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MEMBER ASSOCIATED RMESS
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1933.
X VOLUME XXIX. NUMBER 215.
SEWARD, ALASKA,
PRICE TEN CENTS
GIANT PARADE
_ STAGED IN N. Y.
NRA CAMPAIGN
IN SUPPORT AND CONFIDENCE:
OF THE PRESIDENTIAL
PROGRAM
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NEW YORK, Sept. 14. — This |
city’s greatest spectacle since the!
wild joy that reigned when the Ar- !
mistice was signed in 1918 was put!
on here yesterday in the form of;
of a huge N. R. A. parade which i
marched up Fifth Avenue to show j
their support and confidence of j
President Roosevelt and h i s re- i
covery campaign.
The parade, led by the martial:
music of over 200 bands, took al
most eight hours to pass the re
viewing stands which were occu
pied some of this nation's digni- ;
taries. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt,
and Administrator Hugh S. John- j
son were in the stands for some
time to watch the 77 parade units.'
representing v a r i o u s industries.:
pass before them.
Unnumbered hordes were on the
streets to see the parade and they j
lined Fifth Avenue 30 or 40 deep
for blocks.
Considerable furor was created
when a huge banner, almost red
in color was seen flying from one
of the city's 60-foot flagpoles. It
did not look like an N. R. A. ban
ner and no one could figure ex
actly what was meant by the flag.
When policemen went to lower the
flag they found that the ropes had
been cut. Finally a policeman vol
unteered to “shinney” up the pole
and bring the banner down. In
small letters on the banner were
found these words: “Lay off Cuba.”
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Over a quarter million men and
women waved the symbolic Blue
Eagle banners of the new economic
era as they marched. Many work
ers quit work to show their en
thusiasm for Roosevelt’s program
for higher wages, shorter work-'
ing hours and recognition of the
right of collective bargaining.
The paraders marched under
swirling ticker tapes thrown from
the upper stories of buildings lin
ing Fifth Avenue. First came the
soldier and sailor contingents and'
then came the workers, and they!
p a s e d the reviewing stands at
the rate of 40.0C0 each hour.
The cheering of the men, women
and children was abated only once. I
That was when the Stock Ex-!
change workers passed the review
ing stand and booed Mayor John j
O’Brien, who had been advocating
a tax p r o g r a rn w hich Richard
Whitney, Stock Exchange presi
dent, said would drive the brokers
from Wall Street.
Dress shop workers carried a
banner “We will not buy Ford'cars
until he signs the N. R. A.”
CONSIDERING JOURNEY
TOKIO, Japan, Sept. 13, —Yu
jiro Watanabe. president of the
* Japan Boxing Club, announced he
had received a telegram from Jack
Dempsey, saying the former heavy
weight champion wTas considering
a visit to Japan in connection with
the proposed visit there of the
Filipino fighters. Young Tommy
and Speedy Dado.
? TODAY’S WEATHER
The weather reprt for this morn
ing was Seward 48, part cloudy,
light north wind; Tunnel 30, clear,,
calm; Anchorage 40, clear, calm;’!
Curry 35, clear, calm; Broad Pass'
33, cloudy, calm; Healy 34, cloudy,:
calm; Nenana 44, part cloudy.!
f calm; and Fraibanks 40, cloudy.'
calm.
George Colwejl, general roadmas- I
ter, Alaska Railroad, who has been |
making a trip of inspection of the {
southern division, departed today
on his speedster for the northern [
sections. f
FISHERMEN STRIKE
ASTORIA, Oregon, Sept. 14. —
Three thousand union fishermen
were ordered off the Columbia riv
er by a Protective Union until the
packers make satisfactory price
offers to the gillnetters. They are
demanding five cents, for Chin
ooks and Steelheads and f o u r |
cents for Silversides.
CLOSED BANKS BE
REOPENED SOON\
WASHINGTON, Sept. 14. —Pie- i
sident Roosevelt is starting a cam
paign to reopen the nation’s clos
ed banks and is confident that by
January 1, when the system of in
sured deposits becomes operative,
all but a few will be doing bus-!
iness.
The Administration is belived to
be ready to put the resources of
the government behind any in-;
stitution not immediately insol
vent provided communities do the
same.
LOOKING FOR MONKEYS
SEATLE. Sept. 14. —Police are
searching Queen Ann Hill and Kin
near Park for an animal described
as a small monkey and which al
ready has bitten three residents.
Officials are unable to account for
the presence of such an animal
in that district as there is no zoo •
or park in that vicinity.
TRIAL TO END SOON
SAN JOSE, Sept. 14. —Final ar
guments in David Lamson’s trial
on the charge of murdering his |
wife, Allene, last May, was expect- ,
ed to be completed today and it i
was expected that the jury would j
receive their final instructions and j
take the case into their hands |
this afternoon. I
UNLOAD FORTUNE !
