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SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23, 1933.
VOLUME XXIX. NUMBER 150.
PRICE TEN CENTS
WEST Bill 111
CM HUE OF
III WEI COLUMN
SAN FRANCISCO, June 28. —
By an unusually large turnout,
San Francisco voters led the State
to the polls yesterday to ballot on
prohibition repeal and important
state and municipal issues. West
Virginia also went to the polls to
vote on repeal and in New York a
state convention, heavily commit
ted to repeal, met in Albany un
der the presidency of A1 E. Smith
pioneer in the fight against pro
hibition.
California cast its ballot for re
peal by a majority running into
more than 500.000. The enormous
lead which was won by the lib
eral forces ran up and down the
entire state- Former so-called “dry”
strongholds were swept into the
wet column by substantial margins.
From North to South, the vote
reflected practically unending
count for the ratification of the
federal constitutional amendment
that spells the end of legalized pro
hibition.
California voters, by a consider
able majority, also approved pro
position number three and legal
ized race-track gambling, returns
from all sections of the state in
dicated.
West Virginia, bone dry for 20 j
years, voted yesterday to cast off
prohibition. The wet tide.surging'
below the Mason and Dixon line
for the first time, added the
Mountaineer State to the others
which have voted to ratify the 21st
Amendment.
<• California’s vote was holding at
three to one for repeal today and
West Virginia, with three-fourths J
of the votes counted, had rolled up
a lead of 78,000 for the wets who
were quick to point that West Vir
ginia will lead the way to repeal
in other states south of the Mason
and Dixon line.
West Virginia was considered a
doubtful state but even so the
betting odds were three to one that j
she would go wet.
West Virginia and California’s;
vote in favor of repeal of the 18
th Amendment makes them the
15th and 16th states to do so. The:
score to date for repeal besides j
California and West Virginia is
New York, New Jersey, Rhode Is-1
land, Illinois, Michigan, Nevada.J
Delaware, Wyoming, Indiana, Wis-j
’ consul, Massachusetts, Con necti- j
cut, New Hampshire and Iowa. Noj
state has voted against repeal so
far.
ALLOWED CLAIMS BE
REVIEWED VET BUREAU
WASHINGTON, June 28. — A
general review of upwards of 300,
000 cases of veterans’ allowed com
pensation claims was announced
Tuesday by the Veterans’ Admin
istration.
In a bulletin the Veterans’ Ad-|
ministration said it hopied to!
complete the work in time to make,
the more liberal payments in aj
comparatively short while.
CONTINUE ADVANCE
WIMBLEDON, Eng., June 28. —
Two of America’s invading con
tingent were chalked up in the
casualty list at the end of yester
day’s tennis skirmish at Wimble
don, but the Amercan “storm
troops,” headed by Ellsworth Vines,
Jr., and Helen Wills* Moody, de
fending singles champions, con
tinued their advance toward the
title rounds.
SEEK EXPLANATION
WASHINGTON, June 28. — A
$25,000 fee to Norman H. Davis,
U. S. Ambassador at large, in con
nection with the promotion of a
Chilean bond issue, now defunct,
was before the Senate committeee
investgating the Kahn, Loeb, and
Co., stock deals, with Otto K.
Kahn, president, as the first wit
ness.
HUTTON NEEDS NO
PROOF BIB! IS MYTH
PARIS, June 28. — Eager to
prove that the baby whose arrival
she announced by cable does not
actually exist, Aimee Semple Mc
Pherson Hutton, Four-Square gos
pel evangilist, Tuesday cabled her
husband, David Hutton, to come
to Paris and see for himself.
At Los Angeles “Iron Man” Hut
ton does not plan, at least at pre
sent, to fly and sail half way
around the world to prove what
“I already know, that my baby is
a myth.”
BRIM PISSES FUSE'S
PLES OFF BN II. S.
LONDON, June 28. —Pressed by
France and her continental Eur-;
opean ‘gold bloc,” Great Britain
has been forced to renew pressure;
on the United States to stabilize ;
the dollar temporarily at the priced
of any agreements in the World!
Economic Conference.
France, long a champion for the!
stabilization of world currencies,
had almost given up her hope for!
a stabilization pact with the United;
States and Monday turned to the;
British and asked them to stabil
ize their pound even though the:
United States did nothing about |
their dollar. France and her ‘‘gold
bloc” countries seek stabilization
to keep their own monies from de
preciating and probably forcing
them off the gold standard.
grand RAPTDS .Mich., June 28. j
Senator Arthur Capper told the
Advertising Federation of America
that a widespread campaign is al-1
ready underway to defeat Presi
dent Roosevelt’s recovery program.
