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VOLUME XXIX. NUMBER 158.
SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JULY 8, 1933.
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ROOSEVELT ACTS TO
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WASHINGTON July 8. —Presi
dent Roosevelt Friday continued his
drive to speed the provisions of
the National Industry Recovery As
sociation into action. Mrs. Roose
4 velt, too, is putting her shoulder
to the wheel and just before she(
started on her “wandering vaca
tion’’ she came out with a strong
plea for women in industry.
As a feature of Roosevelt’s ef
forts he held a series of confer
ences with growers’ representatives
y on crop curtailment. No details of j
the president’s attitude following I
the conferences were given and it
is expected that he will hold fur
ther talks on the same question.
£ i The President did, however, call
upon farm relief administrators
to make a last minute personal ap
peal to the South for support of
the lagging c o t to n stabilization
program.
Other Washington news says the
Senate investigating committee,
adjourning its sessions until Fall,
sent Ferdinand Pecora to New!
York to study possibilities of the j
stock market “rigging” for a boomi
market.
BOMBING THREAT
CHICAGO, July 8. — Threats of
anti-fascists in Chicago to bomb
General Italo Balbo’s Italian air
armada of 24 planes when they
alight on the Lakefront led to spe
cial precautions being taken for
the Italian flyer’s safety when
they arrive.
GULF ISLAND HOMES
^ COMPLETELY WRECKED
BT TERBIFIG HURRICANE
BROWNSVILLE. Texas, July 8.—
Every house on Padre Island, in
the Gulf of Mexico, was demolish
ed Friday from the force of a tro
pical hurricane which threatened
this section for two days, accord
ing to meager dispatches received
here. No fatalities were mentioned!
in the dispatches.
After pounding the South Texas
/coast line, capsizing an oil tanker,
*and sending a tidal wave crashing i
over Padre and Brazos Islands, the i
hurricane was believed to have!
veered southward and to be spend
ing its force over a bleak and un
inhabited area in northern Mex
ico.
A Pan-American Airways pilot
wirelessed that all villages within
25 miles of Soto La Marina, State
of Tamaulipas, have been virtually
destroyed by the hurricane. He was
unable to determine from the air
Whether any were dead
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James Truitt, Attorney General
for Alaska, who arrived in Sew
ard on the Aleutian yesterday, left
in a plane yesterday for Naknek
with Pilot Art Woodley. Attorney \
Truitt returns to Seward next week.
Tslrs. F. B. Qunn, who arrived in
Sev^rd on the Aleutian from Cor
dova Friday morning, left on this
morning’s train for Anchorage to
visit with her sister, Mrs. George
Colwell.
Miss Martha Davidson, the Sew
ard General Hospital nurse, and
her mother Mrs. Anna Davidson,
left for Seattle on the S. S. Aleu
tian.
George Lindsey, of Moose Pass,
who has been in the city in con
nection with business matters, left
pn the morning’s train for his
Pass home.
BIG NAVY KEY TO PEACE
SAN FRANCISCO, July 8. —A big
United States navy is the real key
to peace in the Pacific, said Roy
Howard, chairman of the board of
the S c r i p p s-Howard newspapers,
on his return from the Orient. He
interviewed Emperor Hirohito and
some 200 other leaders of thought;
and action in Japan and China.
S. S. YUKON LEFT FOR
, SEWIRO THIS MORNING
SEATTLE, July 8. —Passengers
on the SS. Yukon which left this
morning included the following
listing for Seward:
Mrs. H. S. Balderston, J. B. Mer
tie, Jr., William Senia, Edna Gus
tafson, C. Hamerschmidt, Miss C.
Cheney, Mrs. E. Wilson, Mariam
Wright, Ethel Wright, Miss M. Set
tlemeyer.
Mrs. W. K. Keller, Kenneth Kel
ler, Mrs. James Climie, Wm- Fow
ler, Peter Nekeroff, Henry Walske,
Edna Delimiere, V i o,l a Kerchoff,
Emma Esslinger, Martha Burkhart,
Lulu Goekeler, Ruth Fielding, Es
ther Fielding, Jack Korba. Agnes
Stanko and four steerage.
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J CONCENTRATE IN PACIFIC
| SAN PEDRO, July 8. — Publica-!
tion of Naval schedules here today
revealed that the entire combat
strategy of the United States bat
tle fleet would be concentrated in
Pacific waters during Autumn for
the first time in history.
NEWS FLASHES
OUTLINES PLAN
WASHINGTON, July 8. —A mes
sage oulining the plan of the Unit
ed States government to endeavor
to raise world prices as the im
mediate objective of the London
Economic Conference was drafted
Friday night by Roosevelt for dis- {
patch to the American delegation.!
Details of the plan will be made
public in London for the first
time.
