MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXVIII. NUMBER 2%.
SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1932.
PRICE TEN CENTS
ROOSF.VELT HAS NO FEDERAL
AUTHORITY UNTIL AFTER
INAUGURATION
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 14. —
The expected “co-operation con
ference” at the White House the
latter part of this week between
President Hoover and his Demo
cratic successor. Gov. Franklin D.
Roosevelt, and members of the
Deinocxatic party, may not take
place after all.
Governor Roosevelt, it is t-liot,
will keep hands off the present
raging controversy over interna- j
tional problems, such as disarma- .
ment and war debt postponement
or cancellation. While, naturally,1
he is interested, he has no intention
of becoming involved for he has no
Federal authority until March 4.
President-elect Roosevelt was
resting Saturday and Sunday and
no one was permitted to visit him
beyond members of the household.
Political observers believe that he
will decline to confer with Presi
dent Hoover; that between now
and March 4 the Republican ad
ministration must carry on.
South Wants Cabinet Member !
Meanwhile, the Texas legislature
urged in a resolution that a South
erner be considered for the cabinet
position as Secretary of Agriculture. ;
Upon President Hoover’s arrival
at the Capital from the West he
plans to proceed at once into the
ramifications of reorganizing gov
ernment machinery, a task upon
which he has been working for
some years. He was granted per
mission by Congress to carry for- |
ward such plans which include !
simplifying the executive end.
The aftermath of the President’s
Las Vegas visit on Saturday was
the diversion of the Colorado river
through one of the four diversion !
tunnels Sunday forenoon. The re
maining three will be completed
soon.
Fortune Has Shrunk
Friends of the President said he
intends to return to his Palo Alto
home after March 4 and endeavor
to rebuild his shrunken fortune, j
and that he has no intention of 1
accepting the presidency of Stan
ford University, which position the
Secretary of the Interior, Lyman
Wilbur, holds and who expects to
resume that position.
In New York a group of alleged
foremost economists are urging
immediate consideration, by the
administration, o f international
debts as a means of bringing world
recovery.
Most Important Problem
Great Britain now seeks post
ponement of its December 15 war
debt payment of $95,000,000; the
total money due the United States
on December 15 from European na
tions totals $124,934,421. The total i
indebtedness is more than eight j
billions. The decision rendered by !
the Hoover administration on this
problem will be one of the most
important in last four years. The |
President is quoted as having said
the remaining four months is not!
sufficient time to settle the mat- j1
ter. This is partly the reason why,
it is said, he extended an invitation <
to the President-elect and other j
Democratic leaders to participate (
at a White House conference this *
week after which exchange of views
he would prepare his message to ' ■)
the forthcoming “lame duck” ses- (
sion of Congress.
NEW YORK, Nov. 14, —Medical!
science mourned another martyr to
its advancement.
Dr. William B. Brebner, 29, as- 1
sistant professor of bacteriology at i
New York Universiyt, died from a £
monkey bite that became infected. £
He was bitten while experiment- (
ing with monkeys in research to £
discover a preventative for infan- £
tile paralysis. t
WILBUR MAY RESIGN
PALO ALTO, Calif., Nov. 14.—/
rumor that Secretary of the Interi
or, Ray Lyman Wilbur, may be the
first member of President Hoover’!
cabinet to resign was current here
Secretary Wilbur may return to hi?
post as president of Stanford Uni
versity at once, instead of waiting
until March 4, the report said.
MILWAUKEE, Wis., Nov. 14.—Ex
penditure of approximately $4,000,
000 and employment of more than
2.COO men was considered a possi
i bility ny two Milwaukee brewing
j companies as the result of anti
; prohibition sentiment expressed in
Tuesday’s election.
Edward Landsberg, president of
the Biatz Berwing Company, said
bids have been asked for construc
tion of a new power plant and the
addition of a new bottling works.
Legalization of beer, he said,
would add more than 700 employ
ees to his company’s force. Fred
Pabst, Sr., president of the Pabst
Corporation, said his company
planned to spend $2,000,000 in im
proving its plants and will add
nearly 2,000 employees should beer
be legalized.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 14.—
Secretary of the Treasury Ogden
Mills congratulated Franklin D.
Roosevelt in a public statement.
“The American people have de
cided they desire a change in ad
ministration. It is now the duty
of all of us to be helpful whenever
we can to the new administration
in meeting the difficult problems
that lie ahead, and in promoting
the common welfare. I congratu
late Governor Roosevelt and Speak
er Garner on the country’s vote of
confidence.”
