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VOLUME XXVII.
NUMBER 262. SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1931.
PRICE TEN CENTS
MISTRIAL OF FIVE MEN FOR
CRIMINAL ATTACK CAUSE
OF RIOTS
HONOLULU, Dec. 14. (^—Fight
ing between American service men
clad in dungarees and gangs of
civilians on the streets forced the
Navy shore patrols and the Ma
rines to quell a riot as heavy fight
ing broke out in eight sections of
the city.
One man was kidnapped by the
mob, beaten and whipped. All of
the disorders were blamed by the
police as a result of the recent mis
trial of five men who were accused
of attacking the young wife of a
4 Naval officer.
The city was comparatively quiet
today after the shore patrols had
arrested 200 participants in the
rioting and returned them to their
barracks.
The shore patrols began the ar
rests in an attempt to dispel the
fighting and then a 100 Marines,
armed with rifles and blackjacks,
H were dispatched, but order had
been restored when they arrived.
PARLIAMENT ADJOURNS*
LONDON, Dec. 14. (/P)—The Brit
ish Parliament has adjourned un
til February.
r CABINET RESIGNED
MADRID. Dec. 14. (IP)—Tire Span
ish cabinet resigned Saturday.
NAVY SCORED ON ONE OF THE
MOST BRILLIANT PLAYS
ENTIRE GAME
NEW YORK CITY, Dec., 14, (&)—
In a spectacular charity battle be
fore 77,000 football fans the Army
team closed their football season
for 1931 with a 17 to 7 victory over
their old rivals, the Navy.
Ray Stecker led the Army at
tack and Ed Herb twice plunged
over for scores and Brown booted
field goals.
The Navy’s only score resulted
from a 55-yard pass in the third
quarter, of Kirn to Tschirgi, and
was one of the most brilliant plays
of the game. However, the Army’s
power attack, featuring Stecker’s
twisting runs, proved entirely too
much for the Navy whose gallant
defense cracked in the second per
iod allowing a touchdown and a
field goal giving the Army a score
of 10 points.
The Navy squad attacked thru
the air throughout the Army’s
counter attack and netted their
‘..'one tally in the the third quarter.
The gate receipts are estimated
at $375,000. The game marked a
return of the oldtime Army and
Navy color and stirring pageantry;
the cadents ripped down the goal
posts in short order and serenaded
the middies with “taps.”
The victory over the Navy was
riie Army’s third successive win.
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| resignations in effect
1 SHANGHAI, Dec. 14. (/P)—Chiang
| Kai Shek, President of China, has
! resigned and his resignation was
i accepted by T. V. Soong, Finance
j Minister of the Nanking govern
I ment, who also is expected to re
sign within a few days. Several
| other changes in the cabinet are
anticipated.
M1Y LIVES LOST
SS GILES SWEPT
MANY BROWNINGS IN ISOLATED
PLACES HAVE NOT BEEN
REPORTED
LONDON, Dec. 14. (/P) — Sixty
lives or more were lost in gales
which swept the three seas of Eu
rope over the week-end and ship
ping was badly damaged, and par
ticularly off the coast of the North
| Mediterranean.
j The Italian Naval tug Teseo sank
! off the coast of Sardiania Sunday
with an estimated loss of 30 people
More than a 100 persons were
rescued by a cruiser when a Coast
Guard cutter washed ashore off the
coast of Algeria. Twelve of the
Coast Guard crew perished.
The captain and 16 members of
the crew of the rum runner Venus
were drowned in the North Sea, off
the Norwegian coast, after the ves
sel had been damaged by Coast
Guard fire.
In addition to the wreck on which
reports have been made, it is be
lieved that many drowned in iso
lated places and have not been re
ported.
CHINESE BURNED
SHANGHAI, Dec. 14. (/P)—Three
hundred Chinese were burned to
death yesterday when the small
steamer Tate blew up In the Yang
tse estuary. Six hundred passen
gers were aboard the Tate when the
blast rocked the little ship and it
j burst into flames. Many of those
; aboard the vessel jumped into the
: icy waters of the river while the
| majority of those who perished died
; because of their exposure to the
! flames.
