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VOLUME XXIX. NUMBER 64.
SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 1933.
PRICE TEN CENTS
RECOGNITION OF
CONSIDERABLE EAGERNESS IS
SHOWN TO GAIN RUSSIAN
MARKETS
WASHINGTON. D. C., March 18,
President Roosevelt declined to
make any statement at this time
about the attitude of his adminis
tration toward Russia but the feel
ing is growing in some quarters
that recognition will be made. Nor
man Davis may talk with the Sov
iet Commissiar of Foreign Affairs.
American advocates of Russian
recognition believed the reestab
lishment of relations between the
two nations might speedily folio a.
A TEMPTING FIELD
American cotton growers and
spinners and manufacturers of
machinery are showing much eag
erness to” regain Russia’s markets
with 160,000,000 inhabitants.
Russia is a tempting area to
those seeking fields where Ameri
can products can be placed thru
tariff trades which is one of
Roosevelt’s plans for other coun
tries, at least.
GENEVA. March 18,—Tired from
his emotional appeal to the dis
armament conference. Prime Min
ister Ramsay MacDonald prepared
to leave Friday for his momentous
conference with Premier Mussolini
in Rome.
The same tense political situa
tion hung over Europe as confer
ence delegates hotly but unoffi
cially discussed Mr. MacDonald's
sweeping proposals. Though all
realized that something would have
to be done to relieve a situation
brought, about by the rise of the
Nazis in Germany. Mr. MacDon
ald's proposals did not meet with
widespread approval.
He urged a reduction of Contin
ental armies, a naval holiday until
1935, when a World Naval Confer
ence would be held, abolition of
military and naval aviation, and
permission to Germany to double
her armed forces to 200,000 men.
MOSCOW, March 18.—The four
British subjects charged with
“wrecking activities” in connection
with their work on electrical pro
jects in Russia., will be subjected
to a public trial within a month
over the protests of the British
government.
The statement said: “No pres
sure or menace” from Britain will
be recognized.”
Native Russians are also facing
trial. The British subjects are L.
C. Thornton, chief erecting engin
eer; W. H. MacDonald, engineer;
J. Cussney, engineer; and a fitter
named Gregory.
The charges sai dthey tried to
put various power stations out of
commission
LONDON, March 13.—A break in
diplomatic relations between Great
Britain and Soviet Russia was an
ticipated today in both business
and political circles, the second
crisis in affairs of the two coun
tries within five months.
This time the arrest of six Brit
ish subjects employed in Moscow,
was considered likely to cause the
recall of the British Ambassador,
Sir Esmond Ovey. An embargo on
Russian goods was also viewed as
a possibility, to take effect when
the present trade agreement witn
the two countries expires April 16.
NAVY SECRETHRV IS
DESIROUS BUILDING
WASHINGTON. D. C , March 18.
; —Secretary of Navy Swanson said
he wished to build the United
States Navy up to London Treaty
limits immediately, but that no
! construction program has yet been
! completed.
He said he had not discussed a
! building program thoroughly with
! President Roosevelt, and had not
i even had an opportunity to sum
mon Bureau chiefs in the Navy
j Department for consultation on
I such a plan.
: The Secretary said he would
first have to determine now much
money would be available for the
1 navy before considering any form
of construction of warships or air
craft.
THE CHILDREN AND
FATHER FOUND DEAD
I GRATE. WIFE. MOTHER
PHILADELPHIA, March 18.—Gil
bert Flicnd, for 28 years a mail
clerk, and his three young children
were found dead on the grave of
his wife in suburban Upper Darby.
The bodies of the children lay
close togdther on the mother’s
grave with a blanket covering all
but their heads. Each had been
shot thru the head.
Friend, a bullet wound in his
I head, lay beside them, a pistol
j nearby.
The children were Robert, eight;
Helen, six; Kenneth, seven
| months. The wife died in Janu
I ary. The children were brought
here a week ago.
■HUM
CHINESE OS BORDERS-.
J»P PLIES BUSY
CHIHFENG, Jehol, March 18.—
A general mobilization of Chinese
irregulars and regulars along the
i Tuolun borders of Chahar Province
■ was reported here as Japanese air
craft harassed the section of the
Great Wall with persistent bomb
i ing attack.
Crack troops of Gen. Sun Tien
i Ying. chairman of the Chahar
Provincial government, were re
ported coalescing with forces of
Gen. Fang Chan Hai, leader of the
big sword irregulars.
They were supported by Gen Kai
China and several thousand infan
trymen. The troop movement
created rumors that the Japanese
were planning an air raid against
1 Tuolun.
! KILLED TEACHER THEN
I TURNED SON ON SELL
SPOKANE, Wn„ March 13. —
| Clarence Forbes, 42. an aviator.
