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VOLUME XXIX. NUMBER 160.
SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JULY 11, 1933.
PRICE TEN CENTS
RECOVERY PLAN
IS IN CRITICAL
r STAGE PRESENT
WASHINGTON, July 11. — The
industrial control program upon
which turns the outcome of the
Administration’s whole national re
covery project, is now definitely at
its critical stage with its success
depending greatly on the events
of the next few days. On the sur
face there is an optimistic tone re
garding the project, officials said.
Industries are daily promising
cooperation and several are act
ually moving to enter into agree
ments for self-regulation with in
creased employment and wages.
Nevertheless, there is in Wash
ington grave concern over the sit
uation. Only the cotton industry
with its 400,000 employees has made
an agreement so far. No other in
dustry has agreed to a trade code.
Three weeks must elapse before
any single additional code can go
into effect.
Roosevelt hoped to have the
code program well started within
60 days of June 16 when the Re
covery Act became law. The pro
spect of this is now dim.
A critical aspect has been creat
ed by industry which stepped up
production tremendously and
manufactured goods which experts
are certain cannot be sold until
the purchasing power of the people
is increased. Yet, by delaying their
wage raising codes, industry has
dene very little to increase the
purchasing power of the masses.
This opens the possibility of new
industry surpluses to swamp the
markets before the buyers can af
ford to buy and the reaction from
this is feared.
Hugh S. Johnson, director of
the Recovery program is virtual
ly convinced that he will have to
issue a request that the major in
dustry codes be submitted within
a definite time.
BRITAIN BACKS
PRICE RAISING
PROGRAM OF U.S.
LONDON, July 11. — The Am
erican price raising program re
ceived general support and in in
stances enthusiastic endorsement
in the British House of Commons
during a debate on the World Ec
onomic Conference.
The debate was followed with
great interest by the American del
egation although Chancellor Ex
chequer Neville Chamberlain fail
ed to reveal any definite steps to
ward carrying out a policy like
that of President Roosevelt.
He declared that the deprecia
tion of the American dollar was
unnatural and largely artificial.
Chamberlain revealed that the
j basic policy of Great Britain would
be the raising of wholesale com
modity prices.
SENATOR SAYS
ARKANSAS WET
t WASHINGTON, July 11. —Presi
dent Roosevelt was assured Mon
day by Senator Joseph T. Robin
son, democratic leader of the Sen
ate, that Arkansas will vote for
repeal of the Eighteenth Amend
ment by a “comfortable margin ’’
Robinson told the President that
the Arkansas voters will respond to
his appeal to stand by the repeal
plank in the democratic platform
when they go to the polls on July
18. At the same time, former Gov
ernor James E. Ferguson, of Texas,
predicted that the Lone Star state,
which has been ‘dry for many
years, will support the repealer in
next month’s election.
ASK RELEASE
PALMA MALLORCA, Spain, July
11. — United States authorities
have demanded the release on bail
of five Americans, one of whom is
a woman, who have been held in
jail here since June 5, charged
with a military offense.
NARCOTIC DRUG
CONTROL ACT IS
ACCEPTED BY U.S
WASHINGTON, Jiuly 11. —’The
International Convention for the
limiting of the manufacture and
regulating the distribution of nar
cotic drugs, designed to end the
dope evil here and abroad, became
binding on the United States Mon
day through a proclamation by
President Roosevelt.
Thirty-eight other nations have
approved the pact already.
The Convention limits the pro
duction of drugs here and in other
signatory countries to legitimate
medicinal and scientific needs and
! binds all countries to a strict re
gulation of the drug exports.
A permanent central board is to
be established at Geneva to fix the
quantity of drugs which countries
may manufacture.
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ARRIVE AT NOME
NOME, July 11. —A Mattern re
lief plane, piloted by Robert Ellis,
arrived here at 5:17 Monday even
ing after flying from Juneau
ITALIAN PLANES
STILL AT ICELAND
REYKJAVIK, Iceland, July 11. —
Gen. Italo Balbo, Italian air min
ister, who is leading the Fascist
airplane squadron on its epic flight
! to the Chicago Century of Pro
, gress Exposition, may order a take
off for Cartwright, Labrador, be
fore midnight tonight.
Balbo is eager to leave quickly,
for the weather conditions are re
ported to be more favorable over
the North Atlantic now than they
can be expected to be for some
time.
Most of the pilots and crews of
j the 24 seaplanes were in bed by
i 2:30 o’clock Monday afternoon and
-everyone was expected to be en
j tirelv rested for new adventures
! today.
FAIR TRADE CODE
WILL BE FORCED
ON OPERATORS
WASHINGTON, July 11. —Lead
ing mill operators will be sum
moned here by the Industrial Re
covery Administration within the
next few days and forced to ad
j opt an agreement to raise wages
and reduce working hours, it was
learned.
