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___—Attorney General of Alaska John Rustgard. |
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXVII. NUMBER '273.
SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1931.
PRICE TEN CENTS
BLOOD RUNS AS
MAHATMA GANDHI
RETURNS TO INDIA
‘UNTOUCHABLES” CAUSE RIOT
AS INDIAN LEADERS
SHIP DOCKS
BOMBAY, India, Dec. 28. (&)—
Blood ran here as Mahatma Gand
hi arrived on the SS Pilsna from
London where he attended sessions
of the Round Table Conference to
plead the cause of India’s ‘ dumb
millions.”
A number of persons were injured
m the clash which took place at
the pier as the ship tied up and
where a huge crowd awaited Gand
hi’s landing. About 1,000 “untouch
ables” carrying black flags gather
ed for an anti-Gandhi demonstra
tion and they tried to rush the pier.
Delegations of the National Con
gress of India, also at the pier to
greet Gandhi, were caught in the
rush of the mobs.
The police, with the assistance
of Congress adherents, finally dis
persed the crowd.
Anti-Gandhi demonstrations in
other parts of India resulted in
riots in which lives were also lost.
The total number of fatalities is
reported as being 12 for riots of the
iast two days.
BEOS ARE INSTIGATORS
SANTIAGO, Chile, Dec. 28. <£>)—
A rebel uprising to the north of this
city at Copiapo and Vellenar, in
Atackma province of Chile, was
quelled after hard fighting by gov
ernment forces in a battle there.
It was unofficially reported that
ihe Reds had aimed to start a rev
olution and overthrow the Chilian
government of President J. Mon
^ tero. First reports as to the cas
ualties said that 11 Communists
and one carabineer were killed but
a later dispatch indicates that the
fighting must have been more se
vere as the total casualties num
bered 33 dead and over 100 wound
ed. The Communist fled from Co
piapo after the battle.
HELIUM STOUUEESYSTEM
BE WORLD'S LARGEST
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 28.
JP)—The world’s largest helium
storage system will be installed at
Sunnyvale, the Navy’s lighter-than
air base, now in the course of con
struction, and the Navy Depart
ment is ready to go ahead with the I
building of the 3,000,000-cubic-foot j
gas storage system.
Bids for this system, as well as j
the construction for the adminis-;
tration building, enlisted men’s
quarters, dispensary and water tow
er, were advertised for by the Navy
Department last wreek.
TRIAL JANUARY 19
PHOENIX, Ariz., Dec. 23. (/P)~
Winnie Ruth Judd, confessed slayer
'of two girls in the trunk murder
lease, will go on trial January 19.!
! Officials for the prosecution and ;
] defense are working on the case in ;
order to have their side ready for i
presentation on that date. The \
I trial was originally set for Decern- j
ber 15, but a postponement was se
1 cured.
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WILLOW GREEK MB
:
What is considered one of the
i most important quartz discoveries
I made in the Willow Creek district
| is reported to have been made by
Bartholf, Horning and Black, as
! associates, leasing on the Gold Cord.
A new vein carrying a width of
! 15 feet and showing values of $20
! per ton has been stripped and ex
plored below the old workings.
It is the opinion of many of the
earlier prospectors and operators
in that district that the Gold Cord
is one of the best prospects in the
district.
When it was taken over under
lease by Bartholf and associates,
they acquired the Golden Bear
mill, which was sold under execu
tion. The lessees are now enroute
to California on what is reported
to be a deal for taking over the
Gold Cord by purchase.
I It is reported that the Willow
I Creek Mines Company, operating
in the same zone, has several mil
lion dollars in ore reserves blocked
out while maintaining the peak of
operation of its 50-ton mill.
The addition of another producer
! makes the Willow Creek district
j one of the most promising quartz
'camps along the railroad.
It is known that the Fern mine,
| under lease to MacDougall and as
sociates, has much rich ore which
| is traceable into the High Grade
; claim, acquired last summer by pur
; chase from Joe Conroy and asso
! dates.
i Gerrit Snider and associates have
| opened a good pay streak and have
; shipped ore running $2,000 per ton
to the smelter.
