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VOLUME XXVIII. NUMBER 157.
SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1932.
PRICE TEN CENTS
GLOBE CIRCLING FLIERS
OVERDOE IT MOSCOW;
NOTHING HERETO PUNE
MOSCOW, July 7.,/p:— Aviators
Mattern and Griffin, who left Ber
lin for Moscow had not showed up
at the latter city by two p. m. to
day (three a- m. P. S. T.) according
to officials of the government air
port here.
The fliers are now long overdue
and they have not been reported
from since they left Berlin.
The flight to Moscow is 1.000
miles and was expected to take
seven hours. The fliers carried 300
gallons of fuel when they took off
from Berlin.
When normal flying time be
tween Berlin and Moscow had el
apsed air officials spnt inquiries to
main points along the route they
were going to take but they did not
receive any word as to their where
abouts.
The airport mechanics and others
awaiting the fliers remained on the
job all night and day with the ex
pectation that the fliers would
show up at any time.
Anxiety for their safety is con
tinually increasing.
MILITANT IM HIE
SUSPICIOUS OF H.LIES
CHICAGO, July 7. —The Women's
Christian Temperance Union, sus
picious even of its allies in the pre
sent wet and dry chaos, is playing
a lone political hand and is hold
ing out against both the republi
cans and democrats, it was learn
ed here.
Representatives of the militant
women will attend a conference of
drys at the Morrison hotel but they
intended to go as irreconcilables.
The W. C- T. U. lost fait h in
President Hoover after the Repub
lican party adopted a compromise
plank, a spokesman of the women
said. They believed he did not keep
faith with them. Now that the
democrats have come out for a
dripping wet plank, they fear that
the Anti-saloon League and other
dry organizations will flock to the
Hoover camp.
The campaign position of the
drys is scheduled to be determined
at the Morrison hotel conference.
KELLOGG Sirs JUKES
SKIT PREVENT IBS
PARIS. July 7. —Europe had be
fore it Wednesday a new plea for
disarmament and a denunciation
of armed alliances to maintain the
balance of power from Frank B.
Kellogg, the silver-haired savior of
the two authors of the Briand-Kel
log Pact to outlaw war.
War has never been prevented by
armed alliances, the former Am
erican secretary of state told the
American Chamber of Commerce
in an Independence Day address
here.
BRITAIN'S PROPOSAL
BE FLATLY REJECTED
WASHINGTON, July 6. — The
United States will flatly reject the
the proposal of Great Britain for
the scrapping of naval ships in ex
cess of 10,000 tons, it was learned
at the State Department where re
ports of the new proposal were re
ceived with amazement.
The plan, as reported from Lon
don reveals that the British dele
gation to the Geneva disarmament
conference has been instructed to
propose that all ships in excess of
10,000 tons, long range artillery,
bombing planes and aircraft car
riers be scrapped and that the use
of poison gas be banned.
ENCOURAGING WORD
MILWAUKEE, Wis. July 7. —
Encouraged by the D e m o c r atic
p a r t y’s “dripping wet” platform,
Milwaukee brewers are prepared to
spend $10,000,000 and employ 4,500
men if the manufacture of alco
holic beer is legalized. Heads of the
three largest breweries, Schlitz,
Blatz, and Pabst all agreed that
they could be ready to produce
beer at a moment’s notice.
MUNGHURIII CUSTOMS
SEIZED DY JAPANESE
TROOPS; CHINESE OUT
SHANGHAI, July 7. —Japanese
troops have seized the Chinese cus
toms office on the Chinese East
ern railway at the Siberian bord
er, said a message here by the in
spector general of customs. The
message reported that Japanese
forces surrounded the customs of
fice and forced the customs chief
and his staff to vacate. The cus
toms official reported he had been
unable to communicate with Har
bin to ask for assistance.
The Manchakuo government is
taking over the customs offices of
| the new state and are refusing to
| permit the Chinese officials to
continue their duties
The Chinese government vigor
ously protested this action on the
part of the new Manchurian re
gime which is supported by the
Japanese government,
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FIRE BASEBALL PARK
MAY SEEN IlfflDEIiCF
SEATTLE .July 7. —A theory that
I the burning of the grand stand
and bleachers at the baseball park
; here with an estimated damage of
S45.000 was incendiary wras being
investigated thoroughly by police
here.
The tinder like structure was
burned to the ground despite ef
! forts of firemen who succeeded in
preventing the spreading of the
blaze to nearby homes and build
ings.
