Comin
Armistice Ball
VOLUME XXVIII. NUMBER 280.
SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1932.
BALTIMORE, Maryland, Oct- 26,
—Supremely confident that the
Democratic party will be swept in
to office on November 8 by the lar
gest plurality since the days of An
drew Jackson, Gov. Franklin D.
Roosevelt, Democratic nominee for
President of the United States,
addressed another huge throng of
people in this city and in which he
again attacked the present Repub
lican administration with making
promises as to what they were go
ing to do after November 8, if re
turned to office, instead of having
accomplished something definite
while in office during the last four
years.
Governor Roosevelt termed Pres
ident Hoover and members of his
cabinet as the “Four Horsemen.”
He said the Democratic plank on
liquor flatly stands for repeal while
that of the Republican party works
both ways; dry for the drys and
wet for the wets.
Fourteen thousand were present
in the historic old Armory listening
to iiis biting attack upon the oppo
sition party.
Speaker John H. Garner, run
ning mate of Roosevelt and nomi
nee for the vice presidency, met
the Governor at Alexander. Va.. for
ci conference, one of the many
they have had recently.
Governor Roosevelt has com
pleted his brief swing through
Southern States and enroute North
made innumerable rear-platform
speecnes from his special trian.
IS I ESI JIUT9CMT
BERLIN, Oct. 26, — President
Paul von Hindenburg yesterday be
came the legal autocrat of Ger
many and may now cashier any
cabinet at any time he chooses.
Such an edict can be ordered by
him under the guise of peace and
* order.
This new power will now permit
the von Papen cabinet to function
without hindrance and may be the
intitial step toward restoration of
the monarchy.
MONROE, Mich., Oct. 26, UP)_j
When government dredges begin
the Monroe port development here,
many natives will be watching the
scoops tor signs of an aged treasure
of rum and whiskey.
Few iive who recall the time . but1
nearly all have heard the story of I
how the “Favorite,” out of Buf
ialo bound for Toledo, was caught'
in a storm off Monroe in 1855 and
was sunk in 21 feet of water after'
the captain and crew escaped to I
the ice that skirted the shore.
Two hundred barrels of rum and I
40u kegs of bourbon and rye were \
i . the cargo. Several efforts were i
m,;o ■ io retrieve the cargo, but I
nOii0 °‘ khem was reported success- |
ful.
CHANGED JOBS
SA.v FRANCISCO, Oct. 26. —;
John Rafferty, former member of
a narcotic squad, was arrested yes
terday for hi-jacking five cases of
pre-war whiskey.
SNOW BLOCKS ROADS
DENVER, Colo., Oct. 26, —A score
« of motorists were rescued from
snow-filled highways yesterday.
One of the marooned cars, after
it had been pulled out of a drift,
plunged over a 300 foot bank with
out injuring the occupants.
THOMAS INDICTED
REDONDO BEACH, Calif., Oct. 26, i
—Elliot Thomas, school superin- i
tendent who confessed to stealing
about 510,000 from school funds, j
was indicted on five counts; he is
specifically charged with forgery.
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 26, —Posi- ;
tive identification of the unclad
body of a girl found three days ago
13 miles from this city, was offi- 1
daily announced Tuesday, as that
of Miss Ida May Carney, 21. who
was arrested two years ago for par
ticipation in a local robbery.
Identification was mad*' possi
ble by foot and finger prints.
Miss Carney is believed to have
been a victim of gangland.
CHICAGO, Oct. 26, —True to his
promise, Senator Hiram Bingham,
father of the beer bill, made the
wettest of wet speeches here last
night before a great audience.
“In this city alone there are 35,
000 beer joints and what, pray tell
me, revenue does the government
treasury obtain from them?”
“Good, wholesome four per cent
beer never hurt anyone such as
this poisonous ‘moonshine’ and
poorly-made beer.”
FARMERS ON RAMPAGE
SHANGHAI, Oct., 25, —Because
government officials measured
their farm lands with a shorter
yard-stick, farmers in this district
are up in arms and arc laying seigc
to the city. Two thousand march
ed into the city Monday and are
camped near the magistrate’s
building.
