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VOLUME XXVIII. NUMBER 174.
SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 27,1932.
PRICE TEN CENTS
FRANCE AND BRITAIN
MUST DISH, SITS
GERMAN STOW
BERLIN, July 27, —In a radio
address Tuesday night, a high offi
cial of the German Government
warned France and Great Britain,
in an ultimatum, that the latter
two nations must disarm or they
would be forced to see tthe Ger
man army again restored to the
semblance of a national defense,
force despite the limitation of the
Varsailles Treaty.
In his radio talk the official said
that Germany is determined to or
ganize a national defense army
capable of providing the German
nation with ample security without
the help of some other nation, or
nations.
In case Britain or France does
not disarm, the only alternative
Germany has is to increase her
army to compare in relationship
with the strength of the armies of
other nations.
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SAN FRANCISCO, July 27, —At a J
meeting of the industrial and fin- j
ancial committee of the 12th Fed- j
eral Reserve district, efforts were j
made to get employers to shorten J
working hours and days.
A state-wide movement to spread j
existing work and stimulate new j
work, thus creating jobs was pro- |
posed at a meeting attended by 150;
Bay region business men, meeting'
with K- R. Kingsbury, chairman of
the committee.
The State movement will b e
launched through later meetings in
Los Angeles and other cities.
Practically all placer operators in
Cache Creek are in the money and
promise to finish the season with
good-sized cleanups, is the report
brought in by Merrill Riddick, who j
came down from the Interior camp
Saturday.
The largest operators are Chas.
Harper and Albert Murray, who
have a lease from James Murray,
Albert’s father, on the holdings
from which James Murray has
taken out a fortune sufficient to
retire. The first cleanup, says Rid
dick, was approximately 100 ounces,
which computed on the value of
Cache Creek gold, would give $1,
400. Operations are continuing be
low Rambler gulch on side pay left
by the dredge. Rumors are that
Mr. Murray, while in San Francis
co, is working on negotiations for
moving the dredge from the upper
end of the creek, where it finish
ed in shallow ground, to the point
where it began operations on the
Pineo bar, below the well known
Ellis cut.
Matt Hamburger and Kroeskey,
holding a lay on Dollar creek, have \
cut into the money and are report- (
ed to have prospects of a good
cleanup.
Joe Kimball and Joe Glaskey
are doing well on Falls creek.
Fred Dalzell, hand-working on
Cache across from Rambler, is re
ported to have cleaned up $1,000
thus far with 90 days yet to go be
fore the season closes.
Over on Peters creek, the Peters
Mining Co., are repeating last sea
son’s success, their first cleanup
being reported as $6,000.
Prospecting on the benches has
revealed that there is more pay in
Cache creek than has been taken
out and that the camp has a long
life before it.
The old crushed quartz zone, so
prolific in times past, has been re
covered and where operations are
in progress near these glacial de
posits, good returns are being se
cured.
ATHLETES ON HANO
LOS ANGELES, July 27, (#)—
With most of the world’s athletes
on hand, only three days remain
for the usual clinical caucuses
which will escort the modern Olym- ;
piad into tents. Among the im
portant problems to be solved be
fore the start of the games, is Nur
mi’s status which probably will be
decided tomorrow.
COMPLETES THIBD
ITUNTIC FLIGHT
MONTREAL, July 27, —Captain
Wolfgang von Gronau landed on
Montreal Bay at 8:08 p. m., Tues
day night and thereby completed
his third Atlantic crossing. His
last hop was from Cartwright, on
the Labrador coast, to Montreal.
He completed his flight in four and
one-half days time.
It is thought that Gronau plans
to continue his flight to a round
the-world attempt as gasoline has
been provided for him at Prince
Rupert, B. C., and it is thought that
similar arrangements are being
made elsewhere.
NOTED SCHOLAR DIES
BERKELY, Calif., July 27, —Dr.
Charles Mills Gayley, 84, professor
emeritus of English language at
the University of California, died
here suddenly. Dr. Gayley was a
noted scholar.
MTSTERIOUSISSULMT
LOS ANGELES, July 27, —Knifed
in the darkness of early morning by
a mysterious assailant armed with
a huge bargain-store butcher knife,
Mrs. Lillian Babccck, 44, was killed
and her husband, Rider Babcock,
prominent in the Phillipine Islands
and a Yale athletic hero in 1909,
was dangerously wounded.
The murder was at the home of
Mrs. Babcock’s sister, Mrs. M. G.
Buckish, wife of the commissioner
of private education in Manila.
BREVITIES
LANDS AT MONTREAL
MONTREAL, July 27, —Captain
Wolfgang Von Gronau, making a
trans-Atlantic flight from Germ
any to the United States, landed at
Montreal at 8.08 p. m. Tuesday.
