Seward Daily Gateway
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XV. NUMBER 103.
SEWARD, ALASKA,
FRIDAY
JULY 18, 1930.
PRICE TEN CENTS
SHOT IN ABDOMEN
TROOPER "GETS
SUSPECTED BLACKMAILER WAS
ABOUT TO PICK MONEY
WHEN TROOPER POUNCED
MONESSEN, Pa. July 18. (#>—
A state trooper and a suspected
blackmailer shot each other to
death in a cemetary here last
night.
Private Charles Stewart, 23. wfas
assigned with other officers to
guard a packet containing $10,000
in marked money which ha<^ been
placed near a tombstone sby J. F
Wright, a wealthy furniture deal
er who had recently received a
death threat.
Shortly after the troopers had
taken up their vigil a '•Than. w7ho
was later identified as John Sabo,
appeared in the cemetary. As he
stooped to pick up the package
containing the money Stewart
pounced upon him.
Sabo w'hipped his pistol out and
hit Stewart in the abdomen. As
Stewart fell he fired at Sabo, and
killed him instantly. Tht trooper
died a few minutes later.
KYUSHU ISLAND IS
SWEPT 81 TYPHOON
TOKYO. July 18. (/P)—'The most
severe typhoon in many yea^s
swept Kyushu Island and a heavy
rain and a ninety-mile gale struck
the region centering in the vicinity
f of Nagasaki. Heavy damage was
- incurred to property, both afloat
and ashore.
It is feared that there was
some loss oflife. It is further be
lieved that the probable baromet
ric prssure dropped to 27.77 inches
LONDON, July 18, (/P>—King Al
fonso of Spain was involved in £
collision as he was being driven tc
Buckingham palace to luncheor
with King George and Queen Mary
At Hyde corner the King’s cai
hit another car driven by a woman
One of the bumpers of the King’:
car was damaged and a glass pane
shattered. King Alfonso leapec
from his car and and shook hand:
with the woman driver, Mrs. Viole
Webster before proceeding to th
palace.
fight without quarter
WASHINGTON, July 18, (/P)—Ex
asperated by the refusal of the
London treaty opponents to agree
to limit debate, beginning next
week, leaders sent, decided to try
to exhaust discussions by night
sessions and as a final resort, to
employ the cloture ruse shutting
off talk. Senator Johnson, Repub
lican, of California, and leader of
the opposition, rejected a proposal
to limit the debate, beginning next
Tuesday, and called for a fight
without quarter.
TOPPLES INTO CANYON
VENTURA, Calif., July 17, (./P)—
Stricken with paralysis, an 80-year
old woman, Kate Joslyn, toppled
into a 300-foot canyon at Thousand
Oaks, south of here late Friday and
was rescued Tuesday after a ranger
was attracted to the spot by the
barking of a dog. Physicians said
she may recover.
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8 OMAHA, July 18. (/P)— 8 j
8 Primo Camera knocked out 8;
8 Bearcat Wright, 218 pound 8'
8 Negro, in the fourth round 8
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ENGINEER HESSE GETS
DEMO iMMTION
JUNEAU, July 18. (/P>—With all
! the votes f the April primary ap
proved. W. A. Hesse, resident of
j Ketchikan and a pioneer engineer
'of the North, won the Democratic
nomination to the office of high
way engineer. Hesse defeated R. J.
Sommers, incumbent, by 19 votes.
A certificate has been issued
Hesse. He will be opposed in the
November election by Joe Ulmer
of Fairbanks, who was nominated,
unopposed, by the Republicans.
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THREE BODIES STILL
ILLS SOILS ESRTH
; SAN FRANCISCO, July 18. E/P)—
Wliile rescue crews toiled feverish
ly, the bowels of the coast range
mountains still held the bodies of
three of the 12 men killed in the
terrific explosion of natural gas in
the Mitchell ravine tunnel of the
Hetchy Hetchy water project 18
miles southeast of Livermore, Calif.
The entire crew of 12 men, work
ing at the face of a drift 754 feet
land 1.040 feet long, was wiped out
I by the blast which shook the moun
tains with the force of an earth
quake. N'frt a man in the tunnel
was spared. Of that much the
rescue workere are sure as they
I struggle in the gas-fihed chamber.
FOOTBALL SQUAD WORK
BED BRUNSWICK, N. J., July 18.
j (/pi_Hard work predominated
among the Rutgers football squad
as a means of spending the sum
mer vacation. The labor chosen,
ranges from truck driving to work
in lumber camps. Included in the
softer jobs filled by the majority
are such occupations as racing
' boats, teaching calistsenics and
* work as florists.
