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MEMBER ASSOCIATED DRESS
VOLUME XV. NUMBER 571.
SEWARD, ALASKA
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1930.
PRICE TEN CENTS
UNUSUAL RETURN
TO ALASKA FOR
THIS Til OF YEAR
MANY ANCHORAGE AND SEW
ARD RESIDENTS RETURN
ING HOME
SEATTLE, Dec., 10, (A*)—The S.
£. Yukon, of the A. S. S. Co., left
today at 9 a. m. for Alaska car
rying 119 passengers, 35 for Sew
ard, as follows:
Mrs. N. Smith and baby, T. P.
Weatherell, Mrs- B. Price, Mrs.
0 Hallson. Lyman Desteffany.
Mrs. D. E. Lee, Mrs. C. M. Eck
man, Mrs. Grace Corson. Mrs.
Chas. Fowler, Mrs. A- E. Lee, Mrs.
j Sanvik, Mrs. E. E. Porter. John
Wachawitz, Mrs. R. E. Orlando.
Mrs. A. D. Haverstock, Sam
1 ykstra, James Burns, C. A. lind
tiren, H. N. Oliver, Harry Bowers,
David Greer, Mr. and Mrs. M. M.
Noll, Mrs. G. S- Black and dough
ier, Clara Hayes Dickenson, Miss
\bbie Rouse, Jack Warren, Robt.
Growden, Mrs. W. N. Growden,
Wm F. Thompson. Mrs. H. C.
Scott, A- P. Olson, P, Larson.
nd three steerage.
BERLIN, Dec. 10. UP) —Making
nse of dictatorial powers to save
■khj, country In times of emergency,
President Hindenburg signed a de
tree enforcing 25 financial refoim.
laws compiled by the cabinet of
Chancellor Bruening in an attempt
io prevent financial chaos.
Three laws which originidy be
longed to the group were del. « 1
temporarily because they involved
constitutional changes and as such
ould not be decreed.. All parties
protested vigorously against the
proclamation of the laws as a vio
lation of the rights of the Reich
stag, but Chancelor Bruening ex
pects the situation to be accepted
quietly since political leaders will
not chance a new election.
MOVE CULLS H BACK
LONDON, Dec. 10. (/Pi—Montague
Norman, governor of the Bank of
England, clambered dow*i a rope
ladder from the SS. Bremen as
that vessel Was plowing toward
IT. S. and returned hurriedly to
London after receiving a wireless
message.
The message said England might
soon announce plans u>r conver
sion of her $2,000,000,COO at five
per cent war loan.
WINTER RAMPAGE
NEW YORK, Dec., 10, (/Pi
Winter recovered its tight hold
in the East and Middle West and
the thermometer went skidding
to far below freezing tempera
tures. Minimum in New York
was 15 degrees and maximum
was 25.
KELLOGG HHD
HOBELPEKGE PRIZE
OSLO, Norway, Dec., 10, </P)—
Former Secretary of State Kel
logg, now world court judge, re
ceived the Nobel peace prize for
1929 in the presence of King
Haakon and a distinguished
audience.
Dr. Nathan Stederblom receiv
ed the Nobel peace award for
1930 at the same time.
—AND THEY WERE WED
MELBOURNE, Aust., Dec., 10,
(/P)— A v i ator Kingsford-Smith j
and Miss Mary Powell, pretty i
Irish- Australian girl, were mar
ried in Scots’ Church.
WILL VISIT STUBS III
ANOTHER 181 TEARS
| BERLIN, Dec 10 (TP)—Within a
j century mankind will not only be
able to communicate with the
stars but will visit them.
This is the prediction of Pro
fesor V. Stratonow, the Ruslan as
tronomer. The most favorable
| planet for human colonization
| would probably be Venus, where
! water is plentiful and the atmo
I sphere like ours, he .said. The pro-*
b: -m of inter-planet'.ry commun
ication today, has reached about
: > - me' si etc reached by the pro
‘ blent of aviation 35 years, ago. he
. declared.
