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- VOLUME XXVII. NUMBER 230.
SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1931.
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WASHINGTON D. C>t Nov. 4. (/P)
—The Democratic push begun last
' November attained still greater
proportions as the results of yes
^ lerday’s elections, virtually will
shove the party into control of the
next House.
The Democrats reclaimed the j
governorship of New Jersey. A re- ■
volt was brought about in the !
eighth district of Michigan where
:he voters abandoned Republican
ism for the first time since 1898
and gave the Democrats a House
majority of one Representative and
with it the best chance for control
of the House, the first time they
have been in the majority for 13
. ears.
In both the eight Michigan dis
tricts and in the New Jersey guber
natorial race, the Democratic can
didates went to the polls in search
of a. rebuke to the Republican ad
ministration.
Another strategic position was
the first Ohio • district which was
represented so long by the late
Nicholas Longworth, but the dis
{ :rict remained in the Republican
column by a substantial vote.
In New York where Governor
Roosevelt and A1 Smith fought over
a reforestation issue, Roosevelt won
m a sweeping victory.
Over the elections hung the ever
present shadow of prohibition and
■h the opposition went the fruits
f the balloting. Each of the five
new Congressmen elected, three
Democrats and two Republicans,
travel under the standard of either
repealists or modificationists. In a
time of three years the wet bloc
in the House has grown from less
than 70 Representatives to about
150 now.
Unless some of these anti-pro
hibitionists change their views soon
and before Congress meets, it is
practically assured that President
Hoover will have a politically hostile
House during the remainder of his
term.
As a result of the election, it ap
pears that Representative Garner,
*:-f Texas, and Longworth’s old;
*Mend, will be elected to fill the
vacancy of speaker. Garner is a
Democrat. It also appears that
chairmanships of many powerful
House committees will go to South- j
er nDemocrats. .
CAST HIS VOTE
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 4. (JP)—
* Governor James Rolph, ill at the
dt# Francis Hospital here, got out
cf bed and the hospital just long
enough yesterday to cast his vpte
in the San Francisco municipal
elections.
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GANDHI APOLOGIZES
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LONDON, Nov. 4. (A3)—Mahatma
Gandhi met with Premier Ramsay
MacDonald, of Great Britain, yes
treday and apologized for failure
of the Round Table conference to
reach an agreement between India ■
^ ;.nd Great Britain. The conference ■
fasted one hour.
PURCHASE SCRAP IRON
DETROIT, Nov. 4. (JP) — Henry
Ford has completed negotiations
for the purchase of $500,000 worth
of scrap machinery which will be
placed in melting pots to later be
* formed into metal parts for autos.
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CAPONE’S BROTHER IN JAIL
WASHINGTON, Nov., 4, OP)—
R Capone, brother of Al Capone,
must serve three years in the pen
itentiary and pay $10,000 fine as
a result of the refusal of the U. S.
Supreme Court to review his con
viction on an income tax charge.
Tlie refusal is expected to serve as
a precedent in the case of Al Ca
pone and other gangsters under
sentence.
SINO-JAP RELATIONS
WON’T EXIST UNLESS
TREAT! OE RECOGNIZED
TOKYO Nov. 4. (/P)—While its
troops moved farther into Man
churia and encountered the Chin
ese machine guns in one instance,
the Japanese government began
drafting a note to the League of
Nations insisting that China recog
nize the validity of the treaties
under which Japan operates in
Chinese territory.
The note, now being drafted, will
be a reply to that of Aristide Bri
and, French statesman, wherein he
set forth his view's regarding the
five fundamental principals to
which the Tokyo government had
previously asked China to subscribe
as a prerequisite to the withdrawal
of Japanese troops from the occu
pied areas.
The note will also say that unless
China recognizes and lives up to
the terms of the 1915 treaty under
which Japan was given certain
rights in Chinese territory that
normal relations between the two
nations cannot exist.
WALKER'S ‘PRIVATE LIFE’
NEW YORK, Nov., 4, OP)—Mayor
James Walker has shared a safe
deposit box with R. T. Sherwood,
said to be the Mayor’s financial
agent, it was brought out in a
testimony given before the Hof
stadter Committee in vestiga tang
graft and vice in New York City.
The Mayor' and his accountant
have jointly rented a box from
the Chase Safe Deposit Co., since
November 18, 1924, it was testified
by two witnesses.
