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.VOLUME XVI.
NUMBER 162.
SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JULY 21, 1931.
PRICE TEN CENTS
CORDOVA BUNKER
IN BUD HEALTH
SLASHED THROAT
WAS SUFFERING FROM MAS
TOID INFECTION, ONTARIO,
CALIFORNIA
CORDOVA, July 21, (Special to
The Gateway)—Thomas S. Scott,
Cordova banker, ended his life in
a hotel room at Ontario, Calif., by
slashing his throat with a razor,
apparently when suffering intense
pain from a mastoid infection, on
July 15 or 16.
He is survived by his widow, a
son and three daughters who have
left for Seattle on the SS Aleutian.
Thos. Scott was born in York, Neb.,
on September 15, 1853 and came to
Valdez in 1907 as an employee of
the Bank of Valdez and chief clerk
of the District Court under Judge
Cushman. He came to Cordova in
1914 as first cashier of the Bank
of Cordova and in 1921 wras ap
pointed vice president and mana
ger of the Bank of Alaska,, which
post, as well as that of president
of the Cordova Packing Co., he
held at the time of his death.
He was a member of the eighth
Alaska Legislature, Past Master of
the Masonic Lodge and past presi
dent of the Cordova Chamber of
Commerce.
SHIPBUILDING PROERSM
REACHES HIGH POINT
AT SI FRANCISCO
SAN FRANCISCO, July 21. UP)—
The shipbuilding program destined
to place 13 new passenger liners,
valued at many millions, in the
San Francisco offshore trade,
reaches its high point with the
launching of three ships.
Two of the vessels were sent
down the ways at Newport News,
the Talamanca and Segovia of the
United Fruit Lines, operating from
San Francisco to Central Amer
ican ports chiefly in the banana
- trade.
On Saturday, the $7,500,000 lux
ury liner Mariposa, building for
the Matson Lines’ South Sea serv
ice, will be launched at the Fore
River plant of the Bethlehem
Steel Corporation.
COFFEE DISTRIBUTED
TO BRAZIL'S POOR
RIO DE JANEIRO, July 21. UP)
—Thirty thousand bags of coffee,
v purchased by the government with
proceeds from the 10 shilling per
bag tax for destruction, are to
be distributed free to drought suf
ferers in northern Brazil and to
the poor in Rio de Jane.ro through
the Brazilian Red Cross.
The coffee originally was set
aside for destruction by burning
or dumping into the ocean, in
order to reduce the surplus in cof
fee stocks and thus raise the
price.
HALIBUT PRICES
PRINCE RUPERT, B. C., July
21. (IP) — Halibut totaling 230,000
pounds, Amrican, brought 3c and
7.09c; Canadian, 3c to 6l/2c. At
Seattle 149,500 pounds sold for 5c
and 7%c.
KLBEDT FILL BECOMES
■ED IN PRISON I
- i
SANTA FE, July 21. (£>)—Albert j
B. Fall became No. 6991 in the |
New Mexico prison and has been
stripped of his citizenship rights
in the state which heaped honors
upon him.
The 70-year-old ex-secretary was;
committed to serve a year and a,
day for taking $100,000 to nego-.
tiate an oil lease and ends an eight<
year legal battle. He was bolstered j
by heart stimulants and put in a j
private room in the prison hos-,
pital.
COMMODITIES ULY
ON STOCK MARKET
_ _
NEW YORK, July 20 (/P)—The fi
i nancial market appeared less wor
' ried over the German problem and
i prices of commodities and secur
• ities rallied.
More reassurance from abroad
including the statement by Dr.
Dietrich, German finance minister,
j that in an agreement with the
Reichbank he considered it “a mat
ter of course to make interest fund
! payments on long term loans of
! German debtors,” removed some
I of the uncertainty The recovery
! in German bonds was brisk.
RECEIVES PETITION
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 21.
(/P>—President Hoover received a
telegraphic petition for executive
clemency for ex-Secretary of the
; Interior Fall and referred it to
; Attorney General Mitchell for his
-recommendation. Signing the pe
tition were the Governor, Senators
land members of the Legislature
: of the State of New Mexico.