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 14, —
Five year-old Maurice Jaspan’s lit
tle violin was laid away Saturday
by grief-stricken parents who had
dreamed he would become a great
musician.
Son of a music teacher, Maurice
at four could play classics from
memory. Musicians predicted a
sensational career for the prodigy.
Maurice finished his practice on
Friday and started out to play.
Laughing he clambored out on a
fire-escape, fell and was crushed
to death on the pavement below.
CAMAGUEY. Cuba, Nov. 14, —
The last contingent of the 1,500 re
fugees from the stricken town of
Santa Cruz del Sur, wiped off the
map by a tidal wave in Wednes
day’s hurricane, was distributed
among the emergency hospitals.
Most of them were injured. Es
timates of the dead in the oblit
erated town ran as high as 2,000.
Pestilence was feared and the
burning of the dead continues. In
addition, rmny more dead were re
ported from other parts of the
Camaguey province and from San
ta Clara province. The reports were
still far from complete Saturday
night.
rioting continues
DUBLIN, Nov. 14, —The rioting
which began Armistice Day contin
ued into the early hours of today
and resulted in the death of one
and injuries to 50, as Republicans
continued to parade through the
streets, Fighting police and civil
guards, burning British flags and
;earing up the streets.
* LONDON, Nov. 14.—Great Britain
has asked the United States for an
I extension of the Hoover moratori
um postponing European instal
ments due December 15, on the
eleven billion dollar war debt pend
ing reopening of the entire war
debt question for settlement by
drastic downward revision.
A formal note to this effect,
drafted some time ago. but held up
because of a tacit agreement with
Washington to keep the was debt
issue out of the presidential elec
tion. was dispatched to Ambassa
dor Sir Ronald Lindsay for presen
tation to Secretary of State Stim
son.
The note intimated that while
Great Britain is willing to pay the
instalment due next month, such
payment would entail great dif
ficulties owing to the existing fi
nancial and economic situation,
which is vastly different from that
at the time Stanley Baldwin and
Secretary of the Treasury Mellon
reached the Anglo-American agr
ment.
A GOOD REASON
BERKELY, Calif., NovO 14, —
For days F. O’Husby visited Dor
othy Hill, convalescing in a local
hospital. Saturday she wondered
why he failed to appear but at
tendants did not inform her that
he also was in the hospital. He was
brought in after an auto crash in
which he was crushed, dying a few
hours later.
EEE9ER DM SHIES
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Nov. 14, —
Anti-prohibitionists have made re
peal and legislation an immediate
possibility by winning congression- !
al contests nearly three to one; I
senatorial races two to one and
sweeping 10 of the 11 state dry law j
referendums. This is the latest tal- i
ly from last week’s general election. '
At least 300 out of 435 in the next!
House of Representatives will be1
committed to prohibition reform, j
and probably 65 of the* 96 Senators, j
SAILS FOR HOME
FARIS, Nov. 14. — Mrs. Gene
Tunney who recently underwent an
operation, sailed for New York on
the SS Europa.
(Ill ir SEEIN
SECOND DEATH FUST
POONA, India, Nov. 14, — The
Mahatma Gandhi announced he
would resume his fast January 1 if
Teuruvayur temple is not opened
to Hindus of the “untouchables”
caste.
He revealed his intention to a
newspaperman who was received
in his jail cell. He had not regain
ed his strength from his previous
fast.
A FEW HUNDRED SHORT
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 14, —Aimee
Semple McPherson Hutton, even
gilist, must pay the government
$846 more on her 1931 income tax.
MEXICO CITY, Nov. 14, —The
German oil tanker Vistula sent out j
SOS calls after it had grounded ,
near Tampico on the wreck of the 1
sunken German ship San Dunsta- ’
sal.
The crew was not reported to be (
in danger, but the ship was badly
damaged. The Vistula, a steamer
cf 8,954 tons, is from Danzig.
TYPHOON CLAIMED SIX
LUZON, P. I., Nov. 14, —The ty- J
phoon which struck here last Fri- i
day, claimed six lives and did con- 1
siderable damage to shipping. 1
24 MINERS KILLED
WIGEN, Eng., Nov. 14, —An ex
plosion in a colliery at Ashton
Makerfield, near here, killed 24
miners. Four are missing and res
cuers orought out 72 uninjured.
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VETERAN SKIPPER PASSES
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 14, -Capt.
Thomas Patrick Henry Whitelaw,
86, known the seven seas over as
“the wrecker,” and San Francisco’s
most picturesque v/aterfront char
acter, died at his home, in Pied
mont after a three months illness.
