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MEMBEP ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXIX. Numbers 246-2'47.
SEWARD, ALASKA,
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1933.
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t NEW YORK, Oct. 21, —Copyright
by the Associated Press—With the
announcement of the forthcoming
President. Roosevelt-Litvinoff rec
ognition of Russia conversations, it
was authoritatively learned that
several Wall Street banks were
preparing to ease credit immediate
ly for increased Soviet sales by dis
counting acceptances of the Am
torg Trading Corporation.
P Discounts are something Wall
Street has shied from since Soviet
repudiation. It has been learned
that bankers are ready to make
loans direct to the Amtorg Rus
sian agency. One of the largest
financial institutions has already
notified several industries engaged
\p trade with Russia of its dis
counting intention.
It is also felt in certain well-in
formed circles that the conversa
tions between the President and
Soviet Commissar of Foreign Af
fairs will lead to heavy extension
of Federal credit.
France Stunned
By Embargo On
Foreign Liquors
PARIS, Oct. 21, —The French
government, whose hopes of a lu
crative liquor trade in the United
States have bounded higher with
each successive vote for repeal of
the 18th amendment, was stunned
to hear of President Roosevelt’s
embargo against foreign liquor im
portations.
Diplomatic conversations were
launched immediately to determine
the whys and wherefores of the
President’s action, and particularly
to ascertain whether France’s re
fusal to pay her foreign debt to
fcthe United States was responsible.
G. 0. P. Secretary
Resigns Position
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 21. —
Joseph R. Nutt of Cleveland who
raised money to finance Herbert
Hover’s two campaigns for the
presidency, resigned as treasurer
of the Republican National Com
mittee
George F. Getz, Chicago coal
man, and chairman of the Repub
lican National Committee, an
nounced the resignation and re
gretted Nutt felt it necessary to
resign the office.
Swims From Prison
Isle To Mainland
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 21, —Al
catraz Island is not such a tough
place to get away from after all.
The United States disciplinary
^barracks, which are scheduled to
become a prison for the most des
perate federal prisoners, was the
taking-off spot for the first wom
an to swim from the island to the
mainland.
She was Miss Pastalia Scott, 16,
Galileo high school student, who
resides at Alcatraz where her fath
er' is an Army sergeant.
ALASKAN APPOINTED
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 21, —
The Industrial Advisory Board of
the NRA appointed Ben R. Hart,
vice-president of the Alaska Pack
er! Association, of San Francisco,
to represent them at the Pacific
Coast fisheries hearings on a fish
eries code. Representatives were
also appointed for the Great Lakes,
Atlantic seaboard and Southern
fisheries.
\ J
LOANS TO FARMERS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 21, —
President Roosevelt and his cabi
net seriously considered a plan for
offering government loans to farm- J
ers to permit them to hold their!
crops during the price-sagging
period.
PREMIER'S FIGHT
FOR CABINET AND
FRANCE, STARTS
PARIS, Oct. 21, —The govern
ment's chances of surviving im
proved overnight as supporters
of the Premier frightened Social
ists with the prediction that the
right wing will gain control if the
cabinet fell.
Premier Daladier’s fight for the
cabinet’s life and for the protect
ion of France will begin openly on
Sunday when the Chamber of Dep
uties debate begins.
Despite improvements in the
situation the Cabinet admitted the
| precariousness of its position but
! will face the opposition with many
! bugetary measures, particularly
j in reduction in functionaries, sal
1 aries and pensions.
ISSUES PROCLAMATION
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 21, —
President Roosevelt issued a pro
clamation calling for national ob
servance of Armistice Day, Novem
ber ll.
Dogs Suffocated
On Sea Voyage
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 21, —The
aftermath to the death of 28 rac
ing greyhounds enroute here from
Seattle by sea several months ago,
took place when L. W. Thomas and
Butler Brooks, owners, filed a suit
for $34,050 damages against the
Pacific Steamship Company.
The dog owners charged steam
ship employees pulled heavy tar
paulins so tightly over the kennel
cages that the dogs suffocated.
The hounds had been racing at
the Seattle Amusement Park and
were being taken south for other
races.
Germay Bound
By Covenant, Said
GENEVA, Oct. 21, —League of
j Nation officials emphasized that
j Germany is bound indefinitely by
the covenant of the League, despite
its resignation, since the covenant
is part of the treaty of Versailles.
| Japan resigned because the
i League condemned her Manchur
; .
