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VOLUME XXVII. NUMBER 219.
SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1931.
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NEW YORK, Oct. 22. (/P)—Prem
ier Pierre Laval, of France, arrived
in the United States on the Ille de
France to talk with President Her
bert Hoover on methods of smooth
ing-the wrinkles of care out of the
lace of mankind.
When the French statesman ar
rived in New York he was accorded
. with one of New York’s greatest
' ovations in history and by cheer
ing thousands of people who bank
ed the walks around Battery Park.
Fire boats spouted huge streams
of water, guns were shot off and
Fort Jay thundered a salute to the
lormer peasant lad who smiled
■ calmly as he watched the airplanes
zoom overhead. Laval posed before a
great crowd of photographers and
V i eporters.
“Let me see the Statue of Lib
erty,” Premier Laval said as he
craned his head through a window
of the tug Macom.
Laval was to give an address at
Lhe city hall wherein he is to stress
-he need for political security as
a basis for world conference. He
-s to leave for Washington on a
special train.
Premier Laval is accompanied by
a daughter.
TO PERFECT ARGUMENT
TO ARREST JUDGMENT
CHICAGO, Oct. 22. (/P> — More
“rouble was brewing in the Federal
building for “Scarface” A1 Capone
Chicago gang leader, and his
* jriends. Capone’s sentence on his
conviction for violating income ta>
laws was delayed as Federal Judge
James H. Wilkerson granted his at
torneys until Friday to perfect
their arguments for an arrest oi
judgment.
If this bit of procrastination
could be considered as favorable tc
the gang chief, it was more than
offset by word that the government
had begun in earnest its attempt
to collect the tax Capone tried tc
-U evade.
NEW YORK, Oct. 22. (/P)—Twc
thousand new robots, designed tc
make work in a business office a
mere matter of sitting it a desk
and pressing buttons, were intro
duced Monday at the annual Na
rional Business Show.
Wheels, gears, and a vast arraj
of gadgets have been combined tc
create more speed, eliminate noise
-pake the drudgery out of office
routine, eliminate the human ele
* ment and make a noffice as me
chanical as a factory.
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MORE LENIENT POLICY
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 22. (IP
—Senator Nye said that Presided
Hoover assured him that he woulc
recommend to Congress, the ap
v propriation of sufficient capital tc
enable Federal Land Banks to pur
sue a
buyers.
more lenient policy towarc
I SCARLET FEVER EPIDEMIC
SEATTLE, Oct. 22. (/P)—The MS
Boxer is to sail immediately from
Dutch Harbor with scarlet fever
I and diphtheria serum to be used
to battle an epidemic among the
natives of Nushagak river valley.
The Boxer was carrying 100 tons
of coal and hospital supplies.
1 SIMPLE TRIBUTE Pi
! FUNERAL RITES EDISON,
THE PEACE TIME HERO
WEST ORANGE. N. J., Oct. 22
(TP)—In the drawing room of the
spacious Victorian mansion where
j Thomas A. Edison lived for manj
i years, a simple tribute was paid tc
j one of America’s greatest peace
i time heroes.
In the room were assembled the
family of Edison and his friends
i to bid him goodbye with music
'poetry and flowers which he lovec
| so well in life.
Mrs. Herbert Hoover was presenl
| at the funeral but there was little
! about the funeral that was stately
The ceremony for the man whe
earned such a distinguished world
wide fame opened with two of Edi
son’s favorite songs, “The Little
Gray Home in the West,” and “1*1
Take You Home Kathleen.” Th<
songs were played on the violin b:
an old friend and business asso
ciate, Arthur Walsh. Three mori
j of his favorite musical selection,
| were from Bach and Beethoven
j Then followed a reading from thi
Twenty-third Psalm and a tribute
from Arthur Palmer, one of Edi
son’s old associates in the labora
tory.
After a prayer the body wa.
borne away and laid to rest unde;
! a giant oak tree in the Rosedal<
| cemetery, near that of his assist
i ant, John Ott, who died Monda:
! from grief as the result of the shod
| of the passing of the inventor.
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CALEM REFORM MM
BRING FAME ID CHINES!
| TIENTSIN, China, Oct. 21. </P>—
| if his calendar reform plan is ac
I cepted by the League of Nations
| world-wide fame may be the lo
| of Joseph Polyen Hsue. 66-year-ol<
sage of this city.
Recently the L " ?ue s commis
sion on calendar rei n went thri
more than 200 proposals submittei
. by chronologists from every quar
ter of the globe. The projects wer
sifted down to two, one of whicl
is Hsue’s.
