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VOLUME XVI. NUMBER 66. SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 1931. PRICE TEN CENTS
DISPOSAL PUBLIC
PROPERTY DP TD
VOTERS OF TOWN
PROBE BILL GOES THROUGH;
COMMITTEE NOT YET
NAMED
JUNEAU, Mar., 27, Special to
The Gateway—'The Senate passed
the Foster resolution authorizing j
a joint committee of eight to j
probe the conduct of all Terri- j
torial offices.
Hess and Winn were named by
the measure as members but the
others have not yet been an
nounced. This committee is ex
pected to organize and begin ac- j
tivities next week.
Tire House passed the Brosius j
measure authorizing municipali- j
ties to lease, or sell to the public
unused municipal property but
that such action must first be
sanctioned by a majority c* qual
ified voters of the community.
The Senate passed the bill
authorizing the governor to have
prepared a compilation and codifi-.
cation of all Alaska laws for sub- j
mission to the next legislature |
for publication.
The Senate also passed the j
measure appropriating $20,000 for j
the Valdez dyke provided that j
federal authorities expend $30,000;
on the same project.
The measure alloting $2,500 an
nually from the Second division
road fund for maintenance of
the Nome harbor, was passed.
BARROW TRAPPERS
WILL BE ALLRWER
DEPART FEW DBFS
POINT BARROW, Mar., 27. (/Pi
—The situation here continues
to improve as only two cases have
developed in the last. three
days.
The epidemic seriously affect
ed the financial aspect of the
immediate area for during the
better part of the trapping sea
son the villagers were forced to
remain at home; also, on account
of the low relative rate of furs
and the small catch.
Dr. Greist will allow trappers
to return to their trap lines to
take up the season’s end, the
later part of this month. Each
trapper will be thoroughly exam
ined and given clearance papers
which in turn will be presented
to the police before they will be
allowed to leave each time. They
will also be ordered not to mix
at the trapping grounds.
GIVTEN TEN YEARS
WASHINGTON COURTHOUSE,
Ohio, Mar. 26. (/P)—Mai Daugherty
former president of the Ohio State
Bank which is now defunct, and
brother of the former United States
Attorney General Harry G Daugn
erty, was sentenced to 10 years in
the state penitentiary and fined
S5.000 following his conviction for
misusing funds of the bank.
LLOYD GEORGE DISGUSTED
LONDON, Mar. 26. (/P) — Pub
lished reports have it that David
Lloyd George, disgusted with the
failure of his party to stand with
him in maintaining the Liberal La
bor Alliance, may efSTer the Labor
cabinet as Lord Privy Seal, suc
ceeding Vernon Hartshorn, deceas
ed, j
ATTACK DRY LAW
ALBANY, N. Y. Mar. 26. (/P)—
The state senate passed three
measures attacking the Eighteenth
Amendment and memorializing
Cjongress to take steps to bring
about a repeal of all dry legis
lations.
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MANY NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN
MYSTERY MURDER OF
VIRGINIA BROOKS
SAN DIEGO, Mar. 26. (/P) — The
arrest of one new suspect and the
questioning of another, the pur
ported confession of a Mexican of
Los Angeles that he knew the slay
er and the leaving of another note
signed “The Doctor” were the new
developments in the police inves
tigation of the mystery murder of
Virginia Brooks.
Of all the new developments G.
Sears, lieutenant of detectives, said
he chiefly was interested in the
“Doctor” note. The note was left
beneath the front door of tne
Brook’s house Tuesday night and
was discovered there this morning
by Mrs. Brooks who promptly
turned it over to the police.
HUE
t slum
8. C.. CONVICTED
OLDTIMER TOOK "SPIRIT”
OUT OF THROATS OF
TRIBE
SMITHERS, B. C.. Mar., 26, (/P)
—'Two native medicine men, Alex
Tyee and Donald Grey, were con
victed of practicing witchcraft
|and were given a year’s suspend
ed sentence.
Tyee is more than 80 years of
j age.
I The defense showed that he
j claimed to take a "spirit bear”
; out of the throat of David Fran- i
| cis and blown it away.