An empty oil drum was found
in the ruins. Two mysterious fires
were started simultaneously in
homes within a few blocks of the
park fire.
AKRON JOINS HUNT
NEW YORK. July 7. —The dir
igible Akron, the largest airship in
the world, has set out to hunt for
the little yacht ‘‘Curlew” lost some
where between New York and Ber
muda with six amateur yachtsmen
aboard.
ATLANTA, July 7. (/P)—It’s going
to be cheaper to attend football
! games in Dixie next fall.
Several colleges and universities
have announced lower price sched
ules for their games. Georgia Tech
took the lead in announcing a re
! duction of 50 per cent in opening
day prices.
Tulane followed with a reduction
amounting to approximately 5 0
per cent for all home games. The
University of Florida has announc
! ed a general reduction on all class
es of seats.
MYSTERY FLIGHT
LUBECK, Germany, July 7. —
Capt. Wolfgang von Cronan, wan
derer of the world’s airways, has
started a mystery flight which may
take him to North America for the
third time via the northern air
route. The flyer left Travemunde
in a seaplane without revealing his
ultimate destination.
BASEBALL RESULTS
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Portland 4, Sacramento 2,
i Seattle 4, Oakland 1.
i Missions 6, Hollywood 9.
SHERIFF CONTINUES TO
INVFSTIGHTE SUICIDE OF
YOUNG SMITH REYNOLDS
WINSTON-SALEM, N. C. July 7.
(/P)—Sheriff Transou Scott continu"
ed his investigation of the death
of 20-year old Smith Reynolds, heir
to the Reynold’s Tobacco Company
millions, despite the verdict of the
coroner that the youth took his
own life.
Meanwhile, the widow, the form
er Libby Holman, of musical com
edy fame, was on the verge of a
breakdown. It is understood that
she will be allowed to share only
in the deceased’s personal property
as the father and mother left their
estimated $100,000,000 in trust to
the children and paying only in
come until all are 28 years of age.
The value of Smith Reynold’s
personal property is not known.
IER CLASHES WITH
GARNER ON RELiEF BILL
—
WASHINGTON, July 7. (IP)— Pre
j sident Hoover and Speaker Garner
I clashed Wednesday over the Wag
! ner-Garner relief bill. The presi
I dent called house and senate lead
j ers to the White House for a con
i ference.
He stood firmly against the pro
visions in the $2,100,000,000 mea
sure which set aside funds for
loans to individuals under certain
limitations.
CANADIAN OPEN BEGANS
OTTAWA, July 7. — More than
I 100 golfers will take part in the
i Canadian Open golf tournament,
i which began today. Walter Hagen
I is the defending champion. Gene
! Sarazen, who recently won the
■ British Open, is not competing.
RESULTS THE
CHICAGO, July 7. (TP) —James
; “Red” McGee, operator of the Del
Rio roadhouse near here, Vernie
Larking, star entertainer and Ed
| ward ‘ Spike” O'Donnel were slain
| and Jim Kennedy, waiter, was ser
i iously wounded when three gun
| men shot up the place Tuesday
! night.
The police are of the opinion
| that the shooting was the result
| of a war over beer trade.
FLOOD WATER TOLL
SAN ANTONIO. Tex. July 7. —
; Flood waters in the Hilly ranch and
; Resort Country West and South of
i here toward the Mexican border
I have taken at least nine lives and
! caused an undetermined amount
i of property damage.
LEGIONNAIRES STRANDED
ASHEVILLE, Term. July 7- —
Stranded without food or gasoline
for their trucks 300 Calif omia
bonus marchers are objects of a
city-wide canvas by the American
Legion for supplies.
Col. Otto F. Ohlson, General
Manager of the Alaska Railroad,
will be an arrival in Seward on
the SS. Yukon. Manager Ohlson
boarded the Yukon on Valdez hav
traveled dowm from Fairbanks over
the Richardson highway.
THE STOCKJIKET
NEW YORK, July 7. — Latest
stock quotations: Amer. Smelting
7%, Amer. Tel. & Tel. 76%, Bethle
hem Steel 8%, Calif. Packing 5%,
1 Canadian Pac. 9%, Cons. Gas, N. Y.
j 36%, Gen. Elec. 9%, Gen. Motors
i 7%, Radio 3%, Sou. Pac. 7%, Stand.
Oil, Calif. 17%, Union Oil 9%, U. S.
Steel 22%, U. S. Steel, pfd. 54, West
I ern Union 13%, Caterpillar 4%,
! Honolulu Oil 7, Trans-America 2%.
