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Seward daily gateway., 1931-07-20
CORD0VA BANKER
 REPORTED SUICIDE

The many residents in Seward who have known Thomas s. Scott, vice president of the Bank of AL aska at Cordova for many years, received a terrible shock Sunday when report was brought to the effect he had committed suicide at San Francisco.
 The report is difficult to believe by the majority and not until def mite and authentic word comes, will they believe it so. No item was received today by The Gateway but this is not unusual for not all Alaska items are sent north from the States.
 It is known that MT. Scott has been in the States and also that he was not in the best of health, a report to this effect having been noticed in the Juneau Empire. Both MT. and Mrs. Scott were visi- tors in Seward last summer.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-07-20
STATESMEN GATHER
 IN EFFORT ID SAVE:
 GERMANY DISASTER
PARTIAL AGREEMENT REACH ED BETWEEN FRANCE AND
 GERMANY

LONDON, July 20, (P-States- men from the United States, Great Britain, Italy, France Germany Belgium and Japan assembled at the most important international conference since the Versailles meeting where they wrote war in- to a new map of the world
 They are now charged with the task of reconciling the conflicting interests into program which will pull Germany free from eco- homie catastrophe and lessen fin ancial stress turnout the world.
 At the first meeting Premier Macdonald, in the House of Com mons, met with France and Ger many who reached an agreement that Paris would do everything to create conditions favorable to ef fective collaboration.
 Laval, Briand, Breuning and Curtius in Paris, failed to agree, however, on financial guarantees of political appeasement which France asks.
 Mellon, Gibson and Stimson are here.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-07-20
MANY NOTABLES SAIL
 0N TAHOE FUR NORTH

SEATTLE, July 20. (P)-On the U. s. Coast Guard cutter Tahoe, which sailed from Seattle Satur- day, were Congressmen Will Wood Of Indiana, chairman of the House appropriations committee; Frank Murphy of Ohio; William Hastings of Oklahoma, wife and three daughters; Don Cotton of Utah, wife and daughter; Addison Smith of Idaho and wife; Scott Leavitt of Montana.
 They will visit Ketchikan, Wran- gell, Juneau, Cordova, Columbia Glacier. Valdez, Seward, Anchor age, Mt. Mckinley Park and Fair banks, thence over the Richardson Highway by auto to Chitina where they will board the Copper River & Northwestern Railroad for Cor dova.
 Six members of the party will return to Seattle by way of Ju- neau while the others will return on the cutter Tahoe.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-07-20
NEW YORK ITALIAN
 RETAINS DOUBLE TITLE

LOS ANGELES, July 2O (P)- Tony Canzoneri, New York Italian, still retained his double schamp ionship after his 1O-round bout here with Cecil Payne, wild swing ing Kentuckian, for the junior vel terWeight title. In winning the de- cision Canonzeri demonstrated be- yond all question, his right to the title, scoring a knockout in the first round when he caught the challenger flush on the chin with a right hook, dropping him to the count of three.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-07-20
GERMAN MONEY. CHECKS REFUSED
 BANKS, HOTELS
EUROPE'S FINANCIAL SITUA- ASSUMES DORMANT
 OUTLOOK

LONDON, July 20. (P) The effects of the German crisis were apparent throughout Europe. Brit ish banks refused German curren- cy and the stock market closed weak.
 In Stockholm the banks and the hotels refused to accept German currency and it was feared that thousands of tourists would be stranded without funds as the banks would not accept German checks
 A Budapest report has it that all the Hungarian banks were clos ed suddenly after a ministerial conference, for three days.
 At Brussels the reports from the borders of Begium and Luxem- bourg told of thousands of Ger mans who were crossing over with their cash. Luxemburg suspended it's marks exchange.
 In Bucharest financial circles were distressed by the closing of the Dacia bank at Jassy with a sl,000,00O deficit. The Riga Inter national bank and the Bank of Libau suspended in respect to cur rent accounts and deposits.
 The Latavian cabinet guaran- teed deposits in Latavian currency but declared that it would not be responsible for deposits in foreign currency.
 The Mercur Bank, of Vienna. which was controlled by the Darm- staeder Und National Bank of Der lin, closed it's doors. The Bourse suspended trading in Hungarian stocks for three days.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-07-20
BOY FOR THE HOPKINS

