Seward Daily Gateway
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XV. NUMBER 186
SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JULY 24, 1930.
PRICE TEN CENT
VESUSVIUS GLOWING; HURRI
CANE DRIVE ASHORE
HUGE WAVES
ROME, July 24. (/P)—Latest of
ficial figures on yesterday’s quake
placed the dead at 1,778 and the
injured at 4.264. It is expected
that there will be many more
victims.
Rains are sweeping the district
and Naples \^as swept this morn
ing by a hurrcane which drove
in huge waves adding to the fear
of the populace.
Officials are disturbed by the
possibility of epidemics and the
health authorities have taken
precautions against disease.
Mount Vesuvius added to the
fears as the summit glowed dully
in the sky. %
The quakes started shortly af
ter 1 a. m. and several of the
shocks were undultory in nature.
In some instances entire villages
were almost obliterated. At Villa
nova there were 350 lost including
(the mayor and his family
JACK DEMPSEY CREDITED WITH
GIVING GEORGIAN NEW
LETHAL POWERS
MACON, Georgia. July 24. </P> —
Georgia’s fistic peach, suddenly
transformed from a cautious boxer
to a puncher, socked his way from
obscurity which fell over hm fol
lowing his mediocre performance
gaainst Jack Sharkey- in Miami,
Strbling. lithe veteran of more than
300 fights, although he is only 26,
started a new drive for the title
when he knocked out Otto von
Porat
The knockout ocurred in the
first round in “Chicago down in
Dixie,” where the home folks have
strung along with Stribling even in
his bad moments. They are giving
none other than Jack Dempsey
some credit for the Georgian’s new
spurt and his new lethal powers.
JUNEAU, July 24, (^-—Gover
nor Parks signed extradition war
rants on E. M. Basse, former
agent of the Union Oil Company
on an alleged embezzlement
charge, also on Henry Killisnoo
Herring, charged with worthless
check issuance.
Both are held by the Seattle
marshal’s office.
Marshal Albert White is enroute
south to bring them back.
Doubling the service of the
Northland Transportation Co.,
from Seattle to Southeast Alas
ka, the S. S. Northland now sails
on a weekly basis alternating with
the S. S. Norco.
# The Henderson mine in the Es
ter Creek section is now employ
ing about 12 men and ore is be
ing taken out steadily.
YEAST MEETING WEST
SEATTLE, July 24, (/P>—Bound
on a four weeks fishing and cruise
in Alaska, Max C. Fleischmann,
sportsman and chairman of the
board of the Fleischmann Yeast
Manufacturing Company, intend
ed to leave here today for the
North aboard his yacht the Haida.
D. R. MC KAY, 70, FOUND DEAD
IN BRUSH; APPARENTLY'
COMMITTED SUICIDE
SEATTLE, July 24, (/P)—Mem
bers of two Boy Scout camps
marching through the thick brush
under the direction of county of
ficials found the body of D. R. Mc
Kay, age 70 years, a wealthy re
tired realty dealer and Alaska
pioneer.
McKay was one of the first in
the Klondike rush and was the
first mining recorder at Dawson.
A revolver was found near the
body; the Sheriff's office reported
McKay apparently had committ
ed suicide although his wife was
reluctant to accept that theory.
She said her husband had been
suffering from the heat and dis
appeared from home Monday
while she was asleep.
SEATTIE, July 24, i.?)—'The S.
S. Admiral Watson, of the Pacific
Steamship Company, sailed for
Alaska yesterday morning at 10
o'clock with 122 passengers.
Among the Seward passengers
are Frances Middleton. Mrs. F. S.
Middleton, Carrie Warner. Mr.
and Mrs. C. A. Moore, Miss B.
Wickman and Gordon Wickman.
NEW YORK. July 24. (/P)— Seven
men started for the federal court in
Brooklyn to be tried on a charge
of conspiring to circulate counter
feit money as a result of a raid on
May 28, in which $1,000,000 in -bogus
twenties and fifties and an elabor
ate plant and machinery were tak
en .
