VOLUME XXVIII. NUMBER 121.
SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, MAY 24,1932.
PRICE TEN CENTS
LOW TEMPERATURE BELA
RECORDED HIT. DC KIM
FAIRBANKS. May 24, (/P)—Harry
Liek, superintendent of McKinley
National Park, and Grant Pearson,
returned here Monday for medical
treatment, frost bites and falls on
treatment for frost bites and falls
on the ascent of the mountain.
Two others of the party, A. D.
Lindley of Minneapolis, and Erling
Strom. Norwegian climber, came
out by plane and are now enroute
to Seattle on the SS Alaska.
Leik reported finding a thermo
meter which had been left at the
15.000 foot level by the Stuck-Kar
stens expedition of 1913. The indi
cator was forced to the bottom of
the bulb and registered 95 below.
It is unknown how cold it actually
got. The Stuck-Karstens party is
the only other expedition to have
climbed the peak.
CASUAL ACQUAINTANCE
NEW YORK, May 24, (/P)—May
or Jimmie Walker is to take the
stand Wednesday in the investi
gation into the administration of
the city.
Federal officials are probing Wal
ker's income tax returns after Sea
bury, counsel for the legislative
committee of inquiry, unearthed
testimony that J. A. Sisto, taxicab
financier, had given the Mayor
$26,000 in bonds.
Seabury expected to ask the May
or the reason for this alleged gift
fro;- a casual acquaintance. j
SOCIALISTIC CANDIDATE
MILWAUKEE, Wis. May 24. —
Norman Thomas, of New York, was
nominated to be the soc ialist
party's candidate in the coming
presidential elections. Thomas was
the party’s candidate in 1928.
WASHINGTON. May 23. <T>. —
Mrs. Margaret Sanger, advocate ol
birth control told a senate com
mittee that opposition to it was
based “Mainly on personal opinions
and not backed by facts.” She ap
peared as the first rebuttal wit
ness in the committee hearings on
a bill by Senator Hatfield, Republi
can of West Virginia to permit
physicians to disseminate birth
control information. The claim
that the bill will throw the mails
wide open to free and illicit distri
bution of contraceptive information
is unsupported, said Mrs. Sanger.
TEAM NAMED
NEW YORK. May 23, —Ellsworth
Vines, Frank X. Shields, Wilmer Al
lison and John Van Ryn, the team
which defeated Canada and Mexico
will meet the Australian team in
the final of the North American
zone of the Davis cup tie at Phila
delphia next week, Vernon Pren
tice, chairman of the cup select
committee has announced. Fitz
Eugene Dixon has been named
non-playing captain. Dwight F.
Davis, donor of the cup, will be
honorary referee.
PRICES FIRM
NEW YORK, May 23, —Stock ex
change prices firmed under the
leadership of United States Steel
in the early afternoon. Earlier in
the session reactionary tendencies
depressed the list from fractors to
two points, except steel, whose
strength in the later trading was
sufficient to turn the market about
and as the trading progressed the
fourth hour the whole market was
firmer. There was no pickup in
the volume of operations, however.
BELGIANS TIRE OF GLOOM
LIEGE, Belgium, May 23, {/?)—
An association has been formed
here to combat pessimistic talk
Each member wears a medal with
the inscription: “Don’t mention
hard times to me.”
WON’T MODIFY TARIFF
WASHINGTON, May 24. — The
Senate refused to consider a pro
posal to modify the lumber tariff
provisions in the tariff bill to ex- |
elude a tariff on rough lumber. The j
Senate, by this decision, retained
the $3 tax per thousand board
feet on lumber, and the four cents
per pound tax on copper as a part
of the billion dollar revenue bill.
APPREHENDING OF LINDE
BABY SLAYERS SPURRED
HOPEWELL, N. J., May 24, (JP)—
The New Jersey legislature at Tren
ton voted a $25,000 reward for the
apprehension of the kidnapers and
slayers of the Lindbergh baby.
