MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XXVIII. NUMBER 271.
SEWARD, ALASKA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1932.
PRICE TEN CENTS
CASH COLE FIGHTING LONE
BATTLE AGAINST FEDER
AL OFFICIALS
Stating nis position to be that of
a free-lance candidate for. the of
fice of Attorney General, unallied
with any party, but seeking the of
fice for the dual reason that he
desired to continue a campaign of
educat ing the people to the neces
sity of presenting an organized
front to federal encroachment, and
because in need of money the of
fice paid to further this purpose,
Wm. I er of the native,
of Southeastern Alaska, and ac
credited the political and mental
peer of anyone identified with Al
askan politics, held the attention
of a moderate but deeply interested
audience at the Odd Fellows Hall
last night .
Those who had anticipated that
they would encounter a flaming
radical at variance with accepted
precedents of Democratic govern
ment and displaying the taint of
the extremist idea, heard a speaker
who, if anything, displayed a more
engaging urbanity and poise than
many speakers who have graced a
Seward rostrum.
Avowing at the start that he es
chewed the opportunity presented
for a general arraignment of con
didates. Senator Anthony Dimond
and Delegate James Wickersham,
Mr. Paul sharpened his poinard
and directed it at Attorney General
John Rustgard.
RISTGAED DEFUNCT
Even in his strictures of the At
torney General, while, like a skilled
surgeon he was dissecting his sub
ject. Mr. Paul did not overlook the
anesthetic necessary to palliate
the pain as he carved piece after
piece off his opponents political
cadaver, which designation the
speaker sought to sustain by de
claring Mr. Rustgard politically de
funct.
Presenting the hypothesis that
Mr. Rustgard was in Territorial
politics solely as a stepping stone
to Federal preferment in selection
of incumbents for such plums as
Washington had to bestow upon
the faithful of the Federal ma
chine, the speaker referred to the
action of Mr. Rustgard in refusing
to relinquish his office of Attorney
General when it was announced
that his name had been presented
by President Hoover for the ap
pointment as Judge.
Mr. Paul quoted Attorney Gen
eral Rustgard as follows:
"My appointment happened to
be so nicely timed that the news
thereof caught the last mail to
Peninsular points. People there will
think I am out of the race. If the
present uncomfortable situation
\\ as created by design, it is a mas
terpiece.”
With biting irony Mr. Paul ana
lyzed this statement as follows: i
FEDERAL FAVORITES
. “ . .Herbert Hoover, President
of the United States, wanted to see
Rustgard defeated for the office of
t Attorney General, so he waited un
til the last moment when the SS
Starr was to sail from Seward,
and then he told the Senate that
he hated Rustgard so much that he
wanted to give him a fat job pa3dng
twice as much money.
"You can picture Rustgard hang- |
ing cnto the udder of the territorial:
- cow while hungrily reaching for:
the Federal udder, fearing that in
the transaction he might lose both.
I make further charges that
Rustgard has never finished a sin
gle task entrusted to him by the!
. people of Alaska.
Fmst, in 1920 he was elected on
the issue of the transportation j
question. His efforts in this direc- |
lion ended with a pamphlet which1
was published in 1923.
"Second, his efforts to amend, the
workmen’s compensation act of
1915 ended when he sneaked out of;
the Legislature and left me alone
to defend the bill against the at
torneys of the Kennecott, the La
touche, the Chichagof and the Al
aska Juneau as well as against
their managers. On that occasion
Rustgard pretended that he never
saw the amendment before, and yet
lie was the one who drew them.
“Third, he quit his efforts to
codify the probate code with his j
one effort in 1925.
“Fourth, he misrepresented the!
same probate code and told the !
women of Alaska that it was a com
munity property act. He never
did draw up a community property
act.
NON-RESIDENT TAX
,e ' Speaking about the tax on non
>f resident trollers which he helped
i- to defeat in 1927, he said:
d ‘“I then advised holding the1
d Peking tax bill till the power of i
_ the Legislature was settled by the!
highest authority in the case on ap-1
. r>ea]- • • I can say that I did
_ soon thereafter secure a strong de
1, cision from the Supreme court
_ which I think will render the pres
i ent tax °f 5250 on non-resident
i t’’oilers valid. Without that deci
11 sicn by the Supreme court I feel
< eitain that not even a 50-dollar
fc tax would have been sustained.’
