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VOLUME XXVIII. NUMBER 195.
SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 1932.
PRICE TEN CENTS
ROOSEVELT DECURES
DEPRESSION BEGUN Of
SIOCK SPECULATION
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Aug., 20, (/P)
—Governor Franklin Delano Roos
evelt. Democratic candidate for the
presidency of the United States,
in opening his campaign to meet
the Republican challenge, demand
ed governmental supervision in
stock selling, and more stringent
banking laws for the great mass of
average American men and women
who have been forgotten by those
in power.
Hemmering away at the Repub
lican theory of government in bus
iness, Governor Roosevelt charged
the depression began when un
bridled speculation spread over to
Europe and continued because the
Hoover administration refused to
recognize or correct the evil.
The Republican administration
delayed relief and forgot reform.
Roosevelt was reminded that Hoov
er promised “continuing prosper
ity.”
Roosevelt suggested as remedies;
prevention of issuance and manu
facture of unnecessary securities
which have been brought into being
merely to enrich those who handle
sales. Legitimate sellers tell the use
to which the money is to be put.
Federal regulation of exchanges
whose business is buying and sell
ing securities and commodities,
should be given a more rigid sup
ervision. as well as over national
banks for the protection of depos
itors.
Roosevelt also proposed preven
tion of banks using deposits for
speculation which is detrimental to
local credit, separation of invest
ment and commercial banking, res
triction of Federal reserve banks
in accordance with original plans,
and. prevention of officials of the
next administration influencing
stock prices by word or deed.
A crowd of 25.000 heard the Dem
ocratic presidential candidate make
his first campaign address. He was
accompanied to the stadium by
former Governor James Cox and
Newton Baker. Mr. Cox introduced
Governor Roosevelt.
SANK ROBBERS ALMOST
FAILED MAKE GETAWAY
AFTER STEALING $500!
LOS ANGELES, Aug., 20, —Police
Friday evening were seeking two
youthful bandits who took $500 in
currency from a bank here at the
point of a gun and then fled in a
stolen car. Later they abandoned
the auto and made the getaway in
their own machine.
Previous to the holdup the youths j
had held up a Los Angeles car own- j
er at the point of a gun and taken
his car. The victim was also forced,
to take off his coat and give it to j
the robbers.
The holdup men then drove to 1
the bank and robbed it, When they :
were fleeing the bank manager, E.
R. Linberg, brought a gun intoi
play and fired four shots after j
them. His shots hit the back of the 1
car and three bullet holes were j
found later; the windshield had'
also been shattered by a bullet. It j
was thought that one of the ban
dits was wounded
DISHED VET RELIEF
CUTS TO BE OPPOSED:
WASHINGTON, Aug. 20.—The
disabled American veterans will
oppose any attempt at the coming
session of Congress to reduce relief
to those who are under handicaps
as a result of their service in the
World War it was asserted by Wil
liam Conley of Los Angeles, new
national commander of the organ
ization.
It was prompted by reports that
the government’s economy drive
will result in substantial reductions
in appropriations for disabled vet
erans.
SETTING A NEW MARK
NEW YORK, Aug., 20, —In their
‘ Flying Boudoir,” Mrs. Louise Tha
den and Mrs. Francis Marsalis at
J 5:30 o'clock, Eastern time, Friday,
passed the women’s endurance re
j cord of 123 hours and were contin
uing their stay aloft. At 10 o'clock
Friday evening, Eastern time, they
were still in the air and had flown
for more than 130 hours. Their
plane is flying above Curtis Field
here. They have been in the air
since last Sunday.
WALKER KEPT UNEASY
IS HIS OUSTER TRIAL
ALBANY, N. Y., Aug., 20, —Un
daunted by Gov. Franklin D. Roos
evelt’s refusal to dismiss imme
diately the 15 Seabury charges
against him, Mayor James J. Wal
ker, Friday, prepared to battle for
his political life along two diver
gent fronts.
The motion to dismiss was of
fered by his attorney, John J. Cur
tin, in concluding eight hours of
argument designed to show that
there was no legal proof of corrup
tion or official misconduct on Wal
ker’s part. Curtin charged that
Samuel Seabury, without any evi
dence whatsoever, had charged to
Walker large transfers of money
from accounts to Russel T. Sher
wood, missing accountant.
The ouster charge trial was ad
journed Friday afternoon for the
week-end to enable Gov. Roos
evelt to go to Columbus, Ohio, in
the interest of his presidential cam
paign. The trial will resume Mon
day at which time at least 22 de
fense witnesses are to be examined.
NUMBER OF CHILDREN
BURNED DEATH RUSSIA
BERLIN, Aug. 20.—More than 50
children and several firemen were
burned to death in a fire which de
stroyed 58 wooded barracks ad
joining a new ball bearing factory
on the outskirts of Moscow, accord
ing to reports received here.