Senator Capper said that despite
such a campaign “we may be sure
that business will never again be
the same as in the boom days be
fore the crash.” He also expressed
hope for an end of the philosophy
of every man for himself.
“As radical and revolutionary as
much of our legislation may appear i
it is not to be taken as the result
of whim, or caprice, or personal
ambition. I for one have no apology
for the support I gave to the major
measures of the administration,”
the Senator said.
LEAGUE STANDINGS
(First four teams)
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Washington .
New York .
Philadelphia .
Cleveland .
Chicago.
NATIONAL
New York .
St. Louis .
Pittsburgh .
Chicago..
LEAGUE
.641
.615
.525
.500
.492
.639
.587
.538
.493
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Hollywood . 613
Los Ajigeles . 531
Missions . .488
Oakland .458
(By Special Correpondent)
George T. McMahon, the presi
dent of the Peters Creek Placer
Co., and the new Alaska Explora
tion and Mining Co., of Pullman,
Wash., and Dr. J. E. McCoy, the sec
retary and treasurer of the latter
organization arrived here recently
in company with two other men
hired as packers. They will spend
the whole summer on the Peters
and Bird Creeks inspecting their
placer mining properties which
they have lately acquired and on
which they now have installed
large hydraulic outfits.
The Peters Creek property has
been operated for the past two
years successfully and the Bird
Creek claims purchased by Chris
Hammerschmidt last summer is
being equipped with a large hy
draulic plant and will be in oper
ation by July 15 ,it is expected and
the results it is hoped will net
the investors a good return. They
have invested several thousands of
Outside capital for plants, lumber
for flumes, caterpillars and hy
draulic equipment.
They are employing some 30
men at a good wage and have a
very promising outlook and a good ;
chance for a bonanza, according to j
Talkeetna residents.
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A pretty little wedding was sol- j
emnized at Talkeetna June 1 7j
when Raymond Albert Kapusta, of
Yentna, was united in marriage to
Miss Mary Alice Ross, late of Hay
fork, Calif. The ceremoy took place
at the palatial home of Thos. P.
Weatherell and the witnesses were
Geo. T. McMahon and Mr. Wether
ell. H. W. Nagley, U. S. Commis
sioner officiated at the ceremony.
The bride is a charming Miss of
21 years and recently arrived at
Talkeetna from California where |
she taught school
Mr. Kapusta arrived at Talkeet
na from Redding, Calif., in March
and is installing a dredge on Cache
Creek in the Yentna district. He
met the bride on her arrival at
Talkeetna and the romance wras
culuminated in the happy mar
riage. The newlyweds left the next
day for Yentna where it is expect
ed that the old dredges of the
Cache Creek Mining Co., will be j
ready for operation by July 15,!
i>y the new firm of Frank J. En
ilehorn and Co., who have leased
he whole of Cache Creek from J. j
2. Murray.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Washington 6, Cleveland 7.
Philadelphia 3, Chicago 3.
New York 9, Detroit 8.
Boston 5, St. Louis 4.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Cincinnati 2, Brooklyn 11.
St. Louis 0, Boston 1.
Pittsburgh at New York, two
games, both postponed because of
rain.
Chicago at Philadelphia, rain.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
San Francisco 6, Los Angeles 7.
Oakland 12, Portland 6; 11-in
nings.
Hollywood 5, Missions 4.
MANY APPLICATIONS
WASHINGTON, June 28. —Ap
plication blanks for loans from
the Federal Public Works fund
are being made rapidly with the
administration ready to aid cities,
counties and private agencies all
eager for a share in the $3,000,000,
000 fund. Administrative machin
ery must be set up, however, before
the loans can be made and this
detail awaits the return of Presi
dent Roosevelt to Washington to
set things in motion immediately.
HIGHER BREAD BILL
WASHINGTON, June 28. —The
bread bill of United States con
sumers will be increased potent
ially by $150,000,000 for the year |
starting July 8 .On each bushel
of wheat for ground flour a pro
cessing tax of 30 cents will be levi
ed to provide funds with which to
pay cash benefits to farmers who
agree to reduce their acreage for
harvest in the 1934 and 1935 crops.
BLISTERING HEII
CONTINUES MID-U. S.
KANSAS CITY. Mo. June 28. —
A blistering heat wave, that has
broken all endurance records in
the mid-continent area, continued
its assault Tuesday.
In a few sections of the vast
area, cooling rains brought tem
porary relief from excessive tem
peratures, but their duration and
extent were problematical.
Livestock in all sections were
reported still suffering from the
heat and the crop loss percentage
was continuing to rise.
ROQUE ISLAND, Maine, June 28.
