VOLUME XXVIII. NUMBER 163.
SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JULY 14, 1932.
PRICE TEN CENTS
VETERkNS IIGAIN MEET !
ON CAPITOL STEPS TO
PRESS OONOS DEMANDS
WASHINGTON, July 14, (/P)—
World War veterans again massed
on the Capitol grounds today after
a sleepless night which the vets,
term as “Police inspired’. The
police used stern measures to keep ^
the veterans from making parks in
the Capitol City their lodging.
The veterans spent the day in
marching or lolling in the shade
as the Congressmen, who have
firmly refused to grant their re
quest for immediate cash payment
of the bonus, entered the building.
There seemed to be little chance of
relief before Congress adjourns as
it is likely that Congress will act
favorably on Hoover’s request for
a time extension.
The forces at the Capitol were
further augmented by the arrival
of the California delegation Wed- j
nesday. They said they intended j
to remain in Washington until the j
bonus is paid.
It is thought however, that a
number of the veterans will make'
their application for a loan to pay
for train fare home by this evening ;
as midnight is the deadline for
making such application.
Representative Patman, who has
sponsored a number 'of veteran re
lief bills, introduced another relief
bill Wednesday which provides for
the payment of the bonus only to
veterans who are in actual need or
want. It is claimed that this would
cut the expected drain for payment
of bonuses from $2,000,000,000 to
$1,000,000,000.
Ml Hi U. S. AGREE
WASHINGTON, July 13. —Can
ada and the United States have
finally reached an agreement to
build the $800,000,000 St. Lawrence
River sea which will open every
harbor of the Great Lakes to ocean
commerce.
A treaty allowing this develop
ment is expected to be signed with
in a week or two. The project will
include the construction of two
hydro-electric plants capable of
developing 2.000.000 horse-power.
Negotiations for the construction
cf this sea-way have been under
way between the two countries for
tlie past 11 years.
LOS ANGELES. July 14. —M. N.
Hartman, San Francisco broker,
was held here for trial in the Su
perior Court on two counts of
grand theft from Mrs. Helen Mc
Kernan, sister of Jack Kearns, the
fight manager.
The charges were brought here
after Mrs. McKernan successfully
filed a civil suit. She charged Hart
man was given $100,000 with which
to buy mining stock but failed to
do so.
Police said that Hartman faced
similar charges in San Francisco.
SUICIDE ATTEMPTS FAIL.
IH TAKEN INTO CUSTODY
BAKERSFIELD, Calif., July 14—
Ernest Cox, 45, of San Francisco,
was taken into custody here after
police say he attempted to commit
suicide several times.
The police say Cox first con
sumed 50 headache tablets and
then tried to run h^> automobile
into oncoming trucks on the high
ways north of here. Several truck
drivers say they avoided only with
the greatest of difficulty smash
ing into his car. State traffic of
ficers arrested Cox after he had
failed to run his car into a mov
ing truck and when he was at
tempting to run his car into a deep
canal.
A BAD FIRE
VICTORIA, B. C. July 14. —Fire
totally desaroyed the factory and
stock shed of the Dalciel Box Co-,
here causing a loss of $60,000. The
loss was partly covered by insur
ance.
NEW BUT RELIEF llll
COMPLETED 0) BOTH
HOUSES CONGRESS
WASHINGTON, July 14, —The
new draft of the $2,112,000,000 un
employment relief bill was passed
by the House Wednesday with a
record breaking legislative vote.
The vote was 296 to 46.
The Senate passed a similar
measure a few days ago and both
Houses have sent their measures to
conference and a speedy compro
mise was expected that will pro
duce a measure which will be ac
ceptable to President Hoover who
vetoed the original bill because of
an objectional “loan clause”.
The clause requiring that pub
licity be given to all loans made
hereafter by the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation, was passed
by the House. The vote was 169 to
169 but Speaker Garner cast his
vote in favor of the amendment.
COAL FIGURES
OTTAWA, July 14. —Imports in
to Canada of British anthracite
coal exceeded those of the United
States for May, the first time in
history this has happened in any
one month. This is attributed to
retaliatory tariffs as an aftermath
to the United States tariff bill.
MEN BELIEVED DROWNED
LAS VEGAS. Nev., July 14. —A
sadden desert cloudburst loosed a
torrent of death when an auto
carrying two unidentified men was
swept off the Boulder city highway
by the force of the water. Both
men were believed to have been
drowned. The accident occurred
near the Sunset camp, on the way
to the Hoover dam.
