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VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 146.
SEWARD, ALASKA. WEDNESDAY, NOV., 13, 1929.
PRICE TEN CENTS
IS FOR ADEQUATE DEFENSE IN
CASE OF INVASION OF
FOREIGN SOLDIERS
WASHINGTON, Nov., 13, (/P)—
President Hoover apprised the
world last night that the reduc
tion of naval armament could
not be too low to suit the United
States and “We will reduce our
naval strength in proportion to
any other” he asserted in his
Armistice Day address.
“Having said that it only re
mains for others to say how low
they will go. It cannot be too low
for us.”
As another contribution to ul
timate peace of the world he
proposed that food ships should
be made free of any interference
in times of war. “The time has
come when we should remove
starvation of women and chil
dren from the weapons of war
t fare,” adding that he has put
forward the proposition of treat
ing food ships as hospital craft
as a practical step in the solu
tion of a large part of the age
old controversy of freedom of the
seas.
“It would act as a preventive
and I offer it only for the con
sideration of the world. I have
not made it a governmental prop
osition to any nation and do not
do so now.”
{ The President spoke in the
Cit: Auditorium under the aspices
of the American Legion to an
audience made up largely of men
who had fought in the Great
War. He said the greatest guar
antee of peace was to “Build up
a spirit of good will and friendli
ness to create respect and con
fidence and to stimulate the es
teem between peoples in that
the atmosphere of all controver
sy might become but a passing
incident of the day.”
On preparedness the Presiden
said: “I am for adequate pre
paredness as a guarantee tha
no foreign soldier shall ever ste]
upon the soil of our country
that no American will arise toda;
and say we wish one gun o
one armed man beyond that nec
essary for the defense of ou
people.’’
ARCTIC FUR TRADER
ID DAUGHTER DA
IF SEWARD, ADI
SEATTLE, Nov., 13, (&)—'Trav
eling by airplane, railroad an<
steamer, Olaf Swenson, Arcti
fur trader, is making the tri
from North Cape, Siberia to Seat
tie, Ralph Lomen, of the Lome]
Reindeer Corporation, was ad
vised Tuesday that he will fl
^ to Fairbanks via Nome, then b
rail to Sewrard and by steame
the rest of the wTay to Seattle.
His daughter Marion accom
panies him.
Their ship, the Nanuk, has bee
froen in for the winter.
NOBEL PRIZE WINNER
STOCKHOLM, Nov., 13, (ZP)—
Thomas Mann, widely known j
German novelist, whose best
known work is “Magic Mount- |
ain” has been awarded this
year’s Nobel prize for literature. '
; ENORMOUS PROPERTY DAM
AGE AS GALE LASHES
COASTLINE
LONDON, Nov., 13, (ZP)—Eight
persons were killed through ac
cidents and drownings and many
injured; enormous property dam
age was also inflicted by a gale
which lashed the British Isles.
The wind blew at a speed vary
ing from 50 to 70 miles an hour
!with occasional gists reaching
90 miles.
A channel steamer reported
terrific buffeting by the waves
which often smothered them
and sometimes over-topped the
funnels. Passengers suffered sev
i erely from anxiety and sickness.
Conditions grew better with
th coming dawn: then the sun
shone brilliantly upon scenes of
wreckage in various places.
BIG ROAD PROGRAM
i ATLANTA. Ga„ N-^v., 13, (ZP)—
Georgia will begin an $8,000,000
road building program in December.
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KILLED FARMER DURING RAID
SHOT WITHOUT PROVO
CATION
CHANDLAR, Okla., Nov., 13, (/P)
—Jeff Harris, deputized federal
liquor raider, was sentenced to
50 years in the state peniritentiary
by the district court for the mur
der of Oscar Lowery, a farmer,
during a raid on the latter's
farm.
Harris was convicted tWo weeks
ago. In a bitter statement he said
he never could forgive the wit
nesses who testified he shot Low
ery without provocation and said
he hoped the witnesses someday
would find themselves in his
predicament.
