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VOULME XXIX. NUMBER 196. SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1933. — - PRICE TEN CENTS
ATLANTIC COAST
IS WHIPPED BY
VIOLENT STORM
NEW YORK, Aug. 22. —All air
planes were grounded and all ships
were warned to remain in port last
night as the second violent storm
•within 24 hours swept the Atlantic
Coast, whipping up near mountain
ous seas between Boston and the
Delaware Capes.
The gale, attaining a velocity of
70 miles an hour, struck in the
wake of the storm that thrashed
the Jersey Coast Sunday afternoon.
Peril to shipping along the mid
dle Atlantic Coast was multiplied
by a hurricane brewing 150 miles
west of Bermuda and working to
the North. Off Bermuda the wind
velocity reached 80 miles an hour.
At least six persons are known
to be dead as a result of Sunday’s
storm and five others have not yet
been accounted for. Many others
are on the injured list.
BRAIN BRUISE'
VICTIM AIDED
BY NEW SCIENCE
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 22. —Med
ical science, with new methods, ap
peared to be winning a fight to
save Mrs. Georgia Pardini, of San
Francisco, who has been continu
ously unconscious for 53 days.
Lorenzo Pardini, the unconscious
woman’s husband and former prom
inent commission merchant of this
city, was killed in an auto accident
on June 30 when Mrs. Pardini’s
skull was fractured.
Brain specialists called into the
case termed Mrs. Pardini’s case as
one of “brain bruise.” from which,
they said, death was inevitable.
A week ago a new method of sub
cutaneous and intravenous feed
ing of the unconscious woman was
started at the Richmond hospital.
The new method was solely an ex
periment in the hope of saving
Mrs. Pardini's life.
Lasted Four Hours
NEW YORK. Aug. 22. —The game
between the Yankees and Chicago
yesterday proved to be a long wind
ed affair. The game went 18 innings
find the score was still tied. The
game had to be called then on ac
count of darkness. The game sur
passed the long time playing re
cord of the Cardinals and Giants
recently. The game yesterday last
ed four hours and 11 minutes. Be
cause the game -was tied and will
h.ave to be played over again the
idle Washington Senators still have
Their eight and one-half game lead
over the Yankees.
MAKES FIRST TRIAL
ALGONAC, Mich., Aug. 22. —Gar
Wood, veteran American Harms
worth speedboat trophy holder,
made his first trial run in his re
conditioned Miss America X, here
Saturday and then ordered the boat
Torn down. He said he was dissatis
fied with the way the boat respond
ed to its increased power and re
built hull.
SOME BEER DRINKER
SOUTHPORT, Conn., Aug. 22. —
Steve Novack drank 68 10-ounce
glasses of beer to win a beer drink
ing contest at the annual clam
bake of the Southport fire depart
ment Sunday. The amount repre
sented 20 and a half quarts or
more than five gallons.
Game
SURVEYORS THROUGH
SAN DIEGO, Aug. 22. —With the
United States Navy’s Alaskan sur
vey mission apparently completed,
the USS. Argonne and three mine
sweepers * are homeward bound
! from the Aleutian Islands. This
was made known here in messages
from Dutch Harbor, Alaska.
No Contempt Court
In Alaska Case
i _
i SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 22. —The
United States Court of Appeals to
day ruled the Joseph F. Statter,
former chief deputy marshall in Al
aska will not be compelled to pay
$100 fine and serve a sentence for
• contempt of court because he wrote
a saucy letter to Judge Justin W.
Harding, of Alaska.
Statter received a letter from the
Judge saying that all expenses
would be authorized by the court.
Staffer's reply was disrespectful to
the Judge but the court held that
it was not contempt as there was
no court action.
Polo Player Denies
He Attacked Nurse
CHICAGO. Aug- 22. — Declaring
that he would stay in Chicago “un
, til cleared.” Cecil Smith, famcius
Texas polo star, gave in detail yes
terday his version of the auto
mobile ride of last Friday night in
Iwhich he is accused of attacking
Hiss Eugenia Rose, pretty nurse on
the staff of Evanston hospital.
Smith, who bears an excellent
eputation in his hometown of San
Antonio and among his polo as
sociates, denied there had been any
impropriety on the trip, much less
j .n attack as charged by Miss Rose.
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N.R.A.WON’T 0. K.
PRICE INCREASES
—
WASHINGTON. Aug. 22. — The
declaration that the National Re
covery Administration would not
countenance unreasonable price in
! creases was made by Recovery Ad
iministrator Hugh S. Johnson, in
addressing retail dealers at the op
ening of the code hearing for re
tail trade.
i Johnson urged that the retailers
j resist price increases in the near
! future from jobbers 'who supply
| them with goods. “I say resent
,these price increase and we will sup
port you.”
j Johnson also said that the ad
! ministration was moving to take
the Blue Eagle right out of the
windows of cheaters.
