4
• •••••••••BOB**
, •
. . I • COME TO SEWARD •
• SEWARD THE PLACE * ' hkbf AttRlULNY
FOR YOU TO * ; HERE ARE MANY #
* MAKE YOl’R HOME * ,
Daily Edition, and The Alaska Weekly Post__
^ SEWARD. ALASKA. SATURDAY, MARCH 20. 1936. " “ TEN CENTS PER COPY
VOLUME \m. NUMBER 363. _„________—— —
BSILWN
0 1
SEAT rLE.eh 23— Steam* r
Admiral Evans gi ounded at four o
ciock this morning in a fog. in sot',
mud, off Duncan Cay. between Se:
% mour Narrows and Muilge Point, rhe f
Admital Evans left Seattle yester lav
•norning for the north w ith lo4 pass
enge*'s aboard. most y cannerymer. i
The Seattle office e\p cts that th** j
Admit al Evt llld NV lit l»C iivUto d on t!.“ '
high tide this afternoon.
barge going too pieces
SEATTLE. March 20— The barg •
Dashing Wave, enroute to Alaska, ;s 1
believed to be a total wreck in Sec- I
mours Narrows. The barge is leaking j
"in! said to be breaking up. The I)a h
unr W ave was formerly the fastest
clipper ship ever operated on the Pa
cific.
PIES IN HARNESS
- j
SEATTLE. March *J>— Hoy You* (
anchor man on the milk drivers tug (
*' "u" team, die! in the harness last .
night in tliL University gymnasium. ,
•ist as the team was winning from
the Fireman's team. Heait trouble ]
as the cause. Five hundred specta
tors saw Young die. Young was con- ]
iilered one of the strongest men in ,
Seattle. ]
I
r
WATSON IN AND SOI Til
Steamer Admiral Watson arr'\»d
in port at 5 o’ciock yesterday alle*
noon bunging dd pas^engeis liom Ivo
diak, the majority of them bc.ng from
Seward and Ancho.age \\ho went west
several weeks ago to secure oil land
locations. Capt. Glasscock reported a
splendid trip.
Passengers arriving on the Admiral
Watson for Seward were H. Lohr,
Oscar Gill, William Lee, William Ab
bott, Earl Alien, John 15. Thompson,
S. T. Kelly, H. B. Hadlund, Sam
Shocklin, Charles Olson, George
Thompson, C. W. Isaacs, C. Bedso.i,
George Abbott, Edward McNally, H.
V. Evans, Syd Anderson, Alec Enos,
j. W. Barnes, John Pierson, W. B.
Moore, James Austin, Jack Hanud.i,
Hen*.y Nietne, George McDonald and
Mike Metrokcn.
Passengers sailing irom be ward
were S. Schulman and Alvin Goldstcia
for Juneau; J. W. Spangler and J. H
Hafle for LuTouch** and J. J. Richaid
son for Haines. The Admiral Watvm
sailed south at 6:.*50 o’clock.
•_
SENDS HIS DUES FOR
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
J. F. Lavarno. president of the Un
iversal By- Products Company has
sent $2o dues for this year’s member
ship in the Seward Chamber of Com
merce. H. E. Ellsworth, Secretary of
the Chamber of Commerce received
the check from Mr. Lavarno. in the
mail on the Alaska. Mr. Lavarno is
now at the eastern headquarters of
the company, in Pittsburgh, and said
that the company was pettimr olonp
splendidly in a financial way. Mr. La
varne stated that Mr. MacFarlan, now
in Seattle, would come north within a
few months and start activities her'
for the company.
_♦
c
LONDON, March 20— It is indicat
r
ed the Allies are preparing troop con
cent* ations at Metz and Strassbou**:?,
and farther into Germany. It is esti
mated two thousand have been killed j
in Germany as a result of the revolu
tion. The Allied troops to be conceit
trated arc to move if Germany does ^
not quiet down. ^
\V ‘.SHIN('.TON. REPUBLICAN
LEGISLATORS TO CAUCLS '
J!
