VOLUME XXVIII. NUMBER 179.
SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1932.
PRICE TEN CENTS
OLYMPIC STADIUM, Los An
geles, Aug., 2, —Eddie Tolan, stocky
Detroit Negro, won over a brilliant
field in the final heat of the Olym
pic Games the 100 meter champion
ship. Ralph Metcalfe, also a Negro,
a giant from Marquette Universi
ty, finished second, with S. J.
Jonth of Germany, third.
The time was 10 and three-tenths
seconds establishing a new Olym
pic record and tying the World
mark.
The most amazing performance
of the day, from the viewpoint of
the thousands massed in the south
stand, was that of the official judg
es in terming Tolan winner after
Metcalfe was thought to have won
by at least half a stride. The an
nouncement literally stunned the
crowd and must have been just as
much a surprise to the two athletes
for it was Tolan who congratulated
Metcalfe on winning.
All but lost sight of in the buzz
of conversation that followed was
the fact that the winner was tim
ed in 10.3-10ths equalling the World
mark of Percy Williams of Canada,
and bettering the Olympic mark of
10.6-10ths held by five men.
Official photographs of the fin
nish were to be studied tonight and
while there was no announcement
as to the procedure, it was learned
authoritatively that the judges may
reverse their findings on the basis
of what the camera reveals.
The United States foils team of
four men won that event in the
fencing division after tying 8 to 8
in the final match with France.
The U. S. team was victorious by
60 to 54 points and won the title
which France practically had mon
opolized in previous Olympics.
The U. S. track and field team,
bolstered by the performances of
Tolan and Metcalfe, increased its
lead in the succeeding events. For
field events America led with 58
points; Germany was second with
20 points and Finland third with
16.
Robert Tisdale of Ireland won
the 400 meter hurdle finals in 51.
8-10ths seconds but knocked down
a hurdle so the record doesn’t
stand. Glen Hardy, of the U. S.
A., was second and is credited with
tying the World’s record of 52 sec
onds.
DEBT REVISION DESPITE
FinM STM ATTITUDE
PARIS, Aug., 1, —The Hoover ad
ministration has reached an under
standing with the French govern
ment basing future consideration
of France’s war debts to the United
States on the degree of which
France will disarm.
This was the outcome, it is learn
ed, of conferences at the Quai'd
Orsay. and is in strict reversal of
previous statements in Washing
ton that in no circumstances would
the administration alter its atitude
on the revision of cancelation of
war debts.
Premier Edouard Herriot and
Norman Davis, a member of the
American disarmament conference
delegation, conferred on debts and
disarmament at noon.
SECOND BABY IS DEAD
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug., 2, —
The second bonus expeditionary
force baby died and a third is at
the point of death. Gertrude Mann,
two year-old daughter of Cecil
Mann of Monessen, Pa., succumbed
to malnutrition.
PUBLISHER DIES
LOS ANGELES, Aug., 2, —James
R. Quirk, publisher of Phtoplay
Magazine, died in the Hollywood
hospital Monday following an ex
tended illness. Funeral services will
be held here after which the body
will be shipped to New York for
burial.
STUMP AGAINST HOOVER
SEATTLE, Aug., 2, —Mayor John
F. Dore of Seattle announced that
he would not be a candidate this
fall for Governor of Washington,
but said he would take the stump
against Hoover and Governor Hart
ley.
BRAZILIAN FEDERAlS
ED REINFORCEMENTS
TO BATTLE INSURGENTS
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, Aug.,
1, —Thousands of troops arrived
from the states of Northern Brazil
and were immediately rushed for
ward to reinforce the Federal army
now in battle with the Sao Paulo
insurgents on three fronts.
The government announced that
severe fighting was in progress on
every front. Wounded from the bat
tle lines continue to arrive here,
severely taxing hospitals and Red
Cross facilities.
It was learned that the Federal
forces in their steady advance
fought furiously through hard ter
ritory and under great difficulty.
With the weather intensely cold,
j whole regiments had to swim icy
| mountain streams. Federal artil
lery at many points were compell
ed to hoist their guns 1,000 feet
up the sides of mountain chasms.
, Information from Sao Paulo in
| dicates the Federals advance has
created terror there.
TWO NEW BASES
LOS ANGELES. Aug., 2, —Two
new bases for dirigibles will be con
i structed on the Pacific Coast with
in the near future, according to a
Navy department official who has
been attending the opening of the
Olympic Games.
