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VOLUME XXVII. NUMBER 244. SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1931.
PRICE TEN CENTS
REINFORCEMENT UNITS BEING
SENT BY JAPANESE TO
* TROUBLE AREA
TOKYO, Nov. 21. (JP)—Reports re
vived here from Mukden said that
50.000 Chinese are concentrating in
the.region of Chin Chow. Author
itative circles give this concentra
tion movement as one of the rea
sons why the Japanese government
v onsidered a truce based upon troop
withdrawal as “unthinkable.”
It is understood that a Chinese
: epresentative said that his gov
ernment would never consent to a
iruce unless Japanese evacuation
began first. He was to address the
league Council today.
A mixed brigade of Japanese re
inforcements, including infantry,
cavalry, artillery, machine gun
units and aircraft arrived at Muk
den.
^ The Soviet Commissar of Foreign
Affairs in a reply to Japan’s last
note to Russia said that his govern
ment was “concerned” lest Japan’s
military movements might involve
the interest of the Soviets and ex
pressed satisfaction at Japan’s dec
laration that Russia’s interests were
not to suffer from Japanese mili
tary activities.
Frank Kellogg, co-author of the
Xellogg-Briand Peace Act, at St.
Paul, asked for a mobilization of
world opinion as a means for af
fecting peace in Manchuria if other
methods fail.
UftSKI-YUKON-PACIFfC
• HIGHWAY IS RECEIVING
GOOD CONSIDERATION
^ SEATTLE, Nov. 21. (JP)—Cheered
by the prospects of gaining Con
gressional cooperation in the Co
lumbia River development program,
:o cast about $175,000,000, advocates
of three equally glamorous projects
are receiving more than substan
tial consideration in the North
^ *7est.
One of these is a tunnel through
The Cascades to link the interior
with coastal Washington.
A second project is the building of
the projected Alaska-Yukon-Pacific
highway to Fairbanks with eventual
extension from Nome to Bering
: Strait and give a connection to Asia
by automobile.
The third project is that for a
third freight and passenger line
and air service connecting the two
continents.
Sidney Henrikson, local youth at
tending the Alaska College, recently
appeared in a preliminary bout at
an American Legion smoker at
Fairbanks. Sidney’s opponent was
Jimmy Johnson, who had consid
erable advantage over the Seward
lad and administered a defeat by
way of the referee’s decision. Sid
• ey fought gamely, according to the
Fairbanks News-Miner.
TRY UNRAVEL DIFFICULTIES
(By Associated Press)
| The League of Nations’ Council
announced a meeting would be held
late today and would be a public
session at which an attempt to un
ravel the tangle resulting after the
Japanese and Chinese representa
tives filed their agreement to a
truce plan and which agreements
j concluded last night.
BIDS 10 BE LET FOB THE
CLEARING OF HAH
SITE AT SEWARD FIEEO
Seward Airport is the name of the
organization formed at last night’s
meeting in the offices of the Alaska
Steamship Company by subscribers
to the Seward airport hangar fund
who are undertaking to erect a
hangar on the Seward aviation
field. The meeting was held under
the auspices of the Seward Cham
ber of Commerce aviation commit
tee composed of John W. Blase, Cal
M. Brosius and Charles Lechner.
H. S. Balderston was named as
president of Seward Airport and
A. D. Balderston was named as sec
retary of the board of the Seward
Airport.
A committee composed of A. H.
L. Meyers, John W. Blase and H. S.
Balderston was named with full
power to act in calling for bids on
the clearing of a site for the build
ing of the airplane hangar and
then for the erection of the han
gar itself.
A good atendance marked the
meeting, and much discussion, both
pro and con, took place. It was de
cided that the above executive com
mittee was to call for bids imme
diately for the clearing of a site
70x90 feet and these bids are to be
in by Monday at 12 o’clock, noon. |
Bids are to be turned in either toj
A. H. L. Meyers or to John W. Blase !
and further particulars as to clear- i
ing specifications may be obtained'
from them.
Bids will also be called for the!
erection of a hangar and the con-!
struction on this will begin as soon j
as the site is cleared. The method \
of hangar construction was not j
definitely determined but the han- '
gar will be 60x60 feet.
L. McGee, of the Barnhill and
McGee plane operators, was present
at the meeting.
