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^OLUME XXVII. NUMBER 228.
SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1931.
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WASHINGTON, p. C., Nov. 2. (IP) |
-The strange sitAtion of a Presi-I
dent battling openly with a mill- !
;ant big Navy organization, while a j
9 abinet officer struck out at the j
pacifist foundation of the world, j
.swirled about the Navy as Presi- !
dent Herbert Hoover continued
working for a showdown with the j
Navy League of the United States
and particularly with its president,
William Howard Gardiner.
Secretary of the Navy Adams j
charged the world peace founda- j
i tion with interpreting the national
defense statistics “in a manner in- j
mical to the United States and in
x manner favorable to the national
defense of foreign powers.”
The Navy League is divided on
' attack against President Hoover,
ry Breckenridge, former Navy 4
gue president and Democratic j
tant to the Secretary of War t
er President Woodrow Wilson, j
; from the ranks of the Navy
0ue saying, “I desire to disasso
iate myself from such a statement
^ speaks with disrespect of the
President of the United States.”
Editor's note: The Navy League
of the United States is an organ
ization of civilians that, (accord
ing to prologue in one of their pub
lications) for over a quarter of a
, entury, has specialized on accu^
xte information as to Naval mat
ters.
SIX OFFICIAL DIALECTS
MIKE SPUN I BABEL
MADRID, Nov. 2. (£>')—Six lan- \
:;uages are being used for official
ommunications in Spain—Spanish,
Catalan, Mallorquin, Valencian,
Basque and Galician.
The mayor of Barcelona sends a
velegram in Catalan to the mayor j
of Valencia. The latter retaliates:
•with a reply in Valencian.
Telegraph operators are getting !
Wild-eyed and the federal commun- j
ications authorities are thinking,
about decreeing that inter-State j
messages must be in Spanish, al- j
though each province may use its J
own tongue within its own borders.
ART GALLERY ROBBERIES
NEW YORK, Nov. 2. (A5)—Police
are searching for a gang of three
men who have committed daring j
-obberies in at least two art gal-!
.eries here getting away with $10,- j
000 worth of prints. Valuable paint- j
:ngs were stolen from art galleries j
_n several other American cities,
last season.
DENIES RESIGNATION
ATLANTA,Ga.,Nov. 2. (A3)—Bishop j
James Cannon Jr., who was recent
ly indicted on charges of violating
ihe Corrupt Practices Act in his
activities in the last Presidential
campaign, denied he has resigned
his high church office but said he
had relinquished supervision of
Brazilian and Congo conferences
of the church.
CARTOONIST PASSES
WASHINGTON, D# C., Nov. 2. (/P)
—W. A. Rogers, noted cartoonist,
author and recipient of the French
Legion of Honor decoration died at
the age of 59.
$50,000 BREACH OF PROMISE .
NEW YORK, Nov., 2, (/P)—Rev.
B. J. Chudacek, former pastor of
a church at Johnstown, N. Y., lost
his $50,000 breach of promise suit
against Betty Randolph, former
chorus girl in the Ziegfield Fol
lies.
FORETELL CAMPAIGN
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 2. (TP)
—With an eye on the 1932 national
campaign, party leaders are look
ing to the outcome of scattered
elections tomorrow for a definite
political trend as to whether the
Republicans or the Democrats will
organize the incoming house and
which may be decided by results of
five special Congressional elections.
The Roosevelt-Smith fight in New
York is being watched with inter
est. Prohibition is an interest in
several elections, and particular
interest is held as to what the re
sults will be of the election in the
two normally Republican districts
which the Democrats hope to win.
The two latter districts are Ohio
and Michigan.
PARIS LANDMARK MOVES
PARIS, Nov-, 2, (JP)—'The fam
ous Cafe De La Paix on the Place
De L’Opera, where the world has
eaten and drunk since 1870, has
been ousted from its comer by a
new bank building. The cafe’s
new location is a few hundred
feet away on the Boulevard Des
Capucines.
ROME, Nov., 2, <7P)—Tips have
been abolished again in Italian
hotels. The National Italian Fas
cist Federation of . - Hotels and
Tourism has just reminded mem
bers that persons accepting tips
in places where a service precen
tage is charged, are subject to
discharge without the usual legal
indemnity.
Hotels are required to display
a card in four languages inform
ing guests that tips are prohibit
ed.
FOSTBALL SCORES
Pittsburgh 41, Penn. State 6.
