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XXVII. NUMBER 23'
SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1931.
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TOKYO, Nov. 13. (/P)—'The Jap
anese military intelligence bureau
at Mukden reported that a large
force of Chinese cavalry had prac
I ileally enveloped the Japanese right
wing in a battle at the Japanese
wing in a battle at the Nonni River,
and the situation is admittedly
dangerous. The Japanese position
and communications were seriously
endangered.
The Japanese troops are as yet
anre-enforced, yet the report was
made by Russians, in Tientsin cir
cles, that the Communist brigade
of Chinese, Koreans and Kuriats
from Blagovaschensk were sur
prised when the Japanese troops
at the Nonni River threw them
%ack sharply and took several
planes. The Communists attacked
with sweeping machine gun fire
that demoralized the Japanese and
forced them to retreat several miles
behind the bridge head.
At Harbin, General Mali Chen
Shan, of the Chinese army, said
the Japanese attack was launched
on Chinese forces in the Tsitishar
* ,;rea before the expiration of the
Japanese commander’s demand;
that the city be evacuated by mid- j
night yesterday.
At Tientsin, the fighting contin
ued from early afternoon until
nightfall with heavy casualties on
^Dth sides.
China’s beleaguered former boy
emperor, Henry Puyi, is be
lieved to be enroute to Manchuria
after he had been hustled away
from Tientsin under a Japanese I
guard. It is reported that a plan j
is afoot to set him up as head of a j
pro-Japanese government at Muk- j
den. He had been a virtual pris- j
oner of the Japanese concession I
since 1924 when he escaped from j
the legation quarters of the “for- ;
bidden city” as a poor Chinaman.
PROHI LI m ELIS
0. S. IN COUNT TIGLE
BOSTON, Nov. 13. (/P)—Another
unfortunate situation appears to
face the United States government
os a result of the enforcement of
the prohibition law.
Captain James Bellman of the i
3ritish registered power boat So
phia charged his craft had been
"deliberately run down and sunk by
the Coast Guard patrol boat Har
riet Lane while 19 miles off the
oast. The charges were made pub
lic by the British Consulate in Bos
Boston, James Brannen, British vice
consul said.
Captain Bellman admitted he had
\ quor on board, but insisted he was
19 miles at sea and therefore not
within jurisdiction of the United
States Coast Guard boat wrhich
landed a crew on the Sophia. In
Boston, the Coast Guard reported
had run down the rum runner
Incidentally.
ECUADOR REVOLT
GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador, Nov. 13.
,JP)—The Province of El Oro and
the home of former President Lar
xea Alba is in revolt and a detach
ment of troops has been sent from
nere to put it down.
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NO SLASH rX PROHI ARMY
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 13.
(fP)—Present prospects indicate lit
tle, if any increase or decrease next
year in the Federal army of 2,000
prohibition agents. Every official
sign hints that the government will
not ask Congress for additional dry
agents. The same tokens dispel
possibilities of a clash in prohibi
tion bureau appropriations com-!
parable to the cut in Navy funs that
has lashed up a storm of protest.
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LHieilSSlN
OF JAPAN PISSED AWAY
ST HIS TOKYO HOME
TOKYO, Nov. 12. (/P> — Viscount
I Eiichi Shibusawa, Japan’s “Grand
j Old Man” of business, died here
j Wednesday.
Shibusawa was a founder and an
, uncrowned monarch of the Japan
j ese business empire. He enjoyed an
| influence and fame quite as great
.as minister of state. His career
was so closely interwoven with the
growth of modern Japan that his I
public life is in itself a history of the
economic and financial growth of
the country. The Japanese called
him the Nestor of their business
world.
He was 91 years old, born Feb
ruary 13, 1840, the son of an indigo
merchant, in a small village near
Tokyo. He received a thorough
education in Chinese classics in his
boyhood and later finished his ;
studies in Tokyo, while the coun
try was still under the Shogunate
regime.