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CREW RACES TODAY
LOS ANGELES, July 8. — With
every principle rowing club in the ■
United States represented trial
i heats for today’s 2.000-meter race
were held yesterday. Yale won the
first heat by beating Cornell and
California. The second heat was
j won by the University of Washing
j ton team which came in three
| lengths ahead of Harvard.
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WAGE INCREASE
WILMINGTON, Del. July 8. —
Thiry thousand employees of the
DuPont Company and its subsid
iaries were cheered wth an an
nouncement of a general wage in
crease of 10 per cent for all work
ers whose salaries are not fixed
by contract.
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ANOTHER MARITAL RIFT
HOLLYWOOD, July 8. —Carole
Lombard, screen actress, has gone
to Reno to divorce her saratorially
I perfect husband, William Powell,
5 the actor, it was learned Friday.
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PROMINENT CANDIDATE
SACRAMENTO, July 8. —Peter B.
Kyne, California author and out
door sportsman, loomed as a pro
minent candidate for appointment
to the new State Racing Commis
sion. His appointment is now un
der consideration by Gov. James J.
Rolph.
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ON TRAINING FLIGHT
LAKEHURST, N. J. July 8. —
The Naval dirigible Macon was on
a 24-hour training flight along the
Eastern Seaboard with 72 officers
and men aboard. It passed over
New York on its flight. Lieutentant
Commander Alger Dresel was in
command of the airship.
STOCK MIRKET MINS
HR CROOND IS
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! NEW YORK, July 8. —The stock j
| market swept forward into newj
| high ground for the year in huge j
1 dealings Friday, but the rise was
! o v e rshadowed by a spectacular
j crash in the dollar with the pound (
sterling soaring 17 cents to $4.73.
Other foreign currencies also wentj
up sharply. The dollar fell to a!
new low of 70 cents in gold.
Stocks were taken in enormous j
volume, with initial blocks running j
to 10,000 shares in General Motors, j
Opening gains ran to more than !
one dollar a share and the ticker;
fell behind rapidly. Among the
pacemakers were New York Cent
ral, American Telephone, Allied
Chemical, the Utilities and the
steels.
The bullish sentiment was stim
ulated by further broad gains re
ported in the week-end trade re-J
views.
HIGHER MS MID .
SHORTER HOURS IKED!
LONDON, July 8. -World-wide:
action for shorter hours for labor
and increased wages and agricul
tural prices is called for in a re
solution drafted in the American
headquarters for presentation to
the World Economic Conference. ;
Meanwhile, threats of a world
currency war developed as a re
sult of previous disagreement on
the monetary problem. The French
were reported preparing tariff in
creases in retaliation fjr the Unit-,
' ed State’s refusal to stabilize the i
: dollar.
WASHINGTON, July 8. —Some
; 14,400 Indians will be going ‘'back
to nature” for subsistence this
week as the nation’s rndian refor
estation camps get under wray.
Organized under President Roose
velt’s emergency conservation pro
gram, the Indian reforestation
camps will be situated on 53 reser
' vations.
All work will be done within the
reservations on Indian lands.
THEITRICIIl
“FID" Mill 1CT0HS
LOS ANGELES, July 8. —A mon
key that refused to stay on a cur
tain rod of the women’s dressing
room in a theater, a cockatoo that
insisted on using the star’s plug
had for a nest, a goat that was
so dirty that other members of the
cast refused to work with him,
were the reasons Edward Belasco,
theatrical producer “fired” the iirio
of animal actors.
That was Producer Belasco’s tes
timony in court in answer to a
suit for $50 filed by J. H. Kerr,
pet merchant who sued Belasco for
breach of contract.
NOT KIDNAPPED
SAN FRANCISCO, July 8.—Linda
Giorna, eight, who was hunted for
three days while she was hiding
in the basement of her home, re
ceived kisses and a non-candy
meal, instead of the castor oil she
expected. When found she had liv
ed on nothing but candy during
her hideout.
DEMAND APPREHENSION
CHICAGO, July 8. —Great Bri
tain today demand “Jake the bar
ber” Factor’s apprehension on the
belief that he is trying to escape
extradition to England in the pre
isent kidnapping episode. He has
! not been located yet. The demand
{for his apprehension was made by
British Consul Lewis Bernays, re
! presenting the crown.
MATTERN IS SAFE
NEW YORK, July 7. —A flash!
from Moscow says that Jimmy Mat
tern, American flier, is safe at An
adir in the Chukotka peninsula
in Siberia, according to a telegraph
message received here direct from
Mattern himself. Anadir is a trad
ing post in the northern part of
Kamchatka province.
The message was also sent to
[Mattern’s backers in Chicago, who
stated they would give the financial
j aid necessary for Jimmy to start
la new round the world flight at
I tempt or for him to finish his
present flight.