LOS ANGELES, Aug., 2, —Seven
days of Olympic Games wholesale
i wrestling opened in the auditorium
with the United States gaining the
first advantage when R. Pearce of
Cushing, Okla., scored a decision
over A. Zombori of Hungary, ban
s tam-weights, in the initial match.
Pearce had a distinct edge forc
ing Zombori off the mat several
times but was unable to score a
fall.
Grappling continues until 1 p. m.,
resuming at 6 p. m.
The U. S. and Italy went into the
| second round of semi-finals in
the foils match leading Denmark
and France. The American team
defeated France and Italy defeated
Denmark.
VETERAN THEATRICAL
MM DIES III JUIOU
! JUNEAU, Aug., 1, (/P)—John T.
Spickett, aged 74, a veteran of the
Pacific Coast theatrical man, died
following a long illness.
I He is survived by his widow, Lot
i tie, who also is well-known in thea
' trical circles. She served a second
i term here as postmaster.
Mr. Spickett, in the early days,
managed minstrel shows on the
Pacific Coast and was known from
lower California to Vancouver, B.
C.; he came to Juneau 35 years
ago with a stock company and re
mained ever since.
MONSIGNOR SEIPEL DIES
VIENNA, Aug., 2, (IP)—Monsignor
Ignaz Seipel died after a long ill
ness. He was an Austrian cleric
cal-statesman, a rare combination
of politician and churchman and
used his talents for many years
in unceasing labor for the greater
glory of‘ the Roman church and
the maintenance of law and order
in Austria^
RUSSIANS ENGAGED
EXTENSIVE MILITARY
IRK H
HARBIN, Manchuria, Aug., 1, —
Travelers arriving from Vladivostok
report Soviet Russia authorities are
fortifying that city’s harbor ap
parently on a large scale in anti
cipation of a possible attack by
Japan.
Troops are arriving every day,
transported in closed railway cars
and disembarking at night.
Ten armored trains are reported
to be in the railway yards and
nearby are 50 tanks and 60 planes
and numerous artillery units.
The travelers said trains arrive
every day with munitions, food and
miscellaneous material for build
ing steamer piers.
DREAD CHOLERA DISEASE
IS RAGING THROUGHOUT
YANGTSE VALLEY AREA
SHANGHAI, Aug., 1, (/P)—Chol
era, the dread summer-time dis
ease of China, raged through the
Yangtse valley Sunday, taking a
I heavy toll in lives, which the Yel
low river was flooding a vast area,
and at Canton; a death toll of 200
' has already been counted. Recent
heavy rains caused the floods.
Chinese advices from the Wei
Han province said that the disease
was spreading rapidly and that
authorities had appealed to Nan
king.
The city of Honanfu was one of
the worst sufferers. Hankow dis
patches said cholera was wide
spread in southwest Hupeh prov
ince and the bubonic plague was
still taking a heavy toll in lives.
A heat wave was adding to the
suffering. Meanwhile, western
Shensi province was experiencing
torrential rains. The Yellow river
has flooded a vast area. Thirty
towrns had been inundated and 50,
000 persons made homeless, Stanfu
advices reported.
Canton dispatches said the heav
iest rains, of recent years flooded
Canton, demolishing hundreds of
dwellings of the poor. There were
30 fires and the deaths were esti
mated at 200, including 80 in a
home for the aged.
min BUSINESS
INTERESTS LOSE MUCH
PARIS, Aug., 2, (JP)—American
business interests face a loss of
millions of dollars in trade with
France as the result of the treaty
signed between France and Bel
gium effective next Monday.
The treaty waives, for Belgium,
the import tax of four per cent on
semi-finished goods and 6 per cent
tax on finished goods which include
copper, lead, zinc, hides and skins.
Protests have been made not only
by American but by German, Brit
ish and Japan firms but it is said
nothing can be done.
SCHMELING WILL COME
FOR FIGHT THIS MONTH
NEW YORK, Aug., 1, —Max
Schmeling will return from Ger
many on August 25 and will fight
some one, some where, on or about
September 21, according to his
manager, Joe Jacobs, home from
Europe.
Jacobs said he had received of
fers for Schmeling to fight here,
in Chicago and Detroit. It was in
dicated Schmeling will probably
fight in New York this fall with
Mickey Walker.
Capts. J. M. Clark and J. New
marker, U. S. inspectors of hulls
and boilers, accompanied by R. Ves
tal, returned on the SS Starr from
their annual trip of inspection of
craft in the Par-Westward areas.
