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VOLUME XV, NUMBER 565. SEWARD, ALASKA WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1930. PRICE TEN CENTS
DEMOS RELUCTANT PASS UN
EMPLOYMENT BILL FOR
USE EXECUTIVE
WASHINGTON. Dec., 3, (JP)—
Congress found plenty work
while party leaders are absorbed
in legislation to provide work for
the unemployed.
The important nomination and
debate on the bus bill occupied
the Senate and the House took
up the appropriation for both
branches.
They first took up the budget
message on drought relief. They
expected little opposition altho
unemployment may strike a
hard road due to the Democrats
reluctance to pass the $150,000.
000 appropriation into execu
tive hands for use.
Democrats take the attitude
that they should know where the
money is going before giving it
;-o Presidential control.
Meanwhile prohibition is occu
pying the time of those interest -
• 1 in both repeal and enforce
ment. The plan of the drvs is to
correct and submit a general -re
ferendum meeting. Other dry
opposition say that if the 18th
mendment is to have a referen
dum, other amendments should
. Iso be included.
PITTSBURG. Dec.. 1. UP)—
Three bandits bound a dozen
persons. including employees and
natrons, imprisoned them in a
motor bus, and then worked for
two hours blowing a safe and
robbing the garage of the Pitts
riirg Motor Coach Co.
The robbery, which netted the
oandits about $1,000. was com
mitted in a brilliantly lighted
building and was unnoticed by
hundreds of pedestrians.
An employee, arriving after
The trio departed, discovered the
prisoners in the motor bus.
The Federal Power Commission
has granted application of George
T Cameron, publisher of the San
Francisco Chronicle for a final li
cense to construct a power pro
v ct comprised of plants at Sped
Fiver and Dorothy Lake, and at
7-he same time granted a similar
‘■cense to I. and J. D Zellerbach,
San Francisco for a similar pro
ject near Ketchikan, according
• he Juneau Empire.
Both projects are to be used to
furnish power for pulp and paper
plants propose dto be established
♦ _ near Juneau and Ketchikan. Each
' of the initial units of both plants
will ’cost approximately $15,000.
000 it is estimated.
“HEAVY” TAKES BOUT
HOLLYWOOD, Dec.. 3, (/P)—
George Cook, the Australian
heavy, decisioned over Royal
Elliott of Alhambra in a slow 10
round bout. The crowd booed
and “raspberried” noisely as it
began filing out ofter the sixth
round.
EXPIOBK CARTRIDGES
i KILL CARINED HUNTERS
I
| OTIS. Mass., Dec-, 2, <JP)—Four
hunters perished and six others
were burned and v/ounded by
exploding shotgun shells in a
fire which destroyed their camp
near here.
The dead are: Otto Rittner,
Joseph Genniv. both of New
1 Brittain: Thomas Hill and Dan
! Reilly of Ehelton, Conn.
The hunters were awakened
! when the stove exploded and
the flames spread so rapidly
they were unable to get out be
fore the shells started to explode.
The weather was frigid: they
■ saved only their night clothing.
NEW YORK Dec.. 3. ./P- -Six
: plain clothes men and one de
i u'ct-'ve of the New York police
! department are accused of com
: plieitv in a vice extortion ring,
• in testimony before an enquiry
into the city magistrate's court.
Pending trial the men have
been transferred to patrol duty
in outlying precincts.
CHICAGO, Dec., 3, (/Pt-Backed
, by the federal government and
milions of dollars subscribed by
leading business and professional
men a campaign to wipe out rac
kets and racketeers was launched
\ in Chicago, New York and other
big cities of the United States.
| Gangs of Chicago, were made the
special objective of the federal
government in an announcement
by Attorney General Mitchell that
; all federal agencies in Chicago
were “fortifying their forces” in an
effort to crush^ gangland.
Chicago business men are pre
senting a united front in this the
largest of all fights to wipe out
racketeering. A war chest of five
millions is said to have been sub
scribed by them in an attempt to
purge the city of crime
New York city also has under
way a special drive to clear out
elements tha thave been preying
, legitimate business. District At
I torney Thomas C. T. Crain opened
his conference on racketeering by
j declaring the situation has be
j come intolerable. He militantly
j called upon business men to aid in
the movement.
IF BILLION IS
SUM OF $144,000 FOR TRAILS,
BRIDGES, ROADS, ALASKA
INCLUDED
WASHINGTON, Dec, 3, (/P)—
An increase of $83,401,933 for
public works to be constructed
in 1931 as compared with 1930,
was recommended by President
Hoover in his second budget
message to Congress.
He asked for $402,510,579 for
public works as compared with
$319,008,546 the present fiscal
year and $270,513,476 for the 1930
fiscal year.
Among the larger items are
$61,805,000 for public buildings;
$125,000,000 for road construc
tion. The War department ex
; penditures recommended totaled
j $96,324,627 inclusive of the Pan
! ama Canal and $144,000 for trails,
! bridges and roads in Alaska,
AVIATRIX SAFE
NASSAU, Brahama.^Dec 2. (/P)
-—Mrs. J M. Keith-Miller, 27,
| Australian aviatrix who has been
i missing since leaving Havana on
; Friday morning for Miami and
who was given up for lost arrived
| here after a thrilling forced land
| ing on the Island of Andros dur
j ing a gale Friday. Sh ■ carried no
| radio with which to inform the
outside world of her hereabouts.
