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VOLUME XXVIII. NUMBER 283.
SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1932.
PRICE TEN CENTS
PRESIDENT IN A FIGHTING
MOOD IN INDIANAPOLIS
SPEECH
INDIANAPOLIS. IND., Oct. 28.—
President Hoover assailed Gover
nor Franklin D. Roosevelt Friday
for his “implied declaration that ‘it
is the function of the party in pow
er to control the Supreme Court.’ ”
Hoover, in a fighting mood, ad
dressed 22.000 at the Butler Uni
versity stadium. He referred to
the “misstatements’’ and “violation
of the truth," which lie charged
marked the Democratic fight wag
ed by Roosevelt.
Hoover’s challenge to Roosevelt
to clarify his declaration on the
Unitted States Supreme Court came
as a climax to a series of charges
against the New York Governor.
He referred to Roosevelt’s Balti
more speech in which the Demo
cratic candidate said: “After
March 4, 1919, the Republican nar
ty was in complete control of all
branches of the government, exe
cutive. Senate and house, and I
may add for good measure the Su
preme Court.”
The President caustically said
this gave him grave concern for
opponent in that statement. He
implies that it is the function of
the “state of mind revealed by my
the party in power to control the
Supreme Court"
Hoover described the “funda
mental issue in this campaign,”
which he said would “fix the na
tional direction for 100 years to
come”, as the decision is “wheth
er wc shall go on in fidelity to the
American traditions or whether
we shall turn to innovations, the
spirit of which is disclosed by many
sinister revelations and veiled pro
mises.”
He asked Roosevelt to explain
himself on more tariff questions.
“Does he include reduction of the
tariff on cotton textiles, so largely
manufactured in the South but a
part of these in agricultural tar
THE U SEISM
Outgoing passengers on the SS.
Yukon, sailing at 9 o’clock last
evening for Seattle and way-ports,
were: —
To SEATTLE—Mrs. Frank Bas
shan, Mrs. J. M- Solelanels, Mike
Gilles, S. R Weiss, H. A. Blyth, G.
P. Covvhlin, O. Ross, Mr. and Mrs.
W. F. Duffy, Mrs. E. K. Swanson,
John HolmgrlT, Goltolf Osterberg,
Mrs. Pauline Payne, S. McConaghy,
Glen R- Day, Mrs. R. Rodigkeit,
Oscar Challman, Mr. and Mrs. M.
V. Lallen, Harry J. Leik, Mr. and
Mrs. John Hershey. Jas. P. Smith.
Mrs. C. E. Orlander, T. H. Fline.
Frank Struby, Sam Johnson, F. W
Carr. H. deYoung, John O’Shea
Chester Brenner, Guy Crum, M. F
Goon. Joe Gresse.
To JUNEAU—Frank P. Ulrich
J. Berry, B. F. Heintzleman, Dan
Lee. E. H. Clifford, J. S. Jeffery, G.
L. Myers, Ed Nimona, Neil Arnott,
W. W. Johnston, D. J. Butler, E
Michealson.
To CORDOVA—John Todd, Wal
ter P. Nelson, Harry Wuornor, N.
Andreason, M. O. Kreiger, Aggie
Mack, Tom Z. Hart, Geo. Roop, D
D. Cokinos.
To KETCHIKAN—A. V. Kelly.
Sister Emily was among the ar
rivals Thui’sday on the SS. Yukon
from the Providence Hospital at
Seattle, enroute to the Fairbanks
Catholic institution.
BOMB CONTRACT
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct., 29—The
Chamber of Commerce received
word that She WilLams Wallace
Co., the only San Francisco bidder,
has been awarded a government
contract for 60,000 practice naval
bombs.
LONDON, Eng., Oct. 29. —Eng
land's “hunger marchers” who de
monstrated their dissatisfaction
with the dole regulations Thursday,
w ent on sightseeing tours here Fri
day while their leaders prepared
to urge their demand in the House
of Commons. Several of the con
1 tingents started their long march
| es homeward. Sir John Gilmour,
Secretary for Home Affairs, ap
peared in the Commons to recount
the results of the rioting. He said
19 policemen and 98 demonstrators
were injured, two of the policemen
seriously. Only five persons were
arrested.
! PARIS, Oct., 29,—New economic
conditions demand a change in
French tariffs since the quota sys
tem is paralyzing commerce, Min
ister of Commerce Jules Durand
told the Federation of French In
dustrialists and business men Fri
; day.