PROSPECTS APPROACHING
OTTAWA, July 13. — Western
Canadian grain crops are weather
ing the critical month of July with
prospects approaching average with
an increasing number of districts
reporting. The three-year drought
from which that section of Can
ada has suffered appears to be de
finitely broken states W. A. Mc
dead, director of publicity for the
three Western wheet pools. He add
ed, however, that this year’s crop
can not be accurately estimated.
MANY AFTER JOB
NEW YORK, July 14. —A down
town ladies’ wear store announced
that they were seeking several ap
plicants for positions in their firm
and within a very short while Wed
nesday, some 2,000 women had
gathered in front of the store and
were fighting to gain admittance.
Plate glass windows were broken
and before order had been restored
11 women had been so injured that
they had to be taken to hospitals.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 14, —
Members of the famous Rainbow
Division of the American Expedi
tionary Forces to France are pour
ing into the city of San Francisco
j to celebrate the 14th annivarsary
' of the Marne Battle.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
New York .688
Philadelphia .588
Detroit . 568
Cleveland .551
Washington . 519
St. Louis .493
Chicago .368
Boston .213
NATIONAL LEAGUE
; Pittsburgh.569
Philadelphia.494
Brooklyn .-.494
St. Louis . 474
New York .458
Cincinnati.442
ALASKA ITEMS OF
INTEREST IT THE
NATION S CAPITAL
Henry O’Malley, Commissioner of
the Bureau of Fisheries, will start
for the Pacific coast about the
middle of June and sailed north
from Seattle July first to spend
the summer looking after official
duties in Alaska.
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The effort of the Delegate to se
cure a grazing lease for certain un
surveyed lands in Interior Alaska,
has brought forth a statement
from the Commissioner of the Gen- '
eral Land Office that the land em- i
braced in this particular applica- j
tion was located on the natural
migration route of wild caribou in;
that part of the Territory, which;
is also their natural g ra z i n g !
gound. It seems that the regula
tions under the Act of March 4,
1927, provide that leases will not
be granted for areas which em
brace the natural grazing grounds
or routes of migration of wild an
imals such as caribou.
On June 10 the House consider
ed the bill to create Federal home
loan banks, which provides that
continental United States and the
Territories of Alaska and Hawaii
shall be divided into 12 districts by
the Federal Home Loan Bank
Board. These banks are to func
tion as a reserve agency whereby
building and loan and other insti
tutions can raise funds on their
seasoned home mortgage loans. A
motion was made to strike out of
the bill, which has been advocated
by President Hoover, the words
“and the Territories of Alaska and
Hawaii.” Delegate Wickersham
and Houston, as well as others,
spoke against the amendment,
which was finally voted dow7n. Dele
gate Wickersham said: “Alaska is
the one commonwealth under the
American flag that has no debt
We have had no failure of banks in
Alaska. We are in the best finan
cial condition of any part of the
United States. We want, howrever,
to continue to develop and build
up that Territory. I have listened
to the speeches in favor of this bill
today in the hope it would pass and
that w'e in Alaska could get the
benefit of it. I hope you will not
strike out these Territories, but
will let us have an opportunity to
build them up and make them what
they are now7—great assets of the
United States.”
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In an effort to strengthen the
reindeer organization on the Se
ward peninsula the Interior De
partment recently secured the ser
vices of Glenn G. Briggs, of Chi
cago, as reindeer superintendent,
to report to General Superinten
dent Ben Mozee, at Nome. Mr.
Briggs sailed north from Seattle
on the steamer Victoria, June 2.
He is an experienced man who took
a course at the University of Iowa
in animal husbandry, and has been
employed by Armour & Co., for the
past six years.
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The Delegate has been informed
that the Department of Agriculture
is now giving serious thought to the
preparation of regulations for the
open season on Migratory birds for
1932. It is expected that soon after
July first the Secretary will an
nounce the conclusions reached.
Assurance is given that the desires
of Alaska on this subject are being
carefully considered, with the pro
bability that two different periods
will be fixed for the shooting of
birds, to conform with the dif
ferent time of flight in Northern
and Southern Alaska. Senator Wal
cott’s Special Committee on the
Conservation of Wild Life Resources
has recommended to the Secretary
of x^griculture and to the biologic
j al Survey that the open season
be either 45 or 60 days between
Oct. 1, and January 15, bag limit
j 15: the exact date for each state
to be determined by the Biological
Survey after consulting with the
game officials of each state. Last
year but 30 days shooting was al
lowed.
