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VOLUME XXVII. NUMBER 270. SEWARD, ALASKA,WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1031. PRICE TEN CENTS
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BEFORE TIE RECESS
SENATE VOTES DOWN ITS OWN
AMENDMENTS; ACCEPTS
HOUSE PROVISION
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 23.
UP)—The Senate Tuesday night ap
proved a cne-year international
debt moratorium as passed by the
House a few days ago. The meas
ure was ratified without a change
from that presented by the House
and thus formal Congressional ap
proval of the debt holiday was com
pleted.
The Senate accepted the House
provision banning a further revis
ion of war debts or that there be a
cancellation of the war debts with
out even discussing it.
Several amendments to the mora
torium measure, as passed by the
House, were proposed from the Sen
ate floor but they were voted down
in rapid order to the final roll call.
Chief among the amendments pro
posed from the floor was the
amendment that the Versailles
Treaty be changed but this was
also voted down. Had not these
amendments been voted down and
had the Senate adopted the meas
ure with amendments of their own
it would have been necessary to
send the moratorium measure back
to the House for their approval of
the Senate measures.
The voting down of all proposed
amendments did away with the de
lay and the only formal detail re
maining tvas the securing of the
President’s signature to the meas
ure
SIX-YERR-BLD GIRL
TERRORIZED; KILLED
B! HER ABDUCTORS
CINCINNATI, Dec. 23. {&)—The
body of Marian McLean, six years,
who was kidnapped last Thursday,
was found in the basement of her
home by a fireman who was taken
off his regular duty to hunt for her.
No trace was left of the victim’s ab
ductors.
Police did everything in their
power to prevent mob violence in
the apprehension of the girl’s kid
napping slayer or slayers. Several
suspects are being held and the
killing is thought to be the work
of a maniac.
The girl’s father at the time of
ihe kidnapping and kihing was in
Phoenix, looking for work and was
unable to leave for Cincinnati im
mediately. However, friends, on
learning his plight, arranged for
airplane transportation for him
and he was to leave Phoenix this
morning for Cincinnati to aid in a
search for the slayers.
Little Marian was last seen
Thursday afternoon, happily play
ing with a dog; a little later she
was seen walking down a street
with a man described as “foreign
looking.”
The girl’s death apparently end
ed a five-day terrorism for her as
she had been dead only about 24
hours when the body was found.
MRS. PINCHOT TO RUN
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 23. (P)—
Mrs. Pinchot, wife of Governor
Pinchot of Pennsylvania, has an
nounced it is her decision to be a
candidate for Congress and will run
against Representative McFadden,
who has been assailing President
Hoover's administrative integrity.
FATHER FLANAGAN
DISLIKES GOVERNOR
HARTLEY'S ATTITUDE
ANWERS GOVERNORS CHARGE
| ' THAT MOTIVES WERE TO
SECURE PUBLICITY
OMAHA, Neb.. Dec. 23. (P)—Fa
; ther Flanagan, oi the Omaha Boys’
School, Monday night issued a
statement answering Gov. Hart
ley’s charge that he sought in his
request that young Herbert Nicolls
be paroled and placed in his cus
tody, as a means of gaining pub
licity for his home.
, “Governor Hartley was within
I his province as chief executive of
i Washington State when he denied
, my parole but when he deplored
my efforts and cast insinuations as
to my sincere motive in trying to
obtain the boy’s release he stepped
into the gutter of ward politics.
“I bitterly resent the accusations
made that my purpose was to ob
tain publicity for myself and my
home. My home doesn’t need pub
licity. I am surprised at the attack
on me and it sounds like the politi
cal mutterings of a whipped politi
cal boss.”
Father Flanagan was disappoint
ed at the governor's denial as he
believed that the boy could be re
habilitated to sodiety if he was
given a proper chance.
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OPPOSED LONG HOLIDAY
! WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 23.
i (P)—Senator Wm. Borah made
| known in the Senate yesterday that
he was opposed to the hoiday re
cess from December 23 to January
4, saying that it v;as too long. Borah
was in favor of having Congress
reconvene on December 28. How
ever, it appears that he did not
have many supporters.
TACOMA WHO JIB!
