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VOLUME XXIX. NUMBER 168.
SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JULY 20. 1933.
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DRY LAW MAY
BE REPEALED
BEFORE YEAR VP
WASHINGTON, July 20. —With
Prohibition’s southern strong hold
definitely shattered by heavy maj
orities for repeal of the Eigtheenth
Amendment in Alabama and Ar
kansas, repealists looked to Ten
Cssee’s election today for a clean
sweep of the Dixie states voting
this week.
The wets expected that the vic
tories in Tuesday’s election in the
first of the long dry states of the
deep South to consider prohibition
repeal to aid materially in their
fight in Tennessee’s election. The
forces favoring repeal predicted
that they would win by a majority|
of 50,000 or so in Tennessee, al
though dry leaders there, their
confidence unshaken by the Ala
bama and Arkansas setbacks, de
clared they would get a victory in
Tennessee by a small majority.
Repeal leaders throughout the na
tion saw in the Alabama 2 to 1
wet vote and the Arkansas 3 to 1
wet vote, an assurance that the
repeal of the Eighteenth Amend
ment wall be completed during the
present year. Eighteen states of
the necessary 36 have ratified the
Repeal Amendment and so far no
state has voted against it. Oregon
votes tomorrow on the repeal law.
GREAT WELCOME
GIVEN ITALIAN
FLYERS IN N. Y:
NEW YORK, July 20. — Their
giant motors droning an imperious
salute to America’s first metropo
lis, General Italo Balbo’s 24 Italian
fighting seaplanes swept down the
Hudson Valley late yesterday, veer
ed across the flatlands of Brook
lyn and came to rest on Jamaica
Bay.
Numerous planes escorted the air:
armada on its journey into this;
city. A convoy of 36 United States:
Army planes met them and flew
with them until they landed.
As they landed the airman were
given a typical New York city wel-'
pome. A 19-gun salute and a deaf
ening roar of acclaim from the j
crowd of 75.000 peaple greeted the I
General and his air adventurers.
In addition to the 75.000 persons!
who concentrated at the Floyd Ben
nett air field and along the bay!
shore, police estimated that fully;
500.000 more gathered along tjhe!
famous Coney Island boardwalk to
watch the armada in AAA triads
move magestically through the
shining finger of sunlight which fil
tered through the clouds.
The Italian airmen took about
seven hours to make the 1000-mile;
flight from Chicago to New York, i
En route they observed the magni-!
ficent Niagara Falls from the air. j
They left N e w Y o r k City to
day for Washington, D. C., where •
they w'ill be the guests of President j
Roosevelt.
LOOKS LIKE FINE PACK
Exclusive of the Bristol Bay sal
mon pack, the pack in Alaska to
date is said to total some 366.000
cases of all varieties. The Bristol j
^;;Bay pack figures have not been!
officially reported but as the run j
in that area has been real heavy;
it is expected that the pack will
easily run around the million case
mark.
CODE HEARINGS
l WASHINGTON. July 20. —Na-j
tional Industry Recovery Associa- |
tion administrators have begun to:
hold hearings on codes designed to ,
spread employment and increase
the wages for thousands of work- j
ers in the ship-building and elec- <
trical manufacturing indusrties.
MAY BEEN POISONED
WASHINGTON, July 20. —Sena
tor James Walsh, who died on his
honeymoon recently, was poisoned
by gangsters whom he had planned
to expose, according to charges
made at the Capital by Canon
Chase. It will be recalled that Sen
ator Walsh died suddenly and that
he had made no strong complaints
about his health.
AIM EE DOESN'T
WANT A DIVORCE
LOS ANGELES, July 20. —David
“Iron Man” Hutton spurned radio
ed appeals from Aimee Semple
McPherson Hutton to come and get
her, and drop his divorce suit.
. For the second time since her
250-pound husband filed the suit,
the leader of Angelus Temple beg
ged him to halt his plans in a
wireless from the SS. City of Havre,
on which she is returning to the
United States from Europe.
RELINQUISH LEAD
NEW YORK, July 20. —Relin
quishing sole possession of the Am
erican League lead after a one
day tenure, the New York Yan
kees yesterday dropped into a first
place tie with the Washington Sen
ators when Chicago snapped the
Yankees’ string of victories at nine
games straight with an 8 to 4 beat
ing while the Senators downed St.
Louis.
GENERAL APPROVAL
WASHINGTON, July 20. —Gen
eral approval was given nearly all
of the proposed public works pro
ject estimates submitted to Presi
dent Roosevelt’s super-cabinet yes
terday. There are few minor ad
justments to be made but they
will not involve any real drastic
changes, it was said. Hugh S. John
ston, recovery program administra
tor said that he could not divulge,
officially, the contents of the pro
gram until it has finally passed the
scrutiny of President Roosevelt.
Miss Louise Beaudreau and Mrs.
,L. Seeley arrived in Seward last
night from Anchorage.
