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r #puiari» Daily (Satpuiau MEMBER ASSOCIATED f*MES9 VOLUME XXIX. NUMBER 154. SEWARD, ALASKA,SATURDAY, J*ULY 15, 1933. PRICE TEN CENTS BALBO SQUADRON EXPECTED REACH ¥ CHICAGO TODAY MONTREAL, Que.. July 15. Gen. Italo Balbo led his squadron of seaplanes to Montreal yesterday, and at this last scheduled halt on the long journey from Rome to Chicago the Italian airmen receiv ed a great welcome. The lead planes flew over M!on l treal after a fast, smooth flight over the lakes and forests of New Brunswick, Northern Maine and Eastern Quebec. General Balbo landed his lead plane at 9:51 Pacific time, and the five other planes of the first squad ron arrived almost simultaneously. t As they landed the second flight of six planes was circling overhead and dropping slowly toward the St. Lawrence River w here they landed their planes. Within a short while the other two formations were safely landed The landing took about an hour. More than 200.000 humans lined the river bank to greet the Italian airmen as they arrived. The planes were to be refueled and the last leg of their flight to Chicago and the Century of Pro gress Exposition was to be made. ROOSEVELT NOT CERTAIN STEPS WASHINGTON, July 15. —Com pulsory agreements among indust ries to raise wages and reduce the working hours were advocated Fri day by President Roosevelt. The Executive is not yet certain whether he has power to direct industry to take this step in ad yance of the industrial modes, but yvill study it at a momentous week end conference with his aids on board his yacht, the Sequoia. The President feels that the co operation of industry with the ad ministration will do much to has ten the recovery program. AUSTRALIAN ACE PLANS BIG HOPS HONOLULU, T. H. July 15. — Governor Lawrence Judd was ad vised by the State Department at Washington that C. T. P. Ulm. the Australian flyer who has just com pleted a leisurely flight to London from Australia, will attempt a flight from San Francisco to Aus tralia via Honlulu and the Fiji Is lands. Ulm, the message indicated, is planning first to fly across the At lantic Ocean. Charles Madsen, head of the Ko diak Guides, was a returning pas senger on the S. S- Yukon as far as Cordova where he transferred to the S. S. Curacoa for the comple tion of his trip to Kodiak. A caterpillar tractor was sent up the Skeen-Lechner gold property,! Falls Creek district, last week from! Seward. Pilots A1 Monson and Harry Blunt are flying P. A. A. planes out of ^ ' Anchorage and apparently are kept quite busy. VISITORS FROM CALIFORNIA Mr. and Mrs. E- V. Winterer, of California, were roundtrippers on the SS. Yukon, which left port.Fri * day night for Seattle. They made a [ trip over the famous Railroad Loop; and were much impresed with the j scenery boat from the boat and the j train. Mrs. Winterer is interested, in Alaska history and planned to; stop in at Juneau and talk to Fr. Kashevaroff, at the Territorial Museum. AT CARTWRIGHT CARTWRIGHT, Labrador, July 15 —Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lind bergh arrived here on their map* ping expedition of the Far North route, from Botwood, Newfound land. The distance from Botwood Jo Cartwright is about 400 miles. KIDNAPPERS STILL ARE HOLDING O'CONNEL, LVER ALTON, II., July 15. — Two notes demanding ransom for August Luer, 77-year old Alton banker, have been received by Luer’s family, it was announced late Friday. Agents for the family said that neither note bore Luer’s handwriting. The family’s agents, O. S. Catt and Lawrence Keller, Jr., said they would insist that any note' from the kidnappers bear a few lines of Luer’s handwriting, and be signed by him before they would even con sider the payment of a ransom sum. At Albany the negotiations be tween the wary kidnapers and the politically powerful O’Connel fam ily for the return of John J. O’Con nel. Jr., apparently centered in New York City Friday night. The abductors, who demand $250,009,000 ransom for the return of the heir to the political influ ence of the clan, instructed in a fourth written communication that the O’Connel’s name a third and more acceptable list of intermed iaries. The names of these were to be published in three New York newspaprs. DEMPSEY ISN'T SURE WEDDING SALT LAKE CITY. Utah, July 15. —It may be wedding bells this week in Jack Dempsey’s home town, but Jack is not certain. It all depends ion what Hanna Wil liams. former wife of Roger Wolfe Kahn and known as Broadway’s “Cheerful little earful,” has to say about it. “I am letting Miss Williams make the plans, but it may be this week, next week, or next month.” the former heavyweight title-hol der said. WILL RUSH WORK WASHINGTON. July 15. — The Navy’s $85,000,000 construction