MILWAUKEE, Wis., Aug., 1, —
Expelled from membership in the
international baby chick associa
tion, G. A. Norman of Knoxville,
Tenn., arose in a rage at a meet
ing of the association executive
committee and shot Charles Saw
yer, the president, of Hoytsvllle, O.,
to death and critically wounded
the secretary, Reese V. Hicks of
Kansas City; he then committed
suicide.
The shooting occurred in the
committee room of the auditorium
where the association clans to hold
the annual convention beginning
today. The executive committee
met to make preliminary plans for
the convention.
UPHELD VALIDITY
LONDON, Aug., 1, —Allowing the
appeal of E. R. Croft from the Su
preme Court of Canada, their Lord
ships of the Judiciary committee of
the Privy council, upheld the val
idity of the Canadian statute which
enacts that so far as Canadian ves
sels are concerned, Canadian ter
ritorial waters for 12 miles from
the coast.
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AUSKA ITEMS OF
INTEREST AT THE
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Residents
aling the Yukon river have com
plained to the Delegate’s office that
the Yukon medical beat has arriv
ed without a dentist to look after
the teeth of the natives, as has
been customary in the past. The
Indian Bureau explains that the
reduced appropriation this year
has made it necessary to cut out
! the service of a dentist. However,
! the matter has been taken up with
' Dr. Fellows, in Juneau, in the hope
i that he may be able to furnish the
I desired dental service.
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Recent reports from Alaska of
! the discovery of gold deposits on
j Copper river valued at $300,000,000
i and rich ore in Nuka Bay, on which
| valuations as high of $50,000 per
ton have been made, have develop
ed considerable interest in the gold
possibilities of the Territory. In
quiries have been received from
persons in various sections of the
East and from southern Florida,
asking the advice of the Delegate
as to whether they should seek for
tune in the new fields. Whether
the estimates of the probable val
uations are or are not correct, at
least the discovery of new gold de
posits confirms the predictions of
the Geological Survey from a series
of studies it has conducted on the
mineral potentialities of Alaska.
Gold has been the most valuable
metal produced in Alaska during
the past 30 years. It is estimated
that the value of gold production
has amounted to $398,659,000 while
the next most valuable metal has
been copper, which has amounted
to $213,964,000. Silver production
has totaled $11,994,000 and coal
$7,940,000. As reported recently
by the Geological Survey, gold pro
duction last year led all other
mineral and metal production and
exceeded by $1,000,000 the produc
tion in 1930. The value of gold
produced in 1931 was $9,507,000.
Greater interest has been centered
on the discovery of new gold de
posits in Alaska since the Geolog
ical Survey published reports on its
studies of minerals in various
areas. In 1931 Congress voted
$250,000 to continue mineral studies
in Alaska, and from the investiga
tions under the appropriaiton va
rious studies have been issued from
time to time and will continue to
be made.
24 KILLED
BERLIN, Aug., 2, —A recapitula
tion of the fatalities in Sunday’s
elections throughout Germany,
shows that at least 24 deaths re
sulted because of violence attend
ent to conflicts between the Nazis
and anti-Fascists.
cnucifluifFor
IMPERIAL CONFERENCE
TH0U6HT BE UNDERWAY
OTTAWA, Aug., 2, —'The British
Imperial Economic conference was
expected to go through its crucial
week, this week.
It was said that a series of re
quests would be made by the Do
minions for preferential tariffs and
privileges from the mother coun
try and action on these will have
to be taken as soon as possible.
Hitherto, these requests have
been merely in the form of agee
ments with no special significance
attached to them.
The conference is expected to
adjourn about August 24 so as to
give the British delegates time to
return home and to prepare for
the World economic conference in
the near future.
BULL SCORES
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Phillies 1, Cleveland 0.
New York 6, Detroit 3.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Phillies 18, Pittsburg 5.
St. Louis 4, Boston 2.
PACIFIC COAST
All teams traveling.
WASHINGTON, D. C-, Aug., 2, (JP)
—In connection with the eviction
of the bonus marchers from the
capital, seven more suspected rad
icals were arrested and held for
i investigation. They are John Frank
' Wadmasey, Newark, N. J., Alfred
! Lewis Smith, 44, Sacramento, Cal.,
Charles Herman, 45, Sacramento;
Edward Samuel Speck, 53, Sacra
mento, Alf Carlson, Oakland, Cal.,
! the latter the veteran who was
! wounded in the clash in which W.
| Hushka was killed, and who is still
! in a hospital.
j Geqrge Scott, policeman, who was
j bombarded with bricks, was said
j by hospital officials to have a
J chance for recovery.
