MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
.VOLUME XXVIII. NUMBER 127.
SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1,1932.
PRICE TEN CENTS
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SEHTE PUSSES HUGE
TUX BILL SPEEDING
IT TO CONCLUSION
WASHINGTON, June 1, (/P) —
The huge new tax bill, the bulwark
of financial stability for the Na
tions was passed by the Senate
speeded immediately to the con
cluding formalities which will make
it a law
The measure is designated to
raise $1,115,000,000 revenue and was
passed 20 minutes after midnight
at the conclusion of a 14 hour
dramatic session which was without
parallel in recent Congresses, after
President Hoover’s pleas to the
Senate which swiftly built up the
bill by $280,000,000 with an 11th
hour addition of taxes on gasoline,
electricity and increase income
rates.
The Senate turned a deaf ear to
the President’s call for a manu
facturers’ sales tax and beat down
in rapid order the whole succession
of attempts to strike out tariffs and
revise previous decisions.
The bill was sent to the House
foe conference to adjust differ
ences, none of which are expected
to prove dangerous. The prospect
is that it will be ready for Hoover’s
signature by the middle of next
week.
The passage led to predictions
that Congress might finish its
business before conventions but the
odds are still against adjournment
by that time because the tax bill
must be adjusted in conference be
tween the Senate and the House.
The results must be agreed to by
both chambers.
The National economy bill must
be passed by the Senate and agreed
to by the House. Six or seven re
gular appropriation bills must be
passed by the Senate and agreed
to by the House then, unemploy
ment and relief are to be con
sidered.
GENEVA. June 1, —The United
States and French Military staffs
were understood to have practical
ly reached an agreement on meth
od of reducing their military
forces.
It was said an agreement was
being worked out on the basis of
the United States’ suggestion of a
comparable ratio between the forces
needed to maintain order in a
country as prescribed by peace
truces for vanquished powers and
the number of soldiers needed for
protection of frontier and colonial
possessions.
Mil ASSAILED FOR
CRITICISM RELIEF PUN
WASHINGTON, June 1, —Speak
er John N. Garner, in a formal
statement assailed Herbert Hoover
for his criticism of the $2,300,000,
000 relief program and denied it is
pork barrel legislation. The formal
statement -was made at his daily
conference with newspapermen
and the Texan, in a signed copy of
his statement, said that President
allusion to the proposed p u b 1 i c
works program in his relief plan as
pork barrel came with poor grace
from one who demanded that Con
gress cooperate with him in pass
1 n g the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation act
SHOOTS SELF
SEATTLE, June 1, —Mrs. George
Bone, 32 Monday insisted that Na
than Browne would never complete
his hop from Seattle to Japan while
her husband insisted that Browne
would. They argued in this man
ner for some time until finally
Mrs. Bone, in a rage, walked into
the bedroom and shot herself fat
ally. This argument occurred a
few hdurs after Browne’s plane had
sunk in Elliott Bay. The couple had
not heard of the mishap then.
EVANS SAILS
SEATTLE, June 1, (£*)—The SS.
Admiral Evans of the P. S. S. Co.,
sailed from Seattle this morning at
10 o’clock carrying 33 passengers of
whom 21 were cabin passengers.
There are 10 passengers for Seward
and they are Mr. and Mrs. H. E.
Bolzluser and two children, Mr. and
Mrs. Carolyn McKinley; C. P. Mc
Kinley, E. J. Fitzgerald, Ralph
Shumway, Maud L. May and three
steerage.
COPPER DIVER INDUN j
THOUGHT BEEN HEED
CORDOVA, June 1, {IP)—Robert
Reed, a white man, is being held
in jail at Chitina, charged with the
murder of Chief Goodlata, Copper
River Indian, whose bullet riddled
body was found buried on the pre
mises of Reeds home.
Chief Goodlata disappeared some
time ago and the authorities and j
Indians conducted a search for him j
to learn his whereabouts. Part of i
Goodlata’s clothing, as well as 201
gallons of moonshine were found,
in Reed’s house. The motive for!
the killing is believed to have been j
the result of a fued between the!
two men. Goodlata beat up Reed,
in a brawl last September.
WASHINGTON, June 1, —James
R- Garfield, son of the ex-presi
dent, has been entrusted by Pres
ident Hoover to the task of com
piling a platform upon which the
Hoover Republican, party wUll
wage its campaign.
Garfield will be chairman of the
conventions resolutions committee
and began assembling suggestions
alrady drawn by the G. O. P. stal
warts. He conferred with Hoover
and is to call again next week.
He parried all questions on con
troversial platforms issues such
as prohibition, with nothing more
than a smile. He was politically
active in the progressive wing of
the party up to 1912 when after
leading Roosevelt’s “ Bull Moose,”
it split, he retired to private life.
