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VOLUME XXVIII. NUMBER 156.
SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY. JULY 6, 1932.
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IPPROPRIITIONS GILL
WASHINGTON, July 6. (/P)—All
the annual appropriations bills
have now been passed by the legis
lative bodies except the one carry
ing funds for the war Department.
President Hoover late Tuesday
signed the $1,056,000,000 Treasury
and Postoffice bill and one for the
distribution of 40,000,000 bushels of
wheat through the Red Coss to the
needy and 500,000 bales of cotton
from the Farm Board Stores.
The agriculture bill was adopted
without a record vote.
A number of Alaska road pro
jects were in the agriculture bill
which was approved by Secretary
Hyde and they included the $28,000
for clearing and gurbbing of three
miles on the Tongass Highway, out
of Ketchikan, from Mud Bay to
Point Suggins; $25,000 for the re
surfacing of a six-tenths mile j
stretch on the Miucof nighway, j
South of Petersburg; $35,000 for the j
improvement of the grade from;
Sitka to a point one and eight- j
tenths of a mile beyond the nation- '
al monument; $10,000 for the re-1
placement of a bridge across Law
son Creek with a temporary one
way bridge and $10,000 for emer
gency work.
Besides the money to be spent for
above projects $100,000 will be spent
for maintenance work, and the
sum of $150,000 is provided to be
spent on projects already started.
The program was first approved
by Governor George A. Parks, a
regional forestry official and the
Public Roard Bureau engineer at
Juneau.
Congress placed the limit of cash
expenditures at $350,000 despite a
surplus for previous road authoriz
ations.
11 TIE REPARATIONS
CONFERENCE. LffiH
WASHINGTON, July 6. —France
and Germany were still at odds
on a final reparations settlement
agreement, but late developments
in Lausanne and Berlin indicated
a settlement, far reaching in effects
not only in Europe but in the Unit
ed States, is in view, unless the set
tlement is blocked by Italji.
France, England and Germany j
are now agreed on a formula to
settle reparations, provided that
the United States cancels war
debts or drastically reduces Eu
rope’s indebtedness to America.
The German negotiation asks
that a settlement be arranged as a
repudiation of Germany’s confes
sion, in the Versailles treaty, of
‘'sole war guilt.”
France demands a final German
payment of $1,000,000,000, Berlin
wants to pay only $500,000,000,
while England forecasts a compro
mise payment of $750,000,000 and
France relieving Germany of the
r e s p o n s ibility for starting the
World War.
NANKING, July 6. —Chinese re- j
ports say a force of 20,000 Com
munists, a part of which is respon- '
sible for the kidnapping of 10
Americans near Kikungshan last
Sunday, is massing along the Kin
han Railway on the border of Hon
an and Hupeh provinces The Com
munists interrupted the railway
traffic and destroyed bridges and
are ravaging the Countryside, the
reports says.
A force of 4,000 Honan and Hupeh j
Provincial troops are reported to!
be moving against them.
HOLLYWOOD, July 6. -Joan
Crawford and her husband Douglas
Fairbanks, Jr., are pleasure bound
for Europe. They will sail from New
York July 9.
WILL SUPPORT DEMOCRATS
NEW YORK, July 6- (JP) — Al
Smith today announced he would
support the “Democratic Party” in
the November election saying that
the third party movement was im
practical at this time. He said he
had received hundreds of letters
and telegrams urging him to bolt
the Democrats and head a third
party.
COMPROMISE IS BEING
SOUGHT WITH HOOVER
ON RELIEF MEASURE
WASHINGTON, July 6. (JP) —Six
House and Senate leaders are con
ferring with President Herbert C.
Hoover to 'decide on the fate of
the $2,100,000,000 Wagner-G a r n e r
relief bill.
The president has indicated he
will veto the bill in its present
form and he apparantly continues
to stand firm on his declaration.
Hoover previously called the mea
sure a pork barrel.
Leaders hoped that some com
promise might be arranged that
would please the president and in
sure his signature.
The draft of the bill at the pre
sent time carries provisions for a
$300,000,000 sum for direct relief
loans to states and $322,000,000
for loans through the recently
created Reconstruction F i n a nee
Corporation.
PARTY LEADERS FAIL
REVEAL OUTCOME TALK
INDIANAPOLIS, July 6. (/P> —
The prohibition party approached
the business of staging their con
vention with a movement to place
Senator William Borah in the field
as their presidential candidate.
This movement is now holding
the center of interest of the party
leaders who conferred with Sena
tor Borah. However, neither Borah
nor the party leaders would say
anything about the decicion they
had arrived at as a result of their j
conference.
Friends of Senator Borah, in
Washington, believe the senator will
refuse although it was said that
he would not support President
Hoover because of the wet plank.
