“ALASKA'S II8MK NEWSPAPER"
VOLUME XXVII. NUMBER 207. SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1931.
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NATIONS’ LATENT BUYING
POWER BE TURNED INTO
comm coins
WASHINGTON, Oct., 8, (£>)—A
mementous six-point program for
the marshaling of nations with
latent buying power into commer
cial channels was laid before the
American people with the unified
endorsement of President Herbert
Hoover and political captains
Included in the program was a
clause calling for liberalization of
the government’s own re-discount,
restrictions and permit the ac
ceptance of certain classes of in
dustrial securities now ineligible;
the creation of a $500,000,000 cor
poration of bankers to handle the
frozen paper held by- insolvent
banks; to supply some cash to
hard pressed depositors; to en
courage the expansion of the fed
eral land and bank system; and
to provide more adequate credit
accomodations.
Agriculture was placed before
the colorful bi-partisan confer
ence of Congressional leaders
Tuesday night while the House
Administration’s domestic plan
won the support in principle.
While congressional action will
be required eventually to carry
the program to completion, no
special session is contemplated
The President failed, however,
to gain the sanction for him to
discuss with President Laval on
the latter’s visit to Washington
this month, of the inter-govern
mental debt moratorium. He was
told any discussion with King and
the French Premier would be on
his own responsibility.
FRENCH PREMIER WAS ON
VERGE CMIGELLING VISIT
PARIS, Oct. 8. VP) — Premier
Pierre Laval was on the verge of
cancelling plans for his trip to visit
President Herbert Hoover at Wash*
ington as the result of a Washing
ton dispatch published in a New
York newspaper and cabled to
Paris which indicated the President
was contemplating a further debt
moratorium.
Ambassador Edge, in France,
rushed to Laval and assured the
French premier that no such pro
posal was contemplated.
Bankers and political leaders
who conferred with President Hoo
ver Sunday are blamed for the
false confusion which almost re
sulted in the cancelling of the pre
mier’s trip.
Laval Is very hostile to any at
tempt which either hints at a fur
ther debt moratorium or' further
disarmament. I
UHL FLUES GOLLIDE
MIDAIR; FUERS SAFE
HAMPTON ROADS, Oct., 8, (£>)
—Two naval planes collided in
the air over here and the occu
pants of the plane were forced to
make parachute jumps to safety.
The two planes collided heavily
when about 5,000 feet in the air
and burst into flames. The two
naval pilots and one mechanic
baled out in parachutes and es
caped without injuries
EARTH SHOCK
ONTARIO, Oct., 8, (^—Chande
liers swayed and windows rattled
as this region was shaken by a
miniature earth-shock which last
ed for only 10 seconds. There was
no property damage reported.
WASHINGTON, Oct, 8, (£>)—
President Hoover reached back
four years to reiterate his theory
on foreign loans the following of
which he said would have
smoothed many bumps in the
world's economic path, he stated
in addressing the Fourth Pan
American Commercial Conference.
The president recalled his plea
which he delivered before the
same conference in 1927, that for
eign loans be made only "for re
productive purposes”.
"I repeat this today because
had it been followed during the
past five years our problems
thruout the world would be far
different and our difficulties in
finitely less.”
He told the delegates at the
convention that the American
theory of government required
commercial enterprise which ex
cept for rare emergency action,
must be essentially a private un
dertaking.
LIMBUS Sill FROM
CHINO FOR TIE SMS
SHANGHAI, Oct., 8, --Can
celling: all their present plans for
a tour of the Orient, because of
the death of Dwight W Morrow,
Colonel and Mrs. Charles A. Lind*
bergh are leaving on a steamer
from Shanghai today. They are
due to arrive in Seattle on Octo
ber 20.
Their damaged plane will be
shipped to the United States at a
later date.
INVASION EVOKES PROTEST
LONDON, Oct., 7, (^—Russian
cavalry with armoured cars have
entered the Manchurian border
city of Manchouli, a special dis
patch to the. Daily Telegraph said.
The dispatch declared the Soviet
invasion evoked a protest from
Chinese residents to the Russian
Consul at that city.