POLICE SEARCH FOR
BOmULIFOlll
SACRAMENTO, July 20. </P)—
Police search for David Fargo,
missing 12-year-old boy, was in
stituted here when F. D. Burleson,
grocer, reported a boy answering
Fargo’s description visited his es
tablishment. Burleson said he felt
positive about it after examining
the picture of young Fargo.
The Las Banos -boy has been
missing since early last month.
He disappeared in the Toulumme
County woods whle on a trip with
his parents.
NICARAGUA AGAIN
MANAGUA, Nicaragua, July 21.
i (/P)—Marine planes reinforced na
i ional troops to put down insurgent
uprisings. One guardsman and
, seven rebels were killed in three
;! battles. Santo Domingo was
t sacked by rebels and a guard pa
■ trol, ambushed by Kisalaya rebels,
i were driven back. Rebels are now
attacking Rama.
“WHAT A MAN” MAY BE ANY
BODIES MAN IN FEW
DAYS
LOS ANGELES. July 21. (£>)—
Minnie “Ma” Kennedy’s “What a
Man,” Guy Edward Hudson, sud
denly became “What a Man.”
Less than 24 hours after the
i evangelist and her much advertised
husband returned to Los Angeles
to face an amazing marital tangle,
“Ma” filed legal papers to start
annulment proceedings from her
ideal Romeo. The papers were
prepared by Attorney Frank Lo
ber, who is representing the “Ma”
Kennedy branch of the Hudson
| family tree.
j “What a Man,” in person, ap
peared at Lober’s office. The com
plaint contained three paragraphs
and set forth that Mrs. Kennedy
jhas been for the last five years a
j bonafide resident of Los Angeles
j county, that on the 28th day of
I June, 1931 she was married to the
defendant in the city of Long
view, Wash, and that at the time
of said marriage to defendant, de
fendant had a former wife living,
to wit, Margaret Newton Hudson,
and that defendant’s marriage
with said Margaret Hudson was
then at the time of plaintiff’s
said marriage to defendant, in
force and undissolved by decree of
divorce.
j While “Ma” Kennedy was sign
ing the complaint Hudson stood
quietly behind her, gazing mourn
fully at the formal papers on the
desk.
OBEYED ORDERS THEN
MARRIED THE GIRL
SAN FRANCISCO, July 20. (JP)—
Purser J. V. Malumphy of the Dol
lar line): President Jefferson be
lives in obeying orders. When
the ship left Yokohama for San
Francisco some months ago, Pur
ser Malumphy was instructed by
ithe passenger agent in Yokohama
i to see that Miss Rosana Hillman
of Los Angeles was given “special
attention”, he did.
He placed Miss Hillman and her
aunt, with whom she was travel
ing, at his own table. When the
ship arrived at San Francisco,
Purser Malumphy and Miss Hill
man were engaged. They were
married at Los Angeles.
| FISHERMAN DROWNS
I ALITAK. Alaska, July 21. (Spe
cial to The Gateway). — John
I Christianson was drowned at Three
j Sisters Rocks, near Port Hobron,
i Monday morning. He fell from
'jhis power dory while alone, during
the night, so it is believed by his
associates.
WILL BE FINGERPRINTED
NEW YORK, July 21. (JP)—All
proprietors of night clubs and
dance halls will be fingerprinted
by the police; 300 have been or
dered to report to headquarters.
RIOTS AT SEVILLE
SEVILLE, Spain, July 21. P)—
Fighting between police, rebels
and strikers broke out in three
towns near here; two were killed
and 30 wounded. All businesses
have been closed. y
BROKER FLIER SETS
I NONSTOP RECORD
NEW YORK, July 21. (/P)—James
Goodwin Hall, broker, landed at
3:50 p. m. after seven hours and
50 minutes, a record flight from
Havana. One stop was made at
Miami of less than an hour.
