MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXIX. NUMBER 116.
SEWARD, ALASKA,THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1933.
PRICE TEN CEBITS
FOREST SERVICE AUTHORIZED
TO EMPLOY 325 MEN IN
CONSTRUCTION WORK
President Roosevelt has approved
a program designed to give em
ployment to a maximum of 325
Alaskan unemployed on emergency
conservation work in the Territory,
according to an announcement
made the Juneau Regional head
quarters of the United States For
est Service.
Camps w7ill be established thru
out the National Forest areas of
Alaska, it was said. The Govern
ment will pay $1 a day in wages,
/ and furnish food, clothing, hous
ing, transportation and medical at
tendance.
Start in Short Time
The Alaska program has been
worked out in Washington by Re
gional Forester C. H. Flory. who
left there last week enroute home.
M. L. Merritt, Assistant Regional
Forester, left on the steamer Yukon
for Seattle enroute to Portland
where he will meet Mr. Flory and
work out details fos establishing
camps, obtaining equipment and
supplies unobtainable locally.
The Forest Service, which will
have complete charge of the work,
plans to launch the program early
in June, it was announced by Harry
Sperling, Purchasing Agent. It will
consist mainly of forest develop
ment roads and trails. The projects
covered by the program, he said,
will be made public by Mr. Flory
upon his return.
Allotment Expected at Once
Assistant Regional Forester B. F.
Heintzleman, detached from head
quarters to assist in the national
organization for the emergency
conservation program and now
making his headquarters in Wash
ington, telegraphed Regional head
quarters that the allotment of
funds was expected to be made at
once, possibly today. The sum to
be made available was not men
tioned.
The Forest Service will select the
men to be employed. Physically
sound men are the first require
ment, and medical examinations
by the Public Health Service will
be made preliminary to employ
ment. Preference will be given to
those in greatest need.
Five Months Work
The plans calls for carrying on
the work for five months, Mr.
Sperling said. The first camp prob
ably will be opened at Ketchikan,
and succeeding camps opened up as
rapidly as possible
It is hoped to get all of the
camps opened within a short time
after June 1.
HEAVIES BATTLE TO DRAW
FORTLAND, Or., May 17—K. O.
Christner of Akron and Frank Van
Hee of Seattle fought ten fast
rounds to a draw last night, in
the main event of the fight card
here. Christner weighed 206, five
pounds more than Van Hee.
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MORE SECURE
SAN FRANCISCO, May 17.—Sac
ramento’s lead in the Coast League
pennant struggle was a little more
secure following the Senator’s 7
to 2 triumph over Portland, while
a second division uprising was
bringing defeat to Los Angeles and
Hollywood.
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GOAT MOTHERING COLT
CANTON, 111., May 18, —A goat
owned by Lester Essex, near here,
is mothering a colt in place of her
two kids which were killed by a
wolf. Mr. Essex built a special
platform for the goat to stand on
and feed the colt.
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URGE CERMAK MEMORIAL
OKLAHOMA CITY, May 18. —
A “lasting’ living memorial” to
Mayor Anton Cermak of Chicago,
slain by an assassin who attemp
ted to kill President Roosevelt, has
been suggested by the Oklahoma
legislature.
SPECIAL SALES TAX
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 17.—
Enactment of a manufacturers’
sales tax to finance the adminis
tration’s $3,300,000,000 public works
program, if payment of the soldiers
bonus to the needy is coupled with
it, was proposed by a group of
House leaders as the President pre
pared to send his public works
! message to Congress.
ROOSEVELT 11
UPPER. TO TOE SUITES
TO SPEED IJP REPUL
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 17.—
President Roosevelt is understood
to be considering appealing to the
states to .speed repeal of prohibi
tion. Convinced that national
sentiment predominately favors!
repeal, Mr. Roosevelt is said to feel j
that the process of removing the
Eighteenth amendment from the.
Constitution should be expedited!
as much as possible. Five states,!