France therefor intends, Durand
declared, to denounce many exist
ing tariff treaties as soon as possi
ble, offering reciprocal advantages
in framing new agreements.
CUSTER, S. D., Oct. 29, —Elmer
Manion, who lives two miles north
of Hill City, S. D., on Marshal
Gulch, is exhibiting a gold nugget
he haci picked up on his ranch
' just alter a heavy rain. The nug
get was found by weight to be
! worth $9.20.
The Manion ranch, where this
nugget was found, is located a half
: mile below the old Bengal Tiger
mine. The pay streak in the Ben
gal Tiger was about three inches
thick and contained more gold
than rock.
ONE OR THE OTHER
Pilot Charles Ruttan, of the Star
Air Transportation, at Anchorage,
zoomed over from his Inlet base
i Friday with a passenger who de
sired to board the SS. Yukon for
Seattle. Ruttan planned to hop
! off on the return flight today,
j weather permitting, in order to
! take in the great annual Fireman’s
j Ball tonight. However, should
weather conditions ground him, he
says he still will have the oppor
tunity to take in a special dance
event, that being the Hallowe’en
dance which bursts forth in full
blast tonight in Seward in the I
O. O. F. Hall. Ruttan, being the
champ tennis player at Anchorage
i and all points West, should be a
neat dancer, girls; Yep! He’s sin
gle.
AN OPEN WINTER
Down in California they fore
! cast weather by pigeon feathers.
| Here in the North Sourdoughs take
! one look at a rabbit and if his fur
j is grey, which it is now, an open
winter is an absolute fact; so there
| you are.
[ President Hoover will be heard
Sunday night over a nation-wide
hookup speaking from Madison
i Square Garden, New York.
ROME, Oct. 29.—Italy’s celebra
tion of the 10th year of Fascism
reached a stirring carnivalistic
climax Friday with the re-enact
ment of the black shirt march on
Rome.
Members of the Fascist militia
from parts of Italy, many of them
war cripples, came for the great
procession behind Premier Benito
Mussolini. He rode a great bay
charger and wore a resplendent
uniform, including a black fez with i
white aigrette feather, gold epau
let? and copious decorations.
A fleet of military planes criss- j
crossed above the city as the pro- j
cession moved down the new “Way
of Empire,” described as the finest
stretch of roadway in Europe.
Hundreds of thousands watched :
the spectacle. Dozens of women j
fainted- Mussolini spoke briefly. 1
Friday was a legal holiday thruout i
Italy, marking the beginning of the '
year of the Fascist era
TRAIN WRECK KILLS NINETY
BERLIN, Oct. 29.—Ninety persons
were killed and upwards of 300 in
jured in a trainwreck near Mos
cow according to a wire received
here Friday.
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SUES BATTLE FOR
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TRENTON, N. J.. Oct. 29—Two
hungry snakes fought a battle to
the death here Friday. A five
foot king snake won by burying its
fangs into a rattlesnake’s neck and
coiling itself about the rattler’s
body.
The fight was booked as a
means of helping the educational
activities of the State Museum.
Moving pictures were made of the
battle and will be shown in the
museum.
WRONG PILLS
WATSONVILLE, Calif., Oct., 29,—
Swallowing a dozen small pellets
which she believed contained a
harmless medicine, Lola Burke, 25
years old, wras near death and the
Chinese doctor who gave her the
herb died from taking the same
substance.
GREAT PROFIT REPORT
LOS ANGELES. Oct., 29, —The
Southern California Edison Co., re
ported a net profit of $14,150,384
after all charges and taxes for the
12 months ending September 13
had been paid.
20 PERCENT BERTHED
LONDON, Oct., 29,—The annual
report of Lloyd’s Register on Ship
ping reverjed that the economic
depression has laid up 15,200,000
tons or equivalent of 20 percent of
the world’s total shipping. This
compares with 10,500,000 tons in
1931 and 5,000,000 tons in 1930.
AN UNUSUAL CASE
| OAK PARK, 111., Oct., 29,—The
: tiny daughter of Mrs. Pauline Fitz
j harris, born half a minute after
the mother’s death by means of a
caesarian operation, was reported
by hospital attendants to be “do
ing well”.
AMNESTY PROMISED
VATICAN CITY, Oct., 29,—Prem
ier Mussolini’s promise of amnesty
was welcomed in Vatican circles
where any measures tending to
ward pacification of Italians at
home and abroad is particularly
acceptable, it was learned.
