Seward Daily Gateway
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VOLUME XV. NUMBER 164.
SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1930.
PRICE TEN CENT.
LIGHTEST RUN FISH HISTORY:
92 PERCENT 322,000 CASES
PACKED ARE REDS
JUNEAU, July 19, UP)—Faced
with the shortest salmon pack
and lightest run of fish in its
history, Bristol Bay was closed
Thursday night to all commer
cial fishing for salmon for the
remainder of the year on order
issued by the Department of
Commerce and upon the recom
mendation of Henry O’Malley,
Head of the U. S. fisheries.
The pack is officially reported
to July 12 as 322,000 cases of all
varieties of salmon.
Ninety-three percent of these,
however, are reds. Th closing or
der came as a result of the small
pack and the premature closing
means a stiffening in market
conditions, local authorities said.
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WRANGELL, July 19. UP)—Mau
rice Healy, 91, engaged in the fur
business here since 1876, died fol
lowing an illness of several weeks.
He came to Alaska a soldier
shortly after Alaska was bought
from Russia and in January. 1876.
was honorably discharged at Sitka
from Co. F. Fourth Regiment Artil
-t: ry.
He never married and his will
left his property to Ole Johnson, a
local friend for more than 30 years.
Healy was born at Kildare, Ireland.
T
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EE DEITHE Si
SAN FRANCISCO, July 19, </P)—
Three deaths and fires raging over
thousands of acres of brush and
grass lands, comprised the toll of
the heat wave that has swept Cali
fornia.
High temperatures recorded
were: Los Angeles 97; Brawley 112;
Fresno 106. San Francisco remained
cool with 63 degrees- Back-fires
were started to bring the grass fires
under control near Bakersfield, in
Madera, San Berito and Trinity
counties.
$1,000,000 FIRE, PARIS
PARIS, July 19, iff)—Three fire
men were injured in fighting one
of the biggest fires in the city m
recent years. A large Boulevard
department store, Novelles Galler
ies, was destroyed by the blaze,
which spread v»Tith such rapidity
that all the firemen in the city
could not extinguish it. Damage
was estimated at about $1,0000,000.
UNDISPUTED CONTROL
SHANGHAI, July 19, (/P)—The
Nationalists claimed undisputed
control of China, south of the Yel
low river. Leaders declared the
Rebel opposition on two Shantung
province battle fronts had collaps
ed. Other dispatches declared gov
ernment troops were still meeting
stiff opposition. The Nationalists
are in a position to lay seige to'
Tsin Thingtao, it was stated.
HOTTEST NIGHT OF YEAR
NEW YORK, July, 19. (/I1)—A
'searing week-end was forecast for
New York City and state. Last night
was the hottest of the year. 74.
which was preceded by a thick hu
midity- Fire escapes were too un
comfortable to sleep on.
BITS I LOW LEVEL
I WASHINGTON. July 19, (/P)—In
ternational trade of the United
States during June declined to the
lowest monthly level of the country
experienced in six years.
Exports amounted to $299,000,000
which the Commerce Department
estimated was less than any month
since July 1924 when the figure was
$276,000,000.
PROLONGED FIGHT
SEEN. KM! PICT
WASHINGTON, July 19 UP)—
Two reservations to the London
Naval Treaty, one providing for
freedom of the seas in future wars,
were introduced in the Senate by
Senator McKellar, Democrat of
Tennessee.
The Naval Base Reservation, a
surprise move, calls for ratification
of the treaty only if Great Britain
agrees to dismantle her bases at
Bermuda, Trinidad, in the West
Indies, at Halifax and at Esqumalt,
in British Columbia.
The move indicated a prolonged
fight over the pact.
SEATTLE—Mrs. W. H. Roscoe, R.
M. Battlers and family, Mrs. Z.
Hopkins, Mary H McCrea, Winona
G. Veasey, Evelyn E. Clark, Ruth A.
Buswell, W. A. Floyd, Mrs. O Mc
Donald, Mrs. H. Neal. Anna E. Sher
man, Carrie B. Smith, Mr. and Mrs.
L. H. Alexander, Grant Alexander,
Mr. and • Mrs. William Neville,
Mrs. W- Brownell, Margaret Gib
bons, Mrs. S. H. Broadman, Virgin
ia Broadman, Jane Crow, Mrs. Alice
H. Thompson, Dorothy T. Abbe.
Elizabeth Layman, Margaret E.
Layman, J. S. Frank, Miss Eleanor
Gilson, Mrs. Rufus Smith, Victoria
Seaburg, John Myers, Billie Myers,
J. B. Bond, Mrs. W. N. Mortimer
and baby, James Mortimer. Robert
Sawyer, Margaret Haggenkamp,
Sam Wiley, Mike Weaver, Forine
Smith, Mr. and Mrs. George Berg,
Evelyn Berg, Mrs- C. M. Lightbody.
