“Federal Officials Cannot Lawfully be Appointed to any Territorial Office.”
__ —Attorney General of Alaska John Rustgard.
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MEM HER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXVIII. NUMBER 16.
SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1932.
PRICE TEN CENTS
FRANCE DESIROUS
OF 1 EXTENSION
SUGGEST POSTPONEMENT CON
FERENCE UNTIL AFTER
ELECTIONS
WASHINGTON. D. C„ Jan. 20, —
France lias made overtures for an
extension of the Hoover morator
ium on inter-governmental debts,
in a semi-official note and in a dip
lomatic feeler sent to Washington.
The note said that the French
'f and British governments favored
a renewal on moratorium on pay
ments due from Germany for six
months or a year from next July
1 when it will otherwise expire.
The extension would be worked
out by financial experts. The Amer
ican government in turn would be
asked to give European creditors
of Germany, who. are creditors of
the United States, a moratorium
on their war debts for the same
perod.
Authoritive quarters in London
earlier denied overtures had been
made to America for a possible ex
tension of the moratorium but in
dicated that the world’s repara
tions conference at Lausanne will
consider extending the moratorium
- six months.
The conference is t e n t a tively
.scheduled for next Monday. France
suggested postponement of the con
fqrence until after the elections
m America, Germany and France
this year are over.
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TO MAKE
NEW YORK, Jan. 20. i/P) — Geo
graphical observations in the vi
cinity of the Arctic Circle are to
i>e made by George A. Thorne and
Christopher Broathen, two mem
bers of the Byrd Antarctic expedi
tion, who hopped off from Roose
velt Field for Alaska Tuesday.
The fliers said they expected to
make the trip in a leisurely fash
on via Chicago, Minneapolis, Seat
tle, and up the coast to Nome. They
expect to reach Nome in five weeks
and also expect to be gone about
^ ?ive months.
They are flying a cabin mono
plane which can be converted into
an amphibian and is also equipped
arith skiis.
SGHMELING WILL MEET
SUM NEXT Jit
NEW YORK, Jan. 19, —Joe Ja
cobs, manager of Max Schmeling,
neavyweight boxing champion o 1
t,he world, announced that a 15
round bout would be staged next
June between Schmeling and Jack
Sharkey of Boston.
The National Boxing Commission
recently ruled that the Bostonian
was the outstanding challenger in
ihe United States.
Schmeling said that he was tir
<,d of being accused of ducking a
fight with the sailor.
PROMISED JOB
SEATTLE, Jan. 20. (/P)—-Charged
* v:ith grand larceny by swindling
1 Albert Kunde out of $50 by a prom
ise of a job in Juneau, C. M. War
; riner, promoter, awaited a justice
; court trial here. The prosecutor’s
| office said Warriner admitted Ite
had no position for Kunde at Ju
;neau but that he needed the
I money.
II ENFORCEMENT OF
HAWAII TO OF PURGED
POLITICAL INFLUENCES
| HONOLULU, Jan. 20. (/P)—Hope
ful of providing Hawaii with new
| regulations designed to purge its
1 lawT enforcement machinery of po
litical influences which have been
charged with responsibility for the
recent wave of high crime here,
the Territorial Legislature is meet
ing in a special session.
Action which will be satisfactory
to Congress has been asked to pre
vent the state and status of the
Territorial government from being
; changed.
Fear has been expressed in some
! quarters that if conditions report
j ed by the Navy Department, al
; though disputed here by officials,
; were to continue that the Governor
I would be supplanted by a Naval
1 head, as in the case of Samoa.
TOM GAMBLE INDICTED
KETCHIKAN, Jan. 20. (/P) — A
Grand Jury here returned an in
; dictment of first degree murder
'against Tom Gamble, held in jail
'in Juneau and who is accused of
slaying Lyle Davis at Chichagof
Island recently. Davis died in a
Juneau hospital from knife wounds.
I It is understood Gamble will be
tried when the court convenes
there.
SURVEYORS TESTIFY
5
VICTORIA, B. C., Jan. 19, —Two
surveyors, Col. W. S. Holmes and
'Arthur C. Noakes, testified in the
' Admiralty court that official maps
recently published, located Trial
|Island lighthouse erroneously, in
the trial to confiscate the Tacoma
1 fishing boat St. Patrick.
