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MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXIX. NUMBER 73.
SEWARD, ALASKA, Wednesday, march
i, 1933.
PRICE TEN CENTS
FEDERAL SALARY GUI
EFFECTIVE ON APRIL 1
SAVES RALE BILLION i
WASHINGTON, D. C„ March 29,
Federal salaries were cut 15 per j
cent, effective April 1, by Presi
dent Roosevelt in an executive or-1
der last night under authority of |
the $500,000,000 economy act. It
extends until June 30, 1933, when
a new order will be issued.
It affects all employees of the]
Federal government, both civil and.
military. It is expected to save]
$40,000,000 between now and the]
end of the fiscal year.
The President based it on the j
fact that the cost of living is now j
21.7 percent lower than it was for;
the first six months of 1928. Con-1
gress instructed the President to j
investigate the cost of living for.
the six months period ending June]
30, 1928, and to slash salaries in]
proportion with 15 percent as the,
maximum.
■BilisT I
WITNESSES St GALLED
SAN FRANCISCO, March 29. —
Warren K. Billings and fully 100 j
other witnesses will be called as
defense witnesses for Tom Mooney
at his trial on a 16-year-old mur
der indictment, his counsel an
nounced.
All the principals in the charges j
growing out of the 1916 Prepared-1
ness Day bombing arc being locat- j
ed and will be summoned as wit-,
nesses, said Leo Gallagher. Attor- ,
ney for Mooney- ... i
The four co-defendants with
Mooney on the murder indictment [
Billings, sentenced to Folsom Pri
son, Rena Mooney his wife, Israel
Weinberg, and Edward D. Nolan,
former labor leader (now in Cleve
land) will be subpoened, it was
disclosed.
SUSPENDED P>STOD ON
TRIHL: CLAIMS STOUT
IHS SI ENEMIES
MUNCIA, Ind., March 29, —The
Rev. G. Lemuel Conway, suspend
ed pastor of the Madison street |
Methodist church, went on trial;
charged with attempting to as
sault Miss Helen Huffman pretty
18 year-old Sunday school teacher
Just two weeks ago a church
jury of clergymen found Conway
guilty of the charges and suspend
ed him for a year.
Conway’s defense has been that
the girl’s story was inspired by
enemies. He also is under indict
ment on charges of assaulting his
choir leader, Willard Aurand, and
knocking him over a chacel rail.
MOVIE STAR INJURED
THROWN EM NORSE
HOLLYWOOD, March 29,—Mar
lene Dietrick, German motion pic- ;
ture star, was under a physicians:
care after she fell from a horse,
while working on a film location.
in Sherwood Forest, near Calabas- i
aSMiss Dietrick. it was reported.1
was riding side-saddle, to which;
she was not accustomed, when her I
spirited horse reared and threw
her. She suffered from shock and
bruises and a possible concussion
of the brain.
WASHINGTON, D. C., March 29,
—Even Senate friends of the Lea
gue of Nations court insist upon
subordination of the issue to the
domestic relief program.
’ They warned against precipitate
action not only because it would
imperil needed emergency legis
lation, but because of the dangers
of involving the United States di
rectly in what they regard as the
menacing situations in Europe and
the Far-East.
FAVORABLE REPORT
WASHINGTON, D. C., March 29,
—The Senate Territorial commit
tee reported favorably on President
Roosevelt’s nomination of John W.
Troy, Juneau .editor, for Governor
of Alaska.
HEARST SON MARRIED
PALM BEACH, Fla., March 29, — I
Wiliam Randolph Hearst, Jr., son '
of the newspaper publisher, and
Lorrelle McCarver, actress, were I
married here.
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DISAGREEMENT
ROME, March 29, —Because of j
disagreement over details, secret
negotiations between Russia and j
Italy for a new trade agreement,
have been temporary interrupted.
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SWEEPING PROPOSAL
WASHINGTON, D. C., March 29,
—A sweeping proposal for Federal
regulation of security issues and
stock exchanges was submitted for
President Roosevelt by Secretary
of Commerce Roper.
