MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXIX. NUMBER 20.
SEWARD, ALASKA,
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1933.
PRICE f'EN ELMS
WELCOME
WAR DEBT PARLEYS
WASHINGTON, D. C.. Jan. 25. —
The American Slate department
announced the Roosevelt adminis-!
tration welcomes separate war debt
revision negotiations in Washing
ton after March 4 with each of
the six nations that have paid up
todate, the British first.
Congressional progressives and
Republicans instantly assailed re
opening of the question. The Dem-.
ocrats, in the main, remained si- (
lent.
William C. Bullitt, former Wood-;
row Wilson aide, was discovered in
London on a secret mission for
President-Elect Roosevelt.
Neville Chamberlain. British,
treasury head reiterated the Brit
ish stand for cancellation and
says any negotiations must be toj
a final settlement and must not!
involve resumption of German re
paration payments.
The Italian delegation will sail
for America February 22 to begin
preliminary work on war debt dis
cussions.
The State department has issued j
invitations to four debtor nations
to come over and talk it over.
The invitations were dispatched
only to those nations who met
their December last payment,
ECCENTRIC SPINSTER
BOSTON, Mass.. Jan. 25. —The
servants and friends will divide j
the bulk of the $4,000,000 estate;
of Nellie P. Carter, eccentric spin-1
ster, who left her nearest relatives ;
only $5,000 each.
SPECTBll BLAZE
IT Si FRANCISCO
SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 25. —A
spectacular four-alarm fire swept!
through a three-story building and '
caused damage estimated at $500,
000 and injuring two firemen.
After battling the blaze for over
an hour, fire officials gave up hope
of saving the building and con
centrated on protecting adjoining
buildings.
The fire was on the fringe of the
financial district. J. L. Stewart & j
Co., manufacturers of canvas dis
plays, occupied the building.
‘I USE, I! HORSE, li
ATLANTA, Geo., Jan. 25, —This
city is acquiring a reputation from
not only golf but from mules. A
large business has developed from
that source and it is thought there
are at least 25,000 mules here at
the present time.
Most of these have been shipped
from Washington, Oregon and Cal
ifornia. The average price is $100
while some bring as high as $150.
Agents of foreign countries are
the purchasers, to be used in war
ring areas.
SOURCE PIS EIGHTS
CLERMONT-FERRAND, France,
Jan. 24, (fP>—Paris, in the near fu
ture, will get a large part of its i
electricity from Auvergne.
The La Truyere dam, the largest
in Europe, is rapidly approaching
completion. Situated high up in
the mountains, it will furnish
powTer to an electric plant develop
ing 102,000 kilowatts.
The dam is a solid block of con
crete of 17,000,000 cubic feet which;
retains 10.800,000,000 cubic feet of
water.
PASSED BRIDGE BILLS
SACRAMENTO, Calif., Jan. 25, —
By unanimous vote the State as
sembly passed the six bills clear
ing the way for the $62,000,000 Re
construction Finance Corporation
loan for the San Fraricisco-Oak
land Bay bridge.
f STAMPED WITH APPROVAL
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 25, —
Stamped with the final approval
of the House and Senate a bill,
carrying $90,000,0C0 in Federal ere-1
dit for the- farmer was dispatched |
to the White House. Sponsors of!
the legislation predicted President
Hoover would make it law.
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BATTLE OF SURGEONS ,
SAVE LIFE BF FQUfl-DAY |
: OLD BABE, FRUITLESS!
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■ HASBROUCK HEIGHTS, N. J.,
i Jan. 25. —The battle of surgeons
to save the life of the baby who
I could not be fed through the mouth
: ended in defeat yesterday.
Four-days old Helen Marie Tay
lor died shortly after midnight,
j The baby was born with her eso
phagus. the tube through which
food passes from the throat to the
i stomach, sealed at the third rib.
i At first she was fed by injections
, of sugar and water.
On Monday an operation was
performed to insert a tube in the j
! baby's stomach through which j
food could be administered, but J
she failed to rally from the shock.
Surgeons said there was no pre
vious record case of a child born
with a closed esophagus.
TWO PLANE PILOTS
KILLED DURING STORM
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 25. —
A San Francisco-bound mail plane,
forced down by bad weather,
crashed yesterday at Eugene, Ore.,
killing two and injuring one.
The dead are Harold R. Adams,
pilot, of Medford. Ore., and Ken
neth Householder, copilot, of Seat- 1
tie. The injured was Miss Cornelia
Peterman of Alameda, who escap
ed with a broken ankle and minor
bruises.
