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VOLUME XVI. NUMBER 46. SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, MARCH 3, 1931.
PRICE TEN CENTS
ALASKA PROJECTS
NOT AUTHORIZED:
SUBJECT REVISION
*100,000 of $460,360 AVAILABLE
IMMEDIATELY FOR ALASKA
FISHERIES SERVICE
WASHINGTON, Mar. 3. (/P)—
The amounts for federal buildings
at Anchorage and Ketchikan were
merely allocated for projects not
yet authorized and are subject to
revision when specific appropria
tions are requested.
The Fairbanks federal building
was already authorized and appro
priated.
The second deficiency bill fur
ther carried $15,000 for a school
building at Shungnak; $$20,000 for
a school at Nome.
The usual appropriations carried
an agriculture bill for the exten
sion of the service with experiment
stations as well as $10,000 for the
Hatch and Smith-Lever Acts of
Alaska and $62,450 for experiment
stations. The Commerce bill car
ries nothing for Polar exploration
but carries $446,360 for the Alaska
Fishery Service of which $100,000
is to be made available immediate-1
iy.
ECHOES OF EIIROPE1H
DISORDERS, BRING RIOTS
THROICHTOUT IERICI
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SAN FRANCISCO. Mar., 3, (/?)
Echoes of the Russian observancei
of “International Unemployment)
Day” brought scattered demon-1
strations and disorders to Europe j
and North America.
In Boston 250 police engaged in
several melees with several thous
and demonstrators. Demonstra
tors dispersed in Pittsburgh when
28 were taken to jail, in Toronto..
Canada, stones and bricks were
burled at police who retaliated!
with blackjacks.
In Subury, a policeman was bad- J
>y beaten, by a crowd of demon
strators. In this city a red meet
ing passed off without event.
HOCKEY SCORES
VANCOUVER, Mar. 3. (/P) _
Portland 4, Vancouver 3.
SECOND YEAR
MIAMI BEACH, Mar. 3. (JP) —
George Lott of Chicago won the
Pan-American tennis championship
for his second successive year when
he defeated John Van Ryn, of New
Jersey, 6-2, 1-6, 6-2 and 6-4.
PITTSBURGH, Pa .Mar. 2. (/P)_
The first step to permit Pittsburgh
and other Pennsylvania cities to
adopt the “City Manager” form of
government has been taken.
A bill introduced into the state
legislature, although designed pri
marily to permit Pittsburgh to use
the business system of municipal
government will apply to any city
of the state except Philadelphia.
CUn GANGSTERS
DUE IT IT AGAIN
CHICAGO, Mar. 3. (£>)—Five ma
chine gunners shot and killed one
man and wounded another but tail
ed to explode a huge bomb was
tossed with one of their victims
into the basement of a gambling
establishment.
The victims were William Mayer,
caretaker of the gambling place,
who was killed and Hilario Rodri
guez, the one wounded.
GOVERNOR PARKS PROBABLY
WILL DELIVER IVtESSAGE
WEDNESDAY P. M.
JUNEAU, Mar. 3. (/P) —The Sen
ate convened at noon yesterday
with Luther C. Hess, president and
Judge A. W. Fox, secretary. The
Senate adjourned to complete its
personnel of officers.
The House also convened at noon
yesterday and elected Grover C.
Winn, of Juneau, speaker; Law
rence Kerr was elected clerk, and
C. R. Booth of Seward was elected
Sergeant -at-arms.
Governor Parks will deliver his
message at a joint session of the
Alaska Legislature Wednesday.
SENATOR WANTS TO
MAKE NATION WORSE
THAN IT PRESENT
WASHINGTON, March 3, (/P)—
Senator Sheppard, Texas, father
of the 18th amendment, intdoduced
an amendment to the Valstead Act
to prohibit the making of wine in
American homes.
If adopted by Congress, the
Sheppard amendment will seri
iously injure the national sales of
California grape concentrates.
