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JLUME XVI. NUMBER 109.
SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY- MAY 18, 1931.
PRICE TEN CENTS
VICE PRESIDENT CURTIS GUEST
OF HONOR KENTUCKY
DERBY
LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 18. (/P>—
“Twenty Grand” won the Ken
tucky Derby; “Sweepall” was sec
ond and “Mate” third.
A new track and derby records
of 2.014-5 for the mile and one
quarter was set when the winner
come down the track with a sen
sational burst of speed.
“Twenty Grand” was even mon
ey choice and turned the tables
on “Preaknesslast year’s winner,
outracing her on the back stretch.
-Twenty Grand” took the lead
:rom “Ladder,” the pacesetter, and
won by four lengths. “Sweepall,
an outsider, was closing in gamely
and “Spanish Play’* was fourth.
The former record was 2.03 2-5
by “Old Rosebud.” “Twenty
Grand” collected $48,725.
Vice President Curtis was a guest
of honor. The race was run in
the first good weather in five
years.
BETTER PROTECTION
EMBASSY LIQUOR IS
ASSURED FOB FUTURE
WASHINGTON. D. C., May 18.
— genor Don Carlos Leiva,
charge d’affairs of the Salvador
Legation was knocked down b\
the butt of a revolver in the
hands of thieves he surprised in
‘he act of stealing the legation’s
liquor.
Seventeen stitches were taken
hi his taken. Two wild shots were
tired at the envoy as he grappled
with the intruders.
The State Department is inves
tigating and has promised all em
bassies and legations closer police
protection.
PHI HEAD TAKING
VACATION IN STATES
SAN FRANCISCO, May 18. </P)—
Prohibition Director Amos W.
Woodcock will arrive here enroute
to the Hawaiian Islands on an
inspection trip of the prohibition
bureau there, Prohibition Admin
istrator Walters was advised in a
telegram received.
Woodcock will make an inspec
tion of the enforcement headquar
ters here and then sail for Hono
lulu on the Malolo.
CHICAGO JUBILEE
CHICAGO, May 18. (A*)—A lunch
eon was one of the many features
of the third day of the celebration
of the All-Chicago Jubilee Night.
State Street was decked in Mardi
Gras garb as men and women and
children frolicked, laughed and
danced on the sidewalks to the
music of famous orchestras.
SCI OF PROMINENT
FAMILY BREAKS UNDER
STUDY, WIELDS CUN
WASHINGTON, May 18, (&)—
Robert Montgomery, 25, wounded
Charles Garbett, night club man
ager, and killed Policeman Jesse
Taylor, then shot himself to
death when refused a table at
the fashionable club yesterday,
j Garbett ran to the door, block
ed by Taylor, who shot twice at
i Montgomery who fled outside
! and behind a taxi where he shot
■ himself. He died enroute to the
i hospital.
j He was the son of a prominent
; Boston and New York family,
j Relatives said his health was
broken under the strain of pre
paring to take an examination as
a certified public accountant.
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JUST HID I
i
| WASHINGTON, D. C., May 18.
| (/P)—President Hoover’s recreation
at Rapidan Camp promised to be
I mostly work.
i Secretary Wilbur and other
chiefs of the Interior Department
" and bureaus have been invited
to meet him there. The object
is to find a place in the depart
ment where the government can
save money.
The President’s son, Herbert,
! and Mrs. Hoover also are going.
A FERTILE FIELD
SAN FRANCISCO, May 18, T/P)—
Dr. Alex Hrdlicka, anthropologist,
left Sunday on an Alaska Packers
vessel for Cherikof, Alaska for
trace of the first coming of men
to America from Asia. It is his
fourth trip to Alaska on such a
mission.
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POLICE SHAKEUP
NEW YORK, May 18. (/Pi—In
! the biggest police shakeup since
, 1927 every inspector in Manhattan
'with the exception of David Mc
| Auliffe was transferred. Many
| other lesses officers were also in
| volved.