SEVERE WEATHER HITS
NORTHWESTERN STATES
SPOKANE, Nov. 21. (/P) —Sub- j
freezing temperatures riding on a
; cold wave settled over Montana,
Northern Idaho, Washington, and
Oregon to add to the grief left by
damaging blizzards, rain and show.
Four deaths, scores of automobile
accidents and injuries to 200 per
sons who fell on ice encrusted
streets are reported.
It is also said that 30 men are
unreported in the Cascade Moun
I tains in Oregon. Five cars are
stalled in drifts near Lookout Pass,
near Wallace, Idaho, and the un
known number of occupants of
these cars are being fed by highway
crews.
An invitation has been extended
to the Fairbanks Kennel Club to
send one or more dog teams to
compete in the Olympic winter
games, reports the Fairbanks News- 1
Miner.
COMMUNISTS SEND
THREATENING NOTES
FINANCIAL DISTRICT
HEAVY POLICE GUARDS BEEN
ASSIGNED TO DUTY AT
BANK OFFICES
NEW YORK, Nov. 21. (£>)—'The
entire New York financial district
and the office of J. P. Morgan and
Company particularly, is under one
of the heaviest police guards ever
assigned to such duty.
The heavy police guard is the re
sult of a series of threatening let
ters signed “Communist.” These
letters were received not only by
the Morgan office but also by Har- j
vey D. Gibson, chairman of the
emergency unemployment relief
committee and one of the officials!
of the New York Stock Exchange
and Bankers Trust.
TONUlZilSlL
LIGHTWEIGHT CHIP
NEW YORK, Nov. 21. (/P)—Tony
Canzonari, lightweight champion,
successfully defended his t^tle last
night by winning a 15-round deci
sion over Kid Chocolate, the negro
challenger from Cuba.
The battle was furious through
out the entire 15 rounds and Can-!
zonari was awarded the decision;
over the challenger by the referee.!
The crowd did not seem satisfied!
with the decision and booed the ref
eree when he made his announce
ment after the final gong.
INTERNATIONAL MEETING j
NEW YORK, Nov. 21. (^—Repre
sentatives of the Federal Reserve
Bank of New York, led by Phofessor
E. W. Kemmerer, will confer with
envoys of Bolivia, Peru, Chile, Co
lombia and Ecuador at Lima, Peru,
December 2 in an attempt to evolve ;
plans for economic rehabilitation
of those countries.
FIRE LOSS j
A fire which broke out recently
in the home of President Charles
E. Bunnell, on the Alaska College :
campus, did damage of between
$4,750 and $5,000, he estimates, ac
cording to the Fairbanks News
Miner. All the loss is covered by in
surance but some of the objects
burned, including several paintings,
cannot be replaced.
IDE STOCK MARKET
SEATTLE, Nov. 21. (/P)—Yester
day’s quotations on the stock mar
ket:
Alaska Juneau .14%
American Can . 74%
Borden. 48%
Canada Dry.17% j
General Motors .25% I
International Nickle Can . 8%
International Tel. & Tel.14%
Kennecott Copper.12
Radio . 9
Reynolds Tobacco (b) .37%
Richfield Oil. 1 |
Standard Oil of Calif.31%
Standard Oil of N. J.32%
Standard Oil of N. Y.13
Union Oil of Calif......15%
U. S. Steel. 61
Uities Service. 7%
Durant Motors . %
BELLIGERENT SPEECH
MAINZ, Germany, Nov. 21. (£>)—
| In a belligerent speech delivered
before 8,000 members of the Cen
tral party, Chancellor Bruening de
clared the settlement of the ques
tion of reparations must be reached
within the month and expressed
the hope that formal agreements
will be reached within a week.
‘MISSING LINK' ROAD
CONSTRUCTION HIED
FORM CHAIM
With the “missing link” road, j
connecting Mile 18 with Mile 29, as j
the goal post objective for 1932, the:
Seward Chamber of Commerce “all
star” road committee, together with
every member of the organization
running as guards, stiff-arming j
and tackling any and all interfer- j
ence, made a forward pass Friday i
in the form of a telegram to the
Hon. Arthur M. Hyde, Secretary of
Agriculture; Hon. James Wicker
sham, Delegate at Washington from
Alaska, and to Ernest Walker Saw
yer, special assistant to the Secre- j
tary of the Interior Wilbur, urging {
this construction.
