MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXIX. NUMBER 200.
SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 26, 1933.
PRICE TEN CENTS
VIOLATIONS OF
N.R.A.CODESBE
SOUGHT BOARDS
WASHINGTON, Aug. 26. —Recov
ery Administrator Hugh S. John
son announced plans to set up su
pervisory bodies over industries to
.see that N. R. A. codes of fair com
petition are enforced rigidly.
Organization of these boards he
said, has been delayed only because
of protracted negotiations over bi
:uminous coal code. Johnson refus
ed to refer to the groups as po
lice boards. They will, however,
control the operation of the codes,
he said.
Indications were that the super
visory boards would be more in
:crested in ferreting out violations
Vf the code than in punishing vio
lators. Plans call for a separate
croup for each industry that signs
a code.
Asked what action he would take
~ hen and if, the supervisory boards
:eported violations. Johnson said
he would call in the governing
body of the industry and ask it
to correct the abuses. Beyond that
he declined to comment.
YUKON LEFT
WITH MANY
FOR SEATTLE
Many local persons left on the SS.
Yukon last evening for Seattle and
wayports and included the follow
ing:
For Seattle—Mr. and Mrs. Harold
Y. Sogn, Miss T. Painter, Mrs. M.
C. Coon. Alexander Mayer, Peter
Larkin. Eleanor Parrish, Miss J.
Allman, Isabel Allman, Mrs. C. L.
Cook, A. Toftaker, Donald Stanton.
Mrs. A. G. Nicodet, Charlotte Man
ning, Mr. and Mrs. Fran G. Wheat.
sad, Mrs. Grace Mahr, Mr. and Mrs.
W. Palmer, J. M. Clark. Mrs. T. W.
Peyton. Mrs. Dolly Johnson, G. F.
Decker, Mr. and Mrs. Ike Koslosky,
T. Caveny, Miss Henrietta Holmes.
Mrs. Fred Carlquist, Miss Helen Zan
Yantem. Frank Morgan, Mrs. C. C.
Parrel, Mrs. Byron C. Elmes, Miss
Clarice Wendler, Miss Myrtle Wend
'er, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Emard.
Miss Lilly Johanson.
For Cordova—Irene Miller.
For Juneau—Frank Scully, Paul
A. Monroe, Miss Norma Learup, E.
Rennecutt, L. Daupheny, J. Stew
ard, H. Torgerson. F. A. Gaider.
Floyd G. Betts.
For Ketchikan—W. F. Parrish.
For Valdez—Artia M. Crawford.
Mrs. Ernest Shermer, H. Doring, A.
Bloomer.
For Sitka, via Juneau—Steve
Rady, Enos Robinson.
STRIKE AVERTED
FRESNO. Calif., Aug. 26. —The
offer of vineyardists to pay grape
pickers $2.50 to $3 a day, and ex
pert pickers $4 to $5 a day was
believed to have averted a strike
among the grape workers here. The
controversy had been waged over
wages but with the agreement now
in force it is expected that there
will be no more trouble.
FINANCIAL NEWS
NEW YORK, Aug. 26. —The stock
* market advanced again yesterday
with gains of fractions to five or
more points being made by several
issues. The turnover amounted to
3,300,000 shares. September wheat
closed at 88% cents, December cot
con was $9.87; domestic copper 9
cents; export copper rose from .0805
to .0825 cents; silver was 36ya- The
oulk of the market news was bul
lish.
TENNIS TODAY
FOREST HILLS, N. Y. Aug. 26. —
Helen Jacobs, of California, was to
meet Helen Wills Moody, also of
California, today in a tennis con
test for the Women’s singles cham
pionship. Miss Jacobs won her
right to play the present cham
pion when she defeated Dorothy
Round, England’s ranking No. 1
player.
MANY PORKERS
SENT PACKERS
B Y FARMERS
KANSAS CITY, Mo., Aug. 26. —
Shutting off the government’s flow
of premium money was counted on ;
last night to stem the flood of pigs
inundating Western meat packing ]
plants. The appeal of packers for |
farmers to withhold shipments un
til Monday was fruitless.
Yesterday a second consecutive !
high mark was set here when 45,
000 pigs were received.
Washington officials, in charge
of the government’s pig birth con- j
trol program, came to the rescue of j
harrassed packers when they an
nounced that no more premiums
would be paid until Tuesday.
They also announced that after
Tuesday premiums will be paid only
on stated numbers and to shippers i
who had previously obtained per-'
mission to send pigs to premium |
markets.
FILM STRIKE
BEEN SETTLED
ONLY ON PAPER
HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 26. — The j
Hollywood motion picture strike
apparently has just been settled
on paper. It was revealed yester
day that only about 150 of the 3,
100 strikers had returned to work.
