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VOLUME XIX. NUMBER 162.
SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1933.
PRICE TEN CENTS
ITALIAN PLANES
REACH CONTINENT
OF N. AMERICA
CARTWRIGHT, Labrador, July 13.
—Following the sea route blazed by
the Vikings nine centuries ago,
General rtalo Balbo Wednesday led
Italy’s air armada to a landing
here at 4:20 p.m. at the end of a
1,500 mile trans-ocean flight from
Rekjavik, Iceland.
For two hours and 30 minutes
after Balbo’s plane landed, his 23
following seaplanes shot in squad
rons of three formations out of the
East- It was 6:50 p.m. when the
last “V” formation landed.
As squadron by squadron, the It
alian fleet skimmed down to a
landing on the quiet, chilly waters
of Sandwich Bay, word was flashed
to Cartwright that Col. and Mrs.
Charles A. Lindbergh, last reported
in Newfoundland, a few miles from
St. Johns, may fly here to inspect
Italy’s sky argosy before they zoom
off on the next leg of their flight
to Chicago.
That the Lindbergh’s would fly
here was made all the more pro
bable by the fact that supplies for
them have been forwarded here.
FACTOR RELEASED
BY ABDUCTORS AT
ILLINOIS TOWN
LA GRANGE, 111., July 13. —John
“Jake, the barber” Factor, million
aire market plunger, w'ho had been
held prisoner for 12 days by his
kidnappers, wras released here Wed
nesday night after the payment by
his friends of ransom estimated at
$200,000.
Factor was freed a short distance
from the local police station. He
was driven to a street car-line in
a machine escorted by two auto
mobile loads of hoodlums and dir
ected to the station.
Factor was unshaven, ill, un
kempt and appeared exceedingly
tired
Police Sergeant Eugene Cortesi
said his friends had arranged the
ransom but that Factor did not
know the exact amount paid.
BEER SHORTAGE
IS THREATENED
LONDON, July 13 —The prospect
of a world beer shortage aroused
the British House of Commons
from a lethargic agricultural de
bate when Lord Wolner warned
that soon there may be no hops
for making beer.
“The hop market has been revo
lutionized by America going wet,”
he said. “It will take two years for
America to develop her own crop.
There is likely to be an acute hop
shortage before that time.”
N. Y. MAN OFFERS
BUY FARE ON HOP
NEW YORK, July 13. —The mar
ket for round the world passenger
fares opened Wednesday at a $10,
000 bid and $35,000 asked. Trading
was at a standstill.
Dr. Martin M. Schor made the bid
explaining to aviator Wiley Post
that he wanted to accompany him
around the world on his projected
solo flights. Post’s representative as
certained that Dr. Schor weighed
138 pounds and estimated the min
imum one-way fare at $35,000.
Fairbanks seeks the sum of $35,
000 in federal funds for the pur
pose of building a flood control for
the Spring floods in the Chena
river. The funds are being sought
from the Federal Public Works
fund.
A SUMMER WHITE HOUSE
PORTLAND, Ore. July 13. —Joe
seph Parson, mayor, Wednesday
announced the suggestion of a Sum
rem White House for the President
in Portland or some place in the
cool Pacific Northwest. The sugges- j
ticn is made so that the nation’s
leaders could avoid the sweltering!
heats which encompass the East!
each year. Northwest cities are said!
to be lining up in back of the sug
I gestion.
DUTCHMAN WEEPS
BECAUSE HE LOST
A GALLANT FIGHT
NEW YORK, July 13.—Billy Pe
trolle, the tough old fellew from
Duluth, won as wild and wooley a
battle as he has ever been in last
night, scoring a technical knockout
over Bep Van Cleveran, the belt
ing Dutchman, in four rounds be
for a truly partisan crowd of 10
00 persons.
j The fight was stopped by the
referee on the orders of Dr. Joseph
Sheridan, New York estate Athletic
Comission physician, as the Dutch
| welterweight’s seconds sought fran
| tically to stop the bleeding from a
I deep gash in their warrior’s right
eyelid between the fourth and the
fifth rounds.
In the uproar that followed, a
policeman had to jump into the
ring to get the weeping Van Clav
eren out as he stormed about pro
testing, alternately chasing the re
feree and daring Petrolle to get
up off his stool and fight, while
the crowd roared and took violent
sides.
DIVORCE SUIT BE
FILED ON FRIDAY
RENO, Nev., July 13. — Elliott
' Roosevelt will file suit for divorce
from Elizabeth Donner Roosevelt
on Friday, Samuel Platt, attorney
for the president’s second son, an
i nounced Wednesday afternoon.
Mrs. Roosevelt will file a cross
i complaint and obtain the divorce
probably on Monday.
The suit will be filed at Minden
i Douglas county.
Young Roosevelt’s complaint will
| be based on incompatible relations.
The grounds, however, will be the
I usual Nevada divorce charge of ex
treme mental cruelty, Mr. Platt
said.
