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MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXIX. NUMBER 80.
SEWARD, ALASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL ,6 1933.
PRICE TEN CENTS
EXPEDITION WILL
WORK WILL CONTINUE IN FAR
WESTWARD UNTIL MID
AUGUST
The U. S. S. Gannet. Lieutenant
W. A. Rowe commanding, arrived
in port near the hour of 7 o'clock
yesterday evening for a short stop
before proceeding to the Aleutians,
where she will join the survey
fleet, consisting of the U. S. S.
Argonne and Swallow.
In addition to Lieutenant Rowe
the official personnel of the Gannet
includes Lt. J. B. Moss, Lt. J. A.
Royal and Ensign Moffett, son of
Rear Admiral Moffett, among the
ill-fated crew of the dirigible Akron
when it crashed Monday night off
the New Jersey shore with the loss
of 73 lives. Lieutenant Moffett
will return to the States aboard
the liner Yukon Friday.
Aboard the Gannet are two am
phibian planes, of which Lieuten
ant Moss is chief pilot, Ensign
Moffett, copilot and C. C. Hower
ton, pilot. Comprising the
remainder of the official personnel
are Executive Officer L. L. Swisher,
Chief Boatswain A. D. Holland and
Chief Engineer McCocklenberg.
TAKING AIR TODAY
The crew numbers 62 men.
The most distinctive feature of
the Jack Tars is the collection of
whiskers. They range from peach
blown struggling for the sunlight
thru a coat of tan, to hirsuits
capable of evoking the enmity of
a Russian commissar. The dis
tinctive style is Galways, with ef
fects ranging all the way from a
spade and club to patches which
were hit by the blight while the
Gannet was wanning a decision
over a blizzard at Yakutat.
The arrival of the Gannet was
like the coming of an old friend,
remembering the happy hours
of her last visit and the many en
during friendships developed be
tween the crew and the townspeo
ple, especially the young folks.
One plane was hoisted to the
dock last night to be used in mak
ing upper weather surveys.
Lieutenant Rowe was not pre
pared to state the duration of the
Gannet’s visit, altho expressing
the wish that it could be several
days.
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BREWERS TAKING ALL
NEW YORK CITY. April 6.—
Midnight revelry over legal beer
will not come at one minute after
the zero hour on April 7, if the
Brewers’ Association has anything
to say about it.
No member of the association
will have beer for sale until the
morning after midnight of April 7,
according to Col. Jacob Ruppert
of the New York Yankees, who is
also president of the Brewers’ As
sociation. “The idea,” said Col
onel Jake, “is to prevent a wide
spread scene of disorder. If any
body gets drunk, he is going to
have to do it on bootleg stuff.”
EMERGENCY CHS
WASHINGTON, April 6,—Presi
dent Roosevelt issued an executive
order declaring that the National
Financial Emergency still exists
and forbidding the hoarding of
gold coin, gold bullion, and gold
certificates.
The order requires all persons
to deliver on or before May 1, to
a Federal Reserve Bank, branch or
agency, all gold coin, bullion and,
gold certificates now owned by
them or coming into their posses
sion on or before April 28, with
few exceptions.
SPEARED IN LEG
ANNAPOLIS, Md.. April 6,—Wil
liam R. Kane of San Rafael, Cali
fornia all-around athlete of the
Naval academy, was confined to a
hospital after having been speared
in the leg by a javelin thrown by
a team-mate during track and
field practices. Kane’s condition
is not serious.
36-HOUR WEEK
WASHINGTON, April 6—Senate
majority leader Robinson moved
; to amend the Black short-week bill
to provide for a 36-hour week in
| stead of a 30-hour week. Senator
Robinson told the Senate that
such a chance would be “accepta
ble to President Roosevelt”.
FACTS INVESTIGATION
WASHINGTON, D. C„ April 6.—
A thorough investigation of the
crash of the dirigible Akron, with
no whitewashing and suppression
of facts, was promised by Congres
sional leaders as the House naval
affairs committee met. Repre
sentative Vinson of Georgia com
mittee chairman, would seek not
tragedy, but facts as well, to guide
only to determine the cause of the
Congress in its future naval pol
icy.
The congressional inquiry, he in
dicated, may await the conclusion
of the naval board of inquiry.
Stunned by the loss of three of
the navy’s giant airships. Congress
appeared ready to drop the devel
opment of lighter-than-air craft,
unless some one can produce a
substance certain to withstand the
terrific strain of aerial storms.
The opinion was unanimous.
Some members expressed the hope
that the accident may be accepted
as a challenge to American science
and ingenuity to devise even great
er fighting machines of the air.
Wjth the death of Rear Admiral
William A. Moffett, however, the
foremost advocate of lighter-than
air craft passed. Congress relied
upon his advice implicitly.
SHARPER TEETH ARE
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 6.—
[ Gold hoarders, look out! Sharper
teeth are going to be put into the
measure signed by President Roose
velt to compel the return to cir
culation of idle gold.
