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VOLUME XVI. NUMBER 48. SEWARD, ALASKA, THURDAY, MARCH 5, 1931.
PRICE TEN CENTS
SEATTLE UNION
REMAIN ON SHE
ABOUT QUARTER FLEET LEFT
FOR BANKS WITH OWN
ERS AS CREW7
SEATTLE, Mar., 5, (Special to
The Gateway by Associated Press)
-Halibut fishermen in a meeting
Tuesday night refused to accept
~he concessions from the Vessel
Owners Association and decided
:o continue the strike
About one-quarter of the Seat
.le halibut fleet has left for the
oanks manned by recruits from
'he ranks of owners of fishing
vessels.
A few owners who are members
f the association have signed
ap with the Fishermen’s Union
and have sent out their vessels.
The schooner Ionic arrived
with 10,000 pounds of halibut
vhich were sold to the United
Pacific Fisheries Company, a co
operative marketing company
formed jointly by fishermen
md vessel owners.
The price was withheld. The
atch consisted of 8,500 pounds;
if medium and 1,500 pounds of
mall. I
KILLED BY MILK TRUCK
CHICAGO, Mar. 4. (IP) —Logan I
Gridley, Chicago investment brok- j
er, was struck and killed by a;
milk truck near Gerry, Illinois,
vhen he was taking a walk He
vas 47 years of age.
PICTURES CONDITIONS
LONDON,'Mar. 4. (JP) —Philip
'■ur.vden, chancellor of exchequer,
•Id of the harrowing experiences
America, where he said there
.re 10,000,000 unemployed, in de
leting for the benefit of a Labor
.udience the benefit that Great
Britain has derived from unem
ployment insurance and other
social services.
SPAIN INVESTIGATING
MADRID, Mar. 4. (IP) — The
Ministry of Interior is investigat- !
:ng the alleged attempt of Fas- i
cists to assassinate Niceto Zamora, j
jailed president of Spain’s re- i
volutionary committee by taking!
him outside prison and shooting
him.
MAGNIFICENT STATE
BRUSSELS, Mar. 4. With
King Albert leading the cere-1
monies, Belgian people gave a j
magnificent state funeral to their j
war hero, General Bemhaim. Al
though the Catholic Church clergy
absented themselves owing to pa
pal objections to cremation, the
Catholic press paid tribute to |
General Bernhaim and expressed
regret at the technicality which
prevented open demonstration by ,
the church. i
REDUCED TO 90 DAYS
BOISE, Idaho, Mar. 4. (£>) —The j
State House of Representatives ,
adopted a bill reducing the resi- .
dence required for divorce from j
one year to 90 days. The bill was \
sent to Governor Ross for approval, i
SERVES DIVORCE PETITION
LONDON, Mar. 4. (/P) — The
Duke of Manchester was served
with a petition for divorce by his
American wife former Helena Zim
merman of Cincinnati.
SORDID PICTURE
OF NEW CRAFT
IN N. Y. REVEALED
MUSICAL RACKET IN NEW YORK
IS DISCOVERED AFTER
INVESTIGATION
NEW YORK, March 4. (/P) —
A sordid picture of the current con
cert and opera world where those
seeking advancement are “shaken
down” by teachers and by those
high in authority is sketched by K.
Bercovici, novelist.
Mr. Bercovici, after several years
of investigation, said he has found
a “musical racket” of unprecedent
ed proportions existing in New York
and he did not hesitate to intimate
that the Metropolitan Opera Com
pany was overrun with demands for
blackmail money.
Even after a singer is recognized
as a star the salaries they receive
are wholly unfair, the novelist as-:
serted.
Vocal students in New York num
bering some 50,000 are being mulct
ed by teachers who are charla
tans in a racket of concert and
opera managers, Mr. Bercovici
said, and it cost the young singer
more than $35,000 and three years
of study to secure a debut.
An eight-pund baby was born ot
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Johnson of
Anchorage recently, reports the
Anchorage Times
BORN IN Kll 78
YEIRS AGO. RESPECTED
CITIZEN IS CALLED
KODIAK, Mar. 5. — < Special
to the Gateway)—Efka Pestria
koff, born in Kodiak 78 years
ago, died suddenly from heart
failure Monday night.
