VOLUME XXVIII. NUMBER 525.
SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1932.
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For the space of two hours 10
days ago the waters of the North
Pacific tried all the tricks con
tained in “Davy Jones locker” to(
claim one more fishing boat and
members of its crew and, but for
the Viking spirit exhibited by Capt.
D. J. Halferty, the fishing vessel G.
B. Norman, of the Pioneer Packing
Company, and its crew of four,
would probably now be resting in
a watery grave on the bottom of
Shelikoff Straits.
When the rudder of the Norman
was carried away, about half-way
across the dangerous Shelikff, dur
ing a heavy southwest gale which
drove great waves over the decks
of the staunch tender, Captain
Halferty crawled thru the crashing
waves to the forecastle and made a
line fast on the forward bit, then
back and around the wheel-house,
and then fast to an oil drum which
served as a jury-rudder.
The vessel then proceeded in
comparative safety to the entrance
of Kupreanoff Straits where it was
taken in tow by the halibut boat
“Cape Beale,” Capt. George Arnet,
to Ouzinkie where necessary repairs
were made to the “Norman” and
the voyage continued to Kodiak.
Aboard the “Norman” which be
gan what was almost its last voy
age from the Kukak bay cannery,
were O. S. Campbell, engineer; A.
F. Demidoff, deckhand, and F. -E.
McConaghy, superintendent and, of
course, the skipper.
Superintendent McConaghy, a
passenger on the SS Admiral Evans,
southbound out of Seward Satur
day evening, said that the seaman
ship and resourcefulness of Cap
tain Halferty unquestionably saved
the lives of all aboard and the crew
agrees with him.
NEW YORK, Sept. 26, —The maj- j
or evidence gathered by the gov
ernment is on the court records in
its case against U. S. Senator Jas.
J. Davis, of Pennsylvania, director
of the Loyal Order of Moose, who
is charged with violation of the
Federal lottery laws.
When the trial resumes today,
the loose ends in the maze of fin
ancial and documentary evidence,
alleging that the former Secretary
of Labor profited by $173,000 thru
two charity balls conducted as lot
teries, will be tied together. The
prosecution expects to present its
case early this week.
BIER HID “TUFFY”
FIGHT IT OUT TONIGHT
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 26, —The
stage is all set for the scheduled
10-round battle between Max Baer
of Livermore, Calif., and “Tuffy”
Griffiths, at the Chicago stadium
tonight, while over in New York,
Max Schmeling, former heavy
weight champion, takes on Mickey
Walker.
Baer’s ambition is to win four
more fights in a row and he be
lieves that if he accomplishes that
job, he will emulate the example
held by Chicago’s famous bears,
the “Cubs,” and nail a champion
ship to the mast.
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BREAKS FLIGHT MARK
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 26, —
Capt. R. Turner set a new record
for the filght between this city and
Los Angeles when he made the 732
miles in one hour and 14 minutes
and the round trip in two hours
and 41 minutes.
TENNIS CHAMP SUED
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 26, —Ells
worth Vines, national tennis cham
pion, and his mother and brother,
were named defendants in a suit
filed here by J. F. Albright who
claimed he was seriously injured
by an automobile owned by Vines.
UMPIRES SELECTED
CHICAGO, Sept. 26, —William
Dineen and Roy Van Graflan have
been selected as the American
League umpires for the World
Series between the Yanks and Cubs.
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UNDEAlj IT BASEL
BASEL, Switzerland, Sept. 26, —
Sixteen great balloons were in the
air over Switzerland, Sunday, in
competition for the James Gordon
Bennett Cup.
The bags, all yellow except the
silver Polish entry, began one of
the greatest international races in
years at 4 p. m. when the German
balloon, Deutschland, ascended.
Weather conditions were unfav
orable for the start of the race and
it was feared the balloons might
drift over Russia, where the gov
ernment has forbidden them to fly.
FOOTBALL SCORES
OLYMPIC STADIUM, Los Ange
les, Sept. 26, —The football team of
the University of Southern Califor
nia scored an easy 35 to 0 victory
Saturday over the University of
Utah eleven, Rocky Mountain con
ference title holder last year.
BERKELEY, Calif., Sept. 26, —
In one of the most surprising up
sets in Pacific Coast football his
tory, little Santa Clara University
| Saturday defeated “Navy Bill” In
gram’s California University varsi
ty by a score of 12 to 0.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept- 26, —
Featured by the sparkling play of
' Ernie Caddel, Stanfard Universi
I ty defeated the scrappy little Uni
versity of San Francisco football
I team 20 to 7, Saturday.
Lehigh 13, Drexel 13.
Maine 12, Rhode Island 0.
