WAR MANEUVERS
, BEING HELD BY
JAPANESE NAVY
_
TOKYO. Aug. 1. — A hundred
Japanese warships, including some i
Df the largest, most modern and;
efficient units in the world be- j
gan today 25 days of tactical man
euvers in cooperation with the na
val air force and naval land forces
f vith the idea of repelling a theor
etical attack by the United States
Navy.
Emperor Hirohito. Supreme ru
er of the 125,000.000 people of Ja
pan and subject territories and
protector of the 30,000,000 people
v ,n the new state of Manchukuo,
- vill follow the war maneuvers by
means of radio reports. For the
first part of the sham battles, how
ever, he will join the fleet.
* The maneuvers will be ended
vith a grand review off Yokohoma.
WRONG SALUTE
BERLIN, Aug. 1. — Wilhelm
Kluge, a member of the Reichsban
ner organization, was sentenced
today to seven months in prison
for raising his arm in an old re
publican salute and not the Hit
lerite Fascist salute at the funeral
of a fellow member of the Reichs
oanner.
} MAN'S SHOUT
HEARD DISTANCE
OF EIGHT MILES
MIDDLEBORO. Ky.. Aug. 1. —
The w o r 1 d's champion shcuter,
-hose stentorian roar was heard
three states, received the plau
, .flits of the Blue Grass region to
ft 7
The champion bellower is A. E.
Hhrisman. an auctioneer, who broke
his own record of six and one-half
miles by sending a mighty “vehooo”
rattling up and down the hillsides
for eight miles in Kentucky, Ten
nessee and Virginia. Chrisman set
the new? record in the clear night
. air.
Ho mounted the saddle prom
ontory of Cumberland Gap, took
a tremendous breath and let out
the rumbling, echoing shout.
Listeners pasted eight m il e s
away in each of the three states
± said that they plainly heard the
bellow.
\f ON OFFICIAL TOUR
Governor John W. Troy, and Col
lector of Customs J. J. Connors were
to leave Juneau yesterday for Skag
way to begin their first official
tour of the Territory. From Skag
way they will go up to Whitehorse
on the railroad and from there will
go by river boat to Circle City.
They will go from here down to
V Fairbanks where they w’ill take an
airplane and make a visit to Nome
and the Seward Peninsula country.
After their trip to this country
they will return to Juneau via Sew
ard and Cordova. This will be their
first official trip through the Ter
ritory since they took office.
GANDHI IS STILL
RESISTING BRITAIN
AHMEDBAD. India, Aug. 1. —
The Mahatma M. K. Gandhi, spir
itual and political leader for mil
lions in India, Sunday dramatical
ly announced that he intended to
start a new civil disobediece cam
paign with a march through the
countryside preaching opposition to
British rule.
The drive will start Tuesday.
Gandhi, prepared for arrest by
the Indian government, declared he
intended otherwise to march thru
the s t )■ e e t s preaching individual
disobedience to British laws.
KANSAS “NEW DEAL”
TOPEKA, Kas., Am. 1. —Gov
ernor Alf Landon announced he!
will call the Kansas legislature in- j
:o special session in September to1
consider beer, provisions for a vote!
on repeal, revision of the stateI
oanking laws and changes in the,
state laws to harmonize with the1
National Recovery Act. J
WERE ARRESTED
AHMEDABAD, India, Aug. 1. —
The Mahatma M. K. Gandhi, In
dian independence leader and sev
eral other members of his party
were arrested yesterday at the start
of a new individual civil disobed
ience campaign against Great Bri
tain. Gandhi was prepared for the
arrest and he looks upon the Bri
tish act as just another aid to
his cause as it shows the India
people the iron rule that they are
under.
INTENSE HEAT
WAVE SWEEPS
THROUGH EAST
NEW YORK, Aug. 1. — Intense
heat enveloped the Eastern sea
board yesterday and sent hundreds
of thousands of people to the cool
beaches again and caused suffer
in the tenement sections of New
York and other large cities.
