MEMBER ASSOCIATED RMESS
^VOLUME XXIX. NUMBER 209.
SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1933.
PRICE TEN CENTS
DIVIDENDS BE
PAID HOLDERS
IN HOMESTAKE
SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 7. —
The Homestake Mining Company
yesterday declared the regular
monthly dividend of. one dollar a
.share and an extra dividend of
one dollar a share, both payable
September 25 to stock of record
September 20.
^ The stock has been on a nine
dollar annual basis since May last
year, when the regular monthly
rate was raised from 65 cents to
75 cents. Payment of one dollar
began this month raises the annual
rate to $12.
The extra dividend of one dollar
l-s the second voted this year. The
other being paid on April 25. The
Company distributed two extras of
one dolalr each last year.
ROOSEVELT IS
CERTAIN REPEAL
WASHINGTON. Sept. 7. —Satis
fied that repeal is certain before
the year is out. President Roose
velt yesterday had his advisors |
working on a federal plan of liq
uor control for submission to Con
tress. (
The entry of Vermont into the
Wet" column, making the 25th
■date. convinced administration of
ficials it is all over now but the
shouting.
The final states to complete re
peal will vote on November 7. with
the conventions in December.
EXPERTS SEARCH
SLEEP CARRIER
4
ST. LOUIS. Sept. 7. —The battle
against the sleeping sickness ma
lady took a new turn here as medi
cal experts began experimenting
•vith mosquitoes. The mosquitoes,
of a variety known as yellow fever
carriers, were induced to bite per
sons who had contracted the sleep
ing sickness disease and then tc
%ite monkeys. It is hoped by these
experiments to establish the ear
lier of the disease so that preven
tive measures can be taken.
Other experts still clung to their
Theory that human beings are the
carriers and they are trying to
establish their original contact with
The disease.
Eighty two persons were dead last
night and over 500 have been
stricken.
MEXICO WANTS
CLARIFY TREATY
?
MEXICO CITY, Sept. 7. —Mex
ico City has begun negotiations
with Japan for reinterpretation of
'he Mexican-Japanese trade treaty
which regulates the entry of Jap
anese to Mexico. This was the an
nouncement of Dr. Jose Manuel!
Puig Casauranc yesterday.
Mexico. Dr. Puig said, will treat
entrants of all nations equally, but
is not willing to accord them equal j
‘reatment with Mexicans.
TO INVESTIGATE WRECK
BINGHAMTON, N. Y. Sept. 7. —j
The Interstate Commerce Commis-.
sion has begun an investigation of *
the tragic wreck of the flyer here
Tuesday when the two end cars
v af the crack train were telescoped
oy a milk train which struck it
from the rear. The focal point of
the investigation will be centered
around the use of a wooden passen
ger coach on a first class passen-;
S ger train, it is said. Engineers on j
the flyer blame the engineers on!
I milk train for the wreck as the j
" latter did not heed a stop sign.
I MAY PROPOSE 4-HOUR DAY
TACOMA, Wash., Sept. 7. —H.
j T. Bone, senator, speakng here
'Wednesday, declared that Presi- i
{dent Roosevelt is ready to order a !
five or even four-hour work day, !
if necessary, to put the people of
the United States back on the work |
! list. Bone declared that the United J
J States is going forward and “we *
| are never going back.”
MOTHER BE TRIED \
FOR KIDNAPPING
OF OWN CHILD
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Sept. 7.
—A mother today faced charges of
kidnapping her own daughter and
must stand trial under Utah’s new
statute making the death penalty
possible if convicted.
Frances Napoley. 22. of Center
ville. was arraigned in the district
court and charged with kidnapping
her daughter, Colleen Evans, five,
who was formally adopted by Mr.
and Mrs. W. D. Evans, of Salt Lake
City.
The complaint asserts that Miss
Napoley. assisted by two unknown
women, seized the child while she
was playing near the Evans’ home.
The trial date was set for Sep
tember 11. The death penalty is
provided in Utah’s new statute for
conviction of first degree kidnap
ping.
TEXAS REGION
LIKE A LAKE
j EDINBURG, Tex., Sept. 7. —
Troops were rushed into the de
vastated lower Rio Grande Valley
i yesterday, which was flooded in
the wake of a hurricane which
killed ICO persons and caused dam
age estimated at more than $10.
000.000 in Texas and Mexico.
Residents of the area were dig
ging out of the debris of the hur
ricane which has swept over a path
from Tampico to Brownsville. An
aviator flying over the area said
ithat the country looked like a huge
lake.
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INVESTIGATE DEATH
LOS ANGELES. Sept. 7. —A fed
eral grand jury investigation of the
death of Robert L. Moody from
I injuries suffered aboard a gambl
ing boat was promised by the U.
