Batlu (6atriuny
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXVIII. NUMBER 172
SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, JULY 25,1932
PRICE TEN CENTS
HUNDREDS VETERKNS
E LEAK CAPITOL
ENROUTE THEIR HOMES
WASHINGTON, July 25. — All
available means of transportation
are being used by members of the
Bonus Army in their departure
from the Capitol for their homes.
The veterans who have decided to
abandon their stand at the Cap
itol see no reason why they should
brave almost intolerable hardships
by staying at the Capitol as it will
be after the November elections be
fore any legislation to pay off their
bonus will be in order.
Hundreds have been making ap
plications during the last sever
al days for the funds which are be
ing provided through federal re
sources so that the veterans can
get back home.
Little resistence was offered the
veterans as they went down to the
railroad yards, hopped freights, or
boarded trains which would take
them on their journey homeward- i
Trucks also were being used to give!
them a lift toward home.
Walter W. Waters, who is in com
mand of the Capitol Bonus Army,
said that he would remain in the
city until the bonus is paid and
he also declares that about 5.000
veterans are going to stand by him.
Food for the veterans who are still
at Washington is being furnished
by charitable citizens, and although
but meagre quantities are avail
able. the veterans still appear able
to get by.
It is not known what action the
Bonus army veterans will take in
regard to the government order
that they must get off all govern
ment property by midnight tonight.
The veterans who have departed
from the Capitol will continue
their bonus fight in their home
towns by urging that voters elect
only those in favor of bonus pay
ment at the November elections.
OTTAWA, July 25. —The con
ference here of officals of the Bri
tish Empire has taken on the as
pect of a conference for the bet
terment of the entire world's ec
onomic condition when the mem
bers began adopting constructive
policies designed to leed the whole
world out of the present economic !
situation.
The conferees are of the opinion '
that Britain must avoid play fav
orites among her own dominions l
and she can not neglect foreign
countries. It was pointed out that J
no favoritism or retaliation could .
be shown the United States as that;
nation purchased over $400,000,000
worth of goods from the British!
Empires during 1931.
FILES FOR DIVORCE
PARIS, July 25. —Maurice Che
valier, who has just returned to
Paris from the United States, has
filed suit for divorce from Yvonne
Vallee, whom he married in 1927.
Chevalier charges desertion. Re
ports were current that the star’s
wife would file a counter suit. Miss
Vallee was a favorite in Paris mus
ic halls before she married the ac
tor.
INCOMPATIBILITY
PARIS, July 25, (/P)—■The divorce
court yesterday authorized Maur
ice Chevalier’s suit for divorce
against Y ronne Vallee, be heard on
the grounds of incompatibility
NEW GOLF CHAMP
LOUISVILLE, Ky., July 25, (/P)—
Robert L. Miller, of Petersburg,
Fla., defeated Pete Miller of Chi
cago four and two in a 36 hole final
over the Shawnee Club course to
take the public links golf cham
pionship of the United States.
VETS TAKE TO HIGH-ROADS
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 25, 0P)
—California’s battling bonus army
planned to take the road at once
on an offensive to stimulate senti
ment throughout the nation for
election of pro-bonus congressmen.
aviation leader dies
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, July 25
(/P)—Alberto Santos Dummont, 59,
known in South America as the j
father of aviation and a contem- |
porary of the Wright Brothers in j
early experiments of aviation in;
the 1890’s, is dead. He succumbed |
to an illness which he contracted!
| in France in 1924.
SHINES COIM HUD
CONVICTED 10 COUNTS
SEATTLE, July 25, (£>)—W. D. Co
mer, former Puget Sound Savings
& Loan Association president, was
convicted here by a jury for irregu
larity in handling of trust funds
and the embezzlement of $78,000.
The trial has been underway for
seven weeks and when the case was
finally given to the jury they were
out for nearly 34 hours. Comer was
convicted on 10 counts.
His co-defendant, Francis Pow
ell, a former vice-president of the
company, was exonerated of charg
es of aiding and abetting Comer.
The conviction of Comer is his
second arising out of the affairs
of the now defunct company. He
was convicted formerly for having
issued a false statement of the
Association’s financial condition.
LONDON. July 25, (JP)—Advocates
| of remonetization of silver at the
j Imperial Conference linked the bi
i metallism scheme for the British
Commonwealth of nations with the
’ idea of super-empire. It consider
ed silver as a question which would
be presented to the conference in
connection with the plan to stabil
ize a unit for exchange within the
Empire.
The question involves many in
i tricate angles, however, and is still
in an unofficial stage No state
ment was made regarding the pro
: gress of either silver nr the super
! Empire or bank idea.
