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VOLUME XVI. NUMBER 34.
SEWARD, ALASKA,
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1931.
PRICE TEN CENTS
DELEGATE HURLS '
ANOTHER BROADSIDE
WITH II DULL THUD
JSORE’ AT PARKS AND PEEVED
AT THE ENTIRE LOMEN
FAMILY
WASHINGTON, Feb., 11, (JPh
The Alaska delegate charged that
the government failed to protect
the rights of the Indians and
Eskimos in the development of
their reindeer herds and per
mitted the Loinen Company to
preempt their lands.
He also protested the transfer
:-f the industry from the office
of the Bureau of Education to
Governor Parks.
He requested that Parks be
refusted permission to take part
,n the settlement controversy as
he said the natives considered
Parks was friendly toward the
Eomens
He called attention to the po
sition Judge G. E. Lomen of
Nome, the father of the five bro
thers operating the company. He
said Judge Lomen controlled
Alaskan politics and that he had,
at one time he owned more stock
:n the company than all the five
sons.
Chairman Kendrick sam the'
records and Sawyer’s report re
vealed the Lomen herds had in
creased while the native herds
declined.
The committee will resume the
hearings next week.
ELECT* REFORM It
8E READ SECOfiD M
LONDON, Feb. 11. <>P>—Amid a
storm of good-natured banter,
mainly at the expense of the Li
berals, who are charged now with
receiving their pay for having
nelped the Labor party out of
many tight corners, the govern
ment obtained a good majority of
•55 for the second reading of its
electoral reform bill in the House
of Commons.
The vote was 295 against 230, |
with all Liberals supporting the i
government except Ernest Evans. I
The bill provides a system of
alternate votes. Sir Young at
tacked the bill, declaring its en
actment will reduce politics to a
gamble. He said the majority vote
system is not inhabited by mathe
maticians and archangels.
FRANCE TREMBLES
PARIS, Feb. 11. (/P>—Germany, j
United States, and Great Britain
are outdistancing France in avia- i
tion Louis Breguit, French air- \
plane manufacturer, warned, and
pointed out that Germany had
established numerous technical i
schools for advancement of fly-'
ing.
REFUSE SUGGESTION
LONDON, Feb. 11. (/P) —The
French government has refused
the British suggestion impar
tial arbitrators be chosen.to hear
the grievances of British holders
of French war bonds taking pay
ment in depreciated franc instead
of in gold.
FARR AG UT SAILS NORTH
SEATTLE, Feb., 11, (^—The
SS Admiral Farragut of the P.
S. S. Co., sailed for Alaska today
at 10 a. m. carrying 62 passen
gers of which three are for Sewf
ard, as follows: E. J. Bosner,
Chas. Marcus and J. H. Sander
son.
AMERICAN 10
CM THIEVES
ARRESTED Hil
SWINDLERS A N D ROBBERS
GOT AWAY WITH LARGE
$280,000
HAVANA, Cuba, Feb. 11. (A5) —
Cuban secret service agents op
erating in conjunction with U. ;
S. authorities arrested numerous;
Americans and one Cuban for al
leged thefts in Havana and the
United States amounting to $280,
000.
Frederick Hite, 59 years, Los
Angeles business man, was arrest
ed for alleged robbery of $100,
000 from the Federal Mortgage
and Bond Company and Pacific
Loan and Investment Company.
He occupied a high position in i
both institutions.
Cristobal Bravo and Benjamin
Reynolds were also arrested on
charges of trying to swindle George
Pearce. Indianapolis millionaire,
of $150,000. Their accomplices,
known as George Pavlokas and,
Manuel Pineiro were later taken
into custody.
SLOWING LIVELINESS
NEW YORK, Feb. 11. (,-P> —
The National Baseball League
took step to reduce the lively
character of the major league
baseball when at its Spring meet
ing it decided that in the future
the ball should be made heavier,
with stitching raised instead of -
countersunk as heretofore.
