MEMBER ASSOCIATED RMCSS
VOLUME XXIX. NUMBER 161.
SEWARD, ALASKA,WEDNESDAY, JULY 12, 1933.
PRICE TEN CE|NT3
PRES. ROOSEVELT
WARNS INDUSTRY
OF WHIP HAND
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WASHINGTON, July 12. —Con-;
tinuing his swift moves to speed;
the program for National Recovery,
President Roosevelt yesterday
created a temporary super-cabinet
to deal with problems of the de
pression and including dollar stab
ilization. price regulation and the
enforcement of the National In
dustry Recovery Act fair trade
codes
This super-cabinet will be known
as a council and its meeting will
be known as council meetings. The
council hel*d its first meeting yes
terday and a series is scheduled for
this week.
A $14 a week minimum pay and
a 35-hour work week is the goal
for all industries under the latest
developments of the National In-'
dustry Recovery Association plan,!
according to Gen. Hugh S. John-!
son.
Coal mine operators were warn
ed to get in line with the Recovery
Act provisions as the cotton em
ployers have already done. Roose
velt made his statements emphatic
by sayir that he still held the
whip hand and would use it if ne
cessary.
Other developments at the cap
ital wras the submission of a $200,- j
000.000 public works program to
to the President.
A move will be made to modify;
and humanize the Oriental quota!
law at the next session of Con-!
gress, leaders of the United States
Chamber of Commerce announced.
They declared that the present ex
clusion law is an affront to Ja
pan.
United States Secret Service op
erators have entered the drive to
smash kidnap rings as the result
of the latest series of abductions
including that of John J. O’Con-l
nell, Jr., for $150,000 and an aged;
banker, August Luer, for a unnamed
sum.
Bids will be opened within two
weeks for the construction of 32
warships to cost $238,000,000, of
ficials announced.
FEDERAL RESERVE
OBJECTS TO PLAN
OF GOLD NATIONS
LONDON, July 12. —The Am-j
erican Federal Reserve Board, it!
is understood, has vetoed the par
ticipating by the United States
delegation in discussions calling
for central ba^k cooperation.
This resolution is backed by the
European gold bloc and has been
under consideration by a sub
committee on permanent mone
tary problems.
Senator Key Pittman, of Neva
da, is understood to have told
the committee that the Federal
Reserve Board felt that the resolu
tion was premature. The declara
tion created a sensation among
the committee members.
BIG MAN FEARS
HIS SMALL WIFE
CHICAGO, July 12. —Joseph Bar- 1
icev, 39, structural iron worker,
was not in court when a charge of
assault and battery he had placed
against his wife was called. j:
Mr. Baricev, six-feet and two- <
inches tall, had told Judge John J. ]
Lupe that his wife attacked him i
with a rolling pin and struck him <
several times in the head. “He did i
not dare to come into court and <
face me,” Mrs. Baricev told the i
judge. Mrs. Baricev is five-feet tall i
and weighs only 100 pounds. <
FILE SUIT TOMORROW
RENO, July 12. —Elliott Roose
velt is expected to file his suit
for divorce tomorrow. He has been
living openly near here.
ITALIAN PLANES
LEAVE ICELAND
REYKJAVIK, Iceland, July 12.—
The 24 Italian seaplanes which
have been awaiting favorable
weather here for several days,
left on their 1,500-mile trip to
Cartwright, Labrador, en route to
the Century of Progress Exposi
at Chicago.
While the vanguard got away
promptly it was nearly half an
hour before all the planes had
left. Fourteen planes were delay
ed for brief periods by difficulties
in towing them out in the harbor
The weather was calm and
partly cloudy.
SUCCEDS JUNEAUITE
WALLA WALLA, July 12. —The
Rev. Duncan Mathewson, of Om
ak, and who for 25 years has
been a member of the Washing
ton Synod of the Presbyterian
church, was elected moderator
Tuesday night to succeed the Rev.
David Waggoner, of Juneau. One
hundred and 20 ministers from
Alaska and Washington attended
the meeting.
AMBER FLUID
MAY SOON RUN
IN OKLAHOMA
OKLAHOMA CITY, July 11. —
Oklahoma’s bone dry reputation
was at stake today in an election
that may legalize the sale of beer
for the first time since the state
was admitted to the Union.
Both wets and drys predicted a
victory.
The election wras being closely
watche by repeal advocates who be
lieved its results would f o r t e 11
whether Oklahoma, .regarded a fewr
years ago as second only to Kan
sas in aridity, would ratify the re
peal amendment.
The legislature is nowr in session
to set up machinery for the rati
fication election.
Admitting no possibility of de
feat, beer salesmen thronged the
state waiting for the counting of
ballots. It was estimated that 500
carloads of beer had been ordered.)
Special trains waited at the bord-j
ers for the outcome.
The attorney general has ruled j
there will be no delay in beer saleI
if the vote is favorable.
