MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXVIII. NUMBER 91. SEWARD, ALASKA, TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 1932.
PRICE TEN CENTS
ECONOMY POLICY
CUTS OF $50 MADE IN MAGES
OF THE CITY CLERK AND
CHIEF OF POLICE
Economy will be the keynote of
this administration of the munici
pality. This was sounded Monday
evening, the first regular business
meeting of the new council, by
Budget Committee members, Elwyn
Swetmann and A. H. L. Meyers.
Big cuts in salaries were made
and. with few exceptions, savings
were propounded in all depart
ments. Where no slashes were
recommended, the committee sug
gested conferences with business
men in the matter of lower costs
for certain services.
The budget, if adhered to, will
give the city a balance of approxi
mately $4,000 at the end of the
present council’s term, the com
mittee reported. The approximate
revenues were placed at $24,500.
Fire Department members peti
tioned the council to retain the in
cumbent.
Wm. W- Abbott, member of the
school board, who has been in the
States fbr several months, sent in
his resignation because of illness
and continued absence. A. Novak
was unanimously elected to Mr.
Abbott's position.
The school board’s budget was
presented; it calls for expenditures
of $21,005 for the school term of
1932-33. Of this sum, the city’s
proportion will be $4,500. President
Erwin and Clerk Sullivan were
present. Mr. Erwin asked for $1,200
for present needs. The budget was
approved and the loan granted.
Councilmen McMullen and Ma
yor Brownell suggested work be
started immediately on the gar
bage dump and streets, for two
reasons; the first being such work
is necessary; second, many men will
be given needed employment- The
wage scale was set at 50c an hour.
Councilman Manthey suggested
a portion of the Sixth Street side
walk be torn up and cinders re
placed. Action was held over.
A resolution was read accepting
the delinquent tax roll on real
property in the sum of $2,261.10.
Also on personal delinquent taxes
amounting to $350. There are 250
delinquent lots. The resolution was
turned over to the proper com
mittee.
Through conferences with light,
power and water officials, the bud
get committee anticipated certain
service reductions will be made.
The budget allows $1,500 for
street work. A reduction in rent
for the clerk’s office will be asked.
The combined salary of Chief of
Police and Chief of the Fire De
partment was fixed at $150 a
month. The combined offices of
City Clerk. Magistrate and Assessor
was fixed at $100 per month; City
Attorney $25 per month; City
Health Officer $50 per month; Mu
nicipal Treasurer $1 per year. Ma
yor Brownell favored only a $25
cut in the Chief’s salary, but the
$50 cut went through,
f The city will advertise for appli
cants for city positions.
Tie Mayor recommended a 10
per cent cut in teachers salaries.
Councilman McMullen recommend
ed that the school board economize
in administration; this latter rec
ommendation was passed.
Following are the committees ap
pointed at last night’s meeting;
Assessment and Collection ol
Taxes—P. c. McMullen, chairman;
Elwyn Swetmann.
Public Schools—A. H. L. Meyer,
chairman; Gus Manthey.
Fire Protection—J. B. Stanton,
chairman; Gus Manthey.
Light. Sewerage, Water and
Wharves—p. c. McMullen, chair
man; J- B. Stanton.
Public Health and Protection—
A. H. L. Meyer, chairman; J. B.
Stanton.
Finaaice and Claims — Elwyn
Swetmann, chairman; A. H. L.
Meyer,
Streets and Street Improvement
—J. B. Stanton, chairman; P, c.
WHALING VESSELS LEAVE
SEATTLE, April 19.—Four whal
ing vessels of the American Pacific
Whaling Company are scheduled
to sail from Seattle on May 10 for
Kodiak to engage in the coming
summer’s whaling operations in
Alaska by that company. This |
company did not send out any ves- j
sels last year.
DISTRIBUTION OF Ml
MINER'S ESTATE DELKYED
SAN FRANCISCO, April 19. (/P)—
The distribution of the $9,000 es
tate of the late George Mueller,
Alaska miner, was postponed a
week by Judge Dunne, giving Muel
ler’s widow and his daughter each
a chance to contest the distribu
tion.
Mueller left his widow and his
daughter each one dollar. They
claim that Mueller deserted them
about 30 years ago.
IINOBERGH DESIROUS OF
MB SECOND CONTICT
HOPEWELL, N. J., April 19.—
Colonel Chas. A. Lindbergh made
another stirring appeal to the press
and the public Monday wherein he
asked further freedom in his move
ments so that contact with the
kidnappers could again be estab
lished. The Colonel also stated
that no further ransom demands
had been made by the kidnappers
j since the payment of the $50,000
and he also said that no further
contacts had been made by him
self.
