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VOLUME XXIX. NUMBER 170.
SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JULY 22, 1933.
PRICE TEN CENTS
MARKET UPSET
BY AVALANCHE
OF TRADING
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NEW YORK, July 22 —The stock
market reeled under an avalanche
of trading yesterday with the ex
change of shares the greatest since
the 1929 crash.
For the third successive day, en
ormous losses were jotted down be
side the long list of trading shares.
There were 9,570,000 shares ex
changed. the greatest number since
pctober 20. 1929, when 10,727,000
shares were exchanged.
As was the case for the day pre
vious the cause of the market crash
was not known. Rumors were many.
But harrassed brokers, traders and
bankers, watching the enormous pa
per profits seep out of the big
new deal boom market professed
no knowledge of exactly what was
happening.
Capt. Heinie Berger, of the MS.
Discoverer wires Seward that he
arrived in Seattle at 1 p.m. yes
terday. He is loading cargo at the
present time and will leave for
Seward Tuesday evening, next week.
AMERICANS RUN
AFOUL LAWS OF
NAZI REGIME
BERLIN, July 22. —Cases of Am
ericans running afoul of the Nazi
regime in Germany gave the United
States Consulate General a busy
day Friday.
The ministers of Prussia and the
Reich assured the American au
thorities they were attempting to
enable Walter Orloff, of New York
City, a student at the University
of Griefswald. in Pomerania, to re
turn to the United*States as soon
as possible, although he faces a
formal trial in German courts.
Orloff was arrested early this
month charged with consorting i
with Communists and participating
in an attempt to reorganize the
Communist party.
The charge against Orloff corre
sponds to high treason in Germany
and there is no chance of avoiding
trial.
LINDBERGHS FLY
TO GREENLAND
CARTWRIGHT, Labrador, July 22.
—Colonel and Mrs. Charles A.
Lindbergh flew from Labrador to
ward Greenland Thursday on the
first long overwater stage of their
flight along the North Atlantic
Air route.
The Lindbergh plane, held here
for days by fog and rain got away
at 7:22 am. after several unsuc
cessful attempts to leave the water
with a heavy load of fuel.
The overwater flight from Cart
wright to Julianehaab, Greenland,
and the nearest point in a direct
line is approximately 685 miles.
PRESIDENTS SON
TO WED AGAIN
CHICAGO, July 22. — In boyish
eagerness, Elliott Roosevelt, second
son of President Roosevelt is rush
ing through his Chicago visiting
and planned to depart today for
Burlington, Iowa, where the stage
has been set for his rumored mar
riage to Miss Ruth Googins, Fort
,Worth beauty.
• It is less than a week since El
liott Roosevelt got his Nevada di
vorce.
Geo- Ringstad, of the Pacific
American Fisheries, left on the SS.
Aleutian for Cordova last evening.
FIRST RETURNS
BAKER, Ore., July 22. — First j
returns in Oregon, comprising an!
incomplete vote from four pre-j
cincts out of 39 in Baker county,)
gave repeal of the 18th Amendment |
a heavy majority. Oregon is con
ceded to go wet.
A. SS. CO. OBJECTS
FEDERAL LOAN j
BUILDING VESSEL
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SEATTLE, July 22. —The award
of a $500,000 contract for the con
struction in Seattle of a freight
and passenger ship for Alaskan ser
vice has been held up because of a
protest filed with the United States
Shipping Board by the Alaska
Steamship Company, William Se-j
mar, manager of the Northland1
Transportation Company, revealed
Friday.
Semard said that bids for the
yessel’s construction were not op
ened because of a delay in obtain
ing a loan from the Shipping
Board.
The Alaska Steamship Company,
in its protest, ' says that the ser-1
vice now rendered Alaska is ade
! quate.
Final action on the matter will
| be had in Washington, D. C. Tues
, day at a public hearing at which
I time both sides will be represent
ed.
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iTENNESSE IS
VOTING WET TOO
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MEMPHIS, Tenn., July 22- —Ten-1
nessee appears as if it will follow;
$he lead of other states who have
voted for repeal. The Southern state
appeared to be the 19th state to
| approve the repeal of the 18th
S amendment but the count of votes
| in Thursday’s referendum is still so
close that dry leaders would not
concede defeat. Early returns gave
the Prohibitionists a good lead but
when the returns came in from
the cities the lead was cut dowm
and for a while the repealists ran
close to 10.000 votes ahead of the
drys.
SUSPEND TRADING
CHICAGO, July 22. — The Board
of Directors of the Chicago Board
of trade voted yesterday afternoon
to suspend trading in grain futures
I for another day, which meant that
| trade in wheat and produce futures,
(suspended Thursday night, cannot
be renewed before Monday. The
suspension had the approval of
Secretary of Agriculture Henry A.
Wallace.
FULLY RECOVERED
| WASHINGTON, July 22. — Presi
derit Roosevelt, fully recovered from
his cold Friday put in a full day’s
work on the recovery program. Re
turning to his desk at the execu
j tive offices, the President laughed
! at the alarmist reports concerning
his health.
