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VOLUME XVI. NUMBER 197. SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1931. PRICE TEN CENTS
LONDON, Aug. 25. (/P)—Ramsay
MacDonald, twice Socialist Prime
Minister of Great Briatin, took
up the reins of a non-partisan
government with the realization;
either he had committed political j
suicide or history would number,
him among the empire’s great j
statesmen.
In some circles, it is said, by go-,
mg into the wilderness with a j
handful of followers in an effort j
to set the nation’s financial house
in order, he incurred bitter ani
mosity immediately of the power- j
ful trades union congress, also J
probably the hostility of a con
siderable section of the Labor
party executives.
It is freely commented, what
ever else happens, he will never
again be the head of a Labor gov
ernment or even an outstanding
figure among Labor politicians.
By advocating a slash in the
dole, others hold that by sacrific
ing his political ambitions for
what he believed will be for the
ultimate good of the nation, he
has established himself in the
hearts of the people as the man
of the hour and that prosperity
will rank him with Gladstone and
Disraeli.
Ill
NEW YORK
NEW YORK, Aug. 25. (/P)—Scores
were arrested as a drive started
against crime by police in a
rcund-up of suspicious characters.
Twenty thousand crowded Mad
ison Square Garden in an anti
crime mass meeting; prohibition
and crooked politics were blamed
by speakers for gang outbreaks.
Police cars are being equipped
with radio and no vacations loom
for police this year. Hundreds of
clerical workers went on duty,
either in squad cars or on foot.
MAY HAVE TO EXPLAIN
AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 25. (/P) —
Representative Bailey Hardy of
Eheckinbridge said he has prepar
ed a resolution for introduction in
the House of Representatives call
ing upon Governor R. S. Sterling
to explain his authority and reason
for closing down the east Texas
oil fields by martial law.
FISTS ON HIS WIFE
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 25. (/P) —
Allegations that Louis (Bull) Mon
tana, professional wrestler and film
actor, assumed the role of a pugil
ist in his home won a divorce for
Mary Dois Montana.
Her husband did not appear. Mrs.
Montana said she left her husband
last July 24 because of great bodily
harm after they had been married
two years.
big forest fire
LAGRANDE, Ore. Aug. 25. (£>) —
Union County’s worst forest fire in
the last decade is raging uncontrol
led in 2,500 acres east of Union.
FUMES LEV (HOI
OF FIDE FIGHTERS;
BOISE, Idaho, Aug. 25. (/P)—
Hope of saving Grimes Pass and
Pioneerville from forest fires in
central Idaho waned as the flames
leaped ahead before a growing
wind.
Pioneerville reports said the sit
uation looked very bad. The wind
is blowing hard and fire fighters
are short of pumps, handicapping
the efforts of 600 men on a 40
mile front.
One hundred Idaho National
Guardsmen were ordered out by
Governor Ben Ross. Refugees
flocked to camps as the fire spread
and virtually all mines in the
Basin region, have been deserted
by workmen and their families.
OVER URGTIC ZONE
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SPITZBERGEN, Aug. 25. OP) —
i Winter’s advance guard closed in
on Spitzbergen and the archipel
ago and made the Sir Hubert Wil
kin’s submarine trip to the North
Pole extremely hazardous.
There was snow, shipped along
by a near gale, and when the wind
died fog settled down, but the
Nautilus sailed into the North de
spite engine trouble, and there was
no viay of knowing whether Sir Hu
bert intended to continue or not.
SEE BIG MERGER
NEW YORK, Aug. 25. OP) ~ The
third of a series of gigantic oil
mergers through a combination of
the Standard Oil Companies of N.
i J. and California, is forseen in W'all
Street as a result of negotiations
between officials.
COMMUNISTS WALK
i OUT ON THE KING
_
SOFIA, Bulgaria, Aug. 25. OP) —
I The 30 communist members of the
Bulgarian Chamber of Deputies,
| walked out of the Chamber after
interrupting King Boris as he
spoke from the rostrum inaugurat
ing a special session.
| “Down with the Fascist govern
; ment,” they shouted, the® arose
! together and left the hall.
CONSCRIPT LABOR
MOSCOW, Aug. 25. (JP) —Con
| scription of every able bodied pea
sant between the ages of 18 and
45 for six days of road building an
nually, was announced by the Sov
iet government.
“KID” KAPLAN WON
| HARTFORD, Conn., Aug. 25. OP)
—Louis “Kid” Kaplan of Hartford,
i former featherweight champion,
I decisioned over Sammy Mandell',
former lightweight king, in a one
sided fight. He won all 10 rounds.
QUESTION MRS. CHAPLIN
FOR DISAPPEARANCE
JAPANESE MILLIONAIRE
NEW YORK, Aug. 25. (£>) —Feder
a lauthorities questioned Mildred
Harris Chaplin, former wife of
Charles Chaplin, in connection with
the strange disappearance recently
of Hisshi Fujimura, wealthy Jap
anese importer of Norwalk, Conn.
' Mrs. Chaplin was hostess at a
dinner party aboard the Red Star
liner “Belgenland” the night be
fore the Japanese millionaire van
ished.
Miss Mary Reisner, former show
girl, and governess of Fujimara’s
seven-year old daughter was quot
ed as saying that her employer
feared a “strange man” on board
the ship.
CONCRETE SUGGESTIONS
BEFORE HOOVER BETTER
U. S. CRIME PROBLEMS
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 25.
(£>)—President Hoover had before
him more than 60 concrete sug
igestions for a simultaneous attack
1 from all sides upon the nation’s
| crime problem, each bearing the
^seal of the Wickersham commis
sion which represented the half
million dallar, two-year effort of
•that body to build up legal machin
!ery to compete with modern crim
; inality.
