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MEM8EP ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXIX. NUMBER 147.
SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JUNE 24, 1933.
PRICE TEN CENTS
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ECONOMIC OEIDLOCK
LONDON, June 24. —Bitter over
the refusal of the United States
to enter into a temporary cur
rency stabilization agreement, the
European gold bloc' frantically is
seeking ways and means of cling
ing to the gold standard. Reports
that Europe’s principal gold na
tion had gone off the gold stand
ard were being officially denied
by the nation concerned yester
day.
Headed by France, representa
tives of the old countries at the
World Economic Conference have
launched a series of private con
ferences in an attempt to agree up
on and determine their next move.
The American delegation was
successful in forcing the Cur
rency stabilization question into
the background and aas moved to
sponsor abundant credit and other
means of a sp-eedy WT-rld economic
recovery through non-operative ac
tion.
The Americans submitted a re
solution to the Monetary Com
mission outlining the United States
position on gold levels and credit
policy.
An extraordinary development in
the day’s news is a report from
Provincetowm, Mass., that the Navy
is standing by with a fleet ship
ready to rush President Roosevelt
to London should Secretary Ray
mond Moley, nowr en route to Lon
don. send the hurry-up call.
DOLLAR CONTINUES Cli
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NEW YORK, June 24- — The
stock market rebounded yesterday
from Thursday’s late shakeup
which added a fresh slump to
the dollar.
Trading was active with large
blocks of stock coimng out on the
tape. Further stimulus was the
weekend reviews which declared
that business had scored new
gains for the recovery. Another
reeport showed that six basic com
modities since the last of Feb
ruary. had scored a price advance
of 6 per cent.
Meanwhile, the dollar crashed to
new low levels as the British pound
soared to $4.24—up two and three
fourths cents—and the French
Franc climbed to .491 cents—up
one and one-half points.
At its current level the dollar
is worth about 80 cents against
the pound and the franc.
CHICAGO, June 24- —Jean Har-,
low, the “platinum blonde” mo-!
tion picture star, is a patient in
the local Mercy hospital, where
she is awaiting an operation for
a minor ailment.
She was to have departed for
Hollywood last Sunday after see
ing the Century of Progress Expo
sition and visiting with friends
here. The ailment, however, delay
ed her departure.
The Seattle Chamber of Com
merce was hosts to members of the
Seward Chamber of Commerce at
a dinner given last evening aboard
the liner Aleutian.
WHO IS MISINFORMED?
The Juneau Empire, quoting from the Gateway re
i specting the criticism of the administration of the rein
j deer industry, makes the observation that “the Gateway’s
: comment is evidently made without study of the report
I of the hearings and without knowledge of the contents
of the Trowbridge and Gilman report.” The Empire,
which is owned by Governor Troy, and whose policy is'
directed by him, tells us that th? reindeer industry is
now under the administrative direction of Governor
Troy and that matters of general policy must and will!
be approved by him. j
In the same editorial, criticising the Gateway, the
! Empire sets its stamp of approval upon the investigation
held by the committee headed by Cattleking Senator
Kendrick and Cattleking Senator Scott Leavitt of Mon
tana.
The documents from which the Gateway took its!
material as a basis of criticism is the mimeographed copy j
of the recommendations made by the Kendrick investiga-,
tion designated: “Department of the Interior, office of;
the Secretary, Survey of the Alaska Reindeer Service,!
1931-33.
On Page 14, paragraph three, under the heading of
“Marketing,” the report reads: “Your committee con
siders that it is neither practicable nor advisable for the
government to establish competitive marketing agencies, i
but firmly believes that existing facilities should be used
under conditions of mutual equity.”
Now let us see what are these marketing conditions:
Aside from the MS. North Star, wrhich handles In
terior Department supervised native reindeer, or rein
deer belonging to wards of the Interior Department, the
entire marketing facilities of reindeer are operated and
controlled by the Lomen Reindeer Corporation, a Wall!
