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SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1931. PRICE TEN CENTS
VOLUME XXVII. NUMBER 198
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NANKING, Sept. 26. (£>)—A starv
ing throng surrounded Col. Chas.
A. Lindbergh’s plane when it landed
in the flood waters near Hinghwa,
in northern Kiangsu province. For
a time it was feared the plane would
be seriously damaged and even its
occupants harmed by the coming
of sampans, tubs and anything
floatable.
The throng surged around the
plane, snatching at the packages
it contained. Hungry members of
the group wanted food; they were
bitterly disappointed when they
learned the plane brought only
medical supplies. In view of the
situation, the plane took off and
returned to Nanking. Mrs. Lind
bergh was not along.
Many of the natives had - never
*■ seen an airplane closely before i
and thought it some kind of a mi
raculous intercession.
. Lindbergh received China’s Avia
tion Medal for Flood Service from
President Chiang Kaishek. The
medal is of silver and about three
inches in diameter. The design is
in blue and white colors of the na
tional government and shows a blue
airplane in the background of a
white star
. SOUS REGARD JAP
DCGOPAIION US All
UNFRIENDLY ACT
NANKING, Sept., 26. CP)—'The!
retired Consul General at Harbin j
has notified Japanese authorities i
that the Soviet government con-1
± siders the occupation of Chang-!
chun station an unfriendly act.
and is dispatching troops to pro- j
tect Soviets' half interest in the j
Chinese Eastern Railway. The!
Soviet war commissioner is re-\
ported to be flying from Moscow j
to Manchuria.
Meanwhile, from Geneva came!
word that the United States had
assured the League of Nations of j
its sympathized attitude, express
ed by that organization toward
the Chinese-Japanese situation in
Manchuria
The Council of the League, un
able to settle the controversy, has
cancelled the call for a special
session to deal with the problem.
JAPAN WANTS SETTLE
' TROUBLES WITH CIA
WITHOUT INTERVENTION!
SHANGHAI, Sept., 26, (PP)—Jap
an, whose troops have occupied
southern Manchuria since last
Saturday, was believed, in well in
formed quarters here, determined
- to settle her troubles with China1
without permitting intervention j
by Russia or any other agency. !
There -was no confirmation of
the wild rumors in the Chinese ,
press that Russia was making ,
preparations in Siberia to inter- ,
fere in the clash of Japanese and j
^ Chinese arms along the zone of
the Japanese owned south Man
churia Railway.
CHARGED WITH MURDER
! RENO, Sept., 26, </P)— Dr. Carl
i P. Andre, West Virginia dentist,
was ijrmally charged with the
! murder of Mrs. Martha Hutchin
son. He had been held on a man
slaughter charge which had been
placed against him following the
death of Mrs. Hutchinso non Sep
tember 12 when she fell or was
thrown from a speeding automo
bil edriven by Dr. Carl Andre.
IK CUT OUSTS
STOCKS TO SOAR
NEW YORK, Sept-, 26, (/P)—Ac
tive stocks soared anywhere from
$2 to $15 a share following the
announcement of wide-spread
wage cuts by the country’s lead
ing industrial corporations.
The boom extended to every
department of the list, some of
the highest, grade stocks in the
board recording the most sweep
ing gains. Trading was brisk and
at times bouyant. Several times
during the day the new high
speed ticker was distanced several
minutes by a deluge of buying
orders pouring in on the jubilant
floor brokers from all sides. Sales
totaled about 3,100,000 shares.
ARMAMENT HOLIDAY
RECEIVES ENDORSEMENT
GENEVA, Sept.. 26, UP)—'The
Italian proposal of a gentleman’s
agreement for an immediate one
year armament’s truce received
the endorsement of the United
States before the League of Na
tion’s assembly disarmament
committee, but met the opposition
of Japan.
Hugh R Wilson, American Am
bassador to Switzerland and rep-:
resentative of his government in
the disarmament committee, an
nounced that the United States
was ready to accept the plan for
the armament’s holiday except
suspending its program of de
stroyer construction.
NAVY SOUND AS EVER
LONDON, Sept. 26. (A*)—Lady As
tor declared the British Navy is as
sound as ever, despite the recent
flare-up over pay reductions. The
Viscountess just returned from a
visit to her constituency in Ply
mouth, where she talked with num
erous officers and men of the At
lantic fleet.
BASEBALL
No National League games.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Washington 3, New York 8.
Chicago at St- Louis, rain.
Boston 1, Phildaelphia 7.
