VOLUME XVIII. NUMBER 161.
SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JULY 12. 1932.
PRICE TEN CENTS
CORONER'S JIM SIRS
REYNOLD'S HEIR KILLED
WINSTON-SALEM, N. C., July 12, j
(/P)—Smith Reynolds, heir of the
Reynolds tobacco millions, met his
death from a bullet wound inflict
ed by a party or parties late Mon
a coroner’s jury decided late Mon
day.
The jury’s undecisive verdict had
the effect of releasing Libby Hol
man Reynolds, the heir’s widow,
and Albert Walker, his secretary
and chum, who were held as mater
ial witnesses.
The release of the latter two and
the jury’s pronouncement, leaves
the status of the case open with
the possibility that a grand jury
may, if it believes the situation
warrants, take action. A grand
jury will meet Wednesday.
The verdict of the coroner’s jury
was signed by every member of the
jury and was read by Assistant
Solicitor McMichael.
In a six-hour session, previous
to rendering its verdict, the jury
had heard from Libby Holman and
Walker, a strange story of dark
fits and melancholy which seized
the young millionaire and during
which times he often threatened
to kill himself. It was also learn
ed that Reynolds had been worried
over threats of kidnapping.
mm Min is
TOO FEEBLE TO W
ESCIPE BEHTH, THIBST
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz., July 12. —
Too feeble to walk the five miles.
that meant escaping a harrowing
death, an aged miner died of thirst
in the desert above here, it was
learned.
S. F. McNall sheep man told of
the death of C. A. Pedersen. 60.
who was found dead beside his
stalled truck on July 1. five days
after he had left civilization.
Pedersen and his aged compan
ion left their isolated mining camp
for the nearest trading post 16
miles away for supplies. Five miles*
out in the desert their truck broke,
down. The men sat for three days ^
and nights through tfhe blazing :
desert heat hoping for help at the
hands of a stray sheep herder. On
the fourth day Pedersen’s compan
ion set out across the desert on
foot. When he got back with help
Pedersen was dead. He kept a
written record of his sufferings, j
He was buried on the spot were
he died.
WANT TO TO! AGAIN
MOSCOW, July 12, (ZP)—Mattern
and Griffin, unlucky globe-circling
fliers, who were forced down in a j
peet bog at Borishov, near Minsk,!
Russia, and wrecked their plane so;
badly that they were unable to con- j
tinue, arrived in Moscow Sunday,
grimy and haggard. They said j
they had merely had tough luck!
and immediately began to look up,
a place where they could take a
bath and later get some sleep.
They said they were going to
make another try to break the Post
and Gatty round-the-world flight
record, if not this year, next year
if they can get the plane.
They said that they never ex
pected to be ahead of the Post and
Gatty time until they had passed
Moscow but they were several hours
ahead when they crashed.
SEARCHING FOR TREASURE
PANAMA CITY, July 12. —J. E. j
Leckie head of the Vancouver out- I
fit which is conducting a search
for treasures on Cocos Island off
the Coast of Costa Rica, radioed to
the United States Naval Reserve
station at Balboa that reports of
the treasure being uncovered are
unfounded.
SENATE PASSES BILL
WASHINGTON, July 12, (/P)—
! The Senate amended and passed
! the House Bill authorizing the Al
aska Railroad management to buy
coal from two or more Alaska coal
companies to encourage coal pro
duction in Alaska. The Senate
I amendment was made to limit the
I price on bituminous grade A coal
I to $315 a ton; grade E to $3.00 and
grade F to $2.90.
i PRESIDENT HOOVER
DEFUSES TO IPPROIE
GIRNEfl-Wn BILL
WASHINGTON, July 12—As was
expected President Hoover has re
fused to approve of the Garner
Wagner unemployment relief meas
ure and within 15 minutes after the
message had been completely ap
proved by both Houses he prepared
a message explaining why the Ad
i ministration did not approve it.
