MEMBER ASSOCIATED RMES9
VOLUME XXIX. NUMBER 195.
SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, AUGUST 21, 1933.
PRICE TEN CENTS
STEEL CODE BEEN
APPROVED B Y
PRES.ROOSEVELT
WASHINGTON, Aug. 21. —It was
with a gleam of triumph that Hugh
S. Johnson, recovery program ad
ministrator, saw President Roose
velt grasp a pen and sign the steel
code which had been drawn up.
The signing occurred just before
the President got ready to leave
tor Hyde Park.
Petroleum leaders sent President
Roosevelt and Johnson a flat state
ment that they could not accept
:he oil code in its present form. The
Petroleum companies demand a ri
gid price control in a trade plan.
At San Francisco it was announc
ed that the enforcement of N. R. A.
codes and provisions would start
this morning when the regional of
fices there hand over the several
hundred complaints already on file
to United States District Attorney
H. H. McPike. It was indicated that
warnings will be sent to all viola
tors of the N. R. A. program be
fore definite action is taken under
the provisons of the Nator.al Re
covery Act law which provides for
tines and imprisonment for those
•who are found guilty of violating
their agreements with the Govern
ment,
GIVEN PARDON
SACRAMENTO, Aug. 21. — Asa
Keyes, former Los Angeles district
attorney, Saturday was granted a
full pardon by Governor Rolph.
Keyes has been on parole from San
Quentin prison after serving a term
tor bribery and conspiracy in 1929.
DEBT PROBLEM
IS NOW ROCKING
CAPITAL CIRCLES
WASHINGTON, Aug. 21. —Sharp
conflict over debt settlements with
Europe today was rocking admin
istration criclcs.
With Great Britain sending over
a debt mission in October and with
other nations to follow. President
’ Roosevelt will carefully select the
American negotiators.
The Administrations attitude to
ward debts will be reflected in the
.laming of the chief of the Ameri
can commission.
White House attaches emphasized
President Roosevelt has not depart
ed from the policy that the debtors
must pay.
Ten Persons Killed
Illinois Accident*
SOUTH BEND, Aug. 21. — Ten
persons were killed in this state
Saturday in two auto accidents.
The first tragedy occured when
the van, carrying 28 visitors from
the Chicago Fair, was sideswiped by
a heavy truck. Six persons were
.-tilled and nine others injured. Sev
eral of the van’s occupants were
sleeping at the time of the crash.
The second accident occurred
when an auto was struck at a
crossing by a Wabash Railroad pas
senger train. Four persons were kill
ed in this accident.
The driver of the truck is said
to have- fled from the scene of
accident when he saw what had
happened. Highway patrol officers
searched for him all night Satur
k day.
AN EASY WINNER
CHICAGO, Aug. 21. —Signal Man,
owned by the Audley farm of Vir
ginia, won the Hawthorne Race
Track’s juveniUe handicap Satur
day at six furlongs, with his run
( ning mate, Try, second, and Penn
cot, third. Lady Hiloss was fourth.
WANTS LARGE AIR FORCE
MOSCOW, Aug. 21 —Inspired by
contests and exhibitions an the re
pent All Union Aviation Day, Sov
iet Russia went ahead today to car
ry out War Commissar Vohoshiloff’s
appeal for an air industry “as strong
£s that of any bourgois country.”
“He who has good planes is very
strong,” said the Commissar.
Enlisted Men 111;
Ate Tainted Food
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SAN DIEGO, Aug. 21. — Stricken
with an illness apparently caused
by tainted food, 140 Navy enlisted
men were confined to their quar
ters at the North Island station.
No serious cases have been re
ported, but three men have been
removed to Naval hospitals'for clos
er boservation.
Captain S. L. Higgins, senior med
ical officer stated that in his op- ;
inion the infection was of a rare
i ature, the symptons differing from ;
the common varieties of food poi-!
i
soiling.
YUKON SAILS
FROM SEATTLE
SEATLE, Aug. 21. —The SS. Yukon
which sailed from Seattle had the
following Seward passengers:
Miss Patricia Ray. Andy Parke,1
Mrs. E. M. Walker. Herold Green,!
Nicholas Biddle. Mr. and Mrs. H. i
O. Arend. Allen H. Rogers.
C. E. Snedeker, P. A. Hoffman, i
Otto Mueller, Dennis Doyle, F. H.
Jasper, P. Fitzgerald, Mr. and Mrs.
C. E. Ramsey. Mrs. James Dunn.
Miss E. V. Franz, Mr. and Mrs. A.
Granville, Mrs. John Rosness, Henry i
Rosness. Jr., Charles J. Buckland. O.
A. Soderlund.
Miss Beth Brand. Opal Wilkinson.
Master Porter. Mrs. Viola Forter and
George Mumford.
