Excursion Flights to Moose Pass Sunday June 25. Special
Excursion Rate $10.00 round-trip—Woodley Airways.
Tickets on sale at Seward Drug Store and Gateway Office
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VOLUME XXIX. NUMBER 146.
SEWARD, ALASKA,
FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 1933.
PRICE TEN CENTS
DESPERATE BEMUSE
GIRL LOPED DEITR
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HOLLYWOOD. June 23. —Believ
ed to have been desperate over
unemployment, a girl identified as
Viola Nordquist, about 20. jumped
t oher death from the sixth floor
of a department store in the heart
of Hollywood.
The girl had just left a depart- j
» ment of the store where she had;
asked an acquaintance regarding.
work. He told her he would see;
the personnel manager and sug-|
gested that she come back later.'
to her death from the sixth floor
and leaped from a window.
Tn the girl’s pocketbook police
found letters indicating she form
erly was married to Earl Nordquist.,
who apparently was employed in
I* the St. Francis Hotel orchestra, at;
San Francisco, and lived in the
Raymond Apartments, in Oakland.
Earl Nordquist. whose wife Viola,
an attractive blonde, committed
suicide by leaping out of a window
in a Hollywood building, is a ban-1
joist with Jess Stafford's orchestra
at Sweet’s Ballroom. Oakland.
NO TPLANNING DIVORCE
PARIS, June 23. —Aimee Semple!
McPherson Hutton. Los Angeles
* Four Square Gospeler” is in se
clusion in Paris. She has been there
three weeks, it was learned. “Sis
ter Aimee” of Angelus Temple, is
x not planning to divorce David H.
I* Hutton, the 300 pound baritone she
took as husband, from her Temple
choir, it was said.
NEW YORK, June 22. —Profit
taking caused the financial mar
kets to move somewhat lower yes
terday. There were several Issues
which sustained setbacks but these
came after the highest levels of
the New Deal market had been
’ smashed through on the exchange.'
All developments have been con- j
ductive to higher prices but the;
market’s latest whirlwind rise had;
heaped up paper profits that the
traders were eager to cash. Trad
ing in all markets turned quiet
when the trend was downward.
Inflation prospects provided the
impetus for the early rise on the
stock exchange as the dollar broke
while the pound sterling approach
ed $4 20.
Rails were the most prominent
on the exchange. Large blocks of
9 Vacuum, Standard Oil of California,
Ohio Oil and others were turned!
over for new highs for the year.!
of the market. The big industrial;
Later they sold off with the rest,
stocks absorbed considerable profit
taking.
ASSURANCE RECEIVED
SEATTLE, June 23, — Senator
Homer T. Bone, in a telegram to
tne Seattle office of the Associated
Press, said he had received assur
ances that construction of one
of the new vessels in the Navy
building program, will be awarded
the Puget Sound Navy Yard at
Bremerton.
Fred Tracy, well known in Rail
road circles, left on this morning’s
train for Fairbanks.
WELCOME SEATTLE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
A representative delegation of members of the Seat
tle Chamber of Commerce is with us today.
They are on a mission of good will, and incidentally
to further cement the bonds between the Northland and
the Puget Sound metropolis.
To be perfectly frank, the Puget Sound metropolis
is the child of Alaska. Alaska gold built it.
Going further, it may be pointed out that Alaska
commerce has, for three decades been pouring a steady
stream of wealth into Seattle. Last year this commerce,
representing goods purchased in the United States, the
bulk of which came from Seattle, approximated
$28,000,000.
The visitors will find Alaska at the apex of the
commercial curve as it relates to volume, and taking a
slightly downward course. This course will continue on
downward unless some stimulant is offered to halt it.
This stimulant is investing capital which will not only
halt the downward course of the curve, but turn it again
upward.
Until this stimulus is provided, neither Seattle or
any other commercial center may hope to increase its
trade volume. The trade simply is not here, and Alaskans
do not possess the necessary capital with which lo go
beyond its daily commercial pursuits and thus create it.
Here is an opportunity for the Seattle Chamber of
Commerce to not only perform a worthy task, but profit
materially in the performance.
The last year has witnessed many valuable lode gold
discoveries.
