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VOLUME XXVII. NUMBER 247. SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1931.
PRICE TEN CENTS
Si STUDENTS
' WANT TO DECLARE
WAR AGAINST JAPAN
REPORTS SAY JAPANESE-WHITE
RUSSIANS WANT SET UP
BUFFER STATE
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(By Associated Press)
Official reports said that 60 Chin
ese and four Japanese were killed
in a battle at Kaotsi Shan and that
: wo Japanese companies routed 350
Chinese soldiers.
The Japanese government has in
structed its representatives at Paris
to accept the League Council’s
oeace formula if it include the
reservation providing for “such
military measures as may be re
^ quired for the protection of Jap
anese lives and property from ban
dits and other lawless elements.”
More than 8,000 students in
Shanghai joined in a riot demand
ing a declaration of war against
Japan and the execution of Chang
Hseuseh Liang, charging him with
failure to resist the Japanese in
Manchuria.
The students forced rail officials
*■ to provide transportation to take
them and 5,000 others to the cap-:
ital at Nanking.
Russian newspapers quoted Peip- !
ing reports charging that a Japan-]
ese White Russian bloc exists and •
is ready to seize the Soviet owned
■4 Chinese Eastern railway and is de-!
termined to set up a buffer state |
between China and Japan.
WANTS RESUBMISSION
jf WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 25.■
jP)—Clarifying his position of yes- i
terday as criticism kept mounting!
against his insistence of thrusting;
the wet-dry question forward, Jacob j
, Rascob now declares he wants the
Democratic party to endorse the]
t8th Amendment for resubmission i
/ to the American people but de- ’
dared that he does not take a stand |
for or against prohibition.
- PEACE ARE IMPENDING
_ |
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 25. (A3)— j
A brief resume of the Sino-Japan- ]
ese situation as it now stands
shows that with the smaller pow
ers in majority on the League of
Nations’ Council swinging to the
Chinese side, stronger measures to |
halt the Manchurian hostilities
were believed impending in Paris, I
as the Japanese and Chinese dead
lock continued on the netitral com
mission and truce proposed.
The Japanese are reported to be
moving by civil means to control <
^ # :he Harbin area. Rumors that the
Chinese troops are concentrating
continue.
BRITISH FLAG IN RUM ROW
HELSINGFORS, Nov. 25. (/P)—A
British trawler has joined Finland’s
rum row, say local press reports.
The international rum-running
:leet is eported to be carrying 500,
000 gallons. _
VIOLENCE CAMPAIGN LOOMS
LONDON, Nov. 25. (^—Informa
tion received here from India said;
that agitation had begun there for
j a campaign of violence after indi
cations that the Round Table con
ference in London would probably
1 end this week without a settlement
I which is satisfactory to the Indian
1 Nationalists. i
ALASKA COAL SI BE
COMPARABLE PRODUCT
OF BRITISH »■
“Alaska coal is equally as good
as the British Columbia product,”
states F. R. Wadleigh, international
1 coal authority, who six months ago
was sent to Alaska by Secretary
Lyman Wilbur, Department of the
Interior, for the purpose of making j
a complete and general report ofj
the Alaska coal situation and to j
conduct tests.
Mr, Wadieigh’s assignment is now
completed and, accompanied by
Mrs. Wadleigh, left today on the
SS Northwestern, enroute to their
Washington home.
The Alaska coal consumption
last year was 179,000 tons and the
Alaska production was about 110,
000 tons, leaving approximately
67,000 tons imported.
It is with a view toward future
expansion of the Alaska coal in
dustry and to aid in the facilitat
ing of coal transportation from rail
to water that Seward civic organi
zations and others are striving to
obtain the construction of coal
bunkers at Seward so that Alaska
coal can supply all Alaska and the
tonnage accruing from this addi
tional coal haulage will greatly as
sist in reducing the annual Alaska
Railroad deficit.
CHINESE GIRL MAKES :
SUCCESSFUL DEBUT'
THE HAGUE, Nov. 25. (/P —Much
interest has Keen aroused in Ba
tavia, Java, by the successful legal
debut of a Chinese girl barrister,
Dr. Tan, daughter of a land owner.
She recently was admitted to
practice, and more lately she de
fended three victims of a usurer
against a council of creditors in
the district court. She Avon the
case.
VACUUM CLEAN UP
ROUEN, France, Nov. 25. (&)— .
Fbur mural paintings, whose exist
ence had been forgotten, were un- J
covered when a 20th century vac- ,
uum cleaner was applied to the
walls of the 12th century cathed-|
ral here. 11
ROYAL RUMMAGE SALE J
ADDIS ABABA, Nov. 25. (JP)—'The ]
Emperor of Abyssinia is holding a J
white elephant sale of furnishings 4
used in houses for foreign visitors 1
at his coronation a year ago. Busi- j
ness is slow because prices are i
high. t
THANKSGIVING DAY
The earliest observance of Thanksgiving Day,
essentially a harvest thanksgiving, is traced to the
Pilgrim Fa them The summer of 1621, following
the landing at Plymouth, yielded but a scanty har
vest, and unless speedy supplies came from Europe,
the sturdy colonists foresaw that they would be re
duced to the point of starvation.
Yet, amid such surroundings as these, we learn
from the old chronicles that Governor Bradford,
“the harvest bei|ig gotten in, sent four men out on
fowling, so that we might, after a more special man
ner, rejoice together after we had gathered the fruit
of our labor.” Thus, the first Governor of New
England instituted the American Harvest Home.