? ' But listen to what Rustgard
i *said this year in an article which
- he wrote himself and had printed
t in Stroller’s Weekly:
" ^he last case tried by him in
; i volved the authority of the Legis
i lature to impose a tax of $250 on
■ non-resident trollers. The Attor
ney General advised the Legisla
ture against imposing such huge
Lax on the theory that it was so!
discriminatory as to prejudice the j
courts against the law. ■ . . Some 1
of those legislators who were op
posed to any such tax at all helped
to raise it from $50 to $250 with the
hope that this would render the
entire tax invalid.’
In 1921 the Legislature ordered
Rustgard to codify the laws of Al
aska. In 1923 the Legislature, upon
receiving the result of his work,
threw the stuff into the waste bas- ‘
ket. as being worthless. And yet
Rustgard demanded $1,000 addi- 1
tional pay for performing duties I 1
outside the regular duties of his; ]
office. Besides this the Legislature '
paid an attorney $1,000 for handl- 1
*ng a case that Rustgard could not (
handle because he had been attor- | f
ney for a large cannery corpora- I ^
tion. 1 a
delayed nine years
"In the last case in which Rust
ed appeared for the Territory,
the case of the Territory vs. the
Bristol Bay Packing Co., the court
Lhrew out the case because Rust
gard himself had so little confi
dence in the case that he delayed
nine years in bringing the case for
trial. The cannery company beat
the Territory by the simple device
of building separate sheds over
each line of machinery.
"Rustgard’s opposition to my bill
in 1920 to tax the fish traps on the
basis of the eatch was due to the
fact that Rustgard was even then
angling for the support of certain
cannery interests in his quest for a
federal judgeship. The entire can
nery system was against the bill, j
Rustgard used the power of his of- j
fice to help the cannery men, and !
he defeated the bill by influencing I
Onp vnfn
“Let us see what result has fol
lowed :
The Kelly Rock fish trap, own
p , y P- E- Harris, is located in
„aiSe Pass- From that trap P. E.
Hams takes over 1,000,000 sockeye
each summer, if that trap caught
only 400.000 sockeye, p. e. Harris
wou d pay $50,000 yearly in taxes
to the Ternt°ry. In the seyen
years since my bill was defeated
y Mr Rustgard, your Attorney
Geneial, Harris has saved $350 000
It is not surprising then to learn
that Harris endorsed Rustgard’s
name for a judgeship at Nome to
Senator Jones of Washington after
it was learned that Henry O’Mal
ley had no objection to Mr. Rust
gard's appointment.”
Mr. Paul ended his statement of
case against his opponent by say
ing that the reason why Mr. Rust
gard defeated Senator Frame’s bill
for the Matanuska road out of An
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OAKS PLANE SEWARD
j Alaska’s veteran of veteran avia
i tors, Pilot Noel Wein, about whom
I ^ wrapped most of Alaska’s thrill
ing episodes of the air, landed at
! the Seward Airport Thursday from
I Nome via Fairbanks, with five pas
j sengers. Remaining overnight he
j took wing on the return flight to
! Fairbanks early today.
Incoming passengers were Mr.
J and Mrs. Art Chamberlin, owners
| of trading posts at Derring, Kotze
| bue and Shismaref; the Chamber
!lins are enroute East for the win- j
ter; J. a. Nord, scientist of the
Smithsonian Institute who is re
turning to headquarters after a
whiter and summer of study and
collecting in the Point Barrow re
gmn; Nurse Soriey from Nome who
is on her way to the States, and
Martin Claich, maintenance man
of the Interior city’s street depart
ment, whose destination is Europe.
Wein left Nome Tuesday and in
six hours was at Fairbanks where
a day stop-over was made. Yester
day the party continued to An
c '10rage, a, brief stop being made:
there, then on to Seward- Flying
conditions were perfect and the big
Ballanca ship, averaging between
115 to 120 miles an hour, reeled off
the miles with little effort.
Among Wein’s northbound pas
sengers today was Robert Rogers
former member of the Byrd Ant
Arctic expedition, whose destina
tion is Anchorage. Mr. Rogers was
in charge of a dog-team on the
South Pole adventure.
i
TOKIO, Oct.. 14,—Li Hosho, 32,
was executed for an attempted at
tack on an imperial cortege as it
left Sakurada Gate last January.
Hosho was convicted and sen
tenced to death by the Supreme >
Court last month. His was the1
fourth case of high treason to be 1
tried by the Supreme Court in Jap
an’s history.
Em OF Fiscm (EUR
BRIDGEPORT, Conn., Oct., 14,_
The Federal government will end
the fiscal year with a deficit of
over $1,000,000,000, Gov. Albert C.
Ritchie declared at a Democratic
dinner here.
