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VOLUME XXIX. NUMBER 151.
SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 1933
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LONDON, June 29. —The World,
Economc Conference today faced,
another grave crisis precipitated by j
the threat that several members j
of the gold bloc nations delegates i
would quit unless there would be
some form of currency stabilization
in the near future. Their ultima- ■
turn, couched in courteous terms
to that effect, was presented to
Prime Minister Ramsay McDonald
\ by France, Switzerland, H ol 1 a n di
• and Belgium. They demanded that
Britain immediately take action to
calm the uneasiness over the sit
uation.
High quarters have interpreted
the move as an effort to force
Britain to render an active part
to prevent currency fluctuation
and to obviate the possibility of
gold standard countries from be
ing forced off that basis.
A heavy slump of the dollar in
tensified the feeling among the
gold representatives.
No decision has been reached as
to whether the Americans will con
sider and fresh scheme for stab
ilization. In the meantime the U.
S. delegates faced a serious lid
emma in an effort to save their
domestic policy from collision with
f the foreign situation.
While there is a hesitancy about
the stabilization of the dollar in
view of the severe reaction it would
cause on the American markets
the Americans have been warned
that a further drop in the dollar
§' might dislodge other currencies
from gold and this might also
have and adverse representation at
home.
It is pointed out that in the fall
of continental currencies from the
gold backing that this would be
likely to cause a rise in the dollar
in the terms of other currencies
and there has been a tendency for
the markets to decline when the
dollar rises
The talk of stabilization brought
* selling into the markets by spec
ulators.
MM JOBS H ;
GETTING TO 0E SHOE
RESULT WET SENTINIENT
ST. PAUL, Minn., June 29. —
Andrew J. Volstead, author of the
Enforcement Act bearing his name,
was divorced Wednesday from his
official connection with its en
forcement.
The 73-year old legal adviser of
the Eight district was notified by
the prohibition administrator that
f he. would be furloughed indefinitely.
^ The furlough will begin July 1.
Volstead said he was not surpris
ed at the action but said he had
not changed his mind about pro
hibition since he helped to draft
the Volstead law in 1919.
* Volstead had recently been forc
ed to ease up somewhat in his hard
code of work because of heart
trouble. For that reason he would
not participate in the campaign
against prohibition repeal.
FRAIL OBSTACLES
BERLIN, June 29. — A mere
technically in the approval of Al
fred Hugenberg’s resignation and
p. badly broken Catholic Centrist
party Wednesday stood b e tw e e n
Chancellor Adolf Hitler and the
goal he began hammering at last
" week—a single purposed Nazi gov
ernment backed by a one-party
Nazi nation.
CANCEL CITIZENSHIPS
VIENNA, June 29.—Cancellation
of all honorary Austrian citizen
ship bestowed on Chancellor Ad
olf Hitler, of Germany, an Aust
rian by birth, was ordered by
the government Wednesday, as ex
ploding Nazi bombs continued to
terrorize the nation.
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SAN FRANCISCO, June 29. —
With a possibility that everyone
of California’s 58 counties will
have given a majority vote for
repeal of the Eighteenth Amend
ment, returns from Tuesday’s el
ection rolling in Wednesday serv
ed to increase the huge vote by
which the Golden State joined
with 15 of her sister States
who are now committed to the
abolishing of national prohibition.
The vote for repeal is edging up
to the 1,000,000 mark.
At Palo Alto, private citizen Her
bert Hoover, the. man who as pre
sident of the United States was
anxious to give full scope to the
noble experiment of prohibition,
cast his vote in his precinct here
Tuesday. Asked if Mr. Hoover cared
to comment on the State’s vote, his
secretary explained that the form
er president does not care to com
ment about anything at this time.
LAKEMANS BAY, Roque Island,
Maine, June 29. —A Navy lifeboat
, Wednesday carried Norman Davis,
American roving ambassador, thru
seven miles of fog-blanketed At
lantic waters to President Roose
velt on the schooner Amberjack II.
Aboard the Amberjack the
President lost no time in getting
I down to brass tacks with Davis,
who also is chief of the American I
delegation to the Geneva Disarm
: ament Conference.
It was expected that their dis
cussions would be completed in
! time to allow the latter to pro-!
■ ceed to Machias, Maine, to entrain j
for Boston and New York.
