VOLUME XXXVIII. NUMBER 185.
SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1932.
PRICE TEN CENTS
HELEN NIKON IS
STILL THE QUEEN OF
WORLD'S SWIMMERS
LOS ANGELES, Aug., 9. (^—Fol
lowing the close of the track and
field events Olympic Game swim
mers came into their own and set
about to break some of their own
and world’s records.
Helen Madison of Seattle is still
the queen of swimmers, as a result
of having won the 100 meter free
style race in one minute, six and
eight-tenths seconds. Helen’s time
established a new Olympic record.
Second in this race, but somewhat
slower, was Williminjntje Den Oud
en. 14 year-old Dutch girl. Mrs.
Gerattie Sayville, of San Francis
co, was third, and Josephine Mc
Kim. of Los Angeles, fourth. These
placings gave the United States
women’s team 17 points, Holland
5, Australia 2 and South Africa 1.
Five heats of the 400 meter swim
race were also disposed of and in
the first heat a Japanese swimmer
set a new Olympic Games mark
for the event- Bis time was four
minutes, 53 and two-tenths sec
onds.
One feature of the day of acq
uatic sports was the disbarment of
the Brazilian water polo team for
their attack on Bela Komjadi, Hun
garian referee of a polo match with
Germany. The Germans won the
match with a score of 7 to 3. How
ever. Komjadis rulings’ were fre
quently booed by the crowd who felt
that the Brazilans were getting the
worst of it. After the game the
South American players swarm
ed over the referee and started a
small riot which was only quelled
after 30 officers began brandishing
their clubs. No one apparently was
injured.
The Japanese field hockey bene
fited from their previous encounter
with the India team and defeated
the U. S. hockey team 9 to 2.
The United States took first place
as well as second and third in the
springboard diving contests.
In a demonstration football game
played during the evening to show
visitors the big American game, the
West defeated the East by a score
of 7 to 6. The members of the teams
were all college graduates and stars
from the University of Southern
California. U. of California, Stan
ford. Yale. Princeton and Harvard.
HR HIKE TO
TIE SEi-FIlS
EAST HAMPTON, N. Y., Aug., 8,
—Three Californians and one Brit
ish player advanced last week into
the semi-final round of the Maid
stone Club's invitation tennis tour
nament for women. Miss Joan
Ridley of England earned the right
to oppose Mrs. L. A. Harper of Oak
land. Calif., while Miss H. Jacobs
of Berkeley. Calif., favorite to win
the tournament, will meet Miss
Josephine Cruickshank, Santa Ana.
Calif.
Miss Jacobs eliminated the Bos
ton left-hander, Miss Marjorie
Sachs. 6-4, 6-2. Miss Ridley won
after a hard battle, with Miss Sarah
Palfrey, Brookline, Mass., 2-6, 6-2,
6-4- Miss Harper eliminated Miss
Virginia Hilleary of Philadelphia,
2-6. 6-5. 6-4. Miss Cruickshank
showed to advantage in defeating
the highly rated player, Miss Mary
Greef of Kansas City, 6-3, 6-2.
WORK FOR MANY
TACOMA, Wash-, Aug., 8, —An
appropriation of $200,000 has been
more for the Tacoma-Puyalup fair;
work for many hundreds of unem
ployed is thus assured in the near
future.
$700 A SECOND
NEW YORK, Aug. 9.—About $700
a second will be the probable scien
tilc cost of the total eclipse of the
sun in New England and Canada,
August 31- It lasts 100 seconds.
THOUSANDS MISSING
HARBIN, Aug., 9, (/P)—Three
thousand persons are missing as
the result of floods in the Sungari
river valley. A number of large
towns, including Sanshin, were
flooded and need entire recon
struction before becoming habita
ble. The southern branch of the
Chinese-Eastern railway was des
troyed south of Shuang Cheng, and
it will take a full month to restore
service. Twq-thirds of Harbin was
flooded.
HOOVER WANTS KEEP
COOL, COOL1DGE
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug., 9, —
There is one man in the United
States who is going to keep cool
with Coolidge while the Republican
national campaign is being thrown
into high gear.
He is none other than the Pres
ident himself. President Hoover
was more than just a bit eager to
have his predecessor on the plat
form at the notification exercises
which are to be converted into an
old-fashioned Republican “shin
dig.”
