Daily (iSatPiuan
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXVIII. NUMBER 333.
SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1932.
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BATTLING HIGH SCHOOL BAS
KETBAFf < SQUADS PLAY
WONDERFUL GAME
Three minutes to go! The score
stood 21-20. favor Anchorage, i
Hughes of Seward slipped in a
clever field shot putting the locals
ahead one point. Then, down the
entire length of the floor, charged
Sandbeck dribbling; he lost the
ball for a moment midway, re
covered and, with a last leap and
perfect shot, dropped the ball in
to Seward's basket t h e r e b y
putting the game on ice exactly
15 seconds before the final blast.;
And the crowd jumped to its
feet and shook the building with
roars of applause.
Never in years has a game like 1
it been witnessed here. The ex
citement of the crowd was con
tinually at fever heat, and they
were more than generous in giving
a hand to friend and foe. Both
teams gave everything they had— |
and gave it like real sports; clean
as a hound’s tooth. And with it
all. big time refereeing and limp
ing by Paul and Holdiman.
WHOW! Whut a game, brother! !
Tonights game promises to be1
even better, if such a thing is j
possible. Anchorage will have had j
a good rest after the long and
tiresome train trip and heat of
last night’s battle when they saw
and studied a few of the “Ponies”
bag of tricks.
Fans sawr two teams clicking
perfectly but Seward’s punch in
in the final quarter had the vis
itors wabbly, though stamina did
not appear lacking. The local lads
indomitable spirit, so noticeable
since the beginning of the season,
put them across last night, the
first real game they have been in;
it was a decided feather in their
caps to have won over a superb
machine like the Anchorage cag
ers. Coach Rogers must be proud
of his boys
Beautiful field work, close check
ing, clever passing and accurate
shooting, slowly piled up the tal
lies one or two at a time. It was
anybody’s game until the last of
the final half and it would be sheer
folly to speak of individual stars;
team work, as always, is what won
last night’s game.
The lineups:
Anchorage—Porter, R. F.; 3 field
goals; shot and missed 6. Seller
L. F.; 2 field shots; shot and miss
ed 8. Bittner, C.; 4 field goals and
one free throw; shot and missed
8. Herman, R. G.; 1 free throw;
shot and missed 7. Nichols, L. G.;
1 free throw; shot and missed 4.
Seward—B. Johnston, R. F.; 1
field shot; shot and missed 1.
Lang, L. F.; 3 field throws; shot
t and missed 9. R. Johnston, C.;
shot and missed 1. Sandbeck, R.
G.; 2 field goals; shot and missed
7; Reid, L. G.; Larson, C.; 2 field
* goals; shot and missed four. Pet
erson, L. G.; 1 free throw; shot
and missed 6. Hughes, R. F.; 4
field goals; shot and missed 3.
Summaries—Anchorage had 33
shots at the basket and Seward 31.
The score at the end of the first
half was 16 to 15 in favor of Sew
ard.
Seward took time out once in
the first half and Anchorage once
in the last half.
Anchorage did not use any subs.
Seward substitutes were: B. and
R. Johnston and D. Reid.
Eight minute quarters were
• played, with one minute rest in
tervals and 10 minutes between
halves.
*• Final score: Seward 24, Anchor
age 21..
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THE STOCK MARKET
Baldwin 4. Bando 578, Beth.
Steel 12%, Cal. Pack. 7%, Can.
Pack. 13%, Chrysler 15%, Dupont
35%, Eastman 52%, Case 37%, Gen
Elec. 14%, English Sterling 3.33.
ROOSEVELT OPPOSES
GENERIL PRINCIPLES
■EMIRS LEW
WASHINGTON. Dec. 29—Con
gressional leaders began studying
other means of balancing the
Federal budget as President-Elect
Roosevelt’s opposition brought an
abrupt halt to a drive for enact
ment of a general manufacturers
sale tax.
Speaking thru friends at Al
bny, Mr. Roosevelt declared his
opposition to the “general princi
ples” of a manufacturers’ levy.
Speaker Garner and other
prominent leaders believed the
New York Governor’s statement
had finished the sales tax. Never
theless, the Speaker and his lieut
enants were still resolved on a tax
sustaining basis.
