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X' VOLUME XXIX. NUMBER 211.
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 9, 1933.
PRICE TEN CENTS
CUBAN AIR IS
WEIGHTY WITH
TENSE FEELING
WASHINGTON. Sept 9. —Rumors
That American Marines had been
Landed on Cuban soil yesterday
became quite prevalent in Capital
circles. The State Department is
sued an announcement, however,
saying that Ambassador Welles, in
p Cuba, had informed Washington
that the rumors were false. He did
say, though, that sailors from the
visiting cruisers had been permit
ted to go ashore in some instances,
out the sailor groups were not to
be construed as a landing party in
any way. The Cubans received the
^ American sailors with characteris
tic manner and showed no violnce.
The Cuban situation continued
to preturb the President. He had
planned to leave on a week-end
rishing trip but was holding up
final decision on this jaunt pend
ing further word from the Cuban
republic.
The American mobilization of her
And. sea and air forces continued
uninterrupted despite the lull in
Cuban affairs. It was indicated
that sub-surface movements in the
Island made it strategic to prepare
for any emergency.
Secret meetings are the vogue in
Havana with different factions
meeting and planning for future
action. The government of Ser
< Sent Batista yesterday invited the
army officers who formerly head
ed the Cuban army to return to
their posts. The Cuban officials
politely refused by declaring that
They could not return to their po
sitions as long as Batista headed
The army.
A bone of contention in the Cu
ban situation is the problem of
whether to restore Carlos de Cespe
4 des to his former position. It has
been indicated that this is the de
sire of the United States govern
ment.
WHITE HOUSE
AWNING BURNS
4* WASHINGTON. Sept. 9 —While
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt was en
:ertaining yesterday the guests
vere given the additional thrill
being in the White House when a
-'iy of fire was made. The fire was
not serious as it was only a win
dow awning that had caught afire.
Mrs. Roosevelt showed her cool
neadedness when she informed the
guests that there was no danger as
:hey would be immediately inform
t-d if the fire was of such extent
-hat the building and their lives
would be threatened. The blaze
was put out with the aid of ex
tinguishers and little damage was
done.
, MERCHANT-MAYOR
CAN’T COLLECT
COMPTON, Calif., Sept. 8. _C.
S. Smith has learned there are cer
tain disadvantages in holding a
job as mayor. During the earth
quake emergency in March, Smith
* supplied merchandise valued at $17
.o workeis. Like other business
men of Compton he presented his
claim to the city.
Before it was approved Smith
was elected mayor. Now he finds
ne cannot do business with the
v city as a city official and will be
unable to collect the $17.
At Mile 11. Moose Pass, a B. P.
R. ere w is straightening out a
sharp curve anji replacing a wood
en culvert with 32-feet of galvan
ized culvert. Waste material is be
ing used making the entire cost
* of this improvement nominal.
WILL PLAY TILDEX
PARIS, Sept. 9. —Andre Cochet,
French tennis star, will play United
States “Big Bill” Tilden in Paris on
September 22, according to an an
nouncement made in Paris. This
confirms rumors that Cochet will
turn professional.
FLOOD DAMAGE
DANGER THOT
BEEN PASSED
EDINBURG, Texas, Sept. 9. —
Danger from further flood dam
ages from the Rio Grande river
and some of its large tributaries
i was believed to have been averted
| as the streams have begun sub
! siding. Whereas, before the waters
j kept mounting it was believed the
! crisis was passed as the streams
1 began to drop steadily.
The water was said to have
' dropped more than a foot in 12
hours and the drop was continu
ing. it will be several days before
the streams are again normal.
Voluntary workers are still pat
roling levees around these rivers
because they fear they may have
been weakened by the high waters
and any break in them would
cause hundreds of acres of land to
become inundated and would re
1 suit in much property damage and
possibly loss of life.
STOCK MARKET OPEN
NEW YORK, Sept. 9. —The New
York Stock Exchange resumed its
Saturday sessions again today after
the suspension of Saturday trad
ing for several weeks. The day
started with the usual week-end
profit taking. Yesterday’s market
was irregular with issues closing
off in many instances. The boom
market predicted for some time
after Labor Day is awaited at any
time now and it is indicated that
the big operators will soon think
that it was time to add to their
holdings. Septembers wheat closed
at 8333 December cotton $9.03 up
to $9.05 per hunderweight; Domes
j tlc copper 9; export copper .08 to
08lo; pound sterling $4.52 off two
points: Canadian dollar 9514.
Francis Leslie left on the SS.
Yukon today for Seattle to reen
ter the University of Washington
to continue his engineering studies.
Francis has spent the Summer at
McKinley Park and has visited in
Seward with his parents for about
a week.
