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VOLUME XVI. NUMBER 156. SEWARD, ALASKA,
TUESDAY, JULY 14, 1931.
PRICE TEN CENTS
SEATTLE MAYOR IS
RECALLED BY FEWER
VOTES. ELECTION
OUTCOME OF OUSTING EM
PLOYEE IN SERVICE
20 YEARS
SEATTLE, July 14. (JP)—Mayor
Frank Edwards was recalled by
35,657 votes to 21,836, a total of
about 2,000 less votes than at the
spring election.
Robert Harlin, council president,
takes charge until the council
elects a new mayor within 20
days.
The recall campaign began when
the mayor dismissed J. D. Ross,!
for more than 20 years superin
tendent of the city light plant, last
March, on the eve of the council
election.
Backers of Ross promised his
immediate reinstatement by a sym
pathetic council.
The mayor was accused of un
due friendliness with private pow
er interests; Ross was championed
as a defender of public ownership.
ROBBER WOUNDED
SAN DIEGO. July 13. (£>) — A rob
ber who identified himself as Oliver
Arnold. 33 years of age, of Regina,
Canada, was fatally wounded in j
a gun fight with police who came I
upon him while he was tying Mar
ian Bookberry, a garage employee,
to an automobile.
TENNIS PROS PLAY
FOREST HILLS, N. Y. July 14.!
AP)—Vincent Richards and William
Tilden, 2nd. old-rivals of amateur
tennis days, won their way to the
finals of the American professional
championships with straight set
victories over Howard Kinsey and
Karel Kozelur, respectively.
FULL'S rapT TO
ESCAPE PRISON FAILS
WASHINGTON, July 14. (&) -
Albert B. Fall’s seven year attempt
to escape prison, where he was
sentenced for conviction of accept
ing bribes in connection with iho
Harding administration scandals
failed definitely.
The former Interior secretary has
only a few more days of liberty,
following Justice Bailey, of the Su
preme Court of the Div.Ict of Col
umbia. refusing to suspend his year
sentence.
It is expected that Fall will be
ordered to prison in Wa.hingt.m at
once.
STORMS CAUSE HAVOC
NORTH BATTLEFORD, Sask. July
14. (JP)—The terrified citizenry of
North Battleford took stock of the
damage which has been caused by
a series of storms which have swept
this entire section for the past two
weeks.
FORGED STERN POST
MARE ISLAND, July 14. (ff) —
The cruiser San Francisco, to be
built here will hav£ a forged stern |
post instead of a casting such as
was used in the cruiser Chicago
type and found to be defective in
five of the ships.
RUPERT FISH PRICES
PRINCE RUPERT, July 14. (A3)—
Fifty-eight thousand pounds of j
American halibut brought 4c to
10.40c and Canadian 3c to 8.50c
SEATTLE HALIBUT PRICES !
SEATTLE, July 14. (/P) — Nine!
vessels with 123,500 pounds of j
medium halibut and 78,500 pounds |
of small brought 7%c to 8%c for j
mediums and 4c to 5c a pound j
for the smalls.
‘SOMEBODY WILL P*Y
FOR IMIS.' HE
CHICAGO, July 14. (£>) — A1
“Scarface” Capone, gangland czar
of Chicago was arrested on a vag
rancy warrant.
His stay in jail was very brief,
however, as bail was posted with
in 30 minutes of his arrival at a
south side station.
Upon being released he refused
to make any statement other than,
“somebody will pay for this,” and
hurriedly left when a photgrapher
appeared on the scene.
ARRIVE AT SEATTLE
SEATTLE, July 14 (JP)— Robbins
and Jones landed at 4:56 p. m.
yesterday from their nonstop
1,600-mile flight from Fairbanks.
DEEP CONCERN FELT
FINANCIAL SITUATION
WASHINGTON, D. C„ July 14.