( At least 12 recommendations re
quire legislative action and one
'possible constitutional amendment.
With work on a bookshelf, Presi
dent Hoover already is evolving a
plan for strengthening Federal
law enforcement activity.
PROHIBITION'S Mil
COST STEERING
WASHINGTON, Aug. 25. (3>) —
A red ink entry of more than $1,000,
000,000 was recorded by the Wick
ersham Commission as but a frag
mentary figure for the annual cost
of crime to the American people.
Declining even to guess at the
total toll levied by criminality the
Commission nevertheless b r o ke
down its fgures to show a yearly
contributing item of more than $34,
000,000 chargeable directly to fed
eral prohibition enforcement.
REACH HUDSON BAY
DETROIT, Aug. 25. (J-P) —Radio
messages to the (Trans-American
Air Lines Corporation here from its
Copenhagen bound flyers, Edwin L.
Preston and Robert E. Colligone, re
ported their safe arrival at Port
Hansen, Hudson Bay.
NATIONAL
Chicago 8-1, New York 4-2.
All others rained out.
AMERICAN
Philadelphia 5, St. Louis 1.
Washington 5, Detroit 6.
New York 8, Chicago 5.
Boston 7, Cleveland 11.
DENIES HE RESIGNED
NEW YORK, Aug. 25. (#*)—Paul
Claudel, French ambassador to the
United States sailed for France,
denying that he had resigned.
NEW DEAL SCHEDULE
ESSENTIAL FOB RELIEF
BASEL, Switzerland, Aug. 25. (^P)
—After startling the world with a
declaration advocating the Revision
of Reparations and War Debts the
Wiggin Committee of internation
al bankers awaited expectantly to
see what the United States and the
other great powers are going to do
about it.
Backed by the prestige of the 10
strongest banking groups in the
world, the Wiggin investigators in a
report made public declared that
tobring full and immediate relief
to Germany and other gravely dis
tressed nations it would be essen
tial to make a new deal in the
schedules of international pay
ments.
MAJOR ITEMS BEFORE
GONGRESSIONAL BATTLES
WASHINGTON, Aug. 25. (IP) —
Unemployment, politics and the ap
proaching League of Nation’s Arms
Conference are slated to play ma
jor roles in the Congresional battles
this winter over the question of
whether the United States shall
adopt a naval construction program
starting this country on the way
towards a navy up to the tonnage
treaty.
13 DEATHS REPORTED
LONDON, Aug. 25. (IP) — At
least 13 deaths are reported as a
result of storms which have spread
havoc around the English coast. In
the bungalow town of Winchilsea
Beach, Sussex, dozen* of houses
have been submerged by waves
which swept over the sea defenses
into the low lying mainland.
forecast, me ON
RESTORATION OF BEER
WASHINGTON, Aug. 25. (IP) —
Hearing by the House Judiciary
committee on proposals for the Re
storation of Beer, followed by a
vote on the issue in both the Senate
and the House by anti-prohibition
ists in Congress.
The prediction was made as the
drive for liberalization of the Vol
stead Act gained momentum.
TO BE IN MANEUVERS
SAN DIEGO, Aug. 25. (IP) —Am
erica’s new dreadnaught of the
skies, the rigid dirigible “Akron,”
christened recently by Mrs. Hoover,
probably will come to San Diego
early in January for maneuvers
with the United States fleet off the
Southern California coast and
Hawaii.
iATIONAL CAMPAIGN
MS FOR JOBLESS
IS HOOVER OBJECTIVE
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 25.
(/P)—A national campaign for local
funds was announced as the im
mediate objective of President
Hoover’s newly organized unem
ployment relief organization, Wal
ter S. Gifford, director, said.
There are no plans for raising
money at present, but the drive
for funds will be discussed at a
conference beginning tomorrow
with welfare and charitable organ
izations.
Meanwhile, plans for winter re
lief is progressing in other sec
tions, notably in New York and
Mississippi States. At Memphis, a
meeting was called. Governor
Murray of Oklahoma has formed
a permanent organization and
elected Representative Reid of Il
linois, Republican, chairman. Mur
ray suggested Federal and State
employes be required to give five
to 15 per cent of their salaries
for relief purposes and advised the
meeting would not embarrass Hoo
ver by demanding a special ses
sion of Congress.
LEFT HUGE ESTATE
2*EW YORK, Aug. 25. (A1)—Jacob
H. Schiff, financier who died in
1920, left an estate of $34,385,516,
it was disclosed here.
WILL OF WATER ON
BATHING BEACH GAUGHT
11 IN UNDERTOW
ATLANTIC CITY, Aug. 25. (JP) —
A wall of water broke over the
beach without warning catching
150 persons in its undertow and
left them strugling helplessly in a
foamy sea. One of them drowned,
two were mising, and four were in
jured seriously.
The waves which witnesses said
were eight to 10 feet high routed
an estimated 15,000 persons who
were lolling on the congested beach
between the Central and Steeple
Chase piers. The beach was sud
denly thrown into confusion and
from the water came countless cries
of “Help.”
OFFERS MILLION DOLLARS
DETROIT, Aug. 25. (A5)—Senator
James Couzens offered $1,000,000 for
the relief of unemployed in Detroit
during the coming winter.
HAVANA, Aug. 25. (^—Detention
of four leading figures in the
Cuban feminist movement and
bombing of a representative’s
home, marked Cuba’s waning rev
olution.
Those arrested were Mrs. Pilar
Jorge de Telie, Miss Perez Reyes,
Miss Ana Quintana and Miss Leon
ora Fereira. Police are searching
for four more prominent Cuban
women.
Two bombs were thrown at the
residence of Doctor Felipe Gon
zalez; one caused damage.