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CHEMISTRY AWARD
STOCKHOLM, Nov. 14, — The
Nobel prize'for chemistry for 1932
has been awarded to Dr. Irving
Langmuir of Schenectady, N. Y.
John Galsworthy, English novel
ist and dramatist, was awarded the j
j prize for literature.
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WIFE OF ASSASSIN HAS CHILD
i PARIS, Nov. 14.—Mrs. Paul Gor
I gulch, whose husband was executed
in September for the assassination j
of President Doumer, gave birth to
a daughter in Switzerland.
CHILD FATALLY BURNED
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 14,—Her
clothes catching fire while she was
playing with matches, Cynthia
Smith, 4 year old daughter of Ma
jor E. V. Smith of the Thirtieth
Infantry, was fatally burned in
front of her home in the Presidio.
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ON PERMANENT PAROLE
JOLIETTE, 111., Nov. 14, —J. Blue
did not want a parole. He said he
was too old to enter the outside
world, besides he did not want to
leave his friends. But while stand
ing in the lunch line Saturday he 1
' dropped dead from heart trouble.
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GRETA IN PARIS
PARIS, Nov. 14, —Greta Garbo,
the great Swedish actress, arrived
in Pans incognito as Miss Michael
O’Hennessy, bound for a Mediter
anean Island where she hopes to
find solitude and seclusion from
‘ her” public.
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BABY WAS KILLED
INDEPENDENCE, Mo., Nov. 14, —
Maxine Broker, four years old, ran
happily to meet her Dad when he i
returned from work. Dad bounced
her up and down; she slipped and
struck her little head against the
bed post and died soon after.
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GOODBYE DEPRESSION
ST. LOUIS, Nov. 14. — The de
pression will be abolished imme- j
diately with the revival of brewing, I
brewers announced here, but warn- j
ed that if beverages were taxed too
high beer would be pushed into the
luxury class.
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ITALY IS HAPPY
ROME, Nov. 14. —The prospect
of repeal of America’s dry laws is
widely acclaimed throughout the
vineyard centers. Return of wine
and beer in the Ignited States will
mean much to Italy's prosperity.
Torch light parades and fireworks
have been held in several cities.
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DEATH TOLL MOUNTING
HAVANA. Cuba, Nov. 14, —It is ,
no westimated 2,500 persons died
in last week’s hurricane; of these
400 were Spaniards. Six hundred ;
victims are under treatment in i
hospitals. Supplies of all kinds are
being forwarded to the stricken
areas where entire towns were des- ;
troyed.
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MANIFESTS BY AIR
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 14.—Thru ]
use of the air express, ship’s pa- <
pers, with consular invoice and 1
bills of lading attached, for which i
a captain formerly had to hold his i
ship in port, may now follow the ]
ship, it was revealed. Ship’s mani- 1
tests are now delivered at a port
of cal! well in advance of the ship’s
arrival. 1
LAST REPORT ON EVANS j
The SS Admiral Evans is due to j j
arrive from the Westward at 2:30 j <
a. m., Tuesday, and will depart for[j
Valdez and the south at 9 o’clock <
tomorrow morning. i
TEDDY II. IS SILENT
MANILA, P. I., Nov. 14.—Theo
dore Roosevelt, Governor General
of the Philippines and son of the
late President, declined to com
ment on the election to the Presi
dency of his distant cousin, Frank
lin D. Roosevelt. Senator Jos. Cla
rin introduced a resolution in the
Insular Senate congratulating the
New Yorker.
GALVA, 111., The Robert Peter
son Farm, Nov. 14, —A new nation
al corn-husking r~?ord "-ai estab
lished here when the Illinois state
champion, Carl Seiler of Knox
county, won the annual national
corn-husking championship con
test in competition with 17 others.
Seiler husked 36.914 bushels in
the allotted 80 minute period to
surpass by more than a whole
bushel the national record of 35.8
bushels made by Elmer Williams,
also of Illinois, in 1925.
Second place went to Walter Jo
hansen of Audubon county, Iowa,
who husked 35.2 bushels, and Clar
ence Maley, of Minnesota, was
third with 35.142.
BOULDER DAM, Nov. 14, —For
three hours President Hoover, en
route to the Capital from Califor
nia, inspected the great dam nam
ed in his honor. Hoover, the engin?
eer. was eager to view the great
project which will be completed in
four vears.
The lines of fatigue vanished and ,
he smiled pleasantly at the crowds j
which gathered to greet him and
to whom he spoke a few words.