YANKS ALMOST OUT
NEW YORK, Aug. 21. —The New
york Yankees are almost out of
£he running in the American Lea
gue pennant race as the Washing-;
ton Senators won their eleventh
straight victory Saturday when they
defeated St. Louis 5 to 3. To makej
matters worse the Yanks dropped
a game to Chicago to the score of
7 to 8. The Senators now have an
eight and one-half game lead over
the Yanks.
POST OFFICES GO
OUT ECONOMIZE
WASHINGTON. Aug. 21.—A “turn
out the lights” campaign has been
launched by the Post Office De
partment as a contribution to Post
Office economy
A weekly checkup by the postmas
ter to see the employees are turn
ing out the lights not needed was
requested by Silliman Evans, fourth
assistant postmaster general. He al
so asked that lower power bulbs be
substituted where possible and that
bulbs be kept clean to give a maxi
num lights at the lowest cost.
CHRISTIANS KILLED
1 BAGDAD, Aug. 21. — The killing
of more than 600 Assyrian Chris
tians in conflicts with the Kurds
and the Iraq forces in northern Ir
aq has climaxed the international
.situation in which Great Britain,
j is the former mandatory power
| >ver Iraq, has been asked to take a
ihand.
CHAMBER MEETING
j Regular weekly luncheon and
: business meeting of the Seward
j Chamber of Commerce will be held
i Tuesday at noon, at Cameron’s
Cafe.
MISS HELEN WILLS
TRIUMPHS AGAIN
AT FOREST HILLS
FOREST HILLS, N. Y. Aug. 21. —
Mrs. Helen Wills Moody, seven
times champion, and Betty Nuthall,
of England, only foreigner ever to
win the event, came through safely
Saturday in the two quarter final
matches of the Women's National
Tennis Tournament.
Miss Nuthall was forced to make
a sensational rally to win from Alice
Marble, hard hitting star from San
Francisco, by scores of 6-3, 6-0, 7-5,
Heeley, England’s No. 1 ranking
but Queen Helen won from Mary
player, without ever drawing a
deep breath, 6-0. 6-2.
In Sunday’s semi-final matches,
hetty Nuthall, of England, gave the
spectators a real thrill when she
triumphed over the California star,
Miss Helen Wills, by taking the first
set 6 to 2. Miss Wills, however, came
right back and cooly took the next
two sets, 6-3. and 6-2.
CAUFORNIMAWS
COYER /I VARIETY
RIGHTS, WRONGS
SACRAMENTO. Aug. 21. — The
already bulky California statute
books will be swelled considerably
this year with the addition of 950
new laws, which were passed by
the recent California legislature.
The new laws cover a varied na
ture of rights and wrongs.
Interesting among the laws gov
erning social relations is the law
which makes marriages between
Whites and Filipinos, in the State
of California, illegal.
Another law in the criminal sec
tion defines the eligibility of an es
caped convict to secure his pardon
after he has again been appre
hended. The new law says that the
convict must be returned to the
“big house” for a period of two en
tire years before a pardon can even
be considered.
Another law changse adultery
from a felony to a misdeamenor.
MARKET CLOSED
NEW YORK, Aug. 21. — As has
been the practice of the New York
Stock Exchange to close all day
Saturday there was no financial
news from this center of activity.
Reports from the Chicago Grain
Exchange state that September
wheat closed at 88 cents a bushel;
cotton closed at $9.61 and the Eng
ish pound sterling was quoted at
$4.49.
BASEBALL SCORES
Saturday’s Games
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Chicago 8, New York 7.
Cleveland 6, Boston 5
Washington 5, St. Louis 3.
Detroit 6, Philadelphia 0.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
New York 8, Chicago 4.
Brooklyn 5, St. Louis 2.
Philadelphia 3, Cincinnati 0.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Missions 10, Seattle 4.
San Francisco 7, Oakland 6.
(Sunday’s Games)
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Portland 5-9, Hollywood 7-8.
Los Angeles 7, Sacramento 6.
Seattle 7-8, Missions 2-5.
San Francisco 3, Oakland 2.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
New York 13-11, Chicago 3-3.
Washington 2-3, St. Louis 1-4.
Cleveland 9, Boston 4.
Detroit 4, Philadelphia 5.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
New York 6, Boston 1.
St. Louis 6-5, Brooklyn 2-0.
INCREASE LEAD
NEW YORK, Aug. 21. —The New
York Giants increased their lead
to six games Saturday by defeating
the Chicago Cubs, 8 to 4, while the
Pittsburgh Pirates lost to Boston.
Two homers by Mel Ott and one
by Frank O’Doule helped the Giants
build up an early lead. The game
was witnessed by 15,00 fans.
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Peggy Hopkins Joyce
Was Virtually ‘Fired’
HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 21. — The
often married Peggy Hopkins Joyce,
^ho purportedly left the cast of a
Twentieth Century Pictures pro
duction because of ill health, spiked
that report when she filed a com
plaint w7ith the Academy of Mo
tion Picture Arts and Sciences over
asserted breach of contract.
Miss Joyce claimed she had been
given a six weeks contract by the
company and had been dropped
from the film after two days of
wTork.
