’•’T?
The United States Treasury price
for gold yesterday was $31.36; this
was 27c above the London figure.
Predictions were made on Wall St.
gold will advance to at least $41
an ounce.
Bernard
airman
TODAY’S WEATHER
Seward 28 above zero, Tunntt
26 above, Anchorage 21 above,
Curry 22 above, Broad Pas# 3
above, Healy 2 below, Nenana 12
above, Fairbanks 6 above.
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VOLUME XXIX. Numbers 25Q-251
SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1933.
PRICK TEN CENTS
MINING MEN
SEEK A ID FOR
PROSPECTOR
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 26, —
Outstanding among the resolutions
adopted by the mine operators
convention here, was one seeking
clarification of the National Secur
\ 1* ities Act to ease financing of pri
■ mary industries.
f It was, claimed the Act restricts
financing of mining companies.
The convention hailed the pres
ident for establishing an American
gold market, but took a “shot” at
the high price of mine equipment
and mining supplies.
Federal aid was asked for the
gold prospector and small miner
♦ to augment production of gold
md relieve unemployment and
hus cut down on relief organiza
tions.
Another resolution asked if and
when a change will be made in the
directorship of the Federal Bureau
of Mines, and that a Western man
appointed and sufficient funds
appropriated to carry out- the work
effectively; that the organization
of the executive council be made
^ up of two representatives from
each gold producing state and ter
ritory including Alaska and the
Philippine Islands.
KENAl VALLEY
TRAPPERS READY
TO RUN LINES
After an absence of nearly 10
years rabbits are making their ap
pearance in numbers on the Ke
nai Peninsula.
-» This is taken by trappers to
auger a return of lynx and foxes.
Coincident with the reappear
ance of rabbits has come an in
crease in grouse and ptarmigan.
All wild life came thru the sum
mer having the appearance of
having laid up good stores of fat.
Especially is this true of the moose
and sheep, which are still clinging
to the high places despite the snow
^ which has laid down a heavy nite
f cap on all hills and creeps down to
the escarpments.
Following the first snowfall of
sufficient volume to lay down an
inch, some forecast of what trap
ping will offer wras gained in the
many signs of mink, lynx and er
mine.
Practically all of the Kenai riv
a; valley is occupied by trapper
residents along the river and there
is no nearby ground available.
Those who ti'ap-every winter have
outfitted their shelter cabins and
made preparation to occupy their
traplines this winter. None of the
lines are long, it being a gentle
man’s agreement to give each per
manent resident an opportunity
to share in the work while not
overtrapping the country.
Woodley Bringing.
Large New Plane
Art Woodley, pioneer Seward
aviator who has been in the states
for a number of weeks purchas
y. ing a new' plane, will bring back
one of the largest and finest in
the Northland, according to recent
letters.
Pontoons for the big seven
seater, it is understood, have al
ready been forwarded to Woodley's
Seward base and he and the plane
will probabably arrive on one of
the next steamprs unless he de
cides to fly direct from California.
The big plane is equipped with
a new J—6 motor and an in. m
tion. insofar as Alaskans are con
cerned, will include a wash room
for tlie convenience and comfort of
>atrons.
\ AIR RAID PROTECTION
*IAHA, Czeco Slovakia, Oct. 26,
y mmission of Army engin
vas appointed to inspect all
.^iic jand privately-owned build
ings with an eye to the feasibility
of constructing concrete bomb shel
ters to safeguard the populace
against attacks from the air.
BON VOYAGE!
JUNEAU, Oct. 26, —En route to
Washington on his first official
trip since assuming the office,
Oov. John W\ Troy leaves today
for a lengthy stay in the East. He
probably will spend several weeks
at Washington conferlng with of
ficials on important matters con
cerning Alaska.
Recognition Is
Serious Step for V. S.
Avers Japanese
MONTREAL, Oct. 26, —Recogni
| tion of the Soviet government by
j America will be “a serious mat
ter,” Japan’s newly appointed am
bassador to Sweden, Toshio Shir
atori, said here enroute to his post.
