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VOLUME XXIX. NUMBER 167.
SEWARD, ALASKA,
WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 1933.
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PRICE TEN CENTS
WET MAJORITY
r IS INDICATED BY
EARLY RETURNS
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., July 19. —
Claiming the honor of being the
first precinct in the State to re
port its complete vote in the refer
endum on the Eighteenth Amend
- ment, Upper Hill Township, in Prai
rie County, Wednesday cast 44 of
its votes for repeal and one against.
All the eligible voters in thei
township had voted by 10:30 a.m. !
Later return from five scattered
small precincts in Arkansas gave
334 votes for repeal and 87 against.
Early returns from Alabama
also favor a repeal of the dry law.
The elections in the first two of i
the traditionally dry states to con- j
sider the 21st amendment along
with Tennessee’s election tomor
row are regarded as the most cri
tical test the repealists have to face. |
Repeal forces are working hard to!
reach their goal before Christmas,
and the Alabama and Arkansas el- j
ections may mark the half-way j
post. On the outcome of this el
ection the foes of National Prohi
bition will know whether they have |
garnered half of the states nec- ■
essary for repeal. Up to yesterday, j
16 states had voted to ratify the i
repeal amendment. Thirty-six ra- j
tifying states are necessary before :
the repeal movement will Itave •
succeeded.
DEMPSEY MARRIES
ELKO, Nev., July 19. — Jack
Dempsey, former world heavyweight
boxing champion, stepped out of
the role of a prize-fight promoter
long enough to marry his third
wife. Hanna Williams Kahn. Broad
way musical comedy star and for- j
mer wife of Roger Wolfe Kahn, the
orchestra leader
Mr. and Mrs- C. E. Shea and Mrs.
Fred Johnston, who spent several
days in the Moose Pass country
returned last evening.
ATLANTIC FLIGHT
LEADER TELLS OF
PERILS CROSSING
CHICAGO. July 19. —Perils that
at times caused him to doubt whe-'
ther his mass flight of 24 seaplanes
over the Atlantic ever would be
completed were recited by General
Italo Balbo in an exclusive inter
view.
‘‘Twice when wre were flying thru
thick fog,” Balbo said. “I was dis
couraged. Once wras near Reykja
vik, Iceland, and the other time
was when we were nearing Labra
dor.”
It was the perfection of the huge
six and one-half ton flying boats,
the excellent training of his men
and the complete organization of
the flight along scientific lines,
General Balbo said, that enabled i
the flight group to reach Chicago.
6.100 miles from the starting point j
at Orbetello, Italy, with only one;
mishap.
The mishap occurred w'hen an
airplane overtimed at Amsterdam.
GREENS MANICURED
To prepare the Seward Golf
Course for local playing and 10 have
the course in readiness for the;
“golfing navy-men” who are coming
to Seward on the fleet of navyj
ships soon, a group of local de-!
votees spent several hours smoo-1
thing and leveling the nine greens
on the local course last evening. I
Cups were were placed in position |
and golfers were expected to begin |
“holing” out from today on. All
that remains now is to have the
greens gone over with a light roller.
HURRAY FOR OKLAHOMA
OKLAHOMA CITY, July 19. —
Gov. William H. Murray signed the;
legislative resolution setting up the |
machinery for a statewide vote on j
the repeal amendment on Decern-j
her 5. Oklahoma is almost certain |
to join her wet sisters and vote;
for the repeal law, wet leaders
claim.
COLLABORATION A
NEED OF NATIONS !
IS HULL'S OPINION
LONDON, July 19. —Still deter
mined on international collabora
tion, which he believes necessary
for the future of the world nations,
Secretary of State Cordell Hull
was represented in American quar
ters Wednesday as convinced of
the necessity for some interim act
ivity until the World Economic Con
ference can be reconvened,
i The creation of some body of
'experts to carry on committee work
while the parley is in recess was
; suggested in American circles as a
method of grappling with certain
!outstanding problems until the
'statesmen can come together again.
The conference is scheduled to
i adjourn on July 27.
DIVORCE HEARING
LINDIN, Nev., July 19. —Elliott
Roosevelt’s divorce hearing was be
, ing held here behind closed doors.
' It was believed that Mrs. Roose
ivelt in her cross-complaint charg
ed that the temperments of the
president’s son and herself were
so different that they could not
continue their marital relationship.
EMPLOYMENT IS
ON UPWARD PATH
WASHINGTON, July 19. —More
than 500.000 workers found jobs
as employment surged upward seven
per cent during the month of June,
the Bureau of Labor statistics re
vealed today.
On the first list of federal con
struction and improvement projects
authorized at the Capital were
jobs for San Francisco and north
ern California to total S249.000 and
many other projects were expected
to be approved shortly.
ALEUTIAN TONNAGE
Almost 450 tons of cargo is being
brought to Seward on the S. S.