LOS ANGELES, Dec,, , [IP)—
Tlie State supreme court last
night took under advisement the
appeal by the State district court
of appeals decision granting Al
exander Pantages a new trial on
| the char?™ of criminal assault.
The dr don will probably be
! given within 90 days after Jan
uary 1. ^
OLDEST PM HITS
The oldest paper in the United
States, the Alexandria (Virginia)
j Gazette has come to The Gate
I way in its Bicentennial Number
! published in cooperation with the
I United States Commission for
j the celebration of the 200th an
! niversary of the birth of George
| Washington. The big celebration
conies off in 1932
I The Gazette says it will cele
j brate a unique birthday of its
j own on January 1its 146th
I birthday. No other paper on the
I western continent has a record
I of continuous publication ap
| proaching that of the old Virgi
| nia daily which has unheld the
i best tradition of the state for a
j century and a half. It was found
! ed in 1784 when the colonies
j had iust thrown off hte yoke of
[British rule and were developing
a national consciousness.
THE FOURTH DEGREE
CHICAGO, Dec., 3, (/P)-VThe
degrees by which police do their
work are reported to be going up.
Everyone knows about the third
degree, but it remained for Sgt.
Wm. Hart to explain the fourth,
I which he described as “a trick
; by which we may lead a man to
j think the police believe his story,
| in order to make him careless.”
TALKIES WILL SHUNS
MORE TIN FORMERLY
j HOLLYWOOD, Dec., 3, UP)—
The greatest motion picture pro
, duction boom since the advent
I of talking pictures is forecast for
1931 by Hollywood studio execu
tives who predict a new activity
will get under full swing before
the end of January.
| Louis B. Mayer, vice president
I of Metro Goldwyn Mayer, said
hxs organization’s Culver City
plant will double it’s production.
Fifty-two features will be pro
duced in addition to an equal
number of foreign pictures
WASHINGTON, Dec., 3. (/P)—
President Hoover recommended
$31,220.00 for Mount McKinley
P rk in AAska in the annual
national parks budget which was
sent to Congress today.
The recommendation was con
tained with other national parks
throughout the country.
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I
! WASHINGTON, Dec., 3. CP)—
Members of the Association of
Railroad Executives representing
90 per cent of the national total
of railway mileage unanimously
adopted a resolution at a confer
ence in New York to employ as
many men as possible during the
coming winter. Their action was a
part of the general drive to cut
the number of jobless men dur
ing the coming months of severe
weather when suffering may be
expected to reach its peak.
! Meanwhile, at the White House
conference of experts an agree
ment was reached that efforts to
ameliorate hardships of childhood
must be accompanied by success
ful solution of the unemployment
problem. Attnnnt to transfer
health activities from the Child
ren’s Bureau to the Public Health
Service brought open conflict with
the conferees with Miss Grace
-Abbott, chief of the bureau and
Secretary Davis opposing such a
step.
j WASHINGTON, Dec-. 3. CP)—
Miss Elizabeth Evan Hughes, the
daughter of Charles Evan Hughes,
chief justice of the United States,
and William Thomas Gossett of
New York will be married here Fri
day December 19. The wedding is
to be held in the Chief Justice’s
home. i
MONEY EXPLODES
FROM CONGRESS
ONCE IN WHILE
BUREAU OF EDUCATION BUD
GET GETS THE JUMP ON
ALL OTHERS
WASHINGTON, Dec., 3, {JP}—
Additional funds for educational
j and health programs in Alaska,
! were contained in budget esti
mates which the office of edu
| cation submitted to Congress
I The sum asked this year was
; $805,370.00. This year’s appropria
! tion was $752,690.00.
The budget provided $319,520.00
• for medical relief as compared
with $268,761.00 for the present.
An estimate of $100,000 was sub
i mitted for completion of the in
dustrial boarding school at Shoe
' maker Bay; $20,000, a special
fund from reciepts from a can
; nery and fishery leases on Anette
jIsland, a reserve, was recom
i mended for community purposes.
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COUNCIL RIOT
BERLIN, Dec., 3, (fP)—A near
riot occurred in the city
hall when communists built bar
ricades in the building following
a tumultous town council meet.
ft
NEW YORK Dec.. 3. OB—Mar
i tha Bevins, age 20. “The Flying
> g(;»usewife," was forced clown at
Jacksonville. Penn., in her at
. tempted trans-continental flight
to lower the record of Ruth
Nichols. 16 hours and 59, 1-2
minuets
It was ner second unsuccess
' ful attempt. The first was made
several weeks ago. The aviatrix
The new federal building for
j Fairbanks w^U be a three-story
| concrete structure, according to a
special dispatch from. Washington
! to the News-Miner. It will have
i its entrance on Cushman Street
1 and will occupy the entire govern
ment-owned block bounded by
Coshman and Turner streets and
Second and Third avenues.
The new structure is to house
all government activities for the
Fourth Division. In addition to
the district court room judge’s
office. U. S. attorney’s office, com
missioner’s court-room and office,
marshal’s office, jail and land of
fice contained in (the present
building the new court house will
1 provide quarters for the U. S. Sig
nal Corps telegraph office and
; also the post office.
J. W. Kempf, 74, of Anchorage
j suffered a paralytic stroke and
rushed to the Anchorage hospital
; says the Times. He was reported to
| be unconscious, “but not in a ser
ous condition.”