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MONDAY, AUGUST 24, 1931. SEWARD, ALASKA, VOLUME XVI.. NUMBER 196.
PRICE TEN CENTS
MBNILO CHET
RESIGNS IN FICE OE
FINANCIAL CRISIS
LONDON, Aug. 24. (JP) —MacDon
ald’s government resigned in the
face of a national financial crisis.
MacDonald was asked by the
King to form a temporary nation
al non-party government whose
first duty will be to balance the
budget. It will include conservat
ives and liberals.
Baldwin, of the liberals, who has
taken over the management of that
party during the illness of Lloyd
George, agreed in the presence of
the King, to participate in the cab
inet in which Baldwin will serve un
der MacDonald.
The new cabinet also has a war
on its hands; its campaign will be
to restore Britain’s threatened cre
dit and world and international
finance.
MacDonald, it is understood, was
subjected to strong pressure to
have him head the new party.
LONDON, Aug. 24. (JP)—Royal
.memories are good. Fifty years
ago, when a midshipman, King
George, laid the cornerstone of
St. Thomas’ church in Sydney,
Australia.
Now in the church’s jubilee year,
he has sent a message of congrat
ulation to the parish.
MUG FICTUHE
HANKOW, Aug. 24. (JP)— An ap
palling picture of human misery
and death confronted the Amer
ican Asiatic fleet as it mobilized
Saturday to lend all possible as
sistance to the flood-stricken cit
ies of Hankow, Wuchang and
Hanyang, submerged by the swol
len Yangtze River.
Acting on orders from the Navy
Department- at Washington, the
various units of the fleet, some al
ready here, prepared to give what
a:d they could to the hundreds of
thousands of homeless natives.
JURY STILL OUT
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 24. (^P)_
Held in a deadlock, the jury of
seven women and five men in the
murder trial of David H. Clark,
former deputy prosecutor, passed
the 16th hour of deliberation Sat
urday at noon without having ar
rived at a verdict. *
FLEET MOBILIZED
SHANGHAI, Aug. 24. (/P)—The
United States Asiatic fleet mob
ilized all its potentially useful
units for emergency work in the
great flood-stricken area along
the Yangtze River. Hankow is
mostly under water, but only a
few of the foreign residents have
fled.
Pilot Alec Holden of the Pacinc
International Airways, Inc., accom
panied by Mrs. Holden, made a
brief business flight to Seward Sat
urday from the Anchorage base.
WILL RE-TRY CASE
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 24. (JP) —
The Clark jury was dismissed Sun
day after bringing in a verdict of
11 for acquittal and one for convic
tion.
Film WEEK-END FOB
THE BRITISH EMPIRE
LONDON, Aug. 24. (/P)—Great
Britain Saturday began one of the
most fateful week-ends of her his
tory, probably the most critical
since the end of the war.
; Upon developments Sunday, or
j immediately after, the lofe of the
MacDonald Labor government
j seemed to depend and also the
future of efforts to lead the Unit
led Kingdom from a growing econ
iomic crisis into the greener fields
;of prosperity.
VACATION CUT SHORT
• LONDON, Aug. 24. (/P> — King
George is returning to London to
be present at a conference on the
budget. He has been at Balmoral
Castle.
ROYAL PATIENT
| LONDON, Aug. 24. (/P) — King
I George visited the nursing home
where his third son, the Duke of
i Gloucester, underwent an opera
tion for appendicitis. The royal
patient’s condition was reported
as satisfactory.
FISH OUTBREAKS IN
i
HAVANA, Aug. 24. (Jp> — Fresh
oubreaks in the eastern province
of Cuba caused the government to
hurry additional troops into the
Oriente in the belief that the re
bels, concentrated at a number of
strategetic points might attempt a
surprise maneuver.
Three insurgents were killed and
a number wounded and taken pri
soners when a rebel group was sur
prised; arms, ammuntion and
other war materals were seized.
