MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXIX. NUMBER 166.
SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JULY 18, 1933.
PRICE TEN CENT$
ITALIAN PLANES
WITHSTOOD LONG
FAST TRIP WELL
CHICAGO, July 18. — General
Italo Balbo, refreshed by a night of
sound rest, plunged back again
yesterday into the worshipping
crowds that welcomed him and his
intrepid airmen to the city of Chi
cago Saturday.
V Through crowded streets and
amid thunderous cheers, the beard
ed leader waved and smiled as he
made his way to the office of
Mayor Edward Kelley at noon for
his official visit to the City’s Chief
Executive.
Throughout the day. great crowds
lined the Lake Shore, while pilots
and their mechanics inspected the
24 giant Savoia Marchetti planes.
All ships stood well the 6,100 mile
flight from Italy at an average
speed of 130 miles an hour. Only
minor adjustments are required to
prepare the gaily colored monarchs
of the air for the return flight. |
General Balbo planned to take
his air fleet to New York City to
day and was even planning to ac
cept President Roosevelt’s invita- j
tion to come to Washington.
The fleet is scheduled to start
on its return trip to Italy on Wed- ;
nesday.
HUTTON IS SUING
EVANGELIST WIFE
FOR / nn'ORCE
LOS ANGELES, July 13. —David
“What a Man” Hutton, chorister,
yesterday filed suit for divorce
from Aimie Semple McPherson
Hutton.
In the divorce action Hutton
charged that the Evangelist per
mitted intimate details of their pri
vate life fo be discussed publicly.
He claimed that the widely known
head of Angelus Temple caused
him great humiliation and em
barrassment by cabling him recent-!
ly that she was the mother of a.
newly born son. He was also hum
iliated, he said, when she insisted
that her recent Paris operation was;
serious, whereas he learned it was
a minor beauty operation.
Capt, Harold T. McCam of the
SS. Havre, which sailed from Cher- :
bourg, France, Sunday, communi-;
cated with officials of the Balti- j
more Mail Line, saying that Aimie j
Semple McPherson Hutton was a |
passenger on his ship. The Havre is j
en route to the United States and!
will dock at Baltimore on July 25.
Capt. McCam said that Mrs. Hut-1
ton was to debark at Baltimore and
that she would, in all probability,
go direct to Los Angeles from there.
DIRECTIONAL SIGNALS
SEATLE, July 18. — Directional;
radio signals are to be broadcast;
by the Army radio station at Nome
to aid Wiley Post on his air flight
from Siberia to Alaska, it was an
nounced by the Signal Corps head
quarters here.
MILLION FOR ALASKA
Details are lacking but the Fed
eral Government is said to have
set aside the sum of $1,000,000 of
the public works fund for Alaska.
A broadcast from KFQD, Anchor
age, said that no particulars have
been received as to how this money
was to be distributed but that more
information was expected from
Washington, D. C., soon. The broad
cast also said that the Anchorage
Chamber of Commerce was work
ing on the assembling of data of
worthwhile public works projects in
that region.
The regular weekly luncheon and
business meeting of the Seward
Chamber of Commerce wras held
today at noon.
COUNTS NOSES
GENEVA, July 18. —About 2,000,
000,000 persons dwell on this ter-!
restrial globe, says a new year book j
of the League of Nations. Both!
births and deaths show a tendency j
to decrease.
GOOD REPORTS
CAUSE NUMBER
STOCKS TO CLIMB
NEW YORK, July 13. —Stocks!
whirled up to the highest prices
since 1931 yesterday when another
rise in commodities fired the spec
ulative enthusiasm of participants
on the market.
An added incentive was highly
favorable business news, including
wage increases and improved earn
ings reports by some of the coun- i
try’s leading corporations.
With an increasing public inter-(
est in the Administration’s Re-;
covery program indications are that;
business and the wage-earner will
: have better sailing through the
economic seas which have been so
turbulent for several years. i
POST IS MAKING
UP LOST TIME
! NOVOSIBIRSK, Siberia, July 18.'
Wiley Post hopped off today
Itowards Irkutsk at 9:02 a.m. Mos-|
|cow time, which is 1:02 a.m. East-'
|ern Standard time. This was just
! two hours and 35 minutes after he
had completed his 1,818 mile hop
from Moscow to Novosibirsk. Dur
ing this brief stay at Novosibirsk
Post barely had time to get himself
some refreshments and to retune!
his plane. He is anxious to make up
for the 12 hours of time he lost
while grounded at Koenigsberg, in!
Germany.
Post was four nours ahead of
his the record established by him- i
self and Harold Gattv in 1931, when
he arrived in Moscow.
BANKER TRIES TO
JUMP INTO RIVER
JERSEY CITY. N. J., July 18. —
Joseph W. Harriman, New York
banker, who disappeared from a
Manhattan nursing home for the
second time in two months yester
day, attempted to leap from a ferry
boat crossing the Hudson river. The
banker made the attempt tw'ice
but deckhands on the ferry boat
restrained him.
