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VOLUME XVI. NUMBER 38.
SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1931.
PRICE TEN CENTS
\LFONSO APPOINTS GUERRA;
TO ASCERTAIN DESIRES
OF THE MAJORITY
MADRID, Spain. Feb.. 16, (&)— j
King Alfonso designated Jose j
Antonio Sancheti Guerra, as the
eader in the movement for a j
constitutional convention to de- j
'ermine whether Spain is to re- j
main a monarchy or become a
republic, and to form a new
government.
Senor Guerra promised the
King he would report on his j
success today. It is believed he
will be able to form a cabinet.
The terms of the agreement
between the King and Guerra
are a secret, Guerra headed the,
liberal cabinet in 1915. He was
Premier again in 1922 but was
expelled from Spain for his enmi
ty to the Primo de Rivera re
gime.
He later charged the King
with having violated the Span
ish constitution in permitting De
Rivera with the dictatorship. He
was imprisoned aboard a war
ship at Valencia in 1921 and
court martialed for sedition. The
findings at the trial were kept a
secret but it is believed he was
found not guilty.
DeRivera refused to accept the
court findings and continued to
hold him until shortly before the
dictatorship fell; Guerra was re
leased at that time.
OBLIGATIONS TSKEN
LISUTL! 8! FRANCE
GENEVA. Feb. 16. (/Fj— France
and Rumania obviously take light
ly their obligations under the
Geneva opium convention, accord
ing to the permanent central op
ium board of the League oft Na
tions.
Parties to the convention agree
to file reports in Geneva every
three months on their narcotic
maufacture, consumption and gen
era traffic in dope. While most
nations submit fairly complete and
reliable statistics, the board re
vealed that France and Rumania
have been reluctant in sending in
their figures.
FIFTY ‘BUCKS’
MONTREAL, Feb. 16. (jP) — A
six passenger cabin amphibian
airplane, said to have been the
property of Charles Levine, first
trans-Atlantic passenger, was sold
here at auction for $50.
FELL INTO THE SEA
CHERBOURG, France, Feb. 16.
■ /P)—Nobody saw James Cooper,
Canadian liquor king, fall in the
sea from the upper deck of the
German liner Deutschlnd as the
deck was deserted because of a
storm, the liner’s captain report
ed on his arrival here, but a fire
man saw him as he struck the
water. The ship stopped but res
cue was impossible.
NO JUNEAU STRIKE
JUNEAU, Feb., 16, (/P)— No
strike of halibut of fishermen
exists in Juneau. Twenty-five j
vessels, large and small, left for j
the banks or have taken on ice j
and bait preparing to get away ;
tongiht.
TAHOE TAVERN, Calif.. Feb.,
16. (/P)—Mrs. Thula Geelan of j
| McCall, Idaho, won the third j
i annual Tahoe-Sierra dog derby.
She was the only woman entry
; and led the 30-mile races for two
days, tier total elapsed time was j
! five hours, 57 minutes and 34
| econds.
Gil McCoy of Reno was two j
minutes and 16 seconds behind
] her.
Jack Oliver and George Scotty j
Allen, Alaska veterans, were 6th j
, and 7th respectively.
HID m SESSION
I
j WASHINGTON. Feb.. 16.
| The prospect of a new attempt
to get additional relief funds is
seen although there is no expec
tation that the move will be suc
cessful.
Easier sailing efforts to avoid an j
(extra session was seen after the j
President signed the S20.000.000
drought relief bill. It took the
Senate a full w^eek to approve it
| although there were only 15j
votes opposing.
LEST ONE FORGETS
WASHINGTON, Feb., 16, </P)—
The government committee in
vestigating the reindeer situation
in Alaska, plans to resume hear
ings tomorrow. Both white and
native herd owners are expected
j to appear.
ROAD TO RECOVERY
HOLLYWOOD. Feb. 16. (/P> — |
Harold Lloyd. Jr., the youngest |
I son of the film comedian, pro
j gresses daily, physicians report.,
! He weighed three pounds and |
nearly six ounces.
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ROME, Feb. 16. (/P)—The Fas-1
I cist government is carrying out j
the most gigantic system of public j
works ever executed by any coun
: try in a short space of time un
er the direct impulsion of Musso
| lini. The public equipment of the
nation is being renewed, expand
j ed ad trnsformed.
Italy has not witnesses public
I building on such a grandoiserd
i since the days of the Roman em
, pire.
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MYSTERY YACHT
| HAMBURG, Feb. 16. (/P) —Pre-;
i parations for launching Hamburg's!
latest mystery yacht, said to have
been built for an American, will
be completed early next week.
The yacht is reported to have
cost $5,000,000.
C. 0. P. HOUSE GROUP
SPLIT: FIRST TIME
IN MINT VENRS
WASHINGTON, Feb., 16, <iP>—
Deaf to administration disappro
val, the House, with an over
whelming majority, is ready to!
pass the Veterans loan bonus1
compromise and its supporters j
are ready to rush the bill thru
to assure the Senate a chance to
pass it to President Hoover in;
time to prevent its death after
March 4.
; Speaker Longworth advocated
the bill bringing a break with
Floor Leader Tilson who opposed
it. The split is the first in
| many years between the Repub
lican House group.
CALGARY lit FACING
STARVATION. 51
j CALGARY, Alberta, Feb., 16,
t i/P)—Danger of starvation among
the 400 prospectors who flocked
| to stake gold claims in the Liv
< ingstone # foothills, is feared by
Inspector* Lethbridge of the N.
| W. Mounted Police, who made a
| weekend survey of the situation.
He reported there were no cas
i ualties yet but lightly equipped
i parties predominate among t he
i men in Porcupine hills, 45 miles
j west of Calgary.
