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* VOLUME XXVII. NUMBER 252.
SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1921.
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JAPAN WILL INSIST ON RIGHT
TO PURSUE BANDITS IN
MANCHURIA
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(By Associated Press)
Dispatches to Shanghai from Har
bin said that General Mah Shen
Chan, with his Chinese cavalry,
clashed with the Japanese who
were pushed back. The Japanese
called for airplanes and other re
inforcements.
The Tokyo cabinet planned to
meet late tonight and are to try
and reach a final decision on the
League of Nations' peace resolu
tion.
* A spokesman said that Japan
will insist upon the right to chase
bandits in Manchuria. British,
French and other official observers
from Paris reported to the League
Council from Manchuria that no
disorder or brigandage existed.
The Chinese government at Nan
king denied any official or direct
negotiations were proceeding with
4 the Japanese at Peiping or Nan
king for peace.
General Mah’s action is said to
be a part of the counter attack to
recapture Tsitsihar from which the
Chinese army was driven in mid
November.
0 FORMER QUEEN ILL
BERLIN, Dec. 2. CP) — Former
Queen Sophie of Greece, sister of
former Kaiser Wilhelm, was taken
to the municipal hospital at Frank
fort-on-Main to undergo an opera
tion. Her daughter, Princess Helen
of Roumania, was summoned to
her side.
TREATED WITH BRIM
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 2. CP)
—Word that the Federation of La
bor investigators are going to re
*port that conditions of incredible
brutality exist such as the use of
lash and pistol butt on Negro la
borers who are held in virtual
peonage by contractors on big gov
ernment flood control jobs in levee
construction camps along the lower
Mississippi river, set in motion an
"*■ investigation by the War Depart
ment.
It is also said that Congress may
look into the conditions.
NEW JERSEY ELECTS
DEMO CANDIDATE
ELIZABETH, N. J., Dec. 2. (JP)—
Overturning the normally Repub
0 lican plurality of 35,000 votes, Stew
art, Democrat and a wet, was elect
ed to Congress from the Fifth New
Jersey District with a plurality of
about 1,900 and with only one out
of the 298 voting districts returns
missing.
In the voting, Stewart was given
31,400 votes and Qonald McLean,
Republican, was given 29,500.
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DIES FROM DRINKING
PETERSBURG, Alaska, Dec. 2.
(JP)—David Paul, about 50 years of
age, a Kake Indian, died soon after
! he was taken from his gasboat to
i a hospital. A coroner’s inquest re
| vealed that there had been a drink
! ing party on his boat Monday
■ night.
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QUICK
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McGRATH, Dec. 2. (/P)—Pilot Bob
Ellis, of the Alaskan Airways, on his
way to Flat, circled the missionary
plane of Brothers George J. Feltes
and Martial Lepeyre, which is down
in a valley at the head of Ganes
I Creek, in the Crater Mountain vU
\ cinity.
The Brothers came out and
, waved at Pilot Ellis in the plane
1 indicating that they wanted him
| to land. Ellis flew down the val
ley a number of miles but couldn’t
| see the High dog team which has
been sent out from Takotna to go
! to the aid of the churchmen.
Pilot Ellis figured that it was
unfeasible to land in the vicinity
where the churchmen are down be
cause it would be almost impossible
to take off.
RETIRES FROM NAVY
j NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 2. (£>)—Rear
! Admiral T. P. Magruder, command*
! ing officer at New Orleans and
i veteran of 40 years of service, re
tired from the Navy.
FLYERS LOSE RACE
! WITH TIME AS THEY
ATTEMPTED TO MAKE THREE
NATION ROUND-TRIP HOP
IN TEN HOURS
—
| VANCOUVER, B. C., Dec. 2. (A*)—
J. R. Wedell, New Orleans flyer,
; landed here at 1 o’clock yesterday
| afternoon, just six hours and 42J/2
: minutes after he took off from
! Agua Caliente, Mexico, intending to
i make a round-trip flight.
However, he decided to stay here
overnight because he encountered
several snowstorms on his north
ward flight.
Wedell was attempting to set a
new record flight between the three
nations—Mexico, United States and'
Canada.