A seven pound, two and one-half ounce boy was brought to the Seward General Hospital by MT. Stork, assisted by Dr. A. D. Haver- stock, Saturday at 11:59 a. m., and delivered to MT. and Mrs. Leon ard Hopkins, popular young local couple. Mrs. Hopkins and baby are doing fine, it was reported today, and Papa Hopkins has been busy ever since passing out the cigars in honor of the occasion.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-07-20
BROTHER, NEPHEW DROWN

Chas. P. Sission, of the Justice Department, Washington, D. C., who returned unexpectedly Friday from the Westward by plane and boarded the SS Aleutian for the South, is hurrying back to the States owing to receiving word that his only brother and his brcther's three-year-old son, had met death by drowning. It was also said this was the third trag- edy in the family in eight years.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-07-20
DESIRE LARGE ATTENDANCE

A full attendance is requested by President Leon Urbach at Tues days meeting of the Seward Chamber of Commerce at noon in the Seward Grill, at which time plans will be made for the recep- tion of the two Congressional par ties who will arrive Friday from the South on the Cutter Tahoe and the SS Yukon.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-07-20
TRIUMPHS AGAIN

CHICAGO, July 20. (P) Mate" who conquered twenty Grand" at the Preakness triumphed over him again to win $70,0O0 and added the Arlington Classic to its laurels. Spanish Play" was second and Twenty Grand third. The Mate broke the. track records in running the mile and quarter in 200 min utes and two fifths seconds before a crowd of 67,O0 people.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-07-20
GAME HEAD DUE TONIGHT

MT. Terhune, head of the Alas ka Game Commission, who arrived in the city Friday by plane from Bristol Bay, has been down in the Cooper Landing, Lake Kenai area, with Game Warden George Nelson both of whom are expected to re- turn to the city this evening. MT. Terhune boards the Admiral liner for Kodiak but is returning here to meet the Paul Redington party aboard the Bureau of Fisheries vessel Penquin, now enroute from the Westward.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-07-20
PACIFIC COAST
PROVIDING THEY ACCEPT

Providing the Congressional party, due>to arrive in Seward Fri day from the South, will accept the Seward Chamber of Commerce invitation for an auto tour to Lake Kenai, they will be taken over the beautiful drive by local residents. Also, to Russian River for rainbow trout fishing, if time permits.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-07-20

MT. and Mrs. George James, of The Alaska Shop, who are spend ing much of the summer at their lodge on Lake Kenai, near Lawing are building what is said to be one of the most beautiful fire places in the Territory.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-07-20
HEAT TAKES TOLL OF 23

CHICAGO, July 20. (R The heat wave now sweeping the mid dle west has taken a toll of g lives, 8 of them in Chicago. Dam age to crops is enormous.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-07-20
LANDS IN CHURCHYARD

EASTON, Pa., July 20. (P-A Navy balloon of 35,000 cubic feet capacity, which left Lakehurst, N. J.. landed in the yard of the Dry land church at Hecktown. The balloon was piloted by Lieutenant Samuel H. Bailey.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-07-20
ROO ENTERTAINED BY ROYALTY

LONDON, July 20. R King George V and Queen Mary enter tained between 800 and 900 guests who were commanded to attend the first royal ball in Buckingham Palace since 1924.
Evening star., 1931-05-04
BUSINESS
OUTLOOK is SEEN
Improved Conditions Abroad
Expected to Be Followed
by Like Trend Here.
By the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, May 4.-Signs of clear
ing skies abroad are noted in the
monthly business review of DR.. Stephen
l. Miller, executive manager Of the Ma
tional Association Of Credit Men, who
expresses the hope that they will be
followed by fair weather here"
Among the encouraging signs" cited
by DR.. Miller are the improvement in
political conditions in several disturbed
areas. He adds that mot even the up
heaval in Spain seems likely to produce
serious disturbance"
Several of the leading foreign ex-
changes show q hrmer tone and many
foreign securities have shown a sharp
rise in price levels" he said. Foreign
factors had had much to do with our
recent economic troubles. 1t Is to be
hoped then that clearing skies abroad
will be followed by fair weather here" !"
A survey of trade and credit condi-
tionS in the southeastern section OF the
United States-Virginia, West Virginia,
Kentucky, Tennessee, the CarolinaS,
Georgia and Florida-Dr. Miller re-
ported, indicates improvement in sales
and collections in April over the pre-
vicus month. Correspondents in Ken
lucky, North Carolina and Georgia were
the most Optimistic" DR.. Miller said.
All Of the States reported general i'm
petus to buying from the loans extended
by the Government to veterans.
Evening star., 1931-05-04
JAPANESE GOVERNMENT
ADOPTS ECONOMY PLAN

