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MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXIX. NUMBER 110. SEWARD, ALASKA.THURSDAY, MAY 11, 1933.
PRICE TEN CENTS
Health Insurance
Plan Endorsed hy
Chamber Commerce
A SUGGESTION THAT THE CITY OF SEWARD IN
AUGURATE A COMMUNITY HEALTH INSUR
ANCE PLAN WAS ENTHUSIASTICALLY RE
CEIVED BY THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
AS ONE OF THE MOST PROGRESSIVE COM
MUNITY ENTERPRISES THAT HAS BEEN PRO
POSED IN YEARS.
The plan as outlined is in substance that any indi-1
vidual in Seward or vicinity, upon payment of a certain
set sum, may receive for one year all professional medi
cal attention that he may require. It is health insurance
offered at a cost which brings it within the reach of all.
The plan is based upon the fact that the community
pays, in cash, a certain amount every 12 months for med
ical services. Under the proposed plan this cost is dis
tributed over a large number of persons, making the j
cost to each comparatively small, but affording com-!
plete protection to all. This is the theory upon which is!
based insurance in all its forms.
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ILL IN FOURTH BAY
"PlftiJM" FAST
POONA, India, May 11, —The
Mahatma Gandhi was weak and
ill this morning, the fourth day
of his “purification” fast.
The enfeebled leader of the
fight for Indian independence was
so ill he had to be carried on a
stretcher when moved from inside
the private villa where he is stay
ing, to the terrace.
Doctors were concerned increas
ingly over his condition and held
grave fears he would be unable
to survive even a week’s fast; his
goal is three weeks.
They have prohibited visitors
and prescribed a vow of silence to
conserve Gandhi’s dwindling ener
gy.
ABOLITION OF MABINE
CORPS AND NAVAL STAFF
VIENNA, May 11-Twenty-three
students were injured in a new
series of clashes between Nazi and
Jewish undergraduates of the Uni
versity of Vienna. No foreigners
were involved.
Jewish-American students at the
institution organized a “self-de
fense society” as a result of yester
day’s riots, in which nine under
graduates from the United States
were injured. •
MAM AGREEMENT
ON INDUSTRIAL DILL
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 11—
The administration’s unprecedent
ed currency inflation, farm relief
and mortgage reduction bill re
ceived the final approval of Con
gress yesterday and was sent to
President Roosevelt for signature.
Meanwhile, President Roosevelt
reached a tentative agreement
with Cabinet and Congressional
leaders for an industrial regulation
bill and a $3,300,000,000 public
works program to be submitted
soon for Congressional action.
POSTPONED A DAY
LONDON, May 11,—The meeting
of the organizing committee of-the
World Economic conference sched
uled for today was postponed until
tomorrow because some participat
ing nations have not said they
have accepted the armistice tariff
truce. Prance and Germany are!
among the unheard nations. I
i Upon payment of the amount
fixed the individual would have
budgeted his entire expenditures
for professional services for the
next 12 months, and would need
have no fear of heavy doctor bills
coming in at some unexpected
time during the year as the result
of some unforseen accident or
sickness. Also, the two yearly
physical examinations provided
for under the plan would insure
continued good health and prevent
the development of apparently
minor ailments into serious illness.
SERVICE TO BE AVAILABLE
Under the Seward Community
Health Insurance Plan, the fol
lowing service would be available
to subscribers:
1. All professional services (op
erations, obstetrics, testing eyes,
office and house calls).
2. All physio therapy, (zoalite
Diathermy, ultra-violet, massage,
etc).
[ 3. All anaesthesia (spinal, ether,
! gas, local).
4. All laboratory (blood tests,
urinalysis, gastric-analysis, micro
scopic examinations).
5. X-ray limited to the equiva
lent of $15, with the exception of
gastro-intestinal or genito-urinary
series which will be included in
the $15 X-ray.
Office calls limited to five differ
ent conditions per month; provid
ed the doctor may specify as many
more as he wishes. As an example,
an injured hand may require 15
daily dressings during a month.
This will be considered one condi
tion.
House calls limited to one per
month or 12 per year; provided the
doctor may call at his own discre
tion without charge. As an exam
ple; he may be called for an ill
ness during the month and return
the next day as a follow-up call;
for this there will be no added
charge.