PACIFIC COAST
Hollywood 11, Missions 9.
San Francisco at Los Angeles,
vet grounds.
Sacramento 4-4, Seattle 7-7.
Oakland 8, Portland 9; 10 innings.
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MISSIONARY BISHOPS
DENVER, Sept. 26. (/P)—The ven
erable John Bentley, arch-deacon!
)f the Yukon, was elected mission- !
iry bishop of Alaska during the j
Episcopal Church convention.
There will be a public dance given
n the I. O. O. F. hall tonight.
FRANCIS B. OUII
AND CECILE LESLIE
TIE HOLY VOWS
| NEWLYWEDS DEPART ON UNER
ALASKA ON HONEYMOON
TRIP TO CORDOVA
The Sacred Heart Catholic church
was the scene, last evening at 7
o’clock, of the marriage of Miss
Cecile Anita Leslie to Lieut. Francis
,B. Quinn.
1 To the strains of Lohengrin’s
| Wedding March, the bridal party j
! assembled at the altar, where the
| beautiful and impressive ceremony
| was performed by Father G. J.
Dane of Anchorage.
S The bride, leaning on the arm of
| her father and carrying a shower
bouquet of sweet peas, baby breath
and maiden hair fern, was excep
tionally lovely in a gown of ivory
satin and a cap and veil of lace held
in place with orange blossoms. Mrs.
George Colwell, sister of the bride,
was matron-of-honor and wore a I
green eyelet embroidered gown;!
Miss Elsie Leslie, also a sister of the
bride, was maid-of-honor, and wore |
a peach georgette gown; and the;
Misses Agnes Anderson and Verna ;
Wheeler, bridesmaids, were wearing 1
gowms of pale green and shell pink
georgette.
All the bride’s attendants wore
Watteau hats in shades becoming
the gowns and carried old-fash
ioned bouquets. Little Miss Eleanor
Graham, daughter of Capt. and
Mrs. L. Graham, as flower girl with
a basket of baby roses, wrore a frock
of pink georgette. Lieut, I. R. Ru- j
bottom served as best man, and \
ushers were Lieutenants G. A. Nel- j
son, R. J. Sipe, L. W. Swanson and |
M. E. Wennermark.
The church was most fittingly
decorated with potted plants, flow- [
ers and ferns. Altar-boys were i
George Colwell, nephew of the,
bride, and William Sennett. The
beautiful strains of Mendelssohn’s
Wedding March pealed from the or
gan as the bridal party left the
church.
The large number of guests who j
were present at the ceremony were
afterwards received at the home of
the bride’s parents, where well
wishes and congratulations were
literally showered upon the happy
young couple. Refreshments were
served informally and the gifts dis
played were so numerous and lovely
as to defy description. Those as
sisting about the room were Mes
dames Peter Anderson, Thomas
Osbo, Charles Lechner, A. H. L.
Meyers and Leon Urbach. In re
membrance of the occasion, each
guest, 150 in number, received a
little parcel containing a bit of the |
wedding cake.
Mrs. Quinn, the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Frank E. Leslie, is well
known in Seward, having made her
home here with her parents since
childhood. She is one of the pro
prietors of the Candy Cottage of
this city and a member of the
Jolly Three Orchestra. Before her
graduation from the local high
school in 1929, she was a member
□f the high school girls basketball
team.
Lieut. Quinn is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Quinn of Medford,
Mass., and is attached to the Coast ;
and Geodetic Survey ship Discov
erer. The Discoverer has been us
ing Seward as a base of operations
during the past two summers, and :
during that time Lieut. Quinn has :
become well known and well liked.
After the reception, the many lo
cal friends of Lieut, and Mrs. Quinn
gathered at the dock to bid them
adieu on their departure, on the SS
Alaska, for a brief honeymoon in
Cordova. Lieut, and Mrs. Quinn
plan to return to Seward next Fri
day or Saturday and Mrs. Quinn
will leave immediately for Seattle.
She will be joined there by the
Lieutenant, who leaves Seward on
the Discoverer a few days later.
SS YUKON ENRBUTE TO
SEWARD WITH FAIR LIST
SEATTLE, Sept. 26. (£>)—The SS
Yukon, of the Alaska Steamship
Company, sailed from here for Sew
ard this morning at 9 o’clock.”he
liner carried 61 passengers includ
ing four steerage.
Thirteen passengers were booked ;
for Seward and included Elizabeth
Former, Mrs. H. Devane, Mr. and
Mrs. Harold Werum, Mrs. W. An
derson, Mrs. L. H. Strickland, Dor
othy Clements, Lillian Santo, Leona
Struve, Mrs. Geo. L. Boyd, Miss V.
