MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXIX. NUMBER 97.
SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26, 1933.
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PRICE TEN CENTS
HOUSE DUMPED THE !
FAMOUS ALASKA BEER j
BILE BACK SENATE
JUNEAU, April 26,—Carrying a
total of $1,829,324 only $390 less
than introduced Monday, the
House passed the general appro
priations measure.
They cut the salary of commis
sioner of mines and his clerk to
$890 to conform to the salaries
and wages of other officers and
employees; this was the only
change made in the measure as
reported by the Ways and Means
committee and it was passed with
out debate or an opposing vote,
breaking all records for speed of
passage and lack of controversy.
The House dumped the beer bill
back into the Senate after reduc
ing most of the fees and restoring
lodging houses to the list of busi
nesses able to obtain license and
liberalizing the beer parlors section
to enable soft drink stands and
cigar stores, etc., to acquire beer
dispensary licenses which were re
duced from $250 to $190.
Green attempted to wrest licens
ing from Federal district courts
and was again defeated.
The Senate killed the Hess gen
eral sales tax bill and his two pro
posed amendments to the compen
sation act which would have re
quired companies to pay heirs-at
law or the Territory up to S4.500
for* unmarried men without depen
dents losing their lives in industri
al accidents.
The Walker bill to create a Cab
f inet for the Governor, named the
board of administration and vest
ed with discretionary power over
all appropriations except those for
schools, pensions, relief and des
titution, etc., passed the Senate.
Two new head taxes were pass
> ed; one by Campbell creating a $5
\ road tax and the other by Bragaw
' taxing owners of radios $2.50.
Shattuck’s bill, creating the
Pioneers Home commission, was
amended to embrace the text oi
the Lomen bill, introduced Mon
day, appropriating $22,500 for the
construction of a new institution,
was also passed in.the Senate; also
the Shattuck bill to continue the
child welfare commission and an
other by him fixing the maximum i
rate of $25 for board, lodging, 1
clothing and medical service for £
a single child, and $15 for each £
additional child cared for under i
the mothers’ pension act. <
COMPLETE HIM
11 901 MID
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WASHINGTON-, D. D„ April 26,—
Developments in the economic sit
uation: Former Premier Edouard
Herriot of France, after conference
with President Roosevelt, said
enthusiastically that the latter
had laid down a complete program
including disarmament, world
economis stabilization and war
debt.
President Roosevelt and Prime
Minister MacDonald of Great Brit
ain. who announced that theii
conversations had ‘admirably
served” the purpose of mapping
the territory to be covered at the
world economic conference, plan
a final talk today after which the
Premier leaves for England.
mickey mm
WISHES TO MiG
SAN FRANCISCO, April 26, — j
Mickey Walker, the “toy bulldog,” j
may meet Jack Sharkey in Los|
Angeles this coming December,!
Manager Jack Kearns announced i
Negotiations have been going on
for the contest with the site of
the bout not yet determined on,
said Kearns.
Walker is also considering an
offer from New York City for a
title bout with Maxie Rosenbloom,
light heavyweight champion, this
summer.
! NEWS FLUSHES
JUMPED OR FELL
SACRAMENTO, April 26,—A man
identified as Oliver Kenneth Sher
man. Los Angeles, jumped or fell
to his death from an upper story
window of the Senator Hotel here.
LADY GODIVA
HOLLYWOOD. April 25.—A new
search for a Lady Godiva was un
der way here. The lady, who is
to ride a snow white horse in an
Agua Caliente, Mexico, fiesta, must
have “fi beautiful face, a divine!
figure and a wealth of golden locks!
that all but sweep the ground.” j
A REAL STEIN “SONG”
ILION. 111., April 26. —Since beer;
came back this town has seen:
things hum in the pottery busi-1
ness. The local factory is turning |
out some 4,000 steins a day. With- j
in the last 10 days the company,
has been operating at top speed
with an increased working force;
of 60 men.
COINCIDENCE
SALT LAKE CITY, April 26 —
“Fancy meeting you here”, said j
Gene Hickman to Mrs. Gene Hick
man the other day when both, al
though arrested separately, were
brought into police court at the j
same time and on the same charge j
that of operating an automobile i
without proper lights.
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OUTCOME DOBTFUL
TOKIO, April 26, —Abandan
raent of the gold standard by the
United States has made the Jap
anese doubtful of success of eco
nomic conversations between the
President and Kikujiro Ishii, Jap
anese delegate, vernacular news
papers said today.
“FER GOODNESS SAKE!”