8L00D! BUTTLE IS
BUENOS AIRES. Jan. 25. —Bo
livian troops delivered their 10th
i smashing attack against the Para
! guayan defenders of Fort Nanawa
i yesterday, the fifth day of the
i bloodiest battle in the Chaco war.
Small advances were claimed by
the Bolivians, but Paraguayan
| headquarters declared the attack
i was completely repulsed with
heavy casualties among the at
j tackers and few among the de
! fenders. * ’T
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BECOMING RESTLESS
BERLIN, Jan. 25, —Chancellor
Kurt von Schleicher was under
stood to have grown tired of the
conciliatory efforts to win the sup
port of various political and in
dustrial organizations, and to be
ready to resort to blunt dictator
ship to settle Germany’s immediate
political future.
TO ARRANGE GAME
BERKELEY, Calif., Jan. 25, —W.
A. Ingram, University of Califor
nia football coach, left for South
Bend, Ind. hoping to definitely ar
range a Notre Dame-California
game here this fall.
BOOTLEGGERS FLOURISH
SANTIAGO. Chile, Jan., Jan. 24,
(&)—Loop-holes in the gasoline ra
tioning system here makes it pos
sible for some persons to obtain
motor fuel legitimately and resell
it through an accomplice at double
or triple the regular price. Scar
city of supplies is aiding this boot
legging.
SILVER DEFEATED
WASHINGTON. D. C„ Jan. 25, — j
The Senate rejected the plea of
champions of silver that the metal j
be restored to its monetary basis,'
after eight hours of debate reviv- I
ing the old William Jennings Bry
an 16 to 1 debates and campaign I
of 1896.
BUT NOT SO !N ALASKI
SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 25, — j
Death, destruction and suffering |
were again inflicted over a wide I
area of the Pacific Coast last nite. I
The worst blizzard in years rag- j
ed in Nevada, imperiling hundreds;
of automobilists and train pas
sengers stranded in snow drifts, j
Two mail aviators, Harold R, i
Adams and Kenneth Householder
were killed near Eugene, Ore, in
taking off after landing because
of the storm.
GENEVA. Jan. 25, —The mo
mentous work cf framing a report
expressing the view of the League j
of Nations on the Manchurian cri
sis will be begun by a drafting:
committee of the assembly at 10:30 i
a. m. today.
Conciliations having failed, the;
report will outline the situation
and perhaps lay the blame on Jap- j
an for conditions in Manchuria, j
Members of the committ-ee heldj
informal conferences all day to j
pool their ideas on the subject. i
HALF-MILLION FOR JOBLESS
SALEM, Ore., Jan. 25, —Gover
ndf J. Meyers urged the State leg
islature to appropriate $500,000 for
relief work among the unemploy
ed.
RUTH BELIEVED TO BE
OUSTED BIGOT FIELD
ST. LOUIS, Mo., Jan. 25, —An
All-Star major league team with
out “Babe” Ruth, still the games
highest salaried performer, may
seem like Hamlet without a Dane,
but the final vote by baseball writ
ers. in the sporting news 8th an
nual pole, shows the Yankee slug- 1
ger ousted for the first time in •
right field by “Chuck” Klein, all- '
around star of the Phillies. I]
THE S
NEW YORK, Jan. 25. —May (
wheat closed at 48 at Chicago
against 47% on the preceding day.
Receivers for RKO have been ap
pointed. Philip Morris plans to
introduce a 20 for 15 cents cigar- 1
ette. The small U. S. cigarette pro- i
duction in December was slightly \
ahead of December of last year, i
America Smelting covered bond t
interest and sinking fund require-1 c
ments before depreciation and de- j c
pletion in 1932. I @
Continuation of a backing and t
filing stock market is looked for. j
Alaska Juneau 12%, A1 Chem. i
85%, Amer. 61%, Amer. Smelt. 14, j i
Amer. Fone 104%, Amer. Tobac. j 1
65%, Auburn 47, Baldwin 4%,1 e
B & O 9%, Beth. Steel 15, Cal. t
Pkg. 9. Dupont 39%, Can. Pac. c
12%, Case 46, Chrysler 13%, Cons.
Gas 58%, Eastman 58%,Gen. Elec.
14%, Gen. Foods 24%, Gen, Mot.
13%, Goodrich 4%, Goodyear 15%,
Int. Tel. 7%, Loews 16%, Mont. *
Ward 13%, Dairy Prod. 14%, Pac.
Gas 29%, Penn. RR 17%, Pullman \
22%, Radio 4%, So. Pac- 17%, Stan. 1
Calif., 24, Un. Carbide 26%, Steel r
Pfd. 62%, Un. Oil. Calif., 10%, U.
