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Seward daily gateway., 1931-10-31
NALtMUTE ATTACKS AND ALMOST KILLS
 BABY BOY AT RUBY

Only the prompt arrival on the scene of his father, saved from
 death recently the four-year-old son of Albert Verhonik, Ruby freighter, and Mrs. Verhonik, re- ports the Fairbanks Miner. The boy was set upon and severe ly bitten by malamute which all most surely would have killed him had not MT. Verhonik rushed to his sons rescue
 Mrs. Verhonik had left him play ing with the Growden boy when she sighted a plane heading for the landing field, three miles from the town. She took the car and started for the field. Mr. Verhonik, coming in from Long Creek, had also seen the plane and both arrived at the field at the same time.
 When they arrived home the boys were not in sight. The door to the dog barn was open. Soon the Grow den lad came running out and ex- citedly called that a dog was at tacking the Verhonik boy. MT. Yer honik rushed into the barn to find a chained malamute had dragged the boy toward it's pen and was vic- iously chewing him about the head.
 Mr. Verhonik beat the dog off and picking his son up hastened to their home. Doc" Frost, first aid man, was summoned and he had to take a number of stitches. The boys face was bitten in innumerable places and his neck was clawed and bitten. Only by miracle, it seem ed, had the dog missed striking his jugular vein. Had MT. Verhonik ar rived minute later the boy would have been killed, it is believed.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-10-31
CREDIT CONDITIONS HAVE
 BEEN IMPROVED, UPWARD
 SWING 0F CONFIDENCE

WASHINGTON, Oct, 31, (P- The sharp upward swing of public confidence which has already led
 cessation of money hoarding and has put an end to small bank failures, is seen by President Hoo yer almost two years after the deflation of the stock market be- gan in 1929.
 Hoover cited it as a 'very great change" for better credit condi- ions with it's practical effect evil
 anced by the recovery of wheat md cotton prices. Evidence over last week indicates that not only has money hoarding ceased but actually $24,OOO,OOO of hoarded money has been returned to the banks and small bank failures have almost ceased.
 Foreign exchanges have been returned to a basis on which it is 10 longer advantageous to ship gold abroad The practical effect this discovery is showing in the price of wheat by 10 cents, cotton by $15 to $20 bale, the Presi- dent said.
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PAY DEBTS

CHICAGO, Oct, 31, (P)-School teachers and civil service workers thronged Chicago grocery stores yesterday as they prepared to pay their long overdue accounts. The general consensus of answers to the questions, What are you go- ing to do with your check?" was I'm going to pay part of my debts".
Seward daily gateway., 1931-10-31
ACCIDENTLY SHOT

ELLENSBURG, Wn., Oct, 31, P-Phil H. Adams, former State legislator, was accidently shot by his own gun near his ranch here yesterday. Adams was attempt ing to bring his shotgun out of the car when the trigger caught in the brake and discharged it. The shot passed thru Adams body and killed him.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-10-31
HIGH TREASON CHARGES

MADRID, Spain, Oct. 31. R)- The Responsibilities Committee of the National Assembly voted to bring charges of hig h treason against former King Alfonso on ac- count of aid he is alleged to have given General F. Riveria in making himself dictator of Spain.
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sOv|ETs ACCUSE JAPAN OF DEsICH 7O EXPIND
 POWER IN MANCHURA

