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VOLUME XVI NUMBER 205.
SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1931. PRICE TEN CENTS
EIGHT SHIES IMIE
OF BELIEF Mi
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 3.
(jP)— The administration’s plan
lor unemployment relief received
the approval from eight State
governors as the national organ
ization selected leaders of Amer
ican industry to mobilize resources
and local communities to meet
the situation this coming winter.
The governors expressed confi
dence in States and cities to care
for local situations and pledged
their cooperation.
The primary purpose of Presi
dent Hoover’s and Chairman Gif
ford’s organization is to provide
relief and continuing activities
toward preventing distress, by in
creasing employment and keeping
those who support families on sal
ary rolls.
I
(Mil HWr IS in
HANDS MUTINEERS,
' OPPOSE* COT!
COQUIMBO, Sept. 3. (A3)—Six
lighting ships of the Chilean fleet '
are in the hands of mutinous
crews and their officers are being
held prisoners until the govern
ment agrees to cancel scheduled
reductions in pay.
A group of non-commissioned
officers are directing the fleet’s
activities in the harbor. From
the bridge of the flagship Latorre
was issued an ultimatum calling |
cn the government to abandon
salary cuts within 48 hours.
The mutiny began yesterday
when crews overpowered officers
and forced them to sign an ulti
matum which was forwarded to
Santiago.
PlMESCMEDl
MIDI; PILOTS JUMP
QUANTICO, Va., Sept. 3. (/P>—
Two more Marines joined the Cat
erpillar Club when they landed
safely in their parachutes after
their planes had collided at 1500
feet.
The Marines, Yieut. Sanderson
and Lieut. Brice, members of;
Fighting Squadron No. 9, were!
demonstrating a serpentine for
mation. Sanderson was slightly;
bruised in the face; Brice was
not hurt.
The plane fell, striking the cor
nice of a school house.
OPPOSITION TIDE IS i
TURNING, HONIED |
LONDON, Sept. 3. (&)—'The tide '
cl opposition against MacDonaldl
and his economy program is be- !
Leved by some newspapers turn- j
ing in his favor.
They noted increasing signs that'
many who followed the Premier j
with devotion for years past are!
experiencing heartburning over
the split in the Labor party and,
v hat has been described as die- j
tation by the trade unionism to
socialism.
EVANS SAILS FOR NORTH
SEATTLE, Sept. 3. (#>)—'The SS
Admiral Evans sailed at 10 o’clock
this morning carryir 11 passen
gers, of which the lv. .owing two
are booked through to Seward:
G. C. Peairs, Kenneth McCarty.
MOONEY AGAIN TRIES
HEM HIS FREEDOM
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 3. (/P) --
Mooney, labor leader serving a life
term, through his attorney, Ma
thew E. Brady, is seeking to have
set aside the life sentence given
him in the Prepardness Day bomb
ing of 1916, in which 10 persons
were killed and 40 injured.
In his suit, Mooney charges that
the trial was irregular and he as
serted that the judgement against
him was fraudulently conceived.
BUPN LARGE HINDU SHOP
CHITTAGONG, India, Sept. 3.
(&)—An infuriated Moslem mob
stormed, looted and burned a large
Hindu shop in reprisal for the
slaying of a police officer by a
Hindu youth. The police officer,
Khan Hahadur Ashanullah, was
shot as he congratulated a foot
ball team on winning a cup.
mic uramiNn
SHANGHAI, Sept. 3. (TP)—-Tragic
uncertainty still veils the extent ot
the flood disaster in Kiangsu pro
vince where eight miles of dikes
Along the grand canal collapsed
altogether.
An aerial survey led authorities
to believe that an earlier Chinese
estimate of deaths was vastly ex
aggerated, but nevertheless, it was
still feared that many hundreds
and perhaps thousands died in Ka
oyuoyu ond other nearby towns and
cities when dikes collapsed, while
in the villages and countryside even
greater tolls may be expected.