Fr. G. J. Dane, of the Holy Fam
ily Catholic Church of Anchorage,
was an outgoing passenger on the
SS. Aleutian for Ketchikan wThere
he will Visit breifly. From Ketchi
kan Fr. Dane will go to Fortland.
During his absence from Anchorage
Fr- R. D. O’Flannigan is in charge.
BASEBALL SCORES
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Boston 7, St. Louis 0.
Brooklyn 1, Cincinnati 2.
New York 6, Pittsburgh 5.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Chicago 2, Boston 12.
Cleveland 2, New York 10.
St. Louis 6, Phialdelphia 3.
Detroit 1, Washington 7.
POST REACHED
EDMONTON AT
AN EARLY HOUR
FAIRBANKS, July 22. —Aviator
Wiley Post who arrived at the Fair- j
banks airfield at 10:45 a. m. Friday:
after a 360 mile flight from Flat,1
^here his plane was forced down]
^Thursday, left Fairbanks for Ed-;
monton, Alberta, at 5:45 p. m. Fri-|
day, Fairbanks time. Post refueled!
here and made minor repairs to his j
damaged plane before starting on!
the 1,450 mile flight. Bad weather j
conditions kept him from making
an earlier start. It was raining
when he landed here and low clouds
obscured visibility, and along the
route to Edmonton, clouds and scat
tered rains were reported.
It was revealed, following Post’s
arrival here, that he had been lost!
for seven hours soon after he passed
Ruby and that exhaustion prevented
him from keeping a straight course. I
When asked if he saw the Yukon
river he replied, “I saw a dozen1
Yukon’s”. He said he should have
landed at Nome and gotten some
sleep there but in his eagerness to
make time he pressed on. He was
sighted over McGrath, Tanana and
Ruby and later forced down at Flat.
Here he damaged the right land
ing wheel and strut and the pro
pellor. At one time he thought he
would have to bail out of his plane
, as no landing place appeared to be
in the vicinity he was flying but he
stuck with his ship and finally came
down. The damage to the plane,
occurred when he overran the
short field at Flat.
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Post arrived safely at Edmonton
at 8:07 Eastern Standard Time
and was greeted by a crowd of 5,000
persons. He had been in the air
for nine hours and 22 minutes since
the time he left Fairbanks.
Pest was unreported until he was
within five minutes flying time of
Edmonton. His time for the Fair
banks-Edmonton hop was one hour
faster than his time with Harold
Gatty in 1931.
The elapsed time since leaving,
New York is 171 hours and 57 min
utes as compared with 182 hours
and 42 minutes made when he flew
with Gatty in 1931 and which re
cord he is trying to break.
FAIR LISTING LEFT
ON 55. ALEUTIAN
| The outgoing listing of passengers
on the SS. Aleutian, other than the
roundtrippers, included the follow
ing:
For Seattle—H. E. Parker, S. R.
McAlary, Dr. F. G. Nichols, Fred
i Nichols, Olive Beedles, Margaret
j Still, Mrs. John Hershey, John Her
|shey, Mrs. Edw. Miller, Mary S. Cox,
G. M. Chambers, M. Weaver, Mrs.
jJ. A. McDonald, J. A. McDonald,
; Mrs. Lesh E. Neely, J. W. Swick, Ida
| Mae Swick, Edw. Ward, Le Roy
Maches, Geo. W. Reiner, Wm. Towle,
Geo. G. Suddock, Lynn E. Sawyer,
Stanley J. Nichols, Harvey Pekkala,
Louis Blum, Miss L. Lloyd, Barney
Call, Theodore Swreers, Mrs. I. Kos
losky, Master Ralph Koslosky.
For Valdez—J. Bolam, F. J. Ham
ilton, Wm. F. Burns, Frank Lectner,
Frances Whalen, Mrs. H. W. Faw
cett, Janet Ashbey.
For Juneau— J. P. Morgan, H. B.
Crewson, L. M. Westcott, D. T. Fett,
W. E. Austin. K. B. Edwrards.
For Cordova—Geo. Ringstad, J.
H. Clauson, Fred A. Gipnes, Fred
Prieter, John Anderson.
For Ketchikan, C M. Wett, Fr. G.
J. Dane.
The MS. Sea Lion, Capt. Nick
Gaikema, of Anchorage, arrived
in Seward from Cook Inlet ports
today.
CANT GET INTO MOVIES
HOLLYWOOD, July 22. — As a
movie actor, Primo Camera is a
champion prizefighter, it was indi
cated when the “man mountain
from Italy” was rejected as a film
prospect.
RECEPTION GIVEN
BALBO AND MEN
BY NEW YORKERS
NEW YORK, July 22. —A recep
tion that for noise and color has
seldom been equalled in any city
was accorded General rtalo Balbo
and the men who flew with him
from Italy to the United States,
Thursday, following their return
from Washington after a visit with
President Roosevelt.
Beginning with a Broadway par-;
ade in which great showers of!
ticker tape and confetti were pour- ■
ed down upon the heads of the
fliers, .General Balbo and his fel-j
low adventurers were received at!
the City Hall. There they were en-;
iertaned at a luncheon and later:
taken to Miadison Square Garden,
Bowl to greet the Italian residents
of New York.
