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VOLUME XXVIII. NUMBER 158. SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JULY 8,1932.
PRICE TEN CENTS
MOSCOW, July 8. 0P> —Ambitious
Mattern and Griffin who attempt
ed to set a new round-the-world
speed record wrecked their plane
in a peat bog when they mistook
the lights of Borishov, half way be
tween Berlin and Moscow for Mos
cow.
The accident occurred on the
same night they left Berlin but it
was unreported until late Thurs
day.
Boroshov is a small city a consid
erable distance south of Miscow and
out of the direct airline the fliers
were going to take
It was believed here that the fly
ers were drawn out off their course
by the improperly functioning con
trols which they had reported was
quite evident.
The fliers to not intend to con- j
tinue their flight as they are al
ready 24 hours behind the Post
and Gatty time.
News that the fliers had landed,
without injuring themselves quell- J
ed the fears of many who had be
gun to worry about their safety.
The plane “Century of Progress”
was left in the peat bog but it will
probably be taken out.
Mattern and Griffin are enroute
to Moscow by train.
fflllTED DIVORCEE
SHOT BULL MIR
BECAUSE 01 BUHL
CHICAGO. July 8. —William F.
Jurges. Chicago Cubs shortstop,
was shot twice by an infatuated
young divorcee Thursday in a my
sterious quarrel in the ball player’s
room in a North side hotel.
Jurges, 24, was wounded in the
lower right side and the left hand
by bullets from a .22 calibre pis
tol. The girl. Violet Popovich, also
was shot in the left hand
Both were taken to a hospital
where it was revealed that the
ball players’ wounds were not ser
ious.
Unless complications set in. Jur
ges will be able to leave the hospi
tal in a week and will return to
the Cubs lineup in two weeks, ac
cording to the club physician. After
piecing together incoherent details
cf the shooting, police said they be
lieved Miss Popovich, in a fit of
despondency and jealousy, had
threatened to take Jurges’ life and
her own.
LOS ANGELES, July 7. CP>—For,
the first time in their history, the
Olympic Games have taken on a
distinctly Oriental hue.
Announcement was made Satur
day that China will make its enter
ing bow in world sports with a tiny ;
team. Three athletes are represent
ing the population of more than
40.000,000.
Japan, with more than 200 ath-.
letes entered, will have the largest;
foreign delegation at Los Angeles, j
SEPARATION CONFIRMED
HOLLYWOOD, July 7. — The
final separation of Ruth Chatter
ton, stage and screen actress, and
her husband, Ralph Forbes, was
confirmed by friends here.
STARR GOES TO CORDOVA
The SS. Starr, Capt. Arthur Ryn
ing, with the barge Lawrence in
tow left Thursday evening about
six o’clock. The barge was loaded
down with 500 tons of coal from In
terior mines and is intended for j
Cordova consumption. It takes the
Starr about 18 hours to tow the
loaded barge down to Cordova and
will take that vessel about 16 hours
to return to Seward. The Starr
should return to Seward sometime
Saturday and is scheduled to leave
for the West Monday.
MAYOR CERMACK ILL
CHICAGO, July 8. (/P)—Despite
reassurances from official quarters
fears were held for Mayor Cermack
who is ill and in a serious condition
at the hospital where he was tak
en Thurdsay. It was stated that
Mayor Cermack had been taken
to the hospital for a “rest.” Two
policemen guard the door to his
hospital room.
INCUSED 25 PEN CENT
SAN FRANCISCO, July 8. —More
than 10,000 miners, some of them
women, most of them amateurs,
are working the once famous gold
streams of California with pans,
rockers, sluice boxes and dry wash
ers, a surve completed by a press
agency revealed.
Spurred by lack of employment
in the payroll towns, drawn by the
chance in a million that their’s
will be the pick to uncover an
other mother lode, this unskilled
but determined army has succeed
ed in increasing the state’s total
annual gold production by 25 per
cent since the degression started.
LONDON. July 8. (JPt—Great Bri
j tain cordially welcomes President
Hoover’s disarmament plan, Stan
ley Baldwin, acting prime minister,
announced in the House of Com
mons.
However, he indicated, Britain is
unable to accept the plan uncon
ditionally. She agrees on the in
ter-connection of the problems of
military, naval and air disarma
ment, he added.
The United Kingdom proposes a
reduction of capital ship tonnage
by 195.000 tons as opposed to 175,
000 tons proposed by President Hoo
ver. Baldwin also announced. Sub
marines should be entirely abolish
ed and aerial bombing completely
; prohibited.
