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VOLUME XXIX. NUMBER 70.
SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MARCH 25,1933.
PRICE TEN CENTS
URGE PASSENGER
LISTING ON BOH 1
THE LINE! ALASKA
NORTHWARD TREK FROM THE
STATES IS UNDERWAY i
FILL BLAST
SEATTLE. March 25—The fol
lowing passengers left Seattle to
day for Seward aboard the S3.
Alaska:
J. J. Bramman, L. Wansted, Mrs.
M. Coleman, William Cook, Ernest
Peterson. A. V. Phillips. C. Durant,
Mrs. J. S. McIntosh. Mrs. M.
O’Brien, A. G. Woodley.
Harold Strandberg, Mr. and Mrs.
R. A. Melpelt, Fred Wemard, E. H.
and William Stroker, Bart Larue,
W. H. Weitman, P. Sauke, F. C.
Weiseman, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde
White, G. Lammars, H. Xavier, C.
V. Olson.
A. MacAllister, E. Gover, Mrs. A.
A. Shonbeck, Mr. and Mrs. J. A.
Gustafson, C. Ellingen and wife, J.
K. Lownes and wife, M. Drumm, M.
R. Halliday JMrs. L. Faris, Mrs. C.
C. Mespelt, A1 Jones, Jean and Mrs.
H. Staser, J. M. Nichols, J. Solberg,
J. Eckrnan. A. J. Allen, L. Grau.
H. Burge, Louise Dobrinz, J
Fowler, C. J. Newlin, J. Linehan, A.
Gibbs, Mrs. A. Semilla. Mrs. L. Tan
ner, M. L. Lattin and wife, H. Ger.
berg and wife, D. Shaw, D. La
Chance, F. Koenig, J. J. Buckley,
J. Lindstrom, Helen and Mrs. M
Jarvis, R. Velikanji, Mrs. C. May,
Mrs. L. C. Doheny, R. Holdeman.
William Red and Odin Strand
berg, W. Knight and wife, W.
Scheckert, G. Hebert, A. L. Sund
stadt, Sarah Hoffman, J. McPhee
and wife, R. D. Maddocks, A. Fred
lunds, R- Eastrom, F. Kling, H. Un
detheum, A1 Hagan, A. Osbeck.
G. Larson, Mrs. S. Adams,, G.
Robertson, G. R. Gurter and wife.
B. Marino, P. Thiebat, A. M. Carl
son, Fred Olson and wife, Mrs. M.
Heller. P. E. Lawrence and wife,
Mrs. N. I. Ward, Mrs- H. R. Jen
son H. A. Brown, Mrs. Oddie Hall
son! J. H. Langley and wife.
Miss M. Smith. Ike Hayes, Fred
Bannister, the Durant biothers,
and 33 steerage passengers.
ITEM MS USED
DISTI1E SIS MILES
KANSAS CIIY, M >„ March 25 —
The slow moving meteor that blaz
ed a trail of flame across the heav
ens, apparently was first seen over
Winslow, Ariz.. from which point
it was observed to Albuquerque,
N. M., where it fell to earth a few
miles north of Amarillo, Tex. This
report came from pilots of the
Trans-Continental Western Air
Corporation.
The pilots said they had no way
of knowing the size of the meteor,
but their accounts of it coming in
by radio indicated it was a good
sized one- The reports traced the
flight of the meteor for more than
800 miles.
, BUNK EXAMINER
SHOT B< Off 111
HEADRICK. Okla., March 25, —
W. C. “Bill” Ernest, 50, veteran
bank examiner, was shot to death
as he hung a closed sign on the
Citizens State Bank here
j. S. Brock, 36 vear-old presi
dent of the bank who once wrote
a book titled “Tribulations of a
Banker,” surrendered to officers
and insisted he fired a bullet into
Ernest’s heart in self-defense.
libiIh is
HOIST BELIEF PUN
WASHINGTON, D: C., March 25
_President Green of the American
Federaliton of Labor told a Con
gressional committee that Presi
dent Roosevelt’s plan for a civilian
conservation corps “smacks of Fa
cism, Hitlerism and a form of So
vietism.” . .. ,
Legislation to repeal the ranroad
recapture clause and give the In
terstate Commerce Coni. au
thority to regulate railroad hold
ing companies was approved bj
the House interstate commerce
committee.