Street organization, which took over control from Lorn- j
en Brothers.
The question raised by those agents of the old Bur- j
eau of Education, (Who, by the wray have practically j
been supplanted by a new set of appointees, including;
a Mr. Kendrick, relative of the Senator), was that with
out more adequate marketing facilities, the natives and
independent owners of deer in the Arctic are compelled j
to sell their deer to the Lomen Corporation at $3.00 per
head.
Unless Colonel Otto F. Ohlson, general manager of
the Alaska Railroad, is to be discredited, efforts made
by him to get deer routed via the Alaska Railroad failed
utterly. This deprived the railroad of a potential revenue
of (8100,000 annually.
With the North Star carrying but a few' hundred!
carcasses of deer out of Nome, where they have laid over
winter in cold storage, or slaughtered on the beaches!
in the absence of adequate abbatoirs, the Lomen Corpora- j
tion hold the key to the entire reindeer industry of the !
Territory.
That this is not, as the Empire says, “poppycock,”
note the paragraph from the official recommendations
of the investigating committee.
Of a total of 125,000 deer, representing the general!
roundup on the Seward Peninsula in 1932, the Lomens
are credited with 34,000. Thus native and independent
(Continued on page two) ,
BATTEL FORCE 051
COAST NORTHBOUND
SAN PEDRO, June 23# —The Un
ited States fleet flagship Pennsyl
vania was en route to San Francis
co to remain until July 1, herald
ing the northward movement of
the battle force.
The main body of this battle
force will depart from the San
Pedro and San Diego areas on
June 30 when, following a cruise
to Puget Sound, they are scheduled
to return August 26.
Pilot Kenny Neese, of the Mc
Gee Airways flew into Seward yes
terday afternoon from Anchorage
with passengers for the SS. Aleu
tian. Pilot Neese landed on the loc
al aviation field.
GARBLED SOS
SEATTLE, June 24. —Bremerton!
Navy radio operators and Seattle:
i amateurs report the picking up
of an S O S call and the call let
ters R M A Z— in garbled Rus
sian but as the message faded out
after the call letters nothing could
be determined as to the import of
the message. Some are of the op
inion that the message may have
something to do with the finding
of James Mattern or his plane.
WILD RUMORS
NEW YORK ,June 23. — Wild
rumors that France would go off
the gold standard knocked the
bottom out of the stock market.
Official denial of the report was
made by France, but not until
after the market had closed one
to three points lower under a de
luge of selling.
NEWS FLASHES
* Considerable uneasiness exist
ed among the United States dele
gates to the World Economic Con
ference today as a result of dev
elopments seeking to have the
United States join in a currency
stabilization agreement.
* Seattle authorities were on the
lookout today for Verne Sankey,
midwest outlaw who is wanted in
connection with several kidnap
pings. The police at Seattle receiv
ed a tip that Sankey was in the
vicinity of Centralia. It is believed
he has a sister-in-law. who lives
at Longview. «
* Canton authorities said that a
thousand Communists had been
killed in southern Kiamgsi pro
vince in a three-day battle with
Kwangtung Province troops. About
two hundred troopers were killed
in the action against the Reds.
* Unfavorable weather conditions
over the Alps today still prevented
the take-off of 25 hydroplanes on
the first leg of a flight to the
Chicago exposition.
S. S. YUKON EH ROUTE
WITH FI LISTING
SEATTLE, June 24. —The SS.
Yukon sailed from here this morn
ing with the following passengers
for Seward:
Katnerine Horton, S. E. Mills,
Robert Bloom, Rachel Good, F. S.
Gordon, Roy Nash, A. H. Marsh,
Marvin Eggleston, Mr. and Mrs.
S. M. Graff, Arthur Frame.
H. G. Rornig, J. E. Wilson, Dew
itt Hasbrouck, Mrs. Dewitt Has
brouck, Frances T e 1 s h e r. May
Phillips. Mrs. J. C. Edwards, Mabel
Edwards, Tommy Edwards, Charles
Purifoy, Mrs. Charles Purifoy, M.