pro gram for 1933-34 will be rushed to completion Admiral W. H- Standley, chief of Naval operations, said af ter a conference with President Roosevelt. Admiral Standley recent ly replaced Admiral William V. Pratt as the ranking officer of the Navy. PURCHASE POWER INCREASE SOUGHT WASHINGTON, July 15. — Pres cient Roosevelt led his “super-cab inet” Friday in a fight to stimu late retail purchasing poVer and counteract the normal mid-sum mer slump which challenges the Ad ministration’s recovery program. Spending agencies of the govern ment, including the Public Works administration which, has released $115,000,000 for national and local construction projects, were urged to put into effect quickly their pro grams for creating new jobs and new payrolls. LEGISLATIVE PENDING WASHINGTON, D. C., July 14. — Presiden Roosevelt has asked Post master General Farley to prepare his legislation designed to place the offices of postmasters under Civil Service laws, for submission to the next session of Congress. PROFIT TAKING CAUSES FLURRY STOCK MARKET NEW YORK, July 15. — Heavy profit taking turned stocks irregu lar yesterday on the stock and curb exchanges. Trading was light er than Thursday, although it was above the 5,000,000 Mark. Several issues had large turnovers on huge blocks, notably Internationa| Tele phone and Packard, both of which made new highs for the year. Some of the quotations were Amer. Can. 92%, Am. Sug. Ref. 71%, Am. Tel. an<J Tel. 130%, Am. Tob. (B) 91%, Anaconda Cop. 19%, Bald win Loco. 16, Canad. Pac. 20, Chrys ler 36%, Eastman 86%, Elec. Pow. Lt. 14%, Firestone 27%, Gen. Elec. 29, Goodyear 43, Kennecott Cop. 23%, Mont. Ward 26%, Nash Mot. 25, N. Y. Central 545a, Packard 6%, Radio 11, Sears Roebuck 43, Sou. Pac. 35%, Sou. Ry 30%, Std. Oil of Calif., 38%, Std. Oil of N. J. 39%, Un. Pac. 126, West. Un. Tel. 71, and WoolwTorth 49. ALEUTIAN LEFT SEATTLE, NORTH SEATTLE, July 15. —The SS. Al eutian left for Seward today with the following passengers: Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Havenstarter, Phyllis Havenstarter, Mr. and Mrs. Carl H. Beal. Jack Anderson. Bon Anderson, Ray Delphar, Harold An derson, Carl Beal. Jr., A. W. Davis. Wm. Enath, George Rayne, Ro bert Pringle, Mrs. K. L. Potter, J. Levington, A. T. Berg, A. E. Loomis. F. Raser, Mrs. J. G. Patterson, Betty Vaara, Mrs. H. G. Vaara, Jean Vaara, William Hammer, Eunice Simard, Mrs. E. Samickson, Miss Amelia Racy, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Jones, Mrs. E. L. Meier, Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Spaulding and seven steerage. SEVENTY DROWNED MOSCOW. July 15. — Seventy persons were drowned when an ex cursion boat carrying 250 workers and their families overturned at Jaroslav on the Volga river. A Jaro slav trades unionist, who organized the excursion, will be tried in the supreme court for overloading the boat. BASEBALL SCORES AMERICAN LEAGUE Detroit 8, Boston 3. St. Louis 6, New York 11. Cleveland 2, Philadelphia 3. Chicago 4, Washington 0. The 4 to 0 defeat by the scrappy Chicago White Sox sent the slump ing Washington Senators into a virtual tie for first place, with their leadership over the rough riding New York Yankees represented by only a few precarious percentage points. It was the Senators’ third defeat in the four games series with Chicago, and two of the losses came from the hands of Walter Miller, veteran left hinder. He’ held the Nationals to three scat tered hits. NATIONAL LEAGUE Boston 4, Pittsburgh 3. Philadelphia 6, Cincinnati 0. Brooklyn 5, Chicago 3. New York 12, St. Louis 7 PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE Missions 0. Hollywood 10. * * * * Joe De Maggia, outfielder of the j San Francisco “Seals,” expected to' smash the mark of 49 consecutive games Friday night. “I am the happiest boy in the world today. Thursday I tied the Pacific Coast League record for hitting in con secutive games. Tonight I’ll be out there trying to smash the mark of 49 r now hold with Jack Ness.” PASSED BILL OKLAHOMA CITY, July 15. — The Oklahoma Senate Friday pas sed a House Bill setting up mach inery for an early vote on the pro hibition repeal question. The vote was 26 to 13. CHICAGOANS ARE THREATENED BY KIDNAPPING GANG CHICAGO, July 15, —The Herald and Examiner Friday said that three wealthy sportsmen have been marked for kidnapping by the gang lhat abducted John “Jake the bar ber” Factor, whose release after 12 days cost him $50,000. ' The men named by the Herald and Examiner as the next victims are John D. Hertz, former presi dent of the Yellow Cab Company, Otto Lehmann, son of a depart ment store founder, and Warren Wright, former president of the Lincoln Park Board. The newspaper said that Federal undercover men were rushed to the