MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 57. SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1929.
PRICE TEN CENTS
CONTROLLER BILL
EXPECTED BE BOOT
BP ASM! HOUSE
BILL INTRODUSED FOR CAN
NERY SANITATION INSPEC
TION
JUNEAU, March 8, (Special to
the Gateway)—The first bills of
the session dealing with govern
l ment reorganization made ap
* pearance in the Senate yesterday
when Dunn introduced a measure
for the creation of the office of
Territorial Auditor to take over
all Territorial duties now perform
ed by the Secretary of Alaska; the
first auditor to be elected by mem
bers of the present legislature and,
beginning with the general elect
ion in 1930, to be elected by pop
ular vote for a four year term,
with a salary fixed at $4,000 an
nually.
The controller bill which creat
ed such a furore in 1927 is ex
pected to be introduced in the near
future in the House.
Representative Ziegler intro
duced a measure authorizing the
Governor to appoint a boxing
board of four members and anoth
er as secretary, the members to
serve two and four year terms.
The appointments will be made
on the recommendation of the de
partment commander of the Amer
ican Legion the board to have its
headquarters in Ketchikan and
V hold meetings where-ever hap
R, pens to be the most convenient.
It would have charge of the dir
ection, management and control
of all boxing matches held in the
Territory and none can be held
without its permission. The board
will have power to issue licenses
to bona fide benevolent, frater
nad, patriotic or religious organ
izations to limit a number of
matches or any licensed organiza
tion; may give and is given full
authority to issue regulations nec
essary to carry out the provisions
of the law, and power to impose
penalties for infractions and viola
tions of such regulations.
Steel introduced a cannery san
itation measure in the Senate giv
ing the commissioner of health
power to inspect plants and the
personnel of canneries operating
in Alaska and sets up a sanitary
code for the handling of fish on
vessels and in plants and the hous
ing of employees.
DIRECTS WORK ON
PROJECT. ERIPPIFI
FROM RED IN HOTEI
ANCHORAGE, March 8. (Roeci°i
to the Gateway)—Directing the en
gineering work of the Eklutna
Light & Power Co., by teieDhone
while lying in bed at the Anchorage
hospital is the experience of Harold
Wood, chief engineer of the project.
Several days ago Mr. Wood slipped
and strained a ligament in his leg,
necessitating hospital treatment.
Tire accident came just when the
Eklutna 1800 foot tunnel was in full
awing*, threatening a setback. A
telephone was placed beside Mr.
Wood's bed and with his plans
spread upon a table he is perform
ing the same service as if he were
on the ground. He expects to be
out within a few weeks.
OFF FOR SIBERIA
NOME, March 8. (JP)— Noel Wien
and Mechanic Gripe hopped-off foi
North Cape, Siberia to relieve an
ice-loched vessel. R. S. Pollister,
representative of the Swenson Fur
Co., who is aboard the ship, may re
turn to Nome in the plane.
CHAIRMANSHIP IS ABOLISHED;
POSITION BROUGHT HIM
$125,000 PER ANNUM
WHITING, Ind., March 8, MPi—
Colonel Robert Stewart lost his
long battle with John D. Rockefel
ler, Jr. to retain his $125,000 a year
Dosition as chairman of the Board
of the Standard Oil Co.
At Hie stockholders meeting the
Indiana Rockefeller group decisive
ly ousted Stewart for his moral un
fitness but all lauded him for his
successful record.
Edward Seubert. president of the
corporation, was re-elected and
made chief executive officer.
The position of chairman of the
board was abolished. This was the
first industrial fight over moral
principals.
DUFSSELDOKF, Germany March
8. (/TV -Professor Richard Hennig.
an err nent socioloist. has complet
ed a survey of the human race
'hawing that, the population of the
■vorld m increasine about 18,000,000
every year. He says that there is a
daily bxces of births over deaths
amounting to 50,000.
THir?r» division has fair REP
RESENTATION IN IMPORT
ANT GROUPS
JUNEAU. March 8. (Special to the
Oatewny) Following are the House
Committees with the first names
chairman.
Banks: Banking and Corpora
tions—Tarwater, Donnelly and
Shattuck.
Judiciarv: Murray, Winn, Lomen.
Ziegler and Fisher.
Education, Public Morals, etc.:
Winn. Woofter. McDonald. McCain,
Tarwater. Nvlen and McCormick
Election: Election Laws and Mil
eage-—Fisher, Ziegler, Nylen. Mur
ray and 3urgh.
