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Seward daily gateway., 1932-07-06
ALASKA ROAD ITEMS
 ARE INCLUDED IN
 APPROPRIATIONS BILL

WASHINGTON, July 6. (P-All the annual appropriations bills have now been passed by the legiS- Iative bodies except the one carry ing funds for the war Department. President Hoover late Tuesday signed the $1,O56, 100000 Treasury and Postoffice bill and one for the distribution of 4O,OOO,OOO bushels of wheat through the Red Coss to the needy and 5OO000 bales of cotton from the Farm Board Stores.
 The agriculture bill was adopted without record vote.
 A number of Alaska road pro- jects were in the agriculture bill which was approved by Secretary Hyde and they included the $20, ,00O for clearing and gurbbing of three miles on the Tongass Highway, out of Ketchikan, from Mud Bay to Point SugginS; $25,O00 for the re- Surfacing of a Six-tenthS mile stretch on the MitKof highway, South of Petersburg; $35, ,0O0 for the improvement of the grade from Sitka to a point one and eight tenths of a mile beyond the nation al monument; $10,000 for the re- placement of a bridge across Law son Creek with a temporary one way bridge and $10,O00 for emer- gency work
 Besides the money to be spent for above projects $10O,OO0 will be spent for maintenance work, and the sum of $15O,000 is provided to be spent on projects already started.
 The program was first approved by Governor George A. Parks, regional forestry official and the Public Roard Bureau engineer at Juneau.
 Congress placed the limit of cash expenditures at $35O,0O0 despite a surplus for previous road authoriz- ations.
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LONG CHILLING FAILS SHAKE AMERICANS STORY
 HE MURDERED 'EACLET'

PRAGUE, Czech-Slovakia, July 6. - Still maintaining after a long grilling that he was the murderer of the Lindbergh baby, a myster- ious prisoner gave the police of Wa agneustadt additional details of his self confessed crime.
 Skeptical police hammered the prisoner with questions in an ef- fort to break down his story and to obtain some clue as to his iden- tity.
 The man refused to reveal his name and insisted he speaks only English. The 31-year old American said he fled to London with six other gangsters implicated wi h him. There he said they received money and proceeded to Paris where they bought a car.
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CAPITOL CITY COPS
 KEPT AT BAY HOURS
 BY R|FLE-F|RE sN!PEA
WASHINGTON, July 6. (P -

WASHINGTON, July 6. (P) - A sniper whose death dealing rifle held most of WaShington'S police force at bay at a house near the Capitol building for several hours early Wednesday finally walked out and surrendered after killing one policeman and wounding two others.
 The assassin gave the name of of Nicholson Long and he told the police he did the shooting "just for fun I wanted to start some fire works"
 Long was shot in the arm but otherwise showed meagre effects of the tear gas and gun fire which had been directed at him.
 E. A. Swanson, rookie policeman was killed when he peeked around the corner of building.
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ALASKAN VACATION TRIP
 0F NEW YORK YOUTHS INTERRUPTED BY DEATH

BROOKING, s. D. July 6. (PD - A vacation trip to Alaska was in- terrupted when Edwin Carter, g, son of F. E. Carter, the vice-presi- dent of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, was killed in an auto accident near here.
 Walter Clifford, IA, son of w. s. Clifford, president of the company, received a crushed arm as result of the accident. Young Gifford's injury is not serious.
 The Carter youths eek was broken when their a u o m obile crashed into a fence after failing to make a turn on the road.
 The two youths were driving from New York to Seattle and from Seat tie they were going to visit Alaska on a pleasure trip.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-07-06
BEFORE GRAND JURY

LOS ANGELES, July 6. Mayor John c. Porter, and his confiden- tial Secretry, Wells J. Mosher, have been summoned to appear before the County grand jury to tell what they know of the plot to frame po- lice commissioner Thomas Walkup in 1880. The mayor and his aid were summoned after Edward M. Ward who said he was employed by Mosher in an effort to trap Walkup in an embarrassing situation.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-07-06
FORMER LOCAL RESIDENT
 DIED COROOvA SUNDAY

