MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXIX. NUMBER 9.
SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1933.
PRICE TEN CENTS
CANADIAN JUDGE
ATTACKS DEPARTMENT
WINNIPEG. Jan. 12. —Directing
an attack on the Dominion depart
ment. of justice and his complain- •
ants whom he charged with
“judging and executing him,"
Judge Lewis Stubbs opened his de-;
fence against charges of alleged
judicial misconduct.
He charged that “Ottawa had
not even treated him with com
mon decency.” He criticized the
complaints that were filed against
him and called them a disgrace to
a first year law student.
He charged it should not be ac
cepted in any court and suggested
that Mr. Commissioner Ford quash
it.
HARBIN. Manchuria. Jan. 12. —
Three hundred rebels battling the
Manchukuo government were kill
ed yesterday in heavy fighting
with Manchukuo troops near Hul
in.
A rebel army of 2.500 led by the
veteran commander. General Litu. j
was interned by Soviet officials af
ter it had crossed the Manchurian
border into Siberia, at Inan. 200
miles north of Vladivostok where
a Japanese request for surrender
of the rebels was refused.
HOUSE POLISH!
FIRM PROVISIONS
WASHINGTON, D. C.. Jan. 12. —
A businesslike House turned from
efforts to load the emergency farm
bill with amendments and settled
down to the painstaking job of
polishing its provisions for a final
and apparently favorable vote.
All outward signs foretold ac
tion that would send the boom
stick allotment bill to the Senate.
In swift succession members vot
ed 161 to 100 against killing the
bill and then 189 to 88 eliminating
hogs from its provisions.
WASHINGTON. D. C.. Jan. 12. —
R. C. A. Communications Incor
porated informed the Federal Ra
dio Commission that it would ap*
ply for permission to establish a'
nation-wide point to point radio
service to compete with telesraph
companies.
Ultra-violet broadcasting fre
quencies, which todate have been
considered feasible only for exper
imental purposes, would be used.
FURTHER COMPLICATIONS
PHOENIX, Ariz., Jan. 12, —Ill
ness of Justice of the Peace Mc
Kee postponed indefinitely a pre
liminary hearing of John J. Hal
loran, wealthy Phoenix lumber
man. on a county attorney’s com
plaint he aided, assisted and ad
vised Winnie Ruth Judd, condem
ned murderess.
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BOYCOTT PARIS DRESSES
ROME, Jan. 12, —Premier Mus
solini has given orders for a dress
makers w:ar against Paris. He as
serted independence of French
fashion dictates is ;a necessary
part of Fascism’s rise to domina
tion in Europe. Turin has been
made headquarters for the organi
zation of an Italian school of wom
en’s ware.
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PENSION FOR WIDOW
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Jan. 12. —
A pension of $5,000 yearly for
Grace Goodhue Coolidge, widow of
the late former President, was
sought in a bill introduced by Sen
ator Warren R. Austin, of Ver
mont. Congress usually votes pen
sions to the widows of former Pres
v idents.
PLAIN TALK
TOKYO, Jan. 12, —The Japanese
government Wednesday replied to
the Chinese protest against occu
pation of Shanhaikwan with the
statement that Japan “expressly
reserves the right to make de-1
mands” in connection with any
settlement.
FKitGMiT
IN FUTILE I1TEMPT
CLEM UP LOS MIGELES
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 12.—Regard- j
less of the, repeal of the state j
Wright act. Federal prohibition
agents are as busy as cats on a
roof. Wednesday they made a
general roundup of bootleggers, ar
resting five, seizing four expensive
automobiles and confiscating hun
dreds of gallons of liquor.
In one house they found a 750
gallon capacity still, a great quan
tity of labels with “Scotch” print
ed on them, and 250 cases of hard
liquor. This was valued at approx
imately $7,000.
TOKIO. Jan. 12, —Josef Stalin’s
recent statement that the Soviet
government is preparing for war,
removed the last possibility that
Japan might sign a non-aggression
pact with Russia, a government
spokesman intimated Wednesday.
The Soviet government demon
1 strated that while it was asking
Tokio to sign the pact, it was shift
ing its entire industrial five-year
plan to prepare for war, it was
said.
Persian iiis
MOVE TO OIL DISTRICT
MOSCOW. S. R.. Jan. 12. —The
Tass Russian News agency corres
pondent at Teheran, Persia, yes
terday reported that two Persian
warships had been moved from
Bushire to Mohammera, a port on
, the River Karun not far from the
site of the Anglo-Persian oil com
pany concession.
Great Britain and Persia have
been in dispute over Persia's can
cellation of the oil concession.
ANARCHISTS ACTIVE
i
MADRID. Spain, Jan. 12.—Fif
teen anarchists prisoners induced
other prisoners to stage a riot in
an attempt to escape but failed.