“Of course it is their own busi
ness but if the United States ad
vances money to Soviet Russia it
will help to consolidate her eco
nomic affairs,” he said, “and also
economist propaganda in the Far
East.
Regarding the possibilities of war
i Ambassador shiratori said he could
j not visualize £he United States as
! an aggressor nation while on the
j other hand domestic politics and
j economists are claiming the entire
; attention of the Soviet Union.
He said that insofar as Japan
is concerned, there is absolutely
no reason why his country should
desire war with Russia. All Japan
wants, he concluded, was for Rus
sia to stop her propaganda thru
; out the Far East.
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U. S. Engineers
May Go To Russia
i -
! LONDON, Oct. 26, —The Soviet
! government has decided to rescind
| its prohibition on the export of
' gold from Russia to the United
States, it was stated in an ex
change telegraph dispatch from
Riga.
The Soviets, according to the
dispatch, have resolved to hire 50
American engineers to head pro
duction in Russian gold mines and
50 more for the naptha industry.
MUST HAVE BEEN TRUTH
MUNICH, Oct. 26, —The corres
pondent of the London Daily Tel
egraph. Noel Penter, was arrested
in connection, it was understood,
with a report of Chancellor Hit
ler’s speech last Sunday at Regens
| burg.
Alaska Exports
For September
__ __
Alaska’s outbound trade for Sep
j tember aggregated $8,868,783, ac
; cording to the monthly summary
| of commerce, issued by James J.
■ Connors, Collector of Customs.
Gold shipments for the month
j were less than normal, totaling
! only, $341,210;. •- .
; Canned salmon, as usual for
i September, headed the list. There
i was a total of 79,584,797 pourids
! shipped during the month, having
| a declared value of $7,496,012.
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! . .
The late run of silver salmon is
still on and some exceptionally
i fine specimens are being taken
i at the lower end of Lake Kenai,
j Many residents are salting down a
j winter's supply.
Jack Lean, big game guide, spent
I some days at Bishop’s recently
j looking for his winter’s lard sup
i ply in the form of either variety
! of bear. The snow is driving the
j bruins off the blueberries and to
| the river.
THIRD TIME WAS CHARM
j On a third trial at Nome in con
! nection with the killing of J. W
i Sparrow in that city in December
i 1928, Charles Frank was acquitted
| recently. The first trial resulted
| in a verdict of guilt and a life
sentence; the second trial ended
in a second degree murder charge
and sentence of 35 years.
FARM STRIKE
IS PICKING VP
MOMENTUM
; . i .'j . ■ ,
NEW YOHK, Oct. 26, —The
national farmers holiday strife#
apparently was given impfetus y#s:
terday by Wisconsin with its de
cision to form a TrtHfc pool' and
i participate.
New Mexico, where a State hol
iday was ordered, has joined and
violence has flared in several por
tions of the State.
In Northern Wisconsin pickets
invaded several cheese factories
and creameries, dumping milk and
pouring kerosene and ashes into
vats attd churns.
Five hundred Iowa farmers es
corted trucks into Nebraska from
North Dakota. The wheat embargo
appeared to be proving effective;
shipments are virtually at a stand- i
still. • j
APPOINTS KEENAN
| WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 26, —
j Joseph B. Keenan of Cleveland was
| appointed as Assistant Attorney
; General by President Roosevelt to
j succeed Pat Malloy of Oklahoma,]
5 who resigned several weeks ago.
WAIVED ALL CLAIMS ,
i LOS ANGELES, Oct. 2S, —Waiv
: ing all claims of alimony from her
! titled husband, Mae Murray,
| blonde screen actress, .was granted
! a divorce on the ground of cruelty
I from David M’divani, Georgian
| prince. .
FAMILIAR NAMES
LADYSMITH, Natal, S. A., Oct.
26, —Ominous signs of tribal war
fare sent large numbers of Europ
eans into this city from Unsigna.
The Europeans said there had been
a pitched battle between the Ku
fakwezexwe and Nkanyezi tribes
and the Mqualkeli tribe after a
quarrel at a native wedding.
