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ITALIAN PLANES
FLYING FASTER
TRIP HOMEWARD
SHOAL HARBOR, Newfoundland,
IT July 27. —Flying with greater speed
than usual. General Italo Balbo
led 23 seaplanes of the Italian air
armada into the harbor here Wed
nesday, on the third leg of the
return journey to Italy.
The distance from Shediac is
about 500 miles and the trip was
made in about three hours and 50
minutes.
The squadron left Shediac at
* 4:40 a.in-, Eastern Standard Time,
and had no difficulty in getting
into the air as they took off with
a precision that was beautiful to
watch.
En route to Shoal Harbor one
of the planes experienced some
t engine trouble and was forced dowrn
for repairs at Victoria Bay. This
plane was expected to catch up
with the rest of the fleet before
many hours.
ROOSEVELT ASKS
FOR COOPERATION
WASHINGTON. July 27. —Presi
sident Roosevelt has called upon
5.000.000 employers to raise wages,
shorten working hours and unite
together in an economic recovery
effort which has never had a par
allel in history.
In letters to these employers
throughout the country, the Pre
sident urged each one of them to
sign an agreemend enclosed, cov
enating with him to rebuild buy
ing power among the people of the
nation and bring back prosperity
to America and in a measure to
the entire world.
BATTING HONORS
HOTLY CONTESTED
SAN FRANCISCO. July 27. —A1
Simmons and Bill Terry, the only
members of baseball’s big six hit
ters to get into action Wednesday,
failed to pick up points in the bat
tle for the batting leaderships of
the two leagues.
Simmons failed to get a hit in
three times at bat. lost three
points, while Terry, with two safe
blows in six trips to the plate, re
tained his average of 336. Simmon’s
average dropped to 369. only four
points above the batting average
of Jimmy Foxx.
SALES TAX LAW
IS APPROVED
SACRAMENTO, July 27. — The
major portion of the added state
revenue required under the Riley
plan definitely was provided for to
day when the assembly, without
debate, accepted the two and one
half per cent tax on retail sales of
tangible personal property.
With the sales tax compromise
accepted by both houses and ready
for the governor’s signature, the
Senate Wednesday night began a
discussion on the proposal to im
pose a state tax on net nersonal
incomes.
The income tax bill already has
passed the assembly.
SILVER ARGEEMENT
LONDON, July 27. —An important
agreement with regard to the silver!
question had been virtually com-!
pleted by the World Economic Con- j
ference delegates Wednesday. The!
terms of the agreement call upon
world nations to take 35,000.000
ounces of silver of the market each
year for a definite length of time.
The United States share is to be
24,000,000 ounces.
GIANTS LEAD LEAGUE
NEW YORK, July 27. —The New
York Giants, returning home to de
fend their National League leader
ship, Wednesday gained a full game
on the idle Chicago Cubs as they
twice whipped the Brooklyn Dod
gers by the close scoes of 5 to 3,
and 4 to 3.
BOXING FIGURES
ARE SUSPENDED
KANSAS BOARD
TOPEKA, Kansas, July 27. —
Indefinite suspension of Max Baer
and Babe Hunt, together with four
boxing managers, including Jack
Dempsey, by the Kansas Athletic
Commission was announced Wed-j
nesday by its executive secretary,1
Frank Gilleece.
No reason for the suspension wras;
given but the rules of the Commis
sion call for suspension when there
is suspicion of “fixed” fights either
on the part of the contestants or
the managers themselves.
It is not known how this rul-:
ing will be in effect in other states.
Baer recently won a fight from
Max Schmeling. of Germany, and
one of the logical contenders
to fight for Primo Camera’s heavy
weight title.
BALLOON ASCENT
DELAYED A LITTLE
CHICAGO, July 27. — Lt. Com
mander T. G. W. Settle announced
today that his proposed balloon
trip into the stratosphere would
be delayed at least until this even
ing because of the collapse of a
high pressure area over Chicago.
The high pressure was expected
to become quite pronounced
this evening again as pressure read
ings in other localities showed a
tendency for the pressure area to
be built up in the vicinity of Chi
cago. The high pressure of the at
mosphere. and the stratosphere, is
a great aid to balloonists in that
it aids them in ascending to great
er heights.
M ATT ERN FLEW
DOWN TO JUNEAU
JUNEAU, July 27. —Jimmy Mat
tern, round-the-world lfyer, who.
was stranded in Siberia for weeks
after his plane cracked up near
the Anadyr River, arrived here yes
terday by plane from Fairbanks.
Mattern was accompanied by
members of the Alexander relief
expedition and they planned to go1
to Terrace, B. C., to see if they;
could get the bogged Alexander!
airplane out so they could fly to
Edmonton, Canada, and New York
City in their own plane.
Mattern and his party left Jun-j
eau yesterday for Terrace. j
EXCURSION TRAIN |
The Alaska Railroad announces!