; ian policy.
Germany’s protest is that the
I League has not done enough for
| her.
Prostrate Business
Expected To Pick Up
NEW YORK, Oct. 21, —The busi
ness situation continues spotty al
though retail distribution has
been making a fair showing, Dun
& Bradstreet Weekly Trade Review
said yesterday.
“Wholesale buying,” continued
the Review, “fluctuated from day
to day and industrial activities
emerged slowly from the grip of
strikes, which had held many div
isions prostrate for nearly one
month.”
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STRIKERS TANGLED
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 21, —With
women scratching, screaming and
clothing partly torn away, street
fighting broke out anew in the
downtown section as pickets of the
International Ladies Garment
Workers Union and police and
strikebreakers tangled in a series
of melees.
GERMANY MAKES
FORMAL REQUEST
LEAVE LEAGUE
—
GENEVA, Oct. 21, —Germany’s
divorce from organized interna
tional life, is now complete, with
! the arrival of an official note an
nouncing her withdrawal from
the League of Nations.
Germany also announced with
drawal from the international lab
or organization which held its first
conference at Washington.
There was no discussian as to fu
ture relations of Germany with
the League as the German consul
presented the document, dressed
in a funeral black suit* and white
cravatte.
Men Accused of
Taking Thousands
Dollars, Fishermen
—
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 21, ^Four
I men were charged by State Labor
i Commission with mulcting Alas
kan fisheries workmen out of
thousands of dollars and appeared
before U. S. Commissioner E. E.
; Williams Thursday to face grand
jury indictments returned secretly
on Tuesday.
The men are Samuel Houng, E.
P. Mayer, Arthur Mayer and Meli
toji Torres.
| They are charged specifically in
i the indictments of conspiracy to
violate Federal liquor laws. They
were released under $5,000 bail
each.
It was charged labor contractors
made condition, getting jobs for
men by buying liquor from fore
men of Alaskan canneries and that
$5 or $6 a pint was their pay.
RATHER EMBARRASSING
j PERU, Ind., Oct. 21, —Two gun
men invaded the Peru city police
station last night, herded three of
ficers into the basement and es
caped with machine guns, rifles
and revolvers. Three men made a
similar arms raid on a police sta
tion at Auburn, Ind., last week.
ABOUT” MICHAEL GLYNN
Michael Glynn, from Schooner Bend, Kenai river, is in town
for the purpose of buying his winter’s supply of the good things
of life.
Michael will pay for them with several vials filled with gold
dust—not nuggets. Just how much Michael has in the bottles is
his own business. But those who have seen them have seen
something more than gold dust. They have seen the fruition of
a resolve made two years ago when day labor in his region ceas
ed. He said he would win his way from nature.
And he has. Every day’s work he has performed has been
for Michael Glynn & Co. The company is Mrs. Glynn, young, and
epitomizing the old ballad: “When Irish eyes are smiling.”
Michael “wanted the gold and he found it”—not big gobs,
but the usual fine stuff on the bars and along the rim of the
river. In finding it he washed many a pan of dirt before he hit
upon the spot where he has been able to long-tom out as high
as 11 pennyweights per diem. He found it just below his cabin.
Then he built a water wheel. When the water left it high and
dry he set up his long-tom, and while Mrs. Glynn lifted and
poured hundreds of buckets of water into the box, Michael pol
ished a pick and shovel.
Others have sniped the bars, but none have equalled Mich
ael’s cleanup. And while he and his wife were doing it, they
raised a garden, preserved wild berries, put up fish, moose meat
and mountain sheep.
Michael will trap during the winter, and be prepared to hit
the pay streak again as soon as the water begins to run in
spring.
When Mike throws his brogans under the table it is to
tackle a Lucullian feast. If you don’t believe it, drop in on Mich
ael and Mr$. Glynn any time and receive the engaging Irish
smile and finish Service's lines:
“But somehow the gold isn’t alL”
Michael says it is the sport of winning on his program to
keep out of the labor ranks.
And by the way he’s a first-class cabinet maker.
NORTHWESTERN SAILS
SEATTLE, Oct. 21, —The Liner
Northwestern sailed for Seward to
day with the following passengers
for Seward: Alice Griggs, Fannie
Miller, Miss M. Patrick, Sylvia Erd
mann, Mrs. E. Wilson, Ruth Sav
age, Peter Jepson, Mrs. M. Palmer,
Warren Palmer.
