of Alas
ka furs was held yesterday by the
West Coast Fur Sales Inc., and
showed little competition.
Furs are slack and the Eastern
and European demand reflected
that buyers desired goods at a
lower level than two months ago.
Thus the major part of the furs
on sale were withdrawn; only fine
fox, lynx, and cross fox moved
but at a lower mark.
G. W. Gasser of the Alaska Agri
cultural College and School of
Mines arrived from the North last
night. He is in Seward for the
purpose of doing evtension work
for the “Farthest North College.”
UNALGA TO BALTIMORE
JUNEAU, July 17. (&)—The Un
alga sailed last night for Seattle
terminating her assignment in
Alaska waters which has continu
ed for many years. Her ultimate
destination is Baltimore where she
will practically be rebuilt and
converted into a modern oil-burn
er.
Word has been received of an
accident which occurred yesterday
on the Fairbanks roads in which
four or five Anchorage woman
received minor injuries. No further
details were receivd.
NOTED ACTOR PASSES
HOLLYWOOD, July 16, (/P)—
Rudolph Schildkraut, 64. noted
character actor, died here
PLANE FORCED DOWN
SAN FRANCISCO, July 17, (;P)—
Commander Charles Kingsford
Smith, who crossed the Atlantic
and Pacific in the Southern Cross,
was forced down in a borrowed air
plane in a field near here by a
broken magneto shaft. He landed
without damage to the plane.