•^ciimrii Daily Satnuay
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXVIII. NUMBER 170.
SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JULY 22,1932.
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BALKING GREAT BRITAIN
OTTAWA, July 22, (£*)—'The Irish
Free State and the Union of South
Africa gave indications of balking
at the principal in reference to
tariff dealing as the Imperial Con
ference settled down to work.
In the Irish Free State’s objec
tion there is an echo of the brewing
tariff war with Great Britain over
President Eamon De Valera’s re
fusal to pay land annuities.
South Africa emphasizes that she
will not subscribe to a theory of a
self-contained and isolated British
Empire for the rest of the Domin
ion.
The proposal of Premier Bennet,
Canada, who also is the chairman
of the conference, to lower Can
ada’s own tariff walls for British
Empire products, was received with
approval, at least in principle
REPUBLICANS BECIN
CM FOMIN
WASHINGTON, July 22, (JP)— A
round of political conferences at
the White House wound up Thurs
day with the announcement of the
Republican campaign leaders that
President Hoover’s formal accep
tance speech of renomination would
be delivered on the night of August
11.
In this speech Mr. Hoover will
sound the keynote of his campaign
for reelection. The speech will be
delivered in Constitution Hall and
will probably be broadcast over the
major broadcasting networks of the
United States.
AMBASSADOR GRANDI
ROME. July 22. —Dino Grandi,
former foreign minister of Italy,
who recently resigned his post, has
been appointed by Premier Benito
Mussolini to represent Italy at the
Court of St. James, in England.
Grandi will leave soon to take up
his ambassadorial duties.
GENEVA. July 22, —Reduction of
heavy artillery was the single point
remaining to be settled after dele
gates of the United States, France,
Great Britain and Italy progressed
further in framing a resolution to
be adopted prior to adjournment
of the World Disarmament Confer
ence.
The delegation agreed on all the
points in the text of the resolution
with the exception of artillery
which was discussed Thursday.
The objection of the French del
egates delayed action on the artil
lery question. They refused to per
mit the conference to recommend
reduction of calibre of land artil
lery unless there was a similar re
duction in calibre of naval guns.
The conference leaders are hope
ful of an agreement.
LEIST10 01115
OCCUR LIKE MID
PONTIAC, Mich., July 22, (/P)—
The calm of Lake Placid was trans
formed suddenly, by high winds,
into a veritable death trap Thurs
day afternoon and at least 10 per
sons are believed to have drowned.
Scores of bathers were in the
waters seeking refuge from the sul
try heat when the terrific wind
came up and left many of the
bathers in a regular waterstorm.
The body of William Burns, white,
was recovered, but nine negroes
and two women are still missing.
SUGAR MAGNATE’S SON WEDS
SAN FRANCISCO, July 22, —
Adolph Spreckels, son of the late
sugar magnate, and Mrs. Louis
Clarke de Ruyter, of New York,]
were married here.
DEMAND WAR
LA PAZ, Bolivia, July 22, —Bois
terous crowds of demonstrators
paraded the streets of Bolivia Tues
day demanding war against Para
guay. The demonstration was pro
duced by a new class in the long
conflict between Bolivia and Para
guay over the Gran Chaco frontier,
outlet to the sea. President Dan
iel Salamanca, summoned to the
involving Bolivia’s desire for an
balcony, urged the demonstrators
to be calm and disperse.
CHINESE TiEHTEN TO
MNKE TROUBLE MOHGOUIl
PEIPING, China, July 22, —Chin
ese authorities threatened to turn
inner Mongolia into a bloody bat
tlefield if Japanese troops from
Manchuria continued military ac
tivities in Jehol Province
Japanese troops clashed with the
Chinese near Chaocang and were
reported pursuing the Chinese
deeper into Jehol, adjoining Man
churia.
Tang Yui, Governor of the Pro
vince, advised Marshall Chang
Hsuehliang, ousted ruler of Man
churia, that six Japanese planes
bombed Chaocang. The Governor
said any invasion of Jehol would be
resented.
Japanese operations recently
have been in pursuit of Chinese ir
regular troops.
BUILD RING OF STEEL
RIO DE JANEIRO. July 22, —The
government’s land and sea forces
built a ring of steel around rebels
! Of Sao Paulo State Tuesday and
were reported preparing to open
an aerial bombardment- Six Fed
eral planes left the airdrome at
Camp Offonso to recoinnoiter over
end lines which is in rebellion
again?t the provincial regime of
Presidentt Getulio Varggs. Offi
cials announced the fliers were or
dered not to bomb the rebel strong
hold. All the troops are confined
to the barracks awaiting orders to
move to the front.