BASEBALL SCORES
NATIONAL LEAGUE
i New York 2, Pittsburgh 1.
Brooklyn 0, Cincinnati 12.
Boston 3, Chicago 8.
Philadelphia 5, St. Louis 6.
* * * *
! Carl Hubbel pulled the New York
Giants’ faltering fortunes back in
i to safer regions and the National
League leaders yesterday increas
ed their lead to 6V2 games by
beating the Pirates in the final
game of their series. The Giants
have 24 more games to play this
season and the second place Pi
rates have 20.
* * * *
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Philadelphia 9, Cleveland 2.
St. Louis 3, New York 5.
Chicago 2, Washington 11.
Detroit 4-4, Boston 3-3.
The Philadelphia A t h 1 e tics, by
taking their third straights game
from Cleveland, climbed to within
two games of third place.
* * * *
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Portland 4, Sacramento 3.
Missions 2, San Francisco 1.
Seattle 4, Oakland 8.
Hollywood 1, Los Angeles 3.
CAPITAL WRITER
GIVES A RESUME
ALASKA WORKS
(By Bob Bartlett)
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept 9. —
In what relation does Alaska now
stand with respect to the public ;
works section of the Industrial Re- j
covery Act? Many Alaskans are I
doubtless asking themselves that j
question after the confusion of re- j
cent weeks when one set of figures j
after another has appeared be- |
fore them. For their benefit a j
resume of the entire situation is i
given here:
1. There has been alloted to the |
Alaska Road Commission $1,000,- I
000 for roads and $96,000 for air- j
fields.
2. There has been allotted to the j
Office of Indian Affairs $60,000 j
for construction of school buildings, j
3. An allotment of $350,000 has :
been made for forest roads and
trails in Alaska.
4. Under the Public Works Ad- j
ministration the sum of $150,000 i
will be expended upon the road :
system in Mt. McKinley Park.!
This is $100,000 less than the sum !
proposed by the National Park Ser
vice, the decrease representing a
general pruning down of park ex
penditures throughout the country.
5. The Alaska Railroad is receiv
ing $210,008 for a new roundhouse
at Curry and for right-of-way
maintenance and improvement.
6. Nine thousand dollars is set
aside for use by the Bureau of
Fisheries in repairing buildings on
the Pribilof Islands and recondi
tioning a number of weirs.
7. For the Lighthouse Service
there is provided the sum of $86,
000.
The above represents the pro
jects already approved.
There are, in addition, many
others being urged before the Pub
lic Works Administration by Dele
gate A. J. Dimond.
Among them may be mentioned
the Geological Survey’s proposed
allotment of $150,000, various riv
ers and harbors projects and pub
lic building, particularly in Ket
chikan and Anchorage.
The Delegate is also holding !
many conferences with various of
ficials with respect to a $315,000
program advanced by Dr. Paul W.
Gordon, director in Alaska for the
Office of Indian Affairs.
This program is designed to pro
vide roads, water systems, sani
tary and other works in or near
Indian villages.
Mr. Dimond has had several
talks about this with John Collier,
Commissioner of Indian Affairs,
the result of being that the latter
has approved the program in toto
and sent it to Harold L. Ickes, the
Public Works Administrator, with j
a strong recommendation that it j
be carried out. J
If this is done, the plan is to
employ Indians whenever possible
so that they may receive as large
a proportion of the expended funds
as possible. Mr. Collier, Dr. Gor
don and Delegate Dimond find
themselves in complete agreement
on that point.
Works would be carried out in
Indian villages all over the Terri
tory. it may be mentioned, in pass
ing that $35,000 has already been
made available for a road at Hoo
nah, the survey for which has al
ready been made by the Bureau of
Public Roads.
There are 87 separate projects
in the program, ranging from Bar
row in the north to Alaska’s south
ern boundary. An Indian popula
tion of 14,653 persons would de
rive direct and immediate benefit.
In a lengthy letter which was
t ie medium for formal presenta
tion of the program to Commis
sioner Collier, Delegate Dimond
said in part:
“1. All of these projects are for
NUNS ARE SAFE
VATICAN CITY, Sept. 8. —Six
American nuns at Yuanchow, Ki
angsi Province, South Central
China, were reported safe today
in dispatches from Hankow. The
report $aid the party had been
recaptured by government troops
from the Communists infesting the
region, and the Sisters were safe.
TREASURY WILL
GIVE PRICE ON
GOLD EACH DAY
WASHINGTON, Sept. 9. — The
Treasury Department Friday gave
out the quotation of gold as being
$29.62 an ounce instead of the
former standard of $20.67 an ounce.
It was also announced that the
Federal Reserve banks may sell
newly mined gold to the arts and
to froeign buyers at this price.
New quotations will be issued on
gold from day to day as the price
is expected t ofluctuate.
