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SEWARD, ALASKA, TH U RSDAY, OCTOBER 29,1931. PRICE TEN CENTS
VOLUME XXVII. NUMBER 225.
MAC'S GOVERNMENT IS
GIVEN MORE THAN 513
SEATS OF TOTAL 815
LONDON, Oct-, 29. (£>)—'The
National Government is back at
work under the direction of Ram
say MacDonald and was caution
ing itself to the sober task of ex
ecuting a “doctor’s mandate’’.
The National Government asked
and received the support from the
people by an unpredecented ma
jority, more than 50 of the 615
seats in the House of Commons.
Ramsay MacDonald began a
series of conferences with the
Xing and his Cabinet to lay a
groundwork for a rehabilitation
program which is to be presented
to Parliament next month.
Tlie English Press added its
voice to MacDonald and Baldwin’s
cautioning that the country must
remember the victory as a
triumph of the government and
not of any party.
HEIMS IE ELECTED
IN 3 SMS THAT
SEATTLE, Oct., 29, (/P)~Three
states, Mississippi, Kentucky and
New Jersey, will elect Governors
Tuesday
This year’s elections in Mississ
ippi, where a Democratic nomina
'ion is equivalent to election, the
voting will be hardly more than
a formality. Mike Conner, Demo
cratic nominee, takes the oath of
office on January 1.
Administration of the highway
department is an issue in Kentuc
key with “Rudy Laffoon, Circuit
Judge, as a Democratic candidate
against Mayor William Harrison,
of Louisville, Republican.
New Jersey’s governorship is
being sought by David Baird, Jr.,
Republican, and Harry Moore,
Democrat. The issues are numer
ous and have no particular nat
ional significance.
BATTLE WAGES BETWEEN
2,000 CHINESE. GARRISON
TOKYO, Oct. 29. (IP)—A battle is
*'aging between the Japanese gar
rison at Tiehling and 2,000 Chinese
The scene of the struggle is north
of Mukden on the South Manchu
rian Railway. Dispatches said re
inforcements were being rushed tc
the aid of the garrison.
Tokyo’s reply to protests of her
warlike activities sets forth that
while Japan recognizes her respon
sibilities under the Kellogg Peace
Pact, she regards the occupation
of Manchurian as an act of self
defense.
The government reiterates its
readiness, to negotiate with China
on the terms laid down in its note
of two weeks ago. It was said
that the civil administration of
Mukden, capital of Manchuria, had
been returned to the Chinese.
A fire, whose origin is clouded
in mystery, recently destroyed the
unoccupied P. D. Lippert residence
in Fairbanks, reports the Fair
banks News-Miner,
EIGHT INCHES SNOW
SHERIDAN, Oct. 28. (/P)— Parts of j
| Wyoming and Montana were swept J
■ by a 55-mile gale Wednesday and |
mail planes were forced down and ;
communications threatened. Eight!
inches of snow fell in mountain
I districts.
12-YEAH-0L0 BOY IS
CONVICTED OF FIBST
! DEGREE MURDER, JURY
j ASOTIN, Wash, Oct., 29, (fP)—
! Hubert Niccols, wan-faced 12-year
j old boy, was convicted on a
; charge of first degree murder for |
I the slaying of Sheriff John Wor- j
| mell. The jury recommended life!
j imprisonment.
The boy sat stolidly, and show
ing no emotion. He did not take
| any more interest in the trial
i than if it concerned only a tri
j vial atter. Once, during the pro
secution, the lad was found to be
j playing with a top. The defense
j tried to sway the jury by the
i statement that the boy was not
| responsible for his action and said
! that the lad had been hurt in the
j head in an auto accident some
years ago and that he had pro
jbably not fully recovered his
; mental balance.
Hie 12-year-old lad is to be
sentenced later. The defense ad
mitted that young Hubert had
stolen a revolver and entered a
store to steal tobacco and chew
ing gum.
While he was in the store the
police received a tip that some
thing out of the ordinary was
taking place at the grocery store
| and went there to investigate- En
j tering the store, Sheriff Wormell
i turned on the lights and then
proceeded to search , the premises.
