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VOLUME XXVIII. NUMBER 329.
SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1932.
PRICE TEN CENTS
TEN YEAR TRANSITORY
PERIOD AGREEMENT
WASHINGTON. D. C.. Dec. 23, —
The House and Senate conferees
on Philippine independence reach
ed an agreement providing for
independence after a 10-year per
iod with no subsequent plebescite. i
The duty on free imports dur- !
ing the transitory period was fix
ed annually at 800.000 tons of
raw sugar, 50.000 tons of refirted
sugar, 200.000 tons of cocoanut
oil and 3,000.000 pounds of cord
age.
Effective with the acceptance of (
the Philippine legislature, ernigra- j
tion restrictions will come into
effect cn the basis of an annual
quota of 50. After independence j
immigration law's will apply to the 1
Philippines identically with other j
Asiatic countries.
The so-called exclusion clause •
applicable to persons inelegible to
citizenship is not effective in the
transitory period.
The conferees retained a Senate
provision by which the United
States retains the right to mili
tary and naval reservation after
independence.
Conferees also accepted the
Senate provision requesting the
President to enter into negotia
tions with foreign powers for a
treaty of perpetual neutralization
of the Philippine Islands, if
and when, independent.
PLEA9 IN VAIN FOR
ALASKA APPROPRIATION
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 23, —
Delegate James Wickersham from
Alaska pleaded in vain for $30,
000 apropriation in the Interior de
partment bill, before Congress, for
carrying forward search for and
development of precious minerals
in Alaska.
He told the House all would ben
efit if “you aid the gold mining
industry,” but Representative Hast
ings, who was piloting the bill,
objected, saying: “I think gold |
will continue to be mined and ad
ditional search made for precious
metals if this amount is not ad
ded.”
moms on toes
FOR BIG G1E JON. 2
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 23, —The
Southern California Trojans seem- i
ed little menaced at the possibili
ty of going “stale” before meet
ing Pittsburg in the tournament
of roses football game, January 2
at Pasadena.
They appear to be in mid-sea
son form as they work out daily
displaying the same dash and pep
per that characterized their vic
tory over Notre Dame two weeks'
ago.
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WITH THE COMMITTEE
WASHINGTON, D. C., DEC. 23, — j
The Senate yesterday received the j
Collier* beer bill, passed in the
House Wednesday, and immediate
ly referred it to the Senate judi
ciary committee in whose hands
it reposed Thursday.
REDUCTION APPROVED
BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 23, —A,
reduction of 24,500,000 pesos, in i
next year’s estimated expenditures j
of the government, was approved j
by the majority of the finance!
committee of the Chamber of Dep- i
uties.
FAMOUS IRISH WIT
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 23. —To
keep private engagements, which
he refused to discuss, George Ber
nard Shaw, famous Irish wit and j
playwright, will arrive here some
time in March aboard the world
cruise liner Empress of Britain.
$108,345,587 ADVANCED
WASHINGTON, D. C., DEC. 23. —
The Reconstruction Finance Corp
! oration informed Congress it had
extended total advances of $108,
345.587 during the month of No
vember for all types of relief worK
including loans to banks and rail
roads.
KOREANS BURNED TO
TOKIO, Dec. 23, —Ten poverty
; stricken Koreans were burned to
j death when a fire in the Fukuo
| chow slum district destroyed 20
i houses.
A tenement housing 500 Koreans
was one of the buildings destroy
i cd; six persons were sent to hos
' pitals.
Police and firemen searched the
i smoking ruins for more bodies.
, Hundreds of persons milled aim
lessly about beyond the police
lines as their few belongings were
; destroyed in the flames which
j swept through the wooded struc
i tures and it was believed that
i most of the inhabitants of the
! buildings escaped when the fire
I first started.
ROCK ISLAND, III, Dec. 23, —
| The body of Rose Gendler, 22, de
; partment store clerk, throttled
with a rope and the skull crushed,
was found in a gunnysack under
the high bridge spanning Rock
; river, while her father awaited
i further instructions from the kid
nappers who had demanded $2,
j 000 ransom.
