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VOLUME XXVIII. NUMBER 183.
SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 6.1932.
PRICE TEN CENTS
Ill 410 METEBS HUGE
LOS ANGELES, Aug., 6, (/P)—Bill
Carr, former University of Penn
sylvania star, won the 400 meter
run defeating Ben Eastman, of
Stanford, in the record time of
46 and two-tenths seconds, lower
ing both the Olympic and world’s
records.
Th crowd of 60,000 roared in dis
approval as Lauri Lehtine, of Fin
land. barely nosed out Ralph Hill,
American, in the 5,000 meter final.
In doing so ehtine three times side
stepped in front of Hill, beating the
American to the tape by a scant
3 inches. Lehtine's tactics were
doubly astonishing for the reason
he appeared fresh and strong. He
drew the wrrath of official disap
proval and they delayed an hour
before declaring the Finn winner,
and credited him with a new Olym
pic record, of 14 minutes and 30
seconds. Hill also was credited at
the same time; there was no pro
test filed by Hill or the American
officials.
The United States picked up 22
points in Friday’s events. Finland
strengthened her second place po
sition by 49 points. Other leaders
are Great Britain 34, Japan 28 and
Canada 27.
The United States now has a to
tal of 180 for 18 men’s track and
field events.
RAINIER PARK FUNDS
SEATTLE, Aug., 6, —Rainier Na
tional Park officials have been no
tified that the sum of $706,000 will
be available this year for the pur
pose of making Park improvements
New bridges, trails and roads will
be constructed and through thii
appropriation many men of the Pa
cific Northwest will find employ
ment.
BERLIN, Aug., 6. —Adolpf Hit
ler's fascist party began a drive
for power in the Reich’s govern
ment which may lead Hitlerites to
collaborate with the powerful de- j
fense minister, General Kurt
Schleicher, in ruling Germany. j
The fascists first move was thru
peaceful negotiations. At a “war j
council" of fascist leaders at Mun- j
ich. Hitler designated chief of the,
staff. Capt. Ernest Roohm, head of
the Brown Shirt army of 400,000,
to proceed to Berlin and confer,
with General Schleicher, who is;
generally considered the strongest,
figure in Chancellor Von Papen’s
cabinet I
Less powerful fascist leaders I
urged Hitler to send an ultimatum ,
to Von Papen demanding surren- j
der of virtually all authority in the'
Reich. Hitler is inclined toward ne
gotiations.
Captain Roehm will demand re
modeling of the Reich cabinet to
include several fascists and re
placement of present dictatorship
* in Prussia by a regular cabinet un
der fascist domination.
MIAMI, Fla., Aug., 6. —Mrs. J.
M. Keith Miller planned to con
* fess that she killed her young
fiance, Hade Clarke, rather than
have her former sweetheart and
* flying companion, Capt. Wm. N.
Lancaster, be charged with his
murder.
The slight, black clad Australian
aviatrix made this admission dur
ing her testimony in the trial of
the British flyer who, she said,
loved her so much that he offered
’ to kill himself in an airplane crash
so that she might receive $3,000 in
surance as a wedding gift for her
.marriage to Clarke.
FAILED AT RECORD
VENTOR, Isle of Wight, Aug., 6,
(£>)—Mrs. Victor Bruce, who start
ed an attempt to set a new endur
ance record, failed again when her
plane, called the “Flying Bunga
low,” landed on the water after a
flight of a few hours. The main
gas tank is blamed- Refueling ships
were unable to find the plane be
cause of the fog. Mrs. Bruce said
she hoped to start again soon.
WOm GUIDING
men OUT DEPTHS
“If I had arrived in Alaska two
weeks ago I undoubtedly would
have remarked, upon inquiry, that
conditions in the East were bad,
but having just come from Los An
geles and San Francisco, where the
Olympic Games are now being held
and where the Shriners recently
held their annual convention, and
noting the business revival in those
two cities and the optimistic spirit,
I truthfully believe that California
has taken the lead in guiding
America out of the dpths of the
depression,” said Ernest Walker
Sawyer, assistant to Secretary o f
Interior Wilbur, who arrived in the
city Friday from the South and
Washington, D. C.
“Substantiating this statement,
somewhat, that an upward move
ment is actually at last under way,
witness the trend of the stock mar
ket; the unexpected and high
levels to which stocks are jumping
since the 15th of July, and contin
uing to rise.
“Los Angeles is packed with hun- i
dreds of thousands of visitors to J
the Olympic Games. Business is
wonderful there. In San Francisco j
the same optimism reigns for the i
Shriners brought thousands of vis
itors to the city and they ejected
a new spirit into things which, like
at Los Angeles, has taken a hold of
the people and swept into the back
ground the depression and as
sumed a new lease on life.”