Engrossment and Enrollment:
Woofter. Ziegler McCain and Don
nelly.
Fisheries, etc: Foster, McCormick
Fisher. Lcmen, Ziegler and Tar
water.
Labor. Capital and Immigration:
Ziegler, Fisher, Nylen and Murray.
Municipal Affairs: McCormick,
Burgh and McDonald.
Mining and Manufacturing: Ny
len. Donnelly. Winn, McCain. Fish
er and Burgh.
Printing and Purchasing: Mc
Donald. Woofter and ShaUuck.
Roads and Highways: Lome:',
Winn, Burgh. Murray and MsDon
ald.
Territorial Institutions: Donnelly,
McCormick, Foster. McDonald,
Woofter and Shattuck.
Transportation: Burgh. Murray.
Lomen, Shattuck and Donnelly.
Ways and Means: Shattuck, Mc
Cormick. Woofter. Lomen Donnelly,
McDonald, Tarwater and Foster.
Rules: McCain Winn. Nylen and
Fisher
MYSTERY SHIP
BAZARGIC, Rumania, March 7,
'TP)—Stefan Berpvic, a marine en
gineer, claims that he has invented
.. propelloriess ship. He says it L>
non-s;nkable and I hat it will devel
op unsurpassed speed. He calls it
;he Indro-Berov.
r, 1TFS FAILED TO
^wr-TWT. flnnros PLUNGED
T'TTO DARKNESS
apf-ot^kn. W-> . March 8. (JP)—
Five men were drowned and thiee
or,hers saved when two sedans
drove off an onen end of the Wish
kah bridge near here when one of
the automatic gates failed to func
tion.
The dead are Carl Corey, drivei
of the first machine; L. T. Corey
and his father Charles Porter. The
driver of the second car, Jim Coi
’;n-, and a man named Harrison,
were all loggers.
Corey did not see the open bridge
end vhisned off the span into the
darkness early this morning. The
second machine closely followed.
None of the bodies were recovered.
™.PAFEST. March. 7, UP)—'The
Government's attempt to take legal
steps against, childless families I ■■■
aroused the opposition of a group
; if distinguished lawyers. They aci
”anc° the theory that history shows
,ao instance of a Government rc
luiring citizens to give the Stai,e
childepn.
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GOVERNMENT PREPARING A
COUNXEiiSTKOKE AGAINST
REBEL FORCES
EL PASO, March 8, i/P)—A stray
abut nom Juarez wounded an
American boy in El Paso named
nouis Chavez. Fighting for poss
ession of Juarez, across the border
irom here, began today between
a body of 600 loyal troops who are
holding the town and 2,000 rebels
who made a surprise attack under
cover of an irrigation ditch.
Federal machine gun fire took a
heavy toll and bodies could be
seen from the American side of
the border. Some were sprawled
in the streets of the Mexican city.
Severn fighting took place only
10 blocks away from the thickly
populated district of South El Paso
and American military authorities
took widespread precautions to
guard against trouble along the
border.
The troops at Fort Bliss were
called out during the night and
stationed along the international
boundary line. Federal troops in
Juarez, tho greatly out-numbered,
fortified at street intersections and
atop of bfmcUngs ready for a des
perate struggle. -*
Decisively victorious in the cam
paign to recapture Vera Cruz, at
tention has been turned toward
the situation in the north where
rebel troops have centered in Tor
recn. in western Coahuila, while
federals are massing at Guada
Lajara for a counter offensive.
General Antonio Villareal, as
pirant for president on the anti
reelectionist ticket, is believed to
be in command of tne rebels at
Torreon while in Sonora the rebels
pVp driving southward through
Sinaloa. The government is pre
paring a counterstroke against
them and 10.000 federal troops
are reported to be marching north
ward.
SEATTLE MARITIME ASSOCIA
TION CONFIDENT OF OB
TAINING 3rd RATING
SEATTLE, March 8, (TP)—'The
immediate classification of Sew
ard as a fourth class public health
service station is expected to fol
low the request of the Seattle Mari
time Association to the Surgeon
General in charge and later in the
year Seward will probably become
a third class station with a res
ident physician.
But nothing can be done in a
hurry; government action, how
ever, and the association, will be
able to push through now a fourth
class rating.
U. S. INCREASES SHEEP
WASHINGTON, March 7, (TP)—
There are 47.171,000 head of sheep
in the United States, compared to
44.000 000 in 1928. The value per
.read has increased from $10.25 a
year ago to $10.60.