VOLUME XXVIII. NUMBER 159. SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JULY 9,1932.
PRICE TEN CENT?
MUHIN SAILS FROM
SEATTLE WITH FAIR LIST
PASSENGERS FOR NORTH
SEATTLE, July 9. (IP) —The SS.
Aleutian, of the A. S. S. Co-, sailed
for Seward this morning at nine
o’clock and carried 121 passengers
of whom 111 were cabin passengers
and the other 10 steerage.
There were 70 passengers for
Seward and they included A. New
ton Mead, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Tuck
er, Sam Shean, Mr. and Mrs. Sam
uel G. Harris, Miss Esa Winfree,
Mrs. M. C. Miles, Capt. and Mrs. G.
Sharer and daughter.
Mrs. Pauline Anderson, Dean
Sage, jr., Mrs. Sage, Merle LaVoy,
Andrew Taylor, L. N. Burson, W. D.
Gardner, Mrs. Rose Firker, Alice
and Virginia Fusz.
Rosalie Fusz, R. W. Vinnege, J. S
Seiban, Prof, and Mrs. W. A. Set
chell, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lowrey,
Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Schad, Mrs.
Robt. Wuess, Mrs. Harry Long, Mrs.
Oscar Allen and daughter, Miss Ora
Doyle, Mrs. Chas. O’Connor, L. C.
Thompson.
Roger Lapham and son, O. J. I
Murray, J. W. Roberts, Mrs. H. Wil- |
liams, Mrs. E. C. Handy, Mr. and i
Mrs. J. A. McCune, Mrs. M. C. Bent- i
ley, Mrs Belle Herman, Mrs. J. C. j
Bjersted, Miss Pauline Valrnum,
Wm. Jameson, R. W. Hemphill, K.
Gerber, Miss L. J. Roberts. Mr. and
Mrs. W. E. Hand, Miss Mary Startz
man, Mr. and Mrs. Enos Lundgren
and daughter, Mrs. Alvoni R. Al
len, Miss Dorothy Wright, F. J.
* . Stafford, Dr. W. E. Postle, Harry
Hooping. Miss Dorothy Wilson. Mr.
and Mrs. E. C. Stevens, W. T. Gra
ham. Geo- Bentley. S. H. Burge and
steerage Carl Elken and G. J.
Schenaller.
NEW Y O R K, July 9. — Jack
Dempsey Friday expressed a will
ingness to fight Jack Sharkey for
the heavyweight championship of
the world. The “Manassa Mauler.”
holder of the championship for
many years said that he had ob
served Sharkey in his fight against
Max Schmeling and in his opinion
the Boston sailor has slowed down
considerable.
Dempsey said he would favor a
15 round route; as in that length
of time he feels he could wear
Sharkey down and stand a better
chance of victory.
When asked whether he would
sign his name to a contract calling j
for a meeting between Sharkey and
himself, Dempsey stated he would
have to take time to think it over.;
However, he added, that if condi
tions were right he probably would
sign.
PLANS FLIGHT TOKYO
SEATTLE, July 9. —Nate Browne,
who failed to make a good start on
his recent attempt to fly to Tokyo
from Seattle is making prepara
tions for another attempt. He is
raising the money to purchase a
ship for his flight by conducting
sight-seeing flights out of Seattle
and doing stunting. With his earn
ings from this form of aviation
the Eastern aviator hopes to buy
a plane and finance the hop.
GOES TO JURY SOON
LOS ANGELES, July 9. — The
Myrtle St. Pierre $200,000 breach of
promise suit against “Baby Boy”;
David Hutton, husband of Aimee
Semple McPherson, drew to a close
Friday. The chief counsel for Miss
St- Pierre characterized Hutton as
a philanderer and ruiner of women.
The courtroom spectators got a big
“bang” out of the court remarks.
The case was expected to go the
jury sometime today.
