MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXVIII. NUMBER 313.
SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1932.
PRICE TEN CENTS
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MIN LANDSTRQM
ASTORIA, Ore., Dee. 5, —Capt.
Ernest Landstrom of Seattle stood
alone on the bridge of his vessel
last night facing possible death.
His vessel, the freighter Sea
Thrush, went aground at the en
trance of Columbia River in a
dense fog and, in view of the heavy
surf, doubts were expressed if it
could withstand a night’s batter
ing.
The crew of 31 were taken ashore
by a coast guard cutter but the
Captain refused to leave the ship.
Captain Landstrom was making .
port without a pilot, grounding at
daybreak, Sunday.
CHICAGO. Dec. 5, —Western
conference officials gave serious.
deliberation to financial affairs,
post season football games, and
other problems brought on by the
defalcation of gridiron receipts.
One of the most important items
to come before the faculty repre
sentatives will be the conference
rule against post season games.
Three times in the last four
years Big Ten Football champions,
Purdue in 1929, Northwestern in
1931, end Michigan in 1932, have
been in a oosition to receive invi
tations to the Rose Bowl game but
they were sidetracked because of
the conference rule against post
season games.
Seveial conference schools are
anxious to amend the rule, per
mitting undefeated Big Ten teams
to go to the coast for the Tourna
ment of Roses game at intrevals.
MICKEY W MEET
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 5, —Primo
Camera, who tentatively has been
scheduled for a bout here with
Arthur Dekuh, may meet Mickey
Walker instead, Olympic Auditor
ium officials announced.
Jack Kearns, Walker’s manager,
was said to have reported his fight
ter would waive, as of no conse
quence. Camera’s greatly superior
tonnage.
The fight w'ill be held in Decem
ber, probably the 20th, and sched
uled for 10 rounds.
OF COURSE! OF COURSE!
LONDON. Dec. 5, —U. S. Am
bassador Andrew W. Mellon con
ferred with Stanley Baldwin, head
of the government during Prime
Minister Ramsay MacDonald’s ab
sence at Geneva. Baldwin indicat
ed that the government expected
the war debt question to be carried
over tc the World economic con
ference to meet here in 1933.
ITALY SHOCKED
SALERNA, Italy, Dec. 5, —Strong
earthquake shocks were felt thru
out Sulla, Montesano and Marcell
lana. Hundreds of citizens rushed
panic stricken into the streets.
Little damage w^as reported.
MANN FOUND GUILTY
NEW YOflK, Dec. 5, —Conrad H.
Mann, prominent official of the
fraternal Order of Eagles, Frank
E. Hering, editor of Eagles Maga
zine, and Bernard C. McGuire,
were found guilty on two counts
of violating the national lottery
laws.
ELECTION APPROVED
QUITO, Ecuador, Dec. 5, —The
election to the presidency of Juan
Martinez Mera was approved by
Congress and arrangements were
made for his inauguration today
for the four-year term.
CHILDREN KILLED
LONG BEACH, Dec. 5, — Two
! children were killed and five oth
ers injured when their auto col
lided with another while enroute
to the bathing beach. The dead
| children are Jimmy and Emma Ur
bin, three and five years of age.
NEW YORK. Dec. 5. —The stock
market declined for a time in the
1 early trading, then steadied and
made up all the losses with some
of the leaders registering small
advances before the close. Trad
ing was dull.
The reason for the turnabout in
the lisc was furnished by the car
loadings report for the week end
ing November 26. The total of 493,
882 cars was down 81,969 cars from
the preceeding week, but the per
centage decline from a year ago
made the best showing so far in
1932.
There was little else in the news
for either the bearish or bullish
factions.
The war debt situation was un
changed, with sentiment apparent
ly on the side of the “pay or de
fault” group.
The pound sterling declined
more than two cents but recovered
part of the loss. French francs
remained unchanged.
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WOMEN PRAY III
PROTEST OF REPEM.
GHICAGO, Dec. 5, —A group of
women met at sunrise Sunday in
a church in the suburbs of Geneva
; and prayed. From Geneva they
went to St. Charles, then to other
i suburbs, stopping in each to pray
at a church alter.
Today they were to have started
out again at sunrise. They are said
to be members of the Women’s
Christian Temperance Union. They
are conducting the series of prayer
, meetings as a protest against possi
ble reoeal of prohibition.
