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VOLUME XXIX. NUMBER 159
SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, JULY 10, 1933
AGENDA LISTING
BEING DRAFTED
BY COMMITTEE
LONDON, uly 10. —At a meeting
today to decide what subjects
should be included in the revised
agenda of the World Economic
Conference the steering committee
decided to eliminate a discussion of
subsidies in commercial polices, in
cluding tariffs and quotas.
The committee, however, was
unable to decide whether monetary
questions, which the European gold
bloc nations say cannot be dealth
with until stabilization of curren
cies is realized, should be treated.
They asked the drafting committee
to consider this matter and to re
port back to the steering group by
Tuesday.
Louis Howe, secretary to Presi
dent Roosevelt, said that it will
take at least a week for the sub
committees to report back on the
things they consider should be in
cluded in the conference's new
agenda.
The conference is to be adjourned
for an indefinite period of perhaps
two months.
In the meantime, the conference
will complete such work as is pos
sible in view of the disagreement
between the gold bloc and non
gold countries.
A committee will be appointed
to prepare for the resumption of
the conference’s deliberations this
autumn.
WORLD AVIATORS
CONTINUE THEIR
HURRIED WORK
NEW YORK, July 10. — The
aviation leaders of the world con
tinued to chalk up unusual activi
7' ties scheduled for today.
In Russia. Jimmy Mattern asked
that a plane be sent to him so he
could continue his flight and re
turn home. The Soviets ordered a
plane to take off from Khabarovsk
today to assist Mattern and to
take him anything he needed and
to even take him to American ter
ritory if he so desires.
Alexander and companions, in
the Bellanca monoplane in which
they started out on a rescue ex
pedition for Mattern were reported
safes at Juneau.
TJie weather still kept the Ital
ian air armada at Reykjavik.
Aviator Wiley Post was waiting
at New York for the weather to
permit him to take off on his
world’s flight; two Frenchmen al
so were poised here for a long dis
tance flight.
CHILD LABOR OUT
TEXTILE WORK
WASHINGTON, uly 10. — The
National Industry Recovery Assoc
iation has just revealed the con
tent of its fair trade code for the
textile industry. It was said today
that one effect of the code would
be the abolishment of child labor
in that industry.
The section in which this is re
ferred to is as follows: ‘Child labor
in this industry is hereby abolished
f. after a year of fruitless efforts
and discussions of this ancient at
rocity. Child labor went out in its
day because this form of employ
ment permitted employers to do
by agreement that which none
could do by competition.”
I AMERICANS ARE VICTORS
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. July 10. —
The combined Harvard-Yale track
team defeated the joint Oxford
Cambridge team from England
Saturday to give the Americans
their third successive victory and
their seventh in the 11 meetings
of the international teams.
APPOINT DR. HAVERSTOCK
Dr. A. D. Haverstock, of the Sew
ard General Hospital, has been ap
pointed Deputy Territorial Com
missioner of health for the Third
Division, according to advices re
ceived here from Juneau. He will
fill a vacancy that has existed in
the Health Department in this Di
vision for two or three years. Dr.
Haverstock’s appointment was to
become effective as soon as he
qualified and took the oath of of
fice, according to Governor Troy.
AIMEE THOUGHT
HIDING IN PARIS
PARIS, July 10.—Four days in ad
vance of her scheduled release af
ter an abdominal operation, Aimee
Semple McPherson Hutton, Four
Square gospel evangelist, has left
the American hospital in company
with her private nurse and her
married daughter.
Mi's. Hutton’s whereabouts fol-1
I lowing her release from the hos- j
pital could not be learned and it
is believed she is in hiding here.
It is expected she will sail soon
for the United States to join her
: husband “Iron Man” David Hut
! ton.
GOLD NATIONS
CONCEDE DEFEAT
LONDON, July 10. —Sessions of
the World Economic Conference
here were shadowed by develop
ments in Paris, where representa
tives of gold nations formed a
bloc to defend the gold standard.
Secretary of State Cordell Hullj
issued a new statement in London,
pleading for the success of the j
conference.
France has conceded defeat in
her battle for monetary stabiliza
tion and it is understood that the
bankers of the principal gold na
tions of Italy, Holland, Belgium,1
Poland and Switzerland have made I
a secret agreement among them
selves for protection from the
non-gold standard nations.
FOUR KNOWN DEAD
MORRISON, Colo., July 10. — j
The cloudburst took a known toll
of four dead, and it was feared atj
least 15 others were killed. Much
property damage resulted from
the deluge of water.
IS IMPROVED
HOLLYWOOD, July 10. — Hoot
Gibson, seriously injured when his
plane crashed during the recent
National Air Races, was reported
in an improved condition.
