#vuiarii Daily (Satnuay
VOLUME XXVIII. NUMBER 134.
SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 1932.
PRICE TEN CENTS
BODY BE VltN PHESLEV
FOUND SFUTTIF WOODS
SUICIDE INDIGNTED
SEATTLE, June 9, (£*)—body
of BeVan Presley, aged 42, general
manager of the Alaska Steamship
Company, was found in a patch
of woods in West Seattle Wednes
day night under circumstances in- j
dicating suicide.
The body was found reclining
against a tree with a bullet hole
through the head while an auto
matic revolver was lying to one
side.
Mr. Presley recently returned
here from Alaska whsre he was
manager of the Guggenheim inter
ests including the Kennecott Mine
and the Guggenheim Railway at
Cordova.
Steamship Company officials said
Presley has been under great men
tal strain recently; a widow and a
small son and daughter survive
him.
Mr. Presley, a graduate of the
University of Washington, suc
ceeded H. C- Cantelow May 12, as
general manager of the Alaska
Steamship Company.
LIS 'SITU' STUFF
LONDON, June 9, —That much
discussed photograph of an almost
nude young girl posing writh Rev.
H. F. Davison, 62, rector on trial
before church authorities on im
morality charges was intended for
publication in the United States
it t'irnpd out. The girl’s mother
so testified before the Ecclesiasti
cal Court at Church house West
minister. Photographers had told
her, the mother said, that publica
tion in America might mean a lot
for her daughter.
NOGALES, Ariz.. June 8. — A
Macfarlane is now engaged in op
erating the old Klondyke gold
mine, 55 miles east of Magdalena,
Sonora, Mexico.
A pilot mill is in operation part
time at the property. This plant
will soon be enlarged. The Mexi
can Mining Syndicate of which Mr.
Macfarlane was manager, is at pre
sent closed down. The latter is a
silver-gold mine.
BATS SHIELD BATHERS
VIENNA. June 8. i/P)—As gnats
are a nuisance, especially to ba
thers, the Danubian resort Klo
sterneuberg has imported 2,000 bats
it being estimated that each bat
will swallow 50.000 gnats a night.
PAYMENT OF UNO
ANNUITIES HALTED
IRISH FREE STATE
CORK Ireland, June 8. — The
Irish Free State has halted the
payment of land annuities to
Great Britain, Minister of Com
merce Sean Lemas announced in
a speech.
“The money now is being retain
ed here. We are going to demand
that Britain repay some 30,000,000
pounds which she illegally re
ceived on account of these annu
ities,” he said.
The land annuities amount to
about 3,000,000 pounds a year.
The government of Eamon Deva
lera announced it would cease to
pay them becouse the Free State
was not required to make such
payments under any agreement
The land annuities are collected
from tenant farmers who are in
the process of acquiring ownership
of property which once belongd
to wealthy landlords. The British
Exchequer originally financed the
operation, enabling tenants to buy
land.
ADMIRAL WATSON ENROUTE j
SEATTLE, June 9, (A5)—The S. S.
Admiral Watson of the P. S- S. Co., (
sailed at 10 a. m. Wednesday and
carried 84 passengers, seven of
whom are for Seward as follows:
Mrs. H. Schultz, Marjorie Robin- j
son, Mrs. W. E. Porter and daugh- j
ter, J. C. Edwards, Miss Rose Hoi- |
ciman, Mary E- Simpson, Paul
Miller, Chas. Frazer, and James
Cole.
INCREASED POSTAL RATE
S06N BE IN EEEECI
WASHINGTON, June 9. —The U.
S. Bureau of Printing and Engrav
ing has begun work on the print
ing of 4,000,000 three-cent
stamps which will be in demand j
when the new postal rates go in- j
to effect July 1.
The government printing plant
also has begun printing 1,000,000,
000 one-cent stamps to go with
the two-cent stamps already dis
tributed throughout the country.
FEMININE BLOC AT
ANNAPOLIS PEEVED
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 9, — |
The navy’s two year moratorium on ;
marriages for Annapolis graduates!
brought forth critical comment in j
the “feminine bloc” of the house
always friendly to Dan Cupid.
The women members decided
that perhaps bureaucracy is going
too far. The issue was precipi
tated when Representative Coch
rane, Democrat from Missouri in
troduced a bill to set aside the navy
ruling and prohibit a similar rul
ing being applied to West Poiint
cadets.