BASEBALL SCORES
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Brooklyn 3, Chicago 5.
- Boston 8, Pittsburgh 9.
Philadelphia 1, Cincinnati 4.
New York 3, St. Louis 0.
\ j AMERICAN LEAGUE
Detroit 0, Boston 1.
| St. Louis 2, New York 4.
j Cleveland 4, Philadelphia 6.
j Chicago 1, Washington 4.
> PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
: Los Angeles 1, San Francisco 4.
j Portland 4, Oakland 10.
■ ; Missions 4, Hollywood 2.
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Jimmy Fox hit his 25th home
run of the season Wednesday put
ting him three ahead of Babe Ruth.
A NEW FIELD
A baseball field has been laid
out at the bottom of TJiird.Aven
ue, on this side of the Lagoon
and it is thought that plans are to
have this field in shape so that
baseball games can be played there
when the Navy vessels come in
to Seward at the end of this month.
This field will be considerably eas
ier to maintain for playing than
the former field and baseballs will
; not be so easily lost as there is no
i tall timber for long foul flies to
dive into.
HAIR IN SOUP WILL
COST CHEFS LIFE;
OTHERS BE JAILED
i
i •—
MOSCOW, July 12. — Five men
were sentenced to death yesterday
j for putting wife nails, glass and
hair in restaurknt soup as part of
a sabotage cantfpaign to make the
! workers dissatisfied with condi
! tions. Six others were sentenced to
j terms of imprisonment ra n g i n g
from 18 months to* eight years,
j One was acquitted.
Four restaurants were affected,
the prosecuton charged. The lea
der of the strange sabotage cam
paign was said to be Oshgin Mikk
haila, one of those sentenced to
death. He is a former Czarist army
officer.
Sentenced to 10 years imprison
ment for killing a member of the
Communist’s youth organization,
Mikkhail escaped from- prison and
under an assumed name worked
his way up to the post of chef in
a workers’ restaurant.
One of Mikkhail’s sons was sen
tenced to death also and another
| received an eight-year term.
SCIENTIFIC BIRTH
PRACTICE IS NOT
OBJECTED,OHIOAN
CLEVELAND, Ohio, July 12. —
Defense of the scientific practice
whereby Mrs. Mate Homel. of Los
Angeles, had three children with
out having seen their father was
made here by Dr. T. Wingate Todd,
director of the Brush Foundation
and professor of anatomy at Wes
tern Reserve University.
“The process is not a difficult
one and I can see no objection to
it when both husband and wife
are willing to try it,” Dr. Wingate
said. “Childless couples do not con
sider it wrong to adopt children.
From the racial standpoint the
i other method is in many ways
superior. The wife knows that the
child will inherit some of her own
characteristics and if she picks a
father whose heredity is good she
can look forward to a child with
good heredity.”
Dr. Wingate expressed the opin
ion that the process would become
much more common in years to
come when people are swayed less
by sentiment and more by biolog
ical considerations. He added that
the process of artificial impregna
; tion is employed several times each
1 year in Cleveland.
ADVANCE IN FISH
PRICES REPORTED
FROM ASTORIA
i ASTORIA, July 13. —Fish prices
i paid in the Columbia river area
,were advanced, effective yesterday,
- to eight cents a pound for Chin
Jooks and nine cents for bluebacks.
The price paid for steelheads was
ialso raised to five cents, an ad
J vance of one cent.
The new prices have been posted
at the receiving stations of the
major packing companies and sev
eral other companies announced
that they will conform to the new
price schedule.
Word was received from John
Soujaa, clerk of the Pacific Fish
eries Union, that 300 trollers in
Neah Bay have unanimously agreed
to disregard Seattle price offers
and wtlfr ^continue to deliver fish
to the Columbia River Packers at
Astoria.
The fish being brought into As
toria at the present time totals ap
proximately 800 tons a day.
The S. S. Yukon is due to arrive
in port at six o’clock in the mora
' ing, according to the A. S. S. Co.,
bulletin board.
WITH MISSIONS NOW
LOS ANGELES, July 13. — The
sagging baseball fortunes of Orville
Mohler, former University of Sou
then California athletic star, re
bounded when he was signed by
the Mission Reds of the Coast Lea
: gue. Mohler was released by the
I Los Angeles Angels for reasons of
! economy after he had gone into a
! slump.
DEMPSEY WILL
! BE WEDDED TO
ACTRESS, RENO
1 _
| KANSAS CITY, July 13. — The I
Kansas City Star says that Jack
Dempsey, former heavyweight box-j
ing champion, told friends here!
i that he and Hanna Williams, act- j
ress, will be married in Reno soon, i
Dempsey arrived here from Fortj
Worth, Texas, and left early Wed- J
nesday night by mo^or car for Salt j
Lake City, where he will referee a
j bout in which Max Baer will part- !
j icipate
' From there, he said, he will go to !
