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MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXVIII. NUMBER 166.
SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, JULY 18, 1932.
PRICE TEN CENTS
LEM SESSION OF
CONGRESS CILME TO END
LUTE smut NIGHT
WASHINGTON, July 18. (/P)—'The
72nd Congress adjourned at 11:25
. p. m. Saturday night until the short
session in December.
Before adjournment the mem
bers racked their last disputes over
the unemployment relief bill and
home loan bank legislation by an
agreement on the $2,122,000,000 re-,
lief bill which came thru the Sen
* ate’s yielding to the House’s con
troversial clause for giving publici
ty to Reconstruction Corporation
loans.
Conversely the House gave way
to the Home Loan Bank bill by
accepting the Glass rider, which
will make possible nearly $1,000,000
for the expansion of currence. The
President was expected to sign both
measures within a few days, possi
bly Tuesday.
Around 500 laws were enacted by!
the 72nd Congress and they were;
chosen from some 18,000 which
were introduced during the while |
of the session which proved to be<
one of the bumper bill crops of his- j
tory. . ;
Thirteen thousand of the bills
were presented in the House while
5000 were presented in the Senate.
Simple joint concurrent resolutions
were, added to the measures which j
brings the total number of mea
sures filed to a figure of 19.000.
The bills ranged in importance
from the merest trifle to measures
1 to such as countrywide importance:
as the economy revenue relief mo
ratium and the lame duck resolu
tion.
Legislation to repeal the 18th
amendment and modify the Vol
stead Act is still pending in both
Houses and will confront the leg
islators at their December session.
Other questions which remain un
solved include the rapidly aging
Muscle Shoals problem, National j
Construction, banking law reform.
Philippine Independence, Soldiers’
- bonus cash payment.
Although Hoover was expected
to sign the relief bill Tuesday it
was thought that he would delay
the signing of the Home Loan bill
which is designated to expand the
nation’s currency by nearly $1,000,
000,000, until a report is received
from the Comptroller General re
garding the expansion clause.
Some members of Congress began
their homeward trek Sunday and
4 many more were to leave today.
NINETEEN ARE DEAD
ATLANTA. Ga., July 18. —Nine
teen people were known Sunday
to have perished throughout the
South through the cumulative ef
fects of sweltering temperatures,
thunderstorms, electrical storms
and rain showers, which have oc
curred throughout that belt dur-1
ing the last week. An e 1 e c t r i c a 1
storm, alone, caused five deaths. ,
CINCINNATI, Ohio., July 18- —
Duke Kahanamoku, one of the
most famous swimmers of all time, J
failed in his comeback attempt to
gain a place in the 100 meter race, j
free style, trials here.
The 42-year old Hawaiian, fin-!
ished third in the fourth heat be
hind two college swimmers Ar
thur Highland, of Northwestern
University and Ogden Dalrymple,
from the University of Michigan,
- who finished first and second re
spectively.
As this was the only event in
which Kahanamoku was entered,
his defeat automatically eliminated
him as an Olympic Games pros-,
pect. ck
BREAKS OWN RECORD
! LONDON, July 18, (/P>—Kaye Don,
I noted British speed-boat pilot,
broke his own new world’s record
' made Sunday, by averaging more
than 125 miles per hour on the
second run and eclipsing the record
made by Garwood, the American,
by about 10 miles per hour.
SCHMELING RETURNING
FOH FIGHT, SEPTEMBER
BERLIN, July 18. —Joe Jacobs,
manager of Max Schmeling, an
nounced Sunday that the defeated
German would sail sometime in
September for the United States to
prepare for a fight with one of
leading pugilists in that country.
The fight will be held either in
Chicago or New York City, accord
ing to present plans.
Schmeling has been offered
fights with King Levinsky, Mickey
Walker, Max Baer, and Johnny
Risko, but it is not definitely known
which one of these he will fight
Schmeling is a dethroned heavy
weight champion. He lost his title
to Jack Sharkey. In the event that
Schmeling conquers his next op
ponent it may be that he will be
again matched with the titleholder.
WHIN SWIMMER
FIILS NIUE SOU
BASLE, Switzerland, July 18. —
The Board of the World Bank vot
ed to recommend a return of the
gold standard as the best solution
of the so-called world depression.
Montague Norman, governor of
the Bank of England, was one of
those endorsing the resolution. Ja
pan and Sweden also signed it.
The resolution was considered
the first public announcement of
the non-gold nations, of their at
titude, and particularly of Great
Britain’s intention of re-establish
ing the gold standard.
