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VOLUME XXIX. NUMBER 117. SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 19, 1933. PRICE TEN CENTS
SOLDIERS NUUK
MILK SHE (REIS
STITE WISCONSIN
SHAWANO, Wis., May 19 —The
State of Wisconsin launched a des
perate offensive aganst its 15.000
farmers. Only a technicality kept
the districts around here and Mil
waukee from being under martial
law.
Thousands of uniformed soldiers
armed with bayonets. machine
guns and bombs, patrolled the
territory. Technically they were
acting as official deputy sheriffs,
but fought under military com
manders. !
The state ordered soldiers into j
uniforms and declared every re- j
bellious person to be handled as
an outlaw, in a desperate drive
to end the milk war which in six
days has resulted in widespread
roadside fighting, numerous cas
ualties. and property loss that will
run into the hundreds of thous
ands of dollars.
I
KING OF ITf.LY
APPROVES PRESIDENT
ROME, May 19, —King Victor
Emmanuel sent a personal cable
gram to President Roosevelt re
affirming Italy’s unconditional ap
proval of his plea for World dis
armament and cooperation for
peace.
The King thank President Roos
evelt directly for his “noble mes
sage” and expressed his personal;
and “most heartfelt sympathy”,
with the program outlined by the
President.
The King’s message supported
earlier official indication that It
aly was prepared to cooperate to
make possible the materialization
of the Roosevelt peace plan.
An official announcement also
said that the government headed
by Premier Mussolini had instruct
ed Ambassador Augusto Rosso in
Washington to communicate to
the American government that It
aly adheres most cordially “to
President Roosevelt’s initiative”
ahd appreciates fully its lofty idelas
and vast extent.
The Ambassador was instructed
to tell the United States adminis
tration that “cooperation among
those loving peace and the wel- j
fare of the world was never so
self-revealed as necessary as at
present, nor has the equitable ap
preciation of the rights of all
states, without discrimination, ap
peared as indispensable as today.’'’
Similar expressions of cooper
ation and praise were made by
Guido Jung, finance minister and
head of the Italian economic mis
sion to Washington, who landed
at Naples on his return voyage,
yesterday.
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WASHINGTON, D. C., May 19. —
President Roosevelt continued his
drive for world peace disarmament
and prosperity. He kept in close
touch with Norman H. Davis,, Am
erican Ambassador at large, who
left Paris for the crucial Geneva
conference.
The President was cheered by the
friendly replies to his peace pleas
he has so far received. He also
signed the Muscle Shoals bill in
volving a vast development pro
gram for the Tennessee Valley.
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FLOOD CONTINUES
CHICAGO, in., May 19. —Flood
waters swept over vast areas in
states traversed by the Mississippi
River and its branches, chasing
residents to highlands and killing
livestock as well as halting farm
ing. Thousands of acres of land
were inundated, as hundreds of
people vfere marooned on tops of
floating homes and improvised
rafts.
NOTICE!
Seward residents or boni-fide
Alaskans, wanting to work in can
neries are asked to call at Urbach
& Valade’s at once where appli
cation blanks may be obtained.
“The application blanks are some
what late in arriving,” said Mr.
Urbach, president of the Seward
Chamber of Commerce, ‘‘and it is
for this reason and the near ap
proach of packing operations that
it becomes imperative to send in
the local liist in this mail.
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FORCE I com
DISCUSSION ON DEBTS
LONNDON, May 19. —The British j
Government will attempt to force:
conclusive discussion of war debts;
concurrently with the world econ- |
omic conference, it was beleved in
semi-official quarters.
This belief was based in part;
on the fact that Premier Ramsey,
MacDonald, in naming the British
delegation to the World Parley
omitted Stanley Baldwin.
Observers concluded that Bald-;
win was left off the delegation in
order to permit him to head the
British group handling the war
debts alone, simultaneously with;
the economic talk. Neville Cham- J
berlain, Chancellor of the ex- j
chequor was named head of the
economic delegation.
'BONUS' 111 DECIDE
HIM III WHS
SPRING ML DOGE
WASHINGTON, May 19. —Bonus
army members surveyed the situa
tion after a week’s stay here and
came to the conclusion that they
journeyed to Washington just for
the ride.
So far the only tangible thing
they have gained from the invasion
is a coat of tan. The bonus is
still unpaid, and there is no as
surance from Capital Hill that it
will be paid.
Federal officials have been ex
tremely polite about furnishing
food and shelter. Fort Hunt, where
the bonusers are encamped, was
divided into two camps, the right
wing under Mike Thomas and the
left wing under George Brad'*.
Thomas says Brady’s men are
communists, and Brady says Thom
as’ men are rebels.
A plan to parade to the Capital
and White House Thursday was
abandoned but the leaders said
they might parade today.