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WAR BREWING
I NEW YORK, July 18, m—James
, W. Gerard, ambassador tp Ger
Mmany, under President Wilson, ex
■ pressed the belief, upon his returr
, | from France, that a new war is
* 'brewing between France and Italy
> I When asked if France were the ag
' jgressor, he answered, “I should nol
'say so. I think France feats it
_—.
A DULL AFFAIR
PITTSBURGH, July 17, (A5)—Wil
lie Davis, champion flyweight, wor
a 10-round decision here over Blacl
Bill, Cuban boxer. It was the sixtl
meeting between the two fighter:
and was a dull affair, marked bj
much clinching and wrestling.
PRESIDENT’S SELECTION
WASHINGTON, July 17, (/Pi
Senator Fess of Ohio and majorit:
whip of the upper House, is Presi
dent Hoover’s selection for thi
chairmanship of the National Re
publican Committee and will sue
ceed Claudius Huston in that posi
tion 10 days after the close of th<
special treaty session of the Senate
DIES BLOOD INFECTION
SYRACUSE, N. Y„ July 19, (JP)
James M. Lynch, long president o
the International Typographica
union, died of blood infection
SINGER FINISHED MANDELL
WITH A STRAIGHT RIGHT
TO THE CHIN
NEW YORK, July 18. (/Pi—A!
Singer won the lightweight Cham- j
pionship by knocking out Sammy
Mandell, the defending champion, >
in the first- round of a scheduled I
15-round match before a crowd
of 25,000 people in the Yankee j
Stadium.
Mandell was floored four times,
the last time for a knockout. Af
ter a few seconds of sparring Sing . j
er climbed over the champion and j
beat him to the floor for the first
time with a right to the chin, aj
punch from which Mnadell never i
recovered. j
The young challenger stormed j
all over Mandell as the then t
champion climbed to his feet.
Singer beat him down for the;
' count of seven with a volley to
! the head. He nailed him with a
! hook as he rose and sank him
again for four before putting
over the finishing punch a
i straight, right to the chin. Mandell
drc'dped as if he had been
knifed.
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NATIONAL LEAGUE
Cincinnati 14, Philadelphia 9
The Reds had a 14 run lead in
the eighth when Philadelphia
scored eight. Odoul and Meusel
homered.
Chicago 6. Brooklyn 3. Tn this
game of 13 innings Brooklyn’s mar
gin was cut to two. Phiips and
Finn homered.
Pi ‘a shurgh 6. Boston 2. French,
pitching, won his fifth straight..
Boston had 16 left bases
St. Louis 9, New York 12. St.
Louis made 20 hits and New York
j 15.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
New York 16, St. Louis 7. St.
Louis dropped seven points to the
i cellar when the Yanks hit 21
itimes. Rice’s homer scored four.
Larv homered.
Philadelphia 12, Chicago 8.
Boston 12, Detroit 2. M'ebb led
the Boston attack with three
singles and double homer.
Washingon 3, Cleveland 4. Mor
gan drove in three of Cleveland’s
four runs, homering at the open.,
ing inning.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Portland 10; Hollywood 8 .Orvell,
Jess, Hill, Barbee, and Gazella all
homered.
Seattle 5; Missions 2.
| Los Angeles 11, Oakland 8. This
’ game went 16 innings. Jacobs
1 drove in five runs with homer and
; two doubles. He scored three times.
r San Francisco 2, Sacramento 1.
A night game. Thomas allowed
only four hits; San Francisco
bunching two in the fourth to win.
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' j Denali, and the S. S. Redondo, all
? I of the Alaska Steamship Company
' ! in port today, that company may
‘ j be considered as having a good
‘ j representation of their fleet m
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LOAN FLOATED U. S.
BERLIN, July 17, (/Pi—Half of
- Austria’s $50,000,000 loan which the
f iBank of Internatonal Settlement is
1 to sponsor will be floated in the
^United States.
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STEM! RESCUES 111
PASSENGERS Si SHEW
LONDON, July 18. (/Pi—The Bri j
tish steamer Rangitata radioed
the Port Is'ffead Wireless station
that she had rescued all the;
passengers and the crew of the
German steamer Targis which j
burned and sank about midnight
ab^nt 1,500 miles east of New York
arid in the mid-Atlantic.
The Targis v as enroute to Val
paraiso from Colon. The Rangitata
was enroute to Wellington from
Colon.
N AN I K IN NOME
NOME, July 18. (/Pi—The Nanuk
arrived here this morning ,and is
sailing for Seattle this afternoon..