FURS FROM NORTH
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A $1,150,000 fortune in about 54,-;
550 fur-seal pelts was unloaded at!
Seattle from the Navy supply ship!
Vega to box cars for shipment to :
St. Louis, Mo.
It came from the Pribiloff Isl- j
ands in the Arctic and all except
8,133 of the skins were sent to St. j
Louis.
The smaller shipment is enroute;
to London via Vancouver. B. C. and
Montreal.
In St. Louis the furs will be pro
cessed and then sold to by auction,
according to the international
agreement between nations which;
protect seals on the high seas and,
guard the Pribiloff Island rooker- j
ies from poachers. Money received 1
will be divided among these na- j
tions. j
RULING MADE ON
FUR TAXES BY
PUBLIC OFFICIAL
Women who plan to have fur
garments made from furs now in
their possession may do so in the
future tax free, according to a new
ruling bn federal excise taxes.
The ruling, revealed -by Jacob
Lighter, president of the Seattle
Association of Public Accountants,
will save thousands of dollars thru
out the fur industry, Lighter said.
According to the generally ac
cepted theory implied on the rul
ing, the owner of a fur may have
it made into a garment tax free
provided no skins are added to it
by the furrier.
In addition, and old garment
may be remodeled without pay
ment of tax altho a 10 per cent tax
is always due on any fur supplied
by a furrier.
Formerly all furs, whether own-!
ed by the cutomer or furrier, were
taxed 10 per cent.
SEN. JOHNSON
INVITED TO BOLT
G. 0. P. PARTY
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SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 14. —
Senator Hiram Johnson, progres
sive republican of California, was
invited by letter to bolt entirely;
from the republican party and be
come a democratic candidate in
next year’s election. The invitation
was made by one of the outstand
ing democrats of California.
It was explained in the letter
that the progressive republicans
had shown little inclination to
join hands with the democrats in
opposition to the regular repub
licans of California.
Johnson was non-committal as j
to his future plans.
MARKET COLORLESS
NEW YORK. Sept. 14. —Yester- j
d ay’s brief session of the stock
exchange was colorless w i t h no !
unusual activity. The market clos
ed with a cheerful tone indicating
that a good market might be ex
pected today. Wheat prices went
up yesterday because of talk of
government exportation of some
of the surplus. Talk of inflation
which has kept the market bouyed
up was evident in yesterday’s trad
ing. Only 700,300 shares changed
hands in yesterday's trading.
DROUGHT AREAS
BE GIVEN RELIEF
WASHINGTON, Sept. 14. —The
Roosevelt Administration’s farm
credit, public works, and unem
ployment aid agencies went to
work to provide relief on a vast
scale to the estimated 150,000 suf
fering families in the drought and
storm stricken areas of the Dak
otas, the Southwest and Florida.
A new emergency aid program
involving a federal, state and local
cost of aprpoximately $60,000,000
has been restricted to states strick
en with drought, hurricanes and j
grasshoppers.
Approximately 40,000 persons will!
be employed on immediate pro
jects.
PERSHING 73
PARIS, Sept. 14. —General John
J. Pershing observed his 73rd
irthday yesterday. General Persh
ing is in Paris writing his second
book on the World War.
BASEBALL SCORES
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NATIONAL LEAGUE
Chicago, playing in a steady rain,
after a delay of 16 minutes at the
start and nearly two hours be
tween the second and third in
nings, reduced the New York
Giant’s advantage to sixe and one
half games as they defeated the
League leaders 2 to 0 in the first
contest of a six game “last ditch”
series. The second game was post
poned.
Other scores were:
Boston 0, Pittsburgh 1.
Brooklyn 1, St. Louis 4.
Philadelphia at Cincinnati, both
called off on account of rain.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
The Philadelphia Athletic and
Chicago ended their series by di
viding a doubleheader here. The
Sox won the opener 3 to 2 and then
dropped the nightcap 4 to 2.
Cleveland at Washington game
postponed on account of rain.
No other games.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
At Los Angeles, Dittmar’s homer
in the eight inning with the bases
loaded gave Los Angeles an 8 to
6 decision over San Francisco in
the second game of their series.
Hollywood 5, Mission 4.
Oakland 7, Portland 2.
Sacramento at Seattle, postpon
ed on account of wet grounds.
MARYLAND 5 TO 1
BALTIMORE, Md., Sept. 14. — j
With almost every vote’ in Tues- |
day's election counted the majori- j
ty in favor of ratification of re- i
peal of the 18th Amendment is
now better than 5 to 1. This city
went better than 11 to 1.
FORMER ALASKAN
SUFFERS STROKE
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 14. —
George Schofield, Seattle lawyer,
here for the Fifth International
Sourdough Reunion, is in a criti
cal condition at the Redondo
Beach hospital after having suf
fered a stroke.
He was a member of the survey
ing party which established the
boundary between Alaska and
Canada, from the Arctic Ocean to
the Pacific in 1882.
