VOLUME XXIX. NUMBER 85.
SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY.. APRIL 12, 1933
PRICE TEN CENTS
BILL SEEKING $11,BOB
EOBI1TIGN FIELDS
JUNEAU. April 12,—To supplant
the measure introduced last week
by himself, Representative Walker
today substituted a bill providing
for the creation of a board of
administration composed oi the
Governor, Treasurer, Highway En
gineer. Auditor, Commissioner of
Education and the Attorney Gen
eral which would have general
charge of appropriations with
power to reduce in ratio or singly
as the need might arise if neces
sary to prevent a treasury deficit.
DeVane introduced a measure
providing that all elective Terri
toial officers begin their terms
January 1, following their election.
DeVane and Lowmen presented
a memorial asking Congress to
amend the Alaska fisheries act to
permit fishing by residents on a
commercial and limited scale in
Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers.
The Senate passed the bill pro
hibiting filing of suit for purpose
of harasing or annoying another
and three code amendments.
The House celebrated aviation
day with the introducing of sever
al measures seeking funds for es
tablishment, improvement and re
pairs to landing fields. The most
ambitious was offered by Hofman
whose bill asks for $10,000 to estab
lish fields in the area west of Cook
Inlet. Others by Swanberg and
Patterson sought appropriations
ranging from $600 to $1,000 for
minor improvements.
The Green memorial urging
Congress to pass the Wheeler re
monitization of silver bill which
was passed unanimously by the
House early in the session, died in
Senate today on a 4-4 vote.
WARDEN HSUS FOR
SHIV HERRING
PHOENIX, Arizona, April 12, —
A sanity hearing for Winnie Ruth
Judd was called by Warden A. G.
Walker of the State prison at
Florence, last night.
Attorneys for the “blonde tigress”
murderess who is condemned to
hang April 21* made frantic efforts
to save her from the noose thru
a writ of habeas corpus.
A death watch has been placed
outside the condemned woman’s
cell. Two men and two women
take turns in watching every move
of the once pretty nurse.
BERLIN, April 11—Tension be
tween Germany and Poland is rap
idly reaching the breaking point,
it was said, because of continued
P o 1 i s h-Anti-German demonstra
tions against which the Berlin for
eign office has protested.
A foreign office high official
characterized the German-Polish
feeling as dangerous and the Boer
sen Zeitung, powerful newspaper
generally conceded to be the
mouthpiece of the Ministry of De
fense, said on its front page: “Po
land inciting to war”.
NEW YORK, April 12, —They
“just ain’t” doing right by our
Gene, “tha’ss all!” Sarazen, as
British and American open cham
pion, admittedly the best golfer of
the 1932 season, had every reason
to believe that he would be named
the captain of the international
Ryder Cup team. By an unwrit
ten law, Walter Hagen has been
named captain since the first in
formal match in 1926 and every
time since the beautiful Ryder cup'
has been in competition. But Gene;
got the honor this year, not only1
because of his sensational British
victories, but also because he
would m^ke a good captain and a!
most level-headed leader. Sara
zen admires Hagen so much that
he really believes Walter is in a
class by himself regarding team
statesmanship, but Gene knows
the game, too. Ignoring Gene may
be one way in which the P. G. A.
figures to “punish" the champ.
Sarazen has the courage of his
convictions and he speaks his
mind, which of course doesn’t make
him over-popular.
ADRIFT ON ICE
SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich., Apr.
12.—Coast Guards started a search
for Charles and Allie Baker, Ced
erville fishermen, adrift on an ice
floe in Whitefish Bay.
Harold Beach, another fisher
man adrift on another floe, rescu
ed himself by swimming ashore
thru the ice-choked waters. Coast
Guards were hampered in their
rescue work by a heavy fag and
rain.
PRESENCE STATESMEN
IN ROME IS BELIEVES
BE EXCELLENT OMEN
ROME, April 12,—The simultane
ous presence in Rome of three out
standing European statesmen is
puzzling political observers, uncer
tain as to what the visits mean.
Chancellor Engelbert Dolfuss of
Austria arrived by air from Vienna
Tuesday afternoon. Her main n
Goering, new Premier of Prussia,
talked with Premier Mussolini for
more than an hour. Vice-Chancel
lor Franz von Papen of Germany
also has been in conference with
Mussolini.