THE FIRST HOMER
MIAMI, Fla., March 25, —“Babe”
Ruth hit his initial homer of the
season in an exhibition game be
tween the Yankees and the Bos-:
ton Braves. The circuit clout came |
in the fourth inning with one on.
The Yanks won 7-1.
TERRITORIAL SOLONS i
LOOK WITH IIDHS
JUNEAU, March 25.—The House j
by unanimous vote passed Green’s i
resolution urging Congress to enact;
into law the Wheeler bill tor re- j
monetization of silver. It now|
goes to the Senate.
Press announcements of a pro- j
posal to withdraw the Pacific j
Steamship lines from the Alaska
service resulted in a recommittal i
of the Green memorial urging re- I
peal of section 27 of the Merchant
Marine act of 1920.
! The memorial was yesterday re-.
! ported unfavorably and seemed
j certain of defeat, as many mem
! bers felt that local American
; transportation companies should
not be compelled to compete with
1 Canadian companies. But with
I the Pacific. Steamship interests
1 quitting the field entirely to the
i Alaska Steamship Company this
I attitude is changing somewhat,
The Senate refused to recede
j from its lower legal bank interest
j rate amendments to the Scott bill,
' and conferees were appointed.
The Senate judiciary committee
introduced 10 additional measures
repealing obselete laws or correct
ing defects in all sections of com
i piled laws, which brings the total
j number to 20 for this sort of bills.
I
j BALTIMORE, March 25. —The
j court was to be asked today to
determine what share Libby Hol
man Reynolds, Broadway “torch
singer," and her infant son. will
have of the R. J. Reynold’s tobac
co fortune. J ,
A test case was filed oy the
Safe Deposit Trust Company of
Baltimore, trustees of the Reynold
estate. - .
The estate also asks for aa m
j quiry into the validity of Libby s
I marriage to Smith Reynolds who
I w^as found fatally wounded on his
I estate near Winston-Salem on the
night of July 6; the validity of his
divorce from his first wife, and the
j status of other heirs to the estate
! which is estimated as high as $20.
! 000,000. _
IN 5BTTLE Ml DOGK
j SEATTLE. March 25, -The Amer
i ican Mail liner President Madison
I suddenly capsized at its moorings
! in the Todd dry dock here last
! night.
It keeled over after workmen,
i making repairs, had removed three
I steel plates on the starboard side.
| The cause of the accident w'as
j not immediately determined and
! it is believed that three members
1 of the crew were trapped inside;
i all others have been accounted
' for.
WASHINGTON. D. C., March 25,
_Great Britain must support the
United States in its effort to speed
. action and get tangible results
-from the world economic confer
ence if this .country is favorably
to receive ^British appeal for debt
revision. •/ .
This w&S indicated to British
Ambassador Lindsay by Secretary
of State Hull in the first of a ser
ies of preliminary conferences on
the British debt.
“BUMPED" SELF OFF
CHICAGO,/ March 25, —Ray
I mond W, Stevens, former head of
| the $140,000,000 Illinois Life Insur
j ance Company, left only $25,000
j in insurance to his family, it was
l disclosed here after a coroner’s
jury declared his death a suicide
HER BANKER
OF 11.Y- INDICTED
EVADING INCOME
MITCHELL CLAIMS HE LOST
MONEY IN 1929—FEDERALS
SAY NO
NEW YORK. March 25, —Charles
E. Mitchell, former chairman of
the board of the National City
Bank & Trust Company, was in
dicted by the Federal grand jury
on the charge of evading income
taxes in 1929 in the sum ol $573.