BERLIN. July 25, —One Reich
sbaner man was killed and 15 in- |
national socialists and communists
were injured at Bunzlau during an
; affray in front of the trade union
headquarters
Nazis, in various parts of the
city, were clubbed and beaten dur
ing the night by political opponents.
At Sensburg, a troup of Nazis,
following a row with communists,
invaded a Jewish store, looted it,
then ordered the proprietors of oth
er shops to close their doors.
The socialist newspaper Volks
: zitung, in Kiel, was suspended for;
; four days by the government.
!GE
NT IS Si*
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SHANGHAI, July 25, —An agree-:
ment providing trans-Pacific radio j
telephone service between China,
and San Fi*ancisco including Hono- j
lulu and Manila, was signed by the
Ministry of Communications of the
National government and the
Mackay Telephone & Telegraph
Company of California.
The International Telephone &
Telegraph Company played an im
portant role in the negotiations
through ownership of the Mackay
interests.
DECLINED BAYONETS
BERLIN, July 25, —Bavaria and
Prussia declined bayonets and
street fighting for a states’ right
battle in the Supreme Court where
they denied the Federal govern
ment’s right to throw the Berlin
chief of police in jail and seize the
state police forces. The govern
ment was prepared to outlaw the
communists if they persisted in
their efforts to call a general strike.
WASHINGTON, July 25, (/Pi
Senator William Borah, of Idaho,
proposed Saturday night, in a radio
speech, the holding of an immedi
ate world conference to consider a
revision or cancellation of war
debts and a program for settling
of other post-war problems; the
conference to be followed by the
Lausanne Reparations agreement.
Borah said the debts are just
debts and his only reason for urg
ing a reduction or cancellation is
that it is of interest to the people
of the United States.
The proposed conference would
have the authority to deal with
foreign relations, debts, disarma
ment, reestablishment of the gold
standard, stabilization of silver,
Oriental problems and the settling
of other questions.
COMPLETES THIRD LEG
CHICAGO, July 25. —Capt. Wolf-|
gang von Gronau completed the
third leg of his, flight from Ger
many to the North American con
tinent when he landed safely on
Greenland. He flew from Reikiavik,
Iceland to Greenland on the third
leg of his flight. Gronau, flying a
seaplane and accompanied by three
| members of his crew, said that he
I had abandoned the ider of flying
! to Chicago but would land at Mon
i treal.
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! GANGSTER FEUDS ARE
FOLSOM PRISON, July 25, —
Gangster feuds flourish even inside
prison walls, it was learned. Two
convicts were stabbed and serious
ly injured in Folsom and a third
man was stabbed last week.
Warden Court Smith declared he
had obtained a confession from
Charles P. Marsh, Los Angeles rob
ber, that he wielded the knife and
that the stabbing was all the result
of a feud between rival convict
gangs
Joseph Summers, who killed a
San Quentin guard in 1925, was
slashed by a knife last week. Chas.
Marratto, Contra Costa County
burglar, was accused of the stab
bing and placed in solitary confine
ment.
HOPE SOLVE MYSTERY
WINSTON-SALEM, N. C., July 25,
(>P>—Seeking to solve the mystery
surrounding the fatal shooting of
the Smith-Reynolds tobacco heir on
July 6, Sheriff Scott has returned
from Roanoke, Virginia with a por
tion of a door jam containing fin
ger prints.
McCOY LEFT SUNDAY
SAN FRANCISCO. July 25, —
Norman “Kid McCoy” Selby, who
was released from San Quentin pri
son last week and who was to have
left San Francisco Thursday for
Chicago, where he has a job await
ing him, did not leave until Sunday
when he boarded an airplane and
j headed for the east.
INDIAN OLYMPICS
! COUPEVILLE, Wash., July 25. —
• Indians from the United States and
British Columbia will hold their
own Olympic games this week here.
Various contests will be featured
and members from 18 different
tribes will compete. This is an an
nual event.
THE STOCK MARKET
NEW YORK, July 25. — Latest
quotations from the Stock Ex
change are , Allied Chemical 49%,
American Tel. and Tel. 77, Bethle
hem steel 11%, General Electric
11, General Foods 23, General Mo
tors 9, Pennsyvania Railroad 9%,
Radio Corporation 4, Southern Pac
ific 9%, Standard Oil, Calif, 23%,
U. S. Steel 24%, U. S. Steel, pfd.,
62%, Western Union 17, Caterpillar
6%, Hawaiian Com. and Sugar 26
bid, Honolulu Oil 9, Trans-America
4.