TEMPERATURE EXTREMES
SEATTLE, July 9. —Temperature
extremes for Friday were Seattle
60-50, Chicago 71-60, Denver 94-66,
Los Angeles 78-62, New O r 1 e a n s j
94-78, New York 80-64, Portland!
78-62, San Francisco 74-56, Ketchi
kan 60-50, Ketchikan 60-50.
INVESTIGATE TREASURY
WASHINGTON, July 9. (JP) —
Speaker John N. Garner, long out
standing critic of the Treasury De
partment, is pushing a move for
a congressional investigation into
that department and its federal
money activities. Garner has ord
ered a resolution calling for an in
vestigation of that department and
has made it the order of business
in the House. It is a foregone con
clusion that the resolution will be
passed.
LITTLE HOPE HELO
SUBMARINE ABE ALIVE
CHERBOURG, France, July 9. (IP)
—Two Italian salvage ships, the
Artiglio and the Rosto, have arriv
ed there and are preparing for an
attempt to raise the French sub
marine Promethee at low tide.
They planned to send divers
down 245 feet to the ocean floor
to hook chains and air lines to j
the stricken craft and to learn if |
any of the 66 persons aboard are
still alive.
Little hope is held for the im
prisoned men as the craft was
built to withstand only pressure
to the depth of 160 feet. The sub
marine lies in 245 feet of water and
it is believed that the bulkheads
may have been crushed in. The
listing of the craft, overturning of
batteries and other equipment as
the sub dove stern first and the
heavy current and rough water
make salvage work difficult.
PLANS THREE-STOP FLIGHT
SEATTLE. July 9. —It is learned
here that Roger Williams, veteran
flier is planning a globe-circling
flight on which he will make only
three stops. He will carry a couple
of passengers, and 500 pounds of
mail on the flight- Plans are still
tentative and nothing is known as
to when he plans to undertake this
flight.
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MAYOR IMPROVED
CHICAGO, July 9. —Mayor Cer
mack, confined in a local hospital,
was reported considerably improv
ed in condition late Friday night.
He was described as having been
on the verge of a nervous collapse
but the rest is said to be drawing
; him out of it.
FURTHER AGREEMENTS
WASHINGTON, July 9. —A state
ment was made here that the ad
ministration favors no further can
cellation of European war debts,
j was stated, however, that since
j an agreement has been reached at
; the Lausanne reparations confer
ence that further agreements will
1 be necessary with debtor nations.
RUTH CHATTERTON TO WED
HOLLYVv OOD, July 9. — It is
reported in intimate circles here
I that the wedding of Ruth Chatter
ton, stage and screen star, to
George Brent, also of the movies,
will be an event of the near fu
! ture. Ruth Chatterton is at the
present time being divorced from
Ralph Forbes and the latter is at
Reno for this especial purpose.
DENIES RUMOR
NEW YORK, July 9. — Mayor
’ James Walker denied that he had
| agreed to resign on the assurance
: of being given the nomination for
j the United States Senate. There
had been a rumor to that effect
j circulated in the financial district.
SUFFERS RELAPSE
LOS ANGELES, July 9. —Aimee
Semple McPherson Hutton, noted
evangelist, has suffered a serious
relapse at Lake Arrowhead, her hus
band, David L. uttan, told newspa
permen at the trial where Myrtle
St. Pierre is suing him for $200,000
breach of promise.
BASEBALL RESULTS
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PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Portland 1, Sacramento 2.
Missions 3, Hollywood 6.
Seattle 13, Oakland 6.
GIRNER ASKED TO END
FRED WITH WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON, July 9. (IP) —
Faced with President Hoover’s
threat of an extra session of Con- j
gress if the relief bill is unaccept
able to the administration is pass
ed by Congress, Democratic leaders
have decided to plead with Speak
er Garner to end his feud with the
White House.
The loans “to all the people”
portion of the $2,122,000,000 Wag
ner-Garner relief bill passed 202 to
156 by the House Thurdsay, dis
pleases Mr. Hoover.
He said he would veto the bill
! if it comes to him with that pro
vision.