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GARBO THE GREAT
STOCKHOLM. Sweden. Mar. 29,1
—Greta Garbo, Swedis actress, j
was on her way back to Hollywood!
aboard a small steamer. She sail
ed from her home at Gothenburg
wth her customary secrecy.
FIRST BEER STAMPS
WASHINGTON, D. C.. March 29,
—The first beer stamps were in
the mails today. The Bureau of
engraving and printing sent the
stamps to Internal revenue collec
tors.
GOING TO WORK
WASHINGTON, D. C., March 29,
—President Roosevelt’s reforesta
tion plan to employ 250.000 desti- |
tute men was approved by the
Senate after elimination of provi
sions which provoked organized
labor to complain.
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LUCKY SEVEN
KANSAS CITY, Mo., March 29,—
From the scene of a disturbance,
the patrol wagon started to the
police station with 11 negroes but
whe"1 arriving there were only 4.
"That lucky seven stepped out
when the lock failed to function.
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ANNOUNCES RESIGNATION
HAVANA, Cuba, March 29, —
Ambassador Harry Guggenheim
has announced his resignation, ef
fective April 2. Mr. and Mrs. Gug
genheim, accompanied by their
secretary, Burnham Carter, will
leave Cuba by airplane for Miami
on that date.
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SNOW AT THE CAPITAL
WASHINGTON, D. C., March 29,
—Snow descended upon the capital
menacng the early blooming of
the Japanese cherry trees along;
the Potomac river which are ex- j
pected to bloom around April 1.1
Th flurry continued for a few j
hours an{l. melted quickly.
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WHAT NEXT?
JUAREZ, Mex., March 29, —Div
orces here may now be paid for on
the installment plan and with a
six months period to pay. The of
ficial papers are held up until pay
ment is completed but the divorce
is good and the parties may re
marry before they receive the pap
ers.
* * * *
GIRL KILLED
MADEIRA, Calif., March 29, —
Carolne Mordecai, 13 year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Brooks
Mordecai, Mareira ranchers, was
killed when the car in which she
was riding with her aunt, collided
at an intersection with a mach
ine driven by T. C. Howard, of
Fersno.
* * * *
PETERED OUT
NEW YORK, March 29, —A brief
flurry of rumors that Madison
Square Garden would combine with
Jack Dempsey to promote a heavy
weight title match between Jack
Sharkey and Max Schmeling in
June rather than the opposition
match each has scheduled, petered
out in flat denials from both sides.
* * *
IN FINE SHAPE
HAZELTON, B. C„ March 29,—
Mushing frorp Copper Center to
the Chicago World Fair, ‘'Slim”
Williams and his team of mala
mutes arrived here Tuesday. They
have covered 1800 miles since No
vember 20. The driver and dogs
are in fine condition and after a
short rest will continue their jour
ney. _
CHICAGO, March 29, —Willie
Hoppe continued to display sup
eriority at three-cushion billiards
over the world’s three-rail cham
pion, Welker Cochrane of San
Francsco.
; Hoppe defeated Cochrane in the
ninth block of their 600 point
challenge match 66-50. Hoppe
holds an aggregate margin of 55
points over Cochrane, 450-395 in
415 innings. Cochrane’s title is
not at stake.
SIX-YEAR-OLD GIRL
BRUISED, LACERATED
FOUND IN BASEMENT
NEW YORK, March 29,—A bruis- !
ed and lacerated six-year-old girl
was found in a burlap bag in the j
basement of a Brooklyn tenement
house. Physicians worked over the
dying child with a pulmotor but
were unable to revive her.
Meanwhile, detectives sped thru |
the district, where five major
crimes against children have oc
curred in the last two years. The
assailant had knotted a rope tight
ly around the neck of his victim,!
Barbara Wiles and carelessly
stuffed her into the sack.
The child’s mother, Mrs. Anna
Wiles, had sent Barbara to the
basement for her brother’s baby ,
carriage. When Barbara didn’t re
turn, Mrs. Wiles went to the base- ;
ment and sawr the sack. Barbara ^
had been severely beaten. Physi
cians said she had been criminally
assaulted.