Corporal M. T. Berger, consta- |
ble, and A. T. Rivett, of the Royal I
Canadian Mounted Police, ex- j
plained seeing the ceremony atj
Hagwilget village through Fran- I
cis’ ‘windows.
The medicine men scooped the
spirit from six different parts of
the body. The chanting ceremony
has been in use from time im-!
memorial by the tribes. j
ill 10 DEDICATED
I LIFE TO 1 OF LEPERS. I
j DIES IN HONOLULU
i --
t HONOLULU, Mar., 26, (£>)—
f Ira Dutton, "Brother Joseph,”
[Trappist monk widely known for
; his work among the lepers on
Molokai Island, died following
a long illness. He was 87 years
old.
For 45 years he worked among
the isolated lepers.
He entered the hospital here
last July weakened by the bur
den of his work.
DEDICATED TO ALASKANS
Aleutian History
J. N. Cannon
The following is practically a literal translation
from the Russian taken from the manuscript of Fr.
Gedeon, priest-monk of the Alexandro-Nevsky Cathe
dral, Moscow, Russia, and was written in Kodiak be
tween 1804 and 1807. It has never before appeared in
print.
By REP. FOSTER
I WILBUR CHARGED TRYING TO
SHIFT RESPONSIBILITY
ONTO TERRITORY
j JUNEAU, Mar., 26, Special to
The Gateway—The Interior de
jpartment’s Indian policy in Alas
i ka was assailed in a vigorous
| memorial introduced by Foster
: in which he declares Secretary
' Wilbur is deliberately undertak
: ing to shift the burden of sup
i porting the government’s Indian
; wards onto the Territory.
He cited school records to sub
| stantiate this charge. “The re
jport of the Commissioner of Ed
| ucation of Alaska that in 71
^schools outside of incorporated
I towns, out of a total enrollment
of 1,608 pupils 1,239 were either
Indians or of mixed blood.”
He added that 90 per cent of
! Territorial funds appropriated for
medical relief and indigency, ex
cluding the Pioneers’ Home and
the Pioneers’ pension, is expended
among the Indians.
Foster demanded i m mediate
cessation of these practices com
plained of and urged the estab
lishment by the federal government
of hospitals, an orphan asylum
and industrial training schools
to provide for medical care,
nurses, and relief of the indigent,
on the same scale as it is extend
ed to Indians of the States.
He pointed out that the Alaska
aborigines comprise one-seven
tieth of the total of such popu
lation in the entire country but
the government only allotted them
one-twentieth of total appropri
ations made for the nation’s na
tive wards.
Cura sum
IN COMMUNAL DIM
KARACHI, India, Mar., 26, (£>)
—The list of dead from commun
al rioting by Hindoos and Mos
lems increased to 80.
A check of the hospitals show
ed 48 Moslems were killed and
32 Hindus.
It was one of the most vicious
communal battles in the history
of India. Children were slaugh
ered and homes of non-combat
ants burned.
FLIGHT AROUND WORLD
NEW YORK, Mar. 26. (JP) —
Hugh Herdon, Jr., Park Avenue
aviator, and Clyde Pangborn, vet
eran barnstormer, are planning a
flight around the world in the
next two weeks.
Continued from yesterday
About three versts (miles) from
the artel, there is a weir at the
mouth of a lake, a shed eight
fathoms long, three labazes and
a sod house. Here they prepare
60,000 yukels (dried salmon).
From April 10, golitza (salmon
trout) goes up to the lake from
the sea. Krasnaya (red salmon)
comes up the weir about April
23, or perhaps earlier. Gorbush
ka (hump-back salmon) and
haike (dog ^lmon) comes up
about the middle of June. These
last three varieties of fish are
prepared for yukels, by women
using American chopping knives
and stone knives. Kizhugh (silver
salmon) comes up the wier about
the middle of September or
earlier. Yukolo is also prepared
with this species and also kat
chemaza.
THREE SAINTS RAY
These buildings are also com
posed of cottonwood and alder.
