VOLUME XXIX. NUMBER 33.
member associated press
SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1933.
PRICE TEN CENTS
COMMITTEE FIRS
GOVERNMENT GETTING
OUT RE BUSINESS
WASHINGTON. D. C.. Feb. 9. —
The Shannon committee urged
Congress to restore millions of dol
lars worth of business to private
hands by eliminating government
from competing i n two-score
fields.
This was the majoi* recommen
dation in a 500-page report to the
House.
Instead of manufacturing cer
tain supplies, the committee rec
ommended buying all supplies from
private concerns under contracts
and by union labor. It recommend
ed cessation of the Farm board
stabilization activities. Increase in
parcel post rates to make the ser
vice pay for itselt.
Abolition of Federal hospitals,
sending disabled war veterans to
private and municipal hospitals
where the government would pay
for treatment by local physicians,
surgeons and dentists instead of
building more Federal hospitals.
Elimination of the government
from the printing and publishing
business.
TARIFF AGITATION
DESCRIBED B¥ SALON
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 8, —
Chairman Robert L. O'Brien of the i
Federal tariff commission, denied,
the claim that increased tariff
barriers against imports from for
eign countries on depreciated cur
rency would appreciably aid Amer- 1
ican industry.
Agitation for such action, he,
termed “popular madness which j
goes on until everyone in the world (
believes it.”
O'Brien testified at the House
ways and means committee’s hear
ings on tariff increase bills.
ISIS BONSIITil
OF HALF-BILLION DEBT
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 8. — j
The Rumanian government asked ■
the State department to reconsid-,
er the $44,590,000 war debt to the j
United States after President-Elect1
Roosevelt enters the office.
Minister Charles A. Davila called j
on Under-Secretary of State Cas
tle to present the Rumanian re
quest- He pointed out his govern- -
ment had not defaulted on its J
debt payments or any other gov-;
ernmental obligation, nor evt*n put j
restrictions on its exchange.
TCP ILL WIEBS
AKIN H-THEIS
BROOKLYN, N. Y., Feb. 8.—The
ancient Dazzy Vance situation has
been renewed; this time over a
difference of $9,500 and Hack Wil
son wants $16,000 for placing his I
barrel-like body in the outfield j
and for trying to hit homers.
A1 Lopez, catcher, believed his j
salary offer represents a dispro- *
portionate share of the depression.
ANOTHER CUT IN PRICE
NEW YORK, Feb. 9. —Indica
tions are that because of lowering
in price of tobaccas, certain popu
lar brands of cigarettes may again
be reduced in price.
The Anchorage basketball team
squashed Fairbanks last night, at
Fairbanks. 40 to 10. No details were
learned.
NO IMMIGRATION QUOTA
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 9, —In a
postcard poll of members of the
! Commonwealth Club, the result
1 was 713 to 364 against granting an
immigration quota to Japan, it
i was announced. The vote followed !
I a year of investigation and hear
| ings on both sides oD the question.
YOUTH SWALLOWED
OPEN PQCEKT-KNIFE: 1
LOS ANGELES, Feb- 9. —Sur-;
geons anxiously watched the pro- j
cess of a two and one-half inch j
pocket knife, it‘s blade open, thru
the digestive tract of Raymond
Wilkinson, five years old.
They hoped that nature would j
preclude the necessity for a major
operation to remove the knife Ray
mond accidently swallowed while
playing Tuesday night.
Efforts to remove it with a'
strange device fashioned like a
fish hook proved unsuccessful;
when the blade became lodged in
the duodenum, where the intestines
join the stomach.
PRESIDENT OF “FAIL"
DUBLIN, Feb. 9, —Eamon de
Valera, head of the Fianna Fail
party, was reelected president of
the Irish Free State Executive
council yesterday by a vote of
82 to 54, as the new Dail Eirrinn
convene for its first meeting
A majority of his leaders scored
small gains.
DRAMATIC EPISODE j
MONTANA MOUNTAINS
ANACONDA. Mont. 9, —A fath
er's couiage and a dramatic air
plane dash gave Grace Stead, nine
year’s of age, a chance for life in
an Anaconda hospital yesterday.