WINNIPEG, Dec. 5. —Municipal
officers in the town of Arborg,
Manitoba, were stormed, clothes
torn from the tax assessor, who
was later forced to resign, and as
sessment sheets scattered to the
winds by 500 farmers protesting
against sale of farms for taxes.
The assessor’s face was slapped
j and irate demonstrators stamped
on his feet. Then he was forced
to resign and call off the tax sale.
FOOD FOR THREE DAYS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 5, —
Two hundred women arrived with
the fivst contingent of “hunger
marchers.” It is said they have
ample food for three days. On one
side of the camp are the railroad
tracks, a dense growth of trees on
another, and on the the remaining
two sides, plenty of police.
ASSUMES CHARGE
LAKEHURST. N. J„ Dec. 5, —
Commander Fred T. Berry, execu
; tive officer at the Naval Air Sta
tion here, assumed charge as com
mander, replacing Capt. Harry E.
Shoemaker, who leaves immediate
ly for his new post as Commander
of the Naval Air Station at Sunny
dale, Calif
BOAT OVERDUE
VERA CRUZ, Mex., Dec. 5, —
Port authorities ordered a search
for the motorboat Lurline, three
; days overdue at Frontera, Mexico.
! The vessel was carrying 16 pas
isengers and a crew of 12. It left
| here Friday and has not been re
ported since.
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WASHINGTON, D. C„ Dec. 5. —
Federal troops were held in readi
ness at nearby Army posts as col- ;
umns c.f “hunger marchers” near- •
ed this city
The seaboard column of 1,000 j
was to advance today from Baiti- j
more; another column of 1,000;
pressed on from Cumberland, Md. |
Four of the latter members were j
arrested Saturday in a brush with j
police at Uniontown. Pa. Still >
another detachment moved thru '
Virginia.
The possibility of trouble with !
this group developed Sunday when
400 Klu Klux Klinsmen met near
Washington and heard their leader
declare “Klansmen will give their
last drop of blood before they will
allow the alleged Communists
: march to embarrass the President
or Congress.” |
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POONA, India, Dec. 5, —Protest
ing against alleged unfair treat
ment of one of his fellow prisoners
in Yerovida jail, Mahatma Gand
i hi completed a 24-hour fast with
the steadfast threat that unless
some action is taken he will renew
his fast Wednesday.
The 24-hour foodless hours caus
ed Gandhi to lose six pounds and
rendered him so weak that he has
to be carried in a stretcher, it was
said at the jail.
CAPE May. N. J., Dec. 5, —Tracer
bullets fired from a coast guard
patrol vessel set fire to a rum run
ner after a chase in Delaware bay.
The burned craft ran ashore at i
j Pond creek, and was identified by j
j coast guard officers as the Ethel
Appomat. The crew escaped.
Only six cases of whiskey were
salvaged. The ship’s cargo was be
lieved to have been for the Phila
delphia Xmas trade.
MILLIONAIRE KILLED
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 5, —Benja
min J&rrett, retired millionare ci
gar manufacturer, was killed Sun
day in an auto accident, when he
was pmned beneath one of the
cars. Mrs. Jarrett escaped injury.
fELEGRIPH BREVITIES
ORDERS FOUR WARSHIPS
ROME, Dec- 5, —Orders for con
struction of two, 7000 ton cruisers
and two torpedo boats were given
;the Ministry of Marine by Premier
Benito Mussolini, came with the
building budget for 1933, it was
announced.
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SWEET MEETING
THE HAGUE, Dec. 5, —The In
ternational Sugar conference came
to an end Saturday adjourning un
til March 13 1933, after approving
a resolution to eliminate so far as
possible additional surpluses in
I crops for 1933.
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FAVORED CITIZENS
VERA CRUZ, Dec. 5, —Citizens
who defended Vera Cruz against
“thd American invasion of 1913
were made favored citizens’’ en
titled to wear a special medal by
the first, decree issued by the new
! governor, Gonzalo Vasquez Vela.
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PROHIBIT SAKI
TOKIO, Dec. 5, —The anti-al
| coholic league of Japan plans to
, begin a movement toward prohi
j biting drinking of saki, the nation
| al drink.
