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Seward daily gateway., 1931-01-31
THIS DAY IN HISTORY

1ele-Cape Horn discovered by La Maire.
 1854 First electric motor pat- ent granted
 1855 Snow blockade in Mid- dle West. no trains ran between Chicago and St. Louis for III days.
 1881 Half pint discovered left over from New Years,
Seward daily gateway., 1931-01-31
TOWN TEAM

Opposition to the College and High School girls basketball teams will takes the court soon, says the Fairbanks News Miner The Town girls are organizing and practice has begun
Seward daily gateway., 1931-01-31
MOkler a n d R 2 x

Herman Mokler and Re x Greenland were jointly indicted in Fairbanks on 8 charge of lar ceny. They are accused of steal ing government property at Ia mana, says the News Miner.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-01-31

cal and professional personnel as he may deem necessary without regard to civil service require ments and restrictions of law governing the employment and compensation of employees of the United States, and to spend in accordance with the provisions of this Act such sums of money as may be placed in his hands as a contribution additional to the funds appropriated by Con- gress.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-01-31

The best ice cream yet! Hor- luck's Danish Ice Cream. Candy Cottage, sole agent.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-01-31

Ask about the Seward Steam Laundry Cleaning and Pressing Club. It will pay you.
The Nome nugget., 1931-01-03

Fred Carlson and l got here a week ago We had an unevent- ful trip across from Seattle to Yokohama with no rough weather at all There we're very few pass engers. The service and food were excellent
 We went up to Tokyo immed- lately after landing and were there from S:30 am. 10 pm, We had our passports Visaed at the Rus sian consulate and went to see the Russian trade representative for in formation about this country but he was unable to give it to us We rode around the city for one and one-halt hours in d taxi with Jap dryer who spoke English. II was all very interesting and strange,
 "Tha, par, of Tokyo built up since tha earthquake js more or less on the order of our American cities except the buildings are not over five or six stories high. There are. of course. a few exceptions to this rule
 "The weather was awfuliy hot there We'll, at 6 pm. we took an Electric train back to Yokohama, where we bod left our baggage. We brought our tickets to Tsur- uga We had lunch and entrain- ed about g pm.
 We both had upper berths- couldn't get lowers-and so We kept on melting At S:30 the next morning we were across the island of Japan. In the city of Tsuruga We got our baggage through the customs and aboard an ill-smelling Japanese steamer and then went up town for eats All We could rustic was toast and jam and a few peaches.
 The steamer pulled out at pm and al noon two days later we landed at V.adivostok. Was sur ,prised to see so much shipping in the harbor. There were Is or 20 large ocean going boats with smoke coming from their tunnels. and there were dozen or more boats anchored out which are not in commission at present.
 "The city has 120,000 inhabi tan,s. much larger than I expect ed, paved streets, street cars, very large and substantial brick and stone buildings in the business sections People are well dressed, es- pecially the women and here the Russians are a whte race. They look a great deal as the Films do. with an exception occasionally, a dark Russian as we seen the maj ority of Russians in Alaska.
 "We were busy while in Vladi- vostok, which was 31 hours. An interpreter met us at the boat and took us to a hotel and looked af- ter us until we took the train for | Trhutsk. The interpreter spoke Swedish more than he did English |
The Nome nugget., 1931-01-03
ALASkAhl NaiMEkS AND
 ENGINEERS TO TEACH
 SOvIETS ART OF NIeaING

