VOLUME XXVIII. NUMBER 164. SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JULY 15,1932.
PRICE TEN CENTS
COffiSS STILL TOILS
TO PISS UNEMPLOYMENT
RELIEF LEGISLATION BILL
WASHINGTON, July 15. (IP)—
President Hoover late Thursday
signed the $390,000,000 War Depart
ment Appropriation bill and the
measure is now law
This was the last big money
measure needed for the running of
the government to be acted on.
The measure had been delayed hr
Congress but was finallly enacted
after the House abandoned its de
mand that 2,000 officers of the War
Department be dismissed in the in
terest of economy.
Meanwhile, Congress was busy
with the new unemployment relief
legislation bill which is being draft
ed. The troublesome point now is
the House’s loans publicity provis
ion.
of Illinois, said that this publicity
Representative Henry T. Rainey,
provision with regard to loans
made by the Federal Reconstruc
tion Finance Corporation would
stay in the bill or there “won’t be
any bill”.
After an early conference at the
White House today the Senate con
ferees reported that President Hoo- ,
ver is opposed to the publicity:
clause but the conferees were al- '
most unanimous in stating that
the President would probably sign
the bill even if the nrovision re
mains.
CALIFORNIAN IS NOT
IN FAVOR OF REVISION
CANCELLATION DEBTS
WASHINGTON, July 15. —De
claring that the government of the
United States, belongs to only one
people, “ The American People. ”
and warning that the foreign debt
payments soon to become due will
be met with another moratorium.
Senator Hiram Johnson, Republic
an of California, called on Congress
to stand firm against airy thcpf
of cancellation or revision.
As Johnson spoke, Secretary of
State Stimson, on leaving a cab
inet meeting, denied there h a d
been any conversation bet-ween
representatives of the United States
and other governments on repara- i
tions or downward revision of war
debts.
Despite official denials, strong!
suspicion persists in many minds
here, that the European statesmen,
in framing the Lausanne Pact, act
ed with the knowledge, and pos
sibly the sympathy of American of
ficials
BRITISH GOVERNMENT
INIS LET MIT OUT
LONDON, July 15. —The British
government, under the direction of
Prime Minister Ramsay MacDon
ald, moved to arrange publication
of the “gentlemen’s agreement” in
connection with the Reparations
Settlement at Lausanne.
The secret understanding, which
has been quoted as providing that
the reparations settlement wouldn't
be ratified by European govern
ments until after the United States
had agreed to a debt revision,
quickly took the center of the world
stage after the Lausanne confer
ence closed, and was the center of
more than one stormy debate in
the House of Commons. j
DENY RESPONSIBILITY
NEW YORK, July 15. —The Am
erican Legion denied the respon
sibility for the disability allowance
act, which allows veteran’s com
pensation for disability regardless
of whether it was incurred on ac
tive service or in retirement or af
ter discharge. The measure costs
the government some $104,000,000
a year and, according to the Le
gion, will probably increase from
year to year.
MONEY FOR NOME
WASINGTON, July 15, (/P)—Al
lotments of $42,312,392 made for
improvements to Rivers and Har
bors of the United States and Ter
ritories by Secretary of War Pat
rick Hurley, carried an allotment
of $16„500 for the improvement of
Nome Harbor. The measure carry
ing this allotment became law
when President Hoover affixed his
signature to the army appropria
tion bill Thursday.
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NIEMINEN COMPLETES
IILOHC AERIAL JAUNT
Deer, bears, seals, sea-lions,
whales and ptarmigan were in
cluded in the game sighted by
Pilot Matt Nieminen and Mechan
ican C. A. Higgins, who were over
night visitors in Seward after hav
ing completed an airplane trip of
almost 1900 miles which began at
Anchorage Sunday, July 10, and
ended with a dash of 600 miles
from Sand Point, in the Aleutian
Islands to Seward Thursday. Pilot
Nieminen set his pontoon equipped
plane down on the waters of Res
urrection Bay Thursday evening at
about 9 o’clock.
