VOLUME XXVIII. NUMBER 325.
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1932.
PRICE TEN CENTS
WINTER'S THIRD ZERO
- HTTACK TWO WEEKS
SEATTLE, Wash.. Dec. 19
Winter’s third rerc attack in two
weeks moved in fuil fox’ce into New
England Saturday night and left
most of the remainder of the coun
try chilly. Snow in half a dozen
states threatened transportation.
It fell at the rate of half an inch
an hour in Baltimore, disturbed
shipping and made highways all
but impassable.
In Washington, D. C., members of
the bonus marchers joined men in
clearing the streets of snow more
than a foot deep.
Down in California the tenth day
of cold weather spread over the
state in the face of the weather
man’s observations of rising tem
peratures#
From various parts of Texas came
reports of six inches of snow; snow
also fell in Dixie and Arkansas.
At Chicago, firemen not only
had to pry their frozen apparatus
from icy walks, but also themsehes.
Streams of water flowing about
their feet, froze solid in the 10 be
low temperature.
New England states reported 33
below weather; Vermont 30, Albany
six below and down in Memphis it
was 10 above.
Atlanta enjoyed its first snow
Saturday though Georgia in gener
al has been covered; rising tem
peratures will likely bring rain to
day.
Two deaths occurred in Texas
from exposure; one died in Penn
slyvania Saturday, and one in Ohio
where a 23 below zero was record
ed Saturday, six died from expo
sure.
COMPROMISE CUT
DEIS IPUPITMS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 19, —
A compromise cut in veterans ap
propriations effecting a temporary
saving without changing existing j
laws is being discussed by mem- j
bers of Congress as a way out of |
the dilemna presented by conflict- ;
ing demands for economy and for
still larger benefits, each sponsor
ed by a considerable portion of the
population.
The plan calls for a ten per cent
reduction in all checks mailed out j
by the government for pensions
disability compensation and allow- :
ances. ;
POLITICAL LEADERS IN
ARCENTINA ARRESTED
BUENOS, Aires, Dec. 19, — Mar
chelo T- de Alvear, former presi
dent and several other political
leaders were placed under arrest
to prevent a widespread revolt.
The government had planned!
last Saturday to declare a state of
siege which would have left con
trol with the military, but has
called for trial of civilians in civil
courts rather than in military
courts.
AMY FORCED DOWN
• LONDON, Dec. 19, —Amy John
son, foremost English aviatrix, was
forced down in Algeria after start
ing on her final flight from Cape
Town to London, according to ad
vices xeceived by her husband,
Capt. James A. Mollison.
HARD LUCK HANK IS HERO
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Dec. 19.
—Hard Luck Hank Schaldach
closed his football career at the
University of California in a blaze
of glory Saturday as he led his
team mates to a 27 to 6 victory over
Georgia Tech in the big grid fea
ture of this section.
Other scores:Oregon 12, Louisi
ana State 0; Florida 12, U. C. L. A.
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BECOMING WORRIED
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 19, —
Sponsors of repeal of the 18th
amendment are becoming worried
that the swift moving drive for
beer legalization which will center
in the House this week may endan
ger their own attempt to wipe all
prohibition statutes off the books
USELESS FOR HOOVER
TIFF. DEFINITE ICT1
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 19, —
A board of review to study the
war debts and lay the groundwork
for revision negotiations is being
considered by President Hoover.
It is one of three plans he has
in mind, his associates believing it
is the one he is most likely to
adopt. The value of the plan lies
in the fact that the board could
be quickly constituted and begin
work with little delay.
It is understood that the Pres
ident is inclined to the view that
it would be useless for him to take
any definite action on revision be
cause of the immiment change in
administration; so he faces the
necessity of dealing with debtor
nations through some such an
gency.
HUNDREDS HOODLUMS
PUT OUTOF BUSINESS
CHICAGO. Dec. 19, —Police re
cords showed last night that the
week’s drive against gangsters in
the new Chicago cleanup resulted
in putting more than 350 hoodlums
in jail and many times that num
ber out of business.
It is estimated that more than
2,000 beer flats and speakeasies
folded up and quit.
Continuing the city-wide drive
started by Mayor Anton J. Cer
mak to clean up Chicago, the May
or said he did not intend to make
Chicago a “sissy” town but gang
dom must be put in proper place.