Harry E. Johnson, Ed. Holmes, S.
C. McMullen, Geo. Kolstead, Wm.
Pendergart
JUNEAU—Mrs. Zydia F. Hansen,
Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Leech, Geo- Gas
ser, G. Brunwell.
CORDOVA— Major Malcolm
Elliott, Sam Baker, Mrs- H. Heikel,
Arachag Wickin, John Byral.
LATOUCHE—F. Swenson, A. Col
ombo.
Owing to inclement weather con
ditions the Community church pic
nic for today will be called off.
Watch the Gateway next week for
a future date for this gala event.
THE STOCK MARKET
(By Associated Press)
Int. Tel. 48, A. Cna 129, Stand.
N. J. 74, Richfield 18, Zellerbach
14, Lehigh 10, Juneau 5, 1-2; U.
Cal. 42. Goldman 23.
ONE HUNDRED AND NINETY
EIGHT PASSENGERS EN
ROUTE ON LINER
SEATTLE, July 19. (/P;_The S.
S. Aleutian, of the A. S. S. Co.,
i left Seattle today at 9 a. m. for
{Alaska with 198 passengers, 50
j of whom are for Seward as fol
lows :
I Miss K. Freed, Miss H. Freed,
Joe Freed, Mrs. N. Hutchinson,
; Mr. Fisher and daughter, Mrs.
jj. T. B’#phy, Milo Kelly, W. V.
'r, Detwilla, Mrs. R. E. Short, Mrs.
I O’Malley, Miss A. Mitchell and
; sister, E. Jennison, Col. C. L. Mit
' chell. Mr. and Mrs Roger Paul,
Mrs. S. Pollock, Mr. and Mrs.
; Rudolph Krugh and son.
Doris Pears, Francis Hibbard,
I Mrs. M. Webb, daughter and
baby; Will Clayson, Mr. and Mrs.
1 George Anderson, Mr. and Mrs.
Edward May, Miss M. Raymond,
! Mrs. R. L. Taylor and two chil
dren, S. L. Peterson, Harry Ash.
F. J. Funk. Mr. and Mrs. W. H.
McCray, Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Hen
derson, V. L. Marion. Mrs. J. L.
Sullivan. S P. Dysinger. C. A. An
derson. O F. Anderson, M. Twora
sky. Mrs. J. H. Crawford and
daughter.
YESTERDAY’S GAMES
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Pittsburgh 12; Boston 4. Comoro
sky homered. doubled and singled;
Granthams homered a single which
gave the Pirates four runs.
Cincinnati 13; Philadelphia 6.
Klein hit his 27th homer; two on
Heilman who tripped; Meusel hom
ered.
Chicago 6; Brooklyn 2. Blake
held Brooklyn to five hits and de
prived a shutout by Bissonettes
who homer one on Wilson and got
his 25th homer.
St. Louis 7; New York 8. The
Giants had a five-run ralley in the
fifth which won the game for them.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Washington 8; Cleveland 6
Boston 6; Detroit 7. Koenig took
a line drive to figure in a triple play
and homered two in the fourth and
singled twice.
New York 6; St. Louis 14. Ruth
homered his 33; tripled and doubl
ed five times up; Gehrig homered
his 25. Browns hit 18 times. The
Yanks errored four.
Philadelphia 15; Chicago 1. The
Athletics staggered three Chicago
pitchers with four homers; two
doubles; seven bunched singles.
Foxx homered twice, doubled, driv
ing six runs across.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
i Portland 5; Hollywood 10.
! Los Angeles 4; Oakland 5.
Seattle 4; Missions 8.
! San Francisco 3; Sacramento 4;
10 innings- This was a night gam°.
TAX BACHELORS, SPINSTERS
BERLIN. July 19, (JP)—The die-;
tatorial power to govern Germany, i
■without the help or control of the!
Reichstag, was given to Chancellor
Bruening by President Von Hin
denburg. The Chancellor immed
iately made use of the increased
authority to proclaim enforcement
of his new emergency finance pro
gram, including a tax on bachelors j
and spinsters.
MAY HOP MONDAY
TACOMA, July 19. (TP)—Wurk,
Brown and Bromley plans for
their hop across the Pacific are
still unsettled but they may take
off Monday.
POINT BARROW, July 19, (/P)—
The beach is piled high with
crushing ice and for three days
a westerly gale, sometimes reach
ing a velocity of 30 miles an
hour, has been crushing a six
foot thickness of ice forming gi
gantic ridges.
Natives must climb over the
mass to go hunting, which has
been good, thus far. A heavy
rain, followed by a three-inch
snow' fall, occurred.