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DESTRUCTION OF TOE
Storm-swept waters of the Pacif
ic will be the permanent grave of
the 34 men of the Portland freight
er Nevada, who lost their lives re
cently when the vessel was pound
ed to pieces on the rocks of Ama
tignak Island of the Western Aleu
tians.
This was the word brought by:
officers of the U. S. Coast-Guard
Cutter Haida, which arrived from
Western Alaska.
Lieut. Comdr. Rae B. Hall of the
Haida with a crew of 10 picked
men. made a trip in a surf boat to
vithin 200 feet of the Nevada and
along the shores of Amatignak Is
land.
"We saw no signs of bodies of
the men lost in the wreck,” said
Lieut. Comdr. Hall. “Altho there
was a terrible surf at the island,
we made a search of much of the
^each. it is probable none of the
bodies wall be recovered.
“We went within 200 feet of the
iwec<. The heavy seas are finishing
the work of destruction. The bow
of the Nevada is on the beach. The
amidship section is broadside to
Che ^land- The stern has disap
peared. A few pieces of wreckage
have been washed ashore and a
few Japanese squares, part of the
vessel’s deckload, are floating on
the sea.”
] The Haida was nearly an entire
day at the scene of the wreck.
Heavy seas were running and
white-fringed combers were break
ing completely over the amidship
°ection of the ill-fated freighter.
Mr. Lundblad has entered the
Seward General Plospital for treat
ment and will remain indefinitely.
Bringing three passengers from
far away Interior Alaska points,
Pilot Matt Nieminen, veteran ace
of the Northland, flying for the
Pacifir-Alaska Airways, landed at
the Seward Airport Tuesday after
noon. completing a flight from the
McGrath district. Pilot Matt was to
return to the Interior camp today.
Arrivals were Mrs. Dave Clough
an oldtime resident of Tacotna who
is entering the Seward General!
Hospital; Cant. Glen Day, of the'
Day Navigation Company, Flat andj
Iditarod, who is enrcute to the1
States; and Mr. s. McCongly, ■
dredgemaster for the Riley Invest
ment Co., who also is headed for
the South.
Andy White, Tacotna mining
man. left the plane at Anchorage.
IMPEACHMENT?
SEATTLE, Oct. 2G, —Mayor John
Dore may face impeachment if
the charge that he has harmed the
city’s credit is found true.
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 26, —Things
got hotter than ordinary yesterday
near Universal City when a grass
fire swept up to a movie “location”
and burned the rockers on a ship
on which a storm at sea was being
enacted.
“Lord help a poor sailor on a day
like this,” shouted the director, as
he stumbled over his megaphone.
The damage is estimated at about
$10,000.
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FOOLISH YOUTH
MOUNT VERNON, Wash., Oct. 26,
—Edgar Junkin wrecked his fath
er’s automobile and felt so bad
about it that he committed suicide.
NEW LIBERTY BELL
PHILADELPHIA. Oct. 26, —This;
city now boasts of a new Liberty
Bell which has been presented by
John Wannamaker, mercantile
prince.
0E SIMMS
DISKS! IN FDD
SMEW 5ISE
Lyman de S t a f f a n y, last of a
quartette of Seattle and Alaska
men who were charged with smug
gling furs into this country from
British Columbia, was granted a
dismissal of the charge by U. S.
Commissioner A. C. Bowman. The
dismissal was based on insufficien
cy of evidence against him.
De Staffany was charged with
Frank Dorbandt, Seattle and Alas
ka aviator, and Frederick and Al
bert Kotzerke, brothers and Seat
tle fur dealers, after customs offi
cers said they had discovered evi
dence that beaver skins had been
transported into the State of
Washington by airplane.
After hearing evidence against
;he three other men. Commission
er Bowman dismissed the charge.
De Staffany, who was out of Seat
lie at the time, was taken before
:he commissioner. Informed by
the district attorney’s office that
:he same evidence used in the earl
ier hearings would apply to De
Staffany’s case, the commissioner
granted him a dismissal.
It is claimed that Anchorage
iquor dealers have a new drink on
:he market which is called “Chick
en” whiskey. One drink and there
imu lay.
“HOWDY SAM!”
ATHENS, Greece, Oct. 26, —Her
man Gade, an old friend of Samuel
Insull, and a next door neighbor
cf the former public utilities ‘giant,’
is visiting him at the present time.