P. 74%, Steel 28%, West Union
26%, Westinghouse 29%, Wool
worth 31%. %
English sterling 3.39%. j (
Butter 22 cents per pound, cheese j t
12 cents per pound, extra fine eggs j r
19 cents a dozen, smalls 18 cents. 1 f
PLATINUM NUGGET, URALS
SVERDLOVSK, U. S. S. R., Jan.'
24, (/P)—What is claimed to be the .
largest platinum nugget in the v
world, weighing more than 13 lbs., B
has been taken from the Isevsk c
mine in the Urals. Only three other P
sizable platinum nuggets have t
been found in the mines in 100 s
years. v
WATSONVILLE, Calif., Jan. 25,1
—One man was burned to death, j
! 13 were known to be injured and
others possibly were dead in an
automobile wreck near here last1
night.
Two trucks and three automo
biles were in a tangled mass of j
flames. The dead man, trapped j
under an overturned machine, ■
could be seen- It was feared others |
might be in the wreckage.
Of the 14 rushed to hospitals, F. |
M. Walderman, of Petaluma, was|
near death.
Authorities are attempting toj
fix the cause of the multiple acci- j
dent.
BILL PASSES THE HOUSE
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WASHINGTON, D. C.. Jan. 25, — 1
The Army appropriation bill, car- j
rying a total of $349,000,000 passed i
the House late yesterday.
It now goes to the Senate. Ap
parent savings of $100,000,000 un
der last year’s measure are cut
down tc a little more than $2,000,
000 when non-recurring appropria- i
tions are eliminated and the addi-1
tions made by amendment are;
added.
DISMISSAL CHARGES
PHOENIX, Ariz., Jan. 25, —The (
probable dismissal of a charge <
that J. J. Halloran was an acces- i
sory after the murder of Agnes A. <
Leroi, was forecast yesterday when
Judge J. C. Niles said he felt the j
state had produced no evidence of <
murder at Halloran’s preliminary <
hearing.
USE SI
OELftY BIG
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SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 25, — |j
Coastwise storms continued to 1
lash the bay yesterday and com
pelled the new Grace liner Santa 1
Paula, arriving on her maiden j
voyage, and the coastal passenger
ship Yale, to anchor in the bay.
They waited offshore for the
weather to abate, while hundreds
of passengers grew fretful on ac
count of the delay in landing. ,
DESTROYERS COLLIDE
: 390 MILES OFF-SHORE
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SAN DIEGO, Jan. 25, —Two des
troyers of the United States Navy
collided 300 miles at sea yester
day and one of them, the Dal
gren, was damaged severely enuff
to require an escort to port.
Messages received at the 11th
| naval district said that no one was
; injured in the accident. The Tar
| bell, the other destroyer, appar
1 ently was able to proceed toward
the Hawaiian Islands for fleet con
centration
JOBLESS AND POLICE MIX
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j CHICAGO, Jan. 25, —Jobless and
police had their daily mixup yes-,
terday when riots occurred again
at various police precincts which
have been the point of attack by
rioters for the last 10 days.
LEVINSKY WON
NEW YORK, Jan. 25, —“Kid” Le
vinsky, 204 pounds, knocked out M
Christner of Ohio, 206 pounds, in
the fifth round of a scheduled 10
round canto. Christner was down
five times in the fifth before de
ciding to stay down.
NERVOUS BREAKDOWN
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 25, — It
was made known yesterday through
Mrs. Louisa Carpenter Jenny, a
close friend of Mrs. Libby Holman
Reynolds, that the latter is being
treated for a nervous breakdown
since the birth of her son two
weeks ago.
HEART BLOW KILLED
BREMERTON, Wash., Jan. 25, —
A blow over the heart in a friendly
boxing match between sailors off
the cruiser Concord resulted in
the death of Stanley A. Bujarski.
19, it was revealed yesterday. The
bouts were held in the Bremerton
Y. M. C. A.
TROOPS CULLED OUT
SUBDUE WILD IRISHMEN
ELECTING PRESIDENT
DUBLIN, Ire., Jan. 25, —Troops
were hurriedly called out to aid
police in restoring order after
rioting in various sections of the
city yesterday during the presiden
tial elections.
Earlier reports indicated the
voters had gone to the polls in
comparatively docile fashion. The
authoritives, however, reported
many elections clashes from
scores of cities and towns; casual
ties were small.
The result of the election was
expected to be known early today.
The city appeared to favor Cos
grave, and the rural districts. De
Valera.
SAN DIEGO, Jan. 25, —Ward Ot
to Nelson, aged 39, was arrested
and charged with murder and
dueling in connection with the
death of Wade Davis, 40. a negro,
who was shot and killed last Fri
day,
The dueling complaint was the
first ever issued here under an
old statute which made prearrang
ed combats a crime.