He flew from New York to Ha- i
vana on a nonstop flight in eight j
hours and 35 minutes Saturday in{
his monoplane named “Crusader” j
! after the anti-prohibition organ- j
! ization of that name.
-- ^. —
ITU GOV WENT
| ORDERS WREST AUTHORS
i ROME, July 20. (/P)—'The Italian
I government has sequestered an
; anti-papal pamphlet, “Away With
I The Vatican,” and ordered the ar
rest of its four authors. One of the
I authors is Emilio Settimeli, who
was editor of the recently-defunct
Rome newspaper, In EEIO, which
carried the banner line “Mussolini
Is Always Right.”
A Vatican authority interpreted
the sequestration and gradual les
sening of the newspaper campaign
as presaging something akin to
peace
HIGHEST IN WORLD
CHICAGO, July 21. (fP)—A 1,600
foot tower, which would be the
tallest building in the world, is
being planned in connection with
the Chicago World’s Fair in 1933.
It will be situated on the lake
front. The tower would exceed
the height of the new Empire
building in New York City by 378
; feet and the Eiffel Tower in Paris
I by 616 feet.
MGERS RETURNED TO
PUCE OF BEGINNING
SAN FRANCISCO, July 20. (&)—
Three hopeful voyagers who
stepped aboard for Honolulu five
days ago on the Matson liner Ma
lolo will arrive back in San Fran
cisco this week.
The three, according to radio ad
vices received by Hugh Galagher,
i operating manager of the com
pany, are coming right back where
they started from, aboard the Mat
son freighter Maunawil. They
. were transferred at sea, Gallagher
L was informed.
LOSES EARS IN ARGUMENT
[ BURKE, S. D., July 20. (£>)—
; Imagine Alfred Dreys’ astonish
; ment when he looked into the
mirror and discovered that both
| his cars had disappeared. Dreys
[recalled having been in a “friend
l j ly argument” several hours earlier
l with Oakley Esde but didn’t real
l ize until he chanced to look in
. the mirror what the results had
been.
I
WILL EXTEND 1
REGARDLESS FREE
FRANCE ADAMANT IN DEMAND
ING POLITICAL CON
CESSIONS
LONDON, July 21. {&)—Amer
ic’s position in the economic crisis
j which has enveloped Germany was
; presented by Stimson at the seven -
power conference for the allevia
jtion of financial distress.
! A communique, after the morn
ling session, said conferees consid
| ered “methods of international
| cooperation whereby confidence in
[Germany’s economic stability may
be restored in the immediate fu
ture.”
It is said in well informed quar
ters the conference is encounter
; ing disturbing difficulties attri
buted to insistence by France that
[Germany pay for outside aid with
j political concessions,
j It is reported that the United
I States and Great Britain will
i agree but Germany must have
ihelp and offset threats and over
throw the government and will see
she gets help whether France par
ticipates or not. The Americans
and British do not approve of a
long term loan.
I
GOVERNMENT WILL
KEEP HK IFF
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 21.
: (p)—The American government has
I adopted a policy that precludes
political consideration in connec
tion with the German economic
situation.
Although the Federal Reserve
System will probably extend credio
i to Germany along with other im
i portant banking interests, Acting
| Secretary Castle of the State De
! partment made clear the United
States would not become involved
in any political situation relative
to the German situation.
The financial assistance that
j might be rendered by the Federal
Reserve System he added, would
be along the lines of that of the
Bank of France and similar Euro
pean institutions.
FRISCO IS SELECTED
SIOTT1S32
SAN FRANCISCO, July 21. OP)—
Amid scenes of wild enthusiasm,
San Francisco was officially elect
ed as the 1932 Shrine Conclave
city. Word of the selection was
telephoned to the Chronicle from
- Cleveland, O., by William H. Wood
■ field, Jr., illustrious potentate of
; Islam Temple.
l San Francisco and Chicago
> locked horns over the 1932 invi
• tation shortly after the Cleveland
: conclave opened. Chicago, however,
. had a world’s fair in sight and
t San Francisco opened a deter
l mined drive to bring the Shrine
Conclave westward.