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VOLUME XV. NUMBER 57
SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 1930.
HEilCE TEN CENTS
TRIBUTE PAID
EIELSON, BORLAND
INTERIOR, SERVICE
OLE EIELSON, MRS. BORLAND,
CHILDREN, AND FLIERS,
ENROUTE SEATTLE
FAIRBANKS, March 13, (/P)—
Amid drifting snow Fairbanks
paid tribute to the memory of
Eielson and Borland. The bod
ies lie in state until this morn
ing when, under military escort,
formed by the Fairbanks Ameri
can Legion, the bodies will be
entrained for Seward.
Departing with them will be
Ole Eielson, Mis. Earl Borland
and children, Pilots Crosson, Slip
enov, Fahrig, Reid, Hughes and
MacAuley.
Slipenov and Fahrig have been
granted permission to make the
trip at the invitation of the Hat
ton, N. D.. also the Seattle Cham
ber of Commerce, but will prob
ably go only as far as Seattle in
order to return here in time to
fly to Siberia before winter breaks.
Dorbanit Sets
Local Speed Mark
Pilot Frank Dorbandt, who
has been in town three days with
his air-steed, thought yesterday
'that- he and Mechanician Cope
might as well buck Dame Nature
a bit and see if they could make
it to the Anchorage airport. But
a combination bombast of a young
cyclone, typhoon, hurricane and
whirlwind blasts, all wrapped to
gether, was too much for the val
iants. They hopped off late in
the day thinking to slip over
the mountain tops in the dusk of
the evening but after battling an
hour to Lake Kenai, Dorbandt
flipped the rudder over and on
the crest of a mighty wind, re
turned to Seward in six minutes.
Thus did Dorbandt shatter a
second Alaska record; the first
was his flight here from Fair
barks and the second his speed
•,c"'d from Kenai to Seward
ant- fliers anticipated making
•,« - r ■ \s wet! her conditions ap
peared to ho more anpropo.
RRDONDO IN PORT
Heralding the r*r •• v^l or tn
cannery season, the S. S- Redondo,
Captain Andy Anderson, of the
Alaska Steamship Company, ar
rived in port yesterday from Set
tle fullv two months earlier than
last season and from this period
on will oner ate weeklv from the
Port of Seward to Westward can
neries and other regular poHs of
call. Captain Anderson sails on
first voyage of the season follow
ing the arrival from the south of
the S. S. Alaska.
The S. S. Alaska is reported due
m Cordova tomorrow noon, which
will probablv make her arrival here
about noon Saturday.
THE HALIBUTERS
The following schooners, with
halibut cargoes, have made port
within the past 24 hours:
Halibuter Nordic, Capt. Olaf Pet
erson, San Juan 10.000 pounds;
Schooner Resolute, Capt. John
Ramm, San Juan, 6,000 pounds;
Schooner Constitution, Capt. Mar
tin Ekrem, San Juan 15,000 pounds;
Schooner Pioneer, Capt. Ingwold
Hansen, San Juan, 15,000 pounds;
Schooner Neptune, Capt George
Moen, Paulsteiner Market, 1,000
pounds; Schooner Omaney, Capt.
Oswald Olson, San Juan, 12 000
pounds; Schooner Polaris, Captain
Andrew Einm, San Juan, 16,000
pouds.
The Alaska Packers cannery boat
Afognak is enroute to the West
ward.
CAPTAIN CARTER DIES
SEATTLE, March 13, (/P)— Capt.
Harry Carter, 72, master of the
stern wheeler Katie Hemerich,
which carried fortune hunters to
the Klondike in 1898, died yesterday
at his ranch near here. ,
Secret Police Raid
Havana Newspapei
! HAVANA, March 12. (/P)—<Cubar
; secret police raided the Havanc
| English language newspaper the
(“Havana American”, destroying
makeup, forms, and seizing 6,00(
copies of “La Voz”, a Spanish news
paper which was making its bov
to the public and which was being
run off in the American plant.