Columbia 51, Middlebury 0.
Colgate 41, St. Lawrence 0.
Dartmouth 73, Norwich 0.
Ohio U. 19, Rio Grande 0.
Wash. State 40, Idaho Col. 0.
Washington 1, Gonzaga 7. #
i St- Mary’s 17, West Coast Army 3.
ACTIVITIES SUSTAINED
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 26, —
A cheering Federal reserve board
indicated that for the first time
this year improvements in indus
trial and financial activities have
been sustained over a seven-weeks
period.
FEDERAL DRY AGENT
FOUND SHOT TO DEATH
TAMARACK, Minn., Sept. 26, —
James G. Harney, Federal prohibi
tion agent and brother of M. L.
Harney, Federal dry law enforce
ment chief in the Chicago district,
was found shot to death near here.
Harney, attached to the North
west district prohibition head
quarters in St. Paul, was shot, his
associates say, while searching for
operators of a still. The other three
in Harney’s party say they last saw
him alive Sunday afternoon.
MAY EAT AGAIN
POONA, India, Sept. 26, —Early
termination of Mahatma Gandhi’s
fast appeared quite certain when
it was announced that the Brit
ish government will accept a part
of his terms; two minor reserva
tions are desired.
GRONAU AT HONGKONG
HONGKONG, Sept. 26, —Wolf
gang von Gronau, German round
the-world flyer, arrived at Hong
kong from Shanghai, enroute to
Berlin.
GIGANTIC FRAUD
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept- 26, —
The government proposes a far
reaching investigation Into the re
cords of the defunct Insul public
utilities corporation. Detectives
and officials will scrutinize the re
cords to reveal if a gigantic fraud
was perpetrated upon the public,
and to discover why Samuel Insul
happened to be in Europe and his
brother in Canada when the fail
ure occurred.
IRE NUMBERED, SITS
JUDGE W. SHEPPIRD
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 26, —
“The days of prohibition are num
bered. It would take the help of
the Army, the Navy and the Mar
ine Corps, and then there would
be no enforcement,” Federal Judge
William B. Sheppard, of Jackson
ville, Fla., told his courtroom and
the world in general what he thot
about -prohibition.
Judge Sheppard, who is sitting
in the U. S- district court here in
the absence of Judge Frank H.
Kerrigan, delivered his diatribe
against prohibition during a hear
ing and flayed Congressmen who
try to ingratiate themselves with
prohibitionists by voting dry and
drinking wet.
VOLLEYS FIRED AT
CHICAGO ROADHOUSE:
“BOUNCERS KILLED
CHICAGO, Sept. 26, —Shotgun
killers fired volley after volley
through the back door of the Pal
ais Rue, suburban roadhouse, early
Sunday, waited until the frighten-1
ed guests, entertainers and waiters
had turned off the lights, then sent
more slugs through the front of
the building.
When the screaming women had
been silenced and terrified men
gotten from the floor and th£;
lights had been turned on again,
the body of the “bouncer” was dis
covered riddled with bullets
Police said they believed the at
I tack was a warning from one of
I many competing liquor gangs to
j Ralph Carbon, owner of the resort.
NINETf Ilf PLAYERS
TURN OUT EUR SQUID
WEST POINT, N. Y., Sept. 26, —
A squad of 90 Army players have
begun football practice spurred
with a purpose that no West Point
team since 1927 has known.
Recent resumption of football
relations with the U. S. Naval Acad
emy has given this current eleven
the opportunity of pointing itself
toward December 3 when it meets,
what has again become, it’s most
traditional opponent.
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DR. G- F. BOYARD CALLED
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 26, —Dr. G.
F. Bovard, 65, president emeri
tus of the University of Southern
California, and member of its first
graduating class, died here after a
lingering illness. The educator had
been suffering from a kidney ail
ment and a general breakdown
since last June.
MSEBILL CUIEFTMN
EH THE “HS
CHICAGO, Sept. 26, —K. M. Lan
dis, commissioner of baseball and
William Harridge, president of the
American League, have left for
New York to attend the first two
games of the World Series between
the New York Yankees and the
Chicago Cubs in the Yankee sta
ium Wednesday and Thursday.
“I have no doubt but that the
Cubs have a fine team,” said Har
ridge, “but I think the Yankees
are better and will win.”
OFFICER SHOT IN BACK
SPRINGFIELD, 111., Sept. 26, —
In a battle between police and
striking coal miners, Sgt. F. Wil
liams was killed; he was shot in the
back. Garnett Smith, a striker, is
in a critical shape from two knife
wounds; J. McGill, another striker,
was shot in a leg, and several oth
ers injured- The riot began during
a meeting of the United Mine
Workers of America.
