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VOLUME XXIX. NUMBER 94.
SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, APRIL 22, 1933.
PRICE TEN CENTS
MAC DONALO APPEARS
won no
LAMENTS FRICTION WHICH HAS
BEEN AROUSED COMMENT
ON DEPRESSION
WASHINGTON, D. C.. April 22,—
Premier Ramsay MacDonald indi
cated Friday a desire to discuss
with President Roosevelt the re
storation of the international gold
standard. _
Receiving the press in Roose
velt’s office, the British Premier
said his country long had desiied
to discuss with other nations re
storation to normality of fluctuat
ing exchanges.
War debt revision, he said, was
part of the general economic prob
lem
COOPERATION
MacDonald appeared fervent
for deep and cordial Anglo-Ameri
can cooperation in ending suffer
ing and distress caused by the de
pression He lamented whatever
friction may have been aroused by
comment both here and in Britain
over America’s departure from the
gold standard.
Shortly after reaching the White
House, where he is a guest, a few
hours after his arrival in New
York MacDonald fas escorted to
the Presidential executive office
by Roosevelt’s secretary, Stephen
Early. He asked not to be quoted
directly. _
sums
r* FOR PORI OF SEWARD
SEATTLE, April 22—The follow
ing passengers saiigd f°r Seward
today via the SS. Alaska.
P. T. Jensen, John McKenery, F.
Spach, Mathew Reese. F. O. Parry,
7 ;* R. N Carroll, John Holden, Shirley
Albright, Peter oBrg, Nels Wick
strom, Mrs. Vernon, Adolph Caleb,
Martha Ruf, J. W. Guclcer.
Mrs. W. W. Clark, D. Turcotte, J.
G. Moore, Mrs. C. Howard, A. Er
wick, Mrs. Viyian Albright, O. H.
Roberts, Roq Stearns, Ada Hick
man, W. M. Smith, E E. Shonwald,
Mrs. A. H. McDonald, E. J. Fri
brock, Walter Schell, T. A. Corbett,
R. Haverstein, Elwood Kunkle, F.
W. Horn, R. eVrnon, Victor Hansen
and 36 steerage passengers.
' FRANCE DETERMINED
MAINTAIN STANDARD
PARIS, April 22, —A government
spokesman said that France is de
termined to maintain the gold
standard and fight American dol
lars in a possible commercial in
vasion by riasing tariffs.
Other governments and banks
of France are “undisturbed,” he
said, and consider the franc ab
solutely solid. The whole Droblem,
including the changed aspect of
the Washington conversations be
tween President Roosevelt and
former Premier Herriot, will be
considered at a cabinet meeting
today. _
SMIL LIST COES
Passengers departing Friday
night on the liner Yukon, of the
Alaska Steamship Co., for Seattle
and way-points were:
To Seattle—Mrs. aJck Hanley,
Jack Karbo, Mrs. L. Pollock, Bart
ley Howard, Avis Miller, Mrs. S. H.
Miller, C. E. Cramer, Mr. and Mrs.
D. R. Gustafson, Margaret Rogers,
Miss H. Porter, Mrs. Lewis Lee, F.
E. Whiting. Edw. Richter, Jack
Davidson, Ivor Iverson.
To Cordova—Joe Freeman, L. M.
Westcott.
To Ketchikan—N. H. Stevens.
To Juneau—Jbhn Chamberlain,
C. A. Sclionacker, Frank Parrish,
W. W. Spencer, Roscoe C. Allen,
Matt Maki, James Reich.
To Wrangell—Mrs. S. Crowley.
TO JURY
COURTROOM, FLORENCE, Ariz.,
April 22,—Winnie Ruth Judd, slay
er of two women may know to
night whether she must hang
April 28.
Judge E. L Green, conducting
the sanity hearing which will de
cide whether she goes to the gal
lows or to a State asylum, an
nounced he expected to get the
case tc its jury tonight even if a
long night session was necessary.
WILL RESIST
PARIS, April 22,—France will re
sist efforts to force her off the gold
standard, believing that the Unit
ed States and Great Britain will
return to a gold basis simultane
ously within a short time, it was
learned in authoritative quarters.
French bankers believed htat all
countries now off the gold stand
ard would return within a few
weeks or a few months.
