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SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3,1931. ^ i
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3,1931.
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PINCBORN, HERNDON
ME EIRE SCHOOLBOYS
ONE EYE OF FLIGHT
SAMUSHIRO, Otc., 3, (A5)—Clyde
Pangborn and Hugh Herndon ar
rived at the beach here before
dawn and began to check their
motor. It was not apparent at
first whether they would attempt
to take-off altho the conditions
were fine for flying, with the sky
clear and a soft breeze. The waves
' appeared gentle.
Pangborn and Herndon are like
a couple of school boys preparing
for a long anticipated adventure.
Pangborn, cool and methodical,
made a last minute inspection of
the engine, gear and wings. It
was Herndon’s 27th birthday and
he is a bit nervous and is anxious
to get underway today
DELAYED AGAIN
SAMUSHIRO, Oct. 3. (/P)—Delay
ed first by motor trouble and then
prevented from taking off by ad
verse winds Clyde Pangborn and
Hugh Herndon hoped that tomor
row’s sunrise would find them
started.
TAMMANY HALL LEADERS
ATTEMPT TO INTERFERE
WITH POLICE IN RAIDS
NEW YORK, Oct. 3. </P)—Tam
many Hall leaders took strenuous
steps to interfere when police raid
ed gambling games in their poli
tical clubs, according to testimony
siven by former Police Lieutenant
E. Keller, before the Hofstadter
Committee investigating graft in
New York City.
Keller said that City Clerk M.
Cruise had to be ejected from a
club forcibly after he sought to
prevent raiders from carrying out
their business and stated that
Sheriff T. Farley protested until he
was finally threatened with a ride
in the patrol wagon. Keller also
disclosed that the late Arnold
Rothstein tried to bribe him to
protect the gambling game run by
J. Baker.
S. Seabury, prosecutor, failed in
efforts to get Captain L. Valentine
to testify that Mayor Walker had
condoned gambling in political
clubs when he learned the games
were run by professionals, although
when he first received complaints
of raid from clubs he tried to call
off the police.
FOURTH MARRIAGE
HOLLYWOOD, Oct., 3, f/P)—An
elopement, with all the drama
and romance of the screen plays
in which he works, marked the
fourth marriage of James Kirk
wood, actor and director, and
Miss Beatrice Powers, 23, a blonde
film player, who formerly graced
the front line of the Zeigfeld Fol
lies. They were married at Las
Vegas. Kirkwood’s third wife was
Lila Lee, film actress.
* NEW “SUPER DUTY”
ROME Oct., 3, (/?)—To balance
the budget and to eliminate as
soon as possible a deficit of
000,000, the government imposed
a new 15 percent “super duty” c-n
all merchandise, with certain ex
ceptions not covered by existing
trade treaties
SULLIVAN APPOINTED
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 3. (Jf>,
—Leroy M. Sullivan, at present as
sistant district attorney for th<
Third Division, has been appointee
district attorney for • the Seconc
Division, succeeding Julius Hart
resigned.
MOYLEGIVEN EXTENSION
TIME BEGIN Jill TEAM
FAIRBANKS, Oct., 3, (/P)
Shown an Associated Press dis
patch wherein Judge Ray Schauf
er, of Los Angeles, gave him more
time to reach there to begin 2
30-day jail sentence for driving
while drunk, and which he was tc
start on Oct., 1, Don Moyle de
clared that he was making ever}
effort to reach Los Angeles.
The weather is against him. Hi
apologized to Probation Office]
Rowe for not sending in a reporl
and said that the mail service
was not good in the regions h(
and Cecil Allen had been travel
ing.
They are still grounded here
waiting favorable weather to fly
There was snow Thursday follow
I ed by clearing skies but condi
! tions were bad to the south.
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LINDYS SAIL FOR SHANGHAI
I HANKOW. Oct., 3. (/P)—Carry
I ing Colonel and Mrs. Charles A
; Lindbergh and their monoplane
: the British aircraft carrier sailed
1 from here for Shanghai. Lind}
isaid he thought it would be a
| simple matter to repair the plane
; which was injured in a mishap in
the Yangtse river.
NEW YORK, Oct. 3. (/Pi—Babe
, Ruth and Lou Gehrig wound up
the 1931 baseball season in a tie for
1 the home run honors, each having
46 circuit blows to his credit.
Gehrig managed to tie it up with
Ruth by hitting for four bases in
the final game of the season as the
Yankees trounced the Athletics 13
to 1. Ruth got three hits but failed
to raise one into the stands.