KILLED WILL THAN
TURNS GUN ON SELF
FRESNO, Calif., June 9. — Will- j
iam Roach, 30, of Los Banos shot
and killed his wufe Mrs. Mary
Roach 23, and then committed sui
cide while on a fishing trip near
Signal Park. Roach, recently dis
charged from* the Ahawanne Sani
tarium where he was a patient for
some time, is said to have exclaimed
suddenly, “Well this is the end of
the trail”, and then shot Mrs.
Roach and turned the gun on him
self.
! SMALL CIT! LEADS
NATION IKK PATERS
TAFT, Calif., June 8 i/P)—Com
parison of 1930 census figures with
the last government income tax
statistics has given rise to the
claim that Taft, Calif., tops all mu- !
nicipalities in the 17. S. in the
number of income tax returns
paid, per capita.
With a population of 3,442, Taft
has 981 income tax payers, several
times as high a percentage as the
average for the United States and
greater per capita, it is believed,
than any other city.
Mil ELECTS
ME DIRECTORS
BUTTE Mont., June 8. — Reg
ular annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Ar.aconda Copper
Mining Company was held at the
office of the company in Anaconda.
J. R. Hobbins, vice president of
the company, was elected chairman
| of the meeting and John C. Ryan
! acted as secretary.
There were represented by proxy
and in person 4,113,836 shares of
the capital stock of the company,
which has 123,983 stockholders of
record.
Charles E. Mitchell, Andrew J.
Miller and Charles T. Fisher were
re-elected to serve as directors for
the ensuing years.
WHITE HOUSE DENIES
PRESIDENT HOOVER
FURS WET PH
(By Associated Press)
Prohibition, an unbidden guest
of politics for a decade, started for
the convention with main entrance
tickets and a seat on the platform.
The White House took occasion
to repudiate reports that President
Hoover approved the resumption
of a liquor plank for the G. O. P.
but other leaders indicated such
plank is receiving approbative
consideration.
Governor Roosevelt said he be
lieved the Democratic party “clear
ly indicated” in its platform a way
to abrogate the 18th amendment.
He has not changed his views since
1930 saying liquor control should
be returned to the states.
McAdoo studied the reactions of
his suggestion that a national ref
erendum be authorized by congress
and conducted next year at which
all people could vote yes or no on
the question of: Shall the 18th
amendment be repealed?
' LEADER COXY'S ARMY
WILL ASK VETS LEAVE
PITTSBURGH, Pa, June 9. —
James R. Cox, who several months
ago headed a march of unemployed
upon the Nation’s capital, Wed
nesday announcedthat he would
fly to Washington to personally
urge that the some thousands of
veterans assembled there return to
their homes.
Cox said he would address the
veterans from the Tomb of the
Unknown Soldier.
He said that he had been per
suaded to undertake the task of
sending the soldiers back home by
a number of organizations who de
sire that the Bonus demand be
made in an orderly fashion.
NIXON CONVICTED
LOS ANGELES, June 9, —Dick
Nixon, convicted of swindling scores
of Hollywood youths while ap
pearing as a wealthy brother of
! Marion Nixon will be sentenced in
i the Superior Court here. He sold
| executive positions in a film com
I pany which never materialized in
Hollywood, California.
• • CURRENT RREVITIES • •
HEAT IS TERRIFIC
KANSAS CITY, June 9. — Three
persons were overcome by heat
in this city Wednesday. The mer
cury recorded a temperature as
high as 90 degrees.
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MASSACRE GIRLS
ISTANBUL, Turkey, June 9. —
A message here states that 40
Turkish girls, ranging in ages from
five to 20 years were massacred
the other day by invading Bul
garians. The outrage occurred in
an outlying section. It is said that
a number of other villagers were
also brutally treated by the in
vaders
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GUNBOAT IN ACTION
SHANGHAI, June 9. — A U. S.
gunboat inflicted (heavy damage
to a band of alleged Chinese bri
gands who attempted to capture
a British steamer carrying $100,
000 in her safe. The United States
gunboat was guarding the steam
er when the bandits made their
attack and was not slow to bring
its guns into action when the nec
essity arose.
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DIRECTOR APPOINTED
LONDON, June; 9. —Montague
Norman, governor of the Bank of
England, announced the appoint
ment of Sir Otto Niemeyer to the
directorate of the Bank of Eng
land for international settlements
at Basle. He succeeeds Sir Charles
Addis, who resigned.
