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VOLUME XV. NUMBER 55G.
SEWARD, ALASKA FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1930.
PRICE TEN CENTS
KING FROST PAYS SOCIAL
CALL ON CITY OF LOS
ANGELES
DENVER, Nov., 21, (/P)— Altho
winter has given way to man
made machinery, communication
is still hampered across the
Western plains and mountains.
Snow, which has piled high
in the Rocky Mountain States
and on the coast, is giving way
before plows and trains are gett
ing back to their schedules.
Mail planes are again flying
* as the sun cleared their lanes.
Press reports have been ham
pered on account of the long de
layed repairing oj broken wires
# and other mechanical troubles
by communication companies.
Snow, sleet and ice covered
South Dakota, Wisconsin, North
ern Michigan and Minnecota
under winter garments with the
probability that the cold and
snow would reach Chicago and
the State of Illinois soon.
Pacific Coast States are cloudy
and Sacramento and Los An
geles experienced a frost yester
day. The Puget Sound country is
cloudy but mild weather prevails.
(Editor’s note'—an din Alaska,
folks are wearing B V D’s.)
Bringing a few passengers and
275 tons of freight for Seward and
Interior points, the SS .Yokon of
i the Alaska Steamship Company
was due to arrive in this port at
four o’clock this afternoon, ac
cording to word received at the
company offices. So far as known
at this writing she will leave at
|he regular sailing hour, 11 o’
clock Saturday morning.
Of the freight she carries, only
37 tons are for Seward delivery.
The balance, consisting mostly of
foodstuffs is for distribution along
the entire rail belt- One item is an
v auto truck for Anchorage.
SILVERSMITHS MAKE
HEELS FOR SLIPPERS
PARIS, Nov. 21. (JP)—A pair of
black velvet evening slippers by a
leading shoe designer here has
handmade heels of silver made
by a jeweler and set with rhine
stones.
The heels are hollow, of lace
like pattern and have a heel base
a dime would cover, shaped like a
clover.
TIMES HAVE CHANGED
It is said that the word lady or
iginally meant “kneader of bread”
or “mistress of the loaf'.” It now
means “needer of automobiles”
and her husband has no time for
loafing. . h
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MILLIONS ‘DISSIPATED’
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, Nov.,
20, (.T)—Nearly $5,000,000 in cash
and securities was “dissipated”
by a closed bank of Tennessee
between September 25 and No
vember 7, Attorney General L. D.
Smith announced after an ex
amination of the account’s.
RESTRICTED HKL1BUT
FISHING PN DP
III FISHERIES CONFAB
SEATTLE, Nov., 21, (^—Hali
but fishermen protested at the
proposed fishing treaty between
the United States and Canada,
at yesterday’s meeting, opposing
in particular the attempt to
lengthen the present closed sea
son or restrict the catch.
Henry O’Malley, U. S. Com
missioner of Fisheries, said the
halibut situation is in bad shape
and that some steps must be
taken to improve the situation
immediately.
Dr. Will Thompson, director of
the committee, was appointed a
member of the International
Fisheries Commission. He sug
gested a restricted catch. Fisher
men said this would be impossi
ble.
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LONDON, Nov., 21. i.Pl— Shoes!
made from fish skins are a |
prominent feature at the shoe
and leather fair just held in Lon- j
don.
; Samples of shark, salmon, cod j
| and kippered herring attracted j
i much attention.
The colors are pink, green, lav- !
endar, black, brown and orange, i
! At a distance the fish skins look j
: 1 i k e lovely woven crepe d e ;
j chine but it feels like sandpaper. I
SIOT WONDERS IS
TIFF HIOH ENOUGH
WASHINGTON, Nov., 21, </P)—
Senator Reed Smoot whose name
it attached to the new tariff
act so widely condemned and
defended in the recent political
campaings, said the question now
is whether it is high enough
or whether it is too high.
In a statement after conferr
ing with President Hoover, the
veteran finance committee chair
man held that the tariff to be
an aid to business recovery.
He said wage levels were being
maintained in all major indus
tries as a result of agreements
brought about by the President.
THUNDEROUS TOUGH!
LONDON, Nov., 20, <JP)—Stanley
Baldwin, conservative party lead
er, made a speech in favor of
higher tariff rates but was care
ful to warn against the hope
for immediate prosperity. “It is
'going to be a thunderous hard
'job for this country during the
next 10 years,” he said.
FATHER TIME BECKONED
NEW YORK, Nov. 20, (IP)—
John Lee Mahin, pioneer in the |
advertising business in the U. j
S., died after a six weeks illness.
FILES FOR DIVORCE
PARIS, Nov. 19. (JP)—Marcelle
Jeffers- ' Cohn, French actress,
filed suit for divorce againt Jeff
erson Davis Cohn, millionaire race
horse owner
'a AX RATE GIVEN
NEW YORK, Nov. 20. (/P)— The
tax rate for 1931 will be $2.69
^ each hundred dollars assesed
value according to report of the
Comptroller Chas. Berry. Rate
is higher than in 1931.
PILSUDSKI FAVORED
WARSAW, Nov. 20. (JP) — With
Polish election returns not all
in the political opponents of Mar
shall Pilsudski are conceding him
a clear majority. Pilsudski is seek
ing to legalize dictatorship thru
the control of the legislature.
OLD TIMER GOES
Thomas Cashen, 60, w-ho came
North with the Klondike rush and
has lived in every notable camp
in Alaska died recently in Juneau,
after a lingering illness at the St.
Ann’s hospital, says the Juneau
Empire,
KILLED IN I* 'LL
Alexander Canrr* . ’2, a miner
of Juneau for a m be of years,
was killed in a fail ■ mi r d -ok at
the lower end of 1 t re i~ .
week, according to if J. eau Em
pire. He survived 1 ■ a widow, a
daughter and a br flier.