Coolidge replied to Hoover that
he would be unable to be present
' at the notification exercises.
PLANE SHOT DOWN
ASUNCION, Paraguay, Aug., 9, —
The Paraguan high command re
ported that a Bolivian plane had
been shot down by the garrison of
I the fort.
RECORDS IRE LOWERED
OLYMPIC STADIUM, Los An
geles. Aug. 9-—Driven out to greater
speed by record-shattering per
formances of competitors in previ
ous heats, three mermaids in suc
cessive races, broke the Olympic
100 meter free style mark and
eclipsed the word’s record.
It was a fitting way to start off
the acquatic championships of the
tenth Olympiad with Mrs. Eleanor
Garatti Sayville, United States en
try, who competed in the 1928
games, racing twice the distance
of the pool before 5,000 persons in
one minute and eight and one
half seconds.
SEATTLE BUGS
SEATTLE, Aug. 9—Downtown
buildings were shaken by an earth
quake at 2:17 Monday. The earth
movement lasted only a few sec
i ends. The quake was the most
violent felt here in a number of
years. The north-south movement
was quite noticeable. Hundreds of
telephones rang in the newspaper
offices and police stations as resi
dents inquired concerning the
shock. No damage was reported.
BULLISHNESS DISPLAY
| NEW YORK, Aug. 9.—In a fren
| zy of agitation such as Wall Street
i had not witnessed in a half-day
! session in more than two years, the
I stock market completed a day of
i rising prices with a big display of
i bullishness.
ECONOMIC MEASURE
WASHINGTON, Aug., 8, —The
Civil Service Commission’s 130,000
sets of fingerprints of Federal em
ployes and applicants for govern
ment positions, have been trans
ferred to the Department of Jus
tice, as an economic measure.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Washington 7, Cleveland 6.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
St. Louis 7-6, Phillies 6-4.
Only two games played.
LIBBY HOLMAN REYNOLDS
RELEASED 011 $25,080
81 PENDING TRIAL
I
WINSTON-SALEM, Aug., 9, —Fol
lowing the almost sensational sur
render of#Libby Holman Reynolds,
26-year-old “flame” singer and
widow of Smith Reynolds, here on
Monday an application for free
dom on bail was granted by North
Carolina court authorities; bail
was set at $25,000.
Justice officials consented to the
reduction of the first degree mur
der charge against Libby to a sec
ond degree charge after it was
shown that there was not sufficient
evidence to support the first degree
charge. The reduction was also
made so that bail could be permit
ted. Justice officials, however, re
served the right to reverse their de
cision and make it first degree
again if conditions or evidence war
rant.
The former chorus girl is free on
( bail pending her trial on the charge
: she murdered her husband. Albert
. B. Walker, lifetime chum of the
I slain millionaire, also is out on bail.
EXTRA CONGRESS SERTS
LURE IRAIT POLITICIANS
SACRAMENTO, Calif., Aug., 8, (/P)
—Given nine new Feats in the
House of Representatives by the
reapportionment based on the 1930
census, California faces the task
of choosing almost double the us
ual number of congressmen in the
: next general election.
The greater number Of seats to
be filled has not caused a shortage
j of available candidates. At the Aug.
30 primary 178 persons will be seek
ing the 20 jobs.
TAKE STAND ^ftOHIBITION
PASADENA, Calif., Aug., 8, —The
U. S- Junior Chamber ^of Commerce
conducting their annual conven
tion here, awaited the report of a
committee to determine the organ
ization’s stand on prohibition. The
delegates, more than 1000 young
business men. voted to take a stand
on prohibition.
SIO PALO REBELLION
CONTINUES AFTER FOUR j
WEEKS skirmishing;
RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug., 8, (JP)—
The Federal government sent a
steady stream of troops into line
on the northern front, opening the
fifth week of the Sao Palo rebel
lion.
General Francisco is attempting
to oust the rebels from Parana ter
ritory and the district around Ja
carazinho, preparatory to a drive
on Sao Palo, itself.
The rebels handed consuls of
foreign governments at Sao Palo
requests that the governments rec
ognize the state of belligerency to
free the state and ban communica
tions and shipping, ordered by the
Federal government when the re
bellion started.