'nd it camc in handy for me tn know little 'Swede' w. b0ugbt little grub 10 take with Us on the train and it was a good thing as the dinn@ car was very expen- siye
 The railroad ride to this place was interesting. The railroad is for the most part through country which k being farmed almost the entire distance from the coast here. We were able to buy Ht the differ ent stations tomatoes, mcumbers. melons very much like casabas, berries and even ice cream and at each stopping place is water foun tain where one can get any quan tity of boiling hot water so we would run out with our tea ke.- tie for hot water w. had tea quite often. Coffee is used hery but very little and whJr i- sold for coffee seems to me to be mos Fly chjcory o roasted grain or some sort
 We saw woadorrM wheat ha'd-. some herds of cattle and horses. and quite d lot of bis white geese around the peasants' homes Mos, of the farm houses are built of peeled logs and are qnite substan- tia structures,
 "Irkutsk has q, present ~o.ooo population Ii 5s apparently quite an old town There are over 25 churches here. Most of them are now used for other purposes al th0Wgh some of them are still be- ing used for their original purpose They are magnificent structures
 The streets are paved with wash gravel placed very evenly into kind of cement. II makes a very durable pavement although not as smooth as concrete. The telegraph and teIeph0n" poles are set in the center of the streets There are brick and flag sidewalk and some plank walks There ar" mnseums moving pictures and parks, a yacht r'ub a ,trru< plas- grounds.
 We saw foo'bHI, game tnr other night and saw circus one. since we got here. Have been taken throueh the iron foundry. machine shops, industrial school the high technical school and the machinery depots of the Syonl- boioto Company which directs the activities of the State Trnst for Metals. They have charge of all the eastern Siberian gold mining districts. Weldon just got back
The Nome nugget., 1931-01-03

FAIRBANKS Oct. 15,-First word from the Fairbanks mining men who went to Siberia under contract with the Soviet govern ment, to instruct Russians in mod ern mining methods came yester- dav when Fred Johnston received a letter from his brother Jay. The latter wrote from Irkutsk, which he had reached after long trip across the Pacific and eastern Sib- eria
 Traveling win Johnston was Fred Carlson and Jack Hoslor and the Enstrom brothers were due soon. At Irkutsk Johnston had the pleas nre of talking with Commander Slipenoy. Soviet fier who led the Russian expedition in Eieison-B Bor- land relief work last winter. and who came to Fairbank- in March
 Johuston's letter is printed b - low. The weldon referred 10 !s Red Weldon Iditarod and Fair banks dredg"m4ster who preceded Johnston and Carlson to Siberia The Wimmler IS Norman Wimmler former Alaska engineer who is now in the employ of the Bussian government and who was instru- mental in hiring Fairbanks miners for work in Siberia.
The Nome nugget., 1931-01-03

ffou d rip .ss and north of
 here, where he visited 22 dredges.
 all in opcsttion and most of tAe
 old Eisdeu type
 The A1dan d .ric. Il ;he Lenl River co4a'ry is @h Clrlsyn i- going .a a1Jut wet. There are r.g- .r h.e d ta and few d.ds-ltnes. or mH say aXcaya- tors there aud some drilt mining. 4 together this anmron! has about 1o,o0o employees in mining. trans porting, construc ing etc. in the Adam district. Operations are very cN eqsiye. Wi@mler .ays thf- lis { C, .lane proaGoa* as much gold ;* Alaska
 "Weldon is going now to thr lower Amur near the coast q. the Bay of Okho sl,. where there are three dredges digging and two III der construction He will probably be there year or more
 ''Wmm}"r k .odlns me 2 H,,Ia less than half WI back to Vladi vostok and fttle south of inc to district near the ctfv of Stregeteusk ou tha upper Amur ryer Hare not get any instruc- lions yet but I gather that on
 his trip I will probably be month or more as an observer of dredges. 'xcavators. and steam tAawing op- arations underground and am to 'ome bncE here and report This $ surely going 10 ue an int,re-tin- -4Der enca. We are each to have m interpreter with Us.
 Yesterday | had an hour- ytst- Htth Captain sliprnoy. who is in hc city for few 11r-. after which 1r laa''~ for Moscow. He seemed 'n@y aI,d tu see someone from Fair ,anks. He wishes to send greet ng+ to Crosson, Young. Gillian. Nayot, de la Vergne, Pete Nickol off Iii" Basham. Tgloo No and O all of Fairbanks. where he say~ l had the time of my life He will next year he stationed at the own of Petropavlovsk, largest city Il Kamchatka, where he will b thief pilot of the patrol from there Q the east coast Fahris is i'll Mos ,ow and is now q pilot
 Haven't heard anything from lack Hosler and the Enstroms. They should show up here next Sun lay if they make as good con lections as We d+d
 "These people have used Elm ,irc drills in almost all of their although there are ew Kay5tones scattered around rber- must be n all dozen plac 'r dis'ric1- in Siberia some of ehjrN have been mined since 1S&a
 lmo~t 2o year before CA)ifornia vas struck, What I don't see t- LOW so few Americans can possr- ply teach them anything in two ears time and the most of their 'quipment is so old we haven't cen anything like it. There i~ 'ery little equipment here that we Ire accustomed to so maybe after III the Russians will have to teach
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-25

Mr.. and Mrs. William Hendley Smoot
have with them as their house guest, In
their home on Nineteenth street, Mrs.
Frederick A. Korsmeyer of Scarsdale,
N. Y, who is spending a few days in
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Mrs. Patterson Hostess
To w. N. p. C. at Lunch.