The film producers refuse to re
cognize the union and call its for
mer employees back to their form- j
er position without prejudice but j
are dealing with the men individ
ually. I
A petition of protest is being for- i
warded to Washington. The Union
men state that the strike was set
tled in a satisfactory manner to j
them but now that they are willing i
to return to work they find they i
are being locked out by their for- J
mer employers.
EVIDENCE BEING
SUBMITTED,TRIAL
SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 26. —
Autopsy surgeons testified at yes
terday’s session of the David Lam
son murder trial and they said that
the fracture of Mrs. Lamson’s head,
which caused her death was caused
by blows from a metal pipe or some
such object. They stated that the
fracture could have been caused by
falling against a wash basin, as
the defense contends, but said that
she would have had to have struck
the basin quite hard to cause such
a major fracture.
A court demonstration of the
force necessary to fracture a hu
man skull was ruled against. It was
expected that X-ray pictures show
ing the fractures would be intro
duced later on in the trial.
ARE CODIFYING
CLEVELAND, Ohio., Aug. 26. —
Apartment house owners ancLoper
ators of the United States have de
cided on a draft of their proposed
code under the National Recovery
program. It provides for a 20 per
cent increase in wages and a limi
tation of the work-week to 40
hours. Apartment house managers
have just concluded a meeting in
this' city.
WHEAT PLAN
ADOPTED BY
WORLD NATIONS
LONDON, Aug. 26. —The Inter
national Wheat control agreement
was signed yesterday by represent
atives of the principle wheat grow
ing and consuming nations of the
world. The agreement provides for
the reduction of wheat acreage by
about 15 per cent during the next
two years in order to wipe out the
world’s wheat surplus and give the
farmer in all countries a better
price for his produce.
The limitation of production is
expected to mean a curtailment of
t total of 440,000,000 bushels an
nually. The reduction agreement
will mean that the American farm
ers must reduce their aci'eage by
15 per cent or decrease their total
production by 45.000.000 bushels a
year.
The Agriculture Department at
Washington is expected to begin
the distribution of agreements
among the farmers providing for
their reduction of acreage. No
trouble is expected to be had in
having the farmers curtail their
output as they all understand what
the elimination of the surplus will
mean to them.
Importing nations are also made
a party to the agreement and am
ong other provisions they are to
lower their tariffs of the wheat they
import.
Nations signing the agreement
besides the United States were Ar
gentina. Great Britain, Russia. It
aly, Greece, Bulgaria, Belgium, the
Irish Free State, Sweden and many
others.
FOREST FIRE
THREATENS CITY
TILAMOOK, Oregon, Aug. 26. —
With the forest fire in the Wilson
River watershed area still out of
control after being fanned into a
veitable inferno which has swept
over three countries and within 13
miles of this city, the residents
here were preparing to battle the
flames to save their homes and
businesses.
Thousands of fighters are already
engaged in battling the flames and
some checking has been done. The
high humidity of the air was ex
pected to aid in the fight against
the Red Demon. Picked crews have
been sent to cut forest trails so
that the fire fighters can be dis
patched readily from one area to
another.
LEGAL DEATH REGIME
HAVANA, Cuba, Aug. 26. —The
newly formed government of Cuba
passed a measure yesterday which
put a legal death to all laws and
provisions enacted by the Machado
regime and have returned to the
constitution which was adopted in
1901. The only exception made was
the declaration of Cuba that she
will honor all her debts and obli
gations to other countries.
Mrs. John Nelson left today on
the train for a visit at Moose Pass.
BASEBALL SCORES
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Boston 8, Chicago 1.
Washington 5, Detroit 4.
New York 4, Cleveland 6.
Philadelphia 11, St. Louis 3.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Pittsburgh 5-2, New York 8-6.
Cincinnati 3-3, Brooklyn 4-4.
Chicago 7-7, Philadelphia 8-4.
SEATTLE KIDNAP PLOTS
SEATTLE, Aug. 26. — Kidnap
plots against members of three pro
minent Seattle families have been
thwarted, it was revealed in of
ficial Seattle circles Thursday. The
word of the kidnapping was made
known by Mayor John F. Dore and
Chief of Police L. L. Norton. They
refused to disclose the names of
the families threatened.
DIVORCE SUIT
IS FILED BY
SCREENBEAUTY
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 26. —Cor
liss Palmer, once famous as the
“Geodgia Peach” of the screen, re
vealed through her attorneys to
day that she planned to file suit
for divorce against Eugene V.
Brewster, former multi-millionaire
Fan Magazine publisher.
In disclosing she will charge
Brewster with incompatibility, Miss
Palmer said there will be no con
test and that a property settle
ment has been arranged. Formerly
the mistress of Brewster’s millions.
