Bernard
MEMBER ASSOCIATED KK.ESS
VOLUME XXIX. NUMBER 89.
SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, APRIL 17, 1933.
PRICE TEN CENTS
ROUGH WATERS
HE HD FOR
PRESJOSEVEIT
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE HEAD
PROTESTS MUSCLE SIIOAL
PROGRAM
WASHINGTON, D. C„ April 17,—
Rough seas lie just ahead on Pres
ident Roosevelt’s revolutionary
course thru the depression. Firs',
signs of the approaching storm ap
peared from a source entirely un
president, from Henry Harriman.
pesident of the United States
Chamber of Commerce who sent to
the entire membership of the
chamber, a letter of strong protest
against the administration’s far
reaching Muscle Shoals program.
He forgot, to mention that he
has been a private power executive
for years, it was pointed out.
He advised the members of the
government power project that
the power project was in direct
confilct with the long-standing
policies of the chamber, therefore
should be abandoned
In New York the Herald editor
ially warned that the truce is near
an end.
The attacks came just as Pres
ident Roosevelt was preparing to
launch into new experiments of
the broadest social significance.
He is expected soon to propose
a program of public works running
into several billions of dollars to
finance replacement of city slums,
elimination, of grade crossings, de
velopment of sewerage systems for
smajjer communities and other de
velopments expected to improve
the standard of living while at the
same time, reemploying millions
of men and creating a government
financed market for commodities
from steel to shoes.
He is also expected to propose
to Congress the setting up of a
national cor-ordinator for the
railroads. Thru the Secretary of
Labor, the administration is seek
ing to expand the present five
day week bill pointing toward
creation _of wage boards for var
ious industries which would regu
late working hours and minimum
wage except wheer fixed by union
contracts.
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SCENE CLASH BETWEEN
REBELS Li Ff HULLS
MERIDA, Mex., April 17—Forty
one are dead after a battle in the
Yucatan village of Opichen be
tween a Rebel force and Federal
troops; three of the dead were
Federals and six wounded.
The governor of Yucatan sad it
was purely a local incident and re
sulted from ununiformed prisons
furlowing the leadership of the so
called Revolutionary defense or
ganization which is opposed to the
government.
Twenty rebels were captured.
The Federals had been instruct
ed to use persuasion rather than
force in putting down revolt but
the rebels refused to surrender
their supply of arms and ammuni
tion.
Soldiers, numbering 60, enierea
the town and were ambushed by
rebels; a pitched battle followed.
BEIL CONFIRMED BE
SEITE, FISHEflIEB POST
WASHINGTON, D. C., Apiil 17.—
President Roosevelt’s nominaton
of Mayor Frank Murphy of Detroit
for Governor-General of the Phil
ippines has been confirmed by the
Senate, which also confirmed the
nomination of Frank T. Bell, sec
retary of Senator Dill, Commis
sioner of Fisheries, succeeding
Henry O’Malley.
Mayor James M. Curley of Bos
ton, who wa.s named Ambassador
to Poland, said, after a conference
with the President, that he was
needed more at home, and was un
willing to leave until such time as
conditions materially improve.”
FOOT CUT OFF
SAN FRANCISCO. April 17, —
An aged and unidentified man
was knocked down and one foot
severed at the ankle when he was
struck by a municipal railway trol
ley on Market Street, opposite the
Palace hotel. Scores of persons saw
the accident.
GOOD LINE
ABOARD SS BERGENGARIA,
April 17, —Prime Minister Ramsay
MacDonald of Great Britain, en
■ route to Washington, expressed
complete confidence that his con
1 versatioijs with President Roose
i velt would pave the way to world
! economic peace and recovery.
Replying to a message of wel
i come from President Roosevelt, he
. said: “I am leaving in wonderful
weather which I take as an omen
of hope.’'
i AMERICA EXPECTED
RECOGNIZE RUSSIA
! IN ft FEW WEEKS
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WASHINGTON, D. C„ April 17 —
The desirability of discussing eco
nomic problems with Russia before
the World economic conference
was understood to be influencing
the administration’s recognition,
publicity toward the Soviet Union.;
While officials would not go so
far as to predict that Russia would ;
be recognized before the London
meeting June 15, they admitted the I
possibility. I
New data on Russia's economic
condition and the prospects of
U. S.-Russian trade, it is under-j
stood, were given to President
Roosevelt by Col.v Hugh Cooper,'
engineer and economist.