Mr. Sawyer is highly gratified at j
the mining revival in Alaska ,feel
ing such interest is one of the!
prime moves in populating the j
Territory and increase to industrial |
life. At the present moment he is j
particularly ambitious to see work |
begun on a road connecting Fair
banks and Dawson. This, he said,
would be an incentive for Yukon
Territory authorities to connect up
their system and realization of the
long-cherished International High- J
w’ay. As will be recalled, Mr. Saw
yer has devoted a great amount of
time to this proposed project. It has
been estimated that the first year
the International Highway is com
pleted, at least 5,000 motorists from
the States will visit Alaska.
Mr. Sawyer, who left Secretary
Wilbur at Palo Alto a week ago Fri
day, will rejoin his chief in about
three weeks, when they return to
Washington.
MOTHER HIM SURGE
NEW YORK, Aug., 6, —The stock
market smashed forward with
i prices up from one to seven points.
| The new boom is surpassing the
j. hopes of many bulls and sent the
I bear crowd into a disorganized re
! treat. Professional traders who put
out short lines on last week’s ral
ly were frightened by the show of
strength and had considerable dif
ficulty in covering their commit
ments.
After the close, tired brokerage
workers enthusiastically went about
their task of clearing up the day’s
business, hopeful that the long ex
pected turn had come with its
prospects of swelling for broker
age houses.
ADJUDGED INSANE
SAN DIEGO, Calif., Aug., 6, —
Allen B. Monks, reputedly wealthy
Easterner, was adjudged insane ana
committed to the State asylum.
Monks recently figured in forged
check charges. Mrs. Monks is also
to be tried soon on similar charg
es.
GOVERNMENT DEFENDED
FOR ITS EVICTION OF
IETEK, OT HIM
WASHINGTON, D. C.. Aug., 6, —
Charging that th ebonus army was
I guilty of racketeering and of har
; boring radical agitators, Secretary
of War Patrick Hurley issued a for
mal defense of the government’s
actions in driving the veterans from
Washington.
Commander Walter W. Waters, of
of the bonus expeditionary forc
es, immediately made a statement
denying everything JIurley said.
Hurley’s statement was made just
as the last contingent of ex-sol
diers, which had been waiting at
of the state line at Waterbury, Va.,
was escorted out of the state by
the troopers; the 35 veterans were
taken in trucks to the State line.
SURVEYOR COMMOTED
SUICIDE FEME PDODE
OAKLAND, Aug., 6. —George A.
Posey, county surveyor of Alameda
county, committed suicide in his
garage following a recommendation
by a Superior court jury that a
grand jury investigation be made
of the conduct of his office.
The recommendation was made
after the jury had convicted three
men of grand theft and conspiracy
in connection with the “free lot’
real estate racket.
STOCKS RALLYING
I NEW YORK, Aug., 6, —Stocks ral
lied buoyantly resuming their ad
| vance in spectacular fashion aftes
j yesterday’s setback.
MR-OLD GIRL
FOLLOWS IN FOOTSTEPS
Little folks are people too, thinks
Elinor Tripke, nine, who lives with
her parents 50 miles west of Tal
keetna, in the Cache creek mining
district.
When mother sews, Elinor also
has her sewing. Then there is the
pair of snow shoes just big enuff
for a big nine year-old girl, so she
can go places with daddy.
Daddy is always working with and
| talking about sluice boxes, clean
ups and such things, but Elinor
thinks one does not have to be a
; grown-up man to have all that fun.
Mother and her have a place in
the rocks where they can reach
down with an old file and bring up
mud that often has small gold nug
gets. “The biggest we found this
year,, daddy says is worth four dol
lars and a half,” Elinor said- He
wanted to put it in with his gold
so “we wouldn’t lose it but we
keep it in mother’s bottle because
my bottle isn’t big enough.”
Then there is a place where the
bedrock is uncovered and every
shovel full has ten or fifteen cents
worth of gold. Mother has a med
ium size set of sluice boxes, and
i Elinor has a tiny set.
“Oh dear,” she says as she sits
cutting out paper dolls: “I wonder
if I will have a big enough cleanup
to send for that set of paints so I
can learn to paint pictures like
mother does?”
It really is hard for her to get
much mining done. There are so
many interruptions. There are the
school lessons or mother bakes a
cake, and has to have the frost
ing put on. The lunch must be car
ried to daddy. Then the puppies
have to be taken care of and taught
to sit up and do their tricks. It
takes a lot of time to feed the birds,
then the flower garden. There are
so many new kinds of flowers that
one finds and have to be taken up
and replanted, and the quartz rocks
to make designs in the garden, and
all that. Then there is the story
, telling hour.
But really, the only the only
i thing that troubles Elinor is that
she has to go to bed when it is still
bright and sunshiny.
