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VOLUME XV. NUMBER 553.
SEWARD, ALASKA
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1930.
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GOLFING
NEW YORK, Nov., 18, (IP)—
King of all the golf world at the
age of 28, Bob Jones has decided
to renounce his amateur stand
ing to fulfill a contract to make
12, one-reel motion pictures on
educational and golfing subjects
and signed a Warner Brothers
Pictures contract four days ago.
Jones is quitting after 14 years
of tournament play.
“The matter of monetary com
pensation enters when the pic
tures are made.I expect to re
turn to the the practice of law
and will be unhampered by the
necessity of keeping my golf up
to championship requirements.”
The financial side of the con
tract was not revealed but it is
estimated that the returns for
Bob will run as high as $250,000.
He quits competition at the
peak of his career when he won
four outstanding British and
American titles. The season was a
severe nervous strain.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Nov.. 18. (JP)
—Work on city Streets and boul
evards as well as in parkways,
parks and playgrounds to be paid
•out of the proposed $2,500,000
emergency bond issue to aid un
employed citizens of San Fran
cisco, was outlined yesterday by
Assistant City Engineer Blyde
Healy and John McLaren, Sup
erintendent of Parks.
In arranging the program
Healy and McLaren selected only
such projects as will give work
to the largest number of men,
the contsruction being chiefly
of the pick and shovel sort.
FAMOUS IMPRESARIO'S
WIDOW SELFS APPLES
NEW YORK, Nov- 18. (JP)—Mrs.
Oscar Hammerstein, widow of the
famous impresario, tried her luck
at a new job on a Broadway street
corner selling apples as a mem
ber of the army of the unemploy
ed.
Her clothing was a far cry from
the ermines and diamonds she
wore back in the old days when
she greeted the cream of New
York society in the lobby of the
Manhattan Opera House. She wore
a sweater jacket under her top
coat which she wore to keep out
the chilling rain.
TALKS PEACE
BUCHAREST, Nov., 18, (JP)—
King Carol of Roumania opened
parliament with a lengthy ad
dress conveying to the world
the desire of Roumania to main
tain peace in the Balkans.
LINER IN TOW
KETCHIKAN, Nov, 18, (/P)—
In tow of two tugs, the SS North
western left Ketchikan bound
for Seattle. One of the tugs stav
ed a hole in the side of the ship
during rough weather off Cape
Fanshaw.
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JACKSON, Miss., Nov., 18, (lP)
—A. Nicholas, merchant of Ya
zoo City, took advantage of the
bankruptcy law.
As he knelt in church to pray,
his coat tail hung on a pew and
a money belt was revealed to one
of his creditors. Police found
$14,000 hidden on his person.
Nicholas was sentenced to
serve three years in the federal
prison for concealing assets.
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canyons of cities.
The storm appear
from the Gulf of Ala.;, a a to the
Gulf of Mexico.
In the bleak wastes of British
Columbia’s upper mountain re
gion. heavy snows in the last
24 hours ended all hopes of find
ing the six missing flyers for
whom seven American and Can
adian planes have been search
ing during the last few weeks.
CHINESE CONSTITUTION
SHANGHAI, Nov., 18, (IP)_The
Chinese national assembly is be
ing called for May 5 for pur
pose of enacting a provisional
constitution and framing and
promulgating a permanent con
stitution for China. This deci
sion was reached at the Nanking
plenary session of the central
committee of Kuomintang.
RECEPTION FOR TEAM
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 18. (IP)—
The Examiner has arranged a big
glorious reception to the St- Mary’s
college football team which de
feated the famous Fordham Uni
versity team in New York. Mayor
Rolph and a committee has ar
ranged a wonderful reception for I
the conquering heroes on their re- ’
turn home.
A FORMAL DEMAND
WASHINGTON, Nov. 18. (IP) _
A formal demand that Attorney!
General Mitchell order a grand i
jury investigation of Bishop James j
Cannon Jr., for alleged violation
of the federal corrupt practice act
was made by Representative G. H.
Tinkham, republican of Massa
chusets, in a letter to Mitchell.
OUTSIDE nSHEBUI
FIGHTING TEIITOR?
TAX I HIGH CPU
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov., 18, (IP)
; —The appeal of Wood Freeman,
Alaska fish packer against the
Treasurer of the Territory of
Alaska to test the validity of le
vying a $250 tax against non
resident trollers, will be argued
in the circuit court of appeals
tomorrow.
The question of whether non
residents are being discriminated
against since there is a $1 tax,
will affect hundreds of North
Coast fishermen.
HAVANA, Nov. 18. (IP)—Ameri
can property in Cuba was put un
der special police guard after the
government announced the dis
covery of an alleged Communist
plot to force the United States to
intervene in Cuba by destroying
the American owned buildings.
The authorities said they believed
the American Embassy might be
the first object of such an attack
and for that rer- son posted a lar
ger guard there.
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expressed in coast:denes that Pre
sident Machado lac 1 the sb, nation
(,roops in Havana h rs been reduced
as the recent tension had died
down.
