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SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1931.
VOLUME XVI. NUMBER 198.
PRICE TEN CENTS
FORMER PREMIER OF
JAPAN IS SERIOUSLY
WOUNDED BY YOUTH
TOKYO. Aug. 26. (JP)—Yuko Ha
maguchi, 61, former premier who
won the appellation “Warrior for
Peace,” by espousal of the London
naval treaty despite the opposition
cf influential groups of extreme
patriots, died after ratification of
the treaty.
He was shot and seriously
wounded by Tomeo • Sagoya, 23,
who is described as having been
patriotically misguided and men
tally deranged.
Hamaguchi headed the premier
ship in 1929.
CIVIL SERVICE FOR
BREWERS. BARMAIDS
LONDON, Aug. 25. (/P) —Local
brewers, or state owned pubs are
suggested as two recommendations
that will be made by the Royal
Commission investigating England’s
liquor problem.
One section of the report will
recommend that pubs and brew
eries should be taken over by the
State, and that all brewers, bar
men and barmaids become civil
service employes.
rgentiTsee solution
DISAPPEARANCE NEAR
NEW YORK, Aug. 25. (/P)—A so
lution of the mysterious disap
pearance of Hishashi Fujimura,
millionaire Japanese importer, from
the liner Belgenland seemed near
er wThen Federal agents were in
formed a row had occurred in his
cabin before he vanished a week
ago.
The government officials board
ed the Red Star ship when it ar- ,
rived from a showboat cruise to!
Halifax and held all on board
briefly while they sorted out 10
employees for questioning.
GANDHI PROPOSES LIFT
BANS INDIAN ‘PARIAHS'
BOMBAY, Aug. 26. (vP)—Mahat- j
no Gandhi’s hold upon the millions
of India is greatly strengthened
by his stand for the elimination
of caste distinctions.
Dedicating a Hindu temple re
cently, Gandhi, the son of a high I.
caste Hindu family, pleaded for;
the opening of the temple to the
70,000,000 “untouchables,” saying
that sins committed against this,
caste were responsible for India's;
failure to obtaijj self-government, j
He declared:
Tt is the memory of these sins
which has led me to include the!;
removal of untouchability as a
plank in the nationalist platform.;
God recognizes no difference be-;
tween the high caste Brahmin and
the sweeper.” I
A little overflow on the rail
road, at Mile 6, was reported Tues
day and the section crew was sent
out to do what they could.
AUTHOR IS CALLED
NEW YORK, Aug. 26. (/P)—Simon
and Schuster, publishers, received
a cable from Nice, France, saying
that Frank Harris, 75, noted au
thor, had died. The cable was
from Mrs. Nellie Harris and merely
said Harris had died in his sleep.
DUCK HUNTING SEASON
CUT TO OHE MONTH
WASHINGTON, D. C.. Aug 26.
|</P)—Hunting season on ducks
iwhose numbers have been seriously
depleted by the drought, has been
shortened to one month by Presi
dent Hoover in a proclamation
which also applies to geese, brant
and coots through the United
States and Alaska.
The Alaska season will be from
September 1 to September 31.
TllLIIN 'PUPPIES'
SHOW NEAT GROWTH
ROME. Aug. 25. OP) — There now
| have been 17 bomb explosions in
i various parts of Italy since May 31.
! The continuance of these out
i rages is naturally causing anxiety
to the authorities, even though, in
several cases, the nature of the
bombs and the hours at which they
have been timed to explode suggest
that the persons had sought to
make demonstrations rather than
to cause loss of life.
FLOTATION MINING
Flotation has had an important
effect in raising the grade of lead
products to be smelted and in el
iminating and transforming of the
troublesome impurities such as zinc
into profitable byproducts.
IJOOin AGREE TO
WASHINGTON, p. C„ Aug. 25.
'^—President Hoover announced i
that 55 of the 60 men and women !
he asked to serve as advisers to ]
Walter S. Gifford, in handling un- j
employment relief, had agreed to j
do so.