The Maryland Governor assailed
the Hoover administration and
called on the nation to elect the'
Democratic candidates under the
tine and capable leadership of
Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt.
chorage was because he needed the
railroad for his appointment to a
endorsation of the manager of the
judgeship.
Federal Political Machine
I Lifting his heavy artillery from,
the Rustgard trenches, the speaker
swept the entire Territorial politi
cal horizon, found the range of
what he termed the Federal politi
cal machine, and let go a salvo.
“I charge that there is a definite
Federal political machine consist
ing of certain Federal officials as
sisted by certain territorial offl-j
cials. The party now consists of;
the Governor, the territorial Treas- *
urer, the Attorney General, the ter
ritorial Engineer and the Commis
-cner of Education. In opposi
tion to them we have but one man
who occupies a territorial office,
namely Cash Cole, now running for
re-election as Auditor.
“The first aim of the Federal
Party is to control all the money of
the Territory. In the last Legisla- I
Lure the party was so successful'
that they get the Legislature to!
hand over $558,797.18 or 35.43 per
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HOLDS ON TO PASSPORT
ATHENS, Greece, Oct., 14,—Sam- '
uel Insull yesterday refused to sur- !
render his passport to officials, at j
the request of American authority, j
and cannot be compelled to do so I
until the papers expire, in Febru- !
ary, 1934.
LIMA, Peru, Oct. 14, —Direct ne- !
gotiations between Colombia and;
Peru were begun in an effort to
avoid an open conflict over the
seizure last month of Port Leticia,
a Colomblian town on the upper
Amazon river by Peruvian radi-!
cals, the press has been informed. J
Three Colombian representatives;
arrived here from Bogota and an
ncunced that they hoped to reach
on amicable understanding with
President Luis M. Sanchez Cerro.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 14, — I
Diplomats here are convinced that |
Japan has now backed the United ;
States and the League of Nations!
into a corner from which they
cannot escape without resorting to
sanctions.
The only other alternative seen
is to admit defeat and take the'
consequences, namely, the wreck
ing of the world peace machinery.
SEN. DIMOND HONORED
j .WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 14, —
Senator Anthony J. Dimond, Dem
ocratic nominee for Delegate to
Congress from Alaska, was honor
ed Wednesday by the American j
Bai Association, in annual conven- I
tion here, when he was made a !
member of the general council.
i PET CONFESSED
: KILLED REVEREND
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SUDBURY, Ont-, Oct., 14,—Police I
claimed that a Ukranian priest, |
whom they were questioning on a '
j charge of fraud, confessed that he
shot and killed the Rev. A. B. Bal
; knot, of Deadwood, S. D., three
years ago. The Rev. Theodore
Hucal made the confession.
Police told the press that with
out any suspicion on their part,
that he was involved in the shoot
ing.
I
TEN INJURED
NEW YORK, Oct., 14,—Ten per
sons were injured slightly when a
j bus collided with a laundry truck
| and overturned.
the stock market
NEW YORK, Oct., 14, —Steady
! selling on the Exchange yesterday
j wiped out all the gains of the day
previous.
LONG-SHOT WON
NEWMARKET, Eng., Oct., 14.—
D. S. Kennedy’s “Nitischin”’, a 10
to one shot, won the Cesarewito
handicap. A. J. Burton’s “Chel
marsh”, was second, and Lord
Roseberry’s “Sandwich”, third.
King George, Queen Mary, Princess
Mary and her husband were in the
large crowd that witnessed the I
race.
PREMIERS agree
LONDON, Oct., 14,—France and 1
Britain, represented by the two!
Premiers, agreed it is essential to j
get Germany back into the World!
Disarmament Conference if that;
meeting is to succeed. The official
communique gave little informa-!
tion. The statement said merely,
tha,t there had been a discussion
which was to be resumed.
NEW YORK, Oct. 14, —The stock
market will be unaffected in the
long run, by the results of the com
ing presidentail election, a bulle
tin by the American Institute of
Finance said.
From a study of the stock mar
ket and business conditions we
should at least approach normal
business activities by the fall of
1934,” the bulletin said.
We believe that some recovery
will develop regardless of wheth
er President Hoover or Governor
Roosevelt sits in the presidential
chair from March 1933 to March
1937.”
SEATTLE, Oct. 14, —A flood of
counterfeit $100 bills have made
iheii appearance on the Pacific
Coast and secret service men are
leaving no stone unturned in an ef
fort to locate the instigators.
Charles A. Kennedy was arrested
hei e yesterday when he attempted
to pass one of the bills which are
said to be exceptionally well made j
and difficult to discern as coun- '
terfeit. The bills, as far as is!
known, have been put into circula- i
tion in the larger cities; Seattle,!
