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VOLUME XVI. NUMBER 78. SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY APR,IL 10, 1931.
PRICE TEN CENTS
THE LEGISLATURE
JUNEAU, April 10 (Special to
The Gateway)—The House pass
ed the Winn community property
measure as amended to make it
elective and classying unpatented
mining claims, fish traps and
trap sites as personal property. It
now goes to the Senate where it’s
passage is regarded as assured.
The House also passed the meas
ure appropriating $6,000 for war
ble fly and other reindeer para
site investigations; also a measure
alloting a few hundred dollars for
repairs and maintenance of the
Rampart-Eureka Creek telephone
line.
Zeigler introduced a measure
empowering mayors of cities of
first class to appoint, with advice
and consent of the city council,
various officers, including* the city
clerk, magistrate, chief of police
and treasurer and to discharge
them for cause. The measure
would not be effective, if passed,
until after the municipal elections
of 1932.
McDonald introduced a bill ap
propriating $1,009 to advertise
the Pacific-Yukon Highway pro
ject.
Abolition of the primary law
as a party affair is contained in
a measure by Sundquist and which
provides for a non-partisan pri
mary wTith all candidates on the
same ticket and the high candi
dates, regardless of party, enter
ing the runoff in the general elect
ion. This measure is modeled af
ter the California system and also
provides for a party election for
a national committeeman and del
egates to National conventions.
Any candidate receiving 69 per
cent of tiie total vote for office
to which he aspires, w*ould be the
only one to have his name print
ed on the official ballots for the
general election; but this w'ould
not operate to prevent writing in
other names; the measure would
require independent candidates to
file at the same time as party can
didates w’hich is the first Tues
day in February.
Senator Dimond introduced a
measure precribing a 38-hour
week for Territorial employees and
allowing them an annual 30-day
leave and also a two weeks annual
sick leave.
BED FI5R DOIT
MONROE MS 1EHD:.
CUT. IDD CREW SIFE
JUNEAU, April 10, (JP)—The mys
terious disappearance last Febru
ary of the fishing power boat
Monroe, bound for Seward from
Juneau, was explaned when Col
lector of Customs McBride re
ceived word from Katalla that
the craft was wrecked March 21
on a reef on the southeast end of
Wingham Island.
Captain O. P Brown and the
crew of three men reached shore
safely and are now at a fox ranch
on the island.
The Monroe is a total loss.
The coast guard vessel Talla
poosa may go for the marooned
men. The Monroe was a vessel of
34 gross tons.
BILLIONS IN GRAFT
ALBANY, N. Y., April 10, (JP)—
Racketeering is costing the peo
ple of the United States between
12 and 18 billion dollars a year,
the New York State crime com
mission declared in it’s annual re
port filed with the legislature.
SPIIHNEO SUITOR KILLS
43 YEIR-OLO DIVORCEE
AFTER BITTER QUARREL
SAN FRANCISCO, April 10. </P)
—A party ended in tragedy here
when a rejected fiance shot to
! death Mrs. Selma Brown, aged 43
divorcee, and then sent u- bullet
into his own head.
The jpurneo suitor li r»rl Go
bin, 35 years of age, residing in |
| a rooming house conducted by Mrs.
Brown at 1027 Eliis St. He is re
ported unconscious and dying
I at Cential Emergency Hospital
! The tragedy was ;hj aftermath
| of a bitter quarrel and, according
to Inspector Harry Ku>tei ot the
homocide squad, the rejcct2d suit
or lay in wait lor her for several
hours. As she retarded home with
|a lady friena.-lorn sprang into
j the hallway i om tils room and
|shot her twice vdthvit wxd.
LEFT 111 IIS IKE
RENO, Nev., April 10, (JP)—A
motorcycle without a rider ran
wild sending passersby into a
scramble and leaving destruction
in its uncertain rush down Reno’s
principal business thoroughfare,
j Janies Mortinsen was riding
nonchalantly down the street when
he failed to notice a rope which
was put in place by a construction
crew. The rope hurled him 30
feet into the air and sent the
motorcycle roaring at 50 miles an
hour.
DO GAMBLING WHEELS,
CARDS, DICE AT BOULDER
NEW YORK, April 10. {&)—Nick
Lef fingwell, sagebrush promoter of
Chuckaluck, faro, fantan, pan
glngi, roulette, klondyke and craps,
[is nursing here in New York a
headache transmitted under gov*
ernment seal from Washington.
