VOLUME XXIX. NUMBER 188.
SEWARD, ALASKA,
SATURDAY, AUGUST 12, 1933.
PRICE TEN CENTS
SEVEN CUBAN
ARMY OFFICERS
WERE EXECUTED
HAVANA, Cuba, Aug. 12. —Pre
sident Gerardo Machado, in a grim
gesture demonstrating his power,
at a late hour Friday drove from
'he Presidential Palace to Camp
Columbia and there personally or
dered the execution of seven army
officers who had signed a petition
asking for his resignation, a high
source told the press.
The orders were carried out the
informant said, and within three
aours time the President was back
n hio palace.
The officers, including Gaspar
Betancourt and a man n a m e d
Rousseau, had presented the peti
tion to Colonel Castillo, commander
of the camp, which is the army
headquarters and is located five
niles from Havana.
Machado gained knowledge of
the petition and decided to act at
ance
When Machado left the Palace
the word spread quickly and the
general belief was that he had
decided to comply with the request
that he take a leave of absence.
The people came out in the streets,
forgot their fear and for a while
the excitment ran high as the de
monstrative humanity seemed to
.lave no bounds for their enthusi
asm of at least a partial letup in
die political crisis. It appeared
later, however, that the Cubans
were a little premature in their
celebration as Machado returned
-.o occupy his same post.
G. O. P. UNDISCOURAGED
SACRAMENTO. Aug. 12. —Eleven
4;< Republicans, whose offices will ex
pire soon, have announced their
intention of running again for elec
tion. Nine of the republicans are
running to succeed temselves while
two aspire for higher offices.
MC LARNIN BOUT
BEING ARRANGED
BOSTON. Aug. 12. — Boston fight
urometers were vieing with each
other to sign Jimmy McLarnin of
Vancouver and the present world’s
welterweight champion for an early
Fall bout here either with Andy
Callahan of Lawrence, and the New
England welterweight champion or
Lou Brouillard, the new middle
weight king.
McClarnin, it is indicated, is ready
to sign for the fight as soon as the
fight receipsts share, which he de
sires, is straightened out.
McLarnin recently won his title
from Young Corbett.
ADVANCE TO FINALS
OAK PARK, 111., Aug. 12. — Miss
Virginia Van Wie, of Chicago, Na
tional Women's champion, and Miss
Lucille Robinsjjn, of Des Moines.
Iowa, champion of Iowa, advanced
zo the final 36-hole match for the
women's Western golf title yester
day, each by vanquishing a Cali
# fornian.
WERE TO LEAVE TODAY
LISBON, Portugal, Aug. 12. —
General Italo Balbo, air minister of
Italy, -who is in command of the
Italian seaplanes returning from a
mass flight to Chicago, ordered his
men to retire at 9 p.m. last night
in preparation for a 4:30 a.m. de
parture today for Rome.
’TIS NOT SO—
HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 12. —Doug
; las Fairbanks, Sr., has no intention
tpf becoming a British subject, ac
cording to his brother Robert, who
[resides here. Rumors that Douglas
planned to switch his allegiance
from the United States to England
were caused when the noted film
actor took a long-term lease on a
house in London.
RADIO OPERATORS
SUBMIT A CODE
OF THEIR OWN
WASHINGTON. Aug. 12. — The
radio operating game, which has
provided thrill and adventure for
many a youth and man on the high
seas, in the air and on land, but
with poor pay, would be elevated
'to a better salaried professional
! class and status under a code of
'fair competition filed by organ
ized commercial radio operators
with the National Recovery Ad
ministration.
Eight hour shifts, with double
time for overtime, are the hours
proposed in the code and the min
imum pay for chief radio operators
,ut broadcasting and land stations
would be $250 per month and scale
down to operators in the ranks.
The chief on a mobile station would
draw a minimum of $200 per month
and the lowest ranking men would
get $125.
INCOME TAX BE
POCKET VETOED
BY GOV. ROLPH
: SACRAMENTO, Calif., Aug. 12. —
Governor James J. Rolph Friday de
finitely announced that he would
allow the state personal income tax
to die by the pocket veto.
His statement means that the
income tax bill voted by the recent
legislature will not become a law,
and that California will be spared
the exactions of a tax which vir
tually all groups of citizens branded
as economically destructive.
Governor Rolph also intimated as
a reason for not signing the mea
sure that it woul place a heav
ier burden on the average wage
earner than the higher salaried
person.