AHMED CONFLICT NEAR
LA PAZ, Bolivia, July 22, —The
government of President Daniel
Salamanca was pledged Thursday
to “Sacrifice all for the defense of
the Fatherland”. Although offi
cials did their best to maintain
calm, the 50-year-old dispute with
Paraguay over the Gran Chaco
frontier, appears to have brought
the two nations dangerously near
armed conflict.
KILLS FAMILY, SELF
NEWCASTLE, Pa., July 22, —
Frank F. Hyde, 51, distracted by
financial troubles, shot and killed
his wife and daughter and then
committed suicide.
ELEVEN KILLED
WATERTOWN, N. Y., July 22,
Eleven persons were killed and five
injured when a store of cUnamite
on the drill boat America, exploded
prematurely.
NAME ON TURTLE
CALEDONIA ,N. Y. July 22. (A3)—
Workmen at a private fish hat
chery owned by H. K. Annin, have
found a turtle with “James Annin,
June 15, 1911” carved on its back.
James Annin was the father of
the present owner of the hatchery.
H. K. Annin carved his name and
the date below his father’s inscrip
tion and released the turtle again.
BE OBJECT LESSON
WASHINGTON, July 22, —The
commander of the bonus army said
he would put his men on the streets
of Washington as object lessons in
poverty if he found himself un
able to provide them with food.
“We will park them outside a big
hotel so the rich people can see
what 5,000 hungry men look like”,
Robertson said.
FINES RESCINDED
RIO DE JANERIO, July 22, —
Fines totalling over $1,000,000 im
posed on foreign owned companies,
including Standard Oil, Texaco and
Atlantic, on charges of violating the
revenue stamp law, have been re
scinded by the Supreme Court.
ECONOMY ACT RESULTS
IN MCE REDUCTIONS
ON miSKN RtOOID
To comply with provisions of the
Economy Act, approved June 30,
last, by Congress and President
Hoover, the Alaska Railroad has
announced that a deduction of not
less than eight and one-third per
cent will be made in each mon
thly payroll from pay earned dur
ing the month by each employee
on a monthly or annual salary, to
cover a required furlough without
pay at the rate of one calendar
month per year. Furlough time will
accumulate at the rate of two days
per month. The Act became ef
fective of July 1.
An Alaska Railroad circular, is
ued above the signature of Colonel
Otto F. Ohlson, general manager,
further states that “In case the em
ployee has been absent for more
than two days during the month,
an additional deduction will be
made at the rate of one and one
quarter day’s pay for each working
day of such absence, in excess of
two working days.
“In applying this order to train
and engine men, the provisions re
lating to monthly and annual em
ployes will be applied so far as they
may mean practical.
! “In further compliance with the
j Economy Act, a five-day week is
established for employees paid at
hourly or daily rates: these em
ployees being required to take one
day off without pay, each week, by
! the head of the department on
i which employed. This requirement
I will be effective immediately.
“However, an exception to the
i five-day week will be made in
i cases where the nature of the du
ties requires continuous service,
such employees to be designated by
order of the general manager.
In these cases, the furlough provi
sion herein stated relating to the
monthly and annual employees will
be upheld.”
ENROUTE TO U. S.
ISLAND OF SYLT. Germany, July
22, UP)—Capt. Wolfgang Groneau.
noted German aviator and hero of
two previous trans-Atlantic flights
from Germany to the United States,
took-off for Chicago in a seaplane.
He was accompanied by a crew of
three. His first stop will be Ice
land.
BASEBALL SCORES
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Detroit 1; Washington 4.
Cleveland 8; Boston 1.
St. Louis 5; Philadelphia 8.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Philadelphia 6; Pittsburgh 2.
New York 9; Chicago 1.
Brooklyn 2; St. Louis8.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Oakland 5; San Francisco 3.
ALONG MISSISSIPPI
IG GOAL OF IOWANS
CLINTON, Iowa, July 22. (£>)—
An all-paved highway to tap the
scenic wonderland of the Missis
sippi River valley along its entire
length is planned by Iowans liv
ing in river cities.
They have banded together as
the Mississippi River highway as
sociation, their aim a paved route
from the Gulf of Mexico, along the
west bank of the river to the Twin
Cities, thence to Port Arthur, in
Canada.
Thus far the effort has been con
fined to Iowa and the association
has succeeded in having the Iowa
highway commission designate
many of the river roads as primary
highways.
The association has no employes,
| all work being done on a volunteer
, basis. The members have financed
most of the promotion themselves
from cities along the route.
The highway, as planned, would
pass through Louisiana, Arkansas,
Missouri, Iowa and Minnesota.