Five guards were disarmed during
the melee.
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GRADUATED
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 12.—O. Mol
i ler, gridiron star writh the Univers
! ity of Southern California, was
: signed yesterday to play an infield
; position with the Los Angeles
: Baseball Club
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ARIVED SAFELY
NEW PLYMOUTH, N. Z„ Jan. 12,
—Commander Charles E. Kings
ford Smith, famous Australian
: aviator, made his second Austra
i lia-New Zealand flight of 1,200
miles landing here from Gerron
gon Beach, Sydney.
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CRASH LANDING
GALVESTON, Tex., Jan. 12, —
Second Lieut. William J. Bogardus,
26. Dallas and Technical Sgt- John
Kennedy of Virginia, were killed
Wednesday at the Third Attack
Group Airdrome at Fort Crocket
when their plane crashed while
: landing.
BACK TO PRISON
DENVER, Colo., Jan. 12, —Glen
. Smeeman. known in Cleveland as
( Harry Stanley, was sent back tc
! prison last night. Gov. Edwin C
j Johnson of Colorado refused to
consider an immediate pardon for
the well-dressed little man who es
caped from a Colorado road gang
15 years ago.
DEATHS FROM DALE
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
ARE PLACED AT H
LOS ANGELES. Jan. 12, —The
death toll from the wind storm
which attained a velocity of SO
miles an hour, is now placed at 14,
when it was learned a number of
seaman had been sweot out to sea.
Many others are missing.
The dust-laden wind deposited
; millions of tons of sand over
! a wide area throughout this sec
tion; 75 oil derricks were destroy
; ed. about 70 others badly damag
! ed, an aggregate loss of approx
imately S150.000; roofs blown awTay.
trees uprooted, automobiles blown
off highways, streets filled with de
| bris. shores lined with wreckage
I from small craft, and move than
! a million dollars loss to the orange
| and citrus crops.
Numerous brush fires were start -
j ed and thousands of acres were
! burned over.
Hope was virtually abandoned
I for two enlisted men who left the
! cruiser Chicago, in Los Angeles
; harbor, for shore in a small gig.
j They had not been sighted five
; hours later.
I Six other men from the cruiser
| Pensacola and three from the air
j craft carrier Saratoga were long
overdue last night after having
i set out in shore boats to run down
j small craft that had broken their
! moorings in the gale.
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IS. Hill JACOBS
PISSES IT NEWPORT
The sad news of the death of
Mrs. Anna Jacobs, beloved wife of
Charles Jacobs, was received in
: Seward yesterday by Roy Jacobs
Mrs. Jacobs had been ill for more
than a year and passed away at
Newport, Wash., according to the
telegram sent Mr. Jacobs by Earl
Cooper, a brother of the former
! well-known Seward and Moose
' Pass lady.
| % The husband. Charles .is at Nuka
Bay at the present time, and there
| being no other way to get word to
I him of the passing of his wife,
Broadcast Station KFQD. Anchor
! age, announced it over the air last
I night in the hope it would be pick
I ed up by a radio listener at the
; quartz camp and they in turn im
part the message to'Mr. Jacobs.
NEVER TOO OLD
YUMA, Ariz., Jan. 12.—Walter
I Gable, father of Clark, the demon
j “he-man” of the screen, over whom
j thousands of women have gone
I “ga-ga,” was married yesterday to
I his former sister-in- law.
MOTHER HIS BEST
IFTEI42 YEARS
LONDON, Ohio, Jan. 12. —For
. the first time in 42 years, Mrs.
; Ezra Murry has no school lunches
l to prepare in the mornings,
j This is the first year in 42 that
she and her husband have not had
a child in school. They had 10
children of their own and reared
seven foster children.
t SECOND BEST PLAYER
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 12.—Cecil
) Smith has been awarded the title
■ of the second best ranking pole
player in the United States. Thom
as Hitchcock, Jr., has held the ti
tle for seven years.
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FREE CITY CELEBRATES
| DANZIG, Germany, Jan. 12 —
The citizens of this city are cele
‘ bra ting the 13th anniversary of its
' status as a free city, under the
' | terms of the Versailles treaty, bj
swearing allegiance to the mother
j country.
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A LONG WAYS OFF
>1 LOS ANGELES. Jan. 12.—The
. j University of California football
) i team will play the St. Mary squad
* Nov. 25 1933, and the Ioyola, ac
■ versity sometime in October, ac
; cording to the conference sched
ule now drawn up.
\ 1932 ACHIEVEMENTS
i
I OF SCIENTIFIC WORLD
1 NEW YORK. Jan. 11—Follow- j
i ing are highlights of science in i
! 1932: !
J Atom smashed by new method. |
’ First photograph of proton j
» made. ;
! Neutron, new “atomic” par- J
| tide, discovered.
