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VOLUME XVI. NUMBER 204. SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1931. PRICE TEN CENTS
MU FLAG ON
THE NORTH ATLANTIC
' THREATENED, OFFICIAL
NEW YORK, Sept. 2. (/P)—For
mal protest against the Dollar
Xjne—Chapman bid for the Unit
ed States Lines, warning that the
American flag is threatened on i
the North Atlantic, has been made j
to the U. S. Shipping Board by;
P. A. Franklin, preident of the
International Mercantile Marine |
Company.
In a letter addressed to S. O
r Connor, chairman of the Board,
and made public, Franklin set
forth several reasons why the
Dollar-Chapman bid must be re-J
fused. The principle criticisms of ;
the bids are as follows: •
It was made on August 17, four;
days after the expiration of the
time for bids set by the shipping;
Board.
It does not provide actual cash.
It agrees to five sailings of the
Leviathan a year, when the max
imum required by the board is
seven. j
It does not stipulate into what,
service it will place the two new,
ships now being built at Camden,!
giving the group power to operate;
them in competition with other;
American ships.
OF NHL OFFICERS IS
• It
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2. (ZP) — j
The current administration policy
f muzzling utterances of naval of- j
fleers was attacked as harmful to:
the navy by Lieutenant Command
er F. E. M. Whiting, head of the
navy recruiting station at Newark,
N. J., in an article appearing in
the September issue of the United
States Naval Institute proceedings.
Calling attention to the fact that
pacificist organizations with large
funds were constantly attempting
to crush the navy. Whiting urged
capital officers to be permitted to
tell all the facts about the navy’s
status and its needs under present
conditions. He said only the paci
fist arguments reached the public.
GENERAL BUTLER TO RETIRE
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 2.
^?)—President Hoover approved;
^?ie application of Major General
S.nedley D. Butler for retirement;
from the Marine Corps on October i
1, after 33 years of service.
ORDERED TO SHOOT TO KILL
KILGORE, Texas, Sept. 2. (/P)—[
Instructed to shoot to kill, Na- (
tional Guardsmen patrolled the
mushroom oil town, seeking to!
prevent a recurrence of incen-1
ciarism which killed two and re- 1
suited in damage to buildings.
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PRISONER ELECTROCUTED
OSSINING, N. Y. Sept. 2. (fl>) — j
Harry Lipsichitz, 27 years of age, j
as electrocuted in Sing-Sing for j
‘He fatal stabbing last September j
of a fellow prisoner Joseph R.
jgSiune with whom he quarreled over
the proceeds of a bank embezzle
ment prior to their imprisonment.
SOME SPEED
CHICAGO, Sept. 1. (/P) — Jimmy
Doolittle, famous aviator, piloted a
secretly constructed plane at a
speed which he announced as 2c’
miles per our over the Ashburn
course. He said the plane would
probably do 300 miles per hour af
ter it was properly broken in.
NEGOTIATIONS COMPLETED
GRANTING BRITAIN CREDIT
NEW YORK, Sept, 2. (>P) —J. P.
Morgan & Company announced the
negotations for the granting of a
$400,000,000 Franco-American cre
dit to the British government had
been completed and that the ere- ;
dit had become effective. '
The credit, which is to run for |
one year, is being furnished by ■
New York and Paris banking
groups.
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HIGH SOCIETY DIVORCE
RENO, Nev. Sept. 2. (/P)—Ru-1
mors were current in Reno social
circles that Cornelius Vanderbilt,
Jr., and Mrs. Marie Glass Mar
shal, who obtained a divorce from
Levin Rothrock Marshal, Jr., New
York social registrite, planned to
elope.
A check of their residences dis- !
closed that each had quietly de- j
parted for the East, Vanderbilt1
taking the 3:35 a. m. out for
Reno for Newport, R. I., while
Mrs. Glass took the early morning
train.
RETURN IN PLANE
TOKYO, Sept. 2. (TP) —Steamship !
agents said Colonel Lindbergh, in 1
an interview, said that he and Mrs. j
Lindbergh would return to Ameri- |
ca in the plane which bore them ,
to Japan from New York. The Col
onel, however, did not say which
route they would take after leaving
China, the next stage of their jour
ney'to the far East.
