MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XVI. NUMBER 58. SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 1931.
PRICE TEN CENTS
VERBAL CONFLICT RAGES BE
TWEEN FRANCE AND
GERMANY
LONDON. Mar. 16. {&) — While
Europe seethed with comments on
naval and land armaments Great
Britain took another step toward
the day or general peace when the
House of Commons by a vote of
221 to 12© voted that England be
come a signatory to the general
pact of international arbitration.
This conclusion was reached af
ter a Conservative party resolu
tion against the act was defeated.
Great Britain thus became the
9th country to submit all non
iustifiable disputes to arbitration
with certain reservations.
Meanwhile, a verbal conflict be
tween Germany and France over
the general question of disarma
ment continued when General WU
liam Groener replied before the
Reichstag budget committee to
claim of the French war minister
Andre Maginot that Frajnce had
already fulfilled her disarmament
pledge. Groener asserted France
had built up the most effective war
instrument in the world while
Germany had been forced to dis
arm to a point unparalleiled in his
tory
The German minister of defence
spoke of “transformation” of the
French army and said “we do not
and disarmament in France but
well thought out changes in arm
aments.”
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KINGLEADERS GIVEN 10 YEARS
IN PRISON AND FIVE YEAR
LOSS OF CITIZENSHIP
MOSCOW, Mar. 16. (/P) —Four
teen Mensheviks, who for more
than a week have stood trial on
a charge of plotting to overthrow
the soviet government, received!
severly heavy prison sentences for!
their alleged crime but escaped the j
maximum penalty which was j
death.
Death had been asked for several
of the offenders and two of the
plotters had even requested execu
tion after confessing their guilt
but none were sentenced to die.
Ten years imprisonment and an
additional five years loss of cit
izenship were imposed upon Vlad- j
imar Groman, Vasily Sher, Nicho-j
las Sukhanov, Abraham Ginsberg, j
Michael Yakubovich, Ivan Petun- j
in and Alexander Finnenotayesky. j
These men were ringleaders of
the movement and held positions
of great importance in the Soviet
regime. Four others were impris
oned for eight years and suffered
the loss of citizenship for three ad
ditional years.
BIRD DOBS Ml
SIGNAL CORPS CUP
FAIRBANKS. Mar., 17. (/P)—
Tom Wright’s bird dogs, driven
by Herbert Lawrence, won the
Signal Corps trophy derby. His
total time in the two heats of
30 miles each was five hours, 10
minutes and 32 seconds
Jack Murphy was second; five
hours, 35 minutes and 48 sec
onds.
Mitchel Christo, driving Judge
Clegg’s entry, came in third:
time, five hours, 43 minutes and
27 seconds.
Bob Buzby, who placed second
in the first heat with a five
dog team, entered the final heat
with but four, and came in
fourth.
Murphy beat Lawrence three
; minutes Sunday but Wright
had a 13 minute lead in the first
; heat.
PHOT FRED HOLLER
MISSING FOR WEEK
III INTERIOR UK
FAIRBANKS. Mar., 17, (£>)—
| Worried over the failure of Pilot
' Fred Moller in returning to Fair
■ banks fro ma flight to Eagle
Fort Yukon and Circle City,
,friends have wired to those three
points and in answer received
word he was unreported.
' Moller left Fairbanks a week
ago intending to stop first at
Eagle Circle reported a plane
was heard about 30 miles away
heading for Charley River but
failed to mention what day this
plane was. heard.
Moller heads an independent
airplane company.
WASHINGTON, Mar , 17, (/P>—
President Hoover starts on his
10 day vacation Thursday aboard
the battleship Arizona and will
leave Washington tomorrow nite.
He will breakfast aboard the
battleship and sails direct for
Porto Rico and the Virgin Isles.
Mrs. Hoover is accompanying
the President. They plan to
spend some time with their con
valescent son, Herbert, Junior,
in Asheville, N. C., at a later
date.
“GIRL BAZAAR'
SAN DIEGO, Mar. 16. (/P) —Ac
cused of statuary offences against
girls of tender years whom they
assertedly “bought” at a Hoa./wood
girl bazaar, Alexander Pantages
millionaire showman, and Jesse
Shreve, prominent business man of
San Diego are being sought bv the
San Diego police.
NO REPRESENTATIVE
WASHINGTON, Mar 16. (/P)—
The State Department declined to
send an official representative to
the wheat conference at Rome to
be held on March 26.
SURVIVORS ADRIFT
ON ICE IN THE
NORTH ATLANTIC
ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY
WERE ABOARD THE SHIP,
SAYS REPORT
ST, JOHNS, N e w f oundland,
Mar., 17, (JP)—Marooned on loose
ice in the North Atlantic, the
surviving members of the crew
of an unidentified vessel, believ
ed to be the sailing ship Viking,
are drifting with the flows to
ward the open sea off White Bay.
Messages there said the vessel
had burned to the water’s edge.
The Viking was owned bv Bow
ring Brothers of St. John, and
had been reported in the ice.
The message said the men
were seen endeavoring to reach
shore- One hundred and 40 per
sons were aboard the Viking in
cluding Varick Frissell, film di
rector, who was aboard the ship
making motion pictures.
The sea in the vicinity of
Horse Island is said to be jam
med with ice where the ship was
held.
TWENTY-FIVE DIED WHEN
EXPLOSION BLEW UP
THEIR SHIP
ST. JOHNS, Newfoundland, Mar.
; 17, (/P)—The captain and 117
! men sailing the steamer Viking
| which exploded and sank off
I Horse Island Sunday with a loss
j of 25 lives, reached the island
i after 24 hours on ice floes
Capt. Abraham Kean told Miss
O. Bartlett, 18 year old radio
operator.
