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VOLUME XXIX. NUMBER 122.
SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MAY 25, 1933.
PRICE TEN CENTS
PROMINENT MEN
OF TOE NOTION WERE
FIRED 8! MORGAN
WASHINGTON, D. C.. May 25.—
A financial transaction by which
* men high in the Nation’s official
and business life were permitted
to realize thousands of dollars in
profits without risk or delay was
revealed in the Senatorial inquiry
into the affairs of J. P. Morgan &
Co.
Secretary of Treasury William
H. Woodin and other prominent
, men were revealed as on the list
/ of those permitted to make “ground
i ^ floor’’ purchases of securities thru
Morgan & Co.
The list also contains the names
of former Secretary of the Navy
Adams, John J. Rascob. Senator
William G- McAdoo, General
Pershing, and Col. Clias. A. Lind
bergh.
niun ERMINE
OVER IS PLIEERS SNIP
ONI RE LONS SLUMP
NEW YORK, MAY 25. — For the
first time in more than three
weeks, Henrich Louis Gehring de
* voured his pickled eels with gen
uine relish and creases of worry
were smoothed from the classic
brow of George Herman Ruth.
The great home-run famine was
over and all was well wth the
world. The artillery of the home
run twins of New York Yankees
roaded again at Yankee stadium
yesterday as both sluggers leaped
out of their slump. Ruth hit his
sixth homer of the year in the first
inning of the game with Clevaland
and Gehring smashed number in
the third. Neither had hit one since
April 13.
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’ RID I VERT POOR YEAR
SAN FRANCISCO, May 24, —
Modern prospectors in California
produced 30.880 ounces of gold,
worth $493,837, during the last
year, according to an announce
ment from the United States
Bureau of Mines.
With nearly 12,000 individuals
working, prospectors received an
average of $41.12 for the year’s
labors, according to the estimate.
EITHER IND ADOPTED
LOS ANGELES, May 25, —A
father may marry his adopted
daughter under California law, ac-1
cording to a ruling by County j
Counsel Everett A. Mattoon.
Mr. Mattoon was called upon to
render a legal interpretation
when James Putney Thomas, 52,
and his adopted daughter, Eloise
Washburn Thomas. 25, applied for
a marriage license. They plan to
marry shortly.
WON BY A NOSE
BOWIE, Md., May 25.—Speeding
thru the field in the final furlong,
Ladino, a long shot, got up in time
to win the featured fourth race at
the local course, by a nose.
international
MEXICO CITY, May 24. —The
University of California baseball
team fell on Angulo for the four
runs in the first inning and de
feated the Aztecs, 8 to 2, in the
third game of the international
series. The Mexican outfit had
won the first two contests.
HOUSE APPROVES $21,009
LOWELL CREEK WORK.
WIRES DEL. DIMOND
Leon Urbach, president Seward
Chamber of Commerce.
WASHINGTON. D. C., May
25, —The House today adopt
ed the conference report on
the Deficiency Bill in which
is included $21,000 for Lowell
Creek, Seward, Alaska. Antici
cipate early approval by the
President.
A. J. Dimond.
Delegate to Washington.
! NEW YORK. May 25, —Develop
! ments yesterday in the World dis
! armament conference at Geneva:
I The United States assumes new
I responsibilities in maintainance of
j European peace as Ambassador
Davis announces Washington gov
ernment is prepared to confer with
other powers in violations of the
Briand-Kellogg pact.
The United States is now re
garded as a “consultative mem
ber” of the League of Nations.
At Berlin, German newspapers
hail President /Roosevelt’s recent
world message as definite evidence
that the United States is now an
active participated in European
problems.
At London, Lord Beaverbrook
asserts Congress will never allow
the United States to become in- j
volved in European wars, assert
ing Europe has misinterpreted the
Roosevelt and Davis pronounce
ments.
RAGE HOUSE IN
IMPRESSIVE VICTORY
JAMAICA, N. Y„ May 25, —Gold
en Way, racing for J. E. Widener,
coasted to an impressive victory
in the Montana Purse, for three
year olds at a mile and 70 yards,
which featured the program here.