PRESIDENT OF DEFDNGT
ILLINOIS BONK BEEN
HO FOOD HOME
SPRINGFIELD, 111., Aug., 6, (A5)—
Police are questioning two suspects
as search is conducted in two coun
ties for John B: Colegrove, 68 year
old president of the defunct Tay
lorsville bank, who was kidnaped
from his home.
The prisoners were arrested while
washing blood from an automobile.
One of them, John Gammonetoni,
reported they lost $6,000 in the
bank failure, and had several times
threatened Colegrove. He once drew
a revolver and Remanded money
which was returned.
Amelia Puzzuoli’s clothing was
j soaked with blood. The prisoners
said the blood had come from rab
bits.
Police held little hope that Cole
grove would be found alive.
DELAY SCHOOL OPENING
PORTLAND, Ore., Aug., 6, —The
local schools will not be opened
until September 19 so as to permit
students of the city to partake in
the picking of the annual hop har
! vest
YOUTH IS UNNERVED
BOTTLE EBB LIFE
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Aug., 6,
—While attorneys snarled, and bat
tled doggedly over his fate, George
Douglas Templeton, Jr., Universii
ty of California junior, sat in the
court and calmly polished his nails.
In the end he was held to answer
for the murder of his aunt, Mrs.
Lillian Babcock, Manila social
leader, and the murderous attack
on his uncle, Wm. R. Babcock, Man
ila business man and sportsman.
District Attorney Fred L. Thom
as definitely announced that he
v/ill ask the death penalty for the
young college man.
WILL WAIT AWHILE
LONDON, Aug., 6, —Great Brit
ain, thru Premier Ramsay Mac
Donald, has* intimated that she
will not attempt to reopen the debt
question with the United States un
til after the presidential election.
It is declared that Premier Mac
Donald will not favor anything
that calls for an ultimatum against
the United States but he is anx
ious for some revision.
POLITICAL EVENTS
BERLIN, Aug., 6, —Political ob
servers have noted that Ac\alf
Hitler, who left for his mountain
retreat to take a well-earned rest
following the recent German elec
tions, has returned to Berlin and
is now engaged in “talking turkey”
with Chancellor Franz von Papen.
It is said that the two are bar
gaining over cabinet seats.
OPTIMISM GROWING
BERKELEY, Calif., Aug., 6, —A
growing spirit of optimism was
noted in Europe by C. C. Young,
former governor of California, he
said, after returning from abroad.
Conditions are no different than
the average tourist would find in
this country; unemplpyment is
about the same.
SECOND VET BURIED
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug., 6, —
The body of the second member of
the bonus army to die as a result of
the Washington clash with police
officers and soldiers, was laid to
rest beside the body of William
Hushka, in Arlington Cemetery.
BASEBALL SCORES
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Cleveland 7, Boston 2.
Detroit 13, Washington 0.
St. Louis 9, Phillies 8.
New York at Chicago, rain.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Phillies 9, Chicago 2.
Cincinnati 3, Boston 2.
New York 6, St. Louis 2.
PACIFIC COAST
Missions 5, Seattle 1, -
NEW TOUCH VIOLENCE
BERLIN, Aug., 6, (/P)—Dynamite
and hand grenades from political
arsenals gave a new touch of vio
lence which has swept over Ger
many during the last six weeks. Dy
namiters damaged buildings at a
half-dozen places and several per
sons narrowly escaped bombs. The
sabotage outbreaks occurred des
pite the government’s threat to
take strong measures to end dis
turbances.
cm nisei ernes
PATIENTS HERE FROM
WESTWIi POINTS
Bearing three persons for hos
pitalization in the Seward Gener
al Hospital, the trim Coast Guard
Cutter, Itasca, Comdr. John F. Bay
lis, arrived in port early today from
Unalaska and the Westward.
Russel W. Sand, storekeeper, 1st
class, of the Itasca, is suffering
from acute appendicitis, and T. J.
Pyle, dental surgeon, also on the
Itasco, had symptons of appendi
citis. Enroute to Seward the Cutter
stopped in at Sand Point to pick up
Mrs. Arthur H. Mellick, wife of the
well-known business man, and j
postmaster, who had suffered a
bad fracture of the upper right
arm at the elbow.
The Itasca has been engaged in |
the Bering Sea patrol since it left
Honolulu about the middle of June.
Besides carrying law and order to
the high-seas and lonely shores
from the Aleutian Islands up to the
Pribilof Islands, the vessel serves
as a medical aid to the humans in
that section; carries mail and
transportation facilities to persons j
in isolated localities, and gives pro- j
tection to these humans, to animal j
life and to the fisheries.