EDITORIAL WARNING
MOSCOW, Jlune 1, (JP>—A new
warning to Japan to keep hands
off Siberia was contained in an
editorial in the newspaper Izves
tia, coupled with the charge that
cetain Japanese elements want
Eastern Siberia to faciliate pre
parations for war against the
I United States.
• • CURRENT BREVITIES • •
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WARN ENGLISH OF PESTS
LONDON, June 1, (A3)— British ■
; medical authorities have warned
; England that a plague of mosqui
toes may be expected this summer
because of the mild winter.
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SOVIETS ORDER KILOWATTS
MOSCOW. June 1, UP)—Construe- j
: tion of three more hydro-electric
stations with aggregate capacity of,
nearly 1.000,000 kilowatts has been1
ordered by soviet authorities. The •
plants will be finished in 1935.
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FRENCH HIT HIGH TARGET
TOULON, France, June 1, (>P>—A
new anti-aircraft gun which it is.
: claimed will hit a plane 40.000 feet
up. passed its first tests on the
coast here. It was fired at a tar
get towed by a fast army plane.
REDUCE RATE
COPENHAGEN, Denmark. June1
1. — The National Bank of Den
mark will reduce the discount rate
from five to four per cent on
money.
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ARRANGE GOLD SHIPMENT
LONDON, June 1, — Financial
observers said that the Bank of
England had negotiated for a ship- j
ment of 5,000.000 pounds of geld ;
from India. B^nk officials were I
non-committal on the subject
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NAMED MEMBERS
GULLIANE, Scotland, June 1, —
John Deforest and Eric Fiddian,
j finalists in the British amateur
golf championship, were named
members of the Walker Cup Team
which plays the American Team
I this summer.
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CHAMPIONSHIP FORM
SAUNTON, England, June 1. —1
Clipping two strokes from the wo-!
men’s record for the course Miss
Maureen Orcutt, American golfer
scored a 73 in the first qualfying
round of the British women’s golf
championship. Par is 71. Mme.
Rene Lacost, wife of the French
tennis star, scored 75. Miss Enid
Wilson defending the champion
j with 79.
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ADVANCE TO FINALS
AUTEUIL, France, June 1, —
' American players advanced to fin
| als of women’s doubles and semi
| finals of mixed doubles in French
tennis championship, but were elim
inated from men’s doubles . Mrs.
Helen Wills Moody and Miss Eliz
abeth Ryan defeated Senorita Lili
Dealvarez of Spain and Mile Jean
Sigart of Belgium in semi finals.
Mrs. Moody and Sidney Wood de
feated Ida Adamoff and Christia
Bossus of France. Wood and Gre
gory Mangin were eliminated in
Men’s doubles by Christian Bossus
and Marcel Bernard.
AUSTRALIA LOST
| PHILADELPHIA, June 1, —U. S.
| defeated Australia in the first sin
j gles match of the Davis Cup Tennis
! championship.
TROOPS MUTINY
TOKIO, June 1, —Reports reach
ing here said peace preservation
troops at Liochang 70 kilometers
' south of Mukdem had mutinied
iand joined in the vicinity captur
| ing a wall town.
IMPRISONED 48 HOURS
ISLE, Minneasota, June 1, —Con
I stables released Jacob Leuthner,
68. a recluse, from a basement
where he had been held imprison
ed 43 hours by three bandits.
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TO HELP AUSTRIA
i ROME, Italy, June 1, — Pre
mier Mussolini considers the eco
nomic situation in Austria so grave
, that he has taken steps to bring
: about an immediate meeting be
i twqen Swiss, French annd Gor
man financial experts with the
I financial commission of the Lea
j gue of Nations.
THE KING’S HORSES
DONCASTER, England, June 1,
I —King George’s Piquet won the
; Hopeful stakes for two-year-olds,
* by two lengths from H. O Madden’s
Chapeau. C. P. Jackson’s Hurrah
Peggy was third.
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GRANTED DIVORCE
RENO, Nev., June 1, —Mrs. Alma
Walker Hearst was granted divorce
from. William Randolph Hearst, Jr.,
son of the publisher, at a brief
private hearing before Judge
Thomas Moran. She charged
l cruelty.
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CLAIMS INNOCENCE
RENO, Nev., June 1, —Liberty A.
Hill, 50, chief deputy of Los An
geles County, held in jail here, as
serted that he is innocent of the
charges that he had embezzled $75,
000 entrusted to his care. Hill told
police that he had given the money
to Charles Crawford, to whom it
belonged, the day before Crawford
was shot and killed in Los Angeles
last May.
THOUSANDS EVICTED
TOLEDO, Ohio, June 1, —10,000
families faced eviction unless own
ers of property tenanted by poor
and jobless heed Mayor Addison
Thatcher’s plea for 60 days mor
atorium on rents. The mayor is
sued the plea when it became
known public and private funds
would not longer meet demands
for rent for the; jobless. The Com
munity chest funds are now prac
tically exhausted.
