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VOLUME XVI. NUMBER 88. SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 1931.
PRICE TEN CENTS
AMERICANS SEEK
REFUSE ON SHIPS
IMIS PORTS
REBELS MARSHALING THEIR
FORCES FOR ANOTHER
ATTACK
TEGUIGALPA, Honduras, April
22. (Copyright by A. P.)—Foreign
women and children, principally
Americans in Honduras coast cit
ies, sought safety aboard ships in
two harbors, at Tela and Trujillo,
from attacks of revolutionary ar
mies which are harassing the
North Coast.
The batleship Maryland took a
station in the harbor at Laceiba
for protection of Americans; the
cruiser Memphis sailed post haste
to Trujillo and the Marblehead is
enroute to the danger zone.
The Honduran congress imposed
martial law throughout the entire
country and available troops have
been called to the colors. The
civil guard is organized and is aid
ing in putting down the revolt.
Three important battles have
taken place since the revolt began
at Senaguer during which the
rebels captured and looted. The
rebels were routed at Tela by de- ;
fenders and a number killed and
wounded.
The rebels are marshaling their
forces for another attack upon
Tela.
BOH BAS BRIGHT
IDEA: WOULD GIVE
WASHINGTON, D. C. April 22.
V-P)—The oil industry should be de
clared a public utility so as to
give Congress control cf prices.
Senator William Borah asserted
upon a proposal for Congress to
limit oil importations and States
to restrict oil production.
Moves now under way in this
direction, Senator Borah said,
make it necessary that if produc
tion is controlled there must be
some regulation to protect pub
lic from exorbitant oil and gas
oline prices.
Senator Borah is of the opinion
that the Federal government and
states have left the consumer out
of consideration in their plans for
pro rata program. Any plan which
deals with the interests of the
producers alone will find it hard
to obtain public or congressional
approval, he said
STILL CLEANING HOUSE
CHICAGO, April 22, (A5)—1The po
lice department is out of politics.
Mayor Anthony Cermak announced
in issuing formal intructions to
Commissioner John Alcock to run
the force as he sees fit and to
brook no interference. The mayor
is preparing for a week’s trip to
the South while the political house
cleaning continues.
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GOT THE JEWELS
MADRID, April 22. (£*)—'The Re
publican government is moving to
seize for the nation all the pro
perty of Alfonso which Is consid
ered the property of the nation.
A special judge has been appoint
ed to investigate reports that val
uable jewels and documents re
lating to Moroccan wars have dis
appeared from a showcase in the
Royal Palace.
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RESIDENTS UK IN
FUR OF INOTHER
INSURGENT IITIB
; PUERTO CABEZAS, Iicaragua,
April 22. (^—Residents of Cabo
L Gracias Adios, captured and looted
1 a week ago by insurgents, live in
* fear of another attack within a
; day or so.
5 Refugees brought here said a
aMnagua dispatch quoted General
1 Managua, Marine Corps command
J ant of the national guard, with
5 saying that the Guardia had the
J outlaw situation well in hand.
Reinforcements are being sent to
all places where attacks are con
1 sidered possible.
SPEER CHIP!
WILL NOW DIR FOR
BURIED TREASURE
LONDON, April 22, (A3)—After
setting a new world land ,speed
record, Sir Malcolm Campbell
plans to dig for treasure.
The Cocos Islands, off the West
ern coast of South America, al
most due west of the Panama
Canal, is to be the scene of this
summer’s search. Sir Malcolm re
turning to carry on a work he
started a year or so ago.
According to his notion, there is
upwards of $50,000,000 worth of
treasure buried on Cocos in three
separate places, he believes, by
looters from Peru, who despoiled
the Incas and their Spanish con
querors later
ROUBLE CRISIS IS
FIRED Bl mil.
CANBERRA, Australia, April 22,
(/P)—Australia faces a double crisis,
the result of which may be the
dissolution of both Houses of Leg
islature and a general election.
The first shock to the laboi;
movement was the announcement
in the House of Representatives!
that the Commonwealth bank had |
refused to finance the government.j
About the same time the Senate
by a vote of 21 to 5 defeated the [
currency bill which provided for;
the issuance of $90,000,000 in cur-j
| rency. A substantial part of which
| was to go to the relief of wheat
j growers.
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PLACER MINI
ALASKA DEFEATED
COMMUNITY PROPERTY LAW
LOST IN THE SENATE BY
ONE VOTE
JUNEAU, April 22, Special to
The Gateway—After the House
voted 8-7 to indefinitely postpone
the Johnson-Nerland placer min
ing industry 8-hour law, the mo
tion thus failing by a one vote
margin, it was promptly laid on
the table. The same measure was
again laid on the table in the af
ternoon by an identical vote and
it is not expected that it will be
moved during the present session.
Allyn of Nome led the fight on
the measure declaring the same
sort of legislation was opposed by
workingmen of Nome two years
ago and read a telegram which he
had just received opposing the
measure. The telegram was sign
ed by 60 laborers.
He declared that the average
worker in the Nome dredge indus
try earned an approximate $800
per season and passage of this
measure would mean a cut to
$600. He asserted Fairbanks work- j
ers probably would be similarly
affected since no company could I
j stand the 20 per cent wage un- j
j der existing conditions.
Every seat in the gallery was I
j empty except for legislators, leg- j
| islative attaches and the press j
representative, when the widely j
discussed community property bill,!
a moot measure since 1929, was'
led to its slaughter late in the I
afternoon. The Senate voted 4-3 j
on the final passage thus lack-!
ing one vote of the constitutional j
majority.