I
MERLE LA VOY MAY
ATTEMPT TO GO TO
TOP MT. MG KINLEY
McKinley Park July 22, —Special
—Merl LeVoy, who recently arrived
here from New York, with three
men and 800 pounds of outfit, will
bring out the body of Theodore
Koven to ship to Jersey City, N. J.,
to his mother.
Theodore Koven was one of the
two men who lost their lives in
Mt. McKinley National Park, on
the ill-fated cosmic ray expedition
last spring. The accident occuring
on Muldrow Glacier at the foot of
Mt. McKinley.
The fatal accident was first dis
covered by the Park superinten
dent in a party of four, and who
abandoned the body as too danger
ous to bring out.
The mother of Theodore Koven
is financing the expedition to re
cover her son’s body.
Weather permitting, Merl LeVoy
stated he planned, while on the
glacier, to hike to the top of Mt.
i McKinley, for photographs, and
possibly bring back evidence left
by the Hershel G. Parker and Bel
more Browne expedition some 24
years ago.
ALASKA ITEMS OF
INTEREST AT THE
! NATIi'SCAPITAL
The Acting Chief of the Bureau
of Navigation, has notified Delegate
Wickersham that James W. Mc
Cauley, of Fairbanks, candidate for
midshipman, passed the physical
examination and was admitted to
the Naval Academy at Annapolis
on June 28. He had previously pas
sed the physical examination at
San Francisco and arrived in Wash
ington on June 27.
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Two more members of the U. S.
Geological Survey staff have gone
from the Washington office to Al
aska, to engage in the summer’s
1 work. They are C. P. McKinley and
G. Fitzgerald. The former will cov
, er the unexplored region along the
Chulitna River between Curry and
Mt. McKinley, while Fitzgerald will
penetrate unexplored parts of Ko
diak island. Other members of the
bureau already in the North include
F. H. Moffat and F. H. Fueshel in
the Copper River area: S. R. Capps
with naval fliers in the Aleutians
and K. H. Sargent, working in
Southeastern Alaska.
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Waterborne shipments from the
State of Washington ports to Alas
ka had a value of $21,305,257 in
1931, a decline of $7,665,042 from
1930, according to Collector of Cus
toms Hubbard of Washington.
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Four surveyors of the public ser
vice, department of the Interior,
recently went to Kasaan, in South
east Alaska, to make a survey of
the townsite of Kasaan prepara
tory to elimination from the forest
! service.
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ROBBERS INSULT VICTIM
NEW YORK, July 22, —Three
thieves who robbed Morris Grus
kin, Brooklyn broker, of $30,000 in
cash and jewelry Thursday, added
insult to injury by playing the
mandolin and forcing him to run
for a policeman minus his trousers.
The trio forced Gruskin. a customer
and two plumbers to remove their
trousers, while waiting for the
owner’s son to open the safe.
“in m,y judgement President
Hoover will be kept in office by
the November elections,” stated
Delegate James Wickersham who
visited Wrangell recently.
A quantity of supplies, including
tons of pipe for an hydraulic plant
which will be placed in operation
this summer on Quartz Creek, in
the Candle section of the Seward
Feninslua, recently arrived at
Nome.
RAINS BRING RELIEF
CHICAGO, July 22. —Occasional
showers here Thursday sent the
thermometer down somewhat and
much to the relief of this area’s
many i nhabitants. The many
inhabitants. The weather bureau
predicts that the worst of the sum
mer heat is now over. It appears
time as the crops were about gone
from the heat effects.
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BERLIN, July 22, —Junkerism
has come back to power in Ger
many and assumed dictatorial con
trol over the greater part of the
Republic.
Upon authority of President Paul
von Hindenburg, Cabinet of Chan
cellor Franz von Pappen intervened
in a turmoil of German politics by
establishing dictatorship in the
State of Prussia. To enforce its
rule, the government declared a
military means of emergency,
which is similar to martial law in
Berlin and the Province of Brand
enburg.
Stout governmental policy came
as a climax to a month of political
rioting during which 100 persons
were killed and thousands wound
ed.
Prussian socialist leaders were
crushed by the Junkers machine.
FORM NEW GOVERNMENT
BUCHAREST, Rumania, July 22,
—King Carol is expected to attempt
to form a new coalition government
of national peasants and liberal
party, as the result of the parlia
mentary election. Premier Alex
ander Vaida Voivod, whose nation
al peasant party led in the election,
announced the cabinet would re
sign when the new parliament con
i venes because it failed to win a
majority. Final returns gave the
government 277 seats, George Du
can. liberals, 26, and the Hungar
ian party 14.
