MOLEY RESIGNS
, HIS POSITION
ASST. SEC. STATE
HYDE PARK, Aug. 28. —Prof.
Raymond I. Moley, Assistant Sec
retary of State and chief of the ad
ministration's “brain trust,” turned
in his resignation yesterday as As
sistant Secretary of State to Presi
dent Roosevelt. His resignation
j was accepted by the President and
will become effective on September
Moley stated that his connection
with the administration had been
only of a temporary nature and
:hat he was entering into a new,
but long considered enterprise. It
/ is said that Moley plans to become
:he head of a national weekly pub
lication to comment on the trend
in national and international af
y : airs.
The publication is financed by
Vincent Astor and the first issue
will come off the press about Octo
ber 1.
President Roosevelt said that Mo
ley had rendered definite service
during his connection with the ad
ministration.
DEFINITE POLICY
FOR V. S. MAY
BE FORMULATED
NEW YORK, Aug. 28. —A definite
policy for the United States may
be formed soon by President Roose
velt. it was indicated here follow
ing the arrival in the United States
of Montague Norman, head of the ’
3ank of England. His arrival in the'
United States has given rise tr i
talk of an Anglo-American pool to;
stabilize the currencies of the two
t countries.
Norman arrived in New York
last week and has been conferring
with financial leaders. His move
ments are shrouded in just as much i
mystery as those of his first visit.
Financial observers, piercing the
shroud, believe that his arrival ir
the United States augers the for
mation of a definite American pol
* 5cy.
Secretary of the Treasury Woodin j
has been conferring with President i
Roosevelt at Hyde Park for several!
clays but the subject of their con
versations has not been generally
> divulged. It is said, however, that
inflation has not been discussed.
WORTH SACRIFICE
WASHINGTON, Aug. 28. —John
D. Rockerfeller, Sr., sending word
from his Maine vacation resort,
said that the goal of the National
Recovery Administration should be
achieved at almost any sacrifice.
The oil-king asserted that nothing
could be better for this nation than
ro be on a basis, soundly con
ceived and permanently establish
ed.
SEATTLE BACK
STANDARD TIME
SEATTLE, Aug. 23. —Seattle cit
izens got an extra hour of sleep J
r yesterday for the clocks were of- j
ficially turned back one hour from j
Daylight Saving Time to Standard
Time.
The action followed the repeal
of a city ordinance providing for
Daylight Saving time until Septem
\ ber 23. Cities around Seattle were
on standard time and Seattle found
it so confusing with the different
times, that the change was readily
made.
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Mrs. Gus Manthey and Mrs. j
George Gullafson left Seward Sat- |
urday to pick berries in the Hope- j
Moo6e Pass district.
! 34 DEAD NOW
ST. LOUIS, Aug. 28. —The num
ber of fatalities from the sleeping
sickness malady, which is preval
! ent here, mounted to 34 yesterday.
| Many persons are also confined to
’ isolation wards in hospitals suffer
! ing from the strange malady.
UPWARD SURGE
HAS STARTED
SAYS ROOSEVELT
POUGHKEPSIE, N. Y. Aug. 28. —
The nation is headed toward re
j covery. President Roosevelt Satur
day told 4,000 neighbors and friends
who thronged the campus of Vas-;
sar College to give him and Mrs. j
Roosevelt a formal home-coming J
welcome.
The Chief Executive drew cheers
from his audience as, in simple!
language, he outlined the purposes !
of the National Recovery Adminis
tration to increase wages, employ- I
ment and purchasing power.
Then he added: "It is true that
we are definitely succeeding in this
purpose and that the downward
drift has definitely turned and be
come and upward surge.”
ICKES A VISITOR
HYDE PARK, N. Y., Aug. 28. — ;
Secretary of the Interior Harold
Ickes was to be President Roose
velt’s most important visitor at the i
Summer White House at Hyde Park
today. It is said that they will dis- I
cuss means of expediting the huge j
public works program which the!
government has undertaken. One-!
third of the public works program
has been allocated so far.
helenwTlls i
DEFAULTED SET \
TO MISS JACOBS
FOREST HILLS, N. Y. Aug. 28. — I
Miss Helen Wills Moody crumpled j
dramatically before the vigorous
tennis drives of Miss Helen Jacobs,
of California, Saturday in the!
championship contest of the Wo- ’
men s single tennis championships.
Miss Jacobs was leading three I
love in the decisive match when j
Mrs. Moody went to the contest;
umpire and spoke to him. She'
then turned from him and walk- j
over to where Miss Jacobs was and
said to her that “my leg gave out.
I hate to default.”
A few moments later the umpire i
announced to the spectators thati
Miss Jacobs was the winner of the
contest by default. The spectators
were dumfounded and altho they
had been cheering for Miss Jacobs
they began throwing cushions in
to the tennis courts to signify dis
satisfaction.