Grace became critically ill from
heart disease Tuesday. Her father,
Gunder Stead, pushed eight miles
through deep snow and weather
ranging from 25 to 35 degrees be
low zero, then hitch-hiked 22
miles to Aanaconda for help.
36,000 CARED FOR
VANCOUVER, B. C„ Feb. 8.—
Thirty-six thousand persons are
drawing relief from this city, a
slight decrease over former
months.
FBEEOOMll flN JURE
PHILIPPINE EXPORTS
NEW ORLEANS, Fla., Feb. 8, —!
Freedom lor the Philippine Islands
will seriously injure their exports,
because it will raise United States,
tariff walls against Philippine
goods, W. Cameron Forbes, former
Governor of the Islands, said.
‘'When we consider that the is
lands’ experts increased by $200,
000.000 in one year, we can but re
alize the effect of tariff restric-i
tions,” he said.
PARIS. Feb. 8,—Decreases in
marriages and births and an in- j
crease in the number of divorces
shown in statistics for France in
1931 are attributed by French writ
ers to the effects of the economic
depression.
Marriage declined by five peri
cent, cnly 326,358 being recorded
as compared with 342,698 in 1930.
Divorces, on the other hand, in
creased from 20,409 in 1930 to 21,
212 in 1931.
BRITISH AIRMEN SET
NEW WORLD MAI EOR
NON-STOP FLITS
CAPETOWN. South Africa, Feb.
9,—The World's straight-line and
non-stop airplane flight record was
wrested from the United States
yesterday by two British Royal Air
Force fliers who landed their
streamlined monoplane at Waives
Bay, on the West Coast of Africa,
about 800 miles north of Capetown,
their goal.
The fliers, Squadron Leader Os
wald R. Gayford and Flight Lieu
tenant Gilbert E. Nicholetts, land
ed at 4:40 p. m. after a flight from
Cranwell Airfield, England. They
flew 5.340 miles . The official time
was 57 hours and 35 minutes, an
average speed of 93.3 miles an
hour.
MUTINEERS EXPECTED
ARRIVE AT NAVAL BASE
AMSTERDAM, Feb. 9. —Muti
neers aboard the Dutch cruiser
De Zeven Provincien threatened
yesterday to fire on a passing
government vessel as the bizzarre
chase of the cruiser continued
through the South Seas.
Dutch airplanes were instructed
to again warn the mutineers to
leave the cruiser in boats other
wise the cruiser would be bombed
with gas bombs.
The Javanese crew of the stolen
battleship appear certain- to be
under custody tomorrow when
tlie two cruisers and destroyers of
the Du{.ch East Indies squadron
are scheduled to overhaul them.
The governor of Java called the
council in extraordinary session
to consider the situation and pro
tection for inhabitants.
The mutineers again expressed
their determination to sail into
the South Bava naval base.
EXTRADORDINARY SESSION
TOKIO, Feb. 9, —The cabinet has
been called into an extraordinary
session to consider what conces
sions Japan will give foreign na
tions regarding the Manchurian
dispute. They are unanimous in
stating the United States and Rus
sia shall have no voice.
MOLLISON AT SENEGAL
SENEGAL, Feb. 9. —Capt. James
Mollison, enroute to Brazil from
London, arrived here yesterday. He
left England Monday and from
South America flies to the United
States, thence across the Atlantic
to England.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 9, —His
second attempt at suicide proved
a great success for Henry T. Mil
iante, aged 53. yesterday when he
dove three stories to his death
From a window in the Letterman
General Hospital.
Millante, a World war veteran,
attempted suicide last week by
jumping from a Vallejo steamer.
TOWN DISFRANCHISED
TUKWALLA. Wash., Feb. 8, —
Mayor Walker learned that the
State legislature has disfranchised
bis town. Mad. he has started ac
tion to nullify the act.
DOWN AND OUT!
BOULDER DAM, Feb. 9, —John
Powers, of Missouri, a truck driver
employed on the Hoover Dam pro
ject, was killed yesterday when his
truck went over a cliff.