! shot and killed Pearl' Fraser, 27, a
school teacher, in a hotel room
and then committed suicide.
Friends found the bodies. The}
! said he was formerly married and
1 father of one son.
i He had been attracted to the
| teacher for more than a year but
I his affections were unreturned.
1 She was shot three times in the
back; he also was shot three times.
■ A note in his pocket told of his
plan to take his own life.
APPOINTED AMBASSADOR
BERLIN, March 18, —Dr. Hans
Luther, who resigned the Reichs
bank presidency Tuesday has been
appointed German Ambassador tc
the United States succeeding
Friedrich Wilshelm von Paittwitz.
BANKER APPOINTED
! BERLIN, March 13, —Dr. Hans
Luther, ex-Chancellor and former
! Reichbank prseident, who resigned
j his bank dictatorship yesterday,
j has been definitely selected by the
Hitler government to succeed Ger
man Embassador von Prittwitz
und Gaffron in Washington, it wao
' learned.
POLL TAX FAILED
VICTORIA, B. C., March 18.—The
bill affixing a polli tak of 55 on
women was lost by an overwhelm
ing vote.
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HIGH RECEIPTS
| WASHINGTON, D. C., March 18.
j —Income tax receipts Friday total
I ed 513,500,000, exceeding by $300.
J 000 the day’s receipts of 1932.
ON THE DOTTED LINE
ST. LOUIS. Mo., March 18.—Ar
thur “Dazzy” Vance, Cardinal
holdout, signed his contract Fri
i day.
GREAT PORT PROJECT
SOUTHAMPTON. Eng., March
18.—Construction has started on
the $65,000,000 port project here.
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MILLIONS LOST
! MONTREAL, March 18.—The
I Canadian National Railways lost
I $4,500,000 in loans in 1932. it was
1 announced.
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APPROVE BOUNTY BILL
VICTORIA, B. C., March 13.—
The British Columbia Legislature
approved the bill fixing a bounty of
$2 on coyotes and $10 for cougars.
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UNLEGAL PRACTICE
VICTORIA. B. C., March 18.—
! The Legislative measure to legalize
; the practice of chiropractors was
j defeated.
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FIRST DEGREE MEURDER
I SALEM, Mass., March 18.—Jessie
J Costella was arrested here yester
i day on the charge of first degree
! murder of her husband who died
| a month ago from poisoning.
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MARINER PASSES
i VANCOUVER. B. C„ March 18.—
! Capt. E. Stevens, Dioneer master
! mariner of the North Pacific, died
| Friday. Captain Stevens lived in
! Vancouver for 35 years.
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NO PIRATE GOLD
SAN FRANCISCO, March 18—
The Cocos Island pirate gold hunt
; ers from British Columbia, led by
Capt. S. Lecky, arrived here Friday
on their way to Vancouver.
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HOOVER EN ROUTE HOME
CHICAGO. March 18.—Herbert
Hoover, accompanied by a secreta
1 ry. arrived from New York en
i route to his home at Palo Alto.
Calif.
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KING WANTS WORK
PARIS. March 18.—The royal
' exile, King Alfonso, is looking for
something to do. though he has a
I large fortune. Time lies heavy on
j his hands.
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DEPOSITED MILLIONS
NEW YORK, March 18.—Hoard
i ers of gold deposited in the Fed
j eral Reserve Bank Thursday $20.
500.000; Friday’s total w'as expected
: to exceed this sum.
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PREPARE FOR BEER
: SAN FRANCISCO, March 18—
; Hotels, cafes and clubs are making
1 alterations and preparing in gen
. eral for the sale of light wines and
i beer.
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MELLON SAILS
LONDON, March 18.—Andrew
| Mellon, retiring U. S. Ambassador
I to the court of St. James, sailed
i Friday on the SS- Leviathan for
New York.
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FLOOD WATERS
SACRAMENTO, Calif., March 18.
—The weather bureau warned
ranchers to move their cattle tc
upper valleys because of rising
waters of the Sacramento river,
! which have passed the flood stage
! and are overflowing its banks at
' many points.
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HOARDERS’ LAST DAY
WASHINGTON, D. C-, March 18
—Yesterday was the last day for
hoarders to disgorge their gold or
face the possibility of being prose
cuted. under the emergency bank
ing law. The penalty is a fine oi
$10,000, twro years in prison, or
both.
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THREE CONFIRMED
| WASHINGTON, D. C„ March 18
S —The nominations of James I.
j Strauss as Ambassador to France,
Josephus Daniels, Ambassador to
! Mexico, and Norman Ardmore, Am
! bassador to Haiti, were confirmed
| Friiiay. James W. Girard, former
i Ambassador to Germany, is in line
| for a diplomatic post, it was re
i ported.