John T. Wilford, publisher of tin
American, complained to Harry F
!Guggenheim, American Ambassa
dor, and said he would file a for
jmal protest with the Embassy.
womentauT
FAST AGAINST
REPEAL DRY LAW
WASHINGTON. March 13, </P>—
I More than a score of women from
(different parts of the country rep
resenting various national organi
zations dealing with the welfare
of the nation, wound up two hours
of rapid fire talking against repeal
of the 18th amendment before the
House Judiciary Committee.
Women witnesses were prepared
| for cross examination by committee
'members during the afternoon.
Applause greeted the statement
of Mrs. Johnson, of Cambridge
Mass., that “Hoover is as dry as the
constitution.’’
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COMMUNITY CHURCH
Sunday School 10 a. m. Morning
service. 11 a. m. Theme: “Introspec
tion”, Evening services, 8 p. m. Sub
ject: “The Straight and Wide
;Gate”. Tire Measuring Social will
be held under the direction of the
Ladies Aid Society next Wednesday
evening. Th admission will be one
cent for each inch you measure
around the waist. East, games, and
'fun will feature the evening. A good
time will be had by the whole fam
ily. Remember the beginning date
for the Revival is March 30.
BRING IN BODIES
LOS ANGELES. March 12, (JF> —
They brought Pilots Jimmv Dale
and A. W. Bieber and St -ward Jahn
S’a ton home last night. The three
men who flew from Kingmon near
ly two weeks ago and who died
| when their plane fell into a lonely
; canyon of the San Bernardino
mountains.
j 4 General Mixup
Is Expected Soon
Mr. and Mrs. John Weaver are
expecting their son home from col
lege during the Easter vacation. At
: the present he is studying hard
and expects to make his grades to
graduate this spring. Many of the
young people here will be glad to
have his snappy presence in their
social gatherings and it is assured
that—but never mind what we are
about to say, just come and see
“On Vacation”, the funniest three
act comedy that has ever been at
tempted by the Little Theatre Club.
This play will keep you in a con
stant uproar of laughter for two
hours and when the curtain falls
on the final scene, you will depart
with a knowledge of pyschology
that can not be obtained in books.
This play will be presented Tues
day evening, March 18, at the Lib
erty theatre ancf given by the Lit
tle Theatre Club of Anchorage un
der the auspices of The American
Legion Post here. Reserved seats,
$1.25 will be placed on sale at the
Seward Drug Co.,Saturday March
15.
The S. A. C. Women’s cage
team bake sale on Saturday will
be^ held in the quarters formerly
occupied by the Quality Bakery
in the Johansen building, or next
door to McMullens.
Mrs. Ethel E. Haines, formerly of
Seward, was married last week to
Frank W. Barr at Anchorage.
FUR TAKE FOR
'! 1929 SETS NEW
| VALUE RECORD
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TOTAL, VALUE, EXCLUDING SEAL
WORTH S4,513,863.75; PRICE
HIGHER THAN LAST YEAR
! Exclusive of the fur seal take on
the Pribilof Islands, furs shipped
from Alaska in 1929 numbered 297,
! 148 pelts having a total value of
made public by the Alaska Game
$4,513,863.75, according to figures
|Commission.
The fur seal take on the PribilofS
was 40,067 skins estimated at $712,
000, bringing the grand total for the
fur industry to 337,515 skins worth
$5,234,003.0.
SETS NEW RECORD
' This sets a new record for the in
'dustry. The previous high mark
was made in 1928 when all ship
jments, exclusive of seal skins, were
valued at $4,298,637.13 and included
beaver worth $850,512, numbering
32,717 individual pelts. The beaver
season was not opened last year
and only a few pelts were shipped,
the value dropping to $40,608.75.