WHEAT PRICES
BROKE BADLY
NEW YORK, Aug. 12. — A sharp
break in the wheat prices on the
Chicago board of trade, as result
of the government crop report
! which estimated a bigger Spring
wheat crop than private estimates
,had placed it, was the only out
| standing feature of the markets
' yesterday.
! Share prices were irregular and
varied as much as several points in
the day’s trading. Trading was
again characterized by listlessness.
NEW MASTER
NEW YORK, Aug. 12. — The
guardianship of the Statue of Lib
erty was changed from the War De
partment to the Interior Depart
1 ment by an executive order signed
yesterday by President Roosevelt.
! The War Department's fort pro
I tecting the statue will remain in
the War Department’s care. hour
ever, it is stated.
Pilot Steve Mills brought an air
plane down to rest at the Seward
Airport yesterday afternoon having
flown over from Anchorage.
MICHIGAN TRIO
COLLECTS FLORA
ALASKA REGIONS
Camped on the shores of Grant
Lake, Moose Pass, are three like
able and interesting young men
from the famed University of Michi
gan. For two months they have
been collecting flora specimens for
the University and have shipped
many boxes East. The trio will ar
rive in Seward the latter part of
this month, homeward-bound.
The expedition comprises Prof.
Dow W. Baxter, Ben Laboree, sen
ior class and also of Princeton, and
Willard Hildebrand, junior, a guard
on Michigan’s famous football team.
Hildebrand goes direct to Ann Ar
bor from Seattle to turn out for
practice, but Prof. Baxter and La
boree will remain in the Rockies
for a few weeks collecting.
Last Summer Professor Baxter
devoted the season in Yukon Terri
tory and in 1930 in Northern Eu
rope. Alaska specimens are similar
to those of Sweden, he said. He
will return to Sweden next January
to continue his 1930 work.
The young men were unanimous
in expressing their gratefulness for
the hearty cooperation extended
everywhere in the Territory and
for the sincere friendliness of Al
askans which will often be recalled.
Dr. Baxter said he looks forward
to spending an entire Summer in
Alaska.
Specimen gathering began in the
Ketchikan and Juneau area, thence
West, over the Richardson high
way to Fairbanks, South to McKin
ley National Park for nine days,
then to Anchorage and Sunrise,
across Turnagain Arm to Hope for
a week and now, in the Moose Pass
district where Road Superintend
ent Jack Ebing, of the Bureau of
Public Roads, his charming wife
and daughter, have extended every
courtesy to these three fine repre
sentatives of the great state of
Michigan.
MRS. ROOSEVELT
BLUE EAGLING
WASHINGTON, Aug. 12. — Ml’S.
Franklin D. Roosevelt arranged a
luncheon conference yesterday with
Recovery Administrator H u g h S.
Johnson to consider the possibility
of improving wage scales for women
under industrial codes.
She feels that under ordinary cir
cumstances women and men ought
to receive equal pay for equal work.
BASEBALL SCORES
I
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Deroit 0, Chicago 2.
| Washington 8, Boston 4.
; New York at Philadelphia, rain,
j No other games played.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Chicago 8, Pittsburgh 2.
. Cincinnati 5, St. Louis 8.
No other games scheduled.
There were no Coast League
scores.
MAKES KNOWN FINDING
JACKSON, Wyo.. Aug. 12. —Sena
tor Nye, heading a committe inves
tigating Land deals in the Jackson
Hole, Wyoming, district, made an
announcement .Friday that exon
erated alleged agents of John D.
Rockefeller of the practice of forc
ing settlers off the land here in an
ticipation of the proposed evtension
of the Yellowstone National Park
boundaries to include the Jackson
Hole country.
EXECUTIVE N. R. A. ORDER
HYDE PARK, Aug., 12. —Presi
dent Roosevelt yesterday took the
first legislative action to have the
government exert its force behind
the National Recovery Administra
tion program when he signed the
order pledging the government to
purchase- its supplies and needs
only from “Blue Eagle” firms.
INDUSTRY WILL BE
FORCED TO ADOPT
CODE, SENTIMENTi
WASHINGTON, D. C. Aug. 12. —
Recovery Administrator Hugh S.
Johnson Friday repeated his state
ment that the “Blue Eagle” em
blem of the National Recovery Ad
ministration would be taken away
from firms not complying with the
spirit of the National Recovery Act1
provisions. He also said that the
names of the firms from whom the
“Blue Eagle” was taken would be
given publicity in newspapers.'
Johnson declared that with a com
bine of the public to patronize on
ly the “blue eagle” firms that this
would mean economic death for any
firm not complying with the fair
competition code.
