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MEMBER ASSOCIATED RfclESS
VOLUME XXIX. NUMBER 76
SEWARD, ALASKA, SATURDAY, APRIL 1, 1933.
PRICE TEN CENTS
HEP. J. S. Mill
INTRODUCES MEISHHE
TIXING SHLMON 'TIKE’ i
JUNEAU, April 1, -With the beer
bill in the offing and due to reach |
the House today, Taylor of Cordo- j
va, introduced a measure to re
peal Chapter 11, session laws of
1917, which prohibits advertising,
of alcoholic beverages in the Ter-;
ritory. |
Hofman of Seward introduced a
measure seeking to establish a j
graduated tax on the take of sal- j
mon by traps, seines and nets, but:
the practical effect would be felt
only by traps; the $250 trap license
fee would be retained, and $2 per
1 000 with the surtax eliminated,
for takes up to 75.000 fish exempt;
75.000 to 150,000 medium reds, co
hoes, pink and chums, $2 per 1.000
additional; 150,000 to 200,000 at
$5 per thousand; 200.000 to 250,000,
$2, and over 300,000, $30. On reds,
the first 50.000 would be exempt;
the next 50,000, $30 per 1.000; $40
to 150,000, and so on to $80 per
1.000 for all over 300,000.’
Lingo introduced a memorial
urging continuance of the Inter
national highway commission and
an immediate start of that project.;
Green’s bill to repeal the law'
permitting commissioners to fix
fees in civil actions, was defeated:
in the House 12-3. |
The Senate continued to smash
records for repealing and correct-;
ing defective statutes, passing nine
such measures today.
MEN WRESTED FOR
FETING OVER PRISON
a FIRING SHOTS
LEAVENWORTH, Kans., April 1,
LEAVENWORTH, Kan., April 1,—
United States commissioner, to be
Lynn and A. N. Barlow, ex-con
victs, were arrested after they |
flew over Leavenworth Federal:
penitentiary and were charged
with firing on the institution in
an attempt to aid in an escape.
Prison officials said Theodore
Barlow, a brother of the two menj
arrested, will be released today)
upon completion of a term for
violation of the liquor laws.
They found nothing to connect
him with the episode. No injuries
were reported as a result of the
firing. The two v/ere arrested when
their plane landed on an airfield
at Fort Leavenworth.
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REMKHE SRISF OF
MMRRTION,
A strong believer in “home rule” |
for Alaska rather than government
thru federal bureaus in the na-i
tional capital, has been nominated j
by President Roosevelt for Gover-!
nor of the Territory. He is John
W. Troy, publisher of the Daily:
Empire at Juneau.
To achieve greater local self-gov- i
ernment, Alaskans say the Terri-[
tory’s enabling Act would have to!
be liberalized.
After an interview with the;
President Tuesday, Troy said the j
executive “showed v/onderful grasp
of our situation up there and he
has a tfery progressive plan in
mind.” . i
In view of Troy’s known attitude
on “home rule” Seatlle acquaint
ances considered his statement i
very significant.
DRY WENT nr
B) RUM RUNNER
SAN FRANCISCO April 1, —W.!
S. Grubb, 33, prohibition agent, j
was killed when hurled from the
•running board of a car against
a pole in an attempt to intercept
the lead machine of a suspected
liquor caravan as it raced off the.
Hyde Street ferry piers.
The driver, James Curran, was,
captured by Agent H. E. Myer, j
• 'Who smashed a window of the car
1 with his jun while clinging to the |
; other side. Agent Myer manacled
Curran and took him to the Hall
of Justice where he was booked for
murder.
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OFFICIAL SUICIDED
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, April
1,—Balthasar Brum, former pres
ident of Uruguay, committed sui
cide by shooting himself in his
home here.
TWO CENT STAMP!
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 1—
Restoration of the two-cent post
age rate for first class mail, was
proposed in a bill by Senator Bone,
Democrat from Washington. He
said it would result in increased'
business.
EMEU CONQUERS !
peek or one
UGASHIK. Alaska, April 1,—
Once more the challenge of nature
has been successfully met on
March 16, when Frank North, emi
nent explorer, conquered the ice
capped peaks of Mt. Chiginagak,
one of the remaining unexplored
volcanoes of Western Alaska.