HALF-DOZEN HIES
COME WASHINGTON
SEEK PASSAGE BONOS
CHICAGO, June 1, —At least
half a dozen “tatter-demalion”
armies of world war veterans
converged upon Washington, D. C.,
to demand the passage of the bo
nus legislation. They worried rail
roads police and even the National
guards in their getting to, “Wash
ington at any cost so long as
money is not involved.” The main
troop the one which so far has
caused the most excitement and
which apparently inspired all the
others, paused 380 strong at North
Vernon, Indiana, under the chap
eronage of State police who fur
nished 29 trucks to carry them to
Cincinnati.
The veterans trekked from Port
land, Oregon confiscating “freight
trains West of the Mississippi and
calling out the National guard
when the Baltimore and Ohio rail
road resisted their free ride pro
gram in Illinois. A second dele
gation of veterans waited to join
them in Cincinnati while Ohio of
ficials pondered whether to let
them try for places in box cars or
to provide motor transportation, as
Illinois and Indiana had done.
A third contingent of veterans
assembled in Evansville, Indiana
hoping to get a ride on a fast
freight train in order to catch up
\ with the main army.
SHIPPING MAN DIES
VANCOUVER, June 1, (/P)—A1 A.
Melville Dollar, age 52, prominent
Pacific coast shipping man and a
son of the late Robert Dollar, was
found dead in the garage of his
home here. He had died from a
heart attack. Dollar motored here
from Seattle Tuesday and was at
his office today. He is survived by
a widow, seven children, and two
brothers
HITLERS' TURN BACKS
UPON THE GOVERNMENT
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BERLIN, June 1, (/P)—Hitler’s
socialists turned their backs in
participation with the German
government until the verdict of
the people has been obtained by a
general election after the dissolu
tion of the present Reichstag.
The Reichstag, they are certain,
in the new elections, will give them
a clear majority; meantime, they
will have nothing to do with the
cabinet.
MUST WAIT AWHILE
WASHINGTON, June 1, —Grad
uates of the Naval Academy here
after will have to sail two years at
sea before entering up a matri
monial voyage. This has been de
cided once again, officials say, on
the grdunds that young officers
have their hands full in learning
their new duties and responsibil
ities without being bothered with
brides and babies.
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ALASKA AT THE CAPITOL • •
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Dr. E. W. Clark. Secretary of
i the Association of Pacific Fisheries
! that is largely operating in Alas- '
1 kan waters, was in Washington
i May 12 and appeared before the
! House Ways and Means Commit -
1 tee- He advocated support of H. R.
! 8688, which seeks to equalize tar
! iff duties by compensating for de
| preciation in foreign currencies. He
! was particularly interested in the
competition which the canners of
Alaska salmon have to meet in con
nection with the products of Jap
! an, Siberia and Canada. The great
! complaint is that the yen has drop
! ped in value 32 per cent, and the
' ad valorem duty on fish products
from the East is 25 per cent, which
leave the fish canners of Alaska
! and the United States without any
! actual protection. Dr. Clarke stat
| ed that Japan is particularly dan
| gerous as a fish competitor because
| that country has the same kind of
| raw materials and machinery, to
| gether with lower costs of produc
tion and transportation, than we
j do in the United States. The prices
[ of fish cannery products in this
country are nowr beiow the cost of
i production, he added. The unfor
j seen depreciation of c u r r e ncies
| has practically nullified the tar
! iff rates in the present act.
The recent Act passed by Con
gress for the protection of the nor
thern Pacific halibut fishery pro
vides among other things that the
“Close season” shall mean from
November 1 until February 15;
“territorial waters of the United
States” shall mean the waters con
I tinuous to the southern and wes
tern coasts of Alaska and to the
western coast of the United States;
it shall be unlawful for any person
to fish or attempt to catch hali
but at any time in the waters de
signated when closed to fishing; it
shall be unlawful for any boat hav
ing on board any halibut caught
contrary to any provisions of the
Convention or Act to enter any port
in the United States, nor shall any
port in the U. S. be used to pre
pare a vessel for such illegal hali
but fishing. The penalty for vio
lation of the Act is a fine of not
less than $100 nor more than $1,000
or imprisonment for not more than
one year, or both.
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The United States Geological
Survey, announces the completion
of a manuscript report on the lode
deposits of the Willow Creek dis
trict, Alaska, by James C. Ray. This
report is one of the results of the
study of mineral resources in areas
' tributary to the Alaska Railroad
which was made in the summer of
1931. It describes the geologic and
other conditions existing there and
lays special emphasis upon avail
able data regarding the metallifer
ous lode prospects. It will be sev
eral months before this report can
be printed and available for dis
i tribution. The Willow Creek gold’
! lode district is situated in the
southwestern portion of the Tal
keetna Mountains, a few miles
off the head of Cook Inlet. The
district is easily accessible by auto
mobile road from Wassilla, a small
town on the Alaska Railroad 45
miles north of Anchorage.
