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VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 154.
SEWARD, ALASKA. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1929.
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INDUSTRIAL AND LABOR LEAD
ERS CONFER SEPARATELY
WITH PRESIDENT
WASHINGTON, Nov., 22, UP)—
General maintenance of existing
wage scales was agreed upon by
Industrialists and labor leaders
who conferred separately with
President Hoover.
The industrialists gave indi
vidual assurance that they would
not initiate any movement for
wage reductions because of their
humanitarian viewpoint and of
maintaining and consuming the
country’s power.
The labor representatives state
ment said they agreed that there
would be no movements toward
a wage increase beyond those
under way or to be started at
this time; that every cooperation
will be given to aid the Presi
dent’s program looking toward
continued business progress and
that employes will not initiate
movements for wage reduction.
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ISSUANCE NEW SECURITIES IN
PRESENT YEAR, LOANS
CAPITAL TAX
WASHINGTON, Nov.. 22, (A5)—
Fred I. Kent, director in the
Bankers Trust Company of New
York, reiterated before the Sen
ate lobby committee that the
action of the Senate coalition on
the tariff bill was partially res
ponsible- for the recent stock
market disturbance.
Kent, a small man and rather
deaf, told the committee he was
sorry to cause any inconvenience
but said he was correctly quoted
in a recent speech in which he
said coalition was partially res
ponsible for the stock market
decline, adding that that was,
however, but one of the causes.
He named the other reasons as
being the increased issuance of
new securities during 1929 and
the increase in brokers loans
and increase in the captial tax.
EUROPE'S cun TRAIN
ITTICKER FRONTIER
OF JK09JHH
LONDON, Nov., 22, (£>)—Two
passengers were killed and sev
eral wounded when Bulgarian
bandits attacked the Simplon
Orient Express, Europe’s crack
train, as it was nearing the Bul
garian-Jugoslavian frontier.
The reports said the robben
went through the train from end
to end robbing all and shooting
at the least sign of resistance:
The frontiers have been closed
to precent their escape.
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STOCKS TURN UPWARD
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov., 22, (/P)
Turning upward for the first time
after a week of heavy liquidation
in which billions in market values
were swept away,*sto«k prices ral
lied in every exchange of the coun
try.
INTENSE AGONY SUFFERED BY
FRENCH STATESMAN, 88
YEARS OLD
PARIS, Nov., 22, (JP)—Clemen
ceau is making a magnificent,
and what many of those close
to him consider his last, fight
for his life.
Suffering intense agony the 88
| year-old French statesman is be
ing patched constantly by phy
cisians and members of his fam
;ily.
Even the injections of mor
phine gave him no relief from
the pain caused by ligestional
disturbance and only injections
of camphorated oil has kept
his heart going.
Physicians said Clemenceau is
jin the greatest of pain and has
to visibly restrain himself from
; crying out.
FIRST TURKISH IK?
USE OF ACCIDENT
CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov., 20, (/P)
—The filming of the first. Turkish
talkie produced the first serious
accident in the Turkish movie
world. The auto of a gang of
smugglers in the film was speeding
GO miles an hour down a road
when the auto overturned on
the outskirts of Constantinople
and an actor was killed and
three other actor smugglers were
seriously injured.
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INDIVIDUAL RAISE SMALL BUT
IN THE AGGREGATE WILL
BE LARGE
WASHINGTON, Nov., 22, (/P)—
| Henry Ford wrote his own pres
| cription for improving business (
; conditions announcing an im- :
mediate general increase in
I wages for the many thousands of j
his employes.
Ford is here at President Hoo
ver’s invitation for the industrial
leaders conference.
He said, unexepectedly, that
i‘T am going to increase the bas
ic wage scale of our employes
immediately. We know what
amount but it has to be worked
out in detail.”
He intimated that the individ
ual raise might be small but in j
the aggregate it would be large.
!UD BURNED 10 !
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| SAN FRANCISCO, Nov., 22, (JP)
■ Believed to have been stunned
'when she tripped on her trailing
night robe, Mrs. Sadie Hall, 53, in
valid wife of J. D. Hall, a retired
•New York banker, was burned to
death in her apartment in an ex
clusive Mill Valley boarding house
while aid that might have saved
her was only a few feet away. Pre
sumably Mrs. Hall’s night robe and
dressing robe were ignited by a cig
arette she was smoking.