BASEBALL SCORES
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Brooklyn 5, Cincinnati 6.
'New York 1-7, Pittsburgh 4-3.
Boston at Chicago and Philadel
phia at St. Louis, played in double
headers Sunday.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Detroit 3-10, Philadelphia 7-5.
Chicago 8. New York 4.
Cleveland 8, Boston 7.
St. Louis 7, Washington 8.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Portland 6, Missions 4.
Los Angeles 5, Oakland 3.
Transfer of the Bureau of Mines
from the Department of Commerce
to the Interior Department hasj
started, Secretary of the Interior
Ickes announced. President Roose
velt will make an executive or
der will legally effect the change.
Simultaneous with this change the
federal radio commission will be
transfered to the commerce de
partment.
STILL GROUNDED
CARTWRIGHT, Labrador, July
20.—Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lind
bergh were still grounded here yes
terday as they awaited for the
[lying weather, between here and
Greenland to moderate. Their sup*
aly ship, the Magellon, is now well
an her way to Greenland with
gasoline and provisions and it is
expected the Lindys will take-off
ust as soon as weather permits.
POST FLEW OVER
NOME AT EARLY
HOUR TODAY
MOSCOW, July 20. —Wiley Post,
on his round-the-world flight was
forced down half-way between
Chita and Khabarovsk yesterday at
2:32 p.m. Moscow time.
Dispatches said that the Ameri
can flyer had been forced tp land
£t the little town of Rukhlovo. He
was unhurt but the plane was
badly scratched by scraping the
rtree tops as Post came down to a
precarious landing. Bad weather
forced him to the ground.
Ruhkhlovo is about 800 miles to
the northwest of Irkutsk. The land
ing conditions at Rukhlovo, a minor
town on the trans-Siberian railway,
were poor.
Aviator Post was near exhaus
tion, having had but little sound
sleep since he left New York last
Saturday. He said he was forced
to fight a heavy rain all the way
from Irkutsk.
A later message from Rukhlovo
to Moscow Wednesday evening in
dicated that Post had taken off
for Khabarovsk, on the eastern
Manchurian border. Word concern
ing the flier’s movements are slow
because of slow comumnication ser
vice.
A few hours later he was at
Khabarovsk and he was then 15
hours and 46 minutes ahead of
the record he wants to beat. He
arrived at Khabarovsk at 4:45 p.m.
and took off for Fairbanks at 5:58
a. m. or 6:58 p.m. Pacific Standard
time. His haste eclipsed the speed
o f communication facilities for
several hours.
The previous elapsed time when
he and Gatty made the flight was
129 hours and 34 minutes between
the time they left New York and
the time they left Kharbarovsk. The
time for Post on his present flight
is 113 hours and 48 minutes.
It -was believed that Fairbanks
was his destination although some
thought he would land at Nome.
When he left Kharbarovsk he look
ed and was very tired but he de
cided to forego the rest for speed
He said he hoped to reach Nome
in 16 hours after leaving Khabar
ovsk but did not say whether he
intended to stop there.
Post’s plane passed over Nome
at 8:40 a.m. Alaska time this morn
ing.
RUSSIA BUYING
COTTON IN U. S.
WASHINGTON, July 20. — The
sale of 1,000,000 bales of cotton to
Russia was expected in a few days
as government officials were mak
ing final plans to accept Russia’s
credit for that amount of cotton.
It was stated that Russia could
use all the way from 1,500,000 to
2,000,000 bales of cotton but since
long term obligations must be used
in its purchase it is not thought
that that quantity will be sold her.
Russia is also in the market for
livestock to be used for breeding
purposes.
RELEASE EXPECTED
ALBANY, N Y. July 20.— The,
release of John J.O’Connell, Jr., was
expected by nightfall today. O’Con
nell has been held for some time
by kidnappers while ransom ne
gotiations have been in progress.
WORK ON PROJECTS
SAN FRANCISCO, Juy 20. — A
Citizens Committee of 29 members
was instructed by Mayor Rossi, yes
terday, to begin work on the Bay
.City’s huge public works program,
funds for which are being made
available through the National Re
covery Act.
RESCUER ARRIVES
Washington' July 20. —The
Russian seaplane, piloted by Avia
tor LevinoffjSky, was reported to
have reached Anadyr Wednesday
ftom Khabarovsk and the Russian
flyer will probably take Mattern
immediately to American Territory.
Mattern will be taken to Nome,
Alaska, just as soon as weather per
: mits.
STOCK MARKET
BROKE WIDELY
NEW YORK, July 20. —Financial
| markets broke wide open yester
day when big New York banks, al
j armed at the dizzy pace of the
^rise in stocks and commodities, de
cided to tighten up on credit fa
cilities for speculative purposes,
i Their first step w*as to demand
more margin for loans made on
jthe recently skyrocketing wet is
sues of stocks. Brokers followed up
with a similar demand on the big
jarmy of speculators that plunged
into the stocks because of the rea
sonable certainty of prohibition re
peal.
