MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXIX. NMBER 79.
SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 1933.
PRICE TEN CENTS
SHIP SUDDENLY SHIFTED AND
BEGAN TO DESCEND WITH
GREAT SPEED
WASHINGTON. D. C.. April 5, —
Lieutenant Commander Herbert
V. Wiley, only officer to have sur
vived the dirigible Akron crash,
reported to the Navy that a few
minutes after midnight the ship
had .suddenly shifted violently, i
descended suddenly and was “de
molished on impact” in the water
off the New Jersey shore.
His wire read: “Sighted thunder
storm about 30 miles south of
Philadelphia about 8:45 p. m. and'
proceeded on east and northeast
course. Light night, mostly to j
south. Ground obscured by fog. j
Ship in good condition. Approxi- i
mately 5,000 pounds. Sea heavy. In
vicinity of Jersey shore at 10
o’clock. Surrounded by lightning;
at Barnegat Light. Night atmos
phere not very turbulent. Ran
east course until about 11 p. m.j
then crossed to west at midnight.
MEN SWIMMING
“Sighted light on ground and,
changed course to 130 degrees.!
Ship began to descend rapidly!
from flying altitude, 16,000 feet.!
Dropped ballast. Became entirely,
surrounded by lightning. Three!
minutes later, seemed to be in i
center of storm. Ship began to
shift about violently. Called all;
hands. Ship began to descend.
Stern inclined downward. Dropped
ballast. Rudder control carried
away. Descent continuous to water.
Ship demolished on impact. In
lightning flash saw many men
swimming. Wreckage drifted rap
idly away. Discipline in control
car perfect. Signed Wiley.”
That was the story of how the
Akron dodged ts terrible doom for
four hours before the ship finally
crashed into the Atlantic, related
by Lieut. Commdr. Wiley, one of i
the three survivors.
PLANES SEARCH SEAS
Mounting determination to end
Naval airship building spread
through Congress today.'
Seven Navy amphibians roared j
aloft today to continue search for'
possible survivors of the Akron.;
The search is being pressed from
Barnagate, N. J., Cape Charles to:
far out at sea, but hope for sue-1
cess is at a lo^v ebb.
However, a small plane of the |
New York police department saved
five aboard the J3 blimp when'
winds tore her up and fluttered)
over the sea.
NO MORE AIRSHIPS
Senator King prepared a resolu
tion calling for an investigation
of the lost Akron and for consid-:
eration of the advisibility of spend- j
ing more than the $20,000,000, al
ready invested in the Navy budget,1
for lighter-than-air craft.
In the House Chairman Vinson
remained steadfast in his decision
that there “won’t be any more air-)
ships built.” Others are rapidly:
joining the chorus demanding that;
the United States do as Great Brit
ain did after the great R-101
crashed in France in 1930 arid sus
pend construction on airships.
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“Dempsey” has made Time Mag
azine along with his picture not;
for having been the most worthless j
$10,000 pooch at some Eastern ken- i
nel show, but as the perfect type!
of Alaskan dog.
And, lo and behold! “Dempsey” j
resides almost at our door—he
leads the mail team, driven bv
Frank Roycroft, between Moose
Pass station and Sunrise and *
Hope.
Apd there he is, staring into the
camera with an expression of im
portance and dignity belonging
to Alaska’s little steeds of the
winter trail.
“Dempsey” is known over a large;
portion of Alaska as a splendid
leader.
Signs of comraderie: Malamute
dogs allowing hungry birds to
share their evening meal without
objection, and looking on in mild
curiosity at the feathered bread
line.
GRANTED
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 5, —
The Senate granted the broadest
power in its possession for an in
vestigation of private bankers, in
cluding J. P. Morgan & Co., by the
banking committee.
Without debate, the Senate
adopted the Fletcher resolution
extending wide power to the bank
ing committee to make the inquiry
into private banking which Pres
ident Roosevelt has sponsored.