Word reaching Seward tells of the death in Cordova Sunday morn ing of Louis Vogel, a brother of Ed .Vogel of Seward. Death was said to have been due to heart failure. Louis Vogel had been connected with the Copper River Lumber Com pany for a number of years but previous to that had been located in Seward where he operated the Resurrection Lumber Company.
 Louis Vogel with another oldtime resident is said to have been the constructor of the Sawmill located on Resurrection bay lagoon, near the railroad tracks and which was destroyed by fire only during recent years.
 The deceased was well known in Seward. He was about 55 years of age. He was a member of the Masonic Lodge at North Bend, Washington. The body will be in- tered in the Cordova ce,netary.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-07-06
PARTY LEADERS FAIL
 REVEAL OUTCOME TALK

INDIANAPOLIS, July 6. (P) - The prohibition party approached the business of staging their con- vention with a movement to place Senator William Borah in the field as their presidential candidate.
 This movement is now holding the center of interest of the party leaders who conferred with Sena- tor Borah. However, neither Borah nor the party leaders would say anything about the decicion they had arrived at as a result of their conference.
 Friends of Senator Borah, in Washington, believe the senator will refuse although it was said that he would not support President Hoover because of the wet plank.
 Republicans believe, however, that Borah will confine his fight to stumping for the dry candidates of both parties.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-07-06
COMPROMISE |S BEING SOUGHT WITH HOOVER
 0N RELIEF MEASURE

WASHINGTON, July 6. (P) Six House and Senate leaders are con- ferring with President Herbert c. Hoover to decide on the fate of the $2, 100000 Wagner-G arm r relief bill
 The president has indicated he will veto the bill in it's present form and he apparently continues to stand firm on his declaration.
 Hoover previously called the mea- oure a pork barrel.
 Leaders hoped that some com promise might be arranged that would please the president and in- sure his signature.
 The draft of the bill at the pre- sent time carries provisions for a $500, 100000 sum for direct relief loans to states and $322,000, 900 for loans through the recently created Reconstruction Finance Corporation.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-07-06
SETTLEMENT IN VIEW
 AT THE PREPARATIONS
 CONFERENCE, LAUSANNE

WASHINGTON, July 6. France and Germany were still at odds on final separations settlement agreement, but late developments in Lausanne and Berlin indicated a settlement, far reaching in effects not only in Europe but in the Unit ed States, is in view, unless the set tlement is blocked by Italy.
 France, England and Germany are now agreed on a formula to settle reparations, provided tn a t the United States canoe Is war debts or drastically reduces Eu- ropes indebtedness to America.
 The German negotiation asks that a settlement be arranged as a repudiation of Germany's confes- sion, in the Versailles treaty, of ''sole war guilt"
 France demands a final German payment of O0,OOO,OOO, Berlin wants to pay only S500,0O0O00, while England forecasts a compro- mise payment of S750,0O0,00O and France relieving Germany of the respon ibility for starting the World War.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-07-06
MISSING GERMAN FLYER. AND HIS AIDE FOUND IN
 W|LDS OF AUSTRALIA

SYDNEY, Australia, Juluy G. Hans Bertram, German flyer, and Ludwig Klausmann, one of the three aides missing with him in the Australian wilds since May Is, were found wandering in circles on Cape Bernier on June p, ac- cording to wireless reports reach ing here. The two men were tenn porarily deranged from their many weeks of almost fatal hardshipS after their seaplane was forced down for lack of fuel. They were weeping as natives who found them brought them into Drysdale Mission, near Wyndham. After being given food and water, how ever, Bertram was able to give a coherent account of his wander ings.
 The two aviators dropped cut of sight after they took off from Kupang Island on a flight to Dar- win. The first news of their fate came in the middle of June when natives handed over to a mission ary a handkerchief and cigarette case on which were the initials H. B.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-07-06
CROPS DOOMED
SAN ANTONIO. Tex. July