Aleutian, due here early Friday
morning. There are 43 tons of
i general merchandise and one auto
for Seward; 388 tons for delivery'
.to Railroad points and one auto for
Anchorage, and six tons of cargo
j for the Alaska Railroad.
BALBO SNEAKED j
OUT TO SEE FAIR
CHICAGO. July 19. —General It
alo Balbo saw the World’s Fair at
close range yesterday and without
the usual crowd of admirers who
have dogged his footsteps since his
arrival here at the head of the
Italian air expedition.
Slipping away from a society ev
ent planned in his honor at the
exclusive Casino Club, he gathered
a half dozen friends, changed from
his uniform into a dark business
suit, donned a slouch hat and with
the brim pulled down low over
his eyes visited the Fair Grounds.
Forest fires which were beginning
to be quite a menace to aviators
flying in the Interior of Alaska,
are said to have been put out by
the recent heavy rains.
PROFIT TAKING
FAILS TO HALT
CLIMBING STOCKS
NEW YORK, July 19. —Heavy
profit taking sales failed to halt
the main upward trend of the coun
try’s financial markets Wednesday, j
Stocks rallied and closed mostly
higher after a short-lived upset
that resulted when traders cashed
in on huge paper profits in the so
called wet group. Aided by another
run of cheerful business news, the
bond market pushed forward with
speaulative industrials, rails, and
utilities marking up new highs for
the last two years.
The gold group of stocks were
sent soaring once more with ru
mors that a free market for that
commodity was to be created in
the United States.
Some of the latest available quo
tations were Alaska Juneau 30*4,
Am. Tel. and Tel. 132. Am. Rad.
18%, Chi. Mil. 15%, Col. Gas and
Elec. 26%, Gen- Motors. 33%, Ken.
25%, N. Y. Cent. 55%, United Air.
44%, United Corp. 13%, U. S. Steel
66%, West. 67%, and United Gas
5%.
AT CARTWRIGHT YET
CARTWRIGHT, Labrador. July 19.
—Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lind
bergh are still grounded here by
fog and bad weather conditions.
STUDENT FARES
BE AVAILABLE
BOAT AND TRAIN
Despite the threatened upturn
in prices it appears that the cost
of education is being made more
attractive each year for, according
to announcement made by the
Alaska College, arrangements have
been made with Alaska transporta
tion agencies which will be of great
effect in the students’ pocketbooks.
For several years the Alaska Rail
road has given a round-trip for a
single fare to any student attend
ing the Alaska College. Upon pur
chasing a ticket at any station on
the line of the Railroad the student
took a receipt for the fare. Upon
arrival at College this receipt was
deposited with the Registrar. When
the owner was ready to return the
.receipt properly endorsed by the
President or Registrar entitled the
holder to present it at the ticket
office at the Fairbanks depot and
receive a return ticket without fur
ther charge.
This year the Alaska Steamship
Company is going to do the same
at any port of call between Ket
chikan and Seward. A ticket will
be. sold for through-transportation
from the point of call to Fairbanks.
A receipt for the fare will be issued
and the holder thereof will be en
titled to return transportation free
of charge upon having same pro
perly endorsed and presenting it
at the Fairbanks depot.
This makes a considerable sav
ing and enables students in south
eastern Alaska to make the trip
to Fairbanks and return at less
cost than paying fare both v/ays
to Seattle and return.
YANKEES NOW ARE
LEAGUE LEADERS
NEW YORK, July 19. —Smashing
forward with nine straight victories,
the world champion New York
Yankees have regained sole pos
session of the American League
lead by beating Chicago 9 to 4 and
while the faltering Washington
Senators dropped out of a top tie
after succumbing to their old jinx
club, the St. Louis Browns.
It was the first time since June
21 that the Yankees held the lead
alone.
WANTS DIVORCE TOO
PARIS, July 19. —Aimee Semple
McPherson Hutton, Four-Square
Gospel Evangelist, is on her way
back to California to fight the di
vorce suit of her husband, David
“Iron man” Hutton. It is not that
she wants Hutton, but that she
wants the divorce in her own name.
COOPERATION BE
FORCED THROUGH
USE OF BOYCOTT
WASHINGTON, July 19. —Pre
sident Roosevelt Wednesday sum-'
moned his super-cabinet to speed
plans for immediate action in all
industries to spread employment!
and increase wage scales. The Pre
sident was still suffering from a
slight cold and entrusted Attorney
General Cummings to lead the
super-cabinet session.
The public will be asked to boy
cott wholesale and retail firms that
do not agree to immediate wage
increases and limitation of work
hours, it was indicated.
RETIRED OFFICER
DIESATFRISCO
SAN FRANCISCO, July 19. —
Maj. Gen. Charles G. Morton, U. S.
Army, retired, 72, former command
ant of the Ninth Corps Area, died
Wednesday at Letterman hospital
as the result of an infection receiv
ed last July Fourth when a fire
cracker exploded prematurely.
When an anti-tetanus injection
reacted unfavorably, General Mor
ton was rushed from his home in
Los Gatos to the hospital here,
where he died despite efforts to
prolong and save his life.