PARIS, May 19. —The French
army has cancelled its grand man
euvers this year, the newspaper Le
Matin said yesterday.
The most recent maneuvers
were held simultaneously on both
the German and Italian borders.
Decision to cancel major man
euvers this year was said to have
been inspired by the government’s
interest, not only in economy, but
in promoting the cause for dis
armament.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
N. Y. 3, 0, Chicago 0, 8.
Phillies 2, Pittsburg 6.
Boston 0, Cincinnati 1.
Brooklyn 1, St. Louis 0.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Detroit 1, New York 5.
Chicago 1, Phillies 9.
Boston 2, St. Louis 8.
Cleveland 5, Washington 5.
PACIFIC COAST
S. F. 2, Hollywood 6.
Seattle 3, Oakland 2.
Missions 10, L. A. 6.
Miss Gussie Kosub and William
Byngton were married at Juneau
last week.
ILLUSTRATED ME
bi fb. r. lira
PDCKED WITH INTEREST
Adventure, romance and hard
work, rubbing elbows with each
ether, supply the ingredients en
tering into the life of a missionary
priest ministering to Uncle Sam’s
most primitive children, tucked
away in warrens and crudest of
homes along the shores of Bering
Sea and far into the hinterland of
the mighty Yukon.
This is the impression one re
ceived after listening to Fr. Mena
ger, Superior of Northern Missions
for the Catholic church.
Fr. Menager entertained a large
audience yesterday afternoon at a
free illustrated lecture, during j
which some 600 slides were pro
jected upon the screen- These re
vealed the Northern Eskimos and
their homes in gradations all the
wray from the most primitive and
rigorous to the product of those
wonderful men and women who,;
dedicating their lives to a labor of j
love and mercy, are gradually lead
ing the last aborigines of the Am- j
erican continent from their dark- i
ness and within the portals of civ- j
iliaztion.
The scenes displayed were taken
on alternate dogteam and airplane
visits to the various missions under
Fr. Menager’s supervision.
It was while being flown by
Arthur Woodley .brother of the
late Fr. George Woodley, in a vis
it to 40 missions that Fr. Menager
encountered many adventurous
thrills, among which was long
journeys high above immense fog
banks which spread like a fleecy
carpet below, blotting 'out the
mountains and bleak tundra land-j
scape which fringes the coast of
Bering sea; then to labor longj
hours with Pilot Woodley, warming j
up the engine of the plane for an-!
other thrilling adventure in leap
ing the ice-strewn waters of Ber
ing sea to King Island, that rug
ged and scarred mountaintop
thrust 600 feet above the waters,
and to whose precipitous crags
cling the habitations of the
strange people who call it home.
Here it was necessary to land on
a narrow, rocky shelf, illy pro
tected from storm and tides, to
linger for a few hours, and make
the return journey of 40 miles
before fog banks obliterated visi
bility.
Again, the audience saw great
white stetches of snowy tundra,
with little dots here and there
where the primitive natives bur
rowed like foxes into the earth,
along with their children, dogs and
foodstuff, there to hybernate for
seven months while the Arctic
blizzards whined and dared man
and beast to venture out.
Commenting on his experience of
floating along in the great white
silence of the upper ether, with
the mantle of fog blotting out the
earth and brilliant sunshine pour
ing down from the sky Fr. Mana
ger made this observation in his
lecture:
“It is axiomatic that when dan
ger threatens, the Lord holds man
by the hand. When he is flying
above a fog bank, the Lord has to
hold him by the back of the neck.”
Proceding with his description
of the primitive lives of the Hooper
Bay Eskimos, who live in a srot of
communistic state in dugouts of
14 by 16 dimensions, Fr. Manager
said that courage was necessary to
essay a visit to these subterranean
dwellings.
Where the dwellers cannot af
ford glass, some of them use the
intestinal membrane of the seal
for window lights; where this is
not available, they cut a sheet of
ice and fit it in the hole left in
the ceiling. All other illumination
is by use of seal oil and moss
wicks.
It was into these warrens, reach
ed via a small tunnel, thru which
the occupants crawl, that Fr. Men
ager was compelled to descend to
perform such duties as baptizing
children, looking after the sick and
performing other priestly duties.
“Here is a real adventure,” he
said. As you emerge from the tun
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NEWSFLASHES
LEADERS MAY MEET
PARIS, May 19, —Premier Dal
adier and Chancellor Hitler of
Germany may meet face to face at
Geneva to talk over their troubles, i
friends cf the Premier indicated, j
* * * *
SALVAGE GOLD
BREST, France, May 19, —The;
Italian salvage ship Artiglio sailed
for a final attempt to raise ap
proximately $1,500,000 in gold still
in the strong-room of the sunken
P & O liner Egypt lying 70 fath
oms deep off Point De Raz.