Harriman, according to Capt. J.
W. Johnston, of the terminal rail
road police, crossed the river three
times.
AIR-MINDED MINERS
The present aviation field at Wil
low' Creek is situated a couple of
miles below the Lucky Shot mine
but a new field is being laid out
adjacent to the famous gold mine
which employs nearly 100 men. The
Star Air Service, of Anchorage,
maintains a regular schedule and
the amount of travel is amazing.
The round-trip is made in about
40 minutes.
Alaskan commodities shipped to
the States during the month of
June agregated $1,445,339 in value,
it wras made known in Juneau re
cently by J. C. McBride, Collector
of Customs. Gold valued at $738,816
was shipped out. Canned salmon
shipments were worth $432,374.
Gerald Church, who has had
many years experience in Alaska,
received the appointment of depu
ty administrator in charge of pro
h i b i t i o n enforcement in western
Washington.
CAPITOL INTERESTS
(By Bob Bartlett)
| Valdez has been added to the
cities which the fleet of destroyers
I to visit Alaska in July and Aug
just will stop.
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The post offices at Haines and
jHyder are to be relegated to the
fourth class, according to a recent
anouncement by the Post Office
Department.
* * * *
A recent conference in which
Commissioner of Indian Affairs
John Collier, Territorial Commis
sioner of Education A. E. Karnes,
and Delegate A. J. Dimond partic
ipated was the opening move in
the endeavor to have the federal
government assume greater finan
cial responsibility in the education
of Alaska Indian children. At the
present time the Territory is pay
ing for the education of several
hundred children of Indian blood,
a charge, it is believed, which
should properly be borne by the
Office of Indian Affairs. Commis
sioner Collier was sympathetic to
the represenations of Mr. Karnes
and Mr. Dimond. Suggested to him
was an entirely new policy with
respect to the education of Indian
children. Under the plan proposed
the Territory would take over the
administration of the Office of
Indian Affairs schools, and the fed
eral government would pay into
the Alaska treasury certain stated
sums to pay the cost of operating
the Indian schools.
Responsibility for the medical
care of the natives would still rest
upon the Office of Indian Affairs.
Before any plan as this could
be put into effect appropriate leg
islation would have to be passed
by Congress. Commissioner Collier
promised to study carefully the
suggestions placed before him as
his approval would, in all likeli
hood be necessary before Congress
would act.
* * * *
Commissioner and Mrs. Karnes
left for Chicago, where he will at
tend the annual meeting of the Na
tional Education Association. H e
will then return to Juneau to pre
pare for an extended survey trip
which will take him along the
coast, out to the Westward, the
lower Kuskokwim and Yukon, Sew
ard Peninsula and the Interior. Mr.
Karnes will be traveling until late
in October.
* * * *
Delegate Dimond’s voice will be
heard in Alaska soon, although he
will be several thousand miles dis
tant at the time. Through the
courtesy of radio station KGBU, at
Ketchikan, and KFQD, at Anchor
age, the Delegate will give an ac
count of his stewardship to date.
In identical 15-minute talks he will
give the high lights of the last
four months in Washington so far
as they have affected Alaska. The
electrical transcription was made at
a Washington sound studio recent
ly.
* * * *
The Delegate recently attended
a meeting of the Agriculture Ad
justment Administration at which
maximum and minimum prices for
dairy products under the National
Recovery Act were discussed. A
minimum price of $2.50 per case for
evaporated milk for export to Al- j
aska and a maximum of $2.60 per
case were figures tentatively pro
posed by evaporated milk com
panies. The prices quoted are in
tended to be the prevailing ones
for Pacific Coast states and freight
charges will have to be added to
Alaska points. Mr. Dimond with
held approval or protest until such
time he has commhnicated with
Governor Troy.
* * * «
An Alaskan girl who has spent
the last two years in Europe and
who is now in Washington on a!
short visit is Miss Jean Bunnel,
daughter of Dr. Charles E. Bun
nell, president of the Alaska Col
lege. Jean has been continuing her
language studies in France and
Germany. While in Munich she
made her home with Mr. and Mrs.
Sigmund Geist. Mr. Geist is a
brother of Otto William Giest, who
is carrying on scientific work for
the College on St. Lawrence Island.
CUT FREIGHT RATES
j BUCHAREST, July 18. —To stim
ulate foreign trade, the manage
ment of the Rumanian railways has
j reduced freight rates on export
j merchandise by 50 per cent.
PRES. ROOSEVELT
j WORKS DESPITE
A SLIGHT COLD
WASHINGTON, July 18. —Presi
; dent Roosevelt trimmed his calling
: list yesterday and worked in the
study at the White House while
| treating a slight head cold con
! tracted during his week-end yacht
jing trip. It was emphasized that
i the chief executive had no temper- j
lature and that no physician had
! been called in.