I1SK REGQNS11TII
Of PHI APPUCflTION
SAN FRANCISCO. July 18, —
Reconsideration of the pardon ap
plication of Warren K. Billings by
the Supreme court will be requested
in a brief to be filed this morning
by Edwin V. McKenzie, .attorney
of Billings, now serving life sen
tence at olsom prison for participa
tion in the San Francisco Prepar
adness Day bombing charge of 1916.
Meanwhile, Governor Young de
clines to make any comment upon
the probable plans for hearing tthe
statement of John McDonald re
cent witness to give testimony in
the trials of Tom Mooney and Bill
ings when McDonald, now enroute
to California, arrives from the east.
NEW FLIGHT PLANNED
SANTA MARIE,July 13, (£*)—An
attempt to span the Atlantic Ocean
from Harbor Grace to Rotterdam
will be made within the next two
months by Wing Commander Chas.
Kingsford Smth, and the same crew
which recently flew the Southern
Cross from Dublin to New York, it
was announced here. Capt J- Pat
rick Saul, navgator of the other
Atlantic fight, confirmed the plans
of the new projected trip.
PRESIDENT FACES RIFT
! SHANGHAI, July 17, (A5)—By the
! aggressive Northern rebel forces in
Honan and Shantung provinces
and by tentatively inert but per
sistent Communist opposition in
the south, and unusually large
.bandit hordes in various places, the
‘regime of President Chaing Kai
,shei also faces a rift in his own
political situaton.
AGREE TO PROPOSAL
BERLIN, July 17, (/P)—Germany
has agreed to Foreign Minister
Briand’s proposal for an “United
| states of Europe” but raised the
point that such a program could
succeed only upon full equality.
FINDS POT OF GOLD
MALNALINO, Mex., July 17, (IP)—
An improverised peasant namec
Cerescencio Avila, bought a parce:
'of land from the Mexican govern
ment. He plowed his holdings foi
ithe first time and unearthed a pol
of gold. His find, which was oi
Spanish gold pieces, probably bur
ied long before the advent of th<
Mexican Republic, was valued ai
$50,000.
EXPEDITION IS FINANCED BY
LARGE PARIS PUBLICATION,
THE LE JOURNAL
BERGEN, Norway, July 18. (/P)~
An expedition will start from here
tomorrow for Greenland under the
leadership of Cnstantin Dombrova,
Doctor of Meteorology at Buch
arest, to investigate the atnio.
spheric possibilities there with a
view looking for a future air route
between Europe and America via
Greenland.
The expedition is financed by
LeJournal of Paris.
Dr. Dombrova is aboard the
whaler Crane Walesund which Ls
commanded by Captain Head.
BOILER EXPLOSION
WINNEPEG, July 18. (IP)—A boiler
explosion in a new .ocomotive
killed engineer A. R. Elliott and
fireman R. Myers, both of Winne
peg. The explosion also injured
five ther persons of the Canadian
Pacific near Molston.
SIMLI, India, July 18, (A*)—A dra
matic request to the Viceroy by two
influential moderate leaders. Sir
Tej Badahar Sapur and Mr. Jaya
kar, may mark the most important
step yet taken upon the road to
peace since the civil resistance
campaign of Mahatma Ghandi be
gan.
Tne request, as revealed by pub
lication of correspondence between
the two statesmen and the Viceroy,
is that Lord Bunvin should allow
Sapru and Jayakar to see the Mah
atma in jail, but there being an of
ficer to the government present at
the interview in order to persuade
him to help restore normal condi
tions.
KOREANS ESCAPE
HARBIN, Manchuria, July 18, (*P)
—Almost 40,000 Koreans have es
caped across the Siberian border,
into Manchuria within the last few
months and many thousands more
are only being prevented from fol
lowing them by heavy reinforce
ments of Soviet frontier guards.
They bring with them tails of the
upheaval caused by Moscow’s ef
forts to confiscate all farms in
eastern Siberia.
VIGOROUS PROTES T
NEW YORK, July 18, (/P)—Ru
mors that a ship flying the British
flay plans to dispense liquor to its
passengers, outside the 12-mile
limit, during the Dominion Inter
national yacht race next Septem
ber, gave rise to a vigorous protest
from the American Steamship
Owners Association.
BEATS WORLD CHAMP
ALBANY, July 17, (/P)—Armando
Aguilar, Chillian lightweight, beat
j Jimmy Goodrich, former world's
!champion in a 10-round bcut here.
28,653,450 CARS IN U- S.
i WASHINGTON, July 17. (^P>—
More and more the world and es
pecially the United States, is using
the motor car. A census by the
Department of Commerce fixes the
number of motor vehicles iri opera
tion in the United States June 1, as
[28,653,450.