WANT TO CRUCIFY HIM?
| SYDNEY, Australia, Oct. 26, —
i The federal government of Austra
j lia announced the grant of $15,000
j to Air Commander Sir Charles
I Kingsford Smith. The Australian
; people voiced their hope last week
! that Sir Kingsford Smith be made
! a public official.
STERILIZATION THREAT
BERLIN, Oct. 26, —A threat of
| sterilization was faced by chronic
! drunkards in Germany. The threat
was embodied in a n£w law effec
tive January l which provides for
prevention of hereditary incurables.
VIOLENCE FLARED
DES MOINES, Oct. 26, —Violence
flared in the farm strike when a
market-bound truck driver was at
tacked after he defied orders of
highway pickets to return to the
farm with his load of cattle. •
SHOT FULL OF “HOLES”
WASSAU, Wis., Oct. 26, —About
100 farm strike pickets invaded
the Laabl*s cheese plant at Milan
and dumped 10,000 pounds of milk
from vats.
PRIESTS /RE SAFiE :
FLAGSTAFF, Arizona, Oct. 26, —
) Two Franciscan priests, s lost for
four days in the isolated Kaibab
National Fbrest lia Northeastern
Arizona, were reported as sate.
They were found 40 miles up the
North river from Grand Canyon,
with Clark Gable, screen actor,
| who is camped in the forest tp
j hunt mule deer and antelope.
STOCK QUOTATIONS
Ain. Can 90 1-4, Am. Tel. & Tel.
118, Bald. Loco 11 3-8, Cons Gas
42 1-2, El Pow. & Lgt. 6 1-4, Gen.
Eiec. 19 3-4, Gen. Mots. 27 7-8, Int.
T&T 12 1-4, Kelvinator 11 1-4,
Mack Trucks 27 1-4, Montg. Ward
19 1-8, Nat. Pow. & Lgt. 11, Nor.
Am. 18 1-2, Pac. Gas 19 1-2, Pub.
Ser., N. J. 39, Radio 7 3-8, Std. Gas
10, Std. Oil, N. J. 42 1-2, Trans-Am.
6 7-8, U. Aircraft 29 1-2, U Corp. 6,
U. S. Steel 41 1-4, Vanadium 18 3-4,
Warner Piet. 6 2M, Westinghouse
34 7-8. Ana. Cop. 15, Kenn. Cop. 21.
; TODD APPOINTED I
WASHINGTON, D. tt, Oct 26, —
Chester J. Todd of Valdez was ap-.j
pointed United States Marshal of
the, Third Division, Alaska, suc
ceeding Harvey Sullivan.
W SAV$D, POSTERITY
'Uy.
Washington, d. c., Oct. 26,
A king high straight flush that
Pqpftihaster General Farley drew in
a stud poker game 3,200 feet up in
ail airplane, took its place on the
the legend was: Time 1:30 p. m.,
September 1, 1933. Position; 65
mites west of St. Louis, altitude
3,200 feet, speed 126 miles per hour,
ship SAT Condor No. 29; occasion,
vlpit io convention Young Demo
cratic dubs, Kansas City.
MWS FLASHES
I NOW WIELDING PEN
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Oct. 26.
—Helen Jacobs, national singles
tennis champion, is enroute to
Boston to write a novel based on
tennis. Miss Jacobs said she would
not think of tournament tennis
until next year when she intends
to enter the Wimbledown and
Wightman cup matches.
NOTED EXPLORER KILLED
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 26, —
Evelyn Briggs Baldwin, noted ex
plorer, was killed Wednesday nite
when struck by an automobile at
a street crossing. Baldwin was
rushed to the hospital but was
dead upon arrival.
SKIPPER ARRESTED
VICTORIA, B. C., Oct. 26, —Jas.
L. Smith, Vancouver skipper of the
powerboat Kitmayakwa, who re
cently was held on. the charge of
unlawful possession of firearms,
was taken into custody at Bed
win Tiarbor, Pender Island. Police
seized 195 cases of liquor on his
craft. No charges in connection
with the liquor was made.
|
MINERS ARRIVED
ATLIN, Oct. 26. —Fred and Geo.