JUNEAU, April 22, —Declaring;
that the Senate had completely j
changed the Hellericli beer bill
and that nothing remained of it
except 'a number and the name of
the author, the House yesterday j
refused to consider it and after
an extended discussion voted to
defer any action on the matter un
til today when it will decide
whether to admit it as it is or re
turn it to the Senate with a polite
request that it comply with the
rules of procedure between the two,
Houses
The House passed the bill auth-j
orging the Governor to sell or rent;
the old Territorial building in this;
city; if sold the proceeds will apply!
on the Pioneers Home building
funds.
DeVane’s memorial sharply at
tacking the Alaska Game Commis
sion was passed by the Senate af
ter DeVane had beaten efforts to
delete most of the critical matter]
of the section asking for the im
mediate removal of the present
executive secretary and which was
stricken on the amendment. How- i
ever it is still highly condemnatory
and urges that Alaska be permit
ted to control and regulate its own
game and fur resources.
The Senate passed the measure
authorizing the Governor to lease
school lands and Lomen’s memor
ial urging Congress to enlist an
army of unemployed as prospectors
using government aircraft for
transporting them to local mineral
districts and pay them a small
wage
ESCKD M DEVIL'S
ISLAND ?S YEARS SCO
SAN FRANCISCO, April 22—Am
ato Desiderio, better known as
Perry Dupree, one of the few men
who ever escaped from Devil’s Is
land, was arrested in San Francis
co after 25 years of freedom.
The noj^orious “Phantom Bandit”
who terrorize (UPrance a generation
ago, he was taken into custody
simply as an undesirable alien.
Weeping as he thought of return
ing to the unbearable penal colony,
indignant at the arrest that end
ed a quarter century of ‘‘going
straight” he told an amazing, dra
matic story of his escape from the
Island.
CHARLIE LOST FIGHT
LOS ANPELES, April 22,—Chas.
Chaplin lost his court battle to
dictate how the $200,000 trust fund
established for his two sons shall
be invested. Judge C. S. Crail held
that tne Citizens National Trust &
Savings Bank, .trustee of the fund,
shall have the sole right to deter
mine what investments shall be
made- Chaplin will appeal.
ROAD TO RUIN
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 22,—
Passage of the Administration’s
corrency inflation bill in the Sen
by Tuesday or Wednesday was
forecast by Democratic leaders.
This was their reply to a manifes
to, signed by four Republican lead
ers, describing the bill as “the road
to ruin”.
CLEAN SWEEP
BARCELONA, Spain, April 22,—
Great Britain scored a clean sweep
in its opening 1933 Davis cup com
petition by winning both first day
matches against Spain.
OLE appeals
MOSCOW, April 22, —Attorneys
for the two British men jailed on
charges of sabotage, filed appeals
with the Central executive com
mittee, asking they be pardoned
or their sentences commuted to
expulsion from Russia.
AT ST. LOUIS
ST. LOUIS, April 22, —Colonel
and Mrs. Lindbergh arrived here
at 1:25 p. m. yesterday on their
tion of *the facilities of the T. W.
coast to coast tour of the inspec
A. Lines. Lindbergh said he would
continue his tour toward San
Francisco today.
Mrs. L. OhLson of the Jesse Lee
Home, entered the Seward General
Hospital on Thursday to be under
observation.
MAIDEN VOYAGE
II TEST FLIGHT
MACON- SUCCESS
NEW GIANT NAVY DIRIGIBLE
CARRIED l(i3 PERSONS ON
FIRST AIR JAUNT
AKRON, Ohio, April 22, —The
U. S S. Macon, successor to the!
lost dirigible Akron, won the Navy’s
official O. K. yesterday cn herj
maiden flight.
The giant airship, the world’s'
largest, carried 105 persons, in
cluding J.1 officers, with Captain
Alger H. Dresel in command, eight
members of the Naval board of,
inspection under Rear Admiral G.
C. Day, and 31 engineers and in
spectors of the Goodyear-Zeppe
lin Company, the builders.
After the Macon had been aloft
an hour and a half. Captain Dres-1
el radioed orders to dismiss the
ground crew until 5 p. m., indicat
ing the ship would remain up well:
over 11 hours.
TWO DAYS DELAY
For more than an hour Captain,
Dresel kept the Macon in this vici- j
nity, then flew over Cleveland.
The take-off came after 10 days!
of waiting for favorable weather.
The complete schedule of tests;
which will determine whether the
Navy shall pronounce the Macon
as fulfilling the contract require
ments will include six runs for a
total of about 84 hours. They will
determine the $2,450,000 craft’s
power, speed, climbing ability, en
durance, and other factors.
