VOLUME XXIX. NUMBER 191.
SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1933.
PRICE TEN CENTS
ROOSEVELT IS
PLEASED WITH
THE NEW CUBA
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HAVANA, Cuba, Aug. 16. — Am-i
erican Ambassador Sumner Welles,1
who informed the diplomatic corps!
Tha the had instructed to estab
:ish official relations with the Del
Cespedes government, has paved the j
vay for an early world recognition
of the revolution born regime, it
was learned on reliable authority, j
The instruction were received
:rom President Roosevelt who stat
ed that recognition was not nec
essary by the State Departmet as
:he Cuban Government was set up
ay constitutional means.
In a message to the new govern
ment the President of the United
States left no doubt as to the ac
2eptebility of the change in govern
ment for Cuba.
Former President Machadn and his
family arrived in the United States
yesterday by plane to seek refuge
;iere. Machado has began an inves
tigation to determine the extent of
ms personal fortune. It was stated
ne had some S2.000.009 on deposit
m banks of the United States.
A sensation was created in Cuba
when revelations of civil suits filed
against Machado. Herrara. and
members of the former cabinet
were made known. The former gov
ernment officials were charged with
graft., firing guns,, assassinations
and several other serious charges
as well as embezzlement of public
funds.
One of the members of the for
mer, cabinet was alleged to have
been the recipient of a S50.000 check
from a sugar export company.
Cuban exiles who have been in
the United States have left for their
homes.
The American destroyer Claxton,
one of the two sent to aid the new
Cuba after less then 24 hours in
government, steamed away from
Havana harbor. In its place the
Cuban cruiser Cuba docked at the
entrance to the bay. The American
destroyer Taylor was still in the
harbor.
NEWS FLASHES
PLANES IN SEARCH
SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 13- —Air
planes hunted Walter A. Starr. Jr.,
young San Francisco attorney, lost
in the Mount Whitney region of the
high Sierra.
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REACH AGREEMENT
SANTO DOMINGTO, Aug. 16. —
An agreement providing for dir
ect steamship service between Puer
to Plata and Sanchez in the Dom
inican Republic and New York City
has been reached between the gov
ernment and the New York and
Puerto Rico line, it was announced
Tuesday.
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MAINTAIN LEAD
CHICAGO, Aug. 16. — The Wash
ington Senators maintained their
five and one-half game lead over
the New York Yankees Tuesday
when they defeated the Chicago
White Sox 5 to 1, while the Yankees
, kept the Senator’s lead down by
winning from St. Louis 8 to 5.
OUT OF CIGARS
LONDON, Aug. 16. — Charles
“Zimmy” Zibelman, legless Ameri
can swimmer, gave up his attempt
to swim the English Channel. He
started Monday night at 7:30 and
after battling thick fog and heavy
seas almost continuously, he was
forced to give up the attempt. It
is also said that Zibelman, who likes
to smoke while swimming, ran out
of cigars. He will make no more at
tempts to swim the Channel this
year, he said.
ATTACK WET EFFORTS
EVANSTON, 111., Aug. 16. — The |
Women’s Christian Temperance;
Union attacked the Administra
tion’s anti-prohibition efforts here,
with a statement that “workmen j
are going to their jobs under the
NRA and going home drunk under
the banner of repeal.” i
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N.R. A. CODE WILL
SOLVE FILM STRIKE
i NEW YORK, Aug. 16.—The final
draft of the tentative code for the
movie industry was to be drawn up
last evening and was to be ready
by this evening for presentation
to Deputy National Administrator
Sol A. Rosenblatt, of the National
Recovery Administration, it was de
clared.
' Acceptance of the code by the
NRA will automatically end the Hol
lywood movie strike as the repre
sentatives of the strikers say that
the men will return to work under
the terms of the NRA, or a 35-hour
week wiht a minimum wage scale.
WINS FIRST MATCH
FOREST HILLS. N. Y. Aug. 16. —
Hellen Wills Moody won her first
match in the National Tennis Tour
nament at Forest Hills yesterday.
'PEGGED' PRICES
ARE DISCARDED
CHICAGO, Aug. 16. —Despite the
pegging of grain prices on the Win
nipeg and other Canadian grain
exchanges, the e x e c u ti v e s of
the Chicago Grain Exchange, an
ounced that their decision to sus
pend “pegging” would be in effect
from today on.
The regulation w h i c h prevents
more than an average price rise or
decrease of four cents a day will,
however, continue in effect.
PEAR PICKERS
ARE ON STRIKE
i SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 16. —Five
hundred pear pickers Tuesday walk
out from the orchards on a strike.
They want 30 cents an hour instead
of the 20 cents per hour now be
paid. They also want an eight-hour
day.
