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V OLUME XV. NUMBER 570.
REWARD, ALASKA TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1930.
PRICE TEN CENTS
WORSHIPPERS ARE
SEIZED BIT FRENZY
MOB BE! LINDSAY
<r HURCH M E MBERS CRAVED
BLOOD ON SUNDAY; BEAT
UP SPECTATOR
NEW YORK, Dec., 8, (/P)—For
mer Judge Ben Lindsay turned
golden rule Sunday into pan
demonium at Bishop William T.
Manning’s fashionable cathedral
•f St. John Divine.
The Denver advocate of com
panionate marriage was forcibly
ejected after jumping on a table
and crying:
•‘This is not a house of justice!
Not a house of God!”
After listening Bishop Man
ing scored Lindsay as the auth
r “of the most filthy, insidious
, ieces of propaganda ever pub
shed in behalf of lewdness,
promiscuity and unrestrained
1 exual gratification.”
Then the Bishop turned back
id his congregation of 3,000 and
bowed his head in prayer.
Lindsay, still in the audience,
gain jumped up on the table
•demanding five minutes to an
swer. He was beaten by the
i owd crying lynch him, punch
im. He was charged with dis
orderly conduct.
CJ
Rri/ WOULD TRANSFER CARE
NATIVES TO INDIAN AF
FAIRES
WASHINGTON, Dec., 9. f/P)—
1 ; Interior department’s sup
ply bill a reported to the House j
ppr riations committee includ- j
ed $242,000 for the government j
f Alaska and $1,000,000 for the
anticipated deficit of the Alas- j
ka Railroad.
Education of Alaskan natives
to be transferred to the Bureau \
-r-f Indian affairs from the Bur
eau of Education, the latter to I
be given $510,000 largely for sec- j
ondary education, teachers train-,
mg and expenditures of schools.
WHITNEY WINS
JEFFERSON PARK, N. O., Dec. j
9, (fP)—The colors of Cornelius i
Vanderbilt Whitney were carried to
victory at Jefferson Park race j
track when “Blot” scored in the
fourth race, claiming the affair,!
and “Skirl” also won. Whitney j
had not captured a race here j
previously.
DIMOND STAYS OVER
In order to confer with Anchor- !
■ tes in regard to the proposed mea
Hires deemed advisable at the next
session of the Territorial Legisla
ture, it is understood that Attor
ney Anthony Dimond of Valdez,!
and holdover senator will remain \
at the Cook Inlet metropolis until |
Monday’s train.
ABANDONS EFFORT
PARIS, Dec-, 8, (/P)—Senator
Louis Barthou abandoned his ef
fort to form, a cabinet succeed
ing the government of Andre
Tardieu. Failure, apparently, was
due to the Radicals’ opposition j
and inclusion of Louis Marin,
leader of the extreme right.
DENMARK KING IS |
BADLY CUT BN GLASS
IN KITH ACCIDENT
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Dec.,!
8, (TP)—King Christian was ser- j
iously cut about the face as he
returned to Fredensborg from
the opera at Copenhagen whep j
the royal automobile smashed j
into a small car containing two
women.
The small car -was crumbled
His majesty, bleeding badly,
stopped to see if the women were
badly injured, then hurried to
the castle. His injuries were
chiefly from broken glass.
WASHINGTON, Dec., 9. <sP>—
The Senate judiciary committee
reported the 'nomination of Lynn
Smith as IT. S. Marshal of the j
Fourth division, Alaska subject!
to the approval of the Alaska!
delegate.
They also referred to the I
subcommittee for investigation;
■
the nominations of J. I .omen for
district judge, and C h a s. D.
Jones for marshal of the Second !
division.
ATTEMPT ID
1ST T3 [1ST MARK
LOS ANGELES, Dec., 9, (TP)—
In an attempt to smash both
men’s and women’s flying time,
from the West to the East, Ruth
Nichols Rye, New York aviatrix,
left here for New' York in an at
tempted one-stop hop.
Her plane carried 400 gallons
of gasoline and she planned to
reach Wichita, Kansas this af
ternoon, probably staying there
overnight then on to New York
tomorrow.
The plane is capable of cruis
ing 185 miles an hour. The avia- '
trix now holds the women’s East!
to West record.
PARIS, Dec., 9, (JF)—Destruc- t
tion of buying power in China j
and India and reckless dumping
of goods by the Soviet are the j
principal causes of the present |
world-wide economic distress, j
according to Silas Strawn, of j
Chicago, in an address before I
the Chamber of Commerce.
WASHINGTON, Dec., 9, (/P)
—The unemployment and
emergency construction bill
provides in the $110,000,000
as reported to the House,
$272,000 for the Ketchikan
Creek improvement; $17,
000 for Port Alexander, and
$45,000 for a harbor of re
fuge at Seward, Alaska.
DEATH SENTENCE IS
COMMUTED 18 YEARS
FOB SOVIET PIOTTI
LONDON, Dec., 8. (/P)—A Reu
ter’s dispatch from Moscow sai<
the Soviet central executive com
mittee commuted the death sen
tences passed on the five engin
eers condemned for plotting t
overthrow the Soviet government
to 10 years.
The dispatch also said tha
the committee reduced to eigh
years the 10 year .sentences of th
other htrce.