The measure passed the assem
bly with but one dissenting vote.
The dissenter suggested that the
reward might savor of publicity and
pointed out that thousands of gov
ernment operatives are now work
ing on the case.
The “reward may cause some one
to squeal,” Gov. A. Harry Moore
said.
A CLOSE RACE
PORTLAND, Ore., May 24, (/P)—
Complete unofficial returns gave
Mott 30,814 and Hawley 30,740. It
will probably take a recount to de
cide victory.
WASHINGTON, May 24. — The
proposal to inaugurate a huge pub
lic works program through the aid
of a bond issue does not have the
support of President Hoover. The
public works program was designed
to help the return of prosperity by
giving employment to the idle. |
Hoover declares that larger and j
far more effective aid can be given |
by the government aiding the in- j
come providing industries.
Hoover recommended that aid be i
enlisted to balance the budget,
which is still before Congress.
GENEVA, May 23^ —The Kingdom
of Iraq, of strategic importance in
the near East, because of rich oil
fields, moved nearer complete in
dependence. The League of Na
tions council accepted a draft de
claration designed to facilitate the
release of Iraq from the mandate
of Great Britain, held since the
World war. The declaration must
be ratified by the Iraq government.
It was announced that King Feisal,
the rule rof Iraq, was willing to ac
cept
TEXAS WETS
AUSTIN, Texas, May 23, —The
possibility that the Texas home of
Senator Morris Shepperd, author
of the Eighteenth amendment,
may send a wet delegation to the
Democratic national convention
was seen in a canvas of the dele
gates to the state convention next
week. Wet leaders claim a ma
jority of delegates.
LOST CITY FOUND
NEW ORLEANS, La., May 23, —
A large lost city of the Acotemie
has been discovered in the south
ern part of the state' of Campeche,
1 Mexico, C. G. Lundell, explorer of
Dallas, Texas, reported here. Lun
dell, who returned here Tuesday
from a trip into the interior of
Guatamala and Southern Mexico,
said the ruins of the ancient me
tropolis were located on the shore
of a lake 36 miles long and 12 miles
wide.
CANNON, JR., SPEAKS
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., May 23,
(jP)—Bishop James Cannon Junior,
speaking before the General Con
ference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church expressed doubt that if the
Democratic Presidential nominee
this year would be wet, he will be
defeated.
II. S. BUSINESS MEN
MUST RECOGNIZE SOVIET
DENVER, May 24. — Robert P.
Lamont, jr., whose father is Secre
tary of Commerce, was home from
Russia this week, convinced that
United States business men must
recognize Russia.
Lamont, a livestock expert and
owner of a huge cattle ranch near
Denver, recently completed confer
ences with Russian officials at Mos
cow relative to the Soviet livestock
program.
nil IS FLYING TO
TO PACIFIC NORTHWEST
SUNNYVILLE, Calif., May 24. —
The Navy dirigible Akron left here
Monday to make a two day cruise
over cities of the Pacific Northwest.
The airship will go as far North as
Port Townsend. It will be a two-day
trip but no landings will be made.
The Akron left Sunnyville at 8:
40 Monday morning and passed
over the city of Portland at 6:25
this morning. When the Akron
passed it was traveling at a speed
of about 45 or 50 miles an hour.
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YOUNG ATHLETE STARRED f
CHICAGO, May 24, —Clarence j
Fieber, 18 year-old San Francisco j
rookie, starred for the White Sox
as a relief pitcher in the second
game against Detroit. Fieber heav
ed the last two innings and held
Detroit hitless. The Sox won 8-7.
U. * * At
DIRECTS OFFENSIVE
CHANGCHUN, Manchuria, May
24, —General Honjo, director of
Japanese military forces in Man
churia, left for Harbin by airplane
to direct an offensive against the
Chinese guerillas in that area.