EXFE140ITUBES SLUSHED
III BUITII BILL
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WASHINGTON. D. C„ DEC. 23, —
; Slashing highway funds and offi
’ cial activities right and left, the
i House appropriations committee
reported a bill reducing depart
ment of agriculture expenditures
by nearly two-thirds.
The committee recommended
the department be given $110,
981.193 for the fiscal year begin
ning July 1. This is $206,902,043
less than current appropriations.
SEWS FLUSHES
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CLOTHING FOR NEEDY
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 23, —
The Hcuse passed a bill to distri
bute surplus navy clothing to the
needy. ,
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RAIL WORKERS TRUCE
CHICAGO, Dec. 23, —The nine
months extension of prevailing
rail workers wages brought a
Xmas truce between the carriers
and their million odd employees.
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THE DEAL IS OFF
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Dec. 23, —
President-Elect Roosevelt inform
ed President Hoover that he can
not accept the “apparent joint
responsibility” between now and
March 4 on war debts and related
policies. President Hoover has
, abandoned the plan of naming a
commission to deal with the
problem.
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MUCH ADO ABOUT—
PALO ALTO, Calif., Dec. 23, —
San Francisco’s three members of
the Stanford board of athletic
control will confer with a com
mittee of four representing Stan
ford alumni in Northern Califor
| nia December 30, at Los Angeles,
j regarding appointment of a succes
1 sor to Glen Scobey Warner as the
i Cardinal football coach.
PREFMTI WHE1T
RITES iiOUREED
LONDON, Dec. 23, —Canadian
wheat shipped to England could
not receive preferential treatment
under the Ottowa Imperial confer
: ence agreement, Financial Secre
tary of the Treasury Leslie Hore
Belisha said today in the House
of Commons.
The government ruling on the!
shipment was interpreted as a per
j manent ruling that Empire goods
i consigned from a part of the Em
pire to the United Kingdom thru
a foreign country, could qualify
for preferential treatment, but
would not qualify if they were
consigned first to a foreign coun
try and later sent to the United
Kingdom.
I The shipment arrived via Buf
! falo.
JAPANESE PARLIAMENT
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TOKIO, Dec. 23, —The Japanese j
j parliament “the Teichkuo” con
; venes today in a preliminary ses
| sion to organize for what may
j prove one of the most momen
| tous sessions in its history.
The Diet must adopt a budget
totaling more than two billion
yen, described as “a stupendous
sum for a country as poor as Jap
an is now” and pass such other,
legislation as may be demanded
by the dominant groups in na
tional life supported by the army.
I WASHINGTON. D. C., DEC. 23. —
: A Presidential veto today appeared
to be the only real obstacle in the
way of swift modification of na
j tional prohibition.
Authorative polls indicated that
• the Senate, after much argument,
probably would follow the lead of
the House which, with unprece
dented speed and decision, passed
the Collier bill Wednesday legal
izing 3.2 tenths per cent beer.
TEXAS GIRL ITEETE
EXONERATED CHARGES
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 23, —The;
registration committee of the
Southern A. A. U. exonerated Mil- j
dred “Babe” Didrikson, Texas girl'
Olympic star, of charges of pro- j
fessionalism.
Miss Didrikson was temporarily!
suspended a week ago on charges
that she indorsed the use of her j
name and photograph in an auto- |
mobile advertisement.
IT WAS TO BE EXPECTED
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WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 23, — !
A suggestion for an investigation
of the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation was made in the Sen
ate at about the time a report
reached Congress that the corpor
ation had authorized advances
of $107,653,587 in November.
HELEN HOME AGAIN
BERKELEY. Calif., Dec. 23, —
Helen Wills Moody, famous tennis
star, returned to her home here to
spend Christmas with the old j
folks after a six months tour of j
Europe. She was accompanied by ;
her husband, Frederick S. Moody, j
Jr.
Upon learning that the Fair-1
banks schoolhouse had burned, i
President Chas. E. Bunnell of Fair
banks College,wired from Washing
ton directing Dean Patty to make
the college facilities available to
Fairbanks.
