Seward Daily Gateway
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XV. NUMBER 99.
SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1930.
PRICE TEN CENTS
THE HRS! DlffilGS
SEATTLE, May 1, (/P>—Twenty
4x precincts in Southeastern Alas
ka reported Rustgard 1443 and
Wickersham 1370; Reed 1425 and
Cole 1254; Keller 1437, Breuer 927.
The Democratic vote was so small
m many precincts that they gave
no returns. The precincts included
Southeastern Alaska and three in
'he Fort Gibbon District
LINDBERGH IS Si
TO HE II SPEED DEM
WASHINGTON, May 1, (/P)— Col.
Charles A. Lindbergh went so fast
:n establishing a new trans-con
tential speed mark Easter that he
destroyed his official recorder, a
,barograph installed in the plane
and turned over to the Bureau of
Standards by the National Aero
nautical Association for certifica
tion was found to have been brok
en by excessive vibration.
TOKYO, May 1. f/P)—'The Shim
izu tunnel, the longest railway
Gore in Asia, has pierced the
mountain backbone of Japan.
Trains using it will make the
irip from Tokyo to Nigata, the
principal city of the northwest
m four hours less than at present.
The new bore is just over six
miles long.
SAN FRANCISCO. May 1, t/P)—
University cf C ilifornia astrono
mers are studying photographs of
he to- a eclipse of the moon. Sev
eral show the sun’s corona while a
flash spectrum of the total phase
was photographer and will enable
scientists to determine the ele
ments present in the solar atmos
phere.
GLOBE GIRDLING FLIGHT
LOS ANGELES, April 30, </P)—
John Henry' Mears of New York
will arrive here to make test flights
of the monoplane in which he ex
pects to set a new world’s record
for globe girdling flight. In 1928
he established a record of 23 days
and 15 hours, which stood until the
21 day flight of the Graf Zeppelin.
60 PERSONS INJURED
PARIS, April 30. UP)—Failure of
the signal lights in the Nord Sud
Subway caused an accident in
which 60 persons were injured.
KUSTGARD KEEPING AHEAD;
‘A OF 53 PRECINCTS REPORTED
JUNEAU, May 1. (Special to the
Gateway)—With only 26 of 53
precincts in the First division re
ported. Rustgard has 1,516; Wick
ersham 1,454; Knight 1,083; Smith
1679; Cole 1405: Reed 1442; Breuer
1130; Keller 1583.
WATSON SAILS NORTH
SEATTLE, May 1. UP)—The Ad- j
miral Watson, of the P. S. S. Co., }
sailed at 10 a. m. yesterday and (
carried 61 passengers, nine for j
Seward as follows: Mrs. W. W.
Clarke, Tooker Greeney, Ed Brig- !
gen, Otto Lieman, G. II. Browen, j
Mr. and Mrs. George Clyde, Chas. j
P. Warner and eight others.
ELioapOfsnr
NEW KID MU. i
BUT IS UNOFFICIAL
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SAN DIEGO, April 30, (/P)—Teack j
Barstow, young first class Gilder j
pilot flying a Bowlus sailplane,
landed at Point Loma at 3:56 a. m.
ending a flight of 15 hours and 12
minutes thereby unofficially estab
lishing a new world’s record for a
sustained flight.
The world’s record is held, by
Germany, 14 hours and 45 minutes.
In the absence of a barograph in
Barstow’s plane this deprives him ’
of all official recognition for his
unusual flight.
350 MILES, 3Vz HOURS
NEW YORK, May 1, UP)—An air- |
plane catapulted from the North j
German Lloyd Liner Bremen, 350
miles at sea and landed four bags
of mail 12 hours before the ship
was due to dock. The air journey
look three and one-hald hours. |
TURKS MITES
IS RELIT TOURNAMENT
PHILADELPHIA, April 29, (/P)—
Three thousand athletes, repre
senting more than 500 collegs and
schools in all parts of this country
and Canada, will participate in the
University of Pennsylvania relay
carnival on Franklyn field.
The mile college relay promises
to be one of the biggest features of
the games, and much interest is
shown in the two special races, in
which are entered a great field of
middle distance runners.
GENERAL PANIC
SANTA ROSA, Argentina, April
29, UP)—Two policemen were killed
and two others gravely wounded
and 50 others bruised slightly in a
clash here between the police and
members of the Democratic party.