SEATTLE, March 20— The Repub
lican members of the state legislature ^
are to cause tomorrow and determine
upon a program. It is believed the
session will be a short one. The np
n
propriations committee is to put off
the plea of the higher educational in- (
stitutions for more money until the ,
regular session next January. This ue- t
lay will enable the state to raise the
tax limit levy from three to five m:Hs 1
to provide funds for the common
schools.
(OLBY’S NOMINATION r
REPORTED FAVORABLY f
WASHINGTON, March 20— The t
Senate’s foreign relation committee r
has favorably reported upon Bain- t
bridge Colby's nomination after a.i
extensive hearing. Senators asked (
Colby many questions. Senator Hi4, h- i
co< k said he considered Colby’s state- '
meats a complete knockout for oppo
sition to the administration. i
-*- t
NEWPORT NEWS, March 20—
The superdreadnought Maryland, do- '
signed as the most powerful battle- !
ship a Coat, was successfully launched
re this afternoon. Secretary of the 1
Navy attended the launching. Th »
Maryland is 32.000 tons displacement. .
She is 600 feet long and her main
battery is composed of six 16 inch
•ifles, the heaviest guns used on any
boat. Six other 43 000 ton dread
noughts are to be built. *
— «
Sidney Anderson, banker of An
chorage, one of the returned oil land
orators from the westward, has been
lubbed “coal oil Syd” as he keeps con
;inually talking, awake or asleep,
lbout the big oil gushers he has d --
•overnl. Mr. Anderson arrived on th**
\dmiral Watson and registered at the
lotol Overland.
The Christian Science sendees will
)e held as usual at 11 o’clock tomo>
o\v forenoon and Sunday school at
2.05 o’clock.
Little Miss Alva Peterson is cel
‘brating her bhthday this afternoon
>y entertaining many of her little
'riends at. the home of her parents.
Claude York and Lew Myers, min
ng men of the Hope district, arrived
>n the Alaska and are registered at
he Hotel Seward. The two intend go
ng out the line and make arrange
ments for the shipping of machinery
o their property.
M. Rcifler and Antone Strom , who
rill be the engineers at the cold stor
ge plant of the San Juan, are regis**
red at the Hotel Seward having dr
ived from Seattle on the Alaska.
Both the Hotel Overland and Hotel
Seward turned away guests yesterday
•wing to the many arrivals on the
Caska and Admiral Watson.
William Bryan wears the con
°nt^d smile today as L. H. Vogl an i
H. Parker arrived on the Alaska
nd will he associated with him in the
p oration of Seward’s new sawmill,
'he two m^n arc registered at the He
el Seward. Mr. Bryan has a large
ontrr.ct f*cm the commission and
thor smaller contracts. The mill wi'l
oon b'' operating with a fu1! crew.
I. H. ple’schman. wife and son, ir^t
or Anchorage on the Gateway C*tv
:m»ted today where Mr. Fleischman
k*?P he renr»ertnd with the commission.
L Werrecke, representing th•*
''♦enrhveP corporation, arrived on the
Haska and registered at the Hotel
)vevimnd. Mr. Wernorke left fo** the
mtnr:or op the tram tod^v end v’i|l h>%
n the interior for several months re
»ovtiog on var’ous properties.
T,. L. Bvown. representing the
\Xst"rr» E^ectnc. is registered at the
fotol Overland. Mr. Brown will re
gain in SeM’a»*d for several days be
')!■«' '^rir to the interior.
N. 13. RothweB and Sam Beck, of
he Gold Bullion Mining company, ar
ived on the Alaska and registered at
ho Hotel Overland.
J. A. Magill, of the Beluga Whaling
’’omnany, accompanied by his wife,
irrived on tha Alaska and are guests
it the Hotel Overland.