DETERMINED TO SAIL
LONDON, Jan. 25, —Regardless
of a heavy cold, Sir Malcolm j
Campbell, automobile speed king
of the world, was determined to
sail today for America enroute to
Florida where he hopes to estab
ish a new mark of nearly 300
miles an hour.
INAIJCURAL
8E
WASHINGTON, D. C.. Jan. 25. —
A two-hour inaugural parade lim
ited to about 10,000 marchers was
decided upon today by the inaug
ural committee.
Tentative plans call for four div
isions, to be led by General John
J. Pershing as grand marshal.
The first w’ill be composed of
units of the Army, Navy, Coast
Guard and Marines, the second will
embrace Governors of the States.
loop A DOOP' OIL
PLANS GET MARRIES NOW
NEW YORK, Jan. 25, —Helen
“Boop a doop” Kane, one of the
early songbirds of the singing
screen, and Max Hoffman, Jr.,
are planning to be married.
Hoffman, son of Gertrude Hoff
man, dansuese, pointed to an en
gagement ring. Miss Kane was
asked to confirm reports of the en
gagement No date for the mar
riage has been set:
PLANE CRACKED UP
EUGENE, Ore., Jan. 25, — A
southbound United Air Lines mail
plane cracked up wrhen it attempt
ed to take off from the airport
here. Harold Adams, pilot, and
Kenneth Southester, copilot, were
taken to a hospital, thought to be
seriously injured. There were no
passengers aboard.
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PASSED THE BILL
SACRAMENTO, Calif., Jan. 25, —
The passage by unanimous vote
in the assembly of bills enabling
construction of the San Francisco
Oakland Bay bridge, bought to a
near close the end of thier leg
islative journey.
REIIOIIIL OF TONSIL
WEAKENS THE BHAIN
AND AFFECTS OHSANS
MOSCOW, U. S. S. P... Jan. 25. —
Prof. S. P. Titovitch. head of the
I Moscow nose and throat institute,
j came forward yesterday as the de
; fender of the tonsil.
The. much maligned tonsil is an
j “active hormonal organ whose re
j moval weakens the brain and the
function of other vital organs,”
Doctor Titovitch said in an article
in Izvestia.
He based his statement on 20
years of experiment at the insti
tute.
The Doctor said the institute
had cured goitre and scarlet fev
i er by treating tonsils. He also
I claimed to have made successful
experiments for detection of can
| cer and tendency toward cancer
! by testing blood with chlorine.
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iflGT 1 CHIMEIK
SACRAMENTO, Jan. 25, —'The
Senate’s sensational charge that
Los Angeles and Hollywood politi
cians, authorities and criminals
were working together and that
police were making no effort to
combat the crime wave, brought
protest from officials of the two
cities.
They asserted no such condi
tion or collusion existed nor werev
Los Angeles and Hollywood rapid
ly becoming second Chicago’s in
crime.
ANNUAL mm CATCH
SEATTLE. Jan. 25. —It was an
nounced at the halibut fisherman's
headquarters here that the 1933
quota as fixed by England and the
United States halibut commission,
has been set at 46.000.000 pounds.
The second halibut fleet to sail
for the Alaska banks will get un
derway this weekend
An interesting talk was made be
fore the local organization yester
day by Clark Andresen. prominent
young fish buyer of Seward. His
topic was “Why some halibut have
but one eye.’’
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‘MORE TIME FOR BEER'
NFW AUSTRALIAN SLOGAN
SYDNEY. Australia. Jan. 24, (JP)
—A campaign to permit Australian
saloons to remain open until S
o’clock at night has been started
here.
In most states bars now close at
6 o’clock. Brewery intersts and a
vociferous section of the public are
clamoring for “more time to drink
beer.” The agitation has aroused
opposition from church sources.
SANTA CLARA VICTORS
OAKLAND. Jan. 25, —The San
to Clara College basketballers de
feated St. Mary’s last night 37-29,
in the first of the annual series.
BROTHERS ROBBED TWICE
LOST TWO CENTS
WILMINGTON. N. C.. Jan. 24, (.P)
—The Wooten brothers. Albert and
Kenneth, were the victims of rob
bers twice in two days but were
only three cents losers.
First a negro held up their gas
oline station but Kenneth flashed
a gun and the bandit ran. drop
ping the cash and 55 cents of his
own. The next night two youths
robbed the station of 58 cents.
NATION-WIDE FAST ACT
BOMBAY, India, Jan. 25, —Ma
hatma Gandhi now threatens to
tour India, while featuring anoth
er starvation until death act, as
a protest against British rule and
i nbehalf of the “untouchables."