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VOLUME XVI. NUMBER 137. SEWARD, ALASKA, . SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 1931. PRICE TEN CENTS
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DECISIS OF COURT
It BE BOOMERANG
FOR COBPOBITION
NEW YORK. June 20. l^P)—'The
recent court decisions in connec
tion with the legal difficulties
through which Radio Corporation
of America is passing may prove
to be important in the affairs of
the International Telephone and
Telegraph Company.
The Radio Corporation may not
obtain a renewal of some of its
wave lengths.
Should there be such a develop
ment. the final outcome would be
decidedly beneficial to Interna
tional Telephony which has the
only worldwide radio communica
tion system and with which the
Radio Corporation is at present
in active competition, in the opin
ion, of R. V. Hiscoe & Co.
ECONOMIC PROBLEM
IUTHOBITY, DSDSON.
SEES jETTEB TIMES
NEW YORK, June 20. (/P>—: Ro
ger W. Babson, authority on econ
omic problems, is willing to stake
his reputation that business has
seen its worst.
In a letter to newspapers and
advertising executives attending
the convention of the Advertising
Federation of America, he said:
"The recovery will be slow and
tedious, but the old law of action
and reaction teaches now that un
paralleled prosperity will again
follow the depression.”
HIGH TEMPER* HOE
CHICAGO, June 20. (JP) — The
middlewest is sun stricken. More
than a dzen deaths from heat have
been counted and the drowning toll
has mounted to 11 as the people
sought relief at packed beaches and
resorts.
Rain and windstorms brought re
lief to scetions of Minnesota, Iowa,
Wiconsin. The rest of thse Missis
sippi Valley from OITIo to Oklahoma
was seared by temperatures ranging
from 95 to above a 100.
Tornadic wnds strucki scattered
parts of Minnesota causing wide
spread prosperity damage. There
was no loss of life.
RENO, Nev., June 20. (/P>—Neva
da’s new six-week’s divorce law
has virtually tripled Reno’s divorce
business, a survey indicated.
Filings in the first six weeks of
operation of the speedy separation
measure, has averaged 120 a week,
while in 1930 an average of only
40 decrees a week were granted.
Between 800 and 1000 persons
were reported residents of the
Reno divorce colony with more
pouring in daily.
95 DECREES GRANTED
RENO, Nev., June 20. (/P)—Amaz
ing Reno, accustomed to the spec
tacular, was herself amazed when
| her two district judges granted
195 decrees to clear the most con
jgested calendar in the history of
i local divorce courts.
IRSfUliSiT IS
GRIPPING SIX SMS
; III THE NORTHWEST
| WASHINGTON, D. C., June 20.
! (/P)—The Weather Bureau said a
[drought worse than the blistering
| dryness of last year has gripped
| the Northwest from Wisconsin to
i the Pacific.
Much of the wheat and other
; crops were said to be beyond re
| covery and thq prospects for relief
. from rain slight. The situation
was said to be serious in western
Dakota and eastern sections of
Montana, in Oregon and Washing
ton.
; In at least six states the lack
of rainfall this spring has exceed
ed the lack of moisture last year.
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PLANE CRASH FATAL
RENO, Nev., June 20. (/P)—Mak*
ing his second solo flight in as
many days, Allen Dar, a prominent j
local Chinese merchant and an i
officer of the Chinese Nationalist j
party, was killed near here when
his plane suddenly crashed to the ;
ground.
CARDS ON THE TABLE
WASHINGTON, D. C„ June 20.
i/P»—The United States govern
ment laid before the world, com
plete records of its military
strength and suggested that all
other powers give similar pub
licity to their armaments.
Secretary of State Stimsoji not
only made the data public here j
but asked the League of Nations j
to whom the full report was sub
mitted, to give full and immediate j
distribution and publicity as to:
the condition of the United States i
land, sea and air forces.
IDS ANGELES. MYSTERY
LOS ANGELES, June 20. (/P)—
Police were investigating the
bombing of the home of Frank
D. Crowley, Los Angeles and San
Francisco food manufacturer and'
sportsman.
The bomb, which exploded in
the driveway, shattered windows
in the Crowley house and others
nearby. Crowley said he knew
of no enemies.
CREATED SENSATION
LONDON, June 20. (£>) —Hoover’*
statement created a sensation in
London and added to the interest
as to the reason for Mellon’s pre
sence. Newspapers featured the
new under arrestng headlines in
dicating that it is considered that
any action taken by the United
States is to have a far-reaching con
sequences.
HOOVER'S M iV
BE MORATORIUM
GERMAN DEBTS
PRESIDENT WILL GO INTO A
“HUDDLE” WITH POLITICAL
LEADERS SOON
WASHINGTON, June 20. (S>) —
Hoover’s plan to help Germany was
announced Friday and is awaited
as the possible and next step in
combatting the world business
slump.
Hoover indicated that he would
hold further conferences with pol
itical leaders before bringing to
mataurity his proposals which he
said would be designed to speed up
the economic improvement of the
United States and abroad, especially
Germany.
Among the steps which some per
sisted might be taken were the au
thorizing a delay in Germany’s
meeting her obligations as to her
war debts and repration loans to
help Germany through her finan
ancial straits.
Hoover did not state specifically
what his plans were.
WILL NEK PAYS
FINE TRIBUTE TO LATE
PRESIDENT HARDING
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., June
20. (JP)—Will Rogers said, “Mighty
glad to see Mr. Hoover and Mr.
Coolidge finally, after years of
delay, go out and dedicate the
Harding memorial.
