Seward,‘the Alaska City o£ Opportunity
MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XVI. NUMBERS.
REWARD, ALASKA WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1031.
PRICE TEN CENTS
UNEMPIOIENT
STILL CRONS:
DECLARES WOODS
SPECIAL CENSUS WILL SHOW
CONDITIONS AT ITS VERY
WORSE, SAID
WASHINGTON, Jan., 7, (/P)—
Chairman Woods of the Hoover
unemployment committee esti
mated before the Senate appro
priation committee that , four or
; ve million people were unem
ployed in the United States.
He said unemployment h a s
been increasing and he does not
relieve the situation will improve
before spring.
“There is too much of it and
the way in which it comes does
not speak well for industry.
There has been a general feeling
,n this country that periods of
depression are inevitable. This is
not so and should not be so re
garded.”
He said he believed the lowest
period will be shown this month
and that next month, February,
;■ special census should showr
things at there worst.
Woods said he hoped the
emergency committee will soon
De able to set machinery in mo
tion to help give jobs.
SUCCESSOR ESTHER
DELON HKD HI
JESUIT PROVINCE
SAN JOSE. California. Jan. 6. (IP)
—Reveranri Francis C. Manager oi
Hoover Bay. Alaska, has been ap
pointed Superior of Jesuit Missions
•n northern Alaska succeeding Fa
iher Phillip I. Delon who was kill
'd in the crash of the missionary
•plane at Kotzebue with Father Wil
iam Walsh and Pilot Ralph Wien.
The appointment was announced
py Reverend Joseph M. Piet, pro
■ inciai of Jesuit Province in Cud
lorn ia.
QSE 9F SP11 IS
FORCED 091 USH'JRT
ROME. Jan., 7, (/Pi—One of
eaplanes in the fleet flying the
Atlantic to South America was
forced down at sea by a slight
accident. The occupants were
.not hurt, the Air ministry an
nounced.
The plane came down off San
Pedro and San Paulo Islands. It
was taken in tow by an Italian
cruiser stationed nearby. The
other planes continued on.
FLIER! MAKE MIRER
SWJCROSS OCEAN
HAMPTON ROADS, Va„ Jan.,
7, (/P)—The monoplane bearing
Mrs. Beryl Hart and Lieut. Wm.
MaeLaren streaked east across
the Atlantic for Bermuda in the
darkness of this morning.
It was the second start with a
proposed pay-load for Paris.
MaeLaren is piloting the plane.
They had a quartering wind and
clear weather. The plane circled
the naval airport a few minutes
before striking eastward.
WHEEL IDENTIFIED
SEATTLE, Jan., 7, (JP)~ Offi-'
ciaLs of the Alaska Washington:
Airways identified the wheel;
found on the beach on Annette
Island, near Ketchikan, as part
of the equipment of the mussing
plane piloted by Renahan. They
expressed the opinion that Re
nahan had thrown the wheel
overboard to lighten the plane.
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 6. (/P) —
The report of the Wickersham Law
| Enforcement Commission on pro
j hibition which should be handed to
! president Hoover on Friday will be
| general in nature and will not re
1 commend the legalizing of light
| wines and beer, according to infor
! mation obtained in high quarters
I The report will not even suggest
! modification of existing dry laws
| to permit the manufacture and
I sale of beverages of more than one
half of one per cent alcoholic con
tent but will strongly condemn
i enforcement of law as having led
j to corruption of officials and per
! mitted bootleggers and rum run
i ners to operate under paid protec
5 tion
| This condemnation will not lead
ito any hint that the Eighteenth
| Amendment or any of its appended
| dry rulings be modified in any way,
i however, it was learned.
SIX DIE SNOWSLIDE
BRIANCON. France, Jan, 7, (/P)
—Six were killed by an avalanche
in a pass of the Alps on the
Franco-Italion frontier. Among
the victims of the snowslide was
Theodore Webaux. prominent cot
ton manufacturer of Roubaix.
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RIVERSIDE, Jan, 7, ( 'P)-A coa
ch tar and feathers applied to a
woman home-steader by masked
men was reported as the New
Year’e day deed perpetrated by
cattle men to drive Mrs. Anna
Wood from her valuable mining
claims and grazing land.
