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MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
Armistice Ball
VOLUME XXVIII. NUMBER 278.
SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1932.
PRICE TEN CENTb
“DOWN WITH HOOVER” SHOUT
ED BY COMMUNIST MOB
AT DETROIT
DETROIT, Oct, 24. —An al
lowed Communist demonstra
tion staged at the Union street
station here Saturday delayed
the disembarkment of Presi
dent Hoover and his party
from tlie special train for 23
minutes.
As the Hoover special drew into
the station, a chorus of boos and
shouts creeled the arrival- Flags
bearing such signs as “He Engin
eered 15,000,000 Men Out of Work"
and ' Down With Hoover.” caused
the party to remain within the
private cars and pullmans.
The din was terrific as the
throng of thousands at the sta
tion shouted in derision.
It was the President’s first bap
tism of adverse fire. Scores of po
lice, mounted on motorcycles and
a toot, guarded the President from
the derisive throngs.
Down with Hoover, slayer of
veterans, one man wearing a
service cap shouted, and others
took up the swelling cry.
SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 24, —Sen
ator Hiram \V. Johnson, powerful
Progressive Republican, will active
ly campaign for Gov. Franklin D.
Roosevelt. Democratic candidate
for the presidency.
He will speak on behalf of Gov
ernor Roosevelt at a mass meeting
here next Friday night, it was an
nounced.
In bolting his party, the Senator
took with him powerful labor
leaders and the northern and cen
tral California lieutenants who
have aimed in making him a dom
inant figure in California politics
for 25 years
LOi; ANGELES, Oct. 24.—Olive
Clark Day awaited her sentence,
due next Monday, for a second
conviction on a morals charge
growing out of the Hollywood
girl mart of two years ago.
Testimony of Clarice Tauber, giv
en at the previous trial, was read
in court to secure the conviction.
Mrs. Day was accused of luring the
then Miss Tauber to the rooms of
Jonn P. Mills, San Diego and Los
Angeles business man. Mrs. Day
had won a new trial through an
appeal.
“NERTS”
REDONDO BEACH, Calif., Oct.
24. Elliott Thomas, young school
superintendent, made amends to
his wife Saturday and all is well
again with the possible exception
the chool board may permanently
suspend him. Thomas mysteriously
di-appeared last week. He was
tr -ced to Washington under the
name of E. T. Sherwood where he
bad taken out a marriage license
to wed a young school girl.
DOOIt IS OPEN
new YORK, Oct, 24, —'War vet
erans are satisfied Governor Roos
evelt. is a friend of the American
Legion and that he has not closed
the door upon the soldier’s bonus,
Henry Stevens .former national
commander said here. And under
these circumstances he suggested
veterans vote for Roosevelt.
CONTRIBUTED MOST
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 24, — As ;
j the woman who had contributed1
j most to womanhood and humanity
; in the year, Helen Keller, famous
worker for the blind, herself blind
! and deaf, received from Theodore
; von Sichursch, editor, the mag
| azine’s annual award of $50,000.
NEW YORK. Oct. 24. —The stock
market displayed a steadier tone
| at the cutset Saturday following
Friday’s reaction that brought the
list down one to five points. Trad
in0: continued dull.
Support was forthcoming for U.
. S. Steel and it rose one-quarter
'point to 351 i. The preferred, how
ever. declined a point to 73.
Bethlehem Steel declined three
quarters to 1G!4.
, Railroad shares were mixed but
were steadier than in the previous
session.
The weekly car loadings report
was expected to show a sharp in
crease over the previous week.
SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 24, —The
first group of “emigrants” going
from Japan to Manchukuo suppos
edly to engage in farming, paid
repects to the Emperor Majijis
spirit at Majiji shrine, Tokio.
Most of the men are army re
servists trained in warfare. The
Japanese attitude in Manchuria
will be explaned to United States
officials by Yasuke Matsuoka, who
: will visit here enroute to represent
| his country at the coming League
of Nations assembly at Geneva.
Matsuok was formerly vice pres
ident of the South Manchurian
Railway and long a resident of the
: disputed territory.