Harris was also charged with
the murder of James Harris, a
brother-in-law of Lowery's.
ROYAL HAS-BEENS
SIGMARINGEN, Prussia* Nov., 13,
f/P>—Fredrich Victor, a 38-year-old
prince of a side line of the Hohen
zollern family, was the cause of a
recent order by the Prussian gov
ernment forbidding public officials
to address royal has-beens as
“Highneess” even in conversaation.
He demanded the title and had
been receiving it in private until
the government intervened.
HIGHWAY ENDORSED
SAN ANTONIO, Nov., 13, (/P)—
The Convention of the Western
Association of the State Highway
officials endorsed the proposed
plans of the International Paci
fic Highway from Alaska through
Nogales to Buenos Aiijps.
STOLE MILLIONS:
PLAYEO MARKET
LARGEST LOSS OF KIND EVER
SUFFERED BY AN AMER
ICAN BANK
! FLINT, Mich., Nov., 13, (/Pi
Employes and junior executives
j of the Union Industrial Bank em
| bezzled $3,592,000 from the bank
| for speculations on the stock
i market and audit of the institu
tion revealed.
Higher officials of the bank
have turned over large sums from
! their personal funds to guaran
tee the depositors from loss.
The insurance carried by the
bank is expected to cut the net
loss to $2,000,000.
i The speculations are said to
, be the largest ever suffered by
I any single bank in the history
of American banking.
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ASHVILLE, N. C., Nov., 13, (/P)—
North Carolina, with some of the
finest paved highways in the coun
try, has nearly 500,000 registered
autos.
WOMAN ENDS 27 - YEAR WORLD TREK
TRACING TRAIL OF CONQUISTADORS
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Mrs. Harriet Chalmer Adams (inset) has traveled the world
shown with two Manchurians; on the edge of the Gobi desert
(lower left) and in the Phillippines (ower right).
in 27
(right
years, Above she is
center); in Japai 4
PILOT SAW GIRL ON KNEES
PRAYING BEFORE OPEN
DOOR; JUMPED
CURTIS FIELD, N. Y., Nov., 13,
(A3)—Ruth Rockwell, 20, of Crest
wood, New York, committed sui
cide Monday by leaping from a
passenger plane shortly after
| taking off from Curtis Field.
The plane was piloted by E.
F. Booth who said the girl had
appeared at the field 15 minutes
before her leap and asked to
charter a plane for a short ride.
Booth said he gained an alti
! tude of 1,500 feet when the girl
| asked him to go higher. He had
| reached 2,000 feet, he said, when
j he felt a sudden lurch and he
looked back and saw the door
open with the girl on her knees
before it.
She was apparantly saying
; prayers for a moment later she
j arose and leaped to her death.
• The body was found 200 feet
j from the edge of the flying field.
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THOMPSON, ALLEGED HAVE
BEEN SEEN COMPANY OF
MURDERED MAN
NEW YORK, Nov., 13, </P)—
The trial of George A. McManus
for the murder of his gambler
associate, Arnold Rothstein, ad
journed until November 18 be
: cause of the illness of Thomas
Thompson, alleged to have been
one of the men with whom Me
Manus and Rothstein played
cards with a few days before the
shooting.
It was at this game that Roth
stein is said to have lost heav
ily to McManus.
One juror has been sworn in.
A Milwaukee phycisian’s affi
davit said Thompson was ill
there and unable to come to
New York for a week or 10 days.
IMIflllf MARK MAY
FURNISH CLUE IS TO
IHDENTITY, WRECKERS
LOS ANGELES, Nov., 13, (£>)—
A laundry mark, torn from a
gray coat, may furnish a clue,
officers said, as to the identity
of one of the men involved in
wrecking and robbing the South
ern Pacific passenger train near
Saugus, California Sunday night.
The identity of the suspect has
not been revealed. Richard Ball,
the engineer, who at first was
reported scalded to death, is
expected to recover. He is too
weak yet to make a statement.