VOLUME XXIX. Numbers 222-223
SEWAKD, ALASKA, SATURDAY,
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ptember 23, 1933.
PRICE TEN CENTS
CHICAGO BANK
< IN LOOP DISTRICT
ROBBED, GUNMEN
CHICAGO, Sept. 23. —Behind the
smokescreen in the Loop district,
five gunmen held up four Federal
j reserve bank employees and five
minutes later shot and killed Pol
iceman Miles Cunningham, 35, who
did not know of the holdup, after
f their car collided with another.
The robbery was carefully car
ried out but did not net much in
the way of loot, Reserve officials
said. Two bags contained nothing
but cashed checks from member
banks.
Cunningham and another police
man, Morris Fitzgerald, stepped in
to the street as the machines col
lided. The men crawled from the
wreckage and sent a barrage of
machine gun bullets toward the
officers. Fitzgerald stepped behind
a metal sign and returned the fire.
The desperadoes commandeered a
passing machine and sped away.
Millionaire Says
He Is Bankrupt
SOUTH BEND, ind. Sept. 23. —
Colonel George M. Studebaker, one
time millionaire, whose fortune
was wiped out in the collapse of
the Insull utilities empire, filed a
4 alea of bankruptcy in the United
States district court.
He estimated his debts at almost
$2,500,000 and assets as less than
$5,000, pius certain items upon !
which he placed no value.
Soviets Protest
Japanese Action
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MOSCOW. USSR.. Sept. 23. —The '
Soviet government made a sharp
protest against Japan’s alleged in
tention to violate Russian treaty
rights in the management of the
Chinese-Eastern Railway.
The specific charges were:
That Manchurian authorities,
under the direction of the Japan
v ese government, intend rudely to
•violate the rights of the Soviet
manager of the railway, make him
dependent on a Manchurian as
sistant.
ACE RUNNER DROPPED
ANNAPOLIS, Md„ Sept. 23. —G
Chung Hcon, Hawaiian, the U. S.
Navy's| ace running back for two
seasons, has. for the present, been
dropped to the third string.
INDUSTRY “AT NORMAL”
HOLLYWOOD. Calif., Sept. 23,—
Employment and production in the
moving picture industry were “at
normal" for the first time in three
years, with 30,000 men and women
on the payrolls of the major stu
dios. an increase of 3.00Q over last
month.
DIED FROM EXPOSURE
JACKSON. Mich., Sept. 23, —H.
L. Neff, Cleveland air mail pilot
whose plane crashed here in a
swamp near here, died. Neff, who
lay beside his wrecked plane for
63 hours before being discovered,
had been in a Jackson hospital
since Monday night. He had suf
fered a severe reaction from his
long exposure.
HAD RANSOM BILL
PARIS, France. Sept. 23, —Three
men were arrested in Antwerp and
charged with attempting to pass
a Lindbergh kidnap ransom bill.
They were taken into custody on
information furnished by Paris
police. Police said they found a
Dutch bank note of large denomi
nation in possession of the pris
oners and alleged to have been sto
len from a Dutch banker in Paris.
NEWS FLASHES
BERNT IS RECOVERING
CAPETOWN, S. A., Sept. 23, —
Bernt Balchen was recovering to
day from an appendicitis opera
tion, the postponement of which
had caused wide concern.
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HIGHER PRICES DUE
CHICAGO. Sept. 23, —Higher
agricultural prices are due in a
few months, perhaps in a few
weeks. Secretary of Agriculture
Wallace declared, addressing the
Grain Dealers Association.
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GIRLS CHAINED SELVES
CHICAGO, Sept. 23. —An at
tempted demonstration before the
German consulate was broken up
by 260 policemen, who seized 22
persons. Two girls tricked the of
ficers by chaining themselves to a
light post.
WARSHIPS DRAW CLOSE
HAVANA, Sept. 23, —American
warships drew close to the city as
the revolution-born regime of 13
days ago made hurried but com
plete preparations to withstand a
rumored revolt. The vessels, which
came here to protect American
lives and interests, at once estab
lished heliographic communication
using lights atop the U. S. Embas
sy and aboard the craft.
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NOT SERIOUS THREAT
HOLLYWOOD. Sept. 23, — Ger
man film stars in Hollywood gave
no indication today they would
‘ obey” a reported summons to re
turn to the Fatherland, and Holly
wood did not regard the threat
from abroad seriously, pointing out
that most of the stars were under
contract.
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KNOWLEDGE QUEST
RIVERSIDE. Calif., Sept. 23, —
Using Marsh Field Army bombing
planes to carry their sensitive in
struments nearly four miles above
the earth, Dr. Robert Millikan, Pa
sadena scientist, and his assistant,
Dr. Victor Neher, have learned
much about the cosmic ray.
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LONDOS IS SELECTED
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Sept. 23 —
The question of who really is the
champ among the wrestlers has
been decided so far as concerns
the National Wrestling Association
which has placed Jim Londos at
the head of the heavyweights.