Republicans believe, however, that
Borah will confine his fight t o
stumping for the dry candidates!
of both parties.
ADJOPtNWIENT PLANNED
GENEVA, July 6. Prospects for
immediate action on President
Hoover’s proposal for a one third
reduction in arms went a glimmer
ing when the world disarmament
conference began preparations to
adjourn until fall.
imp® CONDUCT
NSM-IOE POLL;
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 4, — |
A nation-wide poll by the San1
Francisco Examiner and other
Hearst newspapers on the 1932
presidential election, was announc
ed.
The canvass is designed to as
certain the choice of voters in wrhat
promises to be the most interesting
and hard-fought campaign of a
generation, in advance of the gen
eral election, November 8.
It wTill embrace every State, con
gressional district and county in
the country.
TWO UNDER PAR
CLEVELAND, Ohio, July 6. —A1
Zimmerman, Portland, Ore., pro
fessional, opened the 33rd Western
Open Golf Tournament here with
a score of 70, two under par for the
first 18 holes.
TO APPEAL CASE
FLEM3VHNGTON, N. J. July 6.—
John Hughes Curtis, Norfolk, Va.,
social leader and boat builder, con
victed last week of committing the
Lindbergh hoax, planned to appear
in the Jersey Supreme court today
M1TTEBN MID GRIFFIN
MRKING GOOD TIME ON
GLOBE CIRCLING HOP
HARBOR GRACE, Newfoundland,
July 6. (IP) — The globe circling
fliers, James Mattern and Bennett
Griffin landed here safely nine
and one half hours after they had
left New York. They took on 600
gallons of gasoline and soon af
terwards began their flight across
the Atlantic to Europe on the sec
ond leg of their hop around the
world. It is the ambition of the
two fliers to set a new record for
the time required to fly around
the world.
On the flight to Harbor Grace
the fliers were forced to go through
rain and fog that made their
journey so hazardous that a crack
up appeared for a time to be in
evitable. The fliers, in their Lock
head Vega plane overshot their
mark and turned back to Harbor
Grace only after direction signals
had been given them at Cape
Freels, 150 miles to the North. See
ing a group of men at Cape Freels
they flew low and dropped a note
which read: “Point us the direction
of Landing Field at Harbor Grace,”
The signal was promptly given and
once again the big ship was swal
lowed by the fog, which hung low
along the Coast Line., when they
finally landed here they complained
that they had thought they were
flying North of Conception Bay as
soon as they felt certain they were
off their course but the uncertainy
of their location stayed with them
until they got the Cape Freels sig
nal.
The fliers paused only briefly—
little more than two hours—at
Harbor Grace and then roared off
over the Atlantic at 7:28 p. m.
Harbor Grace time.
A report from Berlin today says
that a plane believed to be that of
Mattern and Griffin was sighted
over Hanover at 3:15 p. m. today.
This would be 6:15 a. m. Pacific
Standard time.
In comparison with the Post and
Gatty time the fliers are now about
two hours ahead of schedule. When
they were first sighted over Han
over they had been flying for 16
hours- When they were again seen
over Bremen 18 hours and 28 min
utes had elapsed since they began
their flight. The fliers have been
making an average speed of from
107 to 135 miles per hour.
Mattern and Griffin landed in
Berlin at 5:45 p. m. (8:45 a. m. Pa
cific standard time) slightly more
than 18 hours after leaving Harbor
Grace. They had been sighted for
several hours before their arrival
here by planes who flew out to
meet them'before they landed.
They reported they had encount
ered bad weather and had been
forced to make a detour flight.
Despite the hour an unusually large
crowd awaited them. The crowd,!
which included United States Am- j
bassador Hackett, had begun to
worry over the fliers from the Wes
tern Hemisphere but their elation
ran high when the plane was heard
droning overhead.
The band played the “Star Span
gled Banner” as the fliers’ plane
“The Century of Progress,” taxiied
across the field. The United States
flag was raised over the airport
where the plane landed.
The fliers hopped off from Ber
lin for Moscow at nine p. m. (Noon
Pacific standard time.) They are
two hours and 55 minutes ahead of
the Wiley Post and Harold Gatty
round the world flying time.
From Europe the fliers swing up
to Siberia and from Siberia they
will fly across the Bering Sea to
Alaska and from Alaska they will
fly to New York City.
COX SEEKS ADVICE
PARIS, July 6- —The Rev. Father
James R. Cox, militant Pittsburgh
priest, who was confident he would
be nominated and elected presi
dent of the United States as the
candidate of the Jobless-Liberty
party, is enroute t o Berlin and
Rome to ask Adolph Hitler and
Premier Benito Mussolini for ad
vice on how to run the United
States with the aid of his projected
blue shirt organization.
