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VOLUME XXVII. NUMBER 214.
SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1931.
PRICE TEN CENTS
LABOR CHIEF MIES
SUGGESTIONS IMPROVE
VANCOUVER, Oct-, 16, (JP)—
President William Green, of the
American Federation of Labor at
the conclusion of a Labor Con
ference, handed Delegates his of
ficial approved unemployment re
lief program for America and the
Delegates are now enroute home
* to put their ideas into practice
President Green stood pledged
on the program that “Congress be
demanded for appropriations to
relieve every hungry man, woman
and child in the country,” and
that if the nation failed to come
to the aid of the unemployment
situation adequately, other ways
would be necessary to bring about
^ an improvement.
Chief points of the program to
keep up the purchasing power,
shorter working hours, prohibition
c-f child labor, national planning
to balance production and con
sumption, and having of employ
ers take on more workers, creation
of work thru public buildings con
struction, the strengthening of
employment agencies, more even
distribution of wealth thru the
taxation of the higher brackets
and the stimulation of industry
^ :hru the brewing of mild beer.
JAPANESE OFFICIAL SAYS
CHINCHOW BOMBING
WAS IN SELF DEFENSE
^ TOKYO, Oct., 16, (/P)—Com
menting on a Washington dis
patch saying President Hoover
had discussed with his Cabinet
the bombing by Japanese of Chin
Chow, Manchuria, a War Depart
ment official here said: “It is de
plorable that the American gov
ernment, owing to lack of proper
information, has been misled by
false propaganda on the part of
the Chinese to the extent of call
ing a Cabinet meeting to discuss
iy this matter.
“The military authorities place
the fullest confidence in the
American government’s sense of
justice and trust that Washington
will appreciate Japan’s position
when the Foreign Office fully ex
plains that the Chinchow action
was entirely in self defense, as
^ was stated.”
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HAVE TALK ON PROBLEMS
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BERLIN, Oct. 16. (A5)—President
Paul von Hindenburg, supreme
commander of the German armies
in the World war, and Adolph Hit
ler, who served most of the war in
the ranks, talked as equals for more
than an hour about the foreign and
domestic problems of Germany.
It was the first meeting between
the gruff 84-year-old president and
the comparatively young leader of
the strongest opposition to the gov
ernment, the National Socialists,
who want to repudiate the Treaty
of Versailles and establish a rule
of brownshirts similar to the black
shirt regime of Italy.
STAY OF SENTENCE
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 16. </P)—Don
Moyle, of the Moyle and Allen flight
team, has secured a stay of sen
tence until November 2, in order to
make personal appearances. He is
to begin his 30-day sentence for
traffic law violation on that day.
ARMED SOLDIERS SROOT
001 FOUR ECUADOR
CIVILIANS IN STREETS
QUITO, Ecuador. Oct. 16. (/P)—
Provisional President Luis Larrea
Alba has surrendered his office to
Alfred Moreno, president of the
Senate, who immediately took
charge of the government.
The transfer of power was made
; known after Alba appointed the
: president of the Senate as Minis
j ter of the Interior. Before relin
I quishing his position Alba accepted
the resignation of the entire min
istry.
Guayaquil soldiers attempted to
set Provisional President Alba up
as a dictator and bombarded the
said they apparently failed, but
barracks. Reports received at Quito
casualties occurred when angry ci
vilians, startled out of their sleep
by the bombardment, gathered in
the streets and stoned the forces
that called for dictatorship. The
troops fired into the crowd and
killed four of the group.
HOOVER WILL OPEN OLYMPICS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 16. </P>
—President Hoover accepted an
invitation to open the Olympic
Games in Los Angeles next July.
Louis B. Mayer, a special repre
sentative of California, presented
the President with an elaborately
bound invitation to attend the
great athletic event which will be
gin July 30, 1932.
EX-MARINE OFFICER
ROW IN LOS ANGELES
I LOS ANGELES, Oct. 15. UP)—
iSmedley Butler, retired Marine of
ficer, in Los Angeles, approved of
the plan whereby criminals are re
quired to register with authorities
within 48 hours after their arrival
in the city or they will be guilty
of violating a Los Angeles code
and are thus liable to arrest,
i Butler also said that it was a
good idea to arrest known criminals
on the least suspicion just to show
them that it does not take much
before law hails them into court
and incidentally “it takes the crim
inals out of circulation for that
while.”