GUERILLA WARFARE
CONTINUING NEAR
TOWN OF GIBARA
HAVANA, Aug. 24. (&)—The cur
jtain of censorship over eastern
Cuba lifted a bit and showed con
I tinued guerilla warfare in the
mountains about Gibara, where
! Federal troops drove the rebels
and the foreign legion expedition
ary reinforcements from the town
Wednesday after hard fighting.
Twenty or twenty-five insurgents
who took position in the Gibara
j railroad tunnel, held up govern
ment troops for many hours ac
cording to reports reaching here
and the insurrectionists have been
able to reunite outside the town.
Skirmishing was going on be
tween rebel bands and Fedreal de
tachments along the short moun
tain range near Gibara.
Louise Beaudreau and Helen Lar
son, two charming Anchorage young
ladies who arrived Friday at Law
ing, visited local friends Sunday.
BRITISH CRBINET
RESIGNS BECAUSE OF
BUDGET CDNTRDHERSET
LONDON, Aug. 24. (/P)—Shortly
after midnight Sunday morning,
the Central News, a British news
association, announced that it
understood that the government
of Prime Minister Ramsay Mac
Donald had decided to resign.
The news was first flashed to
the nation that the resignation
had been handed to King George.
Leaders of the Liberal and Con
servative parties have been un
able to agree with the Labor gov
ernment on the financing of the
budget in the face of the $600,
000,000 deficit.
CITIZENS INDIGNANT
NEW GANG OUTBREAK
; NEW YORK, Aug. 24. (/P) —An
i other gangster outbreak caused
leaders of indignant citizens to in
tensfy plans to clamp the lid on
crime in the Williamsburg section
of Brooklyn Sunday night.
Five gunmen lined three men
against a lumber yard fence and
! then peppered them with bullets;
; one dropped dead, the other two
; being critically wounded. The gun
| men escaped.
Antogny Ferrari, 25 years of age,
! and a paroled convict, k i 1 led
1 Angelo Curianni, 23 years old, and
Murray Leonardi, aged 21, and
wounded another Curianni.
The wounded Curianni saiu he
! and his companions were taken for
I a ride from a dance hall by five
| men. He wouldn’t give the motive.
INTERNAL AFFIIHS OF
INGIA HAS BflITISH
STATESMEN IN AIR
BOMBAY, Aug. 24. (/P)— Secretary
for India Wedgewood Benn was
understood to have instructed
Viceroy Willingdon to return to
his summer palace at Simla and to
leave nothing undone to arrive at
an understanding with Mahatma
Gandhi.
The Viceroy forthwith canceled
his scheduled tour of India, it was
learned, with drew lengthy coun
tercharges against the National
ists and is convening a speciall
sitting of the Viveregal Council
in Simla to see if the way can be
cleared to enable Gandhi to attend
the second round-table conference.
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II.S. TENNIS STMI
BESTS ENGLISH CHIMP
FOREST HILLS, N. Y., Aug. 24.
(JP)—Helen Wills Moody defeated
Phyllis Mudford of England and
opposes Mrs. Eileen Bennett of
Whittingstall, England, who de
feated Betty Nuthall, British cham
pion for the national tennis cham
pionship.
Mrs. Whittingstall. in another
upset, previously beat Helen Ja
cobs.
WORLD CHAMPION
FOREST HILLS, Aug. 24. (ff) —
Mrs. Helen Wills Moody won the
world’s championship here Sunday
takng two straight sets.
LINDBERGH SPYING
TOKYO, Aug. 24. (IP) —High of
ficials apparently will not take ser
iously the report of suspicions of
certain authorities who had been
aroused by the landings or the
Lindberghs on the waters of al
leged prohibited zones in the Kur
ile Islands.
The Rengo.news agency said Jap
anese authorities contended that
the famous aviators had flown over
the prohibited areas and descend
ed twice on lakes where a landing
was prohibited.
FRAULEIN LANDS
MOSCOW, Aug. 24. (IP)—Fraulein
Marga von Etzdorf, German flyer,
landed at Irktusk, Siberia, today
on her solo flight from Berlin to
Tokyo.