BREAK SLEEP AAAEADY
OCCURRED EAST NIGHT
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CHICAGO, July 14, —After being
asleep for 147 consecutive days,
Patricia MaGuire, 27, of Oak Park,
opened her eyes and smiled for the
first time Wednesday.
She is the victim of a^jmalady
that so far continues to baffle phy
sicians. Special serums were used
to arouse the girl from her stupor
with no appreciable results and
it was only Wednesday that the
girl opened her eyes and smiled
for the first time since February 15.
The morther of the girl pleaded
with the girl for a long time to
awake her and she was finally re
warded.
Previous to this the girl had only
opened her eyes.
FINNISH SQUAD ARRIVES
LOS ANGELES, July 14. — The
Finnish squad of athletes and run
ners arrived in Los Angeles Wed
nesday. Paavo Nurmi, famous Fin
nish runner, was with the lelega
tion but reports said that ,he was
suffering from a leg injury. It is
not known whether or not the in
jury is serious enough to keep the
fleet from competing in the con
tests.
• SERVICES AUCTIONED
LOS ANGELES, July 13.—Remin
iscent of Cival War days, a slave
block where unemployed men’s ser
vices will be auctioned to the high
est bidder was to go into operation
here. Men seeking work are to be
placed on the block where the
prospective employes will have a
chance to see if they are of sound
body and limb before he decides
to buy their services.
QUITTING AT 40
NEW YORK. July 14. —Babe
Ruth, “King of the Swat” Wednes
day made known his intention of
quitting active baseball playing
when he is 40 years of age. Babe
announced that he would then take
up the management of some club
but he did not definitely indicate
which club it would be. Babe Ruth
is now 33 years of age
WINS BRITISH TITLE
LONDON, July 14, —Jack Peter
son won the British heavyweight
championship when he knocked
out the title holder Reggie Meen,
in the second round of their sched
uled 15-rounder at Wimbledon
Stadium.
POLISH FLAG ALOFT
LOS ANGELES, July 14, —The
flag of Poland went aloft at the
Olympic village, making a to^al ol
15 nations already represented
here for the July 30 to August 15
competition. It announced the ar
rival of Poland’s great middle-dis
tance runner, Jannuso Kusokinski
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WAR PILOT INDICTED
FORT WORTH. Tex., July 14. —
William Ponder, Fort Worth war
pilot, who won the distinguished
| service cross for aiding an allied
plane beset by 13 German craft
was indicted by the federal grand
jury for aerial liquor smuggling
He is alleged to have violated cus
! toms and prohibition laws by tak
ing 28 cases of beer into the coun
try from Mexico wuthout paying
duty.
LONDON, July 14, (/P)—Political
leaders of Breat Britain are greatlj
disturbed with the French inter
pretation of the Franco-Britisb
agreement
officials here said that the Brit
ish position has not been changed
but in view of Eduoard Herriot’i
statement of Wednesday, an offi
cial communique was issued late
today making the British govem
j ment’s position even stronger.
Britain denied that the agree
| ment between herself and France
referred in any way to the United
States loans as interpreted bj
France.
STRUCK BY HEAT WAVE
CHICAGO, July 14, (/P)-Many
prostrations are reported as a re
sult of the heat wave which smote
the East and Mid-west Wednesday.
AIMEE MG PHERSON
IN CRITICAL CONDITION
TAKEN TO A HOSPITAL
LOS ANGELES, July 14, (£>)—
Aimee Semple McPherson Hutton
today was sent to a hospital from
the Lake Elsinore resort where she
has been recuperating from a ner
vous breakdown. Doctors said that
Aimee was in a critical condition
and reported that she had lapsed
into a coma Wednesday night.
Aimee had been somewhat ill
since over a year ago and her ill
ness was aggravated by a tropical
disease. To add to her misfortune,
she suffered a concussion on the
brain when she collapsed and fell
on the concrete floor on hearing
that her husband Dave Hutton had
lost a breach of promise suit to
Miss Myrtle S. Pierre.
Aimee has much trouble ahead
of her when she recovers suffi
ciently from her illness as she
must face charges of irregularity
in the conduct of the charity divi
sion of Angelus Temple.
MAKES STAND KNOWN
LONDON, July 14, —Acting Pre
, mier Stanley Baldwin, of the House
! of Commons, declared it was not
practicable for Great Britain and
i her vast world-wide interests to re
i duce the number of. naval units
below a certain safety level but it
would be possible and desirable by
i other means to reduce armaments
by reduction of gun calibers, size
of capital ships and first class
; cruisers, a one-third reduction of
destroyers and the abolition of
submarines.