WEIS MAKE TRY FOR
IMMEDIATE REPEAL
WASHINGTON, July 7. —Immed
iate repeal Wednesday supplanted
immediate beer as the goal of wets
with the return of Democratic ab
sentees from the Chicago Conven
tion. Wet leaders of both parties
joined in a powerful fight to force
action before adjournment on at
least one repeal proposal.
Senator Morris Sheppard, Demo
crat of Texas, so-called father of
the 18th Amendment, however,
blocked the move to take a test
vote on a new amendment repeal
' ing constitutional prodibition
Senator Barbour, Republican of
I New Jersey, asked the Senate to
! take an imediate vote on his re
solution submitting the 18th Am
endment to the people for repeal
cr retention.
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LEAGUE INQUIRY GROUP
j CHARGED SIDING US
i WASHINGTON, July 7. (£>)—'The
| rebuff given the League of Nation’s
! commission of inquiry in Manchur
i ia bordered dangerously on insult,
a report from the Mukden Ohser
! ver, received in Washington reveal
j ed.
Manchukuo officials openly made
' the amazing revelation that the
commission charged with getting
at the bottom of the Chinese-Jap
anese war, was siding with the
“rebels” and encouraging the re
volt against the Japanese inspired
i state in Manchuria.
LAST MINUTE EFFORT
WASHINGTON, July 7. — Both
houses of Congress Wednesday em
barked on a last minute effort to
legalize beer at once, as pledged by
the democratic platform. Some mo
i dificationists planned a campaign
1 to prevent the adjournment of
Congress until beer is legalized.
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LAUSANNE, Switzerland, July 7.
1 (-ZF>)—Deadlocked over reparations
and the war guilt stigma irritation
of the Germans, Premier Edouard
j Herrict, of France, and Franz von
Papen. of Germany held r. fruit
less conference today.
Chancellor von Papen suggested
that the conference be adjourned.
It is understood that an attempt
is being made to link European re
parations with debts owed to the
United States.
ATTITUDE REMAINS DARK
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., July 7.—
1 Still declining to disclose Senator
; Borah’s attitude toward proposals
I that he become the Prohibition
i Party’s presidential nominee. D.
; Calvin, national chairman has re
tur ned to Indianapolis for the
party’s convention. Apparently his
j conference with the Idaho states
I man. who has bolted the republic
j an stand for resubmission of the
| prohibition question has not dim
i med his hope that the senator will
permit his name to be placed be
j fore the party meeting.
REGAINS CROWN
LONDON, July 6.—Matt Thil of
j France regained his European mid
dleweight championship by win
ning a 15-round decision over Len
Harvey of England at the White
City stadium. Harvey started off
like a whirlwind in the early ses
sions but Thil slowed him down
with a pummeling body attack.
He opened Harvey’s right eye in
the seventh round and it bled du
ring the remainder of the bout.
POPULAR IN DEFEAT
BERLIN, July 6.—Max Schrael
ing, former heavyweight champion,
has arrived from New York and
seems more populuar than before he
lost his title to Jack Sharkey.
LAYS CARDS ON TABLE
LOS ANGELES, July 7. —Fight
ing back under the handicap of
a damaged right eye and three bee
smacks on his broad brow hand
some Dave Hutton, baritone sup
reme of Angelus Temple, laid his
cards on the table at the spectac
ular trial of Miss Myrtle St. Pier
re’s $200,000 heart balm suit against
him and astounded the court room
by admitting that he is the great
unkissed.
CALIFORNIA'S SURPLUS
FRUITS, RICE AND WHEAT
BE DISTRIBUTED NEEDY
SACRAMENTO, July 7. — De
daring a state of emergency to
exist throughout the country Gov.
James Rolph, jr., has named Dud
ley Moulton, director of agricul
ture and state food administra
tion with full power to distribute
California’s excess crops among the
relief agencies of the nation.
Peaches which have been permit
ted to drop to the ground and rot
because of a lack of markets, or
anges, grapes, prunes, rice, wheat,
beans and barley would be sent
to the needy at strategic points
and there distributed.
Growers also would profit under
i this plan, since the Governor de
j dared he believed some return
| could be obtained on the crops.
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: PREDICTIONS ME MIDE
! GERMAN DELEGATES
WILL ACCEPT PROPOSAL
LAUSANNE, Switzerland, July 7.
—A compromise plan for the set
tlement of the reparations problem
including a provision which links
it with war debts due the United
States is being considered by the
i German delegation to the Lausan
! ne conference.
