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VOLUME XXIX. NUMBER 104.
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MAY 4, 1933.
PRICE TEN CENTS
KILLED TESTOIDtt
HUSK! LEGISIITURE
(By John E. Peguest
JUNEAU, May 4.—With adjourn
ment 24 hours away the genera]
appropriations measure is still
hanging fire in the Senate and
measures giving Governor Troy
powers necessary to negotiate with
> the Federal relief administration
for work relief and direct relief
funds which were suggested by
Delegate Dimond as essential.
If these funds are to be made
available for the Territory they
have made no appearance. How
ever, last minute efforts are being
made to have them prepared and
they probably will show up Thurs
day.
’ > ^ The fate of the House bill to give
Alaska labor and Alaska business
men preference on projects fi
nanced by public funds and for
supplies for the Territory hangs
in the balance in the Senate where
the committe had recommended
the measure be indefinitely post
poned but the report was over
turned late yesterday and the bill
* was carried over until today for
final action.
With the outcome dubious the
seven percent margin specified by
the House was outspokenly oppos
ed by several Senators who wanted
to wipe it out entirely and require
the price basis between Alaska and
States to be equal.
The House took the Senate bill
creating the Pioneers Home build
# ^ ing commission and appropriating
r $225,000 and made two bills out of
it; one of these created a com
mission and authorized it to pre
pare plans and select a site and
award the contract for the build
ing. The other appropriated the
t same amount as the Senate bill
but specified it was designed as a
work relief measure. This was in
tended as the basis for Governor
Troy to seek additional work re
lief funds for other public pros
pects in the Territory.
The Senate rejected both meas
ures. The House delayed action
to confer with Senate leaders in
an effort to settle the matter ami
cably.
The Senate, by a vote of 3-5, de
• feated the House graduated tax
on fish traps thus ending the long
battle. Walker, Bragaw and Camp
bell voted for its passage. Indica
tions now are that there will be' no
increase in fish taxes.
The Senate also defeated the
Hellerich-Hofman measure to es
«■ tablish a mining department under
the Alaska College.
Unless differences, now unfor
seen, develop over the big appro
priations bill ,the last day of the
session will be devoted to routine
matters. The legislators were greet
ed last night at the Governor’s re
ception by the largest gathering
ever to attend that historic func
tion.
V
FRENCHMAN SffllES
Con UNNOUNGING
"MILL" WEEK
PARIS, May 4. —Paris intellec
tuals, alarmed lest France adopt
the American system of appointing
certain weeks for observance of
specific sentiments, started “Na
tional Ill-Will Week”, as a retalia
tion gesture against “National
Good-Will Week, winch was car-!
ried off with indifferent success
recently.
Pierre Audiat of the Paris Midi,*
led the movement; he called upon:
all Frenchmen to set aside one
, week of the year to “purge them- i
selves of their latent evil and go
in for a fine week of pure male
volence, calumny, hate, envy and
sin”.
M. Audiat urged special prizes
for the most distinguished exam
ples of meanness, “a sort of Nobel
prize might be instituted for the
champion world slob, in which
statesmen would be allowed to
compete”, suggested m. Audiat.
THE SEVENTH
I CHICAGO, May 4.—The seventh
j bombing of the week shook a dairy
J plant a few hours after police
! learned that 1,000 sticks of dyna
| mite and 2,200 feet of fuse had
been stolen from an explosive plant
i apparently by racketeers.
The dynamite, weighing 500
pounds, was stolen last week-end
from the Burton Explosive Compa
ny, near Lemont, 111.
TWO DAYS OF GRACE
GIVEN TO KIDNAPPERS
10-YEAR OLD HEIRESS
HARWICH, Mass., May 4.—A 48
hour period of grace to give the
kidnappers of 10-year-old Peggy
McMath, heiress to a fortune, an
opportunity to return the child
unharmed was agreed upon by
members of her family and state
police.
Announcement of the “moratori
um” was' made by William Lee,
spokesman for the family and as
sociated with Neil McMath, fath
er of the kidnapped child, in a
boat building business here.
For the next two days, Lee an
nounced. the telephone line in the
MceMath home here will be kept
open to give the kidnappers free
access to the house in the event
they wish to have advantage of
McMath’s offer to pay a ransom
and ask no questions.
SIXTY-SIX NATIONS
INVITED TO CONFERENCE
GENEVA, May 4,—Sixty-six na
tions were invited to send delegates
to the World economic conference
in London June 12, by the League
of Nations.
Invitations were issued by Sir
James Eric Drummond, secretary
general. Ten of the invited na
tions are not members of the Lea
gue- Mr. Drummond’s invitations
outlined President Roosevelt’s pro
posal for an economic armistice
pending the conference.
