MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXIX. NUMBER 199.
SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 25 1933.
PRICE TEN CENTS
STORM LEAVES
MANY DEAD
IN ITS WAKE
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NEW YORK, Aug. 25. — Leav
ing 32 known dead in its wake the
violent tropical storm which ravag
ed the Atlantic seacoast from the
Hatteras to Cape Code diminished
in force yesterday as it moved to
the northward and across New York
state and Eastern Pennsylvania.
Scenes of desolation lay in the
wide path of the storm. Wreckage
was strewn along the beachs, sea
vessels trembled in the storms
grip, rivers ran close to the top of
their banks, and much property
damage was done.
It was estimated that the pro
perty damage will total many mil
lions of dollars.
New York city was braced for the
blow and escaped without serious
property loss as the storm struck
only a glancing blow at the metro
polis as it whirled its way toward
the upper St. Lawrence Valley.
The only bright spot yesterday
was the persistence of the sun to
peek through the black clouds.
BILL IS UNPAID
BUT COURT GAVE
CHILDTO FATHER
CHICAGO, Aug. 25. — A tiny
mite of humanity, only eight
months old and held most of that
■rime as security for ?. debt at the
hospital where it was born, caus
ed turmoil, biter charges and con
troversy yesterday in the court of
Judge Joseph B. David. But the
cause of all the ruckus snoozed
peacefully throughout in a nurse’s
* arms while the judge shouted, law
yers shouted, and the hospital su
superintendent Shouted, “It’s an
outrage.”
“Judge Davis cried “It’s a dis
grace to our civilization- Here, this
father has come to court to force
a hospital to give him his own
child. Just because he coudn't pay
^ a bill. Here, you father, take your
* child.”
And little Elaine Sliopkus. when
:he tumult had subsided, was re
stored to her father Stanley, who
had obtained a habeas corpus writ
against G. A. Kienle, superinten
dent of the Evangelical hospital.
“You are just a bunch of chisel
ers,” Judge David shouted at the
superintendent, “Now get out.'
Washington Gets
Ready Vote Repea
OLYMPIA, Wash., Aug. 25. —
Governor Clarence D. Martin last
night announced that Tuesday,
August 29, would be a legal holiday
*1 throughout the State of Washing
ton to allow the people of that
state to vote on repealing the 18th
Amendment.
Election hours will be on standard
time throughout the state although
many large cities, including Seattle,
still have daylight saving time.
TAKEN TO HOSPITAL
HOLLYWOOD. Aug. 25. —Miss
Claudette Colbert, film star, was
taken to a Hollywood hospital yes
terday with appendicitis. An opera
tion was to be performed today.
LOST COLLAR BUTTON
MT. SQUINTO, Calif., Aug. 25. —
Prof. Jupiter McPeek, famed as
tronomer, who recently located four
stars 45,000,000 miles away that had
been lost for 345 years, called de-j
tectives to his house to help himj
find a collar button that rolled!
under a dresser. i
BARBERS CODIFY
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 25. —Cal
ifornia barbers have completed a
first draft of their code under the
National Recovery program. It is
understood that the code provides
for a price-fixing agreement, which
if it is approved and adopted, will
raise the price of haircuts to 65
cents and shaves to 35 cents.
BRIDGES WERE
WEAKENED BY
HIGH WATERS
WASHINGTON, Aug. 25. —Two
train accidents occurred yesterday
when bridges, weakened by the high
waters, collapsed and sent the
trains plunging into the streams.
The most disastrous wreck oc
curred on the train en route here
from New York City. This train
plunged into the bank of the Po
tomac river when the bridge ac
ross that river collapsed. Four per
sons were killed and 13 injured in
this accident.
A second bridge, across the Ana
cost ia river colapsed when the first
express, bound for New Orleans,
plunged out on the weakened struc
ture and plunged down to bury it
self in the bank. The engineer and
fireman were killed instantly. Sev
eral others injured in the latter
wreck are said to be resting easily
in hospitals
HAWKESMADE
LONG FLIGHT
SEATTLE, Aug. 25. — Capt. Frank
Hawkes, famous speed flier, flew
non-stop from Minneapolis to Seat
tle yesterday, averaging 175 miles
an hour on the 1.480 mile journey.
He arrived here at 1:45 p.m. day
light saving time, after leaving
Minneapolis at 6:15 a.m. central
Standard time.
He nonchalantly got out of the
cockpit of his plane and remarked
"that is nothing’’ when someone at
the Boeing Airfield remarked that
he had made quite a flight.
He planned to leave Seattle at
five p.m. today for Vancouver, B.
C-. and will leave there a little
later on a non-stop flight to Que
bec.