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INVALUABLE EXPERIENCES
SOUTHAMPTON, Eng. Sept. 2. (IP)
—Henry L. Stimson, the American
Secretary of State said as he board
ed the Leviathan for home, that
the experiences he gained in h
negotiations in Europe would be
invaluable to him in his office cap
acity.
TO BOLSTER MARKET
CHICAGO, Sept. 2. (£>)—'The pre
sident of the Cudahy Packing Co.,
announced in a telegram to all
the company’s branches that, be
ginnig at once and until December
first, it will spend 10 per cent of the
returns from its southern sales to
buy and store cotton In an effort
to bolster up the market.
BELIEVES WAS STRUGGLE
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 2. (A5) —
Police Inspector Allan McGinn,
head of the homicide detail said he
believes Mrs. Daisy Price, Navy of
ficer’s bride of six weeks, who re
cently died here after a fall from
her apartment window, struggled
with some one just before her fall
and that the telephone receiver was
knocked off during the gtrugglf,
UNIMPORTANT MUTTERS
BEFORE LEAGUE NATIONS
COUNCIL AT GENEVA
GENEVA, Sept. 2. (£>)—Delegates
to the 64th council of the League of
Nations fulfilled the general ex
pectation by adjourning after a
brief session at which only com
paratively unimportant matters
were discussed.
An offer by the government of
Brazil for the establishment at Rio
de Janiero of an international cen- j
ter for leprosy research was receiv- I
ed.
The chief topic of conversation
was the expected Hague Court ver
dict on the Austro-German union.
It was believed that the decision
had not yet been communicated
to Geneva, and that probably no
annoucement regarding it would
be made until later.
MEMORIAL FILED
ALBANY, N. Y., Sept. 2. (JP) —
A bill memorializing Congress to j
legalize the manufacture of beer, i
and wine by its author, Luis A.
Cuvillier, democratic assembly-man
from New York, to relieve unem
ployment and solve the agricul
tural problem was filed in the As
sembly.
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BALTIMORE. Md., Sept. 2. (/P)
—The assertion that women as
such, don’t need guardians, was
the action of a group of Mary
land business women to Prohi
bition Director Amos Woodcock’s
order, banning the employment of
members of their sex as informers
or “blinds” in enforcing the dry
law.
A letter acquainting him of
the attitude of the Business and
Professional Women’s Council of
Maryland was forwarded by the
Secretary and President, and as
serting his order was “outraging
to all sense of justice and fair
ness.”
B AS E BILL
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Portland 12, Sacramento 2.
Hollywood 6, Los Angeles 10.
Misions 5, San Francisco 3.
Seattle 7, Oakland 5. The game
lasted 11 innings.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Boston 3-1, New York 11-5.
Washington 5, Philadelphia 1.
Only American League games.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
New York 4, Boston 0.
Only National League game.
MAKE ANOTHER PIONER HOP
CHICAGO, Sept. 2. (ff) —Captain
Wolfgang Van Gronau, German
trans-Atlantic flier, arrived in Chi
cago late Tuesday evening ending
a pioneering flight. It is reported
he may fly across the country then
to Asia via the Aleutians. He stop
ped at Iceland, Greenland and Can
ada on the present flight.
A SENSIBLE RESOLUTION
BALBOA, C. Z. Sept. 2. (JP) —
The Panama Department of the
American Legion will submit a
resolution to the National Con
vention in September urging that
all materials for construction and
maintenance in the Canal Zone
be purchased from American!
manufacturers.
SHAHP TIFF INCREASES
RECOMMENDED CHILE
SANTIAGO, Chile. Sept. 2. (£>)
—Sharp increases in the tariff
on staple articles including rice
cotton, electrical goods, automo
biles and paper, were recommend
ed by acting president Manuel
Trucco in a message to Congress.
In a financial message accomp
anying the memorandum, he said
the tariffs might have a slight ef
fect on business but that drastic
steps might be taken to obtain a
favorable trade balance.
