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VOLUME XXVII. NUMBER 218.
SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1931.
PRICE TEN CENTS
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WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 21. (/P)
—The United States yesterday
joined Ifive European nations in
invoking the Kellogg-Briand anti
war pact upon the Sino-Japanese
dispute in Manchuria. Identical
notes were sent Japan and China
reminding them of their obliga
tions.
f Negotiations at Geneva lagged.
The Council of the League of Na
tions marked time while Washing
ton awaited Japanese acceptance
of, or rejection of, the Briand pro
posals for replacement of Japanese
soldiers in Manchuria by Chinese,
under the observation of League
representatives which were submit
ted to the Council, evidence of fev
. erish activity by Japanese military
* forces in Manchuria, in movnig in
troops and supplies and making
■heir positions stragetically secure.
v. S. LETS OTHER NATIONS LEAD
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 21. (A3)
—America yesterday called upon
Japan and China to remember their
solemn pledges against war. For
the second time in history, the
Washington government invoked
:he Kellogg-Briand pact of Paris
by which more than 50 nations
promised to settle their disputes
\y pacific means.
This time the U. S. was con
tent to let other nations take
the lead. It’s action in invoking
the pact was in compliance with a
request received from five European
countries which, on Saturday at
Geneva, agreed to mobilize world
public opinion to prevent war in
Manchuria.
^ NEXT MOVE UP TO JAPAN
GENEVA, Oct, 21. (A3)—The next
move in the negotiations to bring
-peace betwreen Japan and China in
Manchuria was up to the Japanese
last night. The Council of the
League of Nations awaited word
from the Japanese government on
Aristido Briand’s flexible peace
proposals, submitted in behalf of
the Council to Kenkichi Yoshi
zawa, Japan’s representative and
transmitted by him to Tokyo.
^ SEPARATE MANCHURIA-CHINA
SHANGHAI, Oct. 21. (A5)—Move
ments under Chinese, Mongolian
and- Manchurian sponsorship to
separate the vast area of Manchur
ia from the rest of China were re
ported yesterday, developing spon
taneously in various parts of the
three Eastern provinces.
A Exact information, however, still
was lacking. The few dispatches
reaching here were from Japanese
sources, since t£e Chinese no long
er control the Manchurian com
munications system.
MINORITY CONDEMNED
WASHINGTON, Oct. 21. (A>) —
The Democratic minority in Con
gress was condemned for failure
• to help constructive projects by
~ Robert Lucas, executive secretary
of the Republican National Com
mittee.
* BORE TUNNEL THRU GRANITE
SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. 21. (/P)—
To avoid two railroad crossings the
Utah highway department bored a
Stmnel 410 feet long through gran
ite. Construction cost of the short
strip of road was $83,000 a mile.
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COTTON MILLS REOPEN
MANCHESTER, Mass., Oct. 21.
(/P)—Two cotton mills here have re
sumed operation. One had been
closed down for four years.
CAPTAIN AND CM OF
ICE-LOCKED BAYGUIMO
BEACHED FOB WINTER
NOME, Oct. 21. (/P)—Seventeen
men, the captain and crew of the
Baychimo, face a long winter in a
house hastily constructed on the
beach near the place where the
vessel is ice-bound, and they will
spend the next eight or nine months
there.
i “We are surely glad to arrive in
: Nome,” H. G. Castle, of Winnipeg,
1 Canada, said, as he stepped from
a plane which brought him here.
1 Referring to Vic Ross and Hans
| Mirow, he said that “these pilots
j did great work over the hazardous
I flying country in the Arctic con
ditions.”
Six other passengers arrived here
yesterday and there are eight more
men at Kotzebue. Seven more pas
sengers are to be flowai from the
Baychimo. A load of furs will also
be taken off the ice-looked vessel.
Before leaving the Baychimo an
automobtfe drove down the coast
for 60 miles along the shore ice
from Point Barrow.
i
LEARNING ENGLISH
ABOARD ILLE DE FRANCE, Oct.
21. (/P)—Premier Laval is taking ad
vantage of every opportunity in or
der to further his knowledge of the
English language in order that he
may better understand the United
States. He has still not announced
as to what he will speak to Wash
j ington about but he has hinted that
! there will be no need to discuss a
spirited moratorium. He also has
added that he would be willing to
discuss a 50 per cent reduction of
all world debts.