PRAISE, JOY ASCEND" !
THROUGHOUT WORLD j
EASIER CELEBRATION
i
—
NEW YORK, April 17,—Easter
hosannas of praise and joy as-,
cended throughout the world Sun-j
day as Christendom celebrated the.
1900 anniversary of the Resurrec !
tion of Christ. f
Churches of America were ■
crowded and thousands of others
worshipped out of doors at Sunrise
Services.
Simple but impressive services
were held in Jerusaleum.
In the United States, metropoli
tan streets displayed the usual fin-!
j ery though in many places parades!
were shrouded in umbrellas to pro
| tect them from drizzling rains.
President and Mrs. Roosevelt at
tended the Knights Templers Sun-i
rise Service.
500 CORPSES
CHINGWANTAO, China, April 17,!
Japanese troops held this impor-j
tant North China port, 20 miles
•inside of the Great Wall, after
Chinese defenders had withdrawn
without resistance.
The bloodless victory followed
a severe battle between Japanese
and Chinese troops near Yung
ping. The Chinese members of the j
119th division of the nationalist i
army fled in disorder, leaving!
corpses of 500 soldiers on the bat-j
tlefield.
BRIDGEPORT, Conn.. April 17,—
Attorney General Homer Cum- i
mings gave stern warning to fin
ancial interests that they must
realize the “proper seat” of govern. |
ment is at Washington, not in the:
financial districts.
He spoke at a banquet. “Those
who have considered it legitimate
to gamble with other people’s mon-|
ey must abdicate their leadership,” j
he declared. “And those who have
thought the center of government
was located in the financial dis
trict must learn that its proper
seat is at Washington.”
HOME TRAGEDY
SOUTH RIVER, N. J„ April 17,—
Joseph Kensek, former inmate of
a hospital for the insane, shot and
killed his wife and two children,
seriously wounded his daughter,
Rose, and committed sucide #by
drinking poison.
LINDBERGHS TAKE TO AIR
NEW YORK, April 17, —Colonel
and Mrs. Chas. A. Lindbergh will
fly across the United States this
week on an inspection trip of the
Transcontinental Western Airways,
and accompanying them will be a
technical adviser. It will be the
first long filght for the famous
couple since the kidnapping of,
thqfc son, Charles, 18 months ago."
SOME 7* IMEHDHHTS
BE flEGOMMENBED FOB
Mil BEEP BILE
JUNEAU. April 17,—The Senate
judiciary committee has about
completed its study of beer legisla
tion and some 75 amendments are
to be recommended by it, largely
for clarification purposes. But one
change, it was said, will likely be
made: this would raise the beer
parlor license to $250 and limit its
operations to the sale of beer only
and would restrict cigar stores and
similar places tc retail licenses un
der which oeer may be sold in bot
tles and not for consumption on
the premises.
Tlie House unanimously passed
the Hof man bill imposing graduat
ed taxes on all fish taken in traps
exempting pinks up to 75,000 and
reds to 50.000. On'y one amend
ment was made by the House to
the original bill. This fixed the
rate on the take of reds from 50,
000 to 75,000 at $50 and 75 000 to
150,000 at $40 per 1,000.
Lingo introduced a measure re
quiring persons receiving old age
allowance to make a new applica
tion every two years. This is in
tended to give the Territory a
check on recipients.
Barunovich introduced a meas
ure requiring 10 days to elapse be
tween call for bids on public works
and opening of such bids.