NEW YORK, May 4 (N.A.NA) THE
Japanese government has decided to
meet its financial problems by strong
economies in administration and thus
reduce the budget outlay.
Like other highly industrialized ma
tionS, Japan has felt the full effects of
the world depression. To add to her
troubles are the turmoil in the country'S
greatest export customer, China, and
her large shipping interests. So heavy
has been the loss in shipping that un-
employed seamen are being trained in
vocational schools for other occupa-
tions
Japan'S economic position, in other
words, closely parallels that of Britain,
with the exception that she has no
mines problem. Most of her coal is i'm
ported either from abroad or comes
from her controlled mines in Man.
churia. With reduced incomes all over
the world. such a so-called luxury fab
ric as silk is purchased in reduced
quantities.
1t has been said that If the American
woman stopped wearing silk stockings
japan would Immediately 60 bankrupt.
This may be an extreme view, but there
Us no question about the hardship
brought about in Japan by low silk
exports.
Copyright, 1881, by North American News
paper Alliance.)
Evening star., 1931-05-04
LOSS OF PATRONS
TRACTION PROBLEM
Number of Street Railway
Passengers Continue to
Show Decline.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

6ptCldi OlhphtCu " Ahc oval
NEW YORK, May 4.-Unrelenting
declines in the aggregate number of
passengers carried by the street railways
of the United States continue, as in
recent years. to be the principal problem
of the traction industry, says the
Standard Statistics Co. of New York in
a recent survey, which continues, In
part:
"Unquestionably, the chief contribut-
ing cause to the recent sharp drop in
passenger trafic Is Zoe extensive unem-
ployment now prevailing, which has
eliminated the regular daily tranSporta-
ton of thousands of ONCE and factory
workers.
THE present low ebb of traction
business arises, however, from difficulties
of a more fundamental nature. These
are, in brief: % Steadily increasing
use Of the private passenger automoblle
t2) congestion of thoroughfareS which
has slowed down the movement OF all
traffic, including street cars; (3D onerous,
cumbersome and often infiexible regula-
tory measures; "a increasing difficulties
Of various descriptions which have made
exceedingly dif1cult the speedy adjust
ment of the fares to the actual cost Of
operation: (5) burdensome taxes, and
90 exhaustion of surpluseS and con-
dition of financial stalemate which have
made even small Improvements difhcult
and have rendered large scale under
takings well nigh impossible.
Relief from these adverse conditions
will probably be obtained only as q
result Of a slow evolution, extending
over a period of years. Steady gains
year after year in the number Of pas.
sengers carried by rapid transit facilities
now operated in New York, Chicago
Philadelphia and Boston afford con-
crete demonstration of the type oi
| service necessary to recover a departing
| patronage. Built in all cases with city
or State aid, the manner in which
facilities Of this sort have been or are
/ to be provided illustrates one ]Ogica
method of solving the enormous finan'
cial problem involved in any subway
construction.
1T is our strong conviction that thu
| traction problems in other cities viii
be solved only through ultimate recogni'
ton by municipal governments tha
modern, efficient and speedy local trans
portation service is quite indispensable
and through substantial aid from thi
source, providing the necessary facilities
Little hope is otherwise entertained fo
the industry as a whole or the man!
| companies now ekeing out a bar
existence therein"
Evening star., 1931-05-04
BROKERS CAUTIOUS
IN DAILY LETTERS
Moderate Optimism, How
ever, Is Reflected in Ad-
vice to Customers.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May Moderate ap-
timism is reflected in today's commits
sion house letters to customers, al
though commentators counsel caution
at this particular point in the stock
markets position. Opinions follow:
Babcock. Rushton q Cove believe
that the decline in the stock market
OF the last eight weeks has been caused
