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VOLUME XXVII. NUMBER 264. SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1931. PRICE TEN CENTS
CHINA AP VRENTLY HAS BEST
DEFENSIVE POSITION OF
WO FORCES
MUKDEN, Dec. 16. {/P)—Fighting
between Japanese troops and Chin
ese Irregulars continued today in
an area east of Tishling. Two
hundred Japanese soldiers are be
sieging about 700 Chinese who are
inside the village of Mahiatsai. The
Japanese are using machine guns
but the Chinese are able to resist
the assault of the soldiers because
of the strong mudwalls they are
behind and the loop-holed block
houses.
The Japanese had no artillery
and were unable to make any real
damage against the heavy mud
walls with their machine gun fire.
The Japanese soldiers who were
besieging the city were forced to
face the gunfire from the Chinese
on the bleak plain outside of the
eity, which has been entirely de
nuded of crops. The ground was
frozen and did not permit the Jap
anese to throw up any kind of
trenches and as a result they were
directly exposed to the rifle fire and
many were wounded.
PHIIMM WOMAN
COMING TO ALASKA TO
SEATTLE, Dec. 16. Id5)—Mrs. Ed
ward M. Biddle, prominent Phila
delphia society woman, left on the
SS Admiral Evans from Seattle
1 yesterday enroute to Seward from'
whence she will embark on a six- j
month trip to study the customs'
and living conditions of native |
women in Interior Central Alaska]
and to gather material for a novel
k she is to write.
Mi-s. Biddle borrowed the money
to make the trip and expects to
pay it back with the receipts she
secures from the sales of her novel.
Mrs. Biddle is said to be from;
one of the wealthiest families of
Pennsylvania and In explaining
the borrowing of the money for
the trip, she said that she and her
husband had decided that it would >
be more of an adventure if she ar
ranged the financing of the trip
herself. She leaves three children
in Philadelphia who will not see
her until she returns after the com
pletion of her visit to Alaska.
From Seward, Mrs. Biddle will
^take the train to the Interior and
from the railroad she will go to
out of way places by dog teams, ac
cording to present plans. Vilsjal
mur Stefansson assisted Mrs. Bid
dle in her preparations for the trip.
± SEASON CLOSES
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 16. (/?)—The
hunting season on game birds closed
in the State of California yester
day.
ACTRESS ILL
SANTA MONICA, Calif., Dec. 16.
(£»)—Pola Negri, Polish film ac
tress, was rushed from Hollywood
to the Santa Monica hospital yes
terday in quite a serious condition.
The Polish actress is suffering from
abdominal pains.
NEW FEDERATED STATE OF
MANCHURIA IS BEING
FORMED
MUKDEN, Dec. 16. (/P)—The Sun
flag of China, the emblem of fealty
to the Chinese Nationalist party,
and which flag was once hoisted
over Manchuria by Marshal Chang
Hsue Liang as a token of Man
churian loyalty to the Nanking
government has practically disap
peared in Manchurian Territory.
Following in the wake of the dis
appearance of the Chinese Sun
flag is the Rising Sun emblem of
Japan.
The Rising Sun flag now flies
atop most of the large cities and
the only large city where the Chin- j
ese flag can be seen is Harbin where
it is being flown in conjunction
with the red flag of the Soviets,
forming the emblem of the Chinese
Eastern Railroad.
The formation of a new Manchu
rian federated state under Japan-j
ese supervision with General Tsang j
Shih Yi, who until last Monday j
was virtually a prisoner of the
Japanese, as the probable head of
the new federation, was reported
to be underway.
General Tsang Shih Yi was quiet
ly installed as the head of the Muk
den provincial government in place
of Yuan Chinkai.
USKli I PERMITTED
TWO E.O.P. CONVENTION
OEMS INSTESD ONE
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WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 16.
(/P)—The Republican National con-,
vention will be held in Chicago!
and will start June 14. Chicago is j
also bidding for the Democratic j
convention. The Republicans have
decided to increase the number of
delegates to the convention from
1089 to 1154, and the new number
will be apportioned on the basis of
representation in Congress for 1932.
The Southern States and Cali
fornia will get most of the in
creases. Alaska will be given two
delegates to Washington instead of
one as previously. Washington will
be given 19, or an increase of two,
and California will be given 47 or
an increase of 18.
CHICAGO, Dec. 16. </P) — Peter
Carey, head of the grain commis
sion firm bearing his name, has
been nominated for president of
the Chicago Board of Trade. The
nomination 1s tantamount to elec
tion since there are no opponents.
The election will be held January 4.
SEWARD HOSPITAL DISPOSAL
Gauged by ail the circumstances surrounding the
birth and operation of the Seward General Hospital it is
apparent that the City Council has arrived at a reasona
bly safe, equitable and advantageous solution in its pro
posal to lease the institution to the Woman’s Home Mis
sionary Society of the Methodist-Episcopal Church
In the inability of the city to maintain and
conduct such an institution its tranference to a society
actuated solely by altruistic and the most lofty of Christ
ian motives is a consummation which should receive the
sanction of the majority.