PARIS, Nov., 22, (/P)-Further
European comment upon President
Hoover’s plan for exemption of
food ships from seizure in time of
war shows little encouragement.
The general* tenor of statements
being that the plan is not practi
cal.
“SIMPLY FLIP A COIN”
KANSAS CITY, Nov., 22, (/P)-A
solution of the social difficulties of
Dolly Curtis Gann, sister of the
vice-president, and Mrs. Alice Long
worth is suggested by the Murray
Davis post of the American Legion
here. “Simply have the two ladies
flip a coin for their place at each
dinner”, is the suggestion.
GH. SNOOK IS
DENIED NEW TRIP!
MURDER OE GIRL
HIGHER COURT AFFIRMS THE
FINDING OF THE LOWER
COURT
COLUMBUS, Nov., 22, :(/P)—
Dr. James Howard Snook, con
victed murderer of Theora K.
Hix, was denied a new trial by
the second Ohio district court
of appeals.
Snook is sentenced to be elec
trocuted on the night of Novem
ber 29.
It it expected that he will car
ry the case to the state supreme
court as Snook filed that an er
ror in the proceeding claiming
he had not been given a fair
trial and insufficient time in
which to prepare his case.
The appeals court, however, af
firmed the lower court’s finding
sentencing him to death.
DEPENDS ON FARMERS
SEATTLE, Nov., 22, (/P)-Success
of the federal farm board depends
to a great extent on the farmers
themselves, Louis J. Taber, national
master of the National Grange,
told the 62 voting delegates and ap
proximately 5,000 visitors at the
opening of the 63rd annual conven
tion here.
Aside from the cold storage
plants operated in connection
with their local business, meat
markets and grocercy store, there
are two cold storage plants op
erated for the handling of fish.
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The most recent view of the floor of the New Tork Stock Exchange,
showing newly constructed “horsesh oe” trading posts. The booth arrange
ments arrangeds are designed to do away with much of the congestion
v/hich occurred around the smaller posts formerly used. p
TWENTY-SEVEN DROWNED AC
CORDING REPORT FROM
NEWFOUNDLAND
ST. JOHNS, Nov., 22, UP)—*
Twenty-seven persons have been
drowned on the south coast of
Newfoundland by a 15-foot tidal
wave which was swept up by the
earthquake there Monday, a wire
less report reaching the Justice
Department from the Steamer
Portia said.
Nine of the persons, mostly
women and children, lost their
lives when everything along the
waterfront at Burin, including
16 buildings was swept away
by the wave.
Four bodies were recovered at
that point; 18 persons lost their
lives at Loads Cove, Lamaline and
on the Burin district.
The Str. Daisy is giving as
sistance to the stricken commun
it-eis; all means of communication
other than radio, have been cut
off from the south coast
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MOST OF OK
HOLDING STEM!
NEW YORK, Nov., 22, (/P)-Stock
prices rallied from $2 to $20 a share
| and held most of their gains as the
country’s leading financial author
ities took steps to restore public
confidence.
The stock exchange inquiry into
the character and source of the re
cent “short” selling was a factor in
routing the “bear” traders. The re
discount rate was reduced from 5
'to 4to percent.
I William Randolph Hearst called
| upon Pres. Hoover to take ac
tion in the stock crisis. “The pres
ent unwarranted depression in the
value of sterling securities is due
partly to the vicious manipulation
of “bear” interests, and partly to
the alarm of the public at sud
den unjustifiable collapse of val
ues,” Hearst wrote. Mr. Hearst also
suggested that the secretary of the
treasury issue a statement that
sound dividends paying stocks must
eventually return to twice their
present value.”
51. LOUIS PUTS UNRULY
STREAM UNOERGROUND
ST. LOUIS, Nov., 22, (/P)-A river
whose floods and pollution have
menaced St. Louis for years is to
be placed in a mammoth man
made underground channel 13
miles long.
The city is spending $11,000,000
so create a subterranean stream
Dounded by a channel of concrete
md steel, for what is now the River
Des Peres. Elaborate excavation
nachinery enables 70 men to do
he work of 7,000.
Increase the use of silver by ask
ng for the big metal coins when
rou have a bill changed.