PRES. HOOVER NAMES
THREE DELEGATES TO
ARMS CONFERENCE
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 24.
{JP)—President Hoover named Mary
Emma Wooley, president of Mount
Holyoke College of Connecticut, as
the woman member of the Amer
ican delegation to the arms meet
at Geneva in February.
Charles G. Dawes, present United
States Ambassador to England and
America’s unofficial delegate to the
League of Nations session at Paris,
will head the American delegation.
Senator Swanson will be the third
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VOLUME XXVII. NUMBER 271
SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1931
PRICE TEN CENTS
The Santa Claus
from Minsk
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A SHORT, SHORT
Izzy Lubinovich was well pie;
fully justified, for tucked away in
shirt, his vest and coat tightly butl
many bills of appreciable dimensi
deal.
Ten days before, attired in rai
ment which readily stamped him a;
a denizon of the Ghetta, he hac
stood before a string of raw furs
displayed just within the door o:
Abe Rosnik. Abe’s specialty wai
dealing in furs. Thru this agencj
he had amassed sufficient to en
able him to strike his tent in the
Ghetto and move into a moderr
apartment. In leaving the Ghette
he had left behind him many ole
associations, Abe jno longer xe
juired their influence, and his for
tune had exerted a tremendous pull
:oward the upper strata of Hebrew
society. Although he had arrived
it Ellis Island in a herd of refu
gees from Minsk fleeing the new
)rder in Russia, he now looked up
>n similar arrivals as people to be
shunned. In other words, Abe was
t bit snobbish.
Slyuf'fling timitly forward, Izzy
;azed critically at the furs, ap
proached closer, ran his fingers
>ver their silky sheen, then shoved
lis hands into the elongated sleeves
>f his shabby coat, and continued
0 gaze.
Izzy’s meditations were inter
■upted by being elbowed aside by
1 well-dressed individual, who en
ered the vestibule, glanced fur
ively at the shabby stranger and
vas in the act of passing on. Na
tive instinct told him that here
night be a customer. Even though
lis business was, for the most part,
:onducted by retainers, Abe could
lot break himself of plunging Into
he fray when profit loomed.
“Something, a question, you
hould want to know?” he asked,
►estowing a patronizing smile upon
zzy.
“How much you make it the price
in them marten?" he asked.
“Oh, veil, them’s not—for sale,
fait a minute. You vant It I
CHRISTMAS STORY
ised with himself. In this, he was
a wallet, stowed within his flannel
oned over it, was a wallet containing
3ns, the result of an adroit business
.«---—
;! should sell you marten. I do H
I; only a cash business, you under
j stand—unless maybe you got i
' j friends whose note might be gooc
j at the Gottleib bank? Well, den
> marten, you make finished furs'
r | Oser, iss you a trader?”
“I tan, I make, I sell,” stam
! mered Izzy, in evident effort tc
t select the correct English for mak
► > ing his wants known.
I ‘‘I make, let’s see, ein zwei, drei
feur, fimpf—take ’em all at fimpl
und siebensich each, that is $5.70,
j ten fine marten skins, $57.00. It’s
! a bargain I vould not giff even a
• | man who had always been a friend
;of mine.”
“I should like it something a hun
jnert marten for the order which
11 got it to be filled by Christmas—
a chentile, which he has a lady
; friend, y’ understand. I pay cash
j and take the skins now, Oder you
;can fill it out de hunnert, maybe
i ten days.”
| “Sure, we got from a t’ousand
marten coming right away quick,
; so soon as our buyers arrive, which
,lemme see, Mitwoch—that is Wed
nesday.”
Digging deep beneath his shaggy
i vest, Izzy produced ten ragged
; banknotes showing that they had
‘ long reposed in his equally worn
I wallet, added a five and a two, ac
! cepted the furs, along with Abe’s
'.promise to deliver 90 marten skins
| at $5.70 each within ten days.
Well, beyond the limits of Ros
nik’s door, Abe turned to Mole Kol
zosky: “Take this order and fill it
right away from the store room.
Such a schiamiel dem immigrants.
I just sold him ten mink skins
for marten, and Wednesday we de
liver 90 more out of that bundle of
seconds.”
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(Pleue turn tv Pat* Sev*v.)
! member.
The arms delegation party will
leave the United States at Hoboken,
N. j., on January 20, enroute to
the Geneva international meet. The
sessions may last as long as seven
or eight months.
WELCOMES FOLKS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 24.
(/P) President Herbert Hoover toss- \
ed aside his cares as executive of
the nation to welcome his two blue
eyed grancliildren to the White
House. Both Hoover and Mrs. Hoo
ver had a warm welcome for Mr.
and Mrs. Herbert, Jr., and their
two children, Peggy Ann and Peter,
who arrived at the White House to
spend the holidays.
AVIATOR i COPE
| SALVAGES PUNE
I
i
I REPLACES PONTOONS ON SHI
WITH SKIIS AND TAKES
OFF ON SNOW
I
’ | SEATTLE. Dec. 24. (/?)—The Seat
' I tie Times said that Alonzo Cop*
| pilot of the Pacific Internationa
' j Airways, after siwashing it for fiv
1 weeks in the open snow of an in
• terior plain, is safe at Unalaklee
with the airplane which he sal
vaged from a mishap which oc
curred last summer.
* The mishap which occurred las
summer was when a plane equippe*
with pontoons was forced down 01
the tundra and as the plane ha<
pontoons on, it was impossible V
get it back into the air and Cop<
abandoned it.
Last month Cope went out b;
i dog team carrying sklis which ha<
previously been set up for th*
plane. He then worked on th<
plane in the open and when he hac
replaced* the pontoons with skit
he awaited favorable weather anc
snow to take off.