The ascent, acclaimed by people
here as an outstanding event in
the annals of mountaineering,
was accomplished in zero weather
and in company with one compan
ion, Rex Rogers, youthful student
of Mount Vernon, Washington,
Junior College, for whose daunt
lessness the veteran explorer spoke
a world of praise.
Near the summit of the volcano
the explorers were overcome with
intense cold and suffered narrow
'escape from sulphur fumes belch
ing from the smoking crater, but
tragedy was averted when the
climbers hastily retreated to safety
in lower levels. For upwards of a
thousand feet they dropped pell
mell down the icy incline, miracu
lously escaping with only minor
briuses and injuries.
Besides obtaining many inter
esting photographs of the volcano,
Mr. North brought back important
scientific data and made other
valuable discoveries on the north
east slope of the mountain. He
said here today they found numer
ous hot springs swelling a river
that shows an average temperature
of 110 degrees f., which gives evi
dence of surpassing medicinal
qualities. _
BLIND WINGS ME
IDE POSSIBLE WITH
NEW YORK, April 1, —Aided
only by “radio eyes,” Pilot James
L. Kinney, of the Commerce De
partment. Aeronautics Division,
made two blind landings at New
ark Airport in a public demonstra
tion of a new device.
Kinney sat in a cockpit entirely
enclosed with canvas- Yet from
distances five and six miles away
he brought the plane to the field
in perfect landings.
He had two “radio eyes” to guide
him. One was the regular radio
directional beacon; the other was
the new curved landing beam
wffiTn enabled him to put his
plane into the proper gliding angle
and land. This new “eye” is a tiny
dial with a needle which fluctuates
when the plane is too high or low
as it comes down.
Kinney also had a two-way radio
telephone communication with the
ground. With the new devices
pilots, caught in dense fogs or
storms, will not only be able to
keep their course, but land on a
field they cannot see.
GOLD HAMMER
VATICAN CITY, April 1, —
Wielding a golden hammer, the
Pope broke down the Holy door of
Straeters this morning and inaug
urated the Holy year to comrnem
morate the 1900th anniversary of
the Death and Resurrection of
Jesus Christ.
Nearly 30 Cardinals, royalty,
diplomats and Roman aristocracy
as well as high prelates from many
nations, saw the Holy door of
brick loosen and fall away when
the Pope struck it thrice wuth a
hammer of solid gold.
PROBABLY
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 1—
The sale of beer on battleships
of the United States navy proba
bly will not be permitted, it was
learned.
Simultaneoifsly, however, it was
indicated that beer sales would be
permitted in army posts, navy
stores and canteens in the states
which hive no contrary regulation.
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WELCOMED BILL
SACRAMENTO, Calif., April 1,—
A far-reaching bill preventing use
of publically-owned motor vehicles,
for private use and providing sev- j
ere penalties passed the Senate
by unanimous vote. Scope of the
measures includes cars owned by
the state, city, county and other
public agencies.
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BERLIN, April 1. —Germany’s p
’economic “program” against Ger- i
man Jews went inso effect loday '
for one day only, then to be sus- :
pended until next Wednesday
morning to await the world’s re
action.
The radical sentiment in the 1
Nationalist Socialist party won l
the verdict putting the boycott
into operation at a cabinet meet
ing marked by a terrific struggle
between clashing view's.
Seeing victory ahead for the Nazi
reprisal methods, the morality of i
which had hitherto been regarded!
as questionable, Chancellor Adolf
Hitler’s “third Reich” and its min
ister of propaganda, Dr. Joseph \
Goebles, made conditions to the i
world. . i
All distinction between the Nazi j
party and the government in the
nationwide boycott was wiped out
w'hen Dr. Goebles announced that
“the campaign of atrocity -tales” ,
in foreign countries, had dimin- !
ished. j
FORMER HESS
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SALINAS, Calif., April 1, —In _
defiance of her mother and an «
order of the Superior court, the ]
former Baroness Ethel Maud Mul- :
der dramatically refused to be j
separated from her negro crystal j
gazing chauffeur.
Declared incompetent after a 5
hearing before Superior Judge .
H. G. Jorgensen, the Baroness was 1
placed in the custody of her moth-”
er, Mrs. Laura B. Rogers, of Paci- 1
fic Grove.