BULLET-RIDDLED BODY FOUND
CHICAGO, Oct. 16. (£>) —Frieda
McEarlan, known as the wife of
Frank McEarlan, beer runner, was
found dead in a parked automobile,
her body riddled with bullets fired
from a machine gun. At her feet
were the bodies of two dogs who
also had been shot and killed.
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ELECTED PRESIDENT
VIENNA, Oct. 16. (IP)—W. Miklas
was re-elected President of Austria
by the Federal assembly instead of
by a nation-wide election as pro
vided in the recent modified con
stitution. Election by the assem
bly was permitted to save $440,000
which a national election would
have cost.
SEATTLE WIFE SLAVER
IS ARRESTED THROUGH
EFFORTS OF HE MAN
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 16. UP)—Ev
erett Frank Lindsay, sought sinct*
April of 1930 for the murder of his
wife Audrey, of Seattle, was trapped
and arrested last night through
the efforts of a restaurant man who
read the story about Lindsay in a
Detective magazine.
Police said that Lindsay con
fessed and waived extradition. Se
attle Sheriff Bannick is sending
two deputies to bring him back.
William Eanborn, 25 years of age,
for whom Lindsay worked as a
cook, read the story detailing Lind
I say’s personal habits and recog
nized the description of the man
who worked for Jiim. Lindsay quit
working for Sanborn but Sanborn
renewed his acquaintance and
tricked him into putting his fin
j gerprints on a postcard to confirm
| his suspicions and' then told the
I police.
POLITICAL LEADERS OF
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LONDON, Oct. 16. (/P)—Divergent
views on tariff were expressed by
Conservative and Liberal leaders
as they fired the opening guns in
the campaign of the national party
for the backing of the country in
its attempt to restore Great Brit
ain to a sound economic and finan
cial basis.
Stanley Baldwin, Conservative,
urged the people to support the
national government, but went on
to declare that “tariff is the quick
est and most effective weapon to
reduce excessive imports and to
enable us to persuade other coun
tries to lower their tariff walls.”
At the same time Sir Herbert
Samuel, Liberal who broke with
David Lloyd George, his party
leader, on the free trade principle,
made a speech in which he showed
strong free trade leanings himself
by declaring “we Liberals are
against taxing food imports and
won’t agree to it.” Meanwhile, with
six separate factions in the field,
the outcome is dubious.
OVERRULE JAPAN
GENEVA, Oct. 16. (/P)—Members
of the League of Nations Council,
discussing the Sino-Japanese con
troversey, have overruled the de
sire of the Japanese delegation to
keep out the delegates from the
United States from the discussions,
They pointed out, however, that
they are doing everything to make
it easy for Japan..
RAISE REDISCOUNT RATES
WASHINGTON, Oct., 16, (A5)—
The Boston and Cleveland Federal
Reserve Banks raised their redis
count rates one-half percent. The
rate in Boston is now two and
one-half percent while in Cleve
land it is three percent.
WILL COMPETE
TORONTO, Oct. 16. (VP)—Unset
tled economic conditions will not
stop the Canadian A. A. U. from
sending representatives to compete
in the Olympic Games at Los An
geles in 1932.
TRADE BALANCE
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 16. (/P)
—The United States had a favor
able trade balance of $10,000,000
during September as compared with
the unfavorable trade balance of |
! $1,847,000 for the month of August.
i WASHINGTON, D. C„ Oct. 16. (ff)
j —All the resources of the Federal
j government were supporting Amer
ican banking, railroad and shipping
interests in a fresh assault on do
mestic depression while the Hoover
; administration opened the door to
| a complete revision of inter-gov
j ernmental debts for the economic
| relief of the world,
i The original suggestion of Pres
! ident Hoover for an extension of
| the debt moratorium has crystal
| ized sentiment among Congression
i al leaders for a reconsideration and
! revision of all inter-governmental
debt agreements.
It would not be surprising if the
administration announced a defin
ite program shortly for relieving
Europe by reducing armaments as
| well as reparations.