He flew the ship from the tun
| dra fastness to Unalakleet yester
| day.
IUIIL ISLAND PRISONERS
TO HELP NEEOT HUS
TACOMA, Dec. 24. (J-P)—Prisoners
of McNeil Island, near here, may
! not have much opportunity to en
| joy a real Christmas but this does
■not stop them from doing some
thing to help make Christmas more
enjoyable to others.
Walter Finch Archer, a prisoner
at McNeil’s, yesterday turned over
the sum of $800 which will be given
to needy families. Archer said the
money was turned in to him by
prisoners.
The Stock Market
SEATTLE, Dec. 24. (^—Yester
day’s quotations on the stock mar
ket:
Alaska Juneau .12%
American Can .61 %
Borden .36
Canada Dry .11
General Motors.22%
International Nickle Can . 7%
International Tel. & Tel. 8%
Kennecott Copper .11%
Radio . 5%
Reynolds Tobacco (b).*.. 33
Richfield Oil . %
Standard Oil of Calif.23%
Standard Oil of N. J.26%
Standard Oil of N. Y. 9
Union Oil of Calif.12%
U. S. Steel .37%
Cities Service . 5
Durant Motors . %
REORGANIZE GOVERNMENT
CANTON, Dec. 24. (IP) — Prom
inent leaders here expect the for
matron of a new government im
mediately. At the present tim
government details are handled b
foreigners and civil service worker;
LONE ROBBER TAKES
U9 CURRENCY
FROM POSTOFFICI
i
e! HELD TWO MEN AT BAY WHIL1
. ! HE SCOOPED CURRENCY
f j INTO BRIEF CASE
SEATTLE, Dec. 24. (.P)—A lorn
bandit, armed with two guns, helc
t up the cashier’s office of the Mair
i Seattle Postoffice late Wednesdaj
i and escaped with approximate!}
i $20,000.
> The patrons were in a lobby a
J few feet away when the robber, ap
parently familiar with the building
< and office procedure, stepped intc
l the cashier’s office through a sec
; tion of the office barred to the pub
* lie, where O. P. Hale, chief stamp
L clerk, and E. A. Chiewood, his as
> sistant, sat at a desk counting the
1 day’s stamp receipts. This oc
curred after 5 p. m.
The robber covered the two men
with a revolver and an automatic
and swept the large stack of cur
rency from the desk into a brief
| case. Then he went to the safe
1 and scooped up several other sacks
j of currency while he held Hale and
| Chiewood at bay with the threat
j ening pistol. After he had scooped
| up the money he escaped through
the same door he entered and min
gled with the crowd to make his
escape.
The robber was described as be
ing a man of about 35 years of
age, six feet tall. He wore a cap
which was pulled down well over
his eyes. Hale and Chiewood said
that his breath smelled strongly of
liquor.
HOOVER SIGNS MORATORIUM
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 24.
(IP) — President Hoover Tuesday
boldly signed his name to the mora
torium measure as passed by the
Senate and House and thus ended
all legal obstacles which can keep
it from going into effect.
PRE-CISTIS ms
NEW YORK, Dec. 23. (A*)—Three
score of prohibition agents raided
five supper and night clubs Tues
day night in a sweeping drive in
which it is said that the aggregate
value of seized furnishings and
equipment would run into several
hundred thousand and possibly $1,
000,000.
Agents said that the total num
ber of arrests as resulting from the
raids would probably number about
100.
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CHINESE TO FIT
TO Hi IN THE
LEAGUE OF NATIONS DISTURBED
OVER “SPUNK” OF THE
CHINESE
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-. TOKYO, Dec. 24. (JF)—An active
j engagement by Japanese forces and
, I Chinese irregulars was reported to
JI be in progress Wednesday in an
| area north of Mukden. No details
(as to the progress of the battle or
casualties were received.
; A Chinese repersentative has told
1 Aristide Briand of France, chair
. man of the League of Nations, that
r the Chinese at Chin Chow will do
everything in their power to pre
vent the Japanese from, driving
them away from this position.
Briand became somewhat fluster
ed over this word as it may be taken
that if the Chinese do not intend
to withdraw and if the Japanese are
determined to have the Chinese out
of this area that a real battle will
result.
The Chinese force of irregulars
l at Chin Chow is said to number
25,000. The number In the Japan -
ese force which is converging to
I attack on Chin Chow is not known.
Japanese airplanes continued to
drop bombs on stray groups of
Chinese irregulars with a result
that they have been driven out of
many villages and towns which
they occupied and the Japanese
ground forces have advanced to oc
cupy the evacuated towns and vil
lages.
TOM MOONEY IS MORE
HOPEFUL THHN EVER
SAN QUENTIN, Dec. 23. (/P)—Tom
Mooney will not be released in time
to enjoy Christinas this year out
side of prison walls but he is hope
ful that this Christmas may be his
last inside the prison.
The coming Christmas will be
Mooney's 16th to be spent inside
the prison yet he is more cheerful
now than ever and has asked for a
personal interview with Governor
Rolph.
Meanwhile, Mooney is busy help -
ing prepare foT the prison Christ
mas dinner.
SHOT BY GIRLS
NEW DELHI, India, Dec. 24. (<P)—
District Magistrate Charles Stevens
was shot and killed by two Ben
gali school girls as he sat in his
office. The girls are Miss S. Ghose,
daughter of a professor, and Miss
S. Chowdhuri.
There will be no paper published
tomorrow — Christmas Day. The
Postoffice, Bank, School and most
business houses in Seward will also
lock the front door for the day.