The striking peach pickers still
icontinue to refuse to go to work
unless their higher wage demands
;are met.
The strike difference are said
by some to be due to the failure
of California growers to make their
iNRA codes effective at once.
The pickers have only a short
season left ahead of them and they
have gotten impatient.
FRANCHISE BEING
SOUGHT WOMEN
BOGATA, Colombia, Aug. 16. —
Votes for women on the ground that
! their participation would make pol
itical fights more polished were ask
ed by five member of the Cham
ber of Deputies yesterday.
The proposal was sheduled for a
'prompt discussion.
I The sponsors of the measure
pointed out that illiterate men had
Ithe ballot, but the superior, cul
tured women taxpayers did not.
APPROVES MORE CODES
| WASHINGTON, D. C„ Aug. 16. —
Busy in Washington with the Na
tional Recovery Administration
Council, President Roosevelt gave
final approval to permanent codes
for the lace, corset and brassiere
manufactoring industries. The
President plans to leave for Hyde
Park during the latter part of this
week.
STRYCHNINE IS
CAUSE DEATH
FOUR PERSONS
MALVERN, Ark., Aug. 16. — A
ghost car, carrying four dead per
sons sitting rigidly upright in the
auto, and^ a live child, four years
of age, as the occupants, ran off the
highway near here and gave the
people of this vicinity a horrifying
experience as they sought to un
ravel the mystery of the death car.
It was declared that one man
had been seen to leap from the car
and plunge into the nearby woods
just prior to the car’s running off
the road. The officials immediately
formed a posse and with blood
hounds they scoured the woods.
They rounded up a man who said
he was an attorney from Akron.
Ohio. He is being held for ques
tioning.
Returning to the car the officials
found a half-filled bottle of moon
shine in the car. An autopsy re
vealed that the persons had died
from strychnine poisoning. It was
not stated whether the booze had
strychnine in it.
The four dead were a man
and his wife, and their two chil
dren. The four year old surviving
child gave his name as Kline
Smith, but otherwise could give no
information about the tragedy. Lo
cal persons have not identified the
family.
LUPE VELEZ S
ADOPTED CHILD
SENT TO MEXICO
HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 16. — It was
revealed here yesterday that Lupe
Velez, motion picture star, has been
forced to return her adopted four
year old daughter to Mexico be
cause of the danger of kidnapping
a' long as she is kept in Hollywood.
Miss Velez has received a num
ber of threatening letters during
the last several months and has
kspt a constant guard over her child.
She feared, however, that danger
still existed and felt that her ad
opted neice would be safer in a con
vent in Mexico.
Miss Velez’s sister, the mo
ther of tlie child left the other day
: to take the child to Mexico. It was
not revealed which convent the
child was taken to but it is said
that it is one in Mexico City.
| Miss Velez adopted the child a
year ago. A special nursery addi
tion was made to her Beverly Hills
home.
It is stated that the child will
remain away as long as any danger
of kidnapping exists.
CAPTURE EXPECTED
CHICAGO, Aug. 16. —An ela
borate police trap arranged to cap
ture supects in the kidnaping of
John “Jake the Barber” Factor, was
sprung yesterday, but the quarry
escaped immediate capture by flee
ing into a wooded section near here.
One of the men was thought to
have been wounded. A large force
of men surrounded the wood and
were closihg in on the suspects.
This capture was expected.
WORK ON STEEL CODE
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 16. —
General Hugh S. Johnson went to
bat with steel industry leaders in
an attempt to speed the adoption
of a permanent code. The General
Electric Company announced the
adoption of a code which will ef
fect 42,000 employees directly. By
adopting the code the General Elec
tric Company automatically in
creased the salaries of its workers
by over $8,000,000 a year.
TRY BETTER SITUATION
BANFF, Alta, Aug. 16. — China
and Japan, enemies on Manchur
ian battlefields, sat down at a table
today with other nations of the
Pacific participants in a confer
ence to improve international un
derstanding.
STOCK EXCHANGE
CONTINUES DULL
NEW YORK, Aug. 16- — Less than
a million shares were exchanged on
the floor of the New York Stock
Exchange in yesterday’s dull ses
sion. Only professional traders part
icipated in the turnover.
The small gains and losses were
sprinkled over the entire group of
stocks with no particular issues
taking the brunt of a decrease or
rise in value.
Dow Jones averages of the indus-i
trials gave 96.63, up .1; rails 48.53.
no change; bonds 97.92. off .6.
September wheat closed at 92^
cents a bushel.
A contrary report yesterday was
the announcement that the Pacific.
Gas and Electric Company failed
to earn dividends on common stoc^ |
for the first half of 1933.