SAN ANTONIO, Tex, July 6, (P Farmers in the lower river val leys of Southwest Texas turned their backs upon corn and cotton and headed their livestock into the hills to await flood waters which have claimed nine lives. Crops ill thousands of acres of bread bot tom lands, they agreed, were doom ed by the rushing waters pouring upon them from the upper reaches of the Guadalupe, Frio and Nuces rivers.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-07-06
STARR RETURNS

The SS. Starr, Capt. Arthur Ryn- ing, arrived in port this forenoon from Cordova towing the Charles Goodall barge Lawrence. The barge will be loaded with coal from the Interior mines and will then be tow ed down to Cordova again. The Starr tied up at the Standard Oil dock for refueling while the barge was tied up at the Seward wharf and coal loading begun. The Starr is scheduled to sail for the West on July II.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-07-06
NEWSPAPERS CONDUCT
 NATION WIDE POLL

WASHINGTON, D. C., July 4, - A nationwide poll by the San Francisco Examiner and other Hearst newspapers on the 1882 presidential election, was announc- ed.
 The. canvass is designed to as certain the choice of voters in what promises to be the most interesting and hard-fought campaign of a generation, in advance of the gen. eral election, November 8.
 It will embrace every State, con- gressional district and county in the country.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-07-06
COX SEEKS ADVICE

PARIS, July 6. The Rev. Father James R. Cox, militant Pittsburgh priest, who was confident he would be nominated and elected presi- dent of the United States as the candidate of the Jobless-L Liberty party, is enroute to Berlin a n d Rome to ask Adolph Hitler a II d Premier Benito Mussolini for ad- vice on how to run the U n i e d States with the aid of his projected blue shirt organization.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-07-06
COMMUNISTS MAss|NC
 NEAR CHINESE RAILROAD

HAWKING, July 6. Chinese re- ports say a force of 10000 Com munists, a part of which is respon- sible for the Kidnapping of 10 Americans near Kikungshan last Sunday, is massing along the Kin han Railway on the border of Hon. an and Hupeh provinces The Com munists interrupted the railway traffic and destroyed bridges and are ravaging the Countryside, the reports says.
 A force of 4,0OO Honan and Hupeh Provincial troops are reported to be moving against them.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-07-06
REPUBLICANS JOLTED

WASHINGTON, July 6. Strife worn Republican ranks suffered a new jolt when Senator Hiram Johnson, of California issued a statement praising Governor Roose- welt for his good poise and good nerve in flying to Chicago to ad- dress tn e Democratic convention and formally accept the nomina- tion. Johnson, who has long been a bitter opponent of PreSid n t Hoover, also praised the Democrat ic standard bearer for his scrap ping of old traditions and coming out in the open.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-07-06
INTENSIVE SEARCH

Coast Guard ordered 165 cutters and two destroyers to search for the yacht Curlew, missing partici- pants in ocean races from Mon tauk Point to Boston. The Coast Guard issued it's orders after pa rents of persons on the boat had definitely established that she was missing. The Curlew left Montauk Point June 25, and was at first re- ported safely in Bermuda. Later advices said she was not there.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-07-06
DIRECTOR GOES SOUTH

Victor Fleming, motion picture director who has been a guest on the steam yacht Stranger, Capt. F. E. Lewis, which has been cruising Alaskan waters, was a passenger for Seattle on the s. s. Admiral Evans from Kodiak. The party hunted bear at Kodiak. MT. Elem ing was director of the motion pic ture play, "The Wet Parade"
Seward daily gateway., 1932-07-06
CONVENTION BEGANS