Johnson said that the “Blue j
.Eagle” would not recognize state!
lines and that public sentiment!
would be the only weapon to force;
industry to adopt the code.
DAVE HUTTON
DOESN'T WANT
BE MR. AIM EE
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 12. —
David L Hutton, artiste rather than
crooner, opened a stage appearance
in San Francisco Friday night to
prove he merits the public eye as
Dave Hutton and not as Mr. Aimee
Semple Mcpherson. “I want to make
my own career, not marry cne,”
he said, ‘‘and I want to be known
as Dave Hutton, not as “Iron Man”
or Mr. Aimee.”
Hutton was disinclined to talk
about the divorce proceedings he:
has instituted against his evangel-j
istic wife, indicating he would much
rather forget about the past and
face life anew as an individual per
son. a baritone of the artiste type, j
He insisted that he was a bari
tone, not a crooner.
ITALIAN FLIES i
UPSIDE-DOWN
LOS ANGELES. Aug. 12.. —Upside ,
down flying apparently is no trick
at all for some aviators and Lieut.
Tito Falconi, Italian airman, who
was deprived of his prized title for
a few hours yesterday, is again
the world’s champion upside down
endurance flyer.
Falconi’s new record is two hours,
eight minutes and 54 seconds, and
this record was set yesterday on a
flight'totaling some 180 miles tc
Santa Barbara and back to Los An
geles.
Lt. Falconi broke the record re
j cently established by Milo Burcham
! of one hour. 46 minutes and 59 sec-;
! onds.
SHIP BOAT TO U- S.
LONDON, Aug. 12. —The Britain
nr successfully completed its final
time trial here yesterday and today
is aboard a ship en route to the
United States to compete with G-ajr
(Wood for the motor boat supre
macy.
UNITED STATES
KEEPS ITS EYE
CUBAN EVENTS
WASHINGTON, Aug. 12. — The
State Department last night sharp
ly scrutinized every move in the
Cuban political drama to determine
whether the Herrera military die
torship is actually in acceptance of
the American peace plan or merely
a .subterfuge to keep the Machado -
ists in power.
The withdrawal of Machado from
active control of the government ir.
favor of Secretary of War Herrera,
is definitely in line with the pro
gram of settlement proposed by
U. S. Ambassador Sumner Welles.
Provided the situation in Cuba
dees not change soon the State
Department has begun consider
ation of the possibility of applying
strong economic pressure on Cube
io force the retirement of Machado
and restore peace.
At Hyde Park the development cE
Cuba’s economic life was revealed
Friday evening as the objective of
President Roosevelt’s policy rather
than the protection of American
investments in sugar and tobaccc.
The chief executive's program,
for Cuba has been placed squarely
up to Cuban authorities, whose ac
ceptance or rejection will deter
mine if the island republic is to
continue peace or war.
ASKS N. R. A. HELP
HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 12. —Repre
sentatives of labor have decided to
ask the National Recovery Adminis
tration to assume jurisdiction over
the Hollywood strike of 3.000 arti
sans as it is asserted that they will
return to work under N. R. A. or
ders until the strike is finally set
tled. Not only is the N. R. A. asked
to assume jurisdiction over the
plan to return the men to wort:
but it will be asked to assume the
responsibility for effecting a con
cilliation between strikers and film
producers.
ROOSEVELT IS
VISITING CAMPS
WASHINGTON. Aug. 12. —Leav
ing Krum Elbow last evening, Pre
sident Roosevelt was to visit Civil
ian Conservation Corps Camps in
the Shenandoah Valley and then go
to Washington for a week or 1C
days before returning to his Hyde
Park estate.
The President said it was his hope
that many of the boys employed in
these emergency camps would be
able to find private employment
during the winter.
The President continued to watch
the Cuban situation closely, and is
waiting for the effect of his present
non-intervention policy.
ENGLAND WINS
RYE, N. Y., Aug\ 12. — England
took control of the women's singles
in the Eastern grass court tennis
championships for the third suc
cessive year Friday when its top
ranking players, Mary Heeley and
Dorothy Round, gained the final
round.
LEAD BY FOUR GAMES
NEW YORK, Aug. 12. — Coming
from behind with a six-run rally
in the ninth inning, Washington
Friday registered its fourth straight
victory by defeating Boston’s Red
Sox 8 to 4. This extended the
Senator’s American League lead to
four full games over the idle New
York Yankees.
DANCE TONIGHT I. 0. 0. F. HALL