ROUND FOR VIRGINIA
SOUTHAMPTON, Eng., Oct., 29,— | :
Lady Astor sailed aboard the Le- '
viathan Friday to visit her sister in (
Virginia. She will take no part in
the presidential election, she said. I
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HIT AND RUN KILLER
SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct., 29,—Chas.
Brown, a caretaker, was struck and
killed by a hit and run driver who
escaped without detection.
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DEMO LEADERS CONFER
ALBANY, Oct,, 29,—Former AI- ;
fred E. Smith talked over campaign !]
plans with Gov. Franklin D. Roose- :
velt Friday night, it was announc- 1
ed at the executive mansion- !
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TRADING SUSPENDED 1
NEW YORK, Oct:, 29, —Trading !
in common stock cf the Morrison j ^
Electrical Supply Co. Inc., was sus- j5
pended until further notice by the i J
committee of listing of the New
York Curb Exchange. (
CHARGED UNEMPLOYED '
BRISTOL, Eng., Oct., 29,—Police 1
charged a mob of unemployed de
monstrators Friday after the public ]
committee had refused to inter
view a delegation of jobless. Sever
al were injured.
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BIGGEST IN THE WORLD ! i
ST. NAZAIRE, France, Oct,, 29,— 1
The largest liner in the world “The !
Normandie” of the French Line
will be launched here today. The j
Normandie will not be placed in I
trans-Atlantic service for another
year.
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ROYAL ENGAGEMENT LOOMS
LONDON, Oct. 28.—Talk of an
engagement between Prince George :
of England and Princess Ingrid of »
Sweden was revived Thursday 1
when the princess arrived from ]
Brussells. Prince George was with
his brother, the Prince of Wales, j I
during his recent visit to Sweden, j
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CHANGES IN POLICY
PARIS, Oct. 28.—Drastic changes !
in the French commercial policy,
involving elimination of the system j
which has reduced America’s mark
et, have been decided upon by Pre
mier Herriot and his cabinet, it
was learned Thursday. Several na
tions, including the United States, '
have protested against the quota.
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OPENS NEW STATION
MILAN, Italy, Oct., 29,—Premier
Benito Mussolini inaugurated the
most powerful radio' station in1
Italy by pressing a button in the
Perfectures’ office. Later he visit
ed the Amroasiana Library and
had a private conversation with
Cardinal Arch Bishop Schuster.
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HIRE GERMAN OFFICER
LA PAZ, Bolivia, Oct., 29,—The 1
Cabinet decided to invite General
Hans Kundt, retired German army
officer who spent 11 years building
up the Bolivian army, to return
and take command of forces fight
ing in the Gran Chaco. Bolivian
forces, according to reports, have
been suffering heavy losses in
fighting with Paraguay recently.
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BRINGING PRESSURE
BUCHAREST, Roumania, Oct. 29,
—An influential group of parlia
ment members will bring pressure
on the government to grant Prin
cess Helene custody of her son,
I Crown Prince Michael, the press j
| contends the boy prince should be |
was informed Friday. The group i
with his mother during the years
of his education.
OPERATE NEXT YEAR
Charles Jansen, superintendent
of the Seward cold storage plant of
the San Juan Fishing & Packing
Co., has been employed in the Seat
tle plant of the concern since he
left Seward last winter. Reports
from Seattle are to the effect that
the local plant will operate a full
plant next year. 1
TOWARD HOOVER
CLEVELAND, Oct., 29,—Political
:entiment in Ohio has swung to- i
vard President Hoover in the past
nonth, a checkup poll conducted
>y Scripps-I-Ioward newspapers in
Iicated.
TAKES HIS TURN 10
WALLOP REPUBLICANS
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INDIANAPOLIS. Oct., 29, —The t
Republican party offers no hope <
or a change in liquor laws where- T
is the Democrats give positive as
;urance of repeal, Governor Albert j
L Ritchie of Maryland, told a Do- ,
nocratic rally here Friday night
He spoke in Cadal Tabernacle j
mmediately following an address (
>y President Hoover in Butler Field ;
louse, five miles away.
Ritchie criticized the “campaign ]
>f fear” which he said Republicans }
vere conducting, and told his audi- ,
mce that a “Democratic adminis- <
ration for the next four years” was \
;he country’s salvation from cur
•ent economic conditions.
EDITOR ACQUITTED
NEW YORK, Oct. 29,—Domenico
rrombeta, editor of an Italian lan
guage newspaper, was acquitted
rriday of charges of murdering
Jalvatore Arena on July 4.