Th police attempted to b>’eak up a
meeting. Actual fighting grew out
of the ensuing discussion and a
general panic followed.
28 PRGHI AGENTS
EUREKA, April 29, (TPj—Federal
prohibition agents arrested 18 al
leged Eureka bootleggers in week
end raids. Two of the number are '
women. Most of the accused were!
released on $1,000 bonds. There
were 28 federal agents in the raid- ‘
ing squad.
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ON MAIDEN VOYAGE
SAN FRANCISCO, April 29, (i«P)—
Bound to San Francisco on her
maiden voyage, the William Larsen
motorship Taranger, sailed from
Copenhagen to Buenos Aires, ac- j
cording to announcement made at!
the office of the line.
After a trial lasting several
days O. E. Wheeler was awarded
a partial verdict in his suit
against the City of Petersburg.
Mr. Wheeler was awarded a strip .
A Petersburg waterfront property.
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SEATTLE, May 1, (/P)—Within
five minutes after he had robbed
the Marine Central Bank at the
Times Square here of about $1,500,
Julius Wheeler, a clerk, was captur
ed by police with the loot in his
pocket.
The robber was taken after a
four-block chase thru the crowd
when Gerald Jurgen, 18 downed
him and held him until police ar
rived.
DEMPSEY IN CLINIC
ROCHESTER, Minn., May 1, (/P)
—Jack Dempsey, former heavy
weight boxing champion, entered
the Mayo Clinic here for examina
tion. He plans to stay here a few
days and may undergo a minor op
eration.
SAN FRANCISCO. April 30. (£>)—
Two deputy game wardens were
killed and a fisherman probably
fatally wounded in a gun fight in
the bay waters south of San Franc
cisco.
Jack Burke and Allen Curry were
killed by Antone Anderson, resist
ing the efforts of the wardens to
board his fishing sm^ck. They said
he was fishing bass illegally.
SIGNED FOR MATCH
LOS ANGELES, April 29. —
Frankie Campbell, San Francisco
heavyweight, signed for a 10-round
match with Les Kennedy, here on
May 13tli at the Olympic Auditor
ium.
ATTENDS FUNERAL
NEW YORK. April 29. (.^—Clar
ence Mackay attended funeral ser
vices for Katherine Duer Blake, his
first wife. The fiumcie- drove to
church with Mrs. Keen :h O’Brien
and Mrs. Irving Berlin, his daugh
ters. Irving Berlin also attended
but did not sit with the family.
BASEBALL
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Pittsburgh 2; Chicago 5.
St. Louis 3; Cincinnati 4.
Boston 9; Philadelphia 3.
Brooklyn 9; New York 4.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Chicago 4; Detroit 6.
New York 9; Washington 0.
Philadelphia 3: Boston 7.
Cleveland 6; St. Louis 3
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Oakland at Los Angeles called on
account of wet grounds.
Hollywood 3; Portland 4.
Missions 4; Seattle 7.
Sacramento 6; San Francisco 5.
HOMEWARD BOUND
COLON, May 1, (/Pi—Co.l Lind
bergh is homeward bound; he took
off at 7:58 a. m. for Puerto Cabezas
Nicaragua, carrying 201 pounds for
Montevideo and New York. He
planned to continue to Miami to
morrow.
TOWN WIPED OUT
SHANGHAI, May 1, (/P)—A thous
and citizens and all the civil offi
cials of Kingssucken, 100 miles
north of Nanking, were slaughtered
by bandits. Every house was burned
to the ground.
TORTOISES TAKE TRIP
BALBOA. C. Z., April 29, (/P)—
Eight giant land tortoises are hav- |
ing a cruise de luxje. Found in the
Galapogas Islands by a scientist ex
pedition, they are bound for the!
New York aquarium in Vincent As- i
tor’s yacht Nourmahal. They aver- i
age 75 pounds.
IMBS me :
icnn is mills i
10 SHIPPING NON
SAN PERDO, April 30, (JP)—A
mysterious wave action which has
! already caused seven large ocean
'■steamers to break their mooring;
! lines and force them to new posi
tions, was reported here still to be
| unsolved by shipping men. It is
thought to be caused by some un
usual action of the ocean.
