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VOLUME XVI. NUMBER 72.
SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL 3,1931
PRICE TEN CENTS
BRITISH DESTROYERS TAKE OFF
PASSENGERS, BROUGHT IN
JURED TO MALAGA
MALAGA, Spain. April 3, UP)— :
The French consul here reported
that 30 persons were killed and five
seriously injured in a collision be
tween the French liner Florida and
the British aircraft carrier Glor
ious during a fog in the Mediter
ranean Sea.
The dead and injured were Ital
ian, Spanish, Greek and French re
turning to Europe from the Argen
tine. None of the first-class pas
sengers were hurt.
The SS Florida was badly damag
ed in the bow and was towed here,
accompanied by a British gunboat
and five British destroyers.
The Glorious took off all first
and second class passengers, to
gether with the injured, and brot
theme here.
WASHINGTON, April 3. (<P)—
A speaking tour is planned by
Chairman Jouett Sliouse. Demo
cratic National Committee, which
will formally open the party’s ef
forts toward a return to power, said
a radio speech last night.
The party, the message said,
could render no greater service
than to "pledge itself in an at
tempted solution of the unemploy- .
ment problem.”
Chairman Shouse will speak in
San Francisco April 16 and at Seat
tle April 13. under the auspices
of State Democratic committees.
GUESS AT OLD Ml
’ BUT ORE IS FOUND
NORTHPORT, Wash., April 3,
(JP)—A bad guess made the Van
Stone mine, about 24 miles from
here on Onion creek, look like a
lost hope when a group of Kel
log, Idaho, men worked the pro
perty on lease a few years ago.
They sank a 500-foot tunnel,
which was abandoned when no
ore was found, reports the Den
ver Mining Record.
Today the owners, Charles and
Ernest Lotz, Marry Maylor and
Mr. Van Stone, all of Northport,
have a carload of high-grade ore
ready for the smelter. It was
taken from an old tunnel, run in
the opposite direction from that
of the Kellog miners, and was
found only a few feet from the
original portal. The vein is lead
and zinc, about' eight feet wide.
READY FOR A NEW SAP
PARIS, April 2, (JP)—Pola Negri
was granted a divorce from Prince
Serge Mdivani. Pola sailed for the
U. S. yesterday. She married the
Prince in France in 1927.
CANADIANS CHAMPS
MONTREAL. April 3, (TP)—The
Canadians won the championship
National hockey league title by a
three to two win over the Boston
“Bruins,” in the fifth game of the
playoff. The game went 19 min
utes overtime before Wilbur LaRo
chelle scored the winning goal. The
Canadians now meet the Chicago
“Blackhawks” in the finals for the
Stanley cup.
BLOSSOM BEIW1X
BOTH PARTIES TALK A LOT
ABOUT BALOGNA” DUE
NEXT CONGRESS
WASHINGTON, April 3. (>P>— j
Cooperation between the Demo-1
crats and Republicans at the next
I Congress is expected to prevent J
a federal tax increase.
Responsible party leaders of both '
House are opposed to increased lev
ies to meet the $700,000,000 deficit,
and probably another next year.
Budget Chairman Roop promised
a minimum budget for 193*2-.33.
Chairman Jones of the Senate
appropriation committee sad:
“The Democrats are as anxious
as are Republicans to keep down
expenditures as each party realizes
it may be held responsible for the
condition of the treasury after
1932.'’
Jones suggested that the deficit
be met by short term certificates
as long term bonds bear higher in
terest. He said he did not favor in
creased taxation during the de
pression.
BERLIN. April 3. ePi—Foreign
Minister Dr. Julius Curtius told
diplomatic representatives of three
of his country’s World war ene
mies that Germany will not back
down in its determination to con
summate the projected customs
union with Austria. This, Uni
veral Service is authoritatively in
formed, was the high point in
1 Dr. Curtius’ statement to the
'French, British and Italian am
bassadors when they visited Wil
j helmstrasse to discuss the pro
jected leveling of tariff walls be
; tween the two Teutonic Powers.