ITALY CARRYING OUT
TARANTO, Italy, Aug. 9.—The
biggest naval maneuvers Italy has
staged since the World War smash
ed into action Monday in the cen
tral Mediterranean along the cost
line of 1,500 miles.
One hundred surface ships, in
cluding Italy’s new fast cruisers, 30
submarines and 23 squadrons of
airplanes participated. The prin
cipal object is to determine how
Italy can best keep open her trade
channels in time of war.
NOT OVER YET
RAPIDAN, Va., Aug., 9, —Col. H.
MacNider, former national com
mander of the American Legion,
and the United States minister to
Canada, gave President Hoover a
clear intimation of the Legion’s
national convention next month at
Portland, Oregon, may be expected
to vote a demand for the immediate
payment of the veterans bonus.
EXPRESS REGRETS
PARIS, Aug. 9.—Mrs. Helen Wills
Moody, queen of the tennis courts,
announced with regrets her ina
bility to compete in any American
tournaments this summer.
Story of Umnakus
The Sun Child
By E. P. S
EPISODE III
For many days, Nackolus, the
1 swimmer, worked, gathering up
the bodies of his dead conrades,
| which had washed to shore, and
' planting them in pyramids where
| each sat facing the Sun God when
he came up out of the sea in the
■ morning.
| Also, there were many timbers
to pull up beyond the tide, which
lapped hungrily at the remains of
Fish Wu’s great junk, that had
been built with a sharp keel to cut
the water and the turning paddle
which had pushed it along when
the wind no longer filled the sails.
One chest of meal cakes had
washed ashore and with these,
Nackolus had eaten many golden
strings of eggs from the sea ur
chins. This, indeed, had been his
food for many days.
Secrets of boyhood life in Cathay
came of great use to him and he
made fire pits to cook the red sal
mon which came up the little creek
from the sea.
He was on a small island where
no trees grew and but a league
away he beheld a large island with
many hills and mountains.
Nackolus spent much time in
making a mighty spear from a
great knife, which Fish Wu had
kept fastened in the junk. This
blade Nackolus had lashed onto a
long handle and now he easil;
speared the red salmon in the creek
and a seal had been pinned to the
sand by a lucky throw.
Nackolus made a long thong,
from the seal skin, which he now
fastened to the spear handle so
that he could cast the weapon into
the water for other sea life while
floating about on his raft, which
he had made of timbers from Fish
Wu’s junk and lashed together
with long grass ropes.
Many times Nackolus had at
tempted to get across to the other
island but always the swift cur
rent would carry his raft away
and Nackolus would set his sail or
paddle back to the little island
where his cave home with its great
pit fire would offer him a warm
welcome.
Nackolus had refashioned his
mighty spear so that he could now
throw it great distances and pierce
birds and fish. Many smaller and
lighter spears he had also made
and with these he had speared the
grey geese which sat on the rocks
in the night time.
Nackolus planned to cross to the
other island so he constructed a
larger raft to which he fastened a
rudder and a large sail made from
matting found on the beach near
where the junk had struck the hid
den reef.
r (To be continued)
DEATH PENALTY?
BERLIN, Aug., 9, (/P)—The Ger
man government, goaded by two
months of rioting, bombing, shoot
ing and knifing, is preparing to
use mailed-fist authority to put an
end to the disorders. Chancellor i
von Papen called a cabinet meet-j
ing to map a program to use the
shortest and sternest measures
possible and may resort to death
penalties to restore peace in the
land.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.—Driven
from the nation’s capital, entreated
to leave Johnstown, unwanted in
Waterbury, Md., leaders of the bo
nus army expeditionary forces
looked in several directions for
plans to keep their strength intact.
Commander Walter W. Waters,
who is commander-in-chief of the
B. E. F., plans a countrywide speak
ing tour in defense of the Wash
ington squatters.
ARRESTS INCREASE
WASHINGTON, Aug., 8, —Prohi
bition in the last two years caused
federal seizure of property worth
more than $21,000,000 and imposi
tion of fines totaling more than
$12,000,000. Federal dry law arrests
increased this year. These official
figures are in a report of the 1931
annual report of the Prohibition
Bureau.
u
NEW GUINEA SCENE
OF “MB GOLD RUSH
WASHINGTON, Aug., 8, —While
the world of King Midas, depressed,
searches out all possible new sourc
es of gold, the Territory of New
Guinea is the scene of the first
great “gold rush by air”.