Lef fingwell has just been polite
ly, but explicitly, informed that re
gardless of Nevada’s new law leg
alizing gambling, not a wheel will
rill and not a cube will gallop in
Boulder City, the model govern
ment town, to house the workmen
building Hoover Dam.
COURT OFFICIALS ARRIVE
For the purpose of hearing a
few naturalization cases, Federal
Judge E. Coke Hill and court offi
cials arrived from the Valdez
headquarters today on the SS
Alaska. The party returns to Val
dez on the same liner. Included
were District Attorney W. N. Cud
dy, U. S. Marshal Harvey P. Sulli
van, Assistant U. S. District At
torney J. L. Reed and Miss Anna
May Dolan, court stenographer.
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SPEAKER OF HOUSE.
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FEW MEN IN CONGRESS COULD
BOAST OF GREATER POP
ULARITY
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 10.(/P)
—Nicholas Longworth, speaker of
the House, died at 10:49 yesterday
morning. Only his amazing vital
ity, his physician said, kept him
alive • during the previous night
and until death. Mr. Longworth
was taken ill Monday with pneu
monia in one lung.
Mrs. Longworth, the former
Alice Roosevelt, daughter of the
President, and friend of Mrs. James
F. Curtis, at whose home he con-;
traded the disease, was at the
bedside. His daughter, Paulina,
was not with him.
Forty-eight hours after the di
sease had been diagnosed, physi
cians admitted his condition was
desperate.
Nicholas Longworth was round
ing out his 20th year as a mem
ber of the House of Representa
tives when he was selected in 1925
by his Republican colleagues, who
held a safe majority for the 68th
Congress, as their candidate for
speaker.
This honor came after a steady
push toward the top through the
various stages of apprenticeship as
a “boy” representative from Ohio,
distinguished service on the power
ful wrays and means committee,
and one term as the majority
floor leader. It also assured Ohio,
which had furnished the Union
seven Presidents, its first speaker,
since the early eighties when Gen
eral J. Warren Keifer wielded the
gavel, the first Ohioan to preside
over the House.
Bom with wealth, position on
November 5, 1869, in Cincinnati,
his home ever since, Mr. Long
worth, after attending Franklin
school there, was graduated in 1891
from Harvard. He spent one year
in Harvard Law School, then trans
ferred to the Cincinnati Law
School, graduating from that in- j
stitution in 1894.
Although admitted to the bar,
he did not practice to any extent. I
Instead he became interested'' in
civic affairs, and soon was im
mersed in politics in the city over
which “Boss" Cox then held sway.
Despite his persistent inclination
to remain “regular” in political
controversies, he declined to take
dictation from the Cox organiza
tion, and never was identified
closely with it.
After serving as a member of
the Cincinnati school board, he
was elected to the Ohio House of
Representatives. Later he became
a member of the Ohio Senate,
serving there with Warren G.
Harding and forming a friendship
with the future President which
continued until Mr. Harding's
death.
Elected to the 58th Congress in
1902, when only 33 years of age,
Mr. Longworth first served as a
member of the foreign affairs
committee.
As a young Representative, Mr.
Longworth courted Alice Roosevelt,
daughter of the President, and
their wedding in the East Room of
the White House on February 17,
1906, was a brilliant affair, wit
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SPENDING $100,000,000
WASHINGTON, April 10, (£>)—.
The Pennsylvania Railroad has in- !
formed the Interstate commerce
commission that it intends to
spend “well over $100,000,000 for
additions and betterments to its
properties and those of subsidiary
companies in the current year.”
PROPOSED DILL WOOED
ONE 1992 VOTERS
DECIDE ON DOT LI
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SACRAMENTO, April. 10. (JP)—
Peter B. Kyne, author, is to aid
anti-prohibitionists in their hear
ing of the wet Senate bills. Senator
Tallant Tubbs, of San Francisco,
announced that Kyne has definite
ly agreel to speak in behalf of the
anti-phrohibition measures at a
public hearing.
Senators Tubhs and Thomas
Maloney have introduced bills to
provide for a referendum of the
prohibition question.
Maloney’s bill would have vo
ters decide in 1932 whether the
Eighteenth Amendment be repeal
ed, amended or retained. Tubb’s
would repeal outright the State’s
Wright Enforcement Act.
