VOLUME XXVIII. NUMBER 142.
SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JUNE 18, 1932.
PRICE TEN CENTS
nuns use
MADRID. June 18, —Juan March
multimillionaire deputy, who hac
been described on the floor of par
liament as the “arch enemy” o1
the Republic, was arrested short
ly after the government had im
prisoned a group of alleged lead
ers of a monarchist plot.
March was arrested on charges
of irregularities in obtaining the
Morrocan tobacco monopoly, dur
nig the dictatorship of General
Primo de Rivera, prior to the fall
of the monarchy.
The Cortes had previously voted
to waive parliamentary immunity
to permit his imprisonment in the
Carcel Modelo.
The arrest of the widely known
millionaire followed a series of ar
rests in Madrid and Barcelona
where a half dozen military offi
cials were detained, reportedly in
connection with monarchistic ac
tivities. The most sensational ar
rest was that of General Emilic
Barrera, who was Captain-General
under King Alfonso. He was seiz
ed in Barcelona and taken to Ma
drid.
MUTE PHNT
SOWS DEIS VETS
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 18
i/P)—An avalanche of votes Friday
night buried all hopes of the sever
al thousand war veterans massed
ai the capitol for immediate pay
ment cf the $1,400,000,000 on their
bonus certificates.
The bill was defeated by a vote
of 62 to 18. Two motions to recon
sider the bill were buried.
The House had previously pass
ed the measure by an overwhelm
ing majority.
A great crowd of veterans look
ed on but remained orderly. They
declare they will stay in Washing
ton until the bonus is passed.
EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS
MEET DUBLIN FEIN OATS
DUBLIN, Ireland, June 18, i.P/—
Giving last minute touches to her
more than a year’s prepartion for
the Eucharistic Congress, which will
be held here next week, this city
is ready to welcome visitors.
Pilgrims to the great convention
have been trickling into Ireland
steadily for days but the past few
days has seen the stream swollen
into a rushing torrent.
Colorful demonstrations will pro
vide amusement.
RECEIVES CONGRATULATIONS
WASHINGTON. June 18. —Pres
ident Herbert Hoover was up early
Friday to receive the many con
gratulations which are being sent
to him from every region in the
United States as a result of his
having been chosen to be the Re
publican party’s standard bearer
for a second term. Hoover will be
gan his campaign soon after the
Democratic convention a d j o urns
and when it becomes definitely
known what issues are at stake.
COMMITS SUICIDE
LOS ANGELES, June 18, —Wil
liam Lacy, 67, prominent locally
as a civic leader and financier,
committed suicide by gas in his
expensive home. Police reported ill
health was responsible.
HUBBY WAS CRUEL
BRIDGEPORT, Conn., June 18,
—Superior Judge Alfred C. Bald
win granted a divorce on grounds
of cruelty to Mrs. Katherine Laud
er Dewing, a sister of Mrs. Gene
Tunney.
: PROHIBITION HOLDS
FIRST PUCE DEMITS
CHICAGO, June 18, (/P)— Prohi
1 bition, the word that spelled a
! roaring dispute for Republicans,
; was first on the tongues of con
vention-bent Democrats; candi
' dates, economic issues, and even
organization, took second place in
the discussions between the newly
arrived Democratic leaders to ques
tion what will the Democrats do
about prohibition.
Shouse believes the party will
adopt a plank favoring submission
to the people to determine wheth
er they want the 18th amendment.
ADOPT FURLOUGH PLAN
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 18, (/P)
| —Mildly phrased but forcefully ar
gued, the plea from President Herb
, Hoover for adoption of his fur
! lough plan for reducing federal
| pay, faced Congress as it wrestled
j anew with obstinate economy prob
| lems.
The economy bill, in conference,
| deadlocked over the furlough, or a
10 per cent cut for all government
employees. The relief bill is still
before the Senate.
DISPUTE WITH IIETEH
RESULTS FATAL STABBING
LOS ANGELES. June 18, —Edw.
! I>mpsey, 40. -was fatally stabbed
' in a battle with his brother-in-law.
William J. Shackleford, nearly
blind war veteran, over the right
I to manage their house-hold.
