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VOLUME XXIX. NUMBER 67.
SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22,1933.
PRICE TEN CENTS
MAJOR PROPOSALS
REFORM Of BUS
AND OF RAILROADS
CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS ARE
CERTAIN PROGRAM WILL
BE ENACTED
WASHINGTON, D. C., March 22,
—A definite and, concrete program
by President Roosevelt on reform
of banking and railroad situations,
under the new deal plans, are rap
idly shaping.
The major proposals wants Con
gress to enact banking require
ments, sworn statements of bonus
es and commissions to buyers of
securities, federal regulation of
holding companies selling securi
ties. interstate commerce, federal
authority over security exchanges,
more rigid supervision of national
banks, discouragement and pre
vention of speculation with bank
deposits, separation of commercial
investment from banking and res
triction in the use of Federal re
serve bank funds in speculative
enterprises.
Railroads—Assurance to roads
of national support, conditioned on
reorganization with due considera
tion to investors and workers and
federal regulation of competing
motorcar carriers and consolida
tions where competition is lack
ing, firm regulation of railroad
holding companies.
It is believed by Congressional
leaders that this program will be
enacted.
WASHINGTON, D. C., March 22,
—A “direct attack” on the unem
ployment problem was proposed
Tuesdav by President Roosevelt in
a sepcial message to Congress.
He estimated 250,000 men would
be put to work by early summer
if his program tor reforestation
and flood control is accepted.
President Roosevelt proposed the
establishment of the office ot Fed
eral relief administrator, and pro
cedure along three types of legis
lation. as follows:
Enrollment of workers for quiea
public employment. Grants to
States for relief works. Creation of
a broad public works labor pro
gram.
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nUILLO HU! LHU OUI1U
WASHINGTON, D. C., March 22,
—As the first step in a vast un
employment relief program, Pres
ident Roosevelt asked Congress in
a message Tuesday to authorize
the enlistment of a civilian con
servation corps of 250,000 jobless
men to work on reforestation, flood
control, soil erosion and similar
projects.
The men woulcj enlist for one
year in concentration camps and
would be paid not more than $30
a month, the same as a soldier.
They would carry picks and sho
vels instead of guns.
LOU OF HOIS IS
"HI-JIGKEB" TRUCK
LAUREL, Miss., March 22. (/Pi—
f Something new in "thi-jacking”
was reported, when a truck loaded
with pecans v as robbed of one or
more sacks.
D. B. Tillard, driver of the truck,
said the robbers drove up behind
his truck, and one man climbed out
over the hood of the pursuing
car, dropped to a step on the truck
and unloaded several sacks of the
nuts.
INEXPENSIVE EATS
WASHINGTON, D. C., March 22,
—President and Mrs. Roosevelt’s
* luncheon at the White House yes
terday cost only seven and one
* half cents per person. There’s the
menu: Hot stuffed eggs with to
mato sauce, mashed potatoes,
bread, prune pudding and coffee.
OFFICIAL SURRENDERS
NEW YORK, March 22, —Ber
nard K. Marcus, president, and
Saul Singer, vice president of the
defunct Bank of the United States,
surrendered in the general ses
sions court Tuesday to serve sen
tences of from three to six years
for willfully misappropriating the
banks funds.
MITCHELL PUGEO
NEW YORK, March 22, —Charles
Mitchell, resigned chairman of
the National City Bank, was ar
rested in his Fifth Avenue home
on a Federal warrant charging
him with a wilfull attempt to de
feat and evade the income tax law.
The warrant charged specifically
that Mitchell attempted to evade
a tax of more than $600,000 on^a
net income of more than $2,823,
000 for the year 1929.
REICRSTiG PLEDGER
SEIF TO GHKEUOR
! BERLIN, March 22, —Tire new
Reichstag solemnly pledged itself
! to Chancellor Adolf Hitler as sup
reme dictator in an emotional
first session yesterday in which
monarchism was rampant and the
former Crown Prince a conspicu
ous figure
After v. preliminary meeting in
the Garrison church at Potsdam,
where the bones of Frederick the
Great lie, the legislators met in
the Kroll opera house here, oppo
site the burned Reichstag build
ing.
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DEMPSEY ON THE JOB
j NEW YORK, March 22, —Jack
! Dempsey will act as volunteer ref
: eree at a charity boxing show in
1 utca, Friday, the Boxing comis
i sion announced
LOS ANGELES. March 22, -Fred
erick Miller, featherweight cham
pion, won eight of the 10 rounds
from “Speedy'’ Dato, the fast Fil
ipino. whom he floored for a six
count in the second round.
