Seward Daily Gateway
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XV. NUMBER 104.
SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 1930.
PRICE TEN CENT>
GRAHAM TAKES OFF FOR FAIR
BANKS, S60.000 FI RS; HEAVY
MAIL FOR SUPPLIES
NOME, May 7. t/P)—Pilots Crosson
and Robins in two Fairchilds who
hoppd-off from the S. S. Nanuk at
8 a m. yesterday, loaded with a fur
cargo for the Swenson Co., are en
route to Nome from Teller. They
should have arrived at 4 p. m. but
it is believed the heavy snow storm
forced them back to Teller.
Pilot Graham, delayed here by
bad weather, is taking off for Fair
banks with $60,000 in furs; the
shipment is from the Nome sec
tion. Graham is piloting the Nome
plane with a heavy first class mail
shipment and with several thous
and dollars in orders for supplies
from Seattle firms which must
make connections with the first
steamers enroute to Nome upon
the opening of navigation in the
Bering Sea
ROOSEVELT FIELD. N Y., May
6, (/Pi—The elaborate preparations
which Miss Francis Rees, 19. made
m an attempt to break the world
altitude record for women para
chute jumpers came to naught
when the pilot of her plane was
unable to fore it higher than 14.800
feet.
When Miss F.w ■ went aloft she
carried with her a bottle of oxygen
for us-' if she reached ratified air.
A pai' of water wings to buoy her
,p if Ehe land in the water. Two
automobile horns to attract pas
serby’s Mould she land in a tree,
and two parachutes in case one did
not open.
She jumped at 14800 feet e rr\
ina the plane’s radio aerial with
her In landing she struck a fence,
loosening her front teeth.
ROME, May 6. (dV The former
Mrs. Agnes Church, divorced from
Francis Church, is spending a
honeymoon here with her new hus
band, Elmer Smith, former third
officer of the S. S. Leviathan,
whom, it now is revealed, she re
cently married at Singapore.
After a visit in Rome, Mr. and
Mrs- Smith will tour Europe in a
motor car, which she brought from
San Francisco.
DR. McCONNEL DIES
JACKSONVILLE. Fla.. May 7, <&)
—Dr. Lincoln McConnel, former
policeman who turned author, lec
turer and minister, finally becom
ing a pastor of many leading Bap
tist churches in the south, died
from a heart attack.
THE VERY FIRST
PARIS, May 5. (/P) — Miss Anne
Tyrrell, daughter of the British
ambassador to France, had the
honor of being the first English
woman to be married in Notre
Dame cathedral since Mary Queen
in 1500. Miss Tyrrell wed Adrian
Holman, secretary in the embassy.
UN ALASKA, May 7, Special to
the Gateway—Primary election
returns here were as follows:
Wickersham 29, Rustard 15.
Smith 36. Knight 5.
Reed 27, Cole 12.
Breuer 31, Keller 13.
Ulmer 29.
Bragaw 23.
Brosius 33. Foster 33. Roach 25,
Murray 24, Dean 17. McCain 17,
Grover 14.
WILL BE BN THF NEXT
TRIP OF THE E
WASHINGTON, May 7, </P)- As
usual when the Graf Zeppelin takes
a long trip, an American naval of
ficer will be aboard the German
dirigible on the flight soon to be
undertaken from Germany to the
United States and South America.
This time it will be Capt. Harry
E Shoemaker, who has been order
ed to sail from New York for Ger
many. Shoemaker will serve on
board the Graf as liason officer
handling communications between
the ship and the Navy Department.
He is the ninth naval man to trav
el aboard her.
LONDON, May 6. i.P> -After an
inspection of the damaged elevator
of the R-100. the great British
dirigible, which is scheduled for a
trip to Canada late in Maw. the
aeronautical c^rrespondin' of the
Mcrnmg "or1' believes th <;•*•? is
stroii y p O’ ■ i ;ty of the r pairs
consuming 10 days or a iorinignt.
After she has been brought again
from her shed the airship o use un
('.erg'' fi Mier trials b fore *he ran
start for Canada.