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BOLIH STUDENTS
PREPARING DEFENSES
BUENOS AIRES, Aug., 2, (&)—
Stories of mounting defense comes
out of Bolivia and Paraguay in
the heat of the new argument over
the ancient Chaco boundary dis
pute.
Asuncion dispatches said stu
' dents of the universities had form
ed a battalion 800 strong.
The newspaper El Libertad of
Asuncion, printed a dispatch from
Bolivia saying Bolivian troops had
dumped five machine guns in the
Pilcomayo river.
KANSAS CITY, Mo., Aug. 1, —
The fatal shooting of a war vet
eran at Washington should be a
signal for thousands upon thous
ands of exservice men to converge
upon the national capital, Leo
Theus of Hollywood, leader of 200
bonus marchers, said.
The marchers, most of them from
California, will leave at once for
Washington. Several thousand
more will join them and the kill
ing of “that war veteran in Wash
ington will lead to thousands oi
more exservice men to march on
1 the capital,” he declared.
DEMOCRATIC LEADERS
FILLING III USE TO
SUPPORT ROOSEVELT
BOSTON, Mass., Aug., 1, (JP)—
Governor Ely of Massachusetts an
nounced his support of the Roos
evelt-Garner ticket in the coming
election. He also said that he
would run for reelection as gover
nor of the State.
Governor Joseph Ely’s endorse
ment of the Democratic ticket has
long been a source of speculation
and he is the last of A1 Smith
leaders to fall in line.
He indicated he was not taking
back anything said previously in
espousing Smith.
His conference last week at Al
bany with Roosevelt convinced him
that the platform the Democrats
adopted at Chicago will be carried
out by Roosevelt with earnest and
energetic action.
Governor Ely praised the Demo
cratic standard bearer for his
stand on prohibition and declared
in a radio address tthat Roosevelt
showed a clear and determined
purpose to reduce expenses of the
government which his long exper
ience as a legislator and federal
official of New York and as Gover
nor, qualifies him to carry out.
SECOND VETERAN DIES
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug., 2, (A*)
—Eric Carlson, 38, of Oakland, the
veteran who was shot in last week’s
melee between the police and bo
nus seekers, died early today here
in the hospital, bringing the fat
alities to two.
FACTIONAL STRUGGLE
TOPEKA, Kas., Aug., 2, (/P>—
Prohibition and farm board fac
tional struggle over the Democratic
administration, normally Repub
i lican, attracted voters in the Sun
i flower state primaries. The elector
; ate faces the longest list of candi
I dates for congressional and state
offices, in 18 years. Seven Republi
cans are seeking the senatorial seat
I vacated by Vice President Curtis.
RETURNS TO MOUND
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Aug., 2, —
Walter Johnson, veteran baseball
pitcher, will return to the mound
for a final game when a game be
tween the present day Senators
and the champion Senators of 1924,
an exhibition game, will be played.
DRY PROHIBITIONISTS
| URGED TO VOTE SOLIDLY
! CHICAGO, Aug., 1, —W. Upshaw
j predicted here that the national
prohibition party of which he is
! the presidential nominee will meet
with success in November if all
dry prohibitionists will follow the
dictates of their consciences.
If all Americans who are dissat
isfied will be brave enough to vote
their dry convictions then their
presidential nominee will be elect
ed.
SPIRIT IS BLAMED
SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug., 1, —Geo.
Douglas Templeton, Jr., Oakland
College student, has laid the res
ponsibility for the slaying of Mrs.
[ Lillian Babcock to the spirit of his
dead grandmother. “She told me
to do it,” the youth said, referring
to the spirit. “She often comes to
me the same as she did last nite
in my cell here.”
COLD AT CHICAGO
CHICAGO, Aug., 2, —The tem
perature was 97 in the shade here
Monday but when William South
east was picked up by the police,
he was wearing three suits and one
overcoat.
WOMAN ‘BLUEBEARD’
TOPEKA, Kans., Aug., 1, —Lydia
Southard, woman "bluebeard” who
escaped from the Idaho State
Penitentiary in April, 1931, was
captured here, police officers in
formed the press. Circumstances
were not at once revealed but it
was said that identification had
been positively established.