COST TO MEMBERS
The cost to each member will!
depend upon the number who join
in the plan. A minimum of 250
persons, each paying $20 has been
fixed as essential to insure the
success of the enterprise. The cost
per person will decrease as the
number increases. Thus, if 300
members are obtained the cost
will be decreased to $16.75 each;
400 drops it to $12.50; while 500
members will lower the cost to
$10 per person. It is believed that
at least 250 people will take ad
vantage of this opportunity, so
the plan will be started upon that
basis, with each member required
to pay $20. If the membership
exceeds 250 the proportionate de
crease in the pro rata cost will
either be refunded or applied upon
the following year, whichever the
individual member may request.
The plan will go into operation
July 1, 1933, provided at least 250
persons have become members
i and have paid their $2Q each.
(Please turn to pa^e 3.)
ICE DUTY.
WASHINGTON. D. C., May 11,_
Senatorial investigation of finan
cial affairs revealed startling facts
about actions of prominent bank
ers whose defalcations affected
thousands.
Senator Robinson of Arkansas,
chairman of the investigating
committee, in questioning one of
the comptrollers in the J. W. Har
riman Bank, was shocked when the
witness declared that defalcations
were common.
Government inspectors whose
duty it is to report and institute
prosecution against such practices, i
were under fire for their delay in j
performing their duty in the mis- I
carriage of the Harriman Bank, i
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seme MOB
BROT UNDER CONTROL
BUII1K HEADS
; NEW YORK, May 11. —Qioting
Communists and unemployed sea
men, swinging fists and kinves,
held police at bay behind a barri
cade at the Seaman’s House on
West Street demanding food and
clothing, shouting threats: 200
men, white and negro, marched on
the building and took possession.
A riot call was sent for police
I and six radio cars and an emer
gency squad was sent. The inter
I ior of the building was a bedlam
of screaming, milling men who de
| fied the police to enter. Battering
! the door, the policemen brought
| the mob under control with night
sticks.
Four men were taken to St. Vin
cent’s Hospital and 47 others were
herded into patrol wagons and
taken to the South Street station.
PRESIDENT OPPOSED TO
CERTAIN IMPORT TAX
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 11,—
A greatly expanded 30-hour week
and maximum wage bill including
machinery for control of industry
was reported by the House Labor
committee and Encountered ad
ministration opposition.
At the White House it was an
nounced the President was unal
terably opposed to the provision
imposing a tax on imports from
countries not on a 30-hour basis
regarding ft as an embargo and
violation of the tariff truce move
ment.
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WASHINGTON, D. C„ May 11,—.
The Interstate Commerce Commis
sion authorized the Southern Pa
cific Co., to borrow $23,200,000 from
the Reconstruction Finance Corp.
The Commission authorized one
loan of $22,000,000 to pay equip
ment trust maturities, interest on
funded debt and certain judgments
due in 1933 and on January 1, 1934,
and ano'ther loan of $1,200,000 for
the purpose of building a new pas
senger station and terminal falici
ties at Houston, Tex.
DIVORCED HOLT
HOLLYWOOD, May • 11J a c k
Holt, motion picture actor, was
divorced by Mrs. Margaret Wood
Holt in an action begun, April 19.
MRS GANDHI RELEASED
POONA, India, May 11, —Mrs.
Gandhi, jailed on February 8, be
cause she had not paid revenue
due the government, was released
today.
Among Moose Pass and Lake
Kenai residents to have arrived in
the city last evening were Mrs. A.
Simons, E. R. Weaver, Sam and
Bill Estes.
HEARS T’S POLL
NEW YORK May 11, —Twenty
three States are certain to ratify
the amendment to repeal prohibi
tion; four States will reject it and
2 4States may prove to be battle
grounds, according to a poll of the
48 governors of the United States
made by the Cosmopolitan Maga
zine.
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OUT OF PLACE
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa. May 11
—Coming out of a side street, a
beer truck driver unwittingly join
ed in a dry parade. When inform
ed by a traffic patrolman that his
truck “looked out of place” he;
obligingly left the parade at the |
first opportunity.