XMAS AT HOME
' JUNEAU, Dec., 10, (/P)~Gov. G.
Parks left today for Denver to
1 spend Christmas with his par
ents. He will return North short
ly after the first of the year
I
TO CURB RUSSIA
I LONDON, Dec., 10, pp)_For
eign Secretary Arthur Hender
son announced Great Britain is
protesting to Russia against in
flammatory speeches which are
being broadcast over the radio
to British workers from the of
ficial Soviet station.
BAN JOHNSON ILL
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 10. (JP) —Ban
Johnson, former president of the
American Baseball League, is ser
iously ill with diabetis. Ills condi
tion is critical, doctors said, but
he has a chance for toe #very.
GREAT CARVER DIES
CAMBRIDGE, Mas. Dec. 10. (/P)
—John Kirehmayer, famed wood
carver of Cambridge, died here at
the age of 70. He was born Ober
ammergau, scene of Passion Play,
and he played the part of Joseph
in that great religious spectacle
in 1870 and 1871.
SPEEDS UP
PARIS, Dec. 10. (JP) — Marcel
Dore, French aviator, set a world’s
speed record for 1,000 meters by
averaging 230 miles per hour.
GENTEEL BUKUI
CLEANED DOUSE
IN GDEAT STYLE
WAS IDENTIFIED FROM FIN
GER PRINTS LEFT ON
WINDOW SILLS
LOS ANGELES, Dec., 10, (TP)—
H. R. Sanders, 30, alias A1 White,
debonair and handsome, his ap
parent occupation that of in the
importing business, but * by av
ocation an actor in the movies,
was arrested and accused of
looting the homes of hundreds
of wealthy families in Hollywood,
Los Angeles and Beverly Hills.
Police have recovered $100,000
in loot.
His accomplice, Peter Ryan,
has also been arrested. It is said
that Sanders took the furnishings
in bold daylight and cached the
goods; later he sold them to
wealthy families.
He was identified from finger
prints left on sills in one of the
homes. He had been arrested in
San Francisco three years ago.
BERLIN,. Dec., 10 i,/IV-By po
lice decree public ■ i.ou .L cioi s
here ere br:vd , I:^ •/ have
wa rnt- d politic a I orgai '■ isal ions
that crowds will b broken with
force without; warr; ■
The police action followed the
riots and demoustr etions against
the American movie “All Quiet
on the Western Front.”
There is a possibility that the
German cabinet will view the
film at a private showing.
IfTER ITS ALL SHE
NOT ICO IS LEFT
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 10. (i«P)—
Seventy-five per cent of the edu
cational material a child receives
is useless to him and he forgets
about 80 per cent of what he
learns, Professor A. Rogers, presi
dent of the Montezuo Mountain
School of California, said.
He returned from a White House
conference on child health and
protection “I think a child should
return to the Greek ideal of beauty
as the basic emotion,” he said.
m emus
EFFECT BIG INKHESTS
NEW YORK, Dec. 10. (/P>—Four
principle railroad systems in the
East are reported to have practic
ally reached an agreement for
consolidation of carriers into 4
large systems.
It is said that only a few details
must be adjusted to meet the ap
proval of the Interstate Commerce
Commission.
SON Of WEALTHY MAN
TOONS TO BANDITRY;
I LOS ANGELES, Dec. 10. (/P) —
Philip Holden, 28, reputed grand -
| son of a vice-president of Marshal
[Field Company, dissipated a for
J tune of $90,000 and then turned
to banditry.
He was shot thru the head in
a bank robbery here and is be
lieved dying.
UNEMPLOYMENT GROWS
i WASHINGTON Dec., 10, .(/P)—
Survey by the American Federa
tion of Labor shows that approx
imately 4,860,000 laboring men
in the United States were out of
work in November, President W.
Green of the federation announ
ced.