Another indication that the U.
S. A. will again begin to speak in
terms of gold was indicated in the
announcement that employees of
the government in foreign coun
tries w'ould be paid off in terms of
gold instead of the depreciated
currencies of some foreign coun
tries. It was added that the rea
son for this change w'as because
the present practice often h a s
meant hardship to government em
ployees.
FUNERAL TOMORROW
The funeral services of the late
Mrs. Jennie Paulson will be held
tomorrow afternoon at two o’clock
in the lowrer chamber of the I. O.
O. F. Hall. The services will be
under the auspices of the local
Rebekah Lodge and interment will
be made in the Odd Fellow’s plot
in the Seward Cemetary following
the services.
Woodbury Abbey, mining engi
neer from Ferry, arrived in the
city last evening and is en route
to New York City.
the welfare of the native popula
tion of Alaska, covering both the
Indians and Esquimaux, but not
including the white population.
The past Winter was a terrible
one for them, and the next Win
ter unforunately gives promise of
being almost equally severe, by rea
son of the general economic de
pression affecting adversely the
fishing industry, upon which most
of these people depend, as well as
all other industries. The public
works fund heretofore allotted for
Alaska will do a . vast amount of
good generally in the Territory, but
that benefit will help principally
the white population and only to
a minor extent the native people
of Alaska. While on the other
hand, the projects covered in the
enclosed list will be done in the
native villages and settlements,
and practically all of it can be
done by the natives themselves; .
“2. As a historical matter, the i
natives of Alaska have been sadly
neglected in the past. While I
realize and admire the really ex
cellent work that has been done,
and is being done by the Office of
Education and by the Bureau of
Indian Affairs, for the Alaska In
dians, it is nevertheless true that
these native people have not re
ceived one-half, perhaps not one
third, of the aid from the Federal
Treasury that they would have re
ceived had they been members of
one or some, of the tribes of In
dians in the United States . . .
“If these projects are undertak
en, as I hope they will be, may I
then make a few further sugges
tions?
a. Care should be taken to em
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COAL OPERATORS
AND JOHNSON
ARE DEADLOCKED
WASHINGTON. Sept. 8. —All is
not well between the administra
tion and the non-union ope*'.tors
of coal mines it was indicated here
yesterday when a deadlock was
reached in efforts to bring about
the adoption of a coal code.
The non-union operators had
been asked to submit a code of
their own but they have so far
been unable to draw up any Code
which will be acceptable to the ad
ministration.
Adminisrtator Hugh S. Johnson
then brought his fist down on the
coal operators and declared that
they must submit a code by six
o’clock this evening. After that
time the administration will im
pose a code of its own upon the
industry. This code has been al
ready drawn up and the coal oper
ators have been asked to state
their objections to it and if they
are reasonable the administration
may permit some changes.
Coal leaders have declared that
they object so much to the entire
code they may not even bother
writing their objections.
William Green. President of the
American Federation of Labor, de
clared that the administration’s
code was entirely satisfactory to
Labor and that he had no objec
tions to register.
MINE OPENS
CARSON CITY, Sept. 9. — The
United States government’s action
to create a controlled free market
for gold is benefiting the gold in
dustry greatly. This was indicated
here as the famous Carson mine,
near Sonora, resumed its opera
tions and placed 300 men back
on the payroll.
DEFENSE SCORED
TRIAL FRIDAY
SAN JOSE Calif., Sept 9. —Ai
lene Lamson probably died from
an accidental fall when her head
struck against a wash-basin. This
was the testimony that Raymond
Ray, defense counsel for David A
Lamson who is being tried here
on a murder charge, w’as able to
have placed in the trial records
yesterday.
The witness testified that he
considered it extremely unlikely
that the fracture in Mrs. Lamson’s
head, which caused her death,
could have been caused by a blow
from an iron pipe weilded by a
man of such heft as Lamson.
SLEEP CARRIER
BEING HUNTED
ST. LOUIS, Sept. 9. —Efforts of
a large army of medical experts to
definitely establish the carrier of
the sleeping sickness germ
which has caused 96 deaths todate
have been fruitless so for. A corps
of experts have established head
quarters in the Jefferson Barracks
and are carrying out experiments
with insects, rabbits and monkeys
to observe the action of the disease
and solve the problem which has
baffled them since the disease be
came prevalent in July. Over 500
persons have contracted the ma
lady so far, and more cases are re
ported each day.
Yesterday brought reports of the
malady Minnesota, Kansas and as
far away as Ontario, Canada.
Lee Ray, son of Mr. and Mrs.
L. V. Ray, was to leave on the SS.
Yukon today for the South where
he will enter school school. Lee will
attend a school at Brentwood, near
Victoria, B. C.