DIED FROM BLOW
NEW ORLEANS ,May 10,—Jack
Holland, who turned to profession
al boxing after a brilliant football
career at Tulane University, died
in Charity Hospital here from
what was described by physicians
as cerebral hemorrhage.
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RIPLEY ARRIVED
RIO DE JANEIRO, May 10, —
Robert L. “Believe it or not” Rip
ley, arrived in this city and was
received with enthusiasm from a
delegation of newspapermen here
and by the president of the Brazil
Newspaper Association.
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l j PLANS FLIGHT
j | NEW YORK, May 10—Gen. R. L.
t Ancesco de Pinedo, Italian trans
Atlantic' flyer, plans to attempt a
, 6,200-mile flight from New York
. to Persia in an effort to capture
. the distance flight record from O.
L R- Gayford and G. E. Nicoletts,
. British aviators.
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; I ULTIMATUM
; LOS ANGELES, May 10, —Au
thorities at the University of
. Southern California announced
. that “unless we can get the Olym
[ pic Coliseum within a few days for
the Stanford game here this fall
the game will have to be played
elsewhere.
TIMBERS PETRIFIED
ALLEGHANY, Calif., May 11,—
Timbers in an old tunnel of the
Golden Bear mine are more intact
now then when they were put in
50 years ago. Combined action of
certain minerals and water have
had a petrifying effect on the
wood.
SCIENTIST ENROUTE
SEATTLE, May 11,—Father Ber
nard R. Hubbard, the “Glacier
Priest” sailed from here for Alaska,
‘hoping to “meet a volcano in erup
tion”. He was accompanied by
Prof. “Rod” Chisholm of the Uni
versity of San Francisco and Edgar
Levin, a student.
STOLE PAYROLL
CATERVILLE, HI., May 11,—
Three overall-clad bandits, their
faces masked with bandanas, in
Wild West fashion, escaped with
a $4300 coal mine payroll in a dar
ing holdup of the Caterville sta
tion.
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RESENTMENT PARADE
NEW YORK, May 11,—A parade
to express resentment against the
actions of the Hitler party in Ger
many was held in New York by
Jews headed by Eddie Cantor. The
parade started at Madison Square
Garden and proceeded thru the
streets toward Times Square.
Scores of leading stocks advanc
ed, into new high ground for the
.year as the market responded in a
broad fashion to the most optiims
tic business news of the year.
Gains ranged from one to more
than six points. Sales volume pick
ed up as the advance gathered mo
mentum. Tickets ran about four
minutes late at times. Shares sold
totaled 3,820,000 against 2,240,000
the day before.
The steel industry was estimated
to be operating at 31 percent of
capacity compared to 29 percent
last week and 24 percent a year
ago at this time.
ROUNDS THE CORNER
NEW YORK, May 11,—The belief
that business has finally found
that elusive corner of “prosperity
street”, was expressed by industri
al leaders who watched orders pile
up for the first time since 1929.
Confidence was reflected by em
ployees too, in the way of fatter
pay envelopes as wage boosts con
! tinued to be announced and jobs
j became more plentiful in lines
! raging from ice cream and cake
to railroads.
RED CROSS CHS FOR
HUNDREDS INJURED IN !
TENNESSEE CYCLONE
NASHVILLE, Tenn., May 11,—,
One of the worst cyclones in years j
struck Tennessee Wednesday af
ternoon and in the course of a few
minutes had practically wiped out
five communities, with casualties
running to over 150 dead and
many more injured.
Thirty to 40 deaths were report- |
ed from Overton County alone,!
with the toll still rising as authori- j
ties continued their rescue work.!
The American Red Cross was on j
the scene shortly after daybreak
to care for the hundreds injured.
One of the pitiful features of the
cyclone was the annihilation of a
whole family of seven, father,
mother, and five children, whose
home was swirled up into the maw
of the storm. No trace has been
found of them.
REBELLIOUS CHINESE
GENERAL AND TROOPS
CLASH Will! LOYALISTS!
SHANGHAI, May 11,—A Chinese
army, under General Fang Chen
Wu revolted and clashed with
loyal government troops in Hopei
province, southeast of Tingchow,
near Paotinfu.
