MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS
VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 102.
SEWARD, ALASKA. THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1929.
• PRICE TEN CENTS
LEGISLATURE ADJOURNS AF
TER TODAY’S SESSION
COMES TO AN END
JUNEAU, May 2, (Special to;
the Gateway)—The house tonite
is practically ready to adjourn |
but the senate was still holding;
some dozen house bills back in
the committee including the gen- j
eral appropriations measure and
the Alaska College appropriations, j
• Conferences on all disputed sub- j
jects were cleared away exceptj
the comptroller bill which hangs
with no visible progress but it is
rumored that the house amend- j
ments will be virtually accepted in ,
their entirety.
The senate waded through 20
house measures yesterday after
noon killing two and passing 18.
Most of theses were of a minor
nature; Woofter’s bill was killed, j
This bill provided that no more !
than one crime could be charged
in any indictment. The measure
authorizing the Governor to dis
pose of useless and real personal
property of the Territory, was in
cluded in the bills which were kill
ed.
Among the bills passed was that j
of the referendum in the next !
general election, on the Alaska
bone dry law; the election of a
Territorial highway engineer; two j
bills for the protection of fur far
mers against trespassing; the
other, relating to ownership of
escaped animals.
A $40,000 appropriation for
stream clearing and destruction
of predatory enemies of salmon,
the work to be done in coopera
tion with the federal bureau of
fisheries, was passed.
Winn’s physical examination !
and medical attention bill for the
protection of public schools, was j
passed; the Seward Peninsula ship j
subsidy was passed.
The sportsmen of Alaska got
attention when the senate passed
Fisher’s bill appropriating $600 to
buy wild rice to be distributed by |
the Governor to hunting clubs and I
to responsible individuals to plant j
at feeding and breeding places of j
wild fowl.
The house has two minor sen- !
ate bills on hand and the three
cent gas tax bill. The last seems
to be fated to die in the commit
tee. Hope for any action on Fish
er’s eight-hour bill is virtually
dead as it is still in the committee
and without any prospect of be
ing exported to the floor.
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STUNT DEMONSTHSTTD
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SAN FRANCISCO, May 2, (/P)— |
Voices and music from the sky1
floated down upon a mystified San
Francisco for a time until a giant j
tri-motored plane was discovered
circling over the city. The plane
was operated by the Standard Oil
company as an advertising “stunt”
The plane contains a powerful
amplifying device trans m i 11 i n g
music or human voice from any
altitude up to five miles.
NOT SETTLED YET?
LIMA, Peru, May 2, (/P)—Settle
ment of the long-standing Tacna
Arica boundary dispute, between
Chile and Peru, has been com
pleted and formal announcement
of the settlement will be made
within the next few days at
Washington.
FLIERS WILL NOT REMAIN IN
NEW YORK LONG; WILL
RETURN WICHITA
LACROSSE, Wis., May 2, i(/P)—
Parker Cramer and W. S. Gamble
took off easterly after spending
the night here.
Their destination is Watertown,
New York. Leaving Edmonton yes
terday the Chicago-Alaska avia
tors arrived at Winnipeg at noon
and left for St. Paul.
While in Winnipeg Cramer re
vealed they were planning anoth
er flight to Stockholm, via the
Arctic ocean. Cramer will not
stay long in New York expecting
to fly the plane back to the fac
tory at Wichita, Kansas.
STOCK Of CANNERY
COMPANY IS LISTED
SEATTLE, May 2, (IP)—'The gov- '
ernors of the Seattle stock ex
change have accepted the list
ing with the exchange of 35,000
shares of common stock of the
Alaska Pacific Salmon Corpora
tion, which recently acquired
the Sunny Point Packing company
and operating properties of the
Alaska Consolidated canneries,
Ific.; also the Deep Sea Salmon
Co.
DETROIT PLAY CENTER IN LIQUOR SCANDALS
Belle Isle, Detroit’s municipal playground, figures prominently in recent
liquor scandals. Picture (above) show s proximity to Canadian shore from
where rum runners frequently brot their cargoes across the ice in winter
as shown (below) where a beer truck broke through and was abandoned.
Capt. J. A. Burkheiser (inset) harbor master, has been suspended on charg
es of aiding the runners.
LIVES HIE LOST
STORMS. SMS
MANY INJURED
STORMS CONTINUE THRUOUT
THE COUNTRY; GALES
AND TORNADOES
ST. LOUIS, May 2, (/P)—A heavy
snowstorm struck Missouri, Illi
nois demoralizing traffic and dis- j
rupting communications.
Temperatures were below freez- !
ing point in many places and \
three inches of snow has fallen.
