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VOLUME XXVII. NUMBER 254.
SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1931.
PRICE TEN CENTS
JM WILL NOT
INTEIYEITIOI
SOUTH MANCHURIA SITUATION
SAID BE INCREASINGLY
THREATENING
TOKYO, Dec. 4. (ff) — Foreign1
Minister Shidehara declared that j
he had instructed Japan’s repre-1
sentative to the League Council at
Paris that Japan does not propose |
to “accept any third party inter- j
vention in the Chin Chow neutral j
zone in Manchuria and that is posi- j
itve.”
Shidehara said that Japan’s rep
resentative had been further in*
structed not to consider the sug
gestion by Alfred Sze that neutral
* observers participate in any Smo- j
Japanese negotiations over the zone !
limits policing.
“The Council appears to have
taken up the question without our |
knowledge,” Chidehara said.
The press represented the situa
tion in South Manchuria as in-1
ereasingly threatening. The Jap-;
anese withdrawal, it is said, is
.ooked upon as a sign of weakness.
Chinese troop movements are re
ported from Tahus Han and the j
Tung Liao Railway station.
MOTIVE WOMAN
f BECAME DESPERSTE
UNKNOWN CARDRIVER GAVE
WOMAN GUN, SPURRING
HER ON
SACRAMENTO, Dec. 4. (A3)—Des- j
• oerate and without funds, an at- ;
tractive woman who said that shel
was Mrs. Mary Penfield, 22 years
of age, of Washington, D. C., and
who said that she had been ordered
out of her room for non-payment
of rent, said that she had accepted
♦ a ride from an unknown man who
persuaded her to rob a service sta-1
tion.
She said that the man gave her
a gun and that she entered W. J.
Hassley’s service station and de
manded. When he refused she
fired and when she missed the sta
tion owner returned fire with a
rifle and wounded her.
The woman staggered into the
auto and the unknown man drove
her around for 45 minutes and then
dumped the wounded woman into
the street. She collapsed in the
doorway of Mrs. Hettie who sum
moned authorities.
The woman is near death in a
> hospital here as a result of the
wounds.
STOCK SHOW
CHICAGO, Dec. 4. (£>)—O. Thorne,
New York State stockman, won the
grand beef steer championship at
4 the stock show here. E. Lux, grain
farmer of Shelbyville, Ind., was de
clared “Corn King” of America.
PUBLIC DEBT MOUNTS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 4. (JP)
—The public debt of the United
States continues to mount skyward.
On November 30, it totaled $17,- j
310,000,954. The deficit for five:
months of this fiscal year reached j
$840,403,042.
MIL FROM INTERIOR
THINKS CHURGHMENNOT
8E BIT BIT FEW DATS
It may be several days before
Erothers George J. Feltes and Mar
tial O. Lapeyre, S. J., are finally
rescued from their isolated igloo
camp near Crater Mountain, where j
they were forced down Sunday, No- j
vember 22, while flying from Me- j
Grath to Holy Cross. An Anchor- j
age report said that the dog team
was expected back in Takotna yes
terday or today.
Much information is brought to
Seward by J. W. Stay ton, who flew
out with Harry Blunt from Ophir
to Anchorage, and arrived by train
last Tuesday.
According to Mr. Stayton, the
grounded fliers should be comfort
able and safe. Immediately after
locating Brothers Feltes and La
peyre, Blunt dropped a bag of gro
ceries and later made another trip
carrying blankets and other acces
sories to a comfortable camp. These
were dropped by the plane, which
was still partly covered by snow.
The region where the fliers came
down is one of the roughest in
that part of the Kuskokwim coun
try, according to Mr. Stayton, and
to reach it from Ophir, the nearest
point, would consume two cays un
der ordinary traveling with dog
team.
When he departed, Charles Har
land and Charles Gobel, the latter
mail carrier, with two dog teams;
were headed for the scene of the
landing. As this was on Sunday,
they are expected to reach the. fliers
by Tuesday or Wednesday, will
then possibly lay up one night to
rest the dogs and, if storms do not
interfere, arrive at Takotna by Sat
urday or Sunday.
It was through Mr. Stayton’s di
rections that the lost fliers, were
located. He observed the plane
passing over Ophir, where he plac
er mines, and noted its direction.
By following this, Blunt was able
to finally locate the plane near
Crater Mountain.
Mr. Stayton left for the Outside
for medical treatment after many
years spent in the Interior, much
of which was at Ophir and in the
adjoining placer fields. Speaking
of mining conditions, he said that
the known rich deposits were about
worked out, but that all those who
are working ground are making a
good living. It is the belief htat
once young prospectors enter the
region and prosecute further search
much rich ground may be discov
ered. As it is, there are no young
men in the country, and the older
miners are compelled to devote
their attention to that which they
have and are sure of rather than
seek other strikes.
I
GENERAL MAH MOVES
TO KCIPIlff CITY
CHINA LOST TO JAPAN
FIGHTING SAID TO HAVE BEEN
IN PROGGRESS IN NONNI
RIVER DISTRICT
PARIS, Dec. 4. (£>)—With a dead- j
lock between negotiations still hold- !
ing up the League’s latest move for :
peace in Manchuria, word came1
from Shanghai that General Mali
Chen Shan had launched an of
fensive to the southwest of Hailun
and was driving the Japanese back
all along the line.
The drive was characterized as a
counter-move by General Mah to
recapture Tsitsihar, from which his
forces were driven last month.
The League authorities have
been hearing for several days re
ports that the Chinese army was
being reorganized and the move
Wednesday occasioned little sur
prise among those watching the sit
uation.