DECISION UNPOPULAR
NEW YORK, July 22, —Jack
“Kid” Berg, pride of London’s
White Chapel district, scored his
second victory over the Cuban ne
gro, Kid Chocolate, when he was
awarded the judge’s decision in a
15-round bout in Madison Square
Garden Bowl. The decision was
unpopular wiht a majority of the
boxing writers at the ringside and
was received unfavorably by the
25,000 fans who witnessed the bout.
ORDER RESTORED
LIMA, Peru. July 22, —President
Luis Shanchez Cerro announced
that order has been restored thru
out Peru after a series of minor
revolutions.
SENATE PASSES BILL
DUBLIN, July 22, —The Senate
passed the emergency duties bill
Thursday providing for tariff re
prisals against Britain already
passed by Dail.
LARGE ROUNDUP
DETROIT July 22. —A large scale
roundup of racketeers and other
public enemies was begun here by
State police and Department of Jus
tice officials from Washington.
Hundreds of racketeers have been
arrested and are being held for
further questioning.
STORAGE LAMB TENDER
WASHINGTON, July 22. (JP) —
Mechanical and “chewing” tests
show that lamb m e at becomes
more tender if kept in cold stor
age seven to 10 days after the
slaughter.
NEW MARK
ELMIRA, N. Y., July 22, —A new
American record of a 75-air-mile
glider flight of Jack Omeare, New
York City, set a mark for pilots to
shoot at in the national soaring
contest here.
BROUGHT FROM JAPAN
LONDON, July 22, —Lord Lytton,
head of the League of Nations in
vestigating commission in Man
churia, was reported seriously ill
Thursday when he arrived from
Japan.
MORE DEATHS RESULT .
FROM TORRIO HEAT
THROUGHOUT NATION
SAN FRANCISCO, July 22, —
Most of the nation continued to
bake in stagnant heat Thursday.
Torrid temperatures prevailed in
the middle west. Twenty-one per
sons died of heat in the nation as
temperatures mounted above 100
in many sections.
Chicago had an official reading
of 97. But temperatures downtown
showed 106. Three died there.
St. Louis led in the number of
deaths. Six other deaths—Ken
tucky 1; Minnesota 4; North Dako
ta 1; Pennsylvania 3; Wisconsin 1;
West Virginia 1 and Nebraska 1#
The Southwest, still recording
i readings near 100, was hopeful as
breezes gave promise of routing the
heat. Despite a storm in the Rocky
Mountain country, the mercury
climbed past the comfort point.
The Pacific coast had normal tem
perature
EKEUSTIIMEE IS
SHOWING IMPROVEMENT
LOS ANGELES, July 22, —Faith
ful followers of Aimee Semjile Mc
Pherson Hutton, the evangelist,
continued to pray in relays in the
watch tower of Angelus Temple,
for her recovery.
Mrs. Hutton, suffering at her
Moorish Temple at Lake Elsinore
from a fractured skull, continued
to show improvement, Dir t£dwa>
H. Williams reported.
Her skull was fractured
when her husband, David
! Jr., told her he had lost
! heart balm judgment to )>
Hazel Joan St. Pierre, a pretty 1
j adena nurse.
The “No visitors” ban continued
at the evangelist’s mountain re
; treat.
BERLIN, July 22, —Chancellor
Franz von Pappen forcibly ousted
i the 14-year-old regime of Premier
Otto Braun of Prussia Thursday
I and established himself dictator
j over the entire state, which in
cludes Berlin.
Appointing himself Reich Com
missioner of Prussia, von Pappen
j named an almost completely new
Prussian government and then pro
ceeded to take control, by force,
when Braun’s minister of t<he In
| terior, Karl Severing, refused to
obey the Chancellor’s decree.
Braun was away on a vacation.
Reichweir guards marched upon
the Prussian Ministry of State and
j seized control of the building.
Severing remained in his offices
with the announcement that he
would yield “only to force’’. A se
lect company of government troops,
armed wTith machine guns was
placed as guard about Chancellor
von Pappen’s office.
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MINERS REACH AGREEMENT
DUGGER, Ind., July 22. (/P)— An
agreement was reached Thursday
night between' Gov. Harry G. Leslie
and representatives of the Miners’
Union and the union men have
agreed to release the 27 non-union
miners who have been besieged in
the Hoosier coal mine. For a time
it appeared that much trouble
would result as a result of the non
union miners being allowed in tH
mine and National Guardsme
were getting ready to move u>
the scene and escort the miners
safety.
SCORES KNOCKOUT
! NEW YORK, July 22, —Primo
Camera, Italian heavyweight,
Thursday celebrated his return to
the United States by scoring a
technical knockout over Jack
Gross, Philadelphia Southpaw, in
the seventh round of their schedul
ed 10-rounder at Ebbetts Field,