Portland, San Francisco and Los1
Angeles.
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MB, HIGH HOTEL
Milwaukee. Oct., 14,—A wo
man threw two children from a'
window of the 16th floor of the!
Schroeder Hotel here and then {
leaped after them. All were crush- 1
ed to death.
She was Mrs. Aurelia Lorenz, 31,
a divorcee. The children, Vivian,
five, and Milton four, were the!
daughter and son of the woman’s
brother, Rudolph Libo. Mrs. Lor
enz and the children died when
they struck the pavement at the
feet of pedestrians.
m FLOES
“CHOCOLATE” WON
NEW YORK. Oct., 14, —“Kid”
Chocolate was acknowledged by
the New York Boxing Commission
as the champion featherweight
boxer of the world when he knock
ed out Lou Feldman last night in
the 12th round.
* * * *
WOMEN LOST BATTLE
GENEVA, Oct. 13, —Representa- j
tives of 45,000 women lost a two- 1
year battle for equality in rights of
nationality by action of the league
committee of the League of Na
tions assembly, it rejected a de
mand for revision of the Hague j
convention report providing worn-!
en must take the nationality of j
their husbands if they married1
outside their own nationality.
* * * *
PEACE AT BELFAST
BELFAST, Ireland, Oct., 14,_!
Peace prevailed here after the un-!
employment riots of Tuesday and I
Wednesday. Police made about a
dozen arrests for violation of the 1
curfew law, but on the whole, order i'
was obeyed without question.
STUMP DATE SET
| .... new YORK, Oct., 14, — A1!
! Smith announced yesterday that1
he would make a campaign speech'
here October 19 before starting on
a tour of the East.
Mrs. John Meyer, wife of the’
proprietor of the North Pole Bak- |
cry at Anchorage, left today with
Pilot Neel Wien for home. Mrs.
Meyer arrived from the south to
day on the SS. Yukon.
IMS US RESULT OF
BIS BRIDGE PROJECT
| SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 14, —
Jobs for approximately 6,000 men,
work for thousands of factories'
mines and forests, millions of tons
of freight for rail and water lines,
more than $60,000,000 for the hands
of labor, through them to farmers,
I manufacturers, wholesalers and
j retailers and a permanent link of
j s^ee^ and concrete, bringing closer
| Aether more than 1,125,000 per
sons living on both sides of the
i bay.
These are some of the things
| claimed will result from the recent
decision of the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation to allot $62,
000,000 toward the construction of
the San Francisco-Oakland bridge
project, as announced earlier in
the week at Washington and ac
claimed by business and civic lea
ders of the Bay area and Califor
nia.
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 14,—The lot
| on which Aimee Semple McPherson
! button built her expensive home,
! was one of the properties attach
! ec* ky deputy sheriffs, attempting
| to satisfy a $11,714.85 judgement
: against the evangilist and J. Roy
Stewart, screen director.
j The judgement was obtained by
Harvey Gates, scenario writer who
claimed he was retained to write a
scenario for a picture in which the
evangilist was to have appeared.
The picture never was produced
and he was not paid for his work
he claimed.
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WASHINGTON, D. C„ Oct. 14, _
State-wide senatorial contests and
' a referendum vote in 23 states
I three weeks away probably will
: have a greater effect on the prohi
! bition Question than the presiden
! tial election held the same day.
The referendum, even more than
party platforms, will affect the
votes of Senators and Congress
men in the next Congress, and
even in the lame duck session
j which meets in December,
[ Many candidates are withhold
i ing any stand on prohibition pend
' inS the voters decision.
j NEW YORK, Oct. 14, —A belated
| honeymoon began yesterday for
John Gilbert and Virginia Bruce,
! recently married in a ceremony
which attracted the elite of the
Hollywood film colony.
They left New York for Europe.
They were accompanied to this
city by Norma Shearer and her
husband. Irving Thalberg.
Miss Bruce abandoned her film
career after her marriage.
night cloudburst
, NICE, Calif., Oct., 14, —An all
night cloudburst flooded the Cim
iez section of Nice causing damage
estimated at several million francs.
Houses were unroofed and in some
cases their walls collapsed because
of the severe winds.
DOGS FOR CADDIES
ST. ANDREWS, Scotland, Oct. 13,
--Because of the economic situa
tion and general depression, Scot
golf players who are generally ac
companied about the greens with
trained dogs who search for lost
balls, are now renting the pets to
others for similar purpose.
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