Kansas Aggies 19, W. Va. 0.
Columbia 0, Cornell 13.
Mississippi 0, Colgate 27#
Oregon Frosh 31, Wash. Frosh 7.
Notre Dame 19, Carnegie Tech. 0.
Colorado 0, Army 27.
Oregon 14, New York U. 6.
Michigan 21, Princeton 0.
LaFayette 0, Pennsylvania 3.
Virginia 0, Harvard 19.
Syracuse 19, Michigan State 10.
Dartmouth 33, Yale 33.
Wisconsin 0, Minnesota 14.
Illinois 6, Northwestern 32.
Texas Christian 7, Arkansas 0.
Whitman 0, Washington U. 77.
Gonzaga 6, Idaho 7,
Washington St. 7, Oregon St. 6.
Nevada 6, California, 25#
Utah 60, Colorado Aggies 6.
U. of Calif., L. A.., 6, Stanford 12.
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THREE NATIONS VIE FOH
RICH SHIES IN THE
EAST'S PROMISED LAND i
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WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 2. UP)
—Mighty Manchuria, “powder mill”
of conflicting Chinese, Japanese
and Russian interests, is the “prom
ised land” of the Far East.
An empire in itself this huge:
dependency of China has millions \
of acres of soil as fertile as the j
black loam of Iowa rich mineral!
j producing areas and great timber
! lands. The most efficient railway
| system in Manchuria is the Jap
anese-operated South Manchuria
j *ine.
I While adverse trade conditions
now prevail due to the world busi-!
ness slump and the low value of
silver, the Manchurian market is
described as one of “tremendous ■
potentialities.”
A protracted war between China i
| and Japan obviously would mean, j
! trade experts here say, a serious '
I setback for American and other1
j foreign industrial enterprises there. I
Japan, of course, has the largest
foreign business stake in Manchu
ria, one she holds as vital to her
position as a world power,
j It is one of the essential sources
; of her coal and iron and she also
j receives from there considerable
; food for the teeming millions in
Japan and Korea. Other products
of Manchurian fields, forests and
mines pour into Japanese factories.
In recent years more than a mil
lion Chinese are estimated to have
annually fled the famine stricken
regions of the south to seek food
and breathing space on the plains
where the sod huts of homesteaders
spring up along new railway lines.
Dairen in the Japanese leased
I territory of southern Manchuria
I has risen from 30th to third among
i Chinese ports. In 1928 it handled
j more shipping tonnage than any
! American port except New York.
I Manchuria’s share of the total
| net imports into China in 1929 was
j 18.8 per cent and of exports from !
j China 32 per cent.
| American trade with Manchuria
that year amounted to $23,229,000
! or about 6#4 per cent while Japan’s
share including Korea was approxi
mately 54 per cent and Russia's
9.5 per cent.
The chief imports from the Unit
ed States are wheat flour, petrol
eum products, railway locomotives,
machinery, automotive vehicles,
leaf tobacco and raw cotton.
The SS Alaska, of the Alaska
Steamship Company, is due to ar
I rive in port at 8 o’clock tomorrow
| morning, according to information
| received from the local office today.
ALASKA TONNAGE
The SS Alaska, of the Alaska
Steamship Company, due in Sew
ard tomorrow morning, carries 335
tons of freight to be discharged at
the local wharf. There are 75 tons
of local freight, 10 tons for trans
fer to the SS Starr, and 250 tons
for railroad points. Included in
the railroad freight is one tractor
for Willow Creek station, which
will be used to haul supplies to
the Willow Creek Mines. The pres
ent trip of the SS Alaska is the
last trip this season for that vessel.
The SS Northwestern will be put on
the Seward run to take the place
of the SS Alaska.
GOES TO PRISON
CHICAGO, Nov., 2, (/P)—Another
public enemy has been sentenced
to prison- He is D. Conde alias
Joe C. Knie, alleged Capone
henchman, who must serve 10
years for violating the narcotic
ac&
JOYOUS HALLOWEEN
IS HELD BY RESIDENTS
OF COOPER'S LANDING
Seward arrivals bring word that,
a gay Halloween Carnival was held
at Cooper’s Landing Saturday eve-,
ning. The carnival was held in
the Cooper’s Landing school build- j
ing.
About 30 people including resi
dents of Cooper’s Landing and
others living in the Kenai Lake
region were present, coming to
Cooper’s Landing over the trail,
over the Cooper’s Landing high
way and by motorboat on the Lake,
and a regular good old time dance
was held.