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Oct, 24, —
Highly pleased with the reception
of his Detroit Speech, President
Hoover and party returned to the
Capital Sunday afternoon at 2:15.
He is now preparing another
i speech for this week, possibly at
New York, and later, it is thought,
: he will invade Chicago and Indian
apolis, and possibly on to the Pa
cific Coast.
From Illinois, in years past al
ways strongly Republican, but
which has been exhibiting a lean
ing toward the Democratic nomi
nee, conditions are said to be slow
ly changing.
TOURISTS INCREASED
STOCKHOLM, Oct. 24, —A record
tourist season is reported from
I Visby, the city of ruins and roses,
! on the Swedish island of Cothland,
; in the Baltic. By the first of Aug
i ust about 4,000 more passengers
> l *iac* been carried by the regular
| boats from the mainland than at
I the same time last year.
NORWEGIAN STOPS GERMAN
i BERLIN, Oct. 24. —Otto von Por
at, Norwegian heavyweight, stop
ped Hans Mueller, German battler,
in the sixth round here.
AWAIT BIG GUNS
ASCUNSION, Paraguay, Oct, 24,
—Paraguayan troops have almost
completed their objective of en
circling Fort Arce in the disputed
Chaco territory, and are now wait
11 inS the arrival of artillery before
. opening a major offensive against
[ j the beleaguered Bolivians, semi
! official reports said.
I
SEA FOOD FLOWN
ST A PROFIT OVER THE
SHOES TO ARSENTI
SANTIAGO. Chile, Oct. 24, —Fish
; end other sea food are now being
. profitably flown over the Andes
: into Argentina by the Chilean Na
; tional line. Air line officials dis
covered the existence of such a i
market by accident.
Invited by officials of San Juan,
Argentina, to participate in the |
celebration of the anniversary of j
: the death of ex-Prcsident Sari-,
mento, the air line dispatched a-1
small shipment of fish and eels to |
the Argentine city as a gift. So j
great was the demand for the sea I
food that the air line immediately
sent a second plane with 1100
pouns of the eels aboard. The en
tire shipment was sold within an
hour, and orders for over a ton
more were received.
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TROUBLE EXPECTED
ROME, Oct. 24, —Broad amnes
ty involving both political and1
and common offenders is expected
by a royal decree November 5, at
the end of the celebration of the
10th anniversary of Fascism, well
informed quarters understood.
i
ABOARD PRESIDENTIAL SPE
CIAL. enroute to Detroit, Oct. 24, —
President Hoover told a crowd of
several thousand gathered around ;
his train at Columbus, Ohio, Sat
urday, that he would continue un-,
til business recovers to enforce the
restricted immigration policy es
tablished two years ago which he
said had saved 500.000 jobs for
American citizens.
The Presidential special arrived
in the “Buckeye” capital at 2:48.
TALENTED ACTRESS ILL
I HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 24, —Zazu
j Pitts, one of the few real talented i
acti esses of the film colony, is in
a critical condition, having been j
suddenly stricken with an acute i
intestinal obstruction.
j UMEA, Sweden, Oct. 24.—An in
tensive search for the indications
of deposits of gold, silver and cop
per was conducted last summer in
northern Sweden under auspices of
the government geographical sur
• vey.
j A personal inspection trip has
been made by Axel Gavelin, head
of the bureau, and he declares
there is material for several years
work.
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FIST NEW BIPL1NF
SECRETLY BUILT 8! II, 5,
VALLEY STREAM, L. I., Oct. 24.
J —A new biplane, built for the U. S.
navy, with a reported speed of
195 miles an hour, has been tested
J in secret at Curtis airport, it was
learned here.
The plane is a two-seater, with
open cockpit and equipped with a
radial engine. It will be taken to
Washington, D. C., soon for an of
ficial test by the navy.
NEW YORK OCTOBER 31
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct- 24, —
It was reported yesterday that the
j President will speak in New York,
in Madison Square Garden, Octo
1 ber 31.
FOOTBALL
California 7, Washington 6.
U. S. C. 13, Stanford 0.
Ore. State 6, Wash. 4.
Ntrn. 7, Purdue 7.
Syracuse 12, Penn State 6.
Columbus 46, Williams 0.