MOSCOW, Oct, 31, (P)-Sharp- est attention is being focused on
 events in Manchuria by the Kremlin which is actuated by economic as well as political con- alterations.
 Not only does that territory command a strategic, portion of Russia's vast frontiers in a mili- tary sense, but the Soviet Union has a definite commercial interest ill Manchuria thru it's joint own ership with China of the Chinese Eastern Railway.
 This line. long a bone of con- tention between the two countries, could, in the view of observers here conceivsbly form the spear head of further complica tions if Japan extended it's sphere of ac- tivity into northern Manchuria.
 The road taps the rich sova heaf1 country there and forms the chief outlet to Russia's Pacific port. Vladivostok.
 In the official Soviet view. set forth in the government organ Tzvestia. railroads constitute the paramount point in what Moscow regards as designs of Japanese ''imperialists" on Manchuria.
 Japan, Moscow charges. long has been protesting against inde- pendent Chinese railway con- struction designed to compete with the Japanese controlled South Manchurian Railway Now, it is accused here of trying to ob- tain the right of constructing a number of new lines in Manchu- ria under it's own control.
 One of the proposed Japanese projects, according to Izvestia, is construction of new line rum ming parallel with the Chinese Eastern and having an outlet in northern Korean ports
 Such line", Izvestia adds, would not only have economic but great military importance.
 No secret is made here that the government regards the Japanese action in Manchuria as a threat to international amity. It is rep resented as feeling that Japan's. move was made not without the knowledge of "other imperialistic countries.
 The press here has been sharp ly critical of the attitude of the League of Nations and of the Washington declaration that no basis has been found for inter- preting the Japanese action as violation of the Kellogg pact.
 Denial has been made that Inc Japanese move, said officially to lave been inspired by Chinese at forts to seize the South Mancbn. 1 rian Railway, Is in any way an- alogous to the conflict between China and Russia two years ago over the Chinese Eastern Railway.
 At that time China seized ti,a line, charging that Soviet employ es carried on conmunistic prop:- ganda. An open diplomatic breaa folloWed-a breach which has not yet been healed-and there vas border skir.nishing.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-10-31
STIMSON ADDS VOICE

WASHINGTON, Uct., 3I, lP]- Secretary of State Stimson yester- day added his voice to President Hoover in denouncing William Howard Gardiner, president of the United States Navy League for accusing President Hoover of "abysmal ignorance and that he was making an effort to starve out the navy.
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ELEPHANT TO BE SOLD

'ALEM, Ore, Oct, 31, P- , fate of the elephant which $ left on the hands of local y authorities, when it's former tner could not meet payments
 his hay debt, is to be deter ned today. The elephant, who sts a ton of hay a day, is to be sold on auction to the highest bidder.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-10-31
LOSE EXPORT MARKET

CHICAGO, Oct. 31. (P-American farmers are due to lose their share of export wheat market to Soviet Russia, Congressman Henry Rainey of Illinois declared at luncheon of the Illinois Manufacturers Cost Association.
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LOSING STRENGTH

PARIS, Oct, 30, R-Raymond Poincare, the man who saved France in 1926, is gradually losing strength, it was announced today when he resigned as president of the Paris Bar Association because of ill health.
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SOUNDING OUT CREDITORS

BERLIN, Oct. 31. (P LII Reports published in the German press state that Russia is unable to meet her commercial commitments and is sounding out her creditors in an attempt to obtain extension of drafts.
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KILLED BY LION

SEATTLE, Oct, 31, (P-H. H. Heron, Seattle capitalist, was kill ed in South Africa by a lion, is the report reaching his relatives and business associates here.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-10-31

A Halloween dance will be given tonight in the I. o. o. F. hall. Music will be furnished by the Jolly Three Dance Orchestra.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-10-31
TIE STOCK MARKET

SEATTLE, Oct. 31. Tester days quotations on the stock mar
Seward daily gateway., 1931-10-31

The largest circulation
 of any newspaper tn the End, 3rd, 4th Divisions of
Seward daily gateway., 1931-10-31

Tho Seward Weekly Gate way is the bcxt i6-pare Weekly in the Territory
 of Alaska
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-22

conviction of these men on murder charge following a bombing in 1916. it has been found that some of the witnesses agains; them perjured themselves in the trial. New evidence. including the confessions of per- jury by several persons. has been before the courts for some time. but they have held the evidence insufficient to warrant a new trial
 In other words. men now generally re- gsrded as innocent of certain crime must go on paying the penalty for it simply be- cause the law offers no way to right wrong. to end injustice and replace it with justice. It seems incredible that red tape cannot be
 cut or new precedent established to remedy such a situation. As matters stand the case is blot on the record not only of the great state of California. but of the whole United States If the courts involved could be made 10 feel as shocked as do the members of the Wickersham Commission and thoughtful citizens generally, something might happen
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-22
It's Senator Now