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HOOVER APPOINTS
WASHINGTON, D C., July 27, —
President Hoover appointed Atlee
Pomerene, former Democratic Sen
ator from Ohio, as director of the
Reconstruction Finance Corpora
tion.
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POSTPONES TRIP
NEW YORK, July 27, —Rear Ad
miral Richard Byrd asserted the
campaign for government pay
ments to non-disabled veterans was
like a war and said he would post
pone his next Ant-Arctic expedi
tion until some action in that cam
paign had been obtained.
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CITIES IMPERILED
NOGALES, Ariz., July 27, —Two
border cities were again imperiled
and damaged by the flood waters
which swept down from tthe So
nora watershed partially inundat
ing both cities—Nogales and Sono
ra—to a depth from one to three
feet. A furious storm centered on
the Sonora mountains today.
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LONG SHOT WINNER
GOODWOOD, England, July 27,
Mrs. C. L. Mackens “Solenoid,” at
33 to 1, won the Stewards Cup on
Tuesday. “Slipper” was second and
“Polar Bear” third. Twenty-one
horses ran.
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DIG OUT VETERANS
WASHINGTON, July 27, —Ef
forts of Washington police Tuesday
were confined to an effort to dig
out the members of the bonus army
who have dug themselves in aban
doned houses and other such struc
tures during their bonus fight stay
in Washington.
YOUTHS TRIPPED IT
DESKS ON VESSEL:
69 WERE DROWNED
KIEL, July 27, (/P)—A group of
buoys, which signified the tragedy,
bobbed, on the surface of Kiel Bay
over the spot where 69 German
Naval cadets were drowned when
the old windjammer Niobe went
down in a squall.
The 69 youths were trapped at
their desks in the schoolroom be
tween decks, when the ship sank.
Only six below decks survived; 37
were saved, including the Captain
and his lieutenant, 70 of the crew
and 18 cadets
SILVER flEHION
Mil RECEIVE ATTENTION
OTTAWA, JUly 27, —The Imperial
conference committee met Tues
day and elected Hon. H. H. Stevens,
minister of trade and commerce for
Canada.
As chairman for some years, Mr.
Stevens has been regarded as an
authority on the silver question,
particularly in its bearing on trade
with the Orient. His choice as
chairman suggests that the remon
etization of silver may find an im
portant place in the deliberations
of this important committee.
WARMING UP
SAN FRANCISCO, July 27. —
Twenty-five thousand S h r i n e r s
were busily and noisly warming up
here preparatory to their three
day convention.
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EUREKA, Calif. July 27. — The
bodies of four men and two wo
men have been recovered and
those of three boys are sought in
a motor boat tragedy at the mouth
of Eel river.
Coroner Oscar Swanson announc
ed will call an inquest probably to
day. The speed boat had taken a
party of merrymakers on a brief
ocean cruise and was returning
when the motor apparently stalled
and a comber overturned the ves
sel.
HEAVY TONE SELLING
NEW YORK, July 27, —The stock
market recovered Tuesday after a
ran into fresh selling in the last
morning wave of profit taking but
an hour and developed a distinctly
heavy tone.
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HOPPED THE ATLANTIC
MONTREAL, July 27, — Capt.
Wolfgang Von Gronau landed here
Tuesday night completing a trans
Atlantic flight from Germany via
England, Greenland and Labrador.
BILL TURNS UP
MORRISVILLE, Pa., July 27, —
One of the $5 bills used to pay off
the alleged Lindbergh baby kidnap
pers, turned up in this city Tues
day. It was paid to a gas station
attendant but upon questioning the
attendant was unable to say who
had given him the bill.
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STEAMER AFIRE
PARIS, ¥uly 27, —A French 6,000
ton steamer was reported afire
just off the coast here Tuesday
night. All the crew was forced to
take to lifeboats and were later
picked up by passing steamers. The
steamer was known as the SS. Syr
nus.
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250,000 PROVIDED WORK
CHICAGO, July 27, —A survey
just completed here reveals that
about 250,000 men will be given
work on emergency construction
provided for in the recent approved
Federal Unemployment Relief Bill.
The construction, as provided in
the bill will be extended over a per
iod of years. <
DEFIANT ADDRESS
BERLIN, July 27, (/P)—General
Kurt von Schleicher, the power be
hind von Papen and the throne,
struck a note of defiance in a radio
address serving virtual notice on
world powers that unless Germany
was granted equality and released
from limitations of past-war treat
ies, she will proceed to establish her
own security by reorganization of
her armed forces.
