mEMBEP associated press
VOLUME XXIX. NUMBER 181.
SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 4, 1933.
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PRICE TEN CENTS
> STOCKS IRREGULAR
IN LIGHT TRADING
SESSION MARKET
NEW YORK, Aug- 4. — Stocks
moved ever an irregular course yes
terday in light trading. Other mar
kets patterned after the big board.
Bonds were mixed and so were
grains. Cotton lost an early gain
registered -a small net loss late in
the day
The market opened irregularly
g. higher but quickly ran into a de
* cline. Wet stocks were the first to
Crumble. When they had sold off
from one to more than three points
and the remainder of te market
had experienced a sympathetic re
action. the list steadied and came
hack from the lows.
^ Announcement of the award of
:he government Navy building con
tracts gave the shipbuildig issues
a brief period cf strength. They
jumped one |to four points and
* New York Shipbuilding equaled its
high for the year.
A total of approximately 1.500.000
shares was traded. Latest quota
tions available are Alaska Juneau
2434, Am. Tel. and Tel. 124, Ameri-j
Rad. 1512, Chrysler 333s, General
Motors 2934, Kennecott 195*, New
YorYork Central 42h. Radio 814,
United Air 317a. U. S. Steel 52!ij,1
Westinghouse 41, Chicago Milwauk.
pfdi 13*8, United Corp. 103a, Unit.
Gas. 4!4.
^ U. S. SQUADRON
OF DESTROYERS
ON WAY HOME
Their cruise to Alaska completed,
the five Navy destroyers, USS. De
catur. USS. Wasmuth. USS. Perry,
USS. Zane and USS. Trever. com
prising Destroyer Squadron Four.
• United States Battle Force. Capt.
G. J. Rowcliff. Commander, left
Seward early this morning on the
return trip to California waters.
The Destroyers have visited Ket
chikan. Wrangell. Juneau, Skagway,
Cordova, Valdez and Seward on
their Alaskan cruise and the offi
cers and men of the Squadron are
returning home more familiar u'ith
J*Alaskan waters than before the
cruise.
The cruise to Alaska was in the
nature of a ‘‘good will tour.”
During the while the ships were
in port hundreds of local people
and visitors were down to look
at Uncle Sam’s fine ships and to
>ee the biggest fleet unit that has
ever made a cruise in Alaskan wat
ers. A majority of these persons
were shown through the ships by
members of the fleet personnel.
The Seward Chamber of Com
merce. and L. J. Chilberg, local
Chamber of Commerce official, who
was in charge of the arrangements
for the entertainment of the great
est host of “boys in blue” and
other visitors that has been in
tjlSeward, deserve much credit for
their work on the details for the
entertainment.
Shore-leave was up at 12:30 this
morning and promptly at two o’
clock the boats gave their farewell
salute and left for the South.
,^-Pilot Art Woodley came into
Seward yesterday from Anchorage
where he was brought several days
ago by airplane from the Bristol
Bay region. Pilot Woodley is going
out on the S3. Aleutian en route
to New York where lie intends to
buy an airplane and return to Al
tjtka.
| GOOD CONDITION
OAKLAND, Calif., Aug. 3. -Six-!
| teen new industries have been star-;
ted in the metropolitan area of this j
city since the first of the year and |
every indication promises that better,
conditions will prevail here for
some time. Many former jobless j
persons are now employed in the^
constructipn of factories or are j
working in the new industries.
BALANCED BUDGET !
DRAWS NEARER TO \
BEING REALIZED
WASHINGTON, Aug. 4. —A bal-j
anced budget was declared nearing j
realization yesterday as the July|
revenue for the first month of the:
new fiscal year showed federal re-j
ceipts almost double that of a year
ago.
The recovery drive surged for
ward when 14,000 banks and five
more large industries joined the
President’s campaign.
In between sunbaths and dips in
his swiming pool at Krum Elbow,
on the Hudson River, in New York
State, President Roosevelt watched
the Recovery Adiministration de-!
velopments and planned for a con
ference with Secretary of State Cor-1
dell Hull, who recently returned |
from the London Economic Con
ference.
Roosvelt has just completed a talk
with Raymond Moley, Asst. Secre
tary of State. |
STORK OX TIME
BLACKWELL. Okla.. Aug. 4. —
At a double wedding about a year
ago the principals were Mary Laf
erty and James Newtand and Mayj
Laferty and Bert Nichols. Ninel
hours apart yesterday a boy was;
born to the Newlands and a girl
to the Nichols.