HUB SERIOUSLY BURT
WHEN HUTQ SKIDGEO,
AND CRASHED ANOTHER
FLAGSTAFF. Ariz., Dec. 29 —
When their light automobile skid
ded on the road during a snow
I storm and crashed headon into
i a west-bound Pickwick stage, Mr.
! and Mrs. Harry Bowen, of Canyon
City, Colo., were seriously injured.
A niece, Eleanor Horney, suffered
minor injuries.
The accident occurred 30 miles
east of Flagstaff on the road to
Winslow. Bowen suffered a frac
tured skull and an injured right
knee and Mrs. Bowen a fractured
pelvis and bruises.
The driver of the stage, William
Leslie, said the machine carrying
1 the Bowens and Miss Horney
skidded; he was driving the bus
in the extreme right-hand side ol
the highway.
TRUE DAUGHTER OF
' THE NORTH HONORED
CORDOVA, Dec- 29—A 12-year
old true daughter of the North
was honored for heroism here, al
though her name was not known.
The girl made a 24-mile trip be
hind a dog team to summon aid
for Amos Fluery, whose feet were
: frozen when he broke thru thin
I ice, and who lay helpless in a re
mote cabin.
When the girl’s telephone mes
; sage came here, an airplane was
j sent for Fleury. He is in the hos
! pital here.
PRESIDENT WORKING
OH DEBT Ml IMS
With President Hoover’s party
in Florida waters, Dec. 29,—Presi
dent Hoover’s “fishing fleet” pro
ceeded slowly thru the swampy
Florida inland canal paralleling
the Atlantic, near Daytona Beach.
The President did not fish yes
terday but spent a large part of
the day going thru mail taken
aboard at St. Augustine and doing
some work on the war debts prob
lems. The reason for work on the
later was not announced for it
was thought the trip had been
planned to -relieve the President
of such effort for a few days.
NEW LINER SERVICE
PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 29,—A
I new fast passenger, freight and
refrigerator service to the Orient
was inaugurated here when the
New State Steamship Co. liner
General Pershing sailed. The
General Pershing, General Lee
and General Grant will call at
| Yokohama, Kobe, Osaka. Shang
hai, Hongkong and Manila, leav
ing Portland at three-week inter
vals.
YOUNG ALASKA
Those who saw last night’s basketball games
between Anchorage and Seward High Schools saw
something more than a mere means of entertain
ment, The> saw the young Alaska spirit emerge
clothed in the mantle of courage and resourceful
ness inherited from pioneer forbears.
That Seward’s boys’ team conquered their op
ponents was due to sheer fighting spirit born of a
local pride and expressive of the highest element
of sportsmanship. In fact this latter laudable qual
ity characterized the performance of both squads.
Seldom in the history of amateur athletics has
such a wave of enthusiasm swept an audience to
wrest old and young from their seats and toss them
in a maelstrom of excitement, during which the
very hills vibrated with salvos of cheers.
Like “the noble Priam, striking short at Greeks,
his antique sword rebellious to his arm,” Seward’s
undersized team fought for every inch of advan
tage and held it with a tenacity magnificent in its
display of courage, cleanliness and sportsmanship.
O’ermatched in speed, reach and weight, the
local boys were compelled to delve into their bag of
tricks and fetch forward everything they had,
breaking up clever combinations and translating
I whaf appeared assured defeat into laurel wreaths
of victory.
The victory was not due to any laggard spirit
on the part of the fine, clean young sportsmen
! from the Headquarters City. With equal pride of
achievements and admirable loyalty to their colors,
they gave battle which at times seemed to promise
to sweep their opponents before them thru sheer
exhaustion.
Aside from the rare entertainment the games
afforded the spectators it was expressive of the
spirit which means so much 'when these splendid
examples of frontier youth step upon the stage of
activities in future life, and came as a tonic to
awaken palsied arteries of age and reassure them
that the legacy of the future reposes in safe hands.
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ANCHORAGE GIRLS
WIN FIRST GAME
FROM SEWARO HIGH
The long, rangy basketball
squad of Anchorage high school
girls was too much for the Seward
high school lassies who were de
feated last night in the first of a
three-game series by a decisive
score of 29 to 13. At times the
Seward girls teamwork appeared
to excell that of the visitors but |
they could not keep the ball out j
of their opponent’s territory.
Primarily there was too much
. Balhiser and Carlson for the lo
calites, tho Shellhorn and Lars
son came through like trojans.