Later they were feted at a for-:
mal reception and supper dance
at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel.
YUKON SAILED
THIS MORNING
SEATTLE, July 22. —The passen
gers leaving Seattle this morning
on the SS. Yukon were Sidonia!
Martens, Patrick Savage, Mrs. Pat- j
rick Savage, Phillip S. Smith, Sis- j
ter Petronilla, Sister Anselene, Norris;
McGuinn, Martha Davidson, Elmer
Nelson, J. T. Broyant, M. H. Guise,
Charles Ostrander, C. D. Luckman,
J. C. Fall, Oscar Wise, A. Kessinger,
E. P. Brevick, Mrs. M. Harmon, Jane!
Reese, Katherine Chatterton, W. 1.1
Pearson, W. Abbey, H. Danziger, J. •
Pisola.
LANDED NEAR ISLAND
NOME, July 22. —The Russian
seaplane, piloted by Aviator Levin- |
(offsky, and carrying Jimmy Mat-1
tern almost reached Nome on Wed
nesday but because of the bad,
1 weather conditions the plane had
.to land near St. Lawrence Island.!
; The flight to Nome was completed ;
Thursday, however, and the sea
, plane landed six miles from Nome
out of gas. The plane was refueled
■ and was flown from there to Nome.
WILL GO TO SELDOVIA
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Dunning,
i newlyweds, plan to leave Seward
, on the MS. Sea Lion for Seldovia
'where they will make* their home,
i^trs. Dunning came to Seward on
$he SS. Aleutian Friday and Mr.
j Dunning came in from Seldovia
on the MS. Discoverer a week ago
to meet his fiance. They were
married in Seward yesterday.
THE WEATHER
Cloudy and calm weather was re
ported at all stations along the
Alaska Railroad. The temperatures
were Seward 54, Tunnel 50, Anch
orage 60, Curry 55, Broad Pass 50,
Heaiy 44, Nenana 60, and Fairbanks
55.
AT THE HOTELS
Vail Gilder—Mr. and Mrs. J. S.
Jefferies, H. A. Anderson.
Seward—M. Deegan, Mr. and Mrs.
W. T. Jones, Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Ely,
and children, F. L. Knight, J. Ryan.
Overland—R. C. Johnston, Frank
Hill, Duncan Little, Mike Anderson,
O. G. Plowman.
Gilliland—Fred Hill, Thos. Leach,
Jacy Lean, Pete Rasmussen, Harvey
Rekkola.
BIG MINE DEAL
BEEN COMPLETED
IN CITY TACOMA
TACOMA, July 22. — Stockhold
ers of the Big Missouri Mining Co.,
Friday authorized the sale of the
assets of the company to the new
ly formed Canadian firm of
Big Missouri Mines Corporation.
The announcement was made by
Shelby R. Coats, investment brok
er. The transfer of stocks will be
two shares of Big Missouri to one
of the new corporation.
Coates said that the new organi
zation will mean that ample funds
will be available for the develop
ment of the properties. The cor
poration just organized is inter
ested in properties in British Col
umbia., Nevada and Montana.
W. M. Archibald, vice president
and general manager of the Con
solidated Mining and Smelting Co., •
was a speaker at the meeting and
he said he and Robert Holt, Mon
treal banker, would be among the
directors of the new corporation.
NATION'S PURSE
TO BE REFILLED
BOLD CAMPAIGN
WASHINGTON, July 22. —Presi
dent Roosevelt’s bold campaign to
refill the nation’s purse by higher
wages and shorter hours is in full
swing, with the verdict of industry
and business confidently awaited.
General Hugh S. Johnson direc
tor of this novel crusade announced
that every employer in the United
States was included as he marshal
ed industrial and business forces
through telegrams to presidents of
Chambers of Commerce in every
city of over 10,000 people in the
country.
Blanket forms for the agreement
to a 35-hour week and 40 cents an
hour minimum wage for labor and
a $15 minimum weekly wage and
a 44-hour week for the “white
collar” worker were being sent out
j for delivery by the mail carriers.
MEXICAN DIVORCE
SOUGHT BY AIMEE
EL PASO, Texas, July 22. —Aimee
Semple McPherson Hutton is con
templating a Juarez divorce from
David Hutton, Jr., it was said by
Manuel Navarro, attorney.
The famous woman evangelist,
who is en route home from Europe,
has been negotiating with a repre
sentative of the International Law
office, Navarro said.
Hutton, who recently announced
that he would seek a divorce from
Aimee, said he didn’t want to have
anything to do with a Mexican
divorce, but would seek a decree
| in an American court.
WORK AND WAGES
\ FOR ALL, PROMISE
WASHINGTON, July 22. — In a
supreme effort to assure work and
wages for all. President Roosevelt
called upon every employer to sign
an agreement to shorten working
hours and spread employment and
abide by a scale of minimum
wages.
The administration also plans
to circulate certificates to house
wives of America for their signa
ture pledging support of the bus
inesses cooperating with the govern
ment in this campaign to restore
prosperity.
The President, Friday, also act
ed to halt speculation in the grain
markets, which suffered a serious
slump Thursday.