YOLXG COUPLE WED
la the presence of a few friends
Miss Dorothy Courtland, daughter
of Mr and Mrs. H. L. Courtland.
was wed last evening to Verner
Larsen, young placer miner of
Moose Pass. U, S. Commissioner
Curtis Morford performed the
ceremony. The newlyweds plan to
j move to Moose Pass shortly for
the summer.
MAY MAKE HOME PORT
The steamer Explorer, of the
Coast Geodetic Survey and which
vessel is now due in port from
! California, will be stationed, more
or less at this port during the sea
son, it is said, while engaged in
' charting waters in this area. It
, is also said one or two auxiliary
vessels, smaller ones, will likewise
i work out of the Port of Seward.
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SUGGESTION FOR NAME
To assist those who aspire t-o win
one of the awards being offered by
M. E. Holben, proprietor of the
new bakery which he i° -"ning
next week in the former location
of the Union Cafe, he suggests
, keeping in mind that the bakery
will be electrically equipped—
a modern electric oven and other
such apparatus found in up-to-the
minute bake-shops. The awards
j will be presented to the ones pre
j senting the most appropriate
name for the new shop.
CHICAGO, May 7, (/P)— Henry
Edwards, secretary and statistician
of the American League, credits the
Cleveland Indians with a new all
time major league record in pinch
hitting. Seven pinch hitters were
used by the Indians in games
against Detroit and Chicago and
each delivered
The seven hits drove in seven
runs in addition to one run scored
; by a pinch hitter. Two games were
iwon by 1,000 percent pinch hitting.
: its an amazing feat Edwards said
| as pinch hitters usually are great
helpmates to the opposition.
I BASEBALL I
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TUESDAY’S GAMES
NATIONAL LEAGUE
St. Louis at Philadelphia post
l poned on account of rain.
Brooklyn 1; Chicago 3.
Boston 4; Cincinnati 3.
New York 11: Pittsburgh 9.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Chicago 4; Boston 3.
St Louis 1; Philadelphia 4.
Detroit 4: Washington 5.
Cleveland 7; New York 6.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
San Francisco 9; H ilywood 3.
Seattle at Portland postponed on
acount of rain.
Sacramento 1; Oakland 7.
Los Angeles 16; Missions 13.
HARBIN, Manchuria, May 7. (kP)
•The Sungari river, principal river
of Manchuria, has become the
storm center of a bitter contro
versy between the N inking govern
ment and Moscow.
Russia wants to navigate the
stream under the same protection
that other foreign powers now en
joy on the Yangtse river in China
proper. Nanking is opposed, on
the grounds that sooner or later
all foreign rights to navigate
China’s inland waters will be abol
ished
! COPENHAGEN, May 6, (/P)—
Farmers and business men of Den
mark are at swords points over the
merits of American and British
imports into Denmark. The farm
ers want Danish consumers to buy
raw materials and manufactured
goods from England, which is the
farmers best customers for farm
products. The business men want
to keep on using a greater part of
American goods.
DEFENDS FARM BOARD
' WASHINGTON, May 5. (^—Vig
orous defense of the federal farm
board was made before the United
States Chamber of Commerce by
Secretary of Agriculture Arthur
Hyde and Representative Fort,
spokesman for the administration.
A resolution is pending which con
demns the work of the board.
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Section Foreman Flynn, located
| at Mile 20, left this morning for
his station.
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CHICAGO, May 7, UP)—Mickey
Walker, middleweight champion,
I will return to the ring May 23 when
!he meets Charley Belanger, the
I Canadian light heavyweight, at
Detroit.
Walker was forced to cancel his
barnstorming tour last month when
he suffered a bad gash over his eye
in a match with Kayo White, Chi
cago negro, at Davenport, Iowa.
;The wound is healing rapidly..
' CHINESE BANDITS SI!?
THOUSAND RESIDENTS
I WITH MACHINE CIS
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SHANGHAI, May 7, CP)—Bandits
armed with machine guns mas
sacred 1,000 residents of Kindsuch
en, Northern Kiangsu province, it
is learned. One thousand captives
were carried off with loot of the
city which was burned.
The latest massacre by bandits,
who have recently slain thousands
in other sections of China, took
place within 100 milse of Nanking,
seat of the nationalist government
whose troops have not shown
themselves capable of coping with
wide-spread banditry. It is on a
gigar ic scale.