The mother’s first act was to |
order William Turner, 40, former!
Pullman car porter and reputed
mystic, to discontinue his services
with the family.
The Baroness shocked the court-,
room by rushing to his defense.;
“I will not allow William to leave |
the premises,” she said. ‘‘Court or,
no court, he stays with me.” Head |
high, she walked out of the court i
room with Turner, entered her:
automobile and drove away.
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OPENS THURSDAY IN S. F.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUi
SAN FRANCISCO, April 1, —
Sam Gibson vs. Bill Henderson!
That will be the chief battle
when the Seals and Portland open
the Pacific Coast League baseball
seoson here Tuesday.
Henderson already has been '<
nominated by Manager Ike Cave
ney for hurling duties in the inau
gural. Last night Manager Spen
cer Abbott of the Beavers selected
an ex-Seal to silence the bats of
his former teammates.
Gibson & veteran right-hander,
was the mainstay of the Seal staff
in 1931 and was sold to the New
York Giants, who in turn released '
him to Portland.
WILLING TO CULL OFF
TOW'S BOYCOTT, IF
BERLIN, April 1The govern
ment of Chancellor Adolf Hitler is
prepared to call off the Nazi party
anti-Jewish boycott, scheduled to'
begin Saturday, upon assurance
from the various foreign govern
ments that steps are being taken
to combat anti-German propagan
da, it was learned on reliable au
thority.
It was indicated that the boy
cott might be cancelled if such as
surance is received through the or
dinary diplomatic channels. In
any case, it was reported quite pos
sible the boycott would be ended
on Monday, after the Nazi’s have
demonstrated their power.
GEM THEFT
SAN FRANCISCO, April 1, —In
the heart of the Oakland business
district, four robbers, one a girl,
held up the Barney Loan Office
and escaped with $50,000 in gems
and cash.
They looted the place of sixi
trays of diamonds seven drawers)
of watches and $650 in cash.
The manager, Robert M. Davis,
and the janitor, Antone Fiorits,
were left bound with electric wires J
and gagged.
BITTER FIGHTING
SHANHAIKWAN, April 1, —After
seven hours of bitter fighting a
Fapanese detachment is reported
;o be occupying Shishmenchai, in
'Forth China proper, at the con
vergence of branch railways.
There are considerable British
riming properties in the area. The j
:apture of the town was trouble- ;
some but the Japanese recently1:
Jetermined to wipe out the Chin- !
;se in the region and remove the
menace from the main gateways, j
PARTY Of FOURTEEN
IN PRIVATE UflPUHE
neodesha, Kansas, April 1, —
\ private airplane carrying the
ihampionship Canadian Toilers
>aseball team of Winnipeg and
)arty, 14 in all, crashed near here
tilling at least two, seriously in
juring nine, and leaving three un
accounted for.
L. Phillips, one of the passen
gers, was the only person on the
Diane who retained consciousness
liter the crash. He was dazed and
rnable to immediately iaentify
Dis companions.
~ The crash occurred at 8:30 a. m.,
five miles north of here. All the
jhysicians in Neodesha were sum
noned to the hospital where the
.njured were received. The first
Df the victims to arrive at the
Hospital were identified by Phil
ips as G. Wilson, A. Brown, J.
tVooley, and A. Silverthorne, all
njured.
Persons on the ill-fated plane in
iddition to members of the base
>all team included: George Wil
;on, manager; J. H. O’Brien, owner
>f tlie plane, R. H. Bonynge, of
Minneapolis and business repre
lentative of the team; A. K. Hakes
md H. G. Eggens, pilots.
Col. A. C. Sampson, member of
he Canadian Parliament and per
wmal representative of the mayor
)f Winnipeg was also aboard.
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USED BE NEGROES IB
WATERLOO, Iowa, April 1, —
Negroes came with baubles and
iharms hoping to break a “voodoo”
in Minnie Pawell, 23, who lay un
conscious in her home here.
Minnie, police said, was appar
ently hypnotized. Efforts to revive
ler failed. Arthur E. Trott, 52, a
Spaniard, is under arrest.
He will not be released, police
said, until the strange charm has
seen removed from Minnie who
lias been under the “spell” for two
lays. The mesmerization has not
been explained.