LONG BEACH, Calif., April 26,—
Not wishing to use an ax, two
tender-hearted spinsters chloro
formed a turkey, then picked him.
Came an earthquake and the bird
recovered consciousness. The wom
en, unable to replace the feath
ers, knitted the turkey a pair of
pants and a sweater and acquired
a pet instead of a dinner.
NEW STYLE WRESTLING
NEW YORK, April 26, —Jump
ing Joe Saoldi of Three Oaks. Mich.,
threw Nick Lutze, of Venice. Cal.,!
i brother alumnus of Notre Dame,!
ifter 35 minutes. Booes and cheers j
vere mingled as the new title!
claimant leaped in the air andj
sicked Lutze in the face with both j
feet before pinning him with a!
flying tackle.
ON THE ROOF
HAVANA, Cuba, April 26, —With
the appointment of Clark Shaugh
nessy as head football coach at
Chicago University, points to one
of the landmarks of 10 years ago.
Shaughnessy was instructor of
athletics at the college of Morro
at the time. Finding no place for
building a basketball court, he
placed it on the roof of the castle.
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CHURCH ROBBED
SAN JOSE, Calif., April 25.—Rob
bers opened the safe of the First
Methodist Church and escaped
with $400, police discovered
The robbery was revealed when
Rev. C. V. Sylvester entered the
church. The safe was moved from
the church office and covered with
rugs to deaden the sound of the
explosion.
IN MID-MAY
BERLIN, April 26,—Prince Wil
helm, son of the former Crown
Prince, will be married to Doro
thea von Salvitai in mid-May, the
newspaper Tagblatt said. Their
engagement was announced last
week and the Crown Prince, thru
his adjutant, made it known that
Prince Wilhelm had consulted
neither him nor the Kaiser.
UNCONSTITUTIONAL
SAN FRANCISCO, April 26,—The
moratorium act passed by the leg
islature recently is unconstitution
al, Superior Judge Emmet H. Wil
son ruled in Los Angeles. The act j
which postpones foreclosures under
mortgages and trust deeds for 60 j
days, violated both the State con- j
stitution and that of the United
States, Wilson held.
EMERGE CONFERENCE
WASHINGTON, D. D.. April 2G,—'
World economics—four probabili-1
ties emerge from MacDonald—1
Herriot—Roosevelt conferences.
1— Agreement for International
monetary stabilization at the Lon
don conference, with the rumor of |
placing the pound between $3.50!
and $2.75. |
2— French payment of her de- j
faulted December $19,261,432 debt !
installment wiht postponement of j
$40,733,568 June installments of
other Nations until after the Lon- ;
don economic conference this
summer. Britain’s yearly budgets;
omit provision for June pavment.:
3— United States entrance into
consultative pact to strengthen the
Kellogg-Eriand treaty.
4— Major disarmament results
through new pacts aid to French
security.
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ill.S. NAVY WILL BE
i BUILT UP IF NATIONS
REFUSE SHE OOl
WASHINGTON, D. D., April 26,—
President Roosevelt has suggested
to Prime Minister Ramsay Mac
Donald that Great Britain and
Japan scale down their navies to
London treaty ratio on the basis
of America’s navy now below treaty
strength.
1 President Roosevelt and Premier
Mac Donald were understood to
have reached a substantial agree
ment.
Navy Secretary Swanson made it
clear the United States intends to
maintain the London ratio in one
way or another, that is, if Japan
and Britain wrill not agree to scale
down their navies, the United
States will have to build up.
AMERICAN METHODIST
THCHI
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PEIPING, China, April 26, —
Japanese military airplanes bomb
ed the American Methodist miss
ion at Shin Hsia as Japanese and
Chinese in North China engaged
in bitter hostilities.
Fate of the mission or its in
mates could not immediately be
learned. It is among the oldest of
American missions in China.
The station was in charge of a
native pastor during the bombing,
which was decribed as unusually
severe. With the Japanese still
pounding from the north, disaf
fected elements in the ePiping
Tientsin area continued in efforts
to overthrow the authority of the
Nanking government here.
MT lilM'S
IMRIST SHUTTERED 81 i
PITCH OF SHITE'S i
NEW YORK, April 26, —A brok
en right wrist will keep Manager
Bill Terry out of the New York
Giants lineup for the next three
or four weeks.
Terry was struck on the wrist by
one of Joe Shaute’s pitches in the
fifth inning with Brooklyn and was
forced to retire. An X-ray exami
nation revealed a fracture of the
ulna bone.
The first baseman’s injury
strikes a severe blow at the Giant’s
hopes of putting up a fight for the
pennant. Terry’s playing chores
will be taken over by Sam Leslie,
his understudy for several years.