Mrs. Mattern, at Walla Walla, J
Washington, was overjoyed at the
! news that her husband was alive.1
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COPPER AT NINE CENTS
NEW YORK, July 8. —Domestic'
copper today sold at nine cents.
(This is a half-cent rise from pre
! vious quotations and is the highest
price paid for the red metal in
| about two years.
NEWS FLASHES
WEATHER IS FAVORABLE
REYKJAVIK. Iceland, July 8. —
Five supply ships of the Italian
air armada, stationed between Ice
land and Greenland, reported fav
i arable weather as the 24 seaplanes
remained moored here pending the
takeoff on the next stage of theirs
flight to Chicago.
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ENDS REVELRY
SAN FRANCISCO, July 8. —Mary
Chin, white girl whose Oriental
type of beauty won her Chinese
roles on the stage, ended a night
of revelry in her Telegraph Hill
apartment with a pistol shot to
the brain Friday night.
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ANOTHER DIVORCE
HOLLYWOOD, July 8. —Another
motion picture couple has reached
$he parting of the ways. Less then
a week after revelation of the sep
aration of Douglas Fairbanks and
Mary Pickford, friends announced
Friday that Richard Dix, also a
film star, and his wife had separ
ated. Dix admitted that he and his
wife, the former Winifred Coe, of
San Francisco, had separated.
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NARROW ESCAPE
SAN FRANCISCO, July 8. —First
Lieut Douglas M. Wooley narrowly
escaped death or injury when his
plane fell into the bay when he
took off from Crissy field* His
motor stalled, officers said. He suc
ceeded in getting to shore without
difficulty. I
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MAY BEEN POISONED
SAN FRANCISCO, July 8. — Aj
man and his son were found dead!
late Friday here in a house at 1416
Webster St. First reports from the
neighbors were that the two ap
peared to have died from poison.
The coroner’s office and police
homicide squadrons are investi
gating the deaths.
The M. S. Discoverer, Capt. H.
Berger, arrived in port last eve-j
ning and departed again for An-j
chorage and Cook Inlet way ports j
a few hours later. |
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BUST MW NEW
RIGHT IGHIEVEMENTS
NEW YORK, July 8. —The avia
tors of the world were busy today.
While preparations were taking
form for the rescue of Jimmy
Mattern in Siberia other flights
were being pushed. At Reykjavik,
in Iceland, the Italian airplanes
awaited favorable wether before
leaving for Cartwright, Labrador. At
Lyons, France, the Australian fly
er Capt. Charles Ulm awaited the
arrival of a mechanic with repairs
for his damaged plane so he could
continue on to England. He dam
i aged his plane in landing.
I Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh was
! getting ready here for a flight ac
1 ross the Arctic while Amelia Ear
hart Putnam and Capt. Frank
Hawkes hopped off on trans-con
tinental trips. Miss Earhart is hop
ing that she will set a new wo
men’s record.
Another world’s flight is plan
ned by Wiley Post who plans to
take off in a few days from New
York.
CLOUDBURST, COLORADO
DENVER, July 8. —A wall of wa
ter that rushed without warning
down Bear Creek canyon after a
cloudburst swept through the re
sort hamlet of Idledale and the
village of Morrison and took two
lives. The Denver police chief said
he believed that 10 men had been
trapped and drowned in the
wreckage of the storm. For a dis
tance of more than 10 miles along
the stream the railroad tracks had
been washed out.
Seward will be visited by five
destroyers about August 1 to Au
gust 3 according to a letter receiv
ed by Mayor D. C. Brownell from
E. C. Kalbfus. Rear Admiral of the
United States Navy and Com
mander of Destroyers, of the bat
tle force. The destroyers are the
U. S. S. Decatur, Captain G. J.
Rowcliff, U. S. Navy, Commander
Destroyer Squadron Four; U. S. S.
Perry, Commander G. L. Weyler,
U. S. Navy, Commander Destroyer
Division Ten; U. S. S. Zane; U. S.
S. Wasmuth; and the U. S. S. Tre
ver.
These destroyers have been dir
ected by the Navy Department to
make a cruise through Alaskan
waters during July and August.
The destroyers will make stops In
Southeastern Alaska before com
ing for a stay in Seward.
Each of the five destroyers has
a complement of approximately
seven officers and 106 enlisted
men or a total of about 665 men.
Captain Rowcliff, detachment
commander, has been in com
munication with Mayor Brownell
regarding details relative to their
visit.
A baby girl was born this mor
ning at Anchorage to Dr. and
Mrs. Walkowski. Dr. Walkowski is
with the Anchorage Hosptal staff.
BASEBALL SCORES
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Chicago 9, Philadelphia 1.
Detroit 9, New York 4.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Chicago 6, New York 5.
Brooklyn 10, St. Louis 4.
Cincinnati 8, Boston 5.