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MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
\ VOLUME XXIX. NUMBER 156.
SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1933.
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CONFERENCE OELEGITES I
r. HE STILL HOC-TILD j
BV DIS1GREEMLNTS
LONDON, July 6. —In American
quarters it was said that it might1
be the best policy to disband the l
World Economic Conference as it
seems impossible to keep the par
■'i ley going at this time.
The American delegates ex-(
changed communications with Pre- i
sident Roosevelt in an effort to
discover means of saving the con- ■
clave from collapse while France j
and the gold bloc countries were]
waging an equally strenuous fight
(‘for adjournment.
Acting under new instructions
and orders from President Roose
velt Secretary of State Cordell Hull
carried the battle into an opening
^ meeting of the steering committee j
which had been expected to pro
nounce the death sentence of the(
parley without any active opposi-,
tion. One of the bitterest conflicts!
yet seen in this parley developed
at the meeting. The conflict lasted
for three and one half hours be- j
fone the exhausted participants
adjourned for lunch without hav
ing reached any decision- The del
egates indicated that not only had
no decision been reached but the
situation is also wholly confused.
Unofficially the position of the
^Economic conference is somewhat
as follows:
France and her gold allies are
unwilling to concede that the con
ference should continue to deal
with any questions except those
relating to marketing and produc
tion; the gold countries are adam
antly opposed to any discussion of
tariffs and monetary problems.
The United States, Canada and
^Sweden are equally insistent that
s many other matters could be
dealth with successfully.
Secretary Hull, supported by Ja
pan, Canada. Sweden. Mexico and
China has made a proposa1 that
subcommittees be named to do all
that is possible to pave the way
for the eventual reconvening of
an international congress.
^ The adjournment of the confer
ence was reported to have been
agreed upon for today following
a canvass of leading delegates by
Premier MacDonald.
CHICAGO, July 6. —Johhny Liv
ingstone, one of the nation’s fore
most stunt and speed fliers, added
$5,000 to his winnings in compe
tition by finishing first in the
trophy race of the American Air
races here.
Livingstone attained an average
speed of 204.54 miles an hour and
htne fastest time of the races so far
^ ' nf 213.40 miles an hour in the
fifth lap.
THREE STILL MISSING
NEW YORK, July 6. —The Coast
Guard announced that a final
check of the havoc caused by the
week-end storm, and reported that
aj^ but three of the persons believ
ed missing on disabled barges had
been accounted for.
Smouldering moss on Grant creek
flared anew for the second time
last -week. Three forest-rangers
fieve rushed to the locale by rail
oad speeder and motorboat and
subdued the growing flames with
in six hours.
Enroute to the States on busi
ness E. P. Manning, Moose Pass
miner, arrived in Seward Wednes
< day. Mr. Manning departs for thei
* south on Friday’s steaiper. 1
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, STUDY RECOGNITION
WASHINGTON, July 6. — The
United States is going to make
an official study of the problems
involved in the recognition of Rus
sia. Lawrence Steinhardt, minister
to Sweden, has started for Europe
on that specific mission.
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| TERRACE, B. C. July 6. — The
Bellanca monoplane which is to
be ued in search for James Mat
jtern, piloted by William Alex^n
ider and a crew of three men, was !
to take off from here this morning j
to make the remainder of its!
flight to Nome after landing in
hayfield near here.
The plane passed over Hazelton
at 10:55 Wednesday and spent
five hours n locating a suitable
place to land because of poor vis
ibility and a shortage of gas which
made an attempt to reach White
horse hazardous.
! The plane wall go to Nome via
White Horse and Fairbanks.
HOLLYWOOD, July 6. —Mary
Pickford, “ America’s Sweethejart,”
of the films, was back in seclusion
I Wednesday at Pickfair, after mak
!ing her first public appearance
I since the announcement of her
[separation from Douglas Fair
banks, Sr.
Miss Pickford narrowly missed
being in an airplane accident. The
tail skid on the plane that was to
have carried her from the United
Airport to the Municipal Airport
for the National Air Races broke. I
DOLLAR FLUCTUATES
i LONDON. July 6.—The Ameri-,
can dollar rose slightly on the
London Exchange Wednesday, op
ening at $4.48V2 to the pound sterl
ing after closing at $449% Tues
day. In unofficial Paris trading,
however, the dollar struck a new
jail-time low being equal to 18.90
francs.
IS A WHALER NOW
SAN FRANCISCO, July 6. —The:
Grace Line steamer Santa Lucia
: qualified as a whaler when she ar- |
(rived at Victoria with a 35-foot j
| sperm whale impaled on her bow, j
i according to a report to the of
fices of the company here from
Capt. Walter Prengel, master of
the vessel. The whale was discov
ered when she docked at Victoria
Wednesday.