The main factor in the increase
was the advance of prices of most
furs. Black bear, beaver, coyote,
silver, red, cross, black, white r
blue fox. lynx, martin, otter, wolf,
mink and wolverine all brought
better prices. The average for blue
fox jumped from $68 52 in 1928 to
$101.33 last year; white fox from
$45.50 to $60.25; black fox from $52
| to $55; cross fox from $63 37 to
$96 62; red fox from $38.29 t"> $49 60;
silver fox from $121 to $125; mink
from $15.87 to $20.70*
DECLINE IN NUMBER
j There was a decline in the total
number of skins taken, the catch
droooing from 336 077 in 1998 to
2°7.448 in 1929. There w*s a loss of
31.165 beaver pelts; about 5 non in
red fox; 2 600 in hmx: 7 000 in
muskrat. Gains w^re nnd° in
white fox. which jumn°d
4593 to 12.179: ermine from 10033
to 17 467 and smaller gains in other
j species,
T'lfl list, of th° tor rhirvm^ots tor
"ear, showing total returns, fol
lows:
Ber>r—
Block or Glacier
Polar
Beaver
Coyote
Fox—
Red
Cross
Silver
; Black
| White
I Blue*
Hare
Lynx
Marmot
Martin
Mink
Muskrat
Otter
Squirrel
Weasel (Ermine)
Wolf
j Wolverine
$2,331 35
$3,400 00
$40 cog 75
$9,840.00
$1.042 749.80
$300 391 58
$146.000 00
$3 355.00
$733,784 75
$808,203.08
$200 50
$462,832.50
$180.50
8.280.00
$552,586.50
$194,184.54
$92,939.94
$131.70
$30,392.58
$28,586.40
$17,416.35
Total $4,477,441.82
Pribilof Island (Foxes only)—
White $556.02
Blue $35,865.92
Grand total $4,513,863.76
*—Not including pelts from the
Pribilof Islands.
Martin trapped in 1922-23 season.
SEARCH FOR TRIBE
HOBROKEN, N. J., March 12, (/P)
—Miss Elizabeth Etenn, 29, gradu
ate anthropology student at the
University of California, sailed on
the Munson liner “Western World”
for Brazil, where, accompanied only
by an Indian guide, she will jour
Iney thru the tropical jungles in
[search of an Indian tribe never be
jfore seen by white men. Her home
, is in San Jose, Calif.
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A NATIONAL SOCIETY
| NEW YORK, March 12, (JP)—A
[hundred women who lost one or
(more sons in the World War, met
[and banded into the American Gold
[Star Mothers, an organization,
J which it is planned to make the
nucleus of a national society.
Proceeds Game For
! Widow Ball Player
LOS ANGELES, March 12, (JP)—
With all of the proceeds going to
|the widow of Gus Sandberg, the
young Los Angeles catcher who was
killed by an explosion, the Chicago
Cubs will open a series of 19 exhi
bitions games at Wrigley Field,
against the Angles.
Thirteen of these contests will
be played against their younger
cousins, the Angles, who are also
the property of William Wrigley,
Jr., while Portland and Hollywood
are scheduled for two games each,
and Pittsburgh will oppose the Na
tional League winners in a four
game series.
Swimming Records
Are Shattered
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j ST. ANGUSTINE, Fla., March 12,
j(/P)—Three world’s records for wo
men swimmers were broken here.
Liza Lindstrom of New York set
'a new mark in the 300 yard free
istyle; Josephine McKim of Los An
geles set a new record in the 250
yard free style, and Helen Mad'son
16-year-old Seattle sensation, clio
ped more than five seconds from
the existing world mark in the 200
meter distance.
Uniformed Guard
Of Honor, Aviators
' The committee appointed by
Seward Post No. 5, The American
Legion, have about perfected their
plans to assist in the funeral cor
tege of Colonel Ben Carl Eielson
and Earl Borland upon the arrival
of the funeral party on the train
tomorrow evening. The present
plans call for a uniformed guard
of service men to receive the bod
ies at the train and march with
them to the dock where a guard
will be stationed until they are
placed aboard ship.
The members of The American
I egion are urged to be present at
the station, whether in uniform or
not, and upon reporting to Lieut.
Himsicker, who is in charge of the
arrrangements, will be assigned to
a place in line.
For some unknown reason the
se ond presentation of “The Po
dimk Limited” did not take
place at the Jesse Lee Home as
had previously been announced.
