MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXVIII. NUMBER 56.
SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, MARCH 8. 1932.
PRICE TEN CENTS
LAZARUS AT THE
RICH MAN’S TABLE
* in. taking the cudgel on behalf
of Alaskan Bureau’s Stroller’s
Weekly says:
•‘These bureaus were placed here
by a benign Congress which fur
nishes the funds to operate them,
all without cost to the Territory.
Does Stroller’s wish us to under
stand that these bureaus are self
i sustaining and not supported out
of the current receipts of the Unit
States Treasury? If so, why is
jt that the nation’s greatest states
men and economists are now di
recting attention to the enormous
costs of bureaus and commissions |
n an effort to thwart an optics- ;
-ive upping of national taxes?
Let us take the Interstate Com-'
fierce Commission as an illustra
tion for the whole.
Established in 1887. by 1900 it
iad expanded to three commis
sions holding extra-legislative and
administrative powers and a salary
list of 11 commissioners drawing
$12,000 each or $120,000 annually
and with commissioners’ salaries,
totaled $820,000. By 1923 there were
33 of these commissions, their
cost with that of other extra-con
stitutional bodies amounting to
$550,000,000 per year.
In the words of the Senatorial
Alaska Investigation committee:
"Who pays for this?”
Unfortunately, despite efforts to
secure the figures, it is impossible
to segregate at once the items em
ii^iced in bureaucratic costs, but
when it is considered that the fun
gas growth outside the intent and
wording of the Constitution has
reached the number of 600,000 one
begins to grasp the magnitude of
the noxious growth now all but
strangling free government as conr
ceived by the Fathers of the Re
< public.
Does Stroller’s wish to tell us
that the sum of $190,298.88, given
to the Territory in 1931 by the
Forestry Bureau would equal the
taxes returned if this resource was
publicly owned and thus subject
to taxation?
Is ten billion feet of pulpwood
4*n an area capable of sustaining
5,0Q0t settlers, tied up under bur
eaucratic regulation from Wash
ington, more valuable to the Terri
tory as a revenue source if these
5,000 settlers were paying taxes on
an average valuation of $2,000 per
3 60 acres of timber, together with
improvements, such as homes, mills,
woodworking establishments and
attendant business institutions ser
ving this community? Multiply this
by the coal areas, oil areas and the
reserves choking every town along
the coast of Alaska from the hin
; derland and the waterfront and
attempt to compute possible tax
able revenue and increment and
one begins to see why bureaucracy
is the primary stagnator of Alas
kan progress.
Under private ownership could
4 the Cameron-Zellerbach interests
tied up for all these years since se
curing their permit, the vast for
ests about Ketchikan and Juneau?
The best comparative figures
available are those for Washing
ton, Oregon and Idaho, which com
pare favorably with Alaska in
point of resources save being a
contigious portion of continen
tal United States. The assessed
wealth of these three states ex
ceeds fifteen billion dollars. From
these free resources such cities as
Tacoma, Seattle, Portland and mul
tiple other communities have grown
up, while Alaska has alternately
forged a step ahead, and slipped
back, because she had only 10 per
cent of her natural resources with
which to trade.
4 Stroller’s maintains that "were
the appropriations for these Bur
eaus withdrawn and Alaska left to
hold the sack, there would be a
much greater howl over adminisw
trative neglect.”
True. But if bureaucracy as a
governing and trustee organization
of Alaskan resources was removed
it can develop itself to a point
where it, unlike the proposal of
Stroller’s, could take its place as
^ a self-supporting nation rather
than stand wdth a hand extended
- in a sycophantic mein, craving
alms from a gracious sovereign.
Alaska has been “holding the
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CHICAGO GIG SAID TO
BE MAPPERS OF THE
COL. LINDBERGH'S DAB)
CHICAGO, Mar. 8.—Police Lieut
enant Cussak, of the Chicago po
lice, Monday made the statement
that a Chicago gang of extortion
ists were the ones who kidnapped
the Lindbergh 20-months-old baby
Tuesday, March. 1.
Cussak also said that the gang j
which kidnapped the child includ- j
ed two men and two women. He ;
said that he had identified two of j
the gang but refused to reveal their ^
I identity. The kidnappers will take:
| good care of the child, he said.
| Regarding the best method of!
! having the child returned imme- j
j diately, Cussak said that this could j
best be accomplished without the I
aid of police. The police force at
the Lindbergh estate has been re
duced to the minimum after the
New Jersey officer in charge had I
volunteered to withdraw some of
the policemen should Colonel Lind
bergh so desire.
Accordingly, the police force was
reduced so that the kidnappers
might more easily communicate
with Lindbergh and bring about a
return of the kidnapped child.