State papers are finding much food for comment in the political gossip offered by Hartford Times writer recently. He placed Governor Cross forward as the leading dem ocratic candidate for the nomination of U. s. Senator. Further than that the writer has him running against Senator Hiram A. Bingham of New Haven. The chances of Senator Bingham running again seem to hang in the balance. We don't know for sure whether the former explorer and Yale professor cares to return to the political scenes where he has reaped nothing much but snubs and cold shoulders From time to time in the last year or so 1t has been bruited about that Senator Bingham would positively not be in the senatorial race in l932.
 If he does decline to seek renomlnatIon IL is quite likely that among those in the race for the republican nomination will be Rep resentative Edward W. Goss of Waterbury. Although Mir Goss has only served part of a term at Washington and has yet 10 start his first full term it is we'll known in the Naugatuek valley and pretty generally around the state that he would like to try HIS CndUCeS III OeHdtc IT Ie SdH De hoH- mated and elected And there are number of others in the republican ranks who might desire the honor There's Ex-Governor Trumbull, for instance. The New Haven Times mentions him as likely candidate in the event of Senator Bingham not run ming.
 We could mention several others such as I r. Rogers He seems to have been shelved for the gubernatoria nomination in l932 m favor of the present holder of that office. Samuel R. Spencer. That should compll- cate the republican state ticket somewhat next year unless Mir Rogers could be per- suaded to enter some other political race, such as the senatorial. There are any nun Der of eligit-as for the nomination. And we mustn't forget that even J. Henry Rora- back, the state chairman. has been mentioned for this high position on various occasions Maybe he might abandon his custom of never seeking public office for d senalorship.
 We are inclined to regard the thought of Governor Cross seeking the senatorial nom ination skeptically. We don't think that he even gave much consideration 10 a second term as governor during the early months of this year. but we'll wager that since his wrestling match with the Legislature he IS anxious to get back in the saddle again in 1892 SO that he can put through some Of the badly needed reforms which he has ad- vocated and which public opinion has re- peatedly backed. He is. however. available as senatorial candidate. but until worthy successor in the gubernatorlal seat has been found we'd like to see him sitting there.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-22
A $9O,OOO,O ,OOO Fund

The National Association of Community Chests IS raising fund of $90. 100000 for unemployment relief for next winter. The American people had hoped that the need for such relief would soon be over Bus- ness may have improved so much by that time that the need of such help will be much less than last winter But there IS always much unemployment in winter. even in good times. When farm and road work shuts down. and building construction is largely stopped. it IS inevitable that lot of people will be hard up, Conditions so far this year have made it difficult for many people to lay up for that rainy day.
 The sum asked is large. and yet this rich country is amply able to provide it. The national wealth of the United States is prob ably around $400, 900. 100000. and S90- 100000 is thus only one forty fourth of one per cent of our entire property. The Christian religion tells us to be generous to the poor and needy. Many worthy people will be out of work next winter. They should be provided for.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-22

Of interest to local motorists may be the it's dirt road money to improve the cutoff between Unionville and Plainville. Some time ago it was proposed that cutoff be built around Pennington so that heavy traf- fc would avoid the towns main street. Miss Porters School for Girls is located on this street and heavy traffic is gradually de- ereasing the schools enrolment and forcing it to consider new location. The pro- posed Unionville -Plainvile route might take care of the situation if plainly marked for all to read as they speed by. And speaking of speeding, beware Southington. motorists Policemen are making arrests there now.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-22
NEW YORK
wth Gilbert Swan

but half A dozen drivers have com plained about 1t recently.
 And while on the subject of taxis, I was reminded again the other day that you never can tell just who your driver Is in this mans town. Sometimes it's a poet, trying to get room rent; sometimes it's com poser and sometimes singer. A week ago, driver told me he'd like to write book about all the funny things that have happened to him if he could "only get cou- pie of days off to do it,
 The saddest tale in many q month came from chap who had been in the Dig money only q few months ago. He had been re- tained as chauffeur by a man whose name since has been con- nected with huge swindle. The chauffeur was let in Ion the ground floor" and became something of q confidential man to bis boss. While things were good, the driver ran his fortune up to $50.OO0 or more He had no idea that he was play ing with "bubble-money."
 And when the crash came, the "big boy" took his earnings along with all the rest--and skipped out So it's back to the taxi business for the loser
 Easy come, easy go.
 GILBERT SWAN.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-22