The children were caught in a
communal nursery in one of the
barracks erected to house workmen
and their families. The fire broke
out in one of the barracks after
an explosion of a kerosene oil stove.
The blaze spread with lightning
speed trapping scores of night shift
workers sleeping in the various
barracks. Most of the adults es-1
caped with their lives.
WALKER TURNS TO COURT
ALBANY, N. Y., Aug. 20.—Mayor (
James Walker of New York carried
his fight agaist ouster proceedings
into the courts, obtaining an order
requiring Governor Franklin D.
Roosevelt to defend his right to I
continue a hearing and pass upon |
the right of Walker to retain his I
$40,000 a year position.
FURNITURE REMAINS
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., Aug., 20,
—The.costly furniture in the home
of Gloria Swanson here is still in
tact despite the intention of the
furniture company to attach it for
a $14,000 debt. An attorney for the
actress, who is in London, appeared
Friday and put a restraining order
against the company to keep them
from removing the furniture while
a trial in the case is pending.
[BALL RESULTS
AMERICAN LEAGUE
New York 6-3, Detroit 5-4.
Washington 4-3, Chicago 3-1.
Phillies 6-2, Cleveland 7-3.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
New York 10, Pittsburgh 5.
St. Louis 5, Phillies 4.
Brooklyn 5, Cincinnati 0.
Boston 6, Chicago 5.
PACIFIC COAST
Los Angeles 10, Missions 6.
SEE MRS. KEEN’S AD ON
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BLISTERING SUN SHINES
ON ENGLAND. EUROPE.
LONDON, Aug., 20, (/P)—A blist
ering sun rose over England and
smashed all heat records, causing
the deaths of 21 persons. The tem
perature Friday was 99 degrees for
the entire day and thousands
sought relief at the sea beaches.
Ice cream supplies were exhaust
ed at the Thames, the fashionable
promenade, and even beer on ice
which is against British tradition,
ran out.
Airplane pilots said the heat was
as great at 2,000 feet altitude.
The Bank of England allowed
clerks to remove their coats for the
first time in history the rule has
been broken.
Three lives were lost at Nantes,
France, when sand barge planks
were sprung by the heat, causing
them to leak.
PLANES HOVER OVER STRIKERS
TAYLORVTLLE, 111., Aug. 20.—
While National Guard planes hov
ered overhead, 2,000 striking min
ers from Nokomis, Hillsborough,
Witt and Panama arrived here in
450 automobiles with the avowed
intention of dissuading the miners
now at work here from continuing.
IK PUTS Bt
BUILDERS PROTESTED
BTNEWUMSENATOR
LAS VEGAS, Nev., Aug., 20, —
Building contractors of the huge
Hoover dam, near here, were criti
cized severely Friday by Senator
Oddie in a special message to Pres
ident Hoover.
Senator Oddie said that the con
tractors for the dam were paying
off their men with a form of pay
slip and that when the workers
attempted to cash these they were
forced to take a cash discount.
Oddie pointed out that the con
tractors were paid in United States
currency. He also declared that the
contractors were the ones bene
fitting from this practice by the
stores as the stores, generally, are
controlled by the contractors.
In addition to the pay slip griev
ances, the Senator cited others
which included the limiting of the
workers to a 30-hour week.
RELIEF FOR STORM VICTIMS
HOUSTON, Texas, Aug. 20.—By
land, sea and air relief is being
given victims of the hurricane
which devastated an area of coast
al Texas, inland from Galveston,
and took 39 lives. More than 50
were injured seriously.
ALASKA AT THE CAPITOL
Representative Robert L- Bacon
of New York, has compiled and had
printed in the Congressional Re
cord tables showing the collection
of Fedeal taxj^es from States and
Territories for the fiscal year 1931,
and the amounts received by States
as subsidiaries. It showes that
with a population of 123,202,660 the
total internal revenue collections
were $2,428,228,754 and the total
income taxes $1,860,040,497. The
total direct Federal aid to States
was $219,162,574 and deducting this
sum leaves the total amount of re
venue paid by the States to be
$2,209,066,180. Alaska’s internal
revenue collections amounted to
$135,475, composed almost entirely
of income tax collections, which
amounted to $133,967. After de
ducting our direct Federal aid of
$89,357, it leaves a balance paid
by the territory of $46,118, on the |
basis of population of 59,278. Ha-!
waii’s total revenue collections
were $4,815,475 with direct Federal
aid of $864,121, leaving net revenue!
paid by the Territory of $3,952,354,
on a basis of 368,336 population.
