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VOLUME XVI. NUMBER 44.
SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1931.
PRICE TEN CENTS
WHERE TO THROW !
HUGE DIM'S DIRT I
PUZZLES BIDDERS;
LAS VEGAS, Nev., Feb, 27, </P) !
—Wanted: some place to put 3,- j
700,000 cubic yards of rock and!
dirt. Notify engineers for Hoover!
dam project. i
With waste land surrounding;
the dam site on every side, the!
engineers are still finding a baf- i
iling problem in planning remov
al of excavated material.
Sheer cliffs tower hundreds of
feet above the Colorado river bed,
and loom as forbidding barriers
to the removal of material to
higher ground, where it will in
terfere with future work, or ham
per normal flow of water below'
the dam sit<j»
More than 75 prospective bid
ders have been in Las Vegas to
study topographical conditions at
the dam site, preparatory to mak
ing bids which will open in Den
ver March 4.
MOSCOW, Feb., 27, (TP)—'The
gruelling 200 mile “dog derby” at
The Pas, Man., Canada, wouldn’t
make a suitable curtain raiser
tor a dog test being organized
here.
Purposing to ascertain the en
durance powers of sledge dogs,
the Soviet’s Aviation Chemical
society is promoting a test for
mushers and dogs over a route
of between 7,200 and 8,400 miles.
The drive, which is to .stretch
from Petropavlovsk on Kamchat
ka. to Moscow, also is designed to
popularize the great northern
-oute.
FOR NEW CONGRESS
WASHINGTON, Feb., 28, (JP)—
Progressive Republicans from Wis
consin and Minnesota who hold
the balance of power in the next
House, made good their threat to
stay away from the caucus of
members of their party in the new
Congress.
Threats of a new walkout of Re
publicans from the Western Oil Co.
States failed to materialize. Five
members of the Kansas delegation
bolted the caucus and issued a
declaration of war on New Eng
land Tariff Protected Industry.
Others who remained away were
LaGaurdia, New York, Gaber, Re
publican of Oklahoma.
CONSUMERS WILL PAY
BERLIN, Feb., 28, (/P)—'The tax
on beer in Berlin will be doubled
on April 1, in order to fill a big
hole in the city budget, it was an
nounced. Altho the brewers have
protested, it was declared that no
other facilities are at hand to bal
ance the city’s accounts. It is the
consumer aftei: all who will pay,
no matter how loudly the brew
ers may howL
“SECTION 29”
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27. (/P) —
Congressional “weUs and drys” alike
conceded the attempt by Senator
Sheppard, democrat from Texas, to
remove from the national prohibi- j
tion act Section 29 relied on by
manufacturers of fruit juices and
grape products for the right to sell
to home wine makers.
SENATE OVEH-BIDES
HOOVER'S VETO: BUREII!
READY tOIH MONEY
WASHINGTON, Feb.. 28, (#*)—
The Senate over-rode President
Hoover’s veto of the Veterans
loan bill 76 to 17.
Seventeen Republicans and one
Republican voted to sustain the
President.
Thirty-six Republicans joined
in passing the measure.
At the Veterans bureau some
veterans were in line waiting for
; the Senate action. Although Ad
| mlnistrator Hines refused to
give his official opinion, he said
he believed all certificates would
have to be two years old before
being eligible for loans.
The law become effective im
mediately, Hines said, and the
bureau was ready to start loans j
five minutes after the Senate j
! vote.
IIITH OF SHUT
Fffl REPORTED. SOUTH
JUNEAU, Feb., 28. </P)—Dr. Me
Cauliffe, government physician, i
left in a special boat to invest!- ;
gate the report of an outbreak
of scarlet fever at Klawok.
He will reach there today. It
was reported there were two ac- I
Live cases and 15 suspects.
School has been suspended.
Serum is aboard the SS North- ;
v.v. ,ern
HOCKEY SCORES
SEATTLE, Feb., 23, (^-Seat
tle 2, Portland 0. Seattle’s vic
i tory placed them, in first place,
j ahead of Vancouver.