GOOD ADVERTISING
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 2. bP) —
Americans in Santiago, Chile, re
gard the new street cars purchased
in Philadelphia as the best public
daily advertisement of American
products in Santiago. The cars, the
latest model, are replacing others
of European manufacture. About
50 of them are in use.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Seattle 5, Oakland 13.
Hollywood 9, Los Angeles 4.
Missions 7, San Francisco 6.
Portland 4. Sacramento 3.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Detroit 7-4, St. Louis 3-5.
Boston 6, New York 7.
Clevelan d2-4, Chicago 3-4. The
second game was called in the sixth
inning on account of darkness.
Washington 5, Philadelphia 2.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Chicago 4-4, Cincinnati 7-8.
xVew York 9-3, Boston 2-1.
Only National League games.
THIRTY TIE HIPS
EMPLOYING IDO MEN
The tie-making industry in this
area has received great impedus
due to the new specifications re
cently made public by General
Manager Otto F. Ohlson, of the
Alaska Railroad, and, according
to Wm. Sherman, ranger in charge
of this area of the Chugach Na
tional Forest, business visitor in
the city today, at least 30 tie
camps, employing about 100 men,
will be busy throughout the com
ing months, beginning right now,
cutting and delivering approxi
mately 70,000 ties. These camps
will be more or less confined to
an area between Seward and In
dian.
B. F. Keinzelman, assistant re
gional forester in charge of forest
management in Alaska, and W.
J. McDonald, director who leaves
Isoon for his new station and head
| quarters at Ketchikan, will arrive
[in Seward Friday from Cordova
Ion the SS Yukon. Together with
Ranger Sherman, the officials will
! cruise timber and make a general
inspection which will require, prob
bably, at least two weeks.
i mobilize relief resources
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Sept. 3.
i (^P)—A committee of socially pow
jerful members of New York was
established to carry out the gov
ernment’s program of mobilizing
unemployment relief resources
through local funds. Meanwhile
the administration was shaping
its fiscal policy.
TROOPS PATHOL IDThO
COUNTIES, INCElfSM
BOISE, Idaho, Sept. 3. (JP)—
Troops armed with rifles instead
; of shovels, patrolled four Idaho
j counties to quell an outbreak of
| incendiarism in forests charged to
l the jobless.
Martial law in the area was
i declared by Governor Ben Rcss
I when National Guard and forest
| officials expressed fear that men
being rapidly released from pres
ent fires now coming under con
trol, would light other forests in
order to themselves employment.
SEVERE FAMINE NOW
FIRES CHINS PROVINCES
SHANGHAI, Sept. 2. (/P)—Be
cause of continued torrential rains,
the worst which China has ever
experienced for more than 50
years, there exists today a danger
so grave as to be almost a cer
tainty that a severe famine will
be experienced in the Yangtse
River provinces which are the
homes of 200,000,000 people.
The rice crop in Kiangsi, Kiang
and Anhui provinces is practically
a total loss and within the last
two weeks the price of rice in
Shanghai has increased by one
seventh, going from $14 to $10 per
measure of 133 pounds.
---
Inez Shumard is winner of the
season’s deep sea fishing cham
piopship for women at Long Beach
IDAHO FIGHTER DEFEATED
! SEATTLE, Sept. 3. (A5) — Winning
every round by a large margin
Don Fraser Shonane, Jr., welter
weight, defeated Mickey McCaf
ferty Pocatello of Idaho in the main
event of a boxing show here Wed
nesday night.
HOOVER WITHHOLDING
DECISION ON BUDGET
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 3.
(/P) _The day of reckoning on how
to balance next year’s govern
ment budget will await further ]
study of business conditions by
the administration which is con
fident that the next few months
will show a recovery and conse
quent increase in income tax re
ceipts.
President Hoover is withholding
his decision whether to recom
mend increase in taxes or resort
again to a bond issue to meet an
other prospective deficit.
