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VOMME M. no. 52. > 11 M K . ALASKA. SATl'ltDAV, December 30. 1033 P«r Copy 35ota. Per month $1.25 ,
REASONS GIVEN FOR NEW SOLD ORDER
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FRENCH TRAINS COLLIDE
L.AG*NY, France, Dec. 2'4, (AP)
— The death toll In the wreck of
the Pails Strasborurgh Flier which
plowed at full speed through four
coaches of the Nancy Express,
Saturday night, mounted to one
hundred ninety. The injured are
more than three hundred. The en
gineer and fireman were jailed and
charged with running through
closed signals in a fog at sixty
five miles an hour. They denied
that the signals were aginst them.
No Americans were among the
dead.
PARIS, Dec. 26, (AP>— Invest
igulion of Saturday’s railroad
wreck, raised the number of dead
to one hundred and ninety-nine.
Several bodies are still unident
ified.
NASTY WEATHER AT
DITCH II AltllOR
DUTCH HARBOR, Dec. 2 5, (AP)
- - The last twenty-four hours in
this vicinity has experienced the
worst storm In years which rang
ing from east to northeast with a
velocity of from forty miles an
hour t<£ ly>rri<-‘ne fruxe, tearing off
roofing and storm windows from
building; and wrecking radio an
tennaes . and telephone wires and
>maU houts. The barometer is
)<»w and still fall'ng.
CUOI'MHI A, K. ( Dec. 26.
(AP) Police said that Robert
Wiles, forty-nine-year-old auto
mechanic confessed that lie lured
Herbert Harris. Jr., fifteen-year
old polinnhta school hoy from
home and beat him to den'll with
an iron liar at a deserted house.
The motive was unannounced.
.1.' M. Huston, former meat cut
ter was implicated by Wiles.
CMKIHTMAS AtXIDKXTS
UNDATED. Dec. 26. (AP) - -
The Yuletide week end holiday ac
re'(ftm nr Ifflr-fl^'weaififer comWnea
caused a heavy loss of life thru
out the United States. A survey
revealed more than a hundred
eighty deaths due mostly to motor
car mishaps; Nn section of the
Country escaped.
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HLAYKIt OF
DEAF MITE SOl'GHT
GRAND RtAPIDS. Mich., Dec.
?tj. (AP) — While authorities
searched for William McCann aged
twenty in connection with the slay
ing of Miss Margaret Peevey, twen
ty-^wo year old deaf mute his
parents urgind him to give him
self up as the body was found
Saturday. __
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MEMBER KILLER
GANG CAPTURED
MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. Dec. 26
- Edward Shouse of John Dill
inger’s killer gang was captured
last week and warned officers
that any attempt to arrest the
desperadoes would be met by a
battle to the death. "All the kill
ers are crazy and that’s why I
left them. ** Shouse sa d that they
had a nightly drill in which every
nian akes a position assigned to
h'm in the event of of a raid by
the police. They sleep in bullet
proof vests. They are hoping to
amass a hundred" thousand dollars
by robberies and the ngo to South
America.
NANKING, Dec. 26, (AID —
Fifty-five civilians and three sol
diers were slain in the rebell ous
Fukien Province bv heavy bomb
O
ing attacks by the Nationalist Gov
ernment's planes said unofficial re
ports. • |
ERl’PTION AND TIDAL WAVE
IN PHILIPPINE ISLANDS
—
MANILA, Dec. 20. (AP)~ At ;
least thirteen deaths resulted and |
fliuA property damaged was re- i
ported from a volcanic eruption !
and tidal wave in the Philippine
Islands. The Bureau of Posts re
ported that four bodies were re
covered. Many persons are miss
ing in the Sorsogon Province after
the Belusan Volcano erupted.
Many houses were carried away
by a flood of sulphurous water
from the volcano.
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CLATSKANIE. Ore., Dec. 26.
(AP) Four were killed by flood
waters unloosed in sudden fury
in a small creek bed causing mud,
rocks and logs to bury the house
of Milo Allen, aged fifty three and
three of his sons, George Robert
and Donald. Mrs. Allen and an
other child. Clifford,, age seven es
caped. The floods are reneeding
elsewhere throughout ihe nort
western states.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dee. 2". (AP)
— \ jmv convicted Edward An.*
derson, confessed slayer of Hewlet
Tarr in a theatre holdup of first
degree murder. As no recommenda
tion for leniency was made the
death penalty was mandatory.