A tornado is reported from south
eastern Missouri. A tornado struck
two widely separated regions and
took six lives and injured 40 res
idents at Brinkley.
At Wheatley, another storm hit,
and in west Arkansas, where 12
were injured.
Fort Smith, Sand Prairie, both
in Texas, suffered but the weath- !
er has moderated..
A 68-mile gale and a series of
moderate tornadoes occurred in
general throughout the state;
snow, hail, sleet and rain, accom
panied the storms and several
negroes were hurt when windows
were blown in. Snow fell for half
an hour at Barger.
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» BASEBALL «
NATIONAL
Pittsburgh 4, St. Louis 4; this
was a 13 inning game and a tie. 1
Chicago 4, Cincinnati 4; this
also went 13 innings.
AMERICAN
Fhillies 4, Boston 6
St. Louis 4, Cleveland 3
COAST
Oakland 8;- San Francisco 5
Seattle 15, Hollywood 10
Missions 5, Portland 0
Sacramento 10, Los Angeles 9
CHEMISTRY SUPREME
COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 2, (/P)—
Chemistry, by finding new uses for
farm products, can do more to
ward “farm relief” than any leg
islation congress may pass, Louise
J. Taber, National Grange master,
told the American Chemical Socie
ty here.
BLUMED
KILLED. EUROPE.
ALL OTHER PORTIONS OF THE
GLOBE REPORTED TO
HAVE BEEN QUIET
BERLIN, May 2, (A5)—Eighty
were killed and 78 injured, and
600 arrested, during May Day
riots.
Several were killed and many
injured in Kovno and mobs were
disbursed from around the Amer
ican embassy in Mexico City.
Hungary’s principal cities were |
armed camps; more than 3,000
were arrested in Paris when com
munists paraded. Soviet armed j
forces in Moscow was but one of j
the outstanding events on May j
Day, for the year 1929; in most
other sections of Europe and in i
other portions of the world, quiet!
and peace reigned.
SITKA WOMAN TAKEN |
SEAHLEI PLANE;
SEATTLE, May - (£>)—Ending j
a 1000-mile race with death, the I
airplane Juneau arrived here at |
7 o’clock last night with Mrs.
Peaer Kostrometinoff of Sitka.
An ambulance was waiting and
the woman was rushed to the
hospital for treatment from sep
tic poisoning. The pilot, Ansel
Eckmann, left Juneau at 4.40 in
the morning for Sitka to bring
the woman direct to Seattle.
SOME VOLSTEAD VIOLATIONS
WILL BE CLASSIFIED AS
MISDEMEANORS
WASHINGTON May 2, (JPy—
The long established precedent
of enforcement harassment is un
justified, declared Mrs. Mabel
Willebrandt, assistant U. S. attor
ney in general charge of enforce
ment, giving her reasons for this
assertion in a letter directing dis
trict attorneys to use wise dis
cretion in the application of the
Jones law.
Every lawyer must weigh the
evidence then choose that sec
tion of the Jones law to plead the
case.
Every ■violation or infringement
must be carefully gone into. Five
of these sections contain internal
revenue statutes which were in
existence prior to prohibition. The
possession, nuisance, sale, transport
ation and manufacturing sec
tions, the tariff act and the cus
toms act, frequently are confus
ed with county and state laws.
“The evaluating of evidence be
fore trial should be made, al
ways, as the prosecutors duty is of
great importance. The Jones
law shows congress intends that
those offenses which violate the
Constitution itself, be made fel
onies while other Volstead viola
tions will be misdemeanors.”
NO SELECTION WILL BE MADE
FOR SOME MONTHS, OR
AFTER SESSION
WASHINGTON, May 2, (A5)—
Diplomatic circles seem convinced
that Senator Walter Edge of New
Jersey will be the likely choise
as Ambassador to France to suc
ceed the late Myron Herrick.
Authentic information that the
President has no intention of
making a selection for some
months, or until after the present
special session of congress, is re
garded as lending further color
to the report that Edge will go to
Paris.
Other gossip says Jacob Schur
man will remain in Berlin; that
L. S. Swenson will be retained at
the Norway post and Hugh Gibson,
ambassador to Belgium.
Some transfers in Latin Amer
ica are anticipated and it is thot
a number of new appointments
will be made.
MOVES LIMITING
OIL PRODUCTION
NEW YORK,, May 1, (#)—'The
American Petroleum Institute fell
nto step with the Federal Oil
Conservation Board’s program,
vhen the directors voted unan
mously to cooperate with the
Doard in the promulgation of an
nterstate compact which would li
nit the production of oil by con
trolling drilling.