MANY ARE DEFRAUDED
WASHINGTON, Aug. 25. — The
post office department estimates
that at least 1.000.000 Americans
lose money and property annually
through mail fraud schemes.
ALASKA PLATES
BE GREEN, WHITE
HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 25.—Alaska’s
1934 automobile license plates will
correspond to those of this year,
except for the colors, which will be
green with white letters and num
erals, instead of red with white,
according to W. G. Smith, terri
torial treasurer.
A blue print of the 1934 tag has
just been received at the Para
mount studios in Hollywood, and
a plate will be made of this to be
used in picture scenes with Alaska
locales.
MAY TALK INFLATION
HYDE PARK, Aug. 25. —Secre
tary of the Treasury William H.
Woodin arrived here late yesterday
for a conference with President
Roosevelt. Besides discussing fiscal
matters as they concern the gov
ernment and the National Recov
ery program, it was expected that
Woodin and Roosevelt will discuss
inflation.
QUEER MALADY
STILL BAFFLES
LEARNED MEN
ST. LOUIS, Aug. 25. — While a
deadly drowsiness, known as sleep
ing sickness, fastens itself upon an
ever mounting list of victims a staff
of medical experts, some of them
word famous, were sparing no ef
forts today in their tireless but so
far futuile battle against the baf
fling disease.
Yet, despite the laboratory work,
the diagnosis, the surveys of the
experts the disease is continuing to
spread.
Twenty-eight deaths here have
| been attributed to the malady and
; 210 cases have been reported in this
i area. Cases, several fatal, were re
I ported also in Oklahoma, Kansas,
1 Texas. Illinois. California and other
parts of Missouri.
JURIST DIED
WHEN STEPPING
INTO BATHTUB
NEW YORK, Aug. 25. — Some
time in the early hours of the
morning a large portrait of Henry
G. Ward, former presiding justice
of the United Circuit Court of Ap
peals fell, with a crash, from the
wall in the court’s chambers.
A few hours later Judge Ward
was found dead lying face down
ward in a bathtub half filled with
water at the country home of a
nephew at Shelter Island. N. Y.
A coroner’s investigation resulted
; in the decision that the 83-year old
jurist died accidentally.
It was presumed that he slipped
and fell into the tub.
Court clerk William Parkin was
rehanging the portrait when word
reached him that Judge Ward was
; dead.
EAST TEAM IS
WINNER OVER
WEST GRID GAME
CHICAGO, Aug. 25. —The West
I may have walked off with the
1 East and West polo game series
j but they failed to take the foot
| ball game played at Soldiers’ Field
yesterday. The East team, coach
ed by Dick Hanley, of Northwest
ern University, beat Coach Howard
Jones’ West team, 13 to 7.
The East scored in the first quar
ter of the game when they put
j the ball over the line for a touch
; down. They also scored the try-for
| a-point. The West tied the score
i before the half ended. The third
quarter was scoreless but in the
last quarter the East slipped away
to make another touchdown. Their
try-for-a-point failed
PLOT FOILED
BERLIN, Aug. 25. —A plot to as
sassinate the President of the Ger
man Reichsbank was believed foil
ed here Thursday.
BASEBALL SCORES
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Cincinnati 0-3, Brooklyn 2-2,
Chicago 5-9, Philadelphia 0-5.
St. Louis 3. Boston 4.
Pittsburgh at New York, both
games postponed on account of
rain.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Boston 6-6, Chicago 1-7.
Philadelphia 6-4, St. Louis 7-3.
Washington 13, Detroit 6.
New York 10, Cleveland 1.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Sacramento 4, Missions 9.
Los Angeles 6, Seattle 4.
GUARDSMEN CALLED OUT
YAKIMA, Wash., Aug. 25. —Two
I companies of National Guardsmen
| were called out late yesterday after
[ a pitched battle near here be
tween fruit growers and labor ag
itators, whose leaders carried In
dustrial Workers of the World id
entification cards. Many were in
jured.
HOOVER MAY
GO TO DETROIT
YET; DECLARED!
DETROIT, Aug. 25. —Former Pre- j
sident Herbert Hoover will testify j
before the grand jury investigating;
the closing of two of Detroit’s large
financial institutions, if the insis- j
fence of officials in charge of the j
inquiry means anything.
They have expressed their op
inion that Hoover will change his.
mind about appearing before the j
jury as they are determined to get I
first-hand information even if they
have to make requests of nearly all
former administration officers.
It was also indicated that some
thought has been given to the pos- \
•(Sibility that Hoover might like to
appear before the grand jury to,
answer some of the criticisms that
have been made of his administra- ;
tion.