Captain Baylis is one of the few
men to hold the Congressional
Gold Medal for heroic daring at
sea- It was awarded to him after
he had jumped into the stormy
waters from the Coast Guard Cut
ter Mascoutin, of which he was in
command, to save a seaman, wash
ed overboard off Cape Charles, Va.,
July 7, 1924. Captain Baylis doesn’t
talk much of the exploit further
than to say it that is up to the
commander to lead the way for his
men. Captain Baylis spent five days
in a hospital suffering from inter
nal hemmoraages after he had brot
the seaman’s body up from the
sea.
With Commander Baylis. as Cap
tin of the officer personnel, are
Lieut. Comdr. Charles W. Dean,
executice officer; Lieut. Cmdr. G.
R. O'Connor, engineer officer; Lt.
G. C. Whittlesey, navigator; En
sign Fabik, gunnery officer; En
sign R. R. Curry, commissary of
ficer; Ensign W. Schissler, gunnery
officer; Ensign H. J. Webb, commu
nications officer; Ensign H. A- Mey
er, assistant engineer officer; and
Assistant Surgeon W. H. Meyer,
ship’s doctor.
Commander Baylis is not new
to Alaskan waters having seen ser
vice in the North on the old Cut
ter Bear, 22 years ago. It was then
that this ship brought Steffanson,
Arctic explorer, out to civilization.
Besides officers there are about
90 members in the Itasca’s crew.
The Cutter will complete her West
ward duty sometime at the end of
September and will then return to
Honolulu.
AGITATE FOR REPEAL
SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Aug., 6, —
Agitation for repeal of the state’s
anti-boxing law has resulted in a
request that all candidates for the
governorship make clear their po
sition on the issue. One candidate
has come out for repeal.
57 MINERS KILLED
TOKYO, Aug., 6, (A5)—Fifty-seven
miners were killed by a gas explo
sion at the Horachi coal mine, on
the island of Hokkaido. The bodies
were recovered.
Oscar Plowman, identified with!
Moose Pass mining activities since
the early days, was an overnight
1 visitor in the city.
ITU RUNNER IS
WINNER 111 METER
m OLYMPIC GAMES
OLYMPIC STADIUM, Los Ange
las, Calif., Aug., 6, —Luigi Beckka
li of Italy sprinted magnificently
in the final half-lap to win the 1500
meter race, signaling the start of
the final lap. He put on speed
slowly at first and increased it
slightly as the final half-lap mark
was reached. Rounding the turn
into the home-stretch, Bekkali
broke lose and ran into the cham
pionship.
Later, officials announced that J.
Cornes, of Great Britain, had fin
ished second, with Phil Edwards,
of Canada, third, and Glenn Cun
ningham, of Kansas, fourth.
The time was three minutes, 51
and two-tenths seconds, a new
Olympic record.
The Ben Eastman-Bill Carr duel
will be resumed in the semi-finals
of the 400 meter run of the day, in
48 and four-tenths seconds. East
man won his second heat in 48 and
eight-tenths. Jim Gordon, another
American, captured the second heat
in 48 and six-tenths seconds.
Mildred “Babe” Didrikson of
Dallas, Tex., won her second Olym
i pic championship when she cap
[ tured the 800 meter hurdles final
' in the new world record time of 11
| and seventh-tenths seconds. Eve
lyn Hall of Chicago was second, and
Marjorie Clark, of South Africa,
was third, while Simone Schaller,
of Pasadena, Calif., came in fourth.
The former world record of 11
and eigth-tenths seconds, was held
by Miss Clark. The Misses Didrik
son and Hall finished within in
ches of each other, and the out
come was in doubt for some min
utes until the judges reached their
decision.
WINSTON-SALEM, N. C., Aug., G,
Alfred Holman, lawyer father of
Libby Holman, who has been charg
ed with the murder of Smith Rey
nolds, arrived in Winston-Salem
but refused to surrender his daugh
ter to the authorities.
Instead, he hired two local at
torneys to fight her case and con
tends that because of Libby’s
health, she can remain free on bail
until a later date when he will re
veal her hiding place.
TOKYO, Aug., 6, —Japan expect
ed much from her entrant in the
Olmpic Games hop, skip and jump
race but it was not until publicity
bureaus announced that Chuhei
Nambu had come out victor, the
the winner, with a new world re
cord leap of 51 feet and seven in
ches, that they broke out into a
burst of wild hilarity. Instead of
talking about the latest develop
ments on the Manchurian front,
the crowds discussed Nambu.
Orchestras throughout Tokyo
blared forth with added zest and
everyone seemed over-joyed at Jap
an’s taking first place in this event.
B. E. F.
JOHNSTOWN, Pa., Aug., 6, —
Mayor Eddie McCloskey’s personal
offer of a tank full of gas and $1.00
in cash to veterans who wished to
be on their way homeward, was be
ing taken advantage of by a num
ber of bonus seekers and the gas
oline stations were thronged with
veterans who sought to get under
way.
Present indications are that the
entire body of veterans will have
evacuated Johnstown by Sunday.