The Chinese 88th and 72nd in
fantry divisions and the 1st caval
ry division were rushed to the
scene in an attempt to isolate
General Fang, who has been
threatening rebellion for some
time.
Unless quelled, the rebellion will
lay Peiping open to a double men
ace with the Japanese advancing
from the north and insurgent
troops battering at the city from
the south.
DETROIT, Mich. May 11,—Frank
Murphy, retiring mayor of Detroit,
became governor general of the
Philippine Islands Wednesday, suc
ceeding Theodore Roosevelt Jr. The
oath of office was administered in
the City Hall.
He will leave the reins of the
city in the hands of Frank Couz
ens, who as president of the city
council was to become acting -
mayor and perform the duties once
performed by his father, Senator
James Couzens. Mr. Murphy plans
to sail from San Francisco May 19.
PROTEST MEETING
PITTSBURGH, May 11,—A pro
test meeting against the Hitler
book-burning drive was held in
Carnegie Hall here by educational
leaders, headed by Samuel Harding
Church and Thomas S. Baker. For
mal request will be made to the
Hitler party to preserve the books.
LINER DUE AT 12:15
The SS Aleutian is due to arrive
in port at 12:15 tonight, the local
office reports. The SS Redondo is
due to arrive at 6 a. m. tomorrow
morning and will accept passen
gers and freight for Kodiak Island
ports.
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It is reported that A. Karnes,
Territorial commissioner of Edu
cation, is a Seward-bound passen
ger on the Liner Aleutian.
LEFT HIM CU«S,
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I PITTSBURGH, Pa., May 11, —.
..Chicago practices invaded Pitts
burgh Wednesday when the home
of Charles Martin, political leader,
was bombed. Martin was shower
ed with glass and slugs when the
bomb exploded on his front porch,
but wras uninjured although con
siderable damage was done to the
house.
“This is undoubtedly the work
of racketeers”, said Martin. “I was
approached last night by three
men who wanted ‘political protec
tion’ and when I told them I could
not give it to them, they left me,
cursing.”
FIRST OEUTH
Of IS SfKCE lilt
ASCUNSION. Paraguay, May 11,
—In the announcement yesterday
that Paraguay had declared war
on Bolivia, it marked the first
formal declaration of war since
Guatemala declared war on the
Central Powers in 1918.
The efforts of the League of
Nations and the moral force of
the Kellogg pact hitherto have
kept nations from declaring war,
despite the outbreak of hostilities
such as between Japan and China.
Colombia and Peru, Greece and
Turkey, and similar incidents.
The warfare between Paraguay
and Bolivia has been in progress
for nearly a year, since June 15,
1932, and has been of a most san
guinary nature, fought with every
device of modern w'ar including
airplanes, tanks, artillery and
machine guns. Casualties have
numbered many thousands.
-A_
JMESEIMI
j TOKIO, May 11,—Japan dis
patches from the North China
front said the Japanese army had
succeeded in establishing control
of the Lwan river, the Western
: border of the area below the Great
| Wall where the hostilities have
I been raging the last few days.
! The important city of Yumgping
was occupied after 10 hours of
fighting according to a dispatch
of The Rengo News Agency. Yumg
ping is only 105 miles northeast of
Tientsin.
msn EDiicmuL
BOARD CONVENES JUKE IS
The first meeting of the newly
created Territorial Board of Edu
cation will convene June 13 at
Juneau, according to P. C. McMul
len, Seward businessman and one
of the five members of the board,
j who received a telegram today to
that effect from Gov. John W.
! Troy.
Mr. McMullen was also informed
that his certificate of appointment
was executed yesterday at Juneau
and is now in the mail enroute to
him.
The board is composed of one
member from each Division and
one member-at-large. Attorney
Faulkner of Juneau, filling the lat
ter capacity.
BETTER BUSINESS
PITTSBURGH, Pa., May 11,—A
survey of industrial conditions in
the Pittsburgh area revealed that
more business is being done than,
in 1932 at this time. Although un
employment conditions in general
are little affected more men are
employed for more hours a day
than at any time during the pre
vious 12 months. The glass and
steel industries in particular are
showing improvement.