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ARE DIVORCED
CHICAGO, Oct., 16, (A5)—Harold
F, McCormack, millionaire har
| vester manufacturer, and Ganna
; Walska, the Polish singer, were
divorced after a brief hearing be
fore Judge Daniel P. Trude. He
charged desertion- There was no
contest.
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PRIG Cm NOT OUT
HEAVYWEIGHT PICTOIE
j RENO, Oct. 16. (/P)—Primo Car
nera, the Giant Venetian who re
cently lost a 15-round bout to Jack
Sharkey, is by no means out of the
heavyweight picture, says Jack
Dempsey, who himself is staging
a comeback attempt to win the
world’s heavyweight championship
I crown.
Dempsey said that the big fellow
| was green and the fight with Shar
Ikey was his first real battle. Of
I Sharkey, Dempsey said that he has
undoubtedly won the right for a
fight with Max Schmeling for the
heavyweight crown.
NO HOPE
WEST ORANGE, N. J., Oct. 16.
(/P)—Thomas A. Edison, ill at his
home here, sank into a coma from
which there is no hope, according
to his personal physician, Dr. Hu
bert S. Howe.
FORWARD PETITION
NEW YORK, Oct. 16. (/P)—Ridge
wood women’s Republican unit for
warded a petition to Governor
Larson asking that Mrs. D. W. Mor
row be appointed to the seat in the
Senate recently vacated by the
death of her husband.
ELIMINATES GUESSWORK
NEW YORK, Oct. 16. OP)—J. L.
Wilson, assistant surveyor of the
American Bureau of Shipping, has
invented a stability meter for elim
inating guesswork in measuring the
stability of ships at sea. The de
vice was termed “revolutionary
from a viewpoint of safety at sea.”
ElllllTE TO SEATTLE
TO CLAIM BOOT OF SON
QUINCY, Mass., Oct. 16. (^—Wil
liam Woodley is enroute to Seattle
to claim the body of his son. Father
George H. Woodley, who was killed
on a sheep hunting trip in the
Chickaloon area, in Alaska. It is
understood that another son, Ar
thur, is taking the body to Seattle
by airplane.
According to an announcement
over radio station KFQD of An
chorage last night, the body of Fr.
Woodley was to be held in Anchor
age until a connection with the SS
Alameda could be made and the
body wnuld then be taken to Sew
ard and trans-shipped on the Al
ameda to Seattle, then to be taken
to New York for burial.
A LARGE CROP
WASHINGTON, Oct., 16, (JP)—
With cotton prices at the lowest
levels in recent years, the Depart
ment of Agriculture predicted the
United States cotton crop for 1931
,and 1932 will be 16 284,000 bales,
the second largest crop in the
country’s history, and more than
2,352.000 bales greater than the
crop ginned in 1930.
I
JIM JUNCTIONS
AND TRICKS BOMBED
OK JAPANESE PLANES
PEIPING, Oct., 16, (/P)—Reports
from Chinese sources which could
not be confirmed said that Jap
anese airplanes circled over Tang
shan, a mining town 75 miles
north of Tientsin, on this side of
the great wall.
On the heels of word from
(Shanghai that Japanese planes
| had destroyed the railway junc
tion at Ta o n a n, Manchurian
; headquarters said that a Japanese
: armored train blew up a section
| of the track at Tungliao Junction,
1200 miles northwest of Mukden.
| This report said that 40 soldiers
: aided by Japanese civilians, plant
ed the explosives which cut the
line in 26 places.
SPAIN'S GOVERNMENT
REJECTS CATHOLIC FAITH
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MADRID, Oct. 16. (JP)—'The Span
ish national assembly, by a vote
of 267 to 41, approved Article 3 of
the new republican constitution re
ljecting the Catholic religion as the
| religion of the State,
j Shortly after the assembly’s vote
! was made known a special police
| guard charged a large meeting of
I labor groups in the Puerta del Sol
in the center of Madrid, who were
beginning a demonstration and cry
ing, “Down with the church.”
Stores and business houses im
mediately began closing their doors
and the special guard dispersed
other groups which were attempt
ing to incite demonstrations out
side the assembly room.