Reno to marry Miss Williams, ac
cording to the Star.
Fort Worth reports that Demp
1 sey confirmed the rumors there
of his engagement to the musical
comedy star. Dempsey said, how
ever, that they probably would not
be married for about eight or nine
months.
TRADE REMAINS SAME
SAN FRANCISCO, July 21. —Re
tail trade in the Farwest was about
the same for the fiscal year just
closed as a year ago, detailed trade
| reports showT.
ROOSEVELT HAS
TALK WITH GREEN
WASHINGTON, July 13. —A six
j hour day and a five-day week for
government employees was predict
, ed late Wednesday by William A.
Green, president of the American
, Federation of Labor, after a con
ference with President Roosevelt.
Green came to the White House
to urge the president to provide
for reemployment in units now be
ing formed under the Recovery
Program* for government workers
• recently dismissed and found that
, the president had already antici
; pated his appeal.
Other Washington news said a
; plan to eliminate slums and speed
the $ 25,000.000 National Industry
i Recovery Association colonization
program was being formulated in
a statement President Roosevelt is
i preparing.
NO HITLERS, HITLERINES
BERLIN, July 13. —The Prussian
[Interior Minister, complying with
k | Chancellor Adolf Hitler’s wishes, is
,! sued a decree Wednesday forbid
' i ding officials to register babies with
che first name of Hitler or varla
' tions such as Hitlerine or Hitler
ice for girls.
' SHIPS COLUDIEIN
, CHESAPEAKE BAY
■ BALTIMORE, Md. July 13. — The
11 liner “City of Baltimore,” bound
' for Germany, collided with the
tanker “Beacon” in Chesapeake Bay
l late yesterday and started to sink,
■ but her passengers were removed
i safely by a ferry boat. The vessel,
of the Baltimore Mail line, was re
» ported to have been towed into
shallow waters of Gibson Island to
; prevent her going down. Her crew
remained aboard.
The tanker, owned by the Stan
■ dard Shipping Company, pulled
away after the collision and ap
parently was not seriously damaged.
No cause for the accident could
be assigned by the authorities on
, shore. The sun was still shining
and the day was cloudless.
GOVERNMENT TO
HELP IN CONTROL
OIL PRODUCTION
WASHINGTON, July 13. —The
government Wednesday took a de
cisive step toward taking over a
production of oil, through an order
by President Roosevelt prohibiting
the shipment in interstate com
merce of petroleum produced or
withdrawn from storage in viola
tion of state conservation laws.
The order, under authority of
| the Industrial Recovery Act ap
i plies also to oil shipment in for
- eign commerce.
The Governor’s o i l»conference,
| which met in Washington two or
j three months ago, advocated giv
| ing the chief executive the author
j ity he used Wednesday. Sec. of the
j Interior Ickes estimated that 500,
i 000 barrels a day have been ship
1 ped over state lines in violation
I of state quota allotments.
Ickes described the executive or
: der as the first federal move to
i bolster state efforts to control ex
cess oil production.
FEDERAL AGENCY
MAY BE CREATED
COPE WITH CRIME
WASHINGTON, July 13. —Presi
dent Roosevelt is evolving a plan
for the establishment of an Am
erican Scotland Yard to fight or
ganized crime, racketeering, kid
napping and other crimes. His
program calls for a nation-wide or
ganization to absorb present fed
| e r a 1 investigating agencies and
bring about a closer liason between
state and national crime detect
j ing forces.
It would be headed by an out
j standing expert of national repute.
The chief executive has had the
: program under consideration for
' some time but the present wave of
kidnapping and racketeering
! crimes has convinced him that the
| federal government must extend
I its crime prevention forces,
j President Roosevelt and Attorney
| General Cummings frankly admit
; that the crime situation is out of
| the control of state and local po
! lice authorities.
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i CAT TRAINING IS
A FINE HOBBY
YOSEMITE, July 12. —Peter M.
i Topp, foreman of the Yosemite
jfish hatchery has a unique hobby
| for taking his mind off the exact
ing business of nursing baby fish.
| Stamp collecting, photgraphy, or
I golf? Nothing so soft for Mr. Topp.
[His idea of relaxation is taming
i wildcats.
| Mr. Topp has two wildcats
j trained to come to his cabin door
I whenever he calls. One of the cats
! will stand on its hind legs and beg
j for food.
He wins their confidence by tos
! ing out of his hand.
I In the old days a wildcat at the
jdoor would cause the women and
children to barricade themselves
inside while the man of the house
went forth to slay the beast.
I Capt. A. E. Lathrop, who has
been on a business visit to Cor
dova, arrives Friday en route to
j Fairbanks.
Pilot Bob Reeves, of the Reeve
Airways, arrived in Seward yester
day afternoon from Valdez bringing
L. V. Ray as a passenger for Sew
ard and H. F. Morton and daughter
Mjyrtle for Anchorage. Pilot Reeves
left for Anchorage about an hour
after his arrival here.