WINTER BE TURNING
POINT ENTIRE WORLD
BERLIN, Sept. 2. (/P>—“The com- j
mg winter will be the turning I
point in history, not for Ger-;
many alone, but for the entire i
world.
“The world is at the threshold of
great events which are threaten- i
ing to shake the very foundations
of civilization. Fifty per cent of
the working classes of Germany
are actual or- potential commun
ists, should the threatened crisis
develop,” so spoke Adolph Hitler,
National Socialist leader.
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BATLING BOZO TO EUROPE
ATLANTA, Sept. 2. (/P) —Batt
ling Bozo, the pugilist “Pagliacci”!
from Birmingham, will go to Eu
rope with the Striblings when W.
L., jr., goes abroad to start his
comeback for Jack Dickson. Pa
Stribling said he would take Bozo,
whom he also manages, along as
a side attraction. The clown is
signed to fight Babe Hunt, Ok
lahoma gusher, in Birmingham
soon.
CREDIT FOR DIVERSIFICATION j
OTTAWA, Sept. 2. (/P) —Officials
say that about half of the $5,
000,000 capital of the Dominion
agricultural credit company has
been subscribed. Its purpose is to
help Canadian farmers diversify
their crops, introduce poultry and
livestock and “live at home” in a
country where wheat has been
about the only source of income.
NARROW ESCAPE
MADRID, Spain, Sept. 2. (JP) _
A bomb was thrown through a win
dow of the Portugese Embassy. The
infernal machine landed in the
Chancellery of the Embassy where
the Ambasador and his secretary
were at work. Both escaped before
the bomb exploded, wrecking the
room.
UNCOVER COMMUNIST PLOT
SHANGHAI, Sept, 2. (^—Chi
nese authorities said they had
seized documents disclosing a
Communist plot to capture Han
kow, Wuchang and Hanyang after
the subsiding of the Yangtse River
flood, which already has caused
approximately 250,000 deaths in
the three cities.
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VESSEL, 20 GREW,
OFF WISH. COIST
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 2 (JP) —
A fiercely blazing mystery ship, her
crew of 20 men in imminent peril
of their lives lay three miles off
Long Beach, Washington, near the
entrance to the Columbia river.
Mantelled as she was in a huge
cloud of smoke which surrounded
her hull and toppled her masts,
her identity could not be learned.
Two coast guard cutters and life
saving* crews from North Cover at
Willapa Harbor and the Westport
station near Aberdeen were rushing
to her assistance, hoping to rescue
the crew before the flames made
rescue impossible. Meager reports
that trickled through from the first
to the sight of the burning ship
said that she was a sailing schooner
of approximately 2200 gross tons.
She was not equipped with wire
less, and the flames had evidently
gained great headway before the
distress of the vessel was observed.
Effort of the marine department
of the Chamber of Commerce, in
surance companies and the Asso
ciated Press to identify the strick- .
en vessel proved unavailing.
As far as is shown by records at
the marine department there is no
vessel of that type in the vicinity
of the disaster.
PARIS, Sept. 2. (VP) —France and
the United States will open credits
totaling $400,000,00 for Great Bn
tain, each being responsible for
$200,000,0 according to the terms
of an agreement announced.
The agreement was reached by
representatives of the British and
French treasuries by officials of the
Bank of England and the Bank of
France and a group of French bank
ers. So far as France’s credit is
concerned about $190,000,000 of her
advance will be put at England’s
disposal by a private bank.
PLANE IS SAFE
PRINCE ALBERT, Saskatchewan,
Sept. 2. (£>)—Missing since Sun
day, an airplane party of six
persons, including former Attorney
General T. C. Davis, has been
found safe, said a brief message
received here from the north.
APPROVE CONTRACTS
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2. (£>)_
The War Department announced
approval of contracts for 71 air
planes and 92 engines and other
equipment at a cost of $2,571,577.77.
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INCREASE INCOME TAXES
ALBANY, N. Y., Sept. 2. (JP) _
Governor Franklin Roosevelt, who
is regarded as a possible presiden
tial candidate in 1932, wrote a pre
scription for ‘New York State un
employment, involving an appro
pi iation of $20,000,000 to be raised,
by increased income taxes,