NEW YORK, Oct., 29, —Profes
;ional divers plan to “prospect” to
lay on the bottom of East river 1
or almost $50,000 in gold bars be
ieved tossed there by bandits who
thought that the gold was brass. (
Six men and two women were ar
•aigned Friday on charges in con
lection with the holdup in which
;he gold was stolen at a refining
Dlant in Brooklyn.
TO QUIT SERVICE
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct., 29.—The
Western Pacific Railroad asked the j
:nter-State Commerce Commission j
’or authority to abandon operation |
>f its passenger ferry service across {
3an Francisco Bay between San
Francisco and a point near Oak- '
and.
MKEY IS RESPONSIBLE |i
FOB CillFORIi STRIKE1
COYOTE WELLS, Calif., Oct. 28, *
—An accident to a donkey has end- j
3d the depression for Juan Mar
fengo, a prospector.
The donkey slipped from the j
trail in Gunsight Pass in the range j
west of here and rolled down the
hill. A large piece of quartz also
rolled down the hill. The quartz as
sayed gold at $39.48 to the ton.
Weather permitting D. E. Valade,
1931 golf champ, will defend his
title tomorrow beginning at 10:30
a. m-, club officials announced. 1
Valade will take on the “Four
Horsemen”, A. D. Balderston, Dr. j
A. D. Haverstock, H. S. Balderston
and E. F. Jessen.
HOSPITAL NOTES
Mrs. D. E. Clough from McGrath,;
entered the Seward General Hos
pital to be under the doctor’s care.!
Dr A. D. Haverstock is performing j
an operation on the patient today, j
Patients discharged this week
from the Hospital included Mrs
S. Lind and baby, Sam Johnson
and J. P. Smith, the latter two hav
ing departed for Seattle on the SS.
Yukon Friday night.
George Marchand departed for
he North on this morning’s train.
PARIS, Oct. 29.—The Chamber of
deputies Friday night voted confi
lence in Premier Edouard Herriot
tfter he had expounded the gov
•rnment’s policy on disarmament,
rhe vote was 430 to 200. Herriot
aid France will demand dissolu
ion of the federal army in Ger
nany before she will put into effect
he reduction in lengths of con
cript service which would mate
ially lessen the army’s srength.
Herriot scored his decisive vic
ory after the Chamber had begun
i bitter debate on foreign policy,
n which the Premier and Henry
i’ranklin-Bouillon, left wing leader,
dashed. The French disarma
nent plan was approved by the
uperior council of war. It must
lave the Cabinet’s approval before
>eing presented to a disarmament
:onference, it is learned. It con
;ists of an ensemble of five pacts.
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41 STSTESJffiT Pill
NEW YORK, Oct., 29,—Governor
•’ranklin D. Roosevelt held his
hree to one lead over President
I cover in the semi-final returns of
he Literary Digest poll, announced
Friday.
Roosevelt received 1,648,238 votes
igainst Hoover’s 1,095,274. Norman
rhomas. socialist candidate, re
vived 141,993.
President Hoover continued to
:arry the entire group of New Eng
and States and New Jersey. Roose
velt continued to carry all the oth
ir 41 States.
KISS MEN OF
KALISPELL, Mont., Oct. 28, —
Claude A. Welles, who once man
iged Chicago’s largest buildins and
vas treasurer of Marshall Field &
Company, is now settled in his
small bungalow at Libby where he
ras made plans to operate a large
scale placer mine in the Libby
Dreek district.
“I have always wanted to hunt
:or gold,” he told a reporter, ‘‘and
[ have always wanted to live in
shese clean mountains and breathe
:he fresh, invigorating air. I made
ny plans carefully, severing all
hty connections before taking up
ny work in the mining venture.”
With his associate, W. H. Mann,
former general manager of Mar
shall Field & Company, he will de
velop 3.000 acres of land on Libby
and Howard creeks, using $100,000
worth of modern mining machin
ery, including gas or steam shovels,
large pipelines and other heavy
equipment.
W. H. Mann, who is president of
the company, will also come to
Libby to make his home.
FORD IS SUED
PROVIDENCE, R. I., Oct., 29,—
Henry Ford is named in a $100,000
suit filed here by Herbert K. Allard
of Cranston, who said this amount
is due him in commissions for pur
chasing the site of Ford’s Wayside
Inn at Sundbury, Mass., and ad
jacent land.
Tomorrow night, Sunday, begin
ning at 10 o’clock, Attorney Gener
al John Rustgard will make a radio
address from Station KFQD, Anch
orage.
Big Halloween Dance Tonight I. 0. 0. F. Hall