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VOLUME VX. NUMBER 143.
SEWARD, ALASKA,
MONDAY,
JUNE 23, 1930.
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SEATTLE. June 23, i/P)—The S. S.
Aleutian of the A. S. S. Co., sailed
a: 9 a m. Saturday and carried 501
passengers of which 56 were for
Seward as folowrs:
Mrs. M. Lowe, W. W. Sharrard
Chas. Friffin Shank, Mr. and Mrs
T C. Skinner and two sons. Mr. and
Mrs. E L. Sargeant, I. Tolstor, M. F.
C. Gentsch and daughter, Mrs. V
Richmond and son. L. V. Ray, Paul
Pinkerton. Mr. and Mrs. M. D
Would. Henry Romig. Arthur Ells
worth. Miss A. Ellsworth. Joail Ells
worth. Anne Ellsworth.
Mrs. R. Cherson and three child
ren, Mrs. A. Hughes. Mr. and Mrs
B. Christianson, Sally Erbacker
Capt. C. E. Lancaster, B- Howard
Mr. and Mrs. A. Anderson, Mrs- Ed
Bartlett, L. A. Gassage, Dr. M- P
Kaufman, Elmer Pennell, Russel!
Shaw, N. Nightingdale, J. W- Brose
J. T. Clayworth, A. Dodson. King
r Summerland, Coil Hesse, E. M
Webb. W. H. Turner, David T. Kirk
Anne Rothelv, J. Schmitbaurer, A
H. March. M. Comstock and nin<
steerage.
WASHINGTON. June 23, </P>—A
bill affecting about 100.000 World
War veterans and representing a
cost to the government of about
875,000.000. was reported favorably
to the Senate by the Finance Com
mittee. The measure liberalizes
the soldiers’ pensions.
BOXER DIES, SUDDENLY
KETCHIKAN, June 23, {/Pi
Mickey Taylor, Ketchikan boxer,
died. He had been ill only a short
time and was recovering from a
tonsil operation. He was progress
ing well and his parents left him
for a short auto ride. When they
returned the lad had passed away.
HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMP
NEW YORK, June 23, (/P)—Max
Schmeling was awarded the official
crown of world’s heavyweight
champion by the New York Boxing
Commission. Thus the German
rises to the top notch position in
the world of pugilism thru winning
his recent battle with Jack Sharkey
r n a foul.
TO SUPPORT MORROW
WASHINGTON, June 23, (/P>—
Confidence is expressed at the
White House that Morrow will be
:he next Senator from New Jersey.
It is also said that President Hoo
aonsxst hrM PreaNa vlatdshiandp
ter will give Morrow’ every possible
support.
M. D. POST PASSES
r CLARKSBURG, W. V. June 23,
•ijp)_Mellville Davison Post, 49,
short story writer died here to
day. He was stricken two weeks
;tgo with varicose veins and eso
phagus.
KENNY JR. IS WED
BALTIMORE, June 23, (/P)—Wil
iam Kenny. Jr., son of the million
aire contractor, eloped and married
Miss Adelaide Brice.
TELEGRAPH BREVITIES
GREETED WITH FLAGS
TOKIO, June 23, (/P)—'The head
of the Japan Delegation to the
Naval Conference was greeted, on
|returning by 20,000 flags waving.
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TAKES FIRST LESSON
LONDON, June 23, (JP)—The
Prince of Wales took his first glider
lesson under the instruction of
| Robert Kronfeld, -well known Ger
man glider pilot.
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ROBBERS GET S50,000
WARSAW. June 23, (£*)—'The
manager and two clerks of the Lodz
Bank were imprisoned for the en
tire night by robbers who escaped
with $50,000
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: MODIFY 18TH AMENDMENT
I WASHINGTON, June 23, (/P)—
i Representative Alfred Michaelson,
republican of Illinois, introduced
! in the House, a resolution for modi
fication of the 18th amendment.
UNFAIR AND UNJUST
WASHINGTON, June 23, (/P)—
The London Naval Treaty is unfair
and unjust to the United States
and should be rejected, Senator
Hiram Johnson, republican of Cali
fornia declared in a radio speech.
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FIRST WOMAN TO FILE
LINCOLN. Neb., June 23. (/P)-U.
S. Senator Norris will be opposed
by a woman in the August primary
for the Republican Senatorial nom
ination, Mrs. Beatrice Fenton Ciaig
jof Omaha is the first woman to file.