The season just ended was Geh
rig’s sixth in which he played in
every game. He has 1,041 games in
succession to his credit. Everett
Scott holds the record with 1,417
games. All clubs have completed
their season now and the World
Series started Thursday.
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Los Angeles 7, Oakland 5.
Portland 5, Hollywood 11.
Missions 6, Sacramento 7.
Seattle 3, San Francisco 6
MONETARY CONFERENCE
WASHINGTON, Oct-, 3, (/P)_
i Senator Borah urged President
I Hoover to call an International
; monetary conference to consider
| the adoption of bi-metalism by
leading nations.
There will be a public dance given
; tonight in the I. O. O. F. hall. Mu
i sic will be furnished by the Jolly
Three dance orchestra. Large
crowds have been attending the
dances lately so a good time is
promised all.
PISSES An
j LONDON, Oct. 3. (/P)—Sir Thomas
Lipton is dead. He suffered from
;the effects of a severe cold which
he contracted about 10 days ago
while motoring.
! He was an internationally fam
jous yachtsman and tea merchant
•,and spent more than 20 years of
i his life and nearly $10,000,000 of his
; vast fortune nursing a hobby to win
' back for England the America Cup
,!—a silver yachting trophy actually
worth a hundred guineas.
i! Aside from his long and ardent
> yachting career, the life of Sir
• Thomas Lipton was full of many
| interesting features, although the
Jweather-beaten sportsman himself
.1 was reluctant to admit it.
.1 He was born May 10, 1851, at
'1 Glasgow, Scotland, of Irish par
ents. After a brief schooling, he
was compelled to seek work to aid
‘ his parents in their struggle for a
(livelihood, but after two years as
a messenger boy, the lure of bigger
things got the better of him.
i Stowing away on a steamer,
bound he knew not where, he land
ied in America and worked for a
while on a rice plantation in South
Carolina. Making his way to New
York two years later, he found that
fortune still kept far ahead of him,
and many a night he is said to
have slept on park benches. Find
ing work at last, he soon had suf
ficient money to pay his way by
steerage back to Glasgow, where
he landed without funds but with
a head full of American ideas.
Most of all he had been impress
ed with the American methods of
1 advertising. Describing these in
glowing terms to his parents, who
had accumulated a few hundred
dollars, he succeeded in persuad
ing them to open a small prov
ision store. He advertised boldly
and expensively, considering the
capital behind him, and soon made
his name known throughout Glas
gow.
The shop prospered beyond Lip
| ton’s most extravagant dreams,
and soon another one was opened
modelled exactly after the first.
After a few years he had a whole
string of shops in Glasgow and was
j growing rich. He entered the Lon
don field, then Liverpool and Man
chester and at the height of his
business career controlled more
ithan 600 stores in England, Amer
j ica and other parts of the world,
j In order to supply his retail
stores more directly, Lipton bought
j a tea plantation in Ceylon, to
| which he later added a coffee plan
I tation and then a cocoa grove.
(Finding these investments profit
jable, he continued to purchase
i plantations, and soon his teas were
known around the world.
Lipton never married, and under
(English law his great estate prob
ably will go to distant relatives.
London was the home in which
' the Baronet spent most of his
j time, although he maintained sev
eral country places.
200 UNDER ARREST
FERROL, Spain, Oct., 3, (JP)_
About 200 petty officers in the
Spanish Navy were confined to
their quarters under arrest as the
aftermath of their protests
against what they called unfair
discrimination in increasing the
(pay of naval engineers but not
that of the deck force.
EDISON WEAKENING
I WEST ORANGE, Oct. 3. (/P)—
I Thomas A. Edison continues to
grow weaker, his physicians said
in their bulletin. “As a result of
a restless and uncomfortable
night, Mr. Edison is slightly weak
,er this morning,” the bulletin read.
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NEW YORK, Oct-, 2, (^—Ma
dame Lydia Lindgren, “Swedish
Nightingale", who is suing Otto H.
Kahn for a half million dollars
j for alleged breach of promise,
I testified the banker rove her e
trust fund of $150,000. promised
her a life income of $3,000, “be
cause he realized all the trouble
he had caused”.
| The singer insisted however,
'that the financier’s promise had
| never been fulfilled. Madame
j Lindgren told the jury that her
| opera career had been ruined by
! scandalous reports circulated to
' the effect that she was too friend
! ly with Mr. Kahn. She once sued
Madame Julia Claussen, her rival
as “Swedish Nightingale” for
sponsoring such reports, she said,
but later withdrew action at the
request of Mr. Kahn.