MAN AND GIRL KILLED
j NEWARK, N. J., Aug. 22. —An
{explosion occurred in the Celluloid
Company building today and killed
a man and a girl and seriously in
jured three other workers.
GASOLINE WAS USED
SALAMANCA BAY, N. Y. Aug. 22.
—Gasoline, poured on a stubborn
cookstove fire in the cabin of the
.State Park, was blamed for the fire
which fatally burned four Buf
falo girls, Eileen Deinsart, Cather
ine Frank, Gertrude Sexton, and
{Margaret Sexton.
BE ASKED TO TESTIFY
DETROIT, Mich., Aug. 22. —Her
bert Hoover, former President of
the United States, is to be asked to
'testify in the open grand jury in
vestigation of the closing of De
troit’s two big national banks. A
letter was sent to Hoover asking
that he appear before the jury as
soon as possible and to announce
his decision as to wether he would
appear immediately.
ROOSEVELT IS
CHEERED BY
| N. R. A. PROGRESS
[ WASHINGTON, Aug. 22. —Cheer
ied by results already attained in
;the N. R. A. drive. President Roose
; velt left the White House yester
i day for Hyde Park where he will
j continue to press for speed in the
; completion of the recovery prp
5 gram.
The business pickup in the United
States was reflected in the Treasury
Department figures showing that
tax receipts now are sufficient to
pay all United States expenses.
] At San Francisco Secret inquisi
tors yesterday began investigation
; of alleged National Recovery Act
(pledge and code violators in the
West. The secret board named by
i George Creel, district N. R. A. ad
jministrator has 500 complaints from
San Francisco alone. Others are
.from Utah. Nevada and the re
jmainder of California.
; Violators will have an opportun
i ity to appear before secret investi
i gators in their community. Creel
( said. If alleged abuses are not cor
rected. Federal prosecution will fol
low, he said.
Because open charges of viola
tion might bring boycott and ruin,
! Creel explained that investigations
(will be secret in all instances.
PACIFIC FLEET
OPERATIONS ARE
UNDECIDED YET
, SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 22. —
Blasting reports that the United
jStates Navy will be definitely con
signed to Southern waters. Assis
;tant Secretary of the Navy Henry
;L. Roosevelt Monday declared that
the operations of the fleet will de
pend entirely upon national con
tingencies.
"So long as peace time conditions
prevail.” said Roosevelt," there are
| no changes contemplated regard
ing the operations of the fleet on
(the Pacific Coast.”
No person can see what the fu
ture will bring. The next threat
may come from Atlantic waters, and
again, it may come from the Paci
fic- The operations of the enemy
fleet, “and any attack must of nec
essity come from the sea,” will de
pend entirely upon the source of
that threat.
French Look To
Their Former Allies
PARIS, Aug. 22. — Premier Ben
ito Mussolini, of Italy, today loomed
in French eyes as the "arbiter of
Central Europe,” and an alarmed
France is begging Great Britain to
join it in reviving the Anglo-French
Entente Cordiale as "more than
ever the surest guarantee of peace.”
It is hardly possible to exaggerate
the concern shown here after the
meeting between Chancellor Doll
fuss of Austria and Mussolini at
Riccione, near Rimini. Italy. Mon
day.
PROTESTS OCCUPATION
TOKYO. Aug. 22. — Japan’s op
position to the occupation by
France of nine ownerless coral is
lands between the Philippines and
French Indo-China has been com
municated to Paris the Foreign Of
fice announced yesterday .
BASEBALL SCORES
AMERICAN LEAGUE
New York 3, Chicago 3.
Cleveland 10, Boston 1.
Philadelphia 12, Detroit 7.
No other games played.
WON’T SAY YES OR NO
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, Aug. 22.
,—Dr. Hugo Eckner, commander of
the Graf Zeppelin, today declined
I to confirm reports he planned to
! take the great German dirigible to
the World’s Fair at Chicago this
FaH.
Semi-Final Match
Called Off; Rain
FOREST HILLS, N. Y. Aug. 22. —
The semi-final tennis match be
tween Dorothy Round, of England,
and Helen Jacobs, of California,
had to be called off yesterday on
account of rain. It was hopr that
the match could be held today.
The winner of the contest will
be matched against Helen Wills
Moody to determine the champion
in the Women’s Tennis Tourna
ment.
Mrs. Moody won her semi-final
match Sunday after dropp-ng the
first set to Betty Nuthall. of Eng
land.