* * * *
FUND BILL APPROVED
LONDON, May 19. —The equal
ization fund bill increasing the i
market stabilization fund to 350,
000.000 pounds of sterling was ap
proved in the House of Lords. The
aproval already has been voted in
the Commons.
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RATIFY PACT
PARIS. May 19, —The Chamber
cf Deputies, in a night session,
ratified the Franco-Russian pact
of non-agression. It includes Mos
cow’s pledge to abstain from
Communistic propaganda in France
and French colonies. Each agrees J
never to declare war on the other. j
CAME OUT SMILNG
SAN FRANCISCO, May 19, —
Tom Mooney came out smiling yes
terday. For the first time in 13
years iijhe prisoner whose name
is a household phrase the world
round, stepped out of San Quen
tin in civilian clothes, to come to
San Francisco
* * * *
GRUELING TEST
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 19,—|
The Senate was ready with a
gruelling test for Sam Leake, as
serted cover-up-man, whom it
had summoned from a sick bed
in San Francisco for the impeach
ment trial of his friend, Judge H.
Louderback.
* * * *
TOOK SECOND PLACE
NEW YORK, May 19, —Wash
ington took undisputed command
of second place in the American
League standing when General
Alvin Crowder pitched his second
victory over Cleveland in two days,
3-2, dropping the Indians from a
runner-up tie to third position.
* * * *
ADVANCE A NOTCH
MONTREAL, May 19, —The U.
S. team advanced to within one
match of a series of victories by
winning the opening two single
matches from Canada in the
North American Zone Davis cup
tennis final. The best three out
five matches determine the win
ner.
* * * *
FOLLOW THE LEAD
BERLIN, May 19. —The Prussian
Diet followed the example of the
German Reichstag and transferred
most of its authority to Wilhelm
Herman Goering, Prussia’s Premier.
Powers voted Goering, who is the
chief aid to Chancellar Adolf Hit
ler, are even more liberal than the
Nazi controlled Reicstag, voted Hit
ler.
POLICE CHIEF 33 YEARS
VALLEJO, Calif., May 18, —This
navy yar deity has had only one
chief of police. He is William T.
Stanford who has held the job 33
years. Stanford’s first “force” con
sisted of two men. Now he has 20
and maintains an identification
bureau and radio division.
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BECOMES “SEMINOLE”
SEBRING, Fla., May 18. —Rex
Beach, writer, has been admitted
as a “white brother” of the Semin
ole Indian tf-ibe here and christen
ed “Onta-kee.” At the same cere
mony an Indian girl Was christen
ed Mina Miller Edison, honoring
the widow of the inventor.
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CAT TREKS 275 MILES HOME
GRASS VALLEY, Calif., May 18.
—Tommy, house cat which Mrs. J.
S. Howard gave to a friend, escaped
from an automobile bearing it to
its new home, at Eureka, Calif., and
traveled 275 miles across six coun
ties to return to the Howard home.
Atlanta dealers in jigsaw puzzles
say Georgians started piecing them
together 50 years ago
NOTICE!
All those interested in enlisting
in the local reforestation unem
ployment relief program, as pub
lished previously in these columns,
are requested to get in touch to
day or this evening with Rangel
Wm. Sherman, Room; 3, Van Gilder
hotel. Men will be selected from
today’s applications and those left
at this office at Ranger Sherman’s
request. This Is no age limit, but
the first selections will be of those
with dependents; others will fol
low'.
CONFLICT IS SEEN
FEW YEARS PRESENT
COURSE PURSUED
SAN FRANCISCO, May 19. —
Conflict between the United States
and Japan within two years was
predicted by Upton Close, who has
lived in the Orient for 13 years as
newspaper correspondent, special
investigator for the United States
Department of State, Editor of a
Chinese paper, and author.
Mr. Close whose real name is
Josef Washington Hall said, “If
the nited States and Japan con
tinue to pursue their present
policies, and there is little chance
of their stopping them, war was
invetible.
USELFISHLY
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 19 —
President Von Hindenburg of Ger
many assured President Roosevelt
that Germany is decided to cooper
ate unselfishly in overcoming the
political and economic difficulties
of the present movement.
MS. DISCOVERER !N
AND OUT OF PORT,
PASSENGERS, FREIGHT
The MS Discoverer, Capt. Heinie
Berger on the bridge, arrived in
port early last evening after a fast
run from Anchorage, Cook Inlet
ports and the great bay of Iliam
na. Captain Berger pulled the
whistle cord at noon and steamed
majestically down the bay enroute
on the return voyage
The next sailing out of Seward
will be next Friday, May 26.
Incoming passengers included |
Anthony E. Karnes, commissioner |
of education; on his way to Ju
neau; Mrs. Clara Slumbarger, Ke
nai schoolteacher, and daughter,
enroute to Seattle, Miss S. Carl-1
quist, Ninilchik schoolteacher, en
route to Juneau. Mr. Ludy was an
outbound passenger on the Discov
erer for Portlock.
