• VOLUME XXVIII. NUMBER 192.
SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1932.
PRICE TEN CENTS
’. PAN-AMERICAN MIS
TO CONSOLIDATE AND
EXPAND ALASKA SERVICE
NEW YORK, Aug., 17, (,-P)—Offi
cials of the Pan-American Airways
announced Sunday that the per
sonnel has been drawn by the
Southern International lines and
are enroute to Alaska to take over,
consolidate and expand the Alas
kan Airways recently purchased.
Beginning September first the
Alaska lines will be operated by the
Pacific Alaska Airways, Inc., a sub
sidiary of the Panamerican.
“We acquired these lines because
the geographical peculiarities of
Alaska make it especially suited to
the Pan-American system of opera
tion methods used by the Southern
International lines. We have solv
ed almost identical problems. There
is more than $300,000 invested in
Alaskan aviation, but the methods
used during two years of operation
have not been completely success
ful. It is planned to co-ordinate
and unify the Alaskan routes by
maintaining a type of transporta
tion essential to the future devel
opment of the Territory.”
This is the announcement of pol
icy of the Pan-American officials.
The company believes that Alas
ka industries provide the com
merce of the United States with
$83,000,000, and the tourist trade
will bring 36.000 people there annu
ally and” will expand rapidly if
provided with adequate transporta
tion.”
Regular schedules maintained j
thruout the year will solve Alaska’s j
transportation problems, officials
said. As safeguards to air travel I
the company plans to install two
way radio communication giving
pilots complete reports from the
United States weather stations and
other data.
SEVILLE. Spain, Aug., 17, (/P)— j
Far reaching orders for confisca- i
tion of property of monarchists
and nobles was issued by the local j
government.
The cleanup is the aftermath of |
the monarchist rebellion; the gov-j
ernment took possession of the;
chalet belonging to Marquis Esqui- j
vel and announced it would take 1
possessions of other noblemen who
are found to have aided the rebel- j
lion financially.
A manifesto to the people urges
them to be calm during the revolt'
inquiry.
RESTORATION OF NORMAL
CONDITIONS IS SOUGHT
NEW YORK, Aug., 16, —Cheered
by the month-long advance in se
curity and commodity prices which
reached its climax last week, indus- I
trial, financial and governmental
leaders are planning further steps
to bring about restoration of nor
mal business conditions.
While much of the recent ad
vance in security prices was purely '
psycological, the rising prices in
many commodities been entire
ly justified by prevailing conditions, j
according to observers, who point1
out that many products are wrell
under their actual production costs.;
‘‘FER GOODNESS SAKE!”
NEW YORK, Aug., 17, —A couple j
of Naval reserve aerial bombers ;
Tuesday probably set the record;
for missing their targets. One of
the bombs dropped through the
roof of a home about a mile away
from the target, while a second
bomb just missed an excursion .
boat, 16 miles at sea. No one was 1
injured.
MEXICO CITY, Aug., 16, —The
cosmic ray reaches a greater in- <
tensity with altitude, Dr. Arthur
Compton, Chicago University phy- <
sicist, said after experiments at j
the volcano Toluca, near here.
DEMOS LINING UP
NEW YORK, Aug., 17, (A1)—James
Cox is expected to take the stump
for Roosevelt and Garner if his
health permits, it was announced
at Democratic headquarters. John
Davis is also favorably inclined to
campaigning but this will depend
if he is able to spend the time
from his business. Whether Al
Smith will be an active campaigner
is still a mystery.
GARNER TEARFULLY
ATTEMPTS PUT STOP
'WHISPER CAMPAIGN’
NEW YORK, Aug. 17—With tears
in his eyes Speaker Garner sought
to put an end to what his been
called a “whispering campaign”
against him. At a luncheon in
Democratic headquarters he at
tacked religious bigotry, denied
that he had not supported A1 Smith
in 1928 and said that on prohibi
tionist he was an “outright repeal
ist.”
“I said in two speeches in 1928, I
believed in behalf of Smith, that I
believed he was one of the greatest
leaders America have produced,”
the speaker said, adding “I think
Smith would have made one of the
greatest Presidents this country
has ever known. I hear that I am
considered a handicap to the tick
et in the East. Of course I regret
that it reflects on the religious big
otry we had in 1928.”
There were tears in Garner’s eyes
when he finished. A wave of ap
plause swept around the luncheon
at which more than fifty kingpins
of the Democartic campaign were
gathered.
SMITH UNDECIDED
NEW YORK, Aug., 17, —Speaker
John N. Garner, in a meeting with
officials of the Democratic party
here, asked A1 Smith whether he
would support the Roosevelt and
Garner ticket in the coming elec
tion. A1 didn’t say whether he
would or wouldn’t.
