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VOLUME XXVII. NUMBER 259. SEWARD, ALASKA,THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1931.
PRICE TEN CENTS
DEBTOR ill
Si TO BE UlUBLE
HOOVER DESIRES IMMEDIATE
ACTION ON MORATORIUM
PROPOSAL
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 10
^—Declaring that debtor nations
are unable to pay their obligations
President Hoover has asked Con
gress to provide for “temporary ad
ustments” in the war debts of Eu
rope to the United States. This was
:old to Congress in a message de
ivered by him in submitting a
mortorium for the ratification b}
Congress so that it can be put into
effect next June.
President Hoover proposed the
formation of a commission whicl:
shall be funded in these rates and
said “as we approach a new yeai
t. is clear that a number of gov
ernment's indebtedness to the
United States will be unable tc
meet further payments to the
United States in full pending re
covery of their economic life
Therefore, it will be necessary in
some cases to make still furthei
temporary adjustments A foreign
debt commission would go into the
debts question and make recom
mendations to Congress."
Leading off with these recom
mendations, the message touched
upon American relations as having
much to do with the rest of the
vorld.
Hoover again urged adherence tc
The world court and a vigorous ac
tion by the world at large to curt
armaments. He asked for legisla
tive sanction for a moratorium in
five days for it is December If
that the next payments from
:< broad are due.
A moratorium on payments in
stallments to be withheld over a
10-year period beginning July 5 wa?
repeated from his spring state
ment. Hoover said, “I do not ap
prove in any remote sense the can
cellation of debts to the Unitec
States."
Speaker Garner said that the
House would not act on Hoover’*
moratorium until December 15.
XMUS SHOPPING TRIP
ENDED IN UNTIL
DEATH OF SMALL OOF
GRIDLEY, Calif., Dec. 10. (im
probably one of the saddest epi
sodes in California is the accidental
death of Albert Gilmore, 11 year*
of age, who was instantly killed
when crushed between two cars.
Little Albert and his father were
going in to town to purchase a bike
ror the lad as a Christmas present
In preparing to go the father had
trouble in getting the car started
and to expidite the starting, it was
decided that they would tow it be
hind a truck.
When they finally got the cai
started, Little Albert went out tc
unfasten the towline and it was
while doing so that the father’*
root slipped off the clutch and the
car behind the truck plunged ahead
.ind crushed the boy against the
;ruck ahead of it.
BIRTHDAY GREETINGS
SAN QUENTIN, Dec. 10. (/P)—Tom
Mooney, serving a sentence here,
yesterday received a birthday
greeting by wire from Mayor James
Walker who is enroute to his East
! ern offices. Mooney was 49 years
j of age.
CHINESE LEADERS
THREE BIG PROBLEMS TO BE
DEBATED AT NANKING
CONFERENCES
SHANGHAI, Dec. iu. W-Law
yers, editors, statesmen, bankers,
| merchants and other leaders of this
'city who were summoned to Nan
Iking to sit on a conference with
President Chiang Kai Shek arrived
at Nanking yesterday and were to
go into a conference for the dis
cussing of problems affecting the
Sino-Japanese situation in Manchu
ria.
Three main problems confront
the Chinese leaders at the meeting
and enumerated they are: The dis
cussion of taking up a vigorous
armed resistance to the Japanese
activities in Manchuria, the
strengthening of the credit struct
ure of China to promote internal
strength and also on methods as to
howr to handle the demonstrating
students and others who stage riots,
etc., because of China’s alleged
puny attempts to cope with the
Japanese in stern measures.
STREET FIGHTING
BERLIN, Dec. 10. </P)— Police were
Icalled out to quell street fighting
I which resulted in a clash between
j Fascists and anti-Fascists here yes
jterday. One person was killed and
(several seriously injured in the af
Ifray. Five have been arrested.
NEK YORK'S CONTRACT
BRIDGE MATCH MONET
Will. GO TO CH1TT
| NEW YORK, Dec. 10. (/P)—Char
ity will benefit from the contract
bridge battle which Sidney Lenz
and Oswald Jacoby are staging with
Mr. and Mrs. Ely Culbertson for
j Mr. Culbertson has bet $5,000 to
| $1,000 and the winners are to do
j nate the money to charity.
