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SEWARD, ALASKA. Tl ESDAY, APRIL 23, 1929. PRICE TEN CENTS
VOLUME XIV. NUMBER 94
SETS SELF USX
TO AWAKEN MORAL
PEOPLE OF 0. S.
PRESIDENT HOOVER MAKES
PURPOSE CLEAR; PLANS AS
SIST COMMISSIONS
WASHINGTON, April 23, (A5)—
President Hoover reached out and
swept the state and local, as well
as federal enactments, into the
already broad compass of his law
enforcement campaign.
He stated the enforcement of
those laws concern the President
.both as a citizen and one upon
whom rest the responsibillity of
leadership for the establishment of
standards of law enforcement in
the nation.
In employing this language, at
his address at the annual lunch
eon of the Associated Press, Presi
dent Hoover made it clear that one
of his purposes is to give assis
tance to crime commissions in sev
eral states which has long been
studying methods of reducing
crime through improvement of its
judicial enforcement systems.
It is evident that Hoover has set
himself to the task of conducting
a campaign to awaken the moral
sense of the people on the whole
subject of law enforcement so as
to enlist a public understanding
and public support for the work
which his national commission will
undertake. ■
PLANE JUNEAU IS
BACK IN SEME.
ANOTHER FLIGHT IS PLANNED
SOON, COMPANY OFFICIALS
ANNOUNCE
SEATTLE, April 23, (/P)—With
two passengers, a husky pup and
$19,000 worth of furs aboard, also
a quantity of mail, the Alaska
Washington Airways, Inc., plane
Juneau landed late Sunday.
The dog was brought by Pilot
Eekmann for his brother Ray.
A stop was made at Ketchikan
to pick up a man named Loug
head for- treatment in a Seattle
hospital. Another flight is plann
ed this week, officials of the com
pany said.
AVIATORS AT WHITE HORSE
WHITE HORSE, Yukon Ter. Apr.
23, (/P)—Parker Cramer and W- S.
Gamble, U. S. aviators flying from
Chicago to Nome, landed Sunday
evening. They came via Edmonton,
Prince George, Ha2elton, Telegraph
Creek and Atlin.
REACH HIGH MARK
WASHINGTON, April 22, (/P)—
With a total value of $5,129,000,
000 the American export tr°de in
1928 reached its highest mark
since 1928, according to the world
trade review of the United States
department of commerce.
FOUND TO BE EX-CONVICT
NEW YORK, April 22, </P)—Hen
ry Colin Campbell, confessed slay
er of Mrs. Mildred Mowry, whose
gasoline soaked body was found
ablaze near Cranford, New Jersey,
was revealed as an ex-convict with
a record of seven years for embez
zlement.
WHALING VESSELS
PREPARING DEPART
EOS NORTH STATIONS
% SEATTLE, April 23, (/P)—Ready
for duty in western Alaskan wat
ers, near Seward and Kodiak, the
fleet of the American Pacific
Whaling company is being out
fitted at Bellevue, on the east
shore of Lake Washington. The
vessels will sail on May 12 for
Seward enroute to Kodiak Island
and Akutan, in Bristol bay.
The fleet consists of the killer
ships Kodiak, Unimak, Patter
son, Westport, Tanginak, Aber
deen and the Moran.
I
VESSEL FOUNDERS
PASSENGERS ON STEAMER
WERE MOSTLY FISHERMEN;
209 WERE ON BOARD
i ‘
TOKYO, April 23, (JP)—M ore
than 100 persons are believed to
have drowned when the Japanese
! steamship Toyo Kuni Maru sank
[in a few minutes after striking
i rocks off Cape Erino, south of
j Hokkaido.
The vessel sank so quickly that
it only had time to send a single
distress signal. Two steamers
reached the scene early in the
morning several hours after the
sinking and picked up 97 survivors.
Two hundred and nine were
known to be aboard the ship when
lit sailed from Kokodate, as pas
isengers, mostly fishermen. The
disaster was believed due to bad
weather.
DOC” UNDERG&ES OPERATION
NEW YORK, April 22, (TP)—Doc
tor Nicholas Butler, president of
1 the Columbia University, under -
; went an operation for gallstones.
FOR FOX FARM
JUNEAU, April 23, (Special to
The Gateway)—The Third division
house delegation yesterday made
an effort to bring the projected
experimental fur farm back to
Anchorage from the Alaska col
lege where it was put last week
by the house but lost by a vote
S of nine to six. Foster then moved
| the bill be definitely postponed
; which was also lost by the same
vote. The measure will come up
for final passage tomorrow.
Five new bills and a memorial
'were introduced in the house this
■ morning including a $10,000 ship
i subsidy for the Kodiak-Afognak
iiSiand group; a reduction of the
| wolf bounty to $10 and $5 on coy
lotes, instead of $15 which is now
paid; another permitting notar
ies of public to perform marriage
ceremonies, and one allotting $5,
000 to Ketchikan fc>£ a local road.