<VP)—The financial situation in
Germany is the cause of deep con
cern in official circles
The credit extension has some
what eased anxiety but President
Hoover continued to watch every
development from the results of
the order of Hindenburg closing
banks and awaited reports on the
frail economic position of the
Bruening government from Am
bassador Sackett
These reports indicated condi
tions are still bordering an col
lapse
SECOND OPERMION MM
SAVE TWINS' LIKES
BALTIMORE, July 14. (A>)—
Twin babies, joined at birth but
severed by a surgical operation, de
clared to have few parallels, re-(
mained alive and surgeons express
ed the hope that a second vital
operation to save them would be
possible.
“They are doing better than ex
pected,” it was said at Mercy hos
pital and the twins began their
fourth day of life. Without the se
cond, operation the babies cannot
survive, surgeons said.
BATTLE ST*LL RAGES
VATICAN CITY, July 14. (Jf>) —
Pope Pius decided to move the head
quarters office of the Catholic Ac
tion Society to within the Vatican
walls. This would take the head
quarters out of the jurisdiction of
the Italian government and would
render it impossible for Premier
Mussolini to close the headquarters
unless the concordant with the Vat
ican is denounced.
108 COLLEGE MEN
WASHINGTON, July 14. (JP) —
It’s harder these days to keep Joe
College’s feet on the ground, for
he’s turning to flying.
Of the 245 students forming the
new primary flying school class of
the army air corps, 108 were ac
cepted because they were college
men.
SWALLOWS FALSE
TEETH II DIES
WASHINGTON, D. C., July 14.
(/P)—Private Olaf Nelson of Fort
Bliss, Texas, died after five un
successful attempts to extract ar_
tificial teeth he swallowed.
He was rushed across country
in an army ambulance plane in
an attempt to have his life rallied
from the fifth probing for the
dental bridge which caught in his
throat while eating breakfast.
He died after a two hours’ at
tempt to remove the obstruction.
GANDHI TO LONDON
BOMBAY, July 14. (JP) — Ma
hatma Gandhi has informed the
government of India that he is like
ly to go to London for the second
round table conference in Septem
ber if no further difficulties aiis:
with the congress party. It is ex
pected he will sail on August 25.
IRKUTSK, Siberia, July 14. UP)
—Joseph Lebrix and Marcel Doret,
French fliers, were forced down
near Nighue Udinsk, 500 kilomet.
ers west of here.
The men, including a mechanic,
were uninjured except one who
susatined an injured knee.
They covered about 3,600 miles
on a projected nonstop flight from
Tokyo, a 7,000 mile flight.
BISEHL SCORES
NATIONAL
St. Louis 12, Chicago 5.
Philadelphia 1, Pittsburgh 0.
No other games.
AMERICAN
Philadelphia 1214, Washington
7-6.
No other games.
HOW THEY STAND
Morgan, of the Cleveland In_
dians, maintained the batting lead
ership in both .leagues in Mon
day’s games with an average of
.396.
Ruth, of the Yankees, is next
with .383.
Klein and Davis, both of the
Phyllies, are tied for tlite National
League leadership with .360.
Gehrig, of the Yankees,, and
Klein are tied for home runs wiht
23 each; Ruth has 21.
MONOPLANE SIGHTED
SEATTLE, July 14. (A*)—A plane
identified at Burns Lake as the
“Fort Worth,” passed at 11:15 yes
terday making directly for Seattle;
it was also sighted over Hazelton.
MANY DROWNINGS v
CANTON, China, July 14. (#*) —
More than 3,000 persons are re
ported to have drowned in recent
days as a result of floods in Kwang
tung province.
STEEL OFFICIIL DIES IN
KTTEMFT TO SNE GIRLS
ERIE, Pa., July 14. (^—Plung
ing into Lake Erie in an effort
to rescue two girls, Harry J. Marks,
35, president of the Federal Steel
Company of Detroit, was drowned
and one the girls, Phyllis Klingen
smith, 17, was clinging to Marks
when they disappeared.
She jumped in to save her sister
Jackie, who dove in from their
boat and hit in too deep water.