One of the seven had promised
turn State’s evidence, but he never
arrived. Six bullets found their waj
into his body. He s near death.
i MUST WHIT FOR '
AUTHOII, III DM
; LOS ANGELES, July 24. (JP) -
If the piquant Marjorie Rambeai
is to take on H. M. Van Loan, mag
azine and movie writer, as hei
third husband, she will have t<
wait until he gets out of jail.
| Almost on the eve of their wedd
ing day, his first wife caused hin
to be arrested on a warrant accus
ing him of being a fugitive fron
justice in a wife abandonmen
charge.
A new ore body of considerabl<
size was discovered recently a
jthe Apex-El Nido mine at Lilian
Iski, in the hanging wall, accord
ing to a Juneau report.
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176 STREET CLEANING SHOWERS
PLACED AT DISPOSAL OF
OVERHEATED CHILDREN
NEW YORK, July 24. (&)— The
endurance contest between the sun
and the citizenry narrowed down to
a finish fight on a battle ground
which reached from Ohio to the
middle-Atlantic seaboard.
Rain and cooler weather revived
the Mississippi river states and the
ones farther west, and New Eng
land and the South suffered less
| than at the forepart of the week.
But the July tribulations of the
east were increased u proportion,
i To the Associated Press came re
ports of many broken heat records,
accompanied by widespread suffer
ing.
New7 York sw7eltered through one
of the hottest weeks on record, with
the temperature reaching 99 to
smash a record whch has stood
since 1885. City officials announced
sleeping would be permitted on all
benches and in parks until the
crisis v/as past.
One hundred and 76 street-clean
ing showers w7ere placed at the dis
posal of overheated children.
DES MOINES. July 24. <7P>—State
regulation of the sale of liquor with
a new definition of intoxicating
beverages was recommended by
Iowa democrats in a state conven
tion as a remedy for what then
platform terms the nation-wide
scandal of prohibition enforcement.
Voting down a motion to omit
all reference to prohibition in their
platform, the delegates adopted a
plank asking prompt legislation
action to ascertain the will of the
voters for retaining the 18th
amendment, repealing it, or revis
ing it as the voters shall decide.
ilECAlTING WITNESS
I BEFORE 111 COURT
! _
j SAN FRANCISCO, July 24. ({?)—
; John McDonald, recanting witness
in the Mooney-Billings cases will
be given a hearing before the Jus
tices of the state supreme court,
in connection wth the new pardon
application of Warren K. Billings.
Meanwhle Governor Young will
not personally enter upon an ex
amination of McDonald, but will
rely on the assurance of the
supreme court that the hearing
held by them will open, complete
■ be far to all parties concerned in
1 this very imporant investigation.
Dr. M. E. Corthell, is now lo
cated at Chitina for the Bureau
| of Education where he will main
’ j tain a medical relief station for
.' that department as well as for the
i Alaska Road Commission.
At Walker’s Cove, on Behm Ca
nal, near the mouth of Chicka
! j min, some development work has
' j been done on what is supposed to
. i be a large area of low grade cop
per.
THE STOCK MARKET
By Associated Press
Tel. and Tel. 47, A. Can 131,
Oil N. J. 74, Oil 17. Zellerback 15,
Lehigh 9, Juneau Alaska 5 1-2,
U. Oil, no sale; Goldman 19, Ban
corporation 30, Gas 112, Motors
45. Kennecott 39, Radio 45, Car
bide 74, Steel 167, Cities 29.
DISKS VESSEL TO
DfUVEfi SUPPLIES
FIRST MAIL AND SUPPLIES TO
VILLAGE SINCE CHRIST
MAS
POINT BARROW, July 24, (A>»— |
Risking his vessel in order to be 1
the first vessel to deliver fruit
and vegetables to the Arctic
coast, Capt. C. P. Peterson forced
his schooner, the Patterson, in
to an opening in the ice pack
and is slowly being carried into j
port.
The inhabitants of the village j
are keeping watch and awaiting i
supplies and the first mail since
Christmas.
