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VOLUME XXVIII. NUMBER 186.
SEWARD, ALASKA,
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10,1932.
PRICE TEN CENTS
REBELLION FLARES IN
FOUR SPANISH CITIES:
SEVEN PEOPLE KILLED
MADRID, Aug., 10, (/P)— Rebellion
flared in four Spanish cities re
sulting in seven deaths during an
attack, at dawn, on the building
housing the Premier and war of
fice.
Seville reports said that a rebel
force, under General San Jugo,
captured the communications
building, and an army detachment
is reported to have mutinied at the
Laline naval garrison at Gartage
na.
The cause of the mutiny is not
known, authorities differing as to
whether it was a monarchist coup
or a communist attack.
Communication with outlying
cities is impossible and Madrid is
worried.
The Madrid attack was repulsed
when the ministry of war square ;
was sprayed with machine gun j
bullets. Besides the seven killed,
a dozen were wounded. Ninety ar
rests have been made including sev
eral generals.
Owners of automobiles have bee^'.
asked to register them in order
they may be made available for
transportation of troops.
Newspapers have been forbidden j
to print news of the rebellion.
An extra cabinet meeting has j
been called.
ALBANY, Aug. 10.—The case of.
Mayor James Walker of New York,
Franklin D. Roosevelt presiding,
promised to draw a capacity house
Thursday.
The total of seat applications
from news correspondents inter-!
estecl parties and just plain ordi
naary citizens anxious to “see the
show” has already exceeded the,
capaacity of the executive chahbers. {
DES MOINES. IOWA. Aug- 10. —
farm leaders. The farmers are now
A farmers’ strike has been called by;
holding their products, partly in an
effort to raise prices, and as a ges
ture of protest against conditions in
the agricultural industry.
The strike order was decided
upon by the executive committee |
of the Farmers Holiday Association!
of Iowa, and is now in session.
KEATON NOW BACHELOR |
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 10. — Nat- j
alie Talmadge Keaton, one of the j
Talmadge sisters, was granted a!
divorce from Joseph Francis “Bus- j
ter" Keaton, the frozen-faced com
edian of the screen.
ACTIVITY CONTINUES-^
NEW YORK. Aug. 10. — Trans
actions on the New York stock ex
change crossed the 5,000,000 share,
mark for the first time in more!
than a year as the bull movement j
entered its second month with rises I
of from 1 to 6 points.
DEPUTY HUS WITNESSED
EXECUTIONS OF V MEN
McALESTER, Okla. Aug. 10. (JP)—
He doesn’t know wether it’s a record
or not, but Jim Wilkinson, deputy
United States marshal here, has
witnessed 27 executions
For years a federal officer here,
Wilkinson served during the time
when Isaac Parker was federal
judge at Fort Smith, Indian Terri
tory.
He recalls most vividly the execu
tion of Silian Lewis, an Indian at
Panola . In the excitement a piece
of black cloth, a marker, was pinned
on the right side of the Indian’s
breast when the bullet failed to kill
him a group of Indians did.
WATSON SAILS NORTH
SEATTLE, Aug., 10, (/P)—The SS
Admiral Watson, of the P. S. S. Co-,
sailed for Alaska at 10 a. m .today
with 29 passengers, 11 of which are
for Seward: Oliver Owra, H. I. Hunt,
Will A. Hunt, Jr., Reginald Hunt,
Mr. and Mrs. E- Simpson, Everett
Simpson, Jr., S. H. Miller, Ellsworth
Strong, Louise Slater, and one
steerage.
JAPANESE THREAT OF
MICE CAUSES FEAR
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10—Threat
of a Japanese advance into the
Peiping area is causing fear and
apprehension i n the diplomatic
circles of the ancient Chinese cap
ital, it was reliably reported in ad
vices reaching Washington.
Foreign diplomats in Peiping are
discussing the dangerous internat
ional situation that might result
should the Japanese Legation
guards there be ordered into ser
vice against the Chinese.