Enroute the President and Mrs. j
Hoover spent a few hours with son i
Junior. !
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 14. —
President Hoover is expected to re
commend the re-creation of the
World War foreign debt commis
sion when Congress convenese in
three weeks
He has already urged that the
leaders of both parties face the ob- j
vious fact that adjustments have
been made necessary by the.world
crisis and that he expects Congress
to share with him the burden of
such adjustments.
FIRE
Lie ENDANGERED 111
THREE-ALARM
OAKLAND, Nov. 14, —A three
alarm fire which caused an explo
sion by its own suppressed heat,
endangered the lives of nine per
sons when a two-storv frame house
burned.
Two men carried out their 72- I
year old mother and another moth- |
er rescued her eight-year old son
after all of them had been trapped
upstairs by dense billows of smoke
and flame.
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TRADE RELATIONS
BUENOS AIRES, Nov. 14, —The
British government is prepared to
discuss means of strengthening
trade relations with Argentina af- ;
ter the official visit of Vice Pres
ident Julio Rccca to London, the j
British Ambassador here informed
the Foreign office.
TWO BILLION REVENUE
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 14, —
Complete repeal of the 18th
amendment can be accomplishedj
in time to make two billion dollars]
of Federal revenue available for the
fiscal year beginning July 1, in the
opinion of former Attorney Gener
al Mitchell Palmer.
IF EARTH HITS CONGESTED
AREA, SPECTACULAR DIS
PLAY DUE
URBANA, 111., Nov. 14, (A3)—No
vember 14 is a red letter day on the
astronomer’s calendar. On this
day the earth passes near or
across the orbit of the swarm of
Leonid meteors.
If the swarm is at the crossing
point when the earth arrives, we
shall plunge thru it and collide
with multitudes of these meteors.
There are no traffic regulations at
celestial intersections. The conse
quence of such collisions would be
a fine display of shooting stars.
Moderate Shower Last Year
It must be understood that as
tronomers are not definitely pre
dicting a spectacular meteoric
shower on this date. No one can say
in advance whether the earth shall
encounter a congested region of
the swarm or merely some of the
stragglers. That remains to be seen.
The Leonid swarm travels around
the sun once in 33 years in an elon
gated orbit. At intervals of 33 years
the earth passes near or thru this
rather long swarm for two or three
years in succession. Last year, in
the middle of November, the earth
collided with enough of it to pro
duce a moderate shower of meteors.
Leonid showers have occurred
over more than 1,000 years. A re
cord of one of the early displays
reports that “the stars fell like
rain’’. The meteoric showers in No
vember, 1833 and 1866, were so
brilliant that superstitious persons
feared the world was about to end.
Yet only a few meteors fell at the
next encounter in 1899 and 1900.
Most Meteors Small
The Leonids are so named be
cause they seem to spread in all
directions from a region in the
constellation Leo. The bright
streaks really are parallel. We no
ticed the same effect in the case of
the parallel rails of a track; they
seem to diverge from a point in the
distance.
, Meteors are pieces of stone or
metal. The majority are scarcely
larger than the head of a common
pin. When we collide with them,
they plunge thru the atmosphere
with terrific speed and usually are
entirely consumed by the friction
of the air. While they are being
consumed they leave bright streaks
in the sky, which we call shootng
stars.
Some meteors are large enough
! to partly survive the intense heat of
I their flight thru the air, so that
: they tail to the ground. And a few
of these meteorites are large in
deed. For instance, there are two
i great masses of nickel-iron in Af
rica, each weighing about 50 tons,
which fell out of the sky. hous
ands of meteorites ranging in
weight from many tons down to a
few ounces are preserved in mus
eums.
These are exceptions. Probably
not one in a million is large enough
to reach the ground. There is
nothing to fear frcm the Leonid
shower of November 14, even if it
should prove to be a spectacular
one.
Scientists were on the alert Sat
urday and Sunday and it is their
belief now that no undue display
will be seen because of the con
viction that any meteoric particles
would be burned up enroute to the
earth.
Today’s darkness is largely brot
about by the heavenly disturbance,
astronomers claim.
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FARM ALCOHOL
KENOSHEE, Wis., Nov. 14, —The
suggestion has been made that all
farms be permitted to make indus
trial alcohol as a means of restor
ing losses.
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DENIES REPORTS
ALBANY, N. Y., Nov. 14, —Pres
ident-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt
denied reports he would visit Eur
ope before his inauguration. Com
menting upon a London dispatch
reporting such a plan, he said:
“Who’s loony now?”