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VOLUME XVI. NUMBER 74.
SEWARD, ALASKA, MONDAY, APRIL 6,1931. PRICE TEN CENTS
ATTEMPT TO BREAK
Bill WEIITHT IDAHO
MK MAN FlllS
SPOKANE, April 6. (&) — Judge
Stanley Webster of the Federal
court dismissed the attempt of 17
Ohio heirs of Mrs. Mary Arkwright
Hutton, wife of the Spokane mil
lionaire philanthropist, to break
his $1,500,000 will. !
The estate was left to an orphan
age here. The heirs contended the
settlement of $175,000 on them mis- j
represented the value of their
share.
Hutton made his wealth from the
famous Hercules Silver Lead mine
in North Idaho.
BIG REGISTRATION
The biggest registration in many:
years signed on the dotted line i
in the city clerk’s book up to 9 p.;
m., Saturday, then the lights went
out. But this need not hinder any
one from voting, because qualified
voters may swear their vote in at
the polls tomorrow: 284 signified
their intention of going to the polls.
The local polls will be open Tuesday
from 8 a. m. to 7 p. m. VOTE.
IS SOLO TO NIC MEN
NEW YORK, April 6. (TP)—Sale of
the Liberty magazine, owned by
the Chicago Tribune, to McFaaden
Publications Incorporated, was an
nounced here.
At the same time it was made
known that publishers of the Chi
cago Tribune and New York Daily
News, Col. R. R. McCormick and
Capt. J. M. Patterson, have pur
chased the Detroit Daily tabloid
newspaper.
LONE MAN GUARDS
NEW EL DORADO AS
GOLD RUSH FORMS
CANBERRA, April 6. (JP)—A cen
tral Australian gold exploration
company, which has already fi
nanced two airplane expeditions
into the waterless heart of Austra
lia, is reported to have discovered
a real El Dorado.
At the reputed goldfield, in coun
try where even hardy lizards and
needie grass find it hard to survive,
squats H. B. Lasseter. He is on
guard so that claim-jumpers may
not seize the reef before the com
pany's geologists and engineers ar
rive.
Nobody outside the company
knows where the field is located,
but prospectors with camel trains
have concentrated at Alice Springs,
a little sun-baked town on the edge
of “the big never-never.”
They plan to rush the field if in
formation leaks out. Special troop
ers are watchnig them.
Mrs. Gus Knapp, wife of the An
chorage restaurant man, left on
the SS Yukon for Seattle.
Regular meeting tomorrow at
noon in the Seward Grill of the
Seward Chamber of Commerce.
FAST FLYING TIME
KETCHIKAN, April 6. (JP)—
, Pilot Bob Ellis in a passenger
I plane arrived here at one p. m.,
five hours and four minutes fly
ing time from Seattle.
He made a stop at Namu and
another at Alert Bay.
BROTHERS CONVICTED
KILLING ME UNCLE:
' MISSES‘HOT SEAT'
; CHICAGO, April 6. (£>)— Leo V.
Brothers was convicted of assas
sinating Alfred ‘‘Jake” Lingle,
Chicago Tribune reporter. The
jury recommended a sentence of 14
i years imprisonment.
The case was built almost entire
; ly on the identification of Brothers
'as the man seen fleeing from the
! daylight murder. No one testified
seeing him fire the shot.
The verdict came at the end of
the third week of the trial. Bro
thers was impassive at the verdict
rendered, a compromise between
acquittal or death in the electric
chair.
IOWA STATE ASSEMBLY
' DES MOINES, la., April 6. UP)—
The general assembly adopted a
resolution extending the sympa
. thies of Iowans to the Rockne fam
ily and deploring his “untimely and
; lamentable death.
“He was one of the greatest ex
ponents of gentlemanly sportsman
ship and one of the outstanding ad
vocates of clean living, fair play
and courage to the youth of the
! country.”
THOUSANDS ATTEND
! FUNERAL OF RQGKNt
I
i SOUTH BEND, Apr. 6. (/P)—Knute
! Rockne’s body was removed from
; his home at 2 P. M. after thousands
I had walked past the sealed casket
honoring the famous Viking.