Lenz and Jacoby won the first
two of the first three rubbers of
the 150 rubber contract bridge
match they are playing in the first
session of play but Mr. and Mrs.
Culbertson came back in a second
session and took one rubber.
Although Lenz and Jacoby are
holding a big point margin, experts
have agreed that they had failed
to obtain values from superiority
of high cards. They failed to bid
three slams which they made and
allowed the Culbertson’s, through
, a sacrifice bid in hearts, to de
prive them of another grand slam.
In the fifth possible slam hand, Mr.
| Lenz made a costly mistake and
• was bid two tricks.
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Thody and Senft, successful bid
ders on the construction of the
Seward Airport hangar, have erect
ed a tool shed and will start laying
the hangar foundation soon.
HIGHER TUITION
| TREMENDOUS DEFICIT FIGURES
PRESENTED TO CONGRESS
BY PRESIDENT
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I WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 10.
! <7P)—Fighting the deficit for the
| government over three years’ op
I eration, President Hoover recom
| mended higher taxes to Congress in
| his third annual budget message.
“We cannot maintain public con
| fidence nor stability of the Federal
! government without undertaking
| some temporary tax increases,” the
j President said. For the fiscal year,
| beginning next July it is estimated
i $3,942,754,614 will be needed to run
| the government. Appropriations
| this year are $52,271,920.
More than that, the President
| concluded with an emphatic warn
i ing against either Congressional,
private or organization activities
towards an increase “in the dram
upon public finances.”
| The tremendous deficit figure
was arrived at by adding the un
favorable balance fojrjhe past year
to the one expected this year which
is $21,236,000,000 and an estimated
$14,176,000,000 deficit in 1933.
He left to Secretary of the Treas
ury Mellon to outline the adminis
tration tax plan, balancing the
budget for the present year being
out of the question. President Hoo
! ver wrote: “I recommend that Con
| gress provide for increase taxation
;for a definite limited period upon
! the general plan of taxation which
! existed under the Revenue Act of
! 1924 with such changes as may be
j appropriate in the light of altered
; conditions which will be terminat
I ed. in two years from July. This
iplan, it is estimated, will realize
$920,000,000 next year and thus
meet the above conditions of bal
ancing the budget for the fiscal
year of 1933 except for the statu
tory debt retirement.”
The President thinks that the
i national defense for the next fiscal
year should cost $64,465,000 or $51,
000,000 less than this year’s budget.
His message to Congress showed^
| in the recommendations for Army
iNavy and Marine Corps, that nc
j enlisted personnel would be cut
either in the Army or Navy, but
the Marine Corps would be cut
about 2,000.
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mo IS CRUSHED
BE ICE OF THE ARCTIG
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j POINT BARROW, Dec. 10. (/P)—
O. D. Morris and three Eskimos
risked their lives in order to sal
vage 14 bales of valuable furs which
were aboard the icelocked, and
now probably icecrushed, Bay
chimo, of the Hudson Bay Trading
Company.
Morris and his Eskimo compan
ions succeeded in getting the 14
bales of furs off the ship before the
crushing ice reduced the ship tc
nothing but a derelict. They were
forced to leave four bales behind.
Miss Evelyn Nilson left for her
home in Portlock on the SS Starr
Wednesday night.
FLAT REFUSAL MADE
BASIL, Switzerland. Dec, 10.
|—The Young plan committee i
faced with flat opposition by Franc;
to the proposition proposed for <
reduction of Germany’s reparation,
> obligations.
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MAGDA LUPESCU BECOMES /
CHRISTIAN BETTER HER
CHANCES BE QUEEN
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(By Associated Press)
Talk of Magda Lupescu as a pos
j sible future common queen of Rou
mania has entered into the disput<
between the royal brothers at Buch
arest.
| Capitol circles believed that the]
saw indications in this that King
Carol would not expel Prince Nich
olas for the latter’s recent marriage
to a common wife and not of roya
lineage.