by forced liquidation and that at pres
ent 1t has been, to all intents and pur-
poses, entirely completed. In accom-
pnSh1ng this, however the stock market
decline has undoubtedly held up busi-
ness. but we would caution the observer
from assuming that business was the
cause Of this last decline.
Otis & Co.-In the past three trading
days the market has provided three alb
rupt and generally unexpected turns.
We believe this erratic behavior may
continue IN evidence over the immedi-
ate future.
Hornblower g. WeekS-We continue
to believe that technically the market
Is entitled to q rally that might very
well last several weeks and that the
sharp recovery of last Thursday and
Friday makes this prospect q logical
one. Furthermore, we feel the tenor OF
the industrial news will improve, which,
coupled with an enormous short posi-
ton, should support constructive trading
on considerable scale.
Shields & Co-The stock market "a
reaching the level it would have estab-
lished many months ago but for the
ill-advised "jiggles" that prevented its
true process of diScounting and reflect
ing actual business conditions. The
U. s. Steel report for the first quarter
was the means of emphasizing in both
the business and stock market worlds
just what conditions prevail at present.
AS q result, delayed Liquidation and
heavier short selling have hurried the
readjustment.
Redmond & Co.-L.ast weeks sharp
decline in prices cannot be attributed
solely to short-selling. Obviously, there
was heavy liquidation Of long stock by
investors and investment trusts who
are convinced that business recovery
may be long. slow process and that
there Is considerable doubt as to how
long large corporations will continue TO
pay dividends that are not being
earned.
z. F. Hutton & Co.-The market
seems TO US at a position where IL ts
possible to take a logical risk on the
buying side. We think some sort Of ir-
regular bottom has been. or is being, es-
tablished and that for the present the
possibilities for advance are propor-
tionately greater than the chances Of
further decline.
Evening star., 1931-05-04
RAY OF HOPE is SEEN
FOR COAL INDUSTRY
Scientist Declares Fuel Will Be-
come Most Important Ma
terial to Chemistry.
Special Dispatch to The star.

NEW YORK. May 4 CN.AN.A.) AT
time when the coal industry is Ian
gushing and bringing misery TO its
workers, as well as losses to its owners,
there comes q small ray Of hope. The
smallest light in that black void II
quickening.
Chaplin Tyler, research supervisor for
the Du Pont Ammonia Corporation,
makes a report that "coal viii become
the most important material ever avail
able to the chemical industry"
Science Is forging engines to run on
new and practically limitless fuels. The
French scientist, Claude. last year dem
onStrated in Cuba q contraption which
used tropical sea water to run a dyna-
mo and kept electric lights burning
brightly. BY using hot water at the
surface and cold water below, it gen.
Grated steam.
In the Siemens laboratory Is q new
solar engine run by sunlight. It has
driven small horsepower motor for
months. Both these instruments might
shift industry from the north to heat
mines" in the tropics.
Then our coal mines would suffer
But II coal Is proven to be q basic
chemical material there need be no fear
Of the future
(Copyright, 1881, by the North American
Newspaper Alliance)
Evening star., 1931-05-04
BOSTON WOOL MARKET.

BOSTON, May 4 Especially Season
ally quiet conditions In the goods mar
ket and the tendency to await the OPEN
ing prices at London auction sales we're
factors making for dullness in the Bos-
ton wool market today. Slightly easier
prices for tops have resulted in some
what larger sales on all grades. Lower
prices are due to easing in wool and
partly TO the fact that unified orders
for tops have recently been substantially
reduced
Fine territory combing clean was
quoted today at 62a64; French combing,
57a60; half blood, 56a5e; three -eighths
blood, 50a52, and quarter blood, 43a45
Fine Ohio fleeces were quoted at 26a27,
grease basis; half blood, 25a26; three
eighths blood, 22a23, and quarter blood
2la22.
Evening star., 1931-05-04
CHIcAGo POTATO MARKET.