Each cf them says he is here
for the Holy Week, and emphasiz
es that he will see the Pope, but
the Diplomatic Corps thinks there
is more to it than that.
SAILING DUE BIG
PARIS. April 12, —The sailing
date of the Liner lie De France
was advanced two days to permit
Edouard Herriot, French delegate
to the Washington economic con
versations, to arrive in the Ameri
can capital while Prime Minister
Ramsay MacDonald of England is
there.
M. Herriot will sail from Le
Havre Monday and arrive in New
York April 23. He will proceed
at once to Washington, arriving
two days after Mr. MacDonald,
who is ' sailing Saturday on the
Berengaria.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Los Angeles 1, Hollywood 3.
Portland 0, Oakland 1
Seattle 1, Sacramento 0.
San Francisco 2, Missions 3.
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PLEADED GUILTY
MOSCOW, April 12,—W. H. Mac
Donald. British employee of the
Metropolitan Vickers Electrical Co.,
and 11 Russian employees of the
company, pleaded guilty to charg
es of espionage and sabotage. Five
other British employees of the
company pleaded guilty when the
trial started. One of the 11 Rus
sians was a woman. The court
room was guarded closely by uni
formed and bayonetted soldiers in
side and outside.
MARRIAGE BANS
BERLIN. April 11, —Bans have
been published in Niederschoene
weide. Berlin suberb, for the mar
riage of Leopold Woefling, the for
mer Austrian Archduke Leopold
Salvatore and Frau Pavolvski, nee
Greogora.
Leopold has been living in strict
privacy here for some time after
a checkered career since the re
nunciation of his title in 1904.
Among other things he had con
ducted a grocery store and work
ed as a bookkeeper in Vienna.
STRIKE CALLED OFF
ROCHESTER, N. Y., April 11,—
Western New York’s milk strike
was called off after a night and
day of fighting in the vicinity of
Rochester in which two State
troopers were injured and a score
or more farmers received blacken
ed eyes and battered heads.
POPULAR INSTRUMENT
PARIS, April 11,—In the French
provinces the people are complain
ing that the old bagpipes, flutes
and other musical instruments of
the peasantry are disappearing to
give place to the accordion. The
only accordion in former days was
seen in the bal musiettes and small
dance halls in Paris, but it has
become so popular now that it is
admitted everywhere.
READY FOR TESTING
AKRON, Ohio, April 12, —Com
pleted by the Goodyear Corpora
tion and ready for tests, the new
army blimp, TC-13, is being held
down by weighted nets in the
hangar, awaifcjng the test flights
which start soon. The blimp, the
largest non-rigid blimp ever built,
will be based at Langley Field, in
Virginia.
I
TOURIST raw
FELL FLUMES: THREE
PASSENGERS KILLED
BIARRITZ, France, April 12,—A
French taurist airplane fell in
names yesterday. Puot Gellet used
his parachute and landed safely,
but three passengers went down
with the plane and were killed.
The plane fell into a pine woods.
An inquiry was held, at which
Gellet said, “I had headed the
plane out over the sea when
flames broke out at an altitude of
1,300 meters. I shouted to the pas
sengers to jump, after which I
leaped out with a parachute. Their
hesitation cost their lives.”
The plane was enroute to take
part in an aerial meet at Casa
Blanca, Morocco. The passengers I
were members of the Aero Club
cf Flanders.
JAPANESE DIPLOMAT
OF ‘SHIRT-SLEEVE'
VARIETY IS LIKED
SAN FRANCISCO. April 12, —
Yosuke Matsuoka, Japan’s delegate
to the League of Nations until his
country’s withdrawal dissolved
his position, will reach San Fran
cisco today enroute home under
circumstanses known only to the
Japanese foreign office.
He comes from Portland, bearing
new honors of a country which has
responded in marked degree to the
very characteristic which has led
his superiors to announce that
“Mr. Matsuoka is representing no
one in the United States except
himself.”
That characteristic is his out
spoken directness, which has caus
ed Americans to speak of him as
a “shirt-sleeve” diplomat of their
own sort.