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HIGHWAY TO ALASKA *'KO>
THE STATES WILL CoS'T
$10,000,000
WASHINGTON, Dec., 9. </P)
Aerial photographs of lakes ant
mountains along the route of tin
proposed International Highway
from Seattle .to T tbanks wer<
delivered to Era Walker Saw
yer, member of the specif High
ways commission, by the overn
ment of British Columbia.
He was informed that th<
route had been surveyed for t
distance of 500 miles north o
Hazelton and survey of the re
maining strip into Dawson, i
being pursued.
Photographs have also beer
collected in book form by th<
Seattle Chamber of commerci
for presentation this week U
President Hoover.
Americans are awaiting th<
appointment of a Canadian com
mission for conference to desig
nate where the road shall cros:
into Alaska.
Proposals for financing have
been laid before Premier Tolmie
i>f British Columbia by Americar
financiers.
The road, over two-thirds o
British Columbia to the Yukon
is estimated at $10,000,000.
FATHER JEROME DIES
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Dec., 9
TP)—Father Jerome S. Ricard, 81
‘Padre of the Rains.” died at tin
University of Santa Clara infir
mary. He predicted weat hei
monthly by sun spots.
REV. W. E. BARTON DIES
NEW YORK, Dec., 8, (/P)—Rev.
William E. Barton, 69, noted
| '’’ergyman and author, died af- j
ter a long illness. He was the j
father of Bruce Barton, author, j
GOLD SEEKING
GILLS 14 SAILORS
( f
; LORIENT, France, Dec., 8, UP)
| —A telegram from Belle Island
[ said the Italian submarine salva
j ger Artiglio exploded off Houatt
II; Island and that 14 of the crew
jwere killed and seven injured.
] The Artiglia had been working
I to salvage gold from the sunken
| steamer Egypt off Houatt Island,
! Houatt is a small spot off the
■west coast of Britanny.
The liner Egypt went down in
J 1922 with $5,000,000 in gold ingots!
: which were sought by divers op
perating from the salvager,
j | Last September operations had
been discontinued temporarily.
t
I
it: •
? MADRID, Dec., 9, f/P)--Joaquin
Lilo. reporter for El Sol. opposi- ‘
tion paper, was arrested follow
mg a futile attempt o assassi
nate Premier Berm' or during
an interview bet' 1 the Pre
mi r nd a uozen corresp-n
dents.
He fired one shot which went
wild and then was over-powered
f by the bodyguard of the Premier.
WINNIPEG, Dec., 9, (7P)—Enoo
1 siak, 24 year-old Eskimo girl,!
? reigns as queen of beauty in the
? Arctic.
' Andrew Brown, in charge of '
' the trading post at Baker Lake. c
' 1,000 miles north of here, pick
• ed her from two dozen dark beaut
ies entered in the first Arctic {
; beauty contest.
J Enoosiak received the first
[ I mirror she ever owned as the;(
‘ ! prize.
THE STOCK MARKET
Juneau .
Am- Can .
Ban Corporation
Cities
Cons. Gas .
Zellerbach
Durant, no sale
Motors .
Goldman .
Int. Tel .
Kennecott .
Lehigh —.
Radio .
Richfield .
Stand. N. J., .
Carbide .
Union, Cal, .
Steel
7
11
26
17
84
5
34
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25
26
5
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Many of the Alaska fishing
fleet are named after presidents.
REPRISAL FOR GARNISHEE ON
WAGES WHOME LOANED
MONEY, TIIOT CAUSE
CHICAGO, Dec., 8, </Pl—The
explosion of a powerful bomb
contained in an innocent looking
package and opened by a boy to
satisfy Yuletide curiosity caused
the death of Tony May, profess
ional bondsman and money len
der known as the “Millionaire
newsboy.”
May was 63. His son Eugene,
was injured when he opened the
package.
Windows 1
ire 40-apart’
shattered by t
working on th
hout the en
building were
;st. Police are
is May was the
victim of extortionists or that
Tie bomb was sent as reprisal for
X rrnshee on *he wages of some
nan to whom he had loaned
money.
A P PR or E NO MIN ATIONS
Wi F-ING TON, Dec., 9, </P>—
"he ■ ate finance committee
.nnro' -d the nominations of the
^n.riff commissioners nominated
iv President Hoover.
SCIENTIST GRIGGS ANNOUN
CES . 3COVERY NEAR
VALLEY SMOKES
WASHINGTON, Dec., 9, (A3)—■
Liverwort, a small delic2,te plant
growing in Alaskan lava beds, is
idvanced by science as the possi
>le pioneer of all vegetable life.
An expedition of the National
Geographic S o c i ety scientists
:ound liverwort growing in lava
)eds where no other vegetation
;ould survive.
Robert Griggs, botanist, said
;he lava beds of Katmai Volcano
vere absolutely barren of soil;
hat there were no traces of nit
•ogen necessary for plant life,
jut liverwort was growing.
HOCKEY GAMES
VANCOUVER, B. C., Dec., 9, (IP)
—Vancouver went to a tie with
3ortland in the Pacific Hockey
league by defeating Seattle 2-1.
The Anchorage Fur Sale, Dec- 11
>o 13 is asuming shape, the re
sponse from the shippers and pro
spective buyers shoving more en
couragement than had been ex
pected so early, says th Anchor
xge Times.
Marshal Lynn Smith is quoted
n the Portland, Oregon, recently
n which he gives out a strong
Doost for the International High
way, saying what a great thing
t will be for Fairbanks and the
rerritory.