Leslie is a good hitter and a fair
fielder, but Terry’s bat and all
around skill will be missed.
PURIFICATION
BERLIN, April 26—“Purification”,
of Germany in accordance with!
Nazi ideals was extended to em
brace all phase of German “Kul
tur”, German protestanism agreed
to purge itself of elements inimical
to Chancellor Hitler’s third Reich.
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The greatest literaly holocast
since the Saracens burned the li-;
brary at Alexandria and the In- J
quisitcrs made bonefires of heretic i
books was planned for “Alien and I
Marxist” books.
CONFERENCE NEARING j
ENO WITH STATESMEN >
PLEDGING SUPPORT
WASHINGTON. D. D„ April 26— j
The Anglo-American economic!
conversations neared an end Tues
day, while the French representa
tives, settling down to more active
participation, pledged support in a
combined offensive against the
depression.
President Roosevelt and Prime I
Minister Ramsay MacDonald ofj
Great Britain conferred with their [
economic experts at the White I
House. It was their fourth day of
exchanging ideas and plans for
w'orld economic recovery.
French and American experts on
financial and economic questions
conferred at the State Department,
while former Premier Herriot of
France prepared for the three
cornered conversation at the first
meeting of President Roosevelt,
Mr. MacDonald and M. Herriot. |
GREAT NAVAL AMUSE
AT LAKEHURST, N, J„
SAN FRANCISCO, April 26,—The
great naval air base at Lakehurst,
N. J., is to be abandoned, and the
new base at Sunnyvale will be the
only lighter-than-air base in the
United States.
A telegram to this effect, receiv
ed by the San Francisco Chamber
of Commerce, from its representa
tive in Washington, was confirmed
officially by an announcement of
the Navy Department in the Nat
ional Capitol.
The Navy intends to decommis
sion the Lakehurst base, home of
the ill-starred dlirigible Akron, “in
the near future,” Admiral William
V. Pratt, Chief of Naval Operations
said.
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CAMBRIDGE, April 25, —Those
who followed big league baseball
back in ’85 were saddened by the
death of an oldtimer, Timothy
J. Keefe.
Keefe, who was star pitcher of
the Newr York Giants in the days
before many of today’s fans were J
born, died yesterday at his Cam
bridge home in his 76th year.
He began his baseball career in
Cambridge, then played with teams |
at Lewistown, Clinton, New Bed
ford, Utica, Albany and Troy.
He and Mickey Welch were
the mainstays of the Metropolitans
of New York in 1884 and they won
the American Association champ
ionship.
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PARALYZED
BARCELONA, Spain, April 26,—
The second largest city in Spain
was completely tied up yesterday
by a transportation strike.
The usually bustling streets pre
sented a lifeless appearance. Taxis,
trolleys, subways and buses were
not operating.
Other workers strikes continued
and it was reported in labor circles
they may expand into a complete
tie-up throughout the Catalonia
region.
LACK OF INTEREST
SANTA CRUZ, April 26,—During
a school election, Tom Majors was
elected by an unanimous vote. Only
four voters came to the polls.
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SPEED ESSENTIAL
i PARIS, April 26, —The French]
! cabinet declared speedy stabiliza- ;
j tion of currencies is essential to I
, restoration of confidence and as!
j a basis for world recovery.
CASH AWARD
WARSAW. Poland, April 26. —
Ignaz Paderewsi has been unani
I mously awarded the annual muni
cipal cash award. Newspapers pre
dicted he will return to this land
| Tor the first time since 1920. }
$181.73 SUIT
LOS ANGELES, April 25,—Elsie
Janis, stage and screen actress and
one of the A. E# F. Sweethearts,
faced an “automobile damage suit”
for $181.73 brought by Fred Richey
of Santa Monica.
RESUMING FLYING
BETONVILLE, Ark., April 26.—
Anne Lindbergh, wife of Col. Chas.
A. Lindbergh, expects to resume
flying soon, according to a lptter
received here from Mrs. Louise'
McPhetridge Thaden by her moth- j
er.
CRASHED BUILDING
SAN FRANCISCO, April 26, —
Captain Lyman L. Phillips, reserve
flyer, and Private Minor C. Hamil
ton, escaped injury wihen their
plane ground-looped and crashed
into a building at Crissy Field. The
plane was wrecked.
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MARY FI^ SUIT
LOS ANGELES, April 26,—Mary
Pickford, screen star, had on file
a suit to regain $250,000 she charg
ed was invested by her as a result
of deceptive claims. Miss Pickford
named several investment and
realty firms as defendents.
