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VOLUME XVI. NUMBER 129.
SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 1931.
PRICE TEN CENTS
IT PM TIME
DUTCHESS OF ATHOL TELLS OF
THE “BIG PUSH” OF THE
FIVE-YEAR PLAN
LONDON. June 11. <JP) — The
Dutchess of Athol told a radio
audience that there are now sev
eral million of men, women and
children performing forced la
bor in Soviet Russia because of the
speed with which the five year
plan is being pushed.
In February 1930 a special de
cree ordered the wholesale appro
priation of the possessions of the
better off persons and their trans
portation with their families to
wherever their labor was most re
quired.
It is estimated that over 5,000,
000 persons were forcibly deported
under this decree, chiefly to the
iorests of the far north of Rus
sia. Many of them arrived there
in the winter and had no homes
until they had built them for
themselves.
“History. I think, records no
>uch wholesale uprooting and ban
ishment of peaceful, useful citi
zens as this,” the Dutchess was
quoted as saying.
This Kulak decree was follow
ed by the publication of a code
laying down regulations for pun
ishments.
The labor of these prisoners al
so was to be employed in a man
ner that would best yield a pro
fit, their rations were to depend
on the work done.
HALIBUT PRICES
SEATTLE, June 11, UP)—Halibut
from three vessels totaling 87.000
pounds sold their cargoes for 6c
to 13% c. At Prince Rupert 171,000
pounds of American fish sold for
4c to 9 and four-tenths cents;
Canadian, 3c to 7 and four-tenths
cents.
SCOUTS BID TO RALLY
FRANKFORT, Ky., June 11, UP)
—Invitations have been sent to
S,000 Boy Scouts for a big rally
to be held here June 18 to 20. Dan
Beard, James E. West, of New
York, and other national scout ex
ecutive, and other prominent
leaders will be guests.
POLITICAL DINNER
COLUMBUS, Ohio, June 1. (A*)
—Political leaders here speculat-1
ed on what was discussed by Gov
ernor Franklin D. Roosevelt of
New York and George White of
Ohio at a dinner in the Executive
Mansion. The Empire State Gov
ernor had lunched with Former
Governor James M. Cox at Day
ton.
HIS FIRST TRIP
PRESIDENT’S CAMP, Rapidan,
June 11. (A5) —Making his first
trip in an autogyro plane, Secre
tary of the Navy Charles Adams
landed near President Hoover’s
camp shortly before noon. The
ship was piloted by Assistant Sec
retary for the air Ingalls, and made
a perfect landing in a pasture.
S. S. E
’SEATTLE, June 11. (JP) — The
SS. Evans, of the Pacific Steam
ship Company sailed Wednesday
morning at 10 o’clock, carrying
thirty five passengers of which
nine were steerage. The Seward
passengers were Dr. W. Rich, Mrs.
E. A. Fogue, Grace M. Harkness,
Mildred Harkness, Shirley Hark
ness, Beatrice Harkness, W. C.
Knack, Walter Blue, William
Knaack, Jr., Oella Knaack, Nor
man Knaack, Mrs. Cora Spinks,
Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Bunn and six
; steerage.
EIGHT MEN IN SUNKEN
SUB MAY BE ALIVE
TSINGTA, June 11, (^—Efforts
to save the eight trapped men in
the sunken submarine Poeidon
have been spurred after naval of
ficers and officials said they firm
ly believed that the men were still
alive.
Their rescue, however, depends
solely on speedy action, they said.
BESIDE NAPOLEON
PARIS, June 11. (/P) —Acting on
representations of military and
naval oficials, literary and civil
ian and patriotic socieites, the
bodies of all French Generals and
Admirals who held chief command
during the war, will be buried be
side Napoleon at Les Invalides.
There are 17 in all.
GERMANY GIVES UP
BERLIN, June 11. (Pi —Germany
is at the end of her resources;
this drastic declaration as the key
note, Finance Minister Dietrich
promulgated a few drastic mea
sures, indicating Germany has
thrown up her hands in defeat as
far as reparations are concerned.