Surveys reveal that Alaska's placers, while supposed
ly depleted for cruder methods of extraction, are still
rich in virgin gold, only requiring capital to make them
disgorge gold in excess of that already extracted and
now functioning in the arteries of finance and commerce
in the United States. This sum approximates $600,000,000.
There is still $600,000,000 and more awaiting men of
foresight, keen business judgement and energy.
Seattle is our nearest big commercial and financial
neighbor. We are willing to contribute our trade, but
Seattle owes it to itself and Alaska to provide the capi
tal which will make this trade continuous and increase
its volume.
Thus Seward welcomes the business and financial
men, in the hope that it may be responsible for a closer
bond of commercial activity of mutual benefit.
Hr PROMINENT
SEITTEEITES ENJOYING
EXCURSION TO IUSH
A real representative group of
Seattle business men, some of them
accompanied by their wives and
daugtliers, arrived in Seward this
morning on the SS- Aleutian as
members of the Seattle Chamber
of Commerce Excursion party to
Alaska. The excursion party, which
numbers over 100 oersons, left on
a train this morning for Anchor
age where they will spend a few
hours before returning to Seward
this evening to board the Aleu
tian for Seattle.
Mayor John F. Dore. of Seattle,
who had hoped to accompany the
delegation on its Alaskan trip,
found buisness connected with his
office too pressing and was forced
to forgo the pleasure of the trip.
A partial list of the prominent
visitors to the Northland includes
Cassius E. Gates, president of the
Chamber of Commerce; Edward
E. Allen, chairman of the Chamber’s
Alaska committee; Darwin Meis
nest, manager of the Washington
Athletic Club and chairman of the
Dietrich Schmidt, vice-president of
the Pacific National Bank; E. M.
Whittle, general manager of the
Railway Express Agency; W. E.
Moultry, assistant sales manager
of the Standard Oil Company; T.1
McGovern, manager of the Cham
ber’s Alaska department; Dr. Don
H. Palmer; Reid Mills, S. L. Savidge
& Co.; D. H. Byrnes, manager
of the General Cigar Company; O.
B. Rasmussen, division manager of
Standard Brands of California; and
D. G. Montgomery, of the Helen
Montgomery Shop.
DONORS HONORED
SEATTLE, June 23. —Mrs. Eu
gene Fuller and her son, Dr. Rich
ard E. Fuller, donors of the city of
Seattle’s new $250,000 are museum
in Voluntees Park, will be honored
by the Seattle Chamber of Com
merce at the member’s council
luncheon today. Nathan Eckstein
will express the Chamber’s and the
Community’s gratitude for the gift.
J. T. Cunningham, Superinten
dent of transportation for the Al
aska Railroad, and son John, were
overnight visitors in Seward from
Anchorage.
Banker H. S. Balderston return
ed from Seattle on the SS. Aleutian.
BASEBALL
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Missions 3, San Francisco 4.
Hollywood 2, Los Angeles 5.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Cincinnati 0, New York 4.
Pittsburgh 0, Brooklyn 9.
Chicago 1, Boston 3.
St. Louis 3, Philadelphia S.
AMERICA!^ LEAGUE
Washington li, Chicago 4.
Philadelphia 11, Cleveland 6.
Boston 9, Detroit 7.
New York 4, St. Louis 5.
NEWS FLASHES
* Affairs of the Ship of State
took precedance over his vacation
yacht cruise as President Roose
velt again conferred with officials
on his schooner at Little Harbor,
N. H. about ways of speeding pro
visions of the National Recovery
Act. He also studied developments
of the London Economic Confer
ence, reports of which are being
sent him by radio and through
the medium of newspapers at his
ports of call. After his conference
at Little Harbor, the Prseident set
sail for a trip up the Maine Coast.
Here he was joined by, his two
sons—James and Franklin Delano,
Jr. j
* National Industrial Recovery;
administration officials were plan- j
ning an attempt to limit the profits '
of private business in order to curb
any tendency of prices to skyrocket i
ahead of wage scales.
* Economic conference delegates
are opposing stabilization of the
world’s currency and are favoring
a leveling of tariff barriers and
increasing of prices at home as,
proper moves toward a restoration
of prosperity. This attitude is at
variance with the Washington In
dustrial Recovery administration’s
program.