The message said that the objec
tional feature of the measure is the
section which provides for the ex
tending of the scope of the Recon
struction Finance Corporation so
as to provide for lending to “indivi
duals”. President Hoover said that
this was dangerous business as bor
rowers would put up any kind of
security and borrow from the U. S.
Government. The President furth
er stated that this would put the
Government further into private
business and to do this would be
to undermine the very foundations
of the Government.
President Hoover urged that Con
gress adopt other and more suit
able legislation before adjournment
and every indication is that a new
measure with the objectional clause
omitted will be drafted and brought
; up for approval.
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JACKSONVILLE, Florida, July 12.
—Death’s grim finger pointed the
way to a sweeping investigation in
to the torturing’to death of pri
soners in Florida’s state prison
camps.
Shocked by medievel cruelty
that ended in the death of Arthur
Mailefert, 22. of Westfield, N. J.,
in a prison camp “sweat box” a
group of citizens demanded that
| Governor Carlton, of Florida, or
! der an exhaustive inquiry into
prison camp brutalities.
GOVERNOR STORMBOUND
MORRIS COVE, Conn., July 12,
iTP)—Strong winds and heavy seas
delayed the Roosevelt cruising
party as the Governor was forced
to accept a tow for the yawl in
which he and his three sons are
on a week’s vacation. The water
was extremely rough making it
very probable that the Governor
will have to tie up for the day along
the coast.
NO THOUGHT DIVORCE
HERMOSA BEACH, Calif., July
12.—In the seaside cottage where
they spent their honeymoon, Mrs.
Minie Kennedy Hudson and Guy
“What a Man” Hudson are living
together again. Mrs. Hudson said
there is no thought of divorce now
or even separation. Mrs. Hudson is
the mother of Aimee Semple Mc
Pherson.
IN STATE OF SIEGE
BRUSSELS, Belgium, July 11, —
The province of Hainaut was pro
claimed in a state of siege after
many were injured in disturbances
between striking miners and strike
breakers. The police said agents of
the Soviet Union were supporting
the movement.
FIRST TIME IN HISTORY
OTTAWA, July 11, —Imports
into Canada of British anthracite
coal exceeded those of tthe United
States for May, the first time in
history that this has happened in
any one month. This is attribut
ed to retaliatory tariffs as an af
| termath to the United States tariff
! bill.
NORTH STAR BACK
FROM FUST TRIP
TO BERING SEA
supplies distributed by!
BUREAU VESSEL TO MANY
POINTS NORTH, WEST
The Bureau of Indian Affairs’
new vessel MB- North Star, Capt.
S. T. L. Whitlam, commanding,
arrived in port this morning short
ly after 7 o’clock from its first voy
age to the Bristol Bay region, Kus
kokwim region and Nelson Island
in the Bering Sea. The vessel ar
rived in Seward for the first time
early in June having come from
Seattle where the vessel was con
structed. The vessel took on about
600 tons of coal at Seward and then
proceeded to the Westward stop
ping at Perryville, Belkofsky, Dutch
Harbor, Unalaska, Nushagak, Nak
nek, Kanakanak, Kulukak, Togiak,
Good News Bay, Bethel, Tununak
on Nelson Island, Nash Harbor on
j Nunivak Island and Hopper Bay.
The MS. North Star discharged
I coal and supplies at these various
points for the Indians with about
40 or 50 tons being the aggregate
of cargo unloaded at each of the
stations. At Bethel 400 tons of
cargo was discharged and 200 tons
1 were taken off at Naknek.
On the Wsetward voyage Dr. Paul
Gordon, new head of the Indian
Bureau activities in Alaska, accom
panied by Lester Troast, Govern
ment architect, and J. R. Ummel,
purchasing agent for the Depart
ment of Interior, were passengers
on the vessel. Dr. Gordon and Mr.
Troast left the vessel at one of the
Bering Sea stops and have since
visited Nome and other points in
Interior Alaska by airplane.