His plan proposes months of 2
days each with an extra day at th
end of each year and two extrj
days at the end of each leap yeai
each month would always be ;
Monday.
Hsue once invented a clock whicl
showed, besides the hours and min
utes, the day of the week, the da,
of the month, the full moon am
the new month in both the luna
and Roman calendars.
RICHARD DIX WEDS
YUMA. Ariz., Oct. 22. (/P)-*-Rich
i ard Dix, motion picture actor, an<
Winifred Coo, of San Franciscc
i were married here. The debonai
Dix signed the marriage license ap
: plication in his real name, Ernes
Carlton Brimmer.
CUSTOMS AT SEi\nLE; !
HWFFEiOIKEBIISE
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j, SEATTLE, Oct. 22. (/P)—After cir
cling the field several times Col
onel and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh
took off at 7:32 a. m. and headed
east over the Cascades, intending
to reach Boise if the weather con
ditions were favorable.
One hundred gallons of fuel were
j loaded on the plane which landed
! at the Boeing airfield at 7:08 a. m.
The Lindberghs left Victoria, B. C.,
| at 6:22, having arrived at Victoria
on the liner President Jefferson
from the Orient. They came to
Seattle to clear the customs.
Mrs. Lindbergh said that she was
anxious to get back to her baby
! and Colonel Charles Lindbergh,
' | shaking his head and declining an
11 interview at Victoria, led the way
’ | through a group of newspapermen
'; who were gathered at the dock.
The Lindberghs breakfasted on
'; board the liner Jefferson and left
! | in the airplane which Vance Breese
‘ I brought up fro^n California, via
' j Seattle. Vance Breese is return
’ : ing to Los Angeles.
Lindy wore a gray business suit
and was bareheaded. Anne wore a
dark blue coat and a hat.
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K.O.’S PORTUGUESE
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OAKLAND, Oct. 22. (/Pf—In the
5 feature event of a boxing card here
last night Max Baer knocked out
! Jose Santa, Portuguese heavy
weight, in the last round of a 10
1 round bout.
: Baer weighed in at 204 pounds
| and spotted Santa 40 pounds. Baer
won after a regular slam bang bat
tle that had the 10,000 spectators
! present cheering from the begin
I ning of the battle to the end.
The fighters started walloping
’ 1 each other from the first and con
1 tinued this steadily from gong to
igong with Jose Santa taking enough
_ punishment to knock over several
.1 ordinary heavyweight fighters.
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t i The SS Admiral Evans, which
\ left Seward yesterday afternoon for
Westward ports, is scheduled to re
. turn back in Seward Friday. Ac
i cording to information received the
1 vessel will sail for Seattle and way
. ports at 2 o’clock Monday morning.
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SEATTLE, Oct. 22. (/P)—Yester
day’s quotations on the stock mar
ket:
Alaska Juneau ..14%
American Can .85
Borden .48
Canada Dry .20%
General Motors .26%
International Nickle Can .10
| International Tel. & Tel.19%
iKennecott Copper .15
j Radio .14%
Reynolds Tobacco (b) .40%
Richfield Oil .No Sale
Standard Oil of Calif.32%
Standard Oil of N. J.33
Standard Oil of N. Y.14%
Union Oil of Calif....15%
U. S. Steel .74
Cities Service . 7%
Durant Motors . %
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FAMED AUSTRIAN DIES
VIENNA, Oct. 22. (/P)—Doctor
Arthur Schnitzler, 69 years of age,
and one of Austria’s most prom
inent of literary men, died suddenly j
of apoplexy. The playwright, poet.
and author of numerous stories had
not been in ailing health and was !
about to dictate a new drama to
his secretary when he was stricken.;
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LAKEHURST, N. J., Oct. 22. (JP)— [
Slipping through a dark clouded:
sky, the Navy’s new and largest;
dirigible, the Akron, rode to its;
j home port and nosed down to the ;
I mooring mast at 6:34 a. m.
Only a small crowd of people;
braved the windswept landing field
to greet the latest queen of the air.
It took 15 minutes from the time
that the tail of the Akron was
lashed to the iron cradle of the-)
mooring field until the ship was!
inside the hangar.
Alongside the Akron’s 785-foot1
long body was the smaller Los An- |
geles with only 656 feet.