TELEGRAPH BREVITIES
WALKOUT ORDERED
SEATTLE, Aug., 10, —The build-1
ing trades union council ordered
a general walk-out, on Tuesday, as
the result of differences between
iron workers and carpenters.
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JIM THORPE INJURED
HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Aug., 10, —
Jim Thorpe, famous Indian ath
lete and Olympic star of a couple
of decades ago, was badly bruised
when, while working in a movie
film, he was thrown from a horse.
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TRAFFIC TIED UP
NEW YORK, Aug., 10, —A punc
tured power cable in a local sub
way saused so much smoke that
at first it was believed a big fire
had started. Traffic was tied up for
four hours.
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AND SO TO WORK
SEATTLE, Aug., 10, —Eight hun
dred laundry women who recently
have been on strike, went back to
work Tuesday.
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KILLED IN AUTO CRASH
SAN DIEGO, Calif.. Aug., 10, — i
Mrs. W. P. Daugherty, noted socie
ty matron, was instantly killed
Tuesday in an automobile accident.
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DEATH PENALTY
BERLIN. Aug.. 10. —President von
Hindenburg, on Tuesday, signed
the emergency death penalty de
gree which is directed at unruly
political parties whom have caused
a reign of terror throughout the1
nation for weeks past.
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TRANS-ATLANTIC HOP
LONDON, Aug., 10, —It appears
that a flight of somewhat a differ
ent nature will be attempted this
week when a local aviator hops off
from here for New York City. Near
ly all trans-Atlantic attempts so
far have been started in the United
States. The flyer who will make
the attempt was in Dublin with his
plane Tuesday and it was expected
that he would arrive and take off
Thursday.
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TEMPERATURE EXTREMES
SEATTLE, Aug., 10, —Some of
the temperature extremes recorded
for Tuesday were: Seattle 64-54,
Chicago 74-64, Los Angeies 76-60,
New Orleans 88-76, New York 86-70,
Portland 66-58, San Francisco 74
56, Juneau 68-54, Ketchikan 68-54.
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OUTLAWS SACK CITY
MEXICO CITY, Aug., 10, —A
band of outlaws swooped down on
a small city in Vera Cruz state on
Tuesday and killed the mayor, af
ter which they looted the town.
Federal troops were called out to
drive the outlaws out of the village.
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BALLOON RESCUE
TUCSON, Ariz., Aug., 10, —A bal
loon has been requisitioned from
the government to aid in bringing
an injured aviator from a canyon
too deep for a pack-horse to nego
tiate, or for men to carry him out.
Archie Grout is the aviator; he
has been lying in the canyon fori
two days
Story of Umnakus
The Sun Child
By e. p. s
EPISODE III
(Continued)
| One sunny morning- Nackolus
paddled away from shore and set
his sail so that the wind pushed
him rapidly towards the great is
land. Suddenly a great fish many
fathoms long emerged from the
water, so close to the raft that it
nearly threw Nackolus into the
water.
Nackolus grasped his mighty
spear and hurled it into the side
of the great fish which instantly
swung its great tail about and
rushed through the water, already
becoming red from the blood
streaming from the spear thrust.
Nackolus held onto the thong and
his raft was pulled rapidly toward
the other shore. Suddenly the great
fish turned over on its side and
rolled about lashing the water with
its mighty tail. Then it sank out of
sight and with it went the mighty
spear and the seal-hide thong.
Nackolus seized his paddle and
helped the sail move the raft to
ward the land of the big island
which appeared green with long
grass. Suddenly, the raft was rais
ed high in the air and Nackolus
slipped off and grasped a pole
which he recognized as the.handle
of his mighty spear protruding
from the side of the great fish. He!
was riding on the great fish which
was dead and floating toward the
big island.