STILL BATTLING
LA PAZ, Bolivia, July 10. —Para
guay and Bolivia were engaged in
heavy battling in the Gran Chaco
area where the League of Nations
hopes soon to effect a peace ag
reement.
STRUCK BY TRAIN
EVERETT, July 10. —Mrs. J. T.
Hess, of Seattle and five-year old
John Stutsman were killed when
her auto was struck by a train at
a crossing near Mukelteo. Mrs.
Hess’s six-year old son is in a crit
ical condition.
MANY START WORK
WASHINGTON, July 10. — Up
ward to 400,000 employees of the
cotton textile mills were to begin
working again following President
Roosevelt’s approval of the Textile
Code.
Emil J. Brandt, 62, Seattle at
torney and a veteran of the Klon
dike gold rush, died recently in
the Puget Sound City. Mr. Brandt
spent two years in the Northland
prior to 1900.
SUBSCRIPTION UST
HEALTH INSURANCE
CLOSES TOMORROW
For a number of weeks past sig- I
natures of people who desire to
take advantage of the low cost
medical attention-insurance which
will be proyided them by the Sew
ard Community Health Insurance
plan of the Seward General Hos
pital have been received and has
been indicative of the worthiness
of the project.
Officials of the Health Insur
ance plan today announced that;
the subscription lists would be j
closed tomorrow at noon and that i
all persons who have not yet en-j
tered their signatures and are de-;
sirous of doing so, should do so at
once. The signatures may be left
with either Attorney Edward P.j
Harwood or Harold Sogn at the!
Seward General Hospital.
It was not learned how many!
signatures had been obtained thusi
far but it is indicated that a suf
ficient number of signatures have
been obtained to justify the plan, j
Officials of the Health Insurance l
plan wish to point out that the|
greater the number of signatures:
the lower the rate per person for|
health insurance per year. Thus!
it was originally estimated that if j
an enrollment of 250 persons could
be obtained that the rate of $20.
would prevail; and if the number
enrolled reached 300 it was!
thought that a rate of $16 a year
would be made.
The plan, in its general scope af
fords insurance at rates far below j
now entailed under the individual1
treatment system.
THE MUKLUK TRAIL
(By E. L. Bartlett)
Because of the decision to aban
don the naval radio station at
Mile Seven, near Cordova, the Post
Office Department has authorized
the closing of the post office at
that place. Another postoffice to
be closed is the Sulzer office in
Southeastern Alaska.
Roland W. Chase, for over six:
years a member of the Alaska Col-!
lege faculty, called on Delegate i
Dimond a few days ago. Mr. and!
Mrs. Chase and their child arej
now living at Ithaca, New York,:
where Mr. Chase is taking post- i
graduate work at Cornell Univer-!
sity. He was head of the depart
ment of civil enginering and math
ematics at the College and also
registrar of the institution.
* * * *
The American section of the In
ternational Highw a y Commission,
created during the Hoover admin
istration, is now a thing of the
past. Its duties were recently ter
minated by order of the President,
an action which was expected fol
lowing the completion of the re
port which is now being printed.
Upon recommendation of the
Secretary of the Interior Mr. Ickes,
Edward W. Griffin, of Kodiak, has
been given a recess appointment as
Secretary of Alaska by President
Roosevelt. Mr. Griffin had the en- j
dorsement of the Democratic Ter-!
ritorial organization.
* * * *
There is no disposition on the
part of the Bureau of the Budget
to order a separate study of liv
ing costs in Alaska, as suggested
by Delegate Dimond, so that it
could be conclusively proved that
federal employees in the Territory
are under greater expense. It had
ben advocated that Alaska federal
employees should be forced to ac
cept a proportionately lesser pay
cut than those in the States.
* * * *
The sum of $600,000 was appro
priated for educational activities
of the Alaska division of the Of
LOOKS LIKE TROUBLE
TOKYO, July 10. —The killing of
three Japanese fishermen in Soviet
waters on June 14 has touched off
a chain of events of protests and
counter charges between the two
governments. Both Moscow and
Tokyo admit the situation is ser
ious. When the Japanese sent a
boat to investigate the alleged kil
lings the Russians are said to have
seized the Japanese fishing boat
used in the investigation.
AGREEMENT MADE
VATICAN, GERMANY
VATICAN CITY, Italy, July 10.
—A concordat between the Vatican
and Germany, regulating the pos
ition of Catholic organizations in
Germany and officially sounding
the death knell of the Catholic
Centrist party of Germany, Was in
itialed Sunday by Vice-C hancel
lor Franz von Papen, of Germany,
and Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli, pa
pal secretary of the State of Vati
can.
Von Papen planned to go to
to Berlin and return in 10 days
for the ceremony of the formal
signing of the agreement.