!The youth, hiding behind a vine
■ gar barrel, fired at the 72-year
I old sheriff and killed him.
i Mandatory sentence was to be
j pronounced today.
ENTIRE MORROW ESTATE
IS LEFT TO HIS WIDOW
NEW YORK, Oct., 28, iJP)—Sen
| ator D. W- Morrow left his entire
[estate to his widow Mrs. Elizabeth
i Morrow, according to the will fil
led for probate at Hackensack,
N. J.
While the will did not state the
amount of the estate, friends es
timated Mr. Morrow left between
|20 and 25 million dollars
None of the four children were
mentioned by name, the Senator
expressing in the document his
confidence in Mrs. Morrow to care
for them.
He left about three-quarters of
a million dollars to institutions
and another quarter of a million
to individual bequests.
The children are Dwight Junior,
Miss S. Constance, Miss Elizabeth
and Mrs. Anne Lindbergh, who
with her husband, arrived in New
York by plane last Friday evening
! after a flight from Victoria, B- C.
Alaska Road Commission crews
in the Fairbanks area have all
halted work for the season, ac
cording to the News-Miner.
COLD MIK INDUSTRY
BE BHD NEXT YtP.fi
THROUGHOUT THE II. S.
NEW RORK, bet., 29. (/P)—Al
though various obstacles are in
the way, efforts are to be made
this coming year to increase the
production of gold in the United
States.
Mining experts are now perfect
ing plans to get more yellow met
al out of the ground than is being
taken out at the present time.
The primary incentive is due to
the low cost of commodities gen
erally and more reasonably priced
labor than for a number of years.
Because of the fact that there
is a fixed price for gold at $20 67
per ounce, going gold mines can
make money and producers in
tend to strike while the iron is
hot.
For the first time in a number
of years, the United States was
third among the world producers
of gold while Canada increased
her production to second place.
The 1931 gold production will be
around 2,200,000 ounces for the
United States with Canada having
2,700,000 or 500,000 ounces more.
GROVE SELECTED IS
IMEHICIN M'S MOST
HOLE BILL PUTEB
NEW YORK, Oct. 20. (TP)—Rob
ert Moses Grove, who turned in rec
ord pitching this year for the Phila
delphia Athletics, was selected as
the American League’s most val
uable player for 1931 by a com
mittee of eight members of the
Baseball Writers Association of Am
erica.
Grove received 78 out of a pos
sible 80 points and topped the list
of remaining American League
players by a wide margin. Lou
! Gehrig was second and received 59
(points; A1 Simmons was third with
51; Averill was fourth with 43, and
Babe Ruth was fifth with 40.
CHICAGO, Oct., 29, (^P)—Judge
James Wilkerson, of the Chicago
Federal Court, which found Ca
pone guilty of tax evasion, de
nounced Capone's insurrection
against the laws of the United
States.
Judge Wilkerson said, “The
court would have been blind in
deed had they not observed the
intimidations practiced”. He then
told them how gangsters with
concealed weapons, sat in the
court room and were so successful
in their frightening and intimida
ting of witnesses, who were on the
stand, that they faltered in their
testimony and often failed at the
critical moment.
LONDON, Oct., 29, (IP)—'Three
giant dahlias, each more than two
feet in circumference, took first
prize at the autumn flower show
in Trinity Square here. They were
grown by E. H. Francis, a dock
laborer.
DEMONSTRATION
i SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 28. (JP)—
I Anti-Japanese demonstrations took
j place in the San Francisco China
town Wednesday. The disturbance
was soon quelled, however.
STRinON CONVICTED
or sum or former
PIE, SGI. FR1WLE!
! SEATTLE, Oct. 29. (/P)—A jury of
110 men and two women Wednesday
| convicted Arthur Stratton, 21-year
| old youth, for the slaying of a for
| mer Army comrade Sergeant Wil
! liam Frawley.
! The jury recommended death as
I a penalty. The verdict was brought
i in after seven and one-half hours
! of deliberation. Stratton was ar
j rested in Seattle two months ago
i after banking officials found him
I attempting to transfer money from
' one of Frawley’s accounts. Strat
! ton was not moved by the verdict.