NEW YORK, Nov. 18- (/P) —Aimee
Semple McPherson, evangilist, re
turned on the liner Toloa from a
cruise in the Caribbean Sea, She
has not completely recovered from
her recent nervous breakdown.
She gave her first interview since
her breakdown and she charged
that some reporter had pictured
her party as drinking liquor in the
Canal Zone cabarets.
This she said was false as were
the rumors of difficulties with the
immigratio nauthqrities at the
Canal Zone and Havana.
INI CARGO DRIFTS
—With two dead men aboard
together with part of a cargo of
alcohol estimated to be worth
$10,000, a wrecked 60-foot launch
was found on Coronado Strand.
The launch, badly battered,
was found near the southern
end of Tent City and scores of
ins of alcohol littered the beach.
HOCKEY GAME A TIE
VANCOUVER, B. C., Nov., 18,
Vancouver 0, Seattle 0.
The teams played 10 minutes
overtime in this, the opening
game of the season.
HOOVER TO ASK BIG
SOLDIER BONUS P.3I0
NOW 81 DEPRESSION
WASHINGTON, Nov. 18. (JP) —
! Presiden Hoover is considering re
commending to Congress in a spe
j cial message immediate payment
of a soldier bonus instead of post
poning it until 1945 under the ad
justment compensation law it was
learned.
Under this plan the soldiers will
! be paid $340,000,000. It is believed
that this sum in circulation wouM
go a long way to relieve the pre
| sent depression.
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EUREKA, Calif., Nov., 18. (/P>—
While the search for more bodies
from the wrecked schooner
Brooklyn went forward, the full
er il o. Goo:- a Veigdil, seaman,
where body was the first to be
found, was held vc sterday.
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commuhitl because oi
ter by which 18 live.1
STUDENTS CRY
BOZEMAN, Mont., Nov., 18, UP)
—Tear bombs were used by po
lice in breaking up a demons ra
tion by striking students of the
Montana State College. Students
demand changes in the social
conduct code of the college.
FLY TO MADAGASCAR
LE BOURGET, France, Nov. 18.
(>P)—The French aviators LeFevre
and Deamzieres took off on the
first leg of their flight to Mada
gascar. They intended to fly ac
ross Spain, over the Straits of Af
rica and then across the Sahara
Desert.
POLES GO TO POLLS
WARSAW, Poland, Nov. 18. (JP)
—Polish voters to the number of
15,000,000 went to the polls to cast
their ballots on one issue but that
a vital and commanding one, Mar
shal Joseph Pilsudski. The election
was marked by violence through
out the country.
“COMING ALONG NICELY”
HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 18. (JP) —Ce
cil B. DeMille, motion picture pro
ducer and director, was reported
as “coming along nicely” follow
ing his operation for appendicitis.
ENDORSED FOR JOB
WASHINGTON, Nov- 18. (JP) — j
Grace Abott, chief of the Shild- j
ren’s Bureau department of labor
is strongly endorsed for the posi
tion of secretary of labor when Se
cretary of Labor Davis resigns to
take up his duties as United States 1
senator, it was announced.
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CUTTERS ASSIST PLANES IN
QUEST OF MANY MIISSNG
MEN IN SOUTH
i KETCHIKAN, Nov., 18, (JF)—
Flying blind in a raging snow
storm, Anscel Eckmann explored
for three hours Be.'im Canal and
did not find any trace of Robin
Renahan and two companions
lost with their plane since Oc
tober 23.
The weather grounded other
planes searching for Renahan
and Captain Burke and his two
companions lost for nearly six
weeks in the Laird River region.
The Coast Guard Cutter Cygan
is inspecting the same country
Eckmann flew over,
i Navy planes flying north from
San Diego are still grounded by
weather at Medford, Oregon.
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NEW YORK, Nov. 18. pP)—
, With the arrest of 21 members of
I an alleged rum ring, seizure of
I two rum boats and their cargoes
] and stopping of first attempts of
I liquor runners to bring in large
1 cargoes for the holiday trade,
: the Coast Guard and other fed
eral agencies launched their
Chirr! mas campaign.
The value of the liquors that
| fell into the hands of the feder
als was estimated at $200,000 or
I more and the capture of the two
| fast speedboats was said to be
a severe blow at the future op
erations of the rum runners.
Warrants are out for nearly
a score more men believed to
I have been involved in smuggling
I whiskey into the city for the hol
iday trade.
PRESIDENT'S QflUEHTER
IN-LAW SLIPS III EAST
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 18. UP) —
In the excitement in San Francis
co following an accident in whhich
the brother-in-law of the Presi
dent’s son was injured the Presi
dent’s daughter-in-law herself was
able to slip into San FrancUio un
obtrusively. This was revealed
wThen it was learned that Mrs. Her
bert Hoover, Jr.,the former Miss
Margaret Watson came up to be
with her brother Tomy Watson,
hurt in the Twin Peaks tunnel
crash here and who is qiCet in the
silent Hoover manner.
NEW SERUM FOUND
PARIS, Nov. 18. (/P)—A new ser
um said to cure infantile paral
ysis has been produced by Dr
Auguste Petit after 12 years of re
search was announced in a state
ment fro mhe Pasteur Institute.