Andresen and two steerage.
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FOR CHILD WELFARE
JERSEY CITY, N. J. June 24.— ,
The Hopewell home of Colonel and
Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh, from
where their first born son was
kidnapped in March, 1932, will be
come a children’s welfare center.
NO CHICAGO FIGHT
CHICAGO, June 24- —Chicago
will not get the fight between
Max Baer and the winner of the
Sharkey-Carnera battle June 29.
Jack Dempsey, promoter, here to
view the lightweight championship
fight between Barney Ross and
Tony Canzoneri, made that clear
upon his arrival here.
LOS ANGELES. June 24. —Speed
ing up the wheels of the giant
moving picture industry in Holly
wood and the formation of plans
for a $200,000,000 program of pub
lic works in Los Angeles county
marked the upward trend of con
ditions in Southern California.
With the reopening of Warner
Brothers’ First National studios af
ter a shut - down of three months
every major plant in Hollywood
was in production with ambitious
programs.
Mrs. Smith, wife of the superin
tendent of schools at Eklutna, was
a passenger on the train this
morning for Eklutna. She had
been receiving medical attenitonj
at the Seward General Hospital.
CENTRAL EUROPE IS
AGAIN FOMENTING
BECAUSE NAZI IRK
BERLIN, June 24.—Police re
port that the dropping of pamph
lets insulting to the German gov
ernment by unidentified foreign
airplanes has given rise to renew
ed Nazi objections to the Versailles
treaty which denied Germany an
air force
A number of foreign airplanes of
a type unknown in Germay circled
over the Wilhelmstrasse, where
the foreign office is located, and
dropped handbills described as in
sulting to the government. The
airplanes escaped without being
identified.
Meanwhile, Paul Loebe, leader of
the Socialists, who was proscribed
in a decree issued Thursday, has
been arrested for unrevealed rea
sons.
At Vienna the Austrian govern
ment answered the defiance of the
Nazi party by arresting Alfred
Fraunfeld, party leader. Fraunfeld
was arrested at the village known
as Villach. It was alleged that he
planned to cross the border into
Italy.
The action was taken after the
bombardment of the city of Linz
by Nazi handbills dropped from
planes. The handbills threatened a
new fight on the regime of Chan
cellor Dollfusi in which the Nazis
threatened they would “employ
whatever weapons they deemed
necessary to achieve their goal.”
Fraunfeld’s part in the distur
bances has been officially banned
by the Austrian government.
WIDOW GANG LEADED
IN CLUTCH OF LAW
NEW YORK, June 24. — Mrs
Vincent Coll, gang chief’s widow
whose hair turned grey although
she is only 25, sat between detec
tives and stared with an unflicker
ing eye at six m e r c h a n t s who
pointed fingers at her and said
“that’s the girl bandit who rob
bed me.”
Police have jailed her and two
men as the robbers who created
a six-week’s reign of terror among
Bronx shopkeepers. As the police
raided her hotel room they found
her, Thomas Pace, and Joe Ventri.
She reached fo her vanity bag
as if she wanted to powder her
nose but police seized the bag. In
the bag the police found a loaded
revolver.
VETS WILL OPPOSE COT
. DISABILITY ALLOWANCE
CINCINNATI, June 24. —Feel
ing that the government is not
now in a position to pay a soldiers’
bonus, disabled American veterans
of the World War may make no re
quest for cash payment at their
convention here, the national ad
jutant said.
He predicted, however, that the
Vets would oppose the economy
program insofar as it affects re
ductions in appropriations for dis
abled Veterans.
Colonel Otto F. Ohlson, general
manager of the Alaska Railroad,
who accompanied the Seattle
Chamber of Commerce from An
chorage to Seward yesterday, left
on today’s train for the Inlet City.