Michigan, Wisconsin, Rhode Island, J
Wyoming and New Jersey, so far j
have ratified the repeal amend
ment or elected wet conventions,
which will ratify- Thirty-one more
ratifications are necessasy.
PLAN 1N0VI1G'
DRIVE IN BIG NORTH
CAROLINA METROPOLIS
CHARLOTTE, N. C., May 18. —
Charlotte plans to launch a “reno
vising” drive which it is estimated
may result in $500,000 to $1,000,000
in repair, repainting and renova
ting work.
Details of the campaign have not
been completed, but 75 citizens held
a meeting to select leaders and to
organize for making a thorough
canvass of the city.
Volunteer workers will compose
most of the organization for carry
ing on the campaign. Earle Whit
ton, president of the chamber fo
commerce, says the campaign will
be continued for five months.
CHI GLIMPSES HOPE
ROOSEVELT'S MIL
PEIPING, May 18. —China saw
hope in President Roosevelt’s ap
peal for peace and disarmament
today while soldiers constructed
sand bag fortifications in the
streets of Peiping, and long col
umns of poorly-equipped Chinese
soldiers moved to the front. Gen
eral Ho Ying Ching, Chinese Min
ister of war, marshaled the last
strength of North China to keep
the Japanese out of Peiping.
MORE TROPHIES
ST. LOUIS, May 18. —Articles
from France, Japan. Colombia,
Mexico, and the United States were
included in a new box of memen
toes recently sent by Col. and MTs.
Charles A. Lindbergh to be added
to the collection of the Missouri
Historical Society here.
STOCK QUOmiONS
Dow Jones industrials closed, off
0.34; rails, off 0.12 utilities, up
0.19; bonds, up 0.31.
May sugar was 133 bid and July
Rio coffee 578.
May wheat closed 73 7-8.
Guilders were off 3 to 4728 and
French francs' were off 1 1-4 to
.04.62 3-4. Swiss francs were up
9 to 22.74. Montreal funds were
88.25.
Pig iron has been advanced 50c
a ton at Chicago, the first advance
in Chicago since 1928
Higher stock prices are looked
for after market has consolidated
its recent gains.
The Warrack Construction Com
pany was low bidder for the gen
eral construction work on the new
school building to be erected in
Fairbanks.
SEVEN YOUNG MEN,
WOMEN BE PRESENTED
WITH DIPLOMAS ME
The witching hour will arrive
this evening for seven bright young
men and women when they are
presented with diplomas showing
that they have given a good ac
count of their stewardship while
enrolled in the Seward public
schools.
These are the members of the
High School 1933 class. They in
clude the following:
Dorothea Fairman, Annie Evy
len Golley, Lois Elaine Jessen,
Charles Anthony Lange, Andrew
Peterson, Edwin Astrop Sandbeck,
and Doris Ellen Sullivan.
That these happy and fortunate
young people, standing upon the
threshold of a fuller life will meas
ure up to the hopes of their happy
parents and many friends is as
sured in view of the success which
has followed other graduates of the
Seward High School, both in com
mercial pursuits and in carrying on
further at the fountain of knowl
edge in higher seats of learning.
The satisfactor in this success
will be shared by the splendid staff
of teachers who have labored to
guide the youthful minds in their
work. Among these especially is
Superintendent V. H. Debolt .whose
tenure as principle has resulted in
bringing the Seward schools up to
a high degree of efficiency and giv
en impetus to the upward and on
ward progress of Alaskan educat
ional institutions.
MEMBERS DEPARTING
Superintendent DeBolt will spend
a month at Nuka Bay, combining
prospecting with a pleasant outing.
He goes to Fairbanks next year.
Of the High School staff, Oliv©
French will journey to the state
of Washington, sailing on the out
going SS Yukon; Sylvia Erdmann
will also board the Yukon for a
journey to Oregon; Mrs. Katherine
Rager will remain in Seward, as
will also Edith Kaemmer.