S. district attorney’s office after a
• coroner’s jury had returned a ver
dict of homicide. The gambling
was known as the Panama
City'and questionings, so far, have
j failed to disclose that Moody was
in a fight aboard the craft or that
he was struck by someone. His
death, it was said, was caused from
ja fractured skull.
BLONDELL REVOLTS
I HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 7. — Joan
Blondell carried on a one-woman
revolution yesterday against the
Warner Brothers. She said that
she had played in 39 pictures in 29
months and it was time, to demand
higher wages or walk out. Later
in the day the producers were said
to have made suitable arrange
ments to pacify Blondell.
BASEBALL SCORES
NATIONAL LEAGUE
New York 9, Pittsburg 1.
Chicago 4, Boston 3.
Brooklyn 7-8, Cincinnati 3-18.
St. Louis 2-8, Philadelphia 1-7.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Detroit 11, Boston 5.
Chicago 3, Washington 1.
New York 3, St. Louis 2.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Missions 4, San Francisco 3.
Oakland 7, Seattle 1.
Los Angeles 2, Hollywood 0.
UNITED STATES
READY PROTECT
ITS CITIZENS
j HAVANA, Cuba, Sept. 7. —Cuban
I mob fury was directed against the
! Americans Wednesday night as the
1 cruiser Richmond, third warship of
; the American flotilla ordered to Cu
j ban waters, arrived off Havana.
The Cuban radicals seized the three
; broadcasting stations of the Re
public and are putting their mes
sages on the air. “Comrades” the
I addresses begin, and they usually
bespeak of the action that the Cu
j ban people must take. One address
jyesterday exhorted the Cubans that
| the time was ripe to strike and
I admonished them to “look at the
Americans and see what they have
done. You will know them when
you see them.”
Trouble began in earnest yester
day for the day old regime of the
five Cuban professionals who head
the emergency Junta government.
A group of Communists seized a
former government building and
barricaded themselves there for
j several hours. The Reels were fin
! ally dispersed by soldiers who are
| striving hard to maintain quiet.
The Communists made threats
against the Americans but they
made no move to carry them out.
i The Americans, over 700 of them,
were crowded in the Hotel Nation -
ale, which they declared Amer
ican Territory. This hotel was
guarded by members of the Amer
ican Legion Post of Havana and
they were armed with two ma
chine guns and hundreds of rifles.
The United States Government
| concerned itself greatly with the
Cuban situation yesterday. Presi
dent Roosevelt called Secretary of
State Cordell Hull and Admiral
Stanley, of the U. S. Navy for a
talk at the White House. During
their conference there were reports
of trans-oceanic phone calls to the
American Embassy at Cuba. Soon
j afterwards an electrifying message
j was sent to the marine post at
Quantico, Virginia. The message
called for the mobilization of the
Seventh regiment with full equip
ment for overseas duty. After
wards six or eight navy ships were
ordered to proceed to a concen
tration in Cuban waters.
Secretary of the Navy Claude
Swanson sailed for Havana yes- j
terday afternoon aboard the 10.000 j
ton eight-inch gun cruiser Indian- j
apolis.
President Roosevelt *had called ;
upon the Cuban junta to establish]
a stable government, but the j
spreading disorders throughout the j
Island Republic gave rise to a be
lief that the new revolutionary j
Junta may not be able to estab
lish the stable government de-1
manded. Possible intervention!
was indicated to be the result of j
failure to stabilize the government.
The dispatching of warships and '
the concentration of marines at
Quantico was not to be interpreted
as intervention, officials stated.
They added that these were mere
ly precautionary measures on the
part of the United States.
One of the five members of the i
Cuban Junta expressed himself as
undesirous of American interfer
ence. He said any such action
would be an absurd action of the
Roosevelt government and he could
not see the situation in Cuba as
one meriting reprobation.
It has been indicated that the
junta was to rewrite the constitu
tion of Cuba and leave out the
Platt agreement giving the United
States the right to intervene in Cu
ba in event of trouble.
GAS PRICES UPPED
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 7 —Gas
oline prices were raised yester
day 1.6 cents and two cents the
gallon. The gasoline prices now are
ethel 22, standard 20, and third
grade structure gasoline, 16V£ cents.
MAY REWRITE BANKING ACT
WASHINGTON, Sept. 7. —Plans
to rewrite the United States bank
ing act are discussed by econo
j mists and business men here it
was learned today. It is recalled
that Great Britain rewrote her
banking act several years ago and
that the banking problem is ap
parently in a better condition there
than has been the instance in the
United States.
FRENCH SCHEME
\ PROTECT SELVES
! DISARMING PLAN
PARIS, Sept. 7. — An elaborate
plan whereby, under the guise of
j disarmament, the United States
would become 'jointly responsible ;
; for the enforcement against Ger
i many of the disarmament provi- :
jsicns of the treaty of Versailles.
; is being worked out for submission 1
to Norman H. Davis, American dis
armament delegate, when he ar
rives here from London.