A foreign diplomat arriving ir
Paris from Roumania reported Ma
dame Lupescu had foresaken hei
religion of Judiasm to become £
| Christian with a view to qualifying
| to become Queen of Roumania.
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OBSCENE LITERATURE
j LOS ANGELES, Dec. 10. (JP)—'Th<
: distribution of obscene literatur<
jto school children in Los Angele;
I has developed into such propor
i tons that action has begun with £
view to punishing the vendors o
| the “trash.” The Parent-Teacher;
! Association and other association;
j interested in the welfare of schoo
| children are particularly behinc
| the movement to clean up Los An
;geles’ source of literature to child
ren.
II7-YEIB-OLD YOUTH
: HELD II CONNECTION
i MURDER AGED Ml
—
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 10. (JP)—Ne-?
development in the Eugenie Vane
brutal murder case of this city i
the theory now being worked 01
by local police that the brutality o
the murder is ample evidence tha
it is the work of a degenerate ra
ther than that of gangsters or rack
eteers. Two men are being held fo
further observation in connectioi
with the case.
Another new angle was develops
with the confession of Theodor
Dunn, a 17-year-old youth, whi
confessed to the slaying of a Mn
Cole, an aged woman of Missouri
Dunn said that he had been en
gaged to escort Mrs. Cole to a cit;
in Missouri by the woman’s hus
band. The husband had given Mrs
Cole $200 in the form of a check
Dunn said the woman cashed th
check and soon after that begai
to make improper advances to him
He said that he could not stand thi
and choked her and then hid thi
body. He said that he realized tha
he would need some money an<
took the $200 that she had with her
The similarity of the murder o
Mrs. Cole and Eugenie Vance ha
led police authorities to have younj
Dunn explain his whereabouts or
the day that Mrs. Vance was killed
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HOME LOAN DISCOUNT SYSTEM
MEETS WITH INSTANT
APPROVAL
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WASHINGTON, D. C . Dec. 10.
■jW—Much of President Hoover’s
; domestic economic program seems
i: destined to leceive the ultimate ap
j proval of Congress even though
i there is a tedious period of thor
ough investigation ahead.
This prospect of approval by Con -
I &ress does not necessarily extend
; to all his economic proposals nor
. | to the tax increase plan which must
. run the guantlet of a tremendous
. opposition by the Democrats and
Republican Independents in the
r Senate.
; Other proposals are the new half
billion dollanr reconstruction cor
: Poration proposed by Hoover, and
[ the Home Loan discount system,
recapitalization of Federal land
l banks and a revision of national
,; bank laws. Of the foregoing pro
. posals, the Hoover home loan dis
l count system appears to be one of
. j the largest measures and seems to
s carry enough favor to insure vic
tory. A definite stand, however,
has been developed against the rec
ommendation for a liberalization
in the emergency reserve systems
and rules for- discounting paper.
A triumph over some strong op
position in the moratorium proposal
L ts seen as more light was thrown
L upon the attitude of Congress on
> this.
> Congress rested from its reception
l today of President Hoover’s mes
1 sage asking ratification of the
■ moratorium.
There are bills before both Houses
which carry out every important
recommendation made by Hoover
in his annual message but there
appears to be no great rush to have
| them enacted.
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LEWISBURG, W. Va., Dec. 10. (/P)
—Two negroes, Tom Jackson, 25
years of age, and George Banks,
27 years of age, were taken from jai|
here and lynched by an organized
mob of 60 men.
The negroes were hung, almost
nude, from the crossarm of a tele
phone pole. Before death came by
strangulation, volley after volley of
shots were fired into the bodies.
The negroes were arrested in con
nection with the killing of Con
stable Joseph Myles and Jeff Brown,
a companion, who had gone to a
negro dance on orders from Police
Chief Leslie and ordered the danc
ers to be more quiet.
When they left the dance, they
were shot down with a shotgun.
GRIMES TRADED BY CARDS
ST. LOUIS,.Dec. 10. (^ — Bur
leigh Grimes of the St. Louis Card
inals is said to have been traded to
a Chicago baseball team in a deal
just announced. It is announced
that he was traded for Hack Wilson,
and another player of the Chicago
team.