SUED UP INTEREST
ON STOCK MARKET
NEW YORK, April 5, —Word
that Secretary of the Treasury
Woodin planned to call a confer
ence of Senators and Representa
tives on silver legislation, stirred
up interest in silver and allied
shares late today on the Stock
Exchange and helped rally the en
tire market.
Along with the silver group ex- i
ceptional strength was displayed
by the sugar shares several of
which included American Sugar
Refinery and Great Western Rose
to new highs for the year.
DRY LEADERS SI UP
HOPE SUITE MICHIGAN
MILWAUKEE, Wis., April 5, —
Wisconsin reported a heavy early
vote on the proposal to repeal the
18th amendment.
In many communities spirited
contests for municipal offices add
ed to the interest of voters.
Wet leaders were confident the
State would choose all 15 candi-;
dates pledged to vote for repeal of'
the amendment at the constitu
tional convention April 25.
Dry leaders held out no hope,
of electing any of their 15 candi->
dates. _ _ _
JEWISH QUARTERS
INBERLIN WED,
BERLIN, April 5. —A Jewish!
quarter in the eastern side of the I
city, inhabited by the poorer class- j
es was raided by a large police |
force assisted by Nazi authorities.
Streets were closed and pedestrians
halted while houses were searched
for weapons.
Some printed matter and a few
weapons were confiscated. The
Nazi party, which called the boy
cott last Saturday, reserves the
right to reinstate the boycott in
the event the “atrocity” campaign
is resumed abroad.
INSPECTS
DEARBORN, Mich., April 5. —
Yosuke Matsuoka, Japanese states- ■
man, met Henry Ford yesterday.
The statesman flew from Chica
go and Mr. Ford conducted him;
through the Ford laboratories. Mr.
Matsuoka was to fly back today
to Chicago and leave for Portland,
Oregon.
A graduate of the University of,
Oregon, the statesman plans to
address students there later this
week.
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THIRTY NEW SHIPS
WASHINGTON, D. C , April 3, —
Thirty new ships will be included
in President Roosevelt’s huge forth-,
coming public works bill to help'
relieve unemployment.
San Francisco 2, Portland 1.
Oakland'3, Missions 1.
Los Angeles 3, Seattle 2.
Sacramento 8, Hollywodo 7.
DEFENDED HIS TITLE
NEW YORK, April 5, — Jim
Brownng, 230 pounds, recognized
in New York State as the heavy
weight wrestling champion of the
world, made a successful defense
of his title claims when he threw
Nick Lutze, 203 pounder, former
Notre Dame athlete, in one and
three-tenths seconds. Browning
used a leg scissors and body hold.
RELATIVES REFUSE
TO GIVE UP HOPE
FOR AM CREW
OFFICIAL CIRCLES ACKNOW
LEDGE THAT LITTLE HOPE
HOPE IS HELD, MEN
NEW YORK, April 5, —Members
of the Dirigible Akron’s crew stuck
valiantly to their posts, with per
fect discipline, thru a violent elec
trical storm that the great ship
could not ride, ending in the worst
disaster of the lighter-lhan-air
disaster in history of lighter-than
air flying craft; the loss of lives
continues to stand at 73, includ
ing Rear Admiral William A. Mof
fett, chief of the Navy’s areonau
tical bureau.
The body of Lieut. Commander
MacLellan was found later in the
day. McLellan’s body was picked
up 20 miles south of Little Egg In
let and about 10 miles from the
place where the Akron dropped
into the sea.
WEATHER FORECAST
Weather observers on the Jer
sey coast said the storm came
suddenly but tha tit had not been
unexpected unsettled conditions
for the district having been pre
dicted.
Although families of the miss
ing men refused to give up hope,
there was a greater tendency in
official circles to acknowledge lit
tle hope remained.
Shortly before noon, Secretary
of Navy Swanson said there was
nothing to indicate the Akron’s
men would be found.
President Roosevelt ordered Col
Henry Latrobe Roosevelt, assis
tant secretary of the Navy, to go j
to the Naval air station at Lake
hurst, N. J., and assume--charge
of the rescue work and investiga
tion.
“STAND BY!”