BILL PUT OVER
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, April
25,—Consideration of the contro
versial birth control measure was
postponed for several months when
the insular legislature instructed
a special committee to report on
the bill at the next session.
HURLS CHALLENGE
PRAGUE, Czecho Slovakia, April
26,—“May those desiring Czecho
Slovakia to yield her territory come
with armies to take it”, Foreign
Minister Edouard Benes declared
in a speech in Parliament, when
he assailed advocates of peace
treaty revisions.
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SAILS FOR AMERICA
GE^OA, Italy, April 26,—Guido
Jung, Minister of Finance, named
by Premier Mussolini to represent
him in economic conversations
with President Roosevelt, sailed
for New York on the liner Conte
Savoia. He was accompanied by
a staff of experts.
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ALMOST READY
WASHINGTON, D. D„ April 26,—j
The administration bill to set up a
$500,000,000 fund for direct, unem
ployed relief neared final Con
gressional approval when the Sen
ate banking committee approved
the measure virtually as it was
passed by the House.
NEW KINDS OF WATER
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 26,—
Artificial production of several
new types of water, containing
the usual hydrogen and oxegen
but arranged in different propor
tions, was reported to the Nation
al Academy of Science by scient
ists of the U. S. Bureau of Stand
ards.
BE SLAIN OR SOLD
MUKDEN, Manchuria, April 26,—
The British Consul at Yingkow
[ was warned by the Chinese kid
i nappers of three British naval of-.
[ ficers, that the officers would be
slain or sold to other bandits un
less negotiations were immediately
started to effect their release for
$1,000,000 ransom. The officers are
C. Johnson, W. E. Hargrave and A.
D. Blue.
IKE SHIS BILL
PISSED THE HOUSE BT
HUGE HWI1T VOTE
WASHINGTON, D. D. April 26,—
The Rocssve't pregrwn for devel
opment cf 1- 3 Tenney~e Valley
with its Muscle Shcals plant, was
swept to House pass a re by a huge
majority vote of approval or 30$st;>
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The bill with its provisions for
government ownership and opera
tion of Muscle Shoals, now goes to
a friendly Senate, which in the
past has twice approved similar
bills only to have them meet Pres
idential vetoes.
According to terms of the House
draft, a $50,000,000 Federal bond
issue ccupled with a $10,000,000
direct appropriation would provide
a newly created “Tennessee Valley
authority” wiht funds to begin
planned development of the rich
southern area.
TOM MOONEY CASE
SITS FROM SUPREME
TO CALIFORNIA BENCH
SAN FRANCISCO, April 26,—The
latest legal battle for the astound
ing series that has raged around
Thomas J. Mooney for 16 years
may suddenly shift from the Su
perior Court of Judge Lewis H.
Ward, to the California Supreme
Court.
This possibility meaning a long
delay in the second trial of the
world famous prisoner, entered the
strange case yesterday. Less than
24 hours before the preliminaries
of the trial were to start before
Judge Ward.
John O’Hara, assistant district
attorney during the Mooney prose
cution, announced that he will ask
the Supreme Court to prevent the
trial unless dismissal, or steps to
ward dismissal, result from the
hearing.
INVENTOR HELD ON
CHARGE ATTEMPTING
TO FIGHT A GUN DUEL
LOS ANGELES, April 26—Under
the old California code prohibiting
gentlemen from having recourse to
the “Field of Honor”, W. B. Blake,
60-year-old inventor, was held for
trial after hearing of a charge of
attempting to fight a duel.
Blake’s challenge to a meeting
with pistols was described by the
other ‘‘principal” Herbert Miller,
lawyer, who had attempted unsuc
cessfully to get a patent for Blake
on an artificial honey comb ar
rangement for the convenience of
bees.
Blake has kept bees for years.
“There’s been no one killed”, Blake
told the court after Miller had
testified. “I was ony trying to get
justice from this man.”
WON THIRD START
CLEVELAND, April 26,—A home
run by Catcher Pytlak in the sev
enth inning, with two on base,
enabled Cleveland to defeat St.
Louis, 4 to 1. Clint Brown, In
dian’s hurler, won his third game
in as many starts this season.
DOUJUI LINE NIK
COMPETE GRICE SERE
SAN FRANCISCO, April 26, —
Whether the Dollar Steamship Co.,
will enter the Mexican-Central
American trade in competition
with the Grace Line on its New
York-San Francisco run, will be
determined within a few days.
Following a special survey of sev
eral months, Ernest E. Johnson
was preparing his report on the
Central American situation for
Dolar executives.