Va. State 7, Shaw 0.
Minnesota 21, Iowa 6.
Harvard 10, Dartmouth 7.
Penn 33, Lehigh 6.
Mich. State 19, Fcrdham 13.
Notre Dame 42, Carnegie T. 0.
Princeton 0, Navy 0.
Ore. 32, Idaho 0.
Wash. State 7, Ore. A. C. 6.
Chicago 13. Indiana 7.
Colgate 14, N. Y. U. 0.
Brown 11, Tuffts 0.
Vanderbilt 12, Georgia 6.
Ga. Tech 43, N. Carolina 14.
Michigan 32, Illinois 0.
Army 20, Yale 0.
Pittsburgh 0, Ohio State 0.
Wisconsin 39, Columbia 0.
Nebraska 20, Kansas 6.
MOSCOW, Oct. 24, —Soviet phy
i sifists have succeeded in splitting
I the atom, the second time this has
been accomplished by scientists, it
| was announced.
The Russians used the same
| techinque employed at Cambridge
University last April when the
atom was split for the first time.
The Soviet experiments confirmed
the finding at Cambridge.
INTENSE BOMBARDMENT
KHARKOV. Oct. 24, —The Khar
kov physiotechnical institute in
formed Joseph Stalin it had suc
ceeded in splitting the Lithium
atom by intense bombardment
with hydrogen ions.
TO RECEIVE MEDAY
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 24.—Dr.
Robert Millikan, noted scientist,
i left here for New York, where he
: al of the Roosevelt Memorial med
al ofthe Roosevelt Memorial Foun
dation. October 27.
OIL MAN DEPORTED
MEXICO CITY, Oct. 24.—The
Department of the Interior an
j nounced that S. E. Cox. Texas oil
man, had been placed aboard a
i train for Laredo, Texas, ford.epor
tation. Cox was expelled on a
charge of doing business here un
der a tourist passport.
I
LONOOS, TAKES COUNT
BOSTON, Oct. 24.—Jim Londos,
Greek adonis, who hammerlocked
and scissored himself into a mil
lion dollars and the world’s heavy
weight wrestling title, has taken
his first count, a body lift and
slam in the arena of love. That
modern prototype of ancient Ven
ice, Miss Europe of 1930, in private
life Miss Alice Diplogakou, who is
well known in Boston, administered
the sock. Only a few months ago
the engagement of Londos to the
world and confirmed by his cou
sin, James Chacriotes.
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TO RECEIVE MEDAL
j BOGOTA, Columbia, Oct. 24.—
General Francisco J. Diaz, former
head of the Chilean military mis
sion here, was named technical ad
visor to the Colombian army.
REVOLT COSTS §13,388,300.
i SAO PAULO, Brazil, Oct. 24.—
j Expenses of revolutionists in the
I unsuccessful three months rebel
| lion against the provisional govern
J ment of Brazil were estimated a1
I $13,388,300.
TERRIBLY MUTILATED
CASPER, Wyo., Oct. 24, — The
body of H. Perkins, a sailor, was
found Sunday under a viaduct half
submerged in the water. Terrible!
knife wounds were sufficient to
have killed him but in addition the
skull was hammered flat and five
bullet wounds, wore found.
TAINS
SHERIDAN, Wyo., Oct. 24, — I
Trapped b*r the vicious onslaught
of a fall blizzard, 53 hunters were j
still snowbound somewhere in the
rugged Tongue river country of
the Big Horn mountains.
; Since last Sunday afternoon
j when the blizzard broke they have
j been in the hills without shelter
| and some of them possibly without
< food.
i Weary forest rangers, tired
I guards and volunteers, their faces
' grey with exhaustion, and eyes
red from facing the glare of the
sun on snow, tramped hills into the
white wilderness, in an attempt to
rescue the hunters.
OFFICIAL RECOGNITION
j LONDON, Oct. 24, —Official con
i firmation of the recognition of the
j new Chilean government by Great
Britain, Canada and New Zealand,
I and Australia, was made Saturday
| by England.
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NEW YORK, Oct. 24, —Police
emergency squads laid seige lines
along the crowded banks of East
River Saturday while guards clash
ed with rioting prisoners in city
institutions on Welfare Island.