THIRD CITATION FOR
CONTEMPT OF COURT
LOS ANGELES, May 3, —A third
citation for contempt of court was
filed before Superior Judge Asa C.
Pacht against Alan MacDonald
and Felix Kahn, San Francisco
contractors, by Deputy District At
torney Frank Stafford, growing
out of their connection with the
abandoned San Gabriel dam pro
ject.
The purpose of the new citation
is to compell the men to bring into
court on May 11 all documents and
books covering activities of their
firm.
HANGING IN BALANCE
SAN FRANCISCO, May 4,—The
fate of a blind man who killed an
other in a knife duel over a woman
whose face neither had ever seen, I
hung in the balance in the court
of Superior Judge Fred V. Wood in
Oakland. The case is that of Man
uel L. Licon, on trial for the sec
ond time for the murder of oJseph
Parker in the home of Mrs. Elena
Aguilar in Oakland, on January 7.
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r QUITE POLITICS
NEW YORK, May 4,—Joseph V.
McKee, who succeeded James J.
Walker for a brief period as mayor
of New York and who was the
chief hope of the anti-Tammany
forces in the November election,
renounced his political career. He
accepted the presidency of the
Title Guarantee & Trust Company.
FINAL ARGUMENTS
SANTA ROSA, Calif., May 4,—
Final arguments began in the trial
of Andrew Mareck, - asserted San
Francisco gang leader accused of
slaying Special Policeman Carlos
Carrick, after introduction of evi
dence and examination of witness
es had been completed at noon.
The case was expected to reach
the jury Thursday.
SIX Billion 901UBS
INFIIITION PRDGRBM
mb ran
WASHINGTON. D. C., May 4,—
President Roosevelt’s $6,000,000,000
inflation program was approved
by the House. The vote was 307
to 86.
The Chamber action, following
Senate approval last week, makes
possible a policy of currency ex
pansion unprecedented since the
Civil War crisis.
Under House rules, final passage
of the omnibus inflation farm re
lief measure was not possible yes
terday but the vote of approval
for the currency sections was
equivalent to final authorization
for the President to manage Nat
ional credit and money without
further Congressional check
ASKS ROOSEVELT TO
INFORM THE PEOPLE
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 4,—
After the House adopted the Ad
ministration’s reflation plan as ap
proved by the Senate, Republican
Leader Snell of New York issued
an appeal to President Roosevelt
“To tell the country what he is
going to do with the tremendous
power given to him”.
By the top-heavy vote of 307 to
86, the House concurred in the
Senate reflation amendment to
the farm relief bill, delegating the
President unprecedented control
over the Nation’s gold and cur
rency.
WOMEN AGAIN INVADE
MOSCOW, May 3,—Little boys of
Moscow are wondering if this “new
deal” their daddies talk about so
much means that the fair sex is
to take over horfors at that age
old prerogative of young boys,
marbles.
Their wonder was crystalized
here recently when Marie Weigand
a grade school girl, put her boy
friends to shame by winning the
school marble tourney from Jack
Kimberling. The margin was nar
row, but it was a margin.
THE STOCK
Dow Jones Industrials closed, up
0.03; Rails, off 1.34; Utilities, up
0.05; Bonds, up 0.20.
July Rio coffee was 557 and July
sugar 142. May wheat closed 71 5-8
against 71 1-4 at Chicago.
In the week of April 28 Pennsyl
vania Railroad loadings on line
were 9.7 percent under same 1932
period compared with a 19.1 per
cent decrease the preceding week.
Guilders were unchanged at
46.05 and Swiss francs were up 5
to 22.70. French francs dropped
1 1-2 to 4.60.
Regular Standard Oil of Nebras
ka and Drug Inc., dividends have
been declared. Std. Oil of Calif.,
has been placed on a $1 annual
dividend basis against $2 previous -
iy.
Youngstown district steel opera
tions advanced 1 percent to 33 per
cent of capacity the middle of this
week. United States Electricity
production was 1.8 percent under
same 1932 period. Compared with
a 2.6 percent the preceding week
and an 8-1 percent decrease April
15 week.
Raw sugar sold at 1.40 a high for
hte year. Higher stock prices are
looked for.
repeal assured
LOS ANGELES, May 4,—Nomina
tion of Mayor John C. Porter and
Frank L. Shaw, chairman of the
board of supervisors for the June
6 mayoralty race and the over
whelming repeal of the Gandier
ordinance, which regulated the
sale of liquor in Los Angelees, were
assured with more than two-thirds
of the ballots in the primary elec
tion counted.