SIMPLE FUNERIL RITES
HEED FE0REN2 ZIEEFIEID
HOLLYWOOD, July 25- — Only
the simplest of funeral rites mark
ed the funeral of Florenz Zieg
field, famous as a producer of the
Ziegfield Follies and other girl
shows, who died here last Friday
night.
Film celebrities and many others
attended the funeral. Among those
present Jaesides Billie Burke, the
widow of Ziegfield, and Patricia,
his daughter, there were Will Rog
ers, Norma Shearer, Eddie Quillan,
Bebe Daniels and many others.
Ziegfield was interred in a vault
in the Forest Lawn cemetary.
The widow, Billie Burke, flatly re
fused a telephone offer from Mayor
Jimmy Walker, of New York City,
that she bring the body to that city
for “A big public funeral.”
BE BIBBED MITBIMOi
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SAN LUIS, Mexico, July 25, (/P)— j
A decree to prevent the marriage j
of persons addicted to alcholism
and another designed to present
the benefit of the national drink
Pulque in non-alcholic form have
been issued by the government of |
San Luis Potosi.
Persons applying for a marriage \
license under the terms of the first!
decree must present evidence prov- j
ing that they are not confirmed j
alcoholics.
The second decree offers a prize \
of 500 pesos to the person who de- |
vises a method of preserving the
juice of the maguay plant while:
preventing its fermentation.
DESIRES RESURVEY
WASHINGTON, D. C„ July 25, —
President Hoover, upon leaving Sat-1
urday for his Rapidan camp, in a
statement said he had instructed
the Departments of Labor and of
Commerce to immediately resurvey
the question of the five-day week!
and the experience of industries
using such plan.
SUSPENDS BOARD OF TRADE i
WASHINGTON, D. C-, July 25, —
Suspension of all activities of the j
Chicago Board of Trade, largest!
grain futures exchange in the j
world, for 60 days beginning Aug- •
ust 7, was ordered by the grain j
futures commission. The commis- i
i sion upheld the complaint of the I
farmers national grain corporation,'
a cooperative, that denial to it of
access to the clearing privileges of
i the board, constitute a-violation of
i the grain futures act.
SCIENTIST CALLED
HAMILTON, Bermuda, July 25, —
Professor Reginald Aubrey Fessen
den, 65, a pioneer in the develop
ment of the radio telephone, is
dead of heart disease. He was 20
years old when he came here as a
school teacher from Quebec, where
he wras born. He won wide fame i
and substantial wealth by his in- |
ventions in radio.
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(Saturday’s Games)
NATIONAL LEAGUE
j Brooklyn 2, Philadelphia 10.
I New York 3, Boston 2.
St. Louis 3, Cincinnati 3.
! Chicago 8, Pittsburgh 11.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Boston 3, New York 4.
Detroit 1, St. Louis 5.
Philadelphia 5, Washington 6.
Cleveland 5, Chicago 6.
(Sunday’s games)
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Cleveland 9-5, Chicago 7-6.
Philadelphia 6, Washington 12.
Boston 3, New York 9.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Chicago 7, Pittsburgh 5.
St. Louis 7-1, Cincinnati 3-0.
Brooklyn 5, Philadelphia 4.
New York 3-7, Boston 4-3.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Los Angeles 4-2, Sacramento 2-5.
Portend (fc5, Hollywood 5-6.
Seattle 610, Missions 4-14.
MODERN CHURCH-GOERS
ABERDEEN, Miss., July 25. —
Ministers here Sunday realized it
would be needless to coerce their
church members to attend church
so they all got together and held
joint services at the swimming
pool. Instead of new hats the wo
men displayed new swimming suits.
DOOLITTLE FLYING TRAIL
TAKEN BY WASHINGTON
WASHINGTON, July 25, UP)—
Major Jimmie Doolittle and Miss
Anne Madison of Washington, and
a descendant of the Washington
, family, streaked away from here
after refueling on a dawn-to-dusk
flight covering the trails of George
Washington.
They waited here until they had
refueled and then started for Bos
ton. Their next stop after Boston
is Pittsburgh. They are dropping
mail along the way they are travel
ing which is the route taken by
George Washington during his car
eer as an explorerer, soldier and
statesman. The route covers a dis
tance of 2900 miles and goes thru j
14 states. The flight will end in I
j New York City.
OGDEN MILLS GETTING
MONEY HEIDI 8. F. C.
WASHINGTON, July 25. —Og
den Mills, Secretary of the Trea
sury, was expected to have the ad
ditional money for the Reconstruc
tion Finance Corporation available
by the end of this week and the j
money will immediately be trans- j
fused into American business to I
provide the strong stimulant which j
is believed necessary to start the |
nation’s recovery. When the socall- !
ed blood transfusion will have
been completed it is expected that
thousands of men will have been
given jobs.
