Seward Daily Gateway
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XV. NUMBER 198.
SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, AUGUST 4, 1930.
PRICK TEN CENT.
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SUPERINTENDEN DIBRELL OF
LIGHTHOUSES IS HON
OR GUEST
A special called meeting of the
Seward Chamber of Commerce
was held Saturday, in the ban
quet room of the Seward Grill, at
which time members paid their
respects to Superintendent Wal
ter C. Dibrell of lighthouses of
the 16th District, who pledged co
operation of his branch of gov
ernment service in securing pro
per recognition for Alaska.
A significant statement of Cap
tain Dibrell’s was “Washington
must be shown the need, which
must be accompanied by a strong
demand in order to secure action
on a request.”
IS SYMPATHETIC
♦ The Superintendent stated that
General Putman, Commissioner of
Lighthouses, Washington, D. C.,
formerly resided in Alaska, and
has frequently visited the Terri
tory since moving to Washington,
and has a sympathetic under
standing of Alaska’s needs.'
Capt. John Leadbetter,, com
manding officer of the Lighthouse
Tender Cedar, caring for main
tenance work along the coast of
Alaska, spoke interestingly of the
work of his department, and also
pledged cooperation in securing
recognition for Alaska in anything
within his branch of the service.
residents invited
Captain Simms, commanding
officer of t]?e U. S. Survey Ship
Discoverer, doing geodetic survey
work in this area, invited residents
ci the city to board the Discover
er and inspect the sceintific in
struments and observe the mod
ern methods of conducting the
survey work.
Capt. O. A. Johansen, veteran
Alaskan mariner and authority on
Alaskan waterways urged the
construction of a lighthouse
at the entrance to Ressurec
tion Bay, and cited disasters that
4 could have been averted if such
o recomendation had previously
been heeded
LOCAL AGENT PRESENT
Charles Cramer, newly appoint
ed assistant agent of the Alaska
Steamship Company, a recent ac
cuisition to Seward, expressed
his appreciation of the warm wel
come accorded and his pleasure
-;n accepting the appointment to
Seward.
A. B. Cain spoke of his inter
esting trip through Alaska, and
•accentuated the importance of
rbundant and favorable publicity
for the Territory. He suggested
:,he establishment of a central
bureau to disseminate information
and conduct publicity of Alaska s
scenic wondrs and eocmmercial
c pportunities.
OLDTIMER CALLED
FORT GIBBON, Alaska, Aug, 4,
jp)_Frank E. Howard died at
Tanana August 1. Howard came
from Telluride, Colorado. He first
lived at Juneau, in 1887, and was
U. S. commissioner in the Koyu
kuk precinct for 12 years and at
Fort Gibbon for eight years.
MEARS CRASHES
GRACE HARBOR, Newfound
land, Augst 4, (/P)—The Mears
plane was completely wrecked on
the takeoff for Ireland. Neither
Mears or Brown was hurt. A
punctered tire caused the wreck.
LOS ANGELES, Aug., 4, </P>—
Ted Lundgren, Hollywood aviator,
bound for a round-the-world hop,
took off at 8:31 a. m. headed
for Kansas City and Roosevelt
Field, N. Y.
He expects to circle the world
in 200 flying hours. He is picking
up a co-pilot and radio operator
in New York. His route includes
Berlin, Omsk, Tokyo, Alaska and
Seattle. The plane is a duplicate
of Bromley’s.
GLIDED PILOT OF
0U IS KILLED:
CRASHED FIFTY FEET
SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug., 4, —
Sawyer H. Gillstrom, 20, Oakland
glider pilot, was fatally injured
Sunday when his ship crashed
from a height of 50 feet while
being towed behind an automo
bile.
Herbert Laperte, driver of the
car, said he cut Gillstrom loose
when it became apparent that
the pilot was having trouble.
The plane fell straight down
and Gillstrom, who had made
some 200 successful flights with
the craft, died a half-hour after
the crash.
HARBOR GRACE, Newfound
land, Aug. 4- (/Pl—John Henry
Mears who, with Pilot Henry J.
Brown, cracked up early Sunday
morning while attempting to
takeoff on a world flight, said“
“We are temporarily down but
not out. We will try again, if not
this year, in 1931 and we won’t be
asleep.”
Mears and Brown escaped in
juries but the plane was a total
wreck.
THREE 8JTTLESHIPS
REUGH END SERVICE
WASHINGTON, Aug., 4. (/P)—
! The Wyoming, Utah and the
; Florida, battleships, will see the
i end of their long service before
the year is out.
