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VOLUME XXIX. NUMBER 206.
SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1933.
PRICE TEN CENTS
LARGE LISTING
PASSENGERS ON
THE SS. YUKON \
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SEATTLE, Sept. 2. —Passengers
aboard the SS. Yukon which sail
ed for Seward today included the
following: Vic Ross, Mrs. Chailotte
LaCoate, Patricia Ray. Mrs. Thom
as Hoover, Mrs. J. A. McDonald,
Miss F. Berg. Mrs. John B. Wadman,
^ Mrs. F. E. Brentlinger, Mrs. Charles
A. Watson, Marion Peterson, Mrs.
J. A. Peterson. Mrs. William Harris
Arnold.
A. B. Freeman, Dorothy Billson,
Mrs. Ray Thurston, John Parsons,
Mrs. John Parsons, Anna Parsons,
, Mrs. C. J. Carlson, Romaka Kol
" Koff, A1 Hilty, R. F. Welch and
Mrs. Welch. Hiram L. Lane. Phil
Armstrong, A. D. McDonald, Chas.
y McDonald.
Loretta Harpser. Mrs. Carl Mau,
Alma Hukee. Mr. and Mrs. W. E.
Duckering, C. M. Franklin. Glen
Franklin, Nick Pyke, H. B. Gra
nam. H. Richardson. Louise Sears,
Mrs. L. Robertson. Mrs. A. Gibbs,
May J. Walker, Mrs. M. Harly, Clara
Peterson. Hannah Melrum,,Miss E.
Neese. Miss A. Rouse, Anna Mc
Donald. Edith Kruger Mrs. H. T.
Alren, Rev. A. R. Wileski.
Frank Leben, Frank Hoffman,
Mass Marie Lyon, Robert Spach,
Mrs. Fred Spach, Mitzie Daniels,
t, Mae Clemo, Norman Elwin, Phil
Gill, Ted Feldman, Albert Westall.
Mrs. Westall, Donna Westall, Alice
Henney, Dorothy Hill, Mrs. W. F.
Williams, Mrs. Morrison, Muriel
Allison, Ruth Johnson, Anna John
son, Lola M. Cremeans, Frances
Royster, Blanche Nasen, Miss M.
Norton, Mrs. H. S. Norton, Leo M.
Roblique and 13 steerage.
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MANY RETURNED
WORK IN JULY
NEW YORK. Seut. 2. —The larg
est percentage gain in employment
recorded for a single month by the
National Industrial Conference
Board was made in July over June,
the Conference announced yester
day.
The gain was 10.2 per cent and
it was the fourth successive month
ly increase. The total increase
shown since February was 19 per
cent.
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STATE RESTS
SAN JOSE. Calif., Sept. 2. —The
State of California Prosecutor Al
lan Lindsay, rested its case against
David Lamson on the charge of
murdering his pretty wife, Allene,
at their Stanford Campus home,
Memorial day. The trial adjourned
until 10 a.m. Tuesday. Lamson and
the defense attorneys appeared con
fident when the trial was adjourn
ed. One of the attorneys declared
they haven’t proved anything that
shows that Mrs. Lamson’s death
as not being accidental.
PUBLIC FLOGGING
NEW YORK, Sept. 2. — Public
flogging for youthful criminals was
* advocated by a county grand jury.
The body expressed astonishment
at the growing number of juvenille
offenders.
AVIATOR SAFE
MAZATLAN, Mexico, Sept. 2. —
> M. R. Ayers, Philadelphia aviator,
his mechanic and a passenger, who
have ben missing two days in a
seaplane, were rescued yesterday
in the Gulf of California. Charles
Bucher, flying a plane to Obregon
City, saw the Ayer plane near Al
tata, Sinaloa. He notified author
ities w'ho sent a boat.
! DEATH TOLL 53
j ST. LOUIS, Sept. 2. —Six deaths
j in 24 hours brought the sleeping
sickness fatalities in St. Louis to 53
j in the epedemic which so far has
j baffled science. City, county and
federal authorities had nothing new
to report in locating the carrier
or perfecting a serum to combat
the encaphalitis germ which has
stricken 400 persons in one month.
DAVIS DECLARES
HE MISQUOTED
—
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2. - Am
bassador at large Norman H. Davis,
in mid-Atlantic, en route to Lon
don, sent a radiogram to Secre
tary of State Cordell Hull explain
ing that he had been misquoted
in the newspapers when it was
said that European disarmaments
‘had nothing to do with war debts.
Davis stated he wished to make
his statement clear that his mis
sion to Europe was to discuss dis
i armament and not war debts.
STOCK QUOTATIONS
NEW YORK. Sept. 2. — Stocks,
bonds and commodities were dull
in the preholiday trading again
yesterday with prices irregular and
confined to a narrow range. Oils
were up better than a point in
many instances and rails, golds
and motors showed firmness. Home
stake was up three points at 303
and Union Pacific was quoted at
129.
September wheat closed at 85%;
cotton was 9-58; domestic copper
9; export copper rose from .0815 to
■ .0820 c. i. s. London; bar silver 35%;
lead 4.5; pound sterling $4.52%; up
one quarter.
