VOLUME XXIX. NUMBER 182.
MEMBER
PRESS
SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 1933.
PRICE TEN CENTS
EVANGELIST WAS
TO PREACH FROM
, VAUDEVILLE STAGE
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 5. —Aimee
Semple Mcpherson Hutton, Evan
gelist of Angelus Temple, will al
ow her songster husband David L.
Huton. to obtain a divorce by de
faut, she said yesterday.
Previously the Evangelist had
threatened to contest Hutton’s suit
j and tell plenty.
For a while it was rumored that
the Evangelist would bring the
Four-Square gospel to the vaude
ville stage. It was planned to have
an anouncement made at the close
of each performance saying that
Aimee Mcpherson was to appear
, on the same stage immediately and
that there would be no additional
charge for her part of the perfor
mance.
# Aimee yesterday revealed a
change of plans regarding the pro
j e c t e d vaudeville tour. Although
stating previously that she would
accept an offer to preach in thea
tres at $8,.500 a week she said that
‘the Temple elders agreed it would
be an opportunity to reach hun
dreds of thousands of people with
sermons but I’ve dismissed the pro
position entirely.”
UNABLE TO APPEAR
HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 5. —Kather
me Carver, movie actress, was un
able to appear at the divorce hear
ing in her suit against Adolphe
Menjou, her husband. Her physician
said she was ill. ,
COLLEGE PAPER
BE CENSORED
RIGIDLY,FUTURE
f SEATTLE. Aug. 5. —The Univer
sity of Washington’s daily publica
tion, hereafter, will be more rigid
ly censored, it was indicated when
President Hugo Winkemverder yes
terday anounced that Dean Vernon
McKenzie, head of the School of
Journalism at the University, would
have full authority over the publi
cations.
> Up until now the authority has
been vested in the directors of the
Associated Students of the Univer
sity of Washington.
Publication of the Summer edition
of the newspaper was temporarily
suspended yesterday when Athletic
Director Franklin, of the Associated
Students, objected to a front page
editorial submitted for publication
by Nelson Cheny, Summer editor.
Cheny refused to publish the news
paper without the editorial and it
was necessary to remove his name
from the masthead before the paper
could be published.
CALIFORNIA CITY
GIVES SUPPORT
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 5. —Pet
aluma was the first California city
to announce a 100 per cent enroll
ment of employers in the National
Recovery Act movement, the head
quarters of the campaign announc
ed yesterday.
X California continued to lead the
nation in pledging support of the
Administration’s recovery campaign
with San Francisco far ahead of all
other cities, according to reports.
Called to Long Beach. Calif., on
account of the illness of her mo
ther, Mrs. E. Balls, arrived from
Anchorage last evening to embark
on the SS. Aleutian for Seattle.
Mr. Balls, disbursing agent, Alaska
Railroad, accompanied his wife to
Seward, returning to Anchorage on
today’s train.
BACK AT CARTWRIGHT
CARTWRIGHT, Labrador, Aug. 5.
—The Lindberghs were back here
last night from a several day trip
through Greenland and Baffin
land. No word was heard from
them for several days and it was
almost feared that all was not well.
Upon their arrival here, however,
the Lindberghs explained that
something had gone ‘ haywire” with
their radio.
SHORT TRADERS
GET WORRIES FOR
THIS WEEK-END
NEW YORK, Aug. 5. — The sud
den suspension of trading on the
New York Stock Exchange Friday,
after two tear gas bombs had been
released over the Exchange floor,
interrupted a late rally and the
market closed fractions to two
points lower. The market was
dull. Up to noon 500,000 shares were
exchanged.
The tickers idled. Then suddenly,
shortly after 12 o’clock, the tickers
stopped. A slight rally had been in
effect as short traders began cov
ering for the long w'eek end.
Trading officially v;as suspend
ed at 12:10 p m.
The sudden closing brought a
week end of worry for the short
traders. Tine ordinary practice is
for them to utilize the last couple
of hours of the last day’s ses
sion to cover their commitments
over the week-end.
GANDHI BEHIND BARS
POONA, India, Aug. 5. —Mahatma
Gandhi, released from jail so that
he could be given a chance to see
whether he would continue his civil
disobedience campaign, was back
in jail last night when he continued
his opposition to the British govern
ment. He has been sentenced to
serve a year in jail.
CHANGE OF ROUTE
IS CONSIDERED BY
ITALIAN ARMADA
SHOAL HARBOR. N. F. Aug. 5. —
Continued reports of fog over the
Valentia Islands, on the route from
Shoal Harbor to Ireland, has caus
ed General Italo Balbo to consider
a change of route for his Italian
air armada on their return flight
to Italy .