At Long Beach, a similar action
was reported. Even the giant Jap
anese liner Chichigu Maru report
ed having much trouble with her
mooring lines. There is a rumor
of a severe erahtquake that has
occurred just off the California
coast.
ROBBED OF DIAMONDS
MANITOWOC, Wis., May 1, (/P)- -
August Axt, wholesale jewelery
merchant of Milwaukee, reported
he was robbed of diamonds valued
at from $50,000 to $100,000 as he
was driving between Manitowoc
and Sheboygan
: RUDIO WES USED
PITTSBURGH, April 29. </P)—
Radio waves, traveling at nearly
I the speed of light, now enables man
to see what happens in the blur of
whirling machinery.
An airplane propeller blade mov
ing at top speed, so fast that it is
■'ll but invisible to the eye, appears
to stop and stand still when the
■new radio waves are turned on. If
the speed is sufficient, the tip of
the blade may be seen to elongate
under the pull of centrifugal force.
OPPOSE 1811' AMENDMENT
CLEVELAND, April 29, UP)—With
'out dissenting vote, the women’s
organization for national prohibi
tion reform went on record in op
position to the 18th amendment
and all state enforcement acts and
(pledged themselves to work for re
peal of laws.
15 MINUTES TO CROSS
| BERLIN, April 29, (JP)—.Fritz Von
Opel announced that he will fly
; across the English Channel in 15 i
and a half minutes in an airplane!
I driven by rocket power. The date j
I for the flight has not been set but \
it will be made this year.
CONGRATULATIONS
; SILVER SPRINGS, Md., May 1,
i (TP)—Mother Jones, a life long;
fighter fcfv the cause of labor, cele- !
brated her 100th birthday at the j
'country home of Mr. and Mrs. Wal- !
ter Burgess. Letters and telegrams'
i have been pouring in on her for j
piarylan fighthdon oecoonl berga
days from all sections of the coun- ;
try congratulating her.
W. D. Brown, oldtime Alaskan |
. and resident of Juneau, who has
been operating on Lower Front |
Street, died last week, probably j
‘ from acute gastritis. i
WASHINGTON, May 1, (/P)—The
qusetion of whether the purchase
of liquor for beverage purposes is
guilty of violating the national
prohibition law was argued before
the Supreme Court in two cases.
The justice of the court during
the argument of the celebrated
Norris case indicated a doubt on
their part that the case presented
an issue on which could be based
a decision whether the liquor buy
er was guilty or conspiracy.
FlYEB CROPS 10 SSFETf
CLEVELAND, May 1, (/P»—Pilot
Henry J. Brown, flying the night
mail from Cleveland to New York,
stepped over the side and safely
dropped 2,00 feet in his parachute
when the motor of his plane went
dead near Clearfield, Pa.
The plane was destroyed by fire
and Brown managed to salvage
only part of the mail.
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1 TIE FEE! UK
BAKERSFIELD, May 1, (P)—With
Governor Yeung and members of
his Cabinet and Republican leaders
of Southern California as guests
400 men and women gathered at
a great community banquet here
The banquet marked the eve of
th first conference in Bakersfield
of the new Southern California Re
publican Central Committee in ses
sion here.
STIMULATE REFORM
NANKING, May 1. OP)—As a
means of stimulating a currency
reform the Nationalist govern—
ment has decided to mint half
dollars. The new coins are to go
into circulation by mid-summer.
AFTER JUNIOR RECORD
TULSA, Okla., April 30, (P —
Frank Goldborough, 19, who is
seeking to establish a new junior
trans-continental airplane flight
record between New York and Los
Angeles, tookoff for El Paso at
6:45 a. m.
UBEllfS ilCHT
EXPLODES IT m
NEW YORK, May 1, (Pi—An ex
plosion aboard the Winchester Cor
nelius Vanderbilt’s palatial yacht,
as she lay anchored in the East
River" tore up the after deck and
shook the buildings for several
blocks around and along the water
front.
Damage to the yacht was placed
at $50,000. None of the crew were
injured.
Anchorage Pioneers, 'who feel
that they know more aout the
habits of the American eagle than
do members of congress, are pro
testing against the propoal to put
the eagle on the protected list
in Alaska.