“Too bad they waited till Ohio
looked politically doubtful and the
odd thing about it is that they
both owe their presidency to this
man’s death. If he had lived, one
would have retired merely as a
cabinet member and the other as
just another ex-vice president.
“Harding was the most human
of any of our late presidents.
There was more of the every day
man in him. If he had a weak
ness, it was in trusting his friends
and the man that don’t do that,
then there is something the matter
with him.
“Sho nuff. Betrayed by friends
is not a bad trait.”
GILIFORNIINS URGING
EXTUI SESSION FOR
•‘PROSPERITY LOAN"
SAN FRANCISCO, June 20. (JP)—
Further appeals to President Hoo
ver to call an extra session of Con
gress to consider William Ran
dolph Heart’s $5,000,000,000 “pros
perity loan” are being made by
California’s Congressmen and Sen
ator Samuel Shortridge.
As the loan suggestion gathers
impetus throughout the country,
California’s delegation of repre
sentatives and junior senator each
urge the extra session, declaring
that a countrywide program of
important works was the only an
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SALVAGE ABANDOONED
CHEFOO, China, June 20. (£>)—
It was understood here that op
erations for salvaging the sunken
British submarine Posiedon off
Wei Haiwe had been abandoned
upon orders from the British Ad
miralty.
GREAT BUILDING FOR
SIN FRANCISCO IS
MED NEAR FUTURE
SAN FRANCISCO, June 20. (JP)—
A 30-story downtown building,
equipped with the most up to date
facilities for broadcasting west of
New York, will be built in San
Francisco in the near future by
the Natinal Broadcasting Com
pany.
This was the announcement here
following a conference between
Chamber of Commerce represen
tatives and Don Gilman, vice
president and general manager of
NBQ on the Pacific Coast. Gilman
outlined a great development pro
gram for radio on the West Coast.
RADIOS PROFANE LANGUAGE
PORTLAND, June 20. (/P)—Rob
| ert Gordon Duncan, anti-chain
store speaker and unsuccessful
'candidate for Congress from Ore
gon, was committed to the Federal
j ward of the county jail here to
serve a six months sentence for
using indecent and profane lan
j guage over a radio station here.
;new war gis is
BERLIN, June 20. (JP)—A sen
j sational new war gas, capable of
i bringing fighting airplanes down
from the skies through its effect
on the motor, has been discovered
by German scientists,
j The gas, it is claimed, will stop
: airplanes materially if the motor
I comes in contact with the fumes.
The gas was discovered by the
noted German scientist Prof. Karl
Hofman, head of the chemical de
partment, Berlin University.
MAY ATTEMPT PLAGE
BOURBON J THRONE
MADRID, June 20. (/P)—Several
evening papers, among them the
Heraldo of Madrid, printed ru
mors that General Maritnez Anido,
former Captain General of Bar
i celona, is on his way to the Prov
ince of Navarre to head an army
in an attempt to place Jaime de
Bourbon on the throne of Spain.
General Anido was Captain Gen
eral of Barcelona under the Mon
archy. He is facing prosecution
by the present government.
WARM APPRECIATION
BERLIN, June 20. (JP) — President
Hoover’s assumption of the initia
tive in an attempt to assist Ger
many was greeted with the warmest
of appreciation in German political
circles. As the full significance is
somewhat meager press reports to
Washington made known that a
spirit of bouyancy which has been
unknown for weeks now exists
among the cabinet members.
LIBOR DISPUTE OVER
REDUCTION IN ICES
HOLTS DOIT SAILING
j WELLINGTON, N. Z., June 20.
I(^P>—A labor dispute over the pro
| posed 10 per cent reduction of the
fwage scale throughout New Zea
land delayed the sailing of the
Union steamship Makura for San
Francisco.
At the same time shipping
throughout the country was threat
ened with labor troubles as a re
sult of the recent imposition of the
reduction. The crew of the Ma
kura refused to go to sea after
they had been notified of the
proposed wage cuts.
Officials of the Union Lines ex
pressed the hope that an agree
ment could be reached which
I would permit the Makura to sail.
'BONENEID' STUNT
FEATURES BOM
BOUT EOS INCEEES
LOS ANGELES, June 20. (/Pj— An
j unidentified and very excited sec
! ond at the East Side Stadium box
| ing bouts recently became eligible
to join that small group known
as ‘‘boneheads.”
Tommy Santos, a preliminary
fighter, dropped into his chair at
the end of the third round of mill
I ing with Martin Zundica. The
second hurriedly shoved a bottle
j to Santo’s lips. The fighter took
a huge swallow, and that was the
t end of the fight.
The bottle did not contain water.
; It was filled with smelling salts
in solution.
Zandica won when Santos was
unable to continue.
ACTION DE TAKEN
DEVISE REPARATIONS
BERLIN, June 20. (/P)—Steps will
i be taken as soon as possible to
I obtain a revision of the Young
I reparations plan, Chancellor Hein
| rich Bruening and two of his cab
! inet members told the German
people in political addresses.
They also declared that the
emergency tax decrees just pro
| mulgated were absolutely neces
isary to balance the country’s bud
; get.
i GROWLING IND DURING
DEMI SHOT WITK CAMERA
j KETCHIKAN, June 20, (/P) —
While her husband and guides stood
by their guns ready to take a hand
in case the bear got a change of
heart Mrs Oliver Wolcott, wife of
the vice-president of the First Na
: tional Bank of Boston, stood with
in 40 feet of an Alaskan brown bear
and cranked a motion picture cam
era.
This incident was reported as
Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Wolcott passed
thru here last night wit^ their
party en route home.
They also said that the bear
reared and growled but did not
offer to come nearer.