After the general thanksgiving for peace in
1784, George Washington, in 1789, recommended a
day of thanksgiving for the adoption of the Consti
tution. As the years rolled by other proclamations
were issued until the Civil War period, when Abra
ham Lincoln established the present custom of an
nual thanksgivings.
From these national events, Thanksgiving Day,
now in the main, has fallen to a commercial basis,
as has Christmas and other holidays, but to many
the true significance has not been forgotten.
So to this latter, as well as to full appreciation
for bounteous tables, do we not only draw courage
and offer thanks, but also the hope that the coming
year will bring a readjustment of our national in
dustrial system, *a broad practical development of
Alaska, and less turning of financial broadswords
into our own bowels.
AGED TURK LEFT FORLORN
BY BRITISH BOLD MOVE
ISTANBUL, Nov. 25. (/Pi—The fall
of sterling has hastened the fall
of the family of Zaro Agha, the
Turk who claims to be the oldest
man in the world.
Still wandering in Europe, the
old man sent his wife nine English
pounds to keep her through the
winter.
Koudret Hanim, his slip of an
octogenarian wife, wanted to use
the gift to send his great-great
jrandson to Ireland to fetch the
wanderer home. All anger she had
previously felt over his lengthy gal
ivantings, passed when she heard
/hat his manager, Ahmed Moussa,
lad been murdered, and that Zaro
was alone In'a distant land.
But sterling’s catastrophe is
lers: the nine pounds can no long
er purchase a ticket to Ireland,
tor can it buy much charcoal for
ler brazier.
JNDERTAKES DANGEROUS TRIP
DUTCH HARBOR, Alaska, Nov.
!5. (/P)—Paul Riggs Fair, pool hall
>roprietor at Unalaska, left for |
Seattle via the outside route in his
0-foot beam motorship Novi. The
tovi is powered with a 25-horse -
>ower engine and sails. He ex
pects to reach Seattle in about
hree weeks.
THANKSGIVING DAY
Sewardites will rest from their
daily labors tomorrow, as the ma
jority of business houses and Sew
ard institutions will be closed, in
j observance of Thanksgiving. The
j Gateway’s presses will, as in former
j years, be stilled in silent observ
' ance of this annual day of Thanks
| giving. The banks, postoffice and
| Seward schools will also be closed
for the day.
-—
A. E. Frodenberg, Anchorage
j business man, who has been on a
[ business trip to the States for a
j few weeks, returned on the SS
j Northwestern and today departed
for Anchorage on the train.
W. J. Barrows, general manager
| of the Pacific International Air
! ways of Alaska, returned on the SS
'Northwestern from a business trip
j to the States. He left for Anchor
age this morning.
Karl K. Katz, manager of the An
chorage base of the Alaskan Air
ways, returned to Seward last eve
ning from a business trip to Cor
dova and left on today’s train for!
Anchorage.
George James, of the Alaska!
Shop, was an arrival on the SS!
Northwestern last night, after
making a business trip to Seattle.
Attorney Edward P. Harwood,
with offices in the Johansen build- !
ing, returned to Seward on the SS |
Northwestern from a brief trip to |
Valdez.
L I. IS MECCA FOR.
FOREIGNERS TOSSED
MOT BT POLITICS
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 25. (£>)—'This
city has proved a handy port for
foreigners who are tossed about by
| political upheavals and wars.
A former general of the Russian
Imperial Army readily took to play
ing the part of a duke in Hollywood
films and with his earnings bought
[himself a cafe by the sea. He is
[Theodore Lodi Jenski.
j Another man of destiny who has.
arrived in Los Angeles is Adolfo de
I la Huerta, who for six months was
j Provisional President of Mexico.
| De la Huerta was a friend of Car
uso and has been tutoring Enrico
Caruso, Jr., as a teacher of voice.
1 The most recent arrival is Nicolas
Salazar, former director general of
immigation who was deposed by
the Leguia government from Peru.
Ivan Lebedeff, one of the most
dashing and polished Hollywood
actors, was formerly in the Rus
sian diplomatic service at St. Pet
ersburg.
CAPONE MIEEB TO
PE FELLOW IKES
11HSPRR FEED
CHICAGO, Nov. 25. (/P) — Altho
he himself has little to be thank
ful for, “Scarface” A1 Capone Moir
day volunteered to pay for a spe
cial Thanksgiving Day feed for the
thousand prisoners of the County
Jail.
Capone is behind the bars await
ing the outcome of an appeal from
conviction of income tax evasion.
He told Warden Moneypenny he
would like to see that the “boys’'
get cigars or “something extra.”
The warden took the matter under
consideration.
DRY AGENTS SWOOP
DOWN ON OIL TANKED
NEW YORK, Nov. 25. (&)—Just
before the dawn, a large massed
force of dry agents converged on
the Ruretan Sun, an oil tanker
owned by the Sun Oil Company,
and took 52 prisoners and a $300,
000 rum cargo.
The tanker was tied up at her
Brooklyn dock. Some half a dozen
shots were fired by an armed pa
trol surrounding the unloading ac
tivities. These quickly surrendered
when the drys returned the fire.
MELTING POTS GET GEMS
AUCKLAND, Nov. 25. (fP)—Large
quantities of jewelry which New
Zealanders accumulated in pros
perous days are being melted down
to help make ends meet. Gold and
diamond buyers report a boom
business.
Students in the Seward high
school today wound up the last of
their second six-weeks tests.