MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
SEWARD, ALASKA. FRIDAY, April 12, 1929.
VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 85.
PRICE TEN CENTS
COMPTROLLER BILL
SIT FULL HOLES
ONE OF THE NEW PROVISIONS
MAKES SCHOOL COM. JOB
APPOINTIVE
JUNEAU, April 12, (Special to
the Gateway)—The house com
mittee on territorial institutions
yesterday reported on the Steel
comptroller bill with a total of 35
amendments the principal of which
is to strike out all provisions for a
board of control thus leaving the
executive power of the Governor
virtually untouched.
The amendments also strikes
out the clause prohibiting the
electing of Territorial and federal
officers and employees who were
on March, prior thereto, from being
elected as auditor. The amend
ments also clarify and strengthen
the sections providing for the aud
itors office and provides for the
election, by majority of all mem
bers of the legislature, of the
first auditor and continuation of
the present treasurer in office until
March 31, 1931.
The election, by popular vote, of
both offices to take place at the
next general election for a four
year term. #►
Another amendment empowers
the Governor to appoint a commis
sioner of education who is now
elected by the Territorial board of
education and requires confirma
tion of all appointive Territorial
officers by the entire legislature
instead of the senate alone.
The house passed Shattuck’s bill
empowering municipalities to reg
ulate radio interference devices
X and two other minor measures.
The Governor submitted the
names of Morton E. Stevens, reap
pointed, and Andrew Nerland, both
oi Fairbanks, for trustees of the
Alaska Agricultural College and
School of Mines, for the term end
ing 1937.
•TEXAS’’ GT^’GOT A GOOD
LAfTOW FROM ANTICS OF
MABEL WOIEBRANHT
NEW YORK. April 12. UP)—Texas
Guinan was the particular target
<?f federal prohibition agents whc
descended upon New York night
clubs la^t summer at the behest ol
Mobel Willebrandt, James White,
one of the agents testified at the
^ trial of the famous “Queen of the
Night Clubs”.
White admitted that altho it
would have been possible for him
to make a raid the first time he
visited Miss Guinan’s club he
made 11 subsequent visits. Miss
Guinan chuckled with glee when
the dry agent explained why he
thought it was necessary to attend
the night club a dozen times in
order to “get her right”, altho he
bought liquor the first time. She
became angry only when White
claimed she had invited him to
her home.
SIHS STATEMENT
GGNFESSING (HUNG
ms SECOND WIFE
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| ELIZABETH, N. J. April 12, (4P)—
Henry Colin Campbell has been ar
rested and is said to have signed a
| statement confessing to the mur
der of Mrs. Benjamin Mowry, whom
ihe married in August in Maryland.
! He is alleged to have shot her j
i through the head then threw the 1
body by the side of a road, then
setting fire to her clothing.
! Campbell’s first wife, the mother
of two children, is still living. “I
could not afford two wives,” was
the reason given for the murder.
AHRId EXPRESS
X’STH^TTTON would be the
LARGEST OF ITS KIND IN
THE WORLD
NEW YORK, April 11, (A3)—Chase
National bank and Chase Securi
ties Corporation will acquire con
trol of the American Express Co.,
in a plan to make the institution
one of the largest of its kind in
the world, according to an an
nouncement by Albert Wiggin,
chairman of the Chase National.
Under the plan the capital stock
of Chase National and Chase Se
curities Corporation will be ex
panded from 610,000 to 800.000
shares. Shares will then be split
up on five for one basis and the
American Express stockholders will
be offered five shares of Chase
stock for each three of the Ex
press Co., stock owned. Expansion
and stock splitup will leave the
Chase bank and Securities Cor
poration with 4,000,000 shares of
stock
The American Express Co., is one
of the largest international units
*.ver organized and Chase National
bank, with resources of more than
$1,300,000,000 and deposits of more
taan $1,000,000,000 is one of the
t ee largest banks in America.
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: NIGH, REPORT POLICE
CHICAGO April 12, OR)—Chica
go’s first robbery of a congregation
.within a church started detectives
|on the trail of five young men who
!invaded the First Roumanian Syn
gogue, terrorizing 80 persons with
revolvers and shot guns and es
caped with approximately $7,000
in money and jewelry,
j The arrest of at least one of the
; bandits was predicted by Captain
Charles McGurn who said earlier
.reports, putting the loss at $70,000,
! were erroneous.
PEACE JOURNALISTS
NEW YORK, April 12, (/P)—The
Carnegie Foundation for Interna
:
j ional Peace announced thru its
president Dr. Nicholas Murray
Butler, that a delegation of 12
!American journalists would leave
jSan Franciscov April 24th to ob
| serve conditions in Japan, Korea,
Manchuria and China. They are
scheduled to return August 16th.