1 First photographs of genes, j
s heredity units. j
J Worldwide cosmic ray study. J
J Piccard sets altitude record in J
« balloon. f
\ Worldwide “polar year” sci- ■
| ence study starts. }
s Sun’s eclipse yields new radio J
i knowledge. ’ •
\ Marconi extends range of ra- {
J dio short w7aves. J
• Possibility of life on Venus in- •
i dicated.
J Universe seen' expanding 15,- J
J 000 miles a second. J
• Einstein says earth 10 billion i
i years old. ■
GAMPBEIL EXPECTS TO
ESTABLISH SPEED Mil
301MIEES PER HOUR
LONDON. Jan. 12. —Sir Malcolm
Campbell expects to attempt to es
tablish a mark of 300 miles per
hour when he conducts automobile
speed trials ' at Daytona Beach,
Fla., next month, he said.
Sir Malcolm is holder of the
world’s record at 253 miles per
hour.
The present 2,000 horse-power
power plant in his racer, “The
Blue Bird,” which supplanted the
former power plant of 1.200 h. p.,
has a potential speed of 320 miles
per hour.
“The Blue Bird” has been made
18 inches longer and the seat has
been lowered.
SARAMENTO. Calif., Jan. 12. —
The army of 1,000 hunger march
ers who went to the Capitol Tues
day and appeared before a joint
, session of both Houses to urge the
enactment of social insurance and
make demands for relief, was dis
L persing today.
, Yesterday the first contingent oi
departing veterans “touched” the
lawmakers for $250 to pay for gas*
oline to take them back to theii
homes. The money was speedilj
subscribed.
THE STOCK MARKET
NEW YORK, Jan. 12.—Wheal
> broke in the Chicago wheat pit and
all previous gains were lost. Motoi
' stocks and related groups showed
L a fractional gain and steel produc
* tion has risen a point.
1 Consumption of electric energj
increased last week, but is still un
der that of a year ago for the
same week. Car loadings picked
l up.
: The whole sale auotations or
> butter and cheese were: Butter 2C
■ cents per pound, cheese 11 cents
■ large eggs 29 cents per dozen, me
diums 27 cents, small eggs 25c.
Alaska Juneau 12 5-8, A1 Cherr
j 89 5-8, Am Can 611-4, Am Smelt
13 4-4, Am Fone 107 3-8, Am Tobac
63, Auburn 53 5-3, Baldwin 6 1-4
' B & O 10 5-8, Beth Steel 16 1-4. Ca!
* I Pack 10 3-4. Can Pac 14 1-2, Case
48 5-8, Chrysler 16 7-8, Can. Gas
62 1-2. Dupont 40, Eastman 59 1-8
Gen Elec IS, Gen Foods 27. Ger
Mots 14 1-4, Goodrich 5 1-8, Good
year 161-2, Int Tel 7 3-4, Loew:
19 3-8, Mont Ward 14 53, Dairy Prc
! 17 3-4. Pac. Gas 30 7-8, Penn. R F
l 18 1-4. Pullman 22 1-8, Radio 5 7-8
1 Radio Keith 4. Un Oil Cal 11, Sc
•; Pac 76 1-4, Steel 31, Steel pfc
- 65 1-4, West U 30 3-4, West’housc
* j 31 3-8, Woodworth 35 3-4. Woi
Pump 15. Eng sterling 3.35.
$150,000 WASTED
WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 12, —
The House foreign affairs commit
tee approved the McReynolds reso
lution to authorize $150,000 for
American participation in the
world economic conference this
spring.
|P0UCEl«ir
' FOR HELP TO PREVENT
AGITATOR!) MEETING
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VACAVILLE, Calif., Jan. 12, — j
Police Chief O E. Allen requested
that every available deputy sher
iff in Solano county be rushed
i here immediately to prevent a
' mass meeting of agitators which
' is scheduled for tonight.
] He said he expected 150 armed
I deputies would answer the call. I
j “I’ve just learned that 150 men i
are coming down from Sacramen-1
; to,” he said, “and that they intend j
| to ho’d a meeting tonight despite;
i the refusal of a permit. They plan
! to see justice done, as they put it,
! at the trial of four men accused
of disturbing the peace.”
10.000 TROOPS MARCH
SHANGHAI, Jan. 12. —Chinese,
dispatches said 10,000 Japanese!
troops were marching into Jeholj
for the city of Lingyuan.
PEIPING. Jan. 12. —Japanese
! troops, tanks, armored trains, air
■ planes, artillery and cavalry were
prepared for an invasion of Jehol
province, with the Capital Cheng
Te Fu as their goal.
While unusually cold weather re
tarded fighting between Japanese
and Chinese at the stragetic pass
through the Great Wall at Chio
menkuo, Chinese officials reported
!' 10.000 Japanese were massing for
>; a drive on the capital.