CHINESE HIST JAPS
SHANGHAI, Mar. 8.—Warlike ac
tivities are continuing in the Yang
tze valley with both the Japanese
and Chinese claiming that the
other is responsible for the skir
mishing.
’ The Chinese claim that the Jap
anese are continuing their offen
sive to push them back farther out
of the city of Shanghai so that
the Japanese can have a clear field
of action to carry out any future
campaigns. The Chinese also insist
that Japan intends to push on to
ward Nanking.
Meanwhile, the Japanese leaders
claim that the Chinese are respon
jsible for the renewed fighting and
{that all Japanese forces could do
! is to defend themselves.
i STORMS ON ATLANTIC
! TAKE TOLL OF VESSELS
I NEW YORK, Mar. 8. — A storm
J which, menaced the Atlantic Coast
i Sunday night and again Monday
night has been of considerable
menace to ocean ships and two are
reported missing.
Another steamer, a lumber car
rier, is reported to have become
water logged from the heavy seas
and it is only her cargo of lumber
j that is keeping the vessel afloat.
J Two other vessels are reported
I to be sinking. Rescue vessels are
J standing by both of these latter
two stricken craft.
MONSTER SHARK
SANTA CRUZ, Calif., Mar. 8.—
I Sightseers here for the next sev
eral days may view the rtlonster
shark which was caught by fisher
men and left on the beach near
here. The shark weighs six tons
and is 32 feet long.
TWENTY-EIGHT LOSE
LIVES EASTERN STORM
NEW YORK. Mar. 8. (/P)— The
season’s most savage storm cost 28
lives. Five Coast Guardsmen were
lost'while hunting for a schooner
off New Jersey.
The storm took seven lives in
Maryland where snowdrifts iso
lated towns; also in New York,
Pennsylvania and other States.
Three vessels are unreported off
Virginia and Carolina.
A crew of 34 on the collier De
i bardeleben, formerly the Bremer -
| ton, built in Seattle, are preparing
■ to abandon the ship after losing
ithe mdder off Nantuckett.
A Fisherman s Dream
■
The other day running home from Unga in my power dory, I must
have been asleep and dreaming; I fancied I could understand the fish
language and to be able to carry on a conversation with them. Pass
ing Kelly’s Rock fish trap, I saw a commotion in the traplead; a school
of salmon was jumping and splashing in an extraordinary manner.
I hailed a straggler coming out and said: “You fellers is raising the
devil in there; you are throwing up your heels the same as we do on
dry land when we are on a sourdough jamboree; you must be celebrat
ing something?”
“No,” he said, “we are not on a drunk, nor celebrating anything,
but we are having a meeting; representatives from every salmon-tribe
i on the coast have met here to discuss different things. We have just
| passed a resolution to send a delegation to Washington to petition the
! president to have a law passed by Congress to compel trap-owners to
! put an Ikon inside the jigger of every fish trap with O’Malleys picture
; in it.” _____ ,
“Have you no Ikons of your own
and what do you want O’Malley’s
j picture in your Ikons for?” I asked
him.
“Yes.” he said, “we have Ikons
of our own but left them behind in
j our homes of the deep for our de
scendants to worship, and beside
that we have only Christ’s or His
mother’s picture in our Ikons; here,
we want O’Malley’s picture to wor
ship while we are waiting for the
trap-tunnel to open so we can go
through and proceed to our spawn
ing grounds.”
“And what is the reason you are
going to worship O’Malley?” I ask
ed him. t I
“He is doing a lot of things for
us,” he replied. “He is putting a
limit outside of every creek to stop
the fishermen from using their nets
and seines, and he allows traps to
be driven across otir runways for
our protection.”
‘You mean for your destruction?”
I said.
‘No, no! For our protection. We
are sure of that. The traps are
killing our enemies; we see thous
ands of silverhakes, codfish and
halibut sinking to the bottom
around the traps dead, but we see
no dead salmon among them.”
‘You are a lot of deluded fools,”
I said, “the traps are nothing but
a delusion and a snare. If you
: know what is awaiting you on the j
other side of the trap-tunnel, you j
1 would turn tail and run back to j
i where you came from, like hell bent ■
| for election.”
“Who are you anyway who pre- j
j tend to know so much and under- ,
! takes to advise us about things we i
; ought to know more about than j
you?” he asked.
“I am a fisherman located up the 1
strait at a place unkind people call!
‘Harclstretch’," I answered.
“You must be the guy the trap- j
gang from Sauaw Harbor are talk- j
ing about. They claim you are a j
fish pirate and have slaughtered
tens of thousands of us,” he said. !