VIENNA, March 29,—Tire Austri
an-Nazists official organ warned
the world that the forth-coming
Nazi regime wrill not recognize any I
agreement signed by Chancellor :
Dollfuss. Regime newspapers also
warned members of the present
government that they are playing,
not only with the last resources of
the people, but risking their heads
and lives.
The papers were confiscated
soon after they made their appear
ance.
The newspaper pointed out the
government is mortgaging the
peoples’ future income to repay
foreign debts and are acting with
out authority, for long ago it lost
the peoples’ confidence.
The Nazi effort was a demon- ,
stration of what they considered
the weakness of the Dollfuss dic
tatorial machine, which swarmed
thre the inner city last night In
defiance of government decrees.
They did not meet with any seri
ous resistance by police but 50 were
arrested for smashing windows.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 29—A
landslide on the Western Pacific
tracks 23 miles east of Qroville,
wrecked a 57-car freight train,
killing two unidentified vagrants
and derailing the locomotive and
10 cars.
The engine and two of the cars
turned over but the tram crew
escaped injury, accoring to dis
patches from Oroville division
headquarters to Western Pacific
offices here.
FLOAT BAIN RH
BERLIN, March 29, —Socialisst
were accused of responsibility for
false reports abroad about con
ditions in Germany, in a speech by
Speaker Goering.
“Anyone in possession of his
five senses reading these reports
should ask himself in surprise how
it is possible for people to believe
that dozens of corpses are found
daily in rivers around Berlin,” he
said. _
j NEW PAGE ADDED
AMERICAN CONNER)
SAN PEDRO, March 29. —'The
Navy added a new page to the his
tory of, Yankee gunnery and sea
manship records with sensation
al secret firing.
Some 75 miles off shore, west of
the Channel Islands in a drill
ground, from which all commer
j cial shipping had been cleared,
i the United States fleet, combined
Atlantic and Pacific forces, carried
j out the greatest gunnery event of
! the year, force practice.
“INDIANS” WON
SANTA BARBARA, March 29,—
| The Seattle “Indians” defeated
; Pittsburgh 7-6 in the first of two
j games in an exhibition series here
Tuesday.
PROTEST DANIELS
MEXICO CITY March 29Ston- I
ing the United States Embassy in j
protest against the appointment j
af Josephus Daniels as Ambassa
dor, is reported. The stoning took!
place last Friday night.
The objection against Daniels,'
is revealed by Communist posters, j
is based on the landing of U. S.1
forcse at Vera Cruz in 1914, when
Daniels was Secretary of the Navy,1
when two Mexicans were killed
during the landing.
i Loi¥iir~
FREELY EXCHANGED El
HEARST AND BRISBANE
MIAMI, March 29,—In a copy
ighted interview by telegram with
lis feature writer, Arthur Brisbane,
Villiam Randolph Hearst analyzed
he beer situation. “Beer is comi
ng back,” was the theme of the
interview, with the added query
But what is coming back with
t?”
“In my humble opinion”, said
Vlr. Hearst, “the saioon, and par
ticularly the brewery saloon, one
an every corner for the conven
ience of the working man, is not
coming back. The people of this
country have abandoned prohibi
tion, but they have not abandoned
temperance. The chief evil of the
saloon was that there was one on
?very corner for the convenience
af the working man and the incon
venience of his wife and children,
rhe swinging door, with the lugu
irous ‘face on the barroom floor’
md ‘father, dear father, come
dome with me now’ accompani
ment, is not going to return.”
HILLPif'ir ,
ihmum pms
WASHINGTON, D. C., March 29,
—Beer will be allowed in all Nat
ional Parks excepting those locat
ed in dry States, but there will no
saloons.
ents meeting in Washington last
Far-sighted Park superintend-,
winter with Horace Albright, di-!
rector of the National Park Service,!
decided that if such beverages |
eame back, irrespective of what
would conform to the laws of the
kind, their respective preserves
State in which the different Parks j
are located
GOLDEN SHE P*
SAN FRANCISCO March, 29—A
man who seized Miss June Greegs,
21, of 1624 Sacramento St., as she
walked a little frequented portion
of Golden Gate Park, in broad day
light, half strangled her to prevent j
her outcries, and attacked her in
the bushes, was sought by police.