The Reverend Charles O’Connell,
president of Notre Dame, edlogized
Rockne at the service at the Sa
cred Heart Church said the man
was loved by the world as a man
whose name will be linked forever
with intrinsic chivalry, romance
and football.
ran fulb
i SOUTH BEND, April 6. (/P)—Rock
j ne’s funeral was broadcast Saturday
afternoon over a shortwave in an
attempt to send it across the ocean
to Norway, the coach’s birthplace.
As a personal representative of
the king attended the funeral here,
Rockne was knighted by the king.
The Columbia system of broad
casting over a national hookup
was used.
Cannery help for Tutka Bay,
Snug Harbor and Uganik went West
Saturday on the SS Starr. ]
A. R. C. PROJECTS
AND ALOTTMENTS OF
GREATER SUM IS AVAILABLE
FOR CO-OPERATIVE
PROJECTS
The Alaska Road Commission has
made its allotments for the 1931
working season for Federal projects
and Federal partcipation in co-op
perative projects according to ad
vices received from the commission
by Superintendent M. C. Edmunds
of the Southwestern district.
The total of the allotments for
work throughout Alaska is $850,000,
in addition to $97,000 held for pur
chases of equipment and supply by
the Juneau headquarters. These
sums do not include any of the ter
i ritorial money, either for territorial
co-operative or for strictly terri
torial roads. Territorial funds for
jthese purposes will probably be al
; lotted by the Territorial Highway
Board after the legislature has made
S its appropriations.
In the Third Judicial Division al- j
lotments to Federal projects have ;
been made aggregating $368,600 ex- j
elusive of $95,000 for McKinley <
Park which is provided for in Na- j
tional Park Service appropriations.'
This Alaska Road Commission al
lotment will provide for work on
the Richardson Highway and its j
branches from Valdez and Chitina;
to Rapids, four projects in the Wa- ;
silla-Willow Creek district, Talkeet
na system, Iliamna, Chulitna and
Dillingham and various trails. There \
will be available in addition $53,
500 for allotment to co-operative
road projects. This co-operative
money is set up for allotment to
construction of the Lucky Shot
Willow Station project, mainten
ance of other roads in the Willow
Creek-Wasilla and Anchorage dis
tricts, the McCarthy-Dan Creek
group of projects and a small pro
ject near Valdez. An additional
$220,000 of Federal funds is held
in reserve for protection of the low
er end of the Richardson Highway
in the event the territory adopts a
project for the protection of Val
dez. This will make the total Fed
eral contribution to co-operative
projects $73,500 which is greater
than last year. Last year the allot
ments were $483,000 to Federal
projects and $56,100 to co-operative
projects. The territorial allotments
last year were $8,500 to co-operative
projects and $34,050 to territorial
projects including aviation fields
and Valdez Dyke in addition to
roads.
Federal participation in the co
operative program is of course con
tingent on territorial contributions.
This co-operation was in effect last
year in the following proejets to
which the territory contributed:
The Palmer-Fishhook, Gold Chord
Branch, Wasilla-Finger Lake-Pal
mer, Wasilla-Matanuska, Matanus
ka Trunk, Fishhook-Goldmint, and
Werner Connection, in the Wasilla
ection; the Anchorage Loop and
MscDonald Branch in the Anchor
age ection; Valdez-Mineral Creek,
McCarthy-Glacier Creek, Chititu
Branch, and the Kotsina, Bull Riv
er and Indian River trails. Federal
allotments have been made to these
projects for 1931 contingent on ter
ritoral co-operation in about the
same prportion as heretofore.
The Federal program this year
includes an allotment to the new
Lucky Shot-Willow station road
BEATEN BY BANDITS
CHICAGO, April 6. (/P)—Frank B.
! Gorman, for the past 45 years
Master at Arms and later clerk in
the United States senate at Wash
ington, was beaten to death by
bandits who held him up in a west
side street.
I
THE MM OF IICITT
WITHIX H Gin, N. Y.
NEW YORK, April 6. </P)—S. F.
Rothafel, radio and vaudeville im
presario, became mayor of Rock
jefeller City, the projected $250,000,
•000 radio and television center in
|New York.
J The old brown stone front houses
i between Fifth and Sixth avenues
'and north of Forty-eighth street,
240 of which will be torn down,
! are already being toppled over. The
central building alone of the three
structures will include 2,000,000
square feet of floor space, larger
| by 150,000 square feet than the
space of the Empire State Build
ing.
t Sixty-eight stories, it will be the
largest and tallest building in the
i world.