Varick Frissel, movie operator,
A. E. Penrod and Russel^ Sar
gent, explorer, are In a missing
dory containing seven men. Five
were apparently hurt and can be
seen five miles off-shore trying
to reach the island.
Bartlett had doubts that they
would be successful as the ice
has jammed.
Inhabitants of the island are
caring for the rescued many of
whom are reported sick and bad
ly injured.
Captain Kean said he was on
the bridge when the explosion oc
curred and was thrown to the
ice- Fire followed the explosion.
Supplies on the island are
practicall exhuasted but rescue
boats are expected late today.
The five houses on the island
are crowded with the most ser
iously injured; others are being
protected in temporary shelters.
TENNIS ACE ARRIVES
NEW RORK, Mar. 16. (/P) —
Jean Borotra, French tennis star,
arrived from France announcing
that he will not become a profes
sional tennis player. He intends to
defend his indoor title heie and to
play in the Oavis Cup in Hci.t s next
Summer, he *aid.
ENTIRE COMMUNITY
IT POINT BUM
Nil IMMUNIZED
POINT BARROW, Mar., 17, (/P)
—Two new cases of diphtheria
are in the hospital here and one
more house has been quarantined.
Sixty suspected cases were giv
en anti toxin. All the village is
now immunized. A small staff is
working night and day and all
assistance possible is being given
by the remainder of the whites.
Dr. Greist claims all cases are
doing nicely and the anti toxin
on hand is sufficient. Soon, most
of the danger will be over, ac
I cording to the week-end inspec
tion.
A conservative estimate is half
of the village has been affected,
word has been received there
is no sickness at Cape Halkeet
indicating the effectiveness of
quarantine.
GKI5TIT MISTAKE ONER
TRUCK LOAD DF BOOZE:
TWO WERE»
WILMINGTON, N. C., Ma^., 17,
(/P)—Five country officers, on a
police tip that a load of liquor
was being run into the city, mis
took a mail truck for a rum run
ner, precipitated a gun battle.
When it had ended Leonard
Roberts, the driver, and Deputy
W. E. Stirlinme, were lying dead
through the ghastly error
The driver, refusing to halt
fearing a holdup, jumped from
the truck and opened fire; about
a dozen shots were fired. Roberts
carried three passengers.
HOCKEY SCORES
VANCOUVER. B. C., Mar-, 17,
(JP)—Portland 1, Vancouver 0.
HOOVER APPROVES OF
WASHINGTON, Mar., 16, (JP)—
President Hoover approved of the
plan for appointment of a com
mission of three to administer
the fund of $10,000,000 to strength
en the financial structure of
banks.
The money will be loaned to
| farmers in the drought area.
Lewis Tune, B. C- Powell and
Major B. P. Cheatham have been
appointed to the commission.
TALKS “PROSPERITY”
NEW RORK, Mar. 16. (£>) —
The trend of business abroad gives
Americans every reason to feel en
couraged for the future, according
to James Mooney, president of the
General Export Company, who has
just returned from a five wees’s
tour of Europe.
GRIEVING WIDOW DIES
NEW YORK, Mar., 16, (/P)—
Mrs. Julia Higgins, widow of the
late Joseph Higgins, wealthy ban
ker, committed suicide by hang
ing herself in her Brooklyn home
where she lived alone with a maid.
ST. LOUIS BEAUTY
GIVES FRIEND HUBBY
BIO DOSE OF LEAD
MUST REMAIN IN JAIL FOR SIX
MONTHS BECAUSE OF
FRENCH LAW
NICE, France, Mar. 17. (#)—
Alfred G Nixon Nidlinger, wealthy
Philadelphia theater owner, was
shot and killed by his wife, the
former Charlotte Nash of .Saint
Louis, and a one-time beauty con
testant.
Mrs. Nixon Nirdlinger admitted
the shooting of her husband but
claimed that she shot him in self
j defense. Under the influence of
liquor, she said, her husband, who
(was very jealous of her, had tried
110 choke her. Two bullets hac
penetrated Mr. Nixon Nirdlinger's
body—one piercing the heart and
the other entering the right eye.
Friends of the couple, when ’
questioned by the police, confirm
ed the wife’s story of Nixon Nird -
linger’s extreme jealousy. They
habitually frequented night clubs
where the elderly husband often
j quarreled with his young and
pretty wife because she danced
with other men.
The trial will probably not
come up for six months and Mrs.
Nixon Nirdlinger will have to re
main in jail until that time since
jthe French law does not permit
j bail.
The two small children of the
! couple will remain in the care of
! a nurse.
[MAYOR WALKER IS UP IN THE
AIR OVER NINE TRUNKS
HAD WITH HIM
•NEW YORK, Mar. 17. (JP) —
While the City Council of
Churches clamored or a general
investigation of the New York
City government and city af
fairs a committee prepared to
ask Governor Franklin Roose
velt to order a special inquiry -
of Mayor James Walker with his
removal from office as the main
objective.
The mayor himself rode high
and dry on a wave of criticism.
From Dallas, Texas, the mayor
telegraphed a series of “wise
cracks” to tide New York over
its period of investigations. Mayor
Walker said, “if laughing is a
crime then I am a criminal and
I shall keep on being one.” Then
he joked with the newspaper men
about his luggage- “I have been
trying to find those nine trunks
of mine some of the newspapers
said I had brought along on this
trip. You fellow's sometimes will
not let facts interfere with a
good story. That’s all right but
I wish I had the nine trunks”
LEAVES FOR JAMAICA
NEW YORK, Mar. 17. (A3)— Mrs.
Theodore Roosevelt, wife of the
late president sailed for a trip to
Jamaica.