ILLE DE FRANCE REPORTS
mm JEWEL ROBBERY
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j ABOARD ILLE DE FRANCE. Oct.
| 21. (/P) — A $50,000 jewel robbery
aboard the Ille de France over
shadows even the excitement caused
by the presence aboard of M. Laval,
Premier of France, who is enroute
to Washington.
Mrs. R. J. Anderton, of Rhode Is
land, reported the loss, saying that
she took off her jewels and put
them in an unlocked drawer of a
dresser in her room. She said that
she only left the room for a few
minutes but that when she came
back the gems were gone.
Officials of the vessel are to co
j operate with the New York police
in an atterppt -to apprehend the
thief when the liner docks.
ARMAMENT EXPENDITURES
GENEVA, Oct., 20, (/P)—'The |
League of Nations secretary pub
lished Germany’s statement on
armament’s expenditures in 1930,;
showing an outlay of $130,182,082 j
for land forces and $46,748,573 for!
Naval forces and nothing for air
forces.
ST. LOUIS ORCHIDS LEAD
ST. LOUIS, Oct. 21. m—The or
chid collection of the Misouri Bo
tanical Garden is believed the larg
est and most complete assembled
by a public institution.
PILOT HILL AND L.
MIL, FDD TRMER,
PURCHASE AIRPLANE
Another airplane has been added
to Alaska’s ever-increasing number
of commercial and private planes.
The new plane, a Stinson mono
plane, was flown to Seward from
Copper Center this morning with
Pilot W. H. Barnhill at the controls.
The new plane was recently pur
by L. McGee, well known fur buyer
of Anchorage and Pilot Barnhill.
The plane was shipped from the
States on the SS Alaska to Cordova
where it was assembled and pre
pared for flight.
Pilot Barnhill and Mr. McGee left
Cordova yesterday afternoon and
flew to Copper Center where they
remained overnight. Then they
ing this morning and arriving a
winged their way to Seward, start
few hours later.
L. McGee is a well known fur
buyer and is known throughout Al
aska. He will use the new plane in
connection with his services to
trappers and will soon be known as
the “Flying Fur Frader.”
Pilot Barnhill was formerly sta
tioned with the Pacific Interna
tional Airways at Anchorage and
has made ipany flights th Seward.
Should present plans materialize
and if suitable hangar facilities can
be provided in Seward, there is a
possibility that the plane will be
stationed here. The Seward Cham
ber of Commerce will probably take
the matter up at one of its next
meetings.
MAJOR DOOLITTLE SETS
ANOTHER 1 RECORD
MEXICO CITY, Oct. 21. (/Pj—Ma
jor Jimmy Doolittle is taking the
day off after he hung up a new
mark yesterday by flying from Ot
tawa, Canada, to Mexico City by
way of Washington in 12 hours and
36 minutes, linking the three Cap
itols.
Major Doolittle landed at the Val
Buena field at 3:16 p. m., Mountain
Standard Time. He left Ottawa at
4:40 Eastern Standard Time and
made stops at Washington and
Corpus Christi, Texas. He calculated
that his average speed was 204
miles an hour. He made 235 miles
an hour for some of the time and
toward the last he made 225 miles.
He made the flight from Tampico
in 54 minutes. The weather was
fine all the way of the flight.
KOTZEBUE MINER IS
ENIOOTE TO STATES
Mr. and Mrs. Archie Higgins were
Seward arrivals on the train last
evening from Anchorage and are
enroute to the States. Mr. Higgins
operates a gold dredge at Kotzebue
and is returning North next sea
son again.
Archie Higgins, accompanied by
six members of his crew, was flown
to Anchorage from the Kotzebue
district in a Pacific International
Airways plane, piloted by A1 Mun
son.
It is also said that the crew is
going Outside.
SAIL FOR U. S.
| PARIS, Oct. 21. (/P)—Ambassador
j and Mrs. Edge are leaving Paris
I today enroute to the United States
i for a short visit.
:«B0RN, HERNDON
WENT 1 IDE RED
NEW YORK, Oct. 21. (JP)— Clyde
Pangborn, of the Pangborn-Hern
don flight team which hopped the
Pacific from Samushiro to Wenat
chee, gueses he’ll go back to barn
storming. He said that he can
make a living at that, and that fly
ing around the world and braving
death in a dozen ways, beating a
path across the Pacific gets you
only a lot of trouble and strange
food, some experiences, plus a def
icit. \
Pangborn disclosed that Hern
| don’s and his adventure was “in the
| red.” The two fliers sank over
| $40,000 in the flight and are still a
I big sum short in making up after
| getting the $25,000 from the Jap
! anese.