The girl, finally r e 1 e a se d on
threats of death if she screamed
for help, staggered to a nearby
playground and found a iriend, I
who took her to Park Emergency!
Hospital. Her attacker was de-l
s c r i b e d as 35 or 40 years old, I
smooth shaven, and wearing a
chamois colored suit and no hat.
FIVE iff 10
DELTH EXPLOSION
WOODWARD, Okla., March 29,—
Five persons were burned to death
when a gasolne stove on which
whiskey mash was cooking, ex
ploded at the home of Ray Smith,
of Fargo.
The flames spread rapidly thiu'
the house, trapping in their beds
the five who were burned to death.
Two others, Smith and his two
year old son David, were critically
burned.
BRUNSWICK, Germany, March
28,—Police and Nazi storm troops
arrested a number of Nationalist
steel helmet leaders and scores of
civilians suspected of plotting a
counter revolution.
The steel helmets are German
monarchists and war veterans and
officials charged they have been
enrolling hundreds of members of
various Marxist organizations re
cently; also, that Helmeters in
parade shouted threatening re
marks against Hitler.
BIT HIS PUP
SEATTLE, March 29, —Angered,;
Fcrest Key, 2 years old. bit his pup.
The puppy then bit Forest
RECEIVED CADETS
VATICAN CITY, March 29, —
Pope Pius received 78 cadets from
ihe training ship California
State anchored at Naples during
the present Italian visit.
READY FOR HIS BEER
KANSAS CITY, Mo., March 29. —
At least one person is ready for
:he return of beer is the thief who
entered a brewing company office
and took 11 copper beer mugs. !
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LEADS NATION’S STARS
PINEHURST, N. C., March 29.—!
A 20 year-old professional from I
Shelby, N. C., Pete Webb, led the
nation’s stars at the end of the
L8th hole in the 31st 72 hole North
and South open golf tournament. ;
* * * *
OVERRULED
DECATUR, Ala., March 29, —A
defense motion to quash indict
ments against seven Scottsboro
negroes accused of assaulting two
white girls wms overruled by Judge
James Horner.
* * * *
CAME INTO COURT
NEW YORK. March 29. —Helen
Kane, stage and night club sin
ger, came into Federal court to
defend herself against a $50,000
suit brought by the Irving Trust
Co.
* * * *
CHURCHED?
CANNES, France, March 29, —
Former Mayor James J. Walker of
New York and Miss Betty Comp
ton, actress, expect to be married
as soon as they have meticulously
fulfilled every requirement of
French law. it was reported.
* * * *
ASSASSINATION PLOT
ROME, March 29, —An attempt;
to assassinate Premier Mussolini
during his recent historic confer
ence with Prime Minister Mac-!
Donald of Britain, was averted by
Italian secret police, it was reveal
HOFELESS TASK I
BRUNSWICK, Germany, March
29, —Eight of the 17 Socialist
members of the Brunswick state I
diet resigned the party declaring
they had^ no desire to stand in the
way of the national revolution and
recognized the hopelessness of fur
ther opposition.
* * * *
PROPOSAL APPROVED »
WASHINGTON, D. C.. March 29,
—The House foreign affairs com-!
mittee approved the administra
tion’s proposal to empower Presi-1
ident Roosevelt to place embargoesj
on shipments of arms and muni
tions to foreign countries at con-,
flict.
SHANGHAI. March 28,—An ap-j
peal to the United States to sup-;
port treaties protecting China j
from aggression, was issued in a
statement by Eugene Chen, former j
Foreign Minister in the Chinese
National government.
He declared the Nine-Power
Treaty, the Kellogg Pact against
war and the “Open Door ’ policy in
China were all American docu
ments and asks what measures the
United States intends to take to
assist China in obtaining Japans
observance of these pacts.