Dado made a brave comeback in
the third round, the only one he
-.von bv any margin, when lie cross
ed his* right to the chin, following
! it up as Miller, for a moment, be
j came panicy. From then on it was
i the champion’s fight all the way.
FLEI) WITH CASH
CHICAGO. March 22, —Six gun
j men fled with $4,000 cash, the con
! tents of a postal station depository
I and 4 private safe deposit boxes
j after dynamiting the real walls
| of the vault in a subsidiary of the
; Fargo state bank.
FLOOD TOLL MOUNTS
CINCINNATI, O., March 22, —
Relief for the flood-stricken Ohio
river valley is in sight but dowm
where the streams joins the Miss
issippi the populace viewed the
approaching water apprehensively.
Ten lives have been lost; the prop
erty damage will run into the mil
lions and five hundred families
have been driven from their homes
at Louiseville.
AUGERS DARKLY
PHOENIX, Ariz., March 22, —
Auguring darkly against her
chances to escape the noose, Ar
thur Laprade, state attorney gen
eral and member of the state
board of pardons and paroles, ac
cuses Winnie Ruth Judd of the
premeditated murder of Mrs. Ag
nes Leroi and Hedvig Samuelson.
I
FLOOD SUE CITIES
CINCINNATI, O., March 22, —
The mad Ohio river and its trib
utaries continued an unyielding
assault upon banksid e cities in
Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana last
night.
The crest of the flood rode hard
upon Cincinnati, while a score or
so of municipalities upon each
side of the p&ak water, struggled
to care for many thousands of
temporarily homeless.
UNEXPECTED DELAY IN
SENATE HELD UP THE
SEED AND WINE BILL
WASHINGTON, D. C„ March 22,
—The House completed legislation
on the beer and wine bill yesterday
but an unexpected recess in the
the Senate delayed for another
24_hours the date on which the 3.2
per, cent beverages may be sold
legally.
The plan had been for the House
to complete action on the bill and
for President Roosevelt to sign it
yesterday. This would have brot
the legal return of beer and w7ine
to the nation on April 6.
Recess of the Senate, however,
delayed sending the bill to the
White House for the President’s
signature, since the Senate must
be in session when the bill receives
i the necessary signature of Vice
President Garner.
i If President Roosevelt signs the
; bill today as is expected, the bev
! erages will be on sale in some 22
: States on April 7.
PIONEER EASSES
' SAN FRANCISCO. March 22, —
| Death yesterday ended the color
ful career of Louis Sloss. The mer
chant adventurer was a pioneer of
•Alaska and a potent factor in the
commercial development of the
North.
i MCE OBJECTING TC
PARIS, March 22, —Premier De
! ladier may go to Italy to meet
Premier Mussolini as the next step
to organize a four-nation peace
club.
j Objections of France is delaying
progress of such an allignment,
| France contending such an entente
i will divide Europe into categories
1 of antionalism and will infringe
cn the perogatives of the League
in which all members have the
same rights.
NEW YORK. March 22. —The
' international beauty shop owners
convention decided that in 1934
girls should have blue eyes, chest
nut hair should be 5 feet. 5 inches
tall and weigh 116 pounds. The
oeauties should not use cosmetics
in as large quantities and try to
keep to their natural shade with
a little lip-stick and rouge. The
hair should be bobbed short.
This is the picture the commit
tee visualized for this year.
I Ethel Hampton, a Broadway
show girl, met these qualifications.
given amm
SAN FRANCISCO, March 21, —
Capt. L. G. Richardson, command
er of the British motorship Silver
Beach, which has arrived here,
i verified recent radio dispatches
! from the Silver Beach, reporting
j an unchartered island in mid- Pa
| cific.
I “We sighted the island early in
; the morning of February 11; it was
jin latitude 31.28 north and longi
l tude 152.13 east”, Captain Richard
json said. “My officers and I are
so sure of what we saw that I
jhope to pass the same position on
my return voyage and corroborate
our findings.”
Officials of the San Francisco
j branch hydrographic office said i!
j there is further verification of the
' report a resurvey of those waters
will be ordered as the position is
directly in the Great Circle route
between Manila and the Pacific
coast.
SON ABSOLVED DEATH
COLUMBUS, O., March 22, —F.
A. Lambert died after receiving a
bullet fired by his son Samuel fol
lowing a family quarrel. He ab
solved his son of all blame say
ing the shot was accidental. Mrs.
' Lambert said she called her son
j when her husband, who had been
I drinking, was choking her and
twisting an arm.
