Seward, the Alaska City of Opportunity
VOLUME XVI. NUMBER 16.
SEWARD, ALASKA, TUEDAY, JANUARY 20, 1931.
PRICE TEN CENTS
ME pm TO
SNOOPERS FAVORED
BY COMMISSION
IAW ENFORCEMENT COMMIT
TEE ENTIRELY AT SEA,
REPORT REVEALS
WASHINGTON, Jan., 20, (/P)—
The majority of the law enforce
ment commission found prohibi
tion sufficiently wanting to war
rant a change but was unable
to agree unanimously.
The Wickersham commission
embodied its views in an even i
dozen conflicting reports all giv- j
en to Congress by President
Hoover.
The report of the whole com-!
mission is a compromise. In the
individual reports two asked for
outright repeal, four favored
modification, two for a further;
trial with some form of refer-!
endum, while the remaining j
advocated a continued trial with j
intensified enforcement.
With one exception, the entire'
commission agreed that if the
constitution is revised that it;
^ould be best to strike out the!
absolute banning of liquor and:
give Congress the responsibility
for the new solution.
Although Lehman and Baker
recommended repeal, the com
mission. on the whole, rejected i
repeal or restoration of the sa- ,
loon; it opposed modification, i
permitting light wines and beer,
After declaring there was not ;
adequate observance or enforce
ment. the commission recom
mended increase in the Justice'
department and customs biroau
personnel to prosecute violators
That the law should be amend
ed to clarify the status of cider
■M fruit juices by making a more
uniform provision for fixed al
coholic content; more latitude
for federal searches and seizures
and opposed unlimiting doctors
:n the amount of liquor for
prescriptions.
Judge Anderson of Virginia
offered the suggestion gov
ernment controlled liquor sales,
as a solution, and called the Swe
dish system by far the most suc
cessful of any form of control.
Under this plan Congress would,
create a bi-partisan commission
:o regulate all dealings and fix
prices. Congress would also cre
ate a national corporation, all
the stock to be privately owned,
:o manufacture, import and ex
port and transport all alcoholic
beverages sold in the United
States.
They could not ship liquor in
to those states desiring prohibi
tion and local option could be
established by communities as
well as states.
The entire report said the
price at which liquor could be
obtained, proved that the dry
-aw is unenforced.
AGREE TO VOTE
WASHINGTON, Jan., 20, (&)—
Heed’s proposal to postpone the
relief measure was overruled on
point order by Vice-president Cur
tis as the senate had agreed to
*>'Ote today.
TREATMENT SUCCESSFUL
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20. (/P) —
Trustees of the estate of Horace
^md John Dodge filed protest
against the $11,000,000 tax as
sessment levied on sale of Dodge
Motor Company to Dillon, Reed
and Company in 1929 for $146,
000,000. Trustees claim that the
taxes should have been $3,500 -
000.
ONE BLOW WAS STRUCK
TORONTO, Jan., 20, (A5)—Bil
ly Townsend, Vancouver, B. C.,
welterweight, knocked out Jackie
Horner of St. Louis after 35 sec
onds of fighting.
Flora OIL FINANCE
C11LE0 TO IT IN
RECEIVERSHIP MATTE!
LOS ANGELES, Calif., Jan., 20.
OP)-The sensational rise of the
Richfield Oil Company of Cali
fornia from a small, organization
to one of the largest on the
Pacific Coast in a period of five
years ended when the firm was
placed in receivership on a pe
tition of the Republic Supply
Company.
Petitioners estimated the assets
at $120,000,000 and liabilities at
$35,000,000. William McDuffie was
appointed receiver in equity on a
bond of $3,500,000. said to be the
largest ever required by a federal
judge in Los Angeles.
The receivership came as a
I climax to rumors in the past week
| which sent Richfield common on
the Los Angeles and San Fran
cisco stock exchanges below three
dollars a share.
WILL EXHIBIT IBISES
PREHISTORIC BUST
CORDOVA, Jan., 20, (/Pi—Jerry
O’Leary, owner of the Glacier Is
land pike whale, refused the
government’s offer and sold the
bones to Thomas Vevig to be ex
hibited here next summer after
which it will be taken to the
states.
Whether the whale is prehis
torical animal, has been the sub
ject of a long controversy, recent
ly.