Word comes to the office of Del- j
egate Wickersham, from Ketchikan i
and other sections of the Territory,
that the large amount of unemploy
ment in Alaska will make it neces
sary this fall and winter for Gover
nor Parks to seek a portion of the
$300,000,000 made available for dis
position by the Reconstruction1
Finance Corp. to the various
needy States and Territories. If the
resources of Alaska are inadequate
to meet its relief needs when the
Governor is authorized to borrow
from the Corporation such amounts
as may be necessary, at a rate of 3
per centum per annum. The funds
borrowed shall be administered by
the Governor or under his direction.;
The suggestion is made that in buy
ing needed supplies for the unem
ployed and unfortunate that a gen
eral price agreement be secured
from the retail grocers and that the
supplies be purchased in the com
munities in which they are to be
dispensed.
* * * *
The Delegate’s office has received |
a letter from Alaska inquiring why!
politics are injected by some of the;
partisans of the Territory in dis
cussing the appropriations made
by Congress. An instance is given
in citing that Hawaii received Fed
eral Highway aid while Alaska fail
ed to receive a slice of this fund,
but it was not explained that sev
eral years ago Hawaii was included
in Federal aid legislation while Al
aska continued to receive her ap
propriations in the old way. Major
Elliot, president of the old Alaska
Road Commission, the Agricultural
members of the Senate and House
Department and various committee
friendly to Alaska went into the
subject and all decided that Alaska
would receive larger appropriations
under the present system, rather
than to secure Federal Highway
Aid. When Mr. McDuffie, Chairman
of the Economy Committee of the
House, declares that Alaska, with
her small population is not entitl
ed to any road appropriations it
may be understood how difficult it
is to induce the Democratic major
ity in the House to agree to extend -
reasonable road appropriations for
Alaska. When Chairman McDuffie
moved to eliminate the entire ap
propriation for 1933 the motion was
only defeated by six votes.
* * * *
An inquiry has come from Alaska
as to the number of patented min
ing claims in the Territory and as
to whether there are not large areas
of patented ground owned by ab
sentee landlords, and which are
held purely for speculation with no
effort made to develop them. It is
difficult to ascertain the number
of claims patented but the Depart
ment of the Interior is now figur
ing out the number of patents that
have been issued, with the idea
that each patent will average be
tween two and three claims, as the
large majority are for one claim
only. But the Department states
that after a patent is issued it is
almost impossible to determine into
whose hands the claims finally
reach.
For the care and custody of per
sons legally adjudged insane In
Alaska the sum of $156,000 has been
provided. The Sanitarium Compa
ny of Portland, Ore., or any other
contracting institution is not to
receive more than $564 per capita
per annum for the care and main
tenance of these insane Alaska
patients during the present fiscal
year.
* * * *
A Congressman had suggested to
the Department of the Interior that
it might be a matter of great econ
omy if the Alaska Railroad were
closed down from November 1 to
March 16. The idea was not fa
vored by Secretary Wilbur, but he
took it up with General Manager
Ohlson, and he also reported ad
versely on the proposition, so it is
expected the railroad will be op
erated as usual.
* • * *
The Federal Radio Commission
has granted the application of the
Alaska Radio Service Co., Inc., of
Ketchikan, to install new equip
ment and move the station locale.
WAR CLOUDS?
BERLIN, Aug., 20, —The< assump
tion that if Adolf Hitler is placed
in power in Germany a war with
Russia might result, was made here
Friday after it became known that
the former dictator of Russia, Leon
Trotsky, now in exile, has wired
Moscow the advice that they must
mobilize a good size army imme
diately upon receipt of word that
Hitler has been placed in control
of Germany. No other comment
was made on this new angle of de
velopments.
AMY JOHNSON MAY
JOIN HER HUSBAND
IN NEW YORK CITY
LONDON, Aug., 20, —England’s
most famous aviatrix, Amy John
son, who also is the wife of Capt.
James A. Mollison, who has just
completed the first East to West
flight across the Atlantic, was to
decide today whether she will take
a liner and go to New York to join
her husband before he sets out on
the return flight.
Captain Mollison, who landed at
New Brunswick, urged his wife to
take a steamer and join him.
Captain Mollison, after having
been crammed into the small space
between the plane’s fuel tanks for
many hours, was locked in his
room at the Admiral Beatty Hotel
Friday evening to secure some well
needed rest- At dawn today he was
to resume his flight to New York.
When the British aviator landed
he had only 10 gallons of fuel in his
tank; he was forced to fly an extra
400 miles because of storms.
NEW YORK, Aug. 20.—Brooklyn
police working on mysterious tips
believe they have uncovered a na
tional murder ring responsible for
at least a dozen gangland ride
murders in cities extending as far
west as St. Louis.