Mrs. Eleanor Patterson entertained
members of the Women'S National
Press Club at luncheon yesterday in her
residence on Dupont Circle, the event
taking the place of the regular weekly
luncheon of the club at the Willard
Hotel. Yesterday was the birthday an
niversary of Miss Ruth Eleanor Jones,
president of the club, and there was
o gay little interlude of wit and fun
interspersed during the hours OF en-
tertainment.
It was flower day in Mrs. Patterson's
home, and when hush came over the
large company bird notes were clearly
heard, coming nearer and nearer until
a young Cuban, pushing flower
laden cart through the dining room
door, revealed himself as the ventrilo-
quist of birddom, pushing his cart from
table to table, warbling in the clearest,
sweetest notes and delivering gay
little nosegay to each guest.
1t was just a little of the really
original that Mrs. Patterson not only
lends to her social entertainments, but
to her reporting and other newspaper
work. She is member of the Wom-
ems National Press Club.
The president of the club was COM
pletely and literally showered with
small gifts which were dispensed by
the hostess for the members.
Mr.. and Mrs. Felix Morley and their
three children of Geneva, Switzerland
have arrived in Washington and are
stopping at Wardman Park Hotel for
O couple of weeks.
Capt. Joseph p McCrink entertained
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SOCIETY
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o'clock for the last time this season.
Mrs. Joseph Hendrix Hines will receive
with Miss Burton.
Mrs. William De Witt Mitchell, Mrs
Charles S. Deneen, Mrs. Robert j. Bulk
ley and Mrs. Chester G. Bolton will
alternate at the tea table. No cards
have been issued.
Miss Callie Doyle, who spent the Win
ter at the Mayflower, is now the guest
of Mr. and Mrs. George T. Marye at
1900 N street
Mrs. Ellis Yost has as her guest at
the Mayfiower her sister-in-law, Mrs
Fielding H. Yost of Ann Arbor, Mich
who went to Scarsdale, N. Y, to at
tend the wedding of Miss Mary Baird
to Mr. Marcus Eddy Cunningham.
Mrs. Fielding Yost is the wife of the
professor of physical education at the
University of Michigan.
Mrs. w F. Ham will entertain a COM
pany of rs at luncheon at the Shore
ham Hotel tomorrow The party Will
play bridge later in the afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Hendley Smoot
have with them as their house guest. In
JT1eH OIl LN1IlCbCC1lb4l oOANON' AAAS'
Frederick A. Korsmeyer of Scarsdale
N Y, who is spending few days In
Washington.
Mr.. and Mrs Robert Stead of Phila-
delphia are passing some time at the
Carlton.
Mrs. Robert c. MuSSer will be hostess
at luncheon for her debutante daughter,
Miss Margene Krag Musser, in the Army
and Navy Club, Saturday, March Z.
Mrs. Helen Ray Hagner had lunching
with her today at the Carlton, Mrs.
Randolph Keith Forrest and Mr.. Percy
j. Burrell Mrs. Hagner will move into
her apartment in Stoneleigh Court Sat-
urday, and will have with her, her
mother, Mrs. Robert C. Ray.
Mrs. T. j. Fisher entertained COM
pany of Is at luncheon at the Shore
ham Hotel yesterday, the party later
adjourning to the bridge tables.
Mr.. and Mrs j. Whitla Stinson have
cancelled all their social engagements
on account of the death Monday of Mrs.
Stinson's father, Mr.. A. Hart Mckee,
In New York City.
Mr.. G. A. Peabody of Saratoga
Springs. N Y, and his daughter. Mrs.
M. Peabody Waite, are at the Shore
ham Hotel for few days.
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Mrs. T. j. Fisher entertained COM
pany of Is at luncheon at the Shore
ham Hotel yesterday. the party later
adiourning to the bridge tables.
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Mr.. and Mrs. J. Whitla Stinson have
cancelled all their social engagements
on account of the death Monday OF Mrs.
Stinson's father, Mr.. A. Hart Mckee,
In New York City.
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Mr.. G. A. Peabody of Saratoga
Springs. N. Y, and his daughter. Mrs.
M. Peabody Waite, are at the Shore
ham Hotel for a few days.
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apt. Joseph p. McCrink entertained
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Mrs. w. F. Ham will entertain COM
pany of rs at luncheon at the Shore
ham Hotel tomorrow. The party VIII
play bridge later in the afternoon
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-25