—Fog yesterday held the Amber
jack II, with President Roosevelt
aboard, a prisoner in this bleak
and isolated spot. The mist rolling
in from the ocean for the past 36
hours, gave indications of holding
on until today.
Mr. Roosevelt, meanwhile, de- j
voted his time to resting, spin
ning yarns of the sea with his
sons, Franklin, Jr., and John, and
catching up on pressing official
busiess.
He aw'aited the arrival of the
destroyer Bernadeu from Boston
bringing Norman H. Davis, chief of!
the American delegation to the
Disarmament Conference at Gen-.1
eva. for a discussion of the world
peace situation.
HOI WILL 'SIITPOF'
SHKE» Sirs SEEHESS
NEW YORK, June 28- —Primo
Camera will win from Jack Shar
key by an “outpop” in the 12th
round, according to Mme. Lucre
zia Dunbar, the world seeress of
Sixth Avenue.
Mme. Dunbar, who predicted
that Baer would beat Schmeling
by a “knockaway,” was eating corn
on the cob in her saloon under
the elevated train tracks. After
one dollar had been laid on the
line, the good madame launched
into an apology. “It was a mis
take I made,” she said, “when I
predicted Baer would win by a
knockaway. I have since been read
ing up on box fightin’ and I know
it was an outpop and not a knock
away.”
NON-NAZI RESIGNS
BERLIN, June 28. —Guiding his
government through its first great
crisis with ruthlessly cool preci
sion, Chancellor Adolf Hitler Tues
day drew a resignation from Al
fred Hugenburg, outstanding non
Nazi member of is cabinet.
STEELE IS VICTOR
SEATTLE, June 28. — Freddie
Steele, young welterweight of Tac
oma, won one of the most import
tant victories of his short boxing
career here Tuesday night when
he scored a decision over Eddie
Ran, hard punching New Yorker.
Steele weighed 150 pounds and
Ran 147.25.
FIINCE MUST EITHER
CHUPEN III «C
LONDON, June 28. —Hope has
been abandoned for Britain’s stab
ilizing with Europe and will com
pel France to either go off the
gold standard or to cheapen the
Franc to meet dollar competition.
Expers said that the British,
however, indicated anxiety re
garding her monetary position and
expressed a fear that unless some
action were taken that some of the
European gold countries might be
forced off the gold standard.
Word that Estonia was abandon
ing gold certainly did not alleviate
the uneasiness in Europe.
Meanwhile, a paradox walked in
to the World Economic Conference
on a pair of stilts in the form of
Chicago dollar wheat and the West
ern American drought reports. This
turned the delegates into talking
about the possible need for an
other world conference to increase
production to cut prices. On the
contrary the cutting of production
and increasing of prices is among
the main objective of the present
parley.
Booming wheat prices and pre
dictions of the smallest American
wheat crop in years causes con
ference lobbies to discuss the pro
bability of a recurrence of the Eg
yptian e.rperience of s e v e n fat
years followed by seven lean ones.
As a result the wheat countries
were unable to agree on how to get
rid of more than 350,000,000 bushels
of excess grain and decided to
adjourn and attempts to deal with
overproduction will await the ac
tion of providence.
M1TTERN SEARCHERS
EESIfE NEW YORK IN
TWO OB THREE BITS
NEW YORK, June 28. — Irving
Friedman, Brooklyn brewer, an
nounced that the expedition to
search for James Mattern, missing
round-the-world flier, would leave
here within two or three days.
Mr. Friedman said that the ex
pedition, which he is financing
will use a Bellanca monoplane in
its flights from a base at Nome.
Mattern’s representatives said
they had been informed that it
would be impractical for Captain
Frank Hawks, speed flier, to as
sist in the search for Mattern.
At Chicago, Bennett Griffin, a
flying partner of the missing avia
tor in a former world flight at
tempt, said that rescue parties will
probably find Mattern’s body hang
ing at the end of a fish pole at
some place in the Northern islands
as Mattern went prepared with
fishing tackle and live pounds of
salt.
DISMISS “GEODUCKS”
WASHINGTON, June 28. —“The
Prohibition Bureau will dismiss
more than 1,300 employees at the
end of this week effecting an an
nual saving of $4,000,000,” Attorney
General Cummings said yesterday.
BE FURLOUGHED
SEATTLE, June 28. —Indefinite
furloughs will be given Maurice
Smith, former Northwest prohibi
tion administrator. Orders have al
so been received to furlough the
prohibition administrators in Ore
gon and Idaho but no instructions
have been received as to what will
be done with William Vinacke, ag
ent in charge of the Alaska div
sion.