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BURIAL GARB
SPRINGFIELD, 111., June 9. —
Bright hued pajamas are correct
burial garb, funeral directors in a
meeting here disclosed. Pajamas
for both men and women in vari
colored shades were in display at
the annual convention of Illinois
Funeral Directors and Embalmers.
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80 PERSONS KILLED
LONDON, June 9- —An exchange
dispatch from Bucharest said that
80 persons wer£ killed and many
injured in a violent hurricane in
the Ismail district of Bessrabia.
The dispatch said the entire town
of Ismail was devastated.
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SEEKING NOMINATION
ST. LOUIS, June 9, —A guaran
teed annual income of $730 for
every voter and $240 for every
child is the platform on which R.
H- Merryman is seeking the Demo
cratic nomination for U. S. Sen
ator.
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BABIES CHEAP IN SAMOA
PAGO PAGO, June 8. (JP)—In
creased expenses have made it
necessary to make small charges on
the natives of American Samoa for
services at the government hos
pital, but babies born there can
not, under the schedule, cost their
parents more than $2.50.
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CHAIRMANSHIP FIGHT
; NEW YORK, June 9- —Political
allies of Alfred E. Smith, demo
cratic candidate for president, are
waging an intensive fight to put
their P'Happy Warrior” into the
running in the selection of the
Democratic party’s permanent
chairman. The strategy board of
the Smith supporters feel that the
selection of Jouett Shouse, as the
chairman of the convention will
do much to bring victory to Smith, i
Rooseve’t supporters want Senator !
Welch, of Montana, for chairman, j
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QUITE A PROBLEM
SAN QUENTIN. June 9, —At- 1
torney General Webb, of California i
w’ill be asked for an opinion on j
legality of the proposed transfer;
of San Quentin woman inmates
to the new womans prison in the |
Teehachapi Mountains. The prin- j
cipal question raised is whether:
or not under the law’ the San Quen- ;
tin warden can surrended them. I
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FOREIGN DELEGATES CONFAB!
TOKIO, June 9, —British, Amer
ican, French and Italian ambassa
dors met with Premier Saito today
to answer Ex-Foreign Minister
Yoshizawa’s proposal for a prelim
inary conference to the round
table discussion suggested on pro
blems aside from Japanese activi
ties in Shanghai. Contents of the
interview were kept secret.
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NEW MICA PLANTS IN USE
FRANKLIN, N. C., June 8. (£>;—
Tw'o new mica washing plants have
been installed here costing $15,000
to $20,000, which have a capacity
of about 10 tons of mica a day.
These plants handle scrap mica
which sells for $7 to $10 a ton, af
fording owners and operators a
good profit.
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VETERANS WANT SILVER
YERINGTON, Nev., June 8. (£>)
—The Nevada American Legion has
endorsed a proposal that World
War veterans of the state receive
full payment of the soldiers’ bonus
in silver or silver certificates.
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CANNIBALS SELL GIRLS
SYDNEY, Australia,. June 8. (/P)
—Reports from the Solomon Is
lands tell that tribes there are sell
ing girls to traders with $40 as the
top price. The drawbacks is that
the girls come from cannibal tribes
and are regarded as dangerous
companions.
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SAXON SEA LONG ‘BONER’
BREMEN, June 8, (^P)—An ox
bone, raised by a dredge on the
Weser river, bears what experts be
lieve is the oldest record of Ger
man shipping. Carved on it are
several Saxon letters and the out
line of a 4th century freight vessel.
SCANDALS BROT TO END
WASHINGTON, D. C„ June 9, —
A lengthy record of criminal pro
ceedings growing out of the tea
pot dome oil scandals was brought j
to an end when three remaining J
indictments were dismissed in the
District of Columbia Supreme
Court. The indictments were in
the cases of A. B. Fall, E. L. Do
heny and E. L. Doheny, Jr.
MESE SOLDIERS
occupy WILLED cm
SEOUL, Korea, June 9, —Japan
ese soldiers occupied the walled
town of Chian, 90 kilometers south
west of here, routing 400 guerilla
warriors, says reports received here
today.
Four Japanese soldiers were kill
ed and two wounded and the city
was depopulated after two day’s of
fighting in which Japanese air
planes participated.
IPPE1X 0PEUIT1
PERFORMED OU HINT
NEW YORK, June 9, —Officials
of the Prospect Heights and Brook
lyn Maternity Hospital disclosed
an appendix operation had been
successfully performed on an in
fant immediately after birth. The
child, a boy, was born to Mrs. Flor
ence Bryan. It weighed but three
pounds and physicians who obser
ved a serious hernia involving the
appendix decided an immediate
operation was imperative. The boy
has gained a few pounds and will
be able to leave the hospital with
the mother.
