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VOLUME XXVIII. NUMBER 188.
SEWARD, ALASKA,
FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 1932.
PRICE TEN CENTS
HOOVER IDIOCITESI
CHANCE OF DRV LAW
ATTACK DEPRESSION
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug., 12,
* OP)—Advocating a change in pro
hition, envisaging a movement
“from defense to a powerful at
tack on depression,” Herbert Hoo
ver Thursday night accepted the
renomination to the Presidency.
The states should be allowed to
deal with the liquor problem as
* they see fit, he declared, but sub
ject to constitutional guarantees
to protect each “from interference
and invasion from its neighbors,”
and that no part of the United
States shall return to the saloon
system.
In going on record in favoring
* a change, the President went be
yond the Republican platform
which was confined to the propo
sition and question that such a
change should be submitted to the
people.
In the acceptance speech the
President said he opposes cancel- i
lation of war debts but favors pro- j
tective tariffs. He insisted the;
. Navy and Army was strong enough ]
* " prevent invasion but asked for'
arms reduction above that strength.
He insisted on balanced budgets
along reduction in National, State
and local government expendit
ures and demanded sound curren
- cy; he favors restricted immigra
tion laws and advocated reorgani
zation of law enforcement agen
cies. court and legal procedure, and
development of rivers, harbors and l
highways.
‘SILENT CAL' IS LITHE
• TO SIT ABOUT POLITICS
NEW YORK, Aug., 12, —Calvin
Coclidge spent the day in New York
but living up to his sobriquet of
“Silent Cal.” he maintained a
sphinx-like silence on all subjects,!
politics included.
The only living ex-president of
the United States spent the day
quietly at the Vanderbilt hotel,
visiting with several officials of j
Amherst College, his Alma Mater,
and with Walter S. Mack, Jr., a
Republican candidate for State
Senator, and a friend of Mr. Coo
lidge.
PHILIPPINES WOULD
SILI SELVES JM
MANILA, P. I., Aug., 12, —Should
the Philippine Islands be granted
complete independence by the
United States, they may ally them
selves with Japan in a move to
lead the progressive East to full |
equality with the Western people.]
This startling possibility was the
picture painted by General Emilio
Aguinaldo, 63-year-old Filipino
military leader, who organized the
•revolt against Spain and then led
the insurrection against America
from 1898 to 1901.
COLD AND DIAMOND j
FIELDS FOUND BOLIVIA:
. CARACUS, Bolovia, Aug., 12, —
News of the discovery of important
gold and diamond fields in the Alto
Cuyuni region, to the Southeast of
.Bolivia and near the border of
British Guiana, is given much
comment in the press. This news
came close on the heels of stories
'telling of the discovery of pay dirt
on the other side of the frontier.
There seems to be ground for the
belief that Venezuela and the Gui
ana s will some day make impor
tant contributions to the world’s
store of precious metals
SOVIETS AT OIL CONFERENCE
PARIS, Aug. 12.—It was reliably
reported here that Soviet Russian
oil interests will be represented at
the international oil conference in
New York next month.
CALM AT TOKYO
TOKYO, Aug., 12, —A decided
calm hovered over Tokyo diploma
I tic circles Thursday with regard to
I action on the Stimson speech in
, the United States several days ago
in which was the possible suggest
ion Japan was the aggressor nation
in Manchuria.
! HITLER'S NEXT MOVE
OBTAIN CHANCELLOR
POST IS AWAITED
BERLIN, Aug. 12. — Germany
anxiously awaited Adolph Hitler’s
next move to win the chancellor
ship, a drive which gained momen
tum with reports that Facist storm
troopers were ready to march on
Berlin and seize the government.
Hitler’s military was concentrat
ed on the former military drill
grounds about 45 miles south of
Berlin. Reports persisted that the
Brown Shirts were planning to
march to the capital at once. With
Hitler’s chances for the chancellor
ship increased tremendously in the
last 48 hours considerable specu
lation was aroused as to other cab
inet members, in the event the Fa
cist chieftain gains power.
i
DYNAMITER KAYOED
NEW YORK, Ang., 12, —Isadore
Gastanaga, Spanish heavyweight,
knocked out Charlie Retzlaff, the
Duluth “dynamiter,” in the first
round of their 15-round fight at
the Queensboro stadium.
* * * *
CHAMP OFF GAME
ROCKVILLE CENTRE, N. Y.,
Aug., 12, —Gene Sarazen, British
and American open-golf cham
pion. failed to qualify for the Na
tional P. G. A. championship when
he scored 153 for 36 holes and lost
out in the playoff.
* * * *
COAL TROUBLES SETTLED
SPRINGFIELD. 111., Aug. 12.