The visit had been planned long
before Insull “stubbed his toe,” tis
said.
NEW YORK, Oct. 26, —Crashing I
wheat prices and an upheaval in
the foreign bond market, marked
the street Tuesday. Wheat plunged
two cents per bushel but caused
little commotion.
Optimism was felt over the Sep
tember earnings report from rail
roads.
Cotton was up about five points.
U. S. Steel declared a regular
dividend yesterday.
Alaska Juneau 11 ; General
Motors 1214; Kennecott 10; Radio
6kf; United Corn. 8’4; U. S. Steel
34r,4; Eig Missouri 15.
W1IY BRING THAT UP?
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 26, —When
Tom Mix, the movie star, referred
to his appendix operation of last
year, he always termed it “his $10,
000 operation.’’ But yesterday he
was made defendant in a suit in
which the surgeon claimed Mix had
only paid $300 on account and ig
nored all requests to square up the
balance.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 26, —
Details of a gigantic housing plan
for federal employees, were dis
cussed Tuesday with the Recon
struction Finance Corporation.
The plan would call for the build
ing of 5.000 homes at a cost of
$20,000,000.
It is understood these homes
would be erected in units of 1,000
each and would be located in Mary
land and Virginia.
The plan has been taken under
serious consideration.
WIFE WAS SPARED
BOISE, Idaho, Oct. 26, —W. M.
Laurel is dead and his wife is in a j
local hospital. Enraged because his |
wife was obtaining a divorce, Laur- !
el shot her then turned the gun on
himself with better result.
AIR PASSENGERS INCREASE
ST. LOUIS, Mo., Oct. 26, (/P)_
Passenger transit lines using Lam
bert-St. Louis field increased 7 per i
cent in the 1932 fiscal year over the ;
year preceding.
GETS 11 IN WISMII
SYDNEY, Australia, Oct. 26, (A3)— I
A lifeboat worked by levers has
been put into trial service here. I
The men in the boat push and
pull levers, thus making a propel- !
ler revolve. j
The advantage of the contrap
tion is that unskilled occupants
can lend a hand without “catching
crabs” when the craft is rolling.
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MANSLAUGHTER
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 26, — I
Dr. M. J. O’Connor was arrested
Tuesday charged with manslaugh
ter, the result of a traffic accident
in which Robert Mannish was kill
ed.
MIRACULOUS ESCAPE
WOODLAND, Calif., Oct. 26, —
Six passengers on a Greyhound i
bus escaped injury Tuesday when j
the driver of the auto slumped over
his wheel dead. The car ran into a
ditch but aside from a little shak- 1
ing up, no one was hurt.
BELGIAN ELECTION
BRUSSELS, Belgium, Oct. 2G, —
King Albert instead of appointing
a new cabinet to replace that of
the recently resigned, has decreed
an election shall be held on Novem
ber 27 for that purpose.
WILL KNOW FATE TODAY
LOS ANGELES. Oct. 26, —John
Roberts, building contractor who
killed his son Earl, in self-deefnse,
he claims, will know his fate today.
The jury went out at a late hour
last night.
CALLED OUT THE GUARD
AUSTIN, Tex., Oct. 26, —Gover
nor Ross Sterling ordered out the
National Guard and will send var
ious units into the west oil fields
to enforce the pro-ratio ordinance.
The trouble is in the Kilgore area.
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BONDS SEVERED
SANTA FE, New Mexico, Oct. 26,
—Nancy Lane, daughter of the for
mer cabinet official, obtained a fin
al divorce decree Tuesday. Mental
cruelty was the charge
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SHOWS FIGHT
NEW HAVEN, Conn., Oct, 26. —
James Hall, movie director at Hol
lywood. will fight extradition to
this state where the former Mrs.
Hall is suing him for non-payment
of alimony.
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DIVINE PROVIDENCE
ONTARIO, Canada, Oct. 26, —
If she had been skeptical at all in
regards to a Divine providence,
Miss L. Welsh has probably become
convinced. She was the only pas
senger in an auto carrying tornado
insurance when a tornado struck
and demolished the car.
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FOREST FIRES AGAIN
MINERVA, Calif., Oct.. 25,—High
winds thruout this area fanned
brush and forest fires and four
groups of fire-fighters are combat
ing the flames.