RUSSIAN DIRIGIBLE
MOSCOW, Nov- 20. (JP>.-Follow
ing a visit of the Zeppelin to
Moscow the newspaper ‘Pravda,’
official organ of the communist
party, has started subscriptions to
a fund with which to build a Rus
sian dirigible.
SOME TIGER HUNTER
KARACHI, India, Nov. 20. (/P) —
The maharajah of Bikaner has ac
quired a 36-foot launch equipped
with searchlights from which to
shoot tigers driven to the river
banks of his country by beaters.
BRITISH AMERICAN LEGION
LONDON, Nov. 20. (/P)—Similar
to the American Legion former
service men of the Royal Air Force
ar forming a group which will have
chapters throughout the British
Isles and an imperial eagle poised
on a globe at its crest.
EXTENDS INVITATION
LONDON, Nov., 20, (IP)—-The
MacDonald government announc
ed that it has invited represent
atives of the Jewish agency to
confer on the British Palestine
policy as outlined in the recent
White Paper
Seven buildings costing $2,500,
000 are being added at Califor
nia Institute of Technology
where enrollment is limited to
160 a year.
MEMBER SUSPENDED
LONDON, Nov. 20. (/P) — After
attacking Lady Astor’s position on
the educational bill and passing
the line in debate with a conserva
tive member, Leftwinger McGovern
was suspended by a vote of 305
to 40. He left the House of Com
mons at once.
'IT' GIRL GETTING
PLENTY OF PUBLICITY
BUT WRONG KINO
LOS ANGELES, Nov., 21, (/Pi
Daisy Devoe, discharged former
secretary to red-headed Clara
Bow, filmy actress, filed suit in
the superior court against the
movie actress, her cowboy actor
Rex Bell, District Attorney Buron
Fitts and three of his investiga
tors, for recovery of jewelry and
other articles valued at $22,000.
Miss Devoe charged that the
district attorney wrongfully held
her property at the request of
Miss Bow and with seizing the
same without proper process of
law.
PUTS ONE IIUJP.
EXTRS PER SHE
LEAD, S. D. Nov. 20. (/Pi— The
Homestake Mining Company de
■ area an extra dividend of $1 on
very share of its stock in October
5vi edition to the regular dividend
f 5ft cents a share each month,
ccorclmg to a wire story from New
"rork City. Fifty-cent dividends
are p id each month to the stock
holders and an extra $1 dividend in
January each year. In the face of
die present industrial depression,
the Horn stake Mining Company is
one of the few concerns in the
United States prosperous enough
to share surplus profits with its
stockholders. Homestake stock held
its ground in the slump of
last fall.
injured mam
UNGERS ON SRINK
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov., 21, (/P)
—E. Anderson, the municipal
railway motorman, continued to
hover near death from injuries
sustained last week in a street
car collision.
Dr. Edmond Butler explored
the muscles of Anderson’s left
leg and said a second blood
transfusion appeared necessary.
His other leg has already been
amputated.
LAW STILL PREVAILS
HAVANA, Nov., 20, </P)—Three
men were arrested and one other
evaded arrest for participating
in an attack upon a captain of
calvary and eight rural guards
on duty in Havana where martial
law still prevails.
From a single oat seed W. H.
Jones, Salmon Creek, Wash., far
mer raised 3,348 kernels of oats.
mm from
ESST PLANNED BIS
WEST CAMPAIGN
KIDNAPPING RACKETEERS ON
COAST BROKEN UP BY
ARRESTS
LOS ANGELES, Nov., 21, (A*)—
With the arrest of 12 men and a
woman, police claimed that they
had broken up a kidnapping
gang which had planned to hold
wealthy Californians for ran
som.
Those arrested were Albert
Kempe, Harold Stanberry, Sam
Strong, Margaret Bryce, How
ard Smith, George Scott, Ben
Nicholas, Ernest Stocker, George
Wilson, Tony Long, Jack McNeil,
Hay Sealock and Paul Cook.
A quantity of narcotics were
taken in their hideout. The men
were said to be ruled by a New
York and Chicago gang and
most of them were from the
East.
The prisoners were said to have
been in an organized plot to kid
nap Harry Chandler, publisher of
the Los Angeles Times. He noti
fied the police when he recieved
a certain letter and police guard
ed him from that time.
KING WINTER LAYS
King Winter’s attack on the
southern division of the Alaska
Rail road is on and he’s laid his
first barrage six weeks earlier this
year than last, according to George
Colwell, road master of this divi
sion who came in on the rotary
Thursday night at 11:40, on the
first trip of the rotary this season.
There was 6 feet of snow at
Grandview, three feet at Divide,
and two and one-half at Tunnel.
The rotary bucked snow for 62
miles. Twenty-two inches fell in
Moose Pass in one storm. Practi
cally the accumulation of snow
is the v/ork of the past week, or
from two to three feet in Wed
nesday’s storm
Last year, Mr. Colwell said, the
steam shovel was able to work up
to Dec. 31.
Mike Deegan was engineer of the
rotary with Pilot McKenzie and
Firemen Beebe. Enginemen Lock
head and Gallagher drove the two
pushers. Conductor Williams is
In charge.
The rotary was followed by a
freight bringing a passenger coach
and a number of passengers. Un
less there is news of a heavy fall
out along the line before tonight’s
passenger, the rotary will stay
over here tonight and leave ahead
of the passenger in the morning.
CHANGES HIS MIND
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Nov., 21, (A5)
—C. C. Crabbe, father of Ohio’s
dry law and former attorney
general of the state, announced
that he favored modification of
the Crabbe act to permit the
sale of light wines and beer.