Miss Callie Doyle, who spent the Win
ter at the Mayflower, is now the guest
of Mr.. and Mrs. George T. Marye at
1900 N street.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-12
PAVE WAY FOR
BONUS ACTION
House Group Expected to
Act on Compromise.

81 DHitcd Press
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.-1he
way was opened today by the house
ways and means committee for
adoption of compromise veterans
relief bill to increase the loan limit
on adjusted services certificates. It
was indicated the committee would
vote favorably later today on such a
plan.
The committee devoted its morn
ing session to hearing Ogden L..
Mills, undersecretary of treasury,
and Frank T. Hines, director of the
veterans bureau, who discussed the
approximate cost of loan proposals.
A loan bill is The only proposal
now being considered by the COM
mittee. Representa- tive Fish (Rep.,
N. " today modified his bill, pro-
viding for Is p>~ cent cash pay
ment, to provide a 25 per cent in
crease on the loan limit, which
would make the limit 471a per cent.
Neither Mills nor Hines expressed
an opinion as to the merit of the
loan proposal, according to commit
tee members, but Mills told the
committee the treasury still regard
ed financing of the loan bill by a
bond issue as rather difficult at this
time.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-12
CHANGE zONING PLAN
House Committee to Rec
ommend Few Alterations.

House committee on congressional
reapportiOnment this afternoon was
to recommend that the Core plan,
on redistricting the state, be passed
with some changes.
The revisionS are placing Porter
in the new Ninth district and max
ing Lake county a district by itself,
and splitting Marion county far
ther north than Washington street,
than as first suggested
The amendment would have the
county separation starting at the
southwest corner of Center town
ship line, going north on Blackford
to the Fifth and Sixth ward bound
airy lines, then east on Pratt street
to Pennsylvania street. From there,
the proposed dividing line joys to
st. Clair street and continues east
through Tenth street to the Center
township line.
This would throw all south of
this section into the Fourth district
which would include Hancock.
Shelby, Bartholomew and Decatur
counties.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-12

I one moment disputes that it is
then the corollary of the Hoover
axiom is that "in the larger view,'
only through world cooperation can
We hope, in the future, to escape
the disaster Of recurring slumps.
If American workers now are
beating the pavements, looking for
jobs because of instability and I'M
certainty in Europe, Asia and Latin
America, obviously whatever Our
country can do to promote conf
dence and stability abroad should
be undertaken Immediately, if only
to promote dividends and jobs here
at home.
So, both at home and abroad, po-
litical and economic leaders are
looking to the United States as the
logical power to take the initiative
to work out this meaning. From
the far Balkans comes a voice eX-
pressing the general sentiment:
Il foresee a long and unbroken
era of prosperity and peace" said
Foreign Minister Marinkovitch of
Yugo- Slavia, provided the United
States realizes its all-embracing
power and undertakes its implied
responsibility of helping clear up
the world situation"
If Americas fortunes are tied up,
admittedly and irretrievably, with
the fortunes of other lands, and if
every shift in power, every advance
in communications. in trade and
finance daily increases the points
of contact between heaand the rest
Turn TO Page Sixteen)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-12
OPEN FIGHT ON
WAR Guilt LIE
Germans Seek Removal of
Treaty Clause.
By United Press