FATHER RAN AMOK
KILLED DAUGHTER, SHOT
WIFE 10 HIMSELF
OREGON CITY, March 18—Sur
geons hoped to save the life of
Edward Flateau, 55. who, in a mad
frenzy, shot and killed his daugh
ter, Mable, aged 11, wounded his
wife, Anna, 53, and attempted to
slay another daughter before send
ing a bullet into his own head.
Flateau was captured by State
police after he fired two bullets at
therh when cornered in his home.
A few minutes before he ran to
the home of a neighbor with whom
he had quarreled, to set the man’s
house afire; it burned to the
ground.
Police said he ran amok when
his wife threatened to leave him
after a quarrel.
DESPITE WORK OF
EMERGENCY BELIEF
THOUSANDS SUFFER
LONG BEACH, March 13—Twen
ty thousand men, women ana
1 children shivered around camp
fires yesterday, threatened with
colds, after a night of chilling
rain which swept the earthquake
1 stricken region of Southern Cali
fornia.
Despite efforts of Red Cross au
i thorities, the rehabilitation com
mittee and the national guard to
! get their charges under cover.
| thousands suffered the greatest
: discomfort. Repairs were rushed
on small dwellings to make them
sufficiently habitable to remove
, the possibility of widespread suf
I fering.
There wrere 25.000 persons still
sleeping out-of-doors in Long
Beach. Probably 5.000 were under
tents in city parks. Hundreds of
others huddled under rudely con
structed shelters of tarpaulin and
| sheet iron.
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LONDON, March 18,—Yousouke
Mathoka, Chief Japanese delegate
to the recent League of Nations
meeting, declared war between
Japan and the United States would
• Be an act of madness.”
He added that ‘‘There is no
1 cause of war between United Stat
es and Japan and there can be no
war between our countries unless
the United States makes it. I
know any country will not do that.
What could we achieve by a war?
1 Nothing but the satisfaction of
shedding Japanese blood.”
tCIION ON FARM
; IMF POSTPONE!!
WASHINGTON, D. C., March 18,
—Congressional action on Presi
dent Roosevelt’s farm relief pro
gram was postponed until next
week as a movement for re%dsion of
some of its most drastic provisions
reached proportions that forecast
I a bitter legislative battle.
There was a strong sentiment to
; heed the Chief Executive’s plea
for ‘‘a trial” of the most compli
cated of his four proposals for
, emergency action. But likewise,
| there wTere persistent attempts to
| delay action until the reactions of
1 producers and processors to the
plan may be measured.
HEIRESS MARRIED
! DEL MONTE, Calif., March 18,—
Miss Maude Van Courtland Hill,
one of the heirs to the fortune of
the late James J. Hill, “Empire
Builder” railroad man, was mar
ried here to Lawrence Dorcy ol
Monterey at the Del Monte Chap
el. -
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WASHINGTON, D. C., March 18
: —Attorney General Cummings re
! appointed Sanford Bates, directoi
i of prisons of the Department oi
: Justice, a position he held undei
the Hoover administration. Bates
has directed the expansion of the
prison system of the government
DIES NEXT WEEK
REYFORD, Fla., March -8.—Gui
j seppi Zangara, assassinator of
1 Anton J. Cermak of Chicago, will
be executed in the electric chair
between 8 a. m. and 2 p. m. some
time next week, the prison warden
announced, refusing to give the ex
act time of day. Zangara seems
anxious to die and spends most oi
his days on a cot.
IDENTITY OF CEILITF
RELEASED Oil SOIL
GLENDALE, Calif., March 18,—
Joseph Clark, held .in jail in con
nection with the slaying of two
men and kidnapping of a customs
officer at Bellingham, escaped by
substituting himself for another
person about to be set free under
bond.
Clark assumed the identity of a
cellmate laying in a drunken stup
or and called for a bondsman.
When $250 was supplied as a bail
on a charge of intoxication, he
walked boldly from the jail to free
dom.
Clark is accused of kidnapping
Customs Patrolman ivlanger on
March 9 when the officer attempt
ed to arrest him.
NEW YORk, March 18, —The
Federal grand jury investigation
into the affairs of the closed Har
! riman National Bank & Trust Co.,
has revealed $1,661,170 in irregular
withdrawals from depositors ac
counts, all attributed to Joseph W.
Harriman, the bank’s founder and
until Thursday, chairman of it’s
board of directors.
Mr. Harriman’s resignation was
announced without comment by
Henry F. Cooper, president and
Federal appointed conservator. Mr.
Harriman, seriously ill of a heart
ailment, is free on bond on a
charge of misusing funds.