“That may be so,” I replied, “but j
I am treating you far better than
the cannery does, which gets the
fish from this trap; they daughter
you, put you into tin cans, boil
! you and send you all over the world
| to be eaten by all kinds of people; j
j even Chinamen will eat you. It
seems to me the worst disgrace
possible that can befall a respect
able salmon—to be put into a tin
can, boiled, then eaten by a China
man. I am treating you far better
than that; I put you into barrels,
put white salt and brine on you
and send you down to the States
to be eaten by good looking white
people, like myself.”
“You call yourself a good-look
ing man,” he said. “You look like
an old crab to me, and I think you
are as bad as you look. The fact
is, you are a self-confessed fish
pirate, and I will have you in the
Unga jail before I am through with
you. You claim to he a fisherman,
and as far as I can judge you are
alive; if you have been a law-abid
ing fisherman you would have been
starved to death long ago. Can
you name a single place along the
coast and around these islands
wrhere you can get a salmon with
the fishing gear you are allowed
to use and not go to jail if you are
caught taking it?”
I was by this time boiling with
wrath over his insults; to be called
(Please ttirn to Pape Tfe/ee)
NOTCHED BE POLICE
WITH NIL INTEREST
new YORK, Mar. 8.—Inasmuch
as Salvatore Spitale and Irving
Bitz, New York underworld figures,
•were named by Colon ’ Charles A.
Lindbergh as "go-t> eens” be
tween himself and f kidnappers
of the Lindbergh ba the move
ments of these m v, - are being
watched with casual interest.
Spitale Monday afternoon enter
ed the Pennsylvania Railroad sta
tion here and left on the train for
jan unannounced destination. When
jhe was asked as to where he was
| going he refused to answer.
Spitale has been identified as a
'former cafeteria bouncer and both
he and Bitz have no real police
record. They had been connected
with a couple of shooting affairs
but because of insufficient evidence
they both were exonerated of all
connection with the shootings.
LARGEST STUFF OF
HOPEWELL, N. J., Mar. 8. UP)—
Police revealed that they are still
investigating the possibility of some
| member of the Lindbergh house
hold being involved in the kidnap
! ping of the baby but declined to
i say if the nurse, the butler or the
| butler’s wife were exonerated.
Declaring the investigation as in
| complete, Governor Moore said po
lice will not open mail addressed
to the Lindberghs.
The largest staff of news writers
and photographers ever concen
| trated on a single story, not ex
| eluding the World War, added to
the resources of the search.
WITHHOLDS ACTION
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 8. (/P)
—Lest they frighten the abductors
of the Lindbergh baby and delay
his safe return, the Senate Judi
ciary Committee withheld action
on a bill to make kidnapping across
State lines a Federal crime and
punishable by death.
OUT PERTINENT PICT
CHICAGO, Mar. 8. </P) — Doctor
Frederick Cook, now 66, who claim
ed to be the discoverer of the North
poles are moving northeastward,
fession of medicine here, is plan
ning to move to Long Island.
He says: "We need a trip to solve
the secret of the magnetic pole and
need a permanent settlement there
with an airport to find out why the
poles re moving northeaseward.
“It is a man’s job now, not to
hunt for new land, but to make
better use of what we already have
found.”
FINLAND QUIETING
HELSINGFORS, Finland, Mar. 8.
—The Finnish government has
completed the arrest of the Lappo
leaders responsible for the uprising
to oust Communist members from
their governmental seats and it is
said that their many followers
have agreed to disarm. Treason
charges will be made against the
Fascist leaders, numbering six, for
their activities in stirring up the
people against the government.
SEWARD HI FIELD
WITH LITTLE WORK BE !
MADE ONE OF THE BEST
The nucleus for one of the finest
| aviation fields in Alaska is here in
! Seward, says Pilot H. W. Barnhill,
j of the Barnhill & McGee Airways,
| who arrived yesterday from An
! chorage.
The present high trees on the
north end of the field should be
felled to the creek, but it is not
necessary to clear this area away,
he said. Palling these trees will
give planes ample clearance, north
ward, whereas at present, the pre
vailing down-drafts from the val
ley and mountains hold planes
down to a low altitude until the
creek is reached.
A gentle fill should be made from
the field to the radio road, thence
clearing southward to the beach,
thereby, at small expense, doub
ling the length of the field and
making it suitable to both land and
sea planes.
More planes will be purchased by
Barnhill & McGee and additional
pilots will be added. Besides him
self, two pilots are now attached
to the company, A[ J. Valley and
E. Call. Pilot Valley is now on a
flight in the Kuskokwim and Call
is based at Anchorage.