312.
Mitchell entered a plea of not
guilty; his bail of $10,000 on which
he was at liberty, was continued.
Mitchell contended he had a loss
in 1929 through the sale and re
purchase of National City Bank
stock. His wife was the buyer and
seller in each instance.
The government claims neither
sale or repurchase was a bonafied
transaction and contends that
Mitchell’s income for 1929 was
actually more than $2,800,000. The
court set April 3 for hearing the
motions after which the time of
the trial will be set._
PACIFIC ISLANDS CAPTURED
FROM GERMANY DURING
WORLD WAR
WASHINGTON D. C. March 25.
—Hitler’s ambition to recover the
colonies wrested from Germany by
the Allies has apparently added to
Japanese apprehension over their
mandated Pacific islands.
The Japanese navy captured the
German-owned islands soon after
she entered the war. Their strate
gic position makes them important
to Japanese naval defense. She
has repeatedly denied that she is
fortifying the islands and still
claims a mandate over them de
spite her withdrawal from the
League of Nations contending she
was granted the mandate by the
supreme allied council and not by
the league and that their mandate
is equivalent to ownership.
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1 BE TON Bi B. S.
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i
WASHINGTON D. C. March 25
—Secretary of State Hull plans to
take definite action with Germany
in connection wTith Nazi assaults
against Jews, it was indicated Fri
day by State department officials
Meanwhile, Congress moved tc
open the American immigration
gates to Jewish refugees from
Germany.
The bill, introduced by Repre
i sentative Dickstein, Democrat ol
New York, will ask President Roos
evelt to issue an executive order
lifting the immigration ban for
German Jews with relatives in the
United States.
SPECIAL “JOBS’’
OAKLAND, Calif. March 25, —
Three of the four fastest cars nov.
‘ in America will compete in the IOC
| mile AAA auto race at Oakland
1 speedway Sunday. ‘ Babe’’ Stapp
l Bob Carey, 1932 national winner
and Johnny Krieger will drive the
special jobs.
RREESMilTTEE.
REJECT 5BBSTITBT!
i ' hr:-A • >
j WASHINGTON, D. C., March 25
' —An .administration a ttempt t<
halt the Senate revolt against thi
Roosevelt farm relief program be
.gan before tbe Senate agricultura
i committee- when Gebrge N. Peek
..farm organization head,; appearee
at the request’ of Secretary o
Agriculture Wallace to defend th<
relief nlan. ■ , *
Mr. Peek urged the committee t<
reject the substitute offered b:
Chairman Smith which eliminate
the administration bills provision:
for the allotment plan and limit
processing taxes.
INSTRUCTED TO REJECT
TOKIO, March 25, —Japanese
delegates to the Geneva disarma
ment conference have been in
structed to reject many points of
| the British arms reduction foimu
! la, the vernacular press said.
MASTER LIQUOR IXJNNER WAS
FOUND DEAD ON FLOOR,
SHOT IN THE HEAD
MIDDLETOWN TOWNSHIP, N.
J.. March 25—A gigantic and mur
derous struggle for control of the
rum fleet is seen as the explana
tion for the slaying of Alexander
Lillien, called the master liquor
runner, whose death by bul
lets came at his Hilltop mansion
stronghold, from which he could
peer out over Sandy Hook where
rum vessels ply.
A mysterious telephone call to
the townshp police sent them to
the house, where they found Lillien
sprawled on the floor in the big
front hallway with three holes in
his skull. , ....
Detectives reasoned that tne kill
ers swept by the front door in an
automobile, when the bell was
rung and shot Lillien when he an
swered it.