WILL RESUME FIGHT
LOS ANGELES, July 14, —Mrs
Aimee Semple McPherson Hutton
wife of “Baby Boy” David L. Hut
ton, who has just lost a breach ol
promise suit to a pretty Pasadena
nurse, announced from her bedside
at Lake Elsinore, that her main
thought now is to regain hei
strength so that she can reorganize
j the Angelus Temple, which she
heads. She is desirous to reorgan
ize the relief agencies of thal
church so that relief can be extend
ed to some of the persons in need
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FORMS NEW ALLIANCE
WASHINGTON, July- 14. —Sen
! ate Democrats and the Progressive
| Bloc have formed a last minute
alliance for currency expansion ir
an effort to increase commodity
prices. Their measure is the Glass
bill making $1,000,000 of United
States bonds eligible for use as a
basis for currency issued by the Na
tional banks.
is at itn nt,tunu
NEWARK, N. J., July 14, —Ame
lia Earhart Putnam, one of the
leading aviatrixes of the world to
day, who only recently completed
a solo flight across the.Atlantic
and who the other day broke the
Ruth Nichols trans-continental
flight record, announced her in
tention of going after several oi
the flight records now being held
by men. Mrs. Putnam will proba
bly tackle the trans-continental
record first.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
New York 5, St. Louis 3.
Boston 8, Detroit 7.
Cleveland 7, Philadelphia 5.
Washington 15, Chicago 4.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Boston 5-10, Pittsburgh 1-5
Philadelphia 3, Cincinnati 2.
Brooklyn 5, Chicago 4.
St. Louis 5, New York 2.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
San Francisco 8, Missions 5.
Seattle 2; Sacramento 4.
Portland 4; Oakland 5.
Los Angeles 4; Hollywood 1
SOUTH AMERICA IS
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, July
14, (JP)—A complete and sudden
break in the diplomatic relations
between Argentina and Uruguay
has been added to the boiling caul
dron of South American dissentions
and revolts. Included in the “pot”
are the revolts in Brazil, Peru and
Ecuador, and the collapse of nego
tiations seeking to end the ancient
feud between Paraguay and Boliv
ia over a disputed boundary line.
The Uruguayan government an
nounced her severance of relations
with Argentina because the latter
showed a disposition to believe that
former President Severo Toranzo,
of Argentina, who is now living in
exile in Uruguay, was aboard a
Uruguayan cruiser when that ves
sel appeared to celebrate the Ar
eentina Independence Day on July
9.
DELEGATION LEAVES
LONDON July 14, —Stanley Bald
win and members of the delegation
which will attend the British eco
nomic conference which opens at
Ottawa on July 21, left London
Wednesday. Seven premiers of the
various British dominions will be
present at the meeting and they
are accompanied by the various
public officials and newspaper men
from the sections which they rep
resent. Baldwin headed the Lon
don delegation.
CONEY ISLAND PLAYLANO
SWEPT BmOSTLY FIRE
CONEY ISLAND. N. Y„ July 14 —
A match held in the hands of an
irresponsible small boy caused a
fire which destroyed pleasure
equipment over an area of five
blocks in this amusement mecca.
Thousands of pleasure seekers
had their lives endangered as the
flames swept rapidly over the
; structures but no one was reported
to have perished. Hundreds of
| cars were consumed by the flames.
Fire fighters were directed from
the air by police planes who flew
j overhead.
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LONDON, July 14. —Prime Min
j ister Ramsay MacDonald, home
! from Lausanne, drove from the
railway station to his officia1 resi
! dence, remained only long enough
i to dress and then went out for
I an audience with the King at
Buckingham Palace.
“I’m glad to be back. We had a
strenuous time but it was an ad
I mirable cause. I hope this will be
j the beginning of new confidence
! and hope of good honest hard
wrork.”
i cmiromim officii;
MEET TO OBI EXPENSES
SACRAMENTO, Calif., July 14
Armed with figures proposing wage
cuts from five to 14 per cent for
all state employes, elective offic
ials held a meeting with Governor
James J. Rolph, jr., and outlined
their plans in a battle to reduce
j the state expenses.
State Controller Ray Riley, State
! Treasurer Charles G. Johnson, At
| torney General U. S. Webb, Supt.
| of Public Instruction V. Kelley and
Fred Ewart, chairman of the board
of equalization advanced the pro
posal.
Under their plan the maximum
salary of the administrative and
executive office holders would be
fixed at $5,000 and then subjected
to a reduction of a seventh.