S100.000 FOR EVACUATION
WASHINGTON, July 8. —With
out a dissenting voice the House
Thursday passed the Howell reso
lution appropriating $100,000 t o
finance the evacuation of the
bonus expeditionary forces now in
I the Capitol.
CHICAGO, July 3. —Norma Tal
maclge said she believed the Mexi
can lawyers who insist they are
arranging a divorce for her merely
are seeking free publicity for the
free and easy Mexican divorce laws.
“I never heard of them,” she
added, “and I certainly haven’t
sued my husband for a divorce. If
I had he would have known about
it. If there’s any suing to be done
it will be against these lawyers-”
Miss Talmadge is in Chicago for
a stage appearance beginning next
week.
93 YEARS OLD TODAY
NEW YORK, July 8.—John D.
Rockefeller, oil magnate today cele
brated his 93 birthday. The “Oil
King” said he believes he will live
to be 100 years of age. The birth
day was celebrated at the Rocke
feller estate near this city.
TEMPERATURE EXTREMES
SEATTLE, July 8. —Temperature
extremes for the 24 hours ending
5 p. m. (PST) Thursday were Seat
tle 73-51, Chicago 80-66, Los An
geles 78-60, Denver 94-J66, New York
80-62, New Orleans 94-78, Port
j land 80-56, San Francisco 72-52,
Juneau 58-48, Ketchikan 56-46.
SCHMELING TO WED
PARIS, July 7- —Max Schmeling,
of Germany, who lost his heavy
weight title to Jack Sharkey last
month, is going to marry Anny On
dra, beautiful C z e c h o-Slovaklan
film actress, the Paris “Midi” stat
ed.
i SMITH'S SUPPORT IS
MUSE OF MUCH JOT ;
DEMOCRHTIC CHIEF*
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NEW YORK, July 8. — Withj
hoarse indignation that his regu- j
larity should be questioned, Alfred |
E. Smith announced he would sup- ;
port “the Democratic partys in the j
November electtion.”
When his attention was called to j
the fact that his formal statement |
contained no mention of Franklin
D. Roosevelt or John Nance Garner,
he smote the polished surface of
his desk and said, “My statement
means that I shall support the
party, the nominees and the plat
form.”
Smith’s pledge to support the I
Roosevelt-Garner ticket sent the!
democratic campaign off to a sing- j
ing start as it removed a dark!
overhanging cloud that was giv- ;
ing democratic leaders some con-1
cern.
How potents is the 1928 candi
date’s influence was demonstrated
in the joy shown by the Democratic
chieftains here when Smith drama
tically buried the hatchet that he
carried to Chicago in a futile at
tempt to cut the nomination from
under his former friend. Gov.
Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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ANNOUNCE SUPPORT
VERA CRUZ, Mex. July 8. —The
Workers’ and Farmers’ party of
Vera Cruz have announced their
support of Gov. Adalberto T e j eda
as the Labor party’s presidential
! candidate in the next elections.
WASHINGTON, July 6. —Japan
is the most imperialistic nation in
the world and bent on wrar, Yuen
Li Liang, former judge of Shang
hai municipal court and instruc
tor in international law at Har
vard, declared in a formal state
ment. Yuen Li Liang is also a
delegate to the League of Nations.
He said: “In the postwar period
Japan stands out as the most im
perialistic and nationalistic-mind
ed nation in the wrorld. Unless the
eternal conflict as to the economic
and hence political control is ad
justed by some workable process
i war must remain constantly sub
; ject to the vicissitudes of fate.”
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VON ELM LEADS
OTTAWA. Ontario, July 8. (JP)—
George Von Elm, of Los Angeles,
clipped three strokes from par
Thursday to lead the Canadian
Open Golf championship field with
a first round aggregate of 70. Lee
Diegel of Agua Caliente scored a
72, one stroke below par, to rank
second.
DROP “WAR GUILT” FIGHT
LAUSANNE, July 3. —Indications
! were that Germany is now willing
I to give up her fight to be absolved
! of “war guilt” and was ready to
agree to the five point program
which will be sent before the re
parations conference itself for ap
proval.
PLANT RE-OPENED
BUFFALO, July 6. —The Ameri
can Radiator Company has re
opened its plant after a shut-down
of more than two months and re
called more than 250 employees.
Several hundred workers returned
to the Dupont Rayon Plant when it
resumed operations after being shut
down for several month§. The
Wickwire Spencer Steel Company
also announced it will open some
time this week and open hearth
furnace inactive for several months.
WOMAN SENTENCED
DETROIT, July 7. (JP)—Mrs. Flor
ence Hadley, 30, confessed partici
pant in a wire tapping plot that
defrauded the Western Union and
Canadian Telegraph companies of
more than $15,000 was sentenced
to from three to five years in the
house of correction.
