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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.