They sooned reached shallow
| water and Nackolus twisted loose \
the mighty spear and sliding into j
the water waded to the shore. Soon j
he perceived his raft farther down j
the beach and he ran to save the [
chest of food. A shower of rocks1
fell about him and Nackolus
glimpsed in the tall grass above
him several small brown people
dressed in skins and feathers.
Nackolus brandished his mighty
spear and darted up the steep bank!
toward the natives who instantly
disappeared. He soon came upon a
group of mud-grass cave-huts and
glimpsed a furtive eye here and
there. He must impress upon these
people that he was their friend and
craved companionship.
A shrill call issued from one
cave-hut and was taken up by
another until every cave-hut was
doing its best to add unto the din.
Suddenly the natives began crawl
ing out of the huts and formed a
circle about Nackolus. They carried
no type of weapon and gazed in ’
fear and worship at the mighty'
stature of Nackolus, the swimmer.
Many times they circled about him
and then led him to a large pit
left him standing in the center.
Nackolus instantly perceived that
they stood in awe of his mighty j
strength and great spear and so he I
began a long oration gesticulaitng
freely with hands and feet. He ex
plained that he was the son of a
Great King in Cathay across Tung
hai and that he had come to find
the home of the Sun God. He told
them that he was their friend and
desired their companionship. He
pointed to the great fish lying on
the shore and showed them how
he had killed it with his great
spear. Suddenly an old man moved
to Nackolus, bowed down and plac
ed his head against Nackolus’s foot
signifying that the mighty swim
mer was his master. One by one
they followed, until all but one had
signified his serfdom. This one,
Nackolus perceived wore a suit of
feathers of bright colors and drew
away to a cave-hut which was
much larger and had an outer en
trance of great bones of a polished
whiteness.
Nackolus looked at her, askanse,
but followed the beckonings of the
older men who led him to a bury
ing ground and showed him a re
cent corpse wrapped in skins and
sea-weed. Nackolus saw many such
wrappings but this one, he noted,
wore finer skins and the sea-weed
was woven in a form of matting.
He finally concluded that their
chief had died; that the bright
feathered girl was the ex-chief’s
daughter; that he, Nackolus, had
been elected their new chief; and,
that they now waited for his move.
Nackolus saw the Sun God slowly
sinking to his rest and waited no
longer. He uttered a mighty shout
and rushed to the beach followed
by his natives. He dragged his raft
upon the shore and then wading
out to the great fish began cutting
off thr mighty muscles that had
worked the great tail. His mighty
knife-headed spear quickly bit into
the great fish and the natives car
ried the rich meat to shore.
And now as darkness came on
the natives sneaked back into their
cave huts. Nacholus searched for
his chest of meal-cakes and finally
climbed up to the cave-huts where
he was escorted to the ex-chief’s
home. He crawled through the nar
row opening and entered. Inside
he found a great matting bed filled
with feathers and several large
skin covers with heavy fur which
he recognized, in the faint light, as
valuable sea otter worn by nobles
at his father’s court.
Nackolus sunk down upon the
bed for he was very weary. Appar
ently he had dozed because he
heard a voice which startled him.
It was musical and wistful and he
turned to stare into the smiling
face of the ex-chief’s daughter.
She sipped lightly and held out to
him a skin gourd from which he
drank a cool beverage evidently
made from berries. Then she pulled
aside some moss and exposed his
chest of meal cakes from which she
extracted a cake and held it out to
! Nackolus. The mighty swimmer ex
I perienced a new thrill as his huge
I palm closed over the shapely hand
of the maiden. He broke the meal
cake and offered her half.
Her actions for the next period
of time led Nackolus to believe that
he had, indeed, carried out a part
of a pre-arranged ceremony. He
now noticed many witnesses and
soon the doorway was covered with
matting and Nackolus found him
self alone with the girl who had
evidently passed through a cere
mony which made her his mate.
“What is thy name, sweet maid
en?” asked Nackolus to the new re
lative snuggling up to his side.
