MEMBER AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
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VOLUME XVI. NUMBER 150. SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JULY 7, 1931.
PRICE TEN CENTS
GRAF ZEPPELIN RESTING
FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany,
July 6. (/P)—The Graf Zeppelin is
resting in her hangar here after
a four-day cruise to Iceland and
return. The huge dirigible had
added 3.000 additional miles of
travel to her record when she
landed here.
STILL ADDING SPEED RECORDS
ST. HUBERT AIRPORT, Mon
treal, July 6. UP)— Roaring thru
rainstorms and low clouds at an
average speed of 180 miles per
hour. Captain Frank Hawks, Unit
ed States speed flier, shortened
the flying time between Quebec
and Montreal to 50 minutes.
FOOD POISONING FATAL
GREELEY, Colo., July 6. (A5)—
Two brothers are dead, victims of
botulism, and three children are
D1 in a hospital here as a result
of food poisoning. The dead are
Pete Kobach, 21, and Valentine,
13, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Anton Ko
bach, farmers of Purcell, Colo.
ANOTHER TOKYO FLIGHT
LE BOURGET FIELD, Paris, July
6. (TP)—Joseph Lebrix and Martin
Doret, French long-distance fliers,
arrived here from Tours, in their
airplane, “Hyphen,” preparatory to
an attempt to make a non-stop
flight to Tokyo.
DEFEATS BRITISH FAVORITE
WIMBLETON, England. July 6.
—(^PiHelen Jacobs, the Pacific
Coast star, flashed a surprise upset
in the Wimbleton women’s singles
tournament when she defeated the
British favorite, Betty Nuthall,
£-2 and 6-3.
LIVING COST FALLS
OTTAWA, Canada, July 6. (AP) —
The cost of living for the average
citizen in Canada has fallen 12
per cent during the last 12 months
but the wage scale of key indus
tries has not fallen in proportion.
FIREMAN RECOVERING
EUREKA, Calif., July 6, (/P>— J.
J. St. Clair, fireman on the Pa
cific Steamship Company’s Steam
er Admiral Sebree who was brot
to this city from sea Monday by
the Humboldt Bay Coast Guard
crew suffering from appendicitis,
is recovering. He was operated
upon immediately after his arrival.
SETS WORLD RECORD
p' DAYTON, Ohio, July 6. (&)—The
low wing monoplane built by Rich
ard Herrick, 15, of Champaign,
111., set a world record for sus
tained flight by a stout fuselage
model here, flying 16 minutes and
eight seconds, in the annual con
test of the Model Airplane League
of America,
IROQUOIS REPLACES HARVARD
SAN FRANCISCO, July 6, (/P)—
On her maiden voyage in the
Coastwise Servise of the Los An
geles Steamship Company the
Steamer Iroquois will arrive in San
Francisco Bay early, replacing the
the ill-fated SS. Harvard, which
was wrecked May 30 on the rocks
near Point Arguello. The Iroquois
will run in service with the Yale,
each making three round trips to
San Pedro weekly. She is a larger
passenger carrier than the Yale
and is expected to average 20
knots on her trips.
TO QUELL DISORDERS
TOKYO, July 7. (£*)— The War
Office announced a movement of
Japanese troops to the scenes of
clashes between Chinese and Ko
reans which in two days resulted
in "82 deaths and hundreds of in
jured.
The soldiers have been sent to
cooperate with Japanese gen
darmes in keeping order. Fifty
officers and men were sent to
Pangyang where 62 Chinese were
slain by infuriated Koreans. Thirty
officers and men were dispatched
to Chemulpo where other fatalities
occurred.
QUESTION OF PRESIDEfICY
BEFORE GERMAN PEOPLE
BERLIN, July 6. {JP)—'Who will
be the next President of Germany
when the term of Field Marshal
Von Hindenburg expires May 12,
1932? The question is beginning
to agitate the public mind.
“Our Hindenburg,” as he is called
j by Germans, has come to be re
i garded as something like a perma
nent institution, but he will be 84
years old next October and it is
reasonable to suppose that retire
ment, from which he came at
Kaiser Wilhelm’s bidding 17 years
I ago, is now due him.
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PARIS, July 6. (/P)—The Harves
News Agency said Mellon and
Edge have arranged a new form
; ulaof agreement of the morator
ium plan and telephoned Wash
ington. They hope a reply will
be available before this afternoon’s
meeting.