The vessel was charged with il
legal fishing in Canadian waters.
J The engineers added that there
j were three other errors in the maps.
In Alaska, we call it the Aurora
Borealis. In the South a similar
display of the scintillating heavens
is called Aurora Australis.
I FOREIGN MINISTER OF
i GHINO SOUNDS WARNING
; NANKING, Jan. 20. (IP)—The Jap
anese reply to the United States
note on Manchuria was “imperti
nent to America and insulting to
China,” Foreign Minister Eugene
Chen declared.
Chen stated that the “reply did
not help the effectiveness of the
open door policy in China and was
an attempt to justify the Japan
ese with respect to the Nine Power
Treaty.
Chen warned that Japan is “pre
paring for a general war” on China.
'
A marked tribute of respect and j
of the public esteem held for Al- '
fred Fred Johnston, who died Sun- j
day, was paid him in the Catholic
Church this morning which over
flowed with friends in attendance
1 at the solemn but beautiful fun
i eral mass.
Illustrating proper living in the
spirit, rather than that of the
body, Rev. J. Allard, O.M.I., told the
! story of Saint Cecelia and of early
; martyrs to the Christian faith; of
the honor and reverence paid to
them down through the centuries.
A refulgent eulogy to the deceased
, was made in which Reverend Ai
j and the devotion and love for his
; lard spoke of the faultless life led
beloved wife and children. In end
. ing, the Reverend thanked and
blessed the attendance for respect
; they had shown for the departed
one.
j The liturgic ceremony of the
Roman Catholic Church, with its
credenda, organ and choir and
choir boys, was very impressive.
Following last holy rites, the pall
bearers, G. Manthey, Fred Keilches
| ki, Geo. Colwell, Col McDougal, R.
Kerns and R. Reed, conveyed the
casket to the hearse which was
followed to the mortuary, where,
under a wonderful bower of floral
offerings from friends along the
entire railroad belt, the body will
lie in state prior to interment in
the Seward Cemetery.
“All that is earthly is ended,
“And the life of heaven begins.”
NORTHWESTERN StF.ll
FROM SEUTTlf TUE5DK
SEATTLE. Jan. 20, (/Pt—The SS
Northwestern, of the Alaska Steam
ship Company, sailed Tuesday at
9 a. m. for Alaska with 85 passen
gers on board. 17 for Seward as fol
lows:
Hall (Bob), A. B. Haynes, Bur
! nett Bryant, Tony McDonald, Mrs.
V. F. Moehring, Gus Raymond, Fr.
F. M. Menager, Julian Hurley, Tom
Hall, H. L. Blunt, E. Johanson, Mr.
and Mrs. S. Shea, Mrs. M. Glynn,
Grace Lowe, Miss Martin and Lee
Paker.
IWICKUM FILES FOR
j RENQMINATION OF POST
JUNEAU, Jan. 20. UP) — Judge
James Wickersham, Delegate to
Congress from Alaska, filed his
candidacy here Tuesday for renom
ination as Delegate to Congress at
the Republican primaries in April.
E. A. Rasmusson of Cordova filed
for Republican National Commit
teeman. It is reported that Capt.
A. E. Lathrop, incumbent, is re
j tiring at the end of his term.
Commissioner of Education W. K.
Keller, Republican, announced he
would be a candidate for renomina
tion to his present post.
Successful fishermen must know
habits of fish.
MORE OUTBREAKS
BILBAO, Spain, Jan. 20. (JP)—A
mob of 3,000 Communists besieged
the jail yesterday in an attempt to
lynch 41 Catholic prisoners as the
result of an outbreak of a general
strike throughout Spain. Thirty ar
tillery men stood off the crowd
with guns and sabres ready and
prison authorities agreed to release
two Communist prisoners to ap
pease the rioters.
NEW LEVEE BREAK IS
JACKSON, Miss., Jan. 20. (/P)—
Flood waters from four major
breaks in the main levee system of
| the Tallahatchie River, in northern
Mississippi Valley, imperiled thous
ands of lives in the Tippo Basin.