This is the first time since 1926
that Mrs. Moody has been beaten.
The doubles contest, in whic h
Mrs. Moody and Miss Jacobs were
to be matched against a British
team, was likewise defaulted.
TEXAS WET VOTE
CONTINUES RISE
- i
DALLAS, Texas, Aug. 28. —Re- i
turns from 154 of the 254 counties, |
six of the county returns being
complete, gave repeal and beer al
most two to one margin in the
Texas election Saturday. Later fig
ures gave the total returns in so
far as 298,070 for repeal of the 18th
Amendment and 175,842 votes for
retention.
The vote on the legalization of
“three-point-two” beer had a fa
vorable margin of some 165,000
votes. If beer is legalized its sale
will be permitted in Texas on Sep
tember 15.
ALEUTIAN HIT
ROCK NORTH END
VANCOUVER ISLE
—
^be SS. Aleutian, which «ailpd
from Seattle last Saturday, struck
a rock on the North end of Van
couver Island today, according to
radio advices to Capt. Lead'oetter.
of the USLHS Cedar,
i The local office of the Alaska
Steamship Company also received
word that the liner Aleutian was!
only slightly damaged and is able
to proceed back to Seattle. There I
will be no boat sailing from Seattle
until September 2.
The Seward office has also re
j ceived wrord that all southeastern
and Interior freight cargo on the!
SS. Aleutian can be transferred to;
the Yukon for its September 2 cail-|
ing and the Alaska Steamship'
Company will proceed accordingly!
unless shippers advise them to the!
contrary.
The next boat to arrive in Seward j
from Seattle will be September 8;
instead of Septmber 1.
The Aleutian was carrying 163
cabin passengers and 10 sterrage
passengers for Ketchikan. Juneau,
Cordova, Valdez and Seward.
Thirty nine of the passengers were
booked for Seward and Interior
points.
The Gateway’s passenger listing
has been held up and no complete1
list of the Seward reservations is!
available. Among the names on.
the listinig were Miss Patricia Ray, j
Dorothy Hill, Phillip Gill. Mrs. Fredj
Spach, Fred Spach. S. L. Peterson,!
Mariam Peterson, and Clara Peter-:
son. . j
PROVIDE DEATH PENALTY
NEW YORK, Aug. 28. —New York ;
state is answering the kidnapping j
threat of underworld hoodlums
with legislation which provides a
death penalty for all kidnappers, j
Gov. Lehman signed the measure j
Sunday to make it a law' for the !
State of New York.
RIVER RISING
CANTON, China. Aug. 28. —Chin- j
ese inhabitants of the Yellow Ri- !
ver vicinity are fleeing once again
from the lowlands surrounding the
cruel Yellow River, which once
more is threatening to overflow its
banks and wreck hovac with the
surrounding area. Heavy rains dur
ing the last week has caused the!
stream to become a swollen torrent!
and the threat has become greater |
each day. No lives have been lost!
so far, it is reported.
BASEBALL SCORES
(Saturday’s Games;
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Chicago 6-5, Philadelphia 4-6.
Pittsburgh 1-7, New York 2-2.
Cincinnati 6-2, Brooklyn 4-4.
St. Louis 0, Boston 3.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Philadelphia 10, Chicago 5.
New York 9, Detroit 5.
Washington 4, Cleveland 5.
(Sunday’s Games;
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Washington 14-3, Cleveland 1-6. ]
Philadelphia 3-8, Chicago 5-9.
New York 3--12, Detroit 6-2.
Boston 7-3, St. Louis 5-5.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Cincinnati 0-5, Boston 7-5.
Chicago 2-2, Brooklyn 0-1.
St. Louis 7-5, New York 1-5; last
game called in 8th inning on ac
count of darkness.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Oakland 5-6, Hollywood 6-12. ,
San Francisco 6-7, Portland 7-8. >
Los Angeles 17-18, Seattle 3-4. .
Sacramento 5-5, Missions 8-6. i
Missions 13, Sacramento 5. y
TRIAL TO RESUME
SAN JOSE, Aug. 28. — The trial
of David Lamson, who is charged
with the murder of his wife, was to
j resume today with the state pre
J senting more evidence. The defense
is still confident as all the evidence
: against Lamson is circumstantial.
' SAM INSULL MAY
BE BROUGHT
U. S. FOR TRIAL
! -
ATHENS. Greece, Aug. 28. —Sam
j uel Insull, refugee head of the on -
great Insull Utilities organizations,
was arrested here Saturday at the
request of the United States gov
ernment.
I'nsull came to Europe more than.
| a year ago and took refuge here
; where at the time there was no
I effective United States-Greece ex- j
| tradition treaty.
