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VOLUME XV. NUMBER 86.
SEWARD,
ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 1S30.
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1ST DEUEHTFUL
III iil’S LIFE
"I only wish all my friends, in
fact everyone, could make the trip
X made,” stated Andy Novak, lo
:al business man who returned
•the other day from a four month’s
visit to Europe, principally, at
Vienna, his former home and
xhere his aged father lives. His
brother Paul preceded him home
by a few months but both return
ed to America and Alaska to
gether.
Aside from the wonderful time
enjoj'ed with his parent, nieces
and other relatives and friends,
Andy is still marveling over the
new Lloyd express liner S. S. Eu
ropa, the steamer which recently
set a new world mark for cross
ing the Atlantic; with Andy
aboard. Hip, hip. hoorah!
It was Novak’s first trip back
:.o Vienna in four years and he
looks forward to making more of
-„hem to visit “Dad.” From Vien
na bo Seattle took but 11 days
ar a total of 17 days from Vienna
to Seward; which, by the way, is j
probably another world record, j
Third class fare on the Europa is
about $90 one way; $135 for tour
ist tickets and second class, from
$150 to $172. Andy traveled in
* style, having a round-trip pas
sage—$320—calling for an out
side room. But this was not need
ed at all, he relates, as the inside
staterooms are just as well ven
tilated as if they were all out
side. And speaking of the ven
tilation he said it was absolutely
perfect throughout the entire ship.
In one of the smoking rooms
there are at least 100 tables, he
said, and at no time could he
see any indication of smoke in the
room.
Not being a drinking man, he
nad little to say about beverages
except that the prices of liquor,
tobacco, etc., were the same as on
shore; however, this statement
should be qualified as the prices
he quoted were on tobacco which
were the same as in the U. S. The
liquor was dispensed at European
prices.
Now for a partial description of
« the mammoth liner upon which
he returned to the shores of
America:
The Europa, like the Bremen,
has the bulbous bow, a device
which almost miraculously cre
ates “dead water” at the propel
lers, giving to them a push which
they could not get if the water
were rushing by. Her engines
like those in the Bremen, ar€
high-pressure-steam turbines, th«
latest and most important devel
opment in the construction ol
high-speed vessels.
Throughout the decorativr
scheme of the Europa, there i<
various representations of th<
mythological princess of Asia aftei
which the continent of Europe
was named, and after which like
wise was named the new Eu
ropa. In certain places the fig
ure of Europa and the bull ar<
treated pictorially and in other:
the figures are in sculpture.
One of the features of the Eu
ropa is the long distance radi<
telephone apparatus similar b
that with which the Lloyd liner
Bremen and Columbus are ahead
equipped and which enable pas
sengers to make telephone call
to shore as well as to other ship
of the Lloyd fleet.
The overall length of the Eu
ropa is 939 feet and her breadtl
101 feet. She has a capacity fo
2,200 passengers, as well as a era
of 975 men.
She has accommodations for 80
first class, 500 second class, 30
to 500 tourist class and 600 thir
class passengers.
The ship is equipped wit
Framm anti-rolling tanks, whic
will add greatly to the comfort c
(Continued on Pa?e Two)
BARROW OPENING UP
POINT BARROW, April 18. (/P) j j
—A northeast wind, b 1 o w i n g j
strongly and steadily yesterday, j
took ice cakes off or about four
miles out, forming a lead too
wide to see across. The natives
are making preparations for
whaling with feverish haste; snow
is melting in the sunny places.
m JUTS TIFF
BE ADOPTED. FADE
PARIS, April 16. The Tar
iff Commission reported a new
automobile tariff to the Cham-,
ber of Deputies.
While rates are considerably
hiher on light cars and larger
size family machines, carrying
five to seven passengers, the in
creases are not nearly as large as
were expected. High priced cars
are hit scarcely at all. The bill
will probably be adopted with lit
tle change.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 16. (/P)
_A cheaped water rate for man
ufacturers and industrial users
was advocated in a statement by
Mayor James Rolph, jr. He ad*o
cated a seven-cent schedule for
manufacturers. The reduction, he
said, would only lessen the annual |
profits by $300,000. The present
rate is 21.7 cents.
HI SCHOOL IOD-l-1
BE PRESENTED SIN
And so she took the $50,000!
Or words to that effect.