AMERICANS WIN
AUTEL, France, May 24, —Mrs. i
Helen Wills Moody and Elizabeth i
Ryan defeated Miles. Jacqueline |
and Violet Galley, 6-0, 6-0, 6-0 to
advance to the semi-finals of the
women’s doubles in the French
tennis championship tournament.
PRINCE KILLED
BERLIN, May 24, —Prince Geo.:
Lodkowicz of Czechoslavakia, was|
killed during the International 300 j
kilometer automobile race when.
his car overturned on the south j
curve of the Avus speedway.
AMENDMENT DEFEATED
WASHINGTON, D. C.. May 24, —
The Senate defeated by a vote of
61 to 15 a tax bill amendment pro
posed by Senator Trammell, Flori
da Democrat, imposing a tax tariff
of 8c per hundred weight on all j
phosphate rock imported into the,
United States.
OFFICIALS CONVICTED
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.. May 23, (A3) ;
—George R. Dale, mayor of Munice,
Indiana and nine confederates were
convicted of conspiracy to violate
the prohibition act in federal court.
One defendant Raymond Hoover, a
police garage mechanic, was acquit
ted Saturday .
WANT DECREE MODIFIED
WASHINGTON, May 23, — Attor- j
neys for the Chicago Big Four j
packers asked the Supreme court
to grant a rehearing of their re
cent suit to have the 1920 packers
consent decree modified to permit
the packers to deal in wholesale
groceries and to distribute food
stuffs other than meat.
WORLD WILL IMITATE
TURIN, Italy, May 23, (A5)—For- 1
mer Kaiser Wilhelm, of Germany, is
an ardent admirer of Mussolini he |
told Pietro Solari of the newspaper
Gazetta Del Popole in an interview
at Doom. Italy has accomplished
and is accomplishing an admirable
work, the Kaiser said. Mussolini
had attracted the attention of the |
world up to the present and in the
future the world will imitate him.
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RECALLS SLANDER SUIT
BOSTON, May 23. —Lewis Tib
bets, a St. Louis insurance man who
recently won out of court a settle
ment of $50,000 law suit against
ex-president Calvin Coolidge for
slander, died here.
mcduffie again
WASHINGTON, May 23, —The
House approved today the rivers
and harbors appropriation on a
viva voce vote. The House voted
against an amendment 'offered by
Representative McDuffie of AJa“
bama to cut the appropriation
$3,000,000 and defeated an attempt
to cut it by $6,000,000 by a vote of
112 to 54.
SIGNED THE PAPERS
UNDATED, (/P)—Young Corbett,
through his business manager*,
Larry White, signed to fight Jackie
Fields, world’s welterweight cham
pion, for the title in Seals Stadium,
San Francisco, June 25.
BRITISH WAGES GO DOWN
LONDON, May 23, (/P)—Changes
in wage rates to the ministry of la
bor for 1931 show a net decrease of
more than 2 per cent in weekly
full-time earnings, the largest de
cline recorded in any one year since
1922.
BANDITS GIVE TROUBLE
NANKING, China, May 23, (JP)—
The Chinese fourth division is being
rushed toward Anhui to check ban
dits, who continue crossing the
Yangtse river toward Pukow. Air
planes preceded the troops so it can
be taken that the bandits will be
hastily dispatched from the area.
Government troops in the command
of Chentiah Yuan were badly rout
ed in an earlier engagement with
the bandits.
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BE SOME ADVANCE
PITTSBURGH, Pa., May 23, (/P)—
The steel trade forsees an ad
vance o f two dollars a ton in
billets on delivery after July 1.
Adavnce in the price of sheet bars
which were advanced two dollars re
cently is not considered probable,
however.
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VETERAN WILL DRIVE
INDIANAPOLIS, May 23, (TP) —
Barney Oldfield, veteran of twenty
five years of automobile racing was
named by Harry Miller to pilot his
four wheel drive “Miller Special”
in the five hundred mile race here
Memorial Day. Oldfield has not
driven in a major race in ten years.