This action came with surpris-:
ing suddeness as but a few min- j
utes before a vote was taken in!
which the Senate meticulously;
amended it, correcting phraseolo-1
gy. punctuation and striking out
the provision which the House
had inserted, to make it elective.
Senator Dimond analyzed the
measure and showed that 15 out
of 32 sections comprising the bill,
were already in effect in the Ter
ritory as individual sections of
the Compiled Laws, leaving 15
new sections. On the final vote
Benjamin, Dimond, Sunquist and
Shatuck for ia and Sen. Lomen,
Bragaw and Hess voting against
enactment.
GOOD PRICE FOR FISH
PRINCE RUPERT, B. C. April
22, (/P)—Sixty-three thousand lbs.
of halibut were sold to the United
Pacific Fisheries of America for
91sc and 6V2.
TAKES THE STAND
KETCHIKAN, April 22, (JP)—
Bert McDonald took the stand in
his own defense. He is charged
with first degree murder of Geo.
Marshall, Ketchika nfish buyer
six months ago. The case goes
to the jury tomorrow.
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MORE SHIPS DISPATCHED
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 22.
(/P)—Along the 600 mile coastline,
United States warships are posted
to protect Americans from Hon
duran and Nicaraguan insurgents
and seven more fighting vessels
have been ordered to seaports.
There have been no deaths or in
juries to Americans recently.
ALFONSO GOES TO
ENELAND LOOS INTO
FINANCIAL MS
PARIS, April 22, (&)—Spain’s
exiled King and Queen broke up
their newly-formed Paris estab
lishment to seek a new home
where there will be less chance
I from an assassin’s bullet, thwart
' ing the hopes of Alfonso’s return
to the throne.
Alfonso goes to England to con
fer with banker’s as to. financial
affairs; Queen Victoria and their
five infantes and infantas are
ready to go to Fontaine Bleau
where the third floor of the Hotel
Savoy has been refitted.
Alfonso returns April 28. A spe
cial police force will be stationed
at Fontaine Bleau and London
police arc preparing to protect
Alfonso. 'r
PILL DESIGNED TO
REDUCE WEIGHT HID
GENEVA, April 22, (JP)— A so- j
ciety woman here through curios-!
ity has saved herself from a fraud- \
ulent reducing treatment it was j
revealed at Lausanne.
A local newspaper announced!
through advertisements a wonder- i
ful reducing treatment which re- ;
suited in the patient becomingj
thinner overnight
One woman received a pill
which she had analyzed at a lo
cal laboratory. It was found, to
contain a germ of a tapeworm.
Women who took the pills be
came thinner and in some cases
seriously ill. The police, are in
vestigating.
THE STOCK MARKET
A. Juneau 14%, A. Can 119,
Bancorporation 21%, Cities 17%,
Cons. Gas 96%, Zellerback 3%,
Durant 2%, Motors 43%, Gold
man 8, Int. Tel. 30, Kennecott
22%, Lehigh 5%, Radio 25%, Rich
field 2%, Union, Calif. 20, Carbide
59, Stand. N. J. 43%, Steel 130%.
Baldwin Locomotive 202, Elec.
P. & L. 48, Gen. Elec. 43, Kelvi
nator 12%, Mack Truck 25, Mont.
Ward Co. 20, Nat. Pow. & L. 33,
West. Elec. Mfg. Co. 75, No.
Amer. 72, Pa. Gas & Elec. 48,
Pub. Ser. N. J. 81, Stand Gas &
Elec. 41, Trans-America 11, U.
Aircraft 28, U. Corp. 22%, Vana
dium 44, Warner Bros. 10.
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MRS. GREIST ILL
WIFE OF DOCTOR COLLAPSES
FROM OVERWORK FROM
EPIDEMIC
POPINT BARROW, April 22. (/P)
—Mrs. Greist, the only nurse in
the hospital, has collapsed from
overwork and nervous strain as
the result of the influenza epi
demic and has been ordered to
bed for a long rest.
The Bureau of Indian Affairs
agreed to loan their young nurse,
| Miss Allen, daughter of Captain
I Jim Allen of Wainwright, and she
has left in a fast dog team. She
is expected to return in three or
four days as it is expected the
quarantine will be lifted Thurs
day.
The next two days will be spent
in fumigation of all quarantined
houses.
The worst storm for some time
past has raged for two days; a
40-mile southeast gale overturned
a frame house and tore roofs off
of others, and boats were over
turned.
Snow drifts completely covered
some houses, the residents being
forced to dig out.
Tile ocean has raised three or
four feet of the ice which is mov
ing now. The wreather is excep
tionally w’arm, being 34 above and
the snow is melting fast.
IMPOSTER E!H10
SLIP OVER FIST ONE;
HOW HD TOE DIRS
NEW YORK. April 21, (/Pi—A
tail distinguished looking gentle
man who maintained steadily that
he was Richard C. Du Pont, mem
ber of a wealthy and prominent
Delaware family was arrested oa
charge of forgery.
Police claim the man is an im
poster and answers to the de
scription of a former butler in
the Du Pont houehold. He was
arrested when he strode into Hotel
Vanderbilt dressed in immaculate
evening wear and asked the night
manager to cash a check. Instead
the manager called the police who
arrested "Mr. Du Pont.”
The Du Pont family, by tele
phone, denied authenticy of the
man.
NUDE DANCE FOR PRESS
BERLIN, April 21. (/P)—Five hun
dred members of the nude cult
for free body culture gave a dem
onstration at the Halzensee swim -
ming basin. The demonstration
was given for the press.
TOKYO, April 21. (A3)—Thomas
Ash, American aviator, announced
he would attempt a trans-Pacific
solo flight, from Yokohama to Seat -
tle or Tacoma, early in May.
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