The evidence was elicited by
Samuel Seabury. prosecutor for
the committee, over the bitter op
position of minority members of
the committee, who strongly con
demned what they termed “in
quiry into Mayor Walker’s private
life.”. Seabury said he introduced
the testimony to show the Mayor’s
intimate connections with Sher
wood and then charged the Mayor
with being responsible for Sher
wood’s flight to Mexico and his
refusal to return to testify before
the committee
Seabury was authorized to pro
ceed against Sherwood unless he
obeys the subpoena served upon
him in Mexico. Under the law
Norwood would be liable to $100,
000 fine for contempt.
Lyle Hebert, representing Schwa
bacher wholesalers, arrived from
the Interior on last night’s train
and today departed for Seattle.
NEW YORK, Nov., 4, (/P)—A j
series of important conferences
designed to force the nomination
of a “dripping wet” Democrat for
the presidency next year was in
prospect of Cermak’s arrival with
a party midwest political lead
ers.
Mayor Cermak’s group bore
down upon New York Democratic j
chiefs wTith the threat of a third
party and the warning that Ilii
I nois did not consider Gov. Frantt
j lin Roosevelt a “formidable can-,
I didate”, especially without the |
* support of A1 Smith
“A man of the A1 Smith type!
: has to be the nominee if the De:n
| ocrats hope to win”, Mayor Cer
j mak asserted. “If Governor
{Roosevelt is wet enough to be
| governor of New York and to be
j supported by Smith, he is proba
! bly wet enough for the National
j needs of the party. But when I
; speak of a man of A1 Smith's type
: I mean James Hamilton Lewis.”
Mayor Cermak explained he
| meant that Lewis, U. S. Senator
| from Illinois, is as wet as Smith
jand as popular with . his home
| state constituents. Lewis carried
i Illinois by 750,000 over Mrs. Ruth
I McCormick last election. Herbert
; Hoover defeated Alfred Smith in
Illinois by 400,000 in the -presiden
tial polling of 1928
| MANCNURIHN SITUATION
! STEADILY GETS WORSE,
! DARKENS PEACE OUTLOOK
GENEVA, Nov. 4. (/Pi — Concern
| lest Russia step into the Manchur
I ian controversey, coupled with the
j official information that Japanese
: troops had moved upon Tsitsihar,
; darkened the League of Nations’
i outlook for peace making
Those in close touch with the
j Manchurian affair expressed it as
their opinion that the situation has
grown worse during the week.
The Chinese spokesman has in
formed the League of Nations’ sec
retariat that his government fears
th^t Japan has no intention of
withdrawing its troops and. set
forth that Japan is consolidating
her positions and extending her
| sphere of influence instead.
IREPAIR ON AQUEDUCT BE
! COMPLETED THURSDAY
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 4. (^.—Re
pair work on the Los Angeles water
aqueduct is expected to be com
pleted by Thursday. The aqueduct,
which supplies Los Angeles with
water from the high Sierra Moun
tains, was damaged by dynamite
which is thought to have been set
off by a former Los Angeles city
worker.
A vigorous search was being made
for the worker who, when he was
fired said that he “would get even.”
The search has been unsuccessful
so far.
FILES DEMURRER
WASHINGTON, Nov., 4, (/P
Bishop James Cannon, leading!
opponent of Alfred Smith in Vir
ginia, during the 1923 presidential
campaign, filed a demurrer to the
indictment charging him and Miss:
A. Burroughs, treasurer of the an- ]
ti-Smith Committee, with con
spiracy to violate the Federal Cor-'
rupt Practices Act.
SHANGHAI, Nov. 4. (.4^—Enlist- j
ment of a “national salvation army”;
to oppose Japan’s exploitation of
Manchuria was begun at a gigantic '
popular rally here as Shanghai
learned that the Japanese military
are preparing to extend their zone
of occupation northward toward
the Russian sphere of influence in
Manchuria.
Dispatches from Changechun de
clared that, despite Tokyo’s denials,:
the Japanese military leaders were
preparing to advance their north-1
ern front to Harbin. 200 miles north
of Changechun.
Russian officials have frequently
declared that the Japanese inter
ference with Soviet rights to the
railroad would force Moscow to de
part from its policy of neutrality
in the Sino-Japanese dispute.
HER TROOP MOVEMENT
HIS UNF1V0RIBLY
TOKYO. Nov. 4. (/P>—Japanese
Foreign Minister Baron Shidehara
in dispatching a “friendly” note of
warning to Moscow insisted that
Russian miltary operations along
the Manchuria-Siberia border be
discontinued.
The note stressed the possibility
of “’misinterpretation” of the troop
movements and declared they were
already reacting unfavorably upon
Japanese as well as Chinese troops
in Manchuria. Between 20,000 and
30,000 Russian soldiers are officially
declared to be concentrated west
of Manchuli and around Pogran
iteknaya.