MAM JOBS ARE
CREATED BY CODE
WASHINGTON. Aug. 4. — Po
tential jobs for hundreds of thou
sands of workers loomed today as
business firms all over the United
States rushed their pledges to
shorten hours and increase wages..
Many of the agreements already
were in effect.
Taking advantage of the job op
portunities thus opened. Hugh S.
Johnson. Nadional Recovery Ad
ministrator, had his state and local
aides all appointed, ready to launch
the reemployment drive in every
state and city.
Members of these boards, nine|
on each state board and seven on
each district board, were drafted
for their duties and were organiz- j
,jng while awaiting further instruc
tions.
NUDE DANCERS ARE
TOLD DON CLOTHES
CHICAGO, Aug. 4. —Dancers at;
the World’s Fair whose stark nudity;
shocked Mayor Edward Clay into
issuing an order to close or clothe,;
went through their performances'
here last night in long lace gowns j
and red underwear.
While plainclothes policemen and
policewomen mingled with the
many spectators the fan dancers
and rhumba girls burlesqued their
acts with extreme modesty.
The ones who previously enter- j
tained Fair Visitors wearing no- j
thing but a smile and a string of
beads, danced in flowing garments
that covered everything but their
1 heads.
DENVER STREETS
f ARE INUNDATED
BY FLOOD WATERS
DENVER, Aug. 4. —Hundreds of
' workers labored Thursday night
'clearing mud and debris from the
[city streets in the wake of a 29
j foot wall of water sent roaring
'down Cherry Creek by the break
ing of the Castlewocd dam, 35 miles
! Southeast of the city.
Swollen by heavy torrential rains
the creek crumbled the dam, which
is a part of a great irrigation pro
ject, before dawn Thursday and
sent the largest flood of water in
local history rushing through Den
ver. A caretaker saw the water pour
through the dam and telephoned
a warning down the valley. Oper
ators at the villages of Parker and
Sullivan aroused farmhouses in the
path of the storm. The Denver
police radio station broadcast the
warning and firemen, police and
newspaper reporters routed Creek
bank residents from their homes in
this city.
The residents had barely time to
reach safety before the w'all of
water, a mile wide at some points,
carried away houses, bridges and
railroad tracks.
Bearing hundreds of broken poles,
uprooted trees and other debris,
the water struck a part of Denver’s
finest residential district and a sec
tion of the wholesale area.
The water was highest at 8 a.m,
,and then began to recede slowly
as the impounded waters sought
lower levels. The Curtis Street
bridge and two others were swept
away by the angry waters of the
usually tiny stream. Railroad yards
.were flooded and rail traffic was
at a standstill. Water even stood in
the Union depot.
The water flowed waist deep for
a time in the streets of the whole
sale business section in the South
west part of the city. Hundeds of
basements, both in the business
and residential section were flooded.
Much crop damage w-as incurred
by the sweeping flood waters, roads
were torn out and communications
service and light service disrupted.
No dead have been reported but
it is feared several persons may
have met death as they are unre
ported.
SIGNS CONTRACT
HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 4. — Janet
C-aynor, popular film star, has sign
ed a four-year contract with the
iFox Films, it was revealed here as
the pretty little star left for a four
I weeks’ vacation in the East.
LASKY BANKRUPT
HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 4. —Jesse L.
Lasky, film producer, has filed his
petition for bankruptcy here. Am
ong his assets are listed three Rolls
Royce automobiles.
BASEBALL SCORES
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Philadelphia 7, New York 0.
Boston 4, Washington 8
f Cleveland 7, St. Louis 2.
Chicago at Detroit, wet grounds.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Brooklyn 0, Boston 3.
New York at Philadelphia post
poned because wet grounds. This
game will be played in a double
' header Saturday.
St. Louis 4, Pittsburgh 1; called
in the sixth inning on account of
rain.
Cincinnati 1. Chicago 2.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Sacramento 3. San Francisco 2.
MUCH CONFUSION
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 3. — A
| Jong line of San Francisco business
!men stood in lino outside the tax
j collector’s office here yesterday and
| when their turn came to talk to the
officers their questions invariably
were: “Here’s what I don’t under
stand about the new tax”. The
difficulties created by the new tax
'are expected to be ironed out in a'
few days.
BRIGHT PICTURE
IS PORTRAYED
BY CHAMBERMAN
WASHINGTON, D. C. Aug. 4—
Henry I. Harriman, president of the
United States Chamber of Com
merce said that the new adminis
tration is bringing about a new
and prominent era for business,
through its many legislative en
actments and subsequent business'
trends.