Other prospects, undergoing pre
liminary development, are showing
much high grade at surface, and
| promise to develop into consistent
| producers.
j With the pronouncement by the
: U. S. Geological Survey that the
| veins go down, a new lease of life
has been taken upon many pros
pects in which the owners were
I afraid to develop deeper workings.
ACTRESS ILL (
PITTSBURG, Calif. Dec. 28. (A>j— j
Jean Harlowe, movie actress, was'
attended by a physician at her ho* j
tel suite for an attack of intestinal'
influenza but kept an engagement
at a theatre that afternoon. The
physician said that her condition
during the night was serious
TRAFFIC DWINDLES
SOUTHAMPTON, England, Dec.
28, (/P)-passenger traffic across the
Atlantic Ocean in the first 11
months of 1931 dwindled to little
more than half the amount in the
corresponding period of 1930. Pas
sengers numbered only 300,000 as
compared with 540,00 Olast year.
SENATOR LAFOLLETTE THINKS j
GOVERNMENT SHOULD
HELP JOBLESS j
I
WASHINGTON, D. G, Dec. 28. j
(/P)—The House Democrats are go-1
ing to examine President Hoover’s!
recommendation for 12 home loan!
discount banks closely before the j
plan will get their blessings.
They approved of the debt mora
torium in a hurry and the bill to
increase capitalization of Federal
land banks by $100,000,000 and im
mediately promised that they would
pass a bill for the $500,000,000 re
construction corporation after that.
They expect to pause in rushing
through the remainder of the
emergency legislation as recom
mended by President Hoover and
opposition to the home loan banks
is growing among the House Demo
crats.
Senator Robert LaFollette called
welfare workers before Iris Senate
Committee in an effort to prove
that private charity anl local gov
ernments are not meeting the re
lief needs. LaFollette’s ideas are
embodied in bills by himself and
Senator Costigan, Democrat from
Colorado, and are to the effect that
the government should contribute
$250,000 to help the unemployed
through a medium of the State
governments.
PERU *REV0LT
LIMA, Peru, Dec. 28. (/P)—Three
persons were killed and six were
wounded in a Communist riot at
Trujillo on Christmas Eve, the cor- j
respondent for the newspaper El
Commercio reported yesterday. The
Communists paraded in violation of
a police order. Three Communists
were killed when they stormed the
police.
lit "MISSING LINK”
FOUND IH BALTIC SEA
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 23. (JP)~The
discovery of a true “missing link,”
an animal with “foundations of a
human face,” as described to the
American Association for Advance
ment of Science by Prof. William
Patten of Dartmouth, is made
known.
The “link” is 35 feet long and is
a skeleton found in the rocks of
the Baltic Sea. It is estimated to
be between 50,000,000 and 100,000,
000 years old and has the typical
markings of certain early prenatal
developments of the human being.
The animal or link is called an
“Ostracoderm” and is an extinct
tenpin-shaped fish and is like a
creature which is a descendent of
giant spiders and sea scorpions
which Prof, Patten said the likes
of which “a thousand million years
ago were the highest mammals in
existence.”
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Sogn, who
spent Christmas in Anchorage with
Mr. Sogn’s parents, returned to
Seward last evening. 1
CULBERTSONS LEAD
NEW YORK, Dec. 28. (/p)~Satur
; day evening the Culbertsons’ “ap
| proach forcing” system was leading
| the Jacoby-Lenz “official” system
by 18,235 points. At one period of
j the play the Culbertson lead was
nearly 20,000 but Lenz and Jacoby
| made some recuperative attacks
; and cut the lead down somewhat.
Lightner is now playing with Cul
bertson hi place of Mrs. Culbertson.
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NEW YORK, Dec. 28. (/P)—In one
breath the nation’s railways told
their operating employees they
would negotiate to a conclusion
their wage and unemployment
problems, but would invoke the
Railway Labor Act and serve notice
to effect a 15 per cent reduction
in wages to all classes of employees.