Last year he was official starter.
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ROYAL BIRTH
BUCHAREST, May 23, -European
royalty awaits to acclaim the birth
of a great great grandchild of
England’s Queen Victoria as Prin
cess Ileana of Rumania, wife of
Archduke Anton Von Hopsburg en
ters a Vienna hospital to await the
stork’s arrival. The princess is the
daughter of Queen Marie of Ruma
nia, whose grandmother was the
i famous Queen Victoria.
INVITED TO VISIT
! HONOLULU* Hawaii, May 23, (A5)
—Congressman Britten, chairman
of the house of Naval Affairs Com
mittee, was invited to send a con
gressional investigation Committee
to Hawaii. Business leaders asked
the action to vindicate Hawaii in the
eyes of the world. They resented
erroneous mainland impressions
gained as a result of the slaying of
Joe Kahahawai by four Americans
who later were convicted of man
slaughter.
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HELD PRISONER
BUENOS AIRES, May 23, —Euse
bio Dojorti, publisher of the news
paper La Montana, of San Juan,
charged in a telegram to President
General Augustine Justo today that
he was held prisoner in the cellar
of Governor Federico Cantoni,
province of San Juan, and feared
that he was to be poisoned. Dojorti
alleged that the Governor told him
he would never get out of the cellar
, i^live unless his newspaper ceased
on^osition to the San Juan admin
uSSe
^tion.
MARINES SOUTHBOUND
WASHINGTON, D. C„ May 24, —
A force of 653 marines will be sent
to Nicaragua to supervise the forth
coming national election. The Post
said that the marines will sail this
week and Rear Admiral Clark H.
Woodward will sail in a fortnight
to take command.
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. SERVICE IS FORESEEN
LONDON, May 24, —Regular
trans-Atlantic service in the near
future, with big flying boats which
will be safer in the air than on the
water, was predicted by Amelia
Earhart Putnam, the first woman
to fly the Atlantic alone.
Mrs. Putnam responded to a
toast at a luncheon by saying she
was not planning another trans
Atlantic flight similar to the one
just completed.
TECHNICAL K. O.
PITTSBURG, May 2 4, —Tony
Canzoneri, lightweight champion,
scored a technical knockout over
“Battling” Gizzy in the fifth round
of a scheduled 10-round bout. It
was a non-title fight. Gizzy fell
through the ropes and was unable
to crawl back into the ring.
VISCOUNT 5(110 WILL
(TTEMPT FORM CABINET
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TOKIO, May 24, —Viscount Mak
! ota Saito, an admiral in the Jap
| anese navy and former governor
j general of Korea, is attempting to
; form a new cabinet which he will
; head as premier.
He was named by Emperor Hiro
i hito to succeed the assassinated
Premier Thuyohsi Inukai.
The Viscount is of the Right i
Wing, indicating a swing of the
: next cabinet further toward the
nationalistic policies of the mili
1 tary party. He is 71 years old.
SANTIAGO, Chile, May 24, —
President Juan Estaban Montero
has been authorized to establish a
petroleum importation monopoly
at any time he thinks fit.
The measure also authorized the
president to establish tanks and
other equipment for the refining
and distribution of petroleum and
its derivatives.
BANK STUCK UP
ST. PAUL, Minn., May 23, (/P)—
Four men who robbed the bank of
Ipswich, S. D., shot the president
kidnapped the cashier and fled with
$21 000 loot were arrested and had
confessed to the police. The quart
er was apprehended after an auto
mobile accident in St. Cloud, Minn.
ESTABLISHES RECORD
BEREKELEY, Calif., May 23. — |
Bob Kiesal got his revenge for a j
defeat administered to him in,
April, when he conquered Frank
Wykoff, the world’s fastest human,
over the 100 yard distance. Kiesel
beat Wykoff by approximately one
yard in 9.5 seconds which estab
lished a new world’s record.