KING OF SIAM TO TUNE IN
NEW YORK, May 18. (/P)—King
rPrajahikop of Siam will tune in
, on a radio program from his
own country, which will be “im
ported” by the National Broad
| casting Company. His majesty is
recuperating rapidly from a cat
j aract operation. ■
AWARDED $20,000 INSURANCE
NEW YORK, May 18. (/?)—Inez
; Norton, showgirl friend of Arnold
Rothstein, murdered gambler, was
| awarded the proceeds from a $20,
; 000 insurance policy on his life
| by the court of appeals at Albany.
RECEIVES BIG OVATION
MOSCOW, May 18. (JP)—Alexei
Maximovich Pyeshoff, known to
the literary world as Mxaim
Gorky, came back from Solginto,
Iatly, and was cheered by a big
crowd.
U. S. FLYING ‘ICE’
CHAS. W. Ml.
DIES. EXHIBITING
TWENTY FEET ABOVE GROUND
UPSIDE DOWN WHEN
DEATH TOOK HIM
| OMAHA, May 18, (&)—Charles
iW. “Speed” Holman, 33, of St.
| Paul, whose name for years has
|stood high in the list of American
! aviators, was killed while stunt
j ing upside down at a height of
! 20 feet during the air races here.
Death was instantaneous and
20,000 saw him die. He volunteer
ed, during a lull in the program,
to go aloft and for 15 minutes,
in a stiff wind, delighted the
crowd, then fell.
The plane bounced, rolled and
plowed 200 feet before it stopped.
The body was thrown out; it is
believed the safety belt broke.
Dorothy Hestor, 19 years old, of
j Portland, Oregon broke the wom
I en’s world record for outside
; loops; in a single flight she made
I 62.
Friday, May 22, was proclaimed
' Poppy Day in Seward in a procla
! mation issued today by Mayor
i D. C. Brownell. The proclamation
j urges all citizens of the city to
! observe the day by wearing an
: American Legion and Auxiliary
i poppy as an individual tribute to
| the American men and women
who gave their lives in the World
; war. It also calls upon the citi
zens of the city to contribute as
! liberally as their means will allow
! to the welfare of the disabled
veterans and dependent families
of the dead and disabled when
when purchasing their poppy.
The proclamation follows:
“I, D. C. Brownell. Mayor of the
City of Seward, remembering the
fine young men of Seward whom
! the city sent forth in the years of
: 1917 and 1918 to defend the honor
! and ideals of our nation on the
| battle fields of the world’s most
I terrible war, and who died in the
I heroic performance of the duty
| the nation assigned to them, and
| deeming it fitting that the citi
zens of the city should pay honor
! to their memory by wearing the
j flower among whose bright red
i blooms many of them died, do
hereby proclaim Friday, May 22,
Poppy Day.
“I urge that this day be * ob
served by all patriotic citizens of
Seward by the wearing of the
memorial poppy made by disabled
veterans which will be offered on
the streets of the city by the wo
men of the Amercan Legion Aux
iliary. I further urge that the
citizens of Seward who gave so
gallantly of their services and so
liberally of their wealth during
the war, think on this day of those
who gave health and strength, and
when purchasing a poppy give as
liberally as their means will allow
to help lighten the burden for
those who are still paying in suf
fering and poverty, the price of
our glorious victory.
D. C. Brownell, Mayor.”
SHIK BEGIN TO
TOSS BOMBS ABOUT:
M1H1 IRE INJURED
LISBON, May 18, (£»)—Fifteen
were injured in an explosion of
three bombs in the streets as
crowds were celebrating the ach
ievements of the dictatorship of
President Carmona. I
The first bomb was thrown |
in the heart of a great crowd, j
Thirteen were injured by this
explosion and the infuriated crowd
chased a man supposed to have
hurled it.
The second bomb was thrown
and exploded near the headquar
ters of the republican guard.
Mobs wrecked the newspaper
Republca plant.
The third bomb was exploded
in Abiroalton damaging property.