Sheppard introduced the bill to
strike out from Volstead Act the
sentence which says the dry law
shall not apply to persons manu
facturing: non-intoxicants for home
use.
FRANK FOSTER Hi
DONNELLY III DEADLOCK
JUNEAU, Mar., 3, —(Special to
the Gateway)—Mrs. Bertha McKay
of Nome was elected assistant sec
retary of the House. In the Senate
George McKay, of Nome, and hus
band of the assistant secretary was •
made sergeant-at-arms. Grover C.
Winn, of Juneau, was elected speak
er of the House after a three-day
deadlock over F. Foster and H.
Donnelly. Winn was brought for
ward by Foster as a compromise
candidate.
Mrs. Leroy Vestal was elected As
sistant secretary in the House.
'Today was to be spent in com
pleting the organization and of
naming the permanent committees.
REP. H. A. COOPER
DIES SUDDENLY
IN WASRINCTON
WAS ARDENT ADMIRER AND
SUPPORTER OF LATE
SEN. LA FOLLETTE
WASHINGTON, Mar. 3, (/Pi
Representative Henry Allen Coop
er, 80, of Racine, Wisconsin, the
oldest member in point of ser
vice—36 years—died suddendly
at his hotel here. His wife was
at his bedside when he passed.
A warm supporter of the late
Senator La Folltte, the veteran
Congressman twice served as a
buffer between the regular and
progressive factions of the Re
| publican party. In 1923 the La
Follette group in the House
blocked organization of that
body by supporting him for the
Speakership until the regular
Republicans acquiesced in a de
mand for liberalization of House
rules.
In the summer next year he
practically was booed and hissed
from the Republican National
Convention at Cleveland when he
presented several planks the La
Follette group sought to have in
corporated in ,the platform. Later
that summer, however, he received
a different welcome in Cleveland
when he again presented the
views of the Wisconsin Sena
tor, this time to representatives of
independent political movements.
Born at Walworth, Wisconsin,
September, 8, 1850, Cooper was
graduated from Northwestern
University. He attended Union
College of Law at Chicago and
began practice at the bar in
Racine, Wisconsin, which city he
adopted as his home in 1875.
FILM DIRECTOR IS
CHARGED CRIMINAL
ASSAULT BY ACTRESS
LOS ANGELES, March 3, (JP)—
David Wark Griffith, 51, veteran
film director, is charged with
criminal assault in a civil suit filed
in Superior court here by Fern
Setrel, actress. She asks $601,000
damages.
Miss Setrel said in her complaint
that she met Griffith when he was
at work and told her she was a
very unusual type of beauty, un
spoiled. and that she had remarka
ble features and that she would
film well in motion pictures.
She charged she then visited de
fendant in an apartment June 25
last, on his promise to employ her
in the role of Ann Rutledge in the
picture “Abraham Lincoln” and
that he attacked her.
She asked for $500,000 for actual
damages, $100,000 for primitive
damages and $1,000 for medical
treatment.
SHOT MAN IN BACK
SAN FRANCISCO, March 3, {JP)—
City officials expressed their indig
nation of the shooting of Manuel
Perry, suspected bootlegger, by
prohibition agent Willard J^ong,
Perry was shot in the back when
he refused to sell Long whiskey.
JURY SELECTED FOR
SERSITfi. ELSE
HILLSBORO, Oregon, Mar. 3. {&)
—The selection of the jury to try
Nelson Bowles and secretary, Ir
ma Loucks, for the knife murder
of Bowie’s wife, was expected be
completed today.
Eight jurors, all men, passed for
cause yesterday at the opening day
of the trial.
SOW PUR
TO VISIT ALASKA
NEXT SUMMER
REPRESENTATIVE OF INDIAN
COMMISSION WILL VISIT
ALASKA
WASHINGTON, Mar. 3. {JP) —
Chairman Will Wood oi the House
appropriation committee, and
other House committees and of
ficials of the bureau and the In
terior department will make two
trips West. The second trip will ex
tend to Alaska and will be made
next Summer starting about June
15.