1
MORE COLD WEATHER IS PRE- \i
D1CTFD FOR LA>TD OF PER
PETUAL SUNSHINE
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SAN FRANCISCO, April 12, (/P)— ,
Terrific damage to fruit crops thru i
out central and northern Califor
nia has resulted from the frosts of
the past few days. Cling peaches,
apricots and oranges suffered
most heavily tho damage was alsoi
done to cherry, prune, plum, al
mond, pear, strawberry and apple
crop.
The damage is estimated to run
into millions of dollars. Reports
from the prune belts indicated
these crops were damaged between
50 and 75' percent. More cold
weather is predicted and a howl
ing blizzard is raging in Nevada.
TIL Of Mill
LONG SET FOR DATE
IfTEB ML 11
BATON ROUGE, April 12, (£>)—
Impeachment legislators had be
fore them today charges of misuse
of public funds and thf carrying of
concealed weapons by Governor
Long.
After passing on the senate two
counts indicting Long for itimida
tion of a newspaper publisher, and
of bribery, these counts were voted
on yesterday. The senate then met
j to adopt rules for the trial of the
' governor which will be set for a
date after April 22.
HUNT WAXES HOT i
AS TO MINOR DETAIL
SACRAMENTO, April 12, (/P)—
rhe third day of the impeachAient
proceedings against Judge Carlos
rlardy before the state senate was
?iven over largely to a extended
iebate as to whether the senate
shall sit seven or four hours a day
luring the proceedings. Five hours
sessions were finally agreed upon.
Judge Hardy is defending his own
;ase. Aimee Semple McPherson
rat in an anteroom with the other
witnesses in the case.
MEiCIi BORDER
LINED ILS. TROOPS
REBELS SAID TO BE PLANNING
AN ATTACK ON NACO; NO
SIGN SEEN TODAY
NACO, N. M. April 12, (JP)—While
four Mexican rebel 75-MM guns
menaced the nervous border town
reassuranse is seen in the Amer
icans, Texas cavalry and artillery
troops, on the line.
The rebel military movement is
expected to invite further U. S.
attention to the international dead
line along which the infantry is
located and which 18 bombing
planes are patroling.
Ore thousand soldiers from Fort
Bliss have left for Hathita, New
Mexico where rebels are reported
planning an attack on Naco, Son
ora, but there were no signs today
of any hostilities.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Missions 6; Seattle 1. •
Sacramento 5; San Francisco 12.
Oakland 4: Los Angeles 6.
Portland. Hollywood postponed
on account of rain.
SIXTY WOMEN SEEK SEATS IN PARLIAMENT
/->r
British women this year are more interested than
! ever before in polities. Miss Megan Lloyd George, daugh
ter of the liberal leader and a candidate herself, began
cmpaigning for her father at the age of 10, as shown
above. Lady Astor (upper left) and Dame Millicent Faw
cett (lower right) head organizations to stimulate the
; interest of women in politics.
MEMBERS Iw
PUNE SOUTHERN
LONE CLUE APPARANTLY WAS
A GOOD ONE: NOTED AIR
MEN LOST DAYS
SYDNEY, Australia, April 12, (A1)
—The airplane Southern Cross is
reported to have been found and
the crew of four are all well.
The airplane Canberra sent the
following message: “Have found
the Southern Cross. All alive and
well. Have dropped food.”
The Canberra was one of several
planes searching the wild Austra
lian bush for days for the lost
plane which is said to have been
located about 30 miles from the
Port George Mission.
Another mission in the Kimberly
district, western Australia, report
ed a plane had passed over head
ing southwest on March 31. This
was the only clue and the search
thereafter centered, for the last
2 da vs in that area.
Expeditions have been searching
for thr plane since Capt. Charles
Kingsford Smith, in command of
the Southern Cross, sent a radio
message that he was “About 100
miles east of Wyndham.” This
point was the destination on the
first lap of the proposed Sydney to
London flight in the plane which
made the first successful crossing
of the Pacific Ocean.
VETERAN ALASKA CAPTAIN HAD
PREMONITION OF WIFE’S
DEATH, PRIOR SAILING
SEATTLE, April 12, (A5)—Her
husband absent on duty in Alaskan
waters, Mrs. Julius Elizabeth Glass
cock, aged 50, who passed away
here, will be cremated today.
Captain Glasscock has been tom
for months by the wish to remain
at his wife’s bedside and the call
of duty in the service of the Alas
ka Steamship company.
Friends say that before the pre
sent trip he had left with a premo
nition of his wife’s death, but he
made the trip, nevertheless.
Mrs. Glasscock was born in Wis
consin and had lived in Seattle for
27 years.
MISSOURI LilliS
PROTECT BIMFKS
I JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., April 11,
|(/P)_The state legislature intends
jthat Missouri’s bullfrogs shall be
|protected, even at the expense cf
: higher prices for frog legs,
j The lower house has passed a
i bill to limit the open season on
bull frogs from May 1 to July i.
| Except between those dates, catch
ling, taking or selling bullfrogs is
; prohibited.