OLDTIMER CALLED
JUNEAU, Feb., 28, (/P)—Thom
jas Knutson, 65 years of age, a
j resident of Juneau for 35 years,
| died after a lingering illness. He
owned considerable waterfront
property. A widow and several
! children survive him.
ANCHORAGE W GET
| WASHINGTON, Feb., 28, (JP)— j
| How $504,000,000 of the public
! building fund will be spent, was;
| shown in the allotments sent to j
| Congress by Secretary Mellon1
J and Postmaster General Brown
Public buildings in Alaska
J itemized included Anchorage and |
: Ketchikan each for $400,000 j
j buildings.
HAIL SMALLEST BABY
LEEDS, England, Feb., 27. (IP)
—This city claims the home of
the smallest baby in England on
behalf of a child who weighed
only a pound and a half at birth.
SAMUEL HILL
A!
PROTEGE OF “THE EMPIRE
BUILDER” JAMES JEROME
HILL
PORTLAND, Feb., 28, (JP)-~
Samuel Hill, 74, railroad execu
tive, died from complications of
intestinal influenza.
He was the son of James J. Hill,
the railroad magnate, and lived
in his Maryhili Castle on the
Columbia River where Queen
Marie of Rumania dedicated a
room in his international mus
eum.
In 1916 when transportationj
of Russian war munitions across I
Siberia was hopelessly congested, I
| Hill was called upon by the allied
powers to untangle the traffic
j imbroglio at Vladivostok and res
tore order in railroad movements
across Siberia and Russia to the
northern front. With years of
transportation experience. Hill,
in a single summer, rc#pened i
the port for the receipt of sup
plies and reestablished the
I schedule of trains to the battle
| front.
His services as unofficial coun
| sellor in road building and in
\ supplying relief to the allied pow
| ers during the World War and in
| subsequent rehabilitation brought
j to him decorations of four nat
I ions. He was decorated as an Of
| fleer of the Legion of Honor,
i (France) Commander of the
Crown (Belgium), Member of
: the Queen’s Body Guard <Ru
| mania), and Order of the Sacred
Treasure (Japan), and was like
I wise given a medal of thanks
by France and Rumania.
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UTE NORTH:
1115 LARGE LIST
FORTY-FOUR PASSENGERS ON
BOARD FOR THE PORT
OF SEWARD
SEATTLE, Feb., 28, <£>)—The
SS Northwestern, of the S. S.
Co., sailed for Alaska this morn
ing at 9 o'clock with 108 passen
gers on board of which 44 are
for Seward, as follows:
H- G. Ilderton, Barbara Earl
ing, Annie Youst, Mary Earling,
Nancy Earling, Issac Bayles, C.
M. Eckmann, Lynn Smith, Marjor
ie Loudermilch, Mrs. R. C. Loud
ermilcl'i, George M. Hay, I. B.
McQuarrie.
Mr. and Mrs. Ray B. Earling,
Mildred Davis, H. Seidenverg, Mr.
and Mrs. Paul Buckley, F. L.
: Wagner, John Fletcher, John
Mykebust, William Lodge, H. Mal
colm, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Fer
nandes and son.
Thomas McKenne, Wm Scott,
George Menges, A. Von Paeton,
Albert Erickson, L. J. Finke,
Pietra Vigna, Adolph Stock, Har
old Peterson, Gerhard Johnsen,
T. A. Corbett, Olaf Arentson,
Chas. Jones, L. R. Joslin, Mrs. B
; Rody, Scott Wise, Klaffki, and
five steerage.
SAWED WAY OUT
FLORENCE, Arizona, Feb. 27. (/P) I
—Arizona state penitentiary otfic
ails frustrated what they described
as an attempted wholesale prison
delivery when they found Earl Nel
son, bank robber and Charles j
Barnes, holdup man, concealed in
the Cannery after sawing their way
out of their cells during the night.
HOUSE G. 0. P. HOLD
CAUCUS DEMME
uuhiii, isoKj
WASHINGTON, Feb., 27, (/P)—
The Republican House caucus
; unanimously renominated Nich
I olas Longworth as speaker, and
! John Tiisoh, floor leader.