FOOTBALL
Tennessee 13, Florida 0
Army 20, Navy 0
Car. Tech 51, Georgetown 0
Nebraska 21, So. Meth. 0
U. of Wn. 19, U. of Cal. L. 0
Arizona 40, U. of N. M. 0
W. Maryland 20, Maryland 0
Ambrose 20, S. C 20
U. of St. L. 19, Mo. 6
Tulsr 26, Miss. 0
Fortsworth 19, Green Bay 0
Chi. Bears 6, N. Y. Giants 0
Aubmn 20. C. C. 20
Manhattan 7, Rutgers 6
Alabama 6, St. Marys 0
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 5, — I
The test of the 18th amendment |
repeal in the House today, coming
suddenly after 12 years, will plunge
Congress into a short session that
promises to be turbulent and may
affect vitally the incoming Roose
velt administration.
It was doubtful Sunday whether
Speaker John N. Garner’s repeal
move would win. Leaders conceded
the vote would be close and might
be decided by absentees.
fllMr PILOT KILLED
SECOND JUMPED SNFETY
SHREVEPORT, La., Dec. 5, —
One pilot was killed and another
narrowly escaped death by a para
chute jump when two Army planes
collided in mid-air and crashed.
The body of Lieut. D. H. Purser,
25, of Amite, La., was found in the
tangled wreckage of his plane.
Lieut C. Darnell, of Little Rock,
Ark., escaped by a parachute jump.
The accident occurred during
technical training flights of the
third wing of the U. S. Air Corps.
SOUTHBEND, Ind., Dec. 5, —
With both fullbacks, George Mel
inkovich and Steve Banas on the
sick and injured list, temporarily
at least Notre Dame is looking for
another Bucky O’Connor.
It was O’Connor who starred in
the 1930 Southern California game
after being shifted to fullback
when Moon Mullins and Joe Sav
oldi were lost to the team.
WHITLOCK ILL
CANNES, France, Dec. 5, —Brand
j Whitlock, ambassador to Belgium
I during the World War, is seriously
j ill with shingles, two specialists
reported.
SPECTACULAR FINISH
KEZAR STADIUM, S. F-, Dec. 5,
—Capt. Johnnie Cain of the Alaba
ma crimson tide wrote a spectacu
lar finish to a great gridiron car
eer when he dashed 71 yards thru
a figthing St. Mary’s team for a
touchdown. That drive gave the
Bamas a 6 to 0 victory in a bitter
ly contested inter-sectional game.
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CHARITY GIVER BURIED
MAZATLAND, Mex., Dec. 5, —
Funeral services were held for H.
W. FeHon, 78, an American pio
neer on the West coast of Mexico.
Mr. Felton, a member of the prom
inent Felton family of Massachu
setts, had been in business here for
50 years and was noted for his
deeds of charity.
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ROSENBLOOM SIGNED
SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 5, —
Maxie Rosenbloom, world light
weight champion, has been signed
to meet Leroy Haynes, Los An
geles negro, in a 10-round bout
here December 16, promoter Ed
Lynch announced.
COXEY MUST WAIT
WARM SPRINGS, Ga., Dec. 5, — j
General. Coxey, the original “hun
jger marcher,” called on President
Elect F. D. Roosevelt Sunday and
| asked lor an immediate appoint- !
ment. He will have to wait until
Tuesday, the Governor being occu
I pied with pressing conferences.
TOKIO, Dec. 3, —The Japanese
War Department understood that
Su Ping Wen, belligerent Chinese
General in Heilun Kiang province
in Manchuria, was ready to enter
peace negotiations with the Man
chukucan independent state.
A victory of Japanese troops
over Chinese insurgents at Hala
su, on the Chinese Eastern Rail
way near Chalantun, was believed
to have hastened Su’s decision to
arbitrate.
Japanese and Manchurians have;
unsuccessfully attempted for sever
al weeks to* negotiate with Su for
the release of 140 Japanese he
made prisoners when he seized
Manchuli, on the Manchurian bor
der of Siberia, two months ago.
FOUR QUAKES NOTED
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 5, —
Four earthquakes were registered '
on Georgetown University sismo-1
graphic instruments. They were!
i estimated at being 5,000 miles dis
; tant.
ROCKEFF.LLER DONATES
NEW YORK, Dec. 5, —The Rock
efeller interests have announced
gifts totalling $1,050,000 to the
Emergency Unemployment Com
i mittee campaign to raise a $15,000,
000 fund.