HELP BRIDGE THE GAP
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Sept. 23,—
A $75,000,000 program promising
aid simultaneously to the farmer
and unemployed, was directed by
President Roosevelt to help bridge
the gap between surplus supplies
and consumption. At his order the
Agricultural adjustment federal re
lief administration prepared to
purchase quantities of foodstuffs
and staples for distribution to the
destitute on relief rolls.
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TWO NEW CODES READY
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 23 —
Two codes of fair competition, one
covering the general retail trade
and the other drug stores, were
made public by Deputy Adminis
trator A. D. Whiteside of the NR A.
with the announcement that they
were now up to Hugh S. Johnson
for decision.
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STUDENTS MARCHED
CHICAGO, Sept. 23, —Squads of
police, some of them swinging
clubs, broke up attempts of strik
ing high school students to march
on the city hall in protest of
rchcol board economy slashes.
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SECOND DEGREE MURDER
WENATCHEE, Wn, Sept. 23, —
Thos. W. 'Costello, charged with
slaying his guest and patient, G.
Newman, during a drinking party
at the dentist’s home, was con
victed of second degree murder.
RUM RUNNING 1
BE INCREASED
WITH REPEAL
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept, 23 —
With the Coast Guard expecting
an increased smuggling activity if
the 18th Amendment is repealed,
the Public Works administration
allotted $14,800,000 to strengthen
the entire service by building new
cutters, patrol boats, seaplanes
and airplane stations.
The allotments will include 31
seaplanes and the construction of
six 300 foot cutters and 200 65
foot boats. The larger cutters will
carry aircraft. One aircraft base
will be Port Angeles.
Rebellion Continues
To Seethe In Cuba
HAVANA, Sept. 23. —With out
ward calm this capital sat on a
Under box of rebellion.
The government is still at odds
with political foes but is expected
to reply negatively to the demands
to resign.
Soldiers are still alter rebel forc
es in Camagey; available stores of
food-stuffs are dwindling.
SS ALASKA ENROUTE
SEATTLE, Sept. 23, —The SS
Alaska, of the A. S. S. Co., sailed at
10 a. m. today for Seward with the
following list: Z. J. Loussac, Mrs.
Rene Pollock, Mr. and Mrs. C. T.
Church, Oscar Jopp, Ruby Laugh
lin, Elna Lux, Thos. A. Pugh. Ag
nes Nicholas' E. R. Walker. P. O.
Langen.
LEADER OF TROJANS
LOS ANGELES. Sept. 23, —To
Gar Matthews, reserve quarterback
on the University of Southern Cal
ifornia football squad last year,
will go the honor of leading the
Trojans in the signal calling posi
tion when the S. C. boys open the
season today at 1 p. m. in the Col
isium here against Occidental
College.
TAKING NO CHANCE
SEATTLE, Sept. 23, —The Uni
versity of Washington is not tak
ing lightly its first game with Gon
zaga in Seattle today. Coach Phe
lan's problem was not so much se
lection of new men who will star
this season, but the time spent in
perfecting the well-drilled mach
ine that turned out for practice
last spring.
WILEY POST INJURED
QUINCY, 111.,. Sept. 23. —Wiley
Post, American round-the-world
flying ace, Thursday sustained a
serious scalp wound and a badly
sprained or broken left shoulder
; when his plane, the “Winnie Mae,”
I cracked up as he was taking off for
Davenport, Iowa. It was the first
crack-up in the long flying career
of the famous aviator.
FIRST TO HELP HIM
I GENOA, Italy, Sept. 23, —Gug
I lielmo Marconi, accompanied by
his wife, embarked on the liner
Conte Di Savoia “with keen anti
cipation of my forthcoming visit
to the United States, which I con
sider my second country, because
I cannot forget that it was the
first great nation to help me in my
work.”
RUMBLE OF “DRUMS”
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 23, —
j Clipper Smith has heard the rum
j ble of distant drums over in the
| Berkeley Hills. There is ^mething
j up. Bill Ingram’s Bears are on the
warpath. To Navy Bill and his
Bears the Santa Clara game no
longer is merely the opening game
on the California schedule.
Friday’s gold quotation as fix
ed by the U. S. Treasury was $31.75.
NEWS FLASHES
10,000 GONE TO WORK
I PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 23, —
i President W. W. Atterbury, of the
Pennylvania Railroad, in a state
ment said the company had in
creased the number of its employ
ees by more than 10,000 since April.
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BUSINESS LEADER DIED
YOUNGSTOWN. O., Sept. 23, —
James Campbell, 78, chairman
emeritus of the Youngstown Sheet
Tube Company, died here from an
heart attack.
ADDING TO PAYROLL
NEW YORK, Sept. 23, —The Mis
souri-Kansas-Texas State Lines
have added $500,000 monthly to
their payroll as a result of their
cooperation with the administra
tion's re-employment program. M.