The farthest North point on the
trip of the North Star was Hopper
Bay, where the vessel discharged
some cargo and then began the
ojurney back to Seattle.
On the return trip from the Ber
ing Sea the MS. North Star stopped
at Kanakanak where Rev. and Mrs.
Tikhon I. Lavrischeff boarded the
vessel. Mr. Lavrischeff was direc
tor of the United States Industrial
School at Kanakanak and Mrs.
Lavrischeff a member of the teach
ing staff, but following the discon
tinuance of this school and the
transference of the pupils else
where, Mr. and Mrs. Lavrisheff
have been transferred to Hoonah,
j Alaska. Mrs. W. A. Borland, also
a teacher in the Kanakanak school
is aboard the MS. North Star and
is being taken to the new' Indus
trial School at Wrangell where she
will become a member of the staff
there. Mrs. Benawaw, also of
Kanakanak arrived on the North
Star and wall be stationed at the
Eklutna Industrial School, just
north of Anchorage.
At Akutan, to Westward Alaska,1
Mrs. Ambur, who has been teach- ;
ing there for some time, joined the
vessel and she is going to accept a j
new position in Southeastern Alas- j
ka, at Saxton. She will be in charge !
of the school there.
Miss Foy, a teacher at Bethel, is
going to Seattle on the North Star j
and from Seattle Miss Foy intends'
to go to North Carolina to visit!
her folks whom she has not seen i
for some time.
Wireless operator Oakley, who
has been in charge of the Signal
Corps Station at Kanakanak, is a
passenger aboard the vessel and
he is enroute to Seattle where he
expects to be stationed.
While at Kanakanak the North
Star picked up a number of native
children from the Kanakanak In
dustrial School who are being dis
tributed to the various other in
dustrial schools in Alaska. Some of
the children were taken to Unalas
ka and Belkofski, while others will
be taken to Eklutna, Tanana and
Wrangell.
On the return trip to Seward the
North Star stopped in at Kanak
anak, Unalaska, Akutan and Bel
kofski. The vessel will load 1,200
tons of Alaska coal and will then
go directly to Hoonah. Other
places to be visited.by the ship
i before reaching Seattle will be
jTELEGRAPH BREVITIES
| MARTIAL LAW DECLARED
LIMA, Peru, July 12. —Country
wide martial law was declared fol
lowing a revolution outbreak of a
communist nature at Trujillo. No
outbreak in Lima.
COLONY’S LARGEST OWNERS
LOS ANGELES, July 11, —Three
| of Hollywood’s post famous figures,
Charles Chaplin, Mary Pickford
and Douglas Fairbanks, all pioneers
in the film industry, are the screen
colony’s largest owners of taxable
property on the assessment rolls.
AGREE ON WAGE SCALES I
WELLINGTON, N. Z., July 11, —
An agreement hr.s been reached
between New Zealand coal mine
operators and the miners regarding
wage scales and it is expected that
the miners will resume work on
July 12.
ALCOHOLIC DEATHS LESS
WASHINGTON, July 11, —Al
coholism deaths per 100,000 popu
lation decreased slightly between
1929 and 1930 according to census
department reports.
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CAVE-MAN STUFF
HONOLLU, July 12, —Mrs. Ed
ward Felix had a falling out with
her husband, an army sergeant,
but the drop, a 16-foot one, restor
ed her regard for him. Quarrel
ing, he blackened her eye and she
swung at him, missed and toppled
over a cliff. When police hauled
j her up, only slightly hurt, she kiss
! ed her husband.
BEER FOR REVENUE
WASHINGTON, July 12, —A pe
tition, urging immediate action on
beer for revenue legislation, was
circulated among Republican anti
! prohibitionists at a meeting of the
! Republican wet bloc. It was draft
i ed by Representative La Guardia
| New York and immediately
I passed from hand to hand by the
Republican groups.
MAKES DENIAL
VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY, July 12.