The Akron recently completed I
its “more than 90 hours” test flight!
and was accepted by the Navy De- j
partment. On its initial flight the'
Akron was up for more than four
hours and carried 113 passengers. I
Lieut. Commander Charles E. Ros
endahl was in command. A sur
vivor of the Shenandoah disaster
about six years ago, he formerly was
in charge of the Los Angeles.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 22. (JP) j
—Rear Admiral Thomas Magruder
was ordered retired for age at the
end of November. He drew official
notice in 1927 by publishing severe i
criticism of the Navy.
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LEGIONS VOTE 1
DRY REFERENDUM
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DETROIT, Oct. 21. (/P)—The Am- I
erican Legion’s roll call on the reso- j
lution calling on Congress for a:
referendum by States on repeal of j
modification of the prohibition (
amendment were as follows. (First
figure is for “yes” and the last for
“no”)
Alabama 20-0; Alaska 7-0; Ari
zona 12-0; Arkansas 0-20; Calif or-;
nia 71-0; Canada 6-0; Colorado'
15-0; Connecticutt 20-0; Delaware j
7-0; District of Columbia 11-0;!
Florida 11-7; France 7-0; Georgia!
117-0; Hawaii 8-0; Idaho 6-5; Llli
! nois 93-0; Indiana 24-21; Iowa
22-22; Italy 7-0; Kansas 0-31; Ken
tucky 20-2; Louisiana 18-2; Maine
13-1; Maryland 11-1; Massachu-:
setts 55-0; Mexico No Vote.
Michigan 29-6; Minnesota 35-0; i
Mississippi 0-18; Missouri 16-15; j
Montana 12-0; Nebraska 0-27; Ne
vada 8-0; New Hampshire 10-2; 1
New Jersey 31-0; New Mexico 11-0; j
New York 92-0; North Carolina
19-6; North Dakota 13-3; Ohio j
49-7; Oklahoma 0-35; Oregon 15-3; |
Panama, No Vote; Pennsylvania!
80-0; Philippines 6-0; Porto Rico I
7-0; Rhode Island 10-0; South Car
olina 1-15; South Dakota 12-6; Ten
nessee 0-31; Texas 0-45.
Utah 0-10; Vermont 8-4; Virgin
ia 9-8; Washington 8-16; West Vir
ginia 6-13; Wisconsin 38-0; Wyo
ming 0-12; Havana, Cuba, 1-0;
London, England, 1-0; Total 1,008
394.
HUNT CiSIBERS .
SELECTIVE SALES TUX TO
BALANCE BUDGET INCOME
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 22. (/P)
—The government is considering a
selective sales tax as a means of
raising money to counter balance
the declining income.
While no definite decision was
made as to whether the recommen
dation would be made to Congress
experts are carefully combing the
field to see what articles could be
included. It has been definitely
shown that it needed to put no
more tax on food, rent, and fuel.
Other necessities such as match -
es. automobiles, radios, and per
haps cigarettes are considered to
be logical sources where the in
creases in tax would be absorbed
by the manufacturer.
SEARCH CONTINUES
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 22. (/P)—De
tectives, posted at every avenue of
escape, are searching for a slight,
blond woman of 27 years, wife of a
physician and daughter of a min
ister, as the perpetrator of a mur
der plot in which two women were
murdered and their bodies shipped
here from Phoenix, Ariz. The prey
of squads of detectives, thrown into
an all-encompassing search of the
city by a crime which horrified,
even those accustomed to brutal
ities, was Mrs. Winnie Ruth Judd,
former employe of a phoenix Med
ical Clinic and wife of Dr. W. C.
Judd.
NEW YORK, Oct. 22. (IP)—Prank
Frisch, captain and second base
man of the World Champion St
Louis Cardinals, after rapping' at
the portals three times, is said to
have crashed baseball’s hall of fame
as the National League’s most val
uable player for the season 1931.
The announcement of his selec
tion was made by a baseball writers
committee and William Slocum, of
New York; President Chuck Klein,
of the Phillies, and Bill Terry, of
the Giants, runnerups.
VIGOROUS TREND SHOWN
BT SEGURIH MARKETS
NEW YORK, Oct. 22. (JP)—'The Se
curity Markets yesterday gave prac
tical evidence of the better feeling
that has been hovernig over Wall
Street for the last week or two.
Stocks and bonds advanced vigor
ously, giving strong leadership by
Railroad Issues and by U. S. gov
ernment obligatoins.
The freight rate decision was an
nounced after the close. Wall
Street was rather uncertain as to
just how it should be interpreted.
However, opinion in many quarters
had been that no flat rise would
be allowed, but that higher rates
would be permitted on many prod
ucts, probably on a sliding scale.