M. \j. Gerber, commission employee,
ruo. t at the Overland, left for the in
erior on today’s train.
J. J. Finnegan, candidate for attor
ney general of .Va^ka. on the Repub
:can ticket, passed through Seward
asfc night on the Admiral Watso 1
>ound from the oil fields to Juneau.
Alvin Goldstein is a passenger to
Turman on the Admiral Watson.
“Fanny” Moore, who has been at
Port Chatham and Seldovia for sever
ll months, returned to that dear o'rt
Sev'hid. nniving last night on the Ad
niial Watson.
WASHINGTON, March 20— The
Senate has returned the treaty to
President Wilson with a note that it
Was refused consent to ratification.
Senator Knox introduced a resolu
tion declaring peace with Germany.
Private secretary Tumulty receiv
ed the treaty and said the Preside!*.'
wouid m ike no statement.
Officials say the usual procedi:
will probably be taken and the treaty
will be sent to the state Department
for burial in the archives.
Representative Tinkham has offer
ed a joint resolution that Gcimar.*
would recognize all r'ghts America
might have under the treaty. j
• • ______
- 1
OIL MEN RETURN j
t
About a score of future oil million- j
aires returned from the. westward - n *
the Admiral Watson late yesterday (
afternoon. All of the future oil mat.- t
nates are elated over the ground they J
located a: d several brought bn *k (
samples of their oil products, scoow l *
up from bubbling miniature gushes .
Practically all of the locators in ten 1 j
to develope the ground themselves or j
have fonned or will form companies j
to begin drilling during the coming }
spring or next summer. j
-«- j
CHOCKED TO DEATH
—
SPOKANE, March 20— Steven
Potaskev, insanity suspect, choked to
death William Nelson, city Jailor,, 1 ^
the city jail corridor today. j,
*T X
FRENCH ARTIST DEAD
CHICAGO. March 20— Edward
Roullier, noted French artist, who has
been visiting here, died today.
Edward McNally, of Anchors,
one of the future oil magnates,
,,r ied on the Admiral Watson am!
1-fi; left for home on the Gateway
city limited today.
The Admiral Watson has 70 tons of
cased cod fish from Kodiak for Seat
tle.
The social event in Seward tonight
the dance to be given by the Odd
Fellows. n
Lenn B. Adsit and Gus Gillis, t**av-- ,]
albg men, left for Valdez on the t
Alaska, j. B. Stanton, another travel- t
ine* man, loft on the Alaska for Kot- ^
chikan. r
Leo Margules. who returned from y
tho states on the Alaska, says passen- j
rrors for Seward were turned away at c
both Ketch’kan and Juneau. Mr. Mar- t
jnjles reports a heavy travel, not only
from Seattle but from other Abakan ^
cities for Seward.
Many Sewardites took their dinner
last mght standing up for the id in- *
pery ice, covered yesterday by inr.o- *
cent looking snow, proved regular <
bumping spots. Many fell several $
t;mes. The first bump brought fort i 1
various cobbed speeches, and the sec- f
ond bump, perhaps shortly after the i
first one, bought forth more lurd T
languages but the third bump knock- <
ed words ed gown vs and silence g'*eot- <
ed the thud. With all of the bem^s, 1
certain parts of one’s anatomy wr? i
naturally sore at the repeated con- 1
tacts w’th ice and an unr-r^t nos? Lon
was maintained at meal hours.
__ i
■r i ■ * m i ii ■■ ^
GRAND NAPIDS, Jla ui 20- il.e
ury has found Senator Nev.o </.
guilty of criminal conspiracy in the
1)1 S campaign. The trial has lasted
Mght weeks and started with 12.1 d
endants and closed with 85.
Sixteen of Newberry’s eighty four
0- defendants included John S. New
>erry, brother; Paul King, Newbcr
y’s manager in the campaign; Fred
’ody. Newberry’s New York legi'Ja
ure agent; Alla Templeton, President
>f the Detroit Board of Commerce;
Iann:ba! Hopkins, publicity director;
1 V. Chilson, of the National Ropub
ican headquarters* Rogers Andrew,
ublisher; Milton Oakman, Detroit
politician and Richard Fletcher, *;tate
tbor commission r.