SENT CONFERENCE
WASHINGTON. D. C., March 18,
—The beer, wine bill moved anoth
,er step toward final passage yes
terday when the House, by an over
whelming vote, adopted a resolu
tion sending it to conference for
adjustment of differences in the
House and Senate versions.
House leaders were determined
to stand out for the restoration of
the 3.2 percent alcoholic content
instead of the 3.5.
SOUTHERN PUCIFIG EO„
(SKS FOR BIG LOAN
WASHINGTON. D. C., March 18,
—The Southern Pacific Co., Friday
! asked the Interstate Commerce
Commission for authority to bor
j row $22,000,000 from the Recon
j struction Finance Corporation for
, a period of three years.
The road desires the loan to pay
maturing bonds and equipment
; trust obligations, interest on cer
tain indebtedness and other cor
porate requirements. It agreed to
pledge its promissory notes as se
| curity.
It was the first Reconstruction
Finance Corporation loan asked by
j the Southern Pacific Co.
THE STOCyiMIET
I NEW YORK, March 13.—A par
| tial retreat occurred on Friday’*
market when paper profits were
harvested. The speculative market
, of the past two days was due for a
reaction.
A number of stocks dropped one
to four points. The day’s turn
over Was 1.800,000 shares.
Montreal and Toronto mining
stocks moved slow Friday. Winni
peg wheat dropped 3 cents. Pio
neer 5.90, Caribou 2.35, C., P. R
HV^.pound sterling at New Yorli
3.45
Alaska Juneau 13V2, Kennecotl
10V8, Premier, no sale, Big Missour:
9.
YOUNG FAIRBANKS SAYS SLIT
.AN OPEN AND SHUT CASE
OF BLACKMAIL
LOS ANGELES, March 13,—Joan
Crawford announced she has sep
arated from Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
The separation followed filing of
a 560,000 stolen love suit by Jorgen
Dietz against Fairbanks. She said
divorce proceedings are not con
templated and insisted “These
damage actions have nothing to
do with it.”
Fairbanks said he hoped for a
reconciliation saying: “There is no
other woman in the world for me.
I love Joan and she sure feeis the
same way toward me.”
His wife said: “It is simply a
case of two people being unable to
get along together.”
LAYS DEFENSE PLANS
LOS ANGELES, March 13,—
Characterizing an alienation of
affections suit filed against him
by Jorgen Dietz as “an open and
shut case of blackmail”, Douglas
Fairbanks, Jr., young film actor,
laid plans to defend himself in
court.
Mr. Dietz, 32-year-old chemical
engineer, demanded $50,000 dam
ages for alleged alienation of the
affections of his wife, Mrs. Solveig
j Dietz, scenario writer. In a second
action, he asked $20,000 more for
false imprisonment, charging Mi*.
Fairbanks, Michael Levee, his
manager and District Attorney
Buron Fitts conspired to deprive
him of his liberty.
READY TAKE ACTION
Joan Crawford, the actor's wife,
Mr. Levee and Mr. Fitts, are said
to have joined with Mr. Fairbanks
in terming the actions “attempted
extortion”. “I knew all about it
from the start,” Miss Crawford is
reported to have said. “Douglas
and I have discussed the flagrant
charges together.- They are un
justifiable.” Mr. Fitts saicl that
Mr. Fairbanks may sign an extor
tion comDlaint against Mr. Dietz;
he refused last Christmas to sign.
“This office stands ready to
take action if Mr. Fairbanks cares
to sign the complaint and if there
is actionable evidence."
ROME. March 18.—Guiseppi Zan
gara. Italian fanatic, who killed
Mayor Anton J. Cermak of Chica
go' in an attempt to assassinate
the then President-Elect. Roose
velt. was linked with a widespread
, radical terrorist organization in
the United States.
1 Charges also were made diiectly
to Premier Mussolini that Zangara
and accomplices might have been
responsible for the mailing of the
bombs which wrecked the Easton,
Pa., postoffice, killing three and
injuring three others on December
31, 1931- These bombs, together
i with many others were said to
have been manufactured in Brook
lyn, N. Y., by “e xperts” of the
: gang.___
CULLEN BEES BILL
I IN CONFERENCE STSEE
WASHINGTON, D. C., March 18.
—With the House insisting on 3.2
| percent beer and the Senate stand
. ing for an alcoholic limitation of
i 3.05 the Cullen beer bill last night
j was in the conference stage with
; quick compromise predicted,
i Nothing could be done formally
i i until Monday, because the Senate
was in adjournment and had yet
•to appoint its conference mana
gers. However, action was planned
that would get the measure to the
White House by Monday night.
Leaders in both House and Sen
ate hoped for a final agreement
on the bill Monday. Signature by
, President Roosevelt on that day
, would make it possible to sell beer
to the public on April 4.
PUBLIC DANCE TONIGHT I. 0. 0. F. HALL