Shattuck introduced a measure
in the Senate creating the Pioneer
Home Building Commission com
posed of the Governor, Highway
Engineer and the Superintendent
of the Pioneer Home which is au
thorized to sell bonds in the Home
building account and apply the
proceeds to immediate construc
tion of the new institution at Sit
ka. {
A memorial was introduced in
the Senate listing many public
building projects for inclusion on
the Roosevelt’s emergency public
construction program including j
buildings at Kejfcphikan and Anch-1
orage, flood control at Seward,
Valdez, Hydcr and Egegik rapids; |
improvements and completion of
Alaska roads including the discuss-1
ed line between Anchorage and
Portage Bay, Fairbanks-Livengood
highway, Yukon-Kuskokwim high-,
way, and the International high-|
way from Richardson highw?ay up
the Tanana river to the Canadian
border and other lesser works
which were urged to be included
The Senate passed the Bragaw
measure to appropriate $3,000 for
Territorial Chamber of Commerce.
SON OF FINANCIER
KIONAPPEO CHICAGO
HELD FOR RANSOM
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CHICAGO, April 17, —Kidnap
pers seized Jerome Factor, 19 year
old son of John “Jake the barber” j
Factor, internationally known fin
ancier who is charged with a $7,
000,000 fraud in England, and are
holding him for $50,000 ransom, j
He was seized by a gang of men
last week as he approached the
Factor home here. He later tele
phoned his father, assuring him,
that he was being well treated,
but pleading for prompt payment
of the ransom.
Factor was understood to be
making every effort to have the
youth released. The financier is
still said to be wealthy despite
the $1,300,000 settlement he recent
ly made to British investors in
South African copper mines he
once promote.
He is awaiting a ruling by the
U. S. Supreme court on whether
he must return to London to face
charges of grand fraud brought by
the British Crown counsel.
MUff IIS
IMS SO DIED
LONG BEACH, April 17, —Mrs.
Caroline F. Horne. 72, wealthy
widow of a California pioneer and
former San Francisco resident, was
found strangled to death in her
luxurious apartment here.
The body, a towel wrapped tight
ly around the neck, was found by
her son, Walter F. Horne, well-to-do
realty man.
Nothing was missing from the
apartment, leading police to be
lieve Mrs. Horne took her own life.
Her son said she had been worry
ing over financial matters.
! NEWS FLASHES
i -
, SOCCOR SCORE
j LONDON, April 17, —Kilmarnock
tied Hearts 0-0 in the Scotish first
division soccor game.
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BABY’S BODY FOUND
SAN FRANCISCO, April 17, —
1 Wrapped in a sheet, the body of
an infant girl was found in the
woods near San Anselmo.
STARVED TO DEATH
HATTIESBURG, Miss., April 17,
Paul Wexler, 20, condemned mur
derer, starved to death in the
! county jail here, the county coroner
reported.
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WILL HAVE FEW VISITORS
MEXICO, April 17,— The United
States embassy here will be dry
during his tenure of office, Joseph
us Daniels, new U. S. ambassador,
told reporters here.
PROBABLY feE LOWER
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 17, —
A bill will be introduced in Con
gress this week designed to give
President Roosevelt authority to
raise or lower postal rates.
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AFTER A RECORD
CALCUTTA, Apil 17, —Captain
Robbiano of the Italian amy took
off fo Victoria Point, Burma, .en
route to Australia, attempting to
establish a new flight record.
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WHAT’S HE LIVING FOR?
COTTONWOOD, Calif. April 17,
—The Cottonwood railway station
was closed yesterday. L. M. Corey,
agent, had taken the day off. It
was his first vacation since 1908.
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FAVORITE WON
HAVRE de Grace, Maryland, Apr.
17, —W. R. Coe’s “Ladysman” fav
orite in future books for the Ken-!
tucky Derby, won the Bay View
purse in the Eastern season’s first.
feature race. *»£■
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GOT TWO BREBks
LOS ANGELES, AprUfT, —Lynn;
Cowan, motion pictuiiSfcctor, got
a break—two breaks, in fact. A few
minutes after he had insured his
automobile for complete coverage,1
he wrecked the car. i
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MILLIONS ADDED
CHICAGO, April 17, —America’s
latest infant industry, legalized
beer, has added $3,000,000 to the
Federal treasury and additional
millions to State funds during the
first week.
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LUCK MOTORISTS
BEND, Ore., April 17, —Although
their car rolled over three times
and was demolished, six passengers
in a car driven by Jack Ward, of
Klamath Falls, escaped with minor
bruises.
