VOLUME XXIX. NUMBER 148.
SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, JUNE 26, 1933.
PRICE TEN CENTS
MOOSE PISS-HOPE
Moose Pass was the busiest spot
• J5n Southwestern Alaska S u n d a y j
when the annual railroad excur-:
sion was the magnet which drew.
65 people from Seward and 166
from Anchorage.
Seven automoiles from Anchor
age were shipped to the Pass and
these, together with all available
Pass C2rs. conveyed the majority
over the splendid 45-mile high
way to Sunrise and Hope.
\ Others dropped off at various
kikes and rivers to spend the day
picnicing and fishing, •while a few
remained at the Pass station hik
ing, boating, or visiting friends.
Some fishermen boarded speed
boats to be whisked in 10-minutes
to Grant Creek where trout were
the lure.
Under the supervision of Road
^ Supt. Jack Ebing, B. P. R., safety
signs had. the day previous, been
placed along the road for the
benefit of motorists, most of
whom were driving over the well
kept highway for the first time
and the precautionary measure
was greatly appreciated. It per
mitted the visitors to enjoy to the
fullest the grandeur of the entire
district and the eve r-changing
scenic beauties. As far as the road
^pas concerned, it is doubtful if
there can be found a better, or
better maintained one, than the
Moose Pass-Hope highway.
The excursionists began to strag
gle back to the station at 6 p.m.i
when again the small community
^presented a scene of activity oc
curing but once a year. At 7:30
the trains left for Anchorage and
Seward, taking home tired, but
happy people and it was with re
gret that residents of the Pass bid
them goodbye. They enjoyed the
brief stay of the scores of visit
ors as much as the excursionists
did their journey through the mag
nificent country which lies at Sew
ard’s back-door.
Among the Seward people join
ing Sunday’s excursion to Moose
Pass were L. V. Ray, Carl Almy,
Ruth Prosser, Mr. and Mrs. Aaron
Ericson, Fred C. Miller, Elbert
Kunz, Mi’, and Mrs. Bob Johnson
and family, Mr. and Mrs. William
Shellhorn, Mr. and Mrs- Gus Man
,hey, Guy Manthey, Mr. and Mrs.
v H. J. Amend and family, Nick Ho
dak, Clara Skinner, Dick Reed,
Charles Cameron, Jr.. Mr. and Mrs.
Walter Steinauer and son, George
Laughlin, Mr. and Mrs. John Os
strom, Mr. and Mrs. Foster Single
ton. Frances Horton, Mrs. Andrew
Horton, Margaret Courtland, Wil
liam Courtland, John Salit, Mr.
and Mrs. Jimmy Hughes, Mr. Lind
sey, and Elmer McNamee
There were several more persons
from Seward but their names
could not be recalled.
„ -■ - • ■ ■ —
aged millionaire denies
HE IS GETTING TO BE SOFT
CINCINNATI, June 26. —An or
v der went out from the dusty and
paper cluttered desk of William P.
D e v o u, 76, eccentric millionaire,
which amounted to a gift of $185,
000 to 2,000 negro families living
in 450 dwellings.
Mr. Devou cancelled that sum in
back rents and then said that
“this doesn’t mean that I am get
ting soft in my old age.”
MARRIED, EH!
PARIS, June 26. — The news
paper L’lntransigeant carried an
exclusive story saying that Charles
tChaplin had been secretly married
no Paulette Goddard on a ship off
*Los Angeles on June 1.
MARRIAGE RUMORS
LOS ANGELES, June 26. —Ef
forts were being made to reach
Charlie Chaplin, screen comedian,
concerning the latest rumors of;
his marriage- Studio official^ deniedj
the report saying it has frequently j
been made in the past Ind as:
frequently refuted.
SOW IK PUHMK !
GEfflUL REVISION OF
FEDEOIl Til IIIIIS
WASHINGTON, June 26. — A
general revision of the federal
taxation laws to remove the pre
sent inequalities and to bring them
i nline with the fast changing ec
onomic conditions of today will
be presented to the next Congress,
it was learned.
Drastic changes in financial con
ditions and in the lives of many
citizens, as well as the tapping of
new tax resources through the
possible repeal of the 18th Amend-1
ment, have caused House and Sen
ate committees to take up the
question of a revision of tax laws.
Present tax laws, according to
government officials, are obnoxious
and have fallen short by billions
of dollars to meet the federal gov-:
ernment’s expenditures. A number
of alternate tax plans are being
drafted at concurrent meetings of
the subcommittees of the House
Appropriations Committee and the
Senate. Finance committee in clos
ed sessions. None of them can be
considered as definite, however, un
til such uncertainties as govern
ment revenue over the next few
months and possible repeal of
the 18th Amendment are removed.