TREASURY DEFICIT
WASHINGTON, May 23, —The
Treasury deficit on May 16 amount
ed to $2,598,700,446, the Treasury
Department announced. With six
weeks remaining in the present fis
cal year it was evident that the de
ficit would reach three billion dol
lars, according to Treasury figures.
Increased expenditures and de
creased receipts have resulted in
the largest peace-time deficit in
history.
ONE PLANT HEATS WHOLE TOWN
CINCINNATI, Ohio, May 23, (ff):
—Firing the furnace and carrying
ashes is a lost art in Mariemont,
a village of 1,700 population in the
suburban portion of Cincinnati.
Every building in the village is
heated from a central power house.
BEER BILL DEPUTED
HOUSE BT Bit MARGIN
WASHINGTON, May 24. —A pro
posal to legalize the sale and manu-V
facture of 2.75 per cent beer and
then place a three cent per pint
tax on it was defeated by an over
whelming vote in the House Mon
day. Party lines were split wide
open when the vote was made.
The defeated bill was known as
the 0‘Connor bill and proposed to
legalize and tax beer containing
2.75 per cent alcohol by weight. It
was the first record test on prohi
bition sentiment in the House. It
was forced by the Wet bloc in an
attempt to get all members on re
cord before the time of holding the
national political conventions. The
vote was 228 to 169.
ms HOLD FREIGHT
CIOS FOR MANY HOURS
EAST ST. LOUIS, May 24, (£>)—
National Guardsmen were called to
the village of Caseyville where 300
World War veterans, on a bonus
expedition to Washington, D. C.,
held freight cars 12 hours before
releasing them
Trainmen refused to move un
til the soldiers vacated the cars.
The veterans were promised motor
transportation to Washington.
* DO-X AT LONDON
LONDON, May 24, (fP)—The Ger
j man flying boat D O-X arrived
! here Monday from Vigo, Spain af
j ter a flight from the United States.
| The huge airplane made one other
! stop on the trip from America ,at
: Horta, in the Azores. The craft is
I enroute to the home port at Lake
■ Constance.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, May 23, (*P)
— Lumber that used to go into
bridges new goes into bridge tables.
Totally unexpected has been the
effect upon the lumber industry of
the bridge craze, says Max Myers,
of Cleveland, president of the Na
tional American Wholesale Lum
ber association. Myers has been
keeping a record of the new uses
to which lumber has been put since
home construction declined.
Bridge tables and toys have con
sumed the greatest amount of lum
ber, he says.
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StilT FILED ROOSEVELT
ATLANTA, Ga. May 23- — A suit
has been filed in a local court by
F. B. Summers and D. W. Jones
against Gov. Franklin D. Roose
velt. The two men seek to recover
$640 which they spent in conduct
ing a campaign for Roosevelt in
Georgia and which the Governor
promised to pay them back.
BELGIANS HOARD CASH
BRUSSELS, May 23, (JP)—Beygian
! bankers estimate that hoarding
of bank notes in this country has
reached a total of about $130,000.
000, or more than four million Bel
gian francs.
DYKE OWNS DIKE MINE
REDDING, Calif., May 23, (£>)—
William H. Dyke has been granted
a patent by the Federal government
for the “Big Dyke Mine,” near here.
The Big Dyke mine is a dike lode—
a great body of lowgrade ore at or
near the surface
APPOINTED TO BENCH
OLYMPIA, May 24. —Gov. Hart
ley Monday appointed William
Stienart from the King County
bench to the State Supreme Court
to take over the position left vac
ant through the resignation of Ad
am Beeler. Beeler is running for
the United States Senate and re
signed from his position a few
weeks ago. No successor has been
named yet to succeed Stienart at
the Kink County Bench. Beeler is
running on the Republican ticket
in the Washington election.