INDIANAPOLIS, July 6. Clifford Pinchot, Governor of Pennsylvania or Senator William Borah of Idaho, for President and William (Billy) Sunday for Vice President is the aim of Leaders of the Prohibition party which opened it's National Convention here.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-07-06
HEIR REYNOLDS MILLIONS
 COMMITS SUICIDE HOME

WINSTON SALEM, N. c. July 6. Smith Reynolds, 20, heir to the R. J. Reynolds Tobbaco company mil lions shot and killed himself Tues day, just as he was going to bed.
 Reynolds hot himself through the head and died within 4 hours. He had just recently returned to the States via Seattle after an air. plane tour in the far west.
 The shooting occurred in the Rey- holds home.
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DECREE GRANTED

LONDON, July 5. A decree of divorce was granted to Sir William Heath against his aviatrix wife Lady Heath. She obtained a divorce from Sir James in 1881 and later was remarked at Louisville, Ky, to Reginald Williams. Sir James accused his wife of misconduct with Williams.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-07-06
CONFIDENT OF HARMONY

ALBANY, N. Y. July 6. Conf dent of party harmony, Franklin D. Roosevelt returned to Albany from the Democratic convention to face four months of strenuous cam paigning for the presidency. He ap- peared cheerful as he stepped from his special car while more than a thousand people cheered.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-07-06
BACKING ROOSEVELT

SEATTLE, July 6. (A0 = The Seat tie Times has come out as a sup porter of Governor Roosevelt for presidency. This is the first time that this Seattle paper has come out in support of a Democratic candidate since they supported w J. Bryan in the 1896 elections.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-07-06
WILL SUPPORT DEMOCRATS

NEW YORK, July 6. (F1 = Al Smith today announced he would support the Democratic Party" in the November election saying that the third party movement was inn practical at this time. He said he had received hundreds of letters and telegramS urging him to bolt the Democrats and head a third party.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-07-06
ADJOURNMENT PLANNED

GENEVA, July G. Prospects for immediate action on President Hoover's proposal for a one third reduction in arms went a glimmer- ing when the world disarmament conference began preparations to adjourn until fall.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-07-06
TO APPEAL CASE

BENNINGTON, N. J. July G. John Hughes Curtis, Norfolk, Va, social leader and boat builder, con- victed last week of committing the Lindbergh hoax, planned to appear in the Jersey Supreme court today.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-07-06

HOLLYWOOD, July 6. -Joa n Crawford and her husband Douglas Fairbanks, IT,, are pleasure bound for Europe. They will sail from New York July g.
Seward daily gateway., 1932-07-06
TWO UNDER PAR

CLEVELAND, Ohio, July 6. Al Zimmerman, Portland, Ore, pro- fessional, opened the 33rd Western Open Golf Tournament here with score of 70, two under par for the first IS holes.
The Washington times., 1932-11-30
BRIDGE BIDDER
INDISPENSABLE
To NOVICE

An enthusiastic audience heard
Lucille Claire Smith expound the
intricacies of the forcing two bid
of contract bridge yesterday at
the willard Hotel. This was one
of the series of free bridge les
!. sons which The washington
Times is sponsoring with Miss
Smith as teacher.
Miss Smiths reputation as a
player extends throughout the
East. She has competed with
the best contract experts and is
a graduate of the Culbertson
school.
These free lessons are given in
conjunction with the distribution
of the novel Shur-Win Bridge
Bidder, which instantly gives the
right bid or the right response
to any bid.
For sale only at the office Of
The Washington Times at so cents
each, or SIS cents il sent by mail,
these bidders offer the novice an
opportunity to quickly improve
his knowledge of the game. The
simplicity of the bidder is one OF
its best features while the cor
rectness of its answers seems un,
canny. Everyone interested in
perfecting his game should at
least hear Miss Smith demon
sStrate the value of the bidder at
the close Of her contract lesson.
Only through the purchase Of one
Of these bidders is admittance
to this series of free bridge les
sons obtainable. The value OF
the lesson, of course, is alone
worth much more than the cost
Of the bidder.
The Washington times., 1932-11-30
CITIZENS WAN 7
TRAFFIC CURBS