Regardless of the score the game
made a splendid appetizer for the
| main event which followed and
, put the crowd on mettle.
Balhiser, F., made 13 points for
; her team-mates, six field goals
I and one free throw; 12 shots at
[ the basket missed. Carlson, F.,
! rang up 12 points, four from the
, field and four free throws; she
j missed 9 shots. Stoddard, C., do
j nated one field goal and one from
j the foul line, missing six shots.
Peterson, R. G., Erbacher, R. G.,
Reed, C. G, comprised other mem
bers of the squad, while Berg sank
one field goal and one free throw,
and missed two shots. Vernita
Herron, coach.
For Seward, Larsson was high
girl with 8 points to her credit,
four field shots and two free
throw's, missing three others.
Shellhorn came thru with five
points, two field goals and one
free shot, missing one. These were
the only tw'o scores. Laughlin
tried for a basket twice missing
both. Other members of the squad
were Skinner, Sullivan and Hor
ton.
Elbert Kunz handled the girl’s
game efficiently with Holdiman
limping.
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7:30 TONIGHT
Tonight’s cage games start at
17:30, not 8 o’clock, and tomorrow
afternoon at 2:30. Don’t forget
i the time.
BIG NEW COMBINE
NEW YORK, Dec. 29,—Govern
ors of the four New York com
modity markets, which are plan
ning to consolidate, will meet this
week tc set dates for the neces
sary votes on the merger. It is
proposed to call it the Consoli
dation Commodity Exchange, Inc.
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THOUSANDS OF GASES
INFLUENZA PREVALENT
IN STATE OF KANSAS
TOPEKA. Kas., Dec. 29,—More
than 78,000 cases of influenza, the
peak of the current epidemic, were
reported in the State of Kansas.
“The number of cases have in
creased in two weeks from 100 to
780 times that number”, said Dr.
Earl Brown, secretary of the State
Health Board. “The epidemic evi
dently has reached its peak and
probably will pass on to the East”.
Less than one percent of the
cases are developing into pneu
monia, the doctor said, and ear or
sinus infections have been follow- ;
ing the illness.
HIUTMT STRENGTH
JAPAN BE INCflEASED
TOKIO, Dec. 29,—Plans to bol
ster Japan’s military strength in
Manchuria were announced by the
War Office.
Basic changes in the nation’s
entire military establishment and
its administration also were to be
effecteed. Modernization of arms
and equipment and the training
of at least 100,000 officers and
men in their use were important
phases of the reform plan.
TOKIO, Dec. 29,—S e e k i n g to
start a movement which eventual
ly might lead to prohibition in
Japan, 16 members of the lower
house presented a bill which
would prohibit drinking among
peersons under the age of 25 and
make illegal the sale of liquor.
VESSEL CAPSIZED
DROWNING ONE WREN
STRUCK BIG WAVE
ABERDEEN, Wash., Dec. 29,— ;
The pilot boat Iman was cap-,
sized by a huge wave on Gray’s
Harbor Bar yesterday, drowning
Harold Hunter, seaman, and in
juring three other men.
Hunter was thrown about 75
feet from the deck of the boat as
it turned over and never appear
ed again on the surface of the
water. Capt. S. F. Iman was cut
and bruised when hurled over
board. Capt. Ernest Fletcher, mak
ing the trip as a friend of Iman,
received a broken leg and back
injuries when tossed into the sea. I
Charles Hunter, wrorking in the j
engine room, was burned with5
battery acid and injured when
thrown about below decks.
Despite their injuries the two
captains swam back to the Iman
and climbed aboard. The pilot
! boat was going out to remove
! Pilot Harry Hubbard from the
I freighter Imperial Valley. The
I steamer reported by radio that
j the Iman rolled over twice when
| the sea struck her.
( The Iman returned to dock un
| der her own power.
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WINNIE JUDD TELLS
ALL FDR THE FIRST
TIME SINCE SLAYING
PHOENIX, Ariz., Dec. 29, —For
the first time since she surrender
ed, Winnie Ruth Judd, condemned
murderess, told of the slaying of
Agnes Ann Leroi and Hedwig
Samuelson before the Maricopa
County Grand Jury.