HOOVER FAILS STOP
ACTION RELIEF BILL
BT HIS VETO THREATS
WASHINGTON, July 8. —Speak
er John N. Garner won a decided
victory over President Hoover
when the House adopted the Sen
ate-House conference report on
the Wagner-Garner relief bill. A
number of Republicans bolted their
party to support the bill.
The House passed the measure
despite Hoover’s warning that he
will veto the measure when it
reaches him for his signature.
The president and Garner roar
ed their defiance at each other
in a bitter clash over the previous
ly deadlocked $2,100,000,000 relief
j bill sponsored by the Democrats.
: A few hours after Garner had
i warned sharply that democratic
I congressional leaders were prepar
ed to force the isue through to a
finish, Hoover issued a 1,200 word
statement declaring he could not
accept the measure.
The chief point at issue was the
provision increasing the borrowing
power of the Reconstruction Fin
! ance Corporation to $1,500,000,000
| to enable loans to individuals, pri
I vate corporations and municipali
j ties.
Although Garner made sacrafices
in other controversial provisions of
the bill he refused to alter this
one. Of this provision President
Hoover said, “Such an undertaking
by the United States Government
makes the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation the most g i g a n t i c
, banking and pawnbroking business
i in all histcry.”
The House and Senate conferees
agreed after the White House con
j ference to support Garner and re
fused flatly to accede to the Presi
dent’s wishes to revise the section.
The house Thursday morning ad
opted the measure.
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RICHMOND. Calif.. July 6.—Re
■ ports of theft of a large quantity
of dynamite caps, fuses and dyna
! mite led authorities here to inves
j tigate the possibility the explos
ives were stolen by Communists.
Twenty-five men were reported to
be on their way to Los Angeles
carrying dynamite in blanket rolls.
They were said to be planning a
demonstration July 10 against the
I recent imprisoning of William Z.
Foster, Communist ^residential
candidate in that cit
SENTENCED TO DEATH
MOSCOW, July 6. — Five em
ployees of Moscow State Retail
Stores were sentenced to death
after a six day trial on charges of
defrauding the State of one million
rubles nominally $500,000 by theft, j
illegal raising of prices and by |
supplying speculators with goods.!
Seven others were sentenced to 10
years in prison and eight were sent
to jail for three to five years and
three were acquitted.
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WILL ATTEND GAMES
LOS ANGELES, July 8. (A5) —
! Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt, demo
; cratic presidential nominee, has
; decided to attend the Olympic
| games, according to a telegram re
! ceived here from William G i b bs
McAdoo. He will arrive here about
August 9.
nil. RESULTS
NATIONAL LEAGUE
New York5, Pittsburgh 4.
Boston 5, St. Louis 4.
Chicago 7, Philadelphia 0.
Brooklyn at Cincinnati, rain.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Detroit 8, New York 5; 10 in
nings.
Chicago 13-3, Philadelphia 3-9.
St. Louis 8, Boston 2.
Cleveland 3-4, Washington 2-3.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Los Los Angeles 5, San Francis
co 4.
Seattle 7, Oakland 1.
HOOVER SIGNS BILL
WASHINGTON, July 8. (/P) —
President Hoover Thursday signed
the $175,000,000 agriculture depart
ment appropriation bill and the
measure is now law. A number of
Alaska road projects are provided
for in the agriculture bill as well
as maintenance funds and emer- j
gency funds.
‘BEER BLOC'MAHIil
FOB IMMEDIATE DECISIONS
WASHINGTON, July 8. (/P) — The
“Beer Bloc’' in the House Thurs
day decided to petition Speaker J.
N. Garner on the floor of the
chamber to allow an immediate
vote on the modification of the
Volstead Act
The House acted while the Sen
ate was preparing to vote on the
Bingham amendment to the house
loan bank bill which would legalize
the manufacture of 3.2 per cent
beer.
'WIT II MAN' INVOLVED
ALLEGED LIQUOR PIATT
HERMOSA BEACH, Calif., July 8.
— Revelations that Guy Edward
“What a Man” Hudson had been
involved in an alleged gambling
and drinking bout in the ripping
town of Las Vegas, Nev., were made
Thursday by his muchly wedded
spouse, Mrs. Minnie Kennedy Hud
son, the mother of Evangelist
Aimee McPherson Hutton, who
| made the disclosure in explaining
j the cryptic announcement of Ry
; land C. Taylor, Las Vegas attorney,
; that he had been retained by Hud
j sen.
The attorney refused to r e v e a 1
; the nature of his services for Hud
son.