The sole stumbling block to the
accord appeared to be the prob
lem whether deliveries in kind by
Germany will be suspended. The
United States is willing to dele
gate this issue to commission ex
perts with the understanding the
decision will be in harmony with
the spirit of Hoover’s proposal
that there be a real and entire
suspension of reparations by Ger
many for one year.
HEAT PROSTRATION
DETROIT, July 7. (A*)—More than
150 persons of the Ford Motor Co.
;at the Rouge River plant and foun
dry were treated for heat prostra
tion in the emergency hospital of
the plant. The foundry was closed
and many employees in other sec
tions were ordered to go home be
cause of the heat.
DIES ON GUILLOTINE
COLOGNE, Gernamy, July
—Peter Auerten of Dusseldorf, who
was convicted of a number of
gruesome murders in 1928 and 1929,
died on the guillotine. The execu
tion was carried out in the pre
ence of the presiding judge, the
prosecuting attorney, officials of
the Ministry of Justice and a jury
of 12 citizens.
TEXT OF PROTOCOL AND CHIEF
STIPULATIONS MADE
KNOWN
I PARIS, July 7. (JP)—With the ink
; hardly dry on the documents es_
tablLshing President Hoover’s mor
atorium, negotiations are already
under way for a meeting of ex
perts to work out the technical
issues involved in the Franco
American protocol accepting the
Hoover plan.
Such a conference may be held
the end of this week, but more
likely will go over to next week be
cause of the French national hol
iday, July 14. The text of the
agreement lists the following stip
ulations:
Payment of intergovernmental
war debts, postponed from July 1
through to June 30 of next year;
Germany to pay the unconditional
[ annuity of the Young plan to
I bank international settlements
! which in turn will reloan it to
j Germany and suspended payments
be subject to interest and be re
payable in 10 annual installments.
REP. GRAHAM DIES
ISLIP. N. Y., July 6. f/P>—Repre- 5
sentative George S. Graham. 81, ■
of Pennsylvania, chairman of the !
House Judiciary Committee, died
at his summer home. He was the
oldest member of either house in .
'Congress and was dean of the large ;
Republican delegation from the
Keystone State. Hoover dispatched
! his condolence. Graham had
served nine consecutive terms.
TELEGRAPH MIES
MINES TO RESUME
LEADVILE, Colo., July 6. (/P) —
Following several years’ idleness,
the South Ibex and Garbut prop- j
erties are being reopened by John
Cortellini. He has formerly operat
ed the South Ibex and knows ev
ery foot of the underground work
ings.
DIVES, VANISHES
LOS ANGELES, July 6. (JP)—A girl
who craved excitement has emu
lated Aimee Semple McPherson,
evangelist, in diving into the
breakers at a nearby beach and
disappearing. The girl is Barbara
Speicher, 14, pretty daughter of
E. G. Speicher, Salt Lake City
! merchant.
COL. CURRIE PASSES
| MIAMI, Fla., July 6. (£>)—Colonel
[John E. Currie, 69, Toronto, former
I member of the Canadian House
of Commons, died. He was one of
the most romantic figures of Ca
nadian military history.
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PROHIBITION, FAILURE
UNIVERSITY, Va., July 6. (JP)—
National prohibition was attacked
as a failure, and later praised by
speakers at the Institute of Public
Affairs. James W. Wadsworth, Jr,,
former U. S. Senator from New
York, made a plea for repeal of the
18th amendment.
EXPRESSES ELATION
BERLIN, July 7. (JP)—The signing
of the moratorium agreement was
| greeted with gratitude by officials
and commoners through Curtius,
who expressed elation. “It was
the very highest time, not only
for us, but for all concerned. What
Mellon did was simply grandoise
and I am very happy that this
test of nerves is over,” he said.
The world has been promised
by the government that the money
may be used without exception
for the country’s economic recov.
ery.
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 6. (/P)
—Sharp criticism of the Federal
Farm Board by Vice President
Curtis intensified belief that he j
will forsake the vice presidency
next year to seek his old Senate
seat, according to reports from;
Kansas.
Curtis will come to Washington !
with Senator Arthur Capper to
ask a change in the Farm Board’s |
policy in disposing of the wheat j
surplus. Curtis believes the wheat j
should be kept off the market;
temporarily until the price rises. !