The retreating Japanese are said
to have sent urgent calls to Jap
anese military headquarters for air
planes and artillery for use in stem
ming the Chinese offensive. Ad
vices from Mukden say tl^it fight
ing has been in progress at differ
ent points along the Nonni River
since Monday.
In spite of the standstill state
of negotiations looking to a cessa
tion of hostilities, authorities here
expressed hopes that agreement
might be reached in the next 48
hours. The question of establish
ing a neutral zone in Manchuria
still remains to be the chief stumb
ling block to progress in negotia
tions although they have not agreed
to every other point of the issue.
The Japanese have made a new
offer stating that if the Chinese
would evacuate the Chin Chow
area, the last remaining bit of Man
churian territory in Chinese hands,
and retire behind the great wall,
that they would solemnly guaran
tee that the zone remain intact,
presumably by sending troops into
it if necessary. The offer of the
Japanese was flatly refused by
Chinese delegates.
SALVADOR IS GOVERNED
BY MILITARY TRIBUNAL
SAN SALVADOR, Dec. 4. (/P)—A
military Junta governed the Re
public of Salvador following a
short-lived revolt which resulted
in sharp fighting and the flight
of President Arturo Araujo from the
country.
The military tribunal or junta
assumed complete control imme
diately after the fighting and pre
pared to obtain ratification of the
Salvador Congress until an election
is held. An election was anticipat
ed within the next 48 hours.
CHICAGO, Dec. 4. (£>)—'The Chi
cago, Rock Island and Pacific
Railway voted to omit its semi-an
nual dividends on both classes of
preferred stock due in a short time.
YOUTHS LOST NERVE
PATTERSON, N. J., Dec. 4. (/P)— |
Two youthful bandits, out to emu- j
late Jesse James, tried to hold up;
the Erie Railway passenger train, j
but lost their nerve and fled when i
the conductor slammed the door of j
the car in their faces.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 4. (/P)—
Augusta Ball Johnson, 25 years of
age, an attractive artist’s model,
was charged of assault with a dead
ly ■weapon on the basis of her con
fession to the police.
She said that she slashed the
throat of Robert Lockwood, prom
inent architectural artist, in his
studio.
Police said that she admitted
cutting the artist with a warmed
razor blade so that the “operation
would be less painful.” She said
that her actions resulted because
“he lied to me.”
Lockwood is recovering at a hos
pital and told authorities that he
attempted to commit suicide. When
confronted with the girl’s asserted
confession he said that he would
not prosecute her.
REFERENDUM FOR FINLAND
HELSINGFORS, Finland, Dec. 4.
(/?)—The cabinet has decided that
it will present a bill authorizing a
nation-wide referendum on Fin
land’s prohibition law. Repeal, mod- j
ification or retention of the pres-!
ent measure will be voted.
POINT BARROW, Dec. 4. (/P)— |
The schooner Baychimo, a Hudson i
Bay Company trader, locked in the I
Arctic ice, which disappeared in a
recent storm which smote the Arc
tic Coast, was located by an Eskimo
trapper Thursday.
The Baychimo was found 18
miles south of here and about 45
miles north of where it was caught
in the ice pack. When the ship
was blown away by the heavy storm
of several days ago it was given up
for lost.
The Eskimo trapper said that the
ship apparently was not damaged
and that it was surrounded by a
large field of rough ice.
Mariners believed it impossible
for the ship to survive through the
winter and will make an attempt
to bring ashore the furs and other
valuable cargo which is aboard the
ship yet. The ship is five miles
off shore. *
The airplane aboard the SS Vic
toria is thought to be the plane
which W. H. Barnhill, aviator, re
cently went to the States to pur
chase for Barnhill and McGee and
which plane will be based at Sew
ard. Pilot Barnhill is also aboard
the SS Victoria.
MAYOR WALKER WILL AVOID
SNUBBING BY NOT GOING
TO LOS ANGELES
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 4. (A5)—
While Governor James Rolph, Jr.,
has given on intention of his atti
tude, the belief is general that
Thomas J. Mooney, convicted for
participating in the 1916 San Fran
cisco Preparedness Day parade out'
rage, will be pardoned as a result
of the hearings at which executive
clemency was urged by Mayor
Walker of New York and others.
The Governor of California said
he would spend a month or more
studying the record and consider
ing the case.
Mayor Walxer, at the completion
of his talk with Governor Rolph,
said that he had decided not to go
to Los Angeles as he had originally
intended before returning to the
East. It is said that Mayor Walker
will thus avoid the snub which the
Mayor of Los Angeles, Mr. Porter,
had arranged to give him upon his
arrival.
By BAS EXPLOSION
BERKELEY, Calif, Dec. 4. {JP)—
One person was killed and 15 ser
iously injured and 40 others hurt
in a gas explosion which tore the
roof off the burning home of Nor
man L. Saunders, of the United
States Navy, late Thursday.
The fire was believed to be under
control when the flames reached
a leaky gas main and resulted in
the explosion which hurled burn
ing timbers high in the air over an
area covering about two blocks.
The explosion scattered the timbers
over the closely packed spectators.
Sherman Pepper, 16 years of age,
was the person killed.
Saunders was not at home at the
time the fire broke out but was
injured when he rushed into the
building on his return.
MISS PRINGLE SETTLES
WITH PANTA.BES, S9J01
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 4. (A1)—Miss
Eunice Pringle, who sued Alexan
der Pantages, millionaire theatre
magnate, for a million dollars on
criminal charges, has made a set
tlement out of court for $3,000, it
has been revealed.
Miss Pringle made a surprise ap
pearance in court and agreed on
the settlement and the suit was
dropped following the acquittal of
Friday, last week, of Pantages on
a criminal charge.