I
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Feb. 9, —
J. P. Morgan & Company was des
cribed yesterday before a Senate
judiciary committee as the head
of a group of New York invest
! ment bankers which has collab
erated through stock bonuses and
; fictitious capitalization, a system
! whereby industrial profits are di
■ verted and absorbed. ,
W. Jett Lauck was the witness,
testifying on the Black 30-hour a
week bill.
Mr. Lauck is an economist whose
distinctions occupy five inches of
“Who’s Who” space. He was secre- j
tary of the National war labor j
board in 1918 and 1919.
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SON HAS HIS SUIT
DENVER, Colo., Feb. 9, —Clif-j
ford F. Eagle, 88, believed to be the j
; eldest living Alumnus of Columbia i
University, won’t attend a Colum-;
bia Alumni banquet here. He can’t, ^
he said here yesterday, because;
his son in the West has his dinner
I suit.
PLUNGE TO DEATH WHILE
TESTING NEW PLANE
DETROIT, Mich., Feb. 9, —Three
Stinson Aircraft Corporation of
ficials plunged to their deaths yes-!
terday in a new plane, which they'
were testing, at Wayne County Air
port.
The ship went into a tailspin at
an altitude of 700 feet and plung
ed to earth.
The occupants died instantly.
They were Arthur Saxton, chief
test pilot; Sam Benson, assistant
chief engineer; O. Cannon, an ex
ecutive
EDITORS OF LITTLE
ALASKAN NEWSPAPER
GIITINAJillTE‘I"
The Chitina Herald, established!
two years ago by Adrian and Phil- ;
ip Nelson, two youths not then in
the ’teen age, has suspended pub-;
lication. Not because of financial
dificulties. but because the duties
of producing the novel little mim
eograph weekly were too confining
and threatened the publishers’,
health.
Like all newspapermen, the!
youths found that the impositions
of self-denial, constant labor and
small remuneration,. held little for
the future, and wisely decided to
enjoy the golden fruits of youth
like other boys.
The Chitina Herald has been
the recipient of recognition in all
parts of the world, having sub
scribers in 16 foreign nations, and
among the leading citizens of the |
United States, wrho recognized the
genius of the boys and their in
domitable courage and resource
fulness.
Possibly no publication was more
expressive of the ethos of youth
than the Chitina Herald, and it
will be missed among the news
! papers of Alaska.
THE LOCAL WEATHER MAN
Rev. E. E. Reisner. of the Sew- ;
ard Community church, has been!
assigned to the task of local weath- '
er man by Chief Mize of Juneau.
Reverend Reisner will take daily
records of temperature, rainfall
and otherwise observe general con
ditions, such as wind direction,
barometer readings and other
daily notations.
( NO CHANGE IN CONDITION
NEW YORK, Feb. 9, —There was
! no change yesterday in the condi
tion of James Corbett, former
heavyweight champion of the
world who has been seriously ill
! with a heart ailment for over a
week. He is not expected to recov
er even though he is fighting the
greatest battle of.his long career.
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Feb. 9, —
Japan’s answer to the League of
Nation’s verdict of guilt in Man
churia, dispatches from responsi
ble Chinese sources in the Orient
indicated, will be to withdraw im
mediately from Geneva and aim
another blow at China.
The Chinese, however, who have
200,000 troops in position in Jehol,
are prepared and are expecting the
Japanese to begin a major offen
sive against them as soon as the
League formally hands dowrn it’s
decision and the weather makes
an advance possible.
YOUNG MAN CRASHED
LONDON. Feb. 9, —Victor Smith,
19 year-old South African aviator
who hopped off here Monday for
Cape Town, S. A., in the hope of
lowering Mrs. Amy Mollison s re-:
cord, crashed in Algeria. He wras
slightly injured and the plane de-:
molished.
FORECLOSURE BILL IS
P1SSLO Bl 5TIITE OF 1,
OLYMPIA, Wash., Feb. 9. —A bill
designed to halt mortgage foreclo
sures passed the Washington Sen-'
ate by a vote of 38 to 6 yesterday,!
and went to the House.