Hugh Johnson, administrator of
the Recovery Act, decided on this
course after becoming acquainted
with the dissention within the coal
group, it was made known.
Meanwhile, however, the giant
steel industries of the country fell
into line behind the President’s
Recovery program. Myron S. Tay
lor, speaking for the entire steel
field, told the president that a
steel code will be presented with
in a few days.
AWAIT WEATHER
NEW YORK, July 11. —Five aer
ial expeditions awaited the ele
ment’s pleasure before proceeding
on their air jaunts. Col. Lindbergh
was as New Haven, Maine, en
route to Halifax, thence to Green
land and to Europe on a mapping
expedition; Balbo was still at Rey
kjavik with his Italian air armada.
Wiley Post was here awaiting good
weather before taking off on an
attempted world flight.
GOOD PROGRESS
IS BEING MADE
BY BANDSMEN
Seward has always dreamed of
having a real community band
an this dream is being realized by
a group of energetic musicians
who, every Monday night, assemble
in the William H. Seward School
and hold band practices.
The band is sponsored by the
local American Legion post and it
was at first directed by Charles E.
Cramer, adjutant of the local Am
erican Legion Post. Mr. Cramer,
however, left soon after the for
mation of the band and Glenn
Rogers took over the band’s dir
ection. Mr. Rogers is exceptionally
suited to direct the band as he is
a real bandsman and was among
those selected by the Army to at
tend the Army band school
Mr. Rogers, at the present time
is not in Seward, and during his
absence Father Merril S u lz m a n
has charge of the direction of the
band. Fr. Sulzman has a most
thorough background in music and
his knowledge is of inestimable val
ue to the members.
Still more unusual talent is to
be found in the membership of the
local band in the person of Sol
Urie. Mr. Urie is the band’s major
domo and much of the band’s suc
cess is due to his fine work with
the baton.
At present there are about 18
active members in the band and
at every practice at least 12 or
more are on hand.
Good progress is being made in
mastering the art of rhythmic
'combination of tones and although
j they are not ready to make public
appearances they welcome persons
to come to their practices.
A roseate outlook is painted of
the contributions that this band
will make to Seward’s aesthe
I tic life. The band will participate
in numerous local gatherings such
Fourth of July parades, Armistice
1 Day exercises, basketball games,
and other events.
The membership of the band is
still open to prospective band
members or anyone who has an
: instrument and desires to partici
pate in the band. With all the
; available coaching talent on the
band, it is declared, little difficul
| ty should be experienced by even
,the beginner in getting along.
The first public appearance of
! the band will not be until some
| time this fall.
I
PRODUCTION STOPS
HOLLYWOOD, July 11. — Pro
duction at the Columbia studios
was at a standstill Monday as the
result of a walkout of 400 artisans.
Sound technicians struck first. A
sympathetic walkout by electri
cians, cameramen, property men
other organized craftsmen follow
ed.
Mrs. James Climie, of Anchorage,
is a returning passenger on the
liner Yukon. She has been to West
Point to see her son graduated
from the Military Academy.
BASEBALL CLUBS
ARE ECONOMIZING
LOS ANGELES, July 11. —Orville
Mohler, former University of South
ern California football and base
ball star, was given his uncondi
tional release by the Los Angeles
Angels for reason of economy.
The Coast League ball club also
released George Buchanan, former
varsity pitcher at the University
of Southern California.
Mohler, playing second base and
shortstop, proved a sensation at
the start of the season and al
though he was a rookie he became
a regular. He had been in a bad
slump for the last few weeks.
ARRIVES AT LONDON
LONDON, July 11. —Capt. C. P.
Ulm, Australian airman, ended a
flight from Australia to England
Monday, landing at Heston Airfield
from Lyons, France, at 5 p.m. Ulm
made the flight from Australia in
leisurely stages.
SALLY ELLERS IS
FRANK ABOUT
HER DIVORCE
HOLLWOOD, July 11. — Sally
Eilers, film actress and her hus
band. Hoot Gibson, cowboy actor,
have agreed to a trial separation,
it was learned here.
Rumors of an impending di
vorce were occasioned *by daily
visits of June Gale, 21-year old
San Francisco screen actress, to a
hospital where Gibson is recover
ing from injuries suffered in an
airplane accident last week.
Gibson admitted that his wife
went to Europe as a phase of their
trial separation but otherwise he
declined to discuss reports that
they would be divorced.
Sally Eilers, in New York, said
that Gibson may consider their
parting just a trial separation but
that it was permanent as far as
she was concerned. “Some separa
tions may result in renewed ro
mance but not this one,” she de
clared.