Men, picks and heavy machinery
have made their way by airplane
from the coast into mountains and
jungles of the world’s second larg
est island, developing a mining
camp and civilization with amaz
ing rapidity.
The great “rush” was at its
height in 1929 and 1930, as placer
gold was found in accessable creeks
of the Orino Mirobe district.
LEPERS ESCAPED FROM
BUCHAREST, Aug. 9.—A large
isolation camp in Girphilesti and
number of lepers escaped from an
swarmed into the nearby town of
Isaccea, where they besieged the
houses of peasants in an attempt
to secure food.
The invasion caused an inde
scribable panic among the town’s
inhabitants, who barricaded them
selves until police arrived and
drove the lepers back to their quar
ters.
SWEDISH SCANDAL
! STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Aug., 9,
—The first political scandal in
Sweden for a long time has just
been revealed following the resig
nation of Carl Gustave Eckmann,
from his position as premier. He is
alleged to have been connected with
Ivar Krueger dealings and his re
signation was asked so that a cab
inet shakeup would not be neces
sary.
CHANCELLOR HITLER?
BERLIN, Aug., 9, —The political
complexion in Germany this week
indicates that the next chancellor
may be Adolf Hitler, fiery leader
of the Nazis. It is observed by po
liticians that Hitler is unwilling to
take a position such as premier and
the only other step to hold the good
will of the Reichstag is to make
him chancellor.
TOKYO IS SHUSHED
IT CENEIII REACTIONS
DECLARES STIMSON
SEATTLE, Aug., 9, (/P)—Tokyo ex
presses satisfaction at the Geneva
reactions, said Secretary of State
Stimson, in an address at New
York.
Mr. Stimson, speaking before the
Council of Foreign Relations com
mittee, cited Far East events of the
last winter indicating that an
effective pact was responsible for
putting a peaceful end to the hos
tilities by mobilizing public opinion.
He recalled that the league sup
ported the United States assertion
not to recognize any situation and
that a treaty agreement brought
about means contrary to conven
ient obligations of the Paris pact.
“Moral disapproval, when it be
comes disproved by the whole
world, takes on a significance hith
erto unknown in international law,”
Stimson said.
The Japanese asked for a detail
ed report of the speech, which was
interpreted as an implication
that Japan agrees, or of their ac
tion in Manchuria, against which
the world is mobilized.
Geneva is satisfied, describing it
as a guarantee of any further ac
tion. The attitude of the United
States was known in advance and
the cause of embarrassment has
been removed.
WORLD MAY NEVER END
PASADENA, Calif., Aug., 8, —The
possibility that the world may
never come to the end popularly
predicted for it, is indicated by cal
culations now being made in the
field of non static cosmology,
science of the world system, by
scientists of California Institute of
Technology.
GIRL BEATEN TO DEATH
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug., 8, —
The body of a girl, about 14 years
old, was found in a gunny sack.
The girl had been beaten to death.
Two suspects are held.
AOMIREHB DESIRED GIVE
LOS ANGELES, Calif.. Aug., 8, —
Joseph England, chairman of the
United States Olympic track and
field committee, expressed the
opinion that Ralph Hill should not
accept from his Klamath Falls, Ore.,
home-town admirers, an automo
bile as a token of esteem for his
Olympic triumph.
England was asked if such ac
ceptance would endanger Hill’s
amateur status: “I would suggest
that Hill should not accept such a
gift,” he said. It was suggested that
the towns-people could give the
automobile to the Hill family for
raising such a fine boy. England
replied: “Well,” indicating that
there could be no objection to such
a course.
MC 111! TOOK RIF
WORST BEATINES OF LIFE
i NEW YORK, Aug., 8, — Lou
j Brouillard, young New England
j battler, fighting to regain the wel
terweight championship that he
1 lost to Jackie Fields, gave Jimmy
I McLarnin one of the most decisive
j beatings of his career before 18,000
* fans in the Yankee Stadium
A stout fighting heart and his
ring generalship enabled McLar
nin to stay with the former welter -
! weight king for the scheduled 10
rounds.
But a less courageous fighter
would have folded up under the
barrage of lightning lefts that
’ Brouillard used.
Dance Tonight in L 0. 0. F. Hall