LONDON, July 19, (JP)—After
eight hours of bitter debate, the
Labor government won an em
phatic victory over the scalp-seek
ing Conservatives w'hen the mys
terious vote of censure, introduced
by Stanley Baldwin, was defeated
in the Commons. 312 to 241.
The majority of 71 votes, which
is due to Lloyd George’s elastic Lib
eral party siding in with the Labor
ites, is the biggest majority the
La&or party has been able to com
mand in a long time.
The incoming list of passengers
yesterday on the S. S. Yukon, not
including those previously listed
as leaving Seattle, included:
From Ketchikan—G. E. Archer.
From Juneau—Mrs. H. B. Crew
son, M. Saunders, Mr. and Mrs.
Ray Hendricksen. Julia McCann,
Ella Hendrickson.
From Cordova—A. E. Lathrop,
€. R. Rose, J. L. Galen, J. Og
den Gloria Dell. A. J. Hewitt, J.
J. Costello.
From Valdez—L. D. Falconer,
L. E. Atkins, Mr. and Mrs. George
C. Wakefield.
From Latuche—Bert Lee, Ole
Tronstad, M. Wagner, A. W. Heck
w'ord.
TAKES OPTION ON STOCK
•A. E. Lathrop, business man of
this division who recently pur
chased control of the Fairbanks
News Miner, has secured an op
tion on the stock of C. MacGow
an, according to a report from
Cordova. It is expected he will
shortly obtain control.
ON INSPECTION TRIP
Lieut. T. T. Teague, of the lo
cal headquarters staff, Signal
Corps, is at Anchorage conduct
ing inspection of radio activities
in that area. Lieutenant Teague
recently completed similar work
throughout the Westward; he ex
pects to return to Seward within
a few days
SIX DROWN, ATLANTIC
BOSTON, July 19, (/P)—Five
young men and girl sank to
death, one by one, in the bitter,
cold, wind-tossed brine of the At
lantic after they had clung for
hours to a little sloop that capsized
in a sudden squall a few miles off
Scituate.
THOUSANDS INJURED; HOMES
BOATS DESTROYED; WIND
OF 112 MILES PER HOUR
TOKYO, July 19, UP)—Incomplete
reports from the typhoon stricken
Kyushu Island listed 70 known dead
and more than 100 missing; 737
were injured, 4,200 homes were de
stroyed and more than 13,000
homes damaged; hundreds of boats
were sunk or missing.
The wind reached a velocity of
112 miles an hour. Nagasaki pre
fecture reported 37 dead, 450 injur
ed. The total property loss will
probably exceed $50,00C,000.
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MAY BE FIRST, TAKE-OFF
TACOMA, July 18, /P)—With a
further delay in Harold Bromley’s
flight plans, and a speeding up of
Robert B. Warks, it became evident
that the Seattle flyer might be the
first to take-off for the trans-Pa
cific hop from Tacoma to Tokyo.
SAN DIEGO, July 19, (JP)—Cut
ting nearly four hours off the Bor
der flight record. Col. B oscoe Turn
er, former Army flyer, landed at
Agua Caliente, Mex., after a non
flight from Vancouver. B. C.
He took off from Vancouver at
7 a. m. making his elapsed time 9
hours and 14 minutes. The previous
record was 13 hours, set by Tex
Rankin some time ago.
A six-months old lion cub ac
companied Turner as mascot.
BENNPNGTON, Vt., July 19, (JP>—
Frank Goldsborough, 19-year-old
pilot, died, after he lay unconscious
in the wreckage of his plane for 18
hours, after he had crashed into
Woodford mountain. He did not
.regain consciousness.
His step-mother, Mrs. Gertrude
Goldsborough of Jackson Heights,
Long Island, arrived at his bedside
two minutes after he died. The
boy’s father, Brice Goldsborough,
was lost in an attempt to fly the
Atlantic.
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BIG NANAIMO FIRE
NANAIMO, B. C., July 19, (JP>—
Fire breaking out at 4 a. m. destroy
ed several buildings in the heart of
tne business district. The loss is
'estimated at $200,000 and several
[old landmarks were wiped out.
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HIS LAST LUNCHEON
NEW YORK, July 18, (JP)— Rear
1 Admiral Richard E. Byrd sat to the
last luncheon of his current career
| as an Anarctic hero After clear
ing up some business details he will
ijoin his family at Dieble, N. H. On
September 30 he will start a lecture
tour which will carry him across
the northern part of the country to
Oregon, down the Pacific coast and
back thru the souhtwest and south.
ESCAPE WITH 824,000
BRIMINGHAM, Ala., July 19, (JP)
—Three unmasked bandits held up
the Woodlawn American National
Bank and escaped with $24,000 in
currency.