The defense pleaded mental ir
! responsibility.
■ Sergeant was retired and living
j in a small cottage near Fort War
I den. The two had been friends
j until Stratton quarreled with Fraw
| ley when the latter refused to lend
him his automobile. He confessed
to the murder several days after
the arrest. The sentence will be
I passed in a few days.
NEW POLICY
I WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 28. (/P)
; —President Herbert Hoover is said
ito be preparing a new policy with
i reference to the Philippine Islands.
I It is'said that the new policy is de
signed to aid in the economic bet
terment of the islands and that it
looks toward final independence for
the group.
PROTHRO JOINS BENCH PILOTS
j MEMPHIS, Tenn., Oct. 29. (/P)—
“Doc” Prothro, manager of the
' Memphis Chicks, will direct his
I baseball players from the sidelines
next year. “Doc” said he would
have some one else play third base.
--
j NEW YORK, Oct., 27, (IP)—Max
| Carey, Major League outfielder
| for many years, will replace Wil
liam T. Robinson as manager ol
the Brooklyn Robbins next year
The removal of Robinson, who has
! managed the Brooklyn Nationals
! since 1914, came after a stern
fight among the directors thru a
four-hour session.
S. McKever, half owner of the
club, president Frank York and
Dutch Carter, were said to have
opposed Robinson, who had the
vote only of Joseph Gilleadue,
representative of heirs of the late
Charles Ebbetts, boss of the club
STRIKE CONTINUES
MEXICO CITY, Oct., 29, (IF)—
Workers in the Canadian owned
light and power company here
have gone on a strike in sympathy
with the railroad organization- A
newspaper here was also forced tc
suspend publication because of
striking workers- The Mexican
Government is working hard on
the situation in an attempt tc
prevent a labor crisis.
DISARMAMENT MEET
MUST SELECT ANOTHER
PRESIDING OFFICER
i _
GENEVA, Oct. 29. (£>)—'The de
feat of Arthur Henderson in the
i British elections raises the ques
tion as to who is going to sit at
! the head of the League of Nations’
! disarmament conference, scheduled
i for meeting here next February.
Arthur Henderson was nominated
for the presidency of the League
! Council but his defeat changes the
| situaticjn somewhat. He is now
not even a member of Parliament.
| It is thought that he will resign
his nomination either of his own
free will or because political pres
! sure from within Britain or from
; other sources.
Meanwhile, the name of Charles
Evan Hughes is mentioned as a
i likely successor to Sir Henderson.
i
i LOS ANGELES, Oct., 29, (#’)—
Mrs. Winnie Ruth Judd is sane;
ishe is not a narcotic addict; and
: she is not subject to tuberculosis.
These are the findings of Dr.
Benjamin Bland, who has made
; an examination of the woman
and says that she is sane beyond
the slightest question
There were not tmany new de
velopments in the case The extra
dition papers- have been brought
and authorities are expecting to
take her back to Phoenix by
! Thursday night.
i A young chemist from. El Paso,
iTex., who claims tljat he was in
the Phoenix house at the time of
the murders, is being held as a
; material witness.
lira coups mb
i DIES RESULT INJURIES
i
! PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, Oct.,
29, (/p)~With many hours of haz
ardous flying to his credit, Col
Thomas Turner, head of the avia
tion corps of the U. S. Marines,
died here Wednesday as the result
of a ground accident.
Col. Turner was injured when
he walked in front of an airplane
with a wlfllring propeller. He slip
ped in the mud and was thrown
into the path of the propeller and
suffered head injuries- He was
taken to a marine hospital but
died in a few hours.
| BOOK GIVEN CONGRESSMEN
| WASHINGTON, Oct-, 29, {&)—A
' book, “We Are Alaskans”, written
' by a Washington woman, Mary
[Lee Davis, has been placed in the
! hands of every member of con
gress. It is an intimate close-up
of people and conditions in Alas
ka today. The book so impressed
j Wendell Endicott, big game hunt
of Boston, he ordered a copy
| for every member of congress.
England broke all records in the
number of books published last
year, there being 9907 new books
and 5468 new editions, transla
tions and pamphlets.