SEPARATE BUREAU
WASHINGTON, March 12, bP)—
Creation of a separate bureau as a
forward step in combatting the
dope menace, was recommended to
the House Ways and Means Com
mittee by Secretary of the Treasury
Mellon.
COMMITS SUICIDE
SAN FRANCISCO, March 12, (£>)
—George H. T. Jackson, 61, pr'si
dent and manager of the Napa
Soda Co., and thruout his business
career a familiar figure in San
Francisco, shot himself to death
near the 22nd Avenue entrance to
Golden Gate Park. His body was
discovered in the brushes near a
footpath with a bullet thru the
head.
ATTEMPT FRUSTRATED
SAN DIEGO, Mar. 13, (/P)—
What is believed to have been an
attempt to fleece Agua Calient
Co., and operators of mutuel ma
chines out of thousands of dollars,
was frustrated at the Baja, Calif.,
track, when two alleged counter
feiters were arrested and a quantity
of spurious $1 coins and 50 cent
pieces were found in their posses
sion.
WORST EFFECTS WILL PASS
WASHINGTON, March 13, (ZP)—
A careful study of prevailing busi
ness and employment conditions
made with the aid of the Depart
ment of Commerce and Labor, has
convinced President Hoover that
the worst effects of the stock mar
ket crash of last November on busi
ness activities and in reduction of
employment will be passed over
within 30 to 60 days.
ENTIRE ESTATE
• OF TAFT LEFT
TO HIS WIFE
BEQUESTS LEFT TO COLLEGE,
CHURCH AND SEVERAL
CLOSE FRIENDS
WASHINGTON, March 13, VP)—
The affection which William How
;ard Taft held for Mrs. Taft and
I his three children, and Yale
| University, his alma mater, was
attested by his will which left
| virtually his entire estate to his
wife.
j The will, which has been filed
j for probate, disclosed no valua
; tion.
Yale University was left $10,000
which the largest single sum men
tioned in the will. To his chil
dren, Robert A., Charles P., Mrs.
Helen Taft Manning, he left
most of his prized possessions,
j Papers, manuscripts, corres
! pondence, addresses and copy
rights were also left to the chil
■ dren. To the All Souls Unitarian
Church he left $2,500 and $7,500
j to the school at ’Watertown, Con
; necticutt founded by his brother
Horace D. Taft.
i Wendell Mischler, his secretary,
was left $5,000; Margaret McNa
,mara $1,000; Annie McNamara
| $750; Thomas Halpin $750.
In naming Tvlrs. Taft executix
the request was made that she
should not be required to make
an inventory. So extent were
Taft’s holdings that the value
of his estate may never be known.
mon BARRELS OIL A DAY
BAKERSVILLE, Mar., 13, (iP)—
A wildcat well in the west side oil
fields, being drilled bv H. L. Whis
ton, was reported to have come in
with a production of 1.000 barres’s
a day at a depth of 5038 feet. All
other wells in the district are of
shallow deoth and only produce 15
to 20 barrels per day.
Y*(e pV T- |»r ft 5*| Pfl,S
Th* Youn® Pltm
^ » T'i rch 13 (•T>)_Presi
dent Von Hiddenbin’g signed the
voung plan despite the protests of
his one-time followers. The Presi
dent made a declaration in which
he gave a clear indication of his de
votion and his duty as he saw it
and looked upon it as on eof the
most important documents in Ger
man history and a great force in
reuniting German people.
THE PORT OF SEWARD
Boats in port this morning in
cluded the Nordic, Polaris, Liberty,
Neptune, Afognak, Pioneer, Van
See, Red Wing, Chase, Marian,
Bavaria, Resolute, Discoverer and
the S. S. Redondo.
BRIDGE CLUB
The Seward Bridge Club will
meet Friday at 1:30 p. m. with
Mrs. Leon Urbach.
THREE MORE INDICTED
OAKLAND, Mar., 13, (>P)--In
dictments of three more and a gril
ling of Commissioner E. K. Sturgis
of Oakland, already named in the
testimony as legal advisor in pav
ing contracts, provided sensational
developments in the Alameda j
County Grand Jury investigation
into charges of graft in street work,
bootlegging and gambling.