~ ONtCeG Ff6SS
BERLIN, Feb. 12.-The reichstag,
opening it's campaign against the
war guilty lie," adopted a resolu-
ton today asking the government
to seek abolition of that part of
the treaty of Versailles which places
responsibility for the world conflict
on Germany.
Another resolution protesting
against the disarmament of Ger
many while other powers were fail
ing to observe their armament
agreements under the treaty, also
was adopted.
The adoption of the protest
measures came after the legislative
body had rejected Communist and
Fascist motions to discontinue the
Young plan payments, withdraw
from the league of nations and
crate a frontier guard against
Poland.
The reichstag adopted a motion,
however, fayoring opening of ne
gotiations Immediately with sigma
tories of the Young plan in the hope
of obtaining a revision. The vote
on this motion was 314 to 46.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-12
Police Chief Praises Men;
Bank to Act.

Valor of PatroIman Mowray
Johnston and Morris Dodd, teller in
the Broad Ripple state bank, during
the attempted holdup today in
which one man was shot and band
its failed to obtain loot, was COM
mended by police and bank officials.
I'VE can say for Johnston that
it is just a continuation of his
mighty fine record" Chief Jerry
Kinney and Major Herbert Fletcher
said. Hes a good policeman and
he's more valuable every day"
Johnston has been on the force
since 1926 and was on traffic duty
until early in 1880.
Officials of the Fletcher Savings
and Trust Company, of which the
Broad Ripple bank is branch. said
they will cite Dodd for his courage
in sounding the burglar alarm while
in range of the bandits guns. He
is star player on the banks bas-
ketball team and well-known as an
athlete.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-12
BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS
ScrippS- Howard Foreign Editor

The most colossal opportunity
any great government ever had now
is knocking at the door of the
United States.
A depressed, discouraged, trade
avid, job-hungry world, weary of
pickering and frightened by the
growing menace of another war, is
looking to America to take the
initiative in a move to strengthen
the machinery for peace and pros
perity.
Never before has the world faced
such a situation as now confronts
it, economists agree. for the simple
reason that never before have che
nations been so dependent for
prosperity, one upon the others.
In the past, nations have suffered
depreSsions and come out of them
again through their own individual
efforts. But today they form a
single, highly integrated machine.
They are all geared together.
When some move backward, all
move backward. Prosperity, ike
peace, no longer is a national, out
an international problem requiring
international leadership and Or
ganization.
World-wise overproduction; de-
creased purchasing power; universal
unemployment; troubles in Asia +;
revolVions in Latin America; po-
ntical unrest in Europe. and the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-12
Jailed Again

Theodore Luesse, red agitator
and leader of unemployed, had
returned to his old haunt this
afternoon-the city prison.
After Judge Paul c. Wetter
had released him in municipal
court on a vagrancy charge,
Captain Otto Ray attempted
to reslate him on a similar
charge. When Ray stopped
Luesse in front of headquarters
LuesSe pushed Ray away and
consequently he now faces vag-
rancy and resisting an officer
charges under $4,000 bond.
Ray said he had learned that
after LuesSe failed to return to
his job at the Riverside nurs-
cry he had attempted to or
ganize demonstrations in Mar
tinsville.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-12
JOBLESS NEEDS TOLD
December Said to Be One
of HiStory'S Worst Months.

By United Press
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.-De-
scribing unemployment conditions
in this country, Francis I. Jones, di-
rector Of the labor department en-
ployment service, said today that
December was "one Of the worst
months in the history of the coun-
try"
There was little improvement in
January, but nothing to brag about, "
Jones said.
The employment director pre-
sented his views before the house
irrigation and reclamation COM
mittee, urging enactment Of a bill,
already passed by the senate, which
would grant $1,000, 900 to the rec!a-
nation service to pay contractors on
western irrigation projects, so pend
ing work may be completed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-12
-FOUR BILLS SIGNED
New Laws Affecting Only
indianapolis Approved.

-Four new laws were added to the
Indiana statute books today when
Governor Harry G.. Leslie signed
senate bills applicable only to In
dianapoliS.
measures, introduced by
Senators Winfield Miller and Edgar
A. Perkins, permit cities to turn
into the general fund money on
deposit as guaranty for more than
a year, authorize transfer or loan
OF property from one city depart
ment to another, establish a city
appraisal board and provide for
court appeal by cities without ap-
peal bond.