Of the remaining eight the Pres
ident said two had declined on
account of illness and six others
were on holidays and could not
be reached.
CHALLENGES AMERICA
NEW YORK. Aug. 25. (/p)__Lord
Heaverbrock, British newspaper
publisher, sounded a challenge to
America to lead the world out of
the depression. He characterized
the League of Nations as a “branch
of the French Foreign Office.”
GOVERNOR RECEIVES OFFER
OKLAHOMA CITY, Aug. 25. (JP)
-Governor W. H. Murray received
bis first specific offer of $1.00 per
oarrel for crude oil in a joint pro
posal by the Cushing Refining &
Gasoline Company.
KIDNAP YOUTHFUL BROKER .
NEW YORK, Aug. 25. (fi>) _ a
youthful broker, whose parents re- j
gently purchased a seat on the New <
Fork Curb Exchange for him has '
oeen kidnapped and is held for 1
£100,000 ransom, it was reported to 1
the police. i
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THUNDEROUS CHEERS
AND “BANZAI" GREET
COL AND MRS. EINDT
' KASUMIGAURA, Japan, Aug.
26. (/P)—The Lindberghs landed at
the naval base here at 2:09 p. m.,
9:09 p. m. Pacific Standard Time,
(completing the 613-mile flight
[from Nemuro in six hours and 12
j minutes.
The fliers landed amid thun
jderous cheers and shouted “banzai.”
Gliding to a graceful landing at
the base of the lagoon, they taxied
to a prearranged point near a
pier.
Five hours and 48 minutes after
leaving Nemuro they reported four
times enroute and each time ex
citement was heightened at the
naval base, the last time over the
'city of Mito, a few miles away;
| a few minutes later they landed
land after brief ceremonies at the
'naval station, were taken to To
ikyo, 50 miles away.
WILD SCRAMBLE BY
JAPANESE OF TOKYO
IN GREETING LINDYS
TOKYO, Aug. 26. (d3)—Men, wo
men and children fought in a wild
scramble to get a glimpse of the
Lindberghs. The famous couple
entered Tokyo by train after land
ing at Kasumigaura, 50 miles
away, at the Ueno station and en
countered probably the most denes
crowd in their experiences.
Several times the crowd became
unmanagable and for a time it
looked as though their auto would
be overrun.
They were praised for their
flight across the Pacific and hailed
as messengers of peace. Lindy
stressed his appreciation of the
hospitality extended.
GREAT WELCOME FOR
FAMOUS U. S. COUPEE
TOKYO, Aug. 26. (#)—Japan’s
capital prepared last night to give
the Lindberghs the most demon
strative welcome ever extended to
visiting aviators. They were ex
pected here at 4:30 p. m., 11:30
p. m., Pacific Standard Time.
Hopes were expressed that the
fliers would meet no difficulty on
the remaining 613 miles from Ne
muro, completing their 7,132-mile
flight.
Heavy forces of police were sta
tioned at the Ueno railway station
to restrain crowds from the ex
pected welcome to the fliers after
their 90-minute railroad ride from
Kasumigaura where another dem
onstration was being aranged.
Hundreds of other police were
stationed along the streets enroute
to the house of Dr. R. b. Teusler,
director of St. Luke’s hospital!
vho will be the Lindberghs’ host.
Ambassador W. C. Forbes will
jreet the fliers at the airport and
iscort them on the trip through
rokyo streets where shops are
deing with each other to make
-he greatest display of Lindbergh’s
ohotographs.
FIRE DEMON TOLL
BOISE, Idaho, Aug. 26. (JP)—'The
fire demon is sweeping relentless
ly through the forests of central
Idaho and added to the toll of
destruction, the lives of two fire
fighters, a valuable gold mine and
a dozen of homes.
LIMITED DECREE
PUBLISHED ID SPUN
MADRID, Aug. 25. (/P) —The gov
ernment published its long-await
ed decree prohibiting the sale,
transfer or other disposal of church
property throughout Spain.
The decree was proposed shortly
after the burning of convents in
May, as p^rt of the government’s
plan to conserve national art ob
jects and property, but afiled to
materialize until this week.