JIMMY lie HEADS
INTO TOUCH OBSTACLES
ALBANY, N. Y., Aug., 17, —May
or James J. Walker, dapper New
York City chief executive who is
on trial on alleged graft charges,
has been asked why he does not
call Russell Sherwood, his reputed
financial secretary out of hiding
so that he may answer some of the
things authorities are trying to
learn about Walker.
The officials cited the first oc
casion in the long quizz when po
lice uncovered him in Mexico.
When Walker was asked why he
did not reveal Sherwood’s where
abouts, the Mayor told the police
to go and find him. He is again be- '
ing asked to divulge Sherwood’s j
present hide-out, for he has disap- i
peared again.
STORK VISITS THEATRE
BOSTON, Aug. 17.—The stork
crashed the gate at a downtown
theatre here, while the evening j
performance was in progress and
Ana Linsky, aged 21, gave birth to
a baby in the balcony. The moth
er's condition is reported fair, and
the baby was “doing nicely.”
AIRMAN INJURED
SPRINGFIELD, 111., Aug., 17, — j
Russell Boardman, who igith his
companion, Polando, completed a j
aon-stop flight from the United
States to Turkey some time ago,
was badly injured in a crash which
occurred here Tuesday afternoon.
Boardman was preparing for the
Cleveland air races which are to be
tield next month when his ship
crashed from a high altitude. Phy
sicians gave him about a 50-50
chance for recovery.
SIGN CONTRACT
CHICAGO Aug., 17., (£>)— Charley
3rrim formally signed his contract
is manager of the Chicago Cubs.
3rim succeeded Rogers Hornsby as
nanager several days ago in Phil
adelphia.
BRIGANDS LAST JULY
PEIPING, China, Aug., 17, (£>)—
Robert Soule, an official of the U.
S. legation, reported that Henry
Ekval, an American employed by
the China-United States Motor Co.,
| of Hankow, was slain by Chinese
soldiers near Sianku in July.
The legation forwarded a pro
test to Nanking local authorities
Ekval disappeared while on a mot
or trip from Kansu province and
was last reported 20 miles from
Sianku. He was accompanied by
Reverend Tornvall, of the Swedish
Scandinavian Alliance Mission,
with headquarters at Chicago, and
an unidentified Japanese. The re
port showed they had been mur
dered and the bodies thrown into
an abandoned well.
EXCURSION BOAT ALMOST
SANK: MANY PASSENGERS
!
LOUISVILLE, Aug., 17, (^—In
vestigation by United States in
spectors of vessels was launched
following the near-disaster to the
excursion steamer City of Mem
phis which struck a rock in the
Ohio river.
The 748 excursionists and crew
of 33 were landed safely when the
crippled craft limped to the Ken
tucky shore with full-opened stern
1 and half-submerged.
Prompt action on the part of
the ship’s officers averted a panic.
The orchestra was ordered to play
and passengers were told there was
no danger as long as they obeyed
orders. In the rush down the gang
plank. when the boat was moored
to the river bank, three girls were
injured, one seriously.
TO BE RECONDITIONED
BOSTON Aug., 17., (/P) — Rear
Admiral Richard E. Byrd’s ship
“BEAR OF OKLAND” lay in a navy
yard pier awating a reconditioning
before adventuring into the Ant
arctic. She ended a 22-day voy
age from Oakland, California, last
night and was met in the lower
harbor by Admiral Byrd with a
group of army and navy officers,
members of former expeditions and
guests.
ALLOWED TO FLY OVER JAPAN
TOKIO, Aug., 17, —The Minister
of Communications issued a permit
to Captain von Gronau to fly over
and land on Japanese soil. The Ger
man transatlantic flier was at Lake
Du Bonnett, Manitoba, from where
he will proceed to Prince Rupert,
thence across the Pacific and
across Asia and Surope to Ger- j
many, his starting point.
ASSUMES HIGH OFFICE
ASUNCION, Paraguay, Aug., 16,
—Eusebio Ayala, who assumes the
presidency of Paraguay today, in
tends to settle differences between
his country and Bolivia through
arbitration of an international
court, he informed the press.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
New York 13-7, Detroit 8-3.
Cleveland 3, Phillies 2.
Washington 5, Chicago 3.
St. Louis 3, Boston 2.
PACIFIC COAST
Sacs 7, Oakland 1.
Hollywood 10, San Francisco 9.
Los Angeles 2, Missions 3.
Seattle 4, Portland 7.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Pittsburgh 4, Brooklyn 0.
Chicago 3, Boston 4.
