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VOLUME XXVII. NUMBER 240.
SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17,1931.
PRICE TEN CENTS
OPPOSES POLICY BORROWING
MONEY PAY CURRENT
EXPENSES
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 17
cP)—President Herbert Hoover will
recommend increased Federal taxes
in his message to Congress this De
cember, according to Republican
leaders, who said he is opposed to
continuation of the policy of bor
rowing to pay current expenses.
His new attitude, will be that the
administration should seek by in
creased revenues to wipe out at
least part of the prospective bud
get deficit which apparently will
^exceed $2,000,000,000 by the end of
the current fiscal year.
The new policy of the administra
tion became known following a con
ference between Mr. Hoover and
Senator Watson. Mr. Watson said
he had abandoned the previous
stand opposing increasing taxes.
Senator Smoot, who is also close
to the administration, simultan
1 eously declared tax increases are
inevitable and suggested a general
sales tax. President Hoover has
not indicated what kind of a tax
he will recommend.
NO POLITICAL SIGNIFICANCE
^ NEW YORK, Nov. 17. (P) — A1
Smith and Governor Roosevelt are
to hold a meeting today. They
said that the meeting held no poli
tical significance but smiled when
they said so.
(MIDGE mLS TO
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NEW YORK, Nov. 17. (.^—For
mer President Calvin Coolidge, in
a letter written to Owen D. Young,
chairman of the committee on mob
ilization of relief resources, appeal
ed to the nation in behalf of the
unemployed who face suffering
during the coming winter. •
Mr. Coolidge said that general
contributions to local relief funds
would be demonstrated that the
present form of society and Amer
ican institutions can meet the re
lief needs. He urged everybody to
*give “what we think America is
worth to us.”
The former President said that
numbers were involved in the de
pression and urged the urgency of
their needs is beyond anything
previously experienced and declared
such a big situation must “be met
I '-n a big way.”
TRIAL CONTINUES
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 17. </P>—’The j
Taking of testimony in the second;
trial of Alexander Pantages con-1
<Sjinues with about 20 more witnesses
needed to be examined. The pres- j
ent trial was secured by Pantages j
merely to show that Miss Eunice
Pringle, victim of the alleged at
tack, was not an innocent girl at
the time and that she had
■'framed” the showman by placing
him in a compromising position
\,v/ith the aid of accomplices.
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WHEAT ADVANCES
CHICAGO, Nov. 17. (JP) — Wheat
closed yesterday with another re
markable advance. At closing,
wheat was two cents to the good.
Wheat took other grains along with
it in its rise.
NEW TONE PROSPEflITV
i IN WHEAT PRICE HCE
SPOKANE, Nov. 17. (/P) — About,
3,000,000 bushels of wheat, amount-1
ing to about half of the total West- j
ern wheat crop, has been sold dur
ing the past few weeks due to the |
advance in wheat prices. Many of
the wheat sales were made by
farmers who did not expect to re
ceive anything for their produce.
With the extra revenue derived
from the wheat distributed among
the farmers and the influencing
effect of the bettering of conditions
a decided new tone of prosperity
prevails throughout this section.
j SANTA MONICA, Calif., Nov. 17.
(/P)—The strange fate which the
law weaves around citizens of this
nation was accentuated as this city
held a preliminary hearing to try
a brother-iu-law of President Her
bert Hoover on a liquor possession
| charge. The Hoover kin, C. Van
Leavitt, aged 57 years of age en
tered a plea of “not guilty."
Leavitt says he is a victim of cir
cumstances and that the liquors
that he held in his possession when
| Federal officials swooped down on
; a grocery store here, was given to
him by the grocer, C. R. Dailey.
The grocer also appeared at the I
i preliminary hearing.
ATTACKED BY MOB
SNOWHILL, Md. Nov. 16. {/?> —
B. Ades, international defense
league attorney and volunteer
counsel for Y. Lee, confessed negro
slayer, was set upon by a mob as
he left the court house, after the!
opening session of Lee’s trial, and
beaten.
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WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 17. :
(/P)—Mrs. E. McLean was granted a
temporary order restraining her
husband, E. B. McLean, Washing
ton publisher, from instituting or
prosecuting divorce action at Riga,
Latvia, or in any other foreign
city.