Predictions that the Germans
| will accept the proposal even tho
it contains a safeguard clause in
serted by France similar to that
rejected by Chancellor Franz von
Papen last week are made freely.
WARNS WILL VETO
WASHINGTON, July 7. —After
failing to obtain the consent of
House and Senate leaders to the
elimination of controversial pro
visions from the $2,100,000,000 un
employment r e 1 i e f bill. President
Hoover warned that he would veto
the measure in its present form
WASHINGTON, July 7. —Seven
thousand ragged members of the
Bonus Expeditionary Forces, living
on odds and ends of food, walked
blisters on their feet here as they
stood for hours in a scorching sun,
in a protest against adjournment
of congress.
The veterans made their protest
in disregard to the fact that Presi
dent Hoover and congress are ag
reed not to enact a bill for the im
, mediate payment of the bonus due
! World War veterans in 1945.
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PREPARING ANSWER
NEW YORK, July 7. (A*) —Mayor
James J. Walker planned to begin
writing Wednesday his answer to
charges of unfitness filed against
him by Investigator Samuel Sea
bury. He hopes to send it to Gov,
Franklin Roosevelt next week. Wal
ker said that he thought it would
take the governor about two weeks
to study his report.
BACK TO WORK
UNION, S. C. July 7. —It may be
a holiday for some folks but mill
workers of Union celebrated July
Fourth by going back to work. The
Buffalo Textile Mills reopened on
that day after being shut down
for some time. The reopening of
the mills gives employment to
more than 5,000 persons.
CURTIS WILL CARRY
BURNT GOP CAMPAIGN
ORATORY THIS FALL'
WASHINGTON, July 7. Vice
president Charles Curtis, at 72 years
of age, is planning to carry the
brunt of the Republican campaign,
oratory this fall although it is said
he has not any plans for the cam
paign. He is leaving all the cam
paign details to the committee in
charge.
Curtis, however, is prepared to
make an extended tour similar to
that of 1928 when he traveled thru
33 states and speaking as many as
14 times daily.
The democrats are also begin
ing to stir the campaign pot and
William McAdoo said after a con
ference with Speaker John N. Gar
ner that the Speaker had promised
to talk in California and probably
at other places along the Pacific
Coast,
Details of the Garner speaking
trip also are still unarranged.
McAdco predicted that the demo
crats would carry all of California,
which is Hoover’s own state and
would probably sweep the entire
Pacific coast.
IMRE'S SON IS
FOUND SAFE, UNIRNIFO
AT MINNEAPOLIS RESORT
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., July 7. (/P)
—Haskell Bohn, 20, son of St. Paul
refrigerator manufacturer, who had
been missing since Thursday last
week when he was reported to have
been kidnapped, was found by de
puty sheriffs at a Lake resort near
here Thursday night. He was not
harmed.
Haskell, who was the millionarie’s
youngest scJa was. allegedly kid
napped from the garage of his
1 home here by two gunmen who
J held up Bohn and chauffer, B.
! E. Meyers, forced him into a corner
J of the garage anautomobile: as they
left, the kidnappers shoved a note
> into Meyers' hand demanding S35,
! 000 ransom, and a warning to the
Bohn family to remember the Lind
; bergh case.
The first clue that that indicated
| possible light on the Haskell Bohn
acse was disca rd ed, it was
signed note found in a bottle at
Balsam Lake, Wisconsin saying the
writer was held for ransom on
Carlson Islandin Balsam Lake and
: was believed by authorities to be a
| hoax.
; No ransom was paid.
ADOPT MEASURE
i LONDON, July 7. —The House
of Commons has adopted the gov
I ernment measure empowering tar
I iffs on goods from the Irish Free
i State for the purpose of recovering
the amount of land annuities loan
ed to Irish farmers by the British
government to purchase land from
the large landowners which has
been defaulted by order of Presi
dent Eammon de Valera.
FILM PROJECTIONIST
I CHARGE
LOS ANGELES, July 7. — Irwin
Liner, 53-year old film projection
ist, wras held on suspicion of mur
der charges while police retraced
the fatal shooting of Edwin H.
Clarke, wealthy retired New' Jer
sey telephone official, and his wife.
Liner, a roomer in the Clark
home, first told authorities that
two bandits killed the Clarks while
he was watering the lawn. Rushing
into the house he said one bandit
i was fleeing and that he grappled
J with the other who also escaped.
Detectives later claimed that
Liner admitted he had “not told
the truth” but refused to tell a
new story.
Liner said Clark had a burglar
complex and a search of the house
disclosed that all doors and win
dows were heavily locked.