A delegation Of the Logan
Thomas Circle Citizens Associa-
ton will confer soon with Trafcc..:
Director William A. Van Duzer to
protest traffic conditions (;
Twelfth and P Streets Northwest.
At a meeting of the organiza-
ton last niOht in the Northmin-
ster Presbyterian Church, condi-
tions at the intersection, where
several accidents have occurred
recently, were severely criticized.
Mrs. Ella M. Thomps IN, president,
and Edward A. Young were dele
gated to confer with Van Duzer.
John A. Remon, general man.
ager of the Chesapeake and Po-
tomac Telephone Company, ad-
dressed the group.
The Washington times., 1932-11-30
TROTZKY VISA
NOT RENEWED

COPENHAGEN, Nov. 80 GIN
Silicon Trotzky, exiled Soviet
leader, will be permitted to pass
through Denmark when he re.
turns from Sweden to Turkey
after 1ecturing at Lund, officials
said today.
His visa will not be renewed,
however, and he will not be per.
mitted to extend his visit here.
Mrs. Trotzky, intimates of the
couple said, plans to remain here
while her husband is in Sweden.
She is suffering from rheuma-
tiSm.
The Washington times., 1932-11-30
CURTIS CL|N GS
TOPRECEDENCE

Vice President Charles Curtis is
bothered about precedence again.
Prior to the death Of the late
Speaker Longworth, Curtis waged
q successful fight to maintain a
social position slightly in the lead
Of the House leader.
Yesterday he was asked to pose
with Vice President-elect John N.
Garner. He said he would con-
sent. but there would be no half
way" proposition to it. Garner,
he declared, would have to come
to the Vice Presidents office. or
at least to the north end of the
Capitol.
The Washington times., 1932-11-30
2 Books to Be Topic
OF LibrUru ReUieU

Mrs. Helen Taylor Steinbarger
will review two books at the Mt.
Pleasant branch Of the Public
Library, Sixteenth and Lamont
Streets Northwest, tomorrow at 8
p. m. The books are Mary Aus
tins Earth Horizon" and Fred
erick Phillip Stieff's eat, Drink
and Be Merry in Maryland" .
The Washington times., 1932-11-30
Poland Alert to Bar
More Race RiOtinQ

LWOW, Poland, Nov. 30
UN.SO.-Authorities took strict
precautions today against the
possibility of further disturbances
during the chanting of memorial
mass for the victim of yester-
days anti-semitic rioting, in
which 300 were injured.
The Washington times., 1932-11-30

A home is your castle . your
Sreatest protection a wise invest
fknent! Study the many worthwhile
home buys advertised for sale in the
WANT AID SECTION of this newspaper.
Nogales international., 1932-05-21

employed for the conventions. Post
tai intends to bring 40 operators
experienced in handling p,llSical
convention matter from othor parts
of the county in addition to about
100 from the Chicago staff. Unc-n-
ploycd telegraph men, some OF then
who have not tapped key in
months, will get back on the payrolls
CT both companies.
Since there axe no facilities for
holding committee meeting at the
Stadium, all those meeting will be
held at the Congress Hotel, con-
vention headquarters for both par
ties. Newspapermen reporting COM
m:ttee activities will thus file their
stories from hotel rooms, over dir
ect wires. At most previous con-
ventions, committees always have
met in the same building as the
man group.
Nogales international., 1932-05-21
DAYS Of '49