Hey! Heh! Heh! Heh!
At this stage Rip woke up but
the ‘‘Rip Winkles of 1930” real
awakening of the 1830 to the 1930
models, takes place April 29
and May 1 at the Liberty thea
ter when the Seward High School
Students will present a ten-act
j Vod-i-Vil for the edification of
the local public.
Just read over the following and
shed a tear of ecstasy. Katy-dids
four boys; ‘Lullaby Moon’ girls
quartette; ‘Memories’ ‘Sweethearts’
|Mr. Kuhler; solo dance, Irene
| Renstrom; dances, Sylvia Sand
bech and Maude Larsson, A
' Night in Spain” Maude Larsson
and Raymond Manthey; ‘‘Spread
ing the News” finale—‘‘Sweet
hearts of 1900—30—40.*
And some more.
A ROYAL BABE
NAPLES. April 18. UP)—A baby
| girl was bom to the Duchess of
j Apulia, who was Princess Anne of
France before her marriage.
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CHAMBER MEETING
Mr. Hale. Mr. Holmes, of the
A’aska Railroad forces, and Dr.
Scruby, were luncheon guests yes
terday of the Chamber of Com
merce. The committee appointed
last week to report on the mat
ter of inaugurating, locally, a day
! light saving plan, brought in an
adverse report, in which it was
said the committee did not think
it was practical.
Seward Post, American Legion
i will meet tonight at the Arcade
r Club room at 8 o’clock. Bring
v ! your doughnut appetites.
ADJUTANT.
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i I The S. S. Redondo, Capt. A. A
j Anderson, master. A S. S. C., re
h turned yesterday afternoon fron
h its regular weekly voyage West
f ward. An ideal trip was exper
ienced.
METES MIG 11
I CUITTI BIOT:
ONE, Fill GIRL
CALCUTTA, April 18. (^—Nine
teen persons were injured serious
ly in heavy fighting between na
tionalists and police which de
veloped around the burning of
tram cars where a mob was dem
onstrating against the arrest of
Mayor Sengupta.
The mob stoned the fire bri- j
gade which tried to put the
flames out. Seven British offi
cials were injured and Miss Dench,
a London girl who, against po
lice advice, attempted to motor-,
cycle through the riot section. She j
was taken to a hospital with deep
gashes from stones which the j
mob flung and had to run for ■
her life.
A European police sergeant
wounded two members of the
mob w'hen he shot to protect a
fellow officer who was attacked.
NEW REFRIGERANT
ATLANTA, April 16. (#*)—A new
refrigerant, non-explosive and
non-poisonous, was announced at
! the meeting of the American
Chemical Society here. It is a
combination of florles, chrorine
and methane.
DHTIC WSIII IS
VOTED ON FRVORMLY
LONDON, April 16. (A*)—The
House of Commons, by a vote of
215 to 142, gave a Liberal member
leave to introduce a bill to en
title the Board of Trade to sus
pend or cancel the certificate of
any master, mate or engineer en
gaging in the illicit importation
of liquor into the United States
and its territories.
i BASEBALL I
NATIONAL
Chicago 9, St. Louis 8
Pittsburg 7, Cincinnati 6
Boston 2. New York 3
Phillies 1. Brooklvn 0
AMERICAN
Cleveland at Chicago postponed
on account of rain.
St. Louis 3, Detroit 6
New York 2, Phillies 6
Washington 6, Boston 1
COAST
Seattle 0, Oakland 3
Los Angeles 4, Hollywood 3
Portland 2, Sacremento 8
San Francisco 8, Missions 4
SPECIAL COUNCIL MEET
Last evening the Seward City
Council gathered in special ses
sion to take up the matter of
bids for remodeling the old school
house. Bids for this work Is ad
vertised in this issue.
A1 Ames, who arrived in Sew
ard on the Standard Oil tanker
from Latouche, left for the Inter
ior this morning.
OUT FOR TWO YEARS
MINNEAPOLIS, April 10. (A5)—
Unconscious for more than two
j years, from being hit by a mo
; tor bus, George Preston, account
ant, died. He had been in a
coma since January, 1928.
’! The mail boat M. S. Discoverer
J left during the night for Cook In
> let ports and Anchorage.
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The Alaska Steamship Companj
freighter Tanana, in port for the
\ last day and one-half, departec
. for the south last night.