Dow Jones averages were 30 in
dustrials 103.66, up 1.25; 20 rails
52.56 up 1.10; 20 utilities 30.08, no
change; bonds 80.17, no change
AT THE HOTELS
Van Gilder—Vic Murphy, K. I.
Seymore, R. W. Martin. A. E. La
throp. Marian Dickey.
Seward—Alerta Dunyan, Mr. and
Mrs. C. M. Osbourne, Mrs. Hazel
Fredrikson. Frank L. Knight, Wil
bert Lane. Richard Date.
Overland—Lloyd Westman, Karl
Nielson, John Rilly, D. C. Mathi
son, Wyman Anderson.
! The Rev. C. T. Hatton, superin
tendent of the Jesse Lee Home, ac
] companied by two of his young
men, intended to bag a moose or
I two in the Sunrise area but lost
i °ut. A mixup in meeting his auto
jat Moose Pass eliminated the pos
sibility of hunting in that district
i and returning to Seward today, so
| the party walked back to Lawing
'and hunted in the Lake region.
TO TRAIN RESERVES
| VIENNA, Sept. 2. —The Austrian
Cabinet council, presided over by
Chancellor Dollfuss, issued a de
j cree Friday calling for the immed
i iate training of 8,000 reserves to
j oppose Nazi activities in Austria.
| After the cabinet session was over
| Chancellor Dollfuss visited his wife
I who is ill in a Vienna hospital.
MONDAY, A HOLIDAY
I Monday being Labor Day and a
national holiday the majority of
Seward businesses will be closed
throughout the day. Brown & Haw
kins Corporation, Seward Trading,
j Company, P. C. McMullen, Waech
! ter Bros., Meat Market, Bank of
1 Seward and the Post Office will re
main closed for the day. The Gate
way will not publish on Monday.
CUBAN STORM
CAUSED GREAT
PROPERTY LOSS
HAVANA, Cuba, Sept. 2. —Strife
torn Havana and Cuba were call
ed upon to endure a new trial
yesterday when a terrific storm of 1
hurricane force battered Havana
and the northern coast of Cuba,
driving huge waves over Morrow
! Castle, the landmark of the harbor.
The entire city was fortified
against the storm but much dam
age was done and there were 10
persons injured in the first blast o
| the wind. At a late hour last night
73 casualities had been reported,
seven serious, but as communication
and transportation systems are dis
rupted it is expected that these are I
but meager details.
The Red Cross was called, upon
to give aid to the injured and they
were aided in their work by Boy
Scouts. One man was said to havei
been caught by one of the moun-!
talnous waves and taken out to sea.
On the next wave he was hurled;
against a breakwater wall and kill- ;
ed.
Troops patrolled the streets to I
prevent the looting of stores as the
store windows in many instances
were smashed by the wind.
The Naval Garrison at La Punta j
awaited orders to evacuate. Many;
persons along the coast fled to high I
ground when the seas swept up on
the shore. The City of Havana re-1
ported that the water was three
; feet deep in some sections of that
' city.
SWANSON HOPES
U. S. NAVY MAY
BE BUILT UP
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2. — Secre-'
tary of the Navy Swanson yester
day signed contracts for the con-j
struction of 17 naval vessels, includ-i
ing 12 ships authorized by the pro- 1
visions of the National Recovery \
Act, four destroyers anthorized in I
.the 1916 naval program and one[
! heavy cruiser authorized in 1929.
“I hope this is the beginning of
' a treaty navy,” Swanson said as he
■ signed the contracts. ‘‘I hope that
' we can build the fleet up to the
[limits set by the London Naval
I Treaty and second to none in the i
'world." Eastern firms won all the'
I contracts. One of these vessels will j
! be named the USS. Moffet, in honor
j of Admiral Moffet, who recently [
| lost his life in the tragic wreck of I
; the dirigible Akron at sea.
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PRISONERS TRANSFERRED
SAN QUENTIN PRISON, Calif.,
Sept. 2. —Twenty eight women pri
soners yesterday were transferred
from here to the new women’s
penal farm at Tehachapi. Scores
of other women convicts will be
transferred in coming weeks.
Mrs. Jennie Paulson, who has
been, ill for some time, has suffered
a slight relapse and has been taken
back to the Seward General Hospi
Vic Murphy and Kenneth Sey
more, who have been employed with
the Forest Service at Lawing, ar
rived in Seward last evening en
route to the Outside.
Jack Lean arrived in town last
evening from Lawing.
j Wilma Shellhorn arrived back
j home last night after a visit to
J Moose Pass.
MOTHERS DROWNED
VERA CRUZ, Mexico, Sept. 2. —
Six mothers, washing clothes in the
San Anjelo River and their nine
children were swept to death in ai
sudden flood yesterday. The child
ren were playing near the shore i
when they were swept into the wa- •
ter. The body of one child was re- j
covered.