There is a residence for the
bidarschik and transients, bar
racks for 10 families, black
smith ship, cookhouse, three, bara
ras for stores, 15 fathoms long.
Whale oil is kept in one, where
the w'hales are cut up.
tVHALt, C L KING
Parts of fresh whale meat are
j cut up in small pieces, placed in
i vats and allowed to stand for 10
days wtihout adding water, then
water is added and is allowed to
stand 20 days. After this the oil
is tried out by moderate fire
in large cauldrons—eight vedros
(buckets) of water being added
to each cauldron.
Whenever a whale has been
a long time in the water and
begins to spoil, it is not placed
in vats but tried out by slow
fire, more water being added.
Sea lion and hair seal are ren
dered without the addition of
water. About 50 barrels of whale
oil are obtained here in good
seasons.
The belly portions (blubber)
of fresh whales are steamed
separately in large kettles and
in order to preserve it, is cov
ered fish roe and boiled- kislitza
(wood sorrel) is added, afterward ‘
placed in vats. Such whale meat
is called pavlinaya and is pre
pared here for the Russians to
the amount of 200 poods—800(
pounds. “A pood is equal to 40
pounds,” Pestrokoff.
Provesnaya is cut in strips
from fins of fresh whales and
belly portions, and’ also from
whales long immersed in water,
slightly spoiled. This food is pre
pared for the kayurs and kay
urkas—male and female cons
cript natives.
(Continued tomorrow)
“OVER THE TOP”
WASHINGTON, Mar. 26. (/P) — j
The Red Cross drive for $10,000,000
drought relief fund went over the
top wth total contributions of $10._
005,000.
J.LLE6ES WALKER'S
ADMINISTRATION IS
0R6T CORRUPT!
—■*'" j i
CITY affairs committeee ad.
EPT AT HURLING CHARGES
AT MAYOR
NEW YORK, Mar. 26. (>P) — Ten
specific charges of misfeasance
were filed with the Governor
against Mayor James J. Walker by
the City Affairs Committee. Coupl.
ed with the accusations was a de
mand the removal proceedings be
instituted against Mayor Walker
forth with.
The charges characterized the
city administration as an orgy or
corruption and declared that the
mayor had ignored the conditions
of ineficiency and corruption ever
since he had taken office. He was
charged specifically with the fail
ure to act in cases involving the
health, dock, police, license, and
other departments and with utter
ly ignoring sensational disclosures
of conditions in the magistrates’
courts as unearthed by the Sabury
investigation.
Several magistrates have resign
ed as the result of being under fire
but none have been removed, it was
pointed out.
Governor Roosevelt made the
charges public without any com
ment and there is considerable spec
ulation as to what action he wii
take.
I
: IMPRESSION FRANCE
i NOT PRESENT, IK
; PARIS, Mar. 26, (/?) —The entire
; question of whether the Austro -
I Germain Customs treaty violates
the Geneva Protocol of the St. Ger_
maine treaty should be put up to
the Council of the League of Na_
I tions as a suggestion made today
, by Great Britain,
i After a luncheon at the British
j Embassy, with Aristide Briand, the
; French Foreign Minister, issued a
j communique correcting the im
ipression that his government had
|prssion that his government had
made no representation to Vienna
| on the subject of the conomic
agreement with Germany.
RliSKII HONS GO
TO SITKA SATURDAY
JUNEAU, Mar., 27, Special to
The Gateway—Twelve out of the
23 legislators will sail Saturday
afternoon for a two-day biennial
inspection of the Pioneers’ Home
at Sitka; they will return Mon
day afternoon.
Those making the trip will be
Hess, Sunquist, Bragaw and Sun
quist and Representatives Winn,
Brosius, Foster, Donnelly, Nerland,
Hellerich, Allyn and Johnson of
Ketchikan.
NO TRACE VICTIMS
CORNERBROOK, N. Y., Mar.,
27, (jP)—Bernt Balchen returned
from a four-hour flight over the
ocean near Horse Island in a
further search of the sealer Vik
ing’s victims. No trace was seen.
He has given up the search and
returns to Boston Saturday.