He participated in the gold
rushes to Dawson and Nome and
owns extensive mining interests in
the North country.
Schofield was to deliver the wel
come address at tomorrow.’s open
ing of the Sourdough Reunion.
PUBLIC WORKS HEARING
SALT LAKE CITY, Sept. 14. —
Representatives of all the Western
states will convene here Sunday
to discuss Public Works projects
throughout the West and to fam
iliarize themselves with technical
problems of public works.
REMAIN IN HAVANA
WASHINGTON, Sept. 14. —Sum
ner Welles, the Administration’s
trouble-shooter in Cuba, was or
dered to remain in Havana until
stability is restored there instead
of coming to Washington, as plan
ned.
LIQUOR STOCKS
BE REPLENISHED
WASHINGTON, Sept. 13. —The
United States Treasury Depart
ment apparently sees the hand
writing on the wall and will loosen
import restrictions on foreign li
quors for medicinal purposes im
mediately.
The allocation to United States
distillers will also be increased at
once so that the United States
stock of liquors can be kept well
up.
The unfaltering march of states
to the wet column is believed to be
a cause for the decision to in
crease the medicinal stock.
SHIP’S OFFICERS
BE HONORED
Capt. R. J. Healy of the Presi
dent Grant of the American Mail
Line and several other officers who
served with the President Madi
son a year ago dinring the rescue
of the S S Nevada in the Aleutian
Islands, will be presented with sil
ver and bronz bravery-at-sea med
als by the Lloyd Shipping Regis
ter.
Other men who participated in
the rescue are on the President
Cleveland, and formal presenta
tion will be held up until the ship
reaches port.
A GREAT “KIDDER’’
NEW YORK, Sept. 13, —Magis
trate Greenspan said he was go
ing to marry his secretary. Mrs.
Greenspan heard about it and al
most collapsed; but not quite.
Newspaper reporters wanted to
know if he knew what he was do
ing. He did. He married his secre
tary, Miss Betty Wechsler, to Hen
ry A. Schneider.
STOCK EXCHANGE
INVITED TO MOVE
ACROSS RIVER
TAX LEVIES SAID TO BECOME
INCREASINGLY UN
BEARABLE
TRENTON, N. J. Sept. 14. —
Gov. Harry Moore yesterday ex
tended a formal invitation to the
New York Stock Exchange to move
across the New York-New Jersey
state line and carry on its stock
trading activities in New Jersey.
Tax levies on the stock exchange
have been made frequently and
the tax burden on the stock ex
change is now becoming almost
unbearable, say members. Still, the
New York plans to levy addition
al taxes. As a protest to these al
leged exhorbitant taxes the Stock
Exchange is keeping Gov. Moore’s
invitation open for future accep
tance or rejection.
Gov. Moore has promised the
brokers that the tax in New Jersey
will not be anywhere near as high
as those in New York. He has also
stated that he wTill provide a pri
vate ferry across the Hudson for
the members of the Exchange wrhc
have their home in New York and
who would,, of necessity, have to
cross the Hudson to get to the Ex
change.
JAPANESE ARMY
FAMILIES WILL
LIVE MANCHURIA
CHANGCHUN, Manchuria, Sept,
13. —Quarters for Japanese offi
cers with accommodations for their
wives and children are being
built in various Manchurian cities
and officials admit they indicate
plans for an indefinite stay as
protectors of Manchukuo.
The army headquarters here
have announced tlhat ‘the Man
churian incident,” as the late cam
paigns are called hereabouts, will
be considered officially “closed” in
! October.
Officers’ f a m i 1 i es will then be
permitted to come to the various
posts and something like peace
time garrison life will be estab
lished.
FAMEDVESSEL
! MAKE NEW TREK
MOSCOW, Sept. 14, —The old
ice-breaker Krassin, whose incom
parable dash into the Arctic to
rescue the ill-fated Nobile expedi
tion won for her undying fame, is
seeking new laurels.
Jealous of the feat of the Sib
iryakov, which navigated the
Northeast Passage last year, spur
red on by the impending attempt
of the new freighter Chelyuskin
to duplicate it, the Krassin is now
attempting a hitherto impossible
task—she is convoying three car
go ships from Archangel to the
mouth of the Lena River, in Siber
ia.
TRADED TO CHICAGO
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 12. —
Lee Stine, Seals pitcher, has been
traded to the Chicago White Sox
for Elias Furk, Sox outfielder,
now playing on option with the
Seals and an unnamed player, ac
cording to an announcement by
Charles Graham, of the Sa Fran
cisco baseball club.
BONNIE WON TITLE
PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Sept. 13,—
Bonnie Miller, Los Angeles star,
won the girls national singles ten
nis title with a 6-2, 6-1 victory
over Frances Herron*, of the same
city, in a quick final to the week
long tournament at the Philadel
phia Cricket Club.