Of the grammar grades Miss
Sears will spend her vacation in
Oregon, traveling south on, the
ouptgoing SS Yukon; Miss Patricia
Ray will board the Yukon for a
visit in Seattle; Miss Sheets will
spend the summer in Seward;
Glenn. Rogers, who will be superin
tendent during the 1934 term, will
spend the summer in Moose Pass,
where he has placer interests and
where he will substitute a shovel
for his volume of Horace or Homer.
The 1933 school term ends Fri
day, and the kiddoes are a unit
in a vigorous denial that they have
petitioned a continuance of the
term for another month, have es
chewed all thought of vengeance,
such as licking the teacher, and
burning down the school house, in
anticipation of the joys awaiting
them during the golden summer.
THE STOCK MW
Am. Can 71 1-8, Am. Sug. ref.
57, Amer- T T 107 1-4, Ana. Cop.
12 7-8, Aviat. Corp. 11 1-8, Beth.
Steel 26, Borg Warner 12 7-8, B.
Balke 8 1-2, Case 61 3-4, Caterpil.
Trax 15, Chrysler 20, Cuban Am.
Sug. 6 1-4, Curtiss Wright 2 3-4,
Dome mines 21 1-2, DuPont Nit.
63 1-8, East. Kodaks 71 3-4, Elec.
Pow. Lt 86 3-4, Gen. Elec. 19 7-8,
Gen. Mot. 23 3-4, Goodyear 30 3-4,
Hercules Pow. 28 7-8, Hershey
Choco. 52, Int. Nick. Can. 13 3-4,
Int. T T 12 3-4, John-Mansville
30, Kennecott Corp. 17, Lig. Mey.
81, Mack Trux 33 1-8, Monty Ward
22 7-8, Nash Mot. 18, Nat. Biscuit
49 3-4, Nat Distil. 44 1-2, N. Y.
Central 28, Nor. Am. Aviat. 7, No.
Amer 25 5-8, Otis Elav. 17 3-8,
Pac. Gas and Elec. 15 3-4, Phillip
P. 11 1-8, Pullman 33 1-8, Radio
7 1-4, Rey. Tobac. 61, Seab. 30,
Sears Roe. 27 1-4, Sou. Cal. Ed.
21 7-8, Sou. Pac. 22 1-2, Std. Oil
Calif. 30 3-8, Std. Oil N. J. 34 3-8,
Tex. Gulf Sul. 26 1-4, Timk. Roll,
b 22, Un. Carb. 34 5-8, Unit. Air
craft 28 3-4, Unit. Carbon 20,
U. S. Indus. Alco. 33, U. S. Tobac.
| 82, West. Un. 40 7-8, Westinghouse
Air 24 1-4, West Elec. Mfg. 37 5-8,
Woolworth 36, Postal Tel. 14 3-4;
1 Gen. Aviat. 8, Transc. Air 4 3-4.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Boston 8, Cincinnati 0.
Pittsburg 6, Phillies 4.
Brooklyn 5, St. Louis 2.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
New York 4, Detroit 1.
Boston 7, St. Louis 3.
Washington 3, Cleveland 2.
Chicago 5, Phillies 2.
PACIFIC COAST
Missions 14, Los Angeles 12.
Oakland 5, Seattle 3.
San Francisco 1, Hollywood 0.
STEEL GASKET SIX FEET
UNDER MOTHER EARTH
NEW YORK, May 18. -Ray Rich
ards, 22-year-old sporting goods
salesman complains by long dis
tance telephone today that he has
an enemy who is endangering his
chances of winning $1,000 and im
mortal fame by asking him if his
feet itch.
Richard inaugurated the silly
season in glorious fashion by hav
ing himself buried alive in a steel
casket in front of Joseph Green
berg’s hot dog stand in Denville,
N. J. He has made a bet of $1,000
that he can stay in the casket, six
feet under the sod, for at least 42
days.
Richard is one of the “scien
tific” members of the No Brain
trust and has equipped himself
with a radio and a telephone. His
number is Rockaway 1064, but it
is difficult to get him since the
line is kept very busy.
