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VOLUME XXIX. NUMBER 144 SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21, 1933.
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PRICE TEN CENTS
SAN FRANCISCO. June 21. —
' The report that a fiareup has oc
* curred in the ranks of the Ameri
can delegation to the Economic
Conference appeared more con
firmed as the World nations con
tinued to struggle with their ec
onomic controversies.
Senator James Couzens. of Mich
igan. aroused by criticism in the
British press for the past several
)days, heatedly demanded that the
American delegation take some de
finite. unified steps, whether na
tional or international, to end the
charges tfhat the Representatives
are divided on matters of policy.
As a prelude to the dramatic
fiareup within the ranks of his
delegation. Secretary of State Cor
dell Hull had a half-hour audience
with King George. The chief of
the American delegation returned
r from Buckingham Palace without
making any statement to the press
as to what his conversation had
been with the King.
WOMAN STAND BY
BONNERSFERRY. Idaho June
21. —Woman are fighting alongside
of men in an effort to hold the
Kootenai river levees from collaps
ing. The levees have been weak
0 ened by the heaviest flow of water
in 30 years. Fifteen hundred men
are working against the high wa
ters which for several days have
been subsiding in other rivers.
A'
CHI OFFERED
BIG PURSE EUROPE
NEW YORK. June 21. —If Primo
Camera, the Italian “man-moua
tain”, lifts the heavyweight title
from Jack Sharkey when they meet
June 29. he can get a guarantee
of $70,000 and a percentage of the
gate for his next fight.
Louis Soresi, Camera’s manager,
received a cable from Jeff Dick
son, the ‘Tex Rickard” of Europe,
making Camera this offer to meet
the winner of the Jack Doyle-Jack
Peterson fight, which Dickson is
staging in London July 21
COLD BLOC'S HE
IDJOUHT FHLS
LONDON, June 21. —What is
taken by many observers to be an
indication of a weakening of the
gold bloc’s drive for adjournment
of the World’s Economic Confer
* ence pending stabilization of the
American dollar, came dramatical
ly in a speech by Finance Minister
Georges Bonnet, of France.
Bonnet made his speech after
terrific pressure had been applied
for adjournment in the lobbies. He
took the floor before a meeting'of
an economic committee, and while
again demanding stabilization, he
pledged France’s full aid toward
the success of the conference.
LEGION MEETING
Regular bi-monthly meeting of
Seward Post, American Legion, will
be held Wednesday evening at 8
o’clock in the Harriman building.
VERDICT SOON
NEW YORK, June 21. — Before
nightfall Charles Mitchell, once
one of the worlds powerful finan
ciers, may hegir the verdict in his
case wher^ he is charged with the
evasion pf $850,000 in income taxes.
The jjidge presiding in the case is
! expected to instruct the jury to
1 day.
’PRESIDENT Hi MOLE!
TIKE STEPS STKHTEN
ECONOMIC OEIDLOCK
AT SEA WITH PRESIDENT,
: ROOSEVELT, June 21. —Assistant!
| Secretary of State Raymond Moley i
! Tuesday hopped into a seaplane,
flew out to sea for a conference
! with President Franklin Roosevelt,
who is on a vacation-rest trip.
The President immediately went
! into a huddle with Secretary Mo
ley. who made the flight as a re
sult of the London Economic Con
ference deadlock.
The conference at sea is gen
erally taken to presage a new life
! for the somewhat stumbling Lon
don parley and the results of his
contact with the president may
be felt even before Moley reaches
, London. He was to sail for England
today.
Washington is still of the opin
ion that there is no hurry for stab
ilization and will not even consider
! returning ot the gold standard un
til they are certain it will work.
SEARCHING FOR KILLERS j
WASHINGTON, D. C., June 21. —;
J. Emil Hoover, slender, curly-head-1
ed chief of the government’s de-1
tective force, declared that search
for the killers of four peace of
ficers in Kansas City the other day
would not end until all had been
i apprehended. Surrounded by has
tily compiled data and finger print
reports, Hoover personally assumed
charge of the case. He walked
briskly into his office and in a few
moments was in touch with his
agents in Kansas City.
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NEW YORK, June 20. —While
other folks complain about high
temperatures Capt. Bob Bartlett
does something about it and as a
result he is en route to the Arc
tic to enjoy its cooling breezes. He
sailed from New York City Mon
day on the schooner Morrisey for
* an unannounced destination in the
North. He will be gone for several
moths.