-; Capt. A. E. Lathrop is expectec
-1 to return Friday from the Nortl
this week enroute to the states
ALASKA STRIKES
The Interior Department, says
a statement issued by the Geo
logical Survey, has received no di
rect official information regarding
the actual output of any of these
recent gold discoveries in Alaska
but they all occur in areas whose
general geologic features have
been examined in the past, and
publications covering which have
been issued by the survey and
are available at the government
printing office.
The recently found lodes in the
Taku district seem to be in the
metamorphic rocks near the in
| land or eastern border of the
! great mass of igneous rocks
I known to geologists as the Coast
i Range batholith, which stretches
almost the entire length of F-mth
eastern Alaska. Much ox this
eastern margin lies in Canada,
j and a large portion is in most
difficult and inaccessible regions,
so that only parts of it have been
examined even in a cursory fash- !
ion. In the Taku district this j
eastern order appears to lie some
; distance west of the internatiou
; al boundary, so that within the
United States territory there is a
I tract perhaps 10 to 15 miles wide
that warrants careful prospect
ing. though most of the richest
finds that have been made so far
J1^ east of the boundary in Can
>> <p n
ada.
The reported strike in the Wild
River district appears • to consist j
mainly in the finding of a piece i
of quartz float which was shot '
through with many patches and j
filaments of gold. As the bed- I
rock source from which this ma- i
, terial came may be remote from j
the place where the piece was
found, it furnishes no justification
I for any rush into the district in
the hope of finding profitable de- j
posits at hand. It does, however, j
| furnish further corroboration of j
the long known facts that in the j
upper Koyukuk region there are
indications of rich gold mineral
ization and that diligent search
there is likely to disclose work
| able lodes or placers. Placers have
i long been mined in this general
i region, but no lodes have yet been
developed there. The region lies
in one of the more remote and
I inaccessible parts of Alaska, so
jthat developments in it are likely
! to be expensive and call for the
| persistence and hardihood of the
best pioneers.
The reported finds of new pro
ductive placer ground in the vi
cinity of Poorman, in the Ruby
district, have been made in the
same general neighborhood where
placer mining operations have
been carried on for many years.
To judge from the meager de
tails available, the new discov
eries seem to have disclosed pla
cers formed under essentially the
same conditions as those already
known in that region. Although
reports from this camp of pans
of gravel carrying many dollars
in gold are probably true, it is
likely to be several months be
fore any real estimate of the
production from this find will be
available, for by the process of
mining used, the operators will
probably store the gold-bearing
gravel mined during the winter
until the summer, when water
.will be available to wash away
the gravel and thus separate it
from the heavy gold, which is left
behind. From what is known of
the Ruby region it seems likely
that there remains workable pla
cers that have not yet been dis
covered and probably will well re
pay thorough and intelligent pros
pecting.
d The discovery of a placer that,
h will quickly yield a few thousand
5. dollars in gold to the owner may
FOE VICE PRESIDENT
WASHINGTON, April 16. (/P)—
Reports that the administration j
favors Walter F. Brown, Post-,
master General, for vice presi- j
dent candidacy in 1932, has I
aroused protest among the friends i
of Vice President Charles Curtiss.
1ST RETURN HOW IT
OiE OR GET SHOT
LONDON, April 16. (/P)—The
Soviet government has issued or
ders to several employees in the
London offices of Arcos Limited,
and other trading organizations,
to return home at once or face
the possibility of being shot. It
is feared the incident may cause
diplomatic difficulties.
HP ZEPPEEII OH
I TWO-BIT CRUISE
FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, April 16.
(/P)—The Graf Zeppelin started a
cruise with 20 passengers to Se
ville. The Graf will fly across
Southern France to the Bay of
Biscay, then to Cape Finisteare
j and along the West coast of Iber
; ian Peninsula.
! Captain Lehmann is in com
mand and expects to be home
again Thursday night.