MAJOR EARTH SHOCK
VET TO COME, DECLARES
NOTED SIESEMEOLOCIST
LOS ANGKI.ES, March 22, —The I
major earth shock of a series that
has disturbed Southern California j
in the past 20 years “is yet to;
come,” Dr. H. O. Wood, California
institute of technology and Car
negie institute siesemologist, pre
dicted here yesterday at an in
quest over the bodies of victims
of the quakes that spread death
and destruction recently through
12 Southern California cities.
Dr. Wood was completing evi
dence on the nature of the March
10 tremblor when an inquest juror,
E. M. Scofield, asked if there was
any assurance that the shocks
were ovef\
“That’s a dangerous question,”
Dr. Wood answered. “It really is
a part of scientific wisdom to an
ticipate this earthquake condition
w’ill continue until a great shock
LONG BEACH, Calif., March 22,
i —Reminiscent of "H. M. S. Pina
j fore” were 38 ships of the United
; States navy. Diapers swung in the
breeze from turrents and main
I trucks; rompers and dresses were
; carefully draped along the star
board rail.
The ships, pride of the battle and
. scouting fleet, were the temporary
1 homes of wives and children of of
ficers and sailors whose domiciles
1 ashore were damaged in the earth
i quake.
WILLIE HOPPE LEIDS
COCHUE, TiEE-HL
CHICAGO, March 22, —Willie
Hoppe, holder of the world’s 18.1
balkline billiard championship, was
leading Welker Cochrane, of San
Francisco. 100-88 at the end of the
first two blocks of their 600 point
challenge match at three-cushion
billiards. .
Cochrane had a high run of 12,
and Hoppe’s high run was six.
Cochrane recently won the three
cushion championship * which is
not at stake in the present series.
adjourned the case
MIAMI. Fla., March 22. —Master
in chancery T. J. Dowdell adjourn
ed his hearing in Mrs. Janet Al
len Walker’s divorce action after
j she had testified the former New
York mayor had deserted her des
1 pite her efforts at a reconciliaton.
AGAINST THE PLAN
WASHINGTON, D. C. March 22,
—Chairman Connery of the House
: labor committee Tuesday announc
ed formally he would not sponsor
; President Roosevelt’s employment
! relief program. He said he took
i this action because organized lab
or opposed the bill.
TIT STATION'S HIDING'
MD SO WAS RADIO SET
! ST. LOUIS, Mo., March 22, (,'P)—J■
I J. Stone, manager of a downtown
■ radio store, wondered why the
1 station he was bringing in on a
1 set in front of his shop stopped
J broadcasting without the usual
i formalities of signing off.
I Investigating, he found a thief
had disconnected the set and
made away with it.
BIG FIGHT TONIGHT
CHICAGO, March 22, —Billy Pe
trolle fights Barney Ross tonight.
Ross is working for a shot at Can
zonerri’s crown. Tonight’s fight is
a natural for him. Fifteen thou
sand fans expect to see the spoiler
of champion contenders give Ross
a tough going-over.
CAN’T SUPPRESS GAMBLING
ADELAIDE, Australia, March
22, (JP)—General Leane, commis
sioner of police in South Austra
lia, has reported to the govern
ment that he is unable to suppress
gambling. “Australians will bet no
matter what the law or the penal
ty,” he declared.
FAR-FLUNG MERGING
WASHINGTON, D. C., March 22,
—President Roosevelt is planning
a new and far-flung agency com-!
bining the Secret service, justice
department’s bureau of investiga-l
'tion, the intelligence unit of the1
internal revenue bureau and pos
tal inspectors, as part of a reor
ganization plan for economy.
I
TO OPERATE AS USUAL
—
SEATTLE March 22, —Manager
H. B. Freile of the Nakat Packing
Corporation, said his company
plans to spend approximately $1,
220,000 here and in Alaska with
the resumption of salmon opera
tions. r
Their four canneries in South
eastern Alaska will give employ
ment to 600 men who leave here
the latter part of April for Alaska.
iMMEPM
Fir ora ML WEST
KARACHI, India, March 22, —
A group of fliers Tuesday proceed
ed toward Purnea, about 160 miles
south of Mount Everest, to set up
1 a base for an attempt to fly over
the highest peak in the world.
The expedtion is led by Air Com
■ modore Peregrin Forbes Morant
Fellows, former director of airship
developments for the air ministry.
Two-seater, open biplanes will
j be used in the flights which are
i designed to map and photograph
the unknown glaciers and crevass
i es of the 29,141 foot peak.
HERBERT HOOVER IS
' HE SI POLO SLTG
PALO ALTO, Calif., March 22,—
Herbert Clark Hoover came home
! yesterday.
As former President of the United
States, he crossed the threshold
' of his home on the Stanford cam
pus, and as a private citizen of
California he closed the door on
19 years of public service.
