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VOLUME XXVII. NUMBER 246.
SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1931.
PRICE TEN CENTS
PRESIDENT HOOVER HUS
PUN TO STIMULATE
BUILDING RESIDENCES
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 24.
^—President Hoover outlined a
plan for setting up 12 banks whose
purpose will be the discounting of
loans on homes with the object of
putting life into stagnant mort
gage loans on homes and farms
and thus stimulate the construc
tion of residences.
The plan is the second step to
ward relieving the general econ
omic standstill and increasing em
ployment at the same time. If
Congress sanctions the plan, the
proposed 12 home discount banks
will include in their membership
building and loan associations,
savings banks, deposit banks and
farm loan banks.
^ The loans would be made to these
organizations upon their own obli
gations and not directly upon in
dividual mortgages and no individ
ual loan of more than $15,000 would
be made. The new Federal Loan
Association will be supplementary
to the Federal Reserve System.
MATOR WALKER SEEKS
FULL PARDON, MDONEY
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 24. (/P>—
f A full pardon for Tom Mooney,
serving a life sentence in the peni
tentiary for the Preparedness Day
bombing of 1916, is the goal of Ma
yor Jimmy Walker who is nearing
here from New York to open a plea
as a “private citizen” before his old
friend Governor James Rolph, of
California.
Mayor Walker will make a formal
plea for the release of the labor
'.eader on December 1.
DRESS SMUCCLINC BEEN
• LONDON, Nov. 24. UP)—American
visitors to Great Britain were
warned against trying to take ex
pensive wardrobes into England as
Customs inspections have been con
siderably tightened, and especially
so on continental routes owing to
the recent discovery that a num
ber of English women of social
standing have been engaged in the
illicit traffic in dresses.
A number of Americans, who act
ed under the belief that England
was a free trade country and con
sequently brought a large number
of gowns with them and had to
pay heavily. The dress smuggling
by British women was revealed
through raids on fashionable Eng
lish shops and some of the women,
rather than to face prosecution,
paid fines amounting to thousands
of pounds.
A new eight-tube radio receiying
set was recently installed in the
Petersburg Hospital, according to
The Press.
SS EVANS SAILS
SEATTLE, Nov. 24. (£>)—'The SS
Admiral Evans, of the Pacific
Steamship Company, sailed at 1C
o’clock this morning and carried
52 passengers for Alaska ports
There were eight Seward passen
gers and included Mrs. J. H. Cotner
i Mrs. Minnie Burnett, Mrs. John
Meyer, Miss Marie Gurth, Robert J
Gleason. Lee William, Mrs. Chas
B. Taylor, Wm. Farriman and Petei
Casper.
Ft HOW MEN
[SCUFF WITH SSI 100
PITHOU FROM W
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1 NEW YORK, Nov. 24. (/P)—Five
| holdup men who operated witl
■ military precision held at bay si>
employees and three customers oJ
j the Citizens National Bank of Rah
I way, N. J., and escaped in an auto
! mobile with a $61,000 payroll in
| tended for the Gibbs and Hill Com
I pany, contractors.
The police questioned an 18
j year-old boy who said he wan
! forced by five armed men to drive
1 them away from Rahway aftei
| they abandoned their own automo
bile. They gave him a $100 tip, he
said.
The holdup required scarcely five
minutes and took the employees ol
the bank completely by surprise
The paymaster of Gibbs and Hill
j was armed but he was covered bj
the bandits before he could reach
for his gun. The robbers disap
peared before the police arrived.
GRID STAR WEDS
SOUTH BEND, Wis., Nov. 24. (/P,
| —Frank Carideo, member of last
! year’s All-American football team
| and a quarterback from the Notre
! Dame team of that year, married
j Vera Crawley, a Columbia, Miss,
j girl. The wedding ceremony wajs
performed in a home on the Notre
! Dame campus.
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SEEKS RENOMINATION
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 24
| (JP)—Close friends of Vice President
j Curtis said that he has made a
decision not to run for the Senate
; next year and is keeping himself
| available for renomination for his
i present office. Curtis will make
j public his own decision in a few
I deys.