« MOLLISOHS WILL
DOUBLE-GROSS MIC
I CARMLANTHEN, Wales, July 6.
—The flying Mollisons, luckless in
their attempt to take off from
Croydon airport on their “greatest
gamble” will try to double-cross
the Atlantic from the P e n d i n e
Sands runaway.
On a venture planned as a spec
tacular swan song to their long
| distance flying careers, they ex
pect to start for New York Friday
from the seven mile beach.
WON CLIMAX RACE
LOS ANGELES, July 6. — Ros
coe Turner won the climax race
of the 1933 National Air Races but
had to wait until Wednesday to
learn if he could keep the rewards
of victory. The airman sent his
monoplane 10 times around the
10-mile closed course in a few se
conds under 25 minutes, a speed
better than 241 miles an hour.
FR. HUBBIRD FORCED
TO GO ID FUSE PISS
RESTOCK 0008 LKRDER
Bad luck has apparently been on
the trail of Father Bernard R. j
Hubbard and party, who are mak
ing a study of volcanic mountains
and formations in the Aleutian Is
lands again this year, according to
word brought to Seward by Pete
Wold, master of the MS. United.
Capt. Wold said that on June 14
he was to have contacted Fr. Hub
bard at a designated place on Uni
mak Island, near to Mount Shi
shaldin, the mountain which the
“Glacier Priest” is attempting to
photograph. Capt. Wold said that
he was unable to get to Unimak
Island on the fourteenth but ar
rived there two days later. The
Hubbard party by this time had
left for the False Pass cannery as
they had run out of grub and the
cannery w*as the only source of
provisions in that vicinity.
Fr. Hubbard and his party had
climbed Shishaldin before they ran
out of grub but it seems that bad
luck had already started to dog
their trail. WTien they came to the
crest of Mount Shishaldin the
clouds and fog obscured every
thing so that it was impossible to
secure any good photographs.
Fr. Hubbard, after obtaining food j
supplies at False Pass, was to re- I
turn to Shishaldin and reclimb the i
peak in the hope that better wea
ther conditions would be encount- j
ered
It is thought that at present
the ‘Glacier Priest” is on location
for the climb or is making the
climb.
W- J. Boyd, resident at Riddiford,
pn lower Lake Kenai, for many
years, who has been in town on
business, left today for his Lake
| home.
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SEEKING DETAILS
WASHINGTON, July 6. —Details
j of rail stock deals were sought by
Ferdinand Pecora as the Senate
; investigation committee sought
! to resume its hearing today.
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HOLLYWOOD ROBBERY
HOLLYWOOD, July 6. — More
than $10,000 in silver and currency
was taken by three men who held
up a branch of the Bank of Am
erica here late Wednesday.
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CHECK-UP MADE
SAN FRANCISCO, July 6.—Three
persons were killed and 40 injured
in fireworks explosions, automo
bile and airplane accidents over
the July 4th holiday which took
a toll of 170 dead over the nation,
a checkup Wednesday revealed.
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ONE-STOP FLIGHT
LOS ANGELES, July 6. —Amelia
Earhart Putnam, first woman to
fly the Atlantic, planned to take
off from the United Airport Wed
nesday midnight on a one-stop
fight to Newark, N. J.
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VINES BEAT COCHET
WIMBLEDON, Eng. July 6. —
Ellsworth Vines, Jr., defending
Wimbledon champion, defeated his
most formidable antagonist, Henri
Cochet, the brilliant French play
er, Wednesday, 6-2, 3-6, 3-6, 6-1
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REJECT OFFER
TOKYO, July 6. —The Manchu
kuo delegation to the North Man
churia railway conference Wednes
day flatly rejected the offer of
Russia to sell her half interest in
the Chinese Eastern Railway for
250,000,000 gold roubles.
PLAN CONSERVATION |
WASHINGTON, July 6.—The Na- |
tional Industrial Recovery Associa
tion’s fair trade code for the lum
ber industry may be made the ba
sis of a sweeping conservation
movement for the protection of
forest, water and soil resources,
said officials. «
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FEWER CMS
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WASHINGTON, July 6. — Indi-j
cations were seen at the capital;
that President Roosevelt now be
lieves that the United States, for
the time being, can make better
domestic progress against the de
pression by avoiding further in
ternational commitments and some |
inter-commitments.
Interpreters of political events!
claim they have found many signs
of the developing of a theory of
American s e 1 f-sufficiency. Among
these they said were the presi
dent’s attitude toward the World!