Under the terms of the lease, the society is given a
lease for a term of 10 years at a rental of five dollars per
year. The city is relieved of all further responsibility for
its maintenance and success and its monetary cost is re
duced to the insurance on the building and the waiving
of all taxes on the hospital. The contract offered assures
the retention of Dr. A. D. Haverstock for as long as he
cares to occupy the position of chief surgeon. All interior
repairs are to be borne by the society and only in the
event of the passage of a law demanding enlargement, or
changes in the original structure, is the city committed
to bear further expense. The city is guarded against
damage actions accruing for any cause in the hospital.
There are, however, two suggestions The Gateway
would like to offer. First, a financial statement covering
the hospital’s establishment. Secondly, that the hospital
board be composed of five citizens and tax payers of
Seward proper. Not comprised of two members-appoint
ed by the council, two by the society and the fifth by the
four, as has been ^iggested. -
Despite all advancement made in hospitalization
nothing has surpassed the ministration of those good
women who have dedicated their lives to the comfort and
distress of humanity. It is not native to any creed, but
embraces the entire scale of religious society. From this
source sprung our first hospitals as did our schools. What
has come afterward is simply efforts of improvement.
These have been in a material sense—nothing of the orig
inal inspiration has been lost.
As was pointed out by Mayor D. C. Brownell, these
ministrators to the sick are actuated more by a spirit of
brotherly love than mere material gain, giving added val
ue to the service—a value which cannot be computed in
dollars and cents.
The time may come when Seward can afford to main
tain its hospital as a monument to home pride, but that
time is not, apparently, now.
It is fortunate that a change may be executed where
by the city is relieved of a burden and it is transferred
to such safe guardianship.
EMU PASSES All
OF PNEUMONIA AT
NORTH DAKOTA CITY
WENATCHEE, Dec. 16. <£>) —Ole
Eielson, father of the late Carl Ben
Eielson, of Alaska, died of pneu
monia at Grand Rapids, North Da
kota. Word from his daughter Ad
eline, a teacher here, said that she
was at her father’s bedside at the
time of his death.
Mr. Eielson was prominently
identified with banking activities,1
of Hatton, North Dakota. During'!
the while that a search was being j!
made for Carl Ben, his son, who lostJ
his life when his plane crashed in i
the Arctic ioe on a flight to an ice- i
locked trading ship a few years ago, i
Mr. Eielson came to Alaska and re
mained for some time in the North- i
land. After his first visit here he <
returned on a second visitation. f
TWO ARE THROUGH
From Anchorage comes the re
port that H. Ilderton, member of
the Alaska Railroad headquarters
staff, and Special Agent Culver
have severed their connections with
the system.
Will SLASH PERSONNEL
OF ALASKAN COURTS
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Dec. 16.
(A3)—Among the numerous newly
ntroduced bills before Congress is
ncluded one by Senator George W.
Morris, Republican of Nebraska,
ivhich calls for the providing of
>nly one district judge, one clerk
>f court, one district attorney and
>ne U. S. marshal be left in Alaska.
Under the present system there
s one district, judge, one clerk of
:ourt, one district attorney and
>ne U. S. marshal for each division.
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! INPEACHMENT CHARGES WERE
i ASKED SO INVESTIGATON
MAY BE MADE
j WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 16.
\m—Congress rocked with a storm
: of protest against the Hoover one
‘year moratorium and further debt
•revision yesterday as 11 European
nations became technical defaults
on their war debt payments.
Dispatches from Basle saying
that the Young Plan Committee,
which is investigating Germany’s
capacity to pay further war repara -
tions, had decided to recommend
a further moratorium on payments
precipitated further discussion in
official circles.
Senator Reed of Pennsylvania, in
a spirited speech in the Senate,
charged that the Hoover adminis
j tration’s movement toward reduc -
| tion of war debts was dictated by
• bankers. The contention has been
j voiced often by Western Progres
. sives and Democrats but this is the
first time it has come from a re
sponsible Eastern administration
conservative.
Simultaneously, Representative
McFadden, another Pennsylvania
Republican, made a bitter attack
in the House on Hoover proposals,
charging the President with losing
hundreds of millions of American
money at the bidding of Kuhn, Loel
and Company, Warburgs, and other
German-American bankers. He in
sisted, in fact, that Hoover was
elected President in order that he
might effect jii^t such arrange
ments.
The attack brought demands
from the Republican side of the
House that McFadden prefer im
peachment charges against the
President in order that investiga
tion might be ordered to determine
the guilt or innocence of the na -
tion’s chief executive.
Under-Secretary of Treasury
Mills, in a plea to the House Ways
and Means Committee to support
the President’s plan, insisted the
move had averted a major catas
trophe in Germany.
The Young Committee recom
mendations for further moratorium
will be contained' in its final re
port. It is understood sentiment
for cancellation of further debts
is strong in the committee.
MAKING HISTORY
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 16. (/P)—A
group of boys here were arrested
yesterday for throwing snowballs
as they broke a window on a car
and which in turn hurt a little
girl. This is the first time in a
number of years that Los Angeles
has had enough snow to stage a
snowball battle.
QUIETS RUMORS
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 16. <JP)—
The Dollar Steamship Company
has no intention of withdrawing
any vessels from the Eastern Inter
Coastal Service. This announce
ment was made by J. Harold Dol
lar to quiet rumors that such a
move was contemplated by his com
pany.
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