CAPITOL CITY COPS
KEPT AT BAY HOURS
BY RIFLE-FIRE SNIPER
WASHINGTON, July 6. (IP) — A
sniper whose death dealing rifle
held most of Washington’s police
force at bay at a house near the
Capitol building for several hours
early Wednesday finally walked out
and surrendered after killing one
policeman and wounding two
others.
The assassin gave the name of
of Nicholson Long and he told the
police he did the shooting “just for
fun. I wanted to start some fire
works.”
Long was shot in the arm but
j otherwise showed meagre effects
i of the tear gas and gun fire which
| had been directed at him.
E. A. Swanson, rookie policeman,
! was killed when he peeked around
the corner of a building.
BACKING ROOSEVELT
SEATLE, July 6. (JP) — The Seat
! tie Times has come out as a sup
! porter of Governor Roosevelt for
presidency. This is the first time
that this Seattle paper has come
out in support of a Democratic
candidate since they supported W.
J. Bryan in the 1896 elections.
REPUBLICANS JOLTED
! WASHINGTON, July 6. —Strife
I worn Republican ranks suffered a
s new jolt when Senator Hiram
Johnson, of California issued a
| statement praising Governor Roose
i velt for his good poise and good
nerve in flying to Chicago to ad
dress the Democratic convention
and formally accept the nohiina
tion. Johnson, who has long been
a bitter opponent of President
Hoover, also praised the Democrat
ic standard bearer for his scrap
ping of old traditions and coming
out in the open.
CONVENTION BEGANS
INDIANAPOLIS, July 6. —Gifford
Pinchot, Governor of Pennsylvania
or Senator William Borah of Idaho,
for President and William (Billy)
Sunday for Vice President is the
aim of Leaders of the Prohibition
party which opened its National
Convention here.
CROPS DOOMED
SAN ANTONIO, Tex., July 6, (IP)
—Farmers in the lower river val
leys of Southwest Texas turned
their backs upon corn and cotton
and headed their livestock into the
hills to await flood waters which
have claimed nine lives. Crops in
thousands of acres of bread bot
tom lands, they agreed, were doom
ed by the rushing waters pouring
upon them from the upper reaches
of the Guadalupe, Frio and Nuces
rivers.
INTENSIVE SEARCH
WASHINGTON, July 6. — The
Coast Guard ordered 165 cutters
and two destroyers to search for
the yacht Curlew, missing partici
pants in ocean races from Mon
tauk Point to Boston. The Coast
Guard issued its orders after pa
rents of persons on the boat had
definitely established that she was
missing. The Curlew left Montauk
Point June 25, and was at first re
ported safely in Bermuda. Later
advices said she was not there.
DECREE GRANTED
LONDON, July 5. —A decree of
divorce was granted to Sir William
Heath against his aviatrix wife
Lady Heath. She obtained a divorce
from Sir James in 1931 and later
was remarried at Louiseville, Ky.,
to Reginald Williams. Sir James
accused his wife of misconduct with
Williams.
DIRECTOR GOES SOUTH
Victor Fleming, motion picture
director who has been a guest on
the steam yacht Stranger, Capt. F.
E. Lewis, which has been cruising
Alaskan waters, was a passenger
for Seattle on the S. S. Admiral
Evans from Kodiak. The party
hunted bear at Kodiak. Mr. Flem
ing was director of the motion pic
ture play, “The Wet Parade.”
CONFIDENT OF HARMONY
ALBANY, N. Y. July 6. —Confi
dent of party harmony, Franklin
D. Roosevelt returned to Albany
from the Democratic convention to
face four months of strenuous cam
paigning for the presidency. He ap
peared cheerful as he stepped from
his special car while more than a
thousand people cheered.
LONG GRILLING FAILS
SHAKE AMERICAN’S STORY
HE MURDERED ‘EAGLET’
PRAGUE, Czech-Slovakia, July 6.
— Still maintaining after a long
grilling that he was the murderer
of the Lindbergh baby, a myster
ious prisoner gave the police of Wa
agneustadt additional details of his
self-confessed crime.
Skeptical police hammered the
prisoner with questions in an ef
fort to break down his story and
to obtain some clue as to his iden
tity.
The man refused to reveal his
name and insisted he speaks only
English. The 31-year old American
said he fled to London with six
other gangsters implicated with
him. There he said they received
money and proceeded to Paris
where they bought a car.
FORMER PUBLIC HEFENDER
TO BE TRIED AUGUST
SAN FRANCISCO, July 6. —Su
perior Judge Frank H. Dunne, set
August 8 as the date on which
former Public Defender Frank J.