Balbo is having his supply ships
go south and land provisions and
fuel at the Azores Islands so that
he can make the flight from Shoal
Harbor to Lisbon, Portugal, via the
Azores.
He expects that he will be able
to start the flight from Shoal Har
jbor on August 10 if the weather is
j favorable.
SEEK DETAILS
LONDON, Aug. 4. —The British
government has instructed its am
bassador at Constantinople to learn
the reason why A. V. Lander, with
the English A. V. Vickers Company
in Turkey, was ordered to leave
that country. England recently had
trouble with Russia owing to some
difficulties arising from the Vick
ers’ electrical companies employees
[and the Soviet government. It is
[understood that Lander is in Bul
garia at the present time.
John Parsons, chief of police at
Anchorage, and Mrs. Parsons and
daughter, leave on the SS. Aleu
tian on their way to the States
for a six week’s vacation.
NOTICE
Power will be shut off tomorrow
(Sunday) from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Seward Light & Power Co.
HOLIDAY ON
STRIKES MAY
BE DECLARED
WASHINGTON, AOg. 5. —Hugh
S Johnson, administrator of the
National Industry Recovery Asso
ciation let it be known Friday af
ternoon that 14 days of grace will
be allowed those firms who have
not yet signified their intention of
cooperating with the government
by accepting the National Recovery
Act blanket code or drawing up
one of their own suitable to the
administration. Johnson said, how
ever, that after this period of grace
was up that it would be a dead
certainty that the teeth of the law
would be used to line up the recal
citrant minority.
In explaining .the reason for the
period of grace Johnson said that
he did not consider it wise to at
tempt to force businesses to adopt
I anything which they felt would
not be satisfactory but said he
hoped that the two-week period
| would prove to them the benefits
■of cooperation. Johnson has not re
ceived word from Henry Ford yet
| as to whether he will support the;
auto industry code.
The coat and suit code was said
to be ready and would be sent to
Washington immediately; the steel!
.code was expected to be ready in a
jfew days; and the oil industry code
i was in the process of being drawn
i up.
i Johnson said that the success
! of the National Industrial Recovery
Association had gone beyond his
expectations but that he was still
mot entirely satisfied with the re
sults. In speaking of the achieve
ments so far he said that it was
still too early to tabulate the re
sults of this greatest social experi
ment.
Acting to end the Pennsylvania
coal strike that threatens the en
tire National Recovery Act program,
President Roosevelt had or d e r e d
General Johnson to speed a settle
ment. It was intimated that a mora
torium on all strikes w'as to be pro
posed as another of the National
Recovery Act provisions and if such
la measure is adopted it is certain
that the Pennsylvania, and other
strikes will be temporarily halted.
Johnson left Washington by air
plane yesterday afternoon for Hyde
Park to discuss the moratorium
with President Roosevelt.
The steel industry, with bunkers
depleted of coal, almost hailed the
strike moratorium as it will mean
ithat the miners will get back to
jwork and their coal will again be
; arriving.
YOUTH CONFESSES
TO FIEND MURDER
I LOS ANGELES, Aug. 5. —Police
; here are virtually certain that Phil
ip Edward, the 19-year old confes
sed slayer of seven-year old Dal
bert Aposhian, is really the fiend
murderer despite the denial the boy
made to officers in front of his
mother.
The boy told police that he den
ied the killing because he di'd not
I “want her to know it.”
The body of Dalbert Aposhian
(was found in San Diego bay' re
cently and indications were that the
jboy had died from the tortures of
j multiple mutilating operations.
NOT UP TO RATIO
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 5. —
Competion of the United States
Navy building program will give
American parity with the British
fleet but will fail to retain to its
five to three ratio over the Japanese
fleet, a Navy Department report
showed.
DIPLOMATIC RUMORS
LONDON, Aug. 5. — A London
newspaper said editorially that the
Soviet Government has promised
the United States colonial privi
leges in Russia in Exchange for dip
lomatic recognition. The newspaper
said it had received its informa
tion, in part, from a Soviet news
paper.
GREAT DANE DOG
GRIEVED OVER
LOSS OF MASTER
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 5. —Dan,
the great Dane, whose howls dis
closed the suicide of Major Archi
bald Johnson, son of Senator John
son, ,h,ad followed his master in
death.
Within only several hours after
his master’s suicide the giant dog
was found dying in a field near
the Johnson home at Hillsborough.
A women put a blanket over him
and carried him some water. A
veterinarian was called from San
Francisco but Dan was past aid.
The late major’s servants said
that Dan grieved himself to death
over the loss of nis master whose
devoted pal he was.