Laford, Mrs. L. Hardy, Mrs. Byron
Elmes, W. Willson, L. J. Lafferty
and one steerage.
ROOY, JOHN, in
ARRIVE IN NEW YORK
NEW YORK, Sept. 26. (/P)—Three
daring aviators, who attempted to
cross the Atlantic ocean, hopping
off from Lisbon, Portugal, but who j
were forced down within about 60
miles of Halifax and were stranded
for six days and six nights in their
plane, arrived in New York. They
came here on a Norwegian steamer.
The aviators were Willy Rody, j
Christian Johansen and Costa I
Veiga. Rody, the only one who!
could speak English, said that they !
stood knee deep in wrater which
came into their land plane, which ;
floated remarkably well in the j
choppy waters.
Rody said that they could not ;
have lasted another night from the j
time they were rescued and he said
that any kind of a storm would
have spelled their doom.
Johansen, through an interpre
ter, said that a spark plug which
started missing, forced the plane
down.
Rex Sprout, formerly of the
Aleutian Livestock Co., is now keep
er of the jail at Unalaska under
Marshal Dan Ross.
THE STOCK MARKET
SEATTLE, Sept. 26. (^—Yester
day’s quotations on the stock mar
ket:
Alaska Juneau .1414
American Can .79 Vs
Borden .45%
Canada Dry .1814
General Motors .28%
International Nickle Can . 9%
International Tel. & Tel.17%
Kennecott Copper .13 Vs j
Radio . 14% j
Reynolds Tobacco (b) .40% |
Richfield Oil . 1 % j
Standard Oil of^Calif.32%
Standard Oil of N. J.3214
Standard Oil of N. Y.15%
Union Oil of Calif.13%
U. 3. Steel.78%
Bities Service . 7% *
Durant Motors . %
Bancorporation .No Sale
TO HUGH TACOMA
FAIRBANKS, Sept. 26. (JP)—A.
flight of 1,600 miles to Tacoma
faced Allen and Moyle who expect
ed to leave this morning for Ta
coma.
They were unable to take a large
enough load of gas aboard at Sol
omon Beach. They had only 500
gallons instead of 800.
The first 400 miles of the flight
the weather was: good, then cloud
banks and freezing weather was
encountered. Ice began to form on
the wings and when they ran into
rain, they came down here. They
made the hop in five hours and 20
minutes.
AT FAIRBANKS
FAIRBANKS, Sept. 26. (^—Av
iators Don Moyle and Cecil Allen
landed here at 4:35, Pacific Stand
ard Time. It was raining hard and
the visibility was low when they
landed.
FLIGHT HALTED BY SNOW
FAIRBANKS, Sept. 26. (JP)—'The
season’s first snow storm held up
the flight of Don Moyle and Cecil
Allen.
FOREST FIRES BLANKET
CALIFORNIA COUNTRY
III SENSE PIE SMOKE
SAN FANCISCO, Sept. 26. <7P)—
Blanketed by a pall of smoke so
dense that motorists had to use
their headlights at midday, Men
docino county was a roaring fur
nace of fire Thursday from border
to border.
At least 18 known fires were
burning in different parts of the
county. A dozen other fires, be
lieved to have been started by the
back fire action of ranchers’ fran
tic to save their homes, were also
burning.
x\t Ukiah, cinders showered down
in the streets from a fire 20 miles
distant. At Wendling, 20 miles east
of Fort Bragg, a population of 2,000
was battling desperately against a
circle of flame that was creeping
upon the town from four sides.
More than 500 fire-fighters were
struggling against heavy odds and
at the State Forester’s office at
Sacramento, it was announced that
it was impossible to get an estimate
of the exact conditions.
WILL FILED FOR PROBATE
NEW YORK, Sept. 26. (/P)—The
will of the late Peter Brady, prom
inent city official, was filed for pro
bate but made no estimate of the
size of the estate. Mr. Brady was
silled in an airplane accident re
cently.
MYSTERIOUS CASE
FARIS, Sept. 26. (£>)—'The mys
terious case of Mrs- Frank Leslie
Estep, of New York, whose body
maintained a fever temperature
of 102 degrees for 24 hours, fol
lowing her death, was turned over
to the world famous Paris Coron
er, Dr. Charles Paul, for solution.
Dr. Paul will perform an autopsy
at the Paris morgue.