When Nieminen left Anchorage
Sunday he had one passenger
Charles Lovett, for McGrath. At
McGrath he picked up two othei
passengers — Engineers Karpensk
and Muirhead, wdio were going tc
Crooked Creek. Nieminen flewr tc
Takotna from McGrath and there
picked up John Felder, of Feldei
& Gale Stores at Dillingham and
flew from there to Crooked Creek
At Crooked Creek the two engin
eers left the plane and Nieminen
continued on, with Felder as a
passenger, to Napamute, Akiak and
Bethel. From Bethel, the Alaskar
Airways ‘Ace” flew to Dillingham
where Mr. Felder got off. The plane
then went to Naknek, Egegik, anc
Ugashik. From Ugashik the air
men flew to Sand Point, which is
across from Unga Island. He flew
to Sand Foint by wTay of Port Hei
den and Pert Moller. At Sand Point
canneryman Tio deCano v'as taker
aboard from one of the floating
canneries and flown direct to Sew
ard passing over Kodiak. This
last flight of over 600 miles tool?
about five hours of flying. It was
the intention of Nieminen to fly
to Sawmill Bay from Sand Point
but a veritable wall of clouds forc
ed him to stop at Seward last night,
On this Westward flight Niemi
nen reported seeing all kinds of
game from big browm bear to ptar
migan. At Port Moller he observ
ed five bear who w’ere apparently
rounding up a herd of reindeer in
preparation for a feast. A number
of aerial pictures of this impressive
sight WTre taken.
In their flight over the open wat
ers they saw more than one whale
spouting water high in the air and
cavorting around in their ocean
playground. Countless numbers of
seals and sea-lions were observed.
Nieminen said that he has never
seen so much game on any one
flight previous to his Westward
hop. This w'as his first trip as
far west as Sand Point.
Iieminen picked up a number of
pouches of mail at the various
places he stopped at and when he
arrived in Seward he had about 100
pounds of letter mail for the local
postoffice. He left Seward this
forenoon for Latouche and Sawmill
Bay with Mr. DeCano as a passen
ger. He was to fly back to Anchor
age from Sawmill Bay.
MEXICO HAS BAD FLOOD
MEXICO CITY, Jully 15, (JP)—A
cloudburst which resulted in a
flood sweeping the village of Sal
tillo, in the State of Coahuilla,
caused a considerable number of
deaths and searchers already report
that they have recovered nine bod
ies of the flood victims. It is thot
that the number of dead will reach
several times the number of bodies
recovered. !Homes, business build
ings and other property were swept
away by the waters which surged
thru the city. The streets were
torn up and destroyed. The flood
left a ruined and sorrowing city.
HUM AND BELIEF
DUE MIJ09 PARTIES
WASHINGTON, July 15, —Rum
and relief, those are the two deep
est instant dividing lines between
the two major parties in the cur
rent presidential campaign. The
other lines separating them are
fundamentally fainter. On rum
and relief, however, the combat is
glaringly clear.
On relief, the Democratic candi
date for vice-president, Speaker
John Garner, in spirit at least, has
the bulge on the Republicans. He
believes in trying.
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IMPERIAL VALLEY HAS
LOW TEMPERATURES
HECOHDED EOH TODAY
UNDATED, July 15, (&)—'The
weatherman apparently has been
I straying from his usual path for to
! day the nation’s interest was cen
| tered on Imperial Valley, Calif.,
; where the temperature dropped to
! 63 degrees from the normal tem
| perature of 112 degrees.
I Other sections of the country re
j ported extreme warmth with the
j middle-west sweltering in the hot
! test weather to have occurred this
| summer.
The East was swept by a hot
; wave and the South was above nor
I rnal. The Pacific Coast reported
j cool weather thruout the entire
| area
In many of the mid-west states
the hot weather was accompanied
| by high wrinds and thunderstorms.
: Two persons are reported to have
' died in Montana and one death
was reported from Idaho where the
' storms attained such fury that
j some buildings wrere leveled. Deaths
| from the heat have been reported
from such widely scattered cities
; as McKeesport, Penn., and Okla
homa City.
“MIGHT WIN”
LONDON, July 15. — The pro
phecy that the Democratic party
“might wan” in the American elec
j tions was made here by Dr. Nicholas
Murray Butler. Dr. Butler’s pro
phecy was made in the course of
a speech at a luncheon wrhich was
tendered him by the Association of
American corresoondents.
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I DRY STDIITEGISTS WANT
10 SUPPORT HOOVER
WASHINGTON, July 15, (A3)—A
: special policy committee of the
| National Prohibition Board of Stra
i tegy is working again after a long
! secret session in which the com
j plexities of t^he coming political
i contest were discussed.
The secret session was held
i mainly in an attempt of certain
! members to have the Board agree
! to support Herbert Hoover by an
j outright endorsement of Hoover in
I preference to Governor Roosevelt.
The session did not result in any
concrete declartion at adjournment
but the question was left open for
discussion among the leaders who
are hoping for an endorsement of
Hoover.
MOSCOW, July 15. —Sale of the
salvageable wreckage of their
plane to Amtorg, the Soviet Trad
ing Organization, forced James
Mattern and Bennett Griffin, Am
erican round-the-world airmen to
postpone departure homeward until
Thursday.