ABDUCTORS STALK
AGAIN AT ALBANY
ALBANY, N. Y. July 11. —John
J. O’Connell, Jr., 24, nephew of
Edward J. and Daniel P. O’Connell,
democratic leaders of Albany, was
j kidnapped from his home last Fri
day morning, it was learned today.
A demand for $250,000 ransom
j has been received by the O’Con
nell brothers, who, following in
' structions received from the kid
mappers, have suggested 11 names
of “go-betweens” for the safe re
turn of the young man. They have
not yet made any contact with the
kidnappers.
The police learned today that
i the abductors had informed the O’
Connel brothers that they would
•kill their captive if the police en
I tered into the case.
TRUCE IS CALLED
AS CONFERENCE
DRAWS TO CLOSE
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LONDON, July 11. — The gold
| and non-gold camps of the World
Economic Conference called a truce
Monday and prepared to bring at
least this phase of the world con
gress to a close with such agree
ments as are possible within twc
I or three weeks. July 26 was select
ed as the date for the adjourn
ment of the conference.
The principle agreements of the
day centered in the bureau oi
steering committee.
This group voted 23 to 15 tc
i retain on the agenda all of the
! original questions submitted.
: This vote was interpreted in some
! circles as a defeat for France anc
her allies of the gold group, whc
have contended that conference
progress is impossible without £
solution of the stabilization ques
tion first.
ROSENBLOOM LOST
SAN FRANCISCO, July 11. -
Maxie Rosenbloom, world light
heavyweight champion, met hi;
match here Monday night when h<
lost the decision to a 19-year ole
school boy, John Henry Lewis, ir
a stirring battle. The referee raisec
the negro’s hand after he had out
plugged the dexterous ‘playboy” al
most all the way. It was a fast
hard fight.
MATTERS WAS
BRUISED, CUT IN
CRASH LANDING
MOSCOW, July 11. —A dramatic
story of how Jimmie Mattern, Am
erican aviator, was lost 16 days in
the wilds of northern Russia be
fore being rescued was related in
a special to the newspaper Tzvestia
from its correspondent at Khabar
ovsk.
The dispatch gave the first com
prehensive details of the mishap to
Mattern, who took off on June 14,
from Khabarovsk, in an attempt
to fly to Nome, Alaska, on an
| other stage of his flight around the
world.
The Texas flyer last week sent
a telegram here saying he was safe
at Anadyr, Siberia.
Fourteen hours after leaving
Khabarovsk, the special Izvestia
I dispatch said, Mattern noticed his
motor was beginning to falter and
he decided it would be best to land.
Finding no suitable place in the
wild, desolate country he pressed
on, apparently hoping the trouble
would right itself, only to meet a
virtual complete failure of the en
gine.
This necessitated his coming
down in an extremely unfavorable
! hilly spot about three miles from
! the left bank of the Anadyr Riv
er, on which the village of Anadyr
j is situated.
Mattern is said to have suffered
1 several cuts and bruises when he
made his crash landing. He kept
himself alive by shooting yild game
and protected himself from the
elements by building a crude hut.
It was on one of his hunting-fish
i ing expeditions that he was found
by Anadyr guards.
Cal M. Brosius left today for
Moose Pass to spend several days.
WORKMEN START
CONSTRUCTION ON
BIG BRIDGE JOB
I SAN FRANCISCO, July 11. —The
j advance guard of 12,000 men who
j will find work on the San Francis
j co-Oakland Bay bridge and at
tendant industries started c o n
struction of the great engineering
project Monday after the color
ful opening ceremonies of Sunday.
Nearly 20,000 persons gathered
at the ceremonies as former presi
1 dent Herbert Hoover turned the
soil with a golden spade and Presi
dent Roosevelt, at Washington,
touched \ a golden telegraph key
tha«t discharged three dynamite
blasts along the bridge’s route.
“I am proud that during my ad
ministration these plans were com
pleted, the difficulties and fric
1 tion overcome and the finances
thus provided, thus assuring its
completion,” said Mr. Hoover as he
spoke briefly on the bridge that
has been a vision of the Bay area
for 75 years.
The eight and one-quarter mile
> structure will cost approximately
$75,000,000. Mr. Hoover was instru
mental in obtaining a $61,400,000
loan from the Reconstruction Fi
I nance Corporation during the lat
II ter part of his administration to be
> used toward the construction of
. the bridge.
DIES FROM OWN JOKE
; WASHINGTON, July li. —Chas.
Conway, practical joker, Monday,
- ordered one of his employees tt»
jump into the Potomac river or
s lose his job. Herbert J. Spain, the
> employee jumped. He couldn’t
1 swim. Conway dived after him.
i Spain was rescued and Conway
. drowned.
Local fishermen are now mak
, ing their catches in the vicinity
of Bear Glacier.