CLAIM EINSTEIN
MADRID. Spain. April 11,—When
Professor Albert Einstein’s daugh
ter was allegedly mistreated by
Nazi officials in Germany, and the
Professor resolved to give up his
German citizenship, all the world
wondered where the world’s great
est mathematical genius would
live.
The University at Brussels, Bel
gium, had it for a while that jhe
Herr Doktor would accept a chair
as professor of mathematics there,
but now the University of Madrid
in this city says that he will accept
a similar offer there.
SEETHED
MOSCOW, April 12,—While Lon
don seethed with excitement .only
a tiny percentage of Moscow’s
population knew that six British
subjects go on trial today in what
may mark the end of Anglo-Soviet
relations.
Newspapers were silent on the
trial and the sensational “white
paper” made public by the British
government. The Soviet was avoid
ing any excitement to the ini'iam
able patriotism of its citizens.
AMONG FRIENDS
SAN FRANCISCO, Aoril 12,—Two
Japanese training ships, under
coremand of Vice Admiral Gengo
Hyakutake, arrived for a six-day
visit in San Francisco,
The ships bring more than 1,400
young Japanese sailors on a west
coast crui®g. A series of receptions
and dances has been arranged by
Civic officials and Consul General
Kaname Wakasugi of Japan.
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RUMOR DENIED
ROME, April 12,—Entirely un
confirmed rumors here said Ga
briel Dannunzio, famed Italian
poet and patriot, was dead. The
rumors were denied.
MUST MAKE GOOD
NEW YORK, April 12,—The U.
S. Treasury expects to force the
New York Clearing House Associa
tion to make good a deficit, ex
pected to be about $6,000,000, in
the Harriman National Bank &
Trust Co., assets.
The Liner Alaska was reported
due to arrive at Cordova at mid
night tonight, which will bring it
to Seward tomorrow afternoon.
Mike Bernsten, who entered the
Seward General Hospital from Un
ga a week or so ago. is still in a
critical condition. A couple of
blood transfusions were necessary.
HEWS FLUSHES
LOWER RATES
SEATTLE, April 12,—Replying to
rumors saying the Allaska Steam
ship Co., would reduce the first
class passenger fares to and from
Alaska approximately 16 percent
or to the 1918 basis in the event
of the Pacific SteamshiD Lines
withdrawal, Alaska Lines officials
said there will be a reduction but
added the amount was undeter
mined as yet.
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OH HUM!
HOLLYWOOD. April 12,—Miriam
Hopkins, motion Dicture actress,
was under care of a physician for
a sprained ankle, suffered in a fall
downstairs.
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THIRD VESSEL
NEW YORK, April 12.—Plans are
being considered for construction
of a third vessel for the United
States Lines, of the Manhattan
and Washington type.
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HOME BOMBED
NEW YORK, April 12, —The
home of William Geisler, depart
ment of justice agent assigned to
prohibition enforcement, was part
ly wrecked by a bomb.
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FINAL TESTS
DAYTON, O.. April 12, —A tri
motored plane to be used exclu
sively by Presjdent Roosevelt re
cently underwent final tests at
Wright Field, it was learned today.
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NEW ROUTE
MANILA, April 12,—Completing
the first solo non-stop airplane
flight from Hong Kong to Manila
Hernando Rein, Spanish aviator,
landed here. Rein’s trip from Mad
rid to Manila required 22 days in
stead of 11 days as scheduled.
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TRIBES RESTLESS
PARIS, April 12,—The French
Naval Air Force was ordered to
help maintain order along the
frontier of Djibouti territory, in
French Samoliland, Africa, where
Several rebelious Abyssinian tribes
threatened trouble.
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KILLED IN SLIDE
LAS VEGAS, Nev., April 12,—Dan
Kalal, 37, pipe fitter, employed at
Boulder Dam, was instantly killed
in a rock slide there, authorities
revealed. W. S. Petterson, another
pipe fitter, narrowly missed death
in the same slide.
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WEDDING DELAYED
CANNES, France, April 12,—Miss
Betty Compton, who, is to marry
former Mayor James J. Walker of
New York, returned from the hos
pital where she was taken last
week with an attack of intestinal
influenza. The wedding will be
delayed until she has completely
recovered.