RIOTS IN GERMANY
BERLIN. July 18, —Political dem
onstrations and riots thruout Ger
many Sunday resulted in 12 deaths
and at least 100 persons injured. At
a neighboring town 1200 persons
engaged in a hand to hand fight
and it was only after harsh means
were taken by authorities, that the
disturbance was quelled.
(Saturday's games)
AMERICAN LEAGUE
St. Louis 0, Washington 1.
Detroit 3. Philadelphia 14.
New York 1, Cleveland 8.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Chicago 4. Brooklyn 6.
Cincinnati 4, Philadelphia 1.
Pittsburgh 2. Boston 1.
VIOLENCE IN AUSTRALIA
SYDNEY. Australia, July 18, —
Disturbance occured here Sunday
in which hundreds of persons w7ere
injured but so far no deaths have
been reported. Police said that the
trouble was inspired by Commun
ists. The police restored order only
after much difficulty.
TRAGEDY AT FAIRBANKS
Word from Fairbanks tells that
Dr. Henry H. Fach, recently arriv
ed in that city from Seattle, is
being held for allegedly causing
the death of three-year-old Jean
Almquist, daughter of a hardware
manager at Fairbanks. Dr. Fach,
said to be an eye specialist, is
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charged with having administered
a fatal dose of some nature; to the
child when she was having' her
eyes examined,, and this is said to
have caused her death. Fach is
being held on a $3,000 bond and i
he has indicated he will furnish]
bail.
BASIC COMMODITY
PRICE DECLINE THOUGHT
TO HAVE BEEN HALTED
CHICAGO, July 18, —A real note
of cheer has been struck in the
1 middlewest with the accumulation
j of evidence that the long decline
in basic commodity prices may be
ending, to be followed by a period
of advance.
Farmers, business men, bankers,
merchants and traders all are
showing encouragement, hopeful
that a turn has come, but not as
yet glowingly optimistic enough to
bank on its permanence.
The list of favorable develop
ments is impressive and includes—
A reappearance of the $5 hog, the
return of the $9 steer, evidence that
wheat prices are stabilizing and
may be getting set for an advance;
apparent permanence of $1 a bar
rel oil, with production under con
trol, and an advancing tendency
in dairy products.
The advance in cattle and hog
prices is a powerful incentive in
the com belt. It means a writeup
of well over $300,000,000 in paper
value of livestock in the corn belt
states of Illinois, Indiana, Missouri,
Ohio, Nebraska, Iowa and South
Dakota.
NEW EVIDENCE
WINSTON-SALEM, N. C., July 18,
—The sheriff who is investigating
the shooting of young Smith Rey
nolds, heir to the Reynold’s tobacco
millions, said Sunday that he had
uncovered evidence which proved
; that Reynolds could not possibly
have shot himself. The sheriff re
fused to disclose the nature of the
evidence.
ECKNER IN ACCIDENT
KEMPTER, Germany, July 18. —
Dr. Hugo Eckner, well known diri
gible commander and at present
the commander of the Graf Zeppe
lin which plies between Germany
and Brazil, was involved in an
auto accident Sunday. Dr. Eckner,
driving an automobile, tried to pass
another vehicle on a road near
here, when the accident occurred.
Dr- Eckner, his wife and his daugh
ter were hurled from the auto. They
suffered only the slightest of in
juries and bruises.
AGREE TO CONSTRUCTION
WASHINGTON, July 18, (£>)—The
United States and Canada today
agreed by treaty to the construc
tion of the $800,000,000 St. Law
rence River seaway. When this
seaway is constructed, ships plying
on the Great Lakes will have a
means of egress to the Atlantic
Ocean and Atlantic ships will be
able to continue on to the Great
I Lakes.
ALASKA AT THE CAPITOL
No action was taken on many
hundreds of bills in last session of
Congress, but they will be kept
alive and will be in order when the
next session meets in December.