LEAGUE CONSIDERS
GOMMIHEE REPORT ON
GENEVA, Sept. 26, —Japan’s
seizure of Manchuria came before
the council of the League of Na
tions and again threatened to
cause an international crisis that
might menace the existence of the
league.
The question was when and how
to consider the report of the league
commission headed by Lord Lytton,
which investigated the Manchurian
dispute.
Japan asked for six weeks delay
after publication of the report be
fore it is discussed by the council,
wanting time to study it before the
discussion.
China objected charging that
Japan has always sought delay to
strengthen their hold on Man
churia.
Japan, however, won her point,
and the council will publish the
Lytton report October 1 and dis
cuss it on November 14.
CAPTURE TOWN ‘
HARBIN, Manchuria, Sept. 26, —
Chinese “insurgents’ revolting
against the new Manchukuo gov
ernment have captured Tsitsihar,
northermost stronghold of the Jap
anese, according to advices re
ceived here.
' KILLER CONFESSES TO
SliYINClOUNC GIRL
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 26, —
John Santis, indicted for the killing
of 18 year-old Dina. Sideras, made
a full confession of the killing, po
lice claimed.
They said he took them to the
shop where he was employed as a
machinist and re-enacted the
scene of the crime. He told how he
had crushed her head with an iron
bar when sudden anger overcome
him because the girl called him
vile names.
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LIVINSKY WON BY K. O.
OMAHA, Neb., Sept. 26, —King
Livinsky, Chicago Hebrew heavy
weight, knocked out Angus Snyder,
of Dodge City, Kas., in the third
round.
CKNDRI HOLDS FIST
TO ORICINIL PLED
BOMBAY, India, Sept. 26, —Hin
du leaders .anxious to Save the life
of Mahatma Gandhi, reached an
agreement which they hoped would
persuade him to abandon his “fast
unto death.” .
Despite the agreement, however,
Gandhi informed the leaders of the
higher and lower “untouchables”
that he would not abandon his fast
until Premier J. Ramsay MacDon
ald of Great Britain announced
withdrawal of the plan for separ
ate electorate for the two classes
of Hindus.
TALKS AT FAIR GROUNDS
CHICAGO, Sept. 26, —President
Hoover’s opening campaign speech
at Des Moines, Iowa, October 4, will
be given in the Iowa state fair
gorund’s amphitheater, the only
place in the city large enough to
accomodate the audience his cam
paign managers said they expected.
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LOOKING FOR TROUBLE
GENEVA, Sept. 26, —A crisis in
the life of the League of Nations
agains threatens when it became
known that the League council
will launch into a discussion of the
Manchurian problem when it meets
today. Previously it had been un
derstood that the Chinese-Japan
ese dispute would be passed over to
a future date.
Senator Anthony J. Dimond,
Democratic nominee for Delegate
to Congress, will arrive in Seward
this week from the Interior, ,t is
reported.
ROOSEVELT IN ARIZONA
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 26, —The
Roosevelt special train left Sunday
for Arizona where two addresses
will be made and where Mrs. Roos
evelt will rejoin her husband.
MAYOR LOS ANGELES
CHANGED HIS MIND
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 26, —A
crowd of 25,000 persons welcomed
Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt
upon his arrival here Saturday.
Mayor John C. Porter was not
among the thousands at the train,
but he did participate later in the
welcome, despite his recent an
nouncement that he would not meet
Roosevelt “because he comes here
as a candidate for office and not
as a governor” and “because it
wouldn’t be consistent for me, a dry,
and a Republican, to greet a wet
Democrat.”
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BASEBALL SCORES
Saturday’s Games
PACIFIC COAST
Missions 6, Sacs 0.
S. F. 16, Seattle 11.
L. A. 11, Portland 4.
Oakland 8-3, Hollywood 1-13.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
N. Y. 5-8, Phillies 4-4.
Cincinatti 6, Chicago 8.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Detroit 4-1, St. Louis 5-0.
Chicago 8, Cleveland 7.
Washington 8, Phillies 7.
N. Y. 8, Boston 2.
Sunday’s Games
PACIFIC COAST
Portland 4-1, Los Angeles 1-5.
S. F. 8-1, Seattle 5-2.
Sacs 5-3, Missions 2-2.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Boston 8, New York 3.
Cincinatti 6-5, Chicago 4-5.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Boston 13, Brooklyn 7.
Jimmy Foxx ended the season
with 58 'homers, two short of the
world record of “Babe” Ruth.
Mayor McKee of New York will
heave the first ball over the pan
Wednesday. The Yanks are the fav
orites to win. At least 70,000 fans
are expected to attend the opening
game.