Sheriffs ts> whom the deviltry
was reported began a search for
Indian cowboys of an adjoining
ranch 40 miles east of Riverside.
“They told me to move or I
would wish I had,” Mrs. Wood told
Deputy Carl Anyburn and friends
who discovered the plight of the
woman, when they wdnt to her
isolated ranch in the San Jacinto
mountain foothills and treated her
burns and bruises.
She was in a semi-conscious
state and hysterical condition at
the time when she was found in
her one room cabin in a coat of
tar and feathers.
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I MOTORING SOUTH
f Mr, and Mrs. G. W. James of
the Alaska Shop left today on
the SS Northwestern for the
States on a business trip. They
shipped their car and intend to
motor to California and Arizo
na. They will also visit Denver
and Ogden and expect to return
to Seward about March 1. Dur
ing their absence Miss Roman
off will conduct their local bus
iness.
WORK 10 SW
THIS MONTH ON
THE BREAKWATER
engineer estimates track
LAYING WILL BEGIN BY
END OF MONTH
“I fully expect to see work on !
the new breakwater project well
under way before the end of the j
month,” said H. E- D. Wallace,}
engineer of the Alaska Road
Commission, who with Antone
Eide of the Seward office, willj
have charge of operations.
Mr. Wallace departed today
for Anchorage where he expects
to find at headquarters further
instructions which should have
been sent on this boat. He will}
make his local headquarters in
Mr, Eide’s "offices of the commis- i
sion.
“The laying of the track to j
the proposed quarry will of
course be the first work,” Mr.
Wallace said. “This will not re
quire a very large force of men. j
We will employ all local labor
with the exception of the regu
lar men of the rairoad which
will probably be used to a con
siderable extent on pile driver
and steam shovel work. It is hard
to estimate the number of men
the job will require but from
the number of applications al
ready on file with* Mr. Eide, we
|will certainly be able to handle
ithe situation fully from the lo
cal supply, and especially wish
to warn men from other places
against coming here in the ex
pectation of getting work on this
project for they are almost sure
to be disappointed.
“From the beginning ■ of the
track building to the finish of
Ithe breakwater itsc!.. should not
I be much over 60 days. . The
i dredging operations will carry
the work on into the summer,
j The breakwater will probably be
built just north of the San Juan
: clock where it was originally sur
veyed although thjs has not been
definitely decided. The ' amount
of material to be used has not
yet been estimated, I think the
site for the quarry to be a very
| good one as it is handy and the
| rock is right.”
■EE THU! SOLON
Pi FOR 800STINE
POSTMASTER J08S
WASHINGTON, Jan., 6, {&)—
The Department of Justice pre
pared to institute criminal ac
tion against the Indiana repre
sentative charged by the post
office department for accepting
money from four postmasters
and a rural carrier to obtain ap
pointments.
Justice officials declined to
name Representative Harry E.
Rowbottom who now represents
I the district. No formal action has
I as yet been instituted.
FILES DIVORCE SUIT
SEATTLE, Jan. 6, (/P\— Mrs.
Hannah Engdal filed suit for di
jvorce incorporating the request
| that a receiver be appointed for
;her husband’s fishing boats as
I community property. Jacob Eng
‘dal started a suit for a divorce
[in Ketchikan last September.
DIES FROM WOUND
PANAMA CITY, Jan., 7, (/P)—
Hartwell Ayers American news
paper man who was wounded
in the course of the governmen
tal upheaval, died from his ab
dominal wound; he was also shot
in the neck. Physicians marveled
that he held on to life so long
BIG BANK MERGER
S1HIIS TREND OF
IMPROVED BUSINESS
NEW YORK, Jan. 6. (/P) — Gold
man-Sachs Trading Corporation
32 per cent holdings in Manufact
urers Trust Company have been
purchased by Harvey Gibson and
associates and it is understood
that Mr. Gibson is now chairman
of the executive committee of the
New York Trust Company.
Transfer of this block of stock
and control of Manufacturers to
I the Gibson group is regarded as a
constructive banking step, since
New York Trust Company is one
of the financial companies pro
minently associated with Morgan
| interests.
One of the high executives of
manufacturers is expected to re
sign when Mr. Gibson assumes his
post with the bank. Nathan Jonas
I is at present chairman of the
board while Henry Van Elm is
president.