The singer testified, between
her sobs, that the banker had
promised to remember her in his
will, but this promise, like others,
was never kept
GANDHI HIS AGREEMENT
COTTON MILL OWNERS
MANCHESTER, Eng., Oct. 3. (/P)
1—Having arrived at a tacit under
j standing with Manchester cotton
mill owners for reciprocal assist
ance in meeting their diverse prob
lems
Mahatma Gandhi, Indian Na
tionalist leader, left this commun
ity for London. He said he would
not remain in England if the Brit
ish statesmen decided to postpone
: decision on India, owing to pros
ipects of the general election.
LEAVE FAIRBANKS
FAIRBANKS, Oct. 3. (/P) — Don
j Moyle and Cecil Allen left at noon j
! today for Whitehorse.
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GAMES MONDAY
PHILADELPHIA, Oct-, 3, UP)—
The Philadelphia Athletics and
the St. Louis Cardinals will re
sume the World Series games here
Monday.
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THE STOCK MARKET
EATTLE, Oct. 3. (£>)—Yesterday’s
quotations on the stock market:
Alaska Juneau .12%
American Can .78 %
Borden .39%
Canada Dry .14%
General Motors.23%
International Nickle Can .. 8%
International Tel. & Tel:.16
Kennecott Copper ..11%
Radio .13%
Reynolds Tobacco (b) .37% 1
Richfield Oil . 1 j
Standard Oil of Calif.29%
Standard Oil of N. J.29% J
Standard Oil of N. Y.13%
Union Oil of Calif. 12%
U. S. Steel. 71%
Cities Service . 5%
Durant Miotors . %
iGUISGOn ..BLESS RIOT
Hi LOOT III PROTEST OF
REDUCTIONS IN DOLE
! GLASGOW, Oct. 3. <£>)—'The most
vindicative rioting and looting in
i years and extending intermittent -
! ly over two nights and a day came
' to a climax when police swept the
streets clean and restored order.
Resuming at about 8:30 last
j night’s battle between jobless men,
demonstrating against dole reduc
I tions, and forces of the law, ranged
| for more than six hours. The num
ber of rioters was not determined.
The police injured upwards to
1100 persons and many were ar
rested. The melee began when
police charged about 100 men whQ
were holding a manifestation out
side of a jail in which John Mc
Govern, a member of Parliament
and his lieutenants were being
held for Thursday night's outbreak.
Almost simultaneously trouble
started at Gallowgate, Glasgow
Cross and other sections of the city.
As fast as the demonstrators were
driven off the main streets they
darted into alleys and formed for
renewed attack.
The damage is estimated at
thousands of pounds and the loss
of foodstuffs is incalculable.
1 HUMMER PH IS
SOUGHT, Ml BOHDEfl
DULUTH, Minn., Oct., 3, (JP)—
An aerial patrol to guard against
the smuggling of Uauor into the
United States along the Minnesota
border is to be recommended to
the Treasury Department officials
by Curtis M. Johnson, customs col
lector for the port of Duluth.
The proposal made to the offi
cials will be the loan of five air
planes from the Army and provid
ing for a centrally located radio
station between Pigeon River,
Minn., and Pembina, N. D. The
planes would be stationed 150 miles
apart.
35TH BIRTHDAY
NEW YORK, Oct., 3, (/P)_
Celebrating its 35th birthday as
the city’s oldest newspaper under
continued unchanged ownership,
the New York Evening Journal
began a week’s fete. Since the
journals’ purchase by William
Randolph Hearst all other news
papers which were here at the
time have either changed hands,
changed names, have been merg
ed or sold or gone out of business
altogether.
DREDGE CAPSIZED
LYNN, Mass., Oct-, 3
The $1,000,000 dredge, Toledo, re
ported to be the largest in the
world, capsized in a heavy sea in
Broad Sound and sank in 40 feet
of water. The crew of 20 was
rescued. The dredge was being
brought here in tow to begin
work on the two-year harbor de
velopment project. It was under
lease to the United States Army.
PRESIDENT OF SIX COMPANIES
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct., 3, (/P)—
W. A. Bechtel, Sr., former vice pres
ident of the Six Companies, now
engaged in building the Boulder
Dam, was named president of the
organization to succeed the late
William H. Wattis.