Lindbergh, in making his appeal,
thanked the many press associa
tions for their cooperation but said
that his attempts to make contact
I again with the kidnappers was still
hampered by the activities of the
press, who continue to ferret out
even the most secret of meetings.
DEALT IN NARCOTICS
LOS ANGELES, April 19. — Dr.
j Charles M. Steward, physician, was
! arrested here Monday by narcotic
: agents. Dr. Steward, when arrest
J ed, admitted that he had been sup
| plying drug addicts with narcotics.
ROOSEVELT BELIEVES IN
HIDING TOE EMPLOYER
ST. PAUL, Minn., April 19. (A*)—
Citing Thomas Jefferson, Benja
min Franklin and Theodore Roose
velt as champions of his philoso
phy, Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt,
in an address here, said “it seems
that all help simultaneously was
broad enough to include the mil
lions who have been helped by
merely helping their employers be
cause they are not strictly their
employers.’'
Roosevelt urged national control
of power, resources and develop
ment projects and he praised A1
Smith for his part in preserving
New York’s power and resources,
j He also urged a downward revision
j of the tariff.
VISIT SAN FRANCISCO
LOS ANGELES, April 19-— The
| United States Naval fleet in Los
| Angeles harbor will soon steam to
San Francisco for a several days’
visit. In the fleet will be 107 war
J ships and 300 airplanes. Follow
ing the San Francisco visit, the
| fleet returns to Los Angeles.
POLISH HAVEN FOR JESUITS
LOWOW, Poland April 19. (A5) —
j Sanctuary . for two dozen of the
Jesuit priests expelled from Spain
was found near here in a colony
maintained by the Silesian branch
of the order.
McMullen.
Printing — Thos. Neville, chair
man; P. C. McMullen,
j Civic Affairs — Gus Manthey,
chairman; Thos. Neville.
Law and Ordinances — Elwyn
Swetmann, chairman; A. H. L.
Meyer.
Glacier Stream — Thos. Neville,
' chairman; Gus Manthey.
TESTIMONY DESPITE
■IT TDK SET
HONOLULU, April 19.—Monday’s
proceedings in the “honor slaying”
trial here consisted mostly of an
attempt on the part of Prosecutor
John C. Kelley to shake Lieut.
Thomas H. Massie’s testimony that
his was the hand that held the
gun with which Joseph Kahahawai
was slain.
Kelley also tried to trap Massie
into testifying that he knew what
happened after they had succeed
ed in getting a verbal confession
from Kahahawai that he had at
tacked Mrs. Massie.
Lieutenant Massie stood firm in
his testimony despite the adroit
traps set for him during the entire
two hours of questioning and when
he stepped down from the witness
stand he stepped down glorified in
the eyes of his fellow officers and
their wives who were in attendance
at the trial.
Massie insisted that murder had
not been premeditated but said
they wanted a confession to quiet
ugly rumors which began making
the rounds. He had sought the ad
vice of a lawyer and he had advised
Massie that he secure a written
confession without duress. It was
for this purpose that the Hawaiian
was kidnapped and brought to the
Fortescue home. When the Ha
waiian admitted the attack, Mas
! sie testified, his mind went blank
| and remained so until he was con
; fronted by policemen at Koko
I Head.
After a savage mock examination
i Massie was dismissed Monday sub
| ject to recall.
The remainder of the trial con
sisted of Defense Attorney Darrow
examining a number of minor wit
nesses who corroborated Lieuten
ant Massie’s story and who iden
tified certain articles connected
with the murder case.
Temporary insanity appears to
be the plea which Darrow will
make for his client.
IN TENNIS FINALS
PINEHURST, N. C., April 19.—
Ellsworth Vines, national tennii
champion from Los Angeles, anc
Wilbur Allison, fiery Texan, wor
their way into the finals round oi
the men’s singles in the North anc
South Tennis Tournament here
Saturday. Vines battered down the
defending champion, John Var
Ryn, in the semi finals by a score
of 6 to 4, 6 to 4 and 6 to 2.
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AMERICAN
St. Louis 11,-Detroit 14.
Cleveland 2, Chicago 1.
Washington 15, Philadedphia 7.
New York at Boston—didn’t play
NATIONAL
Boston 7, New York 1.
Philadelphia 0, Brooklyn 8.
Pittsburgh 0, Cincinnati 5.
Chicago 3, St. Louis 1.
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| BENDIGO, Australia April (A5)—
| Police here were startled when twe
! young men with stiff brooms begai
(Sweeping a street, but they didn’
; do anything about it until the:
| found the energetic pair cradling
:the dust and getting gold.
The road apparently had beei
surfaced with crushed rock con
taining pay ore.
The police stopped the urbai
prospectors under a law whicl
makes it an affense to remove th<
surface of carriage roads.