CONTINUE SEARCH
MINDEN, La., May 4,—Ruins of
villages and farm homes in Louis
iana and Arkansas continued to
be searched for additional victims
of Monday’s tornado.
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WELL, WELL, WELL
| OKLAHOMA CITY, May 3, —
; When O. P. Oliver, veteran photo
| grapher who had made an average
| of several pictures each day for
| 33 years died here, it was discover
I ed he had left no photograph of
( himself.
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FISCAL APPROPRIATIONS
| WASHINGTON, D. C., May 4, —
I Estimated federal expenditures for
I the next fiscal year will total ap- j
| proximately $2,320,000,000, the
White House announced, repre
< senting a savings of $1,000,000,000
i over the previous year.
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ART DEALERS WARNED
NEW YORK, May 3. —Art deal
| ers of the world were warned to
watch for 10 paintings by old
masters, worth at least $35,000.
The paintings were stolen from
their frames at the Brooklyn
Museum. The masterpieces include j
paintings by VanDyck. Rubens,!
Fra Angelico, Lucas Cranach and!
George Romney.
FALSE ENTRIES
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 4, —
Carl C. Francis, National Bank
examiner who discovered asserted
false entries and defalsifications
in the Harriman National Bank of
New York, told a Senate committee
investigating delay in prosecution
of officials that the bank proba
bly could pay out on a basis of 65
cents to the dollar.
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BIG BRUISERS TO BATTLE
LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 3.—Sports
seeking entertainment will have
two fight programs to choose from
Friday night. A 12-round non
title bout between Maxie Rosen
bloom, light heavyweight cham
pion from New York, and Charlie
Belanger, of Winnipeg, Canada,
are healiners at the fights, which
are to be staged acrossf the Ohio
river at Jeffersonville, Ind.
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SON SOBBED
LONDON, May 4,—Devidas Gan
dhi, son of Mahatma M. K. Gandhi,
sobbed over the telephone when
the Daily Examiner called him at
Poona, India, and declared if his
father persisted in his intention to:
fast for three weeks he would die. i
Gandhi said he had pleaded vainly
with his father to give up his fast.
His father was very weak, he said.
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NORRIS BILL PASSED
WASHINGTON, D. C-, May 4,—
Speeding another administration
measure toward enactment, the
Senate passed the Norris bill for
government operation of the Mus
cle Shoals fertilizer power plant
in Alabama. The vote was 63 to 20.1
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LEVINSKY WON
CHICAGO, May 4,—King Levin
sky reestablished himself as the
idol of Chicago’s ghetto register
ing knockout over Charley Retzlaff,
heavy bantamweight boxer.
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BIDDING AT LOW MARK
NEW YORK, May 4, —Despite a
ruling that bottled beer may be
sold at city-owned concessions in
Ferry terminals and bridge en
trances, the bidding- for these
concessions fell far below last j
year’s figures.
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JOHNSON OUT OF GOING
LOS ANGELES, May 4.—John
Johnson’s name was written off
the University of Southern Cali
fornia roster of field event per
formers for the season when doc
tors decided the injured leg that
has been stopping his activity this
year could not heal in time for
either the second Stanford or I. C.
A. A. meets.
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FAVORITE HORE LAME
LOUISVILLE, Ky„ May 4, —
“Head Fly” the West’s favorite to
win the Kentucky Derby Saturday,
came out of a race in which he
defeated “Isaiah” and “Charley O,”
with a limp in his left hind leg.
Willie Crum, training the colt,
did not consider the limp serious.
ILLEGAL LOAN
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 4,—A
Senate investigating committee
was told that Joseph W. Harriman
misappropriated funds of the Har
riman National aBnk & Trust Co.,
to conceal an alleged illegal loan
for purchase of the bank’s stock
for a pool participated in by most
of its directors.
Henry E. Cooper, who succeeded
Harriman as president of the big
New York bank, said 25 of the 27
directors were in the pool.
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CONNECTION MUCTION
OFlU-M-OLDEl
HARWICH, Mass., May 4. —A
mother stricken by fear and the
uncertainty of her daughter’s fate
issued a personal plea to the kid
nappers of Peggy McMath, 10,
and police swung back into active
search for the kidnappers when
they took into custody a negro,
who was questioned concerning
the abduction.
The negro vigorously denied he
was involved in the crime out po
lice have started out in search of
two white men whose names were
net revealed and who the negro
said were with him Tuesday.
The negro, a native of the Cape
Verde islands, is Frank Roack, a
railroad worker. He was picked up
by the police yesterday.