Cameron and Fred Alexander.
| prospectors, with an Indian guide,
arrived here after a hike from the
Wolf lake settlement. Aviator Gene
i Meyring flew from Juneau to ihe
| Laird district, last week, to search
I for the men only to discover they
' had left previous to his arrival.
AUTO KILLINGS MOUNT
SEATTLE1,- Oct. 26, —Ernest L.
Chowan, 36, was killed last night
by a “hit and run” driver. The to
tal of deaths from this source in
King county-this year is 108.
RANK OUTSIDER WON
NEWMARKET,. Eng.,. Oct. ?6, —
Raymond, a rank outsider paying
33 to 1, won the historic Cam
bridgeshire horse‘ race Wednesday.
Denbigh, another rank outsider,
took second place; Stalky was
third, and King George’s Liriielight
was fourth.
SEATTLE BEER TAX
/ SEATTLE, „9c.t.. 26r ^i-Over-riding:
Mayor Dore*s veto, the city coun
cil.placed a tax of $2.00 per bar
rel on beer, one and one-third
cents tax on pint and quart bot
tled beer, '
1,700,000 BACK TO WORK
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Oct. 26. —
Organized labor "found 1,700,000
more men went back to work in
August and September but reiter
ated their contention that only
shorter hours would provide jobs
for 10,009,000 yet unemployed.
MINERS ORGANIZE
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 26, —Geo.
W. Starr, veteran Grass Valley,
Calif., operator and gold miner,
announced the formation of an
organization which will be known
as the “Gold Mining Operators of
j America.” Mr. Starr was made
' president; J. C. Kempvansee, junior
1 secretary and treasurer. The mem
bers are banded together for gen
eral furthering of interests in the
gold mining industry.
COTTON STRIKE ENDED
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 20, —The
four-county cotton pickers strike
ended suddenly yesterday when
the Agricultural Labor Bureau
adopted a 75c a hundred weight
scale for the pickers; 15 cents
above the scale protested by the
strikers.
President Expected
To Turn Attention
To White Metal
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct 26, —
With the gold program embarked
upon. President Roosevelt is now
expected to turn his attention im
mediately toward aiding silver.
The Chief Executive has been
studying the silver question closely
and it is indicated that a consul
tation will soon be held to seek a
definite program to aid the white
metal.
Senator Pittman of Nevada told
reporters that he felt something
had to be done promptly, in view
of the President’s declaration for
a free gold market.
With America overbidding all
buyers of yellow metal, an interna
tional exchange said this would
widen the exchange of the dollar.
ACCEPTED THE TASK
PARIS, Oct. 26, —Albert Sar
raut, commissioned by President
LeBrun to form a new French cab
inet, accepted the task in princi
ple.
Inquisition Tadics
Used By Hoodlums
CHICAGO, Oct. 26, —Four men
seeking $100,000 invaded the home
of Joseph Sorokowski, 55, a salve
manufacturer, and tortured him in
&Xi effort to find the supposed
hiding place of the money.
The hoodlums struck hipi on the
head with pistols, burned the soles
of his feet with cigars and finally
stuck his legs in the furnace.
He was freed by neighbors who
were attracted by his shouts af
ter the torturers left. The men
got $15 in cash and receipts on a
thousand dollars postal savings.
VIRGINIA 32nd STATE
RICHMOND. Va., Oct. 26, —Vir-1
ginia yesterday became the 32nd
| State to ratify the 21st amend
I ment to the Federal Constitution.
| repealing the 18th.
STRIKE SLATED TO END
| PATTERSON, N. J., Oct. 26. —
i The strike of 15,000 dyers and silk
j workers which. has paralyzed the
! silk industry in thijsj... area for a
! month, was slated to end with the
I return of the workers to their
! looms under a wage hour agree
j ment reached two weeks ago.