He pointed out that since Presi- j
dent Roosevelt took office that over j
2,000,000 people have returned to i
work, the closing of the banks i
has stopped almost entirely, com-1
modity prices have been pushed up j
from ruinous levels and the public |
is more adequately protected from'
financial crisis.
LIKES TO PEEL SPUDS
SEATTLE, Aug. 3. —Alberta El- j
lictt. talented Seattle violinist, whoj
has been in New York studying!
music for four years, returned back
to her Seattle home yesterday to
help hor brother wash dishes. She
said that she got lots of fun out!
of peeling spuds and doing the'
housework. Miss Elliott will re
turn to New York in a few weeks to
appear in the New York Phiihar-1
monic orchestra.
WINCHELL GOING
BACK NEW YORK
!
KANSAS CITY, Mo.. Aug. 4. —
Walter Winchell. Broadway colum
nist, returning from a vacation in
California, intimated between trains
here that there would be an after
math to the A1 Jolson-W i n c hel 1
1 main event in a Hollywood stad
i ium.
Winchell admitted that blows
were struck and he was asked if
| the matter was dropped. He answer
jed “no” to this query and added
[that he could not really say any
i thing more. He explained, how- j
[ever, that Mr. Jolson was mista-j
ken in thinking a certain allusion j
in a story he had written referred!
to Ruby Keeler, who is Mrs. Jol
son.
FAIR PRICE LIST
BE PUBLICIZED
—
WASHINGTON, Aug. 4. —Weekly
j lists of fair prices for the necessi
! ties of life will be published by
the government to protect the pub
j lie from possible profiteering, it was
; announced Thursday.
The administration recognizes
| that higher commodity prices, pro
; cessing taxes and higher wages, un
!der the Recovery program will in
j crease the ultimate cost of goods to
the consumer. But it is determined
to prevent gouging that would nul
lify the benefit^ of increased buy
ing power.
The SS. Aleutian is due to arrive
in port at 7 a.m. Saturday, acord
ing the local Alaska Steamship of
fice.
HUEY LONG IS
UNDER FIRE IN
ELECTION PROBE
NEW ORLEANS, La., Aug. 4. —
An open court investigation of last
November 8 general election in the
state of Louisiana in which ene
mies of United States Senator Huey
P. Long charged his henchmen re
sorted to fraud to win, Wednesday
revealed wide discrepancies in the
vote tabulations.
Boxes containing ballots cast in
New Orleans on a constitutional
amendment to permit the city to
purchase the Algiers Canal Street
ferry were brought into Judge Al
exander C. O’Donnell’s court and
counted.
The counting was done by 24 bus
iness men appointed by the court
and their figures revealed 1,545
cast for the amendment and 214
against it. Election commissioners
had officially reported the count on
the same boxes as 1,919 votes for
the amendment and 60 against it.
Political forces of Senator Long
had favored the adoption of the
amendment.
Announcement of the'vote caus
ed a frenzied stir in the already
tumultuous political situation in
New Orleans which has seen mar
tial law proclaimed and revoked.
A grand jury elected from tTn
courts and a determined investi
gation of Senator Long’s political
empire has been launched during
the last week.
SENATOR'S SON
WAS DESPONDENT
OVER DIVORCE
BURLINGGAME, Calif., Aug.4. —
Private funeral services were con
ducted Wednesday for Archibald
M. Johnson, 42-year old son o:
United States Senator Hiram John
son, who committed suicide in his
exclusive Hillsborough home Tues
day.
Members of the family and close
friends attended the services which
were conducted by Rev. H. G. Gard
ner of St. Paul’s Episcopal church
Interment was at Cypress Lawn
cemetary.
Johnson, a prominent sportsman
and attorney and former army ma
jor ended his life, it was believed
because of despondency over his
recent divorce from Mrs. Martha
Ruddy Leets Johnson.
| He was also said to have suffered
j intermittently from shell shock ir.
icurred during the World War
WRESTLER SEEKS
REm DIVORCE
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■ RENO, Nev„ Aug. 4. — Gus Son
nenberg. the Dartmouth College
football star, who turned wrestler
and became the world’s champion
and then married his college days”
sweetheart, Marie Eliot, came here
yesterday to establish residence for
a divorce from the Boston society
girl.
He came here from Los Angeles
by motor car. He was accompanied
i by his manager.
i Two men were brought to the
j Anchorage hospital Wednesday suf
fering from injuriets received when
ja tie-loaded flat-car escaped on
lEska Hill. The extent of their in
|juries has not been learned but it
jis reported that they are resting
'easily.
F. HALL