Miss Palmer has been separated
from the former publisher for sev
eral years.
They first became attached i n
1921 when she won a beauty con
test held by one of Brewster’s mag
azines. Subsequently, Mrs. Palmer
was sued by the first Mrs. Brew
ster for alienation of affections and
which suit Brewster settled.
The Erewsters were divorced and
iatter he married Miss Palmer.
They came to Hollywood to live
but the publicity connected with
their romance and unfortunate in
vestments were disastrous to
Brewster’s finances.
TEXES VOTING
ON RATIFICATION
REPEAL DRY LAW
DALLAS. Aug. 26. —Texas voters
went to the polls today to register
their sentiments regarding ratifi
cation of the repeal of the 18th
Amendment and also to vote on the
immediate legalization of 3.2 per
cent beer. Texas is the 23 state to
vote on ratification and the result
of this election is bein watched
closely.
Texas is the home of Senator
Sheppard, author of the Dry Law,
and also the home of Vice-Presi
dent Garner who favors repeal.
Therefore, a prediction of the out
come is said to be merely guess
work.
The State of Washington w'ill
vote on ratification next Tuesday.
Vigorous campaigns by the Drys
and Wets are being staged in that
state. The Drys are headed by Dr.
Clarence True Wilson, who has been
speaking in the Eastern part of
the State.
HYDE PARK NEWS
HYDE PARK, Aug. 26. —President
Roosevelt conferred with Secretary
of Treasury William Woodin yes
terday. The subject of their con
versation was said to concern an
executive order on gold hoarding
and to interpret the question of
what is gold? It is stated that the
subject of inflation wras not even
mentioned.
JAIL GUARDED
COMPTON, Calif., Aug. 26. —
Armed guards were placed about
the jail here Friday when it was
learned that a wholesale jail break
might be attempted. The alarm was
caused by the finding of a dia
gram of the jail’s interior on one
of the prisoners. Earlier in tb
week extra guards were also plac
ed on duty.
SLEEP MALADY
HAS CLAIMED
3 0 VICTIMS
j ST. LOUIS, Aug. 26. — Steadily
losing ground in their efforts to
check the spread of sleeping sick
ness, city, state and federal mea -
i ical authorities last night issued a
public appeal for every person feel
ing symptons of the illness to re -
port at once to hospitals.
Two additional deaths yesterday
brought the total of fatalities since
July 30, to 30 and the number o!
cases reported to 245 as 27 new
cases were taken into isolation
wards in hospitals.
The mysterious malady about
which medical authorities frankly
state they know very little of it-:
origin, or its carrier, or its treat
ment is affecting an area of ap
proximately 25 square miles, in
cluding the city of St. Louis.
The sleeping sickness is said to be
very much unlike the African ma
lady.
POLAR BEARS
GANG VP ON
BLACK CVBS
MILWAUKEE, Aug. 26. —Atten
dants of the Milwaukee Zoo con
sidered the abandoning of an ex
periment to find out how polar
bears, grizzly bears, black bears and
gray wolves get along together. The
various kinds of bears and four
wolves were put into a special col
ony last October as a test to find
out how friendly they would be
come. In the colony were three po
lar bears, three grizzly bears, five
American black bear cubs and fou:
American gray wolves.
To all appearances they got
along fine together and everything
was peaceful in the colony until
one morning a few month’s age
when attendants found one of the
black bears drowned.
That seemed strange but atten
dants thought it was an accident.
A few weeks later another of the
black cubs was found drowned. Zoc
director Heller became suspicious,
but still there was not enough evi
dence to establish that there had.
been a murder.
Yesterday the last of the three
black bear cubs was dead. He toe
was a victim of drowning. But
this time there was a witness.
Frank Ballering to give the de
tails of a strange murder in the
zoo.
As Ballering watched with his
presence unknown to any of the
colony inhabitants, the three large
polar bears grouped as if by pre
arrangement about the only re
maining black cub. They edged him
toward the zoo pool. A polar bear
rushed him in. All three polaxs
jumped in after him.
Each time the little black bear
came up for air one of the huge
Polars slapped his paw on the cub’s
head and pushed him under again.
Ballering saw that this was no
game but a sort of a gang murder
taking place before his eyes.
He called other attendants. They
turned strong streams of water on.
the Polars but before they could
drive them away the black cub was
dead. They recovered his body.
All the animals in the colony
were born at the zoo.
ANOTHER LOAN
WASHINGTON, Aug. 26. —The
The Reconstruction Finance Cor
poration will make another loan to
Michigan banks of $2,800,000 it was
revealed here yesterday. This will
make the total loaned to Michigan
banks amount to some $7,000,000.