TIE STOCK MUET
SEATTLE, Oct. 8. (/P) — Yester
day’s quotations on the stock mar
ket:
Alaska Juneau .12
American Can . 79
Borden .441/2
Canada Dry .17
Oeneral Motors .24
international Nickle Can .8%
international Tel. & Tel.1534
Kennecott Copper .11%
Radio .12%
Reynolds Tobacco (b) . 38%
Richfield Oil . 1 <
Standard Oil of Calif.30%
Standard Oil of N. J.30%
Standard Oil of N. Y.30%
tfnion Oil of Calif.14 [
U. S. Steel .87%
Cities Service .6% 3
Durant Motors.
Tuesday’s meeting of the Sew
l ard Chamber of Commerce was
well attended and several inter
i esting issues were brought up by
speakers.
The committee on roads was in
structed to secure action in secur
ing volunteer labor and volunteer
equipment in making certain im
provements at the end of the
Seward-Kenai Highway. Improve
ments suggested were the bridg
ing of the small creek and the
providing of better landing facili
ties for small lake boats- L. J.
Chilberg was temporarily appoint
ed to head the roads committee
and started action immediately.
Another subject brought up was
the changing of, the Chamber
meeting day from Tuesday at
noon to Thursday at noon on ac
count of the adoption of the win
ter schedule by the steamship
companies which will bring the
boats into Seward on Tuesday, th£
present meeting day. The change
was made to Thursday as boat
arrivals will not interfere with
the Chamber luncheon's attend
ance. It is planned to hold the
meetings on Tuesdays again when
the steamer schedule changes
next spring.
«japs. u- w. Leaaoetter, oi tne
U. S. L. H. S. Cedar addressed the
Chamber and spoke on navigation
aids Capt. Leadbetter said that
the Lighthouse Service had made
arrangements with the Seward
Light & Power Co.; for the plac
ing of a light at the end of the
recently constructed breakwater.
The light is now in place and
working. Captain Leadbetter also
said that it was planned to place
two dolphins at the entrance to
the dredged area and the work of
installing these will be undertak
en next spring
Jefferson Marehan, who has
just returned from an aerial Jour
ney over the mail routes which
will be served by airplanes this
coining winter instead of dog
teams, also addressed the Cham
ber.
Tom Downey, of the Babvck «
Downey mine at Nuka Bay, spoke
on mining in the Nuka Bay area.
Elis talk was marked with enthus
iasm for that region and he said
that he "saw the Willow Creek
district in its infancy but that it
never had the surface showings
that Nuka Bay has today”. There
fore, he said, he expects to see
some highly valued mining pro
perties developed in Nuka Bay.
J. H. Flickinger, local agent of
bhe Alaska Steamship Co., who
has been absent for some weeks,
awing to illness, was present at
the Chamber meeting. Mr. Flick
inger has always been a pillar of
strength and one of the hardest
workers in the Chamber organiza
tion and was welcomed back as
many problems continue to con
front the Chamber and they need
the support and cooperation of
sveryohe.
Fred Hecker, onetime prep grid
star at Houston, Tex., now on the
Purdue squad, may receive a Car
legie medal for saving two per
sons from drowning.
| TO CONFER WITH STIMSON
] WASHINGTON, Oct., 9, (£>)—W.
j Cammeron Forbes, American Am
! bassador to Japan, was summoned
to confer with Secretary Stimson
upon his arrival in Washington on
the Manchurian situation.
! TO BE FETED SEATTLE,
j MAT SET PRIZE MONET
j
SEATTLE, Oct. 8. (JP)~~Seattle is
planning a big time welcome for
Hugh Herndon and Clyde Pang
born who flew the Pacific Ocean
from Samushiro Beach to Wenat
chee without shoes and landed
without wheels.
It was also announced that the
flying team may be given the prize
offered by Seattle for the first
non-stop Tokyo to Seattle flight.
The purse was raised five years ago
and now with interests amounts
to some $29,000.