Amtorg agreed to pay $15,000 for
the motor, wings and expensive fly
ing instruments of the red, white
and blue monoplane, “The Cen
ury of Progress,” but the airmen
had to wait until Thursday to sign
the documents of sale. The fliers
! were to leave in a plane for Berlin.
DYOGK ICE DAM Hi
INDIA BREAKS AGAIN
NEW DELHI, India, July 15. — j
The famous Dyock ice dam over j
the Dyock River, a tributary to the,
Indus, burst and the Indus rose I
nine feet in half an hour and to!
a height of 32.4 feet.
Indications were that the flood
would not be as serious as that of
1929, when the dam went out and
the Indus rose 40 feet. The dam
was created in 1926 when the
Khumdan Glacier pushed its way
into the narrow gorge of the river,
creating a dam some 480 feet high.
DISMISSAL OF PON
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., July 15. —
The Duval County grand jury,
which indicted two guards for the
1 “torture murder” t>f Arthur Mailes
fort, 19 year old New Jersey boy,
was on record as demanding the
dismissal of prison captain J. H.
Baker, who had charge of the pri
son district in the which the boy
died.
A presentment, returned by the
grand jury to the county court,
called for the prisorf captain’s re
moval.
The grand jury, through its fore
man, A1 F. Gorman, a Jacksonville
business man, will communicate
its demands in a request to Agricul
tural Commissioner Nathan Mayo,
who has jurisdiction over the state
prisons. Mayo has the power to re
move Baker. —
Baker was held responsible for
conditions at the Sunbeam camp,
where the youth met his death in
a ‘sweat-box,” strangled by a chain
that dangled him from the roof of
the torture chamber
APPROVE BILL
CARACAS, Venezuela, July 15. —
Congress approved a bill requiring i
all foreigners entering Venezuela,
except tourists, to possess $200 or
they will be barred from entering j
Venezuela.
FRENCH MUTES ILL
NOT TRAIN Oil ML
NEW YORK, July 15. — The
French team came to New York
aboard the motorshiu LaFayette,
en route to the game? in Lee An
geles.
The French athletes brought no
wine, and that is their alibi al
ready formed. The French ordinar
ily train on wine. They’ll train on
ice water in the United States and
they are afraid this will be a froz
en asset.
Lack of wine will make the most
difference to the weight men, Leon
Bretof, chairman of the delegation
said. “These men and others who
use up much strength and stamina,
will be most severelly affected. To
the others, the matter is mainly
annoying.”
MAN TO BEAT IN FINAL
LOS ANGELES, July 15, —South
ern Californians who are dyed in
the wool Frank Wykoff fans, are
fairly well convinced that Emmett
Toppino, the Loyola College of New
Orleans sprinter, will be the man
to beat in the final 100 meter trials
for the Olympic games team July
15. Before continuing his journey
to Palo Alto, the Southern sprinter
worked out with Hector Dyer of the
Los Angeles A. C., and proved be
yond a doubt that he is in top form.
USE “OXYGEN TENT”
BOULDER CITY, Nev. July 15.—
The fight for the life of Robert D.
Creighton, 20, of Nashville, Tenn.,
a Vanderbilt University student
who had been employed on Bould
er Dam, was being aided by an “ox
ygen tent” speeded here by air
plane from Los Angeles. Pilot J
Jaimes made the 230 mile flight
from Los Angeles with the “tent”
in one hour and 55 minutes.
ALASKA ALLOTMENTS
WASHINGTON, July 15, (£>)—
The War Department appropria
tion, to whicd President Hoover af
fixed his signature Thursday night
carried an allotment of $161,285
fcr the Alaska cable and an allot
ment of $94,310 for roads and trails I
construction and maintenance.
CHUisurs nsii iu
BUENOS AIRES CAUSE
OE S. A. TROUBLES
MONTEVIDO, Uruguay, July 15.
—Following Uruguay’s severance of
diplomatic relations with Argen
tina the Argentine ambassador to
the later country was delivered a
passport for his home in Argentina.
Foreign Minister Blanco, of Uru
guay said that the rupture between
the two nations was caused by
Uruguay considering as unfriendly
the Argentina attitude respecting
the recent visit of the cruiser “Uru
guay” to Buenos Aires.
The Uruaguayan cruiser steamed
across the wide Plata river to the
Argentine capitol on July 9th, the
day of the Argentine Independence
celebration. Just before leaving
Montevido, General Severo Toran
zo, an Argentine exile, had board
ed the cruiser, assertedly merely
for a visit.
His presence on the ship resulted
in Argentina naval planes escort
ing the cruiser back to Uruguan
waters after the celebration.
NOT READY YET
NEW YORK, July 15. —Mayor J.