—Denial that the Hawley-Smoot
I tariff act of 1930 was an important
j factor in the decline of the United
! States foreign trade with Latin
American countries between 1930
and 1932 was voiced here by Jack
son Eder, formerly of the Latin
American section of the United
States Department of Commerce.
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HUNDREDS RESCUED
EMPORIA, Kansas, July 12fl —
The rescue of about 100 farm fam
ilies marooned by the turbulent
! waters of the Neosha river was re
ported by the Empsila police and
firemen. The rescued families liv
ed in a flooded area three miles
wide and extending from 12 miles
Northeast to 12 miles Southwest
of Emporia.
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THOUSANDS HOMELESS
NOGALES, Ariz., July 11, —A
: new survey of the damage caused
, when a four-foot wall of water
! poured down off the mountain
! sides and swept thru this city and
| Sonora, Mexico, revealed about
j 1,000 homeless and property dam
i age approximately $100,000 mostly
J in the Mexican city.
ASSUME NEW TITLE
MUKDEN, July 12. —Henry Pu Yi,
ruler of the nation of Manchukuo
by grace of Japanese suport is to
assume the title of Emperor within
a few weeks is wras revealed.
Haines, Juneau, Angoon, Kake,
Wrangell, Klawok, Hydaburg,
Metlaketla and Ketchikan. The
coal cargo taken aboard at Seward
will be distributed at these various
points.
The North Star arrived in Sew
ard about a week ahead of schedule
but owing to fine weather encoun
tered thruout the entire trip, fast
time was made.
The North Star is scheduled to
leave Seattle again on August 1 on
its second voyage and the vessel
will then go up as far North as
Point Barrow. It is planned to
load about 800 tons of coal in Sew
ard on their second voyage.
NO BEER YET
WASHINGTON, July 12, (/P>—Un
less a special session of Congress is
called there will be no beer for the
American people before mid-winter
as the Senate Monday halted a
move to legalize the alcoholic con
tent of beer at 3.45 percent by
sending the proposal to its judici
ary committee. The vote on the
measure was 50 to 25.
REPUBLICAN CAMPAIGN
BALL STARTED DOLLING
DY SECRETARY MILLS
BOSTON, July 12, (TP)—Ogden
Mills, Secretary of the Treasury,
today opened the Republican cam
paign for President Hoover by crit
icizing in its entirety the accep
tance speech made by Gov. Frank
lin D. Roosevelt in receiving the
nomination of the Democratic
party.
Mills asked of Roosevelt that he
“quote specifically what the Ad
ministration had failed to do or
had done during this time of emer
gency that is open to fair criti
cism”. Secretary Mills condoned
Roosevelt’s tariff stand as against
“entering into a series of bargain
ing tariff according to European
practice”.
In answering Roosevelt’s econo
my pledge Mills said that the ex
penditures of New York State from
1929 to 1931 increased by one-third
during the time which Roosevelt
held down the office as Governor
and said he could find nothing in
Roosevelt’s program “that does not
constitute mere endorsement in
principle of what has and what is
being done”.
NEW YORK, July 12. —President
Harridge of the American base
ball league, announced that cat
cher Bill Dickey, of the Yankees,
was suspended until August 4 and
fined SI,000 for striking Carl Rey
nolds. Washington outfielder o n
July 4. Dickey broke the outfielder’s
jaw in two places.
Colonel Jake Ruppert. owner of
the Yankees, questioned the pen
alty and the matter will be con
sidered by the League’s board of
directors in Cleveland.
ITALIAN DELEGATION ARRIVES
NEW YORK. July 12. —It was
Italy’s day down the bay today and
even boats tried to whistle Fascisti
as the big Italian Olympic Delega
tion sailed proudly into port today
aboard the liner Cone Biancamano.
Grouped on the top deck of the
liner were grouped 103 athletes,
trainers, and coaches. Directors of
musical groups bellowed the strains
of Giovenezza. the Fascist anthem,
as the liner steamed up close to the
wharf and the delegation disem
barked.