Early returns from some 14 pre-1
cincts gave the vote as 2,305 for
beer and 336 votes against “3.2.”
LINDBERGH'S NEXT
STOP IS HALIFAX
NORTH HAVEN, Maine, July 12.
—Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lind
bergh,- after a farewell visit with
their mothers and infant son, re
sumed their mapping flight from
New York to the North Atlantic at
1:14 p. m. Tuesday.
Their next scheduled stop, en
route to Labrador, Greenland and
[celand was Halifax, Nova Scotia,
approximately 325 miles northeast
)f here via Calais, Maine and St.
John, New Brunswick, or 250 miles
ha Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.
PRIZE CATCHES
To Bob Hall goes the rubber
:rying pan for the biggest Trout
laught so far this year at Russian
liver. Bob caught two fine speci
nen one 28 V2 inches long and the
>ther 24 inches. Mrs. A. D. Bal
lerston also pulled a fine trout
>ut of the same river. Her trout
neasured 28 inches. The three
:rout caught last Sunday are on
lisplay at Brown & Hawkins.
GREAT RUN OF
FISH NOW ON
IN BRISTOL BAY
The greatest run of salmon in
the last several decades is now in
progress in the Bristol Bay region,
according to oldtimers of that ar
■ea, reports Attorney General James
S. Truitt, who returned yesterday
afternoon, to Seward from an of
ficial trip to that region.
The present run has been in pro
gress for some time and so much
fish has been caught that can
neries are beginning to report that
their expected packs have been ful
filled or half completed already
All the canneries in that region
are not operating this year, but
the canneries that are operating
are working with more efficiency
than ever and can handle almost
twice the amount of fish that they
did several years ago. Best esti
mates, at this time, predict that
the total pack in the area will pro
bably easily total 1,500,000 cases.
Judge Truitt marvelled at the
efficiency of the canneries in the
region and said that in addition to
putting the fish into metal con
tainers with amazing rapidity that
they are being put up in “A-l”
shape. The splendid direction of
the cannery personnel was also
comented on by the Judge and he
stated that the forces working un
der Supt. Larson and Superinten
dent Heinbuckel, of the Alaska
Packers, at Naknek, worked so har
moniously that it was fascinating
just to stand and watch them.
All the residents of the Westward
area who were available for can
nery work were given employment
and the people out there are real
jubilant over the future. The Alas
ka Packers, alone, employ some 348
Alaska residents while other can
neries have hired a proportional
number. Nearly all seekers of em
ployment who were in the region
at the start of the season also
were given work as the canners
needed more labor than that avail
able through resident labor.
The people are working night and
day while the big run is on. So
much fish was brought into one
cannery that at the weekly close
of fishing—from Saturday at 6 p.m.
to Monday morning at six—there
was sufficient fish in the bin to
keep that cannery operating con
tinuously Saturday night, Sunday,
Sunday night, and until early Mon
day morning before the last fish
was canned.
The escapement for spawning
purposes is also said to be real
good, according to Judge Truitt, for
with the heavy run long nets can
not be used and ample room is
thus provided for their escapement
in addition to the usual provisions.
Long nets can not be used because
so many fish get enmeshed that
the nets can not be handled.
Efforts to count the number of
fish going up-stream leaves one
bewildered as no person, without a
counting weir, can hope to be able
to count the swarms that plunge
onward to the spawning grounds.
The Bureau of Fisheries has its
wardens on hand to see that pro
per escapement is provided for and
that all regulations are observed.
They are enforcing the laws, to'
the last letter. On one occasion, it
was asserted, two men were alleged
ly blown by one of the Bering Sea
squalls into a forbidden fishing
area and as a result they lost their
boat and gear and some 600 choice
salmon to the government.
Attorney General Truitt declared
that a number of aliens and non
residents went into the aea this
season and are taking advantage
of the Territory by false state
ments so that they would be al
lowed to fish. Judge Truitt said
that these violators are being
taken care of, or will be taken care
of.
Judge Truitt had hoped that he
GOOD INDICATION
SAN FRANCISCO, July 12. —
The bank status throughout the
nation indicated a higher level
of general business than for the
same month of last year.
LUMBER MEN
SUBMIT CODES
WASHINGTON, July 12. — The
lumber industry put in a code yes
terday, steel is expected today, and
codes for coal and oil are looked
for within a few days, and the
R e c o v ery Administrator probably
will issue a call shortly for all
industry to submit work agree
ments by a set date.
Thus Hugh S. Johnson, the ad
ministrator described the progress
of the industrial control to news
jmen. He was emphatic in assert
j ing that National Lumber Manu
jfacturers Association’s 48-hour
: maximum week and minimum wage
[schedule were not acceptable and!
[would have to be revised.
BOY IS INDICTED
FULTON, Ga., July 12. — The
grand jury indicted Pryor Bowed,
! 17-year old school boy, here to
day, for the kidnapping of John
Ottley, Atlanta banker, last week.