The accident occurred when the
officer was setting off firecrackers
to entertain the niece of his house
keeper. He was burned on the leg.
BURIAL IN LITHUANIA
SOLDIN, Germany, July 19. —
The bodies of Stephen Darius find
Stanley Girenas, Lithuanian im
migrants to the United States, who
crashed their plane in a forest near
here after completing a hop lae
ross the Atlantic from Newr York,
are to be taken to Lithuania where
they will be buried.
AT KETCHIKAN
The five Navy boats which are |
making a cruise through Alaskan i
waters, were to arrive in Ketchikan (
at noon or later today. The boats
will stop there for awhile and will
then proceed on to Juneau and
other Alaskan cities. They are to
arrive in Seward about August 1
and will remain here for a couple
of days.
CANADIAN GOLFER
VERY AMBITIOUS
SEATTLE, July 19. —Albert “Scot-!
y” Campbell, new Canadian ama
teur and Pacific Northwest golf
champion, was at Spokane in the
search of further laurels in the
State Open golf tournament.
Campbell, in Seattle a short time
before going to Spokane, revealed
unambitious schedule for the sum-1
me!m
A.’Sk- the State Open, he will go
to * fland to compete August 1
to fpt 5 in the National Public
LilM X rent. He hopes to compete
in ^Mgj|nited States Amateur Open
in (fHjjpaati in September but if
he i|jp^ble to get his entry ac
cepted, he will try for the Cana
dian Open, at Toronto, August 18
to August 19.
POST IS HELD
AT IRKUTSK BY
BAD WEATHER
NOVOSIBIRSK, Siberia, July 19.—
In the neighborhood of 17 hours
ahead of the time he made for a
similar distance in 1931, Wiley
Post streaked for Irkutsk, Siberia,
yesterday just two hours and 35
minutes after finishing an 1,818
mile flight from Moscow.
Post was lost twice on his way
here from Moscow and only his
sense of direction, his automatic
pilot having failed, enabled him
to conquer fog and rain to land
safely here.
At one time he had to fly at
an altitude of 21,000 feet, so bad
was the fog. Once he landed in a
field. He did not know where. Ag
ain he landed near Tartarsk, 250
miles west of Novosibirsk, and once
more, by sheer luck, he admitted,
he found his direction.
The doughy American round
the-world flyer left here flying for
Irkutsk, also in Siberia.
Moscow reported that Wiley Post
passed over Krasnoyarsk, en route
to Irkutsk. At Krayasnoyarsk he had
completed almost one half of this
890-mile leg of his flight.
Several hours later Post zoomed
down from the west and paused at
Irkutsk. He was more than lb
hours ahead of the record and was
feeling fine although he wTas some
what tired. Irkutsk marks approxi
mately the half-way mark on his
solo round-the-world flight.
The American flier brought his
monoplane, the Winnie Mae. dowr.
on the air field after the flight of
six hours and 40 minutes over the
875 mile route from Novosibirsk.
Post w'as 75 hours and 25 min
utes out of New York and 16 hours
and 34 minutes ahead of the re
cord set by himself and Harold
Gatty in 1931.
Post had intended to continue
Eastward at dawn but unfav
orable weather conditions forced
him to delay departure and cost
him several precious hours in his
race against Time.
SHELVES CONTAIN
MANY EDITIONS
OF LATE BOOKS
A number of new, interesting and
entertaining volumes of current
books have been received by the
Seward Lbrary and have been
placed on the shelves for the con
venience of the Library’s patrons.
Some of the new books include
Uncle Peel, by Irving Eacheller;
The Great Romantic, E. Barring
ton; Helene, Vicki Baum; Fen
wick’s Trail, Harold Bindloss; Open
Land, B. M. Bower; The Werewolf
of Paris, Guy Endore; Lost Laugh
ter, Mateel Howe Farnham; The
Keeper of the Keys. Earl Deer Big
gers.
They Brought Their Women, Ed
na Ferber; Zest, Chas. G. Norris;
Pascal’s Mill, Ben Ames Williams;
Pageant, G. B. Lancaster; Hardy
Perennial, Helen Hull; The Album,
Mary Roberts Rinehart; Walls of
Gold, Kathleen Norris; Marie An
toinette, Stefan Zweig; Abagail Ad
ams, Dorothie Babbe; Matched
Pearls, Grace Livingston Hill; The
Ransom, Grace Livingston Hill;
Lord of Lonely Valley, Peter B.
Kyne; Other W o m e n, Katherine
Brush.
Years of Love, Margaret Ped
dler; Osterkoff’s Jewels, E. Phillips
Oppenheim; Live Bait, Ethel M.
Del; Scrimshaw, Lee Thayer; The
Trail to Paradise, Jackson Gregory;
The Valley of the Stars, C. Alden
Seltzer; Forever Free, Honore W.
Morrow; Rim of the Prairie, Bess
Streeter Aldrich.