HOUSE SHOW, IDENTIFIED
OAKLAND, Calif., Feb., 11, {JP) \
—The four men burned to death
in the horse show fire have been
identified as John J. Thomas
and Michael McCarthy, employed
by the Carnation Farms, Pomo
na, Calif., George Uhling, of San
Francisco, a stableman, and
:‘Big” Garvey, a negro hostler.
The authorities are inclined to
believe that a cigaret carelessly
thrown started the fire in which
the four men lost their lives and
80 horses.
MUST STAND TRLAL
WASHINGTON, Feb. 11. (/p) _ |
Representative Edward Denison of
Illinois must stand trial on the j
liquor possession charge growing |
out of the seizure of a truckload :
of intoxicants in his office two
years ago, the court has ruled, i
“GET GOING”
LONDON, Feb. II. (/p> —Lady!
Houston, who has subscribed $500,
5000 to finance the British entry
into the Schneider Cup Races has
requested Sir Philip Sassoon, chair- ' (
man of the Royal Aero Club, “to :
jet things going at once.” .
WILL ATTEMPT EAST
TO WEST FLISHT
TOKYO NEWSPAPER SPONSORS
GOOD WILL HOP TO THE
UNITED STATES
TOKYO, Feb.. 11, (/P)—On Wed
nesday the newspaper Hoc hi
announced that Seiji Yoshihara,
aviator, will attempt, under its
auspices, a flight from Tokyo to
San Francisco about April 20.
The flight will be made by easy
stages along the northern route.
An 80 horsepower, light Jun
kers plane will be used.
Yoshihara flew to Berlin from
Tokyo under the auspices of the
paper last year.
The approximate flying time
on the projected flight is com
puted at 77 hours.
Seiji Noma, owner of the news
paper, is promoting the flight
in the interests of American and
Japanese friendship.
The flight wil start- at Tokyo,
via Kuriles, Kamchtaka, Dutch
Harbor, Seward, Canada 7md
Seattle.
APPROPRIATION FOR ALASKA
RAILROAD DEMANDED BE
DOUBLED
SEATTLE. Feb., 11, (TP)— De
claring that a state of emergency
exists to the people of Interior
Alaska, trustees of the Seattle
Chamber of Commerce approved
the resolution of the Alaska
committee of the organization,
demanding doubling the $500,000
appropriation of the Alaska Rail
road and will present the pre- *
sent session of Congress with
copies of the resolution.
The resolution has been sent
to Chambers of Commerces of;
the Pacific Coast, State Con- j
gressional members, the Senate
appropriations committee, J. J.!
Underwood, Chamber of Com
merce representative at Wash
ington, all of whom have been
notified to get in touch imme- j
diately with the State delega-;
tion.
TENSION GROWS TAUNT !
VETS BONUS LOIS!
WASHINGTON, Feb., 11, (JP)—'
The tension grew over the Vet
erans’ bonus proposals in Con-1
gress and Republican leaders are
attempting to stop the ne^ con
troversial stirrings.
They maintained that some |
‘safe and sane plan” will be brot!
forth.
The general expectation was!
'hat the House ways and means
committee would recommend a
5500,000,000 increase in the loan
igainst the certificates.
f COPPER STARTS TO CLIMB
i NEW YORK, Feb., 11, (/P)~
| Copper started to climb again
from 9 V2 to which it dropped last
j week due to, increased from both
! foreign and domestic markets.
The demand resulted in a raise
i to 10, five-hundreds cents.
1
11 m WAY
HUGE AMOUNT IS BEING EX
PENDED HELPING TIIE
NEEDY
LONDON, Feb. 11. <7P» — Bri
tain’s unemployment insurance
' fund is now in such straights
| Premier MacDonald admitted in
the House of Commons that the
; government will be forced to ask
| parliament for power to borrow
■ further before the end of Feb
; ruary.
j Labor Ministry estimated in Dec
| ember that the fund could strug
| gle through March without an
additional loan but an increase
| in unemployment has upset the
i calculations.
j The insurance fund now owes
\ the Exchequer nearly $350,000,
i 000 or about fifty million more
i than was reported to the Royal
j Commission on Unemployment sev
eral weeks ago.