CI.A1.MS HE FATHER ONI A OF
OXE OF TWINS
YANKTOWN, South Dakota. Dec.
28, (AP)—Twin sons of Mrs. Ed
ward' Paddle had the status of
half brothers as the result of a
courts action in recognizing the
claim of a woman s husband that
he is the father of only one of
them. Paddie, a farmer near
Freeman was given a divorce by
default wlieu his wife failed to
contest the charge of infidelity.
He told the court that he believ
ed that one of the twins was his
son but the other, who he said
bore no resemblance to himself
was the son of another man. He
was awarded the custody of one
of the twins and another of five
children. The other three were
given to * the mother.
WINTER IS KING
UNDATED, Dec. 27, (AP) —
Winter continued its icy rule in
a large part of the North Ameri
can continent with howling winds
and snow storms and temperatures
of far below normal that brought
both death and suffering to many..
There is no s'gn of a let-up for
the affected area is colder than
was predicted. Even Dixie was
threatened. Several scores of per
sons were estimated to have died
as the direct results of the frigid
blasts, most of tliem in terrific mis
haps. Eight fishermen ded in a
roaring gale accompanied by snow
which swept Lake Michigan. Four
were drowned in a fishing smack
that went down at Michigan City,
Indiana and four more lost their
lives 11 a capsized mg “Bremen"
at South Haven .Michigan.
STALIN EXPRESSES VIEWS
NEW YORK, Dec. 2S, (AID —
Joseph Stalin, head of the Com
munistic party in Russia says that
tiie Soviets desire friendly relations
with Japan but sees “Grave danger
and we cannot but prepare to meet
it. He told tills to> Walter .Dur
anty, Moscow correspondent of the
New York Times in an interview.
Stalin said., that it' more reason
able elements and more prudent*
counsels- prevailed in Japan the
two countries could live ^lfi IfTnity.
but he added tluit Russia feared
tiie military faction may push the
saner polic es into (lie background.
SAN DIEliO. Dec. 27. (AIM —
Ernest J. Turley„ fifty-six year old
Naval Reserve chief gunners mate
who was shot by his daughter
Mattie, aged fifteen, several days
ago who told the police “so mother
could marry a young cowboy" and
contended that the shooting was
the result of an Ouija board tell
ing her to die. Her mother was
held • as accessory. Mattie plead
guilty tp.. tiu^
murder.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 27. (AIM
—- The General Council of Fed
eral Deputet Insurance Corm'ration
ruled that Alaska Hanks were no
eligible for ut positing insurance
tnder provisions of the Steal', ull
Hanking Act. The ruling was re
quested by Delegate Dimor.d who
said that the Territorial banks
wore ineligible because they were
not members of the Federal Re
serve.
Bl'lKiKT K8TIMATKS
WASHINGTON. Dec. 28. (AP)
—High Democratic spokesmen des
cribed the President as determined
to concentrate the primary atten
tion of the next Congress upon a
budget designed to pvovide an eight
hundred million surplus above the
ordinary federal operating costs in
1934 and 35. Although reconcil
ed to the present year’s deficit
well above the billion mark be
cause of emergency expenditures.
The administration is said to haye
set down a tentative budget which
estimates the Income at three bil
lion, four hundred million with an
ordinary outgo of two billion, six
hundred million.
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REASONS FOR GOLD ORDER
NEW YORK, Dec. 2 9. (AP) —
The new regulations issued about
gold by acting secretary Morgan
thau, are believed by Wall street
bankers, to meet the points raised
in tlie decision of Federal Judge
Woolsey last month in a test case.
Woolsey held, that while the gov
ernment has a right to compel gold
hoarders to report and surrender
the metal, the President’s anti
hoarding proclamation of August
2.8th was partly invalid because it
was a usurpation by the Pres, of
powers specifically delegated to the
Secretary of the Treasury by act
of Congress. *•
It has been freely predicted in
Wall Street that the government
would circumvent the technicality
by virtue of a new order from the
treasury head.