It is said the house has been
headquarters and control point for
a large rum fleet
AMERICA WILL INSIST
RERUGTIONS HU
RESTORATION OF TRADE
WASHINGTON, D. C., March 25,
-Britain's plea for a downward
revision of war debts was carried
to the Roosevelt administration
yesterday to be met with the re -
newed indications that the United
States will insist that any reduc
tion must be balanced by definite
accomplishments for the restora
tion of world trade.
For the first time since Presi
dent Roosevelt took office, the sub
ject was broached by Sir Donald
Lindsay, British ambassador, in a
• long interview with Secretary Hull
| at the State department,
i Lindsay declined to comment
I after the conversation which last
I ed for more than an hour and a
' quarter.
CAMPS BOMBED
CHINCHOW, Manchuria, March
25, _Chinese concentrations at
Taitouying, near Chiehlingkow,
were bombed by Japanese army
planes Friday._
HDSEMM GIVEN
NEW YORK, March 25, —Maxey
itoscnbloom of New York wen the
io-ht heavyweight champ, title
>f the world beyond all question
ast night when he scored a tech
nical knockout, in four rounds,
>ver Bob Godwin, of Daytona, Fla.,
litherto recognized as the Nationaj
:hampion. . , . . ,.
Rosenbloom weighed in at 172^
md Godwin 167 Vi- The bout was a
:arce from a competitive stand
aoint. . ...
Godwin entered the ring witr
ape plastered over both eye brows
Rosenbloom quickly opened th<
wounds and Godwin fought gamely
Dut couldn’t do much under the
Handicap. _
A DAY OF PROTEST
CINCINNATI, O., March 25, -
rthodox Jews of America were
sked Friday to observe Monday
[arch 27, as a day of prayer ^nc
isting as a protest against Hit
>r atrocities,” in a proclamatior
sued by Rabbi Eliezer Saver
resident of the Orthodox Rabbis
f ■ North America.
: CZECH PARLIAMENT A BABEl
> PRAGUE, March 24, (A5)—Sever
languages are spoken in Parlia
) ment here. Czech, Slovak^ German
r Hungarian, Russian, Lithuanian;
; and Polish, and there are stenogra
5 phers for each group. Only om
> Deputy speaks in Polish but e
stenographer is on the pay roll.
LIGHT LICENSE FEE
PROBABLE IN ALASKA
FOB SALE SEER, WINE1
JUNEAU, March 25.—Legislative i
plans for the control and sale of
beer in the Territory is vague and
indefinite. Members have sent for
copies of the Washington and Cal
ifornia statutes. •
However, a general plan calls for
making beer and wine easily ac
cessible by putting on a light li
cense fee and a small tax for
revenue purposes only.
It is believed sales will be .per
mitted by hotels, clubs, drug
I stores, soft drink parlors and gro
cery stores and possibly beer par
' lors. The program should crystil
lize within 10 days.
I GREATER EXPORT THE
! SOUGHT AFTER LARGE
I CUT IN QEPSRMNT
WASHINGTON, D. C., March 25,
: —A swift moving drive for a great
i er export trade in the Western
! hemisphere was indicated by the
proposed reorganization of the
| Commerce department’s bureau of
; foreign domestic commerce auth
j oritive sources.
It was said that under the plans
i virtually completed and calling for
,sharp curtailment of the bureau,
a quest for revived international
trade will be concentrated upon.
The present bureau, which ex
i tends its arms throughout the en
! tire world, will be replaced by
four small divisions under an as
sistant director.
Ksmslii
scut pboduction
i OF SYNTHETIC RUBBED
MOSCOW, USSR, March 25, —
' Large scale production of methyl
I rubber, a synthetic product deriv
: ed from acetone, is under way in
'the U. S. S. R., it was revealed here
1 today by an offcial announcement.
Recently a Soviet engineer, Ev
reynov, discovered a process and
l an extensive experimental plant
1 is under construction for his use.
Methyl rubber is not new having
i been dscovered by the Germans
! during the World war but pro
duction costs were so high the
i plants were converted to other
! uses.