RUSS PLANE MAY
FLY TO ALASKA
MOSCOW, July 10. —A rescue
expedition has been started to get
Jimmy Mattern from his isolated
spot some 80 miles from Anadir,
in Siberia, from whence word was
flashed of his safety.
Mattern had been unheard of
for 23 days since he started on
his dash to Nome from Siberia.
Other advices said a Soviet sea
plane was going to the aid of MaX
tern and that this plane was to
fly over to Alaska for new parts
to repair Mattern’s plane and per
mit him to continue his solo flight
around the world.
It is not known yet, however, if
repairs to the plane are possible.
A TOUGH JOB
LOS ANGELES, July 10. — The
members of the Los Angeles equal
ization board were presented with
a rather difficult problem to solve
when 15 coeds from the University
of Southern California appeared to
protest against asserted high tax
assessments levied against their
sorority houses.
FAVOR BIG NAVY
SAN FRANCISCO. July 10. —
Approval of Roy Howard’s senti
ments in favor of a big United
States navy as the best assurance
of peace on the Pacific was voiced
by number of Bay region leaders.
Howards recently returned from a I
trip to the Orient.
EXPECT INCREASE
SAN FRANCISCO, July 10.—With
food prices here already five to 10
per cent higher than they were
April 1, consumers awaited devel
opments in the bread price situa
tion as bakers hinted an increase
was likely due to the new federal
flour tax going into effect.
CEREMONIES HELD
SAN FRANCISCO, July 10. —
Elaborate ceremonies were held in
Oakland, Yerba Buena Island and
here Sunday to celebrate the start
of work on the San Francisco
Oakland Bay bridge.
fice of Indian Affairs for the fis
cal year beginning July 1. Of that
sum only $581,350 will be released
by the Treasury, the reduction re
presenting the additional 6 and
2-3 per cent pay reduction made
effective by the economy act. The
appropriation for medical work
was $281,600. Of that amount the
sum of $248,870 will be actually
available, the reduction being for
the same reason.
MATTERN WAS
FORCED DOWN
BY BAD ENGINE
MOSCOW, July 10. —Telegraphic
dispatches received here said that
Jimmy Mattern was forced down
on his flight to Nome, Alaska, from
Siberia, by motor trouble.
With his motor failing Mattern
was forced to land his plane on the
rough terrain some three miles in
back of the frozen Anadyr river
where he stayed until a frontier
guard boat, which began patrolling
the river as soon as the ice broke
up, found him. They took him to
Anadyr.
Mattern damaged the fuselage
and a wing on his plane when he
landed and this forced him to re
main there during the long period
that no word was heard from him.
Mattern said that after he had
exhausted his own meagre provi
sions that he kept himself alive by
shooting wild game with a rifle
that had been given to him by the
Russians.
HARD ON GANGSTERS
BERLIN, July 10. —Determina
tion of Adolf Hitler to stamp out
gangdom in Berlin was seen in the
imposition of the death sentence
on four men convicted of partici
pating in a payroll robbery in
which one man was killed. The
imposition of the death penalty is
unusual in Germany.
ROOSEVELT BUSY
WITH DETAILS OF
RECOVERY PLAN
WASHINGTON, July 10. — Fur
ther conferences with National In
dustry Recovery Association offic
ials were held last Saturday after
noon by Pres. Roosevelt to speed
the provisions of the national re
covery plan. The conferences with
these officials in Washington were
adjourned Saturday but with sev
eral National Industry Recovery As
sociation leaders the president be
gan his week-end cruise on the
Potomac.
The administration officials are
fearful of a reaction from the sud
den business boom and they are
discussing plans to level out dis
parities between purchases and
buying power.
Leaders of the Recovery Associa
t i o n are rushing to completion
their fair trade codes for the var
ious industries in order to prevent
labor disputes.
President Roosevelt Saturday ap
pointed Secretary of the Interior
Harold Ickes as administrator of
the Federal Emergency Public
Works program.
DAILY AND WEEKLY
GATEWAYS SHOWN
Interesting newspapers from fas
cinating places, with world cover
age, were sought by The Greeley
Daily Tribune’s World Newspaper
Fair at Greeley, Colorada, and
among the papers on exhibit were
copies of the Seward Daily Gate
way and The Seward Weekly Gate
way.
Newspaper exhibits from 76
countries were on display and were
exhibited at the University of Col
orado. No effort was made to ob
tain mere numbers of newspapers.
The Seward Gateway papers in
cluded the recent larger four-page
daily and eight-page weekly.
HELEN 19 WINNER
WIMBLEDON, Eng. July 10. —
Helen Wills Moody won another
Wimbledon tennis championship,
but lost her first set in the match
play Saturday, when she defeated
Dorothy Round, pretty English
l Miss. The scores were 6-4, 6-8, 6-3.