More than a score of deaths due
to heat or drownings were reported
as a result of the high tempera
tures. The temperature in New York
was 92 degrees in the morning and
at 2:30 p.m. yesterday it had push
ed up to 100 degrees.
Little relief was expected today
in this area.
WHITE WALKING STICKS
SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 1. —
White walking sticks for the blind
and the prohibition of their use
py persons other than the blind
is expected to be the gist of a law
to be passed by the San Francisco
city council.
ROLPH SIGHED
TAX MEASURE
SACRAMENTO., Aug. 1. — Gov
ernor James J. Rolph. Jr., signed
the State of California’s new two
and one-half per cent retail sales
tax yesterday at his offices in the
State Building here and at the
same time promised quick action
on the one to five per cent income
tax.
The signing of the sales tax mea
sure meant that the two and one
half per cent levy on virtually all
(Commodities goes into effect im
mediatey.
FILIPINOS FREED
MURDER CHARGES
MARTINEZ, Calif., Aug. 1. —
Overjoyed by a jury decision which
acquitted them of murder charges,
seven Filipinos, three of them wro
. men, returned to their families
yesterday after spending three
weeks in jail and undergoing the
ordeal of a long and complicated
trial.
The seven were accused of bury
ing alive Mrs. Cecilia Novarro, 29
year old expectant mother, after
trying her on charges of infidelity.
YANKEES CUT
SENATORS' LEAD
NEW YORK CITY, Aug. 1. — The
New York Yankees yesterday cut
down the Washington Senators’
American League lead by beating
the Senators in the final contest
of their four game series with a
score of 13 to 9. The game was
played before 22,000 fans.
This gave the Yankees an even
{>reak in the series as each took
two games.
It also gave the Yankees five
wins and seven defeats in combats
with the Senators this season.
Lefty Gomez met with difficul
ties in the opening frame when the
Senators scored three runs
Babe Ruth and Frank Crosetti
headed the Yankee onslaught with
four hits each in five times at batf
Ruth mode a triple, two doubles
and a Onele while Crossetti con
nected for four singles.
r^EAK UP STRIKERS
HAVANA, Cuba, Au
lice dissolved a demon
200 striking auto bus
persons were injured, i
policemen. One man wa
DESTROYERSWILL
ARRIVE IN SEWARD
LATE TOMORROW
According to the latest advices
received from Capt. G. J. Rowcliff,
commanding Destroyer Squadron
Four, comprising the USS. Decatur,
USS. Perry, USS. Trever, USS. Zane,
and USS. Wasmuth, his command
will arrive in Seward tomorrow
afternoon at about 5 o’clock.
The final details of the local
entertainment program have not
been arranged yet and only a tenta
tive outline can be made until the
arrival of the Destroyers here. It is
almost certain that no baseball
game will be played on Wednesday
but it is thought that two games
will be played on Thursday. One
of the games will be played at
one o’clock and the other will be
played at three. If a team from
Anchorage comes to Seward they
will play the one o’clock game, and
a local team will play at three
o’clock.
A dance is planned for Wednes
day evening and it is certain that
another dance will be held again
'on Thursday.
In addition to these major events,
there will be fishing trips, auto
rides, hiking, golf, mountain climb
ing. Other athletic events may be
arranged after consultation with
the squadron’s athletic director.
The fleet is scheduled to leave
here early Friday morning.
CHANGES MADE
FISHERIES LAWS
BY AMENDMENTS
The regulations for the protec
tion of the fisheries of Alaska pub
lished in Department of Commerce
circular No. 251. 19th edition, is*
'sued under date of December 20,
1932. together with subsequent re
gulations, are hereby amended by
the following regulations:
Bristol Bay Area
I Salmon fishery—1. In addition
to existing prohibitions, commercial
1 fishing for salmon in the Nush
|agak district, which embraces the
waters in Nushagak Bay within a
line from Point Protection to Eto
j lin Point, is prohibited on Saturday
iof each week from 3:30 o’clock
ipost meridian to 6 o’clock post mer
jidian, in the period prior to 6 o’
clock antemeridian August 3.