Inspector Lethridge said that
| anyone going into the district
| should be well clothed and carry
; provisions for at least six or
| seven days.
FOOL-PHF PUE
IN Sin PROGRESS
; A fool proof airplane which its
; inventor says will not stall, spin
| nor dive, and will land itself is
1 the latest achievement in saftey
! in the air.
While more than a hundred aero
!
nautical experts and financiers
watched, the plane was successfully
tested at the Glenn H. Curtiss air
! port.
| Piloted by Henry White, the new
plane made a dozen short flights
and come to a perfect landing
with the pilot’s hands helf high
above his head. The designer is
A. Merrill of White Plains, N. Y.
REFUSED OFFER
NEW YORK, Feb. 16. UP) —
The offer of $25,000 for one
broadcast and which, was re
fused by Charlie Chaplin, was held
as the highest ever made any
artist. The previous record was
$15,000 paid to Heifetz, the violin
ist. Chapin refused an offer of
$650,000 for 26 radio broadcasts
of 15 minutes each.
NO ICE
Probably for the first time in
a good many winters no ice ap
pears on any lakes on Re villa Is
land below the 300 foot elevation,
reports the Ketchikan Chronicle.
HUNDREDS DROWN
CANTON, China, Feb., 16, (ff) '■
—Hundreds o f persons were
drowned in Pearl River, south of
here, when a steamer struck a
rock and sank. Four hundred
were saved. The passengers were
celebrating the Chinese new1
year.
IT S SHE 1ST
LEFT PRINCE RUPERT
| PRINCE RUPERT, B C„ Feb.,
16, (/P)—Although the halibut
season opened yesterday not a
single boat so far has cleared
here for the banks.
| Members of the local union
are opposed to breaking faith
i with the fishermen of Seattle.
Also, they are discouraged
| from early fishing by buyers who
I have told them that if they go
out early the price of the pro
duct will be low on account of
the large amount of frozen fish
j in cold storage.
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BOARD WILL RETIRE
j CHICAGO, Feb.. 16, (/Pi—
i Chairman Legge of the Federal
(farm board, will retire soon af
: ter March 4 to re-enter the In
I ternational Harvester Company.
He became chairman of the
! board July 1. 1929. It was report
j ed that he intended to resign
before many months but this ac
tion is not generally expected to
occur so soon after the present
term of Congress.
PURCHASE HOME
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. Feb. 16.
!$b — The Times says A1 Capone,
Chicago gangster, has purchased
| a tract of land at Tarpon Springs
for $60,000 and plans to build a
home there.
FIRST DECREASE
VICTORIA, B. C. Feb. 16. (JP)
—Showing its first decrease in
history, British Columbia liquor
business dropped more than $100,
! 000 dollars a month in the six
1 months ending September 30th,
| the liquor board reports filed in
I the legislature here showed.
CHICAGO, Feb. 16. (JP)—Chas.
I Dryden, first and perhaps the
| greatest of all baseball humorists,
is dead.
The man who originated nearly
all the expressions used in writ
ing baseball today, passed on in
his modest little cottage in Ocean
Springs, Miss., after being a hope
less paralytic for 10 years. He
was about 71 years of age.
VOLSTEAD BETTER
MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 16. (JP) —
Fairview Hospital nurses reported
the condition of Andrew Volstead,
author of the prohibition enforce
ment act that bears his name, as
improved after a restful night.
Volstead is recovering after an
appendicitis operation.
ANOTHER REINDEER MEETING
PROMISED FOR NEXT
NEXT TUESDAY
WASHINGTON, Feb.. 16, f/P»—
Further details of the controver
sy between the white and Es
kimo reindeer herd owners of
Alaska will be heard Tuesday by
the reindeer committee function
ing under the general direction
of the Secretary of the Interior.
The committee were told last
week that the Lomen Reindeer
Company in which Federal Judge
Lomen held stock was taking ad
vantage of the Eskimos through
too aggressive business methods.
Senator Kendrick is chairman
and the members include Repre
sentative Leavitt, Assistant At
torney General Sisson. Secretary
| Wilbur is ex-officio chairman of
| the committee.
Range rules now observed in
the States have been recom
mended for adoption in order to
settle disputes among the owners.
This recommendation will be
j taken up at the Tuesday session
The disputes of rival herd
owners will be hear by the
committee and will go into the
: repo-, t.
j The Alaska delegate is also
expected to appear at the meet
ing. He has accused the Lomens
with being unfair to the natives;
he laid similar charges against
Governor Parks.
The committee is not expected
to convene again until after
• March 4 and that may be the
final meeting.
Recommendations will probably
be drawn up at that time for
resubmission to the Biological
Survey and the Interior Depart
ment for settling the disputes.
SEATTLE CLUB ROOM
RAIDED 81 'FEDS'
SEATTLE. Feb. 16. (/P) —Fed
eral agents smashed their way
thru three heavily barred doors
of the Hongkong Chinese; Society’s
clubrooms here and found what
they described as a flourishing
] barroom.
Fifty customers, many of them,
fashionably dressed women, were
present.
Guadily dressed negresses act
ed as hostesses and barkeepers
and on the tables were partly fill
ed glasses and bottles of liquor
and beer, the officers said.
Several arrests were made.
TWO DEVELOPMENTS
SCHENECTADY, N. Y. Feb. 16.
| (/P)—Two interesting deveopments
in connection with television were
explained here by experts of the
General Electric Company. The
said television from Schenectady
had been received successfully in
London, Berlin, and other places
in Europe, nd that a motion pic
ture film had been made of tele
vision from one part of its labora
tory to another.