ROCKEFELLERS STEP
T
PJIP!
NEW YORK, Dec., 10, (ZP)~A
contribution of $1,000,000 was
made by John D, Rockefeller and
,iiis son, John D, Jr., to the city
fund for unemployment
| The sum swelled the total
: amount available for relief of
idle and impoverished to $4,133,
000. The , city seeks $6,000,000 to
see that its huge throng of vir
tual paupers does not starve or
: eeae during 'the winter.
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MACY NAMED
NEW YORK, Dec., 10, OP)—W.
Kingsland Macy, leader of Suf
folk County, was unanimously
elected chairman of the Republi
can party of New York State at
a meeting of county leaders.
EXTENDING LEAGUE
I GENEVA, Dec., 10, OP)—Secre
tary General Drummond of the
League of nations left for Lisbon
where he will embark for South
America on a mission which is
I expected to bring about closer
■co-operation between the league
and Latin Amrica.
GET TOGETHER
LONDON, Dec., 10, (JP)—A fed
eral committee of the round-ta
ble conference on India began to
list matters upon which there is
sufficient preliminary agreement
to justify detailed discussion.
Such topics as military defense,
external relations and political
prosecution were deferred.
HALF-WAY ACROSS
WICHITA, Kansas, Dec., 10, (A*)
-Ruth Nichols, holder of the
East-West women’s trans-conti
nental flight record, left for
Roosevelt Field, New Yor, this
morning on a non-stop flight at
tempt to set a new record for
both men and women. She land
ed here yesterday from Los An
geles.
The catch of haibut closed last
month in the North Pacific has
been estimated as totaling 43,
000,000 pounds, valued at $12,
000,000, retail prices.
HVDE CALLS HALT
ACTION WILL TEND CREATE
PATERNALISM, DOLE SYS
TEM, HYDE SAYS
WASHINGTON, Dec., 9, (/P)—•
Outright condemnation of gov
ernment loans to purchase food
for the drought area, was made
by Secretary of Agriculture Hyde,
yet the Senate is prepared to
take up drought relief legisla
tion apparently with the intent
of furnishing a fund of $60,000,
000.
The relief bill before the House
contains provision for $30,000,000
specifically intended to purchase
food for the destitute.
Secretary Hyde said this action
would create paternalim and go
near the dole system; going be
yond loans of stock, feed, fer
tilizer and seed, and stepping in
to dangerous territory.
1
LONDON, Dec. 10. m — After
I taking a fatal dose of chloral hy
drate mixed with ?conite, Doctor
K’’ i Lonstidale' Hand.;, well
known. Brighton practicner, saw a
number of his patients in his of
| flee and then sat down and calm
1 iy wrote his sensations of death.
He was heavily in debt and was
to have appeared in Brighton court
on a charge of drinking in a so
cial club r Ner closing hours. He
Istrenously nied the charge. Ten
minutes before he died Doctor
Hand saw one person and spoke
| to his wife, who was not aware
that anything was wrong.
I “I am waiting,” he wrote. “I am
j feeling very happy. It is the first
I time I ever felt without worry and
as if I were free. It won’t give
way.” The final entry read. “God
seems to be over me- I am just
leaving for a lovely voyage, but it
is slow.”
YOUNG Si FRANCISCAN
FIIII5 FOR TELEVISION
I SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 10. (/P)—
j Experimental television slations for
iSan Francisco are being planned
| here in the near future by Phil
Farnsmouth, youthful San Fran
sico inventor, who will apply to
the Federal Radio Commission for
a permit to erect experimental
stations, he announced.
He plans to attach the visual
; broadcasts device to the present
radio receiver sets.
TO SIDETRACK HIM
LONDON, Dec., 10, (/P)—Pub
lished reports had it that Prime
Minister MacDonald, leader of
Britaii's labor government, may
be made viceroy of India to suc
ceed Lord Irwin upon the latter’s
retirement next April.