The Illinois coal fields, stagnant
since last March, now surge with
activity as mine operators prepared
to send nearly 42,000 men back to
work. The men will go back to
the coal pits as a result of a new
wage agreement providing a basic
$5 day scale signed by officers of
the United Mine Workers Union.
MAKE TRIP IN 22 HOURS
NEW ORLEANS, Aug., 12, —Rob
ert Buck, the 18-year-old flyer
from New Jersey, took-off from
a local airport, continuing his
flight to Mexico City from New
Jersey, after an overnight stop
here. The youth is trying to com
plete the trip in 22 hours elapsed
time.
* * * *
GAMES BE BROADCAST
EVANSTON, 111., Aug., 12, —The
radio broadcasting of Northwest
ern University football games this
fall will not be prohibited, Athletic
Director “Tug” Wilson declared,
following his return from Los An
geles, where he attended the meet
ing of the National Collegiate Ath
letic Association.
* * # *
DEMPSEY WON BOUT
SEATTLE, Aug., 12, —Picking up
the comeback trail he started last
spring, Jack Dempsey scored an
easy victory over the 212 pound
San Francisco heavy, in a four
round bout here. Only 500 persons
attended the fight.
FAILED THIRD TIME
LONDON, Aug., 12, (£>)—Mrs. Vic
tor Bruce again failed in an at
tempt to set an endurance flying
record in her “flying bungalow,”
when she was forced down at Fe
lixstowe after less than 60 hours
aloft.
* * * *
BUCK REACHES TAMPICO
TAMPICO, Mexico, Aug. 12.—
Robert Buck, 18 year old Ameri
can aviator, who is flying from
Newark, N. J., to Mexico City, ar
rived and is expected to continue
on immediately to the Mexican
capital. He reached Tampico Wed
nesday.
PAN-AMERICAN AIRWAYS
HAVE PURCHASED THE
ALASKAN AIRWAYS, INC.
NEW YORK, Aug., 12, (^—Of
ficials of the Pan-American Air
ways announced Thursday that
it had acquired the Alaskan Air
ways, Inc., a subsidiary to the
American Airways, Inc., and would
operate it under the name of the
Pacific Alaska Airways, Inc.
With the purchase of the Alaska
company the Pan-American ex
tends its system to cover the West
ern hemisphere.
The Pan-American runs 750
miles of trunk line from Miami
to Rio de Janero and Buenos Aires.
Details of the transaction are
not yet available; neither could it
be learned whether there will be
any changes in routes or in opera
tion of the Alaskan line.
PROHIBITION ALRIGHT
WHERE IT IS SUPPORTED
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug., 12, —
President Hoover, in his accep
tance speech Thursday, supported
Secretary of State Henry L. Stim
son for his radio address in which
he assertedly intimated that Jap
an was the aggressor nation in tho
Manchurian crisis and that the
militaristic movement had been |
halted only by the pressure of
world wide influence brought to;
bear against them by the Kellog
pact and other peace pacts.
On prohibition the President said :
that this measure had been a suc
cess in places where it support
ed and added than jji places where |
the law was not observed, the 18th:
amendment was a failure.
In recent years, organic sub
stances such as starch and various |
gums have been used in flotation;
; process to influence the behavior!
! of some constituent of the gangue. j
A patent by R. S. Phelan and S.!
P. Lowe describes the use of starch :
to prevent the flotation of micace- j
ous and talcky minerals in floating ;
sulphides. By the use of starch in!
an acid circuit, mica is depressed ,
and the grade of copner concen
trate materially increased.
OLMPIC BOXING
LOS ANGELES, Aug., 12, —U. S
boxers learned they will have to
look to Canada, Argentine and It
alian fighters if they are to win
Olympic Games championships.
Representatives of these countries
made known their intention of ser
iously threatening the United
states, fistic supremacy as first and
second round bouts were run off.
SOVIETS PLAN BOND ISSUE
NEW YORK, Aug., 12, —Soviet
Russia is reported to be planning!
an international bond issue to ob- i
tain hundreds of millions of dol
lars with the possibility seen that
hope of increased purchases of Am
erican goods will speed up recog
nition by the United States gov
ernment.
VAZQEZ VELA ELECTED
VERA CRUZ, Mexico, Aug. 12.—
Gonsalo Vazquez Vela, Sec. Gen
eral of the State, was elected Gov
ernor of Vera Cruz, according to
fairly complete returns. Vela will
succeed Governor Adalberto Tejeda
in December. The Governor-elect
is expected to follow Tejeda’s rad
ical religious and socialistic poli
cies.