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FLOODS IN ARIZONA
NOGALES, Ariz., July 9. —Floods
here Friday caused property dam
j age estimated at $75,000. Sonora,
Mexico, also reported floods with
some property damage. No lives
are said to have been lost.
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WAR DEBT QUESTION IS
FINALLY SETTLED EUROPE
LAUSANNE, Switzerland, July 9.
—The war debt question has been
settled by Europe, and Germany has
finally been relieved of all but a
shadow of the heavy burdens of re
parations, the nations at the in
ternational debt conference ag
reed Friday.
Further reparation payments will
not be made until prosperity re
turns, in the hope that in the
meantime the United States would
act towards scaling down or can
celling the payments due it from
Europe.
AWAITING OUTCOME
NEW YORK, July 9. —Governor
Franklin D. Roosevelt, presidential
nominee of the Democratic party,
is awaiting the outcome of Mayor
James J. Walker’s answer to In
vestigator Seabury’s charges be
fore he comes out with and definite
campaign announcement.
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| Forest Service j
| Policy in Alaska |
* (By R. Y. Stuart, Forester u. S. Forest Service) J
The policy of the Forest Service
' in offering sales of pulpwood in
| Alaska, and the influence of timber
| operations on the great Alaskan
1 brown bear, the largest carnivore
j in the world and found only in
j Alaska, have been the subject if
| discussion during the past several
' months. The Forest Service wel
; comes the opportunity to explain
j its policy and to present its views
i on the various problems involved.
Alaska is a Territory of the Unit
| ed States. Its people are American
| citizens. Its economic and social
j advancement is a matter of nation
: al interest and concern. Its lack of
j complete self-government imposes
I an additional obligation upon the
j nation to avoid creation of condi
1 tions inimical to its welfare.
The Forest Service is responsible
| for the administration of the Ton
! gass National Forest in southeast
| ern Alaska. The mountainous to
pography the heavy rainfall and
the cool summers preclude any ex
tensive cultivation for the produc
tion of food crops. These same
conditions are excellent for the
production of wood crops and much
of this region has a dense forest on
it- This timber, and the successive
crops which the land can easily be
made to grow, offers the best op
portunity for permanent industrial
activity in southeastern Alaska.
Mines become exhausted. Fisheries,
largely seasonal at best, cannot be
greatly expanded without endan
gering their own perpetuation. The
people of Alaska thus are confront
! ed with many serious problems in
i their effort to hold the gains made
j and to build up their social and in
i' dustrial ' institutions. The present
| timbercrop, the productive power of
1 the timberland, and the available
| water powers constitute, for south
eastern Alaska, the most promising
opportunity for large advances.
They offer the chance for a large
and permanent industrial develop
ment, supporting a considerable
population and bringing a large
annual income to the Territory.
The timber growth on the Ton
gass National Forest is chiefly wes
tern hemlock and Sitka spruce,
both good woods for making print
papers such as newsprint. The ra
pidly falling stearms, especially
those on the mainland, give oppor
tunity to develop power cheaply,
j and cheap power in quantity is es
j sential for the economical produc
i o vea unlaanenniotthe past quarter
tion of newsprint paper. During
the past quarter-century, there has
been an increase in the imports of
paper or its chief raw materials,
until now between half and two
i thirds of all paper consumed in th»
United States originates on foreign
soil, and is imported as paper, wood
pulp, or pulpwood- This depend
j ance or importations, if the com
| modity can be produced at home
' at comparable cost, is poor national
j economy. The Forest Service has,
I therefore, wanted to have Ameri
I can labor logging American timber
: and manufactoring it in an Ameri
| can plant, for use in American in
j dustry, as soon as economic condi
tions permit. Southeastern Alaska
offers one of the best of the oppro
tunities for bringing this about,
and needs stable industries.