McLean is now in Paris with Miss (
Rose Douras, and with whom he j
has filed a paper of “intention to ,
wed.” Mrs. McLean’s issuance of k
divorce might do her irreparable ;
injury by operating to nullify the <
order under which she secures $7,500 <
monthly for the support of herself ]
and children. i
SUCCEEDS HUSBAND
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LITTLE ROCK ATk. Nov. 16. (IP) I
—Mrs. Hattie Caraway, Democrat, 5
v/as appointed U. S. Senator by £
Governor Parnell to serve until a £
successor to her late husband is se- l
lected. A successor will be chosen t
in January. She will be the second C
cvoman to serve in the Senate. I
GUfil OF III
iis moral
FOR (VERES
DISCUSSION WORLD PROBLEMS
WILL NOT BEGIN UNTIL
TOMORROW
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 17.
(£>)—Dense fog cheated Signor Dino
Grandi, Foreign Minister of Italy,
who arrived in the United States
for a series of conferences with
President Hoover yesterday, from
making a most unusual entrance
into Washington. Colonel Charles
A. Lindbergh was to have flown
Grandi and his party from quaran
tine, in New York, to the capital
but the weather conditions forced
a change in plans.
The Italian diplomat was then
whisked in a cutter to Jersey City
pier instead, where a special train
was ready to carry him to Wash
ington.
His entrance into Washington
was impressive because of the spec
tacular military display.
Shortly after he was received by
President Hoover, Grandi issued a
public statement in which he em
phasized his visit to America was
to further the cause of world co
operation in a time of uncertainty
and economic distress. Signor
Grandi found in the recent visit of
Premier Pierre Laval, of France, to
Washington, D. C., an “encouraging
sign for work for general coopera
tion which is essential to consolida
tion of peace and a restoration of
prosperity."
Signor Grahdi set in his path
before formally offering President
Hoover his country’s contribution
of “common work for a common
good,” and his first endeavor was
to visit the marble shroud of the
Unknown Soldier. jThe chief
thought of Dino Grandi is that his
visit was made for the preservation
af peace and for which the war
rior, the Unknown Soldier, gave his
ife.
Grandi was received at the cap
Ltol late yesterday. He was wel
comed with the full honors given
to foreign guests and a few mo
ments later he was presented to
President and Mrs. Hoover.
After the informal greetings had
)een exchanged, Grandi went to the
Stimson’s home for dinner and for
i night’s rest.
Formal discussions on world prob
ems will begin Wednesday night.
THE STOCK MARKET
SEATTLE, Nov. 17. (/P)—Yester
lay’s quotations on the stock mar
:et:
Uaska Juneau .16%
American Can ....80
3orden . 48%
Canada Dry .18%
General Motors .27
nternational Nickle Can. 9%
nternational Tel. & Tel.16%
Cennecott Copper . 15%
tadio . 83/4
Reynolds Tobacco (b) . 38%
Richfield Oil . 1
Standard Oil of Calif.32% i
Standard Oil of N. J.33% 1
Standard Oil of N. Y.13% ]
rnion Oil of Calif.16% ]
r. S. Steel..67% <
iities Service . 73,4 ]
>urant Motors . 1% ]
SOLD FOE JUNK
j LONDON, Nov. 17. (/P)—The Eng
lish dirigible R-100, the first diri
| gible to cross the Atlantic Ocean,
| has been sold by the British gov
ernment for junk. The sale took
place Monday.
NORTHWESTERN LEAVES
j SEME FOB SEN
SEATTLE, Nov. 17. (/P)—'The SS
Northwestern, of the Alaska Steam
ship Company, sailed from here this
morning at 9 o’clock carrying 72
passengers of whom 10 were steer
age reservations.
There were 13 Seward passengers
and they included J. B. Farnham,
Geo. W. James, Warren Oaks, Mrs.
Pearl Henry and daughter, W. J.
Barrows, Mrs. Fred Crane, Mrs. E.
Olmstead, W. Haakti, Mrs. A. J.
Armstrong, Mrs. A. Grant, Mrs.
Harry Ross, E. Frodenberg and W.
Wigert and H. Mosos, steerage.