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charge of the various games, etc.:
Roulette wheel, William Finley.
Bar, ,Al Sands in charge, assisted
by an able corps OF bartcnders. DR..
Glenn Harker, head bartender.
Merchandise wheel, E. A. VESSEL.
Kino game, R. T. Frazier.
Chuckaluck the old army game) +,
Robert Smith.
kangaroo court, Herbert Chath-
am, judgc.
Policemen, several Elks.
Dance hall girls, wives of Elks.
81 game (black- jack, G. c..
Cheshire.
Two slot machines, anybody can
play 'em tonight.
Dance hall manager, Bonsal Noon.
Chief bar boy, Bill Chenoweth.
PeddIer, George Januel.
Muse for dancing, Peltier's Or
chestra.
The layouts for the chuckaluck
game was donated by E. A. Reed
of the Nogales Sheet Metal Works
and thai for one Of the wheels by
I. Ibach Of the Detroit Radiator
Works. E. L. Yaeger built the Il
table gratis and Lewis Price print
ed the numerals for the roulette.
The two slot machines arrived
here Thursday from Chicago by ex-
press.
Persons desiring a night of real
fun should be at Elk Hall tonight.
Nogales international., 1932-05-21

terspersed at times with off stage
maneuvering among the political
bosses, is the greatest delay to the
completion Of the conventions busi-
ness. Voting is done by delegations,
the chairman Of each state group
announcing the will of his delegates.
Only when two-thirds of the dele
gates to the convention have agreed
on a candidate is his selection eff
fected. This procedure is known as
the two-thirds rule.
Once the nominee is selected, his
mate is chosen, the party platform
adopted and the delegates go home.
Nogales international., 1932-05-21
Convention! 49,
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folks back home.
Taking 10000 words as the av-
erage number an operator would
send in eight hours Of typical
convention day, it would require
800 days, or two years, two months
and 20 days fo- a single operator
to send the 100000 words.
Much of the press matter and a
great many personal messages will
be sent from hotels. The telegraph
companies will have wires to cor
respondents and political leaders
rooms in the Congress, Stevens,
Morrison, Blackstone and Knick-
crbocker hotels.
Western Union will u-e l45 op-
orators on convention messages.
One-th:rd Of these will be specially
Nogales international., 1932-05-21
Procedure

Continued rrom Page One)
program and settles disputes on rul-
cs of procedure, and finally the plat
form and resolutions committee, an
increasingly important body
Only after the permanent organ
ization is completed and the dele
gates seated does the work of nom
mating the Presidential candidate
begin.
The secretary calls the roll of the
states from an alphabetically ar
ranged list. AS each state is called
it's delegation chairman rises. Should
he have a nomination to make he so
announces, likewise if he wishes to
cecond the nomination of a can
didate already made.
He has the third choice, how
ever, of giving way to a state far
ther down the list which may have
a name to offer.
Nominating Speech
The nominating speech is made
by competent orator though he
may not necessarily be the person
making the nomination Each new
name is the signal for a tremen-
dous outburlt and frequently for
long demonstration.
Not until the last state in the
roll of states has been called does
balloting begin.
The long process of balloting, in
Nogales international., 1932-05-21
TWO BALL GAMES

Two baseball games will be play
cd Sunday afternoon at Brewery
Park ,Nogales, Sonora.
The first game, BomberoJ VS..
Puchi Bros, will start at o'clock.
The second game follows the finish
of the first and will be between the
18th Bat. and Nogales Internaticn-
ais. Both games will be Of nine in
nings or more.
Nogales international., 1932-05-21
RUSSIAN CHORUS

The famous Russian chorus heard
Sunday at the Lyric theater, and
whose appearance here was spon-
sored by the Knights of Columbus
lodge, was highly enjoyed by a
large crowd.
Nogales international., 1932-05-21
TO LOS ANGELES

Mr.. and Mrs. B. M. Harris (Grace
Seitz) left yesterday to spend ten
days visiting the latter's parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Seitz, in Los
Angeles
Nogales international., 1932-05-21
GONE TO GUAYNIAS

j. G. Kenney Of Tucson, chair
man of the Pima County Board of
Supervisors, passed through here
Thursday enroute on five-day au-
ton1ob;le business trip to Guaymas.