John D. Rockefeller. Jr., gave
$300,000 and the Rockefeller Foun
dation pledged $750,000, Harvey D.
Gibson committee chairman, an
nounced.
PRICE CUT IDE FOR
DOSE BOWL CONTEST
PASADENA, Dec. 5, — A cam
paign to pack the Rose Bowl when
Pittsburg and South California
Universities battle on January 2
in the annual Tournament of Ros
es, began when touranment offi
cials announced a drastic reduc
tion in the price of tickets.
More than one-third of the 80,
000 seats will be sold for $1.65, tax
included the lowest price in the
history of the classic.
CHOOSE CABINET
BERLIN, Dec. 5, —Gen. Kurt von
Schleicher, new Chancellor of Ger
many, completed formation of his
cabinet and immediately turned
his attention to the task of obtain
ing a Parliamentary truce through
the winter in order that his gov
ernment may proceed without in
terference.
XMAS WITH SON
OYSTER BAY, N. Y., Dec. 5, —
Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Sr., wid
ow of the former president, is
leaving here Tuesday to spend
Xmas with her oldest son, Theo
dore Roosevelt, Jr., Governor of
the Philippines. She plans to re
main in Manila for several weeks.
RAID HOBO JUNGLES
j KELSO, Wash., Dec. 5, —Police
i raided the hobo jungles without
’ avail in search for the man who
: suddenly slashed at E. F. Buckley
I of Kansas City with a knife be
| cause Buckley would not step en
I tirely off a pathway. Buckley was
| at a hospital, his cheekbone laid
bare.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 5, —
Secretary of War Hurley in his an
nual leport submitted Saturday,
attacked Philippine independence
legislation pending before the Se
nate as detrimental to the best in
terests of the United States and to
the Islands.
The report surveyed both War
Department and civilian activities.
It deait with the administration
of the Philippines, Pureo Rico, in
land waterways, harbor improve
ment and the state of national de
fense.
Hurley said that all branches of
the Army were far below the pre
sent minimum need. He recom
mended legislation to make pro
motion of officers more compre
hensive and equable.”
EXEMPT OOUIFIC
IT fflUl CM
AGUA CALIENTE, Mexico, Dec.
I 5, —Gene Sarazen, United States
and British golf titleist, Olin Dut
j ra, P. G. A. champion, and 699
! other leading American golfers,
! will be exempt from the qualifying
rounds for the Fourth Annual $7,
500 Agua Caliente Open Champ
ionship next month, it was an
nounced.
All niayers will be exempt from
! the qualifying rounds who finish
j among the first 30 in the United
' States Open Championship, who
qualified for the P. G. A. tourney
and who hold prizes from previous
Aqua Caliente opens and all for
eign golfers.
CEmr am
CF I). S. SffiTSSE RASES
j WASHINGTON,D. C., Dec. 5, —
The German-American mixed
claims commission handed down a
; decision which in effect relieved
Germany of responsibility for the
Black Tom sabotage cases.
The decision took the form of a
i dismissal of an appeal for rehear
ing of the case made by American
| agents who claim $40,000,000 dam
i ages from Germany for all war
i time sabotage by German spies.
WHEELING INTO CITY
WASHINGTON, D. C., Deec. 5, —
The “hunger marchers” are at
; their journey’s end. All Sunday af
ternoon they whelled into the city
\ in a peaceful invasion and twi
light found 2,500 of them encamp
ed two miles from the center of
j the city.
GENERAL IN “DUTCH”
TSITSIHAR, Manchuria, Dec. 5.
The combined might of two Jap
anese armies was thrown against
the Chinese General Su Ping Wen
in an effort to restore Manchurian
control of the large part of Hei
Lung Kiang province and the im
portant Chinese Eastern railroad.
POLICY REVISION
PARIS, Dec. 5, —Revision of the
French commercial policy recently
undertaken by Minister of Com
merce Julian Durand may further
damage American trade with
France, in the opinion of leading
economists.
WILL DEFEND TITLE
NEW YORK, Dec. 5, —‘“Kid”
Chocolate of Cuba, recognized by
the State athletic commission as
the world’s featherweight cham
; pion, v/ill defend his title against
. Fidel la Barbara of California in
this week’s outstanding fight.
The