Jack Sharkey Plans
Do Lot Fighting
BOSTON, Mass., Aug. 22. —An
other step in Jack Sharkey’s come
back campaign was taken yester
day when articles were signed for
a 15-round bout between the for
taer heavyweight champion and
Tommy Loughran, of Philadelphia,
at one of the Philadelphia baseball
parks on the night of September
27.
The fight will be only 12 days
| after Sharkey’s bout with Kink Lev
insky.
STOWAWAY HABIT
MEANS JAIL TERM
HONOLULU, Aug. 22. — Deter
mined to “stow” the stowaway hab
it, stowaways stowing away for the
'Paradise of the Pacific will be stow
•’ed away in jail when Hawaiian
bound vessels reach the islands.
Under a recent drastic anti-stow
away law passed by the Hawaiian
legislature Harold Homer Lyche. of
! Boston, was arrested when the lin
er Lurline reached Honolulu har
jbor.
) Lyche's knowledge of the islands
'was gained by a limited survey
throught the bars of the city jail
,at Honolulu.
STOCKS BETTER
NEW YORK, Aug. 22. — There
was a tendency for buying to in
crease on the market yesterday but
the turnover was light and the
trading sometimes dull. Gains of
fractions to three points were made
with alcoholic issues the most ac
tive in the rise. September wheat
.closed at 86% cents; cotton $9.58;
[copper 9 cents, export copper. Lon
don, 0815 cents; pound sterling
$4.50%; lead 4.5; bar silver 36*4
HATRED STTL LSTRONG
HAVANA, Cuba, Aug. 22. —1The
week old government was seeking
the leaders of the hate - crazed
crowd which dug up the grave of a
former Machado police chief, re
moved the body and then mutilated
and burned it. Heavy punishment
was to be meted out by the govern
ment if the guilty leaders are found,
it is said.
ANNOUNCE DIVIDEND ,
NEW YORK, Aug. 22. —Direcors
of the American Telephone and Tel
egraph Company declared the re
gular quarterly dividend of $2.25 per
share, on capital stock, payable on
October 16 to stockholders of re
cord September 15.
GANDHI FAST
CONTINUES ON
TO SIXTH DAY
POONA, India, Aug. 22. — Mahat
ma Gandhi, leader of the civil dis -
obedience campaign against the.
British, who is on a fast “unto
death.” was said by his physicians
to be so weak that he needs con
stant observation.
He entered upon his sixth day o!
fasting today.
Mrs. Gandhi, who also has been
in jail, was given her uncondition
al release yesterday so that she
might go to the bedside of her hus -
band.
The 64-year old leader refused
advice to abandon his fast unless
he also is given his unconditional
release to carry on his campaign
for India’s “Untouchables.”
A hospital report late today says
that Gandhi is weaker but his con
dition i* not yet critical.
DAVIS GETTING
BE UNPOPULAR
AT THE CAPITAL
WSHINGTON. Aug. 22. — Renew
ed demands for the removal cf
Norman H. Davis, ambassador at
large, burst forth in Congressional
circles today following disclosures
that Davis has indicated to foreign
governments that the United States
will accept drastic debt reductions.
Meanwhile, investigation of thi
State Department disclosed that Mr.
Davis is not an ambassador, ana
has absolutely no authority to deal
with debts. His post is chairman of
!the American delegation to the dis
armament conference. While the
President gave him the “personal
rank of ambassador,” for purposes
of prestige, the State Department
admitted that this “means nothing
at all.”
Lindberghs Refuse
To Reveal Plans
REYKJAVIK, Iceland, Aug. 22.—
Conjecture over the future plans of
Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh,
was aroused today when the S. S.
Jeling, supply ship for their North
Atlantic survey flight, sailed for
the United States.
The Lindberghs declined to reveal
what they planned to do next.
There were reports they planned
to fly eastward to Copenhagen.
CONFERENCE BEGINS
LONDON, Aug. 22. —The World
Wheat conference, with delegate::
from 31 nations attending, began
its deliberation here yesterday. The
principle problem before the dele
gates is the reduction of wheat
crops and the limitation of wheat
exports to increase price so as to
give fair profit to the framer. To
morrow is expected to be the big
day as the delegates will sign for
their governments as to whether
they favor the reduction of acreage
and export limitation plan.
ADDITIONAL DETAILS
ST. LOUIS,, Aug. 22. —This city
voted 20 to 1 in favor of repeal of
the 18th Amendment it was dis
closed as the ballots were counted,
Kansas City voted 10 to 1. The drys
got most of their support from the
rural sections. The total vote went
about 5 to 2 in favor of repeal.
ANOTHER crash
LUMBERTON, N. C. Aug. 22. —
Eight farmers were killed and six
critically injured today when a to
bacco truck crashed into a passen
ger train.