She had long awaited this
chance to “tell all”. Previously
her attorneys had stilled her and j
when she was tried on charges of j
murdering Mrs. Leroi she failed to j
testify in her own behalf.
She is to hang February 17.;
1933 for killing Mrs. Leroi. It took
Mrs. Judd four and one half hours |
to tell the grand jury of the mur
ders.
SHORTER HOURS. DINS,
BILL UP FOB HEARINGS
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29— Chair- j
man Norris of the Senate Judici
ary Committee appointed a sub-1
committee to begin hearings next
week on the Black bill to make
the five-day week and six-hour
day compulsory in American in
dustry.
The bill would bar from Inter
state or foreign commerce the
products of mines, quarries, mills,
workshops, factories, etc., in the
United States in which employees
i were “permitted to work more
| than six hours in any day.”
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! WASHINGTON, Dec., 29, —Pat
rick J. Farrell was elected chair
man of the Interstate Commerce
Commission to take office Janu
ary 1. succeeding Claus R. Porter.
Farrell has been with the Com
mission 32 years.
ILL Looms GUT
OFF WHO FRANCE
PARIS, Dec. 29, —The French
government considered war debt
negotiations with the United
States ended until the Roosevelt
administration takes office.
Secretary of State Stimison’s
warning that France must pay the
December annuity of $19,000,000
before there can be any discussion
of debt revision, convinced France
that negotiations would be useless
under the existing American reg
ime.
ALLEGED DRINKING PARTY
WINDS UP IN HOSPITAL
AND JAIL
Otto Ericson. of Finnish ex
traction, is not expected to live
and Bill Canyak, an Indian, is
in jail as the result of an alleged
drinking bout ending in Eric
son’s cabin, located just in the
rear of Dreamland Hall.
Ericson was taken to the Sew
ard General Hospital suffering
from many cuts and contusions
of the head and neck, made by
bottles and a stove poker, ac
cording to witnesses of what is
described as a battle between the
Indian and Ericson.
The fight occurred near 8:00
o’clock last evening, following a
day and night spent by Ericson
and Canyak alternately uptown
and at Ericson’s cabin. During
this time both showed the ef
fects of liquor and Canyak ap
peared to be in a quarrelsome
mood.
According to the police anoth
er Indian passing the cabin and
hearing the noise of battle, look
ed in and saw Canyak wielding a
stove poker on Ericson’s head. The
visitor immediately notified the
town marshal, Fred Keilcheski,
who placed Canyak under ar
rest and had Ericson removed to
the hospital.
Due to loss of blood flowing
from many wounds about the
head and neck, Ericson was all
but dead, but was somewhat re
vived under treatment.
At a late hour last night it was
reported that the victim of the
affray was hovering between life
and death, his pulse being hardly
active.
For many years Ericson lived
: in the Cache Creek placer district,
j where he alternately trapped and
worked for outfits operating on
! the creek. He has long been known
as addicted to liquor.
Since taking up his residence in
j Seward last summer Ericson has
: repeatedly been seen consorting
! with native boys while in his
cups and of late has been chum
ming around with Bill Canyak.
He has been arrested and fined
j several times within the past year
| for being intoxicated.
It is believed that Ericson and
| Canyak, following their carousal
last night, when they were asked
to leave the Merchants’ Grill,
went to Ericson’s cabin, where
they continued to drink.
Just what caused the fight has
not been learned, but it is be
lieved to have been the result of
Canyak’s inflamed mind under
stress of too much liquor.
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'ATHLETE MAKES ONE
| LAST HIGH JHMP
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| NEW YORK, Dec. 29—Malcolm
I Whitman, former amateeur tennis
champion and member of the ori
ginal Davis cup team in 1900,
committed suicide, police an
nounced, by leaping from the roof
of an 11-story building.
He was the former husband of
Jennie Crocker, San Francisc
heiress. His body fell to the yard
| at the rear of the building. He
had been ill for some time with
various ailments.
FAMILY FIGHT
ONEONTA, Ala., Dec., 29, —A
duel in which a father and son
. fatally shot each other in a re
mote section near here was re
ported to the sheriff’s office here.
Sheriff George McPherson said
■ the father, Charlie Plunkett, 55,
; shot his son John, 32, with a pis
tol and in turn was killed with a
charge from a shotgun.
Hard Times Masquerade Ball, New Year s Eve