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IN BAD, BURGULARS
FRESNO, Calif., June 29. —'
Young Jimmy Corbett, in, of:
Fresno, former world’s welter-j
weight champion, who lost his title I
recently to Jimmy McLarnin, and
who was kidnapped and robbed,
while visiting in Chicago, had more j
bad news awaiting him here. His;
brother, also of Fresno, reported to j
the police that the boxer’s home1
h e r e w a s burglarized apparently
apparently on Monday night.
■ F»TTT (RBUGKIE IS
DEM IT DEW YORK
NEW YORK, June 29. —Roscoe
“Fatty” Arbuckle, 45, comedian of
the screen of several years ago,
was found dead in the bed of an
apartment hotel where he lived
with his wife
Mrs. Arbuckle awoke to find that
her husband had died from a heart
attack. He had just completed a
picture Wednesday in his film
. comeback.
Arbuckle lost his fortune defend
l ing himself in three trials in con
! nection with the death of Virginia
; Rappe, screen actress of San Fran
cisco, in 1921, following a party in
r Arbuckle’s hotel suite. Arbuckle
was finally acquitted of all charges.
LECH PUD
Persons who have takfn a faint
heart in regard to Seward’s Fourth
of July celebration this yfar should
take a dash of ‘three-and two” as;
a tonic, for preparations are being j
made by committees of the local!
American Legion post for a real
lively Fourth celebration.
Although contributions so far to
the Fourth fund total less then
$60 it is expected that local busi
ness houses who have not made
their contributions so far will do so
at once so that the program com
mittee, which meets tomorrow
evening can make out a program
of the events to be staged. Legion
aires today said that contributions
should be in by tomorrow night, if
possible.
There will be no Marathon
Mountain race this year owing to1
the expected lean condition of the
Legion’s Fourth of July contribu
| tions fund but many other exci
ting events are promised. Out
standing among these events will
probably be the baseball gan^e
between a local team and some
1 Outside team. It is said that the
Legion committee will give serious
attention to the suggestion that
a case of beer—two or three—be
I awarded the winning team. It has
been declared that another fea
ture event has been planned in the
staging of a bicycle race for mar
ried men and the prize for the win
ner in this race may also be a
case of beer. No schedule of the
program of events has been drawn
up yet, however.
A big dance will wind up the
local Fourth.
It is not known definitely whe
ther the Alaska Railroad will run
a car into Seward from points a
long the railroad and back as
has been done in the past.
I^egionaires will have ia squad
of men out Monday to decorate
the streets. Further details will
| be annpunced later.
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PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Hollywood 5, Missions 4.
San Francisco 5, Los Angeles 6;
10 innings.
Sacramento 3, Seattle 1.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Cincinnati 8-5, Brooklyn 1-6.
St. Louis 3-0, Boston 4-3.
Pittsburgh 5-4, New York 2-7.
Chicago 9-8, Philadelphia 5-3.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Washington 15, Cleveland 2.
New York 10, Detroit 7.
Boston at St. Louis, game called
at the end of the fourth inning
on account of rain.
Philadelphia 8, Chicago 9.
Jimmy Foxx hit his eighteenth
homer of the season in the Phila
delphia-Chicago game.
SOVIET GOVERNMENT
ORDEBSJEU FIVER
MOSCOW, June 29. — Fifteen
airplanes and the best pilots sta
tioned in Eastern Russia were
ordered into the air by the Soviet
government Wednesday to search
the Siberian wastes for Jimy Mat
tern, flyer who disappeared a week
ago last Thursday on a flight
from Khabarovsk to Nome, Alaska.
Thier orders call for an exten
sive search of the Redot area in
the vicinity of the Gulf of Ana
dir, St. Lawrence Island and Ber
ing Strait.
“MUCH IMPROVED”
NEW YORK, June 29. —Douglas
Fairbanks, Jr., still seriously ill
from pneumonia following a cold
contracted on his return trip
from Europe, was reported at the
Doctor’s hospital Wednesday night
as ‘‘much improved.”
HIT TLX E
HEIRS, 1991-91-32
WASHINGTON, June 29. — In
vestigators sought to determine to
day whether Otto Kahn escaped
the payment of income tax in 1930
by means of a “wash sale” of stock.
It is alleged that Kahn paid no
income tax for the years of 1931
and 1932 also; also that the taxes
paid by the partners in the Kahn
firm were negligible.
The investigators also are pre
parng to resume their inquiry into
the private banking firm of Mor
gan and Company in the fall.