LIMA, Peru. March 28,—Twenty
J'->ur thousand soldiers and sever
al hundred nurses paraded the
streets here amid unusual scenes
of martial enthusiasm. The sold
iers, all between the ages of 18 and
25, were hastily trained for service
against Columbia within the last
few weeks.
They will be held in readiness
for fighting on the northeastern
frontier of the country if Columbia
persists in her attempt to regain
I Leticia, which Peru seized last De
cember.
-1
DER MAXIE
| NEW YORK, March 29, —Max
‘ Schmeling, former heavyweight
champion, will open his exhibition
tour at Pittsburg, April 10, his
■ manager, Joe Jacobs, announced.
With Jack Dempsey refereeing his
bouts, Schmeling will appear at
Boston on the night of April 11
WARNED NOT TO FORGET
TO phepit LICENSES
, TACOMA, March 29,—The pros
pective dealers in wine and beer
were warned not to forget to pre
pav the federal license on retailers
and wholesalers, by Burns and Poe,
collectors of Internal Revenue for
Washington and Alaska.
The fee Poe explained, is an ad
dition SI.000 required annually
from brewers, and a yearly license
of $100 for wholesalers and $25 for
retailers. If only beer is handled,
the wholesaler pays $50 and the
retailer $25.
These fees are not affected in
any way by the passage of the
beer bill, Poe said.
BE NEXT IN VIEW
SUCCESS OF GLIDERS
MILAN, March 29,—Possibility of
aerial trains composed of gliders
attached to airplanes is being
studied here after an experimental
“train” of a plane and a glider, at
tached together, flew across the
Alps from Zurich Airport to Milan
with airmail. The plane was pilot
ed by Robert Fretz and the glider
by Willy Farner. Both are Swiss.
They left Zurich and reached a
height of 13,500 feet to cross the
mountains. It is the first time
that mail has been delivered by a
glider in the history of Europe. The
two ships kept in communication
during the 200-mile flight by
means of radio telephone. The
gilder was freed over the Milan
Airport and alighted only a few
minutes after the motored plane.
The glider contained packages
as well as letters. Both pilots said
that an attempt will soon be made
to repeat the same experiment.
PROTECTION OF 0. S.
CITIZENS CHINESE N8EN
PIEPING, March 29, —Complete
protection of Americans through
out the area of Japanese-Chinese
hostilities wras pledged by Japan
ese diplomatic authorities after
the United States Minister protest
ed the airplane bombing of un
American mission at Taotowying,
near Pieping.
Minister Nelson T. Johnson’s
protest brought a prompt apology
from Shoichi Nakayama, Japanese
Charge de Affairs at Pieping. Nine
Chinese men, women and children
wehe killed in Monday’s bombing,
though they were under the pro
tection of the American flag.
qUILIFiEDTONCT
DESPITE OBJECTIONS
SAN FRANCISCO. March 29,—
In spite of his appeal to be reliev
ed of the duties of prosecutor in
the scheduled new trial of Tom
Mooney, District Attorney Mathew
Bradey is qualified to act, and
must represent the State when the
case is called on April 23.
^ This was the ruling of Attorney
General U. S. Webb on Bradey's
request that the Attorney General
disqualify him and appoint a spec
ial prosecutor.
nun OFFICER
NON ME POINTS
LONDON, March 29—Lieut. Nor
man Bailie Stewart, of the Sea
forth Highlanders, was found not
guilty of three of the 10 charges
against him by a court martial
which tried him for allegedly be
traying his country’s military se
crets to a German agent
In accordance with court martial
procedure, it was understood he
$ras held guilty on the other sever,
charges. Sentencing will be pro
nounced later.
REQUESTS MILITIA
ZEIGLER, 111., March 29, —An
air of suppressed excitement pre
vailed in this coal mining city as
word was awaited as to the out
come of Mayor Smith’s appeal to
the Governor for State troops to
maintain peace and order because
of coal mine trouble.