One convict, George Hoeshoe, was
stabbed and killed. The rioting be
| ?an when a group of convicts vis
| iting the warden’s office to present
: grievances started fighting among
| themselves, police said.
NEW YORK, October 24.—Dr.
! John F. Condon, the “Jafsie”
I of the Lindbergh kidnapping ne
! gotiations, who tossed $50,000 over
St. Raymons cemetery wall to “a
; mysterious Scandinavian named
; John,” in the belief that the money
would ransom baby Charles Augus
tus, Jr., has never abandoned the
hunt for the man who hoaxed him.
Every night there is a light in
< Dr. Condon’s study in his home,
2974 Decatur avenue, Bronx. For
hours he analyzes hundreds of let
ters that come to him, all promis
; ing a solution of the mystery.
PARIS, Oct. 24.—An army of up
I holsterers has invaded the presi
dential residence for the purpose of
restoring it to its pristine glory
once enjoyed by Madame de Pom
j padous and the Marquis de Hanig
) ny.
i The exterior restoration will in
clude the rejoining of stones and
bits of masonry, and a bit of plas
tic surgery on the historical stat
ues that adorn the Elysee palace.
ROYAL RECONCILIATION
VIENNA, Oct. 24.—Possibility of
. j a reconciliation between King Car
? j ol II. of Rumania and his brother,
.1 Prince Nicholas, was seen in re
. ports that the monarch had in
t' vited Nicholas to return to his na
tive land.
80 MATTER WHO
ELECTED PRESIDENT
COUNTRY SURVIVES
NEW YORK, Oct. 24.—Political
tactics intended to frighten voters
into believing election of either of
the leading presidential candi
dates would result in national dis
aster were condemned by a non
partisan group of 10 writers and
educators, according to Richard
Washburn Child.
Lothrop Stoddard, one of the 10,
presented their protest to the Re
publican and Democratic national
committees, declaring that “no
blow will be struck at the safety of
■ r national life, no matter which
cf leading candidates is elected.”
The move followed charges that
industrialists were attempting to
“frighten” employees with the
threat that plants would close down
and progress would be halted un
less the candidate favored by the
employer was elected.
KINGSVILLE, Oct. 24, —Three
prisoners were wounded in rioting
within Kingston penitentiary, ac
cording to an official statement and
explanation issued by Brig. Gen.
D. M. Ormond, government inspec
tor of prisons.
This was the first official word
any of the prisoners were involved
in two riots Monday and Thursday
nights and Friday morning had
been injured.
A complete checkup shows that
the penitentiary count is correct.
The damage is less than expected.
ST. PAUL, Oct. 24.—The farm
strike in the twin cities area grew
more tense following clashes be
tween pickets and truck drivers,
and threats by the authorities to
resort to gas bombs.
A group of a hundred men in
trucks raided picket lines at Day
tonsport, 25 miles northwest of
here, last night, captured 13 pick
ets and took them to Elk River,
where they were held until released
by the arrival of the sheriff.
MORE BATTLESHIPS
LONDON, Oct. 24.—Great Britain
is to start building battleships
again. Before next March con
tracts will be placed for 43 war
ships, the cost of which is estimat
ed at $100,000,000. This is due to
| the overlapping of naval pi’ograms
| since 1930, which involves placing
the contracts before March in
j stead of spreading them over two
1 years.
IMPORTANT VICTORY
CHICAGO. Oct. 24, — Barney
!ross, young Chicago lightweight
who fought his way up from the
preliminary ranks, won the most
important victory of his career
when he scored a 10-round decision
over Christopher “Bat” Battilino,
, of Hartford, Conn., former feath
erweight champion.
EIGHTEEN DIE
NATCHEZ, Miss., Oct. 24, —A bus,
. in which 17 negroes and one white
| were riding, plunged into the Miss
; issippi and all were drowned.
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NUDE BODY GIRL FOUND
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif., Oct.
24, —Apparently taken for a ride,
the body of a buxom, red-haired
girl was found alongside a road
near this city. The body was found
by a prospector.
HALLOWEEN PUBLIC DANCE OCTOBER 29