More than 100 presidents and
executives of Class 1 railroads, rep
resenting Eastern, Southern and
; Western groups, agreed on the dual
| program after an all-day meeting.
It carries the stipulation that
should an agreement be reached,
the notice of a 15 per cent wage re
duction wTould be cancelled auto
matically.
The railroad executives, in their
statement, gave no indication of
what they would consider a satis
factory agreement, but it has been
understood generdEy they would
agree to a 10 per cent reduction if
accepted voluntarily by the bro
therhoods.
i GI1IIIGTS CHISELED FOR
SO DAYS GET OUT OF JAIL
OKLAHOMA CITY, Dec. 28. (A5)—
The Two prison convicts of the Ok
lahoma State penitentiary, who for
90 days chiseled the walls of their
cells in an attempt to escape from
prison, enjoyed only a brief hectic
period outside of the prison walls.
They had no sooner got outside
the prison confines when bullets
announced that their liberty at
tempt had been frustrated. Both
were injured before they were
brought back.
The convicts, W. E. Collings, who
is serving a 10-year sentence on a j
burglary charge, and J. L. Haines,
who is serving a light sentence,
were both shot and had to be taken
to the hospital. It was said that
their wounds were not fatal and
that they would not die.
SERVE NOTICE
OTTAWA, Ont., Dec. 28. (/?)—The
Canadian government served six
months’ notice on France that
the charter trade agreement be
tween the two countries will ter
minate June 19, 1932. Although
delegates have negotiated for more
than a year, they failed to reach
an agreement on the terms for a
new contract.
BERLIN, Dec. 28. (/P) — Adolph
Hitler took time out from his other
activities and served as best man
at the wedding of Joseph Goebels,
one of his chief lieutenants who
was married in a civil ceremony to
Fraulein Magda Quandt.
; CZECHOSLOVAKIAN SECRETARY
HOPED TO CAUSE BREAK
RUSSIA AND JAPAN
MOSCOW, Dec. 28. (/Ft — Soviet
police here charged that an attempt
or plot was made wherein it was
! planned to assassinate the Japan
ese Ambassador to Russia, Ambas
| sador Herrott. The plot was plan
; ned in order to make a break be
! tween Japan and Russia.
I Details as to who the instigator or
’instigators are, were withheld but
j certain dispatches to a government
' official here from Prague indicate
| that a representative of a third
j country was connected with the
I affair.
Incidentally, it is revealed, C.
j Wanek, secretary to the Czecho
slovakian diplomatic legation at
Moscow, has been withdrawn by the
Czechoslovakian government be
cause he is said to have been the
ringleader of the plot to assassinate
the Japanese Ambassador.
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| TIME COUCH IS
i LIKENED TO ROCKNE:
SIMILMISTMTEGT
PASADENA, Calif., Dec. 28. UP)—
‘'Bemoaning Berney” is the new
name pinned on Coach Bernie
Bierman of the Tulane football
team which is spending a few days
here to get climatized and to get
into a pink condition for the Tu
lane and University of Southern
California game on New Year’s Day.
Coach Bierman has repeatedly
stated that he expected that Tu
lane would be vanquished and that
they stood no chance against the
Trojan team. However, Coach Bier
man is being likened to the late
Knute Rockne, in that he is merely
using sporting psychology in an at
tempt to make the Trojans take
the game lightly and then to sur
prise them with their opposing
team’s strength.
Should the University of South
ern California beat the Tulane
green wave, they can well lay claim
to having one of the best teams of
all time and that may also be said
of the Tulane bunch should they
whip the Trojans.
SUM TO FIGHT MIX
I
SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 28. (A5)—
Jack Dempsey, former world’s
! heavyweight champion, is quoted by
the Telegram in an interview as
declaring that he has a bona fide
offer of $500,000 to meet Max
Schmeling, present champion.
“Schmeling is the logical op
ponent and I feel that he is the
man I should fight,” Dempsey said.
; “However, I am not sidestepping
| any of them and if necessary will
l be ready and willing to meet the
i best the division has to offer.” .
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