BRITAIN HIS EARTHQUAKE
LONDON, June 11. (A5) — Bri
tain suffered the most serious
earthquake recorded in her annals
when a tremor lasting 20 minutes
and covering an area of 150,000
square miles brought a bewildered
populace into the streets in their
night clothes.
Seismological experts placed the
disturbance in the North Sea, 400
miles northwest of London and 150
miles east of Edinburgh.
As far as is known there were
no serious cases of injury.
NEGRO THREATENED
JACKSON, Miss. June 11. (P)—
National Guardsmen from nine
towns were ordered to Valley Falls
following a threat of violence
against Sam Whiteacre, 19-year
old negro, who police say confessed
to the murder of M. G. Wagner,
Valley farmer, and his wife. White
acre will be tried Monday.
A threadless brass connection
employs wire solder instead of
threads to make a leak-proof pipe
connection.
ECONOMIC SNARL IS SWOLLEN
TO GIGANTIC PROPOR
TIONS
WASHINGTON, June 11, (JP)—
Eoconmic forces,, born of the
World War, have swollen to gigan
tic proportions by the depression
and face world statesmen.
Europe has long been involved
in new uprising and war; the rep
arations problem and develop
ments are centered on Germany
and England with government
heads in intimate conference,
while France is an interested on
looker.
Yet on official Washington and
the Hoover administration world!
attention is focused looking for a
sign that America will again lend
its aid to a new attempt to iron
out the tangle of reparations and
inter-Allied debts, disarmament,!
tariffs, budgetary deficits and all j
other elements involved in the j
international crisis of 1931.
EMERGENCY TAX:
RIOTS THREE CITIES
BEER MUGS, FLOWER POTS AND
STONES HURLED PRESS
JOINS CLAMOR
BERLIN, June 11, (A5*—Com
munist violence against the emer
gency taxation decrees in four
cities, gave Bruening food for
thought.
The situation was the most ser
ious in Mannheim when the radi
cals resented the authorities ef
forts to break up a mass meeting
by throwing a barricade up on
a street and fired on the police
and firemen who stood them off
until the arrival of reinforcements.
Pavements were torn up, street
lights smashed and thoroughfare
traffic disrupted. Merchants clos
ed their shops for the time being.
Many arrests were made; no one
is known to have been enjured. A
policeman was killed at Kassal
by shots in the dark as authorities
broke up a demonstration. Offi
cers were bombarded with beer
mugs, flower pots and stones and
mobs in other cities marched the
streets shouting “down with
Brening.”
Not a single political party had
approved tl\e tax decrees and the
press has been clamoring for a
reduction.
BOLIVIAN SOLONS LAYOFF
LA PAZ, Bolivia, June 11. (£>) —
Congress adjourned after a dras
tic reduction of the army budget
and after placing limitations on
the military strength. Besides a
cut in officers’ salaries, a garri
son of four regiments and their
sub officers was eliminated.
Sunshine now can be baked into
loaves of bread by irradiating the
dough with ultraviolet light.
LOS HLES MILLION*
AliO PILOT IN CUSTODY
LOS ANGELES, June 11. (&) —
E. P. Haliburton, Los Angeles and
Oklahoma millionaire oil man and
Frank Glenman, pilot of Halibur
ton’s tri-motored plane were taken
into custody and later released by
United States Customs officials af
ter authorities said that they dis
covered 10 cases of liquor in the
luxuriously appointed plane.
The specially built all-metal ship
was seized. Haliburton and Glen
man were questioned at the Feder
al building about the origin and
ownership of the liquor allegedly
found in the plane.
BASEBALL
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Phillies 0, Chicago 3.
Brooklyn 3, Cincinnati 10,
Boston 13, St. Louis 4.
New York 1, Pittsburg 5.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Cleveland 4, Washington 9.
Rain halted all other games.
COAST LEAGUE.
Porland 3, Hollywood 4.