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PARTING OF THE WAYS
LOS ANGELES, Oct., 25,—Greta
Nissin, movie actress, and Welden
Hayburn, director, are at the nart
ing of the ways. On grounds of
incompatability the actress has
filed for a divorce. They were mar
ried last March in Mexico.
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BEYOND THEIR MEANS
SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Oct.,
25,—Chas A. Woodhill, arrested for
embezzlement of $900. was given a
reprimand by Judge C. Carrol who
told him that he and his wife had
been living beyond their means.
Woodhill objected to the Judge
bringing his wife into the picture
but the Judge said he had expect
ed that.
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HOW MANY JOBS HAS HE?
NEW YORK, Oct., 25,—A direc- i
tor’s chair in the New York Uni- '
versity may be offered Calvin Coo-!
lidge, it is reported.
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QUIZ APPROVED
NEW YORK, Oct. 25, —The Alum- !
ni of Columbus University hearti
ly approves the inquiry into the
athletic situation which is said to
be extremely unhealthy.
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GREAT ARMY REVIEW
ROME Oct., 25,—Premier Musso- '
lini, astride a spirited horse, re
viewed the combined army forces
yesterday; 200,000 troops passed
the reviewing stand as well as oth
er units while overhead 200 air- i
planes paraded in formation. Two i
hundred thousand spectators'
cheered the Premier and army. !
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PEACE IN FAR EAST
TOKIO, Oct., 25,—Peace for trou- .
bled Manchuria is emerging thru ;
the clouds. The Japanese govern- 1
ment announced that it will or
ganize a North China government
which will make possible the with
drawal of Japan without losing its
face.
Shipments of canned salmon
from Puget Souna water during
September totaled 556,0^0 cases as
compared with 286,222 caSv for the
same month last year, an it,crease
of 270,278 cases, according to t re
port made public by the Seattle
Merchants’ Exchange.
The Atlantic coast was Puget
Sound’s best customer, taking 454,
006 cases as compared with 177.458
cases during September last year.
A total of 33,866 cases were shipped
to foreign markets during Septem
ber as compared with 32,103 cases
for the same month last year.
Shipments of flour from Puget
Sound during September totaled
182,442 barrels as compared with
207,851 barrels for the same month
last year. Shipments of wheat from
Puget Sound were 282,966 bushels
as compared with 788.729 bushels
during September las*- year. Ship
ments of lumber from Puget Sound.
Grays Harbor and Willapa Harbor
during September were 85,214,000
feet as compared with 171,752,000
feet the same month last year.
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NEW YORK, Oct. 28, —Miss Bet
ty Gow, nurse of the kidnapped and
murdered Lindbergh child, return
ed yesterday to America from an
extended visit to the home of her
parents in Scotland, and left im
mediately for Inglewood, N. J., to
assume the position of nurse to the
noted couple’s second child.
After months of study and de
liberation a name for the baby
has been selected; John Morrow
Lindbergh. The John is after the
noted parent and the Morrow in
memorv of the child’s distinquished
grandfather, the late Dwight Mor
row.
SYDNEY, Australia, Oct. 26, UP)—
Each future alderman of Sydney
will have to deposit a bond of
$5,000 in pledge of good faith.
The provision is made by Lord
Mayor Walder so as to get rid of
grafters and to ensure that civic
managers will be men who have
been able to do something for
themselves.
“If a man cannot accumulate
$5,000 for himself, how on earth
can he attempt to manage a city cf
1,250,000?” asks the mayor.
PROTEST VISIT PRINCE
BELFAST, Oct., 25, —This city
does not want the Prince of Wales
to visit them nor dedicate a public
building next week. The protest
said such a visit at this time would
be more or less of an insult to the
Irish commonwealth.
WHAT THE H—!
WASHINGTON, D. C.. Oct. 26, —
President Hoover, meeting with of
ficials of the United Public Health
Association, said health units
should be established in every city
and community in the country.
INDOOR “SPORTS”
LOS ANGELES. Oct. 26, —E. L.
Hannon was taken into custody
Tuesday charged with embezz’ing
the sum of $3,800 from the North
American Building and Loan Asso
ciation of which he was cashier.
Next Saturday night KFQD will
broadcast the annual ball of the
Anchorage fire department by re
mote control.
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