He was smiling and buoyant as
he eargerly entered his home to
resume his life as philanthropist,
man of private affairs and esteemed
resident of a small Western town.
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WASHINGTON. D. C., March 22.
I —Administration advisers are rush
ing work on a securities control
; bill to protect the investing public
I against “blue sky” stocks and
bonds.
As soon as the details are com
pleted possibly next week, Presi
dent Roosevelt will send a message
to Congress asking immediate pas
sage.
This Federal protective measure
will cover both foreign and dom
| estic securities.
TOSSED HER OUT?
HOUSTON, Tex., March 22, —
i The State rested its case yesterday
afternoon in its prosecution of
Harold M. Edwards, 37, Reno avia
j tor and engineer, on trial on a
' charge of slaying his fiance, Ivy
! Dolly, by hurling her from a seven
story hotel window.
CHING CHOW, Manchuria. Mar.
22, —A small force of Chinese
troops entrenched near Yiyuankow
50 kilometers east of Chiehliag
Kow, was bombed by Japanese air
craft yesterday, seekng to eject
the last defenders from Jehol pro
vince.
Dispatches received here said 200
Chinese were occupying the bom
barded positions.^
PROVOCATIVE KISSING
BUENOS AIRES, March 22, —
Kissing a woman of “provocative”
appearance without her consent is
not a crime, Judge Gomez ruled
in court here yesterday. “We have
outlived the days when a kiss bes
towed in such circumstances was
considered an execrable offense,’
he said.
LEGISLATORS IN FAVOR
START CONSTRUCTION
NEW PIONEER ROME
JUNEAU, March 22, — A joint
committee of 12, comprised of
eight House and four Senate
members, sailed Saturday for Sit
ka for the biennial inspection of
the Pioneers’ Home.
The report of Superintendent
Kettleson. just received, declares
that more than 30 applicants are
now awaiting vacancies in the
Home.
Legislators are inclined to re
ject Governor Parks recommenda
tion to delay constructon of the
new Institution two years owing
to the economic crisis and wifi
make an effort to start building
this year. The matter of a site is
still undetermined, although the
Pioneers’ home commission recom
mended retention of the Sitka site
Eight new bills were introduced
in the Senate including one by the
judiciary committee wiping out
the prospectors aid act, and one by
Walker making contributing to the
delinquency of minors a felony in
stead of a misdemeanor. The rest
were minor code amendments.
MW-MIHDED
Dili BROKE UP
HIS WIFE'S RIDE
TRUCKEE, Calif., March 22, —
' Mrs. Agad Madell, 26, beaten with
an axe and suffering from razor
wounds, is in a critical condition
and a statewide search is in prog
ress for her husband, Joe, a bar
ber, who fled in an auto with his
small twin niece.
. Mrs. Madell and a young man
were found in bed by neighbors.
She told the police that her hus
band took her to the cellar, hit
her on the head with an axe and
: when she regained consiousness
she was in bed. Her body was cov
ered with slashes. She said he.
husband suffered from hallucina
tions.
STITE DEPSRTMEKT
WASHINGTON. D. C.. March 22,
—The United States moved to ob
tain from Berlin official informa
tion of complaints by American
Jews' that members of their race
were being mistreated by the fol
lowers of Chancellor Adolf Hitler,
after receiving-from a delegation,
headed by Rabbi Stephen S. Wise,
complaints of indignities and out
rages by Germans against Jews.
The State department cabled
Ambassador Sackett for detailed
information.
FIRE CHIEF SOLVED
RESCUE BOV III ILL
EL CERRITO. Calf., March 22,—
What to do when a small boy is
marooned in a well?
i The answer, worked out by Fire
Chief Ora Burnee is “pour water.”
Bonnie Davis, four years of age.
fell into his Dad’s well yesterday,
and It o na timber 10 feet be
low. Efforts to lift him on ropes
failed. So Chief Burnett used high
pressure fire pumps to fill the well
with water and Bonnie was floated.
; to the top. _
FAKES AUSTRALIA!) COINS
SYDNEY, Australia, March 22,
| (JP)—Detectives are trying to locate
a mint in China which is produc
1 ing huge Quantities of almost per
fect counterfeits of Australian sil
J ver coins.
; Three Chinese who were found
with counterfeit coins have been
deported, but anxiety has been
increased by the fact that the po
| lice in giving evidence against
; them revealed the correct formula
j used in 'Australia’s coins. With
j this knowledge private mints can
; produce perfect money.
A dollar’s worth of Australian
j coins can be made from 14 cents’
worth of silver.
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