The sack murder of John Baz
zano, Pittsburgh gang leader, in
Red Hook, a week ago. is one of the
crimes. Twelve men and three wo
men, all well dressed and wearing j
diamonds, were rounded up from
Brooklyn hotels and taken to po
lice headquarters for questioning.
CROOK’S ATTORNEY SLAIN
TULSA, Okla., Aug. 20.—Earl
Smith, aged 34, of Tulsa, one of the
four attorneys who defended Har
vey Bailey, notorious bank robber,
convicted and sentenced to F ort
Scott, Kas., was found slain beside
his auto on a side road near Indian
Hills Country Club.
COAST GUARD CUTTER BURNS
NEW YORK, Aug. 20.— Coast
guard cutter No. 982 caught fire
and burned this afternoon off Sta
ten Island. The crew was taken off
by two tugs that stood by. Offi
cials at Base Two of the Coast
Guard on Staten Island say the
boat is a total loss, but of small
value.
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TOMATO JUICE COCKTAIL
REPLACING ALCOHOL
SEATTLE, Aug., 20, —Mrs. Ella
Alexander Boole, recently reelected
president of the Women’s Christian
Temperance Union, at a meeting
here Friday, addressed the conven
tion declaring that “tomato juice
will beat out booze.”
Mrs. Boole predicted that the
oldtime soaks were turning to the
drinking of tomato juice cocktails
instead of the alcoholic ones. She
left Seattle enroute home.
Another speaker also spoke in de
fense of the 18th amendment, de
claring that they “would be driv
ing dog teams over the snows of
California and growing palm trees
in Nome, Alaska, before the 18th
amendment is repealed.”
PICCARD ASKS FINANCIAL
AID FROM AMERICA FOR
HIS NEXT BALLOON TRIP
ROME, Aug., 20, —Prof. August
Piccard, who just completed his
second ascent into the stratosphere
in a balloon, Friday made an ap
peal to America for financial aid
f(5i" his third trip to the upper
reaches in quest of further scien
tific lore. This third trip is being
arranged to be made from a point
on the shores of Hudson Bay.
Professor Piccard does not want
to make the trip himself but wants
to supervise such a flight. He has
gone up on two occasions already
and, in his opinion, that is enough
skylarking for the present.
As a result of his studies of the
stratospheric conditions, Professor
Piccard was asked whether or not
airplanes could use the stratos
phere in long distance flying. The
learned scientist replied that he
expected to see planes flying be
tween Europe and the United
States, through the stratosphere, in
a time something like six hours.
He and his assistant left Italy on
Friday for Brussels, Belgium, where
he goes to present the data collect
ed on his latest ascent, to his col
leagues.
RESIGNS AS GOVERNOR
LONDON, Aug., 20, —Sir John
Middleton Friday resigned as gov
ernor of Newfoundland and his re
signation was accepted by King
George. Sir Middleton aroused the
ire of Newfoundland people sever
al months ago when, during a riot
at St. Johns, he called out the
King’s soldiers to help quell the
disturbance.
NO LEAVE FOR P. 0. WORKERS
WASHINGTON, Aug. 20.—Postal
employees are being refused leave
of absence with pay to attend mil
itary training camps because of
scant appropriations to run the
mail service, Postmaster General
Brown has revealed in a letter to
Representative Mead. Democrat of
New York, who had registered a
protest declaring that the law en
titled them to the privileges
EX-COAST CHAMPION
TAKES VICTORY FROM
LOS ANGELES FISHIER
HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Aug., 20,—
The scheduled 10-round main
event between “Baby” Salsorio, 143
pound Los Angeles boxer, and “Tod”
Morgan. 143 pounds, also of Los An
geles but formerly of Seattle when
he was coast champion, ended in
the 8th round when “Babe” fouled
Morgan.
Referee Harry Lee had repeatedly
warned “Sal” about hitting below
the “equator” but “Babe” seemed
unable to distinguish Tod’s belt
line. At no time did Morgan com
plain, but the last foul blow' wras
so evident that Lee raised Mor
gan’s arm in token of victory.
The fight, which took place in
the American Legion stadium, was
fiercely fought from the first with
a decided edge in favor of the 28
year-old veteran, Morgan, against
his 22 year-old opponent.
Salsorio was either knocked
down or tripped in the first round;
also, Morgan was down on both
knees frm Salsorio’s hammerings
in this round.
In the 4th round it was seen that
Morgan was growing a red “mus
tache,” the first blood in the bout.
Salsorio was sent down for a 9
count in the 6th round and at the
bell was reclining on the floor for
the second time, knocked “goofy.”
His seconds sprang into the ring
and carried him to his stool.
MEN TO WORK
PITTSBURGH, Aug., 20, —The
ranks of the local unemployed
were trimmed down considerably
this week following the giving of
work to 850 men in a local fruit
company plant.