President Hoover, at his Rapidan
camp, is busy with the organiza
tion plans of the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation board.
Ill DEBTS lif BE
USED DEI SEW UHL
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 25, — I
i A willingness to use the $11,000,000- |
I 000 war debts owed the United
| States by the Allies to bring about!
| a new deal in world affairs, was ex- ^
, pressed by Senator Borah. Repub- i
lican of Idaho, in a radio address, i
The chairman of the foreign re
lations committee emphasized that
reductidn or cancellation of the
debts could only be justified by a
program W’hich would readjust war
problems and end economic de
pression.
BUSINESS COLLEGE IS
The Juneau Business College is1
the newest of institutions of learn
ing in Alaska. C. L. Anderson is in
charge.
The school will open August 29,
The Gateway is informed, and a
nine months course in commercial
subjects will be offered; sufficient
training for students to handle any
kind of office work. The school ex
pects to maintain a standard in
stenographic work equivalent to the
civil service requirements.
Other studies will embrace com
mercial law, drafting of contracts
and negotiable instruments, com
mercial arithmetic, salesmanship,
business English, penmanship and
spelling.
“Insure Success With a Business
Training.”
RAN OUT OF HIS SHOES
KNOXVILLE, Tenn., July 25, (;P)
—Tom Pickle, negro, is in jail today
because he literally ran out of his
shoes when chased by Patrolman
Anderson. Tom was holding his own
when his shoes flew off. When he
came to a roc£y stretch he surren
dered.
STOCK MIRKET SHOWS
ICEU UPWARD
TREND Of ACTIVITY
NEW YORK, July 25, —A review
of the stock market activities re
veals that stocks generally worked
higher during the last week with
industrials closing up 1.64, rails up
0.96, utilities up 0 55, bonds up 0.45.
After estimating the subsidiary of
preferred dividends Loews earned
$4.30 against $6.30 for the same
1931 period.
The Association of railway exe
cutives addressed a statement to
the American public saying they
believe that it is essential in addi
tion to all that the railroads may
do for themselves that the existing
regulations of the roads should be
relaxed so as to restore freedom
of managerial control.
July wheat, old, closed at 45V8 at
Chicago, off %. Lambert earned
$1.53 a share for the June quarter
as against $1.95 for the same period
last year. Commercial solvents
earned 12 cents a share for the
second quarter as against 25 cents
for the same quarter last year.
In the week ending July 16. elec
trical output was 13.9 per cent un
der a same week in 1931 and a de
cline of 12.8 percent in the preced
ing two weeks period. Stone and
Webster dividend was omitted;
General Electric showed 11 cents
earned for the second quarter as
against 37 cents for the June 1931
quarter.
The commodity price strength
seems tc be in better sentiment.
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PROHIBITS HITCH HIKING
ROANOKE, Va. July 25. - -The
new la^v prohibiting hitch hiking
in this state went into effect Sun
1 day.
GOVERNMENT MOBILIZES
CREDIT PBOTECT HIES
WASHINGTON, D. C , July 25. (/P)
—The government is mobilizing a
potential two billion dollars of
credit to prevent foreclosure of
American homes and make it easy
to build new ones and all of it un
der the terms of the Home Loan
Bank bill signed Friday by Presi
dent Hoover.
The money is intended to aid
the owners and builders on small
and middle class homes. The bill
specifically withholds loans from
homes costing more than $20,000.
President Hoover expects the
measure to immediately increase
employment by stimulating new
building.
MORE ATHLETES ARRIVE
LOS ANGELES, July 25. —Ath
letes are pouring into Los Angels
for the Olympic games- Sunday two
more teams arrived when the Den
mark and Mexican representatives
came to the city. Today teams from
Belbium, South Africa, and Aus
tralia were expected to arrive.
“MA” ERGUSON IN LEAD
HOUSTON. July 25, —Sunday’s
tabulations of the Texas election
showed that “Ma” Ferguson was
leading her nearest opponent in
the race for governorship by about
6,000 votes.
OPENS THE GAMES
LOS ANGELES, July 25, (IP)—
Vice President Curtis accepted the
invitation to open the Olympic
Games.
M. E. Holben, a local restaurafit
man for many years, accompanied
by his two children, Beulah and
Melvin, Jr., left on the SS. Admiral
Evans Sunday for Seattle.
A pack of 2,000,000 cases can
, easily be expected this year in the
Territory, according to Fisheries
Commissioner Henry O'Malley.
A. J. Dimond, Democratic candi
date for Delegate to Congress in
the November elections, was an out
going passenger on the SS. Yukon
enroute to his Valdez headquarters.