Lilyan Taslrman was borrowed
from another concern to take Peg
gy’s place in the film.
AMERICAN STAR
IS GOLF WINNER
TORONTO, Aug. 21. — Joe Kirk
wood returned the Canadian Pro
fessional Open Golf Championship
to the United States for the 15th
.time Saturday when he completed
the final 36 holes Gf the 72-hole
medal play contest playing sub-par
golf.
Kirkwood made birdies and also
eagles all day to turn in a brilliant
69 and a 70 for the 36 holes. His
total for the 72-holes was 282, or
six strokes under par. This score
was eight strokes better than the
score of his nearest competitors.
Others finishing up in the front
ranks were Harry Cooper, who came
through with a 290, Johnny Farrel,
Leo Diegel. Gene Sarazen and sev
eral Canadian stars.
CITIZENS PROTESTED
SEATTLE, Aug. 21. —The Munici
pal Street Railway decided to paint
its street cars red and green. Citi
zens set up such commotion against
the color scheme that a committee
from the Seattle Art Museum is to
inass on the matter.
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SMUGGLERS ARE
I HUNTED FROM AIR
PORT SAID, Egypt, Aug. 21. —
^Airplanes were used to pursue nar
cotic smugglers on the Sinai pen
insula for the first time in his
tory.
During the recent moonless per
iods a gang of seven men, work
ing in. three separate parties, at
tempted to cross from Palestine to
the Suez Canal. A camel patrol of
| Sinai police, assisted by local Arabs,
j captured the first party with their
I consignment of hashish. The tracks
of the second party were then dis
covered and the chase began anew.
At the same time the newly form
ed Egyptian air force has dispat
ched three of its airplanes from El
Arish to attempt a route of the
'dope smugglers.
STRIKE BEING SETTLED
! FRESNO, Calif., Aug. 21. — The
strike of orchard workers in the
San Joaquin Valley is ended as the
orchard workers have accepted the
.^even and one-half cent increase
in wages. The California Packing
Company was the first to offer the
increased wage and ranches and
other packers followed suit. The
packers said they were making the
increase in the interests of harmony
and good will.
MISSOURI IS THE
22ND STATE TO
j VOTE REPEAL
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KANSAS CITY, Mo., Aug. 21. —
^Missouri voiced an emphatic disap
proval of nation'al prohibition a*;
'the polls Saturday and today the
state was the 22nd consecutive one
jto ratify repeal of the 18th amend
ment.
One hour after the polls closed
[Saturday evening the result was
pretty generally indicated as 17C
lprecincts out of 4.200 returned 4,
500 votes for repeal as against 4,000
against.
A later count showed that almost
700.000 voters went to the polls and
500.000 of these voted for repeal.
Leaders of the campaign against
$he prohibition amendment have
stated that it is now highly prob
able that not merely the necessary
36 states will ratify the pending
proposed 21st amendment to the
Federal Constitution but that it will
be ratified by all 48 states in the
Union. They state that this is a
result to be hoped for in order that
steps toward repeal may be taken
by an absolutely unified nation.
BUILD BETTING BOOTHS
SACRAMENTO, Aug. 21. — Work
men were rushed to death in com
pleting the first betting booths
that have been seen on the Cali
fornia State Fair Grounds since
1905. Bordering on the north end
of the main grandstand the rough
ly built wooden shed will rank in
importance with the big brick ex
hibition buildings as the center o':
interests.
MANY CRIMES
MAY BE SOLVED
TRIAL GANGMEN
CHICAGO, Aug. 21. —Solution of
the kidnapping and murder of the
child of Col- and Mrs. Charles A.
Lindbergh, was believed to be tiec
up writh with the Chicago-Mid Wes
tern kidnapping ring whose lead
ers Roger Toury and Harvey Bailey
are now under arrest.
The tragedy of the famous child
leaped into new prominence as Des
lie E. Slater', special assistant at
torney general took a plane for the
Southwest where he will assume
charge of the inquiry into develop
ments growing out of the capture
jOf Bailey which point toward a pos
sible solution of the Lindbergh case
j Toury has been taken to St. Paul
for questioning in connection with
I the Hahn kidnapping.
i Wheat Surplus May
Be Shipped Orient
j PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 21. —Ship
ment of the Northwest’s wheat
crop, the only surplus in the nation
this year, to the Orient will be dis
cussed at a conference of wheat ex
porters and government officials
here today.
Wheat growers in other setcions
are concerned over the outcome of
the conference since Northwest
wheat has been an increasing fac
tor in Eastern markets. Shipment
■ of grain to China will improve the
! national wheat market, it is felt.
‘IT’S A FRAMEUP”
CHICAGO, Aug. 21. —Cecil Smith,
a member of the West’s polo team,
playing here at the Fair, said “it’s
a frameup,” when he was arrestee
on a warrant charging that he had
attacked a Miss Virginia Roe, Ev
anston nurse, who is engaged to be
wed. Smith has been released on a
$5,000 bail.