Economic Conference and the Un- j
ited States, withdrawal from the
International Convention for the
Abolition of Import Prohibitions
and Restrictions.
guuhIleT
TO SUBDUE CONVICTS
j BROOKSVILLE, Fla., July 6. —
National guardsmen hurried to the
jTooke Lake prison camp with a
I determined offensive to smash the
j mutiny being staged there by
30 striking convicts.
The convicts, described by jail
ers as “bad actor s”, barricaded
themselves in the stockade and
with machetes, knives, clubs and
bottles they have defied prison
authorities since Tuesday noon.
Real trouble was expected in
storming the stockade as the con
victs are striking because the par- j
| don board failed to act favorably
on their pleas for clemency.
IS WORKING HARD
i WASHINGTON, July 6. — Price
jrises, wages and the government’s
! huge public works program were
!some of the domestic problems fac
ing the president after his brief
sea-going vacation.
GOBS ARE CHEERED
SAN FRANCJSCO, July 6. —The
i 10,000 officers and men of the
fleet were having a final fling here
before leaving for Puget Sound
maneuvers. They were cheered by
the anouncement that Secretary of
the Navy Claude Swanson would;
ask $77,000,000 to modernize thej
navy.
iDEW SUITES BEPUSE
i FIGHT BEMUSE BEIT
PORTERVILLE, Calif., July 6. — j
Twenty rattlesnakes and an equal
number of the rattlers’ deadly en
emy, the king snake, coiled up and
went to sleep in a “battle royal”
arena at Springville, several miles
east of here.
That was the peaceful outcome
to an anticipated battle royal be
tween the 40 snakes.
The sun blazed down and the
snakes decided it was too hot to
fight. The mercury wTas over 100
degrees.
TRAVEL INCREASES
SYDNEY, Australia, July 6. —
Travel between the United States
and Australia has been increasing
steadily for several months, ac
cording to William B. Coulsell, pas
se n g e r manager for the Union
Steamship Line at Sydney.
WESTWARD PEOPLE
ARE CHEERFUL OVER
OUTLOOK FOR FUTURE
Conditions to the Westward are
apparently a little more on the “up
and up” than locally, in the opin
ion of Master Pete Wold of the
M. S. United, who arrived in Sew
ard on the morning of the Fourth.
The cheerful attitude of the West
wardites may have been due to the
fact that canneries were operating
full blast; the fishing season in
Bristol Bay area was to start in
earnest around the Fourth; and
because of the fact that recent fur
sales have shown increases in the
prices paid for raw furs on, an
average of at least 10 per cent
higher than they have received for
a long time.
The United is returning to Seat
tle from a trip to a number of
points on Kodiak Island, the Bris
tol Bay district and Good News
Bay. She has been out of Seattle
for two months and expects to
be back in the Good News and
Bristol Bay regions about August
1 with a boatload of supplies.
Unusually fine sea was struck on
the present voyage in the Bering
Sea, Mr. Wold commented in.
speaking about the trip. In fact,
he has encountered so much fine
weather on his present voyage
| that he may bring his wife and
! seven-year old son up with him on
the next trip so that they how
beautiful Alaska really is. The
family will probably be taken up
only as far as Seward and will re
main here while the United goes
West. They will return to their
j home in Seattle when the United
returns from the West again.
In addition to his sale of sup
plies to the Westward Capt Wold
also purchased quite a quantity of
fur on his present voyage and he
is taking these out with him on
the United for sale to Outside fur
houses.
Accompanying Capt. Wold on his
trip to Seattle are Mr. and Mrs.
j Tom Skolsted and family, from
Seminofsky Island.
The United left Seward last
evening for Seattle.
ill HUNT OF
IMF 5TMS RAIDED
HOLLYWOOD, July 6.—Fourteen
; men were under arrest on gambl
ing charges and as a result of
! the police action a number of film
I stars at the gaming tables in the
J exclusive Palomar Pacific Club were
! disturbed.
i Those arrested included dealers,
i croupiers and members of the Club
staff, officers said.
The names of the film star par
ticipants in the games were with
held.
i BORAH MUCH IMPROVED
I BALTIMORE, July 6- —The John
Hopkins hospital authorities today
said that Senator William H. Bor
ah, republican from Idaho, was
making such a satisfactory recov
ery from his operation that he
would be able to leave the hospital
next week.
HAGEN IN THE LEAD
ST. ANDREWS, Scotland, July 6.
— Walter Hagen, the American
who has won the British crown
four times, Wednesday shot into
the lead with a spectacular 68, five
under par, for the first round of
the British open golf champion
ship.
SOON BE RELEASED
CHICAGO, July 6. — John Fac
tor, kidnapped recently, may be re
leased soon friends stated today.