The great Dane, nearly four feet
tall, had been ill last October. Maj.
Johnson bought poison thinking
to end the dog’s suffering. The
poison bottle was by his side unused
when Mr. Johnson died.
BASEBALL SCORES
-1- '
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Chicago 2, Detroit 3.
Only games scheduled
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Brooklyn 1-0, Boston 4-3.
New York 18„ Philadelphia 1.
St. Louis 4, Pittsburgh 5.
No other games scheduled.
WILEY POST IS
BACK HOME
IN OKLAHOMA
OKLAHOMA CITY, Aug. 5. —
Aviator Wiley Post was back home
yesterday, having flown from New
York City in the Winnie Mae, the
plane ir. which he has just flown
around the world.
Post made a perfect landing at
the flag-draped municipal airport
shortly after five o’clock and receiv
ed a great welcome from his
townsmen and his parents and
wife.
He was greeted by the mayor of
Oklahoma City and driven down
J,own in an automobile which had
been presented to him by New
York admirers. Later he was a guest
at the Oklahoma City Chamber of
Commerce banquet given in his
honor.
Today Post was to fly to Tulsa and
other Oklahoma cities.
TO COMBAT CRIME
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 5. —
Prof. Raymond Moley, Assistant
Secretary of State in the Roosevelt
Cabinet, is continuing his plans for
a United States Scotland yard to
combat racketeers, particularly kid
nappers.
ON INSPECTION TRIP
Col. G. E. Kumpe, head of the
Washington - Alaska communica
tions System, arrived in Seward on
the SS. Aleutian today and con
tinued on to the Interior on this
afternoon’s train. The Colonel is
making an official trip of inspec
tion. He visited the local office.
Members of the Fuller Brush or
chestra left today for Anchorage.
ALTITUDE RECORD
AND KNOWLEDGE
SOUGHT IN ASCENT
CHICAGO, Aug. 5- — America’s
stratosphere balloon with Lieut.
Commander T. W. G. Settle at the
helm took off this morning at 3:03
o’clock in an effort to break all
previous altitude records.
Atmospheric conditions which de -
layed the start of the daring as
cent to a height of some 60,000
feet above the earth’s surface be
came favorable yesterday for the
first time in more than a month.
Commander Settle, alone, is mak -
ing the ascension which has for
its purpose the clarification of s.
scientific controversy regarding the
nature of the cosmic ray.
More than 100,000 persons crowd
ed Soldier’s Field to watch the pre -
parations and start of the flight
The great ballon was more than
15 stories high when it was filled
with the powerful lifting gas. The
globular gondola in which Comdr
Settle occupied is a seven foot metal
ball and was painted white on top
and black on its underside. This
was done because of the heat ab
sorbent qualities of colors.
Before going aloft Comdr. Settle
received the plaudits of the huge
gathering
Dr. Auguste Piccard, the noted
i Swiss ballonist, was on hand to
'give the Commander every assist
I ance. Mrs. Settle was one of the
1 last to bid adieu to her husband.
i , M ,
PRACTICAL JOKER
PLANTED A BOMB
STOCK EXCHANGE
WASHINGTON, Aug. 5. —While
i brokers were frantically dealing in.
] stocks on the New York Stock Ex
i change yesterday one of t h e
; members happened to look away
; from the quotation board and stock
tickers and glanced toward,
the ceiling- He saw a white cloud
of smoke and did not know what
lit was. He called others’ attention
j to the cloud and some one shouted
Ithat it was ammonia.
A hurried exit was immediately
made by the brokers and the tick
ing tickers and stock trading was
suspended. Everyone was out of the
Exchange room within three min
utes.
I Police, with gas-masks, immed
iately went in to investigate. They
found that the fumes were not am
monia but tear gas. It was believed
that some practical joker placed the
bombs in the room ventilators.
ATTORNEY SEEKS
BE PARDONED
* *
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 5. —Asa
Keyes, former Los Angeles district
attorney, who served a San Quen
tin prison term for bribery, called
on Superior Judge Edward I. But
ler, in San Rafael yesterday as the
first step in a campaign for his
pardon by Governor James Rolph.
“Keyes called on me unannounced
land asked me if I would write a
lletter to the Governor recommend
;ing pardon,” Judge Butler disclos
jed. “I told him I would do so.”
Joe Beudreau, son of the Anch
orage wholesaler, departs on the*
SS. Aleutian for the South on his
way to San Francisco and the Uni
versity of Santa Clara where he
will continue his studies. Joe will
graduate as a full-fledged electri
cal engineer.
Mrs. Harry Morton, wife of the
Anchorage attorney, and daughter
Myrtle, were arrivals last evening.