2. In addition to existing prohibi
tions, commercial fishing for sal
mon in the Ugashik district, which
includes the coastal waters from
a point three statute miles north
of Cape Greig to a point on the
coast three statute miles sduth of
Menshikof, is prohibited from 6 o’
clock antemeridian Monday to 2
o’c 1 o c k antemeridian Tuesday of
each week, in the period prior to
6 o’clock antemeridian August 3.
Alaska Peninsula Area
Salmon fishery—Regulation No.
2 in supplement No. 251-19-7, issued
May 17, 1933, prohibiting the opera
tion of a trap within 2,500 feet of
a point in East Anchor Cove at
54 degrees, 41 minutes, 12 seconds
jjiorth latitude, 163 degrees, three
! minutes, 36 seconds west longitude,
i is hereby revoked, effective at noon
July 10.
Aleutian Islands Area
| Herring Fishery—Regulation No.
jl in supplement No. 251-19-7, is
sued May 17, 1933, is amended to
I read as follows: Commercial fish
j ing for herring, except for bait
purposes, is prohibited from 6 o’
clock postmeridian of Saturday of
each week until 6 o’clock antemeri
dian of the Monday following.
Alaska Peninsula Area
Salmon fishery—Regulation No. 7
iis amended to read as follows: No
I stake gill net nor set or anchored
gill net shall exceed 25 fathoms in
j length measured on the cork line,
[except that in the waters of the
jShumagin Islands gill nets not to
'exceed 75 fathoms in length may
be used.
The fishing regulations were is
sued over the signature of John
Dickinson, Acting Secretary of
Commerce.
i Pilot Art Woodley arrived in
Anchorage yesterday from the Bris
tol Bay area and will arrive in Sew
ard Thursday.
CAPITAL INTERESTS
(By Bob Bartlett)
Just before this news letter “was
sent to press” announcement was
made of initial allotments under
the public works act. A substantial
sum was alloted to Alaska out of
the first allocation of $115,513,610.
One million dollars is to be ad
vanced to the Alaska Road Com
mission for construction of roads
and $96,000 for construction and
improvement of air fields.
In addition $210,00 is alloted for
reconditioning of the Alaska Rail
road. It is expected the money will
be made available immediately and
the nature of the work to be un
dertaken by the Alaska Road Com
mission and by the railroad means
that the greater part of every dol
lar will go to labor.
Delegate Dimond is sensible of
the fact that all sections of the
Territory will not be benefited by
allotments for the Road Commis
sion and the Railroad. His force
ful pleas for early money grants
have embraced the entire range of
public works in Alaska and now
that funds have started to flow
out of the National Treasury it is
hoped that further allocations will
^oon be made.
* * * *
Horace M. Albright, retiring dir
ector of the National Park Ser
vice. informed the Delegate that
there is no doubt but that $250,
000 will soon be mad^ available for
extension of the Mount McKinley
Park Road to Wonder Lake.
Further good news came when
Dr. W. Carson Ryan, director of
education for the Office of In
dian Affairs, announced that SI 15.
000 is included in the public works
program at this time for construc
tion projects in Alaska. Fifty thou
sand dollars of that amount will be
made immediately available. It Ls
likely that the building of the
Douglas school will start at an
early date. Other Indian schools
are also to be erected.
On recommendation of Delegate
A. J. Dimond, the Post Office De
partment has appointed Guy Turn
bow postmaster of the fourth class
office at Richardson in the vicin
ity of Birch Lake, on the Richard
son Highway. The Delegate has al
so recommended that the office b^
1 moved for the present to the Fox
i F a rm, owned by Mr. and Mrs
Turnbow.
( The Nakat Packing Corporation.
| at Nakeen, Alaska, has been grant
led by the Federal Radio Commis
jSion, a public coastal-coastal tele
graph license. A fixed point-to
point license was granted in addi
tion.