The penalty is a $10 000 fine or
?fs two years or less imprisonment.
WASHINGTON. March 20— New
erry’s conviction docs not invalidate
1- .c'nt as Senator and ho will retain
*s orficc until the Senate acts on
TOGETHER
TOKIO, March 20— The govern
lent has instructed Yukichi Obata,
apanesc minister to Pekin, to nog >
into immediately for the speedy sot
[ement of the Shantung qucs:i
rie\vs of Japanese and Chinese com
lissioners appointed to investigate,
ave been found to concur in the main
oints. Japan is ready to make large
oncessions toward an amicable soiu
ion.
% »
IUNICIPAL CAR SYSTEM
OF SEATTLE LOSES MOinEY
SEATTLE. March 20— City Comp
rollcr Carroll estimates that the
Icattle Municipal Railway has lost
ver $.r>00.000 in the last year and lost
J08 000 in January, the February
dsscs however being larger but the
xact figures not being known. Cur
•oll says nothing has been saved to
ny $333 000 due as principal on some
if the railway bonds two years hence.
Carroll says he was never able to ob
a;n a financial statement from the
•ailway h°ads in order to comt?uto
jrofit or loss. Mayor Caldwell asked
>rroR for a report after firing
rhombs Murphine, in charge of the
nunicipal car system.
; * y Ford’s charges. It is expected
KVwbony will appeal to the supreme
court.
BULLETIN— Grand Rapids, Mich.
March 20— Late this afternoon New
berry, Cody and Ring were sentenced
to two years < aeh in the Federal Pen*
iti ntiary at Leavenworth and each
fin *<l $10 000 Charles Floyd, another
deft ndant, was sentenced to two years
;.n 1 fin.'d $5,000. Fifty seven of the
del' nalants wore acquitted.
Senator Newberry says he intends
to v pro. oit in the Senate the pe >ple
who elected him.
0..»' juryman said the defense evi
d >n-*e was a determining factor in
bringing in a wrdict of guilty. The
juryman said that King’s own ulti
mo;:/ that he told that the Newberry
cnmpa gn would cost $500,000 was
convincing.
The government had a weak case
ido .t King’s testimony and New
’/u y’s campaign lotto:s, etc.
The juryman claimed that aside
from these two points the government
hud no cure at all.
Newb rry’s wife, brother and son
we a with him when the verdict was
icad and when sentence was passed
later.
Tn i convicted men were released on
bon Is for ninety days pending an ap
pjal.
John Newberry was fined $10 0tR
T nnpleton was given one year and a
half in pr'son, Hopkins a year and ar.e
day, Chilson, a year and one day, An
dres one year and a half, Oakman a
year and a ha’f and Fletcher a year
and three months.
GENERAL STRIKE IN
BERLIN ENDED; EBERT
GOVERNMENT IN CONTROL
LONDON. March 20— The gener
al strike in Berlin is ended. The entire
Ebert government and Noske leaves
for Berlin tonight on a special train
from Stuttgart. Premier Bauer pre
ceded Ebert. Bauer has opened nego
tiations with the Unions. The SpnH
ienns have cepturod Dusscldorf on *he
Rhino The Spnrt;can avmy of 100,000
men have captured Essen. This is the
official report. It is said that a Soviet
government has been declared at Es
sen.
JACK PFMPSEY AND KFARNS
nAVE PLEA OF NOT GUILTY
S\N FRANCISCO. March 20—
Jack Dempsey and his manager
Kearns ottered a plea of not gu;lty
Mi -v of th° draft charges. Dempsey
furnished *2000 bonds. Both were
d-ess^d nett^’v and chewed gum dur
ing the court preliminaries.