RIVAL AIRPLANES
LONDON, June 23, UP)—The
Prince of Wales and his brother
Prince George, have ^entered rival
airplanes for the King’s Cup races
around Britain, July 5; but neither
Prince wtll fly
GOLD MEDAL, BYRD
NEW YORK. June 23, UP)—Julie
Kilyoni, sculptor, finished the gold
medal to be presented Byrd by the
Aeronautical Chamber of Com
merce. Lindbergh is the only othei
aviator to receive the medal.
runaway balloon
LONDON, June 23, (/P)—Flyng
Officer Pelham Groom had a nar
irow escape from death when he
rode a runaway balloon for twe
.miles while hanging head down
;ward
“TAKEN FOR A RIDE”
CHICAGO, uJne 23, (A3)—Elmer J
Whitman, a nephew of Charles A
Comiskey, owner of the Chicagc
White Sox, was “taken for a ride”
robbed and finally dumped out o]
his abductor’s motor car eight mile!
from Danville, 111.
MARKING TIME
DUBLIN, June 23, (#)—'While h<
and his companons marked tim<
and awaited clearing weather im
patiently, Capt. Charles Kingsforc
1 Smith declared he did not intend U
let himself be stampeded into ar
unwise course in his proposec
flight over the Atlantic to Nev
York.
CORONATION IN OCTOBER
BUCHAREST, June 23, (/P)-Witt
all obstacles swept from his path
King Carol began making plans foi
coronation which will climax hi,
climb from role of exile to king
The coronation is to be held in A1
ba Julia, where late King Ferdin
and was crowned. The date ha;
not been definitely set but the cere
mony will probably take place som<
time in October.
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RECEIPTS INADEQUATE TO SUP
PORT PROPOSED VETS
LEGISLATION
WASHINGTON, June 23, (/P)—
President Hoover warned World
War veterans that their relief.
bill pending in the Senate meant I
increase in taxes.
Mellon said there was at pre
sent a deficit of $100,000,000 in
the treasury and at the close of
, the fiscal year this deficit will
be $180,000,000 if the reduced rate
of the income tax is made appli
cable this year.
Receipts are inadequate to sup
port the burden of the proposed
j veterans legislation and it is es
timated that it will require $102,
000,000 for 1932 with the ultimate
; annual cost of $225,000,000.
HOPS OFF TONIGHT
DUBLIN, June 23, t/P)— Kings
ford Smith plans to take *)ff to
night, at midnight, from Port
Marnock on his flight to the
United States.
MAYOR BUFFO, t
UNO OTHERS, KILLED
j
j ABSECON, N. J., Juve 23, :T>>—
Mayor Anthony Ruffo, Jr., of At
lantic City, Mr. and Mrs John
Wiley, and Margaret Siracusa,
widow to the brother of fhe Ma\ -
or’s wife, were killed when their
automobile was struck by a tram
at a grade crossing.
The bodies were so mangled that
i identification was almost im
possible. Wreckage was strewn for
100 yaj’ds.
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REFUSES TO COLLABORATE
j LONDON, June 23, (TP)-^Stanley
Baldwin, conservative and former
i Premier, was understood to have
i refused to collaborate with the
Labor government in a conference
to seek a solution to Britain’s un
employed problem.
§ANDINO RETURNS
MEXICO CITY, June 23, f/P)—
A representative of General Sandi
no says insurgent leader, returned
to Nicaragua and has defeated the
U. S .Marins in two ncounters; cap
tured a marine sargent, an aviator
| and 10,000 rounds of ammunition
and many guns.
; KILLED WHEN JUMPED
GRAND RAPIDS, June 23, {IP)—
Three unidentified men, thought to
be hobos, were killed and another
was injured as they leaped from a
> freight train into a patch of pas
s senger coaches on the Pere Mar
■ quette Railroad.
» PROPELLER SPUN OFF
1 ADELAIDE, Australia, June 23,
^ {IP)—A pilot, flying at 3,000 feet,
r when the propeller spun off the
plane and smashed to the ground.
He glided six miles to a small field.
The plane struck a fence but no one
l iwas hurt.
5 DENIES CONNECTION
.1 WASHINGTON, June 23, {IP)—
• jBaxcom Slemp, former Republican
- National Committeeman from Vir
*1 ginia in a statement, denied he
-1 had any connection with Bishop
; Cannon in his bucket shop specula
tions.
TAXATION ORDINANCE
DELHI, India, June 23, OP)-The
government began closing upon
violators of the taxation ordinance,
arresting 17 cultivators in a village
20 miles from Delhi for non-pay
ment of their land tax.
CREATES FURORE
DALLAS, June 23, (/P)—Clara Bow
slept late at a downtown hotel here
unpertruded by the furore created
by the report she came to this
city to settle an alienation suit for
$30,000.
FACING STARVATION
ERMONTON, Alberta, June 23,
(jP)—Isolated by torrential rains
which have played havoc with the
highways and railroad lines in
northern Alberta, a motorcade of
120 persons, seeking new homes in
the Peace River Valley country, are
facing starvation.