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IS A FAILURE
WASHINGTON, Dec., 14, (&) —
The League of Nations is a failure,
Kellogg anti-war pact futile and
the 1932 disarmament conference
certain to be useless, according to
Frank Simmonds, noted authority
on international affairs, whose
book, “Can Europe Keep the Peace”
is now on sale. Advance Reviews
assures the public “this book will
raise hell.”
RED HUNGER MARCHES
HAMMOND, Indiana, Dec., 14,
'(JP)—A delegation of 250 hunger
marchers from North Dakota, Ill
inois, Wisconsin and Minnesota,
clashed with the police at Ham
mond and were chased from town
after they tried to stage a demon
stration and distribute commun
ist literature. A Secret Service in
quiry showed that the hunger
marchers had been organized by
the “reds.”
SUSPEND GOLD STANDARD
TOKYO, Dec. 14. (£>)—it was said
here Saturday that Japan would
suspend the gold standard Sun
day at midnight.
OFFICIALS UNABLE TO LEARN
WHENCE CONVICTS GOT
THEIR WEAPONS
LEAVENWORTH, Kan., Dec. 14.!
| (/■P)—Three of the seven convicts!
who executed the daring plot to ^
escape from the Federal prison un- ,
der the shield of Warden Thomas
White are dead, apparently from
their own hands, and three others
are again in confinement at the
prison.
The other is a gray-haired Okla
homa mail train robber who is
sought by possemen. The fugitive
is Earl Thayer, 65 years, who dis
appeared under the very noses of i
200 soldiers, prison guards, civil-.
ian officers and citizens, who1
cornered three of the seven escaped
convicts in the E. C. Salisbury j
farmhouse, eight miles west of i
here.
Five members of those who pur
sued the fleeing convicts were
wounded during the flight includ
ing Warden White whose left arm
was shattered by a shotgun charge
as he attempted to escape from the
convicts as they changed from one
automobile to another. White un
derwent an operation on his arm.
Aside from this none of those hurt
were in a critical condition.
Prison officials said that efforts;
to learn how the convicts had ob- j
tained their weapons had been fu- |
tile so far. The three who were i
captured refused to discuss the J
shotgun, rifle and four revolvers i
which it is believed they possessed!
at the beginning of their flight.
Possemen, who were surrounding
the Salisbury building, heard three
shots and rushed to the building.
They found the three convicts dead
in the attic.
An autopsy was held and the j
coroner said that there was no j
doubt but that Will Green, the al- j
leged leader, killed his companions, <
Grover Durrill and George Curtis,!
and then committed suicide. The
other three were Tom Underwood,
Stanley Brown and Charles Berta.
The latter who is from San Fran
cisco and who was arrested in Seat
tle for a mail robbery, was shot in
the shoulder when he resisted cap
ture. He was taken earlier in the
l day, five miles west of this city.
GRIGSBY AGMN TOSSES
KIT INTO Mil
DELEGRTtSHIP KINO
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KETCHIKAN, Dec. 14. (JP)—
George B. Grigsby, who was de
feated for Delegate to Congress at
the last Territorial election by
about 300 votes, today announced
his candidacy for the Democratic
nomination of Delegateship in the
April primaries.
A. H. Ziegler, of this city, prev
iously announced his candidacy on
the same ticket. Both are Ketchi
kan attorneys.
Grigsby served the unexpired
term of Charles Sulzer who died in
1919 but was unseated just before
the term expired in favor of James
Wickersham who contested the
election.
LONG JUMiV
DECATUR, 111., Dec. 14. (/P)—Lt.
Walter Burgis of Illinois performed
a record feat here when he made a
23,000-foot parachute. He was near
ly four miles in the air w'hen he
leaped out and it took him almost
a half hour to descend.
GEORGIA TEAM IS
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN
CALIFORNIA CAN CLALM
GREAT TEAM
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 14. (A*)—The
University of Southern California
by defeating Georgia 60 to 0, show
ed again Saturday that a good big
team will defeat a good little team.
A crowd in excess of 75,000 spec
tators saw the Southerners suffer
their first real rout in many years.