CHICAGO, May (41.-Potatoes, 176;
on track, 293; total United States ship
ments Saturday, 829; Sunday. 40; about
steady; trading only fair; sacked, per
hundredweight. Wisconsin round whites,
120aI IS; Minnesota. 1.l0al.25; Idaho
russets. No. !, 145a1.55; occasional
fancy car higher: No. 2. 1.25al 80; COM
mercials, 1.35al 40: new stock about
steady; trading fair. Texas sacked
Bliss Triumphs mostly 350a3.75; fancy
higher: small, 3.O0a3.25; Florida, barrel,
Spaulding Rose, SIS.
Evening star., 1931-05-04
TOBACCO MARKET QUIET.

BALTIMORE, May 4 (SpeciaD. -
The Maryland leaf tobacco market was
at Standstill last week. only one hogs
head being sold. Receipts for the week
totaled 103 hogsheads, but these have
not been inspected and were placed In
warehouses, making the total stock In
State tobacco warehouses 1858 hogs
leaf tobocco, per 100 pounds: Inferior
6.00a1O.00; sound, common, 10 .OOa22 90;
good common, 22.50a32.O 90: medium
32.50a40.O0; good to fine red, 40.50a
$500; fancy, common, 10.00a25. 90; me-
diunn, 25.00a35.00; good to fine, 35.50a
$500; ground leaves, nominal; upper
country hurley, 7.0oa40.00.
Evening star., 1931-05-04
CHICAGO LIVE STOCK MARKET

CHICAGO. May 4 CR.-Hogs, $4,000
head, including $4,000 direct; mostly
10a25 lower than Fridays average;
packing sows, 10a15 lower; good to
choice, 160-220 pounds, 7.10a7.35; top,
7.35; 230-300 pounds. 6.50a7.00; pigs.
6.75a7.25; packing Sows, 5.50a6.0O: light
light, good and choice, 140-160 pounds.
7.20a7.35; medium weight, 2O0-25o
pounds, 6s5a7.35; heavy weight, $50
$50 pounds, 6.15a6.e5; packing sows,
medium and good, 275-500 pounds, 5.50a
800; slaughter pigs, good and choice,
100-130 pounds, 6.75a7.25. I
Cattle, $4,000 head: calves, 1000
head; fully steady trade on better grade
fed steers and yearlings; early top long
yearlingS. 9.75: best heav1es, bid 9.25;
some held higher; not much doing on
steers Of value to sell at 800 downward,
but undertone fairly healthy on these
grades and other killing classes.
Slaughter cattle and vealers-Steers.
good and choice. 600-900 pounds, 8.OOa
1000; 900-1.100 pounds, s.OOa1O.00
l,100-1 800 pounds, 8.0oa9.75; 1900
1,500 pounds, 800a9.75; common and
heifers. good and choice, 55o-S50
pounds, 6.75as.75; common and me-
dium, 5.25a6.75; cows, good AMI choice,
5.00a6.00; common and medium, 4.50a
500; low cutter and cutter, 325a4.50;
bulls (yearlings excluded, good and
choice (beeD, 4.00a5.25 cutter to
medium, S.35a4.50; vealers (milk-fed),
good and choice. 7.00a9.00; medium,
6.0Oa7.00; Gull and common. 450a6. 90;
stocker and feeder cattle (steers), good
and choice, 500-1 ,050 pounds, 675a6.O0;
common and medium, 5.25a6.75.
Sheep, $4,000; fully steady; spots,
10a15 higher; good to choice wooled
lambs, 9.00a925 to packers; extreme
top, $50; few clippers, S.00as.50
wooled ewes. 3.00a3.50; lambs, 30
pounds down, good and choice, s.50a
965; medium, 8.00a8.50; 91-1Oo pounds.
medium to choice, 7.75a9 40: all
weights, common, 6.75as.00; ewes. 90
$50 pounds, medium to choice, 2.50a
3.75; all weights Gull and common.
1.50a2.50.
Evening star., 1931-05-04
Grigsby-Grunow Shows Profit.