GIVES UP TRYING
NEW YORK, Jan. 20. (/Pi —
Maxie “Boo Hoo” Hoff, Philadel
phia sports promoter, gave up his
second attempt to get some of
Gene Tunney’s earnings in the
ring when he withdrew a suit for
, $500,000 based on an alleged con
tract made with Tunney before
the Dempsey fight.
TEMPORARY INJUNCTION
NEW YORK, Jan. 20. (/P) —
The Wright Aeronautical Company
obtained a temporary injunction
to prevent Communist agitators
from interfering with operation of
its manufacturing division. The
Wright Co,., turns out 70 per
cent of its products for govern
ment use.
GRIP OF FRIGID WAVE
NEW YORK, Jan. 20. (/P) —
The east and south suffered in
the grip of a frigid wave which
;sent the thermometer in New York
;down to 12 above zero and esta
1 blished a minimum at Tupper
Lake, New York, where the tem
iperature was 40 below. The cold
! extended as far south as Miami,
! Fla., but the weather bureau pro
mised relief within the next few
days.
MODIFY PROHIBITION
MIAMI, Jan. 20. (/P) —The Am
erican Federation of Labor, thru
its executive council, plans to take
steps for modification of Prphibi
; tion, according to William Green,
| president. It was explained that
‘the campaign will be carried on
(in the press and over the radio.
NEW YORK, Jan. 20. (/P) —
Improvements of New York Har
bor on both the New Jersey and
the New York sides of the Hudson
River to permit docking of larger
, passenger and freight vessels at
| a cost of about $75,000,000 was
Approved by Secretary War Pat
rick J. Hurley.
Encroachments will be made on
the land in New York from West
Twenty-Third to One Hundred and
Twenty One street, Hoboken, and
Greenland Terrace in Edgewater,
| in Jersey.
! A fairway from 2800 to 3500
| feet wide will be maintained in
| the river throughout the portions
| affected, while at the same time
! it will permit construction of
j piers capable of accomodating ves
isels 1,000 feet long.
ONE-LEGGED AIR PILOT
SHIS MEXICAN ILLS
EL PASO, Texas, Jan, 20. (JP)
—Percy Miller, parachute jumper
| and wartime pilot of the Amer
i ican Air Service, scaled a wall
of the prison ward of Liberty Hos
1 pital in Juarez. Mexico, and came
to El Paso after wandering 48
hours in the sand hills.
He had been held since last
July in alleged drug smuggling
: activities and when he heard he
| was to be sent to Tres Marias
Island, the Mexican penal colony
off the west coast, he decided to
rsik his life In a break for li
berty he said.
Miller has but one leg.
LONDON, Jan. 20. (JP> —;
'Provisional settlement of the coal |
strike in South Wales was reach
ed in London after four days of
uninterrupted negotiations. The
terms of the settlement will be
submitted to a conference of de
j legates of the South Wales Miners
Federation and, if ratified, work
will be resumed to the fullest
extent possible.
Terms call for resumption of
j work at rates of pay prevailing
when the 7*4 hour per day basis
was in vogue, pending a decision
by a new conciliation board as
to whether owners were justified
in paying men less.
| Lancashire weavers put an end
to hopes for a speedy passing of
the British cotton difficulty when
they voted to submit the employ-!
ers most recent modified pro
posals on a “more looms per
weaver” system to allot by all the
membership.
FIGHTING EXTRADITION
NEW YORK, Jan. 20. (JF) —
With the arrest of Harry Levy,
alleged police “stool pigeon,” in
Orleans, investigators of New York
prepared to widen the scope of
their inquiry. Levy is fighting
against extradition to New York ;
HANGED FOR MURDER
BUDAPEST, Jan. 20. (JP)~Frau!
Marie Kardos was hanged at
Sgnook, Hungary, for the murder
of her husband and their 22-year
old son. She was the first wo
man to suffer capital punishment
in Hungary for many generations.
HOCKEY SCORES
VANCOUVER, B. C., Jan., 20,
{.V*—Portland took the leader- j
ship in the Pacific Coast hockey
league when they defeated Van
couver 2-1.
SHERIFF SAYS IN'T
DIVULGE NAMES WHO
LYNCHED THE NEGRO
MARYVILLE, Mo.t Jan. 20. (/P)!
—The sheriff here said that he
contemplated no action against
leaders of the mob which seized
his prisoner, Raymond Gunn, Ne
, gro, and burned him to death
on the schoolhouse where he was
charged with assaulting and slay- j
ing the teacher, Miss Velma Coul
ter.