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A manuscript report on the
Girdwood district. Alaska, by C- F.
Park, Jr., has been completed by
the U. S. Geological Survey. This
report describes the geologic and
other conditions existing in the
Girdwood district with especial re
lations to the mineral deposits.
It is a result of the study of min
eral resources in areas tributray to
the Alaska Railroad.
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| The Department of Commerce
I states that the population of the
world is about two billion, amd.
there are 39.2 persons for every
square mile of land on earth, ac
cording to the latest figures made
available for 1929. The United
States with a land area of 2,973,776
and an estimated population of
more than 124,000,000 has a density
of 41.7 persons per square mile, it
is shown. Alaska has the smallest
density of any country listed; with
only 59,000 inhabitants for 586,400
square miles of land, the density
is 01.
A bill has been introduced in the
House by the Delegate authorizing
the Attorney General to convey to
the city of Nome all the title of the
United States in lot 2 in block 50,
of the official plat of the city. Thus
lot was formerly used for the first
court house, but long since aban
doned, and the city now desires it
for street purposes, to which the
Department of Justice has no ob
jection.
DICTATOR RESIGNS
MADRID, June 1, —Dona Vic
toria Kent Y. Siano, the first wo
man to occupy an important post
in the Spanish Government, re
signed as Dictator of prisoners, be
cause of the charges she had a
dopted soft policy toward convicts.
She will be appointed to another
jhigh government office.
SURPRISE IPPEMMCE
MICE BE PRESIDENT
BEFORE THE SEMITE
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WASHINGTON, June 1, UP) —
Broadening of special taxes is pro
posed in a revenue bill but with
out resort to in a general tax on
sales, and was urged in a surprise
appearance before the Senate by
President Hoover.
He declared the present emer
gency demands quick action and
spoke of apprehension at home
abroad that the government might
not be able to balance the budget.
He said “In order to solve the
problem and show the world we
are ready to meet our emergencies
at any price, I come to favor a
more general manufacturers’ ex
cise tax.” He said three major
problems are confronting the
United States: reduction of gov
ernment expenditures, passage of
j revenue legislation which will bal
ance the budget and stabilize the
Americap dollar, and an adequate
relief measure for the destitute.
He called for $400,000,000 in
| economies and said he favored al
! lowing the Reconstruction Cor
poration to increase issuance of
securities to three billion dollars.
Within half an hour after he had
rejected it 12 to 8 but the com
mittee substituted other levies
' which it was hoped would fill the
gap completely, voting 1 cent per
gallon tax on gas, five per cent
consumers tax on domestic gas and
electricity which the Senate turn
| ed down, and the Senate boosted
: income taxes to 21 lvl.
j WASHINGTON, June 1. —Invest
igation of the official conduct of
the United States District Judge
Harold Loudeback of San Francis
! co was asked in a resolution intro
duced into the House by Congress
man Laguarda of New York.
The resolution authorized the
appointment of a subcommittee of
the judiciary committee to report
| whether Judge Loudeback “has
; been guilty of any acts which in
■ contemplation of the Constitution
’ are high crimes or misdemeanors
requiring 'the interposition of the
constotional powers of the House”
this is the first step in auguration
of possible impeachment pro
ceedings.
SHANGHAI WAR ENDED
SHANGHAI, June 1, (£>>—'The
curtain descended on one of the
most violent chapters of Shang
! hai’s history when three army
i transports sailed for Japan carry
ing the last Japanese forces.
MAY BREAK OWN TEETH
MOSCOW, June 1, —An editor
ial is a local paper said. “Siberia
is not a street on which imperial
istic robbers may walk with safety.
| If Japanese imperialism seeks to
I entangle its population in a new
i adventure in that direction they
may break their own teeth.
MAY UNDERGO OPERATION
CHICAGO, June 1, —Jackie
Fields, world’s welterweight cham
pion, was under observation in the
hospital. He may have to undergo
| an operation for appendicitis, ac
I cording to Doctor E. Jackson.
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WON’T RECONSIDER DECISION
WASHINGTON, June 1, —A1 Ca
pone asked the Supreme Court to
reconsider the decision not to re
view his case which caused him to
I be sent to Atlanta Penitentury for
| income tax fraud, but the appli
! cation was denied Tuesday.
DENY APPLICATION
WASHINGTON, June 1, —The ap
plication of attorneys for a review
of the conviction of the six negro
defendants, sentenced to death in
Alabama for an illegal attack on
two white girls, which was filed
with the United States Supreme
court last week was denied Tuesday
by the court. The negros were
sentenced to die June 24.