ADVISORY BOARD NAMED
WASHINGTON, Aug. 12.—An ad
visory board to assist the recon
struction Finance Corporation in
passing on applications for loans
for the San Francisco Golden Gate
bridge and other projects was or
ganized here. Dr. Charles D. Marx
of Stanford University, California,
was named chairman. I
FEDERAL UNDERCOVER
KENTS ALLEGED HAVE
INCITED VET RIOTING
WASHINGTON, Aug. 12.—Vet
erans’ charges that Federal under
cover agents provoked the riot re
sulting in the eviction of the bonus
marchers by the U. S. army proba
bly will be investigated by the Sen
ate.
When informed that J. W. Wil
ford, commander of the bonus
camp where the July 28 trouble
started, has filed charges with the
District of Columbia grand jury,
Senator Kenneth Okellar (Democ
rat of Tennessee) announced that
he would move for a Senate inves
tigation as soon as Congress re
convenes.
Local police confirmed that Fed
eral agents had operated secretly
in the bonus camp here, but said
they had no knowledge that the
agents provoked the disorders as
charged by Wilford in his affidavit.
FACTORIES BE EMBED
OTTAWA, Aug., 12, —According
to a measure passed by the Brit
ish Imperial economic conference,
now in session here, all manufac
tured goods or articles must be pro
duced to the extent of 60 per cent
in the Canadian empire before it
will be eligible for preferential tar
iff duties in other British lands.
This 60 per cent provision will be
in effect for one year from date and
the next year requirement will be
66 and two-thirds per cent.
Already manufacturers have be
gifn plans to enlarge their Cana
dian factories so as to be able to
take care of this preferential tar
iff provision.
NOAH BEERY BROKE
HOLLYWOOD, Aug., 12, —Noah
Beery, screen actor, was hailed
into court Thursday to answer why
he did not pay a judgement of
some $80. Noah stated that he was
bankrupt and that he owed $35,000
in small debts. He stated he had
worked only 19 days out of this
year.
PRISON F«CTOfll DUKES
COPPED IIO PLATES
CARSON CITY, Nev., Aug. 10,(/P)
—In a campaign to “sell” the
Governor and motor vehicle depart
ment on copper license plates for
1933, Warden Matt Penrose of the
State penitentiary had two sets
made at the prison factory as sam
ples.
According to Penrose, who is also
superintendent of the factory, cop
per plates will cost about 11 cents
a pair while the ordinary metal
plates cost about seven cents a set
to manufacture. He expects to
start manufacturing the 1933 plates
in October.
DEATH TOLL OF 28,000
CHANG CHUN, Manchuria, Aug.,
12, —Estimates of the number of
persons drowned in the floods
along the Sungari river, in Harbin
and nearby cities, placed the death
toll at 28,000; approximately 5300
people were injured as the flood
waters swept into Harbin, the
“Paris of the East,” authorities
said.
PACIFIC COAST
San Francisco 7, Portland 4.
Oakland 7, Los Angeles 1.
Missions 6, Sacramento 4.
Seattle 3, Hollywood 1.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
New York 7, St. Louis 6.
Detroit 6, Boston 2.
Phillies 6, Chicago 3.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Pittsburgh 5-2, Boston 2-3.
Brooklyn 10-6, Cincinnati 1-9.
St. Louis 11, Phillies 5.
TURNED DOWN VETS
MEXICO CITY, Aug., 12, —Pres
ident Ortiz Rubio, of Mexico, Thurs
day, replied to an application of
a group of United States war vet
erans for permission to settle in
Mexico and colonize lands there,
by saying that he could not per
mit them to do this.
ALASKA ITEMS OF
INTEREST IT THE
NATION'S CAPITAL
Altho Congress did not make ap
propriations for the maintenance
of agricultural experiment stations
in Alaska, Guam and the Vorgin
Islands, it did appropriate $30,000
for salaries, wages and other ex
penses connected with the care of
the properties in the localities men
tioned, until they are transferred or
sold. For the enforcement of the
provisions of the Alaska game law
the sum of $103,566 was appropri
ated. For investigations, experi
ments, demonstrations and co-op
eration in connection with the pro
duction and utilization of fur-bear
ing animals raised for meat and
fur, in the United States and Alas
ka, $62,455 was appropriated. A fur
ther sum of $102,500 was designated
for biological investigations and
i for investigations, experiments and
demonstrations in the establish
ment and increase of the reindeer
industry and of musk oxen and
mountain sheep in Alaska. For
I the employment of forest supervis
i ors, rangers, guards, maintenance
i of nurseries, etc., in the adminis
| tration of the national forest re
gions, Alaska, the sum of $133,284
was appropriated.