It is Capt. Bartlett’s intention to
| explore territory hitherto unexplor
ed by white man. Capt. Bartlett
will be remembered as one of the
members of the Perry expedition
of 1909 as well as several Arctic
exploits since that time.
DESTROYERS COMING
Indications are that Seward will
be visited by several destroyers
next month as a report to Dele
gate Dimond from the Navy De
partment is to the effect that
during the latter part of July
the Destroyers Perry, Wasmuth
and a couple more vessels will make
a cruise through Alaskan waters
and will come as far North as Sew
ard. They wrill stop in at Ketchi
kan, Juneau and Cordova on the
way up. The Wasmuth and Perry
were in Seward several years ago.
* Barbara Hutton, the Woolworth
heiress, became the Princes M’
Divini in a civil ceremony in
Paris. She will be married again
Thursday in a church ceremony.
Guards were assigned to guard the
costly and glittering wedding pre
sents.
* Iowa, New-Ha mps hire, and
Connecticut voted on prohibition
repeal with only the Iowa outcome
yet in doubt. The other two States
were expected to go wet at least
two to one.
* Rose Pastor Stokes, the ‘Rose
of the Ghetto”, and famous labor
i leader, died in Frankfort, Germany,
, at the age of 54 from cancer.
* C. L. Bodenhamer, former com
mander of the American Legion,
died in Shreveport, la., from burns
suffered in an oil explosion.
* The average man is to have a
voice in the National Recovery Act
administration, General Hugh £
Johnson, administrator, announced
in picking his advisory boards.
Consumers will not be left to the
mercy of capital and labor, he em
phasized
* Federal officials are appealing
to freight and passenger carriers
to abandon their efforts to impose
an additional 12Vz per cent wage
cut.
* Gasoline went up another half
cent in California bringing the
price to I8V2 cents a gallon.
STOCK MARKET IS
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BOOMING ALONG AT '
UNDIMINISHED BITE!
NEW YORK, June 21. — The
stock market continued its boom1
at an undiminished pace at the
opening although the dollar con- j
tinued to slump against foreign
currencies.
A fresh buying wave swept over |
the list in the early dealings asj
the dollar fell to a discount of 24 |
per cent, the equivalent of 76 cents, j
Gains ranged from fractions to |
more than two dollars a share in;
huge dealings, with opening blocks,
as high as 14,000 shares.
Scores of issues wfent to new
highs and among these were N. Y.
Central, Chrysler and Bethlehem
Steel.
Cotton spurted 50 cents a bale at
the opening and grains made new
gains. Further profit taking oc
curred during the day and num
erous gains were reduced by half
or more, while a few issues, includ
ing Union Pacific and Consolidat
ed Gas, showed slight net reces
sions. Trading continud at a vig
orous pace.
ACTOR FUTS CAME
ROM COLE DEVOTEES
LONDON, June 20. —Douglas
Fairbanks and the Prince of Wales
/teamed up in a foursome with
,Prince George and Archie Comp
ston, Scottish professional, over the
Sunningdale course.
The foursome started out over
the Prince of Wales’ favorite links
in bright weather, but the players
were hampered by a strong wind.
Fairbanks and the Prince had
played together before.
A CLEVER BOY
SEATTLE, June 21. —Henry
Woods, Yakima lightweight, easily
decisioned Don Fraser, Spokane
welterweight, in the main event j
of a card here Tuesday evening. J
Eddie iVory, Vancouver, B. C., and
Johnny Sullivan, Butte., welters, j
hammered each other for six'
rounds for a draw.
PASSENGER FARES
REDUCED 8) NINE
STEAMSHIP LINES
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SAN FRANCISCO, June 21. —Re- j
ductions cf 12 per cent in first
class tourist and third class ac
comodations on nine steamship
lines alfiliated with the North-Pac
I iflc Coast-Europe passenger confer
! ence are now effective.
Among the larger ships involved
were the California, Europa, Win
! nipeg, Pacific Pioneer, San Fran
! cisco, Damsterdyk, Annie Johnson,
Schwaben and Loch Monar.
This was the second rate cut
in 13 months bringing the cost of
direct to Europe' ocean travel dowm
j more than 16 per cent since hte
j spring of 1932.