Egan and his alleged Frenchmen
; Verne Doran and Albert Tinnin
will go on trial on charges of mur
dering Mrs. Jessie Scott Hughes,
client and benefactor of Egan
Egan’s attorney asked for a sep
j arate trial for their clients. The at
i torney for Tinnin ioined them.
| Dunne set July first for argument
saying he will issue an order at the
request of the defense allowing ex
amination of more evidence partic
ularly photographs of Mrs. Huughes
body and her clothing .
BEFORE GRAND JURY
LOS ANGELES. July 6. —Mayor
John C. Porter, and his confiden
tial Secretry, Wells J. Mosher, have
been summoned to appear before
the County grand jury to tell what
they know of the plot to frame po
lice commissioner Thomas Walkup
in 1930. The mayor and his aid
were summoned after Edward M.
Ward who said he was employed by
Mosher in an effort to trap Walkup
in an embarrasing situation.
WARDEN HAS GIFT STAR
STOLEN BT PROWLER
JOLIET, 111. July 6. —Warden H.
Hill wouldn’t have felt so put out
about the robbery in the Illinois
State penitentiary if the thief had
not carried away a pair of his best
pants and to make matters worse
the prowler got into the safe, in the
warden’s office, and stole his star,
a gift to him from the inmates in
wishing him good luck with his
newly acquired position as head of
the federal prison at Lewisberg,
Pa.
Stanley Burzewski, who had only
45 days of a larceny sentence to
serve and who escaped from the
prison after taking the warden’s
dog out for an airing, is blamed by
Hill.
STARR RETURNS
The SS. Starr, Capt. Arthur Ryn
ing, arrived in port this forenoon
from Cordova towing the Charles
Goodall barge Lawrence. The barge
will be loaded with coal from the
Interior mines and will then be tow
ed down to Cordova again. The
Starr tied up at the Standard Oil
dock for refueling while the barge
was tied up at the Seward wharf
and coal loading begun. The Starr
is scheduled to sail for the West on
July 11.
ALASKAN VACATION TRIP
OF NEW YORK MRS
INTERRUPTED BY OEATH
BROOKING, S. D. July 6. (ff) —
A vacation trip to Alaska was in
terrupted when Edwin Carter, 22,
son of F. E. Carter, the vice-presi
dent of the American Telephone
and Telegraph Company, was killed
in an auto accident near here.
Walter Gifford, 14, son of W. S.
Gifford, president of the company,
received a crushed arm as a result
of the accident. Young Gifford’s
injury is not serious.
The Carter youth’s neck was
broken when their automobile
crashed into a fence after failing
to make a turn on the road.
The two youths were driving from
New York to Seattle and from Seat
tle they were going to visit Alaska
on a pleasure trip.
HUfl REYNOLDS' MILLIONS
COMMITS SUICIDE HOME
WINSTON-SALEM, N. C. July 6.
Smith Reynolds, 20, heir to the R.
J. Reynolds Tobbaco company mil
lions shot and killed himself Tues
day, just as he was going to bed.
Reynolds shot himself through
the head'and died within 4 hours.
He had just recently returned to
the States via Seattle after an air
plane tour in the far west.
The shooting occurred in the Rey
nolds .home.
MISSING GERMAN FLIES.
11 HIS IE FOUND IN
WILDS OF AUSTRALIA
SYDNEY, Australia. Juluy 6 —
' Hans Bertram, German flyer, and
! Ludwig Kiausmann, one of the
| three aides missing with him in
i the Australian wilds since May 15,
> were found wTandering in circles
on Cape Bernier on June 22, ac
cording to wireless reports reach
ing here. The two men were tem
porarily deranged from their many
weeks of almost fatal hardships
after their seaplane was forced
down for lack of fuel. They were
weeping as natives who found
them brought them into Drysdale
Mission, near Wvndham. After
being given food and water, how
ever, Bertram was able to give a
coherent account of his wander
ings.
The two aviators dropped cut of
sight after they took off from
Kupang Island on a flight to Dar
wTin. The first news of their fate
came in the middle of June when
natives handed over to a mission
ary a handkerchief and cigarette
case on which were the initials
H. B.
HER LOCAL RESIDENT
DIED CRH SUNDAY
Word reaching Seward tells of
the death in Cordova Sunday morn
ing of Louis Vogel, a brother of Ed
Vogel of Seward. Death was said
to have been due to heart failure.
Louis Vogel had been connected
with the Copper River Lumber Com
pany for a number of years but
previous to that had been located
in Seward where he operated the
Resurrection Lumber Company.
Louis Vogel with another oldtime
resident is said to have been the
constructor of the sawmill located
on Resurrection bay lagoon, near
the railroad tracks and which was
destroyed by fire only during recent
years.
The deceased was well known in
Seward. He was about 55 years of
age. He was a member of the
Masonic Lodge at North Bend,
Washington. The body will be In
terred in the Cordova cemetary.