Newspaper dispatches declared
that the Russians have been sup
plying munitions to the Chinese,
although there is no official con
firmation of the report. Japanese
forces established a new advanced
front whenji detachment was sent
to repair the Nonni River Bridge,
recently reported wrecked by re
treating Amur forces.
| The government made known
that it had decided to lay before
the League of Nations Council the
list of treaties which she contends
China has refused to respect as an
“exhibit” in Tokyo’s side of the
controversey.
GRAF ZEPPELIN HOME
FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany,
Nov. 4. {IP)—The dirigible Graf Zep
pelin returned to its home port
from a third round-trip to Brazil.
The trip back was made in 99
hours, several hours longer than
the last voyage from South Amer
ica.
WITH GOOD LIST FOG
SEf.TTLE. WAYPORTS
The SS Alaska, of the Alaska
Steamship Company, which arrived
in Seward Tuesday morning, de
parted this forenoon for Seattle
and way ports carrying a large
number of passengers, including:
For Seattle—Frank Knight, Harry
Picoff, Jim Burns,Mrs. Andrew Ol
son, Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Phillips,
Mrs. A. J. Hewitt. Mr. and Mrs. W.
F. Duffy, Mr and Mrs. Wm. Huge!,
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Morton, Jerry
Wellman, Chas. Matheson, J. D.
Nixon, Red Richardson, John Hol
gren, Victor Holm, Frank Curran,
J. E. Kennedy, Mrs. Anna D. Edgar,
Mrs. Geo. Huckle, Chris Foekberg.
Ed Bolmer, Mrs. J. H. Smith,
Helen Lentz, L. C. Bryant,’Mrs. Ed
Austin, Mrs. J. M. Soldanels, A. E.
Austin, A. Devee, Axel Almdahl, B.
Pennington, A. Sorenson, Ed. D.
Hall, Frank Alba, K. Kohler, Lee
Parker, John L. McGinn, Victor E.
Anderson, O. S. Olson, F. M. Fenton,
Mr. and Mi’s. Wm. O’Leary, Leonard
O’Leary, Bernard O’Leary, A. Chall
man, Wm. E. Stokes, Mrs. J. D.
Schultz, M. L. Shirtley, Thoma§. A.
Long, Leo Preg.
August Hoopanen, Mrs. A. Larson,
Mr. and Mrs. J. . Rodebaugh, Mrs.
A1 Hilty, Mrs. H. Bailey, A. O. Nel
son, Julius Johnson, Leonard Sep
pala, Gf A. Coughlin, Mr. and Mrs.
John Hershey, H. H. Mitchel, Lyle
Hebert, Ed Wilkinson, Godfrey Nel
son, Tom Fournier, E. A. Fox, Andy
Edgar, W. W. Deady, Severt Over
land, May Styjk.
Mr. and Mrs. M. V. Lattin, Glen
R. Day, Mr. and Mrs. C. F. O’Flan
nigan, Frank L. Panting, M. Eisen
stadt, H. S. Koestlin, A. F. Allum,
Mrs. A. A. Gard, Henry Strand,
Adolph Olsen, William Waller.
For Juneau—Mrs. Tom Barkes
ten, Jack Lovery, Werner Lovery,
John Kes, John Kupper, Mrs. Andre
Moore, R. H. Chadwick, F. M. You
rix, A. A. Eason, E. H. Clifford, Ray
Wouthard, R. E. Laurence, Mrs. J.
B. Loftus.
For Wrangell—Jacob Russkopp.
For Valdez—C. Hedlund, C. Ca
vollo, H. E. Garletts, N. H. Castle.
For 'Ketchikan—J. D. Bush, Mr*
and Mrs. Ralph Brown, Mr. and
Mrs. R. C. Spaldjng.
For Cordova—Carl Johnson, Axel
Taygeson, Wm. Scott, F. Boswell,
Bill Kupar, J. H. Howard, Oscar R.
Hart, W. H. King, M. Sakamoto, A1
Larson, Dr. *J. B. Loftus.
For Latouche—George Gullefson.
HUGE CONSPIRACY
NEW YORK, Nov., 4, (^-Sev
enteen men, including M. Gross
man, chief of police of Long
Beach, L. I., were indicted on
charges of conspiring to violate
prohibition laws. The indictments
allege that more than $10,000,000
worth of liquor was brought into
New York thru Long Beach.
MORE ON QUAKE
TOKYO, Nov. 4. OP)—More recent
reports from the part of Japan
most severely rocked by the earth
quakes of this week indicate that
at least 100 lives and much prop
erty damage has resulted. More
earth shocks were recorded yes
terday. Quake shocks are also re
ported been felt in Los Angeles.