Ziegler introduced a memorial
urging congress to amend the Al
aska Fisheries law which prohibit
; the use of herring for anything
■except human food and bait pur
poses, and another asking the for
feiture proceedings under the Al
aska Fisheries law be changed to
the same basis as a similar clause
in the national prohibition act.
The senate has been consider
ing the school code bill since Sat
urday morning and are making
many minor changes ^.nd one ma
jor amendment. The latter struck
out provisions for a nonpartisan
and non-political territorial board
of education consisting of the Gov
ernor and six private citizens, to
be appointed by him and restore
the provisions of the present law.
DELLYVOOD GOES SOUTH
| SEATTLE, April 23, (TP)—Five
i months of inactivity was broken
when the U. S. cable ship Dell
wood, commanded by Captain R.
Shears, sailed for California. The
vessel is expected back in Seattle
May 10.
PARIS, April 23, (/P)—1The rep
! arations experts again failed in
| their efforts to find a solution of
! »he long pending reparations prob
| lems and began winding up their
work. The final work of the com
mittee began with its first efforts
j to agree on the points to be in
j corporated in the report.
On the failure of the commis
!sion to interest the various gov
ernments the Germans still ap
peared to cling to the hope of re
opening talks concerning the main
question of agreement but the
French and Belgians remained im
passive.
I
OF WHITE PUSS
WILL CARRY ORE
FIRST VESSEL TO LEAVE WHITE
HORSE FOR DAWSON ON
MAY 24
—
SEATTLE, April 23, (/P)—The
first sailing of the season from
! White Horse to Dawson on the
Yukon river, necessary to the pre
liminary opening of active opera
i tion in the Klondike mining camp,
jhas been set for May 24 by the
White Pass Railway.
The first ship is expected to be
! crowded with minefs and pros
| pectors. The line’s new giant
river steamer, “The Klondike” is
to be put in operation this sum
mer carrying silver-lead concen
trates and high grade ore from
the Mayo district, between White
Horse and the mouth of Stewart
river.
NEW YORK, April 22, (/P)—'Two
women physicians and three nurs
es were arrested in a police raid
on a downtown birth clinic.
COAST RICE GROWERS SELL THEIR SURPLUS IN FOREIGN LANDS
Threshing a California rice crop (~nbove). Loading a Japanese freighter
(below), one of many similar operations .in marketing 2,000,000 bags of
American-grown rice in 17 foreign countries.
SEIM DECIDES
TO TAKE ft VOTE
DEBENTURE PEI
SENATOR WATSON DECIDES
COURSE FOLLOWING CON
FERENCE WITH M’NARY
WASHINGTON, April 23, (£>)—
Republican leaders in the senate
decided to take a vote on the ex
port debenture plan and test the
administration strength of that
branch of congress.
Fortified by the expressed op
position of President Hoover to the
proposal, Watson made it known
that at the earliest opportunity he
will give notice, as the republican
leader, of his intention to ask the
elimination of the debenture sec
tion, voted into the farm bill, by
the agriculture committee.
The Senator decided this course
after a conference with McNary
and which it was agreed that ad
ministration leaders use all their
influence to obtain passage of the
bill if acceptable to Hoover.
ELDERLY GENTS IN
TANGLE FOR FAVOR
WOMAN: ONE OEM
BELL HIT SMITH, POLICE CON
TEND, CAUSING HIM FALL,
FRACTURE SKULL
NEW YORK, April 22, (^—Liq
uor, a fashionable party in a
smart Park avenue hotel and ri
valry of two elderly gentlemen for
the favor of 39-year-old socially
prominent Kentucky matron,
formed the background of a pic
ture drawn by the police in un
ravelling the mysterious circum
stances surrounding the death of
Arthur Smith, wealthy Cleveland
manufacturer. Samuel Bell, o i 1
producer, is being held on a charge
of homicide.
According to stories told the
police, Smith and Bell went to a
party in a hotel Thursday and met
Mrs. Robert Brown, visitor from
Kentucky, whom Bell had known
for seven years. When the party
broke up after “some drinking,”
Bell and Smith entered into a
quarrel on the street as to which
should take Mrs. Brown home.
It is the contention of the po
lice that Bell hit Smith, causing
him to fall and fracture his skull.
Bell says Smith fell accidently.
Smith did not die until the next
day and the details did not be
come known until Sunday.
WOMEN RUN COOPERATIVE
REGINA, Sask., April 22, <£>)—
The Saskatchewan Egg and Poul
try Products, ltd., doing a gross
annual business of approximately
$600,000, is controlled by women.
CAMP BIRD STRIKE
OURAY, Colo., April 22, (JP)—An
other good strike has been made
m the King lease on the Upper
3amp Bird in ground which the
company had opened up and pass
ed through without any idea of its
/alue.
CLOSE AT 3 A. M.
NEW YORK, April 22, (/P)—Po
ice Commissioner Grover A. Wha
en announced that hereafter all
light clubs and cabarets will be
dosed at 3 a. m.