I They are the first to be dis
! carded under the London naval
I treaty. All three ships are attach
| ed to the scouting fleet basJR. on
the Atlantic Coast.
The Wyoming, now the flagship
of the unit, will be replaced by
the Arkansas.
SATURDAY’S GAMES
NATIONAL
Pittsburg 14, Chicago 8
Phillies 2, 4, Boston 3, 5
New York 8, Brooklyn 6
St. Louis 9, Cincinnati 8
AMERICAN
Washington 9, 9, New York 3, 5
Boston 2, 7, Phillies 9, 8
Chicago 2, Detroit 12
Cleveland 12, St. Louis 4
COAST
| Sacramento 8, San Francisco 7
I Missions 0, Seattle 5
Hollywood 4, Portland 3
SEATTLE NEWSPAPERMAN PAYS
COMPLIMENT TO PAPERS
IN TERRITORY
I “Alaska papers are an important
factor in attracting visitors to
Alaska,” said A. B. Cain, news
! paperman of Seattle, jn address
, ing the Seward Chamber of Com
' merce Saturday. Mr. Cain stated
| that evenings and Sundays he
would visit the Seattle Public Li
brary and read papers from the
j Northwest and Alaska. In reading
i Alaska papers he became inter
ested in a trip to the North and
1 at first planned to make the
i widely advertised Circle Tour
to Ketchikan, Wrangell, Juneau,
i Skagway, Sitka and return via
Petersburg. Through the persis
tent publicity of The Seward
Gateway regarding Seward and
adjacent country he decided to
: visit Seward and continue his
journey to Anchorage and Fair
banks.
PUBLICITY PLAN
Mr Cain advocated close co
operation with the association
formed to attract tourists to the
Puget Sound and British Columbia
region, as Alaska would then ben
efit through participation in a
national advertising campaign. He
also suggested that from travel
| agencies, hotels and private indi
i viduals the names of all Alaska
; visitors be secured, and that dur
ing the winter they be mailed an
| attractive pamphlet descriptive
of all Alaska, which rould be com
piled b rough the commercial
clubs of the population centers.
“Each Alaska visitor returns
home an enthusiast for the North
country,” he said. “He would be
an appreciative recipient of a
pamphlet descriptive of Alaska’s
unsurpassed scenery and potential
resources and would arouse inter
; est among his relatives and
! friends for a trip North.”
MOST POPULAR TRIP
“The urge to- travel, now more
easily satisfied with the increased
use of the automobile and paved
highways, is bringing into nat
; ional prominence places hereto
' fore seldom visited except by a
; few tourists,” said Mr. Cain.
“Completion of the International
j Highway providing automobile
I transportation from Alaska to
! the States is certain to increase
j travel to the North. Alaska’s won
ders are so vast and varied, its
i marine and mountain views so
marvelous that when they be
i come better known through the
increasing number of visitors and
effective publicity, the Alaska
tour will be the nation’s most
popular trip.”
“SEE ALL ALASKA”
“See All Alaska” should be the
slogan of the tourists visiting the
Territory. Abundant and favorable
publicity creating a desire to
see the entire Territory would be
the purpose and policy of the
> central All-Alaska Advertising
! Bureau, reecommended by Mr.
j Cain.
The proposal was favorably re
I eived by the members of the
| Chamber and President Urbach
i announced that it would be given
j soecial consideration at tomor
; row’s regular meeeting.
THE GREAT “BABE” HAYES
Mention bv Mr. Cain that the
names “Babe” Hayes and Cordova
were svnonymous to tourists who
had visited the thriving city so
ably represented at the dock and
through voluminous correspond
HI QUAKE FELTIlf
ITS!.?: GREAT FIE
POTENZA, Italy, Aug., 4, <>P>—
The Giornale Ditalia correspon
dent telegraphed that a new
earthquake shock had been felt
at Melti and Rionero at 12:10 p.
m., producing great panic.
The city hall in Rionera suffer
ed damage but none was caused
at Melfi.
Both towns are in the heart
of the earthquake zone of two
weeks ago.
IDQLE 1ST Si
ESST SWELTERING
HIGH TEIfEBSMS
SEATTLE, Aug., 4, (JP)—The
middle West sweltered under tem
peratures ranging up to 113 de
grees at Sac, Iowra with the corn
belt over 100.