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TIKE LEAD IN FIGHT
SACRAMENTO, April 3, (JP) —
| August Vollmer, nationally known
i criminologist and former Berke
! ley police chief, who is now en
i gaged in special work in the
! East, agreed to return to Cali
j fornia to direct the fight for
abolition of capital punishment.
“I will be glad to do everything
in my power to help abolish the
gallows,” Vollmer telegraphed.
“My police experience convinces
me that the death penalty has a
brutalizing effect on the whole
community and exaggerates crime
problems rather than acting as
a deterrent.”
ANOTHER LIGHT QUAKE AGAIN
STRIKES FEAR INTO THE
HEARTS PEOPLE
By Wm. H. Ewing, Copyrighted
MANAGUA. Nicaragua, April 3,
.^—Twenty-five thousand half
clad refugees camped last night i
on Nicaraguan hills overlooking
the mass of smoking ruins.
The official count of the dead ,
thus far is 600 but the final death j
toll is expected to reach 1,000.
Marines and volunteers are dig- :
ging in the ruins bringing out bod- j
ies; no one has attempted to count j
the number of injured.
Not a house was left standing ,
or if still upright at all is shaky.
A light earthquake today has j
doubled the fears of the ■jfuees ,
who have been crowding trains
running to Granada; others are
begging automobile rides to any- j
where away from the city; others
are trudging over roads.
The marines, under the direction
of Colonel Frederick Brandman, di
rected work despite injuries receiv- j
ed when he was struck by a falling ,
beam late yesterday.
The National palace, where the
congress sits and where govern
ment records are kept, caught fire, j
One hundred and 50 bodies were
taken from the market place which
\vas thronged with housewives do
ing their morning shopping when
the quake struck.
One hundred bodies from the
wreckage of the National peniten
tiary, were cremated on a hill out
side the city, relatives standing by,
numb with grief.
There is no water supply and the
marines are bringing water from
Lake Nicaragua which must be
boiled before using.
They are blasting today to stop
the advance of the flames.
The first relief supplies arrived
on the Pan-American airplane San
Salvador; the writer, the Panama
correspondent, flew to Managua in
a special plane.
Four Americans are known to be
dead; Dickey and Baske, Mrs. Jos
eph D. Murray, of Concord,. Mass.,
| wife of a Major in the marines; and
a chauffeur employed by Irving A.
ILindberg, resident high commis
I sioner.
ROCKNE’S BODY ARRIVES
SOUTHBEND, Ind., April 3, (#)—
Knute Rockne’s body arrived at
11:08 p. m. Several thousand were
at the station were silent as the
casket was taken from one station
to another. There were no bands
but music was rendered by Notre
Dame alumni.
ROME POLICE VICTIMS
OF NERVY CON COME
ROME, April 3, (/P)—'The world’s
nerviest confidence man has been
arrested here.
Nicola di Terlizzi specialized in
an insurance fraud, and found the
best customers for his fake poli
cies in police stations.
More than 60 policemen testified
they had subscribed for his “poli
cies.”
$3,000,00 FOR SPORTS
NEW ORLEANS, April 3, (JP)—;
Expenditure of $3,000,000 for re- |
creation facilities of the annex to
City Park here has been announc
ed. Plans call for two new 18-hole
golf courses, additional football
^fields and baseball diamonds,
yacht harbor, amphitheater, and a
municipal stadium.
HEW JURY BILL
IS SLATED FOB
PASSAGE JUNEAU
DIMOND THOUGHTFUL OF TER
RITORIAL WORKERS; HALF
DAY HOLIDAY
JUNEAU, April 3, Special to The
Gateway—A new jury measure is
apparently slated for passage by
the House today as the matter was
fought out in the committee all
day Thursday and after more than
an hour’s debate the motion was
adopted recommending passage.