“Um,” she murmured, “Um.”
“A truly fitting name,” quoth
Nackolus. ‘In far away Cathay, Um,
stands for sweetness, and thy lips
are proof of thy name.”
(Episode 4 will follow)
WILL PROTEST
TOKYO, Aug., 10, —It is intimat
ed here that the Japanese are pre
paring to make a protest against
the speech made Monday by Secre
tary of State Stimson with refer
ence to the effectiveness of the Kel
logg peace pact and the Paris pact
in bringing about a halt to the
Japanese military activities in
Manchuria. The Japanese have
asked for a detailed report of the
speech.
CONTINUE ART STUDIES
PARIS, Aug., 10, —Mrs. Helen
Wills Moody, ranking woman ten
nis player of the world, will re
main in Paris for an indefinite
period studying painting. Mr. Moo
dy is with her.
GENERAL EDGAR PASSES
PARIS, Aug., 10, —General Ed
gar, American sugar magnate, 60,
years of age, died Tuesday in this
city.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
New York 5, St. Louis 3.
Detroit 5-9, Boston 2-7.
Washington 4, Cleveland 2.
Other games, rain.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Chicago 4, New York 3.
Cincinnati 9, Brooklyn 8.
St. Louis 18, Phillies 13.
Boston 4, Pittsburgh 0.
PACIFIC COAST
Los Angeles 5, Oakland 2.
San Francisco 23, Portland 1
Seattle 3, Hollywood 1.
Missions 2, Sacs 1.
I
G. JOHNSON NAMED JUDGE
CHICAGO, Aug., 10, (/P)—George
Johnson, who was instrumental in
putting A1 Capone behind the bars,
was named by President Hoover as
Federal District Judge for northern
Illinois. The appointment is inter
preted as a reward for his record
in sending gangsters and politi
cians to prison for income tax eva
sions.
ALASKA ITEMS OF
INTEREST AT THE
NATION'S CAPITAL
“Polar year,” a 12-month period
for study of the Arctic and Ant
arctic, with 50 expeditions partici
pating, sponsored by most of the
leading nations, will begin August
1. An appropriation has been made
by Congress for participation byi
the United States, and a station
will be erected at Fairbanks, which
will be in charge of a young sci
entist, a son of Representative
Royal C. Johnson, of South Dakota,
who is now on his way to interior
Alaska. Twenty-eight nations plan
to take part in the program, under
the auspices of the International
Polar Year Commission. American
members of the commission are
Capt. N. H. Heck, of the United
States Coast and Geodetic Survey,
and Dr. John Fleming, director of
the department of terrestrial mag
netism, Carnegie Institution.
All expeditions will follow the
same program, use the same in
struments and at the conclusion of
the year, compare results. They
will study magnetic forces and
weather near the poles which af
fect the temperate zone.
Mildred Hansen, of Ketchikan,
was in Washington last week solic
iting subscriptions, largely from
members of Congress, for various
magazines in the effort to win the
$1,000 first prize offered by the Per
iodical Service Co., for teh one
having the largest number of points
when the contest ends September 1.
The post office at Haines and
Bethel have been advanced from
the fourth to the third ciass. As a
come presidential appointments,
consequence these offices will be
At present Mrs- Nellie Berry is the
postmistress at Haines and Claude
M. Link presides over the office at
Bethel.
The other day a resident of Alas- ■
ka who had come to Washington
with the soldier boys informed the
Delegate’s office that if he could j
receive a letter indicating that he
had been working in Alaska that
he could receive transportation to
Seattle and possibly from there to
Alaska on a government boat. Of
course he received the letter and
the next morning a squad of sol
diers was awaiting the opening of
the Delegate’s office to make re
quest for similar letters, as they
wanted to go to Alaska. Inquiry
brought out the fact that they
were all from Illinois and the Mid
dle West and had never been to
Alaska, so they had to be disap
pointed in not receiving letters!
that might have resulted in their I
going to the far North in search of
work.