PLEADS NOT GUILTY
| CLARKSBURG, W. Va., Nov. 23.
(A3)—H. Powers, accused of having
j confessed to the killing of two wo
| men and three children whom he
| lured to his home by promises of
marriage, pleaded not guilty to five
first degree murder charges when
formally arraigned.
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HEART FAILURE IN ROTH SEXES
MADISON, Wis., Nov. 24. (/P)—A
survey by the Wisconsin Bureau of
Vital Statistics shows that heart
diseases take their victims with
slight regard for sex. Only in the
case of acute endocarditis, or in
flammation of the lining mem
brane of the heart, were deaths of
women in Wisconsin greater than
those of men last year.
! REAL WAR IS SEEN
i IN M1CHU1 BY
! TOKYO AUTHORITIES
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! CHINESE, JAPANESE DELEGATES
ARE STILL DEADLOCKED
AT LEAGUE’S MEET
(By Associated Press)
“Real war in Manchuria’’ is pre
j dieted in authoritative circles in
I Tokyo if Cliiang Kaishek goes
north and joins the forces of Chiang
Hseuhiapg, former Manchuria gov
ernor and a friend of General Mah
Chan Shen, who has been the prin
. i ciple leader of the Chinese army in
L | their opposition to Japanese occu
;; pation of Manchuria.
The prediction was prompted by
| reports received in Tokyo that such
! a plan was underway. .
Reports received in Tokyo and
! London said that several independ
| ent batallions of Japanese railway
guards have begun a drive through
| the rough 'country southwest of
i Mukden against an estimated force
! of 12,000 Chinese bandits believed
f to be in that area.
It is said that the maneuver is
not directed against Chin Chow
i where the Chinese forces are con
■ centrating.
At Nanking, Wellington Koo,
new Foreign Minister of China, who
was appointed to take charge of
the Nanking government’s affairs
pending the creation of a new cen
tral executive committee of Kou
| mintang, said that China had sub
mitted a “concrete proposal” to
the League of Nations at Paris and
that any other compromise not
providing for Japanese evacuation
from Manchuria would be unac
ceptable.
The dealock between the Chinese
and Japanese delegates to the
League of Nations persisted as the
Council once more tried to straight
en out the dispute.
II STOCK MARKET
SEATTLE, Nov. 24. (AP>—Yester
day’s quotations on the stock mar
ket:
Alaska Juneau .15
American Can .733/4
Borden .47 %
Canada Dry .16%
General Motors .25%
International Nickle Can.8%
International Tel. & Tel.14%
Kennecott Copper .12%
Reynolds Tobacco (b) .36%
Radio .9
Richfield Oil . 1
Standard Oil of Calif. .31%
Standard Oil of N. J.32%
Standard Oil of N. Y.12%
Union Oil of Calif.15%
U. S. Steel ..59%
Cities Service .7
Durant Motors . 1
BITTER FIGHT
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 24.
(/P)—A bitter fight is in progress
between Representatives John Q.
Tilson and B. H. Snell for the Re
publican nomination for Speaker
of the House. Each claims he has
sufficient strength to win.
BETTER CONDITIONS
CHICAGO, Nov! 24. (£>)—A slight
j upturn in the number of unem
ployed has taken place in Illinois,
! according to Leslie Airies, chief
! deputy inspector in charge of tha
: State Department of Labor’s in
j spection of private employment
! agencies. Many employers indicat
i ed the intention of hiring addition
! al employees in the next few
| months, he said.
ImjiciGlils
1 IN BLOODY GUN BATTLE
I IH GmirORl CITIES
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 23. UP)—
j With four men in custody in con
| nection with the fatal hijacking
: raid in San Leandro and San Jose,
; authorities of the bay counties and
i southern California were continu
| ing their search for a fifth member
j of the hijacking gang. He was the
! only principal still at large.