The Stock Market
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NEW YORK, Dec. 23, —Rails;
moved rapidly down grade drag-!
ging much of the list after them. |
Losses in many prominent issues |
ranged from one to four points.
The day’s turnover was 1,300,000,
one of the largest of the month.
Closing at weak prices, the
slump was pronounced in the af- ;
ternocn when New York Central j
closed around the lowest; Union:
Pacific off four points and other
issues off three to five points.
NEW FRENCH CABINET
MADE BID 5IIPP8RT
CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES
PARIS, Dec. 23, —Joseph Paul
Boncour's new cabinet made its bid
for support of the Chamber of
Deputies yesterday in a vague de
claration of policy that promised
immediate consideration of the
country’s default on her overdue
$20,000,000 debt payment to the
United States.
The new government’s declara
tion pledged it to seek a general
settlement of debts that will be
“mutually satisfactory” to the na
tions involved but promises little
more than continued negotiations
on the question of inter-govern
mental obligations.
BEHPSEV HAILED IS
NEW YORK. Dec- 23, —Jack:
: Dempsed, hailed as the “new Tex>
| Rickard” embarked upon his most
| important venture as a boxing j
promoter by signing former cham- J
j pion Max Schmeling of Germany,'
and Maxie Baer, California heavy
weight, for a 15-round bout in
June.
Dempsey explained that the bout
would be staged in whatever city
offered the best support, probably •
New York or Chicago. The defi
nite date will be decided later.
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ALBANY, N. Y„ Dec. 23, —Pres- ;
ident-Elect Franklin D. Roosevelt i
stood firm in his opposition to a I
bi-partisan board as suggested by j
President Hoover toward world
economic and disarmament dis- j
cussion.
Governor Roosevelt was said to
feel that the appointment of a
formal delegation at this tim£
would mean immediate discussion
of terms and policies on debts
Europe owes this country.
AGRICULTURAL SUPPLY
BILL WAS REPORTER
i
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 23, —
The $110,900,000 Agricultural de
partment supply bill setting aside
only $35,000,000 for Federal high
way aid for the next fiscal year,
was reported to the House by the
appropriation committee.
The bill for last year was $206,
000,000 less than the appropriation
asked for by President Hoover.
ENROUTE TO STATES
Enroute to the States on busi
ness and the probable purchase of
a new vessel, Capt. Heinie Berger,
who recently lost his staunch ves
sel, the MS Discoverer in the ice
near Ninilchik, arrived in Seward.
Thursday from Anchorage, ac
companied by Mrs. Berger. They
are guests at the Seward hotel.
Engineer Jack Wilkenson ar- j
rived with the skipper.
BODIES RECOVERED
LIMA, Ohio, Dec. 23, —The bod-;
ies of- three victims were recover
ed from the wreckage of a 14
car Erie railroad train which de
molished a switchman’s tower
and rolled over a 10-foot embank
ment after derailing on a split
switch east of here Wednesday.
PROSPECT OF PROMPT
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 23, — i
The prospect of prompt action!
on Europe’s plea for war debt re- j
vision was blotted cut when the
Hoover-Roosevelt negotiations forr
a bi-partisan board of review
reached a deadlock.
Hence, it is expected, no action
will be taken on the debt issue
until Governor Roosevelt enters
the White House two months'
from now.
State department officials fear
ed preparations for the World eco
nomic conference also would be
retarded.
ONE OUT OF THREE
ATTEMPTS, SUCCESSFUL
SEATTLE, Dec. 23, —Erick Gus
taffsen, 46, construction foreman,
was cut down by a wire after try
ing to hang himself. When re
vived he said he was glad the at
tempt at suicide failed; that he
didn’t know why he did it.
Ross Faulconer, a restaurant
worker, took an overdose of pois
son but took sick before the poison
became effective; he will recover.'
Frank Justin inhaled gas in his:
hotel room and died leaving a
| note to his wife saying he was!
heartbroken over having lost $500
gambling.