.that it will run an excursion train j
to connect with the fleet of Navy
vessel due here in a few days. The
of the excursion train has not been
set yet but -will be announced as
soon as it is definitely known when
the fleet will arrive in Seward and
also the day of the local big fes
tivities.
Word from Phoenix, Arizona, tells
of the sudden death there of George
Grigsby, Jr., son of the well-known
Ketchikan attorney and former
Delegate to Congress from Alaska.
He died from injuries received in
an auto accident.
STOCK QUOTATIONS
NEW YORK, July 27. —Latest av
ailable stock market quotations are
Air. Reduc. 90, Am. Sug. Ref. 62%,
Anaconda 18%, Am. Can. 85, Am.
Tel and Tel. 124%, Aviat. Corp.
10%, Baldwin Loco. 12%, Beth.
Steel 38, Borg. Warner 15%, Bruns
wick Balke 11, Case 69%, Caterpil.
Trac. 21%, Chrysler 33%, Cub. Am.
Sug. 7%, Curtis Wright 3Vi, Dome
Mines 32%, Dupont 72, Blast. Kod.
77, El. Pow. Lt. 10%, Firestone Tire
25%, F'ox Film, A, 1%, Freeport
Tex. 38%, Gen. Elec- 24%, Gen. Mot.
30%, Goodyear 37%, Gt. North. Ry.
27, Here. Pwd. 45, Hers. Choc 57%,
Int. Nick. Can. 19%, Int. Tel. and
Tel. 15%, Johns Manville.45, Ken-!
necott Cop. 21%, Ligg. Myers 87,
Mack Trucks 36, McKeesport Tin.;
84%, Montg. Ward 22%, Nash Mot. j
21%, Natl. Bis. 53%. Natl. Distill. 75, i
N. Y. Cent. 42%, No. Am. Aviat.'
6%, Nor. Am- 27%, Otis Elev. 19,'
Pac. Gas. and Elec. 27%, Pac. Tel.
and Tel. 91%, Postal T. C. 23, Pull
man 47, Radio Corp. 8%, Rey. Tob. j
47%, Seabd. Oil 22%, Sears Roe%
buck 36, So. Cal. Ed. 24, So. Pai. ‘
27%, Std. Oil Ex. 100%, Std. Oil
Calif. 35%, Std. Oil Kan. 20, Std.
Oil N. J. 35%, Tex. Gulf Sul. 28,
Timk. R. B. 27%, Un. Carb. 43%,'
Un. Pac. 112%, Unit. Aire. 33%,
Unit. Bis. 22%, Unit. Carbon 24,
Unit. Corp 10%, U. S. Ind. Alco.
53%, U. S- Steel 53%, U. S. Tob.
84%, Vanadium 25. West. Pacific
6%, West. Un. Tel. 62%, Westh. Air
27%, West. E. Mfg. 43%. Woolworth
46%. i
STERILIZATION LAW]
DECREED GERMANY
BY HITLER BODY\
BERLIN, July 27. — Chancellor
Adolf Hitler’s cabinet Wednesday
decreed a law ‘‘for the prevention!
of a degenerate young generation,”
and providing for the voluntary or
compulsory sterilization of all per
sons suffering from hereditary dis
eases
The law will become effective on
January 1, 1934.
This lav/ is an important piece
of social legislation and will be
watched by many other nations
who have sought some means of
curbing hereditary diseases but
who have not taken to such drastic
measures as are being taken by
the Hitler government.
BIDS OPENED
SHIP BUILDING
WASHINGTON, July 27. — In
the greatest bid opening in history
the Navy Department Wednesday
received offers for constructing 21
new, modern, fighting ships, at
from $3,000,000 to $25,000,000 each.
The United States sea power is
at present under-tonnaged with re-;
spect to London Naval treaty lim-!
its and will be even more so in the
next few years owing to the ob-;
solesence of present ships. It is
President Roosevelt’s idea to bring!
the United States Navy tonnage \
closer to the London treaty limits.'
BASEBALL SCORES
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
San Francisco 4, Oakland 3.
Missions 8. Seattle 6, 12 innings.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
New York 2-4, Boston 0-9.
Cleveland 7, Chicago 1.
Detroit 9. St. Louis 7.
Washington at Philadelphia, rain.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
New York 5-4, Brooklyn 3-3.
St. Louis 3, Cincinnati 2.
Chicago at Pittsburgh postponed
because of threatening weather.
TO SILENCE STREET
HOLLYWOOD, July 27. —The City
Council has recommended the
prohibition of ail ballyhoo wagons
and stationary loudspeakers from
the famous Hollywood Boulevard
and it is expected that an ordinance
will be Lsued regulating this form
of announcing and advertising.