Among the general proposals now
under discussion are widening of
the present nuisance taxes as those
on automobile tires, gasoline and
mechanical refurbishings. a low
rate general sales tax, a raising
of exemptions on personal income
taxes, and the elimination of du
plication of federal and state taxes.
j PARIS, June 26. — The French
Chamber of Deputies approved a
wheat subsidy plan by a vote of ■
! 530 to 35 and dealth a drastic;
1 blow at international trade; a blow|
j which is expected to have grave j
! repercussions among the delegates
to the World Economic Conference1
at London.
The provisions of the bill are
that foreign imports of wheat into
France are forbidden even under
the present temporary admission
plan which is abolished. This
means that France is unlikely to;
: import a single bushel of wheat
for at least a year.
A bonus of approximately one
! dollar a bushel is granted to|
French wheat exporters. The legal
price of wheat in France is 115
Francs ($4.90) a quintal (3.67 bu
shels). This is $1.33 a bushel.
Anyone who sells or buys wheat
at a lower price is liable to pro
secution. Owners of 10 quintals or
more of wheat flour must declare
whether it is domestic or foreign.
A credit of 400,000,000 Francs
with which to operate this scheme
has been created.
The bill has been sent to the
Senate and an early vote was ex
pected.
E. R. Tarwater, cashier at the
Bank of Alaska at Anchorage, was
an arrival in Seward Saturday on
a gas car nd remained over un
til today.
EVANGILIST’S HUSBAND
GREIITELY PERTURBED BY
NEWS HE IS FATHEH
LOS ANGELES, June 26.—A veryj
perturbed husband, David L. Hut-|
ton paced the floors as he sought
the answer of a cable that indicat
ed his wife Aimee Semple Me- j
Pherson, internationally known!
evangelist, was the mother of a
newly born son.
“It is incredible,” said the ro
tund Hutton, as he wiped his per
spiring brow. “I have reason to
believe it is impossible. It must be
a hoax.” Then he resumed his pac
ing and still clutched in his hand
the cable from Paris which was
| addressed to “Darling Boy,” and
read: ‘Nine pound son doing
i splendidly. Understand press is in
quisitive but am keeping quiet.”
The cable was signed “Wife.”
Hutton claimed that the wrire
must have been sent as a prac
tical joke by someone other than
his evangelistic wife. Nevertheless,
his business manager Harry C.
Brandon, cabled to Mrs. McPher
son Hutton seeking a confirmation
or denial of the information con
tained in the message and took
time to deny reports that the
home life of the evangelist and
her husband had been stormy and
that a divorce might be pending.
AIMEE ADMITS HDAX
j MESSAGE SENT FIND
! OUT HEINS LEAK
PARIS, June 26 —Aimee Semple
Semple McPherson Hutton admit
ted in a hospital Sunday that she
was responsible for the gable to her
husband in California announcing
the birth to them of a son here.
The admission of the hoax was:
made through her surgeon, Dr.'
Henri Bove, who said he sent thej
message himself on the direct sug- ;
gestion of Aimee in an effort to
ascertain how private messages to \
the Angelus Temple leaked out to:
the press and which leaks revealed !
her presence in Paris.
Mrs. Hutton’s condition was still
grave, it was said, after a serious
abdominal operation by the fam
ous gynecologist.
Dr. Bove revealed that the fake
birth message came back to Paris
from America almost, he said, be
fore it could have been delivered
to Hutton in Los Angeles. This en
abled Mrs. Hutton to direct the
inquiry and discover the news leak.
The surgeon, however, refused to
specify how they found the news
leak or what it was by saying
only At was somewhere in thje
United States. I believe a certain
newspaper is responsible.”
U. S. MIT HESORT
TO WHEIT DUMPING
CHICAGO, June 26. —Secretary
of Agriculture Wallace, told the
Miller’s National Federation it was
conceivable that the United States
might resort to dumping its wheat
surplus on the world market, if
other wheat producing nations do
not see light.
It is probable that we will have
the smallest total wheat crop in
a generation this year, Wallace
said, and many of you will ask, why,
worry about a surplus. The prob
lem is deeper than that however.
We still have our 350,000,000 bush
el carrytovek*. a July first crop
and prices on the uptrend. This
means that we have a tremendous
crop next year.
GOOD OLD JACK
ORANGEBURG, N. Y. June 26.
—With refreshing originality, Jack
Sharkey, the heavyweight champ
ion, said despite the scurrilous
and misleading accounts to the
contrary, he is not ready for the
elite laundry-flat work as a spe
cialty.
CHICAGO HID MW
KILLINGS, ROBBERIES
OVER IDE SABBATH
CHICAGO, June 26.—The rob-j
bery of a former boxing champion'
and the arrest of a former state)
official furnished the climax to
day for a major Sunday of crime |
in the Chicago area.
Other unusual crimes of an up- |
roarious Sabbath included the (
shooting to death of a woman by
a man who was accompanied by a i
child; the killing of two persons
after an argument between guests
of two wedding parties; the slay-;
ing of a nightwatchman by burg- |
lars and the arrest of two boys!
charged with trying to hold up an- ,
other boy with a water pistol.