On the private calender there are
975 bills, with No. 470 having been
reached. Bills concerning Alas ka
are on this calendar as follows:
No. 493, for the relief of C. H. Hoo
gendorn; No. 812, to grant lands
to the Yakutat and Southern Rail
way: No. 864, for the relief of Nel
lie Lamson. On the consent cal
ender. as of June 27, but 16 bills
preceded No. 369. providing for the
transfer of the duties of the Alas
ka Road Commission from the War
Department to the Department of
the Interior; while No. 370 is a bill
to encourage the mining of coal
adjacent to the Alaska Railroad, i
On the House calender 15 bills pre
cede No. 179, which is the Welch
bill to regulate the operation of
floating canneries in Alaska and
which, even though it passed the;
House, could not likely pass the i
Senate at this session
* * # *
President Herbert Hoover, on
June 27, had transmitted to
the Senate a recommendation upon
the part of the Bureau of the Bud
get that the unexpended balance
of $1 0.0 0 0 appropriated for the
C o m m i s sion on Construction of
Highways, United States and Can
ada, for the fiscal years 1931 and
1932 be made available until June
30, 1933. Ernest Walker Sawyer, one
of the members of the Commission,
has been active in trying to secure
a continuance of this appropria
tion, very little of which has been
expended. Director Roop, in a com
munication to Congress on June 22,
set forth as follows: “The Act ap
proved May 15, 1930, authorized the
President to designate three spe
cial commissioners to cooper at e
with representatives of the Domin
ion of Canada in a study regard
ing the construction of a highway
to connect the northwestern part
of the United States with British
Columbia Yukon Territory, and Al
aska, with a view to ascertaining
whether such a highway is feasible
and economically practicable, and
also authorized an appropriation
of $10,000 for carrying out the pro
visions of the Act. “Persuant there
to an appropriation of $10,000 was
made for this purpose, for the fis
cal years of 1931 and 1932, by the
second deficiency act, fiscal year
1931. The members of the American
Commission met with the Canadian
representatives for the first time
in Victoria, British Columbia, in
October 1931. It was originally in
tended to call a second meeting in
Washington early in 1932, but this
was found to be impracticable as
it did not afford sufficient time
in which to secure the necessary
data. The Department of State ad
vises that while the progress of
the work in general has been sat
isfactory, the study will require at
least another year and requests
that the unexpended balance of the
current appropriation be continued
available June 30, 1933. This pro
posed provision pertaining to an
existing appropriation is to meet
a contingency which has arisen
since the transmission of the Bud
get for the fiscal year 1933. and
its approval recommended.”
* * * r
There have occurred during the
past three months three Judicial
nominations and confirmations for
the Territory of Alaska. The latest
was the appointment of Lester O.
Gore of Ketchikan, as judge for;
Nome division. He succeeds Judge
J. G. Lomen, who has occupied
this place on the bench during!
the past 10 years
* * * #
At present the Post Office awards
a contract for a monthly mail ser
vice from May 1 to September 1
from Seward, to Seldovia, Kodiak,
and around to Unalaska and up i
to Dillingham in Bristol Bay, while
from October 1 to April 30 the
monthly route is between Sewardj
and Unalaska to Kinolski. Some of j
the residents of the towns affected j
write the Delegate that under the
present reading of the advertise-1
ment asking for bids that small j
and inadequate vessels are often j
awarded contracts to the detriment j
of service that would otherwise be j
awarded certain sections. They say;
that the people wrest of Kodiak re- |
ly solely on the mail steamer to
carry their supplies and to carry
them as passengers, as it is the only
regular connecting link they have
with the outside world. As a con
sequence they want the Delegate
to induce the Department to insert
in their bids a requirement that
the steamer should be about 525
tons gross, 130 feet in length, 27_
foot beam and 700 horse-power,
able to carry in the neighborhood
of 200 tons of freight and 40 pas
sengers.
I
BAN DEMONSTRATIONS
BERLIN, July 18, (/P>—1The Ger
man government today issued a
i decree banning all outdoor demon
strations. This order followed a
week-end of rioting in which 15
persons were killed and scores of
others were injured.
AIMEE MG PHERSON'S
CONDITION IS SERIOUS
LOS ANGRI.ES, July 18, — Aimee
Semple McPherson Hutton, noted
evangilist, was declared by doctors
yesterday to be in a very serious
condition as the result of having
her already iil health aggrevated
by a fractured skull which she sus
i tained in a fall on the concrete
qn the concrete floor at her Lake
Elisnore resort.
Aimee was not taken to a hospi
tal as was stated several days ago
but is still confined at her Lake
Elisnore home. Because any shock
may prove disastrous to the famous
California woman, Dr. Williams,
who is in charge of the case, has
ordered an extensive guard posted
around her home.
Even Aimee’s husband, David
Hutton, who has just lost a breach
of promise suit to Myrtle St. Pierre,
is not permitted to see her.
LEU BOXER GOURDS
PRESIDENT OF FRINGE
PARIS, July 18. —Paul Morard,
t*ie police official to whom has
been entrusted responsibility for
the safety of President Albert Le5
Brun, is a doctor of laws, accom
plished linguist and a boxer of
note.
When boxing was in its infancy
in France, Morard was lightweight
champion and later held the mid
dleweight crown.
He wras one of the founders of
the French boxing federation and
is still its vice-president.