Mayor A- F. Bryant and his tax
payers’ ticket were swept into of
fice by liberal majorities in thi
j Fairbanks election. The Schoo
j Board election, a predominant' is
I sue before the voters, gave Forbe;
I L. Biker 738 votes. The high mai
| for the council was E. L. Shermer
I Virgil Bailey and Fred Lewis weri
also elected to the council.
FRANCE BOYCOTTING
FRUIT HERS OF
THE UNITED SMS
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 19.—
The United States government is
preparing to defend itself and her
fruit producers against the dis
crimination of the French in buy
ing fruit produce from American
growers. The United States re
cently protested the French tactics
through Ambassador Walter E
Edge and the situation for a time
was thought alleviated.
Now, the government is prepar
ing another more stringent move
and will invoke a law which is al
ready on the statute books. This
law provides that a 50 per cent
tariff be placed on goods being ex
ported by a discriminating nation.
Unless, through diplomatic chan
nels, the question is settled, the
law will go into effect within 30
days from the date it is pro
claimed.
CUT APPROVED
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 19.
{JP)—The Senate Monday approved
a $1,000,000 cut in the $11,000,000
prohibition enforcement fund after
defeating by a vote of two to one
Senator Hiram Johnson’s proposal
for a 50 per cent cut in the fund.
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QUIETS RUMORS
HOLLYWOOD, April 19.—Estelle
Taylor, divorced wife of Jack
Dempsey, said that there was no
truth in the rumors that she and
Jack were to be married soon. She
said they just happened to meet in
Los Angeles recently.
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FEW OF INDIAN TRIBE LEFT
LOS ANGELES, April 19. (JP) —
Tuberculosis and other diseases
have so cut into the Los Coyotes
Indian tribe, living on the ocean
side of the Southern California
mountains, that only approximately
85 members remain.
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WHAT’S THIS?
KNOXVILLE, Tenn., April 19.—
Charles Chaplain, Andrew Mellon
and George Washington are all in
jail here. However, the jail in
mates are not the famous comed
ian, present Ambassador to Eng
land and the first President, as
their names indicate but are just
namesakes. Nevertheless, it is co
incident that all three namesakes
are in the same jail at the same
time.
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DRYING UP NEW YORK
NEW YORK, April 19.—Prohibi
tion agents have started a drive to
clean up New York’s recently listed
20,000 speakeasies. However, news
of the impending raids leaked out
■ and the dry agents were only able
to make a few arrests by Monday
evening. Amos Woodcock, director
of the prohibition bureau, said the
raiders would continue their work
until New York is comparatively
dry.
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REVISED BUDGET
i WASHINGTON, D. C., April 19.—
j Secretary of Treasury Ogden L.
Mills Monday sent to Congress his
revised budget balancing plan. Un
- der the new budget, the income tax
> rate will be about the same as the
l 1924 basis. He was aided some
j what in his v/ork of attempting to
r balance the budget by the slashing
J of $208,000,000 in governmental ex
pense.
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DRYING UP CHICAGO
CHICAGO, April 19. — Federal
i prohibition agents have begun a
i drive to cleanup Chicago before
f the national conventions are held
there in June. One hundred and
45 arrests have been made already.
- It is said that the meeting places
- selected by both parties is in the
; midst of districts alleged to be al
1 cohol cookery areas of the Capone
• organization.
i The American Can Company has
. filed articles for incorporation in
i Alaska and has selected Ketchikan
for a can manufacturing plant.
SENATOR HARRIS DIES
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 19.—
William J. Harris, 64 years of age,
Senator from Georgia, died in the I
hospital here Monday following an i
extended illness. Senator Harris j
died from the direct cause of heart
failure. His home was at Cedar
town, Ga., and he has been a Sen
ate member since 1919.
CHILE IS FINALLY FORCED
ABANDON GOLD STANDFRD
SANTIAGO, Chile, April 19.—
Chile went off the gold standard
officially today after nine months
of unsuccessful effort to maintain
the peso at par through a rigid
control of purchases of foreign ex
change.
Under a government bill passed
Monday night, the value of the
Chilean peso will be subject vir
tually to the open market with but
a few restrictions to prevent a
wholesale collapse of the peso.
PEACE CONFABS TO BE
RESUMED WEDNESDAY
SHANGHAI, April 19.—Sino-Jap
anese peace conferences are to be
resumed Wednesday, according to
Shanghai indications Monday. The
Chinese delegates have consented
to a resumption of peace negotia
tions.
The Chinese delegates walked
out on the last meeting, saying the
j terms which they would be forced
I to accept would be too humiliating.
Reports of guerilla warfare in
Northern Manchuria seemingly
do not make any difference to
Shanghai which is busily engaged
in finding a solution tc her own
problem.