Inspired with a patriotic zeal, he
went to Kioto, the then imperial
capital, where he entered the serv
ice of Lord Hitosubashi, an influ
ential branch of the Sho^unate
Tokugawa family. In 1867 he was
sent to France with one of the
Tokuwaga princes, but on the es
tablishment* of the Imperial gov
ernment in 1869, he was appointed
a high official in the finance de
partment holding the post of junior
vice-minister.
| In 1873, he left the government
on account of differences of opinion
I on the question of budget esti
I mates, never to return to the gov
j ernment service though he was of
! ten offered the portfolio of the
exchequer.
Soon after his retirement from
official life, Mr. Shibusawa estab
! Itshed the First National Bank, the
pioneer of national banks in Ja
pan, in 1873. Afterward he iden
tified himself with the commercial
and industrial progress of the em-1
pire and took the lead in almost all I
important business enterprises in
tended for the development and ex-1
pansion of the country.
He traveled widely in Europe and j
America. His first trip was in 1902!
for inspection of commercial and;
industrial progress in the Occident.1
In 1909, at the age of 70, he visited j
the United States as the head of j
the Japanese business delegation in '
response to the invitation of the
American Chambers of Commerce.
In the autumn of 1916 he revisited
the United States to study the com
mercial and industrial relations of
Japan and America and to investi
gate questions of a political nature
between the two countries.
It is probable that the fortune
he has left is the greatest ever ac
cumulated by any individual busi
ness man in Japan, through the ap
proximate sum of it is not known.
j NEW YORK, Nov. 13. UP)— The
Pan-American Airways received a
message early this week from one
of its pilots, flying over the Carib
bean Sea, that he had seen 10 men
| in a life boat and one on a life
I raft. He gave the approximate po
| sition of the men as 10.32 North,
| 76.52 West.
The message was from H. G.
Ormsby, pilot, who was on his way
with passengers and mail from
Cristobal to Miami. Tiie position
given is about half way between
Colon, Panama, and Barranquilla,
Colombia.
llfY CALIFMK DIED
BE “MUTE ULCOHOUSM”
SACRAMENTO, Nov. 12. (/P) —
Prohibition era liquor killed 100
Californians during the first six
months of the year, with indications
that the 1931 total will be ^close to
the 230 bootleg deaths of list year.
The 1930 spectacles of 230 lives
snuffed out by “acute alcoholism”
under prohibition, is officially at
tested by records of the State Board
of Health.
A search of State records of the
State disclosed that those 230 liquor
deaths compare with only 23 in
1908 and 25 in 1909, long before
prohibition. ;
COMMUNISTS CONVICTED
! ON TESTIMONY IF M. P.
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TORONTO, Out., Nov. 13. (/P)—
I Eight Communists were convicted
I for plotting against the govern
S ment on the testimony of Sergeant
John Leonard, Canadian Mounted
| policeman, who for seven years pre
[ tended to be one of them and sat
| in on their secret conferences where
I the plots to wreck the government
I were hatched.
Sergeant led a double life in or
der to “get his man.” j
■ Seven of the Communists were
j sentenced to five years and the
! eighth was given from one to two
! years.
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i LONDON, Nov. 13. (/P)—Twenty
i four men belonging to the Atlantic
; fleet were dismissed from the Roy
' al Navy as a sequel to the trouble
of last September when the Ad
miralty cut the pay of the Navy.
An official Admiralty statement
said the decision followed the “con
tinued conduct subversive of dis
cipline” on the part of the men
after the Atlantic fleet had re
turned to its home ports.
The Admiralty made it clear that
the dismissal of the 24 men was
not the outgrowth of a strike at
Invergordon, but resulted from the
subsequent attitude and actions of
those discharged. The decision was
taken after a thorough investiga
tion was indicated.
MICHIGAN FLOGGINGS
; PONTIAC, Mich., Nov. 13. (/?)-—
j The flogging of three men because
I they were suspected of being Com
munist sympathizers is said by au
torities probably to be the result
of an unemployment demonstration
in which more than a score of per
sons were arrested after a brush
with the police. One of the men
flogged said that he heard screams
from a woman who apparently also
was flogged.
IN FRIGHTFUL CiDITIl
WHEN RESCUED SI IS
BALBOA, C. Z., Nov. 13. The
mine sweeper Swan reported that
she had picked up the crew of the
wrecked schooner Baden Baden
with 11 living men and five dead
and Captain Wabli suffering badly
from an injured spine.