It contains l.272 pages and can be obtained for S2 from the Supt of Documents. Gov ernment Printing Office. It is complete summary of the l930 federal census. Fur ther than that the official figures from l790 to l93O arc contained in the volume. not to mention population by states, counties. cities, etc. Each state is given one chapter in which are contained the population hg- ures from its earliest census to l930; popu- lation of the principal cities; area and pop population of incorporated places; popula- ulaton of the counties l890-1930; popu- lation of counties by minor civil divisions; ton of cities of 5000 or over by wards. Bulletins of these state statistics can be ob- tained free upon request.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-22
THE PUBLIC AND SHERWOOD
 ISLAND
(Hartford Courant)

The public is forcing its demand for the use of Sherwood Island. This property on the Fairfield county shore. acquired by the state in 1914 for a park, has remained undeveloped because of opposition and obstruction largely from rest dents of the town of Westport in which 1t is situated, but now the State Park and Forest Commits sioners feel themselves forced to make temporary and limited day time arrangements for handling bathers and picnickers. Otherwise unsupervised campers, experience shows, would cause abuse and dis order. A few sanitary and bathing structures, therefore, are being put up.
 Only a lack of funds makes the proper equipment for opening the park to the public impossible. A bridge should be built, but 1t can not be done until the great num- bers which would find access over 1t to the. half mile of beach can be taken care of. At present those who use 1t, and they are enough to constitute a problem, come either by boat or by wading creek at low tide.
 These developments give con- vincing proof of the need for A state recreation center in this neighbrhood. Persons who are not residents are little welcome on the town beaches of Westport and elsewhere on Sundays and holidays in the summer. The failure of the last general assembly to take ac- ton on this popular demand has not only lost it an opportunity to make friends. but has also neces- sitated temporary and inadequate handling of q difiicult situation.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-22
More Liquor Agents?

To the duties of the vigiant state and federal inspectors who are now engaged in preserving corn borer and Japanese beetle quarantine in Connecticut may be added those of enforcing the prohibition laws. An opinion given out by the United States Dis triets office in Hartford this week states that these agents may seiZe liquor discov- cred in their search for vegetables and flow CTS that are on the banned list However. there js no need for alarm. as II IS scarcely possible that the quarantine enforcers will be obliged to double their duties. They are engaged for one purpose - to maintain quarantine. They won't engage in duues of prohibition enforcement agents
 The opinion given out by the U, 5. Dis- tret Attorneys office is based on decision handed down by the Supreme Court several wears ago. IL held that the manner in which evidence of liquor law violation was se- cured is immaterial. It was based on the discovery of still by fremen putting out a blaze. Therefore should the corn borer or beetle inspectors discover liquor in cars while seeking for contraband vegetables or flowers they could seize it and cause the arrest of the individual. It doesn't strike us from our
 
 personal observations of the young men engaged in enforcing the quarantine that any of them would take he extra duty np- on themselves of liquor snplng.
 IL is strange that the prohibition enforce ment forces have not taken 1t upon them selves 10 use the quarantnes as a means of securing evidence against rum runners Tor all we know they may have their agents in the employ of the U 5. Department of Agriculture even unknown 10 this depart ment It wouldn't be terribly hard for them to do that. Liquor spies are apt 10 be found in almost any position or predie- ament, if you prefer it. these days. Such IS the 2nominy of enforcing an unpopular law. However, we do hope that the tune will never come when the government will use the corn borer or Japanese beetle quar- sntines as pretext 10 enforce the prohbi- ton laws That would be the unkIndest cut of all.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-22
Smaller Armies