Ottley escaped shortly after the
kidnapping.
BIG BATTLESHIP
PROGRAM LOOMS
FUTURE OF U.S.
WASHINGTON, July 12. — Sec
retary of the Navy Claude Swan
son has asked President Roosevelt
to authorize a comprehensive pro-'
gram for the replacement of bat-'
tleships to start on the expiration j
of the London Naval Treaty Dec-,
ember 31, 1935, the press learned
yesterday.
The move is seen as conclusive
corroboration of the disclosure by
the press a week ago that the
Roosevelt administration is prepar
ed to withdraw from the London
treaty on the termination of that)
pact. At the present time the Unit- ■
ed States is bound by treaty not to j
replace any capital ship or build
any new ships during the life of
this treaty.
This provision originally was
made in the Washington treaty
but was given new life by the Lon
don conference, being incorporated
into the pact drawm up there.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. B. Lawing,
were visitors in town yesterday
from their vacation resort Lawing.
NATION AROUSED
BY KIDNAPPINGS
WASHINGTON, July 12. — A dis
traught nation looked to the gov
ernment for protection against the
lurking menace of the kidnapper
as four different sections of the
United States reported that per
sons had been abducted from the
midst of their fellows.
Albany, N. Y., reported the kid
napping of John J. O’Connell, Jr.;
Alton,111.’ reported two men enter
ed the home of August Luer, 78,
banker and a semi-invalid, knock
ed his wife down when she at
tempted to ward them off and
drove away in a car with him.
Crawfordsville, Georgia, says J.
C. Lyle, a mailcarrier, was kidnap
ped, but later released by three
escaped convicts. Federal officials
are searching for ‘Jake, the barber”
Factor at Newport News, Virginia.
could visit his home town of An
chorage now that he is so near to
it, but he feared that lack of time
would prevent him from having
this pleasure. Attorney General
Truitt leaves for his official head
quarters at Juneau Friday on the
SS. Yukon.
MATTERN REUEF
FLIERS AT NOME
MARKING TIME
NOME, July 12. —The Mattern
tfelief expedition here marked
time while awaiting permission to
enter Russia and bring Jimmy
Mattern to the United States.
Bill Alexander, head of the re
lief expedition, said he was dis
appointed over the reports that a
Soviet plane might fly Mattern
across the Bering Sea to Nome.
“Of course, it really doesn’t mat
ter as long as Jimmie gets back
to God’s country; we are only dis
appointed that we are unable to
go and eet him right away now
that we are so close. But we will
probably take him back to New
York with us anyway,” Alexander
said.
William Alexander, Fred Fetter
man, and Thomas Jeby are the
three original members of the re
lief expedition. They were flown
here by Bob Ellis, Southastern Al
aska • flyer. The original relief
plane is still grounded at Terrace,
B. C.
Alexander said he still had
hope that his backers would get
him permission to enter Russia.
The E|ussians, it is said, are
sending a seaplane from Khabar
ovsk and has given the flyer in
structions to fly Mattern to
Nome. Mattern’s plane is dam
aged beyond immediate repair.
Arrangements are still being
made to get a plane to Mattern
so that he can complete his trip.
It is said that one company has
agreed to have a plane flown to
Anadyr, Siberia, to be delivered
to Mattern to complete his trip.
Permi'^siou to fly this plane into
Siberia, has been obtained and
aviator Jameson is going to New
York today to complete arrange
ments for this new phase of the
flight.
O'CONNELL SCION
SOON BE FREED
IT IS THOUGHT
ALBANY, N. Y. July 12. —The
O’Connel ransom sum ,said to be
between $50,000 and $100,000, isi
ready for payment to the kid
nappers of John O’Connell, Jr.
The O’Connel family expected
that young John, Jr., would be re
leased by the kidnappers within
12 hours.
John “Jake, the barber” Factor,
missing since July 1, communicat
ed anew with his family in Chi
cago and sent a ring belonging
to himself as proof that he is
their prisoner. Factor’s kidnappers
are holding Factor for $200,000
ransom which the family states
they can not raise.
At Alton, 111., Ranker August
Luer, kidnaped Monday, was still
unheard from. Passes are hunting
the abductors while the family is
seeking to contact the kdnappers
as fears are felt for his health.
MADMAN GAVE
COPS REAL FIGHT
ALBANY, Ore. July 12. — A
fierce night-long battle between
a madman and state, county and
city police ended in the death of
bullet-riddled Frank Stankiewiecz,
22, who had escaped from the
Oregon State Insane Asylum on
Monday.
Harry Anderson was wounded
in the right knee in the fight.
The madman was arrested near
here and when he was brought
to the jail be grabbed the sher
iff’s pistol, bolted upstairs and
barricaded himself in the sheriff’s
apartment. Bombs, pistols, rifles
and machine guns were used be
fore he was finally routed.