The Board of Road Commission
ers of Alaska, now operated under
the Department of Interior, will
have $494,310 to expend during the
current fiscal year. For better
ments, operation and maintenance,
the Washington-Alaska military
cable and telegraph system, operat
ed by the Secretary of War, will
have $161,285 available.
Continuation of the investiga
tion of the mineral resources of Al
aska has been provided for in an
appropriation of $60,000.
On the afternoon of July 22,
President Hoover signed the home
loan bank bill, which applies to
Alaska as well as to the States. The
bill will not come from the printers
for a day or two yet, but when it
does it will immediately be mailed
to all the newspapers of the Terri
tory. The purpose of the bill is to
establish a series of discount banks
for home mortgages, performing a
function for home owners some
what similar to that performed in
the commercial field by the Federal
Reserve Banks through their dis
count facilities. There are to be 8
to 12 such banks established in dif
ferent parts of the country with a
total of $125,000,000 to be initially
subscribed by the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation. Building and
loan associations, savings banks, I
insurance companies, etc., are to be ;
eligible for membership in this sys- j
tern. Member institutions are re
quired to subscribe for stock of the
home loan banks and to absorb
gradually the capital and they may
borrow from the banks upon their
notes to be secured by collateral
of sound home mortgages. The
home loan banks are in turn to ob
tain the resources required by them
thru the issue of debentures and
notes. These notes have back of
them the obligation of the mem
bers, the mortgages pledged as se
curities of such obligations and the
capital of the home loan banks
themselves. The debentures and
notes thus have a triple security.
For every expenditure for and
incident to the authorized work of
the Alaska Railroad $450,000 has
been appropriated, in addition to
all amounts received by the rail
road during the fiscal year 1933,
but $200,000 of such fund shall be
available only for such capital ex
penditures as are chargeable to
capital account.
CtLIFOHNIA ROWERS
(RE EXPECTED TO IN
SMUTS DIG DICE
—
LOS ANGELES, Aug., 12, (JP)—
Eleanor Holmes, of the New York
Women’s Swimming Association,
gave America another champion
ship Thursday by winning the 100
meter back-stroke over Bonnie
Mealing of Australia, in one min
ute, 19 and four-tenths seconds,
which is about a second slower
, than the Olmpic record.
Lenore Kight, of Hogestad, Pa.,
the famous school girl, broke the
400 meter free-style swim, captur
ing the race in five minutes, 42 and
eight-tenths seconds, clipping two
seconds from the qualification
rounds.
Helene Madison of Seattle won
her heat without extending herself.
The Japanese swimmers qualified
for all events without effort.
! U. S. rowers are now qualified
for five of the seven rowing events
with California favored to win the
eight-oared race Saturday, altho
Italy is regarded as a powerful
threat.
In the field hockey game between
| the India team and a United States
squad the India team got plenty of
exercise but not much competi
tion. They defeated the Americans
, by a score of 24 to 1.
nr profit hikes
HALT RISE OF MARKET
NEW YORK, Aug., 12, —Heavy
| profit taking today temporarily in
j terrupted the rise on the stock
! market exchange, but it was ab
sorbed before the close and prices
| rallied.
t rallied when leaders translated
their paper profits into hard cash
| in the afternoon.
The setback brought the list
down to fractions more than twro
points, the> widest decline since the
market turned upward from the
bear market low's.
MADRID, Aug-, 12, (/P)—Rioting,
burning and revolts continue in
Southern Spain as the government
laid plans to pnuish San Juaro,
leader of the revolt.
One was killed and three injur
ed at Santa Fe when guards dis
persed a group burning the Casi
no. Two other deaths were reported
at Seville.
The streets are heavily patrolled
and guards have been placed about
i churches at San Lucar and Azna
| Collar where mobs fired churches
! and where Albacim convent was
burned.
The death penalty is demanded
for San Juaro. Arrests of promi
nent monarchists continued.
DRY FORCES TO FIGHT
SUITE LIQUOR CONTROL
SEATTLE, Aug., 12, (A*)—Mrs. El
la Boole, of Brooklyn, president of
the W. C. T. U., which is holding a
convention here, in referring to
President Hoover’s proposal that
states deal with prohibition if they
saw fit, said that the “proposed
plan will be opposed by dry forces
every step of the way. That the
proposal will not solve the prob
lem but will create even more dif
ficulties.”
At Albany, New York, it was in
dicated that Governor Roosevelt
had no immediate comment to
make.
ROYALTY TO LOS ANGELES
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 12.—Prince
William Frederick and Prince Lou
is Ferdinand, sons of the former
German crown prince, are expect
ed to arrive here today after a
motor trip across the continent.