It must also be remembered that
fundamental conditions have not
changed during the present period
of business depressions and low
prices. The forests of the north
) eastern United States, where most
i of the paper manufactoring of the
' country is now done, are depleted
i the spruce, hemlock and balsam
i firs, which have been the chief
I woods used. Power is becoming too
! valuable, in these densely populat
! ed States to be used for making
j wood pulp. Paper- makers will con
I tinue to seel: new fields. It is de
I sirable from a national viewpoint,
| and due to Alaska, that they be not
barred from the Territory by arti
ficial restrictions. On the contrary,
a paper industry should be estab
lished in Alaska whenever its ad
vantages in water power and suit
able wood make that establish
ment economically justified.
The broad lines of the situation
were seen as early as 1920. Since
then, the Forest Service has been
collecting definite data on the pre
sent stands of timber, on how new
crops can be established on cut
over land, on growth rates of those
new crops, and especially on the
water powers of the region in co
operation with the Feteral Water
Commission. With cooperation
from the Geological Survey, the
Water Power Commission, and the
Forest Service, the Navy Depart
ment photographed most of south
eastern Alaska from the air, dis
closing previously unknown power
sites and showing the location of
the timber stands. The suitability
of the hemlock and spruce in Alas
ka for making pulp and paper was
fully demonstrated.
It was found that a group of
water powers within 50 miles of
Juneau constituted one of the best
opportunities, if not the best, for
developing the power required for
large-scale pulp and paper manu
facturing. Unquestionably, this
this group offers the best oppor
tunity in the northern part of the
Tongass Forest. The water power
is permanent. To accompany it,
(PlMM tarn to Tuge Throe)
SECOND DEGREE ARSON
SEATTLE, July 9. —Horace Cald
well, 54, former school teacher at
Kanakanak, was convicted of sec
ond degree arson Friday by jury.
Caldwell was charged with having
set fire to his Seattle residence on
April 1. The house carried insur
ance amounting to $8,000, Police:
officers found a -plant of matches
and inflammable materials in the
basement. Caldwell said he was
unable to explain the presence of
the alleged “plant.”
EUROPEAN DEBTORS RE
GIVEN HEARING BY
THE UNITED STATES
WASHINGTON, July 9. (JP, —The
State Department said Friday that
the United States stands ready to
hear appeals from European powers
for a reduction of the $11,000,000,
000 owed this country in loans
which were made by this nation
to the European nations during
period immediately following the
World War.
This decision was made because
Europe has finally agreed at Lau
sanne to cut Germany’s reparations
down to $750,000,000.
The department said the United
States is willing to consider indi
vidual proposals regarding a revi
sion of debts from the 15 nations
which owe this country. No pro
mises have been made by the Unit
ed States that she will revise or
cancel the debts but the govern
i ment repeatedly has stated in re
I cent months that it would grant a
| rehearing to its European debtors
individually after they had agreed
among themselves to settle their
reparations.
PIRATES LEAD LEAGUE
| NEW YORK, July 9. —Qeorge
| Gibson, Pittsburgh Pirate, continu
ed to play championship baseball
Wednesday, winning both ends of
a doubleheader from the New York
Giants, 4 to 2 and 3 to 1. This in
creased Pittsburghs National Lea
gue lead to three and one half
games over the Chicago Cubs, who
replaced the Boston Braves in sec
ond place by a narrow margin of
one percentage point.
ECLIPSE NEXT MONTH
NEW HAVEN, Conn., July 9. —
Approximately 2,000,000 persons will
view the total eclipse of the sun,
August 31, including about 50
scientists gathered near the little
Maine village of Fryberg, according
to Dr. Frank Schlesinger, director
of the Yale observatory.
MOST TRAVELED PEOPLE
WASHINGTON, July 9. —Ameri
cans continued to be the most
traveled people in the world during
1931 and spent $570,000,000 abroad.,
the commerce department an
nounced. Visitors to the United
States spent only $110,000,000. Can
ada and France again were the
favorite foreign vacation lands for
Americans.
MAYOR RESIGNS
KETCHIKAN, July 9. —Mayor S.