STRANGE STORY OF
REVENGE IS TOLD
SAN JOSE, Calif., July 27, (£>)—
A strange story of revenge which
| led 20-year-old George Douglas
Templeton, Jr., University of Cali
| fornia student, to kill his aunt and
| attempted to slay his uncle, a weal
thy Manila importer and exporter,
to avenge a wrong done his father,
was told by authorities.
Templeton confessed at Oakland
wheree he is held charged with
murder for knifing Mrs. Lillian
Babcock and William Babcock,
head of the Philippine delegation
to the Olympic Games, and a form
er business partner of Templeton’s
father, and who was dangerously
wounded. A blood transfusion has
been ordered.
BOLIVIA WILL DECLARE
WAR ON AUGUST 6
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, July
27, —Bolovia intends to declare war
against Paraguay on August 6, ac
cording to reliable information ob
tained by a local newspaper.
The newspaper points out that
Bolivia has refused to accept fur
ther meditation of the Gran Chaco
boundary dispute with Paraguay
and she is ready to resort to an
armed settlement of the age-old
controversy.
TEMPERATURE EXTREMES
SEATTLE, July 27, —Some of the
I temperature extremes recorded
thruout the United States and Al
! aska for Tuesday were Seattle 76
54; Chicago 90-74; Denver 88-62;
Los Angeles 78-62; New Orleans
90-78; New York 82-60; Portland
82-56; San rancisco 66-54; Juneau
60-50; Ketchikan 60-56.
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FILE DIVORCE SUIT
LOS ANGELES, July 27. — A suit
for divorce was filed Tuesday by
Natalie Talmadge Keaton against
Buster Keaton, movie comedian and
the “dead pan” star.
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HEADING FOR LABRADOR.
OTTAWA, July 27. — Captain
Wolfgang von Gronau, making his
third flight across the Atlantic by
way of the Arctic regions, took off
at 10 a. m. Eastern Standard time
Tuesday from Ivigut, Greenland. He
reported by radio that he would
head for Cartwright, on the Labra
dor coast.
K. K. K. DEMONSTRATION
LOS ANGELES, July 27. — It
may not be news to a large num
ber of persons but it was at least
a surprise to a large part of the
Evangelist congregation when 3,000
members of the Ku Klux Klan, rob
ed in white, paid a visit to Angelus
Temple, to reveal that they still
form an active organization.
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BE NO CONTEST
PARIS, July 27. —Yvonne Vallee,
pretty musical comedy star, will not
contest the divorce suit brought by
her husband Maurice Chevalier it
was announced Tuesday. Chevalier
has denied that Marlene Dietrich,
German motion picture star of Hol
lywood is the woman for whose love
he is divorcing his French wife.
* * * *
John Carlson, mayor of Cantwell
and prominent Interior mining
man who has long operated in the
Valdez Creek country, is reported to
have recently brought in a $28,000
cleanup into Anchorage. It was al
so said Mr. Carlson expected to
bank $50,000 by the end of the year.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Philadelphia 10; incinnati 5.
Chicago 7; Boston 2.
Brooklyn 12-5; St. Louis 6-4.
Pittsburgh 3-7; New York 7-5.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Boston 6; Chicago 1.
St. Louis 3; Washington 2.
Rain called other games.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Sacramento 6; San Francisco 2.
Seattle 5; Hollywood 4.
BOUTS POSTPONED
CHICAGO, July 27, —The Inter
national amateur boxing bouts be
tween the champions of Germany
and the Chicago “Golden Gloves”
team, scheduled for tonight in Sol
diers’ Field, were postponed until
tomorrow night because of rain.
U. S. STEEL DECLARES
. QUARTERLY DIVIDEND
NEW YORK, July 27. —Directors
of the United States Steel Corpora
tion expressed their confidence in
an early business recovery by de
claring out of the company’s sur
plus the regular quarterly dividend!
of 175 a share on the preferred j
stock.
This action was not taken, how
ever, without a warning by Myron
C. Taylor, chairman of the board,
that the surplus had been reduced
$73,000,528 since July 1, 1931, and
that improvement in the business
and earnings must in the future
determine dividends of the prefer
red stock.
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SHRINE REVELRY
SAN FRANCISCO, July 27, —j
More than 15,000 began their sec- j
ond day of revelry at the National I
Shrine convention being held held
July 26, 27 and 28. Parades, pag- j
eants and many entertainments
have been arranged for the dele- !
gates ad their families.