Rescue workers manned 250 pad
dle skiffs and 50 motorboats to save
; families marooned on house tops.
| Urgent appeals for more boats and
I food to supply overcrowded refugee
; camps were made throughout the
jSouth.
i As extra relief measures appear
| to be necessary as a result of con
tinued and increased flood suffer
I ing in the Tallahatchie River, the
; Attorney General has begun an in
j vestigation to determine what can
be done to aid the flood sufferers
. and whether or not the State Guard
1 can help those stricken in any way
A new break in levees has caused
about 15,000 acres more to be sub
merged in water and residents oi
the area have been forced to seek
refuge on roof tops, and in trees.
Greenwood, a town of 15,000 in
habitants, is now threatened bj
the rising waters and Coast Guards
men have been dispatched to the
flood area in six powerboats anc
will be used to aid in carrying flood
victims to places of safety.
I Hi Tins OF
HEW YORK DISCUSSED
I
NEW YORK, Jan. 20. (/P)—Mayoi
James Walker and a committee oi
New York bankers met secretly tc
devise ways and means of averting
a financial collapse of New Yorl
City.
One of the subjects discussed, il
is understood, was the refinancing
of $32,500,000 short term notes nov
due. New York’s tax collection;
are due May 1. Between now anc
that time, it will be necessary tc
finance obligations amounting tc
$150,000,000.
DEPOSED BOH EMPEROR
MAY RE MB HUE
MUKDEN, Jan. 20. {&)—Chines(
War Lords here who are endeavor
ing to set up a Manchurian stat<
separate from China are now pon
dering as to who will be the first
president. Among the names sug
gested of persons who are to fil
the post is that of Henry Puyi, de
posed boy emperor.
Details of the new state are be
ing worked out and the government
will be a compromise between £
republican form of government anc
the cumbersome council system o:
China.
LIKELY PRESIDENT
HENRY PUYI IS IN CLOSELY
GUARDED RETIREMENT
AT PORT ARTHUR
NANKING, Jan. 20. (/P) — The
| Chinese government has decided to
| order the arrest of Hsuan Tung,
; the former boy Emperor, n<>w
' known c.s Henry Puyi. Nanking dis
patches .said.
He will be charged, the dispatch
asserted, with sedition and aiding
i the Japanese in Manchuria. A
j number of other prominent Chinese
’ and Manchurians will be ordered
1 arrested also.
Henry Puyi is in a closely guard
' ed retirement near Port Arthur and
is slated to be the first president
; of the new separate government of
' Manchuria, it was reported in some
| quarters, according to Mukden dis
! patches.
! In the numerous press forecast.-,
j of the makeup of the new regime,
; there were significant blanks when;
| the name of the president should
! have appeared.
FOR INDEPENDENCE
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 20.
I <7P)—A bill providing for the inue -
: pendence of the Philippines within
j 20 years in conformity to a state’s
| economic requirements was intro -
: duced by Senator Vanderburg, Re *
i publican of Michigan.
S, DEMI ILL
ATTEMPT TO OPPOSE
S NAVAL BE005T1*
GENEVA, Jan. 20. (/P)—Disarma -
ments advocates, who have been
looking for a reduction of both land
and naval forces at the forthcom
ing meeting, are somewhat disap
pointed in Secretary of State Stim
' son’s instructions to his member
delegates to the Arms Conference.
► Stimson has instructed his col
: leagues to oppose Naval limitation,
: and particularly the limitation of
big ships. He made it plain to the
, delegates that they should concen
; irate on a reduction of land arma
’ ments in an effort to “pigeon-hole”
> any big Naval disarmament.
As the United States has rela
► tively the smallest army in the
> world a reduction of land forces
will not affect the country in any
way.
CHINA m SEVER HER
DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS
NANKING, Jan. 20. (#)—'The sev
> erance of diplomatic relations with
■ Japan is imminent as a result of the
, Japanese occupation in Manchuria,
• the official Chinese news agency,
l Koumin, announced.
Meanwhile, the government is in
voking the Nine Power Treaty and
■ the Kellogg Pact, sent by Secre
; tary of State Stimson to Japan and
t China. This was made clear in a
[ speech by Sun Foo, who holds a
] post corresponding to Premier, be
fore a group of Chinese officials.