BUILDS BIG RESERVOIR
HONG KONG, China, July 14. (/P)
—A reservoir with a capacity of
19,000,000 gallons is nearing comple.
tion here. It is one of the largest
undertakings in progress in South
China.
RUSS OFFICIAL REFUSES
TO RETURN KM
HAMBURG, Germany, July 14.
, (/p)—r. Dowgalevsky, chief of the
' grain department of the Russian,
i delegation here and nephew of the
! Soviet ambassador to Paris, was
; reported to have refused to obey an
| order from his superiors to return
| to Moscow.
He was said to have learned that
! Joseph Stalin had discovered his
j opposition to the Stalin policy, and
! that the Russian secret service sus
pected him of sympathizing with
the rightist opposition in Russia.
US CO FORWARD
Oil HURST PROPOSAL
WASHINGTON, July 14. (/P) —
Plans are under way for an inter
state conference to carry forward
the campaign for a gigantic feder
al bond issue for public improve
ments and thereby bring back pro
sperity, as proposed by William R.
Hearst, according to advices receiv
ed here.
Senator Elmer Tnomas, Okla
homa democrat, has sent requests
to Congressional leaders in other
states to join in arranging an in
; terstate conference.
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COTTON CROP PAYS
FAYETTEVILLE, Tenn., July 14.
(£>)—The congregation of a Pros
pect Baptist church wanted a
preacher so badly that 100 men and
women went to work for one. A
seven acre tract was planted in
cotton, and proceeds will be used
\>r the pastor's salary. Previously,
! the church had a preacher once a
month.
ALL BANKS CLOSE
UNTIL THURSDAY
STEM CRISIS TIDE
BANK MORATORIUM IN GER
MANY FOR ONE YEAR ;1J
IN EFFECT
BERLIN, July 14 (/P)—The Ber
lin government moved to stem the
tide of financial disaster by plac
ing in effect what amounts to a
general moratorium on banking
operations.
In accordance
by Hindenburg, all banks viiwugu
out the Reich, with the exception
of the Reichsbank, closed nominally
until Thursday but actually as
long as officials deem it advisable
to restore confidence.
Banks and postoffices are pro
hibited from handling payments
of transfers either in Germny or
to foreign countries and the stock
exchanges have been ordered to
suspend operations for the re
mainder of the week. Anyone in
sisting on buying foreign current
cies will have to pay cash as
checks will not be accepted
The World bank is willing to
renew the $100,000,000 credit due
Tnursday.
It is understood the Bank of
France and the Federal Reserve
Bank of New York, which par
ticipated in the credit, also the
Giant Extension Bank of Eng
land, have not yet ruled on the
matter.
The reaction outside of Germany
to the collapse of the Darmstaed
ter and National Bank caused
a temporary closing of all banks.
The British foreign secretary,
Henderson, from London, and
Stimson from Rome, are enroute
to Paris for conferences.
CHICAGO, July 14. (/P) —Daily
chats between Chicago and Baffin
Land, at the top of the world, will
keep some short wave radio chan
nels busy this summer.
Ralph Brooks, maintenance en
gineer at the NBC studios here, will
be on the Bowdoin with Command
er don B. MacMillans* crew of
voyagers, who’ll spend the sum
mer studying the ice cap.
He has arranged with a number
of friends, operators of short-wave
sets, to pick up his signals so he
may keep in touch with goings.on
! in his native habitat.
■ —.
VARIABLE PITCH PROP
ROOSEVELT FIELD, N. Y. July
14. —James Godwin Hall, war fly
er, arrived from California for tests
i with a variable pitch propeller, af
ter which he expects to better the
trans-continental flight record of
Captain Frank Hawkes.
REBELS DEFEATED
LIMA, Peru, July 14. (/P) —Dis
patches from Arequipa to the news
paper El Commercio said federal
troops in the Cuzko region had de
feated rebels in a battle which re
sulted in a large number of caus
alties.
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