Reductions ranging to 16 per
cent were announced on fares to
the Panama Canal
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Two weddings were recently so
lemnized at Wrangell when Man
uel Loftus and Miss Agnes Burnett
and Patrick Roach and Miss May
Everson were married.
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Paul Graham and Albert Ander
son, who spent the winter trap
ping on wind-swept Heart Island
in the mouth of the Copper River,
arrived in Cordova to recount the
hazardous and disastrous cul
mination of their winter’s efforts
Returning to camp on the after
noon of April 27, the men found
their cabin burned to the ground
and their entire possessions wiped
out. The fire could only be ac
counted for in the fact that a pair
of socks which had been left hang
ing over the stove to dry had fallen
to the hot surface of the stove
which in turn had set fire to other
drying clothing and subsequent!}
to the cabin. The men had made a
practice of keeping a fire in the
stove all day as they had only three
matches left of the winter’s supply
Preparing to meet the Juneau
beer situation a company is being
formed to make brew. Articles of
incorporation were filed in the
District Court for the Alaska Brew
ing and Malting Company. The
incorporators are A. Nehammer, C.
R. Christoferson, both of Tacoma,
and Horace O. Adams, of Juneau.
The company is capitalized at
| $170,000, with 20,000 shares of com
mon stock and 6,000 shares of pre
ferred stock at par value of $25.
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Lambert & Kistling, progressive
fox ranchers of Perry Island, have
nearly completed the erection of a
cold storage plant on their island,
which they will operate for the pur
pose of preserving fish for their
foxes. It is anticipated that by
this method they will be able to
keep on hand at all times a stock
of fresh fish for their foxes, and
do away with the necessity of
salting down fish during the fish
ing season and then to freshen
them for feeding purposes.
HIGH TEMPEMU1S
HEGORDED III VARIOUS
PIATS UNITED SMS
SEATTLE, June 21. —Old Man
Weather kept the nation’s thermo
meters yesterday up pretty high,
with Georgia reporting the mer
cury at 97 degrees. In the Lake
Superior country it was only one
degree cooler.
Definite relief was promised to
some sections of the sweltering
Middle West today in the form of
rains from the Northwest. The
rains are due to spread to the
Central States.
Wisconsin with 10 deaths at
tributed to the heat led the fatal
ity list. Indiana and Michigan have
nine deaths each while Ohio and
Nebraska have three each. In Ken
tucky there were two deaths and
a like number in Minnesota and
Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania had a 91-98 tem
perature; Chicago recorded 98; Ber
lin, Wisconsin, 105; Lone Rock,
Wisconsin, 106, Durham, N. C-, 102;
Salt Lake City and Denver, over 90.
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WEATHER-BOUND
NOME, June 21. —Still weather
i bound at ther isolated Pribilof Is
j land base, two navy airmen await
; ed clearing skies before starting a
; search for James Mattern, the
' round -the-world flier, missing since
| he took off from Khabarovsk, Sib
i eria. a week ago Wednesday. Mat
j tern was en route here when he
; took off from Siberia. Other parties
| seeking Mattern report they are
! being held uo by snow and ice.
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WOliN PLOTTED
WITH YOUNG MEN
TO TILL HIISBiO
| CHICAGO. June 21. —Charged
| with plotting her husband's mur
der to obtain $30,000 life insurance
and a bank account. Mrs. Bessie
Opas, 36, was under arrest along1
with four young men whom she
admitted were hired, police said, t<>
carry out the death plot.
All five involved in the murder
have confessed, it was announced
by Assistant Prosecutor John L.
Murphy. The wife, an attractive
blonde, is the mother of two chil
dren.
sieei mon
CONTINUES TO OISE
NEW YORK, June 21. — Steel
production in the United States
reached a 50 per cent capacity foe
the first time since April of 1931,
the Iron Age magazine reports.
A week ago the output ratio of
the steel mills was 47 per cent.
Steel buyers are increasing their
specifications and are pressing for
the shipment of their orders. The
demand is rising so that mills are
beginning to experience difficulty
in keeping up and in some in
stances the mills are lagging be
hind.
THE WEATHER TODAY
Seward 58, part coludy, calm.
Tunnel, 50, cloudy, calm.
Seward 58, part cloudy, calm. '
Curry, 65, clear, calm.
Fairbanks, 66, clear, calm.
Broad Pass, 50; Healy, 55; Nen
ana, 64.
.PUBLIC DANCE TOMORROW NIGHT