Police said Shackleford, 59, ad
mitted arming himself with a
pocket-knife and a hammer in
tending to “run Dempsey out of
! the house” but claimed the stab
bing occurred accidently when the
victim fell upon Shackleford
KEIECOTT GBPPED
HA CONCERN
11 BE JOINED
l
Plans for the creation of a copper ;
j company with $50,000,000 in cash, j
marketable securities and metal
were formulated in New York when
the Kennecott Copper company
made an offer to minority stock
holders o f Nevada Consolidated
Copper company to exchange one
share of Kennecott for two shares
of Nevada.
Utah Copper company now’ con
trols the Nevada company and
; Kennecott has controlled Utah
Copper for a number of years,
i Deposits of Nevada stock with the
; Kennecott coruoration would b e
j made up to June 15, under the plan
! announced at Kennecott’s annual
} meeting by President Stephen
1 Birch.
Birch said, according to Asso
j ciated Press dispaches, that com
I plete conversion of the Nevade
| Consolidated shares would in
-crease Kennecott’s outstanding
j stock to 10,734,000 shares against
i 9, 394,000 shares at present. Ken
necott already is the second largest
copper producing enterprise in the
world.
Properties of Nevada Copper
are located in Nevada, Arizona and
New Mexico. About 45 per cent of
the company’s capital stock is
owned by Utah Copper.
At the meeting President Birch j
disclosed that Kennecott’s opera- j
tions this year have broken“about,
even” with mine output slightly'
in copper,” he said, “must depend
on improvement in general busi
1 ness.”
UNDERTAKER ALMOST
BECAME CORPSE HIMSELF
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz., June 18, —
William Comton narrowly escaped
j a sudden transfer from the front
j end of his hearse to the rear.
Comton, Flagstaff’s only under -
i taker, drove his hearse into the
path of a switch train. He jump
ed as one freight car ploughed
through his hearse and lay un
touched in a ditch as the splinters
of a second car, derailed, shower
ed about him.
The business end of the hearse
was empty at the time.
OUT OF OFFICE
ST. JOHNS, N. F., June 18, —
Sir Richard Squires, whose foes
said it with ballots after brick bats
had failed, was out of office, a
beaten premier. He saw his Liberal
government go down to defeat be
fore the United New Foundland
party headed by F. C. Alderice.
GREEK SHIP SENDS S 0 S
OFF COAST OF BRAZIL
RIO DE JANEIRO, June 18, —
The radio station at Victoria, Bra
zil, 260 miles northeast of here,
intercepted a distress signal from
the Greek steamer Artemis.
The distressed vessel gave her
position as 3735 west longitude,
and 18 south latitude.
This would place her just off the
Brazillian coast in range of Vic
toria. The “Eastern Prince,” off
the coast, and the Cabo San An
tonio. Spanish steamer, were go
ing to her assistance.
YUKON SIS FOR
NORTH URGE LIST
SEATTLE, June 18, (&)—'The SS.
Yukon of the A. S. S. Co., sailed at
9 a. m. today for Alaska and carried
198 passengers of which 39 are for
Seward. Passengers are:
H. G. Roming, Ruth McFarland,
Carrie Harlan, F. L. Wagner, Geo.
McMahon, James McKenery, Miss
H. Miller, Mr. and Mrs. Ira Frie
brcck and son, Mrs. R. B. Heaston,
Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Pryor, Rodger
Laphan and son, E. A. Wolffrom,
A. J. Levin, Wm. Levin, R. B. Levin,
E. J. Levin
Marjorie Clark, Mrs. Minnie
Clark, Fred Carlquist, Pauline
Payne, Miss L. J. Roberts, Miss R.
Davis, Mrs. J. A. Rassmusson and
daughter, Billy and Gordon Rass
musson, Mrs- L. Orson, Mr. and Mrs.
Wm. Stolt, Theresa Aubrt, Lyman
S. Brewster, Mrs. Thos. Peteryin,
and son, H. Koslosky, and eight
steerage.
ARMY TESTING NEW
TYPE PURSUIT PLANE
SAN FRANCISCO, June 18, —
A new type of pursuit ship is be
ing tested by the army air corps,
it is learned, and the planes will
soon be delivered to California air
plane stations.
The planes are built by the Boe
ing Company at its Seattle plant.
They will have a cruising speed
of 200 miles an hour and are de
signed to show maximum effi
ciency at 12,500 feet elevation. The
planes are of low wing monoplane
construction with a radical depar
ture in the elevators.