Fifteen Republicans failed to
j amend, strengthening the pos- ;
i sibility that the Democratic nom
inee, who is expected to be Gar
ner of Texas, may win the speak- j
ership.
Republicans will have the maj- j
ority by only one seat at the j
j next session.
| Absentees included independents
and five Kansas regulars wh*b de
manded an oil embargo.
LEGISLATORS GETTING
TOGETHER IT JUNEAU
i JUNEAU, Feb., 23, f/P)—Organ
| ization and details regarding the
! opening of the Territorial Legis- j
lature will be discussed today j
j and Monday.
i No effort has been made by
j either branch to arrange a slate
until all legislators have arrived.
The House caucus was fixed
for this afternoon and the Sen
ate will probably do likewise. It
appears that there are numer
ous candidates for offices.
CAPTAIN SUICIDES
| SEATTLE, Feb., 28, (A*)—Capt.
: R, V. Scoble, 38, of Vancouver,
j Wash-, hanged him self with a j
j curtain cord in his cabin on i
| board the Pacific Trader. He i
| boarded the vessel at Vancouver
■ to check cargo.
SHOWED VALUE
BALBOA, Feb., 28, (A5)—The per- |
formance of the 10,000 Tom j
“Treaty Type” cruiser in the re
cent battle problem conducted by
the forces of the United States j
fleet off the Central American!
coast clearly showed the value ol
Naval warfare.
SHANGHAI, Feb., 27, (/P)—A
slap at the conversion to Christ- j
ianity of Gen. Chiang Kai-Shek |
has been made by the local Kuo- |
mintang in a resolution denounc- I
i ing all Chinese who accept the j
Christian faith.
The Shanghai branch -of thf j
nationalist’s political party ar- ■
gued that Chinese who adopt the j
religion of westerners are un-1
patriotic and not likely to make!
good citizens of the republic.
California’s mineral production ■
decreased $85,450,000 last year.
SEA STUDIES HELP
TO REVEAL TIE STORE
OF LIFE ON EARTH
LA JOLLA, Calif., Feb., 27, <£>)
—Solution of some of the appar
ently insignificant problems of
the sea may lead to magnificent
achievement, says Prof. W. E. Al
len of the Scripps Institution of
Oceanography.
“From food, clothing and jew
els to agricultural fertilizers,” he
says, “there is a long list of bio
logical products of the sea, any
and all of which may be better
controlled and handled for human
lives of their producers and
the conditions affecting their
production.
“There is the claim to aid in
interpreting the history of the
earth, the history of life on the
earth, and the history of man
kind, through comparison of pre
| sent forms with those of the past.”
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PUCE GEORGE IS
DAZZLING THE LIES
IN. II WALES
j VINA DEL MAR, Chile, Feb. 27
* i/P)—As the Prince of Wales is an
old gentleman of nearly 37 years
of age, a new feminine generation
in South America is turning the
spotlight of its admiration for his
younger brother, Prince George,
j and the pupil is outstepping the
; master here in Chile.
The senioritas who attended the
dances for the royal brothers
flash their most enticing: smiles an
that dear old blonde prince and
j only those more mature ladies who
met the heir when he was here be
| fore cling to the memory of him
i as the “Soul of Romance. ’
WASHINGTON, Feb., 27, (/P)—
| Congressional conferees reached
■ an agreement on the terms for
the naval appropriation, the last
of the supply measures which
President Hoover urged to break
I in disagreement, at a breakfast
i table conference.
Quick settlement came a while
j later when conferees agreed to
I the Senate’s provision for $10,
000,000 for cruiser construction.
They agreed this work should
be done in government yards if
time and facilities permit.
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DEPORTED BUCK ITIIT
WASHINGTON, Feb., 27, (IP)—
I Secretary Doak ordered the de
portation of Tony ‘‘Mops” Volpe,
| body-guard of A1 Capone, Chica
i go gangster, because Volpe is an
! alien and unlawfully in the Unit
| ed States.
j This action followed a prelim
| inary findings by immigration
j authorities.
Volpe’s counsel appealed to
the courts and the Labor depart
ment.
* Volpe will be sent back to Italy.