BALL PLAYER
OPERATED ON
BOSTON, Mass., Sept. 2. —Johnny
Vergez, New York Giant’s third
baseman, was operated on at St.:
Elizabeth’s hospital for acute ap- j
j pendicitis. •
j Vergez was stricken during the
| ninth inning of the game with the i
| Boston Braves and was on the op- '
jerating table about 45 minutes.
His physician, Dr. William E. Me- ,
Garty, said he was doing fine and |
| should pull through all right. He'
iwill be unable to play baseball for,
i the rest of the season.
BASEBALL SCORE
” 5
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Washington 3, Philadelphia 12.
( Boston 4, New York 2.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
New York 2-5, Boston 0-3.
Chicago 3, Cincinnati 7.
St. Louis 1. Pittsburgh 2.
GIANTS INCREASE LEAD
BOSTON, Mass., Sept. 2. —The !
| New York Giants increased their
|lead over the Boston Braves to
(seven full games yesterday when
i they defeated Boston in both ends ,
i of a doubleheader. A record Boston
! baseball crowd saw the Giants win
jthe first game 2 to 0 and the
! second 5 to 3.
HUNTING IS ON
The season on moose, ptarmigan,
ducks and geese was opened yes-!
terday and many local residents |
; clambored all over the local hills in!
i search of game. Many others are i
foiling up their shooting pieces
| preparatory to leaving for the ad- j
jacent lowlands tomorrow. Others!
have left on more extended trips.1
Many hunters have returned to
Seward with fair bags of ptarmi-i
gan and grouse. Several ducks were [
bagged in nearby ponds at an early j
| hour yesterday and it is expected!
! more will be brought in today.
OLD IRONSIDES IN S. F. I
j SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 2. — The
IUSS. Constitution, probably more
j familiar to the public as “Old Iron
sides,” arrived in San Francisco
(yesterday after a several month’s
visit in the Pacific Northwest. The
craft will remain in San Francisco
for two weeks and will then go to
Oakland and other ports. Many re
sidents of California, and even
from out of the state, are taking
this second opportunity of viewing
the historic vessel.
NO CANADIAN N. R. A.
OTTAWA, Sept. 2. —Canada will
not attempt a National Recovery
campaign on the order of the Unit
ed States social experiment, it was'
indicated here following the return
of Prime Minister Bennett to the
Dominion Capital. In a statement
made public the Prime Minister
said the Canadian government was
opposed to any such plan.
Jean Staser, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Harry L. Staser, of Anchorage,
has joined her parents at Girdwood.
Mr. Staser is engaged in mining at
Girdwood.
AUTO KING STILL
REFUSES JOIN
N.R. A.RANKS
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2. — The
deadline for the voluntary sub
mission of codes for industry under
the provisions of the National Re
covery Act was passed yesterday
with Henry Ford almost alone in
his defiance of the administration.
Industry no longer can offer their
individual codes as they had been,
permitted before September 1.
The administration made it
known that under the terms of the
Recovery Act that codes can be im
posed on recalcitrant firms.
Two problems remained before
the Recovery administration for im -
mediate attention. First of these
problems is the widespread labor
troubles and the other troublesome
problem is the bituminous coal in
dustry.
Administrator Johnson declared
that he will not press for the sub
mission of codes by recalcitrant
firms as more than 80 per cent of
industry is already operating under
the “Blue Eagle” and he expects
that the others will see the light
and get into line.
Forty industries hurriedly filed
codes with the administration be
fore the deadline it was declared.
GIRLS TRAMPLED
BY SCHOOLMATES
SAN FRANCSCO, Sept. 2. —Three
grade school girls were trampled
and injured beneath the feet of
charging schoolmates yesterday at
the climax of an N. R. A. rally of
school children in Seals Stadium.
Two of the children suffered
broken legs. One had a possible
skull fracture.
Ten thousand children took part
in the rally. They dashed toward
the gates at orders of news-reel
cameramen. As they ran wildly for
the gates several fell. The three in
jured were among those that fell.
MAINTAIN LEAD
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 2. —The
Washington Senators maintained
their American League lead of eight
and one-half games here yesterday
when both teams lost. Washington
lost to the Athletics and the Yan
kees lost to Boston.
ENJOYING REST
MONTAUK, L. I., Sept. 2. —Three
members of President Roosevelt’s
party aboard Vincent Astor’s yacht,
the Nourmahal, went fishing yes
terday but Roosevelt and Mr. As
tor remained aboard the yacht. Ad
vices received from the craft state
that the President is enjoying his
first real rest since March 4. Coast
Guard destroyers, escorting the
yacht Nourmahal on its sea cruise
were anchored within 500 yards of
the yacht. The tuna were said by
fishermen to have been running
off Montauk point and it is expect
ed that the President will try some
fishing.
INCREASED SALES
CHICAGO, Sept. 2. — Increased
sales and profits have resulted to
Mongomery Ward and Co., from ad
opting newspaper advertising in
stead of its former practice of rely
ing largely on handbills, it was an
nounced yesterday by P. M. Ham
maker, retail sales manager. He de
clared that retail stores would
find their advertising much more
profitable if they provide newspa
pers with good copy often. “People,
nowadays read new advertisements
s avidly as news,” he declared.