But neither regrets the flight and
said that they wouldn’t forego the
experience for anything.
EDISON'S RUBBER TESTS
! WEST ORANGE, N. J., Oct. 21. (JP>
; —In a locked drawer of Edison’s
I desk in his home here there is a
! small piece of vulcanized rubber
which represents the successful
completion of one of his last ex
periments.
His long search for a formula for
making rubber out of the goldenrod
I plant was brought to him less than
i two months ago by Arthur Walsh.
I vice president of the Edison com
; pany, who said it pleased him
| greatly.
j Walsh indicated that Edison’s ex
| periments with synthetic rubber
j were not completed but he “did not
! doubt whether the rubber experi
! ments would be carried on. But
| this will all be determined later at
a conference which Charles Edison
is to hold with Henry Ford and
Firestone.”
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VAUDEVILLE ACTRESS TO
TRY TO REGAIN CHILD
i LOS ANGELES, Oct. 21. (IP)—A
isuit to regain custody of her two
| year-old son, adopted recently
I by Sezu K. Hayakawa, Japanese
I film actor, and his wife, Mrs. Tsuru
i Hayakawa, was filed by Miss Ruth
i Noble, former vaudeville actress,
who charged the actor with refus-:
ing her aid after the child was;
born.
She said she appeared in a
vaudeville act with Hayakawa be- i
fore he returned to Hollywood after J
an absence from the films. She
said the child was born in New York
City January 31, 1929, and the
name of Alexander Hayes was given
the child because it was born out
of wedlock.
ONE DOCTOR TO 800 PERSONS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 21. (IP)
—The country has more than 156,
000 physicians, says the Office of
of Education. This represents a
"doctor’' for every 800 inhabitants.
PHOTOGRAPH FOUND IN
MURDER TIM BEEN
IDENTIFIER IN SEATTLE
SEATTLE, Oct. 21. </P>— A photo
graph found in one of the trunks
in Los Angeles which was crammed
with the bodies of Hedvig Sam
uelson and Mrs. Leroi, was iden
tified as the picture of Sarah Eliz
abeth Hart, a nurse friend of the
women.
The Hartsook Studio identified
the picture as one taken here Sep
tember 10, 1919, and she gave her
address in care of a hospital at
Wrangell where Miss Samuelson
and Mrs. Leroi first met.
Mrs. Leroi worked for several
months in 1929 with Dr. R. C.
Baumgarten, a Seattle doctor. Mrs.
Leroi then went to Alaska.
Meanwhile, at Los Angeles, Mc
Kinnell told that the reports that
Mrs. Judd confessed to him that
she killed the women was later
questioned by the police and said
that “I misquoted. She is innocent.
She is not guilty of this.”
Hf CUTS lilt THAN
FIFTY MILLIONS FROM
1333 JXPENOITUBES
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 21. </P)
—With bold strokes cutting more
than 50 millions from its 1933 ex
penditures, the Navy has eliminated
its less important activities and
has sharply curtailed many that it
valued highly.
The famous Navy Band is sched
uled for oblivion; the frigate Con
stitution, newly refitted for a tri
umphal tour around the coast, will
be tied up again; more than 3,000
civilian employees will be laid off;
more than 4,000 sailors and marines
will be taken from the rolls.
These cuts were proposed in the
revised budget estimate submitted
to President Hoover by Secretary
Adams. The Boston and Charles
ton, S. C., navy yards will be closed
and so will the operating base at
New Orleans, the Naval Training
Station at Newport, R. I., and the
Naval Ammunition Depot at Lake
Denmark, N. J.
The Parris Island, S. C., Marine
Corps Training Station will go into
reduced commission status. Naval
reserve activities -will be sharply
reduced.
NAVY DEPARTMENT TO
BUILD ANOTHER AIRSHIP
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 21. (ff)
—The Navy yesterday splurged it
self on aircraft. It approved a
contract for building a sister ship
of the giant airship Akron.
It ordered 18 new planes and let
a contract for beginning work on
the airship hangar in California.
The new airship is to be built by
the Goodyear Zeppelin Corporation
within 15 months of the time the
Akron leaves the dock.
2,000,000 PHONES IN BRITAIN
LONDON, Oct. 21. yp) — Great
Britain’s two millionth telephone
was installed in Buckingham pal
ace. The instrument is finished
in old gold and bears a decorative
plate surmounted by a crown.