Any action against the mob j
leaders, the 64 year-old sheriff ■
said, must begin with orders from j
higher authorities.
The sheriff reiterated a prev
ious statement that he had re
I cognized some of those who wrest
; ed the Negro from him as Gunn
| was being taken for arraignment j
| to the court house. He refused to
name them.
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UMIS UK 'EM
I LONDON, Jan. 20. (IP) —Since
a ban was placed on smoking in
all British theatres under the
! control of the Lord Chamber
lain excepting those showing mu
i si cal comedy or revues this form
'of prohibition has met with mix
! ed receptions.
i During the war the prohibition
| against smoking in the audit
oriums or theatres was ignored,
an official hint having been giv
en that this breach of regulations
! would not be prosecuted.
••SNIFFERS’* METHOD
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20. (IP)—
The House Committee voted for
an investigation of alleged wire
tapping practices of the Prohi
bition Bureau, with Attorney Gen
eral William Mitchell and Pro
; hibition Administrator Amos Wood
cock as the first witness.
BAD BUSINESS
MONTREAL, Jan. 20. (IP) —
j Charged with obtaining goods
! worth $15,000 from a dealer in
El Paso, Texas, for which he never
paid, General Jose Escobar, form
er revolutionary leader, was ar
rested in Montreal.
“GIVE US BREAD”
BUDAPEST, Jan. 20. (IP) — A
short but ^dramatic riot of sev
eral hundred screaming unem
ployed Hungarian women broke
out at noon in the heart of the
most fashionable section. Crying
“Down with the rich” and “Give
us bread” the women attacked
richly dressed promenaders. Po
lice dispersed the peasants.
SMITH CO-RELIGIONIST
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20. (IP)—
John J. Rascob, chairman of the
democratic committee issued a
public denial of the charges made |
by Frank Kent, newspaperman, ^
that Rascob was a republican
turned democrat who bought the
democrat party to support form
er Governor Alfred Smith for
president as a co-religionist,
MUSING MONEY
DEMOCRAT SENATORS STATE
RED CROSS ARE NOT DO
ING ENOUGH
WASHINGTON, Jan., 20, (if3)—
The Red Cross central commit
tee issued a statement to the
effect they desired to remain
purely a volunteer organization,
shortly alter the Senate voted 56
to 27 approving the Democratic
measure appropriating $25,000,
000 for Red Cross drought re
lief as an amendment to the In
terior department supply bill.
President Hoover opposed fav
oring private donations but Red
Cross officials said the measur*
would hamper raising the propos
ed $10,000,000 fund from private
donations.
Democratic Senators said the
Red Cross was not doing enough,
while the House Republicans
sought to compromise.
500 MORE SNIFFERS
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20. (iP)—
The supply bill reported to the
House carried among its provi
sions $11,369,000 for prohibition
enforcement in 1931. This is an
increase of $2,369,500 over the
1930 funds, to be used in hiring
500 or more agents.
CORDOVA. Jan., 20, /P)—Phil
ip Lydick, Jerry Cochrane and
Lou Cochrane were decorated
with gold medals for heroism, the
highest possible award of Boy
Scouts.
They received their certificates
and medals before 500 citizens.
The presentation was made by
U. S. Commissioner Kelly Robin
son.
The boys rescued six helpless
children from the icy waters of
Lake Eyak, 18 months ago.
0ESI51 OF ALASKA
GIF LAWS CONSIDERED
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.
The House passed and sent to the
Senate the Alaska delegate's bill
to revise Alaska Game Laws.
The bill defines the authority
of game wardens in searches and
authorizes new fur-bearing animal
regulations; it reduces the resi
dent hunting fee to two (Jollars.
The House passed the bill fix
ing the salary of the secretary of
the Territory at $4,000. The bill
was passed to the senate.
SPOILED COMEBACK
CHICAGO, Jan., 20, (JP)~Joe
Sharkey, Albion, Mich., middle
weight, spoiled Haakon Hansen’s
comeback when he won the de
cision after eight rounds.
FILE PROTEST
CHICAGO, Jan. 20. </P) —Suc
cessful treatment of paresis by
means of artificial fever produc
ed in the patient with high fre
quency electrical currents was
announced by Doctor Clarence
Neyman, associate professor of
psychiatry in Northwestern Uni
versity Medical School.