TIME OUT
BERLIN, April 16. OP)—The
Reichstag has passed a bill rul
ing that establishments selling al- j
coholic beverages must close at!
one o’clock in the morning. The
state governments may grant ex
ceptions, however.
be a great find to that individual,
though reallv insignificant to the
general public, of no real interest
to anyone outside the immediate
neighborhood of the find. On the
other hand, however, the finding
of even a few dollars’ worth of
go’d in a region hitherto not
known to be gold-bearing or oc
curring under conditions which
indicate a probability that it has
a widespread distribution may be
of very great significance and
justify *any people in seeking
their fortune either in the gold
fields themselves or in the var
I ious industries that necessarily
| spring up in the environs of a
i successful mining camp.
| It may not be out of place here,
| says the Geological Survey state
: ment, to call the attention of per
sons new to Alaska who contem
| plate prospecting in remote re
gions to the necessity of being
well provided financially and phy
sically for undertaking the quest.
Conditions in many parts of Al
aska present few difficulties, as
most of the larger towns have
all the facilities of up-to-date
places in the States, including
hotels, telegraphs, banks, stores,
etc. In the remote district, how
ever, few facilities are availbale,
and the newcomer should be will
ing and able to meet most of his
own needs. In actively booming
camps efficient labor may b€
difficult to obtain, as usually the
best workers are anxious to pros
pect and develop their own hold
ings. Expenses are usually high
because of the unavoidable dif
ficulties of transportation, and
supplies may be inadequate if a
large number of unexpected ar
rivals suddenly turn up in a small
remote camp. Employment foi
persons unskilled in hard work
under frontier condition is diffi
cult to obtain, so that newcom
ers should be sure of a job be
fore they start, or they should
take with them enough money tc
pay for their transportation tc
and from Alaska, as well as foi
| their food and lodging while the}
j are seeking employment or re
turns from their own mining ven
tures.
FORMER SHERIFF
MAUSTON, Wls., April 16. (/Ft—
A Juneau county and former “boy
sheriff,” Lyall Wright, is charged
with the slaying of District At
torney Price. A trail, presum
ably of blood, was one of the
circumstances which prompted the
arrest of Wright.
Stains began at the spot where
the slayer must have stood when
he fired shotgun slugs into the
body and the trail of red river
led to a bank, and then was
picked up in an abandoned boat
From the boat the stains led
toward Wright’s home where the
sheriffs men found him with his
clothing torn and one hand cut
It is believed Wright held that
Price was responsible for his con
viction on liquor charges.
ZEP IS CHEERED
SEVILLE, April 16, (TP)—The
Graf Zeppelin, carrying 20 pass
engers, circled repeatedly over the
city amidst th cheers of th n
thusiastic crowds on roof tops
and in th streets throughout the
I city.
Here is something for the gen
eral public to clip out and paste
away in their scrap books for
future reference.
Harold and Sam Foss, who op
erate the gasboat Hiamna, on
Lake Hiamna, from Hiamna Vil
lage down the river to the vari
ous points on Bristol Bay, leave
the village after the arrival of
mail, passengers and freight from
Seward and Anchorage, to Iliamna
Bay, by the mail boat M. S. Dis
coverer, Capt. Heinie Berger.
The price per person, either
way, is $30; across the lake and
down the river to Bristol Bay re
quires about eight hours time but
coming back up, approximately
24 hours. Their boat, the “Iliam
na”, is an excellent 40-foot, sea
worthy craft equipped with a
sturdy 40-horsepower engine. Spe
cial charters are made to Nush
agak.
From Iliamna Bay, on the
, coast, to Iliamna Village, is about
10 miles in distance; here, Mc
Kenna, freighter, with four horses,
! iS on the job for any or all who
' may desire his services.
RIGHT LIFE PUT
IT THE LIBERTY
There is no subject more dis
j cussed or of more interest at this
j time that the so-called night life
of the cities, especially the ac
tivities and operation of the semi
criminal resort, daubed the “speak
easies.” These places are the
meeting grounds of the upper
world with the underworld, where
virtue rubs shoulders with dis
honor, and honesty with the thief.
The feature at the Liberty
Theater tonight, “Romance of the
Underworld,” is a vivid picture of
this modem sore-spot. A strong
play concerning the semi-respect
able ‘hostess’ in one of the real
night clubs of New York. Mary
Astor takes the part of the host
ess.
The Admiral Watson had not
been reported at Cordova up to
noon today. The S. S. Latouche
is due in port at 5 o’clock this aft
ernoon with a load of telephone
poles. The S. S. Northwestern is
due to arrive in port Sunday
morning at 2 o’clock.
“Rip Winkles of 1930 April 29, Way 1
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