DISCOVER SUBSTITUTE
NEW YORK, Mar., 13, (JP)—A
discovery of a substitute for the ■
thermometer, a photo electric eye
that literally “sees” temperatures,
was announced here. It looks on
white hot steel and reads instantly !
to a fraction of a degree, the sear
ing heat of thousands of degrees,
but it doesn’t work below 1,000 de
grees.
Capt. Austin E. Lathrop, republi- j
can national committeeman for
the Territory of Alaska, arrived in ;
Seattle Tuesday from Washington,
D. C., where he has spent more j
than a month on business pertain
ing to his office.
TELEGRAPH BREVITIES
BASE INGRATITUDE
PARIS, Mar. 12, (/P)—Nelson
Morris, Chicago millionaire, won a.
victory in the fight to prevent Jane
Aubert, French actress, from ob
taining a divorce. The judge ac
cused Madame Aubert of base in
gratitude.
COMMISSION UNFAIR
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, March
12, OP)-The Hoover Commission in
vestigating Haitian affairs, opened
its first session but none of the
natives arrived to testify following?
advice of opposition of the press
which asserted the commission
would not operate fairly.
WAR CLOUDS LOOM
BOMBAY, Mar. 12, (/P)—A war
surpassing any in the history of th«
world will begin soon in Bombay,
Vallabhai Petel, chief Lieut of Ma
hatma Ghandi declared. Ghandi is
leader of opposition to British rule.
LARGER THAN 1929
WASHINGTON, Mar. 12, (/P)—
The construction program of the
Public Utilities Corp, during 1930
will probably exceed the $1,400,000,
600 estimate made last November,
when President Hoover’s economic
conferences were held.
SnAH OF PERSIA DIES
PARIS, Mar. 12, (/P)—Ahmed
Kajar, deposed Shah of Persia, died
in an American hospital in Paris,
after years of illness. Ahmed was
deposed in October 1925.
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NO MORE PRAYING
LONDON, Mar. 12, (TP)—The
British war office ordered the army
and navy to refrain from prayer
which might be regarded as anti
Russian propaganda. It wras fear
ed certain undesirable prayers
might be introduced owing to relig
ious disturbances in Russia.
N. Y. TEMPERATURE
NEW YORK. Mar. 12, (TP)—'The
temperature in New York City was:
minimum 25, maximum 33.
BATTLE WITH 300 REDS
NEW YORK, M,r. 12. P)—The
hundred police bat'led with 500
'•Reds”, who tried to stage a demon
stration in front of the City Hall.
The police used their clubs in dis
persing the m :b and three persons
were hurt. Two women and a man
were arrested.
15 DANCERS LEAVE
BERLIN, Mar. 12, (TP)—A scene
was created at a railroad station
here when 15 girls left for South
America, under contract as danc
ers. Parents of the girls, sought
without avail, to prevent their go
ing.
THE AFTERMATH
ST. THOMAS. Virgin Islands.
Mar. 12, (TP)—The British cruiser
“Wistaria” is on its way to Santo
Domingo, where a revolution is in
progress. It is understood the ac
tion is taken merely as a precaution
and no marines will be landed.
ACQUITTED, CHARGE
CHICAGO. Mar. 12. (TP)—Con
gressman Kunz and his son were
acquitted of a charge of accepting
$400 bribe, to get a man a position
with the police.
SACRIFICES OWN LIFE
MAGDALEN, N. M., Mar. 12, (TP)
—A mother deliberately sacrificed
her life here to save her two-year
old child. Both were found near a
ranch. The mother was frozen to
death and the child was snuggled
warmly in the mother’s clothing.
They had become lost in the moun
tains, after their automobile broke
down.
NAVY PILOT RESIGNS
WASHINGTON. March 12, (TP)—
Rear Admiral Leigh, acting chief
of Naval operations, announced
the resignation submitted by Lt.
Alford Williams, crack Navy rac
ing pilot, will be signed by Acti
ing Secretary of the Navy Jahn
cke within a week and that it
will become effective within two
months after £TSe date of signing.