Manufacturers Trust Company
recently figured in a merger plan
which failed to go through because
of another bank’s closing. At that
time the bank was said to have
had total deposits of $295 00f,0C0
and liquid qgsets of $280,000.00J.
IN THE DIAMOND MARKET
THE HAGUE. Jan. - 1* -Fail
ure of a number of W wmp dia
mond merchants and tk ■ attempt
of many others to nn'mye terms
with creditors has. not at'kernel the
Amsterdam diamond romka sn
ioiusly, it is reported.
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AIRED III COURTS
WASHINGTON, Jan., 6, (/P) —
Hearings on the appeal last fall
^of Henry M. Blackmer, convict
led in connection with the Tea
ipot Dome oil scandal, was post
poned by the District court of
Columbia until February 12.
The postponement was made to
: allow Judge D. L. Groner, recent
! ly appointed by President Hoov
er. to take his seat,
j Blackmer was fined $60,000
for contempt of court when he
j remained abroad and refused
to answer the court’s summons
'to testify.
j ST. LOUIS, Jan., 6, </P)— Sher
iff Alfred Fill arrested Charles
, Y. Abernathy as the kidnapper
of Adolphus Busch Orthwein, 13,
| of Kansas City.
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MAGNIFICENT SILVERS
Bringing to Seward what is
considered by those who inspect
ed them last evening as the fin
est collection of silver fox fur,
F. W. Williamson who, with Mrs.
Williamson conduct the great fox
ranch near Lawing, Kenai Lake,
arrived yesterday. Several of the
pelts were valued at $1,000 each.
They are being expressed to the
market.
SERIES OF DISORDERS ARE
ACCOMPANYING TEXTILE
STRIKE
DANVILLE, Va., Jan., 7, (£*)—
A church whose membership is
principally drawn from non
union textile workers, was wreck
ed by a bomb last night
This marked the latest of a
! series of disorders accompany
ing the textile strike.
The flooring of the Pentecostal
Holiness church was ripped up
and a large hole torn in the ceil
;ing. The pastor said he had
! maintained a hands-off policy re
Igardnig the strike and does not
| know why the church was at
i tacked.
I State troopers have been on
jthe scene for several weeks. Gov
ernor Pollard said he would co
operate to the fullest extent in
| investigating the dynamiting.
810 NHL MEET
FUME VICINITY
OF PANAMA IX
WASHINGTON, Jan 6. (JP) —
The navy soon will be steaming
down bot heoasts of continental U.
S. to Panama for the i;H' fleet
of the Atlantic comprising sleek,
concentration. The scouting fleet
fast cruisers and destre vc*s. will
join the battle fleet of the Paeihc,
composed of mighty dreadnoughts;,
the battleships and airships of the
fleet.
The two of the fleet will e mie to
gether ( arly in Feb.m w at Pana
ma. From February 12 t) Match 24
the fleet concent*a '~m w.'il keep a
naval air concenUo 1 m will key*
j a naval air coneehlt’ tfaon and will
take place in the Caaibuit from
: March 24 to April 3.
IMS 1 FLEET
MAKES IT 1HSS
S NATAL, Brazil, Jan., 7, {/?)—
The advance guard of General
' Balbos transAtlantic a i r p lane
1 fleet swooped down upon Natal
Harbor at 12:15 p. m. yesterday
completing the flight from Ba
loma, West Africa, in 17 hours
and 15 minutes.
The entire fleet of 10 was in
by 12:30; one w'as forced down.
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PRESIDENT'S FISHING
( WINCHESTER, Va- Jan. 6. (/P)—
iThe number of reasons why Presi
j dent Hoover should find his camp
ton the Rapidan River attractive
again next summer has increased
by thousands during the last week.
Agents of the United States Fish
I Commission have been stocking the
j President’s preserve with trout brot
i from the hatcheries in West Vir
| ginia.
EXHIBIT “SKIPPY”
NEW YORK, Jan. 6. OP) — For
the first time in history, the An
| derson Galleries is exhibiting the
serious work of a comic artist, P.
Crosby creator of “Skippy” is the
illustrator to attain the honor. The
i exhibition will continue until Jan
uary 17.