SNOBS RECOGNIZE
II REAL SPORTSMI
| LONDON, May 18. (i«P)—Sir|
i Thomas Lipton realized a longj
: cherished ambition when he was*
ielected a member of the Royal!
! Yacht Squadron.
For years he had been excluded
because he made his fortune as;
a tradesman. The famous yachts- j
man was proposed by the Earl of
Shaftsbury and seconded by Sir
Philip Hunloke.
Sir Thomas was 81 last Sunday.
| SEIZE 1,000 CASES OF LIQUOR
BOSTON, May 18. (/P)—Customs
; guards seized a rum runner and
Screw of 22 as they were unloading
1,900 cases of liquor at the muni
cipal dock.
BANK RUN HALTED
i PLATTSBURG, N. Y„ May 18.
| (IP)—A $1,000,000 brought from Al
bany by airplane halted a run on
jthe Merchants National Bank.
! STAR RECEIVES DIVORCE
i NEW YORK, May 18. (A5)—Broad
way was surprised by the news
that Joe Cook, star of “Fine and
Dandy,” had divorced his wife
secretly in Newark nearly a month
ago. The couple had been gen
erally regarded as happy and de
voted.
CAPTAIN HAWKS IN HAMBURG
HAMBURG, May 18. (/P)—Cap
tain Frank Hawks flew here from
Berlin in 58 minutes. The regular
passenger planes make the trip in
two hours. The distance is 160
miles.
CRUISER TO COST $4,700,000
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 18.
(ff)—The Navy Department an
nounced that the first of 11 new
destroyers authorized by Congress
will be built at the Brooklyn Navy
Yard. The vessel will cost $4,
700,000.
30 RIOTERS SLAIN
CAIRO, May 18. (A>)—'Thirty riot
ers were reported slain during
disturbances growing out of the
first elections since the new con
stitution was adopted.
SON OF FATHER OF REPUBLIC
EXPECTED PLAY AN IM
PORTANT PART
SHANGHAI, May 18, ■ (/P)—Can
ton, the birthplace of two suc
cessful revolutions, proclaimed by
open fighting, commencement of
a third insurrectionist movement.
Two hundred loyal Nanking
soldiers have been killed during
the past few days. Leaders said
this happened when attempts
were made to disarm them.
A provisional government is
expected tu ue established in op
position to the rule of Kiashek
the next few days.
The son of Sun Yatsen, known
as the father of the Chinese re
public, is expected to play an
important part in the Canton in
surrection. He has been minister
of railways and has been in hid
ing here but is expected to pro
ceed to Canton shortly.
WAR DEPARTMENT
MOBILIZE MILLIONS OF
MEN IN SHORT TIME
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 18.
(JP)—The War Department has
perfected plans for instant mob
ilization of an army of 4,000,000
men in case of emergency, General
MacArthur, chief of staff, an
nounced.
An elaborate program for the
conscripting of economic and in
dustrial resources is being worked
out by the War and Navy De
partments.
Both procedures were protested
against by the Federal Council of
Churches on grounds that elabo
rate war plans would “create sus
picion and fear among the na
tions of the world.”
TAKE RIVER ROUTE
JUNEAU, May 18, (/PWames
Cassady and Lyman Culber, mem
bers of the Seattle Alphine Club,
arrived Saturday in an outboard
motorboat from Union “Bay, B. C.
They intend to proceed to Skag
way, then ship the boat by
train to Whitehorse, thence down
the Yukon to Nome where they
expect to be employed by the
Alaska Road Commission.
MOTHER IMPROVING
PARIS, May 18. (iP)—Governor
Roosevelt of New York arrived
here to find the condition of his
mother, Mrs. James Roosevelt,
improved. She has been ill with
influenza.
HEIRS REACH AGREEMENT
CHICAGO, May 18. OP) — The
British and American heirs to the
Levi Leiter estate finally reached
an agreement after eight of legal
wrangling. Between $16,000,000
and $30,000,000 is involved.