He was probably the most wide
ly known and respected Russian
along the coast—from Westward
Alaska to Seward. He has served
as an interpreter and as a juror
in more insanity and coroner’s
inquest and in the trial of cases
in the commissioner s court than
probably any man in Alaska. By
his industry he had raised a
large family and left to them a
fine home and considerable per
sonal property.
BEFORE MAY SESSION
GENEVA, Mar. 4. (/P) — Sir
Eric Drummond, secretary of the
League of Nations, has forwarded
letters to all nations concerned
in the general disarmament con
ference to be called in 1932, ask
ing them to forward particulars
concerning armaments to facilit
ate preliminary work. Such infor
mation must be in the hands of
the Leaugue before the May ses
sion .
...
KODIAK CHAMBER
OF COMMERCE IS
FULLY ORGAHIZED
E. W. GRIFFEN MADE PRESIDENT
OF NEWLY ORGAT%r«LED
CIYIC BOD*
KODIAK, Mar. 4. —(Special to
the Gateway)—Kodiak, the Queen
City of the Westward, has finally
approached that municipal status
attained by all other progressive
cities of the States and has effi
ciently organized and is now active
ly maintaining a local Chamber of
Commerce, which on February 17th
began its official function by meet
ing in Blinn’s Hall under the chair
manship of President E. W. Griffin,
and Secretary Norman Noble, and
which meeting was largely, enthus
iastically and representatively at
tended by the residents of Kodiak.
All the business houses and tin.
professions were represented and
the attendance by wage earners
generally of the community in
large numbers afforded keen satis
faction to the officers of the organ
ization who are taking an active
and personal interest in endeavor
ing to advance the general pros- j
perity of the community.
The organization elected as per
manent officers E. w. Griffen, Pre
sident, Ben Kraft, Vice-President,
and Norman Noble, Secretary and
and Treasurer, who at the -meeting
held on February 17th, were duly
and regularly inducted into office
and are now serving with commend
able dignity and efficiency- The or
ganization itself was instituted and
brought into working existence un
der Articles of Incorporation fol
lowing closely the rules ana regu
lations as adopted by the United j
States Chamber ol Commerce and i
which Articles were unanimously i
adopted and accepted by the mem- ;
bership at the last meeting under j
the proposal and guidance of the j
Committee previously appointed by
the Chairman and consisting of Di.
L. Pryer. H. J. Hunt and Harry Col- j
ter.
The Committee in its repo *t ably
and intelligently explained to the
membership the Articles under
which the organization would iunc
tion and with much eloquence
pointed" out the great advantage
that would accrue to uie Communi
ty and to the Westward generally
by hearty and coherent coopera
tion and activity on the part of
the Chamber of Comerce. The mem
bership was divided into two class
es, consisting of supporting and
beneficiary, the former being the
business men, paying duos of $10.
per annum and the latter, wage
earners with the dues assessed at
$2 per annum. The membership
consists of 75 members at the pre
sent time with the live*/ prospect
that this number will oe increased
by at least 100 per cent when the
residents of the outlying communi
ties begin to send in their applica
tions for membership.
The president, E. W. GiPleti, ap
pointed the following committees
to serve until their successors arc
duly appointed. Harbor pr beets. W.
I. Erskine, H. J. Hunt ana K. Ben
son. Roads and Trail, Lou's Thnnp •
son, Beit lieglin and Cues Mad
sen; Radio Service, Norman Nob: •.
Harry While and T. H. r*y*r. A
committee to take over eed pn
(Pleue turn to £age Six)
RESIGNS LABOR PART 2
LONDON, Mar. 4. (/P) — Oliver
Baldwin, son of Conservative lead
er and member of Sir Oswald Mos
ley’s group, resigned from the La
bor party.
BODY OF WOMAN
POLICE COMMISSIONER IS TO
QUESTION PATROLMAN
MCLOUGHLIN
NEW YORK, March 4. (/P) —
Her lips sealed forever by a strang
ler, the body of Vivian Gordon, 32
years old and a prospective wit
nes against members of the police
vice squad in the Seabury inquiry,
was found in an isolated part of
Van Courtlandt Park.