Clad in pajamas and a gray and!
blue-striped bathrobe and stand
ing on a stairway at Brooklyn Nav
al hospital, Lieut Commdr. H. V.
Wiley, told reporters:
“The ship was falling fast and;
because of the fog nothing could
be seen. I asked the officer on
watch what about altitude and he
replied 300 feet. I then gave the
order to stand by for a crash.
“The signal was run ud to the
engine car and almost immediately
we hit the water. I do not think
the ship was struck by lightning.
There was no indication of it at
any time, although there was
plenty of lightning around us.”
ANOTHER ATTEMPT
HALIFAX, April 5, —Halifax
lawyers who acted for Peter Veri
gan, have been advised from Ot
tawa, that the Canadian govern
ment will make another attempt
to deport the Doukhobor chief.
imlfiKET
NEW YORK, April 5, —Stocks)
were irregularly lower through
most of the day’s market, but firm
ed sufficiently toward the close to
give the composite a small net
advance.
Mining and sugar shares provid
ed most of the boost, rails looking
rather soggy. Commodity prices
were mixed while bonds, with the
exception of a steadier United
States government group, averaged
downward.
Illinois Central cars loaded on
line during the week of April 1
were 20.6 per cent under the same
1932 period compared with a 21.5
per cent decrease the preceding
week from last year. A backing
and filling' order is looked for.
Quotations •
Al. Chem. 77, A. Juneau 13 7-8,
Am. Can 56 3-4, Am. Smelt. 16,
Am. Fone 90, Am. Tob. 61, Auburn
33, Baldwin 4 3-8, B & O 8 3-4,
Beth. Steel 13 1-4, Cal. Pak. 10 1-2,
Can. Pac. 7 5-8, Case 42 1-2, Chrys
ler 9 1-2, Con. Gas 41, Dupont
34 3-8, Eastman 46 7-8, Gen. Elec.
12 1-2, Gen. Foods 25 1-8, Gen.
Mtrs. 11 7-8, Goodrich 4 1-8, Good
year 14 1-2, Int. Tel. 5 5-8, Kroger
18, Loews 10, Mont. Ward 13, Nat.
Distil. 25 3-8, Dairy Prod. 13 3-8,
Pac. Gas 20 1-2, Penn. Ry- 16 3-8,
Pullman 23, Radio 3 7-8, Radio
Keith 1 1-8, Simmons 5, So. Pac.
13 3-4, Std. Calif. 22 3-8, Un. Pac.
65 3-8, U. Carbide 22, Un. Oil of
Calif. 10 3-8, Steel 28, Steel, pfd.
58 7-8, Wu. Tel. 18 1-2, Westing
house 24, Woolworth 28 1-4, Wor.
Pump, not quoted.
PRESIDENT JOINS
NATION IN MOURNING
WASHINGTON D. C„ April 5 —
President Roosevelt in a statement
yesterday joined the nation in its
mourning for the loss of the Diri
gible Akron and its crew. He said:
“The loss of the Akron with its
crew of gallant officers and men
is a national disaster. I grieve with
the nation and especially with the
wives and families of the men
who were lost. Ships can be re
placed but the nation can ill af
ford to lose such men as Rear Ad
miral William A. Moffett and his
shipmates who died with him up
holding to the end the finest trad
itions of the United States Navy.”
WETS SWEPT ON TO
VICTORY IN MICHIGAN
DETROIT, Mich., April 5, —
Michigan led the nation back to
wards prosperity in voting to rat
ify repeal of the 18th amendment.
Swept to victory by overwhelm
ing popular vote, wet candidates
to the constitutional convention
defeated their dry opppnents in
at least 75 of the 100 districts in
the State.
The convention will be held in
Lansing April 10.
Thirty-five other states must
follow Michigan’s example to ease
the prohibition amendment from
the United States constitution.
BUMP CRASHED
ST. NAZAIRE, France, April 5,—
The French naval dirigible E9
crashed and was destroyed at thei
village of Germande while on a!
trial flight from the Rochefort
naval base. Two of the crew of 12 (
were injured.