RETURNS TRUE BILLS
TACOMA, Dec. 23. (JP)—A special
Christmas grand jury returned
among its 25 true bills, three bills
which it is believed involves sev
j eral Seattle residents in a liquor
! conspiracy case.
In the 25 bills returned was an
open indictment of 34 persons of
whom four residents of Tacoma
were named.
No true bills were returned in 20
cases and involving 25 persons, all
for national dry law violations.
OUT OF HOSPITAL
| NEW YORK, Dec. 22. (/P)—Win
j ston Churchill,, English statesman
who was run down by an automo
bile, sustaining injuries, was dis
charged from the hospital yester
day. His head was swathed in ban
dage when he was discharged.
WILL SPEND CHRISTMAS ©AY
WITH NELLIE NEAL AT
LA WING
Mrs. E. M. Biddle, wife of one
of Philadelphia’s leading attorneys
whose family name is linked with
the pioneers of Pennsylvania, lit
terally stepped from her state
room aboard the Admiral Evans
into the heart of Alaska.
Mrs. Biddle is enroute to the
Porcupine River country, where
I she will write a book which, judged
| from her expressed sentiments
i might be titled “The Realities of
j Life.”
It is in Alaska Mrs. Biddle ex
pects to find material in support
of her perspective.
Mrs. Biddle’s induction into the
big Alaskan family came via Mrs.
Mannie Senft, who hooked up
Manny’s dogs to his sled and gave
Mrs. Biddle her first dogsled ride
and thereby supplied material for
the observation by Mrs. Biddle
upon the happy, purposeful, free
and natural lives of Alaska’s wom
en. ~ i
Mrs. Biddle does not come seek
ing grotesque or heroic charac
ters. She comes to gaii\ a perspec
tive in comparison with that of
those of her own sex condemned
to the shackles of a too Inane and
purposeless life amidst the ner
vous tension of modern civiliza
tion.
Still in her twenties, the mother
j of two charming children, Mrs.
\ Biddle is the kind of woman who
would readily be adopted into the
! big Alaska family. Large brown
eyes, with just a touch of wistful
ness, set in harmony with well
modeled features crowned with
dark brown hair, with the added
charm of lack of affection, one
naturally gives her a setting of a
gracious hostess commanding the
salon of fashionable society, yet
| cannot escape the observation that
she is a throw-back to that long
line of ancestry who, like Alaskans,
conquered the Keystone State with
axe and gun.
This is revealed in her ready
adaptability from social pre-emi
nence to the natural unaffected
life of the frontier. To this she
does not demur.
“Just before I left home a mem
ber of my family begged me not
to come,” said Mrs. Biddle—“they
were sure I would die away up
here. I shall write immediately
and tell them that I have just be
gun to live.
“When you tell me there has not
been a bank failure, no business
crashes, no hunger It seems like
a dream. When I meet the natural
self-reliant women, so free, so hap
py, so purposeful, I begin to com
pute values in other terms than
gold. Money is not all happiness.
You have treasures here beyond
computation.”
“The reason for selecting Alaska
for my work,” continued Mrs. Bid
dle, “was because I wished to es
cape contact with the high-tension
world as we cloistered women of
the great cities see and feel it. One
has the opportunity for gradual
emergence from what may be com
pared to bedlam, through the re
current shadings to the fringe of
GOVERNMENT IN CHAOS
NANKING, Dec. 23. (/P)—’The en
tire national government of North
ern China Tuesday tendered in its
resignation as a unit, the resigna
tions including the President, his
cabinet and everything even to the
Chinese delegate to the League of
Nations, Alfred Sze.
FUSE BETTER Til
CHINESE 1 FIGHTING
OBSERVERS THINK CHINESE I
WILL WITHDRAW FROM
CHIN CHOW
TOKYO, Dec. 23. (/P)—The Jap-;
! anese army offensive continued I
Tuesday against all the Chinese j
forces in Manchuria with a result j
' that the Chinese “irregulars” were j
1 further scattered.
: Japanese casualties are said to
! number a score but the Chinese!
| fared less well and their casualties {
j run into the hundreds.