WASHINGTON. D. C., Dec. 23, — |
Proposals for creation of a farm
debt conciliation commission and
an emergency fund for the bene
fit of delinquent borrowers, were
considered at a conference be
tween farmers, Congressmen and j
Agricultural Commissioner Mor-!
genthau of New York, represent-1
ing President-Elect Franklin D. I
Roosevelt.
HEARINGS BEGIN TODAY
ATHENS, Greece, Dec. 23, —
Samuel Insull’s extradition hear
ing on embezzlement charges
begin today.
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HOUSE ADJOURNS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 23, —
Denying itself an extended Xmas
vacation the House adopted a re
solution to adjourn from today un
til next Tuesday.
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RELIGIOUS WARFARE
SENEGAL, Dec. 23, —Marabout
Moham del Maarmoun, tribal lead
er, resumed religious warfare in
Mauretania with attacks on
French outposts and patrols in
which seven native soldiers were
killed.
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A SURPRISE DRIVE
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 23, —!
Senate anti-prohibitionists made
a surprise drive for immediate
beer by proposing to begin today
consideration of a three and two
tenths per cent beer bill, similar
to that which passed the House.
AT THE HOTELS
VAN GILDER—Mrs. H. Long
and daughter, Ruth.
SEWARD—Capt. and Mrs. Hei
nie Berger, J. Wilkenson, Mrs. Ax
el Ostbery, M. Deegan. e
VOTE OF CONFIDENCE
GIVEN TO NEW FRENCH
PREMIER. 8K DEPUTIES
PARIS, Dec. 23, —The Chamber
of Deputies gave the new cabinet
of Premier Paul Boncour a com
fortable vote of confidence after
he had assured the deputies the
war debt question will be shelved
for the time being and that
France v/ill seek final action thru
a general action.
The vote was 205 to 215. Any
hope remaining that France might
pay her defaulted v/ar debt in
stalment to the United States be
fore the end of the year, vanish
ed.
The ministrial decision was
to a flat rejection of the Amer
ican attitude that debts must be
negotiated with each power sing
ly.
8RCT m TREE TO
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MANITOWOK. Wis., Dec. 23, —
Mrs. Mina Bauer arrived from
Munich, Germany carrying a
spruce tree for her brother, Hans,
and his children.
She explaned that she had brot
the spruce tree, or “weinachths
baum” from Germany because she
thought there were no spruce
trees in America and that it
would be nice to give her broth
er’s American-born children a.
treat by reviving an old wrorld
tradition.
THURSDAY'S STORM
TOOK TOLL TWO LIVES
PORTLAND, Dec. 23, —The af
termath of Thursday’s terrific gale
which lashed the West coast from
the California line to Alaska, re
sulted, as far as is known thus
far, in the loss of two lives, Capt.
Soder’ourg, master of the Point
Bravo off Cape Flattery, and Ro
land Gurling, 20, who was drown
ed at Victoria when high seas
took away his small pleasure craft.
On the southern Oregon coast
tides were so high houses were
flooded.
CAPTAIN SWEPT TO
DEATH OFF FLATTERY
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SEATTLE, Dec. 23, —Captain So
derburg of the Gulf Pacific freigh
ter Point Brava, outbound from
Tacoma for gulf ports, was lost
overboard in a heavy gale off
Cape Flattery.
The steamer radioed coast
guard vessels that the deckload of
lumber shifted in the heavy sea
which was pounding the super
structure.
The storm of Thursday contin
ued unabated from Oregon to
British Columbia.
CLOSING NEXT MONDAY
Among the local business houses
which will be closed Monday.
Dec. 26, in observance of the Xmas
holiday, will be P .C. McMullen,
Brown & Hawkins Corp., Seward
Trading Company, Bank of Sew
ard and The Gateway. Probably
a number of others, as yet un
announced, will follow suit and
suspend operations for the day.
THOUSAND TO WORK
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 23, — Con
struction of the 33-mile Coachella
link of the Colorado river aque
duct project was authorized by
directors of the Metropolitan wat
er district. The project Is expect
ed to employ 1,000 men and will
cost approximately $18,000,000.
The SS Starr is expected to ar
- rive in port from the Westward
early tomorrow morning.
Hard Times Masquerade Ball, New Year’s Eve