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A FAST PULSE
. HAVANA. Cuba, April 17, —This
city was a bit nervous but out
wardly calm and peaceful after
hous of public assassinations which
cost the lives of seven youths and
a three year-old boy.
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EASTER PRESENT
CHICAGO, April 17, —Payment
of $1,604,000 cash came to Chica
go’s 18,000 long unpaid school'
teachers as a surprise Easter pre-1
sent. Payments were for the con
cluding weeks of last June.
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NEW COMMISSIONER !
NEW YORK, April 17, —Deputy
Chief Inspector James 3. Bolan
took office as police commissioner
of New York City, succeeding Ed
ward P. Mulrooney, who resigned
to head the State beer board.
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FIGHT MAY 29
LOS ANGELFg April 17, —Young
Corbett, 3rd, of Fresno, will de
fend his world’s welterweight title
against Jimmy McLarnin of Los
Angeles in a 10-round bout at
Wrigley Field here May 29.
TRACK STAR DIES j
ST. CHARLES, Mo., April 17, —
George Saling, Jr., University of
Iowa and Olympic track star, died
in St- Joseph’s hospital here of in
juries sustained in an auto acci
dent near Troy, Mo., Friday night.
FISHING BOAT RESCUED
SAN FRANCISCO, April 17, —
It‘s engines breaking down off
Pedro Point, the fishing smack
Nina, with a crew of two men,:
hailed the lumber schooner Hubert
Schafer and was towed into port, i
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PANTS BLOWN AWAY
LONG BEACH, Wash., Aprl 17,—
A tank filled with compressed air
belonging to the Puget Sound
Bridge & Dredge Co., blew up. An
employe, standing on top of the
tank, had his trousers blown off
by the blast. • _
PERFUNCTORY
SAN FRANCISCO, April 17, —
All the evidence and arguments
I which the State expects to put in
I at the retrial of Tom Mooney can
; be offered in one afternoon, Wil
liam Murphy, prosecutor, told Sup
i erior Judge Lppis H. Ward Satur
day.
' It was the first definite indica
tion to be made in court that the
State’s case will be perfunctory.
MOSCOW, U. S. S. R., April 17,—
The Soviet government was accus
ed of “framing” evidence against
six Englishmen charged with cap
ital offenses, when their trial was
resumed.
Allan Monkhouse, chief of the
Metropolitan-Vickers Company in
Russia, and one of the accused,
precipitated the trial’s most dra
matic moments a few minutes af
ter court reonvened.
“After listening to the evidence
of Leonid A. Sukhoruchkin and
other Soviet citizens,” he said, “it
is perfectly clear to me that this
case is a f£ame-up aganst the Met-!
tropolitan-Vickers Company. It is
based on the evidence of terror-1
ized prisoners.”
POPE BLESSED
VATICAN CITY, April 17, —
Rome’s most lavish Easter of mod
ern times was celebrated in the
basilica of St. Peter’s with Pope
Pius 11th officiating at high mass,
the first time, a pontiff has ful
flled this ancient rite on Easter
since 1870.
The Pope appeared on the bal- |
cony of §t. Peter’s and gave his!
blessing to the world. It was esti-J
mated that 200.000 persons were:
packed into St. Peter’s Square.
RED PAPER ISSUED
IN MOSCOW AGAINST
BRITISH WRITE PAPER:
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MOSCOW, USSR., April 17, —!
The Soviet government issued aj
“red paper” last night denying the j
charges in a recent British offi-,
cial “white paper” of coercion ini
connection with confessions by six j
British defendants in the Metro- j
pohtan-Vickers Electrical Company j
trial.
Maxim *Iiitvinoff, foreign com- j
missar, signing the paper declared
that “we won’t trade our inde-i
pendence in return for British!
good will and markets.”
The British demanded release of
the six Britons under trial now on
charges of espionage, bribery and
sabotage.
STIR CONGRESS
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 17,—
President Roosevelt is expected to
act this week to stir Congress out
of a lethargy that is holding up
his economic program and threat
ening to prolong the session until
summer.
Congress has slowed down just
as the President included a spe
cies of national planning embrac
ing a shorter work week, minimum
wages and controlled production,
wth some sort of inflation in con
templation.