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FOUND NEW ARCTIC LAND
OSLO, Norway, April 6. (JP)—Cap
tain Daehli, Norwegian government
whaling inspector, claimed the dis
covery of a hitherto unknown land
in the Arctic region between longi
tudes 27 and 72 west.
The area includes Greenland,
Baffin Bay and the east coast of
Baffin Land. He said he had the
exact position, maps and photo
graphs but refused to divulge other
information giving all details to his
government.
STARS, PALLBEARERS
SOUTH BEND, April 6. (JP) — Six
football stars of the last two years’
teams, Tom Conley, Tommy Yarr,
Frankie Carideo, Marchmont
Schwartz, Marty Brill and Lary
Mullins were active pallbearers at
Knute Rockne’s funeral Saturday
at the Church of the Sacred Heart.
which it is believed is the most .im
portant new project in the Willow
Creek section. The Federal allot
ment alone is not sufficient, how
ever, to give adequate service to this
project fend territorial co-operation
is justified.
The Federal program does not in
clude the following territorial pro
jects to which territorial money was
allotted last year: Palmer-Mata
nuska River, Palmer-Springer,
Moose-Palmer, Palmer Matanuska,
Edlund Road, Bogard Road, Eng
strum Road and Wasilla aviation
field in the Wasilla section; the
Spenard, Chester Creek, Oilwell and
Eklutna Roads in the Anchorage
section; the Kasilof Road and Chi
tina-Native School Road, aviation
fields and Valdez Dyke. Under its
reduced program the Alaska Road
i Commission will not be able to con
tribute funds to any of these pro
jects except Valdez Dyke and there
fore it they are not supported by
the territory serious deterioration
will probably result and no pro
gress can be made on any new con
stuction. The territorial allotment
last year to this group of projects
was $34,050.
HMD SPEED
BUT RUB IS SET
BY BRITISH WIH
BUENOS AIRES, April 6.(^) —
A new world’s speed boat record
is claimed at 103.49 miles per hour
by Kaye Don, British speed boat
racer. He made the fast time on
the swollen Parana river in con
nection here with the British
Trade Exposition.
Don’s time was sent to the In
ternational Yacht Racing Associa
tion at Brussels for official recog_
nition- Don elated, immediately
packed his boat and sailed for
England at midnight without
waiting for the banquet which
had been planned in his honor.
GAR WOOD CONFIDENT
I NEW YORK, April 6. (;P) — Con
fronted by Kaye Don’s new speed
boat record, Gar Wood left for
Miami Beach where his boat Miss
America No. 9, waits. Only 13 days
i ago Wood set a record which Don
eclipsed. ‘‘We didn’t run our fast
est mile,” Wood said.
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[TWENTY LOOTERS IT
| MANAGUA, April 6. (JP)—The task
I of directing, feeding and rehabili
i tating the 40,000 residents has been
j taken over by Ernest J. Swift of the
! Red Cross on his arrival by airplane
from Miami.
Food and medical supplies were
j brought by Naval ships to Corinto
i from Balboa, Canal Zone, and will
| be taken to Managua by airplanes,
i trucks and trains. Twenty looters
! todate have been shot.
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REPLACE STEWARDS
YOKOHAMA, April 6. (JP) — Two
hundred kimomo - clad Japanese
girls are to become stewardesses on
the trans-Pacific ships of the Nip
pon Yusen Kaisha (the Japan Mail
Line), the company has announced.
The steamship officials believe that
the girls will be more attentive
than men.
The experiment will be tried out
during the summer and if the *
young women are a success in this
role, additional girls will be em
ployed for other ships of the line.
The wages will be about the same
as those paid to the Japanese
"boys.”
RACER DIVORCED
LOS ANGELES, April 6. (#) —
Divorce ended 22 years of mar
ried life of Ralph De Palma, fam
ous racing car driver. He said his
former wife insisted that he give
up racing; but that is the only
thing with which he could make
a living. His former wife was giv
en $25 a week alimony for the
first eight months, then $50 a
week for life unless she remar
ries.
The fishing vessel Bavaria, Capt.
John sAith, is in port for minor
repairs.