DONE IS CHOICE FOR
I
j SEATTLE, Mar. 8.—Today is elec
i tion day in Seattle and voters are
' expected to flock to the election in
! record numbers to cast their ballots
i for their favorite choice for mayor, j
! The betting odds are given as 10!
to one that John F. Dore, criminal
| lawyer of note, will’be elected over
Robert H. Harlan, union leader.
Both candidates wound up an
intensive campaign in which they
! have sought to corral Seattle’s j
t votes Monday evening.
TRICK TO GAIN DELAY
IN PURSRIT ATTEMPTS
LOS ANGELES, Mar. 8.—Bandits
frequently have used the trick of
throwing out nails and tacks in the
highway to puncture the tires of
pursuing police automobiles, but
the bandits who robbed Chris Hos
ier, of San Diego, had an entirely
new puncture trick.
The bandits held up Hosier in
Los Angeles, took $7 away from
him, forced him to take off his
shoes which they carried away with
them and sprinkled broken glass
on the ground all around the bare
foot man before they departed.
Hosier stood surrounded by glass
and called lustily until help came
with shoes.
THREAT INVESTIGATED
TOKYO, Mar. 8.—A threat to as
sassinate United States Ambassa
dor Cameron Forbes and blow tip
the United States Embassy here is
being investigated by police, it was
learned. The investigation, it was
learned, revolves about a letter
sent to Forbes, threatening to kill
him and destroy the Embassy.
REVOLT IN BRAZIL
BUENOS AIRES, Mar. 8.—A revo
lution has broken out in Porto
Alegre and Sao Paulo, Brazil, ac
cording to word reaching here.
FRANCE 10 IK!
GIVING JAPAN MORAL
BACKING. I1CII1ED
LEAGUE COMMISSION ARRIVES
IN SHANGHAI TO STUDY
SITUATION
WASHINGTON, D. C., Mar. 8.—
Indications that Great Britain and
France are supporting Japan, at
least to the extent of a certain
amount of moral backing, have cast
a shadow across the Far Eastern
stage.
The price of this support appar
ently is the abandonment of the
Yangtze Valley as a Sino-Japanese
battlefield. Unless the Chinese
throw a monkey-wrench into the
works, Japan is expected to shortly
transfer her military and political
activities in China to another ter
raSin.
This compliance with Anglo
French desires, it is believed, will
make it possible for these two
countries to prevent the League of
Nations assembly, now in session at
Geneva, doing anything drastic
against Japan.
If the Shanghai truce material
izes, France and Great Britain are
expected to block any very definite
action bearing on Manchuria and
Mongolia until the League commis
sion, appointed months ago but
which 'arrived at Shanghai last
week, can make its report. •
The report, according to members
of the commission, will take a long
time, perhaps a year, to produce.
JOBLESS MARCH OH
FOOD PLANT: PRESENT
OEMS EDO WORK
DETROIT, Mich., Mar. 8.—Three
thousand jobless automobile work
ers assembled in a mob and march
ed down to the Ford company plant
to present their demands for work.
At the entrance of the plant a
demonstration occurred which re
sulted in four persons being killed,
i and 50 injured.
The rioters inflicted considerable
damage to the windows and fences
around the property and the police
were compelled to use tear gas
bombs and their clubs in dispers
ing the mcb. The mob threw
stones at the policemen.
The police finally dispersed the
mob but four dead and. a number
! of wounded were the casualties of
the mob and the policemen escaped
with a few sore heads. It is claim
ed that the mob was incited by
“red” agitators. Thirty-one per
sons are under arrest. Five Com
munist leaders are sought..
NEW BATTLE LINE
SHANGHAI, Mar. 8. (/P)— Neutral
mediators who have not met for
several days gathered to renew ef
forts to put an end to the fighting
at a meeting on a British warship.
Meanwhile, a new offensive of ma
jor character is reported develop
ing a new battle line northwest of
Shanghai where both armies are
strengthening their positions.
BOY RETURNED
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Mar. 8.—
James Dejute, 12-year-old son of
a Niles contractor, kidnapped from
near his home Wednesday morn
ing, was returned to his parents
shortly1 before noon, after officers
had found him in a secret tunnel
at an- alleged gambling resort, near
here. Two men, believed by 1)0110©
to be the kidnappers, were captured
by a posse of six officers.
BIG STILL FOUND
i SAN JOSE, Calif., Mar. 8.—A huge
still, capable of turning out 1,000
gallons daily of the “liquid that
cheers,” was raided by officers
Monday. Two men have been ar
rested in connection with the op
eration of the alcohol manufactur
ing plant.