All persons possessing $100 or
more gold must return it to circu
I lation by May first or be subject
to a fine of $10,000 or a prison
term of 10 years, or both. Provi
sions in the bill outlined by Presi
dent Roosevelt include a license
for the use of gold in business.
LEADS BOWLERS
COLMBUS, o., April 6,—Earl
Hewitt of Erie, Pa., went into first
place in the individual event of
the American Bowling Congress
with a 724 score.
NEW MOTOR VESSEL
DISCOVERER ARRIVES
ENROUTE ANCHORAGE
Seward’s waterfront today is
i graced with the latest addition
! to the Southwestern Alaska fleet,
the new 76-foot motorship Discov
i erer, Captain Heinie Berger, owner
i and master, which arrived in port
at 1 a. m. today from Seattle. The
j splendid craft is the connoisseur
■ of all eyes, not only from men who
! follow the sea, but by landsmen.
: Cantain Berger leaves port this
; evening for Anchorage with 85
tons of freight but will return to
i Seward at once, probably next
i Tuesday, at which time regular
schedule will be announced be
' tween Seward and Anchorage and
; way-ports.
Passengers from Seattle were
Mrs. Berger, wife of the proud
! skipper; their adopted son Rich
ard, five-years-old; Mis. Jack Wil
kinson, wife of the chief engineer
and son George; Olaf Olson, of
Valdez, who goes to Valdez on the
SS. Yukon; Captain Albert Colberg,
master of the MS. Copper; Miss
■ Dorothy Ecker, niece of Mrs. Ber
ger, who comes from Spokane to
! make her home with her popular
j relatives, and George Beck, Nuka
I Bay mining man.
Qsiptain Berger’s crew consists
j of Chief Engineer Jack Wilkinson,
Assistant Chief Engineer Fred Ber
, gman and Mate Oscar Wick.
THEOflnS ADVANCED
! THAT HEAT CENERATED
| LIGHTNINUOST AKRON
AKRON, O., April 6.—As the
j peers of the nation’s dirigible ex
| perts meditated on the possible
I cause of the greatest airship dis
aster in history, the destruction of
the U. S. S. Akron, with a loss of
73 lives, the theory that heat gen
erated by lightning sundered the
huge duralium framwork was ad
vanced as most plausible.
Lightning struck the giant air
craft before it crashed, survivors
say. The effect on the framework
doubtless compared closely to that
of an electric current suddenly
passing thru the common electric
toaster.
It might have been sufficient,
experts in physics related, to have
heated the duralium rivets secur
ing the framework to such a de
gree as to make them easily vul
nerable to the intense strain of
the gale buffeting the Akron.
HUGE PROGRAM
WASHINGTON, April 6,—Cnair
man Viixsin of the House Naval
Affairs Committee inaugurated a
drive for a huge Naval building
program which, he hopes will place
the United States fleet at full
London Treaty strength.
Terming the condition of the
American Navy “deplorable” he
predicted that by 193G it would as
sume a literal fifth place among
the naval forces of the world.
CONFIRMED
WASHINGTON, April 6, —The
Senate confirmed Claude G. Bow
ers as United States Embassador
to Spain. Sumner Welles of Mary
land was confirmed as Assistant
Secretary of State.
CERMIIIOFFICMLS
SO TO ITIIE CONSULT
BERLIN, April 6.—Unofficial re
ports in political circles said that
Vice-Chancellor Franz Von Papen
and Captain Hermann Goering,
leading Nationalist and National
ist-Socialist members, respectively,
of the Hitler Cabinet, will go to
Rome this week-end to confer with
Premier Mussolini.
They were expected to discuss
the four-year pact plan proposed
by Mussolini, under which the
principle of German equality in
armaments and the revision of Eu
ropean frontiers, which has been
sought by both Italy and Germany,
are recommended.
A conflict between the Federal
government and the Foreign Press
Association, representing about
135 correspondents of more than
20 nations, has arisen over the
government’s decision to boycott
the association as long as Edgar
Mowrie of the Chicago Daily News
remains as president.. A correc
tion in the press service and an
apology to the American consulate
is expected.
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 6.—
Naval officials said there was “no
question” about the airship Macon
being sent to Sunnyvale, Calif.,
after the ship’s test and acceptance
has been completed.
Secretary said the purpose of
the airship was to work with the
fleet and since the fleet was on the
Pacific ocean there would be no
change, because of the disaster to
the Akron, in the plans co send
the Macon to California.
NEW PATROL BOAT
j SEATTLE, April 6,—Coast Guard
| headquarters announced a 75-foot (
: boat, probably No. 265, will be as- |
; signed to Ketchikan to replace the
I Alert; during the regular Bering
| Sea patrol of the latter. The 26j
j carries about 10 men.
I NmiOHMESifOEK !