THE STOCK MARKET
Am. Can 82, Am. Tel and Tel.
110 7-8, Baldwin Loco. 8 1-4, Cons.
Gas 53 7-8, El. Pow and Lgt 8 1-8,
Gen. Elec. 20 3-8, Gen. Motors 23
5-8, Int. Tel and Tel. 12 7-8. Kel.
9 1-8, Mack Trux 31 3-4, Montg.
Ward 22 1-4, Nat. Pow. and Lgt
13 5-8, North Amer. 26 1-2, Pacific
G. and E- 25 1-4, Pub Ser. NJ 47
3-4, Radio Corp. 7 1-2, Stand Gas
and E 12 1-2, Stand iOl NJ 34 3-8,
Stand Oil Calif 30 3-8, Trans-j
American 6, Un. Aircraft 28 7-8,
Un Corp 8 5-8, US Steel 49 1-8,
Vanadium 20, Warner Pix 3 1-8,
Westing E. and M. 3 1-8.
THIRTY-FOUR VESSELS
BE HID DUN 1939
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 19. —
Thirty-four Naval vessels will be
laid down this year at an outlay of
about $46,000,000 under the re-em
ployment plan of the Congress.
Under the bill which accompani
ed the message, the President is to
be authorized to build the Navy up
to treaty strength, together with
authority to suspend any or all of
the program at any time a new
international agreement may be
entered into to limit Naval
strength.
SEVEN MDUITES Of
SEWIRO HIGH SCHOOL
RECEIVE DIMS
Seven young men and women
received their diplomas of grad
uation from William H. Seward
High School at Commencement
exercises held last evening in the
'rchool auditorium.
The exercises, though short in
duration, were pronounced by all
to be extraordinarily pleasing, for
faultless continuity and the beaut
iful pictures formed by the young
folks on the colorfully decorated
stage.
The keynote of the program,
prior to presentation of the class
by Supt. V. H. DeBolt, was the
Commencement address by Fr.
Merrill Sulzman. The Invocation,
C. T. Hatton, preceded the salut
aterian and valedictorian speeches
by Dorothea Fairman and Doris
Sullivan. After presentation of
the class, diplomas were aw'arded
on behalf of the school board by
R. D. Sullivan, president of the
board. The entire assembly ioined
in singing America” and Rev. E.
E. Reisner gave the Benediction.
Congratulations and gifts came
from all sides to those who w’ere
graduated: Dorothea Fairman,
Doris Sullivan. Annie Gollev, Lois
Jessen, Edwin Sandbeck, Chas.
Lang and Andy Peterson.
The exercises began at 8:30 p. m.
and were concluded at 9 p. m.
Miss Edith Kaemmer was the ac
companist at the piano
POWER TO ITTEMPT
THE SMIflTI OF
WASHINGTON. D. C.. May 19 —
An attempt to stabilize currency
of great powers on a temporary
basis in advance of the w'orid ec
onomic conference next month
is under way. the press was in
formed in diplomatic circles.
As a result of the Washington
economic conservations, officials
are hoping that the dollar, pound
and other money can be tempor
arily pegged before June 12, open
ing date of the London Parley.
Without htis step, diplomats feel
that a discussion of tariffs would
be difficult, for many tariffs rise
and fall with exchange.
It was also learned that a new
gram conference is being called
for June 3 at Bucharset where
small Central European power will
attempt to agree on policies affect
ing the prices and production of
wheat, as well as tariffs and im
portations.
No decision, it was understood,
has been reached as to the rates
on which major currencies will be
pegged. Each countrv is seeking
as low a level as possible in order
to make its goods cheaper on world
markets. Considerations is being
given to stabilization at levels ap
proximating those now existing.
That would place the pound around
3.90 dollars and the dollar at 85
cents in relation to the gold dollar.
COASTAL TRAVELERS
HIVING ON YUKON
Incoming passengers to day on
^the SS Yukon, other than the list
from Seattle, previously published,
included the following: *
Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Ingram, Joe
Hunter, Mrs. E. O. Engstrom, John
Danielson, J. A. McDonald, J. C.
Richards, Mrs. David Thore, Robt.
Morhamer, Mrs. Robert Packebush,
Frank J. Carbone, A. W. Paulsen,
Frank Brandt.
From Valdez—Judge Cecil H.
| Clegg, Louise Parcher, C. W. Min
aker, Robt. W. Taylor, Geo. J. Love,
A. C. Dowling, R. B. Oliver, H. P.
Sullivan.
CRITICALLY ILL
CANNES, France, May 19. —Lord
Wester Wemyss, former Lord of
the British Admiralty, was report
ed critically ill, suffering from
uremia.