TO TIKE IHTICE
BRUSSELS, Aug. 25. (/P) —Arch
duke Otto of Hungary, who still is
His Majesty, the Emperor, to his re
tainers at Steenockerzeel Castle,
has left Belgium for an unannounc
ed destination, but those who re
mained behind denied he intended j
to take advantage of the change in J
government of Hungary to regain j
the throne.
WHAT BORES PEOPLE?
i CANTERBURY, Eng., Aug. 26. (JP) >
j —At least Bernard Shaw doesn’t'
! go out of his way to bore people.
! Asked for a message for Canter- j
| bury Cathedral’s commemoration j
jweek program, Shaw telegraphed:!
‘‘Messages bore people. Eschew |
them.”
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ME COST
TD D. 5, IS
i
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 25.
(/P)—The Wickersham Commission
places the annual cost of crime
in this country at more than a
thousand millions dollars.
Its latest report reaches no
lump sum estimate but contains
a series of staggering statistics,
which even in their conceded in
completeness, shows a tremendous
toll taken yearly by criminality.
FOUL PLAY FEARED
SAN DIEGO, Aug. 25. (A*)—Mrs.
Helena Anderson, 50 years of age,
wealthy society woman of London,
England, who has been missing my
steriously from her luxurious Cor
onado Apartments since last Wed- i
nesday, is feared by authorities to
have met with foul play.
PRACTICING LEAPS
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 25. (JP) —
Hubert Hinkel, Jr., 26 years of age,
is making practice leaps with a
parachute from an airplane here 1
preparatory to broadcasting his
sensations while falling; on a coast ;
to coast radio hookup.
Steve Melchoir, local boat build- <
er, has started construction of an- *
other skiff.
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EMERGENCY CABINET
OF ENGIAND MEETS
TO BALANCE BOOKS
LONDON, Aug. 26. (IP)—MacDon
ald’s non-partisan emergency cab
inet convened for its first session
to formulate a drastic economy
program designed to balance the
nation’s budget and reestablish
world confidence in British credit.
MacDonald’s second Labor gov
ernment passed into history earlier
in the presence of the King.
His first non-partisan ministry
formally launched its mission of
balancing the nation’s books.
FINANCIAL MARKETS
SETTEE LISTLESSLY
NSW YORK, Aug. 26. (/P)—The
financial markets settled gradually
in a listless week-end session.
The selling flury in stocks which
appeared late Friday, appeared to
have spent itself, but there was a
faint trickle which carried a few
shares off a point or two, a few
rails penetrating new minimum
levels for the bear market.
The bond market was fairly
steady but here, too, a few mors
carrier obligations rank to new
lows.
COAST FISHERMAN BEATS
SALMON FLY CASIO
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 26. (IP)—
J. P. Cuenin, Pacific coast sports
man, bettered his own world’s
record for salmon fly casting in
local competition with an average
of 159 >2 feet. He made the mark
of 154^2 feet in a national tourn
ament last fall.
Cuenin’s longest cast of the day
was 165 fe'et which broke the old
record of 162 feet set 16 years
ago.
He competed in eight casting
events, winning first of six of
them, to establish his present
claim.
ARE COMMENDED FOR
TASKS OF MERCY
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 26.
(P)—Six Signal Corps radio operat
ors in Alaska, U. S. Army, were
commended by the War Department
for tasks of mercy during the
scarlet fever and influenza epi
demic at Kanakanak where II
persons died.
The Department of Education
ixpressed its appreciation for their
aelp in a communication to the
War Department which read:
‘These soldiers voluntarily ren
dered invaluable aid in caring for
the sick and burying the dead as
veil as other tasks of mercy.”
They were Sergeant Evald Han
son of Brighton, Colo., Sergeant
2. D. Oakley of Superior, Wis.,
Corporal H. L. Rust of Seattle;
Corporal Leroy Slumberger of Cor
lova, and Privates Arno Malsbary
ind Robert Scearce, both of Seat
-le.