However, the Germans kept
their forumla a secret until now
having been rediscovered by Ev
reynov._ _ _
GOLD STATEMENT
I WASHINGTON, D. C., March 25,
|—Secretary of Treasury Woodin
j indicated that a statement relating
to the gold embargo would be
forthcoming probably some time
today.
ice END 'INK'
.HUM CONGRESS
WASHINGTON, D. C.. March 25,
—The House Democratic steering
committee charged with the for
mation of legislative policies,
agreed to end the ‘jamming’ of
legislation through the House un
der drastic emergency procedure.
Members said the leadership was
united in its efforts to secure the
fullest backing for President Roos
' evelt’s program despite the deci
sion to allow greater freedom of
* consideration.
Representative Crosser, veteran
Ohio Democrat, was selected as
chairman.
QRMOND BEACH, Fla., March 25,
1 —John t>: Rockefeller. Sr., -93,
swapped a ribbon for a kiss at the
. children’s annual street fair.
• “What will you give me if I give
L you this ribbon,” he asked little
Mercedes Dickey, costume prize
- winner. .
» The little girl replied by throw
■ ing her arms about Rockefeller’s
- neck and kissing him. Gallantly
. Rockefeller returned the favor by
kissing her hand.
ORDER FORESHADOWS GRAVE
EVENTS IN THE PALATINE
STATE
BERLIN. March 25.—Hitler’s le
galized four-year term as dictator
began with one of the western Ger
man states taking action which is
expected to lead to expulson of all
eastern Jews within its borders.
The legislative bodies of both
the German Reich and its greatest
unit. Prussia, has been indefinite
ly suspended.
The signature of the president to
the decrees, which hitherto was
required for enactment, is no long
er necessary as a result of the
Reichstag’s action Thursday in
granting absolute power to the
Chancellor.
In the palatine state, lying be
tween the Rhine and the French
frontier, orders were issued that no
bank or postal funds be delivered
to Eastern jews and be invoked
until they settle all business obli
Rations, foreshadowed a general
expulsion order.
AMSTERDAM, March 25, —The
German embassy here ran up the
Swastika flag of the Nazis and
police had some difficulty dispers
ing a crowd of angry Communists
who tried to remove it in the af
ternoon.
A German resident displayed
the Nazi flag outside his own
house but the police made him
take it down to prevent; a disturb
ance.
A movement to unite the Jews
of Holland for the purpose of help
ing Jews in Germany has been
launched by a number of promi
nent Dutch Jews.
• BEST OF OFFICIALS
BERLIN, March 25, — Arrests cf
leading associates of President
Paul von Hindenburg in his 1932
election campaign against Ado!'
Hitler have created a new sensa
tion in Berlin.
The arrests are concerned witn
alleged diversion of funds to aid
political ends.
Gunther Gerke, commissioner ot
employment in the Hitler cabinet,
was arrested Thursday nght and
immediately taken into court on
a charge of “suspicion of embez
zlement.”
He was von Hindenburg h cam
paign manager in the presidential
election and is known to be a close
friend of the President.
FRENCTIiSEir
BARRIERS PNST U. S.
_
PARIS, March 25, —The French
, government raised new barriers
I against American manufacturers
and announced that others are ir.
i preparation under a degree pub
1 lished in the official journal.
]. a wide range of foreign proc
I ucts in which Americans are par
! ticularly interested was placed un
der the quota license system pend
ing enactment bf new tariff in
creases.
I 1 CHINCHOW. Manchuria, March
125, -*-A vigorous assault against
the Nakamuras portals of the
''Great Wall was opened at dawn by
3,000 Chinese troops.
The counter-attack precipitated
the heaviest fighting in several
days as Japanese forces massed
to repeal the drive.
Airplane reinforcements were
dispatched from other sectors to
spur the Chinese onslaught.
PUBLIC DANCE TONIGHT I. 0. 0. F. HALL