GOING BACK TO WORK!
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WASHINGTON, D. C., April 5,—!
President Roosevelt hopes to have
25,000 men, the first contingent of,
his reforestation corps, enroute to|
their jobs by the end of this week. |
The President named Robert
Fechner of Massachusetts, vice
president of the International
Association of Machinists and a
college lecturer on labor and in
dustry, to head the organization!
which is to employ 250,000 men'
of the nation’s jobless.
WILL INVESTIGATE
POSSIBILITIES WOOL
INDUSTRY AT KODIAK;
Six cents will be the price of |
salmon in the Bering Sea area,|
instead of '8, as paid last year, ac-!
cording to H. H. Landess, of Ko-,
diak, who hase been discharged |
from the Seward General Hospi-j
tal after receiving medical treat
ment. 1
“The new price,” says Mr. Lan-f
dess, “will about equal that of!
last year when the relative cost}
of living is considered.
“The wool industry was at about'
a standstill last fall owing to the
general fall in prices in the Unit-}
ed States. Some sheep were al
lowed to run unsheared.
“I am going to look into the
question of utilizing Kodiak wool
for knitting socks, sweaters, etc.
With an abundance of the finest
wool in the nation and a great!
demand for pure-wool materials,}
there is a possibility of a thriving'
industry being built up at Kodiak.”
Mr. Landess is familiar with
wool, having for several years
been a sheepshearer in the states.
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COMING HOME
Mrs. M. J. Clayton, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. Leslie of
Seward, intends to visit with her
parents this summer. She and Mr.
Clayton have had their home this
winter in Seattle. Francis, brother
of Mrs. Clayton, who is attending
the University of Washington at
Seattle, will also come North to
Seward at the conclusion of this
year’s study.
AT LAST!
CANNES, France, April 0, —
Marriage bans were posted yester
i day at the city hail here by for
! mer mayor James J. Walker of
New York and Betty Comnuon, ac
tress.
i They may now be married any
j time after nine days have elapsed.
! The notice read: “James John
i Walker is to be married to Miss
Violet Stalling Compton.”
JOLIET IN SOLITAIRE:
OPERATED GOOD STILL
JOLIET, April 5, —Harry Coving
ton, 53, an oldtimer from Chicago
and a former bricklayer, was rap
idly becoming the most popular
man at the Illinois state peniten
tiary.
Prison guards observed the con
vict’s favor_ with his fellow priso
ners and investigated.
What they found was that when
Covington had repaired the auto
truck he was driving for the pris
on, he had built a miniature still
into it and was supplying his
comrades with alcohol. Covington
will be in solitary confinement for
the next several days. Convicts be
lieve he should be given a medal.
TWO RIB CIRCLED
PERK FOUR TIMES
PURNEAH, India, April 5, —The
two Lady Houston expedition air
planes which yesterday made his
tory by flying over Mount Everest,
world’s highest mountain* for the
first time took off again today to
fly over the nearby Kanchanjunga,
which towers almost as high.
Kanchanjunga is 28.156 feet;
Mount Everest 29,141.
It was stated today that visibili
ty was not entirely satisfactory
enroute and that the two planes
lost sight of each other when
they circled over the peak four
times.
MAX WAS CRUEL
SACRAMENTO, Calif., April 5,—
Chareing extreme cruelty Mrs. D.
Dunbar Wells de Garcon Maxine
Greta Baer, filed suit in the super
ior court for divorce from Max
Baer, heavyweight boxing cham
pionship contender._
ANOTHER
SAN FRANCISCO, April 5, —The
purported discovery of another
and new eye-witness to the San
Francisco Preparedness Day bomb
ing of July 22, 1916, was made pub
lic yesterday by the Thos; Mooney
defense committee.
Mooney, serving life on convj'*
tion in the dynamiting taac, has
secured a court order for a trial
on one remaining indictment, in
an effort to judidicially demon
strate his claim of innocence.
IN A FEW DAYS
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 5, —
Senator Pittman. Democrat from
Nevada, told newspapermen that
Secretary of the Treasury Woodin
had informed him he would call,
within a few days, a meeting of
members of Congress seeking to
aid silver for a general conference.