•5£ *3£ ;;; n
I Station KGBU at Ketchikan, own
ed by the Alaska Radio and Ser
vice Co., Inc., has filed for renewal
of license.
The Anchorage Radio Club, Inc.,
operating KFQD, at Anchorage,
has applied for modification of li
cense to change frequency from
1230 kilocycles to 600 kilocycles.
The night nurse in the Alaska
Railroad hospital at Anchorage is
one of the few employees of Uncle
Sam who gets a restoration of sal
ary this year, even though it is
mainly theoretical. She was form
erly paid $160 a month, $10 more
I than the scale for day nurses, but
under the first economy act this
was cut to $155. The Alaska Rail
road wanted to put her salary back
i to $160 and Comptroller General
iMcCarl has ruled that may
be done, because the reduction was
i effected by an economy measure
jthat has been repealed. She must,
I however, take a 15 per cent cut
; from her baiic pay of $160 a
| month, which brings her actual
pay down to $136.
TIRE PRICES UP
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1. —“Tire
prices wil have to be increased as
the direct result of President Roose
velt’s signing of the cotton textile
code,” said W. O’Neil, president of
a large tire and rubber company,
in commenting on the President’s
action. “How much or how soon
tire prices will be increased is up
to the industry,” he added.
niiir—iniin
GOOD SUPPORT
LOS ANGELES, Aug. l. —Secre
tary of War Dern, visiting in this
city, said that California is going
100 per cent for the Administra
tion’s Recovery Program and the
fine support from that section was
a shining light to the Recovery
program officials in thier fight to
end the depression. Dern said he
had no plans for immediate mark
ed improvements in the military de
fenses on the Pacific Coast owing
to the curtailed budgets.
PORTLAND COP
HAS BAD LUCK
WITH GANGSTERS
PORTLAND. Aug. 1. —Patrolman
A. L. Chamberlin probably had the
reddest face in Portland today. For
the second time in his career as a
minion of the law Chamberlin re
ported to his superiors that he had
been relieved of his gun by a ban
dit. This time, however, the bandit
also got away with SI,520 being
transferred by a bank messenger
whom Chamberlin was assigned to
guard.
Thirteen years ago Chamberlin
.attempted to play hide and seek
with two robbers in a wooded sec
tion near the city and lost his gun
:when one of the pair trapped him
; from the rear. California authori
ties returned his first lost weapon
'after capturing the suspects some
weeks later.
It is not known whether Cham
berlin will be fortunate enough to
have his gun returned this time.
FOREST CORPS
HAVE PAY-DAY
WASHINGTON. Aug. 1. — It
was pay-day for the reforestation
army today as neariv $10,000,000
was being paid out to the men
who were recruited from the bread
lines. In some instances the money
went to the needy families.
!‘ Most of the 300.000 men enrolled
in the Civilian Conservation Corps
.assigned, to needy relatives a good
^part of their one dollar a day
; wages.
NAZI AIMS ARE
WORLD-W I D E
! BERLIN, Aug. 1. —Dr. Joseph
j Goebbels, propaganda minister in
| the German cabinet, told German
'journalists at Hamburg recently
] that Adolf Hitler’s ultimate aim is
; a campaign against parlimentary
democracy in other nations of Eu
rope and finally in the world.
! “I’m convinced Germany has a
world mission to fulfill.” he said.
This was the first official utter
ance of this character.
BURLEIGH GRIMES
; RELEASED BY CLUB
ST. LOUIS, Aug. 1. — Burleigh
Grimes, veteran spitball pitcher, has
, been given his unconditional re
lease by the Chicago Cubs. He
•comes under the classification of
a 10-year man and is free to sell
his services to the highest bid
der.
j Grimes will be 40 years of age
on August 18. He broke in with Pit
tsburgh in 116 and has pitched
;or six National League clubs in
cluding the Giants, Biaves, Card
inals and Brooklyn in addition to
the Cubs and Pirates.