BACKING ROOSEVELT
NEW YORK, July S. — Smedley
. Butler, former head of the United
i States Marines and an ardent dry,
I has announced that he intends to
support the Democratic ticket, wet
plank and all. The “fighting mar
ine officer” says he is still a re
publican but he cannot accept the
present leadership for another
term.
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VICTORIA IfATCH TAKES
UPTON TROPHY AGAIN
! SEATTLE. July 8—The Lady Pat
of Victoria took the Sir Thomas
. Lipton perpetual trophy back to
Canada for the second successive
year when the brisk little yacht
sailed away from the Sir Tom of
Seattle.
Sir Tom, holder of the cup three
I years ago was third in the race of
| the Pacific International Yacht
! Association Regatta.
DEFENDING HONOR
LOS ANGELES, July 8. —A young
woman who came with tears in her
eyes and paraded across the stage
in the St. Pierre-Hutton breach of
promise suit Thursday, threw the
court into a turmoil as she argued
with Superior Judge Lester Roth
for- the right “to defend my honor.”
SELECT NOMINEES
INDIANAPOLIS, July 8. —Wil
liam D. Upshaw, of Georgia, one of
the most militant of dry congress
men while he was a representative
from his state, was named as the
/prohibition party’s candidate for
president. Frank Regan, of Rock
ville, 111., was made the party’s
nominee for vice president.
SIX-HOUR SCHEDULE
PORTLAND, July 6. —All plat
form workers and inspectors of
the street car division of the Port
land Electric Company went on a
six hour day schedule July first,
President Franklin T. Griffith, an
nounced. The plan was proposed
by the Carmens Union and is de
signed to offset a reduction in a
number of employees. About 1,000
men will be effected.
FRENCH SUBMARINE IS
STILL RESTING BELOW
245 FEET OCEAN WATER
CHERBOURG, France, July 8. (/P)
—Salvage vessels hovering over the
spot were the French submarine
Promethee sank reported air bub
bles on the surface of the water
above the craft this afternoon and
found the sub’s telephone buoy. It
is believed the telephone buoy is
still connected to the submarine..
There are 66 persons aboard and
of these 17 are naval engineers and
men of similar rating temporarily
assigned to the submarine while
it was undergoing tests.
The submarine had been in ser
vice for only one year and was un
dergoing surface tests when it
sank. It lies in 245 feet of water
with treacherous currents and an
uneven bottom.
The prevailing impression that
the submarine is slowly rising ap
pears almost impossible.
One of the seven men saved said
he heard a hissing noise from be
low as he stood on the deck; the
captain rushed up and ordered all
below. The doors were shut quickly
! but one was jammed as the ves
sel dove. In about 30 seconds the
vessel sank. The captain who was
thrown • overboard by the jolting
was among those saved.
HOOVER WILL DEMID
NEW RELIEF MENSORE
SMS SENATOR WATSON
WASHINGTON, July 7. — Sena
; tor Watson, a republican leader,
1 said Wednesday President Hoover
will veto the $2,100,000,000 unem
, ployment relief bill and insist that
I congress stay in session until a new
measure has been passed.
The Senator said in a statement
I from the floor, this virtually ends
! any chance for an adjournment of
congress this week.
The president in a brief message
j to congress asked for the appro
[ priation of $120,000 to continue the
j activities of the President’s organ
j ization on Unemployment relief.
MAY ESTABLISH MONOPOLY
! SANTIAGO, Chile, July 8. —The
Socialist government is consider
ing the establishment of a state
monopoly in sugar in order to pre
vent speculation, the newspaper El
Pais reported.
SHIPS IHV RECEIVE
§10 Bin
LONDON, July 7, (/P)— Many lives
; are expected to be saved aboard
! ships and many serious illnesses
i prevented by the introduction of a
new “state-casing” system in the
international radio code, whereby
i ships not carrying a doctor will, be
j able to recieve medical advice by
I radio when needed.
The new method is described in
| the British edition of the Interna
! tional Code of Signals, and will be
brought into operation on January
1, 1933.
The system has been designed to
overcome all language difficulties,
and a ship wishing advice or assis
tance can send a message to other
ships or coast stations with the as
surance that their request will be
suitably answered.
SHIPBUILDERS ARRIVE
A party of shipbuilders from the
Berg Shipbuilding Company of
Seattle were arrivals on the SS. Yu
kon and are en route to Nenana
where they will construct a new
river vessel for the Alaska Railroad.
Among the members of the ship
builders party are Carl Envall, Al
bert Jensen, C. G. Lundgren, Andy
Medby, Ivar B. Nelson, John Tor
get and S. O. easier. A consignment
of boat building material was also
sent North on the Yukon from
Seattle and will go forward to the
Interior on one of the next freights.