ALASKA POSTMASTERS
WASHINGTON, D. C, April 17,— J
Nominations for postmasters in
cluded Robert Ehldon for Fair
banks and Guy E. Mish of Nome.
INSISTS CONVICTION
MOSCOW, April 17,—Prosecutor
Andrey Vishinsky recommended
dismissal charges against Albert
Gregory but insisted on the con
viction of the five other British
engineers of the Metropolitan Vic
kers Co., as “spies” He also asked
mercy for two of the 11 Russian
defendants; one of them is Ma
dame Anna Kutuzova.
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NEW DRY CHIEF
SAN FRANCISCO, April 17, —
California and Nevada will have a
new prohibition administrator to
day. John L. Considine, who held
the same post in 1920 and 1921,
has been appointed to succeed W.
Walker, press dispatches from
Washington reveal. Walker’s resig
nation was requested to take effect
last Saturday.
BRITISH CHARGE
SOVIET RUSSIA
USED P DEGREE
1IIORNTON SAYS HE WAS TIRED
AND BROW-BEATEN SO
MADE UP CONFESSION
MOSCOW, April 17, —Charges
I of extorting confessions by ‘‘third
degree” methods were hurled at
Soviet authorities Saturday in the
trial of six Britishers and 11 Rus
1 sians on charges of sabotage, brib
ery and espionage
William Thornton, one of the
accused employes of the British
Metrop^litan-Vickers Electrical
Company, who had previously con
fessed to the charges against him
and repudiated the confession,
broke out during the examination
of a woman employe of the com
pany. He again denied the valid
ity of his confession.
‘‘It was suggested to me that If
I confessed everything, it would
be alright,” he cried. ‘‘If I did not,
I would do no good to either Rus
sia or England. I was tired and
browbeaten.”
The prosecutor angrily inter
posed to charge that Thornton was
inspired to repudiate his confes
sion by some Englishman m Mos
cow.
A similar sensation was caused
when Allan Monkhouse, Moscow
manager of the firm, charged that
the trial was a “frame-up.” The
prisoners sat in an enclosure be
hind which were two secret police
with fixed bayonets.
PLIES, FIELDClllfS
IKE OUT CHINESE
PIEPING, April 17,—Bombing
planes, heavily loaded, went into
action on a large scale as the Jap -
anese sent the entire Chinese army
in the coast region in North China
proper, fleeing to the south bank
of Lwan River.
It was the first extensive Jap
anese advance in the Pieping and
Tiensin international treaty area
where there are considerable
American and other foreign inter
ests.
Changli, where an American
Methodist mission is situated and
numerous towns to the north and
northeast, fell n rapid order to the
Japanese-Manchurian army.
Chinese predicted this sweep
over Pieping’s route to the sea af
ter the fall of Chanhaikwan.
Japanese airplanes dropped hun
dreds of bombs between one and
three miles from the big seaport
of Chinwangtao to begin a real of
fensive. After the aerial bombard
ment, Manchukuan troops attack
ed Chinese lines with field guns,
aided by range-finding airplanes,
The Chinese fled and refugees
are streaming' into Kailan which
is in the hands of the British.
NEW REPRIEVE IS
' SOUGHT FOR JUDD
FLORENCE, Ariz , April 17,—A
new reprieve for Winnie Ruth Judd
condemned “Blonde Tigress”, was
sought last night so that her life
will not be endangered by the
slow progress of a jury hearing to
determine her sanity.
The hearing at which Mrs, Judd
is making her last fight to escape
the gallows is moving so haltingly
that her attorneys feared a decis
ion may not be returned until mid
night Thursday, five hours before
she is scheduled to hang at State
prison here.
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FOH SUPREME TE51,
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 17, —
A compact group of Senators mus
tered their strength last night for
a supreme test in the Senate to
Cay ^o determine whether Ameri
ca shall seek economic salvation
by inflation of the currency.
It is doubtful whether any more
important issue has been brought
to the floor of Congress this sea
son, for the outcome will either
keep the United States on the nar
row path of a rigid, unbending
dollar or send it out along the
road to cheaper money.
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