St. Louis 3, Phillies 2.
New York 2, Cincinnati 1.
Thomas Neville, local high school
graduate, who won a scholarship
at the Colorado School of Mines, at
Golden, Colo., will be among those
leaving on the SS Yukon Friday.
Golden is about 12 miles from Den
ver.
SHOUTS DENIAL CHARGE
MIAMI, Fla., Aug. 17.—Denial
that he told the mother of Haden
Clarke, for whose slaying he is on
trial, he was so confused on the
night of the shooting that he some
times thot he killed her son, was
shouted from the witness stand to
day by Capt. Lancaster, the Brit
ish aviator.
Lancaster testified that Clarke
took his own life after deciding
that a recurring illness would pre
vent his marriage to Mrs. Keith
Miller. Spectators laughed hearti
ly at an oral' sparring match be
tween Hawthorn and Albert Ham
ilton, criminologist, who has tes
tified for the defense that Clarke
committed suicide.
A ROARING WELCOME
OAKLAND, Calif., Aug., 17, —
The California 8-oared rowing
team received a roaring welcome
on their arrival from the Olympic
Games. Robert Sproule, president
of the University of Southern Cal
ifornia, officially welcomed the
athletes.
ITALY PLANS TO SCRAP
ROME ,Aug., 17, (/P)—Approxi
mately 30,000 tons of Italy’s fight
ing ships will be retired beginning
August 25 as the result of an eco
nomy move preceeding a reorgan
isation of the fleet.
Italy will retire two battleships,
three cruisers, nine light cruisers, I
25 destroyers and a dozen submar
ines, all within the age limit.
The ships will be stripped of
crews but not immediately scrap
ped, thus serving as a bartering
point for world disarmament
which conference resumes this fall
at Geneva.
WOULD BOYCOTT BRITISH
NEW YORK, Aug. 17.—A boycott
of British products by Irish-Ameri
cans was urged today by Mrs. W. A.
King, publicist of Ironton, Ohio,
at the opening of a two-day Irish
race convention. More than 500
sympathizers of the recognition of
the Irish Fianna Fail, the D’Valera
organization, were present.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 17.—An ar
my of youths, numbering nearly
500,000, is roaming across country
in search of work and food, the
Children’s Bureau announces. A
nation-wide survey of the bureau
reveales that these boys, ranging
from 14 to 21 years, come from
virtually every State in the Union,
and generally are headed towards
the South and "West.
NEW YORK, Aug., 17, —Probably
the most pleasant thing that came
as an aftermath of the Olympic
Games was the- announcement
that there would be no deficit in
the monies used to conduct the
games. Instead, it was declared,
there will be a sizeable surplus.
About 1,600,000 persons paid ad
missions of from $1 to $3 and this
money will be sufficient to take
care of all expences.
The only official aid received
by the Olympic Games committee
was an appropriation of $1,000,000
made by the State of California.
Even this may be returned to the
tax-payers’ treasury.
It will be a month before the fin
al balance sheet is completed.
The interior of the Merchant’s
Grill is being redecorated and re
novated.
LINDY’S SON NAMED
ENGLEWOOD, N. J., Aug., 17, — I
Dwight Morrow was the name giv-'
en to the Lindbergh baby Tuesday
by Col. Charles and Anne Lind
bergh, the parents. Colonel Lind
bergh made an appeal to the pub
lic that they give them privacy and
permit the boy to live a regular life
as is the privilege of other children.
He inferred that the publicity at
tached to their first child resulted
in the tragic fate of the child.
CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR
HAS PLAN SATISFY TOE
VETERANS OF HIS STATE
OAKLAND, Calif., Aug., 17, —
Gov. James J. Rolph of California,
in addressing the State convention
of Legionnaires here, made the
well-received suggestion that Cal
ifornia, as a State, should pay off
the soldier’s bonus, inasmuch as
the Federal government has refus
ed to do so.
The Governor, in his plan, said
that the veterans would be paid
out of the State treasury and that
they in turn would hand their com
pensation certificates over to the
State which would hold them un
til such a time as when they mat
ure.
In the opinion of the Governor
no one would lose anything by
this plan and it might help out a
lot of veterans in this time of dis
tress. The only restriction of the
plan would be that the veterans
must be an established and bona
fide resident of the State of Cali
fornia.
A GOOD RECORD
LOS ANGELES, Aug., 17, —In
cluded in the many records estab
lished in Los Angeles during the
Olympic Games, probably one of
the most outstanding is that which
reveals despite thousands of ex
tra visitors which thronged the city
for weeks, only 11 additional emer
gency cases were treated at hospi
tals than in normal times.