• • CURRENT BREVITIES • •
BETTERS RECORD
CHICAGO. June 18,—George Sal
ing, of Iowa, bettered the Nation
al collegiate AA record for the 220
yard low hurdles in winning his
heat in 231 seconds. The former
record was 23.2 seconds.
GAS SUPERVISOR
JACKSON, Miss., June 18, —Per
il from burning gas wells in the
Hinds-Rankin fields near here led
the state to appoint a gas super
visor with orders to spare no ex
pense in snuffing out the fires
which have already taken toll of
four lives.
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KNIFE, FORK SUICIDES
DENVER, Colo., June 17, — Sui- .
cide by knife and fork takes a j
greater toll then all the battle- j
fields of the earth. Delegates to j
the third annual convention of the i
Western branch of the American1
Public Health Service were told by i
Dr. Louis I. Dublin of New York, j
vice president of the Metropolitan
Life Insurance Company.
SIGNS TO FIGHT
LOS ANGELES, June 18. —'“Baby”
Arizmendi, 18 year-old bantam
star, has signed to meet “Newsboy”
Brown in a return bout at the
Olympic auditorium June 21. Ariz
mendi won the first bout.
WILL TAKE NO PART
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 18,
—President Hoover announced
he would take no part in the forth
coming campaign except for a few {
major addresses.
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BE RELEASED SOON
RIO DE JANEIRO, June 18, —
Chief of Police Jose Alberto an
nounced that a score or more of
supporters of former President
Washington Luis would be released
this week from the warship Pedroi,
where they were recently impris
oned following reports of an anti
government plot.
DESTROYERS ARRIVE
KETCHIKAN, June 18, (P)—The
destroyers Trevor and Crown
Shield arrived Friday with mem
bers of the reserve officers training
corps from the Universities of Cal
ifornia and Washington. They re
main until Monday morning when
they proceed to Juneau, Wrang
ell and Prince Rupert; the latter,
on the southbound voyage.
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TEN BE PRESENTED
LONDON. June 18, —Ten Amer
icans will be presented at the next
court of the season at Buckingham
Palace, June 23 by Madame De
Fleuriau, wife of the French Am
bassador, it is announced.
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CANZONERI VICTOR
CHICAGO. June 18, (P)—Tony
Canzoneri, lightweight champion,
easily outpointed Harry Dublinsky
in a 10-round non-title bout. Can
zoneri weighed 134 pounds and
Dublinsky, 136.
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ONE PESO TAX RATE
MEXICO, CITY, June 18, —An
annual tax of one peso, about 30c
in U. S. money, on all drinkers of
intoxicants is proposed by Fran
cisco A. Mayer, retiring deputy
from the state of Vera Cruz, as a
combination revenue and temper
ence measure.
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LEVIATHAN AGROUND!
LONDON, June 18, (P)—The SS
Leviathan went aground last nite
off the Isle of Wight but she got
away again without difficulty or
known damage, reports said.
mmiim
There were no major league
baseball games played Friday. All
the games in the National league
were rained out and in the Amer
ican league there were no games
scheduled.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Portland 9, Seattle 6.
REPUBLICAN DELESITES
TURN HOMEWARD THY
CHICAGO, June 18, (/P)—The Re
publican party set out today on the
fight to hold the White House for
another four years, beneath the
banner of President Hoover and
Vice-President Curtis, and with a
prohibition plank taking the party
out of the bone-dry class.
The delegates turned homeward
today from the national convention
which renominated the 1928 ticket.
There was some anxiety among the
hosts as they marched forth into
the battle of 1932.
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 18 —
Charles G. Dawes, former vice pres
ident of the United States, Ambas
sador to Great Britain and head of
the Reconstruction Finance Corp
oration, has retired from public
life altogether.
He made this statement in ex
planation of why he did not wish
the Republican party to use his
name for nomination as the par
ty’s choice for vice-president. He
said: “Thirty-four years of public
life is enough for any man.”
PACIFIC "BONUS' ARMY
| IS NOW IN ARIZONA
PHOENIX, Ariz., June 18, —Full
of mulligan stew the 2,200 mem
bers of the Southern Californian
"bonus army” rested in the com
paritive cool of the Salt River Val
ley, preparing for their next East
ward desert trek.