CHICAGO, April 10. (£>)—A1
“Scarface” Capone, first by num
ber and firts by reputation among
Chicago’s 28 public enemies, was
freed today of charges that he was
a vagrant.
The boss of Chicago’s bootleg
beer, whose name led the Chicago
crime commission’s list of gang
sters most inimical to the city’s
welfare, defeated the vagrancy
charge issued by Judge John H.
Lyle in his short-lived crusade
against crime.
STAR ENTERS CONVENT
NEW YORK, April 10. (/P)—Dor
othy Knapp, Atlantic City beauty
contest winner and star of the Earl
Carrol ‘‘Vanities,” is to enter a
convent in Mexico, it was revealed
by close friends here.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Seattle 5, Los Angeles 6.
Missions 3, Oakland 2.
Portland 5, Frisco 3.
Hollywood 0, Sacramento 5.
AL CARET NOME WINNER
NOME, April 10, (£>)—A1 Carey
of Nome won the Nome-Golovin
dog derby race first prize of
$1,000 covering the 158 mile
course in 16 hours, 26 minutes and
42 seconds. Carey won last year’s
race, also.
NO JAIL FOR DRUNKS
CORALVILLE, Iowa* April 10. (/P)
— Maybe Mayor Edward Koener
was a bit hasty when he ordered
the Jail burned down recently be
cause Coralville had been crime
less for 25 years. The other night
six vagrants came to town and'
made so merry with alcoholic bev
erages that it was necessary to
have deputy sheriffs take them
over to Iowa City where there is
still a Jail.
SUMMED VISITORS TO
ALASKA INCLUDE MANY
NATIONAL FIGURES
The following people will visit
Alaska this summer, according to
information sent to The Gateway
from Washington, D. C. by Ernest
Walker Sawyer, Department of In
terior official and king-pin of all
Alaska publicity men:
Katherine Cook, bureau of edu
cation special problems, will leave
for Nome and intermediate points
the latter part of April.
Brenson DeCue, 213 William St.,
East Orange, N. J., leaves Vancou
ver May 26, arriving in Fairbanks
June 9. Mr. DeCue is a lecturer
and writer of importance.
Los Angeles Changer of Com
merce, party of 200, leaves Seat
tle June 12 for Anchorage and
Fairbanks.
California Sierra Club leaves
Seattle July 6, via Canadian Na
tional for Skagway and Atlin, for
Fairbanks.
Horace N. Albright, drector of
National Parks, ‘expects to leave.
Seattle June 12 for Mt. McKinley.
Henry Scattergood, Indian af
fairs,' may leave Seattle about
June 12.
Arthur H. Merritt of Franklin P.
Shumway Company, 453 Washing
ton St., Boston, Mass., leaves about
June 20 for Fairbanks and the in
terior. Mr. Merritt is a noted lec
turer on National Parks, etc.
The following senators will also
visit Alaska about the end of June
Senator Frederic C. Wolcott of
Connecticut, Senator Peter Nor
beck of South Dakota, and Senator
Key Pitman of Nevada. They are
members of the Committee of Wild
Life Resources. Mr. Carl Shoe
maker will accompany them as exe
cutive secretary.
Senator Norbeck is no the fol
lowing committees: Agriculture
and forestry, banking, education,
Indian affairs, and chairman of
wild life resources.
Senator Norbeck is on hte fol
lowing committees: Banking, agri
culture, library, pensions, public
lands, and special committee on
wild life resources.
Senator Norbeck is on the fol
lowing committees: Foreign rela
tions, Interstate Commerce, recla
mation, mines, public lands, terri
tories, and wild life resources.
The following representatives will
leave for Alaska on July 11:
Don B. Colton of Utah, Addison
T. Smith of Idaho, Scott Leavitt of
Montana, William R. Wood of In
diana, Frank Murphy of Ohio, Wil
liam H. Hastings of Oklahoma.
Representative Smith is on the
following committees: Chairman
of committee of public lands, ex
penditures in executive depart
ments, irrigation and reclamation,
and roads.
Representative Smth is on the
following committees: Chairman of
committee on irrigation and recla
mation, civil service, and public
lands.
Representative Leavitt is on the
following committees: Indian af
fairs, immigraton and naturaliza
tion, irrigation and reclamation, and
public lands.
Representative Wood is chairman
of the appropriations committee.
Representative Hastings is on
the appropriations committee.