“I am feeling all right,” he as
sured this reporter by telephone.
“But I am mad because my feet
are itching and I can’t get to
them. Some man keeps calling
me up about every three or four
hours. All he asks me is if my feet
itch. Of course my feet were not
itching, but he kept drilling it into
me so much that they started to
itch” Wowie.
PHOT MW FEIT
MOST POnilL WIT
CHICAGO, May 17.—“I hardly
felt it at all.” Thus did John J.
Mulcahy, 60, of St. Johns, N. F.,
the first cancer patient to submit
to treatment under the world’s
most powerful Xray machine, de
scribes his experience. There was
“no sensation whatever,” after five
minutes in the lead-lined radio
therapy chamber at Mercy Hospital
with 800,000 volts and 10 milliam
peres of electricity coursing thru
his body.
CANAL TRAFFIC SHOWS GAIN
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 17.—
Panama Canal traffic registered
a decided gain during March,
reaching the highest total of any
month since October, 1931. Cargo
moved thru the canal totaled 1,
783,227 long tons during March as
compared with 1,434,862 tons in
February and 1,632,000 in March of
last year, it was stated.
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RACQUET STARS LINE UP
SANTA BARBARA, Calif., May
17—Edward “Bud” Chandler and
Gerald Stratford will represent the
Northern California Tennis Associ
ation in the 43rd annual Pacific
Coast sectional mens’ doubles tour
nament here Friday, Saturday and
Sunday, officials of the champion
ship said.
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WAR ON PRAIRIE DOGS
RED ROCK, Okla. May 18 —
Northern Oklahoma’s township
boards are organized to fight a
scourge of prairie dogs, numerous
throughout the region because they
have never been molested on the
Indian reservations.
The jig-saw puzzle became a fad
in one other depression, from 1901
to 1909, and other sorts of puzzles
gained a great vogue in 1873.
NEW JERSEY IS WET
TRENTON, N. J., May 18, —With
the possible exception of Hunter
don county all New Jersey was
listed as wet yesterday with almost
complete returns tabulated from
Tuesday’s election of delegates to
a repeal convention. Several coun
ties regarded as strongly dry came
in wet by two to one majorities.
FINAL APPROVAL IS
GIVEN MUSCLE SUL
PROJECT BT ROUSE
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 18,—
The House gave final approval to
the Muscle Shoals development
program and sent it to the Presi
dent for signature.
Bonus marchers, after a visit
from Mrs. Roosevelt, were told to
join the forest army or quit the
Capital by Monday. Only one man
signed up.
The prosecution scored again in
the Senate impeachment trial of
Judge Harold Louderback of San
Francisco.
United States officials were hope
ful of success for the Geneva dis
armament conference as they
studied foreign reactions to Pres
ident Roosevelt’s peace plea in
cluding Adolf Hitler’s speech.
MOONEY BE BROUGHT
COURT STAND TRIAL
I SAN FRANCISCO, May 18, —In
reply to a motion by Attorney Leo
I Gallagher of the Mooney defense,
j Superior Judge Louis H. Ward an
nounced he will sign an order to
[ day for the sheriff to bring Tom
Mooney from San Quentin for his
trial on a murder impeachment
still pending from the 1916 Pre
paredness Day bombing.
The trial is set for next Monday.
CHAMP OUT IN FRONT
GLENEAGLE, Scotland, May 17.
—Ednid Wilson, defending cham
pion, and Diana Fishwick, cham
pion in 1930, had advanced thru
the second and third rounds of the
British women’ golf championship
with easy victories.
MUCH ‘HORSE PLAIT
SUSPECTED, ACTIONS
CHICAGO, May 17.—Maybe the
horse players’ fevered actions about
Head Play and Broker’s Tip isn’t
settled yet. Maybe it won’t come
to an unhappy conclusion until af
ter the running of the classic Am
erican Derby at Washington Park
on June 3. At that, it may be that
some other three-year-old whose
housemaids’ knee or lack of oats
kept him out of the Kentucky
Derby and the Preakness may be
champion of the turf. Who knows?