The previous record was made
by James Hall, a New York broker.
He set a record in June when he
! covered the distance to include
three nations in seven hours and!
38 minutes. ,
Captain Frank Hawks, another
aviator out for air speed records,
left here at 9 o’clock yesterday
morning for Agua Caliente in an
attempt to break the previous rec
ord. He landed at Portland at
ord. He landed at Portland at 10:23
and at 10:58 left for Oakland.
Wedell aimed to make the round
trip in 10 hours. The distance is
about 1,200.
The Oakland Tribune yesterday
received a call from Dr. Hart Y.
Reka, saying that Captain Hawks
had been forced down by dizziness
near Granada, but that Captain
Hawks was uninjured and his plane
FORMER Till
CHIEF COT HUCE
SOM LEGAL FEES
BIG SUM PAID LAW FIRM HAVE
ZONING RESTRICTIONS
SMOOTHED
NEW YORK, Dec. 2. (/P)—1The law
firm of G. W. Olvany, former big
chief of Tammany Hall, got $71,000
in legal fees from F. F. French,
millionaire builder, to smooth out
zoning restrictions for his exclus
ive Tudor City real estate develop
ment, it was brought out at the
Hofstadter Legislative Committee
hearing.
French, on the witness stand,
however, testified that the money
j was not paid directly to the Ol
: vany firm. Instead, all of it but
I $25,000 went in a series of cash
payments to Mr. F. J. Flynn, mem
ber of another law firm who swore
later that the Olvany firm reecived
all but $4,000 of the total amount.
Flynn said he had pocketed the
$4,000 for the part he played in
the transactions. He was attorney
of record for the French inerests.
The final payment of $25,000
went directly to the Olvany firm,
it was testified, and Samuel Sea
bury, counsel to the committee,
brought out that Olvany had by
that time retired as leader of Tam
many Hall and was therefore not
so much in the limelight.
All but $10,000 of the payments
to Flynn were in cash.
ADOPT 1932 BUDGET
NEW YORK, Dec. 2. (A5) — The
Board of Aldermen, by a vote of
61 to 3, adopted New York City’s
1932 budget appropriation of $631,
366,297, or ten million more than
was authorized in the 1931 budget.
MACDONALD SAYS Mi
TABLE EONFEIIE Ft
LONDON, Dec. 2. (J-P) — Prime
Minister Ramsay MacDonald closed
the meeting of the Second Round
Table Conference with the declara
tion that it had failed but that the
work of arranging for independ
ence for India would go on.
Mahatma Gandhi, in a final ad
dress, said he could not understand
why he and the British government
had reached a parting of the ways
and they had turned thumbs down
on all compromises that he insist
ed on in his construction of liberty
or death for India’s millions.
The work of the Round Table
Conference will be carried on thru
committees, according to the Prime
Minister.
THWARTED LOVE AFFAIR
CHICAGO, Dec. 2. (A3) — The
thwarted love affair of a 16-year
old high school boy for a 12-year
old girl ended in a double killing
when Henry Soi shot and killed
Ruth Wickland on her way to
school and fled to his den where
he committeed suicide. The girl’s
parents had warned Sio away from
their daughter.
was ■ undamaged. Captain Hawks
became exhausted in flighting a
raging snowstorm and when he
landed his plane and attempted to
get out, he collapsed.
EINSTEINS ENROUTE TO U. S. |
BERLIN, Dec. 2. (£>)— The Ein-j
steins are enroute to Los Angeles ,
aboard the steamer Portland which !
is due to arrive there on December;
27. The family disclosed that Frau
| Einstein boarded the steamer at
! Bremen and the husband at Ant
I werp. They plan to stay in the
i United States up to 10 weeks.
GIVES UP ATTEMPT Tfl
REACH SEATTLE, BOAT
DUTCH HARBOR, Dec. 2. (/Pj—
Paul Riggs, Fair Pool Hall operator
of Unalaska, who left for Seattle
recently via the outside route in a
40-foot beam motorship called No
vember, returned to Dutch Harbor
saying that he was not able to get
sufficient sleep because of the
heavy gales and the blinding snow- i
storms.