The contract under which the
Macon was built specified a max
imum speed of at least 80 miles an
hour and a cruising radius of ap
proximately 10,000 miles without
refueling.
RETURN TO HANGAR
The USS. Macon returned to her
hangar last night after a 12-hour
maiden flight.
Rear Admiral George C. Day.
1 chief of the Navy men who made
the first of six shake-down cruis
es, said the “ship handled well un
der full power and that varied
trials were successfully conducted.”
He added: “During these trials of
1 particular interest were turning
i trials and preliminary speed trials.
The turning trials were practically
all completed and the speed trials
indicate that the ship probably
should meet her contract speed re
quirements.”
CESSATION OF HOE
IT
MOSCOW, April 22,—Total ces
; sation of trade with England was
ordered by Soviet Russia in retal
iation for the British embargo on
Russian goods ordered earlier in
the week. The embargo simultane
ously raised obstructions to the
transit of English goods thru Sov
iet Russia territories.
The decree was the first step
here* in the trade war with British
i developing as result of recent trials
j of six Britons, on charges of sab
I otage,
I The trade war, it was feared,
j may now lead to an open break in
| diplomatic relations between Brit
I ain and the Soviet.
Bitter feelings have developed
on both sides, Soviets feeling that
England sought to influence Rus
sian court justice, and the English
feel that the Britons were tried
unfairly on alleged “trumped up
charges.”
!
FIRST LADIES
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 22 —
A tall, slim woman, in white even
ing dress, took Mrs; Franklin D.
Roosevelt on a flight over Wash
ington and Baltimore without even
taking off her white kid gloves as
she piloted the big transport
plane.
! The first lady of the air, Amelia
Earhart, was at the controls part
of the time on the first night
flight made here by the First Lady
of the Land.
THE FIRST DEFEAT
NEW YORK, April 22,—A burst
of wildness by Hal Schumacher en
abled the Boston Braves to make
three runs in the fourth inning
and defeat the Giants 3 to 1. It
was New York’s first defeat of the
season
BUYING SUSTAINED
NEW YORK, April 22,—A wave
i of public buying based on fresh
i confidence in the future has been
j sustained, contrary to the usual
' slump after the Easter holiday, the
I Dun and Bradstreet Weekly Busi
' ness Review said.
NOT A CHANCE
BERLIN, April 22Under no
circumstances will Germany aban
don the gold standard, an official
statement of the Reichsbank said.
* * * *
THEY ADMIT IT
LOS ANGELES, April 22—The
23-year-old son of Zang Grey, i
novelist, and his wife, Mrs. Doro- |
thy Olson Grey, have separated,!
the young couple admitted. .
OUT OF SLUMP
ST. LOUIS, April 22,—The St.
Louis Cardinals came out of their
batting slump to get 14 hits and
wen their second game of the sea
son from the Chicago Cubs, 4-0
SCRATCHED HAND
CHICKAHA3HA, Okla., April 22,
—Wiley Posts robot plane v*ras |
damaged and the noted flyer suf-1
i'ered a scratched hand here when j
the craft fell from a height of 160;
feet shortly after a takeoff.
* * * *
THIRD BOOM DAY
NSW YORK, April 22, —Huge
buying poured into the rails in
every trade on the stock market’s
third boom day and lifted prices
from $1 to more than $5 a share
as the rest of the list turned ir
regular on further profit taking.
* * * ■*
WORTHY FIGHT
SACRAMENTO, April 22, —Urg
ing practical and more civilized
penalty for capital crime, Irving
Martin, tSockton publisher and
champion of progressive govern
ment, joined in the fight to abolish
capital punishment in California.
* * * *
TECHNICAL KAHOE
STOCKTON, Calif., April 22, —
Using a heavy right-handed at
tack, Fred Feary, 209-pounds, of
Stockton, gave Genneth Lee, 193
pound Modesto battler, a thorough
whipping to will on a technical
knockout in the sixth round of
their 10-round match here.
* * * *
STILL AT IT
SOUTHAMPTON, Eng., April 22,
I —Sir Hubert and Lady Wilkins ar
rived on the Bremen from New
York enroute to Norway to join
the Ellsworth Antarctic expedition,
scheduled to start on August 1.
Afterwards, Sir Hubert intends to
attempt a submarine expedition
into the Arctic.