* “I am convinced that David;
Lamson killed my sister Ailene,” de
clared Frank- Thorpe, as he left
for his home in Lamar, Mo.
A child, eight years of age. was
killed and four other members of
her family injured in a freak auto
accident in San Francisco.
Three juvenile “public enemies,’
from six to 10 years of age, held
up- Dorothy Ragona, nine, with a
knife and robbed her of $19.61
change from a grocery store er
rand.
San Francisco shipbuilders have
been cheered by news that at
least two new warships will be
built in the Bay region. The gov
ernment plans the construction of
17 warships.
* Prince Alexis M’Divini and Bar
bara Hutton, the “five and ten”
heiress, were married amid pomp
in a second Paris ceremony.
* Charles E. Mitchell, New York
banker, was acquitted on all counts
of federal tax fraud charges. It is
stated that the decision will not
halt the trial of Joseph W. Harri
man, banker, which comes up in
July.
* Search continued for the two
Spanish flyers who are lost on
their Havana, Cuba, to Mexico City
hop.
* Fog and ice stll delayed the
hunt for James Mattern, missing
on his Siberia-Nome dash,
* Stocks opened higher but clos
ed somewhat lower in yesterday’s
trading on the New York Stock
Exchange,
Lachman Singh, Hindu slayer,
hanged himself in his cell at the
Fairfield, Calif., jail.
, Three new cars were included
in the cargo on the SS. Aleutian
besides the two carried on that ship
for display purposes. One of the
,new cars is a Chevrolet for Fair
who died in Seattle, in May 1931.
orage; and a Ford Truck for Holy
Cross.
A gas car will leave Seward at
8 a. m. Monday, handling passen
gers to Anchorage and all Inter
mediate points, accorning to agent
E. L. Sweek.
EXILES 10 RETURN
from nm GAMPS
MOSCOW, June 23. —Freedom to
more than 100,000 exiles and po
litical prisoners have been grant
ed by a sweeping order of amnesty
issued by the Soviet Government
here, it was learned on high au
thority.
The order, issued with the ap
proval of Josef Stalin, the “Strong
Man” of the Soviet Union, will
permit tens of thousands of men
and women to return to their
families. The program is already
under way. Exiles living in the
Soviet lumber camps and mines in
Siberia or other desolate localities
in the North, already have begun
to drift back to their homes. The
movement has been kept quiet so
far, and the exiles have returned
without knowledge to the general
public.
The mass move to return exiles
to their normal lives in their own
surroundings was without official
explanation, but well informed cir
cles were of the opinion that sat
isfactory progress in the Spring
sowings and other signs of econ
omic improvement after one of
; the hardest Winters in the history
: of th Soviet Regime, were major
factors in the Kremlin’s decision.
The order recalled the decision
made last January, to banish to
the North, the entire population of
! several southern villages as exemp
lary punishment for failure to co
| operate with the government’s pro
gram of increased agricultural
production.
TUCSON, Ariz., June 22. —Trap
ped in a canyon pocket for almost
20 hours by two rattlesnakes who
threatened him with death if he
tried to escape, John H. Mann, 28
year old cowboy, was back at the
Bar-Y ranch after being rescued
by his fellow workers.
Mann was hunting for a lost
horse in the famed canyon of gold
when he wandered in a ravine
that was bluff-like on three sides.
As he started to leave, two hissing
snakes writhed across his path
and they remained there until help
arrived.
SCREEN STAR SAVED
I HOLLYWOOD, June 22. — Fay
I Wray, beautiful screen star, owed
her life today to George Hill, film
director, who saved her from
drowning in the Pacific ocean.
Miss Wray, wife of John Monk
Saunders, film director, was trap
ped in a rip tide near her beach
home while she was out swimming.
Hill saw she was in distress and
swam through the heavy seas to
her rescue.
Miss Wray has returned to her
Hollywood home suffering from
shock and exhaustion.
Capt. Ivan L. Peterson, of the
Chickaloon oil fields, came into
Seward on last night’s train and
will board the SS. Aleutian for
the States.