S100.000 FIRE LOSS
SANTA ROSA. Calif., Jan- 12.—
i Fire, believed to be of incendiary
origin, wiped up a group of build
I ings 12 miles east of here, valued
| at S100.000.
two ralSr
FROZEN TO 0E1TH
ST. PAUL. Minn., Jan. 12, —
Two girls were found frozen to
death near Kennedy, Minn., vic
tims of a blizzard that swept por
tions of Minnesota and North Da
iota.
The girls, Jennie and Mildred
7 Skjordall, 15 and 7 respectively,
fell victims to sub-zero weather,
wind and snow, after horses, driv
en by their father. John Skjordall.
ran away. They lived in the ex
treme northwestern part of the
l state.
AID TO APPLE GROWERS
7
. WENATCHEE, Wash., Jan. 12.—
; The Wenatchee Credit Association
1 has announced it proposes to ad
vance 25 cents per box to apple
i growers as aid toward harvesting
) their next crop.
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DICKERING FOR FIGHT
HARRISBURG, Pa., Jan. 12.—
* Jack Dempsey is in the city for
the purpose of talking over the
: possibility of staging the Max
’ Schmeling-Max Baer heavyweight
* battle here. Nothing definite was
' known last night.
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S500 LESS BI T WISER
l
-1 LOS ANGELES. Jan. 12. -A. Gross
s j didn’t want to carry a bank roll
) of S500 around town with him for
l fear of getting knocked over the
;, head, so hid it in the kitchen cool
3 discovered a fire had broken out
i er. When he returned home he
j in his palatial $50,000 home and
r gutted the kitchen and the bank
roll.
WASHINGTON, D. C.. Jan. 12. —
Iv?r Kreugsr. late Swedish match
emperor, sold millions of dollars
worth of stock to the American
public with high-grade French
bonds as backing, then substituted i
inferior Hungarian securities for
the original collateral after the
issue was sold.
This disclosure was made yester
day before the Senate banking
committee investigating the Nev;
York Stock Exchange, by Donald
Dunrant, partner in the Lee, Hig
ginson & Co.. New York brokerage
firm, which sponsored the Ameri
can flotation.
BREACH OF PROMISE
SOU FILED. II m
SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 12.—Max
; Baer, the pdire of Liverwurst, Calif.
! is named in a breach of promise
! suit brought against him by Miss
j Olive Beck, waitress, from the old
I home tow’n, who charges that Max
| turned her down and married the
• other girl. Olive figures $250,000 is
| just about right.
j The handsome pugilist’s wife, the
! former Dorothy Dunbar Wells de
j Carson, screen actress, wants to
! know why Miss Beck wraited two
j years “after our marriage” before
I bringing this suit?
TEN THOUSAND M
; TROOPS READY HTTftCK
SHANGHAI, China. Jan. 12. —
Chinese press dispatches receive!
: here indicated that the long ex
| pected japanese campaign to con
j quer the Chinese province of Je
i hoi was getting under way.
Shanghai heard that 10.000 Jap
! anese were marching northwest
: into the disputed province.
In Peiping the Japanese legation
j announced that the Chinese had
I been driven from Chiumenkow
Pass through the Great Wall north
of Shanhaikwan.
FIVE ESCAPED
PHOENIX. Ariz., Jan. 12.—Using
' knives made from scissors, five
prisoners threatened to kill a guard
: and jailor, then made their escape
via a crowded court room.
PUBLIC OFFERING
CMIM1 BONDS
j MONTREAL. Jan. 12, —Public
j offering was made yesterday by a
j banking and bond dealers syndi
' cate of an issue of $9,000,000, four
' * and one-half per cent non-sala
ble sinking fund bonds of the Pro
vince of Quebec.
The offering was made at a price
of $98.50 and accrued interest to
yield about 4.60 per cent to the in
| vestor.
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ROBBERS GOT S1.000
KANSAS CITY. Mo., Jan. 12. —
j Two robbers yesterday held up two
j employees of the Prudential Life
| Insurance Company, on a dowm
I town street as they were enroute to
I bank the day’s receipts of about
‘ $1,000.
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REDISTRIBUTION BILL
■ TORONTO. Jan. 12, —The On
: I tario government will introduce a
, | redistribution bill at the coming
; j session of the legislature opening
| on February 15. Premier George
Henry announced Wednesday. A
reluction in the number of seats
will be made.
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MANGRUN LEADING
• I AGUA CALIENTE, Mex., Jan. 12,
—Ray Mangrun. tall, thin profess
. ional who once burned up golf
1 courses in Texas, shot a 69 here
. yesterday to lead all other com
; petitors in the first 18-hole round
of the 72-hole Agua Caliente open