FOREST FIRES ARE
HARD CONTROL
FRESNO .Calif., Aug. 16. —Eleven
1 fires, started by lightning during
■a spectacular electric storm Mon
day night, burned at intervals ac
jross a 60 mile front in the Sierra
'Mountains today.
Fire-fighters were hampered by
;the high temperatures,
j Scattered rainfall, which accom
jpanied the storm in some sections,
| failed to reduce the fire hazard,
j which has been heightened by the
j weeks of extremely high tempera
tures.
COLOMBIA PLANS
AID TO FAMILIES
i BOGATA, Colombia, Aug. 16. —
; Louis and Carola Perez, of San Pe
!dro, in the Bolivar Department, an
nounced in a telegram read in the
Senate yesterday the birth of seven
children- All were said to be doing
'well.
The telegram was read as an ar
1 gument in f a v o r of government
grants to parents of large families.
The telegram was referred to the
committee on public works.
MUST BE BLOOD
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 16. —Dr.
IF. I. Proesher, prosecution patholo
I gist in the Lamson murder case,
i defied any expert to disprove that
there were blood stains on the pipe
declared to be the murder instru
ment.
GRANTED PARDON
j COLUMBUS, Ohio, Aug. 16. —
Paul Maxim, who escaped from a
Mansfield, Ohio, reformatory honor
camp six years ago and won suc
cess in Chicago in an advertising
position under an assumed name,
Tuesday was granted a pardon by
Governor George White, after a per
sonal interview.
FATALLY INJURED
; SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Aug. 16.
Bert Bernstein, 51, chauffeur for
Paul E. Keyser, of Salt Lake City,
was probably fatally injured when
struck by the whirling propellor of
a National Parks Airways plane. He
was rushed to a hospital immed
iately but little hope is held for
his recovery.
GANGSTER WAS
ARRESTED AFTER
FINE SLEUTHING
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j KANSAS CITY, Aug. 16. —Thought
| to be the leader of the gang of kid -
inappers who took Charles P. Urs
ichel, of Oklahoma, from his home
and kept him captive for many
days, Tom Bailey, known ganster,
was surprised at an isolated house
in this vicinity Monday and yester
Iday was charged with a Chicago
'murder, kidnapping and other
charges.
When Bailey was surprised he
was lying with a veritable arsenal
around him. A sub-machine gur.(
Ian automatic rifle and several pis
tols were within reach of his hand.
Other members of the Bailey kid
napping gang are said to have been
all captured with the exception of
one. Five of te men were caught in
Minnesota and the others were
rounded up in other states.
Some real detective work was nec
essary before the police could get
on the trail of Bailey.
Urschel, who was kidnapped, ana
then released, was shrewd enough,
to keep track of the plane move
ments over the house were he was
kept captive. Whenever he heard
a plane he asked to find out the
Itime. After several days of this
she soon became familiar with the
j train schedules. After he was re
! leased he went into conference
Swith detectives and together they
studied airplane schedules. They
figured out just where the planes
were at a certain time and merely
went to the house. Urschel accom -
panied them and it was said that
even he packed a shotgun.
The house harbored Bailey and
he was arrested immediately
The Government will ask the
(death penalty it is stated.
i ASSUMES CONTROL WEALTH
NEW YORK. Aug. 16. —John Ja
cob Astor, III, became 21 years o?
age yesterday and assumed control
of immense wealth.
NEWS FLASHES
MOTHER ACQUITTED
SALEM, Mass.. Aug. 16. — Mrs.
Jessie B. Costello, mother of three
young children, was acquitted by
a jury which heard her trial on
charges of poisoning her husband
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SAILORS ATTEND ROUTS
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 16. —
Naval officials were highly pleased
at the attendance for fights at the
all-navy boxing show staged in the
Exposition Auditorium. A crowd of
10,000 persons filled the huge build -
ing.
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NEW RECORD
NEW YORK, Aug. 16. —When the.
Italian liner Rex docks here today
she will have set a new trans-At
lantic crossing record. The vessel
was due tomorrow but owing to the
fast clip set by the vessel she will
be 24 hours ahead of schedule.
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AT ICELAND
REKJAVIK, Iceland, Aug. 16. —
Col and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh
arrived here Tuesday after a 600
mile hop. They will spend some
time here seeking suitable landing
fields for a proposed trans-Atlantic
Service via a Northern route.
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PLENTY OF ATTORNEYS
TOPEKA, Kas., Aug. 16. —Sur
rounded by attorneys, Tom Boyd,
Kansas treasurer, charged with al
lowing the removal of bonds front
the State vaults, surrendered yes
terday. He was released on $25,000
bond. Preliminary hearing was set
for September 8.