The Belair studs, Jovious was
second and Flying Dragon third
in the field of six. Mack Garner,
the veteran who is taking a new
lease of saddle life, handled Gold
en Way with confidence.
REVIVE THE FOLLIES
HOLLYWOOD, May 24, —Billie
Burke, stage and screen actress
and widow of Florenz Ziegfield,
planned to return to New York!
shortly to revive the Ziegfield Fol
lies under her own sponsorship,
according to her attorneys.
GOT REVENGE
SEATTLE MAY 25. — As a south
paw of a few years ago, Fred Len
hart, Tacoma’s feather weight,!
was knocked out by Larry;
Johnson but the former gained!
some revenge here last night
as an orthodox battler when he
won a clean cut decision over the
beanpole negro in an eight-round
boxing bout.
WILL TAKE A CHANCE
PARIS, May 25, — Suzanne
Lenglen, former world’s tennis
champion, told the Continental
Daily Mail that she was willing
to play Helen Wills Moody “but on
my own terms. I must make a for
tune out of it,” the newspaper
quoted her as saying.
CADET FOUND ALIVE
WEST POINT, N, Y., May 25, —
Cadet John S. Connor of the U.
S. Military Academy, who disap
peared from the academy Sunday
night after leaving an alleged
suicide note, has been found alive,
it was learned last night.
TOM MOONEY FOUND
NOT GUILTY ON OLD
MURDER INDICTMENT
i SAN FRANCISCO, May 25. —A
| directed verdict of not guilty,
reached by a jury of six men and
six women who did not leave the
jury box, ended the trial of Tom
Mooney on a murder indictment
| remaining from the 1916 Prepared
ness Day bombing.
The moment the verdict was
read. Jail Superintendent Dennis
Hansen snapped handcuff’s over
Mooney’s wrists, leading him out to
a waiting car for the return to his
life sentence at San Quentin.
“I’m happy still,” were Mooney’s
parting words. Superior Judge L.
H. Ward directed the verdict when
I the prosecution, immediately upon
completion of the jury, announced,
! “the people rest.”
BUTTLE IT RIVERSIDE
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RIVERSIDE, Calif., May 25, —
A battle raged between nudists of
“Elysian Fields” and the law. Hob
art Glassey, nudist colony director,
here to stay.” Glassey said. He em
ployed a battery of attorneys to
defied orders to evacuate.
“We hav a six year lease. We
oppose efforts to oust the colonists.
District Attorney Erl Redwine had
ordered the colonists to dress .. or^
move out by Sunday. Curiosity
j seekers hindered the work of Direc
tor Glassey.
JUDGE EXONERATED
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 25.—
The Senate exonerated Federal
Judge Harold Louderback on all
five of a House bill of impeach
! ment charging him with irregu
! latrities in various receivership cas
es that came before him in the
Northern California court.
WILL LIQUIDATE ST
SURPLUS COFFEE STOCK
RIO DE JANEIRO, May 24, —
The Brazilian government expects
to liquidate all surplus stocks of
coffee by July of this year, Pres
ident Armando Vidal, of the Nat
ional coffee department, revealed.
Elimination of the surplus will
enable Brazil to start the 1933 cof
fee year without the possibility of
millions of pounds of bags of cof
fee being dumped unexpectedly on
the market with a consequent de
moralization in prices.
‘SimCLEir LEWIS
■ FROM STEIN
CHICAGO, May 25. —Ed “Stran- j
gler” Lewis, 261 pounds of Glen-j
dale, California, defeated Sammy!
Stein, 205, pounds of New York, j
winning two out of three falls.
Lewis won the first fall in 15.5G
with a headlock. Stein took the
second in 1.47 with flying tackle,
and the old gentleman came back
to win the deciding fall with a
body slam in 8.41.
MOTHERS ARRIVE
PARIS, May 25, —The first group
of American World War mothers
and widows of the 1933 pilgrimage
arrived in Paris.
MINE DIVIDEND
NEW YORK, May 25, —The Pio
neer Gold Mines Co. declared a
quarterly dividend of 15 cents a
share, placing the stock on a 60
cent annual basis. Previously the
company paid 24 cents annually.