BECAME DISCOURAGED
NEW YORK, Sept. 2. (ff) —Laura j
Ingalls, former actress, who has!
been preparing for a solo flight ac
ross the Atlantic, said she had just
about decided to abandon the whole
thing.
TTIillMSIjUt rlbllnt
EOT “COLO PELT”
—
LONDON, Sept. 2. (JP) — Labor
continued its warfare against the
new national government with an
| attack on J. H. “Jim” Thomas, Sec
retary in the cabinet and one of
most picturesque figures in British
politics.
The national union of railway
men, of which he has been an of
ficial for 35 years, demanded that
he resign from the three party gov
| ernment headed by Ramsay Mac
Donald and he responded by quit
ting as leader of the union, forfeit
ing a pension.
! ROBBERS ESCAPE WITH $52,000
| LOS ANGELES, Sept. 3. (A1)—
I Three robbers took over the af
fairs of a Security First National
Bank branch for four hours, but
relinquished their job after K. I.
Davis, bank manager, came down
to work and opened the vaults.
The robbers took $52,000 and es
caped.
THE STM J1KET
SEATTLE, Sept. 3. (/P)—Yester
day’s stock quotations:
Alaska Juneau .15%
American Can .91 %
Borden .58
Canada Dry .34
General Motors .357/8
International Nickle Can ..‘...12%
International Tel. & Tel.....27%
Kennecott Copper .16%
Radio .19%
Reynolds Tobacco (b) .48%
Richfield Oil . 1%
Standard Oil of Calif.40
Standard Oil of N. J.39%
Standard Oil of N. Y.No Sale
Union Oil of Calif.17%
U. S. Steel .86%
Cities Service .10%
Durant Motors . 1
Bancorporation .17
ULiSKK ESKIMOS IRE
NATURAL ACTORS, SAYS
DIRECTOR E. SCOTT
FAIRBANKS, Sept. 3, (JP) —Es
kimo in the Alaska Arctic are “nat
ural actors,” in the opinion of Ew
ing Scott, director, who headed
for the States with an all native
cast feature film and polar bears,
and walrus which will also play
parts in a total of 85,000 feet of film
taken during a period of six months
at Point Hope, Wainwright and
Point Barrow by Scott and a camera
Point Barrow by Scott and a cam
eraman.
They took a plane for Valdez to
catch the SS. Aleutian for Seattle.
Three Nome Eskimos, it is said,
will later make personal appear
ances with the films.
EEN. WM. LASSITER
RELIEVED COMMAND:
HE RETIRE SOON
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 3.
(&)—The War Department ordered
Genera! William Lassiter relieved
from command of the Hawaiian
Department September 15, prepar
atory to his retirement.
General Lassiter was born at
Petersburg, Va., September 29,
1867. His retirement is effective
October 1. An expert on artillery
General Lassiter was awarded the
Distinguished Service Medal by
the United States for his services
during the World War and was
also decorated by Great Britain
and France.
He will be succeeded in the
Hawaiian Department by Major
General Briant H. Wells, who is
already stationed in Hawaii.
SING DUCKS UNO
STICK II, S. PEOPLE
KETCHIKAN, Sept. 3. (/P)—Sav
ing ducks and starving people,
was the way Frederick Gardner,
wartime Governor of Missouri,
haracterized the Presidential proc
lamation prohibiting duck hunt
ing for one month.
Gardner and two sons and Walter
Smith and his son arrived here
from St. Louis via Prince Rupert
aboard a private yacht.
POPE li MUSSOLINI
REICH IN IGREEMENT
ROME, Sept. 3. (/P)—A final ac
cord was reached by the Pope
and Mussolini in their bitter three
months controversey over Cath
olic action clubs, clarifying condi
tions between the Lateran treaty
and the concordant.
The Pope's youth organization
will be allowed to resume activities
but are restricted purely to relig
ious endeavors with no sports,
athletics and no intrusion on syn
dical or trade union fields.
Ali Mehmed of Chicago, arrested
for beheading his wife, said she
asked him to do it “as a favor.”