The weary Senators planned a
quick windup of the current in
quiry into the Kalin, Loeb and
Company by calling Kahn back
for questioning about a stock
transaction of 1930 by which he
established $117,00 loss. He was to
be given an overnight chance to
refresh his memory about this.
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DISPUTES DE MED DDT
WASHINGTON, June 29. — The
chasm of difference between em
ployers and labor over wages anc
working hours in the cotton anc
textile mills provided the Nation
al Recovery Act administratior
with a keystone to the proolem ol
its job -of regulating industry.
Some decision will have to b<
made relative to the divided thirtj
hour week of Labor P r e s i d e n 1
Green and the 40 hour week a:
proposed by the manufactures
Organized consumer groups lean
ed toward Green’s views.
TRIAL BEGINS
TOKYO, Japan, June 29. —The *
first public trial of members of ]
the terroristic league of blood :
brotherhood for the assasinations j
of a year ago of Premier Inukai
and Finance Minister Junnos'uke 1
Inouye and Baron Takuma open- 1
ed here Wednesday. Hundreds of
police and gendarmes were sta
tioned around the court to main-, I
tain order. !
The Alaska Transfer today began ;
hauling rail iron to be used in re- 1
pair work to the local flume, up
to Lowell Creek.
HUES HELMS PUCE
BE UEEMENT
WASHINGTON, June 29. — The 1
World War went on for nearly a
year after Germany began to ask
for peace, it was disclosed Wed
nesday with the publication of the
secret files of American diplomatic
correspondence.
One communication of the State
Department revealed that the Kai
ser sought for a time to withhold
the German’s 1918 spring offensive »
in the hope that peace could be
negotiated and further slaughter
averted. But the battle raged on
along the Western front until Nov
ember, partly because Germany
refused at first to accept the terms
laid down by President Woodrow
Wilson and partly because Ameri
ca and the Allies were at odds
over terms.
II. S. Mil ISOLATE
ITSELF FROM WORLD
TO INSURE H
WASHINGTON, June 29. — The
Roosevelt administration Wednes
day was prepared to take drastic
steps to safeguard the economic
recovery program within the nit
ed States if France and her gold
allies go off the gold standard.
, The administration is ready to
move swiftly to isolate the United
States from the rest of he econo
mic world, it was learned, and, if
necessary to combat any European
dollar pegging efforts with a
domestic inflation program under
the authority of Congressional leg
islation.
Meanwhile, in France, powerful
banking interests are being won
over to a policy of technical aban
donment of the gold standard by
placing an embargo on its exports
while the franc is being “readjust
ed,” or devaluized in its ratio to
the British pound and the Ameri
can dollar, reliable quarters stated.
London reports that Great Bri
tain, acting under French pressure
Wednesday requested the Ameri
can World Economic Conference
delegation to put the issue of tem
porary stabilization of the dollar
directly up to President Roosevelt,
who only a week ago flatly reject-'
ed the European stabilization de
mand which has again become the
dominant question of the parley.
SEVERE HURRICANE
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad,
June 29. — A severe hurricane
swept across the southern part of
this island Wednesday, tearing
the roofs off houses and damag
ing oil field developments. Lines
of communication are down and
details of the damage and possible
casualties were unavailable.
SHARKEY NOT HEO
TO ora CROWN
NEW YORK, June 29. — When
Jack Sharkey slides through the
ropes into the battle pit of Madi
son Square Garden tonight he may
find himself the first underdog
heavyweight champion in fistic
history. Challenger Primo Camera
was being quoted at even money
in betting circles and gambling
men expressed the opinion that the
giant Italian would go to the post
a slight favorite.
The record books fail to reveal
a time when a heavyweight
champion was the outsider in the
betting.
Schmeling, Tunney, Dempsey,
Willard, Johnson, Jeffries and ail
other titleholders, right on back
to the tie of Jim Figg, were the
short enders in the defense of their
crown.
SPANISH FLIERS HAVE
NOT BEEN LOCATED
MEXICO CITY, June 29. —An oil
camp water carrier named ManueL
Balacazar was under arrest at
Minatitlan Wednesday after con
fessing that he falsely reported
•seeing the bodies of Capt. Mariano
Barberan and Lieut. Joaquin Col
lar beside their wrecked trans
Atlantic airplane on an island in
a coastal lake.
The fate of the aviators who
disappeared on a Havana-Mexico
City flight, remained a mystery.
Balacazar reported he had seen
them hoping to get a large re
ward.