Davis is now conferring with the
Prime Minister of Britain, Ramsay
(McDonald, on disarmament prob
| lems. It has been declared that
Davis has a disarmament plan of |
his own and is seeking the support
of England before he presents it j
to the world.
ARCTIC VESSEL
IS ICE-BOUND
—
j POINT BARROW, Alaska, Sept. 7.
j—Caught in solid ice, the schoon
er C. S. Holmes, Capt. John Back
hand, of Seattle, commanding, was
, in danger of being crushed yester
!day about 70 miles south of here.
! Capt. Backland and his crew of
jlO men were in no danger, how
'ever, as they walk from the ship
ij-o solid ice. Natives were sighted
ion the shore by the USS. North
iStar and were prepared to render
!any assistance possible to the ice
bound schooner.
A NEW PROBLEM
WASHINGTON, Sept. 7. — The
government has a new problem on
its hands in its efforts to curtail
hog production in the United States.
The Agriculture administration
had hoped that by offering farm
ers a premium for their porkers at
this time that they would send
their sows to the market. How
ever. the government is now aware
that the farmers are not ship
ping their big pigs' but are send
ing their little pigs and receive
the same premium.
VERY ILL
LONDON, Sept. 7. — The con
dition of Lord Grey was still very
serious here last night. He was
in an unconscious condition the
same as he has been for the last
72 hours.
THE STOCK MARKET
NEW YORK Sept. 7. —The Stock
Market was irregular yesterday but
closed with an encouraging rally.
The late recovery wiped out losses
t oas much as six points and at
the close the issues were off only
fractions in the majority of in
stances.
Gold shares again were the most
popular and oils showed they had
some support. The rails suffered
an early break and at the close
they had recovered some of their
losses.
Industrial were off .11 in the
Dow Jones averages at 133.00; rails
were off .57 at 49.85.
The pound sterling closed at
$4.65i4; the Canadian dollar was
95; wheat 84%; cotton $9.35; cop
per 9; export copper up to .0815
from .08 C. I. F. London; lead 4.5;
md silver 36%.
FORD IS STILL
NOT ON N. R. A.
BLUE EAGLE LIST
DETROIT, Mich., Sept. 7. —The
Ford Motor Company, still outside
the Blue Eagle ranks, maintained
its close silence toward President
Roosevelt’s recovery program yes
terday while the rest of the motor -
car industry completed plans for
bringing 81,000 men back to work.
A spokesman of the Ford Com -
pany informed the press that the*
hourly wages of several thousand
skilled workers was increased be
fore August 1. Adjustments are
still being made in the wage scale
and will continue until all of Ford's
40,000 employees are benefited, it
was said.
The Ford minimum wage scale
is 50 cents an hour, above the 44
cents an hour prescribed by the
automobile code which Mr. Ford
failed to-sign.
COAL INDUSTRY
TO DECIDE WAGE
j WASHINGTON. Sept. 7. —War
ring factions in the bituminous coal
i industry have been ordered by the
President to agree on a wage con
tracts as the basis for a code of
higher wages and shorter hours.
| Roosevelt also let it be known
he planned to let public opinion
deal with Henry Ford if the auto
mobile manufacturer persisted in.
his refusal to adhere to the auto
'code. Penalties in the Recovery Act
jalso may be invoked.
PHILIPPINES TO
VOTE FREEDOM
MANILA, P. I. Sept. 7. —The In
sular House of Representatives yes
terday approved a resolution to
'submit the Hawes-Cutting Act for
Phillipine independence to a vote
of the people.
The resolution went to the Sen
: te, where passage is expected since
jit was approved by a majority
jcaucus led by Maniel Quezon. Sen
jate president.
No predictions have been made
as to how the people will vote but
lit is indicated by some leaders that
jthey expect a vote favoring inde
pendence.
GOVERNOR ROLPH
FEELING BETTER
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 7.—“Un
less he takes a turn for the worse,”
and “we don’t look for it,” Gover
nor James J. Rolph is on the road
to recovery.
Thus was the condition of Gov.
Rolph summarized by his attend
ing physicians yesterday.
The Governor is confined at the
St. Francis Hospital with a pneu
monic condition.
TO BUY HOME
I COPENHAGEN, Sept. 7. — Col
and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh plan
to buy a Summer home just out of
Copenhagen if the Northern Air
Route air service which he is work
ing on becomes a reality, it was re
J ported here.
EXPECT AGREEMENT
LOS ANGEALES, Sept. 7. —Fin
.1 agreement on the construction
of a Union depot for Los Angeles
by the principle railroads serving’
that city was expected to be reach
ed here in a few days. The City
officials have said that if the rail
roads do not see their way clear
to build the City may ask the Fed
eral government for funds with
which to construct the depot them
selves. The depot would then be
leased by the City to the Railroads.