The Swan is proceeding to Coco'
Solo. The Baden Baden left Colum- i
bia on November 5 and wras enroute
to Cristobal. The vessel carried no
radio.
Rescue was brought to them when
an aviator sighted the wreckage
several days ago and upon his word
a number of ships were sent to
the area where the wreckage was
reported and the Swan finally lo
cated them. 11
TO TAKE UP ARMS
SEATTLE, Nov., 13, (/P)—Bitter
against the Japanese invasion
against their homeland, 30 Chin-,
ese students of the University of
Washington, prepared to leave
yesterday for their homeland to
take up arms for their country
.
SCREEN STAR WEDS
, LOS ANGELES, Nov. 12. (/P)—
Dorothy MacKaill, film actress and
star of “Gone Crazy,” and her fi
ance, Neil Albert Miller, Honolulu
sugar man and radio singer, eloped
to Yuma, Ariz. by airplane and
were married. The wedding dashed
hopes of Walter Byron, screen star,
and John McCormick, wealthy re
tired movie producer and divorced
husband of Colleen Moore, who have
been rumored suitors for Miss Mac
Kaill’s favor in past months.
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GRANT NEW DECREES
MADRID, Spain, Nov. 12. (A5)—A
cabinet decree, granting to civil
courts the sole right to judge mari
tal, divorce and nullifications ques
tions hitherto regulated by eccles
iastical law, was presented to the
Assembly. Several Catholic dep
uties are expected to protest
against the decree, but few obsta
cles are seen in the way of final
approval by the Assembly.
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BACK UP FIVE PRINCIPLES j
TOKYO, Nov. 13. (JP) — The ap
proaching date for the reconven
ing of the League of Nations Coun
cil seems only to be bringing the
Japanese War Department, the
Japanese Foreign Office and the
general staff closer in a firm stand
to back up the five principles laid
down by the foreign minister as
Japan’s last word toward the set
tlement of Manchurian difficulties.
CHICAGO, Nov., 13, (JP)—> Orders
poured into the Chicago wheat
pit from all over the country as
the public “ran away” with the
market and caused prices to ad
vance as much as two and three
fourth cents per bushel
Winnipeg and Liverpool also re
ported sharp rises in wheat and
other grains following the upward
trend.
A statement credited the Soviet
Ambassador to France that Russia
will sell no more wheat this year,
brought heavy buying orders to
all markets and profit taking by
those who bought wheat cheap
had little effect on the course of
prices.
James Stone, chairman of the
Federal Farm Board, admitted op -
erations within the grain trade
had been largely responsible for
the recent rise in wheat prices
but denied such dealings were the
result of an understanding be
tween operators and the Farm
Board. He also said he had not
beard that Arthur Cutten, Chica
go wheat dealer, was the moving
spirit behind the wheat purchas
ing.
nr RISE WORLD
MBS IILED AS
KEY TO RECOVERY
CHICAGO, Nov. 13. (JP)— The up
ward swing of wheat prices wTas
, watched with greatest interest by
Federal Farm. Board members who
saw in the advance of commodity
: prices signs that the “worst is over”
for business.
Neither James Stone, chairman
.of the board, nor C. Williams, an
other member, wrere willing to
: guess how far the current move
jment will go, but Mr. Stone said:
“We are very much encouraged by
the advance in wheat prices.”
Wheat started with another rise
in Chicago, Liverpool and London
markets but eased off later and
was generally little below Monday’s
closing levels when trading ended.
The decline in prices followed
the denial that Soviet Ambassador
V. E. Dovgalesky had stated that
Russia will export no more wheat
this year or next. At their best
prices in Chicago were more than
one cent above Monday’s close.
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HOP MADE 20 YEARS 000
| NEW YORK, Nov. 12. (/P)—Pilots
who guide aerial liners across the
continent on a 36-hour schedule
mused on the march of geography
and progress in the memory of Cal
braith P. Rodgers.
Just about 20 years ago he as
tounded the country by completing
the first trans-continental flight.
His time from Brooklyn to Pasa
dena was 49 days and everybody de
clared that It was grand.