Indeed, who knows anything about
horse play?
‘JACKSON HOLE’ TRAPPER
LIVES ON $8 A MONTH
JACKSON, Wyo., May 18. —To
his own satisfaction at least, Louis
Hansen, trapper, has proved that
one may subsist on as little as $8
a month, or 9 cent a meal, over a
150-day period, about $8 monthly.
Of course, to the provisions pur
chased with that limited amount
Hansen added his stock of self
suplied elk meat, while he remain
ed in isolation in his cabin on
Granite Creek here for five months.
JAMES CABIN STANDING
NASHVILLE, Tenn., May 18. —
The log cabin near Bordeaux where
Jesse James and his brother, Prank,
lived while in Tennessee still
stands and is now owned by E. B.
Smith. Mrs. Mary James Barr,
daughter of the famous Jesse
James, visited her birthplace not
long ago.
SIGNATURES BEING
OBTAINED HEALTH
SEWARD. MEDICAL CENTER OP
ALASKA IS THE GOAL OF
ORGANIZATION
A movement, which if carried to
completion, promises to make of
Seward not only the medical cen
ter of Western and Central West
ern Alaska, but meet one of the
crying needs of society—cheaper
medical attention—has been set
into action by the Seward Com
munity Health Insurance plan,
and a number of signatures have
already been obtained.
The plan is what is known as the
group or physicians' guild, and is
patterned after plans now in op
eration in the States and which are
proving of untold advantage to the
beneficiaries.
Under the guild system, the cost
of full medical service will not ex
ceed $20 per person, and in the
event of general adoption on the*
part of those requiring health su
pervision and possible medical at
tention, the cost would be reduced
on the basis of volume, possibly
dropping to $16 per annum per
person, and eventually to as low as
$10.
In its general scope the plan af
fords medical insurance at rates
far below those now entailed un
der the individual treatment sys
tem.
Basing primary estimates of en
rollment in this health insurance
at 250 persons, the rate of $20 will
prevail. When this reaches 300 or
more, the rate would drop to ap
proximately $16, and on similar
progressions the rate would drop.
Taking a survey presented by
Evans Clark, in his “How to Budg
et Health,” as a fair epitome of
the question, it is pointed out that
even in ordinary times only the
richest tenth of the American peo
ple have any reasonable assurance
of being able to pay for the medical
care they might need. The trouble
was not that medical care was too
expensive, but what was actually
being expended would have been
enough to pay for adequate care
for everyone if costs and facilities
could have been distributed, al
though. actually, the records show,
two Americans out of five were
getting no medical or dental care
whatever.
SUCCESSFUL EVERYWHERk
It is also shown that in spite of
all that philanthropy and govern
ment have done in this country
for medical care of the poor, the
families with the lowest incomes
and least surplus over the costs of
the bare necessities of life actually
spend a higher proportion of in
come for medical care than do
those in relatively comfortable
circumstances.
Under the guild or group sys
tem the organization proposes
to introduce, once the fee was paid,
the subscriber will know that
medical bills could not leap up un
expectedly to crush him, however
serious an illness might occur.
The principle, as Mr. Clark points
out, is one which has been tried
successfully in various ways among
industrial and university groups,
l though typically not in as inclus
ive a form as he outlines. Since
the publication of his book leading
hospitals have manifested wide
spread interest in a not dissimilar
plan whereby people may be sure
of getting hospital service at need,
on payment of a small annual fee,
though in most instances the phy
sician’s fee is not included in the
arrangement. In California the
State Medical Society has approv
ed a plan for medical service for
annual fees worked out through
the local .medical societies.
Within their admitted limita
tions, however, the principles of
group organization and group pay
ment embodied in the proposal of
medical guilds offer great advan
tages to both doctors and patients.
Adopting the guild plan, includ
ing those provisions which have
made it a signal success and cloth
ed it with popularity, the plan
varies slightly only in matter of
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