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PITCHED GREAT GAME
NEW HAVEN, Conn., April 12,—
Charley Devens, former Harvard
pitcher, pitched a no run, no hit
game for the New York Yankees
against Yale, winning 6-0. Devens
fanned 14 Yale batters, but gave
several walks and the Yanks made
two errors behind.
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ARMY MUTINIED
HARBIN, Manchuria, April 12,—
A garrison of the Manchurian
army, presumably a brigade of
3,000 was reported to have mutin
ied at Laoshao Kou, 85 miles south
of Harbin. The mutineers were
marching this way, the report
stated.
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10 PER CENT WINE
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 12, —
Chairman Robert L. Doughton,
Democrat, North Carolina, issued
a call for the House ways and
means committee to meet today
in executive session to decide
whether it will consider the Lea
bill to legalize the sale of wine of
10 per cent alcoholic content by
weight.
PRESIDENT MADE WILD
PITCH: SENATORS WON
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 12,—
The first local game of the Amer
ican League was played today in
this city with the Chief Executive
in the stands as a spectator. The
first toss of the ball was reserved
for the President, but the ball
never got into the game.
When Mr. Roosevelt threw the
ball it landed near the player’s
bench and one of the piayers
nabbed it for a souvenir.
The Washington Senators played
the Philadelphia Athletics, win
ing by a score of 4-1. Only two
other games were played in major
league baseball today. The success
of the Senators is attributed to
the President’s attending.
SAILING SATURDAY
LONDON, April 12,—Prime Min
ister Ramsay MacDonald and his
daughter Ishbell, will be accom
panied by four officials and a few
stenographers when they sail Sat
urday for Washington,
The government felt that Mr.
MacDonald’s advisors would be
able to provide him with the com
plete ba_ckground of any subject
mat might come up in his conver
sations with President Roosevelt.
SMASHING ATM
ALONG GREAT ILL:
CHINESE CUT FALLS
CHANGCHUN, Manchuria, April
12. —The smashing Japanese at
tack along the great stretch of the
Great Wall is reported to have
resulted in the capture of the city
of Lengkow,
Japanese air scouts reported
Chinese troops were in a wide
spread and panicky retreat thru
out the Lwan river valley after be
ing driven from Lengkow, their
last gate stronghold.
South of the Jehol border Chin
ese concentrations stubbornly re
sisted assaults.
Japan now claims every import
ant Pass in the Great Wall along
the Southern Jehol border. Chinese
left several hundred dead among
Lengkow hills in addition to many
guns and quantities of munitions.
NO ALLIANCE WITH
ROME, April 12, —The real pur
pose of Vice-Chancellor von Pap
en‘s visit to Rome was disclosed
when overtures were made to re
vive the old Triple-Entent alliance
of Germany, Austria and Italy,
according to reliable reports of
the conferences being held by
Premier Benito Mussolini and the
German envoy.
The attitude of II Duce to the
proposal, however, was said to be
distinctly unfavorable. Mussolini
says, without mincing words, that
no alliance with Austria would be
acceptable under anv conditions.
Furthermore, he still wants a re
duction of armaments througnout
Europe.
FIVE DROWNED
MARSELLES, France, April 12,—
Five members of the crew of a
French Naval hydroplane were
drowned when the ship fell inta
the waters of Etang de Berre.
FLYING GOVERNOR
SAN FRANCISCO, April 12—John
Troy, new Governor of Alaska,
plans to fly to Seattle tomorow.
He will then fly to Juneau.
KIDNAPPED
MUKDEN, April 12, —Dr. Neils
Nielsen, American medical mis
sionary, has been kidnapped by
Chinese hrigands, a telegram to
the American Consulate here from
his wife said. He is a native of
Minneapolis. No details were con
tained in the wire.
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MYSTERY DEATH
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 12,—
Paul King, 38, son of Senator King
of Utah, plunged from the seventh
floor window of the Blackstone
Hotel and was instantly killed. He
is survived by his widow and a 17
year-old son. The body was found
in the alley beneath the window.
It is unknown whether he jumped
or fell or was pushed.
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BANKHEAD STRICKEN
WASHINGTON, April 12,—Rep- j
resentative Bankhead, Democrat >
from Alabama, was taken suddenly
ill after concluding a speech on
the farm bill. Representative Sir
ovich, Democrat from New .York,
a physician who was called in, di
agnosed the seizure as a heart at
tack.