ENGLISH LADY DIES
DINGLEY, Eng., Judy 18, (/Pi
Lady Beatty, daughter of the late
Marshal Field of Chicago, died in
her sleep Saturday night. She had
been ill for several days. Lady
Beatty was married in 1901 to Earl
David Beatty, wrho subsequently be
came Admiral of the British Naval
Fleet and served with great dis
tinction during the World War.
ITALIANS ARRIVE
LOS ANGELES, July 18, —The
contingent of Italian athletes,
numbering wrell over 100, arrived in
Los Angeles Sunday. A great re
ception wTas accorded them by the
thousands of Italian citizens of the
State of California.
GUSTO IS WINNER
ARLINGTON RACE TRACK, Chi
cago, July 18. —Gusto was the sur
prise winner of the $38,000 Arling
ton race track classic w7hich was
run Sunday. Stepenfechet came in
second and Evergold was third.
Miss Georgia Willis, Miss Edna
Nelson and Buster Nelson left Sun
day for Moose Pass where they will
make an extended stay with Geor
gia’s parents. They left Seward by
auto for Mile 14 and from there
they intended to walk the rest of
the way.
BIG FISH RUN
Reports from the Westward con
tinue to state that an unpreced
ented run of fish is occuring in that
area. The plants are said to be
unable to handle all the fish. A
tabluation of reports up till Satur
day, showed, that some 913,975 cases
had been put up, of which 93 per
cent were red salmon. The Pacific
American Fisheries in Bristol Bay,
is said to have used up all availa
ble cans. The chump salmon pack
in Southeastern Alaska is also de
clared to be high.
FORMER HiOR
FROM FRINGE MS,
J. J. JUSSERRND. DIES
PARIS, July 18, (JP)—Jean Jules
Jusserand, former French Ambas
sador to the United States, died
I here today. Madame Jusserand
J was with the famous Frenchman
I at the time of his passing.
I Jusserand was ambassador to
j the United States from France 22
| years and established a record for
' the longest continuous assignment
in the history of Washington dip
lomatic corps.
He had enviable relations of per
sonal friendships, particularly with
the American presidents from
Roosevelt to Coolidge. Early in the
administration of Roosevelt, the
Ambassador, then newly arrived,
developed an intimacy with the
Chief Executive, seldom equalled
in diplomatic channels.
Only high American officials of
those days are able to properly cal
f culate the effect of this intimacy
| on the delicate negotiations for the
transfer of the French rights in
| the Panama Canal to America.
; Whether or not it was a coincidence
history records a more promising
j aspect in the negotiations immedi
ately after Jusserand interested
himself in them.
The good footing established by
; the Ambassador continued thru the
j administrations of Taft, Wilson
i and Harding, and thru more than
i a year of the Presidency of Cool
idge.
It was in 1924, at the moment
1 France was making her first oyer
) tures toward payment of her war
debt to the United States, that the
newly-constituted Herriott regime
; at Paris appointed Emile Daesch
ner as Ambassador to Washington.
M. Jusserand, who had held the
pest since 1902, thru vicissitudes
which included the grave difficul
ties of a world war, was a much
disappointed man; but he remain
ed philosophically loyal to his gov
ernment. When he sailed from New
York on January 28.1925. he said in
response to a request for some ex
pression of his parting emotions:
“The most important years of
my life I have spent in your coun
try. I leave my duties now in the
hands of my successor, and depart
full of love for Americans and your
America. M. Daeschner is an up
right and a sincere man. a diplo
mat and a thinker”.
Born in Lyons, on February 18,
1855. M. Jusserand entered the
diplomatic service soon after he
attained his majority, but he found
opportunity amid the stirring
events of his professional life to
make a name for himself as a man
of letters. He was recognized in
cultural circles of two hemispheres
as a profound student, and he con
tributed to the world’s literary store
several charming books
SECOND VICTORY
HAMILTON. Ontario, July 18. —
Alex Wilson, of Montreal, scored
his second victory in the Canadian
Olympics Sunday by his defeat of
Phil Edwards, former New York
University half-mile ace. Alex beat
Edwards by a yard in the 800 me
ter race. Wilson’s time was 1:53:1.
IU5TU WANTS SEU
CANBERRA, July 18. —To ease
her financial position Australia is
thinking of selling her tropical pos
session, Papua, to any high bidder.
Papua is ready for development.
There is cheap Kanaka labor and
experts declare that oil and gold
are certain to be found.
However, little progress can be
made without money, and Aust
ralia has none to spare for devel
opment of dependencies.
Gannet Dance Tonight 1.0.0. F. Hall