The arrest of Insull was said to
mark a change in the attitude of
the Greece government. The arrest
! of Insull was made following a sec
ret grand jury indictment in the
United States and cabled requests
for his apprehension. Important
papers found in Insull’s Hotel
were confiscated. It is said that he j
will be brought ot the United States
for trial immediately.
COUNTRIES PLEASED
WASHINGTON, Aug. 28. —Col.
Louis Howe, President Roosevelt’s j
secretary has revealed that Rooser ,
; velt has received many messages4
i from Latin American countries ex
pressing approval of the recent pol
icy of the United States in dealing
with the Cuban affair.
FILM PRODUCERS
CHARGED EFFORT j
WRECK UNIONS
HOLLYWOOD. Aug. 28. —A legal!
act was the anti-climax of the Hoi- j
lywood film workers’ strike. The j
striking unions have charged the;
film producers and an electricians’ i
union with conspiracy to wreck I
their union.
They assert that the film pro- j
ducers are not complying with the |
“back to work without prejudice”!
clause of the strike settlement ag-1
reement.
Judge Ben Lindsey, N. R. A. med- }
iator in the strike, has returned I
to Los Angeles and has taken up !
the problem.
LANDED ON CITY LOT
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 28. —A lo
cal aviator was forced to make a
landing right in the heart of Los
Angeles Saturday. He brought his
plane down safely on a vacant
lot without causing any damage.
SAAR REGION IS
EYED, GERMANYj
RUEDESHIEM, Germany, Aug. 28.
i —Chancellor Adolf Hitler flew here
j from Tannenberg Sunday evening
! and in an emotional address be
fore 150,000 persons declared that
the Saar must be returned to Ger
many. Germany never will renounce
the Saar district, the fiery Nazi
chancellor declared.
“If a treaty is holy to us it must
also be holy to our enemies,” the
Nazi leader said. The Saar basin
is at present administered under
the auspices of the League of Na
tions.
Outside of Germany the people
are lying that the Germans are
suppressed, Hitler said. “I am al
ways ready to appeal to the nation
again for proof of support. More
than five-sixths of our people
would be behind us,” Hitler said.
L1NDY IS BACK
ON EUROPEAN
SOIL ONCE AGAIN
i COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Aug.
28.—Col. Charles A. Lindbergh,
| seeking a new air trail over the
, North Atlantic,, returned to Eu
rope again Saturday for the first
time since his historic solo flight
to Paris in May, 1927.
I Denmark followed the flight fev
| erishly and gave the Colonel and
i Mrs. Lindbergh a roaring welcome
, as they stepped ashore from the
' royal landing pier.
They alighted in the harbor here
at 5:10 p.m. Saturday after an un
' eventful flight from Lerwick, in
the Shetland Islands. They circled
over the harbor twice before turn
j ing the blunt nose of their ship
into the wind and coming down
to an easy and graceful landing on
the rippling surface of the bay.
Thousands of persons lined thf
piers and filled the bay in their
: craft of all sorts to give the CoL
; on(d and his co-pilot and radio op
; erator and Mrs. Lindbergh one o;
the most thunderous ovations ever
I accorded a distinguished visitor.
The Lindbergh’s spent Sunday
out at a country home in the Cc -
penhagen vicinity.
AUTO CODE IS
OKAYED, SIGNED
BY ROOSEVELT
WASHINGTON. Aug. 28. — The
auto industry code signed by
President Roosevelt and contain
ing the first permitted modifica
tion of section 7a of the President’s_
reemployment agreement govern
ing the right of workers to collec
tive bargaining was made public at
the National Recovery Administra
tion headquarters here last night.
Except for the labor section the
code was not altered materiallj.
from the original automobile code
As it was issued Donald Rich
berg, counsel for the Recovery Ad
ministration announced that the
Labor Advisory board accepted the -
modification because it did not be
lieve it changed the meaning of
the original clause.
The code as accepted did not
contain the disputed words “open
shop” first asked by the motor
manufacturers but specified their
right to deal with individual em
ployees on a basis of merit rather
than of union affiliation or non
affiliation.
The N. R. A. labor advisory board
had protested vigorously against
the terms of the code which labor
leaders believed threatened the en
tire labor movement if permitted
to set a precedent by inclusion in
the code.
TARANTULA BITES
GROCER’S HAND
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 28. —Leap
ing from a bunch of bananas as
they were uncrated, a tarantula
bit a grocer on the hand and
hung on until killed by a police
man’s club.
The victim, Harry Lieberman, 43,
was taken to a hospital in a ser
ious condition from poisoning. Phy
sicians said they had no remedy
to counteract the spider’s venom.
INCENDIARY BLAZES
SEATTLE, Aug. 28. —-Eighty small
fires, most of them believed to be
of incendiary origin, were reported
in forest areas here Sunday. The
blazes were all said to be under
control.