Till OF IS. JUDD
SET FOR DECEMBER 13
PHOENIX, Ariz., Nov. 17. (/P)— |
Mrs. Winnie Ruth Judd yesterday
appeared at a preliminary hearing
and pleaded “not guilty” to the
slaying of her two friends, Mis. Ag
nes Leroi and Miss Hedvig Samuel
son.
Her trial has been set for Decem
ber 15 and the trial will be made;
on two separate charges. She will
be tried on the charge of murder
ing Mrs. Leroi first and then the
trial for the Samuelson murder,
will follow’.
Mrs. Judd appeared quite calm;
at the hearing.»
FAILURE MAY BE AVERTED
LONDON, Nov. 17. (A5)—Mahatma
Gandhi has decided to postpone his
departure from England to India
following a meeting with Premier
MacDonald in which he was j
given some hope that a failure of a I
second Round Table conference oni
Indian affairs can still be averted, j
I
ram? SENTENCE i
FACES SEATTLE YOUTHi
SOUTH BEND, Wis., Nov. 17. (JP)—
A period of from six to 10 years in
the State reformatory is facing
Chester Duckwitz, 19 years of age,
a former Seattle high school ath
lete, who confessed to an attempt ‘
to rob the Pacific State Bank here. !
He pleaded guilty and said that .
he was willing to take his “med
icine.” He also said that the time '
locks on the bank’s vault prevented .
It from being opened and he es
caped empty handed.
Duckwitz, president of his senior j*
class, figured that the robbing ofj,
the bank would be the easiest way j ^
to solve his unemployment situa-j
;ion.
SUFFERS INJURIES
JERICHO, N. Y. Nov. 16. (/P) —!
Mrs. Clarence H. Mackay, the for- 1
ner Anna Case, opera singer, suf- 1
:ered severe lacerations and possi- i
>le internal injuries Monday when .
ler automobile collided with an
>ther machine on the Jericho turn- £
>ike, about seven miles from the c
jong Island estate of the Mackay’s. t
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U. S. CHANGE OF ATTITUDE
TOWARD EVACUATION
WORRIES LEAGUE
(By Associated Press)
Evidence of a change in he atti
tude of the United States toward
the insistence of Japanese evacua
tion from Manchuria is reported
in Paris. It is also said that the
League of Nations’ Council is agi
tated over this and by reports that
Russia is becoming nettled or ir
ritated at Japan’s activity.
General Mah’s i.. ys are report
ed at Mukden to be standinr their
ground in the area known as South
Anganchi, and that they are there
with no intention of withdrawing.
Although earlier reports to the
Rengo News Agency from Harbin
said that General Mah had acced
ed to the Japanese conditions for
a truce, it is now reported that he
has submitted a set of counter pro
posals to the Japanese General
Sonjo.
A demand that the Nanking gov
ernment cease its “weak kneed” at
titude toward Japan was made at
Shanghai by Hu Hanging, former
chief of the government’s executive
branch and a leader of the Na
tionalist party.
Chinese military authorities have
decided to ask the cabinet for re
inforcements to be sent to Man
churia immediately.
MIDDLESBORO, Ky., Nov. 17. (ff)
—Theodore Dreiser and J. D. Pas
sos, authors, were indicted with
eight other persons by a grand jury
on charges of violating Kentucky’s
law against syndicalism.
Among those accused with Drei
ser is Marie Pergain, young woman,
who recently was charged with mis
conduct with the author in a formal
indictment, also handed down by
i Kentucky grand jury.
Those named as syndicalists were
nembers of Dreiser’s national com
nittee for defense of political pris
oners which recently made inves
tigation into conditions prevailing
n Harlan County coal fields. The
charge against all concerned is that
luring their tour they confederated
;ogether to “commit criminal syn
iicalism and to promulgate reign
)f terror.”
Kentucky officials said they will
;eek to have the accused returned
o purisdiction for trial.
SEINER CAUGHT AFIRE
SANTA jBARBARA, Calif., Nov.
6. (£>) —A 60-foot purse seiner, be
ieved to be one of a fleet of fish
ng boats from San Pedro, caught
:ire off the Carpenter!a Airport
,nd burned to the water line. The
rew was rescued by Santa Bar
bara fishing boats.