She had been “taken for a ride”
and her body thrown over an em
bankment, where it was found. A
yard of clothesline had been wouna
around her throat tightly. The at
tractive red haired woman had been
missing since last Friday, when she
failed to appear to testify coai
cerning an alleged “frame up” in
which she had been a victim of the .
police.
Police Commisioner Edward Mul- j
rooney prepared to question patrol- j
man Andrew McLoughlin, formerly j
of the vice squad, whose pame
appeared as the only policeman
preferring charges against Miss
Gordon, upon which she had |
been convicted.
Apparently the woman’s assail- j
ant or assailants had taken her by I
surprise, for there was no evidence I
that she had resisted, or that any i
violence had been used.
LONDON, Mar. 4. (/P)—Describing
Mahatma Gandhi as a seditious
factor, striding half naked up the 1
streets of the viceregal palace,
Winston Churchill delivered a '
scathing attack on the whole posi
tion of British negotiations with
the Indian Nationalists.
He voiced eloquent scorn im
partially on Gandhi, Premier Ram
say MacDonald and the Viceroy of
India, Lord Irwin, and even on his
own leader Stanley Baldwin, while
appealing to his constituents of
Epping for a vote of confidence af
ter his resignation from the Con
servative shadow cabinet. ,
GETS HIS RAISE
WASHINGTON, Mar., 5, (&)—
President Hoover signed the bill
raising the salaries of the Gover
nor and Secretary of Alaska.
A CORRECTION
WASHINGTON, Mar. 5. (JP)—
The bill for increasing the Alaska
governor’s salary from $7,000 to
510,000 and the Secretary of Al
aska salar from $4,000 to $5,600
was placed before Hoover with
the approval of the House and
the Senate. Note: This item ap
peared in yesterday’s issue but
vas wrong. j
SPECIAL TAX 10
DOUBLE-CROSS IS CHARGED
IN HOUSE FOR COMMIT
TEE CHAIRMANSHIP.
JUNEAU, Mar., 5, (Special to
The Gateway)—Twin measures at
the first session from ~ both
branches were introduced in the
legislature yesterday afternoon
by Ziegler for the apparent pur
pose of protecting the Alaska
box shoot and logging industry
from competition with fibre
board containers which threat
en to drive local products out of
existence.
The first of the bills declares
that it is the policy of the Terri
tory to protect its revenue from
producing industries
While the effect of both meas
ures is to raise the basic rate on
canned clams and all varieties
of salmon by five cents per case
and to canners furnishing sat
isfactory evidence that their pro
ducts are shipped from Alaska in
domestic containers, a rebate of
five cents per case will be made.
Thus, if a packer uses local cases
for clams and salmon, his tax
"Rtfs ran remain as at present
But if he elects to use a contain
er made outside of Alaska, he
must pay an additional five cents
per case.
The House organization struck
a snag when Boyle of Juneau
charged Speaker Winn and John
son of Ketchikan with bad faith
in assigning Johnson as chairman
of the fisheries committee when
Boyle declared both men had
agreed to give the chairmanship
to Zeigler. Boyle moved to sub
stitute Zeigler’s name instead of
Johnson for the disputed posi
tion but the vote was delayed
owing to the absence of Foster
and Burgh on account of illness.
They are both suffering from
influenza but are expected to re
turn within a few days.
The House unanimously agreed
to postpone action until Satur
day.
In the meantime the House
committees have been organized
Neither Winn nor Johnson de
nied Boyle’s charge which was
made from the House floor
FUSE STATEMENTS
CHICAGO, Mar. 4. (/P) — The
breaking down of an affidavit giv
en by Doctor Kenneth Philips, phy
sician to A1 Capone in Florida,
featured part of the gangster’s
trial for contempt of court.
The cross examination of Doctor
Phillips ended with the admission
that he had falsified many state
ments. At the same time Capone’s
nurses insisted he was very ill.
SWEETHEART KILLED ....
NEW YORK, Mar. 4. {/P) --
William Frazer admitted killing his
sweetheart, Mrs. Phoebe Stader,
but insisted she was accidently shot
by a small bore rifle he carried in
the back of his automobile for
"protection.”