* * * *
ADOLPH JOINS SOX
SEATTLE, April 22,—A d o 1 p h
Schacht, veteran trainer of the
Seattle baseball club, will leave
Monday to join the Chicago White
Sox. Schapht, who has trained
j baseball, hockey and football play
| ers, as well as fighters, is also one
i of the Pacific Northwest’s most
I prominent boxing referees
* * # *
WILL NOT QUIT
LOS ANGELES, April 22,—Walter
L. Peters, deputy prohibition ad
ministrator for Southern Califor
nia, will not resign his position in
favor of William G. Walker recent
ly appointed, Peters said. The
present deputy claimed he had
taken a competitive examination
for the post, and so felt he was en
titled to remain in office
* * * *
CHANGE MIND?
LONDON April 22,—Newspaper
! reports here understood that the
} Soviet authorities had decided to
i release and deport William Thorn
ton and William MacDonald, two
British representatives of Metro
politan Vickers, Limited, imprison
i ed in Moscow for alleged sabotage,
j The report said they would be re
ported before April 29.
* * * *
ESTATE LEFT TO WIDOW
| NEW YORK, April 22, —Charles
•i w. Clark, son of the late Senator
i William Andrews Clark and former
II President of the United Verde
Copper Compeny, left the bulk of
his estate to his widow, Mrs. Eliz
abeth Wymond Clark. The will was
filed today and the value of the
estate was listed at “more than
' $10,000.” Clark died last April 8
at his Park Avenue home.
> i -*• * -X- *
ON JOB 24 YEARS
NEW YORK, April 22, —If base
ball records interests one, consider
the claims of Charley Pittman,
National league umpire. Charley
umpired his 1,700th consecutive
big league game at the Polo field
yesterday. Since he came up from
the Southern league in 1922 he
hasn’t missed a sigle day’s work.
He has been calling them for 24
years
* * * *
VINES WILL COMPETE
PASADENA, Calif., April 22, —
Ellsworth Vines, youthful tennis
champion of the world, will de
part for San Francisco to partici
pate in the annual north-south
tennis tournament. Vines will be
accompanied by his doubles part
ner, Keith Gledhill, and by Caro
line Babcock, third ranking wom
en’s single player nationally. Mrs.
Helen Wills Moody is among the
northern California players who
will participate.
IN A FORTNIGHT
LONDON, April 22 — It is tjhe
general opinion here that France!
will be off the gold standard with
in a fortnight, as also will Belgium,
Holland and"Switzerland.
Offerings of francs are coming'
from the Bank of Netherlands and;
National Bank of Switzerland- Tne
most significant development with j
relation to French francs is the ar
rival of French gold at some Lon- ;
don banks.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 22, — j
Stocks turned highly irregular j
when the American dollar staged'
a moderate rally in unofficial j
trading in the foreign exchange,
market.
Railroad and gold mining shares!
pushed forward aggressively into
newr high ground, but industrials
and public utility ..stocks which!
participated in the wild excitement
of the last three days, were sub-1
stantially lower.
Trading was slower than ini
Thursday’s session. At one time!
the tickers were nine minutes
late, compared to 34 minutes be-|
hind on the previous dav. The vol-,
ume of shares totaled 5,210,000.1
The reduced rate of activity, how-,
ever, was 10 times greater than'
the pace of the market several!
v/eesk ago. , |
Alaska Juneau 16 5-8, Anacondo
Copper 10 3-4, Kennecott 14 1-8,
Std. Oil, Calif., 28 3-4, Do. Can. 15,
Do. N. J., 33 1-8
SILENT I50UTI0N IS
PUNNED 9Y FRINGE
NEW YORK, April 22, —The
French mission to Washington was
informed by Paris that France in
tends to retain a position of silent
isolation, maintain her gold stan
dard and ' await developments in
the currency depreciation duel, ac
cording to press reports from the
steamer on which the French mis
sion is enroute here.
Former'Premier Herriot said he
was arriving m America Sunday
with a desire to do his utmost to
facilitate President Roosevelt’s
task.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aoril 22 —
President Roosevelt received Prime
Minister MacDonald and his party
and introduced them to the fash
ion of American home hospitality.
The President and Mrs. Roose
velt and their daughter Mrs. Anna
Roosevelt Dali, were waiting on tne
front porch of the Executive Man
sion as the automobiles bearing
the MacDonald plarty rolled up
from the Union Station. The Prime
Minister yvalked up the stairs sur
prised and pleased at the informal
reception and smiling broadiy.
National League
Boston 3, New York 1.
Pittsburgh 5, Cincinnati 1.
St. Louis 4. Chicago 0.
American League
Philadelphia 3, Washington 1.