NEBRASKA FAILS
SEE BENEFITS OF
NRA CAMPAIGN
LINCOLN, Nebr. Oct. 21, —A re
volt against the NRA broke out in
Nebraska, on Thursday, by Nebras
ka home insurgent political lead
ers. Gov. Charles W. Bryan said
farmers throats are being “cut
from ear to ear” by the abandon
ment of anti-trust laws and de
clining farm prices.
He urged inflation instead of
pouring money in at the top.
Former Governor Keith Neville,
another Democrat, announced his
resignation as State NRA chairman
because of lack of sympathy to its
program in the agricultural terri
tory. He said price changes pro
duced virtually a buyers’ strike
among farmers.
Senator Norris, independent Re
publican who supported President
Roosevelt, sent a second appeal to
the President to inflate currency
by retiring a billion and one-half
dollars in Liberty bonds with new
currency instead of refunding them
with another.
Democratic leader and Con
gressman E. R. Burke, expressed
regret at Bryan’s criticism of the
Recovery program; he said he
£nows the President will throw the
force of his administration behind
any move to help the farmer.
DECISIONED OVER PENA
HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Oct. 21, —
Georgie Hensford, 19 year-old Los
Angeles boxer, took a decision over
Johnny Pena, of San Francisco, in
their 10-round main event last nite
in the American Legion Stadium.
Hensford weighed 126 pounds and
Pena tipped the scales at 127. Pena
was floored for the nine count in
the first and second rounds but
was the aggressor throughout.
MOSCOW IS IN
CHEERY SPIRIT
! OVER EVENTS
MOSCOW, Oct. 21, —As recog
nition developments were greeted
with cheers and wild enthusiasm
throughout the Soviet Union, lead
ers indicated. . Russia hopes- for
three-fold results from resumption
from official relations.
Namely, these are: greatly in
, creased credit facilities, lifting of
American barriers against some of
' its goods, and strengthening of its
' position in the Far East as regards
Russo-Japanese relations.
! Russia, believing that the world
: economic situation has worked it
into a position to bargain with the
United States in its bid for trade,
is expected to ask the United
States to meet two terms, if trade
is restored on a big scale. These and
, sufficient credits with which to
make purchases in America, and
removal of American restrictions
against Soviet goods.
Ask For Reason In
Liquor Advertising
j NEW YORK, Oct. 21, —In the
belief that advertising of liquor,
other than light wines and beer,
should be rigidly restricted or for
bidden, where possible, the Rock
j efeller liquor survey cautioned
against advertising drives for sale
of alcoholic beverages.
The report said that unless ad -
vertising mediums accept reason •
i able restrictions willingly for this
I kind of advertising “there will un -
i doubtedly be, in the near future,
| complete prohibition of all kinds
of liquor advertising with extensive
Federal legislation as well as state
codes.”
Funeral Services
Held for Alaskan
| '
SEATTLE, Oct. 21, —Funeral ser
j vices were to be held tods^ for
Mrs. Lulu Fairburn, 64, wife 0$
David Fairburn, postmaster at
Fairbanks, who died Thursday nite
in a hospital after two weeks ill
ness.
Mrs. Fairburn had been vistiing
her son, O. G. Fairburn, Seattle
manager of the Veterans’ Bureau.
Mrs. Fairburn taught school in
Fairbanks for the past 22 years.
Experts Forecast
Speedy recognition
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 21, —
Speedy recognition of Soviet Rus
sia and a resultant boom in Rus
iso-American trade, is forecast by
foreign trade experts.
I The President said to newspaper
l men that the time has come to end
the present abnormal relations be
tween the two countries.
The announcement brought fav
orable reaction within the capital;
some officials expressed the opin
ion privately that the conversa
tions, which are to be held in two
weeks, will solve the difficulties.
Bandits Kill Man
for $1,000 Payroll
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Oct. 21, —
Adolph Sommer, 86, wealthy scien
! tist and manufacturer, was shot
j and killed outside his plant by
! bandits.
j They escaped with $1,050, the
payroll which Sommer was con
veying from the bank. Because of
secret processes employed in man
ufacturing art gum and other pro
ducts, Mr. Sommer lived in an
apartment in the factory building
with his wife.