HUNDREDS ARRESTS
YET TD RE MADE
LE MARS, la., May 4.—While a
military court of the Iowa Nation
al Guard conducted hearings for •
the 64 farmers held here as sus-j
activities, Capt. Horace Wolf, adju-;
pected leaders in last weeks' mob
tant of the guard camp, said that i
200 arrests are yet to be made.
Already 105 men are held at va- j
r i o u s places. Detachments of |
guardsmen wTere dispatches toj
points thruout the county, but
whether they planned to invade
Cherokee county was not learned.
SECOND DEEPEST SPOT
III OCEIN LOOTED
—
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 3.— '
The Navy Department of statistics,
have received information of a new j
d^ep ocean trench which has been i
found by the U. S. S. Wrampo. aj
navy oiler, while sounding off the,
Japanese coast.
Electrical depth finders recorded;
33,06 feet, the second deepest ocean |
spot ever found, but by figuring
in the temperature of the water
on the day of the sounding was
made it is calculated the actual
depth was even greater or 34.622!
feet.
ERUPTIONS!
j BATAVIA, Java., May 4.—Erup-;
j tions of the volcano Erakatoa have,
j been occurring on an unprecedent- j
ed scale for the last few days.
Fifty years ago this little vol
canic islands was almost destroyed
by one of the most catastrophic j
j eruptions ever recorded. Some
| 30.000 lives were lost
A BODY SLAM
ALBANY, N. Y., May 4, -^Jim
Londos, 205 pounds, threw Karl
Sarpolis, 215 pounder from Wilkes
Barre, Pa., with a body slam in 23
minutes and 22 seconds of wrest
| ling.
REMOVES THE OATH
DUBLIN, May 4,—President de
Valera’s bill removing the oath of
allegiance to the British King from
the Free State constitution, be
came law when the Governor Gen
eral signed it after the. Bail Eir
eann had given final approval, 76
to 56.
Somebody got their wires cross
ed because today’s report from
the SS Yukon has the liner arriv
ing at Cordova at 1 a. m. Friday.
Yesterday’s report had it this a. m.
BUD CMKfl TO
STIDUITE BUSINESS
HIM flECOVEBY
WASHINGTON, D. C„ May 4,—A
I broad campaign progressed at the
capitol for immediate stimulation
of business, which President
Roosevelt regards as tire next step
for National recovery.
Tonight the President will take
command of forces which wxrrked
yesterday at the capitol and at
,the annual meeting of the Cham
States and outline to business
ber of Commerce of the United
leaders his policies for recovery.
All proposals pointed toward
temporary relaxation in govern
ment regulations to permit agree
ments wihtin industry on produc
tion. wages and hours of labor.
WARNING ISSUED 3?
SHANGHAI, May 4,—The Japan
! ese consulate general issued a
! warning that Japanese-Manchu
trcops would resume their advance
in North China unless Chinese
forces ceased their attacks.
Asked if the drive would contin
us to Tientsin, officials replied af
firmatively but said Japanese mili
tary leaders would halt an advanc
ing movement immediately upon
cessation of Chinese attacks.
Japanese and Chinese tightened
their defense alike in preparation
of feared attacks and counter at
tacks.
WILL PUfHUNOREDS
! THOUSANDS TO WIK
WASHINGTON, May 4,—A bill to
1 carry out the Navy Department’s
recommendation for $317,406,800
building program, to help bring
the United States Navy up to
treaty strength, was introduced by
Rep. Britten, Republican of Illinois.
Designed as part of the public
works program to put hundreds of
thousands of unemployed back to
work, the Britten bill was offered
to t’he Naval Affairs Committee.
Under the bill, 42 ships would be
laid down before December 31,
J933.
HOARDED
DENVER, Colo., May 4.—Charles?
S. Thomas, former United States
Senator, former Governor of oClo
rado, and long-time bi-metallist,
asks the government to plac* hint
in the penitentiary for possessing
$120 in gold. The 84-year-old
J statesman has written to Ralph L.
| Carr, district attorney, expressing
! objection to the order of Presi
| dent Roosevelt that all gold be
| turned in to the government.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 4.—The
first tangible clues in the $140,000
robbery of the Sacramento post
office last February, a black “get
away’' automobile and a pair of
overalls, wrere in the possession of
postal agents as an incentive for a
new search for the bandits. At
the same time postal agents at
tempted to identify a stylishly
dressed woman who, with a male
companion, rented the small gar
age where the automobile was
found.
The car used by three bandits
to escape from the holdup was
found in the garage, privately
owned, about a mile from the
scene of the crime. The overalls,
similar to those worn by all three
gunmen, were in the back seat of
the machine. Steve Riolo. owner
of the garage, said he rented it to
a woman and her companion just
a few days before February 9, the
day of the robbery.