L1NDY ARRIVES
SHETLAND ISLES|
i
LONDON, Aug. 25. —Col. and Mrs. j
Charles A. Lindbergh were on Brit- j
ish soil yesterday as they brought;
their plane down to a landing on
the Shetland Islands after a 200
mile flight from the Danish Faroe
Islands.
The British government as well
as the Danish and Norweigian gov-'
ernments have given the Lind
berghs permission to land on any.
of their soil. It was thought that j
they would fly to the British Isles;
today and from there continue on ,
to Denmark.
TROUBLE IN IRELAND
DUBLIN, Aug. 25. —A fascist up
rising may result in Ireland, it
was indicated when General Duf
fy, head of the Irish ‘ Blue Shirts,”
same lines as the German “Brown
a fascist organization built on the
Shirts,” defied the ultimatum of;
President De Valera that the or-|
ganization be dissolved. Duffy led1
his Blue Shirts in a parade thru i
the streets of Dublin. No arrests,
were made. i
LAMSON JURY
BEEN SELECTED
SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 25. —Se
lection of the jury which will hold
the scales of life and death over
David Lamson, on his trial on
the charge of murdering his wife
at their Stanford University cam
pus home, was completed yesterday
and the jurors placed in confine
ment behind closed doors.
The jurors consist of seven men
and five women. Two alternate jur
ors, both women, were also sworn
in.
The defense protested the plac- !
ing of the jury behind closed doors
but the order was not changed.
The court has adjourned until
Monday when the trial will be re
sumed.
Among the Anchorage residents
who arrived in Seward on the SS.
Yukon from Seattle today were
Mrs. Jas. K. Dunn, P. Fitzgerald, T.
H. Jasper, G. F. Mumford, Billy J.
Porter, and Viola Porter.
STOCK MARKET
HAS TENDENCY
SHOW GAINS
NEW YORK, Aug. 25. —Ignoring
the sag in the price of grain, the
stock market Thursday saw sever -
al issues gain fractions to one or
more points, while several issues
skyrocketed. The Homestake mine
issue soared 13 points. The trading
was dull but the price was bouyed
by talk of inflation. The market
closed firm.
Dow Jones’ averages for the days’
trading was Industrials 101.41, up
1.3; Rails 51.09. up .58; Utilities
30.23. up .18; bonds 87.78, off .1.
September wheat closed at 85"e;
Cotton $9.60; Copper 9; export cop
per .0815; silver 36%; lead 4 50.
Several of the latest quotations
were Alaska Juneau 2878, Am. Rad.
16. Am. Tel and Tel. 12734, Chi.
Mil. (pfdi 141/4, Gen. Mot.. 32%,
Kenn. 2134, New York Cent. 42*4,
United Air. 371:.-. United Corp. 8*4,
U. S. Steel 5534, West. 45, United
Gas 4|3, Premier 8V8.
EQUIPOISE IS
WINNER OF THE
CHICAGO RACE
CHICAGO, Aug. 25. —After a stir
ring stretch in which Gallant Sir,
handicap champion of the West,
raced stride for stride with him,
Cornelius Vanderbilt W h it n e y's
great five-year old thoroughbreo
Equipoise came on in to win the
$25,000 Hawthorne Gold Cup race
yesterday in the last furlong.
With a crowd of 20.000 persons
cheering him on the little bay,
son of Pennant Swinging, finished
two lengths ahead of Gallant Si”
after one of the closest races in his
tory.
The victory was Equipoise’s sixth
consecutive triumph of the season
The purse of $17,250 increased his
total winnings to $314,420, making
him the third highest money win
ner on the American turf.
He is exceeded only by Sun Bear
and Gallant Fox.
A heavily backed odds on the
favorite, Equipoise, paid $2.36 in $:.
mutuals to win and $2.10 to place
The “Show Price” was out of the
race. He went to the post as a one
to five favorite.
St. Michael Trader
Returning Home
Chas. J. Backlund, of St. Michael,
in the Seward Peninsula, who has
been in the States on a months
vacation, arrived in Seward on th’e
SS. Yukon and remained here for
a few hours today to attend to
some local business. He planned to
go to Anchorage today and from
there will possibly fly to Marshall,
From Marshall he 'will go to St,
Michaels.
Mr. Backlund is a real sourdough
of Alaska having been in the North
for more than 30 years. He operates
a trading post at St. Michaels.
SPIDER WON
VENTURA, Calif., Aug. 25. —A
black spider and a seven-inch
tarantula waged a battle to death
and the spider won. For two days
they fought, using as an arena,
the inside of a quart fruit iar. Mrs.
C. S. Litel placed the jar in the
window and it drew many curious
onlookers. The spider failed to spirt
the customery web about its ad
versary, but its bite proved to be
fatal.