The order requiring the surrend
er of geld applies to Alaska as
well as continental Ffiited States.
| TO CH ANGE METHOD
EI,E< TI NG I'll ESIDENT
WASHINGTON, Dec. 27. (AP)
A constitutional nmendmeiit j.i
[change the method of electing the
President will be -pressed in the
|coining session of Congress, againsi
! the wishes, uf, Roosevelt’*- friends,
who hope for Its re-election. Sen
ator Norris Is the backer of the
resolution to change the plethod
of counting electoral votes. A
candidate who 'received l<4ss ‘than
a majority would he credited with
those he won. When the final
tally .is made, had this method
been in effect', many Presidential
elecfons in the past would have
resulted differently.
ALASKA GETS
AXOTHElt ALLOTMENT
W A Hi i I-N (.} TON. I )ec. 28, l AP I
— An allotment of two hundred
and fifty thousand was announced
by the public works administration
lor . the. Akoska Hoad Com m ission:
for the construction of .bridges at
Juneau. Douglas and Gastinau
Channel. Hoskins said that the
work was to he completed in a
year and would afford twelve hun
dred men months of employment.
WOMEN ESTABLISH
ENDURANCE RECORD
MIAMI. Dec. 2!), (AP) - Having
established a new woman's refuel
ng endurance record, Francis
Marshalls and Helen Rickey dec
ided to land their monoplane short
ly because of exhaustion from
more than a week in the skies. The
former record of eight days, four
hours and five minutes was equal
ed late last night. They are still
up today and established a new
record.
BUENO AIRES, Dec, 30. (AP)
- Twenty persons were reported
slain and many wounded at Ros^
ario, Northern Argentine, in what
the police described as radical
riots. Many were injured In Santa
Fee when the police fired into
crowdes which stormed the mount
ed police headquarters. Filty
persons, all" armed, wearing red
and white arm bands, were arrest
ed at Buenos Aires.
!ANOTHER GOLD ORDER ISSUED
WASHINGTON, Dec. 28, (AP)
j -- Another order, designed to
bring treasury gold coins and cert
I ificates remaining in the hands
| of private persons in continental
I United States, was issued Thurs
j day night by tho Treasury. The
! order removed the provisious of
'the previous orders that individ
! uals might retain up to a hun
i dred dollars in gold coin or cert
■| ilicates. The new decree left the
huge holdings of the Federal Re
'serve Banks untouched. It allows
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collectors to reta'n rare coins and
f permitted individuals to hold
scrap gold up to a hundred dol
lars in value. It excepted gold
bullion held under Federal lic
ense or held outside of continental
j United States.
The latest Treasury statement
'showed more than three hundred
'and eleven million in gold coin
' v n (I nearly seventeen million five
hundred thousand in gold certiflcat
1 es still ti circulation. The gold
turned into the Treasury will bo
paid for at the old price of $20.t>7
an ounce, instead of the price of
nowlv mined gold, being ft'5’4.06
per ounce. The penalty for * re
fusal to turn in gold will he dou
ble the price of the coins or cert
ificates netd.
Sil.VKK KK.MONiTIZATION
CAMPAIGN NOW ON
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W ASH IN'OTOX, Dec. 30 (AIM
An intensive campaign for the
reriioiiitiaation of silver was assur
ed when twenty-seven senators
went on record for free and unlim
ited coinage of both gold and sil
ver. Fourteen Democrats three
Itepubl'cnns and one Farmer-Labor
attended the conference called by
Wheeler of Montana., Sixteen to
one bimetallism was advocated
They adopted a resolution in fav
or of bimetallism, the free and
unlimited coinage of both gold and
■nHiver"'itt“*a rfttld to Tie established
by law. Nine other senators sent,
word that they,!were for the pro
position. Wheeler predicted that
the Senate would approve the pro
posal and the House follow suit If
a vote could be. obtained on it to
day and Roosevelt didn’t interfere.
< ONVICTN KILL
ATTEMPTED (W PTOH
ATMOKE, Ala., Dec 2!t. (AID
- One wan was killed and anoth
er probably fatally wounded as
they sought to catch ten escaped
convicts from the .state prison
farm near here. -
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