This fifth man was the driver of
i the automobile in which Joe Teresi,
j Santa Monica hijacker czar, and
Earl Kennedy, his lieutenant, rode
to San Leandro and took over, at
gun’s point, an expensive coupe in
which Fred L. Hopkins of Long
Beach, and C. M. Edwards of Taft,
were running 218 gallons of alcohol
to Los Angeles. The fifth man
drove away in the hijackers* auto
mobile while Teresi and Kennedy
kidnapped Hopkins and drove
away with the liquor.
On the outskirts of Sail Jose, the
rum car was stopped by Deputy
Sheriffs Herbert McAuley and
Frank Saporito and a bloody gun
duel followed. McAuley was shot
to death, Saporito was dangerously
wounded and Kennedy shot in the
abdomen.
Kennedy was captured later at
Burlingame by San Mateo police
men when Teresi wrecked the coupe
in attempting to elude the police
machine. Teresi escaped and made
| his way to a ranch hideout near
Indio in the northern California
desert where he was arrested by
Los Angeles deputy sheriffs.
RADIUM HIGHBALLS
PITTSBURGH, Nov. 24. (fP)—The
drinking of “radium highballs” as
a means of prolonging life was ad
vocated by Dr. L. Gable, expert on
radium, who said he is kept in good
physical condition by drinking a
compound of fruit juice and radon
gas, a radium by-product.
IS UNSPORTSMANLIKE
BALTIMORE, Nov. 24. (/P)—The
Board of Directors of the Howard
County Country Club ruled mem
bers of the club cannot chase foxes
while under the influence of liquor,
ruling that such conduct conflicts
with the spirit of true sportsman
ship and wholesome environment.
LOST SUIT
NEW YORK, Nov. 24. (£>)—'The
Waldorf Astoria Realty Corpora
tion, as owner of the former Wal
dorf Astoria Hotel property at 34th
Street and Fifth Avenue, lost its
suit against the Board of Taxes
and Assessments to recover about
.$500,000 claimed as excess taxes
paid in 1928 and 1929.
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LOW TENUES
RECORDED AS CHILIS
HIT FUR-WEST STATES
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SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 24. (TP;—
' The chill, announcing that winter
j is here in a large way, continued
| in the three farwestern States a3
j frost was deposited and the cold
; froze the snow into ice.
i The chill sent citizens scurrying
; for overcoats and warmer wraps,
■ and occupants of homes put an
other shovelful of coal into their
heaters.
Washington and Oregon reported
j cold weather with snow in the
j higher altitudes, and a number of
j new low records for temperatures
i in the past few years weer set.
California had some sunshine but
i it failed to raise the temperature
t much as the chill blast from the
j north took all enthusiasm away
I from the sun.
SENATE SUGAR PROBE
RESULTS IN FINDINGS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 24.
(JP)—The Senate’s sugar lobby probe
moved toward a conclusion with
some apparent findings have been
made.
In the report of the probe, one
item deals with the definite find
ing that two Senators—Watson of
Indiana and Davis of Pennsylvania
—enjoyed paper profits on sugar
stock deals which did not cost them
a cent. Furthermore, both Sen
ators were put up with interest
free, personal notes, which were
I never discounted, for their deals
! in sugar stocks.
The testimony did not show that
j either of the Senators cashed in on
| their holdings.
DATE OF (RMS SESSION
j IS EXPECTED TO STAND
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 24.
(/P)—The United States still under
stands that the General Disarma
ment Conference scheduled to open
February 2 in Geneva, will be held
on that date and has hopes that it
will accomplish real reduction, it
was stated orally by the Undersec
retary of State, William R. Castle.
Asked if the United States felt
that the situation in Manchuria
dimmed the prospects, Mr. Castle
replied that the Department of
[State had not considered this.
Questioned regarding a comment
| by the French Ambassador, Paul
Claudel, last summer that the hold
ing of French elections next spring
made 1932 a bad year for the con
| ference, Mr. Castle explained orally
that this was merely the personal
comment of Ambassador Claudel
and did not mean that France did
; not wish the conference to take
! place February 2.
The regular passenger train is
! due to arrive from the Interior to
night at 6:30 o’clock. # *
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