REPORT UNFOUNDED
CURLING, N. F., Sept. 26, —Re
ports that two skeletons and re
mains of an airplane had been
found, furnishing a clue to the
disappearance in 1927 of the
French aviators l|ungesser and
Coli, were called “unfounded” by
local police. The French fliers left
Paris at dawn May 8, 1927, on a
projected nonstop flight to New
York.
GAME IS SAFER
NEW YORK, Sept. 26, —An over
whelming majority of football
coaches who saw the new gridiron
rules receive their first test Sat
urday, believed the six changes
have made the game safer. Only a
small minority claimed that the
game had been slowed up or that
thrills have been eliminated.
FOUR KILLED
MONTE BELLO, Calif., Sept. 26,
—Four persons were almost in
stantly killed here Sunday in a
mid-air collision of two airplanes.
One of the victims was a woman
passenger. Witnesses said the two
planes were maneuvering for a
landing and the pilots apparently
did not see each other.
EASILY DEFEATED
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 26, —Wil
mer Allison and John Van Ryn,
America’s Davis Cup doubles play
ers, easily defeated Ellsworth Vines
and Keith Gledhill, defending
champions, in the finals of the
Pacific Southwest tennis doubles
here Sunday.
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SEARCHING FOR YOUTH
WHEELER, Ore., Sept. 26, —Many
were enlisted Sunday in the search
for Thomas Neketin, 21, missing
since Friday when he left home
to hunt seals at Short Sand beach.
Fifty volunteer searchers found no
trace of him in the rugged seashore
country.
NIPPON PLANE LONG
OVERDUE: TROT LOST
IN THE BERING SEA
NOME, Alaska, Sept. 26, —Along
more than 1,000 miles of desolate,
fog-shrouded coast, rescue vessels
groued blindly Sunday for traces
of the Japanese airplane, Hochi
Nichibie, long overdue here on its
projected non-stop flight from
Sabishiro beach, Japan.
Storms, which whipped over Ber
ing Sea, were of such intensity that
rescuers believed no land plane
could survive if it had been forced
down on the open ocean.
NO REPORTS HEARD
TOKIO, Sept. 26, —Japanese ra
dio stations vainly tried to contact
the missing airplane Hochi at 10 25
a .m. Sunday but herad no reports
from the plane or from land or
sea observers.
CUTTERS SEARCHING
UNALASKA, Sept. 26, —The USS
Cutter Northland returned from a
blind search for the missing plane
and crew of three. The MS North
a. m. Sunday but heard no reports
no success on sea or along the bar
ren lands.
It was estimated the plane’s fuel
supply gave out Sunday morning.
COMMITTEE DOES NOT
F1VOR PRELIMINNRY TALK
WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 26, —
The Railway labor executive com
mittee announced Saturday reject
ion of offers of railway leaders for
a joint conference on wages prior
to the expiration on February 1 of
the present 10 per cent wage cut.
This is the second attempt that
railway officials have made to call
a joint meeting in the past 10 days.
The spokesman for the executive
committee said: “The railroads
may keep trying to call a meeting
prior to the expiration date of the
present agreement but we can keep
refusing.”
DITTO i MUM
SOWS MOVED UP
NEW YORK, Sept. 26, —Automo
bile and railroad shares moved for
ward to enliven an otherwise quiet
but firm market on the opening on
the stock exchange.
Pool operations were responsible
to some extent for the activity of
the motor stocks. New modes, it is
reported, will be brought out earl
ier this year and manufacturers
are planning a vigorous sales cam
paign.
BERING SEA PAM
COMMANDER IN SEWARD
With the commander of the Ber
ing Sea Patrol Force on board,
Captain John Boedeker, the Coast
Guard Cutter Haida, Capt. M. J.
Ryan, commanding, arrived in port
late Sunday from the Unalaska
base. The cutter is enroute to Seat
tle.
The personnel of the USS Haida
comprises:
Capt. M. J. Ryan, commander;
Lt. Comdr. R. B. Hall, Lt J. W.
Kelliher, Lt. R. H. French, Ensigns
E. E. Comstock, W. E. Creedon, G.
R. Leslie and C. H. Etober.
HEARST AND ROOSEVELT
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 26, —Gov
ernor Franklin D. Roosevelt, Demo
candidate for president, conferred
at his hotel here late Saturday with
William Randolph Hearst, news
paper publisher and staunch sup
porter of Roosevelt and his run
ning mate, John Nance Garner.
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There will be no broadcast of the
15-round battle tonight between
Max Schmeling, former heavy
weight champion, and l&ckey Wal
ker, officials announce.