Luiiuurc: u!A hijiinLU
LONDON, May 5, </P, - Six per
sons were seriously injured and
under hospital treatment after a
riot between 500 British seamen
and about 100 Somali seamen at
North Shields, Northumberland.
Thirteen Somali were signed on
as members of the crew of the S
S. Cape Verde, in preference to
■ white seamen. Knives and razors
were freely used and police charged
the rioters with clubs.
RESUMING SURVEY
i The geological and topographical
I survey of the vast region west of
Mt. Spurr, which has been in pro
gress during the last, several sum
mers, under the direction of Geo
logist Stephen R. Capps, will be re
sumed early in June, according to
information received by Pilot Matt
A. Nieminen, Anchorage represen
tative of the Alaska Airways.
FOOD SALE AT 2 P. M.
! The Seward Woman’s Club
which is giving the first of two
, food sales on Saturday, have set
the opening hour at 2 p. m. As
was stated yesterday the sales
will be held in the large store
| space in the Johansen building.
Major Malcolm Elliott, presi
| dent of the Alaska Road Com
; mission, is expected to arrive in
Seward on the S. S. Aleutian from
his Juneau headquaters.
The Geodetic Survey steamer
Surveyor, Captain Hardy, depart
ed yesterday for Kodiak where
the vessel will remain for the
season carrying forward work be
gun two years ago. While in port
20 tons of sack coal were loaded.
The S. S. Admiral Watson, of
the Pacific Steamship Company,
is expected to arrive in port to
night or tomorrow morning from
the south.
NEARLY EVERY BUILDING DE
MOLISHED; FEAR HIGHER
DEATH LIST
DALLAS, May 7, (/P>—Sixty-six
persons were killed and many in
jured and property damage esti
mated at more than $500,000 by a
tornado which struck central and
south Texas late yesterday.
A partial check revealed the
death list included 25 men and wo
men and three children near Runge
and seven white men, three women
and four children, negroes, near
Frost.
National guardsmen, firemen and
volunteers are working in the de
bris at Frost where it is feared the
death list will mount higher.
Nearly every building in the town
was demolished.
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SRODB IT ILF. \h
BLEW TCP !ND OFF
Apparently despondent and a
sufferer from shell-shock since the
! World War. Roy DeMobom, “firf
m n on the Alaska Railroad crane
at Mile 12, suicided, it if alleged
shortly after breakfast this morn
ing at 7 o'clock. He had evidently
placed a 30-40 rifle in front of
h m, with the stock on the floor
for the entire ton of his head was
said to have been blown off.
DeMobom, it is judged, was a
man nearing 40 years of age: he
had been employed along the
Alaska Railroad for several years,
this year, fireman for Engineer
Roy Neville.
His death occurred in the bunk
car of the work-crew. Following
instructions from Colonel Ohlson
; general manager of the A. Ry.. the
; body was sent to Anchorage.
De Mobom is said to have beer.
| a highly educated man and at one
time, previous to the war. was an
;Assistant U. S. District Attorney in
New York State. Nothing is known
at this time about his relatives
but it is believed his parents are
quite prominent in New York.
TRIAL POSTPONED
BUFFALO, May 7, (/P>—The sec
ond trial of Lila Wimerson has
| been postponed for several weeks
Ion account of the defendant’s ill
! ness.
LANDED ON ROOF
LE BOURGET, Prance, May 6.
I (/P)—Adrienne Bolland, French girl
who flew over the Chilean Andes
jin 1923, landed her plane on the
rocf of a big shed when telegraph
Iwires tossed it out of its course as
jshe made a forced landing. Her
imotor failed during flight. None
were injured.
AIRPLANE CRASHES
FORT STOCKTON. Texas, May
15. (/p)—Three men were killed in
Ian airplane crash Sunday; the
dead are “Smoky” Adams, pilot;
Mangum Johns and Jack Thorp,
passengers. Witnesses said the
plane fell 200 feet when the en
gine balked. Adams was taking up
passengers for short rides.
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| Gus Gelles, broker, left for An
I chorage, his home and headquar
Iters, on today’s train.