ANSWERED WITH BOMB
! KLAGENFURT, Austria, Oct. 26,
—A bomb, believed to be the Nazi
answer to the recent arrest of
Prince Sachsen Meiningen, dam
aged the headquarters of the pro
bbllfuss Christian socialist storm
troops at Sanktveit.
NURMI’S IN TROUBLE
HELSINGFORS, Finland, Oct. 26,
—Paavo Nurmi and bride of less
than two years have separated and
despite denials it has been learned
Mrs. Nurmi already has taken
steps toward obtaining a divorce
and custody of their year old boy.
COMMERCIAL STRIKE
HAVANA, Cuba, Oct. 26, —Rein
! forcements remained at the police
station and soldiers rearranged
machine guns and sandbags inside
the palace as a partially effective
commercial strike disrupted the
business section.
SHORT COURSE MINING
The annual 10-weeks’ mining
short course opens November 25 at
the Alaska _ College. Several hun
dred men, varying in age from 18
to 65 years, many of whom have
had very little formal schooling,
have taken this training in past
years. Each year about 20 or 25
new men enroll for the course.
NR A WELDED
INTO PERMANENT
BODY, FUTURE
WASHINGTON, D. C.. Oct. 2$, —
Formaly orderinr the reorganhut
tion of the NRA staff, Hugh 8.
Johnson create * a xii w compliance
division which win have chafgb<St
enforcement of permanent codes
throughout the country.
General Johnson had this sec
tion of the NRA to handle himself,
pending permanent appointment
of a director. He will act as chair
man of the National Compliance
Board which will be the final NRA
agency.
Charges of violation by those
who defy adjustments and differ
ences, will be turned over to the
Federal Trade Commission or to
the Attorney General for action.
The order also set up a Trade As
sociation Division under Thomas
S. Hariunon of Chicago, whose job
will be to prepare plans and advise
the organization of industry for
industrial self-government.
MADRID IS NERVOUS
MADRID. Spain, Oct. 26, —A ser
ious strike, coupled with election
agitation and student disorders,
combined to leave three dead and
15 seriously wounded in the cap
ital after a riotous day. It was the
first time since the inauguration
of the Republic that syndicalists
socialists came to open blows here.
CIVIL SERVICE
EXAMINATIONS
ARE ANNOUNCED
The United States Civil Service
Commission has announced open
competitive examinations as fol -
lows :
Junior Calculating Machine Op -
erator, $1,440 a'year, less a deduc
tion of not to exceed 15 per cent
as a measure of economy and a
retirement deduction of 3 1-2 per
cent, departmental service, Wash
ington, D. C., and field service.
Rotoprint Operator. $1,440 a year
less a deduction of not to exceed
15 per cent as a measure of econo
my and a retirement deduction of
3 1-2 per cent, departmental ser
vice. Washington, D. C., and field
service Applicants must have had
at least one year of experience in
the operation and adjustment ot
a Rotoprint Machine and the care
of the printing plates.
All States, except Delaware, Iowa,
Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia,
and the District of Columbia have
received less than their share ot
appointments in the apportioned
departmental service at Washing
ton.
Pull information may be obtain
ed from the Secretary of the Unit
ed States Civil Service Board of
Examiners, at 311 Federal Building,
Juneau.
German Festivities
Banned New York
NEW YORK. Oct. 26, —Mayor
John P. O’Brien Wednesday night
notified officials of German so
cieties planning a celebration next
Sunday, that he would not permit
the meeting to be held.
This action followed upon pro
tests directed against the celebra
tion which was arranged to spread
Nazi propaganda.
The German societies said the ,
celebration was to observe the
250th anniversary of the first Ger
man immigration to the United
States. The Mayor said he feared
violence and possibly riots and
that loss of life might result if the
meeting was held.
QUAKE AT LOS ANGELES
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 26, —An
earthquake of comparatively mild
force that jolted this city and im
mediate environs from sleep, left
the district unscratched a survey
disclosed. The quake was recorded
at 11:00 p. m. and centered in the
suburban cities of Pasadena, Al
hambra and Eagle Rock.
m m % . «p| I <| <|P« • * UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE
Public Card Party Friday Evening.