New York 7. Boston 5.
Detroit 5, Cleveland 1.
St. Louis 4, Chicago 0.
Pacific Coast League
Los Angeles 11 Sacramento 5
Hollywood 10, Portland 5.
San Francisco 5, Oakland 2.
DEFEND STANDARD
PARIS, April 22,—France, Bel
gium and Holland agreed in con^~
mon to defend the gold standard.
HUNG HIMSELF
LAKE ELSINORE, Calif., April 22
_The mysterious disappearance
of Rev. John S- Stoner, 39, Los An
geles Presbyterian minister, was at
an end today with the discovery
of his body hanging from the roof
of his cabin in an automobile
camp here.
In the last 350 years over a bil
lion ounces of gold have been tak
en from the earth. It would make
a cube slightly less than 40 feet on
j a side. _
By opening new fields, Canada
last year increased her output by
about seven and a half million dol
lars, or to near $45,000,000 against
Alaska’s $9,000,000.
G. 0. P. OPPOSE
White house warns farm
ers NOT TO INCREASE
ACREAGE
WASHINGTON, D. c., April 22,—
President Roosevelt’s inflation bill
was ushered into the Senate Fri
day and met a raking fire from
remnants of the old “'Hoover-Mel
lon bloc which will delay its pas
sage but not endanger it. Repub
lican leaders conceded Senate pas
sage by the middle of next week.
The House is expected to act
promptly. The bill which authoriz
es issuance of $3,000,000,000 in cur
rency as well as other types of in
flation, should be law by the end
of next week.
Beginning consideration of the
measure which is likewise regard
ed as a bargaining device for
Roosevelt in seeking, currency sta
bilization by foreign nations, coin
cided with the arrival here of
Premier Ramsay MacDonald of
Great Britain. He is the fiist of
foreign leaders to come here to lay
groundwork for the world econo
mic conference at which Roosevelt
expects to make his move for
world economic stability.
WHITE HOUSE WARNS
The White House warned farm.
ers not to increase acreage in hope
of higher prices, or otherwise the
program will lose some of its ef
fectiveness. The President and Ag
riculture Secretary Wallace and
j other administration leaders also
I stressed the necessity of enacting
the pending farm relief bill, one
of tlie primary purposes of which
is to curb production.
Cries of “printing press money*'
and references to the harrowing
inflation experience of Germany
and France signalized the attack
on the bill by Republicans. It was
led by Senator Reed, Republican,
Pennsylania, usually regarded as
the Senate spokesman for former
Treasury Secretary Mellon.
Davis denied he had consulted
, with Mellon, but added “I’ll bet 100
I 1 he would agree with me”
i Reed estimated that inflation
totaling $14,000,000,000 was possi
ble under the bill.
Senator Pittman, Democrat, Ne
vada, presenting the administra
tion view', estimated $3,000,000,000.
Various amounts were estimated
by other members.
Moving in the background direct
ing the Republican fight was Og
den Mills, Hoover’s last Treasury
secretary, who criticized inflation,
during the Presidential campaign.
He confered with Republican Con
gressional leaders. They consid
| ered a “round robin” protest.
A
NOT GIVING THE
PUBLIC “S BREAK'
i SACRAMENTO. April 22. —As
semblyman William Hornblower of
! San Francisco made a demand for
1 either lo\¥.er beer prices or a high
er beer tax for the State at a
! meeting of the assembly committee
on revenue and taxation.
Mr. Hornblower declared the
brewers are “not giving the beer
drinking public a break” as they
promised five cent beer if the State
tax did not go above 62 cents a
barrel, but. instead are selling to
retailers at prices which make five
; cent beer impossible.
MOW SEGfiPE!«
THEME, EiTHPKE
Word from the Outside tells of
the narrow escape from death, of
Frank J. Lawson, formerly of The
Gateway staff and Anchorage
Times, who is now wth the Coast
and Geodetic Survey steamer Pion
eer at San Diego.
Lawson, w’ho also recently suf
fered injuries in a boat capsizing
accident, was in a theatre when
the earth shock smote that area.
In making an exit from the thea
tre Lawson hobbled along some
what slowly, as he was still suffer
i ing from injuries. As his gait was
i a little too slow for another thea
| tre-goer, he was pushed aside by
the other just upon emerging from
1 the theatre.
j As the hurrying man passed
1 Lawson he was showered with an
avalanche of building material and
seriously injured. Had Lawson been
a moment sooner in getting out of
the building, he would have been.
I killed.