Arlington Park race track, where all three maintain stables and are frequent visitors, after government agents had talked with Factor con cerning hs experiences. It was said the kidnappings would be attempt ed at the track. RECESS JULY 27 LONDON, July 15. —The World Economic Conference, nearing the end of its final futile week, will recess indefinitely on July 27, it was decided Friday. OPEN DOOR POLICY AT MONTEREY JAIL SAN FRANCISCO, July 15. — Herman Cherry, who fled the Mon terey County jail Tuesday night with two other prisoners surrender ed to U. S. Attorney Henry H. McPike here Friday after being persuaded to take the step by his 19-year-old bride Evelyn. “I just walked out of jail,” he said. “Deputy Sheriff McKinnon forgot to lock the main tanks where there were 22 prisoners. I saw the dcor open and decided to leave. I .hadn’t planned a break.” ( STATIONS REINSTATED LONG BEACH, Calif., July 14. — The Klipsan Beach radio station received a message from Admiral Stamford of the Bureau of Opera tions of the Thirteenth Naval Dis trict advising that five North Pac ific radio direction finding sta tions, which the government had ordered closed last May, have been reinstated. This includes the radio compass station at Soapstone Point, Alaska. OFFICIAL SHOWS SOME DISCRETION LANSING, Mich., July 14. —Fred Palm, sentenced to life imprison ment for possessing a pint of liq uor, was paroled yesterday by Gov. William A. Comstock. Palm was the first person to be sentenced under the provisions of the habitual criminal act in Mich igan which made life imprisonment mandatory upon a fourth convic tion of a felony. SOME ROOSTER SCIO. Ore., July 14—Councilman A. L. Plummer points with pride at his snake fighting rooster. An 18-inch garter snake fell out of a load of hay being hauled in the Plummer barnyard. The' guardian of the flock pounced on the rep tile, after evading the snake’s coils, and stunned it with a blow on the head with its beak. FOREIGN TRADE HAS ATTENTION OF ROOSEVELT WASHINGTON, July 15. —Presi dent Roosevelt’s domestic recovery machine was supplemented Fri day by a special advisofjr board to promote American foreign trade. The boar d’s formation was an nounced shortly after the chief ex^ ecutive received from Assistant Sec retary of State Raymond Moley a first hand account of his observa tions and experiences at the Lon don Economic Conference. There was nothing in Moley’s report to indicate that the administration should make special efforts to re vive the world parley. In fact, it was apparent that President Roose velt is prepared to forget the con ference and devote his efforts to building up trade with Latin Am erica, the Scandinavian countries, and some of the small continental European countries. In line with this policy, Acting Secretary of the State Phillips re vealed that Charles M. Barnes, the head of the treaty division of the State Department, has been tenta tively selected to head a spcial for eign trade advisory board. INDIA WILL STRIVE FOR FREEDOM POONA. India. July 15. — The Indian National Congres voted to continue the struggle for freedom from Great Britain through the civil disobedience campaign which has been directed for more than three years by Mahatma Gandhi. A plan to utilize 100 home rule shock troops to carry on his dis obedience campaign, instead of re sorting to mass disobedience was proposed by the Mahatma. Leaders in the Congress opposed Gandhi’s new plan. ENGLAND FAVORED PLAY !N FINALS WIMBLEDON, Eng., July 15. — England became an overwhelming favorite to meet the United States in the Davis Cup inter-zone tennis final when the British tennis vet erans, Frederick J. Perry and Geo. Patrich Hughes, won the doubles match in the tie with Australia. The doubles victory gave England a lead of two matches to one. It meant that Australia had to sweep both of today’s final singles matches. Silver salmon are beganning to come into the local bay, fishermen reporting catches of one or more of this species along with their catch of other kinds of fish. The run is not expected for some time, however. Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Leslie left on the morning train for Anchorage where they will remain for three weeks. Mr. Leslie is on a temporary leave of absence from his Rail road duties. Tom Babcock, of the Babcock and Downey mining property in Surprise Bay returned to the gold district after a brief busines visit in town. DIVED INTO BAY SEATTLE, July 15. — Plunging downward at high speed, a Navy plane late Friday nose-dived into Elliott Bay, crashed and rolled over on its back. The two Navy pilots were saved by Navy speedboat crews, it was reported. The plane was believed to be one attached to the USS. Pennsylvania, anchored in Puget Sound.