Most of the Atlantic States
hovered around the 100 mark
w'hile mountain states were slight
ly above.
Arizona reported 102. Pacific
i Cosat States were generally cool,
92 at Walla Walla being the hot
test reported in "Washington.
QUAKES ST
MISSED TIE HII,
SI? TSVEST1GST0RS
PANAMA CITY,’ A;>g 4. UPT —
The Panama Canal escaped dam
age, although the walls of the ad
ministration building sustained a
few cracks in two severe earth
quake shocks^ investigators report
ed.
The tremblors, which shook Pan
ama City, Cristbal, Colon, Ancon
and Balboa, caused a mild panic
but no extensive damage.
In Panama City many windows
were broke and the natives ran in
to the streets. Cracks appeard in
various buildings and some ancient
Spanish churches.
MIDGET WOLGAST IS
RECOGNIZED SS TIE
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 4. VP)
j Midget Wolgast, recognized as the
iworld’s flyweight boxing champion
by New York and Pennsylvania
box commissions, holds credit for
a five-round technical knockout
over Speedy Dado, gained when the
Filipino was unable to continue be
cause of a dislocated right shoulder.
Dado’s shoulder was thrown ou+
Jin the second round but he con
tinued to fight until the fifth, wher
he was unable to answer the bell
ence by the genial and accommo
dating “Babe” was applauded, and
President Urbach paid a personal
J tribute to “Babe” for the aflver
I tising he had given Cordova in
particular and Alaska in general
through his numerous acts of
I courtesy to Alaskan visitors.
To the neergetic and efficient
Secretary of the Seward Chamber,
Leonard Hopins, The Gateway is
inbebted for the complete account
of Saturday’s interesting meeting
which is generally described else
where in hese columns.
—
MOTHER AND SON IMPRESSED
WITH MAGNITUDE VISTAS
IN THE NORTH
One of the most interesting of
interested visitors in Seward dur
ing the present season is H. W.
Woodcock, retired civil engineer,
Jand his mother, Mrs. Alice Wood
cock, both of Brooklyn, New York
S who, since arriving in Seward,
! also visited Fairbanks, Anchor
1 age and McKinley Park.
Approaching Seward they rode
in the “Hurricane” deck of the
i S. S. Aleutian to have a better
! view of Seward’s imposing har
! bor and, as Mr. Woodcock aptly
describes it, “When the boat neared
the dock, Resurrection Bay appear
ed to be in the heart of a crater.”
; They were also much impressed
iwith the magnificence and mag
1 nitude of Columbia Glacier and
: the beautiful scenery in McKin
i ley Park.
GLOBE-TROTTERS
The Woodcocks are globetrot
teers and interestingly relate
their extensive travels in Europe
; and other foreign countries. They
spent last winter at Ballear Is
land, one of the most fascinating
of a group of islands 200 miles
from Barcelona, Spain.
Seward residents will appre
ciate deeply the encomiums lav
ished upon the city and its unex
celled harbor by Mr. Woodcock
especially from a tourist of such
erudition, wide travels and close
' observeitarns.
NEW YORK, Aug. 4. UP)—Federal
prohibition agents were taking in
ventory of a brewery and cafe, val
ued at $1,500,000, seized in what
I they described as the “biggest
raid in the history of prohibition.”
The property consisted of the
North American Brewery and the
Palm Beach Garden cafe at Wil
son and Greene Avenues, Brooklyn.
William C. Nolan, assistant ad
ministrator in charge of Brooklyn,
led 15 agents in the raid. They said
large quantities of beer in thou
sands of kegs in the brewery, as
well as beer on tap in the cafe,
tested 4.96 per cent alcohol.
| The North American Brew'ery is
one of the largest in the country
and covers an entire city block. The
cafe is adjacent to it.
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THE STOCK MARKET
By Associated Press
Int. Tel. 45, A. Can 129, Oil, N.
,J. 72, Richfield 17, Zellerbach 14,
Lehigh, no sale; Juneau Alaska
15, 3-8; Goldman 17, Bancorpora
;tion 30, Gas 107, Motors 46, Ken
inecott 39, Radio 42, Carbide 73,
Steel 166, Cities Curb 28.
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LIGHTNING KILLS GIRL
j CASTLEDALE, Utah, Aug., 4, (/P)
—Lane Murray, 16, of Salt Lake
City, was killed instantly and
three other girls knocked un
conscious when lightning struck
a tree under which they wrere
playing, near here. The others
are expected to recover.