That Senator Howell is not the
stumbling block to the granting of
appropriations to the Alaska Rail
road was made evident in the Sen
ate on July 15, when Senator King
of Utah added a criticism of the
railroad with the following state
ment: “I give notice to the com
mittee, and to my able friend
(Senator Howell), that I shall op
pose any further appropriation for
the Alaska Railroad, and I shall
offer a bill if no one else does, and
at the December session of the Con
gress, calling for the sale of this
railroad.”
Alaskan gold production in the
first six months of this year was
$2,635,131, a slight decrease from
shipments for the same period of
1931, according to a radiogram re
ceived in the Commerce Depart
R. E. LANG NAMED
HEAD OF REORGANIZED
SEATTLE FUR EXCHANGE
SEATTLE, Aug., 10, UP)—R. E.
Lang, president of the National
Grocery Co., of Seattle, was named
president of the reorganized Seat
tle Fur Exchange.
L. H. Black, of the Black Manu
facturing Co., is vice president.
President Lang announced that
ample new capital has been put in
to the exchange to pay every ship
per’s claim at once.
Henry Wagner has been named
general manager.
President Lang said that Mr.
Wagner is one of the outstanding
fur merchants in the world.
Mike Vederer is the new sales
manager and was in the auctioneer
business.
The Seattle Fur Exchange head
quarters will remain here, Lang
declared, and every protection will
henceforth be given to fur ship
pers.
MILLS CHARGED MISUSE
P. 0. FRANKING PRIVILEGE
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.—Misuse
of postal franking privelege was
charged against Secretary of Treas
ury Mills, by Jno. F. Costello, Demo
cratic national committeman of the
District of Columbia.
He declared Mills was using mails
to send out copies of his political
sne^ches, +he copies being mailed in
official treasury department sta
tionery.
SEN. BARKLEY WON
LOUISVILLE, Ky„ Aug., 10, (/Pi
United States Senator Alben Bark
ley won a sweeping victory for the
Democratic renomination. Four
fifths of the precincts counted the
Senator leading former Senator G.
Martin by 61,000 votes.
SWEDISH INCOMES SHRINK
STOCKHOLM. Aug. 10, (TP)—The
Kreuger crash and shrinkage of
private fortunes have decreased
Swedish income tax returns b y
$325,000. Only crowns ($260,000)
was reported, it coming from Mar
cus Wallenberg, banker.
WILL BE RECALLED
MIAMI Fla. Aug. 10, —Mrs Jessie
M Keith Miller, aviatrix, whose
dual love ended inthe shooting of
her fiancee Haden Clarke in the
strange Miami household where
she lived with two men, will be re
called to the witness stand in the
trial of Captain William Lancaster
British flyer.
HOPES TO FIND REST
GOTHENBURG, SWEDEN, Aug.
10, —Greta Garbo returned to her
native Sweden in triumph to be
greeted by 10,000 people. “ I am not
returning to the United States in
the near future,” she told the press.
“I hope to rest and find quiet some
where in Sweden.”
ment. Beach mining at Nome,
which produced several million dol
lars worth of gold in the gold rush
of 1898, is being revived, and altho
no big pay has been reported,
miners are said to be making from
$4 to $5 a day with hand rockers.
Inquiries have come from Alas
ka seeking information as to how
the home loan bank bill would ap
ply to the Territory. While the
House bill passed some days ago
the Senate wrestled with various
phases of the bill and an agree
ment on the bill had not been
reached until shortly before final
adjournment of Congress, and
copies of the perfected bill are not
yet available, but will be mailed to
the newspapers of Alaska within a
few days.
The total income tax received
from the State of Washington, in
cluding Alaska, for the fiscal year
ending June 30, 1932, was $5,487,
197. No separate figures are given
for Alaska.