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CADETS DROWNED
KEIL, Germany, July 27, —
Struck by a heavy storm in the Bal
tic Sea the German naval training
ship Niobe, a three-masted sailing
schooner, went to the bottom. For
ty of the 109 cadets and junior
cadets were saved; 69 were still
missing Tuesday night and naval
craft were searching the waters of j
the vicinity. It was feared that all I
were drowned.
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CROPS IN NEED OF RAIN |
OTTAWA, July 27, —Some crops!
in the prairie provinces need im
mediate rainfall if present pros- i
pects are to be maintained, accord
ing to the Bureau of Statistics.
Crop prospects continue good in
Southwestern Alberta and North- j
ern Alberta with the exception of
the Peace River districts west, cen
tral and east central, and in North
ern Saskatchewan.
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BROADCAST PACIFIC GAMES j
PASSADENA, July 27, —Athletic
heads of various colleges thruout
the Pacific coast announced Tues
day evening that they would per
mit the broadcasting of conference
games during the 1932 football sea
son. They did not say what they
intended to do about future games.
The agreement was reached after
members of the Radio Corporation
of America promised the athletic
officials that they would devote a
certain portion of their broadcasts
previous to conference games to
advertising said games.
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INVESTMENT IMPERILED
OTTAWA, July 27, (£>)—The fu
ture of more than 100 American
branch plants in Canada, repre
senting an investment of about a
half billion dollars, is imperiled as
the Imperial Trade Conference
Committee took up the question of
"Empire content” which is the per
centage of Empire materials or la
bor which articles must contain to
qualify for customs entry under the
Empire Preferential Tariff rates.
ATTEMPTED EXTORT
GASH FROM RELATIVE
NOW BEHIND BARS
LOS ANGELES, July 27, —Forest
Ackerman, of this city, Tuesday
night was taken into custody by
the local sheriff’s office for an at
tempt to extort $5,000 from his sis
ter-in-law.
Acherman, who claims to be
somewhat of a writer, wrote a nov
el in which he told of some choice
details of his wife’s love affairs and
then sent the manuscript to his
sister-in-law by special messenger
with a note saying that he would
waive all author’s rights and would
turn the manuscript over to her,
provided she paid him the stipulat
ed $5,000. Ackerman also said, in
his note, that this form of manu
script would make him famous.
However, the sister-in-law spoil
ed his plans and summoned the po
lice. And Ackerman became so
famous that he is now reposing in
a jail cell.
MISTOOK CLEANING
FLUID FOR LIQUOR
SAN FRANCISCO, July 27, —R.
R. Smith and Joe Lorenz, traffc
policemen, and Louis Jacobson,
manager of a theatre building here,
died after they apparently had mis
taken a bottle of cleaning fluid for
liquor.
The fluid was in a whiskey flask
in Jacobson’s office. Police at first
thought that Jacobson, who re
turned home today from Los Ange
les, had been given poisoned liquor
by an unknown enemy. After con
siderable analysis, city chemists de
termined that two bottles of liquor
found in the office contained no
poison but the cleaning fluid con
tained a deadly poison.
LOS ANGELES IMPORTERS
Sherman Horne, the greatest im
porter of wild animals in Alaska,
and Albert E. Colburn, both of 716
S. Flower Street, Los Angeles, the
latter somewhat of a naturalist and
interested in wild life resources,
have recently returned from a
cruise to the Amazon river, with
Willits Hole, a frequent yachting
visitor to Alaska.
Horne and Colburn are interest
ed in the possibility of supplying
animals to Alaska fur farmers on
some sort of a 50-50 basis. It is be
lieved there are many fur farmers
in Alaska who would welcome some
kind of new stock and these men
are inclined to finance a supply of
new stock. They believe one of
the best animals which could be
introduced !into the Tenritory is
the “fisher” as well as “raccoons.”
ASK FOR PREFERENCE
OTTAWA, July 2 7, —Australia,
New Zealand, the Irish Free State
and Canada are in accord in ask
ing that Britain give their dairy
products a preference in the mar
kets of the United Kingdom. The
sub-committee of the Imperial eco
nomic conference dealing with this
subject met yesterday and it is un
derstood the delegates *of these
dominions had no difficulty in ob
taining steps necessary in the mat
ter.
SHOPS BOMBED
LOS ANGELES, July 27, —Two
Los Angeles barber shops were
bombed Tuesday. Since the bombs
were of a chemical nature the dam
age was only slight. Officials de
clare that the bombs were hurled
as a warning to tthe barbers who
had failed to join a “protective”
association for the purpose of sta
bilizing prices.
PASSES THRU CHICAGO
CHICAGO, July 27, —Vipe-Presi
dent Charles Curtis passed thru
Chicago Tuesday enroute to'Los
Angeles where he has accepted an
invitation to open the Oly apple
games.