J. Walker said his reply to charges
growing out of the Seabury inquiry
would not be ready before the end
of the week, at the earliest.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., July 15.—
Disappearance of two guards, sta
tioned at the Sunbeam prison
camp, where Arthur Mailefert. 19
year old New Jersey boy met his
“torture death,” forced the post
ponement- of the grand jury invest
igation of that tragedy.
The grand jury was taking evi
dence on the beating of other pri
soners at the Sunbeam camp. The
two guards, Gordon Denmark and
J. Z. Simms, were sought to give
testimony along that line.
PLANS REVEALED
LIEXICO CITY, July 15. — The
newspaper La Presna, published a
report from San Salvador saying
followers of General Augustino
Sandino, Nicaraguan insurgent
leader, had named General Horatio
Portacerro to be president of Nic
aragua “When we gain control.”
MUST REFUND MONEY
PARIS, July 15. —Suzanne Leng
len, former world tennis queen, who
several days ago announced she de
sired to again become an amateur
player, was -told by the French Ten
nis Federation that in order to do
this, she must first refund all the
money she earned as a profession
al player.
ECONOMISTS G ATHER
PORTLAND, July 15. — Noted
economists of Europe, the Orient,
and America, gathered about five
separate round tables here to re
sume their discussions of world
ills. The third biennial session of
the Institute of International Re
lations opened on Reed College
Campus, with Reed College and the
University of Oregon as hosts, and
with 250 internationally minded
gentlemen present.
ASK MOONEY’S RELEASE
WASHINGTON, July 15. — The
American Federation of teachers,
with a membership of classroom
instructors running into the thou
sands, demanded the release of
Tom Mooney and publication by
congress of the suppressed Wick
ersham report on the Mooney-Bill
ings trial.
REVOLUTIONISTS ARE
ASKED TO SUPPORT
BRAZIL GOVERNMENT
RIO DE JANERIO, July 15, UP)—
Loyal federal troops, supported by
hastily mobilized reinforcements,
were ordered to proceed against the
rebel stronghold in Sao Paulo and
today, as they neared the border
line of Sao Paulo, they had their
first brush with the rebels. The
loyal troops, under the command
of General Monteiro, fired on the
rebels who met them at the border
but the belligerents tarried only
briefly in the face of the intent
loyalists and they hastily retreat
ed.
The loyalists quickly followed up
the advantage they had gained in
this, the first armed skirmish, and
a van guard of soldiers followed
the retreating rebels. They later
reported that the dissenters had
been persuaded to lay down their
arms and once more support the
government. Four of the rebels
were killed in the encounter.
Airplanes are being used by the
government to put down the revolt
without resorting to bloody meth
ods. The airplanes are loaded with
pamphlets pleading that the rebels
cease their anti-government move
ment and rally to the govern
ment’s support again. These pam
phlets are being showered down on
cities where it is known rebels are
dissenters live.
i HUTTON DECLARES RE
IS TIE MUSSOLINI
OF ANSELUS TEMPLE
; LOS ANGELES, July 15. — “I’ll
j show these people that I am the
! Mussolini of Angelas Temple be
! fore I am through with the m,”
| roared “debonair” Dave Hutton,
! rotund and love-2uit losing hus
band of Aimee Semple McPherson
Hutton, as he defied further efforts
of Aimee’s Board of Deacons to
oust him as business manager.
The officials board, piqued over
the unfavorable publicity that re
I suited from Myrtle St. Pierre’s
heartache suit against Hutton, who,
she charged, betrayed her under
false pretense of marriage and then
1 jilted her for Aimee, was under
stood secretly to have ousted Hut
ton and to have placed Harriett
Jordan, long a Temple official, in
i charge of affars.
Aimee was reported, “tired of it
| all, ready to sell Angelus Temple,”
, but so far. no one has been found
! with enough money to buy.
WASHINGTON. D. C. July 15. —
Unless there is a special session
of Congress, beer of more than one
quarter cf one per cent alcohol
cannot possibly be made legal by
Congressional action before mid
winter.
All moves to write 3.45 per cent
into the Volstead Act have been
halted'by the action of the Senate
which so far has refused to change
the present limitation.
Even the most ardent supporters
of a change, conceded that with
Congress trying hard to adjourn
that there could not be a suffici
ent change before then to amend
the law.
CHILE OFFERS BARTER
WASHINGTON, July 15. — Re
ports that Chile has begun nego
tiations with this country to bar
ter nitrates for some of America’s
surplus wheat, oil, gas and other
products, met with a distinctly fav
orable reception here today. Al
though such a scheme might of ne
cessity, encounter certain difficul
ties, authoritative quarters said it
should by no means prove impos
sible and might safely count upon
the support of governin’: agen
cies.