Mussolln seems to be getting over bis Caesar delusion. and lately roars only at the Vatican. To the United States he is particularly mild. carefully cultivating our friendship and playing up to our govern ment whenever possible. This trait is no- ticeable in recent armament news.
 The Italian dictator says he will follow the lead of the United States and reduce as much as anybody cutting his army as low theirs in proportion That challenge should start something in a continent staggering under militarism.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-22
At 7he National Capitol DAILY WASHINGTON LETTER Digest of Who's Who and Whats What
 RODNEY BUTCHER
By RODNEY BUTCHER

to children's cases by judges. In others judges may dispose of 70 or 80 cases in half day and children are led out almost as soon as they can be sentenced.
 In other mmunities, 1t was found, juvenile courts were hear ing and disposing of cases of child offenders against federal laws "by arrangement
 These interesting facts about the way federal judges and prose cutors act toward children were generally Obscured in the mild sensation caused by the Wicker sham commissions charges of harsh disciplinary measures in federal institutions and very bad conditions in jails where juvenile federal prisoners are often kep:. But the inference from the whole report Is that luck and geography are likely to determine the kind of q break the kids get-from the time of arrest to the time of their release
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-22
TODAY IS THEA
 ANNIVERSARY s AlgkZA
RUssIA's NEW POWER

On July 22. 1917. the Joint Con. gress of Workmen's and Soldiers Councils and of the All-Russia Council of Peasant Delegates con. ferred supreme and unrestricted power on the new Russian govern ment. They passed the following resolution after an all night ses- sion:
 Recognizing that the country is menaced by Il military debacle on the front and by anarchy al home, 1t Is resolved:
 First that the country and the revolution are endangered:
 Second that the Provisional government is proclaimed the gov ernment of national safety;
 Third - That unlimited powers are accorded the government for reestablishing the organization and discipline of the army for a fight to the finish against the ene- mics of the public order and for the realization of the whole pro gram embodied in the govern mental program just announced.'
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-22

New York-Taxi drivers remain New York's most Earrulous hu- mans, and that goes for actors lott ering In front of the Palace theater or column writers swapping yarns at Sardi's.
 Rare indeed Is a ride of more than four blocks in which the driver falls to confide his middle name, his wife's habits and the smart sayings of his children. If the trip continues for more than dozen blocks. life story will have been started.
 The theory Is that taxi drivers in Manhattan are q lonely tribe. doom ed to sit 10 to 12 hours day, eyes bent on tortuOus routings. A large part of this time they dodge about looking for a passenger.
 If a fare shows the slightest in- terest they will open up. Generally their theme begins with persecu- tions suffered at the hands of traf- fic officers. If pinched in traffic. every other driver in New York inn mediately becomes a sap whose IT, cense should be forthwith surrend-
 
 convince you of their inviolate rightness; or they'll try to convince themselves Their capacity for GUS sing out other drivers, male or fe- male. indicates some seafaring an- cestry.
 The latest gadet in taxis Is a trick advertising device. Unlike street cal advertising. this is an automatic machine. TO distract the attention of the passenger from the narrow escapes in traffic and to attract 1t to a popular grand of of cigarets or breakfast food. the taxi ads flash from a tiny box-like arrange ment and is operated by the mani fold which works the windshield cleaner.
 Also, I learn that the Gotham taxi drivers have been found to car. ry their Identification pictures in their pockets to protect themselves from collectors.
 The display of these portraits along with the license number and other data, is required by law; fail. ure to have the card is punished b. four weeks suspension. But, fol reasons unknown to me. bored pas sengers have gone In for collecting these Identification cards. filchini a different one from each cab. Wha the collectors do with them aftcl they get them Is another mystery
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-22

grow Intellectually after 23 or 24. ---Dr Nicholas Murray Butler.
 President Columbia Uni-
 versity. The duty of national defense will remain basic until civilization has reached a higher level.
 --Secrtary of State Stimson. Our army is maintained to pre- serve the peace. not to provoke war.
 Frederick H. Payne, assist
 ant secretary of war.
  The effective instrument in the advertising orchestra ia sofhewhere between the big drum and the hum drum.
 --ciaush Williams Ellis.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-22
Quotations

One of the greatest obstacles to business prosperity Is excessive taxation.
 Frank B. Kellogg. former sec-
 retary of state. Women as q class are inclined to be obstinate
 Thomas A. Edison.
  There Is a very small minority of human beings who continue to