COPPER AT 9!4
NEW YORK, July 20. —Copper
made another advance Wednesday
when it climbed from nine cents
to nine and one-quarter cents. Cop
per has been advancing steadily
having been quoted at eight cents
for quite some time before the re
cent advances.
NINTEENTH TEST
WASHINGTON, July 20. —Repeal
meets its ninteenth test in Ten
l nessee today. Tennessee has been
dry for a quarter of a century. With
Alabama and Arkansas voting re
peal yesterday the foes of the dry
law express confidence that enough
other states will take action so
that the Eighteenth Amendement
will be a thing of the past by
Christmas.
A committee of the Anchorage i
Chamber of Commerce is said to bei
meeting almost daily working on;
the details of public works projects'
in that vicinity.
NORTHERN LIGHTS
(From the Alaska Press)
A shipment of 1,500 white fox
skins was recently sent to the
i States for sale on the fur exchange
I to the highest bidder by Eskimos
living on St. Lawrence Island.
There are about 600 natives on St.
Lawrence Island. The skins were
taken out on the M. S. North Star, i
of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. It
is expected that the skins will
bring a return to the Eskimos of
about $30,000 and this money will
be used to purchase food and other
necessities.
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Efforts launched by the Alaska
Territorial Chamber of Commerce
to save the co-operative mining in
vestigations between the Federal
Government and the Territory
have been at least partly success
ful, it was revealed in Juneau re
cently when it was anounced that
the work would be continued un
der the direction of B. D. Stewart,
Mining Supervisor for Alaska, in
charge of it for the last decade.
The Bureau of Mines, instead of the
Geological Survey will finance the
Federal Government’s part of the
work.
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It is the aim of organizations
of which he heads to obtain unlim
ited stopovers from steamship com
panies covering the Alaska fields,
declared John A. Hooper, president
of affiliated and incorporated Tour
ist Societies, in Juneau recently. He
also said that the tourist trade 1
was sure to increase. ,
ROOSEVELT ILL
BECAUSE HE ATE
MANY CHERRIES
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WASHINGTON* July 20. —News
hungry reporter's, 'who usually get
their lead story on Wednesday,
through their press conference With
President Roosevelt were forced to
forego this news source yesterday
as the President was confined to
the White House still suffering from
what was officially called a slight
cold but actually, according to in
siders, was induced from eating too
many cherries over the week-end.
The President was ordered to re
main in his room in the White
House on the orders of a physician
and the President complied without
a murmer. The President is not
running a temperature, it is added.
He was forced to cancel ail en
gagement for Wednesdays. The en
gagements included a talk with
an Ethiopian prince.
Roosevelt was expected to be al
right today and was to greet Gen
eral Italo Balbo and his Italian
airmen at a luncheon given in
their honor.
WOODLEY THOT
GROUNDED BY
BAD WEATHER
Bad weather conditions are be
lieved to be the cause for the fail
ure of Pilot Art Woodley to report
hLs whereabouts for the last sev
eral days. He left Egegik last Sun
day at 4 p. m. to go on a sight
seeing trip of Aniakchak crater, in
the Chignik vicinity. He carried
five passengers and they were Mar
tin Jorgens, Forest Bush, William
Ackerman, Martin Carlson, and O.
Machison. Pilot 'Woodley contem
plated stops at Port Heiden and
Ugashik en route. No word has been
heard yet from either of these
places. It may be that he is at
one of these points awaiting the
weather to clear so that he can re
turn to Egegik where he has J. B.
Stanton, of Seward, awaiting to
take passage on the plane for Sew
ard.
It was stated that Pilot Woodley
planned to return to Egegik Sun
day evening but since the visibility
wTas poor because of fog he did not
attempt the flight and it may be
that the weather is unchanged.
If no word concerning the avia
tor and his five pasengers is re
ceived from these communities
within a reasonable time it is pro
posed to send a plane to the area.
Not much concern is felt locally
regarding the aviator as there are
innumerable lakes and bays to the
Westward where the aviator could
set his plane down safely and yet
it would take some time for word
to reach established communica
tion systems.
Pilot Call, of the McGee Airways,
who was in Seward the other day,
was in the Bristol Bay region yes
terday and effor ts were being made
to communicate with him to have
him visit some of the out-of-the
way places to see if Woodley had
set his plane down there.
SAW MOOSE ON ROAD
The experience of seeing a good
sized moose ambling down the Sew
^rd-Kenai Lake highway was en
joyed the other day by Mrs. S.
Urie and Mrs. J. B. Stanton, who
were out motoring. The moose ap
parently has found that the road
is easier to travel than the forest
trail as he did not shy off into*
the wilderness at the -sight of the
auto but continued on down the
road for about half a mile before
lie got off the highway.