TO STUDY HAWAII
SEABRIGHT, New Jersey, Aug. 1.
’expert to study the entire govern
mental setup of Hawaii will be sent
| to that Territory by the adminis
tration, it was indicated at the
White House.
SHIELDS WINNER
SEABRIGHT, New Jersey. July 31.
—Frank Shields, of New York, Am
erica’s fifth ranking tennis play
j er, won the Seabright invitation
tennis tournament by defeating
'Gregory Mangin, also of New York,
■ who was National Indoor Champ
lion.
STOCK MARKET
DROPPED THRU
BEARS' INFLUENCE
NEW YORK, Aug. 1. — Steady
selling and the lack of demand
brought stocks down from one to
more than 10 points in a dull
session of trading yesterday.
Some support was noted around
the lows and before the close sev
eral slight recoveries were made iu
the leading'issues.
The break was regarded as a nor
mal secondary reaction. It had been
anticipated and hence long trad
ers held aloof and the short traders
sold.
Several of the latest quotations
were, Alaska Juneau 22%, Am. Tel.
and Tel. 121, American Radiat. 13%,
Chrysler 30%. Nat. Dair. 19%, Gen.
Mot- 28%, Kennecott 18%, Radio
7%, Premier 1%, United Air. 30%,
Unit. Corp 10%. U. S. Steel 52.
Chi. Mil. <pfd) 13%.
FIGHT GAS COMPANIES
SEATTLE, Aug. 1. —A fight a
gainst 16 major oil companies op
erating in the State of Washington
has been begun by Governor Clar
ence D. Martin. It is charged that
the companies exercise virtual
monopolistic control over the gas
oline distribution in rhe State.
—
CANDAIAN WHEAT
CROP BE MUCH
UNDERESTIMATES
' WASHINGTON, D. C„ Aug. 1. —
Prospects of a Canadian wheat crop
j smaller than 350.000,000 to 400.000.
000 bushels estimated by the U. S.
'government observers about a,
month a^o are now indicated.
The cffi.ial Canadian estimate of
July 1 was for a yield of 333,000,000
j bushels, but private estimates based
on continued unfavorable weather
point to a harvest some 40.000.000
to 50,000,000 bushels under the July
1 figure
With a carryover of about 150,
000,000 bushels added to the official
estimate of 338,000,000, the total
Canadian supply this year would be
498,000,000 bushels as compared
with 559,000.000 bushels last year.
A furthur reduction of 50,000,000
1 would bring the supply approxi
I mately 100.000,000 bushels under
I that of 1932.
i This prospect, together with the
[short crop in te United States, crop
[conditions in the southern hemi
| sphere less favorable than a year
j ago and an indicated European pro
duction about the same, tends to
j offset the burden of a world wheat
[surplus sufficient to supply needs
| for a year or more.
Experts say that the effect of Ca
nadian prospects on United States
[ markets is difficult to measure in
Iview of overshadowing domestic de
jvelopments contributing to prevail
ing high wheat prices.
I-—
FLORIDA SWEPT
BY HURRICANE
, FORT PIERCE. Florida. Aug. 1.
■—A severe hurricane swept across
a narrow strip of South Central
Florida Saturday night. The storm
;hit the Eastern Coast between here
and West Palm Beach during the
afternoon and moved inland at the
rate of about eight or 10 miles
per hour toward Tampa, near where
its center was expected.
No casualties had been reported.
This city was in darkness from
| disrupted power service, and elec
tric lines were down throughout
a good part of the storm sector.
LEPERS WANT DRINK
BUCHAREST. Roumania, Aug. 1.
.—Seven lepers in search of a drink
gave police a tedious job here af
!ter the lepers had terrorized the
entire town which feared a spread
of the disease. The lepers escaped
jfrom the colony at Tichilesti and
i made their way to Lsoccea, where
11they appeared unexpectedly in the
: streets- The population was terri
. | fled and pedestrians ran to escape
■ j them. The lepers were returned
later to their colony