Seattle 6, San Francisco 3.
Missions 0, Sacramento 2.
Los Angeles 3, Oakland 1.
HUNGRY MOB RIOTS
SANTIAGO, Cuba, June 11. (IP)—
The American Consulate here was
broken into by a mob of hungry
and anti-government demonstra
tors who Were fleeing from the
troops and the police.
CRUDE OIL LOW
AUSTIN, Texas, June 11. (VP) —
Reports to the State Railroad Com
mission from the East Texas Oil
Company says that there are ru
mors saying that crude oil is sell
ing as low as 12 cents a gallon.
Axel Johnson, Alaskan in Seat
tle, jammed on the brakes of his
automobile so suddenly when he
saw a train approaching his car,
that two automobiles behind him
piled into his machine, and tied
up traffic for a long time.
Johnson was taken to the county
jail and lectured by the state high
way patrolman, but later was re
leased in order to catch a boat
for the North.
In the meantime the train which
nearly caused a serious accident,
kept on going. It was nothing but
an illuminated signboard, accord
ing to a narration of the incident
in the Cordova Times.
GRAIN REGION BAD
WASHINGTON, June 11. (JP) —
A telegram from .the Dominion
Bureau of Statistics states that the
Department of Agriculture reports
that the entire grain region of
Western Canada is in a critical
condition due to drought and cut
worms.
Coal-burning power stations are
searching for a use of fly ash,
the fine, glass-like substance left
after the fuel is consumed.
GOVERNMENT HITS
JIL CAPONE HARD
FOB TAX EVASION
GANG CHIEF OWNED A HUGE
RANCH WITH 35 MILES
OCEAN FRONT
CHICAGO, June 1. (A1) — “Scar
face” A1 Capone, gang chief, faces
the.loss of his huge property hold
ing as well as his liberty in the
government’s proceeding agaitast
him for the evasion of income
tax.
The government, which indteted
him last Friday, claiming $205,083
tax and Robert E. Nealy, Acting
Collector of Internal Revnue said
that civil liens will be filed against
all of Capone’s property to collect
that amount.
He will start attaching the pro
perty in the various revenue dis
tricts soon, Nealy said.
Besides Capone’s Chicago and
Miami Beach and other Florida
real estate holdings, Nealey said he
understood that there is property
near Eagle River in Wisconsin and
the huge Santa Margarita ranch
including 35 miles of ocean front
between Los Angeles and San Di
Jego. Safe deposit vaults and other
collateral will also be attached,
Nealey added. ^
TOO BAD!
I NEW YORK, June 11. (/P) —L.
J. Barcadi of Santiago De Cuba,
whose family long has been iden
tified with rum making, says pro
[hibition is “here to stay and the
folks in this country w'ill have to
take it or leave it.”
MINISTER RESIGNS
| WASHINGTON, June 11, (A*)—
iThe Chinese legation announced
Minister Chaochu Wu has resigned
but declined details, but it is said
his resignation is due to “political
reasons.”
HENCHMAN SENTENCED
CHICAGO, June 1. VP) —Big
Earl Herbert, reputed henchman of
Joes Scartis, was convicted by a
jury in Chicago for murder. His
punishment was fixed at life im
prisonment. Herbert was charged
with fatally shooting Thomas Bon
ner, formerly of Paxon, 111., and
an alleged police informer.
LEAVE 800 MARINES
WASHINGTON, June 11. {&)—
When the proposed withdrawal of
the Marines from Nicaragua goes
into effect, 800 will be left behind
until after the Nicarguan leections.
GO TO SCHOOL
MANILA, June 1. (JP) —A total
of 1,200,000 Filipinos will open the
school year Monday to take ad
vantage of the educational op
portunities provided by the Am
erican occupation.
SOME SWINDLING
NEW YORK, June 11. (/P) —
Fraudulent stock racketeers are
reported to have swindled gullible
investors of the State of New
York out of more than $400,000,000
during the last three years, accord
ing to Attorney General Bennet.