Oldtime dances, such as the
square dance,polka, tremblante or
schottische, the quadrille or contre-,
danse, and the waltz, featured the;
dancing. Duncan Little, Copper’s
Landing resident and famous big
game guide won first prize for his,
interpretation of the oldtime dances
and the prize consisted of a beau
tiful cake made by Mrs. H. A. An
derson.
To Miss Downing, the school
teacher at Cooper’s Landing, goes
much credit for making the Hallo
ween affair the success it turned
out to be. Miss Downing had the;
schoolroom decorated in Halloween,
colors which would even make theI
special ballroom decorators for me-1
tropolitan ballrooms sit up and
take a few lessons.
MAN GBASPING LIKE WIRE
TOLD TO MAIL COMPLAINT
LECCE, Italy, Nov., 2, (/P)—
While Florindo Lemmo, 35, an
electrician of this city, hung
with one hand on a live wire and
the other gripping the iron rim
of a manhole an employee at the
central office of the power station
refused to have the juice shut off
because “all complaints must be
made in writing”.
Lemmo was rescued by an army
officer after other frantic tele
phone calls to the office failed to
impress the clerk on duty.
IN HANDS OF RECEIVERS
NEW YORK, Nov. 2. (/P)—Shu-!
bert’s theatrical enterprises went;
into the hands of receivers as a re- i
suit of losses sustained in the last !
few years. Lee and Jacob Shubert,
operators of the theatres, are said
to have lost nearly $3,000,000. Lee
Shubert and the Irving Trust Com- !
pany were named as the receivers, j
Aviation activities from the Ju- j
neau base have been suspended for
the winter, says the Juneau Empire.!
The SS Starr, of the San Juan!
Fishing and Packing Company left!
Umnak on the return trip to Sew
ard Saturday morning. The vessel
was to pull into Kodiak today and
will probably arrive here tomorrow.
TROOP MOVEMENTS IN
NORTHERN Hell
TO BE INVESTIGATED
TOKYO, Nov. 2. (/P) — Japanese
troops continued their occupation
of Manchuria and pushed farther
west and north into Manchuria
while persistent reports that China
had entered into a secret agree
ment with Moscow for Russian as
sistance was being considered by
the Japanese cabinet.
Reports indicated that the Jap
anese are edging farther into the
Chinese territory and closer to the
Russian sphere of influence in
Northern Manchuria but that they
had not yet reached the territory
in which Moscow is primarily in
terested.
The United Stales government
reported that it was interested in
the conflicting reports saying that
the Rusians were mobilizing troops
along the Siberian and the Man
churian border. The United States
government also made known their
intention of sending George Han
son, Consul General at Harbin, on
the trans-Siberian railroad, into
Northern Manchuria to investigate
troop movements.
RESTORK LIT*. HER SHRINE
TORGAU, Germany, Vov., 2, (/P)
—The chapel of Hartenfels, Ger
many’s first Protestant church, is
to be restored to the condition in
which it was when Martin Luther
dedicated it in 1545- Much of the
work will be done on the organ.
STEPS COPE REUTERS
TIEN SPANISH REGIME
MADRID, Nov., 2, (^)—The gov
ernment revealed a new national
defense act which was rushed
thru the National Assembly and
was designated especially to deal
with the new widespread revolu
tionary plot.
According to all ajailable infor
mation, the labor organizations
have arranged to call a general
strike thruout Spain simultane
ously with demonstrations of
Royalists gorups in larger cities.
In these preparations, coupled
with growing discontent of religi
ous groups, the government has
sensed a dangerous situation to
the new Spanish regime, and took
steps to cope with it
DENIES APPEAL
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 2. (TP)
—The United States Supreme Court
denied the appeal of the City of
Chicago in its legal fight to pre
vent the Chicago Rapid Transit
Company from collecting 10 cent
fares on its cars.
TRAINER DIES
BALTIMORE, Md., Nov. 2. (TP)—
J. G. Rowe Jr., trainer for Green
tree stables of Mrs. Payne Whitney,
who saddled Twenty Grand for his
greatest triumphs including the
Kentucky Derby, died of acute in
digestion at the age of 42.
KILLED IN ACCIDENT
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 2. (TP)
—H. Nesbit, president of the Bank
of Pittsburgh which failed recent
ly, was killed and his daughter,
Nancy Eliza, seriously injured in an
automobile accident.