NOW ON U. S. SOIL
MIAMI, Fla., Aug. 24. (IP)—The
German seaplane DO-X reached
U. S. soil today and landed here
from South America.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 24. (JP) —
Reports of police discrimination
against foreigners of third degree
and “jail torture” methods were
pushed by the Wickersham com
mission which attacked what they
termed the popular belief of aliens
are mainly responsible for the na
tion’s more than $2,000,000,000 an
nual toll of criminality.
All 11 members of the commis
sion signed the statement that they
are able to definitely say that any
such impression as to foreign born
is at variance, with the actual
I facts.
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SUPPLY DEPOTS ON
ILEOTMN US FOR
GERMAN WORLD HOP
KETCHIKAN, Aug. 24. (£>)—'The
Kanaga Trading Company power
boat Aleutian Native arrived, car
rying 100 drums of gasoline for
Wolfgang von Gronau. The gas
will be left at Kanaga, Kiska and
Attu in the Aleutians.
The ship also left a sack con
taining 300 Paris eagle claws for
shipment to Juneau to collect the
Territorial bounty.
Von Gronau was last reported
flying on the west coast of Green
land. He plans a flight across the
Arctic to America then to New
York via Alaska.
GOVERNMENT PROTESTS
MADRID, Aug. 24. P)—Spain’s
Republican government verbally,
but formally protested to Pope
Pius, through the Papal Nuncio at
Madrid against the “grave deoga
tory eforts” of Cardinal Primate
Pedro Segura y Saenz.
UNCOUNTED THUS
BODIES UNBURIED IN
CHINK FEOOD MENS
SHANGHAI, Aug. 24. (£»)—'With
uncounted thousands of bodies
unburied in the flood districts
around Hankow and other sections
of Hunan and Hupeh provinces,
added deaths at the rate of more
than 1,000 a day are following in
the wake of the worst flood in the
history of China.
The Yangtze river rose 56 feet
and six inches above normal, in
undaitng the territory around
Hankow for miles in every direc
tion.
The United States Navy has
mobilized all available vessels to
aid residents of the stricken dis
tricts. - 1S
GERMAN H UNO
! PASSENGER ON FIRST UP
| BERLIN, Aug. 24. (#) —Willy
(Rody and Christian Johanssen,
i German airmen, together with a
'passenger, hopped off from Tem
Iplehof airdrome Sunday morning
| for Lisbon on a flight which may
i carry them across the Atlantic
to the United States.
They were flying a 300-horse
power plane formerly owned by
Charles E. Levine, American avia
tion enthusiast. It is similar to
that in which the late Baron von
Huenefeld and his oompanions
crossed the Atlantic several years
ago.
iNEMURO IS HOST
TO THE LINDBERGHS
NEMURO, Aug. 24. (/P> — The
Lindberghs landed here at 7:51
a. m., today, 5:51 p. m., Eastern
Standard Time, after a flight of
50 miles from Kunashiri Island,
completing the flight started Wed
nesday at Petropavlovsk, Siberia.
Motor trouble and fog caused
them to make several landings in
the Kuriles.
| They landed on Lake Kunashiri
Sunday night when fog prevented
them coming down in Nemuro Bay.
A. A. P. A. HEAD IN ENGLAND
SOUTHAMPTON, Eng. Aug. 24.
(A3)—Henry H. Curran, president
of the Association Against the Pro
hibition Amendment, arrived here
from the United States with the
prediction that total prohibition
In the United States will be ended
within two years.
ABOUT TIME
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 24.
(A*)—President Hoover and Walter
S. Gifford, president of the Amer
ican Telephone & Telegraph Com
pany, left Saturday for a series
of week-end conferences on the
unemployment situation.
ALASKA PACKER OFFICIAL
B. R. Hart, vice president of
the Alaska Packers Association,
was among today’s prominent ar
rivals from the Westward ehroute
to his San Francisco office. Mr.
Hart arrived from Kodiak on the
SS Admiral Evans and is a guest
at the Van Gilder Hotel. He goes
South next Friday.