R. Mitsch, elected mayor at the
last city election, has tendered his
resignation as mayor, saying he in
tends to go East. Mr. Mitsch has
also disposed of his business inter
ests in Southeastern Alaska. No
decision has been reached yet as
to how a successor to Mayor Mitsch
will be selected.
SPECIAL SERUM USED
BERKELEY, July 9. —That Fred
Dougherty, 24, critically ill here
from a rare form of blood poisoning
may live until Dr. William Wherry,
of the University of Cincinnati
medical college, can prepare more
of the serum which so improved
the young man’s condition last
week end is a question. It is nofr
known whether the patient can
hang out until the serum arrives.
Billy Austin, who operates the
gasboat Alert on the Sustina River
Anchorage mail line, passed thru
Seward en route to Anchorage from
Juneau, where he has been spend
ing some time. _
Ml FLIERS IRE
SHIPPING THEIR DIMIGED
(IIME TO MOSCOW
MOSCOW, July 9. (&) — James
Mattern and Bennett Griffin said
in a telephone conversation from
Borishov to the Associated Press at
Moscow that they would decide af
ter reaching here whether they
| would continue their flight around
the world or not.
By way of Europe, in the first
contact with the American since
their wreck Thursday morning the
fliers told the Associated Press
neither were hurt but for a few
superficial scratches which occur
red when their plane overturned as
the wheels hit a peat bog. If the
plane had not struck this soft mud
and overturned there would have
been no damage.
The fliers are greatly disappoint
ed with the way the third lap of
their globe circling flight—the at
tempted non-stop 1,000 mile flight
from Berlin to Moscow—ended
It was stated that their controls
jammed soon after they had cross
ed the Russian frontier and they
were forced to come down in Soviet
territory near the Polish frontier.
Although their plane, “The Cen
tury of Progress,” was wrecked con
siderably they are said to be crat
ing their ship to send it to Moscow.
They will survey the damages at
Moscow and ascertain whether it
can be repaired sufficiently to con
tinue the flight.
Mattern ahd Griffin, although
somewhat bruised, spent Friday in
disassembling the plane. They said
they are being treatd fine by the
Russian aviation officers who have
been sent to aid them.
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- AT DEfNOLG'S HOME
WINSTON-SALEM, N. C.. July 9
; (<P>—A secret inquest into the
1 fatal shooting of Smith Reynolds,
; heir to the Reynold’s tobacco mil
j lions, was resumed today behind
the locked gates of the Reynold’s
I estate
; Tjie most important witnesses,
i including Smith Reynold’s widow
were heard Friday. A. B. Walker,
i chum of Reynolds and who was
j taken into custody a<nd held as
1 a material witness testified as to
! events which occurred before Rey
| nolds allegedly placed a pistol to
I his head and shot himself.
Following the testimony Walker
I was again placed under the guard
j of a deputy sheriff who returned
: Walker to the estate again today
! for further questioning.
Walker was a life-long friend
land was the first to reach the
I dying youth.
SOCIALISTS QUIT
SANTIAGO, Chile, July 9. —
j Chile’s socialistic cabinet and two
; members of the government junta
headed by Carlos G. Davila have
resigned and now Davilla is free
to become provisional president.
Davilla is cooperating with ex
General Carlos L. Banes, who just
returned to Chile from ex^° by air
plane Thursday.
WILL ROGERS SECOND
OKLAHOMA CITY, July 9. —The
schoolmaster with an Oklahoma
household name Will Rogers swept
into second place for the Demo
cratic nomination as Congressman
at large although his votes in the
primary had been counted in the
precincts at les than those of Mrs.
Mabel Bassett the leader.
CRIMINAL OFFENCE
WASHINGTON, July 9. — The
Bureau of Internal Revenue warned
Tetailers that it is a criminal of
fense subject to fine and imprison
ment to increase prices of taxable
merchandise held in stock prior to
June 21 when the new manufac
tures excise taxes went into ef
fect