It authorizes courts of equity to
grant home owners moratoriums
on mortgage or tax delinquencies,
if the owners live on the proper-1
ty and care for it properly.
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FOUR KILLED IN AIR CRASH |
AMESBURY, Wiltshire, Eng.. Feb. I
9, —Four were killed and one in
jured yesterday when a Royal Air
Force bombing plane crashed and
caught fire at Wexcombedown.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 9, —The
traditional Army and Navy foot
ball game on Armistice Day willj
be resumed in 1933, it is believed.
The California stadium was un
available last year and the game
was cancelled but Dr. Robert
Sproul, president of the University
of California, offered the use of;
the stadium if desired.
BUSINESS SECTION OF
TOWN WIPED OUT. FIRE
CAPITOLA. Calif.. Feb. 9. —Fire
equipment from all surrounding
cities and towns was rushed here
yesterday to battle a blaze which j
practically wiped out the entire j
business section of Capitola after
raging uncontrolled for more than;
an hour.
The damage was expected to ex
ceed $150,000.
RALLYING TENDENCIES
SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 9. —Ral
lying tendencies developed in the
local stock list around noon after
a quiet opening. Trading favorites
showed gains ranging to almost a
point and some of the less active
issues scored wider improvements.1
[im-EICHT LIKES
| CLAIMED TIOUGttOUT -
MIDWFST STORM ARER
CHICAGO. Feb. 9, —Deaths, suf
fering and privation rode the gales
of the blizzard yesterday and
whipped across the upper North
American continent. One ray of
hope was seen, however, in the
announcement the storm was ex
pected to break during the night.
The deaths were distributed as
follows: Illinois 11, Missouri 3, Ok
lahoma 3, Indiana 2, Wisconsin 2,
Iowa 2, Canada 2, California 1,
Pennsylvania 1 and Ontario 1.
The greatest toll of live was re
ported in the Chicago area where
the storm took seven lives.
Temperatures sank to 28 de
grees below zero at Fargo, North
Dakota and forecasters saw no re
lief from the sub-zero temperature.
St- Paul, Minn., reported 21 be
low zero; Morine, Ills. 1 below;
continued cold weather was pre
dicted for most of the states in
the West.
LOW-CUT BLOUSES,
JACKETS, HEW STM
PARIS, Feb. 8, —The famous
House of Worth created a sensation
in the Rue de La Paix and thru
out the fashion world yesterday by
displaying “bicycling suits” for
the feminine cyclist to wear on the
Riviera and other resorts.
The suits consisted of abbreviat
ed pajamas, cut in midcalf, and
decollete blouses and jackets.
The fashion house showed for
mal afternoon gowns to replace
elaborate evening costumes. This
was in keeping with the times. Jean
Charles Worth explained, because
people are giving more home par
ties these days.
PARIS. Feb. 8—America’s chanc
es for regaining the DavLs cup
were brightened by announcement
of Jean Borotra, grand old man of
French tennis, that he would not
compete again in the Davis cup
singles.
It was the bouncing Basque who
saved the cup for France, by de
feating Ellsworth Vines, American
champion and Wilmer Allison,
after Henri Cochet had been beat
en.
LAMENTABLE FAILURE
BUENOS AIRES, Feb. 9. —The
United States policy of protecting
agriculture as “proved a lament
able failure,” the newspaper La
Prenza charged in commenting on
the slump in trade between Argen
tina and the Unitde States, which
has fallen off rapidly from the
1929 figure of $350,000,000.
Protective tariffs in the United
States not only induce huge
internal over-proluction. the paper
said., but paralyze American in
dustry and create more unem
ployment.
PIANIST AND MAN HELD
PASADENA. Calif., Feb. 9. —Po
lice are holding a middleaged wom
en pianist and male companion, in
technical custody while they carry
forward an investigation in con
nection with the pair's alleged
complicity in the kidnapping of
Mrs. Skeele, last Tuesday.
DOUBLE-HEADER CAGE GAMES FRIDAY NIGHT
K F Q D SERENADERS DANCE SATURDAY