The Hudson Bay boat Old Maid
was sighted apparently following
the Patterson. Peterson sailed ;
from San Francisco June 4 bound j
for Herschel Island.
i
ROOSEVELT FIELD, N. Y. Ju1'
24. i/P)—Lee Gehlbach. Little Rock.
Arkansas, finished the first day pf
the All-Amercan air derby with a
23 minute lead toward the first
prize of $15,000 for the fastest e1
apsed time over a 5,500 mile swing
around the country.
The race started at Detroit, with
a stop being made at Buffalo.
WASHINGTON, July 24. (/P)—In
the historic east room of the White
House President Hoover signed the
London naval treaty.
Ratifcations by Great Britain
|and Japan and the deposition of
! all three signatures are now to be
I accomplished to bring into full ef
fect the covenant limiting for the
first time all categories of fighting
vessels for the three great naval
powers.,
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WASHINGTON, July 24. (/Pi
Bubbling champaignes and choice
wines, at governmental expense,
are forbidden luxuries in Ameri
can embassies and consulates
abroad.
After a six-years fight for en
tertainment funds. Congress re
cently allotted $92,000 for the pur
pose of investigating and report
in detail what appropriations for
these foreign offices were used
for.
Ex-Senator Frank A. Aldrich,
who was taken recently from
Yakutat to Cordova for medical
treatment, is improving and it
is thought he will recover within
a few weeks.
Wlffl SILL LIST
MIDWEEK SAILING MARKED BY
EXCEPTIONALLY SMALL
LIST PASSENGERS
SEATTLE, July 24, UP)—'The S.
S. Alaska, of the Alaska Steamship
Company, sailed for Alaska today
at 9 a. m. with 72 passengers of
which 40 are for Seward as fol
lows:
D. Smeaton. Mr. McDowell. Mr.
Walker, Mr. Black. Mrs. Black, Dr.
Van Alstyyne, Dr. Guyon. Mrs.
A. L. Prescott. C. G. Lundell, A.
M. Belford, Mrs. Belford. R. Nels
stead, Mrs. Nelstead, Miss Nel
stead. Miss I. Schaffer, A. Muller.
Miss D. Harper, Miss M. Brown,
Charles Mesfelt, Fred Mesfelt, R.
E. Heike. Mrs. Heike, Mr. and Mrs.
Mann, Miss E. Melloy. Miss D. C.
Reese, E. P. Epping, Mrs. Wagone.
Miss Casey, Miss 0‘Brien, Dr. O.
E. Harmon, Mrs. Harmon, A.
Whitcomb, Mrs. Whitcomb, Miss
A. Hughes, George E. Widden, D.
Greengerg. M. K. Paulson. Mis.
Paulson and Mrs. Pettibone.
TRIANGULAR AFFAIR; LADY
OWEN. A PATIENT. FELL
IN LOVE. DOCTOR
MARLEROS. France. July 24,
(4>)_Lady Owen, beautiful, weal
thy and titled woman, is held m
the Versailles prison on charges
of shooting and wounding the
wife of Dr. Paul Gastund. Pans
radiologist.
The police said that Lady Owen,
'rench born widow of Sir Charles
>wen, shot Mme. Gustad in the
Umax of a triangular drama,
hat the lady a year ago became
patient of the Doctor and that
n attachment grew between
He
then
went
drew
shots
It is
decided to get a divorce,
changed his mind. Tire lady
to the Gastuad residence,
a revolver and fired five
four of which took effect
believed Mme Gastuad will
recover.
JNEAU. July 24, (/Pi— Head
is being made in the ascen.
Mount Fairweather by fou
vard youths who have estab
ed their camp half-way up.
one of the explorers are over
They are H. B. Washburn,
ph Batchellor. Kenneth Olson
Arthur Emmons,
ugene Kratzler and Richard
ges left here for Lituka Bay
rral weeks ago.
HENDERSON DOING WELL
Lester D. Henderson, former
Commissoiner of Education for
Alaska whom Alaska politicians
kicked out of office a couple; of
years ago after he had served the
Territory efficiently for 10 years,
j is now in charge of six schools
‘‘within 17 miles of Stanford Uni
versity.