STEEL CONTRACT
MAY BE FILLED
SAN FRANCISCO
SAN FRANCISCO, July 27. —The
steel for the approach spans of
the big Golden Gate bridge, involv
ing a $934,000 contract, may be
fabricated in San Francisco. This;
will provide employment for hun- [
dreds of additional San Francisco (
workers.
This possibility was presented to'
the bridge directors at their semi- j
monthly meeting Wednesday by the j
building committee.
The bridge directors appeared in
favor of the manufacture of this
steel in San Francisco but re
quested n^ore time in -which to
study figures for the building of
the steel wrork in other steel cen-!
ters.
SOME NOTES SAID
BE COUNTERFEIT
LOS ANGELES, July 27. —Secret
Service operators have warned
merchants to be on their guard for
counterfeit federal reseve notes
which are being circulated in that
vicinity.
They state that the notes al
most challenge detection but they
point out that they can be identi-i
fied by a small black circle to the
left of the portrait on the note. The I
name of Andrew W. Mellon also is
not a replica of the original as it
is done in smaller letters.
The Secret Service operators point j
out that the $20 notes are often
scld to distributors for $5 each.
NO TRAIN TONIGHT
On account of the SS. Yukon
being late the train due to arrive
in Seward tonight from the Inter
ior and leave tomorrow morning
has been cancelled, according to
the local Railroad office. The re-i
gular train will arrive in Seward
tomorrow night.
NAVY CONTRACTS
HER OIL NEEDS
The largest lubricating oil con-;
tract ever placed on the Pacific'
Coast has been awarded by the
United States Navy to the Stan-,
dard Oil Company of California,
officials of that company announc-1
ed/
The award includes the entire'
requirements of the United States!
Navy at Pacific Coast ports, includ-1
ing Alaska and Hawaii, this being
the first time that any company
has won all of the Navy’s lubri
cating business for the Coast.
The contract calls for 1,300,000
gallons of lubricating oils, aviation
engine oils, and turbine, motor,
steam cylinder, marine engine and
compressor oils.
VARIED WEATHER
Mostly cloudy weather was re
ported from the Alaska Railroad
stations this morning with the fol
lowing observations: Seward, 58,
■cloudy and calm, Tunnel, 58, part
cloudy and calm, Anchorage, 64,
cloudy and calm, Curry, 70, clear
and calm, Broad Pass, 60, part
cloudy and calm, Healy, 62, clear
and calm, Nenana, 66, clear and
calm, Fairbanks, 65, clear and
calm.
FREE GOLD MART
BEING SOUGHT
BY BIG MINERS
SAN FRANCISCO, July 27. —Gold
mine operator-leaders here have be
gun their campaign for free gold
jharket in the United States with
renewed vigor. In an open message
to the President of the United
States in advertisement of local
newspapers, the gold mine owners
and operators Wednesday made
public their plea.
It is desired to have a free mar
ket so that gold can be sold to the
highest bidder, instead of as at
present with $20 being paid an
ounce. Under competitive bidding
the price of the gold commodity
would go up, economists and mine
owners assert.
P. R. Bradley, head of the Alaska
Juneau gold mine, succeeding his
rather, the late Fred W. Bradley,
said that the bold mining was “be
ing done a great injustice” under
the present system and he asserted
that the need is for free gold mar
ket.
RISKO TAKES A
MAT DECISION
CHICAGO, July 2 7. — Tommy
Loughran, zooming at high speed
along the road that is the comeback
trail of fistiana, ran into a verit
able storm of leather last night
that ended the trip which, he had
hoped, would carry him back into
the front ranks of the heavy
weights.
Rubbery, blubbery Johnny Risko,
who has wrecked the hbpes of sev
eral other aspiring heavyweights,
blew up the storm of laether that in
terrupted the Philadelphia boxing
master’s comeback plans. Risko won
the bout on a decision.
NAZI MEETING
WAS ORDERLY
LOS ANGELES, July 27. —Nazis
of Los Angeles, with guards wear
ing their brown shirts and the
red, white and black swastika arm
bands, held their first open meet
ing here Wednesday night. The or
ganization numbers quite a few
members and for some time they
have held only private meetings.
Nov; that their organization is
perfected as far as it is, the Nazis
plan to hold further open meet
ings.
Los Angeles police were on hand
to see that peace and order was
maintained.
NOME HARBOR
BE IMPROVED
In regard to the dredging work
to be done in Nome Harbor, Snake
river, this season, it is said that
quite a bit of activity was con
templated there this year. The
work was to be done under the
auspices of the United States’ Army
Engineer’s office.
The construction of 85 feet on
the East jetty extending into the
sea, was planned. Steel sheet pil
ing, instead of timber, will be driv
en, and it will be the first time
that this method has ever been
attempted in a country where so
much ice exists. Engineers who
have used this method of piling
in other localities say that it is
better than timber and will last
longer.
The West jetty, which was part
ially destroyed last Fall, wll be re
paired with timber, as formerly
used, reports the Nome Nugeet.