H. Cahill, president, stated.
THREE INJURED
NEWARK, N. J . Sept. 23. —Three
persons were injured when a plane,
taking off from Newark airport for
Washington, was thrown out of
control by a gust of wind and
crashed just within the boundary
of the airport, near the Newark
Elizabcth road. There were 14 pas
sengers. pilot and co-pilot in the
plane. *
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CLINCHED THE PENNANT
WASHINGTON. D. C., Sept. 23, —
The Washington Senators Thurs-1
day clinched the American League j
pennant by winning over the St.1
Louis Browns. The Senators could
lose all of their remaining games
and retain a percentage advantage
over the New York Yankees for
1933 flag.
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ACCEPT APPLICATIONS
NEW YORK, Sept. 23, —The New
York Giants announced applica
tions for World series tickets in
strips of three would be received
immediately. The tickets will cov
er the first, second and sixth
games and all to be played in New
York.
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NEW SEATTLE BANK
SEATTLE. Sept. 23, —Application
has been made for charter for a
new National bank in Seattle, C.
R. Shaw, managing director of
the Seattle branch of the Federal
Reserve Bank, disclosed. The pro
posed bank will have a capital of
$600,000 with a surplus of $150,000.
The application charter includes
the name of P. E. Harris. Alaska
salmon packer.
HELD UP BANK
HAYS. Kans., Sept. 23, —Mach
1 ire- gun bank robbers, in soiled
overalls and masks, help up the lo
cal bank and Qbtained $3,000. They
wounded the cashier. The city
marshal received a broken leg
under the wheels of a car in which
he attempted to pursue the four
1 robbers who escaped.
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REDUCED DIVIDENDS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 23,—
i To build up reserves to offset low
1 ered earnings, the Veterans’ ad
! ministrations reduced dividends on
its insurance policies 53 per cent.
The move affects 613,000 holders
j of such obligations, officials an
; nounced.
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BIGGEST SOMETHING?
CHICAGO, Sept. 23, —The big
gest daily “boudle” of the Chicago
! season—$250 in return for a $2 in
vestment—was on record today at
the Lincoln Fields track.
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MOROS LEARNING
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MANILA, t». I., Sept. 23, —Armed
in the manner of American gang
sters, with shotguns and other
weapons, several Moro outlaws in
j vaded the municipal building in
Lubbatan and escaped with a safe
I containing $300.
SILVER COINAGE
NOW JUSTIFIED
SAYS PITTMAN
COLORADO SPRINGS, Sept. 23,—
Senator Key Pittman, Nevada dem -
ocrat, told the Intermountain eco -
nomic conference that because of
emergency conditions and Ameri
can mines it is justifiable to use
authority for “direct coinage of
silver, the most logical form of re
flation.”
Senator Pittman said that two
years of free coinage of silver
would stimulate both precious and
base metal mining, improve mar
kets for farmers, relieve unem
ployment and increase transporta
tion service.
‘‘Nothing stimulates recovery
from a depression like mining ac -
tivity, and nothing so rapidly re
leases frozen assets,” Pittman said.
French Actress
Will Soon Be Wed
HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 23, —Wed
ding bells soon may ring for Fifi.
D Orsay, vivacious French come
dian, for she admitted she is en
gaged to marry a young medical
student of Chicago.
He is Maurice Hill, son of a
wealthy manufacturer of butchers"
equipment, whom she met while
she was appearing at the Palace
theater, in Chicago, several
months ago.
Passenger Steamer
Battled Hurricane
CRISTOBAL, Canal Zone, Sept.
23, —The Panama Pacific liner
Virginia arrived here after hav
ing passed through a hurricane in
which three passengers and more
than 100 members of the crew
were injured.
A day out of Havana the vessel
encountered heavy seas and a 120
mile wind. Captain J. V. Richard
son hove to and maneuvered his
ship to prevent structural dam
age. The violent wind ripped off
rails from the superstructure and
bent lifeboat supports.
IIURLS CHALLENGE
CHICAGO, Sept. 23, —Harry Du
blinsky, Chicago, who ranked ninth
in the National boxing association
lightweight ratings, has challenged
Barney Ross to a lightweight or
junior welterweight title bout.
SWIM MARATHON
CHICAGO, Sept. 23, —Wires, let
: ters, phone calls and personal ap
| pearances attested to the growing
| interest in the first annual Wil
i liam Randolph Hearst—Herald and
Examiner 15-mile swim, to be stag
ed as the feature event of William
Randolph Hearst Day at the Cen
tury of Progress, October 1.
ROOSEVELT GOES AHEAD
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WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 23,—
President Roosevelt intends to go
ahead without restriction on the
$238,000,000 program to build the
Navy up to treaty limits.
WORKERS WALK OUT
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 23,—
A strike which may provide the
long awaited test of the labor pro
; visions of the National recovery
(act began in East Springfield,
I Mass., by 3,000 workers in the
j Westinghouse Electric plant.
FORD ON NRA BASIS
DETROIT, Mich., Sept. 23, —The
Ford Motor Company, now operat
ing on a 40-hour week, will place
its employees on a work week of
32 hours, the NRA automotive code.
A company official said: “rt is the
law of the land.”