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LICENSES OF THE
OFFICERS SUSPENDED
WRECK OF SO OHIO
j SAN PEDRO, July 7. (/P)—'The
I wreck of the luxurious coastal
j liner Harvard May 30 on Point
! Arguello was due to unskillfulness,
j malignence, inattention to duty
I of the officers, according to find
! ings by Captain J, K. Bullinger,
j chief of the Steamboat Inspection
1 Service.
j Three licenses were suspended:
i Captain Lyle Hillsinger for four
I months, Second Mate George Mc
; Ivers for one year, and Third Mate
Oscar Anderson for 15 days.
The hearings conducted by J.
A. Moody and S. A. Kennedy, of
the Steamboat Inspection Service,
on the question of drunkenness,
was decreed that none of the offi-,
cers of the liner were intoxicated
at the time she grounded.
EIGHT CHILDREN BURN
JONQUIELS, Quebec, July 6. (/P)
—Eight children, ranging in age
from 11 months to 11 years, were
burned to death when the home
of Laviere Potuin, farmer, was de
stroyed by fire. Mrs. Potuin suf
fered severe burns and shock of
the loss of the children, and is
not expected to live.
HONOR GUEST OF SOCIETY
LONDON, July 6. (JP)— Ramsay
MacDonald, Great Britain’s labor
premier, will be the honored guest
and principle speaker this evening
at the Independence Day dinner
to be given by the American So- j
ciety in London. In the absence
of Ambassador Charles G. Dawes,
Raymond Atherton, counsellor of
the American Embassy, will pre
side.
$29,000,000 FOR ROADS
WASHINGTON, D. C. July 6. (£>)
—Appropriations for road and trav
el construction in the national
park and monument system have
totaled $29,000,000 since 1925.
HALIBUT PRICES
SEATTLE, July 7. (&)—Five ves
sels with 88,000 pounds of halibut
received 5c and IOV2C per pound.
At Prince Rupert 218,000 pounds
of American halibut brought 3c
and 8.04c and Canadian, 3c and
6.01c per pound.
O. K. WITH CREDITORS
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 7. </P)
—The accord between the United
States and France for a one-year
moratorium on inter-government
al debt payments was announced
| by President Hoover who has been
I in touch with Mellon. All im
jportant creditors have not accept
ed the plan.
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FUEL DUMPS GRANTED
i TOKYO, July 7. (£>)—'The Avia
I tion Bureau announced that Col.
j Chas. A. Lindbergh has been
' granted permission to establish
! fuel dumps at Muroton, on Shimu
i shiru Island, Kakumabetsu and
i Paramushir, all in the Kuriles, to
laid him in his projected Pacific
j flight.
NEW PLANET FOUND
KYOTO, Japan, July 7. (^—Dis
covery of a new planetoid by the
astronomical observatory is an
nounced. It is calculated to be
i 11,000 miles in diameter and some
! what larger than the earth. Its
distance is figured at 180,000,000
miles; the position is given as in
the area south of the “snake
charmer” constellation.
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16 NEW AIR MAIL ROUTES
! WASHINGTON, D. C., July 6. (/P)
—The Postoffice Department an
nounced establishment of 16 new
air mail routes, which, when put
into operation, will put the United
Stats far ahead of any other na
tion in number of miles of air
transportation flown daily.
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DOUBTS DISCOVERY
PASADENA, Calif., July 7. (/P)—
Doctor W. S. Adams, head of the
Mount Wilson observatory, said he
doubted the discovery of the planet
as reported from Kyoto and said
one that large would have been
discovered before now.
CHURCHES PROTEST
NEW YORI$, July 6. (JP)—‘The
Department of Research and Edu
cation of the Federal Council of
Churches made public its report
on the activities of Will Hayes,
motion picture distributor and pro
ducer. The organization report
states that the character of the
current films is unsatisfactory to
the Protestant churches.
ALARMED ABOUT ROBINSON
EVANSTON, 111., Juy 6.
Miss Johanna Donnelly was alarm
ed about Willard Robinson. She
had an engagement with him. He
failed to keep it and all her at
tempts to comunicate with him
failed. She Appealed to the Police.
They found him in his home sit
ting in the bathtub, where he said
he had been reading magazines
ever since the current heat wave
began.