! Current estimates are that ad
j ditional loans for the fund this
j year will be nearer $275,000,000
than the $200,000,000 originally
! believed necessary.
300 MILLION LESS
WASHINGTON. Feb. 11. (JP) —
Despite the decrease in federal
tax receipts, the national debt on
January 31 was $300,000,000 less
than a year ago, the Treasury De
partment reported.
i
PEIPING, China, Feb., 11, (/P)
—Reports from Manchuria to
day said 3,000 miners were en
tombed Sunday in the Fushun
! mines by an underground ex
plosion.
A considerable loss of life is
predicted as only a few persons
; were taken from the shaft.
| The Fushun mine is one of
;the most important assets of the
Manchurian Railroad and is lo
cated in East Mukden.
FOUND SEAWORTHY
JUNEAU, Feb,, 11, (/P)—The M.
S. Norco yrhich struck an iceberg
near here was found to be sea
worthy by inspectors and. has
proceeded to Seattle.
airplane wing
WASHINGTON, Feb. 11. (JP) —
A clue to the fate of Mrs. Beryl
Hart and Lieut Wm. McLaren,
who disappeared while flying over
the Atlantic toward the Azores
Islands, was seen in a report from
the SS. Youngston that the ship
had passed what appeared to be
a part of an airplane wing about
275 miles northwest of Horta, ini
the Azores group.
i
! night session ordered for
I THE SENATE TO ACT ON
MANY ITEMS
WASHINGTON, Feb., 11. (JP)—
Senator LaFollette had the floor
yesterday for his attack on the
compromise of $20,000,000 farm
rehabilitation and loans but the
1 Senate was unmoved by his op
position. since Robinson yester
day. approved.
Robinson read President Hoov
' er’s letter in the Senate in which
| he promised a sympathetic ad
: ministration which he said was
sufficient and contingent to ap
proval of the compromise.
| Senate conferees agreed to
drop from the War department
| supply bill the provision for dis
tributing 20.000,000 bushels of
wheat and $5,000,000 for an agri
j cultural credit to corporations.
A night session was ordered
j for the Senate to act on a num
| ber of unopposed bills.
THREE FOREIGN LOANS
PARIS, Feb. 11. ifP) — French
banks will soon issue three for
j eign loans totalling about three
billion francs. Rumania, Poland,
and Jugoslavia will be the recip
ients of the loans, each of which
I will amount to about one billion
francs.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 11. t/P) —
: Eight men narrowly escaped death
| in a fire that destroyed two boats
i and a launch in San Frail cisco
; Ray and an eleven ton fish car
rier three miles off Patrick’s Point,
' north of Eureka.
Two of the men were sev
| ereiy burned, one had a badly cut
I knee and three others suffered
from exposure.
All who were hurt were the six
aboard the launch engaged in
coast geodetic survey work. They
| saved themselves by swSnming
j ashore after a gasoline "erosion
j had set fire to the boat, ^hich
!was located a mile south of the
San Francisco toll bridge.
STILLL MIXING IT
BOMBAY, Feb. 11. (/P) —One
native officer was burned to his
death and scores were injured in
rioting and fighting between the
Moslems and Hindus at Rawalpin
da. Fighting started when the
Moslems cooked part of a cow,
which is a sacred hindu animal.
ULTIMATUM EXPECTED
BERLIN, Feb. 11. (/P) —Chan
cellor Bruening is expected to is
sue an ultimatum to the Reich
stag when it reconvenes this week
in an attempt to get legislation
to carry through reforms in a
regular manner instead of com
pelling him to resort to decrees.
The only threat against the pas
sage of the budget will cause him
to again revert to government br
decree, he said.