COULD NOT GET WORK
WASHINGTON, D. C„ April 19.—
At hearings on the soldiers’ bonus
proposal Monday, Edward C. Mc
Connell, personal chauffeur of
General John J. Pershing during
the World War, testified that he
was jobless and had not been able
to secure a job for a number of
months.
DISARMAMENT CENTERS
ABOUT H. L STIMSON
GENEVA, April 19. —Public dis
cussion on disarmament and arms
limitations plans are now entirely
insignificant and the real center
of activity is proceeding behind the
scenes with Henry L. Stimson, Sec
retary of State and an American
representative to the meeting, as
the real center.
Stimson has had conferences
with representatives from France,
Italy, Switzerland, Britain and
other nations and the only appar
ent barrier from further disarma
ments on the part of European
nations is that they be guaranteed
safety from invasion.
PLOTTED TO (IIP
SHERIFF I! JU
LOS ANGELES, April 19.—A plot
to kidnap the sheriff, the under
sheriff and the jailor was revealed
here as authorities asked permis
sion to send three dangerous crim
inals, whom they have been hold
ing in the Lcs Angeles county jail,
to San Quentin penitentiary at
once.
The trio, alleged to be members
of the Capone organization, is
headed by Ralph Seldon. They
were to stage the kidnapping sc
that they could gain their release
The three have made the threat
that they will never reach the big
house—San Quentin.
Recent heavy winds on the Gul
kana road in the Copper River val
ley north of Cordova blew down
trees and broke the telephone wire
in several places. At present there
is no phone communication be
tween Gulkana and Chestochina.
GLACIER PIS!
ESGIPES SERIES
BE NEW PERILS
PRESENT EXPEDITION NEARLY
ENDED DISASTROUSLY
IN RIVER
CHIGNIK, April 19. (Special to
The Gateway)—Father Bernard R.
Hubbard, University of Santa
Clara geologist who is seeking
scientific data from Alaskan vol
canoes, spent the most rigorous
time in Alaska this winter when he
successfully climbed Katmai vol
cano, the only time the dread
mountain has been attempted in
winter. With him were two stud
ent companions, Kenneth Chisholm
and Jack Morton, and a team of 12
dogs.
The trip almost ended fatally
owing to lateness of start because
Father Hubbard was held up three
weeks waiting for his dog team to
arrive from Interior Alaska. While
negotiating the Katmai River, the
ice broke up suddenly and the
party had to pull the sled and
supplies over moving ice blocks
flowing in chilling ice water, strug
gling waist deep for hours back to
Shelikof Straits. They saved all
photographic and scientific data
but lost most of their food.
The boat which was supposed to
call for them did not come and two
weeks later Captains P. Wold and
C. E. Anderson, of the MS Polar
Bear, saw smoke signals of the ma
rooned party on Katmai Beach and
rescued the men and surviving
dogs. The party was weak and
emaciated as they had lived for
days on dog mea( and shell fish.
Katmai is the most inhospitable
i and dangerous part of Alaska, with
| no game in the region and over
1,000 miles of mountainous shore
1 line without a single human being.
| In spite of their severe hardships,
| the party is recuperating rapidly
ion the motorship Polar Bear,
j bound for Unimak Island.
The indefatigable “Glacier Priest”
i is now on his way to his second ob
: jective, the mighty Shishaldin vol
i cano, which has been violently
erupting for several weeks and
sending flames 2,000 feet above its
summit.
Remarkable new scientific data
has been confirmed by 5,000 feet of
film which were taken of the ascent
of Katmai crater, and Father Hub
bard is elated over the trip in spite
of the terrible hardships.
Just a year ago today, Father
Hubbard landed in Holy Cross, Al
aska, after making a 1,500-mile trip
by dog team.
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US IREJ101CED
NEW YORK, April 19. —Lincoln
Ellsworth, who flew to the North
Pole with Roald Amundsen, plans
to lead an expedition to Ross Sea
in the Antarctic in September next
year.
i The trip to Ross Sea would be
climaxed by a flight over the great
Antarctic continent. In announc
ing plans, the American Geograph
ical Society said that there are
more than three-quarters of the
I five million miles of land in that
j area which have never been seen
| by man.
The flight will be made with
Bernt Balchen at the controls.
ARSENAL EXPLODED
TOKYO, April 19.—Light casual
ties were reported as a result of a
small military arsenal exploding
here Monday. The explosions con
tinued throughout most of the day.
Nothing is known as to the origin
of the explosion.
GIRL STRUCK DOWN
BOISE, Idaho, April 19.—Joy El
liott, 16-year-old girl of this city,
was found dead in an abandoned
car near here Monday. Police au
thorities are of the opinion that
she was struck down by a motorist
who placed her in the car and left
her.