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FIERY LAVA
HONOLULU, H. I., April 12,—Re
turn of fiery lava to the island of
Hawaii, in a region hitherto in
active, has been predicted by sci
entists on the island, according to
word received. Glowing lava is
within a foot of the surface of
Mauna Iki, a low ridge in the Cau
detert. In 1920 lava flowed from
Kilauea volcano, according to the
message.
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ABOLISH TAEL
NANKING, April 12, —The Na
tionalist government decreed that
the use of the taels be abolished
in favor of silver dollars immedi
ately, and that a 21-4 per cent
export tax be imposed on silver
and other metals used in minting.
The tael was abolished in order to
establish a unified monetary sys
tem.
OLD MIN SNIW
OVERLOOKED INCLUDING
SELF KITH "NUTS
NEW YORK, April 12, —George
Bernard Shaw, in making the first
speech of his life in the United
States, told approximately 5,000
persons what he thought of finan
ciers, the President, movie colon
ies, the constitution and Statue of
Liberty.
He said financiers were “95 per
cent lunatics”, that the constitu
tion is a ‘‘charter of anarchy” the
Statue of Liberty a “monstrous
idol and should bear the inscrip
tion “‘Abandon Hope All Ye Who
Enter Here’”,
He said President Roosevelt was
elected “because he wras photo
graphed with a baby in his arms”;
that after the American system
had refused to work despite the
attempts of Hoover, and that “you
will get nothing from Roosevelt in
his four years; it has to go on un
der the constitution with the usu
al rotten Congress and wTill be in
evitably as great a disappointment
as under Hoover. M e an while,
Hoover has gone back to practical
business where things can be done
and later he will be discovered
again to be a perfectly successful
man.”
SAHEL WHEAT CHOP
SENDS PRICES UP
CHICAGO, April 12, —American
wheat farmers found their crop
value increased about $3,500,000
in almost nothing flat.
A jump of one to two and one
half pent a bushel in the price of
wheat on the Board of Trade on
the opening transaction brought
about that result.
It was the trade’s answer to the
government crop report, issued in
the late afternoon, forcasting a
wheat crop smaller than any since
1904.
GUN PERFECTED SAVE
DENVER, Colo.. April 12, —Colo
rado engineers, gathered in Denver
for the annual meeting of the
State Engineering Society, recent
ly saw Ernest Tamnle fire a steel
needle the size of an ordinary lead
pencil through a half-inch sheet
of steel, using the newly perfected
“Temple” gun and .38 calibre ball
cartridge.
Temple has perfected the gun
for use in saving men trapped be
low the water in submarines. By
firing a hollow steel needle through
the sides of such a ship, he says,
food and oxygen can be pumped to
them.
DENIES CHARGES
WASHINGTON, April 12,—In the
United States Senate sitting for
the 11th time in its history as a
court of impeachment, Judge Har
old Louderback of San Francisco,
through his attorneys, made gen
eral denial of the five articles of
impeachment charging him with
conduct prejudicial to the dignity
of his high office.
bipPIeIlu
INTEREST 11REGULAR
RIFLE CLUB 901
Rapid fire shooting was intro
duced to club members Tuesday
evening, this being the decision
at the last meeting.
Each contestant fired 10 shots
prone aijd 10 shots sitting tor a
possible score of 100 points; time
limit of one minute for 10 shots.
The City led in this match with
team score 482; Firemen next with
477; the Legion had but three men
out.
Individual scores were:
City—Gossage 99, Horton 98,
Trevethan 97, Gilliland 95, Robins
93.
Firemen—Valade 99, Hall 97,
Shellhorn 96, Kielcheski 96, Robins
they 89.
Legion—Hopkins 97, Huff 96,
Sheldon 90.
Individual scores for slow fire
as in former weekly matches were:
City—Gossage 178, Gilliland 176,
Trevethan 169, Paulsteiner 163,
Ulshagen 157. Team score 843.
Firemen—Valade 185, Shellhorn
170, Kielcheski 164, Hall 163, Man
they 158. Team score 840.
The Legion team did not com
pete in the slow fire match.