PENNANT RACE HEATED
CHICAGO. July 12, —Huck Betts
and his Boston team-mates stopped
the Cubs’ winning streak of five
games straight when they defeated
them here in Monday’s game 8 to
2. This shoved the Chicago team
position in the heated National
League pennant race two and one
half games behind the Pirates.
Three two-base hits, a wild throw
by the Cubs’ twirler, and a base on
balls in the first inning gave Betts
a five-run working margin in the
first inning and the Braves rooky
sailed on to an easy triumph and
allowed but seven hits, two of
which came in the final inning.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Boston 8, Chicago 2.
Brooklyn 3; Pittsburgh 5.
AMERICAN LEAGE
Detroit 5; Boston 3.
St. Louis 4; New York 15.
Cleveland 9-12; Philadelphia 8-7
Chicago 1; Washington 5.
REVOLUTIONISTS KEEP
SOUTH AMERICA LIVELY:
SAO PAULO OVERTHROWN
RIO DE JANEIRO, July 12. (/P)—
Revolts again rocked a South.
American government as Sao Paulo
one of the richest and most power
ful of Brazilian States, was over
thrown by army rebels who are
now in complete control.
The Federal Government is send
ing troops to the State to quiet tho
situation but claim that the other
Brazilian States are quiet with the
remainder of the army loyal
In Peru the Federal troops were
again in possession of Trujillo
one of Peru’s most important com
mercial cities in the northern area,
following one of tthe fiercest bat
tles ever to have occurred in a
South American revolution.
The city was taken the other day
by civilian rebels after a bloody
battle with the loyalist troops and
the Government was forced to call
for reinforcements. The reinforce
ments were launched against the
civilian rebels who were in posses
sion of the city by sea, air and land.
The communist rebels were soon
ousted altho considerable bloody
fighting occurred.
Witnesses report that the city
is almost in ruins and that the
main body of rebels are retreating
before the Federal soldiers, leaving
many of their number either dead
or wounded on the field.
HOOVQISHYS NO NEED
CONFERENCE UEIHI
WASHINGTON. July 12. — Presi
i dent Herbert Hoover has advised
Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, of
! New York State, that it would be
i unnecessary to confer, at this
| time, about the St. Lawrence pro
| ject. as negotiations have not been
! completed.
Roosevelt had informed the
Fresident he would come to Wash
ington for a conference to deter
mine how much New York State
should bear of the burden for the
i joint waterway project.
STEAMER HEADS NORTH
MONTREAL. Canada, July 12. —
; On a trip that will take her to the
j B a c h e Peninsula and the most
J northerly postoffice in the world,
; the steamer Ungava steamed out
' of Montreal harbor the other day.
| The Ungava will carry out a cruise
of more than 10,000 miles through
Arctic waters before returning to
i St. Johns. Newfoundland.
I CONFERENCE LABORS ENDED
LAUSANNE, Switzerland. July 11,
j —Europe cannot live alone in the
I agreement just signed here but
j must have response elsewhere, de
j dared Prime Minister Ramsay Mc
I Donald at the Plenary session
I which closed Saturday and ended
j the labors of the conference on
; reparations debts.
SLUGGED MATRONS
I SACRAMENTO, July 11, —Ar
i rested in a hotel after escaping
j from the city jail detention station
with two other girl prisoners, Miss
Vivian Kent, 18. is held on a charge
of assault with intent to commit
murder. She is accused of slug
ging two matrons with a heavy
bathroom brush during the escape.
TO RECEIVE DECORATION
ROME, July 11, —Senator Mar
coni may soon receive the Decora
tion of the Cavalier of the Santis
Annunriata from the hands of the
King of Italy. This order is the
highest in Italy and has been given
to only one since it was conferred
on Mussolini in 1925. It has usual
ly been reserved for royalty and to
high officials of the state who have
rendered political service.