Seattleites are trying to change
the clause which stipulates that
the flight must be made from Tokyo
to Seattle, and to award the prize
to the fliers because they con
firmed with the spirit of the rules
governing the prize and because it
is Impossible to start from Tokyo
as no long runway is available there
for the taking off of a heavily
loaded plane.
Pangbom and Herndon were to
reach Seattle at noon today. Their
plane will be brought to Seattle
and exhibited later.
nil MulIttS PUN
NFTEB HIT'OF SOVIETS
BERLIN, Oct-, 8, (JP)—A new
cabinet with greatly increased
dictatorial powers has been form
ed by President Paul von Hinden
burg. The old cabinet resigned.
One statesman said that the
change was brought about be
cause Germany needed a quick
change to save the country from
ruin. A gigantic construction pro
gram, to extend over a period of
three years, and similar to that ,
of Soviet Russia in scope, is plan- ;
ned to rehabilitate the rundown
nation.
ACCEPT RESIGNATION
88&U& Oct., 8/Hinden
burg-has accepted the resignation
of the Bruening Cabinet and au
thorized Chancellor Bruexiihg to .
form a new ministry which Is to ,
consolidate the government’s po- ,
sition with the Reichstag. ,
CEASE TUNNELLING PYRAMID
PUEBLA, Mex., Oct., 7, (JP)—A '
government archeological expedi
tion exploring the pyramid of I
Cholula, was put to rout by In- 1
dians. The men of the expedition
were permitted to leave in peace
after complying with the demands
of the natives, to cease tunnelling
the pyramid. They reported the '
case to the State government. *
j
Salmon spawning in streams in
Southeastern Alaska this fall so <
far is about normal according to i
the observations of Dennis Winn, 5
agent of the U. S. Bureau of Pish- c
eries, reports the Ketchikan t
Chronicle. . j j| \
ULTIMATUM DEMANDS
CHINA 'PROTECT JAP
LIVES AND PROPERH
TOKYO, Oct., 8, (JP)—‘The Jap
anese government has delivered
an ultimatum to China saying
that China must guarantee Jap
anese life and property in China
If the conditions expressed in the
ultimatum are not enforced, the
Japanese are to send troops and
battleships to the Yangtse Valley.
The Japanese mobilized their en
tire navy yesterday.
HALF MILLION FOR MELONS
COLUMBMIA, S C., Oct, 8, (JP)
—The watermelon-eating public
dug down and paid South Caro
lino farmers a half million dollars
for their melon crop in July. This
was the aggregate receipts from
outside the state for melons ship
ped during the month.
NO SMOKING AT GAMES
BERKELEY, Oct. 8. VP) — The
Young University’s women’s gov
ernment here has decided that
smoking by University of Southern
California young women is “un
lady-like.” and henceforth the
young women will not be allowed
to smoke when attending football
games.
COOPERATE CHURCH
PAPEETE, Tahaiti, Oct., 8, <£>)—
Residents of Taega, a small coral
atoll with a population of about
40 people, have completed the
building of a church, the founda
tion for which was laid in 1916.
Carpenter and construction work
was done by persons of various
denominations.
miLMEKT MDIO IS
CHOSE Jill DISORDER
LEAVENWORTH, Oct., 8, (£>)—
Warden White, of the Federal
Penitentiary, announced that the
disturbance growing out of the
curtailment of radio privileges to
prisoners had been puieted in the
early morning hours.
The warden said that he expect
ed no further difficulty and that
he disorders had been confined to
ieering and cat-calling in two cell
slocks. ' .
The disturbance resulted from
he elimination of nightly pro
grams. Interest in the world se
ries baseball games was not in
volved as the results were gotten
sach afternoon- It Is said that
he radio programs were cut two
hours, under instructions front
Washington. 1
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 8. (/P)—
rhe San Francisco Seals won their
econd straight game over Holly
wood in the playoff series by a
core of 7 to 5.
The Seals scored three runs and
ix hits in the seventh inning, dur
ng which Shellenbach, one of the
Itars leading pitchers, retired be*
ause of a heavy cold.
The Stars got 10 hits and made
wo errors, while the Beals got 13
dts and made four Errors.