“We have been assured by various
departments heads and heads of
various committees of Congress that
the Bureau of Public Roads “miss
ing link” pr'oject would be built
next year. Mr. Flory, department
head in Alaska, has promised sev
eral times that he would cmoe to
Seward and further discuss the
project but todate he has not ar
rived. f
“Recently, E. F. Jessen, editor of
The Gateway, met Flory at Juneau
and Flory stated he doubted if any
thing would be done with the proj
ect this coming year. Seward and
vicinity intensely interested in com
pletion of this project and request
your attention to this detail of
your department.”
CURE FOR PARALYSIS
NEW YORK, Nov. 21. (/P)—A pos- j
sible cure for infantile paralysis:
may result from' the discovery of j
Drs. C. Jungeblut and E. Engle, Co- j
lumbia University scientists, who j
have discovered that pituitary
gland hormones immunized mon- j
keys to the disease. i
IN TUANS WHOLESALE
KILLEER FOB MONEY
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 21. (£>)—For
the meagre money and the small
automobiles of his itinerant labor
acquaintances, Gilbert Francis Col
lie, 50-year-old blacksmith, turned
wholesale killer, detectives charged.
The man is said to have confess
ed to the slaying and burning of
one man and made a partial state
ment to the effect that he had
caused the death of another. Col
lie was arrested yesterday before
the ashes of a fire in which he en
deavored to burn the body of Geo.
Walker, 35 years of age.
Collie was traced through the ef
forts of Dale Slater, who sought/
work with Collie.
PLENTY OF SPEED
CLEVELAND, Nov. 21. (IP) — A
long, all-metal monoplane, design
ed to fly a thousand miles an hour
thru the stratosphere and to keep
pace with a clock, is being tested
n Germany.
FIVE MEMBERS OF
ME KILLED IN
TANKED EXPLOSION
SHIP COMPLETELY DEMOLISHED
WHEN STATIC ELECTRICITY
IGNITED GASOLINE
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 21. (/P>—
The Standard Oil Company’s tanker
Charlie Watson was completely de
molished yesterday as the result of
two explosions which occurred on.
the ship while it was at Pier 43.
The tanker had 15,000 gallons of
gasoline aboard and was unloading.
The explosions are attributed to the
breaking of a pipe line and the
spouting gasoline became ignited by
static electricity. The resultant ex
plosion hurled bodies of closeby
workers into the bay and killed and
injured many others aboard the
boat.
First reports said that five men
had been killed and 10 injured who
were rushed to various hospitals.
It is estimated that there were 25
to 30 members of the crew on the
ship. The Watson was built in Oak
land in 1920 and had a tonnage of
1769. The boat was 250 feet long
with a 37-foot beam.
The gas flames were so hot that
firemen had difficulty in getting
close enough to sucessfully battle
the flames.
HOOVER DELIVERS ADDRESS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 20.
($>)—President Hoover delivered an
address from the White House ap
pealing to the country in behalf of
the smaller liberal arts colleges of
America which he said are “seed
best of leadership” and necessary
if cultural opportunities for youth
are to be maintained within a rea
sonable distance from their homes.
LIQUOR CARGO, ALIENS
FROM SINKING KESSEL
; LANDEDJ THE II. S.
NEW YORK, Nov. 20. (/P)—Cus
toms officials charge that the $1,
000,000 liner Arlyn, an American
vessel employed in the sugar car
rying trade, after taking on board
an alien crew and a liquor cargo
of a sinking vessel last February,
the aliens were permitted to escape
in the United States and the liquor
was landed at a profit of about
$250,000 to the captain, officers and
crew. ... G,/;«,/. •
Thirty-five members of the Ar
lyn’s crew were paid to keep silent,
it was said, but Somfe became dissat
isfied with their share of the pro
ceeds and wrote anonymously to
Immigration officials, informing
them of what had happened.
Authorities specifically charged
that the officers and crew of the
ship had conspired against the
United States government by vio
lating t h e Immigration public
health and prohibition laws.
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MISAPPROPRIATED $62,000
NEW YORK, Nov. 21. (/P)—Evelyn
Albus, former deputy county clerk
of Jefferson County, Kentucky, was
arrested here as a fugitive from
justice on a charge of taking in the
misappropriation of $62,000 of pub
lic funds.
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