The delegation will spend 20 (fays
i n Alaska; Director Albright,
National Park Service, Reclamation
Commissioner Mead and either In
dian Commissioner Thoads or As
sistant Commissioner Scattergood
will accompany the group.
Parks, reclamation projects and
Indian reservations agencies will be I
seen on the trip. j
PUNE FORCED TO \
EARTH: Bl FIRE: j
TWO ORE INJURED
ROSEBURG, Oregon. Mar. 3. (/P)
—H. E. Smith was burned about the
arms and face and P. E. Hanson
injured an eye in the forced land
ing of a Pacific Air Transport air •
mail plane piloted by Grover Tyler
20 miles east of here.
Smith and Hanson are from
Seattle. Another passenger C. L.
Stevens of Boston and the pilot
were uninjured.
Tyler was forced down when fire
was discovered in the mail com
partment. Both wings were ripped
off in landing. The mail was slight
ly damaged.
CORONER'S JURY FIDOS
YOUTH GUILTY MURDER
SAN FRANCISCO, March 3, (/P)—
Charles A. Simpson, confessed
torch murderer of Mrs. Albine
Voorhies, appeared before a cor
oners jury.
At the close of a 45 minute ses
sion, the jury charged Simpson
with the murder of the elderly
woman.
Testimony introduced by the
autopsy surgeon, showed that the
woman died from fire that the
youth started after dousing her
clothes with kerosene.
MONEY RECOVERED FROM UN
DERNEATH SIDEWALK AT
RANCHHOUSE
j OAKLAND, Mar. 3. (&)—Sheriffs
! and officers announced that they
I had obtained another confession
I from J. B. Palmer, Hayward, Cali
1 fornia, rancher. He took $44,300
from the Oakland branch of the
Bank of America yesterday by forc
ing J. W. Cardoza, banker, to ap
prove of Palmer cashing a check
for that amount.
Officers recovered the money
from beneath a board sidewalk at
Palmer’s ranch. • '
Cardoza said Palmer called him
to his (Palmer’s) ranch on the pre
text that he wanted advice on a
real estate deal.
The rancher then confronted
Cardoza with a gun and forced the
banker to go to Oakland to assist
in cashing the check.
The bank employes became sus
picious and called the police who
arrested Palmer on his ranch.
HESS IS MO,
AVERS GANGSTER, (L
CAPONE, IN COURT
CHICAGO, Mar., 3, (/P)—A1 Ca
pone appeared in federal court and
listened to the government’s case
intended to show that he was in
contempt for failing to appear be
fore the grand jury in March 1923.
Federal officers guarded the entire
building during the hearing. Per
sons entering the courtroom were
searched.
“Business conditions are pretty
bad”. Capone told reporters at the
end of the session. Grossman, as
sistant attorney argued Caponi
statement of illness was untrue.
Witnesses testifying as to Capone’s
health said he was at Miami at
that period and made a trip to
Nassau, Bahamas Island, and saw
a prizefight in Miami.
MET FIRST TIME
LONDON. March 3, (/P)—Charlie
Chaplin and George Bernard Shaw
met for the first time at a lunch
eon at the town house of Lady
Astor. The entire affair had a gen
eral air of secrecy. Chaplin will be
a dinner guest of Winston Church
ill.
TWO CENT COT IN
CHS: FRISCO OIL WOO
SAN FRANCISCO, Mar. 2. (JP) —
Open and relentless warfare was
declared by three major oil compan
ies on the independent oil con
cerns.
The first big gun was the an
nouncement of a two cent cut in
“gas” prices in all the principal
cities and towns of California. That
another slash was in prospect was
the general expectation in Service
station circles, but none of the big
company officials would either ad
mit or deny it,