The former champion who wasj
robbed was young Jimmy Corbett,;
of California, who on last May 20:
lost the World’s welterweight title j
to Jimmy McLarnin.
Corbett and his wife started |
back to California in their auto-;
mobile, after seeing the Century1
of Progress Exposition. At the
edge of the city four bandits held j
them up. “I’m Corbejtt,’’ the'
fighter tried to explain to them. I
“Stop kiddin’,” answered one of i
the bandits, ‘don’t take me for a
numbskull. Corbett’s dead.’’
The bandits robbed Corbett and j
his wife of $225 in cash and two
diamond rings worth $500 and then
released them.
Corbett reported to the police
! before continuing his trip to Cal
• fornia.
RENO, Nev. June 26. —For the
second time in 48 hours a strong
earthquake shook this area at 12:47
this morning. Although severe en
ough to break the recording needle
of the University of Nevada seis
mograph, no property damage was
reported from the quake.
Dishes rattled and frightened
citizens ran from their houses.
The tremblor was of shorter dur
ation than the five-minute quake
which rocked this region at noon
Friday. Earth movements of the
old Lovelock fault were blamed
for the two shocks, which were
the strongest felt in Nevada in
several years
SACRAMENTO, June 26. — Two
earthquakes, severe enough to
crack plate glass windows in
downtown stores, rocked Sacramen
to. The first quake wTas felt at
12:50 p. m. and sent Sunday din
ers in downtown restaurants flee
ing in a panic into the streets.
The second shock was of lighter
intensity and occurred some time
later. Other than a number of
cracked windows no property dam
age was reported.
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AMERICAN WINS
HOLY LAKE, Eng., June 26. — |
Presaging a tit’e victory for tnej
United States, George T. Dunlap,
Jr., of New York, swept into the
semi-finals of the British amateur
golf championship by eclipsing R.
H. Hardman, former Lancashire
champion, 5 and 4.
WOMAN IS ONLY
SURVIVOR OF LAKE
MICHIGAN TRAGEDY
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich., June 26.
—The sole survivor of an air trag
edy which cost the lives of her
three companions, including her
husband, Mrs. Margaret Rennie,
was rescued after she had drifted
for 33 hours on the choppy waters
of Lake Michigan.
Mrs. Rennie, very fatigued after
her harrowing exDerience. was
brought here from Frankfort where
the ferry docked after rescuing
her at dusk Friday night.
Less than 48 hours before Mrs.
Rennie had started on a trip by
airplane to Milwaukee when the
ship crashed into the lake. She
clambered aboard an improvised
raft and witnessed the drowning
of her companions, one by one,
as they sank exhausted after cling
ing for hours to the gasoline tank
of the wrecked craft. Then with all
hope of rescue gone she was sight
ed by the lookout of an Ann Har
bor ferry and rescued.
The plane which crashed be
longed to a Mr. Gillette. Early
Thursday morning he took to the
air for a business trip to Milwau
kee. He ran into dense clouds as
he flew over this village and a few
minutes later the plane crashed
into the waters of the lake.
The four survivors fashioned a
life raft from the gasoline tank
of the plane and placing a section
of the broken wings on top they
pushed Mrs. Rennie to the top
of it.
The three men clung to the
edges of the improvised raft as it
tossed about on the choppy wa
ters. The three men held on ten
aciously to the raft all day. To
wards evening Mr. Keller showed
signs of weakening. At midnight
he relaxed his hold upon the raft
and sank. The others, their
j strength spent, were unable to aid
: him.
Mr. Gillette was the next to
weaken and sink.
Words of encouragement from
his wife gave Mr. Rennie strength.
| but finally Friday morning while
his wife looked on Mr. Rennie slip
ped off and sank.
Mrs. Rennie was hysterical and
near complete exhaustion when
rescued. She was given treatment
at Kewaunee but decided to return
to her Traverse City home and
stayed aboard the ferry on its re
turn trip. She is the mother of
| three children.
410 HD SWORDFISH
! HOOKED BY N, Y. WIDOW
NEW YORK, June 26. —A 400
pound broad-bill swordfish that
put up a futile battle lasting 20
hours was displayed by Mrs. Oliver
C. Grinnel, widow of a champion
in her own right.
Mrs. Grinnel hooked the giant
fish off Fire Island when she
caught her hook in the bony struc
ture of the fish’s head.
The fish raced 600 feet before
sounding the first time and then
the fight began. Capt. Walker Ba
ker, master of Mrs. Grinnel’s boat
Oligrin, took over the line part of
the time to allow Mrs. Grinnel a
rest. The fish was played for 20
hours and finally landed.
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The Roycroft-Estes boys and Bob
1 Manthey kept their automobiles
busy Sunday at Moose Pass con
veying visitors to Sunrise and
Hope and to other points along
the great scenic Pass highway.