FEDERAL DEFICIT
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Dec. 19, —
The Treasury Department report
ed the Federal deficit, as of Dec
ember 15, at $1,142,000,000.
PLANE STRUCK RIDGE
FLYING THRU FOG
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 19, —
The body of Claire K. Vance, noted
airmail pilot and aircraft designer,
was found in the wreckage of his
mail plane on Rocky Ridge Sunday
night.
Vance’s body and plane’s mail
cargo had been burned. Aviators
who reached the spot on horses af
ter spotting the wreckage from
overhead, said Vance probably had
struck the ridge while flying full
speed through a local fog.
CAPT WM. JENSEN DIES
SEATTLE, Dec. 19, —Capt. Wil
liam Jensen, 72 years of age, died
here Saturday. Captain Jensen re
tired four years ago and first en
tered his Alaska coastal naviga
tion in 1901, commanding the SS
Alaska and Northwestern. A widow
and brother survive him in Seat
tle and four sisters in Norway.
ATTEMPT TO BOMB CONSUL
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec, 19#—
France Plockhard, American consul i
general at Tientsing, China, report
ed to the State Department that a
bomb was thrown at or placed near
the wall surrounding the Japanese
consul general’s residence in the
British concession, but did not
damage the residence.
STOPPED ONE IN THE EYE
HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 19,- —Billy
Austin, an alleged moving picture
actress, is seeking a divorce from
friend husband because he smack
ed her in the eye.
LIST OF PHIZES
H YEAR'S HARO
BIGGER AND BETTER LIST OF
PRACTICAL AWARDS FOR
ANNUAL EVENT
The next big social event of the
I present winter season is the An
nual New Year’s Eve Ball given by
the Seward Volunteer Fire Depart
ment. This year it is called the
Hard Time Mask Ball.
I The award committee have com
pleted their labors and the result
J may be seen by scanning the fol
; lowing long list- of practical prizes:
Costume and prizes; Gents—
The best dressed man whose cos
tume is made up or material not
ordinarily used for clothing: $10
meal ticket, Poodle Dog.
2. The best male character whose
costume and manner is most ex
pressive of hard times. Midget
phonograph. Brown & Hawkins
Corporation.
3. The most original costume re
presenting hard-time character:
Flannel shirt: Seward Trading Co.
4. The most comical male char
acter representing hard times:
Box cigars: The Northern.
Ladies—
1. The best dressed woman
whose costume is made up of mat
erial not ordinarily used for cloth
ing: Leather purse: Seward Drug
Company.
2. The best female character
whose costume and manner is
j most expressive of hard times:
j Leather bag: Urbach & Valade.
3. The most original costume rep
resenting hard times, female char
acter. Pongee silk coolie coat: The
Blue Shop.
Please turn to page 4.
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RUPTURE LOOMS ID
BERLIN. Dec. 19, — Political
quarters were apprehensive that
the party truce now in effect will
be ruptured this week and that a
break between the new government
of Chancellor Kurt von Schleich
er and parliament will develop al
tho the Reichstag wants harmony.
It is understood $hat Speaker
Hermann Goering would not sum
mon another session until mid
January but it appeared possible
yesterday that a session may be
called before Christmas.
RESCINDING PRESS DECREE
BERLIN, Dec. 19, —The decree
against freedom of the press which!
has been in effect for a number of i
years, will be rescinded December j
31, according to Chancellor Kurt,
von Schleicher.
CALIFORNIANS ARE
UNDAUNTED, DEFEAT
WASHINGTON, D C„ Dec. 19, —
Refusal of the House ways and
means committee to accept the
wine legalization clause in the
Collier beer bill Saturday left Cal
ifornians undaunted in their fight
for grape growers.
The California delegation spon- |
soring the grapemen’s drive met!
with counsel for the California1
vineyardists to lay battle lines for j
the coming fight.
GARNER OPPOSES RESTRICTION
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 19.— j
Speaker Garner is emphatically j
opposed to Federal restrictions on,
the sale of 3.2 per cent beer. The '
Vice-president-elect indicated his j
views today as opposing forces in |
the battle over prohibition lined up
for the fight Tuesday when the j
House takes up the Collier bill.