He had intended to go to Seattle
but apparently was discouraged in
his attempt when he encountered
William S. Ehherres, an Unalaska i
native trapper, who reported the
finding of a keel believed to be a
part of the motorboat belonging to
Harry Olsen and partner, both of j
Unalaska. Nothing was said about
! the missing men and it is thought
! that they perished.
James LaVigne and partners, also j
; in a power boat, were wrecked on j
| the south side of Unalaska Island j
but they managed to save their [
j supplies and they both were report- j
ed safe.
HIGH TIFF TO BE
RETALIATION IS NOT LIKELY
ON THE PART OF THE
UNITED STATES
LONDON, Dec. 2. (IP)—A 50 per
cent tariff on manufactured and
semi-manufactured articles will be ‘
extended to hundreds of articles,
not included in the first list an-!
nounced by the British Board of
Trade, it was learned here.
The first batch of products will
come under the new tariff rates
next Wednesday but this list is only j
the beginning and additional class-j
es of goods will be added to the I
schedule in the next list, it is said, j
Further levies are expected to af-1
feet 275 million dollars worth of i
American exports alone.
While the belief exists at Wash
ington that the British tariff pol
icy will reach against United States
exports to Britain, the likelihood
of retaliation now appears small,!
since none of the initial levies j
come under the countervailing pro- (
visions of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff,
Law here.
Under the countervailing provi-;
sion, the United States is permitted J
to retaliate if a foreign nation rais- ]
es duties on automobiles, bicycles, |
paperboard, gunpowder, coal and;
other articles.
Mrs. Andy Simons left for her
home at Mile 20 on the train today.
She has been in Seward receiving
treatments at the Seward hospital
and will return here in a few days
for further treatments.
EARNEST APPEAL IS
MADE FOR RELEASE
MAYOR WALKER SAYS MOONEY
HAD BEEN CONVICTED ON
FALSE TESTIMONY
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 2. (A5)—
With an earnestness seldom dis
played, even perhaps in his own
behalf, Mayor James Walker, of
New York City, appeared before his
friend, Governor James J. Rolph.
and for more than an hour pleaded
with the Governor for the release
of Thomas Mooney, who is behind
the prison bars for conviction in
connection with the Preparedness
Day bombing outrage of 1916 in
San Francisco.
The hearing lasted for four hours.
No decision is expected immediate
ly and it may not be known for
months.
Mayor Walker said that the man
who was once sentenced to hang
was innocent; that he didn’t have
a fair trial. Both Walker and Frank
Walsh, who preceded him in a
longer address, told Governor Rolph
Rolph in their opinion that the
records show that Mooney was con
victed on perjured testimony.
Describing his visit with Mooney
at San Quentin, Mayor Walker
said: “What I saw I can’t describe,
but not in that face was there a
capacity for such an atrocious
crime; not in those clear, sympa
thetic and kindly blue eyes did I
find the mirror of a soul depraved
as to be guilty of this crime. I saw
gentility and obvious intelligence.
I saw a kindly man who has grown
old in appearance inside these wralls
and heard a voice that was sym
pathy itself.”
SEATTLE, Dec. 2. (JP)—Maurice
Smith was named prohibition di
rector of this district, succeeding
Jackson who succeeds John Vivian,
director at Denver. Vivian’s office
is under investigation by National
Director Amos Woodcock, accord
ing to an announcement.
Woodcock announced that Smith
was a former Eastern Washington
chief enforcement officer under the
Lyle Whitney regime, and after
that he became an assistant to
Jackson in this district.
MRS. CARAWAY NOMINATED
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Dec. 2. (JP)—
Mrs. Caraway was nominated by
the Democratic State central com
mittee to serve Senator Caraway’s
unexpired term. Her nomination
is taken to be the equivalent of
election.
SIGNED BY KING
LONDON, Dec. 2. (JP)—The Brit
ish Board of Trade was given the
right to impose tariffs up to 100
per cent on certain classes of man
ufactured and semi-manufactured
goods when the government’s bill
aimed at restricting dumping of
foreign made products was passed
by the House of Lords and signed
by King George, thereby putting it
into effect.