Police Captain Ed Douglas be
lieves that Trott induced the spell
ind would not dissolve it after he
tiaa spent a few days in jail.
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FOOD SHORTAGE
MOSCOW, April 1.—Altho there
lias been a serious food shortage
tor some time in many regions in
Soviet Russia, official quarters vig
jrously denied today reports
ibroad that the nation is suffering
!rom famine. A statement that
thousands were dying of starvation
vas branded as “nonsensical.” Al
tho the food shortage has been se
rious, even in the chief agricultur
al areas of the north Caucasus and
;he Ukraine and indications are
that widespread privation will pre
vail at least until the next harvest,
it was flatly denied that actual
famine is existing
76 BODIES
LIMA, Peru, April 1, —Rescue
workers have recovered 76 bodies
from the iuins of Tanta Bay, a
.mall village in the Charat district
near Trujillo, which was com
oletely buried under an enormous
landslide last Sunday morning.
Forty-four persons were still |
missing and were believed to have
lost their lives in the slide, which
was caused by excessive rains.
DISSOLVED
VIENNA, April 1—The Socialist
party semi-military defense corps,
“schutzbund,” was dissolved by a
government decree. The decree
forbids the organization to con
tinue its activities under any oth
er name. The corps in Vienna
alone number 60,000.
In all there are about 150,000
members of the “schutzbund” in
Austria with hidden stores of arms
which the government will now
presumably attempt to find and
confiscate.
SIGN THE BILL
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 1—
President Roosevelt signad the
Copeland-Celler bill which lifts
the restriction as to the amount
of liquor a phycisian may pres
cribe.
WASHINGTON, D. !, April 1—
Lacking only the President’s sig
nature, an executive order design
ed to save annually some $450,00,
000 in veteran’s expenditures, last
night rested at the White House.;
Under the law authorizing the
President to cut the veteran’s!
costs, the reductions in benefits
cannot become effective until July
1.
Lewis W. Douglas, director of the
budget, laid the voluminous sav
ings plan before the executive af- j
ter two days of conference with
leaders of five veterans’ organi
zations. Asked whether they had
derived any satisfaction, veteran
leaders replied, “not a bit.” They!
indicated the administration was
standing pat on sweeping reduc-l
tions.
ESCAPED INJURY
CORNING, Calif., April 1, —
Maj. John A. McCready, former
noted army pilot and world war
ace, escaped injury when the motor
of his Lockheed plane failed and
the craft crashed near an apple
orchard south of the Corning air
port. _
MAJOR DALYRMPLeTs
NAMED PROHIBITION
DIRECTOR OF U. S. A.
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 1—
Prohibition enforcement in the
United States will be under the
direction of Major A. V. Dalyrm- j
pie, San Francisco attorney, whoj
was appointed prohibition director
yesterday and will relieve A. W.
Woodcock today.
Officials revealed one of Major
Dalyrmple’s first tasks will be to
clean up the present mess. Re
ports reaching Washington head
quarters indicated agents have
been “shaking down” bootleggers
and rum runners on a grand scale
in anticipation of the expected
early end of the 18th amendment.
One official declared these re
ports revealed “terrible and shock
ing conditions.”
In accordance with the enforce
ment policy laid down by the
Roosevelt administration, the pro
hibition bureau, with its funds
the lowest in history, will concen
trate on big bootlegging and smug
gling rings- Hip flask toters vir
tually will be immune.
DIRffllsCiPE urns
FLORENCE, Ariz., April 1.—A
plot for the daring escape of Win
nie Ruth Judd, condemned “dou
ble trunk murdress,” from her cell
in condemned row in the State
prison here was revealed today at
the office of Warden A. G. Walker
following the pardon board’s deci
sion she must hang. A warrant
has been issued for the arrest of
the “velvet tigress’ ” young brother,
Burton McKinnell, for attempting
to aid his sister to escape.
Mrs. Judd had almost sawed two
bars in half before attendants dis
covered what she had done. At
the warden’s office it was said that
Mrs. Judd’s hands were raw and
bleeding when she was thwarted
in her plot to escape
IN TROUBLE
SAN FRANCISCO, April 1, —
Sam Malato, former Alaskan, and
his malamutes which were brot
to California to help in the film
ing of “Alaska” pictures,was or
dered to move his canine from
Paciifc Fruit comapny property
near Truckee. Failing to do so he
was cited for of court.