DOCTORS BELIEVE MAN
CRAZY BECAUSE WEB
FOUR WOMEN 7 TIMES
NEW YORK, Dec. 19, —Bellevue
doctors investigated the sanity of
Louis George because he married
four women seven times, but forgot
to keep even cn divorces.
He plead guilty to bigamy but
sentence was suspended pending
the alienists report.
George married an English girl
three times; he divorced her but
once, and she deserted him recent
ly leaving three of her seven chil
dren in an orphanage. He also
mrried, divorced and remarried a
New York girl. He is said to have
married two other women but
could not remember them.
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PRESIDENT-ELECT
RELINQUISHES PRESENT
DUTIES IN TWO WEEKS
ALBANY, N. Y., Dec. 19, —Pres
ident-Elect Franklin D. Roosevelt
is one of the busiest men in the
world, in preparation for stepping
into the White House March 4.
His average working day is 12 to
16 hours and it is said he devotes
practically all of his time to ad
ministration work. In two weeks he
will be relieved of the duties of
governor of New York State.
One telephone is on his neatly
arranged desk which is never clut
tered with papers for long. An ef
fortless worker, he sticks to each
job until it is completed and never
appears to be in a hurry though he
produces a prodigious amount of
work each day.
AMY ARRIVES
LONDON, Dec. 19, —Amy Molli
son, great English woman aviatrix,
added another record to her long
list of achievements by completing
a flight from Capetown. S. A., to
London in seven days, seven hours
and five minutes.
FIFTEEN THOUSAND
JOBLESS INJALIFORNIA
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 19, —Of
ficials the State labor camp organ
izations are conferring with Gov.
James Rolfe, Jr<5 in an effort to ob
tain $900,000 with which to care for j
the state’s 15,000 unemployed over'
the winter.
The unemployed who wish to
live in one of these camps must
join the many crews of road and
trail builders, the majority of
which are in national parks and
forests. In exchange they are giv
en food, lodging and suitable cloth
ing.
NEW ELECTRICAL FURNACE
PASADENA, Dec. 19, —A new
electrical furnace which will heat
above 2,000 degrees centrigrade, i
was one of the latest devices of
laboratory equipment explained
to the meeting of the American
Physical Society at the California
Institute of Technology.
TSK! TSK! TSK!
HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 19, —Ruth
Mitchell, an alleged movie actress,
beautiful, charming, red hair and
25 years of age, drove her auto into
a parked auto, by mistake, and suf
fered a severe shakeup. Police said
she was slightly under the influ
ence of liquor; ahem!
ON THE BOUNDING MAIN
LONDON, Dec. 19, —U. S. Ambas
sador Andrew W# Mellon is proba
bly humming today “Sailing, sail
ing over the bounding main” for
he embarked Saturday on the SS
Europa for New York, enroute to
Pittsburg to spend the holidays. He
returns to England, so he said, Jan
uary 4.
AGAINST PROPOSAL
GENEVA, Dec. 19, —Japan is de- j
finitely against the proposal that:
the United States and Soviet Rus-!
sia participate in the League of I
Nations efforts to settle the Sino-!
Japanese dispute over Manchuria
by conciliation, the organization’s,
drafting committee was informed.
Blf CQMM!^S!ON
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 19, —
The House agricultural committee
was told by Representative Nelson,
Democrat, that the agricultural do
mestic allotment from the relief
plan may do to President-elect
Roosevelt what the Farm Board did
to President Hoover.
A new study of the freight rate
situation was ordered by the Inter
state Commerce Commission.
The Senate approved the revised
Hawes-Cutting bill freeing the
Philippines in 12 years, which now
goes to conference between the two
houses
The House prohibitionists are
forming for the fight against the
3.2 per cent Democratic beer bill.
From authoritative sources it is
learned that the administration has
shown European debtors that it is
amenable to war debt negotiations.
NO TRACE OF KILLERS i
AND BANK ROBBERS
MINNEAPOLIS, Dec, 19, —Only
meager clues have been uncovered
by police as to the identity of the j
bandits who held up two banks ’
here last Friday making their es- j
cape with about $30,000 and kill- j
ing two and critically wounding ,
two others.