TO SKY QUEEN AKRON
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 6.—
.The fate of the boldest American
bid for commercial supremacy of
the air hung in the balance as
the nation took stock of the disas
ter that befell the sky queen, Ak
ron. For 18 months the giant
craft was supreme, the finest and
most complete ship of its kind.
The Akron represented the best
knowledge of Zeppelin ouilding
skill and Yankee inventive genius.
Even as she fell, however, her sis
ter ship, the Macon, marking di
rigible construction refinements
born of the experiences with the
Akron, awaited her trial voyage.
The Akron and the Macon were
free from the international agree
ment that made the German-built
Zeppelin, l^os Angeles, only a com
mercial vessel. Thus they have
afforded opportunity also for navy
tests of the military usefulness of
such ships as long range scouting
craft and bombers. *
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TROY MAROONED
SPRINGFIELD Md„ April 6,—!
John Troy, Governor of Alaska, is
marooned here airbound for Jun
eau. If weather conditions im
prove, he expects to leave by plane
for Los Angeles tomorrow.
EPOCHAL MOVE TO
T
WASHINGTON, April 6, —The
United States is on the eve of an
epochal mov.e to readjust tariffs,
smash international trade barriers, j
clear the deck for action at the
coming world monetary and eco-i
nomic conference and settle the
war debts.
This was fore-shadowed in Pres-,
ident Roosevelt’s special message
in which he declared he would
shortly “ask Congress for legisla-i
tion enabling him to initiate prac
tical reciprocal agreements to!
break thru trade barriers and es- i
tablish foreign markets for farm!
and industrial products”.
George Colwell, general road
master of the Alaska Railroad,!
arrived last evening on one of his j
regular trips of inspection.
THE M. S. DISCOVERER
Christened recently at Seattle by Mrs. Alice Berger,
wife of Capt. Heinie Berger, owner of the new craft. The
vessel, in port today for the first time, will carry passen
gers, mail and freight in the Seward-Anchorage route.
LEGISIIITUHE US
JUNEAU, April 6,—The bill to
give the Governor discretionary
power to reduce pro rata all ap
propriations except for schools,
puljlic homes, pensions, support or
relief of indigents, payment of
salaries to officers and employees
and neeessary expenditures of
Territorial government was intro
duced by Walker of Ketchikan in
the Sena_te.
The object of the measure is to
safeguard the treasury against
any deficit during the biennium
and it is practically identical with
the Virginia Statute.
Taylor of Cordova introduced
comi^nion measures in the House,
one to repeal the teachers pension
act and the other making teachers
eligible under old age allowance
act providing they have taught 25
years. 15 of which must have been
continuously in Alaska and are
55 or more years old.
This is open season on news
papers as Swanberg’s bill permit
ting posting instead of publish
ing of delinquent tax lists reached
the third reading in the Senate.
Nerland in the House introduced
a bill to permit posting of notices
of administration of estates of less
than $1,000 in value or publishing
them in newspapers.
Hearing on the beer bill are pro
gressing and are expected to end
Friday and will be passed early
next \yeek.
MEET MOM, AKRON
WASHINGTON, April 6,—A Nav
al Inquiry Board, including Cap
tain Shoemaker, Sunnyvale com
mandant, was called to meet Mon
day in Lakehurst. The House of
Representative Naval Affairs sub
committee will also convene to in
vestigate the Dirigible Akron dis
aster, as well as the Senate Naval
Committee. McClintick urges non
military inquiry in fejir of "white
washing” sabotage charges.
Lieutenant Wiley and the two
other survivors arrived in Wash
ington and will see President
Roosevelt Friday and. later testi
fy in the inquiry.
The Nayy continues with its
search for survivors’ bodies in
wreckage. The Navy airship Macon,
sister ship, will start test-flying
soon.
FRENGH POLITICimTf
IN NEED Of MORE 1
PARIS, April 6, —What ails the
legislators is lack of oxygen, ac
cording to Dr. P. S. Peutetre. “Leg
isolators may be bright men in
many instances,” said Dr. Peute
tre, but when they sit around con
ference tables for hours smoking,
the oxygen is gradually taken from
their brains and they can not think
with their usual vigor.”
No program of oxygen tanks and
pulmonators wras prescribed by
the doctor, but he suggested “it
would be a good idea for them to
have compulsory rules for exer
cise every hour.”
NEGRO IDENTIFIED Is
WOMAN’S ASSAULTER
DECATUR, Ala., April 6, —The
nine Scottsboro negroes accused of
attacking two white women, denied
at the trial of one of their num
ber, that they participated in the
asserted assaults. —
Samuel Leibowitz, New York at
torney and head of the Interna
tional Labor Defense for the ne
groes, called each of the negroes
in an effort to refute State’s evi
dence that they participated in
the alleged assaults.
The State rested after Mrs. Vic
toria Price, 23-year-old mother,
had identified Haywood Patterson
the negro oh trial as the “third of
four” negros who attacked her.
“LET ANNE DO IT” FRIDAY NIGHT 8:30