FIRM PRODUCTS STILL
KEPI OFF MARKET!
_ I
LE MARS, la., Aug. 17-—More in
ter-regional picketing of highways
and boycott was reported as far- I
mers in this section of Iowa at
tempted to enforce their edict
against marketing of farm pro
ducts during a 30-day strike de
signed to raise prices. From
Kingsley came reports that 400 far
mers visited all produce dealers of
that town and warned them not to
open for business today under pen
alty of having their food thrown
into the streets.
CLUTCHING DESPERATELY
TOKYO, Aug., 17, —Tokyo cables
report that Japanese government
officials are clutching desperately
at any straw for an argument to
justify its occupation of Manchu
ria. They have now dug up some
early history which cites that Jap- ;
an is merely duplicating France’s
action in 1776 when they sent Gen
eral LaFayette and Rochambeau to
the United States to aid the colo- !
nists in their war against the j
mother country—England.
MANY CARS
SACRAMENTO, Aug., 17, _Fig
ures just released here show that
during the period of one month, in
cluding the time of the Olympic
Games, some 51,903 autos entered
the State of California. This is
5,500 cars in excess of the number
which entered the state at a like !
period last year.
MATCH ARRANGED
NEW YORK Aug., 17., (JP) — Max
Schmeling, former heavyweight
champion, and Mickey Walker were
matched for a 15 round bout at
Madison Square Garden, in Long
Island Stadium on September 19.
J. Johnson, director of boxing at
bhe garden said that manager of
both fighters would sign formally
an Thursday.
W. C. I. B. WILL FIGHT
SEATTLE, Aug. 17.—The nation
al convention of Woman’s Chris
tian Temperance Union definitely
decided that the union would not
support any presidential candidate
and would fight its election battles
on the principles of “issues rather
than candidates.”
Mrs. Ella Alexander Boole, presi
dent, said that the W. C. T. U.
would not follow the allied forces
of prohibition in its announcement
supporting President Hoover and
certainly would not endorse Roose
velt.
“The allied forces is a single or
ganization, not a group,” said Mrs.
Boole. .“I do not see how we can
endorse any candidate, and I be
lieve v/e will be followed by millions
of dry women voters.”
THREE MEN INDICTED
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Aug., 17, —
Three men were indicted here by
the grand jury for having partici
pated in the riots which resulted
in calling out soldiers to evict the
bonus seekers from the nation’s
capital. One of the group is a Ken
tucky negro, and one of the others
is a Chicago brick-layer. Others
held in connection with the rioting
have been released.
TEMPERATURE EXTREMES
SEATTLE, Aug., 17, —Some of
the temperature extremes recorded
for Tuesday were: Seattle 71-57.
Chicago 90-70, Denver 86-66, Los
Angeles 76-58, New Orleans 96-76,
New York 82-68, Portland 78-62,
San Francisco 64-54, Spokane 96-64,
Juneau 70-54, Ketchikan 80-56
Spokane and New Orleans were
tied with the high temperature of
96 degrees for the day.
BAITS. GUARDSMEN
STIGEB PITCHED BATTLE
COLON PANAMA, Aug. 16. (JP) —
Seventy five persons were killed
and many wounded in a battle be
tween bandits and national guards
men, according to wireless reports
from Bluefields Nicaragua, today.
The fighting occured near Jin
otega it was reported. Private Geo
Shetland, of the United States
Marine Corps was reported missing,
and many of the guardsmen were
killed. By morning it was said
the bandits were retreating but
still fighting.
AIMEE ANXIOUS GET
SAN FRANCISO, Aug., 16, —
Aimee Semple McPherson Hutton,
Los Angeles evangelist, and her
baritone husband, David L- Hut
ton, are resting quietly in an apart
ment th-5y rented here.
“I'm anxious to get back to my
pulpit,” the evangelist said. “I must
recover my health.”
She recently had a breakdown,
which was complicated by a skull
fracture which occurred when she
fainted.
BEST MAN FOR FATHER
LOS ANGEI.ES, Aug., 17, —Neil
Hamilton, actor, was best man at
the wedding of his father, Alexan
der Hamilton, to Mary Gordon. The
wedding was performed Monday.
GOOD MINING GROUND
Tom Murphy, local reident and
rancher in the Nash road area,
visited Moose Pass during the last
several days with a view to look
ing over possible mineral or gold
gravels in that district. He has re
turned to town and says he found
a number of likely places but add
ed it was too late in the season to
start anything. “Poorman’s pay
dirt” can be found in several local
ities in the Moose Pass region, Mr.
Murphy declared. He walked the
greater part of the miles between
the Pass and Seward.