ON LAST VOYAGE
j VANCOUVER, B. C., May 25. —
: Captain Gustave Follomer, 65, well
! known skipper of British Columbia
j and Arctic waters, died after a
months illness. He was in com
mand of the Hudson Bay Trader
Lady Kinderley which was caught
! in the ice and with 24 men aban
doned a million dollars worth of
fur.
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NEW YORK, MAY 25. — The
stock market boomed one to three
ponts to new heights for the year
as bullish enthusiasm wras fanned
to fever heat by official an
nouncement that the administra
tion had launched its inflation pro
gram.
Further stimulas was provided
by fresh gains in the important
business barometers of steel and
power production and railroad
freight traffic. The uprise in stocks
was accompanied by buying i n
bonds and commodities, while the
dollar was firm against foreign
currencies.
United States issues and specu
altive rails led the bond market
up on a broad front. Wheat and
corn, with gains running to two
cents a bushel, set a furious pace
for commodities. Trading in stocks
was on an enormous scale and the
ticker fell eight minutes behind
the first hour. Profit taking on the
bills brought no recession from
highs.
WANTS TO KNOW
NEW YORK, May 25.—Will Rog
ers left by plane to visit Wash
ington, where he will dine with
President Roosevelt. He told re
porters: “I want to see why a
dumb guy like me pays an income
tax and Morgan don’t.”
ELECTRICAL STORM
PHILADELPHIA, May 25, —Rid
ing a 70-mile gale out of the
Northwest, the worst electrical
storm in years hit the Phladelphia
area, caused three deaths, serious
ly injured other persons and dem
oralized the entire city.
SHIP CIRCLES RALLY
IMPROVEMENT PLAN
SAN FRANCISCO, May 24. Pacific
Coast shipping circles rallied
strongly to the proposal of the
House Rivers and Harbors commit
tee for explenditure of $1,500,000
for rivers and harbors improve
ments in the San Francisco Bay
region. ,
The committee has recommended
also expenditure of a similar am
mount for improvements in Ore
gon and Washington shipping in
terests.
UNEMPLOYED SAILORS
“LIE LIKE TROOPERS”
! SEATTLE, May 25. —Unemploy
ed sailors “lied like troopers” for
the privilege of being wrecked in
Bering Sea by an “infuriated
whale”.
Captain Louis Lane of Nome,
who is attempting to recruit a
crew of oldtime whalers to take
part in a movie, said the men told
some tall ones of their alleged
experiences as whalers but all but
three stories failed to hold water
under examination. The Skipper
is hopeful of eventually raising a
crew.
Jack Lean, from Cooper’s Land
ing, lower Lake Kenai, came into
town yesterday for a brief visit.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
New York 1, Cincinnati 3
Brooklyn 5, Pittsburg 6.
Philadelphia 2, Chicago 5.
Boston at St. Louis postponed
on account of rain.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Detroit 3, Washington 1.
St. Louis 4, Philadelphia 7; call
ed at the end of the 6th because
of rain.
Cleveland at New York and Chi
cago at Boston, postponed, rain.
PACIFIC COAST
Sacramento 5, Hollywood 11.
Oakland 6, Missions 9.
San Francisco 2, Portland 6.
IF 18TH AMENDMENT
IS REPEALED EMERGENCY
TAXES ELIMINATED
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 25 —
Emergency taxes will be eliminated
if the 18th amendment is repeal
ed, President Roosevelt said yes
terday.
This means, he explained, the
automatic abolishment of those
levies that now are in effect and
are contemplated, such as the pro
posed $220,000,000 program for fin
ancing of the huge public works
program.
The President believes sufficient
revenues will accrue as the result
of repeal to enable the government
to accomplish this reduction in
the tax schedule.
Mr. Roosevelt declined to dis
cuss the overwhelming vote for re
peal in New York State except to
remark laughingly that ,;my home
district went wet.”
STATUSJTHORITY
PEIPING MAY 25 — A showdown
over the status of Peiping appear
ed imminent as Chinese troops dis
puted the authority of Japanese
forces which entered the city Tues
day. Twenty members of the Jap
anese legation guard, reinforced
by 600 troops from, Tientsin
mounted the eastward wall of
Peiping and ordered the Chinese
garrison to evacuate immediately.