The usual custom of having aj
personal doctor for the president]
was scrapped when Mr. Roosevelt'
took office.
During the day, between greet- j
ing occasional callers, the Presi-1
! dent worked on details of the huge!
public works program through]
which his administration hopes to;
put millions of men to work before ]
t “the snow flies.”
TEXTILE WORKERS
GO BACK TO MILLS
NEW YORK, July 18. —It was
estimated that more than 15,000
| idle textile operators returned to
work in New England mills yester- j
day and there is a possibility that!
10.000 more may be reemploved in
Massachusetts upon suspension of
the law forbidding the employment
of women after 6 p.m.
The change in working condi-'
tions has been brought about by
the textile code which has been
submitted to the administration re- j
covery program officials. The tex-i
tile code affects approximately j
120.000 persons.
PUG'S WIFE DROPS
DIVORCE ACTION
, SACRAMENTO. July 18. — A re
conciliation has been effected be-;
i tween prizefighter Max Baer and
I his estranged wife, Dorothy Dun-1
bar Baer, the contender for the
world’s heavyweight boxing cham
pionship announced here Monday.
As a result Mrs. Baer’s suit for
divorce, which was scheduled
immediately, will be dismissed, the
fighter indicated.
Other than to say they were
j“just good pals” Baer made no
comment about his proposed en
gagement to June Knight, actress.
Baer and Miss Knight were seen
! together frequently in the East af
ter his victory over Max Schmel
dng, of Germany, and one time the
j heavyweight boxing champion.
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SPLENDID PROGRESS
Splendid progress is being made
| in laying rails on the bottom of the
Lowell Creek flume. The flume has
j been laid with rails from the flume
{head almost as far down as the
{bridge on Fourth Avenue. Over
| thirty rails are laid side-by-side
fto cover the flume bottom and it
has been calculated that 11 miles
of track or a steel ribbon 22 miles
long will have been placed in the
flume when the work is completed.
ESTIMATES FOR
PUBLIC WORKS
ARE SCRUTINIZED
WASHINGTON, July 18. —Public
building, rivers and harbors, flood
control and other construction es
timates were sent back to Presi
dent Roosevelt’s cabinet board yes
terday for reducing exercises to
work off any fat which might be
called “pork.”
The President, after a brief scru
tiny of the projects proposed un
der the $3,300,000,000 building pro
gram suggested that he be given
time for additional study of the
j projects.
Secretary of the Interior Harold
Ickes, who is the public works ad
I ministrator, said that the estimates
would be carefully “considered to
make sure that money is wisely
spent. This is not a ‘grab bag’.”
Secretary Ickes told newspaper
! men that the officials had promis
i.ed that the scrutiny would be ra
• pid so as not to delay the start of
| construction and the return to work
l of many idle
PIRATES PLAY
GREAT BALL TO
BEAT DODGERS
PITTSBURGH, Pa., July 13- —
: While all the other major league
ball clubs were idle the Pittsburgh
I Pirates yesterday advanced to with
! in half a game of the Chicago Cubs
to occupy second place in the Na
! tional League Standings by winning
both ends of a double-header from
; the faltering Brooklyn Dodgers.
The Pirates collected 32 hits off
seven Brooklyn pitchers while beat
ing the Dodgers 14 to 2 in the
opener and 7 to 0 in the second
game before 9,000 fans at Forbes
Field.
Turning in his 10th victory of the
season, Bill Swift limited the Dod
gers to seven hits in the first
game v/hile his Corsair mates ham
mered Carroll, Shaate, Heimack and
Ryan for 16. nine of which were
bunched for nine runs in the eight
when Heimack was blasted from
the mound and replaced by Ryan.
Paul Whner’s triple to left center
with the bases loaded featured the
rally. Freddy Lindstrom and G u s
Suhr led the Pirate attack each
making three hits in the opener.
Steve Swetonis blanked the Dod
gers with seven scattered safeties
in the second game and the Pirates
'again collected 16 hits off Thurs
ton and Shaute. Swetonic helped
to win his own ballgame by driv
ing out a triple and two singles,
sending home two runs and scoring
once himself.
The Pirate’s big inning was the
fifth when they clicked four runs
after bunching five hits.
IMPROVES HOTEL
The sidewalk and stairs in front
of the Anchorage Hotel, at Anch
orage, has been torn up and in
stead is being built an artistic con
crete wall with entrance-ways on
either end, one of which eliminates
the stairway. The city is lowering
the walk grade in conformity with
the new work which greatly im
proves both the street and the ho
tel. Four or five men are employed.
Nineteen and one-half tons of
gold and silver bullion valued at
almost $10,000,00 were received in
the assay office in Seattle up to
the end of the fiscal year which
ended June 30. Of this amount Al
aska contributed $7,000,00 with the
Tanana district sending the largest
share of Alaska gold and silver.
A new theatre is planned for
Juneau, according to the Alaska
Press.