He was given until April 14. He
said he would probably have to
board the dogs with friends be
cause the picture business was
not providing him with employ
ment- It was said the express com
pany has spent $2,000 feeding the
dogs.
EARTHQUAKE VICTIM
LOS ANGELES, April 1, —Injur
ies received in the earthquake of
March 10, caused the death in
Artesia hospital of Harry Asmus,
of Bellflower.
STEM YUKON OK
FIRST VOYAGE SEASON
SEUTTIE TO SEWARD
SEATTLE, April 1, —The SS
Yukon, of the A. S. S. Co„ sailed
for Seward today with the follow
ing list of passengers:
John Nylan, H. Axling, John and
Jean and N. Beatton, J. R. Nixon,
Silas McCanaghy, Hazel Watson,
F. r.I. Fentort, A. Condon, E. K. and
Mrs. Pedlar, Meta Anderson, John
and Mrs. Oden , Joe and Mrs. Hen
derson, Captain Frank Murray,
Frank Mortimer, D. R. and Mrs.
C ustafsen, J. K. Crowdy, Lillie
Chesney, Chas. Goyen, Leona and
betty Davidson, Andrew and Mrs.
Olson, Peter Boline, S. P. Rodoni,
N. F. Nelson, P. W. Despot, Gus
and Mrs. Uotilla, Frank Date, Mrs.
Strueby, A1 F. Davis, Dan Lindsay,
R. Waskey, Mrs. Ester Hover, Jul
ius Larson, E. D. and Mrs. Oakley,
E. E. Overend, Mrs. F. J. Smith,
Simon Larson, Adolph Landas, W.
Tracy. 1
There are also 20 steerage aooard.
‘GARDEN OF EDEN’ IN
SOUTH SEAS MAY BE
EXPLORED THIS YEAH
SAN FRANCISCO, April 1.—An
expedition to unexplored islands
off Palmyro, the “Garden of Eden
of the South Seas,” will be made
this summer for motion picture
and scientific purposes, according
to Ralph B. King, former film pho
tographer, who arrived today from
Honolulu on the Matson liner
Malolo.
The Palmyro group consists of
52 coral atolls, dotted with cocoa
palms and with lagoons teeming
with fish. Two craft, the Harold
Dillingham Diesel yacht Manulani,
112 feet long, and a Diesel sampan,
of Japanese design, will travel due
south from Honolulu to Palmyro,
970 miles distant.
“There are fish so thick one
kicks them while wading thru the
shallow lagoons,” said King.
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LOS ANGELES, April 1.—Long
Beach, the Navy and U. C. L. A.
were moving today toward an ex
tensive program to introduce west
ern rowing to Southern California
in the April 15 regatta between
California* and U. C. L. A., which
is sponsored by the city of Long
Beach and in which the Navy will
take an active part.
Lieut. Charles Wellborn, Jr.,
athletic officer of the California,
has issued a call for volunteer
oarsmen to man six regulation
whaleboats, which will compete for
a special .fleet championship. The
Craft are' completely different
from the shells used by college
crews and will provide many spec
tators with a first view of a sport
in great favor with the Navy.
DALLAS, Tex., April 1, —The
pack of March tornadoes that
swept over east Texas, down the
Mississippi valley and almost to
the Atlantic seaboard, has taken
at least 68 lives, according to a late
report last night.
And in its wake were hundreds
of injured persons, wrecked vil
lages and a flood menace.
The winds swept over the prair
ies of east Texas Thursday, ripped
at southeast Arkansas and north
Louisiana.
Tornadoes in Mississippi took at
least 32 lives. No section of Miss
issippi except the gulf coast, was
spared. East Texas, yesterday
counted 20 dead, Louisiana 1 and
Alabama 1.
SURRENDERED CARS
TOKIO, April 1, —A Japanese
report from Manchuria said that
the Soviets had surrendered 3,800
freight cars to aMnchukukuo, all
of which had been seized recently.
STORK ON WAY
LOS ANGELES, April 1, -Friends
said that Louise Fazenda, motion
picture comedienne, was expect
ing a baby to be bom shortly.
Miss Fazenda was married to Hal
Wallis, film porducer, November
26, 1927.