VIOLENT DEATH
NEW YORK, June 23, (/P)—If the
letter to a New York newspaper,
written by an unidentified man,
who confesses to two slayings, is to
be believed, some unknown person
l is to meet a violent death, College
Point, Queens.
SAILOR TESTIFIES
BOSTON, June 23, (JP)—Oscar
Jonesan, a 19-year-old sailor from
Norfolk, Va„ testified at the re
sumption of the federal inquiry
into the Fairfax-Pynthis steamship
disaster, that after the collision he
saw no boats lowered in a search
for persons in the water.
IN COOL CELLAR
WASHINGTON, June 23, —
The British Embassy in Washing
ton is wet again. A full consign
ment of assorted liquors came ir
under permit and was delivered fc
the Embassy where it was stored
I in a cool cellar
SECOND TEST RACE
NEW YORK, June 23, <7P»—Wee
tamoe won the second test race de
signed to establish the best boat foi
the defense of the American Cuf
aganst -Sir Thomas Lipton’s Sham
rock V. The Enterprise was second
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100 MEN KILLED
SOFIA, Bulgaria June 23, {JP}—A'
least 100 men have been killed ir
the bloody feud between the tw<
chief groups of Macedonian revolu
itionaries in the last few months.
NOMINATED MINISTER
WASHINGTON, June 23, {JP)~
Ralph J. Totten of Tennessee wai
nominated by President Hoover t<
be minister to the Union of Souti
Africa. He has been Consul Gen
at Cape Town since 1926.
REPORT ON CONDITIONS
BERLIN, June 23, (/P)—S. Parke:
i Gilbert, reparations general, level
ed devastating criticism of Riech
istag financial methods in his fina
report under the Dawes plan. Th<
German press has greeted his re
port as a fair summing up of con
ditions at present.
RESOLUTION FORWARDED
WASHINGTON, June 23, (/P)
The Senate Foreign Affairs Com
mittee voted 10 to 7 in approval o:
the resolution asserting its right:
'to secret document relating to th<
London Naval Treaty. Presides
Hoover refused to surrender th<
papers. A copy of the resolutior
was forwarded to Hhe President
| who is expected to reply thri
1 Secret? ry Stimson.
®Y
MEET. NEW YORK
LINDBERGH, NOW A FATHER,
ANSWERS CONGRATULA
TIONS, SHY GRIN
| NEW YORK, June 23, (/P)—
Lindbergh and Byrd exchanged
congratulations; Lindbergh con.
i gratulated the Admiral for his
! conquest of the South Pole and
' Byrd congratulated the ColoneL
j upon the arrival of a son.
The famous aviators met at the
Biltinore Hotel, Byrd’s headquar
ters, and went immediately to
Byrd’s room for a good long visit.
The flying colonel was deluged
with congratulations when lie ar
rived at the hotel. He did not
mention the subject himself and
answered the “Congratulation Col
! onel" with only a shy grin.
CHAS. LINDBERGH, JR.
ENGLEWOOD, N. J., June 23,
, UP)—A son, weighing seven and
three-quarter pounds, was bom
yesterday to Mrs. Charles Lind
bergh; yesterday was also Mrs.
j Lirfdbergh’s 24th birthday. The
stork arrived at the Morrow home
at 3:15 p. m.
CAMBRIDGE. June 23, (/P)—
Wilbur Huston of Seattle, winner
of the Edison prize scholarship,
passed all work in his freshman
I year.
He has been a “good student'
Massachusetts Institute of Teih
nology College authorities an
nounced although his marks
were not given out.
TREATMENT OF CANCER
1 BALTIMORE. June 23, ^—Es
tablishment of pathological teams
to work hand in hand with the sur
geon in the great hospitals of the
country in the diagnosis and treat
;! ment of cancer, was urged here by
i Dr. Joseph Colt Bloodgood.
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ASKED TO SIGN
WASHINGTON, June 23, (A3)—
President Hoover will, within the
next few days, be asked by Con
gress to sign a specific resolution
awarding the Mississippi Shipping
J Co., the ocean mail contract be
' tween the Gulf ports and the East
1 ern coast of South America.
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AIR DEPOT ENDORSED
WASHINGTON, June 23, (A3)—
Establishment of an army air depot
• in Alameda county and bomba rd
. ment wing headquarters in Marin
. county, both in California, was ap
[ proved by the House Military Af
» fairs Committee.
WILL SIGN TREATY
ISTAMBUL, Turkey, June 23, (JP)
!—Greece and Turkey are scheduled
to sign a treaty ending 100 years
of enmity between the two nations.
Greece will pay Turkey $2,215,000
indemnity as property settlements.
FIGHTING CONTINUES
CALCUTTA. India, June 23, (A3)—
British police and native followers
i of Mahatma Gandhi, were reported
, | to have engaged in an armed con
flict near Ghatel. The number of
!casualties were not learned.