Pittman conferred with Woodin
in the morning in behalf of silver
advocates to form a program ac
ceptable to the administration.
. MRS. DOUMER PASSES
PARIS, April 5, —Mme- Blanche
Doumer, widow of the late assas
sinated President, died yesterday.
Mme. Doumer, who was 72 years
old, died at her home 11 months
after her distinguished husband
was assassinated.
was assassinated. She had eight
children of whom four sons were
killed during the World War. {
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PRACTICAL DREAM
los Angeles, April 5, —a
dream of years had come true
today for Isaac Zing, San Diego
newsboy, who saved his pennies,
27,880 of them. He used the pen
nies for a roiftid-trip ticket to
New York by airplane.
KFQD reported last night that
Capt. Heinie Berger, of the MS
Discoverer, is stormbound enroute
to Seward.
MEMORIALS SENT TO PRESI
j DENT AND CONGRESS, EX
CLUDE LABOR LAW
| JUNEAU, April 5, *—Reorganiza
j tion of the Territorial school sys
i tem was assured and removal of
t the office of Commissioner of Ed
! ucation from partisan politics ef
| fected when the House today pass
! ed without a dissenting vote the
| Shattuck bill establishing a new
school board with broad adminis
trative powers and repealing the
present school organization code.
Two minor amendments were
made by the House that may delay
the bill a few days in reaching
the Governor’s office for approval.
The measure provides' for the
! appointment by the Governor of
a five man board, one member from
I each division and one-at-large, to
; be confirmed by the whole legisla
i ture in joint session.
MEMORIALS
i Governor Troy, who is due here
next week, wall appoint the first
board as Parks does not desire to
act in the matter.
The board is to have absolute
jurisdiction over school policies
and appoint the commissioner, but
Karnes will not be affected as the
bill proyicfes he is to serve out
the four year term which began
March 1 last.
The House also passed a mem
orial asking Congress to extend
the Federal aid road act to Alaska.
Representative J. S. Hofman of
j Seward introduced a bill in the
House for reorganization of divis
ional road boards naming the high
way engineer as chairman of eacn
and giving them jurisdiction over
all projects not exceeding $3,500
The Senate passed Devane’s bill
authorizing the trustees of the
Pioneers Home to care for, by con
tract the Home’s surplus, by con
to exceed 30 persons in the next
two years.
The Senate also passed four
other minor measures.
Both Houses passed the memorial
addressed to president Roosevelt,
and Congress appealing for ex
clusion of Alaska from the cannery
30 hour labor law asserting inclu
sion would bankrupt the Territor
ial government and wipe out can
neries, close down mines and de
populate the Territory.
The All-Alaska Chamber of
Commerce also took similar action.
UNALGA ON THE JOB
MIAMI, Arpil 5, —The Coast
Guard Cutter Unalga was sent to
the assistance of the liner
Marques de CamiP'is aground
Carysfort Peel, south of here.
There 100 passengers on board
the steamer which is bound for
San Francisco.
CINCINNATI, O., April 5, —A
barrage of hairpins shot with rub
ber bands at a row of chorus girls
in George White’s “Scandals,” may
cost Beverly “Bubbles” Gordon, a
20 year-old chorine, New York
member of the cast, the sight of
one eye.
The theater manager said Miss
Gordon and several others of the
chorus were struck when someone
in the audience shot the hairpins
at them Saturday night.
OUTCOME BEER,
WINE, RLASM UNDEG10E0
The following message was re
ceived today by Attorney L. V.
Ray from W. G. Smith, Territorial
treasurer, at Juneau:
“No legislation as yet for is
suance of licenses for selling beer.
Bill, as introduced yesterday,
limits retail sales to hotels, board
ing houses and restaurants serving
meals that are furnished in good
faith and to beverage dispensaries
serving beer on draught or in un
capped bottles.
Final outcome in doubt at this
time.”
“LET ANNE DO IT” FRIDAY NIGHT 8:30