The army plans to remain here
for a day when it will set out, via
Tucson, for Washington where an
appeal will be made to President
Hoover to sign the Patman bill.
M9IHER DE VSLERfi
! DIES IN ROCHESTER
ROCHESTER. N. Y., June 18. —
In the modest home where she
lived quietly for the last 37 years,
the mother of Eamon de Valera,
I president of the Irish Free State,
! died.
De Valera was her only son by
her marriage to Vivian De Valera,
a Spanish sculptor and musician
, whom she met in New York after
her migration from Ireland. After
his death and her subsequent mar
riage in 1887 to Charles H. Wheel
wright, Mrs- Wheelwright sent Ea
mon to relatives in Ireland.
Several of the round-trippers on
' the SS Aleutian, in port Friday,
! went by train to Lawing to en
| joy the hospitality of Nellie Neal
| Lawing; also to enjoy the splen
! did fishing in Ptarmigan creek,
j Some excellent specimens of trout
were brought back.
--
Reverend Frieling, of the Epis
copal church, arrived Friday from
Anchorage and left again today
| for the Inlet city.
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I LAKE RESIDENT VISITOR
' Frank Towle, well known resi
dent of Cooper’s Landing, Lake
Kenai, artved in the city Friday
evening on a brief business visit.
Mr. Towle reports that during the
spring he has completely over
hauled his Lake Kenai speedboat
and has rebuilt a large part of it.
His hand, which became infected
last fall, is again in perfect shape.
Mr. Towle expected to leave today
on the return trip home.
FUNDS SECURED TO
DEFER EXPENSES OF
: NORTHWEST ATHLETES
SEATTLE, June 13, —Seattle
, business men who have taken part
in the effort to raise sufficient
funds with which to send repre
sentative athletes from that city
to the various Olympic Games try
outs throughout the country, were
in a happy mood Friday night as
a result of having reached their
goal.
Through various sources the bus
iness men have a fund of some
$2,350.40 in the bank and addition
al moneys to come in. This fund
will be used to defer' the expenses
of four track men and four swim
mers.
Outstanding on the Seattle track
team is Paul Jessup and on the
swimming team is Helene Madison,
who already holds a string of
world records for her acquatic
feats. The moneys also provides
for two coaches who will accom
; pany the Northwest delegation on
i their tryouts and probably in the
j final competition.
UNTIL THE< OET BONUS
WASHINGTON, D. C-, June 18, —
Ten thousand ragged, rainsoaked
and hungry veterans massed about
the capitol steps Friday afternoon
as it became known that the Vet
erans’ bonus faced almost certain
defeat in the Senate.
The Veterans, however, were un
daunted and many of them stated
they would remain in Washington
and carry on their bonus fight un
til the certificates become due in
1945.
It v/as said that some 2,000 mem
bers of those there signified a wil
lingness to remain for a longer per
iod but it is believed that the rest
will go home.
DM CONTIIULS TO
SHOW IMPROVEMENT
NEW YORK. June 18, —The
American dollar continued to im
prove its position in the eyes o?
the world and inspired a buoyant
. rise in stock bond and commodity
prices.
Although many traders took pro
fits in late trading, stocks at the
close were lodged behind plus signs
that ranged from fractions to more
than two points on the average.
United States government bonds
were in the spotlight in that sec
tor of the financial front, while
wheat jumped almost twb cents a
bushel and cotton 75 cents a bale.
The sugar market went through
its 11th consecutive session of ris
ing prices and rubber was high.
Lt. Col. Dawson Olmstead, head
of the W. A. M. & C. A. T. S., who
has been making a tour of inspect
ion of Alaska communications sys
tems. was an outgoing passenger
on the SS Aleutian.
DANGEROUS TO HEALTH
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 18,
(VP)—William Fox, former head of
Fox Films, failed for the third
time to appear for questioning at
the Senate stock market examina
tion, claiming it would be danger
ous to his health.
TEMPERATURE EXTREMES
SEATTLE, June 18, —Some of
the temperature extremes record
ed Friday in the U. S. and Alaska
were Seattle 69 47; Portland 74.46;
Juneau 54.44; Ketchikan 56.64;
San Francisco 62.50; Denver 74.54;
Chicago 84.64; New York 76.64;
New Orleans 92.76; and Los Ange
les 70.58.
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