The ministerial association of Ju
neau and Wrangell entered futile
protest against the bill declaring
the preseht system is entirely fair.
Ten measures and one resolution
were introduced *' Thursday, ; wen
in the House and three in the Sen
ate. - —
The former included a new game
and fur-bearing and stocking pro
gram, revision of the school refund
system, 'repeal of, the marriage
license act of 1917; directing the at
torney general to investigate the
possibilities and prepare income
tax for the Territory for submis
sion to the next legislature. The
others were unimportant.
A resolution by Benjamin in the
Senate seeks to direct the treasurer
to invdst $40,000, representing the
current year’s allotment to the Pio
neers’ Home building fund i n
Wrangell municipal school bonds
instead of United States govern
ment bonds as heretofore requ.ired.
A bill by Shattuck authorizes the
I governor to transfer title to the
i site of the old Territorial building
| to the Federal government for en
largement of the Capitol site as
soon as the government acquires
title to the rest of hte block.
Senator Dimond introduced a
measure giving Territorial employ
ees a Saturday half-day holiday
throughout the year.
DOLE DRAWSMf
DANES ROME FROM U. S.
AND EDOM CWI
COPENHAGEN, April 3, (^—Un
employment doles and other im
proved social conditions in Den
mark have brought many Danes
back from the United States and
| Canada in the last few months.
There has also been a decided
decrease in the number of emi
grants, 1930 having witnessed only
3,348 departures, the lowest figure,
except for world war years, since
1890.
For several years Canada has
been first choice for the largest
group of Danish emigrants but the
United States supplanted its north
ern neighbor in 1930.
LOMEN RETURNS TO
SEATTLE FROM DEER
CONFAB AT CAP!!
COMPANY RECOMMENDS THREE
COMMISSIONERS BE AP
POINTED
SEATTLE, April 3, (/P)— Confident
that the reindeer industry of Alas
ka is about to be placed on a far
former basis, was expressed by
Carl J. Lomen on his return from
Washington, D. C., where he at
tended the Department of the In
terior hearings on the industry.
The special committee was com
posed of Senator John B. Kendrick
of Wyomin, chairman; cJongress
man Scott Leavitt of Montana; As
sistant Attorney General Charles
P. Sisson.
Lomen said; “The committee will
propably recommend a reindeer
council of five; the governor as
chairman, a representative of the
Bureau of Indian Affairs, as rein
deer supervisors, a representative
from the Eskimos, and a represent
ative from cur corporation.”
Lomen and Leonard Baldwin
had recommended three commis
s'oners of Alaska be given execu
tive authority over the industry.
COTTONWOOD FALLS. Kan.,
April 3. (rP)—A cororner’s jury of
six men decided the plane- victims
“came to their deaths from an air
plane fall and from a cause unde
termined.” They were reviewing
the case in which Knute Rockne,
Notre Dame football coach, w’as
among the victims.
The testimony brought out the
■ air liner circled through the
'clouds and that it’s motor was fal
: tering before the crash.
| Several witnesses said a wing
broke cleanly.
! L. E. Mann, deputy sheriff, said he
saw numerous pieces of ice near
i the wreckage which may have
weighed the wings down.
; SEAPLANE CLASSIC IN FALL
LONDON, April 3, (A5)—The
Schneider cup race, world seaplane
classic, is scheduled to be held
some time in the fall between the
dates of August 24 and September
19.
BEAUTIES OF NERD'S
VILLI IRE UNEIRTHEQ
I
ANZIO, Italy, April 3, (JP)—'The
: House of Nero here, once an im
perial villa but now a group of
'ruins almost level with the ground,
I has revealed some priceless mosa
ics to archaeologists digging in its
refuse.
One of the mosaics, 2,000 years
old, shows Hercules sitting on a
rock, with a goblet of wine in one
hand and a harp in the other.
HYTHE, England, April 3, (JP)—
This town, with a population of
9,000, has had only one arrest for
drunkenness in three years.