WARSAW, Poland, June 9. —Ru
mors that Japan has placed or at
tempted to place orders for arms
and ammunition in Poland have
been made from time to time and
these rumors have all been denied
by Japan.
However, it has been revealed
that Poland has received several
orders for arms and munitions and
has sold a quantity of gun-powder
which it had on hand to that na
tion. The orders are said to have
totaled some $500,000.
Poland has no private munitions
plants bi'it all are state owned.
Two of these plants are fully mod
ernized and are equipped to build
machine guns. It is known that
these latter plants have been ap
proached with orders.
INDIAN'S SACRED
QUARRIES PRESERVED
PIPESTONE, Minn., June 8. —
Quarries, long sacred to Indians,
who obtained from, them stone for
peace pipes long before the coming
of white men, are to be preserved
as a state park under a movement
begun here.
Each summer many members of
tribes on reservations in South
Dakota, Nebraska and Minnesota
come here to get stone for their
sacred ceremonies.
Quantities also are shipped to
other tribes by several Indians who
live here and make their livelihood
entirely from the quarries
EXCELLENT PUBLICITY
L. A. Cornelius and Charles F.
Powers, big game hunters and
bankers of Grand Rapids, Mich.,
who recently returned to Seattle
from Kodiak where they hunted
under auspices of the Kodiak
Guides Association, gave Alaska
some excellent publicity upon their
arrival at the Puget Sound city.
A story appeared in all papers to
gether with a number of photo
graphs.
MAYOR WALKER IS
TERMED UNFIT OFFICE
BY SAMUEL SEABURY
NEW YORK, June 9, (&)—Mayor
James J. Walker was termed unfit
to continue in office by Samuel
Seabury wrho dispatched, on Wed
nesday night to Governor Roose
velt, an analysis of testimony, for
such action as the governor “may
de-em just and proper.”
Seabury said he had made “no
request of petition to make in re
ference to this matter” but made
it clear he was satisfied the evi
dence would warrant the removal
of Mayor Walker.
Seabury said he had sent a re
cord of his individual capacity as
a citizen, not as a representative
or counsel, to the joint legislative
committee which examined Walk
er’s administration and his private
financial transactions.
Following similar investigations
Sheriff Thomas Farlay, Tammany
leader . Governor Roosevelt remov
ed him from office when the sher
iff failed to give a satisfactory ac
count of his income.
Governor Roosvelt withheld com
ment until he has had a chance to
study the report.
SUSPECTS SHOOT IT
OUT WITH POLICE
SAN FRANCISCO, June 9, (/Pi
Three are dead and three were
gravely wounded and are not ex
pected to live when Geo. Johnson
sot it out with police after they
arrested his companion, Ben Moore.
The dead are: Moore, Policeman
Mervin Reardon and Harry Dar
ling, a bystander.
Police traced two suspects to a
house and found Moore in a
clothes closet. He was handcuffed
and, as police stood around him,
Johnson rose from behind furniture
and opened fire. Moore sprang to
his companion’s side and they
fought as they attempted to back
through the door, shooting.
SWEDEN SUPPLIES TOOLS
USED OLYMPIC COMES
STOCKHOLM. June 6. (/P) —
Swedish prospects at the Los An
geles Olympics are uncertain but
many of the tools of sport used
in the field events will come from
Sweden.
A Stockholm firm has received
orders from the American Olympic
committee for a large shipment of
javelins, also weights, hammers
and discs. Similar eequipment for
the 1928 games at Amsterdam were
sent from Stockholm.
COLD DREDGES IT
DAWSON USOtS FOIL
OPERATION THIS YEAR
The current season marks the
return of more than 200 men to
work i n the placer diggings a t
Dawson, on the Yukon.
Four big Canadian dredges with
full crews have begun operations on
a large scale.
Cold-water thawing plants and
hydraulic activities are in full
swing.
Keystone drills are sinking holes
for thawing points ahead of the big
dredges. Pipe lines are being laid to
convey the water from the pumps
to the thawing apparatus.
Provisions and supplies are being
moved and distributed to various
camps.
With the advent of milder weath
er more men will be employed as
conditions permit.
With hundreds o f millions o f
dollars taken out of the gold bear
ing gravels of the Dawson district
in past years, the present season
portends a banner year of gold pro
duction.