Five gunmen first held up the |
Northwestern Bank, killing one and
making away with over $20,000; the
second robbery of the day was
when three bandits held up the j
Herman Bank escaping with ap-:
proximately $2,000 and killing one j
person, a seller of Christmas trees, j
NEWSPAPERMAN “30”
PT. TOWNSEND, Wash., Dec. 19,!
—Frank F. Meyer, former Alaskan
newspaperman, died here. He left
the Territory many years ago and
had resided in this state since.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 19, —
Gov. James Rolfe, Jr., has com
pleted signing the so-called diplo
mas—pardons—f o r aproximately
150 violators of the repealed Cal
ifornia Wright liquor law through
the state.
They were being mailed Saturday
to sheriffs who, in turn, will hand
them to prisoners to become ef
fective today.
SILK STOCKING DEATH
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Dec. 19, —
Mrs. R. Brace, prominent member
of society, artist and author, com
mitted suicide by hanging herself
with a silk stocking. A note to a
gentleman friend read: ‘This is a
happy landing.” She had been dead
at least 12 hours when found.
LOST LONG NECKLACE
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 19, —
Mrs. James Hamilton Lewis report
ed to the police she had lost a two
and one-half foot long necklace to
gether with other valuable jewels
which were in a handbag. She did
not know whether she had mislaid
the bag or if it had been stolen.
CAR LOADINGS FELL OFF
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 19, —
The Interstate Commerce Commis
sion reported car loadings for last
week totalled 251,216, a decrease
over the preceeding week and year. ]
MIES III DEHT
NOT BE CONSIDERED IN
PROPOSED CONFERENCE
WASHINGTON, D. C„ D,ec. 19.—
Indie?tior- arc that the Hoover ad
amis t it on may propose that the
entire quest‘on o war debts will
be lo-d becor? the Tor’d Economy
Confeience schedule'l for London in
April, were forthcoming following
a long White House conference.
Meanwhile, the administration,
opened the doors for negotiations
for reconsideration of the debts
with nations not in default. These
negotiations would be conducted
individually, not collectively. If
France pays its $19,000,000 interest,
defaulted Thursday, the adminis
tration is willing to discuss a re
view of the obligations. No prom
ise of actual downward revision
can be given, however, since any
agreement must be ratified by
Congress. Countries in default
will receive no consideration.
ISM liEPFliSENCE
BIEL PASSED BE SENATE
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 19.—
Without a record vote the Senate
passed the Hawes-Cutting Philip
pine independence bill. The meas
ure provides for freedom following
a 12-year test period and free trade
for seven years, after which there
will be a gradually expanding tax
on cocoa and other commodities
to pay off the island’s $65,000,000
bonded indebtedness.
HOOVER RUN AGAIN?
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 19, —
It is unofficial remarked that there
are grounds for the belief that
President Hoover intends to be a
candidate for the presidency in
1936.
PARIS, Dec. 19, —Retaining the
10 ministers who served under
Edouard Herriot, Joseph Paul Bon
cour succeeded Sunday in forming
a new cabinet to replace the gov
ernment which fell in the crisis
over the U. S. war debt payment.
Paul Boncour and his cabinet will
go before the Chamber of Deputies
today or tomorrow and after the
usual ministral declaration will
propose a vote of confidence
MUST SERVE 42 MONTHS
STOCKHOLM, Dec. 19, —For fal
sifying books of the Krueger Match
Company, T. Krueger, a brother of
the late “king of the match indus
try,” was sentenced to serve 42
months at hard labor.
OUTPUT OF TEXAS OIL
CURTAILED FEW WEEKS
AUSTIN. Tex., Dec. 19, —The
flow of oil in Texas was practically
halted Saturday by the Texas oil
conservation committee, and will
continue so until January 1, in an
effort to adjust supply and de
mand.
Ninety per cent of the state’s oil
wells closed at noon and it is ex
pected the other 10 per cent will
comply by today. A total of 9,300
wells have been in constant opera
tion..
MAY LEAD TO CHAOS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 19, —
Senate passage of the Philippine
independence bill discounted the
view held in some high adminis
tration quarters that separation
of the islands would lead to chaos
in the Orient and possible external
aggression against the proposed
new political entity, it was felt
lere Sunday.
Hard Times Masquerade Ball, New Year’s Eve