The powerful Trojans were off to
a flying start with a touchdown in
the first three minutes of play and
made another touchdown before
the game was 10 minutes old. The
Trojans rushed the fast but little
players from Dixie all around the
lot and seemed able to score at al
most any time that they chose.
Georgia fought courageously but
the Bulldogs had ho chance from
the first to the last whistle.
On the basis of Saturday’s play,
the University of Southern Cali
fornia may lay claim to being one
of the great teams of all time and
seemed entirely fresh notwith
standing that they had just com
pleted a hard 10-game schedule.
Georgia had one consolation in
the game, as their end, Vernon
Smith, gave one of the greatest ex
hibitions of football playing for
that position seen here this year.
TORNADO HITS ARKANSAS
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Dec. 14. (IP)
— Southwest Arkansas suffered
from a second tornado within a
short time and some property dam
age is reported. Three persons are
also said to have met their deaths
because of the tornado. Floods
were sweeping the area as a result
of the five-inch downpour of rain.
PRISONER MISSING
SAN QUENTIN, Dec. 14. (/P)—
When a checkup was made on the
prisoners here, it was found that
one Delbert Prettiman, of Los An
geles, was missing. The missing
prisoner is as yet unaccounted for.
TRY WIFESLAYER
SEATTLE, Dec. 14. (/P)_Everett
Frank Lindsay went on trial on the
charge of slaying his wife. Nine
prospective jurors were examined
today, four of whom were excused
up until noon today.
RESIGNATION DENIED
NANKING, Dec. 14. (IP)—A mes
sage received after the first reports
from Shanghai to the effect that
President Chiang Kai Shek had re
signed said that the resignation
had been denied in official circles
and that the President’s spokesman
said that the President had not
indicated in any way his decision
to step out. Despite denials, the
belief prevailed that President
Chiang Kai Shek and other high
officials are likely to retire soon.
CONGRESS ENTERS
SECOND WEEK ITR
LITTLE DIE YET
ORGANIZATION OF ABOUT 50
COMMITTEES IS NOW
BEFORE HOUSES
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 14.
UP)—Crucial tests of its ability to
function with any decree of effect
iveness is upon Congress which
enters its second week with sub -
I stantially nothing done.
First comes the organization of
half a hundred committees, a job
that Democratic leaders strove to
' complete while preserving peace in.
party membership.
The moratorium ratification con
fronts the Ways and Means body.
One of the committees already or
ganized, on appropriation bills for
the government departments, starts
work through several sub-commit
tees, The Democrats faced tomor
row with a move in drawing up a
party program.
A tax program is the first prob
lem on the Senate side. Troubles
remain with the Republicans with
G.O.P. leaders proposing to get
committees organized.
The election of a president pro
tern is next with the outlook for
the post falling on the Democrat
Senator Pittman, of Nevada.
Taking the silence from Congress
as the next best thing to consent,
the administration with objection
will probably call for postponement
of the $105,000,000 foreign debt
payments due today.
MYSTERIOUS THEFT OF
580,000 IN JEWELRY
i FROM N.!. APARTMENT
NEW YORK, Dec. 14. (IP)—, Nine
pieees of jewelry, valued at about
$80,000, were stolen from the Park
Avenue duplex apartment of Mr.
and Mrs. George Brewster, police
revealed.
Although Mrs. Brewster was un
able to give police an accurate de
scription of the articles taken, of
ficials said two bracelets, three
brooches, one diamond ring and
other pieces of value were among
the loot.
Examination of the Brewster
home failed to show how the
thieves managed to effect entrance,
j The apartment is on the 15th floor
of the house and no door or win
dow had been forced but police
believe the robber descended to the
terrace from the roof by a rope.
The theft was discovered by one
of the Brewsters’ 13 servants who
found the safe unlocked, apparent
ly by someone who knew the com
bination.
STILL MISSING
LEAVENWORTH, Dec. 14. (IP)—
Earl Thayer, one of the seven who
escaped from the Federal prison
here, is still missing and no trace
of him has been found since he
disappeared from his prison con
fines. Warden White, injured in.
the fighting with the convicts, is
said to be well on the road to re
covery.