NEW YORK, May 4 OP).-B. j.
Grigsby, chairman and president of the
Grigsby- Grunow Co., said that although
unit radio sales during the first four
months this year were more than so
per cent below the like period last year,
the company reported an operating
profit during both February and March.
These profits, he said, although abb
sorbed by inventory losses and nom
recurring losses from receivables from
operations prior to 1881, indicate the
reduction in expenses effected under
the reorganized management, which
took control in January"
Evening star., 1931-05-04
Washington Stock Exchange

SALES.
Capital Traction CO. at 34I2.
Potomac Electric 515 % rfd.-10 at
110k.
9sH, 2 at 1914.
Liberty National Bank-1O at 100, at
100.
Riggs National Bank-10 at 405.
Federal-American Co. com.--25 at 81.
National Mtge. g. Inv. pfd'-2oo at 47s,
200 at "a.
AFTER CALL.
P9tomac Electric go pfd.-5 at 113, 5
at 113.
Washington Gas $500 at 1861.
Norfolk IL Wash. Steamboat Co.-6 at
1907.
Lanston Monotype- at 1907.
Capital Traction Colo at 34H.
National Metropolitan Bank--10 at $50.
Rid and Asked Prices.
Evening star., 1931-05-04
Montgomery Ward Sales Drop.

CHICAGO, May 4 (H').--April sales Of
Montgomery Ward g. Co. totaled $20,-
55s. .44s, against 23.776,430 in April,
1880. a decrease Of 1888 per cent. For
the first four months OF the year the
sales were s70.024,785. compared with
eei. .l45,4oei n the same period Of last
year. q decline Of 1870 per cent.
Evening star., 1931-05-04
DRY GOODS MARKET.

NEW YORK, May 4 (SpeciaD -
Cotton goods markets were dull today.
at S for 64x60s and at 534 for 6Sx72s.
Raw silks were quiet and unchanged.
Evening star., 1931-05-04
Bid and Asked Prices.
BONDS.
PUBLIC UTILITY.

Bid Asked.
Amer. Tel d Tel. 4l2s '39..... l2b
Am. Tel g. Tel. ctl. tr. 5s..... 1854 $40.
Anacostia & Pot. r. r. 5s..... 16 .....
Ana. e. Pot. guar. IS. ......... 90 .....
c. 6Z p Tel. of Va. IS. ........ 103 .....
Capital Traction r. r. 5s.... 80 81
City & Suburban ss.......... rs .....
Georgetown Gas lSt SIS. 103la .....
Potomac Elec. cons. 5eo..... l0334 .....
Potomac Elec IS 1888. .......... 109ka
Wash. Alex. & Mt. Yer. ctfs...
Washington Gas 4l2s.......... 100 10OS4
Washington Gas 5s............ los 101
Wash Gas IS, series A........ 1927 1921
Wash. Gas 6S. series B........ los 1904
Wash Rwy. e. Elec. As. .....,.. 80 SSss
MISCELLANEOUS.
Barber g. Ross. INC, 6l2s...... 81 .....
Chevy Chase Club 5laS.....,. 101 .....
Columbia Country Club ShS.... 100 102
D. @. Paper Mfg. IS. ........... 80 80
W NJ Cold Storage SIS. 95 .:...
wash. Cons Title 6s........... ..... 100
Evening star., 1931-05-04
Direct to The Star once.

1880 AM. 100000 1890 Noon 100000
1:3o PM......... 100000 2:10 P.M....... 600 900
yearly
tionS.
~ in stock sPayabe in scrip Pl1S Ia in stock Paid as
Payable
PsysHe in cash or stock Plus 81 In stock Plus in steck
Paid this
Evening star., 1931-05-04
STOCKS.
NATIONAL BANK
TRUST COMPANY.

Amer. Sec, & TT. Co. 10 ...... 325
Continental Trust (6l. ........ lis
Natl. Sav. & TT. Q2t) ........ 425
Prince Georges Bank Trust. %
Union Trust 1851 )............. 400
Wash Loan & Trust 90 A2n