General Honjo, of the Japanese,
: has said that the Japanese offen
sive will be continued until all the
i Chinese are out of Manchuria.
Neutral observers Tuesday pre
dicted that it was their belief that
J the 25,000 Chinese at Chin Chow
| w’ould probably withdraw as it was
j almost certain that they could not
| withstand a forthcoming Japanese
| attack.
From Tientsin comes word that
a Japanese armed train attacked a
Chinese armored train at a place
between Yinkow and another small
station, and that fighting contin
ued, with a Japanese calvalry reg
iment attacking the Chinese train
! from the rear.
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FEAR ANOTHER PLOT
j SANTA MONICA, Dec. 22. (JP)—
Fearing that another plot wrould be
' made against the life of Marion
Davies, film actress, her home is
: being guarded while authorities are
; investigating the sending of a
Christmas package to her home
, containing smokeless powder and
120 small lead slugs.
tense life in the States, and final
ly into something which harkens
back to the New England States
and the Pilgrims, which is Alaska.
“I believe there is an urge for
swinging back toward the more
vital realities of life. I feel it and
believe many women do.”
‘‘Don’t be surprised if you are
icalled by your Christian name,”
she was warned.
‘‘That would be fine,” she en
thused. “It means a distinction,
not a number in the cosmic scheme.
I begin to grasp the meaning of
why men and women love fron
tier life. They are somebody, while
many of those in the great cities
must do something ridiculous, ro
| mantic or adventurous to gain dis
tinction.”
Mrs. Biddle will spend Christ
mas with Nellie Neil, return to Sew
ard to spend a few days before
journeying on to Nenana, where
she will be the guest of the Coon
eys. From there she will visit Fair
banks, finally halting within the
Arctic on the Porcupine River,
where as the guest of Mr. and Mrs.
Willoughby Mason, she will launch
upon her work. She expects to re
main until summer, and then re
turn to her home in Philadelphia.
IMS DELEGATION
WOMAN MAY BE INCLUDED IN
AMERICAN DELEGATION
TO GENEVA
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 23.
OP)—Ambassador Charles G. Dawes
will head the American delegation
to the Geneva Arms Conference in
February, President Hoover has an -
nounced. Another or other mem
bers of the delegation have not been
named but Senator Swanson of Vir
ginia has been linked with the arms
parley as a possible delegate.
It is also intimated that Presi
dent Hoover intends to have a wo
man be represented in the United
States delegation and mentioned
for the woman’s post is Judge
Florence E. Allen, of the U. S. Cir
cuit Court of Ohio.
Secretary of State Stimson be
lieves that the parley may last as
long as seven or eight months and
figures the expenses of the U. S.
delegation at about $35,000 a
month. He has called upon Con
gress to make an indefinite ap
propriation to defray the expenses
of the delegation for the while
they are at Geneva.
The arms parley delegates will
sail from Hoboken, N, J.f on Jan -
uary 20.
BAKER FOR PRESIDENT
MOVEMENT UNDERWAY
ev 01 sponsors
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 22.
(/P)—Activities to make former Sec
retary of War Newton D. Baker,
Democrat of Ohio, Democratic can
didate for President in the next
election have been carried to Demo
cratic leaders by Senator John
Buckley and Representative Byron
Harlan of Ohio. It is their inten
tion that the Democratic party
draft Baker for the candidacy.
These activities, however, do not
indicate that the movement has
the sanction of Baker, but there
has been much talk that the for
mer War Secretary is hte most log
ical man for the Democratic party
to back up as its Presidential nom
inee.
BLACK SEA VESSEL
KEELED OVER AND SINKS
ISTANBUL, Turkey, Dec. 23. (IP)
—Ten members of the passenger
train listing and the crew of an
unnamed Turkish boat were drown
ed in a heavy blizzard which struck
the Black Sea and the Sea of Ma
rora.
The Turkish boat was bringing in
passengers to Istanbul from other
Black Sea ports when it keeled over
in the heavy gale and sunk:.
A Greek ship grounded near
Smyrna but it is believed that this
ship can be saved.
Miss Marjory B. Major, of the
Eklutna Industrial School staffs ar
rived in Seward on last night’s
train.