The Chinese flatly refused, pend
ing instructions from their officers.
THE ONLY WIN
CHICAGO, May 25. — Lonnie
Warneke and Gabby Hartnett, the
Chicago Cub battery, took full
charge of defeating Philadelphia,
5 to 2 for the National League
champions only victory in the
three-game series.
SPANNING CONTINENT
FLOYD BENNETT AIRPORT, j
Brooklyn, N. Y., May 25, —Frank
Hawks, noted speed flyer, left for
Los Angeles with stops at St,
Louis, Kansas City, Wichita or
Denver planned.
FRUSTRATE ELOPEMENT
RENO, Nev., May 24: —Reno po
lice frustrated an elopement wrhen
they apprehended Irene Mann, 16,
and Orville Cooper, 21, of Oakland,
and held the girl in jail until her
father arrived to escort her home.
BUSINESS OCTOPUS
NEW YORK, May 25.—The pow
erful Dupont interests of Wilming
ton, Del., have purchased the con
trolling interest in the $20,000,000
Remington Arms Co., Inc.
FATHER IS WEAK
POONA, India, May 25,—Devdas
Gandhi, son of the Mahatma, in a
cable to his brother in South Afri
ca, said that their father was un
able to sit up by himself or
even to turn in bed
The fine, big cannery steamer
Dellwood, former U. S. cableship,
owned by the P. E. Harris Co.,
I arived in port at an ealy hour
I this morning from False Pass.
P. E. Harris, prominent pioneer
cannery man, is aboard, accom
panied by Mrs. Harris, their
daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and
Mrs. John H. Johnson; and a
; party of friends and relatives. In
cluded among the guests are Mr.
j and Mrs. G. M. Nolter of Portland;
| Mrs. S. A. Erickson and Mrs. L. B.
Jacobs, sisters of Mrs. Harris; Mrs.
, Kent Allen, Mrs. Harris's niece,
and her daughter. Miss Exie Al
len; and Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Har
ris.
Bernard R. Hubbard, S- J., not
ed Alaskan explorer and instructor
of geology at Santa Clara Univer
sity, and his party, left the vessel
at False Pass enroute to Shishal
din volcano.
Townsfolk are having a royal
i good time today visiting with the
! prominent visitors who, it is hop
ed, may remain for three or four
days.
WILLING TO SELL
DlttlGHTER FOR Sill
! CENTRALIA, ILL.. MAY 25. —
| Mrs. Eva Leino was awaiting a re
| sponse to her want ad in a local
j newspaper offering to sell her three
i year old daughter for $500 in order
j to care forth other children.
“Will sell my daughter, beautiful
: baby girl, 3 years old, for $500 as
1 the last resort of living.” read the
' offer, "or will exchange for a few
days, a week work for its father to
make a living for the remaining
five in family.”
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 25,—
Finding it would save only $5,500,
000, Secretary of the Navy Swan
son announced abandonment of
the plan to lay up one-third of
the high seas fleet in rotating re
serve.
! The announcement followed an
I exhaustive survey, first revealed
! by the press, announced two weeks
| ago, which disclosed that besides
saving only a small sum. and
would cause grave depreciation of
a ship efficiency and undermine
the morale of the personel.
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JACOBS. IS COLLEGIATE
TRENTON N. J., MAY 25. — Joe
Jacobs, manager of Max Baer, has
gone collegiate. Like Yale and
Princeton, he decided to abolish
scouting, as far as Schmeling’s
coming fight with Max Baer is con
cerned.
Sending a scout to Baer’s Atlan
tic City camp to spy on the Calif
irnoa heavyweight, Jacobs decided,
would be a waste' of time and im
portant, money.
KILLED GHOST
POMONA, Calif., May 25.—Tales
of a “ghost coyote” have been
heard in this city for some time.
Recently Roy p. Cayton killed the
animal. It was pure white.
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Mrs. E. J. Cronin, wife of the
well-known Anchorage business
man, was among Wednesday’s ar
rivals from the Railroad City.
“Wear A Poppy